Chapter Summaries

Xu Xing arrived at a chaotic point in time, reunited with his master Wu Shi, and sent Chi Jiuyu back to her own time. After Wu Shi passed away, Xu Xing chose not to change the Great Profound Realm’s timeline, then began examining the fragmented river of time with Bie Xuening and Yuanjun.

• Xu Xing appeared before Wu Shi after rescuing Chi Jiuyu from the Moon-Howling Demon Wolf Emperor's son, and Wu Shi recognized him as Little Xing.
• Chi Jiuyu explained that she had come from the future, and Xu Xing sent her back to the next point in time after learning she had been gathering information about him.
• Xu Xing spent time with Wu Shi until he dissolved beneath the setting sun, while Bie Xuening and Yuanjun watched with him.
• Yuanjun asked whether Xu Xing wanted to change the Great Profound Realm's timeline, and he said they only needed to remember what had already happened.
• Xu Xing turned his attention to Xiao Ling and made the Great Profound Realm and its inhabitants appear unreal as the fragmented river of time came into view.

Chi Jiuyu witnessed more than two centuries of events after Wu Shi left, following Xu Xing, Bie Xuening, and Yuanjun as they endured loss, grew stronger, and traveled across the great domains. The three returned to the Eastern Wasteland Region, where the Sword Sect’s future sword inheritances began to take shape as Yi prepared to advance into the Nurturing Self Realm.

• The Moon-Howling Demon Wolf clan ended its blockade, and Xu Xing told Bie Xuening and Yuan what had happened; Bie Xuening collapsed, then returned from the mountains changed and emotionally distant.
• Xu Xing resolved to grow stronger, and he, Bie Xuening, and Yuan decided to leave the Eastern Wasteland Region and seek a path forward.
• Hong invited the trio to travel with him, but Xu Xing refused, and Yuanjun stayed with Xu Xing and Bie Xuening while Hong returned to the Heaven Domain alone.
• The trio spent ten years crossing the Glorious World Domain to reach the Xuan Domain, then searched the great domains for a Nurturing Self Realm cultivation method.
• Over two centuries, Xu Xing, Bie Xuening, and Yuanjun remained at perfected God Forging but grew strong enough to kill Nurturing Self cultivators; Yuanjun killed the recovering Moon-Slaying Dragon Emperor.
• The three returned to the Eastern Wasteland Region, where Xu Xing and Bie Xuening’s insights began forming the Great Void Sword Canon and Slaying Sword Canon, while Yi prepared to enter the Nurturing Self Realm.

Xu Xing and the others returned to Yi’s settlement, where they shared the fruits of their years abroad as Yi prepared to attempt advancement to the Nurturing Self Realm. Hua worried about the danger to his master, while a seven-colored gaze beyond the living world renewed its attention to the Human Race’s Creation Foundation Establishment method.

• Xu Xing, Bie Xuening, Yuanjun, Hong, Kui, and Hua returned to the Eastern Wasteland Region and discussed using its dangers to protect the growing Human Race.
• The group met Yi at his settlement, where he insisted they call him Fellow Daoist rather than Senior.
• Chi Jiuyu watched unseen and judged Xu Xing and the others’ spiritual power to be extraordinary, even by the standards of later Nascent Souls.
• At Yi’s banquet, Xu Xing and the others shared cultivation insights and spiritual items, while Hua’s pills reminded the elders of their past suffering.
• After the banquet, Xu Xing found Hua worrying about the risk of Yi’s attempt to reach the Nurturing Self Realm and encouraged him to trust Yi.
• A seven-colored presence beyond the living world reconsidered the Human Race after noticing its more complete Creation Foundation Establishment method.

Xu Xing and the others watched Yi break through to the Nurturing Self realm, but his Primordial Spirit flames consumed his body and left him with little time to live. Yi ordered his disciples to study his state and learn from his breakthrough as the seven-colored eyes appeared beyond the heavenly canopy once more.

• As Yi's unstable aura persisted, Xu Xing and the settlement's people gathered at the tower to watch his breakthrough.
• When Yi's Primordial Spirit fire surged and illuminated the night, Xu Xing and Hong rushed into the tower, followed by the others.
• Xu Xing tried to suppress the flames with a dark-blue crystal, but the fire quickly overcame its frost.
• Yi explained that he had reached the Nurturing Self realm, yet his body, mind, and magical power were burning as fuel for his Primordial Spirit.
• Yi stopped Hua from wasting another crystal and ordered everyone to memorize his condition and prepare for their own breakthroughs.
• As Yi's body became translucent amid the flames, the seven-colored eyes appeared beyond the canopy of heaven.

After Yi’s death, Xu Xing and his companions chose their next paths, and Xu Xing returned to the bamboo grove before breaking through to the peak of Nurturing Self. Unable to wield most of his new power, he created a Human Race Spirit Refining Method, then set out from the Eastern Wasteland Region as Chi Jiuyu suspected he might soon meet Senior Charm Ancestor and Senior Spirit Ancestor.

• Xu Xing told Hong that he had reached the point where he could break through to Nurturing Self, while Hong revealed that his Heaven Token had gained a seventh mark and advised Xu Xing to visit the Heaven Domain.
• A week later, Hong left for the Heaven Domain, Kui returned home, and Xu Xing, Bie Xuening, and Yuan restored their old bamboo grove.
• Xu Xing broke through to the peak of Nurturing Self, but the huge leap left him able to wield less than ten percent of his strength.
• Xu Xing created the Great Profound Realm’s first secret Human Race spirit-refining method and shared it with Hong, Kui, and Hua, gradually adapting enough to defeat Bie Xuening and Yuan.
• Xu Xing announced that he would leave the Eastern Wasteland Region, and Chi Jiuyu wondered whether he would meet Senior Charm Ancestor and Senior Spirit Ancestor on his journey.

Xu Xing left Bie Xuening and Yuanjun to travel through the Ancient Domain, where he studied its cities and wilderness while considering how to spread the Human Race’s cultivation methods. Chi Jiuyu followed him, and the chapter ended with Xu Xing approaching a mountain range inhabited by the Willow Wraith Clan.

• Xu Xing departed from Bie Xuening and Yuanjun after spending more than two hundred years with them.
• Chi Jiuyu followed Xu Xing as he crossed into the Ancient Domain and observed its abundant spiritual energy and ancient landscape.
• Xu Xing entered Fleeting Life City and used a teleportation array to travel to Fallen Phoenix City, intending to inspect settlements that had received cultivation methods.
• Xu Xing examined Fallen Phoenix City from a distant mountain with his Delusion-Piercing Golden Pupils, then headed deeper into the wilderness.
• Xu Xing reached an unnamed mountain range where the Willow Wraith Clan lived in a gigantic tree.

Xu Xing discovered that the Willow Wraith Tree’s clan had been demanding Human Race children as living sacrifices, then attacked the tree to stop the offering. The tree resisted his sword strike, leaving the battle underway as nearby clans wondered whether the Human Race would replace the Willow Wraith Clan.

• Xu Xing found that the Human Race settlement he had once helped was gone and investigated the Willow Wraith Tree and its crystal-dwelling Willow Wraith Clan.
• Xu Xing learned the tree had awakened after being struck by a drop of spirit wine and that it demanded living sacrifices from nearby clans, including the Human Race.
• Xu Xing discovered that nine Human Race children had been brought to the tree for its sacrifice, including a nameless girl dressed in red who wanted to live.
• Xu Xing concealed his sword strike beneath a spiritual-energy vortex and slashed the Willow Wraith Tree, destroying its branches and attacking Willow Wraith Clan members.
• The Willow Wraith Tree unleashed its will and fought back, but Xu Xing pressed his attack as scouts from nearby clans watched.

Xu Xing defeated the Willow Wraith Tree with the Annihilation Sword and rescued nine children trapped inside its trunk. He discovered that the calm little girl among them had no name because she had been chosen as a sacrifice.

• As the Willow Wraith Tree's wine weakened it, Xu Xing focused his attacks on the wound from his ambush strike.
• Xu Xing unleashed the Annihilation Sword at full power, destroying the Willow Wraith Clan and defeating the tree, though its final attack wounded him.
• Xu Xing split open the sealed trunk and found nine malnourished children inside.
• Xu Xing comforted the children, then examined the little girl in red who was not crying.
• The girl told Xu Xing she had no name because the elder said a fated sacrifice did not need one.

Xu Xing rescued the nine children offered as tributes to the Willow Wraith Clan and brought them to their Human Race settlement, where he revealed that the clan’s ancestral tree was dead. He killed settlement leader Jie and an elder who recognized him, leaving the remaining people terrified of what he would do next.

• Xu Xing gathered the nine children, collected the Willow Wraith Wine, and flew with them to the nearby Human Race settlement.
• The settlement leader Jie and his elders debated the tremor near the Willow Wraith Clan’s ancestral tree and worried about the region’s stability.
• When Xu Xing arrived with the children, the elders assumed he had stolen them from the Willow Wraith Clan and considered attacking him.
• Xu Xing told Jie that the Willow Wraith Tree was dead, sensed Jie’s malice, and killed him instantly.
• Xu Xing asked an elder whether he remembered being saved by him, then killed the elder when he tried to flee.

After recovering from his battle with the Willow Wraith Tree, Xu Xing confronted the Willow Wraith Clan elders over their restricted cultivation methods and decided to teach the settlement higher realms. Three elders tried to ambush him, but he killed them effortlessly, leaving the others terrified.

• Xu Xing recovered for two days while the elders feared his power after learning he had slain the Willow Wraith Clan’s ancestral tree.
• Xu Xing told the elders that the settlement’s small number of cultivators showed that cultivation methods had been restricted.
• An elder claimed the God Forging method had been lost, and Xu Xing realized the elder he had killed had likely concealed it.
• Xu Xing ordered that he would teach the settlement the God Forging and Nurturing Self methods so everyone could cultivate.
• Three elders attacked Xu Xing as he left, but he killed them with the incense burner’s power.
• Xu Xing told the remaining elders to clean up, and they were overcome with fear.

Xu Xing spent a year protecting the Human Race settlement, sharing cultivation methods, and helping its people grow before preparing to leave for another settlement. As he departed, the little girl he had saved asked for a name, and he told her to find her own meaning and choose one herself.

• Xu Xing used the Heart-Questioning Furnace to expose and eliminate the settlement’s hidden danger, then shared cultivation methods with its people.
• Xu Xing explained to the little girl that he wanted others to have choices when disaster struck, and she began cultivating with exceptional talent.
• Xu Xing turned away the neighboring clans and subdued a Nurturing Self cultivator, securing Human Race control over the land.
• After a year, Xu Xing prepared to leave, and Gan Xiang and the elders promised not to repeat Jie’s abuses.
• Xu Xing gave the little girl a crystal containing three sword strikes for her protection, then told her to choose her own name after finding her meaning.

After surviving a dangerous journey across the Ancient Domain, Xu Xing left Feng's settlement and entered the Heaven Domain, where Cang's Ancestor granted him a nine-marked Heaven Token. Cang's Ancestor secretly tried to plant an anchor on Xu Xing, but a deeper force erased it without being noticed.

• Xu Xing spent half of two years recovering in Feng's settlement after Feng rescued him, and he taught its cultivators the Spirit Refining Method and Nurturing Self cultivation method.
• Xu Xing thanked Feng, Meng Xuan, and Mo before leaving the settlement, while Feng decided to advance into Nurturing Self and then continue his journey.
• Xu Xing crossed into the Heaven Domain and received a nine-marked Heaven Token from Cang's Ancestor, then set off to find Hong.
• Cang's Ancestor observed Xu Xing and planted an unseen anchor intended to let Him seize Xu Xing's essence when he attained the Dao.
• A deeper force in the Great Profound Realm silently erased the anchor Cang's Ancestor had placed on Xu Xing.

Hong and Xu Xing met in Hibiscus Moon City and discussed spreading cultivation methods among humans in the remaining domains. After a night of cultivating with a Law Refining Pill, Xu Xing decided to exchange for alchemy knowledge at the Academy of Myriad Races, despite his lingering suspicion of the Heaven Domain.

• Hong and Xu Xing met at a tavern and agreed that Hong would handle the Heaven Domain while Xu Xing took responsibility for the Xuan Domain, with whoever finished first going to the Glorious World Domain.
• Hong explained matters to Xu Xing, and they went to the Academy of Myriad Races branch to exchange for cultivation resources using their nine-mark Heaven Tokens.
• Xu Xing reflected on his long separation from his homeland, then swallowed a Law Refining Pill and cultivated through the night as Chi Jiuyu watched.
• Xu Xing found that the pill made one night's cultivation equal a week of his previous effort and decided to exchange for alchemy knowledge at the Academy of Myriad Races.

After studying the four cultivation arts at the Academy of Myriad Races, Xu Xing left the Heaven Domain and searched for the Human Race settlements he remembered. At the third settlement, he encountered a woman escorted by hostile white figures, and Chi Jiuyu recognized the woman as Spirit Ancestor.

• Xu Xing practiced alchemy, then learned alchemy, artifact forging, formations, and talismans at the Academy of Myriad Races before using up his exchange points.
• Xu Xing departed the Heaven Domain, crossed into the Xuan Domain, and drew the attention of Xuan, who remembered their meeting in the Eastern Wasteland Region.
• Xu Xing searched for a Human Race settlement, taught its people cultivation and the four great arts, and then traveled toward another settlement.
• Xu Xing reached the third settlement and saw a woman traveling with seven hostile white figures, all powerful cultivators.
• Xu Xing appeared before the procession, but one of the figures demanded to know whether he would violate an agreement; Chi Jiuyu recognized the woman as Senior Spirit Ancestor.

Xu Xing learned that the Floating Moon Spirit Clan intended to sacrifice Ruo and others to nourish its First Ancestor Spirit’s advance into Void Derivation, then set out for the clan’s ancestral land. He returned bloodied with a white pearl and demanded that Ruo explain herself.

• Xu Xing defeated the attacking Floating Moon Spirits, read the memories of their God Forging Realm phantom, and learned that the clan’s First Ancestor Spirit needed yin-aligned souls as nourishment.
• Xu Xing condemned the sacrifice and flew toward the Floating Moon Spirit Clan’s ancestral land, while Ruo sent the other chosen people home and stayed by the lake.
• Ruo reflected on her lifelong acceptance of her fate and realized Xu Xing had misunderstood her anger and disappointment as directed at her.
• Chi Jiuyu followed Xu Xing toward the ancestral land to see what was happening.
• Xu Xing returned to Ruo drenched in blood, tossed her a white pearl, and demanded that she explain herself.

Xu Xing confronted Ruo but learned she had been chosen as the Floating Moon spirit clan’s sacrifice and had no clear sense of why she accepted that fate. After telling her he had paid the price to free her, he began recovering while Ruo chose the name Ning Ruo and asked to call him Brother Xu.

• Xu Xing questioned Ruo about why she had accepted becoming a sacrifice, and she said the settlement had taught her that people must be sacrificed to protect others.
• Ruo explained that the Floating Moon spirit clan had made an agreement with the settlement twenty-seven years earlier to sacrifice its finest yin-aspected cultivator, and that she was the chosen offering.
• Xu Xing believed her, apologized for misunderstanding, and told her that he had dealt with the Floating Moon Spirit clan and that she could live freely.
• When Ruo wondered whether she could truly go on living, Xu Xing assured her that he had already paid the price for her and that she owed no one anything.
• Xu Xing began recovering, but Ruo stayed beside him and announced that she would take the surname Ning, becoming Ning Ruo, and call him Brother Xu.

Xu Xing reunited with Lie’s settlement and learned that Lie had sent Ning Ruo and others to the Floating Moon Spirit clan to protect their people. He stayed in the settlement to teach cultivation, and the chapter ended with Ning Ruo confessing that she liked him and asking whether he liked anyone.

• Chi Jiuyu watched as Lie arrived with four others, recognized Xu Xing, and invited him back to the settlement.
• Lie showed Xu Xing the settlement and explained that he had sacrificed people to secure its survival after the Floating Moon Spirit clan refused to accept him in Ning Ruo’s place.
• Xu Xing chose not to oppose Lie and spent the next half month teaching cultivation methods and arts, which Ning Ruo alone among the locals practiced with him.
• Ning Ruo returned Xu Xing’s book, told him she liked him, and asked whether he had someone he liked.

Ning Ruo confronted Jing and Lie over Jing’s harassment, declaring that Jing should die to prevent future harm and challenging Lie’s authority. Afterward, she calmly discussed array formations with Xu Xing and confirmed that she intended to become the settlement’s next leader.

• Ning Ruo left Xu Xing’s residence believing she had changed how he saw her, while a young man watched in anger.
• Ning Ruo ignored Jing when he blocked her path, then sent him flying when he tried to grab her.
• Ning Ruo threatened to kill Jing as a hidden danger and challenged Lie, arguing that Jing should pay for his actions and asking whether Lie was stronger than her.
• Xu Xing returned Ning Ruo’s array flags and explained how to improve them, then revealed that he had learned to forge such flags in three days.
• Ning Ruo told Xu Xing that she had not intervened earlier because she refused to follow the former leader’s path, and confirmed that she planned to become leader.

Ning Ruo became the settlement’s leader and said goodbye to Xu Xing as he departed to spread the Nurturing Self cultivation method. As Chi Jiuyu followed him, darkness swallowed the scene, and Senior Charm Ancestor appeared.

• Ning Ruo declined to leave with Xu Xing and asked how she could find him in the future, so he gave her a communication gemstone and told her to seek him in the Eastern Wasteland Region.
• Over the next half month, Ning Ruo took the leader’s position from Lie and ended the settlement’s opposition by defeating three God Forging elders who had stirred up trouble.
• Xu Xing left the settlement despite Ning Ruo’s concern about his injuries, and she watched him depart in a streak of sword-light.
• Chi Jiuyu rose to follow Xu Xing, but billowing darkness swallowed everything around her.
• Senior Charm Ancestor appeared before Chi Jiuyu and asked if she had missed her.

Charm Ancestor let Chi Jiuyu watch events from Ning Ruo’s past, including Xu Xing’s travels and the settlement’s growth after he left. The chapter ended as Ning Ruo revealed that Lie and Jing had both died after Lie turned against a faction seeking to restrict access to cultivation.

• Charm Ancestor told Chi Jiuyu she could stay to watch more interesting events, then showed her the past as time was turned back.
• Xu Xing traveled through the domains, saved members of the Human Race, and unknowingly met Xuan, whose advice helped him understand the path of Void Derivation.
• Fifteen years after Xu Xing left, Ning Ruo’s settlement had prospered, but Chi proposed restricting cultivation to people with exceptional aptitude and character.
• Chi confronted Ning Ruo on a cliff, while Jing joined Chi and taunted Ning Ruo; Lie arrived and killed Chi instead of supporting their plan.
• Lie turned on Jing, but the scene froze before he could reach him; after Charm Ancestor and Chi Jiuyu asked what happened, Ning Ruo said both Chi and Jing died.