Chapter Summaries

Li Ling used Reverse-Flow Incense to evade Nether Heaven through the River of Time and attained deathlessness as the Incense Ancestor. He reappeared on the battlefield, where his orchid fragrance weakened Nether Heaven’s domain and overwhelmed the demons.

• Thunder-Control Heavenly Venerable ordered the Heavenly Court forces to rescue Li Ling and hold Nether Heaven back.
• Li Ling used the Stone of Time and Time Sand to create Reverse-Flow Incense, sending his Primordial Spirit backward through the River of Time as Nether Heaven pursued him.
• Li Ling stopped himself from ascending into Dao integration and true refinement, then declared that as long as fragrance existed, his will would endure.
• After forty-nine days, Li Ling’s orchid fragrance spread across the battlefield, and his figure reappeared unharmed as the fragrance killed evil demons and purified the corruption.
• Blood Sea Demon Venerable recognized that Li Ling had attained deathlessness, while the Nether Heaven domain weakened and the plain filled with Incense Ancestor Orchids and Li Ling’s countless avatars.

Li Ling’s newly attained deathless Dao and Incense Path power turned the battle against the Netherworld Sect, allowing the Heavenly Court’s forces to rout their enemies. With Nether Heaven still the chief threat, Li Ling used the incense and prayer power around him to reach Mystic Heaven, leaving the final confrontation poised to begin.

• Mystic Heaven’s power reached into the Underworld, weakening the Nether Heaven Incarnation as Li Ling and the Heavenly Court’s cultivators launched their attack.
• Li Ling filled the battlefield with avatars and fragrant spirit resonance, isolating enemies and overwhelming the Demonic Path cultivators.
• Heavenly Court fighters destroyed Demon Venerable Yuanchi’s body and primordial spirit, then sealed the fragments while Blood Sea Demon Venerable and Demon Venerable Youyi struggled against Li Ling.
• The Eight Divisions of Orthodox Gods and other Heavenly Court forces routed the demons; Hundred-Eyed Boy and others fled, while Meng Chu escaped through a death-substitution method and Moluohetuo and Daoist Heavenly Calamity were killed.
• With Nether Heaven still capable of reversing the war, Li Ling connected his fragrance and nearby incense and prayer power to Mystic Heaven.

Li Ling helped the Mystic Heaven Emperor destroy Nether Heaven, turning the Immortal-Demon War in the Orthodox Path’s favor as the Heavenly Court seized the Underworld’s treasures and territories. With the Impure Land still breeding demons and ghosts, the Thunder-Control Heavenly Venerable asked Li Ling how the Heavenly Court should govern it.

• Li Ling used the Deity-Invocation Art and the incense offerings of living beings to stabilize the Mystic Heaven Emperor’s avatar and empower his descent.
• The Mystic Heaven Emperor unleashed tribulation lightning that destroyed Nether Heaven’s projection and forced the Netherworld Sect Saintess to face the attack, while True Yang’s light exposed the demons and ghosts to the sun.
• The Thunder-Control Heavenly Venerable led the assault on the remaining enemies, while Miro Heavenly Venerable and others broke the arrays guarding the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel and seized the treasure for the Heavenly Court.
• The Orthodox Path’s Immortal Sects pursued the scattered Demonic Path and divided the spoils; Li Ling advised Chi Yingting to prioritize the Incense Accumulation Sect’s long-term interests and cultivate allies.
• After victories spread across the Impure Land, the Thunder-Control Heavenly Venerable told Li Ling that the Nether River and blood sea had been contained but could not be eradicated, then asked whether the Heavenly Court should directly govern the lower Underworld.

Li Ling and the Thunder-Control Heavenly Venerable planned to unite the Three Realms under a new order centered on reincarnation, while the Heavenly Court assigned territories and duties to its allies. As the Incense Accumulation Sect mobilized to claim its share, Li Ling also arranged shelter and an Underworld post for Fang Lin, leaving the Hundred-Eyed Boy to flee into the Outer-Realm Void.

• Li Ling and the Thunder-Control Heavenly Venerable agreed to establish six paths of reincarnation in the Underworld and restore order across the Three Realms.
• The Heavenly Court granted the Myriad Spirits Sect part of the Pure Land and a hell passage, while Li Ling secured Long Leshui and Zhao Ziren positions as Lords of Hell.
• Nie Yingzhi ordered the Three True Ones of Incense Accumulation to occupy the Ghost Soul Sect's Ten Thousand Spirits Mountain and sent Tong Daquan to campaign in Changzhou with Shu Changsheng.
• Li Ling and other Heavenly Court experts oversaw the recovery of materials from the Four Spirits Grand Array, while Incense Accumulation Sect disciples harvested Primordial Orchids.
• Fang Lin told Li Ling that the Hundred-Eyed Boy had fled to the Outer-Realm Void and offered White Bone Sect secrets in exchange for shelter for its lower-ranked disciples.
• Li Ling registered Fang Lin with the Heavenly Court and directed him to serve as a Lord of Hell, with Madam White Bone accompanying him.

Sixty years after the Immortal-Demon War, the Incense Accumulation Sect attended the Apotheosis Assembly and secured divine positions for its members while Li Ling revealed his plan to pursue Dao Integration through the Heaven-Sealing Method. As spiritual energy began to fail across the world, the Immortal Sects sealed their mountains and separated immortals from mortals, ushering in a new era.

• Heavenly Court envoys invited Li Ling and senior members of the Incense Accumulation Sect to attend the Apotheosis Assembly.
• Mu Qingsi declined the chance to receive a divine position, and Li Ling described his Heaven-Sealing Method for preserving his will while integrating with the Dao.
• At the Apotheosis Assembly, Chi Yingting, the Three True Ones of Incense Accumulation, Tong Daquan, and Nie Yingzhi received Great Unity Golden Immortal titles, while other sect members received lower divine ranks.
• The Epoch-End Tribulation began depleting spiritual energy and contaminating spirit stones, causing resource shortages and a steep decline in the cultivation world's population.
• The Immortal Sects decided to seal the mountains, barring ordinary people from cultivating without a destined opportunity and restricting cultivators from descending without authorization.

In 2516 of Incense Accumulation, Li Ling gathered the Incense Path’s followers and envoys to announce that he would attempt Dao integration and true refinement. He merged with Nether Heaven and successfully descended an avatar, ushering the Ten Continents into the era of the Incense Path.

• Li Ling summoned sect branches and allied powers to the Incense Accumulation Sect’s celebration and revealed his plan to undertake Dao integration and true refinement.
• Li Ling told Lin Rouniang he would merge with Nether Heaven and asked her to use her true-nature human incense to help deceive it and muddle cause and effect; she agreed.
• At the celebration, Li Ling burned the sect’s stores of spirit incense and used the Heaven-Sealing Method to project his soul into the Netherworld.
• Li Ling merged with Nether Heaven, then used the gathered Incense Path spirit resonance to appear again and successfully send down an avatar.
• Li Ling’s unending incense essence cleansed the polluted spiritual energy, and the Ten Continents entered the era of the Incense Path.