Chapter Summaries

Di Yu'er and Phoenix Emperor searched for accounts of the Great Unification Era, then asked the Emperor Kun Family’s Old Ancestors when they discovered history had changed. The Old Ancestors also remembered the changes, but Third Old Ancestor claimed she did not know the era’s history despite being born in it.

• After failing to find more histories, Di Yu'er and Phoenix Emperor decided to seek answers from the Old Ancestors.
• On their way to the Emperor Kun Family, Di Yu'er and Phoenix Emperor realized that the war over Lady Bi Luo’s sealed location had vanished from history and that the world now had more, larger human continents.
• The first Old Ancestor could not answer their questions, so she led them to Eighth Old Ancestor, who said the palaces had reappeared after history changed and that many of the family’s contingencies had collapsed.
• Eighth Old Ancestor revealed that she, Seventh Old Ancestor, and Emperor Kun Old Ancestor knew history had been altered, while Di Yu'er and Phoenix Emperor hid their suspected involvement.
• Seventh Old Ancestor agreed to help, and the Old Ancestors gathered at Third Old Ancestor’s residence, where Third Old Ancestor said she did not know the Great Unification Era’s history, shocking the others.

Phoenix Emperor and Di Yu'er reached Di Xiu'er’s palace to ask about the Great Unification Era, where she revealed that they had helped change history through their connection to [Di]. Di Xiu'er explained that [Di] had told her about them after history changed and her memories and state shifted.

• The Third Old Ancestor led the Old Ancestors, Phoenix Emperor, and Di Yu'er to Di Xiu'er’s palace beneath the seabed.
• The group entered a vast spherical palace filled with sentient Exotic Flowers and Herbs and found Di Xiu'er asleep in a crystal coffin.
• Di Xiu'er awakened and asked Phoenix Emperor and Di Yu'er whether they still wanted to keep changing history.
• Di Xiu'er told them that their connection to [Di] had caused the historical changes, and Phoenix Emperor asked her about [Di Qing] in hopes of earning a reward.
• When the Old Ancestors accused Phoenix Emperor and Di Yu'er of taking over their descendants, Di Xiu'er explained that their consciousnesses had collided with [Di]’s and that [Di] had given them essence blood.
• Di Xiu'er said [Di] had told her about them and that the changes in history had given her new memories and altered her state.

Di Xiu'er explained why knowledge of the future could bind powerful figures to history, then recounted her early life with Lord [Emperor Qing]. She left the others with no answers about Bi Luo, Madam Shi, or Princess Consort.

• Di Xiu'er told Di Yu'er and the others that ordinary people could change their fates with future knowledge, while powerful figures who learned history would fulfill it.
• Di Xiu'er lectured the group for hours, repeatedly reappearing after they thought she had stopped.
• After Phoenix Emperor asked about her relationship with Lord [Emperor Qing], Di Xiu'er described her auspicious birth and how he taught and traveled with her before they separated.
• Di Xiu'er said she had never heard of Bi Luo, Madam Shi, or Princess Consort.

Di Xiu'er learned that Chu Qing had other women and resolved to find them, while reflecting on her ignorance of [Emperor]'s past. She told Di Yu'er and Phoenix Emperor to warn the young [Emperor King] against learning the future, but Di Yu'er challenged her belief that such knowledge would make history inevitable.

• Di Xiu'er insisted she had been [Emperor]'s only woman during the Great Unification Era, leaving the Old Ancestors, Di Yu'er, and Phoenix Emperor stunned.
• After learning that Madam Shi and Nangong Moyang existed, Di Xiu'er decided to find [Chu Qing]'s women and fight them to determine who was superior.
• Di Xiu'er warned Di Yu'er and Phoenix Emperor not to tell [Emperor] about the future, and they recounted Chu Qing's history to her.
• Di Xiu'er lamented that she had never investigated [Emperor]'s past and had only begun to mature after he vanished.
• Di Xiu'er ordered them to return to the past and warn the young [Emperor King] not to learn the future, but Di Yu'er argued that [Emperor] had changed history before.
• Di Xiu'er maintained that only [Emperor]'s own descent could change history and worried that his latest intervention might have fallen into history's trap.

Di Xiu'er revealed that Emperor Kun Old Ancestor had died long ago and urged the Emperor Kun Clan's Old Ancestors to prepare for the coming war. She showed them his preserved corpse, and their bloodlines forced them to mourn.

• Di Xiu'er told the Old Ancestors that war was coming and offered to lead them in cultivation.
• The Old Ancestors dismissed the need to grow stronger, believing Emperor Kun Old Ancestor would protect the clan.
• Di Xiu'er revealed that Emperor Kun Old Ancestor had died in the Chaos Sea and that she had used his sealed corpse to make others believe he was still alive.
• Di Xiu'er summoned Emperor Kun's corpse from a box, and the Old Ancestors recognized him through their bloodlines.
• The Old Ancestors transformed into Kun Peng and wept as they realized Emperor Kun Old Ancestor was dead.

Di Xiu'er made the Emperor Kun Clan's Old Ancestors consume Emperor Kun's flesh and blood to strengthen them for the coming war, then ordered Di Yu'er to turn his blood into medicine for the whole clan. As the war spanning eras approached, Di Xiu'er prepared to bear the decisive battle herself.

• Di Xiu'er told the Emperor Kun Clan's Old Ancestors to eat their dead ancestor's flesh and blood to strengthen their bloodlines, and they began devouring it while Di Yu'er and Phoenix Emperor drank his blood.
• Di Xiu'er reflected on Chu Qing's warning that a war spanning eras would threaten the survival of the Human race, though she questioned what the Chaos Sea's Humans had to do with her world.
• After the Old Ancestors finished eating, Di Xiu'er restored Emperor Kun's remains in his box and told them they could eat again after digesting the flesh and blood.
• Di Yu'er proposed refining Emperor Kun's blood into secret medicine for the entire clan, and Di Xiu'er assigned her the task and ordered everyone to prepare for war.

Di Xiu'er refused Phoenix Emperor’s offer to visit the Great Unification Era, choosing instead to prepare for a war she believed [Emperor] had predicted. She went to seek an ancient God or Devil as Miss Heaven discovered that history had been altered beginning in the Great Unification Era and found a message from Chu Qing.

• Di Xiu'er showed Di Yu'er that the Emperor Kun Old Ancestor’s corpse was regrowing flesh and instructed her to let the clan’s descendants eat from it without destroying it completely.
• Di Xiu'er explained that the Old Ancestor could die in the Chaos Sea, and Di Yu'er left to carry out her instructions.
• Phoenix Emperor invited Di Xiu'er to visit [Emperor Qing] in the Great Unification Era, but Di Xiu'er declined and said she would handle a war in the present era.
• Di Xiu'er vanished to seek a God or Devil who had served as a lackey at the end of the Gods and Demons Era.
• Miss Heaven traced missing and newly appearing memories to an alteration of history that began in the Great Unification Era, then found a message Chu Qing had left for her.

Miss Heaven learned that Chu Qing expected her and Di Xiu'er to defend the ninetieth through hundredth eras in a war against Chaos experts, and she struggled to find enough allies. As the era’s defenses came under attack from a Dragon Turtle and other powerful beings, she recognized that the war had begun.

• Miss Heaven reread Chu Qing’s warning that Chaos experts would wage war across one hundred eras at once and that she and Di Xiu'er should defend the last eleven.
• Miss Heaven deduced that Chu Qing and other allies would hold the earlier eras, while the later eras would serve as battlefields to delay the enemies.
• Miss Heaven considered recruiting the Abyss and discovered that Bi Luo’s former sealing place in the Blissful Continent had become ruins.
• Miss Heaven realized that history and the hundred eras had become abnormal after Chu Qing changed the past.
• Chains spread across the sky as a Dragon Turtle and streams of fiery attackers struck the world’s defenses, and Miss Heaven identified the assault as the beginning of the war.

Lian Hongchen and the Martial Ancestors joined the Old Heavens in battling Chaos Creatures across an era, while the Old Heavens deployed War Fortresses and used their authorities. Lian Hongchen held off a host of giants and Dragon Turtles as Qiu Wudi and the Daoist Nun left to bolster the other eras, planning to return once they reached the hundredth era.

• Old Heavens in the eleventh through ninety-ninth eras discussed fighting the Chaos Creatures rather than risk Chu Qing's anger.
• Lian Hongchen and other Martial Ancestors emerged through a vortex and attacked the Chaos Creatures, while a mantis slaughtered enemies and the Daoist Nun summoned dead experts back to battle.
• The Old Heavens deployed moon-sized War Fortresses and used their authorities against the Chaos Creatures.
• Lian Hongchen unleashed a white light that cut down Dragon Turtles, then wounded a giant who led a fresh assault against her.
• Lian Hongchen told Qiu Wudi to take the other Martial Ancestors to the next era while she held the enemy forces back.
• Qiu Wudi and the Daoist Nun departed to give the other eras confidence, intending to return after reaching the hundredth era.

Lian Hongchen unleashed her full power and slaughtered the Bronze Bell Giants and Dragon Turtles attacking her era. In the twelfth era, Qiu Wudi stayed behind to hold off a new invasion while the Daoist Nun took the other Martial Ancestors to the next era, leaving the war’s outcome dependent on Chu Qing’s return.

• Lian Hongchen fused with her other selves and released three thousand Heaven-Connecting Paths, killing the Chaos Creatures in overwhelming numbers.
• The Daoist Nun brought the Martial Ancestors to the twelfth era, where they helped defeat an initial wave of Chaos Creatures.
• When more Bronze Bell Giants appeared, Qiu Wudi chose to remain behind and protect the twelfth era from their attack.
• Qiu Wudi enlarged her body and struck the charging giants, while the Daoist Nun led the others away to support the next era.
• The Daoist Nun feared Qiu Wudi would die and said that only Chu Qing’s timely return from the Chaos Sea could end the war.

Qiu Wudi fought the Chaos Creatures, Bronze Bell Giants, and awakened White Bone Beings in the Twelfth Era, while the Daoist Nun led the surviving Martial Ancestors through successive eras to aid their defenders. In the Ninetieth Era, they found the Undefeated Demon God battling increasingly powerful enemies, and she wondered what Chu Qing was doing.

• Qiu Wudi tore off her outer robe and used her power to destroy waves of Chaos Creatures and Bronze Bell Giants in the Twelfth Era.
• The Bronze Bell Giants dragged a White Bone Palace from the Chaos Sea, and its awakened White Bone Beings attacked everyone, forcing Qiu Wudi into a fierce battle.
• Qiu Wudi kept fighting the White Bone Beings despite being surrounded, determined not to fall behind Lian Hongchen.
• The Daoist Nun led the remaining Martial Ancestors onward through the eras to encourage their defenders, eventually reaching the Ninetieth Era exhausted.
• The Daoist Nun recognized the Undefeated Demon God, who had fought across ten eras and found that the enemies were growing stronger.
• The Undefeated Demon God wondered what Chu Qing was doing as the eras faced destruction.

Undefeated Demon God Miss Heaven transformed into her monstrous form and devoured Chaos Creatures while the Daoist Nun summoned a vast nest that unleashed monsters on the Human World. The nest’s two awakened faces, Stone Iron Pillar and King Shiyu, began demanding worship, and the Daoist Nun fled with the others.

• Undefeated Demon God Miss Heaven told the Daoist Nun that the Chaos Creatures sought to destroy the Human race’s last independent refuge, and the Daoist Nun said Chu Qing’s Reflection Method had been sealed.
• Miss Heaven shed her human skin, revealed her thousand-armed Demon God form, and began swallowing White Bone Beings and Bronze Bell Giants.
• The Daoist Nun prayed and summoned a massive nest, whose spores fell into the Human World and turned its monsters into Chaos Creatures that copied the forms of their victims.
• Stone Iron Pillar and King Shiyu awakened within the nest and demanded that all living beings kneel to them.
• The Daoist Nun grabbed the others and told them to run.

King Shiyu and Stone Iron Pillar escaped their seals and spread their parasitic replicas through the Chaos Sea, eventually destroying the entire era. After all other life was gone, the two remained alone in the dark, energyless world and taunted Chu Qing.

• King Shiyu and Stone Iron Pillar began parasitizing and replicating life, quickly overrunning the world and adapting their creations to the Chaos Sea.
• Powerful Chaos Creatures arrived and burned the nests to ash, but the nests regenerated and attacked them while spreading into the depths of the sea.
• The nests invaded ancient corpses and deeper regions until the Chaos Sea's strongest organizations were overwhelmed despite their attempts to trace and destroy the nests.
• The final survivors recorded a warning and concealed their resurrection methods before fighting the nests and dying.
• The nests consumed the Chaos Sea and left the ninetieth era empty, until only King Shiyu and Stone Iron Pillar remained.
• As their consciousness faded, King Shiyu and Stone Iron Pillar cried out that they had destroyed an era and were truly lonely as snow.

As the war spread across eras and timelines, Di Xiu'er chose to defend the hundredth era while the Phoenix Emperor and Di Yu'er sought to join the fighting. She unleashed her Golden Core power against the Chaos Creatures, leaving the Daoist Nun to fear that Di Xiu'er would never return.

• Chu Qing and the Chaos Sea experts fought across a hundred eras and countless timelines, destroying lives and timelines as they struggled to kill each other.
• The Phoenix Emperor, Di Yu'er, the Daoist Nun, Miss Heaven, the Undefeated Demon God, and countless Human and Demon experts joined the battle in the hundredth era.
• Di Xiu'er pulled the Phoenix Emperor and Di Yu'er away from the fight and brought them to the Daoist Nun.
• Di Xiu'er declared that she would protect the hundredth era, took up her Inch of Time spear, and transformed Chaos Creatures into Golden Cores with her power.
• The Phoenix Emperor and Di Yu'er watched in shock as Di Xiu'er swept across the battlefield, while the Daoist Nun feared the surviving Chaos experts would eventually overwhelm her.

The Daoist Nun sent Di Yu'er and Phoenix Emperor back to the Great Unification Era while Di Xiu'er and the Martial Ancestors defended the hundredth era from the Chaos enemies. After Chu Qing learned that the future was catastrophically brutal, [Liuli] warned him against seeking more details, and the two women sealed away their future memories.

• The Daoist Nun used a ritual to summon the dead powerhouses, who joined Di Xiu'er in the Chaos Sea, and ordered the Martial Ancestors to defend the era until [Di Qing] returned.
• The Daoist Nun sent Di Yu'er and Phoenix Emperor back to the Great Unification Era, where they resumed control of the Scribe's body and went to meet Chu Qing.
• Di Yu'er and Phoenix Emperor told Chu Qing that the future had changed and that learning its history could make it fated, while Madam Shi tried to extract their memories before Chu Qing stopped her.
• [Liuli] warned Chu Qing not to descend into the future, and Di Yu'er revealed that it was far worse than the battle against [Heaven].
• Madam Jin taught Di Yu'er and Phoenix Emperor to seal their future memories, and [Liuli] asked them to record the group's conversations for future generations.

Chu Qing agreed to try to leave descendants with his companions so their bloodlines could preserve their memories if they were ever forgotten. Their plans were interrupted when Bright Moon learned that a riot had broken out in the Second World, and she set off to investigate.

• Nangong, Liuli, and Madam Jin persuaded Chu Qing that descendants could help preserve their legacy and give them a chance to return if they died and were forgotten.
• Zhao Hongxiu suggested trying for several hundred years, and Chu Qing agreed to work with the women to produce descendants.
• Bright Moon took Chu Qing into a stone sphere, while Madam Shi trapped First Illumination Person in a cage and ordered her to guard the door.
• First Illumination Person persuaded Phoenix Emperor and Di Yu'er that interrupting Chu Qing's efforts might change history, then rammed the stone sphere until Bright Moon came out.
• White doves told Bright Moon that a riot had erupted in the Second World, and she took First Illumination Person and left to investigate.

Bright Moon discovered that decay and despair were pouring into the Second World through dozens of passages connected to other worlds. After the group failed to seal the passages, Chu Qing decided they had to visit the other worlds and find living beings who could help suppress the decay.

• Bright Moon found that decay and despair were surging from a hole beneath Stone Ridge Mountain, and more holes appeared when Golden Cores tried to block it.
• Bright Moon descended into an underground cavern filled with passages to other worlds, but her seals and Golden Core could not stop the flow.
• First Illumination Person concluded that Heaven had likely opened the passages while fleeing to other worlds, and Bright Moon summoned Chu Qing after her contact was delayed by Cui Moyang’s turn to play.
• Bright Moon and First Illumination Person used billions of Golden Cores and temporary seals to reduce the decay, while Chu Qing, Madam Shi, and the others arrived and failed to seal the passages.
• The Princess Consort warned that traveling to other worlds was dangerous, but Chu Qing decided the group had to find out whether those worlds still had living beings who could help.

Chu Qing discovered that the passages between worlds were chaotic space-time tunnels and used Liuli’s help to cross one quickly. He emerged in a lifeless world, where three Old Heavens recognized him as a familiar outsider.

• Chu Qing sent three Old Heavens through a passage, then pulled back a second group with chains and learned that time and space inside the tunnels were distorted.
• Madam Shi tested more than twenty passages and found that each had the same chaotic time-space disturbances.
• Chu Qing entered a passage and learned from Liuli that it was a Space-Time Tunnel connecting countless worlds.
• Using Liuli’s guidance and his own time-space power, Chu Qing crossed the tunnel in less than a minute and reached another world.
• Chu Qing found the world devoid of life and faced three Old Heavens, who asked why he seemed familiar to them.

Chu Qing uncovered how a black light had corrupted the three Old Heavens and driven them to destroy their world, then traced the black light’s true body in the Chaos Sea and attacked it. He left the three Old Heavens freed from its influence and vowed to finish off its master if it had survived.

• Chu Qing examined the three Old Heavens’ memories and learned that they had forgotten their past after entering this world and eventually killed every other living being.
• Chu Qing discovered that a black light had entered the Old Heavens’ minds and incited their slaughter, then battled it when it claimed them as its Treasure Embryos.
• Chu Qing studied and sliced apart the black light, traced its true body to the Chaos Sea, and sent his power through Black Holes to attack it.
• Chu Qing withdrew the Heaven-Connecting Light Pillar after it cracked and shed golden blood, while the mountains and seas behind him ground away the resulting curse.
• The three Old Heavens regained their clarity and asked Chu Qing if he had saved them; Chu Qing said he did not know whether he had killed Black Light’s master but would seek it out in the Chaos Sea.

At a banquet, Feng Qing revealed the World Planting Method and invited powerful experts to help him reach it, warning them of the dangers ahead. As they prepared for the journey, Chu Qing’s Heaven-Connecting Light Pillar attacked Feng Qing, overpowering his strongest techniques and forcing him to prepare his ultimate move.

• Feng Qing told the banquet guests about the ancient World Planting Method and proposed that they join him in seeking it.
• After Feng Qing listed one hundred and eight dangers, many guests agreed to risk the expedition, and he gave them coordinates in the Third Thousand Six Hundred Sea.
• The guests began preparing treasures and writing wills before a black hole appeared above the banquet.
• Feng Qing claimed the spatial-crossing attack came from the Nirvana Dao and said he would suppress it.
• Chu Qing’s Heaven-Connecting Light Pillar destroyed Feng Qing’s concealed killing moves and Star Shattering Finger, prompting Feng Qing to ready his Bottom-of-the-Box Technique.