Chapter Summaries

Shi Yi arrived at the Ten Thousand Immortals Gathering, where Sword Dust, the Immortal Phoenix Woman, and the Double Pupil Woman explained that he was there to comprehend the Dao. Shi Yi suspected the Willow Deity had sent him into the past, while several supreme figures revealed that their attempt to bring his future self had failed.

• Shi Yi refused to discuss the Qilin Treasure Technique until the White Kirin grew up, disappointing the White Kirin but earning the Double Pupil Woman's respect.
• Sword Dust introduced himself and explained that the gathering included immortals and powerful cultivators who discussed or lectured on the Dao.
• The Double Pupil Woman and the Immortal Phoenix Woman told Shi Yi that he and the White Kirin were there to comprehend the Dao, while Sword Dust identified himself and the women as Supreme Realm experts nearing immortality.
• Shi Yi wondered whether the Willow Deity had sent him into the past to show him that the path of peaceful cultivation was wrong.
• In a Nine-Colored Glow Land, several supreme figures said they had brought Shi Yi to the right place and time for him to plant a supreme Dao seed, but had failed to bring his future self.

Shi Yi traveled with Immortal Phoenix Woman and Double Pupil Woman to the Ten Thousand Immortals Gathering at Azure Moon True Immortal’s Southern Sea Purple Bamboo Forest. When Without End Immortal King arrived, Immortal Phoenix Woman excitedly pointed him out to Shi Yi.

• Sword Dust took his leave after Immortal Phoenix Woman and Double Pupil Woman urged Shi Yi to hurry to the gathering.
• Immortal Phoenix Woman and Double Pupil Woman took Shi Yi along, while the White Kirin nestled in his arms and tried to lick him.
• Shi Yi saw many legendary pure-blooded creatures as they traveled to the Southern Sea Purple Bamboo Forest.
• Shi Yi recalled being mysteriously forced into a purple bamboo forest and wondered whether Azure Moon True Immortal had brought him from the future.
• An eight-headed serpent carrying a jade palace arrived, then a bell announced Without End Immortal King’s arrival.
• Immortal Phoenix Woman grabbed Shi Yi’s arm and excitedly pointed out Without End Immortal King, pinching him as she did so.

Shi Yi traveled with the Immortal Phoenix Woman and the Double Pupil Woman to the Southern Sea Ten Thousand Immortals Gathering, where he marveled at the immortal island and its feast. He was left enjoying the gathering while reflecting that cultivation did not always have to mean fighting.

• Shi Yi distracted the Immortal Phoenix Woman from gripping him by pointing out a Flood Dragon, which she dismissed as an inferior creature.
• The Double Pupil Woman explained the Immortal Phoenix Woman’s nicknames and considered Shi Yi’s unusual Double Pupils and their potential.
• The Immortal Phoenix Woman and the Double Pupil Woman warned Shi Yi to be careful around Azure Moon True Immortal and the other powerful immortals.
• Shi Yi arrived at the Southern Sea immortal island with the White Kirin and saw the gathering’s guests, spirit fruits, fine wine, and other wonders.
• Shi Yi drank a cup of wine and remarked that cultivators should not have to spend their lives fighting and killing.

Shi Yi wandered Immortal Island with the White Kirin, meeting young Pure-Blooded Lifeforms and observing the powerful beings gathered there. He broke up a fight between Little Heaven Horn Ant and Little True Dragon while Little True Phoenix wondered why the Immortal Phoenix Woman valued him so highly.

• Shi Yi drank a cup of wine and reflected on how abundant cultivation resources were in this era compared with later generations.
• Shi Yi carried the White Kirin around Immortal Island and met young beings including Little Heaven Horn Ant, Little Nine Nether Hound, Little Kun Peng, Little True Dragon, Little True Phoenix, and Little Nine Leaf Sword Grass.
• Shi Yi saw Azure Moon True Immortal and recognized an aura similar to Moon Chan's, but found her cold and unapproachable.
• Little Heaven Horn Ant told Shi Yi that Little True Dragon could not beat it, provoking Little True Dragon to attack.
• Shi Yi restrained Little Heaven Horn Ant and Little True Dragon, while Little Kun Peng called them brutes and Little True Phoenix questioned the Immortal Phoenix Woman's interest in Shi Yi.

Shi Yi calmed the bickering young beasts and comforted Little Thunder Spirit before the Six Paths of Reincarnation Immortal King arrived at the Ten Thousand Immortals Gathering. The Immortal King recognized Shi Yi as a being from the future and privately regretted that the timing of his return was wrong, while Shi Yi remained unaware of why he had been brought back.

• Shi Yi subdued Little Heaven Horn Ant and Little True Dragon, then warned Little Kun Peng and Little True Phoenix not to pick fights.
• Shi Yi comforted Little Thunder Spirit, whose uncontrolled black lightning frightened the other young beasts, while the sleepy Little Kirin White Kirin fell asleep on his shoulder.
• The Six Paths of Reincarnation Immortal King arrived at the Immortal Island on a seven-colored rainbow bridge, drawing attention to the Reincarnation Disk above his head.
• The Six Paths of Reincarnation Immortal King recognized Shi Yi as a living being from the future and privately reflected that bringing him back might have been a mistake because the timing was wrong.
• Shi Yi continued to wonder about his journey from the future without learning why he had been brought back.

The Little God Cricket explained that the world was the origin spacetime and described how a higher level of spacetime could break a loop. A radiant figure emerged from a towering Willow Tree, bound Shi Yi with a willow branch, and took him away, leaving everyone convinced the Ancestor Offering Spirit had eaten him.

• The Immortal Phoenix Woman and the Double Pupil Woman discussed whether reincarnation and their current spacetime could be reflections, while Shi Yi listened between them.
• The Little God Cricket said their spacetime was the origin and explained that a higher level of spacetime could break a loop.
• A towering Willow Tree descended from the sky, and a radiant figure stepped from within it as Shi Yi recalled something important and his Ten Cavern Heavens rose behind him.
• The radiant figure sent a willow branch through the shattered void, bound Shi Yi, and made him vanish.
• Little Nine Leaf Sword Grass, Little Thunder Spirit, Little Kirin, and the others mourned Shi Yi, while the Double Pupil Woman regretted losing her chance to test an idea and the Little God Cricket suspected he came from another spacetime.

Shi Yi reunited with the Immortal King Willow Deity of this era, who bound him when his affectionate behavior went too far. He then joined the gathering on Immortal Island, where three Immortal Kings began expounding the Dao.

• Immortal King Willow Deity recognized Shi Yi as both her future self’s disciple and her own, and Shi Yi asked whether the two versions of her were the same person.
• Shi Yi embraced Immortal King Willow Deity and insisted he had no improper thoughts, though his actions suggested otherwise.
• Immortal King Willow Deity bound Shi Yi with a willow branch before they joined the gathering on Immortal Island.
• The young Pure-Blooded Lifeforms, Double Pupil Woman, and Immortal Phoenix Woman saw that Shi Yi was unharmed and listened to the Immortal Kings’ teachings.
• Without End Immortal King expounded his Dao of having no end and no beginning to the gathered immortals.

Shi Yi listened to the Immortal Kings and True Immortals preach, growing anxious about the people and empire he had left behind while learning that he had no mission to complete in this era. After Azure Moon True Immortal noticed his skepticism of her Supreme Forgetfulness Dao, Shi Yi denied dismissing it.

• The Without End Immortal King, the Six Paths of Reincarnation Immortal King, and the Immortal King Willow Deity each preached for a month, while Shi Yi worried about Yu Yuexian, Qin Yining, Huo Ling'er, and the Yan Huang Empire.
• The Immortal King Willow Deity told Shi Yi that time was anchored and he would return to the moment he had left, then explained that the Immortal Kings sought his powerful future self rather than him.
• Shi Yi pressed the Immortal King Willow Deity for details about his purpose and the betrayal that would leave her future self gravely injured, but she refused to reveal more.
• Azure Moon True Immortal began preaching her Supreme Forgetfulness Dao, and Shi Yi privately rejected the idea of cultivating without emotions or desires.
• After half a month of preaching, Azure Moon True Immortal confronted Shi Yi about his apparent disdain for her Dao, and Shi Yi waved away her concern and praised it.

At the Ten Thousand Immortals Gathering, Shi Yi used a philosophical explanation to challenge Azure Moon True Immortal’s understanding of the Supreme Emotionless Dao. He left her with the claim that the mountain and water had never changed, only she had, before reflecting on the extraordinary brains of people in this world.

• Azure Moon True Immortal asked Shi Yi to guide her Supreme Emotionless Dao and offered to repay him, but Shi Yi deferred the decision to Immortal King Willow Deity.
• Immortal King Willow Deity permitted Shi Yi to speak, and Shi Yi revealed that she was his master, startling the gathered immortals.
• Shi Yi asked Azure Moon True Immortal whether a mountain was a mountain and water was water; after she agreed, he said they were not.
• When Azure Moon True Immortal accepted his next point, Shi Yi told her she was wrong again and said the mountain and water had not changed, only she had.
• Shi Yi reflected that ordinary people in this world were born with fully developed brain domains, unlike humans on Earth.

Shi Yi discussed emotion and the Supreme Emotionless Dao with Azure Moon True Immortal at the Ten Thousand Immortals Gathering, but he still could not identify his own Dao. After the gathering ended, Immortal King Willow Deity kept him behind, hoping he would find his path while staying near Azure Moon True Immortal.

• Shi Yi speculated that Earth’s humans might be remnants of a higher humanity that had been left behind and isolated.
• Shi Yi told Azure Moon True Immortal that attaining Supreme Forgetfulness required experiencing genuine emotion, and she eagerly asked him how to obtain it.
• Shi Yi clarified that emotion could mean friendship or familial affection rather than romantic love, while Azure Moon True Immortal watched him intently.
• Over the following seven months, immortals and other attendees took turns preaching and discussing the Dao at the Ten Thousand Immortals Gathering.
• When the gathering ended, Immortal King Willow Deity asked Shi Yi what his Dao was, and he admitted that he did not know.
• Immortal King Willow Deity kept Shi Yi near Azure Moon True Immortal, hoping he would discover his own Dao there.

Shi Yi left Azure Moon True Immortal’s cave abode to explore the Immortal Domain, with Azure Moon protecting him and driving away his challengers. At the Heaven Horn Ant Ancestral Land, Little Heaven Horn Ant asked if he had heard of the Indestructible Scripture.

• Shi Yi admitted he was troubled by being unable to understand what Dao he should pursue, and Azure Moon True Immortal suggested he go out for a walk.
• Azure Moon offered to protect Shi Yi’s path, and he accepted despite realizing her presence would attract trouble.
• Young talents challenged Shi Yi, so he defeated one and later relied on Azure Moon to handle increasingly powerful challengers.
• Azure Moon’s growing investment in Shi Yi deepened her feelings for him, drawing her further into the emotions she had sought to comprehend.
• At the Heaven Horn Ant Ancestral Land, Little Heaven Horn Ant asked Shi Yi whether he had heard of the Indestructible Scripture.

Shi Yi learned that the Heaven Horn Ant clan might let him attempt to comprehend the Indestructible Scripture, while Yu Niang persuaded the Old Heaven Horn Ant that helping him could benefit their clan. As Shi Yi toured the ancestral land with Little Heaven Horn Ant, Azure Moon True Immortal appeared and blocked Yu Niang from approaching him.

• Little Heaven Horn Ant told Shi Yi that the Indestructible Scripture might strengthen his body, and the Old Heaven Horn Ant worried that the inheritance could pass to an outsider.
• Yu Niang argued that Shi Yi’s potential as a Double Pupil User could make him a valuable ally and that letting him study the scripture might help the clan.
• The Old Heaven Horn Ant reconsidered and decided Shi Yi could be allowed to try comprehending the Indestructible Scripture.
• Shi Yi praised the Heaven Horn Ant clan’s future and jokingly called Little Heaven Horn Ant a Great Fiend, prompting it to ask what the term meant.
• Azure Moon True Immortal appeared beside Shi Yi and blocked Yu Niang from approaching him.

Shi Yi and Azure Moon True Immortal visited the Heaven Horn Ant Clan, where the aging chief revealed the clan’s precarious state and Little Heaven Horn Ant’s misbehavior. The chapter left Little Heaven Horn Ant remorseful and the clan looking to Shi Yi as a potential ally.

• Female Heaven Horn Ant Yu Niang invited Shi Yi and Azure Moon True Immortal to the Heaven Horn Ant Clan, and Shi Yi agreed to visit.
• Azure Moon True Immortal dismissed the Old Heaven Horn Ant and urged Shi Yi to take her to see a sea of flowers, while Shi Yi apologized to the clan chief for her behavior.
• Yu Niang scolded Little Heaven Horn Ant for neglecting the Ten Thousand Immortals Gathering to fight with the Dragon Race, but Shi Yi defended him and eased the tension.
• Yu Niang revealed that the clan’s True Immortal had died at the Borderlands, leaving the aging Old Heaven Horn Ant and immature Little Heaven Horn Ant to face an uncertain future.
• The Old Heaven Horn Ant explained that he could not attend the Ten Thousand Immortals Gathering without a True Immortal elder to lead him, and Little Heaven Horn Ant apologized for playing instead of listening to the Dao teachings.

Shi Yi refused Yu Niang’s presumed request but accepted the Heaven Horn Ant clan’s offer of the Indestructible Scripture in exchange for taking Little Heaven Horn Ant as his disciple. After reading the scripture with his Double Pupils, he resolved to strengthen his body and become even more certain he could defeat Shi Hao, while Little Heaven Horn Ant vowed to become a great fiend.

• Yu Niang began to make a request, but Shi Yi cut her off before the Old Heaven Horn Ant clarified that they wanted Little Heaven Horn Ant to become his disciple.
• Shi Yi asked Little Heaven Horn Ant whether it wanted him as its teacher, and Little Heaven Horn Ant eagerly agreed.
• The Old Heaven Horn Ant offered the Indestructible Scripture as a gift, and Shi Yi used his Double Pupils to read its introductory information and the Undying Skin Chapter.
• Shi Yi accepted the scripture, intending to use it to strengthen his body and close the gap between himself and body-cultivating prodigies like Shi Hao.
• Little Heaven Horn Ant pledged to become a great fiend, and Shi Yi wondered whether he had somehow created the Ten Evils before dismissing the thought.

Shi Yi taught the Ten Little Ones while staying in the Heaven Horn Ant Ancestral Land, but he remained unable to choose his own Dao. With three years left before he would return to his own time, he worried about Immortal King Willow Deity’s future betrayal and asked her to abandon the people she protected.

• Shi Yi settled in the Heaven Horn Ant Ancestral Land, comprehended the Indestructible Scripture, and taught the Little Heaven Horn Ant and other juniors in exchange for their clans’ Treasure Techniques.
• Little Thunder Spirit found its Dao after Shi Yi explained lightning, while the other Ten Little Ones continued to admire and follow him.
• Two years after Shi Yi arrived in this era, he visited Immortal King Willow Deity and lamented that he still could not find his own Dao.
• Immortal King Willow Deity told Shi Yi that three years remained before his return, and he asked what would happen to her after he left.
• Shi Yi promised he would never betray Immortal King Willow Deity and urged her to abandon the people who would betray her, but she remained committed to protecting them.

Shi Yi and Azure Moon True Immortal shared a quiet moment in the Sea of Flowers before a rift opened over the Immortal Domain and unleashed a catastrophic invasion. The World Destroyer appeared and confronted the Six Paths of Reincarnation Immortal King and the Without End Immortal King.

• Shi Yi took Azure Moon True Immortal to see the Sea of Flowers, where she warned him not to disappear after he raised the possibility.
• Shi Yi held Azure Moon True Immortal close, believing time would eventually erase their feelings when he returned to his own spacetime.
• A rift tore open above the Immortal Domain, and bizarre creatures and objects emerged, killing a True Immortal and devastating the world.
• The disk and great bell carrying the auras of the Six Paths of Reincarnation Immortal King and the Without End Immortal King slowed the invasion, but a Golden Dragon blocked the two Immortal Kings.
• The Golden Dragon identified itself as the World Destroyer and declared that the two Immortal Kings could not stop it.

During the Foreign Domain invasion, Shi Yi worried over Azure Moon True Immortal and struggled to understand his Dao. Reciting the Supreme Old Lord's Scripture of Constant Purity helped him recognize that he had already found his Dao and led Azure Moon True Immortal to reconsider Supreme Forgetfulness.

• Without End Immortal King sealed the shattered rift while the Six Paths of Reincarnation Immortal King held back the Golden Dragon, and the Willow Deity fought the invaders beyond the Immortal Domain.
• Shi Yi urged Azure Moon True Immortal to protect herself, and she teased him about worrying despite his mortal cultivation.
• Shi Yi admitted he could ignite the Divine Fire but could not define his Dao, and Azure Moon True Immortal told him that the Dao began with what he wanted most.
• Feeling helpless as the invasion continued, Shi Yi recited the Supreme Old Lord's Scripture of Constant Purity and realized he had already found his Dao.
• Azure Moon True Immortal listened to Shi Yi and began to understand that Supreme Forgetfulness did not mean cutting off all emotion.

Shi Yi recited the Constant Purity Scripture, comprehended his own Dao, and crossed into the Divine Fire Realm. When an enormous bloody hand threatened the Immortal Domain, he answered a distant call by speaking the name “Human Emperor Heavenly Emperor,” and a mighty figure from the future dragged the hand away.

• Shi Yi recited the Constant Purity Scripture and realized that the Dao he walked was his own righteous Great Dao, the Heavenly Path.
• A flame appeared above Shi Yi as his ten Great Sun Cavern Heavens emerged, and he crossed directly from the Venerable Realm into the Divine Fire Realm.
• Outside the Immortal Domain, a colossal bloody hand appeared, overwhelming the defenders and leaving Without End Immortal King, Six Paths of Reincarnation Immortal King, and Immortal King Willow Deity without a way to stop it.
• Shi Yi sensed a distant call for his True Name, heard “Human Emperor Heavenly Emperor,” and softly called the name himself, but saw no immediate response.
• A majestic figure from the distant future entered the river of time and space and forcibly pulled the bloody hand away, stunning the Immortal Kings.

Shi Yi considered speeding up his Divine Fire tempering, but Azure Moon True Immortal warned him against risking his foundation and encouraged him to cultivate the Indestructible Scripture. After seeing the sky shatter, Azure Moon True Immortal announced that she wanted to establish the Heaven Mending Dao.

• The Immortal Kings reacted to the strange events, while Willow Deity glimpsed a fleeting image of a future with Shi Yi.
• Shi Yi wondered why reciting the True Name had brought no response, then examined the Divine Fire he had ignited.
• Shi Yi tried to make Divine Fire temper his body faster, but the flames burned him, and Azure Moon True Immortal soothed his injuries.
• Azure Moon True Immortal warned Shi Yi to cultivate the Indestructible Scripture instead of risking his body by rushing his progress.
• Azure Moon True Immortal told Shi Yi that witnessing the sky shatter had inspired her to establish the Heaven Mending Dao.

Shi Yi worried that the Heaven Mending Dao was connected to the Heaven Mending Sect where he would later become Holy Son, while he spent the year teaching the Ten Little Ones and advancing his cultivation. With two years remaining until his return, Immortal Phoenix Woman and Double Pupil Woman arrived to see him.

• Shi Yi reacted with alarm when Azure Moon True Immortal named her lineage the Heaven Mending Dao, then hid his suspicions from her.
• A year passed, and Shi Yi’s plan to join the battle against the Foreign Domain was stopped by Immortal King Willow Deity and Azure Moon True Immortal.
• Shi Yi taught Little Heaven Horn Ant how to study the Indestructible Scripture and guided the other Ten Little Ones, recognizing Little Nine Nether Hound’s exceptional talent.
• Immortal Phoenix Woman and Double Pupil Woman visited Shi Yi, noticed that he had reached the Divine Fire realm, and greeted him.