Chapter Summaries

The narrator went to the hospital for a CTU and learned that positive cases had appeared nearby. The bridge was already closed, and the narrator did not know what to do.

• The narrator went to the hospital for a CTU.
• The narrator saw emergency kits being handed out to doctors and nurses and sensed something was wrong.
• The narrator learned there were four positive cases on nearby streets and that the total had apparently reached eight.
• The narrator learned the bridge had been closed and did not know what to do.

As the world behind the inexplicable thing collapsed, Di Yi used the Nine-Story Pagoda to open a passage and preserved a record of the world in the Book of Time. The group entered the passage, where they saw the Divine Sea and a black Ancient Ship rising among its waves.

• Di Yi told Chi Wuxia that time could not be understood as a simple line and warned that the collapsing world could leave them stranded.
• The woman gave Di Yi a Nine-Story Pagoda, whose nine universes contained coordinates leading through existence and nonexistence.
• Di Yi gathered the world's history into a pitch-black sheet of paper he called the Book of Time.
• Di Yi activated the Nine-Story Pagoda and led Chi Wuxia, the woman, and Golden Hou through a starry gate as the world fell apart.
• The group found themselves in a passage that appeared to contain the Divine Sea, where the woman spotted a black Ancient Ship.

Di Yi and his companions encountered an ancient black ship in the passage, then found themselves surrounded by a desolate realm as the passage shifted. A star-built stairway and the Nine-Story Pagoda appeared and led them toward the exit, while visions of fallen emperors and taboo powers left their destination uncertain.

• The woman told Di Yi and Chi Wuxia that ancient black ships were rare, ominous phenomena said to bring death, though their origins were unknown.
• Di Yi struck at the ancient black ship, but his power had no effect and the motionless vessel remained unchanged.
• A strange force from the ship transformed the passage into a barren expanse of broken stars and shattered continents.
• Di Yi told Chi Wuxia they were still inside the passage and that its exit might lead somewhere other than their original world.
• A stairway made of stars appeared alongside the Nine-Story Pagoda and connected to the passage's exit.
• The woman, Chi Wuxia, and the Golden Hou witnessed visions of fallen emperors, taboo powers, and a world stained by the blood of supreme beings before the stairway reached its end.

Di Yi and his companions passed through a collapsing passage into a dark void where he confronted eerie creatures and a mysterious tablet. As Di Yi tested his power against it, the void revealed an ancient mountain and temple, while an ominous presence gathered nearby.

• The passage behind Di Yi, Chi Wuxia, and Golden Hou collapsed as they emerged into a dark void.
• Chi Wuxia and Golden Hou saw cages drifting beside the River of Time, while Di Yi spotted eerie creatures and a rune-covered tablet.
• Di Yi protected his companions with the Nine-Story Pagoda and ventured toward the tablet as the creatures attacked.
• Di Yi struck at the tablet, but worshipping figures around it blocked his attack and the tablet pushed back against him.
• Di Yi unleashed the power of the Sea of Potential and True Understanding, revealing a vast mountain and purple temple in the void.
• The tablet and eerie creatures stirred a sinister mist, and the void trembled as Chi Wuxia feared another Emperor might be present.

Di Yi struck the spirit tablet, breaking off a piece and triggering a terrifying assault from across time and space. He answered with a sword strike that opened a universe, leaving Chi Wuxia, the woman, and the Golden Hou stunned by his power.

• Di Yi unleashed his full power against the spirit tablet and broke off one of its corners.
• The damaged tablet toppled, revealed a hazy Ancient Road, and unleashed a deadly attack as the Demonic Creatures offered sacrifices.
• A Sword Peak formed in Di Yi's Sea of Potential and manifested in the void.
• Di Yi infused the Grass Character Sword Art with his own power and swept aside the assault with a world-shaking sword strike.
• The woman studied Di Yi's Heaven-Opening Sword in fascination, while the Golden Hou marveled at how powerful its big brother had become.

Di Yi brought forth the Sword Embryo and unleashed an overwhelming strike against the Memorial Tablet, revealing an ancient coffin within it. The Memorial Tablet countered by reaching into the past and binding Di Yi across time and space.

• Di Yi suppressed the Memorial Tablet with the Grass Character Sword Art, leaving the Demonic Creatures astonished by his power.
• Di Yi manifested an ancient Sword Embryo, which the woman recognized and the Golden Hou said was not the real one.
• The Sword Embryo’s appearance stirred the Memorial Tablet, and Di Yi saw a coffin drifting along the river of time amid whispers and weeping.
• Di Yi’s instinctive warning intensified the flow of power and wielded the Sword Embryo to unleash a strike filled with countless runes and Daos.
• The Memorial Tablet manifested an intact version of itself from the past and bound Di Yi across time and space with countless threads.

Di Yi battled the Memorial Tablet across time, using his Emperor’s power and reincarnation to withstand its attacks and repeatedly damage its true body. The Tablet awakened its dormant retaliation and the mysterious Coffin, which began assailing Di Yi as the battle continued.

• The woman and the hou witnessed the Memorial Tablet’s essence emerge as its clash with Di Yi shook heaven and earth.
• The woman watched the battle as Chi Wuxia questioned whether her father, the King of the Time Beasts, could ever become an Emperor.
• Di Yi countered the Tablet’s temporal assaults with reincarnation and unleashed the Sword Embryo across the River of Time.
• Di Yi’s sword light repeatedly struck and cracked the Memorial Tablet while his defenses shielded him from its attacks.
• The Memorial Tablet released the destructive power of its past, and the Coffin reappeared to attack the sword light and Di Yi through the River of Time.

Di Yi pursued the Memorial Tablet through the Land of Nothingness and struck it with sword light that transcended distance and time. The tablet resisted inside the Reincarnation Domain, but the woman believed the clash was nearing its end.

• The Memorial Tablet released blood-red light that alarmed the woman and stirred Chi Wuxia's thoughts about Reincarnation and worlds beyond it.
• The damaged Memorial Tablet fled upstream along the River of Time, seeking greater forces of cause and effect to suppress Di Yi.
• Di Yi sent sword light across the River of Time and struck at the Memorial Tablet, leaving Chi Wuxia and the woman speechless at his power.
• The Memorial Tablet tried to evade the sword light and escape the Reincarnation Domain, but Di Yi's attack remained fixed on it and dragged it back.
• The Memorial Tablet resisted the devastating collision, but the woman sensed that Di Yi was about to decide the battle.

Di Yi’s sword clash with the Memorial Tablet shook the River of Time and gave witnesses visions of the gulf between Kings and Emperors. As the woman questioned whether the Emperor realm could be reached through cultivation or was fixed by destiny, Di Yi advanced on the burning Memorial Tablet, which answered with a surge of Emperor-level energy.

• Di Yi’s Sword Embryo overcame the Memorial Tablet’s attempt to escape by stretching distance, cleansing it with sword light and inflicting grave damage.
• The clash resonated across the Myriad Heavens and River of Time, startling beings in other epochs and giving a few insight into a new path.
• The woman saw that becoming an Emperor could not be achieved through gradual cultivation and wondered whether destiny determined who could reach that realm.
• The woman asked Chi Wuxia whether the order of heaven and earth could be changed, then said that Di Yi viewed others like people in a painting.
• Di Yi walked toward the burning Memorial Tablet and caused its stretched distance to collapse with a rain of sword light.
• The Memorial Tablet burned away its bloody light and sent pure Emperor-level energy surging against Di Yi.

Di Yi fought the Memorial Tablet in a battle that shook the River of Time and threatened to erase history. After the Tablet disintegrated and unleashed a transformation into unreality, the Rotten Wooden Box and strange lotus helped Di Yi escape and restore his existence, though he was left pondering the place revealed by the strange phenomena.

• The Memorial Tablet's assault revealed a vision of an ancient grave, a coffin-like object, and a figure Chi Wuxia suspected was Di Yi.
• Di Yi unleashed his full strength and clashed with the Memorial Tablet across time and worlds, while Chi Wuxia and the woman feared the battle's effects on history and their own existence.
• Di Yi discovered that the Memorial Tablet contained six uncanny powers as it cracked and bled strange substances.
• The Memorial Tablet disintegrated after declaring that its race permitted no variables or anomalies, and its final power began turning Di Yi's surroundings unreal.
• The Rotten Wooden Box and strange lotus resisted the transformation, helping Di Yi stabilize his existence and return to the starting point.
• After the strange phenomena vanished, Di Yi frowned as he recalled the place he had seen.

After the upheaval ended, Di Yi guided Chi Wuxia, the woman, and the Golden Hou through the Myriad Heavens and explained how its paths responded to perception. He helped the woman choose a route toward the humanoid flame she sought, then brought Chi Wuxia and the Golden Hou back to a great realm.

• Di Yi led the woman, Chi Wuxia, and the Golden Hou down a staircase through overlapping histories toward the Myriad Heavens.
• Di Yi explained that the Myriad Heavens had no fixed form and that a traveler's thoughts shaped the path ahead.
• The woman chose to seek the escaped flame, and Di Yi withdrew his protection as she stepped into her chosen path.
• The Nine-Story Pagoda shielded the woman from sinister scriptures and carried her to a distant point of light, where Di Yi suspected the Sword Embryo might also be found.
• Di Yi used his power to open a great universe and return Chi Wuxia and the Golden Hou to a realm of stars, birdsong, and flowers.

After emerging from the Land of Nothingness, Di Yi, the Golden Hou, and Chi Wuxia traveled through a peaceful but dangerous region while discussing how powerful cultivators rewarded merit and the right time to forge Dao Artifacts. The chapter ended with Di Yi asking how people without access to such rewards forged their own artifacts.

• Chi Wuxia, the Golden Hou, and Di Yi emerged from the Land of Nothingness and found themselves in an unfamiliar part of the present world.
• Di Yi set off to explore, and Chi Wuxia joined him after considering whether much time had passed in her absence.
• The group traveled through lush surroundings and entered a dangerous region, where the Golden Hou wondered why they had encountered so few people.
• Chi Wuxia explained that powerful cultivators awarded treasures for merit and unique techniques, and that recipients could receive materials for Dao Artifacts.
• Di Yi asked why people generally waited to forge Dao Artifacts and how those without access to awards forged their own.

Two Immortals escalated their battle near the Guardian Tree and ordered the surrounding clans and sects to evacuate. Golden Hou, Chi Wuxia, and Di Yi noticed the commotion from behind a sharply divided region, where Di Yi detected a hidden mechanism.

• The Immortals suspected the region was connected to the Guardian Tree’s abnormality and decided to clear the area to fight without restraint.
• An Immortal issued an edict ordering all living beings to migrate into Outer Space, and Snake Yaksha Supreme hurried away after receiving permission to leave.
• The Immortals unleashed their full strength and clashed with an Immortal artifact and a celestial-sun-like weapon, devastating the surrounding space.
• Golden Hou grew restless at the noise outside, while Chi Wuxia recognized the Guardian Tree’s light curtain and the signs of an Immortal-level battle.
• Di Yi examined the surging mountains, rivers, and earth and realized that a hidden mechanism had escaped his detection.

Di Yi observed the strange region as a severed finger attacked three Immortals and briefly pulled two of them into a place they identified as the Netherworld. As the finger drew power from the terrain, one Immortal called out an ancient name, freezing everything and overturning heaven and earth.

• Di Yi considered the region’s hidden patterns while a severed finger burst from the ground and appeared in the sky.
• The severed finger opened a vast rift and trapped two Immortals, prompting the third Immortal to charge into battle.
• The finger spoke of the Land of Reincarnation, and the two Immortals escaped after being pulled into a place with a city and a vast Millstone that they identified as the Netherworld.
• Runes and star-like flames empowered the severed finger, and the smaller Immortal began chanting an ancient name.
• The ancient name stopped the three Immortals and overturned heaven and earth, turning deep space into the ground and the ground into a starry sky.

The Kings followed the strange beings to a place where an unknown force restored the dead to life and made the Kings young again. As the Red King sensed something approaching against the River of Time, Chi Wuxia arrived and loudly called one of the gathered beings ugly.

• Heng Ji showed the Kings visions resembling the Netherworld and Underworld, while the Red King speculated that death might be a distinct form of life.
• Wu Shang urged the Kings to continue, and they reached the strange beings’ destination near Di Yi and the Great Medicine.
• The strange beings began wailing as something approached against the flow of the River of Time, and the Kings found that their essential ages had returned to youth.
• The strange beings’ worlds and histories appeared in passages, and the beings themselves returned to life with memories and thoughts restored.
• The Red King and Wu Shang sensed the approaching presence, and Chi Wuxia arrived, loudly asking why the ugly thing was there too.

Di Yi used the True Understanding to witness the vast and catastrophic history of Emperor Fall, while the Kings watched and learned of ancient civilizations and cultivation paths. The visions revealed the long-vanished Heavens lineage, leaving the Kings stunned by its return to view.

• The Kings paid their respects to Di Yi as he continued examining the visions of Emperor Fall.
• Di Yi and the young man watched as the visions intensified into an age-spanning battle among Undying Kings.
• Di Yi caused the material world to break into fragments so he could observe different periods, civilizations, and cultivation paths.
• The Kings studied the fragments and recognized a race as the vanished Heavens lineage.

The young man explained the sinister transformation of The Heavens and the legends surrounding Above the Heavens while Di Yi examined the ill omen pouring through the gateway. The images then changed as a passage connected to their location, triggering an ultimate weapon's warning.

• The young man told Di Yi that The Heavens had once been the ultimate hope of the Myriad Heavens but had become sinister and severed from the worlds.
• Di Yi compared the descending ill omen with the Black Blood and judged that it was vastly weaker and unlike its source.
• Di Yi asked the young man what he knew about Above the Heavens, and the young man admitted he knew only scattered fragments.
• The young man began to answer after Di Yi insisted, but the images of The Heavens changed as a passage connected to their location and triggered an ultimate weapon's warning.

A passage from the Lower Realm opened into The Heavens, where its guardians realized an End of the Path being had arrived and their defenses could not stop it. As a mysterious artifact restored the devastated region, Di Yi prepared himself, leaving the Kings expecting a fight.

• The beings of The Heavens warned that the passage was nearing them and feared the entity beyond it might be at the End of the Path.
• The passage connected to The Heavens, and its immense pressure forced the guardians to prostrate themselves.
• The great killing weapons attacked the arriving being, but their strikes and the surrounding defenses disintegrated.
• The failed defense devastated the area behind the portal, and the guardians feared they would be held responsible.
• A mysterious artifact arrived and restored the region and its weapons.
• Di Yi recognized the artifact, adjusted his condition, and prompted the Kings to anticipate a fight.

The beings of The Heavens watched in terror as the mighty weapon unleashed world-slaying attacks against the young man, hoping the End of the Path being from seventy-three Epochs in the future would retreat. The upheaval instead began to take a form that alarmed the city’s guardians.

• The beings of The Heavens feared that the upheaval in their remote region would draw the attention of supreme lineages.
• The mighty weapon appeared again and unleashed vast Thunder Divine Whips capable of erasing great realms.
• Some beings of The Heavens took heart, believing the weapon might force the future End of the Path being to retreat.
• The city’s guards debated whether the End of the Path being would back down or grow more determined.
• Mysterious halos appeared across The Heavens, linking scenes into three-dimensional forms and worsening the situation.

Di Yi crossed into The Heavens seventy-three epochs in the future, terrifying its residents as he moved across time. His actions altered the present, leaving the Kings questioning whether their memories and existence were merely part of a past event or an illusion.

• The beings guarding The Heavens feared they would be punished for failing to stop Di Yi and hoped there was still room to negotiate.
• The residents watched as the concealment of time receded and wondered which ancient figure Di Yi was and why he had come.
• Di Yi acted across the seventy-three epochs, and someone in the present seemed to vanish as though they had never existed.
• The young man and the Kings questioned whether the Emperor had traveled to the past or had always belonged to that era.
• An Undying King concluded that if past and future could not provide boundaries, even Kings might be puppets without meaningful existence.