Chapter Summaries

Shi Lan defeated the brawny man and battled Zhao Ye after overhearing a plot to kill Ning An. As Shi Lan moved in for a finishing blow, gunshots rang out beside her.

• Shi Lan used a single punch to shatter the brawny man's arm and send him crashing into the alley wall.
• Zhao Ye introduced himself as a Wuji Sect disciple, but Shi Lan demanded to know who the person in the trash bin was and what the group had been seeking.
• Shi Lan attacked Zhao Ye after recognizing that he was lying, and she seized his kick with Vajra Dragon-Capturing.
• Shi Lan hurled Zhao Ye through a brick wall, then pursued him and struck again as he tried to flee into the shadows.
• Shi Lan raised her leg to deliver a finishing blow to Zhao Ye, but a rapid series of gunshots rang out beside her ear.

Shi Lan confronted the classmates who had shot her and was pulled into a separate space where she regained her true power. She learned from Liang Yunnan and his team that they came from the Cube, a place that sent the dead into missions across different worlds.

• Shi Lan dodged the gunfire, charged the hidden group, and pinned the armed man against a wall.
• The group activated the Outer Battlefield, pulling Shi Lan and four of them into a separate space and leaving Lin Mo, Zhao Ye, and the others behind.
• Shi Lan discovered that the space had simulated her true form and power, then summoned a purple halberd as the four opponents surrendered.
• Shi Lan questioned the team and learned from Liang Yunnan that they came from the Cube, an enormous space that sent people into missions after violent, unexpected deaths.

Shi Lan learned that the four men came from the Cube, a system that sent people between worlds on missions, and discovered why they had spared Lin Mo. After the man who fired the gun offered to serve her, Shi Lan collected all four men's soul tokens, intending to keep them as potential sources of information about the Cube.

• Liang Yunnan explained that the Cube ranked worlds and power, and that the four men had to obtain Lin Mo's cultivation technique and a cultivation treasure within a year.
• Liang Yunnan said Lin Mo's death would alert the world's consciousness, trigger a purge of outsiders, and cause the Cube to punish the men.
• The man who fired the gun offered Shi Lan his soul token and a hundred years of service in exchange for his life, then identified himself as Xiao Jingchen.
• Shi Lan asked the last man his name, learned he was Bai Ji, and ordered all four men to hand over their soul tokens.
• Shi Lan chose to keep the men alive because she was interested in the Cube and thought they might be useful if she encountered its people again.

Shi Lan learned that Ning An’s survival could disrupt the story, while Liang Yunnan explained why Xiao Jingchen had revealed the soul token. Lin Mo woke in his repeating nightmare, retrieved a mysterious treasure fragment, and saw Ning An alive.

• Shi Lan learned that Ning An’s survival could change the story and entered Ning An’s sea of consciousness.
• Xue Qiong confronted Xiao Jingchen over the soul token, but Liang Yunnan stopped her and explained that Xiao Jingchen’s choice had saved them from being killed.
• Liang Yunnan questioned whether the Cube could truly return them home and suggested that other forces might offer another way out.
• Lin Mo woke in the familiar scene of Ning An’s apparent death and took a transparent treasure fragment from a dead man’s eye socket.
• Lin Mo hid the fragment beneath the skin at the back of his neck, then turned when Ning An called to him.

After Ning An survived the night and admitted to killing someone, Ning Kangping promised to handle the matter while Shi Lan felt a longing for the Lingyang Realm. The State Security Bureau took over the investigation, but Deng Yisi remained suspicious of Lin Mo and went to his home.

• Ning An remembered the previous night, found her phone, and called Ning Kangping for help.
• Ning Kangping brought Ning An home, where she told her parents that she had killed someone; after seeing her strength, they believed her, and Ning Kangping left to handle the situation.
• Shi Lan felt the sincere love between Ning An and her parents and suddenly wanted to return to the Lingyang Realm.
• Deng Yisi reviewed the autopsy reports and statements, grew suspicious of Lin Mo, and was ordered by Cheng Wu to stop investigating when the State Security Bureau took over.
• Deng Yisi left work early and drove to Lin Mo's residence to pursue the truth.

Ning Kangping and Deng Yisi questioned Lin Mo about Ning An, while Shi Lan decided to protect Ning An before returning to Lingyang. That night, Shi Lan left to deal with the bodies at the police station, unaware that she was being watched, and Lin Mo followed her movements to Ning An’s empty room.

• Ning Kangping visited Lin Mo to learn whether he had seen Ning An kill anyone, and Deng Yisi arrived before they could talk.
• Shi Lan decided to stay long enough to protect Ning An from Zhao Ye and his likely revenge, despite planning to return to Lingyang soon.
• Deng Yisi questioned Lin Mo, and Ning Kangping left believing Lin Mo had seen nothing incriminating.
• Lin Mo revealed that he had reached the Human Immortal realm and decided to investigate the changes surrounding Ning An.
• Shi Lan left Ning An’s home at night to deal with the bodies at the police station while an unseen observer watched her.
• Lin Mo climbed to Ning An’s window and found her room empty, with her phone left on the bed.

Shi Lan followed a group that stole corpses from a police station and watched the National Security Bureau destroy them in a helicopter attack. After returning home, she began preparing cultivation resources, while Lin Mo overheard her conversation with Liang Yunnan about approaching him.

• Shi Lan followed the corpse thieves from the police station to a woodland, where they searched the bodies, found trackers, and dissolved the remains.
• Armed helicopters attacked the group, killing most of them; one powerful man brought down two helicopters before a grenade killed him, and Shi Lan escaped.
• Shi Lan returned home, felt as though someone was watching her, and decided she needed flesh, blood, and medicinal herbs to support her cultivation.
• The next morning, Shi Lan refused Qin Yinhua's plan to take Ning An away and began using pills Liang Yunnan and the others had obtained for her.
• Shi Lan spoke with Liang Yunnan about approaching Lin Mo, unaware that Lin Mo was listening from a nearby hotel.

While Shi Lan grew stronger in Ning An’s body, rival factions searched for the missing treasure and uncovered Ning An and Lin Mo’s files. Convinced Ning An held the key, Wuji Sect leader Luo Jin mobilized most of the sect to seize it, as national forces prepared to use the turmoil against martial artists.

• Ning An stayed home as her uncontrollable power and enormous appetite continued to grow, while Shi Lan kept her asleep for most of the time.
• Shi Lan advanced to the second level of the Body Tempering Realm and found that her techniques became far more powerful outside the Lingyang Realm.
• Factions searching for the stolen bodies and treasure uncovered information about Lin Mo and Ning An, drawing suspicion toward Wuji Sect.
• Zhao Ye insisted Ning An had defeated him and must possess the treasure, but other Wuji Sect members doubted his account.
• Luo Jin believed Zhao Ye and ordered him to lead two-thirds of Wuji Sect’s experts to confront Ning An and claim the treasure’s key.
• National forces viewed the upheaval as an opportunity to suppress hostile martial artists, declaring that the era no longer needed them.

Shi Lan discovered that Lin Mo had secretly planted a listening device in her phone while Ning Kangping was held by Luo Jin, who sought justice for two dead Wuji Sect disciples. The chapter ended with Luo Jin learning that Ning An had left home, while Lin Mo prepared to defy his role as a child of fortune.

• Shi Lan worried that events had diverged from the original plot as Lin Mo's changes reshaped the situation.
• Lin Mo woke in a hotel, recognized himself as a child of fortune, and vowed to defy his fate.
• Shi Lan left Qin Yinhua in Liang Yunnan and the others' care, then found and crushed a listening device hidden in her phone.
• Luo Jin confronted Ning Kangping at an abandoned factory and demanded that Ning An answer for the deaths of two Wuji Sect disciples.
• Ning An's phone was switched off, and a messenger reported that she had left home.

Shi Lan searched the rain-soaked county town for Ning Kangping while factions pursued her, convinced she possessed a great treasure. She defeated Luo Tang and demanded to know where her father was.

• Shi Lan’s display of qi and blood drew the factions’ spies, who spread word that Ning An might have the treasure and was possibly a Blood-Transformation grandmaster.
• A peak Bone-Tempering expert tried to stop Shi Lan, but she shattered his arm with one move and continued searching for Ning Kangping.
• Luo Jin ordered Luo Tang to lure Shi Lan to the Wuji Sect, hoping to seize the fortune and advance his own strength.
• Shi Lan searched half the county town and fought off numerous pursuers, but found no trace of Ning Kangping.
• Luo Tang claimed Ning Kangping was a guest at the Wuji Sect, but Shi Lan broke through his qi-and-blood veil, shattered his shoulder, and demanded to know where her father was.

Shi Lan confronted Luo Jin and the Wuji Sect at an abandoned factory after defeating Luo Tang, who died by severing his own heart meridian. She killed several disciples and began fighting Luo Jin over the mysterious item, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Luo Tang revealed that the item was west of the city, then severed his own heart meridian and died as Shi Lan released him.
• Shi Lan vanished, and the factions rushed toward the city's outskirts despite Luo Tang's death.
• Luo Jin confronted Shi Lan at the flooded factory, demanded the item, and threatened Ning Kangping's life.
• Shi Lan rebuked the Wuji Sect for targeting Ning An's family and killed several disciples who attacked her.
• Luo Jin unleashed his Blood Transformation power, and Shi Lan struck at him with a golden lotus seal as their battle began.

Shi Lan defeated Luo Jin in a sword fight after he took up a magical sword, then faced Zhao Ye, who was holding Ning Kangping hostage. She advanced toward Zhao Ye despite his threat to kill Ning Kangping.

• Shi Lan and Luo Jin exchanged powerful blows until both were exhausted, and Luo Jin's injuries began to weaken him.
• A Wuji Sect disciple gave Luo Jin a silver magical sword, which he used to challenge Shi Lan.
• Shi Lan revealed her swordsmanship by wielding a steel bar, then struck Luo Jin's blade aside and pierced his chest.
• Luo Jin gave Shi Lan his sword before sinking beneath the floodwater, and Shi Lan recognized the weapon as a low-grade magical artifact.
• Zhao Ye seized Ning Kangping by the throat and ordered Shi Lan to put down her sword, but she walked toward him without hesitation.

Shi Lan fought off the Wuji Sect disciples and the martial factions that swarmed the factory, while Ning Kangping escaped to seek help. The military launched a saturation strike on the factory despite learning that Ning An was still inside.

• Shi Lan killed the charging Wuji Sect disciples, while Zhao Ye fled and Ning Kangping escaped toward the factory exit.
• Hundreds of martial artists entered the factory, recognized the Falling Star Sword, and attacked Shi Lan and one another over the treasure.
• Ning Kangping encountered soldiers in the forest and pleaded with a lieutenant colonel to rescue Ning An.
• The lieutenant colonel refused to delay his mission and ordered more than ten heavy howitzers to fire on the factory.
• Ning Kangping was held down as the shells struck, and he cried out for An'an.

After the army destroyed the factory and Ning Kangping feared Ning An had died, Shi Lan returned alive and was brought to his home for treatment. As Shi Lan recovered and ate ravenously, Ning Kangping asked when she would give An'an back to them.

• The lieutenant colonel ordered five salvos fired at the factory, then sent soldiers to sweep the ruins and found no survivors or infrared targets.
• Ning Kangping searched the wreckage for Ning An, then returned home believing she could not have survived the bombardment.
• Survivors from various factions arrived at the factory, where martial artists in black uniforms attacked them and many more sects were wiped out.
• Ning An staggered into the Ning home, and Liang Yunnan had Xue Qiong carry her to the bathroom while Xiao Jingchen fetched medical supplies and Bai Ji checked for pursuers.
• Shi Lan woke, removed shrapnel from her body, and told Xue Qiong she was hungry before devouring the food prepared at the Ning home.
• Ning Kangping asked Shi Lan when she would give An'an back, leaving the living room silent.

Shi Lan recovered from her injuries, learned that Liang Yunnan and the others could only complete their mission by confronting Lin Mo, and agreed to meet him after confirming something. Liang Yunnan's group found Lin Mo by dawn, while Shi Lan noticed their cultivation methods were fragmented and offered to look for manuals later.

• Shi Lan promised Ning Kangping that she would return Ning An's body after finishing her task, then went to recover while Liang Yunnan and the others wondered whether they had stopped respecting life.
• Shi Lan watched news about the factory battle being covered up as a military exercise, then left Ning An's home to meet Liang Yunnan's group.
• Liang Yunnan told Shi Lan that their remaining options were to abandon the mission or kill Lin Mo, and Shi Lan agreed to find him before deciding what to do.
• Liang Yunnan and the others tracked down Lin Mo overnight while Shi Lan cultivated at dawn.
• After hearing that the others had learned fragmented techniques due to the cost of manuals, Shi Lan offered to look for cultivation manuals for them later.

Shi Lan and her companions questioned Lin Mo about the treasure key and learned that he wanted them to end his repeating life. They followed him to the hidden treasure trove, where they discovered a vast lair of ancient beasts, and Shi Lan asked where to find the Spring of Immortality.

• Shi Lan confronted Lin Mo, who admitted he had taken the treasure key and said the trove held treasures, cultivation techniques, and the Spring of Immortality.
• Lin Mo revealed that he was trapped reliving his life and asked Shi Lan whether she could kill him permanently; she agreed to try after seeing the treasure trove.
• Shi Lan traveled with Lin Mo and the others into the northern Nanhao mountains, where Lin Mo led them through a canyon filled with sleeping ancient beasts.
• Lin Mo used a shard hidden in his neck to open an ancient door concealed in a stone wall, and the group entered the treasure trove.
• Lin Mo said he had visited the trove more than twenty times and explained that its canyon contained at least a hundred thousand powerful beasts; Shi Lan asked where the Spring of Immortality was.

Shi Lan explored Lin Mo’s cave abode and discovered that the green lotus in the Longevity Spring held a nascent spiritual soul. When Lin Mo gave her a mysterious shard, the Empress Cultivation System identified it as a nine-star item, and its absorption brought dark clouds and devastating lightning over the valley.

• Lin Mo led Shi Lan through his cave abode, where she and Liang Yunnan’s group found cultivation books, a training ground, and an abandoned pill-making area.
• Lin Mo showed Shi Lan the Longevity Spring, but drinking its water did not increase her vitality.
• Shi Lan sensed a spiritual soul inside the green lotus, which tore away and devoured a fragment of her soul power when she approached it.
• Liang Yunnan said the group had completed its task of finding cultivation arts and still needed an item to aid cultivation.
• Lin Mo tossed Shi Lan a thin shard, and the Empress Cultivation System identified it as an absorbable nine-star item.
• Shi Lan absorbed the shard, and dark clouds and world-ending lightning suddenly appeared above the valley.

Shi Lan used the Empress System to escape the lightning-struck world through a spacetime passage, then confronted the entity possessing Lin Mo. After killing Lin Mo, she fought the entity again when it possessed the green lotus, leaving the lotus badly wounded but still alive.

• The world-ending lightning killed Liang Yunnan and the others, while the Empress System shielded Shi Lan and detected ancient ruins coordinates and a world core.
• A frigid force entered Lin Mo and took control of his body, and the possessed Lin Mo demanded that something be returned.
• Shi Lan opened a spacetime passage to Lingyang, escaping the world's suppression as the possessed Lin Mo's lightning spear struck Ning An.
• Shi Lan killed Lin Mo's body, then tracked the surviving black mist as it entered the green lotus in the Longevity Spring and rapidly transformed it into a powerful demon.
• Shi Lan drew the demonized lotus into the sky and struck it with a sword beam, tearing away part of its base and carving a vast scar into the land.

Shi Lan defeated the World Consciousness, fused with the World Core, and rewound the world to the night she had arrived. She returned Ning An to her family, then traveled to the capital and entered the Wuji Sect headquarters.

• Shi Lan destroyed the strange beasts and struck the Azure Lotus, then used the Black Domain to drain its power and stored the lifeless lotus in her Qiankun Bracelet.
• Shi Lan fused with the World Core, stopped the world-ending lightning, and banished the corrupted World Consciousness into chaos.
• Shi Lan reversed time to the night she had arrived and watched Ning An sleeping before leaving him with Ning Kangping and his wife.
• Shi Lan stopped time in an alley and took a transparent shard from a middle-aged man's pupil.
• Shi Lan walked to the capital and entered the Wuji Sect headquarters.

Shi Lan gave Luo Jin a sword manual and the treasure key, redirecting the coming conflict toward the Limitless Sect while guiding Luo Jin onto a stronger path. After exploring the damaged world and uncovering the ruins of the Heavenly Fire Immortal Dynasty, she prepared to leave.

• Shi Lan entered the Limitless Sect manor unseen and gave Luo Jin a sword manual containing Sword Emperor Martial Intent along with the treasure key.
• Shi Lan left a wisp of divine sense on Ning An and Lin Mo, then traveled the world in search of clues in ancient ruins.
• Shi Lan discovered the ruins of the Heavenly Fire Immortal Dynasty, learned that the world had once been the Azure Rainbow Realm, and found an ancient cultivation scripture.
• Luo Jin broke through the Blood Tempering Realm, claimed the treasure key for the Limitless Sect, and defeated attempts to seize the treasure, including surviving a cruise missile strike.
• Shi Lan reviewed the changes in the world and decided it was time to leave.