Chapter Summaries

Lin Heng used the arrowhead pendant to badly injure Mo Chen and demanded that he apologize to Dijiang and kowtow. Hai Qianmo refused Lin Heng’s terms and considered threatening his companions, but Lin Heng anticipated the plan and turned to the Good and Evil Doppelgangers and the Twelve Ancestral Witches.

• The arrowhead pendant formed a golden shield around Lin Heng, then blasted Mo Chen into the sea and left him seriously injured.
• Lin Heng demanded that Mo Chen apologize to Dijiang and kowtow three times, or the matter would not be settled.
• Hai Qianmo offered Lin Heng two powerful treasures as an apology, but Lin Heng refused them and insisted on his terms.
• Hongjun urged Lin Heng to avoid escalating the conflict, but Lin Heng left the decision to Hai Qianmo and the others.
• Mo Chen suggested seizing Lin Heng’s companions to force him to submit, and Lin Heng guessed their plan.
• Lin Heng smiled at the Good and Evil Doppelgangers and the Twelve Ancestral Witches, who laughed with him.

Mo Chen and Hai Qianmo tried to use Lin Heng’s followers as leverage, but their willingness to die for their master thwarted the plan. Lin Heng aimed a deadly golden bow at Mo Chen, and Hai Qianmo intervened with an apology to Dijiang in hopes of preventing an irreversible conflict.

• The Good Avatar and Evil Avatar threatened to self-destruct rather than let Mo Chen and Hai Qianmo capture them, while Dijiang declared that Lin Heng’s followers would remain loyal even in death.
• Mo Chen became enraged by Dijiang’s words and raised his spear to attack him again.
• Lin Heng stepped in front of Dijiang, transformed the arrow pendant into a golden bow, and aimed a golden arrow at Mo Chen, paralyzing him with its killing intent.
• Hai Qianmo stepped between Lin Heng and Mo Chen and apologized to Dijiang on Mo Chen’s behalf, hoping to preserve a chance for compromise.

Hai Qianmo apologized to Lin Heng and answered his questions about the Eternal Ruins, Su Jin’s death, and Fate. Lin Heng let Hai Qianmo and his companions leave, warning that he would fight their clan if they attacked him again.

• Hai Qianmo apologized to Lin Heng, who questioned him privately before deciding whether to pursue the conflict.
• Hai Qianmo explained that the Eternal Ruins had been a discarded storeroom belonging to his clan, and that its artifact spirit was connected to a clan traitor.
• Hai Qianmo said he believed the traitor had killed Su Jin and framed Lin Heng, and promised to report the matter to his clan’s elders.
• Hai Qianmo told Lin Heng that Fate was not really fate and might be using Lin Heng to take revenge.
• Lin Heng allowed Hai Qianmo and his companions to leave, but warned that he would fight their clan to the death if they attacked him again.

After the Heavenly Ladder was destroyed, Lin Heng accepted Primordial Chaos’s invitation and went with Hongjun to meet him. Over wine, Lin Heng raised concerns about Hai Qianmo’s clan, and Primordial Chaos admitted that fighting one of its elders might be the limit of his strength.

• Lin Heng warned Hai Qianmo that their conflict would end only when one of them was dead, and Hai Qianmo promised to report the matter to his elders and return with an apology.
• Hai Qianmo and his companions left, while Hongjun told Lin Heng that Primordial Chaos had invited him to visit.
• Lin Heng agreed to go see Primordial Chaos, reassured Hermoz that he would not discuss the affairs of the Four Seas and Eight Wastelands, and instructed Dijiang and the others to return to the Heavenly Star Sea Region.
• Hongjun led Lin Heng to Primordial Chaos’s cottage, where Primordial Chaos offered them Ten Thousand Fruit Wine and asked Lin Heng what he thought of the day’s events.
• Lin Heng said Hai Qianmo’s clan seemed powerful enough that its leader might rival Primordial Chaos, who replied that fighting one of the clan’s elders might be the best he could manage.

Primordial Chaos told Lin Heng that the Ancient Clan had created the Primordial Chaos Universe as an experiment and that the Pangu Remnant Clan might possess a way to counter them. After Lin Heng returned to the Heavenly Star Sea Region to meet Jian Yin, Jian Yin broke their tense silence and remarked that Lin Heng was more composed than he had expected.

• Primordial Chaos explained that memories awakened by Mo Chen's appearance connected him to the Ancient Clan and revealed that the Primordial Chaos Universe had been created as an experiment for a perfect world.
• Primordial Chaos said his memories contained a vague reference to a Pangu Remnant Clan treasure capable of countering the Ancient Clan, and Lin Heng wondered whether it was connected to his Pangu Axe.
• Lin Heng and Primordial Chaos agreed they could not face the Ancient Clan yet, but Lin Heng encouraged Primordial Chaos to see its arrival as a chance to reach a higher realm.
• The Good Avatar told Lin Heng that Jian Yin had arrived in the Heavenly Star Sea Region looking for him, and Primordial Chaos urged Lin Heng to return because Jian Yin's visit might concern the Ancient Clan.
• Lin Heng entered the hall alone to meet Jian Yin, endured a long silence under Jian Yin's gaze, and heard Jian Yin say he had underestimated Lin Heng's composure.

Jian Yin explained the Ancient Clan’s plans and revealed that he had deliberately tampered with Primordial Chaos’s memories. Mu Tong-Fate appeared, and Lin Heng prepared to question him about his connection to the Ancient Clan.

• Jian Yin told Lin Heng that the Ancient Clan had abandoned its duty as guardians and sought to remake or destroy worlds according to its vision of a beautiful new world.
• Jian Yin revealed that Primordial Chaos came from the Ancient Clan and that he had secretly damaged his memories, which led Primordial Chaos to reject the clan’s methods.
• Lin Heng realized the Ancient Clan had intended Primordial Chaos to create a new world and had targeted the Primordial Chaos World because it failed to meet their standards.
• Jian Yin admitted that he had given Lin Heng the pendant deliberately and said he might eventually wipe out the Ancient Clan, prompting Lin Heng to reconsider Jian Yin’s power and allies.
• Jian Yin called Mu Tong-Fate out of distorted space, and Lin Heng moved away until Jian Yin assured him they were not allies.
• Mu Tong-Fate said he had come because of the Ancient Clan and offered to answer Lin Heng’s questions as far as he could.

Lin Heng questioned Mu Tong and Jian Yin about the Eternal Ruins, the Pangu Axe, and why Jian Yin had watched him. He learned that Jian Yin wanted him to challenge the Ancient Clan as part of a contest, but Lin Heng remained unsure how he could do so with his current strength.

• Mu Tong admitted that he had meddled in the Eternal Ruins during Lin Heng's latest visit, while Jian Yin explained that Lin Heng's Pangu Axe held a wisp of the real axe's soul.
• Jian Yin revealed that Lin Heng's system was connected to his clan and that Lin Heng had drawn his attention as someone important to thwarting the Ancient Clan's plans.
• Lin Heng accused Jian Yin of making him a pawn, but Jian Yin said Lin Heng was the one playing chess and that even Jian Yin might be his pawn.
• Mu Tong explained that Jian Yin, the Ancient Clan's overseer, was giving Lin Heng a chance to warn the Ancient Clan rather than destroy it.
• Lin Heng doubted he could challenge the Ancient Clan at his current cultivation, and Jian Yin told him the contest would depend on more than strength.

Lin Heng accepted Mu Tong’s plan to use the Ancient Clan’s pursuit of him to contain them and received a powerful treasure from Jian Yin. After Jian Yin left him to handle the Ancient Clan, Lin Heng questioned Mu Tong about their shifting relationship and whether Mu Tong had planted a heart demon in him.

• Mu Tong explained that the Ancient Clan would pursue him and eventually focus on Lin Heng, giving Lin Heng a chance to respond and rein them in.
• Lin Heng asked Jian Yin for support, and Jian Yin empowered the arrow pendant as a First-Class Acquired Creation Universe Treasure called the Universe-Piercing Arrow.
• Jian Yin said he could rapidly advance Lin Heng’s cultivation but warned that doing so might cost him the chance to achieve a sixth-layer universe, then left Lin Heng to deal with the Ancient Clan.
• Lin Heng concluded Jian Yin was waiting for him to prove himself against the Ancient Clan before revealing more about his potential.
• Lin Heng asked Mu Tong how to define their relationship and whether Mu Tong had planted a heart demon in him.

Mu Tong told Lin Heng that Lin Heng had created his own inner demon as a test tied to Pangu's will, then explained how the Ancient Clan might use Dasiwoba and Hermoz to probe him. After Mu Tong left, Lin Heng resolved to grow stronger and began studying the Universe-Piercing Arrow for clues to the laws of creation.

• Mu Tong told Lin Heng that the inner demon came from Lin Heng's own universe world and would affect how high he could rise.
• Mu Tong explained that the Ancient Clan would likely avoid confronting Lin Heng directly and might use Dasiwoba and Hermoz as proxies.
• Mu Tong said Mu Chen had once followed the path now open to Lin Heng, but had lacked the fortune to reach its end.
• After Mu Tong vanished, Lin Heng decided he needed strength at least equal to Primordial Chaos's.
• Lin Heng took out the Universe-Piercing Arrow and considered whether its creation laws could help him reach the Ancient Clan's level.

Lin Heng prepared to enter seclusion while urging his followers to pursue the sixth-layer universe with him. In the sixth-layer universe, Gu Jianhua heard Hai Qianmo’s report about Lin Heng and the Pangu Remnant Clan, then declared that the Ancient Clan would not abandon its plan for a perfect world.

• Lin Heng warned that Fate was only a temporary ally and said he would cultivate in seclusion to reach the Eternal Ages Cosmic Origin Realm.
• Dijiang, the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and the Good and Evil Doppelgangers swore to follow Lin Heng and explore the sixth-layer world with him.
• Hai Qianmo returned to the sixth-layer universe with three others and reported the events in the Four Seas and Eight Wastelands to the Ancient Clan.
• Gu Jianhua summoned the Ancient Clan’s experts and had Hai Qianmo recount his encounter with Lin Heng, the Eternal Ruins, and the Pangu Remnant Clan’s magic treasure.
• The Ancient Clan’s experts concluded that Jian Yin had used Lin Heng to express the Pangu Remnant Clan’s dissatisfaction, but Gu Jianhua said the Ancient Clan would not back down from its plan for a perfect world.

Gu Jianhua ordered the Ancient Clan to secretly oppose Jian Yin through Hai Qianmo while he continued refining a countering treasure. At the ruins of the Eternal Ruins, Jian Yin told Mu Tong that he had forced Lin Heng into the conflict because time was running out, but revealed that he was bound by shackles.

• Gu Jianhua assured the Ancient Clan's experts that he was refining a treasure to counter Jian Yin and ordered Hai Qianmo to capture Mu Tong and secretly recruit someone in the Four Seas and Eight Wastelands to oppose Jian Yin.
• Gu Jianhua warned Hai Qianmo to remain hidden, offered him access to the clan's treasure vault, and told Longkeduo'er to protect him and investigate Primordial Chaos.
• Gu Jianhua dismissed the meeting and returned to seclusion to continue refining the treasure.
• At the ruins of the Eternal Ruins, Mu Tong poured wine into the sea to apologize to the Spirit of the Bronze Cauldron for deceiving him.
• Jian Yin told Mu Tong that Gu Jianhua was refining a treasure that could free the Ancient Clan from fearing him, and that he had brought Lin Heng into the conflict because he could not wait.
• Mu Tong asked why Jian Yin did not destroy the Ancient Clan before the treasure was completed, and Jian Yin said that shackles bound him.

Jian Yin enlisted Mu Tong to help expose the Ancient Clan so he could act against them, while Lin Heng studied the Universe-Piercing Arrow and repeatedly witnessed a vision of Pangu creating the universe. Mo Chen arrived in the Eastern Victorious Divine Sea to recruit Hermoz against Lin Heng and entered Hermoz’s palace after killing its guards.

• Jian Yin told Mu Tong that the Ancient Clan would target Lin Heng and asked him to help provoke them into revealing themselves through a massacre.
• Lin Heng studied the Universe-Piercing Arrow and saw a vision of a giant splitting chaos with an axe, which he suspected was Pangu creating heaven and earth.
• Lin Heng repeatedly witnessed the creation vision and began simulating his own universe as half a month passed outside.
• Mo Chen arrived in the Eastern Victorious Divine Sea to seek Hermoz’s cooperation against Lin Heng, while avoiding detection by Primordial Chaos.
• Mo Chen sealed off Hermoz’s island, killed the two guards outside the palace, and entered after Hermoz appeared at the door.

Mo Chen tried to recruit Hermoz to help him deal with Lin Heng, offering him a top-grade spirit treasure while treating him with contempt. After hearing that Primordial Chaos protected Lin Heng, Mo Chen realized his plan to kill Lin Heng before Hai Qianmo arrived would be difficult.

• Mo Chen killed Hermoz's two guards, claimed Hermoz's seat, and ordered him to remain standing.
• Mo Chen offered Hermoz a top-grade spirit treasure as a reward for helping him take revenge on Lin Heng, but Hermoz accepted it while hiding his resentment.
• Mo Chen asked Hermoz what he knew about Lin Heng, and Hermoz described Lin Heng's allies and powerful subordinates.
• Hermoz revealed that Primordial Chaos took considerable care of Lin Heng, making Mo Chen reconsider his plan to kill him.
• Mo Chen concluded that Hermoz and Dasiwoba together might still be too weak to threaten Lin Heng.

Mo Chen learned that Primordial Chaos was unlikely to intervene in conflicts within the Four Seas and Eight Wastelands, then asked Hermoz for a way to kill Lin Heng. Hermoz proposed luring Lin Heng into a fake ruin with the promise of a breakthrough, leaving their plot ready to put into motion.

• Hermoz told Mo Chen that Primordial Chaos rarely intervened personally in the Four Seas and Eight Wastelands and had only arranged for Hongjun to watch over Lin Heng.
• Mo Chen decided he could secretly kill Lin Heng to win recognition from the Ancient Clan and gain the Su Clan's support.
• Hermoz suggested exploiting Lin Heng's desire to reach the Eternal Ages Cosmic Origin Realm by baiting him with a supposed opportunity.
• Mo Chen approved the idea and promised Hermoz more top-grade spirit treasures if he helped carry it out.
• Hermoz proposed using spirit treasures to create a fake ruin, spreading rumors about it, and trapping Lin Heng when he entered.

Hermoz convinced Mo Chen to create fake ruins as bait, then rallied the Eastern Victorious Divine Sea cultivators behind a plan to lure in Lin Heng. Mo Chen built a trap-filled imitation ruin and returned to find Hermoz sitting in his seat.

• Mo Chen praised Hermoz's proposal and left to prepare a fake ruin while Hermoz told the gathered cultivators that he intended to avenge their fallen brothers.
• Hermoz secured his subordinates' loyalty and ordered them to spread word that he had found ruins containing a chance to reach the Eternal Ages Cosmic Origin Realm.
• Mo Chen found an uninhabited island in the far north, lifted it, and placed an immortal mansion filled with arrays and top-grade spirit treasures beneath it.
• Mo Chen returned to Hermoz's palace and grew cold when he saw Hermoz sitting in his seat.

Mo Chen forced Hermoz to submit and ordered him to get Lin Heng into fabricated ruins within a month. Hermoz secretly sought Hongjun’s help against Mo Chen, and Hongjun went to the Heavenly Star Sea Region to speak with Lin Heng, who was still in seclusion.

• Mo Chen struck Hermoz from the high seat, claimed authority over him, and threatened to kill him if Lin Heng did not enter the fake ruins within a month.
• Hermoz promised to obey, then secretly left for the Southern Spirit Sacred Sea to enlist Hongjun’s help against Mo Chen.
• Hermoz told Hongjun about Mo Chen’s arrival, and Hongjun agreed to visit Lin Heng while warning Hermoz to report any moves by Mo Chen.
• Hongjun arrived in the Heavenly Star Sea Region, where Dijiang received him while Lin Heng remained in seclusion and Liu Yuansheng came to pay his respects.

Hongjun told Dijiang that Mo Chen planned to lure Lin Heng into a fake ruin and kill him, but Lin Heng remained in seclusion. A sudden breakthrough-like disturbance around Lin Heng brought dark thunderclouds and overwhelming heavenly might over the Heavenly Star Sea Region, drawing powerful cultivators from across the Four Seas and Eight Wastelands.

• Hongjun told Dijiang that the Ancient Clan had returned and that Mo Chen intended to use Hermoz and a fake ruin to deal with Lin Heng.
• Dijiang and Hongjun agreed that Mo Chen's arrogance had driven Hermoz to turn against him, and they speculated about how Lin Heng would respond.
• Lin Heng appeared above the Heavenly Star Sea Region amid a brilliant flare, prompting Dijiang to wonder whether he was breaking through to the Eternal Ages Cosmic Origin Realm.
• Dark thunderclouds gathered over the region, and Dijiang, Hongjun, and Liu Yuansheng felt the oppressive heavenly might of what appeared to be a lightning tribulation.
• Hermoz, Lin Yue Yao, and Eternal Realm cultivators across the Four Seas and Eight Wastelands sensed the disturbance and headed toward the Heavenly Star Sea Region; Mo Chen and Hermoz also left the palace where they had been arguing.

Mo Chen suspected that Lin Heng was undergoing a lightning tribulation as he advanced to the eternal ages cosmic origin realm, and sent Hermoz to investigate. Hermoz told Dasiwoba that Mo Chen wanted help dealing with Lin Heng, leaving Dasiwoba suspicious of Hermoz’s motives.

• Mo Chen recognized the heavenly pressure near the Heavenly Star Sea Region as a likely lightning tribulation for Lin Heng and ordered Hermoz to check what was happening.
• Cultivators, including Hongjun, Liu Yuansheng, the Good and Evil Doppelgangers, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches, gathered at a distance from Lin Heng’s island to avoid interfering with his tribulation.
• Hermoz found Dasiwoba and told him that Lin Heng was advancing to the eternal ages cosmic origin realm and would become stronger than anyone else at that level in the Four Seas and Eight Wastelands.
• Hermoz revealed that Mo Chen wanted someone in the Four Seas and Eight Wastelands to secretly help him deal with Lin Heng, and offered Dasiwoba the opportunity.
• Dasiwoba wondered why Hermoz would give up such a valuable opportunity and suspected that something was wrong.

Hermoz told Dasiwoba how Mo Chen had mistreated him and revealed that he had asked Eldest Senior Brother to warn Lin Heng. Lin Heng prepared to face the Nine-Nine Heaven-Annihilating Lei Jie, but the first bolt struck him on the head before he could defend himself.

• Hermoz recounted his encounter with Mo Chen, and Dasiwoba asked what he planned to do about the threat.
• Hermoz said he had gone to find Eldest Senior Brother, whom Dasiwoba praised as the right person to approach Lin Heng.
• Lin Heng rose beneath the vast thunderclouds and recognized the approaching Nine-Nine Heaven-Annihilating Lei Jie from Mu Chen's inheritance.
• Lin Heng set out Mu Chen's six formation flags, summoned Eternal Ages and the Pangu Axe, and gathered energy from the Lin Heng Universe.
• A golden thunder dragon emerged from the clouds, watched Lin Heng, and returned to the storm.
• The first bolt struck Lin Heng on the crown before he could defend himself, alarming the Heavenly Star Sea Region and prompting onlookers to doubt he would survive the tribulation.

Lin Heng endured the first thirty-nine bolts of heavenly lightning with his body before using a formation as the tribulation intensified. The spectators linked his strength to his five-layered cosmic world, while the Twelve Ancestral Witches concluded Mu Chen had prepared him for this trial.

• Lin Heng took the first bolts of heavenly lightning without injury, silencing cultivators who had mocked him.
• Dijiang and Tian Wu recalled that Mu Chen had disappeared before reaching the Eternal Ages Cosmic Origin Realm and suspected he had undergone the same tribulation.
• Lin Heng endured nine bolts, then continued through a total of thirty-nine as the lightning grew faster and more frequent.
• Feeling numbness and slight pain after the thirty-ninth bolt, Lin Heng formed a hexagonal array to shield himself.
• Hermoz and Dasiwoba discussed the tribulation's power and attributed Lin Heng's strength in part to his five-layered cosmic world.