Chapter Summaries

Li Wei uncovered how Taiyi had made her original self a tool to guard Tongtian’s reincarnation, then intervened in several lives tied to the plan. As her own transmigration day approached, she prepared to investigate its cause and the system’s origin, just as Taiyi arrived.

• Li Wei traced the karma linking Wei Xiaoyu’s embryo to Jiang Xue, removed Yun Xiao’s memory from the little girl, and sent it to Purple Cloud Palace.
• Li Wei watched Tongtian reincarnate as Li Cheng and extracted a wisp of his origin essence for Purple Cloud Palace.
• Li Wei visited her family in an avatar before Li Xinghai’s fatal accident, then later gave the fake-soul Li Wei a complete soul and sent her to reunite with her parents.
• On the day she had transmigrated, Li Wei focused on uncovering how it happened and where the system came from.
• Taiyi flew in from the horizon, riding a pig.

Li Wei traced her past and confirmed that the spirit soul Taiyi had found had no origin, then watched the long river reach the final confrontation with the abyss. As the four lotus platforms failed to contain the abyss’s living core, Li Wei destroyed it, and the River of Time became an endless ring.

• Li Wei rewound time to investigate the spirit soul Taiyi had placed in the figurine, but found no past or origin for it.
• Li Wei watched her former self’s life unfold, briefly interfering with her spirit soul during the Sky Gazing Mirror trial.
• The Three Pure Ones returned from their journey upstream, and Yun Sheng told Primal Heavenly Venerate that they had failed.
• The abyss contracted into a living point, and the white, black, red, and golden lotus platforms combined to restrain it before shattering.
• The Jade Emperor’s phantom apologized to Li Wei, and Li Wei crushed the point into nothingness as the River of Time formed an endless ring.

Li Wei returned to Gu Garden and tried on numerous outfits, but none felt right until she chose a light-blue dress that brought back memories. She stepped onto the balcony and met the gaze of a man waiting in the garden.

• Gu Yan tearfully helped Li Wei choose clothes and asked whether the young master knew she had returned.
• Li Wei said she had not told him and refused Gu Yan’s offer to call him.
• After trying on more than a dozen outfits, Li Wei chose a light-blue dress from the wardrobe.
• Li Wei went to the balcony and met the gaze of a tall, slender figure standing in the garden.

Li Wei and Gu Jinzhi spent three days together after she agreed to his offer, and she eventually learned that his Eternal status had helped him keep going. The chapter ended with Li Wei eager to use the same trick herself.

• Li Wei acted frightened before Gu Jinzhi, then dropped the act and told him to get started.
• During their time together, Li Wei called Gu Jinzhi “Your Majesty” and asked him to bring Jiang Xue and Yun Xi into the palace.
• A day and a half later, Li Wei called Gu Jinzhi Haotian and accused him of betraying his teacher.
• After three days, Li Wei complained that Gu Jinzhi had barely stopped, and he apologized while holding her close.
• Li Wei asked how Gu Jinzhi had endured for so long, and he confessed that his Eternal status could solidify a certain state.
• Li Wei kissed Gu Jinzhi and eagerly told him to continue so she could try the move too.

Ling Cheng struggled to meditate under Sect Master Tongtian’s guidance, then asked permission to visit his pregnant sister, Li Wei. He reached Li Wei and Gu Jinzhi’s home, where a teasing exchange ended with Li Wei using his blunt remarks as an excuse to spank him.

• Sect Master Tongtian reprimanded Ling Cheng for being restless during meditation, but Ling Cheng admitted he wanted to visit Li Wei because she might give birth soon.
• Tongtian let Ling Cheng go, and Ling Cheng used a jade talisman to travel from Golden Ao Island to the Purple Cloud Palace and then to Li Wei and Gu Jinzhi’s home.
• Li Wei complained about her pregnancy and joked that Gu Jinzhi should carry the baby instead.
• Li Wei asked Ling Cheng what he thought of her idea, and Ling Cheng said it was not bad before calling her pregnancy an overreaction.
• Li Wei declared that Ling Cheng had changed, then pulled him onto her lap and spanked him while praising his answer as a good excuse to smack him.

After the Western Border Campaign, Cheng Hao confronted Gu Jinzhi at Jiang Xue’s grave, blaming him for her death while Gu silently endured his blows. As Cheng Hao’s parents led him away, Gu told him that Jiang Xue was not the person he had known, leaving Cheng Hao stunned.

• Cheng Hao lay in the snow before Jiang Xue’s grave, weeping and demanding that Gu Jinzhi give her back.
• Cheng Hao clawed at the snow around the gravestone, and Gu Jinzhi threw him several meters away without injuring him.
• Cheng Hao charged back and repeatedly punched Gu Jinzhi, who stood still and showed no reaction.
• Cheng Hao exhausted himself trying to spit at Gu Jinzhi, then collapsed into the snow.
• Ji Baozhu and Cheng Dongsheng arrived, helped their dazed son up, and bowed to Gu Jinzhi before preparing to leave.
• Gu Jinzhi told Cheng Hao that Jiang Xue was not the person he had known, and Cheng Hao froze in astonishment.

The Li family settled back into their old home in Lingquan City, where Li Xinghai and Wei Xiaoyu worried over their pregnant eldest daughter and Li Wei kept acting distracted. Li Wei rode off with her boyfriend Cheng Hao, then confronted him about his claim that he wanted to sleep with her sister.

• The Li family returned to their original home in Lingquan City despite Li Xinghai refusing offers to move to the imperial capital or Qingyun.
• At breakfast, Li Cheng teased Li Xinghai for still calling his eldest daughter the Dao Ancestor, and Wei Xiaoyu urged him to treat her as family.
• Wei Xiaoyu asked when her fourteen-month-pregnant eldest daughter would give birth, and Li Cheng explained that she was waiting for something to reach perfection.
• Li Wei hurried out after receiving a phone call and joined Cheng Hao on his bicycle, happy that they were dating.
• Li Wei asked Cheng Hao whether he had hugged her eldest sister and said he wanted to sleep with her, leaving him speechless.

Yun Xi met Jiang Xue at a café to apologize and ask about her agreement to marry Yun Xi’s brother, but Jiang Xue provoked her by teasing her about Li Wei and the Gu family. Li Wei appeared and lifted both women, suggesting that the three of them live together.

• Yun Xi met the newly returned Jiang Xue at an empty café and apologized, asking to get along peacefully.
• Jiang Xue startled Yun Xi by touching her waist clasp, then teased her about being easier to get along with than Li Wei.
• Yun Xi asked Jiang Xue whether she had agreed to marry Yun Xi’s brother, and Jiang Xue said she had.
• Jiang Xue mocked Yun Xi for changing and suggested she might be interested in someone from the Gu family.
• Li Wei appeared, lifted Yun Xi and Jiang Xue by their waists, and suggested that the three of them live together.

Jiang Wantang confronted Jiang Xinyue over her indifference to the Jiang Family’s troubles, then learned why Xinyue had adopted Jiang Yunshu and apologized. The two reunited in an embrace, with Xinyue holding her mother like a child.

• Jiang Wantang returned to the main hall after berating Jiang Yunshu and Tang Zhou and punishing Jiang Yao for her schemes.
• Jiang Wantang switched off the television and scolded Jiang Xinyue for neglecting the Jiang Family and her responsibilities as Jiang Yunshu’s adoptive mother.
• Jiang Xinyue said she did not care what happened to the family because Jiang Yunshu and the others were not her children.
• Jiang Xinyue explained that she had adopted Jiang Yunshu to preserve the Jiang Family’s roots while Jiang Wantang was gone and she feared dying while fighting Abyssal Monsters.
• Jiang Wantang apologized and pulled Jiang Xinyue into an embrace, and Jiang Xinyue hugged her back with childlike longing.

At the Gu family residence, Li Wei and Zhao Funing played a co-op game while Gu Jinzhi and Gu Litong watched. A conversation about Li Wei’s pregnancy ended with Zhao Funing twisting Gu Litong’s ear for pressing the couple about having a child.

• Li Wei and Zhao Funing repeatedly failed to escape a maze in a video game, then started another round.
• Gu Jinzhi asked Gu Litong where Gu Xunzhang had gone, and Gu Litong said he was wandering the myriad realms to broaden his horizons and comprehend martial dao.
• Gu Litong asked when Li Wei would give birth, and Gu Jinzhi replied that the pregnancy had not yet consummated.
• Li Wei said it was hard to predict when the time would come, and Zhao Funing turned to twist Gu Litong’s ear for interfering in the couple’s business.
• Gu Litong tried to explain that he wanted to hold a great-grandson, but Zhao Funing scolded him and told him to become an old man.

Li Wei and Gu Jinzhi tried to steal some private time while their young child slept. Their plans ended abruptly when the child woke and called out to them, leaving Li Wei in the lotus pond.

• Gu Jinzhi slipped into the bedchamber and kissed Li Wei while checking that their child was asleep.
• Gu Jinzhi carried Li Wei out of the bedchamber so they would not wake the child.
• Li Wei told Gu Jinzhi that the child would probably sleep for two or three days.
• Gu Jinzhi took Li Wei to a secluded platform by the lotus pond and prepared to set her on a lounge chair.
• Their child woke and called to his parents, startling Gu Jinzhi into dropping Li Wei into the pond.

Five years after the Western Frontier reclamation campaign, Li Wei showed her young son the ruins of the battlefields at Xifeng Pass while spending a peaceful winter day with Gu Jinzhi and Zhang Luye. Her son excitedly explored the Dragon Tooth Fort ruins as Zhang Luye prepared a roast lamb.

• Li Wei and Gu Jinzhi sat at the old Pebble Fortress site and looked over the reclaimed grassland with their son.
• Li Wei told her son about the Western Frontier Death Line, the trench network, and the Dragon Tooth Fort ruins.
• Her son asked to explore the meadow, and Li Wei let him go after reminding him to return for roast meat.
• Zhang Luye grilled a whole lamb and joked with Li Wei about his chain restaurants.
• Li Wei leaned against Gu Jinzhi as their son examined the ruins and Zhang Luye cooked.

Li Wei and Gu Jinzhi drifted together on the River of Time, remembering the dangers they had survived and imagining an endless future together. They returned to the cabin, where their intimacy began again.

• Li Wei teased Gu Jinzhi about admiring her feet, and he admitted they looked good.
• Gu Jinzhi kissed Li Wei to stop her from teasing him about his preferences.
• Li Wei recalled wishing time could freeze while immortals pursued her, and Gu Jinzhi reassured her that everything had turned out well.
• Gu Jinzhi asked Li Wei to guide him forever, and she joked that they had not even reached the seven-year itch.
• Gu Jinzhi carried Li Wei into the cabin, and ripples spread across the River of Time again.