Chapter Summaries

The Azure Emperor warned the Great Saints that he had returned to challenge the Stone Emperor, then explained the realms beyond Great Emperor and the existence of the Immortal Domain. His quarrel with Luo Yan exposed that Luo Yan was speaking through a puppet body, and Luo Tianlin accidentally announced it to the crowd before the Luo Family Divine Body appeared.

• The Azure Emperor told the assembled Great Saints to relay his threat to the Stone Emperor in the Undying Mountain and warned them not to interfere.
• Gai Jiuyou asked why the Azure Emperor remained alive at full strength, and the Azure Emperor described the path beyond Great Emperor and the Red Dust Immortal realm.
• The Azure Emperor confirmed that the Immortal Domain existed and recounted how a man connected to the Ruthless Great Emperor had become a True Immortal there before returning.
• The Azure Emperor and Luo Yan traded accusations and insults until the Azure Emperor demanded that Luo Yan face him in his true body.
• Luo Tianlin overheard the revelation and shouted that the Luo Family Ancestor was not present in his true body, drawing attention throughout the Moon-Viewing Tower.
• The Luo Family Divine Body appeared and angrily called out Luo Tianlin.

Luo Yixian fought the Azure Emperor at the Saint King level while Luo Tianlin boasted about surviving his earlier blow, and Luo Yan fled into seclusion. Ten years later, Ye Fan found himself wanted on the Human Race Ancient Road, while a future Luo Yan learned about Ye Qingxian’s powerful family and met the Black Emperor and the Female Emperor’s new Dao Fruit.

• Luo Yixian challenged the Azure Emperor to a fight at equal cultivation, and their battle astonished the gathered Great Saints.
• Luo Tianlin learned that Wan Qing was the Azure Emperor and proudly claimed his survival of an earlier blow proved he had the makings of a Heavenly Emperor; Luo Yan then left to enter seclusion.
• Ten years later, Ye Fan and Dragon Horse reached the Human Race First City and discovered a wanted notice for Ye Fan, issued as a trial by the Luo Family Ancestor.
• Ye Fan heard that the Azure Emperor was alive and had restored Gai Jiuyou’s Dao foundation, and he silently thanked Uncle Luo for the trouble caused by the wanted notice.
• In the future, Luo Yan learned from Ye Qingxian that her grandfather Ye Fan had reached the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm and that the Black Emperor had raised her.
• The Black Emperor arrived with the Female Emperor’s new Dao Fruit and offered Ye Qingxian a pile of Immortal artifacts before turning his attention to Luo Yan.

Luo Yan befriended Xiao Nannan in the Daoist Temple while Black Emperor grew suspicious of his mysterious origins. Heavenly Emperor Ye revealed that Luo Yan had fallen from the river of time and that an unknown powerful being had hidden his history; the chapter ended with Xiao Nannan saying she felt close to Luo Yan and wanted to stay beside him forever.

• Xiao Nannan protected Luo Yan from Black Emperor, who threatened him and warned him not to harm anyone in the Daoist Temple.
• Black Emperor visited Heavenly Emperor Ye, who said Luo Yan had fallen from the river of time and that an unknown being had concealed his origins.
• Heavenly Emperor Ye told Black Emperor that Luo Yan was a variable tied to someone altering history, and ordered him to keep watching the child.
• Black Emperor learned that Heavenly Emperor Ye was nearing the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm as the three powerful figures prepared for the approaching Dark Reckoning Day.
• Xiao Nannan gave Luo Yan medicinal pills as candy, and he eagerly ate them while Ye Qingxian objected.
• Xiao Nannan said she did not know whether she had met Luo Yan before, but felt close to him and wanted to stay by his side forever.

Luo Yan tried to gain access to Thought Dao Cliff, then ingratiated himself with Ye Qingxian and the veteran guards to obtain rare fish for a meal. The Black Emperor warned Ye Qingxian to watch Luo Yan closely, while Luo Yan began cooking with powerful treasures and ingredients.

• Luo Yan annoyed Ye Qingxian by insulting Ye Hei, and Ye Hei caught him with a vine before Xiao Nannan mistook the scene for a magic trick.
• Luo Yan wrote in his diary that he planned to escape Heavenly Emperor Ye's Daoist Temple and went to Thought Dao Cliff, where Wu Ming and Wu Jiang refused him entry on Ye Qingxian's orders.
• Ye Qingxian returned with Xiao Nannan and agreed to let Luo Yan cook, so she summoned Wu Ming and Wu Jiang to spear rare fish from the lake for him.
• Luo Yan praised the veteran guards until they fled, and Ye Qingxian punched him for continuing his flattery and insults.
• The Black Emperor warned Ye Qingxian not to act rashly around Luo Yan and told her to keep him away from Xiao Nannan.
• Luo Yan prepared the fish in the kitchen using a True Immortal Artifact knife and a refined divine fire.

After eating Golden-Scaled Bloodfish, Luo Yan rapidly reached the Other Shore stage and learned that he possessed a Temporal Divine Body. He advanced his Grass Character Sword Art, then traded jokes with Ye Qingxian after she tried to pass herself off as a reincarnated powerhouse.

• Luo Yan ate a slice of Golden-Scaled Bloodfish, opened his bitter sea, and reached the Other Shore stage before stopping to consolidate his cultivation.
• Ye Qingxian gave Luo Yan a token to move around part of the Daoist Temple, and she and Xiao Nannan ate the cooked fish with him.
• Ye Qingxian explained that Luo Yan's Temporal Divine Body could account for his rapid cultivation, and Luo Yan connected the constitution to the missing Time Mirror fragments.
• At Thought Dao Cliff, Luo Yan failed to comprehend the Heavenly Emperor Fist but brought his Grass Character Sword Art to great accomplishment and used it to cleave a small mountain.
• Ye Qingxian used her Martial Dao Heavenly Eye to identify Luo Yan's sword art and pretended to be the reincarnated Profound Immortal Maiden.
• Luo Yan claimed to be An Lan and recited grand boasts, then Ye Qingxian realized he had fooled her and angrily confronted him.

Luo Yan agreed to become Ye Qingxian’s underling in exchange for learning the Heavenly Emperor Fist, while an unseen intervention altered their contract. Five years later, Luo Yan entered the Heavenly Court on an errand as preparations began for Ye Qingxian’s first birthday banquet, and he heard that an unidentified thief had been plaguing the court.

• Ye Qingxian offered to exchange the Heavenly Emperor Fist for a three-hundred-year agreement, and Luo Yan signed it using the name Luo Tianlin.
• Two mysterious beings secretly replaced the contract with another, and one of them urged the Little Brat in the Daoist Temple to escape fate and become a true living being.
• Ye Qingxian declared Luo Yan her underling and promised to teach him the Heavenly Emperor Fist, while making him massage her legs first.
• Five years later, Luo Yan presented Ye Qingxian’s Token at the Southern Heavenly Gate and was admitted as her trusted aide.
• A Heavenly General told Luo Yan that thieves had been stealing things from the Heavenly Court and that even Immortal King Song could not discover the culprit’s origins.

Luo Yan sneaked into the Heavenly Court’s Flat Peach Garden to steal Divine Spring water and peaches, but escaped after Immortal King Song intervened and Big Black Dog bit him. Great Emperor Wushi used Luo Yan’s flesh to trace their karmic connection through time and awoke in a vision of his childhood with Queen Mother of the West.

• Luo Yan learned about the Heavenly Court’s Immortal Kings and entered the Flat Peach Garden to locate the Immortal Peach Tree.
• Luo Yan found the tree but could not cross the time and space protecting it, so he collected Divine Spring water and stole peaches from nearby trees.
• An old Heavenly General called for Immortal King Song, and Luo Yan fled using an Immortal Talisman before Big Black Dog bit him.
• Big Black Dog brought Luo Yan’s flesh to Great Emperor Wushi, who used the Wushi Bell to investigate their karmic connection.
• Great Emperor Wushi entered a vision of his childhood, where Queen Mother of the West told him that Uncle Li was waiting for him to eat.

Great Emperor Wushi met Li Chui, who agreed to teach him cultivation and gave him nine divine patterns linked to the Great Dao of Time. Wushi realized Li Chui had come for his mother, but when Heaven attacked the Queen Mother of the West, he turned to Li Chui as her only possible aid.

• The Queen Mother of the West introduced Great Emperor Wushi to Li Chui, who said he was a True Immortal from a world beyond the Shrouding the Heavens universe.
• The Queen Mother of the West left to confront Heaven, and Li Chui began teaching Wushi about the Dao Palace Secret Realm.
• Li Chui engraved nine divine patterns connected to the Great Dao of Time on immortal tear green gold and gave it to Wushi.
• Wushi asked why Li Chui had come, and Li Chui admitted he had come for the Queen Mother of the West and a matter concerning her future.
• Heaven attacked, and Wushi remembered that one of its Supremes had once damaged his mother's Dao foundation.
• Wushi realized he could not help his mother himself and looked to Li Chui for help against Heaven's Supreme.

Li Chui joined the Queen Mother of the West against the Supremes of the Life Forbidden Zone Heaven, revealing that he was a body-refining Mortal True Immortal who had reached the Great Emperor realm in another world. After a Supreme insulted the Queen Mother and the fallen great accomplishment sacred body, Li Chui struck him and the wounded Supreme underwent ultimate sublimation to fight back.

• Great Emperor Wushi tried to persuade Li Chui to help his mother, and Li Chui agreed after Wushi appealed to his duty to protect the Human Race.
• Li Chui launched a powerful punch at the Life Forbidden Zone Heaven, gravely wounding a Supreme and alarming the other forbidden-zone beings.
• Li Chui explained that he had wandered into another world and cultivated a body-refining path to become a Mortal True Immortal.
• Seven Supremes emerged from Heaven, and the Queen Mother of the West joined Li Chui while holding the Western Emperor Pagoda.
• After a Supreme mocked the Queen Mother and the great accomplishment sacred body, Li Chui struck him and vowed to avenge the fallen hero.
• The wounded Supreme underwent ultimate sublimation and returned to the Great Emperor realm to fight Li Chui.

Li Chui killed a Supreme who had undergone ultimate sublimation, ending the threat of dark turmoil and becoming known as Divine Light Great Emperor. Great Emperor Wushi realized his apparent dream might be a return to the past that could lead him to Quasi-Immortal Emperor, and later agreed to be sealed until a future era before rushing off to cover up a forgotten hunt for Uncle Li.

• Li Chui summoned the Emperor Weapon Return, fought a Supreme who had undergone ultimate sublimation, and returned victorious despite his injuries.
• Great Emperor Wushi merged with his younger self and realized that his vivid dream might be a real return to the past that could help him reach Quasi-Immortal Emperor.
• Li Chui and the Queen Mother of the West suppressed the dark turmoil, and the people named him Divine Light Great Emperor.
• Ten years later, Great Emperor Wushi agreed to his mother's plan to seal him until a later era, then asked her what she thought of Uncle Li.
• Great Emperor Wushi remembered that he had forgotten Uncle Li's request to hunt an Ancient Species and hurried out to buy a carcass.

Wushi endured years of punishing training under Li Chui while investigating why he had entered the Queen Mother of the West's life, but found no clues. Eight years after Wushi's arrival, Li Chui proposed making him Yaochi Holy Land's first Holy Maiden, revealing that he knew Wushi had drugged his tea.

• The Queen Mother of the West exposed Wushi's plan to fake his assignment, and Li Chui carried him off for three hours of training.
• Wushi recovered, praised the gains in his body cultivation, then secretly searched Li Chui's room with a bell that replayed the past and found only his rigid daily routine.
• Wushi slipped Soul-Bewildering Powder into Li Chui's teapot, then left without finding evidence about Li Chui's influence on his future self.
• Three years later, the Queen Mother of the West agreed to appoint a nominal disciple as Yaochi Holy Land's successor, since none of the candidates seemed ready.
• Li Chui proposed making Wushi the first Holy Maiden, and the elders approved the idea; when the Queen Mother of the West suspected a trap, Li Chui revealed that Wushi had drugged his tea.

Wushi was forced to become Yaochi Holy Land’s first Saintess, and his accidental accusation that the Divine Light Great Emperor loved the Queen Mother of the West sparked rumors he struggled to suppress. The Queen Mother of the West prepared to enter Heaven to retrieve Wushi’s father’s body, while the Divine Light Great Emperor unexpectedly returned to Yaochi.

• Aunt Yuan guilted Wushi into dressing as a woman and taking the Saintess position, then revealed that the Queen Mother of the West and others already knew his identity.
• Wushi blamed Uncle Li for staying in Yaochi Holy Land with designs on his mother, and the Queen Mother of the West and elders overheard him when they arrived at his quarters.
• Rumors spread that the Divine Light Great Emperor was secretly in love with the Queen Mother of the West, so Wushi warned Yaochi cultivators to stop discussing them and the gossip became taboo.
• Wushi visited his mother, who told him she planned to enter Heaven and retrieve his father’s body; he urged her to ask Uncle Li for help.
• The Divine Light Great Emperor revealed that the Queen Mother of the West had already asked him to accompany her, and Wushi was startled to find him relaxing in his mother’s residence.

Wushi endured years of training and, while disguised as the Yaochi Saintess, was forced to appear before the world's powers to calm their fears about the Forbidden Zones. After a Dark Turmoil erupted again, he led Yaochi's forces toward the crisis as the Queen Mother of the West and Li Chui faced the threat.

• The Queen Mother of the West explained that Li Chui had come to Yaochi at her request, and Wushi resumed grueling cultivation under his guidance.
• After more than a decade of seclusion, Wushi learned that the Queen Mother of the West and Li Chui had entered a Life Forbidden Zone again, while Aunt Yuan urged him to represent them before the powers of the world.
• Wushi appeared as the veiled Yaochi Saintess at a gathering, endured the Heavenly Prodigies' attention, and delivered a speech that eased fears of another Dark Turmoil.
• Wushi fainted after hearing rumors about his many would-be suitors, and he spent the following twenty years avoiding visitors and killing thieves who tried to steal his belongings.
• An explosion erupted from a Forbidden Zone, the Western Emperor Pagoda flew toward it, and Wushi led Yaochi's experts in pursuit as the world feared a new Dark Turmoil.

Great Emperor Wushi awoke from a dreamlike past in which he had been the Yaochi Holy Land’s Holy Maiden and charged into a battle at a Life Forbidden Zone. His experience led him to break through to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm, and he and Heavenly Emperor Ye began investigating whether powerful beings had recreated their history; Wushi also realized he might have a younger brother.

• Yaochi Holy Land and other powers mobilized against the Life Forbidden Zone, where Queen Mother of the West confronted the Bone Banner wielder and the battle began.
• Wushi told the Yaochi elders he would fake his death and seal himself away, then charged into the forbidden zone as the Bone Banner wielder attacked.
• Great Emperor Wushi awoke in the Heavenly Court with a Quasi-Immortal Emperor’s aura, drawing congratulations from its inhabitants and Heavenly Emperor Ye.
• Wushi showed Heavenly Emperor Ye a vision of a young man awakening from divine source and sweeping through a later age, and they suspected a being beyond their realm had altered or recreated the past.
• Wushi told Black Emperor that his breakthrough came from experiencing a past that was both a dream and not a dream, connected to a piece of meat Black Emperor had brought back.
• Wushi remembered that he seemed to have a younger brother, leaving Black Emperor confused by his displeased expression.

Great Emperor Wushi tracked down Luo Yan, whom he believed was his younger brother, and beat him after Luo Yan refused to acknowledge him. Luo Yan returned to Ye Qingxian for help, but after she recognized the Jade Talisman and hinted at Wushi's standing, Luo Yan learned his assailant was a Quasi-Immortal King and still wanted revenge.

• Black Emperor questioned why Great Emperor Wushi had never mentioned a younger brother, and Wushi said he had only just learned about Luo Yan and angrily blamed Uncle Li.
• Luo Yan sold five hundred flat peaches at the Black Market and traded part of his payment for two Realm-Breaking Pills.
• Great Emperor Wushi confronted Luo Yan outside the Black Market, insisted they were brothers, and beat him when Luo Yan rejected him before leaving a Jade Talisman.
• Luo Yan returned to Ye Qingxian battered, asked her to avenge him, and received healing medicine that quickly restored him.
• Ye Qingxian recognized the Jade Talisman and revealed that Luo Yan's attacker was a Quasi-Immortal King, but she refused to identify him.
• Luo Yan cursed about how difficult revenge would be, and Ye Qingxian was surprised that he still wanted it.

Luo Yan admitted to selling thousands of flat peaches he had taken from the Flat Peach Garden, and Ye Qingxian agreed to keep quiet if he shared the proceeds and took her on his next operation. After Great Emperor Wushi broke through to Quasi-Immortal Emperor, Ye Qingxian brought Luo Yan and Xiao Nannan to visit him, while Luo Yan tried to deflect questions about Nannan's connection to him.

• Ye Qingxian sniffed out Luo Yan's visit to the Flat Peach Garden and pressed him until he admitted selling ten thousand flat peaches for immortal crystals and Realm-Breaking Pills.
• Ye Qingxian agreed not to expose Luo Yan if he gave her half the immortal crystals and took her along on his next operation.
• Luo Yan's mention of the Weird Clan drew a terrifying gaze, while Heavenly Emperor Ye and Great Emperor Wushi watched the Darkness Land beyond the Boundary Sea and discussed the secret they had drawn out of him.
• Ye Qingxian asked to join Luo Yan's next operation, and Xiao Nannan called her a pervert.
• The next morning, Ye Qingxian told Luo Yan that Great Emperor Wushi had reached Quasi-Immortal Emperor and said her grandfather wanted them to visit him together.
• On the way, Ye Qingxian questioned why Xiao Nannan treated Luo Yan differently, and Xiao Nannan declared that she and Luo Yan were family and would never part.

Luo Tianlin brought Ye Qingxian and Nannan to Great Emperor Wushi’s congratulatory ceremony, where he loudly introduced himself as Ye Qingxian’s devoted lackey and provoked the Immortal Domain’s Heavenly Prodigies. As the gathering erupted around him, Heavenly Emperor Ye and the others discussed signs that their spacetime had been extrapolated and that someone had severed the River of Time.

• Nannan told Ye Qingxian that she liked Older Brother Luo Yan best, startling Luo Tianlin with her knowledge of his real name.
• Ye Qingxian took Luo Tianlin and Nannan to Great Emperor Wushi’s ceremony on a special paper crane, while Luo Tianlin kept Nannan awake so the Female Emperor would not emerge to find him.
• Luo Tianlin introduced Ye Qingxian as the Heavenly Court’s little princess and himself as her loyal lackey, drawing the attention of the entire gathering.
• Heavenly Emperor Ye, Great Emperor Wushi, the Female Emperor, and other experts sensed a connection between Luo Tianlin and their past selves, while Duan De could not trace his history.
• Heavenly Emperor Ye said their spacetime had been extrapolated and was nurturing an unknown variable, and Black Emperor reported that someone had severed the River of Time.
• Luo Tianlin invited the Heavenly Prodigies to become Ye Qingxian’s colleagues and called them future running dogs, leaving them furious and Ye Qingxian dismayed by her public debut.

At Ye Qingxian’s celebration, Luo Yan tried to choose her future underlings by boasting about her potential and insulting the gathered prodigies. His claims persuaded Quasi-Immortal King Ancestor Tian Ni to become her mount and Number Two Lackey, while the story left the ceremony about to begin and Great Emperor Wushi preparing to share his cultivation insights.

• Luo Yan declared himself Ye Qingxian’s Number One Lackey and told her the gathered cultivators were unfit to serve her because his insults had enraged them.
• Luo Yan praised Ye Qingxian’s future cultivation and powerful backing, convincing some observers that she might one day lead a faction supported by several Immortal Emperors.
• Ye Qingxian tried to shield Luo Yan when Quasi-Immortal King Ancestor Tian Ni approached, but Tian Ni offered himself to serve as her mount and guide.
• Luo Yan accepted pills from Tian Ni and recommended that Ye Qingxian take him as her mount, and Ye Qingxian instead respectfully invited Tian Ni to stay by her side.
• Tian Ni agreed to follow Ye Qingxian as her Number Two Lackey, leaving his clan’s young girl distraught.
• Heavenly Emperor Ye and the others reacted to Luo Yan’s shamelessness as the grand ceremony approached, and Great Emperor Wushi offered to share his insights into breaking through to Quasi-Immortal Emperor.

During Great Emperor Wushi’s discourse on the Dao, Luo Yan used his temporal divine body to comprehend the Time Scripture’s Fourth Secret Art and resonated with the River of Time. The river swallowed him, prompting Heavenly Emperor Ye and Great Emperor Wushi to search for him.

• Luo Yan insulted the Female Emperor and then frantically apologized, while the Heavenly Court’s elders and Ye Qingxian watched his outburst.
• Ye Qingxian explained that her courtyard’s immortal blue stone had turned into ordinary bluestone because she had failed to maintain it.
• Great Emperor Wushi began his discourse on the great Dao of time, and Luo Yan sat in a corner to listen.
• Luo Yan’s temporal divine body let him rapidly comprehend the Time Scripture’s Fourth Secret Art and summon a projection of the River of Time.
• The River of Time swept Luo Yan away, and Heavenly Emperor Ye punched through the void while Great Emperor Wushi suppressed the river and searched upstream for him.

Great Emperor Wushi and Heavenly Emperor Ye learned that the Consciousness of the River of Time had acted through a bargain with Desolate Heavenly Emperor, then withdrew from the river. Luo Yan awoke at Quasi-Immortal King great perfection, gave Golden-Winged Little Peng King a Kunpeng Secret Art, and drew Duan De into his service with a promised cultivation method.

• Great Emperor Wushi uncovered the Consciousness of the River of Time’s plan to escape its fate, and the young man warned him and Heavenly Emperor Ye that a great enemy race would arrive soon.
• The Consciousness of the River of Time revealed that Desolate Heavenly Emperor had cut off the river to save the Myriad Worlds, then returned to the river as Wushi and Ye abandoned their attempt to probe upstream.
• Duan De prepared to bury Luo Yan for his inheritance, but Luo Yan awoke and revealed that he had reached great perfection in the Quasi-Immortal King realm.
• Luo Yan examined fragments of the Time Mirror and resolved to find the figure connected to them, while Duan De gave up his shovel and denied intending to bury Luo Yan.
• Luo Yan granted Golden-Winged Little Peng King an incomplete Kunpeng Secret Art, and Golden-Winged Little Peng King set out to challenge the prodigies of the world.
• Luo Yan offered Duan De a complete Quasi-Immortal King-level Tribulation-Transcending Heavenly Art, and Duan De immediately knelt and declared himself Luo Yan’s lackey.