Chapter Summaries

Li Wei entered the Abyss Passage after restoring her family and learned that two beings Above Ninth Order waited inside. She spent nearly all her Abyss Essence upgrading newly named swords and a formation diagram, and the passage began to mend as Evernight and the others watched in dread.

• Li Wei flew into the shattered passage, stopped Zhang Luye from following, and checked her system panel as she considered the threat of beings Above Ninth Order.
• Four lights from the lotus beside Jiang Xinyue became broken swords and an incomplete formation diagram that entered Li Wei's system inventory.
• Li Wei named the items the Slaughter Immortal Formation Diagram and four swords, then spent 25e Abyss Essence upgrading them.
• Evernight and Master Beiku halted their attack on the exhausted Yun Sheng as the passage entrance began to heal and space smoothed over.
• Evernight asked where Master Beiku's mastery was, then saw that Master Beiku had fled with Youhai toward the end of the passage.

Li Wei entered the abyss and effortlessly destroyed the Dusk’s forces, then trapped Beiku and Eternal Night with the Slay Immortal Sword Array. She confronted Beiku, who bowed and claimed he now wanted to be a good person.

• Li Wei’s sacred radiance burned away the Dusk, Ghost Mountain, the Ghost Lord, and the Night Terror, while Eternal Night fled into the abyss.
• Yun Heng realized Jiang Xue was Li Wei and felt overwhelming regret as she passed him; Yun Sheng respectfully called her Aunt.
• Xiao Yilan warned Li Wei not to pursue desperate enemies, but she answered that evil had to be eradicated at its roots.
• Boris stopped Li Guitang from following Li Wei, then knelt and prayed in reverence as she entered the abyss.
• Li Wei used the Slay Immortal Sword Array to trap Beiku and Eternal Night, and Beiku convinced Eternal Night to kneel.
• Li Wei asked Beiku, “Adopted Father, why is that?” and he replied that he had no choice before but now wanted to be a good person.

Li Wei nearly killed Beiku and Yongye, but Beiku surrendered, revealed himself as Ksitigarbha, and bound his Bodhi Heart Origin to her. Ksitigarbha then offered Yongye as Li Wei’s servant, and Yongye reluctantly called her “Mother.”

• Li Wei prepared to kill Beiku and Yongye, but Beiku warned that their deaths and mad resurrections could threaten humanity.
• Beiku and Youhai shed their Abyss-powered forms, revealing Ksitigarbha and Diting, while Li Wei gained nearly 3.9 billion Essence.
• Ksitigarbha gave Li Wei his Bodhi Heart Origin, binding their lives together and asking her to spare him.
• Ksitigarbha told Yongye to serve Li Wei as a foot-washing maid and address her as the Matriarch.
• Li Wei’s sword formation stopped Yongye’s attack, and he awkwardly called her “Mother.”

After receiving the Great Yin divine position, Li Wei returned from the shrinking abyssal passage and reunited with Jiang Xinyue. As her body began crumbling into dust, she said goodbye and asked Jiang Xinyue to make sure Old Gu protected Li Cheng.

• Li Wei received the Great Yin divine position from Evernight, gained its power, and left Ksitigarbha and Evernight as the passage continued to shrink.
• Yun Heng questioned Yun Sheng about Great Dream’s power and the consequences of becoming a Martial Immortal, but Yun Sheng said he could not see through Li Wei.
• Li Wei emerged from the passage, and Jiang Xinyue embraced her as her Phoenix Robe dissolved back into her combat uniform.
• Li Wei recalled her memories with Jiang Xinyue, Li Cheng, and Old Gu, then admitted she could not bear to part with them.
• Jiang Xinyue saw cracks spreading across Li Wei’s body, and Li Wei said she was in pain and asked her to tell Old Gu to care for Li Cheng.
• Li Wei repeated that she could not bear to part with them as her body shattered into grains of dust that the wind carried away.

After the Western Frontier Campaign ended, the Hua Nation arrested and punished military and lineage officials involved in wrongdoing, while returning soldiers reunited with their families. Gu Jinzhi woke at Gu Garden to learn that someone close to his family had died, and he and a traumatized boy met in stunned silence.

• Yun Sheng and Xiao Yilan declared the Western Frontier Recovery Campaign victorious, and Liu Songming, Fu Yanru, and dozens of others were executed for their crimes.
• Yun Sheng met with several Martial Immortals, and the Martial Arts Alliance and Hua Nation government launched the Clear Source purge, arresting thousands from great Lineages and their affiliates.
• The military began dismantling the Western Frontier Defense Army and returning its soldiers to their parent units.
• Zheng Ye returned home to his wife and daughter, discovered his hand had regenerated, and broke down crying.
• Qin Lan reunited with her mother and a small child at their home and wept in their embrace.
• Gu Jinzhi woke to his grieving family and a silent boy in Jiang Xinyue's arms, realized someone had died, and sat facing the boy in shock.

After Li Wei’s burial, Gu Jinzhi broke down in grief and promised to help Li Cheng recover. Elsewhere, a child and a fat Daoist watched a treasured lotus grow while discussing a flawed dummy body and its estimated forty-nine-day wait.

• In the ruined Moon Palace side hall, Gu Jinzhi reread Li Wei’s note and told Min Zimo he wanted to find her rather than wait for her.
• At the November 7 memorial, Gu Jinzhi and Li Cheng watched as Xiao Yilan presided over Li Wei’s burial, while Zhang Luye tossed his barbecue restaurant card into the coffin.
• After the others left, Gu Jinzhi collapsed in tears before Li Wei’s grave, and Li Cheng mechanically wiped his face.
• Gu Jinzhi promised to cure Li Cheng, who had developed acute stress disorder and become mute after hearing of Li Wei’s death.
• On a floating island, a child criticized the fat Daoist’s dummy for being unable to speak, and the Daoist said the treasured lotus needed forty-nine more days to mature.

Li Cheng and Taiyi completed a new body for Li Wei, but a White Lotus mark appeared on her forehead despite her cultivation and talent supposedly being reset. Meanwhile, Kṣitigarbha revived in the abyss and set out to find his mother.

• Li Cheng gave Taiyi Li Wei’s hair, and Taiyi used the lotus to form a body that resembled her.
• Taiyi fell asleep while the body solidified, so Li Cheng woke him with a stream of icy pool water.
• The body became flesh and blood, and Li Cheng saw that Li Wei had returned to life.
• Taiyi and Li Cheng noticed a seven-petaled White Lotus mark on Li Wei’s forehead and wondered how it had appeared.
• Kṣitigarbha emerged from a sarira, learned that Eternal Night was recovering, and rode Diting into the chaos to find his mother.

Li Cheng learned that Li Wei’s coma was caused by the backlash of the Great Dream Authority, and Ksitigarbha offered a way to investigate her dream. The chapter ended as Li Cheng entered the dream to find out what was keeping her unconscious.

• Li Cheng confided in the unconscious Li Wei that he had pretended to be a Master and Martial Uncle to save her, then Taiyi rushed in to report that a monk had arrived.
• Li Cheng and Taiyi met Ksitigarbha and Diting outside Biying Palace, and Ksitigarbha first addressed Li Cheng as Heavenly Venerable before correcting himself to Uncle.
• Ksitigarbha explained that Li Wei was lost in a dream after the Great Dream Authority’s power eroded her, and said Li Cheng could enter her dream using a remaining dream bubble.
• Ksitigarbha warned that Li Cheng must guard his original mind and promised to wake him after one minute, while Taiyi worried about the danger.
• Li Cheng lay beside Li Wei, clasped her hand, and entered the dream as purple light filled the sleeping hall.

Li Cheng woke from a dream in which he had lived a warm morning with his family, and realized he had nearly chosen to remain there forever. Kṣitigarbha concluded that Li Cheng’s mother had been unwilling to wake from her dream and proposed breaking the beauty that trapped her.

• Li Wei woke in her dream, recorded that she had slept for over eleven hours, and spent the morning with her family, including her younger brother Li Cheng.
• Li Cheng’s parents mistook his tearful behavior for heartbreak over an early romance, then left Li Wei to watch over him.
• Li Wei and Li Cheng abandoned studying to go to a movie, but the dream ended and Li Cheng awoke beside Kṣitigarbha.
• Li Cheng learned that about six hours had passed in the dream and told Kṣitigarbha what he had experienced.
• Kṣitigarbha suggested that Li Cheng’s mother had not wanted to wake up and vowed to break the beauty that ensnared her.

Li Cheng and Ksitigarbha tried to interfere with Li Wei’s dream, which shifted into a nightmare about her father’s cancer and her family’s financial desperation. With Li Cheng’s treatment costs threatening their home, Li Wei remembered Grandpa Gu’s old promise and called the number on his business card.

• Li Cheng agreed to let Ksitigarbha use their karmic ties to alter Li Wei’s dream, despite the risk that her dream authority might resist.
• Li Wei relived her father’s diagnosis of osteosarcoma, his long surgery, and the family’s mounting medical expenses.
• As Li Cheng endured chemotherapy, Li Wei cared for him and overheard her parents despairing over how to pay for treatment.
• When her parents prepared to sell their home, Li Wei remembered Grandpa Gu’s offer to make her his granddaughter-in-law and searched for his contact information.
• Li Wei found Gu Litong’s business card and called the number, hoping he could help.

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.