Chapter Summaries

Shi Lan was sent downstream through the spacetime river as the Divine King fought the Jade Emperor and the Dominators, killing two before they destroyed him. After the battle, the story revealed that the Divine King had sent Lingyang's source power beneath Yellow Springs, while four Great Saints returned from death and learned that Yang had left their era.

• Shi Lan arrived at the spacetime river, where the Divine King sealed her in a crystal coffin and sent her downstream while the Jade Emperor and the Dominators pursued her.
• The Divine King fought the Jade Emperor and the Dominators, killed two of them with the power of origin, and was ultimately ground to dust by the survivors.
• The Jade Emperor learned that Lingyang's source power had formed an independent Samsara beneath Yellow Springs and led the surviving Dominators back to the Heavenly Court.
• In Lingyang Realm, the Divine King's remnant soul questioned why the Lingyang Heaven was still binding him and involving Xia.
• Ye Qing, Jun Xuan, and two other Great Saints emerged from their tombs, learned that Yang had left their era and the Divine King had died, and Jun Xuan agreed to prepare for the Lingyang Heaven's summons.

After the God and Demigod Races began a devastating war, Ye rose to power in the God Race and married Yao, but suspicion fell on him when their sons Jue and Xiu were accused of aiding the enemy. Ye executed his sons before the God Race’s leaders and left for the battlefield, while Xia wondered where Yao had gone.

• The God Race allied with the Demon and Devil Races against the Demigods, and the conflict became known as the God War.
• Under pressure to continue the royal bloodline, Yao asked Ye to marry her, and Yin later adopted Ye into the God Race under the surname Gu.
• Ye married Yao, entered the Divine Nether Realm, and helped establish the Human Race’s historical record as their people grew stronger.
• After Jue and Xiu were implicated as spies, Yin warned Ye that the God Race suspected him and demanded he choose between the Human Race and his sons.
• Ye told Yao that he would not spare Jue and Xiu; Yao asked him to kill her first if he went through with it.
• Ye beheaded Jue and Xiu before the God Race’s leaders, then left for the battlefield and told Xia that Yao had returned to the ancestral grounds.

Ye brought the mortally wounded Yao to the Divine King, who revealed she had no next life and urged Ye to wield Lingyang Tian’s sword to preserve a sliver of hope. Three years later, after Ye declared humanity independent and ignited a new war, he admitted to Xia that he had killed Yao, while the Divine King transferred the Heavenly Dao imprint to Xia before transforming into the Dao.

• Ye brought Yao to the Divine King, who taught him how to preserve the last fragment of her spirit and revealed that neither Yao nor Xia would have another life.
• The Divine King told Ye that refusing Lingyang Tian would not change the outcome and urged him to wield its sword, and Ye left carrying Yao.
• In Year 96754, Gu Ye won a major battle against the Demigod Race, then declared humanity independent and started a second war against the foreign races.
• Xia confronted Ye about Yao, and Ye confessed that he had killed her; Xia attacked, but Ye vanished before the Divine King stopped him.
• The Divine King transferred the Heavenly Dao imprint and his power to Xia, then told him to endure the difficult road ahead.
• In Year 96757, the Divine King transformed into the Dao, Xia became Divine King, and he joined other races in an all-out war against humanity.

Ye recorded humanity’s history while excluding himself and Yang, then died by suicide and left the throne to Emperor Rui. Nearly a million years later, Great Emperor Yushuo ordered the removal of the Divine Lord of Chaori’s shrines and image, while Shi Lan emerged from the River of Time into a vast battle and used the system to absorb a golden seal and power her time-travel panel.

• Ye illustrated humanity’s rise and victories in the human history book, leaving himself and Yang out of its pages.
• In Year 7781, Ye took his own life in Chaori City, and Emperor Rui succeeded him without recording Ye’s name in the book.
• Nearly a million years later, Yushuo ordered a purge of demons and devils, rejected the Zen Sect’s influence, and commanded that shrines and images of the Divine Lord of Chaori be torn down.
• Yushuo ordered the destruction of the image in Golden Crow territory and the Fusang tree, dismissing the Golden Crow Clan’s past aid as irrelevant.
• A wave in the River of Time shattered Shi Lan’s annihilation barrier and cast her onto a battlefield where numerous Overlords, including the Jade Emperor, were fighting.
• Shi Lan absorbed a golden seal with her system and transferred its energy into the time-travel panel to escape discovery.

Shi Lan traveled through spacetime on the Lunar Star and killed Lü Shan after he pursued her into the passage. She emerged above a familiar continent and recognized the Tianshan Mountains, while lifting the star to prevent it from crashing down on the inhabitants below.

• Shi Lan opened an uncontrolled spacetime passage, but Lü Shan followed her and struck at her on the star.
• Shi Lan destroyed Lü Shan’s leg, rejected his attempt to explain himself, and killed him with her battle halberd.
• Shi Lan realized the star was unusually durable and recognized it from the Three Kingdoms world and the Heavenly Court’s competition among the myriad realms.
• Shi Lan gathered source power as the spacetime passage carried her and the star onward.
• Shi Lan emerged above a vast continent, recognized the Tianshan Mountains, and lifted the Lunar Star to protect the inhabitants below.

Shi Lan explored the Han capital, reflected on her uncertain path and the Origin Heaven, then returned to the lunar star and gained a new insight into cultivation after speaking with a youth. She offered to guide Wang Mang, whose questions helped her see the road home.

• Shi Lan entered the Han capital, observed its prosperous martial cultivators and the evils beneath the city, and chose not to interfere.
• Shi Lan recognized the Origin Heaven's watchful presence and pondered her uncertain prospects of returning to her own era.
• Shi Lan returned to the lunar star and met Wang Mang, who had climbed up from the Celestial Mountain after seeing the star descend.
• Shi Lan told Wang Mang about the legendary Chang'e and questioned him about divine power and cultivation.
• Wang Mang's answers helped Shi Lan understand the Imperial Way, Kingly Way, and Hegemonic Way, clearing her confusion about the path ahead.
• Shi Lan offered to answer Wang Mang's questions about cultivation, and he introduced himself as Wang Mang, courtesy name Jujun.

Shi Lan spent a century guiding Wang Mang while cultivating toward the sovereign realm, then left to fight the source of chaos. Inspired by her declaration that humanity would conquer Heaven, Wang Mang later rebelled against Heaven, but his dynasty fell and he lay dying near Mount Tian.

• Shi Lan understood that her return to the Primordial Era had caused the God King's fall and the upheaval that followed, then offered to guide Wang Mang without taking him as her disciple.
• Shi Lan cultivated on the Taiyin Star for a hundred years while Wang Mang visited every decade for martial guidance, and she told him to follow his desires rather than suppress his emotions.
• Near the sovereign realm, Shi Lan left to uproot the source of source power and prevent chaos, telling Wang Mang that humanity would conquer Heaven.
• Wang Mang later proclaimed himself emperor and sought to hunt Heaven, but Emperor Guangwu's forces defeated his dynasty after disasters and rebellions spread across the realm.
• Wounded by Heaven's blade and near death at Mount Tian, Wang Mang recalled Shi Lan before a mysterious double-pupiled figure asked whether he wanted to die.

A Heavenly Dao Alliance expedition destroyed the Goddream Heavenly Realm and harvested its source power before Shi Lan intercepted them, killed the expedition, and claimed their resources. She then crossed farther into the future and encountered four Overlords hunting another unrivaled Overlord.

• A Daoist in azure robes led the Heavenly Dao Alliance in destroying the Goddream Heavenly Realm and extracting most of its source power.
• Shi Lan blocked the alliance’s return passage, dragged the battlefield onto the river of spacetime, and destroyed its war chariots.
• Shi Lan killed the Daoist in azure robes, collected the World Source Crystal fragments and world soul, and gained ten-star energy from the system.
• Shi Lan opened a spacetime passage and continued traveling toward the future as her cultivation advanced toward a new domain.
• Shi Lan encountered four Overlords surrounding and hunting a hazy figure who was also in the Overlord domain.

Shi Lan broke through to the Sovereign realm during a battle in the river of time and space, then killed the beleaguered Samsara Lord God with a single strike. Rong Xuanqing summoned her away, while Meng suspected the powerful stranger was Shi Lan but kept his guess from the other Sovereigns.

• Shi Lan reached the battlefield and was attacked by the Samsara Lord God and one of the four Sovereigns hunting it.
• Shi Lan shattered her last dragon gate, entered the Sovereign realm through her physical body, and erased the Samsara Lord God from history.
• Rong Xuanqing opened a passage and called Shi Lan away; she spared the four Sovereigns and entered it.
• The system announced that Shi Lan had completed the quest to kill the Samsara Lord God and awarded her a Source Crystal Shard.
• Meng suspected Shi Lan was the figure who had intervened, but concealed his guess from the other Sovereigns.

Shi Lan met Rong Xuanqing in the Cube Space and learned how the great universe might be destroyed and how the Cube was trying to prevent it. She gave him a source crystal fragment to support that effort and revealed that she would need the Cube's help in an inevitable war against Origin Heaven in the distant past.

• Shi Lan emerged into the Cube Space and examined the three pillars supporting the sky before Rong Xuanqing greeted her and congratulated her on entering the Dominion Realm.
• Shi Lan recognized that Rong Xuanqing had borrowed fate from the Fate Palace and asked him to explain what he knew about the great universe's destruction.
• Rong Xuanqing explained that the universe might collapse if Origin Heaven triggered annihilation or died, and said the Cube was forging new pillars but lacked source power.
• Shi Lan gave Rong Xuanqing a fragment of the source crystal to help the Cube, asking for its assistance in return.
• Shi Lan told Rong Xuanqing that war with Origin Heaven was inevitable and that the battle would take place far in the past, where victory or defeat would decide the fate of ten thousand ages.

Shi Lan told Rong Xuanqing she would travel back to Origin and attack Origin Heaven to preserve the present, then destroy the Dao Fruits of beings above the ninth rank. Rong Xuanqing agreed to help, while Shi Lan departed for the Great World of Tianyuan; the chapter then shifted to Di Luosha visiting the Extreme Radiance Devil Master.

• Shi Lan explained that she had to attack Origin Heaven in the past to preserve the current course of history, and Rong Xuanqing offered his help.
• Shi Lan revealed that after the battle she would sever the Dao Fruits of beings above the ninth rank, and Rong Xuanqing accepted her plan to let them reincarnate with their memories.
• Rong Xuanqing promised to fight his master if necessary, while Shi Lan said she hoped to avoid a conflict with Senior Lingyun.
• Shi Lan left the Divine Martial Otherworld for the Great World of Tianyuan and wondered about the origins of her past life and the journey through Yellow Springs.
• In Year 148 of the New Calendar, Di Luosha entered a palace in Devil Race territory and paid her respects to the Extreme Radiance Devil Master.

Aurora Devil Master attacked Emperor Rakshasa to seize her God-and-Devil Spirit Physique, but Emperor Beichen appeared and used a Wheel of Destiny to graft Aurora’s Sovereign destiny onto his daughter. After Emperor Beichen faded away, Shi Lan appeared before Ling Chu and called for Ye.

• Aurora Devil Master read Emperor Rakshasa’s memories and revealed that he intended to use her body to return to the Sovereign rank and fight in the Origin Era.
• Emperor Beichen emerged from the purple mist and used the Wheel of Destiny to steal Aurora Devil Master’s destiny for Emperor Rakshasa.
• Aurora Devil Master was consumed by annihilating power, leaving Emperor Rakshasa with a Sovereign’s destiny despite the flaw in her physique.
• Emperor Beichen reassured Emperor Rakshasa about her future, confessed his regret over her mother’s death, and faded away as she left.
• Shi Lan appeared in Ling Chu’s seclusion chamber and called for Ye through the floating human history book.

Shi Lan discovered that Yao could not be revived under the laws of the current era, but gave her soul a future in the next one. After Ye reflected on his life with Yao and the end of his era, Shi Lan visited Wu Lingkong more than a century later.

• Shi Lan sealed Ling Chu’s senses and tried to restore Yao with source energy, but Ye explained that Yao could not be awakened.
• Shi Lan placed a soul within Yao and said she would give her a future in the era she would rule, though Yao would forget Ye and Yang.
• Shi Lan asked Ye whether he regretted his choices, and Ye replied that he had regrets but no remorse.
• After Shi Lan left, Ye remembered his life with Yao and concluded that the road had ended for him and his era.
• More than a century later, Shi Lan visited Wu Lingkong at the Wu Residence, and Wu Lingkong recognized her.

After more than a century apart, Shi Lan reunited briefly with Wu Lingkong, then visited the Shi Clan and returned to the Great Lingyang World. Her arrival drew the attention of Lingyang Tian, who led the ancient gods toward the ruler of the later generations.

• Shi Lan embraced Wu Lingkong, explained she had been far away, and said she had to leave to make their meeting in the past possible.
• Shi Lan visited the Shi Clan, watched Shi Feng and his son, and departed without revealing herself.
• Shi Lan entered the Great Lingyang World and dispersed the Heavenly Dao's incarnation when it tried to stop her.
• Qing Lan and Tian Bai welcomed Shi Lan in the hall, and Shi Lan greeted them.
• Lingyang Tian sensed Shi Lan's arrival beneath the Yellow Springs and opened a path to meet the ruler of the later generations.

Ling Yangtian negotiated with Shi Lan for a chance to survive the coming war against the Origin Heaven, while Meng learned that the Origin Heaven had ordered him to stop anyone traveling upstream. After Ze Xu invited Meng to help kill Shi Lan, Meng prepared to make his choice, and Ling Yun bid him farewell.

• Ling Yangtian told Shi Lan she wanted to help fight the Origin Heaven in exchange for carrying her true spirit into reincarnation, and Shi Lan agreed to give her time.
• Qing Lan asked about Shi Lan's coming war and Samsara's absence, and Shi Lan promised to find Samsara and make a future for Qing Lan.
• Meng told Ling Yun that the Origin Heaven had ordered him to intercept beings traveling upstream, and they concluded that Shi Lan was the target.
• Meng received Ze Xu's invitation to join an attempt to kill Shi Lan, then summoned Xia as Ling Yun closed his eyes and wished him farewell.

Shi Lan defeated Zexu and the other Overlords in the future, took the third Origin Crystal fragment, and prepared to strike down Origin Heaven with Qing Lan and the Immortal Emperors. Far downstream, three dying Buddhas seized a divine soul and sent it toward Origin, setting another force in motion.

• Zexu and four other Overlords chose to oppose Shi Lan, while Hong joined them out of loyalty to Origin Heaven.
• Shi Lan drew the six Overlords into the future, where Meng challenged her with his sword and was shattered by a single flick of her finger.
• Shi Lan crushed the Origin Sun, grievously wounded the remaining Overlords, and killed Zexu, taking the Origin Crystal fragment from his chest.
• Shi Lan realized she held three of the four Origin Crystal fragments, then met Qing Lan and seventeen Immortal Emperors heading upstream to help strike down Heaven.
• Three golden Buddhas exploited the disturbance at Origin, seized a divine soul, merged a Demon-Slaying Edict curse into it, and sent it racing toward Origin.

Samsara chose to return to the Origin Era to protect Shi Lan, while Qing Lan agreed to help monitor events from the future. After reaching the Origin Era, Shi Lan understood how her actions had shaped the events around her and recognized the Extraterritorial Battlefield as the ruins of the Heavenly Court.

• Samsara sensed Shi Lan's life-soul in the golden light and decided to return to the Origin Era, despite Qing Lan warning her of the risks.
• Samsara asked Qing Lan to intervene if Shi Lan's existence became known to too many living beings, then crossed into the river of time and space.
• A streak of light was pulled into a remote city, while Samsara's black mist arrived nearly twenty years later.
• Shi Lan realized that the Buddhist Sect's attempt to reverse cause and effect had sent her to the Origin Era and that Samsara had shaped her path there.
• Shi Lan revisited the Lingyang Realm and recognized the Extraterritorial Battlefield as the ruins of the Heavenly Court, whose passages eventually linked countless worlds.

Shi Lan explored the Ultimate Will Great World, settled an old debt by severing a High God's worshippers, and returned to Lingyang. There, Di Luosha recognized her and asked if she was Shi Lan.

• Shi Lan entered the Ultimate Will Great World and found Lu Yingou competing in a tournament, then left after deciding to ask its four Overlords about their intentions later.
• Shi Lan spotted Lindou in a star system, then destroyed a High God's divine connection to its worshippers, causing its statues to lose their divinity.
• Shi Lan observed a distant world where immortal cultivation and technology had begun to merge before returning to Lingyang.
• Shi Lan sensed an anachronistic demonic aura and appeared in a blue-stone hall, where Di Luosha opened her eyes and asked if she was Shi Lan.

Shi Lan restored Di Luosha’s flawed bloodline and perfected her Dao Fruit, then freed Yu and sent him to Lingyang Heaven. She left Di Luosha with a snow-orchid wreath and a warning to cultivate quickly, while Fu Guang reacted in terror to the flowers.

• Shi Lan traced Di Luosha’s bloodline and discovered how her divine and demonic blood had become incompatible.
• Shi Lan turned Di Luosha back into a demonic embryo and used primordial spiritual blood to perfect her divine-demonic spirit body.
• Di Luosha emerged with a flawless Dao Fruit, and Shi Lan told her she could choose her own path after becoming a Sovereign.
• Shi Lan immobilized Fu Guang, took the exhausted Yu, restored his vitality, and sent him to Lingyang Heaven.
• Shi Lan gave Di Luosha a snow-orchid wreath and spoke of Luo Ning’s hope before disappearing; Fu Guang stared at the wreath in terror.

Shi Lan gathered allies from across the ages and led them upstream through the River of Time to wage war against the Origin Heaven. After Fanxi sacrificed himself and the group suffered heavy losses, they reached the end of ancient history and faced the Origin Heaven’s battlefield.

• Di Luosha learned that Shi Lan had been Yang, the mother who had left her the flower crown, and kept the crown as a keepsake.
• Shi Lan put Xia into a long sleep, spoke with Ling Yun about his fate and Rong Xuanqing, then left the Spirit Martial Hall with Xia.
• Shi Lan found Samsara devouring the final source-crystal fragment, left her undisturbed, and hid Yuanji’s sleeping avatar in a remote starfield.
• Shi Lan joined Qing Lan, Di Luosha, Rong Xuanqing, and other Sovereigns to travel upstream, but Fanxi used Shi Tianlu and Su Lanyue as hostages before admitting his Buddhist sect’s fault and sacrificing himself.
• Shi Lan’s allies fought their way through the River of Time, losing six Immortal Emperors and three Dominators before reaching the chaotic void at the end of ancient history.