Recaps

Lord Yanyao accepted Li Boyang’s gift of the Heaven and Earth Bow and Heaven-Shaking Arrow after taking on karmic burdens from the past. He then used the bow to lead the seventeen Xuanyuan Stars in an attack on the Purple Tenuity Emperor.

• Lord Yanyao acknowledged Li Boyang as his teacher and chose to shoulder karmic burdens from the battles against Wuzhiqi, the Guhuo Bird, and Wu Yi.
• Li Boyang gave Lord Yanyao the Heaven and Earth Bow and Heaven-Shaking Arrow, divine weapons suited to his four arms and heavenly eye.
• Lord Yanyao heard the Purple Tenuity Emperor roar from the Purple Tenuity Star and drew the bow in response.
• The seventeen Xuanyuan Stars formed a yellow dragon and, guided by Lord Yanyao’s arrow, charged at the Purple Tenuity Star.

Guanshiyin and Sagara tried to enter the Hundred Lands Mountain Range to stop Li Boyang from leaving, but the Great Chun Tree God and Lord Lingguang defended his choice. Their disagreement turned into a battle, ending in a clash between Lord Lingguang’s Off-Ground Flame Light Flag and Sagara’s Samadhi Divine Water.

• Guanshiyin and Sagara arrived at the Mystic Garden Barrier, where the Great Chun Tree God and Lord Lingguang blocked their way.
• The Great Chun Tree God explained that Li Boyang had the right to choose his own path, and Lord Lingguang insisted they respect his wish to leave.
• Sagara raised the Mutton-Fat Jade Purifying Vase, and Guanshiyin attacked the Great Chun Tree God with her three golden bells.
• Lord Lingguang countered Guanshiyin’s flames, poisonous smoke, and hurricane with the Off-Ground Flame Light Flag and its Southern Brightness Li Fire.
• Sagara unleashed Three Flavors Divine Water from the Mutton-Fat Jade Purifying Vase, and it collided with Lord Lingguang’s flames in a powerful shock wave.

As the South Sea battle sent catastrophic waves across the world, Divine Lord Meng Zhang and Shang Yang used their Five Directional Flags to protect living beings in the East and North Seas. Shang Yang then promised to safeguard one of Li Boyang’s five organs until he returned.

• Divine Lord Meng Zhang summoned the Azure Lotus Treasure-Colored Flag and calmed the East Sea, healing the people and lands caught in the disaster.
• Meng Zhang’s Essence Blood landed on a young black beast, transforming it into a dragonlike creature and drawing the surrounding dragon vein Qi toward it.
• Giant Kun and the North Sea Dragon Race sheltered people from the storm while Shang Yang calmed the North Sea with the Mysterious Primordial Essence Water-Controlling Flag.
• Shang Yang warned that other Supreme Ones might imitate Li Boyang’s pursuit of Dao Merging and vowed to keep one of Li Boyang’s five organs safe until his return.

Li Boyang visited the Heaven-Eroding Lord in the Yellow Court Inner Landscape and explained that he was preparing to undergo Dao Merging. He said he needed to settle the karma between them so the world would not pull him back, then left the Heaven-Eroding Lord waiting to hear his second purpose.

• Li Boyang arrived at the Yellow Court Inner Landscape, where dragon veins gathered around the Nine Splendors Palace.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord confronted Li Boyang for leaving him trapped and asked what had happened outside.
• Li Boyang revealed that he was about to undergo Dao Merging, prompting the Heaven-Eroding Lord to demand that he state his purpose.
• Li Boyang said he had come to settle the karma between them because their shared role in changing the world could otherwise prevent his Dao Merging.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord asked about Li Boyang’s second purpose as his Taiji Diagram turned and his divine presence emerged.

Li Boyang asked the Heaven-Eroding Lord to safeguard his Primordial Spirit and body while he pursued Dao Merging and transcendence. The Heaven-Eroding Lord agreed, and Li Boyang revealed that he had already entrusted much of his body and power to others.

• Li Boyang explained that he could return his Dao Path and entrust his Law Treasures to others, but he would not trust an outsider with his Primordial Spirit and body.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord doubted he could protect Li Boyang, but Li Boyang said he trusted Houtu’s protection behind him.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord realized Houtu had been protecting him in the Yellow Court Inner Landscape and agreed to safeguard Li Boyang’s remains as a chance to pursue his own path.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord asked how much of Li Boyang remained intact and compared his state to Wu Yao’s after she was divided and devoured.
• Li Boyang listed the organs, flesh, and powers he had entrusted to various Lords and beings, explaining that only his Primordial Spirit, empty shell, and the tablet governing his bodily Qi remained.

Li Boyang completed the five elemental flags and took the first step toward physical sanctification by transforming his empty shell into his true body. The flags’ power then spread through the Three Realms, where Yunxiao discovered that she could not remember how she had obtained the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors.

• Li Boyang explained how four flags could strengthen their holders by channeling the five elements through the body’s organs.
• Li Boyang drew in the Yellow Court Inner Landscape’s dragon veins and forged the Wu and Ji Apricot-Yellow Flag for the spleen.
• Li Boyang’s avatar became his true body, and he declared that he had taken the first step in refining emptiness and uniting with the Dao.
• Xiluo sensed tremors spreading across the earth and recognized that Li Boyang was responsible.
• The Plain-Colored Cloud Realm Flag appeared at Flying Peak and unleashed wind and thunder that tormented the Star Lords.
• Yunxiao saw her Golden Flood Dragon Scissors counter the flag’s murderous Qi, then realized she had forgotten how she obtained them.

Li Boyang explained why he had entrusted Cult Master Tongtian with his Sword Dao rather than his Primordial Spirit and empty shell, and urged him to focus on breaking through to the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm. As Li Boyang severed karmic ties across the realms and those connected to him began to forget him, Lü Yan grew uneasy while facing the Dao Ancestor.

• Li Boyang told Cult Master Tongtian that his attachment and slaughter-focused sword arts made inheriting the Primordial Spirit and empty shell dangerous, while the Lucid Sword Heart was a greater gift.
• Cult Master Tongtian admitted he could not unite his past, present, and future selves, and Li Boyang said this difficulty showed he was on the path to becoming a Great Luo Golden Immortal.
• Li Boyang advised Cult Master Tongtian to meet the Heaven-Eroding Lord, then vanished as Cult Master Tongtian resolved to find him; in a distant future, a jade-crowned giant wielding the Green Duckweed Sword split primordial chaos.
• Wu Yao recognized that Li Boyang had severed their karmic ties, drank Meng Po's Soup, and left without consulting the Three Lives Stone.
• Yama, Shao Pu, Ye Ming, Lu Ya, Zhenwu, Zhuang Zhou, and others began forgetting Li Boyang, while the Dao Proving Ones watched him overpower Lü Yan in the Purple Firmament Palace.
• Lü Yan became panicked by the Dao Ancestor's calmness and wondered whether he had overlooked something.

Li Boyang severed his karma from his incarnations and returned the Dao Paths he had proven to heaven and earth, transforming the Three Realms. As purple Qi spread across the eastern sky, the Dao Paths became a great opportunity and a new burden for all living beings.

• Li Boyang cut his karma with the Great Emperor of Fengdu, leaving him to awaken as a self-contained being.
• The King Father of the East and Sovereign Lord Donghua also began to awaken as Li Boyang severed their karma.
• At Tushita Palace, Supreme Lord Lao agreed to inherit Li Boyang’s ideals and thoughts as the Eight Trigrams Furnace and Taiji Diagram raised the dimensional level of the Three Realms.
• Dao Paths and concepts appeared throughout the Three Realms, and the Dao Proving Ones traced the upheaval to Tushita Palace.
• Supreme Lord Lao left Tushita Palace and declared that the Dao would return to heaven and earth.
• Supreme Lord Lao sent purple Qi thirty thousand li east, returning Li Boyang’s proven Dao Paths and their karmic consequences to the Three Realms.

Supreme Lord Lao became the Celestial Venerable of Great Purity, an independent sage bound to the Three Realms, while Li Xi, Single Horn Si, and Chi Fou confronted him in Tushita Heaven. He took them to the sky above Great Xia’s capital and revealed the Yellow Court Inner Landscape, offering them one final chance to see Li Boyang.

• Supreme Lord Lao reflected on his new independence and his inability to transcend the Three Realms unless another being accepted his karma.
• Li Xi attacked Supreme Lord Lao with the Five-Colored Stone, but he caught it in the Heaven and Earth Ring and severed her connection to it.
• Chiru trapped Supreme Lord Lao with the Luo River Book, and Single Horn Si struck him with the Vajra Ring, forcing him to defend himself.
• Supreme Lord Lao transported Li Xi, Single Horn Si, and Chiru from Tushita Heaven to the sky above Great Xia’s capital.
• Supreme Lord Lao told the three that this was their final chance to see Li Boyang and revealed the Yellow Court Inner Landscape with the Primordial Unity Qi · Great Purity Divine Talisman.

In the Yellow Court Inner Landscape, Li Boyang explained that the Heaven-Eroding Lord’s path made him unique and independent from the Three Realms’ timelines. He gave the Heaven-Eroding Lord his Primordial Spirit and empty shell, hoping he would break through his cosmic boundary and become the first true Pangu.

• Li Boyang sensed that Supreme Lord Lao had become independent and brought Li Xi to spy on him, while the Heaven-Eroding Lord questioned whether Li Boyang would leave the Three Realms after Dao Proving.
• Li Boyang admitted he could not know what transcendence would bring and said his pursuit of the Dao, rather than homesickness, had sustained him.
• Li Boyang gave his Primordial Spirit and empty shell to the Heaven-Eroding Lord, allowing him to use them as he wished, including refining them into an External Avatar.
• Li Boyang revealed that the Heaven-Eroding Lord existed only in the present and was beyond the Jade Disc of Creation’s control, absent from all possible future timelines.
• Li Boyang described the Heaven-Eroding Lord’s path as an independent cosmic membrane and said breaking through it could make him the creator of another world, the first true Pangu.

Li Boyang explained that the Dao of Pangu and the Dao of Daluo followed different paths, then demonstrated how the Heaven-Eroding Lord could evolve a universe through yin and yang. As Li Boyang transcended time, the observers realized they could only watch until he departed completely, when the struggle over his Primordial Spirit and empty shell might begin.

• Li Boyang told the Heaven-Eroding Lord that the Dao of Pangu pursued strength and autonomy, while the Dao of Daluo pursued freedom and transcendence.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord split into black and white forms and used the Taiji Diagram to evolve the process of creation and return to one.
• Great Unity recognized the Heaven-Eroding Lord's transformation as a seed capable of becoming a universe.
• The Supreme Lord Lao explained that Li Boyang had transcended the world, so the images showed events across past, present, and future.
• Li Xi and Chi Fou learned that they could not stop Li Boyang's departure and that Great Unity and the Yin Son of Heaven awaited a chance to seize his Primordial Spirit and empty shell.
• The Supreme Lord Lao said everyone was waiting for the Dao Ancestor to depart completely, when the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda fell and the world descended into chaos.

Li Boyang entered the Heaven-Eroding Lord’s primordial inner world and demonstrated the Dao of Pangu by becoming a vessel for chaos. His transformation separated clear Qi from turbid Qi, creating the first rudimentary spacetime, with Li Boyang serving as the measure of heaven’s height.

• The Heaven-Eroding Lord opened his wolf’s mouth and invited Li Boyang into a primordial realm beyond the reach of outside powers.
• Li Boyang entered the realm and told the Heaven-Eroding Lord and hidden observers that he would demonstrate the Dao of Pangu.
• Li Boyang expanded into a Heaven and Earth Dharma Form and absorbed the higher-dimensional ethereal Qi, emptying the primordial chaos.
• Clear Qi rose and turbid Qi sank, forming rudimentary heaven, earth, and the concept of height.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord flew upward but could see only Li Boyang’s ankles, as Li Boyang became the measure of heaven and earth’s height.

Xiluo received the Divine Firmament Sword from the King Father of the East, and it opened a passage into the Primordial Universe. There, Li Boyang began recreating the Dao of Great Unity and used the Pangu Axe to continue opening heaven and earth.

• The King Father of the East appeared before Xiluo and offered her the Divine Firmament Sword, which Chi had entrusted to him.
• Wangshu identified the Sword Pill as the Divine Firmament Sword, and Xiluo accepted it as her new master.
• The Divine Firmament Sword opened a passage into the Primordial Universe, but Xiluo stared into it without entering.
• Li Boyang roared in the Primordial Universe, began forming the Dao of Great Unity, and manifested an enormous axe from converging concepts.
• Li Boyang swung the axe, bringing energy and matter into being as he continued opening heaven and earth.

Li Boyang continued creating the primordial universe after shattering the [Pangu Axe], transforming its fragments into divine beings and evolving into Pangu. After Pangu’s Primordial Spirit became the world’s first light and his body became all things, the Heaven-Eroding Lord felt the creation process’s agony in his own body.

• The Purple Empyrean Guests discussed the universe’s evolution, while Xihe praised Chi’s mastery of time and told Xiluo that Chi had considered matters more carefully than Great Unity had.
• Li Boyang unfurled a banner and turned the [Pangu Axe] fragments into the first divine beings.
• Li Boyang repeatedly changed form, and the divine beings imitated him until they stabilized as the first Ancient Gods.
• Li Boyang’s Primordial Spirit left his body to become the first light, and his fallen shell’s breath, voice, and eyes became parts of the world.
• Pangu’s body transformed into the land, rivers, mountains, stars, plants, and other things, causing the Heaven-Eroding Lord to suffer the same process as searing pain.

Li Boyang showed the Heaven-Eroding Lord a future in which the Primordial Spirit split heaven and earth, absorbed chaotic concepts, and divided into three streaks of azure light. He explained that the events had left real traces in the Primordial Universe and revealed that the Primordial Spirit belonged to the Heaven-Eroding Lord, while Li Boyang had entered a state of emptiness.

• The Primordial Spirit appeared atop Mount Buzhou and told the Heaven-Eroding Lord that he was the one who would truly split heaven and earth.
• The Primordial Spirit absorbed the remaining chaotic concepts, became a vast conglomeration of them, and split into three streaks of azure light.
• The Primordial Universe collapsed back into chaos, and Li Boyang reappeared beside the bewildered Heaven-Eroding Lord.
• Li Boyang explained that the Heaven-Eroding Lord had witnessed the Primordial Universe's future, where time had no past or future and the events had left real traces.
• Li Boyang called the Primordial Spirit's division “One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones” and said it belonged to the Heaven-Eroding Lord, while he himself had entered a state of emptiness.

Li Boyang severed his last karma with the Three Realms and vanished from everyone’s memories, while Wangshu and the moon gods struggled to preserve the moon and their fading recollections. Xiluo entered Heaven Beyond Heaven to witness Li Boyang’s transcendence, where the Dao Ancestor revealed a jade disc showing Li Boyang as the constant protagonist across countless timelines.

• Li Boyang entered a state of void and severed his last connection to the present, causing the Heaven-Eroding Lord and the people of the Three Realms to forget him.
• Wangshu tried to preserve her memories by imprinting Li Boyang’s image on the moons, and the ancient moon gods intervened to stabilize them.
• The twelve [Jade Pool Mirrors] appeared, healed the moon gods, and became the Illusory Moon Treasure Mirror, a divine artifact capable of crossing time and space.
• Xiluo used the Divine Firmament Sword to enter Purple Firmament Palace and declared that she would watch Li Boyang transcend.
• The Dao Ancestor confirmed that he was no longer Li Boyang, then manifested an incomplete jade disc displaying countless timelines in which Li Boyang was the protagonist.

Li Boyang appeared before Li Xuandu, who had been chosen as the Pangu of the next epoch but had forgotten his former master. By giving Li Xuandu the Pangu Banner, Li Boyang helped him approach Taiyi Golden Immortal and prepare to open the next epoch.

• Li Boyang appeared on the final battlefield of the first epoch after his departure, where Li Xuandu had become the enormous egg in primordial chaos.
• Li Xuandu did not recognize Li Boyang, who told him his name, their connection, and his role as Pangu of the next epoch.
• Li Boyang explained that Li Xuandu was an exception among the karmic ties he had left behind and revealed the Pangu Banner.
• Li Boyang gave the Pangu Banner to Li Xuandu, and it merged into the enormous egg.
• Li Xuandu began to approach Taiyi Golden Immortal, while those watching feared Primordial Beginning Pangu was about to split heaven and earth.

Li Boyang severed the karmic traces connecting him to all eras and vanished from the Jade Disc of Creation’s sight, leaving the Purple Empyrean Guests wondering where he had gone. The Dao Ancestor searched for concealed anomalies and discovered the Heaven and Earth Black and Yellow Exquisite Pagoda.

• Li Boyang appeared across different eras to sever the karmic traces that tied Li Xuandu and others to him, gradually attaining true transcendence.
• Li Boyang’s countless figures looked toward Heaven Beyond Heaven before vanishing from the Jade Disc of Creation’s view.
• Xihe, Lü Yan, and Xiluo questioned what had happened, while the Dao Ancestor explained that Li Boyang had erased his ripples throughout time.
• The Dao Ancestor used the Jade Disc of Creation to search for hidden anomalies instead of Li Boyang’s whereabouts.
• The Jade Disc of Creation revealed the Heaven and Earth Black and Yellow Exquisite Pagoda.

Li Boyang confronted Houtu, Sovereign Earth Deity, to learn whether her hidden karma could threaten his attempt at transcendence. Houtu revealed how deeply she understood him, and Li Boyang stunned the observers by saying that something he had left behind had caused her birth.

• Li Boyang visited Houtu in the Yellow Court Inner Landscape and said he could not risk her karma disrupting his transcendence.
• Houtu assured Li Boyang that she could conceal her karma and would not rewrite her origins, then recalled his lifelong suspicion and the few people he had truly trusted.
• Houtu offered to sever their karma, but Li Boyang argued that their bond was immense because he had once been indebted to Wu Yao and something he left behind had brought about Houtu's birth.
• The Purple Empyrean Guests, Great Unity, and the Netherworld Lord were shocked by Li Boyang's claim about Houtu's origins.
• Xihe complained about temporal paradoxes, and the little Golden Crow wondered whether his identity had been exposed.

Xihe began disappearing from Heaven Beyond Heaven after someone rewrote her origin, and she realized Li Boyang was responsible. The chapter traced Xihe’s ancient past, from her lonely journey among the savage Ancient Gods to meeting Changxi and nurturing the Divine Fusang Tree.

• Xihe and the Sun Palace began vanishing, and the Dao Proving Ones identified the cause as a spacetime paradox rewriting her origin.
• Xihe recognized that Li Boyang had caused her predicament, and Little Golden Crow understood that she had been caught up in his troubles.
• The story shifted to ancient times, when Xihe traveled among the savage Ancient Gods and earned a fearsome reputation despite seeking peaceful communication.
• Xihe settled on an island in the East Sea and met Changxi, who warned her that her Divine Power could destroy the island’s living things.
• Xihe followed Changxi to Tang Valley, where the two goddesses nurtured a tiny sapling that would become the Divine Fusang Tree.

Xihe recognized Li Boyang when he arrived at Tang Valley and deduced that he sought to sever his karmic ties with Great Unity by making Xihe and Changxi forget him. She argued that killing them would be unnecessary and would endanger the Three Realms system he had founded.

• A Golden Crow was born from the sun's essence on the Fusang Tree, and Xihe and Changxi protected him from Ancient Gods coveting his True Solar Fire.
• Xihe sent Changxi away and met Li Boyang at the island's western shore, recognizing him as the Dao Ancestor.
• Xihe explained that wisdom, rather than power, let her anticipate Li Boyang's arrival and infer his plan to sever his ties with Great Unity, the Netherworld Lord, and Lady Houtu.
• Li Boyang suggested that killing Xihe and Changxi could erase his debt to Great Unity and prevent the birth of a Great Luo Golden Immortal.
• Xihe said Li Boyang would not kill them and warned that the Three Realms system, especially the Heavenly Realm, was essential to its future order.

Li Boyang forced Great Unity to appear by seizing Xihe, then persuaded him to sever their karma while acknowledging he could not shoulder its consequences alone. Li Boyang gave Great Unity the transformed Chaos Bell, also known as the Eastern Emperor Bell, to help manage that burden.

• Li Boyang seized Xihe to draw Great Unity out, causing upheaval in the Long River of Time.
• Li Boyang explained that he could not easily kill Great Unity, and that destroying the Three Realms would contradict his pursuit of transcendence.
• Great Unity understood why Li Boyang had forced him to appear and agreed to sever their karma, but said its effects across the Three Realms were too vast for him to bear alone.
• Li Boyang sent the Heaven and Earth Black and Yellow Exquisite Pagoda to Great Unity, and it transformed into a chaotic bronze bell.
• Li Boyang told Great Unity he could call the bell the Chaos Bell or the Eastern Emperor Bell.

After Li Boyang rewrote the past and severed the karma of Great Unity and Xihe, the Purple Empyrean Guests feared their own memories of his transcendence would vanish. Li Boyang traced the Long River of Time toward the beginning of creation, where the Netherworld Lord appeared to stop him.

• Li Boyang's alteration of history erased his presence from the era of Wu Jun, while Great Unity and Xihe forgot him and Great Unity received the Chaos Bell.
• The Purple Empyrean Guests realized that their memories of Li Boyang might disappear when their karma was severed, leaving his transcendence unremembered.
• Li Boyang traveled upstream through the Long River of Time, following the Netherworld Lord's traces so he would not lose his way.
• At the primordial age before the gods were born, the Netherworld Lord blocked Li Boyang and warned that he could go no farther.
• Li Boyang said he had continued traveling because he wanted the Netherworld Lord to show himself.

Li Boyang explained that Houtu arose from countless future versions of people connected to him, with Wu Yao usually forming her personality, and that the Heaven-Eroding Lord had disrupted the future that would have given her birth. He forged the Yellow Court Seal to ensure Houtu could still be born without his remains and sever their karma, and Houtu asked him to leave word of his fate after pursuing transcendence.

• Li Boyang told Houtu that she had been born from the gathered wishes and power of countless beings, using his empty shell as the foundation.
• Houtu explained that she could emerge from many people connected to Li Boyang across future timelines, though Wu Yao was most often her origin.
• Li Boyang said the Heaven-Eroding Lord had altered the future and prevented his Primordial Spirit and shell from becoming Houtu's foundation.
• Li Boyang combined his life primordial Qi with the earth's dragon veins to create the Yellow Court Seal, also called the Kongtong Seal or Houtu Seal, ensuring Houtu's future birth without his remains.
• Houtu accepted the seal as a means to sever their karma and asked Li Boyang to leave word so those who cared about him would know how he fared.

Li Boyang confronted the Netherworld Lord, the last great Luo golden immortal whose karma with him remained unsettled. He proposed that his own death could repay that debt, leaving his fate poised between transcendence and sacrifice.

• The Purple Firmament Guests watched the Jade Disc of Creation focus on Li Boyang's meeting with the Netherworld Lord in the primordial age.
• The Netherworld Lord said he would not hinder Li Boyang's Dao Merging and promised to conceal his karma with him.
• Li Boyang explained that the Netherworld Lord could become the final flaw in his Dao Merging, so their karma had to be settled.
• Li Boyang asked whether his death could repay the debt, declaring that as the sovereign of death, the Netherworld Lord would value it most.