Chapter Summaries

Shi Yi tried to escape his jealous wives, Yun Xi and Huo Ling'er, before meeting Shi Hao to inspect a bone fragment linked to the Original True Understanding. He recognized it as the lost Myriad Spirits Diagram, while Little Pagoda remained with Shi Hao despite wanting Shi Yi to recruit it.

• Yun Xi clung to Shi Yi in the palace, and Huo Ling'er arrived and competed with her for his attention.
• Shi Yi stayed quiet as Yun Xi and Huo Ling'er vied for him, then escaped the inner palace after several hours.
• Shi Hao showed Shi Yi a bone fragment he had found in Immortality Mountain's Lower Realm Dao Lineage and said Little Pagoda believed it was related to the Original True Understanding.
• Shi Yi examined the fragment and recognized it as the Myriad Spirits Diagram, an auxiliary scripture of the Original True Understanding.
• Little Pagoda praised Shi Yi and moved to his side, but Shi Yi gave no sign that he wanted it to follow him.

Shi Yi showed Shi Hao and Little Pagoda that the Myriad Spirits Diagram was missing a third fragment, leaving them unable to fully comprehend it. The next morning, Shi Yi visited Willow Deity, who was preparing to destroy herself and rise anew, and she revealed that she was half a step from becoming an Emperor.

• Shi Yi joined his fragment of the Myriad Spirits Diagram with Shi Hao's and discovered that one-third of the diagram was still missing.
• Little Pagoda predicted that the lost fragment would eventually come to Shi Yi, while Shi Hao left to travel and search for it.
• Shi Hao left the incomplete diagram with Shi Yi and planned to go to the First Heavenly Region to find the Nine-Headed Golden Lion.
• The next morning, Shi Yi entered the Ten Celestial Passages Small World and recited the Constant Purity Scripture for Willow Deity.
• Willow Deity told Shi Yi that she had understood her path to becoming an Emperor and was half a step from breaking past the King Realm.

Shi Yi spent time with the Willow Deity before meeting the War Goddess of Deer Chase Academy and Xia Youyu to hear how the Form and Will Method was spreading across the Yan Huang Empire. He left the rollout on its current course, which was expected to take two and a half years.

• Shi Yi sought comfort from the Willow Deity, who indulged his affection and reflected on how she had devoted herself to him.
• Shi Yi met the War Goddess of Deer Chase Academy and Xia Youyu after leaving the Ten Celestial Passages Small World.
• The War Goddess reported that ten of the Yan Huang Empire's twenty-three provinces had adopted the Form and Will Method, while Xia Youyu estimated full adoption would take two and a half years.
• The War Goddess offered to speed up the rollout to a year and a half if Shi Yi assigned her more people.
• Shi Yi rejected the request, saying the current pace was good and that rushing the work could be counterproductive.

Shi Yi approved plans to divide the conquered Wild Domain into Twenty-Three Provinces and spoke of expanding the Yan Huang Empire across all Eight Regions of the Lower Realm. After court, he visited Qin Yining and his little sister, who eagerly clung to him; the chapter left Shi Yi assuming she would grow out of her attachment.

• Shi Yi rejected the War Goddess of Deer Chase Academy's proposal and told her she did not need to prove herself to anyone.
• Shi Yi went to the Golden Luan Hall, where officials urged him to establish provinces throughout the realm.
• Shi Yi circulated a sealed memorial dividing the realm into Twenty-Three Provinces and said the Yan Huang Empire could eventually conquer all Eight Regions.
• Shi Yi explained that the Wild Domain needed time to be pacified and that spreading the Form and Will Method could strengthen the Human Race.
• After court, Shi Yi visited Qin Yining and his little sister, who hugged him and repeatedly called him brother.
• Qin Yining said her daughter waited for Shi Yi every day, but Shi Yi assumed the girl would become less attached as she grew up.

Shi Yi comforted Huo Ling'er and invited her to travel while Qin Yining took over the Yan Huang Empire’s affairs. He left the destination open, saying they could visit anywhere in the empire’s Twenty-Three Provinces.

• Shi Yi realized Qin Yining had coaxed the little girl to sleep so she could spend time with him.
• Shi Yi found Huo Ling'er lying in the garden and lifted her into his arms.
• Huo Ling'er reassured Shi Yi that she blamed Qin Yining, not him, for their complicated relationship.
• Shi Yi explained that Qin Yining would manage the Yan Huang Empire while he rested, after reflecting on the challenge of governing and preventing corruption.
• Shi Yi invited Huo Ling'er to go for a walk, and she asked where they would go.
• Shi Yi told Huo Ling'er they could travel anywhere in the Twenty-Three Provinces.

Shi Yi and Huo Ling'er toured Desolate Province, where Shi Yi sought her praise for his rule as Human Emperor. Meanwhile, fighting over the Kun Peng Nest and its rumored Kun Peng Precious Technique engulfed the other seven regions, while Shi Yi remained in the peaceful Wild Domain.

• Shi Yi suggested that he and Huo Ling'er visit Desolate Province, and she eagerly agreed.
• Shi Yi and Huo Ling'er walked through Desolate Province, where Huo Ling'er praised Shi Yi's accomplishments as Human Emperor.
• Rumors that the Kun Peng Nest held the Kun Peng Precious Technique drew powers from the other seven regions and ambitious figures from the Upper Realm into a brutal battle.
• The Heaven Mending Sect's objections to Shi Yi remaining in the Lower Realm faded after he reached the Divine Fire Realm there.

The North Sea’s Kun Peng Nest became a slaughterhouse as creatures fought over the rumored Kun Peng Precious Technique, while Shi Yi returned to the palace with Huo Ling'er after Yun Xi summoned him. Qing Yi asked whether the Nest truly held the technique, and Shi Yi left her wondering if the rumor might be true.

• A black gorilla, a giant skeleton, and a lightning-wreathed bird fought and died amid the North Sea’s endless carnage.
• Shi Yi’s protection kept the human race and most creatures of the Wild Domain safe, while the other seven regions remained engulfed in slaughter over the Ten Ferocious Precious Techniques and the Kun Peng Precious Technique.
• Shi Yi returned from Desolate Province with Huo Ling'er after Yun Xi repeatedly urged him through Xi Yi.
• Shi Yi explained that Xi Yi used the Human Emperor’s Faith and the Imperial Jade Seal to provide communication across the Yan Huang Empire.
• Qing Yi questioned why creatures believed the Kun Peng Nest contained the Kun Peng Precious Technique, and Shi Yi replied that no one could be certain it was absent.

Shi Yi kept Qing Yi and Shi Hao away from the dangerous fighting at the Kun Peng Nest, while the Wild Domain remained peaceful. Half a month later, Yu Yuexian emerged from seclusion after reaching the Array Formation Realm and told Shi Yi she was close to the Venerable Realm.

• Shi Yi concealed that he possessed the Ten Ferocious Precious Techniques and the Indestructible Scripture when he discussed the Kun Peng Nest with Qing Yi.
• Shi Yi warned Qing Yi that Upper Realm powers might seize the Kun Peng Precious Technique and persuaded her not to go to the North Sea; the Witch and Heavenly Fox Fairy also stayed behind.
• Shi Yi found Shi Hao training with the Nine-Headed Golden Lion and beat him to stop him from going to the North Sea.
• Half a month passed as beings fought over the Kun Peng Nest while the Wild Domain remained peaceful, and Shi Yi let those who chose to go face the danger themselves.
• Yu Yuexian visited Shi Yi after reaching the Array Formation Realm and said she was one step away from the Venerable Realm.

Shi Yi took his mother, Yu Yuexian, on a ten-day journey through the Yan Huang Empire’s Twenty-Three Provinces, making her happy through his companionship. After they returned home, he reunited with A Man and resumed teasing her as his maid.

• Shi Yi agreed to go for a stroll with Yu Yuexian because he cherished her love and wanted to spend time with her.
• Shi Yi and Yu Yuexian visited a Cloud Province city, where she chose a golden mouse stone sculpture from a cultivator’s stall.
• Shi Yi paid the vendor one Essence Wall for the sculpture and left with Yu Yuexian.
• Shi Yi traveled with Yu Yuexian through all Twenty-Three Provinces over ten days, then returned home with her.
• Shi Yi greeted A Man and chased her around while teasing her as his maid.

Shi Yi’s wives watched him tease A Man while a group of Upper Realm visitors in Luoyang sensed an expert nearby and discussed meeting him. In the neighboring room, Shi Hao complained about being beaten after trying to persuade his mother to let him travel to the North Sea, and Little Pagoda questioned whether he understood why his family opposed the trip.

• Huo Ling'er, Hu Niu, Yun Xi, and the Sixteenth Princess watched Shi Yi tease A Man and discussed his childish behavior.
• Blue Fairy and the other Upper Realm visitors sensed an expert with Ten Celestial Passages nearby and debated whether to invite him to meet them.
• The visitors argued over Sin Blood before Blue Fairy urged them to remember their purpose in the Lower Realm and decided to visit the neighboring room.
• Shi Hao complained that Little Pagoda had not stopped his mother from beating him after he tried to get permission to go to the North Sea.
• Little Pagoda asked Shi Hao whether he knew why his mother and Shi Yi would not let him go, despite the opportunity he believed awaited him at the Kun Peng Nest.

Shi Hao met Lan Yu and Hong Huang, two women from the Upper Realm, and grew angry when Hong Huang called him a Disaster Star. He accepted their offer of a meal at Yellow Crane Tower, leaving the three of them on better terms.

• Little Pagoda told Shi Hao that his talent for attracting trouble was extraordinary and that Shi Yi had shielded him from many disasters.
• Lan Yu and Hong Huang arrived at Shi Hao's door, and Shi Hao changed his sour expression into a cheerful welcome when he saw them.
• Shi Hao introduced himself, and Hong Huang recognized him as the Disaster Star and insulted him.
• Shi Hao rejected Hong Huang's apology and told the two women to leave.
• Hong Huang offered to treat Shi Hao to a meal, and he accepted Lan Yu's suggestion to eat at Yellow Crane Tower.

Shi Hao shared a lavish meal with young people from the Upper Realm, who discussed his talent and urged him to ascend from the incomplete Eight Regions of the Lower Realm. He learned that the Lower Realm’s stars were mostly illusions or projections, leaving him with a stark sense of how vast the Upper Realm was.

• Shi Hao finished a feast costing more than a hundred thousand Essence Walls and thanked Lan Yu and Hong Huang for their generosity.
• Shui Yue and the handsome young man praised Shi Hao for forming Ten Celestial Passages in the Eight Regions of the Lower Realm, while others dismissed his achievement.
• Lan Yu and Shui Yue explained that the Eight Regions were prisons with incomplete laws and urged Shi Hao to ascend to the Upper Realm.
• A skinny young man called Shi Hao Sinful Blood, but the handsome young man rebuked him, and Shi Hao thanked his defender.
• The handsome young man told Shi Hao that the Lower Realm’s stars were mostly false or projections from the Upper Realm, and Hong Huang described the Upper Realm’s immense scale and ancient inheritances.

Shi Hao learned that the Upper Realm restricted ascension from the Eight Regions, then spent several days entertaining Upper Realm talents who wanted an introduction to Shi Yi. As Shi Hao went to ask his brother whether he would meet them, Qing Yi asked Shi Yi whose side he would take if she and her Main Body became irreconcilable enemies.

• Shui Yue, Lan Yu, Hong Huang, and the other Upper Realm talents explained that those from the Eight Regions needed approval and scrutiny to ascend through the Heavenly Gate, though Shi Hao’s status as a Heaven Mending Sect Holy Son made his passage easier.
• Shi Hao questioned the claim that the Lower Realm had committed crimes, but the Upper Realm talents admitted they did not know the ancient truth, and the handsome man said the past would not affect Shi Hao’s entry.
• Shi Hao spent several days touring and feasting with the Upper Realm talents, who spent over a million Essence Wall entertaining him.
• Shui Yue asked Shi Hao to introduce them to Shi Yi, and Shi Hao said he would ask his brother before answering.
• Qing Yi asked Shi Yi whether he would side with her if she and her Main Body came into irreconcilable conflict.

Qing Yi told Shi Yi that an unknown voice had been urging her to merge with her Main Body, and Shi Yi used his Double Pupils to trace the cause to a woman in the Yan Huang Empire. The trail was severed by a powerful force, but Shi Yi promised to solve the problem, while his divine power shocked the Eight Regions of the Lower Realm.

• Qing Yi confided that a voice had been speaking to her late at night and telling her to merge with her Main Body.
• Shi Yi examined Qing Yi with his Double Pupils and concluded that an external influence within the Yan Huang Empire was likely responsible.
• Shi Yi followed a karmic line to a silver-robed woman, but an immense power snapped the line before he could learn whether she was the culprit.
• Qing Yi told Shi Yi that she believed him, and he promised to resolve the mystery.
• Shi Yi's purple Double Pupils vanished, leaving beings across the Eight Regions of the Lower Realm shocked by the power of a deity.

Shi Yi’s display of his Double Pupils left the Upper Realm prodigies in awe, and they later sought an audience with him in the imperial palace. Lan Yu introduced the Ancient Treasure Realm, setting up the group’s request to the Human Emperor.

• The Upper Realm prodigies compared Shi Yi to the Ten Crown King Tianzi and wondered whether he could surpass him.
• Shi Yi learned that the Upper Realm prodigies wanted to meet him while he ate with Shi Hao and a little girl, and Shi Hao guessed they sought help with an opportunity.
• Shi Hao introduced the prodigies to Shi Yi at the imperial palace, where they faced the godlike Human Emperor.
• A handsome man asked Shi Yi whether he knew about the Ancient Treasure Realm, and Shi Yi said he did not.
• Lan Yu explained that the Ancient Treasure Realm was a complete Small World with stricter cultivation requirements than the Hundred Shattered Mountains.

Shi Yi rejected the Upper Realm geniuses’ request that he mediate the conflict over the Kun Peng Precious Technique or intervene to control where the Ancient Treasure Realm’s entrance opened. After dismissing them, he questioned Shui Yue and learned that a voice had compelled her to trust, believe, and obey him since they first met.

• Hong Huang told Shi Yi that the Ancient Treasure Realm’s entrance might open in the Wild Domain because the Seven Regions were at war.
• The handsome man asked Shi Yi to mediate the conflict or announce a measure to influence the entrance’s location, but Shi Yi refused both proposals.
• Shi Yi dismissed the Upper Realm geniuses and kept Shui Yue behind to question her.
• Shui Yue admitted she had never been a complete person and answered Shi Yi because she felt compelled to do so.
• Shui Yue explained that a strange voice had instructed her to trust, believe, and obey Shi Yi, and that she could not resist it.

Shui Yue recited a private poem that convinced Shi Yi to trust her, prompting him to remember his past with the Azure Moon True Immortal. The chapter revealed that the poem was a secret Shi Yi had given Azure Moon as a way to identify him in the future.

• Shui Yue told Shi Yi that Qing Yi’s existence was an error, though she could not explain why.
• Shui Yue recited the poem “Four Weaving Machines,” and Shi Yi agreed that he could trust her completely.
• Shi Yi recalled the Immortal Ancient Era and how he had met the Azure Moon True Immortal and helped her pursue the Supreme Emotionless Dao.
• Shi Yi remembered reciting the poem to Azure Moon and telling her that it would prove his identity if she met his future self.

Shi Yi learned that Azure Moon True Immortal was not dead but had fallen into a deep sleep after being ambushed while trying to become an Immortal King. He suspected Qing Yi and Moon Chan were her Reincarnated Body, leaving him caught between his promise to Azure Moon True Immortal and Qing Yi's independent life.

• Shi Yi remembered promising Azure Moon True Immortal that he would recite the complete Nine Weaving Machines when they met again, while Shui Yue pressed him to choose between Azure Moon True Immortal and Qing Yi.
• Shi Yi told Shui Yue to wait while he sought answers from the Double Pupil Woman and the Immortal Phoenix Woman.
• The Double Pupil Woman revealed that Azure Moon True Immortal had been badly injured during her breakthrough, left behind a Reincarnated Body, and fallen into endless slumber.
• The Immortal Phoenix Woman explained that Azure Moon True Immortal had founded the Heaven Mending Dao, and the Double Pupil Woman said Azure Moon True Immortal slept in its Forbidden Ground.
• Shi Yi concluded that Qing Yi and Moon Chan were Azure Moon True Immortal's Reincarnated Body and considered how her sleeping state could have led to them becoming separate people.

Shi Yi speculated that Azure Moon True Immortal’s Reincarnated Body had split into Moon Chan and Qing Yi, leaving him unsure how to choose among the three. After spending time with Immortal Phoenix Woman and Double Pupil Woman, he asked Willow Deity for advice and admitted that he wanted to keep them all.

• Shi Yi suggested that Azure Moon True Immortal’s Reincarnated Body had accidentally divided into Moon Chan and Qing Yi, and Immortal Phoenix Woman and Double Pupil Woman considered the theory plausible.
• Immortal Phoenix Woman and Double Pupil Woman pressed Shi Yi to choose among themselves and the three forms of Azure Moon True Immortal, but Shi Yi said he could not choose.
• After about five hours with Immortal Phoenix Woman and Double Pupil Woman, Shi Yi met Willow Deity, who said their yin-yang cultivation assistance could help him become immortal within a thousand years.
• Shi Yi asked Willow Deity what to do about Moon Chan, Qing Yi, and Azure Moon True Immortal, admitting that he did not want to give any of them up.
• Willow Deity warned Shi Yi that greed could leave him with nothing, while Shi Yi wondered why he could not take the risk and want everything.

Shi Yi confronted Moon Chan after discovering she had taken Qing Yi’s place, fearing that Moon Chan had harmed her. Qing Yi returned unharmed and learned Shi Yi had defended her, leaving her moved by his care while Moon Chan resented their closeness.

• Shi Yi visited Qing Yi but realized that the woman by the window was Moon Chan wearing Qing Yi’s clothes.
• Moon Chan said she regretted giving Qing Yi to Shi Yi, and Shi Yi demanded to know where Qing Yi was.
• Moon Chan insisted Qing Yi was only her Secondary Body, but Shi Yi declared Qing Yi was his woman and refused to distinguish between them.
• Qing Yi returned with Shui Yue and found Shi Yi and Moon Chan on the verge of a fight.
• Moon Chan said Shi Yi had fought her for Qing Yi, and Qing Yi was surprised and moved by his concern.