Chapter Summaries

Xu Changqing and the others traveled toward the third location and discovered that its Wood Dao Law had sharply declined. Their investigation revealed that the region contained more than ten thousand layers of spatial folding, suggesting an extraordinary manipulation of space.

• The flying ship encountered a battle between a merchant caravan and Marauding Cultivators, who halted their fighting and saluted when they recognized Luo Siming's ship.
• Luo Qinghan ordered Lu Wangchuan to fly straight through the battlefield, and both sides waited until the ship had passed before resuming their attacks.
• After five more days, Lu Wangchuan reported that the third location's Wood Dao Law was far weaker than normal, and Xu Changqing concluded that someone had likely extracted it.
• Luo Qinghan had the ship dock so Feng Buhui and Lu Wangchuan could investigate the space before Xu Changqing searched for Inverted Five Elements.
• Feng Buhui and Lu Wangchuan completed their scan and found more than ten thousand layers of spatial folding in the region.

Xu Changqing confirmed that the third location was the entrance to the Evernight Ruins, and Luo Qinghan decided the group would stay despite the danger of confronting whoever had hidden it. While the others prepared and waited, Xu Changqing spoke with Chi Ye about the ruins and learned that only three true Supreme Primogenitors existed.

• Xu Changqing inspected the third location and found Inverted Five Elements deep within its spatial folding, confirming it was the entrance to the Evernight Ruins.
• Xu Changqing reported his discovery, and Luo Qinghan chose to stay and enter the ruins despite the risk of provoking the being that concealed them.
• Two days later, Jin Buhuan left to attend an auction and investigate the Living-Star Breeding Grounds, while Baili Hong went exploring and Feng Buhui and Lu Wangchuan maintained the spatial sensing formation.
• Xu Changqing cultivated in his Divine Kingdom and told Chi Ye he had found the entrance to the Evernight Ruins.
• Chi Ye warned Xu Changqing not to touch anything avoidable inside the ruins and said there were only three true Supreme Primogenitors.

Xu Changqing and his companions watched the Evernight Ruins begin to open as the Azure Radiant Flow spread through All Heavens and Myriad Realms. The footsteps coming from the entrance matched those Xu Changqing had heard in a Time Rift, leading Feng Buhui to suspect that the spatial folds were imprisoning the footsteps’ owner rather than merely sealing the ruins.

• Chi Ye explained that Primogenitors transcended Demon Gods and described the Demon Ancestor, Dragon Ancestor, and Dream Ancestor, Lord Xiyi.
• Xu Changqing said he was entering the Evernight Ruins for an opportunity and reassured Chi Ye that a Great Dao Venerable stood behind him.
• The Azure Radiant Flow arrived, raising Wood Dao Laws and Wood Qi throughout All Heavens and Myriad Realms while a black passage formed at the spatial fold.
• Footsteps sounded from the passage, and Xu Changqing recognized them as the same ones he had heard in the Time Rift of the Sea of Chaos.
• Xu Changqing recounted his experience in the Time Rift, and Feng Buhui suggested that the tens of thousands of spatial folds were trapping the footsteps’ owner.

Xu Changqing and the others entered the Evernight Ruins while Feng Buhui and Lu Wangchuan guarded the passage outside. As they explored, they saw echoes of past events and heard two mysterious sighs, with a third still to come.

• Luo Qinghan, Xu Changqing, and the others agreed to enter the Evernight Ruins, while Feng Buhui and Lu Wangchuan stayed outside to guard the entrance.
• Feng Buhui and Lu Wangchuan opened and reinforced a passage into the ruins, and Jin Buhuan returned in time to join the group entering it.
• Xu Changqing saw shifting scenes of past events along the passage and heard the voices within turn into screams.
• The group walked deeper until the scenes and screams faded, replaced by a steady hum.
• A voice sighed and accused a heartless power beyond the heavens of treating living beings as sacrificial dogs.
• A second sigh followed as the voice spoke of seeking immortality and casting Mortal Dust aside.

Xu Changqing and the others debated the meaning of three final sighs echoing through the passage, each offering a different interpretation. As they continued toward the Evernight Ruins, the space began to solidify, and they reached a barrier of black radiance that seemed to consume light.

• Luo Qinghan, Jin Buhuan, Mo Li, Baili Hong, and Xu Changqing each interpreted the three sentences, linking them to the Heavenly Dao, cultivators, life, gods, immortals, or a curse.
• Baili Hong asked whether anyone had transcended reincarnation, and Xu Changqing replied that no one could know.
• The five traveled through the passage for hours without hearing the footsteps again, while time became unreliable.
• Luo Qinghan caught semi-transparent, gelatinous air, and Xu Changqing and Mo Li concluded that the space was solidifying and would eventually seal anything inside.
• The group reached the passage's end, where a streak of black radiance blocked the way and devoured light even as it emitted it.

Xu Changqing and his companions entered the Evernight Ruins, a realm where space and time were frozen, and followed a faint signal toward its depths. They reached a zone filled with signs of deadly battles and encountered frozen humanoid and demonic figures.

• Xu Changqing tested the black light with Azure Primordial Radiance and confirmed there was no danger beyond it.
• Luo Qinghan, Baili Hong, Mo Li, Jin Buhuan, and Xu Changqing passed through the black light into the Evernight Ruins.
• Luo Qinghan identified their location as the relatively safe outer Slumbering Zone, while Xu Changqing used the Origin Dao to sense a direction toward their opportunity.
• The five flew through the ruins inside Luo Qinghan's protective Vacuum Dharma Realm as their mana steadily drained.
• Luo Qinghan and Baili Hong recognized the remains of a powerful Primogenitor-level demon, warning that the ruins' depths were more dangerous than survivor accounts suggested.
• The group slowed when they saw several dozen humanoid and demonic figures frozen beside a cluster of solidified ruins.

Xu Changqing and his companions crossed the Evernight Ruins’ freezing zone and entered a region where the Power of Stillness was far denser. Night Wanderers swarmed toward Xu Changqing, and the group fought through them while continuing to follow his sense of the Creation Dao’s opportunity.

• Jin Buhuan recognized the frozen silver wolf as Demon God North Wind, and the five detoured around the freezing zone after seeing other frozen Demon Gods and a wrecked cultivator ship.
• The group entered an area of stronger Power of Stillness, where the low-frequency resonance stirred Xu Changqing’s Creation Heavenly Scripture and drew him toward an opportunity ahead.
• Dozens of Night Wanderers attacked, and Jin Buhuan identified them as cultivators devoured by the Evernight Ruins.
• Mo Li realized the Night Wanderers were converging on Xu Changqing, while Baili Hong and Luo Qinghan cut a path through the attackers with their coordinated assault.
• Jin Buhuan used spirit talismans to hold back the Night Wanderers, and Mo Li redirected them through shadows as the five advanced deeper into the ruins.

Xu Changqing and his companions crossed the Night Wanderers’ territory and followed the Creation Dao’s call toward an ancient palace in the Evernight Ruins. They found six Spirit Origin Sect cultivators trying to break open a statue just as a powerful bone-armored monster attacked them.

• The five escaped the Night Wanderers, collected valuable drops, and rested while Luo Qinghan reinforced their protection and Xu Changqing sensed the call’s direction.
• Xu Changqing confirmed that the call was within a hundred li, and the group followed an ancient stone road lined with shattered spirit stones and unfamiliar formation disks.
• The five reached a ruined palace whose reliefs showed worshippers venerating winged beings, and Xu Changqing said the Creation Dao’s call came from beyond it.
• The group noticed six Spirit Origin Sect cultivators trying to extract something from a damaged statue in a side hall.
• A bone-armored monster wreathed in violet-black Demon Flame emerged and attacked the six cultivators, while two of them frantically cast spells at the statue.

Xu Changqing found the Creation Dao opportunity in a region where buildings, Night Wanderers, and Demon God corpses were trapped between completeness and destruction. He used Origin Tracing to restore them briefly, releasing Creation Force that formed a pillar of light and revealed a Green Lotus.

• Luo Qinghan and her companions left the Spirit Origin Sect experts to face the monster and continued through the palace ruins toward Xu Changqing's opportunity.
• Xu Changqing and the others reached a silent area filled with incomplete buildings and severed corpses, and Baili Hong noticed their wounds showed no signs of battle.
• Xu Changqing recognized the phenomenon as resembling the fifth level of the Creation Heavenly Scripture, Origin Tracing, and asked Luo Qinghan, Baili Hong, Jin Buhuan, and Mo Li to withdraw.
• After the four withdrew, Xu Changqing activated Origin Tracing and restored the missing parts of the tower, Night Wanderers, and Demon God corpses.
• The restored forms broke down into Creation Force, which gathered into an azure pillar of light as a Green Lotus bloomed within it.

Xu Changqing touched the Creation Green Lotus in the Evernight Ruins and received its baptism, advancing from Mid Void Refinement to Late Void Refinement while his Divine Kingdom expanded and flourished. Luo Qinghan recognized him as the sole inheritor of the Creation Dao, and the Lotus began converting the ruins’ lifeless power into nearly limitless Creation Force for him.

• Xu Changqing touched the nine-petaled Creation Green Lotus and was engulfed by its light as it purified and strengthened his body and laws.
• The Green Lotus broke Xu Changqing’s bottleneck, raising him from Mid Void Refinement to Late Void Refinement and bringing him close to Void Refinement Completion.
• Creation Force expanded Xu Changqing’s Divine Kingdom and empowered its soil, spiritual plants, sacred trees, and spatial fruits.
• Baili Hong and Jin Buhuan watched the azure pillar disrupt the Evernight Ruins, while Jin Buhuan recorded the phenomenon.
• Luo Qinghan told Jin Buhuan that the image must not be leaked before the Great Dao Venerable confirmed the inheritance.
• The Creation Green Lotus converted the Evernight Ruins’ power into Creation Force and poured it into Xu Changqing, potentially giving him nearly limitless power there.

After breaking through, Xu Changqing discovered that the Creation Green Lotus contained the dormant consciousness of the Lord of Creation Dao, which had been trying to assimilate him. He resolved to use Origin Dao Fire and the Heaven-and-Earth Furnace to refine the consciousness before it awakened.

• Xu Changqing broke through to the Late Void Refinement stage and felt Return to Origin activate despite no threat nearby.
• Xu Changqing examined the Creation Green Lotus and discovered a concealed, dormant consciousness infiltrating his Divine Kingdom, qi sea, and Origin Dao foundation.
• Xu Changqing realized the consciousness intended to merge with him and become a new Lord of Creation Dao.
• Xu Changqing concluded that the Great Dao Venerable had sent him to the Green Lotus knowing it could assimilate a successor, but had not accounted for his Origin Dao.
• Xu Changqing decided to refine the dormant consciousness with Origin Dao Fire and the Heaven-and-Earth Furnace before it awakened.

Xu Changqing sealed and refined the residual consciousness of the Lord of Creation Dao inside the Creation Green Lotus using the Origin Flame and Heaven-and-Earth Furnace. He gained pure Creation Origin and the Lord of Creation Dao’s memories, including insights into the Creation Heavenly Scripture and the Seven Creation Treasures.

• Xu Changqing used the Five-Colored Primordial Radiance and three Great Daos to seal the Lord of Creation Dao’s residual consciousness around the Origin Dao core.
• The Lord of the Divine Kingdom cleaved the residual consciousness into fragments, while the Defiled Earth, Profound Water, and Time and Space Great Daos restrained and disrupted it.
• Xu Changqing summoned the Origin Flame and Heaven-and-Earth Furnace to refine the sealed consciousness into pure Creation Origin and insights into the Creation Law.
• Xu Changqing examined memories of the Lord of Creation Dao’s battle with the Great Dao Venerable, including how time erased his efforts.
• Xu Changqing extracted the forging methods and secrets of the Seven Creation Treasures before the remnant consciousness was completely refined.

Xu Changqing refined the Creation Green Lotus and planted it in his Divine Kingdom before joining Luo Qinghan and the others to explore the Evernight Ruins. Their search led them to a statue containing a mysterious fluctuation, where a Ten-Thousand-Year Demon God appeared to guard it.

• Xu Changqing planted the ownerless Creation Green Lotus in the Five-Colored Soil and withdrew the Creation Force, allowing the Power of Stillness to fill the vault again.
• Xu Changqing reunited with Luo Qinghan and the others, who congratulated him on his strengthened cultivation before they began exploring the ruins.
• The group returned to a half-collapsed palace and found six Spirit Origin Sect cultivators dead near its entrance.
• Xu Changqing sensed a peculiar fluctuation inside a gray-black statue and concluded that the Spirit Origin Sect cultivators had been investigating it.
• A bone-armored Ten-Thousand-Year Demon God emerged from the palace, and Luo Qinghan decided that the group would claim whatever treasure the statue concealed.

Xu Changqing and his companions defeated the Bone-Armored Monster and uncovered an ancient finger bone sealed inside a statue. After Mo Li sensed a region where the Power of Stillness was unusually weak, the group advanced toward it and encountered increasingly strange ruins.

• Baili Hong, Xu Changqing, and Luo Qinghan worked together to destroy the Bone-Armored Monster, and Baili Hong claimed its Ten-Thousand-Year Demon God crystal core.
• Xu Changqing used the Creation Green Lotus to break the statue’s seals and reveal a pitch-black finger bone that Jin Buhuan could not identify.
• Luo Qinghan suggested that Junior Brother Feng might recognize the finger bone, and Xu Changqing stored it for the group to take back.
• Mo Li used Shadow Law to locate an area about thirty miles northwest where the Power of Stillness was unusually thin, and Luo Qinghan ordered the group to move together in formation.
• As the group advanced through black fog and distant whispers, they reached ruins with twisted spiral buildings, crooked pillars, and walls covered in concentric circles and tiny Spirit Runes.

Luo Qinghan found a Moonlight Sacred Tree in the Evernight Ruins and gained its acknowledgment, opening a crack in her long-standing cultivation bottleneck. Beneath the tree, Mo Li discovered a hidden space containing the complete Evernight Scripture.

• Luo Qinghan recognized the silver-white tree as a Moonlight Sacred Tree and explained its immense value.
• Luo Qinghan approached the tree, which acknowledged her and used its moonlight to loosen her cultivation bottleneck.
• Luo Qinghan took the shrunken sacred tree and decided to refine it after leaving the Evernight Ruins.
• Mo Li sensed a strange shadow fluctuation beneath the tree, and the group descended into a concealed space.
• Mo Li identified words moving through the shadows as the complete Grand Dao-level Evernight Scripture.

Mo Li learned that the Evernight Scripture was a Great Dao-level cultivation art based on Evernight, while Xu Changqing considered combining it with the Creation Heavenly Scripture. After taking the Moonlight Sacred Tree and Evernight Scripture, the group ventured deeper into the ruins, where they encountered a wounded female cultivator.

• Mo Li absorbed the Evernight Scripture and discovered it taught five realms of cultivation without relying on spiritual energy, laws, or a Divine Kingdom.
• Xu Changqing realized the Scripture could free its practitioner from law systems and considered fusing it with the Creation Heavenly Scripture, but set the idea aside for further study.
• Baili Hong worried that the Moonlight Sacred Tree and Scripture might have belonged to a powerful former owner, while Luo Qinghan said they would leave that concern to their master.
• The group left the underground space after taking the Moonlight Sacred Tree and Evernight Scripture, then continued deeper into the ruins as the terrain and Night Wanderers grew more dangerous.
• A wounded green-robed female cultivator rushed out of the darkness ahead of them, her left arm badly injured and surrounded by black qi.

Ling Zhi led Luo Qinghan and her companions to the Demon God Hunting Ground, where cultivators fought more than twenty ancient Demon Gods over a black tree and a crack revealing a palace. After Baili Hong and Xu Changqing rescued two besieged cultivators, Luo Qinghan identified the gigantic Demon God Myriad Eyes beneath the tree.

• Ling Zhi told Luo Qinghan and her companions that the Demon God Hunting Ground held a Myriad Dao Spirit Tree and a crack that might lead to the Eternal Silence Ancient Hall, so they followed her there.
• Luo Qinghan and the others emerged beside a battle between more than sixty cultivators and over twenty Demon Gods, with the black tree and palace visible beyond them.
• Baili Hong drove back an azure-scaled Demon God, while Xu Changqing forced two others away and rescued Chu Xinran and Feng Qingyuan.
• Chu Xinran recognized Luo Qinghan and hurried to inform Senior Chu that reinforcements from Northern Dipper Immortal Mansion had arrived.
• Luo Qinghan surveyed the Demon Gods and fixed her gaze on the colossal, many-eyed Demon God Myriad Eyes beneath the tree.

Xu Changqing and his companions joined the cultivators defending the path to the Myriad Dao Spirit Tree and learned why the Demon Gods had not overwhelmed them. Chu Hong explained that the rift beneath the tree was gradually revealing a palace, and the group feared that its appearance would force cultivators and Demon Gods into a battle to the death.

• Luo Qinghan said the Demon Gods were holding back because they feared weakening themselves and losing the chance to claim the Ancestral Spirit Source.
• Xu Changqing and his companions entered the camp, where the cultivators recognized the Northern Dipper Immortal Mansion and took heart.
• Chu Xinran brought them to Chu Hong, who thanked them and explained that spatial folds had swept his group into the region, where Demon Gods blocked every route to the Myriad Dao Spirit Tree.
• Chu Hong said the Demon Gods attacked about once every incense stick, rotating their forces, and that the rift beneath the tree opened periodically as a palace within grew clearer.
• Jin Buhuan suggested the Demon Gods might be waiting for the rift to reveal the palace, and Chu Hong warned that this could lead to a battle to the death over the Myriad Dao Spirit Tree and Eternal Silence Ancient Hall.

Luo Qinghan and Xu Changqing studied records of the Demon Gods and considered how to trigger infighting before the Eternal Silence Ancient Hall appeared. The battlefield settled into an uneasy pause, while Xu Changqing wondered why Kong Fang was absent from the Demon God camp.

• Luo Qinghan asked Chu Hong for detailed records of the Demon Gods, and he gave her a jade slip compiled by his disciples.
• Xu Changqing concluded that the Demon Gods were divided and proposed provoking a conflict so the human cultivators could break through toward the Myriad Dao Spirit Tree and the rift.
• Xu Changqing reasoned that Demon God Myriad Eyes would only act if its claim to the rift was threatened, but Luo Qinghan warned that the human cultivators could not safely break through the blockade.
• Xu Changqing recalled that Kong Fang had the strength and ambition to seek the Eternal Silence Ancient Hall, yet he was nowhere among the Demon Gods present.
• The battlefield grew quiet as the Demon Gods held their territories and the human cultivators rested, while allies came to pay respects to Luo Qinghan and one Rogue Cultivator gave his remaining pills to Chu Xinran.

As the crack beneath the Myriad Dao Spirit Tree opened into the Eternal Silence Celestial Palace, Demon God Kong Fang ambushed Demon God Myriad Eyes and threw the Demon God camp into disarray. Luo Qinghan ordered the humans to seize the opportunity and attack, while Xu Changqing volunteered to kill Myriad Eyes.

• Chu Hong announced that the crack was opening, and Baili Hong read the palace plaque as “Eternal Silence Celestial Palace.”
• Demon God Myriad Eyes focused on the crack, leaving itself vulnerable as the Demon God camp crowded around it.
• Demon God Kong Fang unleashed the Seven-Colored Demon Light, killing three Demon Gods and badly injuring Myriad Eyes.
• Xu Changqing recognized Kong Fang’s attack and urged Luo Qinghan and the others to strike before the Demon God camp recovered.
• Luo Qinghan assigned the humans their attack positions, and Xu Changqing volunteered to kill Demon God Myriad Eyes.