Chapter Summaries

Chu Kuangren faced a thousand Heavenly Prides and broke their combined Myriad Spirits Heaven-Slaying Formation with a strand of Emperor Qi. He left the survivors defeated and terrified above Ancient Dao Lake.

• The Formation Daoist Seed activated the Myriad Spirits Heaven-Slaying Formation, combining the Spiritual Power of the Heavenly Prides into a beam aimed at Chu Kuangren.
• Chu Kuangren summoned his Heavenly Baleful Manifestation and used Heavenly Punishment Daoist Rhyme to fight back, but the Heavenly Prides strengthened their attack and began forcing him back.
• Shang Qingxue and the others wanted to help Chu Kuangren, but Lan Yu stopped them, insisting that her master was not in danger.
• Chu Kuangren unleashed Emperor Qi, empowering his manifestation to shatter the beam and destroy the formation disk.
• The formation's backlash killed or injured many Heavenly Prides, including Wang Quan and Bai Hongyu, while Chu Kuangren remained unharmed and declared that they could not withstand a single blow.

Chu Kuangren claimed the Primordial Dao Source and fought Qin Tianchen, the reincarnation of a Great Emperor, as their battle shattered Ancient Dao Lake. Qin Tianchen brought out the Heavenly God Fist Glove and infused it with Emperor Qi, escalating the fight.

• Chu Kuangren defeated the thousand Heavenly Prides at Ancient Dao Lake and moved to take the Primordial Dao Source.
• Qin Tianchen struck from a mountain peak, but Chu Kuangren countered his Great Luo Cold Palm and secured the Primordial Dao Source.
• Chu Kuangren and Qin Tianchen clashed again, and Chu Kuangren’s sword strike forced Qin Tianchen back after revealing that both had condensed Emperor Qi.
• Chu Kuangren merged his Three Great Daoist Bodies into a Heavenly Baleful Manifestation, shocking Qin Tianchen with its Heavenly Punishment Daoist Rhyme and Emperor Qi.
• Qin Tianchen used the Heavenly God Fist Glove to block the manifestation’s attack, then poured Emperor Qi into the Emperor Weapon.

Chu Kuangren defeated Qin Tianchen after revealing his self-created invincible law, overwhelming the reincarnated Great Emperor with its defensive and offensive moves. Qin Tianchen escaped the destruction of the Ancient Dao Lake by burning emperor qi and using a Great Teleportation Talisman.

• Qin Tianchen used the Heavenly God Fist Glove and Heavenly Journey Nine Fists to shatter Chu Kuangren's Heavenly Baleful Manifestation, but Chu Kuangren remained unharmed.
• Chu Kuangren struck Qin Tianchen with his bare fist, revealing the aura of profundity and sending him flying.
• Chu Kuangren used Invincible law, Heavenly Vortex to break down Qin Tianchen's Heavenly Journey Nine Fists and blast him away.
• Qin Tianchen's Nine Extremes Dragon World Collapse was erased by Chu Kuangren's Invincible law, Heaven and Earth Reversed, which also destroyed the Ancient Dao Lake.
• Qin Tianchen burned his emperor qi for a stronger attack, but Chu Kuangren's Heavenly Vortex deflected it as Qin Tianchen escaped with a Great Teleportation Talisman.

Chu Kuangren left the Barren Forbidden Land with its remaining treasures after forcing the surviving Heavenly Prides to surrender their resources. As major factions prepared to free their Emperor-Class fighters with Heavenly Pardon Orders, Chu Kuangren began refining his gains in seclusion and strengthened his Emperor Qi.

• Chu Kuangren made the remaining Heavenly Prides surrender their treasures or die, then had Murong Xuan and the others collect the spoils before leading them out of the Barren Forbidden Land.
• The Heavenly Prides who stayed behind found few opportunities left, while the Sword Clan mourned its dead Taboo Heavenly Prides and learned that Jian Yunyang had brought back a Heavenly Pardon Order.
• The Sword Clan Leader named Jian Yunyang its New Daoist Seed, unaware that Jian Changfeng had received the order from Chu Kuangren to gain the clan’s favor.
• The major Daoist Traditions fell silent as they considered releasing their Emperor-Class fighters with the Heavenly Pardon Orders they had found.
• Chu Kuangren entered seclusion in an unnamed mountain range and refined the Qingxuan Sword Emperor’s Body in two days, increasing his Emperor Qi from one strand to three.
• Chu Kuangren prepared to refine the Primordial Dao Source next.

After refining the Primordial Dao Source and other treasures, Chu Kuangren increased his Emperor Qi to seven strands and accompanied Lan Yu to the Light God Church. There, he met the Church Master, who found Chu Kuangren’s cultivation unfathomable.

• Chu Kuangren refined the Primordial Dao Source, strengthening his body and Invincible Law and raising his Emperor Qi from three strands to six.
• He refined more treasures to reach seven strands of Emperor Qi, then ended his seclusion.
• Lan Yu told Chu Kuangren that the Light God Church’s Church Master had summoned her, and Chu Kuangren decided to accompany her.
• The Light Church Master and Third Elder discussed preparations for an important matter and learned that Lan Yu had returned with Chu Kuangren.
• Chu Kuangren met the Light Church Master in the temple, and the Church Master could not sense any fluctuation of his cultivation.

Chu Kuangren visited the Light Church, where the Church Master welcomed him and revealed that an awakened Emperor-Class wished to meet him. The next morning, Chu Kuangren drew the Super God-Level Book of Physiques and discovered it could help him understand and improve physiques through his Soul Origin Point.

• Chu Kuangren introduced himself to the Light Church Master, who thanked him for visiting and explained that an awakened Emperor-Class wanted to meet him.
• At the banquet, Bai Tianxing acknowledged Chu Kuangren's overwhelming strength and suppressed his jealousy as Lan Yu attended to him.
• Chu Kuangren drew the Super God-Level Book of Physiques and realized it could reveal physiques beyond the Three Thousand Dao Bodies.
• The Book of Physiques led Chu Kuangren's consciousness to his Soul Origin Point, where he found three strands of gray qi representing his soul power.
• Chu Kuangren examined the Book of Physiques and learned that it could help him perfect his own physiques and deduce other people's physiques, though he could currently use only the first function.

Lan Yu went to the Light Church’s ancestral grounds to meet the awakened pope, while Chu Kuangren stayed in the city. The pope and Church Leader trapped Lan Yu and revealed their plan to transfer her Light Divine Flame and sacred light body to Bai Tianxing, but Bai Tianxing’s attempt to absorb them took an unexpected turn.

• Chu Kuangren’s Book of Physiques reacted to Lan Yu, letting him glimpse the mysteries of her unusual physique.
• Lan Yu entered the Light Church’s ancestral grounds, where the white-haired pope offered to help her advance her Light Divine Fire Art.
• The pope trapped Lan Yu in Light Lock and summoned Bai Tianxing to a second altar.
• The pope and Church Leader revealed that they intended to transfer Lan Yu’s divine flame and sacred light body origin to Bai Tianxing.
• Lan Yu rejected Bai Tianxing’s offer and condemned the scheme, and Bai Tianxing began absorbing her flame before his expression suddenly changed.

Lan Yu reversed the Passing of the Flame and drained Bai Tianxing’s divine fire, while Chu Kuangren’s clone revealed that he had completed the Light Divine Fire Art and defended her from the Light Church. After Chu Kuangren’s clone vanished, his true self broke into the Light Ancestral Grounds and confronted the awakened Emperor-Class cultivators.

• Lan Yu reversed the Passing of the Flame and drew Bai Tianxing’s divine fire into herself, reaching the ninth layer of the Light Divine Fire Art.
• The White-Haired Pope attacked Lan Yu, but Chu Kuangren’s sword-qi clone emerged and drove back the White-Haired Pope and the Light Church Master.
• Chu Kuangren explained that he had completed the Light Divine Fire Art, then repelled the Light Church Master with a single sword strike.
• The White-Haired Pope fought Chu Kuangren’s clone, while Lan Yu absorbed the rest of Bai Tianxing’s divine fire and crippled him.
• Lan Yu matched the Light Church Master in strength and told him his scheme had only empowered her.
• Chu Kuangren’s clone vanished as his true self shattered the barrier, entered the Light Ancestral Grounds, and challenged its Emperor-Class cultivators.

Chu Kuangren entered the Light Ancestral Grounds to rescue Lan Yu and fought the Light God Church’s Emperors, overwhelming them despite their numbers. As the battle left the Emperors shaken, the Light Grand Pope awakened and appeared before him.

• Chu Kuangren traced the sword qi he had placed on Lan Yu and found her unharmed in the Light Ancestral Grounds.
• Chu Kuangren killed the Light Church Leader with one sword strike after the Leader threatened him.
• Chu Kuangren used Heavenly Vortex to swallow and return the Emperors’ divine flame attacks, burning several of them.
• Chu Kuangren manifested the power of his three supreme dao bodies and emperor qi, then killed an Emperor with a single punch.
• Chu Kuangren withstood the Emperors’ strongest attacks while Lan Yu guarded behind him.
• The Light Grand Pope awakened from his slumber and emerged from a pillar of white light.

Chu Kuangren fought the Light God Church’s Emperor-Class cultivators while the Light Grand Pope battled the Darkness Great Pope, whom Chu had summoned for support. Using the Emperor Weapon Spring Thunder and the Gods and Devils Eight Tones, Chu slaughtered his opponents as the remaining cultivators trembled in fear.

• The Light Grand Pope awakened and confronted Chu Kuangren, who judged the pope to be among the strongest cultivators on the Emperor Road.
• The Darkness Great Pope entered the Light Ancestral Grounds after breaking through its barrier, and the Light Grand Pope attacked him.
• Chu Kuangren killed the white-haired pope with Heaven and Earth Reversed, then struck another Emperor-Class cultivator with Spring Thunder.
• Chu Kuangren played the Gods and Devils Eight Tones, killing several Emperor-Class cultivators with Yellow Bell and Great Lü and Raging Waves Pound the Shore.
• Chu Kuangren stood with Lan Yu as the surviving Emperor-Class cultivators feared his attack.

Chu Kuangren slaughtered the Light God Church’s Emperor-Class cultivators in the Light Ancestral Land and defeated an apparition of the God of Light. The Light Supreme Pontiff began sacrificing the ancestral land to gain power, forcing the Darkness Supreme Pontiff to recognize the threat.

• The Light God Church’s Emperor-Class cultivators called on the God of Light and tried to hold Chu Kuangren back while one of them went to perform a god-summoning ritual.
• The ritualist burned his body to summon the God of Light, whose apparition attacked Chu Kuangren but was weakened when Chu destroyed the summoning medium.
• Chu Kuangren resumed his assault and slaughtered nearly every Emperor-Class cultivator in the Light Ancestral Land.
• The Light Supreme Pontiff, enraged by Chu Kuangren’s slaughter, absorbed the ancestral land’s power and began sacrificing it to fight on.
• The Darkness Supreme Pontiff warned that the Light Supreme Pontiff intended to fight them to the death.

Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu escaped the collapsing Light Ancestral Grounds after he seized its foundations and killed nearly all of the Light God Church’s Emperor-Class cultivators. The Darkness Great Pope also escaped, and news of the battle spread, leaving the factions on the Emperor Road alarmed by Chu Kuangren’s growing power.

• Chu Kuangren grabbed the Ancestral Grounds Foundations as the Light Grand Pope attacked, then took Lan Yu and escaped using the Space Transport Technique.
• The Darkness Great Pope used a black skull to break through the Light Grand Pope’s attack and flee the collapsing Secret Realm.
• Chu Kuangren crushed the jade slip that had let the Darkness Great Pope track him, and the two agreed the Darkness God Church would have nothing more to do with him.
• The Darkness Great Pope left, and Chu Kuangren went to recover from the battle.
• The factions learned that Chu Kuangren and the Darkness Great Pope had killed nearly every Emperor-Class cultivator in the Light Ancestral Grounds and feared no one could match Chu Kuangren.

The Fengyun Sword Emperor emerged from the Sword Clan’s ancestral grounds and vowed to hunt Chu Kuangren after learning that Chu had killed the Sword Daoist. Meanwhile, Li Celong sought the sealed Poison Emperor’s help to deal with someone, offering to free him in exchange.

• The Fengyun Sword Emperor emerged after refining the Heavenly Pardon Order and learned that Chu Kuangren had killed the Sword Clan’s Taboo, the Sword Daoist.
• The Fengyun Sword Emperor ordered the Sword Clan to find Chu Kuangren so he could settle their grudge.
• Li Celong entered the sealed forest with a wooden box, determined to find someone powerful enough to help him kill Chu Kuangren.
• Li Celong met the Poison Emperor, who had been imprisoned for more than ten thousand years and whose poisonous aura withered nearby plants.
• Li Celong offered to release the Poison Emperor if he agreed to deal with someone, and the Poison Emperor agreed to swear an oath to the Heavenly Dao.

Li Celong freed the Poison Emperor and sent him after Chu Kuangren, while Fengyun Sword Emperor and the Light Grand Pope agreed to join forces against Chu. As Emperor Mountain’s fluctuations intensified, Chu Kuangren reached nine strands of Emperor Qi and drew the Nine Dragons Divine Transformation Rune.

• Li Celong removed the Poison Emperor’s Wooden Dragon Needle, freed him, and gave him a Heavenly Pardon Order before naming Chu Kuangren as his target.
• Fengyun Sword Emperor met the injured Light Grand Pope and learned that Chu Kuangren might be stronger than him.
• Fengyun Sword Emperor persuaded the Light Grand Pope to cooperate with other forces against Chu Kuangren before he became an Emperor.
• Chu Kuangren refined three Light Crystals and formed his ninth strand of Emperor Qi.
• Chu Kuangren drew the Nine Dragons Divine Transformation Rune, which could absorb natural power and turn it into Dragon Qi to increase his strength.

Chu Kuangren used the Book of Physiques to comprehend Lan Yu’s Sacred Light Body, then combined the powers of four Dao Bodies into his new Myriad Daoist Law Manifestation. When Emperor-Class cultivators from several major forces threatened the Seven Emotions Sect to draw him out, Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu set off to confront them.

• Chu Kuangren studied Lan Yu’s Sacred Light Body with the Book of Physiques and gained the Power of Light.
• Chu Kuangren combined four Dao Bodies’ powers into a manifestation he named the Myriad Daoist Law Manifestation.
• Cultivators learned that Emperor-Class experts from the Sword Clan, the Devil Race, and other forces had gone to the Seven Emotions Sect to demand Chu Kuangren’s surrender.
• Chu Kuangren realized the forces were targeting the Seven Emotions Sect to force him to appear.
• Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu packed up and left the cultivation tower for the Seven Emotions Sect.

The Seven Emotions Sect faced a threat from a gathering of Emperors who demanded that Chu Kuangren appear. As the sect debated whether to protect or surrender him, the Poison Emperor arrived and joined the hunt.

• Chi Yue told Fairy Lengyue that Emperor Xiao Fu had arrived, and Leng Yue explained that the Emperors wanted Chu Kuangren dead to clear the way for their juniors.
• The Fengyun Sword Emperor gave Emperor Ying two days for Chu Kuangren to appear before the Emperors attacked the Seven Emotions Sect.
• Emperor Ying asked Leng Yue whether Chu Kuangren had been found and said she would hand him over rather than risk the sect.
• Emperor Ying and the others mistook someone approaching the sect for Chu Kuangren, but recognized the newcomer as the Poison Emperor.
• The Poison Emperor said he had come to kill Chu Kuangren, and the Fengyun Sword Emperor welcomed him.

Fifteen powerful Emperors gathered at the Seven Emotions Sect to force Chu Kuangren to appear, threatening to kill Saintess Leng Ningyu. As the Fengyun Sword Emperor's strike descended on Leng Ningyu, a single hand caught the sword shadow.

• The Fengyun Sword Emperor announced that Leng Ningyu would be killed if Chu Kuangren did not come by noon, drawing crowds and rumors to the Seven Emotions Sect.
• With her cultivation sealed and trapped before the sect's main hall, Leng Ningyu refused Li Celong's offer to deny her connection to Chu Kuangren.
• Li Celong vowed revenge on the Seven Emotions Sect, while Emperor Ying remained unable to intervene against the gathered Emperors.
• Chi Yue and several disciples tried to rescue Leng Ningyu, but the Poison Emperor blasted them away and poisoned them with his mist.
• The Fengyun Sword Emperor sent a sword shadow toward Leng Ningyu, but an unseen hand caught it.

Chu Kuangren arrived at the Seven Emotions Sect, rescued Leng Ningyu and the others, and challenged the assembled Emperors. The chapter ended with him effortlessly maiming the first Emperor to attack.

• Chu Kuangren caught and shattered Fengyun Sword Emperor's Sword Shadow before it could kill Leng Ningyu.
• Chu Kuangren expelled Poison Emperor's poison from Chi Yue and the others, broke Leng Ningyu's seal, and tore apart the force field.
• Chu Kuangren wounded Poison Emperor and severely injured Li Celong with a single strand of Sword Qi, then declared he would slaughter everyone present.
• The Emperors debated how to attack Chu Kuangren, while the Light Grand Pope and Darkness Great Pope urged them to join forces.
• An Emperor of the Yin-Yang Divine Sect attacked Chu Kuangren, who shattered his Yin-Yang Power and blew his arm apart with one punch.

Chu Kuangren fought the Emperor-Class cultivators gathered outside the Seven Emotions Sect, overwhelming their strongest attacks with his Myriad Daoist Law Manifestation and nine strands of emperor qi. He continued to repel his attackers, leaving the battle unresolved as they struggled to kill him.

• Chu Kuangren blasted apart an Emperor-Class cultivator’s arm with one punch, then overpowered the Fengyun Sword Emperor in a sword clash and sent him crashing into a palace wall.
• The Darkness Great Pope, the Light Grand Pope, and the other Emperor-Class cultivators attacked Chu Kuangren together, but his Myriad Daoist Law Manifestation shattered their combined assault and sent more than a dozen of them flying.
• The two popes unleashed stronger torrents of light and darkness, but Chu Kuangren revealed nine strands of emperor qi and blasted both attacks apart, wounding and hurling them backward.
• The Qin Family’s Emperor-Class cultivator attacked with the Great Luo Cold Palm, but Chu Kuangren shattered it with the Four Symbols Primordial Spirit Sword and sent him vomiting blood.
• Emperor Xiao Fu’s runes were destroyed by Chu Kuangren’s Extinguishing Talisman, and the Devil Race’s evil ghosts vanished beneath the Tathagata Rebirth Mantra.

At the Seven Emotions Sect, Chu Kuangren fought more than a dozen Emperors and shrugged off Poison Emperor’s deadly poison. As the Emperors unleashed their Emperor Weapons against his Spring Thunder Zither, their clash devastated the surrounding land, leaving the battle raging at full force.

• Emperor Ying and the others watched in disbelief as Chu Kuangren fought the Emperors without being subdued.
• Poison Emperor poisoned Chu Kuangren with his Poison Plague Evil Body, but Chu Kuangren resisted the toxins and shattered another Emperor with a punch.
• Chu Kuangren summoned the Spring Thunder Zither and played the Gods and Devils Eight Tones as his opponents revealed their Emperor Weapons.
• Darkness Great Pope, Light Grand Pope, Fengyun Sword Emperor, and the other Emperors attacked together, while Chu Kuangren urged them to use their full strength.
• The Emperor Weapons collided with Chu Kuangren’s zither music, shaking the surrounding land, and Emperor Ying activated the Seven Emotions Sect’s Mountain-Guarding Formation.