Chapter Summaries

The Luo Family interpreted Luo Yan’s earlier judgment as proof of Tianlin’s hidden potential and prepared more ancient medicines for the Ancestor. Meanwhile, Wei Yi emerged from seclusion, the Tianxuan lineage returned to the open, and two ancient enemies plotted to learn whether Luo Yan was still alive.

• Luo Feng and the Luo Family elders decided to give Tianlin more combat trials and ordered the collection of ancient medicines for the Ancestor.
• Luo Yan learned that the Time Mirror needed up to three more years to absorb its origin and warned it to pinpoint a destination over two hundred thousand years in the past.
• Wei Yi emerged from six months of seclusion near the Saint King realm, and Luo Yan told him to find his Senior Sister and bring the Tianxuan Lineage out of hiding.
• Over the next two years, the Tianxuan Holy Land’s surviving lineage emerged publicly, drawing both celebration and grief.
• The Headless Corpse worried that the Azure Emperor might still be alive, while the Taihua Evil Thought contacted a power on Big Dipper to use the Tianxuan lineage to track Luo Yan and seize his treasure.

Luo Yan and the Time Mirror traveled upstream along the River of Time to investigate the severed stretch of history and find its endpoint. After passing countless imperial eras and sensing a terrifying gaze from beyond time, they continued onward, but the seemingly endless river left Luo Yan questioning whether his strength was enough to reach its end.

• Luo Yan decided to leave the Demon Race-related matters and other unfinished business for another time as he prepared to enter the River of Time.
• The Time Mirror, now an Emperor Weapon, transformed into a boat and revealed that it came from beyond this universe and suspected their world was a stretch of ancient history reflected into existence.
• Luo Yan and the Time Mirror began traveling upstream, and a terrifying gaze made the River of Time sway and nearly collapse.
• They passed temporal fragments containing the auras of many emperors, including Emperor Hengyu, Void Emperor, Great Emperor Wushi, and Undying Heavenly Emperor.
• After traveling for what felt like an immense span of time without reaching the river's end, Luo Yan wondered whether he lacked the strength to go farther.

Luo Yan and the Time Mirror reached a terrifying barrier at the end of the River of Time, then traveled downstream into the Yuhua Great Emperor's era. The Empress's consciousness awakened inside the Bronze Mask and guided Luo Yan toward her brother, while the Time Mirror accused Luo Yan of deliberately binding it to her by karma.

• The Time Mirror showed Luo Yan a haze concealing the River of Time's upper reaches and refused to advance past the sword light that severed the river.
• Luo Yan left the River of Time in a primeval forest, hid his true body in the Bitter Sea, and recognized that the era belonged to the Yuhua Great Emperor.
• The Ghost Face Mask awakened a wisp of the Empress's consciousness, and she told Luo Yan she only wanted to see her brother.
• Luo Yan warned the Empress not to interfere with the past, but she pointed him toward her brother and he followed her.
• The Time Mirror accused Luo Yan of knowingly creating its karmic bond with the Empress, then went silent when Luo Yan asked what it meant by the right time and place.

Luo Yan accompanied the Empress to a poor village, where they witnessed a brother and sister sharing their meager food and shelter. The Empress silently watched the children who resembled her and her lost brother, while Luo Yan offered them dried meat.

• The Empress remembered her poverty-stricken childhood and the brother who had been taken away and died in a foreign land.
• Luo Yan and the Empress watched a young boy share a cold bun with his little sister, Nannan.
• The boy guarded Nannan with a piece of rusty iron and initially told Luo Yan and the Empress to leave.
• The Empress gently reassured the siblings, and the boy let the two visitors into their cottage.
• Luo Yan offered the hungry children dried meat, but they looked to the Empress before accepting it.

Luo Yan gave food and shelter to the orphaned siblings Ye Ping and Ye Nannan, and persuaded them that the silent empress was their older sister. The next morning, he hunted a mountain deer so they could sell part of it to pay for repairs to their cottage.

• Luo Yan gave Ye Ping and Ye Nannan dried meat, learned their names, and told them to call the empress “Sister.”
• Luo Yan told the siblings that their parents had another daughter who had left home, and the children concluded that the empress was their older sister; she accepted the story without protest.
• Ye Nannan guessed that Luo Yan was their brother-in-law, and Ye Ping teased him about courting the empress; Luo Yan denied it but decided to let the misunderstanding stand.
• The next morning, Luo Yan hunted a mountain deer and brought it back to the cottage, impressing the siblings with his speed and strength.
• Luo Yan asked Ye Ping and Ye Nannan to help butcher the deer so they could sell its antlers and some of the meat to fund repairs to the house.

Luo Yan sold the mountain deer’s meat and valuable parts in town, then bought new clothes for Ye Ping and Ye Nannan. On returning to the village, he learned that someone had harassed the empress and rushed to confront the situation, where he found her standing over a badly injured man.

• Luo Yan sold the mountain deer’s meat and hide at the Myriad Treasures Shop, then negotiated a better price for its other valuable parts.
• The shopkeeper recognized that the deer had been killed with a single expert strike and speculated about Luo Yan and Ye Ping’s connection.
• Luo Yan used the proceeds to buy clothes for Ye Ping and Ye Nannan, telling Ye Ping he would teach him to hunt.
• A villager warned Luo Yan and Ye Ping that someone was harassing Ye Nannan and the empress.
• Luo Yan hurried to the thatched cottage and found the empress standing over a man with broken hands and twisted feet as he begged for mercy.

Luo Yan protected Ye Ping and Ye Nannan from their abusers, killing Zhang Er and crippling a bully from the neighboring village. He carried the man toward the village to punish his entire family, while Ye Ping followed him.

• Villagers discussed Zhang Er’s past harassment and the Canghai Association as Ye Ping told Luo Yan that Zhang Er had often bullied him and his sister.
• Luo Yan killed Zhang Er, then warned the villagers to apologize to the siblings within a day or face the deaths of their families.
• A bully from the neighboring village threatened Ye Ping and declared he planned to sell Ye Nannan and assault the woman in white.
• Luo Yan seized the bully with magical power, severed all four of his limbs, and searched his memories to learn about his family.
• Luo Yan carried the living human stump toward the neighboring village to execute the bully’s family, and Ye Ping followed him.

Luo Yan empowered Ye Ping to take revenge on the family that had tormented him, then helped the siblings settle into a safer, happier life with the Female Emperor. As they prepared to visit town together, Luo Yan again mistook Ye Ping for Ye Fan and reflected on how the past could change while history's main course remained fixed.

• Luo Yan gave Ye Ping power and a saber, and Ye Ping killed the family that had bullied him and his sister while Luo Yan forced the Human Club to watch.
• Luo Yan realized that his changes to the past could not alter Ye Ping's destined future, and rumors of the siblings' powerful relatives spread through nearby villages and town.
• Over the next half month, Luo Yan and the Female Emperor helped Ye Ping and Ye Nannan rebuild their home and live without fear of local bullies.
• Ye Ping finished the courtyard fence, and Ye Nannan brought Luo Yan warm water while the Female Emperor attended to Ye Ping.
• Luo Yan asked Ye Ping to buy quilts, and Ye Ping, the Female Emperor, and Ye Nannan agreed to go to town together with him.
• Luo Yan mistook Ye Ping for Ye Fan again and murmured, "One flower withers, and another blooms!"

Luo Yan, Ye Ping, Ye Nannan, and the Female Emperor went to town to buy winter coats and enjoyed the busy market together. When a cultivator attacked Ye Nannan, Luo Yan killed him and his Fierce Beast mount, leaving the market in shock.

• The four walked to town, where Ye Nannan and the Female Emperor saw the bustling market for the first time.
• Ye Ping bought a Ghost Face Mask after the Female Emperor pointed it out, and Luo Yan joined the siblings in buying candied hawthorn skewers.
• A green-robed cultivator rode a Hybrid Fierce Beast through the market, killing an elderly woman as townspeople said he had come from Black City in search of something.
• After Ye Nannan called the cultivator a villain, he lashed at her with a magically empowered whip.
• Luo Yan glanced at the cultivator, instantly killing him and his mount and leaving the market crowd stunned.

Luo Yan secretly killed Li Huaqing and Zhong Shan after Li Huaqing threatened Ye Nannan, then left the marketplace with Ye Ping and the others. Bai Yan warned the city lord of Black City about the unseen expert, while they discussed the powerful Feathered Divine Dynasty visitor and the vast universe.

• Luo Yan killed Li Huaqing and his Fierce Beast from afar after Li Huaqing threatened Ye Nannan, then left with Ye Ping and the others to buy cotton cloth.
• Zhong Shan arrived at the marketplace and ordered the crowd not to leave, but an unseen attacker killed him instantly.
• Bai Yan apologized to the unseen expert on behalf of the survivors and led his Fierce Beast away without investigating.
• Bai Yan told the city lord of Black City that an unseen cultivator had killed Li Huaqing and Zhong Shan from a distance.
• The city lord of Black City warned Bai Yan not to investigate or offend the expert, then revealed that a powerful visitor from the Feathered Divine Dynasty had come to recruit gifted disciples.
• The city lord of Black City told Bai Yan that their continent was only a Life Planet in a vast universe, and Bai Yan wondered what lay beyond it.

Ye Ping, Ye Nannan, the Female Emperor, and Luo Yan shared a warm dinner at home, with the Female Emperor showing her tenderness toward her siblings. Later, she joined Luo Yan on the roof and asked him to treat her as an ordinary woman, but he insisted that people from the future would always see her as a fearsome legend.

• Ye Ping and Luo Yan brought Ye Nannan home after shopping and settled in for their first lavish dinner since renovating the house.
• The Female Emperor served Ye Ping fish, while Luo Yan made sure Ye Nannan got food too; Ye Nannan teased her sister and called Luo Yan her future brother-in-law.
• After dinner, Ye Ping and Ye Nannan went to sleep, and Luo Yan rested on the roof beneath the stars.
• The Female Emperor joined Luo Yan on the roof and asked him to call her by her name and treat her as an ordinary person.
• Luo Yan described the Female Emperor's fearsome reputation and said that no explanation could change how people from the future saw her.

Luo Yan spent another month with the Female Emperor and the Ye siblings, seeing her enjoy ordinary family life as they went to a village performance. The show began with a villager agreeing to enter an iron cage for a vanishing act.

• Luo Yan asked the Female Emperor whether changing history had altered her memories, and she said she would only know after merging memories with her original self.
• A month passed, and Luo Yan grew more comfortable with the Female Emperor as she embraced everyday life with Ye Ping and Ye Nannan.
• Luo Yan, the Female Emperor, Ye Ping, and Ye Nannan set out to watch a traveling show, and Ye Nannan fell and bumped her head before Luo Yan healed her with energy.
• At the village performance, the Female Emperor used a spell to redirect the villagers' stares, and a burly performer invited someone from the crowd to help with a vanishing act.
• A villager volunteered and followed the performers' instructions to step inside an iron cage covered by a black cloth.

A traveling performance troupe tried to abduct Ye Nannan for her karmic fortune, but Luo Yan rescued her and a Feathered Divine Dynasty cultivator intervened. The Female Emperor held back from attacking as she and Luo Yan considered how changing history could draw powerful opponents.

• A burly performer invited Ye Nannan into an iron cage, intending to steal her karmic fortune with the troupe’s help.
• When Ye Nannan failed to vanish, the troupe abandoned its act and fled with the cage.
• Luo Yan killed the man holding the cage, broke it open, and rescued Ye Nannan.
• An armored Feathered Divine Dynasty cultivator arrived, then pursued the fleeing troupe while secretly monitoring Luo Yan and the Female Emperor.
• Luo Yan warned the Female Emperor that their presence in the past could summon powerful opponents, and she refrained from attacking.
• The Feathered Divine Dynasty cultivator reflected on the dynasty’s plan to restore an alleged Immortal Artifact for its Divine Dynasty Master’s journey along the Path to Immortality.

After Ye Nannan returned safely, the Female Emperor left to seek Yuhua Great Emperor, while Luo Yan realized history was trying to restore Ye Ping’s death. The Time Mirror revealed that a fragment of the shattered Immortal Domain might appear within a century, potentially offering Luo Yan a path to become a True Immortal and return to the Immortal Domain.

• Ye Nannan returned safely and clung to Ye Ping, while the villagers feared Luo Yan after witnessing his power.
• The Female Emperor put on her Bronze Mask, told Luo Yan she was leaving to seek Yuhua Great Emperor, and departed despite his warning not to fight.
• Luo Yan explained that Ye Ping and Ye Nannan’s altered childhood had provoked history’s efforts to restore Ye Ping’s destined death at the hands of the Feathered Divine Dynasty.
• The Time Mirror told Luo Yan that a fragment of the shattered Immortal Domain might appear within a hundred years and could contain undying substance.
• The Time Mirror said that undying substance could help Luo Yan become a True Immortal and might let them break through the world barrier and return to the Immortal Domain.

Luo Yan spent a peaceful snowy day with Ye Ping and Ye Nannan, who missed their sister and playfully insisted that Luo Yan marry her when she returned. Far away, the Female Emperor fought Yuhua Great Emperor across time, and he recognized that the conflict came from the later generations of his dynasty before she turned her attention toward an approaching figure.

• Ye Nannan noticed Luo Yan seemed unhappy, and Ye Ping guessed he missed the Female Emperor.
• As snow began to fall, Ye Nannan recalled how Luo Yan had protected her and Ye Ping and playfully demanded that they not wipe away her kisses.
• Luo Yan and the siblings enjoyed the snow while he roasted Beast Meat in their courtyard.
• The Female Emperor attacked Yuhua Great Emperor, who discovered that their hostility stemmed from the later generations of the Feathered Divine Dynasty.
• Yuhua Great Emperor realized the Female Emperor was an incarnation who had traveled upstream through time, promised to resolve the matter, and saw her focus on an approaching figure.

Luo Yan watched the Time Mirror rush to aid the Female Emperor against a mysterious foe, then received a visit from the aging Yuhua Great Emperor. The Great Emperor asked Luo Yan to mediate his rift with the Female Emperor, and Luo Yan told him that his descendants would have to answer for the feud.

• The Time Mirror entered the strange space to help the Female Emperor fight the mysterious figure, who recognized it and blamed it for his fall from the Immortal Domain.
• The next day, the Yuhua Great Emperor visited Luo Yan, who invited him in and revealed that Ye Nannan was the future Female Emperor.
• The Yuhua Great Emperor said he did not resent the Female Emperor for destroying his Feathered Divine Dynasty, since its foundation and its treatment of her brother had been wrong.
• The Yuhua Great Emperor noticed that Luo Yan followed the Chaotic Ancient Era cultivation system and warned that its path might have been severed.
• The Yuhua Great Emperor asked Luo Yan to mediate with the Female Emperor, and Luo Yan said the Great Emperor's descendants were responsible for the feud.

Yuhua Great Emperor warned Luo Yan that Forbidden Zone Supremes planned to ambush the Female Emperor, then departed. Luo Yan began training Ye Ping in the Dao Scripture, determined to help him grow strong enough to rewrite history, but wondered whether Ye Ping’s survival would change Ye Fan’s future.

• Yuhua Great Emperor asked Luo Yan to convey his wish for peace to the Female Emperor and warned that Forbidden Zone Supremes wanted to kill her present self.
• Ye Ping agreed to cultivate so he could protect his little sister, and Luo Yan warned him that powerful enemies awaited.
• Luo Yan identified Ye Ping as possessing the desolate ancient sacred body and explained its potential to challenge a Great Emperor.
• Luo Yan taught Ye Ping the four stages of the sea of bitterness secret realm and transmitted the Dao Scripture to him.
• Ye Ping vowed to master each realm and seek its strongest cultivation methods, while Luo Yan wondered whether Ye Ping was the same person as Ye Fan.

After Yuhua Great Emperor fell, Luo Yan left Ye Ping and his sister celebrating New Year to confront three ancient beings threatening the Life Planet. He used the great dao of time to force the Primordial Emperor to choose between stopping him in the past or risking Luo Yan hunting them through time, and the chapter ended as Luo Yan entered the flow of time.

• Luo Yan told Ye Ping to spend New Year with his sister while he traveled into the starry depths to face three terrifying beings.
• The Ancient Emperor attacked Luo Yan, who used Time Law to wither a Life Planet and destroy it completely.
• Luo Yan began following the Ancient Emperor's memories into the past, warning that he would kill him there unless all three enemies came to stop him.
• The Primordial Emperor threatened the Life Planet, but Luo Yan declared that he was the one setting the terms and threatened to erase their true bodies through time.
• Luo Yan entered the flow of time, overlapping with the Primordial Emperor as his body radiated decay.

Luo Yan invaded the Ancient Emperor’s memories through the Great Dao of Time and tried to stop him in the past, while the Ancient Emperor, the Heavenly Venerable, and the Demon Emperor pursued him. After Luo Yan was slain in the Valley of Myriad Spirits, the Ancient Emperor realized Luo Yan was approaching his Great Emperor Tribulation and could kill him in reality by changing events within the memory world.

• Luo Yan entered the Ancient Emperor’s memories and confronted him in the Valley of Myriad Spirits, declaring that he had come from the future to block his path.
• The Ancient Emperor shattered Luo Yan’s body, but Luo Yan revived through Reversal and continued fighting the Ancient Emperor, the Heavenly Venerable, and the Demon Emperor.
• After the three attacked Luo Yan more than a hundred times, he used a Time Law technique that withered the Valley of Myriad Spirits and provoked the Ancient Emperor from that era.
• The Ancient Emperor of that era killed Luo Yan, and the Ancient Emperor, the Heavenly Venerable, and the Demon Emperor fled upstream along the Long River of Time.
• The Ancient Emperor explained that events in the memory world could affect reality and rushed toward the time of his Great Emperor Tribulation to stop Luo Yan.

Luo Yan fought off the Supremes’ pursuit through the Great Dao of Time’s Flow, then negotiated a pact with the Ancient Emperor to limit battles between them to opponents within specified cultivation gaps. The Demon Emperor and Heavenly Venerable accepted the agreement, though all four knew it would only delay their eventual fight to the death.

• The Demon Emperor stayed behind to fight Luo Yan’s incarnation while the Heavenly Venerable and Ancient Emperor pursued Luo Yan through time.
• Luo Yan created another incarnation to hold off the Heavenly Venerable and continued upstream, leaving the Ancient Emperor to confront him near the depths of the memories.
• Luo Yan warned the Ancient Emperor that he would use ultimate sublimation and risk taking him down with him, prompting the Ancient Emperor to propose a pact.
• Luo Yan and the Ancient Emperor agreed to limit fights by cultivation realm, with a maximum gap of one major realm before the Immortal Platform and two afterward.
• The Demon Emperor and Heavenly Venerable arrived and accepted the pact, while all four recognized that a future battle would end with one side dead.