Recaps

Yuangeng brought the Qilin Emperor to Yinghuo Ancient Star and led him through the Mars Sea Eye into a hidden battlefield filled with death and corpses. At the palace where a powerful presence began to awaken, Yuangeng revealed that the hidden hand behind the God War was the god of the Myriad Races and urged the Qilin Emperor to kill the Undying Heavenly Emperor.

• The Qilin Emperor examined Yinghuo Ancient Star and identified it as a ruined life-bearing world and a battlefield from the Mythical Era.
• Yuangeng uncovered the Mars Sea Eye and led the Qilin Emperor through the emperor formation sealing the realm beneath it.
• The Qilin Emperor and Yuangeng crossed the Black Sea, where the Qilin Emperor destroyed the corpse-born monsters with his imperial flames.
• They reached a palace surrounded by Quasi-Emperor corpses and sensed a stronger aura of death awakening inside.
• Yuangeng identified the hidden hand behind the God War as the god of the Myriad Races and told the Qilin Emperor to kill the Undying Heavenly Emperor.

Yuangeng and the Qilin Emperor entered the Heavenly Palace and confronted the Undying Heavenly Emperor, who defended his past atrocities and declared that he would use them as sacrifices to complete his transformation. As the Heavenly Emperor prepared to attack, Yuangeng restored the power of his Immortal Ancient Method and rose to meet him.

• Yuangeng and the Qilin Emperor entered the palace and found the Undying Heavenly Emperor seated beneath a Blood Pool made from the remains of powerful beings.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor attacked them with illusory Heavenly Blades, which the Qilin Emperor and Yuangeng destroyed.
• Yuangeng questioned the Heavenly Emperor’s sins, and the Heavenly Emperor justified his victims’ deaths as sacrifices for his return to the Immortal Domain.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor announced that he would keep Yuangeng and the Qilin Emperor to obtain the Extreme Dao blood needed for his ultimate transformation.
• Yuangeng absorbed the Eternal Ancient Ruler and restored his Immortal Ancient Method cultivation, bringing his aura to a level comparable to the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s.

Yuangeng and the Undying Heavenly Emperor clashed over the Blood Pool after the Qilin Emperor attacked and was swiftly defeated. Yuangeng rescued the Qilin Emperor and met the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s first attack evenly, then challenged him to reveal his full strength.

• Yuangeng questioned the Undying Heavenly Emperor about the Immortal Domain and other realms, but the Phoenix knew little and threatened to extract Yuangeng’s memories.
• The Qilin Emperor attacked the Undying Heavenly Emperor, who defeated him with one slash and cracked the Eternal Blue Gold Staff.
• Yuangeng blocked the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s follow-up strike and ordered the Qilin Emperor to retreat.
• Yuangeng and the Undying Heavenly Emperor exchanged powerful techniques, destroying the ancient halls as their attacks collided evenly.
• Yuangeng judged the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s strength and challenged him to show his full power.

Yuangeng tested the Undying Heavenly Emperor and overwhelmed him with the lunar essence death Dao, defeating his phoenix manifestation, weapon, and united nine secrets. The chapter ended with Yuangeng judging the Heavenly Emperor to be a mediocre Quasi-Immortal who had taken the wrong path.

• Yuangeng shrouded the Ancient World in lunar essence laws and summoned a Great Kun to challenge the Undying Heavenly Emperor.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor met the Great Kun with his Five-Colored Immortal Bird, but Yuangeng’s lunar essence death Dao subdued it and wounded him.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor attacked with the Undying Heavenly Blade and five immortal-gold origin arts, but the Great Kun dispersed their power and knocked the blade away.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor united the nine secrets and sent their supreme radiance at Yuangeng, who silenced it with death immortal light.
• Yuangeng concluded that the Undying Heavenly Emperor was barely Quasi-Immortal level and had taken the wrong path.

Yuangeng overwhelmed the Undying Heavenly Emperor, who used the Flying Immortal Waterfall and a Nine-Turn Golden Pill to prolong the fight before revealing the Kunlun Immortal Bell. When the bell’s immortal power seemed poised to crush Yuangeng, a massive stone coffin appeared beside him.

• The Undying Heavenly Emperor attacked Yuangeng with the Nine Secrets Unified Art, but Yuangeng’s Dao Seed dissolved his strikes.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor merged his primordial spirit with the Flying Immortal Waterfall, and Yuangeng answered with the burial art Bury Ten Thousand Lifetimes of Reincarnation.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor detonated the Flying Immortal Waterfall to escape Yuangeng’s deadly primordial spirit attack, then swallowed a Nine-Turn Golden Pill.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor revealed the Kunlun Immortal Bell and used its waves to shatter Yuangeng’s giant kun manifestation.
• Yuangeng sat calmly before the Immortal Bell as the Undying Heavenly Emperor summoned an immortal mountain to suppress him, but a massive stone coffin appeared beside Yuangeng.

Yuangeng used the Immortal King Secret Treasure that had served as his burial coffin to overpower the Undying Heavenly Emperor and capture the Immortal Bell. With the bell sealed inside the coffin, the Undying Heavenly Emperor fled toward the depths of the Ancient World.

• Yuangeng blocked the Immortal Bell’s mountain attack with the lid of his stone coffin, knocking the manifested mountain apart.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor drove the Immortal Bell at Yuangeng again, but the coffin lid repelled it and left the bell tumbling through the air.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor sacrificed his five-colored phoenix blood to awaken the Immortal Bell’s full power.
• Yuangeng opened the coffin, swallowed the Immortal Bell into its Lunar Universe, and sealed it inside.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor gave up fighting and fled toward the depths of the Ancient World.

Yuangeng killed the Undying Heavenly Emperor after stopping him from escaping through a branch of the Road to Immortality. He warned the Qilin Emperor that the Heavenly Emperor might still return through Nirvana or his faith Dao body, the Undying Daoist.

• The Undying Heavenly Emperor fled to a hidden branch of the Road to Immortality and forced open its Chaos Cave with the Immortal Bell.
• Yuangeng blocked the entrance and struck the Heavenly Emperor with Bury Ten Thousand Lifetimes of Reincarnation, draining his essence.
• The Heavenly Emperor used his phoenix blood to break through Yuangeng’s Giant Kun, but Yuangeng struck his Immortal Platform with a lethal Taboo Method.
• Yuangeng’s death runes froze the Heavenly Emperor and the divine spirit in the Undying Heavenly Blade, leaving both defeated.
• The Qilin Emperor arrived and asked whether Yuangeng had killed the Undying Heavenly Emperor, and Yuangeng said the Heavenly Emperor might survive through Nirvana or his faith Dao body.

After killing the Undying Heavenly Emperor, Yuangeng and the Qilin Emperor searched his spoils and discovered a branch of the Road to Immortality that released longevity substance. Yuangeng sealed the entrance open with his Stone Coffin, giving the Qilin Emperor a hidden source of lifespan-restoring substance while they waited for the right time to pursue immortality.

• Yuangeng searched the Undying Heavenly Emperor's corpse and recovered nine immortal metals, two Nine-Turn Golden Pills, and other treasures.
• Yuangeng gave one Nine-Turn Golden Pill to the Qilin Emperor and explained that the Heavenly Emperor had spent most of his remaining resources on a destroyed Blood Pool.
• Yuangeng showed the Qilin Emperor a Chaos Cave connected to a tributary of the Road to Immortality and gave him longevity substance that extended his lifespan.
• Yuangeng warned the Qilin Emperor to wait for the right time to enter the Road to Immortality, saying the Qilin Emperor would die if he tried to force his way through now.
• Yuangeng plugged the Chaos Cave's entrance with his Stone Coffin, and the Qilin Emperor gathered the longevity substance leaking from it.

The Undying Daoist awakened in the Reincarnation Sea and faced Yuangeng and the Qilin Emperor, who had come for him with the Undying Heavenly Blade. Yuangeng revealed that the Undying Heavenly Emperor was gone and killed the faith-born spirit, leaving the Heavenly Emperor’s hidden chess piece destroyed.

• The Undying Daoist sensed a disturbance in the faith power within him and suspected that the Undying Heavenly Emperor might be living another lifetime.
• The reigning emperor invaded the Reincarnation Sea and demanded the Undying Daoist, while Yun Gen withdrew rather than intervene.
• The Undying Daoist broke free from his immortal source and confronted Yuangeng and the Qilin Emperor, recognizing the Undying Heavenly Blade.
• The Qilin Emperor examined the Undying Daoist’s faith-born body, and Yuangeng warned that his strength rivaled a true Extreme Dao Supreme.
• The Undying Daoist asked whether their search concerned the Heavenly Emperor, and Yuangeng revealed that the emperor was gone and that he had destroyed the blade’s divine spirit.
• Yuangeng used Bury Ten Thousand Lifetimes of Reincarnation to destroy the Undying Daoist’s primordial spirit.

Yuangeng killed the Undying Daoist and returned to the ancient world beneath Yinghuo, where he planned to create a Longevity Minor World and gain control of the Kunlun Immortal Bell. The Supremes watched the events unfold and realized Yuangeng was a dangerous new variable.

• Yuangeng destroyed the Undying Daoist with one Burial Method and took his faith body for later study.
• Yuangeng returned to his ordinary cultivation state and asked the Qilin Emperor about reaching a third lifetime; the Qilin Emperor said he had an initial idea for transforming.
• Yuangeng offered to help the Qilin Emperor with future cultivation bottlenecks, then returned to the ancient world beneath Yinghuo's sea eye.
• Yuangeng planned to draw longevity substance into the world and create a small forbidden zone, but decided first to gain control of the Kunlun Immortal Bell.
• The Supremes watched a projection of the killing and recognized Yuangeng, concluding that the Undying Heavenly Emperor might have suffered a setback and that Yuangeng was a variable.

Yuangeng questioned the Kunlun Immortal Bell’s spirit, then formed an affinity covenant with it and gained command of the complete Immortal Artifact. He spent the next three thousand years cultivating his human body secret realms and sharing Dao discussions with the Qilin Emperor.

• Yuangeng asked the Immortal Bell why it had left the Kunlun Remnant Clan and whether it still intended to support the Undying Heavenly Emperor; the spirit said its bonds with both had run their course.
• Yuangeng and the Immortal Bell agreed to an affinity covenant, and Yuangeng’s Dao blood sealed it.
• The Immortal Bell entered Yuangeng’s hand and helped clear his mind, after which he resumed tempering his Sea of Bitterness cultivation method.
• Yuangeng cultivated the Immortal Bell’s ancient methods, while the Qilin Emperor visited with enlightenment tea leaves and discussed the Dao with him.
• Yuangeng periodically inspected the Chaos Cave, extracted longevity substance, and infused it into the Ancient World as three thousand years passed.

Three thousand years after the Undying Heavenly Emperor's fall, Yuangeng visited the Qilin Ancestral Star and freed the Qilin Emperor from a dream that had trapped his primordial spirit. The old emperor awoke to find that fifteen hundred years had passed in the dream and that his life force was fading.

• Yuangeng traveled to the Qilin Ancestral Star, where the Qilin Emperor's Quasi-Emperor grandson welcomed him and showed him a ruler inspired by the Eternal Ancient Ruler.
• The grandson led Yuangeng to the Qilin Grotto, where the Qilin Emperor lay asleep in a dreamlike state.
• The Eternal Blue Gold Staff emerged and revealed that the Qilin Emperor had become trapped while trying to attain a third life through a dream spanning the ages.
• Yuangeng used the Kunlun Immortal Bell to cleanse the Qilin Emperor's primordial spirit, and the old qilin awoke the next day.
• The Qilin Emperor learned that fifteen hundred years had passed in his dream, and Yuangeng observed that age had weakened his old friend's life force.

Yuangeng examined the aging Qilin Emperor and demonstrated how far he had advanced in refining the five human body secret realms. After discussing the Heavenly Heart Imprint and the Qilin Emperor’s plan to sever it in his third lifetime, Yuangeng gave him a longevity art and departed.

• Yuangeng assessed the Qilin Emperor’s dwindling lifespan and asked whether he could attain a third lifetime.
• Yuangeng revealed his perfected five great secret realms, and the Qilin Emperor judged him strong enough to fight the Undying Heavenly Emperor.
• Yuangeng explained that he was nearing the ultimate leap of the human body secret realms but held back to avoid endangering the reigning Qilin Emperor.
• The Qilin Emperor declared that he would sever the Heavenly Heart Imprint in his third lifetime and showed it to Yuangeng.
• Yuangeng gave the Qilin Emperor a longevity art engraved on dragon pattern black gold, then left the Ancient Qilin Star.

Yuangeng visited the Lunar Essence Divine Church during Ziwei Ancient Star’s annual festival honoring the Three Sovereigns and discovered that generations of worship had gathered faith thought power for him. He accepted the power for study and left Si Yanning guarding Ziwei and the Human Emperor Seal.

• Mortals and cultivators across Ziwei Ancient Star worshipped Lunar Essence, Solar Essence, and Yuangeng, sending faith thought power toward their sects and the depths of the universe.
• Si Yanning completed the festival rites and nurtured the damaged Human Emperor Seal with her Quasi-Emperor cultivation.
• Yuangeng arrived at the ceremonial hall, and Si Yanning explained that her ancestor Si Qi had established the festival to unite humanity and help revive the seal.
• Si Yanning told Yuangeng that the two senior Quasi-Emperors had died and that she now guarded Ziwei; Yuangeng examined the seal and returned it to her.
• Yuangeng gathered his share of Ziwei’s faith thought power, isolated it from his body, and studied its Dao principles, thoughts, and karma.

Yuangeng experimented with the Immortal Monk King's faith arts on Ziwei, then gathered the resulting Faith Thought Power according to the Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit's method. His display drew the Bodhi Seed to him, and he left Ziwei to investigate the Ancient Bodhi Tree.

• Yuangeng purified Ziwei's Faith Thought Power with the Immortal Monk King's Mind Mirror art, easing the hearts of people across the star.
• Yuangeng used Bodhi Sea to nourish believers and manifest the Human Emperors in their hearts, then rejected the idea of pursuing faith as his path to immortality.
• Yuangeng gathered Faith Thought Power into a disc with the Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit's method and reaffirmed that he would follow the sacrificial spirit path.
• A golden light bypassed the Lunar Essence Divine Church's defenses, and Yuangeng recognized the seed it left as the Bodhi Seed.
• Yuangeng told Si Yanning that the Bodhi Tree was an Immortal Medicine, then took the seed and departed Ziwei to investigate it.

Yuangeng traced the Bodhi Seed to Feiluo, an ascetic cultivator whose wisdom and cultivation had grown beneath the remains of the Bodhi Tree. After Feiluo declined his invitation to leave his home star, Yuangeng studied the seed and recovered the Human Dao portion of the Immortal Monk King’s Sixteen-Foot Golden Body technique.

• Yuangeng used Reflect the Ancient on the Bodhi Seed and found Feiluo, a peak Great Saint living on a remote planet at the Cosmic Frontier.
• Feiluo explained that he had found and tended the seed in his youth, gaining wisdom beneath the Bodhi Tree and learning cultivation by imitating a golden figure in his dreams.
• Yuangeng invited Feiluo to travel with him, but Feiluo refused, choosing to remain and watch over his native star.
• Yuangeng studied the Bodhi Seed for more than two hundred years and reflected an old monk whose teachings completed the Human Dao portion of the Sixteen-Foot Golden Body.
• Yuangeng decided to take the Bodhi Seed back to his ancient world and plant it beneath the Mars Sea Eye.

Yuangeng and the Qilin Emperor studied the Bodhi Seed and discussed the origins and true nature of Immortal Medicines. Years later, a message from the Underworld arrived inviting Yuangeng to meet.

• Yuangeng and the Qilin Emperor identified the Bodhi Seed as an Immortal Medicine once connected to a solitary emperor from the early Primordial Era.
• The Qilin Emperor asked what Immortal Medicines were, and Yuangeng explained that they were fallen beings whose true essence and Dao could survive the destruction of their medicinal bodies.
• Yuangeng told the Qilin Emperor that restoring the Kirin Immortal Medicine in the Immortal Domain could help the old qilin gain another life.
• Yuangeng demonstrated the Immortal Qilin Aspect, and he and the Qilin Emperor discussed the Dao for a year as the Kirin Immortal Medicine resonated with him.
• Three years later, an Extreme Dao arrow bearing an invitation from the Underworld landed beside Yuangeng’s stone house.

Yuangeng entered the Underworld after accepting an invitation from the Corpse Emperor, who hoped he might recognize the face of the corpse from which he had awakened. Yuangeng did not recognize him, and the Corpse Emperor ended their conversation by asking whether Yuangeng had any connection to the Underworld.

• Yuangeng arrived at the Underworld and was met by its First Judge, a Quasi-Emperor Xiezhi who relayed the Corpse Emperor’s invitation.
• The First Judge led Yuangeng through the Underworld’s formations to the Corpse Emperor Hall.
• The Corpse Emperor introduced himself and asked Yuangeng whether he recognized his face.
• Yuangeng said he did not recognize the Corpse Emperor, who explained that he had awakened from an ancient corpse bearing a Reincarnation Seal.
• Yuangeng pressed the Corpse Emperor about his reason for summoning him, and the Corpse Emperor asked whether Yuangeng had any connection to the Underworld.

Yuangeng explained to the Corpse Emperor that their burial methods shared a source in the Burial Domain, then unleashed his burial Dao across the Underworld. After the Underworld’s Imperial Dao weapons and formations resisted his strike, the Heavenly Nether Treasure fled with a radiant deity.

• Yuangeng connected the similarities between his burial methods and the Underworld’s to their shared ties to the Burial Domain.
• The Corpse Emperor admitted that his Reincarnation Seal had yielded only fragments of memories, and Yuangeng invited him to seek him out if he recalled anything important.
• Yuangeng spread his burial Dao across the Underworld, forcing its inhabitants to kneel and prompting ancient halls to mistake him for the Netherworld Venerable.
• Three Imperial Dao weapons arrived to investigate, and the Heavenly Nether Treasure struck Yuangeng with the power of the Underworld’s formations.
• Yuangeng’s blow shattered outer palaces but left the imperial formation intact, and the Heavenly Nether Treasure escaped with a radiant deity.

Yuangeng confronted the Underworld’s ancient survivors after the Heavenly Nether Treasure fled, then learned about the Netherworld Venerable’s disappearance and the Underworld’s decline. The Corpse Emperor ended the discussion by asking Yuangeng to take command of the Underworld.

• Yuangeng’s clash with the Underworld’s formation patterns failed to stop the Heavenly Nether Treasure from fleeing to the Reincarnation Sea.
• The Corpse Emperor explained that the Heavenly Nether Treasure had panicked after sensing Yuangeng’s resemblance to the Netherworld Venerable, and Yuangeng spoke with the Prison-Suppressing Venerable, Yama Emperor, and Rebirth Venerable.
• Yuangeng learned that the Netherworld Venerable had used death to escape at the end of the Mythological Era, leaving his old allies behind.
• The Prison-Suppressing Venerable said the Longevity Heavenly Venerable had gone mad, unleashed an upheaval, and taken much of the Underworld’s reserves.
• Yuangeng said he would find a chance to kill the Longevity Heavenly Venerable, and the Corpse Emperor asked him to take command of the Underworld.

Yuangeng discovered that the Underworld rested above an immense Burial Zone containing the remains of a previous epoch, and the Underworld's ancient rulers offered him command of their forces. Recognizing the Burial Zone's value to his cultivation, he agreed to take charge of the Underworld and claim the Netherworld soil.

• The Corpse Emperor invited Yuangeng to take charge of the Underworld, and Yuangeng questioned what it could offer him.
• The Corpse Emperor revealed a vast mass of ancient bones and remains beneath the Netherworld soil, which Yuangeng identified as a Burial Zone.
• Yuangeng used Reflect the Ancient on a broken iron fragment and deciphered runes pointing to Yuyu Heaven and the Chaotic Ancient Era.
• The Corpse Emperor and Rebirth explained that the Underworld depended on the Epoch Burial Pit and offered Yuangeng its resources, Yin Soldiers, and other followers.
• Yuangeng agreed to lead the Underworld, provided he could also use the Netherworld soil, and the four ancient rulers approved.

Yuangeng secured the Underworld’s alliance and claimed two ancient palaces, establishing himself as the Burial Emperor. His power alarmed beings across the universe, while the Underworld’s hidden figures and the Heavenly Nether Treasure reacted with fear.

• The Yama Venerable asked Yuangeng whether he had fought the Undying Heavenly Emperor, and Yuangeng revealed the Undying Heavenly Blade, making the four Underworld supreme beings fear the Emperor was dead.
• Yuangeng seized the Longevity and Nether Mountain palaces, erased their old formations, and renamed them with the character “Burial.”
• Yuangeng sat upon a throne formed from nether death energy and declared himself the Burial Emperor, prompting the Underworld’s inhabitants to submit to him.
• Powerful beings across the universe sensed Yuangeng’s aura, and ancient figures in the forbidden zones wondered whether the Netherworld Venerable had returned.
• Yun Gen recognized the Burial Emperor’s power and urged those nearby to lie low, while Source God, Source Demon, and Source Ghost hid themselves in fear.
• The Heavenly Nether Treasure admitted its weakness after failing to wound Yuangeng and resolved to become an Immortal Artifact.

Five hundred years after Yuangeng began drawing death energy from the Netherworld, he completed the Burial Emperor Hall and demonstrated how its Burial Method turned death into life. He used the Immortal Bell to bury the corpse of the Five-Colored Heavenly Phoenix beneath the hall, hoping to nurture another self until the phoenix returned through nirvana.

• Yuangeng emerged after five hundred years of refining the hall, while the Corpse Emperor marveled at its power and the vast death energy flowing into it.
• Yuangeng told the Corpse Emperor that the Epoch Burial Pit might have buried the entire Chaotic Ancient Era and contained remains from many different ages.
• Yuangeng activated the Burial Emperor Hall's formation, which transformed extreme death energy into a strange, precious vitality.
• Yuangeng summoned the Immortal Bell and opened a doorway to reveal the corpse of the Five-Colored Heavenly Phoenix.
• Yuangeng buried the phoenix beneath the hall to cultivate another self within its corpse, then spoke of his and his wife's dream of raising chickens.

Yuangeng and the Corpse Emperor discussed nurturing the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s corpse to form a Reincarnation Seal, drawing on the Underworld’s extensive research. The Corpse Emperor revealed his hope of gaining a second seal and shared what he knew of the Netherworld Venerable’s past lives, while Yuangeng asked to study the Venerable’s scriptures.

• Yuangeng sealed the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s five-colored phoenix corpse in the Burial Emperor Hall and began nurturing it as a possible source of aid.
• The Corpse Emperor explained that the corpse might form a Reincarnation Seal and described the Netherworld Venerable’s experiments and theories about the seals.
• The Corpse Emperor revealed that he hoped to form a second Reincarnation Seal after death and pass his memories to the new primordial spirit, but Yuangeng argued that this would not make the new being truly him.
• The Corpse Emperor estimated that the Netherworld Venerable had accumulated at least two Reincarnation Seals and might have lived another life while the Underworld searched for him.
• Yuangeng considered the Netherworld Venerable’s ambition to unite the Dao Fruits of nine lives and asked the Corpse Emperor for the Venerable’s scriptures.

Yuangeng received the Netherworld Venerable’s two scriptures from the Corpse Emperor and began preparing to prove his Dao as the Qilin Emperor’s control over the Heavenly Heart weakened. On Big Dipper, Cao Yusheng recalled his past lives, hid from the Underworld, and sealed himself in an iron coffin as his lifespan ended.

• The Corpse Emperor explained the Netherworld Venerable’s mastery of the Origin Dao and how his achievements helped create the Heavenly Nether Treasure.
• Yuangeng gave the Corpse Emperor permission to study his Death-and-Life Grand Array at Burial Emperor Hall in exchange for the Corpse Emperor spending his remaining lifespan there.
• Yuangeng manifested his water-element Dao Palace Divine Spirit, who took the imperial throne and spread netherworld aura across the star domain.
• Yuangeng sensed the Qilin Emperor’s hold over the Heavenly Heart Imprint weakening and left to prepare to prove his Dao.
• On Big Dipper, Cao Yusheng recalled his past lives and worried that the Lord of the Underworld might discover him.
• Cao Yusheng concealed himself in an iron coffin with his Extreme Dao Weapon, and the coffin sank into the lake after his lifespan ended.