Chapter Summaries

Jiang Zhu fled into the River of Time after the Copper Coffin Master briefly manifested, prompting the Strange Clan’s ten Ancestors to awaken and pursue him. Their arrival devastated countless worlds, but Jiang Zhu’s trail remained obscured, and the Ancestors feared their actions had created a new variable.

• Jiang Zhu destroyed the altar and escaped into the River of Time, concealing his traces with relics of the Copper Coffin Master.
• Four Ancestors awakened, reached the Sacrificial Sea, and failed to find Jiang Zhu after discovering his trail had vanished.
• The remaining Ancestors emerged, revealing that the Strange Clan had ten Ancestors, while the Desolate Heavenly Emperor helped hide Jiang Zhu.
• After nearly a century of divination, the ten Ancestors traced Jiang Zhu to the Chaotic Ancient Era and entered the River of Time with every being above Dao Ancestor level.
• The Ancestors’ presence unleashed ominous corruption and destruction across time, while their renewed divination failed and the Gray Mist Ancestor warned that their actions might create a new variable.

The Ten Great Ancestors severed the River of Time and sent Immortal Emperors into the sealed past to hunt Jiang Zhu. Jiang Zhu entered the Chaotic Ancient Era and arrived at Shi Hao’s battle against the Strange Immortal Emperors, where the World-Ending Elder challenged Shi Hao’s path to Immortal Emperorhood.

• The Ten Great Ancestors sealed the past timeline, then ordered younger members of the Calamity Land to find Jiang Zhu and promised them Primordial Matter.
• Rat Emperor and Green Emperor entered the sealed past, abandoning their pursuit of Emperor Bone Bro, while the Desolate Heavenly Emperor watched from the Plateau.
• Jiang Zhu traveled upstream through the River of Time, recognized the vortex reflecting the battle between Shi Hao and the Strange Immortal Emperors, and entered it.
• Jiang Zhu emerged above the Boundary Sea as Shi Hao prepared to strike Azure Emperor, Feather Emperor, and Hong Emperor after thirty thousand years of battle.
• The World-Ending Elder blocked Shi Hao’s attack and warned that his attempt to break through would lead only to death, but Shi Hao insisted he had not abandoned his humanity.

Shi Hao fought the World-Ending Elder and the three dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors until three Quasi-Immortal Emperors from the future arrived and joined the attack against him. As seven enemies surrounded Shi Hao, another figure resembling Great Emperor Wushi charged toward the battle with a great bell.

• Shi Hao refused the World-Ending Elder's offer and fought him to stop the destruction of the Immortal Domain.
• The World-Ending Elder gave Emperor Pills to Feather Emperor, Hong Emperor, and Azure Emperor, who joined him in attacking Shi Hao.
• Three Quasi-Immortal Emperors arrived from the future, revealed that they had come to kill Desolate, and attacked him alongside the four present-day enemies.
• The future arrivals suffered backlash from cause and effect as they and the four other Quasi-Immortal Emperors surrounded Shi Hao.
• A figure with a great bell above his head rushed from downstream in the River of the Years, and Jiang Zhu wondered why someone resembling Great Emperor Wushi was approaching when Wushi remained inside his Chaos World.

Jiang Zhu secretly observed the battle between Shi Hao and the Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors, recognizing that Shi Yi, the Heavenly Horned Ant, the double-pupiled woman, and the Willow Deity had disguised themselves as figures from the future. As Shi Hao and his allies fought to keep the future attackers at bay, the Willow Deity and the Newly Ascended Gold Emperor arrived as true Immortal Emperors, and the Willow Deity pinned the fleeing Gold Emperor with a single punch.

• Jiang Zhu recognized that the newcomer called Wushi was Shi Yi in disguise, and suspected the other future figures were disguised allies of Shi Hao.
• Shi Yi fought the future attackers while Shi Hao faced the Feather Emperor, Hong Emperor, Azure Emperor, and World-Ending Elder; the Heavenly Horned Ant and a double-pupiled woman joined the battle.
• The three future attackers burned their heart's blood essence and used a Forbidden Method to try to kill Shi Hao, while his allies fought to intercept them.
• Two figures with true Immortal Emperor auras emerged from the River of Time, and Jiang Zhu recognized the Willow Deity among them, disguised as his past self, with the Newly Ascended Gold Emperor as her opponent.
• The Metal Emperor tried to escape after spotting Jiang Zhu's past self, but the Willow Deity struck through time and space and pinned him with her Fist Seal.

Jiang Zhu and the Willow Deity discussed the Strange Clan’s hunt for the secret tied to the Copper Coffin Master, but seven Strange Immortal Emperors and hundreds of Quasi-Immortal Emperors soon surrounded them. Jiang Zhu refused to surrender, and the Black Emperor launched the first attack.

• Jiang Zhu and the Willow Deity killed the Metal Emperor, while Shi Yi and his companions suppressed three Strange Clan Quasi-Immortal Emperors.
• The Willow Deity told Jiang Zhu that the Strange Ancestors had sealed the past and sent their Immortal Emperors searching for him because they suspected his connection to the Copper Coffin Master.
• Jiang Zhu said he would turn the hunt around and target the Strange Immortal Emperors, and the Willow Deity agreed to act with him.
• Seven Strange Immortal Emperors and hundreds of Quasi-Immortal Emperors arrived, spreading ominous corruption across the Boundary Sea until the Chaos Bell restored the afflicted inhabitants.
• The Purple Emperor demanded Jiang Zhu surrender the secret, but Jiang Zhu refused, and the Black Emperor attacked him with a massive hand of darkness.

Jiang Zhu fought the Strange Immortal Emperors in the River of Time, while Willow Deity, Luo Tianxian, Meng Hai, Ye Fan, and the others battled the Strange Clan’s forces. Jiang Zhu destroyed Purple Emperor and severed his resurrection through the Plateau, leaving two other Immortal Emperors badly wounded and still facing him.

• Jiang Zhu killed Black Emperor with two punches, and the Strange Immortal Emperors realized he might be able to cut them off from the Plateau.
• Jiang Zhu advanced against the Strange Immortal Emperors as Willow Deity, Luo Tianxian, and Meng Hai joined the fight and held off three of them.
• Ye Fan, Great Emperor Wushi, the Empress, Azure Emperor, and others entered the Quasi-Immortal Emperor battle with relics from the Copper Coffin Master.
• Jiang Zhu fought three Immortal Emperors at once, blasting them apart and countering Purple Emperor’s Great Sacrifice to the Heavens with the Three-Life Bronze Coffin lid.
• Jiang Zhu unleashed Myriad Spirits Return to the Origin, destroyed Purple Emperor, and prevented him from reviving through the Plateau.
• Jiang Zhu continued to overwhelm the two remaining wounded Immortal Emperors as they threatened him and vowed revenge from their Ancestors.

Jiang Zhu defeated the Strange Immortal Emperors and erased their Quasi-Immortal Emperor forces, prompting the Ten Great Ancestors to descend into the past and kill him. As they advanced toward the Chaotic Ancient Era, an unknown attacker struck the Plateau and began tearing apart the Strange race’s Ancestral Land.

• Jiang Zhu killed the Purple Emperor and White Emperor in battle, while other Strange Immortal Emperors detonated themselves to escape him.
• Luo Tianxian, Meng Hai, and the Willow Deity held off their opponents as Jiang Zhu erased hundreds of strange Quasi-Immortal Emperors.
• The Ten Great Ancestors learned of Jiang Zhu’s strength and decided to enter the past in their true bodies to capture him and obtain his secrets.
• The Ten Ancestors forced open a path through the River of Time and advanced toward the Chaotic Ancient Era, devastating worlds and severing timelines along the way.
• An unknown figure attacked the Plateau, splitting the Ancestral Land and driving its surviving Strange creatures to flee.
• The Ten Ancestors roared in alarm as the attacker continued bombarding the Plateau, threatening the foundation of their race’s immortality.

The Desolate Heavenly Emperor infiltrated the Plateau and fought its seven returning Ancestors, killing one before they overwhelmed him. As the Plateau itself revealed its consciousness and restrained him, it disclosed that Desolate bore pure primordial matter and identified the eerie being tied to the Bronze Coffin as the source of the Plateau’s power.

• Seven Strange Ancestors returned to the Plateau while Purple Blood Ancestors, Red Hair Ancestors, and Silver Blood Ancestors continued pursuing Jiang Zhu.
• The Desolate Heavenly Emperor revealed himself on the Plateau, split one Ancestor in two, and fought the seven Ancestors with his Self-Transformation.
• Desolate killed one Ancestor and wounded another, then tried to escape as the seven revived and battered him into blood mist.
• The Plateau’s consciousness restrained Desolate and revealed that it had altered the Ancestors’ earlier dreams using the power of the being who died there.
• The Plateau explained that primordial matter came from the dead being and allowed those connected to him to revive, then confirmed that the Bronze Coffin’s buried master was that being.

Jiang Zhu fled three Sacrificial Dao Ancestors into an unknown Primordial Place, where he witnessed the Copper Coffin Master's past and met his shadow. The Copper Coffin Master explained that his diseased true body had burned itself away and that he had called Jiang Zhu there because he wanted to see an anomaly.

• The Plateau and seven Ancestors tried to kill Desolate, but he vanished as an incarnation, and they joined forces to trace his main body.
• Three Sacrificial Dao Ancestors tracked Jiang Zhu through the River of Time, so he gathered everyone into the Demon-Refining Pot and fled using the Copper Coffin Master's Relics.
• The Relics and Myriad Tribulation Reincarnation Lotus guided Jiang Zhu into the Primordial Place, an unknown stretch of time and space that the Ancestors had never seen.
• Jiang Zhu witnessed the Copper Coffin Master's courtyard, his illness and self-immolation, and how the spilled ashes and scattered relics led to later calamities.
• The Copper Coffin Master's shadow appeared and told Jiang Zhu that he had forgotten his past, had no ill will toward him, and had summoned him out of curiosity.

The Copper Coffin Master gave Jiang Zhu primordial matter to refine while hiding him from the three Ancestors, but the Great Sacrifice began during Jiang Zhu’s long absence. As All Worlds fell into battle and Desolate faced five Ancestors, the Pollen Emperor appeared to fight beside him.

• The Copper Coffin Master asked Jiang Zhu to help grant him release and supplied primordial matter for Jiang Zhu to refine in the Demon-Refining Pot.
• The three Ancestors failed to find Jiang Zhu, and after a long passage of time the blood-colored altar appeared as the Great Sacrifice began.
• The Strange Clan destroyed worlds while Emperor Bone Bro and Shi Fan fought back; the Willow Deity attacked the altar, and the Green Emperor joined the battle against her.
• Meng Patriarch called for Desolate, who revealed that he had been fighting five Ancestors beyond the worlds.
• A Strange Immortal Emperor stepped onto the altar and was seized and killed by an enormous hand, then the Pollen Emperor appeared and joined Desolate against the Ancestors.

Jiang Zhu sacrificed his ten dao fruits and entered the Sacrificial Dao Realm, then confronted the three Ancestors on the Plateau. He killed the Purple Blood Ancestor and defeated the Red Hair Ancestor and Silver Blood Ancestor, ending their existence.

• Jiang Zhu ignited himself and sacrificed his dao fruits, fate, cause and effect, time, and reincarnation to enter the Sacrificial Dao Realm.
• Jiang Zhu emerged from the Copper Coffin Master's courtyard, and the three Ancestors attacked him together.
• Jiang Zhu shattered the Ancestors' weapons and bodies, then used his ten dao fruits to trap and kill the Purple Blood Ancestor.
• Jiang Zhu fought the Red Hair Ancestor and Silver Blood Ancestor, breaking their weapons with one fist and one sword.
• Jiang Zhu destroyed the Red Hair Ancestor and Silver Blood Ancestor, ending all three Ancestors.

Jiang Zhu and his allies defeated the Plateau’s forces, then Jiang Zhu used the Demon-Refining Pot to drain its primordial power and force it to seal itself. After restoring the fallen and reaching above Sacrificial Dao, he destroyed the Plateau, ushering in a golden age in which Chu Feng rose as its brightest star.

• Jiang Zhu killed the White-Haired Ancestor and fought the Plateau’s newly created Ancestors alongside Desolate Heavenly Emperor and the Pollen Emperor.
• The battle continued for thousands of years as the Plateau produced more Ancestors, while the people of the Heavens waited and prayed for the three Heavenly Emperors’ return.
• Jiang Zhu used the Demon-Refining Pot to absorb the Plateau’s primordial matter, forcing the Plateau to close its fissure and seal itself.
• After the battle, Jiang Zhu and his allies restored fallen heroes, and Jiang Zhu sacrificed himself to break through above Sacrificial Dao.
• Jiang Zhu descended upon the Plateau and destroyed it, while Desolate Heavenly Emperor, Ye Fan, and the Pollen Emperor later reached the same realm.
• The Heavens and Myriad Worlds entered a golden age, and Chu Feng rose rapidly through the cultivation paths before taking the final step ahead of the Empress and the others.