Chapter Summaries

The Great Qian crown prince and his commanders discovered that their memories had been altered to include a long history of monsters pursuing Liu Yong, who was supposedly killed on Black Dragon Mountain seventy years earlier. As the Great Qian army searched its rolls for Liu Yong and prepared to camp, Princess Tianxuan watched the cultivators on the mountain and gazed toward the imperial capital.

• The crown prince questioned his commanders about the monsters on Black Dragon Mountain, and they recalled that the monsters had demanded Liu Yong be handed over.
• The commanders realized that memories of monsters pursuing Liu Yong had appeared despite those events never happening in their pasts.
• The crown prince revealed memories of Ying Jiaren killing Liu Yong on Black Dragon Mountain seventy years earlier and wondered whether Liu Yong had returned from the dead.
• The crown prince ordered the army to camp and search its rolls for Liu Yong, while the cultivators on Black Dragon Mountain prepared for battle.
• Princess Tianxuan walked around Black Dragon Mountain with Yu Wanzhou, watched the cultivators at work, and repeatedly looked toward Great Shang's imperial capital.

Princess Tianxuan learned that Liu Yong was the anchor of a repeating historical fragment and resolved to meet Wang Quan. In the Great Qian camp, Liu Yong vowed to stop anyone from changing history, then received an unexpected summons from the crown prince.

• Princess Tianxuan recalled that Ying Jiaren and other monsters had killed Liu Yong at Black Dragon Ridge seventy-five years earlier, after which most of the monsters vanished.
• Yu Wanzhou explained that later groups of monsters would likely seek Liu Yong and described Legend Rating and historical fragments to Princess Tianxuan.
• Princess Tianxuan said she wanted to see Wang Quan.
• In the Great Qian camp, Liu Yong declared that he would kill anyone who tried to alter history on the young master's orders.
• A messenger told Liu Yong that the crown prince wanted to see him, contrary to the history Liu Yong remembered.

Liu Yong learned that the Great Qian crown prince had gathered every soldier named Liu Yong to identify and protect the resurrected man targeted by Black Dragon Mountain. Black Dragon Mountain’s forces pinpointed Liu Yong’s location and launched a massive cannon attack toward the Great Qian central camp.

• The Great Qian crown prince told the assembled Liu Yongs that one of them had returned to life after dying seventy years ago and was being hunted by Black Dragon Mountain.
• The historical-anchor Liu Yong wondered why he had died in an earlier stretch of history and whether future beings had targeted someone else.
• A spy reported Liu Yong’s name and location to the Grotto Heaven Cultivators, who confirmed him as their target.
• Wang Quan and the other cultivators agreed to settle the battle with a powerful strike, and Wang Quan took control of the super cannon.
• Wang Quan fired the cannon at the coordinates of the Great Qian Empire’s central army camp, sending a huge shell hurtling toward it.

Black Dragon Mountain and Great Shang attacked Great Qian’s central army with a massive shell and countless other weapons, while hundreds of thousands of men named Liu Yong stood in the bombardment zone. Great Qian’s crown prince and the other commanders withdrew, leaving the Liu Yongs to face the impact as the shell struck and unleashed a devastating blast.

• Black Dragon Mountain’s monsters, cultivators, and weapons launched a huge shell and a barrage of attacks at Great Qian’s central army.
• A bolt spirit monster killed one Liu Yong, then saw that many more people around it shared the same name and set off to hunt them.
• Great Qian’s crown prince wondered why so many Liu Yongs existed and chose to evade the shell rather than confront it; the other commanders followed him away.
• The Liu Yongs charged the shell, fled, or tried to withstand it, but tens of thousands were drawn into its mouth and ground apart.
• The shell struck the ground, erupted into a vast magma blast, and destroyed countless Liu Yongs as further attacks arrived.

Wang Quan and the other Legend Cultivators slaughtered the remaining Liu Yongs while Great Qian’s crown prince refused to protect them. The crown prince urged the Cultivators to finish the job so he could see whether they would ascend in broad daylight.

• Wang Quan and the Spirit Monsters killed most of the Liu Yongs, while the Grotto Heaven Cultivators kept the survivors trapped and the cannon Spirit Monster began to collapse.
• Wang Quan and nearly a hundred Legend Cultivators advanced on the last dozen Liu Yongs after the Great Qian crown prince declared them fiends.
• A decaying One-Way Passage powerhouse told Wang Quan that history had changed and that killing the remaining Liu Yongs would complete their mission to rewrite it.
• The Liu Yongs pleaded with the crown prince, but he said their deaths did not matter and that he would avenge them if nothing unusual happened.
• The crown prince told Wang Quan and the Legend Cultivators to kill the Liu Yongs and see whether they could ascend in broad daylight.

Wang Quan and the other Legend Cultivators killed most of the Liu Yongs, but three survived repeated attacks and regenerated their injuries. A cultivator's powerful Decapitation Art failed against the young Liu Yong, and another cultivator stepped forward to try his own method.

• Princess Tianxuan arrived with the Bloodline Legion and asked to kill Liu Yong in seventy years if killing him truly enabled ascension to immortality.
• Wang Quan and the Legend Cultivators combined direct attacks with disabling spells and killed all but three Liu Yongs.
• The young, middle-aged, and old Liu Yongs survived successive attacks and restored their wounds.
• The crown prince of Great Qian severely injured the young Liu Yong without landing his palm, but Liu Yong immediately recovered.
• A Legend Cultivator performed the Full Moon Scimitar Decapitation Art, but its blade shattered against the young Liu Yong's neck.
• Wang Quan offered to try a method, but another cultivator interrupted and asked everyone to watch his attempt.

Cultivators tried a series of bizarre spells to kill the three Liu Yongs, but the historical natives survived every attempt. Wang Quan restrained them and brought them to Black Dragon Ridge, where he prepared to execute them with a cannon.

• A cultivator used the Yin Soul Ring on the middle-aged Liu Yong, making him explode, but Liu Yong reappeared unharmed.
• Another cultivator used Triple Burial to cast the elderly Liu Yong into the Underworld, but he returned alive and mocked his captors.
• The cultivators tried more methods, including grinding Liu Yong with millstones and dissolving him in a Yin and Yang bottle, but none could kill the three Liu Yongs.
• Wang Quan bound the three Liu Yongs with ropes and immobilization spells, then carried them back to Black Dragon Ridge.
• Wang Quan placed the Liu Yongs on an enormous cannon and ordered the soldiers to load double the gunpowder and Thunderfire for their execution.

Wang Quan and the Legend Cultivators used bizarre rituals and a super cannon to kill the three Liu Yongs, but the expected ascension did not occur. The Great Qian crown prince and Princess Tianxuan then considered joining forces to kill the soldiers, while Wang Quan suspected another Liu Yong remained among them.

• Wang Quan had the cultivators douse the three Liu Yongs with virgin urine, red dragons, animal blood, and nails before hanging them at the cannon's muzzle.
• Wang Quan and the Legend Cultivators fired the super cannon twice, and the Grotto Heaven Cultivators confirmed that the three Liu Yongs were dead.
• The crown prince of Great Qian and Princess Xuantian arrived at Black Dragon Ridge and realized that killing the three Liu Yongs had not caused anyone to ascend.
• The crown prince suggested that the Liu Yong they killed was not special and that killing the cultivators might let him ascend, while Princess Tianxuan said she wanted to ascend too.
• Wang Quan guessed that another Liu Yong was hiding in Great Qian's army, and the crown prince proposed wiping out the rank-and-file soldiers to find him.

Wang Quan and the others used divination to find the last Liu Yong, while Princess Tianxuan entered Wang Quan’s Purple Mansion to study it. The last Liu Yong overwhelmed the Legend Cultivators and crippled a Grotto Heaven powerhouse, leaving the battle in crisis.

• Yu Wanzhou and the others performed divination and gave the last Liu Yong’s location to the crown prince of Great Qian, who ordered Zhou Tian to be brought in.
• A Grotto Heaven powerhouse asked for help strengthening their companions, and Wang Quan displayed his cultivation methods for Princess Tianxuan.
• The last Liu Yong arrived and challenged his opponents, claiming that seventy years of honing had made him impossible to kill.
• Princess Tianxuan entered Wang Quan’s Purple Mansion to study it while Wang Quan’s allies attacked Liu Yong.
• Liu Yong resisted the Legend Cultivators’ attacks, then linked himself to a Grotto Heaven Cultivator and reduced the powerhouse to the Purple Mansion Realm.
• Liu Yong chased down the weakened Grotto Heaven Cultivator and beat him until only his head remained.

The final Liu Yong overwhelmed cultivators whose strength his chains had reduced, so Wang Quan persuaded the crown prince of Great Qian to use his ten-million-strong army as cannon fodder to empower magical artifacts. The crown prince agreed, and the group began crafting five artifacts while ordering the army to march to its death.

• The final Liu Yong weakened the Grotto Heaven Cultivators with his chains and battered them and the native experts, while their allies healed them and restored their strength to the Purple Mansion Realm.
• Wang Quan and Yu Wanzhou asked the crown prince of Great Qian to intervene, but he refused because his brothers could exploit his weakened state to seize power.
• Wang Quan proposed using the crown prince's army to exhaust Liu Yong and provide materials for powerful magical artifacts, and the crown prince agreed.
• Wang Quan and the other Legend Cultivators chose five growth-type magical artifacts: the Zombie Coffins, Yin Wind Banner, Mighty White Bone Demon God Banner, Blood Pool, and Ghost-Wailing Mountain.
• The group began crafting the artifacts, and the crown prince ordered his cannon fodder troops to march to their deaths.

Wang Quan and the Legend Cultivators used armies of cannon fodder and five artifacts to wear down Liu Yong, gradually damaging his soul. After three days, Liu Yong stopped resisting and began chanting into the earth, prompting Wang Quan to order everyone to silence him.

• The Great Qian crown prince sent cannon fodder to die against Liu Yong while the Legend Cultivators powered artifacts with the dead.
• Liu Yong resisted the Blood Pool, banners, and coffins, while the artifacts grew stronger from the accumulating deaths.
• A native commander confronted the crown prince over the slaughter, then charged Liu Yong and vanished into the artifacts.
• The Yin Wind Banner began carrying grains of Liu Yong's soul away, and Wang Quan urged the crown prince to send even more people to their deaths.
• After three days of fighting, Liu Yong stopped resisting, knelt, and chanted with his hands in the earth, so Wang Quan shouted for them to hit him in the mouth.

Liu Yong completed his incantation and summoned his seventy-year-old self from a historical fragment, merging with him to surpass the Purple Mansion Realm. Wang Quan and the cultivators regrouped under millions of defensive and healing spells as the empowered Liu Yong continued his rampage.

• Yu Wanzhou and the cultivators tried to stop Liu Yong from chanting, but he swallowed their attempts to silence him, including zombies, and finished his incantation.
• Liu Yong summoned a scarlet beam that became his past self, rewinding Black Dragon Mountain to seventy years earlier and revealing Ying Jiaren’s attempt to kill the younger Liu Yong.
• The historical Liu Yong merged with the present Liu Yong, breaking the historical fragment’s power limit and surpassing the Purple Mansion Realm.
• The two-in-one Liu Yong destroyed the Blood Pool, Ghost-Wailing Mountain, and the five immature magic artifacts before beating Wang Quan and the others back.
• Nearly ten million Dao Seal Cultivators covered Wang Quan and the others in defensive and healing spells, and they charged Liu Yong again.

After merging with his past self, Liu Yong overwhelmed Wang Quan and the others, who tried and failed to restrain him with increasingly powerful artifacts. As the battle dragged on and their allies refused to help, Princess Tianxuan emerged from the Purple Mansion behind Wang Quan’s head.

• Liu Yong’s merged self ignored the cultivators’ spells, killed one attacker, and drove Wang Quan and the others back with his newfound power.
• Wang Quan ordered the Dao Seal Cultivators to forge chains and other restraining artifacts, but Liu Yong broke them all and vowed to torment his enemies through future history resets.
• After a day of fighting, native experts who joined the battle were quickly defeated, and three days later they refused to fight Liu Yong again.
• Ten days into the battle, the Dao Seal Cultivators refused to join in, leaving Wang Quan and the others to keep fighting while they healed and forged more artifacts.
• Princess Tianxuan’s hand and head emerged from the Purple Mansion behind Wang Quan’s head.

Princess Tianxuan and the cultivators pulled the White Bone Ring from Wang Quan’s Purple Mansion, giving him the power to confront the two-in-one Liu Yong. Liu Yong fled, but Wang Quan hurled the ring after him as he unleashed the Heaven-Overturning Seal.

• Princess Tianxuan emerged from Wang Quan’s Purple Mansion with her hair still hooked inside, and cultivators rushed to help her pull out what she had found.
• The two-in-one Liu Yong tried to kill Wang Quan, but a hundred Legend Cultivators blocked him while the others strengthened Princess Tianxuan’s hair and pulled.
• The cultivators cracked Wang Quan’s Purple Mansion and dragged out the White Bone Ring, while Wang Quan summoned their Foundation Establishment Dao Platforms, Dharma Power, and Purple Mansions to empower himself.
• The two-in-one Liu Yong fled from the White Bone Ring’s aura, and Wang Quan threw the ring at him.
• The two-in-one Liu Yong turned to face the ring and unleashed the Heaven-Overturning Seal taught to him by [Young Master].

Liu Yong was crushed by Wang Quan’s White Bone Ring as he reflected on his devotion to the [Young Master] and the endless resets of history. He realized the people of this era depended on his memories, then called for history to reset as he died.

• Liu Yong’s Heaven-Overturning Seal shattered against Wang Quan’s White Bone Ring, which began contracting around him.
• Liu Yong summoned a historical version of himself and fought back, but the ring broke his arms and crushed his body.
• As Liu Yong burned into ash, he remembered serving the [Young Master] as an anchor meant to keep history from changing.
• Liu Yong saw the Crown Prince of Great Qian, Princess Tianxuan, and the other native living beings turn to ash, realizing they existed only through historical memories.
• Liu Yong called for history to reset, wondered whether he would get another chance, and died regretting his fate.

Liu Yong was killed after discovering that other survivors had retained their memories through history’s final reset. When history did not reset again, Yu Wanzhou, Princess Tianxuan, the Great Qian crown prince, and the decaying [One-Way Passage] cultivator began the futures they had agreed upon with Wang Quan, whose accords were recorded in the Initial Covenant.

• Liu Yong arrived at Black Dragon Mountain, where Princess Tianxuan, the Great Qian crown prince, and Yu Wanzhou revealed that they remembered the previous history and killed him with a Magic Treasure.
• Princess Tianxuan offered Sandalwood Incense to the pearl, and the group waited five years to see whether history would reset.
• When the sun rose without a reset, the decaying [One-Way Passage] cultivator, Yu Wanzhou, the Great Qian crown prince, and Princess Tianxuan set out to establish their agreed sects, cultivate, and build Great Qian.
• Wang Quan helped cultivators remain in the historical fragment, gave Yu Wanzhou and the others Magic Treasures to preserve, and secured agreements from those he aided.
• Wang Quan recorded the agreements in a covenant witnessed by the four quarters and eight directions, and the cultivators called it the Initial Covenant.

Yu Wanzhou and the others carried out the Initial Covenant for centuries while waiting for Liu Yong, then discovered that history reset and brought new cultivators to Black Dragon Ridge. The newcomers recognized Flower-Scatter Daoist Wang Quan as a beast, leaving Yu Wanzhou and the others facing an unexpected connection to later events.

• Wang Quan gave Yu Wanzhou and the others six Magic Treasures to support the Initial Covenant, though the decaying [One-Way Passage] warned that this fragment of history would never overlap with the Present World.
• Over the following decades, Yu Wanzhou, the Purple-Robed Marquis, Princess Tianxuan, and the crown prince of Great Qian founded sects, expanded their power, and developed their cultivation.
• Yu Wanzhou and the others fortified Black Dragon Mountain and waited for Liu Yong, but he did not appear even after centuries, so they continued carrying out the covenant despite fearing their history had diverged.
• A thousand years after Wang Quan and the others passed through, history reset, returning Yu Wanzhou and the others to Black Dragon Mountain with their strength reduced to the Primordial Spirit Realm.
• New Primordial Spirit Cultivators appeared and asked what year it was; after Yu Wanzhou named the five-hundredth year of the Original Era and mentioned Flower-Scatter Daoist, one called Flower-Scatter a beast.

Wang Quan returned from the historical fragment through a failing trans-spatiotemporal vortex and witnessed powerful cultivators sacrifice themselves to repair it. Their efforts stabilized the vortex, allowing more cultivators to return.

• Wang Quan traveled through visions of the past, saw a mysterious woman try to seize his streak of light, and lost consciousness as he returned to the Present World.
• Wang Quan awoke on a platform as the vortex began collapsing, and the beings overseeing it called for decaying [One-Way Passage] cultivators to repair it.
• Cultivators carried coffins to the vortex while their demon mounts and black clouds complained about being part of the ceremony.
• Nanming Jin of the Great Simplicity Gate revived from her coffin and became the lintel, stabilizing the vortex.
• Gudu Qingwu of the Supreme Abyss Gate and other great cultivators revived and formed parts of the doorframe as more cultivators returned.
• Wang Quan watched the sacrifices and wondered whether they were worth it.

After the surviving cultivators returned from the fragment of history, Wang Quan and the other survivors received rewards from the Dao Court and were summoned for additional benefits. The chapter left them learning they could claim ten portions of resources for their current realm, or wait until advancing to receive resources for the next realm.

• The powerful figures learned that cultivators who failed to kill their assigned target in the historical fragment would never return, and no more cultivators emerged from the teleportation apparatus.
• Wang Quan and the survivors used Visualization to reconstruct their encounter with Liu Yong, then received generous Dao Court rewards that still did not satisfy Wang Quan's desire for mysterious Daoist Scriptures.
• A Dao Court cultivator summoned Wang Quan and the Legend Cultivators to a warship, where they met Ying Jiaren, Ice Soul Child Lian Wudi, and Master Yin and Yang-Hua Nongyue.
• Great cultivators praised the four returning teams and offered each survivor ten portions of resources corresponding to their realm, excluding mysterious Dao scrolls.
• Ice Soul Child Lian Wudi asked whether waiting until he entered the Primordial Spirit Realm would let him claim Primordial Spirit resources, and a great cultivator confirmed it.

Wang Quan and the others received two volumes of the mysterious Daoist Scriptures, but refused the Dao Court’s request to enter more historical fragments and eliminate targets. The Dao Court confirmed that killing [Liu Yong] had changed part of history, leaving Liu Yong with a lesser position under [Young Master].

• The great cultivators promised the Legend Cultivators rewards and clues to the mysterious Daoist Scriptures, while reserving the actual scriptures for those who contributed most to killing [Liu Yong].
• After the other Legend Cultivators left, the great cultivators offered Wang Quan, Ying Jiaren, Ice Soul Child, and Master Yin and Yang two scripture volumes each in return for entering future historical fragments.
• Ice Soul Child Lian Wudi and Master Yin and Yang Hua Nongyue refused the prospect of entering more fragments, and Wang Quan warned that the missions were too dangerous for their current strength.
• Wang Quan proposed sending a small group into the fragment where [One-Way Passage] and other powerful cultivators had stayed behind, so they could recruit them to eliminate future targets.
• The great cultivators gave the four their scriptures and confirmed that the historical record had changed: Liu Yong had become Chief Imperial Physician instead of Chamberlain for the Palace Revenues.