Arc 79Chapters 1951–1975
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Qi Zhou asked Yun Jiang to kill him before the Demon Seed consumed his mind, while revealing that he had a map to the Yellow Millet Immortal Mansions Ruins. After Yun Jiang used a jade pendant to view his recent memories, Qi Zhou made clear that his condition for handing over the map concerned taking Tian Li home to harvest wheat.
Qi Zhou revealed Tian Li’s horrific memories to expose the Nine Abysses’ scheme and urged Yun Jiang to act before the region fell to demonic beasts. He entrusted Tian Li to her, revealing that the child she carried was human and might be used to challenge the Third Demon Abyss’ Demon Emperor.
Xu Taiping accepted the Scroll of Time’s choice and killed Qi Zhou after defeating the reanimated corpses with his own blade. Qi Zhou’s memories revealed the loss of his pregnant wife, and Xu Taiping was left to endure the torrents of Qi Zhou’s true essence and qi and blood.
Xu Taiping refined the True Essence he had absorbed from Qi Zhou, bringing its purity close to eight times that of an ordinary Heaven Gazing Realm cultivator. The scene in the Scroll of Time resumed as Yun Jiang and her companions prepared to carry Tian Li toward the Third Demon Abyss and sent warnings to cultivators nearby.
Xu Taiping completed the first six acts of the Scroll of Time and entered the curtain call in the seventh, leaving only the final act ahead. Five years after the trial began, Zhao Qian opened the Bronze Coffin to check his progress and reported the results to Lü Daoxuan.
Zhao Qian and Lü Daoxuan learned that Xu Taiping had completed the first seven acts of the Scroll of Time but faced a deadly battle in the seventh. In Outer Heaven, Fairy Lingyue received news of his progress and continued toward the Great Yu Ancient Kingdom ruins with Ping'an, who prepared to undergo his own trial.
Xu Taiping fought and killed three Demon Emperors in the seventh act inside the Scroll of Time. Afterward, he watched Yun Jiang, who had survived from the second act, finally fall beside the lion Demon Emperor’s corpse.
Xu Taiping witnessed the end of Yun Jiang's battle against three Demon Emperors and learned that she had defeated them by using the Spirit Transformation Curse. As Yun Jiang died through Liberation by Violence, she entrusted Yun Ling and Yunyan with her Bamboo Hairpin and a message pendant that would lead them to the Abyssal Pavilion Thirteenth Seat.
After the seventh act ended, Xu Taiping suppressed the surging qi and blood and true essence that threatened to force a forbidden breakthrough. In the eighth act, he saw Yun Ling cornered by demonic beasts until Ni Zhao, the Abyssal Pavilion Thirteenth Seat, appeared and saved her.
Ni Zhao arrived with Mister Da to protect Yun Ling and Tian Li as the group faced an overwhelming demonic army. After sending Yun Ling away, Ni Zhao revealed that Tian Li’s unborn child could poison the Demon Emperor of the Third Demon Abyss, and prepared to confront the Demon Emperor with Mister Da.
Ni Zhao used the Time-Borrowing Method to summon Li Daoyan from the River of Time, and Li Daoyan fought back the Third Demon Abyss’s forces. Ni Zhao then welcomed the previous Abyssal Pavilion Thirteenth Seat, Yuyang Heavenly Lord, but still said they were missing one person.
Ni Zhao summoned Xu Taiping into the past to help fight Wu Xuan, revealing that Xu could overlap with the combat strength of his strongest future self. He explained the cost of that choice and how the Scroll of Time preserved this stretch of history, leaving Xu Taiping to decide whether to step forward.
Xu Taiping crossed the azure barrier and underwent a staggering transformation, gaining immense power as Demon Emperor Wu Xuan sent powerful demons to stop him. One year later, Zhao Qian saw Xu Taiping’s transformed body inside the Scroll of Time and could hardly believe it was him.
Lü Daoxuan and Zhao Qian recognized that Xu Taiping had been summoned from a future timeline as the Taixuan Sect’s greatest hope against the Great Void Calamity, and they began preparing to reunite the sect’s divided immortal mansions. In the Scroll of Time, Xu Taiping’s future self destroyed Demon Emperor Wu Xuan, and Ni Zhao offered Xu Taiping the complete inheritance of the Thirteenth Seat of the Abyss.
Xu Taiping opened the inheritance box and learned about the Torch Dragon Ring, Jiazi Pot, and his own Scroll of Time from Ni Zhao. Ni Zhao explained why he had remained inside the Scroll, and Xu Taiping told him the Abyssal Pavilion had suffered devastating losses retrieving it.
Xu Taiping learned that he had to personally deliver the Abyssal Pavilion’s lost treasure and received two inheritances from Li Daoyan. After Ni Zhao sent his true essence into him, Xu Taiping struggled to contain it, and half a month later his Bronze Coffin began to open in the Nether Profound Grotto.
Xu Taiping emerged from the Scroll of Time with reserves of True Essence and Qi and Blood thirteen times greater than an ordinary Heaven Gazing Realm cultivator, but struggled to control them alongside his seven Demon Emperor Soul Seals. Lü Daoxuan revealed that seven swords had been selected to forge into Immortal Weapons that could undo the seals.
Xu Taiping learned he needed to forge two Demon-Sealing Swords within a year, and Lü Daoxuan’s old flying swords volunteered to be reforged despite the danger. As Xu Taiping worried that he could forge only one sword in time, Lü Daoxuan reminded him of his Origin Beginning Clone.
After Xu Taiping completed the Scroll of Time, Lü Daoxuan explained how his Origin Beginning Clone could help forge Demon-Sealing Swords alongside him. Xu Taiping learned that Fairy Lingyue had gone to the Battlefield Ruins because of trouble involving Wuji Immortal Elder, and he returned to the Moon Perching Pavilion to retrieve what she had left.
Xu Taiping reunited with Fairy Lingyue’s divine sense projection at Moon Perching Pavilion and learned that Bai Yu and Ping'an had left for a long trial in Outer Heaven. Their messages reassured him of their loyalty, and Lingyue gave him a jade box containing a rare Soul-Merging Pill recipe before her long absence.
Xu Taiping learned that opening the Immortal Rank Soul-Merging Pill formula would expose its karmic aura and reveal his identity, so he planned to wait until Old Daoist Huang could help conceal it. Fairy Lingyue gave him the Kunwu Sword and advised him to ask Old Lü whether Old Daoist Huang could be trusted.
Xu Taiping and Fairy Lingyue discovered that their memories of picking the Earth Fruit Golden Lotuses had been altered, causing Fairy Lingyue’s Sixth Seed Burning to fail. Xu Taiping found three lotuses still hidden in the Golden Court Inner Grotto-Heaven and planned to retrieve them with a Mysterious Origin Avatar protected from the memory-affecting treasure.
Fairy Lingyue explained why the Dragon-Slaying Stele had to be sent to a hidden passage leading to Manghuang, so Xu Taiping could travel to the Thousand Buddha Kingdom as part of the plan against the Great Void Calamity. Three days later, Lin Buyu remained in Qingxuan and revealed that her scarlet Listening Wind Bracelet foretold a deadly tribulation for its counterpart's owner.
Xu Taiping consulted Lü Daoxuan about Old Daoist Huang’s Undying Bone and the Earth Fruit Golden Lotus, then learned how Origin Beginning Clones and Mysterious Origin Avatars could aid his cultivation and help him hide from Heavenly Dao punishment. Lü Daoxuan revealed that the Taixuan Demon-Suppressing Coffin could leave the grotto, though Xu Taiping would have to carry it himself.
Xu Taiping entered a Demon-Suppressing Coffin to cultivate while preparing to forge two Demon-Sealing Swords, and chose to focus his clone on blade techniques after the Blade Ghost criticized his declining killing power. He discovered that the Blade Ghost could pull his Mysterious Origin Avatar into the restored blade domain, where the Blade Ghost ordered the avatar to stay and train.