Chapter Summaries

Jian Yin confronted Gu Jianhua over Mo Chen’s actions in the Four Seas and Eight Wastelands and revealed that Mo Chen had been killed by Lin Heng. He also exposed Mo Chen’s plan to use an Ancient Clan powerhouse’s spirit tablet against Lin Heng, leaving Gu Jianhua to face Jian Yin’s accusation.

• Jian Yin asked why Mo Chen had entered the lower realms despite the Ancient Clan’s decree, and Gu Jianhua dismissed it as a young man seeking experience.
• Jian Yin recounted Mo Chen’s abuses in the Eastern Victorious Divine Sea, including occupying Hermoz’s palace, killing cultivators, and making fake ruins to target Lin Heng.
• Jian Yin told Gu Jianhua that Mo Chen had fought Lin Heng and was buried forever in the Four Seas and Eight Wastelands.
• Gu Jianhua suspected Jian Yin had secretly helped Lin Heng, but Jian Yin challenged him over Mo Chen carrying an Ancient Clan powerhouse’s spirit tablet.
• Gu Jianhua claimed Mo Chen had taken the spirit tablet to remember the deceased, and Jian Yin mocked the excuse and said Lin Heng had narrowly survived the remnant soul’s attack.

Gu Jianhua watched Jian Yin’s evidence of Mo Chen’s plot against Lin Heng and accepted that the Ancient Clan had to compensate the Four Seas and Eight Wastelands. He resisted Jian Yin’s demand that the Ancient Clan stay away for a million years, arguing that the clan needed to enter the region to make amends.

• Jian Yin showed Gu Jianhua images of Mo Chen’s trap at the fake ruins and Lin Heng defeating him with the Myriad Cosmos Transformation.
• Gu Jianhua suspected Lin Heng or Mu Chen had comprehended the powerful secret art themselves, but hid his suspicions and anger.
• Jian Yin confronted Gu Jianhua over Mo Chen’s actions, and Gu Jianhua admitted the Ancient Clan was at fault and offered to make amends.
• Jian Yin demanded compensation for the Four Seas and Eight Wastelands and a million-year ban on the Ancient Clan entering the region.
• Gu Jianhua accepted the compensation but objected to the ban, saying the Ancient Clan needed to send members there to provide long-term restitution.

Jian Yin negotiated a three-year period for the Ancient Clan to make amends, with a promise to stay out of the Four Seas and Eight Wastelands for a million years afterward, and secured a year for Lin Heng to recover. When Jian Yin told Lin Heng the terms, Lin Heng said he had healed and begun to approach a higher level, so Jian Yin offered him three possible sources of guidance.

• Jian Yin rejected Gu Jianhua's initial proposal, and Gu Jianhua offered three years to make amends before the Ancient Clan withdrew from the Four Seas and Eight Wastelands for a million years.
• Jian Yin accepted the terms but asked the Ancient Clan to leave Lin Heng undisturbed for a year while he recovered.
• Jian Yin returned to the Heavenly Star Sea Region and asked Dijiang to take him to Lin Heng in the time spirit treasure.
• Lin Heng told Jian Yin his injuries had healed and that he had touched upon a higher level after suffering backlash from the Myriad Cosmos Transformation.
• Jian Yin offered Lin Heng a choice of studying his clan's cultivation technique, the Ancient Clan's cultivation technique, or Jian Yin's breakthrough insights.

Lin Heng chose to create his own cultivation method, and Jian Yin revealed the origins of the Ancient Clan and the Pangu Remnant Clan. Jian Yin explained that the Remnant Clan needed Lin Heng’s help because the Ancient Clan had found a way to counter them, while Lin Heng’s achievements gave him a chance to change the balance.

• Lin Heng rejected using the Ancient Clan’s or Pangu Remnant Clan’s cultivation methods directly and chose to create his own method.
• Jian Yin asked Dijiang and the others to leave, then told Lin Heng the secret history of the two clans.
• Jian Yin explained that the Ancient Clan had once been the victorious faction of the Pangu Clan, while he and another spirit body had revived as the Pangu Remnant Clan to keep them in check.
• The two clans had agreed that the Ancient Clan would stay out of the lower realm and abandon its plan for a perfect new world, but the Ancient Clan had continued seeking a way to overcome the Pangu Remnant Clan.
• Jian Yin admitted that Pangu’s Will had once urged him to seek outside help, and Lin Heng understood why he had initially doubted anyone from the lower realm could help.

Jian Yin showed Lin Heng the destruction and rebirth he had witnessed while breaking through, giving Lin Heng a new method to pursue the Dao-Shattering Realm. Lin Heng prepared to enter seclusion, confident he could reach the realm within a hundred thousand years, despite the danger of destroying his own Great Dao.

• Jian Yin regretted failing to seek out Mu Chen and told Lin Heng that he was the Pangu Remnant Clan's last hope against the Ancient Clan.
• Jian Yin shared his memory of breaking through to the eternal ages cosmic origin realm, and Lin Heng watched the world collapse into chaos before the Great Dao and laws revived.
• Lin Heng thanked Jian Yin and said he had gained a new approach that could let him reach the Dao-Shattering Realm within a hundred thousand years.
• Jian Yin promised to guard the Four Seas and Eight Wastelands and keep the Ancient Clan away while Lin Heng cultivated.
• Lin Heng told Dijiang that he might help Zhu Rong and the other Ancestral Witches reach the eternal ages cosmic origin realm after his next breakthrough.
• The Good Avatar warned Lin Heng that destroying his own Great Dao could ruin his Dao heart, but Lin Heng insisted that breaking before building was the only path forward.

Lin Heng prepared to attempt a dangerous breakthrough, leaving the Good and Evil Doppelgangers instructions to preserve his insights if he failed. In a meeting with Gu Jianhua inside his subconscious, Lin Heng rejected the Ancient Clan patriarch’s offer and defended the right of living beings to choose their own paths.

• Lin Heng told the Good and Evil Doppelgangers that he would stake everything on his breakthrough and asked them to share his insights with the Twelve Ancestral Witches if he failed.
• Lin Heng sat between his Good and Evil Doppelgangers and began preparing for the breakthrough, but a soul force drew him into another world.
• Gu Jianhua appeared before Lin Heng and offered him a place among the Ancient Clan’s elite, equal treatment, and a way to obtain a six-layered cosmic world.
• Lin Heng admitted the offer was tempting but rejected it because he and Gu Jianhua followed different paths.
• Lin Heng argued that the Ancient Clan’s emotionless world would make its inhabitants puppets and said people should decide their own fates.

Gu Jianhua tried to recruit Lin Heng by revealing his ambition to create a seven-layer universe, but Lin Heng refused to submit and proposed that they become rivals. They parted with the prospect that one day either Gu Jianhua would bury Lin Heng or Lin Heng would bury Gu Jianhua.

• Lin Heng rejected Gu Jianhua’s claims about the Ancient Clan’s brave new world and accused him of pursuing his own goals.
• Gu Jianhua explained that he had noticed Lin Heng’s potential after Lin Heng killed Mo Chen and that Jian Yin’s confidence in him had helped prompt the recruitment attempt.
• Gu Jianhua proposed that a seven-layer universe might be the true limit and revealed his ambition to replace Pangu by creating one.
• Lin Heng questioned whether Gu Jianhua would share the chance to create a second seven-layer universe, and Gu Jianhua’s silence confirmed that he would not.
• Lin Heng refused to submit and told Gu Jianhua that he hoped to become his rival, ending with a promise that one of them would eventually bury the other.

After Gu Jianhua failed to persuade Lin Heng to join the Ancient Clan, Lin Heng resumed cultivating and spent a hundred thousand years trying to relinquish his Dao. Meanwhile, Dasiwoba and Hermoz waited for the Ancient Clan to return and planned to gather intelligence on Lin Heng to earn its favor.

• Gu Jianhua left after warning Lin Heng that the Ancient Clan’s doors remained open, and Lin Heng continued cultivating beside his Good and Evil Doppelgangers.
• Lin Heng spent a month contemplating Jian Yin’s breakthrough, then began trying to shatter his Dao and remained stuck relinquishing it for a hundred thousand years.
• Two months after Mo Chen’s death, Hermoz worried that the Ancient Clan had not appeared, and Dasiwoba argued that it was preparing to kill Lin Heng in one strike.
• Dasiwoba told Hermoz they needed to prove their worth to the Ancient Clan, and the two decided to obtain intelligence on Lin Heng.
• Hermoz proposed gathering information when the Ancient Clan descended, while Dasiwoba warned that their poor relationship with the Heavenly Star Sea Region could make that difficult; Hermoz smiled as though he had a solution.

Hermoz and Dasiwoba visited Dijiang in the Heavenly Star Sea Region and learned that Lin Heng had been gravely injured while defeating Mo Chen. They left planning to monitor Lin Heng’s recovery so they could inform the Ancient Clan if it returned.

• Hermoz and Dasiwoba told Dijiang they wanted to discuss countermeasures against the Ancient Clan, but Dijiang said Lin Heng was recovering from severe injuries.
• Dijiang claimed Lin Heng’s soul had been damaged and that he might need more than a hundred million years to recover, leaving Hermoz and Dasiwoba convinced the news was true.
• Hermoz and Dasiwoba offered to help and then left after Dijiang thanked them on Lin Heng’s behalf.
• Hermoz and Dasiwoba agreed to visit the Heavenly Star Sea Region regularly and separately, bringing gifts so they could ask Dijiang about Lin Heng’s condition.

Hai Qianmo descended to the Four Seas and Eight Wastelands to pursue Lin Heng, first visiting Hermoz with a courteous apology and gifts from the Ancient Clan. Hermoz was stunned by the treasures in the storage ring as Hai Qianmo began winning his favor.

• Gu Jianhua reminded Hai Qianmo to treat the Four Seas and Eight Wastelands' powerful cultivators with courtesy, and Hai Qianmo promised to return within three years with Lin Heng's head.
• After descending, Hai Qianmo visited the place where Mo Chen had fallen and privately mocked him for daring to compete with him.
• Hai Qianmo went to Hermoz's palace and politely asked the guard to announce his arrival.
• Hermoz welcomed Hai Qianmo, and the two exchanged pleasantries in the main hall before Hai Qianmo explained his visit.
• Hai Qianmo apologized for Mo Chen's past offense and gave Hermoz a storage ring from Gu Jianhua; Hermoz froze after seeing its valuable contents.

Hai Qianmo questioned whether Hermoz’s intelligence about Lin Heng was reliable and threatened to end their negotiations. Hermoz proposed isolating Lin Heng and the Heavenly Star Sea Region, and Hai Qianmo promised the Ancient Clan could pay whatever it cost.

• Hermoz examined the storage ring Hai Qianmo gave him and was shaken by the Ancient Clan’s generosity.
• Hai Qianmo challenged Hermoz’s claim that Lin Heng was still secluded and recovering, noting Hermoz could not confirm Lin Heng’s condition.
• Hai Qianmo put away the jade slip and said the Ancient Clan would not risk another failure by working with someone whose efforts might be misguided.
• Hermoz admitted his information came from reports that Lin Heng had not left seclusion and proposed a way to isolate Lin Heng and the Heavenly Star Sea Region.
• Hai Qianmo assured Hermoz that the Ancient Clan could afford the price if his plan would work.

Hermoz tried to recruit Hongjun to the Ancient Clan by offering him a way to break through the eternal ages cosmic origin realm. Hongjun refused to commit, but the jade slip left him tempted, and Hermoz planned to return for his answer the next day.

• Hermoz assured Hai Qianmo that he could make the lords of the four sea regions obey the Ancient Clan and isolate Lin Heng's Heavenly Star Sea Region.
• After Hai Qianmo warned him to keep his promise, Hermoz hurried to find Hongjun.
• Hongjun recognized Hermoz's offer as the Ancient Clan's work and rejected the idea of betraying their master and the Primordial Chaos Universe.
• Hermoz argued that Primordial Chaos had abandoned them and revealed a jade slip containing a method to break through the eternal ages cosmic origin realm.
• Hongjun struggled with temptation as Hermoz put the jade slip away and left, saying he would return the next day for an answer.

Hermoz tried to turn Hongjun against Primordial Chaos by tempting him with the Ancient Clan’s offer, then approached Lin Yue Yao with a possible way to resurrect Mu Chen. Lin Yue Yao had long believed resurrection was impossible, but Hermoz’s confidence made her wonder if he could truly bring Mu Chen back.

• Hermoz left Hongjun with the Ancient Clan’s offer, and Hongjun weighed its benefits against the danger of betraying Primordial Chaos.
• Hermoz reminded Lin Yue Yao of Mu Chen’s death, stirring her grief and anger before claiming he regretted the loss.
• Hermoz told Lin Yue Yao that the Book of Earth governed life, death, and reincarnation, but she recalled Primordial Chaos had said it could not resurrect Mu Chen.
• Hermoz claimed to know who possessed the Book of Earth, then said he had a way to resurrect Mu Chen.
• Lin Yue Yao’s expression changed, and she wondered whether Hermoz’s claim might be true.

Hermoz persuaded Lin Yue Yao to consider betraying Lin Heng by promising that the Ancient Clan could help revive Mu Chen, then renewed Dasiwoba’s alliance against Lin Heng. As Lin Heng emerged from seclusion, Jian Yin and Mu Tong warned him that the Ancient Clan had sent Hai Qianmo to kill him.

• Hermoz told Lin Yue Yao that the Book of Earth and the Ancient Clan’s secret technique could trace Mu Chen’s reincarnation and restore his memories.
• Hermoz revealed that Fate held the Book of Earth and offered it if Lin Yue Yao helped the Ancient Clan deal with Lin Heng; Lin Yue Yao asked what Hermoz’s conditions were.
• Hermoz gave Dasiwoba part of the Ancient Clan’s cultivation technique and renewed their alliance against Lin Heng, holding back the rest until Lin Heng was eliminated.
• Lin Heng emerged from seclusion and told Jian Yin and Mu Tong that he had sensed trouble connected to the Ancient Clan.
• Jian Yin told Lin Heng that Hai Qianmo, the foremost member of the Ancient Clan’s younger generation, had arrived and that the clan was determined to kill him.

Lin Heng discussed the Ancient Clan’s efforts to recruit allies and revealed that he had entered the legendary Realm of No Dao after rebuilding his Dao Realm. Jian Yin warned that Gu Jianhua might personally try to recruit him, leaving Jian Yin worried about what Lin Heng would do.

• Mu Tong told Lin Heng that Hai Qianmo had visited Hermoz, who then approached the other three lords, and asked whether Hongjun and Lin Yue Yao might switch sides.
• Lin Heng said he would adapt to changing circumstances and focus on protecting his friends and killing his enemies, while Jian Yin and Mu Tong noticed his Dao intent shifting between a dark presence and his former kingly bearing.
• Lin Heng urged Jian Yin and Mu Tong to discuss how to withstand Hai Qianmo’s coming attack.
• Jian Yin guessed that Lin Heng had comprehended the Realm of No Dao, and Lin Heng confirmed that he had abandoned his former Heavenly Dao and entered that realm.
• Jian Yin warned that Gu Jianhua might personally try to recruit Lin Heng, and he grew anxious about whether Lin Heng could be tempted to join the Ancient Clan.

Lin Heng revealed that he had rejected Gu Jianhua’s offer to join the Ancient Clan, reaffirming his alliance with Jian Yin and Mu Tong against them. The three then discussed Hai Qianmo’s arrogance and formidable strength, learning that he had reached the Return to Origin Realm.

• Lin Heng told Jian Yin and Mu Tong that Gu Jianhua had offered him a place in the Ancient Clan and the promise of exceptional treatment, but he had refused.
• Mu Tong recognized Lin Heng’s story as proof that he had chosen to oppose the Ancient Clan, and Lin Heng said their differing positions left them on separate paths.
• Lin Heng recreated his meeting with Gu Jianhua in a water curtain, prompting Jian Yin to apologize for underestimating Lin Heng and praise Gu Jianhua’s judgment.
• Lin Heng, Jian Yin, and Mu Tong agreed that their irreconcilable differences with the Ancient Clan left them no alternative but to oppose it.
• Mu Tong described Hai Qianmo’s hidden pride, and Jian Yin warned that Hai Qianmo had reached the Return to Origin Realm, one of the Three Realms of Peeking at Heaven.

Lin Heng revealed that he had nearly reached the Return to Origin Realm and possessed Pangu's Heart, then arranged with Jian Yin and Mu Tong to counter Hai Qianmo. At Hongjun's palace, Lin Heng unexpectedly found Hermoz and disrupted their private discussion, but Hongjun said he would take Lin Heng to meet his master.

• Lin Heng told Jian Yin and Mu Tong that he had touched the threshold of the Return to Origin Realm and showed them Pangu's Heart.
• Lin Heng said he would use the people of the Four Seas and Eight Wastelands against Hai Qianmo, while Jian Yin promised to keep the Ancient Clan from interfering.
• Lin Heng, Jian Yin, and Mu Tong discussed Hai Qianmo's arrival and devised a plan to deal with him.
• Hermoz pressed Hongjun for an answer about cooperating against Lin Heng, but Lin Heng arrived at Hongjun's palace before Hongjun decided.
• Hermoz greeted Lin Heng and hid their dealings, while Hongjun postponed their discussion and offered to take Lin Heng to meet his master.

Lin Heng visited Primordial Chaos, agreed with him that they should confront the Ancient Clan, and worked out the details of his plan. Meanwhile, Hai Qianmo decided to visit Lin Heng, while Hermoz warned that Hongjun might no longer agree to the Ancient Clan’s proposal.

• Hongjun brought Lin Heng to Primordial Chaos, who said Lin Heng had reached a height comparable to his own.
• Lin Heng questioned Primordial Chaos about the Ancient Clan, and Primordial Chaos agreed that they should make the clan recognize the strength of the people of Primordial Chaos.
• Lin Heng told Primordial Chaos the plan he had discussed with Jian Yin and Mu Tong, and they worked out its details together.
• Hermoz told Hai Qianmo that Lin Heng’s presence was now impossible to sense and that he believed Lin Heng had advanced beyond Hermoz’s ability to gauge.
• Hai Qianmo decided to visit Lin Heng the next day to assess him and forestall Jian Yin’s objections.
• Hermoz told Hai Qianmo that Hongjun’s changed expression after seeing Lin Heng might make him a variable in the Ancient Clan’s plans.

Hai Qianmo visited Lin Heng in the Heavenly Star Sea Region to handle the Ancient Clan’s compensation, but Lin Heng’s carefully staged welcome and surprise arrival of the Four Seas lords left Hai Qianmo suspecting he had been manipulated. The lords entered together, and Lin Heng pressed to use their gathering to complete Hai Qianmo’s task that day.

• Hermoz assured Hai Qianmo that Hongjun would eventually accept the benefits and join them against Lin Heng.
• Hai Qianmo arrived at Lin Heng’s palace and found Lin Heng waiting with the Good and Evil Doppelgangers, the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and Liu Yuansheng.
• Lin Heng proposed gathering the Four Seas lords the next morning so Hai Qianmo could finish the Ancient Clan’s compensation quickly, but Hai Qianmo refused.
• Dijiang announced that Hongjun had arrived, then claimed Lin Heng had ordered him to summon the Four Seas lords that day; Lin Heng insisted he had said tomorrow and then told Dijiang to bring them in.
• Dijiang returned with the lords of the Four Seas, and Hai Qianmo realized Lin Heng seemed to have tricked him.

Lin Heng confronted Hai Qianmo and the Lords of the Four Seas, revealing a cultivation level and forces that overturned the Ancient Clan's plans. Hai Qianmo realized he was already defeated before fighting Lin Heng.

• Lin Heng noticed hostility in Lin Yue Yao's gaze and opened talks with Hai Qianmo about the Ancient Clan's arrival and its owed compensation.
• Hai Qianmo said the Ancient Clan's compensation had not arrived and refused Lin Heng's offer to host him in the Heavenly Star Sea Region.
• Hermoz offered Hai Qianmo a place to stay, but Lin Heng silenced him with a crushing display of pressure.
• Hongjun and the other lords realized Lin Heng had reached Origin-Shattering Realm Great Perfection, while Hai Qianmo was stunned by his cultivation.
• Dijiang and Lin Heng's other subordinates entered the hall, revealing two Dao-Shattering Realm Great Perfection experts and thirteen Eternal Ages Cosmic Origin Realm experts.
• Hai Qianmo recognized that his plans to use the Lords of the Four Seas against Lin Heng had failed and felt certain of defeat.