Chapter Summaries

The Three Demon Sages tried to devour the Azure Emperor, but Luo Yan arrived and overwhelmed them, saving him. Years later, Luo Yan refined the Immortal Green Lotus Medicine and fell into a deep slumber while the Azure Emperor faced a growing hunt.

• The Three Demon Sages and other demons attacked the Azure Emperor, seeking to consume the Immortal Medicine within him.
• Luo Yan arrived, restrained the demons, killed a Half-Saint, and drove the Three Demon Sages to flee before killing them.
• The Azure Emperor disappeared from Demon Star and became known on Big Dipper as Wan Qing, while Luo Yan reached the end of his lifespan and appeared to die.
• After Luo Yan's apparent death, many demon experts joined forces to hunt the Azure Emperor, who survived repeated dangers and continued to grow stronger.
• Luo Yan watched the Azure Emperor's journey from within the Time Mirror, refined the Immortal Green Lotus Medicine, and left a strand of consciousness in the Azure Emperor before entering a deep slumber.

Luo Yan’s Immortal Green Lotus Medicine created a powerful second body but cost him his cultivation, forcing him to control his old body as a puppet. Outside, rumors spread that Wan Qing, the Azure Emperor, had alarmed the forbidden zones and possessed mysterious origins tied to an Immortal Medicine.

• Luo Yan discovered that the Immortal Medicine had formed a reincarnating body inside his Bitter Sea, which settled into the shape of his childhood self and possessed Great Emperor-level physical toughness.
• Luo Yan took possession of his Second Lifetime Body and refined his peak Quasi-Emperor First Lifetime Body into a puppet over a hundred years.
• Luo Yan realized his new body could not cultivate and that he had lost his magical power, so he merged with the puppet to wield his former cultivation again.
• Luo Yan struggled to control the puppet as his divine sense fluctuated, sometimes leaving both bodies trapped and unable to act.
• Cultivators discussed how Wan Qing had alarmed the forbidden zones and how his mysterious origins might be connected to an Immortal Medicine.
• The cultivators described Wan Qing as the Azure Emperor, one of the era’s three strongest heroes and the most mysterious of its peerless Heavenly Prodigies.

Shen Ming, an emperor’s son from a Life Forbidden Zone, confronted Wan Qing and challenged him amid the gathering in the Central Plains. Wan Qing and two Demon Sages fought him, and the battle moved into the starry sky, leaving Wan Qing’s fate uncertain.

• Shen Ming revealed that he had come to capture Wan Qing and dismissively challenged the Azure Emperor despite sensing his strength.
• Two Demon Sages stepped forward to protect Wan Qing, while onlookers discussed his talent and the approaching dharma-ending era.
• Wan Qing wielded the Azure Divine Lotus and clashed with Shen Ming, who used techniques drawn from an ancient forbidden-zone scripture.
• The two Demon Sages joined the fight, and they and Shen Ming agreed to battle beyond the world to avoid damaging the gathering place.
• A knowledgeable figure identified Shen Ming as the son of an Ancient Emperor of the Primordial Myriad Races, prompting human cultivators to hope Wan Qing would survive.

The Azure Emperor used a strike summoned from his former incarnation, the Chaos Green Lotus, to pierce Shen Ming’s Nether Armor and grievously wound him. As the Immortal Mausoleum’s Supreme reached out toward the Azure Emperor, the conflict escalated beyond the fighters on the battlefield.

• Wan Qing wielded the Green Lotus Divine Weapon and shattered Shen Ming’s laws, while the onlookers speculated that he descended from the Chaos Green Lotus.
• The Azure Emperor burned his blood essence and summoned “A Single Lotus Through the Eternal Blue Heavens,” a strike from across spacetime that wounded Shen Ming and pierced his Nether Armor.
• A Great Saint of the Demon Race approached as Luo Yan watched from within the Time Mirror and recognized the strike as power from the Azure Emperor’s former incarnation.
• Shen Ming revealed that he had left the Forbidden Zone to capture the Azure Emperor, whose Immortal Medicine origins could grant him greater cultivation and lifespan.
• The Immortal Mausoleum’s Supreme extended a boundless hand toward the Azure Emperor, prompting the experts to fear that a Forbidden Zone Supreme was intervening.

Wan Qing survived Shen Ming’s attack when the damaged mirror at his waist released an aura that drove a Forbidden Zone Supreme back. After Shen Ming retreated, Wan Qing prepared to recover from his wounds and questioned whether Uncle Luo might still be alive through the mirror.

• A Forbidden Zone Supreme reached for Wan Qing, but the mirror at his waist released an aura that matched the Supreme’s and forced him to withdraw.
• Wan Qing wondered whether Uncle Luo was alive inside the mirror, but found no sign of life and suspected the Supreme had mistaken the mirror’s aura for a person.
• Shen Ming apologized to Wan Qing, then retreated to the Life Forbidden Zone after Wan Qing rejected his attempt to make peace.
• Wan Qing vowed to take Shen Ming’s head if he ever became an emperor, while Luo Yan privately doubted that the unlucky youth would survive long enough to do so.
• Wan Qing told the Heavenly Prodigies he would recover and join them before the Starry Sky Ancient Road opened, then examined the shattered Time Mirror and questioned whether Uncle Luo was truly dead.

Wan Qing chose the Demon Race Ancient Road, honed his cultivation, and became a Saint before setting out across the stars. After rescuing his captured companions from Immortal Feather Star, he watched the Time Mirror depart and set off for the Starry Sky Ancient Road, certain Uncle Luo was still alive.

• Wan Qing ignored the Human Race Ancient Road and chose the Demon Race Ancient Road after the Great Saint warned him of the danger his identity posed.
• Wan Qing created the Azure Emperor Art, and Green Lotus became a Saint capable of defeating Saint Kings; five years later, Wan Qing and his Demon Race followers began their journey on the Ancient Road.
• On Immortal Feather Star, researchers discovered Wan Qing's blood could cure every illness, so three Great Saints captured him and his companions.
• Wan Qing broke free, rescued the imprisoned Demon Race Heavenly Prodigies, and burned down the experimental base.
• The Time Mirror left Wan Qing and vanished into the universe, and Wan Qing set off for the Starry Sky Ancient Road, believing Uncle Luo was alive.

Three hundred years after Wan Qing’s rise, cultivators in Spirit Platform City discussed his feats and the Azure Emperor’s past. Luo Yan, secretly a powerful long-lived figure, worked at the Fresh Delicacies House alongside the unchanged little girl Xiao Nannan, while the manager protected them from disrespectful staff.

• Cultivators in the Fresh Delicacies House discussed Wan Qing’s triumph on the Demon Race Ancient Road and recalled his defiant words about cultivating in the Dharma-Ending Era.
• A Demon Race cultivator claimed he had witnessed the Azure Emperor’s rise and began telling how a Human Race powerhouse brought him to the Big Dipper.
• Luo Yan left the story to clean a private room and told Xiao Nannan to stay and listen.
• The manager fired a waiter who insulted Luo Yan, explaining that Luo Yan had worked there for a hundred years and even Boss Jin treated him with respect.
• The manager gave Xiao Nannan a spirit fruit and warned the remaining waiters not to gossip about Luo Yan and the girl.

Luo Yan listened as Lü Jingshun revealed that a human expert had once blocked a Forbidden Zone Supreme with a divine weapon. Lü then announced that a secret realm in the Central Domain might contain the Desolate Pagoda, while Luo Yan suspected the demon cultivator had a hidden motive for spreading the news.

• Lü Jingshun told the gathered cultivators that the Azure Emperor had been hunted for his Immortal Medicine origins and that an Immortal Mausoleum Supreme had tried to seize him.
• Lü Jingshun revealed that a human expert inside the Azure Emperor's elder's divine weapon had blocked the Supreme's attack three hundred years earlier.
• Lü Jingshun said the human expert's divine weapon had briefly appeared in a secret realm opening in the Central Domain.
• Lü Jingshun claimed the secret realm might contain the Desolate Pagoda, prompting cultivators to send the news to their clans for verification.
• Luo Yan suspected Lü Jingshun had spread the rumor for a concealed purpose.

Luo Yan stayed at the Fresh Delicacies House while the Azure Emperor entered the Emperor Mausoleum, then learned that the Time Mirror had awakened and warned him that changing history carried grave consequences. The mirror revealed that its former master, a True Immortal, had been killed permanently after disrupting space-time, leaving Luo Yan wary of what might happen to him.

• Luo Yan learned that the Demon Race's Great Saint had embellished reports about monsters in the secret realm to lure cultivators there, while he and the Fat Shopkeeper chose to stay at the Fresh Delicacies House.
• News spread that Wan Qing had entered the Emperor Mausoleum seeking a broken mirror, while Luo Yan realized the Time Mirror he held was the relic Wan Qing sought.
• Luo Yan remained at the Fresh Delicacies House, believing the Azure Emperor's journey would end safely and planning to ask him for a way out of the Desolate Pagoda in the future.
• The Time Mirror's consciousness awakened and told Luo Yan that he was changing history and would incur tremendous karma.
• Luo Yan probed the mirror and confirmed it had lost its memories, then learned that its previous master, a True Immortal, had been killed in another space-time after disrupting history.

Luo Yan subdued the Time Mirror after it tried to reclaim control, then asked why his new body could not cultivate. The mirror revealed that Luo Yan had created an innate divine immortal physique, which could not absorb mortal-world energy and needed immortal energy to replenish its source.

• The Time Mirror discovered that the Immortal Domain had vanished and secretly tried to take back control of its body, but Luo Yan suppressed it.
• Luo Yan threatened to erase the Time Mirror’s consciousness, then spared it after learning that doing so might lower its grade and destroy its ability to travel through time and space.
• Luo Yan questioned the Time Mirror about why his new body could not cultivate, and the mirror admitted that its memories returned when certain things reminded it.
• The Time Mirror identified Luo Yan’s body as an innate divine immortal physique created without immortal energy and said it could not absorb energy from the mortal world.
• The Time Mirror explained that Luo Yan’s body needed immortal energy to replenish its depleted immortal source, though its physical strength was already comparable to an Ancient Great Emperor’s.

Luo Yan discovered that consuming ancient great medicine could strengthen his immortal body, then dealt with the Time Mirror’s attempt to probe Xiao Nannan and confirmed the artifact had fully submitted to him. He left the Time Mirror’s hidden danger resolved and continued planning to build up his strength before entering the Immortal Domain.

• The Time Mirror told Luo Yan that his immortal body could not absorb Source Qi and could only grow through divine medicine until he reached the Immortal Domain.
• Luo Yan tested medicinal plants, discovered that great medicine over five thousand years old strengthened his body, and devoured all the plants in his Daoist temple.
• Xiao Nannan approached with a multicolored stone, and the Time Mirror reflected her, drawing a terrifying gaze that forced it to sever the connection.
• Luo Yan comforted Xiao Nannan and warned the Time Mirror not to harm her, while privately considering how to control the artifact.
• Luo Yan tried to refine the Time Mirror, but it revealed that it had already refined itself completely to avoid being destroyed.

News spread that monsters had overrun the Secret Realm, and Wan Qing was praised for holding off a Quasi-Emperor corpse. At the Fresh Delicacies House, Young Master Wei’s party drew attention to Xiao Nannan, but his guard warned him that Luo Yan might be a powerful figure.

• Cultivators reported that monsters had poured out of the Emperor Mausoleum, killing Holy Lords, while Wan Qing had held back a Quasi-Emperor corpse.
• Li Xiaonan tried to clear the Fresh Delicacies House for Young Master Wei, but Wei allowed the patrons to stay.
• Li Xiaonan fought a Dragon Transformation cultivator who had insulted him and revealed that he had reached the consummate stage of Dragon Transformation.
• Xiao Nannan hid behind Luo Yan and said that the other guests frightened her, drawing their attention.
• Young Master Wei ordered his guards to bring Xiao Nannan to him, but his burly guard stopped them and warned that Luo Yan might be a powerhouse.

Young Master Wei’s attempt to seize the little girl ended with Li Xiaonan’s body turning into a skeleton after Luo Yan touched him. Young Master Wei recognized the red light that had replaced Li Xiaonan’s consciousness as a danger linked to the Emperor Mausoleum, leaving everyone fearing that many who emerged from its depths had been replaced.

• Young Master Wei recalled his granduncle’s story about an ageless little girl and ordered Li Xiaonan to capture her.
• Luo Yan stopped Li Xiaonan from grabbing the girl, and Li Xiaonan failed to break free before abruptly changing his attitude and threatening Luo Yan.
• Li Xiaonan’s flesh vanished until he was a skeleton, and he disintegrated as he lunged at Luo Yan.
• Luo Yan explained that a red light had replaced Li Xiaonan’s consciousness and said it would have taken him over within a month even without interference.
• Young Master Wei revealed that Li Xiaonan’s Soul Lamp had gone out while he was in the Emperor Mausoleum, then relit when he returned.
• Young Master Wei suspected that the real Li Xiaonan had died in the mausoleum and that the red light had replaced other Holy Lords who entered its depths.

Cultivators who had ventured deep into the Emperor Mausoleum began dying from mysterious red marks, triggering panic across the Big Dipper as even a Saint fell victim. As the crisis worsened, a Great Accomplished King desperately sought divine medicine and was killed by a Saint guarding a holy land.

• After warning of looming chaos, Young Master Wei and the other cultivators left, while Luo Yan remarked that troubled times brought opportunities.
• At the Fresh Delicacies House, Luo Yan, Xiao Nannan, and the Time Mirror joked together as the outside world sought out its remaining ancestors.
• Rumors spread that Emperor Mausoleum survivors were dying as red marks corrupted their minds and bodies, leaving skeletons behind.
• A severely wounded Saint died after the red mark corrupted his sea of consciousness and rotted away his body, sending Saints in search of divine medicine.
• A Great Accomplished King whose body was rotting charged toward a holy land seeking divine medicine, but a Saint-level ancestor killed him with one palm strike.

A Saint War broke out over divine medicine as cultivators marked in the Emperor Mausoleum fought for a chance to survive. At the Fresh Delicacies House, Luo Yan warned Boss Jin of an approaching Dark Age and investigated the red mark on Li Xiaonan’s skull, learning it might come from the remnants of a sect that made living puppets.

• Four Saints fought over divine medicine in the starry sky, and the battle drew more Saints into the fray as planets shattered.
• Boss Jin asked Luo Yan whether he could survive the turmoil, and Luo Yan warned that the coming calamity might rival the Dark Age and endanger even Saints.
• Luo Yan examined the red mark on Li Xiaonan’s skull and found a faint, strange fluctuation that he suspected was a curse or marker.
• The Time Mirror recalled a vicious sect that branded Heavenly Prodigies and later refined them into living puppets, and it suggested the red mark came from an incomplete remnant of that sect’s legacy.
• Luo Yan considered the limits of the sect’s cultivation method and grew wary of whoever had placed the red mark.

The red curse drove cultivators across the world to fight and betray one another for divine medicine, while its victims rose as unkillable monsters. In the Emperor Mausoleum, the Azure Emperor struggled against a cursed corpse’s attempt to take over his body and learned about the mysterious Weird Clan.

• A Saint King joined a battle over divine medicine, and Boss Jin feared that Senior Luo's prophecy of a Saint's death had come true.
• Cultivators stole divine medicine from holy lands, massacred a sect for its medicine, and fought over a rare harvest from a Life Forbidden Zone.
• Victims of the red curse began rising as monsters that could reassemble themselves and hunt their former friends and family.
• Deep in the Emperor Mausoleum, the Azure Emperor found the corpse beneath the Desolate Pagoda and struggled to stop its red mark from eroding his sea of consciousness.
• The corpse revealed that it belonged to the Weird Clan and claimed that its legacy would let it take the Azure Emperor's body and become a Demon Emperor.

The Red Demon Heavenly Venerable escaped the Desolate Pagoda’s seal and unleashed a Dark Age by turning Human Race cultivators into skeletons and feeding on their essence. Luo Yan learned that the Red Demon’s emergence was a consequence of his interference with history, while Wan Qing’s survival remained tied to the Azure Emperor’s tribulation.

• The dark red flame tried to possess the Azure Emperor, but the Time Mirror’s afterimage protected his sea of consciousness, letting him escape with the Desolate Pagoda.
• The Red Demon Heavenly Venerable emerged from the Emperor Mausoleum and used red curses to turn cultivators into skeletons and gather their essence.
• A Saint and then a coalition of Human Race experts attacked the monster, but the Red Demon Heavenly Venerable feigned weakness and wiped out the coalition inside the secret realm.
• The Human Race learned that the secret realm blocked Extreme Dao Emperor Weapons and identified the monster as the Red Demon Heavenly Venerable, who had once protected humanity as an emperor.
• At the Fresh Delicacies House, Luo Yan said he could not stop the events, and the Time Mirror told him that his changes to history had caused the Red Demon Heavenly Venerable to appear.

Luo Yan struck the Secret Realm and forced the Red Demon Heavenly Venerable to flee, delaying the age of darkness and giving the Human Race hope. He agreed to attend a gathering at Yaochi Holy Land in one month, then decided to visit the Desolate Forbidden Zone with Xiao Nannan to seek the Empress's help.

• The Time Mirror explained that Luo Yan's intervention had caused the Red Demon Heavenly Venerable to arise as a tribulation for the Azure Emperor.
• Luo Yan recognized the Red Demon Heavenly Venerable as connected to the Weird Clan and attacked the Secret Realm with supreme power.
• The Red Demon Heavenly Venerable escaped with the Secret Realm, while the Human Race's age of darkness was delayed and its cultivators gained hope from Luo Yan's intervention.
• Boss Jin invited Luo Yan to the Yaochi Holy Land gathering, and Luo Yan agreed to attend in one month.
• Luo Yan decided to visit the Desolate Forbidden Zone to seek the Empress's help with the red mark, and Xiao Nannan agreed to go with him.

Luo Yan met the Ruthless Great Emperor in the Desolate Forbidden Zone and learned that the Desolate Pagoda had sealed the Red Demon Heavenly Venerable and was the only way to eradicate his Red Mark completely. The empress gave Luo Yan her Ghost Face Mask as a keepsake for his promised journey through time to fulfill her brother’s final wish.

• Luo Yan brought Xiao Nannan to the abyss, where she saw that the empress was awake and then fell asleep on his shoulder.
• The empress emerged and told Luo Yan that she had sealed the Red Demon Heavenly Venerable in the Emperor Mausoleum with the Desolate Pagoda, which alone could fully remove his Red Mark.
• When the empress asked when Luo Yan would go, he showed her the Time Mirror, which explained that it needed a keepsake to find her brother’s time and place.
• The empress gave Luo Yan her Ghost Face Mask, and he felt the grief bound to it as he promised that she might one day bring her loved one back from the River of Time.

After learning that the Red Demon Heavenly Venerable had been corrupted by an ancient inheritance, Luo Yan watched the empress retreat into chaos again. A month later, the Human Race gathered at Yaochi Holy Land, where the Primordial Myriad Races arrived in force to test the human senior who had driven back the Red Demon Heavenly Venerable.

• The empress told Luo Yan that the Red Demon Heavenly Venerable had inherited a sanctuary from before the Ancient Epoch and had been replaced by something sinister within it.
• The empress fell silent and returned beneath the abyss, and Luo Yan promised Xiao Nannan he would bring her to see the empress next time.
• A month later, Human Race leaders gathered at Yaochi Holy Land, hoping the senior who had repelled the Red Demon Heavenly Venerable would appear and deter the Primordial Myriad Races.
• The Primordial Myriad Races arrived with five Great Saints, including Great Saint Wanhun, as human cultivators feared they could not resist without the senior's help.
• An Ancestor King mocked the Half-Saint leading a human holy land, and the Holy Lord stayed silent despite his anger.