Chapter Summaries

The Primordial Immortal forces launched a surprise assault on the Firmament Empire, and its defenders fought back as reinforcements remained scattered. As Wuhan tried to strike the Emperor Palace from the depths of the universe, Ming He blocked him, while Weapon Calamity arrived to confront Luohou.

• Eastern King Duke, the Golden Crow Ancestor, the Six Imperial Sovereigns, and Papiyas led an attack on the Emperor Palace, and Lan Yu, Chu Hong, and Yin Honghua fought to defend it.
• Shi Ying purified the invading Desire Realm Heaven Demons, while the Desire Flower joined her against Papiyas.
• Wuhan aimed a Primordial Chaos attack at the Emperor Palace, but Ming He blocked it with Yuantu and Abi from within the Sea of Blood.
• Luohou descended at the Emperor Palace and demanded that the Firmament Empire submit to him.
• Weapon Calamity arrived on an ancient star and faced Luohou, their battle auras clashing.

Weapon Calamity and Luohou fought while Luohou’s allies threatened the Emperor Palace, but Gu Linglong used her many treasures to repel Mosquito Daoist. The battle remained precarious as the Empire’s reinforcements had not yet arrived.

• Weapon Calamity and Luohou clashed with their respective Dao Laws and weapons, while Luohou revealed a newly forged God-Slaying Spear.
• Ye Zhu arrived to help Lan Yu fight the Six Imperial Sovereigns, but the attackers escalated their assault and put the defenders in greater danger.
• Wa Huang sent her red embroidered ball to strike the Ancestor of the Golden Crow, but the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree blocked it and a voice from the Far Western Land asked her to quell her anger.
• Luohou summoned Mosquito Daoist, whose swarm drained the blood of Empire cultivators across the battlefield.
• Gu Linglong fought Mosquito Daoist with her many treasures, blocking his attack with the Eastern Emperor Bell and knocking him away with the Kongtong Seal.

As Mosquito Daoist overwhelmed Gu Linglong during the battle in the Emperor Palace, Chu Kuangren’s hidden contingency activated and his consciousness took over her body. Chu Kuangren killed Mosquito Daoist with one palm, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Gu Linglong used the Ten Divine Artifacts to trap Mosquito Daoist, but Haotian Supreme Sovereign wrested control of the Haotian Tower and shattered her formation.
• Mosquito Daoist absorbed the blood of nearby cultivators and attacked Gu Linglong, driving her and Elder Ruyan into dire straits.
• Three Purities and other ancient beings sensed that Chu Kuangren had left contingencies to protect the Empire.
• Chu Kuangren’s Immortal Consciousness took over Gu Linglong’s body and destroyed Mosquito Daoist’s sword strike with a surge of power.
• Chu Kuangren struck Mosquito Daoist with a giant palm, obliterating his Dao and killing him.

Chu Kuangren, acting through Gu Linglong with a strand of Immortal Consciousness and attached power, overwhelmed the Immortal Court’s forces. He broke the Great Zhou Heaven Star Grand Array, leaving the Six Imperial Sovereigns exposed.

• Chu Kuangren killed Mosquito Daoist with a single palm strike.
• Chu Kuangren defeated the Eastern King Duke, cleaving both him and his Fusang Divine Tree in two.
• Chu Kuangren severed the Ancestor of the Golden Crow’s Golden Crow Third Leg and then killed him.
• The Six Imperial Sovereigns of the Immortal Court formed the Great Zhou Heaven Star Grand Array and joined with the Immortal Court armies to attack Chu Kuangren.
• Chu Kuangren wielded Imperial Dao Dragon Qi and Immortal King Authority, then shattered the Great Zhou Heaven Star Grand Array with Creation God Shakes the Universe.

Chu Kuangren defeated the Immortal Court’s star formation and fought off Papiyas and Luohou, though they escaped through the Hollow Willow Branch. He then declared across the Immortal Realm that the Immortal Ancient beings must submit to his rule or face extermination.

• Chu Kuangren shattered the Heavenly Stars formation, killed Haotian Supreme Sovereign, and drove back the Immortal Court’s remaining sovereigns.
• Luohou and Papiyas attacked Chu Kuangren with Primordial Chaos-level strikes, but his green lotus power repelled them both.
• Luohou and the others fled toward the Hollow Willow Branch; Chu Kuangren used Heaven’s Prison to trap their allies, while Ziwei Supreme Sovereign escaped and the rest were attacked.
• Luohou, Papiyas, and their companions broke free and escaped through the Hollow Willow Branch, while Chu Kuangren ordered the remaining hostile cultivators killed.
• Chu Kuangren’s Immortal Consciousness spread across the Immortal Realm and declared that this was his era, demanding that Immortal Ancient beings submit or be erased.

Chu Kuangren returned to the Immortal Realm and began settling accounts with the forces that had opposed the Empire. After destroying the Fusang Divine Nation, the Immortal Court, and Golden Crow Sky Mountain, he turned his attention to the remaining enemies, including the Luo Hou Demon Nation, Papiyas's Desire Realm Heaven, the Sea of Blood, and Western Buddhism.

• Chu Kuangren returned to the Immortal Realm in his true form and decided to settle his accounts with its enemies.
• Chu Kuangren destroyed the Fusang Divine Nation with a single finger strike.
• Chu Kuangren struck the Immortal Court with his palm, killing Ziwei Supreme Sovereign and reducing the court to dust.
• Chu Kuangren cleaved Golden Crow Sky Mountain in two, and countless Golden Crows fell.
• Chu Kuangren named the Luo Hou Demon Nation and Papiyas's Desire Realm Heaven as remaining targets, then remembered the Sea of Blood and Western Buddhism, making Ancestor Styx, Zhunti, and Jieyin shudder.

Chu Kuangren confronted Luohou in the Demon Nation, then traveled to the Netherworld Sea of Blood to face Ming He. As Chu Kuangren burned the Sea of Blood with Torch Dragon Fire, Ming He began dying repeatedly, and the destruction of his source of immortality continued.

• Luohou ordered the Demon Nation dissolved and its people evacuated, but Chu Kuangren shattered his Devil Ancestor Dharma Form with a sweep of his sleeve.
• Weapon Calamity arrived to resume his unfinished battle with Luohou, and Chu Kuangren left them to fight.
• Chu Kuangren reached the Netherworld Sea of Blood, where the Four Great Asura Kings, the Four Great Demon Generals, and the Shiva Goddess knelt to welcome him.
• Ming He emerged and challenged Chu Kuangren, but Chu Kuangren destroyed him with a surge of Dao Laws, and Ming He re-formed from the Sea of Blood.
• Ming He claimed he could not be killed while the Sea of Blood endured, so Chu Kuangren cast Torch Dragon Fire across it and began burning the Sea of Blood and its Blood God Sons.

Chu Kuangren defeated Ancestor Styx, who revealed that the Yin Son of Heaven planned to kill the Other Shore Flower and seize control of the Underworld. Chu Kuangren spared Ancestor Styx from death but captured his soul to face punishment in the Eighteen Levels of Hell.

• Chu Kuangren trapped Ancestor Styx inside the Sea of Blood and rejected his surrender over his crimes against Underworld souls.
• Ancestor Styx offered information about the Underworld in exchange for his life, and Chu Kuangren swore a Great Dao Oath not to kill him if he disclosed the coming upheaval.
• Ancestor Styx revealed that the Yin Son of Heaven intended to kill the Other Shore Flower and take control of the Underworld.
• Chu Kuangren refused to release Ancestor Styx, explaining that he had promised not to kill him, not to let him go.
• Chu Kuangren destroyed the Sea of Blood, beat Ancestor Styx's soul nearly to death, and threw him into Heaven and Earth in the Sleeve.

Chu Kuangren defeated Ancestor Styx and returned to the Firmament Empire after discovering that several Immortal Ancient powerhouses had fled or vanished. He challenged Weapon Calamity to stop copying his path and began considering how the Time-Space Treasure Mirror affected the passage of time.

• Chu Kuangren defeated Ancestor Styx, left the Sea of Blood under the Asura King's control, and found that Papiyas and two powerful auras in the west had disappeared.
• Chu Kuangren arrived in the ruined Demon Nation, where Weapon Calamity told him that Devil Ancestor Luohou had escaped.
• Chu Kuangren questioned Weapon Calamity's cultivation and warned him that imitating Chu Kuangren's path would keep him from finding his own Dao.
• Chu Kuangren returned to the Firmament Empire after twenty thousand years had passed and guessed that time flowed differently between universes or that the Time-Space Treasure Mirror sent him to a random point in time.
• Chu Kuangren searched for Luohou, Zhunti, Jieyin, and Papiyas but could not find them, then considered visiting other Immortal Ancient beings and investigating a hollow willow branch's Spatial Dao.

Hua Wuai recalled how Chu Kuangren had freed her from reincarnation and entrusted her with the Underworld, which she had guarded for twenty thousand years. When the Yin Son of Heaven demanded its authority, she refused, and their former friendship gave way to a fight.

• Hua Wuai remembered that Chu Kuangren had freed her from the reincarnation vortex and left her in charge of the Underworld.
• Hua Wuai recalled that the Yin Son of Heaven and other ancient Underworld rulers had tried to reclaim authority, but she had refused to hand it over.
• The Yin Son of Heaven arrived with the Fengdu Ghost Emperor, the Ten Halls of Yama, and others, and threatened to kill Hua Wuai if she would not surrender the Underworld.
• Hua Wuai and the Yin Son of Heaven clashed, and she told him their long friendship had never truly reached the heart.
• The Yin Son of Heaven unleashed his full reincarnation power, determined to kill Hua Wuai and take the authority.

The Yin Son of Heaven and Hua Wuai fought over control of the Underworld as he used the Three Lives Stele to restore the reincarnation vortex and drain her authority. Just as Hua Wuai was about to be swallowed, a colossal face appeared in the sky and demanded that the Yin Son of Heaven admit his guilt.

• The High Priest ordered everyone to evacuate as Hua Wuai and the Yin Son of Heaven clashed over the Three Lives River.
• Hua Wuai attacked with Other Shore Flowers, and the Yin Son of Heaven countered with his Reincarnation Immortal Physique’s Six Paths Reincarnation Great World.
• The Kings of Hell and Ghost Emperors used the Three Lives Stele to recreate the reincarnation vortex above the Three Lives River.
• The Yin Son of Heaven revealed that he had stolen the stele and used the vortex to restrain Hua Wuai while extracting her Underworld authority.
• As Hua Wuai was pulled toward the vortex, a huge face formed above the Underworld and asked the Yin Son of Heaven if he admitted his guilt.

Chu Kuangren returned to the Underworld and confronted the Yin Son of Heaven, who claimed that the Underworld Authority made him invincible. Chu Kuangren effortlessly broke the Yin Son of Heaven’s attacks, leaving him stunned after destroying all eighteen Reincarnation Halls with one slash.

• Chu Kuangren’s return restored Hua Wuai’s soul, and he demanded that the Yin Son of Heaven admit his guilt.
• The Yin Son of Heaven used the Underworld Authority to break Chu Kuangren’s chains and gather Yin Qi, but Chu Kuangren blocked his efforts and bound him again.
• The Yin Son of Heaven broke free with the Six Paths Reincarnation Great World, and Chu Kuangren descended as the departed souls and Netherworld forces welcomed him as Ghost Emperor.
• The Yin Son of Heaven attacked with the Six Paths Reincarnation Great World, but Chu Kuangren destroyed it with a single finger and dismissed him as too weak.
• The Yin Son of Heaven summoned the Eighteen Reincarnation Halls, and Chu Kuangren cleaved all eighteen apart with one slash.

Chu Kuangren defeated Yin Son of Heaven and ended his rebellion in the Underworld, then tried to give Hua Wuai the Underworld's authority. Hua Wuai refused and told him to manage the Underworld himself.

• Chu Kuangren repelled Yin Son of Heaven's Three Lives Stele and overwhelmed him with the Six Paths Reincarnation Great World.
• Chu Kuangren stripped Yin Son of Heaven of the Underworld's authority, bound him, and scattered his soul.
• Chu Kuangren crushed the Ghost Emperors and Kings of Hell who had served Yin Son of Heaven.
• Hua Wuai kept the Three Lives Stele, saying it was only an artifact and had done nothing wrong.
• Chu Kuangren offered Hua Wuai the Underworld's authority, but she refused and accused him of trying to slack off.

Chu Kuangren handed the Underworld Authority to the High Priest, then visited Hua Wuai and asked about a mysterious willow branch with spatial power. Years later, he visited Nuwa to discuss the Dao and revealed that he sought to command the Three Thousand Daos.

• Chu Kuangren gave the Underworld Authority to the High Priest and ordered him to send Ancestor Styx to the Eighteen Levels of Hell for eternal punishment.
• Chu Kuangren visited Hua Wuai at the Other Shore Flower Sea and told her about his travels through other universes.
• Chu Kuangren asked Hua Wuai about a willow branch that wielded powerful spatial energy, but she did not know its origins.
• Several years later, Chu Kuangren took Gu Linglong and Lan Yu to Wa Huang Palace to visit Nuwa.
• Chu Kuangren and Nuwa discussed the Dao, and he said he had not broken through because he sought to command the Three Thousand Daos.

Chu Kuangren visited the Immortal Ancient powers to discuss the Dao and learn about the Hollow Willow Branch, discovering that its owner was Immortal Yangmei. At Penglai, he tested himself against Tongtian Jiaozhu and shattered the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation.

• Nuwa told Chu Kuangren that she and the Three Purities were waiting for an opportunity to break the Great Dao's restrictions and reach Primordial Chaos.
• Chu Kuangren visited the Queen Mother of the West in Kunlun, where he met Yuzhi, now her disciple, and learned that the Queen Mother had mastered many Daos to their ultimate realms.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerable identified the Hollow Willow Branch's owner as Immortal Yangmei, an ancient Hollow Willow Demon God who had survived Pangu's creation of heaven.
• Chu Kuangren traveled to Penglai and discussed the Dao with Tongtian Jiaozhu, who then challenged him to fight.
• Tongtian Jiaozhu deployed the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, but Chu Kuangren shattered it with a single slash of Zhu Xian Sword Qi.

Chu Kuangren visited Li Jun, the reincarnated Taiqing Daode Heavenly Venerable, and discussed the fundamental Dao with him for eighty-one days before continuing his visits across the Immortal Realm. At Vulture Peak, he asked about Zhunti and Jieyin, then picked every lotus from Buddhism’s Merit Pond, leaving ten thousand Buddhas silent.

• Chu Kuangren found Li Jun working as a librarian at the Hundred Schools Academy and began discussing the fundamental Dao with him.
• Chu Kuangren and Li Jun discussed the Dao for eighty-one days, benefiting the Academy’s students and impressing Lü Zi.
• Chu Kuangren gave Lü Zi a Heaven and Earth Ring filled with books, delighting Li Jun with its vast collection.
• Chu Kuangren visited powerful beings across the Immortal Realm and asked Tathagata where Zhunti and Jieyin had gone.
• Guanyin said Zhunti and Jieyin had left to wander, while Chu Kuangren picked every lotus from Vulture Peak’s Merit Pond without opposition.

Chu Kuangren tracked Great Immortal Yangmei to Yingzhou Island and confronted him over his aid to Luohou. Their battle left Chu Kuangren adapting Yangmei’s spatial techniques into his swordsmanship and driving him back.

• Chu Kuangren sent Lan Yu and Gu Linglong back to the Empire, then traveled east across the sea in search of Yangmei.
• A tornado threatened the ship, but white immortal mist swept in and calmed the storm; Chu Kuangren recognized that Yangmei was likely inside it and entered alone.
• Chu Kuangren found Yingzhou, one of the three overseas islands, and called out to Yangmei, who appeared and greeted him.
• Chu Kuangren asked whether Yangmei had helped Luohou and attacked when Yangmei confirmed he had been pressured into doing so.
• Chu Kuangren and Yangmei exchanged dozens of blows, and Chu Kuangren began incorporating spatial techniques into his swordsmanship, forcing Yangmei back hundreds of meters.

Chu Kuangren defeated Yangmei, who offered his Spatial Dao insights and Pangu’s Heart to settle their conflict over Luohou. When the Great Dao sent a tribulation cloud after the heart, Chu Kuangren met it with the power of his Personal Universe and asked the Great Dao for a favor.

• Chu Kuangren forced Yangmei onto the defensive, and Yangmei conceded and offered compensation for helping Luohou.
• Yangmei offered to share his insights into the Spatial Dao, then revealed Pangu’s Heart, which provoked the Great Dao.
• Chu Kuangren took Pangu’s Heart and accepted it as settlement for Yangmei’s help to Luohou.
• Chu Kuangren rose to face the Great Dao’s tribulation cloud and unleashed the power of his Personal Universe, matching its force.
• Chu Kuangren rested his hand on the Kunwu Sword and asked the Great Dao to do him a favor.

Chu Kuangren forced the Great Dao to withdraw, then improved his Spatial Dao through discussions with Yangmei before entering seclusion to refine Pangu’s Heart. Meanwhile, Weapon Calamity rejected the path of ruling the Three Thousand Daos, comprehended his own Dao beyond the ultimate, and faced a Primordial Chaos tribulation.

• Chu Kuangren made the Great Dao withdraw its tribulation clouds, then returned to Yingzhou Island and discussed the Spatial Dao with Yangmei.
• After several dozen days, Chu Kuangren reached the ultimate level in the Spatial Dao, returned to the Empire, and entered seclusion to refine Pangu’s Heart.
• Weapon Calamity reflected on his identity and chose to follow his own path instead of imitating Chu Kuangren or ruling the Three Thousand Daos.
• Weapon Calamity abandoned the dozens of Daos he had fused, absorbed their Dao Law energy into his weapon calamity Dao, and raised it beyond the ultimate level.
• The Primordial Immortals sensed Weapon Calamity’s unprecedented single Dao, and the Great Dao summoned a Primordial Chaos tribulation over him.

Weapon Calamity challenged the Primordial Chaos Tribulation after reaching Primordial Chaos through his own single-Dao cultivation path, and shattered it with his strongest attack. As the tribulation seemed to end, Chu Kuangren descended from a dark vortex, his overwhelming presence shaking the universe.

• Weapon Calamity faced the Primordial Chaos Tribulation and countered its first lightning strikes with his Weapon Calamity Eight Desolations Art.
• Weapon Calamity attacked the Great Dao barrier with Ten Thousand Blades Slash, breaking through it before a lightning dragon blasted him into the stars.
• Weapon Calamity emerged from the wreckage and shattered the tribulation clouds with Heaven-Destroying Slash.
• A dark vortex appeared after the tribulation broke, and Chu Kuangren descended from it amid overwhelming immortal radiance.