Chapter Summaries

Jinhong summoned the Netherworld Lord’s collected old ghosts, including ancient gods and the witch Nü Chou, to attack Changxi and Shangyi. The chapter ended with Nü Chou and her old friend Shangyi fighting as Nü Chou asked her to kill her.

• Taotie charged toward Changxi, but a Heavenly Emperor’s star guard blocked him.
• Qiongqi joined the assault on Changxi, while the chapter identified Dijiang, Huilu, and Taiqi among Jinhong’s summoned old ghosts.
• The chapter recounted how the Netherworld Lord had stripped Huilu and Taiqi of their authority and preserved their remaining souls as collectibles.
• The chapter revealed that Nü Chou had been Changxi’s shrine maiden and Shangyi’s friend before dying under the sun while praying for rain.
• Shangyi promised to let Nü Chou rest in peace, and Nü Chou asked Shangyi to kill her while trying to hide her charred body.

Shangyi attacked Nü Chou, who revealed that she could only be killed by destroying the manifested Human Path. As Shangyi raced for its black hole, Changxi used his jade shuttle to control time and throw the battlefield into chaos, but Jinhong adapted by viewing the river of time from outside it.

• Shangyi transformed into a crimson-crowned crane and shattered Nü Chou, but Nü Chou quickly healed and explained that destroying the Human Path was the way to kill her.
• Nü Chou pointed out the Human Path black hole, and Shangyi broke away to attack it while Jinhong ordered Huilu and Taiqi to intercept her.
• Changxi drove back Taotie and Qiongqi, then used his jade shuttle to reverse time and protect Shangyi with twelve phantom moons.
• Changxi turned the Heaven of the Seven Luminaries and Moyi into a domain of displaced spacetime, causing ghost gods to attack one another across chaotic jumps in time.
• Jinhong observed the river of time from outside the current spacetime and used Shangyi as a reference point to follow how his actions affected past and future.

Jinhong attacked Changxi but was burned to ashes by the Vermilion Bird, who emerged from a Soul Jade and saved Changxi from death. Lingguang explained that she had descended to protect Changxi and the others through the Ten Suns Destroy the World calamity, as agreed with the Great Golden Crow.

• Changxi's remark enraged Jinhong, who broke through the disordered flow of time and punched through her chest.
• A vermilion flame erupted from Jinhong's fist and burned him to ashes despite his attempt to extinguish it.
• The Vermilion Bird manifested from Changxi's Soul Jade and revealed that she was Lingguang, a future Spirit born from the Great Golden Crow's remains.
• Changxi recognized that Lingguang's Azure Dragon companion was Meng Zhang, who had descended five hundred years earlier.
• Lingguang told Changxi that the Great Golden Crow had agreed to die according to history during the Ten Suns Destroy the World battle in exchange for Lingguang protecting the others.
• The Soul Jade's Nirvana Rebirth saved Changxi and delayed the Five Decays of the Celestial Person.

Changxi accepted the Vermilion Bird’s explanation and took over the fight as Jinhong returned from the Six Paths of Reincarnation stronger than before. In the Ninth Heaven, Li Boyang realized that Xiluo had taught Jinhong Supreme Yin Body Refinement, the method behind his increasingly powerful resurrections.

• Changxi trusted the Vermilion Bird’s account of the reversal of cause and effect and offered to handle the fighting herself.
• Shangyi shattered the Human Path, freeing Nü Chou and causing its ghost gods to disappear, but Jinhong emerged from the Six Paths of Reincarnation again.
• Jinhong sent Shangyi flying with a roar, revealing that each return from the Six Paths made him stronger.
• In the Ninth Heaven, Li Boyang questioned Xiluo after discovering that Jinhong’s deaths and rebirths imitated Supreme Yin Body Refinement.
• Li Boyang explained how Jinhong used his body, Primordial Spirit, and the Six Paths as pills and a furnace to become undying and indestructible.

Jinhong returned from the Six Paths of Reincarnation stronger after Changxi killed him, while Changxi discovered that he had become the Six Paths themselves and used temporary bodies. The chapter left Changxi questioning whether destroying the Six Paths could kill him.

• Jinhong declared that the Supreme Yin Body Refinement Method had been created by the Dao Ancestor and taught by the Queen Mother, then charged at Changxi again.
• Changxi summoned a projection of her past self and used her power over time to age Jinhong backward until he became an embryo.
• The Vermilion Bird explained that Changxi's ability to manipulate time was distinct from traveling through spacetime and could form a unique Dao Path.
• Jinhong emerged from the Six Paths of Reincarnation stronger, and Changxi saw that the Human Path had been restored and Zuzhuang had replaced Nü Chou as its Ghost.
• Changxi realized Jinhong had long since become the Six Paths of Reincarnation and that the figure before her was only a temporary vessel.

Li Boyang and Changxi discussed why Jinhong could survive the destruction of the Six Paths of Reincarnation, while Li Boyang suspected Xiluo had taught him more forbidden techniques. Jinhong then revealed his trump card against Changxi: Nailhead Seven Arrows.

• Changxi explained that Jinhong’s Supreme Yin Body Refinement let him restore his body or Primordial Spirit as long as either survived, and the Six Paths of Reincarnation further adapted him to past attacks.
• Li Boyang questioned Xiluo about what else she had taught Jinhong, and her silence made him suspect she had passed on a heaven-defying technique.
• Jinhong summoned the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, revealing that its vicious ghost kings were only sacrifices for his real attack.
• Jinhong formed an altar, a paper effigy resembling Changxi, and a mulberry-branch bow with seven peach-branch arrows as the Vermilion Bird identified Nailhead Seven Arrows.
• Jinhong aimed at the effigy as a vast talismanic sacrificial formation capable of overturning cause and effect took shape.

Jinhong used Nailhead Seven Arrows to curse Changxi, forcing Changxi to abandon his scrambled spacetime and summon versions of himself from across time to face Jinhong. As the conflict around Kunlun stalled, Zhenwu and the future Purple Tenuity Emperor discussed the star god’s identity and the Purple Tenuity Star’s place in the present era.

• Jinhong’s first arrow pierced the straw effigy’s left eye, causing Changxi unbearable pain, and Vermilion Bird explained how Nailhead Seven Arrows could kill even a Dao Proving One.
• Jinhong prepared to fire a second arrow while Changxi decided to recall the jade shuttle, restore normal chronology, and summon past versions of himself.
• The forces of Great Golden Crow and Heng'e slowed their fighting after a beam of light rose from Kunlun, and an unseen force prevented everyone from approaching the Heavenly Emperor’s Capital.
• On Tianshu Star, Zhenwu identified himself as Star Lord Tanlang, foremost of the Big Dipper Star Lords, after the future Purple Tenuity Emperor questioned who he was.
• The Purple Tenuity Emperor said the Purple Tenuity Star had existed since ancient times and asked whether it could shine in this era.

The Purple Tenuity Emperor discussed trying to claim authority over the Heavenly Emperor with Star Lord Tanlang, who refused to support his plans. Elsewhere, Houtu confronted the Netherworld Lord about his return and his possible claim to the title of August Heaven.

• The Purple Tenuity Emperor suggested the Purple Tenuity Star could shine in this era and sought to bring the Heavenly Emperor under its authority.
• Star Lord Tanlang called the plan mad, warned that Wu Jun might still be alive, and threatened to ask Lady Houtu to stop the Purple Tenuity Emperor.
• At Kunlun, Houtu confronted the Netherworld Lord and explained that Jinhong's supposed theft of his power had helped him revive.
• Houtu questioned whether the Netherworld Lord intended to return as the Yin Son of Heaven or become this era's August Heaven.
• The Netherworld Lord said Wu Jun's presence ruled out any claim to August Heaven and explained that Houtu's throne was bound to her across spacetimes, while he had only happened to become August Heaven in her era.

Houtu and the Netherworld Lord discussed whether the Zhoutian Star God System could descend into the era and whether Hao Jun and Wu Jun were dead. As the Ten Golden Crows and other forces descended to confront Heng'e, Wangshu and Jinjiao suspected Wu Jun remained alive and the turmoil was nearing its end.

• Houtu told the Netherworld Lord that the era was ready for the Zhoutian Star God System, and he questioned whether Hao Jun and Wu Jun were dead and whether Wangshu could bring it here.
• Houtu said she had nothing else to do and might as well try, revealing that she was Wu Yao from a distant future branch who had become the undying Houtu.
• The Great Golden Crow and Heng'e's counterattack sent stars and ten Golden Crows plunging toward the earth, while the Celestial Star Gods could not descend in their true bodies.
• Yinjiao, Jinjiao, and Wangshu stopped fighting and watched from the moon's shadow as the starry sky grew quiet.
• Wangshu asked where her Teacher was, and Jinjiao said he could appear anywhere and suggested Wu Jun and the others might soon appear.
• Wangshu insisted Wu Jun could not have died quietly, and Jinjiao remarked that the eight hundred years of turmoil seemed close to ending.

The Netherworld Lord redirected the Long Stairway of Divine Ascension to the Netherworld, prompting the Great Golden Crow, Heng'e, and their allies to attack its reflection at Kunlun. At the Palace of Vast Cold, Chang'e explained to Lingxi why the gods could not leave the Great Yin Star, while the Netherworld Lord’s purpose remained unclear.

• The Great Golden Crow reached Mount Kunlun and attacked the Netherworld’s reflection after discovering that the Long Stairway of Divine Ascension no longer led to the Heavenly Emperor's Capital.
• Shentu and Yulü blocked the Great Golden Crow’s True Solar Fire, and the Great Golden Crow accused the Netherworld Lord of controlling events.
• Heng'e arrived and used the power of Great Yin to drive Netherworld Qi back and erode the Netherworld.
• The remaining nine Golden Crows, the Heavenly Emperor's subjects, and some Dao Proving Ones joined the assault on the Netherworld’s reflection.
• At the Palace of Vast Cold, Chang'e told Lingxi that the Netherworld Lord’s pressure prevented most gods from going to Kunlun, while Bai Ze had gone with Heng'e anyway.
• Lingxi asked what the Netherworld Lord intended as she watched the Netherworld’s reflection replace the Heavenly Emperor's Capital above Kunlun.

Divine Lord Meng Zhang and Ink Qilin questioned why the Netherworld Lord had issued a sweeping warning that cut the Heavenly Emperor’s Capital off from the outside world. Li Boyang used the Kunlun Mirror to contact Wu Jun beyond the two realms and revealed that he had held the key to finding him all along.

• Divine Lord Meng Zhang wondered why the Netherworld Lord had acted first and threatened even neutral Dao Proving Ones.
• Ink Qilin suggested that the Netherworld Lord must have had a reason he could not avoid acting.
• Xiluo asked Li Boyang why the Netherworld Lord had severed the Heavenly Emperor’s Capital from reality, and Li Boyang activated the Kunlun Mirror.
• Wu Jun appeared in the mirror, and Xiluo recognized him as Hao Jun.
• Li Boyang told Wu Jun that the Lord had searched for him but had never realized Li Boyang possessed the key to his location.

Li Boyang explained that Wu Jun had engineered centuries of turmoil to draw powerful Dao Proving Ones into his era and seize their Daos. Wu Jun admitted that, with no future of his own, he intended to plunder those Daos and become the Creator.

• Li Boyang and Wu Jun explained that the Kunlun Mirror could reach other worlds and spacetime beyond the known past, present, and future.
• Li Boyang described his own path of uniting all Daos and contrasted it with Wu Jun's more extreme ambition.
• Li Boyang revealed that Wu Jun had deliberately caused eight hundred years of turmoil to lure Dao Proving Ones from across time into his era.
• Li Boyang said Wu Jun had arranged the conflict between the Great Golden Crow and Heng'e to intensify spacetime upheaval and attract stronger Dao Proving Ones.
• Wu Jun acknowledged that he intended to plunder their Daos and become the Creator who stood above all things.

Wu Jun explained that he had orchestrated conflict across time and space to gather Dao Paths and complete his Dao of Creation, while Li Boyang deduced that Wu Jun intended to turn the Heavenly Emperor's Capital into a mature world by consuming the Dao Proving Ones. The Lord had intervened to stop that plan, leaving Wu Jun one step from Dao Proving.

• Wu Jun told Xiluo that he pursued becoming a Creator despite the costs to his family and friends, and explained that his chosen succession contenders had been Jun'er and Lu'er.
• Li Boyang deduced that Wu Jun had meant for his sons to shoulder historical duties and harvest Dao Paths, but the Lord's interference caused Lu'er, rather than the future Heavenly Emperor Lu Ya, to return with inherited memories.
• Wu Jun said that the Lord's intervention triggered further changes, but the resulting deaths of Dao Proving Ones and the Celestial Star Gods' Dao Paths had brought his Dao of Creation close to completion.
• Xiluo realized that the Lord had acted to prevent more Dao Proving Ones from entering the battle, and Li Boyang explained that the Lord sought to surpass him rather than merely imitate him.
• Li Boyang concluded that Wu Jun planned to devour the Dao Proving Ones' power and Dao Paths to mature the Heavenly Emperor's Capital into a world, which would let him seize their Dao Paths across time and space.
• Li Boyang suspected that the Netherworld Lord had also indirectly influenced the Great Golden Crow and Heng'e to close the Long Stairway of Divine Ascension eight hundred years earlier.

Wu Jun opened a new world outside the present world and the Netherworld, intending to prove an eternal Dao there. His newborn realm formed heaven and earth but remained lifeless and motionless, leaving his plan in doubt.

• Xiluo realized that Wu Jun was splitting heaven and earth in primordial chaos to create a world independent of the present world and the Netherworld.
• Xiluo deduced that the new world had no Long River of Time, allowing Wu Jun to prove an eternal Dao that would endure when time eventually began.
• Wu Jun explained that he had prepared this backup plan after the Lord severed the connection to the Heavenly Emperor's Capital and blocked his original path to Dao Proving.
• Wu Jun said the Lord's intervention had forced him to take a riskier but more rewarding route, where he could reshape time and become an Ancient One.
• Xiluo pointed out that Wu Jun's new world was motionless and lifeless, while chaotic natural disasters formed within its rigid order.

Jinhong’s seventh Nailhead Seven Arrows strike destroyed Changxi’s body and straw effigy, but Wu Jun intervened with a sigh that shattered Jinhong’s ritual and burned away his undying body. Jinhong realized the immense gap between his power and Wu Jun’s, then saw the formless chaos beyond the two realms reflected above the Netherworld.

• Jinhong’s sixth arrow destroyed Changxi’s body, leaving only her undying soul as the seventh arrow struck the straw effigy.
• Wu Jun’s sigh preserved Changxi’s soul and shattered Jinhong’s altar and Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• Wu Jun’s radiance swept away the outsiders and burned away Jinhong’s undying body.
• Jinhong revived in the Netherworld and realized Wu Jun could erase his remaining undying soul.
• Jinhong saw spacetime rifts above the Netherworld reveal the formless chaos beyond the two realms.

A deathly silent embryonic world appeared across the living world, the Netherworld, and the River of Time, revealing that Wu Jun had opened a new world in pursuit of Dao Proving. The Netherworld Lord explained that Wu Jun’s impatience and slaughter had disrupted the future, and Wu Jun was now paying the price.

• A reflection of an embryonic world appeared throughout the living world and Netherworld, startling Heng'e, Lu Ya, and the smallest Golden Crow.
• The Great Golden Crow said that Father God had probably failed at Dao Proving.
• A speck of light spread through the embryonic world and illuminated all three overlapping worlds as sunlight.
• Wu Jun appeared at the sun’s core, immense enough to hold up the new world’s heaven and earth.
• Houtu recognized that Wu Jun had forcibly opened an imperfect world to prove his Dao.
• The Netherworld Lord said Wu Jun had slaughtered Dao Proving Ones and plundered their Dao Paths to complete the new world, and declared that Wu Jun was paying for his actions.

As Wu Jun’s actions caused the mortal world, Netherworld, and new world to overlap, Chaos Devil Gods emerged and began corrupting the starry sky. Heng'e and Lu Ya broke from their battles to defend the moons, while Lu Ya faced a second Devil God that spawned twisted creatures.

• The Dao Proving Ones realized the Lord had kept them from entering Kunlun to prevent them from becoming concepts in the new world, as the three worlds’ boundaries began to collapse.
• Star Lord Tanlang and the Purple Tenuity Emperor recognized the approaching disasters as Chaos Devil Gods, and the first one appeared with a twisted moon face.
• Heng'e left her fight with the Nether God and raced toward the starry sky as the moon-faced Devil God attacked the Great Yin Star and corrupted the twelve moons.
• The Great Golden Crow called to Lu Ya, who severed the Devil God’s tentacles with True Solar Fire while Shentu engaged another Golden Crow.
• A second Chaos Devil God appeared near Lu Ya, and a twisted head grew from his neck before he cut it off and turned to confront the creature’s cloudlike true body.
• Lu Ya unleashed intense heat across the surrounding area to stop the second Devil God from infecting more creatures.

Heng'e used the Twelve Yuanchen Grand Formation to weaken the Chaos Devil God born from the Dao of Great Yin, but a far stronger devil god formed from the Dao of the Sun descended and defeated her. As her sisters were scattered across the starry sky and she faced death, Heng'e remembered Dayi.

• Heng'e activated the Twelve Yuanchen Grand Formation to protect her younger sisters and confront the distorted moon face.
• The Great Yin Star Lord weakened the Chaos Devil God of Great Yin and restored the Dao of Great Yin to order.
• The Sun Star manifested a distorted face, and Dao Proving Ones joined the fight to stop the world's order from collapsing while cursing Wu Jun.
• The Chaos Devil God of the Sun defeated Heng'e, then blasted the eleven moon goddesses into the starry sky with a solar storm.
• Heng'e protected her sisters from the worst of the attack and, as she faced death, remembered Dayi.

Li Xuandu rescued Heng'e from the solar storm and explained why Dayi had not come to face her. Meanwhile, Wu Jun struggled to keep his newborn world from collapsing, realizing it could not survive without the Three Thousand Great Daos.

• Li Xuandu shielded Heng'e from the solar storm with nine golden dragons and a white lotus, then revealed himself as the Houyi she knew.
• Li Xuandu told Heng'e that Dayi did not know how to face her after she disguised herself as Chang'e, and refused to carry messages between them.
• Wu Jun strained to hold his newborn world together as chaos vortices spread through it and threatened to destroy it.
• Wu Jun wondered whether the world could survive without the Three Thousand Great Daos, which formed the foundations of a flourishing world.

As Wu Jun struggled to create a world without mastering all three thousand Great Daos, Changxi used the Jade Disc of Creation to merge with the Heavenly Dao and set the newborn world in motion. The world became a universe, while Changxi’s will began to disappear.

• Wu Jun refused Changxi’s offer to buy him time, knowing her soul was already damaged, and protested when she insisted on helping him.
• Changxi recognized that the jade shuttle Wu Jun had given her contained the Jade Disc of Creation, and revealed that Vermilion Bird had helped her understand its nature.
• Changxi rose past Wu Jun’s attempt to stop her and merged with the Heavenly Dao, becoming a great moon opposite the sun that Wu Jun had become.
• The moon’s appearance set time flowing, ended the world’s disasters, and filled the once-empty realm with activity.
• Changxi used the Jade Disc of Creation’s power to give the world space and time, forming the universe as her own will faded.