Chapter Summaries

Xuan learned that the Origin Era had ended and the Di Luo Era had begun, then searched the ruined world for traces of those he had lost. He settled in the Nine Heavens Ancient Realm, where news of the Human Emperor Lineage’s return led him to seek it out.

• Xuan asked Old Monk Kongwen about dark creatures and learned that they came from the depths of the Boundary Sea and that the current era was the Di Luo Era.
• Old Monk Kongwen vowed to reach the ultimate land and destroy the darkness, while Xuan returned to the Origin Ancient Realm a thousand years later.
• Xuan found the ancient lands shattered and everyone he had known gone, then spent thousands of years searching the universe without finding them.
• In the Nine Heavens Ancient Realm, Xuan saw footprints that seemed to belong to an Emperor and decided to settle there.
• Xuan heard that the Human Emperor Lineage had reappeared, traveled to its chaotic immortal land, and sensed its location.

Xuan returned to the Human Ancestral Land, where the Human Race recognized him as the First Generation Human Emperor and asked him to rule again. He declined and lived in seclusion, but a great war between the Boundary Sea and the Nine Heavens eventually exposed the Chaos Realm and alarmed him.

• Xuan entered the Human Ancestral Land, and the Human Emperor Seal appeared before him as the descendants recognized him as their First Generation Human Emperor.
• Mu Yu explained that the Human Race's powerful constitutions came from blessings Xuan had bestowed on their ancestors, and said the Ten Human Kings' history had been lost.
• Xuan refused Mu Yu's request to reclaim the throne and settled in a secluded part of the Human Race secret realm.
• Xuan roamed the world in search of further advancement while grieving that all his old acquaintances had died.
• Creatures from the Boundary Sea attacked the Nine Heavens, and the ensuing battle brought widespread destruction and the deaths of kings.
• Fallen Immortal Kings discovered the Chaos Realm, alarming Xuan.

After the decisive battle against darkness, Xuan traversed the River of Time and became stranded in the Immortal Ancient Era, where he witnessed a willow tree battling a terrifying heavenly tribulation. The chapter leaves the tree’s identity and fate unresolved as Xuan wonders whether it is a primordial being.

• Xuan emerged from seclusion after the Age of Dharma Decline began and left the Human Race's Chaos Realm to cultivate.
• After ten thousand years, Xuan entered the River of Time to observe his life but became unable to return to the Di Luo era.
• Xuan reached the Immortal Ancient Era and spent a hundred thousand years witnessing its first generation flourish.
• Xuan saw a towering willow tree endure a devastating lightning tribulation, its branches striking back against the storm.
• Xuan wondered whether the willow tree was a primordial being.

After awakening from a dream spanning countless ages, Xiao Xuan discovered that its insights and a samsara mark had carried into his present life, and he set out to temper himself. He visited Ye Fan’s Heavenly Court, where the reunion with its members ended with the big black dog eagerly asking what Xiao Xuan admired about it.

• Xiao Xuan awoke in the Martial Profound Holy Land with five mysterious samsara marks and memories of lifetimes across the Origin, Di Luo, and Immortal Ancient eras.
• Xiao Xuan found that the Undying Scripture worked when he practiced it according to his dream memories, then decided to travel and temper himself.
• Ye Fan established the Heavenly Court, became Heavenly Emperor, and gained the reverence of the universe after defeating the Forbidden Zones.
• Xiao Xuan arrived at the Heavenly Court, where Ye Fan, Ji Ziyue, Chen Xi, Xiao Zi, and Ye Yishui welcomed him as the Space-Time Emperor.
• Duan De mistook Xiao Xuan for Ye Fan’s child, while the big black dog fawned over Xiao Xuan and asked what he admired about it.

Xiao Xuan left Heavenly Court and continued through the ages, becoming known as the Temporal-Spatial Dao Master while Ye Fan and other powerful figures underwent profound changes. The chapter ends with Xiao Xuan in his eighth life, after he had killed the Immortal Heavenly Emperor during his seventh.

• Xiao Xuan mocked Duan De and turned him into a child, while Black Emperor broke several teeth trying to bite Xiao Xuan; Ye Fan laughed at Duan De.
• As ages passed, Xiao Xuan became known as the Temporal-Spatial Dao Master, and he struck down an attacker wielding a Five-Colored Immortal Saber when it appeared over Wu Xuan.
• In the four hundred thousandth year of the Heavenly Emperor calendar, Ye Fan entered his eighth life and transformed his Chaos and Sacred blood into an ordinary body.
• The Evolving Immortal Great Emperor attained the Dao again as a stone Sacred Spirit, but Ruthless gathered the essence of her former bodies and the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar before appearing before him; he never left his ancient star afterward.
• Little Nannan entered Ruthless's glabella at Heavenly Court, and Ruthless wept and said that Ye Fan was not the person she sought.
• Xiao Xuan completed his seventh life and began his eighth; during his seventh life, he killed the Immortal Heavenly Emperor with a palm strike across the void.

Xiao Xuan discovered that the Nine-Dragon Coffin contained the damaged Immortal Domain, then vanished while undergoing a transformation. Ages later, a mysterious light entered the Great Wilderness near the place that became Shi Village, where Shi Yunfeng suspected an extraordinary treasure had drawn the mountain beasts away.

• Xiao Xuan met Ye Fan and Ruthless at the reappeared Nine-Dragon Coffin and revealed that its inner world was the damaged Immortal Domain.
• Xiao Xuan warned Ye Fan and Ruthless that the Immortal Domain had been placed in the coffin for reconstruction and that its creator had established the current cultivation system.
• Xiao Xuan said he would undergo another transformation, then disappeared after beginning it on a planet at the Border Wasteland.
• Even after hundreds of thousands of years, Ye Fan and Ruthless found no trace of Xiao Xuan, while Ye Fan entered his ninth life and Duan De became an immortal.
• A mysterious ray of light entered the Great Wilderness, and Shi Village gradually appeared near where it had vanished.
• Shi Yunfeng told the villagers that ancient creatures might be converging on something extraordinary in the depths of the Great Wilderness.

A Willow Tree fell from a terrifying heavenly tribulation and became Shi Village’s Sacrificial Spirit, while Shi Kingdom’s Martial King Manor welcomed the prodigies Shi Yi and Shi Hao. The chapter ended as Shi Yi’s mother began plotting to take Shi Hao’s Supreme Bone for her son.

• A thunderstorm devastated the Great Wilderness, and a Willow Tree was struck down and fell outside Shi Village.
• The Willow Tree took root, became Shi Village’s Sacrificial Spirit, and gradually protected the village as Shi Yunfeng aged.
• Shi Yi was born at Martial King Manor with Double Pupils, and several years later Shi Hao was born with extraordinary talent and a Supreme Bone.
• Shi Hao’s grandfather, Fifteenth Elder Shi Zhongtian, went missing after killing a pure-blooded Pixiu cub, and Shi Hao’s parents left to search for him.
• Shi Yi’s mother discovered Shi Hao’s Supreme Bone and began to plot how to place it in Shi Yi’s body.

Yu Shi had Little Dot’s Supreme Bone carved out and transplanted into Shi Yi, leaving Shi Hao close to death. After his parents entrusted him to Shi Yunfeng in Shi Village while they sought a sacred medicine, Shi Hao survived and, as a toddler, joined the village children’s morning training.

• Yu Shi ordered a shadow to remove Little Dot’s Supreme Bone and place it in Shi Yi while Shi Yi watched silently.
• Shi Ziling and his wife returned to Martial King Manor, and Shi Ziling killed Shi Yi’s mother in anger over Shi Hao’s stolen bone.
• Shi Ziling and Qin Yining brought the gravely injured Shi Hao to Shi Village and entrusted him to Shi Yunfeng before leaving to seek a sacred medicine.
• Shi Hao miraculously recovered and grew into an adorable young child in Shi Village.
• During morning training, Little Dot imitated the older children, then chased a Five-Colored Bird and repeatedly fell.

The Willow Deity discovered that the sphere beneath Shi Village held an innate sacred spirit, and the child emerged with no knowledge of the world. She named himself Xuan and entrusted him to Shi Yunfeng, who welcomed him into the village alongside Little Dot; Xuan then began learning about ordinary life and sought the Willow Deity’s guidance in cultivation.

• The sphere underground cracked open, and the newly born child asked the Willow Deity where he was and who he was.
• The child chose the name Xuan, and the Willow Deity brought him to Shi Yunfeng, asking the Patriarch to teach and care for him.
• Shi Yunfeng introduced Xuan to Shi Village, where the children met him and Little Dot arrived asking for beast milk.
• Xuan sensed that Little Dot had immense karmic ties and called him the Golden King's descendant, though he could not explain the words.
• After learning basic things about village life, Xuan asked the Willow Deity to teach him about cultivation.

Shi Village celebrated a successful hunt, while Little Dot grieved for his missing parents and Xuan admitted he had nothing to look forward to. As food ran low, Shi Linhu led another hunting party out after the villagers prayed to the Willow Deity for protection.

• Shi Linhu reported that the hunting party had returned with abundant prey and no injuries, and the villagers thanked the Sacrificial Spirit.
• Little Dot asked Shi Yunfeng when his parents would return, and Xuan said he had nothing to look forward to.
• Shi Shoushan caught Pi Hou skipping training and carried him home while scolding and spanking him.
• The children shared scarce food, and Shi Yunfeng prepared beast milk for Little Dot as the villagers discussed their food shortage.
• Shi Linhu gathered hunters and, with Shi Yunfeng and the villagers, prayed to the Willow Deity before setting out for the mountains.

Now four and a half years old and named Shi Hao, Little One joined Shi Village’s children as they tested their strength by lifting a bronze cauldron. He lifted the thousand-jin cauldron overhead through physical strength alone, astonishing the villagers.

• Shi Village’s children demonstrated their strength, with Er Meng knocking over a wild bull and Pi Hou throwing a heavy millstone.
• Shi Meng nearly lifted the bronze cauldron, but Shi Da Zhuang succeeded in raising it over his head.
• Encouraged by the villagers and Shi Yunfeng, Shi Hao stepped up to try the cauldron.
• Shi Hao lifted the cauldron overhead, and Shi Linhu confirmed he had used only physical strength.

Shi Hao and Xuan showed off their extraordinary strength in Shi Village, then joined the village children on a secret expedition into the primeval forest to investigate a Qinglin Eagle’s nest. The children confirmed the eagle was absent and began approaching the nest, hoping to find its eggs.

• Shi Hao lifted a cauldron weighing nearly six thousand jin and another cauldron stacked on top of it.
• Xuan lifted a boulder weighing roughly thirty thousand jin, astonishing the villagers.
• Da Zhuang and the other children ventured into the forest with Shi Hao and Xuan, following reports of a Qinglin Eagle nesting in the stone forest.
• Pi Hou explained that the female Qinglin Eagle left to hunt at noon and that the male had been missing for days.
• Da Zhuang and Shi Hao threw stones toward the nest, and when the eagle did not appear, the children charged toward the cliff and prepared to climb.

Shi Hao and the other children raided the Qinglin Eagle’s nest and stole its three eggs. As they fled toward Shi Village, the eagle returned and began tearing through the forest after them.

• Shi Hao, Shi Xuan, Da Zhuang, and the other children climbed the cliff to the Qinglin Eagle’s nest.
• Da Zhuang was jolted when he touched one of the eggs, and Shi Hao recognized the power of the inherited runes in the eggshell markings.
• Shi Xuan urged the children to avoid the glowing spots, and they packed all three eggs into their beast-hide bags.
• The children descended the cliff and ran through the stone forest toward Shi Village before the Qinglin Eagle returned.
• The Qinglin Eagle spotted the fleeing children and smashed through the forest as they raced into dense thickets to escape.

Shi Village’s adults rescued the children from the Qinglin Eagle after they stole its eggs, then discovered the furious bird had followed them back to the village. As the villagers prepared to return the eggs, the old willow tree touched one and made it blaze with light.

• Shi Linhu and the other men rushed into the forest and found the children unharmed in a stone cave.
• The villagers escorted the children home while the Qinglin Eagle followed, stopping outside the village when it saw the old willow tree.
• The children revealed that they had taken three Qinglin Eagle eggs, and the adults scolded them before deciding to return the eggs to prevent further attacks.
• Little Dot suggested giving the eggs back, and the villagers carried them out of the courtyard toward the Qinglin Eagle.
• The old willow tree’s glowing branch brushed one of the eggs, causing it to shine brightly.

Shi Xuan reached the apparent limit of 128,000 jin with one arm and asked the Willow Deity for guidance, learning that he should break through to the Cave Heaven Realm. He withdrew into the mountains to comprehend the realm’s mysteries, poised to attempt the breakthrough.

• The Willow Deity transformed one of the Qinglin Eagle’s eggs, and the eagle left all three eggs in the village’s care.
• The three eggs hatched into two azure birds and the violet Purple Cloud; the Qinglin Eagle brought the village a giant Dragon Horn Elephant carcass.
• Shi Hao named the young birds Roc, Little Azure, and Purple Cloud, while Shi Xuan reflected on his dual pupils and the cultivation arts in his consciousness.
• Two years later, Shi Xuan had reached 128,000 jin with one arm but could not increase his strength further, while Shi Hao had reached 108,000 jin and was preparing for the Cave Heaven Realm.
• Shi Xuan asked the Willow Deity for advice, and the Willow Deity told him to break through to the Cave Heaven Realm.
• Shi Xuan meditated in the mountains amid a storm, calmly comprehending the Cave Heaven Realm and preparing to ascend to a new level.

After deep cultivation, Shi Xuan broke through into the Cave Heaven Realm and opened six Cave Heavens at once. A powerful vicious beast, drawn by the upheaval, appeared and prepared to attack him.

• Shi Xuan spent twenty days studying runes and the mysteries of cultivation in the mountains.
• Shi Xuan broke through into the Cave Heaven Realm and manifested a volcanic Cave Heaven that drew essence from the world around him.
• Shi Xuan opened a second and then a third Cave Heaven as his breakthrough continued.
• Shi Xuan opened three more Cave Heavens, bringing his total to six and filling his body with abundant essence.
• A gigantic silver-furred vicious beast with qilin horns arrived, angered by the disturbance and ready to kill Shi Xuan.

Shi Xuan stabilized his breakthrough to the Cave Heaven Realm, opened two more Cave Heavens, and trained while Willow Deity moved Shi Village away from the Mountain Treasure’s coming upheaval. The chapter ended with a powerful group led by a graceful woman appearing in the Great Wilderness near Shi Xuan.

• Shi Xuan frightened away fierce birds and mountain Overlords, then returned to Shi Village after stabilizing his six-Cave-Heaven cultivation and hunting a Flood Dragon Panther.
• Six months later, Willow Deity warned that four Venerables were battling over the Mountain Treasure and decided to relocate Shi Village before the Great Wilderness became a battlefield.
• The Mountain Treasure emerged amid Chaos mist and a devastating battle, so Shi Xuan followed Willow Deity to the new Shi Village instead of pursuing it.
• A wounded Zhuque arrived at the relocated village, where Shi Hao named her Xiao Hong and later brought back a little golden monkey called Mao Qiu.
• Over nearly a year, Shi Xuan trained in the Great Wilderness and opened two more Cave Heavens, reaching eight in total.
• While Shi Xuan ate stewed beef, a powerful group led by a graceful woman arrived several li away.

Shi Xuan met Xia Youyu and received an invitation to Heaven Mending Pavilion after demonstrating his strength. At the Taiyin River, he broke through to the legendary tenth Cave Heaven, and Shi Hao arrived to investigate the disturbance.

• Xia Youyu and her group found Shi Xuan alone in the wilderness, and he told them he had already reached the Cave Heaven Realm and described the powerful children in his village.
• Xia Youyu tested Shi Xuan, was forced back by his Qinglin Eagle Treasure Art, and gave him a token to enter Heaven Mending Pavilion.
• Shi Xuan asked Xia Youyu for more tokens for the talented children in his village, then continued traveling after she left.
• At the Taiyin River, Shi Xuan absorbed its extreme yin source energy and opened his ninth Cave Heaven before breaking through to the tenth.
• Shi Xuan sensed Shi Hao approaching, waited to stabilize his realm, and Shi Hao arrived and asked why he was there.

Shi Xuan reached Heaven Mending Pavilion with the token You Yu had given him and was welcomed by Elder Xiong Fei. As Xia Youyu led him through the grounds toward the inner region, a terrifying ancient beast descendant arrived at the mountain gate.

• Shi Hao found Shi Xuan after his breakthrough to ten Heaven Caverns, then devoured three pure-blooded ferocious beasts and advanced to the eighth Heaven Cavern.
• Shi Xuan left Shi Hao and traveled across the Great Wilderness for two months before reaching the outskirts of Heaven Mending Pavilion.
• Shi Xuan arrived at the pavilion’s outer region, where crowds had gathered for the coming selection and notable guests were staying in the mountain palaces.
• You Yu recognized Shi Xuan and introduced him to Elder Xiong Fei, who accepted his token and sent Xia Youyu to guide him inward.
• Xia Youyu showed Shi Xuan the pavilion’s old herbs and rare Star Herb before leading him to the mountain gate.
• An enormous ancient beast descendant flew toward the gate, frightening the crowd.

Shi Xuan clashed with Shi Yi at Heaven Mending Pavilion, revealing that both youths possessed Double Pupils and had opened Ten Cave Heavens. After Shi Xuan challenged Shi Yi’s reasons for cultivating, he left with Xia Youyu for the pavilion’s central hall.

• Shi Yi arrived at Heaven Mending Pavilion on Martial King Manor’s enormous ancient relic bird, while the Deer-Chasing Academy’s female war goddess came to scout for someone.
• Shi Yi noticed Shi Xuan and attacked him with the light of his Double Pupils, prompting Shi Xuan to counter with his own eye-light.
• Shi Yi and Shi Xuan’s beams collided, blasting the surrounding land and shocking the onlookers with the power of their confrontation.
• Shi Yi revealed that Shi Xuan had opened Ten Cave Heavens, and Shi Xuan criticized Shi Yi’s unstable foundation and use of borrowed bones.
• Shi Xuan told Shi Yi that another person would soon surpass him and asked why he cultivated before departing with Xia Youyu.
• Xia Youyu brought Shi Xuan to the central hall, where he greeted the Pavilion Master and elders.