Chapter Summaries

After attaining the Dao, Ning Chen killed the northern world’s Saint and survived a joint attack by seven Saints, declaring that he would leave the world without Saints. A god from the Eighth Heaven intervened, and the Firmament Saint moved to oppose him as the Seven Heavens began to crumble.

• Zhimin attained the Dao, killed the three exhausted Saints, and absorbed the remaining power of the Dao Bridge.
• The Lord of Darkness sent a spear toward Ning Chen, who cut it apart and promised to settle their grievances.
• Three months later, Ning Chen fought and killed the northern world’s Saint, suffering grave injuries in the battle.
• Seven Saints attacked Ning Chen and shattered the northern world, but he survived and counterattacked.
• A god from the Eighth Heaven arrived and challenged Ning Chen, who declared that he would eliminate every Saint.
• The god unleashed divine might, but the Firmament Saint dispersed it and confronted him.

The Eighth Heaven god tried to stop Ning Chen from entering sainthood by reversing time, while the Firmament Saint challenged him. A demon attained the Dao and fought the god as the Immortal Domain ascended toward Heaven Beyond Heaven, bringing humanity’s advance into the world of saints.

• The Firmament Saint clashed with the Eighth Heaven god as Ning Chen stood above the crumbling northern world with his second Bridge of Great Dao forming.
• The Eighth Heaven god reversed time in the northern world, weakening Ning Chen’s Bridge, while a ferocious beast broke toward attaining the Dao and was destroyed after attacking the god.
• Ning Chen escaped in phoenix form as the Twelve Wings of Sin obscured the god’s gaze, and a demon in black attacked him with a Demonic Dao Bridge rising nearby.
• The Eighth Heaven god sensed that someone in the human world had attained the Dao through the Demonic Dao and broke off the fight.
• Changling Venerable Lady led the Immortal Domain and its experts as the entire realm ascended toward Heaven Beyond Heaven.

Fan Lingyue restored the fiftieth Bridge of Great Dao and used Pure Karma Primeval to slay a Great Dao Saint, while Nu Chang led the Immortal Domain through the Heavenly Gate to aid Ning Chen. Ning Chen wounded the deity of the Eighth Heaven but discovered it was only an incarnation, then hurried east as Fan Lingyue continued fighting the Saints.

• Fan Lingyue restored the fiftieth Bridge of Great Dao, transformed into her moon-white true body, and drove back the Saints who tried to destroy it.
• Fan Lingyue wielded Pure Karma Primeval and purified one Great Dao Saint until he vanished.
• Nu Chang brought the Immortal Domain to the Heavenly Gate, where Mu Qianshang broke the gate and the human realm's Venerates entered Heaven Beyond Heaven.
• Empowered by the Immortal Domain, Ning Chen and the Immortal Demon wounded the deity of the Eighth Heaven, who vanished and reappeared above the Eighth Heaven as an apparently indestructible being.
• Ning Chen reunited with Nu Chang, then rushed east toward Fan Lingyue as she fought the retreating Saints.
• The Immortal Slaying Sword killed a Saint, and a white-haired figure in plain robes appeared behind the remaining Saints, sealing their retreat.

Ning Chen and Fan Lingyue slew the seven Saints, and Ning Chen ordered the Immortal Realm to gather strength so he could eventually challenge the gods. He hunted Saints across the heavens for a thousand years, then searched Jiuyou and entered the Netherworld, where an unseen presence roared from the depths of hell.

• Ning Chen and Fan Lingyue defeated and killed the seven Saints over the Eastern Sea Region after a day and night of battle.
• Ning Chen ordered the Immortal Realm’s Venerables to empower it, explaining that he would use its power to slay the gods, and Fan Lingyue agreed to help him.
• Over the next thousand years, Ning Chen used the Heavenly Tome of Creation to find and kill Great Dao Saints throughout the heavens while the Firmament Saint watched without intervening.
• Ning Chen searched the deserted Jiuyou, crossed Weak Water in a bottomless boat, and passed through the stone gate marked Netherworld.
• Ning Chen explored the Netherworld Hall and its eighteen levels of hell, where an angry roar shook the entire realm.

Ning Chen fought a dragon corpse in the Netherworld before Ming Ming, the Netherworld’s mistress, confronted him and overpowered him. As Ning Chen summoned all Four Immortal Slaying Swords, an Immortal Palanquin pulled by three dragon corpses arrived.

• Ning Chen battled a powerful dragon corpse, wounding it with the Immortal Slaying Sword before Ming Ming arrived and called it back.
• Ming Ming revealed that she knew Ning Chen and asked about her younger sister, who had searched for him for over a hundred thousand years.
• Ming Ming attacked Ning Chen and repeatedly overpowered him, breaking his bones and blocking his immortal swords with Ghost Qi.
• Ning Chen summoned the Four Immortal Slaying Swords, reversing yin and yang as he prepared to fight Ming Ming with his full power.
• Three dragon corpses pulled an Immortal Palanquin into the Netherworld World.

Ning Chen and Ming Ming fought across the Netherworld and multiple Minor Worlds until both were gravely wounded. The chapter ended with a bewitchingly handsome figure using a rosy fragrance to conceal what happened to the two Saints, whose fury erupted half a day later.

• Underworld King Yama attacked Ming Ming, and Ning Chen joined her, wounding Ming Ming with the combined force of his four swords.
• Ming Ming struck Underworld King Yama down, and Ning Chen recognized her as Ghost Maiden when her veil fell.
• Ning Chen protected Ghost Maiden and attained the Dao through his feelings for her, then resumed fighting Ming Ming as the Netherworld World collapsed.
• Ning Chen and Ming Ming fought for days across several Minor Worlds until their injuries left them nearly unable to use their cultivation.
• A bewitchingly handsome figure found the two fallen Saints in a mountain valley and concealed them beneath a rosy fragrance.
• Half a day later, a furious roar erupted from the silent valley.

After Ning Chen and Ming Ming awoke in a Minor World, Ming Ming pursued him across the worlds until a change in her abdomen forced her to stop. Ning Chen confronted Yin Feihua, while Ming Ming discovered that the Holy Embryo in her womb could resist her attempts to destroy it.

• Ming Ming woke furious in the collapsing Minor World and chased Ning Chen as he fled through the void.
• Ning Chen kept evading Ming Ming, and a hundred years passed while he failed to return to the Seven Heavens Realm.
• Ming Ming searched the stars for Ning Chen, but the Holy Embryo in her abdomen caused her aura to falter, allowing him to escape unnoticed.
• Ning Chen emerged behind Yin Feihua, recognized him as the one behind the events, and attacked him with the Four Immortal Slaying Swords before Yin Feihua fled.
• Ming Ming returned to the Netherworld World and tried to destroy the Holy Embryo, but it absorbed her power and blocked her strike, leaving her gravely injured.

After Yin Feihua stole Ming Ming’s newborn Holy Embryo, she pursued him across worlds and was stopped by the deity of the Eighth Heaven. Ning Chen returned to the Immortal Domain, where Ming Ming appeared and demanded that he help save Guigui.

• After a thousand years of waiting, Ning Chen sensed the Holy Embryo’s birth while fighting in a Minor World.
• Yin Feihua entered the Netherworld World, defeated the weakened Ming Ming, and carried away her newborn Holy Embryo.
• Ming Ming pursued Yin Feihua across space and time, but the deity of the Eighth Heaven blocked her from entering and defeated her repeatedly.
• Ning Chen searched the ruined Netherworld World for Ming Ming, then returned to the Immortal Domain and entered the Immortal Palace to heal.
• Ming Ming attacked the Immortal Palace, but a Plain-clothed Figure blocked her strike, and she demanded that Ning Chen come save Guigui.

Ming Ming arrived in the Immortal Realm and told Ning Chen that Guigui was their child, then they rushed to the Eighth Heaven to rescue her from the God of All Gods. Ning Chen fought the god while Ming Ming reached the Holy Embryo, but time laws began withering her as she tried to take Guigui from the jade cauldron.

• Ming Ming confronted Ning Chen and revealed that Guigui was their child, then hurried with him toward the Eighth Heaven.
• Ming Ming and Ning Chen agreed that Ning Chen would hold off the God of All Gods while she rescued Guigui.
• The God of All Gods used the Time Track to defeat Ning Chen and send him crashing into a divine pillar.
• Ming Ming entered the Time Sacred Hall and found Guigui sleeping inside a transparent jade cauldron.
• Yin Feihua blocked Ming Ming, but she bypassed him with the help of three dragon corpses and reached the cauldron.
• Time laws erupted from the jade cauldron and withered Ming Ming's hands as she tried to take Guigui.

Ning Chen rescued Guigui from the Time Sacred Hall while Ming Ming took the god’s fatal strike protecting them. He escaped with the infant and Ming Ming to the Immortal Realm, where he began treating her injuries and Fan Lingyue predicted Guigui would surpass both Ning Chen and her.

• Ming Ming reached into the jade cauldron for the Holy Embryo, and Ning Chen arrived to protect her from the god’s attack.
• Guigui awoke and healed Ning Chen, while Ming Ming took the god’s life-stealing palm strike meant for him.
• Ning Chen carried Guigui and the unconscious Ming Ming out of the Time Sacred Hall as Yin Feihua obeyed the god’s order not to pursue.
• Ning Chen brought them to the Immortal Palace, entrusted Guigui to Qing Ling, and began dispersing the time laws eroding Ming Ming’s body.
• Fan Lingyue examined Guigui and said he would become an expert who surpassed both Ning Chen and her.

After Zhìmìng returned to the Immortal Domain, he stayed to care for Guigui while his old friends visited and gave the child their blessings. A hundred years later, A'man became a Saint and fought the All-Heavens Saints in Zhìmìng’s place, while Zhìmìng remained with Guigui, his sword intent dulled by his attachment to his son.

• Luo Xingchen visited the Immortal Palace, gave Guigui a jade slip, and Mu Qianshang arrived with a chaotic aura as he neared the Saint Realm.
• Mu Qianshang held Guigui, drew a blood sword with his sword intent, and marked the child’s brow with a blessing before leaving.
• Luo Xingchen also bade farewell and departed, while Fan Lingyue watched from a nearby hall and wondered whether Zhìmìng’s attachments had dulled his sword.
• A hundred years after Zhìmìng’s return, A'man became a Saint but did not return to the Immortal Palace.
• A'man campaigned against the Saints, slew one after ten years, and suffered grievous injuries as she fought in Zhìmìng’s stead.
• Zhìmìng stayed with Guigui, and those around him accepted that he had chosen to rest after shielding the mortal world from disaster.

Ning Chen spent his days raising Guigui in the peaceful Immortal Realm while Ming Ming and the Ghost Maiden remained unconscious. As Qing Ling reflected on the burden Ning Chen carried, his four immortal swords remained sealed in wooden sheaths.

• Ning Chen cared for Guigui by the river, while Ming Ming and the Ghost Maiden still had not awakened from their grave injuries.
• The Lord of Darkness and the Ink Lord discussed how Ning Chen's aura had become impossible to sense and how the Saints feared provoking him.
• Saint Yin Feihua watched the Holy Embryo in its crystal coffin and waited for it to mature so the god could surpass his current realm.
• Qing Ling brought Guigui a pastry, and Yin'er took him away to eat after asking whether he had broken her crystal lamp.
• Qing Ling reflected on Ning Chen's responsibility to defeat the All-Heavens Saints, while his four immortal swords stood sealed in wooden sheaths in the Immortal Palace.

Ning Chen tested the sword prodigy Gu Xing Lei, then sent a wooden sword into the World of Darkness before leaving to investigate the Time Restriction. He entered the restriction in the Primordial Ancient Battlefield while Guigui woke and waited for him in the Immortal Realm.

• Gu Xing Lei challenged Ning Chen, who defeated him in fewer than ten moves using a wooden sword and told him that he had lost many times himself.
• Ning Chen sent the wooden sword into the World of Darkness, where the Lord of Darkness blocked it and steadied his shaking world.
• Nu Chang found the Time Restriction in the Primordial Ancient Battlefield and informed Ning Chen, who traveled there and entered it alone.
• Guigui woke in the Immortal Palace and asked Qing Ling where Ning Chen was, and she told him that his father would return soon.

Ning Chen entered the Time Restriction to uncover the truth of the Primordial Divine War while Fan Lingyue and Qing Ling waited in the Immortal Realm with Guigui. After a hundred years inside, Ning Chen witnessed memories of Gods and Devils battling in primordial chaos, but the full truth remained ahead.

• Ning Chen entered the Time Divine Restriction and began examining its shifting laws as time rapidly aged his body.
• Guigui waited for Ning Chen’s return, and Qing Ling comforted her with pastries before Yin'er persuaded her to go play.
• Fan Lingyue told Qing Ling that the Great Dao Saints gained intelligence only after an ancient battle and warned her to protect Guigui.
• After a hundred years, Ning Chen saw memories of Gods and Devils fighting in chaos, their fallen bodies becoming the mountains, rivers, sun, moon, and stars.

Within the Time Divine Restriction, Ning Chen witnessed the Nether King’s role in creating the laws of the world and the birth of the Great Dao. Meanwhile, Yin'er and Guigui spent a century traveling the stars, and Fan Lingyue and Nu Chang questioned whether the Nether King had truly fallen and whether the Immortal Domain could reveal the truth of heaven and earth.

• Ning Chen watched the Nether King create the laws of heaven and earth, establish the power of life and death with another Chaos Divine Demon, and eventually transform with the deity into the Great Dao.
• Yin'er took Guigui around Ziwei Star, where two men kidnapped Guigui, but she escaped with magic and happily ate the tanghulu Yin'er bought.
• Guigui told Yin'er that she missed Daddy, and Yin'er distracted her by pointing out the lively streets ahead.
• After two hundred more years of waiting, Fan Lingyue asked Nu Chang whether the Nether King had truly fallen and where she might be.
• Nu Chang admitted she could not see beyond the Demonic Dao Bridge, while Fan Lingyue suggested that the Immortal Domain might reveal heaven and earth’s truth once it broke free of the great world’s restraints.

Within the Time Divine Restriction, Ning Chen witnessed the Nether King and another Chaos Divine Demon shape the laws and Great Dao of the newly formed world. In the present, Yin'er took Guigui around the Ziwei Star while Fan Lingyue and Nu Chang discussed the Nether King and the Immortal Domain’s path beyond the great world’s restraints.

• Ning Chen watched the Nether King create the laws of heaven and earth, then saw her and another Chaos Divine Demon become part of the Great Dao.
• Yin'er and Guigui traveled across several great stars, and Guigui let two men carry him away while Yin'er calmly followed and bought him Tanghulu.
• Guigui used a spell to free himself from the kidnappers, then admitted to Yin'er that he missed his father.
• After another two hundred years, Fan Lingyue continued waiting near the Immortal Palace as Nu Chang returned from the Primordial Ancient Battlefield.
• Fan Lingyue questioned whether the Nether King had truly fallen, and Nu Chang said she was unsure and that the Immortal Domain might reveal the truth once it broke free of the great world’s restraints.

Ning Chen endured the Time Divine Restriction and witnessed the Underworld King's creation of the world, her conflict with the gods, and her decision to create the Inner Realm. After emerging centuries later, he told Fan Lingyue that the Underworld King and the gods were Chaos Divine Demons, raising the possibility that the Underworld King still lived.

• Ning Chen witnessed the Underworld King create the laws and world, then destroy most of the warring myriad races before creating the separate Inner Realm.
• Ning Chen concluded that the Underworld King and the gods of the Eighth Heaven were Chaos Divine Demons, and suspected the Underworld King had not died.
• Ning Chen broke through the Time Divine Restriction and returned to the Immortal Domain after several hundred years, where Guigui and Qing Ling welcomed him.
• Ning Chen told Fan Lingyue that the Underworld King and the gods had created the Great Dao, and Fan Lingyue questioned where or how the Underworld King might now exist.
• A god in the Time Sacred Hall wondered whether the Underworld King was truly dead.

Ning Chen returned to the mortal world with Guigui and reflected on the threat posed by the Chaos Divine Demon while visiting places tied to his past. As he settled in Great Xia, the Lord of Darkness and the Ink Lord plotted to attack humanity after Luo Xingchen became a Saint.

• Ning Chen told Nu Chang, Fan Lingyue, and Venerable Lady that their chances against the Eighth Heaven's god were under ten percent and that the Chaos Divine Demon's weakness was unknown.
• Ning Chen declined to bring A'man back, then took Guigui from the Immortal Realm to the mortal world.
• Luo Xingchen became a Saint, and the Lord of Darkness persuaded the Ink Lord to target the newly ascended human Saints.
• Ning Chen and Guigui arrived in the realm within, where human experts sensed his overwhelming pressure, and he told her they would live there for a time.
• Three months later, Ning Chen visited the ruins of Desolate City, greeted Senior Mu Bai, and continued with Guigui toward Great Xia.
• Ning Chen reached the great tomb outside Great Xia's imperial city and told the Empress Dowager that he had returned.

Ning Chen returned to Changsun’s grave with Guigui and settled into a quiet life in Ten-Mile Maple Forest, though he feared an approaching battle in the heavens. As he and Guigui tended the grave, Marquis Kaixuan decided to investigate the overwhelming presence in the forest.

• Ning Chen brought Guigui to Changsun’s grave, introduced his child to the Empress Dowager, and built a wooden house in the maple forest.
• Ning Chen hunted a rabbit for Guigui, then spoke with the Heavenly Sound Pavilion Master about a possible great battle and the future of the human realm.
• After the Heavenly Sound Pavilion Master departed, Ning Chen carried sleeping Guigui into the house and watched over him through the night.
• Ning Chen and Guigui swept Changsun’s grave, and Guigui said that the Empress Dowager had been a very good person.
• The Martial Marquises of Great Xia sensed the extraordinary aura in Ten-Mile Maple Forest, and Marquis Kaixuan resolved to visit Ning Chen himself.

Ning Chen settled at Ten-Mile Maple Forest with Guigui, where Marquis Kaixuan recognized him as Great Xia’s legendary Marquis of Knowing Fate. After meeting the seven Martial Marquises in the imperial city, Ning Chen agreed to guide them, then left with Guigui.

• Marquis Kaixuan visited Ning Chen at Ten-Mile Maple Forest, and Ning Chen praised the Martial Marquises for protecting Great Xia.
• Marquis Kaixuan recognized Ning Chen as Marquis of Knowing Fate and reported his identity to the other Martial Marquises.
• Ning Chen helped Guigui finish drawing a cow, then took her to the imperial city to buy Tanghulu.
• The seven Martial Marquises approached Ning Chen, and Blood-clothed Marquis asked him to guide their stagnant martial paths.
• Ning Chen invited the Martial Marquises to visit him at Ten-Mile Maple Forest before leaving with Guigui.