Chapter Summaries

Demoness revealed that she could use the Heaven-Severing Immortal Art to reverse Lü Hong’s fate, though she admitted she had only barely mastered it. Ten-Crown King then challenged the Otherworld’s experts for the World Tree Sapling and began fighting Snake Yaksha.

• Demoness explained that the Heaven-Severing Immortal Art required a medium and that she could not yet use its full power.
• The Otherworld’s experts questioned whether Demoness had broken the rules, but Grand Elder Meng Tianzheng and Desolate insisted the tortoise shell had chosen Ten-Crown King on its own.
• Ten-Crown King revealed the World Tree Sapling and invited the Otherworld’s experts to take it.
• Snake Yaksha accepted Ten-Crown King’s challenge and attacked him with his divine abilities and silver tail.
• Ten-Crown King used the World Tree Sapling’s chaos laws to break Snake Yaksha’s field and press his attack.

The Ten-Crown King defeated the Snake Yaksha and stayed on the battlefield to challenge more of the Otherworld’s young kings. As he battled a golden demon bird, Grand Elder Meng Tianzheng asked the Demoness whether she could use her fate-altering art again, hoping to turn the duel into an opportunity to train their side’s young experts.

• The Ten-Crown King overwhelmed the Snake Yaksha, tore off his wings, and killed him with a Dragon Fist that shattered his head and primordial spirit.
• The Nine Heavens and Ten Lands celebrated the victory, while Grand Elder Meng Tianzheng declared their side had won the round; the Ten-Crown King remained on the field to continue fighting.
• The Otherworld sent a golden demon bird to face the Ten-Crown King, and she attacked him with her soul-harming Sound of Hell.
• The Ten-Crown King used the World Tree Sapling and his Dragon Fist to blast the golden demon bird back and batter her until she coughed up blood.
• Grand Elder Meng Tianzheng asked the Demoness through voice transmission whether she could use her divine art again, intending to boost morale and train their young experts.

The Demoness asked the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands’ heavenly prides for strands of hair so she could use her forbidden art to keep weaker fighters from being selected. After the Ten-Crown King defeated the Golden Demon Bird, Shi Yi was chosen to face a Void King Beast and killed it almost instantly with his double pupils, leaving both camps stunned.

• The Demoness said she needed a strand of hair from each heavenly pride to ensure the Immortal Tortoise Shell Fragments would not select those too weak to fight, and the Grand Elder ordered them to comply.
• The Ten-Crown King pierced the Golden Demon Bird’s skull with his Dragon Fist, slew it, and withdrew after receiving the Grand Elder’s command.
• The Immortal Tortoise Shell Fragments selected a Void King Beast for the Otherworld and Shi Yi for the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
• The Void King Beast attacked Shi Yi with a Void Great Rift Slash, but Shi Yi answered with two swords of chaos from his double pupils.
• Shi Yi’s swords shattered the Void King Beast’s attack and the void, then severed its head and destroyed its primordial spirit.

Shi Yi killed a Void King Beast with his Double Pupils, then Demoness entered the next battle and instantly killed Wutuo of the Golden Spirit Clan. The Otherworld camp was left shocked by her strength.

• Shi Yi revealed Sword Embryos within his Double Pupils and killed the Void King Beast with a single strike.
• Shi Yi collected the beast's corpse and returned to his camp, drawing the attention of both sides.
• The Immortal Tortoise Shell Fragment selected Demoness to fight Wutuo, a twelve-armed young king of the Golden Spirit Clan.
• Wutuo unleashed his clan's techniques, but Demoness shattered his Immemorial Demon Wall with a palm strike.
• Demoness's space-time runes destroyed Wutuo's body and primordial spirit, horrifying the Otherworld camp.

The Demoness effortlessly killed Wutuo by turning her body into a supreme killing formation, astonishing both camps. After Desolate volunteered to face the Otherworld’s young kings, the Otherworld Supreme agreed to send five opponents against him.

• The Demoness annihilated Wutuo with a killing formation engraved into her flesh, and a Sacred Academy elder explained how she had surpassed the extreme realms.
• Cao Yusheng and others celebrated the Demoness, while Desolate, Qingyi, and Yue Chan reacted to her immense power and opportunities.
• Great Elder Meng Tianzheng argued with the Otherworld Supreme over the two realms’ strength and the past war.
• When the Immortal Tortoise Shell Fragments chose Qin Hao, the Demoness secretly diverted the fragment to Desolate, who thanked her and stepped forward.
• Desolate challenged all the remaining Otherworld young kings, and the Otherworld Supreme agreed to select five opponents for him; the Great Elder accepted.

The Eastern Emperor watched Desolate defeat five young kings, then traveled to Yu Yu Heaven and obtained the Gu Race’s precious technique from an ancient stele. After returning to Demoness, he praised her and told her he had to leave the realm, leaving her shaken and sorrowful.

• The Eastern Emperor watched Demoness fight and Desolate overwhelm and kill five young kings of the Otherworld.
• The Eastern Emperor traveled to Yu Yu Heaven to investigate the Gu Race’s former ancestral grounds.
• The Eastern Emperor discovered an ancient stele in the abyss and obtained the Gu Race’s precious technique.
• Three months after the immortal mansion opened, the Eastern Emperor returned to Immeasurable Heaven and met Demoness at her place of seclusion.
• The Eastern Emperor praised Demoness’s performance and told her he had to leave the realm, and Demoness reacted with grief and reluctance.

Eastern Emperor gave the Demoness inheritances and a restricted Black Gourd before being pulled from the past into the River of Time, where he broke free and returned to the later era. After suffering time’s backlash and healing over ten thousand years, he prepared to return.

• Eastern Emperor gave the Demoness the Lower Volume of the Indestructible Scripture, the Gu Race's precious technique, and a restricted Black Gourd containing supplies and a Void Immortal Beast Skin.
• The Demoness vowed to grow stronger and meet Eastern Emperor again as he allowed the karma dao chains to drag him into the River of Time.
• Eastern Emperor broke free of the River of Time and returned to the Dam, where he coughed golden blood from the backlash of changing fates in the past.
• After more than ten thousand years of recovery and cultivation, Eastern Emperor reached his best condition and decided to return.

The Eastern Emperor returned to the Human Universe as an Immortal King, transforming the world’s Great Dao and restoring its spiritual environment. He planned to reopen the Heavenly Realm and establish a passage to the Immortal Domain, while emperors and loved ones gathered to meet him.

• The Eastern Emperor’s arrival caused temples across the universe to shine, and divine rain and auspicious signs brought benefits to living beings.
• Hao Tian’s incarnation in the Heavenly Court underwent a transformation that raised his power beyond that of Red Dust Immortals, astonishing the emperors.
• The Eastern Emperor arrived beneath the Chaos Bell and used his Immortal King laws to restore the Human Universe’s Great Dao, spiritual energy, and source veins.
• Great Emperor Wushi marveled at the restored world while discussing the changes with Ye Fan in Purple Mountain.
• The Eastern Emperor said he would reopen the Heavenly Realm and eventually connect it to the Immortal Domain.
• Yan Fei, Di Chu, Yao Xi, Zixia, Ye Fan, Great Emperor Wushi, and the other emperors came to meet the Eastern Emperor.

The Eastern Emperor revealed the Boundary Sea’s history, including the darkened Corpse Immortal Emperor, the Quasi-Immortal Emperors who fell to darkness, and the Desolate Heavenly Emperor’s victory over them. He warned that darkness had returned and vowed to rebuild the Heavenly Realm, leaving the emperors facing an urgent need to grow stronger.

• The Eastern Emperor explained that the Corpse Immortal Emperor had been corrupted by uncanny black blood and that his dark storms repeatedly destroyed realms across the Boundary Sea.
• He recounted how the World-Extinguishing Elder and three other Quasi-Immortal Emperors fell into darkness, then killed a rival Quasi-Immortal Emperor in the Emperor's Fall Era.
• The Eastern Emperor told the emperors that the Desolate Heavenly Emperor defeated the four dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors, became an Immortal Emperor, and ended the turmoil before fighting into Above the Heavens.
• The Eastern Emperor warned that his sword stroke protecting the Boundary Sea had weakened, allowing contaminated Fallen Immortal Kings and Dark Creatures to appear again.
• The Eastern Emperor promised to separate and perfect the Heavenly Realm and share his Immortal Dao scriptures so its inhabitants could pursue immortality.
• The emperors bowed and dispersed, shaken by the threat and determined to grow stronger.

The Eastern Emperor promised to help Yan Fei, Di Chu, Dijun, Zixia, Yao Xi, and the other women advance along the Red Dust Immortal Path. He then opened the Heavenly Realm into an independent world rich in longevity substance and immortal Dao laws, and rebuilt the Heavenly Court within it.

• The Eastern Emperor praised Yan Fei, Di Chu, and Dijun for reaching their current stage and offered to guide the women toward becoming Red Dust Immortals.
• The Eastern Emperor began opening the Heavenly Realm, using the Chaos Bell to anchor it as he severed it from the Human Universe and formed a complete realm.
• The Eastern Emperor created a vast, life-filled Longevity Realm with abundant longevity substance, immortal treasures, and laws that could support becoming immortals.
• The Eastern Emperor refined the Heavenly Court's headquarters into a magnificent, immense city at the center of the new realm.
• Ye Fan, Great Emperor Wushi, Yan Fei, and the other observers contemplated what they had learned from witnessing the Eastern Emperor open the realm.

The Eastern Emperor opened the Spirit Realm, a vast training space for cultivators below the Great Emperor level, and connected it to worlds and domains through Divine Temples. When Ye Fan and his companions entered the newly opened realm, a system-wide announcement revealed that someone had already earned the Nine Secrets: Dou by setting a slaughter record.

• The Eastern Emperor announced that he would create a Spirit Realm where cultivation insights could strengthen both spirit and body, and ordered Divine Temples established to grant access.
• Over three months, the Eastern Emperor connected the Heavenly Realm, Human World, and Strange World, built Divine Temples, and opened the Spirit Realm with trials, battlefields, and rewards.
• Pang Bo brought Ye Fan and their companions into the Spirit Realm, where they found their powers restricted to the Bitter Sea Realm and learned its rules from Ye Fan and Lin Jia.
• The group emerged into the crowded Starting Ground for the Big Dipper Star Domain, where countless cultivators had gathered to explore the new realm.
• An Ancient Stele appeared across every Starting Ground, announcing that [Attaining the Dao Through Slaughter] had set the greatest-slaughter record and received the Nine Secrets: Dou.

The Eastern Emperor observed the Spirit Realm’s record rules and later preached the Dao to his family and companions. He sensed that the God Emperor was nearing immortality through an unprecedented eleventh transformation.

• Pang Bo tried to claim the fastest-speed record, but Lin Jia pointed out that only cultivators at the record’s corresponding realm could break it.
• The Golden-Winged Roc King set the Starting Ground’s fastest-speed record and won the Nine Secrets: Xing.
• The Eastern Emperor preached beneath the Enlightenment Tea Tree to his family, companions, and Ye Fan and Ji Ziyue’s children, Ye Zi and Ye Yishui.
• The Eastern Emperor sensed that a peerless True Immortal was about to emerge and identified the God Emperor as the one undergoing the Divine Silkworm’s eleventh transformation.
• The Eastern Emperor’s listeners recalled that the Divine Silkworm Daoist had buried the God Emperor in the Small Immortal Domain inside the Godly Spirit Ancient Coffin.

The God Emperor emerged from the Divine Silkworm's Eleven Transformations and became an immortal, then visited the Eastern Emperor and joined the Heavenly Court. He was formally invested as the Southern Pole Longevity Great Emperor, and news of his survival and ascension shook the world.

• The God Emperor emerged from his ancient coffin as an immortal and reunited with the Divine Silkworm Daoist and Little Divine Silkworm.
• The God Emperor brought his son and younger brother to Eastern Emperor Mountain, where Ye Fan and the others congratulated him.
• The God Emperor thanked the Eastern Emperor for helping him complete his transformation, and the Eastern Emperor praised his unusual path.
• The Eastern Emperor invited the God Emperor to join the Heavenly Court, and the God Emperor accepted.
• The Eastern Emperor invested the God Emperor as the Southern Pole Longevity Great Emperor in the Lingxiao Treasure Hall, and the announcement astonished the world.

The Ruthless Empress became a Red Dust Immortal and confronted the Yuhua Great Emperor over the Feathered Divine Dynasty’s role in her elder brother’s death, but chose not to attack him. The Eastern Emperor then told her that the Desolate Heavenly Emperor had resurrected his dead friends and family, leaving the Empress and Great Emperor Wushi shaken by the possibility of bringing back the dead.

• A Great Perfection Stone Man Saint Spirit from Yuhua Ancient Star attained the Dao as the Yuhua Great Emperor.
• The Ruthless Empress absorbed the power of her past bodies, the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar, and Xiao Nannan, becoming a Red Dust Immortal.
• The Empress went to Yuhua Ancient Star, faced the Yuhua Great Emperor, and left without attacking him.
• The Empress met Ye Fan at Eastern Emperor Mountain, recognized that he was not the person she awaited, and wept.
• The Eastern Emperor manifested before the gathered cultivators and said the Desolate Heavenly Emperor had resurrected his dead friends and family.

The Eastern Emperor invited the Empress to join the Heavenly Court and gave the Immortal Tears Green Gold Saint Spirit the Heaven-Mending Technique, after which the Saint Spirit and Yuhua Great Emperor joined the court. Ten thousand years later, the Eastern Emperor’s attempt to break beyond the king realm by merging two cultivation methods failed violently, leaving him gravely injured.

• The Eastern Emperor told the Empress that resurrecting her brother required reaching the Immortal Emperor realm and invited her to join the Heavenly Court, which she accepted.
• The Eastern Emperor released the Immortal Tears Green Gold Saint Spirit and gave him the Heaven-Mending Technique, offering him the choice of pursuing immortality in the Heavenly Realm or cultivating as a Red Dust Immortal.
• The Saint Spirit, named Xuan Kun, severed his cultivation and started anew, attained the Dao as the Heavenly Emperor, and joined the Heavenly Court.
• Yuhua Great Emperor decided to join the Heavenly Court after Xuan Kun did so.
• After ten thousand years of preparation, the Eastern Emperor tried to merge the Primordial Spirit Path and the Physical Body Path to break beyond the king realm, but the methods clashed and left him badly wounded.

The Eastern Emperor emerged from seclusion in the year 600,000 after recovering from a devastating failure to break through the Immortal King realm, still short of becoming a quasi-Immortal Emperor. He reassured his family and fellow immortals, whose shock deepened when they sensed the extraordinary radiance he had formed.

• After a final failed breakthrough attempt, the Eastern Emperor suffered a severe Great Dao injury and spent tens of thousands of years recovering.
• The Eastern Emperor opened his sealed cave abode and emerged wrapped in radiance beyond the Immortal King level, though he had not become a quasi-Immortal Emperor.
• Yan Fei, her brothers, Yao Xi, Zixia, An Miaoyi, Ye Fan, the God Emperor, Great Emperor Wushi, and the Empress gathered to greet him.
• The Eastern Emperor told them that breaking through the King realm was harder than he had expected.
• Ye Fan and the others realized that the Eastern Emperor had been attempting to break through the Immortal King realm and were shaken by his quasi-Immortal Emperor radiance.

The Eastern Emperor hosted Ye Fan and the others for a feast, then stayed to guide the Heavenly Court’s cultivation. After Dijun and Xiao Zi’s son was born and named Di Yan, the Eastern Emperor announced plans to expand the Heavenly Court into the Immortal Domain.

• The Eastern Emperor warned the gathered cultivators not to study a domain beyond their level, then served them a Quasi-Immortal King beast and Immortal Brew at a feast.
• The Eastern Emperor remained on Eastern Emperor Mountain after emerging from seclusion and guided the emperors’ cultivation.
• Dijun announced that Xiao Zi had given birth to a boy, and Ye Fan rushed over, delighted to become a grandfather.
• The newborn called the Eastern Emperor and Ye Fan Grandpa, and the Eastern Emperor named him Di Yan.
• The Eastern Emperor summoned the emperors to the Lingxiao Treasure Hall and announced that the Heavenly Court would advance into the Immortal Domain while keeping the Heavenly Realm as its headquarters.

As Emperor Zun endured his Immortal King Tribulation in the Boundary Sea, a Dark Immortal King ambushed him. The Eastern Emperor killed the attacker with a single arrow, while Emperor Zun remained caught in the tribulation.

• Emperor Zun fought through the Immortal King Tribulation, growing stronger as he comprehended its Great Dao marks.
• A Dark Immortal King appeared and struck Emperor Zun during his tribulation, blasting his body apart.
• Emperor Zun reconstructed his body and fled while carrying the tribulation lightning, but the Dark Immortal King pursued him.
• The Eastern Emperor fired a nine-colored arrow that pierced the Dark Immortal King's skull and destroyed his Primordial Spirit.
• The Eastern Emperor appeared on the Dam as Emperor Zun continued to suffer the tribulation.

Emperor Zun endured a brutal Immortal King Tribulation in the Boundary Sea while the Eastern Emperor protected him, and he ultimately transformed into a Peak Immortal King. As the others arrived to witness his breakthrough, a dark, powerful Immortal King ambushed him during the tribulation and blasted his body apart.

• The Eastern Emperor killed an Immortal King with one arrow and guarded Emperor Zun as he faced his tribulation.
• Ye Fan, the God Emperor, the Empress, Great Emperor Wushi, and other Immortal Dao powerhouses arrived to watch Emperor Zun's trial.
• Emperor Zun's body repeatedly collapsed and reformed as the tribulation tempered it, while the Eastern Emperor explained that his extraordinary accumulation made the trial especially severe.
• Emperor Zun completed his primordial spirit's transformation, survived the tribulation, and became a Peak Immortal King.
• After recovering, Emperor Zun thanked the Eastern Emperor for protecting him during the trial.
• A dark-mist figure appeared and attacked Emperor Zun, exploding his body into a mist of blood.

Emperor Zun survived his Immortal King Tribulation and became a Peak Immortal King after the Eastern Emperor killed the Dark Immortal King who had ambushed him. The Eastern Emperor and the others congratulated Emperor Zun as he recovered and absorbed the insights of his tribulation.

• The Dark Immortal King attacked Emperor Zun during his tribulation, but the Eastern Emperor killed him with a Nine-Colored Arrow.
• The Eastern Emperor stood guard while Emperor Zun endured the tribulation, and Ye Fan, the Empress, Great Emperor Wushi, the God Emperor, and others arrived to watch.
• The Eastern Emperor explained that Emperor Zun’s exceptional accumulation made his tribulation unusually terrifying and would let him become a Peak Immortal King if he survived.
• Emperor Zun’s body repeatedly collapsed and reformed before his primordial spirit completed its transformation, allowing him to survive the tribulation as a Peak Immortal King.
• After recovering and absorbing heaven and earth essence, Emperor Zun thanked the Eastern Emperor for protecting him, and the others congratulated him.