Chapter Summaries

Li Xunyuan used the Primordial Dao Sword and a Supreme token to repel the Heavy Mountain Supreme, but the Yun Family Ancestor arrived and killed him. The Yun Family Ancestor and Geng Metal Supreme protected Li Xunyuan while the remaining Supremes were forced to kneel under a rule-bound suppression.

• The Divine Flame Supreme and Nether Supreme attacked Geng Metal Supreme while the Heavenly God Abyss Master and the others prepared to confront Li Xunyuan’s Dao protector.
• The Heavy Mountain Supreme attacked Li Xunyuan, who shattered his ancient cauldron, forced him to kneel with two sword strikes, and activated the Supreme token.
• The Yun Family Ancestor arrived along a golden immortal path and attacked the Heavy Mountain Supreme with his heavenly saber.
• The Yun Family Ancestor decapitated the Heavy Mountain Supreme, then shattered his head and divine soul, killing him.
• The Yun Family Ancestor’s rules forced the Heavenly God Abyss Master and the other Supremes to kneel as Geng Metal Supreme joined him to protect Li Xunyuan.

The Return to the Ruins Supremes mistook the force suppressing them for a Li Lineage Emperor array and launched a joint attack on Li Xunyuan and his allies. Yun Yao descended with overwhelming power, recognized Li Xunyuan but remained cold, and attacked the Supremes of the Wood God Abyss and Earth Deity Abyss.

• The Heavenly God Abyss Master blamed a presumed Li Lineage killing array for suppressing the Supremes and called for them to kill Li Xunyuan.
• Li Xuanyou realized the force did not come from a Li Lineage array and chose not to intervene.
• The Heavenly God Abyss Master attacked Li Xunyuan, while the Yun Family's ancestor and the Geng Metal Supreme engaged other Supremes; the Supremes of the Wood God Abyss and Earth Deity Abyss attacked Li Xunyuan together.
• Yun Yao descended from the depths of the Ruins Realm and effortlessly dispelled the two Supremes' attacks.
• Li Xunyuan recognized Yun Yao, but she ignored his tentative call and launched a killing assault against the Supremes of the Wood God Abyss and Earth Deity Abyss.

Yun Yao used the Flying Immortal Power to kill the Earth Deity Abyss Supreme and the Wood God Abyss Supreme, turning the battle in the Ruins Realm. The Heavenly God Abyss Master confronted her, but Yun Yao’s power continued to grow as she invoked the Six Desires Immortal Seal.

• Yun Yao shattered the Earth Deity Abyss Supreme’s defenses, crushed his heart, and destroyed his fleeing divine soul with the Flying Immortal Power.
• The Wood God Abyss Supreme fled, but Yun Yao hurled a Flying Immortal war spear after him and killed him.
• The Heavenly God Abyss Master, Divine Flame Supreme, and Nether Supreme regrouped, while the Golden God Abyss Supreme and Yun Family patriarch faced the remaining enemies.
• The Heavenly God Abyss Master judged that Yun Yao’s borrowed power would soon fade and moved to confront her.
• Yun Yao summoned the Six Desires Immortal Seal, and her power kept increasing as her past and present lives grew accustomed to each other.

Yun Yao and the Yun Family patriarch defeated the Supremes who had trapped Li Xunyuan, while Heavenly Yang Supreme arrived after the battle was nearly over. Yun Yao left without answering Li Xunyuan, and Geng Metal Supreme and Heavenly Yang Supreme finished off the last surviving enemy.

• The Heavenly God Abyss Master used his Heavenly God Art, but Yun Yao overwhelmed him with the Six Desires Immortal Seal and killed him with the Lunhui Flying Immortal Seal.
• The Yun Family patriarch killed Divine Flame Supreme, while Heavy Mountain Supreme and the Supremes of the Earth Deity Abyss and the Wood God Abyss also fell.
• Heavenly Yang Supreme arrived and explained that the Return to the Ruins had disrupted his search for the battlefield.
• Yun Yao spared Nether Supreme, told Li Xunyuan that fate was beginning, and vanished into the Ruins Realm without answering him.
• Geng Metal Supreme and Heavenly Yang Supreme joined forces to suppress Nether Supreme and destroy his Supreme divine soul.

After Yun Yao killed the six Supremes, Li Xuanyou guarded Li Xunyuan as he entered the Life and Death Realm to cultivate a path using ten thousand laws. Meanwhile, the Return to the Ruins Forbidden Land stayed quiet, and the Golden God Abyss sought an alliance as the other abysses considered how to answer their defeat.

• Yun Yao’s victory left the Ruins Realm stunned, while Li Xunyuan sensed hidden Supremes watching from the Nine Abysses.
• Li Xuanyou appeared, warned the hidden Supremes not to emerge, and told Li Xunyuan to reach the Return to the Ruins Realm before the Emperor Fall Battle Realm opened.
• Li Xunyuan entered the Life and Death Realm and began tempering his flesh with ten thousand laws and his soul with ten thousand Daos, enduring both fires as he pursued a new path.
• The Supremes remained in hiding, while Geng Metal Supreme and Heavenly Yang Supreme returned to the Golden God Abyss and sought a meeting with the Water God Abyss.
• News of Li Xunyuan’s defeat of the reincarnation heir and the deaths of six Supremes spread through the Nine Abysses, whose rulers considered an expedition against the Li Lineage once their lost forces returned.

As the Emperor Fall Battle Realm approached, rumors spread that Li Xunyuan had died in the Return to the Ruins Forbidden Land, while prodigies across the Three Thousand Heaven Domains emerged from seclusion. The chapter ended with Ao Xuan, the crown prince of the Great Void Dragon Court, revealing his extraordinary power as the Li Lineage faced the apparent loss of its forbidden prodigy.

• The Little God King's incarnation was slain by the divine son of the Li Lineage in the Return to the Ruins Forbidden Land, and the Little God King vowed to kill him in the Emperor Fall Battle Realm.
• Word spread that Li Xunyuan had vanished in the forbidden land and was presumed dead, while the Yun Family and the Li Lineage remained silent and their prodigies prepared for the coming battle realm.
• After a divination predicted the Emperor Fall Battle Realm would open within half a year, ancient holy sons, Thunder Sound Temple's holy son and holy maiden, the Undying Daoist, and other sealed prodigies emerged across the domains.
• Prince Xuan Tian returned from life-or-death seclusion with every bone transformed into an imperial bone and a new path forged.
• Heavenly signs heralded Ao Xuan's emergence from the Great Void Dragon Court, where his ancestral bloodline, Supreme Ancestral Dragon Physique, Ancestral Dragon Divine Ability, and twelve Life Palaces made him a peerless forbidden prodigy.
• With Li Xunyuan presumed dead, people pitied the Li Lineage, whose younger generation was left with Li Xukong as its sole standard-bearer.

Ao Xuan emerged from seclusion in the Return to the Ruins Realm and vowed to confront Li Xunyuan for killing Ao Xing. As Huang Yaoyao and Huo Lin also emerged and news spread of the Tang Family Little God King's ancient sea immortal physique, the geniuses prepared for the coming Emperor Fall Battle Realm.

• Ao Xuan received the princes and lords gathered at the Great Void Dragon Court and declared that he would advance to the Dao Integration Realm in the Emperor Fall Battle Realm.
• The Great Void Dragon Court elders told Ao Xuan that Ao Xing had died and that Ao Qingying's life had been cut short.
• Ao Xuan learned that Li Xunyuan had entered the Return to the Ruins Forbidden Land and vowed to confront him when the Emperor Fall Battle Realm opened.
• Huang Yaoyao emerged from seclusion, and Huang Wu told her about Li Xunyuan's feats and the alliance between the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Dynasty and the Longevity Li Family.
• Huo Lin emerged from seclusion at the Qilin Imperial Dynasty as auspicious phenomena filled the sky.
• News spread that the Tang Family's Little God King had developed the ancient sea immortal physique and was preparing to emerge from seclusion.

After three months of preparation, the Emperor Fall Battle Realm opened across the Primordial Dao Domain, drawing prodigies from major lineages and dynasties into a contest for Emperor-related opportunities. Li Xunyuan remained missing, while his rivals entered the realm and looked ahead to confronting him.

• Tang Chen emerged from seclusion with his Ancient Sea Immortal Physique, and Tang Family elders told him that Li Xunyuan was presumed dead.
• Prince Xuan Tian, Ao Xuan, Tang Chen, and other prodigies entered the Emperor Fall Battle Realm through portals across the Heaven Domains.
• Huo Ying'er and Huo Lin entered the realm together, while Huang Yaoyao and Huang Wu also set out from the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Dynasty.
• The Phoenix Scion, members of the Immortal Yun Lineage, Li Junlin, Li Cangtian, Li Tianji, Bu Hongchen, and other faction prodigies entered the realm.
• The Emperor Fall Battle Realm screened entrants by cultivation level and offered a chance to gain opportunities without Dao protectors or powerful backers.

While the Emperor Fall Battle Realm’s chosen searched for opportunities, Li Xunyuan emerged from the Return to the Ruins Forbidden Land at Return to the Ruins Fifth Heaven after breaking through and gaining the Yin-Yang Life and Death Fist. He entered the battle realm, while Li Xuanyou resolved to destroy the forbidden land once his affairs there were settled.

• Tang Chen survived nine layers of killing arrays, obtained an Ancient Dao Comprehension Tea Tree sapling, and vowed revenge on the Li Lineage.
• Chosen across the Emperor Fall Battle Realm pursued opportunities as many forces assumed Li Xunyuan had died in the Return to the Ruins Forbidden Land.
• Li Xunyuan refined the ten thousand laws into his body, broke into the Return to the Ruins Realm, and reached the Fifth Heaven.
• Li Xunyuan activated the Yin-Yang Life and Death Diagram and obtained the inherited divine ability Yin-Yang Life and Death Fist.
• Li Xunyuan left the Life and Death Realm, met Li Xuanyou, and entered the Emperor Fall Battle Realm through a passage.
• Li Xuanyou watched Li Xunyuan depart and declared that the Return to the Ruins Forbidden Land would no longer need to exist once his affairs were settled.

Li Xunyuan entered the sealed Emperor Fall Battle Realm and learned that the Li Lineage’s heirs had been attacked, so he set out to find Li Tianji. Meanwhile, Li Tianji fought Huikong’s followers after refusing to serve the Holy Son of Thunder Sound Temple.

• Heavenly geniuses discussed the Li Lineage’s losses and Huikong’s attempt to recruit Li Tianji when a portal opened above the Emperor Fall Battle Realm.
• Li Xunyuan entered the realm at the Return to the Ruins Realm and heard the gathered geniuses’ reports.
• Li Xunyuan used his divine ability to locate Li Tianji, angered by the attacks on his lineage and follower.
• Huikong ordered hundreds of converted heavenly geniuses to capture Li Tianji after Li Tianji rejected his demands.
• Li Tianji fought his way out of the encirclement, killing dozens of Nirvana geniuses and a Half-Step Return to the Ruins expert.

Li Tianji battled Huikong and his followers, using his karma and fate powers to trap and overwhelm them before Huikong broke free and turned the fight around. As Li Tianji prepared to sacrifice himself rather than accept a slave seal, someone familiar appeared in his arms and told him to stop risking his life.

• Li Tianji fought his way through the heavenly geniuses surrounding him and refused Huikong's demand to become his servant.
• Li Tianji used his Karma Bloodline to create the Living Beings Chessboard, neutralizing the attackers and suppressing more than half of them.
• Huikong resisted Li Tianji's attack, then killed and absorbed the followers who had begged him for protection.
• Huikong unleashed his Bloodbath of Mountains and Rivers, shattered the chessboard, and wounded the exhausted Li Tianji.
• As Huikong prepared to plant a slave seal on him, Li Tianji began burning his lifespan to fight back, but someone familiar appeared in his arms and stopped him.

Li Xunyuan arrived in the Emperor Fall Battle Realm, healed Li Tianji, and killed Huikong with one punch. His appearance and the death of Thunder Sound Temple’s Holy Son left the battlefield poised for a wider conflict.

• Li Xunyuan appeared before Li Tianji, stopped his sacrifice, and healed him back to peak condition.
• Li Xunyuan confronted Huikong and declared that he would kill him.
• Huikong summoned his eleven Life Palaces and attacked Li Xunyuan with a great divine ability.
• Li Xunyuan used the Yin-Yang Life and Death Fist to destroy Huikong and his Buddha manifestations with one punch.
• The gathered prodigies discussed Li Xunyuan’s return and the likely upheaval in the Emperor Fall Battle Realm.
• In the Primordial Dao Domain, Thunder Sound Temple’s abbot shook with rage while Li Qianqiu and the Li Lineage elders stayed calm.

Li Xunyuan advanced to the sixth level of the Return to the Ruins Realm, parted from Li Tianji, and headed toward the Dao Rhyme Ancient Land as he prepared to retaliate against Golden Crow Ridge. There, Li Zhixing confronted Golden Crow Child over the death of Li Tiangang and began a desperate attack as Golden Crow Child struck with Golden Crow True Fire.

• Li Xunyuan refined treasures and broke through to the sixth level of the Return to the Ruins Realm, while Li Tianji also advanced to the Return to the Ruins Realm.
• Li Tianji told Li Xunyuan about the approaching opening of the Dao Rhyme Ancient Land, then left to pursue an opportunity tied to his Fate and Karma Physique.
• Li Xunyuan resolved to punish Golden Crow Ridge for killing a Li Lineage heir and hunting its disciples.
• Li Zhixing waited in the Dao Rhyme Ancient Land’s central region for Golden Crow Child, then challenged him to avenge Li Tiangang.
• Golden Crow Child attacked Li Zhixing with a vast sea of Golden Crow True Fire, and Li Zhixing plunged his saber into his own chest while laughing wildly.

Li Zhixing fought the Golden Crow Child in the Dao Rhyme Ancient Land and, after feigning a grievous wound, trapped his opponent and opened the Heaven's Gate of his Indestructible Dao Body. The chapter left their clash at its climax, with Li Zhixing staking his life to take the Golden Crow Child down with him.

• Li Zhixing drew his saber and fought the Golden Crow Child while onlookers marveled at his strength and other hidden figures waited to profit from the battle.
• Li Zhixing invoked the Mad Immortal Art, and the Golden Crow Child answered with the Ancient Emperor Art; their attacks collided and sent them reeling back.
• Li Zhixing pretended to be gravely wounded, and the Golden Crow Child struck through his chest and pinned him amid a formation of blazing Golden Crow manifestations.
• Li Zhixing used Dao arts to trap the Golden Crow Child's arm and announced that he would send him to the netherworld.
• The Golden Crow Child unleashed the Fall of Ten Thousand Suns, but Li Zhixing drove a silver needle between his brows and opened the Heaven's Gate of his Indestructible Dao Body.

Li Zhixing killed Golden Crow Child, recovered through his Indestructible Dao Body, and claimed the Dao Rhyme region. You Feng and Gu Zhan then joined forces against him, leaving the battle ongoing as Li Zhixing demanded another attack.

• Li Zhixing opened the Emperor Forbidden Domain and killed Golden Crow Child with an attack that also destroyed his own body.
• Li Zhixing re-formed through his Indestructible Dao Body and claimed the Dao Rhyme region, silencing the watching prodigies.
• You Feng attacked Li Zhixing from behind, but Li Zhixing saw through the strike and forced You Feng into a stalemate.
• Gu Zhan attacked Li Zhixing, then proposed that he and You Feng join forces to reclaim the region.
• You Feng and Gu Zhan attacked together, wounding Li Zhixing as he called for them to attack again.

Li Xunyuan arrived in the Dao Rhyme Ancient Land and swiftly killed You Feng and Gu Zhan, rescuing Li Zhixing. He then set out to claim the remaining opportunities, leaving the gathered geniuses wondering whether he could withstand the other forces' pressure.

• Li Zhixing fought You Feng and Gu Zhan at once in the Mad Immortal Domain but could not quickly defeat them because his Indestructible Dao Body was weakened.
• Li Xunyuan suddenly arrived, killed You Feng with a finger, and then destroyed Gu Zhan with a casual strike.
• Li Zhixing greeted Li Xunyuan, who ordered him to lead the way to the other two areas of opportunity.
• Li Xunyuan and Li Zhixing left to claim the remaining opportunities, while the gathered geniuses stayed back and discussed the risks of Li Xunyuan's plan.

Li Xunyuan annihilated Nether Supreme and the Heavenly Kingdom prodigies who tried to ambush him, then faced the arrival of Prince Xuan Tian and the White Bone Princess. The chapter ended with the rival factions preparing for a confrontation and Golden Crow Ridge considering awakening a hidden power to deal with Li Xunyuan.

• Nether Supreme learned that You Feng had died and planned to kill the survivor of the battle to seize the ancient land’s opportunities.
• Li Xunyuan attacked Nether Supreme and the Heavenly Kingdom prodigies, killing them with one Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist and destroying Nether Supreme’s soul with a golden sword embryo.
• Prince Xuan Tian arrived on a golden Black Tortoise with Gu Piaomiao, the princess of the White Bone Imperial Clan, and declared that Li Xunyuan’s life was his to take.
• The elders of Xuanming Divine Mountain and the Li Lineage traded insults while Golden Crow Ridge’s experts reacted angrily to Golden Crow Child’s death.
• Golden Crow Ridge’s experts discussed awakening a hidden existence from the Immortal Ancient era to suppress and kill Li Xunyuan.

Li Xunyuan and Li Zhixing confronted Prince Xuan Tian and the White Bone Princess in the Dao Rhyme Ancient Land, where Li Zhixing collected treasures from the surging Dao Rhyme rivers. A pagoda emerged from the river, revealing a Quasi-Emperor Weapon that drew the attention of every prodigy.

• Li Zhixing attacked Prince Xuan Tian after he insulted Li Xunyuan, and their clash ended without either gaining the upper hand.
• Li Xunyuan ordered Li Zhixing to collect the Dao Rhyme laws, and the surrounding prodigies and native beings held back.
• Li Xunyuan found ancestral dragon blood in the river and fed it to the Chaos Ancestral Dragon, who transformed and joined Li Zhixing in gathering treasures.
• A pagoda filled with chaotic mist emerged from the Dao Rhyme river, and the prodigies recognized it as a Quasi-Emperor Weapon imbued with Dao Rhyme.

Li Xunyuan fought Prince Xuan Tian over the Quasi-Emperor Weapon and overwhelmed him despite the ancient freak’s Emperor Bones and Black Tortoise powers. The chapter ended with Prince Xuan Tian’s Emperor Descends upon the World attack shattered by Li Xunyuan, who wounded him again.

• Li Xunyuan and Prince Xuan Tian moved to claim the Quasi-Emperor Weapon while the other prodigies fought over lesser treasures, and the Chaos Ancestral Dragon and Li Zhixing attacked those who threatened the Divine Son’s interests.
• Prince Xuan Tian used the Black Tortoise Divine Ability against Li Xunyuan, but Li Xunyuan broke it with the Yin-Yang Life and Death Fist and sent him flying, coughing blood.
• Prince Xuan Tian unleashed his Emperor Forbidden Domain, revealing twelve Life Palaces and all 206 glowing Emperor Bones as the surrounding prodigies watched in awe.
• Prince Xuan Tian summoned the Black Tortoise Emperor Physique’s phenomenon and attacked with Emperor Descends upon the World, but Li Xunyuan shattered his divine furnace with an Immortal Severing sword strike and wounded his hand.

Li Xunyuan overwhelmed Prince Xuan Tian despite his unique True Martial Dao, then banished him into the void with Origin Heaven-Devouring. The chapter ended with Prince Xuan Tian’s fate uncertain and the gathered prodigies stunned.

• Prince Xuan Tian summoned his True Martial phantom and attacked Li Xunyuan with True Martial Azure Sea, but Li Xunyuan walked through the sword force unharmed.
• Li Xunyuan used Life and Years to seize Prince Xuan Tian and drain his vitality and Black Tortoise Emperor Bone origin, then struck him repeatedly as he broke free and unleashed more techniques.
• Gu Piaomiao intervened to help Prince Xuan Tian, but Li Xunyuan slapped her away before she could attack.
• Li Xunyuan unleashed Origin Heaven-Devouring and swallowed Prince Xuan Tian, beginning to refine his Dao arts and two hundred and six emperor bones.
• The prodigies stopped fighting over opportunities and watched in shock as Prince Xuan Tian disappeared into the unknown void.