Chapter Summaries

Fang Qingyu met That One in Zhulong’s red-sun domain and persuaded her to leave by describing how unexpected gains could change a person’s fate. After Zhulong collapsed and the domain shattered, Fang Qingyu returned to Hong Qitian and learned why the elders kept their distance from promising successors, but Shangjing City’s force field still remained.

• Jiang Wei told Fang Qingyu that That One would leave if she met him, while Li Bai and other fifth-rank experts urged him not to go; Hong Qitian said he would keep Fang Qingyu alive and let him decide.
• Fang Qingyu followed Jiang Wei into the red-sun domain, where he found Zhulong confronting That One and walked forward to speak with the mysterious existence.
• That One questioned Fang Qingyu’s unusually rapid cultivation, and he answered with a story about trading his paper-airplane folding method for steamed buns, arguing that unexpected things could happen.
• That One accepted Fang Qingyu’s point, freed herself from Zhulong’s restraints, and departed after warning him that his time was running out.
• Zhulong’s strength failed and her domain shattered, so Jiang Wei took her away; Fang Qingyu returned to Hong Qitian, who explained that the elders kept their distance to protect promising successors from grief and revenge.
• Hong Qitian and Fang Qingyu reached Shangjing City’s outskirts and found the troops and Divine Management Bureau personnel gone, while the city’s force field still blocked their way.

Hong Qitian and Fang Qingyu entered Shangjing City after a hidden agent killed the corrupted Divine Management Bureau director and removed the force field. Hong Qitian took Fang Qingyu to the Primordial Martial Performance Wall, where Fang Qingyu crossed its gate and found himself in an ancient, crowded town.

• Hong Qitian found the Shangjing City force field sealed by the brainwashed branch director and confronted him about holding the city's residents hostage.
• After Hong Qitian ordered them to act, a hidden agent killed the director and more than a dozen Assembly of All Beings believers, causing the force field to vanish.
• Hong Qitian extracted a mass of green-black soil from the director's Dantian Sea of Qi, explained how it corrupted its hosts, and ordered a citywide cleanup and emergency response.
• Hong Qitian told Fang Qingyu that the Federation's Primordial Martial Performance Wall might help him comprehend an Origin, then led him beneath the Divine Management Bureau.
• An old guardian opened the Stone Gate after the golden child bound to it learned that Fang Qingyu had reached the fifth tier in less than a year.
• Fang Qingyu entered the wall, saw its gate shut behind him, and found himself standing in a bustling town from ancient times.

Fang Qingyu entered an ancient Tang-era world inside the Martial Performance Wall, learned that Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng were investigating a mystery in Chang'an, and set out to find them. After rescuing a group of travelers, he discovered and captured an intelligent monster called a Ghoul, while Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng waited in Chang'an, fearing another calamity for humanity.

• Fang Qingyu disguised his conspicuous presence in a tavern and overheard that Chang'an was troubled and Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng were investigating a mysterious event.
• Fang Qingyu identified Chang'an as his destination, flew toward it, and killed a band of mountain bandits who were attacking travelers.
• Fang Qingyu spotted a Ghoul hiding among the rescued people, exposed it, and subdued it with his power.
• Fang Qingyu questioned the Ghoul about its kind, then carried it away to learn more by other means.
• In Chang'an, Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng discussed their Reincarnation Projection and feared the calamity that might again threaten human civilization.

After sealing Fang Qingyu inside the Primal Martial Performance Wall, Hong Qitian left while the gatekeeper agreed to guard him. At the A7 War Zone, the command staff prepared for an overwhelming Life Wraith invasion, and the mysterious woman Jiang Wei had brought back emerged to offer her strength.

• Hong Qitian told the gatekeeper that Fang Qingyu had a genuine chance to comprehend the Wall's inheritances, and the gatekeeper agreed to guard him.
• The A7 War Zone received orders to prepare for a million-strong Life Wraith Legion, including a likely Fifth Order King Species, and Xiao Jiu's staff discussed their lack of high-level defenders.
• Xiao Jiu approved a request for Federation reinforcements and ordered Jiang Qi to prepare a detailed defense plan within twelve hours.
• As Xiao Jiu tried to call Hong Qitian, the mysterious woman in black appeared and effortlessly repelled Chu Kuanglan and the others.
• The woman revealed herself to the meeting's stunned attendees and said she would hold down the rear in place of the absent expert.

A mysterious woman in black single-handedly devastates a million-strong Life Spirit army by turning day into night and back again, leaving the soldiers of the Sea Great Wall in awe. Meanwhile, Fang Qingyu reaches Chang'an and encounters Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng.

• Xiao Jiu and Jiang Qi prepared the A7 War Zone defenses for the approaching Life Spirit army, while Hong Qitian told Xiao Jiu to let the mysterious woman lead.
• When the Life Spirit army appeared, the woman in black went out alone, though Jiang Qi confirmed her move was not part of the plan.
• The woman closed her left eye and plunged the sea into darkness, where the Life Spirits lost their senses and were slaughtered.
• The woman closed her right eye and filled the area with deadly light, routing the remaining Life Spirits and ending the battle with catastrophic casualties.
• Several days later, Fang Qingyu walked through Chang'an with Moss Tongue and was invited upstairs by Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng.

Fang Qingyu met Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng, learned that they were historical true spirits seeking a successor to stop a ghoul calamity, and agreed to help. They brought him to the Tang imperial palace to obtain an official identity, where he encountered Emperor Taizong, Li Shimin.

• Fang Qingyu entered Wangyun Tower with Ghoul · Moss Tongue and met Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng.
• Yuan Tiangang explained that ghouls had existed under different names throughout history, while Li Chunfeng asked Fang Qingyu to quell the ghoul calamity to earn their inheritances.
• Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng revealed that they were historical true spirits, and Fang Qingyu told them that ghouls had evolved into powerful life-ghosts and that humanity faced an imminent war.
• Yuan Tiangang used earth qi and celestial movements to bring Fang Qingyu and Li Chunfeng above Chang'an, then led them toward the imperial palace.
• Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang explained that Fang Qingyu needed an imperial identity to investigate the calamity, then escorted him into Taiji Hall to meet Emperor Taizong, Li Shimin.

Fang Qingyu received an Imperial Investiture from Li Shimin, gaining the blessing of human fortune before Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng took him toward a battlefield overrun by corpse ghosts. Meanwhile, A7 War Zone faced another Life Spirit Army assault after a mysterious woman was forbidden from intervening, leaving its exhausted defenders to hold the line alone.

• Li Shimin recognized Fang Qingyu as the one destined to face the calamity and offered him a nameless Imperial Edict that would grant him the authority and blessing of human fortune.
• Fang Qingyu activated the edict with his blood, receiving a roughly thirty-percent increase in overall strength as his name appeared on it.
• Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng explained that imperial fortune powered the modern era’s force fields, then carried Fang Qingyu toward a devastated region swarming with corpse ghosts.
• At the A7 War Zone, Chu Kuanglan and Lin Kang discussed the relentless Fate Ghost attacks and their suspicions about the enemy’s focus on their defenses.
• Three days earlier, a powerful female voice had warned the mysterious woman in black not to interfere again, forcing her to withdraw and leaving the defenders without her support.
• The exhausted A7 defenders watched the Life Spirit Army approach across the sea for another assault.

The Young Heavenly Emperor resisted Great Emperor Qinghua’s plan to make the Heavenly Court submit to a mysterious power, revealing a confidence and authority that stunned the assembled gods. He challenged Qinghua to another martial arts match, leaving their confrontation about to begin.

• Great Emperor Qinghua entered Lingxiao Treasure Hall, where the gods showed him greater reverence than the Young Heavenly Emperor.
• Qinghua announced that That One had emerged and demanded that the Heavenly Emperor decree the Heavenly Court’s submission.
• The Young Heavenly Emperor questioned the plan and argued that the Heavenly Court should not surrender its duty and backbone before facing an enemy.
• Qinghua stopped his subordinates from intervening, then accused the Heavenly Emperor of hiding his true nature and pressed him to issue the decree immediately.
• The Young Heavenly Emperor rose with a newly revealed, majestic presence and asked Qinghua to exchange martial arts with him again.

The Young Heavenly Emperor revealed his immense power and began a confrontation with Great Emperor Qinghua of the Eastern Pole, while hidden observers prepared to intervene. At the A7 War Zone, as human forces neared collapse, a vast black rift split the sky.

• The Young Heavenly Emperor challenged Great Emperor Qinghua of the Eastern Pole to a spar, and the two vanished from the Lingxiao Treasure Hall as its dome cracked.
• The gods watched the Young Heavenly Emperor and Great Emperor Qinghua face off above the Ninth Heaven, with the Young Heavenly Emperor displaying power equal to Qinghua's.
• Hong Qitian and Old Man of the South Pole discussed the Young Heavenly Emperor's slim chances against Qinghua, while a purple-aura emperor ordered them to act.
• A barefoot woman in a plain white gown appeared between the Young Heavenly Emperor and Qinghua, and Hong Qitian, Old Man of the South Pole, and the purple-aura emperor disappeared.
• At the A7 War Zone, Chu Kuanglan, Wei Banmeng, and the human forces struggled against the Life Spirit Army as their line slowly fell back toward the Great Wall.
• A sound froze the fighting at the A7 War Zone, and a vast black rift appeared across the sky.

A rift in the sky plunged the battlefield into grief before divine battles above it sent palace wreckage crashing toward the Great Wall. As humanity evacuated, General Li revealed that the Heavenly Court had changed hands, and the Young Heavenly Emperor attacked the gods who had sided against him; Jiang Wei warned that her sister’s power was affecting the battlefield just as an immense presence began to descend.

• A sudden sorrow spread across the battlefield as rain fell from the rift, and the Life Spirits abruptly retreated while the human troops remained stunned.
• Burning palace wreckage began falling from the sky, so Wei Banmeng ordered an evacuation toward the Great Wall as more fragments descended.
• Five Fifth Order figures arrived at the Great Wall, and General Li told Wei Banmeng and Xiao Jiu that the Heavenly Court had changed hands.
• The Young Heavenly Emperor confronted the gods surrounding him, denounced them, and knocked one away with a single punch before the others prepared to attack.
• Jiang Wei appeared beside Wei Banmeng and said her sister’s power was affecting the area, then an immense presence began descending from the rift.

Fang Qingyu harvested skill points and fragments of Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng's insights while defeating a hundred thousand demons, then faced the Ghost King that formed from their deaths. Outside the Primal Martial Performance Wall, Houtu Huang Diqi appeared at the Sea Great Wall as the Young Heavenly Emperor faced dozens of deities.

• Fang Qingyu killed nearly a hundred thousand demons, gained 8,819 skill points, and absorbed fragments of Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng's inheritances.
• A mass of black fog appeared, and a veteran soldier warned Fang Qingyu that it contained a Ghost King formed from the demons' deaths.
• Fang Qingyu healed the veteran's bleeding wound and ordered the surviving soldiers to retreat while he faced the Ghost King alone.
• At the Sea Great Wall's A7 War Zone, the Young Heavenly Emperor confronted dozens of deities as an overwhelming pressure descended.
• Houtu Huang Diqi appeared in the sky, and Jiang Wei identified her as one of the Six Imperials.

Empress Houtu revealed that she and the being beyond the rift had waited thousands of years, then began sealing the rift while asking where “they” were. After the gods fled and the Young Heavenly Emperor regained allies, Zhulong asked Houtu how long she could hold the being back, and Houtu answered, “Three years.”

• Houtu appeared before the rift, called the being within it her Big Sister, and said they had waited several thousand years.
• The being in the rift accused Houtu of going to great lengths against her, while Houtu asked where “they” were and received no answer.
• Houtu began closing the rift, causing the surrounding gods to flee and leaving the Young Heavenly Emperor to watch them go.
• Hong Qitian, the Old Man of the South Pole, and a purple-aura-shrouded figure escaped through the narrowing rift; the Old Man apologized to the Young Heavenly Emperor, who said the Heavenly Court felt cleaner without its officials.
• Giant Spirit God arrived with a captured fleeing deity, declared his loyalty to the Young Heavenly Emperor, and had his tsunami quelled with a wave of the emperor’s sleeve.
• Zhulong asked Houtu why she had not shared the plan and how long she could hold her Big Sister; Houtu said she had trusted no one and could hold her for three years.

Fang Qingyu faced the newly formed Ghost King alone and destroyed it with one decisive slash, saving the retreating army without casualties. Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng watched from above and hoped Fang Qingyu could end the repeating calamity, while Fang Qingyu sensed his growing strength and insight.

• The general ordered the soldiers to retreat under Yuan Tiangang’s direct decree while Fang Qingyu stayed behind to face the Ghost King.
• Fang Qingyu spoke the words “Clear the turbid” and cleaved through the Ghost King’s black fog with a brilliant white slash.
• The Ghost King was cut in half and died, and the remaining fog dissipated as the soldiers watched from a hundred li away.
• The soldiers celebrated their survival, and the general called Fang Qingyu the third savior after Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng.
• Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng discussed Fang Qingyu’s potential to end the endless cycle before vanishing into the clouds.
• Fang Qingyu sensed the skill points and growing insight into the Origin of Feng Shui and Astrology that he had gained from killing the Ghost King.

Two years after the Federation revealed the supernatural world, humanity had adapted to a new era of martial training and war, while Fang Qingyu remained missing inside the Primal Martial Performance Wall. After spending twenty years in forty-eight inheritance worlds, he fled two Kuafu Clan giants and plunged into the dangerous Mirage Dragon Swamp, unknowingly awakening a reaction from the guardian elder in Shangjing City.

• The Federation transformed society with widespread shuttles, martial halls, wilderness expeditions, and the Binding the Firmament exoskeleton system, while the Dawn Legion became a celebrated force against the Life Spirits.
• The public noticed that Fang Qingyu had been absent for a long time, and authorities offered no explanation.
• Fang Qingyu fled two Kuafu Clan giants who pursued him for three days after he triggered a restriction and absorbed ancient origin aura in their sacred land.
• Fang Qingyu considered his 17,492 skill points as he sought a way to escape or defeat the giants.
• Fang Qingyu plunged into the Mirage Dragon Swamp, and the giants followed him inside.
• Deep beneath Shangjing City, the guardian elder's eyelids trembled before the ancient Stone Gate.

The gatekeeper and the little gate deity learned that Fang Qingyu had reached the Mirage Dragon Swamp, bringing the deity closer to freedom and the Human race closer to its long-awaited inheritance. Fang Qingyu struggled through the swamp’s laws while fleeing the Kuafu giants, as Jiang Wei told the Dawn Legion leaders that she did not know where he had gone.

• The little gate deity celebrated Fang Qingyu’s arrival at the Mirage Dragon Swamp, and the gatekeeper explained that the Primal Martial Performance Wall guarded a path to the first Human Emperor’s inheritance.
• Fang Qingyu entered the Mirage Dragon Swamp and realized its laws had shrunk his life form and weakened his strength.
• The Kuafu giants pursued Fang Qingyu, but the swamp’s Mirage Disorder laws disrupted them and forced them to retreat rather than enter its inner perimeter.
• The Kuafu giants decided to report Fang Qingyu’s ability to draw out the Sacred Mountain Origin to their clan elders and leader.
• At a meeting in the City of Injustice, Xiao Jiu, Chu Kuanglan, Lin Kang, and Su Wanqing asked Jiang Wei where Fang Qingyu was and whether he was safe.
• Jiang Wei told the gathered leaders that she did not know where Fang Qingyu had gone.

Jiang Wei reassured the Dawn Legion’s leaders that Hong Qitian had said Fang Qingyu was safe and undergoing a great transformation, then faced their fears over an approaching invasion of the A7 War Zone. As the leaders struggled to find help against at least five Fifth Order King Species, Hong Qitian arrived and promised to deal with the enemy.

• Jiang Wei told the assembled leaders that Hong Qitian had assured her Fang Qingyu was safe and undergoing a great transformation.
• The meeting recalled how Jiang Wei had earned her reputation by defeating a Fifth Order King Species and saving Wei Banmeng’s forces during the Battle of the Broken Spine.
• Jiang Wei and the others discussed an approaching force of more than two million life spirits and at least five Fifth Order King Species, while nearby war zones and Zhulong could not provide help.
• Hong Qitian entered the meeting room, took the supreme commander’s seat, and said he would deal with the enemy while Fang Qingyu was away.

Trapped in the Mirage Dragon Swamp, Fang Qingyu stopped searching blindly and used his skill points to perfect martial arts and gain Origin Points. Outside the swamp, the Kuafu chief ordered the forbidden zone sealed, while the Life Spirit Army and five King Species arrived at the A7 War Zone, leaving Hong Qitian facing the coming battle.

• Fang Qingyu realized the Mirage Dragon Swamp distorted space and suppressed his strength, so he settled on a leaf to find another way out.
• Fang Qingyu spent skill points perfecting techniques from the many worlds he had visited, converting them into Origin Points and strengthening his understanding of different powers.
• Two Kuafu Giants reported to Kuafu that Fang Qingyu had entered the forbidden land, and Kuafu ordered the clan's warriors to seal its edge.
• At the Sea Great Wall's A7 War Zone, Hong Qitian sensed the Life Spirit Army approaching and warned the assembled defenders.
• Five King Species appeared above the advancing army, and Wei Banmeng ordered the defenders to prepare for battle as Hong Qitian stepped to the battlements.

Hong Qitian confronted five royal progeny at the A7 War Zone and drew them away from the human forces, allowing the soldiers to counterattack the Life Spirit Army. Meanwhile, Fang Qingyu advanced his understanding of the laws and sensed a giant at the entrance to Mirage Dragon Swamp, wondering if it was the hope the High Ancestor had spoken of.

• Wei Banmeng ordered the human vanguard to advance, but a powerful resonance halted both armies as five royal manifestations appeared.
• King Chu Jiang challenged Hong Qitian, who mocked him over their past fight and Fang Qingyu's severing of his restored arm.
• King Chu Jiang attacked the human soldiers, but Hong Qitian shattered his strike and punched all five royal manifestations backward.
• Hong Qitian dragged the five royal progeny toward the deep sea, and Wei Banmeng and Chu Kuanglan led the human forces into a countercharge.
• Fang Qingyu refined his understanding of countless martial arts and sensed a giant at the swamp's entrance, asking whether it was the hope the High Ancestor had meant.

Fang Qingyu left the swamp’s entrance and headed toward its core as Kuafu’s arrival stirred powerful beings across the primordial world. At the Sea Great Wall A7 War Zone, humanity routed the Life Spirit Army, but Hong Qitian was defeated and the Black Rift opened wider.

• Fang Qingyu, anxious about the outside world, used Thunder Escape to race toward the Mirage Dragon Swamp’s core.
• Kuafu stepped into the swamp, awakening ancient beasts and drawing powerful beings toward it.
• An old immortal abandoned the heavenly court’s Danyuan Banquet and took his attendants to help Fang Qingyu, whom he called a calamity-bearer for both humanity and the world.
• At the Sea Great Wall A7 War Zone, allied federal forces struck the Life Spirit Army’s flank, helping Xiao Jiu and Jiang Qi’s forces turn the battle into a rout.
• Hong Qitian fell from the deep-sea battlefield, badly wounded, as the Black Rift widened and a majestic female voice challenged him.

Hong Qitian briefly challenged the being inside the Scar of Heaven before Candle Dragon entered the rift and closed it from within, while divine allies assured him she would survive. Elsewhere, Fang Qingyu faced a deadly pursuit in the Mirage Dragon Swamp until a mysterious old Daoist appeared and asked him to stop and listen.

• Hong Qitian reconnected the divine ladder and unleashed his Martial Path Will against the being in the Scar of Heaven, but Candle Dragon stopped him and said she would protect Fang Qingyu's home.
• Candle Dragon confronted the entity she called her sister, then entered the Scar of Heaven and forced it shut.
• The Young Heavenly Emperor, Old Man of the South Pole, and Houtu Huang Diqi appeared and assured Hong Qitian that Candle Dragon would not die, while Hong Qitian worried about explaining what happened to Fang Qingyu.
• Fang Qingyu fled increasingly powerful creatures pursuing him through the Mirage Dragon Swamp and wondered what had made him their target.
• A huge creature's shadow emerged ahead, but before Fang Qingyu could escape, an old Daoist appeared on a leaf and invited him to listen.