Chapter Summaries

Teacher Ping explained how Yi Ji’s hidden, multi-generation plan led to his transformation into Dao Qiongchang and his attainment of the Way of Memory. She also compared Dao arts and Sui arts through the tangled timelines, leaving the question of which came first unanswered: both could come first or later.

• Tong Sheng and Li Yun arrived late to Teacher Ping’s lecture, where she argued that Time Ancestor Kong Yuhen had taken Dao Ancestor Yi Ji’s vacant place among the Ten Ancestors.
• Teacher Ping revealed that Yi Ji’s final generation, Dao Qiongchang, cultivated many Daos and attained Zeroing through a long plan in which successive Third Generations were reset by the Second Generation whenever they risked discovery.
• Teacher Ping explained that Yi Ji concealed his existence through the Way of Memory, and that his shifting names did not prevent him from completing his Dao.
• Li Yun asked whether Sui arts or Dao arts were orthodox, prompting Teacher Ping to describe how the Time Ancestor’s disappearance had tangled the timelines of the Ancestors.
• Teacher Ping concluded that the timelines allowed every Dao to have come first and every Dao to have come later.

Apple Master explained how Sui and Dao histories could alter one another, then the lecture opened onto Yi Ji’s sudden appearance as Dao Ancestor and a fabricated religious past. Purple Pet recognized that the self-consistent memory was rewriting history, while Devil Ancestor’s plan to exploit Dao Xuanji’s mission had been sidetracked by Wu Siniang’s encounter with Liu Guifen.

• Apple Master used the divided apple and branching Rivers of Time to explain that Sui Yin and Dao Ancestor could have won first because their histories unfolded simultaneously.
• Tong Sheng questioned who had created the New Heavenly Realm and pressed Apple Master to predict the ultimate winner, but she said she did not know and urged everyone to listen.
• Dao Ancestor Yi Ji appeared at Crossroads Corner, and Purple Pet suddenly remembered a complete history in which Yi Ji had led the Heavenly Mechanism Divine Sect as the Pope.
• Purple Pet recalled the Pope’s failed union with the Dao, his torture and death, and the transformation of his remains into the Blood-Drenched Pope’s Cross, but could find no evidence to disprove the memory.
• Purple Pet realized the inserted history could make a false origin true, while Devil Ancestor’s hypnosis had directed Dao Xuanji toward Crossroads Corner to seize the cross and become Lord of the Holy Sect.
• Wu Siniang met Liu Guifen before entering Crossroads Corner and changed her mission to helping him become ruler of the North Realm, leaving Devil Ancestor’s plan unnoticed.

Kui Leihan resisted Dao Qiongchang’s memory-altering influence and attacked Medicine Ancestor, whose stolen reserves and mounting distractions left him vulnerable. As an Ancestral God Law-Extinguishing Tribulation gathered over the Western Domain Desert, Medicine Ancestor heard a familiar promise to save him.

• Dao Qiongchang Zeroed at Crossroads Corner and flooded the world with memories that redefined its understanding of the Great Dao.
• Kui Leihan put on the God Tribulation Mask, then sent the mask and Heaven-Shattering Hammer to his son instead of acting rashly.
• Medicine Ancestor discovered that Locust Heart held none of his accumulated Life Medicine Pool power and swallowed Bei Huai, gaining only his three bodily powers.
• A flood of memories and Sui Yin’s possession disrupted Medicine Ancestor as Kui Leihan arrived and punched through his body and Life Pattern.
• Medicine Ancestor touched Bei Huai’s Life Pattern to gain power, triggering a tribulation that seemed to target him as a voice promised, “If the whole world abandons you, I will save you.”

Kui Leihan wounded the Medicine Ancestor and used Scarlet Firmament Thunder to suppress his healing, while Xu Xiaoshou brought the Relics of the Gods over the Western Domain Desert to raise its Dao Law. Purple Pet merged with the Devil Ancestor to undergo Zeroing, and Shen Yi reached the Saint Mystery Gate, where two unexpected figures appeared before him.

• Kui Leihan realized Bei Huai had survived and used Scarlet Firmament Thunder to keep the Medicine Ancestor's wounds from healing quickly.
• Xu Xiaoshou ordered Ghost Willow to guide the Relics of the Gods' laws onto the Western Domain Desert, creating a stronger battlefield for Kui Leihan.
• Purple Pet entered the Saint Mystery Gate, retrieved the Sword Tower, and merged her Sheng Xin power with the Devil Ancestor's body, Soul, and Intent to undergo Zeroing.
• Shen Yi rushed toward the Holy Palace, and Dao Qiongchang used the Great Embroidery Technique, Great Annihilation Art, and Great Guidance Art to lead him to the Saint Mystery Gate.
• Shen Yi entered the gate and confronted the Devil Ancestor and Purple Pet, but two figures arrived before the Sword Tower, one raging against Dao Xuan Ji and the other calling Shen Yi an idiot.

Xu Xiaoshou followed the Devil Ancestor’s summons into the Mother Coffin of Fetal Origin and discovered the Devil Ancestor’s body, spirit, and will joined with Holy Ancestor Sheng Xin. He invoked the Name Ancestor to improve his bargaining position, but the Devil Ancestor sealed the Name Ancestor inside his consciousness body and demanded an equal exchange.

• Xu Xiaoshou followed the Devil Ancestor’s guidance into a hidden world near Siling Mountain and used the Consciousness True Eye to see through its illusions.
• Xu Xiaoshou recognized the Mother Coffin of Fetal Origin and secretly imprinted it with the Way of Will before questioning the Devil Ancestor about cooperation and a warning concerning Dao Qiongchang and Yi Ji.
• Xu Xiaoshou claimed Shennong Hundred Herbs offered a better deal, then let the Name Ancestor descend through his consciousness body to negotiate with the Devil Ancestor.
• The Name Ancestor dismissed the Devil Ancestor’s offer and began to leave, but the Devil Ancestor used “Seal” to trap him inside Xu Xiaoshou’s consciousness body.
• The Name Ancestor said Shennong Hundred Herbs’s offer of “love” outweighed the Devil Ancestor’s profit, and the Devil Ancestor threatened to ruin the New Heavenly Realm unless they exchanged as equals.

The Devil Ancestor tried to win the Name Ancestor away from Shennong Hundred Herbs by revealing his plans for the New Heavenly Realm and demonstrating his power. Purple Pet then disclosed the Devil Ancestor’s larger scheme and declared that Kui Leihan’s destiny could not be stopped.

• The Name Ancestor offered the Devil Ancestor one chance to prove himself, while refusing to reveal the terms of his verbal pact with Shennong Hundred Herbs.
• The Devil Ancestor argued that Shennong Hundred Herbs could not match his combat strength and claimed he would trap the Medicine Ancestor in the Mother Coffin of Fetal Origin.
• The Devil Ancestor revealed that he planned to make Sui Yin a Life Seed, detonate the Way of Arts, and use the New Heavenly Realm to establish his Divine Court.
• The Devil Ancestor’s body, soul, and intent combined with Purple Pet’s Divine Nature Power, manifesting the Heart-Demon River and God-Devil Pupils.
• Purple Pet explained that the Devil Ancestor intended to control the Way of Thought through Cao Yihan and turn him into the Ancestor Nian Divine Network.
• Purple Pet declared that no one, including the Name Ancestor, Nuo, or Ba, could stop Kui Leihan’s destiny.

Xu Xiaoshou nearly exposed himself to stop the Devil Ancestor’s scheme, but Dao Qiongchang rewound the situation and concealed his intervention. After Xiang Yaoyao was shattered and Shen Yi faced Purple Pet’s choice between revenge and pursuing Xiang’er’s remnants, Xu Xiaoshou reached him through the Sea of Intent Dao and told him to leave everything to him.

• Xu Xiaoshou held back from entering the game until Dao Qiongchang’s intervention briefly disrupted the Ancestor Gods’ memories and secretly returned Xu Xiaoshou to the Crystal Palace.
• The Devil Ancestor admitted Lei Xier had been brought in as a weapon, while Xiang Yaoyao appeared before Shen Yi and warned him to run.
• Lei Xier’s Divine Fall killed Xiang Yaoyao, and Xu Xiaoshou started to intervene before Dao Qiongchang erased the evidence and pulled him back.
• Purple Pet sent Xiang Yaoyao’s remaining spirituality into the River of Reincarnation and taunted Shen Yi with the choice to fight or pursue her.
• Shen Yi nearly succumbed to rage and Purple Pet’s manipulation before falling into the Sea of Intent Dao, where he discovered Xu Xiaoshou’s hidden Limit Giant.
• Xu Xiaoshou spoke to Shen Yi through the Sea of Intent Dao and told him to leave everything after this to him.

Kui Leihan used Thought Slash to sever the Devil Ancestor’s lightning authority from the Sacred Dao and claim it for the Way of Thought, but the Devil Ancestor countered by splitting his Inner Demon Dao Seed and forcing Kui Leihan to sacrifice his Great Dao. The chapter left the Five Domains covered in a newly elevated Dao network as Kui Leihan underwent Liberation by Violence.

• The Medicine Ancestor accepted Bei Huai and let him control his body to face the Ancestral God Law-Extinguishing Tribulation while Kui Leihan attacked the Great World Locust Tree.
• Kui Leihan nearly lost himself to the Devil Ancestor’s obsession until Shen Yi’s advance into the River of Reincarnation helped him regain clarity.
• Kui Leihan wove a net between the Medicine Ancestor and the Dao Law Gates, then used Thought Slash to destroy the lightning portion of the Devil Ancestor’s Dao foundation.
• The Devil Ancestor reclaimed the lightning attribute through the network and decreed that lightning cultivators would follow the Way of Thought and revere the God-Punishing Execution Tribulation.
• The Devil Ancestor split his Inner Demon Dao Seed, overwhelming Kui Leihan with demonic power and forcing him to undergo Liberation by Violence and sacrifice his Great Dao.
• Finality invoked the Ancestor Nian Divine Network decree as radiant Dao light spread across the Five Domains and raised the Dao-law levels.

Kui Leihan’s sacrifice transformed the Holy Spirit Continent and empowered its cultivators, while the Devil Ancestor revealed plans to reclaim the Way of Thought and sought knowledge of the great tribulation from the Name Ancestor. After the Name Ancestor departed, Xu Xiaoshou submitted to the Devil Ancestor and asked for Lei Xier and Dao Xuanji, leaving the Devil Ancestor convinced that Xu Xiaoshou’s spirit had been broken.

• Kui Leihan’s sacrifice built the Ancestor Nian Divine Network, transformed the world’s Dao Law Gates, and strengthened cultivators across the Five Domains.
• Xu Xiaoshou felt his power surge in the Apricot Realm and restrained himself to keep the Ancestral God Law-Extinguishing Tribulation from descending.
• The Devil Ancestor told the Name Ancestor that it could eventually rebuild its Way of Thought, while the Name Ancestor warned that the great tribulation could not yet be revealed and said it would choose between the Devil Ancestor and Shennong Hundred Herbs.
• The Name Ancestor departed after telling the Devil Ancestor to seek its successor, Xu Xiaoshou, after the battle for further answers about the great tribulation and other matters.
• Xu Xiaoshou bowed to the Devil Ancestor and asked for Lei Xier and Dao Xuanji, prompting the Devil Ancestor to laugh at what it took to be his broken will.

Xu Xiaoshou feigned despair before the Devil Ancestor, then hunted down Dao Xuanji and destroyed her many hidden bodies and escape plans. After watching the revenge unfold, Lei Xier broke down under memories of the Lei family’s massacre, and Xu Xiaoshou comforted her as danger approached.

• Xu Xiaoshou staged a humiliating collapse to convince the Devil Ancestor that he was broken, then left the Crystal Palace in a rage.
• Dao Xuanji reported to the Devil Ancestor and believed her schemes had secured her future, but Xu Xiaoshou appeared and attacked her outside the City of the Dead Futu.
• Xu Xiaoshou killed Dao Xuanji and pursued her remaining incarnations and contingencies across the Five Domains, destroying each one while the Devil Ancestor watched without intervening.
• Lei Xier watched Xu Xiaoshou avenge the Lei family, then became overwhelmed by visions of the massacre and pleaded for her brother.
• Xu Xiaoshou comforted Lei Xier, promised that her sight would return, and told her to stay quiet because their enemies were approaching.

After killing Dao Xuanji, Xu Xiaoshou returned to the Crystal Palace and found Lei Xier had regressed into Mu Zixi after reliving her trauma. He made a pendant to protect her from the Devil Ancestor, then left for the Time Realm after explaining their supposed senior brother and junior sister relationship.

• Xu Xiaoshou returned to the Crystal Palace, found Mu Zixi asleep amid the wreckage, and learned from Li Fugui how the Lei siblings had survived the Lei Family Tragedy and how Mu Zixi's second personality had formed.
• Xu Xiaoshou created a pink four-leaf-clover pendant containing a replacement body and gave it to Mu Zixi as protection against the Devil Ancestor.
• Mu Zixi awoke with little memory and drank Xu Xiaoshou's blood, so he introduced himself as her Senior Brother Hero and invented a story about her being a princess of the Apricot Realm.
• Xu Xiaoshou gave Mu Zixi the pendant and an Apricot Realm Jade Talisman, then told her to contact Li Fugui if she needed help.
• Xu Xiaoshou left for the Time Realm and warned Mu Zixi not to follow because it specialized in eating children.

Xu Xiaoshou entered the Time Realm to pursue enlightenment, relying on his Sea of Intent Dao and Medicine Ancestor’s power to withstand its dangers. He chose to cultivate the Ways of Body and Spirit first, while preparing backup plans in case he ran out of time.

• A gray-robed man used the Great Avatar Art and slipped into the Time Realm unnoticed as the Five Domains focused on the struggles of the Ancestral Gods and the hopes pinned on Wen Ting and Gou Wuyue.
• Xu Xiaoshou entered the Time Realm and used the Long River of Will Dao to anchor himself and search for traces, finding an incomplete line of Ba Zunan’s Sword Thought.
• Xu Xiaoshou assessed the Time Realm’s dangers and concluded that his Sea of Intent Dao and the power he had taken from Medicine Ancestor would let him resist its consumption and avoid losing his way.
• Xu Xiaoshou considered two paths to enlightenment: seizing the Dao of Life and Reincarnation, or cultivating the Ways of Body and Spirit alongside his perfected Way of Will.
• Xu Xiaoshou chose to cultivate the Ways of Body and Spirit first and devised a contingency in which Jinren and his true body would pursue separate paths to help him attain the three rivers of the Great Dao.
• Xu Xiaoshou turned to the Passive System and prepared to use Shi Mingnuo’s Black Turntable to improve his special passive skills.

Xu Xiaoshou underwent a Saint Tribulation in the Time Realm and became a Half-Saint, forming a deeper bond with Hidden Pain and discovering he could revive through the Sword Dao. The Passive System upgraded, revealed new abilities and a message from Xi He, and refreshed its shop as Xu Xiaoshou prepared to explore its new offerings.

• Xu Xiaoshou decided to become a Saint in the Time Realm and used Hidden Pain as his godhood before summoning a lightning tribulation.
• Kong Yuhen warned Xu Xiaoshou that maintaining the Time Realm was difficult, so Xu Xiaoshou gave him a spatial pearl filled with Immeasurable Energy.
• Xu Xiaoshou endured the tribulation and became a Half-Saint, with his spiritual source and saint power transforming into Immeasurable Energy.
• Hidden Pain merged with Xu Xiaoshou, and he realized that he could recover himself through the Sword Dao even if his body and sword were destroyed.
• The Passive System upgraded to perfection, unlocking Supreme Slash and Dao-Seizing Tentacle, granting Xu Xiaoshou one billion Passive Value, and delivering a message from Xi He at Ancestral Court Great Demon Mountain.
• Xu Xiaoshou checked the refreshed shop and found new items, including Third-tier Evolution Water and Void-Touch Condensation.

Xu Xiaoshou examined the Passive System’s costly new modules and decided to test whether Origin True Steles could supply Supreme Dharma Images. He bought Void-Touch Condensation, which grew a Dao-Seizing Tentacle from his body, and ended the chapter choosing among five Origin True Steles to test first.

• Xu Xiaoshou calculated the rising costs of upgrading skills and other Passive System modules, then reasoned that the Great Dao Disks could not all be advanced to their limits using Passive Value.
• Xu Xiaoshou inspected Supreme Slash and learned it could use Dao-Seizing Tentacle to draw abilities from slain Supreme Ridges and form Supreme Dharma Images, though the process carried risks.
• Xu Xiaoshou wondered whether Origin True Steles could stand in for the slain Supremes, then discovered that using Dao-Seizing Tentacle required buying Void-Touch Condensation.
• Xu Xiaoshou purchased and drank Void-Touch Condensation, which transformed into power and caused a large, silvery tentacle to grow from his lower back.
• Greed God’s tail and Hidden Pain reacted to the new tentacle, and Xu Xiaoshou forced them back into his body before bringing out five Origin True Steles to test.

Xu Xiaoshou placed the War Character in the Supreme Slash module and drew the War Ancestor’s Dharma Image into its first Supreme Ridge Position, gaining a vast inheritance of martial techniques and battle insight. After discovering that the War Ancestor could speak, Xu Xiaoshou feigned a fervent plea for instruction until the Ancestor introduced himself as Wu and promised to share everything he knew.

• Xu Xiaoshou used the Dao-Seizing Tentacle to absorb the War Character into the first Supreme Ridge Position, where it manifested the War Ancestor’s Dharma Image.
• Xu Xiaoshou connected the tentacle to the image and received the War Ancestor’s martial inheritance, advancing his combat awareness beyond its previous limits.
• The War Ancestor spoke to Xu Xiaoshou and realized that he had fallen, while Xu Xiaoshou assessed how the tentacle bound the image to his control.
• Xu Xiaoshou apologized for summoning the War Ancestor, described the decline of Gu Wu, and pleaded to learn the martial path.
• The War Ancestor was moved by Xu Xiaoshou’s apparent devotion, introduced himself as Wu, and promised to answer his questions without reservation.

Xu Xiaoshou confessed that he had awakened the War Ancestor to seize his insights, then explained the crisis facing the Era of Spirit Refining and asked for help completing the Way of Body. After seeing the Time Realm and learning Xu Xiaoshou’s plans, the War Ancestor accepted his motives and agreed to let him seize the Dao, asking to witness the era’s Ancestor Gods.

• Xu Xiaoshou presented his ideas about body, soul, intent, and self, impressing the War Ancestor enough that they agreed to discuss the Dao as equals.
• Xu Xiaoshou admitted that the Dao-Seizing Tentacle was an evil artifact and that he had awakened the War Ancestor intending to seize his Dao, while insisting that his wish to become a disciple was sincere.
• Xu Xiaoshou described the awakened ancient ancestors, the deaths and defeats of several Ancestor Gods, and his need to advance quickly to protect those he cared about.
• Xu Xiaoshou brought the War Ancestor into the Time Realm and explained its history, Ba Zunan’s mission, and his own completed Way of Will.
• Xu Xiaoshou said he intended to complete the paths of desire, body, soul, and intent before confronting the four ancestors, and the War Ancestor told him to seize the Dao so he could witness the era’s Ancestor Gods.

Xu Xiaoshou used the Dao-Seizing Tentacles to absorb War Ancestor’s battle Dao insights, mastering the Three Realms and deepening his understanding of the Way of Body. War Ancestor realized Xu Xiaoshou had deliberately chosen his own path and watched as his Body Dao Disk continued to advance.

• Xu Xiaoshou activated the Dao-Seizing Tentacles and drew the War Ancestor Dharma Image’s realizations and concepts into himself.
• Xu Xiaoshou comprehended War Ancestor’s Nine Palaces, Eight Gates, Seven Mansions, Six Paths, Fourfold Renunciation, and Three Realms, identifying flaws in the battle Dao along the way.
• War Ancestor realized Xu Xiaoshou was copying his insights rather than stripping away the Dharma Image’s existence, and grew eager to witness the coming era and fight other Ancestors.
• War Ancestor noticed Xu Xiaoshou already possessed a mature Zeroing concept through his sword and Way of Will, but chose to focus on the Way of Body instead of Gu Wu’s Two Forms and its higher principles.
• Xu Xiaoshou began absorbing insights into the Way of Body as his Body Dao Disk advanced from 91% to 92%.

Xu Xiaoshou perfected his passive skills, transformed into Divine Shedding, and began investigating a possible distortion in his memories involving the Dao Ancestor. His review of the world behind the three doors revealed a fourth figure arriving at the scene where Shi Mingnuo created the Black Turntable.

• Xu Xiaoshou rejected a dangerous insight about liberating his body through self-destruction and continued comprehending the Way of Body.
• Xu Xiaoshou raised his basic and extended passive skills to perfection, reaching Divine Shedding and easily destroying his Ancestral Origin Emperor Tribulation.
• War Ancestor recalled that Xi He had told him about the Name Ancestor, the Time Ancestor, and the Dao Ancestor, prompting Xu Xiaoshou to suspect his memories had been altered.
• Xu Xiaoshou used the Way of Will to revisit the world behind the three doors, confirming that the scene where Shi Mingnuo created the Black Turntable had seemed to contain only three people.
• Xu Xiaoshou discovered a jade-faced figure in white robes arriving and addressing Xi He, Jinren, and Kong Yuhen about the turntable.

Xu Xiaoshou uncovered a disjointed memory in which Dao Ancestor Yi Ji helped create the Black Turntable and urged the ancestors to seize Daos, leaving him unsure whether the scene had been manipulated. He then met Yi Ji in the Sea of Memories and heard warnings about Dao Qiongchang, before Dao Qiongchang urgently claimed Yi Ji had affected him and begged Xu Xiaoshou to kill Yi Ji.

• Xu Xiaoshou considered whether Yi Ji's appearance beside Shi Mingnuo was genuine or an attempt to make him distrust Jinren, Nuozu, and his own memories.
• In the memory, Yi Ji proposed using Xi He's detour to seize Daos and the turntable to cultivate them for Jinren's reincarnated body; Nuozu and the others ultimately allowed him to add power to it.
• Yi Ji departed, and Nuozu made the Black Turntable without mentioning him again, leaving Xu Xiaoshou unable to determine whether the inserted memory was real or fabricated.
• Xu Xiaoshou encountered Yi Ji at the Sea of Memories, where Yi Ji asked him to call Xi He and warned that the Third Generation would possess and devour him to achieve supremacy.
• Yi Ji warned Xu Xiaoshou that the wheel could harm him without Xi He's aid, then vanished as Xu Xiaoshou concluded he had to leave the Time Realm and help Yi Ji.
• Dao Qiongchang contacted Xu Xiaoshou and told him not to trust anything he said, claiming Yi Ji had affected him and begging Xu Xiaoshou to kill Yi Ji.

Sheng Xin investigated the newly formed Rivers of Memory and Will while Xu Xiaoshou resolved his doubts about Dao Qiongchang’s motives and continued advancing in the Time Realm. Xu Xiaoshou manifested the Rivers of Sword Dao and Body Dao, leaving him convinced he had surpassed Ba Zunan.

• Sheng Xin sensed the Rivers of Memory and Will, then sent a Purple Pet avatar to search the Five Domains and investigate the Time Realm.
• Xu Xiaoshou asked the War Ancestor how to judge kindness given with expectations, and concluded that Dao Qiongchang’s aid had served his own purposes.
• Xu Xiaoshou raised his passive skills, pushed his Sword Dao Disk to 99%, and manifested a River of Sword Dao in the Time Realm.
• Hidden Pain absorbed ancient sword intents from the river as Xu Xiaoshou endured the final tribulation lightning and advanced toward the tenth-stage Saint Emperor realm.
• Xu Xiaoshou spread out his Sea of Intent Dao and manifested the Long River of Body Dao, then boasted that Ba Zunan could not withstand his attacks.