Chapter Summaries

Fang Chen brought Yue Canglan back to the Chaos Holy Land, where Yue Fan reunited with his Master and learned the Chaos Immortal King's identity. At the Star Sect, the dormant Star Sword awakened, and a Space Vortex opened as its disciples prepared for an unknown figure to emerge.

• Yue Fan reunited with Yue Canglan, who explained that Fang Chen had succeeded in Counterflow and brought them back.
• Fang Chen left with Little Grass and the others for the Star Sect, while Yue Fan learned that the returning Chaos Immortal King was the Chaos Patriarch.
• The Chaos Bell and Chaos Pagoda responded to the Chaos Immortal King and returned to his body.
• Great Emperor Chenwu and the Star Sect watched the long-dormant Star Sword awaken above their Mountain Gate.
• A Space Vortex opened over the Star Sect Square, and Great Emperor Chenwu ordered the disciples and Elders to form an array as a figure emerged.

Key plot points and events

• Fang Chen emerges from a Space Vortex and returns to the Star Sect after tens of thousands of years, astonishing cultivators who believed he had died on the Path to Heaven.
• He greets Great Emperor Chenwu and Elder Startrail, both of whom remember him from the past.
• The Star Immortal King follows Fang Chen through the vortex. Fang Chen reveals that he is the Star Sect’s long-lost founder.
• Chenwu and the entire sect kneel to welcome their Ancestor home. The Star Immortal King praises the sect for surviving and growing stronger during his absence of nearly a million years.
• The Star Immortal King credits Fang Chen with making the return possible. Fang Chen then announces that many others have come back as well.
• A succession of powerful figures emerges—including Great Emperor Huo Li, the Glazed Immortal King, Ye Qingci, Ye Kong, the Dark Yellow Immortal King, the Jade Pool Immortal King, Li Qingyao, Palace Mistress Lingxin, and several companions. The assembled sect is left speechless.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Chen returns with the calm confidence of someone transformed by immense experience. He warmly recognizes old acquaintances and remains modest about his role in bringing the others home.
• Great Emperor Chenwu shifts from disbelief to profound reverence: he recognizes Fang Chen, then learns that his sect’s founder has returned. He kneels and formally welcomes the Star Immortal King.
• Elder Startrail is overwhelmed with emotion at seeing Fang Chen alive, highlighting how deeply the passage of time has affected the people who stayed behind.
• The Star Immortal King reconnects with his homeland and descendants, expressing pride in the sect’s survival and growth. His trusting glance toward Fang Chen conveys their close bond.
• The sect’s elders and disciples collectively respond with awe and devotion, while the newly arrived figures’ entrance signals a much larger reunion.

Significant themes

• Return and reunion: Long-lost heroes come home to people and places changed by time.
• The weight of time: Fang Chen appears nearly unchanged, while the elders have aged and the Star Immortal King has been away for nearly a million years.
• Legacy and continuity: The Star Sect’s founder returns to find his institution still thriving.
• Loyalty and gratitude: Chenwu honors the Ancestor, and the Star Immortal King openly acknowledges Fang Chen’s help.

Fang Chen returned to the Star Sect with Great Emperor Huo Li, Glazed Immortal King, and other ancient figures, then traveled with Yaochi Empress and Xuanhuang Great Emperor toward Yaochi Holy Land. As the Yaochi disciples prepared for the Space Vortex’s arrival, a blue-robed figure stepped out.

• Great Emperor Chenwu welcomed Great Emperor Huo Li and Glazed Immortal King, then learned that Fang Chen had also brought back Yaochi Empress and Xuanhuang Great Emperor.
• Great Emperor Chenwu thanked Fang Chen, and Star Immortal King stayed at the Star Sect while Fang Chen took Yaochi Empress and Xuanhuang Great Emperor through the Space Vortex.
• Great Emperor Chenwu and Elder Startrail watched the Star Sword shine above the Star Sect and realized that the returning figures were real.
• Mingyue Great Emperor and the Yaochi Holy Land disciples watched the Jade Pool Jade Disc respond as a Space Vortex opened above their Square.
• Great Emperor Lianyue ordered the Yaochi disciples to prepare for danger, and a blue-robed figure emerged from the Space Vortex.

Fang Chen returned from the Path to Heaven with Li Qingyao and the Jade Pool Immortal King, reuniting Li Qingyao with Mingyue Great Emperor and revealing Yaochi’s founder to the Holy Land. After the disciples welcomed their Ancestor, Fang Chen left with plans to visit the Ye Family.

• Fang Chen emerged from the Space Vortex and greeted Mingyue Great Emperor, then Li Qingyao followed him out.
• Li Qingyao reunited with Mingyue Great Emperor and told the four Supreme Elders that Fang Chen had brought them back from the Path to Heaven.
• Li Qingyao announced that the Yaochi Ancestor had returned, and the Jade Pool Immortal King emerged from the vortex.
• The Jade Pool Immortal King reclaimed the Yaochi Jade Butterfly, and the Yaochi Holy Land disciples bowed to their Ancestor.
• Fang Chen told Li Qingyao and the Jade Pool Immortal King that he still needed to visit the Ye Family, then departed through the Space Vortex.

Fang Chen returned to the Ye Family with Ye Kong, Ye Qingci, and the Dark Yellow Immortal King, whom he identified as their ancestor Ye Xuan. The Ye Family recognized Ye Xuan’s Xuanhuang aura, but his return left them stunned and questioning his identity.

• The Ye Family’s three Supreme Treasures awakened together, and Ye Xing and the Cloud Scorpion Emperor sensed that something was coming.
• Ye Kong, Ye Qingci, Fang Chen, and the Dark Yellow Immortal King emerged from a Space Vortex into the Ye Family’s Ancestral Land.
• Ye Xing greeted Fang Chen respectfully and asked why he had returned.
• Fang Chen introduced the Dark Yellow Immortal King as Ye Xuan, the Ye Family’s ancestor and the former Xuanhuang Great Emperor.
• The Ye Family Members questioned the claim, so Ye Xuan awakened his Xuanhuang Bloodline and revealed his distinctive aura.

Xuanhuang Great Immortal revealed himself as Ye Family ancestor Ye Xuan, reclaimed the three Emperor Treasures, and reunited with his descendants. Fang Chen then brought Palace Mistress Lingxin back to Tianyuan Academy, where she returned through its ancient entrance.

• Xuanhuang Great Immortal reclaimed the Xuanhuang Bell, Xuanhuang Pagoda, and Xuanhuang Seal, and Ye Xing led the Ye Family in paying respects to their ancestor Ye Xuan.
• Ye Qingci chose to stay with Ye Kong and the Ye Family, while Fang Chen left for the Glazed Sword Sect and promised Xuanhuang Great Immortal a visit.
• Fang Chen apologized to Palace Mistress Lingxin for leaving her until last and offered to take her back to Tianyuan Academy.
• Little Grass carried Fang Chen and Palace Mistress Lingxin through the spatial tunnel to Tianyuan Academy.
• Palace Mistress Lingxin returned through the academy's entrance, and Fang Chen followed her up its ancient stone stairs.

Palace Mistress Lingxin returned to Tianyuan Academy with Fang Chen and reunited with Great Emperor Bai Ling, who had waited tens of thousands of years for her. Fang Chen left for the Glazed Sword Sect, where the sect gathered as a vast Space Vortex opened in the sky.

• Palace Mistress Lingxin and Fang Chen emerged into Tianyuan Academy’s square, and the disciples recognized them and spread the news of Lingxin’s return.
• Great Emperor Bai Ling rushed out of Sky Origin Hall and embraced Lingxin, then thanked Fang Chen for bringing her home.
• Fang Chen declined Bai Ling’s invitation to stay, and he and Little Grass opened a Space Vortex to leave for the Glazed Sword Sect.
• Great Emperor Black Flame, Yun Qianxue, Red River Great Emperor, and others gathered above Heavenly Lake to watch the space in the sky.
• The rippling space lit up and expanded into a vast, nine-colored Space Vortex.

A Space Vortex opened above the Glazed Sword Sect, and Fang Chen returned after tens of thousands of years. Great Emperor Black Flame welcomed him, while Great Emperor Huo Li and the Glazed Immortal King emerged from the vortex, leaving Black Flame staring at the figure from the Patriarch Portraits.

• A powerful Spacetime Barrier blocked the experts’ attempts to sense what lay beyond the vortex, and Yun Qianxue ordered everyone to prepare for battle.
• Fang Chen emerged from the vortex, and Great Emperor Black Flame recognized his long-lost martial nephew.
• Fang Chen told Black Flame, “Uncle-Master Black Flame, it's me,” and clasped his hand as Black Flame welcomed him back.
• Great Emperor Huo Li emerged and greeted the familiar scene with a smile.
• The Glazed Immortal King emerged, and the Glazed Bell, Glazed Mirror, Glazed Sword, and Glazed Pagoda hummed in response to him.
• Great Emperor Black Flame recognized the Glazed Immortal King’s face from the Patriarch Portraits and stared at him in shock.

The Glazed Immortal King returned to the Glazed Sword Sect, where the sect’s elders and disciples welcomed him as their founder. Fang Chen reunited with his companions and prepared to visit the Absolute Heaven Realm to see Xiao Yi.

• Great Emperor Black Flame recognized the Glazed Immortal King as the sect’s founder, and Fang Chen introduced Black Flame and Yun Qianxue to him.
• The Glazed Sword Sect’s elders and disciples knelt to greet the Glazed Immortal King, who praised Black Flame for protecting the sect and Yun Qianxue for her lineage and talent.
• The Glazed Immortal King absorbed the Glazed Sword, Glazed Pagoda, Glazed Mirror, and Glazed Bell into his body.
• Chen Xiaofei and the other returning companions greeted Fang Chen, who told Great Emperor Black Flame he wanted to visit the Absolute Heaven Realm and see Xiao Yi.
• Little Grass opened a Spatial Passage to the Absolute Heaven Realm, and the Glazed Immortal King, Great Emperor Huo Li, Fang Chen, and the others entered it.

Fang Chen and his companions entered the Absolute Heaven Realm, where they discovered rich Spiritual Qi and a Law Structure that shut out the World Will. They reached the realm’s main settlement, where its residents froze in surprise at their arrival.

• Fang Chen and his companions emerged from the Space Vortex and marveled at the Absolute Heaven Realm’s Spiritual Qi and landscape.
• The Glazed Immortal King and Fang Chen sensed that the realm’s stable Laws prevented the World Will from reaching inside.
• Fang Chen recalled that Great Emperors who ascended in the realm avoided the Land of Ending’s summons but missed out on Heavenly Punishment Power.
• Great Emperor Black Flame explained that Xiao Yi was tending an unusual medicinal herb in the central Medicine Garden.
• Fang Chen and his companions followed the path to the settlement’s Square, where the residents froze as they appeared.

Fang Chen returned to the Absolute Heaven Realm and reunited with Xiao Yi, who had grown into a Great Emperor. Xiao Yi welcomed Fang Chen and his companions, while the group discussed ancient ruins and how the realm had helped cultivators escape the Land of Ending’s summons.

• The settlement recognized Fang Chen, and Xiao Yi rushed to embrace him, crying that he had missed him.
• Xiao Yi told Fang Chen he had cultivated successfully in the Absolute Heaven Realm and discovered ancient ruins that might hold secrets about the realm.
• The Glazed Immortal King and Great Emperor Black Flame said the ruins might explain the realm’s abundant Spiritual Qi and stable laws, but an unseen barrier blocked access to their core.
• Fang Chen put exploring the ruins aside and asked Xiao Yi to settle his companions, including Glazed Ancestor and friends from the Outer Heavens.
• Great Emperor Black Flame explained that Xiao Yi had become the first Great Emperor from the Barbaric Ancient Region after Fang Chen left, and that later cultivators entered the Absolute Heaven Realm to break through and escape the Land of Ending’s summons.

Xiao Yi led Fang Chen, the Glazed Immortal King, and their companions into the Core Space of the Absolute Heaven Realm. As they ventured deeper into its ancient ruins, the force of Law grew stronger and began to overwhelm most of the group.

• Xiao Yi proposed taking Fang Chen to the Core Region, and Fang Chen agreed to go before discussing the Glazed Immortal King's restoration.
• Xiao Yi led Fang Chen and the others through layers of strange sky and Spiritual Qi to a gray Light Screen above the Absolute Heaven Realm.
• Xiao Yi passed through the barrier, and Fang Chen and his companions followed him into a directionless void filled with floating stone fragments.
• The group advanced through the ruins as the force of Law suppressed their Spiritual Power, Divine Sense, and sense of direction.
• Most of the group struggled under the pressure, while Great Emperor Huo Li and the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm remained untroubled; the Glazed Immortal King sweated profusely.

Fang Chen led Little Crane into the Absolute Heaven Realm, where he discovered that the Time Flow Rate was unstable and used the Time Bell to steady it. The group reached a vast field of glowing traces that Fang Chen recognized as the remains of a brutal ancient battle.

• Fang Chen noticed subtle disruptions in the Time Flow Rate and sent Little Crane to bring everyone into the Spirit Crane Space.
• Little Crane brought the Glazed Immortal King, Great Emperor Huo Li, Xiao Yi, and the others through a Space Vortex to join Fang Chen.
• Fang Chen activated the Time Bell to stabilize time around himself and Little Crane, then continued deeper into the Void.
• Fang Chen saw countless colored lines stretching across the Void and identified them as traces of Source Power, Law Fragments, and Order Force left by a brutal battle.
• Little Crane asked whether they were walking across battlefield ruins, and Fang Chen's silence confirmed it.

Fang Chen explored an immense battlefield in the void, where the wreckage suggested a clash between two great armies. The Spacetime Compass grew warm and pointed deeper into the ruins, and Fang Chen followed its direction.

• Fang Chen passed broken weapons and armor, then saw a colossal skeleton that Myna bird identified as an Immortal Emperor-level beast with Dragon Race Bloodline.
• Fang Chen and Little Crane surveyed vast heaps of warships, temples, banners, and other remains, concluding that the battlefield’s destruction surpassed those in the Land of Ending.
• Myna bird remarked that the battlefield was even more horrifying than the ones in the Chaotic Starry Sky and the Time Amber, while Immortal King Blackflame and the others watched in astonishment.
• Fang Chen felt warmth from the Spacetime Compass, took it from his robe, and saw its needle point steadily into the deeper void.
• Fang Chen followed the Compass through increasingly ancient and immense wreckage as its needle continued to guide him.

Fang Chen followed the Spacetime Compass to a ruined city in the Absolute Heaven Realm that closely resembled the Heavenly Ruins. The Compass guided him to a buried object beneath rubble, and he began uncovering it.

• Fang Chen emerged from the thinning wreckage and discovered a vast abandoned city whose buildings and battle scars resembled the Heavenly Ruins.
• Myna bird remarked on the resemblance, and Fang Chen agreed that the two places were closely connected.
• The Spacetime Compass heated up, lit with silver light, and pointed toward the center of the city.
• Fang Chen entered the city and followed the Compass past a great circular building to a pile of rubble in the square.
• Fang Chen brushed away stones and dust, revealing the dull, rust-coated edge of a buried object.

Fang Chen uncovered a broken grand seal engraved with the character for “heaven” in many ancient scripts. Its overwhelming pressure suggested it might be a relic left behind by the Heavenly Venerable, and Fang Chen struggled to withstand it.

• Fang Chen lifted a broken grand seal from the rubble and examined its ancient star-chart engravings and fractured sides.
• Fang Chen discovered that the seal’s underside was covered in characters from different eras, all meaning “heaven.”
• The seal released pressure far beyond the Immortal Emperor Level, forcing Fang Chen to brace himself as Myna bird and Little Crane trembled.
• Fang Chen told the people in Spirit Crane Space about the seal’s pressure, and Great Emperor Huo Li explained that a being beyond Immortal Emperor was called an Immortal Venerable.
• Myna bird suggested the seal might have been left behind by the Heavenly Venerable, and Fang Chen said he could not be certain.

Fang Chen failed to store the broken seal with Little Crane and the Swallowing Heaven Tower, but the Floating Immortal Ring accepted it and protected it from its disintegrating power. After returning safely from the Core Region of the Absolute Heaven Realm, Fang Chen faced questions about the seal from Chen Xiaofei and the others.

• Fang Chen asked Little Crane to store the broken seal, but its special Law power prevented her from drawing it into the Spirit Crane Space.
• Fang Chen tried to pull the seal into the Swallowing Heaven Tower, but it resisted that as well.
• Fang Chen activated the Floating Immortal Ring, whose pulse resonated with the seal until it turned into golden light and entered the ring.
• Fang Chen found that golden flames on the seal's surface resisted the Floating Immortal Ring's disintegrating power.
• Fang Chen, Little Crane, and the myna bird left the Core Region and returned to the Outer Region, where Little Crane released everyone from the Spirit Crane Space.
• Chen Xiaofei asked Fang Chen what the broken seal was as Great Emperor Huo Li, the Glazed Immortal King, and the others listened.

Fang Chen gathered the Glazed Immortal King and four other Immortal Kings at the Glazed Sword Sect to restore their cultivation through the Nirvana Rebirth Art. The five entered the Heaven Refining Furnace as Fang Chen prepared Phoenix Essence Blood and began the ritual.

• Fang Chen said he had taken possession of a broken seal that might be an Immortal Venerable's treasure, but he had not yet refined it.
• Fang Chen summoned the Chaos Immortal King, the Star Immortal King, the Dark Yellow Immortal King, and the Jade Pool Immortal King to the Glazed Sword Sect.
• The four Immortal Kings arrived with their companions, and Ye Qingci embraced Fang Chen before he led everyone to the Sky Lake Forbidden Zone.
• Fang Chen explained that he would use the Nirvana Rebirth Art to rebuild the five Immortal Kings' Dao Foundations, and they agreed to undergo the ritual.
• Fang Chen enlarged the Heaven Refining Furnace, guided the five Immortal Kings inside, and prepared hundreds of drops of Phoenix Essence Blood for the process.

Fang Chen used the Five Imperial Flames and Evilfire Phoenix Essence Blood to restore the five Immortal Kings’ Dao Foundations through Nirvana Rebirth. He then took them into a time-accelerated secret realm, where they stabilized their Cultivation before emerging at the peak of the Great Emperor realm.

• Fang Chen tempered the five Immortal Kings’ broken Dao Foundations with the Five Imperial Flames.
• Fang Chen infused the Heaven Refining Furnace with Evilfire Phoenix Essence Blood, allowing the five Immortal Kings to undergo Nirvana Rebirth.
• The five Immortal Kings emerged safely with their Dao Foundations restored, and Fang Chen led them into the Time Acceleration Secret Realm.
• Fang Chen and the others waited outside while eighty-two years passed inside the secret realm.
• The five Immortal Kings emerged with stable foundations and Cultivation at the peak of the Great Emperor realm, and Fang Chen asked how they felt.

After returning to the Barbaric Ancient Region, Fang Chen urged the reborn Great Emperors to cultivate and set out to investigate the region’s unresolved mysteries before the World Will awakened. He chose to revisit Paper Crane Space, surprising Great Emperor Glazed Glass, who had never known it lay above the Sky Lake Forbidden Zone.

• Chaos Great Emperor and the other reborn figures celebrated their cultivation being suppressed to the Great Emperor Realm, and Fang Chen praised their newfound potential.
• Fang Chen told the seniors to cultivate while he prepared to investigate the mysteries of the Barbaric Ancient Region, including the coffins, Reincarnation Land, and Paper Crane Space.
• Chaos Great Emperor, Yue Canglan, Star Emperor, Yaochi Great Emperor, Xuanhuang Great Emperor, and others departed, while Ye Kong and Ye Qingci stayed behind.
• Fang Chen told Great Emperor Huo Li that he wanted to revisit Paper Crane Space and uncover its secrets.
• Great Emperor Glazed Glass asked about Paper Crane Space, then admitted he had never known it existed above the Glazed Sword Sect.