Recaps

Shi Lan sought the Golden Crow Clan’s support for a future assault on the demigod race, but Chi Jue abruptly refused after hearing her confidence. She left the clan’s territory suspecting Lingyang Heaven had caused the sudden change.

• Shi Lan visited the Golden Crow Clan’s Fusang divine tree and discussed the demigod faction’s growing threat with Chi Jue.
• Shi Lan proposed that the Golden Crow Clan help her destroy the demigod race after she made another breakthrough.
• Chi Jue warned that defeating Jun Xuan and the other demigod Great Sages would require uniting Lingyang’s strongest forces.
• Shi Lan said killing the demigod leaders would not be difficult, and Chi Jue suddenly refused to get involved.
• Shi Lan left the Golden Crow Clan’s territory and looked toward the sky, wondering about Lingyang Heaven.

Shi Lan visited the Devil Race’s Great Sage, Luo Yongning, to learn whether he would oppose the Lingyang Realm’s Heavenly Dao, but he said the Devil Race would remain neutral unless the Divine King ordered otherwise. After Xue Qing tried to seduce her, Shi Lan met Luo Ning and discovered that the pregnant woman was drinking a tonic made from Demigod Race blood.

• Shi Lan realized the Divine King was ignoring her and suspected something had happened between him and the Lingyang Realm’s Heavenly Dao.
• Shi Lan visited Tianlu and asked Luo Yongning whether he had received a message from the Heavenly Dao; he said the Devil Race would avoid the conflict unless the Divine King commanded it to fight.
• Yin offered Shi Lan help if she needed it, then asked Luo Yongning to search for the legendary Soulblood Spirit Ginseng.
• Xue Qing used her alluring presence to unsettle Shi Lan and invited her to seek her out if she changed her mind.
• Shi Lan met Luo Ning and Di Beichen, learned Luo Ning was pregnant, and noticed that her spiritual tonic contained blood essence from tens of thousands of Demigod Race clansmen.

Shi Lan explored Tianlu City with Luo Ning and learned that the demigods had launched a campaign to encircle and exterminate humanity. Xue Qing and Luo Yongning discussed Shi Lan’s divine blood and the threat her arrival posed to their plans, while Shi Lan realized the demigods had left her no time to act.

• Shi Lan gave Luo Ning rare immortal herbs to help offset the effects of drinking divine blood, and Luo Ning accepted them.
• Shi Lan sensed that Di Beichen’s aura had shifted closer to that of a demigod, then went sightseeing with Luo Ning while he stayed behind.
• Xue Qing told Luo Yongning that Shi Lan carried Divine King blood and had powerful spacetime laws, but she had not tested Shi Lan’s strength.
• Luo Yongning worried that Shi Lan could inherit the Heavenly Dao Imprint if she reached the Other Shore Realm, and Xue Qing redirected him toward the divine-demon spirit body.
• Shi Lan heard in Tianlu City that demigod great saints had begun a campaign to encircle and exterminate humanity, and she concluded there was no time left.

Shi Lan returned to the divine race’s heartlands, accepted a Great Sage-grade battle spear from Luo Yongning, and opened her second dragon gate in seclusion. Her power surged, but a familiar whisper about past and future lingered in her mind.

• Shi Lan left Tianlu, but Luo Yongning summoned her back and gave her a repaired Great Sage-grade battle spear for the coming battle against the demigod clan.
• Shi Lan returned to the divine race’s heartlands, where Yao reported that the mixed-blood faction was pressuring the divine race and that its leaders were close to choosing war.
• Shi Lan secluded herself in a valley and opened the second dragon gate along her spine, resisting the urge to glimpse the future through the river of time and space.
• The second dragon gate greatly increased Shi Lan’s annihilation force, bringing the Other Shore realm within reach of challenge.
• Shi Lan woke with a familiar whisper carved into her mind: “To the past... you are the end... To the future... I am the origin...”

After opening her second dragon gate, Shi Lan reached the Other Shore and sought allies to destroy the demigod race. She gathered Xue Qing and Su Ri’s support, then faced the demigod race’s four Great Sages at the Western Sea, where she prepared four tombs for them.

• Shi Lan saw the demigod race’s invasion driving humanity toward the Central Plains and went to Tianlu to ask Xue Qing for help.
• Shi Lan revealed she was not of the divine race and promised Xue Qing a favor in exchange for the Devil Race’s aid; Xue Qing agreed.
• Shi Lan asked Chi Jue to help fight the demigod race, but Su Ri volunteered to go in his place and ordered him to guard the Golden Crow Clan.
• A challenge letter spread through the Lingyang Realm, and Shi Lan prepared four golden tombs on the Western Sea shore for the demigod race’s four Great Sages.

Shi Lan challenged the four Great Sages of the Demigod Race in the long river of time and space, using destructive power to withstand Jun Xuan’s Sovereign treasure. When Lingyang Heaven suppressed the allies’ Dao flowers and drove them from the battle, Shi Lan revealed she had no intention of retreating and confronted the heavenly will itself.

• Su Ri drew the battlefield into the long river of time and space, while Xue Qing and Luo Yongning joined Shi Lan against the four Great Sages.
• Shi Lan endured Jun Xuan’s golden seal with destructive-power armor, then severed his head and badly wounded him.
• Lingyang Heaven suppressed the allies’ Dao flowers and restored Jun Xuan, forcing Xue Qing, Luo Yongning, and Su Ri to withdraw.
• The four Great Sages surrounded Shi Lan, but she swallowed power from the river of time and space and sealed their escape routes.
• Shi Lan challenged Lingyang Heaven to stop interfering, warning that she would make an enemy of it if it aided the Demigod Race.

Shi Lan defeated and killed three of the four demigod Great Saints after Lingyang Heaven suppressed their Dao Flowers, while Ye Qing escaped only to be killed after returning to the realm. With the demigod race weakened and Lingyang Heaven protecting its territory, Shi Lan spent more than twenty cycles refining the captured golden seal before Yao told her that a visitor from the Heavenly Court had arrived.

• Lingyang Heaven suppressed the four Great Saints' Dao Flowers, and Jun Xuan sacrificed himself to open a rift in Shi Lan's cage so the others could flee.
• Shi Lan killed two fleeing Great Saints and pursued Ye Qing into the Lingyang Realm, where she killed him and buried all three in tombs beneath a stele marked "Demigod."
• Blood rain spread across Lingyang as the races reacted to the demigod Great Saints' deaths, while Shi Lan returned to the god race and declined Yao's offer of blood pills and divine medicines.
• Lingyang Heaven placed Dao-forbidding runes over demigod territory to protect it from invasion, and Shi Lan left the race alone while she studied Jun Xuan's captured golden seal.
• After more than twenty cycles of the seasons in seclusion, Shi Lan received Yao's message that a visitor from the Heavenly Court had arrived.

Shi Lan hosted Yuqi and Wang Zhen in Lingyang, declined Yuqi’s invitation to visit the Heavenly Court, and repaid a debt to Immortal Venerable Jiangyun with immortal gold. After learning that Shi Lan had reached the Other Shore, the Jade Emperor investigated her rise and found that the source crystal could reveal no trace of her battle.

• Yuqi and Wang Zhen visited Shi Lan in Lingyang, where Yuqi congratulated her on entering the Other Shore and invited her to travel with her.
• Shi Lan declined Yuqi’s invitation because her presence and cultivation risked disturbing other worlds, then gave Wang Zhen immortal gold to repay her debt to Immortal Venerable Jiangyun.
• After Yuqi and Wang Zhen departed, Shi Lan heard a familiar voice transmit to her: the God King.
• Yuqi told the Jade Emperor that Shi Lan had entered the Other Shore, and Wang Zhen confirmed the news and reported that she had reportedly slain four Other Shore Great Sages.
• The Jade Emperor used the source crystal to investigate Shi Lan’s advancement but found no trace of her battle, then summoned a blood-red immortal sword and focused on Lingyang.

The God King told Shi Lan that her advancing further would threaten Origin Heaven and that he would die fighting the Sovereigns who came to kill her, so he gave her one year before sending her back to her own era. Shi Lan chose to leave and settled her ties with Yao, Xue Qing, and Luo Ning before departing Lingyang.

• The God King told Shi Lan that Origin Heaven had sensed her existence and that he would die fighting the Sovereigns, then gave her one year before sending her back to the future.
• Shi Lan chose to return to her own era, and the God King let her leave after she asked whether she could do anything more for him.
• Shi Lan gave Yao the Nine-Turn Soul-Congealing Pill and revealed that she was human; Yao accepted her farewell and blessed her journey.
• Shi Lan repaid Xue Qing with a mass of king blood and agreed to see Luo Ning before leaving.
• Shi Lan visited the pregnant Luo Ning, warned her to consider the burden of another child, and named the child Di Luosha.

Shi Lan settled her remaining ties in the Primordial Era, then warned Ye to forge his own path and entrusted him with her pre-tenth-rank Martial Intent. When the God King called, Shi Lan left Dawn and stepped onto the river of time and space to begin her return.

• Shi Lan visited the Golden Crow Clan, leaving Suri an Immortal-Nurturing Aperture-Cultivating Pill and a golden statue infused with her true blood and aura.
• After returning to Dawn, Shi Lan spent more than half a year in silence, steadying her mind before attempting the dangerous journey home.
• Ye visited Shi Lan, now a late-seventh-rank cultivator nearing the formation of his domain.
• Shi Lan cautioned Ye that he could not follow her path to the Dao and gave him a crystal containing her Martial Intent from before the tenth rank.
• Shi Lan urged Ye to protect the human race and follow his heart rather than live with regret, then dismissed him.
• When the God King's voice sounded, Shi Lan rose and stepped through the barrier onto the river of time and space.

Shi Lan was sent downstream through the spacetime river as the Divine King fought the Jade Emperor and the Dominators, killing two before they destroyed him. After the battle, the story revealed that the Divine King had sent Lingyang's source power beneath Yellow Springs, while four Great Saints returned from death and learned that Yang had left their era.

• Shi Lan arrived at the spacetime river, where the Divine King sealed her in a crystal coffin and sent her downstream while the Jade Emperor and the Dominators pursued her.
• The Divine King fought the Jade Emperor and the Dominators, killed two of them with the power of origin, and was ultimately ground to dust by the survivors.
• The Jade Emperor learned that Lingyang's source power had formed an independent Samsara beneath Yellow Springs and led the surviving Dominators back to the Heavenly Court.
• In Lingyang Realm, the Divine King's remnant soul questioned why the Lingyang Heaven was still binding him and involving Xia.
• Ye Qing, Jun Xuan, and two other Great Saints emerged from their tombs, learned that Yang had left their era and the Divine King had died, and Jun Xuan agreed to prepare for the Lingyang Heaven's summons.

After the God and Demigod Races began a devastating war, Ye rose to power in the God Race and married Yao, but suspicion fell on him when their sons Jue and Xiu were accused of aiding the enemy. Ye executed his sons before the God Race’s leaders and left for the battlefield, while Xia wondered where Yao had gone.

• The God Race allied with the Demon and Devil Races against the Demigods, and the conflict became known as the God War.
• Under pressure to continue the royal bloodline, Yao asked Ye to marry her, and Yin later adopted Ye into the God Race under the surname Gu.
• Ye married Yao, entered the Divine Nether Realm, and helped establish the Human Race’s historical record as their people grew stronger.
• After Jue and Xiu were implicated as spies, Yin warned Ye that the God Race suspected him and demanded he choose between the Human Race and his sons.
• Ye told Yao that he would not spare Jue and Xiu; Yao asked him to kill her first if he went through with it.
• Ye beheaded Jue and Xiu before the God Race’s leaders, then left for the battlefield and told Xia that Yao had returned to the ancestral grounds.

Ye brought the mortally wounded Yao to the Divine King, who revealed she had no next life and urged Ye to wield Lingyang Tian’s sword to preserve a sliver of hope. Three years later, after Ye declared humanity independent and ignited a new war, he admitted to Xia that he had killed Yao, while the Divine King transferred the Heavenly Dao imprint to Xia before transforming into the Dao.

• Ye brought Yao to the Divine King, who taught him how to preserve the last fragment of her spirit and revealed that neither Yao nor Xia would have another life.
• The Divine King told Ye that refusing Lingyang Tian would not change the outcome and urged him to wield its sword, and Ye left carrying Yao.
• In Year 96754, Gu Ye won a major battle against the Demigod Race, then declared humanity independent and started a second war against the foreign races.
• Xia confronted Ye about Yao, and Ye confessed that he had killed her; Xia attacked, but Ye vanished before the Divine King stopped him.
• The Divine King transferred the Heavenly Dao imprint and his power to Xia, then told him to endure the difficult road ahead.
• In Year 96757, the Divine King transformed into the Dao, Xia became Divine King, and he joined other races in an all-out war against humanity.

Ye recorded humanity’s history while excluding himself and Yang, then died by suicide and left the throne to Emperor Rui. Nearly a million years later, Great Emperor Yushuo ordered the removal of the Divine Lord of Chaori’s shrines and image, while Shi Lan emerged from the River of Time into a vast battle and used the system to absorb a golden seal and power her time-travel panel.

• Ye illustrated humanity’s rise and victories in the human history book, leaving himself and Yang out of its pages.
• In Year 7781, Ye took his own life in Chaori City, and Emperor Rui succeeded him without recording Ye’s name in the book.
• Nearly a million years later, Yushuo ordered a purge of demons and devils, rejected the Zen Sect’s influence, and commanded that shrines and images of the Divine Lord of Chaori be torn down.
• Yushuo ordered the destruction of the image in Golden Crow territory and the Fusang tree, dismissing the Golden Crow Clan’s past aid as irrelevant.
• A wave in the River of Time shattered Shi Lan’s annihilation barrier and cast her onto a battlefield where numerous Overlords, including the Jade Emperor, were fighting.
• Shi Lan absorbed a golden seal with her system and transferred its energy into the time-travel panel to escape discovery.

Shi Lan traveled through spacetime on the Lunar Star and killed Lü Shan after he pursued her into the passage. She emerged above a familiar continent and recognized the Tianshan Mountains, while lifting the star to prevent it from crashing down on the inhabitants below.

• Shi Lan opened an uncontrolled spacetime passage, but Lü Shan followed her and struck at her on the star.
• Shi Lan destroyed Lü Shan’s leg, rejected his attempt to explain himself, and killed him with her battle halberd.
• Shi Lan realized the star was unusually durable and recognized it from the Three Kingdoms world and the Heavenly Court’s competition among the myriad realms.
• Shi Lan gathered source power as the spacetime passage carried her and the star onward.
• Shi Lan emerged above a vast continent, recognized the Tianshan Mountains, and lifted the Lunar Star to protect the inhabitants below.

Shi Lan explored the Han capital, reflected on her uncertain path and the Origin Heaven, then returned to the lunar star and gained a new insight into cultivation after speaking with a youth. She offered to guide Wang Mang, whose questions helped her see the road home.

• Shi Lan entered the Han capital, observed its prosperous martial cultivators and the evils beneath the city, and chose not to interfere.
• Shi Lan recognized the Origin Heaven's watchful presence and pondered her uncertain prospects of returning to her own era.
• Shi Lan returned to the lunar star and met Wang Mang, who had climbed up from the Celestial Mountain after seeing the star descend.
• Shi Lan told Wang Mang about the legendary Chang'e and questioned him about divine power and cultivation.
• Wang Mang's answers helped Shi Lan understand the Imperial Way, Kingly Way, and Hegemonic Way, clearing her confusion about the path ahead.
• Shi Lan offered to answer Wang Mang's questions about cultivation, and he introduced himself as Wang Mang, courtesy name Jujun.

Shi Lan spent a century guiding Wang Mang while cultivating toward the sovereign realm, then left to fight the source of chaos. Inspired by her declaration that humanity would conquer Heaven, Wang Mang later rebelled against Heaven, but his dynasty fell and he lay dying near Mount Tian.

• Shi Lan understood that her return to the Primordial Era had caused the God King's fall and the upheaval that followed, then offered to guide Wang Mang without taking him as her disciple.
• Shi Lan cultivated on the Taiyin Star for a hundred years while Wang Mang visited every decade for martial guidance, and she told him to follow his desires rather than suppress his emotions.
• Near the sovereign realm, Shi Lan left to uproot the source of source power and prevent chaos, telling Wang Mang that humanity would conquer Heaven.
• Wang Mang later proclaimed himself emperor and sought to hunt Heaven, but Emperor Guangwu's forces defeated his dynasty after disasters and rebellions spread across the realm.
• Wounded by Heaven's blade and near death at Mount Tian, Wang Mang recalled Shi Lan before a mysterious double-pupiled figure asked whether he wanted to die.

A Heavenly Dao Alliance expedition destroyed the Goddream Heavenly Realm and harvested its source power before Shi Lan intercepted them, killed the expedition, and claimed their resources. She then crossed farther into the future and encountered four Overlords hunting another unrivaled Overlord.

• A Daoist in azure robes led the Heavenly Dao Alliance in destroying the Goddream Heavenly Realm and extracting most of its source power.
• Shi Lan blocked the alliance’s return passage, dragged the battlefield onto the river of spacetime, and destroyed its war chariots.
• Shi Lan killed the Daoist in azure robes, collected the World Source Crystal fragments and world soul, and gained ten-star energy from the system.
• Shi Lan opened a spacetime passage and continued traveling toward the future as her cultivation advanced toward a new domain.
• Shi Lan encountered four Overlords surrounding and hunting a hazy figure who was also in the Overlord domain.

Shi Lan broke through to the Sovereign realm during a battle in the river of time and space, then killed the beleaguered Samsara Lord God with a single strike. Rong Xuanqing summoned her away, while Meng suspected the powerful stranger was Shi Lan but kept his guess from the other Sovereigns.

• Shi Lan reached the battlefield and was attacked by the Samsara Lord God and one of the four Sovereigns hunting it.
• Shi Lan shattered her last dragon gate, entered the Sovereign realm through her physical body, and erased the Samsara Lord God from history.
• Rong Xuanqing opened a passage and called Shi Lan away; she spared the four Sovereigns and entered it.
• The system announced that Shi Lan had completed the quest to kill the Samsara Lord God and awarded her a Source Crystal Shard.
• Meng suspected Shi Lan was the figure who had intervened, but concealed his guess from the other Sovereigns.

Shi Lan met Rong Xuanqing in the Cube Space and learned how the great universe might be destroyed and how the Cube was trying to prevent it. She gave him a source crystal fragment to support that effort and revealed that she would need the Cube's help in an inevitable war against Origin Heaven in the distant past.

• Shi Lan emerged into the Cube Space and examined the three pillars supporting the sky before Rong Xuanqing greeted her and congratulated her on entering the Dominion Realm.
• Shi Lan recognized that Rong Xuanqing had borrowed fate from the Fate Palace and asked him to explain what he knew about the great universe's destruction.
• Rong Xuanqing explained that the universe might collapse if Origin Heaven triggered annihilation or died, and said the Cube was forging new pillars but lacked source power.
• Shi Lan gave Rong Xuanqing a fragment of the source crystal to help the Cube, asking for its assistance in return.
• Shi Lan told Rong Xuanqing that war with Origin Heaven was inevitable and that the battle would take place far in the past, where victory or defeat would decide the fate of ten thousand ages.

Shi Lan told Rong Xuanqing she would travel back to Origin and attack Origin Heaven to preserve the present, then destroy the Dao Fruits of beings above the ninth rank. Rong Xuanqing agreed to help, while Shi Lan departed for the Great World of Tianyuan; the chapter then shifted to Di Luosha visiting the Extreme Radiance Devil Master.

• Shi Lan explained that she had to attack Origin Heaven in the past to preserve the current course of history, and Rong Xuanqing offered his help.
• Shi Lan revealed that after the battle she would sever the Dao Fruits of beings above the ninth rank, and Rong Xuanqing accepted her plan to let them reincarnate with their memories.
• Rong Xuanqing promised to fight his master if necessary, while Shi Lan said she hoped to avoid a conflict with Senior Lingyun.
• Shi Lan left the Divine Martial Otherworld for the Great World of Tianyuan and wondered about the origins of her past life and the journey through Yellow Springs.
• In Year 148 of the New Calendar, Di Luosha entered a palace in Devil Race territory and paid her respects to the Extreme Radiance Devil Master.

Aurora Devil Master attacked Emperor Rakshasa to seize her God-and-Devil Spirit Physique, but Emperor Beichen appeared and used a Wheel of Destiny to graft Aurora’s Sovereign destiny onto his daughter. After Emperor Beichen faded away, Shi Lan appeared before Ling Chu and called for Ye.

• Aurora Devil Master read Emperor Rakshasa’s memories and revealed that he intended to use her body to return to the Sovereign rank and fight in the Origin Era.
• Emperor Beichen emerged from the purple mist and used the Wheel of Destiny to steal Aurora Devil Master’s destiny for Emperor Rakshasa.
• Aurora Devil Master was consumed by annihilating power, leaving Emperor Rakshasa with a Sovereign’s destiny despite the flaw in her physique.
• Emperor Beichen reassured Emperor Rakshasa about her future, confessed his regret over her mother’s death, and faded away as she left.
• Shi Lan appeared in Ling Chu’s seclusion chamber and called for Ye through the floating human history book.

Shi Lan discovered that Yao could not be revived under the laws of the current era, but gave her soul a future in the next one. After Ye reflected on his life with Yao and the end of his era, Shi Lan visited Wu Lingkong more than a century later.

• Shi Lan sealed Ling Chu’s senses and tried to restore Yao with source energy, but Ye explained that Yao could not be awakened.
• Shi Lan placed a soul within Yao and said she would give her a future in the era she would rule, though Yao would forget Ye and Yang.
• Shi Lan asked Ye whether he regretted his choices, and Ye replied that he had regrets but no remorse.
• After Shi Lan left, Ye remembered his life with Yao and concluded that the road had ended for him and his era.
• More than a century later, Shi Lan visited Wu Lingkong at the Wu Residence, and Wu Lingkong recognized her.

After more than a century apart, Shi Lan reunited briefly with Wu Lingkong, then visited the Shi Clan and returned to the Great Lingyang World. Her arrival drew the attention of Lingyang Tian, who led the ancient gods toward the ruler of the later generations.

• Shi Lan embraced Wu Lingkong, explained she had been far away, and said she had to leave to make their meeting in the past possible.
• Shi Lan visited the Shi Clan, watched Shi Feng and his son, and departed without revealing herself.
• Shi Lan entered the Great Lingyang World and dispersed the Heavenly Dao's incarnation when it tried to stop her.
• Qing Lan and Tian Bai welcomed Shi Lan in the hall, and Shi Lan greeted them.
• Lingyang Tian sensed Shi Lan's arrival beneath the Yellow Springs and opened a path to meet the ruler of the later generations.

Ling Yangtian negotiated with Shi Lan for a chance to survive the coming war against the Origin Heaven, while Meng learned that the Origin Heaven had ordered him to stop anyone traveling upstream. After Ze Xu invited Meng to help kill Shi Lan, Meng prepared to make his choice, and Ling Yun bid him farewell.

• Ling Yangtian told Shi Lan she wanted to help fight the Origin Heaven in exchange for carrying her true spirit into reincarnation, and Shi Lan agreed to give her time.
• Qing Lan asked about Shi Lan's coming war and Samsara's absence, and Shi Lan promised to find Samsara and make a future for Qing Lan.
• Meng told Ling Yun that the Origin Heaven had ordered him to intercept beings traveling upstream, and they concluded that Shi Lan was the target.
• Meng received Ze Xu's invitation to join an attempt to kill Shi Lan, then summoned Xia as Ling Yun closed his eyes and wished him farewell.