Chapter Summaries

Jiang Zhao said farewell to his children as his borrowed life faded away, then recalled his childhood, his reign, and the lonely journey that had separated him from his family. He left Jiang Jingyi, Jiang Zhenqing, and Jiang Wu behind, hoping they would care for one another and live without further sacrifice.

• Jiang Jingyi tried to heal Jiang Zhao and begged him not to leave, but her True Yuan could not restore his fading body.
• Jiang Zhenqing offered Jiang Zhao a Nine-Grade Soul-Molding Pill, but it passed through him as he urged his eldest son to care for his siblings.
• Jiang Zhao apologized to Jiang Jingyi for the burdens he had left her and praised Lin Heng before saying farewell to Jiang Wu and the others.
• Jiang Zhao dispersed completely, and his final memories recounted his childhood with his father, his time as emperor, and his journey along the Starry Sky Ancient Road.

After Jiang Zhao and Jiang Wu died, Jiang Jingyi mourned her grandfather while Lin Heng comforted her. Their brief relief ended when the Black Abyss stirred and an eye opened in the sky, revealing an invasion by beings from the First Epoch.

• Cultivators bid farewell to Jiang Zhao as Jiang Wu watched and reflected on the son he had lost.
• Jiang Jingyi stabbed Jiang Wu repeatedly, and he died after remembering his life, his choices, and his regret toward Jiang Zhao and his descendants.
• Jiang Jingyi broke down over Jiang Wu's final apology, and Lin Heng comforted her by promising they might meet again through reincarnation.
• The Black Abyss began expanding, and the eye in the sky opened after Jiang Wu's death.
• Countless faceless beings rose from the Black Abyss, and Lin Heng identified them as beings from the First Epoch and warned that the Northern Domain had become a receiving platform.

Lin Heng and Jiang Jingyi led the defense against monsters pouring from the Black Abyss, and reinforcements from the Immortal Clan and Demon Race joined them. Lin Heng then plunged deeper into the abyss to find the source of the calamity, followed by several clan ancestors, while the others stayed to hold the line.

• Lin Heng and Jiang Jingyi combined their domains to destroy the black-mist humanoids, allowing the army to advance toward the Black Abyss.
• Lin Daochuan arrived with a vast Immortal Clan force, and the Immortal Clan joined the battle despite its hostility toward the Old Lin Family and Dugu Clan.
• The Demon Race arrived and declared it would defend its own territory, joining humans against the calamity.
• Lin Heng entered the Black Abyss alone after sensing something deeper within, and Dugu Gui, the Taoist Nun, and Dugu Qingyang followed him.
• Jiang Jingyi and the others remained outside to reinforce the defensive line as Lin Tianhe, Lin Wenyue, Lin Tiancheng, and Lin Daochuan went after the group.

Lin Heng and the ancestors confronted the source of the Black Abyss, a True Immortal-level monster, but the ancestors sacrificed themselves to seal it. After they were petrified, the barrier disappeared, leaving Lin Heng to face the enemy and the weight of Lin Ziqing’s schemes.

• Lin Heng and the three ancestors reached the altar, where a shapeshifting figure revealed an overwhelming aura and struck them down.
• Jiang Jingyi caught Lin Heng as the attack blasted cultivators across the Black Abyss, while the Taoist Nun identified the figure as a True Immortal.
• Lin Heng tried to gather the ancestors into his Small World, but they rejected his attempt and sent him beyond the depths behind a barrier.
• The three Dugu ancestors and four Changlin ancestors formed a seal, explaining that their sacrifice would spare the younger generation and fulfill Lin Ziqing’s plan.
• The seven ancestors used their blood and lifespans to suppress the monster to the peak of the Mahayana Realm, then turned to stone as Lin Heng watched helplessly.
• The barrier vanished, and Lin Heng, enraged by the ancestors’ deaths and Lin Ziqing’s schemes, prepared to charge back into the Black Abyss.

Lin Heng struggled to destroy the Black Epoch vanguard, whose strange power overwhelmed his attacks and threatened everyone in the Black Abyss. Just as he despaired, Saint Ye arrived and revealed that their bond of master and disciple had been forged ten thousand years earlier.

• Lin Heng repeatedly attacked the black shadow figure, but its ripples knocked him back and black marks spread across his arms.
• The black shadow figure urged Lin Heng to submit to Misfortune and declared that the Black Epoch's forces would eventually wipe out the survivors.
• Lin Heng called for Senior Brother Gao Ping and other senior brothers, then realized that the people from the chaotic spacetime had likely vanished long ago.
• Little Black appeared beside Lin Heng and drew his attention to Saint Ye approaching through the Black Abyss with a nine-tiered pagoda.
• Saint Ye comforted Lin Heng and said that he had recently remembered their master-disciple bond was forged ten thousand years ago, then called out to Xiao Dingzi.

Saint Ye used the Star-Suppressing Tower to draw South Immortal Island’s disciples from ten thousand years in the past into the present, then merged into the tower to contain the Black Abyss. As Lin Heng held Little Black, the dog recalled its lifelong devotion to its master and fell silent, leaving its fate uncertain.

• Saint Ye revealed that he had created and destroyed the ancient kingdom, then used the Star-Suppressing Tower and a time-reversing ritual to open a passage to South Immortal Island ten thousand years in the past.
• Saint Ye summoned Gao Ping and the island’s disciples across time, and Gao Ping led them into battle against the Black Abyss.
• Saint Ye told Lin Heng that he was fulfilling their agreement, then merged into the Star-Suppressing Tower, which contained the Black Abyss’s expansion.
• Little Black recalled following its master through life, growing old, and searching for him until it found Lin Heng; it then closed its eyes and stopped responding in Lin Heng’s arms.

After the Black Abyss collapsed into a rift, Lin Heng buried Little Black and left another grave empty before withdrawing from everyone to cultivate his heart. As the Immortal Realm braced for the threat to return, Dugu Yueli went looking for him and found a hidden chamber deep inside an abandoned mine.

• Jiang Jingyi ordered the exhausted army to withdraw after the Black Abyss stopped expanding.
• Lin Heng grew a hazel tree, buried Little Black beneath it, and left a second grave empty with a fragment of Spiritual Lotus Root.
• Meng Yutong wanted to comfort Lin Heng, but Dugu Zixuan urged her to let him grieve alone.
• Experts arrived from Heavenly Profound Continent as news spread of the fallen leaders, sacrificed practitioners, and the lingering rift.
• Lin Heng disappeared into seclusion to cultivate his heart, worrying Dugu Zixuan and the other women.
• Dugu Yueli followed Lin Heng's aura into an abandoned mineral vein and froze when she found his hidden chamber.

Dugu Yueli found Lin Heng fishing in an unexpectedly peaceful cavern, where he confessed his helplessness about the disaster, fate, and the burden of trying to save everyone. Dugu Yueli shared her own guilt over failing to protect her clan, then kissed him and promised he would not have to carry his fears alone.

• Dugu Yueli discovered Lin Heng calmly fishing in a bright underground lake and asked what he was doing.
• Lin Heng recalled how he had kept fish out of Saint Ye’s pond and joked about being beaten for it.
• Lin Heng told Dugu Yueli that his powers and clever plans seemed insignificant against the disaster, and questioned his fate and the sacrifices others made.
• Dugu Yueli described how the Dugu Clan’s expectations had weighed on her and how the ancestors sacrificed themselves while she could not help.
• Dugu Yueli embraced Lin Heng, told him he did not have to bear everything alone, and kissed him.

Lin Heng teased Dugu Yueli until she slapped him and ran off, then opened a passage to the Underworld to confront Xiao Muyu. He demanded that she reveal the secrets surrounding Jiang Wu, Jiang Zhao, their ancestors, and Lin Ziqing, and admitted he wanted Jiang Wu to confront Lin Ziqing directly.

• Lin Heng pinned Dugu Yueli down and kissed her roughly, then said he wanted to save their first night and hold a wedding-like ceremony with everyone present.
• Lin Heng slipped his hand beneath Dugu Yueli's clothes to inspect her, and she slapped him, called him shameless, and ran away.
• Lin Heng took out the Human Emperor Banner and opened a passage to the Underworld, announcing that he was coming for Xiao Muyu.
• Lin Heng entered Xiao Muyu's residence in Ultimate Bliss and demanded that she reveal everything she had been hiding.
• Lin Heng told Xiao Muyu he wanted Lin Ziqing to face Jiang Wu and hoped Jiang Wu would cut him down.

Xiao Muyu explained how Gao Sage and Lin Ziqing planned for the great calamity, and warned Lin Heng that the seal trapping the threat depended on his seven ancestors’ dwindling vitality. Lin Heng left to find a way to open the reincarnation passage to the Fourth Epoch, while Xiao Muyu told him to take Bai Yi, who had been crying in a coffin.

• Lin Heng asked whether he would be forced to follow Jiang Wu and Jiang Zhao’s path, and Xiao Muyu said his circumstances and future were different.
• Xiao Muyu explained that Gao Sage, from the Fifth Epoch, alone honored an agreement to aid the Immortal Realm, and described how he and Lin Ziqing prepared forces in advance.
• Xiao Muyu said Mortal World Immortal’s intervention disrupted the plan, and Little Black later awakened Gao Sage’s sealed memories so he could bring ancient cultivators to help.
• Xiao Muyu warned that the seal was temporary and relied on the vitality of Lin Heng’s seven petrified ancestors, so he needed to open the reincarnation passage to the Fourth Epoch.
• Xiao Muyu revealed that Ye Tian had been the Third Epoch’s Chosen One, then teased Lin Heng about his women; Lin Heng said he would find a way to open the passage.
• Xiao Muyu told Lin Heng to take Bai Yi with him because Bai Yi had been crying in a coffin for nearly half a month.

After months of uneasy peace and Lin Heng’s research into reincarnation, Jiang Caiyan’s pregnancy brought unexpected joy and flustered reactions from the Inner Court. Lin Heng arrived just as the others joked about his unborn child, leaving him to tease them about raising a child who might beat him up.

• Lin Heng freed Bai Yi from the immortal coffin, and Bai Yi learned that the Northern Domain’s crisis had only been temporarily contained.
• Over the next several months, Jiang Jingyi and Dugu Yueli helped restore order while Lin Heng studied how to build a passage of reincarnation.
• Zhao Wanqing announced that Jiang Caiyan was pregnant, and Black Robe anxiously urged his daughter to rest while celebrating the coming child.
• Dugu Zixuan and the other women visited Jiang Caiyan, with Dugu Zixuan asking Meng Yutong to help care for her.
• The women speculated about the baby and complained that Jiang Caiyan had won the race to have Lin Heng’s first child.
• Lin Heng overheard them and joked that he might become a tiger savage enough to eat his own cubs.

Lin Heng learned that Jiang Caiyan was pregnant and struggled to take in the news, while Dugu Zixuan comforted him and reminded him that his family would support him. After he and Jiang Caiyan reconciled over their past arguments and joked about their future child, she left to get a prescription.

• Lin Heng entered the courtyard and discovered a tiny life inside Jiang Caiyan, confirming that she was pregnant.
• Dugu Zixuan embraced Lin Heng, comforted him, and encouraged him to talk with Jiang Caiyan.
• Lin Heng apologized to Jiang Caiyan for ignoring her warnings, and they bickered before he pulled her into his arms.
• Jiang Caiyan noticed Lin Heng was under pressure and quietly leaned against him while he admitted he was feeling better.
• Lin Heng and Jiang Caiyan joked about whether they wanted a daughter or a son, then she stopped him from getting any ideas and left to get a prescription.

Lin Heng spent a rare respite in the Inner Court with Meng Yutong and his senior sisters, while Cai Yan’s pregnancy prompted them to ask for children of their own. The chapter left Lin Heng encouraging them to try for little radishes as Leng Qingyun obediently began to dance.

• Lin Heng visited Meng Yutong, teased her about her child-rearing book and jealousy, then persuaded his master and little aunt to perform a dance for him.
• Lin Heng spent several days relaxing in the Inner Court, leaving outside affairs to the Female Emperor and Moon Glass while keeping Duan Shuyun company as she worked.
• Lin Heng practiced swords and sparred with Mu Liuxi, who admitted she wanted a little radish of her own because Cai Yan was pregnant.
• Niu wanted a son to protect her and help her child bully her big sister’s child, but Lin Heng pointed out that both children would call him Daddy.
• Leng Qingyun realized the family implications of Niu having a child, and Lin Heng told her to work hard herself if she wanted a little radish before she began dancing.

Lin Heng pressured Leng Qingqiu into trying for a baby, then turned his attention to Su Qiubai and subjected her to the same treatment. After three days, Su Qiubai began to understand why Ancestor Yao seemed to enjoy it so much.

• Leng Qingqiu decided she would not let Lin Heng’s other Dao companions get ahead of her in having a child, and Lin Heng spent three days with her.
• Lin Heng recovered in his Small World, then went to find Su Qiubai, whom he overheard complaining about being urged to have children.
• Su Qiubai tried to flee when Lin Heng teased her about becoming his furnace, but he caught her and refused to let her go.
• After several days with Lin Heng, Su Qiubai went from insisting she would never follow Ancestor Yao’s example to wondering why Ancestor Yao studied heart-cultivation instead of enjoying life.

Lin Heng teased Su Wanyue before confronting Yun Yao, who challenged herself to resist desire for three days after taking what she believed was a Sunfall Pill. After she gave in the next morning, Lin Heng revealed he had used ordinary medicine and convinced her that her longing came from within; in the Ultimate Bliss Realm, Xiao Muyu sensed Yun Yao's despair and lamented that she would never give up desire.

• Lin Heng left Su Qiubai's courtyard, overlooked Yun Yao, and went to visit Su Wanyue, who welcomed him and played along with his teasing.
• After spending time with Su Wanyue, Lin Heng returned to his cave abode and found Yun Yao waiting, angry that he had left her neglected.
• Lin Heng offered Yun Yao a pill and wagered that she could not resist its supposed effects for three days; Yun Yao swallowed it and accepted the challenge.
• Yun Yao felt overwhelmed by desire that night and returned to Lin Heng the next morning, begging him for an antidote.
• Lin Heng used spirit liquid on Yun Yao, then showed her ordinary medicine and claimed her desire had never been caused by a pill; Yun Yao was left shaken by his explanation.
• In the Ultimate Bliss Realm, Xiao Muyu sensed Yun Yao's distress and concluded that she would never quit desire.

Lin Heng spent seven months recovering, strengthening the Northern Domain, and restoring Heavenly Action Continent’s spiritual energy, while his companions advanced rapidly in cultivation. The chapter ended with his master, Meng Yutong, reaching the early Dao Integration Realm and Lin Heng eyeing her with desire.

• Lin Heng and Yun Yao spent five days together, after which he placed the exhausted Yun Yao in his Small World to recover and prepare to conceive.
• Lin Heng met with Jiang Jingyi and Mu Li, discussed the Northern Domain’s defenses and faction consolidation, and then focused on recuperating.
• Over seven months, the Northern Domain’s rift remained quiet, Shen Yeting’s pregnancy advanced, and Dugu Feng struggled to care for her.
• Lin Heng and Mu Li established a vast Spirit-Attracting Grand Formation that increased spiritual energy across a thousand-mile radius by more than tenfold.
• Duan Shuyun broke through to Spirit Transformation, Yun Yao followed a month later, and Leng Qingyun, Leng Qingqiu, Su Qiubai, and Su Wanyue reached peak Nascent Soul.
• Meng Yutong emerged from seclusion in the early Dao Integration Realm, and Lin Heng immediately wanted to pursue her.

As the Northern Domain’s seal weakened, Lin Heng gathered the Immortal Realm’s forces and prepared for the First Epoch’s return. The enemy struck from hidden exits to the east, west, and north, leaving the defenders scrambling to respond.

• Dugu Yueli worried that Lin Heng no longer desired her, while Duan Shuyun told her he was deliberately making her take the initiative.
• In the Netherworld, Xiao Muyu said reincarnation had already begun through the return of the future to the past and warned that sacrifices would be necessary.
• After the Demon Race reported abnormal activity at the Northern Domain seal, Lin Heng assembled the factions, assigned defenses, and sent his Dao companions into his Small World for safety.
• Lin Heng led the army to the rift valley, where the forces established three defensive lines and waited through two quiet days.
• When scouts lost contact with the west and reported black pillars emerging in the east and west, another pillar burst from the ground north of the rift.
• Lin Heng realized the rift was a smokescreen and ordered Meng Yutong and Dugu Zixuan to reinforce the eastern and western fronts.

Lin Heng confronted the Nameless Warden, who called himself the Calamity Chief, and learned his account of the Dark Epoch, fortune, misfortune, and the origins of the demons, gods, and immortals. Lin Heng rejected the offer to submit and fought back, but calamity spread across his body as the battle continued.

• Meng Yutong rescued Bai Yi from the black light around a stabilized stone pillar by summoning a massive star.
• The Calamity Chief emerged from the northern pillar, pressured Lin Heng’s forces, and demanded that Lin Heng submit as a Child of Misfortune.
• The Calamity Chief claimed the epochs were part of a single Dark Epoch and described how fortune and misfortune opposed each other, how demons and gods were created, and how gods degenerated into immortals.
• Lin Heng refused the Calamity Chief’s offer and attacked with his twin swords, but the Calamity Chief caught and crushed his strike.
• Lin Heng used his Humanity Domain to suppress the Calamity Chief’s power as both sides entered a melee, while dark calamity patterns spread across Lin Heng’s body.
• The wounded Lin Heng mocked the Calamity Chief’s belief that he could enslave him.

Lin Heng survived the Calamity Chief’s assault with Hua Qi’s sacrifice, then joined Jiang Jingyi to wound the enemy before a vastly stronger presence descended and erased the Calamity Chief. The newcomer announced it would end the conflict, leaving Lin Heng and the surviving cultivators facing an unknown power.

• The Calamity Chief crushed Lin Heng, but Lin Heng detonated his Humanity Domain and later regenerated through the Kunpeng Nirvana Art.
• Hua Qi appeared, gave Lin Heng new life through a divine sacrifice, and faded away while Chen Changqin recognized her and Ye Luo as figures from the Third Epoch.
• Lin Heng self-destructed the Humanity Domain to purge the calamity within him and devastate the battlefield, then regenerated and broke through to the peak of the Dao Integration Realm.
• Jiang Jingyi joined Lin Heng, and the two wounded the Calamity Chief with their Human Dao powers and swords.
• Countless eyes appeared in the sky, and an overwhelming force injured or killed many cultivators before a giant hand crushed the Calamity Chief.
• The unseen master called the Calamity Chief useless and declared that it was time to end the conflict.

The First Epoch’s Heavenly Mandate replaced the Immortal Realm’s mandate, unleashed ten Calamity Chiefs, and left Lin Heng’s allies on the brink of death. As his body was destroyed, Lin Heng’s mirror self emerged and began using the Literary Path’s inheritance to plant a new Dao.

• The First Epoch’s Heavenly Mandate descended, shattered Lin Heng and Jiang Jingyi’s attempt to seal the heavens, and sent ten Calamity Chiefs to attack.
• The Chaos Pearl drew Lin Heng into chaos, where Lin Ziqing told him that the path to salvation depended on reincarnation and the Literary Path.
• Lin Heng returned to find his allies dying, including Bai Yi, Chen Changqin, Su Lian’er, and the wounded women and cultivators around him.
• A Calamity Chief’s black sword pierced Lin Heng and corroded his body, but the Illusory World Mirror revealed an independent mirror version of him.
• Lin Heng’s mirror self escaped the ruined body and combined the Literary Path’s artifacts and inheritance to begin planting a new Dao.