Chapter Summaries

Lu Yang watched the Responding Heaven Immortal and the Qilin Immortal play chess in a historical reflection, while the Undying Immortal explained why he could see it. The reflection’s immortals sensed Lu Yang and the Undying Immortal, leaving them wondering whether the Immortal of Time was observing them from the future.

• The Undying Immortal told Lu Yang that his ability to see the reflection came from her resonance with it and that Mr. Tiankui had been qualified to see it because he could comprehend the Five Elements Combat Art.
• The Undying Immortal sped up the chess game between the Responding Heaven Immortal and the Qilin Immortal as the Immortal of Ninefolds arrived with firewood and said the Immortal of Time had sent him to call them to dinner.
• Lu Yang realized that the ancient mastermind had replaced traces of the Undying Immortal in history with the Immortal of Time, and the Undying Immortal angrily prepared to confront the culprit.
• The Immortal of Ninefolds sensed Lu Yang and the Undying Immortal, prompting the Responding Heaven Immortal and the Qilin Immortal to look toward them and speculate that the Immortal of Time was watching from the future.

Lu Yang and Immortal Fairy sensed that the three ancient immortals had noticed her presence across time, though they could not communicate with them. Ninefold Immortal went to fetch Time Immortal, who hurried back with him to investigate what Immortal Fairy might be trying to tell them.

• Ying Tian Immortal, Ninefold Immortal, and Qilin Immortal sensed a presence watching them and suspected an immortal from the future had seen their historical reflection.
• Immortal Fairy repeatedly released her aura toward the three immortals, but they could not hear her; they recognized the aura as belonging to ███ and worried she was trying to send a warning.
• Ying Tian Immortal asked Ninefold Immortal to fetch Time Immortal, while Qilin Immortal warned them to keep ███ from finding out.
• Ninefold Immortal returned to Polaris, where Immortal Fairy was cooking with Qilin Immortal's wives and Time Immortal was looking for an escape.
• Ninefold Immortal made an excuse to take Time Immortal away, then explained what had happened as they raced back toward Ying Tian Immortal and Qilin Immortal.

The Transcendent Immortal used his Space-Time Immortal Eye and Dao Fruit of Time to connect with the Undying Immortal in the future, but an unknown force shattered the passage after she revealed she had been assassinated. The immortals were left wondering what could kill her beyond revival and what Dao Fruit had severed their connection.

• The Transcendent Immortal saw the future Undying Immortal through his Space-Time Immortal Eye, but interference obscured her and the person beside her.
• The Transcendent Immortal manifested the Dao Fruit of Time, and the Undying Immortal covered Lu Yang's eyes to shield him from its overwhelming information.
• The Transcendent Immortal and the others saw the Undying Immortal's face, but the passage began to fail as she said she had been assassinated.
• An unknown force shattered the passage, and the Transcendent Immortal explained that something had severed the connection between their era and the future.
• The Qilin Immortal, Heavenly Immortal, Ninth-Layer Immortal, and Transcendent Immortal concluded that the Undying Immortal had been killed without being revived and wondered what Dao Fruit had disrupted time.

The four immortals debated why they had not resurrected Huang Doudou in the future and what could threaten her. They left without a clear answer, resolved to prepare secretly and keep their meeting with the future Immortal out of the historical reflection.

• Immortal Ying Tian asked why the four immortals had not resurrected the Immortal, and Immortal Ninefold suggested that all five ancient immortals might have encountered trouble.
• Immortal Time tried to locate where his connection to the future had been severed, but his Dao Fruit could not observe the unlikely future in which the Immortal was assassinated.
• Immortal Ninefold said there had been only five immortals, so Immortal Ying Tian proposed that the assassin might be a future immortal or a concealed sixth immortal.
• The immortals considered whether the assassin had used a Dao Fruit of Karma or Fate to hide their existence or alter Huang Doudou's fate.
• Immortal Ninefold opposed warning Huang Doudou, fearing she would kill herself to avoid being assassinated, and Immortal Time returned to the North Star.
• Immortal Time told the other three to delete their meeting with the future Immortal from the historical reflection so the assassin would not learn that Huang Doudou could be resurrected.

Lu Yang and the others finished their month at the Five Elements Sect and departed after he made progress in cultivation. At Ask Dao Sect, Shi Chan completed his Buddhist instruction of the Undying Sect and prepared to leave, while the Undying Immortal and three female ghosts benefited from his teachings.

• The Immortal of Time told the Undying Fairy that Qilin and Ying Tian had entered enlightenment while playing Gomoku, and she set out to prepare food for them.
• Lu Yang and the others failed to understand the chessboard, while Li Haoran briefly glimpsed four powerful figures in a dreamlike vision and then forgot what he had seen.
• A month later, Lu Yang and his companions left the Five Elements Sect after cultivating in its five branches, and Lu Yang reached the peak of the second minor level of the late Golden Core stage.
• At Ask Dao Sect, Shi Chan praised the Undying Immortal's Buddhist understanding, and Xiao Wu and the other female ghosts advanced to the Golden Core stage.
• The Undying Immortal suggested bringing Buddhist chanting to barbecue shops, and Dai Bufan saw Shi Chan off after Shi Chan asked him for travel money.

The narrator left the safe zone alone to reach the northern zombie zone, with the Blue Star Will and Zombie Planet Will following. After joining a group of adventurers and revealing power over zombies, the narrator got directions and finally reached the zombie zone, where they planned to rest for a day.

• On December 5, the narrator handed the safe zone's authority to the doctor and set out for the northern zombie zone.
• After getting lost in heavy snow, the narrator met adventurers on December 10 and joined them to learn the way to the zombie zone.
• On December 12, the narrator ordered zombies besieging the adventurers to leave, frightening the group, then asked for a map and directions before departing.
• On December 15, the narrator reached the zombie zone and planned to take a day off.

After returning to the Ask Dao Sect, Lu Yang hurried to tell Yun Zhi that Shangguan had given him a fragment of Jianmu. The Undying Fairy revealed that the Immortal of the Years’ corpse lay beneath the Five Elements Sect’s Wood Vein and that the Nian Beast’s New Year route might point toward the Eastern Sea or the Buddhist Kingdom.

• Great Master Jieshen returned Shichan to the Hanging Temple, where Shichan admitted that he had challenged Yun Zhi and lost.
• Lu Yang rushed to Heaven Gate Peak to consult Yun Zhi about the ancient matters he had learned during the trip.
• Yun Zhi examined Lu Yang’s Jianmu fragment and recognized it as part of the immortal tree associated with the Immortal of the Years.
• The Undying Fairy revealed that she had found the Immortal of the Years’ corpse buried beneath the Five Elements Sect’s Wood Vein.
• The Undying Fairy explained that the Nian Beast appeared every New Year, traveled from east to west, and had led her to suspect the Eastern Sea or Buddhist Kingdom held a clue to the Immortal of the Years.

Lu Yang and Yun Zhi discussed the Undying Fairy’s account of the Immortal of Time and suspected that someone had altered history to conceal the ancient immortals. Lu Yang proposed that a seventh immortal with a devouring Dao Fruit had tried to steal the Undying Fairy’s power, but Yun Zhi ended the discussion and told him to focus on cultivation.

• The Undying Fairy explained that Second Senior Brother had traveled through the Buddhist Kingdom searching for clues about the Immortal of Time, but had found nothing useful.
• The Undying Fairy told Yun Zhi and Lu Yang how the Immortal of Time had opened a spacetime passage to speak with her in the Five Elements Sect’s immortal realm.
• Yun Zhi reasoned that the ancient Four Immortals might still be alive and that another force had interfered with history and hidden information about the Undying Fairy.
• Lu Yang speculated that a seventh immortal wielding a Dao Fruit of Devouring had tried to devour the Undying Fairy and founded the Undying Sect to pursue her power.
• The Undying Fairy agreed with Lu Yang’s theory, but Yun Zhi stopped them and told Lu Yang to concentrate on cultivation.

Senior Sister Yun Zhi sent Lu Yang to the Demon Domain to help Gan Tian investigate ancient matters. Meanwhile, Meng family steward Xu You visited Meng Jingzhou at the Ask Dao Sect, where he revealed the family’s interest in Lu Yang.

• Senior Sister Yun Zhi gave Lu Yang Gan Tian’s letter and asked him to travel to the Demon Domain to study ancient history with her.
• Lu Yang agreed to go, and Senior Sister Yun Zhi suggested he ask Gan Tian about discoveries near the border between the Central Continent and the Demon Race.
• Xu You entered the Ask Dao Sect after bribing the mountain-gate guards and found Meng Jingzhou at Body Tempering Peak.
• Xu You told Meng Jingzhou that his father wanted him to visit home, but Meng Jingzhou listed several misdeeds he thought his father had forgiven.
• Xu You said his real purpose was to approach Lu Yang, whom the Meng family believed could be useful to them.

Lu Yang visited Meng Jingzhou, who told him he had rejected his father’s plan to betroth his younger sister to Lu Yang. Lu Yang invited Meng Jingzhou to travel to the Demon Realm to visit Third Senior Sister Gan Tian, while Xu You was arrested at Ask Dao Sect and the old horse was left facing another journey.

• Lu Yang arrived at Meng Jingzhou’s cave abode and learned Meng Jingzhou had refused his father’s proposal to betroth his younger sister to Lu Yang.
• Meng Jingzhou explained that his father had wanted Lu Yang as a son-in-law after reading Meng Jingzhou’s praise of him in a letter.
• Lu Yang told Meng Jingzhou that Third Senior Sister Gan Tian had invited him to the Demon Realm, and Meng Jingzhou agreed to go with him.
• Xu You drank with the old horse and complained about managing the Meng family, while the old horse recalled the dangers it had endured alongside Meng Jingzhou and Lu Yang.
• The First Elder confronted Xu You for bribing the sect’s gate guards and shackled him after Xu You chose to stay in Ask Dao Sect.
• Meng Jingzhou told the old horse that he and Lu Yang were leaving for the Demon Realm, disappointing the horse.

Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou decided to travel to the Demon Domain and sought advice before leaving. Li Haoran explained the Demon Race’s divisions and customs, while Uncle Ba gave them one final warning.

• Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou decided to visit the Demon Domain, but ruled out bringing Man Gu and Tao Yaoye because of their circumstances.
• Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou visited Li Haoran, who refused to join them because his master had ordered him to stay and cultivate.
• Li Haoran warned them not to bring Old Horse, then described the Demon Race’s loose tribal order, rivalries, and attitudes toward humans.
• The Undying Fairy explained that the Demon Races had united under pressure from humanity’s rise.
• Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou asked Uncle Ba for advice, and he told them not to say they were from Ask Dao Sect.

Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou learned that their masters had repeatedly offended the Demon Races, making a trip to the Demon Domain dangerous. They decided to seek refuge with Third Senior Sister anyway and traveled toward the Demon Domain, where they left the forest creatures too frightened to challenge them.

• Uncle Ba told Lu Yang about Old Ninth’s book, Dragon-Phoenix Change, and the brothers’ past deceptions involving the White Marsh Race and a Demon Race secret realm.
• Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou questioned the other elders and discovered the Nine Sons had provoked the Demon Races far more often than Uncle Ba admitted.
• Despite recognizing the danger, Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou decided to enter the Demon Domain and hoped Third Senior Sister would protect them.
• The two stocked up on life-saving supplies and traveled by flying ship to the Demon-Suppressing Pass.
• Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou crossed the forest toward the Demon Domain, killing a Nascent Soul Early Stage demon beast and frightening the other creatures into hiding.

Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou crossed the dense forest’s strange fog and discovered that the Central Continent and Demon Territory were separate continents arranged perpendicular to each other. They suspected the Nameless One of antiquity had refined five stars into continents, then continued into the Demon Territory.

• Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou reached the fog at the edge of the dense forest, where it blocked their sight and broke down divine sense.
• The Everlasting Immortal awoke, shared her immortal sense with Lu Yang, and showed him a vast wall covered in trees, beasts, and tribes.
• Lu Yang realized Meng Jingzhou had walked onto the wall without noticing and concluded that the wall was the Demon Territory, arranged perpendicular to the Central Continent.
• Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou inferred that four continents surrounded the Central Continent and that the Nameless One of antiquity had created them by refining stars.
• Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou crossed into the Demon Territory as the fog began to thin.

Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou encountered two tiny insect demons who had eloped to escape an arranged marriage, then learned their story from Commander Li. The pair decided to visit the insect tribe, leaving their journey to meet Third Senior Sister temporarily delayed.

• Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou reached the Demon Region and set out north to find Third Senior Sister.
• Song Xiaomi and Chishui burst from the forest while fleeing their pursuers and were kicked back by Lu Yang.
• Commander Li introduced himself and learned the two travelers were posing as members of the Prison-Suppressing Sect.
• Commander Li explained that a stronger tribe was forcing Song Xiaomi to marry its chief’s son, so she and her childhood sweetheart Chishui had fled.
• Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou asked to be taken to the insect tribe.

Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou visited the Hydroxy Insect Tribe, where Meng Jingzhou offered protection to Song Xiaomi and Chi Shui so they would not be forced to marry. The next morning, Qing Dong from the Stiff Insect Tribe arrived to confront the tribe, but a towering figure rose from the hills and challenged him.

• Commander Li led Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou to the Hydroxy Insect Tribe, where its chief mistook them for a threat until Commander Li explained who they were.
• The chief prepared to punish Song Xiaomi and Chi Shui for trying to escape their arranged marriage, but Meng Jingzhou stopped him and offered to protect the tribe if the pair truly loved each other.
• The Hydroxy Insect Tribe celebrated and hosted Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou overnight, serving Demon Realm delicacies and staging a firefly-lit feast.
• Qing Dong of the Stiff Insect Tribe arrived the next morning and demanded to know whether his fiancée had tried to escape, then revealed his fourth-level Qi Refining cultivation.
• A huge man rose from the hills, frightened the insects and Qing Dong, and rebuked the Qi Refining cultivators for speaking arrogantly before him.

Meng Jingzhou and Lu Yang protected the Qiangchong Tribe from Qing Dong and the old mountain goat, revealing themselves as Golden Core great masters. As they prepared to leave, the Qiangchong Tribe Leader offered them an ancient token said to open a Half-Step Nascent Soul ancestor’s treasure trove.

• Meng Jingzhou suppressed Qing Dong’s attack and spared his life after warning him not to disturb their cultivation again.
• Chishui resolved to leave the tribe and cultivate after witnessing Meng Jingzhou’s strength.
• The old mountain goat arrived, recognized Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou as Golden Core great masters, and agreed to protect the Qiangchong Tribe.
• The old mountain goat and the Jiangchong Tribe left after Meng Jingzhou dismissed them.
• The Qiangchong Tribe Leader gave Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou an ancient token said to open a Half-Step Nascent Soul ancestor’s treasure trove.

Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou received a token said to open the treasure site of Ancestor Bai Tan, then traveled toward Third Senior Sister and stopped at a Demon Race marketplace. A pawnshop owner recognized the token as a legendary treasure key, leaving the two surprised by its fame.

• Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou learned that the token had been found with a diary describing Ancestor Bai Tan’s treasure site, then accepted it from the Qiang Worm Tribe chief.
• Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou used Divine Speed Talismans to travel for a day, passing several Foundation Establishment demon tribes on their way to meet Third Senior Sister.
• Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou entered a Demon Race marketplace and mocked the low-quality pills and magical treasures on sale.
• Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou brought the token to a pawnshop, where the assistant summoned the owner after recognizing its significance.
• The pawnshop owner identified the token as the key to Ancestor Bai Tan’s treasure trove, and Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou wondered why everyone treated the half-step Nascent Soul Realm owner as so legendary.

Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou’s token drew a group of Golden Core cultivators into a fight, only for the supposedly dead Patriarch Baitan to appear and claim it. When Baitan attacked, Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou effortlessly defeated him and revealed powers that made everyone believe they were Nascent Soul cultivators.

• The pawnshop owner recognized Patriarch Baitan’s token, refused to buy it, and decided to sell the marketplace master information about it.
• As Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou carried the token through the Demon Domain, Golden Core patriarchs gathered to seize it and fought among themselves.
• Patriarch Baitan appeared, revealed he had faked his death after failing to advance, and tried to use the token and the gathered cultivators to reach the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Lu Yang cut off part of Baitan’s tongue and jaw with Sword Qi, while Meng Jingzhou used the Six Heavenly-Shaking Forms to knock Baitan and the other cultivators from the sky.
• Baitan and the gathered cultivators realized Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou were powerful enough to be Nascent Soul monsters, leaving Lu Yang surprised at how easily they had impressed the Demon Domain.

Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou received the Demon Domain’s old demons’ submission, then encountered three clan elders who each offered a fragment in exchange for sparing their unconscious descendants. The chapter ended with Lu Yang realizing the three fragments might fit together.

• Ancestor Bai Tan begged Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou for mercy after they recovered his token, while the other old demons bowed in submission.
• The Everlasting Immortal recounted how powerful figures had once kowtowed to her and described the strange dangers she faced before becoming an immortal.
• As Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou considered what to do with the old demons, Bai Gu appeared through a divine-sense projection and offered a secret-realm fragment to save Bai Tan.
• An elder of the Qiongqi Clan appeared and offered another fragment in exchange for sparing the unconscious Blue-Faced Tiger.
• The Mad Lion Clan’s ancestor offered a third fragment to save the Fiery Mad Lion, prompting Lu Yang to suggest checking whether the fragments fit together.

Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou gathered the three fragments, opening the secret realm and drawing a crowd of Demon Race Spirit Transformation cultivators. Third Senior Sister arrived to protect them, and Lu Yang learned Eldest Senior Sister had sent her to meet them in case they caused trouble.

• The three fragments flew together above Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou, formed a white jade disc, and revealed that the secret realm lay beneath them.
• White Bone, Jin Xuan, and Old Lion summoned Spirit Transformation cultivators, who gathered and agreed to kill Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou before exploring the secret realm.
• Third Senior Sister appeared with her zither, froze the Spirit Transformation cultivators as they tried to flee, and confirmed her identity to Lu Yang.
• Third Senior Sister explained that Eldest Senior Sister had sent her to meet Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou, anticipating they might cause trouble.
• Lu Yang claimed the gathering of Spirit Transformation cultivators had been a coincidence, and Third Senior Sister said she believed him because she told Eldest Senior Sister the same thing when she stirred up trouble.