Chapter Summaries

Li Muxue and the other forces left Blood River Demon Valley, where Lu Changlin’s armies massacred its defenders until the Evil Demon Venerable intervened to save the Blood River Blood Mother. Li Muxue brought the gravely wounded Mu Bai to the snowy grassland beside the Dao Sea, where she told him to go wherever his heart led and offered to guard him as he healed.

• Li Muxue took Mu Bai away from Blood River Demon Valley, while Lu Yunxuan, Ling Jinyu, and Xie Beichen withdrew with their forces.
• Lu Changlin ordered the Primordial Soul Sacred Land and Li Dragon Tribe armies to slaughter the valley’s defenders as he fought the Blood River Blood Mother.
• Lu Changlin used a Li Dragon Pearl hidden in his Longevity Spear to break the Blood River Blood Mother’s defenses and wound her, but the Evil Demon Venerable arrived and saved her.
• Mu Bai refused to go with Li Muxue to the Mysterious Female Gate, but she took him through space to the snowy grassland beside the Dao Sea.
• Li Muxue told Mu Bai to follow his heart and said she would stand guard while he healed.

Mu Bai recovered beneath Li Muxue’s pear trees while questioning the forces manipulating their reincarnations, and Li Muxue fought off a sudden attack beyond her boundary. Meanwhile, Ye Wan’s army confronted Blood River Demon Valley to demand Qing Mao’s killer, and Gusu Wan’er named Lu Yunxuan of the Primordial Soul Sacred Land.

• Li Muxue opened her boundary to Mu Bai, who used World Tree vitality and five-element Origin Power to mend his organs and regrow his severed arm.
• Li Muxue realized that Mu Bai had refined her Split Soul’s Pear Blossom Mark into a World Soul and reflected that he had reached perfection three times across his lifetimes.
• Li Muxue left the boundary and fought a white-and-golden force beneath the storm clouds, then returned bloodied and warned Mu Bai that he would have to face what came next himself.
• Ye Wan led a hundred thousand Qianlai Mountain cultivators to Blood River Demon Valley, where Gusu Wan’er and Chen Shichong prepared their forces to meet them.
• Ye Wan showed Gusu Wan’er an image of Qing Mao and demanded his killer; Gusu Wan’er identified Lu Yunxuan of the Primordial Soul Sacred Land, shocking Qing Ping and Qing Dai.

Qing Ping and Qing Dai set out to avenge their grandfather, while Ye Wan confronted Blood River Demon Valley to find Mu Bai. Chen Shichong fought Ye Wan, learned that Li Muxue had taken Mu Bai, and watched her withdraw; afterward, Gusu Wan'er suspected he had deliberately let her reveal Mu Bai's whereabouts.

• Qing Ping and Qing Dai left to challenge the Sacred Land's Holy Son and avenge Qing Mao.
• Ye Wan demanded that Blood River Demon Valley return Mu Bai, but Gusu Wan'er said he was not there.
• Chen Shichong fought Ye Wan and broke free from her moonlight-thread cage by transforming into a demon body.
• Gusu Wan'er revealed that Li Muxue had taken the injured Mu Bai, and Ye Wan led her army back to Qianlai Mountain.
• Gusu Wan'er questioned whether Chen Shichong had held back deliberately, but he dismissed her and left her to handle the valley's affairs.

Chen Shichong embraced the blood demon path to grow strong enough to stand beside Mu Bai, while Mu Bai trusted Li Muxue and merged their worlds to enter reincarnation again. Their joined world gained life and time, and a new story began with a master grooming his hair before a bronze mirror.

• Chen Shichong drank two bottles of heavenly demon essence blood, driven by his desire to match Mu Bai and his growing obsession with strength.
• Ye Wan learned that her opponent was Mu Bai’s sworn brother and vowed to bear any trouble alongside Mu Bai.
• After months of healing in Li Muxue’s world, Mu Bai agreed to merge their worlds so he could comprehend the reincarnation Dao.
• Li Muxue’s world brought life and time to Mu Bai’s Void Beast Realm, where generations began cycling through reincarnation.
• In the new world, a disciple watched his master groom his blue-silk hair before a bronze mirror, continuing an ancestral ritual.

Lan Duo'er, the blue-haired leader of the Starfall Sect, questioned his six-hundred-year exorcist’s life after finding a golden strand in his hair, then traveled north with his young disciple Wuyi toward a powerful force. He met the wounded pear-tree spirit Li Luo and asked her about the fierce gale that had depleted her Vital Qi.

• Lan Duo'er reflected on his three hundred years as an exorcist and resented having lived without worldly affections or selfish desires.
• Lan Duo'er noticed a golden strand in his blue hair and sensed that an unpredictable change was coming.
• Lan Duo'er traveled north by carriage with Wuyi as a terrible power drew him through the Unseen.
• Lan Duo'er left Wuyi in the carriage and entered a warm grove where he found the wounded spirit Li Luo.
• Li Luo thanked Lan Duo'er for saving her and asked whether he had come to capture her, while Lan Duo'er asked what had caused the fierce gale.

Lan Duo'er healed Li Luo and learned that a demon king had taken her husband and planned to force her into becoming his concubine. He went to confront the demon king, who revealed that he was Lan Duo'er's heart demon and urged him to merge with him, while Lan Duo'er chose his love for Li Luo over his duty.

• Li Luo collapsed after spitting blood, and Lan Duo'er caught her and healed her beneath the pear tree.
• Li Luo told Lan Duo'er that a demon king had taken her husband and given her five days to accept becoming his concubine; Lan Duo'er agreed to save him.
• Lan Duo'er ordered Wuyi to guard the pear grove and protect Li Luo, then used an ancient bronze mirror and sunlight to enter the demon king's domain.
• The demon king emerged from a coffin with Lan Duo'er's face and revealed that they were destined to merge, warning that Lan Duo'er would die if he eliminated him.
• The demon king urged Lan Duo'er to possess Li Luo and kill her husband, but Lan Duo'er admitted that he loved Li Luo and stepped toward the demon king.

Mu Bai was reborn, became the peerless cultivator known as Gu Chen, and found a peaceful life with Qianyu. When fighting between two sacred lands threatened their valley, he confronted the armies and forced Qianyuan Sacred Land to retreat.

• Lan Duo'er refused Dao Integration and was sent by his master into another lifetime of struggle for the Origin Realm.
• Mu Bai was rescued as an infant, grew up alone, discovered a Golden-Foil Book, and cultivated the Flying Immortal Scripture.
• Mu Bai traveled beyond the mountains, defeated powerful cultivators, and earned the name Gu Chen.
• Gu Chen met Qianyu in a pear grove, fell in love with her, and stayed with her while advancing to Dao Integration.
• When armies from Primordial Soul Sacred Land and Qianyuan Sacred Land fought near their valley, Mu Bai left Qianyu behind an immortal formation and ordered them to stop or die.
• The Qianyuan Sacred Land elder recognized Gu Chen and withdrew his army, while Mu Bai remained in the valley.

Mu Bai left seclusion to stop Emperor Hongye’s conquest of the Mixed Origin Continent after Qianyu urged him to protect the people. After decades of inconclusive war, Hongye killed Qianyu, and Mu Bai slew him in a grief-fueled battle.

• Mu Bai refused the Primordial Soul Sacred Land cultivators’ plea for help, but agreed to fight after Qianyu urged him to protect the world.
• Mu Bai hid Qianyu’s valley behind formations and led the gathered forces toward the Qianyuan Sacred Land for a decisive battle against Emperor Hongye.
• Mu Bai and Hongye fought repeatedly while the armies clashed for decades, devastating the Venerable Domain and leaving the Sacred Lands weakened.
• An elder of the Qianyuan Sacred Land advised Hongye to kill Qianyu to unsettle Mu Bai’s Dao heart, and Hongye went to the valley and killed her.
• Mu Bai confronted Hongye in the ruined valley and, as his strength rose, killed him.

After Ruohua was abducted, Mu Bai searched for her, only to lose his examination title, lead a failed rebellion, and be exiled. An old Daoist rescued him on the way to the frontier and carried him to the Misty Overseas Lands.

• After Hongye's death, Mu Bai lived through several reincarnations, and in one lifetime he built a quiet life with Ruohua beside the White Smoke Long Marsh.
• Masked men abducted Ruohua, so Mu Bai traveled to the capital and asked the reigning princess to help find her.
• The princess urged Mu Bai to take the Spring Imperial Examination, and he became Top Scholar, but Ruohua remained missing.
• Mu Bai rejected the princess's offer to make him her prince consort, abandoned his title, and raised a rebellion that the imperial army crushed.
• The emperor sentenced Mu Bai to exile, but an old Daoist subdued his guards, took him away, and brought him to the Misty Overseas Lands within a day.

Mu Bai, who later became Emperor Ye Hua, spent decades cultivating to rescue Ruohua, then fought Qin Kang in the Sacred Domain. Their battle ended with Mu Bai’s death and the survival of the World Tree seedling, while Ruohua and Qin Kang argued over the repeated reincarnations that had kept them apart.

• Mu Bai trained under the old Daoist for fifty years, inherited the Flying Immortal Scripture, and left the island carrying a seedling from his ruined home.
• Mu Bai learned that Qin Kang ruled the Sacred Domain, fought the sea beasts for ten years, and became Emperor Ye Hua.
• Mu Bai led the sea beast army against the Sacred Domain and demanded that Qin Kang return Ruohua.
• Mu Bai and Qin Kang fought, and Mu Bai’s White Dragon Water Sword pierced Ruohua before Qin Kang’s Golden Sun Blazing Sun burned Mu Bai to ashes.
• Qin Kang asked to take the surviving World Tree seedling, but Ruohua refused and protested that she had endured ninety-nine reincarnations.

After reliving his hundred reincarnations, Mu Bai reached the Dao Ling Realm and learned that Li Muxue’s Pear Blossom Soul Mark had been part of a plan involving the World Tree and his rival, Hai Chen. He left Li Muxue and continued toward Qianlai Mountain, deciding to protect the people he loved and guide Qian Jingnian toward the Samsara Great Dao.

• Mu Bai recalled his hundred reincarnations as he merged with Li Muxue’s Inner World, and his three cultivation paths advanced into the Dao Ling Realm.
• Mu Bai realized that the Pear Blossom Soul Mark was a trap tied to the World Tree, and Li Muxue explained that she had helped him comprehend the Dao so both rivals would have a fair final struggle.
• Mu Bai thanked Li Muxue for her companionship, said neither owed the other anything, and flew toward the Western Plains.
• Mu Bai recalled Chen Shichong’s words about fate and resolved to keep protecting and loving those close to him, even if his life ultimately benefited Hai Chen.
• Mu Bai guided Qian Jingnian, now the spirit of his Inner World, to comprehend the Samsara Great Dao so its teachings could bring Mu Bai to perfection.

Mu Bai reunited with Qingtian, who purified the Evil Demon Qi in both Mu Bai and Mi Yan and restored Mi Yan’s sanity. Mi Yan learned Qing Mao was gone and decided to return to her home in the Eastern Ridge, while Mu Bai offered to take her there after settling matters in the Western Plains.

• Mu Bai fought Qingtian using only their Heavenly Demon Bodies, then embraced him as a fellow member of the Heavenly Devil Race.
• Qingtian agreed to restore Mi Yan and used Heavenly Demon Purification to cleanse the Evil Demon Qi from her and Mu Bai.
• Mi Yan recognized Mu Bai after her appearance and mind returned to normal, and the two reunited emotionally.
• Mu Bai told Mi Yan that Qing Mao had saved her with his life, then used reincarnation power to show her a happy life with him.
• Mi Yan accepted that Qing Mao was gone and said she wanted to return to her home in the Eastern Ridge, and Mu Bai offered to accompany her after resolving matters in the Western Plains.

Mu Bai returned to Ye Wan after learning she had gone to Blood River Demon Valley to rescue him, and they reunited at Qianlai Mountain. Afterward, he asked whether they had shared a history in a previous life, while Artifact Spirit Ancestor explored Mu Bai’s Inner World and fretted over its future.

• Qingtian told Mu Bai that Ye Wan had gone to Blood River Demon Valley to demand his release, so Mu Bai entrusted Mi Yan to Qingtian and hurried south.
• Mu Bai contacted Ye Wan through a Voice Transmission Jade Slip, then sped to Qianlai Mountain, where she was waiting for him.
• Ye Wan embraced and kissed Mu Bai, while Artifact Spirit Ancestor emerged from the Crow Cauldron and teased them before Mu Bai sent him and the cauldron into his Inner World.
• Artifact Spirit Ancestor examined Mu Bai’s Inner World, noticed the aura of another person’s Inner World within it, and released a Three-Legged Divine Crow.
• Afterward, Mu Bai asked Ye Wan if he had shared a history with her mother in a previous life, and she said there seemed to have been a little history.
• Ye Wan asked whether Mu Bai had posed the same question to Chen Qi and Xing Yun, and Mu Bai reassured her that he cared more about her.

Mu Bai reached Blood River Demon Valley to save Chen Shichong, who had devoured the Heavenly Demon Body and become a Blood Demon. After confronting Gusu Wan'er, Mu Bai found Chen Shichong and urged him to abandon his dangerous cultivation, but Chen Shichong insisted he could not turn back and lamented that he had always fallen behind Mu Bai.

• Mu Bai left Qianlai Mountain after learning Chen Shichong was in Blood River Demon Valley, and Ye Wan stayed behind with her mother's Divine Sense Hair to protect her.
• Mu Bai reached the valley and attacked Gusu Wan'er, defeating her blood-wave assaults with the White Spirit Cold Flame and Green Duckweed Sword Art.
• Chen Shichong emerged from the blood river and warned Mu Bai that Evil Demon Venerables coveted his demonic art.
• Mu Bai told Chen Shichong he was taking him away and warned him that even Mu Bai struggled to resist becoming an Evil Demon.
• Chen Shichong refused to stop, saying he had no way back, and recalled the many times Mu Bai had surpassed him.

Mu Bai apologized to Chen Shichong and began dissipating his perfected Heavenly Demon Body to stop his brother from pursuing the Blood Demon Dao. An Evil Demon Venerable attacked them, and the brothers fought together, leaving Mu Bai striking through the Venerable’s chest as the battle continued.

• Mu Bai apologized to Chen Shichong for overlooking his feelings and began forcing the Heavenly Demon Essence Blood from his body to dissolve his Heavenly Demon Body.
• Chen Shichong tried to stop Mu Bai, but the exposed essence blood stirred his craving until Mu Bai gathered it into a jade bottle and jolted him back to his senses.
• An Evil Demon Venerable rose from the blood river and blocked the brothers’ escape with a pair of gigantic black axes.
• Mu Bai and Chen Shichong transformed into hundred-zhang bodies and attacked the Evil Demon Venerable, but their strikes could not pierce his defenses.
• Chen Shichong broke free of the Venerable’s spatial lockdown and made its axe wound its own chest, then offered to hold it off alone.
• Mu Bai refused to leave Chen Shichong and drove a Five Elements Fist into the Venerable’s chest wound, blasting through its body.

Mu Bai and Chen Shichong battled the Evil Demon Venerable and Blood River Blood Mother, while Gusu Wan'er tried to protect Chen Shichong. Gusu Wan'er died intercepting the Evil Demon Venerable's attack, leaving Chen Shichong grieving over her sacrifice.

• Mu Bai used the Reincarnation Dao and his Reincarnation Sword against the Evil Demon Venerable, forcing him into reincarnation before he later awoke.
• Blood River Blood Mother attacked Mu Bai to defend Gusu Wan'er, but Mu Bai blocked her claw with the Crow Cauldron and struck her with his fist.
• Mu Bai fought Blood River Blood Mother with Chen Shichong's help, and she mistook Mu Bai for Qianyuan's Qian Jingnian.
• The Evil Demon Venerable immobilized Chen Shichong and fired a black beam at him, but Gusu Wan'er stepped in front of the attack.
• Chen Shichong caught Gusu Wan'er as she died and wept, apologizing for having wronged her.

After Mu Bai helped Chen Shichong abandon his dangerous cultivation, he gave him a new purpose: defending the Origin Realm from the Immortal Race. The brothers set off for the Venerable Domain to find Qing Ping and Qing Dai, unaware that Hai Chen had sent Jin Er to kill Chen Shichong.

• Blood River Blood Mother attacked the Evil Demon Venerable, while Chen Shichong carried Gusu Wan'er away and refused to leave her behind.
• Mu Bai told Chen Shichong that the Heavenly Devils had died defending the Origin Realm and warned that the Immortal Race was reviving them as weapons.
• Chen Shichong pledged to fight alongside Mu Bai, then said they needed to reach the Venerable Domain because Qing Ping and Qing Dai were pursuing Lu Yunxuan.
• Mu Bai and Chen Shichong warped toward the Venerable Domain to find Qing Ping and Qing Dai.
• Hai Chen ordered Jin Er to kill Chen Shichong, and Jin Er tracked Chen Shichong's aura and caught up with the brothers.

Mu Bai and Chen Shichong fought Jin Er, an Immortal Race Golden Immortal sent to capture Mu Bai, and Chen Shichong discovered a new insight into his sword Dao. Jin Er then demonstrated Immortal Realm techniques, breaking Chen Shichong’s Autumn Sun Sword.

• Chen Shichong confronted Jin Er, and Mu Bai identified him as an Immortal Race follower sent to capture him.
• Jin Er attacked the two men, but Mu Bai blocked his punch while Chen Shichong met his strike with the Autumn Sun Sword.
• Chen Shichong used the Myriad-Dharma Sword and gained insight into making all things, even an enemy’s hair or blood, serve his sword Dao.
• Mu Bai challenged Jin Er’s claims about the Immortal Realm, and Jin Er explained that the Origin Realm would not let them witness its wonders.
• Jin Er summoned paper kites that formed a longsword, sliced through Chen Shichong’s Autumn Sun Sword, and scattered around him.

Chen Shichong used his new Sword Dao to defeat Jin Er’s paper-kite attack, while Mu Bai reflected on the Immortal Realm’s growing influence in the Origin Realm. At a gathering of the sacred lands’ Holy Sons and Holy Maidens, Lu Ming’s refusal to play along with their contempt provoked Lu Yunxuan into challenging him.

• Chen Shichong turned Jin Er’s paper kites into swords with his Sword Dao and burned them away, impressing Jin Er, who departed and said Chen Shichong was worthy to walk alongside the Emperor’s Son.
• Chen Shichong mourned his uncle Chen Jianduan while Mu Bai comforted him, and the brothers continued toward the Venerable Domain as Chen Shichong wondered about Mu Bai’s ties to the Immortal Realm.
• At a gathering beside Saint Spirit Mountain, Ling Jinyu sang a poem that signaled her wish to draw closer to the Heaven-Worshipping Sect, while Xie Beichen and the Qian brothers considered her intentions.
• The jade cup stopped before Lu Ming, who sang, drank, and left the gathering without pretending to be friendly with the others.
• Lu Yunxuan attacked Lu Ming with a piece of fruit and insulted him, prompting Xie Beichen to taunt Lu Yunxuan and Lu Yunxuan to threaten to teach Lu Ming the Primordial Soul Sacred Land’s rules.

Lu Ming confronted Lu Yunxuan after Li Ji encouraged him to demonstrate his strength, and he fought to defend Eastern Ridge’s dignity. Though Lu Yunxuan’s Origin Soul Stele suppressed Lu Ming and his spear pierced Lu Ming’s chest, Lu Ming struck back and seized the stele.

• Li Ji urged Li Muxue to let Lu Yunxuan act freely, then sent Qing Ping and Qing Dai to challenge Lu Ming.
• Lu Ming attacked Lu Yunxuan with his Longevity Spear and broke both of his shoulder blades in their exchange.
• Lu Yunxuan healed his injuries and used his Origin Soul Stele to devour Lu Ming’s stele, suppressing Lu Ming’s soul.
• Lu Yunxuan pierced Lu Ming’s chest with his spear, but Lu Ming struck his eyes with mental power and hurled two spears at the stele.
• Lu Ming grew to a thousand feet tall and seized Lu Yunxuan’s Origin Soul Stele.