Chapter Summaries

A black-robed Trial Guardian of Ancient Ruins City overwhelmed Qian Fan and his allies, revealing the danger of the city’s trials and his command of the Time Dao. Zhang Xin weakened the Guardian’s domain, but the group remained trapped and badly injured as Qian Fan’s sword broke.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo’s corrupted Martial Soul was absorbed by the Guardian and turned into a Soul Crystal, while he declared that the intruders must become Trial Guardians or be crushed by the Great Dao.
• Ghost Douluo attacked the Guardian and was pinned to a wall, while Zhang Xin broke through to the Heavenly Immortal realm and summoned twelve Bronze Ancient Bells.
• Zhang Xin used reincarnation power to disrupt the Guardian’s time chains, and Qian Fan and Xu Fangyuan tried to sever the Soul Crystal’s link to the gate and reconstruct a spatial escape.
• The Guardian resumed control of time, wounded Zhang Xin, Xu Fangyuan, and Ghost Douluo, and revealed that he was a ninth-order Saint Realm expert.
• Qian Fan tried to break through a barrier with his Heavenly Demon Star-Breaking Sword, but the Guardian reflected the attack and snapped the sword in two.

Qian Fan and his companions were trapped by a black-robed Saint Realm expert, who revealed that Ancient Ruins City had manipulated Path Seekers and was using their obsessions and souls to fuel its power. As Qian Fan discovered a connection between his Karma Dao and the masked figure behind the city’s rebirth, the Sacrificial Altar began consuming him.

• The black-robed man bound Qian Fan, Xu Fangyuan, Zhang Xin, and the others with chains and halted time, then mocked their faith in Emperor Qi and Chrysanthemum Douluo.
• He used bronze mirrors and their past selves to torment the captives with painful memories, while Zhang Xin wounded him with the Reverse-Time Incantation.
• The black-robed man detonated the past selves, killed Zhang Xin, and revealed that Emperor Qi was chained at the core of the Myriad Laws Dao and forced to power Ancient Ruins City.
• He pressed Chrysanthemum Douluo’s soul crystal into the Sacrificial Altar, causing Karma Dao patterns to awaken in Qian Fan’s eye and show him the fate threads leading to a masked figure on a black throne.
• The black-robed man claimed Ancient Ruins City had orchestrated the Path Seekers’ lives and granted power to Emperor Qi, Zhang Xin, and Christian.
• The Sacrificial Altar’s suction began dissolving Qian Fan’s feet into light and drawing him into its runic array.

Qian Fan woke in an unfamiliar ancient forest after losing consciousness, with no memory of how he got there. He discovered his divine power and cultivation had been sealed, and the chapter ended as he fought a strange purple-black chicken with a branch.

• Qian Fan's spiritual power collapsed as the black-robed figure drained his perception, and he lost consciousness while his companions lay defeated or dying.
• Qian Fan awoke on the grass in a vast forest beside a strange purple-black chicken, remembering only fragments of his battle with the Guardian.
• Qian Fan struggled to stand as the chicken repeatedly attacked him, and he tried to defend himself with a branch.
• Qian Fan found that his divine power and cultivation had vanished, then roared and swung the branch at the chicken after it clawed his arm.

Qian Fan wandered through a supernatural forest where disturbing visions tied to Ancient Ruins City, the Black-Robed Man, and his companions surrounded him. As he followed a strange trail toward a faint light in the mist, beetles swarmed and the Black-Robed Man’s laughter began tearing apart his consciousness.

• The strange chicken wounded Qian Fan, then pecked at sap, bones, and a jade pendant that triggered uncanny signs connected to Ancient Ruins City and Zhang Xin.
• Qian Fan encountered visions of familiar people, runes, and the Black-Robed Man as he pressed through the forest, while a glowworm warned him to flee.
• Qian Fan found a broken Bronze Mirror showing Zhang Xin’s immortal soul fragments transformed into rune-covered beetles, and the strange chicken smashed the mirror.
• Qian Fan followed dewdrop marks and the silver trail of Zhang Xin’s tossed coin toward a faint glow in the mist, finding Xu Yuan’er’s unfinished Star Lantern drawing on gold leaf.
• Beetles flooded in as the Black-Robed Man’s laughter echoed through the forest, crushing the familiar sounds in Qian Fan’s memory and dismantling his consciousness.

Qian Fan followed the strange chicken through a misty forest, where a scale and a stone pillar revealed a vision of him ruling Ancient Ruins City. After the chicken weakened and the forest gave way to an empty void, Qian Fan lost hold of his memories until the chicken found him again.

• Qian Fan resisted the forest’s voices after the strange chicken pecked his tongue, then followed a trail of footprints toward a spectral blue glow.
• The strange chicken shattered crystal leaves reflecting Qian Fan’s companions, and their light flowed into the scale in his palm.
• A black stone pillar showed Qian Fan a vision of himself in a black robe, then beetles formed the outline of Ancient Ruins City around a throne occupied by his double.
• The scale fell from Qian Fan’s hand, the strange chicken’s feathers turned gray, and Qian Fan heard a chain snap before continuing forward with it.
• In an empty mist-filled void, Qian Fan watched his memories dissolve and cried out in despair.
• The strange chicken sprinted through the mist and grabbed Qian Fan’s tattered hem with its beak.

Qian Fan discovered that a pale-blue light curtain led into a mind-destroying illusion, and realized the Strange Chicken had been trying to keep him safe. After questioning the chicken about the place, he remained stranded in the strange forest, unsure how to find his companions or escape.

• The Strange Chicken dragged Qian Fan across the blackstone and through a light curtain, returning him to the forest where he had awakened.
• When Qian Fan tried to flee, the Strange Chicken caught him and brought him back to the light curtain, where he saw his fragmented memories and entered the illusion briefly.
• Qian Fan realized the illusion could consume his mind, and the Strange Chicken pulled him away before he was trapped inside.
• Qian Fan thanked the Strange Chicken and used nods and shakes to learn that an exit existed, though it was not reached by passing through the light curtain.
• Qian Fan recalled how he and the others had lost consciousness and considered the forest, his lost powers, and the Strange Chicken's mysterious role before angrily throwing a pebble at a tree.

Qian Fan wandered alone through a seemingly endless forest for six months before destroying an ancient tree and uncovering a mysterious passage. When he tried to enter it, the passage rejected him and left him injured, with its nature still unknown.

• Qian Fan invited Strange Chicken to explore with him, but Strange Chicken stayed behind to rest beneath an ancient tree.
• Qian Fan searched the identical forest alone, worrying about Xu Yuan'er, Xu Fangyuan, and the Seven Star Domain as weeks and months passed.
• After half a year of isolation, Qian Fan smashed an ancient tree with his bare hands and revealed a glowing passage inside it.
• Qian Fan found that the passage gave off no detectable energy, then tried to reach and punch into it.
• The passage blasted Qian Fan away and repelled his attack, leaving him injured as he watched the strange black matter churning within it.

Qian Fan faced the entropy energy domain and its enormous Chaos presence, awakening a clue to his Cause and Effect bloodline before returning to the forest. After six months of studying the forest’s laws, he reclaimed level 50 spirit power and the Heavenly Demon Star-Breaking Sword, but still could not escape or find his companions.

• Qian Fan resisted entropy energy with his primordial bloodline and battled the Chaos presence as it tried to pull him into the passage.
• Qian Fan’s bloodline collided with the passage’s runes, showing him visions of a broken sword and leading him to realize he was connected to Cause and Effect.
• Qian Fan regained consciousness in the forest and spent six months using the Deduction Formation to study its laws and recover spirit power.
• Qian Fan summoned the Heavenly Demon Star-Breaking Sword and cut down ancient trees, but found only inaccessible Teleportation Gates.
• Qian Fan tried to use Shatter Heaven and Earth to escape, but the sword consumed his level 50 spirit power before he could unleash the skill.

Qian Fan discovered the ancient tree tied to the “Cause and Effect” legacy, but the Guardian tried to prevent him from claiming it. After the tree empowered him and he briefly restrained the Guardian, the Guardian broke free and knocked him away, leaving Qian Fan unable to reach the legacy.

• Qian Fan found that the ancient tree’s runes matched the laws of “Cause and Effect,” but the Guardian appeared and bound him, declaring him unqualified to inherit the legacy.
• Qian Fan provoked the Guardian until the dark clouds and lightning faded, then used his level 50 Spirit Power and the Heavenly Demon Star-Breaking Sword to break free.
• The Guardian struck Qian Fan down, but the ancient tree acknowledged him and raised his Spirit Power to level 60.
• Qian Fan used the Heavenly Demon Star-Breaking Sword’s fifth form to bind the Guardian with iron chains and rushed toward the tree.
• The Guardian forced aside the city’s laws, tore through the chains, and hurled Qian Fan to the ground before he could touch the star chart.

After the Guardian’s attack left him gravely wounded, Qian Fan was healed by Black Chicken and followed the Ancient Tree of Cause and Effect into a hidden realm. There he met Lao Qi, who claimed to have come from another world.

• The Guardian was expelled from the forest by Ancient Ruins City's laws, while the injured Qian Fan collapsed beside his cracked Heavenly Demon Star-Breaking Sword.
• Black Chicken healed Qian Fan and showed him an image of the living Chrysanthemum Douluo, Yue Guan, but refused to take him to the mysterious location.
• Qian Fan entered the Ancient Tree of Cause and Effect’s power and was transported to a beautiful realm with a Floating Island and a lake.
• A golden fish leaped from the lake as Lao Qi approached and greeted Qian Fan in an unfamiliar language.
• Lao Qi identified himself as a visitor from another world and explained that he had been living in the Secret Realm within Ancient Ruins City.

Lao Qi brought Qian Fan to his mansion in the Secret Realm, where a meal led them to discuss the Cause and Effect inheritance and the universe’s distant past. Qian Fan learned that Lao Qi had been trapped there for millions of years and that the Ancient Ruins City held countless secrets and dangers.

• Lao Qi led Qian Fan along the lakeshore to his grand mansion and showed him its unusual paintings and puppets.
• Qian Fan cautiously ate Lao Qi’s food and found that it quickly restored his energy.
• Lao Qi explained that the Secret Realm was the inheritance grounds of the Great Dao of Cause and Effect, but he had failed to comprehend it and attain Creation after millions of years.
• Lao Qi said Creation stood above the Saint Realm and described a past era when Douluo was the universe’s center, while Qian Fan told him that Heavenly Abyss Domain held that place now.
• After drinking with Lao Qi, Qian Fan asked about the Ancient Ruins City, and Lao Qi warned that it concealed countless secrets and deadly dangers.

Qian Fan and Lao Qi explored the inheritance formation in Ancient Ruins City, where Qian Fan used clues from Chrysanthemum Douluo to repair its broken runes. An old man appeared and began explaining how to comprehend the Great Dao of Cause and Effect.

• Lao Qi told Qian Fan the legends of Ancient Ruins City and admitted he had found no inheritance in its formation.
• Lao Qi gathered magical treasures and led Qian Fan through a hidden passage to the inheritance formation.
• Qian Fan noticed broken runes, touched them, and became bound by an invisible force that Lao Qi could not dispel.
• Qian Fan recalled information from Chrysanthemum Douluo and mentally rearranged the runes, repairing the formation and freeing himself.
• The formation summoned an old man, who told Qian Fan and Lao Qi that understanding cause and effect required insight into the causal relationships among all things.

Qian Fan and Lao Qi learned to use the Great Dao of Cause and Effect, then followed clues to an ancient castle containing the complete inheritance. The chapter left them confronting a demonic beast born from distorted causality.

• Qian Fan and Lao Qi watched the inheritance array's visions and began secluded cultivation to comprehend the Great Dao of Cause and Effect.
• Qian Fan grasped a sliver of the Great Dao and broke through to a new realm, while Lao Qi found a clear direction for his own breakthrough.
• Qian Fan used causality to enhance a strange flower, and Lao Qi studied the mansion's paintings to discover clues to other places in Ancient Ruins City.
• Qian Fan and Lao Qi passed a trial in a mysterious forest, solved the riddles guarding an ancient castle, and found a stele bearing the city's origins and the complete inheritance.
• A demonic beast born from distorted causality broke through the castle wall, and Qian Fan sought the causal node behind its birth as Lao Qi prepared to attack.

Qian Fan and Lao Qi defeated a Demon Beast born from dark power and distorted causality, then learned the origins of Ancient Ruins City and how to escape. They set out to find the five Pearls of Cause and Effect needed to open a passage outside.

• A Demon Beast attacked Qian Fan and Lao Qi, and Qian Fan traced its origin to dark power sealed beneath the castle.
• Lao Qi distracted the beast while Qian Fan used the power of cause and effect to enter its body and repair its distorted causal relationships.
• Qian Fan followed the cycle of cause and effect he had seen in the Inheritance Array, dispelled the dark power, and returned the Demon Beast to normal.
• Qian Fan and Lao Qi read the stone stele and learned that a Creation God built Ancient Ruins City to test others and pass down his one hundred Great Daos.
• The stele revealed that they needed to find five Pearls of Cause and Effect and gather them atop the castle tower to open a passage outside, so Qian Fan and Lao Qi resolved to search for them.

Qian Fan and Lao Qi found the fifth "Cause and Effect" pearl and escaped the Mansion, but Qian Fan discovered that the world beyond was another illusion. After reaching the Saint Realm, he joined forces with Emperor Qi to destroy the false universe’s core rules and return to reality; he then set out with Emperor Qi to find Xu Yuan'er, reaching a mysterious star domain at the Edge of the Universe.

• Qian Fan sensed a causal clue around the strange flower in the Mansion's garden and found the final pearl beneath it with Lao Qi.
• Qian Fan and Lao Qi activated the tower formation with all five pearls and stepped through the gate, but Qian Fan realized their new world was still an illusion and Lao Qi attacked him.
• Qian Fan entered the Saint Realm, traced his past lives, and learned from Emperor Qi that they were trapped in a false universe with Zhang Xin.
• Qian Fan and Emperor Qi fought, then joined forces to shatter the false universe’s core rules and returned to the real universe.
• Qian Fan and Emperor Qi searched for Xu Yuan'er, heard from a sage about a mysterious star domain at the Edge of the Universe, and began investigating its barrier.

Qian Fan and Emperor Qi rescued Xu Yuan'er from the Space-Time Maze, then built new lives in the true universe and helped its people pursue peace and knowledge. As the power of the Great Dao awakened and the false universe lost its hold, the universe restarted.

• Qian Fan and Emperor Qi found a hidden space-time node, opened a passage through the barrier, and followed clues to the Space-Time Maze.
• Qian Fan and Emperor Qi overcame the maze's guardian beasts and traps and broke the Seal on Xu Yuan'er's crystal coffin.
• Xu Yuan'er awoke, and the three escaped the maze and settled on a beautiful planet.
• Qian Fan founded an academy and repaired space-time nodes, Xu Yuan'er advanced charitable and mental-healing work, and Emperor Qi fought evil forces and shared his techniques.
• People entered Ancient Ruins City to comprehend their Great Dao as the false universe weakened, the power of Laws faded, and the universe restarted.