Chapter Summaries

Lu Yuan kept fighting Earth Supremes beyond the Crimson Continent’s borders, using the Years Blade to defeat every challenger while spectators learned from his mastery of Spatial Power. His reputation spread across the Myriad Heavens, and the chapter ended with an Earth Supreme handing him an invitation signed by the Tai Ling Ancient Clan.

• Lu Yuan explained why he kept battles beyond the Crimson Continent’s borders, preventing Earth Supreme fights from destroying the land and its inhabitants.
• Supremes from across the world gathered to watch Lu Yuan fight, studying the Years Blade and his control of Spatial Power.
• As Lu Yuan defeated every Earth Supreme who challenged him, more spectators arrived and his reputation rose throughout the Myriad Heavens.
• An Earth Supreme from the crowd handed Lu Yuan an invitation bearing the signature of the Tai Ling Ancient Clan.

Lu Yuan learned why the Tai Ling Ancient Clan’s inclusive customs set it apart from the other Five Ancient Clans and why it considered him a potential Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign. The clan formally invited him to visit so it could test his capabilities before deciding whether to encourage introductions with suitable Dao Companions.

• Lu Yuan considered the Floating Tu Ancient Clan’s bloodline hierarchy and its difficult path for collateral descendants to rise through the ranks.
• Lu Yuan learned that the Tai Ling Ancient Clan allowed outsiders with exceptional talent to join and compete for the positions of Holy Son or Holy Daughter.
• The Tai Ling Ancient Clan invited Lu Yuan to visit and assess his potential before considering any matchmaking.
• The Tai Ling Ancient Clan planned to let suitable direct-descendant women meet Lu Yuan from afar if he passed its test.
• The Five Ancient Clans regarded Lu Yuan’s origins differently from most humans, seeing no problem with his background in light of the Myriad Heavens’ shared struggle against the Extraterrestrial Evil Gods.

Lu Yuan arrived at the Tai Ling Ancient Clan and was guided through its territory by Tai Ling Su, a talented young clan member who was also interested in him as a potential partner. After Tai Ling Su escorted him to the Reception Hall, Lu Yuan met four elders and the clan chief, a young Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign.

• Tai Ling Su greeted Lu Yuan outside the Tai Ling Ancient Clan's territory and offered to guide him.
• Tai Ling Su reflected on the clan's interest in Lu Yuan and decided that rumors about his appearance and behavior had been false.
• Tai Ling Su discouraged several women from arranging chance encounters with Lu Yuan as she escorted him through the clan.
• Tai Ling Su brought Lu Yuan safely to the Reception Hall and took her leave.
• Lu Yuan met four Heavenly Sovereign-level elders and the Tai Ling Ancient Clan's clan chief.

Lu Yuan met with Tai Ling Chen Xuan and the elders of the Tai Ling Ancient Clan, offering to return several spiritual arts he had found in a ruin in exchange for discussing the Dao. After demonstrating his secret technique, he earned their respect, while Tai Ling Chen Xuan resolved to investigate how the clan’s supreme inheritance had reached outsiders.

• Tai Ling Chen Xuan welcomed Lu Yuan and introduced the elders, then invited him to demonstrate his abilities to the clan’s juniors.
• Lu Yuan declined to fight the juniors and offered to discuss the Dao instead, presenting Ancient Books that he said contained the Tai Ling Ancient Clan’s spiritual arts.
• Tai Ling Chen Xuan and the elders examined the books, and their tables exploded as they recognized the inheritance within.
• Lu Yuan used his secret technique to restrain the elders and strike at the Fifth Elder, stopping with his blade at the elder’s neck before releasing the technique.
• Tai Ling Chen Xuan praised Lu Yuan’s technique, thanked him for returning the spiritual arts, and decided to investigate the traitor who had leaked the clan’s inheritance.

Lu Yuan returned the Tai Ling Ancient Clan’s spiritual art manuals, and Tai Ling Chen Xuan chose to treat him as a potential ally rather than an enemy. After declining their invitation to stay, Lu Yuan accepted several gifts and set off to visit the Black Heaven Ancient Clan.

• Tai Ling Chen Xuan confirmed the manuals belonged to the Tai Ling Ancient Clan, while the Second Elder briefly threatened Lu Yuan before the elders abandoned their act.
• Lu Yuan explained that he planned to travel to the other ancient clans, so he could not stay as their guest.
• Tai Ling Chen Xuan returned the manuals to Lu Yuan and promised the Tai Ling Ancient Clan would consider him a friend if he kept the arts private.
• The Second Elder gave Lu Yuan a token for protection on human territory, and the Fifth Elder gave him four tokens for visiting the other ancient clans.
• Lu Yuan left the Tai Ling Ancient Clan by Teleportation Array and headed for the Black Heaven Ancient Clan.

Lu Yuan visited the Black Heaven Ancient Clan, returned its spiritual arts, and sparred with its members to build goodwill. He left Black Heaven Continent for the Barren Ancient Clan, hoping the Five Ancient Clans would protect the Nine-tailed Fox Clan while he traveled.

• The chapter described the Black Heaven Ancient Clan's dark bloodline, small population, and standing among the Five Ancient Clans.
• The chapter explained how the Five Ancient Clans and other Heavenly Sovereigns guarded the Myriad Heavens against the Extraterrestrial Evil Gods.
• Lu Yuan returned the Black Heaven Ancient Clan's spiritual arts and requested a sparring match and discussion of the Dao.
• Lu Yuan drained the Power of Destiny in his body and used the Years Blade to demonstrate that he could threaten ordinary Heavenly Sovereigns, earning the clan's goodwill.
• Lu Yuan left Black Heaven Continent by Teleportation Array and headed for the Barren Ancient Clan, hoping his story about visiting the lower planes would prompt the Five Ancient Clans to protect the Nine-tailed Fox Clan.

Lu Yuan visited the Barren Ancient Clan and the Maha Ancient Clan while seeking support to protect the Nine-tailed Fox Clan’s territory from future expansion by the Maha Ancient Clan. After leaving the Maha Ancient Clan dissatisfied with its proposed terms, he headed to the Floating Tu Ancient Clan, the last clan he needed to visit.

• Lu Yuan reasoned that he needed support from more Ancient Clans to deter the Maha Ancient Clan from targeting the Crimson Continent, and decided to visit the Barren Ancient Clan before approaching the Floating Tu Ancient Clan.
• The Barren Ancient Clan returned its inheritance to Lu Yuan after confirming he had returned it, welcomed him with a drinking banquet, and treated him as an honorable guest.
• The Maha Ancient Clan rejected a proposal under pressure from its clan leader but still wanted to issue a notice framing Lu Yuan’s access to its spiritual arts on its own terms.
• Lu Yuan left the Maha Ancient Clan, frustrated by its attempt to claim moral standing while offering him no meaningful benefit, and prepared to visit the Floating Tu Ancient Clan.

Lu Yuan entered the Floating Tu Ancient Clan after using tokens from three other clans and met its clan leader, Qing Qing Cang. The clan’s core inheritance and its rules explained why Lu Yuan’s possession of half of it was sensitive, while the chapter ended with the clan leader’s name confirmed during introductions.

• The chapter explained the seven tiers of the Five Ancient Clans’ inheritances and why unsystematic spiritual arts were less threatening than core inheritances.
• Lu Yuan reflected on Qing Yan Jing giving him the Great Floating Tu Art Yang Scroll despite his lack of the Floating Tu Ancient Clan’s bloodline.
• Lu Yuan used tokens from the Tai Ling Ancient Clan, the Black Heaven Ancient Clan, and the Barren Ancient Clan to gain audiences with elders and enter the Floating Tu Continent.
• The elders helped Lu Yuan meet the Floating Tu Ancient Clan’s clan leader, Qing Qing Cang.
• The elders addressed Qing Qing Cang as Clan Leader Qing, confirming that he had kept his name rather than adopting the clan name.

Lu Yuan met Qing Qing Cang, who deduced that Lu Yuan had studied the Great Floating Tu Art Yang Scroll through a relationship with a woman from the Floating Tu Ancient Clan. Lu Yuan asked to study the Yin Scroll, and Qing Qing Cang set four standards Lu Yuan could meet to justify the request to the clan elders.

• Qing Qing Cang cleared the hall and confronted Lu Yuan about the aura of the Great Floating Tu Art Yang Scroll.
• Qing Qing Cang concluded that a direct-line woman of the Floating Tu Ancient Clan had privately pledged herself to Lu Yuan and given him access to the Yang Scroll.
• Lu Yuan avoided naming the woman and asked to study the Yin Scroll of the Great Floating Tu Art.
• Qing Qing Cang explained that lending Lu Yuan the Yin Scroll would risk violating clan rules, then asked what Lu Yuan could do to help.
• Qing Qing Cang said Lu Yuan needed to satisfy the clan in at least one of four areas: talent, strength, talent in the arts, or background.

Lu Yuan explained his background, talent, and strength to Qing Qing Cang while deciding to conceal the Eye of Fate and his power over time. He agreed to demonstrate Red Dust Threads against Qing Qing Cang and launched the technique with the Years Blade ready as a safeguard.

• Lu Yuan told Qing Qing Cang that he had ascended from the lower realm and had no powerful background, then described his talent and current strength as ordinary apart from his accumulated abilities.
• Lu Yuan resolved to hide the Eye of Fate and his control over time, judging that displaying his strength was safer than revealing those powers.
• Qing Qing Cang offered to let Lu Yuan test his strongest Secret Technique on him and assured Lu Yuan that he could not be hurt.
• Lu Yuan warned that Red Dust Threads had killed more than a dozen Earth Supremes, then released the technique using seventy percent of its Power of Destiny while preparing the Years Blade.

Lu Yuan tested his Red Dust Threads on Qing Qing Cang, the Floating Tu Ancient Clan patriarch, and forced him to use his Spirit Vein divine ability and Spirit Devouring Purple Flame to break free. Qing Qing Cang recognized Lu Yuan’s exceptional talent and agreed to lend him the Great Floating Tu Art Yin Scroll, while Lu Yuan learned that a Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign could sever his Red Dust Threads.

• Qing Qing Cang considered Lu Yuan’s age, cultivation, and reported achievements before allowing the Red Dust Thread to land on him.
• The Red Dust Thread weakened Qing Qing Cang, resisted his spiritual energy, and spread through his body, prompting him to dismiss the ancestral hall’s alarmed inquiries.
• Qing Qing Cang activated his Clan Tattoo, but it could not stop the thread; he then used Floating Tu Chaos Light to sever the connection and Spirit Devouring Purple Flame to burn away the thread inside him.
• Qing Qing Cang lost roughly twenty percent of his spiritual energy while breaking free, and Lu Yuan realized this was the first person who had actively severed his Red Dust Threads.
• Qing Qing Cang judged Lu Yuan worthy of borrowing the Great Floating Tu Art Yin Scroll for reference.

Qing Qing Cang survived Lu Yuan’s Red Dust Threads and discussed the power’s connection to Time Force before offering Lu Yuan the Floating Tu Ancient Clan’s Yin Volume and a chance to undergo Blood Exchange. Lu Yuan declined the exchange because he would not abandon the bloodlines entrusted to him, though he remained willing to incorporate the clan’s bloodline.

• Qing Qing Cang recovered from the Red Dust Threads’ attack but realized the technique could threaten even a Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign and had cost him more than a thousand years of lifespan.
• Qing Qing Cang asked whether Lu Yuan understood time, and Lu Yuan explained how Heavenly Sovereigns might perceive traces of Time Force through space.
• A clan elder delivered a document that let Qing Qing Cang resume speaking privately with Lu Yuan, and Qing Qing Cang admitted he had briefly considered capturing him to learn his secret.
• Qing Qing Cang gave Lu Yuan the Yin Volume of the Great Floating Tu Art and proposed using the clan’s Blood Exchange technique to replace Lu Yuan’s bloodlines.
• Lu Yuan rejected replacing his bloodlines because they represented people’s hopes, but said he would accept incorporating the Floating Tu Ancient Clan’s bloodline.

Lu Yuan refused Qing Qing Cang’s offer to exchange his bloodline for that of the Floating Tu Ancient Clan, choosing instead to pursue cultivation on his own terms. After studying the Yin Volume of the Great Floating Tu Art, he entrusted Qing Qing Cang with a sealed strand of Red Dust Threads for Qing Yan Jing to use if she ever needed it.

• Qing Qing Cang urged Lu Yuan to accept a bloodline exchange, but Lu Yuan argued that great power could be achieved without inherited bloodlines and refused.
• Lu Yuan quickly read the Yin Volume of the Great Floating Tu Art, confirmed he had memorized it, and returned the Jade Slip to Qing Qing Cang.
• Lu Yuan created a sealed glass jar containing Red Dust Threads, made Qing Yan Jing its second master, and protected it with Array Runes only she could unlock.
• Lu Yuan asked Qing Qing Cang to give the jar to Qing Yan Jing when she returned from training and warned him not to open it.
• Qing Qing Cang accepted the jar and asked Lu Yuan whether he thought Qing Yan Jing would have a son or daughter; Lu Yuan said either was fine before taking his leave.

Lu Yuan returned to the Nine-tailed Fox Clan after visiting the Five Ancient Clans and securing support that helped shield the clan from its enemies. After a celebratory banquet, he told Hu Jiu Jiu he would leave, and departed as she watched with worry.

• Lu Yuan returned to the Nine-tailed Fox Clan after finishing his arrangements and visiting the Five Ancient Clans.
• The Qingqiu Clan supported the Nine-tailed Fox Clan, while the Five Ancient Clans and Human Race factions refrained from challenging Lu Yuan.
• The Nine-tailed Fox Clan brought back women who had suffered mistreatment in their marriage alliances and celebrated Lu Yuan's return.
• Hu Jiu Jiu welcomed Lu Yuan, and the clan held a banquet to signal that it would lie low and strengthen itself.
• Lu Yuan told Hu Jiu Jiu he was leaving and walked away until he vanished beyond the horizon.

Lu Yuan followed his intuition across the Northern Heavens Continent in search of the Ancient Array Formation that might complete his time loop, then arrived at the former site of Demon Saint Valley. He suspected the missing Teleportation Array that had transported the Nine-tailed Fox Clan lay beneath the ground and began digging to investigate.

• Lu Yuan explained how his past and present selves could form a loop that let him escape fate, but he worried that another self might be controlling events if he could not find the Ancient Array Formation.
• After searching the Northern Heavens Continent for half a year, Lu Yuan reached the barren site where Demon Saint Valley had once stood and considered whether its Teleportation Array was the Ancient Array Formation he sought.
• Lu Yuan reasoned that the Teleportation Array must have disappeared because Yao Lao had never searched for the Nine-tailed Fox Clan, leaving him without coordinates to locate them.
• Lu Yuan pulled a deep block of earth from the former center of Demon Saint Valley to check whether the enormous Teleportation Array lay underground.
• Lu Yuan speculated that the Nine-tailed Fox Clan had ties to an Earth Supreme-level Spirit Array Master and wondered whether the Nine Netherworld Python Clan had taken its place among the great magical beast clans.

Lu Yuan unearthed and claimed an abandoned Teleportation Array beneath Demon Saint Valley, then began modifying its Array Disk on the Crimson Continent. He hoped the disk could help him repair an incomplete Supreme Dharmakaya manual, though he still did not know how it fit into the time loop that brought him here.

• Lu Yuan lifted a vast block of earth to expose the buried Teleportation Array, terrifying cultivators across the surrounding region.
• Several elderly Supremes recognized Lu Yuan and watched in fear as he pulled out the array and restored the earth above it.
• Lu Yuan used spiritual energy to claim the array, reduced it to a palm-sized Array Disk, and left through a Spatial Vortex.
• On the Crimson Continent, Lu Yuan began modifying the Array Disk as a contingency for studying the incomplete Supreme Dharmakaya manual.
• Lu Yuan wondered whether he had been transported to this era to find the manual and how he might later have stored it in the Array Disk.

Lu Yuan’s Past Self revealed that the World Body was the foundation of the Chaos Body and set a test for Lu Yuan: leave a surname on the Sky Ranking List to earn the remaining Chaos portion. Lu Yuan activated the list, and it appeared across the Myriad Heavens bearing the surnames Ye and Lu.

• Lu Yuan’s Past Self explained that Lu Yuan’s Timeline was still unlocked and that the World Body was the foundational portion of the Chaos Body.
• Lu Yuan’s Past Self decided to give Lu Yuan the remaining Chaos portion if he could leave a surname on the Sky Ranking List, setting opportunities in the present and during the Era of Great Strife.
• Lu Yuan examined the Sky Ranking List that appeared before him and reasoned that he could use his fused time, space, and fate power to inscribe his name.
• Lu Yuan poured his remaining fused power into the list, and the World Will evaluated his attempt.
• The Sky Ranking List appeared throughout the Myriad Heavens with the surnames Ye and Lu, though no one knew who the second surname represented.

The Sky Ranking List’s appearance convinced the Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereigns that its two surnames belonged to figures who knew of a path beyond their realm, and Qing Qing Cang suspected Lu Yuan was one of them. After the list disappeared, Space-Time Force sent Lu Yuan through space-time turbulence back to the Dou Qi Continent.

• The golden list suppressed the Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereigns, who reasoned that the surnames Ye and Lu marked people with knowledge of a realm beyond Saint Grade.
• Qing Qing Cang suspected Lu Yuan, while Tai Ling Chen Xuan briefly considered him and dismissed the possibility.
• Qing Qing Cang chose to keep his suspicion to himself, fearing that a search for Lu Yuan could provoke a deadly conflict among Heavenly Sovereigns.
• Lu Yuan examined the extra half-book that had appeared before him and recognized the name of the Dao Arts incarnation.
• The Sky Ranking List vanished, and Space-Time Force carried Lu Yuan away through space-time turbulence to the Dou Qi Continent.

Lu Yuan returned to the Dou Qi Continent and traveled north toward the Northwest Continent, reflecting on cultivation, desire, and the value of following one's heart. After gaining a deeper understanding of himself in the Tagor Desert, he set out to visit old friends and make amends for past mistakes.

• Lu Yuan judged that he had no right to condemn Hun Tiandi for the Central Plains’ destruction, though he still considered Hun Tiandi his enemy.
• Lu Yuan learned his location, bought a map, and used spatial teleportation to travel north toward the Northwest Continent.
• Lu Yuan crossed the Tagor Desert and reflected on how the landscapes of the Dou Qi Continent and the Myriad Heavens were alike yet distinct.
• Lu Yuan concluded that cultivation should follow one’s heart and balance strength with the mind, then realized that his continued existence was proof enough of himself.
• Lu Yuan left the desert to visit old friends and make amends for mistakes he had made.

The chapter described how Queen Medusa and the Gama Empire transformed the Tagor Desert through a peace treaty, roads, cities, and a cross-border Trading Area. Three years later, the region had become far more connected and prosperous, and Lu Yuan arrived to buy an updated map.

• Queen Medusa abandoned her plan to attack the Gama Empire because she needed Lu Yuan's help to revive Snake Woman Die and did not want to endanger her ties to him.
• Queen Medusa and the Gama Empire signed a mutual non-aggression treaty that recognized the rights of humans and Snake-People in each other's territories.
• Yue Mei led Snake-People in building roads and cities, while the first Trading Area opened in the Snake-People Royal City.
• The Gama Empire brought its merchant families into the Trading Area, allowing the Snake-People to trade desert goods for food, tools, and other necessities.
• Over three years, trade and construction changed the Tagor Desert into a more peaceful and developed region.
• Lu Yuan bought the latest map of the Tagor Desert from a bookstore run by a Snake-Person.