Chapter Summaries

Xie Changsheng reached the Ancient Netherworld’s sealed underground palace to borrow its Time-Flowing Quicksand Formation for a thousand years, offering to clear the remaining Filth Demons in exchange. He discovered the formation’s Time Amber had been drained over generations and its remaining power was useless to him at the middle stage of Mystic Immortal.

• Xie Changsheng and his party forced the three Demon Ancestors to lead them toward the Ancient Netherworld’s supreme treasure while Commander Li mocked their titles and Ao Lie warned them not to delay.
• Xie Changsheng told the Demon Ancestors he would borrow the Time-Flowing Quicksand Formation for a thousand years and clear out the remaining Filth Demons as payment, and they reluctantly agreed.
• The party passed through the Ancestral Court’s restrictions and entered a sealed underground palace, where Xie Changsheng sensed the Law of Time and wondered whether Shi Yin had left the treasure behind.
• A Demon Ancestor opened the altar and revealed a fist-sized piece of amber, prompting Ao Lie to accuse them of trying to deceive the party.
• Xie Changsheng realized the Ancient Netherworld’s rulers had used up most of the Time Amber’s power over the years, leaving too little for his cultivation.

Xie Changsheng absorbed the remaining Time Amber and was swept into the River of Time, which carried him back to his days laboring on the Immortal Realm’s Mining Star. As the timeline rejected his attempt to approach his past self, he was pulled away again, leaving behind a fragment of the Shi Yin Dao Foundation that had once saved him.

• Xie Changsheng tried to absorb the depleted Time Amber, triggering a violent temporal storm that overwhelmed Ao Lie, Commander Li, and the three Ninth-Rank Demon Ancestors.
• The storm carried Xie Changsheng into the River of Time, which pulled him upstream and deposited him in the Mining Star’s mine.
• Xie Changsheng saw Overseer Fatty Wang and his past self, newly ascended and still mining under guard.
• When Xie Changsheng tried to approach his past self, the world rejected him and the Time Amber shattered.
• A temporal vortex dragged Xie Changsheng away, and he saw a fragment of the Shi Yin Dao Foundation fall behind a rock near his past self.

Xie Changsheng survived a dangerous encounter with the law of time and broke through to the late-stage Mystic Immortal realm. He realized time travel might be possible in both directions, but feared that his future self—and perhaps everyone across the Myriad Heavens and Worlds—might not exist.

• Xie Changsheng spat blood and collapsed after the temporal storm, alarming Ao Lie and Commander Li.
• Xie Changsheng awakened in sudden enlightenment as the formation's remaining time laws gathered around him, and Ao Lie and Commander Li guarded him.
• Xie Changsheng's cultivation surged from mid-stage to late-stage Mystic Immortal in less than an hour.
• Xie Changsheng reasoned that the river of time could carry him into the future, that travel required an anchor near himself, and that surviving contact with himself might require an immortal king's body.
• Xie Changsheng considered why his future self had never helped him and feared that he, Zhou Yan, Song Chi, and everyone in the Myriad Heavens and Worlds might have no future.

After reaching late-stage Mystic Immortal, Xie Changsheng contacted his companions through a newly created cross-plane group chat, and they agreed to return to the Forgotten River to find out what had happened to Si Chen. The chapter ended with Song Chi fighting enemies and suddenly going silent after a violent explosion.

• Xie Changsheng recovered from his breakthrough, thanked Ao Lie and Commander Li for guarding him, and asked how many Demon Race lower realms existed.
• Xie Changsheng received a message from Zhou Yan, who explained that he and Murong Li had connected everyone across planes using seventy-two formations and the Fusang Divine Tree.
• Zhou Yan, Luo Hongyi, Black Mountain, and Xie Changsheng discussed the celestial upheaval and concluded that Si Chen had intervened, but seemed to be struggling.
• Xie Changsheng and the others agreed to finish their current missions and return to the Forgotten River to investigate Si Chen's situation.
• Song Chi said he was fighting a pack of enemies, then cried out after an explosion and fell silent.

Song Chi was overwhelmed by Filth Demons in the Soaring Cloud Realm after they mistook him for Cang Xuan, while his companions coordinated their return to Undying Mountain. He ended the chapter surrounded by demons, fighting to protect his face and pants as the group’s Communication Talisman connected.

• Xie Changsheng and the others agreed to meet at Undying Mountain, assuming Song Chi could handle himself in the Lower Realm.
• Song Chi joined the Immortal Realm army’s campaign in the Soaring Cloud Realm and relished the attention he received while fighting.
• A sudden upheaval caused the Filth Demons to multiply and identify Song Chi as Cang Xuan, then swarm him while ignoring the rest of the army.
• Song Chi charged into the demons to preserve his image, but they grabbed at him and tried to pull down his pants.
• Zhou Yan and the others connected through the Communication Talisman as Song Chi struggled to fend off the demons and told them he would join them later.
• A demon struck Song Chi in the face, and he shouted for it not to hit him there.

Song Chi escaped the Filth Demons with Han Ling’s help, then returned to the battlefield to set a trap and reveal his ability to blend immortal and demonic qi. He activated a new sword formation against the trapped demons, leaving its power and the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Shadowstrike dragged Song Chi away from the Filth Demons, and Han Ling sheltered him from the pursuing creatures.
• Song Chi realized the Filth Demons were calling him Cang Xuan and asked Han Ling to buy him an incense stick’s worth of time.
• Song Chi laid a formation across the battlefield while Han Ling and her army covered him and contained the Filth Demons.
• Song Chi told Han Ling to retreat, then revealed a formation powered by perfectly blended immortal and demonic qi.
• Song Chi declared that the demons’ blood would consecrate his newly comprehended sword art and commanded the formation to rise.

Song Chi used the completed Sword Formation to slaughter the Filth Demons, but the demonic side overwhelmed him with their memories and obsessions. He realized the filth was every living being’s longing to survive and opened his Divine Sense to command it.

• Song Chi completed the Sword Formation, alarming Han Ling with its immense power.
• Song Chi unleashed the immortal sword formation, swiftly killing the Filth Demons on its side.
• Han Ling noticed the demonic side was killing the Filth Demons far more slowly.
• Song Chi discovered the demonic formation was devouring the Filth Demons and flooding his mind with their memories.
• Song Chi recognized the filth as living beings’ unwillingness to die and opened his Divine Sense to command it.

Song Chi risked his consciousness by embracing the tormented souls within the demonic qi, transforming them into shadow soldiers who pledged themselves to him. After declaring his path to be “Teach All Without Discrimination,” he collapsed and asked Han Ling to take him back to Undying Mountain.

• Han Ling held her troops back as Song Chi’s divine sense let demonic qi overwhelm the Four Extremes Sword Formation.
• Song Chi resisted Cang Xuan’s forceful suppression and accepted the filth demons as living beings, calming their rage.
• Thousands of shadow figures emerged from the demonic tide and knelt to Song Chi, then vanished into his shadow when he declared his new path.
• Song Chi collapsed from the pain of the memories flooding his mind, and Han Ling caught him.
• Song Chi asked Han Ling to take him back to the Forgotten River and Undying Mountain before passing out.

Song Chi collapsed after dispelling the Filth Demons and saving the Soaring Cloud Realm, leaving him overwhelmed by the countless obsessions he had taken on. Han Ling and his friends rushed him toward Undying Mountain for help, while Luo Hongyi began imagining a place to shelter and cleanse wandering souls.

• Han Ling found Song Chi unconscious but alive, protected by nine strands of sword intent, as the people of the Soaring Cloud Realm bowed in gratitude for his victory.
• Han Ling ordered the army to secure the Soaring Cloud Realm and carried Song Chi aboard an Immortal Ship toward Undying Mountain.
• Xie Changsheng, Zhou Yan, Luo Hongyi, Murong Li, Black Mountain, and Red Wind met Han Ling in the Fusang Divine Tree and were horrified by Song Chi's condition.
• Zhou Yan and Murong Li failed to untangle Song Chi's karma, and Xie Changsheng could not reverse his injuries with the Law of Time.
• Han Ling persuaded Song Chi's friends to stop trying to absorb the obsessions and hurry to Undying Mountain, where Brother Si might help him.
• Luo Hongyi wondered where the world's unresolved souls could find refuge and imagined a place that could shelter and cleanse them.

Xie Changsheng and the others returned to Undying Mountain with the gravely injured Song Chi, only to find the household stricken with grief. They discovered Si Chen bearing the weight of the Myriad Heavens and Worlds’ karma, his hair turned white, and he told them to set Song Chi down.

• Commander Han Ling brought the Immortal Ship to Undying Mountain, then departed to return to the Soaring Cloud Realm.
• Xie Changsheng and the others found Gray Gray subdued and the Si Household Members in tears as they carried Song Chi toward the rear courtyard.
• Li Tiezhu silently guarded Si Chen’s courtyard entrance and let the group pass.
• Xie Changsheng and the others saw Si Chen with completely white hair, bearing the karma of the Myriad Heavens and Worlds.
• Si Chen calmly stopped their questions and told them to set Song Chi down.

Si Chen explained that Song Chi’s Obsessions, rather than the demonic energy, were killing him, and that forcefully burning them away would destroy his Divine Soul. He gave Luo Hongyi a seed of the Great Dream Dao so her zither music could soothe the Obsessions, and she began playing as one of them found comfort in a dream of his mother.

• Si Chen examined Song Chi and said he could not save him by force because the Obsessions in his Sea of Consciousness would take his Divine Soul with them.
• Si Chen recalled the Mirage Dragon’s Great Dream Dao and proposed resolving the Obsessions by giving them farewells rather than destroying them.
• Si Chen entrusted Luo Hongyi with a seed of the Great Dream Dao and told her to use her zither music to soothe Song Chi’s Spiritual Terrace.
• Luo Hongyi played her Jade Zither, and Song Chi’s anguished expression began to relax.
• In Song Chi’s Sea of Consciousness, a starving child reunited with his dead mother in a dream, ate her porridge, and became a speck of pure white light.

Luo Hongyi’s zither granted tormented souls the peaceful endings they had longed for, dissolving their resentment and allowing Song Chi to break through to the late-stage Mystic Immortal realm. She recorded the souls’ names, lives, and final wishes in Si Chen’s transformed notebook, and Si Chen recognized that she had found her own Dao.

• Luo Hongyi’s zither gave a fallen soldier and a dead dog the reunions they had yearned for, allowing their souls to dissolve peacefully.
• The resolved obsessions calmed the conflicting energies inside Song Chi, and he advanced to the late-stage Mystic Immortal realm, just half a step from the Golden Immortal tribulation.
• Luo Hongyi opened Si Chen’s transformed notebook and drew the souls’ imprints from Song Chi into a blank page.
• The page recorded each soul’s name, life, and final wish, prompting Xie Changsheng to recognize it as a ledger of life and death.
• Si Chen congratulated Luo Hongyi on finding her own Dao, which he described as a Dao of reincarnation.

Luo Hongyi accepted the booklet and promised to remember Si Chen’s words, while Song Chi recovered from the Great Dream Dao’s effects and discovered he had broken through to the late-stage Mystic Immortal realm. He then saw Si Chen’s snow-white hair and overwhelming aura, and realized that something terrible had happened while he was unconscious.

• Luo Hongyi hugged the booklet and firmly promised to remember Si Chen’s words.
• Song Chi indulged in a delusional dream, and Xie Changsheng and Zhou Yan joked about killing him until Si Chen stopped them.
• Xie Changsheng kicked Song Chi awake, and Zhou Yan explained that Si Chen, Luo Hongyi, and Commander Han had brought him back to Undying Mountain.
• Song Chi realized his immortal and demonic energies had harmonized and that he had advanced to the late-stage Mystic Immortal realm, nearing Golden Immortal.
• Song Chi noticed Si Chen’s white hair and oppressive aura, asked what had happened, and could not smile at Si Chen’s teasing explanation.

Si Chen told the Undying Mountain group that Taichu was his other self, born alongside him, and had detonated the foundational laws to return the worlds to chaos. With Taichu gone and the end still looming, Si Chen asked whether they were ready to oppose him to save the Myriad Heavens and Worlds.

• Si Chen gathered the group in the courtyard and explained what he and the Eleven Immortal Emperors had discovered in the Demon Realm and the Origin Realm.
• Zhou Yan reacted with shock when Si Chen revealed that Taichu was not a counterfeit but a genuine other version of himself.
• Si Chen explained that he and Taichu had once been two connected sides of one body, and that Taichu had detonated the foundational laws of the myriad worlds.
• Xie Changsheng and Zhou Yan realized Si Chen had sacrificed himself to hold the collapsing worlds together, and Si Chen comforted them without explaining his choice.
• Si Chen warned that Taichu might return to bring about the true end and asked whether they were ready to make an enemy of him.

Si Chen transported the Eastern Region Crew to a dead star to show them the difference between his strength and theirs, then suppressed his cultivation to their Mystic Immortal realm and invited them to attack. Their first coordinated assault failed, and Black Mountain and Red Wind were sent crashing away by Si Chen’s effortless kicks.

• Song Chi tried to dispel the group’s gloom by boasting that he and the others could join forces to defeat Taichu.
• Si Chen warned the group that Taichu was no counterfeit and that they misunderstood his strength, then used Great Void Shift to transport them to a barren dead star.
• Si Chen unleashed his aura, overwhelmed the group, and showed them that his apparent weakness had misled them.
• Si Chen suppressed his cultivation to Mystic Immortal and challenged the group to use their strongest attacks or risk dying.
• Xie Changsheng, Luo Hongyi, Black Mountain, and Red Wind launched a coordinated attack, but Si Chen calmly evaded them and kicked Black Mountain and Red Wind through two mountaintops.

Si Chen defeated the Eastern Region’s all-star team while teaching its members how to deepen their powers. The battle ended with him dismantling Song Chi’s sword formation and showing him what a true killing formation required.

• Si Chen shattered Zhou Yan and Murong Li’s chessboard formation, then used the eight trigrams to unravel their karma and fate and wound them.
• Xie Changsheng stopped time to attack Si Chen, but Si Chen split into his past, present, and future selves, stopped Xie’s time, and struck him down.
• Luo Hongyi drew Si Chen into a dream of a peaceful life on Undying Mountain, but Si Chen shattered the illusion and taught her to establish rules in her music.
• Song Chi and the others trapped Si Chen in a formation of immortal and demonic sword energy, but Si Chen walked through it unharmed.
• Si Chen told Song Chi to create his own sword formation and taught him the four intents of Execution, Slaughter, Ensnarement, and Annihilation before dismantling the formation.

Si Chen demonstrated four devastating sword strikes to help Song Chi break through his old understanding, then healed his friends after defeating them. He goaded the Eastern Region Crew into charging him again, and their repeated clashes began rapidly transforming their understanding of the laws.

• Si Chen showed Song Chi the forms of Execution, Slaughter, Ensnarement, and Annihilation, pushing him to the brink of death before flicking him away.
• Si Chen healed Xie Changsheng, Zhou Yan, Luo Hongyi, Murong Li, Black Mountain, Red Wind, and Song Chi with the Yi Wood Eternal Spring Art.
• Si Chen mocked his friends for failing to challenge him, reigniting their fighting spirit.
• Red Wind rallied the Eastern Region Crew to pluck a hair from Si Chen, and they charged him again across Desolate Star.
• As Si Chen repeatedly defeated, injured, and healed them, the laws emanating from the crew transformed at a terrifying speed.

Xie Changsheng and the Eastern Region Crew fought Si Chen on a Desolate Star and managed to pluck one of his white hairs before he healed them and brought them back to Undying Mountain. They discovered that their long battle had lasted only half a breath in the courtyard.

• Xie Changsheng pushed the Law of Time to its limit during the crew’s coordinated attack and emerged with a white hair from Si Chen.
• Xie Changsheng and the Eastern Region Crew celebrated their apparent victory, while Si Chen wondered whether he had held back or their teamwork had truly created an opening.
• Si Chen healed the injured crew, opened a spatial rift with Great Void Shift, and led them back to Undying Mountain.
• Li Tiezhu charged into the courtyard to defend Si Chen, then panicked when he saw him standing and thought he was making a final rally before death.
• Li Tiezhu told the crew that only half a breath had passed, astonishing them after their prolonged battle on the Desolate Star.

Xie Changsheng told Si Chen and their friends how he traveled through time and gave his past self the law of time, prompting Si Chen to arrange help finding more Time Amber. The gathering turned to Song Chi naming his sword formation, and Li Tiezhu was left shocked by the name he proposed and the Black Staff in his hands.

• Si Chen explained that he had stretched a moment by borrowing Xie Changsheng's law of time, then invited Li Tiezhu into the courtyard for tea.
• Xie Changsheng recounted meeting Shi Yin's lingering image and described his journey through time, including sending the law of time to his past self.
• Si Chen offered to have the army search Demon Race Ancestral Courts for Time Amber to help Xie Changsheng cultivate.
• Song Chi announced he still needed a name for his sword formation, and Xie Changsheng mocked him by suggesting the Crotch-Guard Grand Formation.
• Li Tiezhu blurted out the name Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, which Song Chi eagerly adopted.
• Li Tiezhu stared at Song Chi and the Black Staff marked Ruyi, and wondered in shock where he had ended up.

Li Tiezhu feared that the place he had hoped to return to did not exist, but Si Chen helped him realize that his knowledge of the future meant his home still lay ahead. Li Tiezhu regained his spirits, and Si Chen said his journey had only just begun.

• Li Tiezhu recognized the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation’s name and feared it proved his home, the Blue Planet, did not exist.
• Si Chen noticed Li Tiezhu’s distress and invited him to sit and explain his worry indirectly.
• Black Mountain told Li Tiezhu he could build a place that did not exist, while Si Chen asked him to consider what knowing tomorrow’s fruit meant.
• Li Tiezhu realized that seeing the future meant the tree had survived the storm, and concluded that his road home still existed.
• Li Tiezhu cheered up, embraced Song Chi, and praised his formation before Si Chen sent him to clean up the porcelain shards.
• Luo Hongyi asked whether Li Tiezhu was all right, and Si Chen reassured her that his journey had only just begun.