Chapter Summaries

After Ling You revealed that his Yang Source had created Qing Su’s child, Qing Su learned that Yang An had disappeared and that Ling You had sent the infant away. She set out to find Yang An, who was wandering drunk in the forest.

• Qing Su gave birth to a boy with Ling You’s help while Yang An watched from the doorway and left.
• Ling You claimed the child was his, explained how his Yang Source had formed the fetus, and named the boy Ling Gui.
• Qing Su found Yang An’s ruined, empty home and wept, then returned to demand her child from Ling You.
• Ling You said he had sent Ling Gui to the Ten Thousand Sources Nether Realm for training and that Qing Su could see him in a hundred thousand years.
• Qing Su attacked Ling You, but he reappeared unharmed; she then resolved to find Yang An and explain everything.
• Yang An wandered drunk into the forest, cursing women.

After transforming into the demonic Endless Source Lord Kui Shi, Yang An killed Qing Su and Ancestor Qing, devouring their origin essence. He then vanished from the forest and appeared at the Medicine Emperor Palace, intent on pursuing greater power.

• After a long, violent dream, Yang An awoke transformed into Kui Shi, replacing his Void Source with Demonic Source and advancing to Endless Source Lord Rank.
• Kui Shi sensed Qing Su approaching and waited for her; she explained Ling You and the Pregnancy Assistance Treasure Pill, but he annihilated her and devoured her origin essence.
• Ancestor Qing arrived, attacked Kui Shi, and was bound by his Endless Source Lord Authority; Kui Shi struck him three times, killed him, and devoured his origin fragments.
• After gaining a small increase in strength, Kui Shi considered achieving Self-Control and devouring Chi Yu, then appeared at the Medicine Emperor Palace.

Kui Shi killed Ling You by swallowing him and searched for Ling Gui, but followed Future Self back to his own secluded realm. Future Self took Ling Gui to Ice Venerable City, where the city’s lord confronted him at a wine shop.

• Kui Shi repeatedly killed Ling You, then swallowed him and absorbed his Immortality ability.
• Kui Shi searched for Ling Gui, swallowed a mass of Chaos in Future Self’s Dark Space, and secretly attached himself to Future Self.
• Future Self returned to Ling Gui and led him to the Nine Curves Cold Land, where he brought him to Ice Venerable City.
• Ice Venerable greeted Future Self, who ignored him and entered a Wine Shop with Ling Gui.
• Ice Venerable followed them into the Wine Shop and ordered the owner to serve them wine and meat.

Future Self fought Ice Venerable for a thousand years before the two became friends and left the ruined city together. Meanwhile, Kui Shi devoured Ling Gui, impersonated him, and followed Future Self to the Ice and Snow Source, where he faced its guardian Ice Demon.

• Future Self and Ling Gui ignored Ice Venerable after eating his feast, so Ice Venerable attacked them in the city and drew the other Supremes into the battle.
• While Future Self fought, Kui Shi left his body, abducted Ling Gui, and devoured him in a distant desert before taking Ling Gui's appearance.
• Future Self and Ice Venerable fought for a thousand years, destroying Ice Venerable City and killing the other Supremes, then became kindred spirits and made peace.
• Future Self revealed his face to Ice Venerable, then brought him and the disguised Kui Shi to the White Expanse Snow Region.
• Future Self sent Kui Shi into the Ice and Snow Source to kill the Ice Demon, and Kui Shi confronted the guardian.

Kui Shi secretly absorbed the Ice and Snow Source and Scorching Source while the Future Self and Ice Venerable defeated their respective city lords. The group reached Sky Trace City, where the Future Self noticed a mortal White Armored Woman General carrying a trace of Yin-Yang Source, and an unseen observer appeared in the city.

• Kui Shi swallowed the Ice Demon, absorbed nearly all of the Ice and Snow Source, and returned to the Future Self disguised as Ling Gui.
• The Future Self and Ice Venerable destroyed Scorching City and killed Scorching after he refused to submit.
• Kui Shi swallowed the sand giant in the Scorching Desert, gained its ability to spit sand, and secretly digested nearly all of the Scorching Source.
• The group arrived in Sky Trace City and encountered a troop led by the White Armored Woman General.
• The Future Self sensed Yin-Yang Source on the uncultivated woman, and a figure in a Cloud Pattern White Robe appeared in the city.

Empress Nine Chapters Xuan Lin traveled to Sky Trace City to take personal command of the war against Tuo Da and challenge the Four Grand Secretaries’ hold on power. After meeting a charming stranger in a tavern, she returned the next day hoping to see him again, but he did not appear, leaving her restless and lonely.

• Hu Yong told Nine Chapters Xuan Lin that General Heng Chuan had captured Icy Plains City, while concealing that the report had been withheld by the Four Grand Secretaries.
• Nine Chapters Xuan Lin reflected on her need to build a loyal faction, then disguised herself and left her estate to explore Sky Trace City.
• At a tavern, Nine Chapters Xuan Lin drank and chatted with a handsome man in a Cloud Pattern White Robe, and they parted without learning each other’s names.
• Nine Chapters Xuan Lin returned to the tavern the following day and waited for the man in white, but he never came.
• After a sleepless night, Nine Chapters Xuan Lin found that the maids had left pastries outside her door and ignored her, then disguised herself and left the estate again.

Nine Chapters Xuan Lin traveled to the front to join the war against the Tuo Da Empire, where a plot to drug her brought the white-robed man she had awaited back into her life. He revealed himself as Qing Chen, unsealed her Yin-Yang Origin Essence, and sent her to settle her mortal affairs for a hundred years.

• After learning of Heng Chuan’s victory, Nine Chapters Xuan Lin rewarded the army, then continued waiting in vain for the white-robed man at the tavern.
• Nine Chapters Xuan Lin left Sky Trace City for the front as elite Tuo Da forces arrived, accompanied by Future Self, Ice Venerable, and Kui Shi.
• Heng Chuan requested reinforcements, and Nine Chapters Xuan Lin reached camp and insisted on joining the battle despite his objections.
• Heng Chuan arranged to drug Nine Chapters Xuan Lin with Charm Poison, but the white-robed man appeared, knocked him unconscious, and stayed with her through the night.
• The white-robed man identified himself as Qing Chen and promised Nine Chapters Xuan Lin a hundred years in the Mortal Realm.
• Chi Yu unsealed Nine Chapters Xuan Lin’s Yin-Yang Origin Essence, awakening her ancient memory and raising her cultivation to the Early Source Realm before she vanished to settle her mortal affairs.

Nine Heavens Xuan Kingdom suffered two defeats before an unidentified young general in white armor turned the battle around with extraordinary sword skills and a devastating sword formation. After the Tuo Da commander vanished into black light and the young general killed him from the Void, Heng Chuan remained suspicious and resentful of the stranger.

• Heng Chuan led the Nine Heavens Xuan Kingdom army against Tuo Da after waking outside Nine Chapters Xuan Lin's tent, where he had planned to use Charm Poison.
• Tuo Da's Gu Huang You Yue defeated and killed two Nine Heavens Xuan Kingdom generals, leaving their army's morale low.
• An unknown young general in white armor charged out, killed Gu Huang You Yue, then wounded and beheaded a purple-haired Tuo Da general.
• The young general summoned a sword formation that slaughtered much of Tuo Da's army as Heng Chuan and the Tuo Da commander fought.
• Black light carried the badly wounded Tuo Da commander away, but the young general summoned him back from the Void and killed him.
• Heng Chuan bowed to the young general, who departed without introducing himself, and Heng Chuan privately vowed to deal with him.

Kui Shi heard Yang An’s voice and learned that his consciousness still remained within their fused body as the Future Self’s group arrived too late to save Tuo Da’s army. Nine Chapters Xuan Lin reclaimed the throne, defeated the Four Grand Secretaries’ rebellion, and restored the Nine Heavens Xuan Kingdom.

• Kui Shi recognized Yang An’s voice, and Yang An’s consciousness took control of their unstable fused body.
• The Future Self, Ice Venerable, and Kui Shi reached the battlefield after Tuo Da’s forces had been wiped out and then went to Tuo Da Imperial Capital.
• Nine Chapters Xuan Lin revealed herself in the command tent, executed Heng Chuan, and ordered the generals to return to Sky Trace City with her.
• The Four Grand Secretaries seized the Imperial Capital, renamed the realm the Four Saints Xuan Kingdom, and had Nine Chapters Xuan Lin’s remaining supporters killed.
• Nine Chapters Xuan Lin executed the traitorous General Geng Yinlang, gathered an army of 470,000 troops, and marched on the Imperial Capital.
• Nine Chapters Xuan Lin’s forces retook the capital, executed the Four Grand Secretaries, restored the Nine Heavens Xuan Kingdom, and welcomed her back to the throne.

The Tuo Da Emperor chose to pursue peace with the Nine Heavens Xuan Kingdom by offering its Divine Stone and sending Ao Tuo Long to seek a marriage alliance with Xuan Lin. Meanwhile, the Future Self approached the Tuo Da Emperor and persuaded him to pursue the conquest of Nine Heavens, and the chapter ended with Ao Tuo Long’s convoy departing for the kingdom.

• A Tuo Da minister proposed giving Nine Heavens the Divine Stone and sending Third Prince Ao Tuo Long to form a marriage alliance with Xuan Lin.
• The Tuo Da Emperor summoned Ao Tuo Long, ordered him to go to Nine Heavens, and granted him the title of Prince; Ao Tuo Long accepted the mission.
• Ao Tuo Long’s mother consort visited him, and Chi Yu watched their farewell from the Void.
• The Future Self, Ice Venerable, and Kui Shi entered the Tuo Da Emperor’s bedroom and spoke with him about taking the realm.
• The Tuo Da Emperor appointed three national preceptors, while a convoy carrying the Divine Stone and Ao Tuo Long departed Bei Du for Nine Heavens.

Nine Chapters Xuan Lin consulted Chi Yu about Tuo Da’s proposed marriage alliance, then received Ao Tuo Long and the foreign envoys without raising the match. Two months later, she formally ended the alliance proposal and established friendly relations between the Nine Heavens Xuan Kingdom and Tuo Da.

• Heng Liu Chuan delivered Tuo Da’s diplomatic letter proposing a marriage alliance with the Third Prince and offering the Divine Stone, and Nine Chapters Xuan Lin left the proposal unanswered.
• Nine Chapters Xuan Lin told Chi Yu about the letter, and he advised her that Tuo Da had come with ill intentions and that she could deal with the empire as she wished.
• Ao Tuo Long and the foreign envoys arrived in the Imperial City, and Nine Chapters Xuan Lin received them without discussing the marriage alliance.
• Nine Chapters Xuan Lin accepted the Divine Stone, which she found was only an ordinary Spirit Stone to cultivators, and ended the court meeting without agreeing to the match.
• After leaving the Tuo Da envoys without an audience for half a month, Nine Chapters Xuan Lin issued a decree two months later rejecting the marriage alliance and establishing friendly relations and exchanges between the two nations.

After the Tuo Da Emperor discovered Ao Tuo Long with the Dark Consort, he died in a struggle and Ao Tuo Long concealed the killing as a fire. As rival princes sent troops toward Bei Du, the ministers urged Ao Tuo Long to claim the throne and showed him a joined set of jade pendant fragments.

• Ao Tuo Long returned to Tuo Da with the envoys after the Nine Heavens Empress rejected the marriage alliance.
• Chi Yu showed the Tuo Da Emperor Ao Tuo Long and the Dark Consort together, prompting the Emperor to storm into Ao Tuo Long's sleeping chamber and attack them.
• Ao Tuo Long fought his father, and the Dark Consort stabbed the Tuo Da Emperor; Ao Tuo Long then planned to seize the throne with her.
• Ao Tuo Long and the Dark Consort set fire to the sleeping chamber and staged the Emperor's death as an accident, while Ao Tuo Long pretended to grieve at the funeral.
• After the mourning period, rival princes led troops toward Bei Du, while Ao Tuo Long stayed beside the spirit tablet and the ministers decided to support his succession.
• When the ministers urged Ao Tuo Long to ascend the throne, they joined pitch-black jade pendant fragments and showed them to him.

Ao Tuo Long activated the hidden Heavenly Universe Army by sending the elderly ministers to retrieve its command token, and its troops drove the princes’ forces away from the imperial palace. The First, Second, and Fourth Princes gathered nearly a million soldiers to attack together, but another million-strong army appeared outside Bei Du.

• Ao Tuo Long agreed to send the elderly ministers to find the Heavenly Universe Army and gave them the Heavenly Universe Decree.
• The elderly ministers reached the hidden army’s camp, where Ba Tu accepted the decree and ordered a million troops to march on Bei Du.
• Ba Tu led thirty thousand soldiers through the hidden passage to the Ancestral Hall, and Ao Tuo Long ordered them to defend the imperial palace.
• The Heavenly Universe Army drove the princes’ forces back from the palace, prompting the First, Second, and Fourth Princes to summon their outside troops.
• The three princes jointly sent nearly a million soldiers against the palace, but a general reported that another million-strong army had appeared outside the city.

After Ao Tuo Long won the succession war, he became emperor and was led into Dao Entry by Future Self. Ten years later, now an Earth Immortal, he set out to conquer the neighboring Heavenly Branch Empire.

• The Heavenly Universe Army slaughtered the remaining forces of the three princes in Bei Du, and the First Prince killed himself while the Second Prince and Fourth Prince were sentenced to Devouring Punishment.
• Ao Tuo Long ascended the throne, relocated the Imperial Capital to Cultivation City, and took the title of Ao Da Emperor.
• After rumors spread about Ao Tuo Long and Dark Consort, he made her empress, and Future Self personally led Ao Tuo Long into Dao Entry.
• Ao Tuo Long secluded himself to cultivate while Kui Shi took advantage of Dark Consort's loneliness and betrayed him with her.
• After reaching the Earth Immortal realm in ten years, Ao Tuo Long announced his ambition to unite the world and sent his army toward the Heavenly Branch Empire.

Nine Chapters Xuan Lin conquered the Mortal Realm alongside Ao Tuo Long, and their war destroyed its mortal population, transforming it into the Ghost Poison Region as she ascended to the Void Source Lord Rank. Meanwhile, the Future Self betrayed Kui Shi and set off with Ice Venerable for the Holy Source Domain.

• Nine Chapters Xuan Lin launched a campaign to conquer the surrounding empires, and the Nine Heavens Xuan Kingdom fought a prolonged war against the Tuo Da Empire.
• The decades-long conflict and unchecked plague wiped out the Mortal Realm's soldiers and mortals, turning the region into a home for ghosts, Nether Souls, and Ghost Cultivators.
• With her century-long attachment ended, Nine Chapters Xuan Lin broke through to the Void Source Lord Rank and joined Chi Yu in the Void Creation Space.
• Ao Tuo Long emerged from seclusion as a Taiyi Golden Immortal, discovered the transformed Mortal Realm, and headed for the realm barrier to leave for the Upper Realm.
• The Future Self's Dark Origin Essence took over Kui Shi after he devoured it, and the Future Self swallowed Kui Shi before telling Ice Venerable they were going to the Holy Source Domain.

Yang An reincarnated as one of a Nine-tailed Spirit Fox’s eight cubs, grew quickly, and cared for his siblings after their mother was captured by the Beast Taming Holy Source Sect. While hunting, he heard Zhang Cheng arrive in the forest and went to investigate.

• After Future Self devoured Kui Shi, Yang An’s soul escaped and entered a fetus in a pregnant Nine-tailed Spirit Fox, an escape secretly arranged by Chi Yu.
• A hundred years later, Yang An was born among eight cubs and stayed with his mother, who doted on him as he absorbed Origin Essence and grew unusually fast.
• Fireballs devastated the region, forcing the Nine-tailed Spirit Fox to hide her cubs in a cave before she disappeared; Yang An later found food for his starving siblings.
• The Nine-tailed Spirit Fox was captured by the Beast Taming Holy Source Sect and bound to a contract that made her a tamed spirit beast dependent on her master’s life.
• Zhang Cheng arrived in the forest with his wives and carved a home into a stone cliff, and Yang An approached the noise to observe him from hiding.

Yang An reunited with Zhang Cheng, who adopted him as Snow Emperor, and later brought his seven Spirit Fox siblings to live in the cave. A Beast Taming Holy Source Sect Elder captured Yang An to make him a contract spirit beast, but Yang An’s hidden Void Source Lord power killed the Elder, leaving him stunned.

• Yang An mistook Zhang Cheng for Chi Yu and followed him to the cave, where Zhang Cheng’s ladies named him Snow Emperor.
• After half a year, Yang An found his seven Spirit Fox siblings and led them back to live with Zhang Cheng and the ladies.
• A Beast Taming Holy Source Sect Elder trapped Yang An in a Beast Taming Great Array, but Chi Yu’s Golden Light shattered it and let Yang An escape.
• The Elder pursued Yang An into the cave, overpowered the ladies, and carried Snow Emperor away; Zhang Cheng returned and followed Yang An’s aura to rescue him.
• The Elder began the contract ritual in a hidden mountain cave, but Yang An’s Void Source Lord Rank true form emerged and killed him.

Yang An’s Void Source Avatar killed the Beast Taming Holy Source Sect Elder who attacked him, but Zhang Cheng grew suspicious of Yang An before finally letting him stay. When Zhang Cheng and Yang An returned from hunting, they found the cave destroyed and Zhang Cheng’s wives and the seven Nine-tailed Spirit Fox cubs missing.

• Yang An’s Void Source Avatar appeared, blasted the Beast Taming Holy Source Sect Elder into a bloody mist, and returned to Yang An’s body.
• Zhang Cheng’s wives told him about the attacker and praised Yang An, prompting Zhang Cheng to seize Yang An and demand to know who he was.
• Yang An’s Void Source Avatar severed Zhang Cheng’s gripping hand, then returned to Yang An; Zhang Cheng accepted Yang An but continued watching him closely.
• The Beast Taming Holy Source Sect’s Supreme Elder deduced that Elder Four had died at Zhang Cheng’s stone cave and sent four Peak Emperor Realm Elders to take revenge.
• While Zhang Cheng and Yang An were away hunting, the four Elders captured Zhang Cheng’s wives and the seven Nine-tailed Spirit Fox cubs and secretly took them to the sect.
• Zhang Cheng and Yang An returned at sunset to find the cave destroyed and the captives gone, and Zhang Cheng angrily demanded that the culprits reveal themselves.

Zhang Cheng learned that his wife and the Seven Little Spirit Foxes were held by the Beast Taming Holy Source Sect and stormed the sect to rescue them. As Yang An arrived, the Nine-tailed Spirit Fox appeared, and the cubs and Yang An recognized her as their mother.

• After the Void Origin Essence Avatar told Zhang Cheng where his wife and the cubs were, Zhang Cheng rushed to the Beast Taming Holy Source Sect while Yang An followed on foot.
• The Elders brought Zhang Cheng's wife and the Seven Little Spirit Foxes to the sect, and Old Man tried to assault her before the sect bell interrupted him.
• Zhang Cheng demanded that the sect return his family, killed several Elders, and fought the Peak Emperor Realm sect master, whose Nine-tailed Spirit Fox attacked him.
• The Nine-tailed Spirit Fox's arrival stirred the caged cubs, and Yang An recognized her as his mother.
• The Void Origin Essence Avatar bound several fleeing Elders, and Yang An reached the sect as someone called out, "Mother!" causing the Nine-tailed Spirit Fox to halt and tremble.

The Beast Taming Holy Source Sect's sect master fused with the Nine-tailed Spirit Fox and gained Void Source Lord power, but Zhang Cheng's attacks still overwhelmed him. After Yang An died again, Chi Yu's words led to his true fusion and rebirth at the Endless Source Lord Rank; Yang An saved the Nine-tailed Spirit Fox and reunited with her.

• The sect master forcibly fused with the Nine-tailed Spirit Fox, gained Void Source Lord Rank, and tried to subdue Zhang Cheng, but Zhang Cheng shattered his authority and knocked him down.
• Yang An was struck by Zhang Cheng and died, then met Chi Yu, who revealed that Zhang Cheng was the child of Zhang Yue Wan and Chi Yu.
• Yang An concluded that rebirth would free him from his karmic entanglement, fused with his Void Source Lord true form, and advanced to the Endless Source Lord Rank.
• Yang An stopped Zhang Cheng from killing the sect master, introduced himself as Zhang Cheng's Uncle Yang An and the spirit fox Snow Emperor, and restored the Nine-tailed Spirit Fox from the sect master's body.
• The Nine-tailed Spirit Fox thanked Yang An, and he embraced her and called her mother.