Chapter Summaries

Luo Yan and the Azure Emperor fought the awakening dark forces, while the Time Mirror awakened and joined Luo Yan against three Quasi-Immortal King corpses. The corpses learned that the world around them was only an illusion created by the Mystic Emperor, who had trapped them there until Luo Yan arrived.

• The Azure Emperor used the Desolate Pagoda to absorb and purify dark matter, awakening three Quasi-Immortal King corpses that sought to seize it.
• Evening God saw the Time Mirror awaken and fly out of Heavenly Outer Mystic Mountain, then pursued it.
• Luo Yan fought the three corpses with Immortal King arts and learned that the Mystic Emperor had fled into a battlefield after being gravely wounded by them.
• A corpse used the Heaven-Waving Divine Banner against Luo Yan, but the Time Mirror arrived and tore through the banner's veil.
• Luo Yan and the Time Mirror told the corpses that their world had been destroyed and that the Mystic Emperor had recreated it with the Heaven-Deceiving Art to trap them.

Luo Yan defeated the three Quasi-Immortal Kings, then was swept through the River of Time into the Dharma-Ending Era of the Immortal Ancient Era and exiled to the Border Wasteland. He arrived at the Primordial Imperial City, where he planned to earn merit and establish himself in the garrison camp.

• The Time Mirror revealed that the Mystic Emperor had used the Evening God and an elaborate illusion to deceive the three Quasi-Immortal Kings, and the Evening God accepted the truth before charging into battle.
• Luo Yan fought the three Quasi-Immortal Kings with the Heavenly Emperor Fist and Self-Transforming Freedom Art, nearly defeating them before dark creatures intervened.
• Luo Yan woke on a boat in the River of Time, traveled toward the future, and was carried back upstream after a chaos sword severed the river.
• Luo Yan and the Time Mirror realized they had arrived in the Immortal Ancient Era, where a guard ordered their group exiled to the Border Wasteland.
• Chen Huai assigned Luo Yan and the other convicted cultivators to repair the Emperor Pass by carrying stellar remains, explaining that merit could earn them freedom and access to the city.
• Luo Yan chose to remain in the garrison camp, hoping to earn a minor officer's position and observe the Immortal Kings of the era.

Ji Zi and Duan De reported that Luo Yan had apparently died after fighting three Quasi-Immortal Kings, prompting the Luo Family to open his coffin to learn the truth. Luo Feng awakened Luo Yan’s residual consciousness, revealing that the Ancestor was still alive.

• Luo Yixian received word that Luo Yan was in serious trouble and urged Ye Fan to continue toward the final trial instead of returning with her.
• Ji Zi and Duan De told the Luo Family that Luo Yan had fought three Dark Creatures at the Quasi-Immortal King realm and that his aura had vanished after the battle.
• Luo Yixian proposed opening Luo Yan’s coffin, and Luo Feng agreed after the gathered cultivators warned that the Ancestor’s fate concerned the entire universe.
• Luo Feng entered the ancestral hall and tried to awaken Luo Yan, who answered from the coffin and explained that only a wisp of his residual consciousness remained in his body.

Luo Yan woke from seclusion and plotted to use his supposed death to lure the forbidden zones into attacking, while Luo Feng and Li Qingyue helped maintain the deception. Twenty years later, the forbidden zones had stayed quiet, and Luo Yan was revealed to have been alive all along; Li Qingyue asked when his main body would return so they could practice her new Dual Cultivation Method.

• Luo Yan told Luo Feng he was recovering from his injuries and proposed using the scheme to draw out and destroy unruly life forbidden zones.
• Li Qingyue arrived at the Luo Family estate, believed Luo Yan had fallen, and left in tears after looking into the coffin.
• The Forbidden Zone Supremes suspected Luo Yan was faking his death and argued over whether to test the claim, while an Emperor from the Primordial Era said they were too afraid to act.
• Twenty years passed without the forbidden zones or other races attacking the Human Race, as rumors about Luo Yan’s mysterious history spread.
• Luo Yan played a game with Li Qingyue and complained that his enemies had not taken the bait; Li Qingyue asked when his main body would return for her new Dual Cultivation Method.

Luo Yan spent decades serving at Emperor Pass and mastered the Heavenly Emperor Fist after hundreds of thousands of years of accelerated contemplation, while continuing to conceal his true strength in battle. After welcoming a new group of criminals to his camp, he was summoned by the camp commander, who again asked whether he would enter the city.

• Luo Yan drank with Chen Huai and reflected on the coming battle and Shi Hao's expected arrival.
• Luo Yan used his time-altering technique to spend 300,000 years comprehending the Heavenly Emperor Fist and finally mastered it, though he had only partially understood the Self-Transforming Freedom Art.
• During the next invasion, Luo Yan kept his strength hidden, prompting Emperor Pass's experts to decide that he should enter the outer city after the battle.
• Luo Yan welcomed a new group of criminals, explained their chance to earn merit under his command, and reviewed the camp rules.
• The camp commander summoned Luo Yan and asked whether he had decided to enter the city.

Luo Yan refused a place inside Emperor Pass, met Ye Qingxian and discovered a contract tied to changing her life, then prepared to march to the Great Gobi. As the army set out, he sensed the arrival of someone familiar.

• Luo Yan rejected the offer to enter Emperor Pass and learned that he would head to the Great Gobi in two months.
• Important figures in Emperor Pass discussed Luo Yan’s refusal and warned one another not to provoke him after suspecting he was a True Immortal.
• Ye Qingxian visited the Stone tribe and met Luo Yan, who identified himself as her Number One Lackey from another era.
• Luo Yan and Ye Qingxian examined a Great Dao contract bearing their names, and Luo Yan realized he had to protect her before she was born.
• Luo Yan reasoned that the Desolate Heavenly Emperor’s fate remained fixed, then marched with the Thirty-Seventh Camp toward the Great Gobi.
• Luo Yan sensed a familiar aura approaching as the army departed Emperor Pass.

Shi Hao recognized Uncle Luo as an immensely powerful Undying Being who defended the Stone brothers from insults in Emperor City, then reunited with Ye Qingxian. Elsewhere, Luo Yan led new recruits through a World Gate beyond Emperor Pass for a military trial.

• Shi Hao and the Stone brothers were mocked as descendants of sin blood, and Wang Long River and Gu Mingdao disparaged their clan.
• Uncle Luo appeared as an Undying Being infinitely close to a King, broke through Emperor City's defenses, and crushed the cultivator who had insulted Stone.
• Wang Long River, Gu Mingdao, and others apologized as Uncle Luo warned that he would destroy the clans of anyone who spoke against Stone again.
• Ye Qingxian arrived to receive Shi Hao, and he told her that Uncle Luo resembled an elder who had left a life-saving mark on him.
• Luo Yan and the new recruits gathered with other forces at an altar, which opened a World Gate to send them beyond Emperor Pass for a trial.

Luo Yan and the army left Emperor Pass, crossed a blood-red tributary of Yellow Springs, and reached the Heavenly Abyss, which threatened to draw him in. After the Time Mirror concealed his immortal nature, the army spotted hostile creatures ahead and prepared for battle.

• Luo Yan and the army left Emperor Pass and saw the desolate battlefield beyond the Chaos Sea.
• Luo Yan approached Yellow Springs, crushed a vengeful soul, and found nothing unusual in the river.
• The army reached the Heavenly Abyss, and Luo Yan felt its pull while the Time Mirror shielded him from its notice.
• Luo Yan discovered that the Time Mirror had secretly absorbed Great Emperor Wushi's Time Law and threatened to dismantle it if it failed to protect him.
• The army spotted hostile creatures ahead, and a great knight ordered the troops to form ranks for battle.

Luo Yan revealed that he was an Undying Being who could enter the battlefield beneath the Heavenly Abyss, then fought off a Foreign Domain Undying Being and attacked the enemy Supremes. The chapter left Luo Yan slaughtering the Foreign Domain’s top fighters in the Starry Firmament.

• Luo Yan watched the Nine Heavens Legion fight as the Foreign Domain completed and activated its formation to damage the Heavenly Abyss.
• The Peerless Grand Formation collapsed, and the Heavenly Abyss began swallowing the Foreign Domain army’s valuable materials and soldiers.
• A Foreign Domain Undying Being attacked to retrieve the immortal gold, but Luo Yan blocked him with an Immortal Cauldron and drove him back in the Starry Firmament.
• Luo Yan joined Meng Tianzheng and the other Supremes, then explained that he was an exception who could enter the battlefield beneath the Heavenly Abyss.
• Luo Yan attacked the fleeing Foreign Domain Supremes, killing several with his fists and the large green cauldron.

Luo Yan escaped an Immortal King's attack in the Great Desert, and An Lan's attempt to divine his origins and future was blocked by powerful figures from the future. Back at Emperor Pass, Luo Yan left the military camp for the Stone tribe, while Ye Qingxian learned from her grandfather's divine thought that the mysterious person she had met meant her no harm.

• Luo Yan retreated as the Otherworldly Race army withdrew, but an Immortal King pursued him across the void and forced warriors on both sides to prostrate themselves.
• Luo Yan used Slaying Time to erode the Immortal King's hand until it withdrew, then An Lan tried to divine Luo Yan's past and future but found no past and was interrupted by figures from the future.
• The Nine Heavens and Ten Lands' warriors returned from the battle, grieving their losses and fearing the Foreign Domain's Immortal Kings.
• Luo Yan arrived at Emperor Pass, saw that the military camp treated him with awe, and left for the Stone tribe to settle there temporarily.
• Luo Yan suspected An Lan had followed the karmic thread because Luo Yan had once spoken An Lan's true name in Heavenly Emperor Ye's Daoist Temple.
• Ye Qingxian told her grandfather's divine thought that a person who might not belong to her era had appeared and that her contract had vanished; he assured her the person would not harm her.

Luo Yan relaxed in Emperor Pass, refused the Chief Commander’s invitation, and initially rejected Ye Qingxian’s plan to explore the Foreign Domain. After she mentioned a divine medicine that could help a True Immortal become an Immortal King, he agreed to go; then Shi Hao and his brothers reunited with him, and Ye Qingxian questioned Cao Yusheng about the Bronze Ancient Coffin.

• Chen Huai brought Luo Yan spirit tea and asked him to meet the Chief Commander, but Luo Yan declined.
• Ye Qingxian invited Luo Yan to the Foreign Domain, and he agreed after she mentioned a divine medicine that could help a True Immortal break through to Immortal King.
• Shi Hao, Shi Yi, Qin Hao, and Cao Yusheng arrived and greeted Luo Yan, while Shi Yi’s double pupils warned him about Luo Yan.
• Cao Yusheng asked Luo Yan where he had gone in the Bronze Ancient Coffin, and Luo Yan answered that he had gone home.
• Ye Qingxian quietly asked Cao Yusheng where he had seen the Bronze Ancient Coffin, revealing that her map led to it.

Cao Yusheng described a phantom on the Bronze Ancient Coffin that resembled Shi Hao, prompting Ye Qingxian to suspect it was the future Desolate Heavenly Emperor. Luo Yan assured Shi Hao and his brothers that the Stone clan had never betrayed the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, then entered Emperor Pass as visitors from Forbidden Zones watched him closely.

• Cao Yusheng recalled seeing a blurry figure on the Bronze Ancient Coffin that looked like Shi Hao, and Ye Qingxian wondered if it was the future Desolate Heavenly Emperor.
• Shi Hao asked Luo Yan whether the Stone clan’s ancestors had betrayed the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, and Luo Yan said they had been loyal heroes while others were the true traitors.
• Luo Yan gave Shi Hao, Shi Yi, and Qin Hao protective pieces of precious jade and told them to uncover the truth themselves when they were strong enough.
• Qin Hao vowed to clear the Stone clan’s name and kill the true traitors, while Shi Yi, Shi Hao, and the Heavenly Horned Ant stood with him.
• News of Luo Yan’s near-king-level strength spread across several domains, and visitors from Forbidden Zones arrived at Emperor Pass to meet him.
• Luo Yan entered Emperor Pass alone by opening a heavenly road and forcing his way through the entrance, drawing the attention of watchers throughout the city.

Luo Yan entered Emperor Pass, visited the remains of the ancient willow, and brought Shi Hao and the others to Hanging Island. There, a being from the Three-Eyed Divine Race revealed that Luo Yan had become a Quasi-Immortal King in less than a thousand years, shocking everyone present.

• Luo Yan crossed into Emperor Pass and saw the lifeless willow stump, whose history Meng Tianzheng recounted as that of a fallen Immortal King and Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit.
• As Luo Yan watched the stump, the Willow Tree in the Boundary Sea sensed that its karmic connection had grown stronger but continued its journey toward the other shore.
• Luo Yan reached Hanging Island, where Shi Hao, Shi Yi, Qin Hao, Cao Yusheng, Ye Qingxian, and others had gathered.
• Luo Yan led the group up steps formed from immortal dao laws, and Ye Qingxian identified his constitution as an immortal-ascending body.
• A being from the Three-Eyed Divine Race greeted Luo Yan respectfully and said beings from two other Forbidden Zones had not yet arrived.
• The Three-Eyed Divine Race being praised Luo Yan for reaching the Quasi-Immortal King rank in less than a thousand years, astonishing the crowd.

Luo Yan met envoys from three forbidden zones, refused their invitations, and heard their warning of an impending dark great calamity. The Three-Eyed Divine Race believed a vision pointed to Luo Yan as the world's savior, but Luo Yan insisted the vision referred to someone else.

• Luo Yan explained that his cultivation of the Time Scripture made his apparent age misleading, astonishing Shi Hao and the assembled experts.
• The Three-Eyed Being, a three-headed giant, and an emerald flying insect arrived from three forbidden zones, and the insect said his master had intended to visit Luo Yan.
• The flying insect invited Luo Yan to share command of his master's forbidden zone, but Luo Yan refused all three invitations despite their warning that the coming Dharma-Ending Era and dark great calamity made forbidden zones safe havens.
• The Three-Eyed Being recounted his Ancestor's visions of a catastrophe that would destroy worlds and kill even Immortal Kings, followed by a vision of someone arriving on a road of immortal light to save the world.
• The Three-Eyed Being suggested Luo Yan was the prophesied savior, but Luo Yan denied it, and he and Ye Qingxian knew the vision referred to Shi Hao.
• The Three-Eyed Being revealed that his Immortal King Ancestor had entered seclusion to deduce the future again because the future could be changed.

Luo Yan rejected the Three-Eyed Divine Race’s prophecy that he would save the world, then backed Shi Hao as the Wang clan challenged him to a life-or-death duel. As Shi Hao faced Jin Zhifei, a powerful being in the Darkness Land sensed that someone was changing the future and traveling into the past.

• Luo Yan argued that no one, including himself, could single-handedly withstand the dark great calamity, and the giant suspected he was hiding the identity of the true savior.
• The gathering agreed to let the younger generation exchange pointers, and Wang Long River proposed settling the Wang clan’s grievances against Desolate through a battle to the death.
• Shi Hao accepted the challenge, refused Luo Yan’s offer of the Green Cauldron, and entered the Dao Platform after Luo Yan promised to back him.
• Jin Zhifei came down to fight Shi Hao, and the two exchanged threats as their battle began.
• In the Darkness Land, a being seated in the Heavenly Court’s Central Hall awakened and wondered who was changing the future and traveling into the past.

Shi Hao defeated Jin Zhifei and more than a dozen Heavenly Prodigies, while Luo Yan refused the Forbidden Zone’s invitation. Later, Luo Yan and Ye Qingxian left Emperor Pass for the Foreign Domain, where An Lan attacked and Ye Qingxian gave Luo Yan a stone that concealed his aura and karmic thread.

• Shi Hao split Jin Zhifei in two, then fought off a group of Jin Family and Wang family prodigies and defeated more than a dozen opponents by himself.
• Luo Yan warned Cao Yusheng to cherish the people around him, while Ye Qingxian grew more curious about Luo Yan’s knowledge of the future.
• The Three-Eyed Being, the giant, and the flying insect invited Luo Yan to join the Forbidden Zone, but he refused and said the Forbidden Zone was a matter for the distant future.
• More than half a month later, Luo Yan and Ye Qingxian secretly left Emperor Pass with the main force and headed into the Foreign Domain, reaching the Heavenly Abyss.
• Ye Qingxian revealed that the Heavenly Abyss was controlled by the last king of the Immortal Ancient Era, then pressed Luo Yan to reveal his origins.
• An Lan reached out from across the Great Gobi, but the Heavenly Abyss blocked his attack; Ye Qingxian gave Luo Yan a stone that concealed his aura and karmic thread, then hinted she had a request for him.

Luo Yan and Ye Qingxian crossed the Heavenly Abyss and entered the void boundary toward the Foreign Domain while evading pursuit, after a Quasi-Immortal Emperor’s consciousness swept the area. A Foreign Domain Supreme discovered their crossing and feared that Luo Yan’s arrival could devastate the concealed Otherworldly Race army.

• A terrifying consciousness swept through the Myriad Worlds, and Luo Yan credited the Dao Inscription Stone and the Desolate Heavenly Emperor with shielding him from discovery.
• Luo Yan and Ye Qingxian crossed the Great Gobi and reached the Void Forbidden Zone, where Ye Qingxian sensed a Supreme carrying an Immortal King's decree pursuing them.
• Luo Yan and Ye Qingxian entered the void to reach the Foreign Domain, and Ye Qingxian recognized Luo Yan’s Immortal Essence Heart Method as a Heavenly Court technique.
• Luo Yan explained that someone had taught him the heart method in ancient ruins, easing Ye Qingxian’s fear that the Heavenly Court had been destroyed.
• A young man from a Foreign Domain Imperial Clan found the pair’s trail and feared Luo Yan would attack the Otherworldly Race’s rear, so he hurried to warn the army.

Luo Yan and Ye Qingxian entered the Foreign Domain, where Luo Yan began harvesting medicines on Wantuo Mountain and awakened its gravely injured Immortal King. The Lord of Wantuo Mountain attacked for Luo Yan’s body and Time Mirror, but the fight ended with the mirror’s power unsettling him as Luo Yan prepared to resist.

• Luo Yan and Ye Qingxian crossed into the Foreign Domain, and Luo Yan collected the divine medicines growing on Wantuo Mountain.
• Luo Yan tried to seize the Wantuo immortal medicine, prompting Ye Qingxian to warn him that an injured Immortal King was recovering beneath the mountain.
• The Lord of Wantuo Mountain attacked Luo Yan, who used the Time Mirror and his heavenly road domain to withstand the Immortal King’s strike, though he was wounded.
• Luo Yan’s body began to transform toward the ranks of the Ten Evils, and Ye Qingxian realized the Time Mirror was a half-step Quasi-Immortal Emperor artifact.
• The Lord of Wantuo Mountain revealed his hatred for the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands and threatened Luo Yan and Ye Qingxian, while the Time Mirror’s power began to suppress him and made him uneasy.

Luo Yan fought the lord of Wantuo Mountain while an Immortal King Tribulation gathered to erase him from the era. He unleashed the Heavenly Emperor Fist and killed the Immortal King, but was left gravely wounded as the Foreign Domain watched in shock.

• Luo Yan used the Time Mirror to fight the lord of Wantuo Mountain, while the space-time forced an Immortal King Tribulation upon him and exposed that he and Ye Qingxian came from another era.
• Luo Yan hurled the Time Mirror into the tribulation and told it to hold off the calamity, then refused Ye Qingxian's offer of help.
• The lord of Wantuo Mountain struck Luo Yan and blasted much of his body apart, but Luo Yan endured the attack and gathered his power.
• Luo Yan unleashed the Heavenly Emperor Fist, breaking the lord of Wantuo Mountain's body and preventing it from recovering.
• Luo Yan struck again and destroyed the lord of Wantuo Mountain's true spirit, razing Wantuo Mountain while leaving himself near death.

Luo Yan faced An Lan and the gathering Immortal King Tribulation while Ye Qingxian resisted two Immortal Kings with Wuzhong’s weapon soul. The River of Time swept Luo Yan and Ye Qingxian away, and Luo Yan found the Lord of Time’s seed had grown into a tree fused with his Sea of Consciousness; their destination remained unknown.

• An Lan attacked Luo Yan to seize his fist technique, while Ye Qingxian used Immortal King Wuzhong’s weapon soul to block him and the lord of a Nine Heavens forbidden zone.
• The Immortal King Tribulation gathered over Luo Yan, and the Time Mirror agreed to let the Lord of Time enter Luo Yan’s body temporarily in exchange for stopping the danger.
• The River of Time swept Luo Yan and Ye Qingxian away before An Lan could seize Luo Yan, while the lord of the forbidden zone took Wuzhong’s weapon soul.
• As Luo Yan and Ye Qingxian traveled downstream in a boat formed from the Time Mirror, the Temporal Seed in Luo Yan’s Sea of Consciousness sprouted into a tree and fused with him.
• The Time Mirror awoke and asked whether Luo Yan had become an Immortal King, while Luo Yan admitted he did not know where the river was taking them.