Chapter Summaries

Chu Qing changed the history of the Dao Fruit World, reviving the two Outsiders and bringing back many dead beings. After they thanked him, he asked the White Robe Beings to choose whether to oppose him with the Nirvana Dao or join his fight against it.

• A strange sound spread from the Dao Fruit World into the Chaos Sea, briefly restoring the Chaos Creatures' reason and changing their forms.
• The Dao Fruit World reversed its destruction, restoring buildings, treasures, thoughts, and powerful experts, including the two Outsiders who had died in battle.
• The Female Outsider reached through the mirror, captured a White Robe Being, and interrogated it about Chu Qing's methods.
• The two Outsiders learned that Chu Qing had changed history, then crossed the mirror into the White Hall to meet him.
• The two Outsiders promised to repay Chu Qing, and he asked the White Robe Beings whether they would join him against the Nirvana Dao.

Chu Qing used his title and mysterious divine abilities to weaken the White Robe Beings and invade their cultivation realms, forcing them to choose between surrender and death. As the beings struggled to understand and break his methods, Chu Qing realized that even the outsiders could not decipher the runes within them.

• The Female Outsider warned the White Robe Beings to pledge allegiance, then she and the male outsider refined one of them into ashes.
• Chu Qing unleashed his title, weakening the White Robe Beings’ cultivation foundations, and used divine abilities to invade two of their realms.
• Two White Robe Beings begged to surrender, but Chu Qing refused and offered the others better status if they pledged allegiance before the pair died.
• The White Robe Beings examined the two invaded realms and worked together to find a way to stop Chu Qing’s divine abilities.
• The Female Outsider and the male outsider admitted they could not understand the underlying principles of Chu Qing’s method, while Chu Qing wondered how to decipher its runes.
• A White Robe Being let out a miserable scream as Chu Qing’s method continued to take effect.

Chu Qing’s ash-based divine ability devastated the White Robe Beings and contaminated the White Palace, while he studied the ash and made the survivors swear loyalty to the Emperor. One healed being broke his oath and fled, leaving the remaining White Robe Beings stranded and furious.

• Chu Qing’s ash spread through the White Robe Beings’ realms and the White Palace, killing some and driving the contaminated beings to beg for help.
• Chu Qing admitted to the Outsiders that he could control the ash, then asked them to leave while he studied it and its connection to ancient beings and runes.
• As the hall collapsed, the surviving White Robe Beings begged Chu Qing to save them and swore loyalty to the Emperor, though two refused.
• Chu Qing healed one White Robe Being, who immediately fled and declared that his oath was void.
• The other White Robe Beings cursed the escapee for abandoning them before they could be healed.

Chu Qing learned that the Emperor’s name could make sworn oaths come true, then restored the White Robe Beings who had pledged themselves to him. Two who refused to swear by the Emperor turned to ash, while the others remained bound to Chu Qing.

• The White Robe Beings attacked a fleeing traitor and insisted they had not meant to break their oaths, while two companions stayed their hands at Chu Qing’s gesture.
• The fleeing traitor was engulfed in ten thousand flames as his oath came true, and he returned to Chu Qing begging for mercy.
• The two unsworn White Robe Beings described legends in which the Emperor’s power fulfilled broken oaths, even those sworn by Nirvana True Disciples.
• Chu Qing wondered whether the Emperor in those legends was his future self and spent an hour considering the connection while the White Robe Beings begged for help.
• Chu Qing sealed the ashes and restored the sworn White Robe Beings, but the two who had refused to swear turned completely to ash, condemning the others for choosing obedience.

After the White Palace collapsed, Chu Qing learned that the Nirvana Dao sought to send all weak beings and worlds into Nirvana, and resolved not to let it destroy his own world. He also learned about the Nirvana Patriarch and the Law Lineages that powered cultivation in the Chaos Sea.

• The White Palace collapsed, revealing a darkness filled with curses from dead beings, and Chu Qing realized the Nirvana Dao threatened his world.
• Chu Qing questioned the White Robe Beings, who explained that the Nirvana Dao destroyed Starry Sky Worlds and admitted only powerful survivors as members.
• The White Robe Beings described the Nirvana Patriarch as a Chaos Sea powerhouse who had lived for more than a dozen Epochs and grew stronger through the Nirvana Dao's members.
• A White Robe Being explained that the Chaos Sea's cultivation systems had been unified into 108,000 Law Lineages, whose members gained power and cultivation guidance in exchange for serving them.
• The Female Outsider asked about Outsiders, and the White Robe Beings said most they had encountered had abandoned their own cultivation methods and joined Law Lineages.

Chu Qing learned more about the Chaos Sea and ordered the White Robe Beings to keep invading his world slowly so he could use the Nirvana Dao to temper it. He returned to the Dao Fruit World with the Female Outsider, where Golden Core methods strengthened resistance to the Nirvana Dao, and she wondered whether treasures buried before history changed still remained.

• The White Robe Beings explained that the Chaos Sea held countless Starry Sky Worlds and that their remote region governed more than ten thousand worlds.
• Chu Qing told the White Robe Beings to alert him if Nirvana Dao experts arrived and to continue invading his world at a slower pace.
• The Female Outsider chose to return to the Dao Fruit World, while the male Outsider stayed behind to watch the White Robe Beings and study the Nirvana Dao; Chu Qing gave him a scripture to summon his reflection in danger.
• Chu Qing returned to the Dao Fruit World with the Female Outsider, and Wang Quan taught her the Golden Core Dao Fruit methods.
• The Female Outsider spread the Golden Core methods, and the new Golden Cores strengthened the Dao Fruit World's resistance to the Nirvana Dao.
• The Female Outsider asked whether the exotic treasures she and others had buried before history changed were still underground.

Chu Qing and the Female Outsider entered the white jade palace to retrieve the exotic treasures, but found that Nirvana Dao followers had taken them and demanded allegiance. Chu Qing attacked the black-robed intruders and prepared to face their reinforcements.

• Chu Qing examined people's memories and found that stronger people had more gaps, while weaker people remembered more completely.
• Chu Qing and the Female Outsider reached a barren continent and used scriptures to reveal Exotic Arts that destroyed the darkness of the Nirvana Dao.
• The pair entered the white jade palace, where black-robed figures trapped them and revealed they had waited there for more than a hundred eras.
• The Female Outsider tried to summon the exotic treasures but received no response, and the black-robed figures said their lord had taken and strengthened them.
• Chu Qing activated his titles, weakened the black-robed figures, seized one attacker, and eroded him with divine abilities.
• Seven or eight black-robed figures charged Chu Qing, who called them too weak to defeat him.

Chu Qing overwhelmed the black-robed men with his fleshly strength and Reflection Realm, then sliced one apart to study its body and cultivation. He found a living, root-like structure embedded throughout its flesh and realm, and the man screamed when Chu Qing tried to pull it out.

• Chu Qing used the Reflection Realm and his physical power to defeat the black-robed men, leaving them with wounds that their methods could not heal.
• He kept testing his divine abilities on the black-robed men until they lay helpless and began to collapse.
• Chu Qing suspended one black-robed man and sliced him into countless thin pieces to study his flesh and realm, startling the Female Outsider and the others.
• Chu Qing examined and recombined the slices, discovering a living, root-like structure that drew power from the man's flesh and realm.
• When Chu Qing tried to pull out the structure, the sliced black-robed man screamed that it hurt and begged him to stop.

Chu Qing discovered that the black-robed creatures’ cultivation realms were being replaced by the Nirvana Dao’s dharma lineage, while his examination of the Female Outsider revealed a connection between their bodies and the Dao Fruit World. The Female Outsider explained that Nirvana Dao disciples competed for permission authority, which let its holders command and suppress those with less authority.

• Chu Qing sliced apart several black-robed creatures and found a tree-root-like structure running through their realms and flesh.
• A black-robed creature recognized the structure as the Nirvana Dao’s dharma lineage, and the Female Outsider explained that it could replace their cultivation and make them dependent on dharma lineage authority.
• Chu Qing studied the black-robed creatures’ cultivation systems and bodies, finding no more than three thousand runes in them and no innate power.
• At the Female Outsider’s request, Chu Qing studied her body in private and found three thousand and one runes, prompting him to wonder why the Gods and Demons Era had contained one hundred and eight thousand.
• The Female Outsider reported that the Nirvana Dao released one hundred and twenty thousand portions of permission authority each era, and that holders could command and suppress disciples with less authority.

Chu Qing argued that Dao lineages stifled their members’ growth, and the black-robed beings admitted they had stopped advancing after joining the Nirvana Dao. When they tried to frighten the Female Outsider away from summoning the exotic treasure by threatening the Head of the House’s attack, Chu Qing told her to proceed and vowed to confront him.

• Chu Qing rejected joining a Dao lineage, while the black-robed beings insisted that survival and advancement in the Chaos Sea depended on joining one.
• The Female Outsider pointed out that the black-robed beings were weaker than her and Chu Qing despite having lived for many eras.
• One black-robed being admitted he had not advanced beyond formal disciple in the Nirvana Dao for more than five thousand eras, and the others recognized their own stagnation.
• The black-robed beings claimed the Head of the House would attack if the Female Outsider summoned the exotic treasure, hoping to make the pair afraid to act.
• Chu Qing told the Female Outsider to summon the exotic treasure and vowed to kill the Head of the House if he appeared, or track him down if he did not.

Chu Qing and the Female Outsider fought off attacks from the Black Robe Living Beings’ master through a Teleportation Array, while Chu Qing studied and suppressed the master’s spear. The spear’s return strike reached the Purple Robe Living Being who had sent it, forcing him to warn his companions that Chu Qing was formidable.

• The Female Outsider summoned her Command Flag and used its Dao Fruit mist to clash with two black beads sent through the Teleportation Array.
• A long spear emerged from the array and attacked Chu Qing, but he stopped it with successive waves of divine abilities.
• Chu Qing froze the spear again, mocked its power, and formed an Overlord Spear to send a counterattack through the array.
• On the other side, a Purple Robe Living Being recalled that a trap he had set more than a hundred eras earlier had been disturbed and prepared to retrieve its prey.
• The Purple Robe Living Being used an Array Disk to send his spear through the array, then sensed Chu Qing’s strength and told his companions to move aside.

Chu Qing watched the Black Robe Living Beings and Parting Spear fight in his world, where the dharma veins’ flaws prevented most of them from adapting. Meanwhile, ashes from injured Purple Robe Living Beings began eroding the Nirvana Dao headquarters, and their Senior Brother’s attempt to crush them ended with his expression turning grim.

• Chu Qing explained to the Female Outsider that the dharma veins gradually twisted their followers and that their founders spread them to trap later generations.
• Some Black Robe Living Beings broke free of the dharma veins’ influence and developed new cultivation paths, while Parting Spear and the others died.
• One surviving Black Robe Living Being adapted to Chu Qing’s world and incorporated its cultivation system, but Chu Qing dismissed any threat he might pose.
• More than a dozen injured Purple Robe Living Beings returned to the Nirvana Dao headquarters, where their falling ashes began eroding the black earth before it consumed them.
• The Purple Robe Living Beings begged their authorized Senior Brother for help, and he ground down the ashes contaminating the mountaintop, but his face turned ugly.

Great Red Robe 0.5 discovered that Chu Qing’s ashes could erode the Nirvana Dao, then deciphered their power as withering and founded the Ashes Wither Lineage. He crowned himself King of Withering and made the sealed Purple Robes his Ashes Envoys.

• Great Red Robe 0.5 sensed that Chu Qing’s ashes were eroding his eyes and realized they could even wither his realms and life traces.
• Great Red Robe 0.5 used his authority to remove most of the ashes from the Purple Robes, preserved a sample, and sealed them in crystalline structures.
• Great Red Robe 0.5 studied the ashes until their spread through the sealed Purple Robes revealed that their essence was withering.
• Great Red Robe 0.5 established the Ashes Wither Lineage, transformed his authority, and declared himself King of Withering.
• Great Red Robe 0.5 made the Purple Robes Ashes Envoys and declared that wherever they went, time, history, space, and all else would wither.

Chu Qing learned that someone had used the lingering power of his divine ability to create the Ashes Wither Lineage, then agreed with the Female Outsider to make her Dao Fruit World the main battlefield against the Nirvana Dao. Meanwhile, the Martial Arts World began reconnecting its continents, restoring some of its ancient power, as forbidden-zone Kings worried about the Nirvana Dao’s attack.

• Chu Qing received 10 Legend Points after someone used his divine ability’s lingering power to create the Ashes Wither Lineage, and he wondered whether it would undermine the Nirvana Dao.
• Chu Qing and the Female Outsider agreed to make her Dao Fruit World the main battlefield against the Nirvana Dao, with Chu Qing promising to send reinforcements.
• After Chu Qing left, humanity’s forces continued opening forbidden zones and connecting continents, while experts hunted the remaining Path Harvesters.
• When Qingzhou Continent connected to its neighbor, the world’s foundation grew stronger and ancient beings began recovering some of their power.
• Forbidden-zone Kings, fearing the Nirvana Dao’s attack and recognizing humanity’s strength, debated whether to contact their headquarters.

The forbidden-zone Kings chose to ally temporarily with the human race against the Nirvana Dao, while trying to determine whether their Absolute Kills were safe to use. As the human world stabilized after Heaven’s disappearance, the Martial Ancestors began moving against the 365 Old Heavens, and the Flesh and Blood Martial Ancestor prepared to seize Heaven’s authority.

• The Kings rejected contacting headquarters and decided to join forces with the human race until they could no longer resist the Nirvana Dao.
• The Kings began studying one another’s Absolute Kills to find and repair flaws that might expose them to beings from beyond Heaven.
• Luo Tian, Myth, and others sent experts to kill path Harvesters as Golden Core cultivation spread and strengthened the human world.
• Secret human alliances sheltered surviving path Harvesters while the Martial Ancestors emerged and formed groups targeting the 365 Old Heavens.
• The Old Heavens gathered authority, regained some intelligence, and secretly divided the human world among themselves.
• The Flesh and Blood Martial Ancestor revealed his plan to seize Heaven’s authority, break human lifespan limits, and grant humans boundless longevity.

The Old Heavens discussed rebuilding the Heavenly Court to gather forces against the Nirvana Dao, while disagreeing over who would rule it. After remembering Chu Qing’s power, they decided to invite him to join as the Azure Heaven.

• The martial ancestors opened seals and summoned old allies as they prepared to reclaim authority from the Old Heavens.
• Yu Tian proposed forcing the major sects to merge into a Heavenly Court and supply fighters against the Nirvana Dao.
• The Old Heavens argued over control and settled on each ruling the Heavenly Court for one day.
• The Old Heavens worried Chu Qing would oppose their plan, but Batian argued their combined authority could help them face him.
• Yu Tian proposed making Chu Qing the Azure Heaven, and the Old Heavens agreed to invite him into their ranks.

After returning to Stone Ridge Mountain, Chu Qing learned how it had expanded its influence across the human world and explained that he planned to use Nirvana Dao and battles against the restricted zones to forge an invincible legion. Nangong recognized his true purpose, but the women questioned how a legion could help them in wars fought by top experts.

• Chu Qing returned to Stone Ridge Mountain, where he split into tens of thousands of projections to speak with the enthusiastic maids before Madam Jin and the others arrived.
• Madam Jin told Chu Qing that Qingzhou and Stone Ridge Mountain had become holy lands, while the women described their growing forces, spreading branches, demons, and use of the Abyss as a training ground.
• Chu Qing told the women about his recent dealings with Nirvana Dao, and they warned that its attacks could still harm the human world before its internal parasites weakened it.
• Chu Qing said he had subdued several members of Nirvana Dao and intended to use it to develop the human world, fight the restricted zones, and forge an invincible legion.
• Nangong identified Chu Qing's goal as creating a legion for conquest and battle, but the women questioned whether an army could matter in conflicts between top experts.

Chu Qing explained that he wanted to build a legion to protect the women if they had to seal themselves away in the future, though no one knew what threat would force them to do so. He decided to use future War Fortress designs brought by Phoenix Emperor and Di Yu'er, leaving the legion’s construction as their next task.

• Chu Qing told Nangong Moyang and the others that the legion would protect them while they were sealed away and buy their future selves time against attackers.
• Madam Jin asked why they would seal themselves away, and Chu Qing recalled that his future self had an unhealed wound in his chest.
• The women speculated about the enemy, and Chu Qing considered Chaos Creatures as the most likely threat after ruling out the Nirvana Dao and other possibilities.
• Wang Quan proposed building one hundred thousand War Fortresses and recruiting one hundred billion realm-level martial artists, but the women objected to the enormous cost.
• Chu Qing said they would build top-tier fortresses using designs from one hundred eras in the future, which Phoenix Emperor and Di Yu'er could bring over.

After returning to their own era, Phoenix Emperor and Di Yu'er discovered that history and the present had changed, with Chaos Creatures replacing the old threats and the Human race fighting alongside former enemies. Di Yu'er read unofficial records of the Great Unification Era and found a dire account of Di Qing returning from the Chaos Sea with Liuli, followed by the destruction of Stone Ridge and the deaths of two Martial Ancestors.

• Phoenix Emperor and Di Yu'er returned to their era and noticed that their room, belongings, and clothes had subtly changed.
• Phoenix Emperor and Di Yu'er found that historical records were changing, with altered events and new entries appearing.
• Phoenix Emperor and Di Yu'er learned that Chaos Creatures now threatened the starry sky while the Human race, Old Gods, and Abyssal Creatures fought together against them.
• Di Yu'er read the Official History of the Great Unification Era, then found unofficial accounts of Di Qing and other experts battling in the Chaos Sea.
• Di Yu'er read that Di Qing returned from the Chaos Sea carrying Liuli, Stone Ridge was destroyed, and Martial Ancestor Tongtian and Martial Ancestor Qiu Wudi were killed; she reminded herself that it was unofficial history.

Di Yu'er and Phoenix Emperor searched unofficial histories of the Great Unification Era and found records about Chu Qing, Liuli, and the mysterious Return to Void. Di Yu'er memorized the clues, intending to tell Chu Qing so he could judge the histories and possibly change the future.

• Phoenix Emperor found an unofficial history claiming that a woman who crossed the sea bore descendants for Master Di Qing, while Di Yu'er focused on its account of an Emperor slaying 108,000 living beings.
• Di Yu'er found another account of Chu Qing returning with Liuli after his heart had been lost, along with records linking Liuli to the end of Liuli River and the Return to Void.
• Di Yu'er searched for the Return to Void and found a description calling it the final destination of Nirvana, time, space, and matter, marked only by despair.
• Di Yu'er memorized the records about Liuli and the Return to Void, then found histories of wars whose names matched major sects and organizations.
• Di Yu'er decided to tell Chu Qing what she had learned, hoping he could assess the records and change history, and she felt relieved that the future seemed to lack Abyssal Creatures and twisted old gods.