Chapter Summaries

Lin Hao used his clone to confront Wuwei Immortal King, who regarded the people of the Emperor’s Mausoleum as mere nourishment. Lin Hao revealed the clone’s Swarm nature and engulfed Wuwei Immortal King, leaving the Immortal King trapped as the clone’s body sealed space and causality.

• Lin Hao moved Constellations City to the Northern Region and used an Edict to drag Wuwei Immortal King down into the mortal world.
• Wuwei Immortal King demanded to know why Lin Hao defended the Emperor’s Mausoleum’s people and called them short-lived nourishment for the Immortal Kings.
• Lin Hao agreed with Wuwei Immortal King’s view, then declared that Wuwei Immortal King was nourishment to him as well.
• Lin Hao’s Flesh Clone transformed into an Abyssal Swarm host and engulfed Wuwei Immortal King, sealing the surrounding space and causality.

Lin Hao suppressed Wuwei Immortal King, explained the Swarm threat, and ordered the people of the Emperor's Mausoleum to gather while he consolidated his power. As the other Immortal Kings debated waking Finality Immortal Emperor, he began to awaken on his own and sensed the Swarm Lin Hao had positioned outside the world.

• Lin Hao's Flesh Clone enveloped Wuwei Immortal King, forcibly turned him into flesh, and sent him into the Blood Sea to finish him off.
• Emperor Hong and the others applauded Lin Hao, and Lin Hao reassured them that he bore them no ill will before explaining the Zerg war and the Emperor's Mausoleum's seal.
• Lin Hao ordered Emperor Hong to gather people in major settlements and said he would hold the Immortal Kings back while his original body consolidated its strength.
• The revived Immortal Kings retreated to their Restricted Zones and debated whether to wake Finality Immortal Emperor after hearing of Wuwei's defeat.
• Finality Immortal Emperor began awakening on his own, sensed the Swarm surrounding the world, and demanded to know what the Immortal Kings had done.

The Finality Immortal Emperor awakened in the Emperor's Mausoleum to find [Immortal-Slaying Insects] outside and realized he was too weakened to face them. As he questioned the Immortal Kings and recalled the Swarm's past attacks, he noticed their behavior was unusually restrained.

• The Finality Immortal Emperor awakened in the Emperor's Mausoleum and recognized the [Immortal-Slaying Insects] that had killed him.
• Finality accused the Immortal Kings of bringing the Insects, but they said they knew nothing and had only just awakened themselves.
• Finality realized his lingering injuries and weakened state left him unable to withstand the Insects for long.
• An Immortal King hoped the mausoleum's defenses had kept them hidden, but Finality said the world had eroded and the Insects must have found them.
• Finality noticed that the Swarm was surrounding them without attacking, contrary to its usual behavior.

Lin Hao met the awakened Finality Immortal Emperor and persuaded him to hand over his lifebound Dharma Treasure, the Heaven-Slaying Axe. When Lin Hao’s true body seized it, the axe vanished and the Apocalypse Great Dao began surging around him, leaving Finality stunned.

• Lin Hao sensed Finality awakening early and sent Emperor Hong and the others through the Wormhole to settle the Emperor’s Mausoleum’s inhabitants elsewhere.
• Lin Hao entered the world core and discussed cooperation with Finality, who admitted he could not resist the Immortal-Slaying Insects and feared dying.
• Lin Hao asked to see Finality’s lifebound Dharma Treasure, and Finality formed and offered him the Heaven-Slaying Axe.
• Lin Hao switched places with his avatar and grasped the axe, shattering his palm as the weapon vanished and severed its connection to Finality.
• Finality watched the Apocalypse Great Dao emerge around Lin Hao and rapidly grow stronger than his own weakened aura.

Lin Hao gained control of the Great Dao of Finality through the [Heaven-Slaying Axe] and demanded that the Finality Immortal Emperor submit to him. The emperor chose to destroy himself and the Emperor's Mausoleum, leaving Lin Hao alive with the axe and the information needed to complete his mission.

• Lin Hao realized that the [Heaven-Slaying Axe] had greatly deepened his understanding of the Great Dao of Finality and surpassed the Finality Immortal Emperor in control of it.
• Lin Hao found the emperor lingering in his Dao Lineage and offered to spare him if he accepted a [Soul-Possessing Insect] and became his dependent.
• The Finality Immortal Emperor refused and unleashed his final intent, erasing the nearby Immortal Kings and starting the Emperor's Mausoleum's collapse.
• The Emperor's Mausoleum exploded and destroyed many surrounding [Immortal-Slaying Insects], while Lin Hao remained unharmed.
• Lin Hao emerged with the [Heaven-Slaying Axe] and concluded that he could complete his mission using the information it contained.

After uploading the Finality Immortal Emperor’s complete Dao information, Lin Hao’s [Swarm Will] advanced to red, letting him directly search and command much of the Swarm. He considered pursuing the Source of the Great Dao after completing his dimensional ascension, then arrived at the fragment world containing Penglai City.

• Lin Hao uploaded the Finality Immortal Emperor’s information and received a surge of Swarm knowledge and permissions that fused into him.
• Lin Hao’s [Swarm Will] turned red, giving him access to the Swarm directory and the ability to direct the Swarm so long as his orders did not threaten it with destruction or massive losses.
• Lin Hao identified the Source of the Great Dao as the information source that might let him fuse fully with the Primordial Swarm Will, but decided to wait until his dimensional ascension had settled.
• Lin Hao found records of the Myriad Gu Immortal Emperor and the Ancestor of Kunpeng, whose remains the Swarm had turned into controllable exoskeletal devices.
• Lin Hao recognized the strength of the Swarm’s multicolored [Swarm Adaptation] and his new ability to mobilize Swarms and mass-produce subordinate Mother Bugs.
• Lin Hao crossed the Chaotic Void to the fragment world containing Penglai City, confident he could crush it with ease.

Emperor Hong and the other inhabitants of the Emperor's Mausoleum settled in Penglai City and discovered that leaving the Mausoleum extended their lifespans. Lin Hao checked on them, then sent the Spirit Race's borrowed Immortal Artifact back to the Spirit World, where it appeared above Spirit Race territory.

• Emperor Hong and the Seventh Ancestor of the Wang Family told the cultivators in Penglai City that they felt at ease and that their lifespans were extending outside the Emperor's Mausoleum.
• Lin Hao arrived through the vortex, asked Emperor Hong how the settlers were adapting, and heard that they were grateful.
• Lin Hao sent the Immortal Artifact he had borrowed from the Spirit Race through the void toward the Spirit World.
• Ling Yue and Ling Xing observed the Demon Clan fulfilling its terms and fitting its cultivators with Demon-Binding Rings.
• The borrowed Immortal Artifact broke through the Spirit World's sky and descended into Spirit Race territory.

Lin Hao learned that the Immortal Realm had ordered lower worlds to investigate the Emperor's Mausoleum and decided to answer the summons on his own terms. He disguised himself and his avatars as Immortals, then began reconstructing the shattered mausoleum to support a false account of what had happened.

• The Spirit Race received accumulated Immortal Decrees through the returned [Myriad Spirit Banner], ordering Mahayana cultivators to investigate coordinates in the Void.
• The Spirit Race's Mahayana elders suspected the order concerned Lin Hao and chose to consult him before acting.
• Lin Hao reasoned that the Immortal Realm was using lower worlds to investigate whether the Swarm had found the Emperor's Mausoleum, and decided to make a trip there.
• Lin Hao transformed several avatars to resemble devoured Immortal Kings and displayed the Apocalypse Great Dao as his own manifestation.
• Lin Hao returned to the mausoleum's blast zone and began turning the chaotic energy there back into fragments of the shattered structure.

Feng Wu and Long Ao encountered Lin Hao among the shattered remains of a world they suspected was the Emperor’s Mausoleum. Lin Hao used their Heritage Immortal Artifacts to contact the Dragon Emperor and Phoenix Sovereign, then chose to visit the Feather Realm.

• Feng Wu and Long Ao met in the Chaotic Void, compared their Immortal Decrees, and agreed to travel together to investigate the rumored Emperor’s Mausoleum.
• They found the ruins of an exploded world and approached a fragment glowing with immortal light, where a powerful divine sense stopped them.
• Lin Hao and a group of immortals emerged, and Feng Wu and Long Ao explained that they had been sent to investigate.
• Lin Hao activated the pair’s Heritage Immortal Artifacts and contacted the Dragon Emperor and Phoenix Sovereign, explaining that he had awakened early and destroyed the Emperor’s Mausoleum to contain a disturbance.
• The Dragon Emperor and Phoenix Sovereign urged Lin Hao to hide in a lower realm, while Feng Wu and Long Ao each invited him to their own realm.
• Lin Hao chose to go to the Feather Realm.

The Demon Emperor felt uneasy after learning that the Finality Immortal Emperor had awakened, and he urged the other Immortal Emperors to reconsider bringing Finality back. They decided the Yuanshi Heavenly Emperor would meet Finality, while Lin Hao continued preparing the Swarm’s forces in the Feather Realm.

• The Demon Emperor felt growing unease after the Dragon Emperor and Phoenix Sovereign reported their contact with Finality.
• The Demon Emperor told the Immortal Emperors that his lost innate Spiritual Treasure and his premonition might connect Finality’s revival to the Swarm.
• The Venerable Celestial of Wuji argued that the Swarm was unlikely to have caused the premonition, and the Immortal Emperors debated the risks of restoring Finality.
• The Yuanshi Heavenly Emperor agreed to meet Finality and investigate the situation himself.
• Lin Hao issued deployment orders to the Swarm from the Feather Realm as production of various [Immortal-Slaying Insects] expanded.

Lin Hao finished imparting the Dao on Phoenix Feather Mountain and met Yuanshi, who brought him into the Abyss while concealing his suspicion. Yuanshi then confronted Lin Hao and attacked him, convinced that the person before him was not truly Finality.

• Lin Hao's Dao discourse caused several Mahayana cultivators to cross the immortal-mortal divide, and he suppressed their ascension alongside the immortals formed from his clones.
• Yuanshi arrived, observed the immortals behind Lin Hao, and invited him back to the Immortal Realm; Lin Hao agreed.
• Lin Hao followed Yuanshi deeper into the Abyss, where Yuanshi stopped and said it was a fine place for Lin Hao to be buried.
• Lin Hao questioned how Yuanshi had realized something was wrong, and Yuanshi explained that Finality would never speak to him so politely.
• Yuanshi said he had never seen anyone truly replace an Immortal Emperor and struck Lin Hao with a massive surge of immortal energy.

Lin Hao fought the Yuanshi Heavenly Emperor, using his [Finality] and [Space-Time] Great Daos to survive Yuanshi’s world-creating attacks. Lin Hao adapted to the repeated strikes and reached Yuanshi’s true body, turning the battle in his favor.

• Yuanshi brought Lin Hao to a primordial dimension and unleashed a world-creating strike that erased Lin Hao’s [Apocalypse] Great Dao Barrier.
• Lin Hao’s [Space-Time] Great Dao emerged, and Yuanshi recognized the Demon Emperor Bell and Lin Hao’s connection to the Swarm.
• Lin Hao used Emperor Weapon Trait enhancements to amplify [Finality] and [Space-Time], survived Yuanshi’s first strike, and regenerated his body.
• Yuanshi launched another world-creating strike, but Lin Hao adapted and recovered from the damage much faster.
• Yuanshi unleashed repeated strikes, but Lin Hao broke through his Immortal Light and struck his true body for the first time.

Lin Hao cornered Yuanshi after their fight, using the Swarm’s rapid adaptation to wear down the Immortal Emperor and block his escape. Yuanshi faced the choice of returning to the Immortal Realm and exposing it to the Swarm or accepting Lin Hao’s terms to share his Great Dao.

• Yuanshi realized that Lin Hao’s [Finality] and [Space-Time] were eroding his Great Dao, while the Swarm adapted to his attacks.
• Yuanshi created successive worlds to delay Lin Hao, then fled, but Lin Hao tracked him through the aura embedded in him and evolved the [Immortal-Slaying Insects].
• The Swarm pursued Yuanshi through spatial rifts, and Lin Hao arrived to block his path and warn that he would die within ten years if he kept resisting.
• Yuanshi considered seeking help from the Immortal Realm but feared drawing the Swarm there, then asked whether Lin Hao wanted to seize his Great Dao.
• Lin Hao offered to share the Great Dao if Yuanshi handed it over willingly and explained that he sought the root; Yuanshi recognized that Lin Hao intended to devour the Source of the Great Dao and acknowledged the risk could benefit everyone else.

Lin Hao gained Yuanshi Heavenly Emperor’s [Creation] Great Dao and persuaded him to approach the Immortal Realm peacefully. Yuanshi returned to the Immortal Realm and told its Immortal Emperors that Finality had fallen and the Swarm had defeated him, then began delivering the Swarm’s message.

• Lin Hao absorbed the [Chaos Origin Stone] and gained a presence within Yuanshi Heavenly Emperor’s [Creation] Great Dao.
• Yuanshi admitted that he had both expected Lin Hao to fail and hoped he would succeed, and Lin Hao revealed that he was of the Human Clan.
• Lin Hao and Yuanshi agreed that Yuanshi would speak to the Immortal Realm while Lin Hao listened through the Great Dao.
• The Immortal Emperors prepared their defenses as Yuanshi returned alone through the Immortal Realm’s Barrier.
• Yuanshi told the Immortal Emperors that Finality had fallen to the Swarm, which had mastered the Apocalypse Great Dao and could combine it with the Space-Time Great Dao.
• After the Immortal Emperors questioned him, Yuanshi said he had lost and that the Swarm had asked him to deliver a message.

Yuanshi told the Immortal Emperors that the Swarm could devour the Immortal Realm and sought to enter the Source of the Great Dao, prompting them to agree to talks. Lin Hao arrived with a massive force and began tearing open the Immortal Realm’s barrier, leaving its rulers facing the Swarm’s full might.

• Yuanshi revealed that he had surrendered to the Swarm, angering the Immortal Emperors until he explained that the Swarm sought the Source of the Great Dao.
• Yuanshi told the Immortal Emperors that he could resist for at most ten years and that the Swarm could seize his Great Dao; the Venerable Celestial of Wuji proposed inviting Lin Hao to talk.
• The Swarm deployed Wormhole Insects, Spider-Shaped Zerg, and controlled flesh armor near the hidden Immortal Realm as Lin Hao arrived with Yuanshi.
• Lin Hao said he was taking precautions to prevent the Immortal Emperors from thinking they could resist, while the Swarm began tearing open the Immortal Realm’s barrier.
• The rift revealed the surrounding Swarm, its forces, the surrendered Yuanshi, and Lin Hao seated on a Flesh-Tendril Throne.

Lin Hao secured the Immortal Realm’s Life-Bound Dharma Treasures in exchange for promising that the Zerg would not invade, then continued through the Abyss as his growing collection of Great Daos expanded his perception of the worlds around him. He left with the ability to see the structure and inhabitants of many worlds, while considering whether the Abyss itself might have limits.

• Lin Hao reassured the Immortal Realm that he had come to make an agreement, and the Immortal Emperor of Reincarnation said the Immortal Emperors accepted his request in principle.
• The Venerable Celestial of Wuji handed over his Life-Bound Innate Spiritual Treasure, and the other Immortal Emperors followed by giving Lin Hao their Life-Bound Dharma Treasures.
• Lin Hao took the treasures and gained access to their Great Daos, leaving the Immortal Emperors surprised by how completely he had seized them.
• The Swarm withdrew and the Immortal Realm Heavenly Dao repaired the passage, while the Immortal Emperors reflected on their losses and shared information about the Demon Realm and God Realm with Lin Hao.
• As Lin Hao traveled through the Abyss, he fused and adapted his new Great Daos, realizing he could assimilate the Swarm Will without the Primordial Swarm Will’s help.
• Lin Hao’s expanded perception let him look down on world bubbles and discern beings such as Earth Will, Abyss Evil Gods, Demon Gods, demons, deities, and World Wills.

Lin Hao seized the Demon Realm’s Demon Well and the Demon Venerables’ life-bound artifacts, then incorporated the Primordial Swarm Will into himself. He left the Swarm under his control and redirected it away from unnecessary devouring.

• The six Demon Venerables gathered at the Demon Well after sensing disturbances in the Great Daos.
• Lin Hao’s immense palm broke through the Demon Realm’s Barrier, suppressed the Demon Venerables, and pulled out the Demon Well.
• The Demon Venerables surrendered their life-bound Dharma Treasures, and Lin Hao withdrew, leaving the Demon Realm pierced through.
• Lin Hao continued taking valuable objects from powerful worlds and used them to fuse with more Great Daos.
• Lin Hao swallowed the Primordial Swarm Will and made every Insect a vessel for his will.
• Lin Hao adjusted the Swarm’s priorities, ending its unnecessary outward devouring because he no longer needed matter or energy.

Lin Hao gathered Earth’s scattered fragments and rebuilt the planet, bringing its survivors back from the Abyss. After leaving his companions to maintain order, he entered the Heart of the Abyss and began absorbing the Source of the Great Dao.

• Lin Hao told his companions that he would rebuild Earth, gave them Dao Principles Jade Tokens, and assigned them to maintain order while he cultivated.
• Lin Hao drew survivors and settlements from across the Abyss into a new Earth, reassembling the planet and restoring the Earth Will.
• Earth’s survivors learned they had left the Abyss, while Penglai City’s people began maintaining order and explaining what had happened.
• A stone stele inscribed with the edict “Do not bully the weak. Do not provoke the strong” fell to Earth and became part of its laws.
• Lin Hao crossed the chaotic Dao Principles into the Heart of the Abyss, where the Source of the Great Dao began converging into him.