Chapter Summaries

Zhou Yan and his companions activated a formation to merge the Underworld with the River Chart World, but their strength ran out before the worlds could join. Seven Immortal Emperor Origin Sources then entered the Eye of Reincarnation and were shared among the group, giving them a chance to continue.

• Zhou Yan assigned Luo Hongyi, Xie Changsheng, Song Chi, Murong Li, Black Mountain, and Red Wind their roles in the formation, binding their fates together.
• Zhou Yan activated the Myriad Phenomena Heavenly Derivation formation, using yin and yang, time and space, fate, and Karma to reshape the two worlds.
• Black Mountain and Red Wind poured their vitality into Luo Hongyi while the others strained to keep the formation and their linked fates stable.
• As the River Chart World and the Underworld began to overlap, the group exhausted their power and neared death without completing the fusion.
• The Eye of Reincarnation absorbed seven Immortal Emperor Origin Sources and sent the power to Luo Hongyi.
• Murong Li's Law of Fate distributed the Origin Source among all seven, and Zhou Yan urged them to resume merging the worlds.

Luo Hongyi and the others completed the final stage of the fusion, gaining an unfamiliar power as a new world began to form. As Luo Hou prepared to kill Jiang Ling and Si Shuo, a sword interrupted him, and figures emerged from the shattered time membrane.

• The seven Immortal Emperors’ Origin Sources made the River Chart World and the Netherworld sheets begin to overlap around Luo Hongyi.
• Zhou Yan realized that everyone’s Immortal Essence and demonic power had transformed into a new power, and urged them to help Luo Hongyi finish the formation.
• Luo Hou pierced Jiang Ling’s shoulder as she shielded the exhausted Si Shuo, then defeated Zhu Yao and Feng Qing when they arrived to help.
• Luo Hou threatened to fill Jiang Ling with filth qi and make her attack Si Shuo, but an incoming sword forced him to release her.
• The silver time membrane shattered, and several figures stepped out amid the shards.

Song Chi and Luo Hou began a fierce battle as Xie Changsheng, Zhou Yan, Black Mountain, Red Wind, and Murong Li healed the wounded. Luo Hongyi remained beneath the Eye of Reincarnation, and the survivors began to reconcile as they faced the road ahead.

• Song Chi appeared behind Luo Hou and attacked him, beginning a battle that tore through the void.
• Xie Changsheng told Luo Hongyi to maintain the Eye of Reincarnation and went to heal Zhu Yao.
• Zhou Yan removed the filth qi from Feng Qing's wounds and admitted he was both himself and Yu.
• Black Mountain and Red Wind poured vitality into Si Shuo, helping his ruined meridians recover.
• Murong Li healed Jiang Ling and invited her to see the future world together, and Jiang Ling silently accepted the peace of the moment.

Luo Hongyi united the River Chart and the Underworld into a Gate of Reincarnation, creating a new world and stripping her companions of their old cultivation. They awakened with a new power tied to the world’s growth, while Song Chi and Luo Hou continued fighting in the Void.

• Zhou Yan urged Luo Hongyi to remember why she had made her vow as the group struggled to fuse the River Chart and the Underworld.
• Luo Hongyi realized life and death had to coexist without either dominating, then joined the two realms into the Gate of Reincarnation.
• The group awoke in a white Origin Realm and lost their cultivation, while Song Chi also lost his connection to Nine Swords.
• Luo Hongyi’s companions developed a new power linked to the prosperity of the fused world and sensed they had become part of its Heavenly Dao.
• Xie Changsheng recounted the events to Zhu Yao as Song Chi and Luo Hou battled in the Void.

Song Chi and Luo Hou clashed, but Black Mountain, Xie Changsheng, and Zhou Yan joined the fight with surprise attacks and karmic chains. As the chains began to fail, Song Chi and the others gathered to attack Luo Hou together.

• Song Chi declared his warm-up over after trading blows with Luo Hou, who could neither read Song Chi's power nor corrupt it with Filth.
• Black Mountain struck Luo Hou across the face with a bear paw, sending him flying and shocking Zhu Yao, Feng Qing, and Si Shuo.
• Xie Changsheng stabbed Luo Hou from behind, then withdrew and reappeared beside Zhu Yao as Luo Hou's wound healed.
• Zhou Yan revealed that purple karmic chains had bound Luo Hou's wrists and ankles, though Luo Hou began breaking free.
• Black Mountain, Red Wind, Murong Li, Song Chi, Zhou Yan, and Xie Changsheng surrounded Luo Hou, and Xie Changsheng urged them to attack together.

Luo Hou faced six transformed opponents who coordinated their attacks, and their strange techniques overwhelmed his defenses. Xie Changsheng wounded him by severing an arm, while revealing that Song Chi’s “Sword” had been a feint.

• Black Mountain and Red Wind attacked Luo Hou from above and below, forcing him to break Zhou Yan’s chains of law and grow four extra arms.
• Song Chi summoned millions of illusory swords, then combined their remnants into a giant blade that clashed with Luo Hou’s demonic spear.
• Zhou Yan used the Star River Radiant Crown to restore the collapsing space around the fighters.
• Song Chi called out “Sword” again, distracting Luo Hou as Xie Changsheng struck at his neck.
• Murong Li’s divine resonance of fate helped Xie Changsheng’s blade cut through Luo Hou’s defense and sever an arm.
• Xie Changsheng retreated and explained that Song Chi had said “sordid,” not “sword.”

As the battle against Luo Hou continued, Zhu Yao and Feng Qing accepted that Zhou Yan and the others were not the same people as their ancient comrades, though they shared the same roots. Jiang Ling and Si Shuo faced the bloodshed between them in silence, while Zhu Yao and Feng Qing kept watch over Si Shuo; then they realized Li Tiezhu had vanished in the chaos.

• Zhu Yao and Feng Qing watched the young fighters and agreed that Zhou Yan and the others were different from Jiutian and Shi Yin, though Zhou Yan had said he was both himself and his predecessor.
• Jiang Ling and Si Shuo stood apart and exchanged only a brief question and answer, unable to overcome the blood feud between them.
• Zhu Yao and Feng Qing arrived beside Si Shuo and watched Jiang Ling warily to protect him.
• Zhu Yao noticed that Li Tiezhu was missing after the Void collapsed amid the battle’s devastation.
• Zhu Yao feared that Li Tiezhu had been killed by the shock waves despite his power.

The six, empowered by the endlessly renewing new world, realized Luo Hou’s power resembled their own and suspected Filth was tied to the world’s origin. With Luo Hongyi’s preparations complete, they trapped Luo Hou with their Innate laws and began destroying him in Song Chi’s Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation.

• The six noticed that Luo Hou regenerated and fought without tiring, much like they did through the power of the new world.
• Zhou Yan suspected Filth was connected to the beginning of the world, while Luo Hou resolved to destroy the void around them rather than keep fighting.
• Luo Hongyi announced that Yellow Springs had opened and the Forgotten River Water was boiling, and Zhou Yan signaled the group to begin their counterattack.
• Zhou Yan erased Luo Hou’s escape routes, Xie Changsheng stopped his time, and Murong Li extinguished his fate.
• Black Mountain and Red Wind sealed Luo Hou’s spear and killing intent, leaving him unable to move.
• Song Chi summoned the Innate Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation and ordered it to grind Luo Hou to pieces.

Song Chi and the others destroyed Luo Hou’s body and tried to send his remaining black qi through Luo Hongyi’s Eye of Reincarnation, but the process began collapsing the worlds. They stopped, and Li Tiezhu realized he belonged to none of them and had neither a past nor a future.

• Song Chi and the others killed Luo Hou, leaving his body as a mass of black qi.
• Luo Hongyi opened the Eye of Reincarnation and tried to send Luo Hou’s black qi into the Hell Path.
• When Luo Hongyi and the others combined their powers to push the black qi toward the vortex, the Myriad Heavens and Worlds began collapsing.
• Zhou Yan and the others withdrew their powers, halting the collapse and recognizing that Luo Hou was bound to the old world’s survival.
• In a pitch-black space, Li Tiezhu concluded that he belonged to no world and had no past or future.

After learning that his memories and past may have been fabricated, Li Tiezhu grieved but chose to face the truth. As Luo Hou fled the battlefield and targeted Kunpeng, Li Tiezhu arrived in dramatic fashion and declared that he, too, was beyond the Three Realms and outside the Five Elements.

• The System told Li Tiezhu that Lord Si Chen knew nothing of Taichu's creations, and that Li Tiezhu's memories might be fragments or fabrications.
• Li Tiezhu mourned the loss of his imagined past and myths, then asked the System to change his background music to a track from A Chinese Odyssey.
• Luo Hou regained awareness, boasted that no one could kill him, and decided to flee as Zhou Yan, Xie Changsheng, Song Chi, and the others failed to finish him.
• Luo Hou broke through the group’s blockade and chased Kunpeng, hoping to devour him and take his escape ability.
• Li Tiezhu arrived amid suona music, Seven-Colored Auspicious Clouds, and fluttering red cloth, then declared that he was beyond the Three Realms and outside the Five Elements.

Li Tiezhu activated Heaven Mender and revealed his golden form and Golden-Hooped Staff as Luo Hou pursued Kunpeng. He battered Luo Hou with a series of blows and ended the chapter standing over the black mist, asking whether Luo Hou had remembered his name.

• Li Tiezhu appeared before Zhou Yan and the others, but they ignored him and continued chasing Luo Hou as Kunpeng fled.
• Li Tiezhu told the system to begin, and it lifted his restrictions and executed Heaven Mender.
• Li Tiezhu's enormous staff broke open to reveal the Golden-Hooped Staff, and he used it to block Luo Hou's attack on Kunpeng.
• Li Tiezhu absorbed Luo Hou's black qi with the staff and sent him flying with a single blow.
• Li Tiezhu chased Luo Hou on his Somersault Cloud and struck him repeatedly while declaring his name.
• Li Tiezhu smashed Luo Hou with a colossal Ruyi Staff and asked whether he had memorized the name Li Tiezhu.

Li Tiezhu used his mysterious power to overpower Luo Hou, absorbing the Filth as he fought and recited a poem about the moon and his longing for home. The chapter ended with Li Tiezhu delivering a final strike for the homeland he desperately wished to see again.

• Luo Hou recognized Taichu's power in Li Tiezhu and launched a desperate attack, but Li Tiezhu blocked the others from intervening.
• Li Tiezhu absorbed Luo Hou's Filth and grew stronger as Luo Hou weakened under his attacks.
• Li Tiezhu fought while reciting a poem about the moon, revealing his deep homesickness to the watching Xie Changsheng, Zhou Yan, and the others.
• Luo Hou begged for mercy, but Li Tiezhu ignored him and prepared a final strike for his elusive homeland.

Li Tiezhu destroyed Luo Hou, then absorbed the filth qi from across the Myriad Heavens and Worlds, crystallizing into a vessel that would seal it forever. Si Chen arrived too late to change Li Tiezhu’s fate, and Taichu told him that he had lost the round.

• Li Tiezhu thanked the System for staying with him and accepted that completing his task would mean his death.
• Li Tiezhu struck Luo Hou with the Ruyi Staff, destroying him, then drew the world’s lingering filth qi into his own body.
• As the filth qi crystallized Li Tiezhu into a black statue, he dropped the Ruyi Staff and his equipment while the horrified witnesses watched.
• Si Chen lost his composure when he saw Li Tiezhu’s fate and left Taichu amid a surge of sun-origin flames.
• Si Chen froze time and space around the battlefield but realized that Li Tiezhu would absorb filth forever; Taichu then arrived and told Si Chen he had lost the round.

Si Chen recalled how he and Taichu had wagered on whether the Myriad Heavens and Worlds could be saved, then learned Taichu had made Li Tiezhu a vessel to contain the Filth that the Eye of Reincarnation could not remove. Taichu revealed that Jiang Ling and the Kunpeng were intended as future vessels, leaving Si Chen facing the full extent of his plan.

• Si Chen remembered Taichu erasing his dream of the Si Household and proposing a wager over whether the Myriad Heavens and Worlds could be cured.
• After Xie Changsheng and the others created the Eye of Reincarnation, it rejected Luo Hou and could not completely remove Filth.
• Taichu declared Si Chen had lost the wager but offered a compromise: Li Tiezhu would become the Heaven Mender Stone and absorb Filth to protect the world.
• Taichu explained that Li Tiezhu could become a vessel because he bore both Taichu's and Si Chen's marks.
• Taichu revealed that Jiang Ling and the Kunpeng were being prepared as future vessels, and asked Si Chen what he thought of the arrangement.

Si Chen fought Taichu across worlds frozen in time after Taichu treated Li Tiezhu as a tool. Their battle destroyed realms and dimensions, but neither was injured; Si Chen noticed Taichu was holding back and demanded to know why.

• Si Chen and Taichu clashed in the Void, and their fight isolated them from everyone else in Forgotten River.
• Si Chen named Li Tiezhu and hurled a star at Taichu, who crushed it into a black hole and sent it back.
• Si Chen and Taichu shattered the Immortal Realm, the Demon Realm, and a Lower Realm as their fight carried them through spacetime.
• After exhausting the worlds around them, Si Chen and Taichu traded blows in the void and stepped back unharmed.
• Si Chen questioned why Taichu was holding back.

Si Chen realized Taichu was hiding something at the beginning of the universe and fought past him to reach the source of time. There, Si Chen found Taichu’s aura already present within the blazing sun that was his own first form.

• Si Chen recognized that Taichu’s actions contradicted his stated intent to erase the world and decided to seek the truth at the end of time.
• Taichu tried to stop Si Chen, and they exchanged more than a thousand blows before Si Chen broke through and entered the River of Time.
• Taichu pursued Si Chen upstream through the eras as they continued fighting, until they reached the origin where time and everything else had not yet begun.
• Si Chen witnessed the primordial black hole expand into the immense sun that was his first true form.
• Si Chen sensed Taichu’s aura dormant within the sun and turned in shock to confront his white-robed other self.

Si Chen discovered that Taichu had existed alongside him at the beginning of the universe, where only the two of them and the Origin Star were present. After accusing Taichu of altering his memories, Si Chen released him and agreed to hear the truth about his reincarnation.

• Taichu told Si Chen that they had always coexisted as light and shadow, sharing one source.
• Si Chen found the origin void empty of life, stars, and the civilizations he remembered, and Taichu said nothing else had ever existed there.
• Si Chen seized Taichu and demanded to know whether he had tampered with his memories.
• Taichu denied having the power to alter memories and said Si Chen had forgotten much because the price of reincarnation was greater than he expected.
• Si Chen let Taichu go, and Taichu asked who had awakened first: Si Chen or himself.

Taichu recalled how he and Si Chen, the first light, had coexisted as twins, and how he saved Si Chen from fading by giving him half his origin. The act split their shared origin and gave birth to the world's first wisp of filth.

• Taichu hid within the sun, but Si Chen discovered him and protected him, explaining that light and darkness had always shared one source.
• Taichu and Si Chen communicated peacefully until Si Chen began to weaken and Taichu grew stronger as the light faded into darkness.
• As Si Chen admired the life forming in their shared body, Taichu repeatedly destroyed the newborn world and tried to return to the past, but could not prevent Si Chen's dissipation.
• Taichu gave Si Chen half his origin, and the spark of light began to burn anew, bringing Si Chen and Taichu into the Myriad Heavens and Worlds.
• The act split the twins' shared origin, and a wisp of black vapor emerged as the world's first filth.

Taichu concluded that the Black Hole’s instincts prevented the Sun from awakening, so he entered an unborn child with the Sun’s spark and withdrew his consciousness to let it wake. The child was born into the Si Household and was named Si Chen.

• Taichu realized the Black Hole’s instincts kept rejecting the Sun’s awakening, while the Filth he erased repeatedly returned.
• Taichu tried placing the Sun’s spark into powerful beings from different worlds, but their bodies and Divine Souls could not withstand it.
• Taichu chose an unborn fetus in the Si Household, entered it with the Sun’s spark, and suppressed both forces to protect the child.
• Taichu relinquished control and urged the Sun to awaken within the mortal body.
• The child was born in the Si Household, and his mother named him Si Chen.

Taichu revealed that he had secretly protected Si Chen and later became his enemy to divert his attention from the filth threatening the myriad heavens. Si Chen recovered fragments of his memories and realized the filth was Taichu’s obsession with him.

• Taichu watched Si Chen grow up in the Si Household and form friendships while quietly bearing the strain of Si Chen’s power.
• Taichu discovered that the filth he had created was threatening the myriad heavens and feared Si Chen would uncover its origins.
• Taichu split his remaining origin source, leaving part in Si Chen and taking the rest to become a tyrant who would oppose him.
• At the end of the River of Time, Si Chen’s memories began to return as Taichu explained his actions.
• Si Chen realized that he had been using Taichu’s origin source and concluded that the filth was Taichu’s obsession with him.