Chapter Summaries

Di Xiu'er and the Undefeated Demon God explored a War Fortress left behind by Stone Ridge Mountain and awakened the Mechanical Monarch sealed inside it by Nangong. They opened Nangong’s hidden storage rooms and found war resources and a Stone Bamboo Pearl, leaving its purpose unknown.

• Di Xiu'er and the Undefeated Demon God boarded the War Fortress and discovered that spiritual roots powered it and that no living people remained inside.
• Di Xiu'er awakened the Mechanical Monarch, which revealed that Nangong had sealed it in the fortress and ordered it to salvage spiritual roots and wear away the chaos.
• The Mechanical Monarch told them Nangong had sealed several areas and left something inside for someone to find.
• The Undefeated Demon God used the Twelve Palaces path and the Heavenly Demon path to open the sealed areas.
• Di Xiu'er and the Undefeated Demon God found dormant spiritual roots, divine metal, Gods and Devils nest-building materials, and other war resources in the storage rooms.
• The Undefeated Demon God opened a Golden Silk White Jade box and found a Stone Bamboo Pearl.

The Undefeated Demon God opened a bead left by Nangong and met First Illumination Person’s memory, which revealed what happened after their group entered the Chaos Sea. The memory vanished after warning that Di Qing had lost his heart but would rise again even if he died.

• The Undefeated Demon God unlocked the bead’s restrictions and summoned First Illumination Person’s memory, while Di Xiu'er listened.
• First Illumination Person’s memory said the bead had been intended for Bi Luo, Mythology, the Heavenly Court, or the Princess, not the Undefeated Demon God.
• First Illumination Person’s memory explained that the group had been badly injured in the Chaos Sea, sealed Stone Ridge Mountain and themselves inside the Second World, while Di Qing stayed behind to fight.
• First Illumination Person’s memory revealed that Di Qing had returned grievously wounded, his heart stolen, and needed to find it to survive.
• First Illumination Person’s memory warned the Undefeated Demon God not to seek revenge, saying Di Qing would rise from death because of his blessings, authorization, and authority.

First Illumination Person was reborn in a body forged by the Undefeated Demon God and set out alone into the Chaos Sea to find Chu Qing's heart. After she left, Di Xiu'er asked the Undefeated Demon God to open the Second World and awaken Nangong and the others so they could help Di Qing.

• The Undefeated Demon God forged First Illumination Person a body from her memories, and First Illumination Person rapidly increased her strength by summoning and merging with her other selves.
• First Illumination Person said she would search the Chaos Sea for Chu Qing's heart, while the Undefeated Demon God refused to accompany her and First Illumination Person left Di Xiu'er behind as too weak.
• First Illumination Person entered the Chaos Sea, where stars and pursuing creatures transformed into a road of moons around her.
• The Undefeated Demon God reflected on First Illumination Person's mysterious origins and possible role in Ming Yue's creation of the Purple Mansion realm.
• Di Xiu'er asked the Undefeated Demon God to open the Second World and awaken Nangong and the others so they could help Di Qing, and the Undefeated Demon God agreed.

Di Xiu'er and the Undefeated Demon God entered the Second World, where they learned that its people had no records of Stone Ridge Mountain and heard that the Emperor Seat appeared only when the world neared destruction. An elf offered to lead them to the hidden Emperor Seat in an abandoned Imperial Capital.

• Di Xiu'er and the Undefeated Demon God entered the Second World and found a vast, flourishing continent surrounded by decay, but Stone Ridge Mountain was missing.
• Di Xiu'er questioned the historians about their chaotic records, and they explained that powerful figures had repeatedly saved the world by finding ancient treasures.
• The historians told the women that the Emperor Seat made whoever found it the strongest person under Heaven and appeared when the world faced destruction.
• An elf claimed its ancestors had guarded the Emperor Seat and asked the women to leave it with the elves for repairs; the Undefeated Demon God promised they would return it after fixing it.
• The elf led Di Xiu'er and the Undefeated Demon God toward the abandoned Imperial Capital where humans had hidden the Emperor Seat.

Di Xiu'er, the Undefeated Demon God, and the elf entered the ruins of the Imperial Capital to repair it and recover the Emperor Seat. On the lower level, Di Xiu'er found the missing Mantis High Priest pinned to the palace wall by several spears.

• The elf led Di Xiu'er and the Undefeated Demon God through nine layers of decoy ruins to the ruined Imperial Capital.
• The trio attacked the spear embedded in the palace, but it wounded them and revealed a spear-being who fought the Undefeated Demon God.
• The Undefeated Demon God defeated and swallowed the spear-being, then took the spear to the lower level while Di Xiu'er and the elf repaired the upper level.
• Di Xiu'er and the elf descended as hundreds of thousands of broken weapons revived and attacked the Undefeated Demon God, while the elf carried away the Emperor Seat.
• Di Xiu'er found a woman pinned to the palace wall by six or seven spears and recognized her as the missing Mantis High Priest.

Di Xiu'er and the elf restored the Emperor Seat, then used its power to free the Mantis High Priest from the weapons pinning her down. The High Priest summoned the Mantis Martial Ancestor, destroyed every weapon on the Imperial Capital’s second level, and attacked one of her former enemies before explaining how the Martial Ancestor had made her so powerful.

• Di Xiu'er and the elf dragged the Emperor Seat to the first level, where it absorbed the fragments and regained its power.
• Di Xiu'er and the elf offered sandalwood incense and kowtowed, prompting the Emperor Seat to carry them to the Mantis High Priest.
• Di Xiu'er pulled a weapon from the Mantis High Priest, whose wounds healed as she began extracting the weapons from her body.
• The Mantis High Priest summoned the Mantis Martial Ancestor, transformed into a mantis, and destroyed all weapons and fragments on the second level.
• The Mantis High Priest opened a rift to a palace, killed a woman there, and left a threat against those who had once plotted against her.
• The Mantis High Priest told the Undefeated Demon God that repeated descents by the Mantis Martial Ancestor had increased her strength, leaving him envious.

The Mantis High Priest told Di Xiu'er and the Undefeated Demon God how Cui Moyang had disappeared while fighting the Chaos Creatures, then recovered from her injuries and led them to search for her. They followed the world’s guidance into a land of despair, where Cui Moyang’s trail of corpses and blood revealed that her killing power still endured.

• The Mantis High Priest explained that Cui Moyang had drawn away half the Chaos Creatures before she was trapped and sealed.
• The Undefeated Demon God insisted on searching for Cui Moyang, and the Mantis High Priest rested and shed the lingering injuries from her body.
• The Mantis High Priest summoned a purple ribbon of the world’s favor to guide the group toward Cui Moyang.
• The Mantis High Priest, Di Xiu'er, and the Undefeated Demon God followed the ribbon into a realm of despair and found corpses bearing Cui Moyang’s Sword Qi.
• The group found Cui Moyang’s blood, whose powerful Killing Intent continued to repel decay and despair.

The Undefeated Demon God, the Mantis High Priest, and Di Xiu'er found Cui Moyang's corpse and discovered signs that she might still be revived. They carried her back to the human world, where Heaven rewarded her.

• The group followed Cui Moyang's traces and found that her blood and Killing Intent had spawned monsters, leading the Undefeated Demon God and the Mantis High Priest to fear she was dead.
• The Undefeated Demon God and the Mantis High Priest found Cui Moyang's corpse among the bodies of the Chaos Experts she had fought, and the High Priest wept over her sacrifice.
• Di Xiu'er argued that the monsters worshipping Cui Moyang's corpse suggested she was in suspended death and might revive.
• The High Priest offered sandalwood incense to Cui Moyang, and a faint trace of vitality appeared in her body; Di Xiu'er and the Undefeated Demon God made offerings too.
• The group carried Cui Moyang's corpse back, and her blood along the way entered her body and increased her vitality.
• When Cui Moyang's corpse reached the human world, beams of light descended from Heaven as a reward.

Cui Moyang began slowly recovering after the World Rules infused her corpse with vitality, while Di Xiu'er, the Undefeated Demon God, and the Mantis High Priest searched for Di Qing and the others. Following a faint trace of Nangong's Aura into the land of despair, they found evidence of a battle left by Consort Mei or Zuo Yan, suggesting the missing group was nearby.

• The World Rules gave Cui Moyang's heart a faint beat, and the three women sealed her body against harm.
• Di Xiu'er, the Undefeated Demon God, and the Mantis High Priest tried to use Di Qing's Emperor Seat to find him, but it wandered only around the Imperial Capital.
• The High Priest sensed a faint trace of Nangong's Aura from the World Rules, and the three women set out to follow it.
• The World Rules' light vanished soon after the women entered the land of despair, but they continued searching across the region.
• Di Xiu'er found traces of a battle, and the Undefeated Demon God identified lingering divine power as belonging to Consort Mei or Zuo Yan.

Di Xiu'er, the Undefeated Demon God, and the High Priest followed the battle traces and found evidence that Chu Qing's allies had faced overwhelming forces from Chaos. After tending to the gravely wounded Consort Mei Zuo Yan and Zuo Yan, they continued toward the final battlefield and learned that the world was a graveyard of vanished human worlds.

• The three found a battlefield strewn with over a thousand Chaos Expert corpses and signs that Madam Shi and the others had fought there.
• They followed Madam Jin's damaged war chariot through battlefields littered with Chaos Creature corpses and learned that Chaos had found a way to weaken Madam Shi's resurrection.
• They found Consort Mei Zuo Yan and Zuo Yan near death, treated their wounds, and used the High Priest's method and the Morning Star Scripture's flames to help them revive.
• The three left the women behind, believing they would not have time to return before reaching the final battlefield.
• The High Priest explained that the world was a graveyard formed from collapsed human worlds and that Chaos beings fought to prevent humanity from rising.
• The Undefeated Demon God teased Di Xiu'er for not being a pure-blooded human, and Di Xiu'er insisted that she was.

Di Xiu'er, Undefeated Demon God, and High Priest found the remains of Chu Qing’s followers and chose to return rather than enter the Chaos Sea. When they discovered that Consort Mei Zuo Yan’s corpse had been stolen by the Reincarnation Organization, they pursued it into reincarnation and confronted its powerful beings.

• Di Xiu'er explained how she was conceived using Emperor Kun Old Ancestor’s bloodline and how she helped establish the Emperor Kun Clan’s bloodline.
• The group found the amber-sealed corpses of [Bright Moon] and [Bi Luo], along with messages warning later generations not to venture too deep into Chaos.
• Di Xiu'er persuaded Undefeated Demon God and High Priest to return and focus on reviving Chu Qing’s women instead of searching the Chaos Sea.
• The group returned to Consort Mei Zuo Yan’s sealed resting place and found her corpse and their formation gone, leaving only a ripple of reincarnation.
• Di Xiu'er, Undefeated Demon God, and High Priest entered reincarnation and confronted its experts, who denied stealing the corpse.

Di Xiu'er and the Undefeated Demon God found Consort Mei Zuo Yan's corpses in the land of reincarnation, where they had become the center of a powerful reincarnation wheel. They left the corpses under reinforced protection, while reincarnation experts studied the wheel and began tracking the beings reborn through it.

• Di Xiu'er confronted the reincarnation experts, who discovered that no one had stolen the corpses and learned that two women had appeared in the land of reincarnation.
• Di Xiu'er, the Undefeated Demon God, and their companion found Consort Mei Zuo Yan's corpses blessing worshippers and helping them retain memories or gain special gifts through reincarnation.
• A powerhouse showed that the corpses had forced their way into the reincarnation system and that reincarnation paths had formed a wheel beneath them.
• The reincarnation giants promised to protect the corpses, and Di Xiu'er and the others reinforced their defenses before leaving them in place.
• The reincarnation experts moved their headquarters to the site, studied the wheel, and began tracking reborn beings to investigate the system's mysteries.

Di Xiu'er and the Undefeated Demon God organized worship to revive the four corpses while the High Priest prepared to return to the Barbaric Wilderness Continent. After Di Xiu'er reunited with the awakened Di Yu'er and Phoenix Emperor, she learned Great Master Qing remained in seclusion and decided not to warn him or enter the Great Unification Era herself.

• Di Xiu'er, the Undefeated Demon God, and the High Priest brought Mingyue and Nangong's corpses back and placed them with Cui Moyang's, where all four began recovering through the world's blessings.
• The Undefeated Demon God rejected putting the three newly returned corpses into reincarnation, and the group agreed to protect all four bodies and arrange worship for them.
• Di Xiu'er and the Undefeated Demon God unified the continent's factions, and the Human and Demon races began worshipping Nangong Moyang, Mingyue, and the other two, accelerating their recovery.
• The High Priest decided to return to the divided Barbaric Wilderness Continent, while the Undefeated Demon God stayed behind and sent Di Xiu'er to help seize control of the real world.
• Di Xiu'er found that Di Yu'er and the Phoenix Emperor had spent hundreds of years in the Great Unification Era; after waking, they said Great Master Qing and his companions remained in seclusion.
• Di Xiu'er chose not to have Di Yu'er and the Phoenix Emperor warn Great Master Qing about future danger, and declined to enter the Great Unification Era with them.

The Undefeated Demon God found an underground palace where Di Yu'er and Phoenix Emperor had hidden thirty-six rare spiritual-root saplings, and encountered a memory of [Shang Xie] sealed within them. After learning that more trees were meant for the Second World, she planted the thirty-six across the world, where they grew rapidly and began strengthening it.

• Di Yu'er, Phoenix Emperor, and Di Xiu'er entered the Great Unification Era together, while the Undefeated Demon God stayed behind.
• The Undefeated Demon God searched the former [Myth] Continent, uprooted a mountain, and uncovered an underground palace.
• She found thirty-six sealed spiritual-root saplings and recognized [Shang Xie]'s methods in their seals.
• [Shang Xie] appeared from the seal, told the Undefeated Demon God to plant the saplings, and revealed that a box held seventy-two more trees intended for the Second World.
• The Undefeated Demon God scattered the thirty-six saplings across the world, where they grew into enormous trees and began regulating its energy.

The Undefeated Demon God planted the remaining seventy-two spiritual roots in the Second World, helping it cleanse decay and grow. Meanwhile, Di Xiu'er arrived in the Great Unification Era, reunited with Stone Ridge Mountain, and spoke with Shang Xie about her loneliness and the freedom of the present age.

• The Undefeated Demon God planted seventy-two spiritual roots throughout the Second World, causing its powers to circulate and helping it slowly dissolve despair and decay.
• The Undefeated Demon God organized the world’s inhabitants to clear decay and forged recovered metals into weapons and Fire Pits enhanced with the Dawn Star candle flame and Golden Core Dao Fruit.
• Di Xiu'er, the Phoenix Emperor, and Di Yu'er descended into the Great Unification Era, and Di Xiu'er took control of a maid’s body to explore Stone Ridge Mountain.
• Di Xiu'er met Shang Xie at Miracle Palace and learned that Stone Ridge Mountain was Shang Xie’s corpse.
• Di Xiu'er told Shang Xie she had never adapted to the era after a hundred eras of loneliness, and Shang Xie described her freedom from the burdens of her former life.
• Shang Xie promised to help Di Xiu'er if she wished to go somewhere, then disappeared while keeping a protective gaze upon her.

Di Xiu'er reunited with the younger Chu Qing and revealed that he would take her through the Chaos Sea in the future. After learning that Shang Xie's time-and-space transmission experiment might have succeeded, Chu Qing offered to help Di Xiu'er obtain what she needed.

• Di Xiu'er saw Chu Qing at Miracle Palace and wept as she told him that her future self had traveled through the Chaos Sea with him.
• Di Xiu'er tried to reveal more about her origins, but Di Yu'er and Phoenix Emperor warned her against changing the future.
• Chu Qing let Di Yu'er and Phoenix Emperor explain why they had hidden the future, then asked Di Xiu'er to share only unimportant details.
• Di Xiu'er said she had revealed their future relationship to ensure she would remain in Chu Qing's life, though she regretted doing so.
• Chu Qing reassured Di Xiu'er and said Shang Xie's experiment in transmitting things across time and space might have succeeded.

Chu Qing, Di Yu'er, Phoenix Emperor, and Di Xiu'er debated whether events could alter the future and whether Di Xiu'er might give birth to herself. The chapter ended with Chu Qing deciding not to take the future Di Xiu'er through chaos, a change that conflicted with the history she remembered.

• Chu Qing explained that Shang Xie's method had preserved spirit roots for later eras and said she might send objects across time next time.
• Chu Qing offered Di Xiu'er a way to remain in the era through reincarnation while retaining her memories, but she refused.
• Phoenix Emperor proposed that Di Xiu'er might give birth to her future self, prompting Chu Qing to consider how that could affect history.
• Di Xiu'er argued that she was important as a witness to Chu Qing's future deeds, and Chu Qing suggested preventing her birth might change fated history.
• After Di Xiu'er panicked, Chu Qing said he would not take her future self through chaos, though Di Xiu'er remembered that she had followed him there.

Over several centuries, Chu Qing and the women grew stronger by visualizing Liuli and strengthening their bloodlines, while Chu Qing continued to consider the paths beyond the Reflection Realm. When an unexplained premonition troubled him, he decided to destroy the Nirvana Dao and investigate whether the Ashes Lineage he had planted within it could lead to his next realm.

• Chu Qing stayed in the Reflection Realm as Nangong and the others opened the next realm, and he weighed the many possible paths ahead.
• Chu Qing and the women visualized Liuli while he used his titles to strengthen their bloodlines, increasing their powers and lifespans.
• Chu Qing felt an unexplained unease at Stone Ridge Mountain, but Madam Shi, Shang Xie, and Liuli could not determine its cause.
• Chu Qing concluded that the coming trouble might threaten him or the world and chose to eliminate the Nirvana Dao, leaving the forbidden zones alone for now.
• First Illumination Person warned that Chu Qing's plan might be connected to the greater trouble, but Chu Qing resolved to test whether the Ashes Lineage within the Nirvana Dao could become his next realm.

Chu Qing led the women into the world’s Chaos Sea to clear out the Nirvana Dao, and their newly developed powers let them defeat its forces with ease. They reached a Nirvana Dao lineage stronghold, where its Red Robe Beings called on the main lineage’s experts to suppress them.

• Chu Qing agreed to take Mingyue, Madam Shi, Nangong, Cui Moyang, Consort Mei, Zuo Yan, and Bi Luo with him while Madam Jin and Chu Qing remained at Stone Ridge Mountain.
• Chu Qing and the women entered the world’s Chaos Sea and found corruption from both the Forbidden Zone and the Nirvana Dao.
• Madam Shi used a God and Devil carrying a furnace that bore the Morning Star Scripture to suppress the Nirvana Dao’s darkness, while Nangong read the memories of captured Black Robes and White Robes to locate a stronghold.
• Chu Qing and the women followed the leads, killing Nirvana Dao forces and searching their memories for more strongholds as they traveled.
• The group reached a mountain range that projected the Nirvana Dao’s lineage, and Chu Qing told the women not to damage it while he studied it.
• The women attacked and killed the defenders, prompting several Red Robe Beings to beg the main lineage’s experts to descend and suppress the invaders.

Chu Qing, Cui Moyang, Nangong, Consort Mei, and Zuo Yan fought the Nirvana Dao beings and the cloaked reinforcements approaching across the mountain range. The cloaked beings revealed their monstrous true forms and drove the defenders back, while Chu Qing repeatedly destroyed the Golden Mane Roar’s head as it tried to regenerate.

• Chu Qing studied the trembling mountain range while Nangong and the others battled the Nirvana Dao beings, and the cloaked figures drew closer along great dragons within the mountains.
• Cui Moyang used the Reflection Method to strike a cloaked being, whose finger could not regenerate; the cloaked reinforcements turned back, leaving the Nirvana Dao fighters behind.
• Cui Moyang trapped many Nirvana Dao experts in her Sword Pellet city, while Chu Qing split the mountains and folded space to bring Nangong’s Twelve Palaces to the battle.
• Consort Mei, Zuo Yan, and the others joined the fight, but the cloaked beings transformed into giants and Mythological Creatures, forcing them back.
• A Golden Mane Roar attacked Chu Qing through the bridge, but Chu Qing shattered its head and body; the creature’s attempts to regenerate its head repeatedly ended in explosions.