Recaps

Xiao Ping'an gathered people willing to enter the Strange World, while his children and several others chose to remain and pursue the Red Dust Immortal Path in this world. On the appointed day, he opened a passage to the Strange World and led eighteen Dark Supremes, Chuan Ying, Cult Master Tongtian, and Xiao Fuyun toward it.

• Xiao Ping'an visited the Tyrant Body Ancestral Star, rewarded Xiao Fuyun, and agreed to take him to the Strange World.
• Xiao Ping'an awakened his children, but they chose to stay in this world and pursue the Red Dust Immortal Path; Xiao Moling emerged to cultivate while his siblings remained sealed.
• Xiao Ping'an asked others whether they wished to go to the Strange World, recruited Dark Supremes in exchange for heavenly materials and treasures, and finalized the travel group.
• Chuan Ying entrusted the Immortal Ascension Cauldron to the White-Haired Sword God and Lao Shen, who remained sealed in this world.
• Xiao Ping'an gathered eighteen Dark Supremes, Chuan Ying, Cult Master Tongtian, and Xiao Fuyun in a barren region of space and punched open a passage to the Strange World.

Xiao Ping'an sent Chuan Ying, Cult Master Tongtian, and Xiao Fuyun into the Strange World, then continued his sixth life studying the Dao and the flames of the Fire Domain. As the Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor appeared to die, he transformed through a cocoon and emerged into a third life, leaving Xiao Ping'an to witness his step onto the Red Dust Immortal Path.

• Xiao Ping'an opened a passage to the Strange World, and Chuan Ying, Cult Master Tongtian, and Xiao Fuyun entered after receiving his advice.
• The existence of the Strange World became known across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, while Xiao Ping'an continued cultivating during his sixth life.
• The Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor studied Red Dust transformation with Xiao Ping'an and eventually returned to Divine Silkworm Ridge as his second life neared its end.
• The Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor's imprint fell away from the Heavenly Heart Imprint, making many cultivators believe he had died and opening the way for future claimants to attain the Dao.
• Xiao Ping'an guarded the Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor as he entered a great cocoon, concealed his transformation from heaven, and revived.
• The Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor emerged young and powerful after living a third life, having taken a crucial step on the Red Dust Immortal Path.

The Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor sealed himself in a Divine Spirit Nine-Layer Coffin to pursue his own path to becoming a Red Dust Immortal, and his apparent death ended the suppression of his Great Dao. A new age of cultivation began, and the chapter introduced Sun, a powerful human Quasi-Emperor on Ziwei Star.

• The Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor spent twenty thousand years experiencing mortal life, then prepared for the end of his third life with a coffin based on the Nine Transformations of the Divine Silkworm and the Red Dust Immortal path.
• The Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor thanked Xiao Ping'an, asked him to look after Divine Silkworm Ridge if necessary, and entered the nine-layer coffin before it vanished into the starry sky.
• After the Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor's burial, his Great Dao suppression disappeared, spiritual Qi revived, and the Heavenly Heart Imprint drew countless cultivators seeking to prove their Dao.
• A few thousand years later, a silver age emerged, with new Great Saints and Quasi-Emperors appearing and many sealed experts competing for the Heavenly Heart Imprint.
• On Ziwei Star, a formidable human named Sun cultivated to the Quasi-Emperor realm and drew attention for his overwhelming strength and potential to become an Ancient Emperor.

The Sun Human Emperor proved his Dao, visited Xiao Ping'an and the Taiyin Human Emperor, and later ruled the world while pursuing a way to prolong his life. In his final years, he fought a powerful Taiyin incarnation he had created, seeking to fuse their opposing powers and begin a new lifetime.

• The Sun Human Emperor overcame his Heavenly Tribulation, returned to Ziwei Star, and then visited Xiao Ping'an in the Underworld to thank him for his teachings.
• Xiao Ping'an showed the Sun Human Emperor the Taiyin Human Emperor's Saint Spirit Stone Embryo and offered the Saint Spirit Transformation Method, but the Sun Human Emperor conceived a different path using yin and yang.
• The Sun Human Emperor ruled the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, established the Sun Divine Palace, obtained the Fusang Divine Tree, and spread his scriptures while aiding living beings across the universe.
• After living more than sixteen thousand years, the Sun Human Emperor consumed an Immortal Divine Medicine and began a second lifetime; he later created a powerful Taiyin incarnation to pursue a new transformation.
• In his final years, the Sun Human Emperor battled his Taiyin incarnation on the Mythic Battlefield, while Xiao Ping'an and observers watched the clash of their opposing powers.

The Sun Holy Emperor used Red Dust Power of Faith to defeat Taiyin's incarnation, transform his Sun Divine Body into a Taiyin Divine Body, and live a third life. After forty-five thousand years, he entered a Divine Spirit Nine-Layer Coffin of his own design to attempt another transformation, and the coffin vanished into the starry sky.

• The Sun Holy Emperor unleashed Red Dust Power of Faith, and living beings across the universe chanted his name to send him more strength.
• The Sun Holy Emperor used the faith power to regain his youthful strength, devour Taiyin's incarnation, and transform into a Taiyin Divine Body, living a third life.
• The Sun Holy Emperor secluded himself in the Sun Divine Palace for forty thousand years, suppressing all attempts by others to prove their Dao.
• At age forty-five thousand, the Sun Holy Emperor met Xiao Ping'an in the Underworld and entered the Divine Spirit Nine-Layer Coffin they had devised to nurture him into a Saint Spirit.
• The Sun Holy Emperor's coffin vanished into the void, and people learned that it was the second Divine Spirit Nine-Layer Coffin, alongside the Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor's.

After the Sun Holy Emperor’s death, the Blood Phoenix Ancient Emperor and the Skeleton King attained the Dao, while Xiao Ping'an guided his daughter Xiao Xingyao as she prepared to pursue the same goal. The chapter ended with the Skeleton King becoming a Saint Spirit Stone Embryo after living two lifetimes without starting a Dark Turmoil.

• The Blood Phoenix Ancient Emperor attained the Dao and fought the Overlord Heavenly Venerable’s imprint, unknowingly allowing Xiao Ping'an to glimpse his Great Dao.
• The Blood Phoenix Ancient Emperor lived two lifetimes, became a Saint Spirit Stone Embryo, and turned Blood Phoenix Mountain into a forbidden zone.
• The Skeleton King left his world of death to pursue the throne, while Xiao Ping'an studied the Fortune Source Eyes at Undying Mountain with his daughter Xiao Xingyao and two unborn sons.
• Xiao Ping'an encouraged Xiao Xingyao to pursue the Dao, taught her the Great Dao, and sent her to temper herself on the Starry Sky Ancient Road.
• The Skeleton King attained the Dao a hundred years later and protected living beings before becoming a Saint Spirit Stone Embryo after two lifetimes.

Xiao Xingyao awakened in a new golden age, learned that Xiao Ping'an was alive but undergoing a transformation, and set out on the Starry Sky Ancient Road. After entering its First Divine City with Mo Wentian and a powerful purple True Dragon, she witnessed a Saint Spirit attack the city, whose formations activated to defend everyone.

• The Qilin Ancient Emperor proved his Dao, sensed that the Overlord Heavenly Venerable was still alive, and later transformed into a Saint Spirit Stone Embryo in secret.
• Xiao Xingyao emerged from Immortal Source on the Tyrant Body Ancestral Star and learned that Xiao Ping'an had been in seclusion for many tens of thousands of years.
• The Overlord Heaven Bell told Xiao Xingyao that Xiao Ping'an was safe but undergoing a transformation, and she took a white bone sword before leaving for the Starry Sky Ancient Road.
• Xiao Xingyao met Mo Wentian at the First Divine City, and they entered after its gates opened; a purple True Dragon also arrived and became a Saint after enduring a tribulation.
• A Saint Spirit attacked the First Divine City with Extreme Dao might, and its formations activated to shield the city and its people.

Xingyao’s generation trained on the Starry Sky Ancient Road, where Myriad Dragon attained the Dao as emperor and Xingyao failed to surpass Alternative Dao Attainment. Later, a Dark Supreme whose Saint Spirit transformation failed unleashed a devastating Dark Turmoil to prolong his life.

• After the First Divine City was destroyed, Xingyao joined the purple dragon, the Six-Eared Macaque, and Mo Wentian to explore the Starry Sky Ancient Road.
• Xingyao and her companions battled Goblins and Behemoths as generations of cultivators advanced to the higher-level Starry Sky Ancient Road.
• Myriad Dragon survived his Heavenly Tribulation and attained the Dao as Myriad Dragon Emperor, but Xingyao’s attempt to shatter the Heavenly Heart Imprint failed.
• After Myriad Dragon Emperor died, a Dark Supreme whose transformation into a Saint Spirit Stone Embryo had failed emerged from a Life Forbidden Zone.
• The Dark Supreme began a Dark Turmoil, devouring living beings across the universe to repair his Immortal Platform and keep himself alive.

The Dark Supreme slaughtered countless beings until Yang Ye, a Great Accomplishment Sacred Body, emerged to fight him. A Body of Faith empowered by the prayers of the living turned the battle against the Dark Supreme, who decided to undergo Ultimate Sublimation before the Body of Faith faded.

• The Dark Supreme devoured billions of beings, restoring his strength while searching across the starry sky for more victims.
• Yang Ye left the Primordial Ancient Mine and vowed to fight the Dark Supreme, even if it cost him his life.
• Yang Ye confronted the Dark Supreme, resisted his attacks, and continued fighting despite suffering severe injuries.
• The living beings prayed for Yang Ye, whose Red Dust Power of Faith formed a powerful Body of Faith that joined the battle.
• Yang Ye and the Body of Faith tore the Dark Supreme apart and drove him back, but the Body of Faith began to weaken with time.
• The Dark Supreme, fearing he would be killed before the Body of Faith disappeared, decided to undergo Ultimate Sublimation.

The Undying Heavenly Emperor revived in his fifth life, saved the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body’s essence blood, and later witnessed the Overlord Heavenly Venerable awaken after a long transformation. The Overlord Heavenly Venerable began enduring an Immortal Ascension Tribulation, leaving the Dark Supremes astonished and hoping he could lead them to immortality.

• The Dark Supreme underwent Ultimate Sublimation and overwhelmed the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body and his faith body, but the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body burned himself and fused with his faith body to trap the Dark Supreme in Dao-dissolving flames.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor revived in his fifth life, killed the Dark Supreme, and preserved a trace of the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body’s essence blood before creating a new body for him and burying it at Undying Mountain.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor checked on Xiao Ping'an, who was nearing his seventh life, and the Hundun Heavenly Venerable, who was undergoing her sixth life in the Great Dream of Ten Thousand Ages.
• After more than two hundred thousand years, the Overlord Heavenly Venerable awakened in the Cosmic Frontier and grew younger as he stepped through time, restoring his peak strength and revealing that he had reached his seventh life.
• An Immortal Ascension Tribulation descended upon the Overlord Heavenly Venerable, who endured the Immortal Dao Divine Lightning unharmed as the Dark Supremes watched in awe and hoped he would take them to immortality.

Xiao Ping'an survived an extraordinary immortal tribulation, devoured the Immortal-Slaying Guillotine, and reappeared as an immortal beyond the True Immortal level. He reunited with the Undying Heavenly Emperor, who revealed a mysterious glimpse of the Underworld Path of Reincarnation beneath Mount Kunlun and discussed the Emperor Venerable’s transformation into Heavenly Emperor Yu Feng.

• Xiao Ping'an smashed the Immortal Artifacts and defeated the immortal manifestations summoned by the tribulation before devouring and refining the Immortal-Slaying Guillotine.
• The tribulation’s visions vanished and Xiao Ping'an disappeared, prompting the Dark Supremes to fear that he had failed; the Overlord Heaven Bell then appeared, and Xiao Ping'an returned as an immortal.
• Xiao Ping'an sensed the Undying Heavenly Emperor at the Undying Mountain and met him on the Enlightenment Cliff, where they compared their transformations and fates.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor told Xiao Ping'an that he had glimpsed beings passing through a millstone of divine light beneath Mount Kunlun, possibly revealing the Underworld Path of Reincarnation established by the Desolate Heavenly Emperor.
• Xiao Ping'an and the Undying Heavenly Emperor speculated about the hidden Kunlun secret and discussed how the Emperor Venerable had emerged through nirvana as Heavenly Emperor Yu Feng.

Xiao Ping'an used the Reincarnation Great Dao and the Deliverance Scripture to restore Yang Ye, the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body, who returned to life in a third lifetime. More than ten thousand years later, the Yuan Emperor proved the Dao, came to the Undying Mountain, and was stopped by Yang Ye.

• Xiao Ping'an used the immortal fire, the Reincarnation Rune, and his True Immortal blood to recover the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body's true-spirit fragments and guide them back into his body.
• Yang Ye was reborn through nirvana, regained consciousness, and thanked Xiao Ping'an and the Undying Heavenly Emperor for saving him.
• News of Xiao Ping'an's ascension and Yang Ye's return spread, and more than ten thousand years later the Yuan Emperor proved the Dao and fused with the Heavenly Heart Imprint.
• The Yuan Emperor traveled to the Big Dipper, briefly probed its forbidden zones, and then went to the Undying Mountain to visit Xiao Ping'an and the Undying Heavenly Emperor.
• Yang Ye blocked the Yuan Emperor from entering the area where the Undying Heavenly Emperor and Xiao Ping'an were in seclusion.

Hulu Mei emerged from her gourd ahead of time, learned that the Yuan Emperor was transforming in Undying Mountain, and set out to prove her Dao in the golden age. After growing powerful on the Starry Sky Ancient Road, she reached the Chaos Thunder Sea, where she faced Yama's Son as a mysterious Quasi-Emperor wielding an Extreme Dao Weapon appeared.

• Hulu Mei broke out of her gourd and told the Primordial Lake clan leader that she would leave, then learned from the Yuan Emperor Gourd and the Black Gourd that the Yuan Emperor was transforming into a Saint Spirit Stone Embryo in Undying Mountain.
• Hulu Mei cultivated until she Severed the Dao, rejected the clan leader's offer of protection, and rode the Black Gourd onto the Starry Sky Ancient Road.
• Hulu Mei fought her way through the golden age's prodigies and reached the Chaos Thunder Sea, where she killed a fire Saint Spirit with a single strike.
• Yama's Son challenged Hulu Mei, and the two Quasi-Emperors fought to a standstill above the Chaos Thunder Sea.
• A mysterious expert wielding a Feathered Green Gold tower arrived and began overwhelming the gathered competitors with his Extreme Dao Weapon.

Hulu Mei and the Light Emperor helped repel five Great Perfection Saint Spirits attacking Yuan Emperor Ancestral Star, though the battle devastated the planet and left Hulu Mei near death. Xiao Ping'an saved Hulu Mei through a dangerous transformation, while the Light Emperor survived with the God-Refining Pot and caught Xiao Ping'an’s attention as a possible future ally.

• Di Huang fought Hulu Mei with Extreme Dao Weapons, then vanished after killing numerous prodigies on the Starry Sky Ancient Road.
• Five Great Perfection Saint Spirits attacked Yuan Emperor Ancestral Star, slaughtered its inhabitants, and destroyed the four gourds Da Wa, Er Wa, San Wa, and Si Mei.
• Hulu Mei and the Black Gourd returned to fight alongside the Yuan Emperor Gourd; the Black Gourd’s weapon deity sacrificed himself to kill a Saint Spirit.
• The Light Emperor arrived and used a powerful formation to seize the God-Refining Pot and wound the strongest Saint Spirit.
• The Yuan Emperor Gourd brought a nearly dead Hulu Mei to Xiao Ping'an, who revived her through a dangerous transformation and learned she might eventually achieve Alternative Dao Attainment.

The Light Emperor attained the Dao, failed to break the Heavenly Heart Imprint, and later married Hulu Mei, who achieved Alternative Dao Attainment. Years later, the two had a son during their second lives, astonishing even Xiao Ping'an.

• The Light Emperor survived the Dao Attainment Tribulation, became emperor, and branded his Dao onto the Heavenly Heart Imprint.
• The Light Emperor shattered the Heavenly Heart Imprint and tried to rise above the myriad Daos, but the heavens defeated him and forced him to fuse with the imprint again.
• Three thousand years later, Hulu Mei underwent tribulation, failed to break the Heavenly Heart Imprint, and achieved Alternative Dao Attainment.
• Hulu Mei challenged the Light Emperor, and the two later married with the Overlord Heavenly Venerable and the Undying Heavenly Emperor serving as witnesses and officiants.
• The Light Emperor and Hulu Mei cultivated through their second lives, had a son on Light Star, and astonished the world with the birth.

After a Road to Immortality opened unexpectedly on the Heaven-Reaching Ancient Star, Xiao Ping'an and the Undying Heavenly Emperor confirmed it led to the real world before the Immortal Domain. Before the road collapsed, they sent Xiao Xingyao, Xiao Xuanyuan, and the little Phoenix through the Heavenly Gate, then escaped back to their world.

• More than ten thousand years after Guangming Zi was sealed, a Road to Immortality opened in a rift on the Heaven-Reaching Ancient Star, drawing the attention of Xiao Ping'an, the Undying Heavenly Emperor, and the Dark Supremes.
• Xiao Ping'an and the Undying Heavenly Emperor entered the road and reached the world before the Heavenly Gate, where Xiao Ping'an confirmed it was a genuine route to the Immortal Domain.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor returned for the little Phoenix, Xiao Xingyao, and Xiao Xuanyuan, then killed three Dark Supremes and used their essence blood to open the Heavenly Gate.
• Xiao Ping'an sent Xiao Xingyao and her two younger brothers into the Immortal Domain, while he and the Undying Heavenly Emperor escaped as the Road to Immortality collapsed.

After a hundred thousand years, Xiao Ping'an gathered his family and allies in the Underworld to help them break the Heavenly Heart Imprint and prove their Dao as emperors together. As an unprecedented heavenly tribulation gathered, he charged into the lightning to begin.

• The Road to Immortality collapsed after two Dark Supremes rushed the Heavenly Gate and were burned to ash, while immortal spirits burst forth and scattered Longevity Substance across the world.
• News spread that Xiao Xingyao and Xiao Ping'an's two sons had entered the Immortal Domain, and people came to believe Xiao Ping'an had become immortal himself.
• A hundred thousand years passed, and the Undying Heavenly Emperor became a Hundun Phoenix and lived his sixth life.
• Xiao Ping'an summoned his sons Xiao Moling and Xiao Yungui, Xiao Tianshu, the Divine Race heavenly maiden, Yun'er, Weiwei, Cang Yuan, and Buddha Mother to help them prove their Dao and become emperors together.
• Buddha Mother warned Xiao Ping'an that bearing the heavenly tribulation's backlash could endanger his path, but he assured everyone that he had calculated the risks and was prepared.
• Xiao Ping'an told the others to enter the area he marked out when he broke the myriad Daos, then charged into the gathering heavenly tribulation as the Undying Heavenly Emperor guarded the Life Source Lands.

Xiao Ping'an shattered the Heavenly Heart Imprint and held back the world’s Great Daos, allowing his family and friends to undergo tribulation and attempt to attain the Dao and become emperors. Seeing the unprecedented opportunity, Forbidden Zone Heirs and other powerful geniuses joined them as the universe watched the tribulations rage.

• Xiao Ping'an endured the cosmic tribulation unharmed, then shattered the Heavenly Heart Imprint and the myriad Daos of heaven and earth.
• Xiao Ping'an repeatedly crushed the Heavenly Heart Imprint, keeping it from interfering while he invited his family and friends to undergo tribulation.
• Xiao Tianshu, Yun'er, Weiwei, Buddha Mother, and others faced their terrifying tribulations as Xiao Ping'an guarded them.
• Forbidden Zone Heirs and peerless geniuses emerged and triggered their own tribulations, hoping to seize the chance to attain the Dao and become emperors.
• The universe’s cultivators watched the linked tribulations shake heaven and earth and marveled at the miracle Xiao Ping'an had created.

Xiao Ping'an helped eight allies prove their Dao and become emperors, then withdrew and left the uninvited tribulation-seekers to face the deadly backlash alone. After more than a hundred thousand years without a new emperor, the story shifted to Long Aotu, a snow hare who became a demon prodigy and set out for the Starry Sky Ancient Road under the name Xue Yueqing.

• Xiao Ping'an protected the positions reserved for his family and friends, helped Xiao Tianshu, Xiao Yungui, Xiao Moling, the twin sisters, the Divine Race's heavenly maiden, the Buddha Mother, and Cang Yuan become emperors, and took them to the Undying Mountain.
• Xiao Ping'an stopped bearing the tribulations of the uninvited cultivators, and most of them died or abandoned their attempts as the heavenly lightning overwhelmed them.
• The universe was shaken by the eight new emperors, and the suppression of their combined Great Daos prevented anyone from proving their Dao for over a hundred thousand years.
• On a nameless white planet, Long Aotu passed his Severing the Dao tribulation with his Feathered Green Gold ruler and departed for the Starry Sky Ancient Road.
• At the First Divine City, Long Aotu took human form and introduced himself as Xue Yueqing while quietly looking for friends and followers.

Long Aotu befriended Qingluan while waiting for the Divine City to open, then confronted the Dragon Prince, the Myriad Dragon Emperor’s son, after he arrived and mocked Long Aotu’s rabbit origins. Their battle escalated into a clash of divine weapons, and the Dragon Prince was shocked when Long Aotu proved his equal.

• Long Aotu defeated peerless geniuses while waiting for the Divine City gates to open, and Qingluan introduced herself and agreed to travel with him.
• Qingluan told Long Aotu that contenders had once waited over a hundred years for the gates to open, and he prepared to attack them himself.
• The Dragon Prince arrived, causing the Divine City gates to open, and killed several beings with impure dragon blood before noticing Long Aotu.
• The Dragon Prince mocked Long Aotu for being a snow rabbit who sought to become a True Dragon, and Long Aotu declared his ambition to create a safe haven for snow rabbits.
• Long Aotu and the Dragon Prince fought evenly with their dragon might, then clashed their Feathered Green Gold ruler and Dragon Marked Black Gold spear.
• Long Aotu’s weapon struck the Dragon Prince hard enough to split his hand, leaving the Dragon Prince unable to understand how a snow rabbit could rival him.

Long Aotu battled the Dragon Prince and, while gaining insight from the Dragon Fist, began forging a Great Dao and secret art of his own. He left the Dragon Prince battered and repeatedly tore away dragon flesh, demanding the Myriad Dragon Emperor’s scripture.

• The Dragon Prince boasted of his lineage and offered to spare Long Aotu if he became his mount, but Long Aotu refused and resolved to defeat him.
• Long Aotu and the Dragon Prince transformed into silver and purple dragons and fought fiercely; Long Aotu learned to use the nine Great Emperor runes from the Dao Scripture and gained the upper hand.
• The Dragon Prince healed with Nine Secrets: Zhe, then unleashed the Dragon Emperor’s Dragon Fist, while Long Aotu’s ordinary demon-race techniques began to rival it.
• Long Aotu grasped the Dragon Fist’s divine essence and used it to shape a path of his own, choosing to prolong the fight so he could keep learning.
• Long Aotu battered the Dragon Prince, collected pieces of his flesh, and demanded that he hand over the Ancient Emperor Scripture or die.

Long Aotu defeated the Dragon Prince, then spent centuries on the Starry Sky Ancient Road with Qingluan before returning home and discovering that Xiao Wu had died. After more than a thousand years beside her grave, Xue Yueqing appeared at the Cosmic Frontier amid the Heavenly Tribulation of Enlightenment.

• Long Aotu broke the Dragon Prince's Dragon Marked Black Gold spear, defeated him repeatedly, and extracted the Myriad Dragon Emperor's inheritance and other secret techniques from his memories.
• Long Aotu and Qingluan crossed the Starry Sky Ancient Road, became Great Saints and then Near-Dao Attainers, and developed complicated feelings for each other.
• Xue Yueqing returned home alone and learned that Xiao Wu had dissolved into the Dao and died; he made a jade rabbit cenotaph and stayed beside her grave for over a thousand years.
• The Dragon Prince and Qingluan became leading candidates to prove their Dao after Xue Yueqing withdrew from the struggle, but no one managed to become an emperor.
• The Heavenly Tribulation of Enlightenment appeared at the Cosmic Frontier, where a sacred silver dragon swam through the sea of lightning.

Xue Yueqing became the Demon Emperor after failing to shatter the Heavenly Heart Imprint, while Fairy Qingluan and the Dragon Prince later reached Alternative Dao Attainment. More than a hundred thousand years later, Di Huang attained the Dao as an emperor and visited Xiao Ping'an at Undying Mountain seeking guidance.

• Xue Yueqing shattered the Heavenly Heart Imprint but failed to tread upon the myriad Daos, then merged with the imprint and became the Demon Emperor.
• Fairy Qingluan and the Dragon Prince became experts of Alternative Dao Attainment, and Xue Yueqing later married Fairy Qingluan before they withdrew from the world.
• After Xue Yueqing passed away, Xiao Ping'an continued advancing along the Red Dust Immortal Path while more than a hundred thousand years passed.
• Di Huang defeated his rivals, attained the Dao as an emperor, and spent a thousand years cultivating in seclusion.
• Di Huang visited Xiao Ping'an at Undying Mountain, defended his choice of imperial title, and sought guidance about the Red Dust Immortal Path.

Xiao Ping'an guided Di Huang toward the Red Dust Immortal path, while a new golden age eventually brought the Fighting Saint Ape and Di Que into conflict. After Di Que attained the Dao and the Fighting Saint Ape repeatedly challenged him, both shattered the Heavenly Heart Imprint and became Heavenly Emperors.

• Xiao Ping'an explained the Red Dust Immortal path to Di Huang, who chose to begin the Saint Spirit Transformation Method in the Underworld at the end of his life.
• After a golden age produced many powerful contenders, the Fighting Saint Ape and Di Que fought across the Starry Sky Ancient Road and remained evenly matched.
• The Fighting Saint Ape defeated Di Que in the Mythic Battlefield, but later failed to attain the Dao and was left gravely wounded.
• Di Que used Xiao Ping'an's Red Dust Immortal theory to live a second life, then merged with the Heavenly Heart Imprint and became an emperor.
• The Fighting Saint Ape consumed a Peach of Immortality, lived a second life, reached Alternative Dao Attainment, and repeatedly challenged Di Que.
• When the Fighting Saint Ape summoned another Dao Attainment Tribulation, he and Di Que shattered the Heavenly Heart Imprint together and became Heavenly Emperors.

The Netherworld Venerable successfully attained the Dao and became the fourth emperor, then withdrew into the Underworld to cultivate. Later, the Fighting Saint Emperor attempted to become a Battle Immortal but was overwhelmed by the Immortal Ascension Tribulation and began dissolving into the Dao.

• Xiao Ping'an watched the Netherworld Venerable endure the Dao Attainment Tribulation and explained to the other emperors that he was the reincarnated founder of the Underworld, pursuing Red Dust Immortality through repeated lifetimes.
• The Netherworld Venerable passed the tribulation, and his three Reincarnation Seals reappeared; he then returned to the Underworld and devoted himself to cultivation.
• The Fighting Saint Emperor later began an Immortal Ascension Tribulation at the Cosmic Frontier, attempting to follow the Battle Immortal Path.
• The Fighting Saint Emperor fought the powerful immortal spirits formed by the tribulation while burning his lifespan and origin, but Xiao Ping'an judged that his strength and accumulated foundation were insufficient.
• The Fighting Saint Emperor's body burst apart amid the lightning, and his failed attempt to become a Battle Immortal left him dissolving into the Dao.