Chapter Summaries

Li Xiaoyu was gravely injured when the cracked Wine Gourd released a backlash, but it then used Vitality Power to keep him alive. Daoist Daoxuan awoke, remembered Li Xiaoyu’s sacrifice, and asked why he had been saved.

• The Wine Gourd cracked while absorbing the Immortal-Slaying demonic energy, and its backlash hurled Li Xiaoyu into a crater.
• Lu Xueqi and the others found Li Xiaoyu unconscious with shattered meridians, crushed organs, and a fading primordial spirit.
• The Wine Gourd rose above Li Xiaoyu and bathed him in emerald Vitality Power, rekindling his life.
• Daoist Daoxuan awoke and remembered that Li Xiaoyu had risked his life to save him and the Green Cloud Sect.
• Daoist Daoxuan lamented his actions and asked why Li Xiaoyu had saved him.

After Wan Jianyi forgave him, Daoist Daoxuan accepted responsibility for his crimes and resigned as Green Cloud Sect Leader. Lu Xueqi became Acting Sect Leader until the unconscious Li Xiaoyu recovered, while Daoxuan and Wan Jianyi walked together toward the Ancestral Shrine.

• Wan Jianyi told Daoist Daoxuan he had saved the friend he once practiced and fought alongside, and Daoxuan broke down in remorse.
• Daoist Daoxuan crippled half his cultivation, resigned as Sect Leader, and vowed to spend the rest of his life in seclusion on Heaven-Reaching Peak.
• Daoist Daoxuan named the unconscious Li Xiaoyu as his successor, and Lu Xueqi offered to lead the Green Cloud Sect until Li Xiaoyu woke.
• Wan Jianyi, Shang Zhengliang, Tian Buyi, and the others supported Lu Xueqi as Acting Sect Leader.
• Wan Jianyi agreed to accompany Daoxuan, and the two walked toward the Ancestral Shrine to spend their remaining years in peace.

After Li Xiaoyu remained comatose for months, the mysterious gourd transformed and began restoring his body and spirit. As his Cultivation rose, a tremendous aura erupted from him, drawing spiritual energy over Morning Sun Peak and startling the two Sweeping Old Men.

• Master Shuiyue accepted Li Xiaoyu’s departure and embraced Lu Xueqi, telling her they would go home.
• Lu Xueqi kept vigil over the comatose Li Xiaoyu for months, using her Cultivation and rare treasures to sustain him while managing Green Cloud Sect.
• The cracked gray Wine Gourd burst with light after purifying Immortal-Slaying’s demonic energy and merging it with Li Xiaoyu’s Vitality Power.
• The gourd sent seven-colored energy into Li Xiaoyu, healing his meridians, organs, and spirit and steadily raising his Cultivation.
• A powerful aura burst from Li Xiaoyu, drawing spiritual energy into a vortex above Morning Sun Peak and startling the two Sweeping Old Men at the Ancestral Shrine.

After waking from a hundred days of sleep, Li Xiaoyu recovered and became the Green Cloud Sect’s nineteenth-generation Sect Leader, with Lu Xueqi ruling beside him. In the years that followed, his reforms strengthened the sect and helped the righteous path prosper.

• Li Xiaoyu awoke after three months, and Lu Xueqi embraced him with relief as the Green Cloud Sect celebrated.
• After seven days of recuperation, Li Xiaoyu was formally named the sect’s nineteenth-generation Sect Leader, succeeding Daoist Daoxuan.
• Li Xiaoyu declared that Lu Xueqi would rule the Green Cloud Sect alongside him, and the disciples accepted her authority.
• Over the following years, Li Xiaoyu introduced reforms that pooled the Seven Peaks’ resources and created the Merit Hall, where disciples earned arts and supplies through merit.
• Heavenly Sound Temple and Incense Burning Valley strengthened their ties with the Green Cloud Sect, and the three righteous factions shared resources and advanced together.

After years of searching, Zhang Xiaofan and Xiao Bai found the Ancient Well in the Far North Ice Plains, but discovered that a powerful array guarded it. They sent for help, and a message reached Li Xiaoyu at Green Cloud Mountain.

• Jin Ping'er built the Holy Mother Sect into a major power and kept peace with the righteous path.
• Zhang Xiaofan and Xiao Bai followed Li Xiaoyu's map into the Ruins of Time and reached the Ancient Well.
• Xiao Bai warned Zhang Xiaofan that the Nine-Palace Time-Locking Array around the well could send intruders into the currents of time.
• Xiao Bai sent messaging talismans toward Heavenly Sound Temple and Green Cloud Mountain to summon powerful allies.
• An azure messaging talisman arrived before Li Xiaoyu while he presided over a meeting in Jade Purity Hall.

After learning that Xiao Fan had found the Ancient Well in the Ruins of Time, Li Xiaoyu decided to travel to the Far North Ice Plains despite the danger. Lu Xueqi, Xiao Bai, Zhang Xiaofan, and Faxiang joined him as the group hurried toward the ruins.

• Li Xiaoyu received Xiao Bai's message that Xiao Fan had found the Ancient Well in the Far North Ice Plains.
• Li Xiaoyu told the Green Cloud Sect leaders about the discovery and insisted on going to help Xiao Fan and Bi Yao.
• Lu Xueqi chose to accompany Li Xiaoyu, and the two left Jade Purity Hall.
• Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi met Xiao Bai and Zhang Xiaofan at the edge of the Far North Ice Plains.
• Faxiang arrived to aid them, and the five traveled toward the Ruins of Time.

Li Xiaoyu and his companions crossed a frozen land where time and space behaved erratically, searching for the Ancient Well. They found its entrance behind an ice waterfall, shattered the ice wall, and entered the dark opening.

• Li Xiaoyu warned Lu Xueqi, Zhang Xiaofan, Xiao Bai, and Faxiang about the chaotic temporal and spatial energy before leading them into the frozen land.
• Zhang Xiaofan noticed droplets moving down an otherwise frozen waterfall, and Li Xiaoyu suspected the differing flow of time could be the key to their predicament.
• Xiao Bai sensed the Ancient Well behind the Ice Waterfall and detected an independent space with a different flow of time.
• Li Xiaoyu and the others endured the shifting pace of time and reached the waterfall, where they sensed a powerful force behind the ice wall.
• Li Xiaoyu struck the ice wall with an azure palm, breaking it open, then entered the dark passage with Lu Xueqi, Zhang Xiaofan, Xiao Bai, and Faxiang.

Li Xiaoyu and his companions discovered a lush valley behind the Ice Waterfall, where the Withered Elder and the Timekeeper Clan guarded the Ancient Well. The elder ordered them killed, and the group began fighting their way toward the well that could restore Bi Yao to life.

• Li Xiaoyu, Faxiang, and their companions entered the valley and sensed its rich spiritual energy and a powerful presence beneath its peaceful appearance.
• The Withered Elder emerged and declared the valley sacred, explaining that his people guarded the Ancient Well, the source of time and pivot of reincarnation.
• The Withered Elder ordered the hundreds of Timekeeper Clan warriors to kill the intruders, and Li Xiaoyu assigned Lu Xueqi, Zhang Xiaofan, Faxiang, and Xiao Bai to fight them while he faced the elder.
• Li Xiaoyu used the Autumn Water Sword to cut through the elder’s spacetime blades, but the elder’s control of time prevented him from winning quickly.
• Lu Xueqi, Zhang Xiaofan, Faxiang, and Xiao Bai struggled against the Timekeeper Clan warriors’ powers to alter time, slow attacks, accelerate movement, and trap opponents in loops.

Lu Xueqi, Faxiang, Xiao Bai, and Li Xiaoyu joined forces to attack the Withered Elder, but his mastery of time and space nullified their combined strike. As his Space-Time Storm nearly killed them, Zhang Xiaofan revealed a Taiji Diagram bearing the Witch God Totem, making the Withered Elder stop the attack.

• Lu Xueqi, Faxiang, and Xiao Bai joined Li Xiaoyu in attacking the Withered Elder after he refused to let them borrow his land.
• The Withered Elder declared that anyone disrupting the order of time had to be erased, then used his power to reverse time and dispel their combined attack.
• The Withered Elder unleashed a Space-Time Storm that trapped the group and threatened to destroy them.
• Zhang Xiaofan erupted with blended Daoist, Buddhist, and demonic power, summoning a massive Taiji Diagram.
• The Witch God Totem appeared within Zhang Xiaofan's Taiji Diagram, and the Withered Elder recognized it and ordered his warriors to stop the attack.

Zhang Xiaofan’s display of the Witch God Totem led the Withered Elder to hear why Li Xiaoyu and his companions had come to the valley. After learning of Bi Yao’s plight and Linglong’s connection to them, he agreed to let them enter the Ancient Well and led them there.

• Zhang Xiaofan’s power startled the Withered Elder, who asked why he possessed the Witch God Totem.
• Li Xiaoyu asked the Withered Elder to hear them out, and the elder brought the group to the Time-Controlling Clan’s ancestral home.
• Li Xiaoyu explained that Zhang Xiaofan had found the Witchcraft Fragments, Linglong’s relic, in the Ancient Demon-Suppressing Cave.
• Li Xiaoyu recounted how Bi Yao sacrificed herself against the Zhu Xian Sword and became trapped with the Asura Demon God’s core in an unknown Space-Time Interlayer.
• The Withered Elder accepted the group’s request to enter the Ancient Well because Linglong had chosen them, then led them toward it.

The old man revealed that the world had passed through two eras and that the Time-Warding Clan guarded the Ancient Well as the world’s last hope against the returning Outer Realm Demons. He shared the Heavenly Emperor’s prophecy that the one who commands the variables may save the world, then fixed his gaze on the young man with the Witch God Totem.

• Li Xiaoyu asked the old man what lay beyond the Ancient Well and why it held such powerful spatial and temporal energy.
• Li Xiaoyu and his companions insisted they were ready to shoulder the responsibility, and the old man agreed to explain the world’s history.
• The old man recounted how the Heavenly Emperor fought the Outer Realm Demons at the end of the first era and later sealed the world to preserve a spark for the third era.
• The old man explained that the Time-Warding Clan guarded the Ancient Well, a hub connecting layers of space-time and different eras.
• The old man shared the Heavenly Emperor’s prophecy that the true Outer Realm Demons would return and that the one who commands the variables could find a chance for the world to survive.
• The old man identified the silent young man in black robes, who possessed the Witch God Totem, as the figure in the prophecy.

The old man revealed that Zhang Xiaofan was chosen by the Witch God Totem and explained that the Ancient Well linked different epochs but risked exposing their world to the Outer Realm Demons. Zhang Xiaofan insisted on entering despite the danger, and the old man agreed not to stop him.

• The old man said the Witch God Totem had chosen Zhang Xiaofan as a hero who could help save the world.
• Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, Faxiang, and Xiao Bai promised to face the road ahead with Zhang Xiaofan.
• The old man led the group to the Ancient Well and explained that it connected layers of space-time and different epochs.
• The old man warned that opening the well could disrupt space-time or reveal their world's coordinates to the Outer Realm Demons.
• Zhang Xiaofan said he still had to enter the well to find the hope he had waited his whole life for, and the old man agreed not to stop him.

Zhang Xiaofan resolved to bear the danger of entering the Space-Time Interlayer alone to save Bi Yao, but Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, Faxiang, and Xiao Bai insisted on sharing the burden. The Withered Elder opened the Ancient Well’s entrance and warned them they had only one incense stick’s time to escape the Land of Exile.

• Zhang Xiaofan apologized to his friends and declared he would bear the consequences of saving Bi Yao alone.
• Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, Faxiang, and Xiao Bai told Zhang Xiaofan they would face the danger with him.
• Zhang Xiaofan embraced his friends and thanked them for standing beside him.
• The Withered Elder agreed to help and used his power over time to open the Ancient Well’s entrance.
• The Withered Elder warned the group that the entrance would remain open for only one incense stick and they would be trapped forever if they failed to return in time.

Li Xiaoyu and his companions entered the space-time vortex and were swept into a deadly turbulence filled with chaotic forces and memory fragments. As their defenses began to fail, Li Xiaoyu linked their Dao Hearts together, creating a brief sanctuary that left them able to face the raging storm.

• Zhang Xiaofan agreed to enter the vortex, and Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, Xiao Bai, and Faxiang joined him in plunging into it.
• Li Xiaoyu and the others were swept through the turbulence of time and space, where memory fragments and chaotic power threatened to erase them.
• Their protective barriers cracked and their Dao Hearts began to waver under the assault of the turbulence.
• Li Xiaoyu called the others to him and unleashed his Taiqing Realm Cultivation to link their Dao Hearts.
• Lu Xueqi, Zhang Xiaofan, Xiao Bai, Faxiang, and Li Xiaoyu united their wills and held back the storm, gaining a brief respite.

Xiao Bai guided Li Xiaoyu, Zhang Xiaofan, Faxiang, and Lu Xueqi through the Turbulence of Time and Space to the Space-Time Interlayer, where they found Bi Yao suspended inside an enormous amber. As the group searched for a way to free her, a bell rang from within the amber.

• Xiao Bai sensed that the Space-Time Interlayer was nearby and asked Li Xiaoyu to shield the group while she searched for its location.
• Li Xiaoyu used his Dao Heart to protect everyone as Xiao Bai sensed the spatial fluctuations and found a path through the storm.
• Xiao Bai led the group to a vast crystalline amber containing the sleeping Bi Yao, and Zhang Xiaofan rushed toward her before Li Xiaoyu stopped him.
• Li Xiaoyu identified the amber as the Space-Time Interlayer, a Land of Exile, and the group realized they needed a way to break through it.
• A bell rang from inside the amber as Zhang Xiaofan suddenly shuddered.

The Joyous Union Bell reconnects Zhang Xiaofan to Bi Yao and protects her fading soul, but its power is running out as the group tries to rescue her from the Space-Time Interlayer. The Turbulence of Time and Space conjures their former enemies, and Li Xiaoyu leads the others into battle against the Beast God.

• Zhang Xiaofan recognized the Joyous Union Bell protecting Bi Yao and apologized to her for arriving too late.
• Li Xiaoyu warned that the Bell was weakening and urged the group to break through the Space-Time Interlayer to save Bi Yao.
• Zhang Xiaofan prepared to strike, but the Turbulence of Time and Space awakened and formed shadows of the Beast God, the Ghost King, and demonic Daoxuan.
• Li Xiaoyu explained that the Turbulence had drawn their former foes from their memories to test them.
• The Beast God attacked, and Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, Zhang Xiaofan, Xiao Bai, and Faxiang charged to meet him.

Li Xiaoyu and the others defeated the Beast God, Daoist Daoxuan, and Ghost King’s afterimages, but the foes reappeared in even greater numbers. As the endless horde closed in, Li Xiaoyu began channeling his Spiritual Energy into his Wine Gourd to confront them.

• Li Xiaoyu merged with a golden dragon and swallowed the Beast God’s afterimage.
• Lu Xueqi clashed with Daoist Daoxuan’s Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation and wounded him with the Divine Sword Thunder Control Technique.
• Zhang Xiaofan resisted Ghost King’s pleas and swallowed him and the Dragon Subduing Tripod in a torrent of chaos.
• The defeated afterimages returned as pure power of time and space, and several times more appeared.
• Xiao Bai warned that the afterimages would keep returning as long as the Turbulence of Time and Space remained.
• Li Xiaoyu had everyone gather around him, poured his Spiritual Energy into the Wine Gourd, and aimed its golden vortex at the oncoming afterimages.

Li Xiaoyu cleared the space-time turbulence and helped Zhang Xiaofan reach the sleeping Bi Yao inside the Golden Space. As the Heavenly Tome runes and Bi Yao’s golden bell resonated, Zhang Xiaofan reached her and began channeling his Cultivation into her with Li Xiaoyu’s help.

• Li Xiaoyu used the gray Wine Gourd to swallow the afterimages and Turbulence of Time and Space, then urged Zhang Xiaofan to enter the Space-Time Interlayer.
• Zhang Xiaofan entered the Golden Space and found Bi Yao sleeping behind an unbreakable barrier.
• Zhang Xiaofan’s fused manuals and Cultivation awakened four ancient runes, while Bi Yao’s golden bell resonated with them and dissolved the barrier.
• Zhang Xiaofan reached Bi Yao and gathered her into his arms, and their Cultivation began to flow between them.
• Li Xiaoyu urged Zhang Xiaofan to channel his Cultivation into Bi Yao and said he would help, then roused his Taiqing Realm Cultivation.

Li Xiaoyu used the Wine Gourd’s Vitality Power to restore Bi Yao, who awoke but had lost her memories of Zhang Xiaofan. After the group fled the collapsing space-time turbulence, they returned to Emerald Valley and found the Ancient Well spiraling out of control.

• Li Xiaoyu flooded Bi Yao with Vitality Power, restoring her body and soul until she began to live again.
• Bi Yao woke and told Zhang Xiaofan she could not remember him, but she embraced him as he promised to help her remember and protect her.
• The Ancient Well provoked the Turbulence of Time and Space, and Li Xiaoyu led the group through the vortex to escape.
• The group returned to Emerald Valley and saw the Ancient Well creating a huge space-time vortex that threatened to swallow the valley.
• The Withered Elder used his life to suppress the Space-Time Hub as a terrifying presence stirred in the depths of the Ancient Well.

The Withered Elder and the Time-Warding Clan sacrificed themselves to banish the Demon Eye from Beyond and save Li Xiaoyu and the others. After the valley was restored and the clan became stone statues, the Withered Elder appeared above his statue as a fading remnant soul.

• The Demon Eye from Beyond attacked Li Xiaoyu and five others with a destructive beam.
• The Withered Elder and hundreds of Time-Warding Clan warriors rose from the ruins and prepared to sacrifice themselves.
• The Withered Elder invoked Eternal Banishment, and the clan’s power of space and time absorbed the Demon Eye and its beam.
• The Time-Warding Clan vanished as their power restored the Emerald Valley, leaving stone statues across the plains.
• As Li Xiaoyu and the others prepared to leave, the Withered Elder’s remnant soul appeared above his statue.