Chapter Summaries

After reaching the peak of the Fourth Step, Yuhua descended Mount Kongtong, hoping to find a way to break through to the Fifth Step. He found the Shennong Tribe preparing to attack the Youxiong Clan, but was turned away and headed northeast to see the rival tribe.

• Yuhua left his cave after sensing a desire to descend the mountain, and saw that Shennong was nearing a breakthrough in his secluded cultivation.
• Yuhua reached a small tribe by the Jiang Water, learned that the Shennong Tribe had moved east, and left the tribe spiritual treasures before continuing on.
• After a month of travel, Yuhua reached the Shennong Tribe and found it preparing to attack the Youxiong Clan.
• The guards stopped Yuhua at the settlement entrance, suspecting he was a spy, so he headed northeast to see the Youxiong Clan.

Yuhua arrived at the Youxiong Clan and taught Xuanyuan the Qi Refining Method before taking him as his disciple. After Xuanyuan defeated Chiyou and unified the tribes, he appointed Jiang Yang White Emperor Shaohao to rule the Dongyi in the east, where Jiang Yang’s new life as a tribal chief began.

• Yuhua reached the Youxiong Clan, where Cangjie recognized Guang Chengzi and brought him to meet Xuanyuan; Yuhua noticed Jiang Yang and stayed after Xuanyuan asked him about cultivation.
• Yuhua taught Xuanyuan the Qi Refining Method and made him his disciple, while Cangjie predicted that Xuanyuan would become the Son of Heaven.
• Xuanyuan defeated Di Yuwang, took the title of Yellow Emperor, and later led the allied tribes against Chiyou, whose bronze weapons and powerful warriors brought them nine defeats.
• The Youxiong Clan forged bronze weapons and built chariots, and Jiang Yang and Xuanyuan killed Chiyou in the tenth Battle of Zhuolu.
• After the victory, Xuanyuan appointed Yuwang lord of the west and invested Jiang Yang’s Shaoyang Clan with the title of White Emperor to govern the Dongyi in the east.
• Jiang Yang began ruling as White Emperor Shaohao through Bird Masters and Bird Officials, and Filiya and Feng Luobin later came to his territory.

Jiang Yang guarded Dongyi during Xuanyuan’s reign, helping defeat the four great ferocious beasts while keeping his identity secret from Xuanyuan. When Jiang Yang’s second incarnation neared death, he revealed who he was to Xuanyuan, then died as his memories returned to his original self in the Divine Realm.

• Xuanyuan unified the Human Race and developed his realm while Yuhua taught him cultivation, and Jiang Yang guarded Dongyi beside Filiya.
• Filiya brought a pair of Phoenixes to Dongyi, where they helped Jiang Yang protect the tribes from ferocious beasts.
• When Chaos, Qiongqi, Taowu, and Taotie attacked the Central Plains, Jiang Yang joined the battle, and the divine beasts and human experts killed all four.
• Xuanyuan urged Jiang Yang to cultivate and seek immortality, but Jiang Yang repeatedly said he had no interest in it.
• As Jiang Yang’s second incarnation neared death, Xuanyuan saw immortals and gods gathered around him, and Jiang Yang revealed his identity and told Xuanyuan they would meet again.
• Jiang Yang’s second incarnation died, and his memories returned to Jiang Yang in the Divine Realm as he prepared to leave for battle.

Aboard a Star Realm ship heading toward the Divine Realm, hundreds of Martial Emperors followed Chen Yunfan, a legendary Yunlan powerhouse whose life had been marked by broken engagement, unmatched martial achievements, and the betrayal of his nine female disciples. After the truth about his supposed collusion with the Heavenly Demons Realm emerged, his disciples fought the invading demons, but Yunlan’s forces suffered repeated defeats.

• Hundreds of Martial Emperors aboard the Star Realm ship showed deference to Chen Yunfan, a renowned Martial Saint from the Yunlan Great World.
• Chen Yunfan rose through the martial realms after his fiancée broke their engagement and became a peerless spear wielder who refused to ascend to Martial Emperor.
• Chen Yunfan took nine exceptionally talented women as disciples, and each eventually became a Martial Emperor.
• Chen Yunfan was accused of colluding with the Heavenly Demons Realm, captured, and killed by his nine disciples, who buried him in a dark coffin.
• Nine thousand years later, a traitor led the Heavenly Demons Realm’s invasion, revealing the truth behind Chen Yunfan’s accusation.
• Chen Yunfan’s remorseful disciples fought the invaders, but the Heavenly Demons Realm’s lord overwhelmed Yunlan’s forces and drove them into repeated retreats.

After defeating the Heavenly Demons Realm, Chen Yunfan learned that the Divine Clan planned to conquer the surrounding worlds and led the Yunlan Realm’s Martial Emperors to attack the Divine Realm. As the Yunlan forces approached, nearly a thousand True Kings emerged from a Heavenly Gate, and the Divine God Lord strode toward them.

• Chen Yunfan defeated the Heavenly Demons Realm, forgave his nine disciples, and established the World-Crossing Palace with them.
• Chen Yunfan’s forces captured six Divine Realm True Kings, who revealed the Divine Clan’s plan to conquer nearby worlds, including the Yunlan Great World.
• Chen Yunfan killed the six True Kings and gathered the Yunlan Realm’s Martial Emperors to wage war on the Divine Clan.
• Chen Yunfan and his disciples arrived outside the enormous Divine Realm and saw a golden Heavenly Gate open.
• Nearly a thousand True Kings emerged from the gate as the God Lord strode out of the Divine Realm toward Chen Yunfan’s forces.

Jiang Yang and Chen Yunfan met in the Deep Space Star Realm, and their equally overwhelming auras revealed them as rivals who both followed the invincible Dao. They declared that only one of them could prevail and prepared to fight, while their followers watched in awe.

• Jiang Yang appeared beneath the Great Sun, and Chen Yunfan recognized him as a worthy opponent as their auras resonated.
• Chen Yunfan released a vast ocean of blood and qi that oppressed the Divine Realm’s True Kings, but Jiang Yang’s rising Great Sun countered it.
• The two supreme auras clashed across the Star Realm, and a voice from Chen Yunfan’s thumb warned that Jiang Yang resembled the Ghost Clan’s former queen.
• Chen Yunfan dismissed the warning and declared that he would be invincible, while Jiang Yang said the world could not hold two who cultivated the invincible Dao.
• Chen Yunfan and Jiang Yang shouted for battle as the Nine Female Emperors, the Martial Emperors, and the True Kings watched.

Chen Yunfan and Jiang Yang fought fiercely, with Jiang Yang gaining the upper hand in martial skill. Chen Yunfan summoned his Purple Tenuity Son of Heaven Dharma Body and launched a vast blade strike, while Jiang Yang began to consider whether his tangible Sun could reach a similar state.

• Chen Yunfan and Jiang Yang exchanged countless attacks, but Jiang Yang repeatedly broke through Chen Yunfan's martial arts with his sword.
• Chen Yunfan realized he could not match Jiang Yang's martial skill and retreated a million li away.
• Chen Yunfan summoned the Purple Tenuity Son of Heaven Dharma Body, a powerful manifestation of his Martial Dao Golden Palace.
• Jiang Yang recognized the Dharma Body as a manifestation of reality and wondered if his tangible Sun could achieve the same.
• Chen Yunfan's Dharma Body turned its palm into a blade and slashed toward Jiang Yang with a sweeping blade light.

Jiang Yang and Chen Yunfan fought a battle of immense power in deep space, where Jiang Yang’s Ziwei Son of Heaven Body overcame Chen Yunfan’s blazing sun and left him gravely wounded. Facing a crack in his invincible will, Chen Yunfan resolved to use the Image of Reality and Void, and its terrifying fluctuations spread across the Star Realm.

• Jiang Yang summoned a blazing great sun and used it to battle the Ziwei Son of Heaven Body across deep space.
• Jiang Yang’s starlight blade split the great sun, but a sword strike from within it hit Chen Yunfan and cracked his body.
• Chen Yunfan recognized Jiang Yang’s superior combat strength and realized his defeat had damaged his invincible will.
• Chen Yunfan told Elder Cui that he would use the Image of Reality and Void, and Elder Cui urged him to treat every usable skill as his own strength.
• Chen Yunfan declared that he would defeat Jiang Yang and activated the Image of Reality and Void, releasing an overwhelming terror throughout the Star Realm.

Chen Yunfan used his Image of Reality and Void to strike Jiang Yang from nothingness, shattering half his body, but Jiang Yang’s Fourth Epoch trait, Immortality, healed his wounds. The duel continued with Jiang Yang restored and Chen Yunfan preparing to attack again.

• Chen Yunfan revealed that his Image of Reality and Void let him avoid damage and unleash techniques without burdening his real body.
• Chen Yunfan asked the sword-wielding God’s name, and Jiang Yang introduced himself.
• Chen Yunfan launched a spear attack that vanished with him into the void, then struck Jiang Yang’s left shoulder from nowhere.
• Jiang Yang’s combat awareness let him deflect the blow from his head, but the spear exploded and shattered the left half of his body.
• Jiang Yang unfurled six wings and healed his wounds with his Fourth Epoch trait, Immortality.

Chen Yunfan used Judge Cui’s power to attack Jiang Yang, but Jiang Yang unleashed a new civilization trait that created nearly a thousand Radiant Shadows with his strength. Judge Cui revealed his Ghost Clan allegiance and offered the souls of the six slain True Kings to stop Jiang Yang from killing Chen Yunfan.

• Chen Yunfan summoned Judge Cui, who suppressed Jiang Yang with a guilty verdict and said Jiang Yang could be killed within nine transitions between reality and void.
• Jiang Yang released his Fifth Epoch civilization trait, summoning a river of stars and nearly a thousand Radiant Shadows that matched his strength.
• Chen Yunfan and Judge Cui recognized the danger posed by Jiang Yang’s Shadows, while Judge Cui realized Jiang Yang might be the lord of the Fifth Epoch’s civilization.
• Judge Cui pleaded for mercy as Jiang Yang attacked, then offered to let the souls of the six True Kings switch to cultivating the Ghost Dao.

Jiang Yang’s forces halted before Judge Cui as the surviving True Kings’ souls appeared, and Judge Cui offered to preserve them as Ghost Cultivators in exchange for Chen Yunfan’s life. After Chen Yunfan’s defeat shattered his confidence, Jiang Yang agreed to spare him only if he served the Divine Clan as a Battle General for a hundred thousand years.

• The Martial Emperors aboard the Star Realm Ship lost their fighting spirit, while Jiang Lingling prepared to fight and Li Xiaoqian insisted that Chen Yunfan was not yet doomed.
• Judge Cui revealed the souls of the six True Kings and offered to make them Ghost Cultivators in return for Chen Yunfan’s life.
• The six True Kings recognized their souls and rejoiced when they saw the God Lord, believing he had come to save them.
• Chen Yunfan’s sense of defeat broke his invincible state of mind, draining his aura and strength.
• Judge Cui appealed to Jiang Yang for peace and offered information about the Ghost Clan Civilization, and Jiang Yang demanded that Chen Yunfan serve the Divine Clan as a Battle General for a hundred thousand years.

Jiang Yang defeated Chen Yunfan and compelled him to serve as a battle general for one hundred thousand years, then asked Judge Cui about the Ghost Clan Civilization. Judge Cui agreed to stay with the Divine Clan and began explaining how the Ghost Clan had established the Underworld after leaving Earth.

• Chen Yunfan swore an oath to serve as Jiang Yang's battle general for one hundred thousand years.
• Jiang Yang ordered Chen Yunfan to bring over the Martial Emperors from the Yunlan Great World and assured Judge Cui that he would not attack Chen Yunfan again.
• Judge Cui told Jiang Yang that the Ghost Clan Civilization was Earth's Second Epoch civilization and offered to share what he knew while staying with the Divine Clan.
• Jiang Yang welcomed Judge Cui into the Divine Realm and took him to Sky God City as Judge Cui recounted the Ghost Clan's past.
• Judge Cui explained that the Ghost Clan had left Earth's space-time to escape Doomsday, then conquered countless Great Thousand Worlds under the Ghost Clan Queen and established the Underworld, also known as the Ghost Realm.

The chapter recounts how Yin Jiuer rose from an overlooked Ghost Clan princess to the civilization’s foremost scientist, cultivator, and de facto ruler during the apocalypse. She ended with control of the Ghost Clan Dynasty’s affairs after the emperor named her Imperial Princess.

• The Ghost Clan Civilization faced a barrier at the Solar System’s edge as an apocalypse and eerie spirit attacks struck Earth.
• Yin Jiuer grew up as the neglected ninth daughter of the Ghost Clan emperor, excelled at her studies, and completed the Royal Nobles Academy’s courses by thirteen.
• At seventeen, Yin Jiuer refused the marriage arranged by the emperor and escaped the imperial palace, remaining missing for ten years.
• Yin Jiuer reappeared after the apocalypse began, joined the Imperial Supreme Research Institute, and helped the Ghost Clan stabilize its defenses.
• In the fortieth year of the apocalypse, Yin Jiuer revised the Ghost Cultivation Method and created the Living Funeral Method, allowing the living to acquire ghost bodies and cultivate.
• The emperor named Yin Jiuer Imperial Princess and placed her in charge of the Ghost Clan Dynasty’s affairs, making her the civilization’s de facto ruler.

Jiang Yang told Cui Jue about the Divine Clan Civilization’s origins and its dwindling population, while Cui Jue shared what he knew of Earth’s later epoch civilizations. Their conversation left Jiang Yang learning that the Immortal Clan, Angels, and Devil civilizations had also reached the Myriad Worlds of the Heavens.

• Jiang Yang and Cui Jue descended into Sky God City, where Cui Jue asked how far the Divine Clan Civilization had developed.
• Jiang Yang recounted the Divine Clan’s origins and development, explaining that only a few hundred members remained.
• Cui Jue was surprised by the Divine Clan’s small population, but Jiang Yang said its survivors were united and had endured great hardships.
• Cui Jue told Jiang Yang that Earth’s Third Epoch Immortal Clan and Fourth Epoch Angels and Devil civilizations were also in the Myriad Worlds of the Heavens.

Jiang Yang questioned Cui Yu about the Immortal Clan and Angel and Devil Civilizations, and Cui Yu described his past encounters with them. Cui Yu revealed that he had met Gabriel, an Angel vanguard who led legions in conquering Great Worlds.

• Jiang Yang asked Cui Yu whether he had encountered the Immortal Clan or the Angel and Devil Civilizations, and Cui Yu said he had met all of them.
• Cui Yu explained that his old coordinates for their home worlds might be outdated because the Heavenly Mountain Great World moved constantly.
• Jiang Yang pretended that Gabriel's name sounded familiar and said the Angels had once helped the Divine Clan against a Devil invasion on Earth.
• Cui Yu recalled meeting Gabriel while his soul was split into fragments and described her as a vanguard of the Angel Civilization's conquering army.
• Cui Yu said Gabriel led Angel legions to conquer Great Worlds and spent most of her time campaigning away from Heavenly Mountain.

Jiang Yang learned about Gabriel’s military power, her Silver-White Kingdom of Heaven, and her conquest of worlds from Cui Yu. After they arrived at a welcoming feast in Sky God City, Jiang Yang asked Cui Yu where to find the Third Epoch’s Immortal Clan Civilization.

• Cui Yu explained that the Angels Clan’s population grew through its large original numbers and the seven Angels Reincarnation Pools carried by Six-Winged Seraphim Kings.
• Cui Yu described Gabriel’s Silver-White Kingdom of Heaven, her rapid cultivation, and her loyal followers among native and reincarnated angels.
• Cui Yu said Gabriel conquered many worlds, selected suitable beings for angel reincarnation, and forged the World-Destroying Horn from rare materials.
• Jiang Yang and Cui Yu entered a hall where Artemis and several goddesses welcomed them with food and wine.
• Cui Yu explained how Jiang Yang might find the Angel Civilization, and Jiang Yang asked where the Third Epoch’s Immortal Clan Civilization was.

Cui Yu told Jiang Yang about the Immortal Realm’s vast domains, powerful lineages, and sects. Jiang Yang learned that Gou Daoren had founded the Luofu Immortal Sect, though the fate of one of his two direct disciples remained unknown.

• Cui Yu recalled traveling through All Heavens with a Taisu Sect disciple and described the Immortal Realm’s vast subsidiary worlds and flourishing civilization.
• Cui Yu explained that the Immortal Realm consisted of the Nine Heavens Realm and the Primordial Chaos Immortal Continent, and that its Dao Ancestor had created it by merging three thousand Great Worlds.
• Cui Yu described the Three Teachings, the major sects, and how cultivators who reached Mahāyāna could ascend to floating immortal islands in the Nine Heavens Realm.
• Jiang Yang recognized Gou Daoren as Constana’s master and asked Cui Yu about him.
• Cui Yu said Gou Daoren had been a rogue cultivator famed for survival and escape, became an Immortal Venerable, raised an island into the fifth heaven, and founded the Luofu Immortal Sect.
• Cui Yu added that Gou Daoren had two direct disciples, one of whom stayed to oversee the sect while the other became separated from him.

Jiang Yang received the Immortal Realm’s coordinates from Cui Yu but could not teleport there through the sea of fire law. In the Seventh Heaven, a Daoist recorded Jiang Yang’s aura in a Jade Register, where it rose above every other presence and reminded him of the great Dao Ancestor.

• Jiang Yang confirmed that Cui Yu had told the truth about Constana and praised Gou Daoren.
• Cui Yu gave Jiang Yang the Immortal Realm’s coordinates and explained that reaching it through a sea of laws was impossible for outsiders.
• Jiang Yang sensed the Immortal Realm’s constant sun, but the region vanished when he tried to teleport there, and he severed his connection against a surge of golden-white flames.
• A lean Daoist in the Immortal Realm sensed Jiang Yang’s distant contact and recorded his aura in the Jade Register.
• Jiang Yang’s golden aura rose to the top of the Jade Register, leading the Daoist to think of his master’s master, the great Dao Ancestor.

Jiang Yang failed to enter the Immortal Realm and decided to postpone visiting it, then arranged for Chen Yunfan and the Yunlan Martial Emperors to join the Divine Realm. He asked Cui Yu what civilization had existed during Earth’s First Era.

• Jiang Yang connected to the Immortal Realm through the law sea, was struck by a warning, and admitted to Cui Yu that he could not enter.
• Jiang Yang concluded that reaching the Immortal Realm would take a hundred thousand years and postponed his visit.
• A True King reported that Chen Yunfan had arrived with several hundred Martial Emperors from the Yunlan Realm, and Jiang Yang ordered the Yunlan Great World incorporated into the Divine Realm.
• Jiang Yang offered willing Yunlan Martial Emperors Sky Cities and the same terms as other True Kings, then appointed Chen Yunfan the Yunlan True King and the Divine Realm’s first Divine General for a hundred thousand years.
• Jiang Yang asked Cui Yu what civilization had existed during Earth’s First Era.

Cui Yu told Jiang Yang that the First Era remained a mystery, though the Dao Ancestor had suggested the entire Myriad Worlds of the Heavens might be its ruin. They discussed the coming final battle at the end of the Sixth Epoch and revealed that the Ghost Clan and Divine Clan had prepared celestial bodies as Space-Time Gates around the Solar System.

• Cui Yu recounted that the Ghost Clan and Dao Ancestor had searched for traces of the First Era but found little, and the Dao Ancestor had wondered whether the Myriad Worlds of the Heavens were its ruin.
• Cui Yu said the First Era might appear when Earth reached the Doomsday of the Sixth Epoch, and Jiang Yang questioned whether that would truly be humanity’s final battle.
• Cui Yu confirmed that the Ghost Clan would return to Earth’s space-time when Earth’s shackles were lifted and join the battle.
• Cui Yu revealed that Uranus was Fengdu, the former capital of the Ghost Clan Civilization, recreated by the Queen as a celestial body in its memory.
• Jiang Yang pointed out the outermost dark-yellow celestial body as the Divine Clan’s preparation, and Cui Yu praised the clan for taking the Solar System’s first line of defense.