Chapter Summaries

The Emperor’s Path began as the Emperor Passes descended and the Emperor Dao Pool reappeared, drawing Great Emperors from across the Three Thousand Dao Domains. The Returning Origin Holy Land claimed the pool’s opportunities by killing a rival Great Emperor, leaving fifteen of its Great Emperors gathered above it.

• Luo Yan Yu departed for the Jade Pool Sacred Ground after telling Su Changge that she had reached the Holy Master Realm.
• Su Changge ignored rumors about him and entered seclusion in the Returning Origin Holy Hall to consolidate his cultivation.
• The Heavenly Mandate awakened, and the Ancient Ancestor gave Ancestor Po Jun the Returning Origin Dragon Tiger Talisman and ordered the Holy Land to seize the Emperor Dao Pool.
• The Emperor Passes descended, and the Emperor Dao Pool appeared in the central region, awakening cultivators and ancient powers across the Three Thousand Dao Domains.
• A Great Emperor reached for the pool, but the Returning Origin Holy Land attacked and killed him with a blow from above the firmament.
• Fifteen Great Emperors of the Returning Origin Holy Land appeared above the Emperor Dao Pool.

The Returning Origin Holy Land seized the emerging Emperor Dao Pool and declared that anyone who approached would die, killing a Great Emperor who challenged its claim. The Underworld and King Yama’s Palace plotted to rally forces against it, but the Demon Race and its allies chose to wait, planning to target Su Changge when the Emperor’s Path opened.

• The Returning Origin Holy Land’s fifteen Great Emperors appeared at the Emperor Dao Pool, and the azure-robed Female Emperor said it would soon emerge.
• A black-robed third-grade Great Emperor killed a quasi-Emperor of the Demon Race from a hundred thousand miles away, and Hundred Battles Great Emperor claimed the Emperor Dao Pool for the Returning Origin Holy Land.
• A sealed Great Emperor from Heavenly Universe Mountain challenged the claim and was annihilated, while the other awakened Great Emperors held back.
• In the Yellow Springs Realm, the Underworld and King Yama’s Palace proposed joining other forces to launch a fatal strike against the Returning Origin Holy Land.
• Heavenly Dragon Qiankun and Huang Tian Wudao urged the Demon Race and its allies to let others attack first, then planned to kill Su Changge when the Emperor’s Path opened and later destroy the Returning Origin Holy Land.

The Emperor Dao Pool fully emerged, and Returning Origin Holy Land prepared to secure its Emperor Source Stones. Great Emperors from the Yellow Springs Realm appeared to challenge them, prompting the Ancient Ancestor to identify two powerful figures as Extinguish Delusion Immortal and Desire God Immortal.

• The Emperor Dao Pool manifested, revealing countless Emperor Source Stones as the factions watched.
• Emperor Zhan selected five Great Emperors to collect the stones while fifteen others formed an Emperor formation to guard them.
• A ghostly attack struck Returning Origin Holy Land’s formation, and gates opened to reveal Great Emperors from the Yellow Springs Realm.
• Two immense figures descended in black mist and challenged Returning Origin Holy Land to show them respect.
• The Ancient Ancestor recognized the figures as Extinguish Delusion Immortal of the Underworld and Desire God Immortal of King Yama’s Palace.

The Returning Origin Holy Land confronted the Underworld and King Yama's Palace, revealing that it could summon nineteen Great Emperors. It issued a World Transformation Decree and called Emperor Zhan to fight, leaving both sides entering an isolated battlefield for an Emperor War.

• The Returning Origin Holy Land’s hidden presence intimidated the two Ghost Immortals and accused the Underworld and King Yama's Palace of challenging its claim.
• A bronze token summoned nineteen Great Emperors, while an onlooker revealed that the Returning Origin Holy Land also had the renowned Imperial Heaven Great Emperor guarding the Outer Territory Battlefield.
• The Returning Origin Holy Land issued the World Transformation Decree and called Emperor Zhan to fight for the prize.
• The two Ghost Immortals accepted the Emperor War, and Desire God Immortal’s phantom tried to tear down the decree.
• The decree formed an isolated world to contain the battle, turning the region into a battlefield reserved for Great Emperors.

The Great Emperors of Returning Origin Holy Land battled the forces of King Yama's Palace and the Underworld inside the World Transformation Decree. Su Changge watched the Emperor War from the Returning Origin Holy Hall as the Ancient Ancestor taught him about the Great Emperors' Dao.

• Ghost Delusion Great Emperor tried to tear apart the World Transformation Decree, but Spear Edict Great Emperor destroyed his giant hand with a Divine Spear.
• Spear Edict Great Emperor and Ghost Prison Great Emperor clashed, then the other Great Emperors on both sides joined the battle with their strongest attacks.
• The Emperor War's shockwaves passed through the World Transformation Decree and devastated the Three Thousand Dao Domains, while onlookers lamented that they were too weak to watch closely.
• Su Changge observed the battle through a projection in the Returning Origin Holy Hall as the Ancient Ancestor explained the Great Emperors' Dao to him.
• The Ancient Ancestor warned Su Changge to listen carefully and threatened to suppress him in the latrine if he could not defeat every Great Emperor after reaching that realm.

Su Changge became determined to stay alert after the ancient ancestor teased him about being suppressed in a latrine, then the gathered cultivators watched Great Emperors battle inside the World Transformation Decree. Revelation Great Emperor and the other Returning Origin Holy Land emperors fought back against five second-rank Great Emperors from the Underworld and King Yama's Palace, and their clash continued.

• The ancient ancestor recalled that Ancestor Po Jun had begged for three days and nights to receive a Dao lecture, embarrassing Po Jun in front of the gathered ancestors and followers.
• Su Changge resolved to remain alert after imagining the humiliation of being suppressed in a latrine after becoming a Great Emperor.
• Inside the World Transformation Decree, Revelation Great Emperor used his Emperor Domain to freeze and erase the attacks raining down on him.
• Five second-rank Great Emperors from the Underworld and King Yama's Palace formed a dark Emperor Domain with black lotuses that corroded the laws, space, and spiritual energy.
• The Returning Origin Holy Land emperors broke through part of the darkness and met the five Great Emperors' attacks in a violent collision of divine light and black waves.

The Returning Origin Holy Land and the Yellow Springs Realm’s Great Emperors clashed in a Peak Duel, but the Holy Land restored its fighters with Heaven Origin Divine Stones and overwhelmed its opponents. The chapter ended with blood rain and wailing laws announcing multiple Great Emperor deaths across the Yellow Springs Realm.

• Revelation Great Emperor led the Returning Origin Holy Land’s Great Emperors in an Ancient Combined Attack Technique against the Yellow Springs Realm’s forces.
• The two sides’ combined arts collided, devastating the sealed world while neither side gained the upper hand.
• Revelation Great Emperor ordered his allies to use Heaven Origin Divine Stones, restoring their exhausted power and enraging the Underworld and King Yama’s Palace.
• The Returning Origin Holy Land’s Great Emperors unleashed their restored strength, shattering Emperor Bodies and weapons as multiple Yellow Springs Great Emperors fell.
• The Yellow Springs Realm’s cultivators witnessed blood rain and wailing laws, realizing that several Great Emperors had died.

Returning Origin Holy Land’s massacre of the Underworld and King Yama’s Palace was revealed, driving Extinguish Delusion Immortal to awaken a terrifying power from the Three Lifetimes Bronze Coffin Fragment. As he defied Returning Origin Holy Land, its ancient voice ordered him to die.

• Su Changge and the disciples learned that each Great Emperor of Returning Origin Holy Land possessed three Heaven Origin Divine Stones, while Ancestor Po Jun lamented that the enemy’s Emperor weapons had been smashed.
• The World Transformation Decree’s barrier vanished, revealing a devastated forbidden zone littered with Emperor’s Blood and broken Emperor weapons, confirming the deaths of more than a dozen Great Emperors.
• Desire God Immortal and Extinguish Delusion Immortal raged at Returning Origin Holy Land, and Extinguish Delusion Immortal awakened a Three Lifetimes Bronze Coffin Fragment from the Underworld.
• Extinguish Delusion Immortal fused with the Bronze Divine Coffin and unleashed a power that surpassed the Great Emperor realm, while Desire God Immortal recognized that Returning Origin Holy Land would prevail.
• Extinguish Delusion Immortal refused to bow when Returning Origin Holy Land’s voice rebuked him, declaring that immortals could not be insulted; the voice answered, “Then die!”

The Returning Origin Chaos Bell destroyed Extinguish Delusion Immortal, and the Returning Origin Holy Land’s ancient ancestor claimed the Three Lifetimes Bronze Coffin fragment. Desire God Immortal surrendered another fragment, leaving the Yellow Springs onlookers stunned by the Holy Land’s power.

• Extinguish Delusion Immortal attacked the Returning Origin Holy Land, but the Returning Origin Chaos Bell erased him with a single toll.
• Demon Race ancestors and the Heavenly Dao Overseers Alliance discussed summoning reinforcements to challenge the Returning Origin Holy Land.
• A fragment of the Three Lifetimes Bronze Coffin flew into the ancient ancestor’s phantom, who recognized it as a branch of a shattered creation artifact and decided to give it to Changge.
• The ancient ancestor’s phantom fixed his gaze on Desire God Immortal, who immediately offered up his own coffin fragment.
• The Yellow Springs onlookers watched Desire God Immortal submit to the Returning Origin Holy Land and wondered how deep its power ran.

The Returning Origin Holy Land withdrew its threat to destroy the Underworld after the Ferryman invoked the Underworld’s first Lord and begged for mercy. The Underworld then sealed its gates for one million years.

• The ancient ancestor’s phantom recalled the Bronze Shard and ordered the Returning Origin Chaos Bell to strike the Underworld from the Three Thousand Dao Domains.
• The Returning Origin Chaos Bell appeared over the Yellow Springs Realm, and Purgatory King Yama begged it to spare the Underworld, eventually kneeling and invoking the Underworld’s first Lord.
• The ancient ancestor’s phantom recognized the debt owed to the Underworld’s first Lord and recalled the Chaos Bell, sparing the Underworld.
• The Ferryman remembered the Returning Origin Holy Land’s overwhelming power during the first Human-Demon War and wondered whether the battle had revealed only a fraction of its strength.
• The Underworld announced that it would seal its gates for one million years.

After the Emperor battle, Su Changge received thousands of Emperor Source Stones and began absorbing them in the Returning Origin Holy Hall. Their power awakened a mysterious Female Emperor projection, whose aura the Ancient Ancestor recognized as the Nine Tribulation Immortal Emperor.

• The gathered factions blamed Su Changge’s growing strength and plotted against the Returning Origin Holy Land, while their successors were told to challenge him on the Emperor’s Path.
• The Ancient Ancestor summoned Mystic Feather Empress and three Great Emperors, then Su Changge gave them some of his Emperor Source Stones.
• Emperor Zhan told Su Changge he looked forward to seeing him fight alone on the Emperor’s Path, and Su Changge confidently agreed.
• Su Changge used his Devouring Sacred Body to absorb an Emperor Source Stone directly, awakening a powerful presence within him.
• A Female Emperor projection appeared behind Su Changge and said he had grown up just like someone from her past.
• The Ancient Ancestor sensed the projection’s aura and identified it as belonging to the Nine Tribulation Immortal Emperor.

The Returning Origin Ancestor recognized the mysterious woman’s Reincarnation Power and suspected she was connected to Su Changge’s mother. As Su Changge neared the Quasi Emperor Realm, his breakthrough summoned astonishing Emperor Intent and heavenly phenomena that left the Returning Origin Holy Land stunned.

• The mysterious woman thanked the Returning Origin Ancestor and vanished, leaving him to speculate that she belonged to the Reincarnation Immortal Dynasty and was related to Su Changge’s mother.
• The Returning Origin Ancestor ordered the Mystic Feather Empress to copy the Returning Origin Scripture two hundred thousand times after she remarked that he should rest.
• Thunder and Great Dao Pressure gathered around the Returning Origin Holy Hall as Emperor Intent formed around Su Changge.
• The Returning Origin Holy Master and the Holy Land’s disciples and elders watched the dazzling phenomena and realized Su Changge was about to reach the Quasi Emperor Realm.
• The Returning Origin Holy Master lamented the difference between his hundred years of cultivation and Su Changge’s five, while the Supreme Elders hoped the Holy Land’s former glory would return.

Su Changge entered a state of enlightenment and began condensing Emperor Intent before reaching the Quasi Emperor Realm, while memories revealed the ancient wars and the ambition to become the First Ray of Light in a declining era. His breakthrough stirred the Three Thousand Dao Domains, where Luo Yan Yu and other sect heirs also manifested Emperor Intent.

• Su Changge manifested golden characters and six strands of Emperor Intent as the Returning Origin Holy Land ancestors watched in astonishment.
• Su Changge’s memories revealed the War of Origin Break, the birth of the Immortal Domain, and the War of Annihilation that shattered it and severed the Path to Immortality.
• A young man’s voice declared that true invincibility required going Above the Immortal Realm and becoming the First Ray of Light before dawn.
• Su Changge’s Emperor Intent divided an empty world into heaven and earth, birthed yin and yang, and produced vast Great Dao Phenomena.
• Luo Yan Yu manifested embryonic Emperor Intent at the Jade Pool Sacred Ground, prompting its ancestors to praise her potential and wonder about her feelings for Su Changge.
• After Su Changge’s phenomenon faded, sects across the Three Thousand Dao Domains had their heirs cultivate Emperor Intent, and prodigies unleashed celestial phenomena throughout the world.

The Emperor's Path opened, drawing countless prodigies into the contest for the Heavenly Mandate. The Five Great Factions prepared to kill Su Changge and revealed Su Mie, while Su Changge emerged from enlightenment believing his forty-nine Strands of Emperor Intent left him weak.

• The Emperor Pass opened onto the Emperor's Path, and prodigies across the Three Thousand Dao Domains set out to compete for the Great Emperor's throne.
• The Five Great Factions ordered ten young Quasi Emperor experts to gather and kill Su Changge, then planned to send more reinforcements.
• San summoned Su Mie, whose thirteen Strands of Emperor Intent shocked the faction leaders, and claimed he could defeat even Di Tian.
• Su Changge awoke from enlightenment, reached the Quasi Emperor Third Level, and lamented that he had condensed only forty-nine Strands of Emperor Intent.

Su Changge revealed that he had condensed forty-nine strands of Emperor Intent, astonishing the Returning Origin Holy Land’s ancestors and raising fears that he might fail to fuse them. Immortal Slaughtering Nv Zun voiced the Holy Land’s confidence in him as geniuses began setting out along the Emperor’s Path, including Zhang Wangqing, who vowed to settle things with Su Changge.

• Ancestor Po Jun and the other ancestors discovered that Su Changge had condensed forty-nine strands of Emperor Intent, far more than any recorded genius.
• Ancestor Po Jun warned Su Changge that a past genius had failed to fuse fourteen strands of Emperor Intent and lost the chance to become an emperor.
• Immortal Slaughtering Nv Zun reassured Su Changge that the Returning Origin Holy Land would support him as he pursued the impossible.
• Across the Three Thousand Dao Domains, geniuses entered the branching paths leading toward the Emperor’s Path and its final trial.
• Zhang Wangqing drew his sword, vowed to prove himself superior to Su Changge, and opened a Sword Qi Road toward the Emperor Pass.

The great prodigies set out along the Emperor’s Path as Su Changge prepared to leave Returning Origin Holy Land. After bidding farewell to the sect and promising it would produce a Great Emperor, he rode the newly transformed Undying Divine Phoenix into an Emperor Pass.

• Heavenly Dragon Wushen and several Demon Race prodigies entered an Emperor Pass, while other young powers prepared to follow the Emperor’s Path Ranking’s leading contenders.
• Luo Yan Yu, having reached the Quasi Emperor Realm and condensed thirteen strands of Emperor Intent, set out with her companions and vowed she would not lose to Su Changge.
• Ye Lintian, Li Haotian, Bi Qingxia, and Su Changge’s followers departed to face the Emperor’s Path alone and strengthen their own Great Daos.
• Su Changge stabilized his cultivation, then bid farewell to Ancestor Po Jun and the gathered disciples of Returning Origin Holy Land, promising the sect would produce a Great Emperor in his age.
• Su Changge rode the transformed Undying Divine Phoenix into an Emperor Pass as Returning Origin Holy Land’s disciples called out their blessings.

Su Changge entered the Emperor's Path and followed a resonating star fragment into an ancient world dominated by a vast ocean. As he and the Undying Divine Phoenix flew toward its depths, other entrants recognized Su Changge and feared their rotten luck at encountering the Emperor's Path Overlord.

• Factions watching the Returning Origin Holy Land noticed Su Changge enter the Emperor's Path and debated whether he could face the Three Thousand Dao Domains' prodigies.
• Su Changge used his aura to protect the Undying Divine Phoenix as they entered a glowing star fragment and arrived above a boundless ocean in an ancient world.
• Su Changge speculated that an opportunity might lie beneath the sea and had the Undying Divine Phoenix fly toward its depths.
• Heavenly prodigies saw the Quasi Emperor Phoenix carrying a white-clad figure and probed them with their divine senses.
• Su Changge glanced back, overwhelming the onlookers with pressure, and one prodigy feared he had encountered Su Changge so soon after entering the Emperor's Path.

Su Changge encountered the Deep Sea Ancient Clan slaughtering cultivators on the Emperor's Path and observed the battle without intervening. The sea became a scene of widespread devastation as the clan's forces overwhelmed the entrants.

• Su Changge and the Undying Divine Phoenix traveled across the sea and encountered a deadly cloud of ancient miasma.
• A colossal sea creature destroyed a divine ship, and members of the Deep Sea Ancient Clan attacked the cultivators aboard it.
• A massive fish with Kunpeng bloodline dragged cultivators into its maw, while a Jet-Black Rakshasa wielding the Sea God Trident led more attackers.
• Su Changge watched from above and chose to gather information rather than join the battle.
• More Deep Sea Water Clan members and enormous creatures emerged, overwhelming cultivators and destroying ships across the sea.

Su Changge discovered that Night Owl had trapped the sea in an array to gather human Source Blood Essence and revive his younger brother, then broke through the array with the Undying Divine Phoenix. As Night Owl and the Sea-Suppressing Twin Kings attacked, Su Changge warned Night Owl not to move or die.

• Night Owl collected the blood essence of slain cultivators, hoping to awaken his younger brother, whose Source of the Sea had been taken by humans.
• Su Changge found the spatial array's core and shattered its runes, while the Undying Divine Phoenix used its flames to widen the breach.
• Night Owl spotted the damage and charged toward Su Changge with the Azure Sea Dragon and the octopus, prompting the surviving cultivators to hope for rescue.
• The Azure Sea Dragon attacked with divine lightning, but the Undying Divine Phoenix struck it down with a blazing attack.
• Su Changge walked across the calming waves and told Night Owl to stay still or die.

Su Changge arrived at the sea and annihilated the Deep Sea Water Clan with overwhelming sword attacks. He then confronted Night Owl over the clan’s attempt to block him, and their battle began with a clash of sword light and trident.

• Su Changge appeared on the sea, and the watching cultivators recognized him and took heart.
• Su Changge unleashed sword tides and descending sword mountains, wiping out the Deep Sea Water Clan around him.
• Su Changge dismissed the strength he had displayed as insufficient for the enemies awaiting him on the Ultimate Emperor's Path.
• Su Changge accused Night Owl of deliberately blocking him and attacked with another sword slash.
• Night Owl armed himself with runes and a silver-white trident, and his strike collided with Su Changge's sword light in a devastating blast.