Chapter Summaries

Zhou Hao learned from the Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle that his intense wish in the Fortune Gathering Land had stirred his fortune, while the mystery of how he entered the Cosmic Whale remained unsolved. After the turtle left, Zhou Hao and Murong shared a quiet moment and promised to rely on each other.

• The Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle explained that Zhou Hao’s strong wish in the Fortune Gathering Land, aided by an external force, had stirred his fortune.
• Zhou Hao and Murong wondered how he entered the Cosmic Whale and how the Spirit-Womb Ring had left it, but they could not find an answer.
• The Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle left Zhou Hao and Murong alone together.
• Murong cleaned the blood from Zhou Hao and said she would bring him another set of clothes.
• Murong worried she would forget what she had learned when she left, and Zhou Hao promised to tell her everything.
• Murong called Zhou Hao the father of her two children, and he told her to leave everything to him.

Zhou Hao and Murong shared a tender farewell while he recovered, and Murong returned to the Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle as her time with him ran short. The turtle revealed that she still had time and asked whether she wanted to live a little longer.

• Murong told Zhou Hao to rest for a few days, and they exchanged affectionate jokes and spoke about their children, Jinyin Yuanbao and the others.
• Murong said she needed to leave soon, and Zhou Hao wondered if the space could block her teleportation.
• Murong kissed Zhou Hao goodbye and disappeared, then spoke with the Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle.
• The Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle said Murong still had time and asked whether hiding her condition would make their eventual parting more painful.
• Murong admitted she was afraid to tell Zhou Hao about her condition, and the Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle asked if she wanted to live a little longer.

Murong agreed to let the Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle extend her life, even if the process gradually stripped away her strength and realm. Before she returned to Zhou Hao, the turtle began explaining how distance and time worked for the World Stones.

• Murong told the Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle that she wanted to live longer and accompany Zhou Hao, accepting the cost of losing her strength and realm.
• The Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle advised Murong to explain the life extension to Zhou Hao, and she asked for time to prepare herself.
• Murong said meeting Zhou Hao had given her hope and a wish to keep living, while the Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle invited her to return if she found a way out and could take it along.
• Murong discovered that only one-fifth of the World Stone's energy had been used and realized she could stay for five hours.
• The Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle explained that the World Stone had a relationship between time and distance, and Murong asked to hear the explanation beside Zhou Hao.
• Murong and the Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle appeared before Zhou Hao so he could hear about the World Stones' distance and time.

The Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle explained how the World Stone’s teleportation distance affected how long Murong could stay with Zhou Hao. Murong now had five hours with him, and the chapter ended with the two sharing a moment together after the Giant Turtle left.

• The Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle told Zhou Hao and Murong that the World Stone’s maximum teleportation distance was twenty-four billion light-years and that each billion light-years closer added an hour of stay time.
• The Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle estimated that Zhou Hao and Murong were eighteen to nineteen billion light-years apart, giving Murong five hours with him.
• The Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle explained that World Energy could sustain a visit for at most twenty-four hours, then needed three days to replenish, and could not be restored manually or saved by ending a teleport early.
• Zhou Hao asked whether the space could extend Murong’s stay, but the Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle said it only blocked the connection between World Stones and could not preserve World Energy.
• The Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle left Zhou Hao and Murong alone, and they exchanged smiles.

Zhou Hao and Murong reflected on how the Spirit-Womb Rings brought them together, then wondered how one ring had ended up in the abandoned Womb Cultivation Sect. They agreed to investigate later, and Murong urged Zhou Hao to stay with the Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle longer than a month while she struggled to tell him something about her condition.

• Zhou Hao and Murong credited their meeting and relationship to the Spirit-Womb Rings created by Du Tianhong and his wife.
• Murong questioned how her ring had reached the ruins of the Womb Cultivation Sect, abandoned at least twenty thousand years earlier, and decided to investigate after returning.
• Zhou Hao said he had promised the Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle he would stay for at least a month, and Murong said his condition made a longer stay necessary.
• Murong hesitated when she tried to tell Zhou Hao something, asked for time to think about how to explain it, and assured him it was nothing bad.

Zhou Hao and Murong discussed Murong traveling to find him and began choosing names for their two children. Murong planned to arrange matters in the Ice and Snow Divine Realm before setting out, while the couple left the children’s second name undecided.

• Zhou Hao asked Murong to help him sit up, and they enjoyed spending quiet time together by the lake.
• Murong told Zhou Hao that she planned to travel to him after arranging everything in the Ice and Snow Divine Realm.
• Murong said she would use the World Stone’s stay duration to test directions, and Zhou Hao asked her to record how far she traveled each time.
• Zhou Hao and Murong discussed the risk of traveling in the wrong direction or along a parallel route.
• Murong and Zhou Hao agreed that Zhou Mu could be the name of whichever child was born first and considered choosing a two-character name for the second child.

Zhou Hao and Murong chose names for their unborn children and talked about the long pregnancy ahead. As Murong helped Zhou Hao recover from his injuries, the two joked and chatted together.

• Zhou Hao suggested naming one child Zhou Nian, and Murong agreed to call the twins Zhou Mu and Zhou Nian.
• Murong told Zhou Hao that the children might not be born for at least a hundred years, and explained that the Ice and Snow Divine Realm was helping care for her.
• Zhou Hao reminded Murong to be careful during her pregnancy, then suffered a burst of pain from his injuries.
• Murong helped ease Zhou Hao's pain with her icy energy while they teased each other and continued chatting.

Murong left Zhou Hao and asked the Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle to tell him that her lifespan was running short, hoping it would help her reveal the truth. The Giant Turtle later advised Zhou Hao not to tamper with fortune again, while Murong’s situation remained undisclosed to him.

• Murong told Zhou Hao she had to leave, kissed him goodbye, and said she would visit the Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle.
• Murong asked the Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle to tell Zhou Hao that it had noticed her lifespan problem, and it agreed.
• The Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle returned to Zhou Hao and teased him about missing Murong before hearing his question about how long his bad luck would last.
• The Giant Turtle said it did not know whether Zhou Hao’s bad luck remained, but warned him against tampering with fortune again.
• Zhou Hao agreed to be more careful, and the Giant Turtle explained that swimming helped it pass the time.

The Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle told Zhou Hao that Murong had less than a thousand years to live, but promised to try to extend her lifespan. Zhou Hao took comfort in the possibility and hoped they could find a way to keep her alive.

• The Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle revealed that Murong's lifespan had been locked away and that she likely had no more than a thousand years left.
• Zhou Hao realized Murong had asked the turtle to tell him because she could not bring herself to say it, and he admitted how deeply the news hurt him.
• The turtle said it would try to extend Murong's life, and Zhou Hao reacted with relief before his movements aggravated his injuries.
• The turtle left to check on its Lifespan Tree, reminding Zhou Hao that his Fortune Body might give Murong hope.
• Alone, Zhou Hao resolved to cherish his time with Murong and hoped they would find a way for her to keep living.

Zhou Hao explored the Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle’s forest and learned that its Never-Ending Life Flowers would help restore Murong’s vitality after extending her lifespan. The Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle left Zhou Hao to gather as many flowers as possible.

• Zhou Hao visited the lakeshore after recovering enough to move and asked the Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle to show him the forest.
• The Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle showed Zhou Hao its ancient Lifespan Tree and explained that the forest’s Spiritual Plants had been transplanted from its back.
• The Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle told Zhou Hao it had sought company for ages and that he was the first person it had met.
• The Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle explained that Murong needed vitality to support her extended lifespan and showed Zhou Hao the regenerating Never-Ending Life Flower.
• The Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle gave Zhou Hao two Never-Ending Life Flowers and asked him to gather more for Murong.

Zhou Hao picked Never-Ending Life Flowers to help extend Murong’s lifespan and learned that Lifespan Fruit was the other supplementary material. Murong arrived, acknowledged that Zhou Hao knew about her situation, and brought him new clothes before they left to meet the Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle and discuss her lifespan.

• The Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle told Zhou Hao that Lifespan Fruit was the second supplementary material and left him to pick Never-Ending Life Flowers.
• Zhou Hao spent several hours harvesting flowers, and Murong arrived as he expected.
• Zhou Hao explained that the flowers could help extend Murong’s life, and the two agreed to cherish their remaining time together.
• Murong told Zhou Hao she would explain her lifespan in detail after they met the Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle.
• Murong gave Zhou Hao a new set of clothes, and the two vanished together to meet the Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle.

Zhou Hao and Murong discussed her dwindling lifespan and the Reverse Life Array that might save her. The array required eight Law Bodies, and Murong relied on Zhou Hao’s Fortune Body to help find them before her time ran out.

• The Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle explained that it had opened a small hole in space so Murong could teleport to Zhou Hao, then left the two alone to talk.
• Zhou Hao learned that Murong had forgotten the Cosmic Whale and the World Stones’ distance limit, and he retold the information to her.
• Murong told Zhou Hao that she had 937 years left to live and that her sister Xia Ling had devised the Reverse Life Array as her last hope.
• Murong explained that the array required eight Law Bodies, with the Life Law Body at its core, and that she had found only two so far: Long'er and Little Bubble.
• Zhou Hao promised to help Murong find the Law Bodies, and she said Xia Ling was working to solve the array’s remaining problems.

Murong explained that her story began less than a century ago, but traced its roots to a crisis twenty thousand years earlier, when the Lord of the Sky Domain Divine Realm was killed. She began recounting the Seven Divine Realms and the genius whose rise set the events in motion, leaving the reason for the killing unexplained.

• Murong told Zhou Hao that the crisis behind her injuries had a precedent twenty thousand years earlier.
• Murong explained that the Lord of the Sky Domain Divine Realm had been killed, drawing four Divine Realms and their Domain Lords into the incident.
• Murong named the Seven Divine Realms and described the close marriage alliance between the Sky Domain Divine Realm and Heavenly Origin Divine Realm.
• Murong said an unparalleled genius from the Sky Domain Divine Realm had reached the summit of the twelfth level of God Venerable in a million years.
• Zhou Hao boasted that he would surpass Murong's record, and Murong laughed before resuming her account.

Murong explained how Imperial Qi Space offered a rare chance to break through to the twelfth level of God Venerable, and how Long Pingsheng was killed by the Four Great Domain Lords for approaching that chance. She confirmed that she had also been ambushed, then revealed that someone from the Sky Domain Divine Realm had told her about Imperial Qi.

• Murong explained that an emperor nearing the twelfth level of God Venerable could be drawn into Imperial Qi Space for a slim chance to break through, but using it would prevent another breakthrough for hundreds of millions of years.
• Zhou Hao realized the Four Great Domain Lords had killed Long Pingsheng to stop him from using Imperial Qi Space and preserve their own chance.
• Murong said the four Domain Lords had entered Imperial Qi Space and attacked Long Pingsheng, but Zhou Hao inferred that she had suffered a similar ambush.
• Murong told Zhou Hao that her attackers had paid a heavy price, then agreed to continue her story.
• Zhou Hao asked how Murong knew so much about Imperial Qi, and she said someone from the Sky Domain Divine Realm had told her.

Murong explained how Long Shuangcheng began the war after learning that the Four Great Domain Lords had killed his father, Long Pingsheng, and how the conflict led to the founding of the Ice and Snow Divine Realm. She ended by preparing to tell Zhou Hao her own story, beginning with her entry into the Imperial Qi Space.

• Murong told Zhou Hao that Long Shuangcheng learned of Long Pingsheng’s death through the returning Imperial Qi and blamed the Four Great Domain Lords.
• Long Shuangcheng and the Heavenly Origin Divine Realm attacked the Moon Vast Divine Realm, drawing all six Divine Realms into war while Piaoxue helped civilians escape.
• After Cosmic Frost descended, Murong claimed its territory and established the Ice and Snow Divine Realm.
• An Ding, an organization of powerful cultivators from all six Divine Realms, intervened after two months and forced the warring realms to negotiate.
• Murong explained that her standing in An Ding and the support of the Sky Domain Divine Realm and the Heavenly Origin Divine Realm helped her establish the Ice and Snow Divine Realm.
• Zhou Hao asked Murong about her own story, and she began with her entry into the Imperial Qi Space.

Murong told Zhou Hao how she survived the four Domain Lords’ ambush in the Imperial Qi Space and explained her plan to bring down the Four Great Divine Realms’ ruling dynasties. She and her allies were secretly exploiting the realms’ internal turmoil, and she ended by promising Zhou Hao she would not die before seeing at least one dynasty change.

• Murong recounted how she killed one of the four Domain Lords, fought the other three for two hours, and survived when the Imperial Qi Space expelled them.
• Murong told Zhou Hao she had refused to start a costly war and had instead secured compensation from the Four Great Divine Realms through negotiations with An Ding.
• Murong revealed that she wanted the Four Great Divine Realms to change dynasties by exploiting the powerful factions challenging their Imperial families.
• Murong said Dragon Twin City had agreed to help the Song Family seize the Moon Vast Divine Realm’s Imperial Throne and had brought in the Heavenly Origin Divine Realm.
• Murong explained that the wounded Domain Lords and the new Moon Vast Divine Realm Domain Lord were struggling with internal unrest, giving their allies an opening to infiltrate and weaken them.
• Murong said she expected at least one Divine Realm to change dynasties before she died, and Zhou Hao insisted she would not die.

Murong explained that using Peak Moment restored her to her prime but locked her remaining lifespan at a thousand years, and that anyone with less than ten million years originally would die upon using it. She was waiting for her master and a subordinate to reach the twelfth level of God Venerable so they could protect the Ice and Snow Divine Realm after her time ran out.

• Murong revealed that she had used Peak Moment to deter threats to the Ice and Snow Divine Realm while she recovered from her severe injuries.
• Murong explained that Peak Moment restored its user to their peak but left them with only a thousand years to live, and caused those with an original lifespan under ten million years to die immediately.
• Zhou Hao asked what would happen to the Ice and Snow Divine Realm when Murong's time was up, and she said she was counting on her master and a subordinate to break through to the twelfth level of God Venerable.
• Murong told Zhou Hao that fewer than two hundred experts across the Seven Divine Realms had reached the twelfth level, and that the Ice and Snow Divine Realm had only three peak experts, including her.

Zhou Hao and Murong discussed how Imperial Qi was inherited or seized and how Murong had established a Divine Realm, though neither knew what determined success. After they visited the Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle, Murong explained that Imperial Qi might let it leave, but the turtle had never heard of Imperial Qi in the real universe.

• Murong explained that Imperial Qi could be passed on or forcibly seized, though both methods caused some of it to dissipate.
• Zhou Hao asked what conditions allowed someone to establish a Divine Realm, and Murong said she had succeeded based only on a vague feeling.
• Zhou Hao and Murong asked the Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle for permission to pick Spiritual Plants in the forest, and it told them to take whatever they liked.
• Murong offered to tell the Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle a way it might leave and explained Imperial Qi and its function.
• The Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle said it had never heard of Imperial Qi in the real universe, leaving Zhou Hao and Murong wondering whether it existed only inside the Cosmic Whale.

Zhou Hao and Murong decided to postpone extending Murong’s lifespan until she traveled to him, since the process would weaken her strength over time. After spending time together in the forest, Zhou Hao led her toward another Spiritual Plant that could extend her lifespan.

• The Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle heard how imperial aura could create a divine realm, but said it could not use the method without risking its memories.
• Murong told Zhou Hao she would extend her lifespan after reaching him, and the Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle agreed that waiting would be safer for her journey.
• Zhou Hao and Murong left the lake, picked Never-Ending Life Flowers, and Murong accepted one to keep.
• Murong admitted she had hidden the cost of extending her lifespan because she did not want Zhou Hao to worry.
• Zhou Hao kissed Murong and then led her toward the Lifespan Tree, another Spiritual Plant that could extend her lifespan.

Zhou Hao showed Murong the Lifespan Tree and explored the Giant Turtle’s space with her, gathering rare Spiritual Plants before her visit ended. After Murong disappeared, Zhou Hao continued picking Never-Ending Life Flowers and chatted with the Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle.

• Zhou Hao showed Murong the Lifespan Tree and explained that its fruit could grant a thousand years of life, though it could not help her condition.
• Murong took a Lifespan Fruit to study, and Zhou Hao picked several more for her despite her urging him to be restrained.
• Zhou Hao and Murong explored the forest, collected rare Spiritual Plants for Tian Lingling, and discussed the ordinary Spirit Snow Fluff they found.
• Murong’s time ran out, and she said goodbye to Zhou Hao before vanishing, promising to see him in three days.
• Zhou Hao resumed picking Never-Ending Life Flowers, and the Universe-Shaking Giant Turtle came over to chat with him.