Chapter Summaries

Di Yi trapped Five Elements Mountain in layers of space and awakened the Primordial Era being with a series of slaps. The being revived and strained against his chains, while Di Yi recognized a secret art in his life-preserving technique.

• Di Yi used a spatial True Hou Precious Technique to trap Five Elements Mountain and told the Qin Clan he only wanted to speak with the Primordial Era being.
• Di Yi approached the imprisoned being and slapped his face until his body twitched, astonishing the watching Qin Clan members and Deities.
• Five Elements Mountain reconsidered its suspicions and decided to conserve its strength while waiting for the Immortal Mountain Heavenly Venerable.
• Di Yi sensed that the being had developed a secret art to conserve his vital essence and thought he could study it through True Understanding.
• The Primordial Era being sat up, rattled the Five Elements Divine Chains, and opened his golden eyes.

Di Yi watched the Primordial Era being absorb the Mystic Domain’s essence and break free of the Five Elements Divine Chains, while containing the devastation and investigating the being’s connection to Kunpeng. The being finally manifested enormous physical Kunpeng wings, leaving Di Yi stunned by their nature.

• The Primordial Era being awoke and devoured spiritual energy and celestial light, plunging the Mystic Domain into darkness and alarming the Qin Clan and its inhabitants.
• Di Yi used the True Hou Precious Technique to isolate Immortal Mountain from the outside world as the Primordial Era being struck at the void barrier.
• Di Yi recognized traces of the Kun Peng Precious Technique and the Kunpeng Spirit Transformation Path in the being, and wondered whether its incomplete Kunpeng origin was connected to its main and secondary bodies.
• The Primordial Era being’s attacks cracked the dark red altar, and Di Yi let him continue, confident he could control the situation.
• The altar shattered, freeing the being from the Five Elements Divine Chains, and enormous physical Kunpeng wings emerged from his back.

Di Yi confronted Kunpeng Son as the Immortal Mountain Heavenly Venerable arrived to suppress him, and discovered that Kunpeng Son was Kunpeng’s direct descendant. As Kunpeng Son prepared to fight and accused them of coveting his technique and secrets, Di Yi decided to teach him a lesson.

• Kunpeng Son’s immense wings and power shook Immortal Mountain until the Immortal Mountain Heavenly Venerable descended to help suppress him.
• The Immortal Mountain Heavenly Venerable reclaimed the Five Elements Seal after Di Yi released it, while Di Yi said he had come to ask Kunpeng Son questions.
• Kunpeng Son accused Di Yi and the Immortal Mountain Heavenly Venerable of wanting the Kun Peng Precious Technique and the location of a hidden place.
• Di Yi recognized Kunpeng Son as Kunpeng’s direct blood relative and recalled that Sword Valley and the Demon Dragon Dao Sect had been linked to Kunpeng’s death.
• Kunpeng Son rejected the Immortal Mountain Heavenly Venerable’s offer to intervene and raised his fighting spirit, prompting Di Yi to decide he needed some educating.

Kunpeng Son fought the Immortal Mountain Heavenly Venerable while restoring his vitality, revealing that he had begun forging his own Kun Peng Precious Technique. Their battle drew another Upper Realm titan from the Western Religion, whose arrival left the fight poised to grow even more dangerous.

• Di Yi dissolved the barrier around Immortal Mountain, allowing Kunpeng Son to draw in stellar essence and replenish his vitality.
• The Immortal Mountain Heavenly Venerable attacked with the Five Elements Seal and Divine Mountains, but Kunpeng Son resisted and gauged the Heavenly Venerable’s growing strength.
• Kunpeng Son displayed an evolving Kun Peng Precious Technique that Di Yi recognized as the beginning of a unique path.
• Kunpeng Son and the Immortal Mountain Heavenly Venerable exchanged hundreds of blows, while a heroic-looking middle-aged man encouraged the shaken Qin Clan members.
• A titan from the Western Religion descended in a Sixteen-Foot Golden Body, carrying a green bamboo stalk, as Kunpeng Son and the Immortal Mountain Heavenly Venerable continued their fierce battle.

Di Yi easily destroyed the Western Religion Sect Master's attack, leaving the Sect Master wounded and exposing the gulf between their strength. Kunpeng Son took the chance to attack his old enemy, while the Immortal Mountain Heavenly Venerable explained the Western Religion's role in the earlier coalition against him.

• The Western Religion Sect Master identified himself and said he had come to capture Kunpeng Son, but Di Yi told him to leave.
• The Sect Master attacked Di Yi with his thousand-handed Dharma manifestation, and Di Yi's Grass Character Sword Art shattered it and wounded him.
• As the Sect Master tried to retreat, Kunpeng Son broke away from the Immortal Mountain Heavenly Venerable and attacked him.
• The Sect Master fought back with his Six-Foot Golden Body Art, and Kunpeng Son pressed him with the Kun Peng Precious Technique.
• The Immortal Mountain Heavenly Venerable warned Di Yi that their fight could destroy the Lower Realm, then explained that the Western Religion had supported Sword Valley, the Demon Dragon Dao Sect, and others against Kunpeng Son.

Di Yi learned from the Immortal Mountain Heavenly Venerable that Kunpeng’s enemies included powerful Upper Realm traditions and that the Western Religion was complicit in exploiting the Lower Realm. As Kunpeng Son fought the Western Religion’s leader, Di Yi decided to intervene and unleashed his sword intent.

• The Immortal Mountain Heavenly Venerable explained that the Western Religion rose from an ancient ruin and that little was known about the previous epoch.
• The Immortal Mountain Heavenly Venerable recounted finding ruins and evidence that Kunpeng had been ambushed by forces linked to the Immortal Palace and Sword Valley.
• The Western Religion’s leader used the Original True Understanding against Kunpeng Son, who countered with his mother’s Kun Peng Precious Technique.
• The Immortal Mountain Heavenly Venerable asked Di Yi to save Kunpeng Son and revealed that the Western Religion helped harvest Lower Realm beings as “human medicines.”
• Di Yi accepted that the consequences would fall mainly on him and unleashed the Grass Character Sword Art, strengthened by the Sea of Potential and the True Understanding.

Di Yi killed the Western Religion leader’s projection and true body with a sword strike that traced backward through time, leaving the Immortal Mountain Heavenly Venerable and Kunpeng Son shaken. The Heavenly Venerable warned that the Upper Realm’s sects would keep investigating, then revealed the leader may have been an immortality calamity born from a damaged śarīra, prompting Kunpeng Son to fear that time was running out.

• Di Yi’s sword destroyed the Western Religion leader’s Green Bamboo and golden body, then traced back through time to annihilate his true body.
• The Immortal Mountain Heavenly Venerable warned that the Upper Realm might investigate the killing, while Kunpeng Son noted that the Western Religion had lost its leader.
• Di Yi reflected that people feared what they could see, and Kunpeng Son mocked the Upper Realm sects before threatening to settle his old debts with the Immortal Palace and Sword Valley.
• The Immortal Mountain Heavenly Venerable explained that Kunpeng Son’s imprisonment beneath Five Elements Mountain had preserved the Great Dao laws he needed to complete his path.
• The Heavenly Venerable told Di Yi that the Western Religion leader may have been an immortality calamity evolved from a damaged śarīra amid ashes.
• Kunpeng Son recognized the significance of that origin and said they seemed to be running out of time.

Di Yi learned from Kunpeng Son that an ancient war was still ongoing and that the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths faced another Great Calamity. After revealing his identity as a Lord of the Forbidden Zone, Di Yi asked Kunpeng Son about the Primordial Era War, and learned that it had taken place in the current epoch and was part of a continuing conflict.

• The Immortal Mountain Heavenly Venerable and Kunpeng Son discussed the coming Great Calamity, ancient traitors, and the Ancient Covenant before the Heavenly Venerable’s projection vanished.
• Di Yi showed Kunpeng Son the Kun Peng Precious Technique and an image of Kunpeng wielding Heavenly Desolate, then brought him to a quiet place on Immortal Mountain.
• Di Yi told Kunpeng Son he was a Lord of the Forbidden Zone, shocking him, and asked about Sin Blood, the Land of Exile, and the Primordial Era War.
• Kunpeng Son explained that the Primordial Era War occurred in the current epoch, that such battles had continued for ages, and that the Imperial Pass’s capture triggered strange phenomena in No-Man’s Land.

Di Yi questioned Kunpeng Son about the uncanny, the Foreign Realm, and the Immortal Ancient war, learning that both realms suspected the other was the source of the uncanny. The Foreign Realm won the war and began searching the Primordial Ancient Realm, while the Great Reckoning and the truth behind the uncanny remained unresolved.

• Di Yi asked Kunpeng Son about the large-scale uncanny outbreak and learned that the Ancient Covenant had formed to resist it and aid the affected city.
• Kunpeng Son explained that the Foreign Realm had overwhelmed the Primordial Ancient Realm during the Immortal Ancient war, possibly because its war faction acted before a Great Reckoning.
• Di Yi wondered whether the Foreign Realm was made up of uncanny beings, and Kunpeng Son said its people had evolved through darkness but were not themselves the uncanny.
• Kunpeng Son said the Foreign Realm believed the Primordial Ancient Realm held the source of the uncanny, while the Primordial Ancient Realm suspected the Foreign Realm instead.
• Kunpeng Son told Di Yi that after winning the war, the Foreign Realm searched the Primordial Ancient Realm, digging into ancient mines, immortal abysses, and special passages.

Di Yi learned from Kunpeng Son about the Origin Ancient Artifact, the history of Sin Blood, and the forces behind the Lower Realm’s exile. Kunpeng Son also explained why his mother had brought him to the Lower Realm, suggesting other Ten Fiends may have hidden descendants there as well.

• Kunpeng Son told Di Yi that the Foreign Realm believed both realms shared an origin in the Origin Ancient Artifact, which might be connected to the Original True Understanding.
• Di Yi asked about Sin Blood, and Kunpeng Son explained that its mark had once represented glory rather than guilt.
• Kunpeng Son recounted how thirty clans faced a public trial after accusations of betrayal, and how an Immortal’s testimony helped seal their condemnation.
• Kunpeng Son suspected Sword Valley and the Demon Dragon Dao Sect had used the trial and exile of Sin Blood to suppress rival factions.
• Kunpeng Son told Di Yi that his mother had brought him to the Lower Realm to explore a gateway and restore his damaged origin by sealing him in a Primordial Treasure Realm for a million years.
• Kunpeng Son suggested other Ten Fiends might have brought descendants to the Lower Realm and sealed them in other Primordial Treasure Realms.

Di Yi learned from Kunpeng Son that the Foreign Realm’s persecution had likely left him as the only surviving descendant of Kunpeng. After Kunpeng Son departed, Di Yi explored the Mystic Domain, returned to the Desolate Region, and planned to continue his cultivation while awaiting Golden Hou.

• Di Yi questioned Kunpeng Son about other descendants of the Ten Fiends and learned that the Foreign Realm had persecuted them, leaving Kunpeng Son likely the only survivor.
• Kunpeng Son said he would recover in the Lower Realm before traveling to the Upper Realm, then departed without answering whether he would fight for it.
• Di Yi reflected on the Upper Realm’s corruption and left Immortal Mountain after exchanging words with Qin Ling.
• Di Yi wandered through the Mystic Domain for several days, observing its people and finding their lives much like those in the Desolate Region.
• Di Yi opened the Five-Colored Passage back to the Desolate Region and decided to continue experiencing cultivation while waiting for Golden Hou to emerge from seclusion.

Di Yi returned to Heaven Mending Pavilion and advanced his cultivation into the formation limit, using his deep understanding of the Dao to inscribe a healing formation based on the Primordial Vermilion Bird Precious Technique. He considered adding the concept of reincarnation to make the formation truly inexhaustible.

• Di Yi asked the gate disciple about recent events and learned that the Stone Kingdom's Human Emperor would soon celebrate his birthday.
• Di Yi returned to his residence in the Genius Camp, found the other geniuses away, and prepared to cultivate formation.
• Di Yi reflected that his past experience and immense limits made advancing through the Lower Realm's cultivation stages unusually easy.
• Di Yi advanced his divine radiance runes into formation and chose to inscribe a healing formation rather than a slaughtering one.
• Di Yi established a regenerative healing formation and considered incorporating the concept of reincarnation into it.

Di Yi realized his Healing Grand Formation lacked the principles of heaven and decided to study the Heaven Mending Technique for a way to complete it. After gaining Tao Ye’s permission to visit the closed Ancient Sacred Academy, he arrived and saw its hidden buildings through the chaotic mist.

• As he neared completion of the Healing Grand Formation, Di Yi sensed an imperfection but could not identify what was missing.
• Di Yi realized the formation needed heaven’s principles to unite the Vermilion Bird’s rebirth and the cycle of life represented by plants and trees.
• Di Yi decided the Heaven Mending Technique might supply the missing principles or let the formation make up for failures, and stored the unfinished formation in his Cave Heaven.
• Di Yi visited Tao Ye and asked to study the Heaven Mending Technique at the Ancient Sacred Academy; Tao Ye agreed but explained that the academy had closed after this generation’s talents failed to venture far inside.
• Di Yi traveled to the Ancient Sacred Academy and saw its grand buildings through the chaotic mist.

Di Yi entered the Ancient Sacred Academy and searched its ruins for the Heaven Mending Technique. At the central academy, an ancient woman awakened and invited him to meet her, but her rainbow passage could not move him.

• Di Yi passed through the gateway and found the academy’s inner world in ruins, though deeper regions held floating islands, green mountains, and clear lakes.
• Di Yi searched the islands for information about the Heaven Mending Technique but found only common inheritances.
• Di Yi headed to the central academy, where a woman’s voice called out from a palace and invited him to meet her.
• The woman sent a rainbow passage to draw Di Yi up, but he remained unmoved, and she paused to wake herself more fully.

Di Yi met a Grey-Clothed Maiden resting in a Heaven Mending Pavilion palace and discovered that she was an ancient Divine Saint with Double Pupils. The chapter ended with Di Yi calling her remarkable eyes creepy, angering her.

• Di Yi crossed the mountain and entered the palace, where the Grey-Clothed Maiden said she had borrowed it to rest.
• Di Yi and the Grey-Clothed Maiden exchanged remarks about their ages and seniority.
• The Grey-Clothed Maiden demonstrated Shrinking Earth to an Inch, and Di Yi recognized the ancient Precious Technique.
• Di Yi noticed the power in the Grey-Clothed Maiden’s eyes, and she revealed her Double Pupils.
• Di Yi called the Double Pupils creepy, leaving the Grey-Clothed Maiden visibly angry.

Di Yi demonstrated a profound imitation of the Grey-Clothed Maiden’s Child’s Pupil Technique, accidentally exposing thoughts it stirred in her and leaving her shocked by his power. She demanded to know who he was, while an author’s note asked readers to suggest a name for the girl with Double Pupils.

• The Grey-Clothed Maiden explained that Di Yi would need to pass trials to obtain important legacies such as the Heaven Mending Technique.
• Di Yi challenged the myth of the double pupils’ invincibility and used True Understanding to reproduce and extrapolate the Grey-Clothed Maiden’s Child’s Pupil Technique.
• The technique caused the Grey-Clothed Maiden’s thoughts to enter Di Yi’s mind, and she hastily sealed her divine sense and told him not to peek.
• The Grey-Clothed Maiden claimed the thoughts were only an effect of the technique, but Di Yi said he could not erase the memories and that she could not influence him.
• After recognizing the vast gap between them despite Di Yi’s Formation-level Divine Radiance, the Grey-Clothed Maiden asked who he was.
• The author invited readers to suggest a name for the girl with Double Pupils, proposing Yu Xi.

Di Yi told Yu Xi that he was called Di Yi and asked her for the Heaven Mending Technique. Yu Xi led him to the Heavenly Tower where its inheritance was kept, and Di Yi entered to examine the ancient hall.

• Di Yi introduced himself as Di Yi, and Yu Xi wondered whether the name carried the weight of an emperor's true name.
• Yu Xi asked whether Di Yi came from the Upper Realm, but he challenged her assumption that someone like him could not come from the Lower Realm.
• Di Yi asked for the Heaven Mending Technique, and Yu Xi agreed to take him to its inheritance in the Heavenly Towers.
• Yu Xi opened the Heavenly Tower and explained that its scriptures and furnishings had been arranged casually in antiquity.
• Di Yi entered the hall and asked Yu Xi about its order, and she described the Three Thousand Dao Provinces and the Nine Heavens.

Di Yi studied the Divine Saint Bone Scripture while Yu Xi wondered about his mysterious origins and her own entanglement in ancient karma. The chapter left Yu Xi witnessing a sudden appearance of the Traces of Heaven above the Heavenly Towers.

• Yu Xi showed Di Yi the Divine Saint Bone Scripture and explained that Wu Tianchong had verified its authenticity.
• Di Yi told Yu Xi that he had helped Wu Tianchong recover his memories, though the departed soul might not last much longer.
• Yu Xi considered whether Di Yi was the Calamity-Bearing Person, but her attempt to contact the Black Paper Boats brought no response, and she concluded he was not.
• Yu Xi worried that she had awakened at the wrong time and might not survive the coming turmoil.
• The sky opened above the Heavenly Towers, and Yu Xi recognized the life-filled substance that appeared as Traces of Heaven.

Di Yi extrapolated the Heaven Mending Technique and discovered Cosmic Dust, gaining insight into the origin of life and the universe. He resumed building a healing Grand Formation, inscribed it into his Ten Cave Heavens, and began reviving his Sea of Potential.

• Di Yi’s study and extrapolation of the Heaven Mending Technique drew Cosmic Dust into his Sea of Potential and revealed the substance’s connection to creation.
• Di Yi used the True Understanding to trace Cosmic Dust back to the world’s origin and recognized the symbols of Life Origin within its mysteries.
• Di Yi resumed constructing the healing Grand Formation and saw stars and vitality begin to revive his Sea of Potential.
• Di Yi chose to inscribe the formation into his Ten Cave Heavens, where it could oppose Black Blood and interact with the ten True Spirits.
• As the formation took shape, Di Yi experienced a vast cycle of creation and change, leaving him uncertain whether his work still counted as Formation.

Yu Xi was targeted by the Strange Transformation after Di Yi drew the Traces of Heaven, and she fought back with her Double Pupils and Precious Techniques. The gray mist survived her attacks and transformed into a lifeless entity as the battle grew more ominous.

• Yu Xi watched the Traces of Heaven settle without a heavenly tribulation, then sensed a strange fluctuation spread through the Ancient Sacred Academy.
• Gray mist descended and targeted Yu Xi, apparently mistaking her for a dazzling being because Di Yi had drawn the Traces of Heaven there.
• Yu Xi strengthened her aura and used her Double Pupils Technique to destroy large portions of the mist, but it re-formed as a bizarre claw.
• Yu Xi attacked with further Double Pupils techniques and Precious Techniques, discovering that thunder, chaos, and divine fire could suppress the mist.
• The mist gathered into a lifeless entity, plunging heaven and earth into absolute silence and darkness.