Chapter Summaries

Dayi explained that he had tried to sever all karma and make himself unique, but instead preserved the story of his love with Chang'e unchanged in history. Recognizing why he had appeared before Dayi, Li Xuandu heard Dayi offer to help him reach the eight hundred turbulent years in exchange for saving Heng'e once if she faced grave danger.

• Dayi told Li Xuandu that he had used the Heart Dao to sever karma and become independent, though he had failed to attain Dao Proving.
• Dayi said he had succeeded in ensuring that no one could alter the story of his love with Chang'e, not even in its smallest details.
• Li Xuandu realized Dayi's methods had preserved their love in the river of history and refrained from asking why Dayi did not change their fate himself.
• Dayi told Li Xuandu that he could not understand his wish to die or Li Xuandu's repeated journeys through spacetime.
• Li Xuandu concluded that he understood why he had appeared before Dayi.
• Dayi offered to help Li Xuandu reach the eight hundred turbulent years if Li Xuandu agreed to save Heng'e once when she was in the greatest danger.

After Goddess Milun died, Jinhong vowed to kill the Dao Proving Ones he believed were responsible and asked Xiluo to teach him divination. Xiluo explained that spacetime corrected attempts to alter history, then began Jinhong’s lesson with a Bagua Compass.

• Jinhong arrived at the place where Goddess Milun had died and demanded to know who had killed her.
• Xiluo gathered Goddess Milun’s severed limbs and told Jinhong that her death was an inevitable turning point in history.
• Jinhong vowed to kill the Dao Proving Ones and asked Xiluo to teach him divination.
• Xiluo agreed to teach Jinhong and explained that the era’s balancing mechanism resisted changes to history’s overall course.
• Xiluo showed Jinhong the Bagua Compass and explained that he first needed to cultivate the Premonition Divine Ability to judge his divinations’ accuracy.

Li Boyang watched the new ripples in time caused by Xiluo teaching Jinhong divination and wondered how Wu Jun would resolve the coming paradox around Hao Jun and the Immortality Herb. Meanwhile, Jinhong sought out Xiu Snake to ask where Wu Jun was, and Xiu Snake suspected Jinhong had chosen Hao Jun as his next target for revenge.

• Li Boyang sensed Xiluo’s influence rippling through time, but his search still found no trace of Wu Jun.
• Li Boyang considered the temporal paradox tied to Hao Jun’s future hunt for the Netherworld Lord and traveled onward under the Heaven and Earth Black and Yellow Exquisite Pagoda.
• Heng'e and the Great Golden Crow’s conflict escalated into a devastating war, while Xiu Snake remained neutral in the southern wetlands as nearby tribes offered sacrifices to keep him there.
• Jinhong arrived in Xiu Snake’s territory and corrected his claim that he had sworn to kill every Dao Proving One, explaining that his intended targets simply all happened to be Dao Proving Ones.
• Jinhong said his elder brother had told him Xiu Snake was close to Wu Jun and asked about Wu Jun’s whereabouts, prompting Xiu Snake to ask whether Hao Jun was Jinhong’s next revenge target.

Jinhong fought Xiu Snake in the southern wetlands, using enslaved souls and his Seven Killings Swords as he sought answers about Wu Jun. Li Xuandu arrived from the future and wounded Xiu Snake, while Jinhong resolved to kill him and use his blood and soul to refine the Sword of Anger.

• Jinhong told Xiu Snake that he wanted to question Wu Jun, and Xiu Snake emerged from the Bashu River to confront him.
• Jinhong summoned evil ghosts made from the dead, and he and Xiu Snake unleashed a devastating battle across the wetlands.
• Li Xuandu escaped a time-space vortex in his nine-dragon chariot and recognized Xiu Snake, whose power had changed greatly from the one he knew.
• Xiu Snake mistook Li Xuandu for Jinhong's ally and attacked him, so Li Xuandu shot an invisible arrow that pierced Xiu Snake.
• Jinhong concluded that Heavenly Mandate had sent Li Xuandu to aid him, revealed his Seven Killings Swords, and vowed to kill Xiu Snake and refine the Sword of Anger with his blood and soul.

Li Xuandu intervened to save Xiu Snake and fought Jinhong, whose immense murderous karma and claim to be Milun’s son revealed a history far stranger than Li Xuandu expected. As Jinhong began forming a wheel of reincarnation, Li Xuandu wondered whether he had landed in a parallel version of history.

• Li Xuandu used his Daoist robe and peachwood sword to block Jinhong’s attack on Xiu Snake and suppress the Netherworld ghosts.
• Li Xuandu saw that Jinhong’s karma was vast and tied to slaughter, hatred, and the ten suns, then realized Jinhong was the Netherworld Lord’s reincarnation.
• Jinhong rejected the title of Netherworld Lord, identified himself as Milun’s son and a descendant of Shaohai, and blamed the Dao Proving Ones for his mother’s murder.
• Jinhong tore open spatial rifts and spread Netherworld Qi across the land while Li Xuandu transformed into his Three Heads and Six Arms form to fight him.
• Li Xuandu questioned whether the era was genuine history as Jinhong revealed the faint phantom of a wheel beginning to take shape.

Li Boyang and Xiluo watched Jinhong’s battle and argued over Xiluo’s guilt for teaching him divination. Li Boyang warned her to learn to let go, then acknowledged the danger of his repeated time travels as he studied the crowded river of time.

• Li Boyang explained that Jinhong’s challenge to Wu Jun might restore history’s course, while Xiluo appeared beside him and asked whether he had failed to stop Jinhong.
• Xiluo blamed Li Boyang for anticipating that she would teach Jinhong divination and described her guilt over his descent into the Evil Dao.
• Li Boyang comforted Xiluo and urged her not to take responsibility for another person’s life, but Xiluo pointed out that he himself struggled to let go.
• Xiluo warned Li Boyang that his frequent time travels exposed openings and reminded him that Wu Jun was still alive and searching for him.
• Li Boyang said he would stay vigilant and turned his attention to the river of time, where Dao Proving Ones from the past, present, and future had gathered.

The Great Golden Crow reflected on how Primordial Sovereign Doumu’s Zhoutian Star God System offered a shortcut to Dao Proving and had united the Star Gods under Heng'e against his camp. As the eight-hundred-year war reached its final years, the conflict spread across time and the world, drawing in nearly every god.

• The Great Golden Crow recognized that Primordial Sovereign Doumu had established the Zhoutian Star God System before taking her place, turning future Star Gods’ Dao Proving into part of her own path.
• Little Ten regretted that the Golden Crows were fighting the Zhoutian Star Gods, even though many of those Star Gods had their own agendas.
• The Great Golden Crow’s camp of future Dao Proving Ones who sought to preserve history faced Heng'e’s camp of Star Gods and Ancient Ones who sought to change it.
• Dao Proving Ones fought across the river of time while stars fell and Heavenly Deities joined the battle in the world.
• Jinhong and other avengers hunted even neutral Heavenly Deities such as the Xiu Snake, as the war swept all living beings into it; its source was traced to Wu Jun’s unexplained withdrawal.

Heng'e and Bai Ze recognized that Lu Ya had turned the war and the Heavenly Emperor's will toward the Great Golden Crow, but Heng'e refused to accept being sidelined and openly committed herself to victory. As three Golden Crows attacked the moon, Wangshu's intervention brought Wu Gang and Yinglong into the battle.

• Heng'e asked Bai Ze whether the war's course had matched his expectations, and he admitted Lu Ya had outmaneuvered their plans and drawn many Dao Proving Ones to the eldest prince's side.
• Heng'e realized that Wu Jun's will favored the Great Golden Crow, but decided she would no longer hide or accept the Heavenly Emperor's unilateral protection.
• Heng'e made the great moon blaze with enough light to rival the ten suns and declared that her side had to win the war.
• Three Golden Crows broke through the celestial star gods' encirclement and rushed toward the moon as some of the gods hindered their own allies.
• Wu Gang emerged from the laurel tree's shadow and attacked the Golden Crows after Wangshu summoned him into the era with the Divine Ability Reverse Heaven and Return the Sun.
• Lu Ya identified Wangshu as the Dao Ancestor's disciple, and Yinglong flew from the moon's shadow to clash with a Golden Crow using his Dharma Aspect and manifested treasures.

Yinglong and Yinjiao joined the battle against the Golden Crows, while Yinjiao’s Sword-Storing Silver Gourd drove Dao Proving Ones to flee or hide. As the battlefield descended into chaos, Jinhong activated the Six Paths of Reincarnation and began forcibly proving the Six Paths, stripping the Xiu Snake’s soul from its body.

• A Dao Proving One realized Yinglong was not the future Dao-Proven Yinglong, and the Golden Crows recognized Wangshu as the greater threat.
• More Golden Crows joined the attack on the great moon, forcing Yinglong to call for Yinjiao’s help.
• Yinjiao appeared in her true body and unleashed the Sword-Storing Silver Gourd, whose flying swords cut through stars, gods, and Dao Proving Ones.
• Li Xuandu recognized the flying swords he had helped Yinjiao refine, while Jinhong activated the Six Paths of Reincarnation and prepared to prove the Six Paths.
• Jinhong used the Animal Path to tear the Xiu Snake’s divine soul from its body, demonstrating his growing command of the Netherworld Lord’s authority.

As Jinhong’s Dao Proving opened the Heavenly Emperor’s Capital, a future Buddha Mother appeared and recognized him as her son, while Ksitigarbha offered to save him by sending him into the future. Jinhong rejected the plan as another attempt to control him and vowed to overturn history.

• Li Xuandu used the Five Elements Escape Technique to flee with Xiu Snake’s divine soul and body before they could be drawn into the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• Jinhong realized his Dao Proving could open the Heavenly Emperor’s Capital and caused the Long Stairway of Divine Ascension to blaze with light.
• A phantom of the eighteen-armed Buddha Mother appeared, and Jinhong recognized her as his mother; she recognized him as Little Jin, her third son and Ksitigarbha’s previous incarnation.
• Ksitigarbha explained that he could preserve Jinhong’s soul and send him into the future, where he would be reborn in Ksitigarbha’s era.
• Jinhong accused Ksitigarbha of trying to control him and declared that he would defy the Netherworld Lord and Heavenly Emperor Wu Jun by turning history upside down.

Jinhong defied the Netherworld Lord and proved the Dao by bringing the Six Paths of Reincarnation and the Three Hun and Seven Po System into this era. As Wangshu and Jinjiao realized the Netherworld Lord may have orchestrated Jinhong’s rebellion, Yinjiao’s Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife terrorized the battlefield by killing even Dao Proving Ones across time and space.

• Jinhong forcibly proved the Dao, causing the Six Paths of Reincarnation and the Three Hun and Seven Po System to appear in the era.
• The Three Realms shook as the dead became bound to pass through the Netherworld before reincarnating.
• Wangshu and Jinjiao recognized the scene as resembling Li Boyang’s merger of the Yin and Yang realms and suspected the Netherworld Lord had planned Jinhong’s rebellion.
• Wangshu recalled that Yulü had killed Goddess Milun and Jinjiao concluded the Netherworld Lord must have allowed it.
• Yinjiao wielded the Sword-Storing Silver Gourd as a tiny flying knife slaughtered foes and pursued Dao Proving Ones across time and space.

Xiluo and Li Boyang discussed the Netherworld Lord’s motives, realizing he was using Jinhong to test a path to “Prove Once, Prove Forever” rather than preserve history. Meanwhile, Yinjiao and Lu Ya turned the battle against the Dao Proving Ones, and the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife struck down both the Golden Crow Lu Ya and his future self, Heavenly Emperor Lu Ya.

• Xiluo questioned the Netherworld Lord’s role in Jinhong’s Dao Proving, and Li Boyang explained that the Lord was adapting to changes in history rather than protecting it.
• Xiluo concluded that the Netherworld Lord was using Jinhong as an experiment to pursue Lord Wu’s “Prove Once, Prove Forever,” while Li Boyang’s silence made her suspect he had his own plans.
• Yinjiao commanded the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife as the nine Golden Crows joined the battle, with Lu Ya leading them.
• Lu Ya unleashed True Solar Fire infused with the power of Maxims and burned Yinglong to nothing, but Yinglong re-formed and warned Yinjiao about the flames.
• Yinjiao sent the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife after Lu Ya, and its sword soul crossed time and space to behead both Golden Crow Lu Ya and Heavenly Emperor Lu Ya.

Heavenly Emperor Lu Ya survived the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife and began refining it, while Yinjiao unleashed a vast silver-dragon formation of swords against the Golden Crows. The battle escalated as the Golden Crows moved to overwhelm Yinjiao, and Great Golden Crow continued protecting his Heavenly Deity allies instead of joining the fight.

• Heavenly Emperor Lu Ya reattached his head, revealed his immortal nature, and seized the sword-soul doll of the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife.
• Heavenly Emperor Lu Ya began refining the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife, leaving Yinjiao unable to summon it from the [Sword-Storing Silver Gourd].
• Jinjiao appeared above Yinjiao and criticized him for relying on clever techniques instead of Dao attainment.
• Yinjiao sent countless flying swords at the Golden Crows, controlling them as a silver dragon with Sword Control Divine Ability-Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Origin.
• The Golden Crows attacked Yinjiao while Yinglong held one of them back, and the surrounding fighters fled the devastation.
• Great Golden Crow continued rescuing and protecting his Heavenly Deity allies, delaying his entry into the battle.

Jinjiao explained to the Great Golden Crow how Hao Jun, the Lord, and the Dao Ancestor had allowed the upheaval to unfold as a contest over the limits of Yin-Yang Balance. He then explained why he had entered the conflict despite understanding the three supreme beings’ arrangement.

• Jinjiao protected Yinjiao from the Golden Crows’ attacks, drawing the Great Golden Crow’s attention.
• Jinjiao told the Great Golden Crow that he was Yinjiao’s elder brother and described how Dao Proving and the Six Paths of Reincarnation challenged Yin-Yang Balance.
• The Great Golden Crow explained that Wu Jun, the Lord, and the Dao Ancestor had mutually restrained and tacitly permitted one another’s actions throughout the eight hundred years of upheaval.
• The Great Golden Crow asked why Jinjiao had joined the conflict despite knowing the truth.
• Jinjiao said he had acted to shoulder his master’s work and to repay debts to his competitive little sister and Wangshu.

Jinjiao and the Great Golden Crow recognized their shared devotion to family, but their exchange was interrupted when Heng'e's sisters emerged and revealed that Changxi was close to collapse. The Great Golden Crow's eldest brother then appeared and demanded to know what had happened to Aunt.

• Jinjiao and the Great Golden Crow agreed they would have become friends if they had lived in the same era, though Jinjiao said he was no match for him.
• Heng'e's eleven sisters came out from their moons, and Chang'e told Heng'e they had come because Changxi could barely hold on.
• Chang'e explained that the Great Golden Crow had never harmed them during the five hundred years they were hidden in the Heaven of the Seven Luminaries and Moyi.
• The Great Golden Crow cried out in alarm at the news about Changxi, and a youth in yellow robes appeared and called him Eldest Brother.
• The chapter recounted the Great Golden Crow's conflicted relationship with Changxi, his aunt and stepmother, who had cared for him like a mother.

Changxi warned Lingxi and Shangyi that the conflict had exposed the Sixth Heaven to the Heavenly Emperor's enemies and handed Shangyi control of its defenses. A fissure opened in the sky, pouring out Netherworld Qi, as the stars transformed into the Heavenly Emperor's Guards and charged to meet the threat.

• Changxi told Lingxi she should not have helped Chang'e and the others leave the Sixth Heaven, while Lingxi explained she wanted to stop the eldest prince and eldest princess from fighting and to help care for Changxi.
• Shangyi accepted responsibility for failing to watch over the princess and the others, and Changxi put her in command of the Sixth Heaven, telling her to protect everyone and abandon the realm if necessary.
• Changxi explained that the Heavenly Emperor's enemies would kill everyone connected to him, unlike the prince and princess, who knew where to draw the line.
• A tremor shook the Heavenly Emperor's Capital, and a fissure opened over the Heaven of the Seven Luminaries and Moyi, releasing Netherworld Qi and dead souls.
• The goddesses reacted with fear or tried to resist the Netherworld Qi, while the realm's stars became golden-armored warriors and charged toward the fissures.

The Great Golden Crow learned that Changxi’s grave illness stemmed from Heng'e’s existence as a Dao Proving One, whose rise forced Changxi to lose her moon-god authority and move toward death. Heng'e explained that the process was called the five decays of the celestial person and revealed that she, too, wanted to rewrite the great tide of history.

• The Great Golden Crow confronted Heng'e about Changxi, and Chang'e revealed that her mother was gravely ill.
• The Great Golden Crow realized Changxi had been ill for much longer than he had known and asked Heng'e to tell him the whole truth.
• Heng'e explained that Wu Jun had researched the Elixir of Immortality in the original history to prolong Changxi’s life.
• Heng'e revealed that her existence as a Dao Proving One meant Changxi had to die for her to succeed as the moon goddess and achieve Dao Proving.
• Heng'e told the Great Golden Crow and the moon goddesses that Changxi was losing her authority as Heng'e grew stronger, a fatal process known as the five decays of the celestial person.
• Heng'e admitted she had wanted to rewrite the great tide of history, not merely prove herself superior to the Great Golden Crow.

Heng'e explained that she had planned to change history by preparing her mother to pursue Dao Proving in her place, but the Great Golden Crow challenged her plan and demanded to know why their mother’s condition had suddenly worsened. Heng'e glimpsed the future and realized Jinhong was responsible just as the Long Stairway of Divine Ascension reappeared in Kunlun.

• Heng'e revealed that she had entered the fray to save her mother and siblings, and planned to become the second Heavenly Emperor before arranging for her mother to pursue Dao Proving instead of her.
• The Great Golden Crow accused Heng'e of risking her life and asked what would happen if her plan failed; Heng'e's reaction confirmed his suspicions.
• The Great Golden Crow demanded to know why their mother's health had suddenly worsened, and Heng'e realized that Jinhong was involved after peering into the future.
• A golden beam erupted from Kunlun, and the gateway to the Heavenly Emperor's Capital opened as the Long Stairway of Divine Ascension reappeared.
• The Great Golden Crow was shocked that someone had reactivated the stairway, which previous attempts had failed to do and had brought the Heavenly Emperor's curse.

Jinhong forced his way into the Heaven of the Seven Luminaries and Moyi, where he used the Six Paths of Reincarnation to unleash Ghost Gods against Shangyi. Shangyi summoned star-powered talisman spirits to oppose them, and the two forces began an escalating battle.

• Jinhong entered the Heavenly Emperor's Capital through the Heavenly Dao path and summoned evil ghosts while demanding that Wu Jun appear.
• Shangyi confronted Jinhong and wounded the Ghost Gods with her holy, moonlight-infused power.
• Jinhong expanded six rifts into black holes and used the Six Paths of Reincarnation to threaten all life in the heaven.
• Shangyi gathered the power of the stars through feathers inscribed with Talisman Incantations.
• Jinhong summoned six Great Heavenly Deity souls as Ghost Gods, angering Shangyi, who completed the star-powered talisman spirit bodies.
• The Ghost Gods and talisman spirit bodies clashed, each drawing strength from Jinhong's Six Paths or the stars of the heaven.

Changxi recognized that Jinhong's power had accelerated his Five Decays of the Celestial Person and sent the goddesses to the mortal world before joining the battle. He began destroying the Heaven of the Seven Luminaries and Moyi to attack Jinhong, then faced Taotie as the fight continued.

• Changxi reprimanded the goddesses for failing to defend the Heaven of the Seven Luminaries and Moyi, while Gouxing declared she wanted to help Shangyi.
• Gouxing noticed Changxi's hair falling out, and Changxi realized he had entered the second stage of the Five Decays of the Celestial Person.
• Changxi opened a passage to the mortal world and forced the goddesses through it, sending his jade bracelet with them to protect them.
• Changxi summoned the stars to fall as meteors, damaging the Heaven of the Seven Luminaries and Moyi in an attempt to take Jinhong down with him.
• Jinhong ordered Taotie to attack Changxi, and Changxi recognized Taotie as a ghost god who had died at her husband's hands.