Chapter Summaries

Shangguan Yue settled into a luxurious residence provided by the Three Lives Race, but worried about burdening Jiang Qiu and doubted her own worth. A lavish meal and special cultivation aids triggered a breakthrough, and she advanced through the stages of the Path-Glimpsing Realm.

• Shangguan Yue bathed, received fine clothes and attendants, and wondered whether returning to Blue Star would cost Jiang Qiu too much.
• Shangguan Yue felt inferior and uncertain about her talent, but took comfort when the maids praised her beauty.
• Shangguan Yue ate a lavish meal rich in spiritual essence, which loosened her stagnant realm and began her breakthrough.
• The maids reported Shangguan Yue's breakthrough, and a Three Lives Race expert ordered them to provide resources and aid her.
• Shangguan Yue comprehended her Cultivation Method, shattered an invisible barrier, and broke through from the initial stage to the peak stage of the Path-Glimpsing Realm.

Shangguan Yue glimpsed the Return to Simplicity Great Dao and rapidly advanced to the peak of the Path-Glimpsing Realm, transforming into a young girl. Yang Lei recognized the significance of her Dao and feared that Jiang Qiu was at the center of a vast scheme; the chapter ends with Jiang Qiu startled by Shangguan Yue’s new appearance on a video call.

• Shangguan Yue followed her heart while eating, glimpsed the Return to Simplicity Great Dao, and reached the peak of the Path-Glimpsing Realm in a childlike body.
• Shangguan Yue asked the maids for clothes that fit, while Yang Lei’s subordinate reported that she had awakened the Return to Simplicity Great Dao.
• Yang Lei investigated Shangguan Yue, confirmed her Dao, and grew fearful after recalling that one of Jiang Qiu’s juniors also possessed the Void Dao.
• Yang Lei ordered his subordinates to give Shangguan Yue exceptional care and resources, and arranged her honored-guest status in the Thunder Great World.
• Shangguan Yue added Jiang Qiu as a contact and called him, leaving him stunned by her changed appearance.

Jiang Qiu helped Shangguan Yue cultivate after she comprehended the Return to Simplicity Great Dao, and she advanced from the peak of the Path-Glimpsing Realm to the peak of the Path-Entering Realm. She chose to stay and help rescue Liu Zili, and her breakthrough left her even smaller and more childlike.

• Jiang Qiu learned that Shangguan Yue had reached the peak of the Path-Glimpsing Realm and offered to arrange her return to Blue Star.
• Shangguan Yue refused to leave before helping rescue her disciple Liu Zili and revealed that her heightened perception could detect areas and evade some sealing laws.
• Jiang Qiu agreed to bring Shangguan Yue along when he searched the Eight-Direction Reversal Battleship and gave her cultivation resources and Dao insights.
• Shangguan Yue cultivated while Jiang Qiu expounded the Dao, and within a week she broke through to the peak of the Path-Entering Realm.
• Shangguan Yue became only 1.2 meters tall after advancing, and she said that her new strength would help her rescue Liu Zili.

Zuo Xuan prepared to lead the Thunder Clan’s overwhelming army into the Thunder Forbidden Zone to eliminate the Blood Fiend White Tiger and claim its treasures. After Zuo Xuan left the Eight-Direction Reversal Battleship behind, Xue Ang and Jiang Qiu arrived in the temporary city and stared in awe at the vessel.

• The Thunder Clan gathered experts and millions of elite soldiers near the Thunder Forbidden Zone, confident that its forces would overwhelm the Blood Fiend White Tiger’s followers.
• The Thunder Clan planned to seize the forbidden zone’s resources and secrets to raise its world’s standing and power.
• Zuo Xuan watched the prosperous temporary city beneath the Eight-Direction Reversal Battleship and reflected on his fascination with exploration and transcendence.
• Zuo Xuan left with a handful of trusted aides to prepare for battle, while hundreds of thousands of Imperial Blue Lizardmen remained to guard the battleship.
• Xue Ang and Jiang Qiu arrived in the temporary city and marveled at the enormous Eight-Direction Reversal Battleship.

Jiang Qiu, Shangguan Yue, and Snow infiltrated the Eight-Direction Reversal Battleship to search for Liu Zili while Zuo Xuan was away. In the Thunder Forbidden Zone, the Blood Fiend White Tiger entered the Dao Conjoining Realm, terrifying the Thunder Clan and prompting them to urge Zuo Xuan to kill him.

• Jiang Qiu brought Shangguan Yue and Snow into the battleship after Snow sensed that Zuo Xuan had left for the Thunder Forbidden Zone.
• Shangguan Yue explained that the battleship's detection laws would not treat them as enemies and sensed that denser laws lay toward the likely core zone.
• Jiang Qiu and Shangguan Yue began traversing deeper into the battleship to find Liu Zili without leaving detectable ripples.
• The Blood Fiend White Tiger endured another lightning tribulation as his blackened skin cracked and golden light burst from within.
• The Blood Fiend White Tiger entered the Dao Conjoining Realm, and his thunderous aura forced Thunder Clan members to their knees in fear.
• The Thunder Clan concealed its deeper alarm from Zuo Xuan and urged him to commit more resources to killing the Blood Fiend White Tiger.

Blood Fiend White Tiger broke through to the Dao Conjoining Realm and awakened the White Tiger Bloodline as Zuo Xuan used the Nine Venerables Great World's will to suppress the Thunder Forbidden Zone and sent the Thunder Clan army inside. The first Thunder Clan Dao Conjoining experts vanished abruptly, leaving Zuo Xuan alarmed by the unknown force in the depths.

• Blood Fiend White Tiger shattered his shell, achieved Dao Conjoining, and awakened the White Tiger Bloodline, rallying the White Tiger Army.
• Zuo Xuan manifested the will of the Nine Venerables Great World and suppressed the Thunder Forbidden Zone's laws.
• Zuo Xuan gave the Thunder Clan three days to attack, and its million-strong army charged into the forbidden zone.
• Zuo Xuan sensed Blood Fiend White Tiger's White Tiger Bloodline and resolved to kill him, while holding back from entering the forbidden zone himself.
• Zuo Xuan watched the Thunder Clan's Dao Conjoining experts advance, then felt their auras vanish all at once.

Zuo Xuan watched the Thunder Forbidden Zone erase the Thunder Clan’s Dao Conjoining Realm cultivators and realized the Blood Fiend White Tiger was absorbing the Thunder Great World’s origin. As the Blood Fiend White Tiger broke through to the mid-stage Dao Conjoining Realm and Thunder Clan forces vanished across the battlefield, Zuo Xuan withdrew the Nine Venerables Great World’s protection and fled.

• Zuo Xuan saw the Thunder Clan’s Dao Conjoining Realm cultivators disappear inside the Thunder Forbidden Zone, while the White Tiger Army fought the million-strong force outside.
• Blood rain fell across the Thunder Great World, and Zuo Xuan recognized it as the world will mourning the deaths of its Dao Conjoining Realm cultivators.
• The Thunder Great World’s world will unleashed violet lightning, and Zuo Xuan sensed the Blood Fiend White Tiger had advanced to the mid-stage Dao Conjoining Realm.
• Zuo Xuan realized the Blood Fiend White Tiger was absorbing the Thunder Clan’s thunder origin, as Thunder Clan cultivators across the battlefield began vanishing.
• Zuo Xuan withdrew the remaining strand of the Nine Venerables Great World’s world will and fled, leaving the million-strong army exposed to the forbidden zone’s laws.

The Blood Fiend White Tiger’s remnant soul took over his body after the Thunder Forbidden Zone annihilated the Thunder army, and he planned to reach the Twilight Sacred Ruins and return to the Chaos Sea. He sealed the Thunder Great World to keep Zuo Xuan from escaping, while Zuo Xuan unknowingly returned to a compromised battleship.

• The Thunder Forbidden Zone’s lightning destroyed the million-strong army, leaving the Thunder Clan’s forces and influence shattered.
• The Blood Fiend White Tiger’s ancient remnant soul revealed that it had seized the body and planned to reclaim the White Tiger Clan’s inheritance in the Chaos Sea.
• The Blood Fiend White Tiger resolved to digest the army’s spiritual essence, obtain a Twilight Token, and enter the Twilight Sacred Ruins before the Epochal Cleansing.
• The Blood Fiend White Tiger sealed the Thunder Great World’s time-space laws, trapping Zuo Xuan to prevent him from spreading news of the remnant soul’s return.
• Zuo Xuan returned to the Eight-Direction Reversal Battleship and discovered that its core zone had been infiltrated.

Jiang Qiu, Snow, and Shangguan Yue looted most of the Eight-Direction Reversal Battleship’s core resources, but they could not enter a sealed room where an immensely powerful being was gathering strength. After they escaped just as Zuo Xuan returned, he discovered that the battleship’s treasure stores had been emptied.

• Shangguan Yue used the Return to Simplicity Great Dao to guide Jiang Qiu and Snow into the battleship’s core area while evading its detection laws.
• Jiang Qiu found far less wealth than he expected in the core area and wondered what had consumed the battleship’s vast resources.
• Jiang Qiu and Snow looted nearly everything they could carry, including treasures from the resource vault, while Shangguan Yue identified a sealed room connected to it.
• Jiang Qiu and his companions failed to enter the room because a powerful being inside distorted space-time and was nearing a breakthrough.
• When Zuo Xuan returned to the core area, Jiang Qiu, Snow, and Shangguan Yue teleported away, but Zuo Xuan sensed their faint departure.
• Zuo Xuan searched the core area and discovered that the resource vaults and other treasure stores were completely empty.

After thieves robbed the Eight-Direction Reversal Battleship, Zuo Xuan prepared to leave the Thunder Great World and checked on Liu Zili, whose rapid cultivation had brought her to the verge of Dao Conjoining. The Thunder Great World then sealed itself off, preventing Zuo Xuan and his crew from returning to the Nine Venerables Great World.

• Zuo Xuan realized that thieves had emptied the battleship’s resource vault, but chose not to pursue them and ordered his crew to leave the Thunder Great World.
• Zuo Xuan’s subordinates activated the battleship’s reserve energy and began gathering the slaves and clansmen for relocation.
• Zuo Xuan entered the core cultivation room and found Liu Zili nearing Dao Conjoining after rapidly advancing through the Path-Integration Realm.
• Zuo Xuan considered Liu Zili his greatest treasure and imagined bringing her to the Nine Venerables Great World before eventually returning to harvest the Thunder Great World.
• A subordinate reported that the Thunder Great World had sealed itself off and blocked their void leap, leaving Zuo Xuan unable to return to the Nine Venerables Great World.

Jiang Qiu, Snow, and Shangguan Yue learned that a remnant soul within the Blood Fiend White Tiger had destroyed the Thunder Clan and seized control of the Thunder Great World. With space-time sealed and the White Tiger nearing peak Dao Conjoining, Yang Lei proposed using the Twilight Tokens to escape through the Twilight Sacred Ruins.

• Jiang Qiu sensed that Zuo Xuan had returned to the Eight-Direction Reversal Battleship and was preparing to leave, while the Thunder Great World’s space-time had been sealed.
• Snow sensed an ancient, incomplete soul within the Blood Fiend White Tiger, and her resonance with it led Jiang Qiu to doubt that she was Hua’s reincarnation.
• Jiang Qiu brought Snow and Shangguan Yue to Yang Lei, who revealed that the Thunder Clan had been exterminated and the Blood Fiend White Tiger had taken control of the Thunder Great World’s world will.
• Yang Lei explained that the White Tiger had absorbed the Thunder Clan’s spiritual essence and was preparing to advance, leaving the world in danger of destruction.
• Yang Lei said the Three Lives Race could seek escape through the Twilight Sacred Ruins, since its opening would bypass the space-time restrictions and the Thunder Clan had once possessed three Twilight Tokens.

Jiang Qiu and Yang Lei went to the Thunder Clan’s ancestral land to retrieve its Twilight Tokens, hoping to secure a way out of the sealed Thunder Great World. They waited for whoever had entered first, then prepared to face a bloodied Dao Conjoining Realm powerhouse emerging from the ruins.

• Jiang Qiu asked Yang Lei where the Thunder Clan had kept its three Twilight Tokens, and Yang Lei identified the clan’s ancestral land as the likeliest location.
• Jiang Qiu entrusted Shangguan Yue to Yang Lei and traveled with him to the ancestral land, where they found its entrance unguarded and space-time disrupted.
• Jiang Qiu and Yang Lei hid nearby and waited as Path-Integration Realm cultivators entered the ancestral land and failed to return.
• A powerful, wounded Dao Conjoining Realm aura surged from the entrance, and Jiang Qiu summoned Snow while Yang Lei warned that the newcomer might be difficult to defeat.
• Jiang Qiu and Snow prepared to merge their strength as a blue-skinned powerhouse emerged, and Yang Lei recognized him with shock.

Zuo Xuan emerged from the Thunder Clan's ancestral land with three Twilight Tokens, then escaped a confrontation with Jiang Qiu, Snow, and Yang Lei by handing two tokens to them. He returned to the Eight-Direction Reversal Battleship to recover from his injuries and await the Twilight Sacred Ruins' opening.

• Zuo Xuan left the Thunder Clan's ancestral land severely injured but carrying three Twilight Tokens, and found Jiang Qiu, Snow, and Yang Lei waiting outside.
• Jiang Qiu confronted Zuo Xuan over his purge of Jiang Qiu's homeworld, while Zuo Xuan realized they wanted the Twilight Tokens.
• Zuo Xuan threw one Twilight Token to Yang Lei and another to Snow, then vanished before the three could stop him.
• Yang Lei sold his token to Jiang Qiu, leaving Jiang Qiu with two Twilight Tokens, and the three returned from the ancestral land.
• Other cultivators entered the ancestral land and suffered deaths or injuries, finding its treasures already looted.
• Zuo Xuan returned to the Eight-Direction Reversal Battleship, began recuperative seclusion, and prepared to wait for the Twilight Sacred Ruins to open.

Tianming’s winning streak passed ninety as he approached the Dao Conjoining Realm, while the Human Alliance expanded across the Great Barren World with Tianxing’s support. The Twilight Sacred Ruins opened, and Tianxing was drawn in by his Twilight Token.

• Tianming became Tianxing Arena’s reigning champion, attracting challengers and building a winning streak of more than ninety matches.
• Tianxing obtained a Twilight Token from a great clan and learned that Tianming had reached an opportunity to conjoin the Dao through cultivation in the void.
• The Human Alliance expanded its trade and influence across hundreds of Oasis Cities, establishing schools and raising the status of local humans.
• Tianxing supported the Human Alliance and prepared to enter the Twilight Sacred Ruins with his token.
• The Twilight Sacred Ruins opened, and the token’s holy light swallowed Tianxing.

Jiang Qiu and Snow entered the Twilight Sacred Ruins with Shangguan Yue, but an extra Twilight Token brought Liu Zili there as well, while a mysterious force separated Shangguan Yue from Jiang Qiu. The Era Will of the Dragonfall Era welcomed the entrants and announced a search for inheritances, as the reincarnated Blood Fiend White Tiger prepared to pursue the Dragon Emperor's Legacy and return to the Chaos Sea.

• Jiang Qiu realized that his extra Twilight Token had drawn Liu Zili into the Twilight Sacred Ruins because their fates were deeply intertwined.
• Jiang Qiu and Snow arrived in the ruins, but an irresistible power separated Shangguan Yue from them.
• The Era Will of the Dragonfall Era introduced itself and announced that entrants could explore shattered worlds for inheritances and artifacts.
• The Era Will promised the Dragon Emperor's inheritance to the strongest among the hundred thousand lifeforms.
• Blood Fiend White Tiger revealed that he had entered the ruins to seek transcendence and use the Dragon Emperor's Legacy to return to the Chaos Sea.

Emperor Chen recognized reincarnated experts in the Twilight Sacred Ruins and believed the Dragon Emperor’s Legacy and the chance to transcend were destined for him. As the gathered cultivators confronted the emergence of powerful figures from the previous era, a fiery voice asked whether Chen had reincarnated.

• Cultivators used the Twilight Sacred Ruins Channel to discuss the gathered Dao Conjoining Realm experts and the Human Race’s ancient prominence.
• The Blood Fiend White Tiger’s killing intent alerted Emperor Chen, who sensed his former demon marshals and learned their peak-race bloodlines had freed them from his control.
• Emperor Chen revealed that the Dragon Emperor’s Legacy had shaped his cultivation and reincarnation, and resolved to claim the Azure Luan Palace’s spacetime-reversing artifact.
• The Giant God King appeared in his immense true body, and cultivators recognized him as a reincarnated figure from the previous era.
• The Undying Night King confronted the Giant God King, and a blazing voice arrived asking whether Demon Emperor Chen had reincarnated.

Jiang Qiu and Snow entered the Twilight Sacred Ruins’ inheritance phase, where countless secret realms opened and a points ranking revealed that the top-ranked contender could claim the Dragon Emperor’s Legacy and the secret of transcendence. As reincarnated experts began slaughtering others for points, Jiang Qiu avoided them and approached a remote secret realm that might contain a fragment of the Dragon Emperor’s inheritance.

• The Twilight Sacred Ruins opened countless secret realms containing inheritances from the previous era, and Jiang Qiu hoped to find a method of Dao Conjoining.
• Many cultivators entered secret realms while others waited to ambush them, and the ruins announced that Blood Refining Demonic Venerable had killed peak Dao Conjoining Realm experts for points.
• The cultivators realized the ranking was based on points and that its winner could obtain the Dragon Emperor’s Legacy and the secret of transcendence.
• The Giant God King, the Undying Night King, and other reincarnated experts began slaughtering cultivators or searching secret realms for divine artifacts.
• Jiang Qiu avoided the slaughtering experts and followed Snow toward a remote secret realm that might hold a scattered inheritance of the Dragon Emperor.

Jiang Qiu and Snow entered a secret realm that Snow sensed held part of the Dragon Emperor's Legacy, but the realm separated them and stripped Jiang Qiu of his powers. After an overwhelming transformation, Jiang Qiu hatched from a dragon egg in another world, where a bear demon watched him in fear.

• Snow sensed a familiar pull toward a secluded secret realm, and Jiang Qiu entered it with her, trusting her intuition.
• The realm separated Jiang Qiu from Snow and blocked his Great Daos and spiritual essence as an immense force condensed his body, bloodline, and soul.
• Jiang Qiu saw a mysterious existence turning the Annals of Time, which stripped away memories before his consciousness fell silent.
• A dragon egg cracked open amid storms and a heavenly phenomenon, and Jiang Qiu emerged as a golden-eyed humanoid hatchling untouched by the rain or mud.
• A frightened bear demon watched the hatchling and wondered where the egg had come from as Jiang Qiu stared back at him in confusion.

Jiang Qiu realized he had been reborn as a young dragon in a secret realm tied to the Dragon Emperor's Legacy, with his former cultivation and abilities inaccessible. After awakening enough of his Dragon Race inheritance to speak Dragon Language, he asked a bear demon who it was, and his words overwhelmed it with terror.

• Jiang Qiu concluded that he had entered a new time and space as a newborn dragon, possibly as part of a secret realm trial connected to the Dragon Emperor's Legacy.
• Jiang Qiu recalled the Dragon Emperor inheritances he had encountered before and considered how valuable the Dragon Race's bloodline inheritance might be.
• Jiang Qiu realized that he could not communicate with the bear demon using his former method because he could no longer transmit information through spiritual essence.
• Jiang Qiu accessed basic information from his Dragon Race Bloodline Inheritance and discovered that he could speak in Dragon Language.
• Jiang Qiu asked the bear demon who it was in Dragon Language, and the force of his words shook the forest and terrified the bear demon.

Jiang Qiu awakened as a tiny dragon in a vast ancient forest and suspected his body carried the Dragon Emperor’s bloodline, making this the Twilight Sacred Ruins’ most important inheritance. He sought to learn which Heaven Layer he had entered so he could complete the trial, return, and save Liu Zili.

• Jiang Qiu renamed the frightened bear demon Xiong Batian after it introduced itself as Xiong the Tyrant.
• Jiang Qiu surveyed the ancient forest, realized his former cultivation and senses were gone, and recognized that he had been reborn as a dragon hatchling.
• Jiang Qiu sensed his bloodline’s extraordinary purity and concluded that his body might carry the Dragon Emperor’s blood.
• Jiang Qiu decided the forest might be the Twilight Sacred Ruins’ central inheritance and resolved to complete the trial, kill Zuo Xuan, and save Liu Zili.
• Jiang Qiu asked Xiong Batian where they were, and Xiong Batian suggested he meant to ask which Heaven Layer they had entered.