Chapter Summaries

After the Heavenly Race crushed an invading alliance, Nian Shuang discovered that its soldiers could revive and learned that an unknown senior had given them an Undying Secret Technique. The senior demanded that the alliance help conquer the Guangcheng Region, and Nian Shuang overheard the exchange from the shadows.

• The Future Self investigated Yuan Gu’s apparent lack of progress, then traveled to the Land of Final Demise and found Nian Shuang’s wandering consciousness instead.
• Chi Yu sent Nian Shuang’s consciousness back to his body, where Nian Shuang learned that an alliance army had attacked the Heavenly Race’s territory.
• Nian Shuang led the Heavenly Race’s Elders into battle, but the alliance’s fallen soldiers repeatedly revived and eventually inflicted casualties.
• Nian Shuang withdrew the Heavenly Race to a defensive posture and later went alone beyond the border to investigate.
• Nian Shuang overheard an unknown senior tell alliance leaders that his Undying Secret Technique bound them to help conquer the Guangcheng Region.

Nian Shuang uncovered Lingxu Palace’s secret alliance and learned that a mysterious Old Ancestor was supplying it with power. During the battle at the Border Camp, black-robed attackers captured Ling Er and fled toward Cloud Old Man Island, leaving Nian Shuang and Long Xing in pursuit.

• Nian Shuang followed a messenger to Lingxu Palace and overheard Yu Chenzi plotting with an Old Ancestor to crush the Heavenly Race and seize the Guangcheng Region.
• The Old Ancestor gave Yu Chenzi cultivation techniques and a ring of supplies, and Nian Shuang returned to the Border Camp worried that Lingxu Palace had powerful backing.
• When the alliance’s Undying Army attacked a week later, Nian Shuang and the Heavenly Race fought back as Long Xing and Ling Er arrived and Long Xing devoured enemy soldiers.
• Two masked black-robed figures appeared, and one attacked Nian Shuang while the other seized Ling Er and demanded that the Heavenly Race submit.
• The attackers vanished with Ling Er, so Long Xing and Nian Shuang pursued them toward Cloud Old Man Island, while Chi Yu allowed Long Kui to follow and help.

Nian Shuang and Long Xing confronted Yu Chenzi at Lingxu Palace to rescue Ling Er, but Long Kui arrived and killed Yu Chenzi and the Lingxu Old Ancestor. After the group returned to the Creation Space, the Heavenly Race defeated the alliance and expanded its territory.

• Nian Shuang and Long Xing searched Lingxu Palace for Ling Er while Yu Chenzi denied knowing where she was.
• Nian Shuang exposed Yu Chenzi, who sealed Lingxu Palace and overpowered her and Long Xing.
• Long Kui appeared and killed Yu Chenzi, then defeated the Lingxu Old Ancestor and rescued Ling Er from the Divine Gate.
• Long Kui returned to Chi Yu, and Nian Shuang, Long Xing, and Ling Er left Lingxu Palace for the Heavenly Race Border Camp.
• The next day, Long Xing devoured the alliance's Undying Army, and the victorious Heavenly Race expanded into surrounding territories.

After a century of seclusion, Nian Shuang reached Transcendence and returned to lead the Heavenly Race as it battled the Demon Clan for control of the Mortal Realm. At the border, she confronted the Great Demon Split Soul, who revealed that he was Tian Chen, the Heavenly Race’s Ninth Ancestor, and attacked her forces.

• Nian Shuang emerged from a hundred years of seclusion as a Transcendence cultivator, reunited with her father, and watched the Creation Space depart for the Upper Realm.
• The Great Demon Split Soul built a demon army in the eastern Mortal Realm, and over the following century his Demon Clan and the Heavenly Race divided the realm between them.
• Nian Shuang led Long Xing, Ling Er, and The Elders on an Imperial Conquest, where the Great Demon Split Soul appeared to face them.
• Nian Shuang swallowed the Great Demon Split Soul’s ghostly demon shadows and dispersed his Bloodthirsty Mad Demon attack with a wave.
• The Great Demon Split Soul revealed that he was Tian Chen, the Heavenly Race’s Ninth Ancestor, then swung a Demonic Qi-filled palm at Nian Shuang and the others.

Nian Shuang defeated the Great Demon Split Soul, led the Heavenly Race from the Mortal Realm to the Ancient Wilderness Realm, and began the Fourth Act’s quest to unify the Three Domains. While the Great Demon searched for the hidden Heavenly Race, Nian Shuang and her companions reached Ming City, where rumors spread about the Ming Family’s recruitment of Guest Elders.

• Nian Shuang destroyed the Great Demon Split Soul and prevented it from reviving, securing the Heavenly Race’s victory over the Demon Clan in the Mortal Realm.
• After the system announced that the side quest was complete, Nian Shuang revealed her Transcendence cultivation and led the Heavenly Race’s ascension to the Upper Realm.
• The Heavenly Race arrived at Willow City in the Ancient Wilderness Realm, and the system began the Fourth Act with a quest to unify the Three Domains and control the realm.
• Nian Shuang’s cultivation advanced to the Transcendent Source Realm, and she left with Ling Er and Long Xing while Tian Xing and the Elders managed the Heavenly Race.
• The Great Demon learned the Heavenly Race had returned and sent subordinates to search the Heaven Domain, while Nian Shuang and her companions arrived in Ming City amid rumors of the Ming Family’s recruitment.

Nian Shuang, Ling Er, and Long Xing joined the Ming Family as Guest Elders and were sent to investigate a spirit mine where guards had died after their hearts burst from their bodies. After the survivors returned to Ming City, Nian Shuang revealed that the culprit had followed them and planned to capture it that night.

• Nian Shuang, Ling Er, and Long Xing became Guest Elders of the Ming Family after passing an inspection.
• Ming Dong explained that guards at the Ming Family Spirit Mine had been killed when their hearts burst out and flew away, and he led the Guest Elders there as bait for the culprit.
• Nian Shuang took Ling Er and Long Xing sightseeing instead of searching, confident the culprit would come to them.
• After several days without clues, the heart-stealing attack happened again, and most Guest Elders fled as Ming Dong abandoned the mine.
• A scarlet light possessed a guard as the group returned to Ming City, and Nian Shuang told Ling Er that the culprit had come with them and would be captured that night.

Nian Shuang exposed and destroyed the Heart Demon that had followed the group to the Ming Family, then got drunk at the family’s celebration and woke up beside Ming XiaoXiao. After XiaoXiao sent him out through her window, she caught him with Ling Er and Long Xing and prepared to tease him.

• Nian Shuang confronted Ming Xiu, who was secretly possessed by the Heart Demon, and fought him while Ming Dong tried to stop the battle.
• Ling Er and Long Xing explained the demon’s crimes to Ming Dong as Nian Shuang discovered it feared sunlight and drove it into the sun.
• Nian Shuang burned the demon’s host and swallowed its fleeing red essence, earning Ming Dong’s thanks and a grand banquet.
• After getting drunk at the banquet, Nian Shuang woke beside Ming XiaoXiao, who slapped him, confirmed she was unharmed, and sent him out through her window.
• Nian Shuang made an excuse to Ling Er and Long Xing about being away all night, but Ming XiaoXiao appeared and announced that he was a Ming Family Guest Elder.

After Ming XiaoXiao drove Ling Er away by making her believe Nian Shuang had been unfaithful, Ling Er met Huan, the guardian of Wood Shade Forest, and learned about his connection to the Heavenly Race Willow Vein. Huan urged her to return to Nian Shuang and confess her feelings, while the others searched for her; Ling Er flew back toward Ming City, and Chi Yu watched from the Void.

• Ming XiaoXiao clung to Nian Shuang and implied they had spent the previous night together, causing Ling Er to flee while Long Xing chased after her.
• Ming Dong told Ming XiaoXiao that Nian Shuang had eliminated the Heart Demon and ordered her to find Ling Er and explain; Nian Shuang and Ming XiaoXiao searched for Ling Er beyond Ming City.
• In Wood Shade Forest, Ling Er met Huan, who recognized her resemblance to his master Tian Li and learned that she belonged to the Heavenly Race Willow Vein.
• Ling Er told Huan how the Heavenly Race had been destroyed and how Nian Shuang helped its remnants survive; Huan praised Nian Shuang and advised Ling Er to return and confess her feelings.
• Huan taught Ling Er his romance techniques, then vanished; Ling Er bowed and flew toward Ming City as Ming Dong mobilized the city to search for her.
• From the Void, Chi Yu asked Tian Yao about Tian Li and dismissed the story as a melodramatic mess.

Ling Er returned to the Ming Family, but after she and Nian Shuang reunited, she learned he saw her only as a younger sister. The family then discovered Ming XiaoXiao was missing and searched north, while she had been abducted to the Clear River Dragon Palace by the Fish Demon.

• Long Xing found Ling Er on her way back to Ming City and brought her to the Ming Family, where Ming Dong welcomed her back.
• Nian Shuang returned and embraced Ling Er, but he told her he had always treated her as his little sister.
• At a banquet, a maid announced that Ming XiaoXiao had not returned, so the Ming Family searched through the night.
• Nian Shuang recalled that Ming XiaoXiao had gone north and led the search party to a Great River.
• The Fish Demon emerged from the river, knocked Ming XiaoXiao unconscious, and carried her to his bedchamber in the Clear River Dragon Palace.
• Ming XiaoXiao woke in the Fish General's bedchamber, where the Fish Demon approached her; in the Void, Chi Yu told Tian Yao not to become too entangled in mortal affairs.

Nian Shuang and Long Xing entered the Clear River Dragon Palace while searching for Ming XiaoXiao, and Nian Shuang eventually found her imprisoned in Fish Demon's manor. The chapter left Ming XiaoXiao reunited with Nian Shuang, crying that Fish Demon had taken her innocence.

• After finding a stele mentioning the Clear River Dragon Palace, Nian Shuang and Long Xing entered the river and summoned the Clear River Dragon King, Long Jing, to lead them inside.
• Long Jing explained that he had hidden the Dragon Palace in a special space during the war against the Kui Clan, who fed on dragons.
• Nian Shuang asked whether the Dragon Palace had taken in an unfamiliar woman, then searched the palace for Ming XiaoXiao.
• Fish Demon left his bedchamber after refusing Ming XiaoXiao's plea to kill her, and Nian Shuang arrived at the Fish General Manor with Old Turtle.
• Nian Shuang sensed Ming XiaoXiao's presence and found her sobbing in a hidden bedchamber; she recognized him, collapsed into his arms, and said she was no longer pure.

Nian Shuang killed Fish Demon after learning he had abducted and assaulted Ming XiaoXiao, then left Ming City with Long Xing and Ming XiaoXiao. The group entered the eerie Fallen Immortal Realm, unaware that someone was following them to protect the new patriarch of the Heavenly Race.

• Ming XiaoXiao told Nian Shuang that a fish-headed demon had assaulted her, and Nian Shuang went to confront Fish Demon.
• Nian Shuang killed Fish Demon after Fish Demon remembered abducting Ming XiaoXiao, while Long Xing allowed the execution and Long Jing ordered an investigation into Fish General Manor.
• Long Xing, Nian Shuang, and Ming XiaoXiao left the Dragon Palace and returned to Ming City, where Ming XiaoXiao concealed what had happened from her family.
• Nian Shuang and Long Xing prepared to leave Ming City, and Ming XiaoXiao secretly followed them into Wood Shade Forest and asked to travel with them.
• Nian Shuang and his three companions entered the desolate Fallen Immortal Realm, while a concealed figure followed them and vowed to protect the new patriarch of the Heavenly Race.

Nian Shuang and his companions were trapped by a murderous spirit in the Fallen Immortal Realm until Huan rescued them and sent them to Mist City. Huan returned to Wood Shade Forest, leaving the four to enter the city.

• Nian Shuang, Ling Er, Ming XiaoXiao, and Long Xing explored an abandoned village while Chi Yu revealed to Mei Ying that Nian Shuang was her son, Ji Wu Shuang.
• The four encountered a bloodied, monstrous face in an old locust tree, which trapped them in its Slaughter Bloodbath and tried to devour them.
• Huan struck the spirit with life energy, drove it away, and bowed to Nian Shuang as the servant of the Willow Branch.
• Huan used a scepter to send Nian Shuang and the others out of the Fallen Immortal Realm, then returned to Wood Shade Forest.
• The four emerged near Mist City, flew to its gate, and saw the city's name above it.

Nian Shuang suspected the Ancient Willow Secluded Domain held the sealed Eighteen Ancestors and entered its Secret Realm with Xing Zhi. At the altar, a voice addressed her from within her mind.

• Nian Shuang heard that the Ancient Willow Secluded Domain contained a dangerous Secret Realm and decided to investigate it.
• Nian Shuang left the Immortal Residence alone at night, found the Secret Realm entrance, and met Xing Zhi there.
• Nian Shuang accidentally activated the stone stele, opening a vortex through which she and Xing Zhi entered the Secret Realm.
• Ling Er and the others found Nian Shuang gone and read her note telling them to wait at the Immortal Residence.
• Nian Shuang and Xing Zhi reached an altar surrounded by eight rune-covered pillars, where a voice asked Nian Shuang how she had come there.

Nian Shuang met Tian Chi, learned that the Great Demon’s death would free the Heavenly Race ancestors, and was attacked by the demon as she tried to leave the Sealed Land. Chi Yu destroyed the Great Demon and altered Nian Shuang’s system; she woke to find the quest restarted and the Eighteen Ancestors freed, then brought them back to the Heavenly Race.

• Nian Shuang discovered that Tian Chi was the First Ancestor of the Heavenly Race and learned that killing the Great Demon would break the seal holding the ancestors.
• The Great Demon attacked Nian Shuang and Xing Zhi as they tried to leave the Secret Realm, bound them with Demon Chains, and reduced Xing Zhi to ashes.
• Chi Yu appeared, extinguished the Great Demon’s soul, freed Nian Shuang from the chains, and modified her Heaven Defying System before leaving with Mei Ying.
• Nian Shuang woke to a restarted Act Four quest requiring her to control the Ancient Wilderness and attain the Emperor Realm within ten years.
• The Sealed Land shattered and freed the Eighteen Ancestors, who joined Nian Shuang on her return to Mist City.
• Tian Chi recognized Ling Er as a descendant of the Heavenly Race Willow Vein and introduced himself as the First Ancestor.

Tian Chi and the Eighteen Ancestors returned to the Heavenly Race and punished the traitors who had helped the Great Demon, sparing Chang Kong by stripping him of his cultivation. After rebuilding the Heavenly Race and restoring its influence, Nian Shuang and Ling Er watched Long Xing leave to revive the Dragon Clan.

• Tian Chi killed Mist City's lord Yu Xian and his subordinates, then traveled with the others to Ming City.
• Tian Chi confronted Chang Kong, who admitted the Great Demon had held his family hostage, and spared his life by destroying his cultivation after Nian Shuang pleaded for him.
• Chi Yu abducted Ming XiaoXiao, turned her into Tantai Li Yue's Demonic Servant, and severed her connection to Nian Shuang.
• Tian Chi eliminated the remaining traitors and returned with Nian Shuang and the other ancestors to the Heavenly Race, where the elders welcomed them.
• The Heavenly Race rebuilt its ruins and reappeared in the Ancient Wilderness Realm ten years later, reclaiming the thirty-six cities and regaining its former strength.
• Long Xing left the Heavenly Race for the Demon Domain to pursue the revival of the Dragon Clan.

Tian Nian Shuang entered the Great Emperor White Pagoda to undergo Tian’s inheritance trial and rapidly advanced through its floors. After Chi Yu intervened on the tenth floor and claimed Xi as his maid, Nian Shuang reached the sixtieth floor, where he found himself back in the modern world from before his transmigration.

• Tian Nian Shuang entered the Heavenly Race Ancestral Hall, performed the ritual, and met Tian’s inheritance phantom, who sent him into the ninety-nine-floor white pagoda.
• Tian Nian Shuang swiftly defeated the first-floor opponent and cleared several more trials before reaching the tenth floor’s Bewitching Realm.
• Tian Nian Shuang fought Xi, the Control Rank guardian of the tenth floor, but her Nine-tailed Spirit Fox Dharma Form bound him and sent him onto a bed.
• Chi Yu secretly freed Tian Nian Shuang, who struck Xi and drove her from the pagoda floor; Chi Yu then claimed Xi as his maid.
• Tian Nian Shuang advanced to the sixtieth floor and found himself in the modern world from before his transmigration, where a familiar voice called, “Xiao Tian, dinner’s ready!”

Nian Shuang relived his former life as Zhang Zi Tian on the White Pagoda’s sixtieth floor, nearly losing himself in the illusion before Chi Yu broke the tower’s rules. He completed the inheritance, became the Great Emperor of the Heaven Domain, and returned to the Ancestral Hall, where he found Ling Er waiting.

• Nian Shuang awakened memories of his family and spent what felt like ordinary days with his parents and younger brother, Zhang Zi Quan, inside the illusion.
• Heavenly Void Shadow discovered that Nian Shuang was becoming lost in the illusion, but the White Pagoda’s rules prevented him from intervening.
• Chi Yu shattered the White Pagoda’s rules, allowing Heavenly Void Shadow to reach Nian Shuang and help him wake up.
• Nian Shuang resolved to return to his family, climbed to the top floor, and received the Great Emperor inheritances.
• After centuries of refining the inheritances, Nian Shuang broke through to Imperial Rank and became the Great Emperor of the Heaven Domain.
• Nian Shuang left the Inheritance Space with the White Pagoda, appeared in the Ancestral Hall, and recognized the waiting figure as Ling Er.

Nian Shuang and Long Xing allied the Heaven Domain and Demon Domain against the Demon Domain, drawing the attention of Demon Source, who demanded Nian Shuang's inheritance position. Before their confrontation could escalate, a streak of light possessed Demon Source and vanished with him, while a voice urged Nian Shuang to finish his mission.

• Nian Shuang subdued the Heaven Domain's forces, while Long Xing became Dragon Emperor and later won a long rivalry with a demon-devil hybrid, sparking war between the Demon Domain and Ancient Wilderness Dragon Clan.
• After the Demon Domain's Hall Master reached Saint Rank, Long Xing struggled to find a way forward until Nian Shuang and Ling arrived and proposed an alliance with the Heaven Domain.
• The Demon Domain's Hall Master rejected calls to surrender and sought help from Demon Source, the Demon Ancestor, who learned that Nian Shuang was the Heaven Domain's Emperor Realm expert.
• Demon Source confronted Nian Shuang and demanded the inheritance position, but a streak of light entered him and made him disappear before the fight began.
• A voice told Nian Shuang to stop dawdling and finish the mission, leaving him trembling.

Nian Shuang became the Spirit Realm’s Heavenly Emperor, defeated its Heavenly Dao after an ages-long battle, and ascended with Long Xing and Ling Er to the Three Xuan Great World. The chapter left Tantai Li Yue in control of the Spirit Realm while Chi Yu claimed that his Source Body would ultimately prevail.

• Long Xing became the Dragon Emperor after the alliance army destroyed the Demon Domain, and Ling Er later ascended to the Imperial Rank with Nian Shuang’s support.
• Nian Shuang, Long Xing, and Ling Er left the Ancient Wilderness Realm and returned to the Spirit Realm, where the system began the fifth act and restored Nian Shuang’s cultivation as a Law Enforcer Supreme Venerable.
• Nian Shuang declared himself Heavenly Emperor Yuan Gu, established the Heavenly Court, and appointed Ling Er and Long Xing as divine rulers.
• Nian Shuang fought the Spirit Realm’s Heavenly Dao beyond the realm for four Endless eras and ultimately defeated it, becoming the Spirit Realm’s sole ruling Supreme Venerable.
• After the ninety-ninth Endless era, Nian Shuang passed the Heavenly Emperor’s fruition to a young man and ascended with Long Xing and Ling Er to the Three Xuan Great World, beginning the sixth act.
• Tantai Li Yue’s forces seized the Spirit Realm’s Heavenly Court, and she delivered its origin to Chi Yu, who claimed that his Source Body would prevail.

Chi Yu took the Yuanyang Universe’s source through Nian Shuang’s mission, then sent her back to Parallel Earth with a prosperous new life. He returned to the Void Realm with his companions, where his wives welcomed him home.

• Tantai Li Yue handed over the Moon Demon Palace’s authority, ascended to Three Xuan, and joined Chi Yu.
• Nian Shuang established the Heavenly Emperor Palace, became the World Master of Three Xuan, and set out to seize the Yuanyang Universe’s source.
• After Nian Shuang left Three Xuan, Chi Yu erased Long Xing and Ling Er’s memories of her, made Long Xing the new World Master, and kept Ling Er by his side.
• Nian Shuang defeated the Heavenly Daos, broke into Source Space, and the Heaven Defying System took the Cosmic Origin before returning to Chi Yu.
• Nian Shuang returned to Parallel Earth as Zhang Zi Tian, reunited with his mother, and later became a billionaire after winning the lottery.
• Chi Yu brought his companions to the Void Realm, where his wives rushed to welcome him home.