Chapter Summaries

Lu Qing examined the shifting destinies of the Six Paths and the golden light of Calamity Avoidance beyond the severed road. In the West Sea, Old Turtle sensed an unnamed danger while ancient demons discussed escaping their fixed fate through a mysterious gate.

• Lu Qing surveyed the competing fortunes of the Human Path and the variables shaping the Nine Heavens, then considered an ancient visitor from beyond the heavens.
• Lu Qing recognized the golden light of Calamity Avoidance as something existing beyond the severed road ahead.
• At Mount Daiyao, Old Turtle surfaced and told Azure Snake that something felt wrong, though it could not identify what it had forgotten.
• Teng told the ancient demons that remaining in their world was not the right choice and that it intended to go through the gate to another world.
• The ancient demons concluded that the gate offered a thread of life, but they remained trapped in the death tribulation of the past and could not return unharmed to begin again.

An unstable figure emerged from a golden light and was drawn into the underworld, where the Evil Demon sensed the many variables entering the Nine Heavens through Reincarnation. The Evil Demon ordered a thin, banner-bearing figure to bring the newcomer to Yincao Hall.

• Cultivators guarding a gateway complained that they had seen no activity there and had to wait another year before leaving.
• A golden thread fled from the gateway, and an unstable figure appeared before being drawn into a tranquil sea.
• The Evil Demon sensed the figure and observed that many variables had arisen in the Mortal Realm and entered the Nine Heavens through Reincarnation.
• The Evil Demon summoned a thin figure carrying a mourning banner and ordered it to take the newcomer to Yincao Hall.
• The thin figure approached the newcomer with its banner ready, expecting a difficult encounter.

The demon shadow was brought to Yincao Hall, where the Faceless Man recognized him as a figure from the Primordial Era who had yet to reincarnate into the present. As a violent storm swept the Nine Heavens, cultivators gathered outside the West Sea Portal speculated about entering the Ancient Demon Domain and learned that Human Path experts were distracted by new variables clouding the Human Emperor’s destined rise.

• The Faceless Man examined the demon shadow and saw his origins in the Primordial Era, while Old Monster Zhou confirmed his importance in the Book of Life and Death.
• A strange storm of scarlet lightning and torrential rain spread across the Nine Heavens, prompting cultivators to wonder whether it was connected to the Ancient Era’s returning figures.
• Cultivators outside the West Sea Portal discussed the accelerating flow of time and considered crossing into the Ancient Demon Domain, while others warned that its brutal laws made it dangerous.
• The cultivators noted the West Sea’s powerful Human Path presence and wondered why its experts had not acted against the portal.
• A cultivator revealed that variables had clouded the Human Emperor’s expected attainment of the Dao, keeping Human Path elders occupied with Heavenly Secret Deduction.

Human Path elders detected a shift in the Human Emperor’s fate and ordered the Sons of the Human Emperor watched, especially for outsiders interfering. In the Southern Heaven Continent, Lu Qing’s incarnation sensed a stirring of fortune in the West Sea.

• Human Path traditions gathered in Heaven of Universe to investigate a slight change in the Human Emperor’s fate.
• An old man proposed that a variable, rather than an outsider, might have caused the change.
• An old crone warned that the Sons of the Human Emperor were destined to be variables as they contended for the throne.
• A powerful figure reminded the elders not to interfere in the Human Path’s contest and ordered them to watch its variables for outsiders.
• Lu Qing’s incarnation put down his scroll and looked toward the West Sea after sensing a faint rolling of fortune.

Lu Qing's incarnation realized that the Human Emperor's destiny had shifted amid the age's many variables and suspected the Demonic Path's hidden movements drew the attention of powerful observers. In Northern Plains City, Demonic Cultivators searched for someone who could trigger their tokens while robed cultivators gathered to investigate the longevity Great Dao.

• Lu Qing's incarnation connected the Human Emperor's altered destiny to the many new variables and considered the secrets of the Longevity Devil Master's Great Dao.
• Demonic Cultivators swept a frozen northern sea under orders to find the Devil Master's Reincarnation, using strange tokens to identify candidates.
• The Demonic Cultivators entered Northern Plains City after their token reacted, though their leader refused to explain whom they sought.
• At a wine house in Northern Plains City, robed cultivators questioned Fellow Daoist Liu about whether the longevity Great Dao would appear there, and he said his heavenly-secret deduction pointed to the city.

Lu Yong and his companions waited for a heavenly sign in Northern Plains until Liu Buming spotted Yellow Springs demonic cultivators, whom they suspected were seeking the Longevity Devil Master. They decided to follow them, hoping the demon cultivators could lead them to the Great Dao of Longevity.

• Lu Yong questioned Liu Buming about why they had sensed no heavenly secret after spending several days in Northern Plains.
• Liu Buming spotted several Yellow Springs demonic cultivators entering the street and said the opportunity he had predicted had arrived.
• Lu Yong and another cultivator suspected the demonic cultivators were searching for the Longevity Devil Master and his Great Dao or Daoist grounds.
• The three decided to follow the demonic cultivators, concealing their own interest in the Great Dao of Longevity.
• A figure with blood-red light in his eyes announced that they had reached the place.

Three cultivators followed signs of Longevity across a snowfield while three figures copied their forms and words, and a devil cultivator fled a snow mountain haunted by a Yellow Springs of Wrongful Death. The unrest spread to the real Yellow Springs, where Corpse Elder saw the distant mountain as a graveyard threaded with a second River of Wrongful Death.

• Devil cultivators sensed a strange Demonic Path Dao mechanism in the snowfield and speculated that it belonged to the Devil Master.
• Lu Yong, Liu Buming, and their companion traveled toward the snow-covered mountain, with Lu Yong suspecting that the Longevity Dao in the Demon Domain was bait.
• Three figures formed from snow behind the cultivators, learned to speak in Lu Yong's and Liu Buming's voices, and affirmed that a Great Dao of Longevity lay ahead.
• A devil cultivator escaped from the mountain as it became a tomb filled with a River of Wrongful Death.
• A Yellow Springs Gate disciple reported blood-red bubbles churning in the River of Wrongful Death, and Corpse Elder arrived to investigate.
• Corpse Elder and the skull beside him saw a distant graveyard where true spirits marked by the Demonic Path emerged from another River of Wrongful Death.

Corpse Elder discovered that the Yellow Springs of Wrongful Death had manifested elsewhere and shown a strange vision of a black sun and fanatical worshippers. He summoned the old devils of the Six Demonic Sects and reported the change to a Venerable Elder, leaving them to consider what it meant for the Demonic Path.

• Corpse Elder saw an identical Yellow Springs of Wrongful Death and suspected a connection to the River’s unusual origins.
• A vision appeared in the skeleton’s eyes, showing cultivators prostrating themselves beneath a black sun.
• Yellow Springs Gate disciples and visitors withdrew as blood clouds approached and old devils arrived.
• Corpse Elder told the assembled old devils that a change had appeared within the Six Demonic Sects and that he had reported it to a Venerable Elder.
• The old devils considered the warning but doubted that any change could overturn the Demonic Path.

A mysterious variable appeared in the Demonic Path, causing its black-dragon-like fate to surge and then collapse in a thunderous upheaval. The disturbance prompted demonic cultivators across the world to return to the Four Lands, while observers wondered whether the Ancient Demon Sect had reemerged.

• Corpse Old Freak concealed the heavenly secrets around the Yellow Springs of Wrongful Death and alerted demonic sects beyond it.
• Cultivators skilled in heavenly divination sensed the disturbance and watched the Demonic Path's fate rise before collapsing into clouds and thunder.
• A divination master identified the cause as a Demonic Path variable, and demonic cultivators across the Four Lands received orders to return to the Holy Sect.
• Demonic cultivators left taverns, cities, islands, and secluded abodes, while other cultivators tried to learn what had happened.
• At Kunpeng Sea, cultivators speculated that the variable might involve the Ancient Demon Sect and feared the return of the Ancient Demon Land.

Lu Qing examined the veiled point in time three thousand years ago, when a powerful Devil Master called Six Paths had risen, and found that it was entangled in strange, fading Dao currents. His incarnation and the Dao Sect leaders agreed that renewed Demonic Path activity made the past worth observing, but warned against trusting what they could see.

• Cultivators in the Kunpeng Sea discussed whether the Ancient Demon Land might only appear after someone reached the Other Shore, as they feared another Demonic Path calamity like the one three thousand years ago.
• The narration recalled that the Devil Master Six Paths had fused with an Ancient Demon Sect figure’s Great Dao and reached the middle-ranked Devil Master realm.
• Lu Qing observed the era from the Long River of Time and sent only a strand of his gaze into the years three thousand years ago.
• Lu Qing saw that the temporal node remained shrouded in mist and ensnared by fading currents of fate, including strange auras from the Ghost Path.
• Lu Qing’s incarnation and the Dao Sect leaders discussed the past and decided to observe it without wholly trusting what they saw.

Lu Qing saw that the Great Dream Immortal Sect’s ominous island was linked to a dead Great Dao, while the Devil Master’s Dao was reviving and the Human Emperor’s struggle for the Dao was approaching. On Golden Turtle Island, emerging cultivators revealed that its grotto-heaven was awakening and its ominous aura was fading, though whether it held a great opportunity remained unclear.

• Lu Qing traced Golden Turtle Island’s ominousness to a dead, terrifying Great Dao that was related to but not directly connected with the Great Dream Immortal Sect.
• Lu Qing foresaw the Devil Master’s Great Dao reviving, bringing turmoil, heart demons, and trials that would blur truth and illusion for cultivators.
• Lu Qing saw the Human Emperor’s struggle for the Dao drawing near, with many Human Path prodigies competing and a variable whose fate resembled Ming Zun holding the greatest advantage.
• As cultivators emerged unharmed from Golden Turtle Island, Kunpeng Sea cultivators stopped trying to attack them after one was killed with a single slash.
• News spread that Golden Turtle Island was awakening, its ominous aura was fading, and its grotto-heaven contained medicinal gardens and some long-lost spiritual herbs, but no confirmed great opportunity.

Bifang studied Golden Turtle Island’s earth veins and concluded that the identities there anchored figures from the past to the present. He realized that cultivators who entered the island could advance those identities by completing missions, with their starting identities shaping their eventual opportunities.

• Onlookers speculated that the Hidden Dragon geniuses had entered Golden Turtle Island for hidden opportunities they could not reveal or remember.
• Bifang sensed that probing beyond the white mist surrounding the island would bring certain death.
• Bifang examined the island’s earth veins and recognized a black-tortoise-shaped earth-qi formation that could gather black-yellow qi.
• Bifang concluded that the identities anchored past figures to the present, and that entering cultivators advanced their own identities through missions.
• Bifang realized that each cultivator’s initial identity largely determined the opportunities available at the highest level of advancement.

Bifang reflected on the time-traveling cultivators and the reality of Great Dream Immortal Sect’s ancient trial realm as Mo Mingsheng, Xiao Yuan, and Wang Chunrong considered entering the Ancient Immortal Ruins. The three agreed to go, hoping to gain resources and escape their precarious status as menial servants.

• Bifang recognized that Mo Mingsheng came from another world and concluded that the ancient trial realm was a real stretch of the past, not an illusion.
• Bifang learned that the Ancient Immortal Ruins would open to everyone on the island in three days.
• Xiao Yuan proposed that the three enter the ruins, while Mo Mingsheng asked Wang Chunrong to check for danger with his strong intuition.
• Wang Chunrong sensed no danger, and the three discussed their escape from a wicked Daoist and their experiences in Great Dream Immortal Sect.
• Xiao Yuan said he wanted to enter for resources, and Mo Mingsheng agreed because cultivation could help them rise above menial-servant status and avoid their enemies.

The altar revealed an eerie staircase and released the ancient aura of an immortal whose cultivation path was mingled with chaos. When the altar’s great formation activated, its yin-yang phenomenon spread across the island and appeared in the distant sky.

• Mo Mingsheng and the others approached the black altar and saw illusory stairs form in the air.
• Bifang listened to the cultivators speculate about the secret realm and sensed that the altar’s gentle Dao aura came from an ancient immortal.
• Bifang realized the ancient immortal’s path differed from modern and ancient cultivation, carrying the life-giving and destructive aura of chaos.
• The altar burst with light and revealed a great formation with black and white yin-yang fish at its core.
• The formation’s vast phenomenon covered the island and shone across the heavens, overpowering the altar’s dark sheen.

Mo Mingsheng, Bifang, and the other cultivators entered the floating formation leading to the Ancient Immortal Ruins as its light began to fade. Outside, the blue-robed cultivators prepared to descend into the present world, while figures along the Long River of Time watched the era hidden behind a great calamity.

• Mo Mingsheng recognized an inexplicable familiarity in the formation reflected across the sky, then hurried with the others toward the altar.
• Bifang studied the formation’s manifested dao opportunity and considered the mystery of the Ancient Immortal’s death.
• Blue-robed cultivators outside the ruins welcomed the opening, saying they could soon descend into the present world.
• The blue-robed cultivators discussed relocating and staying cautious as they entered what they believed was a new great age.
• Powerful figures along the Long River of Time watched the era concealed by the great calamity, seeking to see through ancient history.

Ancient cultivators sensed a disturbance from a special later era affecting the past, while Dao Lords beyond the heavens discovered an unexpected variable in the Nine Heavens Cultivation Realm. The variable pointed to a strange island, whose hidden depths seemed greater than its visible heavenly secrets suggested.

• An ancient cultivator noticed activity downstream in the Long River of Time that was affecting the past.
• Several revered figures traced the disturbance to a special later era and remarked that it had produced many talents.
• Dao Lords beyond the heavens watched the shifting fate of the Six Paths in the Nine Heavens Cultivation Realm.
• The Dao Lords calculated that an unexpected variable came from a strange island and suspected that something deeper was concealed within it.

Golden Turtle Island’s ominous destiny fortune began to clear, leading cultivators to suspect that an Ancient Era variable was about to descend. Meanwhile, two martial brothers traveled through the Kunpeng Sea’s hidden depths, leaving the story with their arrival in another world within the seawater.

• A purple-robed figure lamented that he had missed the changing events in the Nine Heavens and anticipated a coming stretch of variables.
• The destiny fortune around Golden Turtle Island changed, and its black mist and unsettling aura began to fade.
• Cultivators gathered along the shore debated whether the Ancient Era variable would descend and how ancient cultivators might have returned.
• The disturbance on Golden Turtle Island became major news throughout the Kunpeng Sea, though the ancient Kunpeng lineage did not appear.
• Two martial brothers followed a starlit route through the dark depths of the Kunpeng Sea toward another space within the seawater.

Two visiting cultivators arrived at Kunpeng Palace, where the Nineteenth Young Lord welcomed them and offered them rare Dragon-Snake Millennium Peach Fruits. The chapter ended with the fruits’ extraordinary ability to extend their lifespan revealed.

• Two white-robed maidservants escorted the senior and junior brothers into Kunpeng Palace’s reception hall.
• A maidservant presented the brothers with spirit fruits, and the junior brother recognized them as Dragon-Snake Millennium Peach Fruits.
• The Nineteenth Young Lord arrived atop a flood dragon formed from waves and greeted the brothers.
• The junior brother explained that the fruits could aid cultivation and extend lifespan, and the Nineteenth Young Lord confirmed they could grant three thousand three hundred years.
• The Nineteenth Young Lord said he had received the fruits from the Ancestor and invited the brothers to try them, noting that each cultivator could benefit from only one.

Two brothers warned Kunpeng Palace’s Nineteenth Young Lord that the Human Emperor’s destined successor could draw him into a deadly contest for the Great Dao. They urged him to travel the world and seek fortune by hunting the Devil Master’s reincarnated body.

• The Nineteenth Young Lord welcomed the two brothers and asked why they had come to Kunpeng Palace.
• The senior brother raised the matter of an island in Kunpeng Sea, but the Nineteenth Young Lord refused to let Kunpeng Palace become entangled in its karma.
• The junior brother revealed that heavenly calculations placed the Nineteenth Young Lord in the coming struggle over the Human Emperor’s attainment of the Dao.
• The brothers warned that the Nineteenth Young Lord’s Kunpeng body and chosen kingly path could draw him into a deadly contest with the Human Emperor’s fate.
• The junior brother advised the Nineteenth Young Lord to travel the world and gain fortune by slaying one of the Devil Master’s reincarnated bodies.

The Seventh Highness learned that two cultivators who had joined his nineteenth brother likely belonged to the All-Living Alliance or Formless, Left Path factions seeking fortune. The golden-robed man recognized that their competing Great Daos could lead to a struggle over destiny and resolved to proceed cautiously.

• A shrimp soldier reported to the Seventh Highness that two powerful, treasure-protected outsiders had arrived beside his nineteenth brother.
• A gaunt Daoist identified the outsiders' aura as belonging to the Left Path and said they likely came from the All-Living Alliance or Formless.
• The Seventh Highness inferred that his nineteenth brother had attracted allies for a contest of ambition and chose to watch without putting himself in danger.
• A horned Daoist suspected that the All-Living Alliance was pursuing the Human Path's fortune, perhaps preparing for a change in its plans.
• After the outsiders left, the golden-robed man concluded that their conflicting Great Daos could make their struggle a matter of life and death, and resolved to handle it carefully.