Chapter Summaries

Darkness erupted across Heaven's Gate World as Netherworld Prison led the first tide of creatures through the Darkness Portal and ordered them to destroy everything. Luo Yan Yu and the other successors gathered at Heaven Mountain Divine Hall, using the first wave as bait while they assembled forces and prepared a final defense line.

• Netherworld Prison emerged from the Darkness Portal, unleashed a devastating slash, and commanded the Darkness Sons to consign Heaven's Gate World to darkness.
• Dark creatures swept across the world, while terrified cultivators formed defenses and fought back against the first dark tide.
• Luo Yan Yu and the successors of the Immortal Domain's top forces retreated to a designated region instead of confronting the first tide directly.
• Reports at Heaven Mountain Divine Hall said the first defenders might last half an hour, local experts could buy another hour, and the major forces would arrive within half an hour.
• The gathered leaders continued constructing Ancient Immortal-Slaying Formations for a Final Defense Line, relying on weaker cultivators as bait to gain time.

Luo Yan Yu ordered the second stage of her defense plan while the Dark Turmoil devastated Heaven's Gate World. As cultivators tried to flee, Burial You sealed the exit and unleashed more Dark Creatures, trapping everyone inside.

• Luo Yan Yu ordered recovered cultivators to lead forces outward from the Final Defense Line and required newcomers to swear oaths or face expulsion or death.
• Dark Creatures and corrupted Darkness Warships overwhelmed Heaven's Gate World, killing cultivators and driving many to surrender or flee.
• Immortal Domain cultivators who reached the exit discovered it had been sealed and could not escape or send Voice Transmissions.
• Burial You revealed that the Dark Stage had been prepared for them and opened more Darkness Gates, sending countless Dark Creatures against the trapped cultivators.
• Some cultivators fought back or detonated themselves, but the seemingly endless Dark Creatures continued to spread darkness across Heaven's Gate World.

Burial You unleashed the Dark Turmoil across Heaven's Gate World, while Luo Yan Yu gathered the Immortal Domain's powers to prepare a Final Defense Line. The survivors fortified Heaven's Gate Divine Mountain as Yu Ge protected the awakened prodigies in the Mysterious Forest, and Luo Yan Yu went to consult her prophetic eyes again.

• Burial You crushed more than a dozen Heavenly Immortal Realm experts and wondered why the heirs of the Forbidden Powers and Su Changge were absent.
• Dark Creatures slaughtered tens of thousands of cultivators, and the survivors fled toward the Immortal Domain's gathering point.
• Yu Ge reassured Yun Qing that Su Changge was occupied and promised to protect everyone in the Mysterious Forest.
• Luo Yan Yu's forces built defenses around Heaven's Gate Divine Mountain as scouts reported that the world's exit had become deadly and those who tried to escape were wiped out.
• The Leading Figures from the other Four Great Forbidden Powers arrived, swore oaths at Luo Yan Yu's demand, and joined the Final Defense Line.
• Luo Yan Yu declined to explain how she had predicted the Dark Turmoil and left to use her Yao Guang Illusion Immortal Eyes to foresee what would happen next.

Luo Yan Yu’s defenses gathered the Immortal Domain’s prodigies at Heaven's Gate Divine Mountain, while Netherworld Prison learned their location and ordered the Darkness Army to attack. Outside Heaven's Gate World, the Immortal Emperors and the Returning Origin Immortal Sect watched the crisis unfold and prepared to respond.

• Dao Lian Xian, Tian Hao Xian, and the First Prince of the Heavenly Origin God Dynasty recognized the strength of Luo Yan Yu’s defenses and her plan to gather the prodigies.
• A yaksha creature told Netherworld Prison that the northern and eastern regions had been purged and that a captured Immortal Court prodigy revealed the Forbidden Powers were gathering at Heaven's Gate Divine Mountain.
• Netherworld Prison absorbed the captive’s memories and ordered the Darkness Sons to march on Heaven's Gate Divine Mountain, while informing Burial You to coordinate a pincer attack.
• Ancestor Tian Hao and the other Immortal Emperors of the Taboo Su Family watched the turmoil and sent a projection of events to the Forbidden Powers.
• The Returning Origin Immortal Sect’s elders discussed sending Immortal Emperor Experts to destroy the darkness, and Ancestor Po Jun assured them the attackers would pay for their actions.

Su Changge received the Three Primordial Beginning Immortal Emperors’ legacies, and they realized his divine soul was his only weakness. They warned that forging a Primordial Beginning Divine Soul at his current cultivation carried nine chances of death and one of survival, but Su Changge agreed to try.

• The Reincarnation Immortal Emperor ordered his ministers to keep secret that the dynasty had planned to use the Dark Turmoil to temper Su Changge.
• Su Changge absorbed the Three Primordial Beginning Immortal Emperors’ legacies, and his cultivation rose from Heavenly Immortal Realm third level to sixth level.
• The Three Primordial Beginning Immortal Emperors concluded that Su Changge’s body was already beyond reproach but his divine soul remained vulnerable.
• The emperors decided to temper Su Changge’s soul with their Primordial Beginning Laws and explained that an eternal, indestructible soul was called a Primordial Beginning Divine Soul.
• The Azure Profound Immortal Emperor warned that attempting to form one before reaching Immortal Emperor carried nine chances of death and one of survival, and Su Changge said he was willing to try.

Su Changge attempted to enter the Primordial Beginning Gate and condense a primordial beginning divine soul despite being only a Heavenly Immortal. The three Primordial Beginning Immortal Emperors used their power and burned their origins to send him inside, leaving his success uncertain.

• Su Changge reaffirmed his decision to risk his life, and the three Primordial Beginning Immortal Emperors agreed to help him.
• The three Primordial Beginning Immortal Emperors summoned the Primordial Beginning Gate as the Immortal Domain Great Dao will descended to oppose Su Changge's attempt.
• Su Changge separated his divine soul from his body and charged toward the gate, but its energy storm struck at him.
• The three Primordial Beginning Immortal Emperors blocked the storm and burned their origin divine souls to brand Su Changge with their Immortal Emperor Imprints.
• Su Changge entered the Primordial Beginning Gate, while the weakened Immortal Emperors watched and wondered whether he would condense a primordial beginning divine soul.

The three Immortal Emperors discussed why Su Changge had entered the Primordial Beginning Gate so easily and recalled how the Taboo Su Family’s three primordial beginning immortal emperors had once forced their way in together. Inside the gate, its resentful will appeared as a little girl and confronted Su Changge.

• The Grand Profound Immortal Emperor suggested Su Changge’s bloodline might have persuaded the Primordial Beginning Gate to let him enter.
• The three Immortal Emperors recalled how the Taboo Su Family’s three primordial beginning immortal emperors had battered the gate into allowing them to condense their primordial beginning divine souls together.
• The Azure Profound Immortal Emperor proposed using their remaining power to repair the Myriad Things Mother Qi Cauldron for Su Changge, and the other two agreed.
• Su Changge surveyed the golden world within the Primordial Beginning Gate as golden lotuses appeared beneath his steps.
• The Primordial Beginning Gate’s will emerged as a little girl and angrily accused the Taboo Su Family of bullying it and sending Su Changge inside.

Su Changge entered the Primordial Beginning Gate and was scolded by its will for arriving as a Heavenly Immortal and breaking the rules. The will learned that Su Changge was the Taboo Su Family’s Young Master and Immortal Emperor Yuan Hong’s great-grandson, then heard Yuan Hong himself speak.

• The Primordial Beginning Gate’s will explained that fear of the Taboo Su Family made it admit Su Changge, though it resented his arrival as a Heavenly Immortal.
• The little girl scolded Su Changge for entering the Gate before reaching Immortal Emperor cultivation and questioned why the Three Primordial Beginning 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 it had scolded an important heir.
• The little girl asked who Immortal Emperor Yuan Hong was to Su Changge, and he said Yuan Hong was his great-grandfather.
• The Primordial Beginning Gate’s will panicked at learning Su Changge was Yuan Hong’s great-grandson, then Yuan Hong’s voice confronted it for complaining about him.

Immortal Emperor Yuan Hong contacted the Primordial Beginning Gate’s will and pressured it to help Su Changge condense a Primordial Beginning Divine Soul. The gate agreed after Yuan Hong promised it rare treasures, leaving Su Changge confused by its sudden change in attitude.

• The Primordial Beginning Gate’s will realized Immortal Emperor Yuan Hong had witnessed it scolding Su Changge and collapsed in fear of him.
• Yuan Hong apologized for how harshly he had treated the gate in the past and asked it to let Su Changge condense a Primordial Beginning Divine Soul.
• The gate objected that Su Changge was only a Heavenly Immortal and that allowing him to attempt the process would violate its rules.
• Yuan Hong asked the gate to do him a favor and promised to give it rare treasures afterward.
• The gate enthusiastically agreed to help Su Changge, while Su Changge wondered why its attitude toward him had changed so dramatically.

Su Changge learned from Xiao Chu that condensing a primordial beginning divine soul meant confronting the Great Dao’s interceptors, and he chose to begin the ritual despite the deadly risk. Above the Immortal Domain, his great-grandfather and two other distant ancestors celebrated his daring and expected him to surpass the limits of the Immortal Emperor realm.

• Xiao Chu introduced herself to Su Changge as a manifestation of the Primordial Beginning Gate’s origin will and apologized for her earlier discourtesy.
• Distant Ancestor Tian Hong watched Su Changge through the will he had left in the Primordial Beginning Gate, and Immeasurable Distant Ancestor and Sky Firmament Distant Ancestor arrived to ask about him.
• Distant Ancestor Tian Hong explained how Su Changge had entered the gate while still a Heavenly Immortal, and the other distant ancestors praised his achievement and potential.
• Xiao Chu explained that Su Changge would have to defeat interceptors sent by the Great Dao to condense a primordial beginning divine soul, with failure potentially ending his path upward.
• Su Changge accepted the risk, told Xiao Chu to begin the ritual, and said he had already broken his cauldrons and sunk his boats.

Xiao Chu helped Su Changge face the Great Dao Blocker, only for the Immortal Domain Great Dao Will to send down an Immortal Emperor avatar. The Taboo Su Family’s three transcendent Immortal Emperors intervened, forcing the Great Dao Will to back down.

• Xiao Chu unleashed her power within the Primordial Beginning Gate to shield Su Changge from most of the Great Dao’s destructive force.
• The Great Dao Will manifested a blurred Immortal Emperor avatar as a blocker, and Xiao Chu feared Su Changge would be killed.
• A greater Great Dao power descended, and a strand of the Immortal Domain Great Dao Will entered the avatar, which confronted three transcendent beings.
• Xiao Chu recognized the three as the monstrous Immortal Emperors of the Taboo Su Family and feared their confrontation would destroy her world.
• The Immortal Domain Great Dao Will’s projection rapidly lost power, falling from Nine Tribulation Immortal Emperor to the Golden Immortal Realm.

The Immortal Domain Great Dao Will backed down from the Taboo Su Family’s threat and allowed Su Changge’s primordial beginning divine soul ritual to continue. It sent a Golden Immortal-level blocker with an Immortal Emperor’s bearing, and a second such blocker began to descend.

• The Great Dao Will weighed the costs of opposing the Taboo Su Family and compromised, giving Su Changge a chance to condense a primordial beginning divine soul.
• Su Changge saw the Great Dao Will withdraw after calling him the greatest anomaly in All Heavens Myriad Domains.
• As the ritual continued, the first blocker took shape as a Golden Immortal with an Immortal Emperor’s Great Dao Will and bearing.
• Xiao Chu realized the Great Dao Will had suppressed an Immortal Emperor projection’s cultivation to Golden Immortal Realm, while Su Changge remained confident he could subdue it.
• A second Great Dao Blocker began to descend, and Xiao Chu warned that it too was a low-spec Immortal Emperor projection.

Eighteen reduced Immortal Emperor manifestations descended to challenge Su Changge in the Great Dao trial, including several who had condensed Primordial Beginning Divine Souls. Xiao Chu believed the overwhelming odds made Su Changge's defeat certain, while he calmly faced the gathered figures.

• Riotous Heaven Immortal Emperor emerged from the Laws River, and Xiao Chu recognized the legendary fighter who had condensed a Primordial Beginning Divine Soul.
• Clear Lotus Immortal Emperor appeared next, prompting Xiao Chu to recognize another renowned Immortal Emperor who had condensed a Primordial Beginning Divine Soul.
• Transcendent Profound Immortal Emperor arrived, followed by the Heavenly Demon Race's Demon Azure Immortal Emperor and the Heavenly God Race's Divine Dao.
• The manifestations continued until eighteen Immortal Emperors had gathered, nearly half of them bearers of Primordial Beginning Divine Souls, and Xiao Chu feared Su Changge could not win.
• Su Changge calmly faced the eighteen Golden Immortal Realm manifestations as their opposing forces prepared to collide.

Su Changge fought eighteen Immortal Emperor phantoms whose cultivation had been suppressed to the Golden Immortal Realm, using his newly gained primordial beginning power to withstand their relentless attacks. He summoned the Slaying Immortal Sword, the Gazing Immortal Chessboard, and the Burial Immortal Sword Chest, then charged back into the battle as Xiao Chu watched several emperors get sent flying.

• Su Changge stepped forward to face the eighteen Immortal Emperor phantoms, and Riotous Heaven Immortal Emperor struck first.
• Su Changge dodged and countered attacks from Clear Lotus Immortal Emperor, Demon Azure Immortal Emperor, and Divine Dao Immortal Emperor, then used Nine Profound Sky Steps to evade a saber strike.
• An ancient bell halted Su Changge's movement, but he punched back two attackers and blasted them away.
• Four Immortal Emperors attacked with their lifebound weapons, and Su Changge fought them with the Slaying Immortal Sword and his fist, sustaining several injuries.
• Su Changge summoned the Gazing Immortal Chessboard and Burial Immortal Sword Chest, unleashed the power of his Four Great Sacred Bodies, and charged into the full battle.
• Xiao Chu watched Su Changge repeatedly send several Immortal Emperors flying, even as they returned to fight.

Su Changge continued fighting eighteen Immortal Emperor projections inside the Primordial Beginning Gate while the dark tide overwhelmed Heaven's Gate World. After using Space-Time Prediction to uncover dark puppets infiltrating two defensive fronts, Luo Yan Yu ordered them gathered and enlisted Yu Ge to send karmic obstacle creatures against the dark army.

• Su Changge weathered the attacks of eighteen Golden Immortal Realm Immortal Emperor projections, impressing the observers with his combat experience and strength.
• The dark tide crushed the forces across Heaven's Gate World and converged on Heaven's Gate Divine Mountain.
• Luo Yan Yu used a law projection to identify corrupted prodigies from the Fleeting Mirage Dao Sect and Bright Moon Heavenly Sect whose betrayal would collapse the eastern and southern battlefronts.
• Luo Yan Yu ordered the prodigies of the great Forbidden Powers to bring everyone from both sects to the Central Plaza.
• Luo Yan Yu contacted Yu Ge and asked her to send karmic obstacle creatures into the dark army, citing Su Changge's safety.
• Yu Ge received Luo Yan Yu's instructions, and countless karmic obstacle creatures awoke in the Mysterious Forest and surged toward the dark creatures.

Yu Ge sent the Karmic Obstacle Creatures toward the Dark Army, while Netherworld Prison and Burial You prepared to break the Final Defense Line with Darkness Seeds. At Heaven's Gate Divine Mountain, Luo Yan Yu's plan to gather the Fleeting Mirage Dao Sect and Bright Moon Heavenly Sect prodigies at the Central Plaza sparked accusations that they were being treated as traitors.

• Yun Qing worried that Yu Ge's Karmic Obstacle Creatures could not infiltrate the Dark Army, and Yu Ge assured her she could control them remotely.
• Burial You and Netherworld Prison discussed the Final Defense Line and Netherworld Prison revealed that captured Immortal Domain prodigies had been infected with Darkness Seeds.
• Netherworld Prison ordered his forces to let the Karmic Obstacle Creatures join the Dark Army as cannon fodder.
• Luo Yan Yu's allies gathered the Fleeting Mirage Dao Sect and Bright Moon Heavenly Sect prodigies at the Central Plaza, where the gathered prodigies questioned why they were being held back from battle.
• An Ancient Heavenly Pride from the Fleeting Mirage Dao Sect accused the Forbidden Powers of guarding against them as traitors, and other prodigies joined his protest.

Luo Yan Yu exposed nearly a thousand prodigies from the Fleeting Mirage Dao Sect and the Bright Moon Heavenly Sect as corrupted by dark aura, then ordered their execution. The Forbidden Powers attacked, leaving the purge underway.

• Prodigies from many powers suspected that the Four Great Forbidden Powers had gathered the Fleeting Mirage Dao Sect and Bright Moon Heavenly Sect to establish their authority.
• Luo Yan Yu arrived and used her Yao Guang Illusion Immortal Eyes to detect dark aura above the gathered prodigies.
• Luo Yan Yu purified one prodigy from the Fleeting Mirage Dao Sect, revealing the dark aura inside him, then killed him when she could not fully remove it.
• Luo Yan Yu spread Purification Light over the two groups and exposed nearly a thousand corrupted prodigies.
• Luo Yan Yu ordered that none of the corrupted prodigies be left alive, and the Forbidden Powers launched their attack.

Luo Yan Yu ordered the slaughter of nearly a thousand prodigies corrupted by Darkness Seeds before leading the remaining prodigies toward the Final Defense Line. Netherworld Prison discovered that his infiltration scheme had been exposed and abandoned it in favor of a direct assault on Heaven's Gate Divine Mountain.

• Luo Yan Yu's Forbidden Powers prodigies killed the Darkness-corrupted prodigies of the two factions in the Central Plaza.
• Luo Yan Yu told the surviving prodigies to prepare to defend against the approaching dark army, then led the Four Great Forbidden Powers away.
• Dao Lian Xian wondered how Luo Yan Yu had identified every Darkness Seed and whether she concealed a secret like Su Changge.
• Netherworld Prison realized he had lost contact with all the Darkness Seeds and watched their final images reveal Luo Yan Yu's purge.
• Netherworld Prison suppressed his anger, rejected further schemes, and ordered a direct attack on the Final Defense Line.

Luo Yan Yu prepared Heaven's Gate World's defenders for the imminent Dark Turmoil, warning them to resist corruption and sacrifice themselves if necessary. The Darkness Lords launched their army toward the Final Defense Line, and the battle began with Luo Yan Yu determined to change the future she had foreseen for Su Changge.

• Luo Yan Yu urged the gathered cultivators to unite, resist the darkness, and pass hope to their comrades if their divine souls were seized.
• The Dark Turmoil erupted as an immense army of dark creatures advanced on Heaven's Gate Divine Mountain from every direction.
• Luo Yan Yu recognized the two Darkness Kings from her Time-Space Prophecy and resolved to wound them and protect Su Changge.
• Netherworld Prison and the other Darkness Lord discussed targeting Luo Yan Yu to break Su Changge's Dao Heart.
• Netherworld Prison ordered the Darkness Sons to begin their final Darkness Feast, and the dark army charged the Final Defense Line.

Luo Yan Yu’s defenses and the prodigies of the Forbidden Powers fought to hold back the overwhelming Dark Creature army. As the Darkness Lords watched their forces being cut down, Luo Yan Yu prepared a surprise attack.

• The Immortal Dao Arrays struck the Dark Creatures, but the army overwhelmed the outer defenses and broke through toward the Heavenly Curtain Mountain Range.
• Cultivators at the second defense line charged into battle, while Netherworld Prison and Burial You waited for the Forbidden Powers’ prodigies to commit.
• Prodigies of the Yao Guang Immortal Sect, Taboo Su Family, Immortal Court, Golden Crow God Dynasty, and Reincarnation Immortal Dynasty unleashed powerful attacks that halted the advancing Dark Creatures.
• Netherworld Prison complained that the Karmic Obstacle Creatures refused to obey his orders, while Luo Yan Yu held the Jade Pendant and prepared a surprise attack.