Chapter Summaries

The Ziwei Imperial Dynasty revealed that the old Imperial Advisor had foreseen the Divine Court destroying the dynasty and named Lu Zhou as its only hope. Lu Zhou agreed to consider their plea, intending to help when the time came while weighing what benefits he could ask for.

• The old Imperial Advisor's disciples explained that their master had spent his remaining vitality and cultivation to foresee the Divine Court destroying the Ziwei Divine Dynasty and the Divine Capital more than a hundred years later.
• The ruler of the Ziwei Imperial Dynasty revealed the Imperial Advisor's final words: the Divine Court would destroy the dynasty, and only Lu Zhou could save it.
• Princess Yue Shi offered to serve Lu Zhou forever if he would protect the dynasty, while the ruler promised to fulfill any conditions Lu Zhou named.
• Lu Zhou asked the ruler and Princess Yue Shi to rise and said he needed time to think, giving the dynasty's people hope that he would help.
• Lu Zhou privately resolved that he would oppose the Divine Court to prevent the destruction of the Divine Capital and the deaths of its ordinary people, while considering what he could gain from the dynasty.

Lu Zhou killed the captured Yin Tiande after the Ziwei Divine Dynasty helped track him down, then gave the dynasty’s dying Saint King ancestor a drop of Immortal True Dragon Divine Liquid. The ancestor accepted the medicine and agreed to accompany Yue Shi as she followed Lu Zhou, while the dynasty sought to build a sincere bond with him before the coming calamity.

• Yue Shi confessed that she liked Lu Zhou, and her father arrived with Yin Tiande captured after using the Heavenly Secrets Sect’s aid and awakening a Saint King ancestor.
• Lu Zhou thanked the emperor for the help and gave him Immortal True Dragon Divine Liquid to extend the ancestor’s life.
• Lu Zhou killed Yin Tiande with two dragon-shaped divine rays, annihilating his primordial spirit.
• The Saint King ancestor initially refused the divine liquid, hoping his death would persuade Lu Zhou to help the dynasty, but Yue Shi’s father argued that sincere friendship would serve them better.
• Yue Shi’s father proposed that Yue Shi follow Lu Zhou as his maidservant and that the ancestor protect her; the ancestor accepted the plan and drank the divine liquid.

Lu Zhou left Ziwei with his companions and returned to Big Dipper after nearly a year of visiting its famous sites and gathering sign-in rewards. He announced that he would soon sever the Dao on Earth, and Ye Fan and several others asked to accompany him.

• Fu Zhan thanked Lu Zhou for the Immortal True Dragon Divine Liquid and said he would travel with Princess Yue Shi to see the modern world.
• Lu Zhou visited Ziwei's Daoist lineages, collected sign-in rewards, and arranged to meet his companions at the Sun Divine Religion before returning to Big Dipper.
• Old Master Ren Mo brought Lu Zhou's group beyond Ziwei's domain, and Lu Zhou used a one-use teleportation array disk to return to Yaoguang Holy Land.
• Lu Zhou learned that Big Dipper remained relatively peaceful, though some human and demon forces had allied with the increasingly assertive Primordial Races.
• Lu Zhou told Holy Master Yaoguang that he had comprehended his Dao and would sever it in the coming days.
• Ye Fan, Yao Xi, Weiwei, Ji Ziyue, and Qin Yao asked to accompany Lu Zhou to Earth, and he said he would also ask Pang Bo and An Miaoyi.

Lu Zhou decided to return to Earth to sever the Dao, and his companions gathered at Yaoguang to prepare for the journey. After half a month of preparations and revelry, Ye Fan arrived with his wives, and Old Gai joined the group, hoping Earth’s mysteries might hold a chance for him to live another life.

• Lu Zhou agreed to let Yan Yixi and Li Tian travel with him to Earth, and Jiang Tingting suggested bringing Tongtong and the others along.
• Ye Fan said he planned to stay on Earth for several years, while Ji Ziyue, Jiang Tingting, and Xia Jiuyou left Yaoguang to visit their families and masters.
• An Miaoyi and Lu Zhou’s other Dao Companions hurried to Yaoguang, where they met Yi Qingwu, Yue Shi, Yan Yixi, and Li Tian.
• Lu Zhou’s Dao Companions teased and scolded him for gathering the women together, while Yi Qingwu and Yue Shi observed how devotedly he treated them.
• Ye Fan arrived at Yaoguang with his two wives and found Lu Zhou drinking tea with Old Gai and Pang Bo.
• Lu Zhou explained that Old Gai planned to accompany them to Earth after hearing of its mysteries and hoping to find a chance to live another life.

Lu Zhou returned to Earth with Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and their companions, then gave everyone time to reunite with their families and former homes. Ye Fan reunited with his parents in City B, while Lu Zhou and his Dao Companions explored City R.

• Lu Zhou appeared atop Mount Tai, healed the tourists with spiritual rain, and gathered the companions who had traveled with him to Earth.
• Ye Fan and Pang Bo left to visit their families, while Yan Xiaoyu, Phoenix Heavenly Maiden, Kane, Audrey, and Old Gai each set off to revisit places from their past.
• Lu Zhou took Yan Ruyu and his other Dao Companions to City R to share his childhood haunts and local foods with them.
• Ye Fan arrived in City B with Ji Ziyue, Qin Yao, and the others and tearfully reunited with Ye's Father and Ye's Mother.
• Ye's Mother welcomed Ji Ziyue and Qin Yao, and Ye's Father invited the rest of the group inside as Earth's cultivators left them to celebrate privately.
• Xu Qiong watched the reunion from concealment and departed, while Ye Fan sensed someone had been there.

Ye Fan reunited with his parents and met his little sister Ye Qi, then told Ji Ziyue and Qin Yao about Xu Qiong and his intention to visit her. He revealed that Lu Zhou had saved Xu Qiong from a fraudulent fiancé, leaving the women outraged at what had happened.

• Ye Qi came home, met Ye Fan and his family, and spent a joyful afternoon bonding with her older brother and sisters-in-law.
• Ye Fan returned to his old bedroom and explained that the woman in a photograph was Xu Qiong, someone he had once grown close to.
• Ye Fan recalled learning that Xu Qiong had cared for his parents in the original future and admitted he still wanted to see her.
• Ji Ziyue and Qin Yao encouraged Ye Fan to find Xu Qiong, and he said he would visit her soon at her address in the same city.
• Ye Fan explained that Lu Zhou had encountered Xu Qiong's fiancé cheating the night before their wedding and helped avert the misfortune; Ji Ziyue and Qin Yao condemned the man.

Ye Fan reunited with Xu Qiong and learned how deeply she had fallen for Lu Zhou, whose kindness had changed her life. Xu Qiong was delighted to hear Lu Zhou had returned, and Ye Fan left expecting the two of them to meet again soon.

• Ji Ziyue and Qin Yao condemned Xu Liang’s deception, while Ye Fan felt relieved that Xu Qiong had avoided marrying him.
• Ye Fan visited Xu Qiong, and the old friends greeted each other warmly after more than ten years apart.
• Ye Fan explained that he had realized Xu Qiong loved Lu Zhou from her memories, habits, and the many clothes and slippers she had kept for him.
• Xu Qiong admitted she had felt inferior to Lu Zhou and said she had only become certain of his affection after he left; she also complained that he had misunderstood her relationship with Ye Fan.
• Ye Fan told Xu Qiong that Lu Zhou had returned to Earth to sever his Dao, and Xu Qiong brightened at the news.
• Xu Qiong invited Ye Fan to dinner, but he declined, saying he would treat her and Lu Zhou when Lu Zhou came to see her.

Xu Qiong resolved to find Lu Zhou after learning he had returned to Earth, but after searching Sichuan without success, she unexpectedly reunited with him at Yun Jing Terrace. They returned to her home, where their reunion turned intimate, and Xu Qiong ended the night dreaming of a mischievous daughter.

• Xu Qiong recalled how Lu Zhou's protection and the cultivation resources he left had helped her become a revered cultivator, then decided to travel to City R and find him.
• Xu Qiong searched City R and the rest of Sichuan, but learned Lu Zhou had left with Yan Ruyu and the others to travel elsewhere on Earth.
• After several fruitless days, Xu Qiong returned to Yun Jing Terrace and found Lu Zhou waiting for her at the entrance.
• Xu Qiong and Lu Zhou embraced and returned to Unit 1314, where they exchanged affectionate gestures and Xu Qiong kissed him for the first time.
• Xu Qiong spent the night with Lu Zhou and dreamed that they had a powerful, mischievous daughter.

Xu Qiong and Lu Zhou reunited as lovers and spent Little New Year's Eve enjoying a warm evening together. Xu Qiong revealed that she had obtained Nuwa's Imperial artifact and cultivated a wealth of rare medicines, and the night ended with Lu Zhou's fireworks lighting up City B.

• Xu Qiong woke to find Lu Zhou gone, then clung to him when he returned with groceries and promised he would stay.
• Xu Qiong and Lu Zhou discussed their hopes for a family before cooking a festive Little New Year's Eve dinner together.
• Lu Zhou shared his precious Rouge Drunk wine with Xu Qiong, who revealed the Nuwa Dao Platform and described finding it six years earlier in a small world.
• Xu Qiong explained that the Nuwa Empress Realm had let her cultivate hundreds of Medicine Kings and an Immortal Divine Medicine, and offered to help Lu Zhou with herbs and alchemy.
• After midnight, fireworks filled City B's sky, and Xu Qiong thanked Lu Zhou for making one of her long-held dreams come true.

Lu Zhou left Earth to sever the Great Dao in defiance and endured a devastating heavenly tribulation in the cosmos while Ye Fan and others watched. As the Crocodile Ancestor sensed the tribulation from Mars, he tore through the void and charged toward Earth.

• Lu Zhou celebrated New Year's Eve with Ye Fan's family and introduced Xu Qiong to his other Dao Companions, who welcomed her into their family.
• On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Lu Zhou told Ye Fan and Pang Bo that he would sever the Dao beyond Earth the next day and asked them to observe his process.
• At dawn, Lu Zhou ascended alone into the Outer Domain Starry Sky while Yan Ruyu used the Demon Emperor Weapon to show his journey to those on Earth.
• Lu Zhou released his cultivation in the cosmos and faced an immense heavenly tribulation as lightning waterfalls engulfed him.
• Ye Fan watched Lu Zhou's tribulation and grew more determined to keep pace with him, while cultivators across Earth sensed the upheaval.
• The Crocodile Ancestor recognized the heavenly tribulation as Dao Severing and tore through the void toward Earth.

Lu Zhou endured a Dao-severing tribulation in which the Qiankun Pearl and World Tree devoured Dao Marks while he fought the weapons and lightning manifestations of ancient Great Emperors. Facing five Young Great Emperors at once, he targeted Moral Heavenly Venerate first, intending to exhaust him and use One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones against the remaining enemies.

• Lu Zhou sent the Qiankun Pearl through the lightning sea, where it froze and shattered a meteor swarm while plundering its Dao Marks.
• Dao Venerate's gourd, the Fuxi Dragon Stele, the Nuwa Dao Stone, the Western Emperor Tower, the Gouchen Seal, and other tribulation weapons attacked Lu Zhou as he fought them with his body and primordial spirit.
• Ye Fan and the other observers recognized that the weapons and five humanoid lightning figures had the power and combat experience of Young Great Emperors.
• Lu Zhou recognized the five figures as Moral Heavenly Venerate, Empress Xi, Void Great Emperor, Taihuang, and Emperor Hengyu, and realized his tribulation exceeded Ye Fan's original trial.
• Lu Zhou focused his attacks on Moral Heavenly Venerate, planning to exhaust his energy and defeat him first so he could use One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones against the others.

Lu Zhou’s Dao-Severing tribulation escalated as he defeated several Young Great Emperors, then faced a growing host of them after his Dao Bodies vanished. The Ruthless Emperor joined the assault, leaving Lu Zhou overwhelmed and Little Nannan pleading for the attackers to stop.

• Lu Zhou used the Fighting Character Secret to erase the Moral Heavenly Venerate, then created three Dao Bodies and drove the remaining four Young Great Emperors into retreat.
• Nine Stars Shining in the Sky appeared, bringing five more Young Great Emperors into the battle, including Wushi, the Yin and Yang Holy Emperors, and Fuxi.
• Lu Zhou’s three Dao Bodies dissipated, and new Young Great Emperors replaced fallen opponents as he fought alone against nine.
• The Ruthless Emperor joined the siege, and Lu Zhou was repeatedly blown apart while Yuan Gungun nearly rushed into outer space to help him.
• Little Nannan cried and begged the Young Great Emperors not to hurt Lu Zhou; the Ruthless Emperor briefly seemed to look toward her before attacking him again.

Lu Zhou fought nine lightning young emperors to refine his understanding of their Emperor Scriptures and divine arts, then used his Universe Without Limits Domain to endure and redirect their attacks. As the domain collapsed, he fused his myriad Daos into a new “One,” linking his five secret realms and bringing forth his Dao Self.

• Lu Zhou battled the nine lightning young emperors, using their techniques to deepen his comprehension while Wushi and the Empress repeatedly wounded him.
• Lu Zhou formed the Great Dao furnace and transformed it into his Universe Without Limits Domain, which returned the young emperors’ attacks against one another.
• The domain eventually shattered, but Lu Zhou used it to wear down Wushi and the Empress and annihilate two young emperors with their own attacks.
• Lu Zhou’s Universe Without Limits Domain collapsed into a single point that merged all scriptures and Daos, replacing his Wheel of Life Sea and connecting his five secret realms.
• Lu Zhou’s five deities fused into a nine-colored Daoist who emerged as his Dao Self and chanted a true scripture, awakening Lu Zhou’s past self across time and space.

Lu Zhou forged the Wuji Dao Heaven, defeated the lightning young emperors, and endured the deepest chaos of his heavenly tribulation. He signed in at Thunder Tribulation Land, gained an empty Thunder Pool that brought tribulation lightning into his Qiankun World, and emerged after reaching the sixth minor stage of the Immortal Three King Realm.

• Lu Zhou fused the myriad Daos into his own Dao, joined his Past Self and Dao Self with his Original Self, and formed the Wuji Dao Heaven.
• Lu Zhou defeated the Ruthless Emperor and annihilated the other eight lightning young emperors, then shattered all nine stars and forced his way through the heavenly tribulation’s anomalies.
• Lu Zhou entered the roiling land of chaos with the Qiankun Pearl, endured severe injuries, and signed in to obtain an empty Thunder Pool.
• Lightning began to appear within Lu Zhou’s Qiankun World, and he realized the world had moved closer to becoming a true heaven and earth.
• Lu Zhou passed the tribulation and reached the sixth minor stage of the Immortal Three King Realm before the sea of lightning vanished, leaving him alone in the Outer Domain Starry Sky.

Lu Zhou returned to Earth after successfully slaying the Dao, but the Crocodile Ancestor attacked him and was subdued by Old Gai. After Ye Fan and Pang Bo confronted the demon, Lu Zhou helped them kill him, then led everyone toward Mars to seek a treasure refined by Lingbao Heavenly Venerate.

• Yan Ruyu and Lu Zhou's companions celebrated his successful Dao slaying, but the Crocodile Ancestor suddenly attacked him in the outer-space starry sky.
• Old Gai appeared beside Lu Zhou and used chains of laws to suppress the Crocodile Ancestor, who recognized Lu Zhou from their past on Mars.
• Yan Ruyu brought Ye Fan and Pang Bo through a void passage, and they confronted the Crocodile Ancestor about his past attacks and possession of Li Xiaoman.
• Lu Zhou cut off the Crocodile Ancestor's tail with the Tianxuan Sword and handed the weapon to Ye Fan and Pang Bo, who killed him after venting their anger.
• Lu Zhou and the others searched the Crocodile Ancestor's soul and used his remains as materials before Lu Zhou asked Old Gai to take them to Mars for a treasure refined by Lingbao Heavenly Venerate.

Lu Zhou brought Ye Fan and the others to Mars, where Ye Fan and Pang Bo recovered their dead classmates’ remains and the group explored the Great Thunderclap Temple’s hidden Hells. They retrieved the Coffin-Suppressing Lamp and, back on the surface, agreed to explore Mars further, leaving Lu Zhou considering what to do about the Undying Heavenly Emperor.

• Old Gai took Lu Zhou and the others to Mars, where Ye Fan and Pang Bo recited the Duren Sutra and gathered the remains of their dead classmates to return to their families.
• The group examined the ruins of the Great Thunderclap Temple, and Lu Zhou revealed the entrance beneath its foundation stones to two levels of Hell.
• Lu Zhou led everyone through both levels, where they found the Ghost Lamp beside a Stone Coffin and a shriveled little old man.
• Old Gai examined the Coffin-Suppressing Lamp and handed it to Lu Zhou, who let Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and the others study it.
• Pang Bo suggested exploring more of Mars, and Lu Zhou agreed while privately considering what to do about the Undying Heavenly Emperor.

Lu Zhou privately told Old Gai that Mars was a Great Tomb hiding the One Realm Mausoleum and the Undying Heavenly Emperor, and explained how an ancient Immortal Ascension Path had triggered a catastrophic divine war there. He began to explain how Great Emperor Wushi was connected, leaving the details for later.

• Lu Zhou warned everyone not to explore Mars alone, and Zixia and Shi Yao suggested abandoning the expedition.
• Old Gai and Lu Zhou disappeared from City B to speak privately, while Ye Fan and Pang Bo guessed that Old Gai wanted to ask about Mars.
• Lu Zhou told Old Gai that Mars was a Great Tomb containing the One Realm Mausoleum, where the Undying Heavenly Emperor was undergoing further transformation.
• Lu Zhou explained that a Primordial Age divine war on Mars destroyed the planet and damaged or shattered several imperial weapons, including the Immortal Ascension Cauldron.
• Lu Zhou explained that Mars's Immortal Ascension Path was a branch of the main path and that the Undying Heavenly Emperor was hidden in the One Realm Mausoleum.
• Lu Zhou began outlining the connection between the events and Great Emperor Wushi, saying the story started at least eighty thousand years earlier.

Lu Zhou explained how Great Emperor Wushi uncovered the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s schemes and forced him to appear at Purple Mountain. He revealed that the Undying Heavenly Emperor intervened to protect his son, the Crown Prince, and told Old Gai that the Crown Prince had been killed and possessed by Wan Nian; Old Gai then asked what happened after the Heavenly Emperor appeared.

• Lu Zhou told Old Gai that the Undying Heavenly Emperor prolonged his life by transforming through the flesh and blood of emperors, and Old Gai connected this scheme to past calamities and deaths.
• Lu Zhou explained that Great Emperor Wushi took control of Purple Mountain to force the Undying Heavenly Emperor out, and confirmed that Wushi succeeded.
• Old Gai assumed the Undying Heavenly Emperor had appeared for the Undying Empress, but Lu Zhou reasoned that he had come to protect his son, the Crown Prince.
• Lu Zhou told Old Gai that the Crown Prince was not the Undying Empress’s child, that he had killed the Crown Prince, and that Wan Nian now possessed the body.
• Old Gai asked Lu Zhou what happened after the Undying Heavenly Emperor was forced to appear at Purple Mountain.

Lu Zhou explained his theory that Great Emperor Wushi fought the Undying Heavenly Emperor twice, then entered a Strange World containing Longevity Substance after their final battle. Old Gai learned how Longevity Substance could help someone live another life, and the two concluded that Wushi might still be alive while the Undying Heavenly Emperor remained vulnerable during a deep transformation.

• Lu Zhou theorized that Wushi lured the Undying Heavenly Emperor into a second battle on Mars's Immortal Ascension Path, where they fought for two thousand years before Wushi entered a Strange World.
• Old Gai asked about Longevity Substance, and Lu Zhou explained its presence in the Immortal Realm, Strange World, Immortal Divine Medicines, and the bodies of people who had lived a second life.
• Lu Zhou gave Old Gai the Humanoid Undying Divine Medicine and Qilin Immortal Divine Medicine to study.
• Old Gai reasoned that Wushi survived in the Strange World and grew stronger, while the Undying Heavenly Emperor stayed behind on Mars to recover and continue transforming.
• Lu Zhou said the Undying Heavenly Emperor was likely still in a deep transformation, and Old Gai asked how they could take advantage of his condition.

Lu Zhou left the Undying Heavenly Emperor alone, celebrated his Dao Severing with a feast, and saw Ye Fan accept three Earth prodigies as registered disciples. He then traveled with Xu Qiong to Shennong’s hidden abode, where a Seven-Colored Elk recognized him from his earlier visit.

• Lu Zhou and Old Gai agreed to leave the Undying Heavenly Emperor undisturbed, and Old Gai returned to Shennongjia to discuss the Dao with Xuanyuan and Shennong.
• Lu Zhou returned to Ye Fan’s hometown, where a lavish banquet celebrating his Dao Severing helped many cultivators break through.
• Youwei Yu, Zhang Qingyang, and Long Xiaoque asked Ye Fan to take them as disciples, and Ye Fan accepted them as registered disciples.
• Lu Zhou traveled to Shennongjia with Xu Qiong and others to visit Shennong and Xuanyuan.
• The waterfall parted to reveal Shennong’s secluded abode, and a Seven-Colored Elk recognized Lu Zhou as the man who had stolen one of its spirit fish nine years earlier.