Chapter Summaries

The Golden-Haired Woman studied how Shi Yi’s empire united different races under Human Status and concluded she could not reproduce it for her own kingdom. Three years later, the Original Gate appeared in the Upper Realm, Willow Deity entered it, and Shi Yi discovered that her other form had caught him indulging with her.

• The Golden-Haired Woman investigated Desolate Province and heard a Humanoid Beast teach that anyone who followed Human Law could be recognized as human, while eating or killing people was forbidden.
• The Golden-Haired Woman decided she could not create a comparable Golden Crow Status, while Shi Yi explained to the Immortal Phoenix Woman that he had no desire to become Heavenly Emperor.
• Three years passed with the Eight Regions largely stable, until the Original Gate appeared over the Three Thousand Provinces and drew the attention of Willow Deity and other powerful beings.
• Willow Deity told Shi Yi she had to enter the Original Gate, and the two spent the six days before it closed together.
• After Willow Deity departed, Shi Yi entered the Ten Celestial Passages Small World and was seized by Willow Deity, who rebuked him for indulging his desires with her other form.

Willow Deity fed Shi Yi specially prepared Eight Treasures Cake to strengthen his body, and its power caused his Ten Celestial Passages to transform. At the same time, the Wild Domain vanished from the Eight Regions and appeared within the Ten Celestial Passages Small World, where its people recognized Shi Yi’s aura and believed he was safe.

• Willow Deity explained how the Kun Peng Technique gave its two forms shared memories and a way to revive one another, then said she wanted fairness with Shi Yi.
• Willow Deity brought out Eight Treasures Cake and insisted Shi Yi eat all eight pieces to improve his physical body.
• After Shi Yi ate the first piece, its power burst apart his Ten Celestial Passages, which formed a vortex to absorb the energy as Willow Deity guided it.
• The Wild Domain disappeared from the Eight Regions, leaving its inhabitants terrified and unable to sense a path to the Upper Realm.
• The Wild Domain appeared and fused with the Ten Celestial Passages Small World, and its people felt the stronger spiritual energy and Shi Yi’s aura.

The Willow Deity fed Shi Yi Eight Treasures Cake and tea while he refined the Eight Regions of the Lower Realm, transforming his body and Ten Celestial Passages Small World. After learning that his strength would now grow continuously, Shi Yi tried to understand what special constitution he had gained.

• The Double Pupil Woman and the Immortal Phoenix Woman revealed that the Eight Regions of the Lower Realm were a prison for fallen Immortal Kings and True Immortals, and that the Flood Domain had disappeared.
• The Willow Deity urged Shi Yi to eat Eight Treasures Cake and drink tea, while he sensed his body filling with power and the Ten Celestial Passages Small World changing.
• Shi Yi ate all eight cakes and drank the tea, after which his essence, qi, and spirit seemed inexhaustible and his physical strength began increasing on its own.
• The Willow Deity explained that refining the Eight Regions and enhancing the Ten Celestial Passages Small World had caused Shi Yi's essential transformation, and she told him to feel it carefully.
• Shi Yi wondered whether he had gained a special constitution and considered whether it might be an Innate Chaos Body.

Shi Yi discussed the newly transformed Ten Celestial Passages Small World with the Willow Deity as Upper Realm lineages fled back upstairs, while Qing Yi, Moon Chan, and the Witch discussed the Kun Peng Technique. The chapter ended with the Willow Deity binding Shi Yi, then shifted to Shi Hao learning from Little Pagoda that the Upper Realm concealed deadly regions even immortals feared.

• Shi Yi recognized that the Ten Celestial Passages Small World had become complete enough for cultivators to continue advancing without ascending, and he agreed to let Upper Realm lineages return.
• Upper Realm visitors rushed to leave the Eight Regions, while Shi Yi's permission allowed them to go; they did not know they would need his consent to find their way back.
• At the Yan Huang Empire, Qing Yi and Moon Chan played chess while the Witch's spirit body, the Heavenly Fox Fairy, envied the understanding and power granted by the Kun Peng Technique.
• The Willow Deity bound Shi Yi in willow branches and began peeling back the bamboo leaf around him, while her distant incarnation realized what her other self was doing.
• Shi Hao asked Little Pagoda about the Upper Realm's size, and Little Pagoda warned him that vast unexplored regions could kill even True Immortals.

Little Pagoda warned Shi Hao about the lethal mysteries of the Upper Realm as news spread that the Lower Realm passage had become one-way. A month later, Shi Yi remained in the Ten Celestial Passages Small World, reflecting on his duties as Human Emperor while resting with the Willow Deity, until a sudden interruption cut him off.

• Little Pagoda told Shi Hao that an Immortal King had vanished after a chaotic current swept him away from a True Dragon egg.
• News spread across the Upper Realm that its factions could no longer descend to the Lower Realm, though travelers could still ascend.
• The Heaven Mending Sect, Heaven Intercepting Sect, and Immortality Mountain discussed the lost passage and Shi Yi’s connections and standing.
• After a month, Shi Yi stayed in the Ten Celestial Passages Small World as the Lower Realm’s spiritual energy and laws improved and its inhabitants adjusted to the upheaval.
• Shi Yi told the Willow Deity he felt lazy and unworthy of his Human Emperor role, while she reassured him that he did not have to take on duties that made him unhappy.
• Shi Yi credited Qin Yining with governing the Yan Huang Empire, then began to speak again before a sudden thread of thought interrupted him.

Shi Yi investigated a petition accusing the Tuoba Clan of eating people, had the clan tried and executed, and used the case to strengthen Human Law across the Yan Huang Empire. After six months of fewer abuses, he considered finding a way to monitor wrongdoing without relying on self-sacrificing petitioners, then pinched the cheeks of a four-year-old girl in the imperial courtyard.

• Shi Yi learned that someone had sacrificed themselves to the Human Emperor Banner to petition the throne and went to consult Qin Yining about the accusation against the Tuoba Clan.
• Qin Yining urged Shi Yi to punish the Tuoba Clan after learning that it had eaten at least a million people, whom its members called two-legged sheep.
• Shi Yi seized the Tuoba Clan and ordered its members tried under the law, then stripped over ten thousand members of their human status and executed them.
• Shi Yi continued receiving petitions, while most people were deterred by the required self-sacrifice and Qin Yining helped him manage cases.
• Over the following half year, the Yan Huang Empire became more harmonious, and Shi Yi began seeking a way to monitor wrongdoing without relying on petitions to the throne.
• In the imperial courtyard, a four-year-old girl protested as Shi Yi pinched her cheeks and insisted she was no longer three.

Shi Yi met the Golden-Haired Woman, who explained that the Sun God Tree was dying and proposed turning it into a sun so it could be reborn. She insisted the solution was to burn the tree, leaving Shi Yi asking how they would do it.

• Shi Yi carried Little Loli and oversaw the Yan Huang Empire's fair Judicial Department, whose Ghost Soldier officers investigated people named on his death lists.
• The War Goddess of Deer Chase Academy brought the Golden-Haired Woman to meet Shi Yi, who agreed to hear her out despite his irritation at her repeated visits.
• The Golden-Haired Woman revealed that she had recognized the fake celestial projections and the ancient Double Pupil serving as the Lower Realm's sun, and Shi Yi immobilized her before clarifying that it was not his Double Pupil.
• The Golden-Haired Woman said she wanted the world to have a real sun, then explained that she hoped the dying Sun God Tree could become a Sun Star and be reborn through fire.
• When Shi Yi asked how to transform the tree, the Golden-Haired Woman said they should burn it.

Shi Yi agreed to help the Golden-Haired Woman revive the dying Sun God Tree with Azure Moon Flame in exchange for treasures. He brought Moon Chan and Qing Yi to the East Sea, where the Golden-Haired Woman arrived in her Three-legged Golden Crow form and then explained that they could ignite the tree from anywhere.

• The Golden-Haired Woman offered Shi Yi two volumes of Heavenly Emperor Scripture and the Golden Crow Precious Technique for his help, and Shi Yi questioned the value of the bloodline-restricted technique.
• A month later, Shi Yi brought Moon Chan and Qing Yi to the East Sea to burn the Sun God Tree with Azure Moon Flame.
• Qing Yi described the Sun God Tree's evolution, while Shi Yi explained that its true body was half-dead and sustained by the Sun God Flower.
• The Golden-Haired Woman appeared above the tree in her Three-legged Golden Crow form, and Shi Yi displayed his Double Pupils until she descended in human form.
• Shi Yi asked how they would burn the tree, and the Golden-Haired Woman said they only needed to ignite it with Azure Moon Flame.

Shi Yi agreed to join the Golden-Haired Woman’s Heaven Worship Ceremony after she offered him a hundred drops of Solar Divine Liquid, then attended a Golden Crow Clan banquet with Moon Chan and Qing Yi. At the banquet, the guests learned that the ceremony would turn the Sun God Tree into a second sun, and they feared the resulting calamity.

• Shi Yi learned that the Golden-Haired Woman needed seven more days to prepare a Heaven Worship Ceremony before burning the Sun God Tree.
• The Golden-Haired Woman admitted she wanted Shi Yi, a Double Pupil User, to participate, and Shi Yi started to leave with Moon Chan and Qing Yi.
• The Golden-Haired Woman offered a hundred drops of Solar Divine Liquid, and Shi Yi agreed to stay and join the ceremony.
• Golden Crow Clan Daoists invited Shi Yi, Moon Chan, and Qing Yi to a banquet, which they attended at the clan’s Heavenly Palace.
• The Golden-Haired Woman announced that the Sun God Tree would become a solar star, alarming the guests, who feared the world could not survive having two suns.

Shi Yi agreed to attend the Golden-Haired Woman’s Heaven Worship Ceremony after she assured him the transformed Eight Regions could withstand two suns and the Sun God Tree would replace the old sun. Seven days later, he and Qing Yi and Moon Chan were summoned to the ceremony, which had drawn influential forces from across the Eight Regions.

• Shi Yi warned the Golden-Haired Woman that he would destroy the Sun God Tree’s sun if two suns caused suffering, and she assured him the world could endure the change.
• The Golden-Haired Woman announced that the Sun God Tree would become the new sun under Shi Yi’s supervision, then persuaded him to support the ceremony with another hundred drops of Solar Divine Liquid.
• Qing Yi and Moon Chan discussed Shi Yi’s behavior, with Qing Yi defending him and Moon Chan questioning her judgment.
• Shi Yi, Qing Yi, and Moon Chan spent seven days in the Golden Crow Heavenly Palace discussing the dao before a Golden Feathered Daoist summoned them to the ceremony.
• Shi Yi intimidated the Golden Feathered Daoist with his Double Pupils, then explained that the Golden Crow Clan respected power rather than kindness.
• Influential forces gathered at the East Sea for the Heaven Worship Ceremony, titled Changing the Heavens and Switching the Sun.

At the Golden Crow Clan’s Heaven Worship Ceremony, Shi Yi sensed the Ten Celestial Passages Small World’s newly awakened will of heaven and learned from the Willow Deity about the decline of the Nine Heavens Ten Earths and the Immortal Domain. The ceremony’s purpose was to make the Sun God Tree replace the false sun formed by Shi Yi’s Double Pupils, while the Willow Deity kept the depth of her bond with Shi Yi secret.

• The Golden-Haired Woman began the Heaven Worship Ceremony, and Shi Yi sensed the Ten Celestial Passages Small World’s ignorant will of heaven.
• The Willow Deity told Shi Yi that the Golden-Haired Woman descended from the Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor and explained that the shattered wills of heaven in the Nine Heavens Ten Earths and the Immortal Domain would lead them toward eternal extinction.
• Shi Yi asked whether to open the Original Great Domain to outsiders, and the Willow Deity advised admitting only a small number of people.
• The will of heaven questioned the need to turn the Sun God Tree into a sun, and the Willow Deity approved replacing the imitation sun created by Shi Yi’s Double Pupils.
• The Willow Deity revealed that she had kept secrets from Shi Yi, including her awareness of their inseverable bond.

Shi Yi, Qing Yi, and Moon Chan helped the Sun God Tree transform into a sun star, while the old sun became a bright moon. More than half a month later, the Golden-Haired Woman paid Shi Yi for his help, and he accepted only the agreed amount.

• The will of heaven approved the Golden-Haired Woman's request, and Qing Yi and Moon Chan struck the Sun God Tree's World Mountain with their Azure Moons.
• Qing Yi and Moon Chan ignited the Sun God Tree with azure flames, restoring its vitality as the World Sea rose to surround it.
• The Sun God Tree became a new sun, and the old sun formed from the Immortal Ancient Double Pupil changed into a bright moon after Shi Yi asked the will of heaven to intervene.
• The Golden-Haired Woman realized Shi Yi had arranged the old sun's transformation and wondered whether he had done it because he liked her.
• The Golden-Haired Woman offered Shi Yi the Heavenly Emperor Scripture, the Golden Crow Precious Technique, and three hundred drops of Solar Divine Liquid, but Shi Yi accepted only two hundred drops as agreed.

Shi Yi rejected the Golden-Haired Woman’s offer and studied the Heavenly Emperor Scripture with the Willow Deity, learning how it could help refine his cultivation. The Willow Deity demonstrated her overwhelming power and remained at Shi Yi’s side, while her own path to becoming an Emperor still depended on the other Willow Deity.

• Shi Yi refused the Golden-Haired Woman’s hundred drops of Solar Divine Liquid and left the Golden Crow Heavenly Palace.
• Shi Yi studied the Heavenly Emperor Scripture and found that it preserved a fragment of the Original True Understanding Transcendence Chapter and a complete Immortal Ancient method.
• The Willow Deity appeared beside Shi Yi, urged him to perfect his foundation, and explained that the Heavenly Emperor Scripture could serve as a reference.
• Shi Yi discussed the Original True Understanding and his skipped Saintly Sacrifice Realm with the Willow Deity, who offered to summon a tribulation for him.
• The Willow Deity unleashed a bolt of black lightning, making Shi Yi immediately withdraw his request for a tribulation.
• The narration revealed that the Willow Deity had refined the Eight Regions Prison and had grown more powerful than at her peak, while the other Willow Deity traveled the Boundary Sea toward the final step of becoming an Emperor.

Shi Yi studied immortality and the cultivation realms while considering whether to follow the Immortal Ancient Method or wait for a human-body cultivation method. Willow Deity had apparently taken a step that empowered her to kill the imprisoned Immortal Kings, and Shi Yi remained uncertain how to proceed with his own Dao.

• Willow Deity pressed Shi Yi to accept her as his Dao, but he refused while black lightning frightened powerful beings across the Eight Regions of the Lower Realm.
• The Immortal Phoenix Woman and the Double Pupil Woman discussed Willow Deity's power, Shi Yi's arrival from the future, and the dangers he might face if his talent became known.
• Eight imprisoned dark figures feared Willow Deity could now kill them, while two old men in the Void God Realm wondered who she was.
• Shi Yi studied the Heavenly Emperor Scripture and the Original True Understanding, grasped the distinction between humans, gods, and immortals, and repaired flaws in his cultivation.
• Shi Yi told Willow Deity he did not want to cultivate the Immortal Ancient Method and asked whether a cultivation method designed for the human body might emerge in the future.

Shi Yi’s growing influence over the Eight Regions drew the Upper Realm’s attention, while the Lunar Jade Rabbit and Little White Kirin sneaked into his palace seeking Solar Divine Liquid. Their arrival revealed that Little White had lost her memories, and Shi Yi remained unconcerned about the Upper Realm discovering his role in the passage between realms.

• The narrator described how the Yan Huang Empire’s rise had made Shi Yi the Human Emperor of beings across the Eight Regions, as another year passed.
• The Lunar Jade Rabbit and Little White Kirin sneaked into Shi Yi’s bedroom to search for Solar Divine Liquid, fearing they might be caught.
• Shi Yi, the Double Pupil Woman, the Immortal Phoenix Woman, and the Golden-Haired Woman discussed Little White’s lost memories and her past as a pure-blooded Qilin.
• The Double Pupil Woman warned Shi Yi that the Upper Realm might trace the new passage to the Lower Realm back to him.
• Shi Yi dismissed the danger and said the Eight Regions were ready to welcome their true master, as the Yan Huang Empire’s people longed to leave the Wild Domain.

Lunar Jade Rabbit and Little White Kirin broke into Shi Yi’s chambers to steal his Solar Divine Liquid, but he caught them and confined them in a pleasant courtyard. Six months later, Shi Yi’s Yan Huang Empire prepared to unify the Eight Wastelands as his crackdown on abuses had brought relative peace and inspired support from humans and other races.

• Little White Kirin sensed the Solar Divine Liquid in Shi Yi’s side room, and Lunar Jade Rabbit tunneled through the palace’s formation restrictions to reach it.
• Little White Kirin climbed onto Shi Yi and tried to lick him, waking him; Shi Yi caught both intruders and revealed that he was the Human Emperor.
• Lunar Jade Rabbit begged Shi Yi for mercy, while Little White Kirin offered to stay behind; Lunar Jade Rabbit refused to abandon her, so Shi Yi confined them together without taking the two drops of Solar Divine Liquid.
• Six months later, Shi Yi’s court eagerly supported his plan to conquer the Eight Regions and unite the Eight Wastelands.
• Shi Yi’s Human Emperor Banner had helped expose and punish abuses, and the Yan Huang Empire had become relatively peaceful, with people able to submit imperial complaints at the cost of their lives and souls.

Ten years after unifying the Wild Domain, Shi Yi prepared the Yan Huang Empire to conquer the Eight Regions, sending a two-million-strong force to the Flood Domain. The chapter ended as the Flood Domain's inhabitants reacted to the approaching invasion, many unaware of Shi Yi's power or the Empire's transformation.

• Over ten years, Shi Yi's promotion of the Form and Will Method strengthened the Yan Huang Empire, while its many peoples adopted human customs and lived under Human Law.
• Residents of Luoyang and Chang'an discussed the planned conquest and the Empire's growing integration of different races, including marriages and citizenship for mixed-blood children.
• Shi Yi assembled a million human soldiers and a million ferocious beasts at the Flood Domain border, appointing the undisciplined beast army as the vanguard.
• The human army received orders to spare surrendering ferocious beast races, exterminate those that preyed on humans, and protect the Flood Domain's human tribes.
• Flood Domain ferocious beasts heard that the Yan Huang Empire was coming to attack, but many dismissed the reports and did not know who Shi Yi was.

Shi Yi sent Shi Potian to bring Shi Hao back from the Upper Realm to the Yan Huang Empire, using Qin Yining and Shi Hao’s sister to persuade him. Shi Hao returned through the Golden Great Dao as Upper Realm powers discussed their lost access to the Eight Regions, while Shi Yi continued studying the bridge’s workings.

• Shi Hao learned that Shi Yi was marching to unify the Eight Regions and wanted him to return as a Great General, and he agreed after hearing that Qin Yining and his sister missed him.
• Shi Potian summoned the Golden Great Dao with the Sun God Tree’s aid, and Shi Hao and Shi Potian traveled through it to the Lower Realm.
• Upper Realm powers realized that Shi Yi, the Golden Crow Clan, and Kun Pengzi had secured control of the Eight Regions, and they worried about Shi Yi’s rapid cultivation.
• Shi Hao arrived in the Yan Huang Empire and went to find Shi Yi, who told him to visit Qin Yining and his sister first.
• Shi Yi studied the Golden Great Dao and considered how the Sun God Tree and the Immortal Ancient Double Pupil had improved its use and security.

Shi Yi returned from the Golden Crow Heavenly Palace and reunited with Shi Hao, then entered the Void God Realm to discipline his younger brother. He explained that Shi Hao could use the Golden Great Dao to travel between the Upper and Lower Realms, leaving the brothers joking about making the treasure their own.

• The Golden-Haired Woman watched Shi Yi admiringly and lent him the Golden Crow Clan's Golden Great Dao without asking for anything in return.
• Shi Yi fled after the Golden-Haired Woman said she might use her mouth, misunderstanding her meaning, then reflected on Earth and the vast history behind his Thirteen Supreme Dao Scriptures.
• Shi Yi returned to the Yan Huang Empire, where Shi Hao told him their little sister wanted to join his battles; Shi Yi said he would speak with Aunt about her childhood.
• Shi Yi beat Shi Hao in the Void God Realm's Supreme Realm, while Shi Hao protested that trouble always found him.
• Shi Hao asked about the Golden Great Dao, and Shi Yi explained that Shi Hao could summon it to travel between the Upper and Lower Realms.
• Shi Hao suggested that Shi Yi take down the Emperor Blood Golden Crow so their family could own the Golden Great Dao, and Shi Yi told him to get lost.

Shi Yi appointed Shi Hao Great General to lead the unruly beast army and conquer the Eight Regions without destroying them. Back at the Human Emperor’s Palace, Qin Yining punished Qin Meng Yao for going to the battlefield, while A Man told the girl she could travel across the regions once Shi Yi conquered them.

• Shi Yi made Shi Hao Great General and charged him with taming the ferocious beasts, while urging him to conquer and govern the Eight Regions carefully.
• Qin Yining whipped Qin Meng Yao for sneaking onto the battlefield, and Qin Meng Yao said she had only wanted to help Shi Yi.
• Shi Yi comforted Qin Meng Yao and went into a room with Qin Yining to discuss private matters as A Man kept the girl occupied.
• A Man promised Qin Meng Yao she could visit the other regions after Shi Yi conquered them and explained her status as First Princess.
• Qin Meng Yao rejected the idea that Shi Yi was her father, despite A Man suggesting she could consider herself his legitimate child.