Chapter Summaries

Shi Yi divided Immortal Hall’s treasure trove and conquered territories among the allied forces, while remaining intrigued by a pile of broken stones. After settling the shares, he took the stones and planned to consult Yun Xi or Yun Menglan to verify his suspicion about them.

• Shi Yi examined the battered stones in Immortal Hall’s treasure trove, and the other Supremes dismissed them as worthless after one crumbled in his hand.
• The Old Heavenly Human proposed splitting the treasures equally, but Shi Yi assigned shares by contribution, giving Heaven Intercepting Sect and Heaven Mending Sect thirty percent each, the Yan Huang Empire twenty percent, and Immortality Mountain and Heavenly God Mountain ten percent each.
• The Old Heavenly Human accepted the allocation and privately decided to send Fu Qu and Manzhushage to build closer ties with Shi Yi.
• Shi Yi divided the one thousand and thirty captured provincial domains among Heaven Mending Sect, Heaven Intercepting Sect, the Yan Huang Empire, Immortality Mountain, and Heavenly God Mountain, and all parties agreed.
• After settling the territorial shares, Shi Yi picked up the broken stones and decided to seek Yun Xi or Yun Menglan’s help in confirming what they were.

A year after the Immortal Hall fell, Shi Yi discovered that Shi Hao had organized the rescued weak races to restore the Bronze Immortal Palace, then discussed governing the newly incorporated Three Hundred Provinces. The chapter left the fate of the billions seeking to settle in the Eight Regions dependent on applying for Temporary Passes.

• After a year of restoration, Shi Yi found the Bronze Immortal Palace transformed into a luxurious Human Emperor's Palace and reprimanded Shi Hao for having rescued beings do the work.
• Shi Hao reported that his census counted more than a hundred billion living beings across the Yan Huang Empire's Three Hundred Provinces.
• Shi Yi explained that the empire needed to spread its laws and build Faith Power, while Shi Hao refused to take on the work of civilizing the population.
• Shi Hao told Shi Yi that billions of volunteers wanted to settle in the Eight Regions, and Shi Yi said they would need to apply for Temporary Passes.

Shi Hao asked Shi Yi for ten million merit to destroy Heavenly Kingdom after its Heaven One Goddess approached Wu Tianchong again. Shi Yi questioned the plan but heard that Shi Hao intended to use the merit to buy the lives of everyone in the assassin organization.

• Shi Yi and Shi Hao argued over the Heavenly Soldiers’ battlefield deaths and how Shi Yi’s God Status system let them resurrect with enough Faith Merit.
• Shi Hao asked Shi Yi for ten million merit, and Shi Yi demanded to know what he needed it for.
• Shi Hao said he wanted to destroy Heavenly Kingdom because the Heaven One Goddess had recently sought out Wu Tianchong again.
• Shi Yi learned that Wu Tianchong wanted to kill the Heaven One Goddess and asked how that justified Shi Hao’s plan.
• Shi Hao explained that he wanted to use ten million merit to buy the lives of everyone in Heavenly Kingdom.

Shi Hao asked Shi Yi for merit to hire an assassin against the Heaven One Goddess, while Kun Peng King sought a divine position and resurrection for Female Kun Peng, who was dying from the Immortal Severing Curse. Shi Yi agreed to confer the position and revealed that he believed he could break the curse, leaving Female Kun Peng reluctant to accept help and urging her to recognize that others cared about her.

• Shi Hao asked Shi Yi for ten million merit to hire an assassin to avenge Ghost Grandpa, and Shi Yi transferred the funds.
• Kun Peng King asked Shi Yi to confer a divine position on Female Kun Peng so she could preserve her true spirit and possibly be reborn, then gave Shi Yi the primordial Kun Peng Technique in return.
• Shi Yi agreed to confer the divine position but advised Kun Peng King not to resurrect Female Kun Peng while the Immortal Severing Curse still afflicted her.
• Female Kun Peng explained that the curse targeted the unique true spirit, and Shi Yi said it could be escaped if he resolved the curse.
• Kun Peng King offered to do anything for Shi Yi's help, while Female Kun Peng urged him not to humble himself for her; Shi Yi encouraged her to accept that people cared about her.

The Female Kun Peng regained a reason to live after Shi Yi promised to remove her Immortal Severing Curse, and the Kun Peng King agreed to help him in return. A month later, Shi Yi discussed his Golden Core Great Dao and the choice to become immortal with the Willow Deity, who advised him to consolidate his foundation before advancing.

• The Female Kun Peng agreed to cooperate with Shi Yi after he promised to remove her Immortal Severing Curse, and the Kun Peng King offered to help him with whatever he asked.
• A month later, Shi Yi recited a true scripture beneath a Willow Tree, and the surrounding animals and plants listened to his Dao sounds.
• The Willow Deity appeared, and Shi Yi embraced her as they discussed how his teachings might guide future cultivators.
• Shi Yi told the Willow Deity that the Yan Huang Empire and Faith Merit were branches of his Golden Core Great Dao, not the path he intended to follow.
• Shi Yi said he had sensed the threshold of immortality, and the Willow Deity advised him to consolidate his foundation before becoming an immortal.

Shi Yi visited the Golden-Haired Woman at the Golden Crow Heavenly Palace, where their intimate relationship deepened and he stayed by her side as she slept. While she clung to him, he examined broken stones from the Immortal Palace Treasure Trove and decided to try restoring their lost spirituality with Earth Fire Liquid.

• Shi Yi chose to pause before pursuing immortality, then left the Original Great Domain for the Golden Crow Heavenly Palace.
• The Golden-Haired Woman welcomed Shi Yi, and the two shared an intimate encounter connected to his repeated use of her Golden Great Dao.
• Shi Yi remained in the Golden Crow Heavenly Palace after their encounter, and the exhausted Golden-Haired Woman fell asleep clinging to him.
• Shi Yi examined broken stones from the Immortal Palace Treasure Trove and concluded that Earth Fire Liquid could restore their spirituality.
• Shi Yi took out several bottles of Earth Fire Liquid to test his idea.

Shi Yi turned broken stones into seventy-two Ancient Heavenly Fate Stones and discussed their power with the Golden-Haired Woman before the story shifted to the Yan Huang Empire’s growing Eastern Capital. In Luoyang, Qin Yining rejected Undying Heavenly Venerate Qin Changsheng’s request for another loan, then suggested he ask Hao'er for money instead.

• Shi Yi poured more than a hundred bottles of Earth Fire Liquid over broken stones, transforming them into seventy-two Ancient Heavenly Fate Stones that could improve bloodlines.
• The Golden-Haired Woman offered Shi Yi the Sun God Tree Sapling and the Golden Great Dao for the stones, but Shi Yi refused and said he and she could work together to produce an Emperor Blood Golden Crow.
• Shi Yi and the Golden-Haired Woman spent several days together, and she began hoping to conceive while Shi Yi continued cautiously advancing his cultivation.
• Eastern Capital Luoyang attracted cultivators from the Nine Heavens Ten Earths, while Human Law and the empire’s fees governed residents and visitors alike.
• Qin Yining refused Undying Heavenly Venerate Qin Changsheng’s request to borrow another ten million merit because he had not repaid his previous loan.
• Qin Yining told the War Goddess of Deer Chase Academy that Qin Changsheng should seek money from Hao'er, who had recently swindled tens of millions of merit from his brother.

Shi Yi reassured Yu Yuexian that Qin Yining could not seize his rule because he controlled the Yan Huang Empire’s military, wealth, and Faith, then asked her about the Heavenly Fate Stone. Yu Yuexian had never heard of it, so Shi Yi showed her several Ancient Heavenly Fate Stones and explained that they might purify or elevate bloodlines.

• Qin Yining lent Shi Hao ten million merit, and Shi Yi’s control of the Eight Regions’ merit system made the loan part of the empire’s tightly regulated economy.
• Yu Yuexian warned Shi Yi that Qin Yining was ambitious and might use her power to threaten his rule, but Shi Yi explained that the Human Emperor Seal, Banner, and Sword, along with his command of the army, wealth, and Faith, secured his position.
• Yu Yuexian cautioned Shi Yi that Qin Yining might not care for him as much as she appeared to, and Shi Yi acknowledged her warning without condemning Qin Yining.
• Shi Yi asked Yu Yuexian whether she knew about the Heavenly Fate Stone, and she admitted she had never heard of it.
• Shi Yi took out several Ancient Heavenly Fate Stones and told Yu Yuexian that absorbing them could test whether they purified or elevated bloodlines.

Shi Yi brought Yu Yuexian home with the Heavenly Fate Stone so he could reshape her bones and bloodline. He reunited with Qin Yining, who flirted with him despite his warning that Qin Mengyao might discover their relationship.

• Shi Yi agreed to help Yu Yuexian use the Heavenly Fate Stone to change her fate and improve her potential.
• Shi Yi and Yu Yuexian left the restaurant’s temporary pocket world and returned home.
• Shi Yi entered Qin Yining’s room and greeted her as his aunt.
• Qin Yining teased Shi Yi about being distant, then deliberately fell into his arms.
• Shi Yi warned Qin Yining that Qin Mengyao had nearly discovered their relationship, but Qin Yining said they could not hide it forever and found the risk exciting.

Shi Yi spent the night with Qin Yining, then reunited with the Female Kun Peng, Yun Xi, and Yun Menglan. He brought Yun Xi and Yun Menglan to the Human Emperor's Palace to discuss the Heavenly Fate Stone, while an awkward moment between him and Yun Menglan went unnoticed by Yun Xi.

• Qin Yining left after spending the night with Shi Yi, who woke the next morning and summoned the Female Kun Peng to help him dress.
• Shi Yi comforted the Female Kun Peng, who clung to him after he temporarily suppressed her Immortal Severing Curse.
• Shi Yi found Yun Xi and Yun Menglan in Western Capital Chang'an and asked whether they knew of the Heavenly Fate Stone.
• Shi Yi took Yun Xi and Yun Menglan to the Human Emperor's Palace, where Yun Xi said she wanted to master the Lesser Great Stellar Array of the Heavens through her own effort.
• Shi Yi accidentally kept holding Yun Menglan's hand, and she stopped him from explaining while Yun Xi remained focused on his promise that she could learn to move through space.

Shi Yi gave Yun Xi a Heavenly Fate Stone and explained how he had obtained many of them, then gave another to Yun Menglan despite her reluctance. As Yun Xi absorbed the stone’s power, Yun Menglan leaned against Shi Yi and hinted at her feelings, while he remained focused on Yun Xi.

• Shi Yi gave Yun Xi a Heavenly Fate Stone, and she recognized its power to purify the Heavenly Human Race bloodline.
• Shi Yi told Yun Xi that he carried the royal bloodline of the Seven Kings of the Human Race and had awakened it through the Ancient Sacred Emperor Palace.
• Shi Yi explained that he had restored seventy-two Heavenly Fate Stones from broken rocks found in the Immortal Palace Treasure Trove.
• Yun Xi began absorbing the power of her stone, while Shi Yi pressed another into Yun Menglan’s hand despite her protests.
• Yun Menglan asked to rest against Shi Yi’s shoulder and spoke of forgetting someone for five hundred years and falling in love in an instant.
• After several hours, Shi Yi began addressing Yun Xi, but the chapter ended before he finished his words.

Shi Yi told Yun Menglan that the man she had waited five hundred years for had died, and later Qin Mengyao asked Qin Yining for permission to visit the Medicine Capital. The chapter ended with Qin Mengyao waking Shi Yi in the middle of the night to ask for his help, while he tried to keep her quiet.

• Shi Yi spent the day with Yun Xi while Yun Menglan remained nearby, and Yun Menglan asked whether her beloved was still alive.
• Shi Yi told Yun Menglan that Yu Zimo had foreseen the Five-Colored Peacock's death and that he had failed to achieve nirvana.
• Yun Menglan collapsed at the news, and Shi Yi caught her and stayed with her until she calmed down.
• Qin Mengyao asked Qin Yining for permission to visit the Medicine Capital, and Qin Yining said she could go if Shi Yi agreed.
• Qin Mengyao went to find Shi Yi after he had returned to Yun Xi, and he carried her outside and told her to speak quietly.

Shi Yi agreed to let Qin Mengyao travel to the Medicine Capital, but she secretly used her Double Pupils’ Mirror Flower, Water Moon technique to shift his senses. Deceived by the technique, Shi Yi entered the wrong room and woke beside someone other than Yun Xi, who demanded that he take responsibility.

• Shi Yi found Qin Mengyao sneaking around at night and questioned her about her studies.
• Qin Mengyao teased Shi Yi, then asked permission to venture out to the Medicine Capital, and he agreed after she reminded him she was eight.
• Qin Mengyao used her innate Double Pupils Treasure Technique, Mirror Flower, Water Moon, to shift Shi Yi’s five senses before running away.
• Shi Yi mistakenly entered the wrong room and spent the night with the woman he believed was Yun Xi.
• The next morning, Shi Yi realized he had slept with the wrong person, and she told him he was her first man and asked what he would do next.

Shi Yi escaped discovery by turning into a crow, then sent a decree appointing a Dao Protector for Meng Yao as she traveled toward Medicine Capital. The decree reached a black-clad woman, who mocked Shi Yi’s handwriting before heading to Medicine Capital, where she encountered a girl running through the Medicine Fields.

• Yun Xi opened Yun Menglan’s door and found Shi Yi disguised as a crow, but he flew away before she could discover him.
• Shi Yi decided to arrange a Dao Protector for Meng Yao and wrote and sealed an imperial decree.
• A black-clad woman in the Profound Domain received the decree, complained about Shi Yi’s handwriting, and vanished from sight.
• People in a tavern discussed Meng Yao’s planned visit to Medicine Capital and were told to watch over her.
• At Medicine Capital, a young girl ran through the Medicine Fields to see a Golden Medicine Butterfly, and a black-dressed woman warned her not to damage the herbs.

A Yao hired a woman in black to guide her through Medicine Capital and learned about the city’s herbs, laws, and trade. They encountered a vendor claiming to sell Golden Medicine Butterfly larvae, and the crowd debated whether the creatures were protected by Human Law.

• A Yao paid the woman in black one hundred merit to guide her into Medicine Capital.
• The woman in black showed A Yao Medicine Capital’s ancient Offering Spirit, while A Yao sensed its power despite it not being a Saint Medicine.
• A Yao heard vendors hawking supposed rare medicines and learned that Medicine Capital’s markets were rife with scams.
• An old man claimed that two caterpillars in his jar were Golden Medicine Butterfly larvae, prompting A Yao and the crowd to question his claim.
• Onlookers explained that larvae lacked Human Law protection and that nonhuman races needed to pass an assessment before receiving a Human Registry.

A Yao bought two supposedly rare Golden Medicine Butterfly larvae from the Old Man, then visited a Medicine Field where a Divine Vine refined pills. In a hidden conversation, the woman in black confronted the Old Man about the Eight Regions’ independence and warned him not to cause trouble, while he sought to learn who stood behind Human Emperor Shi Yi.

• A Yao used her Double Pupils to examine two strange larvae, then paid the Old Man three hundred merit for them despite bystanders calling him a swindler.
• A Yao revealed Ten Celestial Passages as she left with the woman in black, and she asked whether she had been scammed.
• The woman in black spoke privately with the vanished Old Man, who revealed he had come to see A Yao and asked who had enabled the Eight Regions to become independent.
• The woman in black refused to identify the person behind Human Emperor Shi Yi and warned the Old Man that she would imprison him if he caused trouble in the Eight Regions.
• The woman in black brought A Yao to a Medicine Field, where a Divine Vine with a bronze cauldron-shaped flower efficiently refined pills.
• The woman in black acknowledged Human Emperor Shi Yi’s extraordinary cultivation, saying he had become a Supreme before turning a hundred and could become an immortal progenitor if he wished.

A Yao explored Medicine Capital, saw through a supposed True Dragon bone scam, and picked up several bargains before the Medicine Capital Holy Land opened. At the entrance, Yan Huang Empire officials barred Nine Heavens Ten Earths visitors without legal Human Registries, and A Yao argued that the Eight Regions needed to grow stronger before outsiders could share its opportunities.

• A Yao learned that the Divine Vine used its Bronze Flower Cauldron to refine medicine by gradually scraping away medicinal power, then tried the convenient process herself.
• A Yao recognized that a vendor's claimed True Dragon bone was merely a divine bone whose essence had mostly been drained, and she later found several bargains while exploring Medicine Capital.
• Half a month passed, and Yan Huang Empire officials checked Human Registries and restricted entry to the Medicine Capital Holy Land, prompting protests from visitors with Temporary Passes.
• An official defended the restrictions by calling outsiders from the Nine Heavens Ten Earths barbarians, and local beings of the Eight Regions jeered at the protesters.
• The woman in black asked A Yao whether outsiders should be allowed into the Holy Land, and A Yao said not yet because the Eight Regions' population was too small and slaughter was a poor strategy.

Qin Mengyao entered the Medicine Capital Holy Land with the black-clad woman and discovered a mysterious tree bearing three flowers that seemed capable of granting immortality. Meanwhile, in the Western Mausoleum Realm, an old man offered the Undying Medicine to Human Emperor Shi Yi in exchange for meeting a powerful figure.

• Qin Mengyao verified her identity and received an entry token, while the black-clad woman's identity details appeared as unknown and frightened the Yan Huang Empire official.
• Qin Mengyao entered the Medicine Capital Holy Land with the black-clad woman and learned that her companion's cultivation was concealed to bypass the realm restrictions.
• Qin Mengyao used her Purple Double Pupils to see a small divine tree hidden behind hundreds of formations, bearing three flowers she sensed could make someone immortal.
• Shi Yi received a Lightning Fruit from the White Tiger Woman in the Western Mausoleum Realm as the ancient beings there argued with an old man about their past and his return.
• The old man offered the Undying Medicine of Medicine Capital Holy Land to Human Emperor Shi Yi in exchange for meeting the great figure behind him.

Shi Yi explained that he did not see himself as a savior and that his true priority was the Eight Regions, even as the people around him urged him to unite the realms and remake the future. The chapter left him turning to the old man after growing weary of others placing their hopes and burdens on him.

• Shi Yi told the old man that Willow Deity did not blame the Nine Heavens Ten Earths or the Immortal Domain for her betrayal, and the old man accepted that she did not wish to see them.
• The old man and Shi Yi’s companions questioned why Shi Yi persisted in governing when Willow Deity’s fate showed how people could betray those they served.
• Shi Yi said he did not consider himself a savior, would not forcibly defy the natural cycle of birth and death, and believed in cultivating himself when poor and benefiting the world when prosperous.
• The old man praised Shi Yi’s ability to unite people, and Kun Peng King and World's First True Dragon voiced hope that Shi Yi could lead a better future.
• Shi Yi rejected the idea that he had to choose between the Nine Heavens Ten Earths and the Foreign Domain, declaring that his choice was the Eight Regions and pointing to the Faith Merit system he had established.
• Shi Yi grew tired of everyone urging him to shoulder their hopes and turned to address the old man.

Shi Yi accepted the World's First Spiritual Root as his subject and assigned him to cultivate immortal herbs and spiritual medicines for the Eight Regions. At the Medicine Capital Holy Land, Qin Mengyao began breaking its formations to gather resources for herself, hoping to prove she could stand on her own.

• The Old Man offered Shi Yi an Undying Medicine in exchange for a Human Registry, then pledged himself to Shi Yi as a subject.
• Shi Yi put the World's First Spiritual Root in charge of cultivating immortal herbs and spiritual medicines, and the Old Man moved his small tree to Shi Yi.
• Qin Mengyao learned from the woman in black that the Undying Medicine had been given to her Father, then focused on breaking the formations at the Medicine Capital Holy Land.
• Qin Mengyao broke the first formation and found rare ten-thousand-year-old spiritual medicines, including Youmeng Spirit Fragrance Grass, Yan Yang Vermillion Blood Grass, and Kong Ling Jade Marrow Grass.
• Qin Mengyao claimed the medicines for herself and continued breaking formations, while the woman in black dismissed her ambition as boring.