Chapter Summaries

Luo Yan discovered that he and the Time Mirror had fused into a temporal divine body, while the Lord of Time’s giant tree had taken root inside it. After learning Ye Qingxian was being rejected because another version of her existed in this spacetime, she rushed toward the Heavenly Court, and Luo Yan set out to find it after recovering his primordial spirit.

• Luo Yan found that his cultivation had fallen to the Saint realm and that the Time Mirror’s body contained his original self and the Lord of Time transformed into a giant tree.
• The Time Mirror failed to enter the strange inner space or damage the tree, while Luo Yan suspected it of plotting to control him and refused to destroy the tree.
• Ye Qingxian realized that the spacetime was rejecting her because another version of her existed there, and Luo Yan revealed that this was the Heavenly Court era.
• Ye Qingxian hurried away, while the Time Mirror learned that she had three Quasi-Immortal Emperors behind her and that the time law it had absorbed came from this spacetime.
• Luo Yan took essence from the Wantuo Immortal Medicine to partially restore his primordial spirit, then flew out of the mountain range in search of the Heavenly Court.

Luo Yan traveled with Chen Xiangdao toward the Heavenly Court, learning that the court’s recruitment tournament admitted only the thousand best candidates under two hundred. In Pine King City, Luo Yan sought a way to contact the Heavenly Court and enter its gates, but he worried that competing under his old identity would expose him to enemies.

• Luo Yan met Chen Xiangdao in a frontier town and agreed to travel with him to the Heavenly Court’s recruitment tournament.
• Chen Xiangdao left town amid the townspeople’s cheers and told Luo Yan that the tournament selected only the top thousand geniuses under two hundred.
• Luo Yan and Chen Xiangdao reached Pine King City, where Luo Yan was struck by the concentration of powerful cultivators.
• Luo Yan asked Chen Xiangdao how to contact someone from the Heavenly Court, but Chen Xiangdao said its direct members rarely appeared outside the court.
• Luo Yan decided he needed another way to reach the Heavenly Court’s gates and feared that joining the tournament as Luo Tianlin would reveal his identity.

Luo Yan abandoned his attempt to enter the Heavenly Court after its guards exposed and killed an intruder, while Heavenly Emperor Ye learned that Luo Tianlin had resurfaced. A rumor that Luo Tianlin’s flesh held clues to reaching Quasi-Immortal Emperor spread through Pine King City, and Luo Yan realized that he was the target.

• Luo Yan used the Tribulation-Transcending Heavenly Art to approach the Heavenly Court, but its formation exposed an intruder and he retreated.
• Heavenly Emperor Ye ordered Dragon Horse to retrieve the youth he had once picked up from the Boundary Sea, then sent him on another mission first.
• A rumor spread in Pine King City that Luo Tianlin’s flesh had helped Great Emperor Wushi reach Quasi-Immortal Emperor, drawing the attention of powerful factions.
• Chen Xiangdao told Luo Yan that Luo Tianlin had resurfaced and was being hunted for his supposed breakthrough opportunity.
• Luo Yan denied any intention of getting involved, asked whether a portrait was available, and privately suspected Black Emperor of exposing him.

The Female Emperor tugged on a karmic thread to bind Luo Yan, but her interference left him trapped just as Ao Jiang and other pursuers found him. Luo Yan escaped the Profound Heaven Cave Abode into a city crowded with factions trying to capture him, and the Heavenly Court’s own forces joined the pursuit.

• The Female Emperor sensed Luo Yan’s return and pulled a karmic thread toward him despite resistance from the Consciousness of the River of Time.
• The Time Mirror traced the thread to the Female Emperor, then abandoned Luo Yan as the karma wrapped around him and immobilized him.
• Ao Jiang and a middle-aged fat man entered the Profound Heaven Cave Abode; Ao Jiang tried to seize Luo Yan but was crushed by a mysterious force.
• Luo Yan called to his sleeping true self, then fled the cave abode as Emperor-level pressure descended.
• Experts from rival factions and the Heavenly Court converged on Luo Tianlin in Pine King City, with many factions trying to stop the Heavenly Court from capturing him.

Luo Yan escaped his pursuers after uncovering that corrupted dark creatures were preparing for a future invasion of the Immortal Domain. He reunited with the Time Mirror, learned its theory about breaking through Immortal King, and ended the chapter sensing that he was close to finding the threshold to Immortal King.

• The Female Emperor sent the Time Mirror back and ordered it to keep silent about what had happened.
• In Pine King City, Luo Yan fought and killed a black-clad woman corrupted by the Weird Clan, then learned from her memories that dark creatures had infiltrated several former worlds and were preparing an invasion.
• Luo Yan escaped a supreme expert's dharma body, but the Heavenly Court's pursuers saw his strength and suspected he had a chance to become a Quasi-Immortal Emperor.
• The Time Mirror returned to Luo Yan and claimed it had been badly injured by the Female Emperor, though Luo Yan suspected it was pretending.
• The Time Mirror explained that reaching beyond Immortal King required balancing multiple kinds of power, while Luo Yan reflected on the higher realms and sensed he was nearing the Immortal King threshold.

Luo Yan learned that his primordial spirit was undergoing a strange Immortal King Tribulation and set out to find Dragon Horse, whom he suspected knew who had framed him. He ambushed Dragon Horse, knocked him unconscious with the Green Cauldron, and carried him away.

• The Time Mirror told Luo Yan that his primordial spirit was undergoing an Immortal King Tribulation resembling Dao annihilation, which could wipe out his consciousness.
• Luo Yan suspected Dragon Horse knew who had framed him and decided to find him among the Heavenly Court.
• Dragon Horse told Ye Qingxian that the Heavenly Emperor had ordered him to let Luo Tianlin escape so Luo Yan could be tempered, then left to draw out the people searching for him.
• Several hidden Immortal Kings watched Dragon Horse leave, hoping he would lead them to Luo Tianlin’s hiding place.
• Luo Yan, disguised as a Saint, ignored Dragon Horse’s attacks, struck him with the Green Cauldron after the Time Mirror disrupted his consciousness, and revealed himself.
• Luo Yan praised the Time Mirror, refused to chop down a tree for it, and carried the unconscious Dragon Horse away.

Luo Yan questioned and knocked out Dragon Horse, then left the Time Mirror to interrogate him while he met Ye Qingxian outside Pine King City. Ye Qingxian invited Luo Yan to explore the Boundary Sea, and he was stunned by her proposal.

• Dragon Horse woke imprisoned in a cave, recognized Luo Yan, and threatened him by invoking Heavenly Emperor Ye and the Heavenly Court.
• Luo Yan questioned Dragon Horse and struck him unconscious with the Immortal Ascension Cauldron, while the Time Mirror explained the strength of Luo Yan's borrowed body.
• Luo Yan left the Time Mirror to guard Dragon Horse and ordered it to keep questioning him; Dragon Horse woke and screamed for help as the Time Mirror approached with the cauldron.
• Ye Qingxian found Luo Yan outside Pine King City and revealed that she had tracked the tunnel he used to escape.
• Ye Qingxian invited Luo Yan to join her on an adventure in the Boundary Sea, leaving him shocked.

Ye Qingxian captured Luo Yan with the Cauldron of All-Things Mother Qi and brought him to the cave where Dragon Horse and the Time Mirror were. As the Time Mirror hinted that another Ye Qingxian had traveled through time with it, Heavenly Emperor Ye appeared to deny rumors about Luo Yan and revealed the overwhelming might of a Quasi-Immortal Emperor.

• Ye Qingxian sought Luo Yan to go to the Boundary Sea, but Luo Yan refused and speculated that it might be merging again.
• Ye Qingxian used the Cauldron of All-Things Mother Qi to find and pin down Luo Yan, then bound him and carried him off to interrogate him.
• Ye Qingxian and Luo Yan found Dragon Horse and the Time Mirror in Luo Yan's hiding place, where Dragon Horse was being questioned.
• The Time Mirror recognized Ye Qingxian and said that it had once returned with her, prompting Ye Qingxian to suspect that another version of herself had traveled with it.
• Heavenly Emperor Ye reached Pine King City and denied that Luo Tianlin possessed an opportunity to become a Quasi-Immortal Emperor, while Luo Yan felt his terrifying power firsthand.

Luo Yan reunited with Ye Fan in the Heavenly Court and learned that the Heavenly Emperor knew about his attempts to change the past and future. Ye Fan, Great Emperor Wushi, and the Female Emperor then confronted Luo Yan, leaving him battered while the Heavenly Court wondered why the three Quasi-Immortal Emperors were fighting.

• Ye Fan descended from the Immortal Mountain, greeted Luo Yan as Uncle Luo, and thanked him for changing the past, while Luo Yan vowed to change the future.
• Ye Fan turned the conversation toward settling accounts with Luo Yan, but Great Emperor Wushi arrived and mistakenly concluded that Luo Yan was his younger brother and the son of his mother and Li Chui.
• The Female Emperor arrived warmly greeting Luo Yan, and the three Quasi-Immortal Emperors prepared to confront him as Dragon Horse took Ye Qingxian away.
• Ye Fan, Great Emperor Wushi, and the Female Emperor fought Luo Yan inside the shrouded Immortal Mountain, while Duan De glimpsed the scene and the Heavenly Court crowd speculated about the battle.
• Luo Yan ended up battered and bruised, scolded the two men and the laughing Female Emperor, then told her she looked lovely when she smiled.

Luo Yan learned that his weapon-form body and hidden physical body were connected to an Immortal Emperor’s power, and Ye Fan urged him to explore the dangerous Ascension Road after training in unity of man and weapon. The Time Mirror was forced to explain Ye Qingxian’s connection to the future, while Luo Tianlin emerged from the immortal mountain to face the Heavenly Court.

• Luo Yan explained that his body had become the form of his weapon, and Ye Fan, Great Emperor Wushi, and the Female Emperor discovered an Immortal Emperor-protected space containing his physical body within a divine tree.
• Ye Fan and Great Emperor Wushi failed to break through the space’s Immortal Emperor-level shield, and the Female Emperor advised Luo Yan to learn the Heavenly Court’s unity-of-man-and-weapon cultivation art.
• Ye Fan described the Ascension Road and the Central Great World, then persuaded Luo Yan to consider traveling there despite knowing little about its dangers; Luo Yan agreed to wait until he learned the cultivation method.
• Ye Fan asked about Ye Qingxian, and Luo Yan made the Time Mirror explain itself as the three Quasi-Immortal Emperors threatened it into speaking.
• The mist around the immortal mountain cleared, and Luo Tianlin emerged; Dragon Horse mocked him for looking beaten up.

Luo Yan studied the Weapon-Control Dao, restored his body and primordial spirit, and began harmonizing his power with the Time Mirror as the Weird Clan invaded the Boundary Sea ahead of schedule. The chapter ended with dark matter threatening Luo Yan during his Primordial Spirit Tribulation, while Ye Qingxian confronted five Weird Clan creatures on the Dam.

• Luo Yan read the Weapon-Control Dao in the Heavenly Court’s cultivation method pavilion and began linking his power with the Time Mirror.
• The Weird Clan emerged from the Boundary Sea, prompting the Heavenly Court to send troops to defend the Dam.
• Luo Yan suspected Ye Qingxian had triggered the premature invasion, while five Fallen Creatures tracked her to the Dam.
• Ye Qingxian met the five creatures and let the other soul inside her take over to fight them.
• Luo Yan restored his body and primordial spirit, then spent a hundred years harmonizing his power with the Time Mirror.
• Luo Yan’s Primordial Spirit Tribulation began, and dark matter flowed toward him as the Weird Clan moved to prevent his breakthrough.

Luo Yan faced a dark matter invasion of his sea of consciousness while undergoing a primordial spirit tribulation. The Time Mirror and a mysterious tree helped him survive the attack, but his use of the Self-Transforming Freedom Art provoked the tribulation into striking harder.

• Dark matter breached Luo Yan's sea of consciousness and began corrupting his primordial spirit with black chains of order.
• The Time Mirror broke through the blockade, transformed into a sword, and helped Luo Yan sever the chains, but ten Immortal King-level Dark Immortal Kings emerged from the black mist.
• Duan De, the Black Emperor, Dragon Horse, Xiao Song, Ye Tong, and Ye Xian sensed Luo Yan's strange tribulation, while Ye Tong failed to reach his sea of consciousness and sent Ye Xian to summon Ye Fan.
• A branch appeared inside Luo Yan's sea of consciousness and a single leaf destroyed the Dark Immortal Kings; Luo Yan then used the Self-Transforming Freedom Art to suppress the dark matter.
• Luo Yan cleared the dark matter from his sea of consciousness, but the primordial spirit tribulation intensified after mistaking the Immortal Emperor-level art for a sign of greater power.

Luo Yan endured a primordial spirit tribulation and severed his Great Dao of Time to pursue reincarnation as his own path. His cultivation fell to the Dao-Severing realm, leaving him to face the peak Quasi-Emperor Luo Family Ancestor in a fight that would decide whether he survived or vanished from history.

• As the heavenly tribulation battered him, Luo Yan resolved to abandon the Great Dao of Time and create a Dao of his own.
• Luo Yan manifested the Enlightenment Tree and realized that his path lay in reincarnation and his former self.
• Luo Yan severed his Dao, and his cultivation plunged from Quasi-Immortal King perfection to the Dao-Severing realm.
• The peak Quasi-Emperor Luo Family Ancestor appeared before Luo Yan as the karmic consequence of his power and past.
• Luo Yan declared that he would fight the Luo Family Ancestor, while the Time Mirror and the others feared the enormous gap between their strengths.

Ye Fan, Great Emperor Wushi, and the Female Emperor confronted the enemy approaching across the restored Boundary Sea and learned that the invaders intended to destroy the homeland of the Desolate Heavenly Emperor. As the threat of an Immortal Emperor loomed, a young girl who had failed to change history resolved to become an Immortal Emperor herself.

• Ye Fan, Great Emperor Wushi, and the Female Emperor stood on the Dam as Fallen Creatures reached the shore and died beneath the three Quasi-Immortal Emperors' auras.
• A Gray Mist Ship appeared across the Boundary Sea, carrying an enemy who blocked Ye Fan's fist and declared that the invaders would destroy the Desolate Heavenly Emperor's homeland.
• The Female Emperor scattered the enemy's Taboo Light, and Great Emperor Wushi suppressed the gray mist before the enemy's image vanished.
• Ye Fan said the true enemy would take several hundred thousand years to arrive, while Fallen Creatures retreated or began lying low near the Boundary Sea and Dam.
• A young girl on the Dam lamented that she could not change the future, then resolved to become an Immortal Emperor and defeat every enemy.

Luo Yan used the Self-Transforming Freedom Art to fight the Luo Family Ancestor, revealing the Desolate Heavenly Emperor’s legacy and transforming the Time Mirror alongside him. After defeating his opponent, he began the unprecedented tribulation of severing his Dao at the Quasi-Immortal King level, but the next wave of lightning left his survival uncertain.

• Luo Yan manifested Gu Dao and raised his power to the pinnacle of Quasi-Emperor, then fought the Luo Family Ancestor with the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist.
• Duan De recognized Luo Yan’s art as the Desolate Heavenly Emperor’s legacy, and the forbidden name stirred a powerful presence across the Immortal Domain.
• Luo Yan transformed the Time Mirror, and together they formed a Yin-Yang Millstone that ground the Luo Family Ancestor to ash.
• Luo Yan used the Yin-Yang Millstone to resist the River of Time, then faced the final tribulation required to sever his Dao.
• The first lightning bolt pierced Luo Yan’s body, but he regenerated and survived it.
• Tens of thousands of lightning bolts gathered and struck Luo Yan at once, leaving the onlookers unsure whether he would survive.

Luo Yan survived the heavenly tribulation and broke through with his primordial spirit into the Immortal King Realm, while his body remained just short of that level. After assessing his new strength, he faced questions from Duan De and Ye Tong about the legacy he had displayed, then provoked Ye Tong by claiming seniority.

• The heavenly manifestations faded, and Dragon Horse, Black Emperor, and Duan De wondered whether Luo Yan had survived the continuing tribulation.
• Luo Yan emerged alive from the lightning, renewed through nirvana, and absorbed immortal qi as his cultivation surged.
• Luo Yan's primordial spirit underwent sublimation and entered the Immortal King Realm, while his physical body advanced to just short of the same domain.
• Luo Yan assessed the Immortal King hierarchy and realized how far stronger Willow God and other high-level Immortal Kings were than he had once understood.
• Black Emperor searched for the vanished Enlightenment Tree, while Duan De confronted Luo Yan about the Desolate Heavenly Emperor's legacy.
• Luo Yan denied possessing a legacy and teased Ye Tong by demanding to be called Grandfather Luo, prompting Ye Tong to approach him with clenched fists.

After a thousand years in seclusion, Luo Yan warned the Heavenly Court that enemies from the Other Shore of the Boundary Sea threatened the Immortal Domain. As the Fallen Creatures spread and Ye Qingxian searched for the Desolate Heavenly Emperor, Luo Yan told her he was in the Sacrificial Sea and left Ye Fan wondering whether their era was real.

• Luo Yan emerged from his tribulation and explained that the true threat came from powerful beings beyond the Boundary Sea, while Ye Fan returned with evidence that they had arrived.
• Luo Yan urged Ye Fan and the others to kill the invaders until they retreated, then spent the following millennia consolidating his cultivation as more Fallen Creatures came ashore.
• Luo Yan visited the Dam and told the Six Paths Reincarnation Disc that he did not know whether they could return, while reflecting that history could not be changed.
• Ye Qingxian demanded to know where the Desolate Heavenly Emperor was, and Luo Yan told her he was in the Sacrificial Sea before she left in anger.
• Ye Fan asked whether their era was real, and Luo Yan assured him that he would become an unrivaled Heavenly Emperor.

After ages of searching for the Underworld, Luo Yan found a road guarded by Yin Soldiers and discovered a Red-Haired Monster from the Weird Clan devouring the dead. He killed it and, with the Six Paths Reincarnation Disc, began grinding away its dark matter, while the creature warned that its clan would invade and destroy the world.

• Luo Yan left the Heavenly Court to search the Immortal Domain and other worlds for the Underworld and the truth of reincarnation.
• Luo Yan found a ghostly road in a distant Macrocosm, defeated the Yin Soldiers guarding it, and followed the procession of departed souls.
• Luo Yan discovered that a Red-Haired Monster blocked the road and devoured the souls, and recognized its connection to the Weird Clan.
• Luo Yan killed the monster, and the Six Paths Reincarnation Disc drew in the ominous matter spreading from its body.
• The Dark Creature’s remaining matter spoke to Luo Yan, offered him a place in its clan, and threatened that its army would destroy the world before the Disc ground it away.

Luo Yan entered the ruined Underworld through the Ghost Gate and shattered it, learning that terrifying departed beings might awaken and escape. He forced the imprisoned Dark Creature to reveal that the Underworld declined after it tried to rule the Myriad Worlds and committed an insane act, but the creature did not explain what that act was.

• Luo Yan entered the Underworld seeking its secrets about reincarnation and his own past, while the Dark Creature warned him to turn back.
• Luo Yan identified the ruined entrance as the Ghost Gate and forced his living body through it despite the Ghost Guards' warning.
• Luo Yan struck down the Ghost Gate, and the Dark Creature revealed that its destruction could awaken powerful departed souls imprisoned in the Underworld.
• The Six Paths Reincarnation Disc struggled to erase the Dark Creature, and Luo Yan realized its power reached the Immortal Emperor domain.
• Luo Yan tortured the Dark Creature into explaining that the Underworld had declined after it grew arrogant and tried to rule the Myriad Worlds.

Luo Yan found the Yellow Springs Road in the ruined Underworld and began creating his own path of reincarnation. A supreme being attacked to stop him, but Luo Yan called on the Six Paths Reincarnation Disc to evolve a palace and contend for reincarnation’s authority.

• The Dark Creature explained that the ancient Underworld had been razed by several End-of-the-Road Level beings after it tried to control them.
• Luo Yan and the Six Paths Reincarnation Disc explored the abandoned Underworld, where they found the Yellow Springs Road and its Other Shore Flowers.
• Luo Yan meditated on reincarnation and formed a Ghost Gate, declaring that his Dao would be reincarnation.
• A supreme being shattered Luo Yan’s Ghost Gate, but its attacks faltered when it discovered Luo Yan did not belong to this era and was tied by karma to the Desolate Heavenly Emperor and another Immortal Emperor.
• Luo Yan formed a phantom palace that touched reincarnation’s authority, prompting the supreme being to attack and injure his Dao Fruit.
• Luo Yan ordered the Six Paths Reincarnation Disc to evolve the palace, and it entered his Dao Fruit and began transforming through yin and yang.