Chapter Summaries

Lin Heng reunited with his children and greeted them one by one, learning about their personalities and abilities. After warmly embracing Lin Ning and Lin Nianqing, he left Xiao Lan and the fire qilin predicting that he would soon send the children out for them to care for.

• Lin Heng greeted Lin Yiyi, who showed him the Sword Qi she had learned by watching others practice.
• Lin An told Lin Heng that Yun Yao had warned him not to cause trouble, and Lin Heng advised him to run when he could not handle the consequences.
• Lin You repeated Leng Qingqiu's claim that men surnamed Lin were bad, then called Lin Heng father after Lin Heng insisted he was a good man.
• Lin Heng stopped Lin Xi and Lin Ying from arguing over which was the older sister and held them both.
• Lin Heng met Su Xiaobei and Lin Ning, then embraced Lin Nianqing when she said she had missed him.
• Outside the hall, Xiao Lan and the fire qilin bet that Lin Heng would send the children out for them to care for within three days.

Lin Heng and his allies established rules for developing the fragmented continents and limiting ascension from the lower realms. Lin Heng then revealed that the other Sages remained sealed because they did not know the Epoch Calamity had already been defeated, and warned that they would target Saint Ye’s inheritances when they discovered the truth.

• Lin Heng enlisted Xiao Lan and the Fire Qilin to take the children on a tour of their new territory.
• Jiang Jingyi outlined rules for governing Sage Hall, dividing territories, sharing resources, and allocating inheritance to the descendants.
• Lin Heng proposed opening the Receiving Platform once every ten years and limiting each wave of ascenders through joint selection and soul-bound slots.
• Lin Heng told the women that the twelve Sages remained sealed, unaware that the Epoch Calamity had been crushed in the lower realms.
• Lin Heng warned that the Sages would likely purge Saint Ye’s inheritances and would see his command of several Great Daos as a threat.

Lin Heng prepared Sage Hall for the Saints’ return while trying to inherit Saint Ye’s legacy, then welcomed Mu Li’s son, Lin Ping, and continued his mortal-world life. After three years, Meng Yutong became pregnant, just as Dugu Yueli and Heavenly Action Imperial Court cultivators arrived at Sage Hall.

• Lin Heng warned that a Saint nearing the Immortal King realm could threaten Sage Hall, and he asked his allies to protect the Receiving Platform and conceal Saint Ye’s descent; Jiang Jingyi established the Sky Patrol Directorate.
• Meng Yutong urged Lin Heng to keep trying for a child, and months later Mu Li went into labor amid a powerful Yin-Yang phenomenon.
• After Lin Heng guarded the tribulation for three days and two nights, Mu Li safely gave birth to a boy, whom Lin Heng named Lin Ping.
• Lin Heng spent half a month helping Mu Li recover, then returned to Meng Yutong and resumed trying to have a child with her.
• Lin Heng refined the ascension rules and accompanied his family and companions through daily life; three years later, Meng Yutong became pregnant.
• Dugu Yueli arrived at Sage Hall with Heavenly Action Imperial Court cultivators and learned that Meng Yutong was pregnant.

Lin Heng spent time with Dugu Yueli before the Boundless Heavenly Stele awakened and helped him break through to become a Mortal World Immortal. He then used the river of time, the Mountains and Rivers Scroll, and his other arts to search for Hua Qi, despite Gao Ding warning that doing so violated a taboo of time.

• Lin Heng took Dugu Yueli to an immortal flower-covered continent, where they shared their feelings and kissed before she returned to the lower realm.
• The Boundless Heavenly Stele awakened, and Lin Heng meditated for nine years as its inscriptions revealed the powers of age, space, karma, and fate.
• Lin Heng accepted the mortal world and its emotions, broke through the Mortal World Tribulation, and became a Mortal World Immortal.
• Lin Heng opened the Mountains and Rivers Scroll above the river of time and used his arts to search for Hua Qi, who had vanished after the final battle of the Third Epoch.
• Gao Ding arrived and warned Lin Heng to stop, saying that dragging someone from the past would violate the taboo of time and might awaken the sealed sages.

Lin Heng revived Hua Qi by pulling her from the River of Time, then encountered the future Xiao Muyu, who promised they would reunite as Emperor and Empress in the Sixth Epoch. He fled with Hua Qi and Sage Hall to claim his Sage position, while reflecting on the people and years that had brought him there.

• Lin Heng used the Mountains and Rivers Scroll and the Boundless Heavenly Stele to pull Hua Qi out of the River of Time and restore her to life.
• As Sages began to awaken and attack, the future Xiao Muyu appeared, shielded Lin Heng and Hua Qi, and promised they would reunite in the Sixth Epoch.
• Xiao Muyu told Lin Heng to inherit Gao Sheng's Sage position before she vanished back into the future.
• Lin Heng took Hua Qi and Sage Hall, along with more than a thousand fragmented continents, into the gaps between time to claim his Sage position.
• Lin Heng told Hua Qi that eleven more children had joined the family and reflected on his past as time continued onward.