Chapter Summaries

Luo Yan, a peak Quasi-Emperor nearing the end of his lifespan, descended from his mountain to seek Immortal Medicine, temper his Dao heart, and experience the mortal world. After reaching Mo City with a black donkey, he helped a candied hawthorn vendor awaken to cultivation and entered Luo's Medicine Hall to look for work.

• Luo Yan chose to descend the mountain rather than wait for death, and captured a black donkey to carry him.
• Luo Yan entered Mo City without paying its entry fee, while the gate guards decided not to challenge him.
• Luo Yan traded a fortune for candied hawthorn, then secretly helped the vendor begin cultivating.
• Luo Yan wandered Mo City's marketplace without buying anything because he had no money, and declined the donkey's offer to steal for him.
• Luo Yan noticed Luo's Medicine Hall and went inside to ask whether it was hiring.

Luo Yan discovered that the Luo Family descended from his elder brother and learned that the Yaoguang Holy Land threatened them over a gifted young woman. He agreed to return with Luo Zongqi, but revealed that he had only three hundred years to live unless he broke through or found an Immortal Medicine.

• Luo Zongqi recognized Luo Yan as the Luo Family's ancestor and tearfully begged him to save the family.
• Luo Yan learned that the Yaoguang Holy Land was pressuring the Luo Family over a young woman with the Primordial Chaos Divine Physique.
• Luo Zongqi explained that the family had waited for Luo Yan in Mo City after his Soul Lamp went out 121 years earlier.
• Luo Yan revealed that he had not been reborn and would die within three hundred years unless he advanced or consumed an Immortal Medicine.
• Luo Zongqi accepted Luo Yan's condition and scolded his son for not knowing what an Immortal Medicine was.

Luo Yan learned that the Yaoguang Holy Land had targeted the Luo Family after its Time Mirror shattered and a traitor revealed the family’s secret. He planned to inspect the broken weapon while Luo Zongqi rushed home to protect him, and the chapter ended with Luo Qing telling the returning Luo Family disciples that he had seen someone who looked like their ancestor.

• Luo Zongqi told Luo Yan that the Time Mirror had shattered after Luo Yan’s soul lamp went out, and a traitor had exposed the Luo Family’s secret to the Yaoguang Holy Land.
• Luo Yan asked for the shattered Time Mirror so he could try to repair it, while Luo Zongqi decided to return to the family himself.
• Luo Zongqi slapped Luo Tianlin twice and ordered him to keep Luo Yan safe while he was away.
• Luo Zongqi closed the medicine hall and hurried off, leaving Luo Tianlin to guide Luo Yan to the back and summon the other Luo Family members.
• As the Luo Family disciples hurried back, Luo Qing said he had seen someone at the city gates who looked remarkably like their ancestor.

Luo Youyou, Luo Tianyuan, Luo Huaimu, and Luo Qing discovered that the seemingly ordinary young man in the medicine hall was their legendary ancestor, Luo Yan, who had returned despite his soul lamp going out. The chapter ended with the four paying their respects as they recalled his extraordinary deeds.

• Luo Qing sensed the Luo family bloodline in a man who looked like their ancestor, and the four returned to the medicine hall.
• The youths encountered Donkey Erdan, who revealed his Dragon Transformation Realm strength and said he willingly followed a powerful senior.
• Luo Qing recognized Donkey Erdan from the city gate and realized the senior he followed was the supposedly dead ancestor.
• The four entered the medicine hall and saw Luo Tianlin reverently serving the young man, confirming that he was Luo Yan.
• Luo Youyou, Luo Tianyuan, Luo Huaimu, and Luo Qing paid their respects to Luo Yan and recalled his legendary rise to sainthood.

Luo Yan gave the Luo Family’s younger generation his cultivation insights, then entered the River of Time to obtain the origin of time and repair the Time Mirror. He secured part of the origin but was swept away by a time surge after the mirror fell dormant, leaving him stranded in an unknown era.

• Luo Yan gave Luo Tianlin, Luo Youyou, Luo Tianyuan, Luo Qing, and Luo Huaimu a notebook of his cultivation insights and offered to answer their questions.
• Luo Zongqi returned to the Luo Family, reported that Luo Yan was alive and intended to visit the Yaoguang Holy Land over Luo Yixian’s matter, and took the shattered Time Mirror back to him.
• Luo Yan pieced the Time Mirror together and realized the original owner had shortened his lifespan by attempting to forge an incomplete Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon.
• Luo Yan entered the River of Time and traveled upstream for centuries until he found and seized a portion of the origin of time.
• A time surge struck, the Time Mirror fell dormant, and Luo Yan was swept into the river’s historical turbulence.

Six thousand years in the past, Luo Yan brought Wei Yi to the Tianxuan Holy Land, hoping to learn Nine Secrets: Xing while keeping his true power hidden. Wei Yi passed the trial with peerless talent, and the elders competed to take him as a disciple as Luo Yan arranged to stay with him.

• Luo Yan traveled with Wei Yi to the Tianxuan Holy Land, intending to obtain Nine Secrets: Xing before the technique was lost.
• Wei Yi’s trial revealed peerless aptitude and potential, drawing the attention of powerful elders from the holy land.
• The elders offered Wei Yi their lineages and supreme arts, but he hid behind Luo Yan and asked whether becoming an immortal would help him find his parents.
• Luo Yan encouraged Wei Yi to accept their guidance and claimed he had found the boy after he became separated from his parents.
• Luo Yan said he wished to see the Saintess and asked to cultivate alongside Wei Yi, and the elders agreed while arguing over which lineage should claim the child.

Luo Yan gathered information inside Tianxuan Holy Land while searching for the Nine Secrets: Xing, and Wei Yi grew closer to uncovering Luo Yan’s secret mastery of time. The chapter left Wei Yi borrowing the Time Mirror to prove his innocence, while secretly planning to help Luo Yan meet the Tianxuan Saintess.

• Luo Yan joined the Tianxuan Saintess Pursuers Organization and identified the Scripture Pavilion, a thatched cottage, and the past Holy Lords’ palace as likely places to find the Nine Secrets: Xing.
• Luo Yan warned Wei Yi that strengthening his foundation in the Bitter Sea realm would help him advance further in cultivation.
• Wei Yi told Luo Yan he had sensed him use the power of time to age and kill a cultivator who had bullied him, but Luo Yan denied knowing anything about it.
• Wei Yi asked to borrow the Time Mirror to prove he had not stolen anything at a Holy Land marketplace, and Luo Yan lent it to him.
• Wei Yi promised not to reveal Luo Yan’s secret, then privately resolved to help him meet the Tianxuan Saintess.

Wei Yi lent Little Madman the Time Mirror, which revealed the Saintess beating him over her missing Ten-Thousand-Face Flower. Little Madman planned to use the mirror to identify the real thief and gain leverage over her, but the mirror drained his power and he could not stop it.

• Wei Yi brought the Time Mirror to Little Madman, who warned him to keep quiet because he feared the Saintess would suppress him.
• Little Madman activated the cracked mirror, which drained his magical power and replayed events from three days earlier.
• The mirror showed the Saintess accusing Little Madman of stealing her Ten-Thousand-Face Flower and beating him despite his protests.
• Little Madman claimed he would use the mirror to find the real thief and expose the Saintess's false accusation, while Wei Yi doubted his plan.
• Little Madman failed to turn off the mirror, which drained him again before the recording ended with him swearing he had not stolen the flower.

Luo Yan considered the Immortal Medicines he might pursue and sent an indirect warning to a Tianxuan Holy Land woman about the danger of attacking the Desolate Forbidden Zone. When Min Tian’s companions demanded his Time Mirror, Luo Yan refused and caused Min Tian to rapidly age, leaving him furious and terrified.

• Luo Yan thought through the locations of several unguarded Immortal Medicines and worried that visiting Earth would require him to face the beings in the Desolate Forbidden Zone.
• Luo Yan found a paper boat carrying a Tianxuan Holy Land woman’s concern about her sect’s planned attack, wrote a warning on it, and returned it to the stream.
• Several men confronted Luo Yan and demanded that he sell the ancient mirror Wei Yi had given him, claiming their young master wanted it.
• Luo Yan refused to sell the Time Mirror and threatened the men, but Min Tian mocked him and insulted Wei Yi.
• Min Tian suddenly aged, saw his altered reflection in the stream, and accused Luo Yan of doing it.

Luo Yan killed Min Wen, then learned that Yun Yue and the Tianxuan Holy Land’s elders were testing him amid their search for the Road to Immortality. After Wei Yi returned with the Time Mirror, Luo Yan learned it had revealed the Ten-Thousand-Face Flower’s thief and prompted the elders’ probe.

• Luo Yan killed Min Wen with one punch and warned Min Wen’s companions that they were unworthy of speaking for Yun Yue.
• Li Huayi warned Luo Yan that Yun Yue was powerful, and Luo Yan said someone was testing the waters.
• Yun Yue arrived but abruptly restrained his anger and ordered his followers to leave, while onlookers speculated about Luo Yan’s origins.
• Luo Yan overheard elders discuss their coming expedition into the Desolate Forbidden Zone with Tianxuan’s Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon and realized its absence could leave the holy land vulnerable.
• Wei Yi returned injured with the Time Mirror, and Luo Yan learned that Wei Yi and Little Madman had used it to identify a Daoist-robed fat man as the thief of the Ten-Thousand-Face Flower.
• An elder had seen the Time Mirror’s replay and arranged the probe of Luo Yan, then intervened when Yun Yue nearly fought him.

Wei Yi dragged Luo Yan to help the Tianxuan Saintess find the thief who stole her Ten-Thousand-Face Flower, whom Luo Yan identified as Duan De. At the Saintess’s residence, Luo Yan clashed with Fang Jin of the Yaoguang Holy Land and left him gravely weakened, then wondered why a deadly attack had triggered the Heavenly Dao’s attention.

• Wei Yi told Luo Yan he had promised the Tianxuan Saintess that Luo Yan would help find the thief, and Luo Yan recognized the thief as Duan De.
• Wei Yi dragged Luo Yan to the Tianxuan Saintess’s residence, where many young talents had gathered to offer help and recover treasures they claimed the thief had stolen.
• The Tianxuan Saintess selected a dozen prodigies to assist her and sent the other visitors away.
• Fang Jin, a Holy Son candidate from Yaoguang, challenged Luo Yan and attacked him after Wei Yi objected to his treatment of them.
• Luo Yan dispersed Fang Jin’s divine art and used a mysterious technique to drain his vitality, but spared him when a terrifying gaze descended from the heavens.

Luo Yan used the Time Mirror to reveal that Duan De had stolen the Ten-Thousand-Face Flower and other treasures from the Tianxuan Saintess's medicinal garden. After receiving a great medicine as thanks, Luo Yan left with Wei Yi, while Duan De remained hidden somewhere in the holy land.

• Fang Jin threatened Luo Yan, but the Tianxuan Saintess revealed Luo Yan was her junior brother and forced Fang Jin to back down.
• The Tianxuan Saintess invited Luo Yan to find the thief in her medicinal garden, and Luo Yan used the Time Mirror to project the past.
• The projection showed Duan De stealing peaches from the flat peach tree and taking the Ten-Thousand-Face Flower before escaping underground.
• Luo Yan used the Time Mirror to trace Duan De's route and told the Tianxuan Saintess that the disguised Daoist was hiding in the holy land.
• The Tianxuan Saintess offered Luo Yan a reward, and he took a thousand-year-old great medicine before leaving with Wei Yi.

Over two years, Wei Yi and Little Madman rose to prominence in Tianxuan Holy Land while Luo Yan waited for the Emperor Weapon to leave before searching the Scripture Pavilion for Nine Secrets: Xing. He failed to find it, and the holy land’s Great Saint suspected that it was the reason he had come.

• Two years passed as Wei Yi reached the Dao Palace Realm and Little Madman reached the peak of Dragon Transformation, earning renown alongside the Tianxuan Holy Son as the Three Heroes of Tianxuan.
• The Tianxuan Holy Lord and Ancestor Nanyang departed with the Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon amid rumors of a Road to Immortality beneath the Desolate Forbidden Zone.
• Luo Yan disguised himself and visited the Scripture Pavilion after its Saint King elder confirmed the Great Saint would not stop him while the Emperor Weapon was away.
• Luo Yan searched the pavilion’s seven floors but left disappointed when he failed to find Nine Secrets: Xing.
• The Scripture Pavilion elder and Tianxuan’s Great Saint watched Luo Yan, and the Great Saint suspected he had come seeking Nine Secrets: Xing.

Luo Yan discovered that the stone statue in the Thatched Cottage guarded Taihua’s Emperor Corpse and its growing Divine Spirit Thought. He exposed the thought’s attempt to escape and refused to release it, leaving Taihua trying to persuade him that they were allies.

• Luo Yan recorded Nine Secrets: Xing and recognized the statue as Taihua, an Ancient Great Emperor.
• The statue’s imprint told Luo Yan that Taihua had died after a primordial emperor ambushed him and that his corpse had produced a Divine Spirit Thought.
• Luo Yan realized the imprint’s master had changed and that the Divine Spirit Thought wanted him to spread news of the coffin so others might free it.
• Taihua’s evil thought declared its hatred of the primordial races and begged Luo Yan to release it, while cracks spread in the coffin beneath the cottage.
• Luo Yan refused and guessed that Taihua planned to start a Dark Turmoil to restore his strength; Taihua then tried to recruit him as a fellow Great Emperor.

Luo Yan repaired the Emperor Formation sealing Taihua Evil Thought in the statue, preventing the evil thought from escaping and becoming a future Forbidden Zone Supreme. Back on Brilliant Peak, he faced Yun Yue and Yun Shan as Yun Yue challenged Wei Yi to a fight.

• Luo Yan reinforced the Emperor Formation in the statue, restoring Taihua Great Emperor's mark and annihilating Taihua Evil Thought as the being in the coffin struggled to escape.
• The Tianxuan Holy Land's Great Saints mistook Luo Yan for a Quasi-Emperor and ordered everyone to stop investigating him.
• Luo Yan left the Thatched Cottage after obtaining Nine Secrets: Xing and returned to Brilliant Peak.
• Little Madman confronted Yun Yue over the ambush that had injured him and Wei Yi two years earlier, and Yun Yue challenged Wei Yi instead of Little Madman.
• Luo Yan appeared with Wei Yi and told Yun Shan not to interfere in their spar, causing Yun Shan to suspect Luo Yan was a Half-Saint or an old Saint.

Wei Yi prepared to fight Yun Yue despite the gap between their cultivation realms, while Luo Yan encouraged him to learn from the challenge. The Tianxuan Saintess invited Luo Yan to speak privately, then visited his cave abode and took several of his inventions.

• Disciples warned Wei Yi not to challenge Yun Yue, but Luo Yan urged him to fight and seek insight despite expecting him to lose.
• The Tianxuan Saintess arrived, agreed with Luo Yan's advice, and invited him to walk with her; she later privately asked him to accompany her at an ancestor's request.
• At Luo Yan's cave abode, the Saintess asked about his xiangqi board and explored his modern-style furnishings and inventions.
• Luo Yan explained his leather sofa and television, but the Saintess had already stored both in her divine repository.
• The Saintess headed for Luo Yan's Homemade Beverage Machine, and he offered to have Wei Yi deliver her a set of his creations.

Luo Yan showed the Tianxuan Saintess a vision of the Tianxuan Holy Land destroyed after attacking the Desolate Forbidden Zone, but the holy land still faced the temptation of the Road to Immortality. After Ancestor Nanyang returned with proof of the road, Great Saint Nanyang and the Saintess came to Brilliant Peak, leaving Luo Yan to ask whether the holy land had made its decision.

• Luo Yan showed the Tianxuan Saintess a future image of the Tianxuan Holy Land lying abandoned and explained that it had been destroyed after attacking a forbidden zone.
• The Tianxuan Saintess left with a heavy heart, while Luo Yan sensed that the Time Mirror was nearing completion and awaited the deity within it.
• Wei Yi lost his fight with Yun Yue, but his performance revealed the Three Heroes of Tianxuan's extraordinary talent, and Yun Shan told his son to respect Wei Yi.
• Three days later, Ancestor Nanyang returned wounded with the Emperor Weapon and confirmed that a Road to Immortality lay beneath the Desolate Forbidden Zone, stirring the holy land and drawing out its Living Fossils.
• Great Saint Nanyang arrived at Brilliant Peak with the Tianxuan Saintess, and Luo Yan asked if the holy land had made its decision.

Luo Yan revealed the Great Emperors beneath the forbidden zones, the existence of immortals, and the coming golden age as the Tianxuan Holy Land prepared to attack the Desolate Forbidden Zone. The Tianxuan Saintess, distressed that she could not stop the doomed expedition, begged Luo Yan to subdue her patriarch and offered herself to him.

• Patriarch Nanyang asked Luo Yan whether the Road to Immortality was worth pursuing, and Luo Yan revealed that Great Emperors still waited beneath the forbidden zones and that immortals existed.
• Luo Yan told Patriarch Nanyang that the Tianxuan Saintess could rival an Ancient Great Emperor and that the Ancient Emperors' descendants would return in six thousand years.
• The Tianxuan Holy Land announced plans to attack the Desolate Forbidden Zone in three years and secretly seal away disciples to preserve its legacy.
• Luo Yan recommended sealing away the Tianxuan Saint Son instead of Wei Yi, knowing that Wei Yi and Little Madman would survive and later aid Ye Fan.
• The Tianxuan Saintess visited Luo Yan in distress, lamented that she could not save her loved ones, and urged him to suppress the patriarch and stop the expedition.
• When Luo Yan refused to act, the Tianxuan Saintess clung to him and offered to be his from then on if he helped her.

Luo Yan refused to intervene as the Tianxuan Holy Land prepared to assault the Desolate Forbidden Zone, and the Tianxuan Saintess entered divine source, bitterly disappointed in him. The holy land’s forces attacked the forbidden zone and encountered more than a dozen powerful Desolate Slaves, raising fears of defeat.

• Over three years, Luo Yan and the Tianxuan Saintess became close confidants while the Tianxuan Holy Land prepared its assault.
• The Tianxuan Saintess accused Luo Yan of heartlessness and entered divine source, leaving a tear frozen on her cheek as she said she hated him.
• The old man from the Scripture Pavilion criticized Luo Yan for refusing to help the Saintess, but Luo Yan questioned whether he could have stopped the holy land’s plans.
• Ancestor Nanyang and the Tianxuan Holy Lord led more than ten thousand elders and disciples to the Desolate Forbidden Zone, using divine jade to restrain its power of time.
• The Tianxuan forces charged into the forbidden zone and found more than a dozen Desolate Slaves who had once been renowned rulers and peerless experts.

Luo Yan revealed himself as a Quasi-Emperor from another era and tried to stop Tianxuan Holy Land’s invasion of the Desolate Forbidden Zone, where Huang destroyed their Emperor Weapon. The survivors charged toward the Road to Immortality, while Luo Yan preserved the disciples and elders in a drop of divine water and returned to his own time as history began erasing him.

• The Taihua Emperor Scripture awakened, but Huang descended from the abyss and shattered it with a single palm, sealing the realm and trapping the invaders.
• Luo Yan used the power of time, and Huang recognized him as a man who did not belong to this era and told him to return to his own time.
• After the Desolate Slaves attacked, a Saint and several ancestors led the surviving Tianxuan Holy Land cultivators toward the Road to Immortality beneath the abyss.
• Outside the forbidden zone, Luo Yan gave the Scripture Pavilion elder a stone containing strands of time from the holy land’s disciples and elders, preserving a possible way to rescue them in the future.
• Luo Yan walked downstream along the River of Time, and the elder watched as heaven and earth erased every trace of him from history.