Chapter Summaries

Lin Jiufeng read about the Human Race’s Nine Great Ancestors and learned how their rise shaped the race’s golden age. The chapter ended with Si Nan revealing his mastery of the stars by slaying an Immortal who had come to destroy the Human Race.

• Lin Jiufeng read how Gu Mouzhi comprehended the Great Dao of Time and led the Human Race through its darkest period.
• Lin Jiufeng learned that Chu Xiangyu and Jiang Mang fought across the Dimension Battlefield, expanding Human Race territory and crushing their enemies.
• Lin Jiufeng read how Bai Meng killed an Immortal in his dream when the Human Race faced a great calamity.
• Lin Jiufeng learned that five Immortals descended to exterminate the Human Race after Bai Meng’s feat.
• Si Nan blocked one of the Immortals and slew him with the power of the stars, then explained that he had watched over the stars since his youth.

Lin Jiufeng comprehended a segment of the past and witnessed Gu Mouzhi, Chu Xiangyu, and Jiang Mang defy an Immortal demanding most of the Human Race’s resources. Back in the library, he read about more Human Race ancestors and reached the page titled “The Master.”

• Lin Jiufeng’s blood boiled as he read about the Human Race ancestors, triggering Heaven-Defying Comprehension and sending his Primordial Spirit into the past.
• An Immortal possessed the Buddhist statues in the Human Clan Ancestral Hall and demanded that the Human Race hand over seventy percent of its resources.
• Gu Mouzhi challenged the Immortal’s supposed invincibility, while Chu Xiangyu and Jiang Mang declared their intent to fight and kill an Immortal.
• Gu Mouzhi revealed that he had touched the threshold of an Immortal, and he, Chu Xiangyu, and Jiang Mang broke the Immortal’s restraint and scattered his consciousness.
• Lin Jiufeng returned to the library and read that Yuwen Qiwen slew an Immortal, Ning Zhiyuan found the Immortal Gate, and Shi Xiaoxiao forged the Nine Provinces Lantern Fires.
• Lin Jiufeng turned to the next page and found only the words “The Master.”

Lin Jiufeng read the Human Race’s records of the Master, learned how he had slain Si Wuya, and comprehended the Three Thousand Worlds Sword. A fragment of time showed him the Master confronting Si Wuya—and revealed that the Master looked exactly like the teacher Lin Jiufeng had known in the Human World.

• Lin Jiufeng read that the Master had founded the Human Ancestral Land, taught the Human Race, and ascended to Heaven to kill Si Wuya and halt the Hell Demons’ invasion.
• Lin Jiufeng comprehended the Three Thousand Worlds Sword and formed its first sword, the World of Fire, from his Great Dao of Fire.
• Lin Jiufeng activated a fragment of time and witnessed Si Wuya sitting on a Bone Daoist Temple throne, afraid of his opponent.
• The Master rose above the Nine Heavens with one hundred Great Dao worlds beneath his fingers, and Lin Jiufeng saw that he looked exactly like the Master of the Human World.

Lin Jiufeng realized that the Master of the Human World was connected to the Human Race ancestor The Master, who had died after defeating Si Wuya. He then studied Gu Mouzhi’s biography and, through Heaven-Defying Comprehension, gained insight into the Great Dao of Time.

• Lin Jiufeng recognized the Master of the Human World as likely being the Human Race ancestor The Master and reconsidered their earlier discussion of the Dao.
• He witnessed The Master kill Si Wuya with a sword empowered by heaven and earth, then fall and disperse into white light.
• Lin Jiufeng returned from the time fragment, wondered whether other Human Race ancestors could revive, and resolved to cultivate further.
• Lin Jiufeng searched the library for Gu Mouzhi’s biography to deepen his understanding of the Great Dao of Time.
• As Lin Jiufeng read Gu Mouzhi’s life and recorded insights, Heaven-Defying Comprehension activated repeatedly and helped him comprehend the Great Dao of Time.

After fifty years of studying the Human Race’s ancestral records, Lin Jiufeng advanced his Great Daos and recorded his insights in the Chronicle of Ages. As he cultivated on a cliff, the Heavenly Dao Stone appeared and eagerly approached the Chronicle of Ages.

• Lin Jiufeng finished studying every book in the library and raised his Great Dao of Time to forty-eight strands and his Great Dao of Space to forty strands.
• Lin Jiufeng left the library and saw that the Human Race had remained safe while its young talents cultivated under his Hundredfold Time Difference.
• Lin Jiufeng summoned the Chronicle of Ages and recorded his Great Dao of Time, Great Dao of Space, The Master's cultivation method, and the Three Thousand Worlds Sword.
• The Heavenly Dao Stone emerged from the void, leaped onto the Chronicle of Ages, and eagerly asked Lin Jiufeng to play.

Lin Jiufeng entered the Heavenly Dao World through the intelligent Heavenly Dao Stone and discovered Shadow plotting to destroy the Human Race by stealing the Phoenix Egg and blaming them. He watched Shadow closely to learn who he planned to send, determined to stop the scheme.

• Lin Jiufeng saw the Heavenly Dao Stone play with the Chronicle of Ages and used it to enter the Heavenly Dao World.
• Lin Jiufeng found Shadow, whose Great Dao bindings had weakened and whose mind was clearer than before.
• Shadow cursed the clans that had failed to find Lin Jiufeng and vowed to destroy the Human Race and its supposed enemy.
• Shadow planned to have someone steal Phoenix's unhatched egg, frame the Human Race, and provoke the Ten Fiends into attacking them.
• Lin Jiufeng resolved to stop Shadow's plot and waited to learn whom he would send to steal the egg.

Lin Jiufeng overheard Shadow’s plan to send a Shadow Race Feathered Immortal into the Savage World to steal the Phoenix Egg and provoke the Ten Fiends. After learning the danger to the Human Race, Lin Jiufeng called the Painted Skin Scholar and Sword God Emperor Willow to discuss stopping the theft, and Longevity Heaven appeared, claiming he could face a Feathered Immortal.

• Shadow revealed that he had persuaded the Shadow Race’s Ancestor to send a Feathered Immortal to steal the Phoenix Egg from the Savage World.
• Lin Jiufeng left the Heavenly Dao World, put away the Chronicle of Ages, and contacted the Painted Skin Scholar and Sword God Emperor Willow.
• Lin Jiufeng told them what he had heard, and the Painted Skin Scholar explained the history and power of the Ten Fiends of the Savage World.
• Sword God Emperor Willow warned that the theft could bring the Ten Fiends and their beasts against the Human Race, while the others doubted they could stop a Feathered Immortal.
• Longevity Heaven arrived and declared that he could stop a Feathered Immortal, prompting the others to ask whether he had succeeded in Rebirth from Death.

Longevity Heaven and Gu Baili emerged from recovery as Feathered Immortals and joined Lin Jiufeng and the others in planning how to stop the Shadow Race Feathered Immortal. They decided to search for the enemy and seek help from Gu Baili’s old friends in the Savage World.

• Longevity Heaven reunited with the Painted Skin Scholar and Sword God Emperor Willow and revealed that he had entered the Feathered Immortal realm.
• Lin Jiufeng met Gu Baili, who explained that he had replicated Longevity Heaven’s Great Dao and could fight alongside him.
• Longevity Heaven proposed searching the Savage World’s border for the Shadow Race Feathered Immortal and warning the Ten Fiends about the Phoenix Egg theft.
• Gu Baili suggested contacting the Great Serpent King, Great Ape King, and Madam Whale, revealing that they had gone to the Savage World five thousand years earlier.

Gu Baili used the Great Serpent King's Reverse Scale to contact her, but she attacked him after believing he had abandoned her. After learning he had spent the last thousand years saving Longevity Heaven, she accepted his explanation and asked why he had contacted her now.

• Gu Baili activated the Great Serpent King's Reverse Scale, summoning her through an ancient mirror.
• The Great Serpent King attacked Gu Baili, but stopped her Ice Spear before it struck him and demanded to know why he had not dodged.
• Gu Baili told the Great Serpent King he had wished to die by her hand, while Longevity Heaven's words made her suspect he had been involved with another woman.
• Longevity Heaven explained that Gu Baili had spent a thousand years saving him, and Sword God Emperor Willow and the Painted Skin Scholar confirmed the story.
• The Great Serpent King believed Gu Baili's explanation, transformed into human form, and asked whether something had happened to prompt his sudden contact.

After the Great Serpent King warned the Ten Fiends that the Human Race was innocent in Shadow’s plot to steal the Phoenix Egg, Lord Magic Frog invited Lin Jiufeng to the Savage World. Lin Jiufeng and Gu Baili set out together, carrying the repaired Nine Provinces Lantern Fire.

• Gu Baili and the Painted Skin Scholar told the Great Serpent King about Shadow’s plan to steal Phoenix’s Egg and frame the Human Race.
• The Great Serpent King reported the scheme to Lord Magic Frog, who promised the Shadow Race would not leave the Savage World and invited Lin Jiufeng as a guest.
• Lord Magic Frog requested Lin Jiufeng’s help with an unspecified small matter, and Lin Jiufeng agreed to go with Gu Baili.
• Lin Jiufeng withdrew the Hundredfold Time Difference and received the repaired Nine Provinces Lantern Fire from the Painted Skin Scholar.
• Lin Jiufeng and Gu Baili flew toward the Savage World.

Lin Jiufeng and Gu Baili crossed into the Savage World as Gu Baili explained the Ten Fiends and their fearsome legends. The Great Serpent King led Lin Jiufeng into the Kunlun Mystic Realm, where Magic Frog awaited at the summit of Kunlun Mountain.

• Lin Jiufeng and Gu Baili raced through the Savage World while Gu Baili explained that the Ten Fiends predated the Human Race and that only five were known: Magic Frog, Mud Man, Rakshasa, Phoenix, and Flower Demon.
• Gu Baili recounted that Magic Frog had tried to swallow the Immortal Gate, while Flower Demon had entered Hell and returned unharmed, leaving Lin Jiufeng awed by their power.
• Gu Baili brought Lin Jiufeng to the location marked by the Great Serpent King's Reverse Scale, where the Great Serpent King appeared and invited them into Kunlun.
• The Great Serpent King identified Kunlun as the Mystic Realm arranged by the Ten Fiends and said its promising ferocious beasts trained there.
• Lin Jiufeng entered Kunlun and admired its majestic, snow-covered mountains as the Great Serpent King led him toward Magic Frog at the summit.

Lin Jiufeng met the aged Magic Frog in the Kunlun Mystic Realm, where Magic Frog asked for his help reclaiming the half of his body imprisoned by the Immortals. Magic Frog offered any reward, even killing an Immortal, and the chapter ended before Lin Jiufeng answered.

• The Great Serpent King led Lin Jiufeng and Gu Baili through the Kunlun Mystic Realm and separated Gu Baili from Lin Jiufeng before the summit.
• Lin Jiufeng climbed to the peak and met the elderly Magic Frog inside his cottage.
• Magic Frog asked Lin Jiufeng how he had uncovered Shadow’s plan to steal the Phoenix Egg, and Lin Jiufeng explained that he had seen it through the Heavenly Dao Stone.
• Magic Frog offered Lin Jiufeng any condition in exchange for a favor and asked whether he knew of the Dimension Prison.
• Magic Frog revealed that the Immortals had imprisoned half of his body in the Dimension Prison after he tried to swallow the Immortal Gate, and said he wanted to reclaim it.

Magic Frog revealed that half his body had been imprisoned in the Dimension Prison and asked Lin Jiufeng to mediate with the Heavenly Dao Stone so it could carry a One-way Teleportation Array to his trapped half. Lin Jiufeng did not agree immediately, but chose to stay in the Kunlun Mystic Realm for a while.

• Magic Frog showed Lin Jiufeng the half of his body that remained and asked whether he should reclaim the other half.
• Magic Frog explained that the Dimension Prison was nearly impossible to reach and that he had spent a hundred thousand years seeking a way to retrieve his trapped body.
• Magic Frog told Lin Jiufeng that the Heavenly Dao Stone could enter the Dimension Prison and carry a One-way Teleportation Array to the imprisoned half of his body.
• Magic Frog asked Lin Jiufeng to mediate with the Heavenly Dao Stone, but Lin Jiufeng said he needed time to consider the request.
• Lin Jiufeng asked to stay in the Kunlun Mystic Realm, and Magic Frog welcomed him and showed him around.

Lin Jiufeng learned from the Great Serpent King that the Dimension Battlefield was divided among three great power blocs: the Hundred Races and Nine Provinces, the Kunlun Mystic Realm, and the Immortals. Hoping to deepen his cultivation through Kunlun’s ancient knowledge, he arrived at Horizon's End Pavilion to explore its vast collection of books.

• The Great Serpent King explained that the Hundred Races and Nine Provinces together formed one power bloc, alongside the Kunlun Mystic Realm and the Immortals in the Ninth Heaven.
• The Great Serpent King told Lin Jiufeng that the Human Race had once been the fourth power bloc but had since declined, and Gu Baili said he was honored to support it.
• Lin Jiufeng asked to see Kunlun’s collection of books so he could seek further insight through his Heaven-Defying Comprehension.
• The Great Serpent King took Lin Jiufeng to Horizon's End Pavilion and invited him to inspect its boundless collection.

Lin Jiufeng entered Horizon's End Pavilion, which held an immense world of sentient books, and asked Book Mountain to find texts about the Great Dao of Time. More than a thousand books gathered to show him their insights, leaving him poised to search for the final Great Dao of Time.

• The Great Serpent King used Lord Magic Frog's mark to let Lin Jiufeng enter Horizon's End Pavilion without a time limit.
• Lin Jiufeng discovered that the pavilion opened into a vast world and found a sentient book sunbathing on a rock.
• The book introduced itself as Book Mountain, guide of Horizon's End Pavilion, and explained that many books had become sentient.
• Lin Jiufeng asked to read every book related to time so he could comprehend the final Great Dao of Time.
• Book Mountain summoned more than a thousand books containing insights into the Great Dao of Time to gather around Lin Jiufeng.

Lin Jiufeng comprehended the Time Key and completed the Great Dao of Time, forming a Dao Ring. Book Mountain explained that the ring revealed ways to wield Great Daos and called those transformations Immortal Arts.

• Lin Jiufeng compared fragments recorded in the books with the forty-eight Great Daos of Time he already knew and discovered the missing Time Key.
• With the fragments' help, Lin Jiufeng comprehended the Time Key, completed the Great Dao of Time, and formed a Dao Ring alongside his Great Dao of Fire.
• Lin Jiufeng learned that three days had passed while he comprehended the Dao, and Book Mountain explained that a Dao Ring appeared after someone completed a Great Dao.
• Book Mountain told Lin Jiufeng that the Dao Ring revealed different transformations of a Great Dao, which could be learned and used to defeat enemies.
• Lin Jiufeng called those transformations a cultivation technique, but Book Mountain corrected him and said they were an Immortal Art.

Lin Jiufeng learned how Immortal Arts developed from the Great Dao and heard Book Mountain’s memories of The Master, who had once stayed at Horizon's End Pavilion for three thousand years. Book Mountain gave Lin Jiufeng books on the Great Dao of Space, and Lin Jiufeng comprehended it.

• Book Mountain explained that Immortal Arts extended the Great Dao and that condensing a Dao Ring made creating them easier.
• Book Mountain told Lin Jiufeng that The Master had been his teacher and close friend for three thousand years before leaving to wage war against Heaven.
• Book Mountain recounted how Lord Magic Frog said The Master had died in battle, and how Book Mountain searched for him before returning to Horizon's End Pavilion.
• Lin Jiufeng kept The Master's return a secret and said he admired what The Master had done for the Human Race.
• Book Mountain gave Lin Jiufeng more than eight hundred books about the Great Dao of Space, and Lin Jiufeng used the Hundredfold Time Difference to study them.
• Lin Jiufeng comprehended the Great Dao of Space.

Lin Jiufeng completed the Great Dao of Space, then used the Book Spirit Clan’s awakened books and the Hundredfold Time Difference to comprehend more Great Daos. After twenty-one years in the real world, he had mastered nine Three Thousand Great Daos and reached the peak of the Worldly Immortal realm.

• Lin Jiufeng completed the Great Dao of Space after a hundred years within the Hundredfold Time Difference, and Book Mountain was astonished by his speed.
• Lin Jiufeng told Book Mountain he intended to comprehend every Great Dao recorded in the Book Spirit Clan’s awakened books, so Book Mountain summoned several thousand intelligent books to Horizon's End Pavilion.
• Lin Jiufeng comprehended the Great Daos of Gold, Wood, Water, and Earth, completing the Great Dao of Five Elements alongside the fire, time, and space Great Daos he already knew.
• Lin Jiufeng continued studying the books and, after a thousand years within the Hundredfold Time Difference, completed the Great Dao of Lightning.
• Lin Jiufeng spent another thousand years comprehending the Yin-Yang Great Dao, bringing his total to nine complete Three Thousand Great Daos and raising his cultivation to the peak of the Worldly Immortal realm.

After twenty-one years of cultivation in Horizon's End Pavilion, Lin Jiufeng left with nine Great Daos comprehended and agreed to help Magic Frog reunite with the other half of his body. Magic Frog explained that Lin Jiufeng needed to carry his prepared teleportation array into the Dimension Prison, and Lin Jiufeng questioned whether it could function there.

• Lin Jiufeng stopped cultivating after the Book Spirit Clan ran out of suitable Dao Fragments, and Book Mountain saw him off.
• Book Mountain told Lin Jiufeng that Magic Frog had been waiting outside, and Lin Jiufeng promised to help him.
• Lin Jiufeng found Magic Frog standing in the rain, and Magic Frog explained how the Book Spirit Clan had come to exist.
• Lin Jiufeng agreed to carry Magic Frog's One-Way Teleportation Array into the Dimension Prison using the Heavenly Dao Stone.
• Magic Frog explained that the array carried its own Great Dao and enough spiritual energy for one teleportation.

Lin Jiufeng summoned the Heavenly Dao Stone by engraving nine Great Daos in the Chronicle of Ages, then asked him to deliver a One-Way Teleportation Array to Magic Frog in the Dimension Prison. The Heavenly Dao Stone agreed and said he knew how to reach the prison.

• Lin Jiufeng summoned the Heavenly Dao Stone with the Chronicle of Ages, which he had inscribed with nine Great Daos.
• The Heavenly Dao Stone happily read the Chronicle of Ages while Lin Jiufeng and Magic Frog waited for him in the rain.
• Lin Jiufeng asked the Heavenly Dao Stone to take a One-Way Teleportation Array to a half-bodied frog in the Dimension Prison.
• The Heavenly Dao Stone asked where the Dimension Prison was, and Lin Jiufeng explained that it lay outside the Dimension Battlefield and constantly changed.
• The Heavenly Dao Stone said he knew the Dimension Prison and agreed to take the teleportation array there.