Chapter Summaries

Lin Heng learned that Lin Zhique and Lin Ziqing had arranged his memories and system to guide and protect his growth, and that his later choices had been his own. He chose to return with Lin Zhique and Jiang Jingyi, leaving Moon Palace behind and stocking up on provocative outfits for the journey.

• Lin Zhique explained that he and Lin Ziqing had sealed Lin Heng’s memories and used a system to guide him, protect him, and help him grow into his own choices.
• Lin Heng accepted the truth and decided to return to the Immortal Realm with Lin Zhique and Jiang Jingyi.
• Lin Zhique prepared to abandon Moon Palace and leave its cultivation ground to Lin Heng’s daughter.
• Lin Heng visited Moon Palace’s commercial district and bought a wide selection of outfits and accessories, including JK uniforms, for Jiang Jingyi and the others.
• Lin Heng, Lin Zhique, and Jiang Jingyi set out for home.

Lin Heng and Jiang Jingyi returned to the Immortal Realm, where Lin Zhique reunited with Dugu Zixuan and Lin Heng learned that Duan Shuyun and Su Wanyue were pregnant. Before preparing to travel the Starry Sky Ancient Road, Lin Heng and Jiang Jingyi settled the boundaries between humans and demons and fortified the Immortal Realm with the Mountains and Rivers Formation.

• Lin Heng and Jiang Jingyi crossed back from the immortal domain to the Immortal Realm after an eleven-month journey.
• Lin Zhique secretly watched Dugu Zixuan before she caught him, and he revealed himself as her husband and returned to her.
• Lin Heng reunited with Duan Shuyun and learned that she and Su Wanyue were pregnant; he promised to wait until after their births before setting out.
• Lin Heng and Jiang Jingyi redrew the Demon Domain's boundaries and allowed certain peaceful demons to live in human territories under strict conditions.
• Lin Heng forged the Mountains and Rivers Formation from the Mountains and Rivers Scroll to protect the Immortal Realm while he and Jiang Jingyi traveled the Starry Sky Ancient Road.

Lin Heng returned to welcome the births of his son and second daughter, then settled their names amid a dispute between the Lin and Dugu families over the boy’s surname. After making final arrangements, Lin Heng and Jiang Jingyi set out to forge the Starry Sky Ancient Road.

• Lin Heng arrived after Duan Shuyun and Su Wanyue gave birth, learning that his son’s birth had manifested a giant sword and Human Emperor scriptures while his daughter’s had brought a water dragon and rain.
• Lin Heng reassured Duan Shuyun that their son’s lack of spiritual roots might not prevent him from becoming an innate Human Emperor.
• Dugu Zixuan named the eldest daughter Lin Nianqing, while Lin Heng named his second daughter Lin Xi.
• The Lin and Dugu families fought over the right to give Lin Heng’s son a surname, and the Dugu Clan won, naming him Dugu Chong.
• Lin Heng and Jiang Jingyi departed to forge the Starry Sky Ancient Road as Lin Heng reflected on his family and the choice ahead.

Lin Heng and Jiang Jingyi opened the Starry Sky Ancient Road and climbed its Heaven-Ascending Platform, enduring mounting pressure and dangerous distortions. They found Jiang Wu’s remains in a stone coffin, which Lin Heng stored in his inner world, and continued upward with the mystery of Jiang Wu’s unrecoverable death unresolved.

• Lin Heng and Jiang Jingyi opened a spatial gate at the Immortal Sea Summit and entered the Starry Sky Ancient Road.
• Lin Heng and Jiang Jingyi climbed the Heaven-Ascending Platform, overcoming Remnant Souls, crashing nebula fragments, and increasingly oppressive laws.
• Lin Heng carried Jiang Jingyi up the stairs when the pressure slowed her near the seven-thousandth step.
• Lin Heng and Jiang Jingyi found Jiang Wu’s remains in a stone coffin on the eight-thousand-three-hundred-and-forty-seventh step.
• Lin Heng stored Jiang Wu’s coffin and remains in his inner world, then explained that Jiang Wu’s betrayal and lost connection to the Immortal Realm’s destiny prevented his revival.

Lin Heng and Jiang Jingyi reached the final stair of the Starry Sky Ancient Road and entered the Upper Realm, where they were separated. Lin Heng was rescued from the cultivation-devouring Black Sea near the Torch Dragon Domain, but he feared for Jiang Jingyi’s safety.

• Lin Heng and Jiang Jingyi endured the ancient road’s escalating trials and tore through the barrier of laws when they reached its final stair.
• After three years of golden energy pouring through the passage, Lin Heng and Jiang Jingyi entered the Upper Realm and were separated.
• Lin Heng found himself adrift in the Black Sea as the strange liquid suppressed his cultivation to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• A starship crew hauled Lin Heng aboard and learned that he was a Mahayana cultivator who had drifted to the edge of the Torch Dragon Domain.
• Lin Heng learned that his rescuers were outer disciples of the Sky Vault Sect and worried that Jiang Jingyi might have fallen into the Black Sea alone.

After reaching the Torch Dragon Domain, Lin Heng learned its power structure, broke through to Human Immortal, survived a True Immortal’s ambush, and joined Azure Crane City while searching for Jiang Jingyi. Jiang Jingyi found a foothold with the Hundred Herbs Medicine Society, heard of Lin Heng’s bounty for her, and decided to go see him.

• Lin Heng declined to travel with the Sky Vault Sect, gave Ling'er the Heaven-Seeking Mirror, and later used it to crush a Supreme who threatened the group.
• Lin Heng explored the Torch Dragon Domain, learned about its factions and cultivation system, and became a Human Immortal after triggering a heavenly Dao Tribulation.
• A True Immortal attacked Lin Heng during his tribulation, but Lin Heng escaped, recovered in seclusion, and later joined the Azure Crane City Lord as a guest elder.
• Lin Heng helped Azure Crane City ambush rival forces, gained renown in the eastern Torch Dragon Domain, and issued a bounty seeking Jiang Jingyi.
• Jiang Jingyi recovered in the Hundred Herbs Medicine Society, helped kill a cultivator threatening it, and decided to visit Lin Heng after hearing of his bounty.

Lin Heng reunited with Jiang Jingyi in Cloud Ferry and learned how the Medicine Association had treated her while she was stranded. He urged her to leave the association, then offered to help her break through to the Human Immortal Realm so she could remove its tracking mark.

• Lin Heng welcomed Jiang Jingyi after their half-year separation, and she embraced him with relief.
• Lin Heng and Jiang Jingyi shared news of their experiences and discussed the factions watching them and the dangers of breaking through under their control.
• Lin Heng detected two Dao Integration Realm cultivators fighting outside Cloud Ferry and told Jiang Jingyi about the upper layers of the Torch Dragon Domain and the forces behind the three great immortal sects.
• Jiang Jingyi revealed the Hundred Herbs Medicine Society had placed a tracking mark on her and might not let her leave.
• Lin Heng proposed that Jiang Jingyi break through to the Human Immortal Realm with his help so the Heavenly Tribulation could cleanse the mark.

Lin Heng warned Jiang Jingyi that a purge by the three great immortal sects was approaching and urged her to reach the Human Immortal Realm so they could flee to Upper Palace Heaven. They agreed to seek an ancient secret realm and eventually find the Sage Hall, though Jiang Jingyi refused Lin Heng’s attempt to use Dual Cultivation as a shortcut.

• Lin Heng urged Jiang Jingyi to use Dual Cultivation to advance, but she refused because she feared it would undermine her foundation.
• Lin Heng explained that the three great immortal sects were preparing to harvest the Torch Dragon Domain and that they needed to escape to Upper Palace Heaven.
• Jiang Jingyi asked what they would do after reaching Upper Palace Heaven, and Lin Heng showed her a map to an ancient secret realm he had found in Azure Crane City's secret treasury.
• Lin Heng said they could use the secret realm’s drifting space to leave the Great Realm and seek the Sage Hall, where Saint Ye’s successor or fellow disciples might protect them.
• Jiang Jingyi agreed to follow Lin Heng’s plan, then stopped him when he tried to undress, clarifying that she had agreed to seek the secret realm rather than accept his opportunities.

Lin Heng escaped Azure Crane City with Jiang Jingyi, prompting Azure Crane City and the Hundred Herbs Medicine Society to pursue them. The two forces discovered the pair were heading toward the Mass Burial Secret Realm and prepared to intercept them there.

• Lin Heng used seven spatial imprints to hide his escape route, then took Jiang Jingyi through a spatial rift and vanished.
• Azure Crane City discovered Lin Heng was missing and ordered its forces to find him, dead or alive.
• The Hundred Herbs Medicine Society learned Jiang Jingyi had escaped and Zhong Zijun resolved to capture her and her companion.
• The two forces discovered Lin Heng had joined Azure Crane City to find Jiang Jingyi and agreed to pursue the pair together.
• Pan revealed that Lin Heng and Jiang Jingyi were near the Mass Burial Secret Realm, where covert agents were waiting for them.
• Zhong Zijun and Azure Crane City's advisors prepared to enter the secret realm and capture the fugitives.

Lin Heng and Jiang Jingyi entered a dangerous secret realm, gathered law crystals and rare treasures, and found three golden fruits guarded by an unknown presence. The chapter ended as a voice in the cave demanded to know who had disturbed its fruits.

• Lin Heng saw through an illusion at the secret realm entrance and destroyed it, revealing deadly chaotic space beneath it.
• Lin Heng explained that colliding Great Dao laws had formed the secret realm and that the remains of earlier cultivators could become new opportunities.
• Lin Heng and Jiang Jingyi explored the realm, collected law crystals, and discovered a crimson spirit plant rooted in one.
• The pair found three golden fruits in a cave, and a sinister voice sounded from its depths, asking who had disturbed them.

Lin Heng and Jiang Jingyi explored the Mass Burial Secret Realm, where Lin Heng killed a wounded cultivator and later confronted five members of the Crimson Blaze Sect who demanded their loot. After Lin Heng and Jiang Jingyi killed all five, they continued deeper into the secret realm, and Jiang Jingyi said she would prepare to break through in seclusion.

• Lin Heng killed a wounded Human Immortal Realm cultivator who had used a spirit plant to lure others, then shared the cultivator's memories with Jiang Jingyi.
• On their seventh day in the secret realm, Lin Heng and Jiang Jingyi collected law stones before five cultivators from the Crimson Flame Sect arrived and demanded their treasures.
• Lin Heng killed the middle-aged cultivator and two of his companions with swift sword strikes.
• Jiang Jingyi killed the last cultivator after he blocked Lin Heng's attack with a magical artifact, then searched the five men's souls.
• Jiang Jingyi said the five were outer sect elders from a second-rate force and proposed that they continue exploring before she prepared to break through in seclusion.

Jiang Jingyi broke through to the Human Immortal realm while Lin Heng fought off the Medicine Society and Azure Crane City cultivators, but a True Immortal forced them to flee the secret realm. They escaped through a spatial tunnel toward the Upper Heaven Palace, where Lin Heng teased Jiang Jingyi about becoming an immortal clam.

• Jiang Jingyi refined law crystals in a hidden cave while Lin Heng guarded her, and her breakthrough tribulation drew cultivators from the Medicine Society and Azure Crane City.
• Lin Heng confronted Pan Lie, Zhong Zijun, and their cultivators, holding them off for three days and three nights while Jiang Jingyi completed her tribulation.
• Jiang Jingyi reached the early Human Immortal stage and joined Lin Heng in battle; Lin Heng used the Age Dao to kill Zhong Zijun in one strike.
• A True Immortal attacked Lin Heng, so Lin Heng grabbed Jiang Jingyi and escaped through the secret realm's spatial currents.
• Lin Heng and Jiang Jingyi forced their way out of the secret realm and found a Space Tunnel leading to the Upper Heaven Palace.
• Lin Heng carried Jiang Jingyi in a princess carry and joked that she had become an immortal clam, prompting her to protest.

After escaping into Upper Heaven Palace, Lin Heng and Jiang Jingyi hid from their pursuers, joined Mystic Heaven Pavilion, and spent months building a foothold there. Lin Heng reached early True Immortal, leaving the Pavilion Master weighing whether to honor their agreement or move against him.

• Lin Heng and Jiang Jingyi emerged at the Upper Realm’s Ascension Platform, where a True Immortal guard pursued them for ascending outside the permitted quota.
• Lin Heng brought Jiang Jingyi into his revived portable world, then fled with her after evading True Immortals who searched for them.
• Lin Heng and Jiang Jingyi disguised themselves, joined Mystic Heaven Pavilion as guest elders, and used their skills to gain resources and protection.
• Lin Heng advanced to the peak of the Human Immortal realm, endured a thunder tribulation, and later entered the Great Dao trial to break through.
• After a month of seclusion, Lin Heng became an early True Immortal, prompting the Pavilion Master to question his strength and order a celebratory feast.

After attaining the True Immortal Realm, Lin Heng told the Mystic Heaven Pavilion he planned to leave with Jiang Jingyi and seek out the Sage Hall. Pavilion Master Mo Qianqiu let them go and gave Lin directions, warning that the Sage Halls had been sealed for ten thousand years and were guarded by lethal defenders.

• At a banquet celebrating his breakthrough, Lin Heng secretly discussed leaving with Jiang Jingyi, who warned that the Mystic Heaven Pavilion knew they had fled from the Lower Heaven Palace.
• Lin Heng told Pavilion Master Mo Qianqiu that he wanted to leave with Jiang Jingyi and travel beyond the realm, prompting the hall’s Elders to react with surprise and suspicion.
• Mo Qianqiu questioned Lin Heng’s destination, and Lin said he was seeking the Sage Hall on someone’s behalf and had studied under a Sage.
• Mo Qianqiu concluded that Lin Heng’s connection to a Sage made it too dangerous to stop him, and he agreed to let the pair leave.
• Mo Qianqiu directed Lin Heng northwest across three star domains toward a floating Star Sea, warning him that Sage Halls were sealed and protected by guardians who killed approaching beings.

Lin Heng and Jiang Jingyi reached the Sage Hall, where its guardian Gao Ding recognized Lin Heng as Gao Sheng’s disciple and the destined inheritor. Lin Heng tried to refine the Sage Token to unlock the inheritance, but a terrifying will struck his mind.

• Lin Heng and Jiang Jingyi traveled through the star regions, overcame spatial turbulence, and followed Lin Heng’s divination to the Sage Hall.
• The Sage Hall’s guardian confronted Lin Heng, who revealed his Laws of Time and proved his connection to Gao Sheng with a Time Sword strike.
• Lin Heng showed Gao Ding his memories, and Gao Ding recognized himself as Xiao Dingzi and explained that Lin Heng was the intended inheritor of Sage Hall.
• Gao Ding led Lin Heng and Jiang Jingyi to the Sage Token and explained that refining it would unlock the Sage’s inheritance and grant Lin Heng control of Sage Hall.
• Lin Heng reached for the Sage Token, but its powerful will surged into his mind and nearly made him lose his footing.

Lin Heng inherited the Sage Hall and built a Reception Platform to connect the Upper Realm with the Lower Realm. He opened the Starry Sky Ancient Road and called for the Immortal Realm’s cultivators to ascend, reaching Meng Yutong and the others.

• On his ninth attempt, Lin Heng refined the Sage Token and received Gao Sheng’s insights into the Age Dao and instructions for building a Reception Platform.
• Lin Heng took control of the Sage Hall and, with Gao Ding’s help, established a Reception Platform and learned that the Starry Sky Ancient Road also needed reshaping for those who had not passed tribulation.
• While Lin Heng spent a year building the platform, Jiang Jingyi stabilized her cultivation and gathered a small force to receive newcomers from the Immortal Realm.
• After the Reception Platform was completed, Lin Heng used the Time Force to open the Starry Sky Ancient Road and announced that those who passed tribulation or crossed the Heavenly Path’s 9,999 steps could ascend.
• Meng Yutong heard Lin Heng’s voice calling from the heavens and realized that the path to ascension had opened.

After Lin Heng opened a safer route through the Starry Sky Ancient Road, Dugu Zixuan, Meng Yutong, the Taoist Nun, and Dugu Wuwu crossed into the All Heavens. They reunited with Jiang Jingyi, whose overwhelming power frightened them, just as Lin Heng arrived and heard Meng Yutong call for help.

• Dugu Zixuan explained that crossing the Starry Sky Ancient Road required at least the Dao Integration Realm and set out with Meng Yutong, the Taoist Nun, and Dugu Wuwu to scout the route.
• Lin Heng’s changes to the Starry Sky Ancient Road had weakened its pressure, and the four travelers climbed its 9,999 steps before passing through the golden gateway.
• The travelers arrived in the All Heavens and struggled to adapt to its dense immortal spiritual energy.
• Jiang Jingyi greeted them as Immortal Jiang and used her peak Human Immortal aura to intimidate Meng Yutong when she asked for Lin Heng.
• Lin Heng arrived and asked Jiang Jingyi why she was bullying his master, while Meng Yutong called out to him for help.

Lin Heng reunited with Meng Yutong and his family in the Upper Realm, then arranged for the women and their children to travel to him. The chapter ended with Lin Heng seeing the children arrive and realizing just how many kids he had.

• Jiang Jingyi left after Lin Heng arrived, and Meng Yutong scolded him for letting Jiang Jingyi bully her before their reunion.
• Lin Heng brought Dugu Zixuan, Meng Yutong, and his relatives to Sage Hall and recounted parts of his forty-year journey through the Upper Realm.
• Lin Heng learned that several women in the lower realm had borne children and decided to bring them all to the Upper Realm.
• Jiang Jingyi guided Lin Heng's family around nearby star realms while Gao Ding helped move the fragmented continents needed to receive the travelers.
• Duan Shuyun, Su Wanyue, Jiang Caiyan, the Leng sisters, Zhao Wanqing, and the other women arrived along the Starry Sky Ancient Road with their children.
• Lin Nianqing recognized Lin Heng as her father, and he gaped at the many children arriving in bamboo baskets.

Lin Heng reunited with his Dao companions and their many young children after decades away, discovering that fatherhood meant being mobbed by a crowd of little ones. Once they boarded an immortal boat to head home, he began catching up with the women, who welcomed him with affection and teasing.

• Xiao Lan brought the children to Lin Heng, who used spatial power to catch those tumbling from their baskets as Lin Nianqing ran to him for a hug.
• The children swarmed Lin Heng, and he lifted them all with immortal spiritual energy while his Senior Sisters laughed at his predicament.
• Lin Heng learned that the little boy in his arm was Lin An, Yun Yao's son, and the women joked about Yun Yao's reputation as an ancestor.
• Lin Heng greeted Duan Shuyun, Yun Yao, and the others, then summoned an immortal boat and sent the children to a neighboring compartment.
• Duan Shuyun embraced Lin Heng, and he apologized for keeping everyone waiting before exchanging playful remarks with Yun Yao and Leng Qingqiu.

Lin Heng brought his family to Sage Hall, explained how they would adapt to the laws of their new home, and reunited with Jiang Jingyi and the others. At a family gathering, he introduced his children and reassured Dugu Chong about why he alone carried the Dugu surname before meeting Lin Xi.

• Lin Heng showed the women the floating continents they would each inhabit and explained that their techniques would strengthen as they adapted to the world's laws.
• Jiang Jingyi welcomed Lin Heng and the children, and Lin Heng teased her and Meng Yutong as the family reunited.
• Lin An declared that he wanted to live with Lin Heng because Yun Yao gave him only a small room, but Lin Heng handed him back to Yun Yao for discipline.
• Lin Heng gathered the family in Sage Hall and told Dugu Chong that his Dugu surname honored his maternal family and did not make him any less Lin Heng's son.
• Su Wanyue introduced Lin Xi, whose water spiritual root was already absorbing spiritual energy, and warned Lin Heng that the teething child liked to bite.