Chapter Summaries

Tang San exiled Yu Bai and Douluo Star into the void between the Myriad Worlds, where spacetime storms overwhelmed Yu Bai’s power. Just as Yu Bai passed out, the Golden Ranking enveloped him and Douluo Star and carried them away.

• Gu Yuena urged Bibi Dong to rescue Yu Bai, but Tang San opened a rift and used Eternal Exile to drag Yu Bai, Douluo Star, and their minor world into the void between the Myriad Worlds.
• Yu Bai summoned twenty-three Heavenly Flames and launched Buddha's Fury Imperial Flame Lotus toward the rift, threatening to destroy the God Realm and the other minor worlds.
• The enormous phantom closed the rift before the fire lotus could escape, then erased the gods’ memories of what had happened.
• Yu Bai’s fire lotus vanished against the spacetime storm, and he passed out as the storm neared him and Douluo Star.
• The Golden Ranking enveloped Yu Bai and Douluo Star, broke through the spacetime storm, severed all karma, and vanished into the void.

A silver-haired youth caught Little Radish Head’s wooden sword between two fingers as she tried to ambush him, then teased her about her strength and training. He planned to bring Little Tiger and Little Blind Bear’s meat to the village’s martial competition as a reward.

• The youth heard Little Tiger and Little Bear fighting and decided to bring their meat to Little Radish Head’s village competition.
• Little Radish Head sneaked into the courtyard and attacked the sleeping youth with her wooden sword.
• The youth caught the sword between his fingers just before it reached his throat.
• The youth compared Little Radish Head unfavorably to Er Gouzi, and she angrily called him Old Monster.

Butterfly showed off her cultivation and sword skills to Yu Bai, who refused to praise her but demonstrated a powerful technique and hinted that he might teach her the Sword Control Technique. As Butterfly went to catch fish, Yu Bai recalled awakening ten years earlier in a forest where enormous beasts fought.

• Butterfly boasted that she had reached the first level of the Foundation Establishment Realm and surpassed Er Gouzi, but Yu Bai changed the subject instead of praising her.
• Butterfly explained that she called Yu Bai an Old Monster because he had looked the same since her parents rescued him ten years earlier, then threatened to damage his medicine garden.
• Butterfly’s Sword Qi threatened the medicine garden, but Yu Bai scattered it with a flying branch, prompting her to accuse him of using a Xiantian Realm technique.
• Yu Bai told Butterfly about the Sword Control Technique but said she needed to master the basic sword moves first, then sent her to catch food for lunch.
• As Butterfly went to fish in the stream, Yu Bai remembered awakening ten years earlier, calling out Tang San’s name, and witnessing a giant tiger and black bear fight in the forest.

Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yu Bai encounters two powerful beasts (a tiger and a bear) in his new world, which he initially mistakes for ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts but later realizes are not intelligent and fight purely on instinct.
• He is severely injured and loses his Soul Power, leaving him defenseless against the beasts.
• The Heavenly Dao Rankings (Golden Rankings) appear before Yu Bai, revealing that they are behind his rebirth and his current situation.
• The Golden Rankings tell Yu Bai that his friends (Zhu Zhuqing, Dong'er, Nana) are safe and outside the Forbidden Zone.
• Yu Bai asks about the reality of his lives, and the Golden Rankings respond with "To **, all is true, and all is false."
• Yu Bai punches the Golden Rankings in anger, causing him to wake up in a small wooden house in an unknown place.

Character Developments

• Yu Bai's desperation and helplessness grow as he faces the beasts and his own injuries.
• He becomes determined to find out the truth about his lives and his current situation.
• His anger towards the Golden Rankings increases, leading him to lash out physically.

Significant Themes

• The nature of reality and truth (all is true, all is false).
• The consequences of anger and impulsive actions.
• The power dynamics between Yu Bai and the mysterious entity behind the Golden Rankings.

Character Interactions

• Yu Bai interacts with the Golden Rankings, trying to understand his situation and seeking answers.
• He overhears a conversation between a man named "A Man" and a woman named "A Li," suggesting the presence of other people in his new environment.

Yu Bai recovered in a village on the edge of the Great Evolution Mountain Range and learned about the world’s empires, Demon Beasts, and cultivation system. He later lived in the mountains while caring for the villagers and helping A Man and A Li’s gifted daughter butterfly, whom he had named, grow stronger.

• Qin Man and his wife told Yu Bai about the Nine Provinces, the surrounding powers, the Demon Beasts, and the stages of cultivation.
• After recovering, Yu Bai claimed to be a mountain-trained physician, treated the village hunters, and avoided registering for a Great Qin Empire identity talisman.
• A year later, Yu Bai moved into the mountains but continued to treat sick and injured villagers; two years after that, A Man asked him to name his newborn daughter.
• Yu Bai named the girl butterfly and sensed a deep connection with her, then secretly protected her as she began visiting him in the mountains.
• Yu Bai recognized butterfly’s extraordinary natural physique, prepared medicinal meals for her, and began teaching her Basic Swordsmanship when she turned five.

Yu Bai grilled fish with Little Radish Head and used the chores to train her swordsmanship. After she wondered about his strength, he told her to take the remaining fish to her parents, Brother A Man and sister-in-law A Li.

• Little Radish Head brought Yu Bai five cleaned fish, then turned part of his fence into skewers to roast them.
• Yu Bai persuaded Little Radish Head to chop firewood by teasing her with the promise of grilled fish.
• Little Radish Head struggled to split wood made from a dead tree demon, while Yu Bai recognized that the effort was training her swordsmanship.
• Yu Bai and Little Radish Head ate grilled fish, and she guessed that he was an Innate Grandmaster.
• Yu Bai told Little Radish Head to take the three remaining fish to Brother A Man and sister-in-law A Li.

Yu Bai urged the little girl to keep practicing, then sent her home with rejuvenating water and grilled fish. He flew into the Great Evolution Mountain Range to kill two fighting demon beasts and bring their corpses for the village children’s training, while hidden beasts vowed revenge and threatened humanity.

• Yu Bai made the little girl continue training until she had practiced for the day, then gave her special water that restored her energy and strengthened her cultivation.
• The little girl reminded Yu Bai to attend the village’s annual competition for the younger generation the next day and carried the grilled fish home.
• Yu Bai flew into the Great Evolution Mountain Range to prepare something for the village children and found two Houtian Ninth Level demon beasts fighting.
• Yu Bai killed the tiger demon and the Little Black bear, then stored their corpses so the children could use their blood to temper their bodies.
• A hidden demon beast watched Yu Bai leave and vowed that the Demon King would avenge the dead beasts and destroy humanity.

Yu Bai discovered that the destruction of the village and the little girl's grief clarified his Dao: controlling life and death. His cultivation broke through to Soul Saint, and his immense aura spread across the world, shocking countless powerful beings.

• Yu Bai failed to enter his usual state of enlightenment, felt an ominous premonition, and rushed toward the village after thinking something had happened to Little Radish Head.
• Yu Bai found the little girl standing before the burning village and absorbed the flames with his Heavenly Flame Eyes.
• Yu Bai and the little girl entered the ruined village, where he saw the destruction and found A Man's house reduced to ash.
• Yu Bai realized his Dao was to control life and death, from his own to that of all beings and ultimately all Daos.
• Yu Bai's Soul Power surged from rank sixty-seven to rank seventy, and his aura spread across the world, drawing the shocked attention of powerful beings.

After attaining the Heavenly Being realm, Yu Bai gathered the slain villagers’ souls into Cold Jade and told the surviving girl she would have to cultivate to revive them. He found the army responsible for the massacre and opened a rift above its camp.

• Yu Bai’s breakthrough produced a vast celestial phenomenon that drew speculation from powerful figures across the world.
• The little girl asked Yu Bai to revive her family and villagers, and he used the Daoist Soul Gathering Incantation to gather their souls into Cold Jade.
• Yu Bai told the girl that she could revive them only by cultivating until she could leap beyond the long river of time, and she vowed to avenge them.
• Yu Bai searched the surrounding area with his divine sense and discovered a hidden army of one hundred thousand soldiers camped fifty li away.
• As soldiers discussed their village raids, the centurion feared Yu Bai had sensed their crime, and Yu Bai’s voice rang out from a shattered rift above the camp.

A white-haired youth used a heaven-shrouding hand to seize a hundred thousand troops and their grandmasters after the Military Strategists grandmaster tried to flee. At the foot of the Great Evolution Mountain Range, a young Great Qin general witnessed the capture and realized the army had slaughtered villages to conceal its advance.

• A vast curtain of darkness shattered over the encampment, terrifying the hundred thousand troops and their Innate Grandmasters.
• The Military Strategists grandmaster abandoned his army and fled, but realized the attacker wielded spatial power and could not escape the heaven-shrouding hand.
• The flaming hand seized the fleeing grandmaster, dozens of Innate Grandmasters, and the hundred thousand soldiers, then vanished into the void.
• A young Great Qin general rode toward a smoking village and found a white-haired youth and a shorter survivor at its entrance.
• The white-haired youth raised his hand and captured the army in the sky, while the young general recognized it as the force responsible for slaughtering the villages along its route.

Yu Bai destroyed the army that had massacred a village, then learned from Zhang Han that its token belonged to Lord Changping, Xiong Qi. Yu Bai set off for Xianyang to kill him, while Zhang Han warned the Qin court, whose emperor reacted coldly to the news.

• Zhang Han watched Yu Bai shatter the minds of the hundred thousand soldiers and burn them to ashes after Yu Bai confirmed they had slaughtered the village.
• Zhang Han introduced himself as chief of the Great Qin Secret Guard and asked Yu Bai not to blame Great Qin for the unidentified army.
• Yu Bai showed Zhang Han a token, and Zhang Han recognized it as Lord Changping’s, marked with the words “Great Chu.”
• Yu Bai identified Lord Changping as Xiong Qi, declared that he would kill him, and entered a spatial passage with the little girl.
• Zhang Han sent the Qin emperor a full report, then rode toward Yangning to travel to Xianyang.
• The Qin emperor heard the news and reacted with an icy snort at the name Lord Changping, Xiong Qi.

The young emperor ordered the imperial forces to stay out of the attack on Lord Changping, while Yu Bai’s vast divine sense swept across Xianyang and a flaming hand descended on Xiong Qi’s estate. The hand overwhelmed Lord Changping’s heavenly phenomenon and left him gravely wounded as the city watched.

• The young emperor revealed his Black Dragon heavenly phenomenon and ordered that neither imperial forces nor the army intervene in the day’s events.
• Lord Changping sensed that Yu Bai had destroyed his secret army and soul-searched his men, then summoned a subordinate.
• Yu Bai’s divine sense swept across the capital, and his voice declared that Lord Changping, Xiong Qi, would die before a flaming hand struck the Prime Minister’s Estate.
• Lü Buwei assessed the attack and dismissed his Luo Net assassins, believing a Heavenly Phenomenon Grandmaster could not kill Lord Changping.
• Confucian, Mohist, and Legalist experts attacked the flaming hand, but its twenty-three-colored fire swallowed them within twisted space.
• Lord Changping unleashed his mountains-and-rivers heavenly phenomenon, but the hand shattered it with one strike and made him spit blood from his seven orifices.

A mysterious new Saint destroyed Lord Changping, the Peasant School’s Shennong Token, and its Xia Kui phantom with a single strike in Xianyang. Ying Zheng recognized the incident as a chance to attack Great Chu, while the Saint’s identity and motives remained unknown.

• The Shennong Token appeared from Lord Changping’s estate, and the Peasant School’s Xia Kui phantom asked the attacker to spare Lord Changping.
• People in Xianyang identified the token and Xia Kui, while Ying Zheng realized the attacker was a half-step Heavenly Human expert and prepared to use the incident as grounds to attack Great Chu.
• Fusu tried to leave the Eastern Palace to save his uncle, but the guards stopped him; Li Si, Wang Jian, Wang Ben, Meng Tian, and Chunyu Yue did not intervene.
• The attacker coated the giant hand in azure fire and shattered the Shennong Token despite Xia Kui’s defense.
• The giant hand erased the Xia Kui phantom and Lord Changping, then the two figures in the sky vanished.
• The Hundred Schools and other forces spread news of the Saint’s power, while other Saints joked about the destruction of Shennong’s sacred token.

Zhang Han reported Yu Bai’s power to Ying Zheng, who ordered the secret guards to watch him and recruit him for Great Qin. Months later, Yu Bai and the little girl reached Fengfu Prefecture City, where he finally agreed to teach her the Sword Control Technique.

• Zhang Han reported his investigation to Ying Zheng and drew portraits of Yu Bai and the little girl.
• Ying Zheng spared Zhang Han but ordered the secret guards to track Yu Bai and try to bring him into Great Qin.
• Other empires and kingdoms also searched for Yu Bai, while the great demons of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains were ordered to await the world’s seal breaking.
• Months later, Yu Bai and the little girl walked through Fengfu Prefecture City, near the Taiyi Mountain Range, ahead of Taoism’s recruitment ceremony.
• The little girl reminded Yu Bai that she had mastered the Eighteen Basic Sword Forms and demanded the promised Sword Control Technique, and Yu Bai agreed to teach her after they found an inn.

Yu Bai brought the little girl to Changhe Prefecture and told her to join the Daoist Heavenly Sect, while he planned to enter the Daoist sect to study its classics. Their conversation was interrupted by a thunderous sound in the sky, and they turned to see what was happening.

• Yu Bai trained the little girl by taking her to fight bandits and using demon blood and medicinal baths to build her foundation, helping her reach the Houtian First Level with ten thousand jin of strength.
• Yu Bai and the little girl arrived at Taibai Inn, where they overheard guests discussing the Daoist sect’s recruitment ceremony and the rivalry between its Heavenly and Human Sects.
• The little girl asked whether Yu Bai had come to challenge or seize the Daoist sect, and Yu Bai said he wanted to study its classics while she should become a disciple of the Heavenly Sect.
• Yu Bai explained that the little girl’s path differed from his and that the Heavenly Sect could help her surpass him, giving her hope of reviving A Man and the others’ living souls.
• A thunderous boom sounded overhead, drawing the inn’s guests outside as Yu Bai and the little girl looked toward the sky and heard another great boom.

A golden ranking appeared across the world, promising to restore reincarnated beings to their peak strength, and drew the attention of rulers and hidden figures. At Little Sage Village, a young man foresaw a worse future and told his teacher he might have to leave.

• Golden dragons and lines of writing announced the ranking and its power to reveal reincarnated beings and restore their former peaks.
• Ying Zheng learned that Ge Nie, a Ghost Valley successor, sought to serve Great Qin and invited him to watch the ranking together.
• At the Purple Orchid Pavilion, the white-haired man told a woman that chaos was the only way out for the collapsing Great Han Empire.
• The golden ranking appeared in Xinzheng’s underground prison, where the sealed woman taunted the guards about breaking free and slaughtering the city.
• At Little Sage Village, the young man awoke from a nightmare, told his teacher that he had seen a worse future, and said he might have to leave.

The Heavenly Dao Rankings revealed Huo Ling'er’s past life in the Lower Realm, drawing attention to her childhood and the ancient cultivation system. As the ranking began showing her adventures, the woman imprisoned in Xinzheng City recognized her younger self and watched with curiosity and embarrassment.

• People across the Nine Provinces and beyond debated whether the rankings meant powerful figures from the past could return through reincarnation.
• At Taibai Inn, Yu Bai calmly drank tea while the little girl wondered why he seemed unsurprised by the ranking.
• The Heavenly Dao Rankings announced the Past and Present: Past Life Chapter for Huo Ling'er and showed her birth as the Fire Nation’s princess, followed by her arrival at Hundred Break Mountain at age fifteen.
• The ranking explained six Lower Realm cultivation stages, prompting observers to compare the ancient system with their own and one person to injure their cultivation by attempting it.
• The woman imprisoned beneath the formation in Xinzheng City recognized Huo Ling'er as her younger self and blushed when the image showed the Brat teasing and spanking her.

The Heavenly Dao Rankings showed Shi Hao and Huo Ling'er’s youthful encounters, drawing attention to their bond and Shi Hao’s extraordinary talent. The latest scene then showed Huo Ling'er mourning before a grave, leaving the watching world shocked by the apparent death of the once-mighty Stone Kingdom emperor.

• The rankings replayed Huo Ling'er helping Shi Hao through dangers, including giving him the Void Beast Hide so he could escape the Archaic Divine Mountain’s Venerable Realm experts.
• Viewers praised Shi Hao’s achievements in the Blood Moving and Cave Heaven Realms and remarked on Huo Ling'er’s repeated willingness to help him.
• A woman imprisoned in the mountains watched the scenes and angrily called Shi Hao a lecher when he saw Huo Ling'er during her bloodline awakening.
• At Taibai Inn, a little girl compared her cultivation prospects to Shi Hao’s, and Yu Bai promised to teach her the Myriad Swords Art and Sword Control Technique.
• The rankings showed Huo Ling'er standing sorrowfully before a lonely grave beneath a Fire Mulberry Tree, and the world reacted in disbelief at the apparent death of Shi Hao.

A new Heavenly Dao Rankings annotation revealed the cultivation realms of the upper realm and the immortal domain, prompting figures across the world to marvel at the existence of immortals. At Little Sage Village, Xunzi and Beimingzi discussed the ancient sages who had faked their deaths and the power needed to break their world’s seal.

• The Heavenly Dao Rankings listed the upper realm’s cultivation stages, from Divine Flame to Supreme, followed by True Immortal, Immortal King, and Quasi-Immortal Emperor.
• Ying Zheng, Ge Nie, Wei Zhuang, and ancient figures on the River of Time reacted to the revelation that immortals existed.
• At Little Sage Village, Xunzi remarked that Confucius, Liezi, Mozi, Mencius, and Laozi had claimed to have passed away, while Beimingzi appeared beside him.
• Beimingzi avoided Han Fei’s bow, explaining that Han Fei was destined to become a Legalist saint, while Xunzi teased Beimingzi for being only a Half-Saint.
• Beimingzi privately anticipated that his future disciple would help break the seal on the God Forbidden Land, then estimated the ancient sages’ cultivation realms.
• Xunzi and Beimingzi concluded that breaking their world’s seal required at least true immortal-level power, beyond what the girl in the scene could achieve.

Huo Ling'er saw Shi Hao alive again beneath the Fire Mulberry Tree, while Yu Bai told the little girl that the accusations against Shi Hao depended on the interests and power of those spreading them. After reuniting with Huo Ling'er, Shi Hao continued his path of battle and brought her to the Heavenly Human Race’s ancestral land.

• Huo Ling'er grieved over the lonely grave beneath the Fire Mulberry Tree until Shi Hao returned, and she wept with joy at seeing him alive.
• People watching the image celebrated Shi Hao’s return and debated whether he was truly descended from sinful blood.
• At Taibai Inn, Yu Bai told the little girl that strength and interests shaped accusations of heroes and sinners, and that the forces spreading the claims knew the truth.
• Shi Hao and Huo Ling'er reunited beneath the Fire Mulberry Tree, where the two small trees they had planted remained after their hut and courtyard were burned.
• Shi Hao insisted that Huo Ling'er eat the Heavenly God Fruit, raising her to the Heavenly God Realm, then took her to the Heavenly Human Race’s ancestral land, where he killed two Heavenly Gods and forced their protector to his death.