Chapter Summaries

Ye Fan, Yan Fei, Di Chu, and Dijun attempted to attain the Dao together, unleashing a tribulation that shook the universe. As they broke the Heavenly Heart, the Eastern Emperor entered the thunder to hold it open and take the full force of the tribulation upon himself.

• After a century of preparation, Ye Fan, Yan Fei, Di Chu, and Dijun gathered at the Cosmic Frontier to undergo tribulation together.
• The four revealed power beyond that of an ordinary Flawless Great Emperor, drawing a universe-spanning Sea of Lightning filled with devastating tribulations and human-faced Immortal Medicines.
• Ye Fan, Yan Fei, Di Chu, and Dijun roared and struck the Myriad Dao, forcibly shattering the Heavenly Heart and leaving cultivators unable to sense the Great Dao.
• The Eastern Emperor rushed into the thunder, scattered the gathering Myriad Dao, and held the Heavenly Heart open while drawing the tribulation's lightning and attacks onto himself.
• Ye Fan, Yan Fei, Di Chu, and Dijun cried out in alarm as the Eastern Emperor took the full force of the Heavenly Punishments.

The Eastern Emperor endured the supreme tribulation while forcing the Heavenly Heart open, giving powerful cultivators across the universe a chance to attempt attaining the Dao. He reforged the Chaos Bell and Heavenly Dao Battle Box into Immortal Artifacts, while the mass tribulations continued.

• The Eastern Emperor scattered the myriad Dao and opened the Heavenly Heart, allowing Ye Fan, Yao Xi, An Miaoyi, and other powerful cultivators to undergo their own tribulations.
• Laozi, Shennong, Yellow Emperor, Gai Jiuyou, and many other supreme cultivators seized the opportunity and summoned their Attain the Dao Tribulations.
• The Eastern Emperor used his Chaos Bell and Heavenly Dao Battle Box to withstand the tribulation’s strikes, but both Emperor Artifacts eventually shattered.
• The Eastern Emperor gathered the fragments and reforged both weapons in Dao fire, imprinting them with the powers of the myriad Dao.
• The Chaos Bell became an Immortal Bell and the Heavenly Dao Battle Box transformed into an Emperor Sword, and the Eastern Emperor used them to reverse tribulation strikes and sever the killing light.

As the Eastern Emperor held the Heavenly Heart open, Bai Yu and many others attained the Dao, while several powerful cultivators failed their breakthroughs. Ye Fan, Yan Fei, Di Chu, and Dijun also became Emperors before the Eastern Emperor restored the Great Dao’s suppression and warned the remaining tribulation-takers to stop.

• The Eastern Emperor forged the Chaos Bell and the Heavenly Dao Battle Box into Immortal Artifacts as experts watched the simultaneous tribulations.
• Bai Yu became the first to attain the Dao, followed by Yao Xi, the Human Demon, the Old Madman, Jiang Taixu, Jiang Tingting, Yao Tong, and many others.
• The Eclosion Body, Rong Chengshi, the Woodcutter, and other cultivators failed their breakthroughs; Hua Yunfei and Li Yao also failed, and Li Yao died in tribulation.
• Laozi, the Yellow Emperor, Shennong, Taichu, Zhou Yi, Di Huang, Zhang Bairen, and many others successfully became Great Emperors, as did Ye Fan, Yan Fei, Di Chu, and Dijun.
• The Eastern Emperor announced that he would stop holding the Heavenly Heart open and ordered those still undergoing tribulations to abandon their attempts.
• Some cultivators refused to stop and died when the Great Dao’s suppression returned, while those who had withdrawn survived.

After many experts attained the Dao when Taiyi opened the heart of heaven, they gathered to thank him and celebrate their breakthroughs. The chapter ended with Taiyi identifying Duan De as Tribulation Heavenly Venerable Cao Yusheng or the Netherworld Emperor, shocking the assembled emperors.

• Yan Fei, Di Chu, Dijun, and the women gathered around Taiyi after attaining the Dao, while Taiyi congratulated Ye Fan on becoming an emperor.
• Taichu, Di Huang, Zhang Bairen, Yin Tiande, the Saint Emperor's Son, the Divine Silkworm Daoist, Dao Yi, and the Six-Eared Macaque thanked Taiyi for helping them attain the Dao.
• Little White Tiger and Black Emperor traded insults over their breakthroughs, and Black Emperor pounced on Duan De before Duan De sent him flying.
• Black Emperor and Little White Tiger pinned Duan De down and demanded to know his origins after noticing the mysterious Reincarnation Seals within him.
• Taiyi recognized Duan De as Tribulation Heavenly Venerable Cao Yusheng or the Netherworld Emperor, revealing that he was pursuing longevity through repeated reincarnations.

A thousand years after several cultivators became Great Emperors, challenges spread across the universe, while Ye Fan defeated the Saint Emperor’s Son in a sparring match. In a secluded divine island, the Eastern Emperor fought his three Dao bodies and was overwhelmed, leaving his body shattered.

• Duan De denied having any connection to the Tribulation Heavenly Venerable or the Netherworld Emperor after the Eastern Emperor raised the possibility, but Ye Fan and the others remained suspicious.
• A thousand years passed, and newly ascended Great Emperors challenged established powerhouses on the Mythic Battlefield, only to be swiftly defeated by most of them.
• Ye Fan fought and defeated the Saint Emperor’s Son, then healed him and helped him gain enlightenment.
• The Saint Emperor’s Son praised Ye Fan’s strength, and Ye Fan said he could not be certain of beating Di Chu or Dijun.
• The Eastern Emperor fought his three equally powerful Dao bodies on a secluded divine island, and their combined attacks shattered his physical body.

The Eastern Emperor endured a devastating battle against his Dao Body on the Divine Island, then dismissed his children’s fears about his reckless cultivation. He remained determined to grow stronger quickly, convinced that only his own strength could secure his future.

• The Eastern Emperor and his Dao Body fought so fiercely that they wrecked the Divine Island and shattered space and time.
• The Eastern Emperor regenerated from scattered blood and bones after the battle, and Yan Fei, Di Chu, and Dijun rushed to support him.
• Yan Fei, Di Chu, and Dijun warned the weakened Eastern Emperor that his brutal training risked worsening his Dao injuries, shortening his lifespan, and exhausting his Immortal Medicine.
• The Eastern Emperor stopped his children from persuading him further and said he knew what he was doing.
• The Eastern Emperor resolved to become stronger as quickly as possible, relying on no one else to control his fate.

The Eastern Emperor’s relentless battles against his own Dao bodies consumed his lifespan, and after nearly ten thousand years he entered a premature twilight. Using the five Fortune Source Eyes to nourish the Immortal Seed within him, he began transforming to live a third lifetime, ending with his aged body exploding as the Seed absorbed essence qi.

• The Eastern Emperor recovered from his injuries and continued battling his Dao bodies for thousands of years, repeatedly coming close to death.
• As the golden age waned, Gai Jiuyou and many other powerful cultivators entered the Small Immortal Domain, while the Eastern Emperor remained in the Human Universe.
• Nearly ten thousand years after attaining the Dao, the Eastern Emperor recognized that his extreme cultivation had reduced his lifespan to only a few thousand years.
• The Eastern Emperor took out the five Fortune Source Eyes and used their essence qi to accelerate the Immortal Seed gestating within his body.
• The Fortune Source Eyes were drained, the Immortal Seed erupted with light, and the Eastern Emperor’s aged body exploded as the Seed began absorbing essence qi from all directions.

After three hundred years of cultivating inside the Bronze Ancient Coffin, the Eastern Emperor was swept upstream through the River of Time and awakened in an unfamiliar, immortal realm. He left the coffin to explore the world and search for clues about returning.

• The Eastern Emperor cultivated the Time-Space Great Dao for three hundred years before the River of Time appeared around him.
• Immortal fire, the Eastern Emperor, and the Bronze Ancient Coffin resonated, carrying him through time and space.
• The Eastern Emperor found a small Bronze Coffin containing an apparent corpse of himself, but his Heavenly Eye revealed the coffin was empty.
• The Eastern Emperor discovered that he had arrived in a different realm filled with longevity substance and terrifying tribulation fiendish qi.
• The Eastern Emperor stored the Three-Life Bronze Coffin and explored the realm, defeating powerful beings and searching their memories for information.

The Eastern Emperor learned that the fall of the founders of the new cultivation method had plunged the Immortal Domain and this world into chaos. After he easily defeated a fierce young Supreme who challenged him, an Immortal King’s bronze spear tore through the Realm Barrier, leaving the Eastern Emperor facing an overwhelming threat.

• The Eastern Emperor learned that the fallen founders of the new method had left the Immortal Domain in turmoil, with experts returning from the Boundary Sea and battles spreading into this world.
• While exploring ancient ruins, the Eastern Emperor destroyed a Divine Arrow aimed at him and met a fierce young Supreme who had come to test his strength.
• The young Supreme fired nine arrows and attacked with a Heavenly Blade, but the Eastern Emperor stopped the arrows, broke the blade, and subdued him.
• As the Eastern Emperor moved to examine the young Supreme, a Jade Talisman at the young man’s brow glowed with Immortal Dao aura.
• A massive bronze spear pierced the Realm Barrier, destroyed vast territories and countless lives, and made the Eastern Emperor recognize the power of an Immortal King.

The Eastern Emperor witnessed the invasion of darkness devastate the realm and confronted a powerful Supreme invader, defeating him and seizing his primordial spirit. As the Eastern Emperor broke through the captive’s restrictions, a terrifying attack descended on him.

• An Immortal King intercepted the Bronze War Spear and battled its unknown wielder beyond the realm, while the Eastern Emperor escaped the killing intent.
• Darkness-corrupted powerhouses invaded the Eight Wastelands, and the Lingxiao Sword Master and Huntian Immortal King fell amid the widespread fighting.
• The Eastern Emperor caught a fragment of an Immortal Artifact and was attacked by a powerful Supreme wielding a Black Great Halberd.
• The Eastern Emperor shattered the attacker’s halberd and body, crushed his World-Breaking Talisman, and captured his primordial spirit.
• The Eastern Emperor extracted several Supreme-level ancient arts from the captive before a pitch-black handprint struck the starry sky around him.

The Eastern Emperor overwhelmed True Immortal Longgu and pursued him while his Chaos Bell battled Longgu’s Immortal Seal. The chapter ended as Longgu fled and tried to detonate the trapped seal.

• The Eastern Emperor struck Longgu with the Vajra Bracelet, blasting apart his immortal body.
• Longgu gathered his body back together and retreated, but the Eastern Emperor pursued him relentlessly.
• Longgu summoned an Ancient Universe to block the Eastern Emperor, who transformed the Vajra Bracelet into an Emperor Sword and cleaved it apart.
• The Eastern Emperor used chaotic light to knock away Longgu’s Immortal Seal and sent his Chaos Bell to fight it.
• The Chaos Bell cracked and trapped the Immortal Seal, prompting Longgu to flee and attempt to detonate it.

The Eastern Emperor killed Longgu despite True Immortal Moti’s intervention, then escaped after clashing with Moti. Recovering in hiding, he reflected that veteran True Immortals still outclassed him as carnage spread across the great world, before blocking an immortal Copper Furnace with his palm.

• The Eastern Emperor suppressed the Immortal Seal with the Chaos Bell and beheaded Longgu, who tried to flee.
• Moti intervened, but the Eastern Emperor killed Longgu by piercing his skull and destroying his primordial spirit.
• The Eastern Emperor clashed with Moti’s immortal chains and great hand, then escaped using his Supreme Steps and the Chaos Bell.
• The Eastern Emperor recovered in a remote stretch of starry sky and acknowledged that he remained weaker than veteran True Immortals.
• As the great world shook with widespread battles and immortal deaths, the Eastern Emperor kept a low profile and fled after striking down threats.
• The Eastern Emperor blocked an immortal Copper Furnace with his palm in a remote wilderness.

After an Immortal King fell, the world entered the Age of the End of Dharma, and the Eastern Emperor faced Heavenly Will’s Blade. He shattered the invisible strike, but the chapter left the fate of his cultivation amid the world’s collapse unresolved.

• The invading experts retreated as passages between worlds were sealed, while surviving Longevity Clans fled before they closed.
• Heaven and earth lost their essence and longevity substance, and Heavenly Will’s Blade struck cultivators and treasures across the world.
• The blade killed or weakened countless cultivators and severed legacies, while mortals remained largely unharmed but faced a harsher path to cultivation.
• An invisible Heavenly Blade struck at the Eastern Emperor in a ruined wilderness, and he punched it apart.

The Eastern Emperor discovered an Immortal-era barrier preventing ascension, then found a copy of the Primordial True Explanation and used its rune teachings to refine his cultivation. After five thousand years of brutal training against his Dao bodies, he reached the end of his third life and returned to the Immortal abode in old age.

• The Eastern Emperor studied Immortal scriptures across the Great Wilderness and discovered a hidden Immortal Land in a marsh.
• The Eastern Emperor found a copy of the Primordial True Explanation and spent a century studying its first section, Divine Guidance.
• The Eastern Emperor used his insights into primordial runes to transform his body, then repaired an ancient Martial Arts Arena for training.
• The Eastern Emperor fought his three Dao bodies repeatedly for five thousand years, suffering grave injuries as he tempered himself.
• The Eastern Emperor exhausted his third life and returned to the Immortal abode, aged and close to death.

After shedding his aged body and entering a fourth lifetime, the Eastern Emperor traveled the Great Wilderness to study ancient Dao marks. He encountered Shi Hao, a fellow traveler from another era, and their conversation began in Shi Hao’s cave abode.

• The Eastern Emperor used a longevity method combining the Undying Heavenly Emperor's Nirvana Technique and the Divine Silkworm Clan's Transformation Method to shed his decayed body and emerge youthful.
• The Eastern Emperor sealed his discarded human skin in divine source liquid and left the Immortal Mansion to travel the Great Wilderness and study ancient Dao marks.
• A hundred years later, the Eastern Emperor sensed Shi Hao's powerful aura and met his fist with a punch, forcing Shi Hao back.
• The Eastern Emperor and Shi Hao recognized that neither belonged to the era they had entered, and Shi Hao introduced himself as Huang.
• Shi Hao invited the Eastern Emperor into his cave abode, where they drank tea and Shi Hao asked whether he came from the Immortal Domain.

The Eastern Emperor explained to Shi Hao how the harsh Age of the End of Dharma had driven him to live through four lives and why repeated transformation could lead to becoming an Immortal amid the mortal world. Inspired, Shi Hao discussed the Dao with him for three months and revealed his Secret Realm Method, leaving the Eastern Emperor deeply impressed.

• The Eastern Emperor told Shi Hao that he had lived through four lives without using Immortality Medicine.
• He explained that he came from the Age of the End of Dharma, where only one person could attain the Dao in an era, and described how repeated transformation could increase one’s lifespan and potential.
• Shi Hao took the Eastern Emperor’s words to heart, thanked him for his guidance, and gained renewed confidence in pursuing Immortality amid the mortal world.
• The Eastern Emperor invited Shi Hao to discuss the Dao, and Shi Hao gladly accepted.
• The two discussed the Dao for three months, then Shi Hao manifested his Sea of Bitterness, Dao Palace, Four Extremes, Dragon Transformation, and Immortal Platform secret realms, impressing the Eastern Emperor.

The Eastern Emperor and Shi Hao exchanged cultivation insights and became close confidants, while the Eastern Emperor studied the Indestructible Scripture and Immortal Phoenix Precious Technique before continuing his journey. Twenty thousand years later, he reunited with Shi Hao, who had successfully entered his second lifetime and found an Immortality Medicine.

• Shi Hao admired the Eastern Emperor’s two cultivation systems, and the Eastern Emperor praised Shi Hao’s secret realm method while finding he could not reveal secrets of later ages.
• The Eastern Emperor settled beside Shi Hao, and they spent three years discussing the Dao and longevity methods.
• Shi Hao gave the Eastern Emperor the first part of the Indestructible Scripture and the complete Immortal Phoenix Precious Technique in return for his guidance.
• After Shi Hao entered seclusion, the Eastern Emperor left him a letter and traveled the Great Wilderness, gathering ancient Dao marks and obtaining the Transcendence Chapter.
• Twenty thousand years later, the Eastern Emperor met Shi Hao, who had lived into a second lifetime through the Willow Deity Method and tribulation lightning.
• Shi Hao showed the Eastern Emperor an Immortality Medicine he had found and offered to share its fruit or study it together.

Shi Hao and the Eastern Emperor reunited and discussed their cultivation, and Shi Hao resolved to try becoming a Battle Immortal despite the risks. Both attempted to break through the world's Immortal Dao barrier, but the terrifying tribulations defeated them and left them grievously injured.

• Shi Hao offered the Eastern Emperor longevity medicine, but the Eastern Emperor declined and advised him to rely on his own strength to live future lifetimes if possible.
• Years later, Shi Hao and the Eastern Emperor met again, exchanged cultivation insights, and Shi Hao announced he would try to become a Battle Immortal.
• The Eastern Emperor warned that the world's Immortal Dao barrier made success unlikely, but agreed to attempt the same challenge to temper himself.
• Shi Hao attacked the barrier, provoked a devastating tribulation, and was badly wounded before retreating to recover.
• After Shi Hao healed, the Eastern Emperor made his own attempt, fought the tribulation and its Immortal Dao figures, and ultimately failed with grievous injuries.

After ten thousand years of failed attempts to become Battle Immortals, Shi Hao and the Eastern Emperor exhausted their lifespans and pursued new lifetimes. Shi Hao reached his third lifetime, while the Eastern Emperor emerged from seclusion with a startling new constitution, leaving Shi Hao eager to learn what it was.

• Shi Hao survived a perilous tribulation and renewed his body, beginning his third lifetime through the Immortal Phoenix Art and his own insights.
• Shi Hao realized the Eastern Emperor had remained secluded for a hundred years, then sensed a vast surge of Chaos Qi and rushed to his cultivation site.
• The Eastern Emperor emerged amid world-shaking visions and an aura that caused all living beings to bow in awe.
• Shi Hao recognized that the Eastern Emperor had evolved a constitution beyond the legendary Chaos Body and praised his extraordinary talent.
• The Eastern Emperor congratulated Shi Hao on reaching a third lifetime, and Shi Hao asked what constitution he had attained.

After discussing the Dao with Desolate, the Eastern Emperor discovered a vast source root of Xuanhuang mother qi and reforged his weapons into Immortal Weapons. He later defied death to live a sixth lifetime, and Desolate arrived to witness his transformation.

• The Eastern Emperor and Desolate discussed the Dao for three years before parting to travel and cultivate.
• Three hundred years later, the Eastern Emperor found a vast source root of Xuanhuang mother qi and split it between the Chaos Bell and the Heavenly Dao Battle Box, reforging both with rare immortal materials.
• After another two hundred years, the Eastern Emperor began secluded cultivation, studying formations and developing a longevity method.
• When his lifespan ended, the Eastern Emperor used supreme formation patterns and an Immortal Land to transform and live a sixth lifetime.
• Desolate rushed to the site of the disturbance, recognized the Eastern Emperor, and called him a freak.