Recaps

After the Fighting Saint Emperor failed to become a Battle Immortal, Xiao Ping'an delayed the Heaven and Earth Great Tribulation before it devastated the world at the end of the Primordial Era. Xiao Ping'an survived, used the Heavenly Blade to begin his eighth lifetime, and decided to forge a weapon from its fragments.

• Xiao Ping'an stabilized the world and held back the Heaven and Earth Great Tribulation for a little over 30,000 years.
• Xiao Ping'an sent the dying Fighting Saint Emperor, Dongfang Taiyi, and Di Que to the Strange World, while the Fighting Saint Emperor's son and brother were sealed in the Undying Mountain.
• The Netherworld Venerable completed his cultivation, entered his coffin, and died, ending the age of four emperors standing side by side.
• Xiao Ping'an released his suppression of the Great Tribulation, and Heaven's Will Blade struck the world with successive slashes that killed nine-tenths of all living beings.
• Xiao Ping'an caught the manifested Heavenly Blade, used it to begin his eighth lifetime, and shattered it into fragments.
• Xiao Ping'an gathered the Heavenly Blade fragments and resolved to forge a new weapon to strengthen his offensive power.

Xiao Ping'an forged Heaven's Will Blade into the Immortal Artifact Great Red Heaven Blade as the Heaven and Earth Great Tribulation devastated the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands. In the ensuing Dharma-ending age, he spread and developed Qi Refining until it became an immortal scripture.

• Xiao Ping'an combined rare immortal materials, divine fire, and fragments of Heaven's Will Blade to forge the Great Red Heaven Blade, which devoured the tribulation's destructive presence.
• After the tribulation killed more than ninety percent of living beings and drained the world's spiritual Qi, Xiao Ping'an traveled among the ruins and settled in a small city on Earth.
• Xiao Ping'an fed and adopted a group of little beggars, taught them his Qi Refining Technique, and spread it across Earth and beyond despite their inability to advance far in the Dharma-ending age.
• Over tens of thousands of years, Xiao Ping'an studied the Dao within nature and created a method that established Dao laws through his own body, allowing cultivation amid the ruined world.
• After nearly a hundred thousand years of exploration, Xiao Ping'an developed the Qi Refining Technique into an immortal scripture.

Xiao Ping'an spread Qi refinement across the world, aided cultivation and disaster relief, and guided Hundun Heavenly Venerable toward a possible seventh life to revive the Heavenly Heart Imprint. In the Eternal Kingdom, Xia Qiu confronted his unruly disciple Dao Yan and was shocked by the power of Dao Yan’s golden-armored construct.

• An old farmer preserved Xiao Ping'an’s Qi refinement scripture, and his grandson You Chao cultivated its techniques, later receiving deeper instruction and a star-forged mirror from Xiao Ping'an.
• You Chao traveled in search of the Dao with guidance from the weapon deity inside the mirror, eventually becoming a Dao-Slaying King and spreading cultivation methods.
• Xiao Ping'an established pure lands, rescued people from disasters, and guided Hundun Heavenly Venerable’s transformation in hopes of restoring the Heavenly Heart Imprint.
• In the Eternal Kingdom, Saint King Yu Mu emerged from seclusion to preach, while his disciple Dao Yan stayed away to refine pills and pursue unorthodox paths.
• Xia Qiu broke through Dao Yan’s formations and was struck by a golden-armored giant with the presence of a Great Accomplishment King, then recognized Dao Yan within it.

Dao Yan returned to the sect with a Golden-Armored Giant God and Primordial Life Stone, then entered a month-long state of Dao comprehension that astonished the sect. Ancient Saint Yu Mu recognized Dao Yan’s talent in developing the Super Evolution Fluid and encouraged him to pursue his unconventional path.

• Dao Yan emerged from his Golden-Armored Giant God and told Xia Qiu that he had created it through his research into formations and weapon refinement.
• Dao Yan revealed that he had obtained Primordial Life Stone and showed Xia Qiu the piece after explaining that he had put some of it into his pill furnace.
• Xia Qiu brought Dao Yan to hear Ancient Saint Yu Mu’s discourse, where Dao Yan entered deep Dao comprehension and remained absorbed for more than thirty days.
• Ancient Saint Yu Mu and the sect elders discussed Dao Yan’s talent and unconventional pursuits, and Yu Mu decided to support him in forging his own path.
• After Dao Yan awakened, Ancient Saint Yu Mu examined his Super Evolution Fluid and urged him to continue his research and follow his chosen Dao.

Dao Yan gained the Saint patriarch’s support, received the Nine-Turn Immortal Pill formula, and successfully refined Super Evolution Fluid. He began using it to transform his body and primordial spirit, sensing the Gates of All Wonders opening within him.

• Dao Yan explained his belief that paths involving pills and divine weapons could also lead to the Great Dao, and the Saint patriarch praised his ideas.
• The Saint patriarch gave Dao Yan the Nine-Turn Immortal Pill formula and a treasured pill furnace, and told him of the coming Starry Sky Ancient Road trials.
• With the sect’s support, Dao Yan refined Super Evolution Fluid over the course of a year, using available materials and insights from the immortal pill formula.
• Dao Yan successfully produced the Super Evolution Fluid, which the sect’s elders guarded before distributing portions to him, the Saint patriarch, and other grand elders.
• Dao Yan entered a jade pool with the Super Evolution Fluid and began refining it, experiencing visions of cosmic evolution and sensing the Gates of All Wonders opening within his body.

Dao Yan used the Super Evolution Fluid to transform his body, improve the Primordial Spirit Treasured Wheel technique, and break through to become a king before setting out on the Starry Sky Ancient Road. After enduring deadly trials and rising to Saint and then Quasi-Emperor-level battles, he reached the final passage and faced the Divine Venerable and Six-Eared Macaque with his Golden-Armored Giant God.

• Dao Yan absorbed the Super Evolution Fluid, deduced a higher resurrection technique, and severed his connection to the starry universe while drawing on its starlight.
• Dao Yan survived the Severing the Dao tribulation, became a king, shared his Super Evolution Fluid refining method, and later reached Great Accomplishment King.
• The Saint patriarch sent Dao Yan onto the Starry Sky Ancient Road, and Dao Yan promised to seek treasures that could heal the patriarch's Great Dao injury.
• Dao Yan survived the road's trials, reached the First City of the Human Race as a seeded contender, and broke through to the Saint Realm before arriving.
• In the Chaos Thunder Sea, Dao Yan used his Golden-Armored Giant God to defeat the Gold-Devouring Beast and then blasted apart the Divine Venerable and Six-Eared Macaque.

Dao Yan fought off a host of Quasi-Emperor geniuses in the Chaos Thunder Sea before reaching the Overlord Heavenly Venerable’s imprint and meeting Xiao Ping'an’s true body. Xiao Ping'an explained the path to Red Dust Immortality, guided Dao Yan’s cultivation, and examined the Great Dao laws in his mecha and evolution fluid.

• Dao Yan used the Golden-Armored Giant God and Nine Secrets: Zu to defeat and kill many peerless geniuses who tried to seize its Dao Tribulation Gold.
• Dao Yan entered the deepest reaches of the Chaos Thunder Sea and found the Overlord Heavenly Venerable seated on a divine mountain.
• The Overlord Heavenly Venerable revealed that Xiao Ping'an was his true body, discussed the Heavenly Heart Imprint and Red Dust Immortal cultivation, and explained Alternative Dao Attainment to Dao Yan.
• Xiao Ping'an advised Dao Yan to strengthen his physical body and primordial spirit before further tempering his golden mecha, then gave him scriptures and cultivation guidance.
• Dao Yan shared his Great Dao, mecha, and Super Evolution Fluid research with Xiao Ping'an, who examined the laws contained in the God-Level Evolution Fluid.

Dao Yan received Xiao Ping'an’s guidance on his unorthodox cultivation and alchemy, then found a withered Immortal Divine Medicine and returned to the Eternal Kingdom as a Quasi-Emperor Ninth Heaven powerhouse. His grandmaster and the Eternal Star Domain’s cultivators welcomed his return.

• Xiao Ping'an praised Dao Yan’s Super Evolution Fluid, gave him the complete Nine-Turn Immortal Pill formula and Nine Secrets: Zu, and advised him to seek the great Dao rather than merely pursue the fluid’s effects.
• Dao Yan learned that his ancestor had extended his life, returned to the Starry Sky Ancient Road, and eventually reached the Quasi-Emperor Ninth Heaven.
• While traveling through a ruined stretch of space, Dao Yan found a sealed small world containing a withered Immortal Divine Medicine and discovered a surviving spark of spiritual light in its roots.
• Dao Yan preserved the root in divine fluid, refined the dead Life Ancient Tree into a coffin, and continued traveling before heading home.
• Dao Yan returned to the Eternal Star Domain and released his Quasi-Emperor presence, prompting its inhabitants, including Saint Yumu and Xia Qiu, to welcome him.

Dao Yan returned to Yu Mu Holy Land as a Near-Dao Attainer, shared gifts and stories with Xia Qiu and Great Saint Yu Mu, and refined the Hundun Evolution Fluid. After reviving the Life Ancient Tree and surviving his Enlightenment tribulation, he reached Alternative Dao Attainment and prepared to work with Overlord Heavenly Venerable to repair the Heavenly Heart Imprint and become the first Great Emperor of Desolate Antiquity.

• Dao Yan returned to Yu Mu Holy Land, where Xia Qiu, Great Saint Yu Mu, and the people welcomed him as a powerful Quasi-Emperor.
• Dao Yan gave Xia Qiu and Great Saint Yu Mu Super Evolution Fluid that could extend their lifespans and improve their cultivation.
• Dao Yan traveled with the person he loved, defeated challengers with ease, and refined the strongest Hundun Evolution Fluid.
• Dao Yan immersed the Life Ancient Tree's rootstock in the fluid, revived it, and studied the laws revealed by its return to life.
• Dao Yan used the Hundun Evolution Fluid and survived a terrifying Enlightenment tribulation, reaching Alternative Dao Attainment.
• Dao Yan prepared to join Overlord Heavenly Venerable in activating and repairing the Heavenly Heart Imprint so he could become the first Great Emperor of Desolate Antiquity.

Xiao Ping'an used the Great Red Heaven Blade to replenish the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, gather the scattered myriad Daos, and reforge the Heavenly Heart Imprint, ending the Age of Dharma Decline. Dao Yan survived the Dao Attainment Tribulation and became a Great Emperor as Xiao Ping'an watched over the restored imprint.

• Xiao Ping'an wielded the Great Red Heaven Blade to cleave the Hundun, restore heaven and earth's essence Qi, and erode the tribulation Qi left by the Primordial Era calamity.
• Xiao Ping'an deduced how to restore the Heavenly Heart Imprint, then gathered the Great Dao patterns hidden throughout all things and merged them into the imprint.
• Xiao Ping'an revived the myriad Daos and reforged the Heavenly Heart Imprint, bringing the Age of Dharma Decline to an end and triggering Dao Yan's Dao Attainment Tribulation.
• Xiao Ping'an held up the Heavenly Heart Imprint and promised to protect it while Dao Yan faced the tribulation.
• Dao Yan endured the lightning, refined the myriad Daos into his Extreme Dao Weapon, and placed his Dao imprint on the Heavenly Heart Imprint to become a Great Emperor.

Xiao Ping'an helped Dao Yan restore the Heavenly Heart Imprint, ending the Great Dao's suppression and ushering in the Desolate Ancient Era with Dao Yan as its first Great Emperor. After centuries of consolidating his realm, Dao Yan visited the Underworld to meet Xiao Ping'an, where Yama's Son's smug attitude nearly provoked him.

• Xiao Ping'an helped Dao Yan raise the reforged Heavenly Heart Imprint, which restored the world's Great Dao and ended the Heaven and Earth Great Tribulation.
• Overlord Heavenly Venerable proclaimed the end of the Primordial Era and named Dao Yan the first Great Emperor of the Desolate Ancient Era, while Dark Supremes discussed his methods and the Hundun Evolution Fluid.
• Dao Yan spent several hundred years merging with the Heavenly Heart Imprint, consolidating his Dao Fruit, and studying longevity through the Life Ancient Tree.
• Dark Supremes invited Dao Yan to their forbidden zones to discuss his evolution fluid, but he chose to visit Xiao Ping'an in the Underworld first.
• Yama's Son led Dao Yan to Yama Hall, then smugly looked down on the Great Emperor because Xiao Ping'an was his master, nearly making Dao Yan lose his composure.

Dao Yan left the world for the Strange World, while Fuxi and Nüwa emerged in a hidden-Dao age and worked to revive cultivation. With Xiao Ping'an's guidance and the Great Red Heaven Blade, they shattered the Heavenly Heart Imprint, fused into a Dragon God, and passed the heavenly tribulation as a Heavenly Emperor.

• Dao Yan lived a third life, then entered the Strange World with the Overlord Heavenly Venerable's help to seek his own path.
• Fuxi and Nüwa emerged from sealing, reached Alternative Dao Attainment, and revived the great Dao across the world.
• Fuxi and Nüwa visited Xiao Ping'an, who lent them the Great Red Heaven Blade and advised them on breaking the Heavenly Heart Imprint.
• Fuxi and Nüwa joined forces at the Cosmic Frontier and used the blade to shatter the Heavenly Heart Imprint, triggering a terrible heavenly tribulation.
• Fuxi and Nüwa fused into a divine dragon and fought the tribulation with their own strength, ultimately becoming a Heavenly Emperor.

Xiao Ping'an watched Fuxi and Nüwa become Heavenly Emperors, then witnessed Hundun Heavenly Venerable and the Undying Heavenly Emperor enter their seventh lives. After revealing that he had achieved Red Dust Immortal Ascension, he reunited with them and drew the Dark Supremes’ attention to their method of pursuing immortality.

• Fuxi and Nüwa proved their Daos, became Heavenly Emperors, and respectfully greeted Xiao Ping'an as their master.
• Xiao Ping'an followed the yellow clay coffin into the Primordial Ancient Mine and watched Hundun Heavenly Venerable emerge after living a seventh life.
• Xiao Ping'an brought Hundun Heavenly Venerable to the Undying Mountain, where they found the Undying Heavenly Emperor had also lived a seventh life by devouring the Immortal Tears Green Gold Saint Spirit.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor and Hundun Heavenly Venerable discovered that Xiao Ping'an had achieved Red Dust Immortal Ascension, and the three reunited to discuss their future.
• The Dark Supremes, Fuxi, and Nüwa gathered before Xiao Ping'an, Hundun Heavenly Venerable, and the Undying Heavenly Emperor to seek guidance on becoming Red Dust Immortals.

Xiao Ping'an, now a Red Dust Immortal, taught the Dark Supremes the Saint Spirit Transformation Method and urged them to pursue nirvana instead of preying on living beings. After they left to begin their transformations, he continued cultivating and started pursuing a tenth lifetime transformation.

• Xiao Ping'an revealed that he had lived nine lifetimes to become a Red Dust Immortal and offered the Dark Supremes guidance on the path.
• Xiao Ping'an explained the Saint Spirit Transformation Method, then imprinted it on the Starry Sky Ancient Road for future cultivators to study.
• The Dark Supremes trusted Xiao Ping'an's advice, thanked him, and returned to their forbidden zones to prepare for transformation; they also imprinted their own methods on the Starry Sky Ancient Road.
• Xiao Ping'an promised to protect the Dark Supremes while they transformed, then returned to the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree to cultivate.
• Xiao Ping'an began attempting a tenth lifetime transformation, while the Undying Heavenly Emperor considered methods for reaching his eighth lifetime.

Fuxi and Nüwa failed to reach a fifth Lifetime through their black-hole transformation and chose to enter the Strange World, where they could continue their cultivation. Their departure left the world praising Xiao Ping'an as the Overlord Heavenly Venerable, while he remained content with his existing title.

• Fuxi and Nüwa attempted to live out a fifth Lifetime by transforming into a black hole, but their method failed.
• Xiao Ping'an encouraged Fuxi and Nüwa, and they decided to enter the Strange World and use the Saint Spirit Transformation Method.
• Xiao Ping'an opened a passage to the Strange World, and Fuxi and Nüwa departed with the Dragon Stele and Five-Colored Divine Stone, leaving Fuxi's Eight Trigrams Diagram with the Feng Family.
• The living beings of the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands sensed the passage open and learned that Fuxi and Nüwa had entered the Strange World.
• Quasi-Emperors and Great Saints praised Xiao Ping'an's achievements and called him a peerless father, but he preferred to keep the title Overlord Heavenly Venerable.

After Fuxi and Nüwa entered the Strange World, Xiao Ping'an welcomed the wild Great Accomplished Tyrant Body Kungu into the Tyrant Body Ancestral Star. Decades of years passed without a new emperor until a Great Perfection Saint Spirit emerged at the Cosmic Frontier, declared himself the Stone Emperor, and faced a gathering of hostile Quasi-Emperors.

• Fuxi and Nüwa entered the Strange World, and their departure ended their 103,000-year reign and erased their Great Dao imprints from the Heavenly Heart Imprint.
• After ten thousand years without a new Great Emperor, Kungu arrived to pay respects to Xiao Ping'an and asked to join the Tyrant Body Ancestral Star.
• Xiao Ping'an welcomed Kungu, and another thirty-five thousand years passed without anyone proving their Dao and becoming an emperor.
• A Great Perfection Saint Spirit emerged at the Cosmic Frontier, displayed overwhelming power, and named himself the Stone Emperor.
• Quasi-Emperors rushed to stop the Stone Emperor from claiming the Heavenly Heart Imprint, but his strength frightened many of them as they surrounded him.

The Stone Emperor defeated the Quasi-Emperors who hunted him, attained the Dao as a Saint Spirit Great Emperor, and took revenge on their families. After founding the Saint Spirit Heavenly Court, he set his sights on the Primordial Ancient Mine and decided to force Hundun Heavenly Venerable to marry him.

• The Stone Emperor suppressed his cultivation and challenged the attacking Quasi-Emperors, killing many despite their use of Extreme Dao Weapons.
• The Stone Emperor endured the Dao-attainment tribulation, tried to break the Heavenly Heart Imprint, then merged with it and declared that he would be the Stone Emperor rather than a Great Emperor.
• After stabilizing his realm, the Stone Emperor killed the families of the Quasi-Emperors who had attacked him, then founded the Saint Spirit Heavenly Court and gathered Saint Spirits.
• The Stone Emperor decided to take over the Primordial Ancient Mine and force Hundun Heavenly Venerable to marry him, alarming the world.

Stone Emperor invaded the Primordial Ancient Mine, hoping to seize its treasures and Hundun Heavenly Venerable’s Dao Fruits while she transformed. Taichu emerged from the mine and challenged Stone Emperor to battle on the Mythic Battlefield, leaving the outcome unknown.

• Stone Emperor arrived on Ziwei Star with many Great Perfection Saint Spirits and forced his way into the Primordial Ancient Mine despite warnings from the Desolate Pagoda and the Bronze Immortal Palace.
• Stone Emperor revealed that he wanted to take the mine, claim Hundun Heavenly Venerable’s Dao Fruits, and make her bear his children.
• The Desolate Pagoda and the Bronze Immortal Palace learned that Taichu had awakened inside the mine.
• Taichu emerged as a powerful Saint Spirit with Alternative Dao Attainment and announced his name to the world.
• Taichu challenged Stone Emperor to fight on the Mythic Battlefield, and Stone Emperor charged in to face him.

Taichu, a Saint Spirit nurtured by the Primordial Ancient Mine, challenged Stone Emperor and defeated him despite Stone Emperor's Heavenly Heart Imprint. Taichu imprisoned Stone Emperor in the Bronze Immortal Palace, intending to use him later to break the Heavenly Heart Imprint and prove the Dao.

• Taichu and Stone Emperor fought in the Mythic Battlefield while Quasi-Emperors watched and tried to comprehend their Great Dao.
• Taichu overpowered Stone Emperor, repeatedly destroying his body and primordial spirit with immortal Dao runes and sealing him in a shrinking cage.
• Stone Emperor detonated himself to break free, then tried to curse Taichu, but Taichu dismissed the curse and immobilized him.
• The Bronze Immortal Palace opened its doors and imprisoned Stone Emperor, while the Desolate Pagoda and Chaos Green Lotus arrived.
• Taichu spared Stone Emperor because he planned to break the Heavenly Heart Imprint and prove the Dao by stepping on Stone Emperor's head.

Taichu defeated Stone Emperor, made him a magically bound servant, and returned to the Primordial Ancient Mine, where he continued preparing to break the Heavenly Heart Imprint. The chapter ended with Taichu humiliating Stone Emperor as the defeated emperor raged helplessly in captivity.

• Taichu returned to Ziwei Star with Stone Emperor imprisoned and announced that he had sentenced him to eternal slavery in the Primordial Ancient Mine.
• Taichu rejected the Great Perfection Saint Spirits’ invitation to become the Saint Spirit Heavenly Court’s second Lord and returned to the Primordial Ancient Mine to cultivate.
• Taichu continued studying Stone Emperor’s cultivation and secret arts, repeatedly searching his soul while Stone Emperor refused to submit.
• Taichu placed a servant seal on Stone Emperor’s primordial spirit, binding him to serve Taichu.
• Taichu called Stone Emperor a dog slave and threatened to turn him into fertilizer if he disobeyed, while Stone Emperor roared in helpless rage.

Taichu forces Stone Emperor into servitude, then breaks the Heavenly Heart Imprint and proves his Dao as Primordial Heavenly Emperor. Ten thousand years later, Ancient Emperor Xuanwu emerges from a Saint Spirit Stone Embryo, withstands his own tribulation, and becomes Heavenly Emperor Xuanwu.

• Taichu binds Stone Emperor with the Divine Deliverance Art, consumes part of him, and sends him to carve Chaos Pure Lands at the Cosmic Frontier.
• After two thousand years, Taichu faces the Dao Attainment Tribulation, shatters the Heavenly Heart Imprint, and proves his Dao above the myriad Daos as Primordial Heavenly Emperor.
• Ten thousand years later, Ancient Emperor Xuanwu emerges from the Saint Spirit Stone Embryo in the Primordial Ancient Mine and goes to face a heavenly tribulation.
• Ancient Emperor Xuanwu endures the Chaos Thunder, breaks through the Heavenly Heart Imprint, and absorbs the thunder as nourishment.
• Ancient Emperor Xuanwu completes his transformation into a Saint Spirit, proves his Dao, and is hailed as Heavenly Emperor Xuanwu.

Carefree Heavenly Venerate emerged from a Saint Spirit Stone Embryo after living a fifth life and learned how far Overlord Heavenly Venerable and the other transformed experts had progressed. After studying Overlord Heavenly Venerable’s immortal Dao imprint, he considered his future path and recognized that the Saint Spirit Transformation Method had redirected the Dark Supremes away from threatening the world.

• Taichu welcomed Ancient Emperor Xuanwu back to the Primordial Ancient Mine, and they praised Overlord Heavenly Venerable and his teachings.
• More than twenty thousand years later, Carefree Heavenly Venerate emerged from the Reincarnation Sea after successfully living a fifth life through the Saint Spirit Transformation Method.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerate discovered that the Reincarnation Sea’s Supremes and Ancient Emperors were transforming into Saint Spirits, and the Golden Ancient Emperor contacted him.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerate learned that Overlord Heavenly Venerable had become an immortal and that Hundun Heavenly Venerable and the Undying Heavenly Emperor were approaching their eighth lives.
• At the Undying Mountain, Carefree Heavenly Venerate spent over two thousand years studying Overlord Heavenly Venerable’s Red Dust Immortal Dao imprint and deepened his understanding of the path to longevity.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerate weighed living a sixth life against entering the Strange World and realized that Overlord Heavenly Venerable’s transformation method had defused the Dark Supremes’ threat to ordinary beings.

Carefree Heavenly Venerate revisited the Starry Sky Ancient Road and the Eternal Star Domain, reflecting on Overlord Heavenly Venerable’s influence before returning to the Reincarnation Sea to pursue a sixth life. Heavenly Emperor Xuanwu visited him to discuss longevity methods, and Carefree Heavenly Venerate greeted the former gate-guarding little turtle as an emperor who had surpassed his expectations.

• Carefree Heavenly Venerate toured the Starry Sky Ancient Road, resisted taking its treasures, and explored the prosperous Eternal Star Domain and its Dao Yan Great Emperor mechs.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerate returned to the Reincarnation Sea to study longevity methods and seek a sixth life.
• Heavenly Emperor Xuanwu traveled to the Big Dipper, examined its changed chaos formation, and made his way to the Reincarnation Sea to seek Carefree Heavenly Venerate’s advice.
• Heavenly Emperor Xuanwu discovered that the Reincarnation Sea housed many Saint Spirit Stone Embryos and learned that Golden Ancient Emperor was nearing his transformation.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerate welcomed Heavenly Emperor Xuanwu beneath the Golden Sacred Tree and praised the former gate-guarding turtle for becoming an emperor and reaching his fourth life.

Heavenly Emperor Xuanwu met Carefree Heavenly Venerate and Daughter of the Ruins, whose family history linked Xuanwu's ancestor to the Lord of Reincarnation. Xuanwu asked about Carefree Heavenly Venerate's possession method, and after clarifying he wanted to study it rather than seize a young Dao attainer, he received Carefree Heavenly Venerate's insights as they considered the challenges ahead.

• Heavenly Emperor Xuanwu credited Overlord Heavenly Venerable's guidance for helping him prove his Dao and become an emperor.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerate introduced Daughter of the Ruins to Heavenly Emperor Xuanwu and revealed that Xuanwu's ancestor had been the Lord of Reincarnation's mount.
• Daughter of the Ruins recognized the connection and recalled riding the divine tortoise when she was young, then respectfully praised Xuanwu's rise.
• Heavenly Emperor Xuanwu asked Carefree Heavenly Venerate to teach him the possession method so he could study how to live a new lifetime.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerate urged Xuanwu not to use the method to possess a future Dao attainer and explained Overlord Heavenly Venerable's effort to guide the Supremes away from Dark Turmoil.
• Xuanwu clarified that he wanted to study the method for curiosity and possible future battles, so Carefree Heavenly Venerate shared his insights with him.

Carefree Heavenly Venerate encouraged Daughter of the Ruins to pursue the Great Dao and found himself wishing for a wife and child, while the Primordial Heavenly Emperor struggled to live a third lifetime. After the Primordial Heavenly Emperor succeeded, Carefree Heavenly Venerate failed to transform into a Chaos Body and entered the Strange World.

• Heavenly Emperor Xuanwu predicted that Overlord Heavenly Venerable might open a passage to the Immortal Domain, and Carefree Heavenly Venerate warned Daughter of the Ruins that talent alone would not guarantee she proved the Dao.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerate began wishing for a wife and child, even choosing the name Xiaoyao Zi for a son.
• Heavenly Emperor Xuanwu watched as the Primordial Heavenly Emperor used Longevity Essence to attempt a third lifetime, and the Primordial Heavenly Emperor eventually emerged reborn and free of the Heavenly Heart Imprint's influence.
• After the golden age began to fade, Carefree Heavenly Venerate failed to transform into a Chaos Body and opened a passage into the Strange World.