Chapter Summaries

Cheng Xi stabilized Yan Lingji by helping her obtain the Xuan Ming True Meaning Imprint, then rescued a besieged Xuan Ming Tribe from baleful demons. The Old Witch Priest offered information about the route to the Northern Nether if Cheng Xi helped drive back an approaching Taiyi demonic creature, leaving Cheng Xi to weigh the risk against his urgent journey.

• Cheng Xi guided Yan Lingji through the Path of Cold Silence, where she absorbed the Xuan Ming True Meaning Imprint and entered Xuan Ming Winter Sleep.
• Cheng Xi carried Yan Lingji out of the ruins and found Xuan Ming Tribe warriors surrounded by baleful demons and three Profound Immortal baleful spirits.
• Cheng Xi hid Yan Lingji, then used a Chaos Vortex to devour the demon tide and destroy the three baleful spirits.
• The Old Witch Priest identified the warriors as the Xuan Ming Tribe and warned that a Taiyi demonic creature was approaching.
• The Old Witch Priest asked Cheng Xi to drive back the creature, offering repayment and the route to the Xuan Ming Sea Eye, while Cheng Xi considered whether to risk helping.

Cheng Xi discovered that the Demon Lord drew power from the Nine Nether Sinking Sand Iron beneath the Gobi and went underground to disrupt the connection. With the ore vein spirit’s help, he triggered an eruption of yin sha against the Demon Lord’s core.

• Cheng Xi purified the Demon Lord’s resentful faces and guided the Witch Tribe warriors to strike its energy nodes, slowing it down.
• Cheng Xi discovered that the Demon Lord was drawing power from an earth yin vein, and the Old Witch Priest identified it as the Nine Nether Sinking Sand Iron.
• The Old Witch Priest led the Witch Tribe in a desperate assault to distract the Demon Lord while Cheng Xi entered the underground cavern.
• Cheng Xi stabilized the cavern’s space-time and lent Chaos Origin to the corrupted Spirit of the Ore Vein, weakening the Demon Lord’s connection to its power source.
• The Spirit of the Ore Vein agreed to help Cheng Xi, who triggered an eruption of Nine Nether Yin Sha that surged into the Demon Lord’s demonic nucleus.

Cheng Xi survived the Demon Lord’s collapse, received a precious Sinking Sand Iron core and a Xuan Ming bone talisman, and learned that the route to the Northern Nether Sea Eye led through dangerous territory occupied by Frost Silence Demon Spirits. As Cheng Xi set out with Yan Lingji, an unseen observer watched him from the dunes.

• The Demon Lord’s demon core collapsed, killing it and unleashing destructive ripples that shattered the Xuan Gui battle formation and injured Cheng Xi and the witch warriors.
• The Spirit of the Ore Vein refined its remaining essence into a Sinking Sand Iron core for Cheng Xi, then used its final strength to counter the collapse’s energy storm and perished.
• Cheng Xi returned to the surface, where the Old Witch Priest thanked him for saving the Xuan Ming Tribe and distributed his healing pills to the wounded.
• The Old Witch Priest explained that reaching the Xuan Ming Sea Eye required crossing the Ghost Soul Ice Plains and Eternal Cold Gang, where the hostile Frost Silence Demon Spirits threatened travelers.
• The Old Witch Priest gave Cheng Xi a bone talisman bearing Ancestor Witch Xuan Ming’s aura, and Cheng Xi departed to retrieve Yan Lingji and continue north.
• An ice-crystal-eyed figure hidden in a distant sand dune watched Cheng Xi and the Xuan Ming Tribe.

Cheng Xi reached the Ghost Soul Ice Plains with Yan Lingji and followed the Xuan Ming Bone Talisman’s guidance to an underground fissure. After Frost Silence Demon Spirits ambushed him with an Ice Puppet Legion, he began fighting his way toward the fissure, where he sensed an ancient bridge.

• Cheng Xi used the Xuan Ming Bone Talisman to withstand the Eternal Cold Gang and tracked its guidance across the Ghost Soul Ice Plains.
• Cheng Xi found the fissure entrance and spotted pale-gray runes that revealed an ambush by Frost Silence Demon Spirits.
• The demon spirits summoned over a hundred Ice Puppets and attacked Cheng Xi, but his Chaos Vortex destroyed nearly half of them.
• The three demon spirit leaders began forming a Frost Silence Domain, and Cheng Xi gathered the Fragment of the Chaos Bell’s power as he sensed an ancient Black Mystic Ice bridge in the fissure.

Cheng Xi shattered the Frost Silence Domain and found the Bridge of Ice Silence, the path to the Xuan Ming Sea Eye. He secured passage by accepting a blood pact to protect Yan Lingji and continued across the bridge toward the demon spirit elders waiting ahead.

• Cheng Xi used his primordial chaos and Chaos Sword Intent to break the Frost Silence Domain, injuring the three demon spirit leaders.
• Cheng Xi discovered the Bridge of Ice Silence and learned from the Xuan Ming Bone Talisman that it led to the Xuan Ming Sea Eye.
• The talisman’s black tortoise phantom entered Yan Lingji, and her Xuan Ming aura helped open the bridge’s barrier.
• Cheng Xi accepted a blood pact requiring him to protect Yan Lingji until they reached the Sea Eye, and the barrier granted them passage.
• Cheng Xi crossed the bridge as the demon spirit leaders warned that elders awaited them on the far side.

Cheng Xi fought the Frost Silence Demon Spirits’ seven elders inside the Great Eternal Frost Nirvana Array, while Yan Lingji’s Ice and Snow Mark awakened a trace of Ancestor Witch Xuan Ming’s will. The array faltered under Xuan Ming’s pressure, giving Cheng Xi an opening to strike at its exposed nodes and the disoriented elders.

• Cheng Xi reached the far shore and discovered that seven powerful elders had concealed themselves there with a Golden Immortal-grade killing formation.
• Great Elder Han Yuan activated the Great Eternal Frost Nirvana Array, and he and the six elders attacked Cheng Xi from all directions.
• Cheng Xi used the Chaos Heart to withstand the formation and the elders, though the battle depleted his spiritual power and wounded him.
• The extreme cold and the battle’s energy stirred Yan Lingji’s Ice and Snow Mark, awakening a trace of Ancestor Witch Xuan Ming’s will.
• Xuan Ming’s pressure disrupted the array and restored much of Cheng Xi’s strength, and Cheng Xi spotted the exposed energy nodes and the elders’ disarray.

Cheng Xi destroyed the Great Eternal Frost Nirvana Array and, with Xuan Ming's will, defeated the Frost Silence elders after learning they had served a new master connected to Nirvana. Carrying Xuan Ming's Imperial Edict and Yan Lingji, he entered the Sea Eye in search of Gonggong's Secret Treasure and encountered a hostile ancient will in the grotto-heaven below.

• Cheng Xi used Chaos Array-Breaking Needles to destroy the Great Eternal Frost Nirvana Array, then killed one Frost Silence elder with a single punch.
• Xuan Ming's will stopped Cheng Xi and revealed that the Frost Silence Demon Spirits had once been Ice Guardians, but Han Yuan admitted they had betrayed their purpose and followed a new master promising freedom through Nirvana.
• Xuan Ming's will crushed the six remaining elders, and Cheng Xi collected their cores as Han Yuan warned that the master's descent could not be stopped.
• Xuan Ming gave Cheng Xi her Imperial Edict and directed him into the Sea Eye to find Gonggong's Secret Treasure and suppress the Core of the Nirvana Origin.
• Cheng Xi carried the sleeping Yan Lingji through the Sea Eye passage and entered an underwater grotto-heaven, where a violent ancient will awakened and targeted him.

Cheng Xi calmed Gonggong's hostile remnant soul with the Human Race Kindling Fire and learned that Gonggong and Xuan Ming had sealed the Core of the Nirvana Origin beneath the sea eye. After receiving Gonggong's Origin Essence Blood, he used it to strengthen Yan Lingji, but the seal began to crack as an outside force attacked the Sea Eye Entrance Barrier.

• Gonggong War Soul attacked Cheng Xi with torrents of Xuan Ming True Water and an Ancestor Witch domain.
• Cheng Xi used the Chaos Heart, the Human Race Kindling Fire, and Yan Lingji's aura to awaken Gonggong War Soul's memories and end its hostility.
• Gonggong War Soul explained how he and Xuan Ming had sealed the Core of the Nirvana Origin and gave Cheng Xi his final portion of Origin Essence Blood.
• Gonggong War Soul dispersed after warning Cheng Xi about what lay behind the nirvana.
• Cheng Xi infused Yan Lingji with Gonggong's Origin Essence Blood, beginning her awakening.
• A crack appeared in the seal around the Core of the Nirvana Origin as the system warned that an external force was striking the Sea Eye Entrance Barrier.

Yan Lingji fused Gonggong’s Origin Essence Blood with her Xuan Ming power, then tried to stabilize the failing Nirvana Origin seal while Cheng Xi fought intruders at the Sea Eye entrance. The seal’s collapse tore open a breach to an unknown darkness, awakening a terrifying ancient will.

• Yan Lingji awakened with balanced Xuan Ming and Gonggong powers, reaching the peak Profound Immortal realm.
• Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji learned that the Nirvana Origin seal was failing and the Sea Eye barrier was under attack, so Yan Lingji went to reinforce the seal while Cheng Xi defended the entrance.
• Yan Lingji slowed the seal’s collapse as Cheng Xi faced a peak Golden Immortal leader and his two attendants after they shattered the barrier and entered the grotto-heaven.
• Cheng Xi opened his Chaos Domain and attacked the black-robed leader, whose gray crystal began draining Cheng Xi’s Chaos Power.
• The Nirvana Origin’s Core shattered Yan Lingji’s weakening seal, causing the Sea Eye Grotto-Heaven to collapse and opening a breach from which an ancient destructive will awakened.

Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji escaped the collapsing Sea Eye Grotto-Heaven through a passage to the Abyss of Return, where they found Nirvana corruption spreading and Primordial World cultivators under attack. They rescued Fairy Yaochi’s group, but the old Daoist recognized Cheng Xi with shock and fear, suggesting troubling events had unfolded while Cheng Xi was missing.

• Yan Lingji raised a Black Water Mystic Ice Barrier against the Nirvana Will while Cheng Xi overloaded and destroyed the black-robed leader’s gray prism, forcing him to flee as his two followers were swallowed by Spatial Rifts.
• Cheng Xi spotted Abyss of Return coordinates beneath the Gonggong Statue, opened a narrow path through the collapsing grotto-heaven, and led Yan Lingji into a spatial vortex just before the realm collapsed.
• Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji emerged in the Abyss of Return and discovered that Nirvana corruption had spread further across the region.
• They approached a battle and saw dozens of Primordial World cultivators, including Fairy Yaochi and her wounded master, besieged by corrupted Abyss creatures.
• Cheng Xi struck down a Chaos Shadow attacking the old Daoist, then revealed himself; the old Daoist recognized him as Lord Chang'an Cheng Xi and reacted with shock and fear.

Cheng Xi learned that the Heavenly Court and Western Teachings had blamed him for the Nirvana Calamity and branded him the Primordial Era’s public enemy. A Taiyi demonic corpse bearing a Western Teachings Demon Subduing Seal then attacked, and Cheng Xi stepped forward to confront it.

• Cheng Xi rescued Xuan Chengzi, Fairy Yaochi, and the other cultivators, but they reacted with fear and suspicion toward his Chaos Aura.
• Xuan Chengzi told Cheng Xi that the Heavenly Court and Western Teachings had issued a Demon Hunt Decree accusing him of causing the Nirvana Calamity, with Fusu testifying against him.
• Cheng Xi questioned whether the cultivators believed the accusations and pointed out the Heavenly Court and Western Teachings’ failure to effectively fight the demonic creatures.
• A corrupted qilin-shaped god or demon corpse rose from the bone forest, displaying Taiyi True Immortal strength and a Western Teachings Demon Subduing Seal.
• The corpse and surrounding demonic creatures attacked, and Cheng Xi ordered Yan Lingji to protect the cultivators before facing the corpse with the Fragment of the Chaos Bell.

Cheng Xi defeated the Taiyi Demonic Corpse by breaking the Buddha Seal that controlled it, uncovering evidence linking Sage Jieyin and the Western Teachings to the Nirvana corruption. As the group prepared to escape to Mount Longevity, Fairy Yaochi warned Cheng Xi that Wuzhuang Temple was occupied by Heavenly Court envoys and Western Arhats, making it a trap.

• Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji fought the Taiyi Demonic Corpse, with Yan Lingji holding back its Nirvana torrent while Cheng Xi attacked its Buddha Seal.
• Cheng Xi broke the seal and glimpsed a vision suggesting Sage Jieyin had sent Buddha light toward the Abyss of Return while Nirvana Origin surrounded a golden lotus.
• The Taiyi Demonic Corpse collapsed, and Xuan Chengzi and the surviving cultivators cleared the disordered demonic creatures and apologized to Cheng Xi.
• Xuan Chengzi proposed using an ancient teleportation formation to reach Mount Longevity, and Cheng Xi agreed.
• Fairy Yaochi warned Cheng Xi that Zhen Yuanzi had not emerged from seclusion and that Heavenly Court envoys and Western Arhats jointly guarded Wuzhuang Temple.

Cheng Xi discovered that a Western Teachings pawn had turned the teleportation formation into a trap, then used the pawn’s memories and a hidden star map to deduce another route through the Abyss of Return. He led Yan Lingji, Xuan Chengzi, Fairy Yaochi, and the other survivors toward it, while an old monk appeared behind them and planned to adjust the capture net.

• Cheng Xi spotted a Western Teachings mark on Daoist Qingmu and secretly warned Yan Lingji that the teleportation formation was a trap.
• Daoist Qingmu tried to alter or destroy the formation, but Yan Lingji froze him before he could act.
• Cheng Xi searched Qingmu’s soul, learned that the formation led to the Demon Subduing Hall of Mount Longevity, and recovered an incomplete star map.
• Cheng Xi combined the star map with other spatial clues to deduce a hidden ancient route through the Abyss of Return, and Xuan Chengzi and Fairy Yaochi agreed to follow him.
• Cheng Xi led the survivors toward the new route, and an old monk appeared at the abandoned formation and decided to adjust the capture net.

Cheng Xi and his companions were intercepted in the Ancient Abyss of Return Path by Zen Master Nirvana, who tried to force them into his decaying Buddhist domain. Cheng Xi shattered the ancient path to escape with his allies through a mysterious rift, and Zen Master Nirvana identified it as the Echoes of the Other Realm.

• Cheng Xi led Yan Lingji, Xuan Chengzi, Fairy Yaochi, and the others through the hazardous ancient path, where they found remnants from civilizations beyond the Primordial era.
• Zen Master Nirvana blocked their way and, by Buddha Maitreya's decree, demanded that Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji accompany him to the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss.
• Cheng Xi summoned the Fragment of the Chaos Bell, but Zen Master Nirvana trapped the group in his decaying Buddha's Palm Kingdom and attacked them.
• Cheng Xi used the Chaos Heart and the bell fragment's space power to collapse the ancient path, disrupting Zen Master Nirvana's domain.
• Cheng Xi escaped with Yan Lingji, Xuan Chengzi, Fairy Yaochi, and several others through a dark rift, while Zen Master Nirvana identified it as the Echoes of the Other Realm.

Cheng Xi and his companions entered the Archive of Myriad Realms' Echoes, where they discovered that the Primordial World was being eroded by the Power of Nirvana and might fall silent within three eras. The Gravekeeper spared them execution and offered a cleanup mission as their way to keep their memories and learn how to leave.

• Cheng Xi led Yan Lingji, Xuan Chengzi, Fairy Yaochi, and two other cultivators through the Dark Rift into a vast corridor that weakened their connection to the Heavenly Dao.
• The group saw records of countless extinct civilizations and learned that the Primordial World, designated HZ-001, was also declining under the erosion of the Power of Nirvana.
• A Gravekeeper identified the group as unauthorized visitors and singled out Cheng Xi as a Transcendence Variable.
• Cheng Xi explained their arrival and revealed the Chaos Bell fragment, leading the Gravekeeper to waive the death penalty.
• The Gravekeeper gave the group a choice between having their memories erased and exiled or completing a mission to destroy the Nirvana offspring contaminating the Abyss of Afterglow.

Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji led the group through the Abyss of Afterglow and destroyed JM-YT-01 by purifying its paradoxical core with primordial Chaos. Gravedigger 0732 gave Cheng Xi a route to the Eternal Night Ice Plains and warned that the Reapers were targeting variables, while its final remark left the Archive’s purpose in doubt.

• Gravedigger 0732 sent Cheng Xi, Yan Lingji, Xuan Chengzi, Fairy Yaochi, and the others into the Abyss of Afterglow to destroy JM-YT-01 within twelve hours.
• Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji fought through contaminated information constructs as the group advanced toward the core, with Cheng Xi using Chaos and Yan Lingji wielding her Ancestor Witch powers.
• The group reached JM-YT-01, and Yan Lingji held off its constructs while Cheng Xi analyzed its Dark Singularity and discovered its self-referential paradox structure.
• Cheng Xi used primordial Chaos Source light to erase JM-YT-01’s core, purifying the platform and completing the mission.
• Gravedigger 0732 gave Cheng Xi coordinates leading to the Eternal Night Ice Plains and warned that Reapers were operating beyond the Primordial Era’s outer barrier to eliminate variables.
• Cheng Xi asked about the Archive’s true purpose, and Gravedigger 0732 departed after calling archives another form of tombstone.

Cheng Xi and his companions reached the Eternal Night Ice Plains, where Nirvana Buddhist forces ambushed them. After Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji defeated the attackers, a hidden observer identified them as a high-threat target and began a Reapers elimination countdown.

• Cheng Xi led the group through the extradimensional route to the Eternal Night Ice Plains and guided them toward Cold Silence Peak.
• Yan Lingji spotted ice sculptures of missing Primordial cultivators, and Cheng Xi discovered traces of Nirvana Buddhist power inside them.
• More than a hundred Buddhist soldiers and three Ice Hell Arhats trapped the group in a Cold Silence Buddhist Prison formation and demanded their surrender.
• Cheng Xi fought the three Arhats while Yan Lingji broke the formation, and together they destroyed the Buddhist forces.
• Cheng Xi detected a concealed figure that identified the group as a high-threat target and initiated the Reapers elimination countdown.

Cheng Xi and his allies resisted a Reaper that could erase existence, then disrupted it with information from beyond the Primordial World and fled to Cold Silence Peak. They reached the ruined teleportation formation, only to find four Reapers closing in with space-time anchors and Concept Decomposition.

• Cheng Xi used the Fragment of the Chaos Bell to shield the group, but the Reaper erased two cultivators and began attacking the survivors’ existence information.
• Cheng Xi discovered that Yan Lingji’s Ancestor Witch Dao Mark briefly burdened the Reaper’s information processing, then told the group to overwhelm it with complex information.
• Cheng Xi sent a stream of otherworldly Information Contamination into the Reaper, disrupting it long enough for the group to flee toward Cold Silence Peak.
• The Reaper recovered and activated protocols that slowed space-time and destabilized the concepts of the Dao, while the group rushed to Cold Silence Peak.
• Cheng Xi and the others reached the ruined teleportation formation, where three more Reapers appeared as the first approached, surrounding them with four Reapers in total.

At the Abyss of Return Sea Eye, Cheng Xi used the Kindling Fire imprint to reach the sleeping Candle Dragon and save Yan Lingji. Candle Dragon warned him that the Primordial Era’s calamity continued and directed him toward the lost Fire Cloud Cave and a clue to Penglai, which was shrouded in shadows.

• Cheng Xi arrived at the Abyss of Return Sea Eye with Yan Lingji, whose origin was on the verge of collapse, and tried to stabilize her with Chaos Power.
• Cheng Xi’s pleas and the Fragment of the Chaos Bell briefly stirred the sea eye, but Candle Dragon did not respond.
• Cheng Xi sent the sleeping Candle Dragon the Kindling Fire’s images of civilization, resilience, and hope, prompting life essence to flow from the corals into Yan Lingji.
• Yan Lingji’s origin stabilized as Candle Dragon told Cheng Xi she would awaken after a hundred years and might grow stronger.
• Candle Dragon warned that the calamity involved more than annihilation, directed Cheng Xi to seek the lost Fire Cloud Cave and the human race’s orthodox destiny, and revealed a clue to Penglai in the shadowed East Sea.

Cheng Xi left the Abyss of Return with Xuan Chengzi and Fairy Yaochi to seek Penglai, while Yan Lingji remained asleep under his protection. On the way, they were trapped in a false Penglai by Daoist Yujing, who revealed his interest in Cheng Xi and the coming return to zero.

• Cheng Xi secured Yan Lingji in a protected slumber, and Xuan Chengzi and Fairy Yaochi chose to accompany him toward the Eastern Sea.
• The three traveled across increasingly corrupted waters until a peak Profound Immortal tentacle attacked Cheng Xi, who shattered it with a Chaos-powered punch.
• A gigantic, corrupted Eight-Clawed Divine General emerged, and Fairy Yaochi recognized it as Yu Guo, once a servant of the Sea Patrol Yaksha God.
• A radiant image of Penglai appeared and swallowed the travelers and the Divine General, but Cheng Xi realized it was an illusion and warned the others.
• Daoist Yujing appeared within the Great Void Illusory Realm, identified Cheng Xi as a variable noticed by the Reapers, and invited him to watch the world's return to zero.
• The illusion turned hostile, and the Eight-Clawed Divine General lost its remaining clarity and lunged at Cheng Xi and his companions.