Chapter Summaries

Jiang Zhu fought the Strange Immortal Emperor’s Imperial Edict, smashing its thought with the Stone Zither and his Emperor Fist. He blasted the thought apart again, but its Immortal Emperor-level nature left open whether it could return.

• An Imperial Edict descended from the Heavens and sent its thought to kill Jiang Zhu.
• Jiang Zhu swung the Stone Zither like a hammer and drove the Immortal Emperor’s thought backward.
• Jiang Zhu plucked the zither’s string to cut the thought in half and smash apart its Great Dao Runes.
• The thought unleashed dark beams that wounded Jiang Zhu, but Jiang Zhu charged through them with his Stone Zither and fourteen-colored Fist Seal.
• Jiang Zhu dismembered the thought, then repeatedly battered it as it remolded itself amid the myriad Daos.
• Jiang Zhu blasted the thought apart once more, leaving it absent for a time as he declared that what belonged to the Heavens would return to the Heavens and what belonged to the worlds would return to Emperor Jiang.

Jiang Zhu destroyed Black Emperor’s Imperial Edict and slaughtered the strange Quasi-Immortal Emperors, while Desolate Heavenly Emperor used Self-Transformation to kill three Strange Immortal Emperors and prevent their resurrection. At the Plateau’s Ancestral Land, an Ancestor awakened and revealed the scale of the threat, leaving the Strange Clan shaken by the discovery that its dead could no longer revive.

• Jiang Zhu shattered Black Emperor’s Imperial Edict and killed the strange Quasi-Immortal Emperors who remained.
• Desolate Heavenly Emperor exploited Black Emperor’s fury to cleave him apart, then used Self-Transformation to stop the Plateau from resurrecting him.
• Desolate Heavenly Emperor killed another Strange Immortal Emperor in his Thunder Pool of Laws, then fought the remaining enemies as his own body grew faint.
• An Ancestor emerged in the Plateau’s Ancestral Land, and the Strange Clan’s creatures and Immortal Emperors bowed before him.
• The Strange Ancestor declared that three supreme beings had been killed without reviving, alarming the Strange Clan over the loss of its power of resurrection.

The Dark Ancestor revealed that ten Ancestors stood behind the Strange Clan and attacked Desolate, whom they feared as a wild card capable of reaching Sacrificial Dao. After Desolate fought the Ancestor while already exhausted, the Great Dao ignited across time, leaving his fate unresolved.

• The Dark Ancestor revealed that the Strange Clan had ten Ancestors and that its ten Immortal Emperors were their successors.
• The Dark Ancestor identified Desolate as a suspected wild card and emerged from the Plateau to kill him.
• Desolate slew a fourth Strange Immortal Emperor beyond revival, and the two remaining emperors fled toward the Plateau.
• Desolate struck back against the Dark Ancestor's black-haired hands, wounding them, though the clash shattered and weakened him.
• The Pollen Emperor watched and recalled how she had taught Desolate what she knew of advancing to Sacrificial Dao.
• As Desolate's light faded during the battle, the Great Dao suddenly ignited and illuminated past and future.

The Desolate Heavenly Emperor entered the Sacrificial Dao in the midst of battle and confronted four Strange Ancestors. He destroyed one Ancestor so completely that even the Plateau could not revive him, leaving the remaining three shocked and afraid.

• The Desolate Heavenly Emperor completed his breakthrough to the Sacrificial Dao, and the Dark Ancestor summoned three more Strange Ancestors to destroy him.
• The four Ancestors attacked together, but the Desolate Heavenly Emperor injured and beheaded them while fighting alone.
• The Desolate Heavenly Emperor used Self-Transformation, Transformation Across Eternity, and the Pollen Path Woman’s power to overwhelm the Ancestors.
• The Desolate Heavenly Emperor impaled one Ancestor with his sword and used the Thunder Pool and his burning essence to sever the Ancestor’s connection to the Ancestral Land.
• The Desolate Heavenly Emperor repeatedly shattered the Ancestor until he and his Ancient Coffin were reduced to nothing, and the Plateau failed to revive him.
• The remaining three Ancestors retreated in fear after realizing the scene from their dreams had come true.

The Desolate Heavenly Emperor fought the three Ancestors, killing one for good and four supreme Immortal Emperors before apparently sacrificing himself. As the Ancestors began the great sacrifice and ordered the slaughter of Luo, Meng Hai, and Desolate’s allies, Jiang Zhu realized Desolate had staged his death as part of a plan, with only a seed hidden in the Stone Jar remaining.

• The three Ancestors joined their powers through the Plateau and attacked the Desolate Heavenly Emperor, but he broke their formation and trapped two of them in the Thunder Pool.
• The Desolate Heavenly Emperor killed another Ancestor and four supreme Immortal Emperors, but his body, Emperor Sword, and Thunder Pool were destroyed in the final battle.
• The three surviving Ancestors recovered and announced that the great sacrifice would begin early, ordering their forces to kill Luo, Meng Hai, and everyone connected to Desolate.
• The Ancestors promised Primordial Matter to Strange Immortal Emperors and other fighters who helped eliminate their enemies, sending the Calamity Land into a frenzy.
• The Pollen Path Woman mourned Desolate’s apparent death, while Jiang Zhu understood that Desolate had staged his sacrifice and concealed a seed within the Stone Jar.

The Desolate Heavenly Emperor, Luo, and Meng Hai fell in the final battle, leaving no emperors across the worlds. The strange race then slaughtered the surviving Immortal Kings, and the chapter ended with the ruined Heavens adrift before the Sacrificial Sea.

• The Heavenly Horned Ant and other veterans fought their former comrades while concealing their allegiance, and the Ancestors considered recruiting them.
• Meng Hai dissolved his Dao to take a Strange Immortal Emperor with him, while Luo fought off rescuers and then sacrificed herself to destroy another foe.
• Desolate, Luo, and Meng Hai died, and the three surviving Ancestors declared victory as the worlds mourned the loss of every emperor.
• The Pollen Emperor urged Jiang Zhu to flee, and he left the island to avoid the Strange Immortal Emperors and Ancestors.
• The four surviving End-of-the-Road Immortal Emperors slaughtered the Immortal Kings across the lower realms, leaving the worlds desolate.
• The ruined Heavens lay like a solitary island before the blood-red Sacrificial Sea.

The four Strange Immortal Emperors completed the great sacrifice and glimpsed a blurred figure on the altar, prompting the Ancestors to reveal that the ritual worshipped a real being connected to the Three-Life Bronze Coffin. Elsewhere, Jiang Zhu entered a ruined macrocosm in the Ancient Underworld and mourned a world devastated by the great sacrifice.

• The four Strange Immortal Emperors offered the fallen powerhouses to the altar in the Sacrificial Sea and briefly saw a blurred figure appear there.
• The Ancestors sensed the figure, joined the Immortal Emperors, and revealed that the great sacrifice worshipped the source of their power, a person whose ashes might be the primal substance.
• After leaving the Sacrificial Sea, the oldest Immortal Emperor identified the figure as the owner of the Three-Life Bronze Coffin and linked the sacrifice to the person buried on the Plateau.
• Jiang Zhu emerged from a ruined road into a dead macrocosm, where he reflected on how the broken Great Dao and the Heaven's Will Slash had destroyed the world's cultivation prospects.
• Jiang Zhu traveled for months through desolate ruins and concluded that emperors had fallen and the world's heroes lay buried.

Jiang Zhu survived the Spiritless Era and spent more than two hundred thousand years cultivating toward the End-of-the-Road level while the True Immortals were wiped out. Seeking strength to challenge the Plateau’s Ancestors, he pursued multiple cultivation paths and ended the chapter divided into five bodies to contain five clashing Dao fruits.

• Jiang Zhu traveled through ruined Spiritless worlds and witnessed the Heaven's Will Slash destroy every True Immortal across all worlds.
• The four Strange Immortal Emperors searched for Jiang Zhu, then decided to withdraw and heal while the Ancestors remained dormant.
• Jiang Zhu cultivated alone for more than two hundred thousand years, gathering the Dao’s scattered traces from nature and approaching the End-of-the-Road level without breaking through.
• Jiang Zhu studied the Pollen Path with the Pollen Emperor’s spirit particles and realized he needed to strengthen his other bloodlines rather than separate the powerful Nine-Leaf Sword Grass bloodline.
• Jiang Zhu cultivated the Primitive Method, the Immortal Ancient Method, and the Weapon Fusion Method until he possessed five near-End-of-the-Road Dao fruits.
• As the five Dao fruits threatened to tear apart Jiang Zhu’s origin, he divided himself into five bodies, each controlling one Dao fruit.

Jiang Zhu cultivated ten Dao Fruits and watched the Ruins Era give way to the Resurgence and Glory Eras, while the strange creatures’ sacrifices devastated the revived worlds. He continued investigating the Path of Reincarnation and learned from the Desolate Heavenly Emperor that the Ancestors were nearing full strength.

• Jiang Zhu searched ruined worlds for cultivation methods, left scriptures and hidden inheritances for future generations, and killed several strange Dao Ancestors to collect their methods.
• After forming ten Dao Fruits, Jiang Zhu concluded that ten was the limit and that he would eventually need to fuse them; he then spent a hundred thousand years cultivating in the deepest chaos.
• Jiang Zhu returned to the Ancient Underworld and sent Ye Fan, the Empress, Great Emperor Wushi, and others into chaos, where they broke through to the Dao Ancestor domain and trained through repeated battles.
• An Immortal Emperor and the beings of Calamity Land unleashed disasters upon the Resurgence Era, destroying lineages and killing a fifth of the population; the survivors entered the Glory Era.
• Jiang Zhu explored the Path of Reincarnation, gathered uncanny firelight, and found the Stone Millstone and Time Furnace.
• Jiang Zhu met an avatar of the Desolate Heavenly Emperor in the River of Time and learned that the Ancestors were close to regaining their numbers after the last minor sacrifice completed the Plateau’s oldest Immortal Emperor.

Jiang Zhu broke through to Immortal Emperor, transforming ten Dao Fruits into ten independent Immortal Emperor bodies while the Desolate Heavenly Emperor concealed the breakthrough. He then used Demon-Refining Divine Flame to purify the Pollen Path Ancestral Root, leaving a pure seed that could aid the Pollen Emperor’s revival.

• The Desolate Heavenly Emperor gave the Pollen Emperor the Ancestral Root and its shriveled Ancestor Seed, and she said they could help her project a body and return to life.
• The Desolate Heavenly Emperor concealed Jiang Zhu from the Plateau as Jiang Zhu began his breakthrough with Myriad Spirits Return to the Origin.
• Jiang Zhu drew countless true spirit imprints from the River of Time and transformed his ten Dao Fruits into ten complete Immortal Emperor bodies.
• Jiang Zhu recognized that fusing his ten bodies into one remained the challenge to reaching the Sacrificial Dao, and the Desolate Heavenly Emperor departed.
• The Pollen Emperor asked Jiang Zhu to purify the Ancestral Root, and he used Demon-Refining Divine Flame to burn it until a pure seed emerged from the ashes.

Jiang Zhu helped the Pollen Emperor revive through the Pollen Path’s ancestral tree, then entered the Pollen Path to burn away its contamination. When the Strange Ancestors’ influence continued to overwhelm his purification, he entered the battle unfolding in the scenes of the old days.

• The Pollen Emperor planted the ancestral seed in unusual soil, and Jiang Zhu added soil from the Source of the Pollen Path to hasten its growth into a flowering tree.
• The ancestral tree’s pollen and the seed sent by the Desolate Heavenly Emperor merged with the Pollen Emperor’s remnant spirit, restoring her body and raising her cultivation to the End-of-the-Road level.
• The Pollen Emperor explained that she had only partly revived and still carried ominous contamination, so Jiang Zhu gave her the Kindling Flame Technique.
• Jiang Zhu entered the Pollen Path and used the Demon-Refining Divine Flame to purify its spirits and burn away much of the contamination on the fallen Pollen Emperor, but more weird substance spread from the opposite shore.
• Jiang Zhu entered the scenes of the old days to confront the Strange Ancestors, and his arrival forced one of them away from the Pollen Emperor.

Jiang Zhu entered the battle in the past and wounded the Golden Blood Ancestor’s Shadow of the Old Days with his fists and sword. The Ancestors recognized him and the Desolate Heavenly Emperor as dangerous future anomalies, then launched an all-out attack to kill them before they could grow stronger.

• Jiang Zhu struck the Golden Blood Ancestor’s shadow with a fist, sending him flying.
• The Sacrificial Priest poured Ash Matter from the Phantom Coffin into the Golden Blood Ancestor, strengthening him at a painful cost.
• Jiang Zhu used the Grass Character Sword Art and a Fist Seal to sever the Ancestor’s scales and arms, shocking the fighters across the battlefield.
• The Pollen Emperor recognized Jiang Zhu’s Pollen Path aura and urged him to return to the future, while the Desolate Heavenly Emperor recognized him as the one who had sent his blood into the past.
• The Ancestors offered Jiang Zhu and the Desolate Heavenly Emperor a place among the Source of the Ominous, but they answered with sword light and rejected the offer.
• The Ancestors declared that they would kill Jiang Zhu and the Desolate Heavenly Emperor in the past, and their killing intent swept across the battlefield.

Jiang Zhu, the Desolate Heavenly Emperor, and the Pollen Emperor fought four Ancestors empowered by the Plateau, then used three treasures to break their union and begin destroying them. Two Ancestors were being ground and refined while Jiang Zhu held off the remaining pair.

• The four Ancestors united and overwhelmed Jiang Zhu, the Desolate Heavenly Emperor, and the Pollen Emperor, repeatedly blasting them into blood mist.
• The Ancestors drew power from the Plateau and disintegrated all three fighters with another combined strike.
• Jiang Zhu revealed the Stone Zither, Stone Mill, and Time Furnace, giving the Stone Mill to Desolate and the Time Furnace to the Pollen Emperor.
• Jiang Zhu, Desolate, and the Pollen Emperor attacked together, shattered the Ancestors' spiked club, and broke apart their united form.
• Desolate ground one Ancestor to pieces with the Stone Mill, while the Pollen Emperor blasted another apart and refined the remains in the Time Furnace.
• The two remaining Ancestors fused and attacked, while Jiang Zhu used sword light and zither music to hold them back and buy time for his companions.

Jiang Zhu and the Desolate Heavenly Emperor rescued an imprint of the Pollen Emperor from the past before she faced the six Ancestors and was erased from history. Returning to the present, Jiang Zhu began disappearing from existence and from everyone’s memories.

• The Ancestors’ phantoms destroyed themselves to alert their true bodies, so Jiang Zhu and the Desolate Heavenly Emperor used sword light and the Stone Zither to draw out part of the Pollen Emperor’s Dao Rhythm and escape with it.
• The six Ancestors attacked the Pollen Emperor, who fought alone and unleashed her ultimate strike before her origin ran dry and she vanished from history.
• Jiang Zhu returned from the past but found his memories and body fading, as though he were being erased from the world.
• Yan Ruyu, Jiang Qing, Ye Fan, the Empress, Great Emperor Wushi, and others felt their memories of Jiang Zhu disappear, with some soon forgetting who he was.
• The Willow Deity on the Plateau noticed that the future figure Jiang Zhu was growing indistinct and wondered what had happened to him.

Jiang Zhu gathered his ten Dao Fruits into one body and joined Desolate Heavenly Emperor in resisting the Ancestors’ erasing power, then helped restore the Pollen Emperor. After deciding to seek unusual soil in the Heavens, Jiang Zhu arrived in the ruined land three epochs after the Great Sacrifice.

• Willow Deity sensed Desolate fading from her memory, and Desolate explained that the Ancestors’ attack had shaken his existence but that he would recover.
• As the Ancestors’ erasure began destroying him, Jiang Zhu used Return to One and the Kindling Flame Dao Fruit to connect all ten Dao Fruits in a single body.
• Jiang Zhu resisted the Ancestors’ power until Desolate Heavenly Emperor arrived, concealed them from its search, and revealed the Pollen Emperor’s spiritual image.
• The Pollen Emperor used the blooming Ancestor Tree to restore herself and said she could return to her peak after four more blooms.
• Jiang Zhu set out to find unusual soil in the Heavens, leaving the Pollen Emperor to spread her method in All Worlds.
• Jiang Zhu arrived in the Heavens, a desolate land whose ground bore the marks of ancient bloodshed.

Jiang Zhu and his companions arrived in the Heavens and learned why Luo Tianxian and Meng Hai had reflected its dead back into history after the Great Sacrifice. Guided away from an ominous forbidden region, they reached a prosperous continent and saw the Heavens’ present state.

• Jiang Zhu brought Ye Fan, Wushi, the Empress, the Azure Emperor, Yan Ruyu, and the others to the Heavens, where they found a vast region scarred by blood and destruction.
• Jiang Zhu explained that the Heavens beyond the ruined region had prospered, and criticized Luo Tianxian and Meng Hai for using reflected history to resurrect the dead at the expense of the living and their future.
• Luo Tianxian and Meng Hai appeared and defended their choice, saying the Heavens lacked time to recover naturally and needed its former population restored to face the strange and ominous.
• Luo Tianxian showed the group a map and identified the forbidden region, where black blood had once eroded a suppressed Immortal Emperor and twisted the laws of the Great Dao.
• Meng Hai explained that the Sacrificial Sea consisted of shattered worlds, and Luo Tianxian said even she had explored only a small part of its boundless expanse.
• Jiang Zhu and his companions left the forbidden land with Luo Tianxian and Meng Hai, crossed the Sacrificial Sea, and reached a flourishing continent in the Heavens.

Ye Fan and the others explored the prosperous Heavens, where Jiang Zhu recognized a sect practicing the Original True Explanation and recounted its founder’s history. Emperor Bone Bro appeared, revealed how the Desolate Heavenly Emperor revived him, and said Ye Fan resembled the Great Fiend, leaving Ye Fan wondering why.

• Wushi and the others sensed the Heavens’ immense prosperity and spotted disciples practicing a method Jiang Zhu identified as the Original True Explanation.
• Jiang Zhu explained that Emperor Bone Bro had created the method, fallen to darkness after being corrupted by Origin Matter, and later been revived by the Desolate Heavenly Emperor.
• Emperor Bone Bro appeared, recognized Jiang Zhu as an Immortal Emperor who had mastered his path, and teased the group with stories about the Desolate Heavenly Emperor eating his enemies.
• Emperor Bone Bro described how he had used his body to suppress the source of dark contamination and said he intended to settle accounts with the monsters who had plotted against him.
• Emperor Bone Bro told Ye Fan that he resembled the Desolate Heavenly Emperor, prompting Black Emperor to wonder if Ye Fan was one of his descendants.

Emperor Bone Bro reclaimed his Dark Body and agreed to accompany Jiang Zhu to the Plateau, where Jiang Zhu sought plateau soil. While they crossed the Sacrificial Sea, Emperor Bone Bro described terrifying ruins, and those traces manifested ahead of them, with time beginning to flow backward.

• Emperor Bone Bro explained that his Dark Body on Earth had served as a warning and coordinate, then reunited with it despite its resistance.
• Jiang Zhu asked Emperor Bone Bro about the Calamity Land and declared that he needed plateau soil, so Emperor Bone Bro agreed to travel with him and hunt a Rat Emperor.
• Emperor Bone Bro led Jiang Zhu and the others across the Sacrificial Sea on the Great Dao Bamboo Raft and recounted the terrifying ruins left by the great fiend.
• An ancient corpse and shattered ruins appeared ahead of the raft after Emperor Bone Bro described them, and the surrounding River of Time began flowing backward.
• Jiang Zhu tried to steer around the apparition, but the corpse and ruins kept reappearing ahead of the group.

Jiang Zhu and his companions entered the Ruins and witnessed the past of a Sacrificial Dao being whose civilization had been destroyed by four Ancestors. As they studied the Ruins, an End of the Road Immortal Emperor attacked, and Emperor Bone Bro recognized the first attacker as the Rat Emperor before another enemy joined in.

• Jiang Zhu led the group past the ancient corpse and into the Ruins after it let them through.
• The Ancestors on the Plateau learned that someone had entered the Ruins and sent Zi with two others to erase them.
• Jiang Zhu and the others explored the time-twisted Ruins and witnessed the Sacrificial Dao being’s defeat by four Ancestors and the destruction of his civilization.
• Great Emperor Wushi absorbed Time Ancestral Substance and advanced his wondrous technique.
• An End of the Road Immortal Emperor broke through the Ruins and attacked, but Emperor Bone Bro destroyed its hand and recognized the Rat Emperor.
• A second great hand descended, and Emperor Bone Bro identified its owner as a cat.

Emperor Bone Bro and Jiang Zhu fought the Strange Immortal Emperors in the Sacrificial Sea, with Emperor Bone Bro fleeing after cutting Rat Emperor in half and Jiang Zhu battling Purple Emperor. When Purple Emperor invoked the Great Sacrifice to the Heavens, the Copper Coffin Master appeared on the altar, shocking both fighters.

• Emperor Bone Bro clashed with Green Emperor, then manifested his true form and cut Rat Emperor in half before fleeing as Green Emperor and Rat Emperor pursued him.
• Jiang Zhu faced Purple Emperor, who recognized him as the man who had shattered an Immortal Emperor's Imperial Edict before the Great Sacrifice.
• Jiang Zhu and Purple Emperor exchanged powerful blows across the Sacrificial Sea, and Purple Emperor tried to persuade Jiang Zhu that resistance would end in death.
• Purple Emperor unleashed the Great Sacrifice to the Heavens, spilling more than half his blood essence onto an altar to sacrifice Jiang Zhu for power.
• The Copper Coffin Master appeared on the altar, leaving Jiang Zhu and Purple Emperor shaken by his unexpected arrival.