Chapter Summaries

Li Yan confronted the dream-era Lamp Holding Siming and sent Shadow Puppet Zhao Deng to face him, revealing two Lamp Holders to their bewildered followers. As the two issued conflicting commands and more Simings arrived, Li Yan prepared to take them all on.

• Longyue warned Li Yan that the six-armed Lamp Holder was the White Jade Capital's Lamp Holding Siming, but Li Yan told her this was not the same Lamp Holder she knew.
• Li Yan recognized the dream-era Lamp Holding Siming and sent Shadow Puppet Zhao Deng to confront him.
• Zhao Deng and the Lamp Holding Siming each claimed to be the real one and ordered the Lamp Holder's disciples to follow them.
• The two Lamp Holders summoned Shadow Slaves and gave them conflicting orders, leaving the slaves unable to decide whom to obey.
• More Simings arrived, and Li Yan welcomed the chance to take them all down at once.

Jiu Yin, a powerful Deathly Yin beast, breached the oasis barrier and accused Moon Princess of abandoning her in the Canglan Realm. Li Yan discovered Moon Princess did not remember Jiu Yin and effortlessly revived the victims, while the system revealed that Jiu Yin’s Deathly Yin Qi could strengthen him.

• Jiu Yin transformed from an ash-gray figure into a black demonic beast and tore through the oasis barrier.
• Jiu Yin’s presence turned more than a hundred thousand resurrected cultivators, including Liu Qingyun, back into ash.
• Jiu Yin called Moon Princess her big sister and accused her of breaking a promise to save her from the burned Canglan Realm.
• Moon Princess denied knowing Jiu Yin, and Li Yan used Mind Reading to confirm that she was telling the truth.
• Jiu Yin unleashed Deathly Yin Qi at Li Yan, but he dispersed it, expanded the oasis, and revived the fallen cultivators.
• The system identified Jiu Yin as a Nine-tailed Fox and revealed that absorbing her Deathly Yin Qi was forming a Yang Si Dao Palace within Li Yan.

Ao Jiao and Ao Yan could not reach Li Yan after the Lamp Holding Siming trapped him in Lamp Shadow Temple. Inside the temple, Li Yan found old friends among its enslaved prisoners and completed his takeover of the temple.

• Ao Jiao and Ao Yan wanted to rescue Li Yan, but the Ancient Dragon King said he could not reach the Lamp Holding Siming’s Shadow World and could only hope Li Yan resisted its influence.
• Li Yan shaved his head and studied the Lamp Shadow Heart Sutra while observing the powerful figures imprisoned in Lamp Shadow Temple.
• Li Yan recognized Dragon Tiger Immortal Venerable, Xiao Wu, and Zither Playing Immortal among the prisoners, but they had lost their sense of self and believed they belonged in the temple.
• Li Yan recited the sutra with the prisoners and completely took control of Lamp Shadow Temple without the Lamp Holding Siming noticing.
• The Lamp Holding Siming bragged to the other Simings that he had Li Yan wrapped around his little finger.

Li Yan watched Longyue’s memories of the White Jade Capital’s massacre and tried to enter the dream to save her, but the Outer God Moon Princess had sealed it. As Li Yan took God Devouring Pill powder to raise his divine soul, Moon Princess appeared before Longyue and offered her power and a path to revenge in exchange for becoming the Eclipse Moon Commander.

• Longyue escaped Zhang Deng through a rift, returned to the lower realm, and led cultivators toward the Abyss of the Netherworld before the White Jade Capital hunted them down.
• Longyue stayed behind to protect Ember Extinguishing Immortal as their allies fell, and she despairingly wondered why Li Yan had not come to save her.
• Li Yan tried to enter Zhang Deng’s memory projection, but the system warned that Moon Princess had sealed the dream and that he needed a First Rank Divine Soul to break through.
• Li Yan began grinding and taking God Devouring Pills to strengthen his divine soul while watching Longyue’s memory.
• Moon Princess killed the White Jade Capital immortals surrounding Longyue and offered to make her the Eclipse Moon Commander, promising to help her find Li Yan and take revenge.

Li Yan had Zhao Deng defeat the Lamp Holding Siming from the past, then concealed the victory to deceive the other Siming. Li Yan and his companions were carried into White Jade Capital under Zhao Deng’s disguise, while the defeated Lamp Holding Siming remained imprisoned in Lamp Shadow Temple.

• Zhao Deng used the Nine Nether Great Black Heaven to crush the past Lamp Holding Siming, revealing the vast difference between their cultivation.
• Li Yan learned that killing the past Siming would erase Zhao Deng, so he ordered Zhao Deng to imprison him and the accompanying immortals in Lamp Shadow Temple.
• Great Exorcist, Glutton Head, and Dysentery Butcher arrived, and Li Yan had Zhao Deng capture him and his companions to maintain the disguise.
• Zhao Deng claimed that the Lamp Holder’s body had been destroyed and that the captured people posed no threat, persuading the three Siming to take them to White Jade Capital.
• Li Yan, Longyue, Ao Jiao, and the others passed White Jade Capital’s outer formations while hidden in the Nine Nether Great Black Heaven’s fist.

The Bloodline Emperor Lord descended into the cultivation world to find Li Yan, whose ability to alter cause and effect made him a rare treasure to devour. When the Emperor Lord’s overwhelming pressure nearly forced Li Yan to obey, Moon Princess intervened, leaving her and Li Yan facing the Ancient God together.

• The Bloodline Emperor Lord explained that he had come to find Li Yan and had only dealt with Moon Princess as a convenient matter.
• The Emperor Lord entered Longevity Hall and told Li Yan to become part of him so he could swallow him.
• Li Yan resisted the Emperor Lord’s command as his Ancient Godly Pressure made his cultivation surge toward the Tribulation Transcendence stage.
• Moon Princess took the pressure off Li Yan, allowing him to collapse from exhaustion while she confronted the Emperor Lord.
• Moon Princess admitted that she had hoped to claim the cultivation world by killing the Emperor Lord’s avatars, but had not expected him to descend in person.

Li Yan discovered that Yang Si Power tempered his body whenever he suffered damage, allowing him to withstand the Blood Butchers and rapidly heal even a pierced heart. After sending Jiu Yin to safety, he faced the four Blood Butchers alone and prepared to fight back.

• Li Yan used Yang Si Power to heal his shattered arms and realized that the damage had made them stronger.
• The Blood Butchers pierced Li Yan's chest, but he rebuilt his heart with Yang Yin Qi and understood how Yang Si tempered his body through suffering.
• Jiu Yin survived a Blood Butcher's strike with one of her life-saving hairs, and Li Yan urged her to retreat to safety.
• Li Yan sent Jiu Yin away as four Blood Butchers surrounded him and declared that he would fight them to the death.

Li Yan waited for the Bloodline Emperor Lord to descend, planning to exploit the moment when the Demon God was most vulnerable. As the Emperor Lord began to cross into Canglan Realm, Li Yan activated the Side Effect Law at full power.

• The Dragon Lord warned Li Yan that the rift was stabilizing, but Li Yan said he was waiting for everyone to gather.
• Longevity Siming watched from hiding and realized Li Yan was timing his move to the blood-red vortex.
• Zhang Daoxuan held the immortals in formation as Ye Qinghan sensed the Emperor Lord's scaled phantom hand tearing through the void.
• Li Yan explained that the Emperor Lord would be weakest during his descent and prepared to sever or reverse the connection.
• The Emperor Lord's arm emerged through a vast crack in the heavens, while Meng Tuo and the Bloodline Cultists became sacrifices beneath a blood-red pillar.
• Li Yan activated the Side Effect Law at full power as the Emperor Lord began to arrive.

Li Yan used the Side Effect Law formation to wear down the Bloodline Emperor Lord’s severed arm while the Emperor Lord ordered Hu Hai to sacrifice Great Qin’s people. The resulting Blood Corpses’ deathly energy strengthened Li Yan’s formation, leaving the Emperor Lord’s arm close to being subdued.

• Li Yan taunted the Bloodline Emperor Lord and kept his severed arm bound as Life Yin Qi seeped into it.
• The Bloodline Emperor Lord ordered Hu Hai to sacrifice every living being and build an altar of flesh and blood.
• Hu Hai turned Great Qin’s people into Blood Corpses and sent their growing army toward the Central Continent Immortal Realm.
• Dragon Lord recognized his former guards among the Blood Corpses and questioned Li Yan, who explained that their deathly energy was feeding the formation.
• The Side Effect Law absorbed the Blood Corpses’ energy, strengthening the formation and suppressing the Emperor Lord’s right hand as its divinity began to crumble.

Li Yan’s disciples used the Rectification Law to devastate the Blood Legion, revealing a new power that terrified the Bloodline Emperor Lord. Unable to retreat, the Emperor Lord summoned three Ancient Gods for help, and Li Yan prepared for their arrival.

• Longyue, Ember Extinguishing Immortal, and Ao Jiao used Rectification Law to transform Bloodline Qi and overwhelm the Blood Legion.
• Dragon Lord and Blind Sword Immortal Ye Qinghan witnessed the disciples’ power as the trapped Bloodline Emperor Lord recognized Li Yan’s new inheritance as a threat to his lineage.
• The Bloodline Emperor Lord burned his remaining origin and sent a call for help to Wondrous Mercy True Lord, Vast Void Dao Ancestor, and Joyful Union Dao Mother.
• Li Yan noticed the three signals leave the Canglan Realm and welcomed the prospect of reinforcements.
• With fewer than a hundred Blood Legion soldiers left, Li Yan told Blind Sword Immortal and Dragon Lord to prepare for the arriving guests.

Li Yan watched White Jade Capital mobilize to defend Jun Tian Bai Cang while Youdu Houtu slowly retrieved stolen artifacts. He sent countless shadows into the vault and summoned a six-thousand-four-hundred-zhang Golden Body Dharma Aspect, leaving its confrontation with the Immortal Slaying Sword Array unresolved.

• Youdu Houtu used Soul Hooking Ropes to draw artifact souls and Magic Artifacts out of Jun Tian Bai Cang, though Li Yan thought her method was too slow.
• Li Yan used Yan Po Shan to learn that One-Eyed Immortal Elder and Shou Kui were rushing to open the vault and believed the thieves could retrieve only a few items.
• Li Yan considered entering the vault but decided the wounded Immortal Emperors could not safely face the Immortal Slaying Sword Array.
• Li Yan summoned Blood Glazed Lotus Lamp and sent countless shadows into Jun Tian Bai Cang.
• Li Yan silently invoked Nirvana Golden Body and manifested a six-thousand-four-hundred-zhang Golden Body Dharma Aspect inside the vault.

Li Chang Sheng revealed a coin marked “Time Reverses Its Form” and claimed that one of the Simings was a mole, while Li Yan listened through Yan Po Shan’s Dao Pattern. In Abyss Palace, Li Yan explained that Ao Yan’s Pseudo Corpse Worm was only suppressed, leaving Ao Yan restored for now but still at risk of changing back.

• Great Exorcist crushed his peachwood talisman and questioned how Li Yan had removed the Pseudo Corpse Worm from Ao Yan’s soul.
• Longevity Siming, Li Chang Sheng, showed the other Simings a coin marked “Time Reverses Its Form” and said one of them was a mole.
• Yan Po Shan’s Dao Pattern transmitted the Simings’ conversation to Li Yan inside the Abyss of the Netherworld.
• Li Yan ordered Xuan Yue War Marshal, Purple Micro Star Lord, and Youdu Houtu to inspect Abyss Palace for tampering.
• Ao Yan reunited with Xing Mu in Abyss Palace, and Li Yan told Ao Jiao that the Pseudo Corpse Worm was suppressed, not removed.
• Li Yan admitted he could not remove the poison from Ao Yan’s soul, alarming Ao Jiao and the others.

Li Yan secretly took control of Lamp Shadow Temple while Lamp Holding believed he had enslaved him. Lamp Holding led Li Yan’s shadow and other Shadow Slaves into the Abyss of the Netherworld, where the Old Heavenly Court’s defenders mistook Li Yan for their enemy.

• Li Yan changed Lamp Shadow Temple’s rules without Lamp Holding realizing he had lost control of it.
• Lamp Holding bragged to the other Simings that he had captured Li Yan, then taunted Eclipse Moon, who insisted Li Yan could not have been captured so easily.
• Lamp Holding summoned Li Yan’s shadow and other Shadow Slaves and ordered them to attack the Old Heavenly Court in the Abyss of the Netherworld.
• Ao Jiao recognized Li Yan among the enemy ranks and rushed toward him, but Ao Yan restrained her; Youdu Houtu realized the figure was Li Yan’s shadow.
• Li Yan watched the defenders panic, raised his hand, and signaled the attack.

Li Yan questioned Lamp Holding Siming about Longyue and the cost of joining White Jade Capital, while secretly using a pill to master Candle Dragon Rewind. He extinguished the Black Dragon Tower’s flames and faced Lamp Holding’s confidence that the Thread Pulling Lamp would trap him.

• Li Yan asked Lamp Holding Siming whether he had captured Longyue, but Lamp Holding refused to discuss her and dodged questions about the price of becoming a Siming.
• While speaking with Lamp Holding, Li Yan absorbed a Purple Mansion Bright Wisdom Pill and practiced Candle Dragon Rewind until he could reverse time by ten breaths.
• Lamp Holding threatened to intensify the Black Dragon Tower’s flames and burn Li Yan’s friends, so Li Yan reversed the tower to its state before the fire began.
• Dragon Tiger Immortal Venerable, Xiao Sword Sect, Zither Playing Immortal, and the others were freed from the flames, while Lamp Holding realized Li Yan had been practicing on him.
• Lamp Holding claimed Li Yan still could not rescue his friends because the Black Dragon Tower remained in his control, and Li Yan summoned the Thread Pulling Lamp.
• Lamp Holding secretly believed the Thread Pulling Lamp would steal Li Yan’s magical power and take over his body.

Li Yan used his ability to see through Yin Granny’s fog to spare Moon Princess and direct nine chops onto the Bloodline Emperor Lord. The Emperor Lord accused Li Yan of cheating, and Yin Granny confronted him, threatening to take him away if he was lying.

• Yin Granny offered ten chops over Moon Princess, and Li Yan pretended to consider the choice before refusing to call for them.
• Li Yan rejected Moon Princess’s suggestion to target the Bloodline Emperor Lord and moved the game to the next player.
• Longevity Siming refused six chops, while Li Yan called for five chops against the Bloodline Emperor Lord.
• Li Yan directed the seventh, eighth, and ninth chops onto the Bloodline Emperor Lord, bringing his incarnation close to being taken away.
• The Bloodline Emperor Lord accused Li Yan of cheating, and Yin Granny asked Li Yan if he had been lying, warning that she would take him away if he had.

Li Yan created the Protection Dao Pattern and used it to channel side effects from his followers into power for himself. After his Yang Si Dao Palace reached its first stage, Jiu Yin regained her physical form.

• Li Yan formed the Protection Dao Pattern, which let its users convert toxins, curses, and other side effects while helping him absorb the resulting energy.
• Li Yan taught the pattern to Liu Qingyun and the other cultivators, linking their qi seas to his and drawing in faith power.
• Moon Princess doubted Li Yan had created the pattern but drew it herself after he ordered her to, adding her greater capacity to absorb side effects.
• Li Yan absorbed the converted Yang Si Power, and his Yang Si Dao Palace entered its first stage, Si Power Takes Form, strengthening both his body and soul.
• Li Yan and the others drained the Death Yin Qi from Jiu Yin and the Twelve Sages of the Spirit Fox, and Jiu Yin regained her physical form.

The Moon Princess and the Bloodline Emperor Lord fought while Li Yan used Eclipse Moon’s help to restore some of the Moon Princess’s power. As the Siming attacked Li Yan and Longevity Siming, a tribulation cloud appeared over Li Yan, who prepared to turn its side effects into benefits.

• The Bloodline Emperor Lord demanded that the Moon Princess hand over Li Yan, and she refused as their Dao Patterns clashed.
• Li Yan refused to return the Moon Princess’s body and asked Eclipse Moon to lend her divine power so she could keep fighting.
• The Moon Princess dragged the Bloodline Emperor Lord into a dream and urged Li Yan to defeat the three Siming and seize the Heavenly Dao’s origin from the Origin Hall.
• Li Chang Sheng took on Great Exorcist and Glutton Head while Li Yan faced Dysentery Butcher, but Great Exorcist broke away to attack Li Yan and Longevity Siming engaged the other two Siming.
• A tribulation thundercloud appeared above Li Yan as Great Exorcist charged, and Li Yan said he could turn the tribulation’s side effects into benefits.

Li Yan forced Moon Princess to surrender the Treasure Bottle Gourd and sign a slave contract, making her his maid and disciple. Longevity Siming then revealed that he had the Dao Patterns needed to open the Origin Hall, and Li Yan prepared to gather all six Simings’ patterns.

• Li Yan took the Treasure Bottle Gourd from Moon Princess and demanded that she sign a master-servant contract.
• Longevity Siming explained that no one who had joined Granny Yin’s game could be drawn into it again for seven days, prompting Li Yan to grow suspicious of him.
• Moon Princess threatened to kill herself, but Li Yan said he could resurrect her and turn her into a puppet, so she signed the contract in blood.
• Li Yan declared Moon Princess his Alchemy Boy and teased her as Little Moon, while she swallowed her anger and resolved to seek a way to escape.
• Longevity Siming urged Li Yan to open the Origin Hall and revealed the Dao Patterns of Lizai and the Great Exorcist, saying that all six Simings’ patterns could open it.

Li Yan turned the Twelve Sages of the Spirit Fox’s draining technique against them, secretly absorbing their magical power while they remained lost in blissful hallucinations. Moon Princess and Jiu Yin woke in a cage and tried to warn him, but the fox immortals drained away and died before they realized what was happening.

• Li Yan activated his reversed side effect and absorbed the Twelve Sages’ magical power while they believed they were draining his.
• Moon Princess and Jiu Yin woke in a cage, saw Li Yan surrounded by the fox immortals, and urged him not to trust them.
• Jiu Yin offered to become Li Yan’s Dao companion, and Moon Princess tried awkwardly to seduce him to draw his attention.
• The Twelve Sages snarled at Jiu Yin and clung to Li Yan, still unaware that their power was being absorbed.
• The fox immortals aged, reverted toward their fox forms, and died as Li Yan drained their life force.

Li Yan cured Ao Yan’s delusions by using a God Devouring Pill to grievously wound the Great Exorcist, then learned the basics of Ao Yan’s Time Reversal technique. With Bright Wisdom Pills taken from Jun Tian Bai Cang boosting his comprehension, Li Yan managed to reverse time for half a breath, leaving him partway toward mastering the technique.

• Li Yan realized the Dragon Feeding Tower held Ancient Dragons used as food by the Simings, while the Abyss of the Netherworld remained the group’s last refuge from White Jade Capital.
• Ao Yan used a second God Devouring Pill to grievously wound the Great Exorcist and break free of his control, ending his delusions.
• Ao Yan offered Li Yan all his techniques, then taught him the incantation and method for Time Reversal, explaining that his Torch Dragon bloodline helped him activate it.
• Li Yan took a Purple Mansion Bright Wisdom Pill and quickly learned to stop time around himself, then took another pill and reversed the incense smoke for half a breath.