Arc 26Return to Lingyang

Shi Lan survived the Twilight of the Gods and returned to find Lingyang engulfed in conflict, then forged alliances and advanced her martial path while preparing the Tianyan Sect for the coming calamity. The story left her establishing a new base in the Liuguang Realm as the Boundless Sea consumed territory and she sought to strengthen her weapon.

  • Shi Lan fought the outsiders in the Godforsaken Land, but the Ancestral God rewound time after the Divine Court’s defeat, leaving the Rubik's Cube system to declare the world projection lost.
  • Shi Lan returned to the Divine Martial Otherworld, met Rong Xuanqing, and gave Qing Lan a World-Breaking Seal before heading back to Lingyang to protect her family.
  • Shi Lan found Lingyang in turmoil after Emperor Taishi’s fall and reunited with her family, but many of them refused to leave the war-torn realm.
  • Shi Lan cultivated in the Glazed Light Realm, derived a new martial path, and overcame its Heavenly Dao before joining Lingyun to discuss preparing Lingyang as a refuge.
  • Meng revealed that the World Source Crystal had shattered and invited Shi Lan to help prepare Lingyang, while she concealed the location of one fragment and agreed to lead Spirit Martial Hall disciples there.
  • Shi Lan brought Bai Yu to the Qiong Luo Realm to help him reach the Supreme Realm, then moved the Tianyan Sect’s main forces there after he absorbed too much source power.
  • Shi Lan established the Tianyan Sect in the Liuguang Realm and began forging the Crimson Crow War Halberd into an Imperial Weapon, deciding to strengthen it with saint-spirit blood.
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Ch. 633The Godforsaken Land

Shi Lan advanced to Primary God and used her time in the Divine Court to rebuild and refine her martial path, while struggling to find a way to control her Primordial Spirit’s flames. Yao Po sent her to subdue the Godforsaken Land, where a powerful enemy ambushed her contingent.

  • Yao Po named Shi Lan the Tai Xu Primary God and granted her offerings from two hundred and eighty million deities.
  • Shi Lan stayed in the Divine Court to strengthen her Dao Fruit and deduce a new martial path, repeatedly testing methods to reduce the harm martial combat caused her body.
  • Yao Po ordered the Divine Court’s forces to cleanse the cosmos, and Shi Lan set out hoping to find people from the Rubik's Cube who could help suppress her Primordial Spirit’s flames.
  • Yao Po assigned Shi Lan three newly advanced Primary Gods and nearly a hundred High Gods to campaign in the Godforsaken Land.
  • The group entered the Godforsaken Land and crushed waves of fanatical believers as Shi Lan watched for a powerful enemy.
  • A gray curtain covered the sky, and a colossal silver hand reached from the void toward Shi Lan.

Ch. 634Flames

Shi Lan fought Lin Dou, a Rebel God Chief God, and wounded him with the World-Burying Bow before the invading gods withdrew. She discovered a fragment of Lin Dou’s battle flag could keep her Primordial Spirit flame from harming her, but burning it made the flame grow stronger.

  • Shi Lan shattered Lin Dou’s divine curtain and attacked him with her spear, but his battle flag absorbed her power of prayer.
  • Shi Lan fired a golden arrow from the World-Burying Bow, tearing Lin Dou’s battle flag and gravely wounding his divine body; he withdrew.
  • The Rebel Gods retreated, and the Divine Court’s deities imprisoned the believers while Shi Lan claimed the torn battle flag.
  • Shi Lan used Lin Dou’s true name and essence blood to activate the Demon-Slaying Order, but it failed to find his source and destroyed only nearly a thousand of his golden bodies.
  • Shi Lan placed a fragment of the battle flag in her Primordial Spirit flame and found that it stopped harming her, but the flame consumed the fragment and grew fiercer.

Ch. 635The Heavenly Court

Shi Lan continued conquering the region abandoned by the gods while collecting rare treasures, as Lingdou’s rebel gods debated whether to resist the Divine Court and sought a path out of the world through the Heavenly Court. When Yao Po warned that powerful beings from beyond the domain had arrived, Shi Lan returned to the Divine Court after taking Lingdou’s silver lamp, leaving him furious when he realized she had never known what the Heavenly Court was.

  • Shi Lan used the Primordial Spirit’s fire to consume a fragment of the battle banner and examined its divine blood crystal for body tempering.
  • Shi Lan and the Divine Court’s forces subdued dozens of divine kingdoms, while she traded her share of captured believers for tribute and rare treasures.
  • Lingdou told the rebel gods that Taixu had become a principal god unusually quickly and suspected her bow came from the Heavenly Court; he decided to withdraw his forces and meet her alone.
  • Lingdou confronted Shi Lan and offered to hand over the region if she could contact the Heavenly Court, while Shi Lan demanded treasures in exchange.
  • Yao Po warned Shi Lan that terrifying beings who had sealed the world had arrived early, so Shi Lan took Lingdou’s silver lamp and ordered the deities back to the Divine Court.
  • Shi Lan asked Lingdou what the Heavenly Court was before stepping through the domain gate, and Lingdou realized she had deceived him and roared in fury.

Ch. 636The Divine

Lin Dou rejected Xu Cheng’s offer to help him obtain the Ancestral God’s remains, but outsiders arrived ahead of schedule, forcing the gods to prepare for a battle they expected to lose. The chapter ended with the Divine Court and the rebel gods resolving to fight and preserve their faith until death.

  • Lin Dou mourned the loss of his silver lamp and refused Xu Cheng’s proposal unless Xu Cheng brought him Taixu’s divine jade.
  • Nearly a hundred warships entered the world, startling Xu Cheng and prompting Lin Dou to return to his divine palace.
  • Lan Xiao ordered the rebel gods to cease hostilities with the Divine Court and declared that the outsiders intended to slaughter every living being.
  • Yao Po told the Divine Court’s deities that the coming battle was unwinnable and asked those willing to die to step forward.
  • Every deity stepped forward, and the gods recalled the Ancestral God’s decree that faith would endure beyond their deaths.

Ch. 637Battle Begins

As the Twilight of the Gods began, Yaopo mobilized the Divine Court and led an attack on the outsiders’ warships. Shi Lan killed a martial Supreme with Burial Realm, but the battle widened as more enemies arrived and a familiar figure in silver robes appeared among the rebels.

  • Yaopo told Shi Lan that her arrow may have alerted the outsiders and accelerated their invasion, then warned her that Burial Realm could draw their attacks.
  • The outsiders erased the memories of selected followers, seized the world’s resources, and left the deities alone.
  • Yaopo led ten High Gods in a surprise assault on nearly a hundred warships, where Dongyou of the Heavenly Firmament Palace confronted them.
  • Shi Lan used Burial Realm and the azure spear as an arrow to kill a golden-armored martial Supreme, prompting four Supremes to surround her.
  • Yaopo sent fallen deities to intercept returning Supremes, while rebels from the Godforsaken Land attacked the warships and nearly half charged at Shi Lan.
  • Shi Lan recognized a silver-robed rebel among the attackers.

Ch. 638Killing Intent

Shi Lan and Lin Dou fought off the Supreme Venerables until a Martial Dao Supreme Venerable seized Shi Lan’s spear and nearly killed her. Shi Lan summoned immense immortal power, which shattered the black sword suppressing the realm, and the enemy called for the Alliance’s Supreme Elder.

  • Lin Dou and several Heretic Gods intervened to help Shi Lan fight the Supreme Venerables, and Shi Lan killed one with an arrow.
  • A burly Martial Dao Supreme Venerable seized Shi Lan’s azure spear and hurled it at her, but three Main Gods’ incarnations shielded her.
  • Lin Dou warned Shi Lan to run as the burly Supreme Venerable threatened her, and Shi Lan summoned the Immortal Summoning Art.
  • Immortal power raised Shi Lan to the realm of a peerless Supreme Venerable, and two immortal fingers crushed the black sword suppressing the great realm.
  • Yao Po killed the old man fighting him while he was distracted, and the Martial Dao Supreme Venerable demanded that the Alliance send its Supreme Elder.

Ch. 639Yellow Springs

Shi Lan tried to master an immortal summoning art while the Heavenly Dao Alliance’s Supremes fought the Divine Court and rebel gods. Just as the Martial Dao Supreme attacked her, a powerful being emerged from the Yellow Springs and claimed he would take the Supreme’s body.

  • The Martial Dao Supreme shattered the passage through which an unknown immortal power had reached Shi Lan, and the Heavenly Dao Alliance sent for its Supreme Elder.
  • Two hidden black-clad observers discussed how the changing events differed from the Cube’s plotline and planned to seize the Divine Court gods’ remains by sacrificing a chief god’s Dao Fruit.
  • Shi Lan absorbed the last immortal power in her body, while the rebel gods broke through the Alliance’s defenses and the Martial Dao Supreme struck her apart; she re-formed her body and studied the Summon Spirits art.
  • Yao Po intercepted the Martial Dao Supreme, but the Alliance’s Supremes used a treasure pearl to suppress the chief gods and strengthen their own forces.
  • Shi Lan opened a passage to the Yellow Springs as she tried to summon reinforcements, and the Martial Dao Supreme attacked her before a towering figure blocked his strike with a golden arm bone.
  • The figure emerged from the passage, transformed the surrounding land into netherworld soil, and told the Martial Dao Supreme he would take his body.

Ch. 640Ancient History

Shi Lan and the gods survived the battle against the extraterritorial forces only for the realm’s revived Heavenly Dao to slaughter every invader. With the world sealed and reinforcements arriving, Yaopo explained the ancient history of the Heavenly Court to Shi Lan.

  • Yaopo attacked the warship while Shi Lan used her Bathing Radiance immortal art to aid the main gods, and the Demon Cube Supremes discovered they could no longer contact the Demon Cube.
  • Blood rain revived the realm, its barriers healed, and the Heavenly Dao manifested a heavenly saber that killed the extraterritorial invaders, including the Martial Dao Supreme.
  • Shi Lan gathered the Supremes’ remains and artifact fragments, returned Lindou’s silver lamp, and discussed the sealed realm with Yaopo and Lanxiao.
  • Yaopo recounted how the Heavenly Court once ruled over immortals and maintained ties with the incense-fire lineage before contact with the realm was forbidden.
  • A radiant figure appeared above the firmament as the extraterritorial reinforcements arrived.

Ch. 641Space and Time

Shi Lan and the gods attempted to escape the Divine Martial Great World by following Yao Po, who drew on the faith of billions to challenge the Ancestral God, but the Ancestral God destroyed them. Ling Yun intervened, prompting the figure to rewind time and restore the gods and their world before the Rubik's Cube system reported the instance wiped out and sent Xuan Qing to investigate.

  • Shi Lan sensed the Ancestral God's overwhelming pressure, while Yao Po and Lan Xiao realized they had lost their chance to resist.
  • Yao Po summoned the Ancestral God's power through the faith of the Divine Court, and Lan Xiao joined him as the gods and billions of believers gathered into a fortress to flee.
  • Shi Lan and Xu Cheng's group followed the gods toward the starry expanse, but the Ancestral God struck them down and Shi Lan lost consciousness as her Dao fruit crumbled.
  • Ling Yun confronted the Ancestral God, who excused his intervention and rewound time, restoring the gods and the world to the moment before the passage of immortal power appeared.
  • The Rubik's Cube system declared the Twilight of the Gods instance a total loss, detected space-time turbulence, and ordered Xuan Qing to investigate.

Ch. 642Fragments of Memory

Shi Lan woke in the Divine Martial Otherworld with a greatly strengthened body and discovered the golden arm bone held fragments of its former owner’s memories. After witnessing an ancient betrayal and battle involving the Heavenly Court, she opened her eyes to find Rong Xuanqing standing before her.

  • Shi Lan regained consciousness in the Divine Martial Otherworld and found that her body had been refined, while the golden arm bone had appeared in her sea of consciousness.
  • Shi Lan fed the golden arm bone to the fire of her Primordial Spirit, activating its laws and revealing ancient memory fragments.
  • Shi Lan witnessed deities discuss betraying the Heavenly Court, followed by a brutal battle in which the main gods turned against the Immortal Dao.
  • Shi Lan recognized a True Immortal in the battle who looked like the young man who had helped her escape the Buddhist sect and was connected to the Heavenly Azure Spirit Mystery Scripture.
  • Shi Lan’s vision ended, and she opened her eyes to find Rong Xuanqing standing only a few feet away.

Ch. 643Reunion

Shi Lan encountered Rong Xuanqing in the Divine Martial Otherworld, received a way out and a means to contact him, then reunited with Qing Lan. Shi Lan left the otherworld while Qing Lan chose to remain and continue exploring.

  • Shi Lan recognized Rong Xuanqing and declined his invitation to enter a land of great fortune; he gave her two World-Breaking Seals and a blood crystal, and warned her to keep their meeting secret.
  • Rong Xuanqing returned to the Rubik's Cube space and told the beings in its pillars that a space-time turbulence had destroyed the world projection; they released source power into the otherworld and went back to sleep.
  • Shi Lan crossed dozens of star systems to reach Qing Lan, who had spent about twelve hundred years in a desolate world and had nearly attained the Dao.
  • Shi Lan gave Qing Lan a World-Breaking Seal and asked her to return the Feather-Defying Heavenly Wheel to the Silver Feather Dynasty; Qing Lan gave Shi Lan a golden arrow taken from an immortal corpse.
  • Shi Lan asked Qing Lan to watch for Ying Qianqiu, said she would return to Lingyang, and used the World-Breaking Seal to leave the Divine Martial Otherworld while Qing Lan returned to the desolate world.

Ch. 644Decision

Shi Lan left the Divine Martial Otherworld and headed back toward the Lingyang Realm, while promising to help Samsara regain its body and confront its headquarters. After nearly ten years away, she returned to the Tianyan Sect and found it flourishing, then entered its secret realm to reunite with its people.

  • Shi Lan restored her connection to the Qiong Luo Realm and decided to return to the Lingyang Realm to protect her family and loved ones.
  • Samsara asked Shi Lan to give it a body, and Shi Lan promised to help it recover and eventually attack its headquarters.
  • Shi Lan reached the Divine Martial Great World, learned that nearly ten years had passed, and heard that many prodigies who entered the Divine Martial Otherworld had died.
  • Shi Lan returned to the Tianyan Sect and found it stronger, with many young disciples beginning their cultivation.
  • Shi Lan met Bai Yu in the secret realm, then saw Tian Bai and Bian Qin cultivating beside the jade pool.
  • Tian Bai caught Shi Lan's familiar scent and abruptly opened his eyes.

Ch. 645Conflict

Shi Lan checked on her disciples and the Asura clan, then prepared to leave the Divine Martial Great World for Lingyang. News of Lingyun’s attack on the Buddhist sect spread as Shi Lan traveled, and the Buddhist sect’s response remained unclear.

  • Shi Lan praised Bian Qin’s cultivation progress and learned that Tian Bai had read only forty-two of the five thousand scriptures Su Yangbing gave her.
  • Shi Lan visited the Asura clan, passed on an improved Embryonic Breathing Art, and saw that several youths were nearing the eighth rank.
  • Shi Lan asked Li Canglan whether he still wanted revenge on the Zheng family, but he declined her offer to handle them and did not reconsider before she left.
  • Shi Lan entrusted Cang Yue and the other great demons with matters in the Heavenly Fire Immortal Dynasty, left a communication talisman for Bai Yu, and set out for the Heavenly Fortune Dynasty.
  • After a Spirit Martial Hall disciple reported a Buddhist ambush against Shi Lan, Lingyun attacked the Buddhist sacred mountain and killed six Arhat-level peak experts; the Buddhist sect’s response was intriguing.

Ch. 646Lingyang

Shi Lan returned to Lingyang to check on the Tianyan Sect and discovered that the realm was engulfed in a major war between the Human Race and the Demon Race. She found Zhu Xiyang on Yunyan Star and asked what had happened and where the Emperor was.

  • The Lingwu Hall issued a decree threatening to bar the Buddhist sect from its dynasties if Shi Lan fell in a foreign realm.
  • Shi Lan traveled to the Heavenly Fortune Dynasty and reopened the space-time passage to Lingyang Star Domain.
  • Shi Lan emerged near Taiyin Star and found Lingyang Realm eerily quiet, with bloody skies and an empty starfield.
  • Shi Lan descended into Chengtian Domain and saw the Human Race and Demon Race facing off with Imperial Armaments and supreme treasures deployed.
  • Shi Lan avoided the battlefield, entered the Illusory Star Domain, and returned safely to Yunyan Star.
  • Shi Lan met Zhu Xiyang at the Tianyan Sect and asked why war had broken out and where the Emperor was.

Ch. 647Choice

Shi Lan returned to Chengtian Domain after learning that Emperor Taishi had died and sought Chu Hanzhou’s help with her quest. Chu Hanzhou agreed to honor his promise to make her leader of the Xuan King lineage, but revealed that the human race’s historical records had already accepted Ling Chu as their master.

  • Zhu Xiyang told Shi Lan that Emperor Taishi had fallen after Heavenly Punishment appeared in the Illusory Star Domain and blood rain followed.
  • Shi Lan learned that Liu Yunzheng held the human race’s historical records while Emperor Wuxu secretly guarded Shenzhou, and that the Devil Race had contacted the human race while harassing the Boundless Demon Domain.
  • Shi Lan entered Chengtian Domain and went to the historical records to find Chu Hanzhou’s help with her long-term system quest.
  • Chu Hanzhou offered to notify Shi Lan’s relatives and help her take them back to Lingyang, while reassuring her that protecting her family was understandable.
  • Shi Lan asked whether Chu Hanzhou still intended to make her leader of the Xuan King lineage, and he agreed but explained that Ling Chu had already gained the historical records’ acknowledgment.

Ch. 648Ambition

Shi Lan completed her long-term quest and received two Ultimate Draw chances and the Heavenly Dao authority of the Liuguang Realm, while her system assigned her an ambition to conquer the Great Universe and destroy the Samsara Hall. After reuniting with Wuxu, she revealed her astonishing progress toward the Emperor Extreme Realm before leaving with Chu Hanzhou, while Wuxu agreed to wait a hundred years for Liu Yunzheng.

  • Shi Lan received her quest rewards and a new main quest to level the Samsara Hall and slay the Samsara Lord God, but dismissed it as unrealistic.
  • Chu Hanzhou opened a domain gate to take Shi Lan to find her family, and Wuxu emerged from the void to reunite with her.
  • Shi Lan told Wuxu that she had completed the Dao-Slaying Realm and needed only to refine her domain further, astonishing Wuxu, Liu Yunzheng, and Chu Hanzhou.
  • Shi Lan and Chu Hanzhou left through the domain gate as the battle in the Chengtian Domain continued.
  • Wuxu told Liu Yunzheng he could wait at most a hundred years, and Liu Yunzheng thanked him for his help.

Ch. 649Fair Weather and Rain

Shi Lan returned to Lingyang to offer her family and friends a way out, but they chose to remain and defend their people. After learning that Lingyang’s upheaval involved forces beyond the world, she left for the Glazed Light Realm, where she found clues linking the realm to her system and prepared to cultivate.

  • Shi Lan reunited with Shi Qinghu, Huangfu Xing, and Shi Lin, but Shi Qinghu refused to leave the battlefield and asked her to take his wife and son instead.
  • Shi Tianlu and Su Lanyue also refused to leave Lingyang, explaining that they did not want to become burdens on Shi Lan’s path.
  • Chu Hanzhou told Shi Lan that the Human Race was fighting to defend its future territory and that outside powers might seize control of Lingyang’s Heavenly Dao.
  • Shi Yiming revealed that he had traded Shi Lan’s Sage scriptures to an As-Sage beyond the domain in exchange for protection for the Shi Clan, and Shi Lan left him disappointed.
  • Shi Lan visited Wu Ya and Wu Lingkong; Wu Ya explained that Buddhist critics misunderstood her merit, while Wu Lingkong refused to abandon the Demon-Suppressing Army.
  • Shi Lan traveled to the Glazed Light Realm, discovered a Jade Tempering Formula and signs of a broken history, then prepared for seclusion and found that her reputation had risen enough for four Extreme Draws.

Ch. 650The Underworld Bureau

Shi Lan used six lottery draws to obtain powerful items, including the Myriad Transformations Holy Garment, then asked Wuxu about the Underworld Bureau and Yellow Springs. Wuxu recounted the Cloudreturn Sword Emperor’s dangerous journey beneath Yellow Springs, leaving Shi Lan aware that much about the Underworld Bureau remained unexplained.

  • Shi Lan spent all her reputation points on six item draws and received the Myriad Transformations Holy Garment, Starsea Ladder, Hades Seal, and three other items.
  • Shi Lan tested the Myriad Transformations Holy Garment and discovered it could transform her into another race and evade the Heavenly Dao’s surveillance.
  • Shi Lan compared the Hades Seal’s deathly aura to a clay figurine and suspected both came from the Underworld Bureau, but she could not determine the seal’s function.
  • Shi Lan visited Wuxu and asked what the Cloudreturn Sword Emperor had encountered beneath Yellow Springs.
  • Wuxu explained that Yellow Springs and the Underworld Bureau were distinct, then described Cloudreturn’s battles, his encounter with a terrifying being by the Three Lives Stone, and his return to Lingyang.
  • Wuxu warned Shi Lan to keep away from Yellow Springs, and she accepted his explanation without pressing him further.

Ch. 651The Path

Ling Qing found that Ling Yu'an had advanced into the Creation Realm while remaining asleep, and his latest attempt to awaken her failed. Shi Lan reached the Imperial Apex Realm, rejected the limits of the Jade Clarity Creation Art, and began deriving a new martial path.

  • Ling Qing returned to the Ling family's ancestral estate and found that Ling Yu'an's cultivation had reached the Creation Realm.
  • Ling Qing fed Ling Yu'an immortal pills, but she remained asleep and the figure in her domain kept him from approaching.
  • Shi Lan used a Supreme's bones and four of her own ribs to continue building a body for Samsara.
  • Shi Lan entered the Imperial Apex Realm after purifying her domain in six years.
  • Shi Lan decided against forming a Dao Fruit through the Jade Clarity Creation Art and began deriving the martial path anew.

Ch. 652Word Spirit

Shi Lan refined a new Martial Scripture and became a master of the Word Spirit, while Qing Lan returned the Reversed Feather Heavenly Wheel to the Silverfeather Dynasty and confronted two Supremes. Qing Lan faced their threats with an immortal treasure’s aura emerging behind her.

  • Shi Lan studied the Lingyang Realm’s martial arts and derived her Martial Scripture to the Heaven and Earth Realm, strengthening her combat power while shortening her lifespan.
  • Six old men approached Shi Lan’s mountain range seeking a legendary formation and prehistoric Word Spirit, but their attacks failed to pass through its barrier.
  • Shi Lan emerged disguised as an ordinary woman, having become a master of the Word Spirit with her Dao Fruit nearly formed.
  • Mu Zhenxing and Mu Yunji waited in the Silverfeather Dynasty’s palace as disasters spread following the loss of the Reversed Feather Heavenly Wheel.
  • Qing Lan returned the Reversed Feather Heavenly Wheel and went outside to confront two Supremes who threatened the dynasty.
  • Qing Lan rejected the Supremes’ demand that she leave, and immortal light and the aura of an immortal treasure appeared behind her.

Ch. 653Godson

Qing Lan defeated two Sovereigns who threatened her in the Silverfeather Dynasty, but Mu Zhenxing killed them with the Reverse Feather Heavenly Wheel to spare her political consequences. After returning to the Heavenly Fire Immortal Dynasty, Qing Lan found a man waiting for her who was addressed as the Godson.

  • Qing Lan used a damaged True Immortal command banner to seal the two Sovereigns inside a cage and fought them with immortal treasures.
  • The Sovereigns attacked Qing Lan and threatened that her actions would provoke war between humans and demons, but she held them at bay with the banner and a broken sword.
  • Mu Zhenxing and his son intervened, and Mu Zhenxing shattered his Reverse Feather Heavenly Wheel to destroy the Sovereigns' Dao fruits and kill them.
  • Mu Zhenxing thanked Qing Lan for returning the Reverse Feather Heavenly Wheel and promised that the Mu family would repay her kindness.
  • Qing Lan returned to the Heavenly Fire Immortal Dynasty, where a tall man in blood-red robes greeted her as the Godson.

Ch. 654The Turning Point

Qing Lan negotiated terms for joining the Blood God Hall as its Divine Son and returned to manage the Heavenly Fire Immortal Dynasty before traveling to the hall. Meanwhile, Shi Lan continued her cultivation in the Liuguang Realm, where she had reshaped her martial path at the cost of much of her remaining lifespan.

  • Pei Ge met Qing Lan and agreed that the Blood God Hall would give her a top-tier dynasty’s territory, leave the Heavenly Fire Immortal Dynasty’s affairs alone, and let her establish golden-body jade statues across its dynasties.
  • Qing Lan said she would travel to the Blood God Hall after handling the dynasty’s affairs, then dismissed Pei Ge and shattered the imperial palace’s formation.
  • Qing Lan questioned Cang Yue and Zhao Xuanyi about the dynasty, learned that Ying Qianqiu had not returned, and ordered Cang Yue to watch the Spirit Martial Hall and report Ying Qianqiu’s arrival.
  • Shi Lan, who had lived as a Taboo Wordspirit Master in the Liuguang Realm for nearly ten years, realized that Wordspirit power depended on the realm’s Heavenly Dao and vanished outside it.
  • Shi Lan continued deducing her martial path and pushed the Martial Scripture to its limit, gaining confidence she could kill an early Source Realm Supreme with an equal-rank Supreme artifact while losing nearly half her remaining lifespan.

Ch. 655Immortality

Shi Lan attained the Dao, seized the Glazed Light Realm’s Heavenly Dao authority, and freed the immortal Zhen An from his endless life. She then returned to the Divine Martial Great World to ask Lingyun about the coming upheaval in Lingyang, learning that powerful factions were involved because they were seeking a path to survival.

  • Shi Lan condensed a Dao Fruit and absorbed the Glazed Light Realm’s gift, but the awakened Heavenly Dao attacked her for reaching toward its source.
  • Shi Lan fused with the Glazed Light Realm’s Heavenly Dao authority, overcame its resistance after three days and nights, and shattered the Heavenly Blade.
  • Zhen An, a Supreme kept alive for hundreds of thousands of years by the Wordspirit for “immortality,” begged Shi Lan to let him die, and she severed the life force sustaining him.
  • Shi Lan left the Glazed Light Realm and traveled to the Divine Martial Great World, where she entered the Spirit Martial Grotto-Heaven to meet Lingyun.
  • Shi Lan asked whether the Spirit Martial Hall would join the upheaval in Lingyang, and Lingyun explained that several powerful factions were involved because they were demanding a path to survival.

Ch. 656Root

Meng told Shi Lan that an impending calamity would destroy the worlds and explained why the Spirit Martial Hall sought to strengthen Lingyang. Shi Lan kept the Divine Martial crystal fragment secret, then helped Bai Yu pursue the Supreme Realm, where he absorbed so much source energy that something went wrong.

  • Meng appeared before Shi Lan, explained that the worlds faced an unknowable calamity, and invited her to help prepare Lingyang as a refuge.
  • Meng revealed that the World Source Crystal had shattered into four fragments and that the final fragment was believed to be somewhere in Divine Martial; Shi Lan concealed its location in the Divine Martial Otherworld.
  • Meng said the Spirit Martial Hall would send disciples to Lingyang in three years, and Lingyun agreed that Shi Lan could lead them and bring her family and friends to their territory.
  • Shi Lan returned to the Tianyan Sect and brought Bai Yu to Qiong Luo Realm to help him attain the Supreme Realm.
  • Bai Yu formed a Dao Fruit, and Shi Lan poured Qiong Luo's source energy and her own Dao Fruit essence into a heavenly gift for him.
  • Bai Yu absorbed the descending source energy until his body swelled, then called to Shi Lan in distress.

Ch. 657Ascension

Shi Lan moved the Tianyan Sect’s main branch to the Liuguang Realm and began preparing to strengthen her weapons, while learning that Qing Lan had joined the Blood God Hall as its Divine Son. In Lingyang, the Boundless Sea had swallowed the Central Heaven Domain, and Shi Lan ended the chapter seeking a way to strengthen the Crimson Crow War Halberd with saint-spirit blood.

  • Bai Yu absorbed too much of Shi Lan’s source power and fell into a deep sleep while refining it, so Shi Lan returned to the Tianyan Sect and planned to move its main branch to the Liuguang Realm.
  • Shi Lan moved the Tianyan Sect’s main forces to the Qiong Luo Realm, left a protected branch in the Divine Martial Great World, and gave Cang Yue a Zhou Tian Star Array after learning Qing Lan had become the Blood God Hall’s Divine Son.
  • In Lingyang, the Boundless Sea swallowed the Central Heaven Domain, the races retreated inland, and Demon Emperor Chenxin waited for Heaven and Earth’s shackles to lift so he could seize the Human Race’s Annals.
  • Shi Lan returned to the Liuguang Realm, left its Wordspirit Masters’ powers restricted, and established the Tianyan Sect’s residence at the Dome Ancient City while introducing them to immortal cultivation and the Martial Scripture.
  • Shi Lan began forging the Crimson Crow War Halberd into an Imperial Weapon, but its weak foundation made it absorb materials too slowly, so she decided to strengthen it with saint-spirit blood.
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