Chapter Summaries

Fang Chen gathered formation manuals from the Human Race and Demon Race to develop a stronger Grand Array, then traveled with three Immortal Emperors to the Primordial Barrier to study formations in a dangerous place. They reached the edge of the forbidden region after three days of travel.

• Fang Chen asked the Human Race and Demon Race to provide powerful formation manuals so he could create a stronger array.
• Immortal Emperor Yun Yi shared the Celestial Cycle Star Illusion-Destruction Array, and the Golden Roc Immortal Emperor provided the Myriad Demons Immortal-Burning Array, but Fang Chen judged both insufficient.
• The Human Race and Demon Race collected their formation manuals, and Myna bird read them all with his clones before passing the knowledge to Fang Chen.
• Fang Chen asked to study formations somewhere dangerous, and the Golden Roc Immortal Emperor suggested the Primordial Barrier.
• Fang Chen sent Ye Qingci, Great Emperor Huo Li, Gu Daozi, Lin Xiao, and the others into the Swallowing Heaven Tower, then traveled with Immortal Emperor Yun Yi, Immortal Emperor Yin-Yang, and the Golden Roc Immortal Emperor.
• After three days crossing shattered starfields and barren continents, Fang Chen and the three Immortal Emperors reached the edge of the Primordial Barrier.

Fang Chen and the others reached the vast, dangerous sea of broken laws surrounding the Primordial Barrier. Fang Chen entered its calmer outer edge and used the Floating Immortal Sword to devour the chaotic law energy, gaining a source of power for his formations.

• The group saw the Primordial Barrier’s law sea, ancient war remains, and the terrifying core that separated the two realms.
• Gu Daozi explained that they had to cross the sea and endure its dangers before reaching the barrier itself.
• Fang Chen sensed the Floating Immortal Sword’s eagerness to consume the law deposits and chose a relatively calm area to approach.
• Despite Immortal Emperor Yun Yi’s warning about the Heavenly Slaves and unstable laws, Fang Chen flew into the sea while the others stood guard.
• Fang Chen drew the Floating Immortal Sword, which devoured nearby Law Fragments and transformed the chaotic energy into power that flowed into him.

Fang Chen completed his deduction of a powerful composite killing formation in the Sea of Laws and slew two mutated Heavenly Slaves with two sword strikes. The energy he absorbed raised his combat strength close to that of a one-turn Immortal Emperor, and he returned to Immortal Emperor Yun Yi and the others.

• Fang Chen used the Floating Immortal Sword’s energy to deduce and refine a composite killing formation as Immortal Emperor Yun Yi, Immortal Emperor Yin-Yang, and the Golden Roc Immortal Emperor guarded him.
• Fang Chen rushed deeper into the Sea of Laws, where the pressure helped him complete an even more advanced formation deduction after three days.
• Two top-tier Heavenly Slaves mutated by Chaotic Laws attacked Fang Chen, and the Golden Roc Immortal Emperor moved to intercept them.
• Fang Chen killed the metal thunder demon and the shadowy Heavenly Slave with One Sword Returns to Ruin, and the Floating Immortal Sword absorbed their energy.
• Fang Chen’s combat strength rose close to that of a one-turn Immortal Emperor, and he flew back to Immortal Emperor Yun Yi and the others.

Fang Chen completed the Immortal-Demon Annihilation Array and demonstrated that he could construct it alone by inscribing Formation Runes directly into the Void. Immortal Emperor Yun Yi and the others agreed to help conceal his work while he set up the hidden Formation.

• Fang Chen revealed that his Formation was complete and gave Immortal Emperor Yun Yi its workings, astonishing Yun Yi, the Golden Roc Immortal Emperor, and Immortal Emperor Yin-Yang with its power.
• Fang Chen named the Grand Array the Immortal-Demon Annihilation Array and explained that he would build it himself while Immortal Emperor Yun Yi and the Golden Roc Immortal Emperor operated the Star Annihilation Array to conceal his work.
• The Golden Roc Immortal Emperor, Immortal Emperor Yun Yi, and Immortal Emperor Yin-Yang doubted Fang Chen could set up such a complex Formation alone, so Fang Chen demonstrated his method.
• Fang Chen used the Manifestation of the Innate Eight Trigrams Array Diagram, Soul Power, Return to Ruin Sword Intent, and Fusion Source Power to form a miniature Immortal-Demon Annihilation Array in the Void.
• Immortal Emperor Yin-Yang recognized Fang Chen's feat as the legendary Nascent Heart Formation and wondered whether Fang Chen had a Formation Dao Sacred Body.
• Fang Chen explained how he would use his Innate Array Diagram and understanding of the terrain and Spacetime to build the hidden Formation, and the others accepted that he could do it.

Fang Chen and his allies planned to lure the Five Clans into attacking while he secretly prepared the Immortal-Demon Annihilation Array. They returned to Abyss-Suppressing City to begin their public deception, with Heavenly Chasm Gorge chosen as the site for the apparent Time Bell repair.

• Fang Chen brought the group inside the Swallowing Heaven Tower and said they would wait until the Celestial Cycle Star Illusion-Destruction Grand Array was nearly complete before staging a falling-out with Lin Xiao.
• Fang Chen instructed Immortal Emperor Yun Yi and the Golden Roc Immortal Emperor to publicly announce plans to repair the Time Bell and gather resources, drawing the Five Clans’ attention.
• Immortal Emperor Yun Yi and the Golden Roc Immortal Emperor proposed Heavenly Chasm Gorge as the site for the public array and Fang Chen’s hidden Immortal-Demon Annihilation Array.
• Fang Chen arranged for Lin Xiao to discover the secret array, feign outrage, and deliver the real array diagram and its weaknesses to the Five Clans.
• Fang Chen explained that he could finish the hidden array in three months, while the public array would take at least half a year, giving the Five Clans time to prepare for their attack.
• The group returned to Abyss-Suppressing City, where Immortal Emperor Yun Hao’s Broken Halberd still displayed four Immortal Emperor prisoners in the Central Square.

Fang Chen announced that the Human Race and Demon Race would repair the Time Bell at Heavenly Chasm Gorge, prompting the Five Clans to unite against the effort. As both races began building their array and preparing the gorge, Fang Chen and his allies waited for the next stage of their plan.

• Fang Chen revealed the damaged Time Bell and announced that the two races would use all their resources to repair it with the Celestial Cycle Star Illusion-Destruction Array at Heavenly Chasm Gorge.
• The leaders of the God, Blood, Elf, Nether, and Heavenly Human Clans agreed to sabotage the repair and target Fang Chen at the gorge.
• Human and Demon Race forces arrived at Heavenly Chasm Gorge and began constructing a vast encampment and preparing materials for the array.
• Fang Chen, Ye Qingci, Great Emperor Huo Li, Immortal Emperor Yin-Yang, and other central figures joined the preparations at the gorge.

Fang Chen secretly began laying the Immortal-Demon Annihilation Array beneath Heavenly Chasm Gorge while the Five Clans watched the publicly announced preparations. As he struggled to fuse violent Earth Veins into the array’s first core rune, the Silhouette in the Innate Eight Trigrams Array Diagram moved to assist.

• Fang Chen entrusted the Time Bell to Immortal Emperor Yun Yi and claimed he would enter seclusion while secretly preparing the Immortal-Demon Annihilation Array.
• Fang Chen used the Innate Eight Trigrams Array Diagram and the gorge’s Earth Veins, Spatial Folds, and energy to inscribe hidden Formation Runes.
• The Five Clans’ spies reported the visible array construction and the apparent progress of the Time Bell’s repair, prompting their leaders to refine their surprise-attack plans.
• Fang Chen studied the gorge’s leyline currents and began tracing an Earthfire Gold-Fusing Pattern to combine the scarlet and Dark Gold energies.
• As Fang Chen struggled to control the opposing forces, the Silhouette in the Innate Eight Trigrams Array Diagram raised its hand and tapped the empty space before him.

Fang Chen used the Formation Spirit Silhouette in his Innate Eight Trigrams Array Diagram to complete the hidden Immortal-Demon Annihilation Array in Heavenly Chasm Gorge, gaining major insights into the Formation Dao. The array waited for the Five Clans’ enemies, but they did not launch their expected attack while construction of the visible array continued.

• The Formation Spirit Silhouette guided Fang Chen’s Earthfire Gold-Fusing Pattern and took over the construction of the Immortal-Demon Annihilation Array.
• Fang Chen conveyed the array’s blueprint through his soul, the Array Diagram, Return to Ruin Sword Intent, and Fusion Source Power as the Formation Spirit Silhouette laid its runes throughout the gorge.
• Over the next month, Fang Chen learned from the Formation Spirit Silhouette while the hidden array took shape and the Celestial Cycle Star Illusion-Destruction Array neared completion outside.
• Fang Chen discovered that the Immortal-Demon Annihilation Array was complete and thanked the Formation Spirit Silhouette for its help.
• Fang Chen waited for the enemies in the Five Clans’ territory to attack, but they made no move as work on the visible array continued.

Fang Chen and his allies prepared to lure the Five Clans into an ambush during the final stages of the Celestial Cycle Array and the Time Bell’s repair. After Myna bird found an ancient method that could repair the bell using thousands of powerful experts’ souls and bloodline power, Fang Chen faced a sinister new possibility.

• Fang Chen and the others concluded that the Five Clans were waiting for a moment when the array and Time Bell repair left them vulnerable, and they planned to make that moment appear to be a real opening.
• Fang Chen told Lin Xiao to feign resentment and prepare to feed the Five Clans intelligence, while Immortal Emperor Yun Yi and the Golden Roc Immortal Emperor would coordinate the repair and array work to invite an attack.
• The Human Race and Demon Race secretly gathered elite forces around Heavenly Chasm Gorge as the Five Clans accelerated their covert preparations.
• Myna bird found an ancient Jade Slip describing the Myriad Spirits' Blood-Soul Return-to-Origin Array, which could repair the Time Bell by using powerful experts’ souls and bloodline power to reverse time.
• Ye Qingci objected that the method was cruel, required many high-ranking Cultivators, and could bring grave karmic consequences.

Fang Chen persuaded Immortal Emperor Yun Yi, the Golden Roc Immortal Emperor, and Immortal Emperor Yin-Yang to use the Five Clans' leaders as sacrifices to repair the Time Bell and reshape the Ancient Region's alliance. The decision was made, while a secret meeting began in the God Race's Sun Temple.

• Fang Chen revealed the Ancient Records and proposed luring the Five Clans' core forces into the Immortal-Demon Annihilation Array to sacrifice them and repair the Time Bell.
• Immortal Emperor Yun Yi and the Golden Roc Immortal Emperor warned that killing the Five Clans' leaders would weaken the Ancient Region and risk chaos.
• Immortal Emperor Yin-Yang argued that the Five Clans' leaders were unreliable and could obstruct the coming war against the World Will.
• Fang Chen supported Immortal Emperor Yin-Yang and said the Five Clans could be subdued and rebuilt after their core was destroyed.
• Immortal Emperor Yun Yi and the Golden Roc Immortal Emperor agreed to the plan, establishing the Blood-Sacrifice Bell-Refining Scheme.
• Several halo-shrouded figures held a secret discussion in a Solar Gold chamber inside the God Race's Sun Temple.

The Five Clans secretly prepared a coordinated assault on Heavenly Chasm Gorge, aiming to kill Fang Chen and seize or destroy the Time Bell during its restoration. A month later, the array and bell neared their critical stages while Fang Chen calmly awaited the attack he had anticipated.

• The God Race leaders agreed to gather the Five Clans at Shadowy Ravine in thirty days and commit elite forces to attack Fang Chen and the Time Bell.
• The Blood Race prepared its Nether-Slaughter Array and awakened the Blood God Guards, while the Elf Race and Nether Race readied their own forces and schemes against Fang Chen.
• The Heavenly Human Race vowed revenge, ordered the Heavenly Punishment Legion to march, and prepared three Void Annihilation Thunders.
• The Five Clans quietly moved troops toward Shadowy Ravine as Fang Chen continued inspecting the work at Heavenly Chasm Gorge and waited for their attack.
• A month later, the Celestial Cycle Star Illusion-Destruction Array neared completion as the Time Bell absorbed immense power and its time patterns began to spread.

During a critical meeting about testing the Celestial Cycle Star Illusion-Destruction Array and restoring the Time Bell, Lin Xiao demanded the Tear of Time to save his collapsing Dao Foundation. Fang Chen refused and had him taken to the Forbidden-Spell Dungeon, leaving the gathered leaders facing unrest among their allies.

• Fang Chen and the gathered Human Race and Demon Race leaders reviewed the array test and the Time Bell's Origin Fusion.
• Lin Xiao coughed up blood and fragments of his Dao Foundation, then told Fang Chen that only the Tear of Time could heal his injuries.
• Lin Xiao pleaded for some of the Tear of Time, but Fang Chen said the Void Crane still needed it and that the greater cause had to come first.
• Lin Xiao accused Fang Chen of abandoning him and urged the assembled Cultivators to question their leader and the cause.
• Fang Chen declared Lin Xiao unfit for core affairs and ordered the Guards to confine him in the Forbidden-Spell Dungeon.

Fang Chen threatened anyone who undermined the camp, but black-cloaked attackers ambushed Lin Xiao’s escorts and rescued him from the dungeon. Lin Xiao joined them and was brought to the Five Clans’ leaders at Shadowy Ravine.

• Fang Chen warned the crowd that anyone who disrupted their plans would suffer the same fate as the punished dissenter, then resumed the meeting.
• Three black-cloaked attackers ambushed Lin Xiao’s guards, killed five, and grievously wounded their Immortal King captain.
• The attackers offered Lin Xiao restoration and revenge on behalf of the Five Clans, and Lin Xiao agreed to go with them.
• The black-cloaked figures used a Jade Talisman to take Lin Xiao through the camp’s defensive Light Screen without raising an alarm.
• At Shadowy Ravine, Lin Xiao was brought before the Five Clans’ gathered Immortal Emperors, including Star Vault Immortal Emperor, Blood Devourer Immortal Emperor, Star Whisper, Nether Remains Immortal Emperor, and Thunder Punishment Immortal Emperor.

Lin Xiao offered the Five Clans’ emperors intelligence in exchange for having his shattered Dao Foundation restored, revealing that the Time Bell was bait and detailing weaknesses in the Celestial Cycle Star Illusion-Destruction Array. The emperors found his account convincing, but Lin Xiao’s fate remained undecided.

• Lin Xiao asked the Five Clans’ emperors to restore his Dao Foundation and offered intelligence about the enemy forces, the array, and the Time Bell.
• Lin Xiao claimed the Time Bell had never truly been repaired and was a lure for a trap planned by Fang Chen and Immortal Emperor Yun Yi.
• Lin Xiao warned that Fang Chen had another unknown move and said the Celestial Cycle Star Illusion-Destruction Array would shield the final battle.
• Lin Xiao drew the array’s nine core Formation Cores and explained its energy-flow flaws, including vulnerabilities at the Li-Fire, Kan-Water, Wu-Earth, and Geng-Metal positions.
• The emperors judged Lin Xiao’s detailed account credible because it matched their own investigations and agents’ reports.

Lin Xiao revealed to the Immortal Emperors that he had cut down his Cultivation under threats and promises from Gu Daozi and Immortal Emperor Yun Yi, not out of loyalty. He blamed their neglect and Fang Chen’s refusal to spare him any Tear of Flowing Time for his betrayal, leaving the Immortal Emperors to judge the source of his resentment.

• Thunder Punishment Immortal Emperor promised Lin Xiao help rebuilding his Dao Foundation after the Five Clans defeated Fang Chen, while Star Whisper offered essence from the Tree of Life to stabilize his injuries.
• Star Vault Immortal Emperor questioned why Lin Xiao’s past loyalty had turned so suddenly into betrayal, and the other Immortal Emperors agreed that they needed to understand his motives.
• Star Vault Immortal Emperor asked Lin Xiao why he had cut down his Cultivation for Fang Chen and then turned against his race.
• Lin Xiao said Gu Daozi and Immortal Emperor Yun Yi had pressured him into sacrificing his Cultivation by threatening his family and promising to restore him and reward the Lin Family.
• Lin Xiao said that after he brought back the Tear of Flowing Time, Gu Daozi and the Alliance delayed his treatment to prioritize Fang Chen and the Time Bell.
• Lin Xiao accused Fang Chen of refusing to give him any Tear of Flowing Time, despite the Void Crane’s stabilized injuries, and said that refusal had fueled his bitterness.

Lin Xiao convinced the Five Clans’ rulers that his hatred of Fang Chen and the Human Race was genuine, then gave them intelligence about the Celestial Cycle Star Illusion-Destruction Array. The rulers ordered a coordinated assault on its nine Formation Cores while debating whether Lin Xiao’s betrayal concealed a trap, and Fang Chen sensed the coming attack from Heavenly Chasm Gorge.

• Lin Xiao recounted how his crippled condition and the collapse of his lineage fueled his hatred of Fang Chen, Gu Daozi, and Immortal Emperor Yun Yi, and offered to lead the Five Clans against them.
• The Thunder Punishment Immortal Emperor promised to help Lin Xiao restore his Cultivation, and the Star Vault Immortal Emperor ordered him escorted away to prepare for battle.
• The Star Vault Immortal Emperor ordered the army to divide into nine forces and attack the nine Formation Cores simultaneously in one hour, prioritizing the Formation Bases and key defenders.
• Fang Chen sensed the threat from within the completed Immortal-Demon Annihilation Array and looked toward Shadowy Ravine with a composed smile.
• The Star Vault Immortal Emperor, Star Whisper, and Nether Remains Immortal Emperor warned that Lin Xiao’s betrayal might be part of a Human Race trap, while the Thunder Punishment Immortal Emperor argued that the Five Clans’ overwhelming forces should attack regardless.

The Five-Clan Alliance leaders decided to attack Heavenly Chasm Gorge regardless of whether Lin Xiao’s defection was genuine, using his intelligence to target the Time Bell and the array. As the army prepared to launch its assault, the emperors put Lin Xiao to sleep and began Curse Casting on him as a precaution.

• Star Vault Immortal Emperor persuaded the Five-Clan leaders that destroying the Time Bell was necessary even if Fang Chen’s plan was a trap.
• Star Vault Immortal Emperor divided the Alliance Army into three forces and ordered an assault on Heavenly Chasm Gorge in one hour.
• The Alliance Army mobilized for a Spatial Jump, with Lin Xiao assigned to accompany the First Vanguard Army under close watch.
• Lin Xiao was brought to a palace, where an overpowering drowsiness overcame him and he fell asleep.
• Star Vault Immortal Emperor and the other four emperors decided to use Curse Casting on Lin Xiao and joined together to perform it.

Fang Chen sensed the Five-Clan Alliance Army’s arrival as it launched a surprise assault on Heavenly Chasm Gorge, using Lin Xiao’s knowledge to break through the defenders and the Celestial Cycle Star Illusion-Destruction Array. The attack went unexpectedly smoothly, leaving the enemy leaders suspicious as the vanguard neared the Repair Platform and Time Bell.

• Fang Chen left his secluded cave and sensed that the Five-Clan Alliance Army was about to arrive.
• Star Vault Immortal Emperor and Thunder Punishment Immortal Emperor led the first army against the array while Lin Xiao directed them toward its weak points.
• Blood Devourer Immortal Emperor and Star Whisper led the second army against the defenders, while Nether Remains Immortal Emperor’s reserve unit began sealing the battlefield with formations.
• Lin Xiao laughed at the Human Race and Demon Race cultivators who cursed him and blamed Fang Chen and Gu Daozi for his betrayal.
• The Five Clans’ vanguard broke through several defenses and approached the Repair Platform, but Star Whisper, Blood Devourer Immortal Emperor, Nether Remains Immortal Emperor, and Star Vault Immortal Emperor grew wary of how easy the advance seemed.
• Thunder Punishment Immortal Emperor dismissed the possibility of a trap and urged the leaders to destroy the Time Bell and kill Yun Yi and Golden Roc, while Star Vault Immortal Emperor considered whether his suspicion was excessive.

Lin Xiao urged the Five Clans' vanguard into the array's Core Region, where Fang Chen revealed the Immortal-Demon Annihilation Array and trapped them in its Return-to-Ruin Power. The array erased the vanguard's front line, while the Five Clans' Immortal Emperors fought back and sought to escape.

• Lin Xiao pointed out the Repair Platform and urged the Five Clans to charge into the Core Region.
• The Star Vault Immortal Emperor and Thunder Punishment Immortal Emperor led the vanguard past the final Light Screen to confront Yun Yi, the Golden Roc Immortal Emperor, and their wounded defenders.
• A voice announced the Domain of Return to Ruin as the Immortal-Demon Annihilation Array absorbed the Celestial Cycle Star Illusion-Destruction Array's power and activated.
• Fang Chen appeared above the Time Bell with the Floating Immortal Sword and triggered the array, engulfing the central platform and erasing more than a thousand elite Immortal Kings.
• The Thunder Punishment Immortal Emperor attacked the ripples and tried to escape, while the Star Vault Immortal Emperor used Starry Sky Law to resist them.

Fang Chen used the Immortal-Demon Annihilation Array to overpower the Five Clans’ Immortal Emperors and refine their power to repair the Time Bell. He secretly rescued Lin Xiao, while the emperors remained trapped and were consumed by the Array.

• The Five Clans’ emperors attacked the Time Bell, but Fang Chen used its simulated power and the Return-to-the-Ruins barrier to nullify their combined assault.
• Fang Chen commanded the Array to bind the emperors and refine their lives, souls, and Dao fruits to repair the Time Bell.
• Fang Chen secretly redirected chains around Lin Xiao, pulled him away from the emperors, and sent him into the Swallowing Heaven Tower.
• Fang Chen ordered the Return-to-the-Ruins Chains to tighten, pierce the emperors’ defenses, and extract their power and Dao fruits.
• The Array purified the emperors’ essence into multicolored pillars of light and sent it pouring into the Time Bell.