Chapter Summaries

Fang Yu argued with the monk who warned him not to take the Buddhist Emperor’s relic, insisting that he needed it to grow strong enough to save the world. He left the monk facing the choice of letting him pursue the relic or risking the failure of their plans to save the Kunlun Realm.

• The monk warned Fang Yu not to covet the relic, which had been left for Fang Yu’s younger brother.
• Fang Yu declared that he would take the relic and threatened severe consequences if the monk tried to stop him.
• Fang Yu explained that his younger brother had been chosen to inherit the Buddhist Emperor’s plans because of his bloodline and ability to enter the world of darkness.
• Fang Yu argued that the relic was essential for him to become strong enough to save the world, and that obstructing him could doom the Kunlun Realm.
• Fang Yu urged the monk to let him obtain the relic, insisting that saving the world was everyone’s responsibility.

Fang Yu confronted the monk over their conflicting methods of saving the Kunlun Realm and condemned the suffering imposed on two young people who had chosen a painful path. He acknowledged the monk’s own endurance and described how the Buddhist Realm’s support might help the weakened Kunlun Realm, which had been destroyed by a coalition that feared its former strength.

• Fang Yu told the monk they should pursue their own methods and settle any interference through their abilities.
• Fang Yu urged the monk to visit his daughter, the Kunlun Realm’s ruler, and warned that an offered item might help her overcome her final tribulation at the cost of losing love.
• Fang Yu accused the monk and others of tormenting two young people by placing the fate of the Kunlun Realm on them, and said their chosen path could end in their deaths.
• The monk said the Holy Monk had intended the path and that the two young people had chosen it themselves.
• Fang Yu said he would do what he could to help them, then praised the monk for enduring great suffering and seeking Buddhist Realm support to save the Kunlun Realm.
• Fang Yu said the Kunlun Realm had become weak after other powers joined forces to destroy it because they feared its former strength.

The speaker confronted his Master for trying to stop him from claiming resources and urged him to visit his daughter, the Empress, after years of neglect. He accused his Master and the old bald donkey of making the Empress bear unbearable sacrifices, and the chapter ended with a warning that their fates awaited them.

• The speaker told his Master to stop trying to prevent him from seizing opportunities and to go see the Empress instead.
• The speaker said the Empress had carried the burden of ruling the Kunlun Realm since she was a child and might be prepared to die.
• The speaker condemned his Master for prioritizing the mission to save the world over protecting his family and those close to him.
• The speaker explained that the Empress had been forced to kill the person she loved and had to endure further suffering while waiting for that person to grow stronger.
• The speaker called his Master and the old bald donkey hypocritical and warned that their fates had already been decided.

Fang Yu confronted the monk over the brutal destiny arranged for his younger brother and refused to leave him to face it alone. He demanded an explanation and threatened to destroy the monk’s plans, insisting he would change the path to protect his brother.

• The monk told Fang Yu that the Sacred Monk had already explained everything and warned that Fang Yu’s presence would disrupt the plans and affect the child’s fate.
• Fang Yu condemned the painful destiny prepared for his younger brother and argued that the trials could overwhelm him.
• Fang Yu declared that, as his younger brother’s elder brother, he had to protect him and would not leave his side.
• Fang Yu argued that his younger brother was not the only possible choice to save the world, since the monk’s daughter could take his place.
• Fang Yu demanded a reasonable explanation for the monk’s decision and threatened to destroy the arrangements if none was given.

Fang Yu explained to Zhang Ruochen that he was a specially chosen savior whose memories had been sealed, and claimed that powerful elders had arranged his life to use him as a tool for immortality. He urged Zhang Ruochen to reject both the elders’ plan and his own plan, carve out a new path, and escape their control.

• The monk left after realizing Fang Yu would not be persuaded to leave.
• Zhang Ruochen appeared, having secretly heard Fang Yu and the monk’s entire conversation.
• Fang Yu warned Zhang Ruochen not to trust Big Black Cat completely and said Zhang’s sealed memories would eventually reveal why he had become a savior.
• Fang Yu told Zhang Ruochen that the elders had arranged his fate and wanted to use him to gain power and immortality.
• Fang Yu urged Zhang Ruochen to carve out his own dangerous path instead of obeying either the elders or Fang Yu.

Zhang Ruochen questioned Fang Yu about the path arranged for him, but Fang Yu insisted he had no choice until he became strong enough and urged him to follow the plans laid out by others. Zhang Ruochen remained wary of Fang Yu’s motives, and Fang Yu ended by telling him to cultivate and become stronger.

• Zhang Ruochen asked Fang Yu whether refusing the arranged path would lead to his death.
• Fang Yu said Zhang Ruochen lacked the strength to choose his own path and had to follow the arrangements until he became powerful enough.
• Fang Yu argued that the Holy Monk and Zhang Ruochen’s ancestor had caused the world’s suffering and did not deserve forgiveness.
• Zhang Ruochen accused Fang Yu of trying to make him obey Fang Yu instead of the Holy Monk’s plans.
• Fang Yu told Zhang Ruochen to stop questioning him and cultivate, while complaining that his younger brother did not trust him.

Fang Yu explained to Zhang Ruochen that powerful figures had chosen him and others to become a savior capable of protecting the universe, though most candidates had died. He warned Zhang Ruochen about a dark force seeking to destroy the universe, then left his future and whether to accept others’ recruitment up to him.

• Zhang Ruochen asked Fang Yu which world he came from, but Fang Yu said he would reveal it only if Zhang Ruochen became a deity.
• Fang Yu explained that senior figures had arranged hardships for Zhang Ruochen and several other candidates to forge a flawless savior, and that most of the other candidates had died.
• Fang Yu said Zhang Ruochen had grown further than the other candidates because of his own efforts and the legacy of the old bald donkey, but his survival still depended on his strength and endurance.
• Fang Yu warned that an extraordinarily dark force sought to destroy the universe and return it to chaos so its members could pursue eternal life.
• Fang Yu urged Zhang Ruochen to keep growing stronger, said the dark force might try to recruit him, and insisted that the choice would be his.

Fang Yu confronted the old bald monk over his efforts to guide Zhang Ruochen and save the universe, insisting that Zhang Ruochen should choose his own future. The monk explained that he had to appear in this era to keep the future from falling beyond control, while Fang Yu warned him to return to his own time and stop interfering.

• After Zhang Ruochen left, Fang Yu began receiving visitors, and the old bald monk came to see him.
• Fang Yu accused the monk of manipulating Zhang Ruochen and pursuing immortality, and admitted that the monk’s power and sacrifice made him afraid.
• The monk said he had to appear in this period because otherwise the future and the universe might become impossible to save.
• Fang Yu argued that the universe could only be saved temporarily and told the monk not to interfere with his plans or Zhang Ruochen’s choices.
• Fang Yu threatened to erase the monk from every point in time if he continued to obstruct him, and urged him to return to his own time.

Fang Yu brought the Xumi Saint Monk to meet Zhang Ruochen, who received guidance on the Spacetime Crystal and swordsmanship before the monk returned to his own time. Fang Yu then revealed that Zhang Ruochen’s intended future would cost him everyone he loved and urged him to choose his own path, taking Big Black Cat with him as Zhang Ruochen considered what to do.

• Fang Yu took the Xumi Saint Monk to Zhang Ruochen and asked the monk to guide his younger brother.
• The Saint Monk taught Zhang Ruochen about the Spacetime Crystal and other matters, including swordsmanship, over several days.
• After the Saint Monk left, Zhang Ruochen learned from Fang Yu that the monk had crossed into his time because Fang Yu had restored the severed space-time.
• Fang Yu told Zhang Ruochen that the old immortals’ plan would make him powerful but leave him without friends or relatives, and urged him to choose his own path.
• Fang Yu said the Saint Monk wanted Zhang Ruochen to become strong enough to change his fate, then took Big Black Cat away so Zhang Ruochen could decide for himself.

Fang Yu tried to persuade a newly awakened Zhang Family ancestor to return to sleep, claiming the ancestor’s revival would disrupt his plans for the family. The ancestor saw through Fang Yu’s motives and warned him away from using the family’s bloodline, leaving Fang Yu shaken by the realization that the ancestor had returned.

• After Zhang Ruochen left, Fang Yu encountered a newly awakened Zhang Family ancestor and urged him to go back to sleep.
• Fang Yu used bewitching words to convince the ancestor that sleeping would help restore the Zhang Family’s former glory.
• The ancestor resisted Fang Yu’s threat and accused him of trying to protect his own plans rather than the family.
• The ancestor warned Fang Yu not to use the Zhang Family’s bloodline, saying it could bring him danger and would not help him achieve his goal.
• Fang Yu realized the ancestor’s return would alarm a group that wanted him dead, then told him to go back and not come again.

An old man accused the speaker of exploiting his younger brother and urged him to leave the world so the brother could follow his destined path. The speaker admitted pursuing strength and compensation but insisted he would use his power to protect them and change their fates, and refused to leave.

• The old man accused the speaker of taking what belonged to his younger brother and driving away those who cared for him.
• The old man argued that the speaker should leave so his younger brother could become stronger, seek revenge, and save those around him.
• The speaker acknowledged having wolfish ambitions and wanting everything meant for his younger brother as compensation for helping him.
• The speaker defended his plan to gain strength, protect everyone, and restore the family’s glory, then refused to leave or follow the old man’s demands.

A man argued with an old family elder who wanted him to leave his brother’s world, accusing the elder of manipulating his brother into becoming stronger for the family’s revival. He refused to leave and insisted that he would protect his brother and save the world, even as the elder threatened him.

• The man told the old elder to leave his brother’s world and stop interfering in his life.
• The old elder refused, saying he had not finished what he came to do and that changing his brother’s life was necessary to give him a better future.
• The man accused the elder of putting the family’s revival ahead of his brother’s wishes and turning him into a tool for the family.
• The man warned that if the elder appeared near his brother again, he would disregard the lives and worlds destroyed in the conflict.
• The man rejected the elder’s demand that he leave and said his brother could not abandon the world that needed saving.
• The man claimed the elder and other old men had arranged for his brother to become stronger by losing his family and friends.

Fang Yu confronted Zhang Ruochen about the old men’s plans and warned him that pursuing their power would cost him his family and friends, especially his current mother. Fang Yu explained that the old men were manipulating Zhang Ruochen with hatred and treating chosen people as tools, leaving Zhang Ruochen to decide whether to pursue strength or give it up.

• After the old man left, Zhang Ruochen arrived, having overheard Fang Yu’s conversation with him.
• Fang Yu warned Zhang Ruochen that following the old men’s arrangements could make him powerful but would cost him his loved ones and might turn his mother into a different kind of existence.
• Zhang Ruochen challenged Fang Yu to prove his claims, asking whether abandoning the old men’s plan would leave him vulnerable to them.
• Fang Yu explained that the old men used chosen people as tools because they were locked in a balance of mutual suspicion and rarely acted directly.
• Fang Yu revealed that Zhang Ruochen’s hatred for Her Majesty the Empress had been cultivated by the old men, and said there was no true hatred between them.
• Fang Yu told Zhang Ruochen he could keep pursuing power or give it up to protect his family and friends.

Fang Yu and the entity speaking through Big Black Cat argued over Zhang Ruochen’s future, with both revealing that they wanted to influence his fate for different purposes. Zhang Ruochen learned that Big Black Cat was possessed by an unidentified powerful senior, but the conflict and its stakes remained unresolved.

• Zhang Ruochen declared that he would never be anyone’s pawn, and Fang Yu told him that everyone was caught in a game of power and ordered him to leave with Big Black Cat.
• Big Black Cat spoke through a different voice, threatened Fang Yu, and warned that Zhang Ruochen’s fate had to change to prevent a catastrophe.
• Fang Yu argued that Big Black Cat’s presence had disrupted his plans, while Big Black Cat accused Fang Yu of trying to control Zhang Ruochen’s future.
• Fang Yu admitted that he wanted to control Zhang Ruochen but claimed he had taken Zhang Ruochen’s possessions to make him stronger.
• Zhang Ruochen asked who was speaking through Big Black Cat, and Fang Yu said he could not identify the powerful senior behind it.

Big Black Cat warned Fang Yu that the old immortals would kill him for disrupting their plans to alter Zhang Ruochen’s fate. Fang Yu rejected the threats and argued that the immortals could not control his younger brother without provoking his resentment and eventual backlash.

• Big Black Cat warned Fang Yu to leave before the old immortals killed him and restored Zhang Ruochen’s fate to their intended path.
• Zhang Ruochen was stunned to learn that his fate had been arranged and that defying the immortals could mean death.
• Fang Yu dismissed Big Black Cat’s threats and said the immortals could not kill him, or they would have acted already.
• Fang Yu accused the immortals of trying to use Zhang Ruochen to pursue immortality and said Zhang Ruochen would choose his own path.
• Fang Yu warned that the immortals’ plans would make Zhang Ruochen hate them and eventually turn against them, just as they had once turned against their own elders and clans.

Fang Yu argued with Big Black Cat about whether he should leave the world and let his younger brother face the tragedies planned to make him grow. He refused to abandon his brother, threatened to kill anyone who crossed his line, and waited for the final person sent to persuade him.

• Big Black Cat accused Fang Yu of acting only for himself and said his words could not be trusted.
• Fang Yu told Big Black Cat to leave and asked that the black cat remain beside his younger brother to help him.
• Fang Yu insisted he would prevent the planned tragedies, even if his younger brother grew more slowly, and said he would handle everything himself.
• Fang Yu warned that he would kill the others if they interfered with his plans or harmed his younger brother.
• Fang Yu demanded to know who the final guest would be and told Big Black Cat to stop wasting his time.

Emperor Ming, possessing Cloud Martial Commandery King, confronted Fang Yu over the plan to save the world. Fang Yu condemned Emperor Ming for sacrificing his loved ones and people, but Emperor Ming remained convinced that his choices were necessary, leaving them destined to fight.

• Emperor Ming appeared in Cloud Martial Commandery King's body after Big Black Cat left and challenged Fang Yu over disrupting their plans.
• Fang Yu accused Emperor Ming of abandoning his lover, son, empire, clan, and disciples while deceiving himself that his sacrifices served the world.
• Emperor Ming insisted that the sacrifices were worthwhile because they gave the world a chance to survive, and refused to believe Fang Yu's accusations.
• Emperor Ming warned that they could not reach a compromise and would eventually fight to the death.
• Fang Yu said he would show no mercy and accused Emperor Ming of failing his lover and younger brother.

An unnamed speaker berated the person before them for making others suffer through supposedly necessary sacrifices, while the other person defended those sacrifices and ordered the speaker away from their child. Neither changed the other's mind, and the speaker remained in the world as the argument ended.

• The speaker accused the other person of foolishly sacrificing family, friends, and the world while claiming to save it.
• The speaker blamed an old bald donkey for deceiving the other person into believing the sacrifices were necessary and warned that they could be avoided.
• The other person insisted the sacrifices were worthwhile, accused the speaker of trying to take everything from their child, and demanded that the speaker leave the child alone.
• The speaker acknowledged that neither could persuade the other, warned that the other could not act without breaking the rules, and continued trying to make them reconsider.

Fang Yu confronted an old Buddhist monk who had appeared before his time, arguing that the monk’s plans would turn his younger brother into a puppet and urging him to leave. Fang Yu ended by calling him “Master” for the first and last time and demanding that he return.

• An old bald monk from the Buddhist Sect told Fang Yu and another person to stop arguing and go their separate ways.
• Fang Yu challenged the monk’s premature appearance and warned that his presence could disrupt events and endanger Fang Yu’s younger brother.
• The monk said he would stay unless he could change Fang Yu’s mind or persuade the two to part ways.
• Fang Yu accused the powerful figures behind his younger brother’s trials of trying to make him an emotionless puppet they could control.
• Fang Yu urged the monk to return, warned that remaining could get him killed, and offered to owe him a favor if he left.
• Fang Yu called the monk “Master” for the first and last time and again told him to leave.

Fang Yu refused to leave after Zhang Ruochen urged him to escape the dangers surrounding him. He explained that he intended to prevent the tragedies tied to Zhang Ruochen and warned that powerful enemies wanted to control him, leaving the two at odds over how to face the future.

• Fang Yu complained that Zhang Ruochen had drawn trouble to him, and Zhang Ruochen bluntly told him to leave.
• Zhang Ruochen said he wanted Fang Yu to live and feared the powerful enemies would kill him if he stayed.
• Fang Yu refused to leave, saying he would keep trying to prevent tragedies for Zhang Ruochen and the people caught up in his fate.
• Fang Yu explained that Zhang Ruochen's memories could be erased and that his enemies engineered tragedies to temper and control him.
• Fang Yu warned that Zhang Ruochen was irreplaceable to his enemies, who wanted Fang Yu gone so they could control Zhang Ruochen completely.