Chapter Summaries

Meng Yutong enlisted Duan Shuyun and Mu Liuxi to help restrain Lin Heng’s lustful behavior, while Lin Heng woke to find his legs numb and learned Dugu Yueli had broken them herself. He accepted her explanation that the punishment would help the Ancestors tolerate their relationship, then pulled her into his arms.

• Meng Yutong persuaded Duan Shuyun and Mu Liuxi to help guide Lin Heng away from a lustful path and keep their plans secret.
• Lin Heng woke after two days with a lingering soul ache and no feeling in his legs.
• Dugu Yueli admitted that she had used Ancestor's wooden staff to break Lin Heng's legs, while Yun Yao watched and suppressed her laughter.
• Dugu Yueli explained that Qingyang had said Lin Heng needed to be punished so the Ancestors could justify letting their relationship continue.
• Lin Heng accepted her reasoning and pulled Dugu Yueli into his arms, then noticed something seemed wrong.

Lin Heng learned that Dugu Yueli had persuaded Dao Ancestor to break both his legs instead of one each, though a seal had only stopped him from moving them. Two guards then begged him to save Jiang Zhenqing from the Female Emperor’s order to cripple his cultivation, and Lin Heng agreed to intervene if Jiang Zhenqing would work for him.

• Dugu Yueli confessed that she had convinced Dao Ancestor to count her broken leg against Lin Heng, leaving both his legs sealed.
• Dugu Yueli and Yun Yao left Lin Heng to rest, warning him that his master and senior sisters planned to exhaust him when he recovered.
• Lin Heng examined his legs and discovered that a strange force had sealed his meridians rather than broken them.
• Two of Jiang Zhenqing’s guards arrived and begged Lin Heng to save their prince from the Female Emperor’s order to cripple his cultivation within three days.
• Lin Heng agreed to visit Jiang Zhenqing if he would lower his head and work for him, and the guards warned that the deadline was nearly over.

Lin Heng went to visit the imprisoned Jiang Zhenqing after two guards sought his help, while Jiang Jingyi learned of the visit and decided to go see what he intended. Jiang Zhenqing refused to beg Lin Heng, but his guards urged him to consider the fate of everyone who had joined his scheme.

• Lin Heng sat in his rocking chair and let two anxious guards push him to see Jiang Zhenqing.
• Jiang Jingyi heard that Lin Heng had gone to visit her brother and decided to follow, intending to help Jiang Zhenqing cripple his cultivation herself.
• Jiang Zhenqing saw Lin Heng arrive with his guards and angrily accused the guards of betraying him.
• The guards admitted they had brought Lin Heng on their own initiative to save Jiang Zhenqing from losing his cultivation.
• One guard warned Jiang Zhenqing that his accomplices would be purged if the Female Emperor punished them after his return.

Lin Heng taunted the crippled Jiang Zhenqing and proposed that they cooperate so he could eventually take control of the Jiang Dynasty. Jiang Jingyi revealed herself before their confrontation could continue.

• Jiang Zhenqing hesitated to ask Lin Heng for help after his guards urged him to consider the people who would suffer if he fell.
• Lin Heng mocked Jiang Zhenqing’s failed rebellion and claimed that Lin Heng, not Jiang Jingyi, was his true enemy because he intended to take over the Jiang Dynasty.
• Lin Heng explained that he planned to use Jiang Jingyi and her future heirs to claim the Jiang family’s realm, angering Jiang Zhenqing and Jiang Jingyi, who was listening in secret.
• Lin Heng offered to protect Jiang Zhenqing in exchange for his cooperation, but Jiang Zhenqing refused and tried to attack him.
• Jiang Jingyi announced her presence as Jiang Zhenqing charged at Lin Heng.

Jiang Jingyi caught Lin Heng boasting about taking her territory and sealed him for punishment, then offered her defeated brother Jiang Zhenqing a chance to atone by staying on the Heavenly Action Continent as her hidden agent. Lin Heng remained captive with Murong Ziyan, who mocked him as he insisted he was Jiang Jingyi’s husband and future imperial consort.

• Jiang Jingyi appeared in the dungeon with Murong Ziyan and heard Lin Heng and Jiang Zhenqing discuss rebellion and taking her territory.
• Jiang Zhenqing urged Jiang Jingyi to punish Lin Heng, while Lin Heng tried to dismiss his remarks as a joke and professed loyalty.
• Jiang Jingyi sealed Lin Heng’s mouth, bound him to his rocking chair, and ordered Murong Ziyan to take him away before telling Jiang Zhenqing she would punish him later.
• Jiang Zhenqing prepared to stab himself with the Dragon-Slaying Saber, but Jiang Jingyi stopped him and offered him a chance to serve her on the Heavenly Action Continent by keeping the Dugu and Changlin clans in balance.
• Jiang Zhenqing accepted Jiang Jingyi’s offer and knelt to thank her, while she warned that she would personally behead him if he betrayed her.
• Murong Ziyan brought Lin Heng to a side hall and taunted him, and Lin Heng claimed he was Jiang Jingyi’s husband and future imperial consort.

Lin Heng taunted Murong Ziyan and was confronted by Jiang Jingyi, who revealed she knew what he had said about her and ordered his powers sealed. When Lin Heng tried to use his Humanity Domain against her, Jiang Jingyi unleashed her own Imperial Path Domain, revealing that she had been hiding her strength.

• Murong Ziyan told Lin Heng that Wen Zhou had been castrated and made assistant chief steward, while hinting Lin Heng might become chief steward.
• Lin Heng threatened Murong Ziyan with a future as his servant, but Jiang Jingyi arrived and rebuked Murong Ziyan for overstepping.
• Jiang Jingyi confronted Lin Heng about his boasts in the underground fortress and ordered him dragged away, saying she would seal him indefinitely unless he behaved.
• Lin Heng tried to activate his Humanity Domain, but Jiang Jingyi countered it with her Imperial Path Domain and reminded him that an outstanding hunter could disguise herself as prey.

Lin Heng revealed to Sun Hao that Bai Zihe had been an impostor and connected Sun Hao’s past to a massacre in the Western Continent. The clues suggested Sun Hao had ties to the Bai Clan’s ancestral land, leaving him shocked.

• Jiang Jingyi sealed Lin Heng’s power with a talisman and ordered Murong Ziyan to take him away as punishment for his private remarks.
• After returning to his territory, Lin Heng summoned Sun Hao to tell him secrets uncovered from recovered memories.
• Lin Heng explained that the man known as Bai Zihe was actually Bai Ge, who had taken the identity of his missing infant cousin.
• Lin Heng told Sun Hao that Long Da’s memories showed a group of cultivators arriving from beyond the stars and being ambushed near a mountain amid devouring black mist.
• Lin Heng linked the ambush, Sun Hao’s discovery on Black Mountain, and the armor map, suggesting the map’s Immortal Palace was the Bai Clan’s ancestral land; Sun Hao reacted with shock.

Lin Heng explained to Sun Hao that he was the true Bai Zihe and laid out how the Medical Path, martial dao, and Buddhist dao were entangled in schemes that could hasten a great tribulation. He sent Sun Hao to investigate what the Bai Clan had guarded in the Immortal Palace, while keeping Sun Hao’s identity secret.

• Lin Heng confirmed that Sun Hao was the true Bai Zihe, whose clan had been hunted by Long Da and the others.
• Lin Heng argued that martial dao’s apparent immunity to Calamity had been tampered with and described martial dao and Buddhist dao as being used by other forces.
• Lin Heng accused the Medical Path of seeking longevity through a dangerous bargain with First Epoch beings that could bring the Immortal Realm’s great tribulation forward.
• Sun Hao offered to follow Lin Heng’s instructions, and Lin Heng told him to investigate the Northern Domain and the Bai Clan’s guarded armor in the Immortal Palace without revealing his identity.
• Lin Heng gave Sun Hao the Six Paths Crossing Ruler for protection and said he would care for Sun Hao’s wife after he left.

After Lin Heng was sealed, the Inner Court’s factions competed to recruit Dugu Yueli. She escaped both invitations and wondered whether she could form a faction of her own.

• Lazy Master and the others learned that Lin Heng had been sealed and angrily sought justice from the Female Emperor and Granny.
• Yun Yao intercepted Dugu Yueli and tried to recruit her with promises of food and advice about managing Lin Heng.
• Dugu Yueli blushed at Yun Yao’s explicit advice and hurried away without agreeing to join her group.
• Leng Qingqiu then invited Dugu Yueli to join her faction, warning her against Yun Yao and describing her plans to form a separate household.
• Dugu Yueli escaped again and wondered whether she could avoid choosing sides by starting her own faction.

Dugu Yueli visited Lin Heng, who was recovering from his leg injuries, and they discussed how to handle the remaining Immortal Clan forces in the Central Domain. Lin Heng recognized that her plan considered the fate of the entire Epoch, leaving him impressed by her broader perspective.

• Dugu Yueli decided to visit Lin Heng after reflecting on the factions in Brother Heng's Inner Court.
• Lin Heng complained about his broken legs and tried to pull Dugu Yueli close, but she reminded him that the Female Emperor had sealed him.
• Dugu Yueli asked Lin Heng how to deal with the Immortal Clan remnants occupying the last third of the Central Domain.
• Dugu Yueli argued against exterminating the Immortal Clan, saying unification should preserve opportunities for people to prove the Dao and for future geniuses to change the Epoch.
• Lin Heng listened to Dugu Yueli's reasoning and realized that her perspective reached beyond that of many Holy Masters and Sect Leaders.

Lin Heng and Dugu Yueli discussed uniting the human race to reopen the path to immortality, then argued over whether she should become the Female Emperor and he should serve as regent. Dugu Yueli comforted Lin Heng about his fear of losing everyone, but their quiet moment ended when Lin Yi barged in and saw them pressed together.

• Lin Heng urged Dugu Yueli to recruit and appease forces while cutting down those who threatened the effort to reopen the immortal path.
• Dugu Yueli told Lin Heng that Yun Yao and Leng Qingqiu had tried to recruit her into their Inner Court factions, but she had agreed to neither.
• Dugu Yueli declared she would become the Female Emperor and offered Lin Heng the choices of male favorite or regent, explaining that his rule would complicate the Inner Court and the nation's fortune.
• Lin Heng worried that a future in which he stood alone meant many people would leave him, and Dugu Yueli urged him to treasure the happiness of the present.
• Lin Yi strode into the side hall, saw Lin Heng and Dugu Yueli pressed together, and reacted with shock.

Lin Yi interrupted Lin Heng and Dugu Yueli, then brought news that the Old Lin Family had prepared Heaven and Earth Stones for him to fuse with Dao Laws. At Changlin Immortal Mountain, Lin Heng kept his distance from Lin Wenyue and warned that the Dugu Clan might target the family, offering to reserve them a comfortable mine shaft if they fought.

• Lin Yi caught Lin Heng and Dugu Yueli together, teased them, and drove Dugu Yueli to leave before they could kiss.
• Lin Yi asked whether the Old Lin Family should prepare betrothal gifts for Dugu Yueli, but Lin Heng rejected the offer because he did not want to appear allied with the family.
• Lin Yi told Lin Heng that Hua Qi and Saint Ye had been visiting the Old Lin Family, which had gathered Heaven and Earth Stones and condensed free Dao Laws for him.
• Lin Heng and Lin Yi flew to Changlin Immortal Mountain, where Lin Wenyue was waiting for them.
• Lin Heng addressed Lin Wenyue as Fellow Daoist and warned that the Dugu Clan might deal with the Old Lin Family after Heavenly Action Continent was unified, then offered to arrange better mine shafts if they fought.

Lin Heng visited the Old Lin Family’s hidden dao-refining hollow and discovered that Saint Ye had refined a strand of Age Dao from Heaven and Earth Stones. Saint Ye offered it as a foundation for Lin Heng’s future Dao Integration, while Lin Heng mocked the Old Lin Family by calling Saint Ye his real grandpa.

• Lin Wenyue led Lin Heng through Changlin Immortal Mountain to the hidden place where Heaven and Earth Stones were used to refine free great daos.
• Lin Heng found Saint Ye and Hua Qi arguing over whether he should try one of the refined daos.
• Saint Ye pointed Lin Heng to a white strand of great dao, and Lin Heng used his Dao Eye to identify it as Age Dao connected to time.
• Saint Ye explained that he had extracted and condensed the Age Dao from twenty-seven Heaven and Earth Stones for Lin Heng to inscribe onto his Foundation Stone when he reached Dao Integration.
• Lin Heng thanked Saint Ye and called him his real grandpa, taking another pointed jab at Lin Wenyue and Lin Yi.

Lin Heng learned that the golden Great Dao was the Divine King Lineage’s King Path, and Hua Qi and Saint Ye argued over whether he should try to refine it. He chose to begin with the Age Dao, while the others continued their political maneuvering and Jiang Jingyi asked Dugu Zixuan whether Lin Heng should be sealed.

• Hua Qi explained that the King Path granted divine royal authority, and she urged Lin Heng to try mastering it despite Saint Ye’s warning about its dangers.
• Lin Heng decided to attempt the King Path eventually, but followed Saint Ye’s advice to practice refining the Age Dao first.
• Lin Heng used his five-element True Yuan and divine sense to connect with the Age Dao, enduring the compressed weight of time as it entered his sea of consciousness.
• A Time Sword anchored the chaotic Long River of time in Lin Heng’s sea of consciousness, and he gradually refined the Age Dao over eight hours.
• Jiang Jingyi played a projection of Lin Heng plotting to usurp the Jiang Clan’s realm and asked Dugu Zixuan whether Xiao Linzi should be sealed.

Dugu Zixuan negotiated with Jiang Jingyi to lift Lin Heng’s seal and let the Female Emperor punish him, while urging Jiang Jingyi to consider the Jiang Dynasty’s succession before her dangerous journey to the Starry Sky Ancient Road. Meng Yutong accepted the arrangement, leaving Lin Heng to face the Female Emperor and atone for his actions.

• Dugu Zixuan watched Lin Heng’s projection and admitted his words about taking the Jiang Dynasty’s lands had gone too far, though she argued he had only been provoking Jiang Zhenqing and bluffing the Shadow Alliance.
• Dugu Zixuan asked Jiang Jingyi to lift the seal on Lin Heng, but Jiang Jingyi initially refused to discuss it.
• Dugu Zixuan argued that Jiang Jingyi needed an heir to support the Jiang Dynasty before attempting the Starry Sky Ancient Road, and Jiang Jingyi agreed to lift the seal and let Lin Heng be punished.
• Dugu Zixuan told Meng Yutong that Lin Heng should compensate Jiang Jingyi for his actions, and Meng Yutong agreed to let him atone.

Lin Heng emerged from the Dao Fusion Chamber having refined the Age Dao and reached the peak of Return to Void, then discussed how the Human Path might connect the Immortal and Divine Paths. A military report announced that Martial Ancestor Long Yun had revived and was advancing south, prompting Lin Heng to return to the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office's main camp.

• Lin Heng left the Dao Fusion Chamber with his legs restored, the Age Dao refined within him, and his realm advanced to the peak of Return to Void.
• Hua Qi and Saint Ye discussed the risks of combining the Immortal Path and King Path, while Lin Heng considered how the Human Path might unite their origins.
• Lin Wenyue warned that cultivators were being treated like gu amid the broken Starry Sky Ancient Road and the unknown great tribulation.
• Lin Xiaobai delivered a report that Martial Ancestor Long Yun had revived and was marching south with several thousand followers to avenge his slain eldest disciple.
• Lin Heng learned that Long Yun had gravely wounded the Sword Sect's old ancestor and ordered a return to the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office's main camp.
• Lin Heng summoned the leaders of the various factions to discuss the report.

Lin Heng arranged for Wu Ba to confront the reawakened Long Yun while investigating the Martial Ancestor’s advance and suspicious movements toward the Bai Clan Ancestral Land. He asked Dugu Yueli to rebuild the Northern Domain intelligence network, then learned that the Dao Ancestor had disappeared after he beat her.

• Wu Ba explained that Long Yun had voluntarily entered slumber and had been a Martial Venerable-level powerhouse, then admitted he could not reliably defeat him.
• Lin Heng gave Wu Ba a Holy Artifact and ordered him to hold Long Yun back, probe his strength, and protect himself while the others prepared.
• Lin Heng reviewed reports of the Martial Ancestor leading thousands south and found that suspicious teams had traveled east toward the Bai Clan Ancestral Land.
• Dugu Yueli agreed to send Nine Dust Alliance agents to rebuild the Northern Domain intelligence network, establishing its foundations within three days.
• Lin Heng asked why the Dao Ancestor had not appeared, and Dugu Yueli said she had disappeared after he beat her.

Long Yun learned that Lin Heng had killed Long Da and decided to personally confront him, while the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office arrived at the battered Immortal Sect Pass without Lin Heng. The chapter ended with Wu Ba facing the Immortal Sects’ complaints about their losses and lack of support.

• Long Er told Long Yun that Long Da’s soul jade had shattered and vowed to avenge his senior brother.
• Long Yun declared that he would personally seek out Lin Heng and set off toward the Immortal Sect Pass after hearing that the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office had arrived.
• Wu Ba and Martial Man entered the ruined pass, where the three great Immortal Sects had suffered repeated attacks and heavy casualties.
• True Person Xu reported that Long Yun had beaten Ancestor Xu with one punch, while Wang Zhenyuan and the Dao-Seeking Immortal Sect steward complained about their losses and lack of resources.

Wu Ba confronted Long Yun’s forces and defeated Long Er with a single slash, then struck again as Long Er tried to flee. Long Er cried out for Long Yun to save him as the vast saber radiance closed in.

• Wu Ba left the immortal pass to face Long Yun, who sent his disciple Long Er to fight him.
• Long Er attacked Wu Ba with his heavy whip, but Wu Ba’s saber strike pulverized Long Er’s right arm and knocked the whip away.
• Long Er fled after realizing he could not win, and Wu Ba pursued him with a second slash that carved a huge ravine through the battlefield.
• Long Er shouted for Long Yun to save him as the saber radiance bore down on him.

Long Yun defeated Wu Ba, seized the Holy Artifact, and sent him back to summon Lin Heng. Meanwhile, Lin Heng remained chained in Qi Clan Immortal Land and eagerly awaited the Female Emperor Sister.

• Long Yun blocked Wu Ba’s blade, revealed himself as the Martial Ancestor, and dismissed Wu Ba’s accusations before attacking him.
• Long Yun overpowered Wu Ba and used his pure Martial Path will to take the Holy Artifact, which he said he had helped forge.
• Long Yun spared Wu Ba and ordered him to tell Lin Heng to come in person; Wu Ba retreated to Martial Man and Wu Ji, badly wounded.
• Wu Ba warned Martial Man and Wu Ji that Long Yun was too strong and that they needed Lin Heng or Supreme to act.
• Lin Heng lay restrained by rune chains in Qi Clan Immortal Land and urged the Female Emperor Sister to take advantage of his helplessness while privately anticipating the seal’s release.