Chapter Summaries

Lin Firmament received three consecutive Merit Golden Rings after Earth’s Heaven’s Will revived, and the blessings raised her cultivation to the mid-stage of Void Refinement. She and Zhou Xiaoran resumed exploring Kunlun’s cavern and discovered a strange symbol and an enormous, radiant skeleton whose identity shocked Zhou Xiaoran.

• Lin Firmament and Zhou Xiaoran saw Merit Golden Cloud condense into three Merit Golden Rings, all of which descended behind Lin Firmament’s head.
• The Empress explained that Earth’s Heaven’s Will had revived and speculated that Earth and Kunlun shared the same Heaven’s Will.
• Lin Firmament concluded that the accumulated merit came from their deeds on Earth, including reviving spiritual energy and Kunlun, and the Empress encouraged her to keep exploring.
• After the Empress departed, Lin Firmament discovered that the three rings had raised her cultivation to the mid-stage of Void Refinement.
• Lin Firmament and Zhou Xiaoran returned to the cavern, where they found a yuan-like symbol and an enormous glowing skeleton; Zhou Xiaoran reacted with shock after examining it.

Lin Firmament and Zhou Xiaoran identified the enormous skeleton as possibly belonging to Zhu Jiuyin, the Time Ancestral Witch, and Lin Firmament investigated a mysterious symbol in the cavern. After she absorbed it, Lin Firmament entered a passive Enlightenment State, while Qi Zi awoke in the Myriad Realms Abyss as the Dao principles and Divine Runes around him turned chaotic.

• Zhou Xiaoran used her True Essence to reconstruct the skeleton as a scarlet, human-headed dragon, and she and Lin Firmament suspected it was Zhu Jiuyin.
• Lin Firmament wondered whether the cavern was Zhu Jiuyin's tomb and searched with Zhou Xiaoran for the candle flame said to be associated with him, but they found nothing.
• Lin Firmament noticed a symbol embedded in the cavern ceiling that seemed to draw her closer, then touched it after Zhou Xiaoran retreated.
• The symbol detached from the stone, circled Lin Firmament, and surged into her body when she touched it, leaving a mark between her brows and forcing her into Enlightenment.
• In the hidden space of the Immortal Tomb, Qi Zi's Dao-and-Divine-Runes shell shattered, and he woke to find the surrounding principles and runes chaotic.

Qi Zi and Lin Firmament repeatedly entered and were expelled from the Enlightenment State as they tried to understand the mysterious symbol, while unknowingly sharing its effects. Lin Firmament’s cultivation rapidly advanced, and the chapter ended as the Great Dao of Time surged when she entered enlightenment again.

• Qi Zi reflected on the symbol’s chaotic laws, then struggled back into the Enlightenment State and made the symbol itself his subject of enlightenment.
• At Kunlun, Lin Firmament awoke from enlightenment with her brow symbol and Merit Golden Ring flickering, then resumed cultivating while Zhou Xiaoran guarded her.
• Qi Zi and Lin Firmament repeatedly took turns entering the Enlightenment State, each noticing changes in the Dao principles and suspecting that someone else was competing for it.
• Lin Firmament concluded that the symbol might be a supreme treasure from the primordial era capable of cultivating a true immortal, and her cultivation rose from the middle stage of Void Refining to the peak of the Tribulation Transcendence Realm.
• After several days of alternating enlightenment, Lin Firmament entered the Enlightenment State again, and the long-building Law of Time suddenly surged.

Lin Firmament and Qi Zi were pulled into a strange space filled with turbulent time laws, where they encountered a mysterious law-made figure. After Lin Firmament's Artificial Sun Fist failed to defeat it, the figure attacked with a decaying arrow bearing the power of Hydrogen Bomb Archery, leaving Lin Firmament to face an explosive blast.

• Lin Firmament and Qi Zi were ejected from their Enlightenment States and transported to the same strange space, where time fragments rapidly changed their ages.
• Zhou Xiaoran watched Lin Firmament vanish and chose not to intervene, believing she was not in immediate danger.
• Qi Zi mistook the mysterious figure for a trial examiner and began preparing to attack it.
• Lin Firmament launched an Artificial Sun Fist at the figure, but it emerged from the explosion protected by a magnetic field.
• The figure shot an arrow that Lin Firmament recognized as Hydrogen Bomb Archery; the arrow rapidly aged as it approached and then exploded near him.

Qi Zi and Lin Firmament recognized each other through brief, dangerous attempts to communicate across a mysterious space governed by the Law of Time. They confirmed their identities but remained unable to learn what had happened or how to escape.

• Qi Zi survived Lin Firmament's copied Artificial Sun Fist and realized the figure facing him used methods identical to his own.
• Lin Firmament tried writing a message, but the Law of Time erased it and injured her copy, leading her to suspect a conscious person was on the other side.
• Qi Zi attempted to write a few strokes, and Lin Firmament inferred that he was her Dog Thief; she replied with two strokes that let him identify her as Lin Firmament.
• Qi Zi and Lin Firmament confirmed each other's identities through the exchange, but the increasingly violent time fragments prevented them from communicating normally.
• Lin Firmament wondered whether Qi Zi was still alive and struggled to find a way for them to communicate and escape.

Qi Zi and Lin Firmament used a battle to communicate through an unstable space filled with fragments of time, then embraced before it collapsed and briefly heard each other say, “Wait for me.” Qi Zi fled the collapsing Immortal Tomb space, while Lin Firmament awoke in Kunlun and learned that her mysterious symbol was flickering and likely connected to the Law of Time.

• Qi Zi devised a plan to send Lin Firmament information using Morse code rhythms, since they could neither speak nor communicate through Divine Sense.
• Qi Zi and Lin Firmament fought across the strange space, and Lin Firmament recognized his pattern and stopped attacking so he could finish transmitting his message.
• As the space grew unstable, the two approached and embraced, enduring the pain caused by the Law of Time while silently promising to wait for each other.
• The space collapsed, and Qi Zi and Lin Firmament briefly heard each other say, “Wait for me,” before they vanished from one another’s sight.
• Qi Zi woke inside the Immortal Tomb’s hidden space and fled as it began collapsing, changing into the Bearded Man while the symbol above him flickered.
• Lin Firmament awoke in the Kunlun cave beside Zhou Xiaoran and described the time fragments; Zhou Xiaoran concluded that Lin Firmament’s flickering symbol was connected to the Law of Time.

Lin Firmament and Lin Fan exchanged a message across what appeared to be different timelines, linking their symbols and Enlightenment States to the Laws of Time. They agreed to take turns entering the state, and Lin Firmament began cultivating after Lin Fan’s three-day session ended.

• Lin Firmament and Zhou Xiaoran used Morse Code to decipher Lin Fan’s message about the Myriad Realms Abyss, his symbol, and his repeated entry into a passive Enlightenment State.
• Lin Firmament suspected Earth was the ancient past relative to the Cultivation World and wondered whether the symbol would eventually pass to Zhou Xiaoran or Empress.
• After escaping the collapsing Immortal Tomb, Qi Zi considered how changes to the past might affect the future and decided to test whether Lin Firmament’s Enlightenment State interfered with his own.
• Lin Fan buried himself in a secluded place and began comprehending the Dao, choosing three days as the interval before the next session.
• Lin Firmament noticed the Laws of Time grow chaotic and her symbol dim as Lin Fan entered the Enlightenment State, then waited three days for the effects to end.
• When the symbol brightened and the surrounding laws settled, Lin Firmament entered the Enlightenment State while Lin Fan sensed that she had understood their arrangement.

Lin Fan prepared to transcend the tribulation in the Myriad Realms Abyss, but a metal Needle Forest unexpectedly amplified the lightning and he faced the Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation. As his three Merit Golden Rings let him withstand the escalating bolts, a scholarly youth decided to use Lin Fan and his tribulation to advance a plan involving the Foundation of Heavenly Dao.

• Lin Fan chose the Needle Forest as his tribulation site and spent five days setting up 167 formations and preparing supplies.
• After Lin Fan began transcending the tribulation, the Scholar, Lan Cai'er, the scholarly youth, and other powerful observers gathered at a distance.
• Lin Fan discovered that the metal lightning rods strengthened the Tribulation Lightning, then fought off the first bolts himself.
• The lightning escalated into what the observers identified as the Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, and Lin Fan used Purple Qi Comes From The East and his three Merit Golden Rings to keep fighting.
• The scholarly youth recognized Lin Fan's three Merit Golden Rings as an opportunity for his Foundation of Heavenly Dao plan and took out a translucent bowl-shaped treasure.

Lin Fan used a formation, tribulation treasures, and Artificial Sun Fist to survive an eighty-one-bolt Heavenly Tribulation, then revealed his appearance as Qi Zi. As covetous First Sequence experts prepared to attack her while she recovered, Zou Hu arrived to defend her, leaving Qi Zi furious at his dramatic rescue.

• Lin Fan activated one hundred and sixty-seven formations to weaken the Tribulation Lightning, but the later bolts injured him and forced him to use his prepared treasures and pills.
• Lin Fan unleashed Artificial Sun Fist against the final bolts, culminating in a Large-Yield Artificial Sun Cannon that blocked the purple thunder dragon and let him survive the tribulation.
• The tribulation's seven-colored radiance began healing Lin Fan, and the disguise fell away to reveal Qi Zi as a woman, stunning the spectators and Lan Cai'er.
• Li Xiuyuan and the other First Sequence experts gathered nearby, arguing over Qi Zi and preparing to shatter her Nascent Soul and seal her soul while she recovered.
• Qi Mozi taunted Qi Zi, but Li Xiuyuan declared he would protect her; before the experts attacked, Zou Hu rushed in front of Qi Zi and challenged them to touch her.
• Qi Zi recognized Zou Hu and inwardly cursed his dramatic rescue, frustrated that he treated her like a damsel in distress.

Qi Zi faced a standoff with First Sequence experts who mistook him and Zou Hu for star-crossed lovers, until Fifth Zhongmou arrived and drove the attackers away. Fifth Zhongmou claimed Qi Zi owed him a favor, but Qi Zi rejected the debt and accused him of ruining a chance to defeat the others and take their treasures.

• Zou Hu tried to protect Qi Zi, while Qi Mozi and Li Xiuyuan mocked them as lovers and joined the others in threatening them.
• Qi Zi gathered the Artificial Sun Fist and challenged the group, but the First Sequence experts prepared to attack together, and Zou Hu offered to hold them off.
• Fifth Zhongmou appeared and declared that he would protect Qi Zi, prompting the attackers to retreat because they feared the Fifth One Clan's schemes.
• Lan Cai'er warned Qi Zi about Fifth Zhongmou's formidable intelligence, and Qi Zi cautioned her that he must also be powerful to have reached First Sequence.
• After the others withdrew, Fifth Zhongmou said Qi Zi owed him a favor for saving her, but Qi Zi insisted he would have won and accused Fifth Zhongmou of spoiling his plans.

Qi Zi survived her tribulation and rejected Fifth Zhongmou’s attempt to make her owe him a favor, while the scattered companions began gathering at their agreed meeting place. Zou Hu and Lu Yao found Su Ye fleeing a monstrous beast, and the group regrouped after escaping it, still uncertain what had happened to Ji Chutong and Refrain from Anger.

• Qi Zi healed after driving off Fifth Zhongmou, who left wondering about the symbol between her brows and revising his plans.
• Lu Yao saw the spectacle of Purple Qi Comes From The East and headed toward the agreed meeting place, while Ji Chutong chose to hide until the final moment.
• Zou Hu waited seven days with Lu Yao, and the two prepared to leave when no other companions arrived.
• Su Ye reached them while fleeing a giant beast, and Zou Hu and Lu Yao briefly restrained it before escaping with him.
• Su Ye explained that an unorthodox cultivator had severed his hand and foot and that Biochemical Pills had kept the beast from eating him.
• Zou Hu led Lu Yao and Su Ye to Qi Zi, and the four reunited and lamented their hardships while Ji Chutong and Refrain from Anger remained missing.

Qi Zi reunited with Zou Hu, Lu Yao, and the badly injured Su Ye, then helped the group assess the dangers of the Myriad Realms Abyss. After Su Ye regained his severed limbs by paying Lan Cai'er, the temporary team was ready to continue together.

• Su Ye described his disastrous journey through the Myriad Realms Abyss, while Qi Zi and the others shared what they had learned and compiled their intelligence.
• After learning how powerful the other factions were, Su Ye lost confidence and Zou Hu and Lu Yao also felt discouraged.
• Qi Zi tried to lift their spirits, then proposed finding help to remove the curse or witchcraft that prevented Su Ye's limbs from regenerating.
• Zou Hu mentioned a place where curses became ineffective, but Qi Zi suggested asking Lan Cai'er, who had the Witchcraft Gu Saint Physique.
• Qi Zi summoned Lan Cai'er, and Su Ye paid her a mid-grade dao artifact to remove his restrictions and regrow his severed limbs.

Qi Zi learned from Lan Cai'er that the Foundation of Heavenly Dao could restore a world's incomplete Heavenly Dao and raise its limits, and that Fifth Zhongmou was gathering powerful figures to pursue one. As they considered his schemes, Qi Zi proposed forcing the strategist to fight personally, and Lan Cai'er saw that the plan might work.

• Lan Cai'er told Qi Zi about the information-sharing circle among powerful figures from the Great Worlds and explained that Fifth Zhongmou had announced the Foundation of Heavenly Dao because he likely could not obtain it alone.
• Lan Cai'er explained that the Heavenly Dao had shattered in an ancient war, that the Myriad Realms now had incomplete fragments of it, and that the Twenty-Seven Foundations of Heavenly Dao could strengthen worlds.
• Qi Zi learned that fourteen Foundations had already been obtained and that most known ones came from the Myriad Realms Abyss, while he concealed his knowledge that there might be eighty-one.
• Lan Cai'er said she would pursue the Foundation despite Fifth Zhongmou's likely advantage, and Qi Zi considered whether the strategist might be planning a Blood Sacrifice.
• Qi Zi proposed turning the tables by refusing to play Fifth Zhongmou's strategic game and forcing him to enter the battle and rely on martial force.
• Lan Cai'er understood Qi Zi's plan and said it might work.

Qi Zi persuaded Lan Cai'er to spread a plan to overwhelm Fifth Zhongmou with numbers, then urged her companions to cultivate in the Myriad Realms Abyss. In the Cultivation World, the surviving Life Forbidden Zones awakened their Quasi-Emperors and prepared to attack the Seven Great Holy Lands, while mysterious figures moved to ambush Kun Peng Cave.

• Qi Zi explained that a united crowd could force Fifth Zhongmou to fight personally, and Lan Cai'er agreed to spread the plan before his gathering at Silent Valley in one month.
• Qi Zi returned to Su Ye, Zou Hu, and Lu Yao, then told them to reach the Great Ascension Stage while she protected them.
• Yuchi Shanhai summoned Old Ghost and Wu Tian, warned them that the Seven Great Holy Lands had destroyed three Life Forbidden Zones, and joined them in calling the surviving zones to war.
• The three surviving Life Forbidden Zones awakened their Quasi-Emperors and agreed to meet in the Western Wilderness and strike the Seven Great Holy Lands, beginning with the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect.
• The Holy Master Group discussed the revived Quasi-Emperors, prepared to unite and fight, and arranged to support the Ice and Snow Holy Sect through a Teleportation Array.
• More than thirty Quasi-Emperors from Kun Peng Cave set out for the Western Wilderness, but Yuchi Shanhai stopped them after they entered an unknown formation.

Yuchi Shanhai’s group discovered that a spy had trapped them in an unfamiliar formation, while Qi Zixiao and her companions pursued a creature from Beyond the Heavens toward the Western Wilderness. They learned that the Life Forbidden Zones were marching on the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect, and the chapter left them facing an imminent war.

• Yuchi Shanhai and the Quasi-Emperors suspected a traitor after finding that the formation trapping them had no obvious weaknesses or attacks.
• Yuchi Shanhai exposed a seven-colored aura above Ji Haoyue’s corpse, and the spy escaped as a mass of radiance after the group attacked him.
• The trapped Quasi-Emperors failed to break the formation and suspected it came from Beyond the Heavens, while Yuchi Shanhai warned that Old Ghost and Wu Tian could not be reached.
• Qi Zixiao and her companions took a boundary vessel toward the Western Wilderness to pursue the creature from Beyond the Heavens.
• Mo Daolin and Su Muxue warned Qi Zixiao that the remaining three Life Forbidden Zones were sending nearly a hundred Quasi-Emperors to attack the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect.
• Qi Zixiao’s group received orders to withdraw as Mo Daolin, Su Muxue, and Jiu Wu prepared to set out for the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect.

Qi Zixiao and her companions pursued a ghostly being toward the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect as the Seven Great Holy Lands and the Life Forbidden Zones assembled for battle. The confrontation threatened to shatter the Western Wilderness, and Refrain from Anger broke through to Tribulation Transcendence and charged the Quasi-Emperors, forcing both sides to fight around him.

• Qi Zixiao reasoned that the ghostly being had gone west to meet others from beyond the heavens, so she and her companions continued toward the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect after leaving behind strands of their souls.
• Jie Se knocked Buddha's Disciple Jie Se unconscious and ordered the monks to take him away before preparing to defend the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect.
• The Seven Great Holy Lands gathered nearly seventy Quasi-Emperors outside the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect, where they faced the ancient Quasi-Emperors from the Life Forbidden Zones.
• Yao Yao and the other hidden seven-colored figures chose to let the battle unfold, while Old Ghost and Wu Tian agreed to move the fight to the Starry Pasture.
• As the Quasi-Emperors' laws summoned falling Law Stars, Refrain from Anger rushed out to challenge them and broke through his bottleneck, triggering a heavenly tribulation.
• The Life Forbidden Zones tried to kill Refrain from Anger while the Seven Great Holy Lands protected him, and he drew closer to the enemy as the battle shattered space around them.

The Quasi-Emperors moved their battle to Starry Pasture while Earth continued to expand and its people advanced in cultivation and technology. Lin Firmament survived the Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation and reached Great Ascension Initial Stage, while the Empress ventured deep into Kunlun and discovered a broken, pillar-like mountain amid signs of an ancient battle.

• Wu Tian, Jiang Yi, and the other Quasi-Emperors moved the battle from the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect to Starry Pasture, leaving Refrain from Anger alone to face his tribulation.
• Gou Sheng and the others watched the catastrophe pass, then Qi Zixiao told them to continue chasing the slowing target.
• Earth grew to thirty times its original volume as Zhang Yuan, Li Bai, Mu Wanqing, and Purple Bamboo Academy's disciples advanced in cultivation, while Hua Nation accelerated its technology development.
• Lin Firmament accepted the Empress's tribulation supplies and survived the Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, reaching Great Ascension Initial Stage.
• The Empress left to seek opportunities in Kunlun and found a broken mountain surrounded by scattered rocks and traces of a terrifying battle.

After Su Ye passed his tribulation, Qi Zi used a time-slowing technique to kill two members of a hunting party and drive the rest away. He realized the technique came from his Glabella Rune and began considering its limits and connection to the Foundation of Heavenly Dao.

• Lu Yao passed the Sixth-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, Zou Hu survived his Fifth-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, and Su Ye prepared to undergo his own.
• Qi Zi warned off onlookers while Su Ye passed the Fifth-Nine Heavenly Tribulation and received the power of a Great Ascension cultivator.
• A hunting party attacked after Su Ye's tribulation, and Qi Zi used Time Dilation and the Artificial Sun Fist to kill Cao Bei in one strike.
• Qi Zi chased down and killed a second attacker, frightening the remaining members into retreating.
• Qi Zi identified his new technique as Time Dilation, which slowed time in a small area, and wondered whether the Glabella Rune was connected to the Foundation of Heavenly Dao.

Qi Zifan and his companions reached Silent Valley, where Lan Cai'er stopped the gathered First Sequences from attacking them by declaring them her allies. As the deadline to enter the valley approached, the group prepared amid a growing crowd, while Zou Hu embarrassed Su Ye by revealing his interest in Lan Cai'er.

• Qi Zifan led Su Ye, Lu Yao, and Zou Hu toward Silent Valley, while Diwu Zhongmou resolved to attend despite suspecting that someone had set an open trap for him.
• A newcomer demonstrated that Silent Valley muffled even powerful impacts, and the First Sequences gathered outside it discussed the remaining heavenly palaces and Diwu Zhongmou's suspected pawns.
• When the crowd's killing intent turned toward Qi Zifan's group, Lan Cai'er vouched for them as allies and threatened to attack anyone who challenged her.
• Qi Zifan teased Su Ye about wanting to know Lan Cai'er better, but she rejected him and said she wanted the real thing rather than a changed appearance.
• As the one-month deadline neared, the crowd outside Silent Valley grew from about five hundred to over a thousand, and Lan Cai'er told Lu Yao that fewer than one in a hundred First Sequences belonged to the informed circle.

Lan Cai'er warned Qi Zi and the others about the dangers of the Witchcraft Gu Saint Physique and the power of the Nine Heavenly Palaces before nearly two thousand First Sequences gathered to confront Fifth Zhongmou. After they killed his messenger and taunted him, Fifth Zhongmou went alone to Silent Valley, determined to claim the Foundation of Heavenly Dao.

• Lan Cai'er frightened Lu Yao with her poisonous hand, rejected Su Ye, and explained that she wished she could live as an ordinary woman.
• Lan Cai'er described the Nine Heavenly Palaces and showed Qi Zi, Lu Yao, Su Ye, and Zou Hu how to recognize their disciples.
• Qi Mozi and Li Xiuyuan taunted Fifth Zhongmou, and the gathered First Sequences killed a messenger who arrived calling him Lord Fifth.
• Fifth Zhongmou ordered his subordinates to stay away from Silent Valley and went there alone, declaring that he would still emerge victorious.