Chapter Summaries

The Eastern Emperor fought Heaven-Soaring Supreme to a standstill despite unleashing the Divine Forbidden Domain and Nine Secrets: Jie, while the Supremes watched from afar. As Heaven-Soaring Supreme revealed the Myriad Beasts Immortal Sword, the Eastern Emperor endured its assault with the Chaos Bell and prepared to strike with a Divine Bow and nine Divine Arrows.

• The Wushi Bell returned to Purple Mountain, and the Investiture of the Gods descended into Saint Cliff as Gai Jiuyou and the Forbidden Zone Supremes watched the battle.
• The Eastern Emperor and Heaven-Soaring Supreme exchanged attacks and were sent flying with both sides bloodied and neither gaining an advantage.
• Heaven-Soaring Supreme unleashed the Myriad Beasts Immortal Sword, revealing himself as the Myriad Beasts Ancient Emperor to Gai Jiuyou.
• The Eastern Emperor used the Chaos Bell to withstand the Myriad Beasts Immortal Sword's onslaught.
• The Eastern Emperor drew a chaos-wreathed Divine Bow and nocked nine Divine Arrows as Heaven-Soaring Supreme faced his next attack.

Eastern Emperor fought Heaven-Soaring Supreme across the Ancient Battlefield, enduring the Myriad Beasts Immortal Sword’s forbidden attack while repeatedly wounding his opponent with the nine Immortal Gold Arrows. As his heightened combat state faded and the battle grew dangerous, Eastern Emperor summoned a golden duplicate with Three Pure Ones Return to One Qi and armed it with the bow and arrows.

• Heaven-Soaring Supreme unleashed the Myriad Beasts Immortal Sword, whose beast-shaped sword intent wounded Eastern Emperor despite his retreat and the Chaos Bell’s protection.
• Eastern Emperor’s nine Immortal Gold Arrows pierced Heaven-Soaring Supreme’s battle garment and body, injuring his Immortal Platform and right ear.
• Eastern Emperor and Heaven-Soaring Supreme exchanged fierce attacks across the Ancient Battlefield, with Eastern Emperor shifting the Heavenly Dao Battle Box through multiple weapon forms and repeatedly firing the arrows.
• As Nine Secrets: Jie and the Divine Forbidden Domain wore off, Eastern Emperor’s aura weakened and he found himself in danger against Heaven-Soaring Supreme.
• Eastern Emperor used Three Pure Ones Return to One Qi to create an identical golden figure, which took the Eastern Emperor Bow and summoned the nine Immortal Gold Arrows.

The Eastern Emperor and his Dao Body overwhelmed Heaven-Soaring Supreme in a brutal battle, exploiting the moment he tried to undergo ultimate sublimation. They destroyed his body and Immortal Platform, annihilating him completely.

• The Eastern Emperor joined forces with his Dao Body to batter Heaven-Soaring Supreme with coordinated attacks, and a nine-colored arrow pierced his chest.
• Heaven-Soaring Supreme reconstructed his body and continued fighting, but the two Eastern Emperors shattered his Battle Garment and Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Emperor Sword as his exhausted vitality waned.
• The Eastern Emperor and his Dao Body struck together with their Emperor Fists, blasting Heaven-Soaring Supreme apart again.
• Heaven-Soaring Supreme began to undergo ultimate sublimation, but the Eastern Emperor and his Dao Body seized the opening and attacked before he could transform.
• The Eastern Emperor's fist pierced Heaven-Soaring Supreme's chest while the nine-colored arrow pierced his Immortal Platform, annihilating his body and spirit.

The Eastern Emperor and his Dao body killed Qingcang Supreme by interrupting his Ultimate Sublimation, alarming the Forbidden Zone Supremes and stunning cultivators across the world. After recovering from the battle, the Eastern Emperor reforged his damaged weapons and stored the three Extreme Dao Rough Embryos within his secret realms.

• The Eastern Emperor and his Dao body struck Qingcang Supreme during Ultimate Sublimation, annihilating his body and soul.
• The Forbidden Zone Supremes realized that the opening during Ultimate Sublimation could be fatal, while Gai Jiuyou and cultivators across the world watched in shock.
• The Eastern Emperor refined Qingcang Supreme's blood mist into three blood pills, captured the fragments of the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Sword, and swallowed the pills to recover.
• The Eastern Emperor healed his wounds, reclaimed his damaged weapons, and reforged the Chaos Bell, Heavenly Dao Battle Box, and nine-colored Immortal Gold Arrows.
• The Eastern Emperor stored the three Extreme Dao Rough Embryos in different secret realms within his body.

The Eastern Emperor returned to Beidou after reaching Quasi-Emperor Seventh Heaven and fighting the Forbidden Zone Supremes, prompting Gai Jiuyou and the Yaoguang Holy Land to celebrate his rise. He entered a hundred years of seclusion while the world debated whether he or Gai Jiuyou would become the next Great Emperor.

• The Forbidden Zone Supremes watched the Eastern Emperor return to Beidou and decided to wait for an opportunity rather than confront him directly.
• Gai Jiuyou congratulated the Eastern Emperor, who praised his recovery and promised to discuss the Dao after consolidating his foundations.
• The Eastern Emperor greeted Danyangzi, Weiwei, and the others at Yaoguang Holy Land, gave them treasures, and entered seclusion for a hundred years.
• Powers from across Beidou and beyond brought gifts to Yaoguang Holy Land seeking an audience, but departed respectfully when they learned the Eastern Emperor was secluded.
• People across Beidou debated whether the Eastern Emperor or Gai Jiuyou was more likely to attain the Dao, while young cultivators redoubled their efforts.

After ten years of secluded cultivation, the Eastern Emperor summoned Gai Jiuyou to Yaoguang Holy Land, where the two began discussing the Dao. Gai Jiuyou accepted the invitation despite others’ fears that he might attain the Dao before the Eastern Emperor.

• The Eastern Emperor consolidated his cultivation for ten years and decided to use another method to advance.
• The Eastern Emperor sent Gai Jiuyou a message inviting him to Yaoguang Holy Land.
• Xia Jiuyou urged Gai Jiuyou to prioritize his chance to attain the Dao, but he said he still lacked an opportunity and would accept whatever outcome awaited him.
• Gai Jiuyou arrived at Yaoguang Holy Land, where the Eastern Emperor personally welcomed him despite the holy land’s wary reactions.
• The Eastern Emperor led Gai Jiuyou into Holy Son Peak, and they sat together to discuss the Dao.

The Eastern Emperor invited Gai Jiuyou to discuss the Dao, then revealed a Divine Flower and asked him to watch it bloom. Gai Jiuyou left after three days with new insights, while the Eastern Emperor watched for ten years, gained greatly, and suppressed his near-breakthrough.

• The Eastern Emperor and Gai Jiuyou discussed their Daos for more than half a year, then spent a month digesting what they had learned.
• The Eastern Emperor asked Gai Jiuyou about the Three Great Peculiar Flowers and revealed that he had obtained a Divine Flower.
• The Eastern Emperor planted and watered the Divine Flower, whose blooming released dazzling light and a dancing fairy that drew in their Primordial Spirits.
• Gai Jiuyou watched the flower for three days, sensed an opportunity to break through, and departed to enter seclusion.
• The Eastern Emperor watched the flower for ten years as the Chaos Bell enveloped him, comprehending and creating techniques until the flower withered and he sealed its seed.
• The Eastern Emperor used Lingbao Heavenly Venerable's Four Killing Swords and Killing Formation Diagram to suppress his cultivation and conceal the Heavenly Secrets, preventing an immediate tribulation.

Ye Fan returned to Beidou with Ji Ziyue and reunited with her family after years of trials along the Ancient Roads. In Qinling, Gai Jiuyou emerged from seclusion ready to attempt a breakthrough, encouraged by a letter from the Eastern Emperor.

• Ye Fan and his companions arrived outside the Big Dipper Star Domain, where Niu Dingtian recognized him and explained the fighting among outsiders gathered over the rumored opening of the Road to Immortality.
• Ye Fan learned that the Eastern Emperor and Gai Jiuyou were in seclusion, then decided to take Ji Ziyue home before searching the Ziwei Star Domain for news of Xiao Nannan.
• Ye Fan brought Ji Ziyue back to the Ji Family, filling her family with joy.
• Gai Jiuyou emerged from seclusion in Qinling, and Xia Jiuyou asked whether he was about to break through.
• Gai Jiuyou read the Eastern Emperor's letter urging him to undergo his great emperor tribulation if he was confident, and prepared to act.

Gai Jiuyou began a Great Emperor Tribulation, shocking the universe and threatening to cut off the hopes of every other cultivator for ten thousand years. The Eastern Emperor remained calm in seclusion and looked toward Ancient Fire Mulberry Star, anticipating how the Old Golden Crow would react.

• The Ji Family used the Void Mirror to discover that Gai Jiuyou, not the Eastern Emperor, was undergoing a Great Emperor Tribulation.
• The Eastern Emperor rang a bell that calmed the Yaoguang Holy Land, then watched Gai Jiuyou's tribulation without fear or agitation.
• The Eastern Emperor smiled toward Ancient Fire Mulberry Star and wondered whether the Old Golden Crow could remain still.
• Supremes in the Life Forbidden Zones and prodigies across the universe awoke or reacted in despair as Gai Jiuyou's tribulation threatened to block others from attaining the Dao.
• Gai Jiuyou fought through the cosmic lightning, seeking to merge his supreme mark with the universe and attain the Dao.
• On Ancient Fire Mulberry Star, amid blazing firelight, someone cried out, "No—"

The Golden Crow Clan’s old Quasi-Emperor emerged from his second lifetime and summoned his Great Emperor Tribulation, challenging Gai Jiuyou for the Heavenly Heart Imprint and the imperial throne. Their tribulations merged as they fought fiercely, leaving the world watching to see which of them would attain the Dao.

• The Old Golden Crow learned that Gai Jiuyou was undergoing a Great Emperor Tribulation and decided to contend for the Dao rather than risk losing his chance.
• The Golden Crow Quasi-Emperor burst from his divine egg, revealed that he had achieved alternative Dao attainment, and raced toward the Cosmic Frontier.
• Gai Jiuyou sensed the new challenger while enduring his own tribulation, and the Golden Crow declared that he would not let Gai Jiuyou become emperor unopposed.
• Gai Jiuyou welcomed the contest, and the two agreed to decide their superiority and lives in battle.
• Their lightning tribulations merged into a vast, destructive sea as they fought with their strongest techniques and devastated the surrounding star domains.
• Onlookers recognized the Golden Crow Quasi-Emperor and wondered whether Gai Jiuyou or the Golden Crow would claim the imperial throne.

Gai Jiuyou and the Golden Crow quasi-emperor fought through their Great Emperor Tribulations while the Supremes and the universe’s factions watched and waited for a chance to act. Gai Jiuyou gained the upper hand, but the tribulation intensified and left both contenders gravely weakened.

• The Supremes in the Life Forbidden Zones recognized the Golden Crow’s hidden second life and planned to kill the weakened survivor after the battle.
• Across the universe, human forces hoped Gai Jiuyou would win, while the Golden Crow Clan expected their quasi-emperor to prevail and attain the Dao.
• The Eastern Emperor watched the battle from Yaoguang Holy Land and observed the Life Forbidden Zones, paying particular attention to the Reincarnation Sea.
• Gai Jiuyou fought through the lightning, shattered the Golden Crow quasi-emperor’s body, and tore him apart while bathing in his blood.
• The tribulation intensified, leaving Gai Jiuyou’s body cracked and bleeding as the Golden Crow quasi-emperor’s newly reformed body was blasted apart and his primordial spirit nearly perished.

The Eastern Emperor stopped the Forbidden Zone Supremes from attacking the weakened Gai Jiuyou and Golden Crow Quasi-Emperor, then challenged them to emerge and fight. As he headed for the Cosmic Frontier, his revealed cultivation shocked the Supremes: he had reached the Ninth Heaven and was preparing to cross two tribulations.

• The Forbidden Zone Supremes launched lethal attacks against the weakened Gai Jiuyou and Golden Crow Quasi-Emperor.
• The Eastern Emperor summoned an Ancient Bell that intercepted the attacks and ordered the Supremes not to interfere.
• The Eastern Emperor challenged the Supremes to fight him before his tribulation, provoking their fury and awakening their killing intent.
• The Eastern Emperor stepped toward the Cosmic Frontier, and his aura revealed that he had reached the quasi-emperor Ninth Heaven.
• The Supremes realized the Eastern Emperor was preparing to cross the eighth- and ninth-level tribulations in succession and feared his rapid rise.

The Eastern Emperor underwent an unprecedented heavenly tribulation, swallowing its sea of lightning and refining it inside a furnace formed from his body. Beidou's Supremes attacked him, but realized their power was helping his transformation; the chapter ended as the furnace shrank and then exploded in a brilliant burst.

• The Eastern Emperor swallowed the visions and mandate reflected by his Heavenly Numen, then faced an immense Nine-Nine Purple Firmament Tribulation.
• The Eastern Emperor transformed his body into a Heaven and Earth Furnace and used the Heaven-Melting Divine Art to devour and refine the tribulation.
• Beidou's Supremes secretly attacked the furnace, but their Dao principles and killing assaults were absorbed and smelted into it.
• The Supremes realized the Eastern Emperor had used their attacks to aid his cultivation and stopped, unwilling to risk confronting him directly.
• The Heaven and Earth Furnace shrank as its Dao fire intensified, then exploded and unleashed violent fluctuations across the starry sky.

The Eastern Emperor survived the Eighth Heaven tribulation by swallowing its lightning, then faced an unprecedented Ninth Heaven Immortal Tribulation. As the Golden Crow Quasi-Emperor fled his defeat by Gai Jiuyou, Gai Jiuyou continued his own Great Emperor tribulation and moved toward attaining the Dao.

• The Supremes realized the Eastern Emperor had absorbed the Eighth Heaven tribulation’s laws and Great Dao marks, transforming himself and his weapons.
• The Firmament unleashed a still greater Nine-Layered Heaven tribulation, and the Eastern Emperor fought it with his Emperor Fist while his bell and other weapons resisted the lightning.
• The Eastern Emperor’s tribulation stabilized amid immortal qi, prompting the Supremes to suspect that he faced the Ninth Heaven Immortal Tribulation.
• The Golden Crow Quasi-Emperor fled after Gai Jiuyou defeated him, while Gai Jiuyou continued battling his own tribulation.
• The Eastern Emperor urged Gai Jiuyou to face his emperor tribulation without concern, and Gai Jiuyou resumed imprinting his Great Dao upon the heavenly heart.
• The Golden Crow Clan’s important figures cried out in grief and disbelief on Ancient Fire Mulberry Star.

The Eastern Emperor exposed that the Golden Crow Quasi-Emperor had been possessed by Supreme Yun Gen, who attacked Gai Jiuyou during his tribulation. The Eastern Emperor identified the scheme as a ploy by the Carefree Heavenly Venerate, whose true target was him.

• The Golden Crow Quasi-Emperor suddenly recovered his strength and charged at Gai Jiuyou, claiming he would not let him attain the Dao.
• The Eastern Emperor called out that the Golden Crow had been possessed, and the Forbidden Zone Supremes recognized Yun Gen’s methods.
• The Supremes deduced that Yun Gen had taken over the Golden Crow’s body and fused with part of his primordial spirit.
• Gai Jiuyou reacted with alarm as the possessed Golden Crow halted and turned his attention toward the Eastern Emperor.
• The Eastern Emperor identified the Carefree Heavenly Venerate as the mastermind and said his real target had been the Eastern Emperor.

The Eastern Emperor confronted Carefree Heavenly Venerate, who had possessed the Golden Crow Quasi-Emperor and planned to kill Gai Jiuyou before taking the Eastern Emperor's Sun Sacred Body. The Eastern Emperor's Dao body intercepted him and devoured his deadly stele technique, while Gai Jiuyou continued his emperor tribulation.

• The Golden Crow Quasi-Emperor revealed that Carefree Heavenly Venerate had fused with his primordial spirit and intended to possess the Eastern Emperor after stopping Gai Jiuyou from attaining the Dao.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerate severed his connection to the Great Dao and stopped his emperor tribulation, then moved to attack Gai Jiuyou.
• The Eastern Emperor sent out his Dao body to intercept the Golden Crow Quasi-Emperor before he could reach Gai Jiuyou.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerate summoned enormous steles engraved with Yun Gen's name and used them to attack the Eastern Emperor's soul.
• The Eastern Emperor anchored his primordial spirit with Nine Secrets: Qian, transformed into a Great Dao Furnace, and refined the steles and their attacks.
• The Supremes in the Life Forbidden Zones witnessed the Eastern Emperor's technique and were shaken by its power.

The Eastern Emperor faced the Ninth Heaven Immortal Tribulation, battling the Humanoid Lightning forms of the Nine Heavenly Venerables while the Supremes watched. The battle continued at the Cosmic Frontier, where the tribulation’s devastation and the Eastern Emperor’s strength left the universe’s inhabitants in fear and awe.

• The Supremes interfered with the Eastern Emperor’s tribulation, but the lightning arrived unchanged and badly wounded him.
• Nine Daoist temples appeared, and the Nine Heavenly Venerables attacked the Eastern Emperor with their secret techniques.
• The Eastern Emperor used the Heaven-Fusing Divine Art to absorb their attacks and deepen his understanding of the Nine Secrets.
• The Nine Heavenly Venerables fought together, and the Eastern Emperor counterattacked with his divine realm, Emperor Fist, and the Nine Secrets.
• At the Cosmic Frontier, the Eastern Emperor fought the Nine Heavenly Venerables amid a battle that shattered star domains and terrified living beings across the universe.

The Eastern Emperor endured the ninth heaven immortal tribulation while his Dao Body crushed Yun Gen Supreme, who had possessed the Golden Crow Quasi-Emperor. The Dao Body revealed that his opponent was the Carefree Heavenly Venerate and demanded ultimate sublimation, leaving the universe shocked by the revelation.

• The Eastern Emperor fought all nine Ancient Heavenly Venerables in his tribulation without yielding, alarming the watching Supremes with his strength.
• The Eastern Emperor's Dao Body overwhelmed Yun Gen Supreme and blasted away the Immortal Tear Green Gold Treasure Vase.
• The Dao Body cleaved Yun Gen apart with a blade strike even after Yun Gen used Nine Secrets: Xing to escape.
• Yun Gen reconstructed his body, and the Dao Body identified him as the Carefree Heavenly Venerate and demanded that he undergo ultimate sublimation.
• The revelation that the Carefree Heavenly Venerate was alive stunned the beings across the universe.

The Eastern Emperor confronted Carefree Heavenly Venerate, whose identity and ancient longevity method stunned the universe. Carefree underwent ultimate sublimation and forged the Golden Crow Quasi-Emperor’s body into a flawless Emperor’s Body, then launched an attack on the Eastern Emperor’s Dao Body.

• The Life Forbidden Zones learned that Yun Gen was Carefree Heavenly Venerate, and Supremes in two zones recognized him as an old enemy who had tried to seize their Dao Fruits.
• The Eastern Emperor’s Dao Body invited Carefree Heavenly Venerate to undergo ultimate sublimation, and Carefree accepted to avoid Gai Jiuyou attaining the Dao first.
• Carefree used Imperial Dao Laws to shatter and reshape the Golden Crow Quasi-Emperor’s body until it became a flawless Emperor’s Body.
• Carefree attacked with the unmatched speed of Nine Secrets: Xing, and the Eastern Emperor’s Dao Body met him with a punch that sent the star river collapsing.

The Eastern Emperor and Carefree Heavenly Venerate battled across the universe, matching their speed with mastery of the Time and Space Great Daos. Their duel continued without a clear victor as both unleashed devastating attacks across vast star regions.

• The Eastern Emperor explained that his command of the Time and Space Great Daos let him match Carefree Heavenly Venerate despite lacking the latter’s mastery of Nine Secrets: Xing.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerate attacked at overwhelming speed, but the Eastern Emperor anticipated his move and narrowly evaded it.
• The Eastern Emperor combined Nine Secrets: Xing and Nine Secrets: Jie with his Time and Space Great Daos to counterattack, and both fighters suffered severe wounds.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerate insisted that no one could surpass his speed, while the Eastern Emperor healed and charged back into battle.
• The two continued fighting across more than half the universe, destroying star domains and leaving the Supremes shaken.