Chapter Summaries

Lou Yunxiao and Wugou's duel ended in a draw after Lou Yunxiao revealed his second domain, Seizure, but refused to take Wugou's fate. That night, Ning Ke told Lou Yunxiao to use his time domain if Ning Ke died in the coming battle, and Lou Yunxiao reluctantly agreed to decide based on the situation.

• Wugou used his fate domain to heal from Lou Yunxiao's attack and shatter Lou Yunxiao's ice armor with his Buddhist Prayer Beads.
• Lou Yunxiao used his second domain, Seizure, to take control of Wugou's Prayer Beads and revealed that he could seize fate.
• Wugou conceded, but Lou Yunxiao returned the Prayer Beads and declared the duel a draw rather than taking Wugou's fate.
• Ning Ke collected the demons' wagers and sent Lou Yunxiao and Wugou to guide the greater demons.
• Ning Ke told Lou Yunxiao to take his time domain if Ning Ke died before the deity was defeated, and Lou Yunxiao said he would decide based on the situation.

As the battle against the Buddhist Order approached, Ning Ke struggled with unease, but Wugou reassured him and explained the prayer beads that embodied his merit and wisdom. Three months later, Ning Ke arrived at the Sword Sect to find the people and sect cultivators ready to follow him, and he led them toward the fight.

• Ning Ke organized the Demon Clan to defend its cities and gathered a group of powerful demons to attack the Buddhist Order, while growing increasingly uneasy.
• Wugou told Ning Ke that their karma promised a good outcome if they stood together, then explained that his prayer beads gave him an extra life.
• Ning Ke told Lou Yunxiao about the beads and his thought that their 108 forms might relate to the system mission's 108-day limit, and Lou Yunxiao quietly remembered it.
• Three months passed without Feng Yu returning or the Buddhist Order making a move, so Ning Ke traveled with the greater demons to the Sword Sect.
• Tens of thousands of common people and the cultivators led by Gao Ze, Hong Yao, and Wei Qinghai acknowledged Ning Ke as Demon Venerable and offered to follow his orders.
• Ning Ke told the common people to hide, urged the cultivators to stop delaying, and led the force toward battle.

Ning Ke and his allies launched an assault on the Buddhist Order, killing Nan Lou’s body before he revealed he had hidden parts of himself inside the Great Demons. As the war began, Feng Yu appeared alongside Jiang He and another enemy, declaring that Ning Ke and the others were destined to be sacrifices for a new world.

• Ning Ke’s forces reached Mount Qiandu, where they found its people and Buddhist cultivators turned into demonic puppets and living dead.
• Nan Lou arrived with eleven Great Demons and Buddhist living dead, but Ning Ke, Lou Yunxiao, and Zhuang Yusheng swiftly destroyed his head and body.
• Nan Lou reappeared inside another Great Demon after revealing he had planted part of himself in each of the eleven, while the cultivators and Demon Clan charged into battle in demon-slaying squads.
• Lou Yunxiao gave Wugou the Buddha Lotus Lamp Staff, and Wugou joined the fight as the strongest cultivators confronted the Great Demons.
• Jiang He, Feng Yu, and a bandaged figure emerged from a rift in the sky, and Feng Yu told Ning Ke that he was helping Jiang He reshape the world and that Ning Ke’s allies were destined to be sacrifices.

Feng Yu fought Ning Ke while secretly signaling that he remained on their side, as the Sun God battled Lou Yunxiao and Jiang He attacked Jiu Yuan. Jiang He killed Heaven's Way, unleashing disasters across the Human and Demon Realms, and declared that Qianyuan Continent had no master.

• Feng Yu revealed his scarred face and claimed he would obey Jiang He, then fought Ning Ke after Ning Ke refused to back down.
• Ning Ke sent Jiu Yuan after Jiang He and Lou Yunxiao after the Sun God, while Feng Yu secretly told Ning Ke not to interfere with his plan.
• The Sun God overwhelmed Lou Yunxiao, discovered that Lou Yunxiao had a domain that could steal power, and told Jiang He to begin.
• Jiang He caught Jiu Yuan off guard with his third eye and wounded him, but Jiu Yuan fought back until the old Heaven's Way emerged to protect him.
• Jiang He seized Heaven's Way and reduced him to dust, triggering disasters across the Human and Demon Realms.
• Jiu Yuan collapsed in grief as Jiang He spread his arms and declared that Qianyuan Continent had no master.

Ning Ke reversed time to rescue Heaven's Way from Jiang He, paying for the feat with three of his nine tails. As the battle resumed and Jiu Yuan realized the cost of Ning Ke's power, he prepared Heaven's Way for what they needed to do next.

• The Sun God unleashed his full power, and Ning Ke stopped time before reaching Jiu Yuan and Jiang He.
• Ning Ke used Time Reversal to undo the devastation and restore Heaven's Way, losing three tails in the process.
• Ning Ke severed Jiang He's hand, rescued Heaven's Way, and sent him with Jiu Yuan to Wei Qinghai for treatment.
• Ning Ke attacked Jiang He at close range, escaped his grip and mental assault, and urged Lou Yunxiao to focus on the Sun God.
• Jiu Yuan realized Ning Ke had paid for the time reversal with his tails and whispered instructions to Heaven's Way.

Ning Ke used his time domain to avert disaster, but Jiang He discovered that Ning Ke might be carrying a system and could lose his ability to return home. As Ning Ke fought Jiang He, Feng Yu recalled his past with Jiang He and prepared to use a sabotaged array to attack him, even if it meant dying with him.

• Ning Ke realized that reviving Heaven's Way could also revive demons, then avoided Jiang He's purple beam and heard Jiang He ask where his system was.
• Xiao Yuan warned Ning Ke that the Sun God might have discovered the main system and that losing his system would prevent him from returning home.
• Ning Ke drew courage from the cultivators fighting beside him and charged at Jiang He with his full power.
• Feng Yu recalled how Jiang He had rescued and raised him, then sent him away when their Great World was destroyed by deities.
• Feng Yu explained that he had submitted to the Sun God while secretly tampering with Jiang He's array, planning to use it to attack Jiang He and die with him.

The Sun God seized Ning Xiaoxiao as a hostage, but Little Sand Rat and Python sacrificed themselves to help Ning Ke and Lou Yunxiao rescue her. Jiang He activated formations across the Qianyuan Continent to gather the lives of humans and demons into a divine godhead, and as Ning Ke prepared to reverse time, Feng Yu appeared behind Jiang He.

• The Sun God used Ning Xiaoxiao as a hostage and demanded that Ning Ke hand over Heaven's Way, but Little Sand Rat and Python attacked him, allowing Ning Ke and Lou Yunxiao to rescue her.
• Little Sand Rat died after extinguishing the divine fire, and Ning Ke retrieved Python's body before joining Jiu Yuan, Lou Yunxiao, Gao Ze, Hong Yao, and Wugou in attacking the Sun God.
• Jiang He activated formations across the Qianyuan Continent that drained the lives of humans and demons, while the Sun God protected him from the others.
• Lou Yunxiao realized that the gathered souls were forming a divine godhead, and the Sun God warned that attacking him could destroy them all.
• Ning Ke told Lou Yunxiao he would use Time Reversal to let them stop Jiang He, but Feng Yu suddenly appeared behind Jiang He.

Feng Yu used his final Nirvana Flame to stop Jiang He and the Sun God’s attempt to take bodies for reincarnated souls, and Jiang He regained his memories. As they died together, Jiang He protected Feng Yu’s soul so it could enter reincarnation.

• Feng Yu embraced Jiang He and unleashed his Nirvana Flame, reversing the continent-wide formations and sending the gathered souls back into their bodies.
• Ning Ke and the others blocked the Sun God while Feng Yu carried Jiang He away and pleaded with him to remember that he had already saved his people.
• Jiang He recovered his memories, stopped resisting, and thanked Feng Yu for preventing him from causing more harm.
• Feng Yu tried to push Jiang He away, but Jiang He embraced him and said they would die together; Feng Yu agreed.
• As the flames consumed them, Jiang He merged his fragments into Feng Yu to protect his soul, then vanished, leaving pale-white soul motes surrounded by purple light flying into the distance.

Ning Ke and the others fought the Sun God after Feng Yu’s betrayal and Jiang He’s death, but the Sun God’s full strength overwhelmed their coordinated assault. Jiu Yuan sacrificed himself in a desperate explosion to buy time, while Ning Ke was left unable to save him or Heaven’s Way.

• Ning Ke, Gao Ze, Lou Yunxiao, Jiu Yuan, and Hong Yao worked together to wound and pin down the Sun God.
• Lou Yunxiao used an illusion of Supreme God Wei Yuan to distract the Sun God, while Ning Ke’s time threads blocked his escape and Gao Ze and Lou Yunxiao decapitated him.
• The Sun God recovered, impaled Jiu Yuan, crushed Heaven’s Way, and destroyed Jiu Yuan’s Storage Ring after sensing Heaven’s Way inside.
• Ning Ke reversed time, but could only return to the moment Jiu Yuan pinned the Sun God’s head; Lou Yunxiao stopped him from attempting another reversal.
• Jiu Yuan told Ning Ke that Heaven’s Way would not die and urged him to keep fighting, then used Forbidden Art, Fox Spirit Detonation to engulf the Sun God in a massive explosion.

After Jiu Yuan sacrificed himself to poison the Sun God, Ning Ke, Lou Yunxiao, and their allies fought the recovering deity, who killed Hong Yao and badly injured the others. Wugou unleashed his life domain and sacrificed himself to attack the Sun God, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• Jiu Yuan’s explosion poisoned the Sun God, and Ning Ke urged the survivors to kill him.
• The Sun God absorbed Nan Lou and began rebuilding his body, but Lou Yunxiao, Ning Ke, and Jun Mo attacked and wounded him.
• Wugou struck the Sun God’s soul with his staff, while Bai Wanru’s voice reached him and he resolved to continue.
• The Sun God shattered Ning Ke’s Bone Fan, injured Gao Ze, and killed Hong Yao.
• Wugou stabbed his own heart and used the Buddhist Prayer Beads and Buddha Lotus Lamp to unleash his life domain against the Sun God.

Wugou used his life to alter the Sun God's fate, preventing his wounds from healing and giving Ning Ke and the others a chance to kill him. The Sun God lost a hand, but the battle continued as Ning Ke resolved to honor the sacrifices made.

• Wugou gambled that his fate domain and seven-orifice exquisite heart could change the Sun God's fate, and his death gave the others an opening.
• Lou Yunxiao handed Ning Ke the Red Cloud Sword, and they charged the Sun God together.
• The Buddhist Prayer Beads and Buddha Lotus Lamp tracked the Sun God and resisted his attacks, while Jun Mo kicked him into Lou Yunxiao's sword.
• Lou Yunxiao's blade cut the Sun God, and the wound failed to heal, making him realize Wugou had altered his fate.
• The Sun God shattered Jun Mo's bones, but Jun Mo transformed into his Snow Dragon form and tried to restrain him.
• Ning Ke and Lou Yunxiao severed one of the Sun God's hands, and Ning Ke crushed it before it could return or become bloodsucking insects.

Wugou’s curse left the Sun God unable to heal, but Ning Ke sacrificed himself to keep the Sun God from taking Xiao Yuan and passed the time domain to Lou Yunxiao. Lou Yunxiao learned Ning Ke might be gone forever, carved a blood-red osmanthus mark into his wrist, and charged back into battle resolved to die.

• Wugou’s curse prevented the Sun God from healing, and Lou Yunxiao protected Wugou’s remains from the Sun God’s divine fire.
• The Sun God attacked Jun Mo and then tried to seize Ning Ke and Xiao Yuan, but Ning Ke used Fox Spirit Detonation to escape his grasp.
• Ning Ke separated himself from Xiao Yuan and detonated himself, sending a speck of light to Lou Yunxiao with the time domain.
• Xiao Yuan told Lou Yunxiao not to use Time Reversal to save Ning Ke and urged him to use the time domain to kill the weakened Sun God.
• Lou Yunxiao saw the soul pact mark disappearing, carved a blood-red osmanthus blossom into his wrist, and charged into the battlefield with the resolve to die.

Lou Yunxiao defeated the Sun God by trapping his soul inside himself and dying with him, but the battlefield survivors found no intact bodies and feared Ning Ke and Lou Yunxiao were gone. Ning Xiaoxiao’s anguished appeal to the Supreme God opened a rift in the sky, from which a man in black-gold robes emerged.

• Lou Yunxiao used Time Reversal to stop the Sun God from escaping, then pinned his head down as the Sun God prepared to detonate himself and the continent’s array formations.
• Lou Yunxiao reversed the arrays’ activation, swallowed the Sun God’s soul, and sealed them together within walls of ice before an explosion consumed the battlefield.
• The survivors searched the ruins, finding Jun Mo mourning A Ke, Gao Ze beside Hong Yao, and Wugou dead with his Staff supporting him.
• Ning Xiaoxiao found the Red Cloud Sword, purple cloth, and fragments of bone and silver hair before discovering Pale Silver embedded in the earth.
• Ning Xiaoxiao cried out to the Supreme God, and a rift opened in the sky as a man in black-gold robes stepped through.

Supreme God Wei Yuan arrived on the devastated Qianyuan Continent and began gathering the souls of those who had died in the battle. He learned that a Nuwa Descendant could give them new bodies, then discovered that Wugou’s soul was among the remnants he could restore.

• Wei Yuan arrived on Qianyuan Continent and reassured Ning Xiaoxiao that he could save the dead by gathering their souls.
• Wei Yuan brought Qing Ru and Jun Mo before him and explained that a Nuwa Descendant could create bodies for the gathered souls.
• Wei Yuan found the faint Xiao Yuan and learned what had happened to Ning Ke and the world’s final mission.
• He gathered Jiu Yuan’s soul from the Tobacco Pipe and summoned the souls of Gao Ze and Hong Yao, while explaining that Feng Yu had reincarnated.
• Wei Yuan summoned Wugou’s soul from the blood-red Buddhist Prayer Beads and examined Wugou’s body.

Wei Yuan revived Wugou, restored Ning Ke’s soul, and discovered Lou Yunxiao had become a new deity. Lou Yunxiao asked Wei Yuan to erase Ning Ke’s memories of the Qianyuan Continent and send him back to his original world, hoping to reunite with him there later.

• Wei Yuan found no records of Wugou’s past life and realized Wugou had changed the fate of the continent beyond the reach of gods.
• Wugou awoke from the Buddhist Prayer Beads and thanked Wei Yuan for saving him.
• Wei Yuan used the Red Cloud Sword to gather Ning Ke’s scattered soul as Lou Yunxiao emerged from the mud alive.
• Wei Yuan identified Lou Yunxiao as a new deity and placed Ning Ke’s restored soul in his hands.
• Lou Yunxiao asked Wei Yuan to erase Ning Ke’s memories of this world and send him home.

Yu Tang repaired the Qianyuan Continent and prepared to send Ning Ke home with his memories of the world erased. Lou Yunxiao accepted the separation, though Wei Yuan secretly gave him advice on winning Ning Ke back.

• Wei Yuan persuaded Lou Yunxiao that he did not have to let Ning Ke go without hope of seeing him again, then whispered a plan to him.
• Yu Tang arrived, restored the souls of the dead and the damaged Qianyuan Continent, and rebuilt its ascension passage.
• Yu Tang gave Jiu Yuan and the other collected souls to Lou Yunxiao to nurture, then took Ning Ke's soul to erase its memories and return it home.
• Lou Yunxiao handed Ning Ke's soul to Yu Tang, and Wei Yuan and Yu Tang sent it back before returning to the Divine Realm.
• Yu Tang questioned Wei Yuan about his advice, and Wei Yuan admitted he had taught Lou Yunxiao ways to get rid of romantic rivals.

After waking from a month-long coma, Ning Ke learned about the explosion that nearly killed him and read the mysteriously altered novel his sister wrote. On discharge day, he stopped an armed man from attacking a doctor and realized his reflexes had changed, leaving him wondering what had happened while he was unconscious.

• Ning Ke woke in the hospital, and Ning Xiao tearfully told him he had survived a gas explosion that had killed several people.
• Ning Xiao described how her novel, Ask the Heavenly Dao, had changed and ended itself without her involvement, and Ning Ke read its new tragic romance between Lou Yunxiao and Ning Ke.
• Ning Ke dismissed the idea that he had transmigrated and turned to cartoons after the novel's ending made him feel intense pain.
• While waiting to be discharged, Ning Ke spotted a man with a fruit knife threatening a doctor over his father's death.
• Ning Ke disarmed and subdued the man, then wondered why his reflexes and strength had become so much greater.

Lou Yunxiao reunited with Bai Wanru and resurrected Wugou while preparing Ning Ke’s body for his return. In the modern world, Ning Ke discovered a strange mark on his wrist and told Ning Xiao he thought a ghost was haunting him.

• Bai Wanru embraced Lou Yunxiao and comforted him as he finally returned her affection.
• Lou Yunxiao and Qing Ru resurrected Wugou, who thanked Lou Yunxiao and learned he planned to restore Ning Ke’s body using his own eyes and heart.
• Ning Ke confronted a burly man at the hospital, then went with the police to give a statement.
• Ning Ke showed Ning Xiao a Purple Osmanthus Pattern on his wrist and said it had appeared suddenly when he gained the ability to subdue the man.

After Ning Ke’s strange fighting ability went viral, he embraced the attention and received an audition opportunity, but a nightmare left him crying without knowing why. His unexplained pattern remained, and his reaction hinted at buried memories or trauma.

• Ning Xiao found Ning Ke’s hospital fight video trending and suggested they visit a temple because the pattern would not wash off.
• Ning Ke laughed at the comments praising his looks and enjoyed a feast of takeout with Ning Xiao.
• Ning Ke felt pain and nausea after classmates joked that he looked as if he had killed people.
• Mr. Bai told Ning Ke that a director wanted to invite him to audition, and Ning Ke eagerly accepted.
• Ning Ke dreamed of a blood-soaked battlefield, woke trembling, and realized he was crying.

Ning Xiao suspected Ning Ke’s strange new abilities and Purple Osmanthus mark came from experiences in the world of Ask the Heavenly Dao, while Ning Ke prepared for an audition and agreed to visit Nanluo Temple with her. As they drove to the temple, Lou Yunxiao and the others arrived in the modern world and rushed toward Ning Ke, creating chaos along the highway.

• Ning Ke practiced crying in the bathroom and told Ning Xiao that he could finally cry and was eager to audition.
• Ning Xiao comforted Ning Ke, then connected the Purple Osmanthus mark on his wrist to a soul mark described in Ask the Heavenly Dao and wondered whether he had lived through the novel’s events.
• Ning Xiao and Ning Ke left early for Nanluo Temple, fasting as they drove there.
• Lou Yunxiao and a group of cultivators emerged from a rift above the highway, and Lou Yunxiao stopped Jiu Yuan and Ning Xiao Xiao from rushing toward Ning Ke.
• Bai Wanru nearly struck an airplane with her enlarged Forging Hammer, while Yin Feng and Yueya chased the car from a truck’s cargo bed.
• Lou Yunxiao discovered that Wugou had flown toward the temple, while Gao Ze remained stunned by the modern city.