Chapter Summaries

Lin Heng defeated and humiliated the Dugu Clan’s ancestors, cementing his authority, then claimed Dugu Yueli as spoils of war. Before he could continue teasing her, Jiang Jingyi arrived to summon him to meet her father, leaving Yueli still tied up.

• Lin Heng defeated the Taoist Nun and Dugu Gui, then trampled Dugu Gui before the watching clans and elders.
• Lin Wenyue, Lin Tianhe, Lin Lingdong, and Xu Xiaobai slipped away, leaving Lin Yi to be beaten by more than thirty Dugu Clan members after he mocked them.
• The Dugu Clan’s ancestors were carried off to recover, and the Tianxuan Dao Eastern Continent Imperial Office and Nine Dust Alliance stopped challenging Lin Heng’s authority.
• Lin Heng found Dugu Yueli bound in his bedchamber and teased her about being his spoils of war and undergoing a training plan.
• Jiang Jingyi entered and told Lin Heng that her father wanted to see him; as they prepared to leave, Dugu Yueli protested that she was still tied up.

Lin Heng and Jiang Jingyi brought Lin Ziqing before Jiang Zhao, who questioned him about reincarnation, the Fourth Epoch, and the Starry Sky Ancient Road. After Jiang Jingyi announced her plans for the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office, Lin Heng used his artificial domain to stop her from leaving.

• Jiang Jingyi took Lin Heng to the pass where Jiang Zhao was stationed and explained that her father wanted to ask about Lin Ziqing.
• Jiang Zhao and Lin Heng argued about their strength before Lin Heng called out Lin Ziqing by cursing him.
• Lin Ziqing appeared, sealed away the Heavenly Dao’s gaze, and spoke privately with Jiang Zhao about reincarnation, the epochs, and the Starry Sky Ancient Road.
• Jiang Jingyi said she would lead the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office forward in a month and a half, then teased Lin Heng about making the Dugu Clan work for free.
• When Jiang Jingyi tried to leave, Lin Heng activated his artificial domain and suppressed her cultivation.

Lin Heng and Jiang Jingyi fought, then secretly agreed that he would lose so she could preserve her dignity as the Female Emperor. After Jiang Jingyi carried him off, Meng Yutong and Mu Li caught up, and Lin Heng tried to bring all three women together.

• Jiang Jingyi struggled against Lin Heng's power and privately begged him to let her win by half, and he agreed to throw the fight in exchange for a few requests.
• Lin Heng deliberately let his attack weaken, and Jiang Jingyi knocked him down and carried him away in a sack while onlookers believed she had defeated him.
• Meng Yutong and Mu Li pursued Jiang Jingyi, exposed Lin Heng's deliberate loss, and demanded that she hand him over.
• Lin Heng escaped the sack, insisted that he and Meng Yutong were still family, and stopped her from leaving with a restriction.
• Lin Heng proposed that Meng Yutong, Jiang Jingyi, and Mu Li form a trio, but Jiang Jingyi and Meng Yutong rejected the idea and told Mu Li to get lost.

Lin Heng dragged Mu Li, Jiang Jingyi, and Meng Yutong into a private chamber to force a reconciliation, but their rivalry turned the encounter into seven exhausting days. When they emerged, Lin Heng was battered and admitted that the three women had overwhelmed him after Jiang Jingyi used her Imperial Domain.

• Lin Heng carried Mu Li, Jiang Jingyi, and Meng Yutong into a chamber and sealed it with a barrier.
• Lin Heng tried to reconcile Jiang Jingyi and Meng Yutong, who competed for his attention while Mu Li took the lead.
• Lin Heng and the three women remained behind the barrier for seven days before it shattered.
• Mu Li pinched Lin Heng and mocked him for thinking he could handle all three women.
• Mu Li, Meng Yutong, and Jiang Jingyi left Lin Heng with Dugu Zixuan, while he recalled that Jiang Jingyi's Imperial Domain had turned the tide against him.

Dugu Zixuan urged Lin Heng and the others to drink restorative soup, then worried aloud that Lin Heng might have trouble fathering children. Jiang Zhao and Lin Ziqing arrived after searching for seven days, and Lin Ziqing was stunned to discover that Lin Heng’s many Dao companions included Duan Shuyun, the Literary Profound Saint Body; the chapter ended when Dugu Yueli appeared, prompting Lin Heng to wonder how she had escaped the Little Black Room.

• Dugu Zixuan served Lin Heng, Jiang Jingyi, and Meng Yutong restorative soup and warned Lin Heng not to overexert himself.
• Dugu Zixuan suggested Lin Heng might be unable to conceive like his uncle, but Lin Heng insisted his powerful physique was the reason he had no children.
• Jiang Zhao and Lin Ziqing arrived after searching for Lin Heng for seven days, and Jiang Zhao recognized that his daughter had become Lin Heng’s Dao companion.
• Lin Ziqing recognized Duan Shuyun’s Literary Profound Saint Body and learned that she and the other women present were Lin Heng’s Dao companions.
• Lin Ziqing challenged Lin Heng to prove he had won Dugu Yueli too, and Dugu Yueli appeared as Lin Heng wondered how she had escaped the Little Black Room.

Lin Heng reunited with Dugu Yueli after her escape attempt and publicly kissed her, while Dugu Qingyang and the Taoist Nun explained that the two were not close blood relatives. Lin Ziqing left in frustration, and Lin Heng carried Yueli away, mocking the Poetry Immortal as a lovesick fool.

• Dugu Xuexue helped Dugu Yueli escape, but Dugu Qingyang and the Taoist Nun caught them and brought Yueli back to Lin Heng.
• Lin Heng pulled Yueli into his arms and introduced her to Lin Ziqing and Jiang Zhao, then asked her to declare that they were Dao companions.
• Lin Heng kissed Yueli in front of everyone, prompting Lin Ziqing to accuse him of incest and try to intervene.
• Dugu Qingyang and the Taoist Nun explained that Lin Heng and Yueli were distant relatives whose family branches had long since separated.
• Lin Ziqing stormed out after Lin Heng teased him about having no romantic prospects, and Lin Heng carried Yueli away while calling him a simp.

Duan Shuyun guided Dugu Yueli through her situation and revealed that she was joining Yun Yao and Dummy’s table, while Lin Heng learned that he needed Lin Ziqing’s method to open a passage to the Underworld. The chapter ended with Lin Heng sneaking to Duan Shuyun’s quarters as Yun Yao and the others watched from hiding, with Yun Yao assuring them he would soon come to them too.

• Dugu Yueli begged Duan Shuyun to stop Lin Heng from training her, but Duan Shuyun explained that her deception had left Lin Heng with cause to punish her.
• Duan Shuyun described Yun Yao’s changed attitude toward cultivation and asked whether Dugu Yueli would sit with Yun Yao and the others or with the senior sisters.
• Lin Heng learned from Jiang Zhao that Lin Ziqing had come to open a passage to the Underworld and bring the Fourth Epoch into the conflict.
• Duan Shuyun finished guiding Dugu Yueli, then told Mu Liuxi that Little Li would sit at the same table as Yun Yao and Dummy.
• Lin Heng sneaked to Duan Shuyun’s quarters that night while Yun Yao and the others watched from the shadows, and Yun Yao promised they would get their chance with him.

Lin Heng discussed looming dangers and the Poetry Immortal with Duan Shuyun, then joked about training Little Moon Glass. Elsewhere, Black Robe suspected Jiang Caiyan was pregnant, and she hurried to ask Zhao Wanqing for an examination.

• Lin Heng studied the Northern Domain stone pillars and worried that a greater crisis was approaching, while Duan Shuyun comforted him.
• Duan Shuyun told Lin Heng that Lin Ziqing had discussed Literary Path artifacts with her and taught her how to use them.
• Duan Shuyun warned Lin Heng that Xiao Yao and the others seemed to be plotting something, and Lin Heng asked how Little Moon Glass's training was progressing.
• Black Robe noticed Jiang Caiyan's nausea and sleepiness and suspected she was pregnant.
• Jiang Caiyan panicked and sought Zhao Wanqing in the herb garden to find out whether she was carrying a child.

Jiang Caiyan suspected she was pregnant and asked Zhao Wanqing to keep it secret until the Northern Domain campaign ended. After Yun Yao complained that Lin Heng had neglected Su Qiubai and Dummy, he went to visit Su Qiubai, leaving Yun Yao protesting that she had been overlooked too.

• Zhao Wanqing examined Jiang Caiyan but could not confirm whether she was pregnant, and Jiang Caiyan asked her to keep the matter secret.
• Jiang Caiyan asked Zhao Wanqing to stay with her that night in case Lin Heng came by, and they sent him away when he arrived.
• Lin Heng caught Yun Yao spying and teased her before she explained that Su Qiubai and Dummy had been left out.
• Lin Heng hurried off to find Su Qiubai, while Yun Yao protested that she was his Dao companion too.
• Lin Heng surprised Su Qiubai while she practiced with her spear, and she invited him to stay and eat noodles.

Lin Heng teased Su Qiubai while Yun Yao secretly watched, then deliberately exposed her and sent her away in frustration. In the Netherworld, Bai Yi and Chen Changqin explored Xiao Muyu’s residence and discovered a mirror showing Lin Heng enjoying himself with two beauties.

• Lin Heng compared Su Qiubai’s cultivation with Su Wanyue’s, and Su Qiubai complained that Su Wanyue had better opportunities as his disciple.
• Lin Heng revealed that Yun Yao was watching from behind a door, prompting Yun Yao to flee and curse him beneath the moon.
• Yun Yao stubbornly competed with Lin Heng, while he reflected that his other companions kept him busy and that he could manage without her.
• Bai Yi and Chen Changqin explored Xiao Muyu’s residence despite Chen Changqin’s warnings and found a coffin, an altar, and a jade-seat golden Buddha.
• Chen Changqin touched a cracked bronze mirror, which showed Lin Heng relaxing with two beauties; Bai Yi grew furious at the sight.

Xiao Muyu caught Chen Changqin and Bai Yi spying in her Inner Court, then imprisoned Bai Yi in an immortal coffin while Chen Changqin returned to the mortal world with Lin Ziqing. Lin Ziqing asked Lin Heng to help open reincarnation and find people to sacrifice, but Lin Heng objected and was left bewildered by Lin Ziqing’s story about severing his attachment to a courtesan.

• Xiao Muyu discovered Chen Changqin and Bai Yi watching the mirror in her Inner Court and confronted them.
• Bai Yi taunted Xiao Muyu about spying on Lin Heng and demanded command of Ultimate Bliss's forces, so she slapped him into the immortal coffin.
• Xiao Muyu told Chen Changqin that Lian'er was responding to the Sun-Continuing Grass and might reach the mortal world within a month, then Chen Changqin left with Lin Ziqing.
• Lin Ziqing asked Lin Heng to open the reincarnation path and find people to die as sacrifices, and Lin Heng angrily refused to send his loved ones to their deaths.
• Lin Ziqing described how he had severed his attachment to an immortal maiden who became a brothel's top courtesan, prompting Lin Heng to accuse him of visiting a whorehouse.

Lin Heng rejected Lin Ziqing’s warnings about fate and learned that the Fourth Epoch was preparing for war, while Xiao Muyu feared he had guessed she was lying. As Tianxuan’s forces prepared to unify the continent, Lin Heng said farewell to the women before departing with the campaign.

• Lin Heng challenged Lin Ziqing to explain his own fate, and Lin Ziqing said his mission was complete and that he would answer the call to battle in the Fourth Epoch.
• Lin Heng wondered whether the coming enemy was the other epochs or Heaven’s Will, then vowed that any gamble should be placed on him alone rather than the lives of everyone in the Immortal Realm.
• Xiao Muyu watched Lin Heng through the mirror and worried that he had already guessed she had been lying.
• Several thousand Cloud Boat warships assembled with the twelve Supremes as Tianxuan’s forces prepared to unify the continent.
• Lin Heng packed the Nine Heavens Sword and a Supreme Bone Sword, then exchanged farewells and kisses with Duan Shuyun and the other women before leaving.

Lin Heng and the allied cultivators traveled north to confront the threat, with Dugu Yueli insisting on joining and Dugu Feng sharing a quiet farewell drink with Lin Heng. The army reached a vast, lightless abyss that swallowed a probing spell and a powerful puppet, leaving everyone alarmed and unsure what lay ahead.

• Lin Heng discovered Dugu Yueli had joined the expedition, allowed her to stay after warning her to keep behind the front lines, and teased her.
• Lin Heng and Dugu Feng discussed Dugu Feng's pregnant wife, then drank together through the night and shared their thoughts on wine.
• The allied army advanced north through ruined cities and reached the designated location, where a vast black chasm split the land.
• A cultivator's probing spell vanished into the abyss, and a puppet sent across it was swallowed by a bulging patch of darkness that severed its control thread.
• The puppet's controller lost contact and bled from his nose as the army stared at the abyss in fear.

Lin Heng confronted Yi Du and the corrupted Buddhist cultivators emerging from a First Epoch abyss. Yi Du blamed Lin Heng for infecting Buddha Essence World, and a black mark began spreading across Lin Heng’s arm, revealing that calamity was inside him.

• Lin Heng and Dugu Old Ghost discovered a newly appeared abyss that severed the Dao Trajectories around it.
• A black lotus emerged from the abyss carrying Yi Du, followed by corrupted Buddhist cultivators with black eyes and altered bodies.
• Lin Heng accused Yi Du and the Ancient Buddha lineage of being doomed in the struggle between epochs, while Yi Du blamed Lin Heng for their corruption.
• Yi Du explained that Lin Heng had spread calamity through their spiritual clash in Buddha Essence World and claimed calamity could pass through spiritual totems.
• A black mark appeared on Lin Heng’s right hand and rapidly spread up his arm as calamity seeped from within his body.

Lin Heng discovered that calamity had contaminated him through his Dao Eye, but he rejected Yi Du’s claim that resistance was futile and killed him. After the Buddhist Incense Society was destroyed, Lin Heng walked toward the Black Abyss to clear a path for everyone.

• Lin Heng suppressed the spreading calamity within himself and realized it may have entered through his Dao Eye after he examined the black mark on his mother.
• Yi Du revealed that he had embraced the First Epoch and warned Lin Heng that calamity would wear away his Human Path Physique.
• Lin Heng dismissed Yi Du’s warnings and attacked him with his Golden Body and Humanity Domain despite the calamity entering his wounds.
• Yi Du sacrificed his body in an explosion, but Lin Heng survived, and the corrupted Buddhist cultivators and Buddhist Incense Society were wiped out.
• Lin Heng headed toward the Black Abyss and told Dugu Zixuan he was clearing a path for everyone.

Lin Heng opened a passage through the Black Abyss and confronted Jiang Wu, who explained why he had betrayed his epoch and challenged Lin Heng’s ideas about life and rebirth. Jiang Wu’s argument began to shake the convictions of those listening as the confrontation continued.

• Lin Heng used his twin swords and Human Path power to cleave the Black Abyss open, revealing an army of calamity-touched beings led by Jiang Wu.
• Jiang Wu said he had expected Lin Heng to come and explained that he had once admired him for refusing to be controlled by fate.
• Jiang Wu recounted how Lin Ziqing had deceived him into taking a Holy Artifact and made him a pawn in an epochal scheme.
• Lin Heng challenged Jiang Wu over the army of distorted beings, and Jiang Wu argued that their thoughts, memories, feelings, and ability to act made them alive.
• Jiang Wu compared the Essence-Gathering Vine’s creation of new beings to rebirth and suggested that everyone might be a puppet produced by the tribulation, causing listeners to waver.

Lin Heng condemned Jiang Wu for coercing others and returning through a corrupted will, then rejected his justification as a savior. Jiang Wu ordered his disaster troops to attack, Lin Heng rallied the cultivators, and the armies clashed as Lin Heng charged Jiang Wu.

• Lin Heng argued that Jiang Wu's altered followers were copied clones, and that coercion set them apart from Lin Heng's own returns to life.
• Lin Heng accused Jiang Wu of imposing his will on the Immortal Realm and leaving others to bear the cost of his choices.
• Jiang Wu lost his temper and challenged Lin Heng to settle their disagreement by force.
• Jiang Wu sent tens of thousands of disaster troops forward, and Lin Heng ordered the cultivators behind him to attack.
• The two armies collided, and Lin Heng charged toward Jiang Wu.

Jiang Wu overwhelmed Lin Heng with the power of his peak strength and trapped him within the Ultimate Extinction Domain. Just as Jiang Wu prepared to refine him, Lin Heng fell into a strange, motionless state that made Jiang Wu wonder whether he was dead.

• Jiang Wu struck Lin Heng with the Nine Dragons and forced him back, revealing strength enhanced by the calamity source beneath the battlefield.
• Lin Heng used Five Elements Reverse Explosion, blasting both fighters apart, but Jiang Wu survived with only his robe torn and black lines visible on his skin.
• Jiang Wu manifested a gigantic Sumeru Dharma Body and crushed Lin Heng's Golden Body Dharma Aspect into the black earth.
• Dugu Zixuan and Meng Yutong tried to rush to Lin Heng, but Jiang Jingyi stopped them, warning that entering the battlefield would mean certain death.
• Jiang Wu activated the Ultimate Extinction Domain, suppressed Lin Heng in darkness, and prepared to refine him.
• Lin Heng abruptly stopped breathing and moving, causing Jiang Wu to hesitate and ask if he was already dead.

Lin Heng learned and took control of Jiang Wu’s Annihilation Domain, then shattered Jiang Wu’s Dharma Body. As Jiang Wu prepared to attack again, Jiang Zhao intervened and began burning his Dao foundation to confront his father.

• Lin Heng used his Dao Eye Immortal Eye to understand Jiang Wu’s Annihilation Domain and spread his Humanity Domain through its laws.
• Lin Heng replaced the Annihilation Domain’s order, expanded his Golden Body Dharma Aspect, and struck Jiang Wu with his own technique.
• Jiang Wu’s domain shattered, his Dharma Body collapsed, and three of his Nine Dragon phantoms went out.
• Jiang Wu prepared another attack, but Jiang Zhao stepped between him and Lin Heng and urged him to stop.
• Jiang Zhao recalled Jiang Wu’s lessons in benevolence and rule, then declared he would send his father on his final journey.
• Jiang Zhao began burning his Dao foundation, explaining that he was a counterfeit created by the Eternal Mulberry and had only borrowed time.

Jiang Zhao fought Jiang Wu alone to settle the Jiang family’s debt, while Lin Heng resisted the collapsing Black Abyss and glimpsed a mysterious Heavenly Fate that shattered his Immortal Eye. Jiang Zhao won at great cost, but Jiang Wu remained alive and drew in the Calamity to restore himself.

• Jiang Zhao barred Lin Heng from joining the fight, saying the conflict was a debt the Jiang family had to repay.
• Jiang Zhao and Jiang Wu fought with the power of disaster as the Black Abyss began collapsing around them.
• Lin Heng sensed Heavenly Fate watching him, stared into the sky, and suffered a shattered Immortal Eye before Meng Yutong caught him.
• The Calamity withdrew from the battlefield, and the Calamity army sacrificed itself to replenish Jiang Wu.
• Jiang Zhao knelt nearly transparent after defeating Jiang Wu, who lay more than half shattered while absorbing Calamity.