Chapter Summaries

Ye Mingyuan killed the Great Accomplishment Tyrant Body who had attacked Ku Mu, then used his blood essence to strengthen Ku Mu and help him advance. Ye Mingyuan entered the Tyrant Body Ancestral Star and challenged its seven sleeping Great Accomplishment Tyrant Bodies; three emerged to stop his attack.

• Ye Mingyuan seized the Great Accomplishment Tyrant Body, tore off his arm, and overpowered him while Ku Mu approached.
• Ye Mingyuan tore the Tyrant Body in half and used his blood essence to forge Ku Mu’s foundation for great accomplishment.
• Ku Mu absorbed the blood essence, advanced four cultivation layers to the late Quasi-Emperor stage, and faced heavenly tribulation.
• Ye Mingyuan stepped onto the Tyrant Body Ancestral Star, where its supreme formation patterns attacked him, and he erased one with a palm strike.
• Seven Great Accomplishment Tyrant Bodies refused Ye Mingyuan’s demand to send another out to die, so he attacked their hiding place.
• Three Great Accomplishment Tyrant Bodies emerged from their Immortal Sources and joined forces to extinguish Ye Mingyuan’s blow.

Ye Mingyuan provoked the Tyrant Body lineage into sending four Great Accomplishment Tyrant Bodies against him, then triggered an emperor-proving tribulation while a Great Emperor still lived. The tribulation overwhelmed the four Tyrant Bodies and began attacking Ye Mingyuan with terrifying force, while Lu Qingyun watched and recognized him as another unlucky wretch.

• Ye Mingyuan broke free of the Tyrant Body Ancestral Star’s restraints and fought three Great Accomplishment Tyrant Bodies at once.
• Ye Mingyuan taunted the remaining Tyrant Bodies, prompting a fourth to join the battle.
• The four Tyrant Bodies overwhelmed Ye Mingyuan, but he used the fight to raise his battle intent and trigger an emperor-proving tribulation.
• The tribulation obliterated the four fleeing Tyrant Bodies before sending humanoid lightning manifestations of ancient Great Emperors to attack Ye Mingyuan.
• Ye Mingyuan was struck by a lightning manifestation and wondered how Lu Qingyun had survived a comparable tribulation.
• Lu Qingyun watched from the Immortal Court and reflected that the greater universe had prepared more thoroughly for Ye Mingyuan’s attempt than it had for his own.

Ye Mingyuan fought through the imperial tribulation and destroyed its immortal-spirit lightning, but a heavenly saber struck him down just as he approached the immortal palace. Ku Mu saved a drop of his blood, and a thousand years later Ye Mingyuan revived with his cultivation severed and his path to cultivation sealed.

• The Black Emperor watched Ye Mingyuan challenge the imperial Dao and decided to wait until the tribulation ended before suppressing him.
• Ye Mingyuan endured the humanoid lightning and destroyed all thirteen figures, then fought the dragon, phoenix, and other immortal-spirit manifestations until he shattered them.
• As the tribulation seemed to end, a heavenly saber descended and erased Ye Mingyuan, leaving the universe in mourning.
• Ku Mu searched the turbulent void, found a depleted drop of Ye Mingyuan's golden blood, and used his own essence blood to stabilize it before bringing it to the Feng Clan.
• A thousand years later, Ye Mingyuan revived, but the heavenly saber had destroyed his cultivation and sealed his ability to cultivate again.
• The Black Emperor dismissed Ye Mingyuan as a cripple, noting that his Great Accomplishment Sacred Body still made him formidable and that he had begun a second life.

Lu Qingyun began transforming into his second life through the Great Dao of Life, while Ye Mingyuan entered Chaotic God Mountain seeking Divine Medicine of Immortality. Unable to find any medicine, Ye Mingyuan carried off an entire mountain peak and headed back to the Feng Clan.

• Lu Qingyun used the Great Dao of Life to begin a transformation into his second life within the Immortal Court.
• Ye Mingyuan decided to make one last attempt to change his fate and went to Chaotic God Mountain seeking Divine Medicine of Immortality.
• A Quasi-Emperor Qilin-shaped Holy Spirit threatened Ye Mingyuan, who killed it with a single palm strike.
• Ye Mingyuan searched Chaotic God Mountain while its Supremes chose not to confront him, wary of his strength and the watching Great Emperor.
• After finding no Divine Medicine of Immortality, Ye Mingyuan broke off a peak filled with spirit medicines and carried it back toward the Feng Clan.

Ye Mingyuan brought a mountain peak from Chaotic God Mountain back to the Feng Clan after sensing it was connected to the heavenly palace and saber he had encountered during his tribulation. He decided to offer it to Lu Qingyun in hopes of trading for a Divine Medicine of Immortality, and prepared to go despite Ku Mu’s concern.

• Ye Mingyuan hauled a mountain peak back to the Feng Clan, and Ku Mu activated the supreme formation to shield it from curious onlookers.
• Ye Mingyuan told Ku Mu that the peak carried the same presence he had sensed from a heavenly palace and saber during his tribulation to attain the Dao.
• Ye Mingyuan concluded that whatever was hidden inside the peak was an inanimate object, but refused Ku Mu’s suggestion to cut it open.
• Ye Mingyuan and Ku Mu agreed that the peak might be traded to Lu Qingyun for a Divine Medicine of Immortality.
• Ku Mu offered to go in Ye Mingyuan’s place, but Ye Mingyuan decided to go himself, believing Lu Qingyun might help him.

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.