Chapter Summaries

After learning that his former-life name was Yu Jiutian, Zhou Yan accepted that he was Zhou Yan in this life and reflected on the others advancing through the River Chart World. Meanwhile, Li Tiezhu returned to training after Wang Yan scolded him, while an unknown visitor appeared in his Sea of Consciousness: Taichu.

• After Zhu Yao identified Zhou Yan as Jiutian, he accepted the name but resolved to live as Zhou Yan in this life.
• Zhou Yan watched Song Chi’s Immortal King Tribulation and considered the progress of Black Mountain, Red Wind, Fairy Luo, and Murong Li.
• Li Tiezhu returned to the River Chart World after nearly a year away, and Wang Yan reprimanded him for neglecting cultivation.
• Li Tiezhu promised to mend his ways and began training with his Black Staff.
• The system felt growing unease and heard footsteps in Li Tiezhu’s Sea of Consciousness.
• Taichu emerged from the shadows and stopped before the system.

Taichu confronted the system inside Li Tiezhu’s Sea of Consciousness and revealed that he had created it as one of many failed attempts to mend the world. After restoring the system’s sealed memories, Taichu left it recognizing its original mission and kneeling as his subordinate, Heaven Mender.

• Taichu appeared in Li Tiezhu’s Sea of Consciousness and immobilized the system, which recognized him with terror.
• Taichu told the system he had created it and abandoned it as a failed choice, prompting it to recall that its origins had once been erased.
• Taichu explained that he had made many attempts to mend the wounded world, including tracing the source of Filth and trying to save the Myriad Heavens and Worlds without erasing them.
• Taichu told the system that it now had another use and broke a seal in its consciousness, restoring its memories of its original purpose and its connection to Li Tiezhu.
• The system stopped resisting, knelt before Taichu, and identified itself as Heaven Mender, his subordinate.

Li Tiezhu distrusted the system when it offered him powerful cultivation treasures for free, but relaxed after it restored its familiar insults and charged him a billion points. He began advancing rapidly by consuming pills, while Wang Yan mistook his arguments with the system for a noble sacrifice and resolved to help him.

• The system offered Li Tiezhu pills and meditation treasures at no cost, but he suspected a trap and refused to use them.
• The system berated Li Tiezhu and charged him a billion points, reassuring him that it was acting like its usual self.
• Li Tiezhu swallowed a Nine-Revolution Black-and-Yellow Pill and meditated on a sudden-enlightenment cushion.
• Li Tiezhu began asking the system to insult him every ten days or half a month before taking valuable pills and rapidly advancing his cultivation.
• Wang Yan believed Li Tiezhu was sacrificing his sanity to help their master bear the burden of the Myriad Heavens and Worlds, and vowed not to let him fight alone.

Taichu and Si Chen debated whether mortal emotions could help repair the incomplete River Chart Small World, while Taichu gave the world a hidden boost of innate origin source qi. That power awakened Luo Hongyi’s understanding of reincarnation and sent her into the Immortal King Tribulation.

• Taichu watched the River Chart Small World and met Si Chen, who offered him tea.
• Taichu argued that resentment, greed, and fear bred filth, while Si Chen defended vitality shaped by mortal attachments.
• Taichu challenged Si Chen’s plan for the Book of Life and Death and Six Paths of Reincarnation, warning that he would take over if it failed.
• Taichu vanished, leaving his teacup to dissolve into innate origin source qi that stabilized the Small World’s laws.
• The origin source qi reached Luo Hongyi’s cave and resonated with her life-bound book, clarifying the laws she had struggled to understand.
• Luo Hongyi broke through her golden immortal peak bottleneck, and the Immortal King Tribulation began.

Song Chi survived his Immortal King Tribulation, then discovered that Fairy Luo was undergoing one of her own. Little Lei carefully tempered Luo Hongyi with lightning but blasted Song Chi when he protested, leaving him to retreat in a fury.

• Song Chi awakened in the crater after his tribulation and realized he had reached the Immortal King Realm, then found a black robe and convinced himself the wind had covered him while he was unconscious.
• Song Chi noticed new tribulation clouds over Fairy Luo’s cave abode, and the Eastern Region patriarchs recognized that Qingyin was about to become an Immortal King.
• Little Lei saw Luo Hongyi meditating with a glowing book and carefully controlled her tribulation to strengthen her Dao Foundation without damaging the book.
• Song Chi watched Little Lei treat Luo Hongyi gently and complained that his own tribulation had been far harsher.
• Little Lei struck Song Chi with lightning, sending him flying, and Song Chi limped away rather than risk another blow.

Luo Hongyi attained the Immortal King Realm and, amid a valley of Other Shore Flowers, explained her vision of reincarnation to Si Chen. She concluded that souls must forget their past lives and proposed Forgotten River Water as the means, causing her little booklet to tremble.

• Luo Hongyi completed her Immortal King Tribulation, and Other Shore Flowers bloomed throughout the valley.
• Luo Hongyi named the flowers and welcomed Si Chen, who praised her Dao as they shared tea.
• Si Chen asked Luo Hongyi whether she supported restoring the memories of Changsheng's previous life, and she said she opposed it.
• Luo Hongyi argued that reincarnation required people to forget their past lives so old memories would not corrupt new relationships and moral bonds.
• Luo Hongyi declared that all who entered reincarnation must drink Forgotten River Water, and her little booklet began to tremble.

Si Chen advised Luo Hongyi to use warm soup made with Other Shore Flowers to help departed souls release their obsessions and enter reincarnation. He sent her to ask Wang Yan to make it, but she found him practicing with flying scallions and doubted the plan.

• Si Chen rejected Luo Hongyi’s suggestions of magic treasures, immortal pills, and wine for the place of reincarnation, explaining that warm soup would comfort departed souls without harming them.
• Si Chen gave Luo Hongyi an Other Shore Flower and told her to ask Wang Yan to make the Forgotten River Water, warning her to make him go easy on the scallions.
• Luo Hongyi followed Wang Yan’s aura to a valley and saw scallions flying through the air as he summoned a giant scallion and declared that only scallions remained unbroken.
• Luo Hongyi watched Wang Yan wield the scallion and wondered whether he could be trusted with the departed souls’ final resting place.

Luo Hongyi entrusted Wang Yan with using the Other Shore Flower to make Forgotten River Water, while Li Tiezhu realized he was witnessing the creation of Granny Meng’s Soup. A conversation with Wang Yan’s mother, Granny Meng, left Luo Hongyi reflecting on mortal life and the meaning of reincarnation.

• Luo Hongyi visited Wang Yan and Li Tiezhu, praised Li Tiezhu’s rapid cultivation, and explained Si Chen’s instructions about making Forgotten River Water with the Other Shore Flower.
• Wang Yan vowed to carry out the task, while Li Tiezhu recognized the recipe as Granny Meng’s Soup and marveled at witnessing history.
• Wang Yan’s mother brought out pastries, and he explained that she had declined Youth-Preserving Pills because she accepted aging as part of mortal life.
• Granny Meng joked that she wanted Wang Yan’s father to recognize her after death, prompting Luo Hongyi to bow and say she had learned from her words.
• Granny Meng revealed that her maiden surname was Meng and that her neighbors had called her Granny Meng.

Li Tiezhu realized that the kind Granny Meng was the powerful Granny Meng of the Underworld, while Luo Hongyi entrusted Wang Yan with brewing soup from the Other Shore Flower without scallions. Granny Meng agreed to supervise him as Luo Hongyi left with her concerns settled.

• Luo Hongyi identified Wang Yan's mother as Granny Meng, and Li Tiezhu recognized her legendary identity and became alarmed by her powerful connections.
• Granny Meng worried over Li Tiezhu's health, and he concealed his unease by praising her pastries and eating more Osmanthus Cake.
• Luo Hongyi gave Wang Yan an Other Shore Flower and promised him access to Undying Mountain's resources if he succeeded in his task.
• Luo Hongyi relayed Dao Brother Si Chen's warning that Wang Yan must brew the soup with little or no scallions, and Wang Yan began to protest.
• Granny Meng slapped Wang Yan, ordered him to obey his elders, and promised Luo Hongyi she would ensure he added no scallions.

Wang Yan spent more than a decade studying the Other Shore Flower and discovered ways to heal Divine Sense, force breakthroughs, and erase memories. He pressured Li Tiezhu into testing his Sorrow-Forgetting Pill, which left Li Tiezhu babbling incoherently.

• Wang Yan became obsessed with studying the Other Shore Flower while Li Tiezhu’s system warned that the flower lay beyond the Five Elements and carried immense karma.
• Over more than a dozen years, Wang Yan discovered that the flower’s medicinal liquid could heal Divine Sense injuries and that its roots and stem could force a cultivator through a bottleneck once without side effects.
• Wang Yan developed the Sorrow-Forgetting Pill, but his faulty tests made the courtyard animals forget what they were and behave strangely.
• Wang Yan threatened to tell their master that Li Tiezhu had been sneaking out unless Li Tiezhu tested the pill.
• Li Tiezhu swallowed the Sorrow-Forgetting Pill and soon began drooling and babbling, leaving Wang Yan to realize the dose was too strong.

Wang Yan’s antidote restored Li Tiezhu’s consciousness, sending him through memories of his past and beyond in search of his hometown on Earth. He woke in terror after glimpsing an immense face in the void and could only whisper, “Master.”

• Granny Meng caught Wang Yan trying to feed the foolish Li Tiezhu an antidote, then coaxed Li Tiezhu into swallowing it herself.
• The antidote began rebuilding Li Tiezhu’s divine sense as memories of his life played backward through his consciousness.
• Li Tiezhu hoped the memories would reach Earth, but the rewind carried him into a featureless void where an immense face appeared and nearly destroyed his split soul.
• Li Tiezhu screamed himself awake, and after Granny Meng and Wang Yan checked on him, he trembled and uttered, “Master.”

Li Tiezhu recovered his memories after taking Wang Yan’s antidote, then beat Wang Yan for the drug’s disastrous effects. Later, unsettled by something he saw at the end of his restored memories, Li Tiezhu accepted the system’s explanation that his master had planted a protective measure in his soul and fell asleep by a cliff.

• Li Tiezhu regained his senses and remembered how he had babbled like an idiot while under the Sorrow-Forgetting Pill’s effects.
• Li Tiezhu grabbed Wang Yan and beat him with his Black Staff while Granny Meng watched, relieved that the two were back to their usual antics.
• After an hour, Wang Yan asked Li Tiezhu what he had experienced, but Li Tiezhu dismissed his concerns and went off alone to clear his head.
• At a cliff, Li Tiezhu asked the system about a strange sight from the end of his memories, and the system suggested his master had left a defense mechanism in his soul.
• Li Tiezhu accepted the explanation, relaxed, and fell asleep by the cliff while the system remained silent.

Wang Yan completed his Forgotten River Water after centuries of work, while Si Ming and Si Qing struggled with marriage pressure and pretended to act like senior elders. He presented the finished potion to them, proudly noting that it contained no scallions.

• Si Ming and Si Qing reflected on how far behind they were compared with Changsheng and his friends, then Si Qing complained that their parents were pressuring her to choose a Dao companion.
• Si Ming and Si Qing joked about their elders’ matchmaking efforts and agreed that the outstanding young men their parents had chosen could not compare with the people at Undying Mountain.
• Li Tiezhu and Wang Yan arrived, and Si Ming and Si Qing adopted a solemn elderly manner to greet them as their juniors.
• Wang Yan revealed that he had completed the Forgotten River Water after more than three hundred years of work under his mother’s supervision.
• Wang Yan proudly announced that he had made the soup without adding a single scallion, leaving Si Ming and Si Qing speechless.

Wang Yan and Li Tiezhu hurried to deliver Luo Hongyi’s dangerous Forgotten River soup, while Si Ming and Si Qing joined them. On the way, they encountered the gathered cultivators watching Xie Changsheng’s Immortal Lord tribulation, which began with a tremendous bolt of lightning.

• Si Qing tried to taste Wang Yan’s soup, but Si Ming stopped her, and Wang Yan recalled how an earlier version had left Li Tiezhu babbling and unable to remember his name.
• Si Ming and Si Qing decided to accompany Wang Yan and Li Tiezhu to deliver the soup to Luo Hongyi.
• The four flew through the River Chart World, where cultivators had gathered to watch Xie Changsheng’s Immortal Lord tribulation.
• They met Black Mountain and Red Wind, and Black Mountain tried to take the soup for a taste before Li Tiezhu and Wang Yan warned him not to.
• The River Chart World shook as the tribulation clouds formed a vast vortex and Xie Changsheng’s first bolt of Immortal Lord Tribulation Lightning struck.

Wang Yan delivered the Forgotten River Water he had brewed to Luo Hongyi, and Si Chen drank it to test its effects. After praising Wang Yan’s work, Si Chen prepared everyone to visit the old site of the Demon Realm once Xie Changsheng finished his Immortal Lord Tribulation.

• Li Tiezhu and Wang Yan set out with Black Mountain, Red Wind, Si Ming, and Si Qing to deliver the Forgotten River Water to Luo Hongyi while Xie Changsheng’s tribulation raged nearby.
• The group found Luo Hongyi, Zhou Yan, Song Chi, Murong Li, Si Chen, and Gray Gray watching the tribulation from a gathering atop auspicious clouds.
• Wang Yan presented Luo Hongyi with the Forgotten River Water he had successfully brewed.
• Si Chen drank the water in one gulp, judged its flavor and soul-cleansing properties, and praised Wang Yan for brewing it without scallions.
• Si Chen told everyone to prepare for a trip to the old site of the Demon Realm after Xie Changsheng completed his Immortal Lord Tribulation.

Xie Changsheng rejected Shi Yin’s tempting offer of power and survived the final strike of his Immortal Lord Tribulation, ascending to the Immortal Lord Realm. He appeared in Si Chen’s Courtyard to celebrate, where his friends greeted his new rank by laughing at his smoking afro.

• Si Chen told Luo Hongyi, Zhou Yan, Song Chi, and the others that everything was ready to establish the Netherworld and open the Six Paths of Reincarnation, and they agreed to wait for Changsheng.
• Little Lei unleashed the final, devastating strike of Xie Changsheng’s Immortal Lord Tribulation.
• As time slowed, Xie Changsheng saw Shi Yin and refused to accept his power, insisting that he would walk his own path.
• Shi Yin vanished, time resumed, and Xie Changsheng endured the lightning before ascending to the Immortal Lord Realm as auspicious signs filled the River Chart World.
• Xie Changsheng appeared at Si Chen’s Courtyard without anyone noticing his arrival, and his friends laughed at his charred face and smoking afro.

Si Chen and his companions reunited after centuries of secluded cultivation and reminisced about their early travels aboard the Starship. They ended the gathering with a toast to the Myriad Heavens and to remaining together as they had at the start.

• Song Chi, Black Mountain, Zhou Yan, Luo Hongyi, and Murong Li teased Xie Changsheng about his scorched appearance, until Si Chen exposed the others’ embarrassing tribulation memories.
• Si Chen recalled how he had found his companions across the Myriad Heavens and filled their cups with wine, lamenting that Red Bean was absent.
• Xie Changsheng and Zhou Yan began the old Starship toast, and the group joined in, wishing to stay together as at the start.
• Si Qing demanded wine from Si Chen, arguing that her centuries in the River Chart World made her no child, and Si Chen filled her cup.
• Si Chen invited Si Ming, Li Tiezhu, and Wang Yan to join the gathering as fellow travelers, then led everyone in a toast to the Myriad Heavens, countless worlds, and their enduring fellowship.

Si Chen and his companions reached the chaotic remains of the Demon Realm, where he used Luo Hongyi’s notebook paper to compress the plane into a scroll and create a masterless realm. Si Chen returned to the starship, though Xie Changsheng and Zhou Yan noticed the feat had cost him something, and he said they could now enter.

• Luo Hongyi relaxed on the Black Jade Starship while Si Chen traveled with their powerful companions and left Si Shuo in seclusion.
• The group reached an enormous chaos vortex formed from the remains of the Demon Realm, and Si Chen said it was ideal for establishing reincarnation.
• Si Chen borrowed a blank page from Luo Hongyi’s notebook and left the starship alone.
• Si Chen became a colossal phantom and used the page to seize and refine the Demon Realm’s remains into a scroll, declaring that it would shelter the sorrow of all ages.
• Si Chen returned the page to Luo Hongyi, and Xie Changsheng and Zhou Yan sensed that the feat had taken a toll on him.
• Si Chen told the group they could now enter.

Si Chen brought the Demon Realm, reduced to a blank plane, into a sheet of paper and helped Luo Hongyi use her great dream dao to create the Underworld’s first landmarks. The work exhausted Luo Hongyi before reincarnation could be established, and Si Chen revealed that eleven Immortal Emperors would manage the new realm.

• Si Chen placed the ruined Demon Realm inside a sheet of paper and told the others they would understand his reasons later.
• Luo Hongyi brought everyone into the blank plane, where Si Chen explained that Taichu had erased the Demon Realm’s laws, life, and karma.
• Si Chen amplified Luo Hongyi’s divine sense and great dream dao, then asked her to imagine a new world into existence.
• Luo Hongyi formed the earth of the dead, Ghost Gate Pass, the Yellow Springs Road, blood-red flowers, the Forgotten River, the Bridge of Helplessness, and Homeward Gaze.
• Luo Hongyi collapsed from the effort, so Si Chen healed her and postponed creating reincarnation.
• Si Chen said the eleven Immortal Emperors would manage the Underworld.

Si Chen appointed Luo Hongyi to oversee the newly formed Underworld and called on Xie Changsheng to establish Reincarnation. Xie Changsheng agreed to seek the method in the River of Time, then insisted that Zhou Yan accompany him.

• Si Chen proposed that eleven Immortal Emperors serve in the Underworld and help Luo Hongyi manage it.
• Si Chen named Luo Hongyi the ruler of the Underworld, and she accepted with her companions’ support.
• Song Chi asked how they could establish Reincarnation, and Si Chen pointed to Xie Changsheng as someone who knew its origins.
• Xie Changsheng recalled that Shi Yin and Yu Jiutian had pioneered Reincarnation and agreed to find its method.
• Xie Changsheng said he would return to the River of Time to meet someone from his past, then declared that Zhou Yan was coming with him.