Chapter Summaries

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.

The Undying Heavenly Emperor emerged from his Great Dream of Ten Thousand Ages and lived his eighth lifetime, bringing him close to becoming a Red Dust Immortal. As he guided the world’s Great Dao and watched other powerful figures transform, a young Great Perfection Saint Spirit emerged from the Immortal Mausoleum.

• The Undying Heavenly Emperor’s transformation filled the Undying Mountain with five-colored radiance, and the Primordial Heavenly Emperor and cultivators gathered to observe.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor emerged from a divine egg and began his eighth lifetime, prompting Heavenly Emperor Xuanwu to say he was nearing Red Dust Immortal ascension.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor met the Primordial Heavenly Emperor and Heavenly Emperor Xuanwu, recognized their successful transformations, and joined them in praising the Overlord Heavenly Venerable.
• Heavenly Emperor Xuanwu entered the Undying Mountain to attempt a fifth lifetime using the Divine Silkworm Transformation Method, while the Primordial Heavenly Emperor later transformed and lived a fourth lifetime.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor revived the Heavenly Emperor’s Great Dao to allow successive new emperors to attain the Dao, but their lifespans proved no longer than those of ordinary Great Emperors.
• A Saint Spirit Stone Embryo burst open in the Immortal Mausoleum, and a heroic young man emerged as another Great Perfection Saint Spirit.

Longevity Heavenly Venerable revealed himself as the Great Perfection Saint Spirit who had bullied the young geniuses on the Starry Sky Ancient Road, then met with the Undying Heavenly Emperor in Undying Mountain. After deciding to pursue the Red Dust Immortal path, he discussed the Dao with the Undying Heavenly Emperor until eight young geniuses stumbled into the mountain and were invited to drink Enlightenment Tea.

• Longevity Heavenly Venerable traveled the Starry Sky Ancient Road as a Great Perfection Saint Spirit, defeating challengers and frightening the peerless geniuses before leaving after more than a hundred years.
• Longevity Heavenly Venerable met the Undying Heavenly Emperor beneath the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree, and the two caught up and shared tea.
• Longevity Heavenly Venerable told the Undying Heavenly Emperor he would pursue the Red Dust Immortal path in this life rather than seal himself away for a later age.
• Longevity Heavenly Venerable and the Undying Heavenly Emperor exchanged ideas about transformation and the Red Dust Immortal path in Undying Mountain.
• Eight young peerless geniuses accidentally reached Undying Mountain, greeted the Undying Heavenly Emperor and Longevity Heavenly Venerable, and were invited to taste Enlightenment Tea.

The Undying Heavenly Emperor welcomed Xuan Ming and seven other prodigies, then Xuan Ming’s generation grew into powerful cultivators while the Great Perfection Saint Spirit eventually proved his Dao as the Longevity Heavenly Emperor. As the golden age waned, the aging Longevity Heavenly Venerable spoke with the Undying Heavenly Emperor about his admiration for the Overlord Heavenly Venerable and his own uncertain future.

• The Undying Heavenly Emperor let Xuan Ming and seven prodigies cultivate beneath the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree, gave them leaves, and presented Xuan Ming with the Overlord Heavenly Venerable’s scripture.
• More than a thousand years later, the Great Perfection Saint Spirit triggered a Dao Attainment Tribulation, shattered the Heavenly Heart Imprint, and became the Longevity Heavenly Emperor.
• The Longevity Heavenly Emperor received the world’s homage, while an ordinary Great Emperor unexpectedly merged with the Heavenly Heart Imprint and became the first to prove his Dao after him.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor secretly helped several cultivators become counterfeit Great Emperors as the golden age continued and eventually faded.
• The aging Longevity Heavenly Venerable praised the Overlord Heavenly Venerable and discussed his approaching end with the Undying Heavenly Emperor, who recommended entering the Strange World if he could not begin a new Lifetime.

The Undying Heavenly Emperor saved Longevity Heavenly Venerable by sending him into the Strange World, then witnessed Heavenly Emperor Xuanwu transform into a Divine Infant and took responsibility for raising him. Xuanmingzi grew up under the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s care and, after reaching the Severing the Dao Realm, set out on the Starry Sky Ancient Road.

• Longevity Heavenly Venerable failed to transform into a sixth lifetime, so the Undying Heavenly Emperor gathered his shattered body and primordial spirit and sent him into the Strange World, where he recovered and became young again.
• After another hundred thousand years, Heavenly Emperor Xuanwu emerged from a silkworm cocoon as a human Divine Infant, having transformed into a fifth lifetime through the Nine Transformations of the Divine Silkworm.
• Heavenly Emperor Xuanwu briefly remembered the Undying Heavenly Emperor, then lost his remaining memories and asked him to protect him until he proved his Dao again.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor raised the infant, named him Xuanmingzi, and taught him to cultivate, restraining his extraordinary progress.
• Xuanmingzi grew up in the Undying Mountain, plucking its rare birds and exotic beasts or using them as mounts, then departed for the Starry Sky Ancient Road after reaching the Severing the Dao Realm.

The Daughter of the Ruins left the Reincarnation Sea to pursue the Great Dao and made Xuanmingzi her mount after defeating him on the Starry Sky Ancient Road. As they tempered themselves together, Xuanmingzi forged a new path, surpassed her, and became her close companion, leaving her unsettled by his growth and their changing relationship.

• The Undying Heavenly Emperor sent Xuanmingzi onto the Starry Sky Ancient Road, where he advanced rapidly despite trying to temper his Great Dao foundation.
• The Daughter of the Ruins broke free from her Immortal Source seal, left the Reincarnation Sea, and set out to prove her Dao and become an emperor.
• The Daughter of the Ruins defeated Xuanmingzi, forced him to become her mount, and promised to take him to the Immortal Domain after she became an emperor.
• Xuanmingzi repeatedly challenged the Daughter of the Ruins, studied the Dao of reincarnation, and created a new Great Dao path as his cultivation rose.
• Xuanmingzi eventually defeated the Daughter of the Ruins at the Sixth Heaven Quasi-Emperor level, and they became teammates and friends, though she rejected his proposal.
• Xuanmingzi and the Daughter of the Ruins passed every trial in the Reincarnation World, and the Daughter of the Ruins felt increasingly troubled by his rise and his victory over her.