Chapter Summaries

After learning about the dangers of the Immemorial Immortal Road, Lin Ye strengthened Bai Shi and exchanged for the Life and Death Seal to help him comprehend a Principle. The chapter ended with Liu Yun asking Nalan Yu whether he was sure he wanted to go to the Emperor Road.

• Yuan Kong explained that some exhausted Quasi-Emperors and False Emperors became Immortal Slaves on the Immemorial Immortal Road, and Lin Ye kept Yuan Kong's contact method before sending him away.
• Lin Ye ordered Bai Shi to attempt a breakthrough to the Great Saint Realm, and Bai Shi succeeded on his third attempt, triggering cultivation feedback for Lin Ye.
• Lin Ye exchanged five billion Devil Dao Points for the Life and Death Seal and created a space where Bai Shi could comprehend the Life Principle or Death Principle.
• Bai Shi began cultivating inside the Life and Death Seal while Lin Ye's other disciples continued striving to advance their cultivation.
• Liu Yun met Nalan Yu in the Eastern Mountain Imperial Dynasty's imperial capital and asked whether he was sure he wanted to go to the Emperor Road.

Liu Yun and Nalan Yu discussed the Emperor Road, Nalan Xi, and Lin Ye’s possible strength as a False Emperor. After Bai Shi comprehended the embryonic Life Principle, Lin Ye gained the true Life Principle and gave Bai Shi the Extreme Dao Emperor Technique Nirvanic Emperor Spear to study.

• Liu Yun asked Nalan Yu about his plans for the Emperor Road and his daughter Nalan Xi, and Nalan Yu said he would compete with her there.
• Liu Yun questioned Nalan Yu about Lin Ye’s strength after the Black-Yellow Sect destroyed the Shadow Pavilion, and Nalan Yu speculated that Lin Ye might be a Quasi-Emperor or False Emperor.
• Bai Shi comprehended ten wisps of the embryonic Life Principle, and Lin Ye’s tenfold feedback let him comprehend a hundred wisps and gain the true Life Principle.
• Lin Ye searched the system store and chose the Extreme Dao Emperor Technique Nirvanic Emperor Spear for Bai Shi.
• Lin Ye gave Bai Shi the Nirvanic Emperor Spear, and Bai Shi thanked him before returning to cultivate.

Over five years, Bai Shi mastered the Nirvanic Emperor Spear while Lin Ye gained its power through the system and prepared his disciples for the Emperor Road. After assigning Bai Shi to watch over them, Lin Ye’s disciples challenged Bai Shi’s strength, and he agreed to spar with Chu He.

• Bai Shi comprehended a wisp of the Embryonic Principle of Death and devoted himself to cultivating the Nirvanic Emperor Spear, while Lin Ye received tenfold feedback from his progress.
• After five years, Bai Shi used the Nirvanic Emperor Spear to unleash a blow beyond a normal Quasi-Emperor’s limits, then continued training until he reached entry-level mastery.
• Lin Ye received tenfold feedback, mastering the Nirvanic Emperor Spear to minor mastery, and considered how his disciples’ breakthroughs could eventually turn all his bones into Emperor Bones.
• Lin Ye gathered his disciples, gave them talismans and weapons for the Emperor Road, and told Bai Shi to keep watch over them.
• Chu He challenged Bai Shi to a spar, and Bai Shi agreed as the other disciples gathered to watch and debated who would win.

Bai Shi defeated Chu He in a spar and revealed that he intended to help his fellow disciples claim the emperor’s throne rather than pursue it himself. When the Emperor Road opened, Lin Ye’s disciples entered, and he used the system to watch Ye Chen explore the road for opportunities.

• Chu He attacked Bai Shi with the Immemorial Devil God Fist, but Bai Shi’s powerful body and the Embryonic Life Principle let him withstand the assault.
• Bai Shi struck Chu He with the Immemorial Devil God Fist powered by the Embryonic Principle of Death, breaking his defenses and leaving him gravely injured.
• Bai Shi told Chu He that he did not want the emperor’s throne and would let his fellow disciples compete for it fairly.
• The Emperor Road opened, and Lin Ye’s disciples and other qualified prodigies entered while most Quasi-Emperors remained behind.
• Lin Ye used the system to observe Ye Chen searching the Emperor Road for opportunities before the struggle for the emperor’s throne began.

Ye Chen and the other Black-Yellow Sect disciples cultivated at a spring on the Emperor Road while Li Si and Han Bing sought out dangerous places suited to them, and Lin Ye grew stronger through their progress. In the third year, the Emperor Road descended into violence, and three Dark Guild prodigies attacked the disciples at the spring as Bai Shi stepped forward to face them.

• Zhao Yan began refining an Embryonic Wood Element Principle crystal while the Heavenly Dao Sacred Land disciples waited and cultivated.
• Ye Chen and his companions cultivated at a Spiritual Qi-rich spring, while Li Si and Han Bing searched for places where they could grow stronger.
• Li Si cultivated among gathered grudges and Han Bing absorbed Sha Qi, while Lin Ye gained cultivation through tenfold feedback from his disciples.
• In the third year, Great Saint prodigies began hunting weaker contenders, and Nalan Yu escaped a stronger opponent before hiding to heal.
• Three Dark Guild prodigies arrived at the spring and attacked Ye Chen and the others, but Bai Shi told his seniors to keep cultivating and took on the attackers himself.

Bai Shi and the other Black-Yellow Sect disciples cultivated at the spring’s source for years, while Lin Ye’s body transformed into the Extreme Dao Emperor Physique. The Emperor’s throne contest then began, and an ancient ranking revealed the contenders’ fortunes.

• Bai Shi defeated three Dark Guild Great Saints, and Dongfang Bai, Nalan Xi, and Yang Yang killed them.
• The disciples cultivated at the spring’s source for years; Bai Shi reached the peak of the Ninth Layer of the Great Saint Realm while training his sacred physique Secret Methods.
• Ye Chen, Dongfang Bai, and other disciples successively reached the Ninth Layer of the Great Saint Realm, and several disciples left to seek fortune and fight other prodigies.
• After the last disciple reached the peak of the Ninth Layer, Lin Ye’s bones became Emperor Bones and his body transformed into the Extreme Dao Emperor Physique.
• Golden light spread across the Emperor Road, beginning the contest for the Emperor’s throne, and an ancient ranking listed contenders including Xiao Ze, Bai Ji, Chu He, Yang Yang, and Ye Chen.

Xiao Ze, Ye Chen, Chu He, and the other prodigies entered the middle stretch of the Emperor Road, where they fought rivals and found powerful opportunities. Chu He claimed an Embryonic Principle of the Fire Element crystal after defeating attackers, while Lin Ye’s disciples continued growing stronger.

• Zhao Yan told Xiao Ze and the other Heavenly Dao Sacred Land prodigies to enter the middle stretch and rely on themselves unless they faced danger.
• Chu He defeated a Black Dragon Clan prodigy and gained providence, while Ye Chen and the others entered the middle stretch.
• Ye Chen defeated Great Emperor Wuchen’s phantom and learned the Wuchen Saber Technique; Lin Ye received tenfold feedback and comprehended it to the minor accomplishment realm.
• Chu He fought nine peak Great Saint prodigies over an Embryonic Principle of the Fire Element crystal, killed three, and drove the rest away.
• Over the following years, Lin Ye’s disciples gained opportunities and reached the utmost peak of the Ninth Layer of the Great Saint Realm.

Chu He fought Zhao Yan, a Quasi-Emperor sent to assassinate him, and survived the destruction of Zhao Yan’s damaged Emperor Weapon and his final self-destructive attack. Gravely wounded afterward, Chu He was ambushed by another Quasi-Emperor, and Bai Shi arrived to protect him and prepare a killing blow.

• Lin Ye reviewed the disciples’ gains and noted Yin Xiang’s progress toward comprehending the Water-Element Principle.
• Xiao Ze warned Zhao Yan that Chu He and the other prodigies threatened the Heavenly Dao Sacred Land’s chance at the imperial throne, so Zhao Yan set out with a damaged Emperor Weapon to kill Chu He.
• Zhao Yan attacked Chu He, but Chu He’s body withstood the weapon, and the two fought as Chu He’s healing and Emperor Techniques wore Zhao Yan down.
• Zhao Yan shattered the damaged Emperor Weapon and then destroyed his Golden Core for a final attack, but Chu He survived and Zhao Yan was reduced to a bloody mist.
• Another Quasi-Emperor ambushed the severely wounded Chu He, and Bai Shi intervened, blasted the attacker away, and formed the Nirvanic Emperor Spear.

Bai Shi killed a Quasi-Emperor with the Nirvanic Emperor Spear while Yin Xiang comprehended the Water-Element Principle and received a defensive Extreme Dao Emperor Technique from Lin Ye. On the Emperor Road, Nalan Yu found an earth-element embryonic principle stone but was hunted by powerful experts, leaving him hoping Nalan Xi and the Black-Yellow Sect’s prodigies could save him.

• Bai Shi killed the Quasi-Emperor with the Nirvanic Emperor Spear and guarded Chu He while he healed.
• Xiao Ze and the others failed to contact Elder Zhao Yan and feared he had fallen, so Xiao Ze resolved to continue secluded cultivation.
• Yin Xiang comprehended the Water-Element Principle and asked Lin Ye for advice about surviving her Emperor Tribulation.
• Lin Ye gave Yin Xiang the Black Tortoise Body Protection Technique, and she began cultivating it alongside other defensive methods.
• Nalan Yu found a gray stone containing the power of the embryonic principle of earth, but experts spotted him and began hunting him.
• Nalan Yu thought that Nalan Xi and the Black-Yellow Sect’s prodigies might be his only hope of rescue.

Nalan Xi rescued her father, Nalan Yu, from Great Saints pursuing a treasure, then helped him hide and recover. Years later, the final contest began on the later stretch of the Emperor Road, where the leading prodigies advanced at different depths and Xiao Ze set his sights on Bai Shi.

• Nalan Xi answered Nalan Yu's plea for help, killed several of his attackers, and drove the rest away.
• Nalan Xi learned Nalan Yu carried a treasure containing the power of an Embryonic Principle, then took him to a secluded place to recover without claiming it.
• After recovering, Nalan Yu hid and cultivated while Nalan Xi left, and the years passed as competition on the Emperor Road intensified.
• Golden light opened the later stretch of the Emperor Road, and prodigies entered according to how much fortune they had accumulated.
• Chu He advanced deepest among the leading prodigies, with Ye Chen, Yang Yang, Han Bing, Sun Hou, and Nalan Xi following not far behind while Bai Shi remained farther back.
• Xiao Ze entered the later stretch, saw Bai Shi, and prepared to attack him to seize his fortune.

Bai Shi defeated Xiao Ze with one punch, then used the Emperor Road’s enhanced comprehension and burned lifespan to grasp the embryonic Life Principle. As Great Saints began fighting over the Emperor’s throne, Lin Ye received feedback from Yin Xiang and advanced the Black Tortoise Devil Body to minor completion.

• Xiao Ze attacked Bai Shi, but Bai Shi shattered his sword river and punched him into the middle section of the Emperor Road.
• Xiao Ze recovered, realized the old Great Saint was far stronger than expected, and resolved to improve before challenging him again.
• Bai Shi burned lifespan while cultivating on the Emperor Road, glimpsed the embryonic Life Principle, and passed through another lifetime as others mistook his renewed youth for a Secret Method.
• Xiao Ze returned to the latter section, learned that the youthful Bai Shi was the same Great Saint, and chose to cultivate at a distance.
• Great Saints began fighting for the Emperor’s throne, while Lin Ye watched his disciples repel attackers and benefited from their Emperor Technique progress.
• Yin Xiang cultivated the Black Tortoise Devil Body to entry realm, and system feedback raised Lin Ye’s technique to minor completion.

Yin Xiang broke through to the Great Emperor Realm and survived her powerful Emperor Tribulation with Lin Ye’s help. Afterward, Lin Ye gave her a complete Emperor Physique cultivation method suited to her, and she began studying it to strengthen herself.

• Yin Xiang broke through to the Great Emperor Realm, and Lin Ye took her to a sealed Primordial Fragment to undergo her Emperor Tribulation.
• Yin Xiang endured the nine waves of the Wind and Fire Tribulations, then used the Black Tortoise Devil Body to survive the Lightning Tribulation.
• Yin Xiang passed her Heart Demon Tribulation and officially became a Great Emperor, granting Lin Ye tenfold feedback that boosted his cultivation, physique, and weapon.
• Lin Ye brought Yin Xiang back to the Black-Yellow Sect and gave her the Black Tortoise Emperor Physique cultivation method.
• Yin Xiang began studying the method and tempering her Emperor Physique instead of focusing on rapidly increasing her Law Power.

The Black-Yellow Sect disciples cleared the latter section of the Emperor Road, then fought among themselves to decide who would claim its Emperor's throne. They deliberately conceded to Ye Chen, who headed for the end of the road to claim it.

• The Black-Yellow Sect disciples defeated or killed the other challengers, driving Xiao Ze and the remaining prodigies from the latter section of the Emperor Road.
• The disciples agreed to fight among themselves, with Bai Shi watching over them as Dongfang Rou, Nalan Xi, Sun Hou, Dongfang Bai, Yang Yang, Han Bing, and Li Si withdrew in turn.
• Ye Chen and Chu He remained, but Chu He abandoned his defense and conceded, transferring his accumulated providence to Ye Chen.
• Chu He explained that the disciples had privately agreed to give Ye Chen the Emperor's throne to avoid discord and help the Black-Yellow Sect gain another Great Emperor.
• Ye Chen thanked his junior brothers and sisters and flew toward the end of the Emperor Road to refine the Profound Heaven Realm's origin.

Ye Chen refined the origin on the Emperor Road while the Black-Yellow Sect gained influence after he claimed the emperor’s seat. Lin Ye helped Yu Yu cultivate, and her damaged Emperor Bone recovered into the Great Void Emperor Bone.

• Ye Chen sat on the illusory throne at the end of the Emperor Road and began refining the Profound Heaven Realm’s origin as the other cultivators were expelled.
• Nalan Yu hid after leaving the Emperor Road, planning to reach the peak of the Great Saint Realm before using his treasure to pursue the Quasi-Emperor realm.
• Lin Ye praised his returning disciples, warned them not to use items containing Embryonic Principles to pursue the Quasi-Emperor realm, and gave them treasures to aid their comprehension.
• Dongfang Bai became a Supreme Elder of the Supreme Yin Sect, then left for the Black-Yellow Sect after Lin Ye ordered him to return; the sect discovered he had been a spy and chose not to retaliate.
• Lin Ye undid Yu Yu’s seal and used the Heavenly Demon Soul Pearl to prepare to protect her from Great Emperor Fuyao’s awakening; over several months, Yu Yu’s damaged Emperor Bone fully recovered as the Great Void Emperor Bone.

Lin Ye destroyed Great Emperor Fuyao’s soul consciousness before it could take over Yu Yu, then comforted Yu Yu after she awoke. Meanwhile, Nalan Xi and her Black-Yellow Sect seniors drove five Quasi-Emperors away from the Eastern Mountain Imperial Dynasty, leaving the Nalan family safe from further threats.

• As Yu Yu’s Great Void Emperor Physique formed, Great Emperor Fuyao’s consciousness emerged and tried to seize control, but Lin Ye used the Heavenly Demon Soul Pearl to protect Yu Yu’s soul.
• Lin Ye crushed Great Emperor Fuyao’s consciousness and preserved her inheritances and techniques in the Heavenly Demon Soul Pearl.
• Yu Yu awoke, learned what had happened, and clung to Lin Ye until she fell asleep.
• Five Quasi-Emperors searched the Eastern Mountain Imperial Dynasty for Nalan Yu and threatened the Nalan family to force him to appear.
• Nalan Xi went to defend the Nalan family and fought the five Quasi-Emperors outside Eastern Mountain City.
• Chu He and Yang Yang joined Nalan Xi, badly injured the Quasi-Emperors, and drove them away after revealing they were Black-Yellow Sect disciples.

Ye Chen refined the throne of emperorship, comprehended the Darkness Principle, and broke through to the Great Emperor Realm. After returning to his family, he went back to the Black-Yellow Sect, where Lin Ye prepared a suitable Emperor Physique inheritance for him.

• Nalan Yu learned that Nalan Xi and the Black-Yellow Sect had ended the imperial family's crisis, then continued cultivating in seclusion until he could reach Quasi-Emperor.
• Ye Chen refined the throne of emperorship, and Lin Ye received 50 billion Devil Dao Points from the system.
• Ye Chen comprehended the Darkness Principle with help from the Profound Heaven Realm's origin, while Lin Ye gained tenfold feedback.
• After a year, Ye Chen passed the Emperor Tribulation and became a Great Emperor, advancing Lin Ye's Extreme Dao Emperor Physique to the minor accomplishment stage.
• Ye Chen returned to the Black-Yellow Sect, where Lin Ye selected the Darkness Emperor Physique cultivation method for him.
• Ye Chen visited the Ye Household, where his son Ye Fan gained an emperor-grade bloodline, then returned to the Black-Yellow Sect as the Immemorial Immortal Road approached.

After Bai Shi comprehended the life principle, Lin Ye helped him break through to the Great Emperor Realm in the Primordial Fragment, making him the Black-Yellow Sect’s fourth Great Emperor. Years later, the Immemorial Immortal Road emerged, and Ye Chen, Yin Xiang, and Bai Shi came to see Lin Ye.

• Lin Ye sensed concealed ancient Great Emperors watching the Black-Yellow Sect as powerful factions focused on the coming Immemorial Immortal Road.
• Bai Shi comprehended the life principle and asked Lin Ye how to break through without attracting attention.
• Lin Ye took Bai Shi to the Primordial Fragment, where Bai Shi broke through to the Great Emperor Realm and passed his Emperor Tribulation.
• The system’s tenfold feedback strengthened Lin Ye’s cultivation and Extreme Dao Emperor Physique, while the other disciples asked how they could comprehend principles faster.
• Several years later, Immortal light appeared beyond the Profound Heaven Realm, signaling the emergence of the Immemorial Immortal Road.
• Lin Ye joked that he would rather stay with Yu Yu, but Ye Chen, Yin Xiang, and Bai Shi arrived to see him.

Lin Ye investigated the half-open Immemorial Immortal Road, then sent his disciples to seize its resources and fight other factions. At the road, Chu He killed a Devil Race Quasi-Emperor with the Devil Dragon Armlet.

• Lin Ye learned from Yuan Kong that the Immemorial Immortal Road was only half open and would fully open in roughly twenty to thirty years, bringing chaos as Taboo Sovereigns and Taboo Beings prepared to revive.
• Lin Ye received a ten-year mission to send disciples to seize resources, then gave his Great Saint disciples two Emperor Weapons each and sent them to the Immemorial Immortal Road.
• Quasi-Emperors and Great Saints from across the Three Realms and Nine Lands gathered to claim the resources spewed from the road, and Chu He found Immortal Soil bearing a damaged supreme-grade saint medicine.
• Chu He shattered a Devil Race Quasi-Emperor's attack, collected the Immortal Soil and medicine, and then suppressed the attacker in battle.
• Chu He used the Devil Dragon Armlet to stop the Devil Race Quasi-Emperor from escaping and killed him with a punch through the heart.

Chu He was overwhelmed by the Flame Devil Emperor after defeating three Devil Race Quasi-Emperors, but Ye Chen intervened and drove the Flame Devil Emperor away. The Origin Devil Emperor explained why he had not attacked Ye Chen and then contacted the True Devil of Longevity.

• Chu He fought off three Devil Race Quasi-Emperors until they were badly injured and fled, but the Flame Devil Emperor struck him with a black spear and severely wounded him.
• Ye Chen protected Chu He with a powerful punch that shattered the Flame Devil Emperor’s attack and sent him flying, then ordered him to leave.
• Ye Chen returned to the Black-Yellow Sect and told Lin Ye that he had sensed a terrifying presence; Lin Ye suspected it belonged to an ancient Devil Race Great Emperor.
• The Flame Devil Emperor thanked the Origin Devil Emperor for saving him, and the Origin Devil Emperor said he had avoided attacking Ye Chen because a human Great Emperor might retaliate.
• The Origin Devil Emperor entered the void and met the True Devil of Longevity, the oldest surviving Devil Race being.

The True Devil of Longevity refused the Origin Devil Emperor’s invitation to enter the Immemorial Immortal Road, citing the dangers he had witnessed in the past. Meanwhile, Li Rou and Great Saints from the Supreme Yin Sect found a small clump of Immortal Soil near the road’s crack and planned to bring it back.

• The Origin Devil Emperor asked the True Devil of Longevity to join him on the Immemorial Immortal Road, but the True Devil of Longevity refused and recalled the ancient catastrophe that had killed many powerful beings.
• The True Devil of Longevity told the Origin Devil Emperor that the Donggu Devil Emperor was still alive and had visited him sixty thousand years earlier.
• The Origin Devil Emperor left, and the True Devil of Longevity decided to keep avoiding the Immemorial Immortal Road.
• Li Rou and several Great Saints from the Supreme Yin Sect found a small clump of Immortal Soil near the road’s crack.
• Li Rou and the others decided to return the Immortal Soil to the sect before searching the area again.