Chapter Summaries

Chu Qing fought Yan Qingshan above the Cangxuan Sect but was overwhelmed, and Li Chunjun intervened before the golden light could kill him. Li Chunjun challenged Yan Qingshan with his sword, and their clashing sword attacks left the fight’s outcome unknown.

• Chu Qing struck Yan Qingshan with his Golden Light God-Slaying Shuttle and wounded his palm, but Yan Qingshan retaliated with golden light that broke through Chu Qing’s defenses.
• Chu Qing fell into the Cangxuan Sect plaza and ordered the sect to activate its formation, then transferred the sect’s people away when the barrier failed and stayed behind to face the attack.
• Li Chunjun appeared before Chu Qing and scattered the falling golden light with his sword, then identified himself to Yan Qingshan and issued a challenge.
• Li Chunjun unleashed his sword that could cleave heaven and earth, but Yan Qingshan confined its light in his palm and countered with Great River Sword Intent.
• Li Chunjun and Yan Qingshan clashed their vast sword attacks, devastating the Cangxuan Sect plaza as Chu Qing protected the surrounding land; both fighters then vanished from sight.

Yan Qingshan demanded that Chu Qing, Li Chunjun, and Zhao Mushen lead him to Zhou Yuan, but effortlessly overpowered their attacks. The three were left battered, with Zhao Mushen regenerating after Yan Qingshan tore his body apart.

• Li Chunjun unleashed his blood-nurtured sword against Yan Qingshan, but Yan Qingshan caught it between two fingers and released it only after Li Chunjun called it back.
• Zhao Mushen emerged and joined Chu Qing and Li Chunjun in surrounding Yan Qingshan, refusing to lead him to Zhou Yuan.
• Zhao Mushen charged with his Dark Gold Ancient Dragon Halberd and tried to devour Yan Qingshan, who punched him into Li Chunjun; Yan Qingshan then slapped Chu Qing and sent him flying as well.
• Zhao Mushen attacked again with his devouring power, but Yan Qingshan struck him with Divine Power and shattered his body.
• Zhao Mushen regenerated most of his body and asked Chu Qing and Li Chunjun to help him stand.

Yan Qingshan arrived at Cangxuan Sect and demanded that Zhao Mushen, Chu Qing, and Li Chunjun take him to Zhou Yuan. After overpowering the three and winning Tun Tun over with Starry Sky Behemoth meat, Yan Qingshan followed it to Zhou Yuan’s secluded residence, where he finally met Zhou Yuan and Yaoyao.

• Yan Qingshan challenged Zhao Mushen, Chu Qing, and Li Chunjun, then blasted them back with a dragon roar and demanded that Zhou Yuan appear.
• Tun Tun confronted Yan Qingshan, but he offered it Starry Sky Behemoth meat and persuaded it to lead him to Zhou Yuan.
• Tun Tun opened a passage to Zhou Yuan’s residence, and Zhao Mushen, Chu Qing, and Li Chunjun followed Yan Qingshan inside.
• Yan Qingshan arrived at a pavilion where Zhou Yuan and Yaoyao were waiting, and Zhou Yuan greeted him as an honored guest.

Zhou Yuan hosted Yan Qingshan and discussed Yan’s demand for the Sacred Race’s remaining Power of Fortune in the Heavenly Origin Realm. Yan argued that the Great Thousand World deserved compensation for the Sacred Race’s invasion, while Zhou Yuan resisted surrendering a portion of his realm’s origin and destiny.

• Zhou Yuan introduced his wife Yaoyao, shared Peach Yaoyao Brew with Yan Qingshan, and welcomed him to the pavilion.
• Yan Qingshan explained that he wanted to develop his own cultivation system and saw the spread of that system as a way to refine it.
• Yan Qingshan asked Zhou Yuan for the Sacred Race’s remaining Power of Fortune, arguing that the Heavenly Origin Realm bore responsibility for the Sacred Race’s past invasion of the Great Thousand World.
• Zhou Yuan said that giving up the Power of Fortune would damage the Heavenly Origin Realm’s origin, leaving the two men in disagreement.
• The discussion explained how fortune shaped cultivation in the Heavenly Origin Realm and how the Sacred Race’s surviving destiny remained within its races.

Zhou Yuan and Yan Qingshan debated responsibility for the Great Thousand World’s fifty-thousand-year catastrophe before agreeing to settle the dispute through a game of Go. Yan Qingshan’s final move appeared to kill his own stones, leaving Zhou Yuan and the onlookers baffled.

• Yan Qingshan showed Zhou Yuan and the others visions of worlds destroyed by the Outer Realm Evil Race and demanded compensation for the Great Thousand World’s suffering.
• Zhou Yuan acknowledged the Heavenly Origin Realm’s responsibility but hesitated because the Sacred Race’s remaining fortune was tied to the realm’s origin and the Great Thousand World could match its strength.
• Zhou Yuan proposed a game using the Tianyuan Brush, with each stone representing a kind of Power of Fortune, and Yan Qingshan accepted the wager.
• Yan Qingshan opened at Tengen, forcing Zhou Yuan to choose how creation would unfold; Zhou Yuan responded with a defensive move before the two exchanged attacks across the board.
• Zhou Yuan gained the apparent advantage and trapped Yan Qingshan’s black stones, but Yan Qingshan filled their only remaining eye with his own stone, seemingly killing the group and astonishing everyone.

Yan Qingshan defeated Zhou Yuan in their game, and Zhou Yuan gave him the Chaos Yin-Yang Sea to settle the karma between their worlds. After they celebrated together, the visitors considered traveling to the Great Thousand World, and the chapter left that exchange as a possible future plan.

• Yan Qingshan turned the game around, and Zhou Yuan admitted defeat and gave him the Chaos Yin-Yang Sea.
• Yan Qingshan took control of the divine treasure and understood how it could help perfect his system in the Great Thousand World.
• Zhou Yuan invited Yan Qingshan back to the pavilion, where Chu Qing, Zhao Mushen, Li Chunjun, and the others joined them in drinking.
• Yan Qingshan invited Zhou Yuan and the others to visit the Great Thousand World, and they considered leaving avatars to guard the Heavenly Origin Realm while they traveled.

Yan Qingshan awoke aged in a ruined universe after cultivating in the Sea of Life and used a time-space art to uncover the Great Thousand World's long decline and destruction. Refusing to accept the ending as his fate, he broke free of the Time-Space Maze and returned to the moment he had entered the sea.

• Yan Qingshan found the Sea of Life empty of creatures and descended into it to cultivate in seclusion.
• After an unknown span of time, Yan Qingshan awoke old in a desolate universe and saw that the Sea of Life had dried up.
• Yan Qingshan traced the past and witnessed Xiao Yi Xian, his family, and the Azure Heaven Imperial Court fade away as the Great Thousand World flourished, declined, and perished.
• Yan Qingshan rejected the universe's destruction and accused Shuguang of arranging this fate for him.
• Yan Qingshan declared that the Time-Space Maze would not trap him, then reversed the scene and awoke again within the vibrant Sea of Life.

Yan Qingshan broke through the Time-Space Maze and transcended time and space, exchanging a glance with Zhou Yuan across fifty thousand years. Zhou Yuan explained the maze’s dangers and the cosmic laws behind it, while Yan Qingshan departed with a new understanding of his Dao.

• Yan Qingshan saw the ancient scene of Zhou Yuan planting divine bones across the Heavenly Origin Realm and recognized that Zhou Yuan had seen him across time and space.
• Zhou Yuan congratulated Yan Qingshan on his breakthrough while discussing it with Yaoyao in their secluded home.
• Zhou Yuan explained to Yaoyao that the Time-Space Maze showed real possible timelines and could drive powerful experts to despair or annihilation.
• Zhou Yuan recounted how Ancestral Dragon and he had faced the maze, and how he had used its timelines to find a way to bring Yaoyao back.
• Zhou Yuan explained that cosmic laws targeted experts who had transcended the Dao, while prolonged use of World Authority could draw Yaoyao and other guardian gods toward merging with the Heavenly Dao.
• Yan Qingshan considered the new method he had gained through transcending time and space, then slowly vanished.

Yan Qingshan reshaped the Great Thousand Universe by spreading the Chaos Yin-Yang Sea and creating the Starry Sky Ancient Road, its trial cities, gates, and examiners. He began adding stone steles to the cities as the new ascension trials took shape.

• Yan Qingshan spread the Chaos Yin-Yang Sea throughout the Great Thousand Universe, and Yan Qingchen and Lin Dong sensed its arrival.
• Yan Qingshan reshaped the path of ascension, linking the Lower Planes to the Great Thousand World with an azure ancient tree and a starry route.
• Yan Qingshan built Starry Sky Ancient Cities so ascenders could undergo trials, rest, and gradually assimilate spiritual energy.
• Yan Qingshan brought the Firmament Ranking to himself and used it to summon powerful figures’ imprints as trial examiners for the Starry Sky Gates.
• Yan Qingshan raised stone steles in the cities’ gate plazas, covering them with imprints that described a method of cultivating the heart.

Lin Dong and Yan Qingchen studied Yan Qingshan’s cultivation method for transcending the Firmament Ranking as Yan Qingshan established the First Pass and the Sovereign Battlefield. The chapter leaves Lin Dong and Yan Qingchen cultivating at the pass, working to reclaim their Dao laws and transform their Dharma Bodies into divine bodies.

• Lin Dong and Yan Qingchen understood Yan Qingshan’s method of refining a Sovereign Dharma Physique into a divine body and returning great power to oneself.
• Yan Qingshan built the First Pass at the convergence point of the Starry Sky Ancient Road and created a crystal stele to record cultivators’ names.
• Yan Qingshan explained that the Sovereign Battlefield would turn fame into fortune, host Emperor’s Path contests, and give factions a place to compete instead of fighting over territory.
• Yan Qingshan told Lin Dong and Yan Qingchen to cultivate at the First Pass, where his new system could help them escape the Firmament Ranking’s constraints.
• Lin Dong and Yan Qingchen chose stone pillars and began refining their Dharma Bodies into divine bodies while drawing their Dao laws back from heaven and earth.

The Starry Sky Ancient Road opened, giving cultivators from the Great Thousand World and the Lower Planes a route toward a new cultivation path and the chance for transcendence. At the Great Thousand Palace, leading factions declared their support and Qin Tian announced he would leave his position to venture onto the road.

• A voice announced the opening of the Starry Sky Road, and cultivators across the Great Thousand World and the Lower Planes set out toward it.
• Qin Tian asked the Heavenly Sovereigns gathered at the Great Thousand Palace what they thought of the Starry Sky Ancient Road, while many hesitated to speak.
• Grand Ancestor Taiming declared that the Tailing Ancient Clan supported the new path and would send its younger generation to cultivate anew.
• The Divine Beast clans announced they had sent experts to the road, and the True Dragon Emperor declared his intention to cultivate the Divine Beast Physique and pursue transcendence.
• Maha Tian said body cultivation could complement spiritual energy cultivation and announced his intention to compete on the Emperor's Path.
• The Azure Robe Sword Saint said he had begun switching paths, and Qin Tian announced he would leave his post as Grand Elder to temper himself on the Starry Sky Ancient Road.

Yan Qingshan returned to the Dou Qi Continent and used the Xiao Family’s old residence in Wutan City to uncover the source of Xiao Yan’s soul transmigration. He reopened the passage that had brought Xiao Yan to the continent and traveled through it to another Blue Star, where he began a new journey.

• Yan Qingshan arrived in Holy Pill City and vanished from the plaza using the laws of space, leaving the visiting experts wondering who he was.
• Yan Qingshan traveled to the abandoned Xiao Family residence in Wutan City instead of visiting his hometown, Qingshan Town.
• Yan Qingshan traced the residence’s history back to Xiao Yan’s birth and saw a black hole bring a strand of light into the infant’s body.
• Yan Qingshan reopened the black hole and entered the passage, sensing a familiar aura as he traveled through chaos.
• Yan Qingshan emerged before another Blue Star and declared that he had returned.

Lu Zhun reached the first grand city pass of the Trial Ancient Road, where he encountered the Fourteen Fiends of Heavenly Cloud and the Heavenly Wolf Clan. When a beast attacked him, he revealed the Heaven-Reaching Ape Clan’s power and forced it to kneel, drawing Ling Zhao’s attention.

• Lu Zhun watched riders gather on the Trial Ancient Road and prepared to prove himself on the journey ahead.
• The Fourteen Fiends of Heavenly Cloud charged at Lu Zhun, but fled when Ling Zhao and the Heavenly Wolf Clan arrived under the full moon.
• Ling Zhao took in the silver heavenly wolf and warned Lu Zhun that the Trial Ancient Road was too brutal for the unprepared.
• Lu Zhun reached the Starry Sky Grand City, where nearly four hundred trial takers had gathered, and learned that the arrogant riders were the Fourteen Fiends of Heavenly Cloud.
• The Fourteen Fiends sent a tiger-bodied, ape-headed beast to attack Lu Zhun, but he summoned a giant ape phantom and made it kneel.
• Ling Zhao recognized Lu Zhun as a pure-blooded member of the Heaven-Reaching Ape Clan and wondered why he had no protector.

Lu Zhun killed a member of the Fourteen Fiends of Heavenly Cloud outside the first fortress, then entered the Star Gate trial after Huang Yun challenged him. He emerged with a star mark proving he had passed, while the fate of Huang Yun and the other riders remained unknown.

• Lu Zhun killed the bald brute with one strike, but a fortress guard stopped Huang Yun and his riders from attacking in the city entrance.
• Lu Zhun entered the fortress and challenged Huang Yun to settle their feud in the trial grounds; Ling Zhao and Huang Yun followed him toward the city center.
• Huang Yun and the Thirteen Fiends of Heavenly Cloud surrounded Lu Zhun in the street, and Lu Zhun agreed to begin the trial immediately.
• Lu Zhun entered the Star Gate first, and Huang Yun led the remaining riders in after him despite their unease.
• Lu Zhun emerged from the Star Gate with a star pattern on his wrist, proving that he had passed the trial.

Lu Zhun left the Star Gate trial grounds after defeating the Fourteen Fiends of Heavenly Cloud and recovered in the city, where he met Ling Zhao and agreed to travel the Trial Ancient Road with her. Years later, they reached the First Pass at the road’s end; Lu Zhun prepared to leave his name there before returning to the Great Thousand World with Ling Zhao.

• Lu Zhun stabilized his aura after the Star Gate trial, departed the plaza with the ape-headed, tiger-bodied beast, and checked into an inn to recover.
• Ling Zhao visited Lu Zhun in his courtyard, asked about his clan’s ties to the Nine Netherworld Bird Clan and the Demon Slaying Great Emperor, and agreed to travel the Trial Ancient Road with him.
• Lu Zhun and Ling Zhao journeyed together for years, endured the ancient road’s trials, and grew into peak experts as Lu Zhun passed the Heavenly Venerate Spirit Tribulation.
• Near the road’s end, Lu Zhun reflected on the ruins and the sacrifices of his ancestors while repairing broken stretches of the ancient road.
• Lu Zhun and Ling Zhao reached the First Pass, where the sealed Emperor’s Gate concealed the opportunity for transcendence.
• Lu Zhun decided to leave his name at the First Pass and return to the Great Thousand World with Ling Zhao when the time was right.

Lu Zhun inscribed his name on the Ultimate Ancient Stele, qualified for the final trial, and returned to the Great Thousand World with Ling Zhao and their companions. A century later, the Emperor's Path Contest began, and Lu Zhun left his family to enter the Ultimate Trial.

• Lu Zhun and Ling Zhao reached the First Pass, where Lu Zhun studied the marks left by the Demon Slaying Great Emperor, the Martial Ancestor Great Emperor, and the Grand Beginning Great Emperor.
• Lu Zhun carved his name onto the Ultimate Ancient Stele, joining the ninety-three contenders and announcing his rise across the Great Thousand Universe.
• Lu Zhun and Ling Zhao reunited with their companions, then used his new authority to travel back to the Great Thousand World.
• A blurred figure named Yan Qingshan announced that the Ultimate Trial and Emperor's Path Contest would begin a century later.
• A century afterward, Lu Zhun left Ling Zhao and their infant to enter the Ultimate Trial as countless powerhouses embarked on the contest.

A new Golden Age brought ancient contenders out of hiding, while powerhouses searched the universe for the missing Demon Slaying Great Emperor. When the Spirit Devouring Great Emperor tried to seize the Azure Heaven Imperial Court, the Demon Slaying Great Emperor returned and suppressed him with a single finger; the Spirit Devouring Great Emperor emerged a thousand years later and kept his distance from the important Star Regions.

• Ancient powerhouses, including the Blood Sea True Monarch and Azure Robe Sword Saint, emerged as the new Golden Age began, and many searched for the Demon Slaying Great Emperor.
• The Spirit Devouring Worm won the Emperor's Path Contest, became the Spirit Devouring Great Emperor, and ruled through fear.
• The Spirit Devouring Great Emperor led an insect army to the Azure Heaven Imperial Court and demanded that it submit to him.
• The Demon Slaying Great Emperor struck with a finger of chaos, sent the Spirit Devouring Great Emperor flying, and imprisoned him for a thousand years.
• The Spirit Devouring Great Emperor emerged after a thousand years but stayed far from important Star Regions for the rest of his life.

Yan Qingshan’s arrival at Northern Desolate Spirit Academy led to an intimate encounter with Ling Xi, while Yan Qingchen and the academy’s elite students departed for the Spirit Academy Tournament. Yan Qingshan and Ling Xi watched the tournament begin through a screen, leaving Yan Qingchen’s team to compete.

• Yan Qingshan arrived at Northern Desolate Spirit Academy, unsettling the academy because of Yan Qingchen’s unknown family background.
• Yan Qingshan spent the night with Ling Xi, who had been adopted by Qing Yanjing and helped raise Yan Qingchen.
• Ling Xi recalled her childhood and sought comfort from Yan Qingshan, then worried that Qing Yanjing might blame her for their relationship.
• Dean Taicang addressed the academy’s students, and Yan Qingchen, Luo Li, the Su Sisters, and other elites entered the Teleportation Spirit Array to travel to the Spirit Academy Tournament.
• Ling Xi learned that Yan Qingchen’s team had departed, and she and Yan Qingshan watched the tournament through a screen as his team appeared.

A green-robed stranger took young Luo Li from Luoshen Palace to the Luoshen Grand Ceremony, where her cry and a drop of blood triggered a startling response from the Luo River. The river turned red and formed a blazing flower as the Luoshen Clan's leaders struggled to understand what had happened to Luo Li.

• A green-robed figure met Luo Li in Luoshen Palace and offered to take her to the ceremony despite her worry that her father would be angry.
• The green-robed figure carried Luo Li toward the Luoshen Grand Ceremony as the Luoshen Clan's leaders and gathered members assembled beside the Luo River.
• The current Emperor Luo began the ceremony, and the Luo River boiled and surged with unusual spiritual light.
• The Emperor Luo recognized Luo Li's cry from above, and a drop of her blood fell into the river.
• The Luo River turned blood-red, dark crimson motes set the clouds ablaze, and a scarlet flower rose from the water, stirring the Luoshen Clan's bloodlines.

During the Luoshen Sacrifice, Luo Li awakened the Luoshen Flowers and received the ancestor’s inheritance, becoming connected to the legendary Spirit of Luo River. The ceremony ended with Luo Li safe on the jade platform, while the green-robed figure departed with the fading remnant spirit.

• The Luoshen Flowers rose from the Luo River, and Emperor Luo announced that his daughter Luo Li had awakened them.
• Luo Tianshen prepared to use the Luo River Grand Array to investigate Luo Li, but Yan reassured him that he was present.
• A figure resembling the ancestor Luoshen appeared and bestowed the inheritance upon Luo Li as the green-robed figure helped preserve the fading spirit’s energy.
• The Luo River’s waters formed a new Spirit of Luo River resembling a young Luo Li, and Luo Tianshen recognized that the inheritance had been completed.
• The green-robed figure took the fading ancestor Luoshen away, and Luo Li woke, waved goodbye, and welcomed the tiny figure that had been given to her.