Chapter Summaries

Yu Xi fought a mysterious life-form whose power had grown after merging with strange fluctuations, and recognized its possible connection to the undying. She brought it down with a devastating Double Pupils technique, but remained gravely uneasy because she could not tell whether it was truly defeated.

• Yu Xi resisted the life-form’s terrifying pressure and heard what sounded like the words “with the undying.”
• The life-form attacked Yu Xi with gray mist, and she countered with her Double Pupils as their clash shook the Ancient Sacred Academy’s isolated void.
• Yu Xi struggled against the life-form’s superior physical strength and the close-range restrictions of the battlefield.
• Yu Xi seized an opening and unleashed “An Immortal Tree’s Wondrous Fate,” blasting the life-form down in a surge of destructive power.
• Yu Xi, wounded and uncertain whether she had killed the life-form, sensed that something was wrong as gray mist continued to surge.

Di Yi completed the Healing Grand Formation before Yu Xi was driven into the hall by an eldritch being resembling her. He recognized the creature’s connection to his own True Understanding, then destroyed it with a single sword strike, leaving Yu Xi stunned by the gap between their abilities.

• Yu Xi attacked the Lifeform as it transformed, while the battle’s divine radiance and pressure spread beyond the Ancient Sacred Academy and immobilized Tao Ye and the disciples.
• Di Yi finished constructing the Healing Grand Formation within his Ten Cave Heavens and emerged from his absorption.
• The hall was shattered, and Di Yi caught the bloodied Yu Xi as she was blasted inside; an eldritch creature identical to her followed.
• Di Yi suspected that other creatures had turned his Dao toward an eldritch path and forged a karmic connection to him through the Original True Understanding.
• Di Yi brought Yu Xi away from the creature and killed it with a sword strike empowered by the Sea of Potential, leaving Yu Xi shocked by his strength.

Di Yi and Yu Xi discussed the Strange Transformation that had attacked her and the theories about its purpose. Yu Xi stayed behind to recuperate, while Di Yi left the Ancient Sacred Academy and reassured the Heaven Mending Pavilion elders that the earlier disturbance was unrelated to them.

• Yu Xi told Di Yi that the Strange Transformation had appeared with the Traces of Heaven and explained how it differed from disorderly strangeness.
• Yu Xi shared a predecessor’s theory that Strange Transformations targeted outstanding talents to steal their arts or imprison their primordial spirits, while Di Yi considered the entity’s power.
• Yu Xi said she would remain at the Ancient Sacred Academy to recover because it was not yet time for her to leave, then entered a surviving Heavenly Tower.
• Di Yi left the Ancient Sacred Academy and encountered Tao Ye and the Heaven Mending Pavilion elders outside.
• Tao Ye asked Di Yi not to take his anger out on the Heaven Mending Pavilion, and Di Yi reassured him that the disturbance had nothing to do with them.

Di Yi gave the Heaven Mending Pavilion elders the Heaven Mending Technique through their spiritual plane after they explained that the pavilion could not safely protect a written copy. The elders left to report the inheritance to the Divine Vine, while Di Yi departed after leaving their cultivation to them.

• Tao Ye asked whether the Ancient Sacred Academy could still be opened, and Di Yi confirmed its gateway remained intact.
• Di Yi offered to inscribe the Heaven Mending Technique, but Tao Ye and the elders declined because the pavilion lacked the strength to protect a complete copy.
• Di Yi planted the Heaven Mending Technique in the elders’ minds, astonishing them with his method of transmitting it through the spiritual plane.
• Di Yi told the elders that their progress depended on their own cultivation and judgment about teaching the technique to the pavilion’s disciples.
• After Di Yi left, the elders hurried to the Divine Vine to report that they had received the Heaven Mending Technique.

Di Yi searched the Heaven Mending Pavilion’s Scripture Pavilion for inspiration to name the Healing Grand Formation. He settled on Three Talents Reincarnation, triggering a powerful cycle of creation and destruction within the formation.

• Di Yi pondered the importance of bestowing a true name and went to the Scripture Pavilion to seek inspiration.
• Di Yi browsed Bone Scriptures, found little useful material, and used the Divine Radiance Dao Talisman to locate relevant texts.
• Di Yi studied an interpretation of the Heaven, Earth, and Human Three Talents and conceived the name Three Talents Reincarnation.
• Di Yi’s insight caused the Healing Grand Formation in the Ten Cave Heavens to erupt with holy radiance and surging vitality.
• The formation shifted from the flourishing of all things to the extinction of yin and yang, turning everything into matter that would nurture the next cycle.

Di Yi’s Three Talents Reincarnation Formation evolved, revealing a principle that could restore beings erased from history through thought and remembrance. The Rotten Wooden Box and its lotus pulled him back from a dangerous state of reincarnation, and he returned to the Scripture Pavilion questioning whether he had already died and been brought back.

• A man outside the Scripture Pavilion watched the plants and trees wither and then transform into spirit plants.
• Di Yi’s Healing Grand Formation evolved alongside his Sea of Potential, and he recognized nature’s cycle of decline and renewal as a law of the Dao.
• Di Yi sensed that beings could return from death through thought and remembrance, and he wondered whether he had already died.
• The Scripture Pavilion was overwhelmed by reincarnation fluctuations, but the Rotten Wooden Box and its lotus severed Di Yi’s connection and guided him back.
• The Three Talents Reincarnation Formation shone and then settled, allowing Di Yi to escape reincarnation and return to the Scripture Pavilion.

After leaving the Scripture Pavilion, Di Yi saw how his power had transformed the surrounding land and the pavilion’s guardian. He then met Lie Wan'er and took her toward the Stone Kingdom to investigate its Sacrificial Spirit, leaving the passage before they reached the capital.

• Di Yi found the pavilion’s guardian covered in overgrown hair and used the Grass Character Sword Art to remove it, allowing the guardian to keep the hair as material for a weapon.
• Di Yi left the altered landscape untouched, deciding to leave it as a gift to the Heaven Mending Pavilion.
• Di Yi met Lie Wan'er, who was preparing to return to the Stone Kingdom for the Stone Emperor’s birthday, and asked whether its Sacrificial Spirit might be the God-Striking Stone.
• Lie Wan'er said the Sacrificial Spirit was connected to the Divine Stone Clan and remained in the imperial capital, but she did not know if it was the God-Striking Stone.
• Di Yi took Lie Wan'er through a passage for Void Crossing and dropped out before they reached the Stone Kingdom Imperial Capital to avoid attracting attention.

Di Yi and Lie Wan'er reached the Stone Kingdom Imperial Capital, where Di Yi set out to visit its Sacrificial Spirit. At the Imperial Palace, he spoke with Lie Wan'er about the nature of Deities and a king’s responsibility, leaving her pondering his words as they prepared to enter.

• Di Yi and Lie Wan'er arrived at the Stone Kingdom Imperial Capital, and Lie Wan'er recalled how difficult it had once been to reach it.
• Di Yi entered the bustling city and went with Lie Wan'er toward the Imperial Palace to meet the Stone Kingdom's Sacrificial Spirit.
• Lie Wan'er explained that some of the Stone Kingdom's ancestors had enormous forms, and Xin Gu corrected Di Yi by explaining that Deities could manifest on a colossal scale.
• Lie Wan'er offered to warn the palace about Di Yi, but he declined and said that all in the world were guests to him.
• Di Yi described a king's most important quality as keeping the world in one's heart, and Lie Wan'er asked how compassion should guide a king amid discord.

Di Yi and Lie Wan'er reached the Central Heavenly Palace for the Stone Emperor's birthday and encountered Yun Yun, Lie Wan'er's friend from the Void God Realm, who belonged to Heavenly God Mountain. Yun Yun explained that elders from several Primordial Divine Mountains were meeting the Stone Emperor while their juniors waited outside.

• Di Yi and Lie Wan'er crossed the Stone Kingdom's Imperial Palace, where guests had gathered early for the Stone Emperor's birthday.
• Lie Wan'er told Di Yi that the Primordial Divine Mountains had sent junior representatives, while some Stone Kingdom marquis estates maintained ties with them through marriage alliances.
• Lie Wan'er led Di Yi to the Central Heavenly Palace, where he and Lie Wan'er encountered Yun Yun among the waiting juniors from the Primordial Divine Mountains.
• Yun Yun recognized Di Yi, bowed to him as a Deity, and revealed that she came from Heavenly God Mountain and the Celestial Clan.
• Yun Yun told Di Yi that elders from Heavenly God Mountain, Primordial Peng Mountain, Southern Fallen Divine Mountain, and Xiling Beast Mountain were meeting the Stone Emperor inside.

Di Yi learned that Xiling Beast Mountain and Heavenly God Mountain had come to investigate a possible Peerless Supreme legacy in the Stone Kingdom’s Wilderness Mountains, where a dangerous thunderstorm had occurred. He entered the Heavenly Palace with Lie Wan'er and was met with alarm by the Stone Kingdom’s Human Emperor and the Venerable from Xiling Beast Mountain.

• Yun Yun told Di Yi that Xiling Beast Mountain was investigating a possible Peerless Supreme legacy after a Heavenly God Mountain elder died while divining about thunder in the Western Frontier.
• Di Yi recognized that the thunderstorm had occurred near the Broken Willow, denied any interest in the legacy, and thanked Yun Yun for her warning.
• Lie Wan'er led Di Yi into the Heavenly Palace despite a guard’s attempt to stop them.
• The Stone Kingdom’s Human Emperor and the Venerable from Xiling Beast Mountain hurried to bow to Di Yi, while the other Divine Mountain Venerables also greeted him.
• Di Yi asked the Venerable from Xiling Beast Mountain to confirm his identity.

Di Yi questioned the Venerable from Xiling Beast Mountain about its races and True Hou legacies, then said he would visit West Mausoleum himself. After sending the others away, he asked the Stone Kingdom's Human Emperor to meet the kingdom’s Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit, and the Emperor revealed the Stone Kingdom's Human Emperor Seal.

• Di Yi learned that the Venerable from Xiling Beast Mountain was a Taowu and that Xiling Beast Mountain also had True Hou and other races.
• The Venerable offered to bring Di Yi a True Hou legacy, but Di Yi said he would visit West Mausoleum himself.
• Di Yi dismissed the Venerables from the Primordial Divine Mountains and Lie Wan'er before speaking privately with the Stone Kingdom's Human Emperor.
• Di Yi asked whether the Stone Kingdom's Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit was connected to the God-Striking Stone, and the Human Emperor confirmed it.
• The Stone Kingdom's Human Emperor brought out the kingdom's Human Emperor Seal, whose power could grant or lend the strength of a Venerable.

Di Yi discovered that the Stone Kingdom’s Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit had been a distinct kind of God-Striking Stone, not the Ten Fiends’ legendary one, and that its inheritance had not survived. He taught the Human Emperor a mnemonic that could become a new God-Striking Stone technique, then declined the offer of Divine Treasures and prepared to leave.

• The Stone Kingdom’s Human Emperor told Di Yi that the Human Emperor Seal was made from the remains of the kingdom’s former God-Striking Stone Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit.
• Di Yi examined the seal and learned that this God-Striking Stone had its own distinct inheritance, while the Stone Kingdom possessed no technique from the Ten Fiends’ God-Striking Stone.
• Di Yi gave the Human Emperor a mnemonic for striking Divine Sense and explained that developing it could produce a new God-Striking Stone Precious Technique.
• The Human Emperor thanked Di Yi and offered him Divine Treasures from the Imperial Palace Ancestral Temple.
• Di Yi declined the treasures and said he was leaving the Stone Kingdom.

After leaving the Central Heavenly Palace, Di Yi decided to explore the Stone Capital with Lie Wan'er and seek out young members of the Stone Kingdom's royal family. Lie Wan'er agreed to guide him to places where the royal youths gathered, revealing that she had once been their boss.

• Di Yi left the Central Heavenly Palace, and the Venerables from the Primordial Divine Mountains respectfully saw him off.
• Lie Wan'er praised Di Yi for commanding the Venerables' respect, but Di Yi dismissed it as ordinary etiquette.
• Di Yi chose to stroll around the Stone Capital while considering the origins and family ties of the future Bear Child.
• Di Yi asked Lie Wan'er where young members of the Stone Kingdom's royal family gathered, and she listed several places.
• Lie Wan'er agreed to take Di Yi there and said she wondered whether her former little tails still recognized her as their boss.

Di Yi and Lie Wan'er explored the Stone Kingdom's bustling capital and visited the Ten Thousand Beasts Hall, where Di Yi discovered that an ordinary-looking black jar concealed an extraordinary origin. He left the jar's secret unexplained to others, while Lie Wan'er could not recognize its value.

• Lie Wan'er explained that the Stone Kingdom's abundant resources had made its capital a major trading center.
• Lie Wan'er took Di Yi to the Ten Thousand Beasts Hall, where the manager described its beasts and beast fights.
• Di Yi noticed a damaged, pitch-black jar and sensed faint but powerful fluctuations of rules within it.
• The manager said the jar contained Three-Colored Rainbow Kite blood used to refine a Lesser Nirvana Pill, but Lie Wan'er could not afford it.
• Di Yi told Lie Wan'er that the jar itself mattered because it had once sealed a powerful body without a primordial spirit.
• Di Yi said only someone like him or a person who took the jar to the Void God Realm could discover its clues.

Di Yi and Lie Wan'er investigated a pitch-black jar linked to the Void God Realm, but Lie Wan'er could not buy it after learning it was not for sale. Di Yi searched for someone connected to Bear Child in the Stone Kingdom Imperial Capital, then sensed an object stir the ripples of time.

• Di Yi told Lie Wan'er the jar might be connected to the spiritual body of its former owner and warned her not to take it into the Void God Realm.
• Lie Wan'er tried to buy the jar along with the Three-Colored Rainbow Kite precious blood, but the seller explained the jar was not included and she refused the purchase.
• The seller revealed the jar had come from the Bone Gu Auction House, and Lie Wan'er recalled an auction where a supposed Deity Artifact fragment turned out to be a special vessel.
• Lie Wan'er suggested visiting the Bone Gu Auction House, and Di Yi agreed to look around before they went.
• Di Yi searched the imperial capital for people connected to Bear Child but found none, then sensed someone stir an object that caused the ripples of time to spread through the city.

Di Yi followed Lie Wan'er to Martial King Manor after discovering karmic threads connected the manor to Bear Child. They arrived at Shi Ze's courtyard, where Shi Ze was boasting about facing Lie Wan'er without realizing she had come.

• Di Yi learned from Lie Wan'er that Martial King Manor had a possible marriage alliance with the Rain King Mansion and decided to visit it.
• Di Yi saw an inexplicable thread and a pitch-black thread extending from Martial King Manor, confirming its karmic connection to Bear Child.
• Lie Wan'er identified herself to the manor guards by recalling that she had spanked Shi Ze and kicked the Fifth Master's backside, and they let her pass.
• Lie Wan'er led Di Yi toward Shi Ze's residence as manor residents recognized her and hurried away to report her arrival.
• Shi Ze vowed to settle his old grudges with Lie Wan'er and insulted her, unaware that she had reached the courtyard entrance.

Shi Ze offended Lie Wan'er and fled through Martial King Manor as she chased him. Shi Yuan stopped the pair by the lake, where his relatives teased him over whether he would protect his son or let Lie Wan'er punish him.

• Shi Ze's companions tried to leave after hearing him insult Lie Wan'er, but she arrived and chased him through the manor.
• Shi Ze tried to use the gardens to escape Lie Wan'er, then turned to fight before tricking her and running back the way he came.
• Lie Wan'er trapped Shi Ze with her Precious Technique, but a powerful aura broke it as Shi Yuan and others arrived at the lake.
• Shi Yuan seized Shi Ze, and Lie Wan'er told him the boy had been speaking nonsense again.
• Shi Li and the others teased Shi Yuan about whether he would save his son or let Lie Wan'er punish him, while Shi Ze protested that his uncle was siding with an outsider.

Di Yi discovered that infant Shi Zhongtian was karmically linked to the mysterious “Bear Child,” though the child’s great-grandparents were outside the Bear Child’s ripples of time. He left Martial King Manor after giving Shi Zhongtian a life-preserving crystal, leaving Lie Wan’er with a parting gift as well.

• Di Yi met Shi Zhongtian’s parents and learned the infant’s formal and childhood names, then detected his karmic link to the “Bear Child.”
• Shi Ze apologized to Lie Wan’er under Shi Yuan’s glare, and Shi Li told her that Yi Zi had recently given birth.
• Lie Wan’er reunited with Yi Zi, while Shi Hong and Yi Zi met Di Yi and learned he was a powerful Deity.
• Di Yi gave Shi Zhongtian a crystal that could restore lost life force and urged his parents to keep it.
• Di Yi vanished as Lie Wan’er tried to see him off, leaving a heavy parting gift in her hand.

Di Yi returned to the North Sea to check on the Kunpeng Son and Golden Hou, then entered the Void God Realm through a newly discovered ruined gateway. He uncovered evidence that an Immortal had opened the realm and suspected its ancient outposts had guarded spiritual forms sealed in jars.

• Di Yi opened a passage to the North Sea, but found only traces of the Kunpeng Son at the Kunpeng Nest.
• Di Yi found Golden Hou training in Meteor Valley and saw that he had advanced enough to leave seclusion in a few days.
• Di Yi went to Withered Cliff and entered the Void God Realm using a True Spirit empowered by the Sea of Potential and True Understanding.
• Di Yi found himself in ruins at a boundary between the physical and spiritual worlds and determined that an Immortal, rather than Deities, had opened the Void God Realm.
• Di Yi suspected the ruined outposts had guarded the spiritual forms of beings sealed inside jars, then punched a passage into the true Void God Realm World.

Di Yi forced his way through the Void God Realm, following a hidden vein to find its source and breaking numerous records along the way. He reached a vast ancient hall filled with spiritual jars emitting demonic black mist, which recoiled from him as he approached.

• Di Yi punched open a passage into the Void God Realm’s Initial Passage and followed the hidden vein through its cultivation regions.
• Di Yi forcibly entered the Venerable region, and his progress caused the Void God Realm to announce more than thirty record-breaking achievements.
• Di Yi reached and opened the Bronze Gate, revealing a misty world with a bluestone Ladder to Heaven, a black mountain, and a Bronze Sacrificial Altar connected to the Upper Realm.
• Di Yi struck into a spiritual void and followed a bluestone road to a boundless region of chaos.
• Di Yi discovered an enormous ancient hall containing cages and dozens of spiritual jars that released dense demonic black mist.
• As Di Yi approached the ancient hall, the black mist moved away from him and kept a distance of ten zhang.