Chapter Summaries

Zhao Xing tried to escape Zhang Yue's peaceful but dangerous routine, seeking a cure for the poisons in her food and a way to obtain Yu Heng's relics. After revealing his identity and persuading Zhang Yue that Yu Heng might be resurrected, he changed her mind, and four orbs of light appeared before him.

• Zhao Xing ate Zhang Yue's high-grade food and began accumulating the poison Fate River Absolute Mist, so he joined Bi Qi's Spring Apothecary and passed an alchemy test against Wei Tianchen.
• Zhao Xing cooperated with Bi Qi and Chou Gu, revealed that he was Yu Heng and Zhao Xing, and received help clearing the Fate River Absolute Mist, only to begin accumulating the Dao Collapse Worm.
• After decades of peaceful routine, Zhao Xing concluded that Zhang Yue's memoir showed she wanted Yu Heng to live well rather than remain trapped in a false history, and he decided to confront her as himself.
• Zhao Xing showed Zhang Yue his Ten Directions Mountain Scripture, Qing Yuzi, and Bowei, convincing her that Yu Heng's resurrection might be possible.
• Zhang Yue produced four orbs of light for Zhao Xing, while the Boundless True God awoke in Divine Machine City with hair covering the hall and growing from his left arm.

Zhao Xing and his companions escaped the Moon Shadow Realm with Zhang Yue’s treasures, while Bowei broke free of the Great Dao Golden Circlet and departed. As Zhao Xing and Qing Yuzi prepared to pursue Yu Heng’s inheritance, the Dark Shadow Temple delivered crisis intelligence, leaving their next danger undisclosed.

• Bowei negotiated Zhang Yue’s oath terms, then Zhao Xing, Qing Yuzi, and Bowei swore to help recover Yu Heng’s corpse and preserve it; Zhang Yue gave them four treasures as the Moon Shadow Realm began collapsing.
• Bowei removed the Great Dao Golden Circlet, revealed his plan to split into eight professional selves, and departed aboard a grass boat after advising Zhao Xing about the inheritance trial.
• Zhao Xing and Qing Yuzi examined their rewards, including World Heart teleportation cores and Zhang Yue’s Pill Book, while Chou Gu and Bi Qi remained aboard their ship with Wei Tianchen.
• Zhao Xing secretly studied medicine with Bi Qi for decades, then left; Chou Gu stopped Bi Qi from revealing Zhao Xing’s name to Wei Tianchen.
• Zhao Xing and Qing Yuzi traveled through the Great Yellow World to gather formation materials, and Zhao Xing worried that the events of Qing Yuzi’s earlier warning had yet to occur.
• Black Robe offered Zhao Xing crisis intelligence for seven Divine General Towers of divine power, and Zhao Xing bought it.

Zhao Xing and Qing Yuzi prepared to escape a massive pursuit led by Divine General Qiongyu, using Zhao Xing’s firecrackers to devastate the attacking force. They fled through a teleportation array into Divine King Yu Heng’s body, where Zhao Xing awoke gravely injured as Qing Yuzi prepared to explore the Divine King’s Inner World with him.

• Black Robe warned Zhao Xing that the Supreme Truth Pavilion had leaked Qing Yuzi’s location to Divine General Qiongyu, whose forces could arrive within three days.
• Zhao Xing and Qing Yuzi prepared a Stormwind Sea defense while Qing Yuzi set up a teleportation array and Zhao Xing planted firecrackers made by Penglai Divine General.
• Divine General Qiongyu’s force entered the Stormwind Sea, and Zhao Xing delayed the attackers while Qing Yuzi’s formations bought time to complete the array.
• Divine General Qiongyu advanced despite fate master You Bo’s warning, and Zhao Xing detonated a firecracker that destroyed a vast area and killed most of the pursuing force.
• Qing Yuzi escaped with Zhao Xing through the teleportation array, and Zhao Xing later woke severely injured inside the black ring near Divine King Yu Heng’s corpse.

After Zhao Xing learned that the Dark Shadow Temple had ranked him among the Bai Zhuo Era’s new gods, he assessed his dwindling wealth and wondered why his planned expedition had been delayed. Meanwhile, Ji Che’s Great Zhou forces broke the Reincarnation Divine Palace’s seal on the Profound Yellow World and prepared to unseal it, gather resources, and ascend.

• News spread that Qiongyu’s forces had been nearly wiped out in the Stormwind Sea, prompting Cold Yu and Yu Xiao to gloat over the defeat and hope Boundless True God would be weakened.
• Heaven Divine King Xi attacked Boundless True God through a strand of red fur, but Boundless reversed the assault with the Space-Time Great Dao and warned Xi against targeting Divine Machine City’s descendants.
• Zhao Xing found himself ranked 1,570th on the Bai Zhuo Era New God Ranking and questioned Black Robe about why his information was public; Black Robe explained the ranking’s benefits and the protections available to six-star clients.
• Zhao Xing reviewed his finances and realized that most of his wealth and divine artifacts were gone, while his expected expedition to Divine King Yu Heng’s Inner World might have been delayed.
• Ji Si defeated the Black and White Hall Master’s attempt to stop her, trapped him in her mirror, and removed the Reincarnation Divine Palace’s seal on the Profound Yellow World.
• Ji Che ordered Ji Si to unseal the Profound Yellow World, collect useful materials and powers to expand Great Zhou’s fate, and prepare for their ascension.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Zhao Xing recovers from his injuries after 53 years in the ice coffin.
• Qing Yuzi reveals that they are in Flowing Void Ravine, a layered expanse of void between Panhu Land and Seven Luminaries Moyi Heaven.
• Zhao Xing learns from the Moon God Palace Master that Ji Si has helped Great Zhou's emperor condense a Luck Divine Seal, allowing Great Zhou to capture the Black and White Hall Master and unseal the Profound Yellow World.
• Zhao Xing is ordered to return to the Wilderness Era to deal with the situation.

Character Developments

• Zhao Xing: Recovers from his injuries and learns of Ji Si's achievements.
• Qing Yuzi: Waits for Zhao Xing's recovery and plans to explore Divine King Yu Heng's Inner World.
• Ji Si: Rapidly advances the Fate Divine Dynasty system, helping Great Zhou's emperor condense a Luck Divine Seal, and captures the Black and White Hall Master to unseal the Profound Yellow World.
• Moon God Palace Master: Informs Zhao Xing of the situation and orders him to return to the Wilderness Era.

Significant Themes

• The power of fate and destiny, as demonstrated by Ji Si's actions and the Moon God Palace Master's involvement.
• The consequences of time travel and the closed loop, which Zhao Xing must complete.

Character Interactions

• Zhao Xing and Qing Yuzi: Zhao Xing delays their exploration of Divine King Yu Heng's Inner World while he recovers.
• Zhao Xing and the Moon God Palace Master: The Moon God Palace Master informs Zhao Xing of the situation and orders him to return to the Wilderness Era.
• Ji Si and Great Zhou: Ji Si's actions help Great Zhou grow stronger and unseal the Profound Yellow World.

Zhao Xing left Flowing Void Ravine and used True Spirit Conduction to return to the Third Era, where he proved his identity to Ji Si and learned that Great Zhou had halted its plans to conquer the rapidly advancing Profound Yellow World. The chapter left him preparing to meet two old acquaintances: Bai Lanjun and Fu Mengzhen.

• The Moon God Palace Master explained that Zhao Xing had to leave Flowing Void Ravine before his true spirit could be conducted back, and Zhao Xing agreed to return to Ji Si.
• Zhao Xing left Qing Yuzi to explore Divine King Yu Heng's Inner World, escaped Flowing Void Ravine, and used a Book Puppet body to return to the Third Era.
• Ji Si verified Zhao Xing's identity with the Eight Directions Divine Mirror, then described Great Zhou's investigation of the Profound Yellow World and its many powerful gods.
• Zhao Xing ordered Great Zhou to stop its campaign in the Profound Yellow World and asked Ji Si to release Wang Tianzhi from the Epoch House.
• Ji Si told Zhao Xing that Bai Lanjun and Fu Mengzhen, two officials from the local Great Zhou, wanted to meet him, and Zhao Xing was shocked by their names.

Zhao Xing returned to his body after completing the time loop, then traveled to Divine King Yu Heng's Inner World to check on Qing Yuzi and seek its inheritance. He passed Number Thirteen's trial, though the puppet doubted he could overcome the trials ahead.

• Zhao Xing told Ji Si to release the Black and White Hall Master, conceal his return, and placate Great Zhou before departing through time and space.
• Zhao Xing found that fifty-three years had passed and confirmed the loop was complete when he formed the Minglei Seal.
• Zhao Xing returned to Flowing Void Ravine and crossed the mist to Divine King Yu Heng's Boundary Wall, where he encountered the mechanism puppet Number Thirteen.
• Number Thirteen challenged Zhao Xing to withstand a sword strike that attacked his memories, and Zhao Xing used Seven Luminaries Immeasurable Heaven to defend his Fate Palace.
• After three years and eight months of battling the Heart Swords, Zhao Xing destroyed them all and passed Number Thirteen's trial, but Number Thirteen warned that the trials ahead would be harder.

Zhao Xing reached the second inheritance trial, where the War God challenged him to master a mind-corrupting metal giant within thirty years. He found a way to extend his preparation time inside his Inner World and began cultivating Zheng for practice.

• Number Thirteen told Zhao Xing that demigods were not qualified for Divine King Yu Heng's inheritance trials, and Zhao Xing proceeded to the second trial in Dou City.
• The War God explained that Zhao Xing had thirty years to learn to control one of two metal giants and defeat the other in a final battle.
• Zhao Xing entered a giant and learned that Zheng plants controlled its martial techniques, but their symbiosis quickly threatened his mind and made him dependent on them.
• The War God's artifact spirit warned Zhao Xing that the highest-grade War God could consume its controller, but Zhao Xing refused to give up and discovered he could not leave and return later.
• Zhao Xing asked Divine General Hua Li to cultivate Zheng, then endured the giant's mental pressure to retrieve fifteen plants for her.
• Zhao Xing fed Earth God Crystals to the Keyang Divine Tree, which created a tenfold time difference in his Inner World as he and Divine General Hua Li began their work.

Zhao Xing trained to control the War God while managing the Chaos Mushroom’s effects, then spent years learning to activate its Chaos Demon Fungus and increase his power. After thirty years of preparation, he began his true challenge against the gatekeeper.

• Divine General Hua Li used the Great Dao Golden Circlet to restrain Zhao Xing and remove the Chaos Mushroom, then recorded how its influence had affected him.
• Zhao Xing entered the metal giant’s gem space and challenged the gatekeeper, who repeatedly defeated him as he learned to control the War God.
• Over the next ten years, Zhao Xing mastered the War God’s 108,000 divine bones and improved enough to keep pace with the gatekeeper’s techniques.
• The gatekeeper explained that Zhao Xing needed to activate more Chaos Demon Fungus to raise his amplification, and promised to limit his power to a hundredfold in their next battle.
• Zhao Xing focused on comprehending the Chaos Demon Fungus, raising his amplification from thirtyfold to sixty-fourfold over three years.
• After his thirty years of preparation ended, Zhao Xing issued the gatekeeper his true challenge.

Zhao Xing passed the Fighting God trial, received a Fighting God, and entered the Soldier God Domain, where he chose the eastern plant-soldier trial. He discovered mobile castles inhabited by mushroom soldiers and treants, then ambushed a lone treant while it absorbed lake water.

• Zhao Xing defeated the gatekeeper in the Fighting God trial and received the metal Fighting God as his reward.
• The gatekeeper told Zhao Xing that Qing Yuzi had passed by using the Marquis Transformation Art to create fakes and Chaos Demon Fungi, leaving the gatekeeper unable to use most of his strength.
• At the Soldier God Domain stele, Zhao Xing learned about the four regional trials and crossed the eastern Boundary Marker to seek the General's Order.
• Zhao Xing found a mobile castle inhabited by Mushroom Soldiers and identified its Great Dao Mother Tree Moyi as a void-type plant lifeform that could bestow talents and devour other lifeforms.
• After finding another castle populated by Treants, Zhao Xing waited until a lone treant rooted itself on a lake to absorb water, then sprang from beneath the surface and struck it.

Zhao Xing infiltrated the Itch God Fortress and waited for the Overlord Battle, where an attack by the Ten Thousand Bamboo Army devastated the fortress and wounded General Tian Ji. He stole Tian Ji’s General’s Order, then crossed the dangerous battlefield by burrowing toward the God King Tower, finally reaching the safe plains beyond the Boundary Marker.

• Zhao Xing joined the Itch God Fortress disguised as Yi Shui, learned that its General Tian Ji held a General’s Order, and waited for a chance to take it.
• After the Overlord Battle began, the Ten Thousand Bamboo Army bombarded the fortress with firecrackers and Begging Bamboo poison, forcing Zhao Xing to abandon Yi Shui’s body and flee.
• Zhao Xing disguised himself as an injured treant, reached the wounded General Tian Ji, and took the General’s Order.
• Immeasurable True God sensed Zhao Xing’s danger through their connection, but Qing Yuzi’s influence cut off his ability to track him.
• Zhao Xing made repeated attempts to cross the Overlord Battle’s root-filled battlefield, then spent 134 years burrowing the final hundred li and reached the safe plains beyond the Boundary Marker.

Zhao Xing reached Yu Heng’s God King Tower, where a being disguised as Divine King Yu Heng tried to force him to swear an oath and travel to the Chaos Epoch’s Cosmic Forest. The impostor revealed itself as a branch of the World God Tree and began extending the tower’s divine tree into Zhao Xing’s Inner World.

• Zhao Xing recovered from the Overlord Battle, removed the Parasitic Seeds from his body, and flew to Yu Heng’s God King Tower.
• The tower stripped away Zhao Xing’s external treasures and companions before he met a young man claiming to be Divine King Yu Heng.
• The young man recognized Zhao Xing’s background and offered him Yu Heng’s inheritance if he swore to cultivate in the Chaos Epoch’s Cosmic Forest.
• Zhao Xing hesitated and tried to leave, but the young man immobilized him and compelled him to swear the oath.
• The impostor revealed its black-qi-covered wooden body and explained that it was a World God Tree branch that had secretly drained Yu Heng’s Inner World.
• The divine tree entered Zhao Xing’s Inner World as the impostor recounted how Yu Heng and eight others had torn branches from the World God Tree.

Cosmic Abyss invaded Zhao Xing’s Inner World, but his Keyang Divine Tree devoured the invader and freed him. Zhao Xing saved Qing Yuzi from a breakdown, and the two were reunited outside the God King Tower.

• Cosmic Abyss revealed its history with Divine King Yu Heng and tried to take control of Zhao Xing, while Zhao Xing’s attempts to resist failed.
• Qing Yuzi summoned Divine King Jin, who struck the God King Tower from outside but refused to enter because of his promise to Divine King Zhang Yue.
• As Cosmic Abyss continued invading, Qing Yuzi urged Zhao Xing to fight within his Inner World and told him about his torment in Transformation Marsh.
• Zhao Xing reached his Inner World and discovered his Keyang Divine Tree could consume Cosmic Abyss, so he lifted his restrictions and let it absorb the invader.
• After Cosmic Abyss was defeated, Zhao Xing found Qing Yuzi suffering from Heart Fire and used the Heavenly Change Divine Needle to calm him.
• Qing Yuzi realized Zhao Xing was alive, recovered from his inner turmoil, and angrily kicked Zhao Xing away when he teased him about the Marsh Divine General.

Zhao Xing and Qing Yuzi reunited and compared how they survived the God King Tower trials, then Zhao Xing shared Yu Heng’s recovered treasures with Qing Yuzi. Zhao Xing kept the greater part of the haul but could take only a limited share of the Inner World’s soldiers and had to master three of Yu Heng’s Seven Great Secret Arts before claiming the Myriad Dao Mother Tree.

• Qing Yuzi told Zhao Xing how Transformation Marsh parasitized and captured him, and how Divine King Jin freed him after he reached the God King Tower.
• Zhao Xing explained that he had subdued the divine tree and that Tree Son was slowly devouring Cosmic Abyss inside his Inner World.
• Zhao Xing gave Qing Yuzi four treasures and the Pill Book, including a Three-Star Treasure Bracelet, a Chaos Token, a Hengjie Dao Fruit, and an Origin Vine Immortal Companion Divine Seed.
• Zhao Xing reviewed his own greater gains, including a Six-Star Treasure Bracelet, an Archaic Extreme Land pass, two Origin Vine Immortals, the World God Tree branch, Cosmic Abyss, and the complete Fighting God.
• Zhao Xing decided to honor his agreement with Divine King Zhang Yue by taking no more than one-tenth of the Inner World’s resources, and noted that he had to master three of the Seven Great Secret Arts to claim the Myriad Dao Mother Tree.

Zhao Xing mastered Yu Heng’s three secret arts, took control of the Myriad Dao Mother Tree, and recruited Number Thirteen and Zi before preparing to leave the internal world. He brought Qing Yuzi with him through the Time Page, and they arrived in Divine Mechanism City.

• Zhao Xing cultivated the Source Heart Tree and, after using symbiosis to strengthen his soul, eventually mastered the Withered Wood God and Myriad Phenomena Universe.
• Qing Yuzi’s physical injuries healed, but Zhao Xing discovered his fear of the Transformation Marsh remained; Qing Yuzi later returned there to face its trials.
• Number Thirteen and Zi asked Zhao Xing to take them into the outside world, and he agreed.
• Zhao Xing brought the Myriad Dao Mother Tree into his internal world and selected four plant barracks, reaching his current capacity.
• Zhao Xing rescued Qing Yuzi from the Transformation Marsh, and Qing Yuzi agreed to travel with him to Divine Mechanism City.
• Zhao Xing used the Time Page to take himself and Qing Yuzi out of the internal world and into Divine Mechanism City.

Zhao Xing returned to Divine Mechanism City, where Immeasurable True God inspected his gains, prepared new training, and set him the goal of achieving Heaven and Earth Attainment before the Chaos Secret Realm contest. Seeking a way to find a Heavenly Timing source, Zhao Xing asked Qing Yuzi to contact Du Yun, whose battle in Asura Heaven ended with the Qing Yu God’s voice reaching him.

• Immeasurable True God beat Qing Yuzi, identified both men’s Chaos Tokens as unusable fakes, and took several of Zhao Xing’s divine items to remake.
• Immeasurable True God gave Zhao Xing the captured Lotus Sound Divine General for mental training and ordered him to prepare for the next Chaos Secret Realm contest by achieving Heaven and Earth Attainment.
• Zhao Xing realized he needed a source of Time Origin and spotted Du Yun’s location in Asura Heaven on the Moonshadow Screen Wall.
• Zhao Xing asked Qing Yuzi to use the Space-Time Incense Technique to contact Du Yun and ask about Heavenly Timing Ancient Gods, and Qing Yuzi agreed to try.
• Du Yun fought an Asura Ancient God, but it self-detonated and injured him after General Pang’s divination brought him Great Misfortune.
• After General Pang reprimanded Du Yun for his overconfidence, Du Yun recalled worshiping the Qing Yu God, whose statue spoke to him.

Zhao Xing mastered the first layer of Wei Tianchen’s Heaven Mending Art while Qing Yuzi discovered that someone had impersonated both him and Zhao Xing to contact Du Yun. With the Boundless True God in seclusion, Zhao Xing and Qing Yuzi decided to travel to the Spirit Domain Era to investigate the impostor and Zhao Xing’s missing soul fragment.

• Qing Yuzi contacted Du Yun and secretly directed him to change his training route to Bird Marsh Star.
• Zhao Xing deciphered Wei Tianchen’s Heaven Mending Art, learned its three steps, and considered using it in the Puyuan Desolate Territory to attain the Dao as a physician.
• Zhao Xing bound Divine General Lianyin with a Great Dao Golden Circlet and set a three-thousand-year deadline for their eventual fight.
• After Zhao Xing mastered the Heaven Mending Art’s first layer, Qing Yuzi revealed that an impostor had contacted Du Yun while pretending to be him and Zhao Xing.
• Zhao Xing found the Boundless True God in seclusion and decided to travel with Qing Yuzi to the Spirit Domain Era using the Time Page.

Wu Tian discovered that Zhao Xing had been impersonated and summoned him, while Zhao Xing and Qing Yuzi investigated Du Yun’s abduction and uncovered a sophisticated conspiracy. After Qing Yuzi reached the Source Origin Heavenly Palace and Zhao Xing hid in the Thousand Feather Silent Extinction World, a spell revealed three possible Zhao Xings, leaving the pursuers unsure which one to follow.

• Wu Tian divined that Zhao Xing had ambushed Du Yun and summoned Zhao Xing from the mountain.
• Zhao Xing and Qing Yuzi searched for Du Yun, failed to find Zhao Xing’s Study Abroad Clone, and suspected that someone had impersonated them.
• A fake Zhao Xing kept Du Yun imprisoned while memories revealed that Yi Ren had been trained and remade to impersonate Zhao Xing.
• Divine General Wu Zhao confirmed that a fake Qing Yuzi and Zhao Xing had abducted Du Yun, and Qing Yuzi agreed to join the rescue effort.
• Zhao Xing hid in the Thousand Feather Silent Extinction World, where his Ancient Hill of Antiquity divine artifacts lost their power.
• A calling spell revealed three locations connected to Zhao Xing, and Qing Yuzi and Guluo He debated which one to pursue.

Zhao Xing followed a karmic thread to Du Yun and found him imprisoned and dismembered by an impostor, but an ambush forced Zhao Xing to flee with Du Yun. As General Starfire and Di Jun pursued him, Zhao Xing learned that the impostor was hunting a Time-Beast, then was struck by Arrow God Gu Heng while Talisman God Wang Yue trapped him and Du Yun inside a collapsing space.

• Black Robe consulted Seventh Madam and learned where to send Crisis Intelligence about the three possible Zhao Xings.
• Zhao Xing followed a karmic thread into the Black Sand Domain, found the real Du Yun imprisoned in an Earth Palace, and carried away his headless body.
• General Starfire and Di Jun attacked Zhao Xing, who escaped with the Six-Star Treasure Bracelet; elsewhere, Yi Ren was mistaken for Zhao Xing and attacked in Shanshui City.
• Du Yun recognized Zhao Xing and explained that he could regrow his head, that his body attracted the Demon Race, and that the impostor had been searching for a Time-Beast.
• Zhao Xing received Crisis Intelligence identifying the Time-Beast Xi and warning of a trap, but Arrow God Gu Heng ambushed him and Talisman God Wang Yue began sealing Zhao Xing and Du Yun inside a transformed Stone Mountain.

Zhao Xing and Yi Ren were caught in separate attacks when the Time-Beast appeared, freezing powerful gods and disrupting their abilities. Zhao Xing recognized the beast from an old Dao Book and went with Du Yun to a bamboo grove, hoping a risky plan would let them survive.

• Arrow God Gu Heng wounded Zhao Xing, and Talisman God Wang Yue used the Thousand Feather Divine Talisman to trap him in the Stone Mountain Range.
• General Starfire ambushed Yi Ren at the Iron Wire River, but the Time-Beast's roar disrupted the battlefield and left the gods unable to move while Yi Ren escaped.
• Yi Ren returned to the Black Sand Domain, learned from the Earth God Dog that someone had visited during his absence, and took the dog with him.
• The Time-Beast appeared in the Stone Mountain Range, broke Wang Yue's talisman, and left Zhao Xing and the other gods stunned; Zhao Xing alone could still move.
• Zhao Xing consulted Bowei's Dao Book, identified the creature as a Time-Beast, and took Du Yun to a bamboo grove to gamble on a plan for their survival.