Chapter Summaries

Di Yi and the Golden Hou entered the Upper Realm through the Cross of Yin and Yang passage and began exploring its vast, more stable world. They came upon a silent forest littered with skeletons, where seemingly ordinary plants revealed their dangerous power.

• Di Yi and the Golden Hou emerged from the passage into the Upper Realm, where its laws suppressed the Golden Hou until it began to adapt.
• They left the desolate ruins and headed out to find out which region they had entered.
• Di Yi explained that the waves of mist ahead came from two Venerable Realm creatures fighting, and he led the Golden Hou around them.
• The pair entered a silent forest devoid of living creatures and found bones scattered among the trees.
• Di Yi warned that the plants were dangerous, and they began to shimmer with divine power after the Golden Hou questioned them.

Di Yi and the Golden Hou reached Heavenly Immortal Academy in the Heavenly Immortal Province to learn about the Upper Realm and research the Border Wasteland and No-Man's Land. After an academy elder escorted them to areas open to visitors, they noticed a noisy gathering and smelled delicious food.

• Di Yi and the Golden Hou left the barren mountains and followed the crowds to Heavenly Immortal Academy.
• The Golden Hou learned that Heavenly Immortal Academy's Precious Techniques were sold at staggering prices, while a passerby explained the academy's fame and ancient teachings.
• Di Yi asked an elder at the Gate Tower about the Border Wasteland and No-Man's Land, and the elder mistook his question for one about the Ancient Covenant.
• After Di Yi clarified his purpose, the elder welcomed him and the Golden Hou and guided them to the academy's public areas.
• Di Yi admired the peaceful academy grounds, but the Golden Hou noticed a lively gathering and smelled food.

Di Yi searched the Heavenly Immortal Academy for information about the Foreign Realm, then realized the Immortal Mountain Heavenly Venerable might know how to reach the city connected to it. He traveled to Five Elements Province and learned that the city lay deep within a vast forbidden zone, though reaching it required conditions he did not yet know.

• Di Yi read ancient texts at the Heavenly Immortal Academy and asked about Immortal Ancient and the Foreign Realm.
• After linking the Foreign Realm to the covenant of the Primordial Era, Di Yi realized he should ask the Immortal Mountain Heavenly Venerable about the city.
• Di Yi traveled to Five Elements Province and met the Immortal Mountain Heavenly Venerable at Immortal Mountain.
• The Immortal Mountain Heavenly Venerable said the city lay beyond the Three Thousand Dao Provinces in the deepest reaches of the Boundless Forbidden Zone.
• The Immortal Mountain Heavenly Venerable warned Di Yi that reaching the city required other conditions, since he himself had been unable to approach it.

Di Yi and the Golden Hou entered the forbidden zone from a different direction and journeyed through its vast wilderness. In a swamp, they witnessed three human skeletons emerge, communicate, and search through the mud, where one skeleton suddenly found something and began digging.

• Di Yi told the Golden Hou that they had entered the forbidden zone from a different direction and led it deeper into the wilderness.
• The Golden Hou noticed that a distant mountain remained unchanged in size as they traveled, and Di Yi confirmed that it was still far away.
• Di Yi and the Golden Hou entered a swamp forest as gray miasma rose from the mud, then heard something emerge from the water.
• Di Yi and the Golden Hou watched a human skeleton walk across the swamp, followed by two more skeletons that joined it.
• The three skeletons searched the swamp, tossing aside bones until one found something near rotten flowers and grasses and began digging into the mud.

Di Yi and the Golden Hou followed a mysterious woman through a passage from the swamp into a sea filled with enormous, radiant skeletons. They found her under attack by a self-sounding conch and a monstrous claw, and she fought desperately to escape.

• Three human skeletons rose from the swamp, and a powerful woman emerged from their shadows, then reassembled them into an ornament.
• The woman used a pattern formed by seven mountains to enter a passage and vanish from the swamp forest.
• Di Yi opened the passage with his power of true understanding and took the Golden Hou inside.
• They arrived at a strange sea filled with giant skeletal remains and sacred radiance.
• A conch sounded by itself, unleashed devastating ripples, and exposed the woman as she tried to escape.
• A colossal claw struck at the woman, forcing her to resist the sea's attacks with all her strength.

Di Yi and Wu Lan were swept onto the Emperor Bone Burial Zone Island, where Wu Lan discovered a colossal mountain covered in bones and realized the forbidden zone had changed. As Di Yi questioned her about the place, an enormous Bone Spear appeared and unleashed visions of a catastrophic battle.

• The Emperor Bone Burial Zone appeared, and its power stopped the claw before transporting the woman from the sea to the immense island.
• The woman saw the shattered battlefield and a colossal mountain surrounded by orbiting planets, its slopes covered in bones and strange plants.
• The woman wondered how the mountain could have appeared despite her side's long infiltration and gathered reports from controlled puppets.
• Di Yi approached the woman and asked where they were; she introduced herself as Wu Lan, though she had not meant to reveal her name.
• An enormous Bone Spear plunged into the island and released visions of stars, sky-supporting pillars, and countless creatures being destroyed in a cosmic battle.

Di Yi persuaded the half-trunk of the ancient tree to let the Golden Hou enter the Litiantian Sect and learn Body Sculpting. While the Golden Hou began training, Di Yi investigated a passage and discovered a mountain filled with an ominous substance related to black blood.

• Di Yi asked the half-trunk of the ancient tree about the Litiantian Sect and the Golden Hou’s potential, then proposed that the Golden Hou enter the sect to cultivate.
• The half-trunk agreed to teach the Golden Hou and explained that Body Sculpting shaped the body’s inner power into a particular presence.
• The Golden Hou worried that Body Sculpting might change him, but Di Yi reassured him and directed him to begin.
• Di Yi asked about a passage leading deeper into the world, and the half-trunk warned that it connected to an unknown place where strange things lingered.
• Di Yi approached a great mountain, extinguished a destructive hurricane with radiant symbols, and recognized its lingering aura as related to black blood.

Di Yi fought monsters on a great mountain and discovered a mysterious being hidden inside it. He failed to stop a strange passage from carrying the being away and lost track of it in the darkness.

• Di Yi ignored his instincts and climbed the mountain, where he killed a gigantic monster with one punch.
• Five more monsters summoned black halos that called to Di Yi’s black blood, but he suppressed the reaction and attacked them with the power of True Understanding and the Sea of Potential.
• Di Yi’s thunderous attack ravaged the mountain, while a passage opened in a great hole and tried to carry something out from inside.
• Di Yi pursued the passage and tried to destroy the hidden being, but another passage diverted him and resisted his efforts.
• Di Yi broke through the diverting passage but lost the trail of the being in the surrounding darkness.

Di Yi crossed from the Upper Realm into a desolate riverbank, where a monstrous guardian warned him not to disturb a taboo. The phrase “the fall of all heavens” stirred grief and strange phenomena in Di Yi, and the guardian began to recognize what he was.

• Di Yi broke through the darkness into a desolate riverbank, and thunder and darkness followed him through before the breach closed.
• A monstrous guardian appeared through the fog and told Di Yi to leave because the taboo must not be disturbed.
• Di Yi challenged the guardian’s warning, and it said that disturbing the taboo could bring about the fall of all heavens.
• Hearing those words made Di Yi weep and caused a rain of blood to extinguish the thunder and dark light.
• Di Yi sensed grief and resentment in the riverbank’s sand and saw apparitions of people with trails of bloody tears.
• The guardian connected Di Yi to the Spirits of the Old Days and Ancestor-level substance, then began to identify him.

Di Yi battled the riverbank monster, whose defeat led it to recognize him as a figure preserved in the undying thoughts of the Spirits of the Old Days. The monster revealed that the spirits came from the Myriad Heavens, the Other Shore of the Sea, and the waves in the unseen, leaving Di Yi wondering about the last place.

• Di Yi struck the monster with a powerful beam, and the monster counterattacked with its chain before the clash left it gravely wounded.
• The monster revered Di Yi and spoke of undying thoughts preserving the legends of a figure who had begun anew.
• Di Yi questioned the monster about his origins, and it explained that the riverbank’s transformed spirits had once known fragments of his legends or deeds.
• The monster said the spirits came from the Myriad Heavens, the Other Shore of the Sea, and the waves in the unseen.
• Di Yi recognized the first two places as connected to his Royal Land but wondered what the waves in the unseen were.

Di Yi learned that the embankment connected to the heavens, but he chose a strange road instead and emerged beside a river leading to a mysterious tomb. He continued toward the tomb, passing ancient corpses and the ruins of a colossal city.

• The monster told Di Yi that following the river downstream would lead to the heavens and that the Spirits of the Old Days came from there.
• Di Yi sensed a strange road that seemed to lead to the Three Thousand Dao Provinces and left without further questioning the monster.
• After Di Yi vanished, a hidden person among the walking-corpse people wondered whether The Heavens had chosen correctly and why the Pollen catalyst and Spirits of the Old Days had chosen him.
• Di Yi followed the road through a barrier and emerged from a silvery river, discovering that it flowed toward a gigantic, curse-covered grave.
• Di Yi approached the tomb without being troubled by its curses and saw corpses of ancient experts and Primordial Ferocious Beasts floating in the river.
• Di Yi continued along the river and found the ruined remains of a colossal city suspended in the void.

Di Yi reached the Yellow Earth Great Tomb and discovered that it contained a Bronze Gate, a Jade Sarcophagus, and a mysterious being connected to the Guiding River. After learning about the tomb’s purpose and a future eruption of darkness, he remained before the gate, still investigating its secrets.

• Di Yi crossed the lightning and defeated a corpse guarding the river before reaching the Yellow Earth Great Tomb.
• Di Yi used True Understanding to reveal the tomb’s ancient aura and entered its vast interior, where he found a Bronze Gate and an empty Jade Sarcophagus.
• An old man warned Di Yi not to open the gate, and Di Yi used True Understanding to discover that the old man was a sentient segment of finger bone.
• The old man explained that the Guiding River gathered remnant blood and that a powerful being in the tomb might emerge during a future eruption of darkness.
• The old man said a Lord of the Forbidden Zone in snow-white robes had once spoken of the coming reckoning.

Di Yi learned that the tomb was tied to the Great Reckoning and the Emperor Fall Era, then left to explore the floating island. He flew into the gray mist at its edge, astonishing a boatman.

• Di Yi asked the old man about the white-clad figure and learned that the coming reckoning would engulf the Myriad Heavens in a Great Reckoning.
• The old man linked the tomb to the Emperor Fall Era and said the returning beings might be darkness.
• Di Yi opened the Jade Sarcophagus without incident, examined its apparent healing properties, and left the tomb without opening the Bronze Gate.
• Di Yi crossed the island, observed cultivators and creatures gathering resources in the Electromagnetic Mist, and concluded that the Upper Realm faced the same cycles of scarcity as the Lower Realm.
• Di Yi reached the island’s edge and flew into the gray mist, leaving the boatman stunned.

Di Yi left Demon Island and learned that the Qin Clan and Western Religion were caught in a growing dispute, likely over the Western Religion Sect Master's death. He traveled to Five Elements Mountain to meet the Immortal Mountain Heavenly Venerable, hoping to prevent the Qin Clan from being blamed and learn a route to the Border Wasteland.

• Di Yi left the mist around Demon Island and heard formation guardians discuss the Qin Clan's troubles and the Western Religion's damaged ancestral grounds.
• Di Yi concluded the Western Religion might blame Immortal Mountain for its Sect Master's death and that the Qin Clan could face pressure from other powers.
• Di Yi asked the formation guardians where the Qin Clan was, then used a Five-Colored Passage to travel there.
• Di Yi arrived outside Five Elements Mountain and waited for the Immortal Mountain Heavenly Venerable.
• Di Yi surveyed the mountain and sensed the remains of countless gods and demons within its ancient immortal artifact.

Di Yi warned Qin Changsheng about threats to Immortal Mountain and revealed his intention to wait for the Western Religion and its allies, while Qin Changsheng asked him to investigate a mysterious bone tied to his lost memories. Qin Changsheng disclosed that two other people named Changsheng had also visited No-Man’s Land, leaving Di Yi to consider the connection.

• Di Yi discussed the Western Religion, the Immortal Palace, and Sword Valley with Qin Changsheng, then said he would stay at Immortal Mountain and let their forces come to him.
• Qin Changsheng brought Di Yi to a purple bamboo forest, where Di Yi noticed a bone marked with the words “eternal life” and sensed darkness within it.
• Qin Changsheng explained that the bone had caused him to lose time and memories, leave No-Man’s Land, and take the name Qin Changsheng.
• Qin Changsheng told Di Yi that the bone showed him visions of blood seas and a Dark Universe, and that Mu Changsheng had also visited No-Man’s Land.
• Qin Changsheng revealed that Mu Changsheng had spoken of a third visitor, the infant Wang Changsheng, now head of the Wang Family, and Di Yi questioned why all three Changshengs came from the same place.

Di Yi and Qin Changsheng discussed the uncanny origins of several beings and the bone’s growing influence on Qin Changsheng. In the Upper Realm, news spread that the Immortal Mountain Heavenly Venerable had publicly exposed the Western Religion’s crimes, putting other implicated powers on edge.

• Qin Changsheng told Di Yi that Mu Changsheng and Wang Changsheng had uncanny origins and wondered whether they were fulfilling a being.
• Di Yi explained that the bone was growing and warned Qin Changsheng to watch himself, Mu Changsheng, and Wang Changsheng.
• The Demon Sunflower Garden and the Heavenly Kingdom discussed the Western Religion Sect Master’s death and speculated about what had happened in the Lower Realm.
• The Immortal Mountain Heavenly Venerable openly visited the Western Religion and accused its Sect Master of being a Fallen Ancient Monk whose death was deserved.
• The Immortal Mountain Heavenly Venerable’s accusations shocked the Three Thousand Dao Provinces, and the Demon Sunflower Garden and Heavenly Kingdom feared their own deeds would be exposed.

Qin Changsheng publicly accused the Western Religion of concealing the truth about its origins, prompting the Upper Realm’s traditions to suspect that someone from the Lower Realm had come to settle old scores. As leaders gathered at Immortal Mountain to learn more, the War Emperor secretly approached Qin Changsheng, who asked why he had come.

• Qin Changsheng warned the Western Religion to watch its step, and the monks refrained from stopping him after realizing they could not oppose him.
• The Western Religion sealed its mountain, causing powers that had targeted the Lower Realm and the Sin Blood lineage to panic and head toward Five Elements Province and Immortal Mountain.
• Di Yi told Qin Changsheng he would wait at Immortal Mountain for visitors, while Qin Changsheng warned that other traditions would hear about his arrival.
• Representatives from many religions arrived at Immortal Mountain bearing gifts and seeking information, but the Qin Clan kept silent, intensifying rumors about a powerful figure from the Lower Realm.
• Qin Changsheng recognized the War Emperor, an ancient ancestor of the War Clan believed to be dead, and asked what had brought him to Immortal Mountain.

The War Emperor and the Old Celestial came to Immortal Mountain seeking an audience with the powerful figure who had arrived to deal with the Western Religion, but Qin Changsheng told them the visitor would receive no one. As the gathered sects began to suspect the dispute concerned the Lower Realm more broadly, Duomo arrived with an Edict from the Immortal Palace, escalating the crisis.

• The War Emperor asked Qin Changsheng to arrange a meeting with the powerful figure, and the Old Celestial arrived with the same request; Qin Changsheng instead invited both to follow him.
• Qin Changsheng and Di Yi wondered why the Western Religion and its allies had not appeared, while observers began to suspect the affair involved the Lower Realm and its people beyond the Western Religion.
• The Demon Sunflower Garden, Netherworld, and Heavenly Kingdom sent low-ranking representatives to probe the situation.
• Duomo of the Western Religion arrived bearing an Edict, and Qin Changsheng confronted him over the Western Religion's treatment of the Lower Realm.
• The Edict unleashed immense pressure and shielded Duomo from Qin Changsheng's attack, and the gathered experts recognized the Immortal Palace's imprint upon it.

Qin Changsheng attacked Duomo after the Western Religion visitor invoked an edict, but Five Elements Mountain overwhelmed it. The Immortal Palace Master appeared to protect Duomo, and Qin Changsheng accused the Western Religion of wrongdoing as their standoff continued.

• Qin Changsheng used Five-Colored Divine Light to overpower the edict protecting Duomo.
• Five Elements Mountain unleashed its Immortal Dao might, leaving Duomo on the verge of death.
• The Immortal Palace Master appeared and shielded Duomo, asking Qin Changsheng to discuss the matter.
• Qin Changsheng demanded sincerity and refused to back down, saying Duomo had provoked Immortal Mountain.
• Qin Changsheng accused the Western Religion of guilt, while the Immortal Palace Master challenged him to name its crime and warned against defying the Three Thousand Dao Provinces.

Qin Changsheng accused the Immortal Palace and Western Religion of covering up the Western Religion Sect Master's origins and crimes, while the Immortal Palace lord denounced Immortal Mountain in the name of justice. As orthodoxies chose sides, the dispute threatened to trigger a great reshuffle across the Three Thousand Dao Provinces.

• Qin Changsheng challenged the Immortal Palace lord's defense of the Western Religion and cited evidence that its Sect Master was a fallen Ancient Monk.
• The Immortal Palace lord rejected Qin Changsheng's claims and accused Immortal Mountain of opposing the order of the Three Thousand Dao Provinces.
• Qin Changsheng declared that the Upper Realm needed to be cleansed, and the Immortal Palace lord called on the gathered orthodoxies to leave.
• The Demon Sunflower Garden and Heavenly Kingdom sided with the Immortal Palace, followed by its allies, while other orthodoxies defended Immortal Mountain and condemned the Western Religion.
• The gathered forces weighed their interests and recognized that the confrontation could bring a great reshuffle to the Three Thousand Dao Provinces.