Chapter Summaries

Shi Lan bought a vast quantity of ferocious beast flesh and used it to stabilize her Blood Cloud Realm cultivation, but the effort left her needing even more flesh. Meanwhile, the Lingyang Realm faced rising waters and shifting powers, Taishi restricted three traditions, and Bai Weiyang traveled with Seven, whom he had brought out of the Guiyun Realm.

• Shi Lan bought roughly two hundred thousand jin of ferocious beast flesh from Liyue Tower, paid Lin Weiyuan, and learned about Taiyuan City from the Twilight Cloud Tiger.
• Shi Lan rented a cultivation chamber and absorbed the beast flesh in the Firmament Luo Realm, stabilizing her cultivation in the early stage of the Blood Cloud Realm while the mysterious figure in her domain grew more distinct.
• Ten years after the heavenly tribulation, rising waters and shifting powers reshaped Lingyang, while experts explored the Boundless Sea and the demon race expanded into demon territory.
• Taishi ordered the Chan sect to stop preaching and return to the Haotian Domain, and forbade Daoism and the Confucian school from recruiting disciples.
• Bai Weiyang left Yunshan Gorge on leave with Seven, the powerful man he had brought out of the Guiyun Realm, but Seven continued to follow him.

A-Qi learned that Wuxu had been the Cloudreturn Sword Emperor’s sword spirit and left Bai Weiyang after seeing Shi Lan’s statue. Shi Qinghu successfully absorbed a human Emperor Monarch’s blood essence, while Shi Lan returned to the Moonlit Tower to buy flesh and blood and found Lin Weiyuan with a group of beast slaves.

• Bai Weiyang brought A-Qi to Cloudmist Star, where A-Qi recognized Shi Lan’s statue and asked whether she had visited the Cloudreturn Realm.
• A-Qi asked Bai Weiyang about Wuxu, learned that Wuxu had been the Cloudreturn Sword Emperor’s sword spirit, and chose to wait by Shi Lan’s statue.
• Bai Weiyang visited Zhu Xiyang, took away the questionable book she was reading, and left after checking on her.
• A-Qi left through a spatial passage without saying goodbye, and Bai Weiyang followed after glancing back at Cloudmist Star.
• Shi Qinghu perfectly absorbed human Emperor Monarch blood essence to forge his fourth Dao foundation, and Chu Hanzhou marveled at his potential.
• Shi Lan left the Qiong Luo Realm, hired Mu Yunhu’s carriage to the Moonlit Tower, and saw Lin Weiyuan with a group of collared beast slaves.

Shi Lan ordered a hundred times her previous amount of vicious beast flesh and went to an auction house to sell Divine Blood Gold for the spirit crystals she needed. The auction house offered ten thousand Heavenly Spirit Marrows, and the middle-aged man realized from Shi Lan’s reaction that he had bid too high.

• Shi Lan declined Lin Weiyuan’s offer to buy more beast slaves and ordered a hundred times her previous quantity of vicious beast flesh.
• Lin Weiyuan said the order would be ready the next morning, and Shi Lan planned to return after gathering at least thirty billion top-grade spirit crystals.
• Shi Lan searched the Qiong Luo Realm for valuables and rediscovered the Three Lives Stone before choosing a piece of Divine Blood Gold to sell.
• Shi Lan visited an auction house and chose to sell the Divine Blood Gold outright rather than consign it.
• The middle-aged man offered ten thousand Heavenly Spirit Marrows, and Shi Lan’s brightened expression made him regret naming such a high price.

Shi Lan sold Divine Blood Gold, attended an auction, and bought a clay figurine marked by the aura of the Underworld before collecting a large shipment of beast flesh. After her domain destroyed a restrained mastiff, the Glazed Moon Tower’s Star Envoy suspected that Ling Wushuang was concealing her identity and age.

• Shi Lan negotiated with Cao Tiancheng and sold her Divine Blood Gold to the Heavenly Gift Auction House for twelve thousand Heavenly Spirit Marrows.
• Shi Lan attended the auction, bought a clay figurine carrying yin-death Killing Intent, and noticed Mo Hanyue confront a fortunate young man over Earth-Spirit True Marrow.
• Shi Lan met Lin Weiyuan and a Star Envoy at the Glazed Moon Tower, confirmed her shipment of flesh and blood, and paid thirty billion top-grade spirit crystals.
• A caged mastiff attacked, and Shi Lan’s Imperial Dao Domain formed a whip that shattered the beast’s beam and crushed its cage, killing it.
• The Star Envoy told Lin Weiyuan that Ling Wushuang might be using a false face and name, and wondered whether her aura suggested she was unusually young.

Shi Lan completed her retreat in the Qiong Luo Realm, reached the late stage of the Blood Cloud Realm, and distributed pills made from leftover beast flesh. After leaving Taiyuan City, she intervened in a dispute to secure compensation for the carriage drivers and shop, then departed after warning Mo Hanyue.

• Shi Lan absorbed the flesh and blood of eighth-tier ferocious beasts, advanced to the middle and then late stage of the Blood Cloud Realm, and nourished the avatar in her Imperial Domain until it stopped absorbing qi and blood.
• Shi Lan gave immortal pills to the Asura race, her guards, Chi Junyu, Tian Bai, Bian Qin, and Li Canglan, who used one to create a body-refining spirit pool for Tianyan Sect disciples.
• Shi Lan left Taiyuan City with Mu Yunhu, but leaped from their carriage when a dead Starfire Lion smashed into the road and destroyed nearby carriages and a shop.
• Shi Lan demanded that Qin Feng and Chang Yunsheng cover the losses, but when Mo Hanyue challenged her, Shi Lan forced Mo Hanyue and Qin Feng to their knees and warned Mo Hanyue not to insult her again.
• Chang Yunsheng accepted responsibility for the damage before the city garrison arrived, and Qin Feng paid the requested 123,240,000 supreme-grade spirit crystals; Shi Lan identified herself as Ling Wushuang and warned Mo Hanyue that she would get only one chance to wash away her shame.
• Shi Lan thanked the carriage drivers by securing compensation for them, then left Taiyuan City as Mu Yunhu bowed farewell.

Qing Lan rejected Buddhism’s attempt to spread its faith through the Heavenly Fire Immortal Court, then decided to seek Daoist and Confucian support after Bodhisattva Kongyuan left. Meanwhile, Shi Lan entered the Heavenly Fortune Dynasty under the false identity Ling Wushuang and continued searching for the spatial passage home.

• Qin Feng apologized to Mo Hanyue for her humiliation, and Mo Hanyue vowed to surpass Ling Wushuang while focusing on the upcoming Myriad Dynasties' Prodigy Tournament.
• Qing Lan received a message during cultivation and summoned her court, where Bodhisattva Kongyuan asked her to allow Buddhism to spread its teachings.
• Qing Lan refused Kongyuan, asserted her authority, and ordered him to leave after he invoked the True Buddha and challenged her words.
• After her officials warned her about provoking Buddhism, Qing Lan ordered Daoism to be honored and Confucian scholars brought into government.
• Shi Lan traveled toward the northern lands, entered the Heavenly Fortune Dynasty, and obtained an identity placard as Ling Wushuang, aged 1,746.

Shi Lan searched the Heavenly Fortune Dynasty for the place where the Lan Clan had arrived, found the old passage, and returned safely to the Lingyang Realm. Meanwhile, Ying Qianqiu entered the Heavenly Fire Immortal Dynasty, and Shi Lan's return surprised Chu Hanzhou with her completed Blood Cloud Realm.

• Shi Lan searched the Heavenly Fortune Dynasty for the Lan Clan's former arrival site and found it with information from Yan Pan.
• A Daoist gave a future-born boy the Azure Firmament Spirit Profound Scripture, and the boy decided to enter the Heavenly Fire Immortal Dynasty.
• Ying Qianqiu visited Qing Lan and was accepted into the Heavenly Fire Immortal Dynasty.
• Shi Lan rediscovered the space-time passage, sealed its entrance, and traveled back toward the Lingyang Realm.
• Shi Lan showed her Demon-Suppressing Order to the Imperial Blood Army and sent word to Chu Hanzhou.
• Chu Hanzhou and You Nuo met Shi Lan outside the Lingyang Realm, where Chu Hanzhou noticed that her Blood Cloud Realm was complete.

Shi Lan returned to the Lingyang Realm and visited her family in Tenglong City after revealing that she had engraved her own image in her Imperial Domain. After two days at home, she left for the Imperial Palace to meet the Imperial Monarch.

• Chu Hanzhou and You Nuo questioned Shi Lan about engraving herself in her Imperial Domain, and Chu Hanzhou offered to seek the Imperial Monarch's advice.
• You Nuo gave Shi Lan a jade case containing a temporary body, and Shi Lan used it to enter the Lingyang Realm with Chu Hanzhou.
• Shi Lan arrived in Tenglong City with Shi Qinghu and reunited with Shi Tianlu and Su Lanyue at Shi Mansion.
• Shi Lan learned that Shi Yiming had not returned from the Sacred Spirit Academy in several years and spent the evening with her family.
• After staying at home for two days, Shi Lan received Chu Hanzhou's invitation and set out for the Imperial Palace.

Shi Lan met Taishi, who approved her plan to carve her image into her domain and warned that her immense, mixed power would make Slaying the Dao especially difficult. After receiving records and a Sky-Traveling Shuttle, she traveled to the site where Great Emperor Linglong was buried and witnessed dangerous sea creatures near the continent.

• Shi Lan met Taishi in the Imperial Palace, where he approved carving her image into her domain and explained the challenges she would face in Slaying the Dao.
• Taishi advised Shi Lan to purify and shrink her power or riskier alternatives, then gave her records on past Human Emperors and introduced Liu Yunzheng and Ling Chu.
• Taishi gave Shi Lan a Sky-Traveling Shuttle and told her Great Emperor Linglong had been buried in the Extreme South of Divine Continent, now swallowed by the Boundless Sea.
• Shi Lan used the shuttle to reach the Boundless Sea in a single breath and saw a monstrous shadow devour enormous blue fish above the water.

Shi Lan returned from the Boundless Sea, paid respects at the Exquisite Great Emperor’s former location, and reunited with Wu Lingkong before preparing to leave again. Meanwhile, the Ling Family remained unable to wake Ling Yuan, whose cultivation continued to rise mysteriously as she slept.

• Shi Lan traveled across the Boundless Sea and found ancient submerged ruins and terrifying sea creatures before reaching the site Tai Shi had given her.
• Shi Lan performed a memorial rite for the Exquisite Great Emperor, then returned to Shenfeng City and reunited with Wu Lingkong after more than a decade apart.
• Shi Lan told Wu Lingkong that she was only an incarnation and that her return date was unknown, leaving Wu Lingkong afraid their lifespans would pull them apart.
• Wu Lingkong and Shi Lan drank together, and Wu Lingkong spoke of finding Shi Lan in another life, but Shi Lan rejected the idea.
• Ling Qing learned that the physician could not explain Ling Yuan’s six-year sleep, even though her cultivation had advanced to the Heavenly-Man Realm without a tribulation.

Shi Lan visited Lu Yueqing at the Cloud Heaven Pavilion, then met Chu Hanzhou and learned that an unknown Imperial Mausoleum had been discovered in the Boundless Sea. She declined to investigate and planned to spend time with her family before returning to the Divine Martial Great World.

• Shi Lan left Divine Wind City and traveled to the Cloud Heaven Pavilion to thank You Nuo and visit Lu Yueqing.
• Lu Yueqing offered to dissolve her pact with Shi Lan, but Shi Lan refused and kept their agreement.
• After Shi Lan left, Lu Yueqing told Luo Tianshu that her deceased fiancé had been the Peerless Queen's blood brother, discouraging him from pursuing her.
• Shi Lan went to the Profound King Palace, where Chu Hanzhou told her an unknown Imperial Mausoleum had appeared in the Boundless Sea.
• Shi Lan shared what she knew about ancient beings in the sea, declined Chu Hanzhou's offer to investigate, and chose to return to her family.

Taishi explained to Liu Yunzheng why the Lingyang Realm’s ancient rulers had accepted that the heavens would eventually fall, and said he would protect its people so his name would endure. Shi Lan visited Bai Weiyang, then traveled to Yunyan Star to bring some Tianyan Sect disciples away, while Zhu Xiyang chose to remain behind.

• Taishi told Liu Yunzheng that ancient rulers had not expanded Lingyang because they knew the heavens’ collapse could not be prevented, and said he would protect its people.
• Shi Lan visited Bai Weiyang at the Bai family home, declined to search for A-Qi, and left Bai Weiyang’s Yunyan Star pass behind.
• Shi Lan arrived at Yunyan Star and offered Zhu Xiyang the chance to leave with her, but Zhu Xiyang chose to stay and care for the Tianyan Sect.
• Shi Lan selected willing Tianyan Sect disciples above the Nascent Soul Realm and led them through the sect’s teleportation formation to the Qiong Luo Realm.

Shi Lan broke through to the Creation Realm and began refining her martial arts, while her rise in the rankings unsettled powerful figures across the Lingyang Realm. Di Luosha gained power from a spirit egg in a Demon Emperor’s tomb, triggering a crisis between the Demon and Demon Races, while Qing Lan noticed Daoist and Confucian cultivators arriving in the Heavenly Flame Immortal Dynasty.

• Shi Lan reached the Creation Realm, then entered the system’s virtual space to consider cutting away and refining her many martial arts.
• Yun Shun and Shi Feng reviewed Shi Lan’s leap to 173rd on the Sky Ranking, a rise that shook emperors throughout the Lingyang Realm.
• Di Luosha and five Devil Lords investigated a Demon Emperor’s tomb and found a spirit egg hidden inside the imperial corpse.
• Di Luosha crushed and devoured the spirit egg during the struggle over the tomb, advancing two stages to the late Sun and Moon Realm.
• Enraged by the spirit egg’s destruction, the Demon Emperor attacked the demonic lands until Purple Cloud Demon Venerable stopped him, worsening tensions between the Demon and Demon Races.
• Qing Lan saw Daoist cultivators and Confucian scholars arrive in the Heavenly Flame Immortal Dynasty while the Buddhist sect remained absent.

Shi Lan spent three hundred years in the system's virtual space refining her martial arts and studying divine abilities, then used Inviting an Immortal to borrow power from a mysterious true immortal. The power faded without harming her, leaving her wondering why the immortal had helped her.

• Shi Lan mastered nearly a hundred techniques, merged more than forty into a combat art called the Martial Scripture, and cut several old techniques and divine abilities from her body.
• Shi Lan studied ancient divine ability imprints and comprehended the nine-star techniques Inviting an Immortal and Demon-Slaying Edict.
• Shi Lan set up an altar in the Qiong Luo Realm and recited the Immortal-Inviting Incantation.
• Shi Lan saw a mysterious figure seated in a heavenly palace through a passage in time, then received immense power infused with immortal energy.
• After the power faded and cleansed her internal organs, Shi Lan wondered why the true immortal had helped her without causing any side effects.

After three hundred years of secluded cultivation, Shi Lan left the Qiong Luo Realm to seek a place for a Heavenly Evolution Sect branch and witnessed the Heavenly Fortune Dynasty’s prodigy selection. As she left the city, two Bodhisattvas stopped her over the great merit they sensed on her and asked her to visit their temple for an examination.

• Shi Lan emerged from seclusion with a more refined Primordial Spirit and cultivation in the middle stage of the Creation Realm, then decided to establish a Heavenly Evolution Sect branch outside Qiong Luo.
• Shi Lan traveled through the Heavenly Fortune Dynasty, reflecting on how the long seclusion had made time pass too quickly and stopping in a city to watch its prodigy selection.
• Shi Lan watched ten young prodigies compete for places in the Myriad Dynasties' Prodigy Grand Tournament and was struck by the Divine Martial Great World's vast talent and supportive attitude toward gifted cultivators.
• After Shi Lan left the city, two Bodhisattvas called her back, saying her great merit seemed not to be her own and asking her to visit their temple so an Arhat could investigate.

Shi Lan fought off two Bodhisattvas who accused her of possessing improperly acquired merit, then fled the Heavenly Fortune Dynasty to avoid further trouble. She left the Bodhisattvas sealed underground for decades and continued traveling without the protection of a powerful faction.

• The two Bodhisattvas demanded that Shi Lan return to their temple so they could investigate her merit, then attacked her with a Buddhist pagoda.
• Shi Lan used her imperial domain and avatar to shatter their Buddha phantoms, gravely wound them, and seal them in a cocoon underground.
• The trapped Bodhisattvas realized it would take at least sixty years to escape and worried they would miss the Myriad Dynasties' Prodigy Tournament.
• Shi Lan concealed her aura, left the Heavenly Fortune Dynasty, and avoided Buddhist temples as she traveled.
• Shi Lan suspected Buddhism in the Divine Martial Great World differed from the Buddhism she had encountered in Lingyang, and lamented that she lacked a powerful faction's support.

Shi Lan established the Tianyan Sect in a remote region, then watched the Lingwu Hall recruit seventh-rank cultivators as cannon fodder for an expedition to another Great Thousand World. Months later, the bloody continent they brought back drew a Buddhist Arhat’s attention, and he looked toward Shi Lan.

• Shi Lan chose a remote mountain range for the Tianyan Sect, planted spirit veins, brought out three hundred thousand disciples, and sealed the grounds with the Great Array of Celestial Stars.
• After entering seclusion to refine her Imperial Dao Domain, Shi Lan woke to the Lingwu Hall recruiting seventh-rank and higher cultivators for an expedition, and she realized their deaths would feed the Great Thousand World’s origin power.
• Countless cultivators boarded the Lingwu Hall’s battleships, which departed after two days and left the surrounding region short of seventh-rank cultivators.
• Several months later, Shi Lan watched the battleships return towing a blood-soaked continent covered in resentment-born clouds.
• A Buddhist Arhat arrived to claim merit from the slaughter’s wraiths, then fixed his gaze on Shi Lan.

Shi Lan was trapped among four Buddhist Arhats when a forced quest ordered her to exterminate Buddhism. Saint Envoy Hongtian arrived, bought the rights to the continent’s resentful spirits, and ordered the other Arhats to leave Shi Lan with him.

• Four Buddhist Arhats gathered before Shi Lan, drawn by her unexplained merit, while Venerable Jiatian refused to let them take her to meet the true Buddha.
• Shi Lan received a forced side quest to eliminate Buddhist cultivators above the ninth tier across the myriad worlds, with eternal torment in Avici Hell as the failure penalty.
• Saint Envoy Hongtian arrived and chose one Arhat’s offer of ten high-grade kingdoms and an Origin Realm Sovereign artifact in exchange for the continent’s resentful spirits.
• Hongtian questioned Shi Lan and scanned her with a mirror, which revealed that she was fifty-two years old with a Supreme Grade root bone.
• Hongtian told the other Buddhist Sovereigns to leave Shi Lan behind.

Houtian rescued Shi Lan from Venerable Jiatian and revealed that the Martial Spirit Hall knew of Lingyang through its prodigies. After Shi Lan witnessed the Buddhist rite sending the dead to the Yellow Springs, Houtian took her toward the Martial Spirit Hall for an identity check.

• Houtian broke Venerable Jiatian's Buddhist light and took Shi Lan, forcing Jiatian to withdraw.
• Houtian told Shi Lan that the Martial Spirit Hall had records of Lingyang's Heaven's Chosen Rankings and had recruited people from her homeland.
• Shi Lan watched a Buddhist arhat lead a three-day rite that sent resentful spirits toward the Yellow Springs while survivors and families mourned the dead.
• Houtian warned Shi Lan that future causes and effects could be even crueler, then ordered the fleet through a domain gate.
• Houtian told Shi Lan he was taking her to the Martial Spirit Hall to verify her identity and decide her fate.

Shi Lan arrived in the Spirit Martial Grotto-Heaven, where Ling Yun recognized the mysterious powers within her and arranged for her to be protected and cultivated. Ling Yun and a voice in the hall discussed the broken river of time, Shi Lan’s fate, and preparations involving Lingyang, which remained unfinished.

• Shi Lan doubted Hong Tian’s assurances, while Samsara said it could not hide her from an existence that crossed the river of time.
• Hong Tian brought Shi Lan and the fleet into the Spirit Martial Grotto-Heaven and led her to a hall where time passed more slowly.
• Ling Yun questioned Shi Lan about the Divine Martial Great World, then sent her to stay in a guest room on a floating island.
• Shi Lan asked Samsara whether Ling Yun had discovered it, and Samsara said he probably had but did not seem hostile for now.
• Ling Yun and a voice in the hall agreed to make Shi Lan a First-Generation True Disciple, assign her a Source Realm Supreme protector, and give her a place in the coming otherworld.
• Ling Yun and the voice discussed a person from the future in Lingyang, the severed source power and struggle across the river of time, and the preparations that still delayed their plans for Lingyang.