Chapter Summaries

Xiao Qing and Luo Li became lovers, and Luo Li settled into the Chaos World as part of the Heavenly Court’s harem. As the Chaos World prepared to advance, Xiao Qing began fusing the origins of the five Primordial Dharma Bodies, leaving Luo Li to wait for him.

• Xiao Qing and Luo Li spent the night together, and he told her that the Chaos World was her home.
• Over the next seven days, Xiao Qing explained the Chaos World to Luo Li, who grew accustomed to their intimacy and officially joined the Heavenly Court’s harem.
• Luo Li noticed the World Tree growing, and Xiao Qing told her the Chaos World was about to advance because the origins of the five great Dharma Bodies were complete.
• Xiao Qing entered the Heavenly Dao Space and summoned the origins of the five Primordial Dharma Bodies to begin fusing them.
• Xiao Qing examined the Eternal Immortal Body, Endless Radiant Body, Supreme Spirit Sacred Body, and Desolate God Ancestral Body as their origins hovered around him.

Xiao Qing fused the origins of the five Primordial Dharma Bodies into his Incomplete Chaos Body, bringing him to the peak of Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign as the Chaos World began evolving toward a Great Chaos World. Meanwhile, the Outer Realm Evil Clan gathered in the Demon Palace, where the Slaughter Heaven Demon Emperor demanded they should have acted against Xiao Qing earlier.

• Xiao Qing used Chaos Power to fuse the five Primordial Dharma Bodies, transforming his Chaos World and bringing his Incomplete Chaos Body close to completion.
• Xiao Qing judged that he still needed to prepare for Heavenly Evil God and planned to reach godhood when the Great Chaos World fully formed.
• The evolving Chaos World strengthened the Heavenly Dao Authority Xiao Qing had granted his women, and he told Luo Li that only the Chaos Body's final step remained.
• More than thirty Heavenly Demon Emperors assembled in the Demon Palace under the Saint Heaven Demon Emperor, an unprecedented gathering since the Saint God had been sealed.
• The Slaughter Heaven Demon Emperor urged the gathered rulers to act, arguing that Xiao Qing had been only Spirit Grade on the Saint Abyss Continent.

Saint Heaven Demon Emperor learned that Xiao Qing had reached Supreme Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign and gathered five Primordial Dharma Bodies, so he ordered the Saint God Resurrection Plan to begin within ten years. At Saint Abyss Continent, Qin Tian and the Green-Robed Sword Saint discussed the growing disturbances in the Demon Territory.

• Dark Heaven Demon Emperor reported that Xiao Qing had reached Supreme Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign and possessed five Primordial Dharma Bodies.
• Saint Heaven Demon Emperor said that only he could restrain Xiao Qing and ordered the Saint God Resurrection Plan to begin immediately, with the Saint God returning within ten years.
• The Outer Realm Evil Clan began gathering its armies and igniting altars across its territory.
• At the Frontline General Hall on Saint Abyss Continent, the Green-Robed Sword Saint told Qin Tian that disturbances in the depths of the Demon Territory had intensified over the past three days.

Xiao Qing arrived at Saint Abyss and stunned its defenders with an aura the Green-Robed Sword Saint identified as Peak Saint Grade. He told the Undying Lord that his strength was roughly equal to the Immortal Emperor’s, giving the long-waiting elder hope as the threat of the widening Demon Territory rift loomed.

• Qin Tian and the Green-Robed Sword Saint warned that the Demon Territory rift could soon let Heavenly Demon Emperors pass through and overwhelm Saint Abyss’s defenses.
• The Undying Lord insisted that they had to hold the line, despite the danger.
• Xiao Qing entered the hall, suppressing the law fields of Qin Tian, the Green-Robed Sword Saint, the Undying Lord, and Qing Muxuan with his aura.
• The Green-Robed Sword Saint sensed that Xiao Qing had reached Peak Saint Grade, astonishing the others.
• The Undying Lord asked whether Xiao Qing’s combat strength matched the Immortal Emperor at his peak, and Xiao Qing answered that it was more or less equal.
• The Undying Lord wept and bowed to Xiao Qing, then Xiao Qing supported him and helped him rise.

Xiao Qing learned that at least ten Heavenly Demon Emperors were gathering near Saint Abyss and proposed that the Great Thousand World strike first. Before discussing his plan, he discovered and destroyed a Heart Demon Seed planted inside Qin Tian, leaving the group ready to face the coming war.

• The Undying Lord warned that the Demon-Dissolving Array was failing and the Heavenly Evil God could emerge before the next Great Thousand Covenant.
• Xiao Qing revealed that at least ten Heavenly Demon Emperors, including the Saint Heaven Demon Emperor, were moving toward Saint Abyss and urged the Great Thousand World to attack first.
• Xiao Qing declared that he could suppress every Outer Realm Evil Clan member except the sealed Heavenly Evil God, and Qin Tian agreed that they now had the strength to strike back.
• Xiao Qing found a Heart Demon Seed planted in Qin Tian's spiritual platform nearly a thousand years earlier by the Heart Heaven Demon Emperor.
• Xiao Qing crushed the seed with Chaos Power, and Qin Tian thanked him for saving his life.

Xiao Qing outlined plans to thwart the Outer Realm Evil Clan’s attempt to revive Heavenly Evil God within ten years, then personally took command of Saint Abyss Continent’s defense. His arrival repaired the defensive line and forced the Evil Clan to retreat, leaving its leaders on high alert.

• Xiao Qing told Qin Tian, Undying Lord, Green-Robed Sword Saint, and Qing Muxuan that the Outer Realm Evil Clan planned to revive Heavenly Evil God within ten years, and called for them to weaken the enemy and prepare a unified counterattack.
• Xiao Qing assigned Qin Tian to uncover the Evil Clan’s hidden agents, Undying Lord to coordinate the factions, Green-Robed Sword Saint to bring Sword Territory’s Hundred Sword Venerables, and Qing Muxuan to unite the Buddha Ancient Clan.
• Xiao Qing arrived at Saint Abyss Continent, where his presence made the spatial rift shrink and drove back the demonic energy.
• Xiao Qing repaired the defensive formations and sent chaotic light across the rift into Demon Territory, frightening the Evil Clan warriors and Heavenly Demon Emperors.
• Saint Heaven Demon Emperor ordered all infiltrations of Saint Abyss Continent withdrawn and placed Demon Territory on its highest combat readiness as Qin Tian watched the enemy retreat.

Xiao Qing opened Luo God's sealed Law of Space and Time beneath the Luo River and was pulled into the past. He arrived more than fifty thousand years ago in a primordial wilderness near a river carrying Luo God's aura.

• Xiao Qing used Chaos Power to gently dissolve Luo God's seal beneath the Luo River.
• A pale-gold sphere containing the Law of Space and Time emerged and resonated with Xiao Qing's Chaos Power.
• A pillar of light erupted from the Luo River, waking Luo Tianshen and the people of Luo God City.
• Xiao Qing let the sphere's force pull him through time as the world reversed around him.
• Xiao Qing arrived more than fifty thousand years in the past and found himself beside a wild river carrying Luo God's faint aura.

Xiao Qing traveled to the Luo Clan’s ancient homeland and met the young Luo Qingxian while she cultivated by the river. After identifying a hidden flaw in her meridians, he left her stunned and questioning how he knew.

• Xiao Qing sensed the primitive Luo God Bloodline near the future Luo River and traveled upstream to the settlement.
• Xiao Qing watched Luo Qingxian cultivate and noticed a hidden stagnation in the meridians of her left shoulder and back.
• Luo Qingxian sensed Xiao Qing, questioned him, and remained wary after he introduced himself as an itinerant cultivator.
• Xiao Qing described the flaw in Luo Qingxian’s spiritual energy circulation and explained how it could obstruct her future breakthroughs.
• Luo Qingxian realized Xiao Qing’s diagnosis was correct, asked how he had seen it, and told him her name.

Xiao Qing explained the cause of Luo Qingxian’s cultivation difficulties and gave her a method to restore balance between her water and stellar laws. After meeting Luo Cang, he agreed to stay with the Luo Clan for several days, leaving Luo Qingxian to show him to his lodging.

• Xiao Qing told Luo Qingxian that her stellar affinity had unbalanced the water and stellar laws in her meridians, then advised her to circulate water laws separately after each cultivation session.
• Luo Qingxian thanked Xiao Qing and asked him to remain with the Luo Clan, suggesting he could also help its elders with their cultivation problems.
• Luo Cang arrived, learned that Xiao Qing had guided his daughter, and invited the inscrutable traveler into the clan.
• Xiao Qing accepted Luo Cang’s invitation and joined him and Luo Qingxian on the walk to the Luo Clan settlement.
• In the Council Hall, Luo Cang described Luo Qingxian’s recurring cultivation problem and asked Xiao Qing to stay for several days; Xiao Qing agreed.
• Luo Qingxian offered to show Xiao Qing to his lodging and led him out of the Council Hall.

Xiao Qing watched Luo Qingxian’s early ambition take shape and considered the secrets he had come to uncover before his time in the past ran out. Afterward, Luo Qingxian brought him to the Luo Clan, where his presence sparked gossip and he settled in as a guest elder under Luo Cang’s watchful hospitality.

• Xiao Qing told Luo Qingxian that the world beyond their continent was vast and predicted that the Luo Clan would one day become a divine clan.
• Luo Qingxian returned to cultivate with renewed resolve while Xiao Qing sensed that his Spacetime Coordinates were slowly running out of energy.
• Xiao Qing considered investigating Luo God’s disappearance, the complete Luo God Inheritance, and the seal beneath the riverbed without disrupting history.
• Luo Qingxian led Xiao Qing through the Luo Clan settlement, where clansmen whispered that he might be her future husband.
• Luo Cang housed Xiao Qing near Luo Qingxian as a guest elder and sought his guidance on cultivation without questioning his origins.

Xiao Qing guided Luo Qingxian’s cultivation and encouraged her to see strength as a responsibility to others. After she advanced toward incorporating laws, news arrived that members of the Flame Clan had come to the Luo Clan’s eastern guard post, and she set out to investigate.

• Luo Qingxian told Xiao Qing that widening her spiritual meridians had left her dantian feeling empty, and he explained that she needed to find her own path and begin comprehending laws.
• Half a month later, Luo Qingxian broke through to the late stage of the Heaven-Reaching Realm and took her first step toward comprehending laws.
• During his stay with the Luo Clan, Xiao Qing watched Luo Qingxian progress toward the threshold of the Body Tribulation and taught her about Sovereigns, creation, and responsibility.
• Luo Qingxian later overcame the Body Tribulation and began trying to incorporate the power of laws.
• Xiao He told Luo Qingxian that people from the Flame Clan had arrived at the eastern guard post, and Luo Qingxian decided to go see what was happening despite her father’s warning.

Luo Qingxian rejected the Flame Clan’s coercive marriage proposal, and Xiao Qing drove the intruders away. Later, he taught her about laws and Dharma Bodies, leaving her with a new idea of how cultivation could shape her path.

• Luo Qingxian went to the eastern lookout after learning that visitors from the Flame Clan had arrived.
• The Flame Clan envoy demanded that Luo Qingxian accept an engagement with their young master, but she calmly refused.
• When the envoy threatened her, Luo Qingxian dissolved his heat with her starlight, and Xiao Qing’s Earthly Sovereign pressure forced the Flame Clan men to flee.
• Xiao Qing praised Luo Qingxian for handling the confrontation and advised her not to panic if attacked.
• That night, Xiao Qing worried that his Spacetime Coordinates were weakening and that he might lose his chance to return to his original era.
• By the Luo River, Xiao Qing explained that laws and their origin lay beyond Luo Water Starlight, and that a Dharma Body embodied its cultivator’s comprehension of laws.

Xiao Qing watched Luo Qingxian develop her water-and-starlight Dharma Body and saw her rise to Earthly Sovereign, bringing the Luo Clan to prominence as the Luo God Clan. Years later, Luo Qingxian questioned why he had stayed by the river and admitted that, despite their closeness, she still knew little about him.

• Luo Qingxian entered a state of enlightenment by the Luo River while Xiao Qing watched over her.
• Luo Cang and the elders kept the Luo Clan on guard after the Flame Clan retreated, and Luo Cang credited Xiao Qing's Earthly Sovereign pressure with deterring their enemies.
• Six months later, Luo Qingxian formed a fragile Dharma Body phantom, and Xiao Qing explained that it would take shape once she reached the Supreme Realm.
• Over four years, Luo Qingxian advanced to the Earthly Sovereign Realm and completed her ten-thousand-zhang Luo God Dharma Body, earning the Luo Clan renown as the Luo God Clan.
• Luo Qingxian sat beside Xiao Qing and asked why he had stayed by the Luo River, saying she sometimes felt she understood him but often knew nothing about him.

Over the years, Luo Qingxian rose from Earthly Sovereign to Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign, making the Luo Clan a dominant force while Xiao Qing watched from the riverbank. After more than a decade of unanswered questions, she asked him directly about his origins and where he planned to go.

• Xiao Qing deflected Luo Qingxian’s questions about his identity, and five years later she still found him mysterious.
• When three northern clans invaded the Luo Clan, Luo Qingxian chose to fight and defeated their three Upper Earthly Sovereigns without Xiao Qing’s help.
• After the victory banquet, Luo Qingxian joined Xiao Qing on a hill, where he praised her and spoke about time as she wondered whether he would leave.
• Twelve years later, Luo Qingxian reached Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign, and Xiao Qing called her Dharma Body the Luo God.
• Luo Qingxian confronted Xiao Qing and asked where he had come from and where he intended to go.

Luo Qingxian learned that Xiao Qing stood beyond Saint Grade and vowed to reach him through her own strength. Over the next twenty-five years she rose to Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign and returned alone to the source of the Luo River, where Xiao Qing remained unchanged.

• Xiao Qing told Luo Qingxian that she would understand his origins when she could see farther than a Heavenly Sovereign, and revealed that Immortal Grade lay above Heavenly Sovereign.
• Luo Qingxian sensed a realm beyond Saint Grade and vowed to stand before Xiao Qing and see him clearly through her own strength.
• Over twenty-five years, Luo Qingxian advanced from middle-stage Spirit Grade to Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign while the Luo God Clan grew into one of the Great Thousand World's foremost clans.
• Luo Qingxian declined invitations from powerful factions and flew alone to the nameless hill at the source of the Luo River.
• Luo Qingxian found Xiao Qing still sitting by the crooked pine and smooth boulder, unchanged after forty-two years.

Xiao Qing drove off the Flame Clan’s men and taught Luo Qingxian about laws and Dharma Bodies, helping her begin to understand her own path. Half a year later, Luo Qingxian formed the embryonic shape of a Dharma Body by fusing water and starlight.

• Xiao Qing’s Earthly Sovereign pressure forced the Flame Clan men to flee, and he praised Luo Qingxian for handling the confrontation well.
• Xiao Qing explained to Luo Qingxian that cultivation advanced from laws to origin and that a Dharma Body embodied a cultivator’s comprehension.
• Luo Qingxian entered a state of enlightenment by the Luo River as Xiao Qing reflected on the future she would shape.
• Luo Cang told the elders that the Flame Clan had stayed quiet because it feared Xiao Qing, and he resolved to strengthen the Luo Clan before Xiao Qing left.
• After half a year of rapid cultivation, Luo Qingxian formed a brief Dharma Body outline from glass-like ribbons of water and starlight.
• Xiao Qing identified the outline as the embryonic form of a Dharma Body, and Luo Qingxian described her insight as the fusion of water and starlight.

Over five years, Luo Qingxian became an Earthly Sovereign and her Luo God Dharma Body made the Luo Clan famous as the Luo God Clan. After she defeated three invading clans without Xiao Qing’s help, she left the victory banquet to join him at the source of the Luo River.

• Xiao Qing told Luo Qingxian that her phantom would become a true Dharma Body once she reached the Supreme Realm, then declined to explain how he had created his own.
• Over four years, Luo Qingxian advanced to the Earthly Sovereign realm, her Luo God Dharma Body grew to ten thousand zhang, and the Luo Clan gained renown as the Luo God Clan.
• Luo Qingxian questioned why Xiao Qing had stayed by the Luo River, but he evaded her questions by pointing out a fish had taken the bait.
• When three northern clans led by Upper Earthly Sovereigns attacked, Luo Qingxian chose to fight while Xiao Qing watched from a hill.
• Luo Qingxian defeated the three Earthly Sovereigns, and the coalition leaders fled as the Luo Clan secured the surrounding clans’ allegiance.
• After the victory banquet began, Luo Qingxian slipped away to find Xiao Qing drinking beneath a crooked pine tree and shared his wine.

Luo Qingxian rose from a small clan’s protector to an Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign while Xiao Qing remained an ageless mystery by the Luo River. After forty-two years, she returned to the mountain where he sat, determined to see beyond the limits he had set.

• Xiao Qing and Luo Qingxian shared wine after she defeated three Earthly Sovereigns, and she asked whether he was leaving.
• Twelve years later, Luo Qingxian became a Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign, and the Luo Clan celebrated her breakthrough.
• Luo Qingxian asked Xiao Qing about his origins and learned that greater realms existed beyond Heavenly Sovereign and Saint Grade.
• Luo Qingxian vowed to grow strong enough to see Xiao Qing clearly, then advanced through the Heavenly Sovereign ranks as the Luo God Clan rose to prominence.
• After reaching Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign, Luo Qingxian returned to the source of the Luo River and found Xiao Qing unchanged after forty-two years.

Luo Qingxian learned that Xiao Qing could kill a Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign with ease and confessed that she had loved him for forty-two years. Xiao Qing admitted he knew but could offer her no promise because he did not belong to this era, and Luo Qingxian accepted his path while rejecting one thing he had said.

• Xiao Qing revealed a thread of Chaos light and told Luo Qingxian he could kill a Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign with a single breath.
• Luo Qingxian asked who Xiao Qing was, and he said he was someone who should not have appeared in this era.
• On the Mid-Autumn Festival, Luo Qingxian recounted how Xiao Qing had guided her cultivation over the past forty-two years and confessed her feelings for him.
• Xiao Qing said he had known how she felt but could not give her a promise because his Great Dao remained unfinished and he would eventually return to his own era.
• Luo Qingxian accepted that Xiao Qing had his own path, then said there was one thing he had said that she did not accept.

Xiao Qing’s growing entanglement with the ancient era strengthened the Spacetime Repulsion Force, and he told Luo Qingxian he was leaving. Luo Qingxian accepted his old fishing rod and faced his departure without asking when they would meet again.

• Luo Qingxian vowed to reach Xiao Qing’s height and find him even if he vanished at the end of time, and Xiao Qing promised to wait for her.
• Xiao Qing sensed the Spacetime Repulsion Force intensifying as his remaining Spacetime Coordinates began to fail.
• Luo Qingxian met Xiao Qing by the river and sensed that he seemed farther away than the day before.
• Xiao Qing gave Luo Qingxian his old fishing rod and confirmed that he was leaving.
• Luo Qingxian remembered his warnings that he did not belong to her era and asked when he would leave.