Chapter Summaries

After becoming the Chaos Heavenly Emperor, Lu Qingyun accepted the Eternal Forbidden Zone System’s offer and used it to establish the Immortal Court on Fallen Immortal Star. He declared the Immortal Court a Life Forbidden Zone, defying the universe’s expectations that he would confront the existing forbidden zones.

• Lu Qingyun completed his tribulation and became the Chaos Heavenly Emperor, then received the Eternal Forbidden Zone System and its Immortal Court reward.
• Remembering how Supremes had hunted him and doubting he could survive until the Road to Immortality opened, Lu Qingyun decided to establish a forbidden zone of his own.
• Lu Qingyun consumed his Semi-Divine Medicine to heal his injuries and traveled to Fallen Immortal Star, where Supremes and the universe watched him arrive.
• Lu Qingyun summoned the Immortal Court onto Fallen Immortal Star and declared it a Life Forbidden Zone, warning that intruders would die.

After entering the Immortal Court, Lu Qingyun became a new forbidden-zone master, shocking the universe and alarming the other Supremes. He received a True Immortal scripture and spent a hundred years comprehending it before noticing a young Quasi-Emperor waiting outside.

• Lu Qingyun entered the Immortal Court, causing the Heavenly Heart Imprint to leave him and the era's mandate to become vacant.
• Living beings despaired at Lu Qingyun's decision to establish a forbidden zone, while contenders for the Dao emerged from Divine Source and the Forbidden Zone Supremes speculated about his motives.
• Lu Qingyun explored the Immortal Court, where he found ancient beasts, potent medicine kings, a lake of Immortal Source Liquid, and formations powerful enough to kill an intruding Supreme.
• The system rewarded Lu Qingyun with a True Immortal scripture, and he activated the Immortal Court's formations before entering an epiphany.
• After a hundred years of cultivation, Lu Qingyun found that the scripture accelerated his progress but seemed incomplete, then spotted a young Quasi-Emperor meditating outside the Immortal Court.

Ye Mingyuan confronted Lu Qingyun over becoming a forbidden-zone Supreme, but Lu rejected responsibility for the universe and drove him away. After gaining mastery of Extreme Dao array patterns, Lu learned that two injured Supremes had broken their seals and were about to begin a Dark Turmoil.

• Ye Mingyuan met Lu Qingyun after waiting outside the Immortal Court for a hundred years and questioned why he had become a forbidden-zone Supreme.
• Lu Qingyun defended his choices by recalling the persecution he had suffered and his grudge against the Feng Family, then expelled Ye Mingyuan and warned him not to return.
• Lu Qingyun wondered whether he had taken the primordial yin of the Feng Family daughter Ye Mingyuan married, then dismissed the possibility and received Extreme Dao Array Pattern Mastery from the system.
• In Chaotic God Mountain, two Supremes whose Immortal Crystals were failing discussed their dwindling vital essence and decided to seek living beings as great medicine.
• The two Supremes broke out of their Immortal Source and declared that the Dark Turmoil would begin.

Two Supremes unleashed a Dark Turmoil across the universe, devouring countless lives while sparing Fallen Immortal Star. As they retreated, Lu Qingyun pursued Golden-Haired Hou Supreme, whose escape was swiftly being overtaken by the Heavenly Emperor.

• Golden-Furred Hou and another Supreme left Chaotic God Mountain and began a Dark Turmoil, avoiding Fallen Immortal Star because Lu Qingyun resided there.
• The Supremes slaughtered living beings across the universe, devoured a Quasi-Emperor who attacked Golden-Haired Hou Supreme, and passed by the Tyrant Body Ancestral Star while eyeing its lineage as a future harvest.
• After the Supremes gathered enough life essence to seal themselves away again, Lu Qingyun fixed his gaze on them and made them flee in different directions.
• Lu Qingyun pursued Golden-Haired Hou Supreme, who relied on Heaven-Deceiving Formation Patterns to escape.
• Lu Qingyun crossed dozens of starfields in a single stride and halved the distance to Golden-Haired Hou Supreme.

Lu Qingyun captured the Golden-Haired Hou Supreme alive, studied his longevity methods, and earned an Immortal Divine Medicine from the system. By Immortal Court year 721, Lu had completed his immortal scripture and reached peak Great Emperor strength, just as Ye Mingyuan brought his Sacred Body to grand completion.

• Lu Qingyun pursued the Golden-Haired Hou Supreme, observed how he transformed life essence into divine power, and captured him after the Supreme reclaimed his former Dao Fruit and fought back.
• Lu Qingyun returned to Fallen Immortal Star with the captive Supreme, and a surviving Supreme at Chaos God Mountain chose to seal himself away after meeting Lu's gaze.
• The system rewarded Lu Qingyun with an Immortal Divine Medicine for capturing a supreme Dao Supreme alive.
• Over the next three hundred years, Lu Qingyun drained the Golden-Haired Hou Supreme's life essence, and the Supreme died in the Immortal Court Forbidden Land.
• Lu Qingyun discovered that Immortal Substance from Immortal Divine Medicine completed his immortal scripture, and after seven hundred years of cultivation he reached peak Great Emperor strength.
• Ye Mingyuan achieved grand completion of his Sacred Body.

Ye Mingyuan reached the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body realm, while Lu Qingyun received the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass Precious Technique after surviving a thousand years in a forbidden zone. The chapter ended with Ye Mingyuan confronting an old man from Chaotic God Mountain and threatening to kill him if he did not leave.

• Ye Mingyuan overcame his lightning tribulation and reached the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body realm, drawing praise from across the universe.
• Ye Mingyuan regretted that he had not attained the Dao earlier to prevent the Dark Turmoil, while Lu Qingyun remained unimpressed by his achievement.
• Lu Qingyun received the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass Precious Technique from the system and experienced its power, though he admitted he lacked the comprehension to master it.
• Three hundred years later, Ye Mingyuan had recovered from his Dao injuries and advanced to Ninth Heaven Quasi-Emperor, intending to challenge the iron law that a Sacred Body could not become Emperor.
• Ye Mingyuan sensed an aged man emerging from Chaotic God Mountain, crossed a million li to confront him, and ordered him to leave or die.

Heavenly Venerable Taiyi left Chaotic God Mountain and crossed the universe while Ye Mingyuan followed to watch him. At the Tyrant Body Ancestral Star, Taiyi provoked a Great Accomplished Tyrant Body and assigned Ye Mingyuan to fight him, leaving the two physiques to clash.

• Heavenly Venerable Taiyi warned Ye Mingyuan not to interfere, then used his formless power to pass through Ye Mingyuan's grasp and continue into the universe.
• Ye Mingyuan followed Heavenly Venerable Taiyi, wary that the dying Supreme might threaten the universe.
• A Great Accomplished Tyrant Body watched Heavenly Venerable Taiyi from the Tyrant Body Ancestral Star and showed greed for his inheritance.
• Heavenly Venerable Taiyi struck at the ancestral star, and the Great Accomplished Tyrant Body emerged to destroy his palm imprint.
• Heavenly Venerable Taiyi revealed Ye Mingyuan and told him to fight the Great Accomplished Tyrant Body, reminding him that the Tyrant Body had bathed in an elderly Great Accomplishment Sacred Body's blood.
• Ye Mingyuan and the Great Accomplished Tyrant Body faced each other across the void, and battle erupted.

Heavenly Venerable Taiyi sought a place to seal himself away and moved into Lu Qingyun’s Immortal Court Forbidden Land. The system rewarded Lu Qingyun with permanent Heaven-Defying Comprehension and made every resident his eternal subordinate.

• Heavenly Venerable Taiyi considered the forbidden zones and chose to ask Lu Qingyun for a place in the Immortal Court.
• Lu Qingyun allowed Taiyi to enter on the condition that he seal himself away and never awaken without permission unless an outside enemy invaded.
• Taiyi entered the Immortal Court, marveled at its beasts and rich immortal energy, and recognized Lu Qingyun as its master.
• Lu Qingyun directed Taiyi to seal himself in Immortal Source liquid, and Taiyi complied.
• The system announced that Taiyi’s arrival increased the Immortal Court’s active forces and rewarded Lu Qingyun with permanent Heaven-Defying Comprehension.

Lu Qingyun entered deep enlightenment as Heavenly Venerable Taiyi sealed himself within the Immortal Court, establishing it as a new forbidden zone. Ye Mingyuan defeated a Great Accomplished Tyrant Body, then returned to the Feng Family, where his strained relationship with his wife in name, Feng Zixue, left him thinking of Lu Qingyun.

• Lu Qingyun comprehended the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass Precious Technique and deepened his Chaos Dao Fruit through Heaven-Defying Comprehension.
• Heavenly Venerable Taiyi sealed himself inside the Immortal Court Forbidden Land, making it a recognized forbidden zone.
• Ye Mingyuan used his forbidden imperial technique to imprison and tear apart the Great Accomplished Tyrant Body, then kept its remains as spoils.
• Ye Mingyuan warned the Tyrant Body Ancestral Star that he would kill more Tyrant Bodies if they challenged him, and returned to Fallen Immortal Star.
• Ye Mingyuan came back to the Feng Family and told Feng Zixue he would enter seclusion for a thousand years instead of hearing what she wanted to say.
• Ye Mingyuan watched the Immortal Court and blamed Lu Qingyun as Feng Zixue left in silence.

After emerging from seclusion with a flawless Great Accomplishment Sacred Body, Ye Mingyuan faced Feng Zixue’s request to end their marriage and avoided answering by surveying the universe. He then went to the Immortal Court Forbidden Land to challenge Lu Qingyun, determined to beat him awake.

• Ye Mingyuan emerged from more than two thousand years of seclusion with a perfected Great Accomplishment Sacred Body and the strength to challenge the Great Emperor Tribulation.
• Feng Zixue welcomed Ye Mingyuan, rejected his tentative attempt to take her hand, and proposed that they part amicably as husband and wife.
• Ye Mingyuan avoided responding and traveled across the universe, where he saw the Starry Sky Ancient Road open again and roared away his gloom.
• Ye Mingyuan declared that he would level the forbidden zones and crossed the universe to confront Lu Qingyun at the Immortal Court Forbidden Land.
• Ye Mingyuan called Lu Qingyun out to fight, promising to beat him awake rather than kill him.

Ye Mingyuan challenged Lu Qingyun at the Immortal Court, but a nine-leaf blade of grass drove him away and then gravely wounded him with a single sword strike. Ye Mingyuan fled to the Feng Family’s ancestral grounds while the onlookers were left stunned by the Immortal Court’s power.

• Ye Mingyuan called out Lu Qingyun, but the Immortal Court gave no response.
• As Ye Mingyuan moved to breach the formation, a nine-leaf blade of grass drifted out and its sword intent stopped him.
• Ye Mingyuan abandoned his challenge and turned to leave, believing the gulf between himself and Lu Qingyun had grown too vast.
• The grass silently sent one leaf across the void, slicing away half of Ye Mingyuan’s body and gravely wounding his soul.
• Ye Mingyuan fled to the Feng Family’s ancestral grounds, and the grass returned to the Immortal Court’s mist.

Lu Qingyun mastered the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass Precious Technique and nearly killed Ye Mingyuan with a wisp of sword intent. After Ye Mingyuan received a Semi-Divine Medicine from the Feng Family, two Supremes ambushed him, but he revealed his preparations and restored himself with the refined corpse of a Great Accomplished Tyrant Body.

• Lu Qingyun completed his comprehension of the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass Precious Technique and considered whether he could reach the True Immortal realm in his first lifetime.
• Ye Mingyuan returned gravely wounded after Lu Qingyun's sword intent nearly killed him, and a Feng Family Saint brought him a stalk of Semi-Divine Medicine.
• The Semi-Divine Medicine exploded into a killing trap, and two Supremes attacked Ye Mingyuan while the Feng Family's formation and Phoenix-Cry Green Gold Cauldron responded.
• Ye Mingyuan destroyed the Supremes' attacks and revealed that he had kept the corpse of a Great Accomplished Tyrant Body as a substitute for Immortal Divine Medicine.
• Ye Mingyuan devoured the corpse's flesh-and-blood essence, recovered beyond his former peak, and told the two Supremes they had entered his death trap.

Ye Mingyuan fought two Supremes at the Cosmic Frontier and outlasted them after they underwent ultimate sublimation, then resumed cultivation as the universe entered a golden age. In Year 6,400 of the Immortal Court calendar, a new Great Emperor attained the Dao as Black Emperor and declared himself the only Great Emperor of the age.

• Ye Mingyuan drew the two Supremes away from the Fallen Immortal Star and battled them at the Cosmic Frontier, where they underwent ultimate sublimation and attacked him with Great Emperor-level power.
• Ye Mingyuan endured their assault, recovered from repeated injuries, and outlasted the Supremes until their life essence ran dry; he then killed them with two punches.
• A lurking Supreme considered attacking Ye Mingyuan but retreated, and the battle ended with Ye Mingyuan hailed across the universe for slaying two Supremes.
• With Ye Mingyuan guarding the universe, prodigies flourished, and he entered seclusion to advance his cultivation.
• In Year 6,400 of the Immortal Court calendar, a black lotus bloomed as a new Great Emperor attained the Dao and took the name Black Emperor, declaring himself the only Great Emperor of the age.

Lu Qingyun sensed the Black Emperor’s unusual origins and used his imperial Dao to advance his Sacred Body to Great Accomplishment, while contemplating how to pursue immortality. The Black Emperor founded the Black Realm and declared that only Lu Qingyun was worthy of discussing the Dao with him.

• Lu Qingyun recognized that the Black Emperor’s Dao shared an essential quality with an Immortal Divine Medicine and inferred that the Black Emperor had begun as a medicine that gained sentience.
• Lu Qingyun drew immortal-charm Qi toward himself, lamented that the world’s laws barred immortality, and resolved to cultivate every Great Dao using his Heaven-Defying Comprehension.
• Lu Qingyun transformed his Chaos Body into Sacred Body origin and achieved a Great Accomplishment Sacred Body, filling deficiencies and slightly increasing his combat strength.
• The Black Emperor’s followers urged him to establish a force and defeat Ye Mingyuan to diminish the Sacred Body’s standing.
• The Black Emperor ordered his followers to establish the Black Realm, dismissed Ye Mingyuan as unworthy of an imperial Dao discussion, and called for Lu Qingyun instead.

Feng Zixue punished Feng Family elders for provoking the Black Realm and reflected on the life she could not choose. Two thousand years after the Black Emperor attained the Dao, Lu Qingyun infiltrated his Immortal Lotus Feast to study the Black Emperor’s Dao and claim a share of the Semi-Divine Medicine, discovering that his insights had already surpassed the Black Emperor’s progress.

• Feng Zixue saw through the old Saint’s claim that the Black Realm had attacked the Feng Family and condemned the elders for plotting to seize territory and provoke a conflict.
• Feng Zixue stripped the elders of their positions and ordered them to accept punishment, then reflected on her constrained life and the passage of time.
• In the year 5700 of the Immortal Court calendar, the Black Emperor held an Immortal Lotus Feast, drawing powerful cultivators and prodigies from across the universe with the promise of Semi-Divine Medicine.
• Lu Qingyun entered the Black Realm disguised as a Sacred Body and mingled at the feast, intending to study the Black Emperor’s Dao and take some of the medicine.
• Lu Qingyun gained insights into the Black Realm’s mysteries and realized that his progress along the Black Emperor’s Dao exceeded the Black Emperor’s own.

At the Black Emperor’s Immortal Lotus Banquet, Lu Qingyun provoked the emperor by calling the lotus seeds his offspring and claiming a Great Accomplishment Sacred Body could stand shoulder to shoulder with him. The Black Emperor set out to challenge Ye Mingyuan, but an unfamiliar Great Accomplishment Sacred Body appeared above the Black Realm.

• The Black Emperor revealed himself and began the Immortal Lotus Banquet, where guests received demidivine lotus seeds before his Dao discourse.
• Lu Qingyun refused to eat his seed, and a Feng Clan hidden reserve advised him that it was safe and beneficial.
• Lu Qingyun asked whether the lotus seeds were the Black Emperor’s offspring, shocking the guests and drawing the emperor’s attention.
• Lu Qingyun claimed his remarks represented the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body and insisted that such a body stood equal to a Great Emperor.
• Enraged, the Black Emperor prepared to go to Fallen Immortal Star to confront Ye Mingyuan, but stopped when another, unfamiliar Great Accomplishment Sacred Body appeared above the Black Realm.

Lu Qingyun revealed himself as a Great Accomplishment Sacred Body and challenged Black Emperor, defeating and robbing him before disappearing. Black Emperor retreated into seclusion, while Ye Mingyuan suspected the mysterious Sacred Body was someone he knew.

• Ye Mingyuan watched Lu Qingyun confront Black Emperor and eagerly anticipated a future contest between Great Accomplishment Sacred Bodies.
• Lu Qingyun fought Black Emperor at the universe's frontier, using his mastery of the Great Dao to break through Black Emperor's defenses and wound him.
• Lu Qingyun formed an imperial array with a thought, suppressed Black Emperor, and stole his lotus dais before escaping.
• Black Emperor returned to the Black Realm in humiliation and entered seclusion, while Ye Mingyuan returned to the Feng Clan and wondered whether the mysterious Sacred Body was someone familiar.
• The mysterious Great Accomplishment Sacred Body vanished, and the universe's tense atmosphere subsided.

After receiving the Meteoric Tear for surviving ten thousand years, Lu Qingyun discovered it held powerful life and soul Daos that could strengthen him and help him pursue a second life. Meanwhile, after Feng Zixue died, Ye Mingyuan destroyed his supply of Immortal Source Liquid and headed to the Immortal Court Forbidden Land at the height of his power.

• The system rewarded Lu Qingyun with the Meteoric Tear, and he sensed its immense life essence and two profound Great Daos.
• Lu Qingyun focused on the Great Dao of life and considered using it to live a second life.
• Ye Mingyuan offered Feng Zixue Immortal Source Liquid so she could seal herself, but she refused and died beside her great cauldron.
• Ye Mingyuan destroyed the Immortal Source Liquid, then took Feng Zixue’s great cauldron and left the Feng Clan.
• Ye Mingyuan raised his blood Qi to its peak and walked a golden avenue toward the Immortal Court Forbidden Land, alarming witnesses across the universe.
• Ye Mingyuan arrived outside the Immortal Court Forbidden Land, radiating power comparable to a Peak Great Emperor.

Ye Mingyuan entered the Immortal Court Forbidden Zone to make a deal with Lu Qingyun, enduring three attacks in exchange for a chance to fulfill Feng Zixue’s wish. After living a second life, he was blasted apart by Lu Qingyun but escaped with his principal wisp of divine soul, while Lu Qingyun buried Feng Zixue’s coffin in the forbidden land.

• Ye Mingyuan brought Feng Zixue’s coffin to the forbidden zone and persuaded Lu Qingyun to let him enter and make a deal.
• Lu Qingyun struck Ye Mingyuan, gravely wounding him, and Ye Mingyuan declared that two moves remained.
• Lu Qingyun’s nine-leafed blade of grass severed Ye Mingyuan’s head, but Ye Mingyuan revived by gathering the forbidden zone’s life essence and lived a second life.
• Lu Qingyun reminded Ye Mingyuan that he had promised to withstand three moves, then shattered his body with the Chaos Great Palm Imprint; Ye Mingyuan escaped with his principal wisp of divine soul.
• Lu Qingyun let Ye Mingyuan go and buried Feng Zixue’s coffin beneath the Immortal Court Forbidden Land.

The Black Emperor and Ye Mingyuan each resolved to pursue the Heavenly Dao, while Ku Mu fought his fated Tyrant Body rival and won. A Great Accomplishment Tyrant Body intervened to kill Ku Mu, but Ye Mingyuan emerged from seclusion in fury to confront the Tyrant Body lineage.

• The Black Emperor clarified his Dao heart and drew immortal resonance from the Black Realm as he resolved to suppress all rivals.
• Ye Mingyuan began recovering from his injuries and prepared to pursue the ultimate leap toward attaining the Dao.
• After a thousand years, Ku Mu fought Cang Mian in a fierce battle and gained the upper hand, leaving the Tyrant Body ready to accept defeat.
• A Great Accomplishment Tyrant Body attacked Ku Mu and nearly killed him, despite Ku Mu's desperate resistance.
• A supreme protective treasure shielded Ku Mu from the Tyrant Body's next attack, and Ye Mingyuan emerged from Fallen Immortal Star, threatening to purge the Tyrant Body lineage.