Chapter Summaries

Houtu entered the Netherworld to establish a path for the dead to continue onward, and a wheel-shaped phantom of reincarnation began to form. As the Netherworld shook, Lu Chen gained full observation of the Primordial World's Life and Death Great Dao.

• Houtu returned to the Blood Sea, where Minghe let her enter the Netherworld without following her.
• Houtu entered the ocean of soul lights and realized the dead lacked a road onward.
• Houtu unfolded the Thick Earth Great Dao and began gathering the Netherworld's earth power and soul lights into a wheel-shaped phantom.
• Minghe, the Ancestral Witches, Di Jun, Taiyi, and the Saints sensed Houtu's work beginning.
• Lu Chen's system enabled full observation of the Life and Death Great Dao as he witnessed the cycle of life stop at death.
• Houtu declared that she would make up the missing stage, and the Netherworld shook as the soul lights ignited.

Houtu established the Six Paths of Reincarnation, preserving True Spirits while cleansing their past lives and sorting their karma. After the first soul completed the cycle and was reborn, Houtu merged with the Netherworld’s great wheel as immense Merit descended.

• Houtu formed a river that cleansed dead souls’ memories and attachments while preserving their True Spirits.
• Houtu created six Dao domains to sort souls according to their deeds, nature, and karma as dead souls gathered from across the Primordial World.
• Lan Shuang opened the Three Lives Gate, revealing a road to the Netherworld’s great wheel.
• Di Jiang and the other Ancestral Witches arrived and urged Houtu to stop, but she continued establishing Reincarnation.
• Houtu merged her body and origin with the Netherworld as the Six Paths Great Wheel turned and a beast soul was reborn.
• Immense Merit appeared, and Houtu declared that the dead would have a place to return.

Souls in Guixu began entering reincarnation, while Shi Sheng waited for Houtu and asked Han Jue to help him find his family. After seeing that his younger brother had survived and his mother still visited the place where he died, Shi Sheng entered the Three Lives Gate with peace of mind.

• An old Dragon Clan elder, the Phoenix Clan woman, and many other souls left Guixu through the Three Lives Gate to enter reincarnation.
• Shi Sheng stayed behind to wait for Houtu, and he told Han Jue he hoped to learn what had become of his mother and little brother.
• Han Jue asked Lan Shuang to use the Book of Cause and Effect to trace Shi Sheng's family in the Primordial World.
• Shi Sheng saw that his little brother had grown up and that his mother still visited the place where he had died.
• Houtu told Shi Sheng the road to reincarnation was ready, and he entered the Three Lives Gate after thanking his friends in Guixu.

While observing souls enter Reincarnation, Lu Chen connected the cycle of death and rebirth to Guixu’s return of matter to the world and formed the rudimentary Life and Death Return Ruins Great Dao. Its emergence cracked the barrier at the Great Principle Limit.

• The first batch of dead souls entered Reincarnation, and the souls accumulated at Three Lives Gate fell by more than half.
• Lu Chen observed Shi Sheng’s passage through Reincarnation and gained insight into the Life Great Dao as True Spirits entered new lives.
• Lu Chen recognized that Guixu also returned the remains of dead plants, beasts, and spirit veins to the world, where they became foundations for new life.
• Lu Chen brought the Life Law and Death Law into a cycle around Guixu and formed the rudimentary Life and Death Return Ruins Great Dao.
• The new Great Dao cracked the barrier before Lu Chen, opening the Great Principle Limit.

Lu Chen completed the first cycle of his Life and Death Return Ruins Great Dao and became a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal without relying on Heavenly Dao authority, Primordial Purple Qi, or corpse severance. As he began stabilizing his realm, Reincarnation was established and Merit started descending, with a small portion flying toward the Northern Sea.

• Lu Chen condensed his mana and let his Great Principle Dao Fruit break apart, then formed a new Dao Fruit through Guixu.
• The System Light Curtain confirmed Lu Chen had reached the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal Initial Realm and perfected the Death Law.
• Lu Chen's Great Dao nurtured the Guixu Life and Death Wheel, a divine ability that could restore him while eroding an opponent's vitality, Primordial Spirit, and magical power.
• Lu Chen recognized that the divine ability had limits against powerful cultivators and Saints, but resolved to keep improving it.
• Reincarnation stabilized in the Netherworld, Merit descended toward Houtu and the Six Paths, and a small portion flew toward the Northern Sea.

After Reincarnation’s establishment, Merit strengthened the Three Lives Gate, the Guixu Soul-Attracting Lamp, and Lu Chen’s Life and Death Great Dao. Lu Chen tested his new Guixu Life and Death Wheel, realized its deadly potential, and the chapter ended with Minghe arriving at the Three Lives Gate.

• Golden Merit arrived in Guixu, strengthening the Three Lives Gate and Soul-Attracting Lamp while stabilizing Lu Chen’s Great Dao and recent breakthrough.
• Lu Chen tested the Death Wheel on an old array stone and the Life Wheel on an eroded Spirit Medicine, then confirmed the Life Wheel could rapidly heal his wounds.
• Lu Chen reasoned that his defenses and recovery could let him endure attacks while the Death Wheel gradually wore down opponents.
• Lu Chen used Mysterious Abyss to test the Death Wheel on Mysterious Mountain, which withered internally before collapsing when Mysterious Abyss touched it.
• Han Jue learned the move was called the Guixu Life and Death Wheel and recognized its danger; then Minghe’s blood-fiendish aura reached the Three Lives Gate.

Minghe visited Guixu after sensing Mysterious Abyss’s breakthrough and an unusual life-and-death Great Dao. After discussing the new path, Minghe offered a one-move test, leaving Mysterious Abyss ready to use the Guixu Life and Death Wheel against a powerful Blood God Child.

• Minghe arrived alone at the Three Lives Gate, where Mysterious Abyss revealed he had broken through to Primordial Origin Golden Immortal without severing a corpse.
• Minghe sensed the life-and-death laws within Guixu and learned that Mysterious Abyss had comprehended them by watching Reincarnation established.
• Minghe and Mysterious Abyss passed through Guixu, where Minghe observed the soul-guiding posts and learned Mysterious Abyss had no intention of building an Underworld.
• Minghe proposed exchanging one move, and Mysterious Abyss agreed to test his newly formed divine ability.
• Minghe created a powerful Blood God Child that reached Early Daluo Golden Immortal, and Mysterious Abyss prepared to unleash the Guixu Life and Death Wheel against it.

Mysterious Abyss tested his newly comprehended Guixu Life and Death Wheel against Minghe’s Blood God Child in the Northern Darkness Sea. He destroyed the avatar and its Blood Sea connection, leaving Minghe impressed and wondering how strong Mysterious Abyss had become.

• Minghe controlled his Early Daluo Golden Immortal Blood God Child to strike Mysterious Abyss, who endured the attacks without injury.
• Mysterious Abyss manifested the Guixu Life and Death Wheel, which steadily weakened the Blood God Child and slowed its replenishment from the Blood Sea.
• Minghe increased the power flowing into the avatar, but Mysterious Abyss’s wheel continued to grind down its vitality until Minghe severed their connection.
• The Death Wheel destroyed the Blood God Child and pulled its remaining Blood Sea imprint into Guixu.
• Minghe asked whether the technique could affect Saints, then invited Mysterious Abyss to test it against him after reaching Primordial Unity Great Principle; Mysterious Abyss gave no firm promise.
• After Minghe departed, Lu Chen reflected on having destroyed a Great Principle Blood God Child and wondered how strong he was.

After reflecting on his recent victories, Lu Chen reconsidered the heaven-mending death tribulation and realized he could prepare to resist it by becoming strong enough that no one could cut off his legs. He resolved to pursue that strength while continuing to develop the Old Shell as a backup, leaving him more confident about his future.

• Lu Chen reviewed his defeats of Daoist Xuan Cang, Ancestor Youquan, and Minghe's Blood God Child, and recognized how much stronger his combat abilities had become.
• Lu Chen reconsidered the 94% compatibility between his true body and the heavenly pillar fate, questioning why Nuwa would necessarily be stronger than him when the time came to sever his legs.
• Lu Chen reasoned that continued cultivation of his life and death return ruins great dao could let him withstand the blade and even fight back against a Saint.
• Lu Chen decided to develop both plans: strengthen his true body and keep nurturing the Old Shell, while maintaining escape routes and avoiding unnecessary conflict.
• Lu Chen looked at his four legs and felt newly confident that they would not be easy to lose.

After Houtu's transformation into reincarnation shifted the Witch-Demon balance and raised Lu Chen's heavenly-pillar fate, Lu Chen accepted that heaven's plans did not decide whether he would surrender his body. When Witch and Demon pursuers brought their conflict to a Three Lives Post Station, Lu Chen asked who had struck first there.

• Rumors credited Mysterious Abyss with foreseeing Reincarnation, prompting Di Jun to order the Demon Clan not to use it to probe the Three Lives Gate; Nuwa and Tongtian each reflected on Mysterious Abyss's path.
• After a saying linked the dead to Mysterious Abyss, Mysterious Abyss established four rules clarifying that Guixu would not detain, judge, or redirect souls, and would punish anyone who seized them in its name.
• Lu Chen resumed secluded cultivation, focusing on strengthening his body and deepening his life-and-death Great Dao.
• The system recalculated the Witch-Demon balance and the fate-bearing requirements for heaven's four extremes, reporting that Lu Chen's true body remained highly compatible with serving as a heavenly pillar.
• Lu Chen accepted that heaven's desire for him to hold up the sky did not mean he had to agree, while resolving to grow strong enough to face anyone who tried to claim his limbs.
• Witch and Demon pursuers converged on the Thirty-Fourth Three Lives Post Station, where wounded members and young refugees had taken shelter; Lu Chen asked who had struck first there.

Mysterious Abyss investigated who attacked a Three Lives Post Station and killed General Chiling after the Cause and Effect Mirror showed Chiling striking its guard. After healing the guard, Mysterious Abyss turned his attention to the Witch Clan warriors celebrating Chiling’s death.

• The wounded Witch Clan members took shelter in the thirty-fourth Three Lives Post Station, and General Chiling’s spear injured the station guard as he tried to force them out.
• Mysterious Abyss questioned who struck first, and the Cause and Effect Mirror replayed Chiling’s attack for both sides.
• Chiling admitted he had attacked but demanded the Witch Clan members be handed over; Mysterious Abyss’s Death Wheel drained Chiling’s vitality until he died and turned to ashes.
• Mysterious Abyss healed the station guard, while Kua Yue laughed at Chiling’s death and the Witch Clan celebrated.
• Mysterious Abyss asked Kua Yue what he was laughing at, silencing the Witch Clan warriors.

Mysterious Abyss enforced the Three Lives Post Station’s rules without favoring either the Demon Clan or the Witch Clan. After Kua Yue injured a post station guard, he was killed, and Black Feather was forced to acknowledge the rules; both clans were left to consider the station’s protection.

• Kua Yue restrained his anger toward Black Feather after an elder warned him not to repeat Chiling’s mistake, but Black Feather taunted him about his slain younger clansmen.
• Kua Yue charged into the Three Lives Post Station and struck a guard who tried to block him from attacking Black Feather.
• Mysterious Abyss confirmed that Kua Yue had injured the guard, then used the Death Wheel to age him into ash.
• The Life Wheel healed the injured guard, while Black Feather withdrew his Demon Blade and fell silent.
• Mysterious Abyss warned both clans to obey the station’s rules and forced Black Feather to kneel and apologize.

Mysterious Abyss used the Book of Cause and Effect to clarify why Chiling and Kua Yue had died, then established three rules protecting peace inside the Three Lives Post Station. As the Witch Clan and Demon Clan began to accept the new boundary, Demon King Black Crow arrived with a Great Principle aura.

• Lan Shuang and Ao Lie arrived at the Thirty-Fourth Post Station, and Lan Shuang used the Book of Cause and Effect to reveal Chiling's and Kua Yue's actions.
• Mysterious Abyss said he would not interfere with the Witch-Demon War outside the post station, but the post station's rules applied within its grounds.
• Mysterious Abyss announced that visitors must cease hostilities inside, no one could force conscription, seizure, or pursuit there, and conflicts beyond the Boundary Stele were for others to settle.
• The Book of Cause and Effect recorded the rules, and the stele displayed the words “End Hostilities Upon Entering the Post Station.”
• Demon King Black Crow arrived above the post station, and his Great Principle aura alarmed the watching cultivators.

Demon King Black Crow arrived at the Three Lives Post Station and acknowledged that Chiling had been wrong to attack there, but demanded that Mysterious Abyss surrender the Witch Clan members. When Mysterious Abyss refused, Black Crow tried to pull a wounded Witch Clan member out without entering the post station, and the Demon-Locking Cord swept across the stele.

• Black Crow arrived, learned Mysterious Abyss had killed Chiling, and asked for an explanation.
• Lan Shuang showed Black Crow the Book of Cause and Effect, revealing Chiling’s pursuit of the Witch Clan and his attack on the post station.
• Black Crow admitted Chiling had owed the post station an explanation, then demanded that the Witch Clan members be handed over as war criminals.
• Mysterious Abyss said the post station treated everyone who entered equally and forbade Black Crow from interfering with those inside.
• Black Crow summoned the Demon-Locking Cord and sent it across the stele to drag a wounded Witch Clan member out of the post station.

Black Crow ignored Mysterious Abyss’s order to withdraw from the Thirty-Fourth Post Station and was killed by Lu Chen’s Death Dao. The Guixu Healer’s injuries were healed, Han Jue arrived after the battle, and the Demon army retreated.

• Black Crow’s Demon-Locking Cord injured a Guixu Healer as he tried to drag away a wounded Witch Clan member, and Mysterious Abyss ordered Black Crow to pull the chain back.
• Black Crow pressed on, but Lu Chen’s Death Dao spread along the Demon-Locking Cord and forced Black Crow to sever his infected arm.
• Black Crow fled across the Northern Sea, but Lu Chen’s Death Wheel pursued him and drained away his life until his body, Primordial Spirit, and Dao Fruit disintegrated.
• Mysterious Abyss used the Life Wheel to restore the Guixu Healer’s arm.
• Han Jue arrived and learned from Ao Lie that Black Crow was dead, while the Demon army retreated from the Thirty-Fourth Post Station.

After the demon army withdrew, Great Witch Xingchuan arrived at the Thirty-Fourth Post Station and questioned how its Book of Cause and Effect judged the Witch Clan. Wu Yue attacked a wounded demon across the boundary, but Mysterious Abyss stopped and returned the Bone Spear; Xingchuan accepted the post station’s rules, leaving the Witch Clan and demon army facing each other outside as they waited for the wounded to emerge.

• Northern Sea cultivators discussed Mysterious Abyss’s killing of Black Crow as the demon army retreated five hundred li away.
• Great Witch Xingchuan arrived, acknowledged that Kua Yue had deserved death, and asked Lan Shuang how the Book of Cause and Effect could judge the Witch Clan without primordial spirits.
• Lan Shuang explained that the book examined traces left by vital energy, weapons, and the surrounding world, not just primordial spirits.
• Wu Yue threw his Bone Spear at a wounded demon inside the post station, but Mysterious Abyss stopped it and sent it back, gravely injuring Wu Yue.
• Xingchuan accepted responsibility for the Witch Clan’s actions and ordered its warriors not to strike first within the boundary stele.
• Xingchuan agreed that the Witch Clan would follow the post station’s rules, while the Witch Clan and demon army remained outside and waited for the wounded to come out.

Mysterious Abyss clarified that the Thirty-Fourth Post Station offered only temporary refuge, prompting the Witch Clan and Demon Clan to withdraw rather than fight. The post station remained intact, but reports of the confrontation were already heading to the leaders of both sides.

• Xingchuan and a demon general questioned how long armies could shelter at the Three Lives Post Station, and Mysterious Abyss set rules limiting refuge to recovery and escape from immediate danger.
• Mysterious Abyss said anyone seeking permanent residence had to undergo Causality Illumination and enter the Register of Ten Thousand Tribes, while those who left bore responsibility for their own causality.
• Xingchuan ordered the Witch Clan's War Department to withdraw, and the Demon Clan's commanders likewise pulled their soldiers back.
• Lan Shuang recorded the new rules in the Book of Cause and Effect as Northern Sea clans emerged from hiding and Guixu cultivators began repairing the post station.
• Lu Chen withdrew his divine sense, while a message from the Northern Demon Division and Xingchuan's returning force carried news of the incident toward the leaders of both clans.

After Black Crow died attacking the Three Lives Post Station despite knowing the Demon Court’s orders, Di Jun refused to retaliate against Mysterious Abyss and reaffirmed the post station’s rules. The Northern Demon Division received orders to honor the boundary and not seek vengeance, leaving Black Crow’s death as a warning about the Three Lives Boundary Stele.

• Gui Che learned that Mysterious Abyss had killed Black Crow after Black Crow disobeyed orders, attacked the Three Lives Post Station, and injured a Guixu Healer.
• Gui Che reported Black Crow’s death to Di Jun and Taiyi, who confirmed that Black Crow had provoked Guixu despite the Demon Court’s warning.
• Di Jun ruled that Black Crow’s death was deserved and rejected Taiyi’s offer to travel to the Northern Sea.
• Di Jun ordered the Northern Demon Division to appoint a new commander, forbid revenge, and require Demon Clan members to obey the Three Lives Post Station’s rules.
• The Northern Demon Division received the new military orders, and its generals recognized the authority of the Three Lives Boundary Stele.

After Xingchuan reported the deaths of Kua Yue and Black Crow, Di Jiang decided the Witch Clan would respect Mysterious Abyss’s Three Lives Post Station rules. The Witch Clan and Demon Clan both marked the stations as neutral areas on their military maps, leaving the region blank except for warnings.

• Xingchuan told the Ancestral Witches how Mysterious Abyss killed Black Crow from hundreds of thousands of miles away and spared Wu Yue after returning the Bone Spear.
• Di Jiang concluded that Mysterious Abyss remained neutral in the witch-demon war and that neither clan gained an advantage from respecting the post station rules.
• Di Jiang ordered the Witch Clan divisions not to fight within the Boundary Steles and to wait outside if pursuing Demon Clan members.
• A Witch Clan Priest left the Three Lives Post Stations blank on the Northern Sea Battle Map and wrote, “End Hostilities Upon Entering the Post Station.”
• A Demon Clan cultivator similarly marked the post stations as neutral with the warning, “Boundary Stele for a Thousand Miles, rein in the blades of war.”

Lu Chen chose to standardize the rules across all sixty-seven Three Lives Post Stations, and boundary steles carrying the Ceasefire Dao Pattern appeared at every station. The new network deterred Witch and Demon forces, but the chapter ended as the fugitive Bloodbone Daoist entered the Fifty-First Post Station to escape Guixu pursuers.

• Lu Chen rejected expanding the post stations into a kingdom or closing them and chose to place boundary steles at all sixty-seven stations.
• The steles appeared across the Northern Sea, and Lan Shuang confirmed that their Ceasefire Dao Patterns had merged with the stations’ formations.
• Demon Clan and Witch Clan groups obeyed the new rules, while station guards used Black Crow’s death to warn those who might challenge them.
• An unaffiliated cultivator noticed a drop of water fall onto the year-round ice in the Northern Sea.
• Bloodbone Daoist killed twelve Azure-Pattern Tribe cultivators over a Profound Yin Blood Ginseng and fled as Guixu realm patrol cultivators pursued him.
• Bloodbone Daoist crossed the boundary into the Fifty-First Three Lives Post Station, and the pursuing leader ordered him to come out.