Chapter Summaries

Lin Hao faced the gathered factions’ demands for the divine weapon, with Yang Jie standing by him, and accepted Elder Sima’s challenge. Lin Hao’s spear pierced Elder Sima despite his deflection, leaving the elder’s fate unresolved as the spear returned to Lin Hao’s hand.

• Yang Jie declared that Lin Hao’s claim to the divine weapon was her position, while the Treasure Gathering Pavilion and other factions demanded he surrender it.
• Lin Hao mocked the assembled representatives for only talking, and Elder Sima stepped forward to test him inside the Wang Family’s imperial formation.
• Elder Sima brought out his Saintly Weapon and prepared to evade Lin Hao’s spear, believing he could assess its power before the factions joined forces.
• Lin Hao threw the spear, which bent its trajectory through a reversal of cause and effect and pierced Elder Sima’s torso despite his deflection.
• The imperial formation diverted the spear’s remaining force into the void, Elder Sima’s body cracked apart, and the spear reappeared in Lin Hao’s hand.

Lin Hao killed Elder Sima with a single strike from the divine weapon, then left Constellations City with Yang Jie as the aristocratic families argued over what to do. After the other Treasure Gathering Pavilion representatives vanished on their return journey, Lin Hao denied attacking them and began investigating who was trying to frame him.

• Lin Hao killed Elder Sima with a thrust that pierced his body and Divine Soul, leaving the assembled families too afraid to challenge him.
• The Wang Family head, the Bai Family elder, and the Dragon Family representative argued against further bloodshed, while the Sima and Liu Families threatened to settle matters later.
• Lin Hao declined the Wang Family's invitation and left Constellations City with Yang Jie; reports of the killing and the Extraterritorial Heavenly Demon spread through the Southern Wilderness.
• The Liu, Sima, Yang, and other Treasure Gathering Pavilion representatives vanished on their journey back, prompting rumors that Lin Hao had ambushed them.
• Lin Hao, secretly cultivating near Deathless Valley after subduing three True Immortal-level Remnant Immortals, told Yang Jie he had not attacked the missing representatives.
• Lin Hao's divinations suggested that a powerful faction outside the Wang and Bai Families was trying to stir up conflict and use him as a weapon.

The Treasure Gathering Pavilion families blamed Lin Hao for the deaths of their representatives and agreed to mobilize their divine weapons against him near Deathless Valley. The Wang Family’s Seventh Ancestor doubted Lin Hao was responsible, emerged from his Origin Crystal seal, and prepared to join forces with the Dragon Family and Bai Family.

• The Treasure Gathering Pavilion proprietors agreed to unite against the suspected killer and received news that Lin Hao had appeared near Deathless Valley.
• The proprietors decided to announce their campaign and attack Lin Hao openly with overwhelming force.
• The Wang Family’s Seventh Ancestor said Lin Hao had concealed Heavenly Secrets from him and might not have killed the missing representatives.
• The Wang Family head realized another force might be trying to provoke a clash between divine weapons.
• The Seventh Ancestor emerged from the Origin Crystal and said he would take the Emperor Weapon to Deathless Valley and contact the Dragon Family and Bai Family.

Lin Hao and Yang Jie faced an attack by all five Aristocratic Families behind the Treasure Gathering Pavilion, whose divine weapons failed to overpower him. As the families fully awakened their weapons, Lin Hao discovered that an Abyss Evil God had colluded with something in the Life Forbidden Zone.

• Lin Hao sensed enemies approaching after taking another Immortal Artifact from Deathless Valley, and Yang Jie warned him that the five families might attack together.
• The five families surrounded Lin Hao with an axe, whip, saber, halberd, and the Imperial Pole Bell, then attacked him in combination.
• Lin Hao used the Insect-Slaying Spear to repel all five divine weapons, shocking the families and revealing his Great Saint-level strength.
• The families spat out essence blood to fully awaken their divine weapons, while Lin Hao sensed the Southern Wilderness Three Great Royal Clans watching from the shadows.
• Lin Hao recognized a familiar aura as an Abyss Evil God and realized it had colluded with something in the Life Forbidden Zone.

The Wang and Bai Family ancestors tried to stop five families from wasting their divine weapons, but the Sima Family redirected the weapons against them, revealing its connection to the mastermind. As the mastermind attacked from Deathless Valley, the Dragon Family's Great Saint blocked it, and the mastermind discovered that only five of the expected eleven awakened Forbidden Remnant Immortals had answered.

• The Seventh Ancestor of the Wang Family, the Bai Family ancestor, and the Dragon Family's Great Saint appeared and urged the five families to restrain their fully awakened divine weapons.
• The Sima Family's head used the Imperial Pole Bell to direct all five divine weapons against the Wang and Bai Families, despite the other families trying to pull back.
• The Seventh Ancestor of the Wang Family and the Bai Family ancestor activated their Emperor Weapons to defend against the combined assault.
• A scarlet force erupted from Deathless Valley, and its speaker declared that the attack was meant to cripple the Emperor Weapons.
• The Dragon Family's Great Saint arrived with the Dragon Pearl and blocked the scarlet force, while awakened Forbidden Remnant Immortals flew from Deathless Valley.
• The scarlet force called for reinforcements and realized that only five of the eleven awakened Forbidden Remnant Immortals had answered.

Lin Hao helped the Wang and Bai ancestors repel Immortal Lord Changqing’s assault by swiftly killing the Remnant Immortals and absorbing their power. As the Great Saints awakened two more Emperor Weapons to fight Changqing, Lin Hao detected the hidden Abyss Evil God moving against him.

• The Seventh Ancestor of the Wang Family recognized Immortal Lord Changqing and joined the Bai Family’s ancestor in facing five Remnant Immortals while the families’ forces controlled their divine weapons and attacked the Sima Family.
• The Seventh Ancestor of the Wang Family asked Lin Hao to help, and Lin Hao intercepted a Remnant Immortal with the [Insect-Slaying Spear].
• Lin Hao killed the Remnant Immortal, absorbed its aura, recorded its information, and refined its Immortal Weapon; he then killed a second Remnant Immortal and drew the rest away from the Great Saints.
• Lin Hao told the Seventh Ancestor of the Wang Family and the Bai Family’s ancestor to help the Dragon Family’s Great Saint, so they fully awakened their Emperor Weapons and attacked Immortal Lord Changqing.
• As Lin Hao fought the remaining Remnant Immortals, he sensed invisible tendrils from a concealed Evil God and inferred that it had partnered with Changqing to target the Immortal King in Deathless Valley and gather strength through a blood sacrifice.

Immortal Lord Changqing gained the upper hand when an Extraterritorial Heavenly Demon disrupted the Great Saints, but Lin Hao stepped in and blocked his strike. Lin Hao began combining countless Dao Principles into himself as he prepared to face Changqing and the Abyss Evil God.

• Immortal Lord Changqing called for his hidden ally while fighting three Great Saints wielding Emperor Weapons.
• Black-and-white static and distorted rules revealed the Extraterritorial Heavenly Demon’s intervention, weakening the Great Saints and empowering Changqing.
• Changqing nearly struck the Seventh Ancestor of the Wang Family, but Lin Hao blocked the immortal sword with his spear.
• The Seventh Ancestor warned Lin Hao that the abnormal rules had slowed the Great Saints, and Lin Hao asked them to seal off the area while he handled the enemies.
• Lin Hao formed a multicolored Dharma Robe and drew numerous Dao Principles into himself.

Lin Hao overwhelmed Immortal Lord Changqing and the Abyssal Evil God, crushing both into information that he absorbed into the Primordial Swarm network. The three Great Saints survived, but wondered what Lin Hao intended to do next.

• Immortal Lord Changqing recognized the many Dao Principles in Lin Hao and suspected he came from the Immortal Realm, while Lin Hao used his millstone of Dao Principles to drive Changqing back.
• Lin Hao rejected Changqing’s claim that he had only cooperated with the Heavenly Demon to survive, and the Evil God warned that Lin Hao did not have an immortal’s aura.
• Lin Hao used tentacles empowered by the God-Eater Insect and his Dao Principles to bind the Evil God, grind it into information, and upload it to the Primordial Swarm network.
• Immortal Lord Changqing tried to flee, but Lin Hao’s tentacles ensnared him and revealed the swarm will that Changqing remembered from the Immortal Insect Battlefield.
• Lin Hao crushed Changqing into information as well, and the three Great Saints realized they had won and debated what Lin Hao intended.

Lin Hao defeated Immortal Lord Changqing and an Extraterritorial Heavenly Demon, then warned the three Great Saints that their scheme might have affected the fallen Immortal King in Deathless Valley. After the Aristocratic Families begged for mercy, he spared the Yang Family’s Divine Weapon and demanded the others.

• Lin Hao suppressed Immortal Lord Changqing, captured the evil god, and equipped the [Changqing Sword] to replenish his strength.
• Lin Hao told the three Great Saints that Immortal Lord Changqing and the Extraterritorial Heavenly Demon had tried to revive the Immortal Lord and reach the Immortal King in Deathless Valley, but their scheme might have caused the Immortal King to awaken early.
• The Seventh Ancestor of the Wang Family, the Bai Family's ancestor, and the Dragon Clan's Great Saint thanked Lin Hao and acknowledged his strength, while the Seventh Ancestor treated him as an ally from the Immortal Realm.
• Lin Hao explained that the Three Great Secret Realms consumed practitioners’ lifespans and suggested that reaching the Immortal Realm might allow them to attain enduring life.
• The Aristocratic Families presented the Sima Family head’s remains and Divine Weapon and begged Lin Hao for mercy; Lin Hao let the Yang Family keep its Divine Weapon and ordered the others to hand theirs over.

After the battle at Deathless Valley, Lin Hao warned the Southern Wilderness leaders that the Immortal King within the Restricted Zone might awaken sooner because of Immortal Lord Changqing’s attempt to corrupt it. He revealed that his [Object Bestowal] authority could benefit from Emperor Weapons and persuaded the Dragon Family’s Great Saint to lend him the [Holy Dragon Pearl], whose connection to its family was immediately severed.

• The Southern Wilderness clans and families announced that Lin Hao was a Quasi-Emperor, and the people celebrated the end of the Dark Turmoil while worrying that their Emperor Weapons had been exhausted.
• Lin Hao left Deathless Valley and accompanied the Great Saints and family heads to the Wang Family’s Constellations City.
• Lin Hao warned the leaders that Immortal Lord Changqing and an Extraterritorial Heavenly Demon had begun corrupting the Immortal King in Deathless Valley, potentially hastening its awakening.
• Lin Hao explained that his [Object Bestowal] authority let him gain enhancements from weapons and Dharma Treasures, and said more Emperor Weapons could improve his chances of suppressing an Immortal King.
• The Dragon Family’s Great Saint offered Lin Hao the [Holy Dragon Pearl], and Lin Hao took it with a golden dragon that he formed with a flick of his finger.
• Lin Hao sensed that the pearl’s wish-granting power suited him, while the Dragon Family’s Great Saint realized its connection to the family had been severed.

Lin Hao persuaded the three Southern Wilderness Royal Clans to lend him their Emperor Weapons and proposed summoning the other domains’ weapons to prepare for the Immortal King’s awakening. The other four domains received the calls for aid and sent Great Saints and Quasi-Emperors with Emperor Weapons toward the Southern Wilderness, while some clans stayed behind to guard their homelands.

• Lin Hao reassured the three Great Saints that he would return their Emperor Weapons after pacifying the Life Forbidden Zones, then explained that he needed more weapons to face the Immortal Kings and the buried Immortal Emperor.
• The Seventh Ancestor of the Wang Family, the Ancestor of the Bai Family, and the Great Saint of the Dragon Family agreed to invite the other domains to bring their Emperor Weapons to the Southern Wilderness.
• The three Great Royal Clans issued appeals for aid, reporting that their Divine Weapon and Emperor Weapon reserves were exhausted and that the Immortal King of Deathless Valley might be awakening.
• The Royal Clans of the other four domains judged the threat serious and sent their current Great Saints and Quasi-Emperors with Emperor Weapons toward the Southern Wilderness.
• The Royal Clans that lacked a current Great Saint stayed in their homelands with their Emperor Weapons, coordinating with Aristocratic Families that possessed Heirloom Divine Weapons to maintain defenses.

Representatives from ten clans gathered in Constellations City to discuss the awakening Immortal King in Deathless Valley, and Lin Hao addressed them. The meeting was interrupted by two Remnant Immortals who arrived as envoys from Deathless Valley and Desert Sand Territory, raising alarm that the Life Forbidden Zones had joined forces.

• Emperor Hong arrived from the Central Region and learned that the Immortal King in Deathless Valley might awaken ahead of time.
• The Dragon Family's Great Saint told Emperor Hong that a Quasi-Emperor had awakened in the Southern Wilderness but said the circumstances were unusual.
• Lin Hao sensed that ten clans had arrived with nine Great Saints, one Quasi-Emperor, and Emperor Weapons, then addressed the representatives about the crisis.
• Emperor Hong sensed that Lin Hao's aura seemed to surpass that of a Quasi-Emperor.
• Qinghong and Baixia appeared as envoys from Deathless Valley and Desert Sand Territory, alarming the gathered representatives.

Lin Hao and Emperor Hong confronted two Remnant Immortals who said the Immortal Kings were awakening and demanded sacrifices in exchange for sparing their descendants. The gathered clans faced despair as they realized they might have to contend with two Immortal Kings without a Great Emperor.

• Qinghong and Baixia arrived on behalf of two Restricted Zones and argued that humanity was fated to lose against the immortals.
• Emperor Hong said the immortals could be suppressed again, and Lin Hao reminded Qinghong and Baixia that their ancient enemies, the Swarm, had been short-lived too.
• Qinghong and Baixia revealed that the Immortal Kings had authorized them to demand regular sacrifices to Deathless Valley in exchange for sparing the clans' descendants.
• Baixia said two Immortal Kings were beginning to awaken, leaving the assembled Great Saints and Emperor Hong overwhelmed by the threat.
• Qinghong and Baixia claimed the Immortal Kings would accept sacrifices to avoid a costly battle and insisted the clans' defeat was certain.

After Qinghong and Baixia revealed that two Immortal Kings had revived, Emperor Hong and the Great Saints refused to submit and destroyed the messengers, provoking the Kings’ residual wills. Lin Hao borrowed five Emperor Weapons and entered Deathless Valley to attack its Immortal King, whose finger stopped his strike before the valley’s mirage began collapsing.

• Qinghong and Baixia pressured the Great Saints to accept blood sacrifices, but Emperor Hong rallied them to resist, and they destroyed the two Remnant Immortals.
• The Immortal Kings’ residual wills emerged from Qinghong and Baixia, threatened the gathered leaders, and dissipated after memorizing their auras.
• Emperor Hong called for the Five Domains to awaken their sealed reserves and attack the Restricted Zones before the Kings recovered.
• Lin Hao offered to kill one of the Immortal Kings if he could borrow five Emperor Weapons, and the Great Saints entrusted them to him.
• Lin Hao absorbed the five Emperor Weapons into his Equipment Slots, tore through the void into Deathless Valley, and attacked with a millstone of Dao Principles.
• An Immortal King’s finger stopped Lin Hao’s millstone, but the attack shattered the valley’s mirage and began dragging Deathless Valley into a deep gravitational pull.

Lin Hao overwhelmed the Immortal King of Deathless Valley, while the Immortal King of Desert Sand Territory rushed to intervene. After entering the ruined battlefield, the newcomer discovered the Deathless Valley Immortal King had already been destroyed and recognized the Zerg, prompting a desperate warning that the Emperor's Mausoleum had been discovered.

• The Seventh Ancestor of the Wang Family explained that Lin Hao came from the outside world and could borrow Emperor Weapons to fight the Immortal Kings.
• The Immortal King of Desert Sand Territory crossed toward Deathless Valley, and Emperor Hong and the other Great Saints tried to stop him.
• The Immortal King of Desert Sand Territory caught Emperor Hong's Primordial Sword with two fingers and sent him flying before continuing into Deathless Valley.
• The Immortal King of Desert Sand Territory entered the chaotic battlefield and found the Immortal King of Deathless Valley blasted apart, with his fragments being ground down by Ten Thousand Laws Returning to One.
• The Immortal King of Desert Sand Territory recognized the Zerg and received a final warning that the Emperor's Mausoleum had been discovered.

Lin Hao overwhelmed the Desolate Sand Immortal King and captured the Remnant Immortals who attacked from Desert Sand Territory. With the crisis at Deathless Valley under control, he saw the Emperor’s Mausoleum’s surviving immortals as valuable spoils and sources of Swarm data.

• Lin Hao used his weapons, chains, and Swarm Will to stop the Desolate Sand Immortal King from escaping and dragged him back into the chaotic void.
• Outside Deathless Valley, the Remnant Immortals attacked the Great Saints and taunted them, believing their king had secured victory.
• The Desolate Sand Immortal King briefly emerged from the void covered in chains before a spear pierced his head and pulled him back inside.
• Emperor Hong returned and recognized the gulf between his strength and Lin Hao’s, while the Remnant Immortals realized their Immortal Kings had likely been defeated.
• Lin Hao’s weapon projections pierced the Remnant Immortals and dragged them into the chaotic void, where he welcomed them as unrecorded data and valuable spoils.

Lin Hao returned to Constellations City after suppressing the two Immortal Kings in Deathless Valley, then warned Emperor Hong and the Great Saints that an Immortal Emperor lay dormant at the heart of the Emperor's Mausoleum. He planned to pacify the remaining Life Forbidden Zones and uncover why the Immortal Emperor was asleep, even if the group had to flee their homeland.

• After waiting half a month, Emperor Hong and the Great Saints watched the chaos in Deathless Valley dissipate, leaving Lin Hao alone amid the ruined void.
• Lin Hao returned to Constellations City, and Emperor Hong and the Great Saints thanked him for saving them from the Immortal Kings.
• The Great Saints offered Lin Hao their remaining Emperor Weapons, and he collected them to prepare for further battles.
• Lin Hao revealed that he had sensed a sleeping Immortal Emperor at the heart of the Emperor's Mausoleum and warned that destroying every Life Forbidden Zone might awaken him.
• Emperor Hong asked whether they should leave the Life Forbidden Zones alone, but Lin Hao said he intended to pacify them and find out why the Immortal Emperor was asleep.
• Lin Hao warned that they might need to abandon their homeland and promised to find them a new place in the Abyss if necessary.

Lin Hao used his new Swarm Will permissions to secure the Emperor’s Mausoleum’s native beings as his dependents and requisitioned spoils from the Swarm’s war with the Immortal Realm. He obtained the transformed Demon Emperor Bell and discovered its extraordinary traits, preparing to use it and new equipment for Tribulation Transcendence.

• Lin Hao submitted requests through the Primordial Swarm Will, which approved his claims over the Emperor’s Mausoleum’s native beings and his demand for control if an Immortal Emperor was captured.
• Lin Hao requisitioned the spoils from Higher World 983, then told the Emperor’s Mausoleum races he would seek outside help against the Immortal Emperor and leave a clone behind.
• Lin Hao traveled to a nearby Wormhole Zone, where a Zerg big shot delivered the Flesh-and-Blood Demon Emperor Bell, a treasure seized from the Ancestor of Kunpeng.
• Lin Hao placed the Bell in his Inventory Slot and gained access to its prismatic innate Spiritual Treasure, spacetime affinity, Origin Time authority, and Demon Emperor Fate Lattice.
• Lin Hao recognized the Bell’s immense power and considered using it and his new equipment to undergo Tribulation Transcendence in the Abyss.

After equipping the Demon Emperor Bell and Immortal-Binding Rope, Lin Hao prepared to transcend his tribulation in the Abyss. He spent two months with his family to steady his mind, then entered the Abyss’s deeper realms and began stirring the Dao Principles there.

• Lin Hao equipped the Demon Emperor Bell and Immortal-Binding Rope and realized their Traits let him forcibly pull out even unfamiliar Dao Principles.
• Lin Hao judged that he could suppress peak Immortal Kings, but planned to ambush the slumbering Immortal Emperor with blade-and-axe Zerg in case anything went wrong.
• Lin Hao returned to Penglai City, sensed the Earth Will’s Immortal Emperor-level nature, and felt his Permissions change as it silently acknowledged him.
• Lin Hao spent two months with his family and traveling, letting his accumulated pressure dissolve before setting out for the Abyss alone.
• Lin Hao entered the Abyss’s deeper realms, where materialized Dao Principles and chaotic data streams surrounded him, and began triggering the vibrations of tribulation.

As Immortal Kings awakened and destroyed Sword-Casting City and the Ao Family, Lin Hao's dormant clone returned and revealed that four Immortal Kings had awakened. When another Immortal King targeted the Huang Family, Lin Hao moved Constellations City to the valley and dragged the attacker down to face him.

• A Dao Principles projection showed an Immortal King destroying Sword-Casting City, shattering its Emperor Formation and taking the Ao Family's Emperor Weapon.
• Lin Hao's clone emerged from seclusion and told Emperor Hong that four Immortal Kings had awakened, while the Central Province Immortal King remained asleep.
• A second projection showed an Immortal King preparing to attack the Huang Family in the Northern Region.
• Lin Hao moved Constellations City beside the valley and ordered the Immortal King to come down.
• Lin Hao forcibly dragged the Immortal King to the ground, where the disheveled figure asked who he was.