Chapter Summaries

The Dark Turmoil erupted as Netherworld Prison led the Dark Creatures through the Darkness Gate and devastated Heaven's Gate World. Luo Yan Yu and the top factions gathered at Heaven Mountain Divine Hall, using the first wave to buy time while they prepared a Final Defense Line.

• Netherworld Prison emerged from the Darkness Gate and ordered the Dark Creatures to plunge Heaven's Gate World into darkness.
• Netherworld Prison's attack destroyed mountains and annihilated countless cultivators and living beings.
• Cultivators across Heaven's Gate World formed defenses and fought the Dark Creatures as the first Dark Tide spread.
• Luo Yan Yu and the top faction successors retreated to Heaven Mountain Divine Hall instead of confronting the first wave directly.
• Luo Yan Yu's allies received reports that the first defenders would soon fall and that the Final Defense Line needed two more hours to complete.
• Luo Yan Yu and the top factions kept weaker cultivators as bait while they gathered elite forces and prepared to resist the coming Dark Tides.

Luo Yan Yu ordered the second stage of her defense plan while darkness overwhelmed Heaven's Gate World. Cultivators who tried to flee discovered that Burial You had sealed the exit and unleashed more Dark Creatures, leaving them trapped in a seemingly hopeless battle.

• Luo Yan Yu ordered recovered cultivators to lead groups of five hundred and establish secondary defense lines around the Final Defense Line.
• Luo Yan Yu required new arrivals to swear Great Dao and Inner Demon Oaths, threatening to expel or execute anyone who refused.
• Dark Creatures and corrupted Darkness Warships slaughtered cultivators across Heaven's Gate World, while some survivors surrendered to despair or fled toward the exit.
• Fleeing cultivators discovered that the exit was sealed and heard a mocking voice announce that the Dark Stage had been prepared for them.
• Burial You revealed that he had stationed a vast host outside the exit, and Darkness Gates opened to pour in more Dark Creatures.
• The trapped cultivators fought back and some detonated themselves, but the endless Dark Creatures continued spreading across Heaven's Gate World.

Burial You’s darkness devastated Heaven’s Gate World as cultivators gathered at Luo Yan Yu’s Final Defense Line. Luo Yan Yu prepared for the coming battle while keeping her knowledge of the calamity secret, and the chapter left her checking the future for unexpected changes.

• Burial You unleashed a Darkness Storm, killing tens of thousands of cultivators and sealing Heaven’s Gate World against escape.
• Yu Ge told Yun Qing that Su Changge had left to handle something important and promised to protect everyone in the Mysterious Forest.
• Luo Yan Yu’s forces fortified the Final Defense Line near Heaven’s Gate Divine Mountain as survivors fled there from the second wave of the Dark Tide.
• Leaders from the other Four Great Forbidden Powers arrived and made Great Dao Oaths to join the defense.
• Dao Lian Xian asked how Luo Yan Yu had predicted the Dark Turmoil, but she refused to reveal her secret and urged everyone to fight together.
• Luo Yan Yu left to use the Yao Guang Illusion Immortal Eyes to check that no unexpected changes would undermine the plan.

Luo Yan Yu strengthened the defenses at Heaven's Gate Divine Mountain while Netherworld Prison learned that the Immortal Domain's prodigies were gathering there and ordered a coordinated assault. Outside Heaven's Gate World, the Taboo Su Family and Returning Origin Immortal Sect watched the crisis unfold, with Ancestor Po Jun promising the invaders would pay.

• Dao Lian Xian and the others departed after seeing Luo Yan Yu's extensive preparations to defend against the Dark Tide.
• Netherworld Prison learned from a captured Immortal Court prodigy that the Forbidden Powers' prodigies were gathering at Heaven's Gate Divine Mountain, then absorbed the captive's memories and killed him.
• Netherworld Prison ordered all Darkness Sons to advance on Heaven's Gate Divine Mountain and coordinated a pincer attack with Burial You's Dark Army.
• Tian Hao Ancestor and the Taboo Su Family's immortal emperors questioned how Netherworld Prison and Burial You had infiltrated the Immortal Domain, then sent a projection of events to the Forbidden Powers.
• Returning Origin Immortal Sect's elders debated how to rescue their prodigies, and Ancestor Po Jun assured them that the invaders would pay a terrible price.

As Su Changge received the Three Primordial Beginning Immortal Emperors’ inheritance, they realized his divine soul was the only weakness in his otherwise exceptional cultivation and decided to temper it into a Primordial Beginning Divine Soul. Though the process could be fatal at his current cultivation, Su Changge agreed to try.

• The Reincarnation Immortal Emperor ordered his ministers to conceal that they had delayed rescuing Su Changge from Yun Xuanrou.
• Su Changge absorbed the Three Primordial Beginning Immortal Emperors’ inheritance, and his cultivation rose from Heavenly Immortal Realm Third Level to Sixth Level.
• The Azure Profound Immortal Emperor and the Grand Profound Immortal Emperor concluded that Su Changge’s physical body needed no further tempering.
• The Heavenly Profound Immortal Emperor identified Su Changge’s divine soul as his weakest point, and the three Immortal Emperors decided to temper it with their Primordial Beginning Laws.
• The Azure Profound Immortal Emperor warned that forming a Primordial Beginning Divine Soul at Su Changge’s Heavenly Immortal Realm cultivation could be a nine-deaths-one-life ordeal, but Su Changge volunteered to proceed.

Su Changge risked his life to enter the Primordial Beginning Gate and attempt to condense a Primordial Beginning Divine Soul, with the Three Primordial Beginning Immortal Emperors sacrificing their power to help him. His divine soul entered the gate, but whether he could succeed remained unknown.

• Su Changge confirmed he would attempt to condense a Primordial Beginning Divine Soul despite the danger of defying the Immortal Domain Great Dao Will.
• The Three Primordial Beginning Immortal Emperors summoned the Primordial Beginning Gate as the Great Dao Will descended to stop the process.
• At the Azure Profound Immortal Emperor's command, Su Changge separated his divine soul from his body and flew toward the gate.
• The gate's Energy Storm threatened to repel Su Changge, but the Three Primordial Beginning Immortal Emperors blocked it with their divine abilities.
• The three Immortal Emperors burned their origin divine souls to transfer their Immortal Emperor Imprints to Su Changge, allowing his divine soul to enter the gate.
• The Three Primordial Beginning Immortal Emperors watched over Su Changge's body, weakened and uncertain whether he would form a Primordial Beginning Divine Soul.

The three Immortal Emperors suspected the Primordial Beginning Gate had let Su Changge enter because it feared his Taboo Su Family ancestors, who had once beaten it into accepting their rule-breaking attempt to condense Primordial Beginning Divine Souls together. Inside the Gate, Su Changge met its furious will, manifested as a little girl who remembered being beaten by those ancestors.

• The Grand Profound Immortal Emperor suggested Su Changge's bloodline had caused the Primordial Beginning Gate to overlook its rules.
• The Immortal Emperors recalled how three Taboo Su Family ancestors had forced their way into the Gate together and left cracks in it.
• The Azure Profound Immortal Emperor proposed using their remaining power to repair the Myriad Things Mother Qi Cauldron before they vanished.
• Su Changge entered a golden world inside the Primordial Beginning Gate, where the Gate's will appeared as a little girl and accused the Taboo Su Family of repeatedly defying it.
• The little girl revealed that the three Taboo Su Family ancestors had beaten her former old-man manifestation until she took a girl's form to win their sympathy.

The Primordial Beginning Gate’s will scolded Su Changge for entering at the Heavenly Immortal Realm, then learned he was the Young Master of the Taboo Su Family and the great-grandson of Immortal Emperor Yuan Hong. As she panicked over having insulted Yuan Hong’s great-grandson, Yuan Hong’s voice suddenly addressed her.

• The Primordial Beginning Gate’s will recalled how three Immortal Emperors of the Taboo Su Family had once beaten her and questioned why Su Changge had entered her domain.
• The little girl scolded Su Changge for entering the Primordial Beginning Gate despite being only a Heavenly Immortal, and asked why the three Immortal Emperors had given him their imprints.
• Su Changge introduced himself as the Young Master of the Taboo Su Family, making the little girl realize the importance of his position.
• The little girl asked whether Su Changge was related to Immortal Emperor Yuan Hong, and Su Changge said Yuan Hong was his great-grandfather.
• The little girl trembled with fear after realizing she had scolded Yuan Hong’s great-grandson, and Yuan Hong’s voice suddenly spoke to her.

The Primordial Beginning Gate's Will discovered that Su Changge was Immortal Emperor Yuan Hong's great-grandson and was frightened by Yuan Hong's request to help him condense a Primordial Beginning Divine Soul. After Yuan Hong promised it rare treasures, the Gate eagerly agreed, leaving Su Changge baffled by its sudden change in attitude.

• The Primordial Beginning Gate's Will realized Yuan Hong could sense its thoughts and feared punishment for insulting Su Changge.
• Yuan Hong acknowledged that he had once beaten the Gate and asked it to help Su Changge condense a Primordial Beginning Divine Soul.
• The Primordial Beginning Gate's Will objected that Su Changge was only a Heavenly Immortal and that helping him would violate its rules.
• Yuan Hong promised the Gate treasures if it handled the matter well, and the Gate eagerly agreed to help.
• The Primordial Beginning Gate's Will sprang up and treated Su Changge as a great treasure, leaving him bewildered.

Su Changge learned that condensing a Primordial Beginning Divine Soul required him to face the Great Dao’s interceptors, and he chose to begin the dangerous ritual. Meanwhile, the Taboo Su Family’s Distant Ancestors celebrated his accomplishments and anticipated his future rise.

• Xiao Chu introduced herself to Su Changge as an incarnation of the Primordial Beginning Gate Origin Will and explained that she could help him.
• Tian Hong Distant Ancestor told Immeasurable Distant Ancestor and Sky Firmament Distant Ancestor how Su Changge had entered the Primordial Beginning Gate at the Heavenly Immortal Realm.
• The three Distant Ancestors praised Su Changge’s talent and predicted that he could surpass the limits of the Primordial Beginning Immortal Emperors.
• Xiao Chu explained that Su Changge had to defeat a Great Dao interceptor to condense a Primordial Beginning Divine Soul, or risk losing his path to transcendence.
• Su Changge accepted the danger and told Xiao Chu to begin the ritual without delay.

Su Changge challenged the Great Dao Blocker during his attempt to condense a Primordial Beginning Divine Soul, but the Immortal Domain Great Dao Will manifested an Immortal Emperor Avatar against him. The three transcended Immortal Emperors of the Taboo Su Family intervened, and the Great Dao Will backed down, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Xiao Chu activated the Primordial Beginning Gate’s power as Su Changge chose to face the Great Dao Blocker.
• The Great Dao’s lightning and laws gathered above Su Changge, and an Immortal Emperor Avatar began to descend.
• The Immortal Domain Great Dao Will sent divine consciousness into the avatar, making it a Great Dao Divine Descent.
• The Great Dao Will confronted three unseen figures, whom Xiao Chu suspected were the three monster Immortal Emperors of the Taboo Su Family.
• After the figures answered it, the Great Dao Will’s projection weakened from a Nine Tribulation Immortal Emperor to the Golden Immortal Realm.

The Immortal Domain Great Dao Will yielded to the Taboo Su Family and allowed Su Changge’s ritual to continue, but it turned the trial into a brutal challenge by sending down an Immortal Emperor projection suppressed to the Golden Immortal Realm. As Su Changge prepared to face it, a second Great Dao Blocker began to descend.

• The Immortal Domain Great Dao Will compromised with the Taboo Su Family and allowed Su Changge to condense the Primordial Beginning Divine Soul.
• The Great Dao Will told Su Changge he was the greatest anomaly in the All Heavens Myriad Domains, then vanished from the projection.
• The ritual continued, and the projection became a Golden Immortal with an Immortal Emperor’s Great Dao Will and divine-soul aura.
• Xiao Chu realized the Great Dao Will had sent Su Changge a budget Immortal Emperor as a blocker, while Su Changge saw through the suppression and remained confident.
• Xiao Chu sensed a second Golden Immortal-level Great Dao Blocker beginning to descend.

Eighteen weakened Immortal Emperor figures gathered as Great Dao Blockers to test Su Changge, including several who had condensed Primordial Beginning Divine Souls. Xiao Chu believed Su Changge was doomed, while he remained calm before the overwhelming assembly.

• The Riotous Heaven Immortal Emperor appeared, and Xiao Chu recognized the legendary fist-fighting emperor who had condensed a Primordial Beginning Divine Soul.
• The Clear Lotus Immortal Emperor descended, followed by the Transcendent Profound Immortal Emperor and other legendary Immortal Emperors.
• The Demon Azure Immortal Emperor and Divine Dao appeared among the figures, adding to the trial's strength.
• The eighteenth Immortal Emperor arrived, completing the assembly of Great Dao Blockers, nearly half of whom had condensed Primordial Beginning Divine Souls.
• Xiao Chu concluded that Su Changge could not win, while Su Changge calmly faced all eighteen figures as their confrontation approached.

Su Changge fought the eighteen Immortal Emperor Phantoms inside the Primordial Beginning Gate, using his inherited power and artifacts to withstand their attacks. Xiao Chu watched as he began blasting several emperors out of the battlefield, though they kept returning to fight.

• Su Changge resolved to face the eighteen Immortal Emperor Phantoms after inheriting the Three Primordial Beginning Immortal Emperors’ legacies and reaching the seventh level of the Heavenly Immortal Realm.
• Riotous Heaven Immortal Emperor struck first, and Su Changge met his fist before evading Clear Lotus Immortal Emperor’s palm and breaking Demon Azure Immortal Emperor’s Netherflame River.
• Divine Dao Immortal Emperor and other phantoms attacked in succession, forcing Su Changge to dodge, counterpunch, and withstand their coordinated assaults.
• Four Immortal Emperor Phantoms charged with their Lifebound Immortal Weapons, and Su Changge fought them with the Slaying Immortal Sword and his fists, sustaining several wounds.
• Su Changge summoned the Gazing Immortal Chessboard and Burial Immortal Sword Chest, activated his Four Great Sacred Bodies, and charged the eighteen emperors at full strength.
• Xiao Chu watched Su Changge blast several weaker Immortal Emperor Phantoms out of the battlefield as they repeatedly rushed back in.

While Su Changge continued fighting eighteen Immortal Emperor projections inside the Primordial Beginning Gate, Luo Yan Yu used Time-Space Prophecy to uncover how Dark Puppets would sabotage the Final Defense Line. She ordered the compromised sects gathered and enlisted Yu Ge to send Karmic Obstacle Creatures against the Dark Creatures, leaving the counterattack underway.

• Su Changge held his ground against the attacks of eighteen Immortal Emperor projections, while only half an hour passed in Heaven's Gate World.
• Luo Yan Yu studied a map of the Dark Creature armies and recalled that corrupted prodigies from the Fleeting Mirage Dao Sect and Bright Moon Heavenly Sect would betray the eastern and southern fronts.
• Luo Yan Yu ordered a Yao Guang Immortal Sect prodigy to bring everyone from those two sects to Central Plaza for inspection by prodigies from the Forbidden Powers.
• Luo Yan Yu contacted Yu Ge and asked her to use the Karmic Obstacle Creatures to infiltrate the Dark Creature army and protect Su Changge.
• Yu Ge accepted Luo Yan Yu's orders, and countless Karmic Obstacle Creatures awoke and surged toward the Dark Creatures in the Mysterious Forest.

Yu Ge sent the Karmic Obstacle Creatures to infiltrate the Dark Army while the Darkness Lords prepared to break the Final Defense Line with Darkness Seeds. At Heaven's Gate Divine Mountain, the prodigies of the Fleeting Mirage Dao Sect and the Bright Moon Heavenly Sect demanded to know why they had been gathered and guarded.

• Yun Qing worried that the Karmic Obstacle Creatures could not carry out Luo Yan Yu's infiltration plan, and Yu Ge assured her that she could control them from any distance.
• Burial You and Netherworld Prison learned that the Immortal Domain prodigies had built a fortified Final Defense Line covered in Great Dao formations.
• Netherworld Prison revealed that he had planted Darkness Seeds in captured prodigies and expected them to become Dark Puppets who could destroy the defense from within.
• A Yaksha Dark Creature reported that Karmic Obstacle Creatures were entering the Dark Army, and Netherworld Prison allowed them to join, intending to use them as cannon fodder.
• At the Central Plaza, prodigies of the Fleeting Mirage Dao Sect and the Bright Moon Heavenly Sect protested that the Forbidden Powers had gathered and guarded them instead of sending them to the defense line.

Luo Yan Yu used her Yao Guang Illusion Immortal Eyes to expose Dark Aura among the prodigies of the Fleeting Mirage Dao Sect and Bright Moon Heavenly Sect. After killing one irreversibly corrupted prodigy, she ordered the Forbidden Powers to exterminate the nearly thousand others who were tainted.

• Luo Yan Yu arrived at the Central Plaza and examined the prodigies of the Fleeting Mirage Dao Sect and Bright Moon Heavenly Sect with her awakened Yao Guang Illusion Immortal Eyes.
• Luo Yan Yu purified one prodigy from the Fleeting Mirage Dao Sect, revealing Dark Aura that had corrupted him.
• Luo Yan Yu killed the prodigy when she realized his corruption could not be fully removed.
• Luo Yan Yu spread Purification Light over both groups and exposed Dark Aura above nearly a thousand prodigies.
• Luo Yan Yu ordered the Forbidden Powers to leave none alive, and their prodigies attacked the corrupted groups.

Luo Yan Yu ordered the Forbidden Power prodigies to purge nearly a thousand Darkness Seed-corrupted prodigies, thwarting Netherworld Prison’s plan to sabotage the Final Defense Line. Netherworld Prison abandoned his failed scheme and led the Dark Creatures into a direct assault on Heaven’s Gate Divine Mountain.

• Luo Yan Yu’s forces slaughtered the darkness-corrupted prodigies from the two major factions and prepared to defend against the approaching Dark Creatures.
• Dao Lian Xian wondered how Luo Yan Yu had identified every prodigy corrupted by the Darkness Seeds.
• Netherworld Prison discovered he had lost contact with the Darkness Seeds and watched their final images with Burial You.
• Netherworld Prison reacted furiously to Luo Yan Yu’s purge, realizing his plan to collapse the Final Defense Line had failed.
• Netherworld Prison told Burial You to attack directly and advanced with the Dark Creatures toward Heaven’s Gate Divine Mountain.

Luo Yan Yu rallied the defenders of Heaven's Gate World as the Dark Turmoil began, warning them to resist corruption and protect one another. Two Darkness Lords launched their army against the Final Defense Line, leaving the battle for Heaven's Gate Divine Mountain underway.

• Luo Yan Yu urged the cultivators and native powerhouses to unite and told them to sacrifice themselves if darkness seized their consciousness.
• The Dark Turmoil erupted as an enormous army of Dark Creatures surrounded Heaven's Gate Divine Mountain.
• Luo Yan Yu recognized the two Darkness Lords from her Time-Space Prophecy and vowed not to let the predicted defeat happen.
• Netherworld Prison identified Luo Yan Yu as the one who had disrupted their plans and considered using her to break Su Changge's Dao Heart.
• Netherworld Prison ordered the Darkness Sons to begin the final Darkness Feast, and the Dark Creatures attacked the Final Defense Line from all directions.

The Dark Creature army overwhelmed the outer defenses and fought the cultivators at the Heavenly Curtain Mountain Range, where prodigies from several Forbidden Powers halted its advance. As Netherworld Prison and Burial You watched the battle worsen, Luo Yan Yu prepared a surprise attack from Heaven's Gate Divine Mountain.

• The Dark Creatures destroyed nearly half of the outer Immortal Dao Arrays and broke through toward the Heavenly Curtain Mountain Range.
• Cultivators charged into battle as Netherworld Prison and Burial You held back, waiting for the Forbidden Powers' prodigies to act.
• Progenies from the Yao Guang Immortal Sect, Taboo Su Family, Immortal Court, Golden Crow God Dynasty, and Reincarnation Immortal Dynasty unleashed powerful techniques and halted the Dark Creature advance.
• Netherworld Prison complained that the Karmic Obstacle Creatures were tougher than his army and refused to follow his orders.
• Luo Yan Yu held the Jade Pendant and decided it was time to launch a surprise backstab.