Chapter Summaries

Li Boyang and Xiluo discussed a Dao realizer whose identity and plans might involve changing the past or future, while Li Boyang suspected the Moonlight Essence Qi concealed something dangerous. On the Ghost Realm’s opening night, overwhelming moonlight descended across the world and rapidly strengthened living beings, including Lord Tiaoyao.

• Li Boyang explained to Xiluo that a Dao realizer might abandon their Dao Path and wondered whether the being existed in the past or future.
• Li Boyang said a future Dao realizer might be tracing back through time, while a past one might be trying to escape death and extend their life into the present.
• Li Boyang told Xiluo that he would not oppose someone realizing the Dao, but he sensed ferocity in the Moonlight Essence Qi.
• On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, the full moon poured silver Moonlight Essence Qi across the Nine Provinces, Four Seas, and surrounding lands, awakening and strengthening living beings.
• Lord Tiaoyao devoured the moonlight near the Hundred Lands Grand Canal and realized that one night of its effects could surpass all the pills he had consumed.

Moonlight essence called Emperor Flow Pulp descended across the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, granting beings extraordinary cultivation gains. Li Boyang explained its benefits to Li Household Village, where the essence gathered especially around his family and began empowering Li Xi and the Huodou.

• Hanging Silk Lady and countless bronze spiders absorbed the moonlight essence Qi, and Hanging Silk Lady gained more than ten years of cultivation in a few breaths.
• Hanging Silk Lady wondered whether the moonlight signaled a hidden scheme to create demons, but her confidence in Li Boyang eased her unease.
• At Li Household Village, Li Boyang identified the silver threads as Emperor Flow Pulp and told the villagers how to absorb it safely for rapid cultivation.
• Li Jingshu and the villagers began collecting Emperor Flow Pulp, while Chen Yun watched with Li Yu and Li Xi.
• Emperor Flow Pulp surged toward Li Boyang's courtyard, entering his family and the Huodou without effort.
• Li Xi rapidly absorbed several strands, and her black hair transformed into living snake-hair that helped her devour the essence.

Li Boyang and Xiluo captured a Three-Legged Golden Toad formed from Emperor Flow Pulp and lunar ferocity, then discovered it could use the Seven Stars of the Big Dipper to fight. Li Boyang recognized the formation as his own future creation and saw the toad appearing across countless timelines.

• Jinjiao and Yinjiao opened their gourds and absorbed the Emperor Flow Pulp gathering over Flying Peak.
• Li Boyang drew the moon’s ferocity into the mortal world, forming a Three-Legged Golden Toad that charged Flying Peak amid Heavenly Tribulation.
• Li Boyang trapped the toad and the thunderclouds inside the [Heaven and Earth Ring], bringing them into the [Yunmeng Jade Pool Realm].
• Xiluo fought the toad in her red leopard form while Li Boyang realized it seemed like an Innate Deity born as a newborn.
• The toad manifested the Seven Stars of the Big Dipper and formed a star-powered formation, turning the realm’s dawn into night.
• Li Boyang used Foreknowledge of the Future and recognized the formation as one his future self had created, while seeing the toad recur across future timelines.

Li Boyang recognized that the Three-Legged Golden Toad was trying to earn his acknowledgment so it could exist in the present, then captured it and broke its star formation with his Body-Protecting Sword Qi. He gathered the seven star coins and eyed the Eight Trigrams Furnace, leaving Xiluo to wonder whether he planned to refine them into medicine or a treasure.

• Li Boyang saw that the Three-Legged Golden Toad existed in the past and future but not the present, and realized it was offering submission to gain his acknowledgment.
• Li Boyang reached through the Heaven and Earth Ring to seize the Three-Legged Golden Toad, and his Body-Protecting Sword Qi shattered its Big Dipper Seven Stars Great Formation.
• Xiluo retreated to Li Boyang as the formation's star-powered Sword Qi damaged the Yunmeng Jade Pool Realm.
• Li Boyang restrained the Three-Legged Golden Toad, then used the Heaven and Earth Ring to gather the seven stars into coins.
• Li Boyang looked toward the Eight Trigrams Furnace and suggested the Yunmeng Jade Pool Realm needed starlight, leaving Xiluo to wonder what he planned to refine.

Li Boyang forged the Seven Stars Treasured Sword from the Three-Legged Golden Toad’s seven copper coins and used it to establish the Big Dipper Seven Stars Great Formation in the Yunmeng Jade Pool Realm. He turned the toad into a moon that produced specialized Emperor Flow Pulp, leaving Xiluo to realize it represented one-fifteenth of the Moon God’s authority.

• Li Boyang forged the Seven Stars Treasured Sword, and Xiluo and the Three-Legged Golden Toad marveled at its seven kinds of Sha Qi.
• Li Boyang sent the sword into the sky and formed the Big Dipper Seven Stars Great Formation, using the starry sky as its formation diagram.
• Li Boyang tossed the Three-Legged Golden Toad into the formation’s central position and compressed it within the Heaven and Earth Ring.
• The Three-Legged Golden Toad became a moon that absorbed Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi and released Emperor Flow Pulp as Moonlight Essence Qi.
• Li Boyang explained that the full-moon Emperor Flow Pulp awakened intelligence in newborn life and embodied one-fifteenth of the Moon God’s authority.

Li Boyang identified the Dao Attainer as Changxi, the ancient Moon God who came from the past and was willing to serve him to return to life. The story shifted to Hao Jun’s final years, where Changxi’s full moon gave the scorched world relief and the Great Golden Crow worried about his aunt’s motives and Gouxing’s transformation.

• Xiluo realized the Dao Attainer came from the past and had died, and Li Boyang confirmed that he had already guessed the Dao Attainer’s identity.
• Li Boyang explained that the ancient Moon God Changxi had ruled alongside the Sun God Xihe before Hao Jun became Heavenly Emperor, and Xiluo recognized him as a Great Heavenly Deity.
• In Hao Jun’s final years, Changxi’s immense full moon appeared and gave living beings a brief respite from the ten Golden Crows’ scorching heat.
• The ten Golden Crows rested on the Fusang Tree and discussed Changxi and their absent younger sisters, while the Great Golden Crow privately worried about Gouxing’s transformation into a Guhuo Bird and wondered why Changxi kept extending the lives of mortals.

Changxi explained to the revived Heng'e how she had used the moon to rewrite history and save her from Moonfall, at the cost of her own strength and authority as Moon God. Heng'e vowed to revive her sisters and punish those responsible, even threatening a Sunfall if Hao Jun continued to protect them.

• Fifteen lunar phases appeared in the moonlight, and Heng'e awoke in one of the crystal coffins as Changxi embraced her.
• Heng'e remembered Moonfall and her sisters' deaths, then asked Changxi what had happened and how she had been revived.
• Changxi recounted how Hao Jun had concealed the truth of Moonfall and how she had broken with him, while Heng'e questioned whether Lingxi was responsible.
• Changxi explained that she had used the moon to reshape anchors across past, present, and future spacetime, changing history and reviving Heng'e at the cost of her power and Moon God authority.
• Heng'e promised to bring back her sisters and make the hidden conspirators pay, warning that she might cause a Sunfall if Hao Jun stood in her way.

The mountain folk reflected on the insights gained from the Emperor Flow Pulp, while Lu Huaijin considered what the strange lunar gift revealed about the moon god and Dao Assimilators. She wondered whether Li Boyang had killed a Dao Assimilator, and her secondary personalities enthusiastically agreed.

• The mountain folk stayed home to contemplate the previous night's Emperor Flow Pulp, and the three-eyed people gained especially valuable insights.
• A villager envied Lu Huaijin's three eyes as the chapter described the younger generation's extraordinary vision, physical strength, and cultivation skills.
• Lu Huaijin recalled Li Boyang's explanation of how a Qi-path Dao Assimilator could use living beings as cultivation cauldrons.
• Lu Huaijin suspected the Emperor Flow Pulp was Yuan Qi connected to the moon god and wondered why it had been freely given to living beings.
• Lu Huaijin speculated that Li Boyang might have killed a Dao Assimilator, and her secondary personalities praised their master.

Lu Huaijin advanced her Fetal Transformation and Shape Shifting by turning her body into steel and developing primordial magnetism. Meanwhile, Li Jingshu and Xiao Gui reached a gorge in the southern Sea of Trees that Li Jingshu hoped would help her master yin and yang.

• Lu Huaijin used Fetal Transformation and Shape Shifting to harden her body into steel, gaining tremendous strength.
• Lu Huaijin magnetized her steel body and sensed electromagnetic waves, developing Primordial Magnetism Divine Light.
• Li Jingshu flew with the Sun and Moon Twin Wheels while Xiao Gui questioned her slower progress compared with Lu Huaijin's.
• Li Jingshu explained that she sought to derive yin and yang from primordial magnetism rather than simply master repulsion.
• Li Jingshu and Xiao Gui reached the echoing gorge in the southern Sea of Trees that Li Jingshu had chosen as their destination.

Wood Guest and the great owl watched Li Jingshu approach Startled Spirit Valley, a deadly region where an unexpected force repelled her. After discovering that the Sun and Moon Twin Wheels were disturbing the valley’s magnetic field, Li Jingshu put them away and sent shadow spiders ahead to scout.

• Wood Guest and the great owl discussed the human who had entered Startled Spirit Valley, and Wood Guest fell silent when asked if he could escape.
• Li Jingshu and Xiao Gui sensed a repulsive force near Startled Spirit Valley that had not been present on Li Jingshu’s previous visit.
• Li Jingshu used the Bagua Compass and determined that the Sun and Moon Twin Wheels were affecting the valley’s magnetic field.
• Li Jingshu suppressed the Twin Wheels’ power, then stored them in the Bronze Treasure Book to remove the resistance.
• Xiao Gui accompanied Li Jingshu as a swarm of shadow spiders entered the valley to scout ahead.

Li Jingshu and Xiao Gui investigated Startled Spirit Valley and triggered a storm that revealed its ancient battlefield images. Li Jingshu witnessed a Golden Crow’s fall and discovered that a white arrow had carved the valley’s terrain.

• Xiao Gui directed her shadow spiders to locate a magnetized iron vein beneath Startled Spirit Valley while Li Jingshu explained how the canyon preserved sounds and images.
• The shadow spiders vanished after probing the vein, triggering an explosion and thunderclouds that gathered over the valley.
• Li Jingshu ordered Xiao Gui to record the changing conditions, then stepped outside Xiao Gui’s protective barrier to experience the battlefield images.
• Li Jingshu saw ancient gods battling the heat of ten suns and concluded that the Golden Crow’s fall had scorched the land.
• A white arrow carrying the Golden Crow’s blood pierced the earth, and Li Jingshu realized it had carved Startled Spirit Valley’s distinctive terrain.

Li Jingshu used the Sun and Moon Twin Wheels and her lifebound pistols to fight the ancient gods’ afterimages in Startled Spirit Valley. As Wood Guest and Da Xiao watched, the valley began weaving together the past, present, and future, then sealed itself behind a wall of lightning.

• Xiao Gui identified the ancient arrow beneath Startled Spirit Valley as the core of the disturbance and warned Li Jingshu that ordinary escape techniques could not approach it.
• Li Jingshu sent out the Sun and Moon Twin Wheels, provoking the ancient gods’ afterimages to reach toward her across time and space.
• The Sun Wheel burned and sliced through the afterimages while the Moon Wheel shielded Li Jingshu, who joined the fight with her pistols.
• Wood Guest and Da Xiao watched from outside the valley as the afterimages came alive and apparently tried to escape by using Li Jingshu’s body.
• New thunder and lightning struck, interweaving scenes of the past, present, and future, blasting Wood Guest away and enclosing Startled Spirit Valley in an electric barrier.

As Li Jingshu tried to extract the Sun-Shooting Divine Arrow, the arrow caused remnants of other timelines to appear and compete to claim it. The final figure left standing was a youth with Li Boyang’s familiar Bagua Compass, who announced that his name was Li Xuandu.

• Li Jingshu’s slaughter of the ancient gods’ remnants disrupted Startled Spirit Valley, causing scenes from other timelines and worldlines to appear.
• Li Jingshu and Xiao Gui followed a shadow spider underground to the Sun-Shooting Divine Arrow, where its golden light destroyed the spider.
• Li Jingshu advanced toward the arrow as beings from countless timelines appeared and tried to reach it.
• Li Jingshu and the remaining candidates touched the arrow together, but she was thrown back and the others vanished one by one.
• A bewildered youth remained before the arrow, took out a Bagua Compass familiar to Li Jingshu, and declared, “My name is Li Xuandu!”

Li Jingshu used Li Boyang’s Heavenly Eye to pull Li Xuandu out of a dangerous timeline, and learned he was her nephew from the future. Li Xuandu revealed that he was born in the year Emperor Flow Pulp first appeared, which Xiao Gui identified as the present year.

• Li Jingshu saw Li Xuandu reach for the Sun-Shooting Divine Arrow and used the Heavenly Eye to seize him across timelines.
• Li Xuandu recognized Li Jingshu and Xiao Gui as his Eldest Aunt and Aunt Gui, then realized this Li Jingshu was younger than the one he knew.
• Li Jingshu scolded Li Xuandu for giving his real name in a dangerous place, and he realized she had been the one to discipline him as a child.
• Li Xuandu said his parents were Li Jing and Qinghe, that he was born in the third year of the Heavenly Dao era, and that Li Jingshu had raised him.
• Li Jingshu stopped Li Xuandu from revealing more about the future, and Xiao Gui explained that Emperor Flow Pulp had appeared only the previous night.

Li Boyang traced the temporal disturbance at Startled Spirit Valley to a possible unknown Dao aspirant and considered how its solar essence might help Qinghe conceive. He suspected Li Xuandu was being used as a beacon to secure his approval, leaving him to decide whether to let his future blood kin enter the world.

• Li Boyang recognized that Li Jingshu had pulled Li Xuandu from the future, creating a temporal disturbance that other Dao Assimilators could detect.
• Li Boyang realized that gathering spiritual energy and the essences of the sun and moon might allow Qinghe to conceive naturally, and he considered using the Golden Crow's essence blood as a source of solar energy.
• Li Boyang connected the Golden Crow's death, the Sun God, and Startled Spirit Valley, and concluded that the valley's power to cross timelines arose after he reshaped the river of time.
• Li Boyang considered that an unknown Dao aspirant might be extending his concept across time and suspected that Li Xuandu was serving as the aspirant's beacon.
• Li Boyang recognized that the future Li Xuandu was appealing to their blood relationship and his consent to enter the present.

Li Xuandu described how the Hundred Lands Mountain Range would develop in the future, including the Circumstellar Constructs and the Peach of Immortality Grand Gathering. He revealed that he was 171 years old by the calendar, but said that Peaches of Immortality made him barely an adult by his era’s standards.

• Li Xuandu compared the Hundred Lands Grand Canal of his era with its earlier state and described the future shift from wooden vessels to steam- and Yuan Qi-powered steel ships.
• Li Xuandu explained that Circumstellar Constructs were satellites used for communications and, in his era, formed a Cloudtop Heavenly Palace system that gods and cultivators inhabited.
• Li Jingshu said that the Sky Base Station, an early version of the Circumstellar Constructs, was already taking shape, while Xiao Gui interrupted their discussion to ask Li Xuandu's age.
• Li Xuandu counted his years and revealed that he was 171, having traveled for decades across Great Xia and the Eight Wildernesses.
• Li Xuandu explained that in Heavenly Dao Year Ten, Grandmother Mountain God would hold the Peach of Immortality Grand Gathering, granting peaches that could extend lifespans by hundreds of years.

Xiluo and Pan Hu traveled through the eastern forest region, recording the names and abilities of newborn gods in the Jade Pool Heavenly Book. Xiluo revealed that she planned to prove her Dao by giving the concept of gods power and becoming their head, leaving Pan Hu to question how long it would take to gather them all.

• Xiluo and Pan Hu finished collecting the names of the gods and spirits in the area and prepared to head to the East Sea.
• Pan Hu challenged Xiluo to explain why she was so determined to record the gods in the Jade Pool Heavenly Book.
• Xiluo admitted that she was preparing to prove her Dao and believed she needed to find a path suited to her strengths.
• Xiluo explained that she planned to follow Doll and the Moon God by giving the concept of gods power, and Pan Hu understood that she wanted to become the head of the gods.

Meng Po examined the Ghost God Volume, which let the Great Emperor of Shandu invest Yin Deities with divine power and bind other ghost gods. She copied it for Xiluo and asked the Heaven-Eroding Lord to deliver the copy, called the Book of Earth.

• Meng Po studied the Ghost God Volume and recognized it as a manifestation of the Great Emperor of Shandu's power through the Heavenly Mandate Divine Ability.
• She learned that the volume granted divine authority to appointed Yin Deities and restrained bound ghost gods, some of whom were suppressed in the nine prisons and nine springs.
• Meng Po revealed that Xiluo needed the names of the bound ghost gods, and the Heaven-Eroding Lord complained that the Great Emperor of Shandu could have given the volume to her directly.
• Meng Po explained that Xiluo was competitive and sensitive, then handed the Heaven-Eroding Lord a copied volume to deliver to her as the Book of Earth.

Li Xuandu dreamed of Dayi and recalled the ancient hero’s rise from a wandering mortal to the Heavenly Emperor Hao Jun’s appointed judge of the gods. Dayi’s early victories brought rare peace to the mortal world, but the chapter ended with an even greater crisis brewing beneath the calm.

• Li Xuandu recognized the familiar voice as part of a dream and considered why Aunt Gui had called him Xiao Yi.
• Li Xuandu recalled that Dayi had refused Hao Jun’s blessing, insisting he would remain Yi, born among humankind.
• Hao Jun appointed Dayi the God of Inspection and Judgment and gave him the Vermilion Bow and Plain Gift.
• Dayi slew Zaochi in the Wilds of Chouhua and Jiuying at Ominous Water.
• Dayi quelled Great Wind’s rebellion in the Marsh of Qingqiu, earning the gods’ recognition and bringing years of peace.
• An even greater crisis began brewing beneath the mortal world’s apparent calm.

Li Xuandu watched Dayi defeat Fengxi and Xiu Snake in a dream, then realized the Sun-Shooting Divine Arrow wanted him to inherit Dayi’s extraordinary abilities. The dream ended before Dayi’s fate after killing Xiu Snake was revealed, leaving Li Xuandu to consider how Dayi had approached the Dao through archery and physical skill.

• Li Xuandu reflected that Dayi’s concern for humanity made him easy for the gods to manipulate.
• Dayi killed Fengxi in the Mulberry Grove with a dagger-axe and spear, saving the Central Plains’ crops.
• Dayi pursued Xiu Snake to Dongting, fought him for years, and finally cut him in two with a giant axe.
• Li Xuandu wondered how Dayi would escape the consequences of killing the Heavenly Emperor’s ancient subordinate, but the dream ended before he could find out.
• The Sun-Shooting Divine Arrow appeared in Li Xuandu’s hand, and he understood that it was urging him to inherit Dayi’s abilities, especially his archery.