Chapter Summaries

The Withered Elder gave Li Xiaoyu the Bone of Time and charged him with defending the world against the Outer Realm Demons before fading away with the Time-Warding Clan. The survivors escaped the collapsing Ruins of Time, and Zhang Xiaofan said he wanted to take the memory-stricken Bi Yao somewhere quiet and wait for her to remember.

• The Withered Elder told Li Xiaoyu that the Time-Warding Clan had fulfilled its duty and gave him the Bone of Time, warning that the Outer Realm Demons had arrived and the struggle between eras had begun.
• Li Xiaoyu swore to defend the world, and the Withered Elder faded into motes of light as the Time-Warding Clan vanished.
• Li Xiaoyu and the others fled the collapsing Ruins of Time with Bi Yao, while a Space-Time Storm consumed the forbidden land behind them.
• The group stopped beneath an ice cliff, where Li Xiaoyu held the Bone of Time and saw Zhang Xiaofan caring for Bi Yao, who had returned with no memories.
• Zhang Xiaofan told Li Xiaoyu that he wanted to find a quiet place to stay with Bi Yao until she slowly remembered.

Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, and Xiao Bai returned to Green Cloud Mountain after Zhang Xiaofan took the unstable Bi Yao to Heavenly Sound Temple to recuperate. Li Xiaoyu carried the mysterious Bone of Time, whose visions hinted at a catastrophe he could not yet understand, and prepared to report to the waiting elders.

• Faxiang invited Zhang Xiaofan to take Bi Yao to Heavenly Sound Temple, and Li Xiaoyu agreed that its Buddhist teachings could help her recover.
• Zhang Xiaofan thanked Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, and Xiao Bai before leaving with Bi Yao and Faxiang for the Central Plains Continent.
• Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, and Xiao Bai set off for Green Cloud Mountain, while Li Xiaoyu tried to decipher the Bone of Time and saw hazy visions of destruction.
• Lu Xueqi took Li Xiaoyu's hand and promised to stay by his side despite the dangers ahead.
• Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, and Xiao Bai arrived at Heaven-Reaching Peak, where Shang Zhengliang, Master Shuiyue, and the elders welcomed them.
• Li Xiaoyu told the elders that Zhang Xiaofan and Bi Yao were safe, and that they had gone to Mount Sumeru so Bi Yao could recuperate.

After rescuing Bi Yao, Li Xiaoyu told the Green Cloud Sect that the world faced an approaching apocalypse from the Outer Realm Demons and that the Bone of Time held the key to resisting them. He gathered powerful experts to decipher it, and the chapter ended as he asked Zhou Yixian about the bone’s origin.

• Li Xiaoyu revealed the Time-Warding Clan’s sacrifice and the threat posed by the Outer Realm Demons to the Green Cloud Sect’s core members.
• Li Xiaoyu explained that the Bone of Time concealed the world’s last hope, and said he needed help from the greatest minds and powers to decipher it.
• Three days later, Li Xiaoyu convened Lu Xueqi, Wan Jianyi, Daoist Daoxuan, Xiao Bai, and Zhou Yixian at the restored Illusion Moon Cave Abode.
• Zhou Yixian recognized the fragment as the legendary Bone of the Era, and Li Xiaoyu asked him where it came from.

Li Xiaoyu and the others joined forces to unlock the Bone of Time, revealing memories of the previous era and the Heavenly Emperor’s battle against the Outer Realm Demons. The vision ended with the Heavenly Emperor building a final barrier to protect the collapsing world.

• Zhou Yixian explained that the Bone of Time came from the Space-Time Behemoth and held the key to the previous era’s treasury.
• Zhou Yixian proposed that he, Li Xiaoyu, Xiao Bai, Daoxuan, and Wan Jianyi combine their abilities to decipher the bone.
• Li Xiaoyu used his Wine Gourd to devour the bone’s temporal and spatial barrier, shattering it and releasing its hidden information.
• The group saw a vision of Outer Realm Demons invading the first era and consuming the world’s essence as gods and demons fought them.
• The group witnessed the Heavenly Emperor stand alone against the invaders and create a final barrier with his flesh and blood to protect the world.

Li Xiaoyu revealed that the Heavenly Emperor had sealed the world away from the Outer Realm Demons and left behind a legacy that might be the world's only hope. Before the group could seek it, a demonic pillar appeared, and corrupted Demon Remains began advancing toward the Central Plains Continent.

• Wan Jianyi, Xiao Bai, and the others learned that the Heavenly Emperor had sealed their world to delay the Outer Realm Demons' return.
• Li Xiaoyu explained that the Heavenly Emperor had reached the Saint Realm and left a legacy, though the Bone of Time did not reveal its location.
• A black pillar rose in the west, shaking Green Cloud Mountain, and Li Xiaoyu identified it as the Outer Realm Demons' arrival.
• The Scar of the Demons corrupted the northern land, where the demonic energy transformed its former inhabitants into Demon Remains.
• The Demon Remains turned toward the Central Plains Continent, driven by a hunger to kill and destroy.

Tens of thousands of Demon Remains surged out of the Wilderness after the Ancient Well’s disturbance revealed the sealed world’s location. Li Xiaoyu rallied the Green Cloud Sect to prepare a counterattack and sent invitations to the Heavenly Sound Temple and Jin Ping'er’s Holy Mother Sect, leaving Master Puhong to receive one of the edicts.

• Tens of thousands of Demon Remains charged from the Wilderness toward the lands they once called home.
• Li Xiaoyu explained that opening the Ancient Well had revealed the world to the Outer Realm Demons, and he urged the Green Cloud Sect to fight rather than blame itself.
• Li Xiaoyu declared a punitive expedition into the Wilderness and called for allies to unite against the demons.
• Li Xiaoyu proposed an alliance with the Heavenly Sound Temple and Jin Ping'er's Holy Mother Sect despite an elder's objections, and Wan Jianyi supported his decision.
• Li Xiaoyu sent Golden Edicts to both sects, and Master Puhong received the one that arrived at the Heavenly Sound Temple.

After receiving a warning of the coming calamity, Li Xiaoyu united the Green Cloud Sect, Heavenly Sound Temple, and Holy Mother Sect to confront the Outer Realm Demons. The allied forces met the Demon Remains at the edge of the Central Plains and launched their first attack.

• Master Puhong received the talisman edict and declared that the calamity had come.
• Jin Ping'er read the edict, summoned the Saintess Guard, and ordered them to leave with her.
• Three days later, Li Xiaoyu, Faxiang, and Jin Ping'er gathered their forces beside Rainbow Bridge and prepared to fight together.
• Li Xiaoyu led the allied forces north to block the approaching tide of Demon Remains.
• Li Xiaoyu, the Dawn Squad, and Lu Xueqi attacked, destroying hundreds and then thousands of Demon Remains.

Li Xiaoyu’s forces pushed back the Demon Remains and traced the black pillar of light to a Demon Seed at the heart of the Demon Realm. As the Allied Forces prepared to destroy it, the Demon Seed summoned a colossal guardian.

• Faxiang purified tens of thousands of Demon Remains, while the Saintess Guard cut down others and helped drive back the black tide.
• Li Xiaoyu told the group that the pillar of light was the source of the endless attacks and ordered Zeng Shushu to scout the Demon Realm.
• Three days later, Zeng Shushu delivered a map identifying the pillar’s source, and Li Xiaoyu ordered the Allied Forces to advance there.
• The Allied Forces reached a basin containing a pulsing black Demon Seed surrounded by tens of thousands of Demon Remains.
• The Demon Seed roared, intensified the pillar of light, and formed a hundred-zhang guardian wielding a scythe of bone and rotting flesh.

Li Xiaoyu and the others destroyed the Jet-Black Giant and used the gray Wine Gourd to devour the Demon Seed’s core. At Heavenly Sound Temple, Bi Yao began to stir in her sleep, but a mysterious force pushed Zhang Xiaofan away.

• Li Xiaoyu struck the Jet-Black Giant, then Lu Xueqi, Faxiang, and Jin Ping'er joined the attack and destroyed it.
• The unguarded Demon Seed began to self-destruct, so Li Xiaoyu used the gray Wine Gourd to swallow its demonic energy and black crystal core.
• Zhang Xiaofan cared for the sleeping Bi Yao at Heavenly Sound Temple, channeling cultivation into her and giving her restorative elixirs.
• Bi Yao furrowed her brow in pain, and a gentle force pushed Zhang Xiaofan’s reaching hand away.

Bi Yao dreamed that the Nether Holy Mother named her as her successor and restored her meridians with an ancient power. At Illusion Moon Cave Abode, Li Xiaoyu touched the captured Demon Seed with his divine sense and witnessed the Outer Realm Demons’ origin and purpose.

• Bi Yao met the Nether Holy Mother in a dream, and the woman promised to restore what she had lost and give her strength to protect those she loved.
• The Nether Holy Mother infused Bi Yao with ancient power that healed her meridians and raised her Cultivation, then declared her successor and charged her with protecting the world and its living beings.
• At Illusion Moon Cave Abode, Li Xiaoyu warned the gathered cultivators that the sealed black Demon Seed was dangerous, and they prepared to examine it.
• Li Xiaoyu released the Demon Seed’s restraints, and Wan Jianyi, Faxiang, Xiao Bai, and Jin Ping'er joined him in suppressing its demonic energy.
• Li Xiaoyu touched the crystal with his divine sense and saw a heat-dead universe where the Outer Realm Demons survived by devouring the origins of newborn universes.

Li Xiaoyu revealed that the Outer Realm Demons threatened their world and joined forces with the others to unlock the Bone of Time using a black crystal. The artifacts formed a star map pointing to Kunlun, and Xiao Bai revealed her clan’s connection to the Heavenly Emperor and a higher-dimensional world.

• Lu Xueqi used the Dao Heart linking her to Li Xiaoyu to pull him back from the darkness.
• Li Xiaoyu told everyone that the Outer Realm Demons had destroyed worlds and that their powers made them difficult to resist.
• Li Xiaoyu proposed using the black crystal to unlock the Bone of Time, and Wan Jianyi agreed to try again.
• Li Xiaoyu and the others combined the black crystal with the Bone of Time, creating a star map marked with the name Kunlun.
• Xiao Bai explained that Kunlun was the ancestor of all mountains and the Heavenly Emperor’s sacred grounds.
• Xiao Bai revealed that her ancestors had migrated from a higher-dimensional world alongside the Heavenly Emperor at the end of the previous era.

Xiao Bai revealed that Kunlun was a hidden demi-plane, but the star map’s key had been erased by the Outer Realm Demons. Wan Jianyi concluded that uniting the five volumes of the Heavenly Tome was the world’s only hope of confronting them.

• Xiao Bai told Wan Jianyi and the others that her ancestors came from a higher-dimensional world and that Kunlun was a sacred demi-plane, though she did not know its location.
• Li Xiaoyu deciphered the star map and discovered that entering Kunlun required a key that had been deliberately erased.
• Zhou Yixian explained that the Outer Realm Demons had obscured heavenly secrets to keep the group from finding the key.
• Wan Jianyi said the world’s Dao arts all came from the Heavenly Tome, which embodied the world’s fundamental law.
• Wan Jianyi and Li Xiaoyu concluded that uniting all five volumes of the Heavenly Tome was necessary to confront the Outer Realm Demons.

Li Xiaoyu revealed that Zhang Xiaofan had gathered the first four volumes of the Heavenly Tome and persuaded Green Cloud Sect’s elders to entrust him with the Ancient Immortal-Slaying Sword. He traveled to Heavenly Sound Temple to seek Zhang Xiaofan and Abbot Puhong, where Faxiang greeted him.

• Li Xiaoyu told Wan Jianyi and Daoist Daoxuan that Zhang Xiaofan had wielded the power of the first four Heavenly Tome volumes in the Ruins of Time.
• Li Xiaoyu proposed giving Zhang Xiaofan the Ancient Immortal-Slaying Sword so he could unite all five volumes and seek hope for the world.
• Wan Jianyi agreed to the plan, and Daoist Daoxuan also gave Li Xiaoyu his support.
• Li Xiaoyu set out for Heavenly Sound Temple carrying the sword case containing Immortal-Slaying and asked to see Abbot Puhong and Zhang Xiaofan.
• Faxiang came down from the mountain to welcome Li Xiaoyu.

Li Xiaoyu visited Heavenly Sound Temple to ask Abbot Puhong for the temple’s Heavenly Tome volume so the world could unite the five volumes and face the Outer Realm Demons. After Puhong helped Zhang Xiaofan understand that protecting the world was also protecting the sleeping girl he loved, Zhang Xiaofan agreed to join the fight and renewed his resolve.

• Faxiang led Li Xiaoyu to the secluded courtyard, where Zhang Xiaofan watched over the girl in green on a Jade Bed.
• Abbot Puhong welcomed Li Xiaoyu and recognized that he had come seeking the Heavenly Tome.
• Li Xiaoyu explained the Outer Realm Demons’ arrival and asked Puhong and Zhang Xiaofan to help protect the world.
• Zhang Xiaofan refused at first, saying he only wanted to stay beside the sleeping girl.
• Puhong persuaded Zhang Xiaofan that the girl could not survive if the world was destroyed, and urged him to fulfill his responsibility.
• Zhang Xiaofan accepted Li Xiaoyu’s request, and his Dao heart and aura rose with renewed purpose.

Bi Yao awakened and regained her memories, reuniting with Zhang Xiaofan after centuries apart. With the world-ending catastrophe still approaching, Li Xiaoyu and Master Puhong prepared to begin their plans at an ancient pagoda in Heavenly Sound Temple.

• Bi Yao's power and Golden Bell restored her body and soul, and she awoke from her long sleep.
• Bi Yao remembered Zhang Xiaofan and confessed that she loved him, and they embraced after their reunion.
• Bi Yao thanked Li Xiaoyu and vowed to spend her life making things right with Zhang Xiaofan and protecting their world.
• Master Puhong urged everyone to prepare for the catastrophe to the north, and Zhang Xiaofan declared himself ready.
• Li Xiaoyu asked Master Puhong to find a safe place and help protect Zhang Xiaofan, so Master Puhong led the group to a nine-story stone pagoda.

Zhang Xiaofan began unifying the four volumes of the Heavenly Tome with the Ancient Immortal-Slaying Sword inside the Rebirth Pagoda, while his allies and the Rebirth Grand Array protected him. As the perilous fusion plunged him into memories of Grass Temple Village, Bi Yao appeared and urged him to become strong enough to protect what he loved.

• Master Puhong led Zhang Xiaofan and the others into the Rebirth Pagoda to begin the Heavenly Tome unification.
• Zhang Xiaofan sat on the white jade lotus platform as Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, Bi Yao, Master Puhong, and Faxiang formed a protective barrier around him.
• Zhang Xiaofan awakened the three powers within him and drew the Ancient Immortal-Slaying Sword from its case.
• Master Puhong activated the Rebirth Grand Array to restrain the sword while Zhang Xiaofan summoned the four Heavenly Tome runes and began fusing the powers through the Fire Poker.
• Zhang Xiaofan relived the destruction of Grass Temple Village until Bi Yao embraced him and urged him not to give up, but to grow strong enough to protect what he loved.

Zhang Xiaofan fused all five volumes of the Heavenly Tome, revealed the heavenly secrets, and learned how to reach Kunlun. He left the group with a clear next goal: gather the three relics needed to open the path to Kunlun and resist the Outer Realm Demons.

• Zhang Xiaofan overcame his inner demons and fused the five volumes of the Heavenly Tome into the Primordial Dao Mark.
• Zhang Xiaofan used his new power to shatter the demonic mist hiding the heavenly secrets from the Divine Land.
• Zhang Xiaofan told Li Xiaoyu and the others that they must find Kunlun to gain the power to resist the Outer Realm Demons.
• Zhang Xiaofan explained that they needed the Sea-Calming Pearl, the Armillary Sphere, and the Heavenly Emperor Seal to construct a heavenly ladder to Kunlun.

Li Xiaoyu decided to seek the Sea-Calming Pearl in the Abyss of Return, one of three relics needed to build a path to Kunlun and prepare for the coming fiends. He set out with Lu Xueqi and Xiao Bai, and the Sea Siren Queen agreed to guide them after they reached her undersea realm.

• Li Xiaoyu told Lu Xueqi that Xiao Fan had identified the Sea-Calming Pearl, Armillary Sphere, and Heavenly Emperor Seal as relics needed to create a celestial stairway to Kunlun.
• Li Xiaoyu chose to travel with Lu Xueqi and Xiao Bai while the rest of the Green Cloud Sect stayed behind to guard against the Outer Realm Demons.
• Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, and Xiao Bai traveled to the East Sea coast, where Li Xiaoyu blew the conch given to him by the Sea Siren Queen.
• The Sea Siren Queen emerged from an undersea passage and warned Li Xiaoyu that the Abyss of Return was a deadly forbidden land, but agreed to accompany him.
• The Sea Siren Queen led Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, and Xiao Bai through the passage to her royal city and into her crystal palace.

Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, and Xiao Bai entered the Abyss of Return, where they faced its chaotic laws and deadly guardians. As the Void Predators attacked, Li Xiaoyu fought back with the Autumn Water Sword and an azure Golden Dragon.

• The Sea Siren Queen told Li Xiaoyu that the Abyss of Return lay in the deepest part of the East Sea and warned him of the dangers ahead.
• Seven days later, the Sea Siren Queen guided Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, and Xiao Bai to the massive vortex marking the Abyss of Return, then left them to proceed alone.
• Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, and Xiao Bai entered the vortex and combined their powers to withstand its tearing force as they advanced through a chaotic world of twisted light and shattered space.
• Xiao Bai identified the enormous tentacled creatures emerging from the darkness as Void Predators, guardians that devoured space and time.
• Li Xiaoyu charged the Void Predators with the Autumn Water Sword and unleashed an azure Golden Dragon, which collided with their tentacles in a burst of energy.

Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, and Xiao Bai reached the Sea Emperor Palace in the depths of the Abyss of Return, where Li Xiaoyu defeated the Sea Dragon General and confronted the Sea Emperor. Xiao Bai revealed that she had come with an opportunity connected to the Heavenly Emperor, shocking the Sea Emperor.

• After Li Xiaoyu's strike destroyed the Void Predators, their fragments reformed into more than twice as many monsters once the trio had left.
• Xiao Bai sensed a powerful, orderly presence ahead, and Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, and Xiao Bai followed it to a blue barrier surrounding the Sea Emperor Palace.
• The Sea Dragon General attacked the three without hearing their explanation, but Li Xiaoyu defeated him with a single sword strike and sent him crashing into the palace wall.
• The Sea Emperor emerged, lifted his wounded son, and prepared to attack Li Xiaoyu for trespassing.
• Xiao Bai recognized the Sea Emperor, who recognized her as the Nine-Tail Celestial Fox, and she offered him an opportunity connected to the Heavenly Emperor.