Chapter Summaries

Su Ye killed the Golden-Haired Divine Monarch with the Thunder Emperor’s Nine Heavens Tribulation Light, then learned from Black Feather that the Star River’s practice of devouring alternate selves could alter a person’s identity. Elsewhere, Shi Yi and the Black Emperor examined flawed copies of Shi Yi, leaving the mystery of the Star River’s doubles unresolved.

• Su Ye summoned the Nine Heavens Tribulation Light, which erased the Golden-Haired Divine Monarch, but the technique left Su Ye weakened by its cost and backlash.
• The Witch supported Su Ye and asked about their next move, but Su Ye refused to seek out the dog and planned to wait for it instead.
• Black Feather explained that Star River beings grew stronger by devouring versions of themselves from other spacetimes, and Su Ye worried that these might not truly be separate selves.
• Black Feather admitted that an old friend had changed after devouring another self, becoming cold and heartless.
• Shi Yi judged his copy to be flawed, and he and the Black Emperor killed the copies after discussing their missing abilities.

Su Ye and Black Feather entered the Styx Star Domain, where Black Feather warned him about its powerful temples and the danger of outsiders. Meanwhile, the Underworld God Temple sent people after Su Ye, while Shi Yi confronted the Black Emperor over his reckless violence.

• Black Feather explained that outsiders were valued as treasures in the Star River and warned Su Ye to conceal his identity and avoid the Underworld God Temple.
• Su Ye learned that the Styx Star Domain was governed by the Underworld God Temple, Nether Divine Temple, and Ghost Divine Temple, and said he had come to trade for resources.
• A God King learned that Su Ye and the Black Emperor were heading toward the Nether Divine Temple's territory and ordered Ming Ten and Ming Eleven to intercept them.
• The God King sent Ming Eight and Ming Nine to capture the person who killed Three-Origin, suspecting that he possessed a powerful Treasure Art.
• Shi Yi challenged the Black Emperor for killing people and drawing danger, but the Black Emperor called it life-and-death tempering and claimed he could protect Shi Yi even from a Heavenly Deity.

Su Ye destroyed two Underworld Guards and discussed consciousness and the Path of Reincarnation with Black Feather, who chose to stay rather than flee. Elsewhere, Shi Yi sensed an immortal presence, and the Black Emperor warned that some beings were far beyond even immortals.

• Su Ye used a Millstone Phantom to destroy two Underworld Guards, and Black Feather warned him that they served a Heavenly Deity-level Underworld God.
• The Witch watched Black Feather as he considered fleeing, but Black Feather chose to stay and gamble that Su Ye was trustworthy.
• Su Ye told Black Feather he trusted his own ability to detect a message, then explained that consciousness could only be erased rather than assimilated.
• Black Feather asked whether other spacetimes and alternate selves were real, and Su Ye said he did not know and would not investigate.
• Shi Yi told the Black Emperor that he had sensed an immortal presence and asked whether the Black Emperor could bury it.
• The Black Emperor said he could not, explaining that he was now only a wisp of remnant soul.

Su Ye confronted the Underworld Serpent God King at Underworld Serpent City after revealing he had let the Three-Origin Divine Monarch expose their approach. The God King demanded Su Ye’s Treasure Art while secretly summoning reinforcements, leaving Su Ye realizing he had misjudged the danger.

• Black Feather warned Su Ye that Underworld Serpent City was guarded by a God King, while Su Ye remained confident he could face the Star River’s strongest.
• The Underworld Serpent God King appeared with powerful figures and welcomed Su Ye, prompting Black Feather to suspect the Witch had betrayed them.
• Su Ye revealed that he had used a Rune containing the Three-Origin Divine Monarch’s phantom to alert the city, clearing the Witch and Black Feather of suspicion.
• The Underworld Serpent God King accused Su Ye of killing a member of the Underworld Divine Temple and demanded his Treasure Art in exchange for forgiveness.
• Su Ye saw a vision of overwhelming figures surrounding him and realized the God King had summoned backup, despite his earlier confidence.

The Underworld Serpent God King stopped attacking Su Ye after learning that the Immortal Domain had opened, and Su Ye learned from Black Feather that it was an immortal’s Daoist sanctum full of opportunities. Meanwhile, Shi Yi urged the Black Emperor to leave the suspicious world, but the Black Emperor insisted they should go to the Immortal Domain.

• The Underworld Serpent God King apologized to Su Ye, withdrew with his followers, and said the Immortal Domain had opened.
• Su Ye brought the Witch and Black Feather into Underworld Serpent City and told Black Feather that the God King had abruptly stopped fighting because something had opened.
• Black Feather identified the opening as the Immortal Domain, an immortal’s Daoist sanctum that opened about once every ten thousand years and held great opportunities.
• The Witch suspected the Immortal Domain’s opening was connected to their arrival, while Su Ye joked that it might have opened for him.
• Shi Yi called the world a trap and proposed leaving, but the Black Emperor mocked his caution and said Shi Hao would charge ahead.

Black Emperor announced that the Dark Cataclysm was approaching and opened the Immortal Ancient Relic Site in Qing Province to cultivate a Supreme Being. As powerful figures gathered there, the Remnant Immortal discussed the suspected origins of the Samsara Eye and warned that the Immortal Palace also needed a Supreme Being to survive the coming darkness.

• Black Emperor used the Wuzhong Bell to announce the coming Dark Cataclysm and the opening of the Immortal Ancient Relic Site in Qing Province.
• The Remnant Immortal told the Immortal Palace's oldest ancestor that the Samsara Eye might be a plan left by the Immortal Kings of Six Paths Reincarnation and Wuzhong to return to this era.
• The Remnant Immortal said the Immortal Palace needed a Supreme Being to withstand the Dark Cataclysm and remain aloof from the world.
• Powerful figures across the Three Thousand Dao Provinces left seclusion and traveled to Qing Province, speculating that the relic site was the tomb of two immortals.
• An old man warned the gathering that Qing Province's Star River held primordial Dao insights but could leave those who entered unsure whether they were still themselves.

Su Ye explained that merging with Immortal Dao substance could contaminate their foundations, then protected the Witch and offered Black Feather the same protection. Elsewhere, Shi Yi resisted the Immortal Dao charm, and Black Emperor attributed it to his Supreme Bone.

• The Witch questioned whether fishing for Immortal Dao substance was a safe way to enter the Immortal Domain, and Su Ye warned that it could contaminate their foundations.
• Su Ye protected the Witch's Wheel Sea with a rune and explained how Primogenitors could resist the Immortal Dao charm, though possession remained a danger.
• Black Feather weighed the risks and asked Su Ye to suppress his origin, and Su Ye agreed.
• Shi Yi surprised Black Emperor by resisting the Immortal Dao charm, and Black Emperor concluded that Shi Yi's Supreme Bone had erased it.

Su Ye and the Witch followed Black Feather through the peaceful but ruined Immortal Domain, where they discovered the remains of the Sword Sect. Su Ye revealed that he had suspected Black Feather from the start, but explained that he gave him a genuine Primal Rune because he did not consider them enemies.

• Su Ye, the Witch, and Black Feather crossed the Immortal Domain and reached a dilapidated stretch of ruins.
• Su Ye recognized the words “Sword Sect” on a broken stone tablet, and Black Feather explained the sect’s history and its sword immortal founder.
• The Witch noticed Black Feather’s changing aura, while Su Ye revealed that he had never trusted him because he refused to flee despite being given chances.
• Su Ye explained that Black Feather’s greed showed when he asked for a Primal Rune, but confirmed the rune he gave him was real.
• Black Feather asked why Su Ye had given him a genuine rune, and Su Ye replied that he gave it because he wanted to.

Su Ye entered the Sword Sect and fought an indescribable monster whose sword intent nearly trapped him in a deadly mindscape. Elsewhere in the Land of Immortal Remains, Black Emperor and Shi Yi discussed the multiple immortals buried there as a monstrous fleshly mass continued to grow.

• Black Feather explained that the Sword Sect required three trials, then vanished as he entered it.
• Su Ye warned the Witch that they might be separated, and she entered the Sword Sect before he followed.
• Su Ye broke through the mist's attempt to pry into his memories and attacked an indescribable monster, but its sword intent wounded him and nearly trapped his mind.
• Su Ye recovered from the Sword Dao mindscape and faced the monster with renewed excitement.
• In the Land of Immortal Remains, Black Emperor sensed that multiple immortals were buried there, and Shi Yi questioned whether the writhing fleshly mass was one of them.
• Black Emperor told Shi Yi that the fleshly mass's power did not prove it was an immortal.

Su Ye followed Black Feather to Sword Sect, where he encountered a woman he had met in Star River fighting a mutating former sect master. After the woman rescued him and warned him to leave, Su Ye asked why she was helping him.

• Su Ye reached a gorge filled with ancient broken swords and used the Samsara Eye to witness Sword Sect cultivators fall during a Darkness Invasion.
• Su Ye found the woman from Star River battling a mutating old man, and revealed Black Feather’s head, shocking them both with Black Feather’s connection to Sword Sect.
• The woman tried to drive Su Ye away, while the old man declared her guilty of violating Sword Sect’s rules and attacked her.
• The woman pierced the old man and fled with Su Ye, but the old man regenerated and vowed to devour Su Ye to escape his cage.
• The woman again urged Su Ye to leave, and Su Ye asked whether she was helping him out of gratitude or guilt.

Su Ye and Jian Qing fought the Sword Sect’s corrupted former sect master, whose mastery of the Sword Dao forced Su Ye to witness the gulf between their strength. After Jian Qing killed her ancestor, she began explaining the Dark Turmoil and the substance that corrupted powerful beings.

• Jian Qing attacked the old man, while Su Ye recognized his transformed sword qi and saw the Void Sword Dao.
• The old man vanished and attacked Su Ye, but Su Ye exposed him and struck back with his Black-White Bear art before the old man escaped.
• Su Ye challenged the old man with his sword strike, but the old man destroyed its long-river Sword Intent and demonstrated a sword capable of killing Su Ye instantly.
• The old man asked Jian Qing to kill him before he lost control, and Jian Qing ended his life so he could not regenerate.
• Jian Qing introduced herself as the Sword Sect’s fifty-eighth sect master and explained that the Dark Turmoil brought Foreign Realm invaders and a substance that could corrupt even True Immortals.

Su Ye questioned Jian Qing about Star River and learned that the sealed Immortal King Time had created the cultivation methods Jian Qing used. Su Ye suspected that Jian Qing was one of Time King’s avatars, leaving her identity uncertain.

• Jian Qing explained that Red King’s newly ascended disciple, Time King, had infiltrated the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths and been sealed by the Sword Sect’s founding ancestor.
• Jian Qing revealed that Time King’s body and Great Dao had been absorbed by Qing Province, while his immortal primordial spirit remained.
• Su Ye concluded that Time King had created the Nine Turns and Three Origins into One methods and intended to pursue Dark Evolution like Yu Tuo.
• Su Ye asked Jian Qing whether she was herself or Time King, and she suppressed her killing intent with a special mental technique.
• Su Ye determined that practitioners’ past and future selves could be avatars of Time King, but wondered why an Immortal King would make himself a tonic for others.

Su Ye explained to Jian Qing that Time King's attempted evolution through Dark Matter was doomed to fail and suggested that the ancient seal used the consciousnesses of powerful beings to dilute Time King's. The chapter left the truth uncertain as Black Emperor questioned why the secret had been so easy to uncover.

• Su Ye warned Jian Qing that Time King's madness and lingering consciousness could not be suppressed by her power alone.
• Su Ye explained that Time King's Dark Evolution would fail without enough Dark Matter and that the Sword Dao of Jian Qing's ancestor had thwarted his method.
• Su Ye inferred that the surviving immortals may have used many beings' consciousnesses to seal and dilute Time King's consciousness, though he admitted he did not know for certain.
• Jian Qing realized that the powerful beings who returned might resist helping Time King because of their strong wills and prior strength, but Su Ye rejected her conclusion.
• Black Emperor questioned a battered captive about how Time King's thoughts had escaped his seal, then wondered why they had learned the secret so easily.

Su Ye followed Jian Qing into Sword Sect, where her explanation of Sword Intent gave him a hazy new insight into the sword dao. Elsewhere in the Land of Immortal Remains, an Immortal Palace ancestor investigated the weakened Dark Matter, while a blood-soaked man transformed and declared that he had returned.

• Su Ye found Witch fighting Fallen Monsters and trusted the Runes he had placed inside her to keep her safe.
• Jian Qing led Su Ye toward Sword Sect’s Inheritance Ground and explained that Sword Intent was a pure will fused with the Great Dao through the sword.
• Su Ye watched Jian Qing swing an ordinary-looking sword and began pondering the core of the sword dao.
• An ancient Immortal Palace ancestor purified Dark Matter from a monster’s corpse and wondered about the Time King’s motives.
• A blood-soaked old man transformed into a vigorous middle-aged man, then changed into a cold-faced figure and announced, “I have returned.”

Su Ye entered the Sword Pavilion to seek insight into the sword, while Shi Yi and Black Emperor considered the Time King’s intentions and searched for a Heavenly Venerable Primordial Chaos Lotus. Their search led them to a dangerous young man whom Black Emperor decided to interrogate.

• Jian Qing opened the Sword Pavilion’s gateway and explained that Su Ye could find his own sword path by comprehending the Sword Intents inside.
• Su Ye entered the Sword Pavilion and noticed that its vast, desolate world seemed to lack any Sword Intent.
• Shi Yi suggested that the Time King might be trying to cast off his past and transform rather than return to the Foreign Realm.
• Black Emperor focused on finding the Heavenly Venerable Primordial Chaos Lotus, which could earn him the Immortal Domain’s recognition and let him use forbidden methods freely.
• Shi Yi sensed a transcendent young man whose presence made him feel powerless, and Black Emperor threatened to suppress and interrogate him.

Shi Yi spoke with a young man who revealed he carried the Time King's consciousness and warned that picking the Heavenly Venerable Primordial Chaos Lotuses would free him. After the young man vanished, Shi Yi and the Black Emperor considered his warning and decided to find Su Ye.

• The young man subdued the Black Emperor and told Shi Yi that he had lost twice to a Double Pupil wielder in his era.
• The young man explained that the Sword Immortal had killed the Time King's past, but the Time King's consciousness survived by fusing with a True Immortal's primordial spirit.
• The young man said that picking the nine Heavenly Venerable Primordial Chaos Lotuses would let him escape, while leaving them untouched would cause him to disappear.
• The young man vanished, and Shi Yi asked the Black Emperor how much of his account was true.
• The Black Emperor judged the warning mostly truthful and said they needed to find Su Ye, whose actions might explain the changes.

News of the Heavenly Venerable Primordial Chaos Lotus spread across the Land of Immortal Remains, prompting the Immortal Palace Ancestor and the ancestor of Underworld Earth to consider taking one despite the seal it would loosen. In the Sword Pavilion, Su Ye entered the Eighth Layer Sword Realm, discovered its plants were real swords, and began investigating whether the realm itself was a powerful weapon.

• The Immortal Palace Ancestor discussed the lotus and the sealed Time King with the ancestor of Underworld Earth, and they silently agreed to pursue the medicine.
• Black Emperor saw the Sword Intent concealed in the Sword Sect ruins and warned Shi Yi that his Double Pupil could not withstand observing it.
• Black Emperor opened a sword-shaped gate into the Sword Sect ruins and brought Shi Yi through it.
• Su Ye passed the Seventh Layer trial and entered the Eighth Layer Sword Realm, where every plant transformed into a sword.
• Su Ye touched an ancient tree, realized it was real, and was swallowed by its sword qi before reappearing at the entrance.
• Su Ye flew above the vegetation and examined the sword realm, suspecting it was a massive weapon he might be able to take away.

The Black Emperor and Shi Yi were attacked in the Sword Sect until Jian Qing killed their assailant and confronted them. After the Black Emperor explained Time King's plan and claimed Su Ye was the reincarnation of the Immortal King of Six Paths Reincarnation, Jian Qing recognized the Black Emperor and learned why they had come.

• The Black Emperor and Shi Yi struggled against a Dark Fallen One until Jian Qing killed it with a sword strike.
• Jian Qing questioned the intruders, warned Shi Yi against using his Double Pupil on her, and pinned the Black Emperor to a wall when he called her Su Ye's woman.
• The Black Emperor told Jian Qing that Time King had revealed his seal and that powerful beings were gathering to claim the Heavenly Venerable Primordial Chaos Lotus.
• The Black Emperor claimed Su Ye was the reincarnation of the Immortal King of Six Paths Reincarnation and could regain his former cultivation in the disordered spacetime.
• Jian Qing recognized the Black Emperor as the shameless dog who had followed Immortal King Wuzhong, while Shi Yi worried that the dog’s origins might not protect him.

Su Ye comprehended the ninth layer of the Sword Pavilion by forgetting every Sword Intent he had learned and beginning again. Afterward, he learned that rumors identifying him as the reincarnation or vessel of the Immortal King of Six Paths Reincarnation had spread widely, and he suspected someone was trying to use those rumors to draw powerful enemies to him.

• Su Ye realized the ninth layer tested whether he could forget the Sword Intent he had learned and comprehend one of his own.
• Su Ye discussed the Time King, the Six Paths Reincarnation Immortal King, and the Sword Sect's history with Jian Qing and the others, but Jian Qing knew little.
• The Black Emperor proposed that the group seize the Heavenly Venerable primordial Chaos Lotus using the Six Paths Reincarnation Disc, while Su Ye dismissed his plan as unreliable.
• Shi Yi told Su Ye that people were spreading rumors that he was the reincarnated body or vessel of the Immortal King of Six Paths Reincarnation.
• Su Ye suspected the rumors were a scheme to draw the Immortal King's enemies into killing him.

Black Feather revealed that the Star River World faced extinction and asked Su Ye to help stop the danger surrounding Time King. He wanted Su Ye to erase Time King's lingering space-time power so the Star River would return to the Three Thousand Dao Provinces and escape seizure by the forbidden zones.

• Black Feather appeared and denied that Su Ye was the reincarnation of the Immortal King of Six Paths Reincarnation.
• Black Feather showed six Heavenly Venerable Primordial Chaos Lotuses and offered them in exchange for help suppressing and killing Time King.
• Black Feather explained that Time King's death would also destroy the Star River World and everyone in it.
• Black Feather said powerful beings and forbidden zones would deal with Time King, but he wanted the Star River protected from them.
• Su Ye questioned whether he could erase an Immortal King's lingering space-time power, and Black Feather insisted that he could.