Chapter Summaries

Immeasurable Sea Emperor used the Heavenly River Essence Lin Chen had entrusted to him to connect with the Heavenly River and wield its power against Forget Demon Venerable and the Spirit Medium Bride. As the Demon Venerables fled from a projection of Heavenly River Weak Water, Immeasurable Sea Emperor declared that he would end their legends.

• At Wolong Pass, the dying Heavenly River Venerable gave Lin Chen the Heavenly River Origin and revealed that the Heavenly River was a road whose purpose for the Ancient Cultivators remained unknown.
• Before dissipating, Heavenly River Venerable told Lin Chen that the Ancient Cultivators' task had been completed and entrusted the mortal world to him, a traveler from another world.
• Immeasurable Sea Emperor recalled how Lin Chen had entrusted him with the Heavenly River Essence and used it to connect with the Heavenly River.
• Through the connection, Immeasurable Sea Emperor saw the Heavenly River spreading endlessly across the Chaos Sea of Stars and recorded the sight for Lin Chen.
• Immeasurable Sea Emperor summoned a projection of Heavenly River Weak Water into the dreamscape of Forget Demon Venerable and the Spirit Medium Bride.
• Forget Demon Venerable and the Spirit Medium Bride began to retreat, but Immeasurable Sea Emperor confronted them and vowed to end their legends.

The Immeasurable Sea Emperor used the Heavenly River Weak Water and a memetic infection to corner Forget Demon Venerable and the Spirit Medium Bride, while Lin Chen pursued them through their memories. After the two Devil Masters were defeated, Lin Chen appeared at the Death River Cult’s headquarters in Yinji Sea, where he turned his attention to the coming threat of the Dragon Emperor.

• Forget Demon Venerable and the Spirit Medium Bride traveled through the memories of countless beings to escape the Heavenly River Weak Water, but Lin Chen’s presence spread through those memories and infected their relays.
• The Immeasurable Sea Emperor’s memetic influence and the Weak Water drowned the Devil Masters’ scattered divine thoughts, forcing Forget Demon Venerable to cut off his mediums by erasing his connections to the world.
• Forget Demon Venerable realized that erasing every memory of himself could make him forget his own identity, while the Spirit Medium Bride was swallowed by the Weak Water.
• The Immeasurable Sea Emperor closed his eyes as the two Devil Masters nearly emerged before him, and his body, Primordial Spirit, and origin merged into the Weak Water.
• A thread of the Immeasurable Sea Emperor’s essence appeared in Lin Chen’s hand, and Lin Chen arrived at the Death River Cult’s headquarters in Yinji Sea.

Lin Chen entered Yinji Sea and used the Nine Nether Mirror to summon the resentment and dark power accumulated there, beginning the evolution of the Nine Nether. He resolved to protect its transformation and claim its authority so he could advance his Dao Path, while the Immortal Alliance struggled to hold off the Dragon Palace forces at Penglai Island.

• Lin Chen arrived above Yinji Sea and used the Nine Nether Mirror to resonate with its blood sea, then paused after receiving news that the Immortal Alliance cultivators were nearly defeated by the Dragon Palace demons.
• Lin Chen entered Yinji Sea, concealed his aura among the dead, and assessed the dangers of its blood sea and Spirit Transmutation Demonic Creatures.
• Lin Chen used his Bronze Mirror to synchronize with the main mirror beneath Penglai Island and summon the accumulated resentment of the dead.
• The sea of blood and the Ghost Ship’s dark forces poured into the mirror, opening the evolution of the Nine Nether.
• Lin Chen committed to protecting the Nine Nether’s evolution until he could claim its authority and use its power to prove himself a Heavenly Lord.

The Dragon Emperor chose to drive its army toward Penglai Island despite the Calamity Demonic Qi spreading through the Sleeping Dragon Spirit Vein, while Grandmaster Taixuan and the Heavenly Demon confronted each other over the crisis. As Lin Chen investigated the transformed Death River Cult headquarters, he discovered that Lin Tianhang had become a Blood Sea Asura and greeted him as his cousin.

• The Dragon Emperor sensed Calamity Demonic Qi corrupting the Yinji Sea but ordered its sea beasts to burn their bloodlines and attack Penglai Island at full speed.
• After the Ten Directions Spirit-Sealing Heaven and Earth Formation dissipated, the Twelve Heavens Divine Fiend Great Formation appeared among Penglai Island's ruins.
• Grandmaster Taixuan sent reinforcements toward the East Sea, then faced the Heavenly Demon, who delayed him while other powerful figures were occupied.
• Lin Chen drove back a Heavenly Ghost while guarding the Bronze Mirror, and the Ghost Ship's Ancient Remains began evolving into the Nine Nether.
• Lin Chen entered the Death River Cult's transformed headquarters and found a Blood Sea dominated by a Demon Mountain and a Blood Sea Asura.
• The Asura revealed himself as Lin Tianhang and warmly greeted Lin Chen as his cousin after a hundred years apart.

Lin Chen’s divine-sense incarnation was trapped in the Nine Nether Blood Sea and destroyed after Lin Tianhang and demonic forces attacked it. Lin Chen confronted Lin Tianhang, rejected his plan to end cultivation and remake the world, and drew his sword as their conflict began.

• Lin Chen’s divine-sense incarnation tried to flee with the Five Elements Great Escape, but the Formless Inner Demon and the blood sea’s resentful souls overwhelmed it, and a Blood Demon swallowed it.
• Lin Chen’s hidden sword strike destroyed several demonic beasts, but an unknown intervention erased the strike’s power and prevented his Split Spirit from sending back information.
• Lin Tianhang appeared before Lin Chen, who tore the Formless Inner Demon from his mind and recognized that his cousin had used it to distract him.
• Lin Tianhang explained that he wanted to turn all living beings into Blood Demons and bring about the Age of Dharma’s End, so mortals could eventually build a world without cultivator oppression.
• Lin Chen rejected Lin Tianhang’s vision, believing a world without spiritual energy would collapse before its civilization could advance, and drew his sword.

Lin Chen and Lin Tianhang fought across the Boundless Blood Sea, where Lin Tianhang used its corruption and vast reserves to overwhelm Lin Chen and unleash the Asura Killing Sword. Lin Chen’s Split Spirits intervened, but Lin Tianhang regenerated and summoned Blood God Sons as Demon Mountain Space began descending into the world.

• Lin Chen used Within Reach, Yet Miles Away to separate himself from the Boundless Blood Sea while confronting Lin Tianhang.
• Lin Tianhang drew on the sea’s energy and corruption to isolate Lin Chen, then attacked with the Asura Killing Sword.
• Sun Boy and Sword Venerable Gengjin struck Lin Tianhang with a combined attack that shattered his body and demonic soul.
• Lin Tianhang regenerated from the Blood Sea, and Daoist Yimu identified his power as the Asura secret of Sea of Blood Undying.
• Lin Tianhang summoned numerous Blood God Sons as Demon Mountain Space began arriving from an Alternate Dimension.

Lin Chen realized that heaven and earth intended to use his repeated deaths in the Yinji Blood Sea to restore reincarnation, but he chose to resist by sending his Split Spirits to Black Mist Continent while he held back Lin Tianhang. Demon Mountain Space returned, and Lin Tianhang’s Asura forces began attacking the cultivators with a soul-afflicting chant.

• Demon Mountain Space began returning to the Yinji Blood Sea, and True Lord Xuanhuang explained that heaven and earth sought to restore reincarnation through Lin Chen’s creation Dao and repeated rebirths.
• Lin Chen concluded that heaven and earth wanted him to become the core of reincarnation and recognized that fleeing would leave his Bronze Mirror and Nine Nether Prototype to Lin Tianhang.
• Lin Chen ordered Daoist Yimu, True Lord Xuanhuang, Taiyin Girl, and the other Split Spirits to go to Black Mist Continent while he and several others held back the Asura.
• The Split Spirits escaped through a tear in the blood sea as Demon Mountain Space fully returned and became a vast Demon Nest filled with powerful Demonic Beasts.
• Lin Tianhang produced countless Blood Demon copies, which chanted an Asura secret technique that forced the cultivators to experience the suffering of countless lives.

Lin Chen fought Lin Tianhang in Demon Mountain Space, turning the Netherworld Blood Sea’s cursed spirits into allies before striking at Lin Tianhang with a sword that threatened his true spirit. Lin Tianhang answered by transforming the sea’s vitality into death qi, leaving both fighters trapped in a living-beings forbidden zone.

• Lin Tianhang used Sea of Suffering Sinking to flood Lin Chen’s mind and body with the grievances of countless dead, triggering the Five Decays of Heaven and Man.
• Lin Chen used his Dao and the Soul-Ferrying Spirit-Transforming Cosmic Divine Incantation to ferry the ghosts, convert them into cosmic spirits, and evaporate part of the blood sea with the Great Sun.
• Lin Chen summoned ten Golden Crows and attacked as Lin Tianhang rallied the Blood God Sons and plunged them into the abyssal blood sea.
• Lin Chen struck with a sword aimed at Lin Tianhang’s true spirit, forcing him to sacrifice layers of Blood Lotuses and a large portion of the sea.
• Lin Tianhang reversed the blood sea’s vitality into death qi and unleashed Sea of Blood Asura Annihilation, turning Demon Mountain Space into the Immortal God Absolute Land.

The Corpse Release cultivators of the Black Mist Continent performed a grand sacrifice, allowing True Lord Xuanhuang, Daoist Yimu, and Taiyin Girl to refine the continent and prepare to raise it. Despite a deadly curse striking the Split Spirits, Daoist Yimu continued the plan, sending Black Mist Continent toward Penglai as the Dragon Emperor burned his True Dragon Bloodline to attack the island.

• Nearly a million people on the Black Mist Continent prayed in a grand sacrifice, connecting their continent to the power of the Order Dao Domain.
• True Lord Xuanhuang, Daoist Yimu, and Taiyin Girl refined Black Mist Continent, but a wave of terrifying death qi killed them and left only their origin spiritual lights.
• Daoist Yimu chose to continue the plan, and the Split Spirits raised Black Mist Continent into the sky and sent it toward Penglai.
• The Dragon Emperor's forces attacked Penglai, but the Twelve Si Sui and the Twelve Heavens Divine Fiend Great Formation blocked their advance.
• The Dragon Emperor burned his True Dragon Bloodline to call upon the Sleeping Dragon Spirit Vein, while the Divine Firmament Dao Master and the other Spirit Transformation Venerables relied on the Year Wardens to defend Penglai.

The Dragon Emperor awakened the power of an ancient True Dragon and descended upon Penglai after the Twelve Si Sui’s intervention erased the island’s defenses. Meanwhile, Lin Chen escaped the death zone Lin Tianhang created in Yinji Sea, and Lin Tianhang invited him to join his plan to reshape the world; Lin Chen said he could not.

• The Dragon Emperor burned its True Dragon Bloodline, unleashed an annihilating black hole toward Penglai, and briefly manifested as an ancient Dragon God.
• The Twelve Si Sui’s bell turned back the destruction and erased the Dragon God’s ancient influence, but the intervention also removed Penglai Island’s final defenses.
• The Dragon Emperor declared the East Sea its domain and descended upon Penglai while Celestial Venerable Canghai remained missing.
• In Yinji Sea, Lin Chen emerged from the Death Land Lin Tianhang had created by transforming the Sea of Blood, despite the Death Qi suppressing all motion and thought.
• Lin Tianhang explained how he used Yinji Sea and Demon Mountain Space to contend through accumulated energy and invited Lin Chen to follow the Heaven-Reaching Great Dao; Lin Chen replied that he was unable.

Lin Tianhang tried to consume Lin Chen’s true-spirit memories and ascend as a Heavenly Lord, while Lin Chen was reduced to a sealed remnant. Lin Chen revealed that he had prepared a countermeasure: a great meteorite was descending upon the world.

• Lin Chen explained that his body and Primordial Spirit had been destroyed, forcing him to reincarnate as a Blood Demon of the Sea of Blood.
• Lin Tianhang questioned Lin Chen’s opposition to his plan, then admitted he intended to copy Lin Chen’s memories and replace him with another version of him.
• Lin Tianhang devoured Lin Chen’s insights into spiritual energy, combined righteous and demonic powers, and began ascending toward the Heavenly Lord realm.
• Lin Tianhang sealed Lin Chen’s final remnant of true spirit, but Lin Chen recalled a historical underdog victory and invoked the Method of Heavenly Justice.
• Lin Chen revealed that a comet was descending upon the world and called it the Great Meteorite Technique.

Lin Chen turned his Great Meteorite Technique against the Sleeping Dragon Spirit Vein, while the Dragon Emperor destroyed Penglai Island and seized the key to the Dragon Source. As the Dragon Emperor raced to claim the source, Old Monster Meng Die and the Divine Firmament Dao Master sacrificed themselves to delay it, and the Black Mist Continent collided with the Dragon Source.

• Lin Tianhang raised the Boundless Blood Sea’s defenses, but Lin Chen revealed that his Great Meteorite Technique targeted the Sleeping Dragon Spirit Vein rather than Yinji Sea.
• The Dragon Palace’s Sea Beast Army attacked Penglai Island, and the Dragon Emperor broke its grand formation, devoured the Five Elements Daoist, and destroyed the island.
• The Dragon Emperor unsealed the Yin Yang Eight Trigrams Diagram beneath Penglai, while the Divine Firmament Dao Master and the survivors confronted it aboard the Cosmic Starship.
• A comet appeared over Yangji Island as the Dragon Source emerged, and the Dragon Emperor abandoned its attack on the Cosmic Starship to pursue it.
• Old Monster Meng Die used a dream technique to distract the Dragon Emperor, and the Divine Firmament Dao Master rammed it with the Cosmic Starship, sacrificing himself.
• The Black Mist Continent crashed into the Dragon Source while the Dragon Emperor was delayed.

Celestial Venerable Canghai and Drought Demon’s confrontation was interrupted when a meteor struck Penglai Island, setting off explosions that destroyed the Sleeping Dragon Spirit Vein’s balance. As Yinji Sea collapsed into a devouring vortex and the returned Demon Mountain Space collided with it, the East Sea’s foundation gave way, and the sea began surging toward the sky.

• Celestial Venerable Canghai recognized that Drought Demon had sent an incarnation and tried to persuade him to withdraw, but Drought Demon refused to let him leave.
• A blazing meteor struck Penglai Island, producing an enormous explosion that Celestial Venerable Canghai identified as a Planetary Devastation.
• A second explosion shook the seabed and caused spirit veins throughout the East Sea to resonate and begin collapsing.
• Celestial Venerable Canghai and Drought Demon discovered that the Sleeping Dragon Spirit Vein’s Yin Yang Nodes were merging, though Drought Demon said their plan had not targeted the spirit vein.
• The destruction of Yangji Island triggered Yinji Sea’s turbid energy to erupt and form a devouring vortex, which collided with the returned Demon Mountain Space.
• The East Sea’s High Order Spirit Vein suffered a catastrophic Yin Yang imbalance, and the sea began rising toward the heavenly vault.

Liang San witnessed the sea rise into a world-spanning tidal wave after the Sleeping Dragon Spirit Vein exploded, threatening to drown the Central Lands and trigger the collapse of Heaven and Earth. The Heavenly Lords gathered to decide how to stop the catastrophe and recognized the Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation as their only viable solution.

• Liang San watched an earthquake strike the coast as the sea rose into an immense wall of water.
• The Sleeping Dragon Spirit Vein's explosion triggered linked disasters across the seas, forming a World Destruction Tidal Wave that threatened the Central Lands.
• Grandmaster Taixuan gathered with Celestial Maiden Yue Ling, Hunyuan Dao Master, Drought Demon, Mountain Lord, Celestial Venerable Canghai, and the Dragon Emperor as the Heavenly Lords confronted the crisis.
• Hunyuan Dao Master and Mountain Lord blamed the Dragon Emperor for the destruction of the East Sea, while Celestial Maiden Yue Ling urged the group to focus on stopping the tidal wave.
• Heavenly Demon argued that neither suppressing the wave by force nor letting it run its course was viable, and the Heavenly Lords identified the Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation as the solution.

Grandmaster Taixuan and the Heavenly Lords activated the Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation to reverse the World Destruction Tidal Wave, despite the danger of weakening the seals on ancient horrors. The flood receded and the dead returned, but Return to Ruins and the corpses of ancient powers began to stir, ushering in the Eternal Demon Tribulation.

• Celestial Maiden Yue Ling warned that activating the formation could disrupt its seals and expose the world to ancient gods, Outer Realm Evil Gods, and other horrors, but Heavenly Demon and Drought Demon pressured her by invoking the billions of lives at risk.
• Grandmaster Taixuan ordered the Demon and Monster Path leaders to contain the consequences, then summoned Taiyi, the formation spirit, with a five-colored stone.
• Taiyi warned that the World Disaster response could cause flaws or mutations, and Grandmaster Taixuan confirmed the activation of Spacetime Reversal despite an unknown variable.
• The World Destruction Tidal Wave receded across the Central Continent, and the dead miraculously returned as time appeared to reverse.
• As people celebrated, cracks opened in the Earth Abyss and ancient horrors in Return to Ruins and the Nine Heavens began to rise and mutate.

A world-scale Particle Return reversed the catastrophe and revived most of the dead, but it could not restore the Yin Yang Poles because foreign energies fell outside the great formation’s records. The Heavenly Lords ordered the poles detached from the world, while a hidden survivor reached for the Nine Nether Mirror and was stopped by a crimson hand.

• Liang San survived the receding World Destruction Tidal Wave, then saw Mother Wusheng’s apparition spread her teachings and lure mortals and cultivators toward her path.
• The Heavenly Lords learned that sealed Ancient Remains had exploited the seal’s brief breach to spread their influence, descend through reincarnation, and introduce foreign cultivation paths.
• The Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation reversed events and revived the drowned and slain, but the Dragon Source and Yinji Sea remained chaotic because their foreign energies could not be traced by Particle Return.
• Grandmaster Taixuan and the other Heavenly Lords commanded the Yin Yang Poles of the Sleeping Dragon Spirit Vein to detach from the world, while Heavenly River Venerable, the spirit-medium bride, and Forget Demon Venerable remained dead.
• A shadow reached for the Nine Nether Mirror in the ruined Yinji Sea, but an unseen crimson Blood Hand pressed it down.

Lin Chen destroyed the illusory Nine Nether Scenery, and the resulting Yin-Yang world absorbed power and relics from across Chaos before vanishing. It emerged as a seemingly real modern Earth, where humanity faced a countdown to global nuclear war.

• Lin Tianhang used the Idealistic Illusion Dao to try to make Lin Chen disappear, but Lin Chen chose to gamble his life and ordered the Nine Nether Scenery to self-destruct.
• The Nine Nether Scenery and the Dragon Source exploded together, forming a Yin-Yang Taiji Diagram that began creating a new world.
• Sealed beings in Western Vast Heaven, the true Twelve Si Sui, the Heavenly Demon, Drought Demon, and the Dragon Emperor sent power or relics into the evolving world.
• Moon Soil broke away from the moon and entered the new world, which was then enveloped by an illusory ship and disappeared from Drought Demon's grasp.
• The new world was revealed as a modern Earth where four great nations were preparing for nuclear war, with one hour, thirty-seven minutes, and twenty-five seconds remaining before its formal declaration.

Ambassador Zhang summoned representatives of North Russia and Western Europe to reveal a crisis that might unite humanity against nuclear war: the universe’s Fine-Structure Constant was fluctuating toward zero. He left them facing the possibility that their universe was returning to zero.

• North Russia’s Minister Inov entered the conference room and behaved crudely toward Daisyka, while Aaron of Western Europe urged them to show restraint.
• Daisyka and Aaron questioned why East Hua had convened the meeting, and Ambassador Zhang said an external crisis might end humanity’s war.
• Ambassador Zhang asked the representatives whether they had heard of the Fine-Structure Constant, prompting their concealed think tanks to explain its importance.
• Ambassador Zhang announced that East Hua’s repeated measurements showed the Fine-Structure Constant was fluctuating toward zero.
• Ambassador Zhang warned that the universe, after approximately 13.77 billion years, was returning to zero.

Ambassador Zhang revealed that the Fine-Structure Constant was falling toward zero, threatening the universe, and argued that humanity might survive through cooperation with civilizations from overlapping universes. The three nations ended their countdown to nuclear war, founded the Human Civilization Federation, and seven years later the world's Creator awoke.

• Ambassador Zhang told the three nations' representatives that the Fine-Structure Constant was changing and that humanity had no current means to stop the resulting universal destruction.
• Inov asked whether nuclear weapons or military forces could solve the crisis, and Ambassador Zhang said humanity would need at least Type III civilization capabilities to alter physical laws.
• Daisyka and Aaron questioned whether cooperation with parallel-universe civilizations could help, while Ambassador Zhang argued that contact might offer a chance to find a way through the coming Universe Reset.
• Ambassador Zhang warned that humanity had to unite and avoid global nuclear war, then raised the possibility that the crisis could lead to a breakthrough in longevity and Eternal Life.
• Seven days later, the Human Civilization Federation was formally established and began its New Era.
• On June 12th of Year Seven of the Federation New Era, the Creator of this world awoke from a long slumber.

At Tianhai University, Lin Chen suffered an escalating headache tied to recurring dreams of a cultivation life and grew uneasy about signs of hidden preparations across the Federation. The pain overwhelmed him, his memories of that life flooded back, and the Mystery of the Womb lasting twenty-one years finally broke.

• Lin Chen discussed his recurring cultivation dreams and headache with his childhood friend Su Mu in the biology laboratory.
• Lin Chen left the laboratory as his headache worsened and noticed unusually rapid plant growth and persistent summerlike weather.
• Lin Chen connected scattered clues—including military-guarded construction, satellite launch zones, and missing nuclear-physics classmates—to a looming crisis in Tianhai City.
• Lin Chen returned to his dormitory, where his headache surged beyond anything he had experienced before.
• Lin Chen lost consciousness and saw memories from a cultivation life flash before him, then began to awaken as the Mystery of the Womb broke.