Chapter Summaries

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.

After four days of being trapped in a nightmare town, Li Wei awakened to her identity as a Ninth Order powerhouse and faced Lord Huai. In the Long River, she secretly enlightened several worlds at once, drawing the attention of three Eternals who ordered an investigation.

• Li Wei was bound by hooded figures and dragged to an altar, where the townspeople prepared to sacrifice her beneath the ancient locust tree.
• The tree thrashed and the townspeople begged Lord Huai for mercy, prompting Li Wei to see a panel identifying her as a Ninth Order Peak powerhouse.
• After four and a half days in the Long River, Li Wei asked Dizang about casting True Spirits and learned that failed attempts returned to the main body.
• Li Wei pretended that her first attempt had failed, then sent three True Spirits into the Long River to enlighten three worlds.
• Two days later, Black, Heaven, and Beginning discussed Li Wei and agreed to investigate her, with Heaven planning to issue an Oracle.

Li Wei discovered that powerful beings were searching for her Other Selves while she continued converting illusory worlds in the Sky-Gazing Mirror. She warned Dizang that they had been targeted and prepared to confront the Supreme forces rather than flee.

• Li Wei crushed a Ghoul Infant in Filthy Long River and erased the Ghoul Controller's memories before vanishing.
• In a steam world, Li Wei killed an Evil God that had descended through a vessel and noticed that she might have attracted attention.
• At the black mountain, Li Wei sensed the Supreme observing her and forces searching across worlds for her Other Selves.
• Li Wei decided to reduce the frequency of True Spirits she sent out so she could disguise her rapid enlightenment and buy time to convert the remaining illusory worlds.
• Li Wei told Dizang to flee with Eternal Night if possible, but he agreed they should strike hard if the Supreme forces attacked.

Li Wei kept pretending to despair over her failed attempts to send True Spirits into the Filthy Long River until the Supreme’s scrutiny finally ended. Meanwhile, Gu Jinzhi and Yun Sheng discussed the growing divine position and realized Li Wei had gone to the Ascension Ceremony, leaving Yun Sheng considering whether to approach it in case she needed help.

• Li Wei continued acting agitated as she cast True Spirits into the Filthy Long River, while Dizang offered consolation through Telepathic Messages.
• Beginning, Heaven, and Black found nothing unusual in the worlds they investigated, then Heaven and Black resumed arguing while Beginning grew increasingly pensive.
• Gu Jinzhi received the Heavenly Ruins members’ thanks for the Great Emperor’s help and congratulated Ma Sirui on reaching Martial Immortal.
• Gu Jinzhi told Yun Sheng that his own realm was Seventh Order and the divine position could raise him to Ninth Order, while he withheld Li Wei’s secret about the Sky-Gazing Mirror.
• Yun Sheng inferred that Li Wei had gone to the Ascension Ceremony and considered secretly approaching it so he could help her if something went wrong.

After the Kunlun Mirror completed its transformation, Li Wei prepared to set up the Zhuxian killing formation but stopped when terror warned her against it. When a vast will confronted her and Dizang, Li Wei taunted it and sent her True Spirits into the Filthy Long River, reaching 2025 Other Selves and breaking through a boundary.

• The Kunlun Mirror completed its transformation, and Li Wei discovered it had absorbed the worlds’ power without using her Abyss Essence.
• Li Wei released the karmic connections to 129 Other Selves and felt she could unite them to ascend to Mythology, but suppressed the impulse.
• Li Wei spent nearly all her Abyss Essence strengthening the Zhuxian Formation Diagram and its four swords, then prepared to deploy the formation with Dizang.
• A sudden terror stopped Li Wei, and she told Dizang they should discuss their plan further instead of acting immediately.
• A vast will descended, flattened Dizang, and stripped away the black mist concealing Li Wei.
• Li Wei insulted the will and scattered her True Spirits into the Filthy Long River; despite three Supreme beings trying to stop her, she reached 2025 Other Selves and her True Self broke through a boundary.

As someone proved the Dao of myth, the Heavenly Palace erupted with immortal omens, and Gu Jinzhi gained the mythical trait of omnipresence. The same event transformed the Gu family residence and brought Gu Xunzhang back, where he loudly celebrated his advancement to the Eighth Stage and challenged Zhang Heming.

• Immortal light, seven-colored clouds, seventy-two chimes, and sacred music filled the Heavenly Palace as Gu Jinzhi recognized the signs of someone proving the Dao of myth.
• Ancient Meaning spread through Heavenly Palace, while Gu Jinzhi's Jade Emperor Divine Seat surged in power and granted him the mythical trait of omnipresence.
• Gu Jinzhi appeared at his family's entertainment company on Blue Star and ordered the promotional work released as soon as possible.
• The seven-colored clouds and chimes reached the Gu family residence, where Gu Shiheng's cultivation stirred and Gu Litong's Great Sun True Intent was purified.
• A Great Sun Phantom rose from the residence, and Gu Litong flew toward it, only to hear Gu Xunzhang boast that he had advanced to the Eighth Stage and become Second Under Heaven.