Chapter Summaries

After the New Alliance drew more cultivators away from the Five Clans, Fang Chen handed its leadership to Immortal Emperor Yun Yi and Golden Roc Immortal Emperor so he could cultivate in seclusion. At Ye Qingci's residence, he learned she could fight at Junior Immortal Emperor level without breaking through, and advised her to wait before advancing to True Immortal.

• Cultivators from the Five Clans flocked to the New Alliance for fair treatment and rewards, while their leaders struggled to stop the defections.
• Half a year later, Fang Chen surveyed Abyss-Suppressing City and the stream of newcomers with Immortal Emperor Yun Yi, Immortal Emperor Yin-Yang, and Golden Roc Immortal Emperor.
• Fang Chen left the New Alliance in Immortal Emperor Yun Yi and Golden Roc Immortal Emperor's care and told Immortal Emperor Yin-Yang to focus on recovering his strength.
• Fang Chen returned to Ye Qingci's residence and asked about her strength; Ye Qingci said she could reach Junior Immortal Emperor combat strength while still in the Great Emperor Realm.
• Ye Qingci asked whether she should break through to True Immortal, but Fang Chen advised her to wait so she could use her strength without restrictions in the Land of Ending and the Heaven-Extermination Battlefield.

Fang Chen gathered the New Alliance’s experts to study a mysterious ancient Scroll he had found beside the Spacetime Compass in the Heavenly Ruins, but none of them could uncover its secrets. Immortal Emperor Yun Yi arranged an open study at the Myriad Laws Tower, and the announcement spread through the Alliance and the Five Clans.

• Fang Chen and Ye Qingci discussed her possible identity as a Reincarnated Immortal, then parted to cultivate.
• Fang Chen examined the Dark Gold Scroll with several methods but failed to discover what it contained.
• Fang Chen summoned Ye Qingci, Myna bird, the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm, Great Emperor Huo Li, Yue Canglan, Li Qingyao, Palace Mistress Lingxin, and the two Immortal King clones to inspect the Scroll, but none found a clue.
• Fang Chen contacted Immortal Emperor Yun Yi, the Golden Roc Immortal Emperor, and Immortal Emperor Yin-Yang, who agreed to organize an open study for skilled New Alliance members.
• Immortal Emperor Yun Yi announced that approved participants could study the Scroll at the top floor of the Myriad Laws Tower in three days, and the news spread through the Alliance and the Five Clans.

The New Alliance gathered experts to study Fang Chen’s mysterious dark-gold Scroll, but every attempt to uncover its secrets failed. As the discussion was about to pause, Ai Wen, an Elf Race elder and alchemy advisor, asked to examine the Scroll up close.

• Cultivators from the Five Clans joined the New Alliance, encouraged by the chance to contribute to the Scroll study and earn recognition.
• Immortal Emperor Yun Yi hosted more than eight hundred invited experts at the Myriad Laws Tower and explained that the Alliance would reward every contribution.
• The Formation Enthusiast and experts from several races tested the Scroll with their respective skills, but it remained completely unresponsive.
• Fang Chen watched through his divine sense as the gathered experts grew frustrated and Yun Yi prepared to pause the discussion.
• Ai Wen introduced himself as a former Elf Race Alchemy Elder and asked Yun Yi and Fang Chen for permission to examine the Scroll up close.

Ai Wen awakened the mysterious Scroll and identified it as a Pill Soul Scroll containing the lost legacy of the Ancient Alchemy Ancestral Court. Fang Chen entrusted it to Ai Wen and the Alliance Alchemy Hall to study, leaving them to seek teachings that could benefit the Alliance.

• Ai Wen examined the Scroll, chanted an Ancient Pill Sacrificial Hymn, and used Emerald Origin Aura to make it glow and unfurl slightly.
• Ai Wen identified the artifact as a Pill Soul Scroll that sealed its teachings in Pill Soul Marks and required a specialized visualization method to access them.
• Ai Wen explained that the Scroll might hold lost pill formulas and alchemy insights, but attempts to visualize its contents would consume great mental strength and Source Power.
• Fang Chen asked whether the Scroll's contents could be determined and copied, and Ai Wen said he could not yet confirm whether they could be recorded in ordinary texts.
• Fang Chen entrusted the Scroll to Ai Wen and the Alliance Alchemy Hall, requiring selected alchemists to swear Soul Oaths and seek teachings that could benefit Alliance cultivators.

After the symposium, Fang Chen proposed breaking through the Primordial and Ancient Barriers to unite the Savage World's three regions. Immortal Emperor Yin-Yang explained that the Primordial Region held abundant resources but was made deadly by the World Will's violent laws and constant disasters.

• After Ai Wen revealed the Pill Soul Scroll's secret, Immortal Emperor Yun Yi ended the symposium, and Fang Chen spoke with Ye Qingci, Great Emperor Huo Li, and the others.
• Fang Chen proposed breaking through the Primordial Barrier and the Ancient Barrier to link the Primordial Region, the Ancient Region, and the Fringe Region.
• Fang Chen summoned Immortal Emperor Yin-Yang, Immortal Emperor Yun Yi, the Golden Roc Immortal Emperor, Lin Xiao, and the others to the Swallowing Heaven Tower to ask about the Primordial Region.
• Immortal Emperor Yin-Yang said the Primordial Region held abundant ancient resources but was imprisoned by the World Will and plagued by violent laws, disasters, and deadly competition.

Immortal Emperor Yin-Yang explained why the Primordial Region rarely sent cultivators across its dangerous Barrier and warned that its inhabitants might oppose anyone trying to open it. Fang Chen set priorities for the New Alliance: unify the Ancient Region, seek a passage to the Fringe Region, and cautiously investigate the Primordial Region.

• Immortal Emperor Yin-Yang said the Primordial Barrier was extremely dangerous, crossing it offered little benefit, and powerful Primordial cultivators might be restrained by a pact or strategy.
• Immortal Emperor Yin-Yang warned Fang Chen and the others that Primordial cultivators would likely view an attempt to open their Barrier as a threat and resist it.
• Immortal Emperor Yin-Yang explained that the Fringe Region’s barrier was weaker and might be crossed through gaps or by manipulating the Heaven and Earth Laws, and he suggested Void Crane could help find a flaw.
• Fang Chen made unifying the Ancient Region and strengthening the New Alliance the primary goal, while raising exploration of the Fringe Region barrier in priority and planning to lead a small team.
• Fang Chen ordered the New Alliance to gather records about Primordial cultivators, reinforce and monitor its defenses near the Primordial Barrier, and study the Pill Soul Scroll.

Fang Chen discovered that the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm could eat the Iron Fragment, then chose to cultivate in the Sea of Laws with his companions. He left Ye Qingci to train in Heavenly Abyss City's Time Acceleration Secret Realm and headed for the Sea of Laws to consolidate his cultivation and seek a breakthrough.

• The Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm bit the Iron Fragment, found it harder than the Immortal-Binding Chain, and said eating it would strengthen his body.
• Fang Chen decided to cultivate in the Sea of Laws and abandoned his plan to study the Seal inside Huahua.
• Fang Chen told Ye Qingci to cultivate in Heavenly Abyss City's Time Acceleration Secret Realm while he traveled with Huahua, the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm, and the Chaos Demonic Star Vine.
• Fang Chen said he would stay in the Sea of Laws for several years or longer and fight powerful Law life-forms to consolidate his cultivation and break through.

Fang Chen and his companions ventured deeper into the Sea of Laws, where they fought increasingly powerful Law Lifeforms and grew stronger. Fang Chen explained why the creatures could not survive outside the Sea of Laws, then continued seeking perilous battles to hasten his breakthrough.

• Fang Chen led the myna bird, Chi You, and the Demon Star Vine into the Sea of Laws and toward the Primordial Barrier, warning them to stay cautious.
• The group fought stronger Law Lifeforms as they traveled, and the myna bird, Chi You, the Demon Star Vine, and the Floating Immortal Sword gained power by devouring Law energy.
• After they killed a two-turn Immortal Emperor-level Thunderstorm Giant Spirit, the myna bird asked why the powerful Law Lifeforms did not invade the outside world.
• Fang Chen explained that the Law Lifeforms depended on the Sea of Laws’ chaotic environment and would weaken or collapse under stable Laws outside it.
• Fang Chen chose to go deeper and seek stronger opponents, then battled Sword Fiend Demonic Shadows, Dark-Eroding Abyss Beasts, Mirage Demon Emperors, and other dangerous Law Lifeforms.

After three years of fighting in the Sea of Laws, Fang Chen reached the peak of the two-turn Immortal Emperor realm, then returned to Abyss-Suppressing City to learn how the New Alliance had changed. He reunited with Immortal Emperor Yun Yi and Golden Roc Immortal Emperor, who told him about the Sky Patrol Guard.

• Fang Chen and his companions grew stronger over three years of battling and devouring Law Lifeforms in the Sea of Laws.
• After slaying a peak two-turn Immortal Emperor Chaos Prime Baleful, Fang Chen broke through to the peak of the two-turn Immortal Emperor realm but reached a bottleneck.
• Fang Chen decided to leave the Sea of Laws and return to Abyss-Suppressing City to reflect on his gains and learn about the New Alliance.
• Fang Chen returned to Abyss-Suppressing City three days later and learned that Ye Qingci had entered the Time Secret Realm to cultivate.
• Fang Chen met Immortal Emperor Yun Yi and Golden Roc Immortal Emperor, who told him that Lin Xiao had established the Sky Patrol Guard to enforce order in the New Alliance.

Fang Chen learned that the New Alliance was thriving under its contribution system while the Five Clans fractured and their Ancient Ancestors remained watchful. He ordered support for Master Evan’s Pill Soul Scroll research and set plans to investigate the Barrier and the Primordial Region.

• Immortal Emperor Yin-Yang described how Lin Xiao punished a Blood Race Immortal King for breaking Alliance law, establishing equal discipline across the New Alliance.
• Immortal Emperor Yun Yi and the Golden Roc Immortal Emperor explained how missions, exchanges, and shared research were boosting the Alliance’s resources and strength.
• Immortal Emperor Yin-Yang and the Golden Roc Immortal Emperor reported that the Five Clans had split into factions, while smaller groups and low-level Cultivators were defecting to the Alliance.
• Immortal Emperor Yun Yi warned that faint energy fluctuations near the Five Clans’ Ancestral Lands suggested their Sleeping Ancient Ancestors might be active, though none had intervened openly.
• The Golden Roc Immortal Emperor reported Master Evan’s breakthrough in studying the Pill Soul Scroll, and Fang Chen ordered the Alliance to find the rare herbs he needed.
• Fang Chen urged the Alliance to prepare to break through the Barrier, contact their homeland, and monitor the Primordial Region before leaving to visit Qingci, the myna bird, and Master Evan.

Master Evan and the Alliance’s Alchemists deciphered three ancient pill formulas from the Pill Soul Scroll, revealing medicines that could preserve a collapsing Dao Foundation, aid major breakthroughs, and improve aptitude. Master Evan warned Fang Chen and the others that three major obstacles stood in the way of using the formulas.

• Immortal Emperor Yun Yi received word that Master Evan had made a breakthrough deciphering the Pill Soul Scroll and gathered Fang Chen and the others to the Pill Pavilion.
• Fang Chen reunited with Ye Qingci, then joined the Alliance’s leaders and Alchemists to inspect the glowing Pill Soul Scroll.
• Master Evan explained that the Alchemists had copied three complete formulas and more than ten incomplete formulas or refining fragments.
• Master Evan revealed the Nine-Revolution Heaven-Stabilizing Pill, which could preserve a Cultivator’s collapsing Dao Foundation and Divine Soul for a century.
• Master Evan described the Nirvana Creation Pill, which could aid major breakthroughs and strengthen a Cultivator’s foundation, and the Cosmos Creation Pill, which could improve aptitude and remedy flaws in the Dao Body.
• Master Evan warned that three major obstacles prevented them from putting the formulas to use.

Fang Chen and the Immortal Emperors discovered several powerful Primordial pill formulas but feared their ingredients, cultivation conditions, and refining methods were impossible to manage. After Master Evan revealed two formulas suited to powerful cultivators and explained their rare ingredients, Li Qingyao said the situation might not be hopeless.

• The Alchemists and cultivation experts described the rare materials, difficult refining methods, and unsuitable environments that made the first three Primordial pills hard to produce.
• Fang Chen asked Master Evan to search for formulas that could strengthen powerful cultivators by awakening Bloodlines or enhancing Soul Perception.
• Master Evan uncovered the Ancestor Blood Origin Tracing Pill, which could awaken ancestral Bloodline potential, and the Cosmic Insight Pill, which could temporarily enhance perception, but both required extraordinarily rare ingredients.
• Li Qingyao stepped forward and suggested that there might still be a way to overcome the cultivation obstacles.

Li Qingyao proposed building a vast spirit-plant cultivation secret realm with controlled extreme environments and accelerated time to grow ingredients for ancient pill formulas. Fang Chen and the Alliance leaders committed resources to the plan, but Li Qingyao identified the need to find a powerful natural Time Secret Realm as its foundation.

• Li Qingyao explained how the Alliance could use formations and adaptable base plants to cultivate substitutes for rare ancient ingredients.
• She proposed a composite Spirit-Plant Cultivation Secret Realm powered by Heaven and Earth Origin and accelerated by the Time Bell.
• Fang Chen endorsed the plan, offered to help decipher the formulas, and suggested searching the Sea of Laws or Primordial Region for Chaos Ancestral Dragon Essence Blood or a substitute.
• Immortal Emperor Yun Yi ordered Alliance resources and joint research projects to support the cultivation realm and ancient pill formula work, while Golden Roc Immortal Emperor pledged Demon Race resources.
• Li Qingyao explained that the Time Bell could not precisely accelerate enough separate zones and said the project needed a powerful natural Time Secret Realm.

Fang Chen proposed creating an Artificial Time Herb Garden by using the Time Bell, Earth Veins, and a composite Formation to shape and accelerate time. The New Alliance committed to three parallel efforts to find a suitable site, design the garden, and develop a way to gather Time Law Fragments.

• Immortal Emperor Yun Yi, Immortal Emperor Yin-Yang, and the Golden Roc Immortal Emperor discussed the scarcity and dangers of natural Time Secret Realms.
• Fang Chen proposed building a composite Formation to stabilize space, harness Earth Vein energy, and draw upon the Time Law to create a controllable Time Herb Garden.
• Immortal Emperor Yun Yi warned that the plan would be an unprecedented act of Creation, while Immortal Emperor Yin-Yang said the Time Bell could make it possible.
• Fang Chen assigned Senior Yun Yi and Senior Golden Roc to survey for suitable sites and gather information about Time Laws and Spacetime Formations.
• Fang Chen tasked Daoist Friend Qingyao and the Hundred Crafts Institute with designing the garden, while he took responsibility for studying the Time Bell and devising a Formation to gather Time Law Fragments.
• The assembled experts pledged to support Fang Chen, beginning the New Alliance's effort to create the Time Herb Garden.

Key plot points and events

• Fang Chen gathers his allies to discuss their progress and renews his goal of finding a way through the Ancient Barrier so they can return to the Outer Heavens.
• Three days later, Immortal Emperor Yun Yi delivers the Human and Demon races’ books and treasures on time-based Secret Methods.
• Fang Chen travels with the Myna bird and the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm to the Sea of Laws. He enters the Swallowing Heaven Tower to study, while his companions cultivate nearby and are told to retreat into the tower if danger appears.
• Fang Chen’s research leads him to a sobering conclusion: they cannot yet control the Time Origin. Even the Time Immortal Emperor could wield time because he possessed the rare Time Sacred Body. Fang Chen’s own access to the Time Bell was made possible by the Floating Immortal Sword’s unusual power, which continually restores his strength.

Character developments

• Yue Canglan has reached the peak of the Nine-Revolution Immortal King Realm as her Chaos Sacred Body awakens further.
• Ye Kong is nearing the Half-Step Immortal Emperor Realm.
• Palace Mistress Lingxin has strengthened her Mind Power and can control peak Nine-Revolution Immortal King-level beasts.
• Great Emperor Huo Li believes he has found a way to advance his layered sword technique beyond the Tenth Turn, toward the Eleventh.
• The Nether Prison and Black Phoenix clones have grown stronger but remain capped at the Six-Revolution Immortal King Realm because their Soul Origins are incomplete.
• Fang Chen remains focused on research and on helping everyone return home; the Swallowing Heaven Tower has also grown enormously powerful through the energy fed back by the Floating Immortal Sword.

Significant themes

• Limits and specialization: Each character advances along a different path, while rare constitutions determine who can master certain powers.
• Persistence in the face of barriers: Fang Chen continues investigating time techniques despite learning that current knowledge and abilities are insufficient.
• Collective hope and loyalty: The group’s shared aim of returning to the Outer Heavens gives purpose to their cultivation.

Character interactions

• Fang Chen checks in with his companions, encourages their progress, and shares his hope of breaking the Ancient Barrier.
• Yun Yi supports Fang Chen’s research by gathering time-related materials.
• Fang Chen trusts the Myna bird and the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm to cultivate independently but gives them clear instructions for responding to danger.

After a year studying the Time Bell, Fang Chen learned of an ideal but perilous site in the Falling Star Sea for the Time Herb Garden. He proposed a three-layer formation to protect the site from Law Lifeforms, and the leaders gathered to consider his plan.

• Fang Chen refined his control of the Time Bell and advanced his understanding of Time Law while developing techniques for the Time Herb Garden.
• Immortal Emperor Yun Yi and the Golden Roc Immortal Emperor found a suitable site in the Falling Star Sea, but its proximity to the Sea of Laws threatened the project.
• Fang Chen returned to Heavenly Abyss City and met with the Alliance leaders to discuss the danger of Law Lifeforms attacking the site.
• Fang Chen proposed the Annihilation Ruins Cosmic Demon-Refining Array, a three-layer defense powered by the site's Earth Veins and Boundary-Space Godstone vein.
• Fang Chen explained that the array would delay intruders, erode them with Return to Ruin Sword Intent, and refine powerful survivors to sustain the array and nourish the garden.

Fang Chen completed the Annihilation Ruins Cosmic Demon-Refining Array around the Falling Star Sea, securing the site from Law Lifeforms. With the danger contained, Li Qingyao presented her Time Herb Garden blueprint and the Alliance began construction.

• Fang Chen convinced the Alliance leaders that his Grand Array could use the Earth Veins, Spacetime, and Return to Ruin Sword Intent to repel and refine invaders.
• The Alliance gathered materials and formed an Engineering Corps, which built the Annihilation Ruins Cosmic Demon-Refining Array under Fang Chen's direction.
• After a year, the Array activated and enclosed the Falling Star Sea, refining Law Lifeforms that struck its barriers.
• Fang Chen announced that work on the Time Herb Garden could begin and brought out the Time Bell at the Earth Veins' convergence point.
• Li Qingyao revealed her honeycomb spatial blueprint and assigned the Alliance teams to test environments and prepare Spirit Medicine seeds and seedlings.
• Fang Chen linked his mind with the Bell Spirit and began refining the first batch of Time Formation Rune Modules.

Fang Chen and the New Alliance built the Time Herb Garden, proving it could cultivate Spirit Medicines at accelerated rates and eventually producing a vast, thriving complex. The garden supplied over ninety-five percent of the ingredients for two crucial pills, but the Alliance remained stuck searching for rare materials from extinct Primordial creatures.

• Fang Chen, Li Qingyao, and the other teams spent years constructing the Hive Matrix and testing its spaces.
• Li Qingyao reported that Test Space Number One had stably grown Stargrass at a three-hundredfold Time Flow Rate with medicinal properties matching the Ancient Records.
• Over the next ten years, the Time Herb Garden expanded into a vast ecological complex that cultivated most of the plants needed for the Ancestor Blood Origin Tracing Pill and the Cosmos Heaven-Viewing Pill.
• Fang Chen and the Alliance's leaders reviewed the missing ingredients, many of which required intact parts from long-extinct Primordial creatures.
• Li Qingyao explained that searches across ruins, Secret Realms, and Star Domains had failed to find enough usable materials.

Fang Chen decided to search the depths of the Sea of Laws for Primordial Battlefield ruins that might hold the extinct materials needed to complete the pill formulas. He left with the myna bird, Chi You, and the Demon Star Vine, heading toward the Time Amber zones as the Sea of Laws grew more hostile.

• Master Evan suggested that well-preserved remains from the Primordial Battlefield might lie within nearly frozen Amber Zones deep in the Sea of Laws.
• Fang Chen agreed to search for the ruins, relying on the Time Bell and his strength to survive the dangerous region.
• Fang Chen declined Golden Roc Immortal Emperor's offer of an elite squad and chose to bring only the myna bird, Chi You, and the Demon Star Vine.
• Fang Chen said farewell to the others and immediately set off, with Little Crane asleep in his arms.
• As Fang Chen explained the Time Amber zones to his companions, the Sea of Laws turned black and its Law Lifeforms grew stronger and stranger.

Fang Chen entered the Time Amber Zones with the Time Bell and collected treasures from a bubble containing the remains of a Primordial Thunder Dragon. He then saw a lone Human Race Sword Cultivator battling countless Heavenly Slaves and powerful enemies, using a sword technique that resembled Great Emperor Huo Li’s Ten Layer Wave Sword Technique.

• Fang Chen identified the dark-gold region as the outer edge of the Time Amber Zones and used the Time Bell to create a field that let his group move within it.
• Fang Chen examined a preserved Primordial Thunder Dragon corpse and concluded that its fatal wound and the Amber Zones’ spacetime distortion came from the same battle.
• Fang Chen used the Swallowing Heaven Tower to collect creature remains and Magic Treasure fragments from the bubble, then continued through the Sea of Laws.
• Fang Chen and his companions spotted a Sword Cultivator fighting tens of thousands of Heavenly Slaves, Mutants, True Devil Emperors, and Savage Beasts.
• Fang Chen recognized that the Sword Cultivator’s increasingly powerful strikes resembled Great Emperor Huo Li’s Ten Layer Wave Sword Technique, and three Demon Generals lunged at the Sword Cultivator.