Recaps

After five hundred years of waiting outside the sealed Immortal Court, Ye Mingyuan finally met the awakened Lu Qingyun and told him about a mysterious mountain he had found. Lu Qingyun let him bring it into the forbidden zone, where Ye Mingyuan opened it and revealed an incomplete stone tablet.

• Ye Mingyuan repeatedly visited the sealed Immortal Court over five hundred years, hoping Lu Qingyun would emerge.
• Lu Qingyun awakened, challenged Ye Mingyuan over his thoughts, and heard his account of a mountain with a presence like the heavenly palace.
• Ye Mingyuan entered the forbidden zone and was shocked to realize that Lu Qingyun had begun a second life.
• Lu Qingyun told Ye Mingyuan to show him the mountain and warned him that his life depended on whether it held anything worthwhile.
• Ye Mingyuan used his Sacred Body blood Qi to dissolve the mountain and expose a small, incomplete stone tablet.

Lu Qingyun uncovered the incomplete True Phoenix Precious Technique and offered to heal Ye Mingyuan’s Dao injuries with the Great Dao of Life instead of giving him the Divine Medicine of Immortality. After Ye Mingyuan recovered, he returned to the universe’s remote frontier to pursue the myriad Daos and become an emperor again.

• The stone tablet revealed the artistic conception of the True Phoenix Precious Technique, and Lu Qingyun made Ye Mingyuan promise to say he had seen nothing.
• Lu Qingyun showed Ye Mingyuan a Divine Medicine of Immortality, then explained that it would not remove the Heavenly Dao’s seal and offered to heal his Dao injuries instead.
• Lu Qingyun used the Great Dao of Life to restore Ye Mingyuan’s Sea of Bitterness and divine power, stunning Ye Mingyuan with how much strength Lu Qingyun had concealed.
• Ye Mingyuan revived, drawing attention and congratulations from across the universe, while the Black Emperor suspected Lu Qingyun had used a heaven-defying means.
• Ye Mingyuan descended once again upon the universe’s remote frontier, intending to tread the myriad Daos and become an emperor.

After recovering through Lu Qingyun’s life essence, Ye Mingyuan charged into his Dao-vindication tribulation and survived the heavenly saber, becoming an emperor as a Sacred Body. He faced the Black Emperor at the frontier of the universe, and the Black Emperor’s opening punch made Ye Mingyuan realize how formidable his opponent was.

• Ye Mingyuan recovered his strength, then began another Dao-vindication tribulation, fighting through its lightning with a fierce resolve.
• Ye Mingyuan confronted the heavenly saber and vanished in its white radiance, but a drop of his golden blood gathered essence and formed his body anew.
• Ye Mingyuan entered the Emperor Realm as a Sacred Body, breaking the rule against two emperors existing in one era alongside the Black Emperor.
• At the frontier of the universe, Ye Mingyuan thanked the Black Emperor for helping him before, and the Black Emperor answered with his battle intent.
• The Black Emperor attacked Ye Mingyuan with a fist, and its power made Ye Mingyuan’s expression change.

The Black Emperor defeated Ye Mingyuan in a battle that revealed his power as an awakened Divine Medicine of Immortality who had attained the Dao. After emerging from seclusion, the Black Emperor announced that he would wage war on the forbidden zones to bring peace to ten thousand generations.

• Ye Mingyuan and the Black Emperor fought fiercely, while Supremes in the forbidden zones considered attacking them but ultimately held back.
• The Black Emperor defeated Ye Mingyuan, and news spread that he had transformed from a Divine Medicine of Immortality and attained the Dao.
• Ye Mingyuan continued improving through the Heavenly Heart Imprint, intimidated the Tyrant Body Ancestral Star, and searched the universe for a remedy.
• The Black Emperor emerged from thousands of years of seclusion, surrounded by a vast display of imperial power.
• The Black Emperor declared that he would wage war on the forbidden zones and do all he could to bring peace to ten thousand generations.

The Black Emperor returned to the Desolate Ash Sea, where he had once lived as a Divine Medicine of Immortality, and challenged its Supremes. He entered the forbidden zone to fulfill his promise to wage war on the forbidden zones and slay Supremes, but none answered his call.

• Ye Mingyuan saw the Black Emperor approaching a forbidden zone and prepared to aid him if needed.
• The Black Emperor recalled how he had escaped the Desolate Ash Sea during a battle among the Supremes before attaining the Dao.
• The Supremes of the Desolate Ash Sea warned the Black Emperor to withdraw and threatened to beat him back into his original form.
• Lu Qingyun watched from the Immortal Court and considered the forbidden zones’ ancient hidden reserves.
• The Black Emperor entered the Desolate Ash Sea, challenged its Supremes to fight, and received no answer.

The Black Emperor challenged the Desolate Ash Sea and drew out the False Immortal, a forgotten human Emperor whose surviving believers sacrificed themselves to restore his power. After defeating and killing him, the Black Emperor withdrew, and Ye Mingyuan arrived to challenge the remaining Supremes.

• The Black Emperor threatened to level the Desolate Ash Sea, prompting the False Immortal to emerge from its depths.
• The factions pieced together that the False Immortal had once sacrificed countless living beings during a dark era to try to become a True Immortal.
• The False Immortal awakened believers across the universe, whose deaths sent life essence into him and restored his strength.
• The Black Emperor and the False Immortal fought with their Extreme Dao Emperor Weapons, and the Black Emperor killed him after a thousand exchanges.
• The Black Emperor took the False Immortal's corpse and left, while the remaining Supremes avoided challenging him.
• Ye Mingyuan descended upon the Desolate Ash Sea and asked which Supreme would face him next.

Ye Mingyuan and the Black Emperor continued their campaigns against the forbidden zones, killing Supremes and raising hopes of reducing their threat. Then Lu Qingyun emerged from the Immortal Court and ordered the two to leave, leaving the world braced for a confrontation.

• Ye Mingyuan killed a Supreme in the Desolate Ash Sea, completing the first campaign with two Supremes dead.
• A thousand years later, the Black Emperor entered Chaotic God Mountain, where he and Ye Mingyuan killed more Supremes.
• Lu Qingyun emerged from the Immortal Court, alarming the forbidden zones and the rest of the universe.
• Lu Qingyun faced Ye Mingyuan and the Black Emperor and told them to leave or be forced out.

Lu Qingyun intervened when Ye Mingyuan and the Black Emperor attacked Chaotic God Mountain, then challenged them to fight at the universe’s frontier. He defeated both emperors in three punches, leaving the world to recognize him as a forbidden zone in his own right.

• The system assigned Lu Qingyun a mission to stop Ye Mingyuan and the Black Emperor, rewarding him with Immortal King-level True Phoenix blood essence.
• Lu Qingyun confronted Ye Mingyuan and the Black Emperor, and both chose to fight rather than retreat.
• Lu Qingyun led them to the universe’s frontier, where the Black Emperor attacked with his black lotus Emperor Weapon.
• Lu Qingyun shattered the Black Emperor’s weapon and body with two punches, then struck Ye Mingyuan with the Chaos Emperor Fist.
• The Black Emperor fled carrying the badly injured Ye Mingyuan, and witnesses concluded that Lu Qingyun alone was equivalent to a forbidden zone.

Lu Qingyun completed the True Phoenix Precious Technique and demonstrated that even a drop of his waste blood could rival a Great Emperor. Thousands of years later, the Black Emperor and Ye Mingyuan chose to wage war on the forbidden zones again, despite the dangers and the Chaos Heavenly Emperor’s possible interference.

• Lu Qingyun used Immortal King-level True Phoenix blood essence to complete his True Phoenix Precious Technique.
• Lu Qingyun formed a lifelike blood phoenix from a drop of waste blood, and it left True Phoenix traces on an Immortal Court mountain.
• In the twenty-six-thousandth year of the Immortal Court calendar, the Black Emperor and Ye Mingyuan awakened several thousand years after their previous battle.
• The Black Emperor rejected a life spent pursuing immortality and resolved to fight the forbidden zones and slay the Supremes.
• The Black Emperor and Ye Mingyuan recognized each other’s resolve and set out to wage war against the forbidden zones again.

Ye Mingyuan and the Black Emperor returned to the Desolate Ash Sea to kill its Supremes, despite the threat that the Chaos Heavenly Emperor might intervene. They separated seven Supremes between them, and the Black Emperor began by stealing a Supreme’s purple-qi bell; the battle continued.

• Ye Mingyuan and the Black Emperor ignored the Supremes’ threats and attacked the Desolate Ash Sea.
• The Supremes struck Ye Mingyuan, who regenerated his injured hand, while the Black Emperor forced the attackers out of their Immortal Sources.
• Ye Mingyuan claimed four of the seven Supremes for himself, leaving the Black Emperor to fight the other three.
• A Supreme underwent ultimate sublimation and charged the Black Emperor beneath a purple-qi bell.
• The Black Emperor swept the bell from the Supreme’s head and suppressed it in his Sea of Bitterness with an Emperor Weapon.

The Black Emperor and Ye Mingyuan defeated the Supremes who attacked them, then waited for Lu Qingyun to emerge from the Immortal Court but saw no sign of him. They returned to their respective homes, while Ye Mingyuan resolved to pursue immortality and the universe anticipated further wars against the forbidden zones.

• The Black Emperor defeated his opponents, while Ye Mingyuan slew four Supremes after trading injuries with them and recovered with a lotus seed.
• The Black Emperor and Ye Mingyuan waited for Lu Qingyun to emerge from the Immortal Court, but Lu remained inside and did not intervene.
• After confirming Lu would not attack, the Black Emperor returned to the Black Realm to recover and continue his campaign against the forbidden zones.
• Ye Mingyuan reflected on his Sacred Body lineage and his desire to become immortal, then left for home.
• Seven Supremes had been executed in the battle, and the universe looked forward to the forbidden zones losing more Supremes.

Thirty thousand years after the Immortal Court calendar began, Lu Qingyun found no place in the greater universe that could advance his cultivation and sensed the Black Emperor setting out to sweep another forbidden zone. The Black Emperor killed two Supremes and returned, while Ye Mingyuan noticed signs of his aging and the Supremes debated what his decline might mean.

• Lu Qingyun reflected that his six Daos had reached their limits and decided to return to the Immortal Court, then sensed another disturbance across the universe.
• The Black Emperor emerged from the black lotus and headed for Fallen Immortal Star as the races watched a familiar forbidden-zone sweep begin.
• The Black Emperor sensed that Ye Mingyuan remained in seclusion, while Ye Mingyuan kept watch in case the Black Emperor faced mortal danger.
• The Black Emperor killed two Supremes and returned, and Ye Mingyuan noticed that his blood and vitality were declining after at least thirty thousand years.
• Ye Mingyuan considered whether enduring and waiting out the world was wiser than continuing to fight, while the Supremes of Chaotic God Mountain discussed the aging Heavenly Emperor and fell silent.

The Black Emperor accepted that he was nearing death and spent his remaining years raiding forbidden zones, while Ye Mingyuan agreed to protect him. When the Black Emperor finally passed, he turned into a black lotus and fell into the void, apparently entering nirvana as a Divine Medicine of Immortality, leaving Ye Mingyuan to wonder whether he would be the only Heavenly Emperor to die for good.

• The Black Emperor repaired a crack in his spirit platform, accepted his approaching death, and decided to kill a Supreme in celebration.
• The Black Emperor entered the Kunlun Divine Ruins, killed a Golden-Winged Emperor Peng, and roasted the corpse at the entrance to provoke the forbidden-zone Supremes.
• For the next two thousand years, the Black Emperor periodically visited forbidden zones and killed one Supreme at a time.
• Ye Mingyuan agreed to protect the Black Emperor in his final days, and the Black Emperor bluntly told him he had no hope of becoming an immortal.
• The Black Emperor continued attacking forbidden zones until he passed in the thirty-four-thousandth year of the Immortal Court calendar, while Ye Mingyuan warned the Supremes that a prime Heavenly Emperor still lived.
• Ye Mingyuan watched the Black Emperor become an illusory black lotus and disappear into the void, realizing he might be undergoing nirvana as a Divine Medicine of Immortality.

Aging Heavenly Emperor Ye Mingyuan searched unsuccessfully for a Divine Medicine of Immortality, then withdrew to his palace as his strength and life waned. When nine Supremes appeared outside his palace, the world faced a new crisis.

• Ye Mingyuan searched the universe for a Divine Medicine of Immortality for a thousand years but found none, and he failed to obtain one from Lu Qingyun at Fallen Immortal Star.
• Ye Mingyuan discovered the hidden Tyrant Body Ancestral Star and slaughtered a Great Accomplishment Tyrant Body.
• In year forty thousand of the Immortal Court calendar, Ye Mingyuan built an imperial palace beside the Black Realm and stopped venturing out.
• Ye Mingyuan struck only three times during his later years, eliminating four more Supremes while each exertion hastened his decline.
• After the Great Dao trembled again, nine Supremes emerged from the forbidden zones and gathered outside Ye Mingyuan's palace to kill him.

Ye Mingyuan revealed that he had lured nine Supremes into a star domain filled with ultimate Dao killing formations, then summoned the Black Emperor’s battle intent as a second trump card. As the two Heavenly Emperors fought the Supremes for what appeared to be the last time, a perfected Holy Spirit seized the moment to trigger its lightning tribulation and attain the Dao.

• Nine Supremes attacked Ye Mingyuan, who revealed that he had spent thousands of years preparing over a hundred ultimate Dao killing formations for them.
• The Supremes broke through the formations, but Ye Mingyuan summoned the Black Emperor’s battle intent, which emerged from the Black Realm wielding the black lotus Emperor Weapon.
• Ye Mingyuan and the Black Emperor’s battle intent joined forces and unleashed their full power against the nine Supremes.
• The killing formations sealed the Supremes’ escape as several were blasted apart, and people across the world watched the two Heavenly Emperors’ final battle.
• At the fringes of the universe, a perfected Holy Spirit triggered its lightning tribulation to attain the Dao.

Sheng Ying, a perfected Holy Spirit, emerged and vindicated his Dao as the Holy Sovereign while Ye Mingyuan finished killing the nine Supremes. Sheng Ying then concealed himself rather than confront the weakened Heavenly Emperor, who continued guarding the universe as a hundred years passed.

• Sheng Ying emerged from hiding, triggered his Dao vindication tribulation, and declared that all who refused to obey him would die.
• Ye Mingyuan chose not to interrupt Sheng Ying’s tribulation and joined the Black Emperor’s battle intent to kill the last Supreme before he could escape into a forbidden zone.
• Sheng Ying successfully vindicated his Dao, but he hid instead of attacking the exhausted Ye Mingyuan.
• Ye Mingyuan searched the universe for Sheng Ying, whose concealment skills kept him hidden.
• A hundred years passed as Ye Mingyuan remained in the imperial palace, while Sheng Ying watched and waited for the Heavenly Emperor’s light to go out.

Ye Mingyuan entered Lu Qingyun’s forbidden zone and let the world believe he had become a Supreme, hiding his plan to lure out Sheng Ying. After a thousand years of recovery, Sheng Ying judged Ye Mingyuan to be gone and prepared to pursue immortality.

• Ye Mingyuan’s apparent disappearance led the world to believe he had entered the Immortal Court Forbidden Zone, and people erased his achievements and cursed him.
• Lu Qingyun revealed that Ye Mingyuan was sealed in Immortal Source and had triggered a system mission that rewarded Lu Qingyun with the God Striking Stone technique.
• Ye Mingyuan explained that the world’s condemnation would help convince Sheng Ying that he had abandoned his duties, and he prepared to fight him when he emerged.
• Sheng Ying finished healing after a thousand years, became confident in his power as a perfected Holy Spirit, and assumed Ye Mingyuan had sealed himself away.
• Sheng Ying dismissed Ye Mingyuan as useless and declared that he was destined to attain the Dao as a True Immortal.

A thousand years after the Heavenly Emperor fell into the forbidden zone, Sheng Ying returned as a Great Emperor and forced the cosmos to surrender most of its resources. As Sheng Ying waited to consume the treasures and pursue immortality, an unremarkable figure carrying an enormous coffin-shaped piece of immortal source approached the sacred palace.

• Sheng Ying emerged as emperor and ordered the clans, sacred lands, and life-source stars to give him seventy percent of their resources or face annihilation.
• The factions obeyed and carried their treasures to the sacred palace while Sheng Ying declared that he would use the cosmos to fuel his path to immortality.
• Sheng Ying eyed Fallen Immortal Star and imagined one day using the Chaos Heavenly Emperor's blood to transform himself.
• An ordinary figure carrying a huge piece of immortal source walked along the Ancient Starry Sky Road toward Sheng Ying, and a senior elder recognized him and wept.
• Sheng Ying welcomed the amassed offerings, unaware that the coffin-shaped immortal source was approaching the palace.

Ye Mingyuan returned at full strength to battle Sheng Ying, the Holy Spirit who had attained the Dao, and sacrificed himself to drag his enemy into Fallen Immortal Star. Sheng Ying met the figure on Phoenix Blood Mountain and died from a single glance, leaving behind an immortal stone mountain.

• Ye Mingyuan confronted Sheng Ying and revealed that he had waited in the Immortal Court for the Holy Spirit to emerge.
• Ye Mingyuan fought Sheng Ying across the starry cosmos, while his declining life force and Death Qi fueled his attacks.
• The battle shifted to Fallen Immortal Star, where Ye Mingyuan burned his soul and Dao fruits to drag Sheng Ying into the forbidden zone before dying.
• Sheng Ying saw the figure on Phoenix Blood Mountain, and the figure's gaze silently drew out his soul and killed him.
• Sheng Ying's body became an immortal stone mountain beside Phoenix Blood Mountain, surpassing the world's ultimate Dao comprehension treasures.

Lu Qingyun gained the God Striking Stone Precious Technique as the universe entered an age of arduous cultivation after the golden age’s powerful beings died away. Millennia later, a sealed taboo existence broke free from its Immortal Source and began probing the weakened universe for any invincible being who might stop it.

• Lu Qingyun received the God Striking Stone Precious Technique and gained supreme defensive power alongside his other precious techniques.
• The universe mourned Ye Mingyuan and the lost golden age, while statues and temples honoring the Heavenly Emperor endured.
• In the fifty-thousandth year of the Immortal Court calendar, the Great Dao’s suppression made cultivation exceptionally difficult and left the Ancient Starry Sky Road nearly abandoned.
• A peerless cultivator reached the Immortal Platform realm but could advance no further, lamenting that he had missed the golden age.
• A taboo existence consumed the remaining essence of its Immortal Source, emerged, and searched the weakened universe for an invincible guardian before feasting on its living beings.

A Supreme launched a Dark Turmoil, devouring countless worlds while the universe had no Great Emperor to stop him. A Great Emperor's son emerged from seclusion to quell the calamity, but the Supreme caught and devoured him, leaving the turmoil unchecked.

• A Supreme began a Dark Turmoil, slaughtering living beings and consuming the Blood Qi of entire source stars.
• Extreme Dao factions fled along the Ancient Starry Sky Road while people prayed in vain for salvation.
• An emperor's son emerged from Immortal Source, determined to inherit his father's legacy and quell the turmoil.
• The emperor's son attacked the Supreme with his father's Emperor Weapon, confident he could defeat a single Supreme.
• The Supreme caught the Emperor Weapon, seized the emperor's son, and devoured him, then declared that the turmoil had been quelled.

Lu Qingyun roasted the Supreme’s body, consumed a Divine Medicine of Immortality, and began his third life. As the universe recovered and the Great Dao’s suppression eased, a prodigy summoned a Dao Attainment Lightning Tribulation, startling an ancient talent who had just emerged from divine source.

• Lu Qingyun had the young Immortal Phoenix roast the Supreme’s body and extracted two Great Daos while criticizing the creature’s technique.
• Lu Qingyun swallowed a Divine Medicine of Immortality, renewing his declining body and beginning his third life.
• As life returned to the universe and Great Dao suppression weakened, powerful young talents rose and fought for supremacy.
• A peerless prodigy summoned a Dao Attainment Lightning Tribulation despite the age’s suppression, causing the ancient talent to awaken from divine source and realize he had emerged too late.

After a monstrous genius failed to attain the Dao, Lu Qingyun collected the trace of his Great Dao and witnessed the universe’s decline and revival over the next hundred thousand years. The system then rewarded Lu Qingyun with a complete Immortal King corpse possessing a Flawless Chaos Body, and his resonance with it ended the age of arduous cultivation.

• Lu Qingyun collected the failed genius’s tribulation ash and absorbed his nearly attained Great Dao into the ranks of attained Daos.
• Lu Qingyun walked through the mortal world and watched the universe descend into silence and revive over the years.
• One hundred thousand years into the Immortal Court calendar, the system rewarded Lu Qingyun with a complete Immortal King corpse.
• Lu Qingyun discovered the corpse belonged to a peerless Immortal King with a Flawless Chaos Body and began resonating with it inside his Sea of Bitterness.
• Lu Qingyun made the corpse’s right index finger twitch, triggering the universe’s myriad Daos and ending the age of arduous cultivation.

After the great era began, a Sacred Body who had once defeated the age’s prodigies remained unable to break through Dao Severing, even as his peers advanced along the imperial road. Running out of resources, he agreed to marry into a renowned clan, and the chapter ends with the world lamenting that his exceptionally talented bride, an Innate Dao Fetus, was born too late to compete with the leading contenders.

• As the great era revived, prodigies and ancient talents emerged, and the Sacred Body defeated holy sons and divine maidens across the regions.
• The Sacred Body repeatedly failed to break through Dao Severing while his former peers became Dao Severing Kings and advanced along the Ancient Starry Sky Road.
• A returning prodigy dismissed the Sacred Body as irrelevant, and the Sacred Body’s failed breakthrough left him without cultivation resources.
• An ancient clan offered the Sacred Body resources in exchange for marrying into the clan, and he solemnly accepted.
• The Sacred Body held a grand wedding and married a beautiful, gifted woman three hundred years younger than him.
• People lamented that the bride, an Innate Dao Fetus with the potential to attain the Dao, had been born too late to catch up with the leading prodigies.

Over the decades, the Sacred Body overcame his Dao Severing barrier, reached great accomplishment, and protected his wife as she swept through the Ancient Starry Sky Road. Five hundred years later, she survived her tribulation and became the female Great Emperor Jade Pond, leaving two invincible beings in one era.

• The Sacred Body and his wife spent ten years cultivating together, and she severed her Dao to become a Dao Severing King.
• After feeling an opportunity through harmonizing yin and yang, the Sacred Body severed his Dao, entered the Saint Domain, and advanced to the Sage realm.
• The couple stepped onto the Ancient Starry Sky Road and rapidly fought their way into the struggle on the imperial path, with the Sacred Body acting as his wife's Dao protector.
• The Sacred Body harassed rival contenders to slow their progress, while he and his wife joined forces against opponents he could not defeat alone.
• After a contender's Dao Attainment Lightning Tribulation ended in defeat when Supremes took the great medicine, the Sacred Body secretly overcame his own tribulation and reached great accomplishment.
• Five hundred years later, the Innate Dao Fetus passed her tribulation under the Sacred Body's protection and became the female Great Emperor Jade Pond.