Chapter Summaries

After tens of thousands of years spent sharing mortal lives, Willow Deity reached the middle stage of the Quasi-Immortal Emperor Realm and confessed her feelings to Shi Yongheng. They agreed to become husband and wife, and Shi Hao arrived to congratulate them with a gift of Chaos Soil.

• Willow Deity and Shi Yongheng spent hundreds of mortal lifetimes together, growing closer through their shared experiences.
• Willow Deity broke through to the middle stage of the Quasi-Immortal Emperor Realm, while Shi Yongheng contained the aura of her breakthrough.
• Willow Deity asked why she could not sense Shi Yongheng's realm, and he explained that he had nearly attained the Immortal Emperor Realm hundreds of thousands of years earlier.
• Willow Deity confessed that she had fallen for Shi Yongheng and asked to become Dao companions, and Shi Yongheng proposed they become husband and wife instead.
• Shi Hao appeared, teased Shi Yongheng about winning Willow Deity's heart, and presented her with Chaos Soil as a gift.
• Shi Yongheng accepted the gift on Willow Deity's behalf and sent Shi Hao away.

Shi Yongheng gave the Willow Deity Heaven-defying Ancient Pills and shared his cultivation system, then urged her to establish a faith-based Heavenly Court in his Inner Universe. Their wedding took place in the Heavenly Court, where Shi Hao, the kings, and Shi Village’s elders celebrated with them.

• Shi Yongheng gave the Willow Deity four Heaven-defying Ancient Pills and explained how his hunt for pill ingredients had earned him the names Hunter and Alchemist.
• Shi Yongheng reassured the Willow Deity that the threat in the Ultimate Ancient Land was weaker than he had claimed and showed her his cultivation system and Human Body Heaven Diagram.
• Shi Yongheng proposed that the Willow Deity establish a Heavenly Court in his Inner Universe and gather faith by appointing gods to protect different regions.
• The Willow Deity sent an Immortal King-strength clone into Shi Yongheng’s Inner Universe, where he promised to accelerate time ten thousandfold.
• Shi Hao announced Shi Yongheng and the Willow Deity’s marriage, and nearly a hundred kings and many True Immortals congratulated the couple in the Heavenly Court.
• Shi Yongheng lifted the seal on Shi Village for the wedding, and Shi Yunfeng, Shi Ziling, Qin Yining, Shi Zhongtian, and Pan Wang joined the celebrations.

Shi Yongheng married the Willow Deity, then joined Shi Hao and others in resurrecting the ancient Quasi-Immortal Emperor Lin Xuan. Lin Xuan returned to life, learned that three emperors now coexisted, and settled his old ties with the Willow Deity and Little Pagoda.

• Shi Yongheng teased Shi Yi, Shi Xiao Hao, and A Man about being single, and A Man joked that suitors would stretch from the Heavenly Court to the Boundary Sea.
• A thousand years after news of their wedding spread, Shi Yongheng and the Willow Deity married before thousands of kings and Immortal True Immortals, and three emperors preached the Dao for a hundred years.
• At the Boundary Sea embankment, Shi Yongheng, the Willow Deity, Shi Hao, Little Pagoda, and others used life aura, an ancient pill, and Emperor Fire to restore the Emperor bone.
• The Emperor Fire formed a soul phantom that asked who it was, then became a man in green who revealed that his name was Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan thanked Shi Yongheng and Huang for resurrecting him and settled his Cause and Effect with the Willow Deity and Little Pagoda.

Shi Yongheng, Shi Hao, Lin Xuan, and the Willow Deity confronted the Corpse Immortal Emperor in the Ultimate Ancient Land, where he eventually reunited with his primordial spirit and fully revived as a Dark Immortal Emperor. The battle began with the four Quasi-Immortal Emperors facing him, and the Corpse Immortal Emperor used the River of Time to target Shi Hao and the Huang Heavenly Emperor’s past traces.

• After a long period of cultivation, Shi Yongheng, Shi Hao, Lin Xuan, and the Willow Deity entered the Ultimate Ancient Land and discovered the final chapter of the Original True Explanation.
• The group reached the Corpse Immortal Emperor, studied the Immortal Emperor runes around him, and fought off his attacks whenever he awoke.
• Over a hundred thousand years, Shi Hao neared the Immortal Emperor realm, while Lin Xuan and the Willow Deity reached the peak of the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm.
• The Rotten Wooden Chest returned the Corpse Immortal Emperor’s primordial spirit to his body, allowing him to break free of his seals and fully revive in darkness.
• Shi Yongheng, Shi Hao, Lin Xuan, and the Willow Deity fought the Corpse Immortal Emperor, who then reached into the River of Time to search for and influence Shi Yongheng and Shi Hao’s past traces.

Corpse Immortal Emperor struck Shi Hao down with the Da Luo Sword Embryo, scattering his blood through the River of Time. Shi Hao’s blood remnants began cultivating across different eras, while Corpse suspected that his interference with time had changed Shi Hao’s fate.

• Corpse Immortal Emperor seized the Da Luo Sword Embryo and unleashed an Immortal Emperor’s strike at Shi Hao.
• Shi Hao charged into the attack using Self-Transformation Freedom, He-Transforming Eternal Ages, but Corpse Immortal Emperor’s sword cleaved him apart and scattered his blood through spacetime.
• Corpse Immortal Emperor could not locate Shi Hao’s blood or trace Shi Yongheng’s past, and suspected that Cause and Effect had obscured them.
• Shi Hao’s blood and blood essence appeared in different eras, where they took form, cultivated, and remained apart from the worlds around them.
• Shi Hao’s most precious blood essence cultivated the He-Transforming Free Art in the Di Luo Era and traveled through the River of Time.
• Corpse realized his actions had touched the River of Time and wondered whether Shi Hao had created a peerless imperial art and reached the Immortal Emperor realm.

Shi Hao returned from the River of Time as an Immortal Emperor after perfecting his Emperor Art, then faced the fully restored Corpse Immortal Emperor. Their battle began with Shi Hao overpowering his enemy, and he left the Corpse Immortal Emperor pierced through and bleeding.

• Shi Yongheng told the Corpse Immortal Emperor that he was fated to help Shi Hao become stronger, then said he too could pursue the Immortal Emperor realm.
• Shi Hao’s blood gathered across the River of Time, and he returned in his true body as an Immortal Emperor with his Emperor Art perfected.
• The Corpse Immortal Emperor broke free of his restraints, restored his complete body, and attacked Shi Hao with the Da Luo Sword Embryo.
• Shi Hao blocked the Corpse Immortal Emperor’s sword strike with his bare hand and retaliated alongside multiple figures created by his Emperor Art.
• Shi Hao’s combined assault sent the Corpse Immortal Emperor flying and pierced his body with fists, drawing torrents of black blood.

Shi Hao and the others defeated and refined Corpse Immortal Emperor, then discovered and sealed a breach to the world Above the Heavens, the source of the darkness. They freed survivors from the Receiving Ancient Halls and returned to a world celebrating the end of the dark calamity.

• Shi Hao and the other figures overwhelmed Corpse Immortal Emperor, then spent ten thousand years refining away his dark power and killing him.
• Shi Hao confronted Shi Yongheng for hiding that he had already become an Immortal Emperor, and Shi Yongheng explained why he had let Shi Hao fight.
• Shi Yongheng destroyed the stone chair in the Ultimate Ancient Land, revealing a breach to Above the Heavens that Shi Hao sealed.
• Shi Hao, Shi Yongheng, Willow Deity, and Lin Xuan opened the remaining Receiving Ancient Halls and helped imprisoned beings recover.
• The group encountered the Double-Pupil Woman, who recognized them as the ones who had ended the darkness at this end of the Boundary Sea.
• Butcher and others welcomed the group back, and cultivators across the world celebrated the eradication of the dark calamity.

Nearly five hundred thousand years after Shi Hao departed, Shi Yongheng reached the peak of the Immortal Emperor realm and traveled with the Willow Deity into Above the Heavens. There they crossed a vast sea of blood and discovered the Soul River, a dark current made from corrupted souls.

• Shi Hao left for Above the Heavens with Lin Xuan and Little Pagoda, severing the ages and making the Boundary Sea disappear.
• Shi Yongheng cultivated with the Willow Deity for nearly five hundred thousand years and reached the peak of the Immortal Emperor realm, while the Willow Deity reached the peak of the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm.
• Shi Yongheng and the Willow Deity passed through the Ultimate Ancient Land and entered Above the Heavens through a sealed reef surrounded by a sea of blood and enormous tombs.
• The two traveled across the sea of blood aboard the Ten Directions Heavens and observed the ancient battles that had ended with the dark side's victory and the Corpse Immortal Emperor's corruption.
• Shi Yongheng examined the River of Time and identified the pitch-black Soul River, where countless imprisoned souls and weird substances formed its waters and yellow sands.

Shi Yongheng and Willow Deity reached the Soul River Ultimate Land, where Shi Yongheng confronted a black race End of the Road being. He gained the upper hand and struck his enemy with lightning across the past, present, and future, as the being struggled to defend itself.

• Shi Yongheng and Willow Deity arrived at the Soul River Ultimate Land and saw ancient roads leading to the Ancient Underworld, a burial pit, and a land of scattered ashes.
• An Immortal Emperor's gaze killed a Quasi-Immortal Emperor approaching from the Ancient Underworld, while a sword and lightning destroyed a creature from the burial pit despite its attempted revival.
• The black race End of the Road being revealed itself, and Shi Yongheng sent Willow Deity into his inner universe before attacking with Five Steps of Eternal Haste.
• Shi Yongheng severed one of the being's arms and overwhelmed it with a storm of attacks.
• Shi Yongheng's lightning struck the black End of the Road being across the past, present, and future, leaving its fur smoking and black blood flowing.

Shi Yongheng used his invincible method and the Thunder Pool to trap the black End of the Road being, whose past and future he had nearly erased. He unleashed ultimate destructive lightning to overcome the Plateau’s power of resurrection, leaving his enemy facing a bolt that might kill him for good.

• Shi Yongheng’s lightning destroyed the black End of the Road being’s past, while the Plateau’s power kept him alive.
• Shi Yongheng realized that the Plateau remained the only way his enemy could be resurrected after he erased the other paths to revival.
• Shi Yongheng summoned the ancient Thunder Pool and swallowed the black End of the Road being into its ocean of Lightning Tribulation.
• The black End of the Road being detonated himself but was revived by Shi Yongheng with Tribulation Lightning Liquid.
• Shi Yongheng spent his Origin Force to unleash the ultimate bolt of destructive lightning, and the black End of the Road being feared it would kill him permanently.

Shi Yongheng permanently destroyed the black End of the Road, then lived with the Willow Deity for ages before she risked an Immortal Emperor breakthrough at the Soul River. He rescued her after she was grievously corrupted, brought her back to his secluded haven, and buried her transformed body in Origin Soil.

• Shi Yongheng used his Thunder Pool to destroy the black End of the Road and the Plateau power within it, then restored his Imperial Dao origin with Tribulation Lightning Liquid.
• Shi Yongheng and the Willow Deity withdrew from the battlefield, spent ten thousand years together, and later Shi Yongheng sent an incarnation to aid Huang at the Sacrificial Sea.
• A million years later, the Willow Deity entered the Soul River to seek a breakthrough and fought Eerie Dao Progenitors for tens of thousands of years.
• Shi Yongheng carried the grievously wounded Willow Deity out of the Soul River and severed it, killing the beings within.
• The Willow Deity transformed into a charred tree stump, and Shi Yongheng buried her in Origin Soil at his secluded haven beyond the world.
• Shi Yongheng’s Spacetime Divine Sword had slain seven Immortal Emperors over the preceding million years, with their remains fused into the sword.

Shi Yongheng restored the Willow Deity in a life-rich soil and discovered Cao Yusheng had been reborn in the Heavenly Court. He then ventured to the edge of the world, where he studied a strange multicolored substance that seemed to contain the origins of all Great Daos.

• Shi Yongheng planted the Willow Deity’s charred stump in source soil and cleansed her of Dark Matter, causing a new willow shoot to emerge.
• Cao Yusheng awoke from the Myriad Things Soil, learned the war had ended over a million years earlier, and heard that he had to complete ten lives of Samsara before becoming immortal.
• Cao Yusheng declared himself the strongest in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths and named the era the Nether Ancient Era.
• Shi Yongheng left his small world and traveled for two hundred thousand years into the Chaos region, where strange liquids made his arm turn illusory and threatened to dissolve his Great Dao.
• Shi Yongheng studied the liquids for several thousand years and concluded that their countless colors represented cultivation systems and Great Daos, while the substance served as their source and a barrier around the world.
• Shi Yongheng continued comprehending the Dao and drew on cultivation systems he had collected across Heaven, though he could absorb only a tiny amount of the edge-world substance.

After tens of thousands of years of preparation, Shi Yongheng sacrificed his Dao Fruit and broke through to the Sacrificial Dao while fighting the Eerie Clan. He emerged with power beyond an ordinary Sacrificial Dao expert, as Shi Hao and the others continued to face threats tied to his fading name.

• Shi Yongheng spent tens of thousands of years refining his body, primordial spirit, Great Dao, and techniques until he began the Sacrificial Dao.
• Meng Tianzheng, Shi Fan, and the others found that their memories of Shi Yongheng were blurring and that they could no longer speak his name or title.
• Shi Hao fought an Eerie Progenitor, who praised his strength, while Shi Yongheng's avatar battled two Progenitors as four Eerie Progenitors mobilized against him.
• Shi Yongheng completed his breakthrough after sacrificing his Dao Fruit, internal organs, Great Dao laws, and the universe within his body.
• Shi Yongheng regained what he had sacrificed in transformed form and sensed that he had reached the end of the Sacrificial Dao, surpassing ordinary experts of that realm.

Shi Yongheng broke into the Sacrificial Dao, fought through the Eerie Ancestral Land, and rescued a bloodied woman in a jar while keeping the Progenitors occupied. Back in his hidden Dao field, Willow Deity revived and successfully became an Immortal Emperor.

• Shi Yongheng returned to his residence, surveyed the current era, and learned about Cao Yusheng and Emperor Zun.
• Shi Yongheng broke through into the Sacrificial Dao and struck down the Eerie Progenitors as he forced his way into their Ancestral Land.
• Shi Yongheng fought across the Plateau, reached a bloodied woman, placed her in a jar, and escaped the Ancestral Land with it.
• Shi Yongheng kept the four Progenitors occupied and used formations and the River of Time to deliver the jar to Shi Hao, who entered it to evade pursuit.
• Willow Deity revived beside Shi Yongheng, condensed her Dao Fruit, and broke through to become an Immortal Emperor.

Shi Yongheng revealed that he had surpassed the Immortal Emperor realm, then lived in seclusion with the Willow Deity through the eras of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths. After hundreds of thousands of years, they conceived twins, while the chapter ended with them witnessing the Ruthless Great Emperor begin her rise to emperor.

• The Willow Deity questioned Shi Yongheng about his cultivation, and he explained that he had reached the Sacrificial Dao level but had not attained Chaos Dao Attainment.
• Shi Yongheng took the Willow Deity to their homeland, where they observed the rise and struggles of emperors, Supremes, and other figures across the Primordial Era.
• The Primordial Era ended, the Desolate Ancient Era began, and the Willow Deity finally became pregnant after hundreds of thousands of years.
• Shi Yongheng and the Willow Deity named their unborn twins Shi Liu and Shi Xiao and sensed someone becoming an emperor.
• They saw the Ruthless Great Emperor shatter her Heavenly Tribulation, and the Willow Deity recognized her as the woman who had once helped them.

Shi Hao fought four Eerie Progenitors as he broke through to the Sacrificial Dao, while Shi Yongheng sacrificed his avatar to seal the Eerie Plateau. The progenitors were trapped behind formations powerful enough to kill one of their own, and Shi Yongheng’s existence vanished from history.

• Shi Yongheng sensed Shi Hao’s Sacrificial Dao breakthrough and learned that the Willow Deity was pregnant, then sent Shi Hao a warning to fight or flee.
• Shi Hao faced four Eerie Progenitors, realized he could sacrifice everything of himself, and fought his way toward the Eerie Ancestral Land.
• Shi Hao reached the pinnacle of the Sacrificial Dao after sacrificing his five viscera and six bowels, as well as his hands and feet.
• Shi Yongheng’s avatar burned its strength and detonated, unleashing formations that sealed the Plateau and killed one Eerie Progenitor and seven Immortal Emperors.
• The Eerie Progenitors discovered that the formations sealed their routes out of the Plateau and that Shi Yongheng had vanished from the history of the Heavens and Myriad Worlds.

Shi Yongheng paid a devastating price to seal the Eerie Ancestral Land, while the Empress destroyed the Evolving Immortal Dynasty and revisited the past. After twenty thousand years, the Willow Deity gave birth to twins whose immense power briefly drained the worlds of spiritual energy, and Shi Yongheng sealed their cultivation.

• Shi Yongheng told the Willow Deity that sealing the Eerie Ancestral Land had badly damaged his source, while seven Eerie Immortal Emperors had perished.
• The Empress wiped out the Evolving Immortal Dynasty, then broke Emperor Zun's formation over the Kunlun Mountains after seeing the Ruthless Great Emperor's grief in the past.
• The Willow Deity watched the Empress leave without intervening, and eras passed as the Empress became the Ruthless Great Emperor and later the Heavenly Emperor of the Southern Ridge.
• After twenty thousand years of pregnancy, Shi Yongheng froze time across the Heavens and Myriad Worlds as the Willow Deity went into labor, and Shi Hao sensed that the children were coming.
• The twins' cries and breaths drained spiritual energy from the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths and the Immortal Domain until Shi Yongheng made them release it.
• Shi Yongheng discovered that the twins were born as True Immortals and sealed their cultivation before the Willow Deity held them and heard them call her Mama.

Shi Yongheng and the Willow Deity decided to visit another world, leaving their children behind with cultivation opportunities arranged. There, they encountered an injured young white fox and settled in the forest, with the Willow Deity healing and comforting her.

• Shi Yongheng proposed sealing his children’s power into Dao Fruits so they could cultivate from scratch, and the Willow Deity agreed.
• After Shi Xiao threw mud at Shi Liu, Shi Yongheng spanked him and later discussed taking the children to see other worlds with the Willow Deity.
• Shi Yongheng and the Willow Deity traveled to another world as avatars and learned about its gods, clans, and kingdoms.
• The Willow Deity found an injured young white fox in a trap, picked her up, and healed her.
• Shi Yongheng teased the fox, then conjured several houses in the forest so he and the Willow Deity could stay there.

Shi Yongheng and Willow Deity met Qingqiu’s Bai Zhen and Zhe Yan after rescuing the little white fox, Xiao Wu, and later visited Ten-Mile Peach Grove. Their peaceful gathering was interrupted when Bai Qian and others approached them.

• Shi Yongheng cooked a meal, and the little white fox eagerly devoured the food while protesting that he gave her too little.
• Bai Zhen and Zhe Yan arrived to thank Shi Yongheng and Willow Deity for saving Xiao Wu, then took the fox away.
• Zhe Yan later sent Xiao Wu, after she took human form, to Kunlun Ruins to study under Mo Yuan.
• Shi Yongheng and Willow Deity visited Ten-Mile Peach Grove, where Zhe Yan welcomed them and Bai Zhen joined them.
• Bai Qian and others approached and called out to Shi Yongheng and Willow Deity.

After the Celestial Tribe defeated the Winged Clan, Mo Yuan sacrificed himself to seal Qing Cang and the Eastern Emperor Bell. Donghua learned of Mo Yuan’s death and met with the Heaven Lord, who discussed the mysterious origins of Willow Deity and Shi Yongheng.

• Fox Emperor Bai Zhi and Bai Qian’s family thanked Shi Yongheng and Willow Deity for saving Bai Qian and welcomed them as honored guests in Qingqiu.
• Shi Yongheng and Willow Deity secretly observed the war at the Weak Water, where Mo Yuan sealed Qing Cang and the Eastern Emperor Bell with his primordial spirit.
• Star Lord of Fate told Donghua that the Winged Clan had surrendered and Mo Yuan had perished, leaving Donghua visibly shaken.
• The Heaven Lord summoned Donghua to discuss postwar affairs and the identities of Willow Deity and Shi Yongheng.
• The Heaven Lord told Donghua that Willow Deity and Shi Yongheng had appeared more than twenty thousand years earlier, had saved Bai Qian, and claimed to have originated as a willow tree and a human.