Chapter Summaries

Jiang Jingyi and Lin Heng arranged their allies’ next moves while Chen Changqin attempted to open the Rebirth Bridge with the Blood Soul Banner. As they waited, Bai Yi revealed how the Underworld connected the Fourth Epoch to the Immortal Realm and confessed that he had once wanted to take Lin Heng’s fate energy; he left Lin Heng to face the coming catastrophe as the more capable one.

• Jiang Jingyi agreed to cooperate with Lin Heng, delegated the Western Wasteland to He Qingcang, and planned to claim divine artifacts from the ancient clans.
• Duan Shuyun arranged for Leng Qingyun, Cai Yan, and Leng Qingqiu to accompany Wan Qing to Swallow Cloud City while she and the others guarded the Green Pavilion Sect.
• Chen Changqin used the Blood Soul Banner at an altar to gather souls and try to open the Rebirth Bridge, but it had not appeared after nearly half a day.
• Bai Yi explained to Lin Heng that the Underworld once connected the Fourth Epoch to the Immortal Realm, but the continent’s fracture disrupted passage between them.
• Bai Yi revealed that his teacher’s spatial divine palace had carried him to the Immortal Realm and admitted he had once planned to kill Lin Heng and take his fate energy.
• Bai Yi confessed he had no confidence in surviving the world-destroying tribulation and left Lin Heng to shoulder the burden.

Lin Heng, Bai Yi, and Chen Changqin entered the Underworld to find Chen Changqin’s wife and investigate why the Underworld could not connect with the Immortal Realm. After crossing the Rebirth Bridge and Pool, they passed Ox Head and Horse Head Gatekeepers and went through the Netherworld Ultimate Bliss’s gate, warned that previous visitors had never returned.

• Lin Heng and Bai Yi discussed Earth’s destruction and the technologically advanced Blue Star that replaced it before the Nether Gate appeared.
• Chen Changqin entered the Nether Gate with Lin Heng and Bai Yi, and they crossed a bridge above devouring yin souls and then hopped across the Rebirth Pool.
• At the entrance to the Netherworld Ultimate Bliss, Lin Heng revealed his Imperial Dragon Qi, and Horse Head recognized him as a decipherer like visitors who had come before.
• Ox Head and Horse Head warned that the earlier decipherers had not returned and said Lin Heng would need Immortal Yin’s approval to leave.
• Lin Heng rejected the gatekeepers’ claims about fate and reincarnation, then entered the gate with Bai Yi and Chen Changqin.

Lin Heng, Bai Yi, and Chen Changqin entered Netherworld Ultimate Bliss and went to the Wild Goose Pagoda to meet Immortal Yin. They found a powerful woman who seized Lin Heng’s Nine Heavens Sword and explained that she ruled Ultimate Bliss while three Yin Luo Ancient Emperors ruled the Netherworld.

• Lin Heng reasoned that the gatekeepers had expected them and led Bai Yi and Chen Changqin toward the Wild Goose Pagoda to meet Immortal Yin.
• The gatekeepers panicked when they realized the visitors were alive and fled, allowing Lin Heng and the others to enter the pagoda.
• Lin Heng absorbed the hall’s yin energy and followed a bell chime to the upper floor, where a mysterious woman appeared with a face resembling the Nine Heavens Sword’s Sword Spirit.
• The woman took Lin Heng’s Nine Heavens Sword and called him lovesick, while Lin Heng and Chen Changqin questioned her identity.
• The woman identified herself as Immortal Yin, ruler of Ultimate Bliss, and said the three Yin Luo Ancient Emperors oversaw the Netherworld, where she could send Lin Heng to suffer eternal yin punishments.

Lin Heng, Bai Yi, and Chen Changqin questioned Xiao Muyu about the world-destroying tribulation, the missing Fourth Epoch powerhouses, and Su Lian'er. Xiao Muyu sent them to the Imperial Capital Ancient City to seek answers from Yin Luo, where Hua Qi unexpectedly became corporeal after absorbing yin energy.

• Lin Heng, Bai Yi, and Chen Changqin asked Xiao Muyu about the tribulation, the vanished Fourth Epoch powerhouses, and Lian'er, and she demanded that one of them stay in the Underworld in exchange for answers.
• Xiao Muyu explained that the epochal struggle caused the tribulation and that the two previous waves of decryptors failed because humanity was divided, but she could not explain where the Fourth Epoch powerhouses had gone.
• Xiao Muyu told Chen Changqin that Lian'er was the Su Family's eldest miss and had caught the eye of the Yin Luo Family's young master, then advised him to consider staying with her in Ultimate Bliss.
• Xiao Muyu transported the three to the Imperial Capital Ancient City and warned them not to act arrogantly in the Netherworld; afterward, she and the Nine Heavens Sword's Spirit discussed whether Lin Heng and his companions could win the epochal game.
• Lin Heng, Bai Yi, and Chen Changqin planned to approach Su Lian'er and investigate Yin Luo, then Hua Qi appeared in the city and became corporeal after absorbing yin energy.

Lin Heng and his companions traveled to the Su Family estate in the Netherworld to find Su Lian'er, while Hua Qi revealed she could survive there as a solid-bodied remnant soul. The estate’s servants discovered the visitors were living people and panicked, leaving Su Lian’er curious about what people from the human world looked like.

• Hua Qi emerged from Lin Heng’s Storage Pouch and explained that she could absorb Yin power to sustain her remnant soul.
• Bai Yi questioned Hua Qi’s allegiance, but Hua Qi said their goals currently aligned and that neither of them could influence the struggle between epochs.
• Lin Heng’s group headed for the Su Family estate to meet Su Lian’er and seek clues about the Netherworld and Yin Luo.
• A servant mistook Chen Changqin’s request to see Su Lian’er for an attempt to ask the family for favors, then panicked when Bai Yi revealed they were living people.
• Su Lian’er heard that living people had arrived and asked her servant what people from the human world looked like.

Chen Changqin reunited with Su Lian'er in the Netherworld, where Lian'er had been reborn without memories of their life together. After Chen played the guqin at Su Lian'er's request, she learned that Lian'er was expected to marry Yin Luo's young master and urged her to refuse; Su Lian'er's father arrived as the confrontation began.

• Su Lian'er met Chen Changqin but did not recognize her, though their eyes and voices stirred a sense of familiarity in both of them.
• Su Lian'er invited Chen Changqin and her companions into the manor, where Chen played a joyful tune on the guqin.
• Lin Heng and Bai Yi asked Su Lian'er about the Netherworld, Yin Luo, and whether the dead could return to the human world.
• Chen Changqin asked whether Su Lian'er would marry Yin Luo's young master, and Lian'er admitted she did not want to marry him.
• Chen Changqin urged Su Lian'er to choose for herself, and Su Lian'er's father arrived angrily, accusing the visitors of bewitching his daughter.

Su Xuan tried to force Su Lian'er’s friends away and defend her arranged marriage, but Lin Heng, Bai Yi, and Chen Changqin stood against him. Su Xuan attacked with his Prison Aspect Dharma Body and was immediately sent crashing into a pavilion by black-and-white chess pieces.

• Su Xuan ordered servants to take Su Lian'er away and demanded that Chen Changqin leave the Su Family, arguing that Lian'er’s tribulation and return to Ultimate Bliss would be better without him.
• Lin Heng defended Chen Changqin and condemned Su Xuan for forcing Lian'er to marry for the family’s status, while Bai Yi joined them with his Heaven and Earth Game Board.
• Chen Changqin regained his resolve, and the Wind-Listening Ancient Zither flew from its tomb in the Western Continent through the Nether Gate to him.
• Su Xuan transformed into his Eighteen Prison Aspect Dharma Body and threatened to imprison the three men forever.
• Black-and-white chess pieces struck Su Xuan in the face and sent him flying into a pavilion, shocking his servants.

Bai Yi revealed his powerful heritage and attacked Su Xuan, but Yin Luo intervened with a crushing strike against Lin Heng, Chen Changqin, and Bai Yi. Hua Qi awakened Lin Heng’s incomplete dragon qi to protect them, and Yin Luo withdrew, leaving Su Xuan to face the three survivors.

• Bai Yi revealed that he was the son of Wuji True Yang Venerable and attacked Su Xuan with his chessboard until Su Lian'er stopped him.
• Yin Luo sent a massive black hand toward Su Manor, and Lin Heng, Chen Changqin, and Bai Yi combined their abilities to resist it.
• Su Lian'er pleaded with Su Xuan to make Yin Luo stop, but the black hand swallowed the three defenders.
• Hua Qi used divine power to transform Lin Heng’s incomplete dragon qi and shield the three from Yin Luo’s attack, then collapsed into sleep.
• Yin Luo withdrew after the attack failed, and Su Xuan tried to call the fight a misunderstanding as Chen Changqin confronted him.

Su Xuan stopped fighting and negotiated with Lin Heng and Chen Changqin after Su Lian'er challenged his loyalty to Yin Luo. He revealed that the decryptors came from outside the Fourth Epoch and urged them to seek refuge in the Underworld before the great calamity.

• Su Lian'er shielded Su Xuan and argued that Yin Luo had given the Su Family little, while Chen Changqin and Lin Heng pushed Su Xuan to negotiate instead of fighting.
• Su Xuan sent Su Lian'er away and discussed her tribulation with Lin Heng and Chen Changqin, explaining that Underworld residents went to the human world to undergo tribulation.
• Su Xuan said the Immortal Yin treated living outsiders as anomalies and imprisoned them, while Ox-Head and Horse-Head prevented ordinary people from reaching Ultimate Bliss.
• Su Xuan said the decryptors were not from the Fourth Epoch and advised Lin Heng and the others to come to the Underworld to stay safe from the great calamity.

Lin Heng learned that Hua Qi could be assimilated by the Underworld and began looking for a way to protect her as he prepared to enter the Netherworld. Meanwhile, Dugu Zixuan worried about him, and Jiang Jingyi feared Mu Li would reveal her identity to Meng Yutong.

• Lin Heng refused Su Xuan's offer to hide from the coming disaster and learned that a teleportation array west of Su Manor led to the Netherworld.
• Lin Heng found Su Lian'er caring for Hua Qi, and Su Lian'er warned that Hua Qi could be assimilated by the Underworld if she absorbed too much Yin energy.
• Su Lian'er suggested that Yang energy might protect Hua Qi, so Lin Heng mischievously considered how to give it to her.
• Dugu Zixuan worried about Lin Heng while Shen Yeting told her that Meng Yutong and others had gone to Dragon Ridge Mountain after trouble arose in the Western Wasteland.
• At Dragon Ridge Mountain, Mu Li teased Meng Yutong, while Jiang Jingyi worried that Mu Li might expose her identity.

Jiang Jingyi warned Mu Li that the Mu Clan had to lead the campaign against the ancient clans and confiscate their divine artifacts, then appointed her to help direct the Western Continent Alliance. The chapter ended with Jiang Jingyi revealing that she had hidden her identity since arriving in the Western Continent.

• Mu Li and Meng Yutong joked about their past, and Meng Yutong explained that her cultivation had fallen to the Golden Core Realm before Lin Heng dared pursue her.
• Meng Yutong told Mu Li that the campaign against the ancient clans would soon reach the Mu Clan, then pointed out Jiang Jingyi nearby.
• Jiang Jingyi summoned Mu Li and ordered her clan to lead the seizure of the ancient clans' divine artifacts, warning that refusal could bring the Mu Clan's extermination.
• Murong Ziyan reported that He Qingcang had been gravely wounded while helping send a secret letter, and Jiang Jingyi ordered healing supplies sent to him.
• Jiang Jingyi assigned Mu Li to act as her messenger and help direct the Western Continent Alliance, then revealed she had concealed her identity since arriving.

Jiang Jingyi revealed her hidden identity as the Female Emperor to Mu Li and made her promise to keep it secret, while Mu Li mistook the emperor’s cryptic talk for a test. In the Underworld, Lin Heng tried to revive the unconscious Hua Qi with yang energy, but she woke as he was kissing her and loosening her clothes.

• Jiang Jingyi told Mu Li that she had been secretly inspecting the continent as an ordinary cultivator and ordered her to conceal her identity.
• Murong Ziyan gave Mu Li an abstract explanation of the emperor’s intentions, leading Mu Li to believe she had been tested and could earn advancement for her sect.
• After two and a half days at Su Manor, Lin Heng asked Su Lian'er why Hua Qi had not awakened despite his repeated transfers of yang energy.
• Su Lian'er advised Lin Heng to keep transferring yang energy, so he kissed Hua Qi and began loosening her belt.
• Hua Qi woke, shoved Lin Heng away, and accused him of taking advantage of her until Su Lian'er explained that he had used yang energy to keep her alive.
• Lin Heng claimed he had sacrificed his chastity to save Hua Qi, and she blushed as she asked whether he had done that sort of thing to her.

After Hua Qi recovered, she challenged Lin Heng’s distrust and questioned which Epoch he represented. Lin Heng chose cooperation between the Fourth and Fifth Epochs, removed her Soul Seal, and argued that all three Epochs could share the same world.

• Lin Heng told Hua Qi that he had used his mouth to channel yang qi and asked her to explain her knowledge of Dragon Qi.
• Hua Qi accused Lin Heng of never trusting her and pointed out that he had placed a Soul Seal on her.
• Hua Qi questioned whether the people of the Third Epoch could coexist with the Fifth Epoch, as Lin Heng believed the Fourth and Fifth Epochs could coexist.
• Lin Heng reflected on his place in the Mandate Game and declared that he represented the shared interests of the Fourth and Fifth Epochs.
• Lin Heng removed Hua Qi’s Soul Seal and said the people of all three Epochs could fit in the same world if they did not destroy it.

Lin Heng and his companions set out for the Netherworld to deal with Yin Luo, but Xiao Muyu warned that Yin Luo might trap Lin Heng rather than kill him and redirected them to meet Ye Wusheng. After they departed, Xiao Muyu told Su Xuan that she intended to use him to eliminate Yin Luo.

• Hua Qi explained to Lin Heng that the Fourth Epoch’s Human Path Supreme had needed a god’s help to temper his Dragon Qi.
• Lin Heng, Hua Qi, Bai Yi, and Chen Changqin prepared to leave; Chen Changqin chose to help Su Lian'er escape her unwanted engagement, and Lin Heng declared that they would kill Yin Luo.
• Bai Yi tried to withdraw from the plan, but Lin Heng and Chen Changqin beat him and dragged him along.
• Xiao Muyu warned that Yin Luo might imprison Lin Heng indefinitely, then sent the group through a teleportation array to seek out Ye Wusheng.
• Sword Spirit followed the group at Xiao Muyu’s order, while Su Xuan asked about her plan and she said she would use him to get rid of Yin Luo.

Lin Heng and his companions entered the Netherworld and met Ye Wusheng, who refused to help them find Lin Ziqing and revealed that no living person could leave. He offered them jobs as Soul Arresters or threatened to send them to hell.

• Lin Heng, Hua Qi, Chen Changqin, and Bai Yi arrived in the Netherworld and were escorted to Yin Luo Temple.
• Ye Wusheng recognized that Lin Heng and Bai Yi came from the Fourth Epoch, while Hua Qi was a remnant soul from the Third Epoch.
• Ye Wusheng explained that earlier visitors from the Third Epoch had sought a passage to the Immortal Realm, while Qing Hong had eaten the first group from the Fifth Epoch.
• Lin Heng asked whether Lin Ziqing had come to the Netherworld, but Ye Wusheng said he had never heard of that person.
• Ye Wusheng stopped the group from leaving and gave them the choice to become Soul Arresters or go to hell.

Ye Wusheng trapped Lin Heng, Chen Changqin, Bai Yi, and Hua Qi in Rebirth Prison, where they debated whether Xiao Muyu had anticipated their capture. As Lin Heng tried to revive Hua Qi, the Sword Spirit appeared and coldly called their behavior “Lung fog.”

• Lin Heng refused Ye Wusheng’s demand, and Ye Wusheng used the Life-and-Death Register Fragment to send Lin Heng and the others into Rebirth Prison.
• The group landed on a floating island surrounded by Netherwater, and Lin Heng realized the dense yin energy could turn living people into dead people.
• Chen Changqin suggested Xiao Muyu had foreseen their capture and that their imprisonment might be part of her plan.
• Lin Heng kissed Hua Qi while claiming he was saving her, and Bai Yi teased him for it.
• The Sword Spirit appeared, and Lin Heng recognized her as distinct from Xiao Muyu before she rebuked him and Hua Qi.

The Sword Spirit revealed that she was an incarnation of Xiao Muyu and led Lin Heng to the Life-Death Yin-Yang Scripture in the Netherwater, where he had to comprehend it to escape Rebirth Prison. Lin Heng entered the water and began experiencing an illusory lifetime, ending with his father’s death and a grief that felt real.

• The Sword Spirit explained that Xiao Muyu had sent her to aid Lin Heng and showed him the Life-Death Yin-Yang Scripture, warning that only he could comprehend it.
• Lin Heng used his dragon qi to shield Chen Changqin and Hua Qi, then entered the Netherwater while leaving Bai Yi outside the shield.
• Bai Yi failed to squeeze into the shield and feared that he would be assimilated by yin qi before Lin Heng returned.
• Lin Heng experienced life as a baby, growing up in the memories of an ordinary family.
• Lin Heng watched his father fall ill and die, then felt the grief of standing at his grave despite knowing the life was illusory.

Lin Heng comprehended the Scripture chapters of Parting and Abstinence from Lust through stories of tragic lives, then learned that the Heavenly Secret Sect had intervened in the conflict between the Divine Calculation Pavilion and the Black Bamboo Sacred Land. As He Qingcang tried to recruit Zhong Yue, Jiang Jingyi and Meng Yutong clashed, with Jiang Jingyi considering making the Salted Fish her maid.

• Lin Heng experienced stories of a mortal who lost his family, suffered exploitation in a sect, and died abandoned, then comprehended the Life-Death Yin-Yang Scripture chapter called Parting.
• Lin Heng experienced Su Heng’s story of womanizing, imprisonment, and castration by his wife, then comprehended the chapter called Abstinence from Lust.
• The Heavenly Secret Sect mediated the conflict between the Divine Calculation Pavilion and the Black Bamboo Sacred Land, and the Divine Calculation Pavilion sacrificed Zhong Yue and labeled him a traitor.
• He Qingcang urged Zhong Yue to defect to the Heavenly Profound Continent and promised that its forces would counterattack the Heavenly Action Continent.
• Meng Yutong drew her sword on Jiang Jingyi, who secretly considered making her a maid, while Meng Yutong used an Imperial Token to demand Jiang Jingyi’s obedience.

Jiang Jingyi refused to reveal her identity when Meng Yutong used the Imperial Token to demand that she serve as a maid. After Jiang Jingyi left Murong Ziyan behind to serve Meng Yutong, Mu Li and the others watched from hiding and Mu Li tried to recruit them to bring their junior brother to her for dual cultivation.

• Meng Yutong invoked the Imperial Token and her disciple’s connections to pressure Jiang Jingyi into serving her as a maid.
• Jiang Jingyi refused to yield, warned Meng Yutong that she would eventually beg her, and left Murong Ziyan behind to serve her.
• Meng Yutong made Murong Ziyan massage her shoulders and questioned her about Jiang Jingyi’s secrets and romantic life.
• Mu Li and the others watched from hiding as Mu Li offered to help them suppress Meng Yutong and asked them to bring their junior brother to her for dual cultivation.
• Duan Shuyun and the others rejected Mu Li’s proposal and hurried away, while Mu Li chased after them.

Lin Heng emerged from the Netherwater after a month and completed a dramatic transformation, becoming a Five Elements Body and Life-Death Body at great perfection. He found Hua Qi unconscious again and moved to help her, while Bai Yi and Chen Changqin looked on.

• Bai Yi offered to give Hua Qi yang energy, but Chen Changqin stopped him and used her qin to sustain Hua Qi instead.
• Chen Changqin explained her soulmate bond with Su Lian'er, then argued with Bai Yi about his comments on love.
• Lin Heng emerged from the Netherwater shriveled and weak, then absorbed a mysterious dao pattern that transformed his body and scattered the Dragon Qi shield.
• Lin Heng announced his new cultivation state and learned that Bai Yi had entered the shield through a hole beneath it.
• Lin Heng found Hua Qi unconscious, set up a barrier, and teased her about giving him a little chicken fate.