Chapter Summaries

Shi Lan returned to Lingyang after spending more than half a year in a small world, and her cultivation had advanced to the late Tiangang Realm. After reuniting with her father and learning what had happened while she was away, she left Immortal Martial City for the border to search for news of Bai Weiyang.

• Shi Lan returned to Lingyang through a spatial passage and found that less than two days had passed there.
• Shi Lan told Shi Tianlu she would not accompany him to the Central Heaven Domain and said she had somewhere else to go.
• Shi Lan stayed at the estate for a few days and gave Shi Qinghu cultivation pointers before leaving.
• Shi Lan learned that the Shengwu Immortal Sect had regained control of Immortal Martial City, reinforcements had arrived, and the Demon Suppression Army had gone to rebuild the border defenses.
• Shi Lan left Immortal Martial City for the border, hoping to discover what had happened to Bai Weiyang.

Shi Lan traveled west toward the border and stopped at Twin Moon City, where the Demon-Suppressing Army gathered the remains and belongings of its fallen soldiers. Meanwhile, Jade Hong sent a powerful force to capture her, and Shi Lan remained unaware of the danger approaching.

• Shi Lan disguised herself and set out west, searching for Bai Weiyang as she traveled toward the border.
• Jade Hong learned that Shi Lan had left the city and sent a Primordial Spirit Realm expert and four Myriad Manifestations Realm martial artists to capture her.
• Shi Lan reached Twin Moon City and visited the tombstone that reminded her of her past there.
• A Demon-Suppressing Army centurion arrived with soldiers to recover the army's tokens, equipment, and fallen comrades' remains.
• Shi Lan watched Huangfu Yun's remains be reinterred and learned that the other soldiers' ashes and tokens would be sent to their families.

Shi Lan returned to the ruins of Tenglong City and fell into an ambush laid by the Yu family's group. Gravely wounded and burning her lifespan to escape, she reached the Boundless Demon Domain, while her pursuers hesitated at the border before deciding to follow.

• Shi Lan returned to Tenglong City and found it reduced to ruins by a giant beast's footprint.
• An old man and four martial artists trapped Shi Lan in a formation, demanding the Sword Emperor's Daoist treasures.
• Shi Lan killed the martial artist guarding the formation's corner with the Heavenly Ultimate Seal, then wounded the old man's Primordial Spirit with the Soul-Slaying Flying Daggers and escaped.
• A hidden middle-aged man struck Shi Lan with a giant palm, grievously wounding her as she fled toward the Boundless Demon Domain.
• Shi Lan burned her remaining lifespan to outrun the middle-aged man and plunged into the Boundless Demon Domain.
• The Yu family's group hesitated at the border, then the old man ordered them to pursue Shi Lan because she was near the end of her lifespan.

Shi Lan fled deep into the Demon Domain while her pursuers discovered her demonic bloodline and continued tracking her. After exhausting her escape talisman and finding she could not shake them, she prepared to turn the fight against them.

• Shi Lan drew on the aura of the Demon Emperor's blood to deter demons, while the old man and his companions realized she belonged to the Demon Race and hurried after her.
• Shi Lan spent nearly two million reputation on nineteen item draws and used a Divine Travel Talisman to escape as Demon Kings attacked her pursuers.
• The Demon Kings were defeated, and the old man’s group resumed chasing Shi Lan, believing they could expose her as a demon to the Demon-Suppression Army.
• Shi Lan hid in a forest to recover, but a pursuing divine sense found her, forcing her to flee again with the cracked Divine Travel Talisman.
• After covering more than two hundred thousand miles and receiving brief help from demons, Shi Lan stopped and began carving formation lines to ambush her pursuers.

Shi Lan lured her pursuers into a trap, killed the middle-aged grand cultivator, and fled deep into the Demon Domain with a captive. When her talisman failed, a gigantic silver wolf and a host of Demon Kings arrived and bowed to her as their queen.

• Shi Lan concealed explosive items beneath a decoy formation, then hid nearby and confirmed that her pursuers could not pinpoint her location.
• The pursuers destroyed the decoy and triggered the explosives, killing one Myriad Manifestation Realm martial artist and gravely wounding another.
• Shi Lan used a Heaven-Splitting Sword Talisman and a Soul-Extinguishing Nail to kill the middle-aged Primordial Spirit Realm cultivator, then seized the wounded martial artist and fled.
• The old man pursued Shi Lan deep into the Demon Domain, and Shi Lan killed her captive when he refused to reveal where the group came from.
• After Shi Lan's Divine Movement Talisman shattered, a gigantic silver wolf and more than ten Demon Kings appeared and bowed to her as their queen.

After Shi Lan was rescued, Cang Yue’s demon kings defeated the old man who had attacked her, though two of their own died in the battle. Shi Lan remained unconscious in the Lan Clan’s Ancestral Blood Pool as doubts about her origins surfaced and an agitated black-jade leopard arrived.

• Cang Yue and the demon kings reached Shi Lan in time, then sent her back to the Lan Clan’s territory while keeping her attacker alive for her judgment.
• Cang Yue and the demon kings fought the old man, who killed two demon kings before Cang Yue destroyed him; Cang Yue ordered the fallen demon kings buried.
• In Immortal Martial City, Yu Hong studied the extinguished soul lamps of the forces he had sent to intercept a Heavenly Dipper Realm martial artist and realized he had underestimated them.
• At the Lan Clan’s Ancestral Blood Pool, several demon kings questioned Shi Lan’s nature and strength, and Cang Yue warned them to accept her as their clan leader.
• A black-jade leopard entered the formation and circled Shi Lan’s blood pool while she lay unconscious.

As Shi Lan's life faded in the ancestral blood pool, her recovered memories revealed her past life and reincarnation, while Divine Phoenix blood began to awaken. She revived in flames, stopped the demon kings from devouring her, and tore the green-haired demon king apart.

• Tian Bai watched over the weakening Shi Lan as newly joined demon kings plotted to devour her if she died.
• Shi Lan's memories returned, revealing that she had lived as an ordinary man before reincarnating as a girl in the Shi Clan and being attacked as a baby.
• Shi Lan's life force nearly vanished, but scarlet Divine Phoenix blood seeped into the pool and enveloped her body.
• The green-haired demon king and two others charged toward Shi Lan, while Tian Bai intercepted them and was grievously wounded against a stone stele.
• Shi Lan burst out of the flames, seized the green-haired demon king, and tore his body apart.

After Shi Lan reached the Myriad Manifestations Realm, she killed the Demon Kings who had betrayed her and learned how much the Lan Clan had grown. She uncovered clues that her arrival in the Shenzhou Vast Land was no coincidence, then received new system missions to build a powerful force and gain reputation.

• Shi Lan destroyed the mastiff Demon King, used its blood essence to nourish the sleeping Tian Bai, and killed two fleeing Demon Kings with Cang Yue’s help.
• Shi Lan spared Cang Yue, dismissed the other Demon Kings, and learned that the Lan Clan had grown into a notable force with millions of demons.
• Cang Yue reported that he had failed to capture the human who pursued Shi Lan because the man’s cultivation was higher than his own.
• Shi Lan recalled that she had arrived in the Shenzhou Vast Land more than twenty years earlier and realized her arrival had not been a coincidence.
• Shi Lan checked the system, received new rewards and a Long-Term Mission to build a powerful force, and saw a Side Mission to reach 10,000,000 reputation.

After reaching the Myriad Manifestations Realm, Shi Lan explored her new soul power and laws before becoming trapped in a strange maple forest. She met a powerful young man who served her Ancient Enlightenment Tea, then confronted her for founding a human clan in his Demon Domain.

• Shi Lan learned that her preliminary main quest required her faction to rank among the Lingyang Realm's top three, then examined her new cultivation and sea of consciousness.
• Shi Lan tested her soul power and laws, traversing the void and stopping maple leaves in midair.
• Shi Lan discovered that the maple forest kept reappearing around her, followed a newly appeared path, and reached a lakeside pavilion.
• Shi Lan met a young man brewing tea and drank a cup of Ancient Enlightenment Tea, entering a state of enlightenment.
• The young man questioned how Shi Lan had founded a clan in his Demon Domain and warned her that she was bold.

Shi Lan met Feng Yichuan, the Feather Emperor, who revealed that ancient powers were about to emerge in Chengtian Domain and took some of her blood in exchange for allowing the Lan Clan to develop. Back at the Lan Clan, Shi Lan decided to leave for the Illusory Star Domain to cultivate, while Tian Bai worried she would disappear or return injured again.

• Feng Yichuan recognized Shi Lan as a human and explained that Chengtian Domain was an ancient battlefield where Emperor Realm legacies and other powers were about to emerge.
• Feng Yichuan drew blood from Shi Lan, offered to let the Lan Clan develop in exchange for her future help, and revealed that he was called the Feather Emperor.
• Feng Yichuan shaped Shi Lan's blood into a tiny phoenix and murmured the name Xingyuan as he rode away in a chariot pulled by eight flood dragons.
• Shi Lan returned to the Lan Clan, where Tian Bai had recovered, and considered her next steps in the dangerous Demon Domain.
• Shi Lan decided to go to the Illusory Star Domain to cultivate and began preparing, while Tian Bai worried because her previous disappearance had ended with her gravely wounded.

Shi Lan left the Demon Domain with Tian Bai and returned to Ancient Phoenix City to seek the Phoenix Blood Pool. After evading the faction occupying the Gu family residence, she found the hidden pool intact and jumped into it.

• Shi Lan agreed to take Tian Bai with her, refined Cang Yue's bloodline, and planted a mutated green lotus in the Lan Clan's Ancestral Blood Pool.
• Shi Lan and Tian Bai traveled to Shenzhou, passed the Chengtian Domain's guarded border using her Demon Suppression Order, and headed for Ancient Phoenix City.
• Shi Lan learned that outsiders had occupied the former Gu family residence and were searching the grounds for something hidden.
• Shi Lan infiltrated the residence at night, found the concealed chamber beneath a small room, and discovered that the Phoenix Blood Pool had survived.
• Shi Lan sent Tian Bai to guard the entrance, then leaped into the Phoenix Blood Pool.

Shi Lan absorbed the Phoenix Blood Pool and comprehended the Laws of Space while her body transformed inside a blood-colored cocoon. As pursuers broke into the chamber, a powerful heartbeat sounded from within the cocoon.

• Shi Lan endured the phoenix blood, entered a cocoon, and began comprehending the Laws of Space, rapidly advancing her cultivation.
• Zhu Xiyang kept the badly injured Bai Weiyang alive with her life essence while evading Heavenfolk searching Chengtian Domain.
• Over nearly two months, Shi Lan refined the space-law fragment, reached the mid-stage of the Myriad Forms Realm, and absorbed the entire Phoenix Blood Pool into her transformation.
• Diggers broke into the secret chamber, but Tian Bai's lightning drove back the first martial artists who entered.
• A Primordial Spirit Realm cultivator and others entered the chamber and examined Shi Lan's cocoon as a thunderous heartbeat began within it.

Shi Lan escaped the warriors pursuing her after awakening her divine phoenix body, while the Profound King used her abandoned clothes to make a portrait but failed to locate her. After traveling through the Illusory Star Domain for more than a month, Shi Lan reached a life-bearing star and headed for its largest city, hoping to find a way to travel onward.

• Shi Lan burst out of the blood-red cocoon and fled into the starry sky with Tian Bai as the warriors pursued her.
• Feng Xu found Shi Lan’s abandoned clothes and reported the incident to the Profound King, who used them to create her portrait and tried to trace her location.
• The Profound King could not pinpoint Shi Lan and ordered Feng Xu to investigate her identity and origins in secret.
• Shi Lan sensed a powerful gaze, then continued traveling after awakening her divine phoenix body, fire affinity, and Divine Phoenix Wings.
• After more than a month of travel, Shi Lan reached a life-bearing star and headed for its largest city to look for teleportation arrays.

Shi Lan explored Fengning City on Yaoyun Star with Tian Bai, then attracted attention when the Zheng family tried to claim the planet. As a terrifying divine sense swept Yaoyun Star, several hundred warships appeared outside it, and rival forces challenged the Zheng family’s claim.

• Shi Lan entered Fengning City, learned that Yaoyun Star had no known teleportation arrays, and explored its busy streets with Tian Bai.
• A young man from the Yang family tried to buy Tian Bai, but Shi Lan refused, and Tian Bai revealed his enormous true form to frighten the group.
• Shi Lan calmed Tian Bai as a terrifying divine sense swept across Yaoyun Star, making her look toward the sky in alarm.
• Several hundred warships appeared outside Yaoyun Star, and a speaker from the Zheng family declared that the family would take the planet.
• A voice from another force challenged the Zheng family’s right to rule Yaoyun Star, even in the Shenzhou Vast Land.

Zheng Zheshen claimed Yaoyun Star for the Zheng family, crushing resistance as the newcomers seized control of the planet. Shi Lan hid in a mining area to escape the powerful cultivators searching for her, where she became a mine slave.

• Zheng Zheshen drove off the fleets disputing the claim to Yaoyun Star, killing a Song family challenger and sending the remaining warships away.
• The Zheng family entered Yaoyun Star and subdued its sects, searching their treasuries and taking talented youths back to the Lingyang Realm.
• After half a month, the Zheng family forced the surviving inhabitants into mining areas as mine slaves.
• Shi Lan sensed danger, fled Fengning City with Tian Bai, and hid from an ancient warship in the mountains.
• Shi Lan concealed herself in a mine, digging green silver ore because Zheng family cultivators were searching the planet and she no longer trusted her status in the Demon Suppression Army.

Shi Lan tried to stay uninvolved while mining on Yaoyun Star, but the mine slaves revolted and the Zheng family crushed them with overwhelming force. As Zheng Tianlun slaughtered the rebels, Shi Lan realized she could no longer avoid the conflict.

• Shi Lan met Tian Bai in the mine tunnels and confirmed that he was safe while planning her escape from Yaoyun Star.
• After stumbling upon a group of newly arrived slaves, Shi Lan gave the beaten young man healing spirit liquid and slipped away.
• A hidden restraint master broke the slaves’ spirit-binding bands, sparking rebellions across nearly two-thirds of the mines.
• Shi Lan learned that the young man was Li Canglan, the young palace master of the massacred Profound Sage Palace, and warned him that resistance would bring deadly retaliation.
• Zheng Tianlun arrived to crush the uprising, killed over a hundred people, and the Zheng family’s forces slaughtered more than half of Li Canglan’s people as Shi Lan watched.

Shi Lan killed Zheng Tianlun and absorbed his remnant soul, then learned the Zheng family had sealed off the planet. She asked Li Canglan to help her rescue someone who knew an ancient teleportation array.

• Li Canglan tried to stop Shi Lan from intervening, but she slapped him aside and confronted Zheng Tianlun.
• Shi Lan damaged Zheng Tianlun’s Dao weapon, broke through his defenses, and wounded his Primordial Spirit with the Soul-Slaying Flying Daggers.
• Shi Lan destroyed Zheng Tianlun’s body with the Heavenly Extremity Seal, and the Heavens Reincarnation System absorbed his remnant soul.
• Shi Lan collected Zheng Tianlun’s nine-story pagoda, summoned Tian Bai, and prepared to leave the mining area.
• Li Canglan warned Shi Lan that the Zheng family had sealed off the planet, so she asked him to help rescue someone who knew an ancient teleportation array.

Shi Lan rescued Li Canglan and the Profound Sage Palace survivors from Yaoyun Star, then helped them reach a hidden teleportation array. The array opened an ancient road through the starry sky, and Shi Lan and the others departed while Elder Tang stayed behind.

• Shi Lan flew with Li Canglan to the uprising and killed the Zheng family’s Myriad Manifestations Realm cultivator and a dozen other fighters.
• Li Canglan reunited with Elder Tang, who gathered several dozen Profound Sage Palace elites and sent them away aboard a miniature warship while he stayed behind to draw pursuit away.
• Shi Lan carried the warship through the void and brought the group to a concealed vortex above the ocean.
• Elder Tang opened the secret realm and led them to an ancient teleportation array, where he replaced its depleted spirit crystals.
• Elder Tang activated the array, opening an ancient road through the starry sky, and Shi Lan and Li Canglan departed as he remained behind.

Shi Lan brought Li Canglan and the surviving youths out of the Illusory Star Domain and showed them the vast world beyond it. After Li Canglan begged for a path to avenge his family, Shi Lan agreed to teach him and the others to become stronger in exchange for their service, leaving them under her protection.

• Li Canglan brought the group through the teleportation array to a dead star, where they boarded his warship and gazed at the immense continent of Lingyang.
• Shi Lan identified the Shenzhou Vast Land, the Demon Domain, and the Devil Cave, then offered to settle Li Canglan and the youths on the nearest life-bearing star.
• Li Canglan asked whether he could avenge his family, and Shi Lan told him that he had no hope of defeating the Zheng Family on his own.
• Li Canglan and the youths knelt and begged Shi Lan to show them a path to strength, promising not to implicate her in their revenge.
• Shi Lan agreed to teach them methods to become stronger as part of a transaction, saying their lives belonged to her until they were strong enough.

Shi Lan reached Yunyan Star and discovered that its humans had been weakened by clan-bound traditions and a recent massacre by invaders. She taught Li Canglan and the others the opening of an immortal scripture, then founded the Tianyan Sect as her soul resonated with heaven and earth.

• Shi Lan entered Yunyan Star with Li Canglan and the others, finding rich spiritual energy and several ruined, bloodstained cities.
• Shi Lan investigated a city and learned that invaders had wiped out the planet’s seven nonhuman races, while human clans hoarded cultivation techniques and left ordinary people powerless.
• Shi Lan returned to Li Canglan and the others and chose to teach them immortal cultivation rather than martial arts.
• Shi Lan passed the introductory section of the nameless immortal scripture to Li Canglan and pondered a name for her sect.
• Shi Lan established the Tianyan Sect, after which the scripture’s mark appeared on her and her soul began resonating with heaven and earth.