Chapter Summaries

Shen Qian met Taishang Laojun, who explained that the broken world where they stood could still support the Heavenly Seal and helped Shen Qian’s avatar become a true Marquis. After warning that the Heaven Realm’s calamity was not the first of its kind, Taishang Laojun sent Shen Qian and his avatar toward the Jade Pool.

• Taishang Laojun revealed that Shen Qian’s avatar had been forged with an imbalance of materials and said the Heavenly Seal could temper it.
• Taishang Laojun explained that the Heaven Realm’s Dao had perished, but the place where they stood could still summon the Heavenly Seal.
• Taishang Laojun hinted that calamities had struck previous eras and warned Shen Qian not to repeat their mistakes.
• Taishang Laojun guided Shen Qian’s avatar through the Heavenly Seal ritual, forging a green crown and granting it Star Power.
• Shen Qian’s avatar became a true Marquis, though it remained unable to advance along its cultivation path because of the Hundred Herbs Scripture’s residual consciousness.
• Taishang Laojun sent Shen Qian and his avatar flying toward the Black Hole leading to the Heaven Realm, telling them to go to the Jade Pool.

Taishang Laojun confronted a colossal shadow in the ruined cosmos after revealing that he had planted a seed capable of overturning it, then vanished in their clash. Shen Qian reached Jade Pond Palace, where he suspected Ding Yi had already been occupied by the Numinous Lady of the Nine Heavens, just as Erlang Zhenjun arrived.

• Taishang Laojun sealed the passage to the Heaven Realm, then faced a universe-devouring shadow and attacked it with a gigantic yin-yang sword before both disappeared into the ruins.
• Shen Qian and his Shadow Body traveled toward the core of the Heaven Realm, and Shen Qian felt an unexplained sadness as they left the cosmos behind.
• Shen Qian and his Shadow Body used concealment to enter Jade Pond Palace, where Bai Fei and Zhao Keyi told him that Old Hu and the Great Sage had been stopped at the entrance.
• Shen Qian recognized Jiang Chengye and Ding Yi at the banquet and inferred that the Numinous Lady of the Nine Heavens might have occupied Ding Yi's body on Earth.
• Shen Qian decided to wait and observe when an announcement declared that Qingyuan Miaodao Erlang Zhenjun had arrived.

Wang Shuo, awakened as Erlang Shen, confronted Ding Yi over the Heavenly Book and the future of the Heavenly Realm, while Shen Qian’s group waited amid mounting tensions. Qu Bai then revealed records suggesting the Queen Mother of the West caused the Heavenly Book’s shattering and that the apparent revival of the Heaven Realm was a deliberately guided cycle of reincarnation.

• Wang Shuo entered Jade Pond Palace with Nie Han, Ning Quan, and other powerful figures, then challenged Ding Yi and demanded that she join his plan to rebuild the Heavenly Realm.
• Ding Yi refused to accept Wang Shuo’s claim to the Heavenly Book and questioned whether the Emperor of Heaven had truly fallen; Wang Shuo agreed to wait for the Emperor’s possible appearance.
• Shen Qian decided his group should wait rather than risk becoming targets, as more powerful figures gathered behind Wang Shuo and Ding Yi.
• Qu Bai, Lin Sanmo, and Sha Bi joined Shen Qian’s group, and Qu Bai explained that records in Taibai Hall blamed the Queen Mother of the West for the Heavenly Book’s destruction.
• Qu Bai warned that the events in the Heaven Realm might not be a revival but a deliberately guided cycle of reincarnation.

Qu Bai and Shen Qian pieced together how Lin Qiaoyin had recreated the Heavenly Realm and concluded that Jiang Chengye’s group sought Queen Mother of the West because the Heavenly Book might revive the Emperor of Heaven. As Queen Mother of the West arrived at the Jade Pool banquet, Shen Qian recognized her face and was left stunned.

• Qu Bai explained that Taibai Hall had been recreated and that Lin Qiaoyin, Ding Yi’s mother, had helped prepare the Heavenly Realm before its gate reopened.
• Qu Bai recounted how Queen Mother of the West had argued with the Emperor of Heaven over destroying the Heavenly Book before the Emperor disappeared and the Heavenly Realm collapsed.
• Shen Qian and the others deduced that Jiang Chengye’s group had recreated the Peach Banquet to lure Queen Mother of the West back, possibly to stop the Emperor of Heaven from reviving through the Heavenly Book.
• Qu Bai told the group of a human who had once fought the Emperor of Heaven and possessed the Eternal Undying Body.
• Queen Mother of the West arrived at the banquet, and Shen Qian gaped when he saw her face.

Ji Ruoshui appeared as the Queen Mother of the West, denying that the Celestial Emperor remained alive as Jiang Chengye summoned his procession and a mysterious Stone Coffin. After the coffin’s arrival sparked a dispute over the Emperor’s fate, the Queen Mother revealed all nine pages of the Heavenly Book, and Jiang Chengye offered up his six pages.

• Ji Ruoshui appeared as the Queen Mother of the West, and Ding Yi, Erlang Shen, and the other gathered immortals bowed to her.
• The Queen Mother denied that the Celestial Emperor was alive, while Jiang Chengye summoned the Emperor’s procession and called for him to descend.
• A Divine Dragon brought a Stone Coffin to Jade Pond Palace, and Wang Shuo argued that it proved the Celestial Emperor had died.
• Jiang Chengye revealed that the Queen Mother had sealed the Stone Coffin, but she refused to open it and insisted it held only the Emperor’s ceremonial garments.
• The Queen Mother made all nine pages of the Heavenly Book glow, exposing Jiang Chengye’s possession of six pages.
• Jiang Chengye raised his six pages of the Heavenly Book and offered to give them to the others.

Jiang Chengye used the Heavenly Book pages to provoke a scramble, but Shen Qian saw through the scheme and exposed that Wang Shuo’s body was controlled by Erlang Shen while confirming Ding Yi’s consciousness remained. Jiang Chengye reclaimed the pages and revealed the Heavenly Book was the Fengshen Bang, stirring Shen Qian’s dormant system.

• Most of the experts rushed to seize the six pages Jiang Chengye threw into the air, and Wang Shuo’s side took four while Ding Yi’s side took two.
• Shen Qian taunted Wang Shuo, concluded Erlang Shen had consumed Wang Shuo’s consciousness, and teased Ding Yi until her response confirmed she was still present within the Numinous Lady of the Nine Heavens.
• Shen Qian used a strange power to make Wang Shuo stumble and soil himself, allowing the Numinous Lady of the Nine Heavens to catch the page he had thrown.
• Wang Shuo attacked Shen Qian, but Shen Qian proposed that the sides join their pages and uncover why Jiang Chengye had given them up so easily.
• Jiang Chengye reclaimed all nine pages and revealed that the Heavenly Book was the Fengshen Bang, while Shen Qian’s dormant system began stirring.

Jiang Chengye used the Fengshen Bang and a million Heavenly Soldiers to force the gathered immortals and martial practitioners to submit, revealing that the Jade Pool water would transform them into Scavengers. As Jiang Chengye demanded that everyone drink, Wang Shuo attacked, giving Shen Qian an opening to act.

• Jiang Chengye revealed that Jade Pond Palace was a partial restoration of the Heavenly Realm from two thousand years ago, and told the Numinous Lady of the Nine Heavens that Lin Qiaoyin was safe.
• Jiang Chengye erased an Immortal Martial Practitioner’s name from the Fengshen Bang, stripped away his Immortal Seat, and had Heavenly Generals kill him.
• Jiang Xiong pledged allegiance to Jiang Chengye, but Jiang Chengye forced him to drink corrupted Jade Pool water, transforming his body with Scavenger-like patterns.
• Jiang Chengye filled the guests’ cups with corrupted Jade Pool water and demanded that they drink or die.
• Shen Qian considered a way to break the deadlock, but Wang Shuo suddenly lunged at Jiang Chengye, and Shen Qian saw an opportunity.

Shen Qian and the others ambushed Jiang Chengye, only to learn he had reached the Wang Hou realm. Shen Qian stopped Jiang Chengye’s halberd barehanded, forced him back with black flames, and was revealed to have broken through to Wang Hou as well.

• Wang Shuo, the Numinous Lady of the Nine Heavens, the Queen Mother of the West, and Shen Qian attacked Jiang Chengye while their allies held off the Heavenly Soldiers.
• Jiang Chengye revealed his Wang Hou strength and used Star Power to shatter the attackers’ assault, forcing Wang Shuo and the Numinous Lady of the Nine Heavens to retreat.
• Shen Qian continued charging into Jiang Chengye’s Marquis Domain, and Bai Fei, Lin Sanmo, and the others rushed to rescue him.
• Jiang Chengye thrust his Fangtian Halberd toward Shen Qian, who caught it barehanded and forced Jiang Chengye back with a punch wreathed in black flames.
• Jiang Chengye recognized Shen Qian as a Wang Hou, stunning everyone present.

Shen Qian absorbed the power of Fengshen Bang, destroying the Heavenly Soldiers and freeing the gathered powerhouses from their Ascension Tokens. As they prepared to retreat from Jiang Chengye, a beautiful enchantress arrived with the Scavengers.

• Shen Qian denied reaching the Marquis realm and concealed that his clone had reached it, while Jiang Chengye questioned what he had sensed.
• Hu Feiwei pleaded with Jiang Chengye, but Shen Qian pulled him aside when the space where he stood collapsed; Jiang Chengye then ordered the Heavenly Soldiers to kill everyone.
• Shen Qian used a Mysterious Incantation to absorb Fengshen Bang's power, causing it to lose its supernatural force and the Ascension Tokens of most people present to shatter.
• The Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals decayed into bones, while Shen Qian's system began digesting Fengshen Bang's energy and left him unable to use it.
• Wang Shuo and the others prepared to leave, but an enchantress arrived with several hundred Scavengers, drawing everyone's attention.

The Scavenger demoness arrived at the Jade Pond Palace with Jiang Xuan and revealed her influence over Jiang Chengye, who had secretly spared his opponents. She forced him to kill an expert and then targeted Hu Feiwei, while Shen Qian protected him; the chapter ended as Jiang Chengye moved to attack Li Sixi and the other Scavenger generals on the demoness’s order.

• The demoness appeared before the Jade Pond Palace, and Hu Feiwei recognized the Scavenger generals as children he had believed dead.
• Shen Qian spotted Jiang Xuan under the demoness’s control and suspected the demoness’s strength exceeded Jiang Chengye’s.
• The demoness accused Jiang Chengye of showing his opponents mercy, and her voice injured the weaker experts until Shen Qian shielded them.
• Jiang Chengye admitted he had been preserving experts, then killed one of Wang Shuo’s followers to prove his devotion to the demoness.
• The demoness ordered Jiang Chengye to kill Hu Feiwei and hinted that Jiang Xuan had a valuable bloodline; Shen Qian pulled Hu Feiwei out of the halberd’s path.
• The demoness ordered Jiang Chengye to kill Li Sixi and the other Scavenger generals, and Jiang Chengye swept toward them as Hu Feiwei cried out in despair.

Shen Qian agreed to let Ji Ruoshui open the Stone Coffin in exchange for Zhong Li sparing their lives. As the seal broke, a terrifying heartbeat began to sound from within the coffin.

• Jiang Chengye killed Li Sixi and the others, and Zhong Li introduced herself before urging him to open the Stone Coffin.
• Cheng Qingqing revealed that she had disguised herself as the Queen Mother of the West to protect Ji Ruoshui, who had refused to reclaim her past memories and Immortal Seat.
• Zhong Li captured Ji Ruoshui and Jiang Xuan, then offered to release everyone after the Stone Coffin was opened.
• Shen Qian accepted Zhong Li's terms and asked Ji Ruoshui to open the coffin, promising to bear the consequences.
• Ji Ruoshui broke the seal, and a heartbeat from inside the Stone Coffin left everyone struggling to breathe.

The Stone Coffin opened to reveal the Heart of the Heavenly Emperor, and Jiang Chengye swallowed it despite Jiang Xuan’s warning. He transformed, attacked Zhong Li, and trapped everyone inside the domain of a Great Emperor expert.

• The Stone Coffin’s heartbeat-like thudding incapacitated the crowd and triggered a violent riot in Shen Qian’s system.
• The coffin opened, revealing a black heart that Zhong Li identified as the Heart of the Heavenly Emperor and claimed could make Jiang Chengye a Martial King.
• Erlang Shen lunged for the heart, but Zhong Li easily drove him back and offered it to Jiang Chengye, who had the Emperor of Heaven’s bloodline.
• Jiang Xuan begged Jiang Chengye not to eat the heart, but he swallowed it and immediately seized Zhong Li by the throat.
• Jiang Chengye pierced Zhong Li and threw her aside, while the crowd panicked and tried to flee.
• A domain spread around Jade Pond Palace, and Cheng Qingqing realized that no one could escape the Great Emperor expert’s domain.

Jiang Chengye rampaged through the Jade Pond Palace after absorbing the Emperor of Heaven’s heart, overpowering the gathered fighters despite their combined attacks. As he was about to kill the Numinous Lady of the Nine Heavens, a gateway opened and a white-robed figure resembling both the Emperor of Heaven and Shen Qian appeared above the palace.

• Cheng Qingqing explained that Jiang Chengye’s domain came from the Emperor of Heaven’s heart, while Jiang Chengye slaughtered Immortal Martial Practitioners and Scavenger generals.
• Erlang Shen, the Numinous Lady of the Nine Heavens, and Cheng Qingqing revealed their strength and immortal artifacts, then joined the other fighters in attacking Jiang Chengye.
• Jiang Chengye survived the assault, healed his wounds, tore off several of Erlang Shen’s arms, and resumed killing as his domain reappeared.
• The Numinous Lady of the Nine Heavens struck Jiang Chengye with the Karmic Sword, but he crushed it and prepared to kill her with the Fangtian Halberd.
• A spatial gateway opened above the Jade Pond Palace, revealing a white-robed figure whom the Numinous Lady of the Nine Heavens recognized as the Emperor of Heaven and Erlang Shen recognized as Shen Qian.

Shen Qian’s system took control and manifested him as the Emperor of Heaven, allowing him to defeat Jiang Chengye and seal away the Heart of the Heavenly Emperor. Shen Qian later awoke in his consciousness space with no memory of the battle, and a faint sigh behind him left him facing an unknown presence.

• The Numinous Lady of the Nine Heavens and Erlang Shen recognized Shen Qian as the Emperor of Heaven when he appeared at Ling Xiao Palace.
• Jiang Chengye attacked Shen Qian, who subdued him with a vast golden palm and took the Heart of the Heavenly Emperor from his body.
• Shen Qian sealed the heart inside the Stone Coffin and erased the coffin from memory, then told the Numinous Lady of the Nine Heavens that the Emperor of Heaven was dead.
• Shen Qian regained consciousness in his consciousness space and discovered that his system had gained an inactive “Emperor’s Demeanor” interface.
• Shen Qian read an AFK Record describing his lost memories of awakening an old memory and activating the Emperor of Heaven’s Immortal Seat.
• A faint sigh sounded behind Shen Qian, and he spun around to confront whoever was there.

Shen Qian questioned the residual image of the Emperor of Heaven about the Heavenly Realm’s collapse, the Emperor’s corrupted heart, and the severed path to becoming a modern Martial King. The Emperor explained the first stages of the Golden Immortal realm and began to clarify how Heaven Gates strengthened the heavenly stairs.

• The Emperor of Heaven appeared in Shen Qian’s consciousness and explained that he was a remnant awakened when Shen Qian condensed his Immortal Seat, not the system itself.
• The Emperor said his Dao had influenced the Heavenly Realm, and its deviation had driven the immortals and gods into conflict; he had rejected Queen Mother of the West’s advice to sever their karmic ties before the realm collapsed.
• The Emperor revealed that he had visited the end or source, then gathered his negative emotions into his heart, dissolved his body, exiled his soul, and had Queen Mother of the West seal his heart in the Stone Coffin.
• In response to Shen Qian’s question about the broken path to Martial King, the Emperor outlined four Golden Immortal levels and said a Golden Immortal forged a Crown of Heaven and could live for more than three thousand years.
• The Emperor described Taiyi Golden Immortals as opening Heaven Gates and compared the Golden Immortal realm to building heavenly stairs, with the gates stabilizing and enhancing them; Shen Qian began to understand how this related to his avatar.

Shen Qian learned about the limits of Heaven Gates and the higher Golden Immortal realms from the Emperor of Heaven, who revealed the history of Bai Wu'an and left him with a cryptic question about making rivers linger. After the Emperor vanished, Shen Qian reflected on his new Emperor's Demeanor trump card and continued examining the AFK Record while Second Senior Sister guarded him.

• The Emperor of Heaven explained that opening fourteen Heaven Gates marked the second threshold, and that no one in later ages had reached all twenty-one because life itself was incomplete.
• The Emperor of Heaven revealed that he had opened nineteen Heaven Gates and described how Bai Wu'an had forged his own Heaven-Piercing Path, fought him, and then left to seek an answer across the cosmos.
• Shen Qian connected Bai Wu'an to the White Emperor title and considered whether he might have been King Yanling's mysterious teacher.
• The Emperor of Heaven described the power and longevity of Grand Unity Golden Immortals, then told Shen Qian to consider how to make rivers flowing home linger before disappearing.
• Shen Qian deduced that Emperor's Demeanor depended on the Heavenly Realm and the Emperor's remaining will, and considered combining it with the Time River Snail.
• With Second Senior Sister guarding him, Shen Qian continued reading the unfinished AFK Record instead of waking up.

Shen Qian examined the system’s notes, glimpsed fragmented memories tied to the Emperor of Heaven and Bai Wu'an, and woke in the restored ruins of Jade Pond Palace. Jiang Chengye briefly regained consciousness to send Jiang Xuan to Shen Qian before dying, leaving Zhong Li to confront the truth of his feelings.

• Shen Qian read the system’s notes and suspected the Nine Heavens Ranking was the missing core of the Fengshen Bang.
• Shen Qian extracted fragmented memories that suggested the system was connected to both the Emperor of Heaven and Bai Wu'an, then examined the Emperor's Demeanor card.
• Shen Qian woke in Jade Pond Palace, explained that he had only briefly inherited the Emperor of Heaven's Immortal Seat, and told Numinous Lady of the Nine Heavens that the Emperor had truly fallen.
• Shen Qian learned Jiang Chengye was dying as Jiang Xuan and Zhong Li watched over him.
• Jiang Chengye briefly rose, told Jiang Xuan not to blame Shen Qian or hate him, and sent her to Shen Qian before closing his eyes.
• Zhong Li said Jiang Chengye had never had a place for her in his heart.

Jiang Chengye confessed his guilt to the Scavenger generals and Hu Feiwei before shattering his Mental Core, while Zhong Li revealed her love for him and performed a deadly ritual. Jiang Chengye revived with Zhong Li's corpse on his back, and Shen Qian recognized the Witch Clan technique as Corpse Carrier.

• Jiang Chengye asked Shen Qian to care for Jiang Xuan, then apologized to the Scavenger generals for turning them into monsters and failing to bring them home.
• Jiang Chengye bowed to Hu Feiwei and shattered his own Mental Core, while Jiang Xuan fainted and Hu Feiwei's hair turned white.
• Zhong Li confessed that she had truly loved Jiang Chengye, then ordered the Scavenger generals to attack Shen Qian as she began a ritual.
• Zhong Li bit Jiang Chengye, used his blood to complete an emerald symbol, and died while declaring that they would never part.
• Black mist entered Jiang Chengye and Zhong Li, reviving him as he rose with her corpse on his back.
• Shen Qian recognized the Witch Clan technique as Corpse Carrier, and Jiang Chengye opened his abyss-black eyes.

Cheng Qingqing explained that Zhong Li had turned Jiang Chengye into a Corpse Carrier, and the revived Jiang Chengye began feeding her with the Scavenger generals. Shen Qian attacked but was outmatched by Jiang Chengye, until an unfamiliar young man struck with strange flames and revealed the Nirvana Black Flame.

• Cheng Qingqing explained that Zhong Li had become Jiang Chengye's Mother Corpse, binding their lives together through a forbidden Witch Clan art.
• Jiang Chengye awakened, killed and fed Scavenger generals to Zhong Li, and used his domain to trap the survivors.
• Shen Qian attacked Jiang Chengye with Extreme Fist, but Jiang Chengye's Star Power left him unharmed and injured Shen Qian.
• A cyan-and-crimson flame burned through Jiang Chengye's barriers and damaged his armor before an unfamiliar young man attacked him.
• Jiang Chengye seized the young man and prepared to crush his head, but the young man revealed black flames as Shen Qian named them Nirvana Black Flame.

Shen Qian pursued the badly wounded Jiang Chengye through the collapsing Heaven Realm and trapped him with his clone. Just as Shen Qian unleashed Extreme Fist, Jiang Chengye revealed the Heavenly Scale, whose suppressive power threatened to turn the fight.

• Shen Qian's clone struck Jiang Chengye with Nirvana Black Flame, but Jiang Chengye recovered by absorbing black light from Zhong Li's body and crushed a jade talisman.
• The talisman triggered the collapse of the Heaven Realm, and Jiang Chengye used the chaos to flee with the Fangtian Halberd.
• Shen Qian sent his clone after Jiang Chengye, told Cheng Qingqing and the others to leave through an exit near the Jade Pond Palace, and pursued him himself.
• Shen Qian and his clone caught up with Jiang Chengye and used a flame domain and a blade strike to stop his escape.
• Shen Qian gathered the clone's ordinary flames into his power and attacked Jiang Chengye with Extreme Fist.
• Jiang Chengye revealed the Heavenly Scale above them, and its power began suppressing Shen Qian.