Chapter Summaries

Jiang Jingyi explained that she needed to borrow Lin Heng’s Humanity Domain to complete her Imperial Path Domain, then told him that imperial fortune would eventually force her onto the Starry Sky Ancient Road. She asked whether their child should have the surname Jiang or Lin.

• Jiang Jingyi told Lin Heng that Dragon Qi and borrowed power from his Humanity Domain were needed to form her Imperial Path Domain, and he protested that she was robbing him.
• Jiang Jingyi said her cultivation had reached its peak and that the Jiang Imperial Clan needed an heir before she eventually went to the Starry Sky Ancient Road.
• Jiang Jingyi explained that imperial fortune would eventually backlash against an emperor, forcing them onto the Starry Sky Ancient Road or killing them, and said the Literary Emperor and Martial Emperor had left without returning.
• Jiang Jingyi asked Lin Heng whether their child should have the surname Jiang or Lin.

Lin Heng tried to persuade Jiang Jingyi not to take the Starry Sky Ancient Road, warning that it was a road of death and explaining his reasons. Jiang Jingyi revealed that Xiao Muyu had warned her and taught her the Imperial Path Domain method.

• Lin Heng proposed that their children divide the Lin, Jiang, and Dugu surnames, with the most talented inheriting the Jiang throne.
• Lin Heng held Jiang Jingyi close and urged her not to take the Starry Sky Ancient Road, saying he did not want their children to grow up without a mother.
• Jiang Jingyi said she might die from backlash regardless and hoped the Starry Sky Ancient Road could offer a path for future generations.
• Lin Heng argued that the road was doomed, citing the Star-Suppressing Tower as Mortal World Immortal's magical artifact and suggesting the Upper Realm had become unlivable.
• Lin Heng told Jiang Jingyi that he had met Xiao Muyu in the Underworld and that she claimed to be his future Dao companion.
• Jiang Jingyi revealed that Xiao Muyu had warned her and taught her the Imperial Path Domain method.

Lin Heng tried to keep Jiang Jingyi from entering the Starry Sky Ancient Road by proposing that she abdicate and send Jiang Zhenqing in her place, but she refused, believing the plan would endanger the Jiang Family. After Lin Heng threatened to give their child the surname Meng, Jiang Jingyi flew into a rage; two days later, the hall door opened as Dugu Zixuan and Dugu Feng waited anxiously for him.

• Lin Heng told Jiang Jingyi that Great Emperors might return to the past on a mission and warned that entering the Starry Sky Ancient Road was likely a one-way journey.
• Jiang Jingyi said Lin Ziqing had neither stopped nor interfered with the royals' decision to enter the Starry Sky Ancient Road.
• Lin Heng urged Jiang Jingyi to abdicate and pass the throne to Jiang Zhenqing so that he would face the danger instead, but Jiang Jingyi refused and explained that the plan could destroy the Jiang Family.
• Jiang Jingyi said she would tell Jiang Zhenqing the truth before she left, but Lin Heng objected and threatened to give their child Meng's surname.
• Jiang Jingyi angrily grabbed Lin Heng by the neck, and two days later Dugu Zixuan and Dugu Feng waited outside the side hall until its door finally opened.

After learning that Martial Ancestor Long Yun had revived and the Northern Domain border was in danger, Lin Heng set out to help, while Dugu Feng asked him for advice on courting powerful cultivators. Lin Heng mocked Dugu Feng’s prowess, leaving him dejected aboard the Cloud Boat.

• Dugu Zixuan told Lin Heng that Long Yun had revived, Wu Ba had lost, the Holy Artifact had been taken, and the Immortal Sect’s defenses were close to collapsing.
• Lin Heng decided to travel to the Northern Domain and ordered his companions to gather, while Dugu Feng followed him onto the Cloud Boat.
• Dugu Feng privately asked Lin Heng how he had won over the Female Emperor and paid him one thousand Spirit Stones for advice.
• Lin Heng teased Dugu Feng about his strength and lack of children, then boasted about his own stamina with his Master and the Female Emperor.
• Dugu Feng became dejected after Lin Heng asked how long he could last, and Dugu Zixuan wondered why he had fallen into a slump again.

Lin Heng and his companions reached the Immortal Sect’s northern front and learned that Long Yun’s Holy Artifact had forced Dugu Qingyang back. Martial Man and Wu Ba accepted responsibility for losing the artifact, while the new defensive line faced a difficult battle ahead.

• Lin Heng found Immortal Sect Pass reduced to ruins and discussed with Meng Yutong the Buddhist Path’s hidden role in the northern conflict.
• Lin Heng teased Meng Yutong about Ye Tian, then went to find Duan Shuyun and Mu Liuxi while Dugu Feng and Dugu Zixuan hurried to the front.
• Dugu Qingyang told the group that Long Yun’s Holy Artifact had greatly amplified his power and forced him back after a hundred moves.
• Martial Man admitted he had failed to make the Holy Artifact acknowledge him as its master and offered to accept punishment.
• Wu Ba took responsibility for personally losing the Holy Artifact.

Lin Heng assessed the heavy losses from Long Yun’s advance and concluded that the Martial Path army’s attack was covering a move at the Bai Clan Ancestral Land. He dispatched his senior sisters and several cultivators to reinforce the east, contact the Centennial Sword Sect in the north, and contain underground forces in the Plateau Forbidden Zone, while Dugu Feng was left behind.

• Dugu Zixuan ended the discussion over the lost Holy Artifact, and Lin Heng arrived and ordered a report on the battle’s casualties and losses.
• Martial Man and True Person Xu reported severe losses among the defenders and revealed that Long Yun’s wounded troops recovered unusually quickly.
• Lin Heng said Long Yun’s advance was likely covering activity at the Immortal Palace in the Bai Clan Ancestral Land and sent Duan Shuyun, five cultivators, and Martial Man east to reinforce Sun Hao’s group.
• Lin Heng ordered Mu Liuxi and True Person Xu to approach the Centennial Sword Sect secretly through the Northern Domain and withdraw if discovered.
• Lin Heng sent Meng Yutong and a team to the Plateau Forbidden Zone to watch for underground Medical Path and Buddhist Path forces, and suggested that his mother accompany her.
• Dugu Feng asked for an important assignment, but Lin Heng told him to stay and watch him show off.

Lin Heng went alone to confront Long Yun, the powerful Martial Ancestor who wielded a Holy Artifact. Long Yun attacked with a devastating slash, and Lin Heng opened his Humanity Domain to meet him.

• Dugu Qingyang warned Lin Heng that Long Yun was an aged powerhouse whose completed Martial Path will and Holy Artifact made him exceptionally dangerous.
• Lin Heng set out for Long Yun’s camp, where Long Er reported that a single opponent was approaching.
• Long Yun recognized Lin Heng as the killer of his eldest disciple, Long Da, and declared that he would take Lin Heng’s life himself.
• Long Yun unleashed the full power of his Holy Artifact in a slash that tore through the sky.
• Lin Heng opened his Humanity Domain to suppress the surrounding Immortal Path laws as Long Yun’s attack reached him.

Lin Heng fought Long Yun, whose Holy Artifact-powered attacks revealed the danger of Lin Heng’s Imperial Dragon Qi and pushed him to unleash his full Martial Path power. Lin Heng survived Long Yun’s devastating slash and grew stronger, but Long Yun then pierced his chest, leaving Lin Heng grinning as the chapter ended.

• Lin Heng blocked Long Yun’s first two slashes with his Five Elements shield and Imperial Dragon Qi, prompting Long Yun to ask why he possessed Dragon Qi resembling the Royal Clan’s.
• Long Yun joined his blood and qi with his Holy Artifact, unleashed a hundred-zhang slash, and promised to let Long Da’s matter rest if Lin Heng survived it.
• Lin Heng withdrew his Humanity Domain and emerged from the dust with a wounded shoulder, having absorbed the slash’s martial blood and qi through the Kunpeng Nirvana Art.
• Long Yun recognized Lin Heng as a future threat and thrust his blade through Lin Heng’s defenses, piercing three inches into his chest.
• Long Yun waited for Lin Heng to despair, but Lin Heng raised his head with the same grin, making Long Yun sense something was wrong.

Lin Heng used the Age Dao to wound Long Yun and continued growing stronger as they fought. Meanwhile, Xiao Muyu offered Jiang Jingyi a way to avoid the Starry Sky Ancient Road in exchange for killing Lin Heng, leaving her stunned.

• Lin Heng used the Age Dao to age Long Yun’s wrist, force out the saber, and reverse his chest wound.
• Long Yun restored his wrist and fought Lin Heng at full power, while Lin Heng’s strength and Dao grew with every exchange.
• Jiang Jingyi neared the completion of her Imperial Path Domain when Xiao Muyu appeared in the Qi Clan Immortal Palace.
• Xiao Muyu revealed that Jiang Jingyi would soon have to take the Starry Sky Ancient Road and offered to resolve her karmic backlash if she killed Lin Heng.
• Xiao Muyu vanished after naming Lin Heng as her target, leaving Jiang Jingyi bewildered.

Lin Heng unleashed the King Path and seized Long Yun’s Holy Artifact, then defeated him with a single strike. Long Yun ordered his forces to withdraw to the Northern Domain, while Lin Heng gave the remaining occupiers three days to leave or be slain.

• Long Yun burned through his remaining qi and blood to launch a decisive strike at Lin Heng.
• Lin Heng awakened the King Path, subdued the Holy Artifact’s patterns, and wrested the great chopping blade from Long Yun.
• Lin Heng used the blade to send Long Yun flying hundreds of li, leaving the battlefield stunned.
• Lin Heng gave the forces occupying the area three days to withdraw or face execution.
• Long Yun admitted that Lin Heng’s King Path had nearly compelled him to surrender and ordered his forces to retreat to the Northern Domain.

After Lin Heng drove Long Yun away, he recovered from the backlash of using King Path and discussed its risks with Hua Qi. Hua Qi then suggested that the mysterious woman from the Flower Temple might be Elm God.

• Lin Heng refused to pursue Long Yun, explained that their fight could still have ended in both sides suffering, and returned Wu Ba’s great chopping blade.
• Lin Heng entered a quiet room and endured the clash between King Path and his Immortal Path foundation as the Hunyuan Immortal Body helped separate the powers.
• Lin Heng concluded that King Path was powerful but dangerous without a divine persona, and Hua Qi advised him to master it gradually.
• Hua Qi told Lin Heng that enemies from other epochs posed the greater threat and identified the Flower Temple woman who pursued Chen Changqin as a possible Elm God.

Lin Heng learned that the Elm God was a minor deity and then discussed the Northern Domain threat with Dugu Qingyang, who questioned whether Long Yun had truly been revived. The chapter left Lin Heng considering that Long Yun might be a puppet carrying a dead sage’s memories.

• Hua Qi explained that the Elm God was a minor god beneath her Flower God position, and Lin Heng worried about Chen Changqin’s situation.
• Lin Heng tried to flirt with Hua Qi, but she pushed him away and left when he suggested she join his friends for a meal.
• Dugu Qingyang warned Lin Heng that the Northern Domain trip might be more complicated than expected and questioned how Long Yun could have survived beyond the Martial Path lifespan limit.
• Dugu Qingyang pointed out that Long Yun should have been sealed on the Heavenly Profound Continent, not revived on the Heavenly Action Continent.
• Dugu Qingyang proposed that Long Yun might be a puppet with Long Yun’s memories, and Lin Heng realized that such puppets could make the threat far more serious.

Lin Heng drove Long Yun’s forces back and established a forward base at the Brahma Immortal Sect before planning the Northern Domain campaign. Dugu Xiu stopped him from harassing Jiang Caiyan, discussed his relationship with Little Li, and then Lin Heng received word that Sun Hao’s group had been ambushed at the Bai Clan Ancestral Land.

• Lin Heng led three counterattacks that pushed Long Yun’s remnants more than four hundred li into the Northern Domain, then moved the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office’s camp to the Brahma Immortal Sect.
• Lin Heng and Wu Ji planned the Northern Domain campaign, including placing hidden sentries to investigate enemy retreat routes and supply lines.
• Lin Heng caught Jiang Caiyan and tried to carry her off for the interrupted training, but Dugu Xiu arrived and Jiang Caiyan escaped.
• Dugu Xiu told Lin Heng she would no longer obstruct his relationship with Little Li for now, but warned him not to mistreat her.
• Lin Heng received a broken message reporting that Sun Hao and the others had been ambushed near the Bai Clan Ancestral Land by an unknown force with a powerful presence watching from the shadows.

After receiving a distress signal from Duan Shuyun, Lin Heng learned that Sun Hao and the others had run into serious trouble and decided to head east with Dugu Feng. Dugu Feng protested the danger but was forced to go, then admitted he had exaggerated his fear to persuade Dugu Qingyang to take the mission seriously.

• Lin Heng received a life-bound jade slip signal from Duan Shuyun, but the connection was cut off before he could learn more.
• Lin Heng explained the emergency to Dugu Qingyang, who stayed behind and ordered Lin Heng and Dugu Feng to go east.
• Dugu Feng complained that the mission might get him killed, and Lin Heng teased him by promising to care for his aunt if he died.
• Dugu Qingyang struck Dugu Feng with his cane and ordered him to stop stalling and leave with Lin Heng.
• As Lin Heng and Dugu Feng flew toward the Eastern Continent, Dugu Feng admitted he had played up his fear so Dugu Qingyang would understand the danger, then hinted that another child might join the family next year.

Lin Heng and Dugu Feng headed to the Bai Clan Ancestral Land after learning that people had entered its maze-like Immortal Palace. Inside, a Buddhist Path envoy and a Medical Path man prepared to trap Lin Heng and plunder the fortune of the Bai Clan’s qilin child.

• Dugu Feng asked Lin Heng about the life-protection talisman he had given him, but Lin Heng admitted he had left it in his storage space and hurried on to save people.
• At the Brahma Immortal Sect, Yun Yao complained that Lin Heng had left without bringing them, while Jiang Caiyan said she had temporarily avoided a tribulation.
• A Buddhist Path envoy and a Medical Path man discussed trapping two intruders in the Immortal Palace, transferring the Bai Clan ancestors’ bones, and detonating the core Formation when Lin Heng arrived.
• Three days later, Lin Heng and Dugu Feng reached the Bai Clan Ancestral Land, where Zhao Anping greeted them, and Lin Heng asked where his First Senior Sister was.

Lin Heng led his companions into the Immortal Palace to find Sun Hao and Bai Yi, who had been missing inside for six days. After fighting through puppets and breaking the shifting maze with Time Force, Lin Heng found Sun Hao gravely wounded and Bai Yi pleading for help.

• Duan Shuyun told Lin Heng that Sun Hao and Bai Yi had entered the Immortal Palace and that puppet-like cultivators had blocked the entrance.
• Lin Heng and his companions defeated the puppets and entered the Immortal Palace.
• Lin Heng used Dao Eye to follow traces through the maze, then broke through its shifting formations with Time Force.
• Lin Heng detected Sun Hao's aura and found him gravely wounded beside a bloodied Bai Yi in a hidden chamber.
• Bai Yi recognized Lin Heng and begged him to save them.

Lin Heng rescued Sun Hao and moved everyone into his System Space as the Immortal Palace collapsed. The Buddhist Path envoy and the old physician believed Lin Heng was trapped, but he had already started breaking through the rubble.

• Bai Yi told Lin Heng and Duan Shuyun that he and Sun Hao had been ambushed by people of the Medical Path and Buddhist Path who were handling corpses and bones.
• Lin Heng used wood-element life force to force the corrosive qi from Sun Hao's wounds, but the Immortal Palace began collapsing before he could finish treating him.
• Lin Heng transferred everyone into his System Space, where he stabilized Sun Hao and learned that the attackers had moved corpses and bones from the mausoleum.
• Uncle Prison suggested that the attackers might be trying to resurrect members of the Bai Clan by giving them bodies, and Lin Heng agreed the theory seemed plausible.
• Outside the ruins, the Buddhist Path envoy and the old physician left with the corpses and bones, believing Lin Heng would be trapped for years.
• A hand broke through the earth inside a crack in the collapsed mountain as Lin Heng dismissed their assumption that he was trapped.

Lin Heng infiltrated a procession of Longevity believers carrying treasures and remains from the Immortal Palace, disguising himself as a menial worker to learn their purpose. Liu Kan revealed the Buddhist Path's history with the Bai Clan and hinted that the old immortal master planned to kill the Buddhists; Lin Heng continued with the group, still undercover.

• Lin Heng followed a procession carrying jade caskets and looted goods, then killed Zhou De and searched his memories to learn the group worshiped Longevity and believed Calamity could grant immortality.
• Lin Heng took Zhou De's clothes and used a human-skin mask to impersonate him, then rejoined the procession.
• Lin Heng asked Liu Kan why they were carrying the Bai Clan's remains, and Liu Kan warned him not to ask questions.
• Liu Kan told Lin Heng that the Buddhist Path had invested in the Bai Clan, then wiped it out after the clan rejected their demands and killed an Elder Sandalwood.
• Liu Kan said the old immortal master would eventually kill the Buddhist Path, while Lin Heng kept his disguise and followed the procession.

Lin Heng deduced that the Medical Path had pursued Bai Zihe after the Buddhist Path helped destroy the Bai Clan, and he followed Liu Kan’s group to a hidden Medical Path stronghold. There, he learned that the camp’s people were preparing a sacrifice in three days in exchange for longevity water, while an unnamed old immortal master commanded both the Medical Path and Buddhist Path forces.

• Lin Heng pieced together how the Buddhist Path and Medical Path had pursued the Bai Clan, and concluded that the Martial Path had later attacked Bai Zihe’s fleeing group.
• Liu Kan led Lin Heng and the others into a concealed camp in the Northern Domain, where Medical Path workers and Buddhist Path envoys were gathered.
• Lin Heng reported to the pharmacy and overheard menials say that a ritual in three days would earn them longevity water that doubled their lifespans.
• Lin Heng spent three days working as a menial and learned that the camp was an outer stronghold whose Medical Path and Buddhist Path forces both followed an unnamed old immortal master.

Lin Heng entered a secret realm with a crowd of Medical Path and Buddhist Path believers and witnessed the old immortal master display ninety-nine captive prodigies for a sacrifice. The old immortal master praised Lin Heng as the ultimate prize, then identified him as an intruder and had the crowd turn toward him.

• Lin Heng followed the believers into a secret realm and joined their chant before the old immortal master appeared.
• The old immortal master raised cages containing ninety-nine captives with rare bloodlines and sealed cultivation.
• The old immortal master named several captives and explained that his followers had gathered them over centuries.
• The old immortal master lamented that they had failed to capture Lin Heng and said he would trade all ninety-nine captives for him.
• The old immortal master sensed Lin Heng among the crowd and asked the believers to find him, directing their attention toward him.