Chapter Summaries

Xuanmingzi revealed that he was Heavenly Emperor Xuanwu reincarnated, then waited for the Daughter of the Ruins to attain the Dao before shattering the Heavenly Heart Imprint and becoming an emperor himself. After both vanished, news arrived that Heavenly Emperor Xuanwu and the Daughter of the Ruins were getting married.

• Xuanmingzi told the Daughter of the Ruins that he suspected he was Heavenly Emperor Xuanwu reincarnated, and she worried he might punish her for having used him as a mount.
• Xuanmingzi returned to the Undying Mountain, where the Undying Heavenly Emperor confirmed his identity, and he continued training while holding back from attaining the Dao.
• Two thousand years later, the Daughter of the Ruins triggered the Dao Attainment Tribulation, merged with the Heavenly Heart Imprint, and became an emperor.
• Xuanmingzi triggered his own tribulation, awakened his former Dao Fruit, shattered the Heavenly Heart Imprint, and returned as Heavenly Emperor Xuanwu after attaining the Dao in his fifth life.
• Heavenly Emperor Xuanwu and the Daughter of the Ruins vanished, and the world later learned that they were getting married.

The Undying Heavenly Emperor witnessed Daode Heavenly Venerable reincarnate as Laozi, then watched Xiao Ping'an’s tenth-generation descendant Xiao Dong attempt to attain the Dao as a Great Accomplished Heavenly Tyrant Body. Xiao Dong struggled against the Heavenly Heart Imprint, and the Undying Heavenly Emperor prepared to help him break through.

• Heavenly Emperor Xuanwu and the Daughter of the Ruins entered the Strange World, while their son Xuanwuzi remained sealed away.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor sensed Daode Heavenly Venerable’s reincarnation in the Underworld and stabilized the Netherworld Soil as the Yellow Springs trembled.
• Daode Heavenly Venerable emerged from his coffin, took the name Laozi, discussed the Burial Domain with the Undying Heavenly Emperor, then severed his cultivation and began again.
• Xiao Dong challenged the Heavenly Heart Imprint during a terrifying tribulation, and the Undying Heavenly Emperor judged that Xiao Dong needed help to overcome it.

Xiao Dong borrowed the Tyrant Body Lineage’s Power of Faith and fortune to break the Heavenly Heart Imprint and become the Overlord Heavenly Emperor, then was beaten by the Undying Heavenly Emperor for his recklessness. A little over three thousand years later, Laozi defied the Great Dao suppression, shattered the Heavenly Heart Imprint, and became another Heavenly Emperor.

• Xiao Dong drew the Tyrant Body Ancestral Star’s Power of Faith and fortune into two avatars, then used their power to break the Heavenly Heart Imprint and face the heavenly tribulation.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor severed the tribulation’s connection to the Tyrant Body Ancestral Star when its phantom began to collapse, then beat Xiao Dong and fought him on the Mythic Battlefield.
• Xiao Dong returned to the Tyrant Body Ancestral Star in disgrace, entered secluded cultivation, and vowed to attain Red Dust Immortal Ascension and defeat the Undying Heavenly Emperor.
• A little over three thousand years later, Laozi underwent an overwhelming heavenly tribulation despite the Overlord Heavenly Emperor’s Great Dao suppression.
• Laozi shattered the Heavenly Heart Imprint with one punch, stood atop it, and became another Heavenly Emperor.

Laozi attained the Dao and became an emperor, then the Netherworld Venerable’s corpse gained sentience on Mount Kunlun and chose the name Duan De. More than six thousand years later, Duan De prepared to use the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains’ immortal formation to prove his Dao, while the Heaven-Penetrating Nether Treasure watched anxiously.

• Laozi broke the Heavenly Heart Imprint, became an emperor, and traveled the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands while aiding living beings and cultivating his own Dao.
• Mount Kunlun shook as the Netherworld Venerable’s corpse emerged from its yellow clay coffin, and the Heaven-Penetrating Nether Treasure protected Earth during the upheaval.
• The newly awakened Netherworld Venerable chose the name Duan De, discussed his fading memories with the Heaven-Penetrating Nether Treasure, and received cultivation resources before beginning a new life.
• More than six thousand years later, Duan De returned to Mount Kunlun and cultivated the Dao of formations in preparation for attaining the Dao through the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains.
• The Heaven-Penetrating Nether Treasure expected Duan De to summon a heavenly tribulation, but Duan De remained leisurely despite being over six thousand nine hundred years old.

Duan De completed another reincarnation and attained the Dao, shattering the Heavenly Heart Imprint and becoming an emperor while the Heaven-Penetrating Nether Treasure advanced into a stronger immortal artifact. He emerged with a True Immortal-level body and a new Reincarnation Seal, confident in his path toward Red Dust Immortal ascension.

• Duan De restored his youth and entered the Chaos Sea at the Cosmic Frontier to undergo his Dao Attainment Tribulation, followed by the Heaven-Penetrating Nether Treasure.
• Laozi recognized Duan De as the Netherworld Venerable and explained that he was walking the Path of the Corpse Immortal through reincarnation and the Nine-Lifetime Reincarnation Seals.
• Duan De and the Heaven-Penetrating Nether Treasure endured the tribulation, devouring its thunder and strengthening their bodies and immortal power.
• Duan De refused to merge with the Heavenly Heart Imprint, shattered it, and branded his own mark upon it to attain the Dao and become an emperor.
• Duan De and the Heaven-Penetrating Nether Treasure vanished after the tribulation, leaving Duan De with a True Immortal-level body and another Reincarnation Seal.

After Duan De became the Netherworld Heavenly Emperor, Laozi and Overlord Heavenly Emperor entered new transformations while the ages passed. Hundun Heavenly Venerable survived her eighth lifetime in the Primordial Ancient Mine and emerged as a Red Dust Flying Immortal, leaving her to contemplate pursuing an even stronger foundation.

• Duan De became the Netherworld Heavenly Emperor, vanished with the Heaven-Penetrating Nether Treasure, and later prepared a yellow-clay coffin for Laozi at Mount Kunlun.
• Laozi entered the coffin after living thirty-six thousand years, while Overlord Heavenly Emperor later became a Saint Spirit Stone Embryo and Duan De buried himself again on the Big Dipper.
• Several inferior Great Emperors appeared as Undying Heavenly Emperor suppressed the Heavenly Heart Imprint, and a terrifying presence then erupted from the Primordial Ancient Mine on Ziwei Star.
• News spread that Hundun Heavenly Venerable was undergoing a perilous transformation to live an eighth lifetime, prompting fear and migration plans across Ziwei Star.
• After her presence weakened for several hundred years, Hundun Heavenly Venerable erupted with Chaos Divine Light and emerged as a young woman with the power of a Red Dust Flying Immortal.
• Hundun Heavenly Venerable contemplated pursuing a tenth transformation and considered leaving the world through Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin to find stronger opponents.

Hundun Heavenly Venerable’s eighth lifetime inspired an age of Saint Spirit transformations, while the Undying Heavenly Emperor and Hundun Heavenly Venerable watched events unfold. A Divine Spirit Nine-Layer Coffin then appeared in the Sun God Sect, and its people suspected the Sun Holy Emperor was inside attempting another transformation.

• Hundun Heavenly Venerable remained in seclusion after completing her eighth lifetime, while cultivators across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands celebrated and paid homage outside the Primordial Ancient Mine.
• Over the next hundred-odd thousand years, former Dark Supremes transformed into Great Perfection Saint Spirits, with some dying, some entering the Strange World, and others sealing themselves away.
• The Saint Spirit Great Emperors followed different paths, and many expected another wave to emerge when the Roads to Immortality opened on Flying Immortal Star and Big Dipper.
• A Divine Spirit Nine-Layer Coffin descended into the Sun God Sect’s ancestral grounds on Ziwei Star and shattered a sun, but the sect’s formations did not attack it.
• The Sun God Sect’s elders recognized the coffin from their records and suspected the Sun Holy Emperor was inside; they ordered everyone to keep the matter secret and wait.
• A Quasi-Emperor from Divine Silkworm Ridge arrived at the Sun God Sect after pursuing the coffin, believing the Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor had returned.

The Sun Holy Emperor emerged from his Divine Spirit Nine-Layer Coffin after completing his transformation and living a fourth lifetime. He then shared his insights into adapting the Divine Silkworm Transformation Method with two Sun Divine Race Quasi-Emperors and a Quasi-Emperor of Divine Silkworm Ridge.

• The Quasi-Emperor of Divine Silkworm Ridge joined the Sun Divine Race Quasi-Emperors in studying the coffin and concluded that the Sun Holy Emperor was nearing the end of his transformation.
• The Sun Holy Emperor's coffin opened, revealing a Great Dao cocoon whose presence shook the cosmos and was recognized as his.
• The Sun Holy Emperor emerged from the broken cocoon with the power of a Heavenly Emperor, having successfully lived a fourth lifetime.
• The Sun Holy Emperor learned that Overlord Heavenly Venerable had become a Red Dust Immortal and that the Undying Heavenly Emperor and Hundun Heavenly Venerable had lived their eighth lifetimes.
• The Sun Holy Emperor took the Quasi-Emperor of Divine Silkworm Ridge and his two descendants to Tang Valley and taught them how to adapt the Divine Silkworm Transformation Method to their own Great Daos.

The Sun Holy Emperor refined his understanding of the Divine Silkworm Transformation Method, strengthened his Great Dao foundation, and prepared his children for future cultivation. Meanwhile, the Taiyin Holy Emperor emerged from the Underworld after successfully transforming into a third life, leaving the world eager to see how he and the Sun Holy Emperor would compare.

• The Quasi-Emperor of Divine Silkworm Ridge thanked the Sun Holy Emperor for teaching the transformation method, then returned to share what he had learned with his clan’s geniuses.
• The Sun Holy Emperor gave a month-long discourse on the Great Dao, then deepened his understanding and formed a new version of the Sun True Scripture beneath the Fusang Divine Tree.
• The Sun Holy Emperor brought his cultivation to perfection, examined his children sealed in Immortal Source, and vowed to seek Immortal Divine Medicines to strengthen their foundations.
• The Sun Holy Emperor traveled the starry sky while a new golden age began, and one substandard Great Emperor after another appeared.
• The Underworld reappeared, and a Saint Spirit Stone Embryo emerged from its Netherworld Soil as the Taiyin Holy Emperor completed his transformation into a third life.
• The Taiyin Holy Emperor returned to Ziwei Star with Heavenly Emperor-level strength, and the Taiyin God Sect and the world celebrated his rebirth.

The Taiyin Holy Emperor returned to life as a Great Perfection Saint Spirit, attained the Dao, and joined the Sun Holy Emperor in studying how to merge yin and yang. Later, Great Saint Hun Tuo unexpectedly became an emperor and visited the Undying Heavenly Emperor, who congratulated him and recalled having once guided him.

• The Taiyin Holy Emperor broke through the Heavenly Heart Imprint, returned to the Taiyin God Sect, and taught its disciples beneath the Moon Laurel Divine Tree.
• The Taiyin Holy Emperor and the Sun Holy Emperor studied each other’s scriptures and Immortal Divine Medicines, seeking a way to merge yin and yang and transform into Chaos Bodies.
• Great Saint Hun Tuo emerged from his seal, attained the Dao, and became Great Emperor Hun Tuo despite not being considered the strongest contender.
• Great Emperor Hun Tuo traveled to the Undying Mountain and respectfully sought an audience with the Undying Heavenly Emperor.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor recognized Hun Tuo, congratulated him on becoming an emperor, and said that his earlier guidance had helped him reach this point.

Great Emperor Hun Tuo gave the Undying Heavenly Emperor an Immortal Primordial Spirit Fruit, and the Undying Heavenly Emperor taught him about becoming a Red Dust Immortal. Hundun Heavenly Venerable brought the Chaos Green Lotus to Qinling’s Land of Ascension, where she subdued a Yin God and discovered that the great dragon there was likely Taihuang, a dragon Saint Spirit.

• Great Emperor Hun Tuo thanked the Undying Heavenly Emperor for his guidance, offered him an Immortal Primordial Spirit Fruit, and received instruction on the Red Dust Immortal path.
• Hundun Heavenly Venerable brought the Chaos Green Lotus and the Desolate Pagoda to the Land of Ascension in Qinling, where the Chaos Green Lotus sensed the Immortal Ascension Pool.
• A Yin God confronted Hundun Heavenly Venerable as he tried to devour the Myriad Ages Great Dragon, but she seized him and turned him into her battle slave, naming him Xiao Linzi.
• Xiao Linzi led Hundun Heavenly Venerable into the Dragon Cave, where she found a weakened golden True Dragon and deduced that he was Taihuang, a dragon Saint Spirit.

Hundun Heavenly Venerable discovered that Taihuang had seized the primordial great dragon’s body with a clone while his original body transformed in the Immortal Ascension Pool. The Chaos Green Lotus took root there and absorbed its essence as Hundun Heavenly Venerable learned about Taihuang’s cultivation and explained the power of the Chaos Body.

• Hundun Heavenly Venerable exposed Taihuang as a human who had seized the primordial great dragon’s body, and Taihuang thanked him for saving him from the Yin God.
• Taihuang recognized the Desolate Pagoda and the Chaos Green Lotus, then revealed that he had seen the lotus take root in the Immortal Ascension Pool in a vision.
• Hundun Heavenly Venerable collected the Dreamlike Divine Marrow and its offshoots, while the Yin God took the Lunar Divine Sea; Taihuang asked to follow Hundun Heavenly Venerable and received seven days of guidance instead of becoming his disciple.
• Hundun Heavenly Venerable accompanied Taihuang to the Immortal Ascension Pool, where the Chaos Green Lotus took root and Taihuang’s original body and Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Sword were revealed.
• Taihuang explained that he had used an ancient method and clone techniques to cultivate separate primary and secondary bodies, and said he remained human despite taking the dragon’s body.
• Hundun Heavenly Venerable told Taihuang that the Chaos Body was the best physique under heaven and described the Dao Integration Flower’s power to let anyone experience harmony with the myriad Daos.

Taihuang survived his Dao Attainment Tribulation and became a Great Emperor, though he failed to break free of the Heavenly Heart Imprint and become a Heavenly Emperor. A thousand years later, the divine nun achieved Alternative Dao Attainment, and she and Taihuang married in a grand ceremony that became famous throughout the universe.

• Hundun Heavenly Venerable found that a Chaos Stone beneath the Immortal Transformation Pool contained Hundun Essence, but left it untouched for Great Emperor Wushi and warned Taihuang not to take it.
• More than four thousand years later, Taihuang and both of his bodies underwent the Dao Attainment Tribulation, and Taihuang tried to break the Heavenly Heart Imprint and rise above it.
• Taihuang failed to become a Heavenly Emperor but merged with the Heavenly Heart Imprint and attained the Dao as a powerful Great Emperor.
• A thousand years later, the divine nun challenged the reigning Great Emperor's Dao and achieved Alternative Dao Attainment.
• Taihuang and the divine nun announced their marriage, astonishing Taihuang's descendants and the wider world.
• Taihuang held the wedding in the chaos-born pure land he named the Great Xia Kingdom, and recordings of the celebration spread throughout the universe and mortal world.

Amitabha was born from the Peacock Empress’s faith and grew into a Buddhist Quasi-Emperor, traveling the Starry Sky Ancient Road while converting defeated opponents into followers. At the Chaos Thunder Sea, he defeated a mysterious black-robed man who accused him of enslaving people, then called after him as the man tried to flee.

• The Peacock Empress’s statue announced the birth of the true Buddha, and the ancient Buddhas found the child on a grassland and named him Amitabha.
• Amitabha grew up on Mount Sumeru, then left for the Starry Sky Ancient Road after receiving the Buddha Mother’s decree and vowing to deliver all living beings.
• Amitabha spent thousands of years aiding depleted Life Source Lands before arriving on the Starry Sky Ancient Road, where he defeated many contenders without killing them and gained their allegiance.
• At the Chaos Thunder Sea, Amitabha subdued a five-colored peacock Quasi-Emperor and made her a Buddhist Dharma protector.
• A mysterious black-robed man attacked Amitabha with a power that dissolved faith, but Amitabha endured the strike and defeated him with the Mount Sumeru Palm.
• The black-robed man conceded and tried to leave, but Amitabha called after him, prompting him to accuse Amitabha of intending to convert him into a slave.

Amitabha Buddha brought Luohou and other geniuses to the Overlord Heavenly Venerable’s divine mountain, then spent thousands of years refining his Dao through the Buddhist Dharma. He began his Dao Attainment Tribulation by making vast vows and sending the Buddhist Sect’s Power of Faith across the world.

• Amitabha Buddha used a ship formed from pure Power of Faith to carry Luohou and dozens of geniuses across the Chaos Thunder Sea to the Overlord Heavenly Venerable’s divine mountain, where they comprehended the Dao.
• Amitabha Buddha climbed farther than the others, studied the Overlord Heavenly Venerable’s legacy, and later discovered that the geniuses and his followers had been teleported away safely.
• Amitabha Buddha invited Luohou to join the Buddhist Sect, but Luohou refused and vowed to raise descendants who could reclaim his lost dignity.
• Amitabha Buddha returned to Mount Sumeru, refined Divine Mark Purple Gold into the Vajra Demon-Subduing Pestle, and completed his cultivation after more than five thousand years of practice.
• Amitabha Buddha faced the Dao Attainment Tribulation at the Cosmic Frontier, drawing on the Buddhist Sect’s Power of Faith to withstand the heavenly thunder.
• Amitabha Buddha made grand vows during the tribulation, and the Power of Faith spread throughout the world, healing illnesses and nourishing living beings who invoked his name.

After becoming Amitabha Great Emperor, Amitabha Buddha returned the Power of Faith to the faithful, established his vows, and traveled to the Big Dipper to visit the Undying Heavenly Emperor. He explained his proposed method of transformation for longevity, and the Undying Heavenly Emperor agreed to help him refine it.

• Amitabha Buddha returned the Power of Faith to living beings, proclaimed his vows, and left three longevity locks at Mount Sumeru for people of destined affinity.
• Amitabha Great Emperor traveled through the heavens to fulfill his vows, then arrived at the Big Dipper and visited its sacred lands, aristocratic families, and Life Forbidden Zones.
• Amitabha Great Emperor entered the Undying Mountain to pay his respects to the Undying Heavenly Emperor and seek guidance on Red Dust Immortals and longevity.
• Amitabha Great Emperor voiced concern that the coming Road to Immortality could provoke devastating wars and described his own path of transformation through nirvana.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor promised to prevent anyone from causing trouble and agreed to help Amitabha Great Emperor work out his method after hearing his teachings and ideas.

After Amitabha Great Emperor spread Buddhism across the Western Desert and disappeared, the world entered a new golden age. At the Cosmic Frontier, Overlord Heavenly Venerable repeatedly exploded and reformed until Xiao Ping'an completed a tenth life and reached the Absolute Peak of Immortality, leaving the world wondering whether he had become an Immortal King.

• Amitabha Great Emperor established Buddhism throughout the Western Desert, and Mount Sumeru descended there ten thousand years later.
• After traveling across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands and spreading Buddhism, Amitabha Great Emperor fell silent after thirty-six thousand years, and his imprint vanished amid cosmic phenomena.
• A new golden age began, until Overlord Heavenly Venerable emerged from the Netherworld Soil in the Chaos Sea with a presence that shook the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
• Overlord Heavenly Venerable manifested three miniature figures linked to time, space, and reincarnation, then repeatedly exploded into rain of light and reformed stronger and younger.
• Xiao Ping'an completed his tenth life, reached the Absolute Peak of Immortality, and left the world wondering what realm he had attained.

Xiao Ping'an reached the absolute peak of the Red Dust Immortal realm and prepared to leave the world to pursue the Immortal King realm. Before departing, he entrusted its protection to Hundun Heavenly Venerable and the Undying Heavenly Emperor, then strengthened his sealed son Great Phoenix with his original essence blood.

• Xiao Ping'an reflected on reaching a realm that gave him Immortal King-level combat power and considered how the Saint Spirit Transformation Method might help other experts advance.
• Hundun Heavenly Venerable used the insight from Xiao Ping'an's transformation to complete her ninth life and become a Red Dust Immortal, while the Undying Heavenly Emperor neared his own ninth life.
• Xiao Ping'an told Hundun Heavenly Venerable that he needed to leave the world to pursue a true breakthrough, and she agreed to help her and the Undying Heavenly Emperor sustain it in his absence.
• Xiao Ping'an went with Hundun Heavenly Venerable to the Undying Mountain and produced twelve drops of original essence blood before Great Phoenix's sealed egg.
• Xiao Ping'an placed the sealed essence blood into Great Phoenix to strengthen him and planned for him to emerge in the era of Great Emperor Wushi.

Xiao Ping'an strengthened Great Phoenix with source essence blood and Immortal Phoenix source, then surveyed several places and descendants to prepare them for the future. He left the Heavenly Tyrant Body Lineage flourishing, with its next generation secured.

• Undying Heavenly Emperor sealed his Immortal Phoenix source within Great Phoenix, and Xiao Ping'an defended the choice as preparation for Great Emperor Wushi.
• Xiao Ping'an and Hundun Heavenly Venerable visited Mount Kunlun and the Land of Ascension, where Xiao Ping'an observed the Ancestral Dragon Vein and the transforming Chaos Green Lotus.
• Xiao Ping'an visited Ziwei Star and found his descendant Xiao Tianyuan sealed in Immortal Source; he added treasures to strengthen the Divine Sacred Body's foundation.
• Xiao Ping'an visited the Tyrant Body Ancestral Star and found Xiao Yungui nearing the end of his Saint Spirit Stone Embryo transformation, while Overlord Heavenly Emperor was also transforming.
• Xiao Ping'an discovered that the Heavenly Tyrant Body Lineage had gained accomplished Tyrant Bodies and sealed descendants with powerful bloodlines, made further arrangements, and departed.

After completing his transformation, Xiao Ping'an forged the Kunlun Mirror as an Immortal Artifact and sent it to Earth to guide and protect Ye Fan. He traced the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin to the Heaven Forbidden Zone and began claiming Burial Heaven Island, where he stood before the coffin and its nine dragon corpses.

• Xiao Ping'an forged the Kunlun Mirror from chaos, stars, and other treasures, then ordered its divine spirit to protect Ye Fan and teach him cultivation once he was born on Earth.
• Xiao Ping'an divined the route of the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin and discovered that it had reached the Heaven Forbidden Zone on the Big Dipper.
• Xiao Ping'an entered the Heaven Forbidden Zone, killed the Dark Supremes undergoing transformation, and collected their remains and treasures.
• Xiao Ping'an decided to take Burial Heaven Island and make it a stopping point for the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin.
• Xiao Ping'an descended onto the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin and examined its nine dead True Dragons and dark chains.