Chapter Summaries

Nannan reached the third Floating Island after escaping from Su Mu, and Fang Yuan chose to stay behind to delay the pursuers. As the confrontation on the River of Time approached, cracks appeared on Su Mu’s statues across the Shepherd Heaven Alliance, alarming Dong’er.

• The Chaos Figure admitted that the Three Pure Ones’ Dao Fruit had fallen into Su Mu’s hands, and the Black-Robed Man agreed to hold Su Mu back for five days.
• The Little Killer Whale brought Nannan to the third Floating Island, where Fang Yuan realized Su Mu had been trapped and Nannan had escaped alone.
• Nannan urged Fang Yuan, the Little Killer Whale, and Little Fox to keep away so they would not be endangered by her pursuers.
• Fang Yuan summoned a formation of strange insects and waited to face the pursuers, determined to repay Su Mu’s kindness.
• Dong’er sensed something was wrong when Su Mu’s statue cracked, and a purple-gold-armored man reported that all of Su Mu’s statues in the Shepherd Heaven Alliance’s territory had developed cracks.

Every Divine Statue of Master across the Shepherd Heaven Alliance cracked, signaling that he faced an unprecedented crisis in the River of Time. Dong'er concluded that the alliance could not help him directly and said she alone had a way to intervene.

• The wind chimes rang throughout Green Fragrance Courtyard as news arrived that Master's Divine Statues had cracked across the alliance.
• Wu Zhong confirmed that every Divine Statue in their territory was affected and proposed leading the alliance's experts to the River of Time.
• Dong'er warned that the alliance's cultivators were too weak to reach the battle, while Wu Zhong insisted they were willing to sacrifice themselves for Master.
• Dong'er explained that only about a thousand of the alliance's 104,000 Heavenly Immortal experts might help Master, leaving Wu Zhong unsure what to do.
• Dong'er told Wu Zhong that she was the only person in the alliance who could help Master, leaving him confused.

Dong'er revealed to Wu Zhong that her clansmen existed in the distant future, then recounted how she met them at the end of time as her lifespan neared its end. Her future clansmen told her that they had crossed time to speak about her Master, upon whom the fate of the myriad worlds depended.

• Dong'er told Wu Zhong that she had found her clansmen thirty thousand years earlier and learned they lived in the distant future.
• She explained that a calamity over a hundred thousand years ago had cost her most of her lifespan, and she had prepared for her death by arranging a successor and leaving a testament.
• As her remaining lifespan ran out, Dong'er dreamed of a grassland and encountered a group of her clansmen there.
• An aged clansman told Dong'er that the grassland was the end of the myriad worlds' future, called the Origin of Birth, and that they were speaking across different timelines.
• The aged clansman said they had crossed time because Dong'er's Master bore the future course and karma of the entire myriad worlds, then urged her to remember what came next.

Dong'er remembered the eighth Clan Head’s command to reach the Origin of Birth and realized the time had come when cracks appeared on the Master's Divine Statue. She asked Wu Zhong and the Shepherd Heaven Alliance to escort her onto the River of Time, and their assembled forces prepared to depart.

• The eighth Clan Head told Dong'er that she was the Wisdom God Race’s ninth and final Clan Head, that Li Qingshan had left the clan willingly, and that she must someday reach the Origin of Birth to aid the Master.
• After seeing cracks on the Master's Divine Statue, Dong'er told Wu Zhong that she needed to reach the Origin of Birth, where the Wisdom God Race awaited her.
• Wu Zhong agreed to escort Dong'er onto the River of Time, though he warned that its pressure could destroy her.
• Wu Zhong summoned the other five highest authorities of the Shepherd Heaven Alliance, including the long-missing Old Two, and explained Dong'er's request.
• Old Three reported that cultivators above the Immortal King Realm had been summoned, while Wang Lin, Xiao Huo, Han Xiaopao, Qin Yu, Lin Dong, Su Ming, and the assembled army awaited orders outside Southern Shepherd Immortal Island.

The Shepherd Heaven Alliance assembled its strongest forces and set out for the River of Time to aid Dong'er, while Su Mu confronted the Black-Robed Man. The Black-Robed Man revealed that his name was Yang Qi as Su Mu remained focused on reaching Nannan and the others.

• Lin Dong told Xiao Huo to prepare for battle as the Shepherd Heaven Alliance gathered its Immortal King-level and stronger fighters.
• Wu Zhong led Dong'er and the others toward the River of Time, while Old Two revealed the Myriad Laws Pure Lotus and used it to carry Dong'er.
• Wu Zhong rallied the alliance army, and its forces followed the lotus into the void toward the River of Time.
• Yang Qi appeared before Su Mu, who demanded that he get out of the way so he could pursue the true murderer targeting Nannan and the others.
• Su Mu attacked Yang Qi with a Heaven-Annihilating Divine Spear, but Yang Qi caught and shattered it, then revealed his name.

Yang Qi revealed why he and other ancient powers sought control of the River of Time: Su Mu had shown them that mastering it was the true end of cultivation. Yang Qi offered to ally with Su Mu, but threatened the girl he cared about if Su Mu refused.

• The chapter described Yang Qi’s creation of Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength and his immense power, while explaining that the River of Time had once been the only limit above him.
• Su Mu’s ability to control the River of Time had revealed to Yang Qi and other ancient powers that cultivation continued beyond the Chaos Realm.
• Yang Qi explained that he had joined forces with others to stop Su Mu and seize the River of Time, since the path to transcendence could not accommodate them all.
• Su Mu told Yang Qi to get out of his way and dismissed his offer to make a deal.
• Yang Qi proposed that he and Su Mu share transcendence, then threatened the life of the girl Su Mu cared about if he refused.

Su Mu learned that the river he guarded was the River of Time, whose influence over the myriad worlds had made him an obstacle to Yang Qi. He rejected Yang Qi’s offer to cooperate and resolved that only one of them would survive.

• Yang Qi offered to share the River of Time and help protect Nannan if Su Mu cooperated, but Su Mu condemned the offer as a threat.
• Su Mu asked why his existence obstructed Yang Qi, and Yang Qi explained that he wanted to share the River of Time Su Mu guarded.
• Su Mu learned that the River of Time restrained the myriad worlds and realized it explained why powerful enemies had repeatedly targeted him.
• Yang Qi urged Su Mu to join him and witness the end of cultivation, but Su Mu declared their conflict could end only with one of them dead.

Su Mu confronted Yang Qi on the River of Time and revealed overwhelming control over it despite being a realm below Yang Qi. After easily shattering Yang Qi’s attack, Su Mu forced him to abandon a direct fight and seek a way to stall for time.

• Yang Qi revealed his Perfected Chaos Realm cultivation, but Su Mu’s aura suppressed him while they stood on the River of Time.
• Su Mu calmed the river and froze the surrounding waters, while Yang Qi summoned the Gods’ Mark and the Civilization Disc, relics tied to his history as a Chaos God.
• Yang Qi empowered the Gods’ Mark with the Civilization Disc and sent a Chaos spear at Su Mu.
• Su Mu shattered ten Time Ice Walls, caught the Chaos spear, and crushed it, damaging Yang Qi’s treasures and making him realize he could not win head-on.
• Yang Qi merged the damaged Civilization Disc into the Gods’ Mark and resolved to stall Su Mu, while Su Mu prepared to end the fight quickly.

Su Mu confronted Yang Qi, who recognized that Su Mu wielded the Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength at a level beyond his own. After Yang Qi’s attacks failed, Su Mu used the River of Time to kill him and then went to Nannan.

• Yang Qi manifested the Everlasting Divine Lamp and Great Dao Flawless Endurance, while Su Mu revealed the seven-colored eternal flower of Unexpected True Self.
• Yang Qi questioned how Su Mu had learned the Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength, but Su Mu gave no explanation.
• Yang Qi attacked Su Mu with Judgment Spears, but Su Mu’s chaotic eternal flower absorbed them and left Yang Qi injured.
• Su Mu sealed them inside Time Ice Walls and sent a time dragon at Yang Qi.
• The time dragon destroyed Yang Qi’s body, consciousness, and soul, and Su Mu headed toward Nannan.

Su Mu discovered that Yang Qi could resurrect as long as any of his past, present, or future selves survived, making him nearly impossible to kill. Su Mu used his control over the River of Time to locate and surround all three selves with Time Swords, leaving Yang Qi facing a simultaneous attack.

• After Su Mu killed Yang Qi, Yang Qi reappeared unharmed because his Past Self and Future Self remained alive in the River of Time.
• Yang Qi explained that he could only be killed if all three selves died in the same strike, and he urged Su Mu to reconsider their offer to cooperate.
• Su Mu spread his Divine Sense across the River of Time and found Yang Qi's Past Self and Future Self moving rapidly through spacetime.
• Su Mu used his control of the River of Time to locate the two selves and cover more than a million surrounding spacetime realms with Time Swords.
• Su Mu raised his hand and aimed the Time Swords at Yang Qi's past, present, and future selves, while Yang Qi lost his composure.

Su Mu killed Yang Qi by piercing his Past Self, Present Self, and Future Self with countless Time Swords, leaving him no chance to revive. The Gray-robed Man continued pursuing Nannan despite realizing Su Mu could kill him, while Su Mu located him downstream along the River of Time.

• Su Mu sent countless Time Swords at Yang Qi and shattered his treasures as Yang Qi burned his Essence Blood to resist.
• Su Mu's Time Swords killed Yang Qi's Past Self, Present Self, and Future Self, ending his life completely.
• The Gray-robed Man heard Yang Qi's death cry, realized Su Mu had killed him, and briefly considered retreating.
• An ancient voice told the Gray-robed Man to continue the pursuit, and he burned some Essence Blood to race downstream after Nannan.
• Su Mu sensed the Gray-robed Man pursuing Nannan, locked onto him with his Divine Sense, and made the Gray-robed Man stiffen.

Su Mu found Fang Yuan dead after he had delayed the Gray-robed Man by dying and reviving ten thousand times, then continued downstream toward Nannan. Li Qi Ye confronted the Gray-robed Man near the Origin of Birth and repeatedly attacked despite being shattered, as the Gray-robed Man prepared to kill him for good.

• Su Mu reached a ruined Floating Island and found Fang Yuan's corpse surrounded by more than a thousand Spring and Autumn Cicada corpses.
• Su Mu restored Fang Yuan's body and soul with Time Water, but Fang Yuan's last trace of consciousness faded away.
• Su Mu learned that Fang Yuan had used ten thousand Spring and Autumn Cicadas to revive himself repeatedly and hold off the Gray-robed Man for half an incense stick.
• Su Mu stored Fang Yuan's corpse in his Dantian Space and rushed downstream toward Nannan.
• Li Qi Ye blocked the Gray-robed Man near the Origin of Birth, declaring that he would decide whether his stand had meaning.
• Li Qi Ye repeatedly recovered and attacked the Gray-robed Man, who finally locked onto him and prepared a fatal strike.

Su Mu rescued Li Qi Ye from Fang Han and sealed off the River of Time to confront him over the slaughter of his family and friends. Fang Han revealed his identity and his ambition to be the only one to reach the end of cultivation, while Su Mu prepared to make him despair.

• The Gray-robed Man struck Li Qi Ye down, but Su Mu appeared and drove him away with water tornadoes from the River of Time.
• Time Water formed an Ice Coffin around Li Qi Ye, preserving his fading consciousness as he sank toward the riverbed.
• Su Mu sensed Nannan nearing the river's shore, then raised more than a thousand Time Ice Walls to trap the Gray-robed Man and severed his right hand with a Time Sword.
• The Gray-robed Man regenerated his hand, introduced himself as Fang Han, and explained that only one person could reach the end of the cultivation road.
• Su Mu recognized Fang Han as the enemy who had destroyed his family and friends, and resolved to make him experience despair.

Su Mu overwhelmed Fang Han with Time Water and imprisoned him, then repeatedly inflicted agony to prevent him from escaping or ending his own consciousness. As Nannan neared the shore, Su Mu prepared to show Fang Han whether he could truly kill him.

• Fang Han claimed Su Mu could not kill him and relied on the battle outside to turn in his favor.
• Su Mu summoned tens of thousands of Time Swords that shattered Fang Han’s defenses and pinned him to the river without striking his vital points.
• Su Mu’s Time Water spread through Fang Han’s body and Sea of Consciousness, freezing his consciousness and leaving him unable to move.
• Su Mu stabbed Fang Han repeatedly with needles of Time Water, making his regenerative body endure thousands of deaths while preventing him from committing suicide.
• Fang Han taunted Su Mu to kill him directly, while Su Mu sensed Nannan nearing the shore and told Fang Han to watch closely.

Su Mu tracked down and destroyed six of Fang Han’s nine true bodies across the River of Time, but Fang Han survived by hiding the remaining three in memories held within his own thoughts. Su Mu then saw through the secret, leaving Fang Han’s fate unresolved.

• Su Mu used his divine sense to locate Fang Han’s true bodies across ordinary and Chaotic Times.
• Su Mu learned that Fang Han had hidden three other true bodies in Non-Existent Time within his memories.
• Su Mu struck six of Fang Han’s true bodies at once with Time Swords.
• Fang Han resurrected and told Su Mu that he could overpower him but could not kill him.
• Su Mu entered a state of enlightenment, saw through Fang Han’s hidden true bodies, and said he understood.

Su Mu killed Fang Han by destroying all nine of his true bodies and their countless memory fragments, then broke through to the Initial Chaos Realm. At the end of the River of Time, Nannan began crossing the Origin of Birth while Little Fox watched with a tearful, knowing expression.

• Su Mu searched Fang Han's memories, discovered the locations of none of his hidden true bodies, and resolved to kill all nine at once by attacking faster than thought.
• Su Mu unleashed countless attacks across timelines and memory fragments, annihilating Fang Han completely.
• After Fang Han's death, Su Mu broke through from the peak of the Immortal Realm to the Initial Chaos Realm and hurried downstream along the River of Time, suspecting someone else was behind Fang Han and Yang Qi.
• At the end of the River of Time, Nannan asked the Little Killer Whale and Little Fox to join her on the Origin of Birth, but they said they could not set foot there.
• Little Fox urged Nannan to cross the grassland and trust her Daddy and the others; as Nannan walked away, Little Fox teared up and told the Little Killer Whale she was happy for someone other than Nannan.

Little Fox warned Little Killer Whale that there was no chance left for him to spend time with his daughter, though she refused to explain what she meant. Nannan met the White-Robed Old Man, who said he had waited for her across distant time and space, and tested her knowledge of ancient characters.

• Little Fox thanked Little Killer Whale for bringing Nannan to the River of Time and hinted that their situation left no chance for him to visit his young daughter.
• Little Killer Whale said he planned to return to his daughter after the crisis, but Little Fox warned him that there was no chance left and refused to explain further.
• Nannan found the White-Robed Old Man beneath the great tree, and he told her that her Daddy and family were safe after he helped resolve their trouble.
• The White-Robed Old Man said he was waiting for Nannan and had met her many times in a distant time and space.
• The White-Robed Old Man showed Nannan carved characters; she recognized “Beginning” and “Life,” identified another as “Return” incorrectly, and did not recognize the fourth.

The White-Robed Old Man revealed that his true plan was to find Nannan in the Origin of Birth, not to use her as leverage against Su Mu. He brought her into a sea of seven-colored Flowers of the Other Shore and demanded that she willingly give him every memory in her Sea of Consciousness, leaving her to choose between trusting him and risking her family’s safety.

• The White-Robed Old Man sensed that Yang Qi and Fang Han had both been killed, but he remained confident that finding Nannan in the Origin of Birth had fulfilled his plan.
• The White-Robed Old Man put Nannan to sleep with his Divine Sense and led her into a sea of seven-colored Flowers of the Other Shore.
• After Nannan awoke, the White-Robed Old Man questioned her about an Ancient Character, but she said she did not recognize it and challenged his demand for trust.
• The White-Robed Old Man told Nannan that Su Mu had already lost and that her choice was to protect herself while others died or trust him and keep her family safe.
• Nannan realized the memories sealed in her Sea of Consciousness were important to the White-Robed Old Man and recalled sensing unfamiliar memories there for a long time.

Su Mu confronted the White-Robed Old Man, who moved Nannan away from the battlefield and revealed himself as Gu Chensha, a cultivator who had survived multiple myriad-world epochs. Gu Chensha explained that he sought the River of Time to reach the true end of cultivation, then told Nannan he would give her time to see the truth before choosing.

• Nannan refused to trust the White-Robed Old Man and resolved not to surrender the memories in her Sea of Consciousness.
• Su Mu arrived and recognized the White-Robed Old Man as the mastermind behind the events involving Yang Qi and Fang Han.
• The White-Robed Old Man sent Nannan into a flower prison far from the battlefield, then revealed his name as Gu Chensha.
• Gu Chensha recounted how he rose from an ordinary beginning to survive the destruction of one myriad-world epoch and reach the pinnacle of cultivation in later epochs.
• Gu Chensha said the River of Time held the final key to the end of cultivation and promised Nannan time to witness the truth before making her choice.

Gu Chensha revealed that he had caused most of the Great Silent Extinctions and controlled the fate of the myriad worlds, all to reach the true end by refining the River of Time. He explained that Su Mu could not defeat him until he completely refined the River, and that Nannan was the final piece needed for that refinement.

• Gu Chensha told Su Mu that he had not completely refined the River of Time and was therefore not yet his opponent.
• Gu Chensha explained that he had stood at the pinnacle since the third cycle and had initiated most Great Silent Extinctions to break through his limits.
• Gu Chensha revealed that the River of Time stood above the myriad worlds and that controlling it was the only way to reach the true end.
• Gu Chensha manipulated Time Water into beasts and weapons, demonstrating control that rivaled Su Mu's despite its narrower range.
• Gu Chensha said Nannan was the final piece in refining the River of Time and that her memories prevented Su Mu from completing the process.
• Gu Chensha revealed that Yang Qi and Fang Han had been his chess pieces, while his arrangements had led Nannan to the Origin of Birth.