Chapter Summaries

Ye Anyuan and Ye Wudao followed Du Yuan’s blood trail deep beneath the Forbidden Palace and found a Spirit Array near Blue Star’s Star Core. They entered without alerting Du Yuan, who continued absorbing the array’s golden energy.

• Ye Anyuan explained that the Immortal Path and Martial Path relied on different foundations, then encouraged Ye Wudao to cultivate both without rushing.
• Ye Anyuan and Ye Wudao entered the underground tunnel to find Du Yuan, and Ye Anyuan used the blood trail to guide their way.
• As they descended toward the Star Core, Ye Anyuan suspected Du Yuan was protected by a powerful formation in an ancient underground space.
• The blood trail led Ye Anyuan to a white barrier containing a figure and drifting golden energy, which Ye Wudao identified as a Spirit Array.
• Ye Wudao burned a hole through the barrier with the Golden Flame, then replaced the formation’s Formation Disks while Du Yuan remained unaware.

Ye Wudao and Ye Anyuan found Du Yuan inside a formation, where Ye Wudao subdued him and uncovered his ambition to rule Blue Star. After Du Yuan refused to reveal where Ye Wudao’s Great Master and Third Master had gone, Ye Anyuan used the Soul Searching Technique and killed him.

• Ye Anyuan and Ye Wudao entered Du Yuan’s formation, and Ye Wudao took control of it despite Du Yuan’s disbelief.
• Du Yuan attacked them and tried to activate the formation, but Ye Wudao struck him down and pierced his limbs with the formation’s white lights.
• Du Yuan revealed that he had planned to use Fu Yinglong and Li Chenghua as villains, win the Demon Slayer Guard’s support, and become Blue Star’s emperor.
• Ye Wudao challenged Du Yuan’s plan and demanded to know where his Great Master and Third Master had gone, but Du Yuan stayed silent.
• Ye Anyuan used the Soul Searching Technique on Du Yuan, who stopped struggling and died.

Ye Anyuan explained that the golden energy in the formation was the Human Race Luck of Blue Star, and that Du Yuan had forcibly absorbed it. After Ye Wudao burned Du Yuan’s corpse, the energy sealed them inside a space and suppressed their powers, leaving them facing a golden longsword whose purpose they did not know.

• Ye Anyuan told Ye Wudao that the formation gathered Blue Star’s Human Race Luck and that Du Yuan’s attempt to absorb it had brought destiny’s backlash.
• Ye Wudao touched Du Yuan’s corpse with Golden Flame, and golden energy poured from the body before gathering into a longsword.
• Ye Anyuan suspected the Power of Destiny was reacting to Du Yuan’s death, but he and Ye Wudao found that the formation barrier would no longer open.
• A new golden barrier enclosed them, suppressed Ye Anyuan’s Primordial Spirit, and rebounded Ye Wudao’s Divine Sense hard enough to crack his Martial Courage.
• Ye Anyuan identified the force as Vow Power condensed by the Human Race, and he and Ye Wudao waited while watching the golden longsword.

Ye Wudao and Ye Anyuan uncovered the Human Emperor Sword and discussed the conflicting legends surrounding its loss. Ye Anyuan explained the ancient links between Blue Star, the Mortal Realm, and the Immortal Realm, leaving Ye Wudao puzzled about how the Three Teachings, the Western Sect, and Ji Fa fit into the story.

• A golden sword of light opened a Rift, from which a black longsword emerged, and Ye Wudao and Ye Anyuan identified it as the Human Emperor Sword.
• Ye Anyuan explained that the legends of Human Emperor Di Xin's death and the sword's shattering were both inaccurate, and taught Ye Wudao that every offered choice could be wrong.
• Ye Anyuan revealed that the ancient Mortal Realm and Immortal Realm had once been connected, and that the Human Emperor's story did not simply describe events on Blue Star.
• Ye Anyuan said Di Xin had ascended from the Mortal Realm to become the last Human Emperor before the Three Teachings conflict, the Western Sect's rise, the Outer Realm Celestial Demon invasion, and the Immortal Realm's shattering led to his fall and the sword's loss.
• Ye Wudao asked how Ji Fa and the events of Investiture of the Gods fit with Ye Anyuan's account.

Ye Anyuan explained that many myths were distorted accounts of history, then approached the Human Emperor Sword and was unexpectedly recognized as its master. As Ye Anyuan underwent a baptism of Human Race Luck that could make him the new Human Emperor, Little Golden Dragon revealed why that power’s return was strange and shared what it knew about the Primordial World.

• Ye Anyuan explained to Ye Wudao that mythological tales mixed real events with fabrications and that the Human Emperor Sword had once carried the Human Race Luck.
• Ye Anyuan wondered whether Ye Wudao was the sword’s chosen master, but Ye Wudao suggested Ye Anyuan try wielding it instead.
• Ye Anyuan gripped the Human Emperor Sword, which recognized him and drew the formation’s golden energy into his body as a baptism of Human Race Luck began.
• A strand of Divine Dragon Bloodline emerged from Ye Anyuan and Little Golden Dragon swallowed it before returning to Ye Wudao’s arm.
• Little Golden Dragon told Ye Wudao that Ye Anyuan could become the new Human Emperor and explained that the shattered Immortal Realm had supposedly prevented Human Race Luck from producing one.

Ye Anyuan inherited the Human Emperor Sword and endured a strange tribulation that seemed to forge an Immortal Body. Afterward, he prepared to ascend and explained to Ye Wudao that the sword had chosen him because it was depleted and had mistaken Du Yuan’s released Human Race Luck for a new Human Emperor.

• The Human Emperor Sword entered Ye Anyuan, and he took Ye Wudao above the Forbidden Palace before beginning his tribulation.
• Golden lightning struck Ye Anyuan nine times, cleansing his body and carrying Immortal Power while Ye Wudao and the Azure Sect members watched.
• Ye Wudao told Wang Jian that Ye Anyuan had inherited the Human Emperor Sword, and Wang Jian explained why the First Emperor had established his capital at Xianyang instead of the Forbidden Palace.
• After the golden clouds dispersed, Ye Anyuan told Wang Jian he expected to be summoned to the Immortal Realm and entrusted the Azure Sect to him.
• Ye Anyuan explained that the Human Emperor Sword had emerged when Du Yuan’s Human Race Luck erupted and accepted him because its energy was depleted; Ye Wudao reassured him that he could bear the responsibility.

Ye Anyuan ascended to the Immortal Realm, leaving Ye Wudao and the Azure Sect behind to manage their affairs. Ye Wudao and Wang Jian agreed to preserve Blue Star’s sects and let them compete for a path to the Spirit Realm, while Wang Jian prepared to deal with the Beast Taming Sect’s Trial Grounds.

• Ye Anyuan was taken by the Light of Ascension and urged Ye Wudao and the Azure Sect members to take care of the Azure Sect until they met again in the Immortal Realm.
• Ye Wudao told Wang Jian he would return to seclusion after settling Blue Star’s affairs and asked whether Wang Jian had found his Great Master and the others, but Wang Jian said they were still missing.
• Ye Wudao proposed establishing an Azure Sect branch on Blue Star, but Wang Jian argued that Blue Star’s sects should remain independent and compete for advancement.
• Ye Wudao and Wang Jian agreed to set aside Spirit Stones and hold a competition for Blue Star cultivators, with only those in the Martial Golden Core Realm allowed to enter the Spirit Realm.
• Wang Jian prepared to negotiate for the Beast Taming Sect’s Trial Grounds, while Ye Wudao stayed on Blue Star and two-thirds of the Azure Sect members returned to the Spirit Realm with Wang Jian.

Ye Wudao traced the Azure Dragon Gang to Sea City Beach but found no sign of where they went, leaving him to suspect Li Huai had used the satellite blind spot to hide their movements. As he puzzled over the disappearance, he spotted an unnatural mirror floating on the sea.

• Ye Wudao and Cang Liexiong used surveillance footage to discover that the Azure Dragon Gang had left Azure Dragon Mountain in disguise and gathered at Sea City Beach during a satellite blind spot.
• Technicians confirmed that the gang had not entered the spatial Rift and that satellite scans showed no signs of their presence at the beach or in the nearby woods.
• Ye Wudao searched the beach and surrounding woods but found no trace of the gang, then considered whether Qin Tianlong and Zhang Hankuang had taken them overseas or Li Huai had secretly returned them to Sea City.
• Ye Wudao noticed a mirror floating on the sea that reflected sunlight with an unnatural blue gleam and realized something was wrong with it.

Ye Wudao entered a mysterious mirror and found Li Huai and the Azure Dragon Gang trapped in a self-contained space. Li Huai explained that the space was a cave abode once obtained by Yuguo, the East Sea Sea God, but its origins remained to be explained.

• Ye Wudao reached for the floating mirror with his Divine Sense, was pulled inside, and appeared in a blue Sumeru Space.
• Ye Wudao found Li Huai training the Azure Dragon Gang and learned that the old gang leader was in seclusion.
• Li Huai explained that the gang had been sucked into the space after a blue light enveloped them while they hid near Sea City Beach.
• Li Huai showed Ye Wudao a statue of Yuguo and described Yuguo's relation to Yujing, who was known as both the Black Tortoise and Kunpeng.
• Li Huai clarified that the space was not created by Yuguo but was a cave abode he had obtained.

Ye Wudao learned from Li Huai that Wang Zijian had been chosen as the master of the Kunlun Abode inside the Kunlun Mirror, trapping everyone in its Sumeru Space. As Wang Zijian continued his unfinished recognition process, Ye Wudao decided to search for another way out, and Li Huai offered to take him to a place that might contain an exit.

• Li Huai led Ye Wudao through the forest to a glowing pool, where Wang Zijian sat meditating above the water.
• Li Huai explained that the Kunlun Abode had pulled everyone inside when it recognized Wang Zijian as its master, and that the Abode was a Sumeru Space inside the Kunlun Mirror.
• Li Huai said the Kunlun Mirror had been forged from leftover Heaven-Mending Stone and might connect to Kunlun Mountain from the Primordial Era.
• Ye Wudao and Li Huai considered whether the mirror could connect to Kunlun Mountain through parallel timelines, since the Primordial Era and its mountain were long gone.
• Li Huai said Wang Zijian had not estimated how long the recognition process would take, so Ye Wudao chose to search for an exit rather than wait.
• Li Huai told Ye Wudao he knew of a place that might be connected to an exit, and Ye Wudao asked him to lead the way.

Ye Wudao and Li Huai encountered Yujing, the living divine beast on the mountain, who freed the Little Golden Dragon from a Heavenly Dao restriction so it could speak. Ye Wudao then asked Yujing why he and his father had human faces and beast bodies, leaving Yujing’s answer pending.

• Ye Wudao brought the Little Golden Dragon to investigate the immense pressure on the mountain, and it sensed a powerful, living divine beast near the summit.
• A voice corrected Ye Wudao for calling the being an old monster, then transported him and Li Huai to the summit, where Ye Wudao identified the old man as Yujing rather than Yuyu.
• Yujing praised Ye Wudao for distinguishing him from his father by their eyelids, then pulled the Little Golden Dragon from Ye Wudao’s arm and made it speak by removing a Heavenly Dao restriction.
• Yujing explained that he had not given the Little Golden Dragon an immortal body and said that the Heavenly Dao suppressed the ability of beasts to speak.
• Ye Wudao asked Yujing why he and his father had human faces and beast bodies despite their grandfather being the Yellow Emperor.

Yujing explained to Ye Wudao how the Human Race once used demon bloodlines and totems, and why the perfected Heavenly Dao ended those practices. He said he had little time left and asked Ye Wudao to help him with something, leaving the request itself unrevealed.

• Yujing told Ye Wudao that ancient humans absorbed demon bloodlines, but Chiyou’s excessive power led the Demon Race to make his bloodlines erupt and kill him.
• Yujing explained that the later power of totems used runes inscribed on the body to borrow demon bloodlines rather than absorb them, and showed Ye Wudao the two totems on his back.
• Yujing said the perfected Heavenly Dao prohibited totem power because it threatened the rules governing the Demon Race, and clarified that the Human Race was not literally favored by the Heavenly Dao.
• Yujing told Ye Wudao he had little time left and wanted his help; Ye Wudao agreed to hear what he needed.

Yujing explained the limits of immortality and revealed that he needed Ye Wudao to carry his dormant bloodline out of the Kunlun Abode. Ye Wudao agreed, though he questioned whether he could protect the descendant, and learned the child would need help through childhood.

• Yujing told Ye Wudao that he had never had descendants before and that his lifespan was nearly over, despite being a Quasi-Saint or Half-step Immortal Emperor.
• Yujing explained that modern Immortal Emperors only touched the threshold of an Origin Great Dao, while mastering one put ancient gods such as Pangu and Nuwa beyond the Heavenly Dao's control.
• Yujing revealed that he would use his remaining life force to awaken his bloodline's embryo and asked Ye Wudao to take it away.
• Yujing clarified that Wang Zijian was refining Kunlun Holy Water, not the Kunlun Mirror, and that Yujing had drawn Ye Wudao's group into the abode himself.
• Yujing explained that he could not leave the Kunlun Abode because the Heavenly Dao would destroy him, so Ye Wudao agreed to carry his descendant out despite doubts about protecting it.
• Yujing said Ye Wudao only needed to help his descendant through childhood, prompting Ye Wudao to ask whether it was a demon beast.

Ye Wudao questioned Yujing about the Kunlun Mirror, the shattered Immortal Realm, and Heavenly Demons, learning about the River of Time and reincarnation. Yujing could not explain the Immortal Realm’s destruction or identify the black mist, leaving its origins unresolved.

• Ye Wudao asked whether the Kunlun Mirror could return someone to the Primordial era, and Yujing explained that it could show the past through the River of Time but not send people back.
• Yujing described the River of Time as a record of the world that souls could observe but not alter, and suggested that ancient gods who escaped the world's control might be able to interfere with it.
• Ye Wudao asked about reincarnation, and Yujing confirmed that souls stayed the same while memories changed between lives.
• Yujing said he did not know why the Immortal Realm shattered and explained that he had been branded a Heaven-Forsaken One for resisting the Heavenly Dao.
• Ye Wudao described Heavenly Demon Qi and creatures from beyond the world, but Yujing could not identify them and only knew that Pangu and other great gods had emerged from Chaos.

Ye Wudao brought the imprisoned Li Han before Yujing to examine his Heavenly Demon Qi, then revealed that Bai Xun had been devoured by the Heavenly Demon. Yujing recognized Ye Wudao’s Origin Great Dao and suggested he might be able to refine the Kunlun Mirror; Ye Wudao prepared to purge Li Han’s Heavenly Demon Qi while Yujing watched.

• Ye Wudao asked Li Huai to bring up Li Han, and Yujing summoned the vat containing him.
• Li Han learned from Ye Wudao that Bai Xun had died after summoning the Heavenly Demon, and he refused to believe it.
• Ye Wudao brought out the Golden Flame, but Yujing recognized his Origin Great Dao and sealed Li Han’s power.
• Yujing praised Ye Wudao’s Way of Refining, explained the Kunlun Mirror’s connection to Moral Heavenly Venerable Taiqing, and suggested Ye Wudao try refining it.
• Yujing described what he knew about the Three Heavenly Venerables and the ancient Heavenly Court, and Ye Wudao prepared to force the Heavenly Demon Qi out of Li Han.

Ye Wudao burned Li Han’s body and trapped the Heavenly Demon Qi, while Yujing discovered it could devour Primordial Spirit power and might be an external parasite. Yujing found that the Heavenly Dao had stopped acting, and he urged Ye Wudao to refine the Kunlun Mirror and travel back to the Immortal Realm’s destruction to investigate.

• Ye Wudao burned Li Han to ashes with the Golden Flame, trapping the Heavenly Demon Qi inside it.
• When Ye Wudao loosened the Golden Flame, the Heavenly Demon Qi lunged for Li Huai, but Yujing restrained it until Ye Wudao trapped it again.
• Yujing found that the Heavenly Demon Qi could pass through Great Dao Power and grow by devouring Primordial Spirit power.
• Yujing concluded that the Heavenly Demons were hosts for an external parasite that spread by feeding on their Primordial Spirit power.
• Yujing discovered that the Heavenly Dao did not attack or reject him and concluded that it was in trouble and had stopped doing its job.
• Yujing told Ye Wudao to refine the Kunlun Mirror so they could return to the time the Immortal Realm shattered and investigate the Heavenly Dao; Ye Wudao agreed.

Ye Wudao began refining the Kunlun Mirror so Yujing could send him ten thousand years into the past to find the Heavenly Dao, even though the journey would likely cost Yujing his life. When the mirror’s Space-Time Great Dao blocked the Way of Refining, Ye Wudao tried to study its ripples and was pulled into a pure-white space.

• Yujing chose to refine the Kunlun Mirror before hatching his descendants, insisting that finding and freeing the suppressed Heavenly Dao was the only way to save the world.
• Yujing separated the Kunlun Abode from the Kunlun Mirror and warned Ye Wudao about the Space-Time Great Dao, the River of Time, and memory fragments inside the mirror.
• Ye Wudao spread his Divine Sense and Golden Flame over the Kunlun Mirror, but the Way of Refining gave no sign of progress.
• Yujing explained that Ye Wudao first had to comprehend the Space-Time Great Dao within the mirror before he could refine it.
• Ye Wudao examined the mirror’s ripples with his Divine Sense, was sucked inside, and found himself in a pure-white space.

Inside the Kunlun Mirror, Ye Wudao struggled to understand the Space Great Dao until he learned to perceive space as an extension of himself rather than a container. He demonstrated his insight by appearing ten zhang away through a shift in focus.

• Outside the Kunlun Mirror, Yujing noticed a ripple and said Ye Wudao had begun contacting the Space Great Dao.
• Ye Wudao found himself trapped in an endless white space and could not determine how to begin comprehending it or escape.
• Ye Wudao considered what he knew about dimensions and space, then realized he needed to feel space instead of relying on knowledge and definitions.
• Ye Wudao stopped treating space as matter to control and expanded his perception beyond the limits of his body.
• Ye Wudao realized that space was an extension of himself, spread his perception in every direction, and appeared ten zhang away by shifting his focus.

Trapped in a seemingly boundless white space, Ye Wudao comprehended the Great Dao of Space and transformed his Martial Dao will from dependence on the system to confidence in himself. He reached the Divine Transformation Realm and began collapsing the space to escape.

• Ye Wudao realized the white space had boundaries beyond his perception, then comprehended the Great Dao of Space with the system’s help refining his insights.
• His Martial Core transformed as he recognized that his strength and confidence had to come from himself, with the system serving as a tool.
• Ye Wudao comprehended Martial Dao Self-Strengthening, received 100 billion realm points, and advanced from the Martial Core Realm to the Divine Transformation Realm.
• His Martial Dao will manifested outside his body, and he tested Martial Dao Spirit Travel by moving it a hundred zhang before returning.
• Ye Wudao spread his spatial perception across the white space and began collapsing it to find a way out.

Ye Wudao comprehended the Space Great Dao and found himself in a void filled with linked white spaces, where he encountered multiple versions of himself. Unable to determine whether they were past, future, or copies, he was left pondering the nature of time as more selves appeared.

• Yujing sensed spatial fluctuations from the Kunlun Mirror and realized Ye Wudao had activated the Space Great Dao.
• Ye Wudao escaped a dead space and found countless white spaces streaming through a surrounding void.
• Ye Wudao entered a white space containing another version of himself, and they compared their experiences without understanding how they had met.
• Ye Wudao activated the Way of Refining, but both other selves activated it too, leaving his theory that they were copies in doubt.
• A fourth Ye Wudao appeared, and Ye Wudao wondered what time truly was.