Chapter Summaries

Xi Lingzi examined Li Wuxian and realized that her nightmares might signal an unusually early awakening of her past-life consciousness. After learning the danger, Li Wuxian insisted that her present self would decide her own path.

• Xi Lingzi examined Li Wuxian and advised her to withdraw from state affairs and cultivate in seclusion, while cautioning Li Qingjun against pressuring her.
• Xi Lingzi recognized that Li Wuxian's worries and lovesickness might be contributing to her troubled soul, then asked her to describe her nightmares.
• Li Wuxian described fierce battles in a dream and an infuriating pair of nostrils, prompting Xi Lingzi and Li Qingjun to suspect her past-life consciousness was awakening.
• Xi Lingzi warned that awakening at Li Wuxian's Soaring Clouds cultivation level could endanger her identity and offered to refine pills to stabilize her spirit.
• Li Wuxian asked about the link between cultivation and past-life memories, then declared that her present self could choose whether to advance or retreat and would not be defeated by her past life.

Li Wuxian rejected her past life’s claim over her present, while Qin Yi continued training the Law of Time in the South Sea. He discovered that he could view memories lingering in the surrounding space, leaving An'an startled as the island’s past appeared on his light screen.

• Li Wuxian told Li Qingjun she would not let her past life interfere with her current life, and Li Qingjun agreed that their achievements came from their own efforts.
• Xi Lingzi reflected on Li Wuxian’s fierce resistance to her past life and wondered whether Qin Yi could ever rein in his formidable disciple.
• Qin Yi heard from Li Qingjun about Wu Xian’s condition but stayed in the South Sea to temper his Primordial Spirit and address gaps in his cultivation.
• An'an approached Qin Yi on the reef and saw him display past events from the island, including Ye Ling’s demons setting up camp.
• Qin Yi revealed the lingering memories of the space itself, demonstrating the Path of Time as An'an watched in astonishment.

Qin Yi discussed the limits of his time-reversal ability and the difficulty of comprehending space with Liusu, who urged him to value the journey of cultivation. Their banter with An'an was interrupted by a powerful stranger addressing Liusu, who challenged him to gather his forces and fight.

• Qin Yi explained that he could recreate events from the past within a limited range, but could not physically return to the past or view the future.
• Liusu told Qin Yi that mastering space required personal comprehension and suitable assistance, then encouraged him to focus on the process of pursuing the Dao.
• Qin Yi and Liusu wrestled and joked as An'an listened, then Qin Yi greeted her and she teased him suggestively.
• Liusu struck Qin Yi into a crater after he flirted with An'an, and An'an fled when Liusu turned its gaze on her.
• A powerful stranger addressed Liusu from the sky and warned that Liusu was no match for him, but Liusu challenged him to muster his troops and fight.

Qin Yi and Liusu learned that the Heavenly Palace was divided over whether to fight Liusu, since the Heavenly Emperor’s revival posed a greater threat. A Heavenly Palace speaker explained that the Heavenly Emperor had exploited the time difference between heaven and earth, then proposed a deal with Liusu as several Heavenly Beings neared Supreme Clarity.

• The Heavenly Palace speaker warned Liusu that its reckless behavior could endanger Qin Yi, but Qin Yi said he would stand by Liusu and share the consequences.
• The speaker said the Heavenly Emperor’s impending revival made some Heavenly Beings willing to negotiate with Liusu rather than attack it.
• The speaker revealed that the Heavenly Emperor had used the difference in time between heaven and earth to outmaneuver the Heavenly Palace.
• Qin Yi realized that the Heavenly Beings had experienced only a few hundred years of cultivation during the tens of thousands of years that had passed below.
• The speaker said several Heavenly Beings were close to Supreme Clarity and offered to make a deal with Liusu.

Liusu rejected Zhao Wuhuai’s proposal to help the Heavenly Embrace Child faction trigger another Demon Calamity to find the Heavenly Emperor’s reincarnation. It explained that its ancient conflict with the Heavenly Emperor was about preventing anyone from monopolizing cultivation, and it would not sacrifice ordinary lives to pursue revenge.

• Zhao Wuhuai asked Liusu to help locate the Heavenly Emperor’s reincarnation, but Liusu refused to serve his faction’s plans.
• Zhao Wuhuai explained that his faction wanted to provoke a new Demon Calamity to weaken the Demon Race and screen for the Heavenly Emperor’s reincarnation.
• Liusu asked Qin Yi whether it would agree to the proposal even without him, and Qin Yi answered that it would not.
• Liusu revealed that it had opposed the Heavenly Emperor’s plan to restrict cultivation and monopolize the Spiritual Energy of heaven and earth.
• Liusu told Zhao Wuhuai that it would not cause a Great Calamity that deprived others of their right to live.

Zhao Wuhuai confronted Liusu over the plan involving the Demon Calamity, but she refused to let him proceed unchecked. They agreed that neither would act directly in the matter, and that they would avoid seeking trouble with each other for ten years unless Liusu’s side broke the agreement.

• Zhao Wuhuai threatened An'an after Liusu rejected his proposed deal, but Qin Yi stepped in front of the clam and shielded her from his pressure.
• Liusu warned Zhao Wuhuai that fighting her would draw attention from the Celestial Pivot Divine Palace and jeopardize the Heavenly Beings' plan concerning the Heavenly Emperor.
• Liusu proposed a wager that she would not intervene directly while Zhao Wuhuai made arrangements, and that Qin Yi would stop the plan from succeeding.
• Zhao Wuhuai accepted the wager after Liusu offered a ten-year truce, with the agreement voided if her side proactively provoked his.

Zhao Wuhuai activated the Taiyi Life Water to demonize the Southern Sea’s creatures and lure in human cultivators, forcing Qin Yi to find a way through the time barrier. Qin Yi sent An'an inside the light pillar, but the treasure showed no reaction as the humans arrived.

• Liusu and Zhao Wuhuai sealed their agreement, preventing either side from intervening in Southern Sea affairs until the matter was resolved.
• Zhao Wuhuai revealed that he had activated the Taiyi Life Water, which stirred the Sea Clan and drew human cultivators toward it.
• Demonized whales, sharks, and other Sea Clan creatures surged around the pillar as human cultivators began arriving.
• Qin Yi found a way through the time barrier and shoved An'an into the light pillar.
• Zhao Wuhuai wondered if Qin Yi was the Heavenly Emperor reincarnated, but Qin Yi and Liusu rejected the idea; the pillar remained unchanged as the human cultivators reached them.

Qin Yi let cultivators come to seek the Taiyi Life Water while warning them not to harm the Southern Sea clans or Profound Yin Sect’s interests. He used the Myriad Demons Magic Robe’s protection to keep the demons from attacking, leaving the onlookers uncertain as he invited them to approach the treasure.

• A late-Qianyuan scholar-robed old man arrived, and Qin Yi announced that others could seek the treasure but must not touch the Southern Sea or the Profound Yin Sect’s interests.
• The old man moved toward the pillar of light, and Qin Yi stopped his sword from striking a giant whale before calling himself Heaven’s Slander.
• When the old man challenged Qin Yi’s claim that the demons would not harm him, a shark and swordfish attacked, but Qin Yi’s gentle radiance halted them and sent them back into the sea.
• Zhao Wuhuai realized Qin Yi had disrupted the conflict he expected, while Liusu revealed that Qiu Niu had modified Qin Yi’s robe to carry the sea demons’ protection.
• Qin Yi faced the gathered spectators and asked why they were not coming to seek the treasure.

Qin Yi let cultivators try to unravel the pillar of light while keeping them from harming the Profound Yin Sect’s demons, and his Divine Zhou acquaintances backed his rules. When a mid-Qianyuan cultivator attacked the demons, Qin Yi blocked the strike and knocked him out of the treasure hunt.

• Qin Yi watched several Qianyuan cultivators gather around the pillar of light and reflected on how few such cultivators lived in the Land of Chaos and the South Sea.
• Cultivators from Divine Zhou and the Eastern Sea arrived, recognized Qin Yi as Heaven’s Slander, and accepted his terms after his friends supported him.
• The cultivators struggled to unravel the Curtain of Time because the hostile Sea Clan demons surrounding them kept them from concentrating.
• A cultivator demanded that Qin Yi move the demons, then another declared he had never agreed to spare them and launched an attack.
• Qin Yi stopped the attack with Breathing Earth and struck the attacker with his Wolf Tooth Club, declaring him out of the treasure hunt.

Qin Yi drove off a Qianyuan cultivator and convinced the gathered sects that the man had nearly deciphered the entrance barrier, turning them against him. Meanwhile, Zhao Wuhuai’s trap failed to lure Ye Ling into danger, leaving him stunned by her reluctance to pursue a supreme bloodline treasure.

• Qin Yi struck a Qianyuan cultivator with a staff that seemed to draw on overlapping moments in time, forcing him to retreat.
• Qin Yi described the entrance barrier and suggested the expelled cultivator had nearly solved it, prompting the other Qianyuan cultivators to resent him.
• Zhao Wuhuai watched Qin Yi steer the gathering and revealed that he had arranged for the Beast Taming Sect to target Ye Ling, hoping to draw out the rift demons.
• A Beast Taming Sect member used a beast bone to trap Ye Ling and her guards in an illusion of an Ying Dragon Bone that promised immense power.
• Ye Ling resisted the illusion’s temptation, fearing that adding another bloodline could overwhelm her, and decided to ask Qin Yi first.
• Zhao Wuhuai overheard Ye Ling’s hesitation and was astonished that she would not risk pursuing the treasure.

Long Bijiang’s attempt to control Ye Ling with illusions backfired, exposing her identity and drawing attacks from the Qian Yuan cultivators. Qin Yi protected her and warned the crowd that someone was manipulating events, just as a powerful woman appeared and threatened them.

• Long Bijiang repeatedly changed his illusions, but Ye Ling refused the Dragon Bone and Courage Pearls and struck away the illusion of Qin Yi.
• When Long Bijiang’s attack shattered the Qin Yi illusion, Ye Ling’s rage triggered her Divinities and Ghosts Terrified talent, gravely wounding him.
• The gathered Qian Yuan cultivators discovered Ye Ling was a Soaring Serpent and attacked her as she tried to flee.
• Qin Yi shielded Ye Ling from the attacks, captured the unconscious Long Bijiang, and explained that Long Bijiang had plotted against her through a linked divine soul.
• Qin Yi warned the crowd that a conspiracy was driving them, and a woman in white appeared, declaring that they would die if they killed Ye Ling.

Cheng Cheng reunited with Qin Yi and defended Ye Ling, while the cultivators hesitated to oppose her because of their debts to her and Qin Yi. A provocation sparked a battle, and as Cheng Cheng overwhelmed her attackers, Xi Yue and Qiu Niu intervened, leaving the confrontation poised to escalate.

• Qin Yi and Cheng Cheng reunited, exchanged affectionate words, and turned together to face the gathered cultivators.
• Cheng Cheng warned the cultivators not to harm Ye Ling, while Tai Puzi and others held back because they felt indebted to Cheng Cheng and Qin Yi.
• A cultivator accused Qin Yi of siding with demons and attacked him, prompting others to join the assault.
• Cheng Cheng used her Sky Fox Domain to overwhelm the attackers, while Qin Yi let her suppress them without killing anyone.
• Xi Yue intervened to stop Cheng Cheng, and Qiu Niu challenged Xi Yue as their powers collided.

Qin Yi stopped Xi Yue and Qiu Niu from turning their clash into a wider human-demon conflict, then exposed Zhao Wuhuai as the one manipulating events. Zhao Wuhuai tried to flee, but Qiu Niu, Xi Yue, and a chessboard technique moved to intercept him.

• Qin Yi cursed at Xi Yue and urged her and Qiu Niu to stop fighting while he explained what had happened.
• Xi Yue saw that Cheng Cheng had bound the human cultivators without harming them, and Cheng Cheng challenged their accusations against demons.
• Qin Yi pointed out that someone was conspiring to provoke a great calamity and revealed Zhao Wuhuai's concealed position.
• Zhao Wuhuai tried to escape, but Qiu Niu blocked his path and Xi Yue attacked with moonlight and Li Fire.
• Zhao Wuhuai evaded their attacks, but a chessboard appeared before him as the Ten Thousand Dao Immortal Palace's Dao of Chess Game used Sever.

Qin Yi and the Divine Land cultivators helped Xi Yue and Qiu Niu corner Zhao Wuhuai, but powerful beings from the heavens rescued him before he could be killed. With the Taiyi Life Water phenomenon gone, Qin Yi blamed Zhao Wuhuai for provoking the conflict and became famous as the human and demon leaders prepared to discuss how to conclude the matter.

• The Chess Fanatic predicted Zhao Wuhuai’s escape route and blocked him long enough for Xi Yue and Qiu Niu to strike.
• Qin Yi, the Divine Land cultivators, and hidden Myriad Images of the Universe cultivators attacked Zhao Wuhuai, shattering his Black Tortoise defense.
• Heavenly support rescued Zhao Wuhuai as Xi Yue, Qiu Niu, and the sea’s Wuxiang cultivators attacked, and the battle ended in darkness.
• The Taiyi Life Water phenomenon vanished, and Qin Yi told the gathered cultivators that Zhao Wuhuai had used counterfeit water to incite conflict.
• The gathered cultivators learned Qin Yi’s name and claimed connections to him, while Cheng Cheng argued with Li Duanxuan and Xi Yue over him.
• Qiu Niu asked Xi Yue to determine how the matter should conclude, beginning a public discussion between the leaders of humans and demons.

Xi Yue and Qiu Niu negotiated a preliminary truce between humans and demons, with Cheng Cheng pledging that the demons of Demon City of the Rift Valley would not attack humans first. Xi Yue withdrew after setting out the agreement, then secretly slapped Qin Yi for insulting her.

• Xi Yue reconsidered the need for a formal agreement and asked Qiu Niu what the Demon Race would accept.
• Qiu Niu said it would not attack humans but could not represent Demon City of the Rift Valley, so Cheng Cheng pledged that its demons would not attack humans first and warned that they would retaliate if attacked.
• Cheng Cheng demanded an explanation from Xi Yue, who revealed she had rescued Cheng Cheng as an infant and proposed that neither side hunt the other, while individual conflicts would be settled under martial-world rules.
• Xi Yue refused to force the other cultivators to accept the preliminary agreement and left after declaring she would answer for her decision within Celestial Pivot Divine Palace.
• Xi Yue struck Qin Yi with an unseen palm for calling her a stinky Daoist nun.

After the South Sea crisis ended, Qin Yi explained that both the current conflict and the previous Demon Calamity had been deliberately provoked, while Cheng Cheng invited the cultivators to visit Saint Dragon Peak. Qin Yi stayed behind to investigate An'an’s absence, as Xi Yue disguised herself as Yue Xi and decided to visit the Rift.

• Qin Yi told Li Duanxuan and the other cultivators that the previous Demon Calamity had been instigated and urged them not to follow their hidden enemy’s designs.
• Cheng Cheng invited the cultivators to Saint Dragon Peak so they could investigate the past, then took Ye Ling and the guests toward the Rift.
• Qiu Niu began transferring the transformed sea demons to the forbidden grounds, and the South Sea returned to normal.
• Xi Yue changed into Yue Xi’s guise and decided to visit the Rift after seeing Cheng Cheng’s invitation.
• Qin Yi remained at the site of the Taiyi Life Water and worried because An'an had not come out.

Qin Yi entered the time-tangled building to find An'an after she absorbed its Taiyi Life Water. He discovered she was close to death from taking in too much, and Liusu proposed a risky way to draw the excess spirit into Qin Yi.

• Qiu Niu thanked Qin Yi for protecting the Sea Clan and warned that powerful cultivators might soon break through to Taiqing.
• Qin Yi entered the building, pushed aside its warped spacetime, and found An'an unconscious in the pool.
• Qin Yi and Liusu realized An'an had absorbed the Taiyi Life Water and was dangerously overwhelmed by it.
• Liusu explained that An'an needed to discharge the excess water spirit through a channel into Qin Yi, who would have to kiss her to create one.

Qin Yi contained An'an’s uncontrolled Water Spirit Power and guided her into sharing it with him through a cycle of cultivation. As they began, Liusu remembered an old conversation from the bathhouse, though it could not recall the face of the person from its memories.

• Qin Yi used vortices in his palms to draw An'an’s raging Water Spirit Power into himself without absorbing it.
• Qin Yi told Liusu he would not take advantage of An'an because he would have to accept responsibility if their relationship changed.
• An'an woke, understood that Qin Yi had been bearing the strain of her power, and agreed to circulate it with him as dual cultivation.
• Liusu left Qin Yi and An'an by the pool and recalled a blurred conversation from the bathhouse’s distant past.

After the visitors examined the sealed Saint Dragon Peak and considered the hidden forces behind the Demon Calamity, most returned home to prepare for the coming upheaval. Chess Addict and Cheng Cheng then encountered Xi Yue, who concealed her identity and unsettled Cheng Cheng by guessing that her name was not her birth name.

• Qiu Niu carried Qin Yi's house to Transverse Rift Valley while the cultivators inspected the resentment sealed inside Saint Dragon Peak.
• Chess Addict and the other cultivators concluded that resentment had helped cause the Demon Calamity and warned that a greater crisis was approaching.
• Li Duanxuan rejected the idea that fate determined his path and rode away on his sword.
• Most visitors left Demon City to consult their sects and prepare, while Chess Addict stayed behind to speak with Qin Yi.
• Xi Yue appeared before Saint Dragon Peak and introduced herself to Cheng Cheng as Yue Xi, a Rogue Cultivator from the Great Wilderness.
• Xi Yue guessed that Cheng Cheng's name had begun as a mistake rather than her formal name, leaving Cheng Cheng startled and wary.

Xi Yue visited Cheng Cheng in the Transverse Rift Valley, and the two traded barbs over Cheng Cheng’s relationship with Qin Yi. When they went to check on him, they found him emerging from a private room carrying An'an, prompting Xi Yue and Cheng Cheng to send him flying.

• Xi Yue recalled naming Cheng Cheng Cui Hua and struggled to find a weakness to use against the accomplished Demon Emperor.
• Cheng Cheng teased Xi Yue by calling her an auntie and hinting that she shared a Dao Companion with her.
• Xi Yue asked Cheng Cheng to show her around the rift valley, intending to disrupt Cheng Cheng’s time with Qin Yi and discuss important matters.
• Qiu Niu reported that the South Sea had been cleared and said Qin Yi was inside a house after absorbing the Taiyi Life Water.
• Xi Yue and Cheng Cheng opened the house and found Qin Yi carrying the disheveled An'an; Xi Yue accused him of enjoying himself with her and sent him flying.