Chapter Summaries

Shi Lan overwhelmed Shalie, drained his strength, and left him after his faith kept him fighting, then attacked Wang Zhen with an arrow that nearly destroyed his treasure wheel. Outside the contest, the Jade Emperor failed to divine Shi Lan’s fate and sent immortal light into the light curtain behind Wang Zhen.

• Shi Lan tore off Shalie’s limbs, seized his immortal herbs, and defeated him in a clash that damaged the Crimson Crow War Halberd.
• Shi Lan repeatedly tore off Shalie’s regenerated limbs until his blood energy was nearly exhausted, then activated his life-saving talisman and left him behind.
• Shi Lan ambushed Wang Zhen with a golden arrow, but his seven-colored treasure wheel stopped it just short of his brow.
• Wang Zhen invoked the Immortal Invitation Art while gravely wounded and refused to leave the contest.
• The Jade Emperor failed to find Shi Lan’s fate in the river of space and time, then sent immortal light behind Wang Zhen.

Shi Lan defeated Wang Zhen after his borrowed immortal power began to fade, then went searching for Yao. At the edge of the world, she found Di Beichen, who was stunned by her advancement into the Void Realm, and demanded his immortal herbs and that he leave.

• Wang Zhen used the Immortal Invitation Art to reach the peak of the Mahayana Realm, then severed the immortal-power channel and urged Shi Lan to withdraw.
• The God King replenished Shi Lan's qi and blood, and told the Jade Emperor that she had crossed the river of spacetime and lost her memories.
• Shi Lan shattered Wang Zhen's thirty-three heavens and struck him after his immortal sword failed to find her Primordial Spirit.
• Wang Zhen's borrowed immortal power dissipated, ending his fight with Shi Lan, who retrieved her golden arrow and left to search for Yao.
• Shi Lan found Di Beichen at the edge of the world and demanded his immortal herbs and that he leave, which he mistook as a threat to kill himself.

Shi Lan pursued the competition after Emperor Beichen tricked her and withdrew with his immortal medicine. Meanwhile, the Jade Emperor and the God King discussed the growing Source Crystal Fragment and the danger that the Origin Heaven might still be alive, leaving the Jade Emperor to question whether the God King was plotting against the Heavenly Court.

• Emperor Beichen distracted Shi Lan by claiming to see Yao, then activated his protective immortal talisman and withdrew with the immortal medicine.
• Shi Lan condemned Emperor Beichen as sly and hypocritical, then continued hunting competitors with the Burial Realm to end the competition quickly.
• The Jade Emperor told the God King that the Source Crystal Fragment had resisted tempering but was growing by retaining some of the source power it consumed.
• The God King warned that the Origin Heaven might still be alive and urged the Jade Emperor to seal the fragment beneath the Yellow Springs with the Book of Three Lives.
• The Jade Emperor showed the God King a mysterious system that parasitized prodigies and suggested it was connected to the missing Source Crystal Fragment.
• As the God King prepared to leave, the Jade Emperor asked whether he was among those secretly plotting against the Heavenly Court.

The Jade Emperor learned that refining the source crystal fragments could take at least a billion years, while Shi Lan fought four Empty Realm Sovereigns in the Ten Thousand Worlds Contest. Shi Lan eliminated or drove off her opponents and then attacked Wang Zhen.

• The God King told the Jade Emperor that the Immortal Dao was doomed, denied betraying the Origin Heaven, and vanished; the Jade Emperor said the Heavenly Court needed to refine the source crystal and force the Origin Heaven out.
• The Jade Emperor asked how long it would take to fuse the source crystal fragments, and the old man estimated at least a billion years.
• Shi Lan, unable to find Yao, was surrounded by four Empty Realm Sovereigns from other worlds and chose not to use the Burial Realm.
• Shi Lan’s Annihilation Divine Light eliminated the golden-haired Sovereign, and her fists and finger bones gravely injured the other three.
• Shi Lan overwhelmed two Sovereigns until their immortal talismans removed them from the contest, while the immortal-metal Sovereign forfeited after she tore off his arm and took his giant sword.
• Wang Zhen refused to help the Sovereigns, and Shi Lan fired a tribulation-wreathed golden arrow at him after saying, “Until we meet again.”

Shi Lan continued eliminating contestants as new groups arrived, while the Heavenly Court delayed the contest’s conclusion until more realms had taken part. After sending out nearly a thousand beings, she was declared the champion for the Lingyang Realm as Yang.

• The Jade Emperor ordered the Star Lords on duty to welcome Venerables who had not yet reached the Heavenly Court.
• Shi Lan collected the realm’s spiritual materials and immortal medicines while she waited for the contest to end.
• When new contestants entered the realm, Shi Lan shot them down with the Burial Realm and triggered their life-preserving talismans.
• Shi Lan swept away successive waves of weaker contestants with her blood and qi, eliminating nearly a thousand beings.
• A True Immortal announced that the champion of the contest was the Lingyang Realm—Yang.

Shi Lan claimed first place in the clash among the myriad realms and received the Heavenly Court’s rewards, then arranged for Wang Zhen to help transform her battle halberd. The Divine King began explaining the Jade Emperor’s origins, revealing that the Heavenly Court’s three Grand Supreme Ones had once been one being from the Origin Continent.

• The True Immortal announced the top hundred rankings, with Shi Lan first and Lingyang Realm claiming twenty-eight places, while Yin, Lei, and the divine-clan elders worried about the lack of young pure-blooded successors.
• The Jade Emperor gave Shi Lan the Flower of the Other Shore, offered the top ten True Immortal artifacts, and invited ranked Sovereigns to join the Heavenly Court; Shi Lan declined his private recruitment offer.
• Shi Lan gave the Flower of the Other Shore to Yao, exchanged congratulations with Xia and Yuqi, and learned from Yuqi that the Heavenly Court’s Jade Clarity Creation Art differed greatly from her own version.
• Wang Zhen visited the Lingyang group, and Shi Lan asked him to arrange for an Immortal Venerable to transform the Crimson Crow War Halberd; he accepted the weapon and immortal metals as a favor.
• After Wang Zhen and Yuqi departed, Shi Lan asked the Divine King about the Jade Emperor, and he revealed that Yuqing, Taiqing, and Shangqing had once been one Origin Continent giant who opened the first world beyond it.

The God King told Shi Lan about Yuanji’s failed attempt to create a world and warned her that Yuqing intended to sever her Dao Path. He also revealed that his lifespan was running out, leaving Shi Lan wondering how he would die, before Wang Zhen returned with the Crimson Crow War Halberd months later.

• The God King explained that Yuanji had opened a world, become its Heavenly Dao, and seen it destroyed by eight Dominators after the Origin Heaven offered a lifespan reward.
• The God King warned Shi Lan that Yuqing meant to sever her Dao Path and said he sensed his own death approaching, though he could not see why.
• Yao asked Shi Lan what she and the God King had discussed, and Shi Lan reflected on the God King’s unknown death and the danger it implied for Yao.
• Supremes and World Lords visited Lingyang to build ties and give Shi Lan gifts, while Xue Hong congratulated her and vowed not to lose to her again.
• Months passed as Shi Lan received gifts, and Wang Zhen returned with the Crimson Crow War Halberd, bringing her a great surprise.

Shi Lan claimed the competition’s champion reward at the Heavenly Court’s treasury, choosing the Sun-Splitting Bow and Moon-Piercing Arrows, then returned to Lingyang after a twenty-year gathering. The God King led the group home, while several Demon Race geniuses and supreme beings chose to remain behind.

• Wang Zhen told Shi Lan that Immortal Venerable Crimson Cloud had transformed the Crimson Crow War Halberd into a true immortal weapon.
• Shi Lan copied more than a hundred thousand martial arts texts from the Heavenly Court’s treasury and chose the Sun-Splitting Bow and Moon-Piercing Arrows as her reward.
• Wang Zhen, Sha Lie, Mo Huan, and Zu Xiang each selected an immortal treasure before the group returned from the treasury.
• Shi Lan secluded herself amid the celebrations and visits at the Heavenly Court, emerging when the God King announced preparations to return.
• The God King led the enlarged Lingyang group home after several Demon Race geniuses and seven supreme beings chose to stay behind.

Shi Lan returned to Lingyang after more than twenty years away, finding that less than two years had passed there and that Ye had advanced to the Pill Embrace Realm. Meanwhile, Di Luosha’s attempt to cultivate revealed a flaw in her forcibly fused divine-demonic bloodline.

• Shi Jie asked the God-King to let the Buddhist sect spread its teachings in Lingyang, but the God-King refused and departed with Shi Lan and the others.
• Shi Jie told the World-Honored One that he sensed a calamity threatening the Buddhist lineage and that Lingyang held a possible hope, then mentioned his unclear karmic connection to Shi Lan.
• Shi Lan returned to the mountain valley and found Ye had reached perfection in the Pill Embrace Realm, while she remained stuck in the early Void Realm without a Dao Fruit.
• Di Luosha spat blood during cultivation, and she told Fuguang that her divine and demonic blood had never fully fused and that the flaw had worsened since she attained the Dao.

Di Luosha worried that her divine blood was preventing her cultivation from advancing, while Fuguang gave her the Heavenly Demon Mirror to nourish and urged her to trust her father. Meanwhile, Shi Lan returned to the Lingyang Realm and began a prize draw with the reputation points she had gained at the Heavenly Court.

• Di Luosha told Fuguang that her damaged Dao Fruit made opening a Dao Flower impossible and that forcing her way into the Divine Nether Realm would cause it to collapse.
• Fuguang gave Di Luosha the Heavenly Demon Mirror, saying Beichen had left her an opportunity inside it, and warned that the Devil Master of Extreme Radiance's repeated interest in her seemed suspicious.
• Di Luosha asked whether there was news of Shi Lan, but Fuguang said she might have fallen because no rumors of her had surfaced.
• Yao waited outside Yang's secluded hall, and Ye told her that Yang would emerge within three to five days.
• Shi Lan reviewed her cultivation and the enormous reputation points she had gained from the Myriad Realms' Contest of Heroes, then confirmed that she would begin a prize draw.

Shi Lan’s draws yielded powerful treasures and pills from the future, including ways to reverse death and restore her origin, while the Divine King warned her not to disturb spacetime beyond Lingyang. In the Ancient Immortal Era, the Imperial Lord set out for the Origin with a man in black, cautioning that changing the past might still end in failure.

• Shi Lan spent sixteen billion prestige points on sixteen draws, receiving eight rare treasures and eight precious pills, all rated nine stars or higher.
• Shi Lan examined the Haoxian Armor, Spacetime Mirror, and pills, discovering that the mirror could return her to the past and the Emperor Essence Pill could restore her origin and lost lifespan.
• The Divine King appeared and warned Shi Lan that her draw had disturbed the great river of spacetime, advising her not to use such a method beyond Lingyang.
• In the Ancient Immortal Era, the Imperial Lord summoned a man in black and asked whether he was certain he wanted to accompany her to the Origin.
• The man in black pleaded to go with the Imperial Lord, who opened a green lotus stairway through spacetime and warned that changing fate might still end in failure.

Ying Qianqiu and Qing Lan arrived in the past before the decisive battle that would destroy the Immortal Dao, and the Immortal Emperor tasked Ying with seeking aid from the Heavenly Court. As the Sovereigns launched their attack on the Heavenly Court, Qing Lan confronted the guardian of the Three Lives Stone in the Yellow Springs.

• Qing Lan crossed the boundary into the Yellow Springs while Ying Qianqiu traveled to the Azure Rainbow Realm to find an old acquaintance.
• The Immortal Emperor asked Ying Qianqiu to take his Heavenly Fire Imperial Token to the Heavenly Court and request help or bring back the Three Saints' immortal scripture.
• Ji Li escorted Ying Qianqiu out of the sealed realm along the Yellow Springs Road.
• The Sovereigns sensed the Green Lotus crossing the River of Spacetime and launched simultaneous assaults, destroying the Heavenly Court's four gates.
• Qing Lan told the white-robed guardian she would take a piece of the Three Lives Stone, then transformed the surrounding Yellow Springs into an immortal paradise.

Qing Lan took a fragment from the Three Lives Stone beneath the Yellow Springs, then agreed to speak with the mysterious Nether Venerable. In the shattered Heavenly Court, Ying Qianqiu received scriptures and a command token from the Jade Emperor as the battle intensified and former Heavenly Court gods turned against its forces.

• Qing Lan overwhelmed the white-robed man, carved a fragment from the Three Lives Stone, and encountered the Nether Venerable, who asked to speak with her.
• The Jade Emperor gave Ying Qianqiu immortal scriptures and a King Yama token, telling him to deliver a message to Skyfire and escape beneath the Yellow Springs.
• Ying Qianqiu arrived on the devastated battlefield, where his jade disc absorbed a sword strike as the Heavenly Court's forces fought overwhelming enemies.
• Two fragments of Origin Crystals appeared, drawing the overlords' attention, while a glimmer of pure light entered a Taiyin Star.
• The Jade Emperor confronted Kano as former Orthodox Gods burned their wish-power and attacked the immortal cultivators.

The Jade Emperor entered the River of Time and fought the Dominators as the Heavenly Court fell, while the Heavenly Dao Alliance secured control over its territories and promoted a new cultivation method. Qing Lan later witnessed Ying Qianqiu's death and gave Linglong the repaired Exquisite Jade Bi before continuing her journey through time.

• The Jade Emperor unsealed the Heavenly Court's immortal weapons, entered the River of Time, and trapped the Dominators there with his immortal cauldron.
• The Jade Emperor killed a Dominator, but Zexu and the remaining Dominators overwhelmed the Heavenly Court after emerging from the River of Time and destroyed the Thirty-Three Heavens.
• Zexu persuaded the Dominators to promote the Heavenly Dao Alliance's cultivation method and claimed the great realms formerly ruled by the Heavenly Court, announcing plans to reopen the world ranch.
• Ying Qianqiu recovered his sealed memories, sought the Watercloud Immortal Venerable, and later died after giving the broken Exquisite Jade Bi to Qing Lan.
• Qing Lan repaired the jade bi and traveled back to Langya Cave Heaven, where she gave it to the young Linglong with three protective talismans.

Ye guarded the secluded valley against visitors while Di Beichen and Fuguang tried to deliver a calling card to Yao. Afterward, Di Beichen revealed his interest in winning over Yao and Yang, and Fuguang suspected he coveted Yao’s God Race blood.

• Ye told Di Beichen and Fuguang that only Yao could enter the valley without permission.
• Fuguang insulted Ye, but Di Beichen stopped him, handed over a calling card, and left.
• Di Beichen explained that Ye’s rapid cultivation made it wise to treat him with respect, especially out of regard for Yang.
• Fuguang questioned Di Beichen’s pursuit of Yao, and Di Beichen said his feelings had changed while keeping his reasons secret.
• Di Beichen asked how he could make Yang warm up to him, and Fuguang guessed he wanted Yao’s God Race blood.

Di Beichen considered other ways to obtain divine blood, while Shi Lan sought the Divine King’s guidance on advancing beyond the tenth rank without a Dao Flower. The Divine King revealed that she would have to break through the barriers of time and space with her body, though doing so seemed impossible without already reaching the Other Shore.

• Fuguang warned Di Beichen that mixed-blood clans could not reincarnate, but urged caution because their tribes had powerful connections.
• Shi Lan cultivated with the True Dragon Blood-Refining Pill, reaching the middle stage of the Void Realm while remaining stuck on how to advance her Martial Scripture beyond the tenth rank.
• Yao declined to accompany Shi Lan to seek the Divine King’s advice and headed deeper into the secluded valley after Shi Lan left.
• Shi Lan explained her cultivation problem to the Divine King, who said she could only continue without a Dao Fruit by forcing her way through the barriers of time and space.
• The Divine King used Shi Lan’s Sacred Demon Eye to show her the gate to the tenth rank and explained that breaking through with her physical body alone would require the power of the Other Shore.

The God King explained how source energy and Origin Heaven could bring about the destruction of the great universe, then asked Shi Lan whether Origin Heaven should rule again. Shi Lan rejected the idea of allowing it to reopen Heaven and Earth and vowed to strike down Heaven if it threatened her world.

• The God King told Shi Lan that her path had severed her karma with Origin Heaven and asked why she had begun cultivating; she answered that she sought self-preservation.
• Shi Lan described the later great universe as a malformed age where the strong used source energy to control the lives of countless beings, and she questioned the tragedies it caused.
• The God King recalled how the divine race had served Origin Heaven and revealed that Origin Heaven had warned him that source energy would create a chaotic age and that an imbalance could cleanse the mortal realm.
• The God King explained that Origin Heaven remained alive as long as the source crystal existed and could awaken if its fragments were reunited.
• Shi Lan said she would rather Origin Heaven remain asleep than destroy the world, then vowed to strike down Heaven if it tried to reopen Heaven and Earth.

After learning that the mixed-bloods were attacking human tribes, Shi Lan left the valley and found Cha Lie destroying her shrine in northern Lingyang. A tenth-tier mixed-blood confronted her over whether she was acting for the divine race, and Shi Lan prepared to fight.

• The God King accepted that Shi Lan had chosen to pursue Slay Heaven and offered to help her when she visited.
• Shi Lan returned to the valley, where Yao was teasing Ye during his training, and Yao invited Shi Lan somewhere.
• Shi Lan sensed that her statues and longevity tablets had been destroyed and heard from Kuang Shaoqing that mixed-bloods were slaughtering human tribes, so she decided to investigate alone.
• In northern Lingyang, Shi Lan found Cha Lie crushing her statue at the ruined shrine of Lord Chaori.
• A silver-haired tenth-tier mixed-blood questioned whether Shi Lan would kill Cha Lie on behalf of the divine race, and Shi Lan drew the Crimson Crow War Halberd and challenged him.

Shi Lan overwhelmed a Tenth-Order expert but discovered that his command of space and time let him revive without limit. When she threatened Zhalie with an arrow, Yin and a white-haired boy intervened, and the boy defended his actions to Yin.

• Shi Lan attacked the middle-aged man with her Crimson Crow War Halberd, severed his arms, and fought him with the power of the Hao Immortal Armor.
• Shi Lan pierced the middle-aged man's heart, broke his wrist, and tore off his head, but he revived each time with his strength intact.
• Shi Lan realized the middle-aged man could draw on the river of space and time to restore his incarnations, making him difficult to kill and a threat in a war of attrition.
• Shi Lan stomped the middle-aged man into the ground and aimed a golden greatbow at the wounded Zhalie.
• A white-haired boy caught Shi Lan's arrow and broke it as Yin arrived; the boy told Yin that Shi Lan had acted first and that his intervention was reasonable.

Shi Lan learned that the impure-blooded branch had declared independence as the demigod race and plunged all of Lingyang into war. After Kuang Shaoqing returned with survivors, Shi Lan realized Yao and Ye were missing.

• Jun Xuan attacked Shi Lan, but Yin intervened and challenged him over the impure-blooded branch's slaughter.
• Jun Xuan withdrew with Sha Lie and another man, while Yin left to report to the Divine King.
• Shi Lan returned to the valley, killing supremes from the impure-blooded branch along the way.
• Kuang Shaoqing arrived with more than a dozen wounded Emperor Realm survivors and reported catastrophic losses across the tribes.
• Kuang Shaoqing told Shi Lan that the impure-blooded branch had declared independence as the demigod race under Great Sage Kunyu, who had entered the highest realm.
• Shi Lan searched the valley with her divine sense and found that Yao and Ye were gone.