Chapter Summaries

Lin Heng used the Human Emperor Banner to break the Mortal World Immortal’s restrictions, but the immortal then traced Lin Heng’s future and triggered a backlash from a Great Emperor’s karma. The Mortal World Immortal’s reincarnation origin was left on the verge of collapse.

• Lin Heng summoned the Human Emperor Banner, which revealed its golden Human Emperor form and unleashed Imperial Dragon Qi at the Six Paths wheel.
• The Human Emperor Banner tore open the Mortal World Immortal’s restrictions, prompting him to use Time River Soul Seizure against Lin Heng.
• The Mortal World Immortal found Lin Heng’s past blank and searched his future, where he glimpsed the Ultimate Dao Summit.
• A figure atop the Ultimate Dao Summit noticed the Mortal World Immortal and pinned him in the river of time with a glance.
• The Mortal World Immortal suffered a severe backlash that collapsed his Six Paths of reincarnation and destabilized his accumulated reincarnation origin.

The Mortal World Immortal’s attempt to attack Lin Heng through time was shattered by a Great Emperor’s taboo, leaving him badly injured and the Star-Suppressing Tower unstable. Saint Ye’s remnant will then seized control of the tower’s reincarnation foundation, and the Mortal World Immortal prepared to fight back.

• The Great Emperor’s taboo struck the Mortal World Immortal as he peered into Lin Heng’s future, shattering his immortal sense and forcing him out of the river of time.
• The Six Paths Wheel collapsed under the Mortal World Immortal’s injuries, causing the Star-Suppressing Tower to tremble and fade while Su Wanyue, Su Yang, and the others watched from the Star Sea.
• Lin Heng recovered under the protection of the Human Emperor Banner and challenged the Mortal World Immortal, who vowed to sever a strand of Lin Heng’s future karma.
• Saint Ye’s remnant will re-formed from the Human Lotus Root and revealed that it had infiltrated the tower’s Six Paths foundation while the Mortal World Immortal traced Lin Heng’s future.
• The Mortal World Immortal realized Saint Ye was corroding his true soul and taking control of reincarnation, then summoned the tower’s reserves of immortal qi to resist.

Saint Ye fought the Mortal World Immortal inside the Star-Suppressing Tower, using his knowledge of reincarnation to weaken the immortal and seize his true soul. As Saint Ye began replacing the immortal’s will, Lin Heng wondered whether the usurpation would succeed.

• Saint Ye sent Lin Heng to the edge of the Star-Suppressing Tower and confronted the Mortal World Immortal with the power of his remnant will.
• Saint Ye reversed the Human Realm pillar’s force against the Mortal World Immortal, worsening his wound and disrupting his command of the six paths.
• Saint Ye used Great Reincarnation Sacred Runes to sever the Mortal World Immortal’s connection to the Star-Suppressing Tower, while the immortal counterattacked with his sword and true soul.
• Saint Ye split into six phantoms and bound the Mortal World Immortal’s true soul, as the tower shook and its reincarnation space collapsed into chaos.
• The Mortal World Immortal feared that the earlier Emperor Path wound had been arranged to make him vulnerable, but Saint Ye merged his remnant will with the immortal’s true soul and began replacing his will.
• Lin Heng saw the Mortal World Immortal’s immortal aura fade as a Sage aura emerged and wondered whether Saint Ye would succeed.

Saint Ye defeated Mortal World Immortal, took control of the Star-Suppressing Tower, and helped Lin Heng turn the defeated immortal’s remnant soul into the Human Emperor Banner’s new main soul. Lin Heng emerged from the tower to find cultivators waiting for him, then openly defied True Person Jiyue when he demanded the opportunity he had gained.

• Saint Ye erased Mortal World Immortal’s will, seized the Star-Suppressing Tower, and warned Lin Heng that powerful cultivators had surrounded its exit.
• Lin Heng revealed that he was about to break through to Return to Void and refined Mortal World Immortal’s remnant soul into the Human Emperor Banner, greatly increasing its power.
• Lin Heng emerged from the vanished tower and reunited with Su Wanyue and the others as nearby cultivators speculated about the opportunities he had taken.
• True Person Jiyue of Immortal Gourd Island demanded that Lin Heng hand over his opportunity, but Lin Heng mocked him and refused to be intimidated.

Lin Heng claimed to belong to the Changlin Clan to deter the cultivators gathered around the Star-Suppressing Tower, but he wanted them to stay and help him through his tribulation. His bluff drew out several powerful enemies demanding the tower’s opportunity, while a Demon Race fox woman realized he came from beyond the Heavenly Action Continent.

• Lin Heng named the Changlin Clan as his backing, causing many cultivators to fear its reputation and leave.
• Lin Heng provoked True Person Jiyue and said his elders were on their way, but True Person Jiyue demanded that his Dao protector appear.
• Demon Owl True Person and the Profound Wheel Dao Lord arrived with their followers and demanded Lin Heng surrender the Star-Suppressing Tower’s opportunity.
• Lin Heng invited the gathered cultivators to challenge him, while Mu Qiuhong, Liu Lan, and Lu Yunxuan decided not to attack.
• A Demon Race fox woman recognized that Lin Heng was not from the Changlin Clan or the Heavenly Action Continent, and sensed a bloodline connection between his companion and someone from the Heavenly Profound Continent.

Lin Heng lured the cultivators into studying the Taboo Ancient Scriptures displayed by his Human Emperor Banner while Bai Yi and the others escaped. He then broke through to Return to Void and triggered a Heavenly Tribulation, leaving the assembled cultivators trapped with a choice: enter his banner or endure the tribulation with him.

• Lin Heng presented his Human Emperor Banner and claimed the cultivators could comprehend the opportunity without entering it, then signaled Bai Yi, Su Yang, Su Wanyue, and the dog to leave.
• Lin Heng projected the ancient scriptures across the sky and convinced the cultivators to study them, while secretly observing them.
• True Person Demon Owl, True Person Ji Yue, and the others began comprehending the complete scriptures and became absorbed in them.
• Lin Heng released his suppressed breakthrough, shattered the Spirit Transformation bottleneck, and secretly formed a barrier with the Human Emperor Banner.
• Tribulation clouds covered the Star Sea, and True Person Ji Yue realized Lin Heng was undergoing a breakthrough to Return to Void.
• Lin Heng challenged the cultivators to enter his Human Emperor Banner or undergo tribulation with him.

Lin Heng trapped the cultivators pursuing him inside his heavenly tribulation and absorbed its lightning as he broke through. As the tribulation escalated into multiple phenomena and a Thunder Saint Beast appeared, its effects stirred powerful figures in other realms and drew Bai Yi into Xiao Muyu’s plans.

• Lin Heng used the Human Emperor Banner to block True Person Jiyue’s attack while a gold-and-black barrier prevented the pursuing cultivators from escaping.
• The heavenly thunder struck, killing two Spirit Transformation cultivators, while Lin Heng used the Kun Peng Nirvana Art to absorb and refine its power.
• The second wave produced divine weapons, beasts, and mountains-and-rivers phenomena, and the Mountains and Rivers Map began absorbing Lin Heng’s primordial power.
• Su Wanyue and the others watched from a distance as Bai Yi explained that the intruders had been caught in Lin Heng’s karmic tribulation and faced certain death or future retribution.
• A Thunder Saint Beast appeared in the tribulation clouds, while Jiang Jingyi and Xiao Muyu sensed the Genesis Mountains and Rivers Scroll and Nine Inscriptions Sword awakening.
• Xiao Muyu realized Bai Yi had been drawn into the karma and ordered her maidservant to summon Luo Qi, threatening that Bai Yi would die if she refused.

Luo Qi slipped past Luo Bazi to meet Xiao Muyu, who explained that the Epoch Struggle had erupted ahead of schedule and Bai Yi might be caught in Lin Heng’s calamity. Xiao Muyu set off to check on Lin Heng’s tribulation, joking that she would retrieve him from the Underworld if he died.

• Luo Bazi tried to stop Luo Qi from leaving the Netherworld, but she fooled him with a paper double and escaped to Ultimate Bliss.
• Luo Qi asked Xiao Muyu what danger Bai Yi faced after following Lin Heng to the Heavenly Action Continent.
• Xiao Muyu said Lin Heng’s Peach Blossom Calamity could collide with Bai Yi’s life calamity and that the Nine Inscriptions Emperor Sword’s appearance had moved the Epoch Struggle into the open.
• Xiao Muyu revealed that Lin Heng had triggered the premature change himself and had become both an immortal and a saint in the future.
• Xiao Muyu went to check on Lin Heng’s tribulation and said she would go to the Underworld to retrieve him if he was struck dead.

During Lin Heng’s Return to Void tribulation, he endured three devastating phenomena and discovered the Thunder Image Transformation Art on the Boundless Heavenly Stele. He began turning the thunder phenomenon into his own innate life-bound phenomenon, while Hua Qi refused Bai Yi’s request to teach him divine arts until he reached Return to Void.

• The thunder giant beast unleashed three simultaneous phenomena that killed two True Lords, while Lin Heng survived and Demon Owl True Person and Profound Wheel Dao Lord cursed him from within the tribulation.
• Lin Heng focused his divine sense on the Boundless Heavenly Stele and found the Thunder Image Transformation Art, but could perceive only beast-related runes.
• After the giant beast’s lightning tore into him, Lin Heng chose to meet the next strike head-on and used its force to form a second stele that echoed the Boundless Heavenly Stele.
• Hua Qi told Bai Yi that Lin Heng had comprehended the Divine Path’s phenomenon stele, and explained that non-divines could comprehend divine image arts despite their monopoly.
• Bai Yi asked Hua Qi to teach him divine arts, but she refused until he reached Return to Void.

Lin Heng endured twenty days of Heavenly Tribulation and formed an anomaly infused with lightning and Imperial Dragon Qi, but a final sword strike destroyed his divine thought and sent him to another realm. Xiao Muyu announced she would go to the Underworld to retrieve him, while Luo Qi stayed behind to watch Bai Yi and the others.

• Lin Heng survived twenty days of escalating Heavenly Tribulation through his powerful body and the Nirvana Method as his Boundless Heavenly Stele and anomaly continued to evolve.
• Lin Heng formed a five-hundred-zhang giant beast anomaly, which struck the lightning sea and forced the lightning sacred beast to retreat into the thunderclouds.
• Lin Heng realized the anomaly method had offered him a choice among three Heavenly Tribulation manifestations, and that dragon qi had become entangled in his anomaly.
• The lightning giant sword struck Lin Heng after the tribulation seemed ready to end, causing his divine thought to collapse and sending him to another realm.
• Luo Qi reacted in shock as Xiao Muyu said she would return to the Underworld to fish Lin Heng out, then ordered Luo Qi to watch Bai Yi and the others.

After the Heavenly Tribulation, everyone believed Lin Heng had died, but Bai Yi and Saint Ye realized he had survived by entering the Underworld. Lin Heng awoke there with Xiao Muyu, who began shaping his body while warning that delay could leave him a Yin person forever.

• Su Yang and Su Wanyue found Lin Heng’s charred corpse and the Nine Heavens Sword, along with the remains of several Dao Integration cultivators who had died in the tribulation.
• Bai Yi used the Double Fish True Yang Talisman to conclude that Lin Heng had entered the Underworld rather than died, and he suspected the corpse and sword were part of a plan to make others believe Lin Heng was dead.
• Saint Ye confirmed that Lin Heng was alive and ordered the group to leave; after they departed, a Long Forest Clan group dismissed the report of Lin Heng’s death as a ruse and ordered a search for him.
• In the Underworld, Lin Heng woke in pain and learned from Xiao Muyu that she had rescued him from the Rebirth River after the Heavenly Tribulation struck him down.
• Xiao Muyu began preparing to shape Lin Heng’s body, while Lin Heng protested and demanded an explanation.

Lin Heng recovered in the Underworld after Xiao Muyu admitted she had used a trick during his failed tribulation, while Bai Yi and the others reached the Immortal Sea Summit and were drawn into the growing conflict over the Star-Suppressing Tower. They claimed ties to the Changlin Clan before the Dao Clan, and Mu Qiuhong vouched for their story as the region faced an advancing force from the Heavenly Profound Continent.

• Xiao Muyu told Lin Heng he had died during his tribulation, then admitted she had used a trick and refused to correct rumors about his death.
• Bai Yi and the others reached the Immortal Sea Summit, where an unknown force escorted them to the Dao Clan because of the Star-Suppressing Tower.
• Bai Yi told the group to pose as members of the Changlin Clan, and Saint Ye struck him for disrespecting an elder.
• Mu Qiuhong met the group at the Dao Clan and asked about their relationship with the Changlin Clan and the advancing cultivators.
• Su Yang claimed Lin Heng had been a Changlin Clan member who died in the tribulation, while Bai Yi agreed to stay at the Dao Clan for a few days.
• After the group left, Mu Qiuhong assured Clan Head Huang that Lin Heng had belonged to the Lin Clan despite being struck dead by lightning.

Dugu Yueli learned that Lin Heng was believed to have died during his tribulation, while Lin Heng was recovering in the Underworld and received Netherworld currency sent from the mortal world. The chapter left him wondering whether Dugu Yueli had burned it for him.

• Dugu Yueli advised Qin Hongyi to leave the Immortal City's local clans alone for now and proposed punishing the Luo Clan for its abuses.
• Qin Hongyi told Dugu Yueli that Lin Heng had taken the Star-Suppressing Tower but supposedly died during his Return to Void tribulation.
• Dugu Yueli struggled to believe Lin Heng had died and decided she should burn paper money for her brother.
• Xiao Muyu visited Lin Heng in the Underworld and gave him Netherworld currency, saying someone in the mortal world had burned it for him.
• Lin Heng wondered whether Dugu Yueli had sent the paper money and suspected she would be glad to hear he was dead.

Lin Heng learned that his breakthrough had involved hidden trials tied to the Mountains and Rivers Map and that a giant sword had sent him to the Underworld to complete his reincarnation. Xiao Muyu warned that the Epoch Game had begun early and the future might separate him from those he loved, but Lin Heng resolved to protect everyone, including her.

• Lin Heng recovered from his breakthrough and questioned Xiao Muyu about his death and arrival in the Underworld.
• Xiao Muyu explained that the Mountains and Rivers phenomenon had been a shackle tied to the Mountains and Rivers Map, while the giant sword was an outside variable signaling the Epoch Game had begun early.
• Xiao Muyu revealed that the giant sword had sent Lin Heng back to the Underworld to complete the reincarnation he had left unfinished with the Six Paths Balance-Crossing Ruler.
• Lin Heng learned that Bai Yi and Chen Changqin had completed their own reincarnations through their Underworld gains.
• Lin Heng asked whether Xiao Muyu had been his Dao companion and learned that, in the future she knew, he had been alone and his current Master and Senior Sister were absent.
• After Xiao Muyu warned that not everyone might ascend and that choices could separate them, Lin Heng said the future remained uncertain and vowed to protect everyone, including her.

Lin Heng left the Underworld, reunited with Hua Qi, and headed toward the Heavenly Action Continent. In Dingyang City, Jiang Jingyi summoned Meng Yutong after hearing reports of corruption in the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office.

• Lin Heng crossed out of the Underworld and found himself stranded in the Star Sea without his starship.
• Lin Heng brought Hua Qi out of the Human Emperor Banner, told her how he survived the Star-Suppressing Tower and Heavenly Tribulation, and set off with her toward the Heavenly Action Continent.
• Jiang Jingyi investigated the mountain-and-river phenomenon and learned the Dynasty's great fortune had not been affected.
• Murong Ziyan reported that Meng Yutong's group had accepted unvetted recruits and bribes while organizing the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office.
• Jiang Jingyi asked Murong Ziyan to invite Meng Yutong to the palace, and Meng Yutong agreed to go and prepare to travel to the Heavenly Action Continent.

Jiang Jingyi confronted Meng Yutong over the gifts accepted at Prince Qi's Mansion while preparing the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office. She explained that the Left Faction was using the gifts to undermine the office, and that memorials were calling for its director to be replaced or the office abolished.

• On her way to the Dao Palace, Meng Yutong heard Murong Ziyan explain that corrupt officials were being sent into exile, but she did not connect the warning to herself.
• Jiang Jingyi's chains subdued Meng Yutong when she entered the hall, and Jiang accused her of accepting gifts from representatives visiting Prince Qi's Mansion.
• Meng Yutong defended the gifts, saying the visitors would not stamp their clan seals otherwise and that the exchanges were tied to purchases of Star-Crossing Artifacts.
• Jiang told Meng Yutong that the visitors were setting her up to ruin the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office and revealed that memorials demanded its director's removal or the office's abolition.

Jiang Jingyi persuaded Meng Yutong to surrender all the gifts she had received and tipped her off about a potentially valuable spirit-vein mine. As the Heavenly Profound Continent prepared for its final mobilization, Lin Heng reached Anqiu Immortal City, where a riot broke out soon after his arrival.

• Jiang Jingyi offered Meng Yutong a choice between taking the blame alone or turning over all the gifts, and Meng Yutong agreed to surrender them.
• Jiang Jingyi told Meng Yutong that Lin Heng had reached the Return to Void stage and predicted Meng Yutong would eventually need her help controlling him.
• Jiang Jingyi advised Meng Yutong to ask Murong Ziyan about a newly discovered spirit-vein mine in the Waterside Land, and Murong Ziyan explained its upcoming auction.
• Meng Yutong handed over the wealth she had received and exchanged it for the mine, while the Heavenly Profound Continent began preparations for its final mobilization.
• The Little Demoness, Black Robe, Little Senior Sister, Senior Niu, and others gathered in the Eastern Continent as Lin Heng crossed the Star Sea and entered Anqiu Immortal City with a merchant caravan.
• A riot broke out in Anqiu Immortal City on the night Lin Heng arrived.

Lin Heng entered Peace Hill Immortal City and offered to help its City Lord resist the Dugu Clan, proposing a false surrender to lure their Kirin Girl into the city. After Hu Chaozong went to consult the city's clans, Lin Heng revealed to Hua Qi that he intended to test Moon Glass.

• Lin Heng learned that the An Clan had been destroyed for conspiring with the Dugu Clan and that Peace Hill Immortal City feared an attack.
• Hu Chaozong sensed an intruder in his mansion and found Lin Heng waiting in the eastern side hall.
• Lin Heng claimed to be a Changlin Clan disciple who had survived the Heavenly Tribulation near the Star-Suppressing Tower, then offered to help defend the city.
• Lin Heng suggested that Hu Chaozong pretend to submit and lure the Dugu Clan's Kirin Girl into Peace Hill Immortal City so they could capture her.
• Hu Chaozong went to discuss Lin Heng's plan with the city's clans, while Lin Heng told Hua Qi he wanted to test Moon Glass.

Hu Chaozong rallied Anqiu Immortal City's family heads to risk Lin Heng's empty city stratagem against the Dugu Clan, then asked Lin Heng to explain the full plan. After leaving the City Lord's Mansion, Lin Heng told Hua Qi to reveal the strategy to Dugu Yueli in Linxiang Immortal City.

• Hu Chaozong told four family heads that Lin Heng, the survivor of the Star-Suppressing Tower tribulation, had arrived in Anqiu City and described the threat of the Dugu Clan's invasion.
• Hu Chaozong proposed an empty city stratagem and argued that capturing Dugu Yueli could save Anqiu Immortal City; all four family heads agreed to take the gamble.
• The next morning, Lin Heng explained the complete stratagem to Hu Chaozong, who praised his cunning and ordered a subordinate to watch him.
• At a North Street wine house, Lin Heng summoned Hua Qi and asked her to go to Linxiang Immortal City and reveal the stratagem to Dugu Yueli and her companions.

Lin Heng sent Hua Qi to deliver a letter meant to draw Dugu Yueli toward Anqiu Immortal City, while a second message claimed the City Lord's Mansion wanted to surrender. Dugu Yueli suspected a scheme but decided to enter the seemingly undefended city with Qin Hongyi and Dugu Hongxuan to investigate.

• Lin Heng told Hua Qi he planned to use Dugu Yueli's people to help take Anqiu Immortal City without a fight, then gave her a letter to deliver as someone from the An Clan.
• Hua Qi delivered the letter to the Dugu Clan in Linxiang Immortal City, where Dugu Yueli learned that the An Clan had been nearly wiped out two nights earlier.
• A messenger brought a scroll claiming that Anqiu City's City Lord's Mansion wanted to surrender, and Dugu Yueli suspected someone was orchestrating the strange messages.
• Dugu Yueli overruled her relatives' objections and decided to investigate Anqiu Immortal City, believing the apparent empty-city stratagem might reveal the enemy's panic.
• Two days later, Dugu Yueli, Qin Hongyi, and Dugu Hongxuan found Anqiu's gates unguarded and entered the city to probe whether it was truly undefended.