Chapter Summaries

Shi Yi spent another year with the Immortal Phoenix Woman and the Double Pupil Woman, then revealed that he came from the future and would eventually return to his own spacetime. The Immortal Phoenix Woman admitted she had suspected the truth and explained why.

• The Immortal Phoenix Woman and the Double Pupil Woman visited Shi Yi, and he worried that their closeness might provoke the Azure Moon True Immortal.
• Shi Yi spent time talking with the Immortal Phoenix Woman and comparing Double Pupils with the Double Pupil Woman.
• Another year passed, leaving Shi Yi one year before his return, and he told the Immortal Phoenix Woman that he came from the future.
• The Immortal Phoenix Woman said the God Cicada Race had been right and that she had suspected Shi Yi was from another spacetime because two true Double Pupil Users had appeared in the same era.

Shi Yi returned from a year in the past, where the Immortal Phoenix Woman and the Double Pupil Woman had pursued him, and asked the Willow Deity why she had sent him there. The Willow Deity explained that the ancient era’s complete Great Dao had helped him ignite the Divine Fire, then answered his question about whether his talent or their future connection had led her to accept him as her disciple.

• The Immortal Phoenix Woman confessed her feelings to Shi Yi and burned him with Phoenix True Fire before taking him for herself.
• The Double Pupil Woman dragged Shi Yi back to test whether two Double Pupil Users could have a child who inherited their eyes.
• After a year, Shi Yi left that spacetime and awoke in the Human Emperor's Palace on September 6, Flame Yellow Calendar Year 0019.
• Shi Yi found the Willow Deity and learned she had sent him to the past so he could find his Dao, ignite the Divine Fire, and perfect his foundation.
• Shi Yi asked whether his talent had earned the Willow Deity's acceptance or whether she had accepted him because she knew he would become her disciple; she answered that he belonged to the present, which served as time's anchor.

Shi Yi explained why he could not use time travel to undo the destruction of Martial King Manor, then heard proposals from Mending Heaven Pavilion and Deer Chase Academy to support his plan to make the Form and Will Method public. He approved their help, leaving both factions tied to his effort to enlighten the human race.

• Shi Yi concluded that he could only change timelines in which he did not exist and refused to meddle with time because he feared its sickness.
• On his way to visit Qin Yining, Shi Yi was approached by Xia Youyu and the War Goddess of Deer Chase Academy, who offered their factions’ support.
• The War Goddess asked whether Shi Yi planned to make the Form and Will Method public, and Xia Youyu said Mending Heaven Pavilion and Deer Chase Academy wanted to help enlighten the human race.
• Shi Yi listened to their proposals and recognized that both factions hoped to secure his backing and protection.
• Shi Yi approved their offer to help teach the Form and Will Method, and the War Goddess thanked him with renewed loyalty.

Shi Yi entrusted Xia Youyu and the War Goddess of Deer Chase Academy with helping spread the Form and Will Method, then discussed with Qin Yining whether the two women and their institutions could be trusted. He judged Mending Heaven Pavilion reliable but had not yet reached a conclusion about Deer Chase Academy.

• The War Goddess of Deer Chase Academy deliberately slipped into Shi Yi’s arms, and he told her she could stop acting humbly while working for him.
• Shi Yi gave the War Goddess and Xia Youyu authority and responsibility for promoting the Form and Will Method.
• Shi Yi visited pregnant Qin Yining, carefully helped her sit down, and discussed the visitors from Mending Heaven Pavilion and Deer Chase Academy.
• Qin Yining asked whether Xia Youyu and the War Goddess could be trusted, and Shi Yi explained why Mending Heaven Pavilion was reliable.
• Shi Yi considered the War Goddess’s character and said she seemed courageous and capable.

Shi Yi took a day away from governing the Yan Huang Empire and visited the Mending Heaven Pavilion, where he reassured Shi Hao about their different status. Shi Hao remained proud of his place in the Lower Realm but wondered whether effort could ever overcome his brother’s overwhelming talent.

• Shi Yi praised the War Goddess of Deer Chase Academy, then spent several hours soothing Qin Yining’s jealousy.
• At dawn, Shi Yi left Huo Ling’er sleeping and decided to inspect the Mending Heaven Pavilion and take a day off.
• The Yan Huang Empire’s officials complained about Qin Yining’s rule and Shi Yi’s absences, while the chapter explained how Shi Yi’s balance of power kept the empire stable.
• Shi Yi reflected on his gratitude for Yu Yuexian’s love and his resolve to cherish those who cared for him.
• At the Mending Heaven Pavilion, Shi Yi teased Shi Hao about joining the Heaven Mending Sect in the Upper Realm, but Shi Hao insisted he wanted to remain a Lower Realm disciple.
• Shi Hao wondered whether effort mattered when Shi Yi had advanced to the Divine Fire Realm so quickly.

Shi Yi confronted Mending Heaven Pavilion over Shi Hao’s status and had him made a Supreme Elder, revealing how much Shi Hao valued the sect. Afterward, Wu Tianchong appeared and admitted his fault to Shi Yi, who accepted his apology and let the past go.

• Shi Yi rebuked Mending Heaven Pavilion for keeping Shi Hao an ordinary disciple, and the pavilion’s elders knelt to apologize.
• Shi Yi declared that Shi Hao should be at least a Supreme Elder, and the pavilion leaders immediately recognized Shi Hao in the role.
• Shi Hao showed his delight at the new position, while the narration explained that he cherished Mending Heaven Pavilion as a home.
• Wu Tianchong appeared before Shi Yi and Shi Hao, and Shi Yi asked whether he acknowledged his mistake.
• Wu Tianchong admitted his fault, and Shi Yi told him that, as a disciple of the Heaven Mending Sect, he could let the past remain in the past.

Shi Yi heard Wu Tianchong recount how Heaven One Goddess used him, attacked him, and tried to take the Mending Heaven Pavilion, which he had founded after being expelled from the Heaven Mending Sect. After learning why she wanted the pavilion, Shi Hao used Wu Tianchong's misfortune to warn Shi Yi against getting involved with too many women.

• Shi Yi told Wu Tianchong to let the past go, but Wu Tianchong called himself a blind fool who could not move on.
• Wu Tianchong explained that Heaven One Goddess had used his status as a candidate for Holy Son, then grew cold toward him after the Heaven Mending Sect expelled him.
• Wu Tianchong said he founded the Mending Heaven Pavilion in the Lower Realm and later refused to let Heaven One Goddess take control of it.
• Heaven One Goddess ambushed Wu Tianchong, leaving him gravely wounded and reduced to a remnant soul, but pressure from the Heaven Mending Sect forced her to abandon the pavilion.
• Wu Tianchong revealed that the pavilion held an incomplete Mending Heaven Technique, which he had protected as a core secret of the Heaven Mending Sect.
• Shi Hao lectured Shi Yi to treat Wu Tianchong's story as a warning and avoid getting involved with so many women.

Shi Yi visited Mending Heaven Pavilion, where its Divine Vine sacrificial spirit explained that it could survive another hundred years and was raising a successor. After spending several days defeating Shi Hao in sparring, Shi Yi heard that the Yan Huang Empire was preparing to campaign into the Great Wilderness and joked that Shi Hao could become his General Who Pacifies the North.

• Shi Yi asked Wu Tianchong why he had regained consciousness, and the Divine Vine sacrificial spirit revealed that it had restored his awareness.
• The Divine Vine sacrificial spirit told Shi Yi that the Undying Divine Spring would sustain it for another hundred years and showed him the young Divine Vine destined to succeed it.
• Shi Hao proudly toured Mending Heaven Pavilion with Shi Yi, then challenged him repeatedly and was defeated for seven or eight days.
• Shi Hao declared that he would catch up to Shi Yi, who encouraged him to keep trying.
• Shi Hao asked about the Yan Huang Empire's planned campaign against the Great Wilderness, and Shi Yi joked that he could serve as General Who Pacifies the North.

Shi Hao became General Who Pacifies the North and led a million-strong army into the Great Wilderness, where the Yan Huang Empire crushed resistance and expanded its territory. Meanwhile, Shi Yi visited his aunt after a newborn baby girl arrived in Eastern Capital Luoyang, and he learned that she had held him when he was a baby.

• Shi Yi promised to appoint Shi Hao General Who Pacifies the North, and Shi Hao agreed to take the role seriously.
• Half a year later, Shi Hao ordered a million soldiers to march into the Great Wilderness and sweep it clean.
• The Yan Huang Empire's army defeated ferocious beasts and steadily took control of the Great Wilderness as survivors debated whether to flee, submit, or resist.
• A baby girl was born in Eastern Capital Luoyang, and only a few people knew her true identity.
• Shi Yi called the newborn ugly, and his aunt told him that she had held him when he was little and that he had been uglier.

Shi Yi welcomed his newborn daughter and reassured Qin Yining that Shi Hao had support while leading the army through the Great Wilderness. The chapter left Shi Yi cornered when the Immortal Phoenix Woman and the Double Pupil Woman found him in the Eight Regions of the Lower Realm.

• Shi Yi felt his bloodline continuing through Qin Yining’s newborn daughter while commanding the army in the Great Wilderness.
• A Young General warned Shi Hao that hidden ferocious beasts might be planning a trap, and Shi Hao decided to confront them.
• Several days later, Qin Yining worried that Shi Hao might lead the million soldiers into an ambush, and Shi Yi explained that he had assigned a steady Golden Wolf Tribe advisor to him.
• The Immortal Phoenix Woman and the Double Pupil Woman confronted Shi Yi, revealing that they had searched for him across multiple realms and identified him after he advanced from the Array Formation Realm to the Divine Fire Realm.

Shi Yi learned that Azure Moon True Immortal had died after leaving a Reincarnated Body meant to await his birth, but the Double Pupil Woman and Immortal Phoenix Woman could not explain why it had not appeared. Their discussion of the Kun Peng Technique led Shi Yi to suspect that his old ideas about Severing Three Corpses might have shaped the fate of Huang, Ye, and Chu.

• Shi Yi asked about Azure Moon True Immortal, and the Double Pupil Woman told him she had died, leaving him overwhelmed with grief and guilt.
• The Double Pupil Woman explained that Azure Moon True Immortal had left a Reincarnated Body tied to Shi Yi’s birth, though neither woman knew why it had not appeared.
• Shi Yi suggested that Moon Chan might be the Reincarnated Body, but the Immortal Phoenix Woman rejected the idea because Moon Chan could not have awakened Azure Moon True Immortal’s abilities.
• The Immortal Phoenix Woman explained that Azure Moon True Immortal’s Reincarnated Body could not split into three through the Kun Peng Technique, prompting Shi Yi to recall his theory of Severing Three Corpses.
• Shi Yi wondered whether Huang, Ye, and Chu truly existed independently and whether the sick one had really died of illness.

Shi Yi suffered a mysterious shock after remembering questions about the sickly man and the Three Corpses, then woke three days later with no memory of the thought that had felled him. Meanwhile, Shi Hao learned from Little Pagoda that Shi Yi had attracted two female immortals, and resolved to work harder to catch up with his brother.

• The Dao De Jing glowed as an ancient gate opened and a hand struck Shi Yi unconscious, while the Double Pupil Woman and Immortal Phoenix Woman revealed they had only pretended that Azure Moon True Immortal was dead to test his feelings.
• The Immortal Phoenix Woman and Double Pupil Woman argued over their relationship as Shi Yi remained unconscious, then lay beside him when he woke three days later with no memory of his earlier thoughts.
• Shi Yi recalled that Azure Moon True Immortal had died but could not remember why, and reflected on how he had urged her and Immortal King Willow Deity to protect themselves rather than sacrifice their lives.
• Shi Hao asked Little Pagoda whether talent or hard work mattered more, and Little Pagoda said Double Pupil Users had a greater chance of becoming immortals than those with Supreme Bones.
• Little Pagoda told Shi Hao that female immortals had appeared beside Shi Yi, leaving Shi Hao determined to chase after his brother's footsteps.

The Snow Clan woman remembered Shi Yi’s remarkable charm as her daughter asked why the Tribal Clans submitted to him. Elsewhere in the Great Wilderness, the Yan Huang Empire offered conquered ferocious beasts human registration if they took human form, spoke human words, did human deeds, and obeyed Human Law.

• A Little Loli asked her mother why so many Tribal Clans willingly submitted to the Human Emperor, and her mother said he inspired trust.
• The woman remembered how Shi Yi, then traveling as Yun Potian, had captivated the Snow Clan’s young women.
• A Silver Demon Wolf remembered Shi Yi while its cubs gathered around it in their cave.
• Human soldiers summoned the Silver Demon Wolf and its cubs to hear a decree from the Human Emperor.
• A Yan Huang Empire official read that intelligent ferocious beasts could receive human registration by taking human form and following Human Law.
• Shi Yi sought to unite all races under a broad definition of humanity, believing that thought and culture would eventually bring them to identify as human.

Shi Yi used the Yan Huang Empire’s conquest of the Great Wilderness to begin unifying its peoples through human law, language, and culture. The Silver Demon Wolf accepted his decree, while Shi Yi’s portraits and Flame Yellow Calendar spread among the beast clans.

• The Silver Demon Wolf obeyed the Human Emperor’s Decree and transformed into human form, becoming a wolf-woman recognized by the Yan Huang Empire.
• After the human soldiers and officials left, the Silver Demon Wolf explained to her pups that she was a person with human citizenship, and the pups recognized Shi Yi from his portrait.
• The Silver Demon Wolf beat the pups who mocked her younger siblings.
• The chapter explained that Shi Yi distributed his portrait and the Flame Yellow Calendar in conquered lands, beginning with unified timekeeping before introducing writing and culture.
• Shi Yi’s policies aimed to unite thought and culture across the Yan Huang Empire and gradually create the Flame-Yellow Civilization.

Shi Yi’s Form and Will Method spread across the Yan Huang Empire, with Mending Heaven Pavilion and Deer Chase Academy helping teach it to ordinary people. In a former Stone Kingdom ancestral village, a one-armed veteran began instructing villagers who hoped the human cultivation method would let them cultivate.

• Shi Yi relied on Mending Heaven Pavilion and Deer Chase Academy to help spread the Form and Will Method throughout the empire.
• The method was designed so people could learn through movements and breathing, even if they could not read runes or lacked cultivation talent.
• A retired, one-armed veteran arrived in a village that had once served as the Stone Kingdom’s public ancestral land to teach the method on the Human Emperor’s orders.
• The villagers questioned whether ordinary people could truly learn a cultivation method, given their past experience with talent tests and dangerous beast techniques.
• The veteran said he had learned the Form and Will Method in less than a year and urged the villagers to trust Shi Yi and begin learning.

Shi Yi’s empire spread the Form and Will Method across the Yan Huang Empire while bringing the Great Wilderness under its control. Shi Hao returned from the campaign eager to meet his baby sister, but Shi Yi hesitated to let him see her.

• Shi Qingfeng learned seven foundational methods and shared that the Dragon’s Roar Tiger’s Howl Breathing Method helped temper the body.
• Shi Yi organized the widespread teaching of the Form and Will Method to help ordinary people survive dangerous conditions.
• Half a year later, the Yan Huang Empire conquered and incorporated the Great Wilderness, bringing the Wild Domain under Shi Yi’s control.
• Shi Hao returned home from the campaign and found Shi Yi looking exhausted, though Shi Yi concealed the reason.
• Shi Hao asked to see his little sister, and Shi Yi hesitated before Shi Hao insisted that she was family.

Shi Yi and Shi Hao bonded with their infant little sister before discussing the Yan Huang Empire’s defenses and Shi Yi’s plans to propose to Yun Xi. The chapter left Shi Yi speechless when Shi Hao questioned how many women he had been involved with.

• Shi Yi caught his toddling little sister, and Shi Hao held her before she fell asleep in Qin Yining’s arms.
• Shi Yi and Shi Hao walked through the Yan Huang Empire’s palace, where Shi Yi had linked its Divine Spirit Formations into a powerful combined defense.
• Shi Hao suggested they travel, but Shi Yi said he was busy and planned to propose marriage to Yun Xi of the Heavenly Human Race.
• Shi Hao teased Shi Yi about exhausting himself with women and asked whether the number was in the double or triple digits, leaving Shi Yi unable to answer.

Shi Hao told Shi Yi he planned to loot Immortality Mountain’s ruined treasure vault, then traveled to the Chaos Secret Realm with Little Pagoda to search for it. After five days, Little Pagoda found a hidden crack in space, leaving them poised to enter the vault.

• Shi Hao told Shi Yi he would visit the Profound Domain and loot Immortality Mountain’s treasure vault, and Shi Yi warned him to beware its restrictions.
• Shi Hao left the imperial palace and returned to the former Martial King Manor while Shi Yi faced teasing from the Double Pupil Woman and the Immortal Phoenix Woman.
• Ten days later, Shi Hao entered the ruined Chaos Secret Realm with Little Pagoda and searched for the treasure vault for five days.
• Little Pagoda sensed a hidden crack among the folds of space and told Shi Hao it had found the way in.

Shi Hao and Little Pagoda opened Immortality Mountain’s treasury and found heaps of God Soil and immortal gold. Shi Hao also discovered a fragment of the Original True Understanding, while Little Pagoda identified rare Chaos Soil that could help restore its damaged tower body.

• Little Pagoda transported Shi Hao to an ancient stone gate, where Shi Hao destroyed the two giant guardians and pushed the gate open.
• Shi Hao and Little Pagoda entered the treasury and found mountains of God Soil and immortal gold.
• Shi Hao picked up a bone fragment, and Little Pagoda revealed that it belonged to the Original True Understanding.
• Shi Hao decided to compare the fragment with the Original True Understanding Shi Yi had lent him when he returned.
• Little Pagoda spotted Chaos Soil and explained that it could help restore its tower body, so Shi Hao offered it the soil.

Shi Hao and Little Pagoda looted God Soil and immortal gold from Immortality Mountain’s Lower Realm treasury while the Upper Realm clan hesitated to intervene. Shi Yi visited Heavenly God Mountain to propose to Yun Xi, then married Yun Xi and Hu Niu and took Xia Youyu and the War Goddess as consorts.

• Shi Hao and Little Pagoda plundered over a hundred kinds of God Soil and around twenty varieties of immortal gold, which Shi Hao planned to place in the Yan Huang Empire’s treasury.
• Immortality Mountain’s Upper Realm clan learned that its Lower Realm treasury had been looted but feared descending while the Undying Creature watched the Profound Domain.
• Shi Yi arrived at Heavenly God Mountain to propose to Yun Xi, who worried that she was unworthy of him.
• Shi Yi teased Yun Xi, then comforted her when she feared he no longer wanted to marry her.
• Three months later, Shi Yi married Yun Xi and Hu Niu, and took Xia Youyu and the War Goddess as consorts.