Chapter Summaries

The Divine Race's divine maiden challenged Xiao Ping'an, the Overlord Heavenly Venerable, after reaching Alternative Dao Attainment, but he defeated her with one finger and then guided her in the Sword Dao. She left determined to pursue the Red Dust Immortal Path, while the public misunderstood the battle and praised her for surviving.

• The Divine Race's divine maiden arrived at the Underworld and challenged Xiao Ping'an, drawing attention across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
• The divine maiden unleashed her full strength, but Xiao Ping'an shattered her divine sword and destroyed her body with a single finger before allowing her to recover.
• After recovering, the divine maiden thanked Xiao Ping'an for his guidance and admitted she had studied his scriptures and secret arts through Xiao Tianshu.
• Xiao Ping'an praised her talent, offered her the chance to follow his Red Dust Immortal Path, and dismissed her from the Underworld.
• The public saw the divine maiden leave but misunderstood the battle, believing she had survived a fierce contest with Xiao Ping'an, and visitors flocked to the Divine Race's ancient star.

The Divine Race Divine Maiden rejected a flood of marriage proposals and discussed her relationship with Xiao Tianshu, who challenged their ancestor Xiao Ping'an for guidance. Xiao Ping'an overwhelmed Xiao Tianshu with a powerful technique, but Xiao Tianshu revived after appearing to die.

• Dark Supremes and other powerful clans sought the Divine Race Divine Maiden's hand for their heirs, but she accepted no gifts and made no promises.
• The Divine Race Divine Maiden revealed that she would keep any child without marrying, ending the marriage proposals.
• At Spirit Mountain, Xiao Tianshu grew jealous as the Divine Race Divine Maiden recounted her suitors, and she shared her battle insights about Xiao Ping'an with him.
• Xiao Tianshu traveled to the Underworld to challenge Xiao Ping'an, who used one finger to defeat him and demonstrate three fused Great Dao Runes.
• Xiao Ping'an's attack shattered Xiao Tianshu, but a drop of his blood shone with golden light and brought him back to life.

Xiao Ping'an’s descendant Xiao Tianshu survived his trial, married the Divine Race heavenly maiden, and Xiao Ping'an later continued studying the Dao of reincarnation. At the Cosmic Frontier, Yu Feng perfected the Natural Dao, proved his Dao amid a heavenly tribulation, and revealed the Mysterious Heaven Immortal Vine, stirring hopes of reaching the Immortal Domain.

• Xiao Tianshu emerged from Xiao Ping'an’s attack transformed, and Xiao Ping'an urged him to marry the Divine Race heavenly maiden; they later wed.
• Xiao Ping'an cultivated in the Underworld, focusing on the Dao of reincarnation.
• Yu Feng perfected the Natural Dao, then told Chuan Ying that he was about to undergo his tribulation and prove his Dao as an emperor.
• Yu Feng endured the Heavenly Tribulation of Enlightenment and punched open a Road to Immortality, drawing the attention of Xiao Ping'an and the Dark Supremes.
• Several Dark Supremes tried to seize Yu Feng’s body or essence blood and died, while others stayed in their forbidden zones.
• Yu Feng identified the vine he wielded as the Mysterious Heaven Immortal Vine and said it could grow toward the Immortal Domain.

Heavenly Emperor Yu Feng opened the Road to Immortality as bait to draw out Dark Emperor Venerable, then confronted him in the Chaos Sea while Xiao Ping'an and Hundun Heavenly Venerable prepared to stop his escape. Yu Feng gained the upper hand with his Natural Dao, but Dark Emperor Venerable revealed a scarlet Immortal Artifact and attacked Yu Feng’s Immortal Platform.

• The Mysterious Heaven Immortal Vine broke through the Road to Immortality and exposed a Strange World, drawing Dark Supremes toward its Longevity Substance and Northern Pole Immortal Light.
• Heavenly Emperor Yu Feng entered the Road to Immortality, where Dark Emperor Venerable appeared; the two destroyed the vine and fought their way into the Chaos Sea.
• Xiao Ping'an prepared to kill Dark Emperor Venerable and search for his dark clones while Hundun Heavenly Venerable guarded the world from the battle’s aftermath.
• Heavenly Emperor Yu Feng used his Natural Dao to trap Dark Emperor Venerable in a domain of plants and chaos, forcing him onto the defensive.
• Dark Emperor Venerable unleashed strange immortal Dao runes and drew a scarlet Immortal Artifact from his body, then thrust it toward Heavenly Emperor Yu Feng’s Immortal Platform.

Heavenly Emperor Yu Feng defeated the Dark Emperor Venerable by mastering the Natural Dao, while Xiao Ping'an helped prevent the entity's escape and destroyed its last traces. Yu Feng reclaimed his place as the age's Heavenly Emperor, and the chapter ended with the universe and its Dark Supremes honoring him.

• Heavenly Emperor Yu Feng used the Natural Dao to contain the Dark Emperor Venerable's weird power and gradually erase the black mist.
• Xiao Ping'an imprisoned the entity's escape attempt with the laws of time, space, and reincarnation, while Hundun Heavenly Venerable eliminated its seeds; the Dark Emperor Venerable was reduced to ash.
• Heavenly Emperor Yu Feng burned his corrupted sixth-lifetime body, and he, Xiao Ping'an, and Hundun Heavenly Venerable confirmed that the dark weird entity was completely dead.
• At the Cosmic Frontier, the Immortal Ascension Cauldron became an immortal artifact again, and Chuan Ying reunited with Heavenly Emperor Yu Feng.
• Heavenly Emperor Yu Feng preached the Natural Dao for seven days as visitors gathered, and Xiao Ping'an reflected on how Yu Feng's fate had changed.
• The Dark Supremes, Carefree Heavenly Venerate, and Longevity Heavenly Venerable came to congratulate Heavenly Emperor Yu Feng, while the universe paid homage to him.

Heavenly Emperor Yu Feng entered the Strange World alone after making preparations for the Heavenly Court, while Xiao Ping'an and Daode Heavenly Venerable helped open the passage. Thousands of years later, Xiao Ping'an planned to strengthen the human race and cultivate future experts by rebuilding the Starry Sky Ancient Road, and he began developing the plan with Hundun Heavenly Venerable.

• Heavenly Emperor Yu Feng apologized to Daode Heavenly Venerable for a past offense, left the Immortal Ascension Cauldron and other resources with Chuan Ying, and promised to bring the Heavenly Court to the Strange World once he had established himself there.
• Xiao Ping'an, Daode Heavenly Venerable, and Heavenly Emperor Yu Feng punched open a passage to the Strange World, and Heavenly Emperor Yu Feng crossed it alone before the passage closed.
• Thousands of years passed peacefully under the protection of Xiao Ping'an and Daode Heavenly Venerable, while the human race flourished on the Big Dipper and the lineages of Ancient Emperors settled elsewhere.
• Xiao Ping'an decided to rebuild and expand the Starry Sky Ancient Road with training grounds, dangerous places, and trials that could prepare future generations to face the Weird Race.
• Xiao Ping'an and Hundun Heavenly Venerable planned a vast series of trials that could train cultivators up to the Quasi-Emperor Ninth Heaven and beyond, with the final stage in a Divine City beyond the Big Dipper.

Xiao Ping'an and Hundun Heavenly Venerable repaired the Starry Sky Ancient Road, creating an Immortal Artifact city and adding trials, teleportation altars, and paths left by past Supremes and Ancient Emperors. They also discovered strange worlds in the chaos and turned several into training grounds, leaving their rulers bound to protect and test future geniuses.

• Xiao Ping'an and Hundun Heavenly Venerable refined the Big Dipper’s divine city into an Immortal Artifact, enduring its heavenly tribulation as Xiao Ping'an smashed and reshaped the Heavenly Heart Imprint.
• Xiao Ping'an and Hundun Heavenly Venerable repaired the Starry Sky Ancient Road, established Five-Colored Altars across the major Life Source Lands, and added lightning trials, Supreme tombs, and paths left by past powers.
• Xiao Ping'an discovered chaos-dwelling silver beasts, captured representatives of the twelve kinds, and made them guardians and overseers of a trial ground on the Tyrant Body Ancestral Star.
• Xiao Ping'an and Hundun Heavenly Venerable found a chaos world of sentient skeletons, including a Skeleton Emperor, and made the world a training ground.
• Xiao Ping'an subdued a Quasi-Emperor Ninth Heaven Behemoth King, branded his soul, and required him and his descendants to follow the rules of their new training ground.

Xiao Ping'an and the Hundun Heavenly Venerable arranged for Ancient Emperor Xuanwu to transform into a Saint Spirit, hoping to demonstrate a way for Dark Supremes to mend their Immortal Platforms and pursue Red Dust Immortal Ascension instead of launching Dark Turmoils. They gathered the Dark Supremes to witness Xuanwu’s transformation and began teaching them the Saint Spirit Longevity Method.

• Xiao Ping'an moved the immortal city to the Chaos Sea at the Cosmic Frontier and returned with the Hundun Heavenly Venerable to the Primordial Ancient Mine.
• Xiao Ping'an urged Ancient Emperor Xuanwu to leave his Immortal Source and become a Saint Spirit, explaining that the method could give him a new lifetime and offer Dark Supremes an alternative to devouring living beings.
• Ancient Emperor Xuanwu agreed to test the Saint Spirit Longevity Method and blaze a path for other Dark Supremes.
• Xiao Ping'an and the Hundun Heavenly Venerable invited the Dark Supremes to the Primordial Ancient Mine, where they saw Xuanwu’s body turning to stone as he began his transformation.
• Xiao Ping'an told the gathered Dark Supremes to observe Xuanwu and explained that the Saint Spirit Method could help mend their Immortal Platforms and let them pursue new lifetimes.

Xiao Ping'an and Hundun Heavenly Venerable showed the Dark Supremes that Ancient Emperor Xuanwu was becoming a Saint Spirit immortal fetus and explained how the transformation could grant them new lives. After they studied the method at Spirit Mountain, Xiao Ping'an sent them back to their forbidden zones to decide whether to transform there.

• Xiao Ping'an explained Ancient Emperor Xuanwu's transformation, and Hundun Heavenly Venerable revealed that she had successfully become a Saint Spirit.
• The Dark Supremes examined Ancient Emperor Xuanwu and confirmed that his true spirit had gained the recognition of heaven and earth.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerate volunteered to attempt the method again and shared how his previous transformation had failed.
• Xiao Ping'an led the Dark Supremes to Spirit Mountain, where they studied the Saint Spirit Dao and discussed their prospects of success.
• Xiao Ping'an told the Dark Supremes to leave Spirit Mountain and transform in their own forbidden zones or remain Dark Supremes.

Xiao Ping'an destroyed the Saint Spirit Forbidden Zone on Big Dipper and witnessed Ancient Emperor Xuanwu successfully transform into a Saint Spirit Immortal Fetus. As Dark Supremes began attempting the same method, Xiao Ping'an inscribed it into his Starry Sky Ancient Road’s immortal city and considered sending future transformed Supremes to the Strange World.

• Xiao Ping'an uprooted the Saint Spirit Forbidden Zone on Big Dipper, killed its Supremes and other Saint Spirits, and left a vast abyss in its place.
• Xiao Ping'an and Hundun Heavenly Venerable watched Ancient Emperor Xuanwu’s body and primordial spirit turn to stone before his true spirit revived, confirming that he had become a Saint Spirit Immortal Fetus.
• Xiao Ping'an considered how transformed Dark Supremes might enter the Strange World, where they could fight its Supremes and possibly pursue the Red Dust Immortal path.
• More than ten thousand years later, Xiao Ping'an sensed Dark Supremes across the Life Forbidden Zones attempting the Saint Spirit Transformation Method and informed them of Ancient Emperor Xuanwu’s success.
• Xiao Ping'an continued cultivating in the Primordial Ancient Mine, then traveled to his immortal city and inscribed the Saint Spirit Transformation Method among its inheritances.

At more than forty thousand years old, Xiao Ping'an faced challenges from a wild Great Accomplishment Sacred Body and a Black Jade King Saint Spirit, defeating both while guiding Yang Ye toward a new goal. He later guided the wild Tyrant Body Cang Yuan and entered his twilight years as the Daode Heavenly Venerable began preparing to pass away.

• Xiao Ping'an met Yang Ye, a wild Great Accomplishment Sacred Body who had reached Alternative Dao Attainment and challenged him in the Underworld.
• Xiao Ping'an defeated Yang Ye with one finger and encouraged him to keep striving beyond proving his Dao, renewing Yang Ye's fighting spirit.
• A Black Jade King Saint Spirit from the Spirit Mountain Forbidden Zone challenged Xiao Ping'an for killing the Spirit Emperor, and Xiao Ping'an destroyed him and forged his remains into an Extreme Dao Weapon for his descendants on Ziwei Star.
• The wild Tyrant Body Cang Yuan visited Xiao Ping'an, received his guidance, and left to enter seclusion.
• Xiao Ping'an spent years experiencing mortal life in disguise, turned fifty thousand, and began showing signs of age as the Daode Heavenly Venerable's Great Dao began separating from the Heavenly Heart Imprint.

Xiao Ping'an visited the dying Daode Heavenly Venerable and brought him to the Underworld’s Yellow Springs to begin a new transformation through reincarnation. After Daode Heavenly Venerable’s apparent death, Xiao Ping'an returned to wandering the mortal world, unable to find his old friends or relatives.

• Xiao Ping'an traveled to the Flying Immortal Star and found Daode Heavenly Venerable preparing to pass into the Dao.
• Xiao Ping'an urged Daode Heavenly Venerable to transform in the Underworld’s Yellow Springs, and Daode Heavenly Venerable agreed to try the path of reincarnation there.
• Daode Heavenly Venerable asked Xiao Ping'an to conceal him because his next transformation might be fatal, and Xiao Ping'an promised to help.
• Daode Heavenly Venerable entered his treasure-filled Divine Mark Purple Gold coffin, and Xiao Ping'an placed it in the Yellow Springs to sink out of sight.
• A vision of bloody rain and the Yellow Springs announced Daode Heavenly Venerable’s death, while people speculated that he would return.
• Xiao Ping'an resumed wandering the mortal world and searched unsuccessfully for his relatives and old friends.

Xiao Ping'an watched Daode Heavenly Venerable form a Reincarnation Seal and nurture a new primordial spirit, then lived for ninety thousand years as the Overlord Heavenly Venerable. When ten Dark Supremes attacked the Underworld to seize his essence blood, Xiao Ping'an appeared in his aged form and confronted them, leaving battle imminent.

• Xiao Ping'an observed Daode Heavenly Venerable’s body form a Reincarnation Seal and begin nurturing a new primordial spirit.
• Xiao Ping'an traveled the world and lived for ninety thousand years in his fourth lifetime without proving himself immortal.
• Ten Dark Supremes emerged as Xiao Ping'an’s imprint began to decay, devoured beings to restore their strength, and shifted the Underworld into a formation cage.
• The Dark Supremes attacked the Underworld and demanded Xiao Ping'an’s Heavenly Venerable essence blood, while the Underworld’s defenses responded.
• Xiao Ping'an appeared as a frail old man, shattered the Dark Supremes’ restrictions with his presence, and faced their threats to devour him and his descendants.

Xiao Ping'an defeated a formation of Dark Supremes, killed twenty-three of them, and used their chaos to renew his vitality. He then pacified several Life Forbidden Zones and transformed into a Chaos Body, leaving the world cleansed of many threats.

• Twenty Dark Supremes formed a world-destroying formation around Xiao Ping'an, and three more joined them as they attacked.
• Xiao Ping'an shattered three Extreme Dao Weapons, killed two Dark Supremes with one strike, and broke the formation by fusing the laws of time, space, and reincarnation.
• Xiao Ping'an devoured and refined the formation's chaos, grew younger, and killed all twenty-three Dark Supremes while his son, Xiao Yungui, his descendant, Xiao Tianshu, and the twin Great Accomplishment Sacred Bodies stayed back.
• Xiao Ping'an scattered the gathered Power of Faith as blessed light, restored damaged lands, and recited the Reincarnation Rebirth Mantra for the dead.
• Xiao Ping'an collected the fallen Supremes' remains and weapons, then visited the Life Forbidden Zones, killing those who resisted and moving several zones to the Tyrant Body Ancestral Star and Ziwei Star.
• Xiao Ping'an transformed into a Chaos Body and lived a new life.

Xiao Ping'an completed his transformation into a flawless Chaos Body and spent tens of thousands of years traveling and cultivating as the world passed through a Dharma-ending age and into a new golden age. After Xiao Ping'an remained unseen for more than fifty thousand years, Taiyin defeated the Quasi-Emperors, attained the Dao, and became the Taiyin Holy Emperor.

• After killing twenty-three Dark Supremes, Xiao Ping'an refined their forbidden zones and poured their essence blood over the Undying Heavenly Emperor's transformed body.
• Xiao Ping'an endured centuries of dangerous transformation on the Undying Mountain, then emerged with a flawless Chaos Body and began his fifth life.
• Xiao Ping'an traveled the world, visited forbidden zones, and urged Dark Supremes to become Saint Spirits or enter the Strange World, but they declined to commit.
• The world endured a Dharma-ending age before cultivation conditions improved and a new golden age began, while Xiao Ping'an's presence and Great Dao could no longer be detected.
• After more than fifty thousand years without Xiao Ping'an appearing, Taiyin defeated the established Quasi-Emperors, fused his Great Dao imprint with the Heavenly Heart Imprint, and became the Taiyin Holy Emperor.

The Taiyin Human Emperor visited the Underworld after proving his Dao, met Xiao Ping'an, and became the Underworld’s guardian while pursuing a third life through the Saint Spirit Transformation Method. Ages later, two Jade Silkworms discovered a golden creature hatching from Divine Source and suspected it was a legendary Divine Silkworm.

• The Taiyin Human Emperor entered the Underworld, where the White Bone Saber and Overlord Heaven Bell stopped him because the Overlord Heavenly Venerable was absent.
• Xiao Ping'an met the Taiyin Human Emperor, invited him to guard the Underworld, and taught him about Red Dust Immortals and the Saint Spirit Transformation Method.
• The Taiyin Human Emperor stayed in the Underworld, later took an Immortal Divine Medicine to live a second life, and became a Saint Spirit to attempt a third.
• Two nameless Ancient Emperors later became Dark Supremes, while Xiao Ping'an remained hidden through his fifth life and new cultivators ventured onto the Starry Sky Ancient Road.
• An old Jade Silkworm and her disciple Miaomiao uncovered a stone egg containing a golden little dragon, which broke free and swallowed the Divine Source.
• Miaomiao and her master recognized that the little dragon might be a true Divine Silkworm capable of nine transformations.

Chong Er received guidance and two scriptures from Daoist Xiao, then rose to become the God Emperor by shattering the Heavenly Heart Imprint and defeating a Dark Supreme. After attaining the Dao, he found that Daoist Xiao was Overlord Heavenly Venerable Xiao Ping'an, whose past and future selves revealed the depth of his power.

• Chong Er met Daoist Xiao in a ruined temple, learned from his teachings, and received two demon-race Ancient Emperor scriptures.
• Chong Er swept the Starry Sky Ancient Road, became a Quasi-Emperor, and began the Ninefold Immortal Tribulation.
• Chong Er shattered the Heavenly Heart Imprint instead of merging with it and fought a Dark Supreme while ascending beyond it.
• Chong Er killed the Dark Supreme and became the God Emperor, standing above the myriad Daos.
• The God Emperor traveled to the Underworld, reunited with Daoist Xiao, and recognized him as Overlord Heavenly Venerable Xiao Ping'an.

Xiao Ping'an explained the Red Dust Immortal Path and the existence of True Immortals and Immortal Kings to the Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor, who sought guidance on extending his life. He left the conversation inspired by a possible path of his own, but learned that the conventional True Immortal method could no longer be cultivated in their world.

• Xiao Ping'an gave the Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor an Immortal Divine Medicine and explained the Saint Spirit Transformation Method and his ideas for becoming a Red Dust Flying Immortal.
• When the Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor asked whether immortals existed, Xiao Ping'an said he had killed True Immortals and found their remains, and he described evidence of Immortal Kings in Immortal Artifacts and Immortal Divine Medicines.
• Xiao Ping'an identified the Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor's hidden Nine Marvels Immortal Medicine, and the Ancient Emperor promised to share some of its fruit when it ripened.
• The Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor took inspiration from the Nine Marvels Immortal Medicine and his Nine Transformations, and asked whether Xiao Ping'an had become a True Immortal.
• Xiao Ping'an said he was living his fifth life and explained that the Immortal Domain had shattered, cutting off the True Immortal method; he said nine transformations might let cultivators forge a Red Dust Immortal Path instead.

The Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor accepted Xiao Ping'an’s guidance and left to cultivate, while Xiao Ping'an resumed traveling the Starry Sky Ancient Road. There he encountered a young Daoist named Tongtian, who could not cross the Chaos Thunder Sea despite reaching the Quasi-Emperor realm.

• The Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor thanked Xiao Ping'an for his guidance, resolved to cultivate toward becoming a Red Dust Immortal, and departed to enter seclusion.
• The Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor’s oath stirred the Great Dao, causing heavenly phenomena that bestowed benefits on living beings.
• Xiao Ping'an left the Underworld, surveyed the Starry Sky Ancient Road, and repaired its formations and worlds as he traveled.
• Xiao Ping'an found a strange young Daoist resembling the Lingbao Heavenly Venerable and recognized the Immortal-Slaying Sword in his hands.
• Tongtian tried repeatedly to cross the Chaos Thunder Sea, but an invisible Great Dao barrier blocked him despite his Quasi-Emperor cultivation and the sword’s power.

Tongtian received Xiao Ping'an’s guidance, cleared the death Qi from his body, and became an emperor by shattering the Heavenly Heart Imprint. His success awakened a Red-Haired Monster resembling Lingbao Heavenly Venerable, who attacked Tongtian to devour him and live a new lifetime.

• Tongtian met Xiao Ping'an in the Chaos Thunder Sea, and Xiao Ping'an discovered his connection to Lingbao Heavenly Venerable and taught him Lingbao’s scriptures.
• Several thousand years later, Tongtian underwent the tribulation to attain the Dao while the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands watched in alarm.
• Xiao Ping'an used Immortal Fire to burn away Tongtian’s death Qi and help him undergo nirvana.
• Tongtian shattered the Heavenly Heart Imprint, attained the Dao, and received the title Heavenly Sovereign Tongtian.
• Tongtian’s tribulation awakened the Red-Haired Monster from an ancient coffin, and the monster recognized him as Lingbao before charging to devour him.