Chapter Summaries

Chen Qingyu and Sect Master Guangwang joined a compulsory mission force led by Great Emperor Blazing Sun to reinforce Mount Taishi. After traveling for more than sixty hours, they reached the fierce battlefield, where Great Emperor Blazing Sun challenged the enemy to fight.

• Sect Master Guangwang explained that compulsory missions could not be refused and were usually extremely dangerous, while Chen Qingyu urged him to stay calm and stick together.
• Chen Qingyu and Sect Master Guangwang joined hundreds of Peak Emperor Venerables at the assembly point, where Great Emperor Blazing Sun took command of the reinforcement force.
• Chen Qingyu decided to seek a way into the Heavenly Stems Council so he could find his Sixth Senior Brother without revealing his identity.
• Great Emperor Blazing Sun led the group out of the fortress and east across the Endless Battlefield toward Mount Taishi.
• After more than sixty hours of flight, the group reached Mount Taishi and sensed the fierce fighting there.
• Great Emperor Blazing Sun unleashed his power and called for an opponent to come fight him.

Great Emperor Blazing Sun reinforced the Heavenly Stem Alliance at Mount Taishi, forcing the Earthly Branch Alliance to withdraw and easing the defenders’ crisis. After joining forces with the hemp-robed elder, he discussed how to respond as both sides prepared for the next clash.

• Great Emperor Blazing Sun announced his arrival, and the Earthly Branch Alliance pulled back while the Heavenly Stem Alliance regrouped.
• Great Emperor Blazing Sun led several hundred Emperor Venerables through Mount Taishi’s formation gate and met the hemp-robed elder, who described how the defenders had been nearly routed.
• Great Emperor Blazing Sun regretted revealing his presence before he could launch a surprise attack, but the hemp-robed elder warned that an enemy skilled at sensing might have discovered them anyway.
• The hemp-robed elder proposed keeping their forces together and preparing a mobile force to counter an enemy feint and concentrated attack.
• Great Emperor Blazing Sun accepted that they could not safely counterattack and called for everyone in the first and second tiers to step forward.

Great Emperor Blazing Sun ordered the Emperor Venerables to choose strongholds on Mount Taishi and defend them against the Earthly Branch Alliance. Chen Qingyu and Sect Master Guangwang joined six others at a badly damaged fortress, where a charming woman welcomed them as reinforcements.

• The hemp-robed old man showed the Emperor Venerables a map of thirty-six strongholds and told them to choose where to serve.
• Great Emperor Blazing Sun threatened to assign them randomly if they did not choose, and the Emperor Venerables selected strongholds, mostly at the edges.
• Sect Master Guangwang advised Chen Qingyu to wait and choose a central stronghold, reasoning that the Earthly Branch Alliance might attack a flank; Chen Qingyu agreed.
• Chen Qingyu and Sect Master Guangwang declined to join a five-person group, then flew with the group and a black-robed man to their assigned fortress.
• The eight arrived at a half-ruined metal fortress, where a charming woman approached and asked how to address them.

Chen Qingyu helped repair the fortress by healing its wounded Emperor Venerables while the others restored its defenses. The Earthly Branch Alliance then launched a much larger attack, and Chen realized the whole of Mount Taishi was likely caught in a full-scale assault.

• Emperor Venerable Duanxu learned that the Earthly Branch Alliance had killed two defenders and badly wounded three during its previous siege.
• Chen Qingyu offered to treat the wounded and used his healing methods to restore the three severely injured Emperor Venerables.
• Sect Master Guangwang, Emperor Venerable Duanxu, and the others repaired the fortress and its formation while Chen treated the wounded.
• More than twenty Earthly Branch Alliance fighters emerged from the mountains and forced the defenders to activate the fortress formation.
• Chen Qingyu recognized that the Alliance had concealed its true strength and was attacking across Mount Taishi to trap the Heavenly Stem Alliance’s forces.

The Earthly Branch Alliance besieged the Heavenly Stem Alliance’s fortress at Mount Taishi, but a mysterious black-robed man drove the attackers back with his shadow techniques. Chen Qingyu warned that the fortress was only a sideshow as the main battlefield erupted, where two familiar Invincible Emperor Venerables faced three opponents.

• Twenty-odd peak Emperor Venerables from the Earthly Branch Alliance attacked the fortress, and Emperor Venerable Duanxu led the defenders in fighting back.
• A black-robed man charged beyond the formation, wounded several besiegers with shadow attacks, and returned to the fortress after they nearly surrounded him.
• Sect Master Guangwang recognized the man as a newcomer to the Heavenly Stem Alliance, and Chen Qingyu identified him as an expert at the Emperor Venerable limit.
• Chen Qingyu warned Sect Master Guangwang that the besieged fortress was not the enemy’s main target and that defeat on the main battlefield would doom them all.
• At the main battlefield, five Invincible Emperor Venerables clashed, with two familiar figures surrounded and attacked by three others.

Chen Qingyu left the besieged fortress and used Time Stasis and Space Collapse to kill the twenty-odd peak Emperor Venerables surrounding it. He then raced toward the main battlefield, and the black-robed man followed him.

• The Earthly Branch Alliance’s Emperor Venerables argued over whether to keep besieging the fortress or wait for reinforcements.
• Sect Master Guangwang and the others worried that the fortress would be trapped once the Heavenly Stem Alliance fell, but Chen Qingyu said his opportunity had arrived.
• Chen Qingyu left the fortress, froze time, and used Space Collapse to kill the twenty-odd Emperor Venerables outside.
• After time resumed, Emperor Venerable Duanxu, Sect Master Guangwang, and the others realized that Chen Qingyu had killed the besiegers and were stunned by his strength.
• Chen Qingyu flew toward the main battlefield, and the black-robed man left the fortress to follow him.

The Heavenly Stem Alliance’s stronghold west of Mount Taishi fell to a surprise attack, and Great Emperor Blazing Sun and the Hemp-Robed Ancestor fought the Earthly Branch Alliance’s three overlords amid a huge battle. As Great Emperor Blazing Sun was wounded and the Heavenly Stem Alliance faced defeat, a dazzling golden streak charged into the main battlefield.

• The Earthly Branch Alliance’s three overlords and dozens of experts stormed the stronghold, killing more than a dozen peak Emperor Venerables before Great Emperor Blazing Sun and the Hemp-Robed Ancestor arrived with reinforcements.
• Great Emperor Blazing Sun and the Hemp-Robed Ancestor engaged the three overlords while more than a hundred experts fought across the ruins.
• Two of the Earthly Branch Alliance’s overlords coordinated their attacks against Great Emperor Blazing Sun, exploiting his frontal fighting style and wounding him.
• Great Emperor Blazing Sun worried that the Heavenly Stem Alliance’s forces across Mount Taishi would be overwhelmed and cursed the Heavenly Bohai Sea for failing to detect the enemy’s troop movements.
• One of the overlords distracted Great Emperor Blazing Sun as the other stabbed him from behind, then escaped before his counterattack could land.
• A dazzling golden streak of flight light charged toward the main battlefield.

Chen Qingyu broke through to the main battlefield and wounded an Emperor Venerable Limit expert before Hidden Shadow ambushed him. Chen Qingyu injured Hidden Shadow with the law of time, but Hidden Shadow vanished, leaving Chen Qingyu unable to sense where his next attack would come from.

• Chen Qingyu entered the main battlefield and gravely wounded an Earthly Branch Alliance Emperor Venerable Limit expert with a casual strike.
• The white phantom ordered Hidden Shadow to kill Chen Qingyu while Great Emperor Blazing Sun was unable to leave his duel to help.
• Hidden Shadow ambushed Chen Qingyu, but Chen Qingyu stopped time and injured him with a succession of attacks.
• Hidden Shadow revealed that Chen Qingyu controlled the law of time, then vanished and warned that he would not give Chen Qingyu another chance.
• Chen Qingyu searched for Hidden Shadow with his divine sense and other perception methods but could not detect him.

Great Emperor Blazing Sun pressed the white phantom while Chen Qingyu fought Great Emperor Hidden Shadow, who attacked from the Shadow Domain. Chen Qingyu reversed time to catch Hidden Shadow during an ambush, drained more than ten thousand years of his lifespan, and left him suspecting Chen Qingyu came from the Twelve Yuanchen Palace.

• Great Emperor Blazing Sun attacked the white phantom with his full strength after Great Emperor Hidden Shadow left to intercept Chen Qingyu.
• Great Emperor Hidden Shadow vanished into the Shadow Domain and ambushed Chen Qingyu, but Chen Qingyu endured the attack.
• Chen Qingyu revealed that he had deliberately let Hidden Shadow attack so he could catch him as he briefly returned to the physical world.
• Chen Qingyu reversed time, bound Great Emperor Hidden Shadow with chains of light, and drained more than ten thousand years from his lifespan before Hidden Shadow escaped.
• Great Emperor Hidden Shadow accused Chen Qingyu of mastering the Law of Time and asked whether he came from the Twelve Yuanchen Palace.

Chen Qingyu drove back the invading commanders at Mount Taishi, turning a desperate battle into a victory for the Earthly Branch Alliance. Great Emperor Blazing Sun and the Hemp-Robed Ancestor praised him and offered to sponsor his entry into the Heavenly Stems Council.

• Great Emperor Hidden Shadow hesitated to attack Chen Qingyu again, fearing that his time-based methods would cost him more lifespan.
• Chen Qingyu left Great Emperor Hidden Shadow and rushed to aid Great Emperor Blazing Sun, who was struggling against the white phantom.
• Great Emperor Hidden Shadow refused to stop Chen Qingyu, and the white phantom ordered a retreat; the other invading commanders and their forces withdrew from Mount Taishi.
• The Hemp-Robed Ancestor halted the Earthly Branch Alliance's pursuit and sent its forces to reclaim the outposts and fortresses.
• Great Emperor Blazing Sun and the Hemp-Robed Ancestor credited Chen Qingyu with turning the battle around and offered to sponsor him for membership in the Heavenly Stems Council.

Chen Qingyu accepted Great Emperor Blazing Sun and the Hemp-Robed Ancestor’s recommendation to join the Heavenly Stems Council after learning the alliance was struggling in the war. As the Earthly Branch Alliance retreated from Mount Taishi, Great Emperor Tianchen began to suspect that Great Emperor Wanjie’s abilities were more unusual than they appeared.

• Great Emperor Blazing Sun explained that the Heavenly Stem Alliance was losing ground in the Heavenly Bohai Sea and asked Chen Qingyu to join the Heavenly Stems Council.
• Chen Qingyu agreed to be recommended under the name Great Emperor Wanjie, and the Hemp-Robed Ancestor said the council would likely approve him.
• A messenger reported that the Earthly Branch Alliance was retreating from Mount Taishi, and Great Emperor Blazing Sun said reinforcements would take over the defenses while the group returned to headquarters.
• During their withdrawal, an Invincible Emperor Venerable accused Great Emperor Hidden Shadow of causing the failed ambush, while Hidden Shadow insisted Great Emperor Wanjie’s lifespan-cutting ability had disrupted the fight.
• Great Emperor Tianchen agreed that Great Emperor Wanjie’s effect on Hidden Shadow’s lifespan was suspicious, but said he was not accusing Hidden Shadow of holding back.

Great Emperor Tianchen realized that Chen Qingyu had reached the Third Divine Realm and sent a secret message to Emperor Huan. After the Heavenly Stem Alliance celebrated its victory at Mount Taishi, the council promoted Chen Qingyu to the Heavenly Stems Council and awarded him ten thousand merit points.

• Great Emperor Hidden Shadow recalled that the force stripping away his lifespan had seemed unlike the Law of Time, and Great Emperor Tianchen concluded that Chen Qingyu had used Divine Power and was a future half-step Heavenly Lord.
• Great Emperor Tianchen secretly contacted Emperor Huan through his Heavenly Lord Talisman Edict, then concealed his discovery while continuing to speak with Great Emperor Hidden Shadow and Emperor Venerable Changbai.
• Great Emperor Blazing Sun and the Hemp-Robed Ancestor addressed the Emperor Venerables after confirming the Earthly Branch Alliance had withdrawn from Mount Taishi, praising Chen Qingyu for turning the battle around.
• The Hemp-Robed Ancestor announced that the council had made Chen Qingyu the fifty-fifth member of the Heavenly Stems Council and awarded him ten thousand merit points.

Chen Qingyu earned council membership and ten thousand merit points, then returned from Mount Taishi as Great Emperor Tianchen reported his abilities to Emperor Huan. Emperor Huan concluded that Chen Qingyu might soon become a Half-Step Heavenly Lord and resolved to have him eliminated before he advanced.

• Great Emperor Blazing Sun explained that Chen Qingyu's ten thousand merit points met the threshold for the fifth rank and council membership, giving him access to council privileges.
• After reinforcements arrived at Mount Taishi, Chen Qingyu completed the garrison handover and left with Great Emperor Blazing Sun and the Hemp-Robed Ancestor for alliance headquarters.
• Great Emperor Tianchen contacted Emperor Huan through his Heavenly Lord Talisman Edict and told her about Chen Qingyu's Third Divine Realm and suspected command of time and lifespan laws.
• Emperor Huan reasoned that Chen Qingyu might have fused upper-tier laws and could soon become a Half-Step Heavenly Lord.
• Emperor Huan decided that Chen Qingyu had to be killed before he advanced, fearing his rise would change the balance between the alliances.

After reporting intelligence about the Heavenly Stem Alliance to Emperor Huan, Great Emperor Tianchen received secret rewards and was ordered to keep the matter quiet. Back at headquarters, Chen Qingyu gained council status, contacted Sixth Senior Brother, and asked when he could return to headquarters.

• Emperor Huan praised Great Emperor Tianchen for secretly bringing her news and promised him a hidden reward while ordering him not to discuss or investigate the matter.
• Chen Qingyu returned to the Heavenly Stem Alliance headquarters and received 10,050 merit points, raising his Heavenly Lord Talisman Edict to fifth rank.
• Other fifth-rank members greeted Chen Qingyu, while Iron Lady complained that he had not come to help at the Heavenly Bohai Sea.
• Chen Qingyu identified Great Emperor Wanxing as Sixth Senior Brother and sent him a message.
• Sixth Senior Brother recognized Chen Qingyu, praised his rapid progress, and asked why he needed him to return to headquarters.

Chen Qingyu used ten Hearts of Myriad Realms to advance to Middle Emperor Venerable and resumed purifying his Dao of Myriad Calamities. He was interrupted by an urgent message from Great Emperor Blazing Sun.

• Chen Qingyu asked Sixth Senior Brother to use his merit points to obtain Hearts of Myriad Realms, and Sixth Senior Brother arranged to transfer him to the Heavenly Bohai Sea in half a month.
• Chen Qingyu exchanged for ten Hearts of Myriad Realms and refined them in his residence.
• After ten days, Chen Qingyu advanced to Middle Emperor Venerable, with his upper-tier laws reaching the level of an Invincible Emperor Venerable.
• Chen Qingyu reflected on the path to Heavenly Lord and resumed purifying his Dao of Myriad Calamities.
• Three days later, Great Emperor Blazing Sun sent Chen Qingyu an urgent message, and Chen Qingyu asked what was wrong.

After the Great Tomb of a Thousand Autumns came under threat from a powerful Earthly Branch Alliance force, Chen Qingyu joined a five-hundred-Emperor Venerable reinforcement group. As they set out, he learned how the tomb’s strange environment worked and reflected on the Heavenly Stem Alliance’s worsening strategic position.

• Great Emperor Blazing Sun informed Chen Qingyu that three powerful overlords had reinforced the Great Tomb of a Thousand Autumns and the defenders were retreating.
• Chen Qingyu joined Great Emperor Blazing Sun, the Hemp-Robed Ancestor, and five hundred Emperor Venerables at the assembly point.
• The reinforcement force departed the headquarters, and Chen Qingyu asked Great Emperor Blazing Sun what had happened at the tomb.
• Great Emperor Blazing Sun explained that the Heavenly Stem Alliance’s worsening position at the Heavenly Bohai Sea was leaving its secondary battlefields exposed and threatening its defensive line.
• Great Emperor Blazing Sun described the Great Tomb of a Thousand Autumns’ random living-dead mechanism to Chen Qingyu.
• Chen Qingyu wondered why the Earthly Branch Alliance was so determined to hold the Heavenly Bohai Sea rather than first breaking the defensive line.

Chen Qingyu and Great Emperor Blazing Sun entered the Great Tomb of a Thousand Autumns with their reinforcements, only to discover that the Hemp-Robed Ancestor had betrayed them and brought Emperor Huan. Emperor Huan’s attack annihilated the five hundred Emperor Venerables, and she singled out Chen Qingyu as the story left him facing a Half-Step Heavenly Lord.

• Great Emperor Blazing Sun led Chen Qingyu, the Hemp-Robed Ancestor, and five hundred Emperor Venerables into the Great Tomb of a Thousand Autumns.
• The Hemp-Robed Ancestor abruptly left the group and admitted that he had betrayed Great Emperor Blazing Sun.
• Chen Qingyu pulled Great Emperor Blazing Sun back as Emperor Huan’s pale divine light killed all five hundred Emperor Venerables.
• The Hemp-Robed Ancestor revealed that he had secretly defected to the Earthly Branch Alliance and dismissed Great Emperor Blazing Sun’s threats.
• Great Emperor Blazing Sun reported the Hemp-Robed Ancestor as a spy, while Chen Qingyu realized the mission had likely been a trap aimed at him.
• Emperor Huan addressed Chen Qingyu as Great Emperor Wanjie and said she had come to find him herself.

Emperor Huan ambushed Chen Qingyu, and Great Emperor Blazing Sun died buying him a chance to escape. Chen Qingyu faced Emperor Huan’s time-loop power and tried to defend himself with the Law of Space, but her attack struck his Wall of Space.

• Emperor Blazing Sun charged at Emperor Huan to give Chen Qingyu time to flee, while Chen Qingyu sent his sixth senior brother a plea for rescue.
• Emperor Huan killed Great Emperor Blazing Sun with a single finger after repeating the moment through countless branches of time.
• Chen Qingyu recognized that Emperor Huan’s power manipulated time, while the Hemp-Robed Ancestor watched in fear.
• Emperor Huan trapped Chen Qingyu in divine light and pointed at him, activating her time loop again.
• Chen Qingyu used the Law of Space to create a Wall of Space, but Emperor Huan’s finger struck it.

Emperor Huan repeatedly attacked Chen Qingyu inside her Time Ring Domain, but his Primordial Yang Indestructibility kept healing his fatal injuries. The battle continued as the Hemp-Robed Ancestor began to regret siding with Emperor Huan.

• Emperor Huan shattered Chen Qingyu’s spatial barrier and gravely wounded him with a finger strike, but Primordial Yang Indestructibility healed him.
• Emperor Huan recognized Chen Qingyu’s regenerative Dao art and resolved to kill him before he could become a half-step Heavenly Lord.
• Chen Qingyu pointed out that his Law of Time caused time outside the Time Ring Domain to keep flowing, but Emperor Huan dismissed the chance that anyone would come to help him.
• Emperor Huan repeatedly attacked while Chen Qingyu used spatial techniques to defend himself, and the Hemp-Robed Ancestor wondered if he had chosen the wrong side.

Chen Qingyu survived Emperor Huan’s time loop by sensing the reset and combining the Law of Gravity with the Law of Space, forcing her to restart the loop. When the next loop began, he revealed that he also controlled the Law of Light, leaving Emperor Huan stunned.

• Emperor Huan nearly killed Chen Qingyu at the end of the first quarter-hour loop, but the Time Ring Domain reset before she could finish him.
• As Emperor Huan attacked in the new loop, Chen Qingyu sensed that time had already looped and used the Law of Gravity alongside the Law of Space to weaken her strike.
• Chen Qingyu mocked Emperor Huan and vanished, while she realized his control of the Law of Time let him detect the loops.
• Emperor Huan attacked again, but Chen Qingyu’s added defense made her use the full quarter-hour before resetting the loop once more.
• In the next loop, Emperor Huan discovered Chen Qingyu also controlled the Law of Light and froze in disbelief as he taunted her.