Chapter Summaries

Yao and Ye discovered that Sayun had destroyed Ye’s tribe, and Yao killed him before Shi Lan arrived. As they prepared to return to the valley, Ye asked Shi Lan what she thought of the human race.

• Shi Lan learned Yao and Ye had left the valley and went out disguised as a demigod to find them.
• Yao and Ye found the ruins of Ye’s tribe, where Ye buried the few bones he could recover.
• Sayun admitted he had destroyed the tribe, and Yao killed him with a battle spear.
• Yao told Ye he could take revenge, but Ye said Sayun was not the root of his tribe’s destruction.
• Shi Lan arrived, and Ye asked her what she thought of the human race.

After Ye questioned whether humans could ever surpass Gods and Devils, Shi Lan urged him to choose his own path. As war between the Divine Race and the mixed-bloods loomed, Shi Lan sheltered a growing human population, then learned that every ancient beast in the Lingyang Realm had vanished.

• Ye asked Shi Lan whether humans could surpass Gods and Devils, and she told him his race did not determine how far he could go.
• The Divine King told the four lineage heads that Kun Yu had entered the Sovereign realm, but ordered them to handle the likely war with the mixed-bloods while she went into seclusion.
• The four lineage heads set out to seek allies among the Demon Race, devils, and sea races, while overlooking humanity as no threat.
• Shi Lan opened more than ten pocket heavens to house the humans gathering under Kuang Shaoqing, and Yao returned to the Divine Race to reassure its people.
• Shi Lan learned that every ancient beast in the Lingyang Realm had vanished, leaving her worried that humans, devils, and demons would be forced to fill the food-chain gap.

Shi Lan protected Lingyang’s humans while studying spacetime laws, but Yao informed her that the Divine Race expected her to provide Kuang Shaoqing and other experts as a reserve force for the coming war. Meanwhile, the Demigod Race prepared to fight the Divine Race within three months and discussed killing Shi Lan when an opportunity arose.

• Shi Lan sent Kuang Shaoqing to organize human experts and shelter people across the Four Regions, then entered seclusion to study the laws of spacetime with the Cosmic Mirror.
• Shi Lan discovered that the Cosmic Mirror’s time reversal affected her body but not her cultivation, and concluded that her body could not yet escape time’s erosion.
• Yao met Shi Lan with Divine Race representatives and warned that the clan distrusted her protection of so many humans; she said the Divine King was secluded and the First Elder was handling affairs.
• Yao told Shi Lan that the Divine Race had decided to deploy the Demon and Monster Races and required Kuang Shaoqing and some of Shi Lan’s forces as reserves; Shi Lan agreed.
• Xuanjun told two Demigod leaders that Sovereign Kunyu had ordered war against the Divine Race within three months and claimed the Heavenly Dao of Lingyang would support them.
• The Demigod leaders discussed their shortage of human blood reserves and planned to have Shi Lan killed, with the woman advising that they attack together to prevent her escape or reincarnation.

The Divine King killed Kunyu and erased him from history, but Shi Lan alone still remembered him. He explained that he sought a death that would erase every trace of his existence, yet the Lingyang Heavenly Dao imprint bound him to the Origin Heaven, leaving him unable to escape its record.

• A blood-red bolt destroyed the jade in Jun Xuan’s hand, and the altered memories of Jun Xuan, Gu Qi, and Ye Qing left them unaware that Kunyu had been erased.
• Jun Xuan received a message from the Heavenly Dao and resolved to prepare for war, while Ye Qing urged Gu Qi to join a surprise attack on Yang and the human elite.
• Shi Lan sent a million human fighters with Yao, then learned that Yao had no memory of Kunyu and that Yao and Xia had been sealed away for centuries.
• Shi Lan summoned the Divine King, who confirmed that he had killed Kunyu and said he could not explain why she alone still remembered him.
• The Divine King explained that true death meant severing a being’s connection to the Origin Heaven, but the Lingyang Heavenly Dao imprint inside him prevented him from disappearing completely.

Shi Lan entered the River of Space-Time to comprehend its laws, but its power nearly erased her memories and lifespan. After returning and devising a way to let the river flow through her Dragon Gate, she altered the future and retained a portion of the river's power.

• Shi Lan asked the Divine King to help her enter the River of Space-Time again, and he warned that she might lose herself there.
• The Divine King sent Shi Lan into the river, where its force shattered her consciousness, drained her lifespan, and filled her mind with chaotic memories.
• The Divine King pulled Shi Lan out and replenished her lifespan, while the system helped her recover her memories; she cut away the fragments she had brought back.
• Shi Lan studied the river and pierced her waist and abdomen to open the Dragon Gate, hoping to let its current pass through her body.
• Shi Lan's method briefly let her sense the river's bottom and caused the river to split into tributaries, prompting the Divine King to pull her out again.
• The Divine King saw that Shi Lan's Dragon Gate held a clear spring containing the laws of space-time.

After spending decades in the river of spacetime, Shi Lan recovered her memories and gained annihilation force, but saw visions of the God King's death and a future catastrophe. She returned to the valley, where four figures appeared and she could no longer recognize them.

• Shi Lan awakened after more than seventy years and discovered that the river of spacetime flowed through her body, nourishing her and revealing fragments of the past and future.
• Shi Lan manifested annihilation force, and the God King explained that it could kill a Rank-Ten Supreme by severing their connection to the Origin Heaven.
• Shi Lan told the God King she had seen a blood-red sword tear open the Lingyang Grand Realm and foresaw his death, followed by the deaths of many living beings.
• Shi Lan said she had seen the eternal tribulation across the ages and no longer needed to remain in the river of spacetime.
• The God King dismissed Shi Lan, who returned to the valley and sensed danger as four figures appeared above it; she blurted that she knew them, then could not recognize them.

Four Other Shore demigods ambushed Shi Lan’s settlement and appeared to kill her, prompting Yao to order a search and prepare for war. Shi Lan returned through the River of Spacetime, stopped Yao from involving the gods, and set out to retaliate against the demigods herself; she ended the chapter aiming her golden bow at a tribe.

• Four Other Shore demigods led by Jun Xuan attacked Shi Lan’s settlement, and the valley was reduced to a lifeless plain.
• Yao arrived, learned the demigods had attacked and Shi Lan’s fate was unknown, then ordered a search and mobilized the gods against the mixed-blood line.
• Shi Lan emerged from the River of Spacetime and warned Yao not to involve the gods in the conflict.
• Shi Lan asked Yao for the demigod tribes’ locations and Chalie’s whereabouts, declaring that she would kill him and make the demigods pay.
• Shi Lan traveled west and realized she could not remember the four attackers because she had erased them from her future spacetime.
• Shi Lan drew her golden bow and aimed at a tribe below.

Shi Lan destroyed demigod tribes to prevent a larger divine war, but using annihilation began erasing her memories. After rescuing three Devil Race members from demigod pursuers, she recognized Luo Ning and stopped to face her.

• Sha Lie tried to shield the youths in his palace, but Shi Lan destroyed his tribe and killed more than a million demigods with the Sunshatter Bow.
• Shi Lan traveled across the Lingyang Realm and erased thirteen demigod tribes in one night, prompting the demigod experts to hunt her.
• A silver-haired Divine Nether Realm expert confronted Shi Lan, who severed his connection to the River of Spacetime and killed him with the Moonbreaker Arrow.
• Shi Lan wondered who the dead expert had been as annihilation left gaps in her memories, then continued onward while demigod forces closed in.
• Shi Lan killed a group of demigods pursuing three Devil Race members and recognized the purple-haired woman as Luo Ning.

Shi Lan reunited with Di Beichen and met Luo Ning before leaving with a snow demon orchid bracelet. News spread that Yang had entered the domain of space-time and killed a demigod peak expert, prompting the demigod Great Sages to plan another attempt to erase her from history.

• Luo Ning thanked Shi Lan for saving her and invited her to visit her clan, but Shi Lan declined before accepting Luo Ning’s flower bracelet.
• Di Beichen arrived to check on Luo Ning, and Shi Lan warned him through a mental transmission not to pursue Yao.
• Fuguang realized that Yang had reached the tenth rank, while Di Beichen remained in the Origin Realm.
• Reports spread that Yang had retaliated against the demigod race and killed Yunlin, a peak Divine Nether Realm expert.
• Ye Qing and Jun Xuan concluded that the Yang they had seen die was a clone, and Jun Xuan ordered the Great Sages to kill her again and erase her from the river of time.

Shi Lan waged a one-person campaign against the Demigod Race, forcing it to retreat while other races quietly moved to support her. After refusing the Lingyang Heavenly Dao’s offer to become a Ruler and attack the Divine Race, she prepared to return and cultivate; Jun Xuan then declared war on the Human Race to force her into battle.

• The Demigod Race issued a kill order for Yang, but Shi Lan ignored its threats and evaded its forces while striking Demigod settlements with the Sun-Shattering Bow.
• Shi Lan’s strength and the Demigod Race’s losses drew secret support from other races, while she urged Yao to keep the Divine Race from entering the conflict.
• After several years, the Demigod Race withdrew behind its Great Sages, and other races claimed its abandoned territories as Shi Lan continued preparing to open a second dragon gate.
• The Lingyang Heavenly Dao offered Shi Lan a path to becoming a Ruler if she stopped killing Demigods and attacked the Divine Race, but Shi Lan refused and suspected the Divine King could restrain the Heavenly Dao.
• Shi Lan decided to return and enter seclusion, while the Demigod Race’s leaders discussed the growing support for Yang and Jun Xuan proposed wiping out the Human Race to force her into a decisive battle.

Shi Lan sought the Golden Crow Clan’s support for a future assault on the demigod race, but Chi Jue abruptly refused after hearing her confidence. She left the clan’s territory suspecting Lingyang Heaven had caused the sudden change.

• Shi Lan visited the Golden Crow Clan’s Fusang divine tree and discussed the demigod faction’s growing threat with Chi Jue.
• Shi Lan proposed that the Golden Crow Clan help her destroy the demigod race after she made another breakthrough.
• Chi Jue warned that defeating Jun Xuan and the other demigod Great Sages would require uniting Lingyang’s strongest forces.
• Shi Lan said killing the demigod leaders would not be difficult, and Chi Jue suddenly refused to get involved.
• Shi Lan left the Golden Crow Clan’s territory and looked toward the sky, wondering about Lingyang Heaven.

Shi Lan visited the Devil Race’s Great Sage, Luo Yongning, to learn whether he would oppose the Lingyang Realm’s Heavenly Dao, but he said the Devil Race would remain neutral unless the Divine King ordered otherwise. After Xue Qing tried to seduce her, Shi Lan met Luo Ning and discovered that the pregnant woman was drinking a tonic made from Demigod Race blood.

• Shi Lan realized the Divine King was ignoring her and suspected something had happened between him and the Lingyang Realm’s Heavenly Dao.
• Shi Lan visited Tianlu and asked Luo Yongning whether he had received a message from the Heavenly Dao; he said the Devil Race would avoid the conflict unless the Divine King commanded it to fight.
• Yin offered Shi Lan help if she needed it, then asked Luo Yongning to search for the legendary Soulblood Spirit Ginseng.
• Xue Qing used her alluring presence to unsettle Shi Lan and invited her to seek her out if she changed her mind.
• Shi Lan met Luo Ning and Di Beichen, learned Luo Ning was pregnant, and noticed that her spiritual tonic contained blood essence from tens of thousands of Demigod Race clansmen.

Shi Lan explored Tianlu City with Luo Ning and learned that the demigods had launched a campaign to encircle and exterminate humanity. Xue Qing and Luo Yongning discussed Shi Lan’s divine blood and the threat her arrival posed to their plans, while Shi Lan realized the demigods had left her no time to act.

• Shi Lan gave Luo Ning rare immortal herbs to help offset the effects of drinking divine blood, and Luo Ning accepted them.
• Shi Lan sensed that Di Beichen’s aura had shifted closer to that of a demigod, then went sightseeing with Luo Ning while he stayed behind.
• Xue Qing told Luo Yongning that Shi Lan carried Divine King blood and had powerful spacetime laws, but she had not tested Shi Lan’s strength.
• Luo Yongning worried that Shi Lan could inherit the Heavenly Dao Imprint if she reached the Other Shore Realm, and Xue Qing redirected him toward the divine-demon spirit body.
• Shi Lan heard in Tianlu City that demigod great saints had begun a campaign to encircle and exterminate humanity, and she concluded there was no time left.

Shi Lan returned to the divine race’s heartlands, accepted a Great Sage-grade battle spear from Luo Yongning, and opened her second dragon gate in seclusion. Her power surged, but a familiar whisper about past and future lingered in her mind.

• Shi Lan left Tianlu, but Luo Yongning summoned her back and gave her a repaired Great Sage-grade battle spear for the coming battle against the demigod clan.
• Shi Lan returned to the divine race’s heartlands, where Yao reported that the mixed-blood faction was pressuring the divine race and that its leaders were close to choosing war.
• Shi Lan secluded herself in a valley and opened the second dragon gate along her spine, resisting the urge to glimpse the future through the river of time and space.
• The second dragon gate greatly increased Shi Lan’s annihilation force, bringing the Other Shore realm within reach of challenge.
• Shi Lan woke with a familiar whisper carved into her mind: “To the past... you are the end... To the future... I am the origin...”

After opening her second dragon gate, Shi Lan reached the Other Shore and sought allies to destroy the demigod race. She gathered Xue Qing and Su Ri’s support, then faced the demigod race’s four Great Sages at the Western Sea, where she prepared four tombs for them.

• Shi Lan saw the demigod race’s invasion driving humanity toward the Central Plains and went to Tianlu to ask Xue Qing for help.
• Shi Lan revealed she was not of the divine race and promised Xue Qing a favor in exchange for the Devil Race’s aid; Xue Qing agreed.
• Shi Lan asked Chi Jue to help fight the demigod race, but Su Ri volunteered to go in his place and ordered him to guard the Golden Crow Clan.
• A challenge letter spread through the Lingyang Realm, and Shi Lan prepared four golden tombs on the Western Sea shore for the demigod race’s four Great Sages.

Shi Lan challenged the four Great Sages of the Demigod Race in the long river of time and space, using destructive power to withstand Jun Xuan’s Sovereign treasure. When Lingyang Heaven suppressed the allies’ Dao flowers and drove them from the battle, Shi Lan revealed she had no intention of retreating and confronted the heavenly will itself.

• Su Ri drew the battlefield into the long river of time and space, while Xue Qing and Luo Yongning joined Shi Lan against the four Great Sages.
• Shi Lan endured Jun Xuan’s golden seal with destructive-power armor, then severed his head and badly wounded him.
• Lingyang Heaven suppressed the allies’ Dao flowers and restored Jun Xuan, forcing Xue Qing, Luo Yongning, and Su Ri to withdraw.
• The four Great Sages surrounded Shi Lan, but she swallowed power from the river of time and space and sealed their escape routes.
• Shi Lan challenged Lingyang Heaven to stop interfering, warning that she would make an enemy of it if it aided the Demigod Race.

Shi Lan defeated and killed three of the four demigod Great Saints after Lingyang Heaven suppressed their Dao Flowers, while Ye Qing escaped only to be killed after returning to the realm. With the demigod race weakened and Lingyang Heaven protecting its territory, Shi Lan spent more than twenty cycles refining the captured golden seal before Yao told her that a visitor from the Heavenly Court had arrived.

• Lingyang Heaven suppressed the four Great Saints' Dao Flowers, and Jun Xuan sacrificed himself to open a rift in Shi Lan's cage so the others could flee.
• Shi Lan killed two fleeing Great Saints and pursued Ye Qing into the Lingyang Realm, where she killed him and buried all three in tombs beneath a stele marked "Demigod."
• Blood rain spread across Lingyang as the races reacted to the demigod Great Saints' deaths, while Shi Lan returned to the god race and declined Yao's offer of blood pills and divine medicines.
• Lingyang Heaven placed Dao-forbidding runes over demigod territory to protect it from invasion, and Shi Lan left the race alone while she studied Jun Xuan's captured golden seal.
• After more than twenty cycles of the seasons in seclusion, Shi Lan received Yao's message that a visitor from the Heavenly Court had arrived.

Shi Lan hosted Yuqi and Wang Zhen in Lingyang, declined Yuqi’s invitation to visit the Heavenly Court, and repaid a debt to Immortal Venerable Jiangyun with immortal gold. After learning that Shi Lan had reached the Other Shore, the Jade Emperor investigated her rise and found that the source crystal could reveal no trace of her battle.

• Yuqi and Wang Zhen visited Shi Lan in Lingyang, where Yuqi congratulated her on entering the Other Shore and invited her to travel with her.
• Shi Lan declined Yuqi’s invitation because her presence and cultivation risked disturbing other worlds, then gave Wang Zhen immortal gold to repay her debt to Immortal Venerable Jiangyun.
• After Yuqi and Wang Zhen departed, Shi Lan heard a familiar voice transmit to her: the God King.
• Yuqi told the Jade Emperor that Shi Lan had entered the Other Shore, and Wang Zhen confirmed the news and reported that she had reportedly slain four Other Shore Great Sages.
• The Jade Emperor used the source crystal to investigate Shi Lan’s advancement but found no trace of her battle, then summoned a blood-red immortal sword and focused on Lingyang.

The God King told Shi Lan that her advancing further would threaten Origin Heaven and that he would die fighting the Sovereigns who came to kill her, so he gave her one year before sending her back to her own era. Shi Lan chose to leave and settled her ties with Yao, Xue Qing, and Luo Ning before departing Lingyang.

• The God King told Shi Lan that Origin Heaven had sensed her existence and that he would die fighting the Sovereigns, then gave her one year before sending her back to the future.
• Shi Lan chose to return to her own era, and the God King let her leave after she asked whether she could do anything more for him.
• Shi Lan gave Yao the Nine-Turn Soul-Congealing Pill and revealed that she was human; Yao accepted her farewell and blessed her journey.
• Shi Lan repaid Xue Qing with a mass of king blood and agreed to see Luo Ning before leaving.
• Shi Lan visited the pregnant Luo Ning, warned her to consider the burden of another child, and named the child Di Luosha.

Shi Lan settled her remaining ties in the Primordial Era, then warned Ye to forge his own path and entrusted him with her pre-tenth-rank Martial Intent. When the God King called, Shi Lan left Dawn and stepped onto the river of time and space to begin her return.

• Shi Lan visited the Golden Crow Clan, leaving Suri an Immortal-Nurturing Aperture-Cultivating Pill and a golden statue infused with her true blood and aura.
• After returning to Dawn, Shi Lan spent more than half a year in silence, steadying her mind before attempting the dangerous journey home.
• Ye visited Shi Lan, now a late-seventh-rank cultivator nearing the formation of his domain.
• Shi Lan cautioned Ye that he could not follow her path to the Dao and gave him a crystal containing her Martial Intent from before the tenth rank.
• Shi Lan urged Ye to protect the human race and follow his heart rather than live with regret, then dismissed him.
• When the God King's voice sounded, Shi Lan rose and stepped through the barrier onto the river of time and space.