Recaps

Xiao Ping'an survived his fourth life in the Yellow Springs, regained his former strength, and cultivated back to the peak of the Quasi-Emperor realm. He attained the Dao again as Tyrant Heaven Emperor, defeated the Dark Supremes who attacked him, and left the forbidden-zone rulers publicly humiliated and fearful of his power.

• Xiao Ping'an's body and spirit collapsed in the Yellow Springs, then reformed as he successfully lived a fourth life.
• Xiao Ping'an awoke in the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree coffin, discovered he had lost his cultivation, and found four Reincarnation Seals within himself.
• Xiao Ping'an's former power returned when he examined the seals, and his surge of strength nearly shattered the Heaven-Penetrating Nether Treasure.
• Xiao Ping'an cultivated in the Underworld for a few hundred years, recovered to the peak of the Quasi-Emperor realm, and drew down a heavenly tribulation in the Cosmic Frontier.
• Xiao Ping'an shattered the Golden Ancient Emperor's Heavenly Heart Imprint, attained the Dao again, and became known as Tyrant Heaven Emperor.
• Xiao Ping'an killed the Dark Supremes who attacked him and mocked the remaining forbidden-zone rulers as sewer rats.

Chuan Ying entered the sealed Road to Immortality on Flying Immortal Star to learn the truth about Emperor Venerable, where he discovered Huashe Supreme, Annihilation Heavenly Venerable, and an ancient monster imprisoned. Emperor Venerable’s hidden formation refined the three captives to fuel his revival, and his illusory figure appeared before Chuan Ying amid a supply of Immortal Divine Medicine.

• Chuan Ying secretly entered Flying Immortal Star’s sealed Road to Immortality using mysterious jade platforms to conceal his passage.
• Chuan Ying reached an abyss sealed by the Desolate Heavenly Emperor’s imprint and Emperor Venerable’s formations, where three powerful beings were imprisoned in Immortal Source.
• The ancient monster, Huashe Supreme, and Annihilation Heavenly Venerable broke out of their Immortal Source but remained bound by Immortal Gold chains.
• Annihilation Heavenly Venerable tried to persuade Chuan Ying to free him, while Huashe Supreme mocked and then attempted to bribe him.
• Chuan Ying said he had come to watch the captives die, and mysterious Immortal Fire began refining all three into streams of light drawn toward an altar.
• Emperor Venerable’s illusory figure appeared as the three captives’ essence fueled his transformation, and he summoned more than thirty Immortal Divine Medicines.

Emperor Venerable returned to life as a weak primordial spirit, and Chuan Ying confirmed that he was free of the dark strangeness. Emperor Venerable resolved to cultivate the Natural Dao, but Chuan Ying warned that his old enemies would hunt him if they discovered his return.

• Emperor Venerable absorbed the three Supremes' essence and his stored medicines, then returned to life before Chuan Ying.
• Chuan Ying restrained and examined Emperor Venerable, confirmed he carried no trace of the strange creature, and accepted his explanation of the past possession.
• Emperor Venerable admitted that forging the Immortal Ascension Cauldron had cost countless beings their life-source lands and said he would abandon the Nine Secrets path for the Natural Dao.
• The Immortal Ascension Cauldron sensed Emperor Venerable's return and emerged from the Chaos Pure Land to reunite with him.
• Chuan Ying warned that the Dark Supremes would discover and attack Emperor Venerable if he began cultivating openly, while the Immortal Ascension Cauldron's weapon spirit bristled at the warning.
• Emperor Venerable calmed Chuan Ying and the Immortal Ascension Cauldron's weapon spirit, then agreed that Chuan Ying's concerns were justified.

Emperor Venerable told Chuan Ying that he planned to merge his remaining primordial spirit with the Immortal Ascension Cauldron's weapon spirit and undergo nirvana again. After preparing and repeatedly checking the dangerous process, Chuan Ying began bringing the two together, leaving the merger about to start.

• Emperor Venerable rejected Chuan Ying's plan to help him attain the Dao immediately and asked him to protect the human race while he recovered.
• Emperor Venerable revealed that he intended to merge his primordial spirit with the Immortal Ascension Cauldron's weapon spirit and live a new lifetime through nirvana.
• Chuan Ying questioned whether the powerful weapon spirit might devour Emperor Venerable, but Emperor Venerable explained that his past visions gave him confidence in the plan.
• Chuan Ying agreed to help, and he and Emperor Venerable prepared for the merger on the Road to Immortality.
• Chuan Ying made countless deductions, then used Great Dao runes to draw Emperor Venerable's primordial spirit and the weapon spirit together.

Chuan Ying helped Emperor Venerable fuse with the Immortal Ascension Cauldron and erase all traces of the process. After the Overlord Heavenly Venerable returned to life and discovered signs that Emperor Venerable and a strange being might also have survived, Xiao Ping'an uncovered a trap and faced the strange being’s attack.

• Chuan Ying stabilized the Immortal Ascension Cauldron as Emperor Venerable fused with its weapon deity, then took him away and erased the traces.
• The Overlord Heavenly Venerable passed his tribulation, returned to life as Xiao Ping'an, and was welcomed by his descendants on the Tyrant Body Ancestral Star.
• Xiao Ping'an reunited with Xiao Yungui, blessed their descendants, and later noticed that the Humanoid Undying Divine Medicine had disappeared.
• Xiao Ping'an searched a ruined star region and found Emperor Venerable’s abandoned pure land, where he sensed signs that Emperor Venerable had returned.
• Xiao Ping'an shattered a white jade platform and discovered the Humanoid Undying Divine Medicine’s trunk, triggering a powerful strange presence to attack him.
• Xiao Ping'an confronted the strange being’s black mist with time and space runes and used the Nine Secrets: Ba.

Xiao Ping'an tested his resistance to Weird Substance, destroyed a powerful Weird being, and discovered that Emperor Venerable and the Weird being had revived through the Humanoid Undying Divine Medicine. His search for the missing Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains led him to the Heaven-Reaching Ancient Star, where he heard that the Primordial Beginning Heavenly Venerable was recruiting disciples and met one of his nominal disciples.

• Xiao Ping'an tested his resistance to Weird Substance, then seized, suppressed, and refined the Weird being into primal Weird Substance.
• Xiao Ping'an found the Humanoid Undying Divine Medicine and deduced that Emperor Venerable and the Weird being had revived with its help.
• Xiao Ping'an went to Earth and discovered that the Kunlun Secret Realm and the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains had vanished from Mount Kunlun.
• Xiao Ping'an followed his deductions to the Heaven-Reaching Ancient Star, where he heard that the Primordial Beginning Heavenly Venerable of Mount Kunlun was accepting disciples.
• A nominal disciple of the Primordial Beginning Heavenly Venerable stopped Xiao Ping'an and urged him to join the sect, claiming his master had returned from the Mythological Era.

Xiao Ping'an tracked the Dark Emperor Venerable to the Heaven-Reaching Ancient Star, defeated him, and destroyed the corrupted world hidden beneath the Kunlun Secret Realm. After restoring Kunlun to Earth, he met the Netherworld Venerable, who invited him underground and revealed his strange cycle of bodily survival and soul reincarnation.

• Xiao Ping'an subdued an Immortal Second Realm Mighty Figure, searched his soul, erased the witnesses’ memories of himself, and flew to Kunlun on the Heaven-Reaching Ancient Star.
• Xiao Ping'an met Jiang Ziya at the Kunlun mountain gate and learned that the Primordial Beginning Heavenly Venerable was away; he later recognized the returning Primordial Beginning Heavenly Venerable as the Dark Emperor Venerable.
• Xiao Ping'an struck the Dark Emperor Venerable with a Spacetime Great Dao rune, pursued him, smashed his body, and destroyed the parasitic black creature, though he suspected Little Black had not truly died.
• Xiao Ping'an uncovered and destroyed the blood-sacrifice world sealed within the Kunlun Secret Realm, collected its treasures, and returned the cleansed realm to Mount Kunlun on Earth.
• Xiao Ping'an returned the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains to the Primordial Ancient Star, then followed the Netherworld Venerable’s avatar into an underground world beneath Kunlun.
• The Netherworld Venerable revealed his weakening primordial spirit and seemingly immortal body, and Xiao Ping'an questioned how he had recovered memories from his previous life.

Xiao Ping'an discussed reincarnation and the Red Dust Immortal Path with the Netherworld Venerable, receiving ancient cultivation methods and the Soil of All Things. As the Netherworld Venerable prepared to enter his next lifetime, Xiao Ping'an sealed him in a yellow-clay coffin and left him to begin his transformation.

• The Netherworld Venerable explained his plan to form Reincarnation Seals through nine lifetimes, and Xiao Ping'an shared how he had formed a seal in the Yellow Springs.
• The Netherworld Venerable recounted his dealings with the Dark Emperor Venerable and warned Xiao Ping'an that the fused darkness and uncanny being could become a grave threat.
• The Netherworld Venerable passed Xiao Ping'an the Immortal Ancient and Chaotic Ancient methods, the Burial Cultivator Great Art, and the Soil of All Things, warning him about their dangers and secrets.
• Xiao Ping'an explained how he had used the Daos of time and space to understand reincarnation, and the Netherworld Venerable praised his insight before promising they would meet again after his nine lifetimes.
• The Netherworld Venerable sealed his treasures in a yellow-clay coffin, and Xiao Ping'an placed him inside the pool of Nine-Colored Divine Light and closed the lid.

After burying the Netherworld Venerable beneath Kunlun, Xiao Ping'an reflected on his death and continued his own search for Red Dust Immortal Ascension. Sensing a call from Ziwei Star, he descended there as the Ziwei Divine Dynasty prepared to summon help against powerful factions threatening its rule.

• Xiao Ping'an buried the Netherworld Venerable deep within Kunlun's dragon vein and erased every trace of the coffin.
• The Netherworld Venerable's death shook the universe, though many experts suspected he had cut himself down and hidden in the Underworld.
• Xiao Ping'an understood the loneliness that could turn ancient rulers into Dark Supremes and resolved to keep himself grounded by roaming the mortal world.
• Xiao Ping'an left Kunlun, traveled among the world's Life Source Lands, and descended upon Ziwei Star after sensing someone calling him.
• The Ziwei Divine Dynasty faced growing hostility from factions backed by Primordial Imperial Clans, while many human holy lands and families abandoned it.
• The Ziwei Divine Lord and other experts poured their power into the ancestral bone tower, hoping to summon aid from the Tyrant Body Ancestral Star.

Xiao Ping'an arrived on Ziwei Star after the Ziwei Divine Pagoda summoned him and discovered traces of Sacred Body blood awakening in the Ziwei Divine Lord. He learned that Primordial factions threatened to destroy the Ziwei Divine Dynasty, while its leaders debated whether to flee or fight.

• The Ziwei Divine Pagoda sent a signal and guided Xiao Ping'an to the Ziwei Divine Dynasty, where he recognized the artifact he had made and saw that his descendants had lost their Heavenly Tyrant Blood.
• Xiao Ping'an examined the Ziwei Divine Lord and discovered that tiny traces of golden Sacred Body blood were forming in him.
• The Ziwei Divine Dynasty explained its separation from the Tyrant Body Ancestral Star and its danger from a Primordial Imperial Clan, while Xiao Ping'an offered to help.
• Xiao Ping'an learned that the Saint Spirit Forbidden Zone, White Tiger Manor, and Golden-Winged Heavenly Peng Clan planned to attack the dynasty with Extreme Dao Weapons.
• As Xiao Ping'an considered the threat and the Ziwei Divine Lord's potential, the dynasty's leaders argued over whether to abandon Ziwei Star or stay and fight.

The Primordial Beings of Ziwei Star besieged Ziwei Divine City with three Extreme Dao Weapons, demanding that the Ziwei Divine Dynasty surrender control. Xiao Ping'an revealed his strength by shattering two weapons with a flick of his finger and seized their weapon deities, while the third weapon and the attackers remained.

• The Ziwei Divine Lord ordered the young disciples and grand elders to evacuate, but stayed behind to defend the dynasty’s ancestral home, and Xiao Ping'an remained in the city.
• The Golden-Winged Heavenly Peng, White Tiger Divine Race, and Spirit Race surrounded Ziwei Divine City with three Great Saints and their Extreme Dao Weapons, demanding joint rule of the city.
• The Ziwei Divine Lord refused to surrender, and the Golden God-Striking Whip and White Tiger Claw attacked while the Ziwei Divine Pagoda struggled to defend the city.
• Xiao Ping'an appeared and shattered the Golden God-Striking Whip and White Tiger Claw with two light taps of his finger.
• When the weapon deities reassembled the weapons and awakened them, Xiao Ping'an shattered them again, seized both weapon deities, and refined them into supreme weapon souls.

Xiao Ping'an defeated the Spirit Emperor’s Son, destroyed the invading Primordial Beings, and revealed himself as the Overlord Heavenly Venerable before setting out to confront the Spirit Emperor. The two left Ziwei Star for the Mythic Battlefield, where the Spirit Emperor challenged Xiao Ping'an and condemned his arrogance.

• Xiao Ping'an shattered the Spirit Emperor’s Son’s spirit saber, defeated him, and sealed him inside the Overlord Heaven Bell.
• Xiao Ping'an destroyed the attacking Primordial Beings, then revealed his identity to the people of Ziwei Divine Dynasty and promised to confront the Ancient Emperors who threatened his descendants.
• Xiao Ping'an announced that he would visit Spirit Mountain and the Immortal Mausoleum Forbidden Zone, then headed toward Spirit Mountain first.
• The Spirit Emperor demanded that Xiao Ping'an return the Spirit Emperor’s Son and the fragments of his weapon, and challenged him to fight in the Mythic Battlefield.
• Xiao Ping'an and the Spirit Emperor traveled to the Mythic Battlefield, where the Spirit Emperor called Xiao Ping'an arrogant and said he had changed his mind about sheltering all living beings.

Xiao Ping'an killed the Spirit Emperor, Golden-Winged Roc Emperor, and White Tiger Ancient Emperor after they challenged him, then entered the Immortal Mausoleum Forbidden Zone to study its Immortal Dao runes. His cultivation awakened the forbidden zone’s sleeping Supremes, including the Immortal Matriarch, who watched him closely.

• The Spirit Emperor summoned the White Tiger Ancient Emperor and Golden-Winged Roc Emperor to join him in attacking Xiao Ping'an.
• Xiao Ping'an used time and space runes and Nine Secrets: Ba to overwhelm the three Ancient Emperors, killing the Spirit Emperor and Golden-Winged Roc Emperor before defeating the White Tiger Ancient Emperor.
• The Ziwei Divine Lord led the Ziwei Divine Dynasty’s forces in attacking White Tiger Manor, the Saint Spirit Race, and the Golden-Winged Heavenly Peng Clan.
• Xiao Ping'an entered the Immortal Mausoleum Forbidden Zone and studied its Immortal Dao runes, awakening more than a dozen Dark Supremes.
• Xiao Ping'an’s time and space runes clashed with the Immortal Dao runes as he cultivated, awakening the Immortal Matriarch, who watched him.

Xiao Ping'an left the Immortal Mausoleum and returned to the Ziwei Divine Dynasty, where he awakened the dormant Sacred Body bloodline of his descendant Xiao Tianshu and began guiding his cultivation. Yun'er and Weiwei joined them, gave Xiao Tianshu precious Sacred Body essence blood, and agreed to visit the Spirit Mountain Forbidden Zone with Xiao Ping'an.

• The Immortal Matriarch invited Xiao Ping'an into her sealed tomb, and he stayed with her for more than a hundred years before leaving the Immortal Mausoleum Forbidden Zone.
• Xiao Ping'an returned to Ziwei Star and discovered that his twenty-sixth-generation descendant, Xiao Tianshu, had dormant Sacred Body bloodline; he awakened it and taught him the Sacred Body cultivation methods.
• Xiao Tianshu cultivated under Xiao Ping'an's guidance, rapidly transforming his Bitter Sea and developing his own scripture of the stars.
• Yun'er and Weiwei arrived from the Undying Mountain, revealed that they had preserved Sacred Body essence blood for their descendants, and gave Xiao Tianshu six jade bottles of it.
• Xiao Ping'an proposed that Yun'er and Weiwei study the Spirit Mountain Forbidden Zone, and they agreed to go there together.

Xiao Ping'an razed the Spirit Mountain Forbidden Zone, then visited Purple Mountain to find the Undying Heavenly Emperor. There he discovered that the Undying Heavenly Empress, now Bai Feng'er, had borne him two sons, and learned the Undying Heavenly Emperor was undergoing another nirvana at the Undying Mountain.

• Xiao Ping'an killed two slumbering Great Perfection Saint Spirits in Spirit Mountain and left the forbidden zone as a cultivation land for the Ziwei Divine Dynasty.
• After Xiao Tianshu entered the Quasi-Emperor realm, Xiao Ping'an traveled to Purple Mountain, where the Undying Heavenly Empress emerged and welcomed him inside.
• The Undying Heavenly Empress revealed that the Undying Heavenly Emperor had used Xiao Ping'an's essence blood to father two stone-egg sons, each nurtured by three Fortune Source Eyes.
• Xiao Ping'an renamed the Undying Heavenly Empress Bai Feng'er and killed the witnesses to protect his reputation.
• Bai Feng'er told Xiao Ping'an that the Undying Heavenly Emperor had lived four lives and was now attempting a fifth, so Xiao Ping'an took her to the Undying Mountain to find him.

Xiao Ping'an returned to the Undying Mountain, where he refined his Overlord Heaven Bell into an Immortal Artifact and visited the transforming Undying Heavenly Emperor before relocating Purple Mountain and spending over a thousand years with Bai Feng'er. He then went to the Primordial Ancient Mine and discovered that Taichu was being attacked by an ancient Dark Supreme who intended to possess his body.

• Xiao Ping'an subdued the undead octopus guarding the Yellow Springs and faced the Kunlun Immortal Bell in the Undying Mountain palace.
• Xiao Ping'an endured the Kunlun Immortal Bell's power, comprehended its universal immortal Dao runes, and transformed the Overlord Heaven Bell into an Immortal Artifact.
• Xiao Ping'an learned of the Kunlun Immortal Bell's alliance with the Undying Heavenly Emperor, received its gift for the Overlord Heaven Bell, and left the Undying Heavenly Emperor to continue transforming.
• Xiao Ping'an moved Purple Mountain and Bai Feng'er to the Heaven-Reaching Ancient Star, established the Purple Mountain Forbidden Zone, and stayed with Bai Feng'er until she achieved Alternative Dao Attainment and sealed herself away.
• Xiao Ping'an followed his connection to Hundun Heavenly Venerable toward the Primordial Ancient Mine and sensed a battle there.
• A Dark Supreme from the Nether Antiquity Era trapped Taichu in black mist and declared that he would possess Taichu and claim the Primordial Ancient Mine.

A body-snatching Yin God attacked Taichu in the Primordial Ancient Mine, but Hundun Heavenly Venerable awakened as a powerful Saint Spirit and destroyed him. Xiao Ping'an reunited with Yongsheng, who had lived a fifth life, and discussed lingering threats, including the Dark Emperor Venerable and the missing Shelizi linked to Lingbao Heavenly Venerable.

• A Yin God tried to seize Taichu's body, but Hundun Heavenly Venerable emerged and erased the ghost with Chaos Immortal Light.
• Xiao Ping'an entered the Primordial Ancient Mine, where the Chaos Green Lotus welcomed him and led him toward its depths.
• Xiao Ping'an met Yongsheng, who had become a female Hundun Saint Spirit and lived a fifth life, and checked on the injured Taichu.
• Xiao Ping'an and Yongsheng discussed the Dark Emperor Venerable, whose avatars had allowed him to survive the destruction of his original body.
• Xiao Ping'an revealed that the Shelizi-like bead formed from Lingbao Heavenly Venerable's Immortal Platform had vanished from the Yellow Springs, though he still suspected Lingbao could return to life.

Xiao Ping'an and Hundun Heavenly Venerable borrowed Ancient Emperor Xuanwu’s turtle-shell weapon to find the Dark Emperor Venerable. They traced him to a sealed, lifeless continent and discovered a mysterious coffin whose power they began to challenge.

• Xiao Ping'an and Yongsheng discussed their cultivation and found that their strength was nearly equal.
• Xiao Ping'an and Yongsheng located Ancient Emperor Xuanwu in the Primordial Ancient Mine, where Xiao Ping'an gave him demon-race Great Dao Runes and asked to borrow his turtle shell.
• Xiao Ping'an, Hundun Heavenly Venerable, and Ancient Emperor Xuanwu used the turtle shell and connected objects to locate the Dark Emperor Venerable.
• Xiao Ping'an and Hundun Heavenly Venerable followed the trail through a sea eye and a black gate to a barren continent filled with corpses and Weird Substance.
• Xiao Ping'an and Hundun Heavenly Venerable found a massive, rune-covered stone coffin and used their weapons to withstand its suppressive presence.

Xiao Ping'an and Hundun Heavenly Venerable discovered that a stone coffin made by Desolate Heavenly Emperor held Emperor Venerable's fifth-lifetime corpse, which Dark Emperor Venerable had used as a place to nurture himself. Dark Emperor Venerable trapped them in a world prison and attacked with a blood-red immortal sword, while Xiao Ping'an broke the prison and struck back; the chapter left Dark Emperor Venerable bewildered by Hundun Heavenly Venerable's origins.

• Xiao Ping'an and Hundun Heavenly Venerable opened the stone coffin and found Emperor Venerable's fifth-lifetime corpse inside.
• Xiao Ping'an recognized the coffin as one Desolate Heavenly Emperor had made for the eight hundred veteran soldiers and deduced that Dark Emperor Venerable had been nurtured inside Emperor Venerable's body.
• Xiao Ping'an suppressed Emperor Venerable's corpse in a stone stele, and Hundun Heavenly Venerable placed the coffin inside the Bronze Immortal Palace, triggering a world-spanning prison that plunged into the Chaos Sea.
• Dark Emperor Venerable appeared with a blood-red immortal sword, revealed the strength of a sixth lifetime, and attacked Xiao Ping'an and Hundun Heavenly Venerable.
• Xiao Ping'an shattered the world prison and knocked the immortal sword away with his Spacetime Great Dao, prompting Dark Emperor Venerable to recognize him as the one who had killed his former main body.
• Dark Emperor Venerable examined Hundun Heavenly Venerable and wondered whether he was a monster formed from the wills of countless people.

Xiao Ping'an and Hundun Heavenly Venerable fought the Dark Emperor Venerable, whose Weird powers and strength initially threatened to overwhelm them. Xiao Ping'an turned the battle around and trapped him, but the Dark Emperor Venerable escaped through a rift in spacetime.

• The Dark Emperor Venerable attacked Xiao Ping'an and Hundun Heavenly Venerable, and they resisted his Weird Great Dao and immense strength.
• The Dark Emperor Venerable trapped Xiao Ping'an with chains that countered his time-and-space arts, but Xiao Ping'an shattered them.
• Xiao Ping'an used the Spacetime Flower of the Great Dao to wound the Dark Emperor Venerable and reverse his cage, while Hundun Heavenly Venerable refined the world around them.
• Xiao Ping'an and their Immortal Artifacts suppressed the Dark Emperor Venerable and extracted Weird Substance as the crimson immortal sword came under the artifacts' influence.
• The Dark Emperor Venerable exploded and tore open a rift in spacetime to escape.

Chuan Ying brought the weakened Immortal Ascension Cauldron to Xiao Ping'an, who discovered that Emperor Venerable’s true spirit had fused with its weapon spirit and awakened him. Emperor Venerable recovered a body of flesh and blood, reclaimed his name Yu Feng, and planned to seek immortality in the Strange World while Xiao Ping'an remained committed to becoming a Red Dust Immortal in this world.

• Chuan Ying arrived in the Underworld with the Immortal Ascension Cauldron and attacked Xiao Ping'an, who easily subdued him and took the cauldron.
• Xiao Ping'an deduced that Emperor Venerable’s true spirit had merged with the cauldron’s weapon spirit, and Chuan Ying explained how Emperor Venerable had survived and why he needed help.
• Xiao Ping'an used Emperor Venerable’s and Netherworld Venerable’s cultivation arts to awaken him, restoring him from a weapon spirit to a body of flesh and blood.
• Emperor Venerable revealed that he would reclaim his secular name, Yu Feng, and seek the Strange World, while Xiao Ping'an declined to go with him.
• Emperor Venerable said the Dark Emperor Venerable might have taken his Humanoid Undying Divine Medicine, then showed Xiao Ping'an an unfamiliar Immortal Divine Medicine he called Crimson Wood.

Xiao Ping'an and Hundun Heavenly Venerable broke the Immortal Ascension Cauldron and freed Emperor Venerable, who was reborn as a baby named Yu Feng. After Xiao Ping'an reforged the cauldron, the group concealed their actions and deterred the Dark Supremes, while Yu Feng’s plan to lure the Dark Emperor Venerable into the Strange World remained ahead.

• Emperor Venerable told Xiao Ping'an that he planned to enter the Strange World to lure the Dark Emperor Venerable there and reclaim his body, and Xiao Ping'an agreed to help free him from the Immortal Ascension Cauldron.
• The Immortal Ascension Cauldron appeared at the Cosmic Frontier, drawing the attention of the Dark Supremes, while Ancient Emperor Xuanwu and Hundun Heavenly Venerable arrived to help Xiao Ping'an break it.
• Xiao Ping'an and Hundun Heavenly Venerable joined forces with Emperor Venerable to shatter the cauldron, and the weapon deity crumbled as Emperor Venerable became a baby named Yu Feng.
• Xiao Ping'an gathered the cauldron’s fragments and reforged it without a weapon deity, then placed it in Yu Feng’s hands.
• Xiao Ping'an and Hundun Heavenly Venerable released their intimidating presences across the universe, warning the Dark Supremes not to act rashly.

Xiao Ping'an’s descendant Xiao Tianshu survived the tribulation and attained Alternative Dao Attainment, establishing the Ziwei Divine Dynasty. A thousand years later, Daode Heavenly Venerable returned to prove his Dao anew, and Xiao Ping'an protected him by killing a Dark Supreme who tried to interfere.

• Dark Supremes debated whether the Overlord Heavenly Venerable, Hundun Heavenly Venerable, and Emperor Venerable had discovered a higher realm, while the reborn Emperor Venerable remained hidden as Yu Feng.
• Xiao Ping'an recognized his descendant Xiao Tianshu undergoing an Enlightenment Tribulation and warned the Forbidden Zone Supremes not to harm him.
• Xiao Tianshu endured the tribulation and reached Alternative Dao Attainment, then established the Ziwei Divine Dynasty and unified Ziwei Star.
• A thousand years later, Daode Heavenly Venerable appeared at the Cosmic Frontier to prove his Dao anew, and observers suspected that a corpse-born soul had taken his place.
• Daode Heavenly Venerable refined his Black-Yellow Pagoda during the tribulation, while Dark Supremes tried to interfere.
• Xiao Ping'an announced that he would protect Daode Heavenly Venerable, seized a Dark Supreme from a forbidden zone, and killed him.

Daode Heavenly Venerable shattered the Heavenly Heart Imprint and proved his Dao again, while Xiao Ping'an protected him from the Dark Supremes. In the Underworld, Daode Heavenly Venerable revealed his path of reincarnation and the secrets of his repeated rebirths, leaving Xiao Ping'an wondering who would control him if his Reincarnation Seals united.

• Xiao Ping'an killed a Dark Supreme and deterred the others while Daode Heavenly Venerable underwent his tribulation.
• Daode Heavenly Venerable shattered the Heavenly Heart Imprint, walked upon the myriad Daos, and proved his Dao again.
• Daode Heavenly Venerable thanked Xiao Ping'an for protecting him, then entered the Underworld's Netherworld Soil to cultivate.
• Xiao Ping'an asked Daode Heavenly Venerable about his past lives, and Daode Heavenly Venerable said he had sealed away his memories and believed only in his current lifetime.
• Daode Heavenly Venerable revealed that his corpse had gained sentience and revived several times, sometimes failing to form a complete Reincarnation Seal and starting over.
• Daode Heavenly Venerable let Xiao Ping'an examine the three Reincarnation Seals in his body, and Xiao Ping'an asked who would control him if they united.

Xiao Ping'an examined Daode Heavenly Venerable’s Reincarnation Seals and discovered that the souls of his successive lives shared a true-spirit origin preserved in his seals and body. Daode Heavenly Venerable gained confidence in his path to Red Dust Immortal Ascension, while thousands of years later Xiao Ping'an continued to grow stronger and Hundun Heavenly Venerable remained secluded in the Primordial Ancient Mine.

• Daode Heavenly Venerable let Xiao Ping'an examine his three Reincarnation Seals after Xiao Ping'an said the souls of all his lifetimes would ultimately merge.
• Xiao Ping'an combined the laws of time, space, and reincarnation into a Great Dao Treasure Wheel and used it to study Daode Heavenly Venerable’s seals and memories.
• Xiao Ping'an discovered that each lifetime’s soul carried an imprint of Daode Heavenly Venerable’s true spirit, preserved in his seals and physical body, and explained that his successive souls shared the same origin.
• Daode Heavenly Venerable gained confidence in his path, received Xiao Ping'an’s insights, and began studying his past lives and the Dao of reincarnation.
• Several thousand years later, Xiao Ping'an had lived more than ten thousand years in his fourth lifetime and continued to grow stronger while guarding the Underworld.
• Hundun Heavenly Venerable remained secluded in the Primordial Ancient Mine, where outsiders were turned away and the Bronze Immortal Palace, the Desolate Pagoda, and a timid Chaos Green Lotus appeared from time to time.