Chapter Summaries

Di Yi investigated a sealed hall in the Void God Realm, where black mist from ancient bottles and jars carried a corrupting influence. Lord Bird and Lord Essence Wall warned him about the imprisoned fiends and revealed that they had lost their memories and physical bodies, while Di Yi offered to trace their origins.

• Di Yi examined the black mist and ancient hall, sensing that the darkness within the mist submitted to him.
• Lord Bird and Lord Essence Wall arrived and recognized Di Yi, whose rapid cultivation had helped restore some of their power and memories.
• Lord Bird explained that the hall was a Dark Cage holding great fiends, and Lord Essence Wall said its prisoners had once been honored supreme figures.
• Lord Bird warned Di Yi that the black mist could corrupt minds, though Di Yi detected the danger with True Understanding and remained confident.
• Di Yi offered to trace Lord Bird and Lord Essence Wall's physical bodies, then told them his origins were outside the Eight Regions of the Lower Realm and the Upper Realm.
• Lord Bird and Lord Essence Wall gave Di Yi their names and said they could not remember their true names.

Di Yi traced Lord Bird and Lord Essence Wall’s origins, but an interfering power obscured their past and hinted at a future in which they reunited with their physical bodies. The two old beings then revealed that the Dark Ancient Hall held the True Phoenix Precious Technique and might serve as a training ground for later generations.

• Di Yi recognized Lord Bird and Lord Essence Wall as notorious figures, and their lofty personas gave way to their crafty true natures.
• Lord Bird and Lord Essence Wall used their spirit bodies to reveal vast scenes of Upper Realm forests, but an unknown force blurred the images and called to them from the future.
• Di Yi traced Lord Bird and Lord Essence Wall’s physical bodies to the Upper Realm, where he saw signs that they had suffered a deadly battle.
• Di Yi kept his glimpse of their future reunion and the Bear Child’s branching futures secret, saying another power had interfered with his tracing.
• Lord Bird and Lord Essence Wall approved of Di Yi and revealed that the True Phoenix Precious Technique lay within the two True Phoenix Bones in the ancient hall.
• Lord Essence Wall suggested the Void God Realm served to temper the strongest and rehearse something for later generations.

Di Yi entered the ancient hall to investigate the True Phoenix bones and faced sealed stone statues whose power exceeded the world’s limits. After blocking their attacks, he chose to empower himself with the Sea of Potential and fight them to study their paths.

• Lord Bird and Elder Essence Wall said their memories were damaged and could not explain the True Phoenix bones’ origins, then warned Di Yi about the stone statues and sealed vessels.
• Di Yi entered the ancient hall, where the stone statues attacked him with blows beyond the utmost limit.
• Lord Bird and Elder Essence Wall struggled against the spreading black mist while Di Yi caught every statue’s strike without strain.
• Elder Essence Wall suggested releasing the statues to let Di Yi deal with them, but Lord Bird warned him against opening their seals.
• Di Yi dismissed the idea that the statues were invincible and empowered himself with the Sea of Potential to battle them and learn from their cultivation paths.

Di Yi fought the stone statues in the Dark Ancient Hall, revealing power that astonished Lord Bird and Lord Essence Wall. As the battle continued, the two debated whether Di Yi was an ancient being or a talent from the present age.

• Lord Bird and Lord Essence Wall warned Di Yi that the stone statues were immensely powerful, but Di Yi began sparring with them anyway.
• Di Yi unfolded a star-filled expanse and used its strange effects on time to make the statues’ attacks repeatedly vanish and return.
• A stone statue countered the time effect, but Di Yi struck it with the Grass Character Sword Art, severing its hands and damaging it.
• The other stone statues unleashed their own Daos and Precious Techniques, turning the hall into a chaotic battle.
• Lord Bird and Lord Essence Wall marveled at Di Yi’s strength and debated whether he came from the distant past or the present age.

Di Yi fought the stone statues in the ancient hall, which joined forces to wield the legendary Eighth Tribulation Formation. He emerged victorious after the Void God Realm’s seal interrupted the battle, having mastered the statues’ Dao and the formation.

• Lord Bird and Lord Essence Wall watched as Di Yi battled the stone statues across an intangible domain.
• The stone statues combined their attacks and inscribed a powerful killing formation that Di Yi identified as the Eighth Tribulation Formation.
• Lord Bird recalled that the formation was created to replace the eighth of the Ten Great Heavenly Tribulations, while Lord Essence Wall recognized its terrifying power.
• Di Yi reshaped the Broken Sword and fought the statues amid surging black mist and violent distortions of space and time.
• Di Yi walked out of the ancient hall victorious, with sword scars covering the statues.
• Di Yi explained that fluctuations traveling along spiritual chains had stopped the statues, and said he had mastered their Dao and the Eighth Tribulation Formation.

Di Yi learned that the stone statues had been fallen Immortal Kings imprisoned in the Void God Realm, then entered the dormant Dark Ancient Hall to obtain the True Phoenix Precious Technique. He mastered the technique by memorizing the patterns on the True Phoenix Bones.

• Lord Bird warned Di Yi that the black mist could harm his spiritual body, but Di Yi said it had never touched him and could not harm him.
• Di Yi told Lord Bird and Lord Essence Wall that the stone statues were fallen Immortal Kings from the Immortal Domain, imprisoned after being corrupted and attacking it.
• Lord Bird recognized the statues and urged Di Yi to claim the True Phoenix Precious Technique while the Dark Ancient Hall was dormant.
• Di Yi found two True Phoenix Bones purifying the black mist and studied the patterns they displayed.
• Di Yi memorized the patterns and achieved complete mastery of the True Phoenix Precious Technique.

Di Yi mastered the True Phoenix Precious Technique and discovered that its purifying power might help remove the black blood affecting his recovery. After discussing the Dark Ancient Hall, the Great Reckoning, and the Foreign Realm with Lord Bird and Lord Essence Wall, he left the Void God Realm, while the two realized they had missed asking him something important.

• Di Yi explored the True Phoenix Precious Technique and found that it could weaken and burn away the black mist, suggesting it might also purify the black blood in his body.
• Di Yi returned to Lord Bird and Lord Essence Wall, who chose to keep suppressing the Dark Ancient Hall, and warned them that two or three stone statues seemed to have been dark from the start.
• Di Yi asked about the Great Reckoning, and Lord Bird recalled that a minor reckoning involved the Foreign Realm and darkness spreading everywhere.
• Di Yi considered whether his connection to black mist made him part of the darkness, then dismissed the thought and left the Void God Realm.
• After Di Yi departed, Lord Bird and Lord Essence Wall realized he knew about their forbidden zone and wondered whether they had missed their chance with him.

Di Yi used the True Phoenix Precious Technique and the Three Talents Reincarnation Formation to begin purifying the Black Blood inside himself, while new visions of a past True Phoenix and the Boundary Sea deepened his suspicions about his origins. The Golden Hou emerged from the North Sea stronger and able to speak, startling Di Yi with its first words.

• Di Yi suspected that the black mist and the uncanny presence might have originated from his own expelled harmful substances, but focused on healing the contamination within himself.
• Di Yi found that the True Phoenix Precious Technique, empowered by the Sea of Potential and the True Understanding, could purify Black Blood, though the process would take a long time.
• A True Phoenix manifested within Di Yi’s Cave Heavens, revealing a familiar sea and the True Phoenix Art; Di Yi wondered whether the True Spirits had once been his subordinates.
• Di Yi sensed that the Boundary Sea might reveal his origins, but his instincts warned him not to go there in his current condition.
• The Golden Hou leaped from the North Sea, showing its growth, changing black and golden fur, and a new Limit-Breaking Ability that restored it to Formation Peak.
• The Golden Hou rushed to Di Yi and called him “Brother,” shocking him because it could now speak.

Di Yi reunited with Golden Hou after it emerged from seclusion able to speak, named it Ten Tribulations, and brought it to the Kunpeng Nest to train. He placed it in a powerful pool, where it began absorbing the ocean’s essence but quickly panicked as its body felt as though it were boiling apart.

• Golden Hou greeted Di Yi excitedly, and he asked whether the crackling in its head had quieted after it learned to speak.
• Di Yi agreed to delay Golden Hou’s training briefly so it could consolidate its gains and benefit from useful treasures in the Kunpeng Nest.
• Golden Hou proposed the names Di Hou and Yi Hou, but Di Yi gave it the true name Ten Tribulations.
• Di Yi opened the inner world of the Kunpeng Daoist Grounds and led Golden Hou to a deep-blue pool.
• Golden Hou jumped into the pool, absorbed its essence, and then panicked as it struggled in the water and felt its body boiling apart.

Di Yi watched Golden Hou endure the ocean essence pool’s brutal tempering, where Golden Hou attempted a breakthrough and began transforming. The pool revealed strange powers that led Di Yi to suspect his presence had altered the world’s past and its fate.

• Di Yi urged Golden Hou to endure the ocean essence pool, which painfully alternated between extreme cold and heat while unraveling his Divine Radiance Dao Talismans.
• As Golden Hou’s wounds multiplied, his black hairs became mysterious kun fish and peng bird brands, and Di Yi wondered whether they reflected Golden Hou’s comprehension of the Kunpeng Spirit Transformation Path.
• Golden Hou chose not to feign death and began breaking through inside the pool, manifesting his Cave Heavens, formation patterns, and transformations between kun fish, peng birds, and True Hou.
• The pool formed a brilliant cauldron around Golden Hou, and Di Yi detected unfamiliar auras resembling the Western Religion’s Sect Master and Reincarnation rather than Kunpeng’s Dao.
• Di Yi recalled Golden Hou’s bewilderment at Stone Village and wondered whether his own presence had changed the past, even though he believed he could only influence the future.

Di Yi sensed that the Bear Child had intervened in the pool of essence of the ocean, then waited for the Golden Hou to finish breaking through. After bringing the newly transformed Golden Hou into Kunpeng’s cave abode, Di Yi prepared to dilute its ancient divine wine, leaving the Golden Hou wary that he was about to be tricked again.

• Di Yi sensed traces of the Bear Child in the past and concluded that their connection was not hostile.
• Di Yi returned to the Heaven Mending Pavilion to study cultivation beyond the Venerable Realm.
• The Golden Hou emerged from the pool of essence of the ocean after reshaping his body and breaking through, but pretended he was exhausted.
• Di Yi took the Golden Hou into Kunpeng’s cave abode, where the Golden Hou cautiously followed him past the Jade Pot and Jade Cup.
• Di Yi found ancient divine wine in the Jade Pot and began preparing a clear brew to dilute it, making the Golden Hou uneasy.

Di Yi drank the clear liquor he had made from Kunpeng’s undiluted brew and used True Understanding to investigate its runic light. He found himself in the past, face-to-face with a wounded Kunpeng, and their conversation began with both questioning who the other was.

• Golden Hou accepted a cup of diluted liquor from Di Yi and drained it, quickly becoming woozy.
• Di Yi tasted a stronger cup and entered a vision of time reversing through the mortal world.
• Di Yi appeared in Kunpeng’s cave beside a lonely, wounded Kunpeng, who was drinking by herself.
• Di Yi introduced himself as someone from a later age and asked Kunpeng to share her true immortal wine.
• Di Yi noticed Kunpeng’s wounds were eroding her body and cultivation, while Kunpeng questioned his identity and the age he came from.

Di Yi told Female Kunpeng that her surviving son had revived but was burdened by hatred, while the Immortal Palace and Sword Valley remained powerful in later ages. He revealed that the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths faced certain invasion, leaving Female Kunpeng with little hope of changing the future.

• Di Yi told Female Kunpeng that her son, Kunpeng Son, had survived after being sealed in chaos for a million years, and showed her scenes of him.
• Di Yi explained that Kunpeng Son had attacked the Immortal Palace, Sword Valley, and others, but had been suppressed in the Lower Realm before recently breaking free.
• Female Kunpeng learned that the Shi Clan and Fire Clan had been condemned as lineages of sin blood, and Di Yi revealed that their ancestors had killed leaders corrupted by darkness.
• Female Kunpeng asked whether the Great Reckoning had brought Di Yi out of the forbidden zone, and he said his journey was unrelated to it.
• Di Yi warned that the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths would certainly be breached again because the realm had rotted from within and remained outmatched by its enemies.

Di Yi learned why the Foreign Realm and the Primordial Ancient Realm had become enemies, then asked whether the wounded female Kunpeng would fight again in a later age. She agreed, and Di Yi promised that she would one day confront her hatred, leaving her questioning who he was.

• The female Kunpeng explained that the Foreign Realm sought a key to its origins in the Primordial Ancient Realm, while growing evidence of darkness and corruption made the ancient sages wary and led to war.
• Di Yi asked whether the Foreign Realm's beings might resist darkness, but the female Kunpeng said their invasion had made the enmity impossible to resolve.
• Di Yi asked whether the female Kunpeng would wield Heavenly Desolate and fight again in a later age, and she said she would.
• The female Kunpeng questioned whether fighting again would be worthwhile, and Di Yi promised that she would one day overcome her hatred.
• The female Kunpeng asked what Di Yi planned to do and whether someone like him truly existed in the forbidden zones of the Primordial Ancient Realm.

Di Yi and Female Kunpeng discussed what his status as a Lord of the Forbidden Zone meant and whether the Primordial Ancient Realm had once been part of his royal land. Di Yi reconsidered the realm’s history, while Female Kunpeng concluded that his origins remained uncertain and that no one could change her doomed fate.

• Female Kunpeng explained that forbidden zones came in two kinds and recalled seeing attacks surge through an otherworldly passage during the Immortal Ancient War.
• Di Yi called the Primordial Ancient Realm his royal land, prompting Female Kunpeng to wonder whether he had brought part of it there long ago.
• Di Yi considered that the realm might have begun as a fragment of his former domain, though he admitted he did not yet know the truth.
• Di Yi told Female Kunpeng he could not give her a specific answer about his origins and invited her to ask about something else.
• Female Kunpeng said she was interested only in him and believed her illness and the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths’ coming defeat could not be changed.

Di Yi questioned the Female Kunpeng about the mysterious portal beside her Cave Abode, learning that it opened onto a frozen battlefield from the distant future and that an immense bell bearing the name Wu Shi stood beyond it. He suggested that Wu Zhong might be connected to Wu Shi, then revealed the Kunpeng True Spirit, leaving the Female Kunpeng shaken by its identical life imprint and will.

• Di Yi asked why the Female Kunpeng had built her Cave Abode beside the portal, and she explained that the portal had appeared beside her nest without warning.
• The Female Kunpeng said she had crossed into the portal using a branch of the Primordial Ancient Realm's World Tree and described the frozen future battlefield beyond it.
• The Female Kunpeng told Di Yi that an immense bell bearing the rules of Wu Shi held down a distant realm, and Di Yi connected this to the Immortal King Wu Zhong.
• Di Yi suggested that Wu Zhong and Wu Shi might be connected, then opened his Ten Cave Heavens and revealed the Kunpeng True Spirit.
• The Female Kunpeng recognized the True Spirit's life imprint and undying will as her own and lost her composure.

Di Yi proposed pulling Female Kunpeng from the past into a later age, but she questioned whether such a return would truly preserve her identity or disrupt the timeline. She declined reincarnation and planned to erase her memories of meeting him.

• Female Kunpeng warned Di Yi that moving a living person across time could unleash immense karmic consequences, but Di Yi said he could suppress any backlash.
• Di Yi invited Female Kunpeng to travel with him to a later age, and she compared his plan to Six Paths and No End’s time-distorting deed.
• Female Kunpeng argued that changing her timeline might alter her True Spirit and that a recreated version of her would not truly be herself.
• Di Yi considered the wider consequences of reincarnating Female Kunpeng, including the effects on her enemies, loved ones, and dead children.
• Female Kunpeng said she did not want reincarnation, accepted her past, and planned to cut away her memory of meeting Di Yi.

Di Yi told Female Kunpeng that the world beyond her sea lay in the distant future and that the Center of Darkness was only a contaminated land, not the true source of the darkness. He revealed that he had once been king of the realm containing that center and had been wounded by the true source, leaving Female Kunpeng to wonder whether his pursuit of becoming an emperor had begun everything.

• Female Kunpeng said Wu Shi’s possible connection to No End had little bearing on them because he lived in a distant future.
• Di Yi explained that the world was far larger than Female Kunpeng knew and that Wu Shi’s battlefield reached the kingdom’s center, which he called the Center of Darkness.
• Female Kunpeng wondered whether the Primordial Ancient Realm’s future struggle against the Foreign Realm involved the Center of Darkness itself.
• Di Yi suggested that Wu Shi and others had come to this age to resist a greater darkness, then said the Center of Darkness was only a contaminated land.
• Di Yi revealed that the true source of the darkness had wounded him and that he had once been king of the realm containing the Center of Darkness.
• Female Kunpeng asked whether Di Yi’s attempt to become an emperor had set everything in motion.

The Female Kunpeng explained to Di Yi why Immortal Kings began to suspect that a realm beyond kingship existed, describing the Foreign Realm’s Origin artifact and mysterious stone. Di Yi remained confused about why the Primordial Ancient Realm eventually accepted the possibility of a higher realm.

• Di Yi admitted that he had lost much of his memory, and the Female Kunpeng explained that Immortal Kings could see no path beyond their realm.
• The Female Kunpeng said the Foreign Realm possessed an artifact called Origin and a rare stone with powerful properties that could seal even Immortal Kings.
• Di Yi wondered whether the artifact or stone might have come from his Kingdom, but the Female Kunpeng said no one in the Primordial Ancient Realm had actually seen it.
• The Female Kunpeng recounted how the Immortal Domain captured a Foreign Realm Undying King and learned of Origin and the stone, prompting kings to consider whether a realm beyond kingship existed.
• The Female Kunpeng explained that the stone might have been produced by an Undying Emperor, while reproducing it would require immense resources.
• Di Yi asked why the Primordial Ancient Realm ultimately acknowledged a higher realm after doubting the evidence.

Female Kunpeng explained how the kings discovered evidence of a level beyond the King Realm and the Boundary Sea, where faint footprints pointed toward true emperors. Di Yi admitted that he might have broken through the King Realm, but he remained uncertain about his level and clarified that the darkness was connected to him without making him a threat to the world.

• Female Kunpeng told Di Yi that the Immortal Domain’s kings had discovered a Burial World and an artifact whose power surpassed the King Realm.
• Female Kunpeng described a thunderous realm bordering several worlds, where a cobblestone path and faint footprints led toward a dam and the Boundary Sea.
• Female Kunpeng explained that the kings had traveled across the Boundary Sea seeking true emperors, but none had found them.
• Di Yi said his missing memories prevented him from knowing whether he had become an emperor, though the King Realm could no longer describe him.
• Di Yi told Female Kunpeng that the darkness had another source and that, although it was connected to him, he posed no harm to the world.