Chapter Summaries

Chu Kuangren fought off more than a dozen Emperor-Class cultivators, killing six and overwhelming the survivors with his music, swordsmanship, and supernatural abilities. Emperor Xiao Fu then trapped him in a five-kilometer God-Trapping Domain that suppressed his powers, and Chu Kuangren's Extinguishing Talisman failed to break it.

• Chu Kuangren used the final pieces of the Gods and Devils Eight Tones to injure and scatter the Emperor-Class cultivators, then killed six of them with Kunwu.
• The remaining cultivators attacked Chu Kuangren, but he injured the Bull-Demon cultivator, deflected their assaults, and sent the Devil Race's cultivator crashing into a mountain range.
• Emperor Xiao Fu activated the God-Trapping Domain, spreading a vast rune that suppressed Chu Kuangren's spiritual power, emperor qi, and Dao.
• Chu Kuangren tried to break the rune with his Extinguishing Talisman, but Emperor Xiao Fu declared the domain would suppress him and demanded his death.

Suppressed by Emperor Xiao Fu’s God-Trapping Domain Talisman, Chu Kuangren faced attacks from the Emperor-Class cultivators and the manifested Gods of Light and Darkness. Just as they prepared to finish him, Chu Kuangren’s Dao reached the ultimate level, and he revealed that their assault had tempered it.

• Emperor Xiao Fu activated the God-Trapping Domain Talisman, and Fengyun Sword Emperor and the others attacked the suppressed Chu Kuangren.
• The Light Grand Pope and the Darkness Great Pope sacrificed their lifespans to summon the Gods of Light and Darkness, whose consciousness avatars joined forces against Chu Kuangren.
• The two gods and the Emperor-Class cultivators drove Chu Kuangren back, leaving him injured and seemingly cornered.
• Chu Kuangren roared that the gods could not decide his fate as his Dao advanced to the ultimate level.
• Chu Kuangren laughed and told the Emperor-Class cultivators that their relentless attacks had helped him temper his Dao.

Chu Kuangren broke free of Emperor Xiao Fu’s talisman after perfecting his Way of Invincibility and gaining nine strands of Dragon Qi, then overwhelmed the deities and their followers. He trapped the fleeing Emperor-Class cultivators and turned the battle into a slaughter.

• Chu Kuangren reached the pinnacle of his Way of Invincibility and summoned the Nine Dragons Divine Transformation rune, whose dragons gave him nine strands of Dragon Qi.
• The God-Trapping Domain Talisman collapsed, and Emperor Xiao Fu suffered backlash as Chu Kuangren regained his freedom.
• Chu Kuangren’s Myriad Daoist Law Manifestation used Heavenly Punishment Daoist Rhyme to destroy the God of Light and the God of Darkness.
• Chu Kuangren crushed the Darkness Great Pope and killed the Light Grand Pope, while the Fengyun Sword Emperor and the Wang Family’s Emperor-Class cultivators tried to flee.
• Chu Kuangren sealed the escape routes with runes and attacked the trapped Emperor-Class cultivators, leaving spectators to call him invincible.

After killing the Poison Emperor and defeating the attackers, Chu Kuangren stayed at the Seven Emotions Sect to consolidate his Dao and study proving the Dao through power. He learned that the path was considered nearly impossible in the current transitional era, but resolved to pursue it anyway.

• Chu Kuangren killed the Poison Emperor, collected the fallen Emperors’ possessions, and left Li Celong to the Seven Emotions Sect disciples, who beat him to death.
• Emperor Ying thanked Chu Kuangren for saving the Seven Emotions Sect, and he stayed there to consolidate his newly advanced Dao and study the Poison Emperor’s dao body.
• News spread that Chu Kuangren had slain more than a dozen supreme Emperors, establishing him as a figure few on the Emperor Road dared challenge.
• Chu Kuangren mastered the Poison Emperor’s poison plague evil body and considered studying the supreme dao bodies of his companions.
• The Seven Emotions Sect opened its Library Pavilion to Chu Kuangren, where he learned that proving the Dao through power was nearly impossible in the current era.
• Chu Kuangren dismissed the warning and declared that challenging the impossible was what he loved most.

Chu Kuangren decided to gather resources from the forces that had offended him, while Lan Yu entered seclusion to strengthen herself. He arrived at the Sword Clan and demanded an apology, with the clan’s defensive formation raised against him.

• Chu Kuangren decided to target the Sword Clan, Devil Race, Bai Family, and Wang Family for resources and to settle their accounts.
• Chu Kuangren gave Lan Yu treasures and Dao insights from the Light Grand Pope, then told her to cultivate in seclusion.
• The Sword Clan Leader lamented the clan’s losses and hoped its Emperors would take revenge on Chu Kuangren after he became an Emperor.
• Chu Kuangren approached the Sword Clan, causing the clan’s swords to tremble and its people to recognize him.
• The Sword Clan activated its defensive formation, and Chu Kuangren stopped before it and demanded that the Sword Clan Leader apologize to him.

Chu Kuangren forced the Sword Clan Leader to surrender the Sword Clan’s Ancestral Grounds Foundation after destroying the clan’s defensive formation and threatening to wipe out the clan. He entered the ancestral grounds, killed an Emperor-Class cultivator who attacked him, and headed deeper inside to claim the foundation.

• Chu Kuangren demanded an apology from the Sword Clan Leader and shattered the Sword Clan’s defensive formation with Kunwu.
• Chu Kuangren held his sword to the Sword Clan Leader’s neck and demanded the Ancestral Grounds Foundation as compensation.
• The Sword Clan Leader yielded and led Chu Kuangren to the ancestral grounds, but Chu Kuangren cleaved open the secret realm himself.
• Chu Kuangren entered the ancestral grounds and killed an Emperor-Class cultivator who tried to stop him.
• Chu Kuangren announced that he had come for the Ancestral Grounds Foundation, then used the Space Transport Technique to head toward it.

Chu Kuangren raided the Sword Clan’s ancestral grounds, taking the Essence of Ten Thousand Swords and defeating the Sword Emperors who tried to stop him. At the Sword Mound, a Sword Clan Emperor’s remnant thought emerged, and Chu Kuangren began a clash with him that threatened to destroy the grounds.

• Chu Kuangren drew the Essence of Ten Thousand Swords from the Sword Pool, collapsing its protective formation and destabilizing the ancestral grounds.
• Chu Kuangren found a high-grade Emperor Weapon longsword, then continued to the Sword Mound, where the Sword Clan’s Emperor-Class cultivators had gathered.
• The Sword Emperors formed the Eight Wastelands and Six Directions God-Annihilating Sword Formation, but Chu Kuangren broke it with his Four Symbols Primordial Spirit Sword and defeated them.
• A golden Sword Emperor Corpse emerged from the Sword Mound and manifested as the Sword Clan Emperor’s remnant thought.
• Chu Kuangren empowered himself with the Nine Dragons Divine Transformation Talisman, and he and the Sword Clan Emperor began a sword clash that shook the ancestral grounds.

Chu Kuangren used his Mystery to destroy the Sword Clan Emperor’s remnant will and escape as the Sword Clan Ancestral Grounds collapsed. He continued his revenge across Emperor Road, ending the chapter by destroying the Wang Family Great Emperor’s Emperor Thought Clone.

• Chu Kuangren used Heaven and Earth Reversed to defeat the Sword Clan Emperor and obliterate his remnant will.
• Chu Kuangren took the Sword Clan’s three foundations, and the Sword Clan Ancestral Grounds collapsed as he escaped.
• News of the destruction spread, and Chu Kuangren then shattered the Yin-Yang Divine Sect’s Defensive Formation and seized its ancestral foundation.
• Chu Kuangren entered the Wang Family, where the Wang Family Matriarch summoned the Wang Family Great Emperor’s Emperor Thought Clone to stop him.
• Chu Kuangren dismissed the Wang Family Great Emperor’s offer and destroyed his clone with a punch.

After seizing the Ancestral Grounds Foundations of the ancient Daoist Traditions that had opposed him, Chu Kuangren began refining their treasures in seclusion. Meanwhile, the Emperor-Burying Coffin emerged from the Barren Forbidden Land, enslaved ancient cultivators to drag it, and began slaughtering cities, leaving the Emperor Road facing catastrophe.

• Chu Kuangren blasted apart the Wang Family Great Emperor's Emperor Thought, forced the Wang Family Matriarch to surrender, and seized the Wang Family's Ancestral Grounds Foundation.
• Chu Kuangren took the Ancestral Grounds Foundations of the other ancient Daoist Traditions that had opposed him, then gathered the treasures and began closed-door cultivation.
• Ancient mighty cultivators awakened in the Barren Forbidden Land as the Emperor-Burying Coffin emerged and shattered the restrictions around it.
• The Emperor-Burying Coffin bound more than a hundred ancient cultivators with chains and compelled them to drag it out of the forbidden land.
• The coffin-draggers attacked a city, killing tens of millions whose blood-colored energy flowed into the Emperor-Burying Coffin.
• The Emperors in the Nine Heavens realized the coffin threatened the Emperor Road, but the incomplete Heavenly Dao prevented them from intervening.

The Emperor-Burying Coffin slaughtered its way across the Emperor Road, while the ancient Daoist Traditions refused to intervene and sent Heavenly Prides into the Barren Forbidden Land to seek opportunities. As the coffin absorbed enough energy to turn a third of its surface blood-red, Emperors noticed it was heading toward Emperor Mountain and wondered why he had not appeared.

• The Emperors chose to preserve their strength and let the Emperor-Burying Coffin collect living beings' energy, prompting riots and widespread condemnation of the ancient Daoist Traditions.
• The ancient Daoist Traditions ignored the suffering and sent Heavenly Prides into the Barren Forbidden Land to seek opportunities.
• The Emperor-Burying Coffin's procession reached a city, where more than a hundred ancient powerhouses attacked and slaughtered its inhabitants.
• After absorbing the city's energy, the Emperor-Burying Coffin's blood-red surface expanded to a third of its area.
• Emperors watching the procession noticed it was heading toward Emperor Mountain and wondered why he had not appeared.

The Emperor-Burying Coffin arrived at Emperor Mountain and commanded its ancient attendants to attack, revealing a vast sea of Chaos Qi when the Headless Female Emperor struck it. Unable to open the coffin or stop it from leaving, the Emperor-Class cultivators fought over the few wisps of Chaos Qi left behind as the coffin continued gathering living energy elsewhere.

• The Emperor-Burying Coffin brought over a hundred ancient powerhouses to Emperor Mountain, where their attacks exposed several Emperor Positions but failed to damage the mountain.
• The Headless Female Emperor appeared, struck down an Emperor-Class cultivator, and attacked the coffin, briefly revealing its sea of Chaos Qi.
• The coffin closed, and its ancient powerhouses drove the Headless Female Emperor away when she tried to break it open again.
• The ancient powerhouses attacked Emperor Mountain for a day and night without damaging it, then dragged the coffin away to gather living energy elsewhere.
• More than a dozen Emperor-Class cultivators fought over the wisps of Chaos Qi the coffin had released.

After refining the Ancestral Grounds Foundations, Chu Kuangren broke past the nine-strand limit and reached twenty-four strands of Emperor Qi. He sensed the Emperor-Burying Coffin slaughtering its way toward Nangong Huang and the others, confronted it, and left the ancient powerhouses and distant Emperor-Class cultivators stunned by his strength.

• During half a month of seclusion, Chu Kuangren refined the Ancestral Grounds Foundations and condensed twenty-four strands of Emperor Qi, greatly strengthening his body and soul.
• Chu Kuangren used his Spirit Thought to learn of the Emperor-Burying Coffin and traced it to a mountain range near Nangong Huang and the others.
• The Emperor-Burying Coffin's ancient powerhouses continued killing living beings to collect life energy while distant Emperor-Class cultivators watched and dismissed the deaths of ordinary people.
• Chu Kuangren appeared before the coffin, and an ancient powerhouse attacked him with a massive fist imprint.
• Chu Kuangren shattered the attack and killed the ancient powerhouse with one punch, shocking the watching cultivators.
• Chu Kuangren looked at the Emperor-Burying Coffin and said he wanted to see what was inside.

Chu Kuangren attacked the Emperor-Burying Coffin and its ancient defenders, forcing them to flee while he pursued them across the Emperor Road. As he chased the coffin past a city, its terrified inhabitants saw him as a heavenly god coming to save them.

• Chu Kuangren struck the Emperor-Burying Coffin with his Invincible Law, sending it flying and catching the Chaos Qi that escaped.
• Chu Kuangren unleashed the Nine Dragons Divine Transformation and used Heavenly Vortex to dismantle and reflect the ancient powerhouses’ attacks.
• Chu Kuangren’s Myriad Daoist Law Manifestation, empowered by the Poison Plague Evil Body, blasted the Emperor-Burying Coffin and its chained defenders away.
• The ancient powerhouses dragged the Emperor-Burying Coffin away, and Chu Kuangren pursued them, continuing to smash aside anyone who tried to stop him.
• The Emperor-Burying Coffin passed over a city as its inhabitants fled, and they watched Chu Kuangren chase it and destroy an ancient powerhouse with a punch.

Chu Kuangren pursued and battered the Emperor-Burying Coffin while commoners hailed him as a Heavenly God. In the Barren Forbidden Land, the Heavenly Prides gathered at Black Soil to seek opportunities, but the coffin returned as a fissure opened, and Chu Kuangren’s voice challenged it.

• Chu Kuangren chased the Emperor-Burying Coffin and struck down the Ancient Powerhouses who tried to stop him, while commoners knelt and worshiped him as a Heavenly God.
• Qin Tianchen emerged from a cave with three strands of emperor qi and resolved to search Black Soil for opportunities to catch up to Chu Kuangren.
• Bai Hongyu, Wang Quan, Jiu Yan, Niu Dali, Sha Wushe, Yun Luozi, and other Heavenly Prides gathered at Black Soil and prepared to enter it.
• A fissure opened in Black Soil and released an eerie aura as the Emperor-Burying Coffin sped back toward the Heavenly Prides, leaving them terrified.
• Qin Tianchen noticed that most of the coffin bearers were missing, then Chu Kuangren’s laughter rang out as he asked whether the coffin had his permission to return underground.

Chu Kuangren stopped the Emperor-Burying Coffin from returning underground and defeated the ancient powerhouses who attacked him. He tried to refine the coffin to obtain its Chaos Qi, but its eerie energy destroyed his body as his undying body repeatedly restored it, leaving them locked in a stalemate.

• Chu Kuangren seized the Emperor-Burying Coffin's chains and stopped it from plunging underground.
• Chu Kuangren blasted apart the remaining ancient powerhouses who attacked him.
• Chu Kuangren dragged the coffin over and tried to open it, but could not lift its lid.
• Chu Kuangren began refining the coffin, whose eerie energy invaded and damaged his body while his undying body restored him.
• Qin Tianchen and the other Heavenly Prides watched in disbelief as Chu Kuangren and the coffin remained locked in a stalemate.

Chu Kuangren was drawn into the Emperor-Burying Coffin, which vanished into Black Soil, and the world believed he had died. Ancient Daoist Traditions celebrated his supposed death, while ordinary people honored him as the savior who had stopped the coffin’s destruction.

• The Emperor-Burying Coffin sucked Chu Kuangren inside, then vanished into a fissure in Black Soil.
• Sha Wushe, Jiu Yan, Qin Tianchen, and the other Heavenly Prides concluded that Chu Kuangren was dead and left Black Soil with renewed confidence.
• News of Chu Kuangren’s death spread across the Emperor Road, and the Sword Clan Leader ordered a celebratory banquet.
• The Wang Family, Bai Family, Qin Family, and Devil Race rejoiced over the news of Chu Kuangren’s death.
• A sculptor made a statue of Chu Kuangren and told his daughter that Chu Kuangren had fought the Demon Coffin to save the world.
• Ordinary people erected monuments to Chu Kuangren, believing he had sealed the Emperor-Burying Coffin with his life.

After hearing that Chu Kuangren had died, Leng Ningyu broke down in grief, and Fairy Lengyue sent her to enter Unfeeling Heaven. Inside the Emperor-Burying Coffin, Chu Kuangren found a warning about the Underworld God's Words and began cultivating the Bodhi Lotus Sutra so he could venture deeper.

• Emperor Ying told Leng Ningyu that Chu Kuangren had died in Black Soil, and Leng Ningyu collapsed into grief.
• Fairy Lengyue comforted Leng Ningyu and decided it was time for her to enter Unfeeling Heaven.
• Inside the Emperor-Burying Coffin, Chu Kuangren explored a vast space filled with crushing Chaos Qi and discovered a wall covered in Dao Patterns.
• Strange whispers began affecting Chu Kuangren's mind and soul as he traveled farther into the coffin.
• Chu Kuangren found a monk's remains and read a warning that he needed to reach the tenth level of the Bodhi Lotus Sutra before going deeper.
• Chu Kuangren found the Bodhi Lotus Sutra, comprehended all twelve levels, and prepared to cultivate it.

Chu Kuangren cultivated the Bodhi Lotus Sutra to its twelfth layer by refining the Emperor-Burying Coffin’s Chaos Qi, making his soul strong enough to withstand the Underworld God’s whispers. Deeper inside, he discovered a sealed man identified as the Chaos Dao Lord, whose body was generating the Chaos Qi and whose soul and will were being eroded.

• Chu Kuangren used the Chaos Qi and his Heaven and Earth Furnace Body and Undying Body to advance the Bodhi Lotus Sutra beyond its eighth layer.
• Chu Kuangren cultivated the Bodhi Lotus Sutra to its twelfth layer, forming a Bodhi Spirit that repelled the Chaos Qi and nullified the Underworld God’s whispers.
• Chu Kuangren collected the golden remains of the Buddha Emperor and continued deeper into the Emperor-Burying Coffin.
• Chu Kuangren found a white-clad man suspended by four blood-colored pillars and used his Eye of Insight to identify him as the Chaos Dao Lord with a Chaos Body.
• Chu Kuangren sensed immense resentment within the pillars and suspected they were eroding the Chaos Dao Lord’s soul and will.

Chu Kuangren encountered the Underworld God's Will Incarnation and the awakened soul of the Chaos Dao Lord inside the Emperor-Burying Coffin. He repelled the incarnation with a punch, but learned it would return as long as the coffin remained intact.

• Chu Kuangren discovered that the blood-colored pillar corroded souls and reached to examine the Chaos Dao Lord's body.
• The Underworld God's Will Incarnation appeared and was surprised that Chu Kuangren could withstand its soul attacks.
• The Chaos Dao Lord awakened in soul form, recognized the Bodhi Lotus Sutra, and learned Chu Kuangren had obtained it from Putuo's corpse.
• The Underworld God's Will Incarnation revealed that Putuo had died trying to rescue the Chaos Dao Lord, then questioned how Chu Kuangren had mastered the sutra in three months.
• Chu Kuangren ignored the Underworld God's attacks and blasted its incarnation apart with Heaven and Earth Reversed.
• The Underworld God's Will Incarnation vowed to return, and Chu Kuangren realized it remained connected to the Emperor-Burying Coffin.

Chu Kuangren studied the Chaos Dao Lord’s damaged Chaos Body while learning how the Dao Lord had fought the Underworld God in the War Against the Gods. The Dao Lord learned how much the world had changed during his imprisonment and was astonished by Chu Kuangren’s multiple Dao Body auras.

• Chu Kuangren introduced himself and asked the Chaos Dao Lord about the Emperor-Burying Coffin and his conflict with the Underworld God.
• The Chaos Dao Lord explained how humans discovered the power of faith, how gods exploited humanity, and how human cultivators eventually began the War Against the Gods.
• The Chaos Dao Lord recounted how he and other human powerhouses sealed the Underworld God in the Endless Void, leaving the Dao Lord grievously wounded and imprisoned in the coffin.
• Chu Kuangren explained the coffin’s deadly legends, prompting the Chaos Dao Lord to question why the Underworld God’s will had been allowed to gather resentment and why Putuo had rescued him.
• Chu Kuangren described the changed outside world, including the Dharma-Ending Age and the Nine Heavens, and the Chaos Dao Lord asked about people from his era whom Chu Kuangren barely knew.
• The Chaos Dao Lord noticed Chu Kuangren’s multiple Dao Body auras while Chu Kuangren continued studying his Chaos Body and asking about cultivation realms.