Recaps

Gu Jinzhi agreed to marry Li Wei to free himself from his family's pressure to marry, despite Gu Jinwen warning that she was ill. In the Floating Island main hall, Li Cheng told Dizang that his dream-based plan had failed to keep Li Wei from marrying into a wealthy family, and Dizang proposed bringing Li Cheng’s brother-in-law into the plan before an intruder burst in.

• Gu Jinwen refused to marry Li Wei, so Gu Litong asked Gu Jinzhi to take his place, and Gu Jinzhi agreed.
• Liang Qiushi tried to delay the decision until Shiheng returned, but Gu Litong declared the marriage settled.
• Gu Jinwen warned Gu Jinzhi that Li Wei was ill and accused her of seeking to cling to the Gu family, but Gu Jinzhi said the marriage made no difference to him.
• Gu Jinwen realized Gu Jinzhi might be hoping to avoid future marriages by becoming a widower, but Gu Jinzhi did not answer.
• Li Cheng told Dizang that his psychological defense mechanism had appeared, but the plan had not stopped Li Wei from marrying Li Cheng’s brother-in-law in reality.
• Dizang suggested bringing Li Cheng’s brother-in-law into the plan, then a fiery-red figure burst into the sleeping hall and challenged the intruders.

Li Wei settled into life with the Gu Family as Gu Jinzhi became increasingly involved in her affairs and arranged an examination for her worsening long-sleeping disorder. Meanwhile, Li Cheng ordered Qiong Xiao to bring Little Yueyue to support his plan, then privately complained that the others had forgotten their identities and family ties.

• The Gu Family took over Li Cheng's treatment, repaid the Li family's debt, and arranged a private caregiver, while Li Wei adjusted to living in Gu Garden.
• After Li Wei complained about Gu Jinwen's constant following, Gu Jinzhi sent him and the gossiping servants away; soon afterward, Gu Jinzhi moved back into the master bedroom and warned Li Wei not to expect anything beyond the Young Madam's position.
• Gu Jinzhi told Li Wei he had found her medical records and arranged for an expert to examine her long-sleeping disorder.
• At Floating Island, Li Cheng told Qiong Xiao to bring Little Yueyue over so he would have more leverage in his planned tug-of-war, and sent Taiyi and Dizang to receive his brother-in-law.
• After everyone left, Li Cheng dropped his dignified act and grumbled that the others had forgotten who they were and that a daughter had been abandoned for decades.

Jiang Wantang brought Jiang Xinyue to Li Wei, whom Li Cheng and Dizang had revived enough to try to awaken. As they prepared to use the karmic ties of Jiang Xinyue, Gu Jinzhi, and Li Cheng to break Li Wei’s dream, Gu Jinzhi asked to enter it for one second first.

• Jiang Wantang appeared in Jiang Xinyue’s snowy courtyard, told her that Li Wei was not dead, and took her away with a jade talisman.
• Taiyi restored Li Cheng’s awareness in Gu Jinzhi’s living room, and Li Cheng hurried Gu Jinzhi to save Li Wei.
• Gu Jinzhi found Li Wei sleeping on a cloud bed in Jiang Xinyue’s arms and quietly took her hand as he wept.
• Li Cheng explained the situation, then called Dizang in to use the karmic ties of three people to awaken Li Wei.
• Dizang prepared to begin, and Gu Jinzhi asked to enter Li Wei’s dream for one second in reality.

Gu Jinzhi relived memories of watching Li Wei suffer through a lonely life and, after she recognized him in his aged form, embraced her and apologized. Li Wei’s memories of her hardships gave way to a final, soul-brightening response to familiar voices calling for her.

• Gu Jinzhi appeared at the bridal chamber with white hair and a weathered face, remembering a dream in which Li Wei wore her wedding robe.
• Li Wei recognized Gu Jinzhi as “Old Gu,” and he pulled her into an embrace, crying and calling her “Xiao Wei.”
• When Li Wei asked whether Gu Jinzhi had cheated on her, her vision shattered and she remembered being abandoned as a newborn and enduring hardship throughout her life.
• Li Wei recalled the white-haired man watching over her at key moments, including her illness, rejection by a prospective adoptive family, and struggles as a young adult.
• After Li Wei became terminally ill, she heard familiar voices calling to her and resolved to find out who they were.
• Light burst from Li Wei’s soul as the nurses’ sobs faded away.

Li Wei awakened in Biyou Palace, learned how Li Cheng had arranged for her resurrection, and reunited with him and Gu Jinzhi. She pressed Li Cheng to reveal the secrets behind Blue Star’s mythology, and he suggested asking Kṣitigarbha instead.

• Li Wei restored Gu Jinzhi’s black hair, then recalled her painful life and confronted those who had let her suffer.
• Jiang Xinyue rushed out to settle a score with her mother, while Li Wei scolded Li Cheng and Kṣitigarbha for letting her sleep through her death and resurrection.
• Li Wei embraced Li Cheng and Gu Jinzhi, then made them explain how Li Cheng had used her hair to bring her back and arranged the Jiang Family inheritance.
• Li Cheng clarified that he was not Spirit Treasure Heavenly Venerate, and Gu Jinzhi told Li Wei that his mother had revealed her background to him.
• Li Wei asked Li Cheng about the secrets behind Blue Star’s mythology, and he pointed her toward Kṣitigarbha because his own memories were incomplete.

Dizang explained how the Primordial Divine arose from humanity’s faith and why the gods sought to collapse the branching Timeline into one. He revealed that an unexpected upheaval caused Blue Star’s mythology to be severed, then pointed to Li Cheng to explain what happened.

• Dizang recounted how primordial energy beings fought and exploded, creating heavens and earths, until humanity’s faith gave them forms and divine intelligence.
• Dizang explained that the Timeline branched through repeated battles and that each epoch had to end, leaving even the Immortal Gods unable to escape without transcendence.
• Dizang said the Primordial Divine risked losing their selves without faith but were shackled by too much faith, so they jointly decided to collapse the Timeline and return it to one.
• Gu Jinzhi guessed that Blue Star was the unified world created to make the Timeline easier to manage, and Dizang confirmed it.
• Dizang said an unexpected upheaval led to Blue Star’s mythology being severed and asked Li Cheng to explain; Li Wei stopped Li Cheng from rambling and told him to speak plainly.

Li Cheng and Ksitigarbha explained how the Primordial Divine beings’ attempt to unify all Timelines led to a catastrophic war and the disappearance of Blue Star mythology. Li Wei ended the discussion impatiently, demanding to know who was an enemy and who was an ally.

• Li Wei advanced her cultivation toward Five Qi Towards the Origin while Li Cheng explained the mythology and eternity realms.
• Ksitigarbha said he had borrowed Abyss power to exceed Ninth Order but remained far below a true mythological powerhouse.
• Li Cheng described how the Primordial Divine beings unified the Timelines, causing many beings to lose themselves and triggering a war across divine systems.
• Ksitigarbha revealed that survivors fell into the Abyss and that Eternal Night formed from Nyx, Great Yin Star Lord, and other gods devouring one another.
• Ksitigarbha explained that the Supreme Beings erased mythology from Blue Star’s surface consciousness to keep unstable survivors in balance.
• Li Wei demanded that Ksitigarbha stop explaining and identify the enemies and allies.

Kṣitigarbha warned Li Wei that the approaching end of the Epoch might threaten humanity, while Jiang Xinyue departed and refused to hear more about the danger. Back at Biyou Palace, Li Wei resolved to become a Martial Immortal, and Gu Jinzhi confessed that he wanted to stay by her side before she angrily objected to his wandering hands.

• Kṣitigarbha told Li Wei that the Supreme Ones pursued transcendence, might exterminate humanity, and had secretly ordered forces to wear down Abyssal monsters to delay the apocalypse.
• Jiang Xinyue left the floating island, declined to hear Kṣitigarbha's warning, and reminded Li Wei not to act recklessly before asking for the upper three swords of the Nine Moon Reflection Swords.
• Li Wei met Taiyi Zhenren with Li Cheng, then declared that she would advance to Martial Immortal before making any plans.
• Gu Jinzhi told Li Wei she should wait until she became a true Ninth Rank expert, then embraced her and promised to stay with her.
• Li Wei scolded Gu Jinzhi for grabbing her chest.

Li Cheng explained to Li Wei that his illness had been a necessary calamity for Old Grandpa’s revival, but he was stunned when she revealed an ancient Slay Immortal Sword. In the Endless Abyss, Heaven, Black, and Initial discussed the vanished passage, their plans for transcendence, and a scheme involving the universes they controlled.

• Li Wei confronted Li Cheng about making her sell herself to save him, and he explained that outside help could not resolve the human calamity tied to Old Grandpa’s revival.
• Li Wei revealed an ancient, cracked sword, and Li Cheng recognized it as the Slay Immortal Sword and demanded to know how she had repaired it.
• Heaven questioned Black about the vanished passage, and Black said the Martial Ancestor had restrained him when it disappeared.
• Initial proposed gathering the universes controlled by the three wills and releasing them so their former rulers could regain their status and strengthen them.

Li Wei and Gu Jinzhi grew closer before he returned to Blue Planet and prepared mythological film projects for the coming apocalypse. Ksitigarbha recruited an entity from the Abyss to conceal the phenomenon of Li Wei’s breakthrough, while Li Wei reached Grandmaster and began advancing her mind method.

• Li Wei admitted she could not bear to part with Gu Jinzhi, and the two embraced before she scolded him for touching her butt.
• Gu Jinzhi entered Ksitigarbha’s mythological information into a computer and began preparing several large-scale film and television projects for the end.
• Ksitigarbha visited the Abyss and asked its occupant to conceal the phenomenon during Li Wei’s breakthrough.
• After seventy-two hours, Li Wei ascended to Grandmaster and spent 100 million essences to reach its peak.
• Li Wei spent 10e Abyss Essence to advance the Return to One stage of her mind method, which showed 29 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes, and 59 seconds remaining.

Li Wei learned more about Kṣitigarbha’s past and welcomed Golden Spirit Holy Mother to Biyou Palace while she waited for her breakthrough. After discovering that ninth-rank powerhouses could disguise themselves as Fallen to enter the Abyss, she eagerly asked Kṣitigarbha to teach her the method.

• Gu Jinzhi advised Li Wei to let Jiang Xue remain dead and avoid appearing before people who knew her.
• Kṣitigarbha told Li Wei that Zhang Heming had joined his command after the Xifeng Incident, though he still did not know who had arranged it.
• Kṣitigarbha said Eternal Night was waiting outside Biyou Palace to help conceal the disturbance when Li Wei broke through.
• Golden Spirit Holy Mother arrived to keep Kṣitigarbha in check and warned Li Cheng against visiting Li Wei too often.
• Li Cheng told Li Wei that his disciples searched the Abyss for remnants and a way to revive the Old Grandpa within him.
• Kṣitigarbha explained how ninth-rank powerhouses could absorb Abyssal power and disguise themselves as Fallen, and Li Wei asked him to teach her.

As Li Wei’s Return to One progress reached its culmination, she broke through to the ninth step and released a purifying power that transformed Biyou Palace and cleansed those around her. Golden Spirit recognized the strength of Li Wei’s aura as Mythic, leaving her stunned.

• As Li Wei’s progress passed two-thirds, her fragrance spread across the floating island, reviving dead trees, immortal herbs, and spirit fish.
• Golden Spirit questioned Jiang Wantang about the Great Yin Jade Lotus Treasure Scroll, while Jiang Wantang wondered why Li Wei’s cultivation had produced a genuine Pure World White Lotus.
• Gu Jinzhi brought Li Wei the Sky-Gazing Mirror and suggested she use the Great Dream’s authority to borrow the false and cultivate the true.
• After Jiang Xinyue refused to come to Biyou Palace, Dizang summoned Eternal Night to shield the island while Li Wei prepared to break through.
• On the thirtieth day, Li Wei’s breakthrough filled the island and surrounding void with White Lotuses, strengthening Gu Jinzhi and cleansing Golden Spirit’s accumulated contamination.
• Golden Spirit decided she could no longer make things difficult for Li Wei, then sensed Li Wei’s Mythic-level aura and was left stunned.

Li Wei reached Ninth Order Peak and discovered that her Other Self was Empress Li Wei of Great Jing, whose world she could slowly make real with Manifest Truth. She returned from that world to find that more than three hours had passed in reality, showing that the two worlds’ time flows had become identical.

• The White Lotus phenomenon converged on Li Wei, fused with her, and brought her to Ninth Order Peak.
• Li Wei inspected her changed system panel and realized that she could raise the limits of her Great Dream and Manifest Truth Authorities.
• Li Wei entered the Great Jing World, saw how Yujing had changed, and used Manifest Truth to raise its Reality Level to 0.01%.
• Li Wei stopped when Manifest Truth began weakening her spirit, then returned to find Gu Jinzhi, Li Cheng, and Dizang worried beside her.
• Li Cheng told Li Wei that she had been unconscious for more than three hours, and she realized that time now flowed equally in both worlds.

Li Wei reunited with Gu Jinzhi and Li Cheng, then prepared to enter seclusion to enlighten “Other Self” and make the Sky-Gazing Mirror’s illusory worlds real. She and Gu Jinzhi tested traveling to the Heavenly Ruins together, where their arrival at the Moon Palace caused its ruins to begin restoring themselves.

• Dizang explained that time in the Mirror World had followed Li Wei’s pace because her Ninth Order divine soul was powerful enough to control it.
• Li Wei found that Gu Jinzhi had reached Seventh Order Grandmaster and Li Cheng’s body had attained Great Perfection, then asked Dizang to check on Yongye and pass on her thanks.
• Li Wei told Gu Jinzhi and Li Cheng she planned to retreat and enlighten “Other Self,” and Li Cheng warned her that the process could make her lose herself.
• After Li Wei teased Gu Jinzhi and sent him to the Heavenly Ruins alone to check the South Heaven Gate, she joined him there for a second trip.
• Li Wei and Gu Jinzhi appeared above the Moon Palace, where the ruined palace rapidly repaired itself and the fallen cassia trees began to grow again.

Li Wei took control of the Lunar Palace, transferred the Jade Emperor divine seat to repair the Heavenly Ruins, and tested whether the Heavenly River’s small worlds could help her become a myth. After finding they were only preset programs, she left the Heavenly Ruins to deal with the Sky-Gazing Mirror.

• Li Wei sealed the Lunar Palace behind a moonlit boundary, then embraced Gu Jinzhi as they reunited in the flower grove.
• Li Wei took the Plain Heaven Crown from Gu Jinzhi, repaired the Jade Emperor divine seat with essence, and returned the crown to him.
• The Heavenly Ruins shook as its palaces and ruins repaired themselves, while Gu Jinzhi gained greater control over the realm.
• Li Wei entered the Heavenly River and found that its supposed small worlds were preset programs that her Manifest Truth authority could not make real.
• Li Wei gave up on the small worlds, activated her cloud token, and exited the Heavenly Ruins to deal with the Sky-Gazing Mirror.

Li Wei discussed the fallen divine positions and the nature of the Heavenly River Small Worlds with Gu Jinzhi, then began the enlightenment path to mythology. She entered a world through the Sky-Gazing Mirror and strengthened her Authority of Fulfillment, leaving her seclusion underway.

• Gu Jinzhi suggested that the divine positions had fallen along with other powers and artifacts after the Timelines collapsed into one.
• Li Wei told Gu Jinzhi about the Heavenly River Small Worlds, and he explained that they might be fragments of a single world cut apart by eternal great beings.
• Li Wei asked Gu Jinzhi to guard the Heavenly Ruins while she went into seclusion, and he enclosed the Small Building in a barrier.
• Li Wei shattered the Sky-Gazing Mirror's rules and sent her True Spirit into one of its ninety-nine worlds to pursue enlightenment.
• Li Wei decided to spend nine hundred million essences on Authority: Fulfillment, raising it to 10e/10e.

Li Cheng and Dizang discussed whether Li Wei could guide an Other Self, admitting they had no plan but to rely on her. At Changyuan Martial University, Li Wei was brutally attacked by Guo Jinxiu until a heavenly light awakened her powers, and she turned the violence back on her attackers.

• Li Cheng questioned whether his sister could succeed, and Dizang admitted he was gambling on her ability to guide an Other Self.
• Guo Jinxiu beat Li Wei during a sparring match while Teacher Wang and the watching students refused to help.
• As Guo Jinxiu threatened to disfigure her, a heavenly light entered Li Wei and revealed a system identifying her as the Great Jing Empress Li Wei’s Other Self.
• Li Wei calmly rose, healed her injuries, and severed Guo Jinxiu’s knife arm and Teacher Wang’s limbs with invisible force.
• Li Wei floated above the ring and sliced Guo Jinxiu in half at the waist.

Li Wei discovered that her system panel let an Other Self quickly attain self-understanding, and she suspected the system had once hidden itself deliberately to help her recover. She used the apparent shortcut to send True Spirits into ninety-seven worlds and began raising the Great Jing World's Reality Level.

• Li Wei inspected her newly empowered Martial World Other Self and found that its life had unfolded in only a few seconds.
• Li Wei reviewed the Other Self's memories and realized the system panel had let it bypass the usual trials of self-discovery.
• Li Wei reconsidered why the system had disappeared inside the Sky-Gazing Mirror and wondered whether it had intelligence and had hidden itself to temper her state of mind.
• Li Wei questioned the silent system, decided not to distrust it, and chose to keep using its help.
• Li Wei sent ninety-seven True Spirits into separate illusory worlds and activated her Making Real authority.
• Li Wei watched the Great Jing World's Reality Level begin steadily increasing from 0.01%.

A mysterious force took over Li Wei’s different selves across the Mirror World, saving them from imminent danger and betrayal. In the Profound Origin Sword Sect, her defiance ended with the sect exploding, leaving the consequences unknown.

• In the Great Yu Dynasty, Li Wei woke drugged and helpless, but a heavenly radiance took control and killed Liu San before rescuers arrived.
• In the wasteland, Li Wei was cornered by mutated monsters until the radiance possessed her and made the monsters vanish.
• At the Profound Origin Sword Sect, Li Wei was accused of injuring Xiao Rou and faced losing her status and engagement to the Holy Sect’s Holy Son.
• After True Master Xu Yun asked whether she admitted her crime, Li Wei refused, and the thousand-year-old sect exploded.

Li Wei completed eleven real worlds through the Sky-Gazing Mirror and moved them into the Heavenly Ruins to keep them secure. She sealed off the Heavenly River, then returned to the floating island to continue converting worlds.

• Li Wei finished turning the Great Jing World real and discovered the upgraded authority made the process far less exhausting.
• After more than twenty days, Li Wei had converted eleven worlds and sensed that the Sky-Gazing Mirror was nearing its carrying limit.
• Li Wei rejected storing the worlds in the immortal pool because the floating island was in the abyss and could leave her foundation vulnerable to Li Cheng and his allies.
• Li Wei entered the Heavenly Ruins in her physical body and transferred the eleven real worlds from the Sky-Gazing Mirror into the starry river.
• Li Wei declared the Heavenly River forbidden to everyone except herself and the Jade Emperor, and a barrier separated it from the ruined palace complex.
• Li Wei returned to the floating island and resumed converting worlds with the Sky-Gazing Mirror.

Li Wei bonded with the Kunlun Mirror Fragment and put its world transformations on idle, but months of boredom ended when Dizang told her the three Sovereigns were holding an Ascension Ceremony with worlds for powerful beings to use. She accepted the invitation, and before leaving, she kissed Gu Jinzhi after he calmly promised he would not live on if anything happened to her.

• Li Wei made the Sky-Gazing Mirror acknowledge her as its master, renamed it the Kunlun Mirror Fragment, strengthened it with essence, and returned the worlds she had stored in the sea of stars.
• After putting world transformations on idle, Li Wei struggled with months of boredom and tried to resist thoughts of visiting Gu Jinzhi.
• Dizang told Li Wei that the three Sovereigns had invited Abyss powers to an Ascension Ceremony where they could enter preserved worlds and climb back to mythology.
• Li Wei eagerly agreed to attend the ceremony, then persuaded Li Cheng to let her go and met with Gu Jinzhi.
• Gu Jinzhi encouraged Li Wei to pursue strength and said he would not live on if anything happened to her, and Li Wei kissed him.

Li Wei and Dizang reached the colossal mountain in the Abyss where the Ascension Ceremony was to take place, and learned that the gathered powers would strengthen the Sovereigns by returning to their contaminated worlds. After the Sovereigns began the ceremony and revealed the worlds in the Filthy Long River, Li Wei held back from acting while considering how to claim the worlds and harvest the mountain’s Experience Points.

• Li Wei and Dizang arrived at the colossal mountain and concealed themselves among the powerful figures gathering for the Ascension Ceremony.
• Dizang explained that the worlds in the Filthy Long River had been contaminated and that the visitors’ Other Selves would indirectly strengthen the Sovereigns.
• Li Wei realized the gathered powers saw no better path to regain mythology, despite the risk that the Sovereigns might eventually destroy their worlds and Other Selves.
• Three Sovereigns descended, and the crowd bowed before a voice announced the start of the Ascension Ceremony.
• The Sovereigns’ restriction over the Filthy Long River broke, revealing its worlds, while Li Wei held back her True Spirit and considered claiming the worlds and harvesting Experience Points.

As the Heavenly Ruins were restored, Yao Zhixue and Zhang Queling helped catalog the recovered classics while discussing whether Chang'e was Jiang Xue. Yun Sheng and Gu Jinzhi examined links between ancient Heavenly Court scriptures and martial arts, and Yun Sheng said he was nearing the mythic threshold.

• The Heavenly Ruins transformed as real-world locations increased, restoring the Jade Pool, Tushita Palace, and most of the Heavenly Palace.
• Yao Zhixue and Zhang Queling carried scrolls from the Tushita Palace to the Ling Xiao Palace, where Min Zimo logged them for the cataloging effort.
• Zhang Queling argued that Chang'e was likely Jiang Xue, citing the sealed Lunar Palace and Heavenly River and Gu Jinzhi's grief after the Western Frontier memorial.
• Yun Sheng told Gu Jinzhi that the Shenxiao Imperial Thunder Heart Scripture was a Qi-and-blood counterpart to the Jade Pivot Classic and wondered whether an ancient figure had visited or inherited the Heavenly Court.
• Yun Sheng said the divine thrones were restoring themselves and that he was nearing the threshold of myth, then teased Gu Jinzhi about saving the world by falling in love.

Li Wei arrived in Huai Xi to handle her grandmother’s affairs after receiving news of her death, while strange visions and an oppressive atmosphere unsettled her. At the town government office, a soaked woman in black appeared in a doorway.

• Li Wei and Kṣitigarbha wrapped their pure True Spirits in abyssal power and sent them into the polluted river to enter the world.
• Li Wei woke on a bus, dismissed a strange vision, and read her counselor’s leave approval.
• Li Wei arrived in Huai Xi, remembering how her grandmother had supported her after her mother died while refusing to take her in.
• Li Wei walked through the empty, decaying town to the government office and found no one in the reception room or service hall.
• Li Wei heard a crash on the second floor and saw a drenched woman in black standing in an open office doorway.

Li Wei observed her Other Self entering the eerie town of Huai Creek while she weighed the risks of casting more True Spirits into the worlds of the Filthy Long River. At the summit, Chu, Hei, and Tian discussed a missing troublemaker and whether the approaching final tribulation truly explained the chaos in the future.

• Li Wei watched her Other Self follow Director Wang through Huai Creek and settle into her grandmother's former residence.
• Li Wei learned from Dizang that each Other Self reflected its original person's traits and decided against rushing to cast all her remaining True Spirits.
• Her Other Self awoke to strange voices downstairs, found her phone without signal, and armed herself with scissors.
• Chu regretted that a troublemaker had not appeared, and Hei claimed to have stopped his potential in advance.
• Chu questioned whether the final tribulation had caused the future to become chaotic, and Tian asked what Chu meant before the three fell silent.