Chapter Summaries

The Eastern Emperor defeated Dao Yi despite his escape attempts, then descended upon the Eternal Star Domain and began destroying its forces and seizing their ships and resources. He spared the mortals but left the powerful clans of the Eternal Main Star facing disaster.

• The Eastern Emperor's Dao Body killed Dao Yi's servants and pursued Dao Yi, who used a talisman and Domain Gate to flee.
• The Green-Gold Ancient Pagoda broke through Dao Yi's defenses and suppressed him.
• The Eternal Star Domain's forces panicked and tried to escape, while the Eastern Emperor recovered wreckage and sent Dao Bodies to intercept them.
• The Eastern Emperor destroyed the Cao Family's fleeing ships and killed everyone aboard, taking the vessels as spoils.
• The Eastern Emperor and his Dao Bodies destroyed warships and fortifications, captured Evolution Liquid, and seized fleeing forces across the star domain.
• The Eastern Emperor descended on the Eternal Main Star, spared its mortals, and identified its powerful clans by reading cultivators' memories.

The Eastern Emperor plundered the Eternal Star Domain and then stripped the treasures from the defeated Dao Yi. He left with rare materials and Evolution Liquids that could help him refine Eighth Stage Supreme Evolution Liquid, while Dao Yi remained captive and bereft of his collections.

• The Eastern Emperor destroyed or plundered the Twelve Royal Clans that had tried to ambush him, gathering rare materials for Supreme Evolution Liquid.
• The Eastern Emperor left the chaotic Eternal Star Domain with his spoils, judging that he could refine Seventh Stage Evolution Liquid.
• The Eastern Emperor questioned the imprisoned Dao Yi, then extracted his treasures and medicines from his secret realms.
• The Eastern Emperor found a branch of the Life Ancient Tree, abundant Evolution Liquid ingredients, and finished Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Stage Evolution Liquids in Dao Yi's collection.
• The Eastern Emperor took Dao Yi's weapons, dao tribulation gold Holy Sword, life-saving talisman, Dao Yan Immortal Scripture, and ancient pill recipes.

Taiyi discovered a fragmentary Nine-Turn Immortal Pill recipe among Dao Yi’s spoils, then witnessed Yao Xi complete her transformation into a divine embryo. Yao Xi began her Dao-severing tribulation, fighting fiercely as Taiyi watched from afar.

• Taiyi found a fragmentary Nine-Turn Immortal Pill recipe and thanked the defeated Dao Yi for the treasures he had taken.
• Taiyi sensed Yao Xi had completed her transformation and went to the Green-Gold Ancient Pagoda to witness her emerge from her divine cocoon.
• Yao Xi shed her demonic body, formed a divine embryo, and told Taiyi she felt strong enough to challenge Northern Emperor Wang Teng.
• Taiyi and Yao Xi spent half a month together before he urged her to leave the pagoda and face her heavenly tribulation.
• Yao Xi’s Dao-severing tribulation began, and she fought the lightning and its manifested creatures while Taiyi stood watch from a distance.

After Yao Xi survived her tribulation and reached the second heaven of Severing the Dao, Taiyi took her along toward an Ancient Road from the Mythological Era. He sent two Holy Light Bodies carrying Evolution Liquid and weapons back to their allies, then arrived with Yao Xi at Star Ruins to seek the Demon Emperor Xue Yueqing’s tomb.

• Yao Xi recovered from her tribulation wounds, and Taiyi praised her strength as she credited his support for her progress.
• Taiyi agreed to bring Yao Xi with him toward an Ancient Road and said she should wait until becoming a Saint before venturing onto an Ancient Road alone.
• Taiyi sent two Holy Light Bodies in Great Saint-level War Motherships with Evolution Liquid, treasures, and weapons for Lin Jia, An Miaoyi, Zixia, Danyangzi, and the others.
• Taiyi had Yao Xi continue cultivating in the Green-Gold Ancient Pagoda while he traveled through space on the Divine Light Platform.
• Taiyi arrived at Ruins City in Star Ruins, intending to explore the tomb of Demon Emperor Xue Yueqing and seek the Demon Emperor Ruler.

Taiyi used the Sun Emperor Pagoda to open the Demon Emperor’s tomb and withstand its deadly defenses. He suppressed the broken Demon Emperor Ruler and began refining its killing intent, while the other cultivators who followed him into the tomb were slain.

• Taiyi ignored the cultivators in the Star Ruins and traveled to the Yellow Springs, where he located the hidden entrance to the Emperor’s tomb.
• Taiyi opened the tomb’s stone gates with the Sun Emperor Pagoda, and the imperial pressure forced the watching cultivators to their knees.
• After Taiyi entered, other cultivators followed and were killed by the tomb’s activated beams of killing light.
• Taiyi crossed the Yellow Springs under the Sun Emperor Pagoda’s protection and entered Emperor Weapon Mountain.
• Taiyi suppressed the broken sections of the Demon Emperor Ruler with the Sun Emperor Pagoda and refined away their killing intent.

The Eastern Emperor collected the Demon Emperor Ruler fragments and more than twenty Ancient Medicine Kings from the Demon Emperor's tomb before traveling directly to the Mythical Ancient Road. Crossing the Heavenly Venerable Bitter Sea, he attacked an ancient Tyrant Body corpse, which awakened and met him in battle.

• The Eastern Emperor defeated the Corpse Charms with the Sun Emperor Pagoda, encountered Demon Emperor Xue Yueqing, and gathered Ancient Medicine Kings from the ancient cave.
• Cultivators arrived at the underworld river but could not cross as the Eastern Emperor harvested the medicines and departed for the Mythical Ancient Road.
• The Eastern Emperor reached the Heavenly Venerable Bitter Sea and boarded an ancient ship to cross its waters.
• The Eastern Emperor sensed a Tyrant Body corpse floating in the sea and attacked it from a distance.
• The Great Saint-level Tyrant Body awakened and charged Taiyi, who answered with the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist.

The Eastern Emperor spent half a month challenging powerful ancient corpses in the Heavenly Venerable Bitter Sea, using them to temper his battle prowess instead of rushing to the other shore. He began a fierce fight with a Divine Race God King, whom he could only slightly suppress even after triggering Nine Secrets: Jie.

• The Eastern Emperor defeated a Great Saint-level Tyrant Body with the Sun Emperor Fist and declared the bitter sea a trove of worthy opponents.
• He spent the next half month sailing the Ancient Ship through the Heavenly Venerable Bitter Sea and battling ancient corpses with Great Saint-level strength.
• The Eastern Emperor discovered another life spring but drew out the eighth ancient corpse rather than collecting its divine liquid.
• A powerful Divine Race God King awakened and attacked the Eastern Emperor, who met him with the Sun Emperor Fist and the Divine Forbidden Domain.
• The God King held off the Eastern Emperor's assault, and even when Taiyi triggered Nine Secrets: Jie, he gained only a slight advantage as their battle continued.

The Eastern Emperor defeated the ancient corpses guarding the ninth life spring, discovered Lingbao Heavenly Venerable’s four Killing Swords and a Six-Eared Macaque within the spring, and gathered a vast amount of its life liquid. Using the Lingbao Immortal Scripture to bypass the bitter sea’s suppression, he crossed to the Divine Other Shore and entered a mysterious forbidden ground.

• The Eastern Emperor burned the God King Corpse to ash with solar true fire, then found and defeated the powerful ancient corpse guarding the ninth life spring.
• He used his Martial Dao Heavenly Eye to discover four Killing Swords and Lingbao Heavenly Venerable’s Cave Abode, where he saw a Six-Eared Macaque.
• The Eastern Emperor recited the Lingbao Immortal Scripture and stirred the Killing Swords, but could neither move them nor enter the Cave Abode.
• Protected by the Human-Body, Ghost-Faced Lamp, he collected a vast amount of life spring liquid into the Green-Gold Ancient Pagoda.
• The Eastern Emperor used the Lingbao Immortal Scripture and Divine Light Platform to travel directly to the Divine Other Shore.
• He entered an ancient life-bearing star and headed into a silent, desolate Mysterious Forbidden Ground.

Taiyi entered the Gods and Demons Burial Ground to refine his Great Dao with the ancient gods’ and demons’ legacies and perfect his Supreme Fist Scripture. After thirteen years, he remained engulfed in Dao fire while Yao Xi prepared to use Fourth Stage Evolution Liquid to break into the Half-Saint Domain.

• Taiyi explored the Gods and Demons Burial Ground, recognized the Divine Soul Pool, and avoided investigating it.
• Taiyi spent three months linking the burial ground’s mountains with a grand formation, then entrusted Yao Xi with the Human Emperor Seal and settled her in a protected area.
• Taiyi activated the formation and drew the Great Dao runes from the mountains into Dao fire to temper himself.
• During ten years of seclusion, Yao Xi advanced to the Eighth Heaven of Dao-Slaying with tribulations and Third-Stage Supreme Evolution Liquid, then focused on consolidating her foundation.
• After another three years, Yao Xi recovered from straining her Heavenly Eye to observe Taiyi and decided to use Fourth Stage Evolution Liquid to break through to Half-Saint.

Yao Xi broke through to the Half-Saint realm, while the Eastern Emperor completed his cultivation and battled the Gods and Demons Phantoms to temper his Supreme Fist Scripture. The upheaval drew the god’s four Great Saint God Elders to the Gods and Demons Burial Ground with a Supreme Divine Artifact.

• Yao Xi used the Evolution Liquid to complete her transformation, survived her tribulation, and advanced to the Half-Saint realm with strength enough to contend with Saints.
• The Eastern Emperor awoke beneath the Fusang Divine Tree and practiced numerous supreme techniques, integrating them into his Supreme Fist Scripture.
• The Eastern Emperor’s surging fist intent shook the ancient star, prompting the god to send four God Elders to investigate with the Supreme Divine Artifact.
• The Chaos Bell emerged as the Eastern Emperor’s Golden Little Man fought the Gods and Demons Phantoms, absorbing the defeated foes as marks upon the bell.
• The four God Elders arrived outside the forbidden land, saw the Eastern Emperor battling the phantoms, and reacted in horror.

God and the God Elders attacked the formation protecting the Eastern Emperor, hoping to seize the Fusang Divine Tree and his Divine Bell. The formation held against their Supreme Divine Artifact, leaving the assault locked in a stalemate.

• The God Elders activated the Killing Formation Diagram against the Eastern Emperor, but the Sun Emperor Pagoda blocked its extreme Dao might.
• The God Elders summoned God, who decided to break into the Gods and Demons Burial Ground despite the risk of destroying it.
• God and the God Elders unleashed the Killing Formation Diagram, while the Fusang Divine Tree empowered the Sun Emperor Pagoda and reinforced the Eastern Emperor’s formation.
• The two extreme Dao forces clashed without either side gaining ground, shaking the Divine Realm and frightening its inhabitants.

The Eastern Emperor used the Gods and Demons Burial Ground and its Emperor Weapons to restrain God’s Killing Formation Diagram, then emerged and attacked God and the God Elders. After instantly killing two God Elders, he moved to strike another, leaving the battle still underway.

• God drew on the Divine Realm’s power of faith to drive the Killing Formation Diagram against the Gods and Demons Burial Ground.
• A black dragon transformed into the Human Emperor Seal and joined the Sun Emperor Pagoda to block the formation diagram.
• The Eastern Emperor absorbed the little golden figure, continued practicing the Supreme Fist Scripture, and formed a powerful Dao Body from three streams of pure qi.
• The Sun Emperor Pagoda and the Taiyin Seal combined with the burial ground’s formations to trap the Killing Formation Diagram and throw God and the God Elders out of control.
• The Eastern Emperor emerged from the burial ground and killed two God Elders with a single attack.
• Using Nine Secrets: Xing, the Eastern Emperor rushed toward another God Elder and struck with a golden Fist Seal.

The Eastern Emperor's Dao Body killed two God Elders and battled God, whose faith power nearly brought him to the Quasi-Emperor realm. As the fight threatened the Divine Realm, the Ancient God Mountain stabilized it, but the Dao Body vanished just as an old god advanced to attack.

• The Eastern Emperor destroyed a Great Saint's treasures and body, then trapped his Primordial Spirit until it underwent self-daoization.
• The Eastern Emperor used Nine Secret: Bing to cripple the last God Elder, then killed him while God tried to stop him.
• The Eastern Emperor fought God, and the Ancient God Mountain released accumulated faith power to stabilize the collapsing Divine Realm.
• The Eastern Emperor's Dao Body unleashed Nine Secret: Jie and drove God back into the Outer Regions Battlefield.
• An old god drew on faith power to approach the Quasi-Emperor realm and challenged the Eastern Emperor's Dao Body, which retreated before suddenly dissolving into pure qi.

The Eastern Emperor defeated and killed God in the Outer Regions Battlefield, then faced the Great Saint Tribulation after the heavens sensed his unleashed power. He battled his humanoid lightning across the starry sky, leaving the tribulation ongoing.

• The Eastern Emperor unleashed his full strength, entered the Great Saint Realm, and used the Eastern Emperor World-Subduing Fist to overpower God.
• The Eastern Emperor shattered God’s body and burned his remains to ash with sun sacred power.
• Observers in the Divine Realm watched God fall as a vast sea of lightning gathered around the Eastern Emperor.
• The Eastern Emperor endured the Great Saint Tribulation with the Chaos Bell, Heavenly Dao Battle Box, Nine Divine Weapons, and Immortal Gold Divine Arrows beside him.
• A lightning embodiment of the Eastern Emperor descended and fought him in a fierce battle across the starry sky.
• The Eastern Emperor and his lightning opponent used One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, Three Pure Ones Return to One Qi, and their two Dao bodies fought before perishing together.

After surviving an extraordinary tribulation, Taiyi reached the fifth heaven of the Great Saint Realm, and the Divine Realm feared his power. He reunited with Yao Xi at the Gods and Demons Burial Ground, where he judged that suppressing Lingbao Heavenly Venerable’s Killing Formation Diagram would require at least four Emperor Weapons.

• Taiyi defeated his humanoid lightning and the lightning forms of ancient emperors, then refined his damaged treasures into Great Saint Weapons.
• Taiyi recovered from the tribulation and resolved to attain the Dao or mature his Sun Sacred Body so he could control his own fate.
• The Divine Realm watched Taiyi’s tribulation through an Ancient Formation Platform and feared he might seek revenge.
• Taiyi arrived at the Gods and Demons Burial Ground, where the Killing Formation Diagram remained locked in a stalemate with the Taiji Divine Diagram and two Emperor Weapons.
• Yao Xi greeted Taiyi after reaching the Half-Saint realm, and he warned her that suppressing Lingbao Heavenly Venerable’s Killing Formation Diagram would require at least four Emperor Weapons.

The Eastern Emperor and Yao Xi escaped the Divine Other Shore and returned to Beidou, where they discovered the former Yaoguang Holy Land had become a vast abyss. They reunited with the relocated Yaoguang Holy Land, and Taiyi revealed that he had reached Great Saint while Lin Jia and An Miaoyi had departed for the Trial Ancient Road.

• Taiyi decided the Lingbao Killing Formation was too dangerous to challenge without four Emperor Weapons, then used the Sun Emperor Pagoda and Human Emperor Seal to escape with Yao Xi.
• Taiyi and Yao Xi returned to Beidou and learned that the Yaoguang Holy Land had split open, exposing Chaos Immortal Soil and the Bronze Immortal Palace before Huang took the treasures and the site collapsed into an abyss.
• Taiyi explained the changes at the former Yaoguang site and took Yao Xi to the Holy Land’s new location in the Southern Region.
• The Yaoguang Holy Lord, Danyangzi, Granny Yu, and Mu Yuan Great Saint welcomed Taiyi and Yao Xi, and Taiyi admitted he had recently advanced to Great Saint.
• The group was astonished by Taiyi’s rapid cultivation; Danyangzi said Lin Jia and An Miaoyi had become Saints and left for the Trial Ancient Road.
• Mu Yuan Great Saint asked Taiyi whether he planned to leave Beidou again.

Taiyi gathered Emperor Weapons and allies for his plan to breach Lingbao Heavenly Venerable's Killing Formation and claim its treasures. After securing the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron and Western Emperor Pagoda, he reached the Jiang Family, where he reunited with Jiang Tingting.

• Taiyi borrowed the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron from Mu Yuan Great Saint and explained his plan to attack Lingbao Heavenly Venerable's Killing Formation.
• Mu Yuan Great Saint agreed to bring Changyou and Black Tortoise to the Divine Other Shore, while Taiyi planned to seek another Emperor Weapon from Jade Lake and the Jiang Family.
• Taiyi offered the Queen Mother of the West Ancient Heavenly Venerable's Life Spring Liquid, and she agreed to lend him the Western Emperor Pagoda.
• Taiyi left Jade Lake for the Jiang Family, where Jiang Tingting hurried to greet him.
• Taiyi praised Jiang Tingting's progress after learning that she had reached Half-Saint.

After borrowing the Hengyu Furnace from the Jiang Family, the Eastern Emperor returned to Saint Cliff to retrieve the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body's corpse. He encountered Yan Ruyu and brought her inside, leaving her astonished by how easily he navigated the dangers.

• The Eastern Emperor thanked the Jiang Family, borrowed the Hengyu Furnace, and left Heavenly Venerable Life Spring Liquid for Jiang Tingting.
• The Eastern Emperor arrived at Saint Cliff, intending to take the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body's corpse.
• Yan Ruyu met the Eastern Emperor and agreed to explore Saint Cliff with him.
• The Eastern Emperor destroyed hidden Ancient Race observers and led Yan Ruyu through the perilous terrain, explaining that he had explored it before with Ye Fan and Jiang Taixu.
• The Eastern Emperor burned several attacking ancient corpses to ash as a strange black wind swept toward Yan Ruyu.

The Eastern Emperor and Yan Ruyu ventured deeper into Saint Cliff, where they captured a Golden Crow Saint and found the Investiture of the Gods suppressing a Supreme. At the summit, the Eastern Emperor opened the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body’s coffin and used the Sun Emperor Pagoda to pin down its sinister corpse.

• The Eastern Emperor destroyed tens of thousands of Fire God Crows and sealed a Golden Crow Saint inside the Green-Gold Ancient Pagoda.
• The Eastern Emperor told Yan Ruyu that Great Emperor Wushi’s Investiture of the Gods suppressed a Supreme from the Undying Mountain.
• The Eastern Emperor and Yan Ruyu reached the summit of Saint Cliff and found the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body’s stone coffin.
• The Eastern Emperor opened the coffin, revealing the Sacred Body’s corpse and the dead Lord of the Heavenly Court.
• The Sacred Body’s corpse rose, but the Eastern Emperor’s Sun Emperor Pagoda pinned it down and burned it with sacred solar radiance.

Su Chen persuaded Ye Mo that science and mechanical technology could strengthen Glory City and break the commoners’ disadvantage, winning the Legendary Demon Spirit Master’s support for reform. With their alliance established, the Dawn Public Library opened in the commoner district, giving residents free access to basic cultivation and technical knowledge.

• Su Chen presented Ye Mo with scientific components and his Flame Dragon Mecha, demonstrating that it could challenge a newly advanced Legendary opponent and could eventually be produced in standardized versions.
• Su Chen argued that science could spread knowledge, improve resource access, and strengthen the city’s defenses, while Ye Mo recalled the hardships caused by Glory City’s class divisions.
• Ye Mo agreed to shield Su Chen’s reforms from entrenched interests and support the spread of science for humanity’s survival.
• Su Chen decided to invest resources in improving his own cultivation before pushing his plans further.
• Ye Mo and Su Chen opened the Dawn Public Library in the commoner district, where free books and volunteer instruction drew crowds of excited residents.