Chapter Summaries

He Mu confirmed that the figure in the Primordial Ancient Mine was the Desolate Pagoda, and the two exchanged accounts of their histories. After learning how badly the Desolate Pagoda had been damaged by ancient wars, He Mu promised to help him recover, leaving their cooperation poised to begin.

• He Mu named the Desolate Pagoda, then introduced himself as Wuliang, the present-age Dao Ancestor, and earned the injured artifact's trust.
• He Mu considered inviting the Desolate Pagoda to join the Spirit Realm so he could gain both an Immortal Artifact and knowledge of the Boundary Sea.
• The Desolate Pagoda recounted his origins as a divine weapon born in chaos, his ties to the Desolate Heavenly Emperor, and the repeated battles that damaged him.
• The Desolate Pagoda explained that he had awakened in the Primordial Ancient Mine but remained at risk of losing his Immortal Dao powers.
• The Desolate Pagoda asked He Mu to lend him strength for one last attempt to transform, and He Mu promised to help heal his injuries.

He Mu removed the dark aura from the Desolate Pagoda and brought the Primordial Ancient Mine into the Spirit Realm, where the weakened artifact became its new Realm-Suppressing Artifact. After securing the remaining black qi and arranging affairs in the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands Universe, He Mu prepared to travel to the Strange World again.

• He Mu used Wuliang Immortal Light and the Primordial Ancient Mine's resources to help the Desolate Pagoda expel the dark aura poisoning his origin.
• After nine days and nights, He Mu and the Desolate Pagoda stabilized his injuries, though the Desolate Pagoda weakened and He Mu sealed the most dangerous black qi.
• He Mu moved the Primordial Ancient Mine to the Spirit Realm, helped the Saint Spirit immortal fetus cultivate, and invited the Desolate Pagoda to join the realm.
• The Desolate Pagoda replaced the Wuliang Dao Wheel as the Spirit Realm's Realm-Suppressing Artifact, and He Mu reclaimed the Wuliang Dao Wheel to seal the black qi.
• He Mu explained his plans to the Venerables and the Desolate Pagoda, left behind a Dharma body, and prepared to set out for the Strange World.

He Mu secretly returned to the Strange World, where his arrival stirred the Great Dao and drew the attention of the Heavenly Court. He reunited with his Fire-Element Dao Body in Wuliang City, absorbed its two hundred thousand years of experience, and set out to visit Emperor Venerable before seeking a breakthrough to the Apex of Immortality.

• He Mu left the Spirit Realm unnoticed and opened a passage through the world barrier to enter the Strange World.
• The chapter recounted how Emperor Venerable unified the Strange World under the Heavenly Court, with Wuliang Great Heavenly Venerable's decree securing the eastern lands.
• He Mu arrived in Wuliang City, and the Great Dao's manifestations alerted the Eastern Imperial Lord and drew the Heavenly Court's attention.
• He Mu met his Fire-Element Dao Body in Miro Palace, and the Dao Body returned to his Heart Dao Palace, loosening his cultivation bottleneck.
• He Mu spent three days integrating the Dao Body's memories and insights, then left Miro Palace to visit Emperor Venerable and guide his cultivation.

He Mu tested Emperor Venerable’s strength, warned him about the dangers of the path of faith, and revealed that he had attained immortality. After teaching Emperor Venerable about the Immortal Dao, He Mu prepared to entrust him with another matter.

• He Mu attacked Emperor Venerable with a powerful palm strike, and Emperor Venerable countered with Nine Secrets Combined before recognizing his martial uncle.
• He Mu praised Emperor Venerable’s progress but warned him to be cautious with the path of faith and its risk of the Loss of Self Tribulation.
• Emperor Venerable discovered that He Mu had arrived in his true body and learned that he had become an immortal.
• At Emperor Venerable’s request, He Mu explained the Red Dust Immortal path and expounded the Immortal Dao to him for forty-nine days.
• After Emperor Venerable awakened from seven days of enlightenment and thanked He Mu, He Mu said he had another matter to entrust to him.

After a secret three-day discussion with He Mu, Emperor Venerable mobilized the Heavenly Court to carry out their undisclosed grand plan. He Mu continued exploring the Strange World and set out for the Abyss Ruins Land, hoping its dangers held the final fortune he needed to advance.

• Emperor Venerable issued decrees that mobilized the Heavenly Court and the Four Directional Emperor Lords to prepare for his plan in secret.
• The Emperor Lords carried out Emperor Venerable's commands while concealing their suspicions about the plan's true purpose.
• He Mu traveled discreetly through the Strange World's ancient lands and advanced to the threshold of Immortal King combat strength.
• He Mu identified the Abyss Ruins Land as the last unexplored ancient land and hoped its fortunes would help him break through his limits.
• He Mu headed toward the Abyss Ruins Land, a forbidden zone where even Supremes had suffered death or madness.

He Mu entered the Abyss Ruins Land and encountered a black skeleton whose power could threaten him, then fought it to sharpen his cultivation. After defeating but sparing the skeleton, He Mu set out to challenge the other powerful beings stirring in the ruins.

• He Mu crossed the deadly astral winds and entered the scorched Abyss Ruins, where he sensed a chill capable of affecting an Immortal King.
• A black skeleton emerged from the earth, declared He Mu an intruder, and attacked him with a rusty saber and taiyin power.
• He Mu fought the skeleton, gaining momentum toward the apex of immortality as other powerful beings in the ruins awakened.
• He Mu unleashed his full power and broke the skeleton apart, then spared it and left to seek out the other overlords.
• The wounded skeleton sank back into the scorched earth, and the Abyss Ruins returned to silence.

He Mu battled powerful beings across the Abyss Ruins Land to deepen his foundations and hasten his pursuit of the legendary Apex of Immortality, since other ways to advance were unavailable or too dangerous. After entering a scorched territory ruled by a being stronger than his previous opponents, He Mu faced a giant face formed from magma and flames, which demanded to know why he had disturbed its slumber.

• He Mu defeated several powerful beings in the Abyss Ruins Land, and each battle loosened his bottleneck at the Apex of Immortality Realm.
• He Mu decided to keep fighting the land’s strongest residents to gain Dao insights and accelerate his breakthrough.
• He Mu concluded that battle was his only viable path to rapid advancement because he could not obtain suitable guidance or medicines and could not yet enter the Boundary Sea.
• He Mu arrived in a territory filled with unusually potent fiery energy and recognized that its ruler was stronger than the black skeleton.
• Magma and flames gathered into a Reddish-Brown Giant Face, which accused He Mu of intruding on its slumber and threatened to kill him unless he explained himself.

He Mu battled the sentient Magma Giant Face, studying the Abyss Ruins Land as he overcame the powerful opponent. After reducing the Magma Giant Face to a shattered core, He Mu demanded that he reveal everything he knew about the land.

• He Mu recognized that the Magma Giant Face possessed sentience and watched him closely, then used the Sixfold Annihilation Heavenly Sound to confuse his mind.
• The Magma Giant Face realized He Mu had interfered with his mind, lost his temper, and attacked with World-Destroying True Flame.
• He Mu formed a miniature world that absorbed the flames, then turned it into Chaos and sent it crashing into the Magma Giant Face.
• The explosion nearly destroyed the Magma Giant Face, leaving only his cracked core and almost none of his power.
• He Mu approached the Magma Giant Face and demanded that he explain the truth about the Abyss Ruins Land if he wished to survive.

He Mu explored the Abyss Ruins Land, learned of its ancient calamity and the mysterious Bronze Gate, and reached the core region, where his Wuliang Immortal Light triggered a burst of five-colored radiance. Meanwhile, Ning Fei abdicated as the universe approached its limit, and He Mu found a colossal bronze pillar before him.

• He Mu learned from the magma face that the Abyss Ruins had once held powerful guardians and a Bronze Gate, but a taboo being had devastated the land and barred its awakened inhabitants from the core.
• He Mu concluded the calamity might have been caused by the Eerie Clan and suspected the Bronze Gate could hold his chance to reach the apex of immortality, so he pressed deeper into the Abyss Ruins.
• News spread that Ning Fei would abdicate, and the Venerables gathered in the Spirit Realm to witness him sever his connection to the Heavenly Heart Imprint as the universe neared collapse.
• Ning Fei abdicated, causing the Heavens and Myriad Realms to tremble as the universe's source essence gathered toward the Spirit Realm.
• He Mu reached the dark core of the Abyss Ruins, where his powers and divine sense were severely restricted, and used Wuliang Immortal Light for protection.
• He Mu's Wuliang Immortal Light triggered endless five-colored radiance, and after he recovered his sight, he saw a colossal bronze pillar before him.

He Mu was drawn through the Bronze Gate into the Time Long River, where he advanced to the apex of immortality. His breakthrough stirred the Supreme Great Luo Heaven and prompted powerful figures across the worlds to recognize him.

• He Mu saw the Bronze Gate glow and resisted its growing influence on his thoughts.
• The Bronze Gate opened to reveal the Time Long River, then pulled He Mu inside before closing and awakening intelligence in overlord-level beings across the Abyss Ruins Land.
• A five-colored light shield protected He Mu in the river as he studied it and gradually deepened his cultivation.
• He Mu crossed into the apex of immortality, gaining strength that approached the pinnacle even among Immortal Kings.
• The Supreme Great Luo Heaven stirred, the Desolate Pagoda's divine spirit exclaimed that it was He Mu, and powerful figures throughout the worlds reacted to his breakthrough.

He Mu nearly succumbed to the erosion of time while traveling upstream, but a mysterious sword strike severed the river and cast him into the King-Suppressing Mound in Immeasurable Heaven. He woke in the forbidden zone as the story entered the Perfect World arc.

• He Mu drifted upstream through the river of time, nearing Dao Dissolution as the Wuliang Dao Wheel failed to wake him.
• A mysterious sword light struck the river of time, severing it and restoring the Wuliang Dao Wheel's damaged spirit.
• The broken river split the five-colored light, sending the Wuliang Dao Wheel away while He Mu fell out of the river.
• He Mu appeared in the depths of the King-Suppressing Mound, where the remains and lingering resentment of two Foreign Domain kings lay.
• The last of He Mu's five-colored light dissipated, and he opened his eyes.

He Mu awakened in King-Suppressing Mound at the end of the Chaotic Ancient Era and discovered he had arrived in the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, the Desolate Heavenly Emperor’s homeland. After his Immortal King aura alarmed powerful beings across the world, He Mu assessed his connection to this era and set out for the Three Thousand Dao Provinces to explore it and seek a way back to the future.

• He Mu recovered from his journey through the river of time and investigated King-Suppressing Mound, finding evidence of a brutal ancient battle and sensing the world’s resistance to his power.
• He Mu unleashed his Immortal King might to probe the Heavenly Heart, causing powerful beings and ancient lineages across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands to react with alarm.
• A youth from the Changsheng Wang Family and the old man at Changsheng Academy looked toward King-Suppressing Mound, while Supremes and ancient immortals elsewhere also sensed He Mu’s aura.
• He Mu learned that the era was the end of the Chaotic Ancient Era and that the realm was the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, where the Desolate Heavenly Emperor would rise.
• He Mu realized that his Nine Heavens Dao Ancestor Position anchored him to this era but that repeated displays of Immortal King power could provoke the world’s suppression.
• He Mu decided to seek the Wuliang Dao Wheel, continue cultivating, and investigate a way back to the future before leaving King-Suppressing Mound for the Three Thousand Dao Provinces.

He Mu arrived in the fallen Three Thousand Dao Provinces and judged the land a poor but deeply powerful place with ancient reserves. He decided to make it his base for studying and rebuilding the Chaotic Ancient Method, then headed toward a populated area to begin gathering examples.

• He Mu set foot in the Three Thousand Dao Provinces and surveyed its sluggish Daos and meager cultivation resources.
• He Mu reflected on the province’s ancient glory, devastation in the Immortal Ancient Era, and surviving reserves of Supremes and Remnant Immortals.
• He Mu chose the Three Thousand Dao Provinces as a base to cultivate and transform the Chaotic Ancient Method into an independent path.
• He Mu concluded that he first needed examples to analyze and reconstruct the existing method, then headed toward a densely populated area.

He Mu walked across Fire Province, where strange underground flames and fierce struggles over rich mineral deposits defined the land. He sought the ancient fires buried beneath it and identified the legendary chaos flame, or Quasi-Immortal Emperor Dao Fire, as the treasure he wanted most.

• He Mu crossed Fire Province on foot to experience the Chaotic Ancient Era and study its laws.
• Bandits tried to rob and kill He Mu, but heaven’s backlash reduced them to ash without him intervening.
• He Mu connected with Fire Province’s earth veins and searched for the origins of its underground fires.
• He Mu recalled that fallen True Immortals’ intrinsic fires had nurtured the province’s flames and considered drawing out their Dao principles and divine substances.
• He Mu recognized the Quasi-Immortal Emperor Dao Fire buried beneath Fire Province as its most precious treasure.

He Mu searched Fire Province’s grasslands for the Quasi-Immortal Emperor Dao Fire while the Three-Life Bronze Coffin obscured his divinations. He encountered a wounded young man whose extraordinary abilities led He Mu to suspect his identity, and called for him to stay and talk.

• He Mu searched Fire Province’s earth veins for the underground palace containing the Quasi-Immortal Emperor Dao Fire.
• He Mu noticed three outlaws attacking a wounded young man and recognized the strength of the young man’s foundations.
• The young man dissolved the attackers’ magic, killed their Divine Flame realm leader and a Venerable, and defeated the remaining outlaw.
• He Mu connected the young man’s nirvana-like constitution, injuries, and immunity to magical power with a figure he knew, then called out to him.

He Mu stopped the injured Shi Hao after he escaped the Celestial Human Race and killed three bandits in Fire Province. He Mu claimed he had come to resolve the bloody calamity awaiting Shi Hao, leaving Shi Hao wary and uncertain of his intentions.

• Shi Hao stopped when He Mu called to him, while He Mu considered whether to influence the future Desolate Heavenly Emperor.
• Shi Hao recalled escaping the Celestial Human Race after they tortured him for the Supreme Technique within him.
• After bandits in Fire Province tried to sell him into slavery, Shi Hao killed them and remained wary of strangers.
• Shi Hao questioned He Mu, unable to discern his cultivation or determine whether he posed a threat.
• He Mu greeted Shi Hao and said a bloody calamity awaited him, claiming he had come to resolve it.

He Mu warned Shi Hao that the Celestial Human Race could hunt him down while he recovered, then revealed his supposed hostility was an act. He offered to take Shi Hao as his disciple, leaving Shi Hao to consider the proposal.

• He Mu told Shi Hao that his injuries and the Celestial Human Race’s power made him vulnerable to a bloody calamity.
• Shi Hao recognized that He Mu knew too much about his escape and asked how he planned to help.
• He Mu feigned murderous intent and claimed the Celestial Human Race had hired him to kill Shi Hao.
• Shi Hao saw through He Mu’s act and reasoned that the powerful Daoist was not allied with the Celestial Human Race.
• He Mu admitted his strength and invited Shi Hao to become his disciple so he could eventually seek justice in the City of Heaven.

Shi Hao weighed He Mu’s invitation and agreed to join the Purple Heaven Palace after hearing about its lineage and arts. He Mu accepted him as a disciple and warned that betrayal would bring the reclamation of every divine ability he learned.

• Shi Hao asked He Mu about his origins and cultivation grounds before deciding whether to join him.
• He Mu described the Purple Heaven Palace in Great Luo Heaven as an ancient Daoist lineage that had once reigned supreme across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
• Shi Hao asked whether the sect’s Heavenly Venerable was comparable to Qin Changsheng, and He Mu said Qin Changsheng was far weaker.
• He Mu promised that the sect possessed the Three Thousand Great Daos, many divine abilities, and the Battle Saint Method.
• Shi Hao agreed to enter the Purple Heaven Palace and inherit its teachings.
• He Mu declared Shi Hao a disciple and warned him never to betray the lineage.

Shi Hao joined the Purple Heaven Palace as He Mu’s disciple and heard a warning about a future upheaval across the myriad heavens. He Mu then took Shi Hao to search Fire Province for the Chaos Dao Fire so Shi Hao could prepare to advance from the Venerable Realm.

• He Mu formed the Purple Heaven Palace’s initiation oath, and Shi Hao swore upon his essence blood and formally joined the sect.
• He Mu warned Shi Hao that a future reckoning would bring blood and chaos across the myriad heavens, but said Shi Hao should not learn more yet.
• He Mu told Shi Hao to seek a Great Dao fire seed for his advancement to the divine flame realm.
• He Mu took Shi Hao with him to search Fire Province for the Chaos Dao Fire.

After Shi Hao recovered from his injuries in Fufeng City, He Mu discussed how he could cultivate immunity to magical power and considered seeking the Heavenly Immortal Academy’s Tribulation Transcendence Divine Lotus. Shi Hao tried to persuade He Mu that Purple Heaven Palace could provide an even rarer treasure, but a woman from the academy interrupted them with a challenge.

• Shi Hao and He Mu reached Fufeng City after three days of travel, during which Shi Hao fully recovered from his injuries inflicted by the Celestial Human Race.
• He Mu told Shi Hao that golden bodhi fruit could help him cultivate immunity to magical power, but warned that using it directly would be dangerous.
• Shi Hao proposed bathing in the Heavenly Immortal Academy’s divine pool, where the Tribulation Transcendence Divine Lotus grew, and asked He Mu to arrange access.
• He Mu considered the difficulties of obtaining the divine medicine and reflected that his Purple Heaven Palace had little standing or resources in this era.
• Shi Hao changed his request, suggesting Purple Heaven Palace must have treasures better than the lotus, when a woman’s voice challenged him to name one.