Chapter Summaries

After Lin Heng killed Ancient Demon Venerable Lin Yuan, Buddha Master Yi Du and Jiang Wu sent forces to capture or kill him. Lin Heng began refining a forbidden pill from Lin Yuan’s remains, only to trigger a Heavenly Tribulation.

• Fa Ming, Fa Yan, and Fa Yuan found Yi Du’s origin avatar shattered and learned that Lin Heng had slain Lin Yuan with the Supreme Bone Sword.
• Yi Du gave Fa Ming the Misfortune-Crossing Lotus Lamp and ordered him to join the hunt for Lin Heng.
• Jiang Wu sent Huo Zhong, Xue Li, and Dong Ke after Lin Heng with the Saint-Slaying Formation, while Han Fei arranged for the Medical Path to assist.
• Fa Ming and the other four dispatched agents met at the border of the Northern Domain and the Demon Domain to pursue Lin Heng.
• Lin Heng used Lin Yuan’s remains to begin refining a forbidden blood pill, drawing in spiritual energy and provoking a Heavenly Tribulation.

Lin Heng refined the Five-Colored Demon Venerable Blood Pill while enduring a devastating Heavenly Tribulation, then confronted the Heavenly Dao when it ordered him to stop. He threatened to keep Jiang Jingyi trapped in the Netherworld and left the Heavenly Dao silent but furious.

• Lin Heng used the heavenly lightning, his essence blood, and Green Lotus Dao Fire to refine the Demon Venerable Blood Pill as Dugu Feng and Lin Yi watched from hiding.
• Lin Heng endured the seventh lightning bolt until the Five-Colored Demon Venerable Blood Pill formed, but the tribulation clouds thickened instead of dispersing.
• The Heavenly Dao commanded Lin Heng to stop and warned that further defiance would bring heavenly punishment.
• Lin Heng accused the Heavenly Dao of targeting him while ignoring hidden threats, and said it could not reach Jiang Jingyi in the Netherworld.
• Lin Heng threatened to have Xiao Muyu refine the Female Emperor into a yin person, prompting the Heavenly Dao to fall silent before renewing its furious pressure.

After refining a Five-Colored Demon Venerable Blood Pill through Heavenly Tribulation, Lin Heng was surrounded by five powerful pursuers who demanded the pill. Dugu Feng and Lin Yi joined him, but the attackers trapped them in a Saint-Slaying Formation that nullified Lin Heng’s domain, leaving him facing a dangerous battle.

• Lin Heng survived the Heavenly Tribulation, claimed the Five-Colored Demon Venerable Blood Pill, and spotted people watching from nearby.
• Huo Zhong, Xue Li, Dong Ke, Fa Ming, and Su Ji confronted Lin Heng, and Fa Ming demanded that he surrender the pill.
• Lin Heng refused and vowed to use the pill to reach Dao Integration and trample the Northern Domain.
• Dugu Feng and Lin Yi ambushed Fa Ming and Huo Zhong, but Huo Zhong’s barrier and Fa Ming’s Misfortune-Crossing Lotus Lamp stopped their attacks.
• Huo Zhong, Xue Li, Dong Ke, Fa Ming, and Su Ji joined forces to trap Lin Heng, Dugu Feng, and Lin Yi, while the Saint-Slaying Formation blocked Lin Heng’s Human King Path domain.
• Lin Heng recognized the formation as a valuable spatial artifact and rejected Huo Zhong’s demand to surrender.

Lin Heng broke the Saint-Slaying Formation with help from Yu Ling and the Great Flame Demon Domain demons, but Jiang Wu's avatar attacked before he could finish off the surviving enemies. Lin Heng swallowed the Demon Venerable Blood Pill and triggered a Dao Integration tribulation that trapped his enemies, while Jiang Wu realized the tribulation carried an anomalous phenomenon.

• Yu Ling and the Great Flame Demon Domain demons arrived to aid Lin Heng, who arranged them into the Seven Stars Five Wheels Dragon Slaying Array.
• Lin Heng exploited the Saint-Slaying Formation's brief weakness and shattered it with a Time Sword strike, sending Huo Zhong, Xue Li, and Dong Ke flying.
• Jiang Wu's avatar emerged from the broken formation, overpowered Lin Heng, and warned him that swallowing the Demon Venerable Blood Pill would kill him.
• Lin Heng swallowed the pill, endured its violent energy, and triggered a Dao Integration tribulation that sealed Jiang Wu's avatar and the surviving enemies inside a five-thousand-zhang Thunder Domain.
• Lin Heng absorbed the first lightning strike to advance toward a seventeenth Dao ring, while Jiang Wu's avatar recognized that the tribulation was an anomalous phenomenon.

Lin Heng endured an anomalous Dao Tribulation while Jiang Wu’s avatar and the others attacked him, using up magical artifacts to survive as he advanced toward Dao Integration. As the Black Pearl absorbed the tribulation’s power and his other energies, his sixteen Great Dao rings began inscribing themselves onto it without any backlash.

• A nine-story lightning tower descended from the tribulation clouds and unleashed heavenly punishment, trapping Jiang Wu’s avatar, Fa Ming, Huo Zhong, Xue Li, and Dong Ke within its range.
• Jiang Wu’s avatar ordered everyone to kill Lin Heng, while the tower’s second wave battered him and the attackers struck from three sides.
• Lin Heng blocked attacks with a succession of magical artifacts, which Dugu Feng and Lin Yi recognized as treasures stolen from the Long Clan and the Pengs, among others.
• Lin Heng endured the lightning, enemy attacks, and rampaging demon core energy while pushing his seventeenth Dao ring toward completion.
• Lin Heng used the Spirit-Devouring Art to feed heavenly punishment and other energies into the Black Pearl, where his sixteen Dao rings began inscribing themselves without resistance.

Lin Heng’s Chaos Pearl absorbed heavenly punishment as he began comprehending the Heaven Punishment Dao, provoking the Heavenly Dao to try to kill him. As Lin Heng neared death, Dugu Feng and Lin Yi rallied the cultivators and demons to help him resist Heaven.

• The Great Dao rings merged into the Chaos Pearl, which began inscribing the Heaven Punishment Dao as Lin Heng absorbed heavenly punishment.
• Jiang Wu recognized what Lin Heng was comprehending and ordered Huo Zhong, Fa Ming, and Su Ji to kill him before he succeeded.
• The Heavenly Dao’s annihilating will attacked Lin Heng, halting the Chaos Pearl and leaving him near death.
• Dugu Feng and Lin Yi agreed to help Lin Heng, and Dugu Feng urged the nearby cultivators and demons to take their positions in the Dragon Slaying Array.

Lin Heng merged the Heaven Punishment Dao and summoned the Nine Heavens Sword to destroy Jiang Wu's avatar and shatter the lightning tower, but the attack erased him completely. In the Netherworld, Xiao Muyu sensed that Lin Heng's life karma had been severed, yet no soul or realm summons had appeared.

• Old Ancestor White Eyebrow led the great demons in rebuilding the Seven Stars Five Wheels Dragon Slaying Array, which killed Xue Li and Su Ji before heavenly lightning battered the array and knocked down Dugu Feng and the others.
• Lin Heng merged the seventeen Dao Rings with the Heaven Punishment Dao, but the combined power caused his body to disintegrate beyond the Hunyuan Immortal Body's ability to recover.
• Lin Heng summoned the Nine Heavens Sword, fused its power with chaos and heavenly punishment, and cleaved through Jiang Wu's avatar and all nine levels of the lightning tower.
• Lin Heng and everyone else within the lightning domain vanished, leaving Dugu Feng and Lin Yi to find no trace of him among the ruins.
• Xiao Muyu divined three times and confirmed that Lin Heng's life karma had been severed, but she could not sense his soul entering the Underworld.
• Jiang Jingyi asked Xiao Muyu what had happened, and Xiao Muyu told her that Lin Heng was dead.

Jiang Jingyi learned that Lin Heng had apparently been erased by Heavenly Dao, while his allies in the Central Domain mourned and searched for answers. Lin Heng’s consciousness awakened on the ancient Chaos Continent, where he encountered a younger Saint Ye and confronted his returning system.

• Xiao Muyu showed Jiang Jingyi the scene of Lin Heng’s apparent erasure and warned that Heavenly Dao might no longer serve the Immortal Realm’s destiny.
• Jiang Jingyi resolved to investigate, and Xiao Muyu sent her through a passage to the mortal world after warning her of a greater threat.
• Dugu Feng and Lin Yi returned to the Central Domain and told the Dugu Clan that Lin Heng had vanished during his tribulation; Bai Yi then agreed to investigate the Netherworld with Luo Qi.
• Lin Heng’s lone will awakened above an unfamiliar world, where a huge hand seized him and brought him before a younger Saint Ye and his disciples.
• Saint Ye announced preparations for an approaching great calamity and a journey to South Immortal Island, while Lin Heng suspected they were in an ancient era.
• Lin Heng’s system returned with quests to explore the Chaos Continent or cut his own throat, and he accused it of being Lin Ziqing before his companions noticed his outburst.

Lin Heng recognized South Immortal Island as the future site of the Kingdom-Destroying Secret Realm and reasoned that it lay in a space-time rift where higher-world laws allowed Saint Ye to exceed the Immortal Realm’s limits. Saint Ye began creating a fortune kingdom by compressing the island and suppressing everyone’s cultivation, leaving his own power reduced to early Great Ascension.

• Lin Heng followed the group down South Immortal Island and recognized its fractured cliff as the future Kingdom-Destroying Secret Realm.
• Lin Heng concluded that the island lay at a space-time intersection where the laws of the Upper Realm and the Immortal Realm overlapped.
• Saint Ye announced that he would establish a fortune kingdom on the island and named a towering middle-aged cultivator its first ruler.
• Saint Ye compressed South Immortal Island and spread a vast net of fortune over it, suppressing the cultivation of everyone present.
• Saint Ye’s cultivation fell from beyond Supreme to early Great Ascension, while the others were also weakened below Supreme.

Saint Ye revealed that the Kingdom-Destroying Secret Realm was a miniature world he had created and entrusted his disciples with building its laws and sustaining its cycle of fortune. Lin Heng discovered the system was Lin Ziqing’s incarnation and asked whether his current situation was connected to the pearl inside his body.

• Saint Ye ordered his disciples to conceal their Upper Realm identities, suppress their cultivation, and establish a self-sustaining legacy and cycle of fortune.
• Saint Ye infused a strand of his Primordial Spirit into the Creation Mirror and charged his disciples with shaping the Small World.
• The disciples received assignments, and Lin Heng was tasked with finding spirit plants and cultivating spirit medicine.
• Lin Heng wandered into the spirit fields and summoned the hidden system, which appeared as Lin Ziqing’s incarnation.
• Lin Ziqing said Lin Heng would not have seen the incarnation if he were dead and expressed surprise that he had begun Dao Integration so quickly.
• Lin Heng asked whether the world he was in was connected to the pearl inside his body.

Lin Heng learned that the Chaos Pearl had brought him into a replay of real history and that Lin Ziqing had concealed much of his past behind the system. He left Lin Ziqing stunned by claiming to have fifteen Dao companions, including the Female Emperor and Murong Ziyan.

• Lin Ziqing explained that the Chaos Pearl had preserved Lin Heng’s consciousness and brought him to observe history, which he could not change.
• Lin Heng questioned Lin Ziqing about his identity, his father, and the secrets behind his life, but Lin Ziqing said he was only a piece in a larger arrangement.
• Lin Ziqing revealed that Lin Heng had not been raised in the wilderness and that his father had been saved by the Human Path Medicine Ancestor.
• Lin Ziqing argued that Lin Heng had often ignored the supposed script and said its plot was fake, though the love behind it was real.
• Lin Heng told Lin Ziqing that he had fifteen Dao companions, including Jiang Jingyi and Murong Ziyan, and Lin Ziqing angrily rejected his claims about the Female Emperor.

Lin Heng provoked Lin Ziqing by boasting that the Female Emperor and other renowned women favored him, then focused on the Sage’s karmic arrangement and the Epoch Game. He concluded that he might belong to multiple Epochs at once, including the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth.

• Lin Heng bragged that the Female Emperor had been satisfied with him, enraging Lin Ziqing, who suspected the young man had taken his cherished disciple Jiang Jingyi.
• Lin Heng accused Lin Ziqing of being jealous over the Female Emperor, while Lin Ziqing rejected his claims and doubted that the Female Emperor or the Murong Family’s eldest miss would favor him.
• Lin Ziqing warned Lin Heng that time flowed ten to twenty times faster outside than in their current realm, then urged him to investigate the Sage’s karmic arrangement.
• Lin Heng reasoned that the fortune kingdom had been built to prepare for the great calamity and the Epoch Game, and reviewed which Epochs had already taken the board.
• Lin Heng realized he had misunderstood his own position and proposed that he represented the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Epochs.

Lin Heng learned why Lin Ziqing’s allies chose his parents and the Changlin and Dugu Clans, and discovered that Imperial Dragon Qi had caused the Heavenly Dao to kill him. Lin Ziqing then told him to uncover what came next and said he would wait at the pinnacle of the Ultimate Dao.

• Lin Heng explained that his ties to the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Epochs made him a figure who had altered the future, earning Lin Ziqing’s approval.
• Lin Ziqing revealed that Bai Yi and the owner of Lin Heng’s Dao Eye had originally been candidates, but the Dao Eye’s owner was captured by people from other epochs.
• Lin Ziqing explained that the Changlin Clan was chosen for its weak foundation and willingness to follow his guidance, while the Dugu Clan was selected for its deep roots and political position.
• Lin Heng learned that Lin Ziqing’s plan to divide the Dugu Clan into three parts had helped prevent the Jiang Clan imperial family from destroying it.
• Lin Ziqing said he had disappeared because the Heavenly Dao would not tolerate him after Lin Heng’s death, which followed his use of Fourth Epoch Imperial Dragon Qi.
• Lin Ziqing told Lin Heng to investigate what came next and said he would wait at the pinnacle of the Ultimate Dao.

Lin Heng received Saint Ye’s teaching on the nature of time and realized that time was the road connecting people, not merely a weapon for severing fate. Back in the immortal fields, he began using the Chaos Pearl to study the laws of time and forge the path his future self would need to return to the past.

• Lin Heng concluded that Saint Ye had created the Kingdom-Destroying Secret Realm and suspected Lin Ziqing and Lin Zhique were elsewhere.
• Saint Ye summoned Lin Heng to Cloud Sparrow Palace and asked him to explain his understanding of time.
• Lin Heng told Saint Ye that time was a road home and a thread binding people together, and Saint Ye recognized that the insight seemed lived rather than learned.
• Saint Ye sent Lin Heng back to the immortal fields and urged him to cultivate while he was still present.
• Lin Heng realized that mastering time was necessary for his future self to return to the past, then used the Chaos Pearl to begin dismantling time itself.

Lin Heng anchored his will in the river of time and entered a mysterious enlightenment, while the Northern Domain prepared to invade the Central Domain, believing him dead. Buddha Master Yi Du suspected Lin Heng had survived and withdrew the Buddhist Incense Society from the vanguard, as the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office mourned his disappearance.

• Lin Heng used the Chaos Pearl's power to halt the river of time, bind his true intent to it, and begin forming a closed loop of eighteen inscriptions.
• Three months later, Jiang Wu celebrated Lin Heng's apparent death and ordered the Northern Domain armies to march on the Central Domain at dawn.
• Buddha Master Yi Du explained that Lin Heng's karma had vanished too completely to indicate death, and warned Fa Ming that Lin Heng was still alive.
• Yi Du ordered the Buddhist Incense Society to withdraw from the vanguard and warned that Jiang Wu might be a pawn in a larger calamity.
• At the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office, Ancestor Yao shouted that Lin Heng could not be dead, while others speculated that Xiao Muyu had hidden him in the Netherworld.

Duan Shuyun and the others suspected Xiao Muyu had hidden Lin Heng in the Underworld, so Yun Yao persuaded Bai Yi to take her there. Xiao Muyu captured them and confronted Yun Yao, who introduced herself as Lin Heng’s Dao companion and insisted she was reserved.

• Duan Shuyun proposed that Bai Yi secretly take the women into the Underworld to investigate Lin Heng’s disappearance, and Yun Yao volunteered to go.
• Yun Yao persuaded Bai Yi to open the Rebirth Bridge and take her into the Underworld, despite his reluctance.
• Xiao Muyu sensed Bai Yi and Yun Yao entering and suspected they had come looking for Lin Heng.
• Xiao Muyu seized Yun Yao and Bai Yi and brought them to her bedchamber; she then slapped Bai Yi out of the room.
• Yun Yao told Xiao Muyu that she was Lin Heng’s Dao companion, and when Xiao Muyu called her the greediest eater in Lin Heng’s household, Yun Yao insisted she was reserved.

Yun Yao sought Lin Heng in the Underworld, but Xiao Muyu corrected her suspicions and ordered her to stay and cultivate under her guidance. Elsewhere, Meng Yutong arrived to invite the ancestor to an alliance meeting and found Dugu Yueli pleading not to leave while Lin Heng remained missing.

• Yun Yao admitted she was Lin Heng's first woman, and Xiao Muyu threatened her for her disrespect before explaining that she had no intention of erasing Lin Heng's Dao companions.
• Yun Yao apologized, complained about being separated from Lin Heng, and accepted Xiao Muyu's order to stay in the Underworld and cultivate her temperament.
• Xiao Muyu passed Yun Yao a top-tier immortal art, which immediately amazed Yun Yao, while Xiao Muyu resolved to curb the Inner Court's infighting and confront Meng Yutong.
• Meng Yutong entered the main palace hall to invite the ancestor to discuss alliance matters and saw Dugu Yueli clinging to the Taoist Nun's thigh, pleading to remain because Lin Heng was still missing.

The Taoist Nun decided to send Dugu Yueli back to Heavenly Action Continent while Lin Heng remained missing, and ordered Meng Yutong to escort her. Meng Yutong bound Yueli, who resolved to compete for the main heroine position.

• The Taoist Nun told Dugu Yueli that Lin Heng's whereabouts were unknown and ordered her return to Heavenly Action Continent with the Dugu Clan juniors.
• The Taoist Nun struck Dugu Yueli unconscious, then ordered Meng Yutong to bind and escort her onto a star vessel.
• Meng Yutong was delighted when the Taoist Nun praised her as a main heroine and said she should strive harder while the Female Emperor was occupied.
• Meng Yutong tied Dugu Yueli with Immortal Binding Ropes and explained that the Dugu Clan would take her back to Great Mountain.
• Dugu Yueli begged Meng Yutong to let her stay until Lin Heng returned, but Meng Yutong sealed her mouth.
• Bound and silenced, Dugu Yueli decided she would fight for the main heroine position too.

Dugu Yueli escaped the star vessel by using a Substitute Cicada and returned to Heavenly Action Continent, where she discovered a growing stone pillar in the Demon Domain. She set out with Yu Ling to investigate what might be an ancient demon’s revival.

• Meng Yutong delivered Dugu Yueli to Dugu Hongxuan and the other juniors, who began taking her home as ordered by their ancestor.
• Dugu Xuexue helped Dugu Yueli retrieve and refine the Substitute Cicada, which switched places with her inside the Immortal Binding Rope.
• Dugu Yueli disguised the bound Substitute Cicada as herself and secretly left the star vessel after it crossed the continent’s borders.
• Dugu Yueli noticed a towering stone pillar rising amid black clouds in the Demon Domain and decided to investigate rather than hide.
• Dugu Yueli asked Old Ancestor White Eyebrow about the pillar, and he sent Yu Ling to accompany her into the Demon Domain.

Dugu Yueli investigated the Sky-Piercing Stone Pillar, encountered an intelligent calamity, and escaped with Yu Ling. Meanwhile, Lin Heng struggled to understand time until Saint Ye guided him to see how cycles of flourishing and decline revealed its deeper nature.

• Dugu Yueli sent a puppet toward the Sky-Piercing Stone Pillar and used a substitution technique to appear before it.
• The pillar released black qi that restrained Dugu Yueli and infected her arm with calamity, which followed her back when she switched places with the puppet.
• Dugu Yueli disguised her true body as lifeless energy, and Yu Ling carried her away from the calamity.
• Dugu Yueli told Yu Ling to alert the Nine Chen Alliance and stayed in the Demon Domain to consolidate her cultivation.
• Lin Heng admitted to Saint Ye that he had made no progress comprehending time, and Saint Ye explained that cycles of day and night and flourishing and decline revealed its essence.