Chapter Summaries

Shi Hao and Huo Ling'er married before the Fire Emperor, but Shi Hao soon left again as war threatened to separate them. As the Heavenly Dao Rankings showed An Lan dragging the Sinful State toward Foreign Land, Yan Lingji feared for the newlyweds and watched the fire mulberry blossoms fall.

• The Fire Emperor married Shi Hao and Huo Ling'er in a simple ceremony, and they spent their last night together before Shi Hao departed.
• People watching the Heavenly Dao Rankings reconsidered Shi Hao and condemned the Jin Family and Wang Family for plotting against him.
• Han Fei left Little Sage Village to enter the turmoil among the seven great empires, while Xun Fuzi and Beimingzi worried over the dangers ahead.
• Yan Lingji erupted with killing intent in her prison after seeing Shi Hao persecuted, and the guards suppressed her with the grand array and Power Dissipation Powder.
• The Heavenly Dao Rankings showed An Lan pulling the Sinful State toward Foreign Land, while Shi Hao watched Huo Ling'er beneath the Fire Mulberry Tree as its blossoms fell.

The Heavenly Dao Rankings showed Huo Ling'er’s long separation from Shi Hao and their reunion before they journeyed together Above the Heavens, while its display of higher realms inspired the little girl to seek a way to revive her lost family. A seven-colored Dao fruit then appeared, crossed time and space, and merged with Yan Lingji in a prison beneath Xinzheng City.

• Zi Nü and Wei Zhuang reacted to the power of immortals, and Wei Zhuang resolved to pursue the immortal realm while keeping his plans for Han State.
• Donghuang Taiyi sent Shao Siming to watch the newly advanced heavenly being, explaining that a star absent from the world had appeared ten years earlier and would shape its future.
• The Heavenly Dao Rankings recounted Huo Ling'er’s repeated separations from Shi Hao, their eventual reunion, and her decision to accompany him Above the Heavens.
• The little girl realized that an immortal king might use the River of Time to help revive the souls of her family and asked Yu Bai, who agreed that her idea could work.
• A seven-colored Dao fruit emerged from the Heavenly Dao Rankings, shattered the descent formation in a prison beneath Xinzheng City, and merged with Yan Lingji.

Yan Lingji unleashed a pillar of fire in Xinzheng, weakening the Great Han Empire’s imperial fortune, while the search for Huo Ling’er’s reincarnation went nowhere. Months later, Yu Bai brought the little girl to the Daoist recruitment ceremony, where she flew toward the ninety-nine steps on her wooden sword as the first test began.

• A pillar of fire rose from the mountain in Xinzheng, weakening the Great Han Empire’s Golden Dragon of Imperial Fortune and causing Emperor Han An to spit blood; Ji Wuye saw an opportunity to seize power.
• Wei Zhuang and Zi Nü discussed the escaped Baiyue expert, Huo Ling’er’s reincarnation, and the absent man, while Bai Yifei mocked Tian Ze from Blood-Clad Castle.
• Yu Bai sensed a woman’s gaze and saw visions of the Fire Mulberry Tree before the little girl reminded him to teach her Sword Control Technique and Myriad Swords Art.
• Yan Lingji freed four clusters of fire within the mountain, and over the following months, the search for Huo Ling’er’s reincarnation across the Nine Provinces produced no news.
• Yu Bai brought the little girl to the Daoist recruitment ceremony on Taiyi Mountain, where Chisongzi announced that candidates over fifteen who had not reached the Houtian Realm must leave.
• The little girl used Sword Control Technique to ride her wooden sword over the crowd toward the ninety-nine steps, startling the other candidates and spectators.

A seven-year-old girl passed the first stage of the Daoist recruitment ceremony and chose the Heavenly Sect’s assessment. Inside its Heart-Questioning Dao-Seeking Formation, she saw the village she had once lived in and heard Yu Bai call her home.

• The little girl flew to Taiyi Mountain on a wooden sword and quickly climbed the ninety-nine steps, passing the first test.
• After an hour, fewer than three thousand youths remained, and Chisongzi and Xiaoyaozi explained the separate assessments for the Heavenly and Human Sects.
• A confident boy asked what would happen if someone passed both assessments, and a Human Sect elder said that person could choose a sect and read the other sect’s scriptures.
• Most of the youths went to the Human Sect’s strength test, while the little girl chose the Heavenly Sect’s scripture assessment.
• The Heavenly Sect formation tested applicants with an illusion that challenged their attachments, and the little girl found herself at her old village entrance.
• A young man resembling Yu Bai greeted the little girl and told her to come home for roast chicken.

A little girl endured the Heavenly Sect’s trials, refusing to give up on becoming powerful enough to revive her family and village. She comprehended Zhuangzi and then all three thousand Daoist scriptures, leaving Chisongzi convinced that only Beimingzi could teach her.

• The little girl walked through an endless white landscape for years within the Heavenly Sect’s assessment, determined to become strong enough to revive her parents and everyone in her village.
• Hundreds of candidates awakened from the Heavenly Sect’s trials and failed, while the spectators and elders watched fewer than a hundred people remain, including the little girl.
• The little girl entered the next trial, saw a vast Eight Trigrams formation and a heavenly “Dao” character, and fell into Sudden Enlightenment.
• A scroll bearing the name Zhuangzi appeared before the little girl, astonishing the Heavenly Sect disciples and sect masters when its golden phantom appeared in the array.
• The little girl began comprehending scripture after scripture until three thousand Daoist scriptures surrounded her, prompting Chisongzi to contact Beimingzi and the disciples to realize she might become their martial ancestor.
• Yu Bai watched the Zhuangzi scripture circling the little girl with an unreadable expression.

A seven-year-old girl passed the Heaven Sect assessment with extraordinary comprehension, then chose to test herself at the Human Sect and displayed the theoretical limit of ten thousand jin of tremendous strength. Chisongzi accepted her on behalf of his master and gave her the Daoist title Xiaomeng, leaving her reflecting on Zhuang Zhou’s butterfly dream.

• The girl passed the Heaven Sect assessment after comprehending three thousand Daoist scriptures, but insisted on taking the Human Sect assessment as well so she could study both sects’ classics.
• The girl punched the Human Sect testing stone and revealed ten thousand jin of tremendous strength, astonishing the crowd and the sect elders.
• Chisongzi appeared before the girl and asked why she wished to enter Taoism; she attacked him with her wooden sword, but he avoided her strikes and demonstrated the principle of water having no constant form.
• The girl understood Chisongzi’s demonstration, and he offered to accept her as a disciple on behalf of his master.
• Chisongzi named the girl Xiaomeng, prompting her to recall Zhuangzi’s dream of being a butterfly.

After creating the Reincarnation Body and Reincarnation Scripture, Yu Bai left Taiyi Mountain to cultivate among ordinary people in Fengfu Prefecture City. Six months after meeting Xiaomeng, he reunited with a little girl named Xiao Ya, who brought him food from her father’s restaurant.

• Yu Bai vanished after the recruitment ceremony, leading onlookers to speculate that he was a young Vajra Grandmaster.
• Three months later, Yu Bai manifested three Divine Rings, created the Reincarnation Body and Reincarnation Scripture, and concluded that the six gates in his mind represented the Myriad Worlds’ Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• Yu Bai discussed the Dao with Beimingzi for three months, then went to Fengfu Prefecture City and bought a teahouse to study reincarnation amid the lives of ordinary people.
• Yu Bai recorded the teahouse guests’ conversations, concealing the reincarnation Dao rhythm and power within his writing.
• Xiao Ya visited Yu Bai with food from her father, Brother Ling, and Yu Bai asked her to call him Brother Yu Bai or Brother Bai instead of “pretty big brother.”

Yu Bai continued his quiet life in the teahouse as Shao Siming found a clue to his identity through his calligraphy. The Heavenly Dao Rankings then reappeared and began revealing Yun Xi’s past-life encounters with Shi Hao.

• Yu Bai gave Xiao Ya an inheritance and a copybook for her father, Ling, whose insight into the character “Dao” impressed him.
• Over the next year, Yan Lingji joined Yu Bai at the teahouse, while Xiao Ya grew older and Old Man Lin continued telling stories.
• Shao Siming entered the Ling Clan Restaurant, recognized the “Dao” character as connected to the person she sought, and nearly suffered a deadly backlash when she tried to divine its author.
• A thunderous omen brought the Heavenly Dao Rankings back, and Yu Bai and Yan Lingji watched as the rankings announced the Yun Xi Chapter.
• The rankings recounted Yun Xi’s meetings and conflicts with Shi Hao at Hundred Break Mountain, in the Void God Realm, and at Heavenly God Mountain.

The Heavenly Dao Golden Ranking showed Yun Xi’s life with Shi Hao, from their first meetings and separation to their marriage, family, and eventual sealing in Stone Village. As the screen faded, it left Yun Xi’s story known across the world and drew countless admirers.

• Shao Siming watched Yun Xi’s early encounters with Shi Hao while a little girl declared that she wanted to become strong and hunt Demon Beasts for her father to cook.
• Yan Lingji asked Yu Bai whether he found her or Yun Xi prettier, and Yu Bai said he liked his wife more.
• Zi Nü recognized Yun Xi’s resemblance to her younger self and watched her bicker and grow close to Shi Hao.
• The ranking recounted Yun Xi and Shi Hao’s many meetings, separation, reunion, engagement, and marriage, as well as their life together and the birth of their son, Little Stone Shi Fan.
• The ranking showed Shi Hao protecting Yun Xi and their child before sealing them with Stone Village in the Three-Life Bronze Coffin for their safety.
• The screen dimmed, and countless people became fans of Yun Xi.

The Heavenly Dao Rankings revealed Yuechan and Qingyi’s intertwined history with Shi Hao, from their first meetings and Qingyi’s capture to their marriage, separation, and reunion in the upper realm. Qingyi gradually developed feelings for Shi Hao, but remained conflicted about love and cultivation as they made a pact over the Three Thousand Provinces competition.

• A light from the Heavenly Dao Rankings entered Zi Nü, and Wei Zhuang guarded her while her aura grew stronger.
• The rankings introduced Qingyi as Yuechan’s secondary body and showed how she met Shi Hao and later stood against him on behalf of the Heaven-Mending Sect.
• After Shi Hao captured Qingyi, he married her, and Yuechan’s attack drove the two bodies into open conflict.
• Qingyi came to understand Shi Hao in Stone Village, stayed with him through his fatal curse, and left the Lower Realm after his death.
• Qingyi reunited with Shi Hao in the upper realm and helped him survive the Azure Moon Flame, which deepened her feelings for him.
• Shi Hao made a pact with Qingyi that she would acknowledge their marriage if he won first place in the Three Thousand Provinces competition.

The Heavenly Dao Rankings showed Qingyi’s long history of standing by Shi Hao and her conflicted struggle after her soul fused with Yuechan’s and they faced separation. Qingyi entered the Immortal Realm alone, while Shi Hao stayed in the Lower Realm to pursue his own Dao; years later, her disciple Luo Lin brought him Qingyi’s invitation to the Immortal Realm Peach Banquet.

• Qingyi repeatedly defended Shi Hao, aided him in battle, and risked herself to rescue him, while her feelings for him grew deep.
• As Qingyi and Yuechan’s souls fought during their fusion, Shi Hao helped Qingyi survive, and the two became intimate before Yuechan withdrew.
• At Mount Sumeru, Qingyi struggled between her love for Shi Hao and her desire to become immortal, then left for the Immortal Realm without him.
• Qingyi met Shi Hao again before departing and tearfully asked him to join her or wait for her, but Shi Hao chose to remain in the Lower Realm.
• Years later, Luo Lin came to the Lower Realm on Qingyi’s orders and told Shi Hao she hoped he would attend the Immortal Realm Peach Banquet two hundred years later.

The Heavenly Dao Rankings revealed Shi Hao and Qingyi's reunion, their complicated love, and the sacrifices that separated them during the Dark Turmoil. After the rankings vanished, Moon Goddess awakened in the Yin-Yang School and struggled to remember whether she was Qingyi or Yuechan.

• Viewers condemned the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths for abandoning Shi Hao, while Ying Zheng and other rulers dismissed its people as weak and foolish.
• Shi Hao reunited with Qingyi at the Peach Banquet, claimed her as his woman, and challenged Ao Qian to fight.
• Qingyi rejected Ao Qian and told him that Shi Hao was the person she had waited for; she and Shi Hao caught up after a thousand years apart.
• The images showed Qingyi's efforts to secure Shi Hao's entry into the Immortal Domain and their later separation when Shi Hao sealed her during the Dark Turmoil.
• The Heavenly Dao Rankings ended its exposure, and Moon Goddess awoke, wondering whether she was Qingyi or Yuechan.

Moon Goddess left the world through a void passage, triggering a frenzy among powerful beings who learned that Huo Ling'er and Yun Xi remained behind. In Fengfu Prefecture City, Shao Siming was injured by Yu Bai’s Dao calligraphy, and a group approaching the city learned that Yu Bai was still at his teahouse.

• Moon Goddess opened a passage to the outside world and departed, while powerful beings across the world rushed to find her and learned that Huo Ling'er and Yun Xi were still in Great Han and Great Qin.
• Yu Bai calmly continued writing after sensing Moon Goddess’s farewell, while Yan Lingji teased him about being abandoned by his wife.
• Shao Siming questioned Xiao Ya about the Dao calligraphy, but its radiance drew her mind into a mysterious space and left her unconscious after she vomited blood.
• Xiao Ya carried Shao Siming to Yu Bai, who withdrew the reincarnation Dao charm and stabilized her; he assured his teahouse guests that he could protect them.
• A group approaching Fengfu Prefecture City received a report that the person they sought was still at Yu Bai’s teahouse.

Yu Bai killed Chunangong, who had come to Fengfu Prefecture to settle a favor owed to the Great Chu Imperial Family, then erased the convoy and everyone’s memories of it. Half a year later, the teahouse noticed that Old Man Li had not come to tell stories, leaving his absence unexplained.

• Shao Siming told Yan Lingji that she was monitoring Yu Bai by order of Lord Donghuang, while Yu Bai erased an aura sent toward the teahouse.
• Chunangong arrived and confronted Yu Bai over the destruction of Great Chu’s army, prompting Yu Bai to kill him with the Slaughter Immortal Finger.
• Yu Bai erased Chunangong’s convoy and the city’s memories of them, then considered visiting the Great Chu Imperial Family after his mortal-world cultivation ended.
• After another half year, the teahouse guests realized Old Man Li had not arrived to tell his usual stories.

Yu Bai reached the True Immortal realm through his insight into life and death, then left Fengfu Prefecture City with Yan Lingji and Shao Siming to pursue revenge in Great Chu. There, the Heavenly Dao Golden Ranking began revealing Shi Hao’s past life as the Desolate Heavenly Emperor, recounting his rise from a betrayed child to a peak Immortal King.

• Yu Bai mourned Old Man Li, whose death deepened his understanding of reincarnation and brought him close to the True Immortal realm.
• After Xiao Ya’s mother gave birth to a daughter, Yu Bai comprehended the cycle of life and death, broke through to True Immortal, and departed Fengfu Prefecture City with Yan Lingji and Shao Siming.
• Yu Bai’s group reached Great Chu’s capital, Shouchun, where Yu Bai observed its rigid social hierarchy and prepared to pursue revenge.
• The Heavenly Dao Golden Ranking appeared and announced that it would reveal the past lives of powerful beings, beginning with the Desolate Heavenly Emperor.
• The ranking showed Shi Hao’s Supreme Bone being stolen and traced his life through his battles, deaths, revivals, and eventual rise to the peak of Immortal King.

The Heavenly Dao Rankings completed its detailed exposure of Desolate Heavenly Emperor’s life, ending with his departure for Above the Heavens and a verse recalling his struggles and sacrifices. A purple light then emerged from the Rankings, bringing extraordinary auspicious phenomena that healed and strengthened living beings across the world.

• The Rankings showed Desolate’s life in detailed scenes, ending with him stepping alone into Above the Heavens.
• Viewers regretted that they could not see Desolate’s campaigns in Above the Heavens.
• The Rankings displayed a verse recounting Desolate’s lonely fate, battles, devotion to family and friends, and final severing of eternity.
• A hazy purple light emerged from the Rankings and filled the sky with auspicious phenomena, including spiritual flowers, golden lotuses, heavenly sounds, and mythical beasts.
• The phenomena healed the injured, advanced the cultivation of others, and left the world in an uproar.

Yu Bai returned to the Great Chu capital, reunited with Yan Lingji, and revealed that he was the Desolate Heavenly Emperor of a past life. He then took Yan Lingji and Shao Siming beyond the world's River of Time to seek the truth and take revenge.

• Zi Nü told Wei Zhuang that Huang had lived many lives and warned him that the world would soon merge with a far more dangerous realm, where his path of vertical-and-horizontal strategy might not survive.
• Xiaomeng broke through to Vajra Grandmaster and manifested a ten-thousand-li embryonic phenomenon, astonishing the Daoist Heavenly Sect elders before she asked them to test her strength.
• Yu Bai awakened in a Shouchun restaurant, and Yan Lingji recognized him as the spirited young prodigy she had long awaited and embraced him in tears.
• Yu Bai vanished with Yan Lingji and Shao Siming to escape the crowds, then revealed his return was followed by a plan for revenge.
• Yu Bai led Yan Lingji and Shao Siming out of the world's River of Time and upstream to search for the truth of the past, leaving Shao Siming stunned by his power.

Yu Bai traced the Great Chu Empire’s plot against Great Qin through past spacetime, then carried out his revenge and brought Yan Lingji and Shao Siming to a mountain retreat. He began sorting through the Desolate Heavenly Emperor’s treasures and considering how to integrate his inheritance into the Reincarnation Scripture.

• Shao Siming and Yan Lingji watched a past Great Chu court meeting where Emperor Wan ordered Xiang Yan and the chancellor to help Lord Changping attack Great Qin’s Imperial Mausoleum.
• Yu Bai followed Xiang Yan to a private meeting, learned why Xiang Yan had dispatched one hundred thousand elite soldiers, and returned with Yan Lingji and Shao Siming to the present.
• News spread that the Desolate Heavenly Emperor’s reincarnation was in Shouchun and that the Great Chu imperial family and the Qu, Jing, and Zhao clans had been exterminated, leaving Chu’s Fortune Golden Dragon badly weakened.
• Yu Bai took Yan Lingji and Shao Siming to a mountain range, suppressed its Demon Beasts, and entered seclusion.
• Yu Bai began examining the Desolate Heavenly Emperor’s stored treasures and planned to refine his inheritance into the Reincarnation Scripture and his Reincarnation Body secret art.

Yu Bai examined the treasures Desolate Heavenly Emperor had collected and reviewed the secret arts he had cultivated. After storing the treasures, he began sorting through Desolate’s cultivation methods, including the Taking the Body as a Seed system, which he had created to let future cultivators eventually reach him.

• Yu Bai inspected the Desolate Pagoda and considered how its small world of Destruction might have supported a Great Thousand World within his body.
• Yu Bai tallied Desolate’s treasures, including numerous Immortal King and Quasi-Immortal Emperor artifacts, noting that most had been melted into the Law Pool and Emperor Extinguishing Sword.
• Yu Bai reviewed mysterious treasures, medicines, and artifacts such as the Three-Life Bronze Coffin, Great Luo Sword Embryo, and Rotten Wooden Box.
• Yu Bai played with the treasures he had inherited from Desolate Heavenly Emperor, then placed them all in his Storage Ring.
• Yu Bai began sorting through Desolate’s secret arts and studied the Taking the Body as a Seed cultivation system and its seven secret realms.

Yu Bai condensed a fourth Reincarnation Body carrying Desolate Heavenly Emperor’s power while Yan Lingji sent an incarnation to Xinzheng. There, Han Fei explained that the Ghost Soldiers crisis was a court scheme, and a powerful Yan Lingji appeared before Zi Nü, Wei Zhuang, and Han Fei.

• Yu Bai began condensing Desolate Heavenly Emperor’s cultivation, strengthening his three existing Reincarnation Bodies as a fourth halo took shape.
• Yan Lingji threatened Shao Siming, then created an incarnation and sent it to Xinzheng while her main body stayed to protect Yu Bai.
• Han Fei told Wei Zhuang that the Ghost Soldiers rumors concealed a court embezzlement scheme and that he planned to use the crisis to enter the court.
• Han Fei asked Zi Nü and Wei Zhuang for help cleaning up the Great Han court, and Zi Nü said Purple Orchid Pavilion would not intervene directly unless necessary.
• A mysterious voice addressed Zi Nü as her little sister, and its pressure immobilized Wei Zhuang before a fiery-red figure appeared in the room.