Chapter Summaries

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.

Li Boyang asked the Netherworld Lord to take on the concept of his death so he could sever his karmic ties and advance toward the Dao, despite the risk of disappearing forever. The Netherworld Lord agreed, and as Li Boyang vanished into an earlier era, the Lord glimpsed the Dao.

• Li Boyang explained that relinquishing his death would sever his karmic ties and help the Netherworld Lord advance, but would leave him with no chance of resurrection.
• Li Boyang said the unity of knowledge and action mattered even more than Fasting of the Mind and Sitting in Forgetfulness, and asked the Netherworld Lord to help him take his final step.
• The Netherworld Lord agreed and explained that he had respected Li Boyang too much to seize his Primordial Spirit, and had allowed its three portions to reach Xuandu, Luo Qiao, and the Supreme Lord Lao.
• Li Boyang walked toward an ancient era as his body and the concept of his death disappeared, while the Netherworld Lord took on the resulting karma and some of Li Boyang's achievements.
• The Netherworld Lord watched Li Boyang vanish, then looked toward the distant age of chaos and recognized the Dao.

Li Boyang left the Long River of Time, and the Dao Ancestor watched Heaven Beyond Heaven collapse as the Dao Proving Ones fought over the shattered Great Dao stele. The chapter ended with Xiluo and the Dao Ancestor facing the rift as the sanctuary broke apart.

• Li Boyang relinquished death and departed into chaos, leaving a fleeting image that stirred longing among living beings across time.
• Xiluo threatened the Dao Proving Ones who eyed the Great Dao stele, and Lü Yan stood beside her with his Pure Yang Treasure Sword drawn.
• A rift opened through Heaven Beyond Heaven, and a Dao Proving One who had proposed preserving memories fell into the Long River of Time.
• The Dao Ancestor said he had been waiting for Li Boyang's final decision as Heaven Beyond Heaven collapsed into fragments of space-time.
• The Great Dao stele cracked apart, and the Dao Ancestor kicked a fragment to Lü Yan before the Dao Proving Ones reached for the shards.

After Heaven Beyond Heaven collapsed into the Long River of Time, Li Boyang confronted the Dao Ancestor and learned that he had become an independent being with desires of his own. Li Boyang sent him into the river as a mortal boy, then reflected on what it meant to seek the Dao.

• Li Boyang appeared in the ruined Heaven Beyond Heaven and met the Dao Ancestor atop the remaining Stele of the Great Dao.
• Li Boyang identified the Dao Ancestor as his heart that sought the Dao, while Xiluo and Lü Yan realized the implications of their connection.
• The Dao Ancestor admitted that he had developed selfish desires and felt incomplete because he did not know why he sought the Dao.
• Li Boyang said their karma had already been severed and swept the Dao Ancestor into the Long River of Time, where the [Jade Disc of Creation] reduced him to a white-haired boy.
• Li Boyang watched the Long River of Time and reflected that one had to relinquish the heart that sought the Dao to attain the Great Dao.

Li Boyang bid farewell to Xiluo before leaving the Three Realms, and the Wuqi Civilization endured across successive epochs while exploring beyond them. In a later Heavenly Court Epoch, Li Boyang returned, restoring the Dao Proving Ones’ memories and reuniting with Xiluo.

• Xiluo confronted Li Boyang about his hidden origins, and he told her he came from another world but sought transcendence to discover what lay beyond Refining Emptiness and Uniting with the Dao.
• Li Boyang promised Xiluo he would return, then departed as Heaven Beyond Heaven crumbled; after her memories vanished, Xiluo claimed the shattered Stele of the Great Dao as the “Treasure Distribution Rock.”
• The Mountain Folk became the Wuqi Civilization, explored beyond the Three Realms, and preserved their civilization through successive epoch renewals.
• In the Heavenly Court Epoch, Xiluo and Wangshu discussed the Heavenly Emperor and the Dao of Taiyi while Xiluo declined to attend the Peach of Immortality Gathering.
• A tremendous crash sounded across the Three Realms, the Dao Proving Ones recovered their memories, and Xiluo saw the red-haired youth return as Li Boyang declared, “I'm back!”