Chapter Summaries

Cang Huangji learned of his brother Cang Huangtian’s death and followed Su Mie toward the Silent Extinction Divine Hall to begin their plan against Su Changge. Meanwhile, Su Changge heard that Mu Yanxi had left something for him in the Time Secret Realm and set out with the Dark Shadow Beast King, but a mysterious guardian stopped them at the severed Emperor’s Path Zero Pass.

• Cang Huangji raged over Cang Huangtian’s death, and Su Mie restrained him and urged him to focus on their plan at the Silent Extinction Divine Hall.
• Su Mie described the hall’s Silent Extinction Reincarnation Song and vowed that Su Changge would meet his end.
• The Dark Shadow Beast King revealed secrets about the All Heavens Sword Gate and its Time Secret Realm, which Su Changge felt was connected to him.
• The Azure Heaven Sword transmitted a message that Mu Yanxi had left something for Su Changge, so he ordered the Dark Shadow Beast King to guide him onward.
• Su Changge traveled on an undying divine phoenix, but a radiant figure appeared at the ancient crossing and forbade passage beyond the severed Zero Pass.

Su Changge confronted a golden figure guarding the Emperor's Path Zero Pass and fought it through a series of powerful clashes. He finally swallowed the figure with his Devouring Sacred Body, but discovered it was only an avatar, whose original speaker then questioned why someone so strong traveled with darkness.

• Su Changge and the Dark Shadow Beast King discovered an unexpected zeroth pass on the Emperor's Path.
• The golden figure threatened Su Changge, who refused to retreat and attacked with his Sword of Extinction.
• Su Changge and the figure exchanged devastating attacks while the Dark Shadow Beast King dodged their destructive blasts.
• Su Changge struck the golden phantom and swallowed it, then realized he had absorbed only a wisp of divine soul power.
• A voice from the void laughed and asked Su Changge why he kept company with darkness.

Su Changge encountered Taichu Taoist, who revealed that the Emperor's Path Zero Pass was a key battleground in the ancient war against the Dark Army. The account left Su Changge dwelling on the Heaven-Slaying Immortal Emperor and the sorrow he felt at the name.

• Taichu Taoist appeared and questioned Su Changge about the darkness surrounding him, then recognized his rare constitution and four Sacred Body Overlords.
• Taichu Taoist identified himself as the guide of the First Generation Emperor's Path and explained that the War of Annihilation had shattered the Path to Immortality and many other Great Daos.
• Taichu Taoist revealed that the Emperor's Path Zero Pass connected to secret realms, including the forbidden Time Secret Realm, which the Dark Army sought to invade.
• Taichu Taoist recounted how seven Human Race Immortal Emperors led by the Heaven-Slaying Immortal Emperor drew the Dark Army back, allowing the allied races to regroup and sever Zero Pass from the Emperor's Path.
• Su Changge remembered the Heaven-Slaying Immortal Emperor from visions and felt sorrow when he heard the name.

Taichu Taoist sent Su Changge toward the Emperor’s Path Ninth Pass aboard the Bronze Sailboat, warning him to find the Time Secret Realm and giving him the suppressed Dark Shadow Beast King. Meanwhile, demons across the Three Thousand Dao Domains gathered at Heavenly Demon God Mountain to rebuild the Ancient Demon Court, prompting Returning Origin Holy Land to prepare a response.

• Taichu Taoist opened a passage to a hidden place and sent Su Changge aboard the Bronze Sailboat with a Jade Pendant to help him find the Time Secret Realm.
• Taichu Taoist gave Su Changge the Dark Shadow Beast King and wondered whether Chess Profound True Person had placed an aura on Su Changge to track him.
• The Immortal Demon Ancestral Decree summoned demons across the Three Thousand Dao Domains to Heavenly Demon God Mountain to rebuild the Ancient Demon Court.
• God Extinguishing Ancient Ancestor ordered Sword Heart Old Ancestor to recall the Heaven-Punishing Dao Army and announced that forces in the Burning Heaven Immortal Domain would also be sent to act.

As cultivators on the Emperor's Path mourned Su Changge's disappearance, the Returning Origin Holy Land learned he had entered the First Generation Emperor's Path. Su Changge continued cultivating aboard a Bronze Sailboat, reaching the Quasi Emperor Seventh Level and drawing the attention of mysterious beings.

• Luo Yan Yu waited among the ruins of the Sword Qi Great Wall before leaving for the later passes, while Yun Xinyan, Tang Wu'er, and Su Changge's other followers continued onward.
• At Silent Extinction Demon Mountain, two Returning Origin Holy Land Sacred Body prodigies killed the Ancient Emperor Son of the Six Desires Divine Palace.
• Immortal Extinguishing Ancient Ancestor told the Returning Origin Holy Land ancestors that Su Changge had entered the Zero Pass of the First Generation Emperor's Path and remained ahead of other prodigies in cultivation.
• Su Changge cultivated aboard a Bronze Sailboat in the starry sky and reached the Quasi Emperor Seventh Level as his power destroyed nearby stars and meteorites.
• Several mysterious beings arrived and questioned how the Emperor's Path Starship had returned and how Su Changge had entered their isolated world.

Su Changge broke through to the Quasi Emperor Eighth Level while the Time Remnant Race experts tried to capture him, then killed them when they attacked. Afterward, he discovered a new power within himself: Void Power, which could annihilate everything and return all things to their origin.

• The Time Remnant Race experts recognized Su Changge aboard the Bronze Sailboat and agreed to capture him in hopes of escaping their trapped world.
• Su Changge began breaking through, and two guardians in the Time Secret Realm recognized his aura and investigated.
• The Time Remnant Race experts attacked Su Changge, but his protective Glassy Array blocked them as he reached the Quasi Emperor Eighth Level.
• Su Changge killed the attacker with a sword strike, then used Sword Opens Heaven's Gate to annihilate the remaining experts and nearby meteorites.
• Su Changge reflected that his enlightenment had let him master the Four Great Sacred Bodies and revealed a new power he identified as Void Power.

Su Changge encountered the Time Secret Realm’s guardians, Shi Fen and Shi Miao, who welcomed him after receiving orders from the Time Lord. They opened the realm for him, revealing its strange time-space landscape and a mysterious wooden hut.

• Su Changge sensed Shi Fen and Shi Miao watching from hiding and called them out.
• Shi Fen and Shi Miao apologized and explained that they knew of his backing through the Returning Origin Immortal Sect.
• When Su Changge asked about the Time Secret Realm, the Time Lord secretly ordered the guardians to let him in and send him to the Emperor's Path Eighth Pass afterward.
• Shi Fen and Shi Miao enthusiastically agreed to guide Su Changge into the realm.
• The guardians opened a passage through the starry sky, revealing time-space fragments and a wooden hut marked Time Secret Realm.

Su Changge entered the Time Secret Realm’s Primordial Time City and learned that Mu Yanxi had left behind an Ancient Reincarnation Jade Talisman for him. After the realm’s master ordered the treasure given to him, Shi Fen and Shi Miao realized Su Changge was connected to several of the most powerful factions in the Immortal domains.

• Shi Fen and Shi Miao led Su Changge into Primordial Time City and explained that its Time Pawnshop traded treasures for equivalent prices, favors, or karmic opportunities.
• Su Changge asked about Mu Yanxi, and Shi Fen and Shi Miao found a record showing she had exchanged a source of Heavenly Dao true intent for an Ancient Reincarnation Jade Talisman eighteen hundred years earlier.
• Su Changge asked what he would have to pay for the talisman, but the Time Secret Realm’s master ordered Shi Fen and Shi Miao to give it to him and provide anything else he wanted.
• The master explained that Su Changge’s favor would benefit the Time Secret Realm because it would make both the Returning Origin Immortal Sect and the Taboo Su Family owe them.
• Shi Fen and Shi Miao inferred that Su Changge was the successor of the Returning Origin Immortal Sect and a direct descendant of the Taboo Su Family, with the Reincarnation Immortal Dynasty also connected to his family.

Su Changge received the Heavenly Dao Origin True Spirit from Shi Fen and Shi Miao, then used it to trigger the Azure Heaven Sword’s transformation. The Shield of Heavenly Dao Authority resonated with the sword, leading the Heavenly Dao Overseers Alliance to suspect that Su Changge had reassembled the Sword of Heavenly Dao Authority.

• Shi Fen and Shi Miao returned with the Heavenly Dao Origin True Spirit after fighting over who would present it to Su Changge.
• Su Changge promised the Time Secret Realm one future request in exchange for accepting the gift.
• Su Changge opened the brocade box, and the Azure Heaven Sword emerged from Nihility Space and resonated with the Heavenly Dao Origin True Spirit.
• The Azure Heaven Sword began transforming as its blade repeatedly shattered and reassembled amid powerful Heavenly Dao energy.
• The Shield of Heavenly Dao Authority resonated with the transformation, and the Heavenly Dao Thirteen Round Table gathered to investigate.
• Si suggested that Su Changge had reassembled the Sword of Heavenly Dao Authority, and San ordered Su Mie to search for information about him.

Su Changge awakened the Azure Heaven Sword as the Sword of Heavenly Dao Authority and glimpsed the First Generation Heavenly Dao fighting the Dark Army. After leaving the Time Secret Realm, he anticipated returning to the Emperor’s Path, where Ye Lintian and Li Haotian were trapped in Silent Extinction City by their enemies.

• Su Changge grasped the Azure Heaven Sword and saw memories of the First Generation Heavenly Dao battling the Dark Army and sacrificing herself for the Three Thousand Dao Domains.
• Su Changge realized the Azure Heaven Sword was the shattered Sword of Heavenly Dao Authority and declared that he and the sword would leave the past behind.
• Shi Fen agreed to take Su Changge out of the Time Secret Realm after he said his purpose there was complete.
• At Silent Extinction City, prodigies gathered as seven Quasi Emperor experts from the Ancient Phoenix Clan, Heavenly Demon God Mountain, and Six Desires Divine Palace surrounded Ye Lintian and Li Haotian.
• The gathered cultivators discussed how other factions were intercepting Returning Origin Holy Land reinforcements and wondered what Su Changge would have done if he had not disappeared.

Su Changge emerged from a time-space portal after months of absence, having comprehended a wisp of time will in the Time Secret Realm. When Demon Race prodigies tried to act against him, he annihilated them with a single word, leaving the surrounding disciples terrified.

• Quasi-Emperor experts from the Three Great Factions arrived at Silent Extinction City and sealed it with a Rune Light Screen to trap Su Changge and his followers.
• A time-space portal opened at the Emperor's Path Eighth Pass, drawing nearby disciples who believed a great treasure lay within.
• Su Changge stepped from the portal, and the disciples recognized him despite having thought he was dead.
• Su Changge detected Demon Race prodigies trying to communicate and commanded them to die.
• His power of time reduced the Quasi-Emperor fourth-level Demon Race prodigies to drifting sand, and he noted that the Time Secret Realm had helped him comprehend a wisp of time will.

Su Changge learned that Ye Lintian and Li Haotian were besieged in Silent Extinction City, then raced there on the Undying Divine Phoenix. As the two fought off Huang Tiankunlun and the Demon Race prodigies, a blazing figure arrived and unleashed a sword technique.

• A cultivator told Su Changge that the Ancient Phoenix Clan, Heavenly Demon God Mountain, and Six Desires Divine Palace were hunting Returning Origin Holy Land disciples, and that Ye Lintian and Li Haotian were trapped in Silent Extinction City.
• Su Changge gave the cultivator a sliver of his Dao insight, then summoned the Undying Divine Phoenix and sent it east toward Silent Extinction City.
• Ye Lintian and Li Haotian prepared to fight as Huang Tiankunlun and other Quasi Emperor prodigies located them and attacked.
• Ye Lintian and Li Haotian used their Sacred Body techniques to resist the surrounding attackers, but onlookers feared they would soon be overwhelmed.
• A blazing figure tore through the void, and an indifferent voice announced, “Crossing God Swordplay, Sword Obliterates Heaven and Earth.”

Su Changge returned to Silent Extinction City and overwhelmed Huang Tiankunlun and the other Quasi Emperor Seventh Level experts with his sword qi. He formed the Sword of Heavenly Dao Authority and brought it down on Huang Tiankunlun, leaving the strike's outcome unresolved.

• Su Changge's sword qi shattered the Floating Light Array and blasted the three Quasi Emperor Seventh Level experts into the earth.
• Su Changge unleashed another attack that engulfed Huang Tiankunlun and the remaining experts in dust and rubble.
• Su Changge arrived above Silent Extinction City, startling the watching prodigies and delighting Li Haotian and Ye Lintian.
• Li Haotian and Ye Lintian greeted Su Changge, then withdrew as he began forming a rune sword from the Order Divine Chains.
• Huang Tiankunlun tried to invoke his Ancient Phoenix Clan lineage, but Su Changge mocked him and swung the Sword of Heavenly Dao Authority.

Su Changge returned and annihilated Huang Tiankunlun and the Demon Race Quasi Emperors with one strike. He declared war on the Heavenly Demon God Mountain, the Ancient Phoenix Clan, and the Six Desires Divine Palace, leaving many prodigies determined to kill him and Luo Yan Yu resolved to support him.

• Su Mie and Cang Huangji recognized Su Changge’s sword qi and prepared to begin their final plan with fourteen black-robed figures.
• Su Changge’s sword qi destroyed Huang Tiankunlun and the Demon Race Quasi Emperor experts, leaving a massive pit in their place.
• Su Changge announced that he would kill members of the Three Great Factions and destroy their factions once he became a Great Emperor.
• Countless Taboo Heavenly Prodigies and heirs of ancient Immortal Forces put Su Changge on their kill lists.
• Luo Yan Yu watched Su Changge’s return and vowed to support him even if the whole world became his enemy.

After Huang Tiankunlun was killed by Su Changge, Huang Tian Wudao persuaded the Ancient Phoenix ancestor to join forces against Returning Origin Holy Land. The Ancient Phoenix Clan declared an immortal war, while Heavenly Demon God Mountain and the Heavenly Dao Overseers Alliance prepared to use the conflict to pursue their own plans.

• Huang Tian Wudao learned that Su Changge had killed his son and sworn to destroy the Ancient Phoenix Clan, then sought his ancestor's approval to attack Returning Origin Holy Land.
• Huang Tian Wudao told the Ancient Phoenix ancestor that Heavenly Demon God Mountain and the Heavenly Dao Overseers Alliance had assembled their forces and that the moment offered the clan its only opportunity.
• The Ancient Phoenix ancestor opened the Phoenix Gate, and Huang Tian Fenyan declared an immortal war against Returning Origin Holy Land in the Ancient Phoenix Clan's name.
• Heavenly Azure Old Demon ordered Heavenly Demon God Mountain to prepare the Demon God Seal and begin its war to restore the Ancient Demon Court.
• Yi told the Heavenly Dao Round Table to join the attack on Returning Origin Holy Land, then turn against Heavenly Demon God Mountain to preserve balance.

The Ancient Phoenix Clan declared an Immortal War against Returning Origin Holy Land, which prepared to fight the forces gathering against it. God Extinguishing Ancient Ancestor revealed that Heavenly Demon God Mountain had joined the attack, and Demon Race armies began advancing on the North Abyss Dao Domain.

• The Ancient Phoenix Clan opened Phoenix Gate and issued a Flame Decree declaring an Immortal War against Returning Origin Holy Land.
• God Extinguishing Ancient Ancestor learned that Tiandu and Yutian had awakened the Returning Immortal Dao Army, and ordered Returning Origin Holy Land’s ancestors to meet the enemy forces.
• God Extinguishing Ancient Ancestor reinforced the North Abyss Dao Domain and summoned the Returning Origin Chaos Gate, where Returning Origin Holy Land’s armies had trained.
• God Extinguishing Ancient Ancestor accepted the Ancient Phoenix Clan’s war summons and challenged Heavenly Demon God Mountain and the Heavenly Dao Overseers Alliance to reveal themselves.
• Heavenly Demon God Mountain declared its intent to reestablish the Ancient Demon Court and annihilate Returning Origin Holy Land.
• Demon Race armies poured through teleportation passages from across the Three Thousand Dao Domains and advanced toward the North Abyss Dao Domain.

The Heavenly Demon God Mountain, Heavenly Dao Overseers Alliance, Six Desires Divine Palace, and Ancient Phoenix Clan launched their armies against the Returning Origin Holy Land. The Holy Land opened its gates and summoned its battle-hardened Dao Army, allied forces, and the mysterious Returning Immortal Dao Army as the invasion approached.

• The Heavenly Dao Overseers Alliance accused the Returning Origin Holy Land of causing turmoil, and Yi led its million-strong Heavenly Dao Forbidden Army toward the North Abyss Dao Domain.
• The Six Great Demon Emperors summoned the million-strong Asura Army, while the four great powers ordered their armies to attack the Returning Origin Holy Land.
• The God Extinguishing Ancient Ancestor dismissed the enemies' accusations and opened the Returning Origin Chaos Gate to release the Holy Land's invincible Dao Army.
• The Holy Land's subordinate powers arrived in ancient warships through several Gates of Light.
• A mysterious force in plain white robes emerged from another enormous portal, and an immortal old ancestor identified them as the Returning Immortal Dao Army.

The Returning Origin Holy Land and its enemies began a devastating war across the Three Thousand Dao Domains, leaving ordinary people powerless as their homes were destroyed. The greatest fighters clashed in the starry sky, while Heaven Question Old Ancestor told Yi that restarting the era was necessary and was what Yi wanted.

• Sword Heart Old Ancestor, Immortal Slaughtering Nv Zun, and the other Returning Origin Holy Land ancestors joined their forces against the invading armies.
• The armies of the Returning Origin Holy Land and its enemies collided, and their battle shattered stars and devastated worlds across the Three Thousand Dao Domains.
• Cultivators and ordinary people fled or watched helplessly as the war’s destruction consumed their homelands.
• Emperor Zhan, Desolate Heaven Great Emperor, Hundred Battles Great Emperor, and Profound Feather Great Emperor fought the Heavenly Dao Thirteen Round Table’s Rear Four Seats.
• Ancient Great Demons tried to advance on the Returning Origin Holy Land, but its Ancient Emperors blocked them.
• Yi challenged the Returning Origin Holy Land’s resistance, and Heaven Question Old Ancestor replied that restarting the era was necessary and was what Yi wanted.

Yi summoned the First Generation Heavenly Dao’s phantom and attacked Heavenly Question Old Ancestor with endless sword formations. Meanwhile, nine Demon Race Ancient Ancestors headed for Returning Origin Holy Land, but a mysterious voice barred them from entering the North Abyss and threatened them with death.

• Yi played the Heavenly Heart Floating World Melody, summoning the First Generation Heavenly Dao Dharma Image and a rain of divine swords against Heavenly Question Old Ancestor.
• Heavenly Question Old Ancestor raised a Human Ancestor phantom to meet Yi’s attack.
• The nine Ancient Ancestors of Heavenly Demon God Mountain set out for Returning Origin Holy Land’s Ancestral Land, seeking revenge for Su Changge killing the Kun Peng Clan’s successor.
• Five-colored lightning and a chaotic portal appeared as the nine Ancient Ancestors approached the North Abyss Dao Domain.
• A voice speaking by order of the Ancient Ancestor forbade Immortal Realm cultivators from entering the North Abyss and demanded that the nine crippling themselves and kowtow for a hundred years or die.

Three Immortal Law Bodies descended through the Returning Origin Chaos Gate to confront the nine Demon Race Ancient Ancestors, and Di Tian’s overwhelming power left them struggling to resist. The other two Immortals revealed that Di Tian had become an Immortal King a hundred years earlier, while the battle continued in the starry sky.

• A Demon Race Ancient Ancestor demanded to know who had ordered the demons to kneel, and Ancient Ancestor Divine Ape attacked the chaos gate.
• Di Tian’s Immortal Law Body struck Ancient Ancestor Divine Ape with one punch, shattering his Divine Power Treasure Tree and sending him flying through a star.
• Three Immortal Law Bodies appeared, and Di Tian used the Emperor Dragon Divine Fist against the demons.
• The eight remaining Demon Race Ancient Ancestors combined their attacks to block Di Tian’s strike, but he told them the other Immortals to deal with invaders elsewhere.
• Ancient Ancestor Kunpeng and the others renewed their assault, while Di Tian shattered their Dharma Bodies with his punches.
• The other two Immortal Law Bodies said Di Tian had become an Immortal King a hundred years ago and remarked that their sect’s Divine Son might stir up trouble in the Immortal Domain.