Chapter Summaries

Li Xiaoyu won the Sea Emperor’s trust by revealing the dragon soul in his Wine Gourd and received the Sea-Calming Pearl, along with the East Sea sea clan’s promise to fight the Outer Realm Demons. Back at Green Cloud Mountain, he and the others combined the pearl with the Bone of Time to locate another relic of the Heavenly Emperor: the former site of the Demon Sect Sacred Hall in the Northwest Wilderness.

• Xiao Bai told the Sea Emperor that Li Xiaoyu was the Heavenly Emperor’s successor, and Li Xiaoyu revealed the ancient dragon soul in his Wine Gourd, prompting the Sea Emperor and his warriors to bow to him.
• The Sea Emperor led Li Xiaoyu and the others to the altar and entrusted him with the Sea-Calming Pearl, a divine artifact forged with the primordial law of water.
• The Sea Emperor pledged that the East Sea sea clan would answer the Heavenly Emperor’s inheritor’s call to fight the Outer Realm Demons, and Li Xiaoyu left with his companions.
• At Green Cloud Mountain, Li Xiaoyu placed the Sea-Calming Pearl beside the Bone of Time while Zhou Yixian used his heavenly calculation art to decipher their secrets.
• The artifacts produced a clearer star map that revealed the next coordinate: the former site of the Demon Sect Sacred Hall in the Northwest Wilderness.

Zhou Yixian revealed that the Heavenly Emperor had placed the Armillary Sphere beneath the Northwest Wilderness to suppress a weak point in the seal against the Outer Realm Demons. Li Xiaoyu led Dawn Squad into the corrupted Demon Realm to retrieve it, where they found Jin Ping'er's Holy Mother Sect fighting a desperate battle against Demon Remains.

• Zhou Yixian explained that the Heavenly Emperor had built the Demon Sect's holy temple to guard a spatial weak point and left the Armillary Sphere there to suppress and monitor it.
• Li Xiaoyu decided to lead Dawn Squad into the Northwest Wilderness, since only he could awaken and safely recover the Armillary Sphere.
• Three days later, Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, Lin Jingyu, Zeng Shushu, and the rest of Dawn Squad departed Green Cloud Mountain for the Wilderness.
• Dawn Squad entered the corrupted Demon Realm and flew deeper into its dark purple landscape.
• Li Xiaoyu led Dawn Squad toward the sound of battle and found Jin Ping'er's Holy Mother Sect on the verge of being overwhelmed by thousands of Demon Remains.

Li Xiaoyu rescued Jin Ping'er and the Holy Mother Sect from a horde of Demon Remains, then revealed that he sought the Heavenly Emperor's relics. Jin Ping'er warned him that the Armillary Sphere lay in a corrupted, deadly region of the Demon Realm, but Li Xiaoyu remained determined to go there.

• Li Xiaoyu arrived in time to save Jin Ping'er from a colossal Demon Remains and led the Dawn Squad in annihilating the black tide.
• At the Holy Mother Sect's camp, Li Xiaoyu showed Jin Ping'er the Sea-Calming Pearl and explained the Heavenly Emperor's relics and the threat of the Outer Realm Demons.
• Li Xiaoyu told Jin Ping'er that the Armillary Sphere was likely in the former site of the Demon Sect's holy hall, deep in the Demon Realm.
• Jin Ping'er warned Li Xiaoyu that the region's living demonic energy had killed or corrupted sect members and that her forces could barely contain it.
• Li Xiaoyu apologized to Jin Ping'er for arriving too late.

Li Xiaoyu and his allies entered the Demon Realm to reclaim the Armillary Sphere, which they believed was deep beneath the Demon Sect Sacred Hall and fueling the pollution. They reached the transformed Sacred Hall and began battling a vast horde of Demon Remains.

• Jin Ping'er told Li Xiaoyu that pollution and Demon Remains grew stronger near the former Sacred Hall, where she suspected a source like the northern Demon Seed was hidden.
• Li Xiaoyu concluded that the Armillary Sphere was attracting demonic energy and revealed that the Sea-Calming Pearl could restrain it; Jin Ping'er and Lu Xueqi agreed to join his mission.
• The next morning, an elite squad from three factions traveled deeper into the Demon Realm, where Lu Xueqi and Jin Ping'er easily defeated attacking Demon Remains.
• The squad reached the Sacred Hall, now a demonic nest surrounding a Nether Abyss, and Li Xiaoyu identified the crater as the likely hiding place of the Armillary Sphere.
• Thousands of empowered Demon Remains surged toward the squad, and Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, and Jin Ping'er charged into battle.

Li Xiaoyu’s group reached the entrance to the Nether Abyss, where they faced the awakened, demon-corrupted Heavenly Fiend Bright King. As Li Xiaoyu fought the monster, Bi Yao’s dormant power began to awaken at Heavenly Sound Temple.

• Jin Ping'er, Lu Xueqi, and Dawn Squad fought through the Demon Remains until they opened a path to the Nether Abyss.
• At the abyss entrance, the corrupted Heavenly Fiend Bright King awakened and blocked the way.
• Li Xiaoyu explained that the monster combined divine power with demonic immortality and could attack their souls through the Laws of Slaughter.
• Jin Ping'er, Lu Xueqi, and Dawn Squad engaged the surrounding Demon Remains while Li Xiaoyu faced the Heavenly Fiend Bright King alone.
• The monster struck Li Xiaoyu with all six weapons, but a golden vortex appeared and left him unharmed.
• At Heavenly Sound Temple, Bi Yao convulsed as the Holy Mother's divine power awakened, and Master Puhong told Zhang Xiaofan he had come for her.

Bi Yao's Holy Mother's power awakened, and Zhang Xiaofan agreed to help her fully awaken it despite the risks. Her power descended on the demonized Heavenly Fiend Bright King in the Northwest Wilderness, giving Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi an opening to attack.

• Master Puhong explained that Bi Yao had inherited the Nether Holy Mother's divinity and warned that its clash with the corrupted Heavenly Fiend Bright King could destroy her Cultivation or soul.
• Zhang Xiaofan agreed to use his Cultivation and state of mind to help Bi Yao awaken her power, and Master Puhong ordered Faxiang to gather the monks of Arhat Hall for the Subduing Demon Array.
• A pillar of Holy Mother's light descended on the demonized Bright King, purifying his demonic aura and revealing to Li Xiaoyu that Bi Yao was helping them.
• The Bright King unleashed his demonic origin and formed black chains to resist the holy light, while Li Xiaoyu urged Lu Xueqi to lend him her strength.
• Lu Xueqi summoned Nine Heavens' Mystic Thunder against the Bright King as Li Xiaoyu poured his Cultivation into the Wine Gourd.

Li Xiaoyu and his allies defeated the demonized Bright King, entered the Nether Abyss, and recovered the Armillary Sphere. Back at Green Cloud Mountain, they began using it to locate the final Heavenly Emperor relic, the Heavenly Emperor Seal.

• Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi overwhelmed the demonized Bright King, and Li Xiaoyu swallowed it with the Wine Gourd.
• Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, and Jin Ping'er descended into the Nether Abyss and found the Armillary Sphere in a starry realm.
• Li Xiaoyu absorbed the Armillary Sphere into his body, then used the Sea-Calming Pearl to flood and seal the Nether Abyss rift.
• Li Xiaoyu and the others returned to Green Cloud Mountain and showed the Armillary Sphere to Wan Jianyi, Zhou Yixian, and Xiao Bai.
• Li Xiaoyu joined the experts in deciphering the Armillary Sphere to find the Heavenly Emperor Seal.

Li Xiaoyu discovered that the Heavenly Emperor Seal had shattered, and that its three largest fragments lay in the past, present, and future. He located the present-day fragment on Green Cloud Mountain and revealed that Ancestor Qingye had fused it with the mountain’s earth veins to suppress the Immortal-Slaying Sword’s malevolent aura.

• Li Xiaoyu used the Armillary Sphere to learn that the Heavenly Emperor Seal had shattered during the ancient war against the Outer Realm Demons, and that its three largest fragments could be used to reforge it.
• Li Xiaoyu and the others began searching for the fragment in the present, and he followed its resonance through the starfield to Green Cloud Mountain.
• Li Xiaoyu identified the fragment’s hiding place on Green Cloud Mountain and said Ancestor Qingye had obtained it.
• Li Xiaoyu explained that Ancestor Qingye had fused the fragment with Green Cloud Mountain’s earth veins to suppress the malevolent aura within the Immortal-Slaying Sword.

Li Xiaoyu told Zhang Xiaofan that the fragment of the Heavenly Emperor Seal was hidden in Green Cloud Mountain’s dragon vein core, which only Zhang Xiaofan could locate with the united Heavenly Tome. Zhang Xiaofan agreed to return, and the group opened the hidden entrance to the dragon vein’s heart.

• Li Xiaoyu explained that Ancestor Qingye had hidden the Heavenly Emperor Seal fragment in an independent space at the core of Green Cloud Mountain’s dragon vein.
• Li Xiaoyu visited Zhang Xiaofan and Bi Yao at Heavenly Sound Temple and asked Zhang Xiaofan to help find the fragment.
• Zhang Xiaofan agreed to return to Green Cloud Mountain after Bi Yao silently showed him her support.
• Li Xiaoyu returned to Green Cloud Mountain with Zhang Xiaofan and Bi Yao, where he, Lu Xueqi, Wan Jianyi, and Zhang Xiaofan gathered in Illusion Moon Cave Abode.
• Zhang Xiaofan united the five volumes of the Heavenly Tome and opened the concealed passage leading to the dragon vein’s heart.

Li Xiaoyu and his companions reached the Dragon Vein's core, where they found a fragment of the Heavenly Emperor Seal guarded by an indestructible barrier and met Ancestor Qingye's remnant soul. Ancestor Qingye revealed why he had preserved the fragment and told Li Xiaoyu that he must pass a final trial before claiming it.

• Li Xiaoyu led Lu Xueqi, Wan Jianyi, and Zhang Xiaofan through the passage into the golden ocean at Green Cloud Mountain's Dragon Vein core.
• Li Xiaoyu approached the Heavenly Emperor Seal fragment, but its barrier neutralized his power and prevented him from touching it.
• Ancestor Qingye's remnant soul appeared and explained that he had fused the fragment with the dragon vein to suppress a dangerous sword and preserve hope against the Outer Realm Demons.
• Ancestor Qingye praised Zhang Xiaofan and said the group had earned his recognition as the world's last hope.
• Ancestor Qingye told Li Xiaoyu he would have to pass a final trial before taking the fragment, since its authority could change the world's balance.

Ancestor Qingye began testing Li Xiaoyu and his companions with the Heart-Inquiry Array to see whether they were worthy of wielding great power. In Li Xiaoyu’s trial, a sinister version of himself offered him godlike power in exchange for sacrificing ordinary people, and Li Xiaoyu rejected the idea.

• Ancestor Qingye created the Heart-Inquiry Array and explained that the trial would force each person to confront their deepest desires, fears, and obsessions.
• At Qingye’s urging, Li Xiaoyu entered the array and was transported to a magnificent palace with a vast throne.
• A black-robed figure identical to Li Xiaoyu appeared and claimed to be his truest ambition, saying that he had defeated the Outer Realm Demons and become the world’s sole sage.
• The figure offered Li Xiaoyu omnipotent power and a path to higher dimensions, but said the world’s weaker inhabitants would have to be erased and used as fuel.
• Li Xiaoyu angrily condemned the proposed sacrifice of ordinary people, while the figure dismissed them as mere ants.

Li Xiaoyu rejected the power offered by the sinister figure and passed Qingye’s Heart-Inquiry Array trial by reaffirming his Dao of protection. Lu Xueqi and Zhang Xiaofan also broke free of their illusions, leaving only Wan Jianyi to face the trial.

• Li Xiaoyu remembered why he cultivated and refused to sacrifice mortals for eternal life, choosing instead to live and die alongside them.
• The sinister figure attacked Li Xiaoyu, but the illusion collapsed, and Qingye congratulated him on passing the trial.
• Lu Xueqi rejected an imagined peaceful life with her beloved, choosing to face hardship by his side.
• Zhang Xiaofan rejected an illusion of his peaceful childhood and accepted the painful past that had shaped him.
• Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, and Zhang Xiaofan passed Qingye’s test, while everyone watched anxiously as Wan Jianyi prepared to face his own obsession.

Wan Jianyi passed Qingye's Heart-Inquiry Array test by accepting that he had lost Shuiyue and letting go of the past. Qingye gave Li Xiaoyu and the others his insights before fading away, and Li Xiaoyu claimed the Heavenly Emperor Seal fragment, gaining a powerful connection to the world's spiritual energy.

• Wan Jianyi faced Shuiyue in the array, apologized, and accepted that their ties were severed.
• Daoxuan appeared as the truth Wan Jianyi had avoided and urged him to let go of the past before fading away.
• Qingye declared that Wan Jianyi, Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, and Zhang Xiaofan had passed his test and gave them his lifelong insights into the mystery beyond the Taiqing Realm.
• Qingye dissipated into the golden sea, ending the oppressive aura around the Dragon Vein Core.
• Li Xiaoyu took the Heavenly Emperor Seal fragment and felt himself resonate with the world and command the Dragon Vein Core's spiritual energy.

Li Xiaoyu and his companions used the first Heavenly Emperor Seal fragment and Zhang Xiaofan’s Heavenly Tome insight to locate the second fragment in the battlefield of the previous era. They traveled to the Ruins of Time and arrived at the Ancient Well, ready to enter the world’s final hope.

• Li Xiaoyu presented the first Heavenly Emperor Seal fragment, and the group used it with the Armillary Sphere to deduce the second fragment’s location.
• Zhang Xiaofan’s Heavenly Tome mark revealed the previous era’s final battle against the Outer Realm Demons and pinpointed the second fragment at the battlefield’s edge.
• Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, Zhang Xiaofan, and Xiao Bai set out for the Ruins of Time in the Far North Ice Plains.
• The four crossed the frozen land and paid their respects to the stone statues of the fallen Time-Warding Clan warriors.
• Li Xiaoyu and his companions reached the Ancient Well and stood before its light-devouring darkness.

Li Xiaoyu used the Heavenly Emperor relics to protect his group as they crossed the Turbulence of Time and Space to reach the previous era’s apocalyptic battlefield. There, he told his companions they must not alter history and that their only task was to find the fragment of the Heavenly Emperor Seal and return it safely.

• Li Xiaoyu explained that the Armillary Sphere could guide them through the Turbulence of Time and Space and used the Sea-Calming Pearl and a fragment of the Heavenly Emperor Seal to create a protective barrier.
• Li Xiaoyu and his three companions entered the barrier and crossed the Turbulence of Time and Space to the red coordinates.
• Li Xiaoyu, Zhang Xiaofan, Lu Xueqi, and Xiao Bai arrived at the ruined battlefield where the Heavenly Emperor and the Outer Realm Demons had fought their final battle.
• Li Xiaoyu told the others they could not interfere with the past or save anyone from that era because changing history could unleash a Space-Time Storm.
• Li Xiaoyu said their sole purpose was to find the fragment of the Heavenly Emperor Seal and bring it back safely and intact.

Li Xiaoyu and his companions crossed the Space-Time Storm to reach the second fragment of the Heavenly Emperor Seal, the last hope of their world. As Li Xiaoyu approached it, the legendary Heavenly Emperor appeared and his gaze overwhelmed the four travelers.

• Li Xiaoyu led Zhang Xiaofan, Lu Xueqi, and Xiao Bai through the storm toward the shattered continent, passing the slaughter of the Allied Forces and the Outer Realm Demons.
• Li Xiaoyu told the group that the Heavenly Emperor Seal fragment lay at the storm’s center, and Lu Xueqi pledged to go with him.
• The four crossed the Space-Time Storm and found the fragment floating above a massive altar of pure light.
• As Li Xiaoyu flew toward the fragment, a terrifying pressure halted the battlefield and revealed the Heavenly Emperor standing amid the chaos.
• The Heavenly Emperor looked toward Li Xiaoyu and the others, and the force of his gaze stripped away their senses.

Li Xiaoyu and the other three met the fading Heavenly Emperor, received his final inheritance, and learned they could still defeat the Outer Realm Demons. As they returned to the apocalyptic battlefield, the collective will of the Outer Realm Demons awakened after sensing a fluctuation from another universe.

• Li Xiaoyu and the other three arrived at a vast palace, where the Heavenly Emperor revealed that he had foreseen the Outer Realm Demons' return and their eventual defeat by the four.
• The Heavenly Emperor gave Li Xiaoyu the fragment of the Heavenly Emperor Seal, allowing him to command the shattered world's remaining fundamental laws.
• The Heavenly Emperor passed his memories, insights, and final strength into the four, raising their cultivation and strengthening their Dao Hearts.
• The Heavenly Emperor faded away after entrusting the world's future to them, and Li Xiaoyu and the other three returned to the chaotic battlefield.
• In the depths of a dying universe, the collective will of the Outer Realm Demons awakened after detecting a spatial-temporal fluctuation and identified it as the Heavenly Emperor.

Li Xiaoyu and the others used the Heavenly Emperor relics to glimpse a future ruled by Outer Realm Demons, where the final fragment of the Heavenly Emperor Seal lay. Li Xiaoyu decided to travel there alone, and he and Lu Xueqi shared a quiet farewell before his departure.

• Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, Wan Jianyi, Daoist Daoxuan, Xiao Bai, and Zhou Yixian used the Heavenly Emperor relics to see a future transformed into a Demon Realm.
• Li Xiaoyu sensed the final fragment of the Heavenly Emperor Seal in the future and decided to go there alone.
• Lu Xueqi, Wan Jianyi, Daoist Daoxuan, Xiao Bai, and Zhou Yixian offered to accompany Li Xiaoyu, but he explained that only he could use the gray Wine Gourd and relics to cross time and space.
• Li Xiaoyu promised Lu Xueqi he would return, then asked the elders to protect the world while he was gone.
• Li Xiaoyu and Lu Xueqi stood together at Moon-Watching Terrace, where Lu Xueqi gently straightened his robes before his departure.

Li Xiaoyu said goodbye to Lu Xueqi and traveled through time to a devastated future, surviving the chaotic passage with the gray Wine Gourd’s protection. He began searching the Demon Realm for the final Heavenly Emperor Seal fragment and sensed a familiar, holy aura in the east.

• Li Xiaoyu embraced Lu Xueqi, apologized for making her worry, and promised to return after she vowed to wait for him.
• Li Xiaoyu activated the Heavenly Emperor relics and gray Wine Gourd at Heaven-Reaching Peak and vanished into a space-time vortex as Lu Xueqi and the others watched.
• The gray Wine Gourd protected Li Xiaoyu’s consciousness from the violent space-time torrent, allowing him to complete the jump to the future.
• Li Xiaoyu arrived in a ruined, demon-corrupted world and resolved to find the final Heavenly Emperor Seal fragment and change the future.
• Li Xiaoyu searched the wasteland and sensed a faint, holy aura in the east that resonated with his fragment of the Heavenly Emperor Seal.

Li Xiaoyu discovered Green Cloud Mountain in ruins and saved a group of Green Cloud Sect disciples from Demon Remains, then suddenly turned his attack on them. He stopped the Golden Dragon just before it killed the resistance fighters, leaving them confused about his motives.

• Li Xiaoyu found Green Cloud Mountain devastated and collapsed in grief over its destruction.
• Li Xiaoyu heard fighting nearby and discovered Green Cloud Sect disciples resisting hundreds of Demon Remains.
• Li Xiaoyu summoned a Golden Dragon that destroyed the Demon Remains and saved the cultivators.
• Li Xiaoyu turned the Golden Dragon on the resistance fighters after they questioned him.
• Li Xiaoyu stopped the Golden Dragon just before it struck the fighters, leaving their leader bewildered.