Chapter Summaries

The Primordial Beginning Source Realm opened, and Luo Yan Yu, Yu Ge, Red Robe, Shen Xi, and the other cultivators entered for thirty thousand years of cultivation while Su Changge chose the Primordial Emperor Realm. As he prepared to leave, Su Yunyue gave him an ancient book containing the source auras of powerful ancient Quasi Immortal Emperors, apparently taken as leverage.

• The ancestors of the Twelve Great Order Factions opened a space-time tunnel, and the cultivators said farewell to their loved ones before entering the Primordial Beginning Source Realm.
• Yu Ge, Red Robe, and Shen Xi embraced Su Changge, while Divine Azure Immortal Emperor watched Shen Xi and regretted how his past actions had damaged their relationship.
• The cultivators entered the realm, whose gate closed behind them; they were expected to emerge three hundred years later, as darkness and the eldritch crisis revived.
• Ancient powerhouses regretted that Su Changge had chosen the Primordial Emperor Realm instead of the Primordial Beginning Source Realm, but he ignored their doubts and prepared to depart.
• Su Yunyue appeared through a Void Passage and gave Su Changge an ancient book containing the source auras of powerful ancient Quasi Immortal Emperors.

Su Yunyue explained the dangers of the Primordial Emperor Realm and gave Su Changge an ancient sealing book containing source auras she had taken from ancient Quasi Immortal Emperors. Su Changge entered the realm, where its trapped inhabitants discussed Su Yunyue’s warning about the dark weirdness and questioned her extravagant claims about his achievements.

• Su Yunyue told Su Changge that failed Quasi Immortal Emperors became trapped in the Primordial Emperor Realm and gave him a sealing book to command those who retained their sanity.
• Su Changge thanked Su Yunyue and set off for the Primordial Emperor Realm, while she worried about his limited cultivation and time.
• Ancient Quasi Immortal Emperors in the realm lamented that a corrosive force was steadily making them lose themselves.
• The ancient Quasi Immortal Emperors recalled Su Yunyue’s warning that the dark weirdness would revive in roughly three hundred years.
• The ancient Quasi Immortal Emperors discussed Su Changge’s reported feats and doubted that Su Yunyue’s claims about him could be true.

Su Changge entered the Primordial Emperor Realm despite being only a Fourth Layer Quasi Immortal Emperor, astonishing the ancient experts trapped there. He declared that he would become an Immortal Emperor within three hundred years, and one of the experts stepped forward to challenge his confidence.

• The ancient Quasi Immortal Emperors doubted that Su Changge could enter the Primordial Emperor Realm, but they sensed someone arriving and saw him cross its barrier.
• Su Changge examined the realm’s primordial Immortal Dao laws and realized why Quasi Immortal Emperors risked being trapped there to attain the Dao.
• The gathered experts were shocked to discover that Su Changge had entered at the Fourth Layer, far below the ninth layer they believed was needed to pass the barrier.
• A winged Quasi Immortal Emperor recognized Su Yunyue’s bloodline aura, and Su Changge revealed that he was her younger brother.
• Su Changge said he would become an Immortal Emperor within three hundred years, prompting an ancient Quasi Immortal Emperor to step forward and promise to teach him the difference in their strength.

Tu Xian challenged Su Changge to test the gap between their strength, but Su Changge defeated him with a single punch. The ancient Quasi Immortal Emperors were left terrified by Su Changge’s overwhelming power and pressure.

• Tu Xian ignored warnings not to hurt Su Yunyue’s younger brother and summoned his Immortal-Slaying Halberd.
• Tu Xian unleashed his full-powered Slay the Desolate strike at Su Changge.
• Su Changge advanced without dodging and shattered Tu Xian’s attack with one punch, sending him crashing through several divine mountains.
• The onlookers realized Su Changge had defeated their strongest member without using a divine ability.
• Su Changge asked whether they still intended to teach him about the gap between them, and his icy presence frightened the ancient Quasi Immortal Emperors.

Su Changge learned that the Primordial Beginning Trial required entering a forbidden land to become an Immortal Emperor. After hearing the seventh forbidden land was filled with lost Quasi Immortal Emperors, he decided to go there anyway.

• Su Changge defeated Tu Xian with a single punch, and Tu Xian apologized for provoking him.
• Su Changge asked the Quasi Immortal Emperors about places in the Primordial Emperor Realm where he could attain the Dao within three hundred years.
• The experts explained that the six known forbidden lands held Primordial Beginning Trials, but their memories of failed trials were erased and the realm’s laws gradually assimilated them.
• An ancient Quasi Immortal Emperor revealed there was a seventh, oldest forbidden land where the Primordial Thirteen Emperors had attained the Dao, but lost Quasi Immortal Emperors had gathered there in overwhelming numbers.
• Su Changge asked the experts to lead him to the seventh forbidden land, stunning them with his decision.

Su Changge entered the Seventh Taboo Land alone, determined to reach the Primordial Beginning Trial Grounds without relying on the ancient Quasi Immortal Emperors. He began cutting through the Lost Ones in his path, while Tu Xian believed he might succeed.

• Su Changge refused to use the Sealing Ancient Book to compel the ancient Quasi Immortal Emperors to act as his pathfinders.
• At the edge of the Seventh Taboo Land, Su Changge learned that reaching its deepest region would activate the Primordial Beginning Trial.
• Su Changge declined Tu Xian's offer of help and said that as long as he could walk, the Great Dao Path lay beneath his feet.
• After Su Changge disappeared into the taboo land, the ancient Quasi Immortal Emperors doubted he could survive, but Tu Xian said he might succeed.
• Su Changge was attacked by four Lost Ones, killed them with the Slaying Immortal Sword, and continued deeper into the land.

Su Changge fought his way through the Lost Ones in the Primordial Emperor Realm, slaughtering them alone despite severe injuries and exhaustion. After nearly half a month, he cleared the road and reached the entrance to the Primordial Beginning Trial Grounds.

• Su Changge froze space and time with his Origin Void Divine Eye, then destroyed numerous Lost Ones with his sword and Constitutional Powers.
• Tu Xian and the others watched in shock as Su Changge appeared far ahead and continued cutting down the Lost Ones, though they doubted he had reached the most dangerous region.
• Other sane Quasi Immortal Emperors gathered to watch and realized Su Changge had chosen to fight alone despite possessing the Sealing Ancient Book and the power to use their Source Auras as leverage.
• Su Changge fought nearly nonstop for half a month, enduring countless wounds as his bloodied advance left the land in ruins.
• Su Changge killed the final Lost One with one last sword strike, clearing the way to the Primordial Beginning Trial Grounds.

After Su Changge defeated the Lost Ones, their spirits thanked him and restored some of his strength before he entered the Primordial Emperor Realm. He learned that the trial’s gates tested challengers against projections of past Immortal Emperors, and faced his first opponent, a Golden Figure, over a boundless ocean.

• Su Changge met the distant spectators’ gaze, making the Quasi Immortal Emperors lower their heads despite his weakened state.
• The Lost Ones appeared, bowed to Su Changge in gratitude, then dissolved into phantoms and motes of light that restored some of his aura.
• Su Changge entered the Primordial Emperor Realm, and an ancient Quasi Immortal Emperor wondered whether they would witness him become an Immortal Emperor within three hundred years.
• Su Changge learned that passing the Primordial Beginning Trial required overcoming gates containing projections of past Immortal Emperors, with opponents matched to his strength and cultivation.
• A Golden Figure with Immortal Emperor cultivation appeared above a boundless ocean, and Su Changge drew the Slaying Immortal Sword and charged to kill him.

As Su Changge cultivated in the Primordial Emperor Realm, the Taboo Su Family gathered the factions of the Immortal Domain and all heavens to form a united front against the approaching dark resurgence. More than two hundred years later, dark fissures began appearing across the realms, and their inhabitants awaited Su Changge’s return as the crisis drew near.

• God Profound Ancient Ancestor led the factions to agree on a united front, with each faction swearing a Great Dao oath.
• God Profound Ancient Ancestor proposed drawing the Endless Demon Domain and Penglai Immortal Island into the alliance through their leaders’ old relationships, and asked Immortal Extinguishing Ancient Ancestor to approach Penglai.
• Over two hundred years passed as factions built defenses and interconnected space arrays across the Four Great Immortal Domains.
• A dark fissure opened in the Three Thousand Dao Domains, and experts from the Returning Origin Holy Land suppressed it.
• Dark fissures spread throughout the Immortal Domain and all heavens, prompting countless people to hope Su Changge would become an Eternity Immortal Emperor and save them.

Su Changge reached the final test of the Primordial Beginning Trial Grounds and faced the imprints of the Primordial Thirteen Emperors. The imprints recognized him as their descendant and began speaking to him, leaving the promised trial unclear.

• After more than two hundred years of battles, Su Changge entered another Primordial Beginning Gate and found himself at the apparent end of space and time.
• Thirteen radiant portals appeared, and the Primordial Thirteen Emperors emerged as the final test.
• Su Changge recognized Azure Profound Immortal Emperor, Grand Profound Immortal Emperor, and Northern Profound Immortal Emperor, along with figures resembling his family's distant ancestors and Reaching Heaven Distant Ancestor.
• Distant Ancestor Yuan Hong recognized Su Changge as his great-grandson and spoke to him, while Immeasurable Distant Ancestor and Sky Firmament Distant Ancestor praised his progress.
• Reaching Heaven Distant Ancestor, Slaughter God Emperor, and Boundless Distant Ancestor also addressed Su Changge, turning the apparent final trial into a bewildering reunion.

Su Changge faced Immeasurable Distant Ancestor in the Primordial Beginning Trial Grounds as his ancestors prepared him to surpass them and confront the coming dark and weird crisis. With less than a year until the crisis awakened, an edict from Su Changge calmed unrest across the lower realms, while the heavens waited to learn whether he would become an Immortal Emperor.

• Distant Ancestor Yuan Hong explained that the Primordial Thirteen Emperors had sent their soul wills to possess their youthful law imprints and personally test Su Changge.
• Immeasurable Distant Ancestor began the trial, and Su Changge launched a powerful attack that collided with his ancestor's chaos light.
• Distant Ancestor Yuan Hong said Su Changge had to surpass them because the dark and weird crisis would awaken soon and forces in the Origin Realm had begun acting.
• As dark fissures and creatures spread across the Immortal Domain, lower-realm beings grew angry and fearful that they would be left without refuge.
• The Eternal Heavenly Court issued an edict left by Su Changge, calming unrest across the lower realms and renewing hope in his leadership.
• With less than a year remaining before the crisis, the Immortal Domain's powerhouses wondered whether Su Changge would become an Immortal Emperor.

The Primordial Beginning Source Realm reopened less than a month before the Darkness Calamity Resurgence, and Luo Yan Yu and the returning cultivators brought nearly ten thousand Immortal Emperors and almost a hundred thousand Quasi Immortal Emperors to reinforce the Immortal Domain. As the Immortal Domain celebrated, Netherworld Prison and the other Darkness Lords began awakening the Darkness Abyss at the Ancestor God's command.

• The Primordial Beginning Source Realm reopened, and Luo Yan Yu emerged as an Immortal Emperor.
• Shen Xi, Su Shaoheng, Gu Changqing, Li Haotian, Ye Lintian, the Bone Sea Royal Daughter, and other returning cultivators appeared, most having reached the Immortal Emperor Realm or the Ninth Layer Quasi Immortal Emperor.
• The Immortal Domain celebrated the returned force of nearly ten thousand Immortal Emperors and almost a hundred thousand Quasi Immortal Emperors, believing it could withstand the coming calamity.
• In the Darkness Origin Realm, the Devouring Heaven Emperor declared that his power had recovered, while Netherworld Prison announced that the time had come according to the Ancestor God's will.
• Netherworld Prison and the eight remaining Darkness Lords channeled Dark Energy and incanted, causing the Darkness Abyss to tremble as something within it began to awaken.

The Darkness Lords opened the Primordial Dark Abyss and unleashed its army for a final battle against all heavens. After more than a year fighting the Primordial Beginning Immortal Emperor imprints, Su Changge broke through his limits and reached the threshold of the Immortal Emperor Dao, with the Gate of Light opening before him.

• The Nine Great Darkness Lords drew the darkness of the Darkness Origin Realm into the Primordial Dark Abyss, which opened and released Dark Immortal Emperors and a vast Dark Army.
• The Darkness Lords declared that their coming battle would end either with the rebirth of all heavens or the eternal triumph of darkness.
• In the Primordial Emperor Realm, Su Changge continued battling Distant Ancestor Yuan Hong, whose mastery of the Great Dao neutralized his attacks.
• Driven to protect the Immortal Domain and all heavens, Su Changge surpassed his former peak and shattered the limits confining his power.
• Distant Ancestor Yuan Hong explained that true transcendence came from breaking one's limits, and the distant ancestors and Primordial Thirteen Emperors vanished.
• Su Changge stepped onto the River of Time as a Gate of Light opened, and the Great Dao's power transformed him toward the Immortal Emperor realm.

Su Changge entered the Immortal Emperor Realm and attempted to seize control of the River of Time. Its awakened Will attacked him, believing he was the Nihility Creator’s pawn, while Su Changge fought on to claim the River’s authority.

• Su Changge’s understanding of the Dao deepened, and he revealed that he had mastered source years time power and united his past, present, and future lifetimes before reaching the Immortal Emperor Realm.
• The Will of the River of Time awakened and accused Nihility of plotting against it through Su Changge.
• The River of Time unleashed storms, runes, and powerful beings against Su Changge, who shattered its attacks with his own strength.
• The system ordered Su Changge to defeat the River’s fundamental Will and return his Three Lifetimes River of Time Origin to its depths, offering him authority over the entire River as a reward.
• Su Changge pressed forward through the River’s defenses, while its Will grew terrified that Nihility intended to use him to destroy it and seize control.

The River of Time rejected Immortal Emperor Origin true spirits as Su Changge’s control over the Time Origin threatened to expose and destroy them. As the Immortal Emperors gathered to prepare for the dark resurgence, Distant Ancestor Yuan Hong warned that the Second Immeasurable Tribulation and the collapse of the Three Thousand Great Daos Barriers were also approaching.

• The River of Time disrupted Immortal Emperors’ connection to their hidden Origin true spirits, alarming them across the Nine Great Immortal Domains.
• Wu questioned the Nihility Creator, who explained that Su Changge could use control of the Time Origin to find and obliterate Immortal Emperors’ Origin true spirits and deter rival factions.
• The factions prepared for the dark resurgence, locating nine Darkness Abysses corresponding to the Nine Great Immortal Domains and gathering more than ninety thousand Immortal Emperors.
• The wills of fifteen Distant Ancestors descended at the gathering, and those present noted that nine of them supported Su Changge.
• Distant Ancestor Yuan Hong warned that the Second Immeasurable Tribulation might arrive soon and that the Three Thousand Great Daos Barriers were close to shattering.
• Yuan Hong called for the dark horrors to be purged quickly so the Immortal Domains and All Heavens could unite to wage war on the Origin Realm.

The Immortal Emperors debated whether to attack the nine Darkness Abysses immediately or prepare defenses and advance cautiously. Distant Ancestor Yuan Hong proposed a compromise, but his plan exposed the deadly risks facing anyone who volunteered for the Vanguard Army.

• Reaching Heaven Distant Ancestor called on the gathered Immortal Emperors to discuss how to confront the Darkness Abysses.
• Several Immortal Emperors urged an immediate, concentrated assault, while Ancestors from other factions argued for strengthening defenses and advancing gradually.
• Distant Ancestor Yuan Hong silenced the debate and proposed that volunteers form a Vanguard Army while the remaining forces prepared support and defenses.
• The gathering fell silent as the Immortal Emperors recognized that joining the Vanguard Army meant entering the deadly Darkness Abysses, where survival was unlikely.

Luo Yan Yu volunteered to join the Vanguard Army and enter the Darkness Abyss, saying she wanted to help Su Changge even if she had no chance of survival. The distant ancestors and assembled Immortal Emperors were left stunned by her resolve.

• Distant Ancestor Yuan Hong and the others considered why they could not force factions to contribute troops, fearing that unwilling recruits would enter the Darkness Abyss as defeated cannon fodder.
• Luo Yan Yu rose from her throne and offered to join the Vanguard Army, despite the danger and the objections of the Yao Guang Immortal Sect's Boundless Distant Ancestor.
• Luo Yan Yu told the distant ancestors that some things had to be done, and that if she did not act, Su Changge would.
• Luo Yan Yu said she wanted to do what she could for Su Changge and shoulder some of his future karma, even if she could not remain by his side.
• Luo Yan Yu declared that she would enter the Darkness Abyss even with no chance of survival.

Luo Yan Yu, Shen Xi, and many of Su Changge’s followers volunteered to join the Vanguard Army and enter the Darkness Abyss, inspiring Immortal Emperors from other factions to follow. Distant Ancestor Yuan Hong accepted the volunteers and prepared to protect them as the Vanguard Army plan moved forward.

• Luo Yan Yu volunteered to join the Vanguard Army and face the Darkness Abyss.
• Shen Xi also volunteered, then exchanged a knowing smile with Luo Yan Yu.
• Ye Lintian, Li Haotian, Bi Qingxia, and many other followers of Su Changge and members of his allied factions pledged to enter the Darkness Abyss to share his burden.
• Immortal Emperors from other factions volunteered after witnessing the resolve of Luo Yan Yu and the others.
• Distant Ancestor Yuan Hong reminded the volunteers that their sacrifices served their own future as well as the Immortal Domain, and resolved to help protect them.
• More Ancient Factions sent people to join, and the Vanguard Army plan began to take effect.

Luo Yan Yu led the Eternal Heavenly Court and its allies out to fight the Darkness Abysses, rallying the assembled armies before they marched. The expedition reached a corrupted world where darkness suppressed even Immortal Emperors, and found the embryonic form of a Darkness Abyss.

• The Eternal Heavenly Court and its vassal factions gathered their armies to answer the call to war.
• Luo Yan Yu addressed the assembled soldiers, who vowed to fight for Heavenly Emperor Changge and the immortal domains.
• Luo Yan Yu ordered the troops to march, and the Nine Great Immortal Domains sent separate vanguard armies toward the Darkness Abysses.
• After traveling through a Space-Time Light Cavern, Luo Yan Yu and the expedition arrived in a world corrupted by dark energy.
• The cultivators saw that darkness storms weakened Immortal Emperor Experts and that countless Darkness Rifts covered the universe.
• The expedition discovered the embryonic form of a Darkness Abyss inside the largest Darkness Rift.

Luo Yan Yu and the assembled cultivators began forming arrays to suppress the nascent Darkness Abyss, but the Abyss suddenly swallowed them and erased their power and senses. A mysterious voice searched for Su Changge as portals opened and Dark Immortal Emperors emerged.

• Luo Yan Yu ordered the cultivators to begin their plan to suppress the nascent Darkness Abyss and urged them to protect themselves.
• Luo Yan Yu, the Immortal Emperors, and the army formed countless Immortal Ancient Grand Arrays.
• The world plunged into darkness, and the expanding Darkness Abyss swallowed everyone while consuming their power, laws, and ability to use divine sense.
• A cold, eerie voice said it had found the person it most wanted to meet and asked why Su Changge was absent.
• Netherworld Karmic Fire surrounded Luo Yan Yu and the others as ominous portals opened and Dark Immortal Emperors emerged.