Chapter Summaries

Shi Zhenghao broke the Longevity Domain’s guardian formation to demonstrate his strength and persuade Peng Yuming to cooperate. After Peng Yuming invited him inside to discuss terms, Shi Zhenghao said he wanted to save the Human Clan.

• Peng Yuming found the Longevity Domain’s guardian formation destroyed and searched for the attacker.
• Shi Zhenghao revealed his warship and told Peng Yuming he had come to seek cooperation.
• Shi Zhenghao appeared before the Longevity Aristocratic Clan, revealing that he was only a Daluo Golden Immortal.
• Peng Yuming invited Shi Zhenghao into the Longevity Domain to discuss the proposed cooperation.
• When Peng Yuming asked what he wanted to cooperate on, Shi Zhenghao answered, “Saving the Human Clan!”

Shi Zhenghao claimed he could improve the Human Clan’s chances against the Demon Race and showed the Longevity Aristocratic Clan a mortal with a third-grade Spirit Root who reached Daluo in a thousand years. The young man from the demonstration appeared in person, leaving Peng Tianlin stunned and demanding to know how Shi Zhenghao had done it.

• The Longevity Aristocratic Clan mocked Shi Zhenghao until he insisted that his method could increase the Human Clan’s chances of victory and said he would reveal it only to the Great Sage of Longevity.
• Peng Tianlin appeared in the hall, and Shi Zhenghao recognized him as the Great Sage’s younger brother after the clan members addressed him as Ancestor.
• Peng Tianlin demanded that Shi Zhenghao explain his method because the Great Sages could not leave their confrontation with the Demon Race.
• Shi Zhenghao showed an image of a person with a third-grade Spirit Root who used a mysterious device to cultivate from mortal to Daluo in a thousand years.
• Peng Tianlin dismissed the demonstration as a trick until Shi Zhenghao brought in the same young man, whose third-grade Spirit Root and age of under fifteen hundred years stunned the clan.
• Peng Tianlin stared at Shi Zhenghao and demanded to know how he had accomplished it.

Shi Zhenghao showed the Longevity Aristocratic Clan how ordinary people could wield technology powerful enough to rival Ninth-Level Immortal Emperors, shocking the clan and convincing Peng Tianlin that it might help defeat the Demon Race. Peng Tianlin secured Shi Zhenghao an audience with the Great Sage, whose probe triggered Shi Zhenghao’s defenses and revealed memories of the Ziwei Domain and its people.

• Shi Zhenghao showed projections of destructive interstellar weapons and their ordinary users, leaving Peng Tianlin and the Longevity Aristocratic Clan stunned.
• Peng Tianlin rallied his clansmen from their self-doubt and asked Shi Zhenghao to wait while he sought an audience with the Great Sage.
• Peng Tianlin returned and transported Shi Zhenghao away, telling him the Great Sage had agreed to meet him.
• Shi Zhenghao met the Great Sage of Longevity, who identified the Ziwei Domain and technology as interesting.
• The Great Sage’s probe triggered Shi Zhenghao’s brain defenses and forced him to fall asleep.
• The Great Sages discussed the memories they had obtained, recognizing that the Human Clan in the Ziwei Domain had survived and mentioning the Heavenly Dog.

Shi Zhenghao persuaded the Human Clan’s Great Sages to cooperate with Yi Xuan’s Ziwei Domain by supplying advanced weapons and a method to produce Daluo experts. He then revealed the Demon Race’s plan to send more than three hundred Immortal Emperors behind Human Clan lines, and Peng Tianlin prepared to intercept them.

• Shi Zhenghao woke after the Great Sage of Longevity had read his memories and explained that Yi Xuan had sent him because technology depended on accumulated knowledge, not cultivation strength.
• Shi Zhenghao proposed using top-tier technology and resources from the Immortal Realm to rapidly build infrastructure in the Ziwei Domain and supply weapons to the Human Clan.
• The Great Sages agreed to begin the cooperation, and Shi Zhenghao said warships were already waiting outside numerous Lesser Immortal Realms.
• Before leaving, Shi Zhenghao warned that more than three hundred Demon Race Immortal Emperors had teleported behind Human Clan lines and showed the Great Sages their coordinates.
• Shi Zhenghao returned to the Longevity Domain, where Peng Tianlin said he would lead his clan’s experts to intercept the Demon Race.

The Evil Corpse followed the battle between the Human Clan and the demons at the galaxy containing the Eternal Flame. As the demons fled into the galaxy and the Human Clan pursued, a wounded scarlet dragon escaped after detonating his Dragon Ball, unaware that danger was closing in.

• Shi Zhenghao sent warships into the Lesser Immortal Realms and summoned the Evil Corpse.
• The Human Clan and demons clashed outside the galaxy, but the demons fled inside when they sensed a Human Clan Supreme Powerhouse approaching.
• Peng Tianlin arrived and ordered the Human Clan Immortal Emperors to pursue the demons into the galaxy.
• The Evil Corpse cautiously entered the galaxy after Peng Tianlin and the Immortal Emperors had left.
• A Ninth-Level Immortal Emperor cornered the scarlet dragon, who detonated his Dragon Ball and escaped while his opponent lost track of him.

Xingtian killed a weakened red dragon and used its body and the star’s energy to reach the peak of the seventh-level Immortal Emperor realm. He continued hunting demons wounded by the Human Clan, reaching the peak of the eighth level in twenty years, just as the Eternal Flame matured and upheaval forced the Human Clan to retreat.

• The red dragon, having detonated his Dragon Ball, flew to a star to recover but encountered Xingtian and tried to devour him.
• Xingtian blocked the red dragon’s attack with the egg white from the Three-Legged Golden Crow egg, seized him, and devoured him.
• Xingtian absorbed the red dragon’s flesh and energy from the star, reaching the peak of the seventh-level Immortal Emperor realm.
• Using Yi Xuan’s plan to let the Human Clan and demons weaken each other, Xingtian hunted wounded demons and grew to the peak of the eighth-level Immortal Emperor realm over twenty years.
• The Eternal Flame matured, drawing stars toward a supergiant star and disrupting the galaxy; Peng Tianlin ordered the Human Clan experts to retreat.

A galaxy-wide upheaval swept away its stars and black holes, then transformed the remaining celestial body into a rare black hole. As Xingtian and the Demon Race entered it, Xingtian sent Peng Tianlin a mysterious signal, prompting Peng Tianlin to lead the Human Clan in pursuit of the Eternal Flame.

• Xingtian survived the converging stars with the egg white's protection, while a Ninth-Level Immortal Emperor was trapped and carried toward the galaxy's center.
• After the galaxy was swept clean, Peng Tianlin stopped the Human Clan Immortal Emperors from entering the silent galaxy.
• The custard-apple-shaped celestial body heated up and exploded, and the Demon Race survived inside Phoenix Ancestor's Flame Golden Lotuses.
• The Demon Race members realized their cooperation was over and that they would become rivals for the Eternal Flame; Xingtian planned to take advantage of the conflict.
• The flames contracted into the celestial body, which collapsed into a visible black hole, drawing in the golden lotuses and the Demon Race members.
• Xingtian sent a signal to Peng Tianlin as he was pulled in, and Peng Tianlin ordered the Human Clan experts to stop the Demon Race and seize the Eternal Flame.

Xingtian struggled to survive in a world of flames that rapidly weakened him and killed the other Eighth-Level Immortal Emperors. After the Good Corpse could offer no rescue, Xingtian realized the Gene Furnace might help him improve his heat resistance.

• The golden lotus carried Xingtian into a world of flames whose heat charred his skin and steadily reduced his strength.
• Xingtian covered himself in egg white from the Gene Furnace and used Demon Power to keep producing more as the flames consumed it.
• The flames killed the other Eighth-Level Immortal Emperors who had entered, leaving Xingtian as the only one of that rank still alive.
• Xingtian tried to absorb a flame but was injured and forced to expel it, while his strength fell to the middle stage of the Eighth Level.
• Xingtian contacted the Good Corpse, who explained that neither heat-dissipation methods nor a Stargate rescue would work in the flames.
• Xingtian recalled the heat-resistant material of the Good Corpse's immortal artifact spaceship and turned his attention to the Gene Furnace for a way to increase his heat resistance.

Trapped in an unimaginably hot world, Xingtian used the Gene Furnace to graft heat-resistant genes onto the Three-Legged Golden Crow gene throughout his body. The process drained his strength to the early stage of the first-layer Immortal Emperor realm, but he survived and discovered that his modified body could absorb energy from the surrounding flames.

• Xingtian decided to use the Three-Legged Golden Crow gene as the foundation for grafting compatible heat-resistant genes.
• The Gene Furnace screened more than ten thousand genes, using Xingtian's own energy because it could not draw power from the flames.
• As gene grafting consumed his strength, Xingtian worried that the Gene Furnace would stop producing enough egg white to protect him.
• A month later, the Gene Furnace completed the grafting, and Xingtian began modifying his body from his skin inward.
• After a year, Xingtian finished modifying his body and discovered that he could absorb energy from the surrounding flames.

Xingtian devoured the red flames and restored his cultivation to the peak of the Eighth-Level Immortal Emperor realm, discovering that he had begun comprehending the Principle of Fire. Following the Flame Golden Lotus, he reached a boundary of deadly black flames and found the corpses of more than a hundred human and demon Ninth-Level Immortal Emperors; when the black flames invaded his Sea of Consciousness, he laughed with delight.

• Xingtian devoured the surrounding red flames and recovered his cultivation to the peak of the Eighth-Level Immortal Emperor realm.
• Xingtian discovered that his Three Flowers Atop the Head contained a trace of the Principle of Fire, which matched the presence of the Flame Golden Lotus.
• Xingtian used the Flame Golden Lotus to locate the Eternal Flame and followed its guidance through the fiery-red world.
• Xingtian found more than a hundred human and demon Ninth-Level Immortal Emperor corpses burning at the boundary between the red and black flames.
• Xingtian probed a demon's Sea of Consciousness, and the black flames inside followed his Divine Sense into his body and headed for his Sea of Consciousness.

Xingtian cut off his Divine Sense to shield the Black Pearl from the black flames, but the Principle of Fire awakened inside the Gene Furnace and seized control of it. The Gene Furnace devoured the nearby corpses and continued drawing in black flames while Xingtian lay helpless, unaware that two hostile figures watched from afar.

• Xingtian shut off his Divine Sense, causing the black flames to lose their target and drift around the Black Pearl.
• The Principle of Fire moved into the Gene Furnace, which began devouring the black flames and speaking to Xingtian with a hungry will.
• The Gene Furnace pulled Xingtian toward the flames, and the corpses of human and demon experts rose and pinned him down.
• The Gene Furnace absorbed more than a hundred corpses, leaving Xingtian too full to move as it continued consuming black flames.
• Two figures hidden far away in the black flames watched Xingtian with hatred.

Xingtian regained control of the Gene Furnace and comprehended the Principle of Fire after his modified Three-Legged Golden Crow gene absorbed the flames. He entered the black flames, where two Human Clan ninth-level Immortal Emperors confronted him, and the fight left Xingtian outmatched until he grew two extra arms and turned the battle around.

• Xingtian's Principle of Fire grew into a golden pillar, returned to his Three Flowers Atop the Head, and transformed one blood lotus into a golden lotus.
• Xingtian realized his enhanced Three-Legged Golden Crow gene had let him comprehend the Principle of Fire, then entered the black flames.
• Xingtian sensed two followers and confronted two Human Clan ninth-level Immortal Emperors sent by Peng Tianlin to stop Demon Race members from escaping.
• The two Immortal Emperors attacked Xingtian with an axe and spear, but the black flames suppressed their abilities and let him hold them off with weapons formed from flame.
• As the two gained the upper hand, Xingtian drew energy from the Gene Furnace, grew two extra arms, and formed two more black sabers.
• Xingtian wielded four sabers and drove the two Immortal Emperors into a fluster.

Xingtian defeated two Ninth-Level Immortal Emperors but spared their lives, then reached the core region, where the Human Clan and Demon Race were battling while searching for the Eternal Flame. He joined the demons’ fight against Peng Tianlin, though Peng Tianlin dismissed him as no threat.

• Xingtian overwhelmed the two Ninth-Level Immortal Emperors, shattered their weapons, and sent them flying.
• Xingtian chose not to kill the defeated men and left them behind.
• In the core region, Peng Tianlin held off more than thirty peak Ninth-Level demons while both sides searched for the Eternal Flame.
• Xingtian arrived and charged into the battle with his four black-flame sabers.
• Peng Tianlin ignored Xingtian, believing one more Eighth-Level demon would make no difference.

Xingtian struggled to fight Peng Tianlin while searching for the Eternal Flame, then secretly gathered demon remains to fuel the Gene Furnace. After using the demons as a distraction, he wounded Peng Tianlin and swallowed a piece of his flesh, gaining the ability to track the Eternal Flame as Peng Tianlin charged at him.

• Peng Tianlin overwhelmed Xingtian and more than thirty Ninth-Level Immortal Emperors, while Xingtian searched for the Eternal Flame and dodged his attacks.
• Xingtian secretly swallowed the great demons' blood and severed limbs, hoping to fuse their genes with the Three-Legged Golden Crow's genes.
• Xingtian persuaded the demons to keep Peng Tianlin occupied and used the Principle of Fire to approach him unnoticed.
• Xingtian stabbed Peng Tianlin in the buttocks with his four black-flame battle sabers, then swallowed the chunk of flesh torn loose when Peng Tianlin kicked him away.
• The Gene Furnace completed its gene grafting, raising Xingtian's fire affinity and letting him track the Eternal Flame, while Peng Tianlin drove back the demons and charged at him.

Xingtian used Peng Tianlin’s pursuit to reach the Eternal Flame, then survived the Human Clan Supreme Powerhouse’s attack with a golden lotus. Feng Jiu appeared beside the weakened Xingtian and identified himself as a Phoenix Clan Supreme Powerhouse.

• Peng Tianlin struck Xingtian from behind, breaking the arms on his back, then relentlessly pursued him as the Demon Race attacked from behind.
• Xingtian used the Principle of Fire to evade Peng Tianlin and followed the Eternal Flame, but realized he could not catch it on his own.
• Xingtian slowed down to lure Peng Tianlin close, then turned and took his full-force punch while holding a golden lotus.
• The golden lotus expanded around Xingtian, and Peng Tianlin abruptly left with the Human Clan experts.
• Feng Jiu appeared beside the weakened Xingtian and said that he was a Phoenix Clan Supreme Powerhouse.

Feng Jiu rescued Xingtian and the demons from the black hole while the Phoenix Ancestor and the Great Sage of Longevity fought. As Feng Jiu took Xingtian toward the Demon Race army, a mysterious iron claw struck through their wormhole and carried Xingtian away.

• Feng Jiu brought the demons out of the black hole, where Peng Tianlin and the Human Clan experts confronted them.
• The Phoenix Ancestor and the Great Sage of Longevity appeared as avatars, and Feng Jiu led the demons away while the two Great Sages began fighting.
• Feng Jiu sent the other demons back to the Demon Race army and took the injured Xingtian with him in a Flame Golden Lotus.
• Feng Jiu told Xingtian that the Phoenix Ancestor would handle the Eternal Flame and that Xingtian would meet him.
• An iron claw shattered the wormhole, swatted Feng Jiu aside, and seized Xingtian and the Flame Golden Lotus.

Feng Jiu told the Phoenix Ancestor that an unknown attacker had taken Xingtian and the Eternal Flame, and learned the attacker was a Top-Tier Supreme Powerhouse. Far from the Human-Demon Battlefield, a Western-style dragon emerged from a spatial crack carrying the sleeping Xingtian in its claw.

• Feng Jiu returned to the mysterious void and told the Phoenix Ancestor that someone had seized Xingtian and the Eternal Flame in a wormhole.
• The Phoenix Ancestor ruled out the Human Clan’s Great Sages and identified the attacker as a Top-Tier Supreme Powerhouse who had not become a Great Sage.
• Feng Jiu returned to the Demon Race’s main camp, rewarded the surviving demons, and sent searchers after Xingtian despite believing they would not find him.
• A Western-style dragon forced its way through a spatial crack far from the Human-Demon Battlefield, carrying Xingtian wrapped in the wilted Flame Golden Lotus.
• The dragon surveyed its surroundings, beat its wings, and vanished.

Xingtian awoke as a dragon carried him across the universe, then watched helplessly as it brought him to a Demon Race nest and cast him into a sealed space. Unable to contact either his original self or the Good Corpse or break out, Xingtian remained trapped as an unseen change began in the space.

• Xingtian awoke inside the Flame Golden Lotus and found that the dragon's strange energy had eased his injuries before the dragon cut off its supply.
• Xingtian failed to contact his original self but reached the Good Corpse, who could offer no way to help him against a Supreme Powerhouse.
• The dragon entered a Demon Race nest by opening a spatial rift without disturbing its protective formation, then threw Xingtian and the Flame Golden Lotus through another rift.
• Xingtian found himself in a sealed space where he could no longer sense the outside world or contact the Good Corpse.
• Xingtian absorbed the Flame Golden Lotus and attacked the space, but his full-strength blows produced no spatial fluctuation as a peculiar change began around him.

Trapped in a mysterious space created by the giant dragon, Xingtian endured escalating extremes of heat and cold as well as shifting pressure and forces. The dragon added increasingly varied distortions, leaving Xingtian battered and unsure whether time itself was being manipulated.

• Xingtian sensed a fleeting spatial fluctuation and noticed the dragon begin raising the temperature around him.
• The temperature climbed above a billion degrees, burning Xingtian until he reinforced himself with the Principle of Fire and a Demon Power shield.
• The space abruptly returned to room temperature, plunged to absolute zero, and then swung back to extreme heat, repeatedly tormenting Xingtian.
• Xingtian gradually adapted to the alternating temperatures and felt his heat resistance improve.
• The dragon altered the air pressure and replaced gravity with shifting force fields that tossed Xingtian around.
• The space began affecting more forces, including spatial power and possibly time, which Xingtian suspected the dragon could control.

Xingtian endured more than a century of torture inside the mysterious space before its forces stopped and abundant energy healed his injuries. As an opening appeared, he rushed toward it but found his original self blocking the way.

• Xingtian suffered extreme physical and mental torment as the mysterious space’s force fields weakened him.
• Xingtian realized the space was influencing his thoughts and defiantly challenged his tormentor to kill him.
• Xingtian stopped resisting the forces and began exploring how much suffering he could endure.
• The space’s forces vanished, and energy from the dragon Supreme Powerhouse healed Xingtian’s wounds.
• An opening appeared, but Xingtian found his original self standing in his path.