Chapter Summaries

Luo Yan visited Miaoyu Nunnery to investigate a mysterious hostility, where Li Qingyue discovered his presence and confronted him over visiting a pleasure establishment. After he explained and gave her Yan Ruyu’s medicine king, the two reconciled, but Yan Ruyu later drank medicinal broth made from the same medicine king, which the Green Lotus Emperor Weapon had secretly enhanced.

• Big Black Dog, Dragon Horse, Donkey, and Tu Fei realized that the disguised Luo Ping was Luo Yan and hurried away, leaving him with Li Qingyue and Yan Ruyu.
• Li Qingyue angrily confronted Luo Yan about visiting Miaoyu Nunnery, and he explained that he had gone there to investigate a hostile presence.
• Yan Ruyu gave Luo Yan an old medicine king, which he passed to Li Qingyue before erasing the witnesses’ memories and leaving.
• Luo Yan found Li Qingyue, explained his suspicions about the forbidden-zone Supremes, and gave her the medicine king; they resolved their misunderstanding and parted.
• Li Qingyue refined the medicine king into broth and drank some, then gave the remainder to Yan Ruyu, who recognized its box and realized the broth had been tampered with.

Luo Yan fled from Li Qingyue after Yan Ruyu warned him she was furious over a medicine king, while Yan Ruyu concealed her own scheme and convinced Li Qingyue that Luo Yan had acted out of love. After Li Qingyue agreed to let the matter go, Luo Yan returned, failed to notice Yan Ruyu’s deception, and rewarded her with cultivation insights before asking to speak with the Green Lotus Emperor Weapon.

• Yan Ruyu warned Luo Yan that Li Qingyue blamed him for a cultivation mishap and was searching for him, so Luo Yan decided to lie low.
• Yan Ruyu claimed she had been harmed by the medicine king’s side effects while staying with Li Qingyue, and Luo Yan believed her account and promised to keep it secret.
• Luo Yan sensed Li Qingyue approaching and fled, while Yan Ruyu absorbed a wisp of his energy and strengthened her resolve to drug him.
• Li Qingyue confronted Yan Ruyu, but Yan Ruyu persuaded her that Luo Yan had tampered with the medicine king to provoke her jealousy and win her affection.
• Li Qingyue agreed not to pursue the matter, and Yan Ruyu told Luo Yan that she would speak to Li Qingyue herself.
• Luo Yan returned, decided the misunderstanding should be explained, gave Yan Ruyu his cultivation insights as compensation, and asked her to summon the Green Lotus Emperor Weapon.

Luo Yan took the Green Lotus Emperor Weapon from Yan Ruyu, met Jiang Taixu and arranged for him to oversee Ye Fan’s tribulation and Luo Yixian’s match while Luo Yan entered seclusion. He reassured Ye Fan about the Sacred Body’s curse, then watched as the Divine City gathered for the impending battle between Luo Yixian and the Golden-Winged Little Peng King.

• Luo Yan exposed the Green Lotus Emperor Weapon’s hiding place, seized it from Yan Ruyu, and told her he would return it after catching up with it.
• Jiang Taixu and Fairy Caiyun visited Luo Yan, offered ten million jin of source for Ye Fan, and agreed to watch Ye Fan’s tribulation and Luo Yixian’s match while Luo Yan entered seclusion.
• Luo Yan explained to Ye Fan that the Sacred Body’s curse came from the universe suppressing his Dao, and revealed that his three drops of divine blood had transformed his constitution.
• Luo Yan ordered Luo Yixian to leave the Green Lotus Emperor Weapon suspended above a latrine for three days after it commented on his feelings toward Ye Fan.
• Cultivators and heavenly prodigies gathered at the Divine City arena for Luo Yixian’s impending battle with the Golden-Winged Little Peng King.

Jiang Taixu arrived to preside over the gathering, where Luo Yixian made her first public appearance and agreed to face the Golden-Winged Little Peng King. The match was about to begin after she revealed she had reached Immortal Two but suppressed her cultivation to his realm.

• Jiang Taixu arrived and agreed to oversee the proceedings on Senior Luo's behalf.
• Luo Yixian appeared before the gathered cultivators, drawing attention to her beauty and formidable strength.
• Luo Tianlin rejected Li Heishui and Tu Fei's requests to lose to them so they could speak with Luo Yixian.
• The Dragon Horse, Donkey, and Big Black Dog schemed to become live-in sons-in-law before backing down when Luo Youyou warned them about the Ancestor.
• The Golden-Winged Little Peng King arrived and insisted on fighting Luo Yixian across realms, but she revealed her Immortal Two cultivation and lowered it to the Four Extremes Secret Realm.

Luo Yixian defeated the Golden-Winged Little Peng King, and the crowd turned its attention to Ye Fan’s upcoming tribulation. Luo Yan left his avatar with Li Qingyue and awakened his true body beneath the Desolate Forbidden Zone, where he began breaking the seal and triggered a terrifying disturbance.

• Luo Yixian fought the Golden-Winged Little Peng King with her broken mirror and the Thirty-Six Heavens manifestation, then defeated him in their decisive clash.
• The Golden-Winged Little Peng King accepted his defeat, and the Golden-Winged Roc King carried him away from the arena.
• Luo Yan told Li Qingyue he was going into seclusion, drank her medicinal soup without effect because he was using a puppet body, and revealed that his true body was beneath the Abyss in the Desolate Forbidden Zone.
• Luo Yan returned to his true body and challenged the seal bearing the Ruthless Great Emperor’s formation runes with his immortal Dao laws.
• A powerful aura and violent upheaval spread from the depths of the Desolate Forbidden Zone, causing beasts to flee and cultivators to kneel as they wondered whether a Great Emperor had awakened.

After waiting twelve years for Ancestor Luo, the Golden-Winged Little Peng King realized that Luo had been sealed inside the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land. As the Great Emperor’s formation began to break, a terrifying figure neared escape, leaving the cultivators of White Stone City bracing for disaster.

• The Golden-Winged Little Peng King corrected the cultivation scriptures of a group of young seekers, then admitted he considered himself a failure after losing to Ye Fan.
• A powerful spiritual energy tide erupted from the Desolate Forbidden Zone, and cultivators in White Stone City saw a Great Emperor’s formation breaking apart.
• The blast sent powerful weapons, including Saint Weapons, flying from the forbidden zone, prompting cultivators to rush there for treasure.
• The Golden-Winged Little Peng King recognized a divine sense and realized Ancestor Luo had been trapped inside the forbidden zone rather than refusing to meet him.
• A terrifying figure struck holes through the formation as onlookers feared it was a great demon sealed by a Human Race Great Emperor.

After escaping the Desolate Forbidden Zone, Luo Yan met Duan De while accompanying the Golden-Winged Little Peng King to seek treasures. Duan De recognized him from past encounters and suspected Luo Yan was the mysterious Mystic Emperor, leaving Luo Yan poised to learn what Duan De remembered about his appearances across different eras.

• Luo Yan revealed that he had escaped the seal and criticized the Golden-Winged Little Peng King for neglecting his cultivation.
• Luo Yan decided to follow Duan De and search for artifacts to give the Luo Family Juniors.
• Duan De tried to take a black warhammer from Si Tianyou, but Luo Yan and the Golden-Winged Little Peng King arrived and challenged him.
• Duan De recognized Luo Yan and accused him of deceiving him in the Primordial Ancient Mine, while Luo Yan asked whether he had remembered Cao Yusheng's identity.
• Duan De recalled meeting Luo Yan six thousand years earlier and hinted that he had seen him in other eras, prompting Luo Yan to send the Golden-Winged Little Peng King to clear the area.
• Duan De suspected Luo Yan was the Mystic Emperor who had rivaled Emperor Hengyu, and Luo Yan prepared to hear what he had uncovered about his past appearances.

Luo Yan learned from Duan De about the Mystic Emperor’s journey to another universe and the undying enemy he sealed away, then decided to investigate Purple Mountain. Before parting, he arranged to meet Duan De there and returned Si Tianyou’s damaged Saint Weapon, hoping it might help him survive the coming Dark Turmoil.

• Duan De told Luo Yan that the Mystic Emperor, the Ancient Emperor, and the Divine Light Great Emperor might have been the same person, and described the Mystic Emperor’s sealed enemy.
• Luo Yan told Duan De that the Mystic Emperor was his older brother and concluded the enemy should have been sealed in its own world; Duan De revealed that the Jiang Family might know which universe the Mystic Emperor visited.
• Luo Yan decided to search Purple Mountain for the Mystic Emperor’s biography and arranged to meet Duan De there in three days.
• Luo Yan had the Golden-Winged Little Peng King bring Si Tianyou back, then returned his black iron hammer and told him it was a damaged Saint Weapon.
• Luo Yan used his knowledge of Si Tianyou’s future to encourage him, hoping the weapon would improve his chances of surviving the Dark Turmoil.

Luo Yan sent the Golden-Winged Little Peng King to begin anew in another world, then recovered the broken Taihua Emperor Scripture fragments and reunited them with Great Emperor Taihua. The Time Mirror revealed that the Time Church had scattered Luo Yan’s avatars across the river of time; Void Emperor and Emperor Hengyu’s divine thoughts reached him, while the chapter ended as four ghost ships descended from beyond the heavens.

• Luo Yan told the Golden-Winged Little Peng King that defeat need not end his path and offered him a chance to start over in another world.
• Luo Yan gave the Golden-Winged Little Peng King a box of treasures to deliver to the Luo Family, then searched the Forbidden Zone and found the Taihua Emperor Scripture fragments.
• Luo Yan reunited the fragments with Great Emperor Taihua, and the Emperor Weapon began repairing itself beside its former master.
• The Time Mirror returned as a projection and told Luo Yan that the Time Church had attacked his avatars on the river of time, scattering them and leaving the Queen Mother of the West’s divine thoughts behind.
• Void Emperor and Emperor Hengyu’s divine thoughts awakened in the mirror shards and asked Luo Yan to summon their physical bodies.
• Ji Zi sensed Void Emperor’s divine thoughts through the Void Mirror, and four chained ghost ships appeared above the nine heavens.

The Void Emperor’s coffin and Emperor Hengyu’s body appeared and were drawn toward the heavenly road of the True Immortal. Ji Zi and Jiang Taixu tried to reclaim their ancestors, then glimpsed two figures at the road’s end.

• Four ghost ships dragged an enormous coffin toward the Big Dipper, and the Ji Family recognized its markings as belonging to the Void Emperor.
• The Void Mirror flew toward the coffin, while the Undying Mountain’s Supremes recalled the Void Emperor’s ancient battle against them.
• The heavenly road appeared, and Ji Zi attacked it with the Void Mirror to stop it from taking his father’s coffin.
• The Hengyu Furnace awakened, and Emperor Hengyu’s sunlike body arrived and was drawn toward the heavenly road.
• Jiang Taixu and Ji Zi pleaded for their ancestors’ bodies and prepared to risk their lives, but both bodies entered the road.
• Jiang Taixu and Ji Zi glimpsed two figures through the mist at the end of the heavenly road.

Jiang Taixu concealed what he and Ji Zi had learned about the heavenly road while warning the Holy Lords that it had become a deadly road of blood. At Purple Mountain, Luo Yan and Duan De joined three Heavenly One Sect disciples and found a dangerous pair of yin-yang eyes blocking their way.

• Jiang Taixu told the Holy Lords that the heavenly road devoured anyone who set foot on it, but hid his knowledge that legendary figures might be revived there.
• Luo Yan and Duan De explored the bone-strewn approach to Purple Mountain and discovered a Dao-Slaying King demon chained inside a black hole.
• Mo Xuan, Yuwen Hao, and Du Ruolin invited Luo Yan and Duan De to travel with them, and they recognized Luo Yan's name but did not realize he was the Luo Family Ancestor.
• The group passed from the corpse-filled mine into a radiant region where source qi had formed strange creatures, and Duan De concluded that divine source lay nearby.
• The group reached a pair of yin-yang eyes surrounded by the pierced skeletons of powerful cultivators and realized they could not safely approach the source qi within.

Luo Yan led Duan De, Mo Xuan, Du Ruolin, and Yuwen Hao beneath the Yin-Yang Eyes, where they gathered Source before entering Purple Mountain. Inside, they uncovered traces of ancient figures and encountered primordial creatures, then found the Yaochi Saintess Yang Yi sealed in Divine Source.

• Luo Yan spread his divine power around the group and safely brought them beneath the Yin-Yang Eyes, where they found a vast Source cavern and a mountain-sized piece of Divine Source.
• Luo Yan took the Divine Source and a sword formed from it, while Duan De, Mo Xuan, Du Ruolin, and Yuwen Hao gathered high-quality Source.
• Luo Yan opened a way into Purple Mountain, and the group followed him through the closing rock to a jade gateway and a cavernous complex.
• Duan De read inscriptions left by past visitors, and Luo Yan said that Gu Tianshu might still be alive.
• Luo Yan broke the demonic influence drawing the group deeper into Purple Mountain and warned the primordial creatures not to cause trouble.
• The group found a beautiful woman sealed in Divine Source, and Luo Yan identified her as the Yaochi Saintess Yang Yi from ten thousand years ago.

Luo Yan and his companions ventured deeper into Purple Mountain, where he encountered the Wushi Emperor Bell and awakened its divine spirit. The bell recognized a connection to Luo Yan’s past and began recounting rumors about his supposed courtship of the Queen Mother of the West, while Duan De secretly listened.

• Luo Yan destroyed a ghost and Duan De burned away the weak Yin Soldiers as the group followed the Green Jade Steps deeper into Purple Mountain.
• Primordial creatures attacked Duan De, but Luo Yan protected him and crushed the creatures with his aura.
• The group found the Wushi Emperor Bell, and its restriction threw Duan De back when he tried to touch it.
• The Wushi Bell awakened, rang through Purple Mountain, and recognized Luo Yan, alarming powerful figures across the world.
• Luo Yan sent Mo Xuan, Yuwen Hao, Du Ruolin, and Duan De to search elsewhere while he spoke with the bell.
• The Wushi Bell claimed Luo Yan had once brought gifts to the Yaochi Holy Land to propose to the Queen Mother of the West, while Duan De eavesdropped.

Luo Yan learned that Great Emperor Wushi was alive, then took Duan De into Purple Mountain’s sealed depths, where they found a spiritually rich minor world full of primordial creatures. They crossed a lake of weak water toward an island after its master opened a path, with powerful sealed creatures watching them from beneath the source.

• Luo Yan confirmed to the Wushi Bell that Great Emperor Wushi was still alive, and the bell trembled with relief.
• Duan De abandoned his search for the Wushi Emperor Scripture and joined Luo Yan on the route to the primordial creatures’ prison.
• Luo Yan and Duan De entered a minor world within Purple Mountain and saw its vast forest, lake, and extraordinary spiritual energy.
• Luo Yan crushed groups of approaching primordial creatures with one palm, and the rest retreated as the pair crossed the forest to the lakeshore.
• Duan De recognized the lake as weak water and began collecting it, but the water parted to reveal a path toward the island.
• Duan De threatened the primordial creatures sealed beneath the lake’s source as Luo Yan led the way toward the island.

Luo Yan and Duan De discovered that Great Emperor Wushi had sealed a mysterious woman within a flawless formation on the island, sustained by primordial creatures and weak water. After reaching the island and finding its extraordinary medicines, Luo Yan met the woman and learned she came from another universe and wanted to return home.

• Duan De recognized the Symbiotic Spirit-Locking Grand Formation beneath the lake and explained how it imprisoned the woman by drawing power from sealed primordial creatures and weak water.
• Luo Yan rejected Duan De's suggestion to leave, and they crossed the lake to the island.
• Duan De greedily dug up spirit medicines and spirit-breathing soil while Luo Yan continued toward the island's center.
• Luo Yan found an elf-like woman fused with an ancient Divine Vine and recognized the aura of the other universe in her.
• The woman said she meant no harm, identified herself as an outsider, and revealed that an ancient book recorded her homeland and that she wanted to return there.
• Luo Yan realized her homeland was the universe where the Mystic Emperor had attained his Dao and concluded that he would have to travel beyond the blood-colored void.

Luo Yan learned from the woman sealed by Great Emperor Wushi that Divine Venerables drew immortal power and resurrection from their worlds’ world trees, but faced periodic tribulations that required them to replace their Dao Fruits with worlds they had refined. The woman agreed to surrender her divine soul so Luo Yan would free her and help her return to the Mystic Origin Continent before her tribulation expired.

• The sealed woman revealed that she came from the Mystic Origin Continent and explained how great thousand worlds and Divine Venerables differed from Luo Yan’s universe.
• She told Luo Yan that Divine Venerables gained immortality through Dao Fruits on world trees, but had to refine new worlds to survive tribulations every thirty thousand years.
• Luo Yan suspected the woman had tried to refine his universe and learned that she had been sealed by Great Emperor Wushi for over a hundred thousand years.
• Luo Yan refused to release her without control of her soul, and she agreed because her Dao tribulation was nearing its limit.
• The woman revealed that she had planned to refine Luo Yan’s universe into a replacement Dao Fruit, which would grant her far more time than refining a lesser thousand world.

Luo Yan freed Green Wan from the Divine Vine and left Purple Mountain with her and Duan De. Green Wan joined the group under Luo Yan’s control, while Duan De learned about her connection to Great Emperor Wushi and the party prepared to depart.

• Green Wan gave Luo Yan her Life Soul, putting her life in his hands, and Luo Yan freed her by breaking the formation.
• Duan De met Green Wan, who refined the primordial creatures beneath the lake into a pill; Luo Yan claimed the Source from the lakebed.
• Green Wan refined the lake and island as she left, and Duan De questioned Luo Yan about letting her go; Green Wan revealed that her life belonged to her master.
• Green Wan traded Duan De a piece of Sun Divine Wood for information about Great Emperor Wushi, and Duan De returned with a bruised face.
• Green Wan’s allure affected Mo Xuan, Yuwen Hao, and Du Ruolin until Luo Yan told her to suppress it, and the group left Purple Mountain.

Luo Yan and his companions opened a passage to the Mystic Origin Continent, but the century-long crossing was interrupted when Luo Yan entered the River of Time and encountered a phantom with his face. The phantom warned that Luo Yan had little time left before the river’s waves swallowed him.

• Luo Yan revealed the Desolate Heavenly Emperor’s connection to Duan De’s tomb robbing, prompting Duan De to enter seclusion as memories awakened.
• Luo Yan, Duan De, Green Wan, and the Golden-Winged Little Peng King traveled to the Boundary Stone Gate, where Green Wan opened a passage between worlds and Luo Yan blocked the forces trying to seal it.
• The group entered the passage toward the Mystic Origin Continent, and Luo Yan sensed a projection of the Immortal Domain before withdrawing into seclusion.
• Luo Yan used two broken mirror fragments to enter the River of Time and tried to travel upstream toward the era before the Immortal Domain shattered.
• A phantom with Luo Yan’s face emerged from the river, announced that it had found him, and warned that he had little time left before a wave swallowed him.

Luo Yan settled into Stone Village during the era of the Desolate Heavenly Emperor, trying to stay unnoticed while teaching the children and nourishing the willow. As Stone Village’s hunters left to seek food amid strange disturbances in the mountains, the willow’s lone branch suddenly moved.

• Luo Yan watched the children train and worried that the Desolate Heavenly Emperor might be observing him in Stone Village.
• Shi Yunfeng agreed that Little Dot could begin learning to read with the other children, and the villagers warned Luo Yan about dangerous creatures moving through the mountains.
• Shi Linhu argued that Stone Village had to hunt despite the danger, and Shi Yunfeng led the hunters in praying to the Guardian Spirit before they departed.
• Luo Yan taught the children common characters while Shi Yunfeng taught them Bone Inscriptions, and Luo Yan reflected on the years he had spent in Stone Village.
• The lightning-struck willow’s lone branch suddenly moved while Luo Yan sat beneath it, feeding it immortal qi.

Luo Yan studied the River of Time and forged the beginnings of his own Time Scripture while Willow God remained unresponsive. Stone Village celebrated a successful hunt, and Clan Chief Shi Yunfeng recounted how the lightning-struck willow had arrived decades earlier, around the time the villagers rescued Luo Yan.

• Luo Yan found that the Time Mirror's arts matched the River of Time and began creating the Time Scripture, though its first three secret arts remained imperfect.
• Little Dot and the five-colored bird stayed near the willow as Luo Yan sensed the returning hunters before they appeared.
• Shi Linhu explained that the hunters had gathered their abundant prey from beasts injured or killed by a colossal creature with enormous human-shaped footprints.
• Shi Yunfeng led Stone Village in offering the hunted beasts to the silent willow and told a youth that the ceremony expressed their sincerity.
• Shi Yunfeng recalled that a towering willow had fallen into Stone Village amid a storm decades earlier, and that villagers had rescued Luo Yan soon afterward.