Chapter Summaries

After Yun Ying killed An Hong, an Imperial Clan Undying, the Foreign Realm reeled and the An Lan Clan turned its thoughts toward revenge and other plans against the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths. Yun Ying left her post beneath the Heavenly Abyss and began a leisurely walk toward the Imperial City, reflecting on her achievements at thirty and guiding Little Purple.

• The Foreign Realm Undying recognized Yun Ying as An Hong’s killer, and the An Lan Clan’s Quasi-Undying King carried An Hong’s corpse away.
• Yun Ying returned across the Heavenly Abyss, reassured Little Purple that the Foreign Realm’s Undying Kings would not act lightly, and news of An Hong’s death spread throughout the Foreign Realm.
• The An Lan Clan’s elders demanded revenge, but their Quasi-Undying King said they could not cross the Heavenly Abyss and ordered the clan to support the plans involving He Wushuang and Ancient Ancestor Yu Tuo.
• After guarding beneath the Heavenly Abyss for nearly two years, Yun Ying decided to return to the Imperial City, while a Foreign Realm scout watched and confirmed her departure.
• Yun Ying chose to walk across the desert with Little Purple, explaining that looking at the world with one’s heart revealed more than its barren appearance.

Yun Ying returned to the Imperial City after nearly two years away and arranged to visit the Wei Family, whose ancestor had lent her the Crimson Phoenix Tower. As the family prepared to receive her, Yun Ying’s arrival was imminent.

• Yun Ying met a squad of Nine Heavens warriors in the desert, covered her eyes to ease the pressure of her gaze, and told them to stay safe.
• The grand elder of the Heavenly Deity Academy led the Nine Heavens army to aid Great Red Heaven after its border city exploded and the Foreign Realm invaded, while Yun Ying sensed the crisis and lamented that it came too late.
• Yun Ying returned to Upright Heaven Hall, asked Meng Huo to deliver a visiting card to the Wei Family, and then visited the Elder Heavenly Being, who chose to remain and fight the Foreign Realm.
• Meng Huo delivered Yun Ying’s visiting card, and word of her planned visit three days later stirred discussion throughout the Imperial City.
• Yun Ying traveled to the Wei Family along a dazzling path of light, and the family’s ancestor warned his gathered relatives to treat her with respect as they awaited her arrival.

Yun Ying returned the Crimson Phoenix Tower to the Wei Family and warned Imperial Pass that the Foreign Realm might retaliate after she killed an Undying of the An Lan Clan. The Foreign Realm targeted the Heavenly Abyss to draw out the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths’ armies, and a battle led by three ancestors raged for ten days and nights, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Yun Ying visited the Wei Family, returned the Crimson Phoenix Tower, and warned the three family ancestors that An Lan might retaliate because she had killed one of its Undying and crippled another.
• The Foreign Realm assembled its army beneath the Heavenly Abyss, built altars to weaken it, and used the threat to provoke Imperial Pass into battle.
• The Nine Heavens and Ten Earths’ army destroyed the altars in a brutal battle, but the entire army died and the Foreign Realm also suffered heavy losses.
• The Foreign Realm resumed building altars, prompting Imperial Pass to assemble a larger force led by the three ancestors.
• The armies fought for ten days and nights, and a dying cultivator raised his battle flag amid the corpses.

The Nine Heavens and Ten Earths won a devastating ten-day battle, forcing the Foreign Realm to retreat, and later celebrated the victory at Imperial Pass. Grand Elder Meng Tianzheng met Yun Ying, whose strength had grown beyond his, as the chapter left them discussing the end of the era.

• The Foreign Realm's Undying ordered a retreat after heavy losses and growing dissatisfaction among their clans, while the cultivators of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths drove their army back.
• The three ancestors ordered the battlefield cleared, and the army burned the fallen before returning to Imperial Pass, where the costly victory lifted morale.
• Yun Ying and Meng Huo reflected on the price of victory and how future generations might forget the fallen.
• A hundred thousand troops from the Wang Family of Longevity arrived at Imperial Pass, led by Wang Changsheng's five sons, who had been sent there to redeem themselves after wrongdoing.
• Meng Huo told Yun Ying that Grand Elder Meng Tianzheng had arrived, and the next day Meng Tianzheng visited her in Upright Heaven Hall.
• Meng Tianzheng marveled that Yun Ying had surpassed his level in two years and reflected on her deeds, including killing a Supreme and an Undying of the Foreign Realm.

Yun Ying studied a Quasi-Immortal King inheritance on the Willow Deity’s stump while cultivating toward immortality by deliberately keeping her Primordial Spirit flawed. A year later, her separated soul met Shi Hao and the others in Imperial City, where she revealed that becoming flawless would make her an immortal.

• Meng Tianzheng warned Yun Ying that An Lan might target her for killing an An Lan descendant, and told her Shi Hao had succeeded in Body as Seed.
• Yun Ying visited the Willow Deity’s stump and used a Quasi-Immortal King scripture to advance her cultivation.
• After a year, Shi Hao, Qingyi, the Lunar Jade Rabbit, and other trainees spotted Yun Ying’s illusory soul above the stump.
• Yun Ying explained that she had separated part of her Primordial Spirit to keep herself flawed until she was ready to become an immortal.
• Yun Ying joined the group as they continued into Imperial City, and Shi Hao beat Cao Yusheng after he made a crude joke about him.

Shi Hao and his companions reunited with Yun Ying at Imperial Pass, where her reputation as a formidable Supreme became clear. When hostile factions insulted the Shi Clan’s alleged sin blood, Shi Hao launched a fierce verbal defense, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Shi Hao teased Yun Ying about her changed demeanor, and Qingyi playfully disciplined him while Little Rabbit asked Yun Ying about her life and battles at Imperial Pass.
• Yun Ying revealed that the Foreign Realm called her the Executioner, and powerful cultivators repeatedly greeted her with deep respect before leading the newcomers to the bronze hall.
• Little Heaven-Horned Ant met Yun Ying, and Shi Hao warned him not to provoke her; the gathered clans then arrived to welcome their younger talents.
• Feng Wu and Qingyi learned that Yun Ying lived in Upright Heaven Hall, while Cao Yusheng suggested that he and the remaining Shi brothers join her.
• Hostile figures from the Wang Family, the Jin Family, and other factions branded the Shi Clan descendants of sin blood, and Shi Hao answered with an impassioned attack on their accusations and hypocrisy.
• Cao Yusheng applauded Shi Hao’s retort as the hostile elders stared at him in stunned silence.

Yun Ying rebuked the Wang and Jin families for targeting Shi Hao and urged him to grow stronger rather than dwell on the Shi Clan’s stigma. Ye Qingxian, a traveler from a later age, met Yun Ying and received three sword imprints before leading Shi Hao and his companions deeper into the Imperial City.

• Shi Hao cursed the Wang and Jin families for smearing the Shi Clan, and Yun Ying told him to trust his ancestors and focus on becoming stronger.
• A silver-haired Wang Family man warned Yun Ying against associating with the Shi Clan, but she ignored him.
• Ye Qingxian arrived and, with time frozen around them, revealed to Yun Ying that she had come from a later age seeking an answer.
• Yun Ying gave Ye Qingxian three sword imprints and told her that the future did not rest on her shoulders alone.
• After time resumed, Ye Qingxian told Shi Hao and his companions to follow her, then teased Shi Hao as he questioned her origins and the jade bracelets.
• Ye Qingxian led Shi Hao, Cao Yusheng, and the others into the depths of the Imperial City.

Yun Ying visited Upright Heaven Hall, then appeared at the battlefield when the Foreign Realm built an altar to address the Heavenly Abyss. As An Lan and Yu Tuo questioned the Abyss, Yun Ying dismissed their threats and suspected they sought something on the Nine Heavens’ side to advance their power.

• Yun Ying welcomed Qingyi, Feng Wu, Zuo Xiaodi, and Little Rabbit at Upright Heaven Hall and said she was waiting for the Foreign Realm to commit fully against the Heavenly Abyss before making her move.
• A month later, the Nine Heavens army marched beyond Imperial Pass, where Grand Elder Meng Tianzheng and the Foreign Realm’s twelve Supremes confronted one another above the battlefield.
• Yun Ying arrived as a wisp of Primordial Spirit, unsettling the Foreign Realm Supremes, while Shi Hao distinguished himself in battle below.
• A skull altar appeared in the desert, and a golden decree burned as An Lan and Yu Tuo addressed the Heavenly Abyss; Meng Tianzheng used the Ten Realms Diagram to shield the Nine Heavens cultivators from its pressure.
• Yun Ying mocked An Lan and Yu Tuo for trying to threaten the Heavenly Abyss and suspected they sought something on the Nine Heavens’ side that could help them advance within the Undying King realm.

The Heavenly Abyss destroyed An Lan and Yu Tuo’s decrees, while Meng Tianzheng learned that the Foreign Realm was searching the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths for something. The standoff continued until Yun Ying arrived and cowed the Foreign Realm Supremes with her reputation as the Executioner.

• Crimson Order Divine Chains shattered An Lan and Yu Tuo’s golden decrees, bringing the armies’ fighting to a temporary halt.
• Yun Ying glimpsed an ancient city at the upper end of the Heavenly Abyss and wondered whether it had been the source of a gaze she sensed before.
• Meng Tianzheng told Shi Hao and the others that An Lan and Yu Tuo were searching for something likely hidden in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
• A Foreign Realm Supreme demanded that the Nine Heavens hand over the unknown object, but Meng Tianzheng mocked him and dared him to fight one-on-one.
• Yun Ying appeared, and the Foreign Realm Supremes fell silent as the cultivators recalled her killing an Imperial Clan Undying and earning the name Executioner.

After leaving the battlefield, Yun Ying accepted an invitation to a gathering at Azure Sky Lake, curious about whether beings from the Nine Heavens’ restricted zones would attend. At the gathering, she noticed Qingyi had merged with Yue Chan, received deference from prominent young heirs, and drew the resentment of Jin Zhifei.

• Yun Ying left the battlefield, and both armies withdrew; back at the Imperial Pass, she checked the Willow Deity’s true body and awaited the Foreign Realm’s next move.
• Yun Ying accepted the Wei Family’s invitation to a gathering at Azure Sky Lake after learning that beings from the restricted zones might attend.
• Yun Ying went to Azure Sky Lake with Qingyi, Feng Wu, and Little Rabbit, then sat apart while her companions mingled with the other young people.
• Yun Ying realized Qingyi had merged with Yue Chan and felt glad that Qingyi had overcome her confusion.
• The Four Phoenixes of the Wei Family and heirs of the Tuogu and Qi Families greeted Yun Ying respectfully, while Jin Zhifei privately resented the deference she received.

Shi Hao defeated Jin Zhifei across a major realm, then underwent a dangerous heavenly tribulation that forced him to forge his own Great Dao and survive the Immortal Execution Guillotine. As Shi Hao healed in a lightning pool, a Wang Family elder tried to kill him with Lightning Spirits, but Yun Ying trapped them in her teacup.

• Shi Hao defeated Jin Zhifei, severed his head, and spared his life after others pleaded for him.
• Shi Hao sat on the battle platform to undergo a tribulation, and manifestations of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths appeared around him.
• Shi Hao fought through the Ten Earths and Nine Heavens, forged his own Great Dao and cultivation system under pressure, and survived the tribulation.
• Shi Hao entered the lightning pool to heal while Qingyi watched with relief.
• A Wang Family elder secretly released three Lightning Spirits toward Shi Hao, but Yun Ying recognized them and trapped them in her teacup.

Yun Ying intercepted three Lightning Spirits that the Wang Family had released to disrupt Shi Hao’s tribulation, and Qingyi persuaded her to give them to Shi Hao. When the spirits entered Shi Hao’s stolen Lightning Pool, they revealed three imprints linked to the origin of life, so Great Elder Meng Tianzheng took the pool away to study it.

• Yun Ying identified the creatures in her teacup as Lightning Spirits, while Qingyi realized the Wang Family had likely released them to interfere with Shi Hao’s cultivation.
• Shi Hao healed himself with Lightning Tribulation Liquid, stole the tenth heaven’s ancient Lightning Pool, and asked Yun Ying to examine it, but she told him to keep it until he was strong enough to understand it.
• Wang Xi’s granduncle spotted the three Lightning Spirits in Yun Ying’s teacup and realized the Wang Family had lost the rare creatures it had brought to harm Desolate.
• Qingyi asked Yun Ying to give her the Lightning Spirits, and Yun Ying dropped them into Shi Hao’s Lightning Pool, where three dragon-shaped imprints appeared beneath them.
• Great Elder Meng Tianzheng sensed that the imprints contained laws related to the origin of life, and Shi Hao entrusted him with the Lightning Pool for safekeeping and study.
• Meng Tianzheng returned to the ancestral altar to investigate the Lightning Pool, while the crowd wondered whether his discoveries might help him become an immortal.

After Shi Hao’s tribulation, the gathering examined Divine Source and a map to a dangerous secret beyond the pass, then heard a forbidden-zone visitor warn of an approaching age of darkness. As the gathering ended, Yun Ying and Qingyi reflected on the future, and Shi Hao invited their companions to celebrate.

• Qi Hong revealed a golden stone and pale golden liquid from the Foreign Realm, and Yun Ying identified the stone as Divine Source that could seal beings below the Immortal Dao.
• Tuogu Yulong displayed a map of lands beyond the pass and explained that its missing section pointed to a perilous region where three forbidden lands met.
• A one-legged old man arrived on an old rooster as the creature from a forbidden zone and warned that the epoch would end in an age of darkness, followed by wars involving beings from several epochs.
• After the visitor departed, Yun Ying told Qingyi that they had to reach the top despite time and fate, and Qingyi praised her resolve.
• Shi Hao invited Feng Wu, Yun Ying, Qingyi, Cao Yusheng, and the others to drink Lightning Tribulation Liquid and eat meat from Foreign Realm creatures.

After Shi Hao killed four of the Foreign Realm’s ten greatest young experts, a leaker’s presence in Imperial Pass sparked a heated investigation and accusations against Shi Hao. A Wei Family expert argued that the traitor must be connected to the powerful families who arrived from the Nine Heavens, and the Wang and Jin Families tried to contain the backlash.

• Yun Ying joined Shi Hao and the others at the Shi Clan settlement, then watched the group disperse to cultivate as the Grand Elder took Shi Hao to refine the Lightning Pool’s essence into his body.
• Three months later, five of the Foreign Realm’s ten greatest young experts died in battle, with reports claiming Desolate had killed four of them.
• The Foreign Realm’s army marched toward Imperial Pass but withdrew after a standoff, while people inside the pass learned that Desolate was suspected of the killings.
• The Foreign Realm spread word that a leaker was operating within Imperial Pass, prompting more than a hundred thousand representatives of its clans to gather and demand an investigation.
• Several people accused Desolate of being the leaker, but members of the Wang and Jin Families publicly rejected the accusation.
• A Wei Family expert blamed the suspected traitor on powerful families that had arrived from the Nine Heavens, and the Jin Family’s old woman angered the hall by implying that the Wei Family might also be guilty.

Yun Ying and the Elder Heavenly Being supported rescuing Desolate, while the Jin and Wang families resisted. Meng Tianzheng declared that he would rescue his disciple alone and left Imperial Pass, awakening his Supreme battle blood as he departed for the Divine Medicine Mountain Range.

• The Elder Heavenly Being argued that Desolate's achievements made him worth rescuing, and Yun Ying arrived after hearing her name called.
• Yun Ying said Meng Tianzheng should rescue his own disciple, and Meng Tianzheng agreed that he would go alone despite warnings of a trap.
• Meng Tianzheng unleashed his Supreme battle blood, transformed into a vigorous middle-aged man, and left Imperial Pass along a golden avenue.
• The experts prepared to monitor the situation and support Meng Tianzheng if needed, while Yun Ying escorted the Elder Heavenly Being away on a path of colored-glass light.

Yun Ying watched Imperial Pass prepare to rescue Shi Hao, who had obtained a wooden box coveted by the Foreign Realm’s Undying Kings. As Great Elder Meng Tianzheng’s rescue mission became more dangerous, Yun Ying set out beyond the pass to intervene.

• The Wang and Jin families discussed Yun Ying’s strength and decided to warn their elders and probe her if they found a safe opportunity.
• Scouts reported that An Lan and Yu Tuo had failed to seize a wooden box at the Ancient Burial Ground, and that Shi Hao had obtained it, drawing the Foreign Realm’s forces toward the Divine Medicine Mountain Range.
• Imperial Pass’s important figures agreed to send elite forces beyond the pass to rescue Shi Hao and recover the box, though some members of the undying families intended to seize it for themselves.
• Elder Meng Huo warned Yun Ying that the undying families had sent forces beyond the pass and that the traitor within Imperial Pass remained unidentified.
• After two days without news from Meng Tianzheng or the rescue forces, Yun Ying left to go beyond the pass, and Meng Huo trusted she would bring Shi Hao and Meng Tianzheng back safely.

Yun Ying’s true body broke through into the supreme domain, empowering her Primordial Spirit as Grand Elder Meng Tianzheng fought five Foreign Realm Supremes. After Meng Tianzheng killed Supreme Hanming, Yun Ying blocked reinforcements and forced them to retreat.

• Yun Ying’s true body entered the supreme domain, and her Primordial Spirit gained enough power to shatter the void with a glance.
• Grand Elder Meng Tianzheng and Shi Hao emerged from the Heavenly Beast Forest, where five Foreign Realm Supremes then surrounded Meng Tianzheng and attacked him with Immortal Artifacts.
• Yun Ying watched as Meng Tianzheng fought, believing the battle could help him overcome his Dao Deficiency and approach the Immortal Dao domain.
• Bloody rain revealed that Supreme Hanming had fallen, prompting Foreign Realm Supremes to rush toward the Heavenly Beast Forest to seize Shi Hao and the wooden chest.
• Yun Ying blocked the reinforcements, warned that they would die if they continued, and forced them to retreat.

Yun Ying drove off the Foreign Realm reinforcements while Meng Tianzheng survived his battle against five Supremes by slaying them all and began tempering himself toward a breakthrough. After Yun Ying examined the wooden chest and suggested it might hold a secret from a realm above Immortal Kings, Shi Hao realized the possibility of Immortal Emperors and was reminded of the Willow Deity.

• Yun Ying's retreating Foreign Realm Supremes ordered their forces to withdraw, recognizing that Meng Tianzheng's five attackers would not return.
• A prolonged rain of blood and bones marked the deaths of Foreign Realm Supremes, and the Heaven and Earth Bag returned to the Foreign Realm, signaling the battle's end.
• Yun Ying found Shi Hao with the wooden chest and saw that the grievously wounded Meng Tianzheng had slain all five Supremes and was using his injuries to seek rebirth and a breakthrough.
• Yun Ying praised Shi Hao's Self-Severing Realm cultivation and examined the wooden chest, suspecting its contents were connected to a realm above Immortal Kings.
• Yun Ying returned the chest to Shi Hao and led him to consider whether Immortal Emperors existed, leaving him struck by her resemblance to the Willow Deity.

After surviving a deadly backlash from his past Dao of Slaughter, Elder Meng Tianzheng completed Nirvana and reached the Half-Step True Immortal realm. He asked Shi Hao to conceal his breakthrough so he could act against those harboring evil intentions.

• Yun Ying explained that Elder Meng Tianzheng's dormant Dao of Slaughter had erupted after his battle with five Foreign Realm Supremes, and Shi Hao worried about his Nirvana.
• Yun Ying reassured Shi Hao that the ordeal would help Elder Meng Tianzheng overcome old ailments, then revealed that she had stepped onto the supreme path.
• While Shi Hao and Yun Ying waited, Elder Meng Tianzheng's golden-red cocoon consumed its blood-colored light and shattered as he emerged healed and surrounded by immortal aura.
• Elder Meng Tianzheng thanked Yun Ying for helping him survive, and he told Shi Hao that he had become a Half-Step True Immortal.
• Elder Meng Tianzheng urged Shi Hao to keep his breakthrough secret so their enemies in Imperial Pass would not go into hiding.

Shi Hao, Meng Tianzheng, and Yun Ying returned to Imperial Pass with the wooden chest after Meng Tianzheng killed five Foreign Realm Supremes. Half a month later, the Foreign Realm’s Undying Kings began striking the Heavenly Abyss, leaving Imperial Pass facing a possible invasion.

• Meng Tianzheng brought Shi Hao and the wooden chest back to Imperial Pass, while the Foreign Realm learned that he had killed five Supremes and that he was gravely wounded.
• Cao Yusheng, Little Rabbit, and Qingyi welcomed Shi Hao and heard how Meng Tianzheng had defeated the five Supremes.
• Meng Tianzheng took Shi Hao and the wooden chest to the Ancestral Altar, and news of his victory spread through Imperial City.
• Yun Ying returned to Willow Deity’s shed husk and continued cultivating beside her self-sealed main body.
• Half a month later, the Heavenly Abyss shook as numerous Foreign Realm decrees burned in the sky, signaling that the Undying Kings were attacking.
• Meng Tianzheng watched the Heavenly Abyss from Imperial Pass and feared that the united Undying Kings could break through.