Chapter Summaries

Shi Lan reached the source of the Yellow Springs and learned that jumping into its waters might give her a chance to return to life. The World-Honored One confronted her, and as their standoff intensified, an immortal-light vortex appeared behind her and caught the attention of the being beside the Samsara Road.

• After more than ten days of dangerous travel, Shi Lan reached the source of the Yellow Springs and found the Samsara Road guarded by a strange being.
• The being warned Shi Lan away, then told her that jumping into the Yellow Springs might let her return to life if she guarded her mind and memories.
• The World-Honored One appeared and told Shi Lan that only the dead could pass through the Samsara Road, prompting her to draw the Crimson Crow War Halberd.
• Shi Lan accused the World-Honored One and the Underworld of obstructing the dead while failing to restore balance, and he said the Underworld acted to protect the universe from the Overlords.
• As the World-Honored One pressured Shi Lan, she declared that justice was decided by her heart, and an immortal-light vortex appeared behind her, drawing the seated being's attention.

Shi Lan battled the World-Honored One in Yellow Springs, whose power began unraveling her cultivation as he investigated the secrets within her. A chained immortal saved her, recognized her halberd art, and taught her its fourth strike before sending her away, leaving him to face the World-Honored One.

• Shi Lan attacked the World-Honored One, but he reversed spacetime and caused her cultivation and Dao fruit to recede.
• Shi Lan endured the pressure and struck with her halberd, burning away much of her origin while her Dao fruit and Martial Intent grew stronger.
• The World-Honored One discovered that the missing piece of Lingyang's Three Lives Stone was in Shi Lan and that her Primordial Spirit contained immortal light.
• A chained true immortal restored Shi Lan and asked whether the being who taught her the halberd art was still alive.
• After Shi Lan confirmed it, the immortal revealed that he had created the art in a previous life and taught her its fourth strike, Samsara.
• The immortal sent Shi Lan away, then raised his halberd against the World-Honored One and challenged him to send him into rebirth.

Yin Han fought the World-Honored One beneath the Yellow Springs, but their battle was interrupted by strange changes in the river of time. After the World-Honored One left to investigate, Shi Lan awoke in an eerily empty region and noticed the Yellow Springs tributaries beginning to merge.

• The World-Honored One warned Yin Han that the Underworld had tolerated his defiance, while Yin Han accused him of hypocrisy and challenged the justice of karma and Samsara.
• Yin Han attacked with his immortal halberd, and the World-Honored One shifted their battle from the Yellow Springs into the river of time.
• The World-Honored One noticed mysterious streaks of light traveling upstream and left to consult the Lord of the Underworld about the changes in history.
• Yin Han survived the clash, returned to the path of reincarnation, and sensed warmth within his otherwise empty chest.
• Shi Lan awoke beneath the Yellow Springs, found no wandering souls, and saw the tributaries in the sky beginning to merge.

Shi Lan learned that Yellow Springs was merging with thousands of worlds and sought a passage back to Lingyang, while Venerable investigated the Netherworld Court’s missing lord and came to retrieve her. After crossing a gray barrier, Shi Lan arrived among a growing crowd of pureblooded ancient gods who found her familiar.

• Shi Lan realized the merging tributaries of Yellow Springs reflected worlds merging across the universe, and she headed toward their convergence in search of a route back to Lingyang.
• Venerable questioned the Book of Three Lifetimes about powerful beings entering the river of time and learned that Netherworld Venerable had reincarnated in another era.
• Venerable found that one of the other adjudicators had also vanished, then opened a domain gate toward Lingyang to retrieve Shi Lan and investigate her.
• Shi Lan crossed a gray barrier after hours of struggling through its mist and felt a cold wind on the other side.
• Shi Lan saw nearly a hundred dark-red-skinned figures gathering through space passages and domain gates, and recognized them all as pureblooded ancient gods.

Shi Lan entered Yellow Springs, met ancient gods who mistook her for Yang, and learned that the underworld’s passage to Lingyang was sealed. After Meng and Ling Yun rescued her, Shi Lan resolved to find a way to reverse time and save her parents, while Meng confronted the World-Honored One to protect her.

• Shi Lan arrived in Yellow Springs and was surrounded by ancient gods, who questioned her and debated whether she was Yang’s incarnation.
• Yin told other ancient gods that Shi Lan was Yang’s incarnation and decided to wait for Ye to enter Yellow Springs.
• Shi Lan found a sealed golden Buddha and met Yuan Wei, who explained that the gate to Lingyang could not be opened because its key had vanished.
• Meng and Ling Yun forced open the black-gold gate and reached Shi Lan, and Meng revealed that Fanxi had killed her parents before dissolving into the Dao.
• Meng told Shi Lan he could not change the past, so she resolved to gather source power and use the system to reverse time herself.
• The World-Honored One arrived and demanded that Shi Lan be left behind, so Meng sent her away with Ling Yun and rose to confront him.

Meng and the World-Honored One discussed the early-arriving great calamity, the Origin Crystal, and the weakened Yellow Springs before Meng left. Shi Lan returned to a badly damaged Lingyang with the Spirit Martial Hall and prepared to seek survivors in the Shi Mansion, while Ling Yun reassured her that the destruction was not her fault.

• The World-Honored One told Meng that Fan Xi’s transformation into the Dao had stirred karmic threads and brought the great calamity forward to within a hundred thousand years.
• Meng learned that the Lord of the Underworld had reincarnated and considered taking control of the Yellow Springs, but decided to postpone the matter until after integrating the mortal world.
• The World-Honored One asked Yuan Wei about the Three Lives Stone fragment, and she said someone had forcibly taken it to the mortal world.
• The World-Honored One left the Yellow Springs after reflecting on the difficulty of integrating it without the Book of the Three Lives.
• Shi Lan returned to Lingyang and saw that the upheaval had shattered nearly half of Ming Province, displaced the Eight Provinces, and destroyed the Spirit Martial Hall’s formation.
• Shi Lan said she needed to search the Shi Mansion in Tianyuan for survivors, and Ling Yun reassured her that the Spirit Martial Hall had accepted the cost because her future was worth it.

Meng sealed the passage between yin and yang and left Lingyang for Tianyuan, while Shi Lan stayed behind. As Lingyang’s forces shifted after the upheaval, Yang Fuji searched for allies and approached a strange formation of stars.

• Meng concluded that the Lingyang Heavenly Dao had likely abandoned its authority and left Dongxuan with only an empty shell, then sealed the passage to the Yellow Springs.
• Meng gave Shi Lan a spacetime Dao-mark that could teleport her to the Lingwu Grotto-Heaven, then departed for Tianyuan; his departure drained the source power around Mingzhou.
• Fuguang and Di Luosha rescued the wounded Ancient God Yu from a ruined altar, escaping just before other Ancient Gods arrived; a golden-haired woman promised to help reclaim him.
• The Heavenly Dao Alliance became a major power in Lingyang, while reincarnators exploited the chaos to gather resources for the Samsara Hall.
• Yang Fuji kept his resources instead of exchanging them for points, grew wary of the Samsara Hall’s future, and withdrew after the Heavenly Dao Alliance tried to suppress him.
• Yang Fuji approached a formation holding numerous life-bearing stars in the empty sky.

Yang Fuji entered the Illusory Star Region and recognized Shi Lan as the swordswoman whose Dao intent had slain Supremes in the Qiong Luo Realm. When she learned he belonged to the Samsara Hall, Shi Lan and the gathered Imperial clans moved to suppress him, leaving Yang Fuji begging for his life.

• Yang Fuji entered the Illusory Star Region and found signs that a Supreme had recently been killed, so he tried to leave using a concealed protective talisman.
• Yang Fuji recognized the Sword Qi that killed an ancient beast as the same Dao intent that had cut down Supremes outside the Qiong Luo Realm.
• Shi Lan appeared behind Yang Fuji and demanded to know who he was and why he had come to Cloudmist Star.
• Yang Fuji introduced himself and said he belonged to the Samsara Hall, prompting Shi Lan to draw the Crimson Crow War Halberd.
• Shi Lan's qi and blood summoned Wu Xu, Chu Hanzhou, and others bearing Imperial weapons, who sealed the surrounding starry sky.
• Yang Fuji recognized Wu Xu, then dropped to his knees and begged Shi Lan to spare his life.

Shi Lan returned to Lingyang, subdued Yang Fuji, and prepared to take the Cloudsmoke Star’s inhabitants to Tianyuan, though Bai Weiyang and Zhu Xiyang faced different choices. Elsewhere, Qing Lan sensed that Shi Lan was alive and learned that Chenxin had come to see her.

• Wuxu identified Yang Fuji as someone who had witnessed Shi Lan’s breakthrough in the Qiong Luo Realm, and Shi Lan suppressed him and sent him into the realm.
• Shi Lan declined to bring Chu Hanzhou and the imperial clans into her dangerous plans, while Chu Hanzhou chose to remain in Lingyang and wait for her return.
• Wuxu strengthened Bai Weiyang’s sword embryo, and Shi Lan brought Bai Weiyang back to the Tianyan Sect on Cloudsmoke Star.
• Shi Lan invited Zhu Xiyang and Bai Weiyang to leave for Tianyuan, but Bai Weiyang said A-Qi had offered a chance to survive the World-Destroying Calamity through the Heavenly Dao Alliance.
• Zhu Xiyang hesitated to leave, so Shi Lan left Cloudsmoke Star in her care and decided to take its inhabitants with her.
• Qing Lan sensed Shi Lan’s blood energy and learned that Chenxin, formerly lord of the Lingyang Demon Race, had come to see her.

Chen Xin offered Qing Lan demonic blood essence and support from the Lingyang Demon Race, but she accepted the gift cautiously and sealed it away. Later, Shi Lan told Samsara about an immortal Dao expert she met in the Yellow Springs, prompting Samsara to suspect a connection to her past and Headquarters’ role in the campaign against immortals.

• Qing Lan met Chen Xin in the Blood God Hall after Blood God Kong summoned her.
• Chen Xin gave Qing Lan the Nine Transformations of Heavenly Demon and demigod bloodlines, offering help from the Lingyang Demon Race.
• Qing Lan sealed the blood essence without absorbing it, while Chen Xin sensed her caution and approved of it.
• In the Glazed Light Realm, Shi Lan told Samsara about the immortal Dao expert who knew the Three Halberds of Burning Heaven and had created a fourth halberd called Reincarnation.
• Shi Lan said she would leave for a while and take half of the Glazed Light Realm’s source power, then departed to visit Tian Bai and Bian Qin.
• Samsara wondered whether her discovery of the remote immortal Dao world had exposed it to catastrophe and questioned Headquarters’ role in the campaign to exterminate immortals.

Shi Lan visited the Tianyan Sect’s secret realm, discovered the Heavenly Dao’s young incarnation Liuli, and strengthened her resolve to prepare for the future. In the Great World of Tianyuan, Ye announced that Shi Lan had arrived as Ling Chu continued cultivating amid rumors that Li Jingzhou might take the throne.

• Shi Lan encountered Liuli in Dome City and recognized her as the reincarnation of the Liuguang Realm’s Heavenly Dao, but chose not to interfere with her growth.
• Shi Lan visited Bian Qin and Tian Bai in the Tianyan Sect’s core secret realm, then discussed with Tian Bai the possibility of Shi Lan dying before her.
• Shi Lan extracted source energy from the Liuguang Realm for the system, causing widespread devastation, and resolved to prepare carefully to protect those close to her.
• In the Flying Snow Dynasty, Li Jingzhou reached the Emperor Realm, prompting rumors that he should replace Ling Chu as emperor, while Ling Chu continued cultivating.
• Ye emerged from the human race’s historical records and told Ling Chu that Shi Lan had arrived.

Shi Lan sought a way to change the past after her family was destroyed, but Ye and Rong Xuanqing warned her that history could not be altered by ordinary means. Rong Xuanqing explained that only power beyond living beings could command the river of time and space, then revealed he had once visited the Origin Continent.

• Ye told Shi Lan that he could not change what had happened to her family, and Ling Chu watched her leave, realizing she had no place for him in her eyes.
• Shi Lan reunited with Shi Yiming and Shi Qinghu at the ruins of the Shi Mansion, told them she knew what had happened to their parents, and left them in Bai Yu’s care.
• Shi Lan traveled to the Divine Martial Otherworld and asked Rong Xuanqing about the river of time and space.
• Rong Xuanqing explained that traveling to the past created a tributary rather than changing the main course of history, and that only power beyond living beings could control past and future.
• When Shi Lan asked whether Rong Xuanqing had tried to change the past, he revealed that he had once gone to the Origin Continent.

Shi Lan learned that reversing time was possible and prepared to travel ten years into the past, while strange disasters drove the Samsara Hall’s inhabitants into hiding. The chapter ended as a colossal hand and four immense figures attacked the Samsara Hall and its crystal stele.

• Rong Xuanqing told Shi Lan about his journey to the Origin Continent and warned her that reversing time and space carried an immense price.
• Shi Lan consulted the system and chose to reverse time by ten years, preparing to return to the past alone.
• Shi Lan released Yang Fuji, who immediately fled using a talisman from the Samsara Lord God.
• Shi Lan anchored the present coordinates, backed up her memories, and activated the Ten Thousand Transformations Sacred Garment before confirming the time reversal.
• Dongfang Yunqi sensed an approaching disaster, failed to divine its cause, and escaped through a domain gate as other holy spirits fled the Samsara Hall.
• A colossal hand tore through the starry sky toward the Samsara Crystal Stele, while four immense figures sealed off the connected worlds.

Yang Fuji fled toward the Divine Martial Great World as the Reincarnation Lord God reclaimed its power and battled four Sovereigns over the Origin Crystal. Shi Lan lost her memories while traveling through time and space, then arrived in an ancient forest and met a girl named Yao.

• Yang Fuji ignited his Dao Fruit and fled from the Reincarnation Hall’s devouring force toward the Divine Martial Great World.
• The Reincarnation Lord God emerged from the crystal stele after the Reincarnation Hall and its reincarnators were drained away.
• Four Sovereigns attacked the Reincarnation Lord God and tried to seize the Origin Crystal, but it reassembled and began drawing power from the past.
• Shi Lan struggled upstream through the chaotic river of time and space as her memories faded and her system messages became incomprehensible.
• Shi Lan fell into an ancient forest near several dead beasts, where a red-haired girl named Yao woke her and asked who she was.

Yang arrived in the Lingyang Realm in an unknown era after a spacetime accident that damaged her memories, and Yao brought her to meet the clan’s God King. After recovering her strength in a secluded valley, Yang chose to restore her backed-up memories.

• Yang saw a screen report that spacetime coordinates were inaccurate and asked whether she wanted to restore backed-up memories, then followed Yao to her clan.
• Yao showed the God King the ancient beasts she had hunted and won his approval to hold her coming-of-age ceremony.
• The God King recognized that Yang had crossed time and lost her memories, then sent her to recover in a secluded valley.
• Yang devoured the ancient beasts’ remains, restored her strength, and chose to recover her backed-up memories.

Shi Lan realized she had been stranded in ancient Lingyang by an unknown interference and could not afford the energy needed to return through the system. After meeting the young Ancient God King and learning his sister Yao was about to hold a coming-of-age ceremony, Shi Lan worried that the Primordial God War was near and hesitated over how much to involve herself.

• Shi Lan learned that returning to a nearby point in time and space would cost six hundred units of ten-star energy, far beyond what she could gather.
• Shi Lan resolved to seek another way home by advancing her cultivation and entering the dominion realm where Meng resided.
• Shi Lan recognized the boy who arrived with Yao as the Ancient God King she had encountered in the Langya Grotto-Heaven.
• Yao introduced her younger brother Xia to Shi Lan and invited Shi Lan to his coming-of-age ceremony in two days.
• Yao asked whether Shi Lan was an adult, and Shi Lan reluctantly answered that she thought she was.

Shi Lan learned that the Plain Sun controlled who could leave the Lingyang Realm and began exploring after Yao and Xia departed. Her discoveries showed that the era’s population and racial hierarchy differed sharply from the human chronicle she had read.

• Yao offered to arrange Shi Lan’s coming-of-age ceremony, and Shi Lan agreed while planning to leave the Lingyang Realm once Yao was gone.
• Yao warned Shi Lan that only divine-race members escorted by an elder of Divine Nether Realm cultivation could leave, then revealed that the Plain Sun enforced the restriction.
• The Plain Sun sent flames that destroyed the valley as a warning, and Yao arranged for Shi Lan’s residence to be rebuilt.
• In a spatial passage, Xia said Shi Lan wanted to leave, while Yao explained that she could not return to her own era and teased Xia about finding a partner.
• After Yao and Xia left, Shi Lan explored nearby lands and found that demigods vastly outnumbered ancient gods, while humans remained the lowest-status race and were often enslaved.

Shi Lan returned to the rebuilt valley and weighed whether to cultivate in Lingyang or leave before the coming upheaval. The God King summoned her, identified her wish to escape disaster, and challenged her belief that the future could be changed.

• Shi Lan returned to the scorched valley and found that Yu and Ya had restored it into a spiritual land with a mountain range and stone halls.
• Yu and Ya gave Shi Lan communication talismans, then left with the demigods to report to Yao.
• Shi Lan decided to ask the God King to arrange an elder to escort her out of Lingyang.
• The God King summoned Shi Lan and deduced that she wanted to leave both to change the past and to escape a disaster.
• Shi Lan admitted both motives, and the God King told her that ancient history was fixed before inviting her to try changing the future.

Shi Lan learned from the God King that the future was fixed and that changing it might allow her to return to her own era, then focused on cultivating as time ran short. She emerged from the mountains to find Yu and Ya facing off over their beast offerings just as Xia arrived with a giant wyrm.

• The God King showed Shi Lan the river of time and space, explaining that its future endpoint was fixed and that only Rulers could see beings traveling through other times.
• The God King told Shi Lan to try to change the future and suggested she might return to her era if she succeeded, while Shi Lan resolved to focus on raising her cultivation.
• Shi Lan cultivated with the Ancestral God's arm bone, seeing a vision of a figure aiming a golden arrow at a vast realm and realizing the bone might run out within a decade.
• Shi Lan heard thuds beyond the mountains and went out to investigate.
• Yu and Ya stood facing one another among the carcasses of ancient beasts when Xia arrived through a spatial passage, dragging a giant blood-red wyrm.

Shi Lan accompanied Xia to Yao’s coming-of-age ceremony and witnessed the divine race’s brutal hierarchy, including humans being sold in cages. The God King revealed that he knew Shi Lan was not an ancient god, and she told him she wanted humans in the Lingyang Realm to stand on their feet.

• Xia brought Shi Lan to the grounds for Yao’s coming-of-age ceremony, and Yao briefly welcomed her before returning to refine her bloodline.
• Shi Lan explored the grounds and saw pure-blooded ancient gods dominate others, then found humans and other beings imprisoned and sold at a marketplace.
• Shi Lan left the marketplace in disgust and asked Xia whether he had ever bought people; Xia said he preferred hunting ancient beasts.
• As Yao’s bloodline awakening neared its end, the God King personally led Shi Lan into the hall to prevent her bloodline from being tested before the crowd.
• The God King told Shi Lan he knew she was not of the divine race, and Shi Lan declared that she wanted humans in the Lingyang Realm to stand on their feet.