Chapter Summaries

As the Emperor's Path approached, the Emperor Pass descended and the Emperor Dao Pool reappeared, drawing the attention of powerful figures across the Three Thousand Dao Domains. The Returning Origin Holy Land moved to claim the pool, and fifteen of its Great Emperors confronted a rival who reached for it.

• Luo Yan Yu told Su Changge that she had also reached the Holy Master Realm before leaving with the Jade Pool Sacred Ground disciples, and Su Changge considered asking the Heaven's Secret Island Master to divine Azure Ancient Star's connection to the Emperor's Path.
• As rumors spread and the Three Thousand Dao Domains fell quiet, Su Changge entered the Returning Origin Holy Hall to consolidate his cultivation.
• When the Emperor Pass descended and the Emperor Dao Pool appeared, the Returning Origin Holy Land's Ancient Ancestor gave Ancestor Po Jun the Returning Origin Dragon Tiger Talisman and ordered him to secure the opportunity.
• Great Emperors from many Immortal Forces awakened and converged on the Emperor Dao Pool, but a Great Emperor of the Returning Origin Holy Land struck down a rival who tried to seize it.
• Fifteen Great Emperors of the Returning Origin Holy Land appeared above the Emperor Dao Pool.

Returning Origin Holy Land claimed the emerging Emperor Dao Pool and killed a Great Emperor to enforce its claim, while its enemies debated how to respond. King Yama’s Palace and the Underworld sought a coalition attack, but the Demon Race and its allies chose to wait and target Su Changge when the Emperor’s Path opened.

• A Returning Origin Holy Land Great Emperor killed a Quasi-Emperor, and Hundred Battles Great Emperor declared the Emperor Dao Pool off-limits to everyone else.
• Returning Origin Holy Land’s fifteen Great Emperors annihilated a sealed Great Emperor from Heavenly Universe Mountain when he challenged their claim.
• The Underworld and King Yama’s Palace proposed rallying other forces to launch a fatal strike against Returning Origin Holy Land.
• Heavenly Dragon Qiankun and Huang Tian Wudao urged caution, citing the Demon God Seal’s incomplete recovery and their plan to kill Su Changge when the Emperor’s Path opened.
• Heavenly Azure Old Demon agreed to let King Yama’s Palace, the Underworld, and the Six Desires Divine Palace test Returning Origin Holy Land’s strength before the Demon Race acted.

The Emperor Dao Pool fully emerged, and Returning Origin Holy Land prepared to collect its Emperor Source Stones behind a powerful array. Yellow Springs forces interrupted them, and the Ancient Ancestor identified two Immortal Realm figures who had appeared as Extinguish Delusion Immortal and Desire God Immortal.

• The Emperor Dao Pool manifested, revealing countless Emperor Source Stones that drew the attention of the assembled experts.
• Emperor Zhan assigned himself and four other Great Emperors to collect the stones while the others guarded them.
• Fifteen Great Emperors of Returning Origin Holy Land formed an array with their Emperor Armaments, provoking outrage among the watching forces.
• Ghost qi and black mist attacked the array, and ancient Great Emperors from the Yellow Springs Realm emerged through towering gates.
• Two enormous figures appeared and asked Returning Origin Holy Land to show them consideration.
• The Ancient Ancestor recognized the figures as Extinguish Delusion Immortal of the Underworld and Desire God Immortal of King Yama's Palace.

Two Ghost Immortals challenged the Returning Origin Holy Land, but the Holy Land summoned nineteen Great Emperors and issued a World Transformation Decree demanding an emperor battle. The Ghost Immortals accepted and attacked the decree, which sealed off a separate battlefield where the Great Emperors would fight to the death.

• The two Ghost Immortals arrived with eight Great Emperors and nine Yama Kings, prompting a warning from the Returning Origin Holy Land.
• A presence from within the Holy Land frightened the Ghost Immortals, who suspected it belonged to an Immortal above Immortals.
• The Holy Land sent a Bronze Token skyward and summoned nineteen Great Emperors; an elderly Great Emperor revealed that Imperial Heaven Great Emperor commanded the Outer Territory Battlefield alongside Heaven’s Jealousy Great Emperor.
• The Holy Land declared a World Transformation Decree and ordered the opposing forces to settle the dispute through an emperor battle, with the winner taking what they sought.
• The Ghost Immortals accepted the challenge, and Desire God Immortal’s phantom tried to tear down the decree.
• Supreme Laws formed a sealed battlefield, isolating the region as a forbidden zone and graveyard for Great Emperors.

Great Emperors from the Returning Origin Holy Land fought the Underworld and King Yama’s Palace inside the World Transformation Decree, while Su Changge watched from the Returning Origin Holy Hall as the Ancient Ancestor explained their techniques. The Ancient Ancestor warned Su Changge to pay attention and threatened to seal him beneath the holy land’s latrines if he could not suppress the other Great Emperors.

• Ghost Delusion Great Emperor tried to tear apart the World Transformation Decree, but Spear Edict Great Emperor pierced his hand with a divine spear.
• Spear Edict Great Emperor clashed with Ghost Prison Great Emperor, whose halberd displayed Great Dao Resonance.
• The Great Emperors of both sides unleashed their Emperor Armaments and strongest attacks, sending destructive shock waves across the Three Thousand Dao Domains.
• Su Changge watched the battle through a projection while the Ancient Ancestor explained the Great Emperors’ techniques.
• The Ancient Ancestor scolded Su Changge for being distracted and threatened to seal him beneath the Returning Origin Holy Land’s latrines if he could not suppress the other Great Emperors.

Su Changge listened attentively as the Ancient Ancestor began his Dao lecture, while Ancestor Po Jun was embarrassed by a story from his past. Meanwhile, Great Emperors from Returning Origin Holy Land fought the Underworld and King Yama’s Palace inside the sealed world, where the battle left their attacks colliding in a blaze of light and darkness.

• The Ancient Ancestor told Su Changge to treasure his chance to hear a Dao lecture and revealed that Ancestor Po Jun had once begged for one.
• Ancestor Po Jun blushed at the revelation but stayed to watch the Great Emperors' battle with the other ancestors and followers.
• Revelation Great Emperor used his emperor domain to freeze and destroy the attacks aimed at him.
• Five second-grade Great Emperors from the Underworld and King Yama’s Palace formed a domain of black lotuses that corroded the laws and Dao rhythm around them.
• Returning Origin Holy Land’s Great Emperors broke through the darkness and counterattacked, and their divine light collided with the enemy’s black waves.

The Great Emperors of the Returning Origin Holy Land and the Yellow Springs Realm fought to a standstill until Revelation Great Emperor replenished his side with Heaven Origin Divine Stones, allowing them to unleash a devastating attack. The chapter ended with the Yellow Springs Realm learning that multiple Great Emperors had fallen as blood rained across their lands.

• Revelation Great Emperor and the Yellow Springs Realm’s Great Emperors unleashed combined attacks that clashed across the sealed world.
• Ancestor Po Jun reassured Su Changge and the Returning Origin Holy Land’s disciples that their faction had deep reserves, without revealing its trump card.
• Revelation Great Emperor ordered the Returning Origin Holy Land’s Great Emperors to use Heaven Origin Divine Stones, restoring them to peak condition and enraging their opponents.
• The Returning Origin Holy Land’s Great Emperors unleashed an overwhelming attack that shattered Emperor bodies and left blood and Emperor Armament fragments scattered across the world.
• Purgatory King Yama, the Ferryman, and two Yellow Springs Ghost Immortals received images of blood rain and mourning laws, realizing that multiple Great Emperors had died.

After the Returning Origin Holy Land annihilated their Great Emperors, Extinguish Delusion Immortal awakened an ancient Bronze Divine Coffin and unleashed a power beyond the Great Emperor realm. The Returning Origin Holy Land answered his defiance with a command to die.

• The World Transformation Decree’s barrier vanished, revealing a battlefield transformed into a forbidden graveyard strewn with Emperor’s blood and broken Emperor Armament fragments.
• Desire God Immortal and Extinguish Delusion Immortal raged at the destruction of their factions’ Great Emperors, while a voice from the Returning Origin Holy Land mocked their defeat.
• Extinguish Delusion Immortal summoned a Three Lifetimes Bronze Coffin Fragment, which merged with a Bronze Divine Coffin and awakened a terrifying figure whose power surpassed the Great Emperor realm.
• Desire God Immortal recognized that their defeat was inevitable, while Su Changge wondered if the awakened figure was an immortal from the myths.
• Extinguish Delusion Immortal refused to bow to the Returning Origin Holy Land and declared that immortals could not be insulted, prompting the voice to order, “Then die!”

The Returning Origin Chaos Bell destroyed Extinguish Delusion Immortal, and the Returning Origin Holy Land’s Ancient Ancestor claimed the immortal’s Bronze Shard for Changge. Desire God Immortal surrendered his own fragment to the Ancient Ancestor, leaving the Yellow Springs witnesses 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.
• The Demon Race ancestors and the Heavenly Dao Overseers Alliance discussed summoning their powerful allies to counter the Returning Origin Holy Land.
• The Ancient Ancestor’s phantom received the Bronze Shard and recognized it as a fragment of a creation artifact, deciding it should go to Changge.
• The Ancient Ancestor looked toward Desire God Immortal, who immediately offered up his own Three Lifetimes Bronze Coffin fragment.
• The Yellow Springs People watched in shock as one Ghost Immortal died and the other submitted to the Returning Origin Holy Land.

After Extinguish Delusion Immortal’s defeat, the Returning Origin Holy Land prepared to destroy the Underworld, but the Ferryman begged for mercy and invoked the debt owed to the Underworld’s first Palace Master. The Holy Land spared the Underworld, which then announced it would seal its gates for one million years.

• The Returning Origin Holy Land declared that it would erase the Underworld, and the Returning Origin Chaos Bell appeared above the Yellow Springs Realm.
• Purgatory King Yama, the Ferryman, begged the Returning Origin Holy Land to spare the Underworld and knelt before the Chaos Bell.
• The Ferryman invoked the Underworld’s first Palace Master, whose past guidance had left the Returning Origin Holy Land owing him a favor.
• The Ancient Ancestor accepted the appeal as repayment of that debt, and the Chaos Bell departed without destroying the Underworld.
• The Ferryman recalled the Returning Origin Holy Land’s overwhelming victory in the first Human-Demon War and wondered whether its strength was greater than anyone knew.
• The Underworld announced that it would seal its gates for one million years.

Su Changge absorbed the Emperor Source Stones gifted to him and awakened a mysterious female projection resembling the Nine Tribulation Immortal Emperor. The Ancient Ancestor sensed her aura while instructing four Great Emperors.

• The factions expected Su Changge to claim the era’s Heavenly Mandate, while the Three Great Factions secretly plotted against the Returning Origin Holy Land.
• The Returning Origin Holy Land distributed the Emperor Source Stones, and Su Changge gave some of his share to the Mystic Feather Empress and the other Great Emperors.
• Emperor Zhan told Su Changge he looked forward to seeing him fight his way alone through the Emperor’s Path, and Su Changge confidently agreed.
• Su Changge began absorbing the remaining 2,120 Emperor Source Stones directly with his Devouring Sacred Body.
• A majestic female projection appeared behind Su Changge and told him he had grown up just like someone from her past.
• The Ancient Ancestor sensed the projection’s aura and recognized it as belonging to the Nine Tribulation Immortal Emperor.

The Returning Origin Ancestor realized Su Changge’s mother may be connected to the Reincarnation Immortal Dynasty and recalled the fearsome immortal couple who once roamed the Immortal Domain. At the Returning Origin Holy Land, Su Changge began breaking through to the Quasi Emperor Realm, astonishing everyone with his emperor intent and visions.

• The phantom thanked the Ancient Ancestor and vanished, leaving him to suspect that Su Changge’s mother came from the Reincarnation Immortal Dynasty.
• The Ancient Ancestor recalled the legendary immortal Dao Companions who fought the Dark Dynasties and Chaos Forbidden Zone, then reasoned that their powers may have become in-laws.
• The Mystic Feather Empress told the Ancient Ancestor to rest, so he ordered her to copy the Returning Origin Scripture two hundred thousand times.
• Thunder and lightning filled the sky as emperor intent gathered around Su Changge, and divine halls appeared among the visions above the Returning Origin Holy Hall.
• The Returning Origin Holy Master marveled that Su Changge was nearing the Quasi Emperor Realm after only five years of cultivation, while the Holy Land’s elders hoped its former glory would return.

Su Changge entered deep enlightenment and began condensing Emperor Intent before reaching the Quasi Emperor Realm, while Luo Yan Yu displayed a similar breakthrough at the Jade Pool Sacred Ground. His achievement stirred other powerful sects to have their successors comprehend the Emperor Dao, and prodigies across the Three Thousand Dao Domains began showing extraordinary signs.

• Su Changge's visions revealed the Immortal Domain's destruction in an ancient war and a young man's resolve to become the first ray of light in an age of decline.
• Su Changge formed the embryonic shape of a world with heaven, earth, yin, and yang, manifesting six strands of Emperor Intent before his breakthrough to the Quasi Emperor Realm.
• The Jade Pool Sacred Ground witnessed Luo Yan Yu manifest embryonic Emperor Intent, and its ancestors praised her potential while wondering about her feelings for Su Changge.
• Su Changge's manifestations faded as he sank back into enlightenment, leaving the Returning Origin Holy Land ancestors eager to see what he would accomplish next.
• Powerful sects across the Three Thousand Dao Domains began awakening Emperor Intent in their successors, as prodigies produced awe-inspiring phenomena throughout the world.

The Emperor’s Path opened, and factions plotting against Su Changge revealed Su Mie, a Heavenly Dao Inheritor with thirteen strands of Emperor Intent. Su Changge had reached the Quasi Emperor Third Level and condensed forty-nine strands, yet still considered himself weak.

• The Emperor’s Pass opened onto the Starry Sky Ancient Road, and prodigies across the Three Thousand Dao Domains set out for the Emperor’s Path.
• The Five Great Factions ordered ten young Quasi Emperor experts to regroup and kill Su Changge, with more reinforcements to follow.
• San revealed Su Mie, whose thirteen strands of Emperor Intent and overwhelming aura shocked the faction leaders.
• Su Changge emerged from enlightenment at the Quasi Emperor Third Level with forty-nine strands of Emperor Intent, then lamented that he remained weak.

Su Changge revealed that he had condensed forty-nine strands of emperor intent, alarming the Returning Origin Holy Land’s ancestors because fusing so many could make becoming a Great Emperor nearly impossible. Immortal Slaughtering Nv Zun urged him forward with the Holy Land’s support, while Zhang Wangqing entered the Emperor Pass determined to settle his rivalry with Su Changge.

• The Returning Origin Holy Land’s ancestors discovered that Su Changge had condensed forty-nine strands of emperor intent, far beyond the historical record.
• Ancestor Po Jun warned Su Changge that a prodigy who condensed fourteen strands had failed to fuse them and lost the chance to become a Great Emperor.
• Immortal Slaughtering Nv Zun reassured Su Changge that the Holy Land would support him as he pursued the unprecedented path.
• Su Changge vowed not to disappoint the ancestors and resolved to make the impossible possible.
• Zhang Wangqing drew his sword, recalled his grandmaster Zhang Wudao, and opened a passage with sword qi.
• Zhang Wangqing stepped onto the Sword Qi Road and entered the Emperor Pass, intent on settling who was superior to Su Changge.

As prodigies from across the realms set out on the Emperor's Path, Su Changge bid farewell to the Returning Origin Holy Land and began his own journey. He rode the Undying Divine Phoenix into an Emperor Pass, leaving the gathered disciples to await the continuation of his legend.

• Heavenly Dragon Wushen and other powerful Demon Race prodigies headed toward Emperor Passes as the prodigies discussed the disputed Emperor's Path Ranking.
• Luo Yan Yu, having reached the Quasi Emperor Realm and condensed thirteen strands of emperor intent, set out with several companions.
• Ye Lintian, Li Haotian, Bi Qingxia, Yun Xinyan, Gu Ling'er, Tang Wu'er, and the Bone Sea Royal Daughter departed for the Emperor's Path to grow stronger on their own.
• After stabilizing his cultivation, Su Changge arrived at the Returning Origin Holy Land's white jade plaza and bid farewell to Ancestor Po Jun and the disciples.
• Su Changge rode the newly transformed Undying Divine Phoenix into an Emperor Pass as the Returning Origin Holy Land disciples hailed him and wished him success.

Su Changge and the Undying Divine Phoenix entered the Emperor’s Path through a resonating star fragment and arrived in an ancient world covered by a boundless sea. As they flew over the ocean, other heavenly prodigies recognized Su Changge and feared they had already encountered the Emperor’s Path Overlord.

• Ancient factions watching the Returning Origin Holy Land reacted to Su Changge entering the Emperor’s Path and voiced their fear and hostility toward him.
• Su Changge followed a resonating star fragment into an ancient world, using his aura to protect the Undying Divine Phoenix from its laws.
• Su Changge and the Undying Divine Phoenix arrived above a vast ocean dotted with mist-covered islands, and Su Changge suggested searching for ruins across the sea.
• The Undying Divine Phoenix carried Su Changge toward the ocean’s depths, startling heavenly prodigies who saw a quasi emperor serving as his mount.
• A Quasi Emperor Heavenly Prodigy sensed Su Changge’s gaze and feared he had run into the Emperor’s Path Overlord.

Su Changge and the Undying Divine Phoenix encountered the Deep Sea Ancient Clan slaughtering cultivators from the Three Thousand Dao Domains along the Emperor's Path. Su Changge watched without intervening as the sea became a battlefield strewn with the dead.

• Su Changge spotted ancient miasma ahead and sensed murderous intent within it.
• A gigantic sea creature destroyed a divine ship, and members of the Deep Sea Ancient Clan emerged to attack the Three Thousand Dao Domains cultivators.
• A Kunpeng-blooded fish swallowed cultivators as the Jet-Black Rakshasa appeared with the Sea God Trident and slaughtered others with a blood-red waterspout.
• Su Changge observed the battle from above and chose not to intervene while more powerful sea creatures joined the massacre.
• The cultivators were overwhelmed as ships exploded and blood and remains covered the sea.

Su Changge discovered that Night Owl had trapped the sea in a spatial array to harvest human blood essence and revive his sleeping younger brother, then shattered the array with the Undying Divine Phoenix's help. Night Owl and the Sea-Suppressing Twin Kings charged toward Su Changge, but the phoenix struck down the Azure Sea Dragon as Su Changge warned Night Owl not to move.

• Night Owl collected the blood essence of slain cultivators, hoping to revive his younger brother and avenge the Deep Sea Ancient Clan.
• Su Changge found the spatial array's core and broke through its runes with a punch, then ordered the Undying Divine Phoenix to widen the breach with its flames.
• Night Owl noticed the array was breaking and led the Azure Sea Dragon, the octopus, and the Deep Sea Water Clan toward Su Changge.
• The Undying Divine Phoenix's attack split the sea and destroyed many enemies, while Su Changge calmly approached across the waves.
• The Azure Sea Dragon unleashed divine lightning at the phoenix, but the phoenix struck him down; Su Changge then told Night Owl to stay still or die.

Su Changge appeared at sea and used his sword qi to annihilate most of the Deep Sea Water Clan, then confronted Night Owl over the formation that had stopped him. Night Owl fought back with his trident, and their attacks collided in a devastating clash.

• Su Changge arrived on the sea and warned the Deep Sea Water Clan not to move.
• Su Changge unleashed sword waves and descending sword mountains, wiping out the clan members around him.
• Night Owl and the spectators were stunned by Su Changge’s power, while Su Changge judged it insufficient for the Ultimate Emperor’s Path.
• Night Owl demanded to know what Su Changge wanted, and Su Changge accused him of deliberately stopping him with a formation.
• Night Owl blamed humanity for his clan’s past suffering and attacked with his trident as Su Changge sent another sword strike at him.
• Su Changge’s sword light collided with Night Owl’s attack, unleashing destructive energy and towering pillars of water.