Chapter Summaries

Li Yu infiltrated Scarlet King's lair, stole the Nine Revolutions Yang Return Grass, and seized a Time Beast guardian to learn about the foreign realm. He brought Shao Hao and the others to a hidden cave abode to rebuild their foundations while Scarlet King underwent Nirvana Rebirth.

• Li Yu broke through the formations guarding Scarlet King's medicinal garden and took the Nine Revolutions Yang Return Grass from the volcanic crater.
• Li Yu sealed the Time Beast guardian and copied his memories, learning that Scarlet King was undergoing Nirvana Rebirth.
• Li Yu concealed the cave abode and brought Shao Hao, Little Stone, the Heaven Swallowing Sparrow, the Qiongqi, the Azure Sky Roc, and Zhu Yan inside.
• Li Yu lifted Zhu Yan's memory seal and taught the group the Phoenix Nirvana Method and their respective cultivation techniques.
• Li Yu warned the group to stay inside and cultivate, then left to interfere with Scarlet King's Nirvana Rebirth.

Li Yu infiltrated Scarlet King's secluded domain, captured his Nirvana cub and guards, and looted the clan's vast treasuries. He left with Scarlet King's old body and the Crimson King Furnace, having stripped the secluded site of its treasures.

• Li Yu found Scarlet King's secluded hall and sealed the Time Beast cub, recognizing it as Scarlet King's Nirvana body.
• Li Yu used Scarlet King's memories to enter the hidden underground treasury and collected its nine warehouses of treasures and weapons.
• Li Yu entered Scarlet King's true cultivation site and captured Scarlet King's old body along with two True Immortal guards.
• Li Yu took the Crimson King Furnace and vanished from the hall.

Li Yu left Scarlet King's secluded cultivation site and secretly contacted the Gu Ancestor, revealing that he had returned from the Sea of Worlds and was rallying allies against the foreign realm. He gave the Gu Ancestor a talisman that could repair his injuries and help him advance to the Immortal King realm when the decisive battle began.

• Li Yu decided that Scarlet King's medicinal garden would be a safe place for the others to undergo nirvana and rebuild their cultivation, then set out for the Gu Clan's territory.
• Li Yu entered the Gu Ancestor's underground cave and revealed that he was a human Immortal King from the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
• Li Yu showed the Gu Ancestor tokens belonging to the Ancestor Spirit Offering, King White Crane, King Chongming, King Bi'an, and King Silver Phoenix, and explained that he had revived his disciples Chongming, Bi'an, and Silver Phoenix.
• Li Yu told the Gu Ancestor that he had joined forces with six Immortal Kings and was gathering more allies, including King Xuanwu, Immortal Gold King, and Second Under Heaven.
• Li Yu gave the Gu Ancestor a bronze talisman that could repair his injuries and enable his advance to the Immortal King realm, and the Gu Ancestor vowed that his clan would join the coming war.

Li Yu studied the Heaven and Earth rules in the World Stones and the Primal True Explanation while his companions reforged their foundations. After a year, everyone completed their cultivation, and Li Yu returned with them to Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.

• Li Yu returned to Scarlet King's herb garden and found his companions cultivating after completing nirvana, then decided their foundation reforging would take months.
• Li Yu comprehended the rules in seven World Stones, strengthening his originating Great Dao and discerning that Immortal Emperor advancement required the rules of a complete great world.
• Li Yu planned to seek Heaven and Earth rules through the Myriad Dao Tree, the Immortal Domain, the Foreign Realm, and other sources, while continuing to study the Primal True Explanation.
• After a year, the Heaven Swallowing Sparrow, Azure Sky Roc, Qiongqi, and Zhu Yan completed their cultivation and reached the peak of the Venerable Realm.
• Shao Hao and Little Stone completed their recultivation with Blood Essence like a Dragon and formidable reforged foundations, including their Martial Dao Heavenly Eyes and double pupils.
• Li Yu gathered everyone and returned with them to Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.

Li Yu sent Shao Hao, Little Stone, Qiongqi, Zhu Yan, and the Heaven Swallowing Sparrow out to explore the Upper Realm, but Shao Hao and Little Stone triggered the Sinful Blood Cloud Burst omen. Shao Hao was attacked and barred from a teleportation array, and he prepared to fight his way onward.

• Li Yu gave the group soul-preserving talismans, sent them out separately, and tasked Shao Hao with finding Qi Daolin at the Celestial Immortal Academy.
• A Bone Mirror at a city gate exposed Shao Hao’s sinful blood, while Little Stone triggered the same omen in another city, alarming Sword Valley, Demon Dragon Dao, and Fire Cloud Palace.
• A middle-aged man attacked Shao Hao and denounced his ancestors, so Shao Hao struck him down and defeated the cultivators who joined the assault.
• Shao Hao learned that the teleportation array would not serve someone of the sinful bloodline, drew his blade, and resolved to force his way through.

Shao Hao avenged the destroyed Sin Province Stone Kingdom by killing Demon Dragon Dao cultivators, then traveled to the Celestial Immortal Academy. After arriving, he learned where its long-untrodden Heavenly Stairway was and began climbing it to find Qi Daolin.

• Shao Hao confronted the Demon Dragon Dao over its destruction of the Stone Kingdom and killed one Divine Fire Realm cultivator and five Venerables with a single slash.
• A horned young man arrived at the ruined city, saw the dead Demon Dragon Dao disciples, and vowed to purge the sinful blood lineage.
• Shao Hao reached Immortal Province and found the Celestial Immortal Academy beneath its vast mountain.
• Jin Cheng and a woman mistook Shao Hao for someone seeking to become a servant, then mocked him for asking about the Heavenly Stairway.
• The woman pointed Shao Hao toward the path beside the academy gates, and he stepped onto the Heavenly Stairway to seek Qi Daolin.

Shao Hao climbed the Heavenly Steps at the Celestial Immortal Academy, clearing all nine stages and drawing the attention of the academy and Qi Daolin. After revealing that he had come from the Supreme Hall at his patriarch’s command, he left Qi Daolin demanding to know where the patriarch was.

• Shao Hao entered the first stage, lifted its 150,000-jin boulder, and triggered a bell and immortal-light spectacle that alerted the Celestial Immortal Academy.
• Shao Hao easily passed the tests of the next seven stages, while the academy’s teachers and students watched him advance.
• The Ninth Bell Chime rang after a two-hour wait, but the Old Dean found no one at the end of the Heavenly Steps and blamed Qi Daolin for hiding the genius.
• Qi Daolin tried to recruit Shao Hao into the Supreme Dao Field, but Shao Hao spotted a flaw in his illusion and explained that he had come from the Supreme Hall at his patriarch’s command.
• Shao Hao projected an image of the Supreme Hall, and Qi Daolin recognized it and urgently asked where the patriarch was.

Qi Daolin reunited with the Supreme Hall and formally entered the sect under Li Yu, who restored its inheritance and refined his cultivation. As Qi Daolin began studying the Six Paths Reincarnation Heavenly Skill, Li Yu failed to learn the Heaven and Earth rules through him and resolved to seek another method.

• After confirming Shao Hao’s identity, Qi Daolin traveled with him to Stone Village and found the Supreme Hall preserved by Dragon Son Baxia.
• Qi Daolin paid respects to the ancestors and met Li Yu, who welcomed him into the sect and helped him formally enter the Supreme Hall.
• Li Yu had Shao Hao enter the sect under Qi Daolin’s tutelage, then passed the Six Paths Reincarnation Heavenly Skill to Qi Daolin and purified his cultivation.
• Shao Hao showed Qi Daolin the Supreme Hall’s extraordinary buildings and resources, and Qi Daolin began studying the sect’s true teachings in the Enlightenment Hall.
• Li Yu tried to comprehend the Heaven and Earth rules through Qi Daolin’s Void Dao realm but discovered that its apparent union with the Great Dao was an illusion, so he sought another method.

Li Yu planned to retrieve the rotten wooden chest and later obtain the Grand Unity Sword Embryo while considering how to help bring about an emperor. When Demon Dragon Dao Sect members attacked, Shao Hao killed them all, including their True God leader.

• Li Yu weighed analyzing the world's rules against accelerating the Desolate Heavenly Emperor or using the Dark Immortal Emperor's remains to prepare for the dark calamity.
• Li Yu decided to retrieve the rotten wooden chest first and collect the Grand Unity Sword Embryo when Shao Hao and the others entered the Immortal Ancient Ruins.
• Demon Dragon Dao Sect members arrived, accused the local clan of being the sinful bloodline, and attacked Shao Hao.
• Shao Hao defeated and killed Long Qing with the Grass Character Sword Art after their spear and saber techniques clashed.
• The Demon Dragon Dao's True God, Long Yun, attacked Shao Hao with a flood dragon technique, but Shao Hao destroyed it with the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass and killed him.
• Shao Hao killed the three remaining disciples, and a companion remarked that they had flood dragons to eat but Tai Hao was absent.

Li Yu traveled beyond the Three Thousand Provinces to the Imperial Pass, collecting rare beings and reflecting on the ancient war and the Border Wasteland Seven Kings. He arrived at the original Imperial Pass, where the last surviving king still defended the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths while his descendants suffered for their ancestors’ sacrifice.

• Li Yu praised Shao Hao’s strength, pointed him toward the sects tied to the sin-blood lineage, and left him to continue training.
• Li Yu crossed the uninhabited region, found the Chaos Azure Lotus seed, and left it undisturbed.
• Li Yu collected a Phoenix egg, hoping Huo Ling’er could use it to reshape her bloodline and aid the Desolate Heavenly Emperor.
• Li Yu seized a sleeping little Qilin from beneath a valley and sent it to the Resource Library to be trained.
• Li Yu passed the guard cities and Imperial Pass, then crossed the Heavenly Abyss toward the original Imperial Pass.
• Li Yu saw the ancient city guarded by the last of the Seven Kings of the Border Wasteland and lamented how the king’s descendants had been branded sinners and slaughtered.

Li Yu arrived at the Imperial Pass and brought food, supplies, and new life to the abandoned city. He healed its last surviving Border Wasteland King, Cang Lang, who joined Li Yu’s Immortal King Legion.

• Li Yu reached the Imperial Pass and met the one-armed old man guarding its gate with the city’s children.
• Li Yu gave the people meat from three captured Time Beasts, then cleansed the city of corpse Dao laws and restored its vitality.
• King Cang Lang told Li Yu that the other six Border Wasteland Kings had perished and that his own wounds left him near death.
• Li Yu used the Creation Furnace to remove the Dao laws in King Cang Lang’s body and restore him to full strength.
• King Cang Lang thanked Li Yu and joined his Immortal King Legion.

Li Yu restored King Cang Lang and established a teleportation array linking the border pass to Stone Village, then searched Divine Medicine Mountain for treasures. He took the Celestial God Tree and found Golden Daoist’s trapped soul, leaving the Golden Immortal Bull asking him to save its master.

• Li Yu built a teleportation array at the border pass and sent the refugees through to Stone Village, where the Ancestor Spirit Offering could shelter them.
• Li Yu told King Cang Lang that the array worked both ways and left to find two companions who had not returned.
• Li Yu entered Divine Medicine Mountain, found the Celestial God Tree, and stored it in the Resource Library for future use in making Celestial God Pills.
• Li Yu discovered a Golden Immortal Bull guarding an underground pool and told it that he had come to save its master, Golden Daoist.
• Li Yu brought Master Jing Bi’s divine soul from the Void God Realm to prove his identity, and the Golden Immortal Bull begged him to save its master.

Li Yu revived Golden Daoist and Second Under Heaven, then sent them to reinforce the Border Wasteland Imperial Pass. He returned to Immortal Monk King's Nirvana Pool and found the corrupted Bodhi Tree, resolving to save it.

• Li Yu used the Creation Furnace to restore Golden Daoist, and the Golden Bull joyfully resumed pulling his chariot.
• Li Yu and Golden Daoist traveled to Heavenly Beast Mountain, where Li Yu restored Second Under Heaven by returning Bird Lord's soul to his body.
• Golden Daoist and Second Under Heaven bickered and fought before agreeing to guard the border with King Cang Lang.
• Li Yu explained that the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths now had nine Immortal Kings, and the foreign realm had no more than ten.
• Li Yu returned to Immortal Monk King's Nirvana Pool and said Shao Hao and Little Stone could try to temper their bodies there.
• Li Yu found the Bodhi Tree corrupted in a blood-soaked valley and resolved to save it.

Li Yu cleansed the corrupted land and restored the demonized Bodhi Tree, uncovering the Immortal Ancient Buddhist Sect’s inheritance within it. He left the revived tree and headed toward the ancient burial ground to find the rotten wooden box.

• Li Yu used the Great Five Elements Yuan Ci Annihilation Divine Light to destroy the bloody swamp and purify the blood-soaked land.
• Li Yu awakened the Bodhi Tree’s remaining Buddha Nature with his Buddhist aura and used the system to extract its dark power.
• The Bodhi Tree returned to its peaceful state and revealed an illusory hall containing the Immortal Ancient Buddhist Sect’s scriptures.
• Li Yu copied the Buddhist inheritance and nourished the Bodhi Tree with Cyan Wood Spiritual Qi until it grew green leaves.
• Li Yu left the Bodhi Tree and turned toward the ancient burial ground to search for the rotten wooden box.

Li Yu retrieved the Dark Immortal Emperor's sealed remnant soul from a forbidden gorge and returned to Stone Village after rallying his revived allies at the Border Wasteland Imperial Pass. He left the Qilin cub in Kunpeng Son's care and began examining the remnant soul.

• Li Yu entered the misty gorge, found a mound whose Yang energy destroyed Burial Ground Clan members, and pulled the sealed wooden box from beneath it.
• Li Yu sent the box to the Resource Library so the system could drain the seals' energy, intending to learn about the Immortal Emperor Realm from the remnant soul inside.
• Li Yu teleported to the Border Wasteland Imperial Pass, where King Cang Lang, Golden Daoist, and Second Under Heaven thanked him for restoring them.
• Li Yu warned the three that the Source of Darkness across the Realm Sea was their greatest enemy and told them to guard the Imperial Pass against a foreign invasion expected in decades.
• Li Yu returned to Stone Village, gave a Qilin cub to Kunpeng Son to look after, and retreated into the Supreme Hall to deal with the Dark Immortal Emperor's remnant soul.

Li Yu learned the essence of Immortal Emperor cultivation from the Dark Immortal Emperor's residual soul and recognized how it aligned with his own Dao. As he began studying heavenly treasures to deepen his understanding, Yue Chan left Stone Village, while Little Stone ran into trouble.

• Li Yu had the system scan the Dark Immortal Emperor's residual soul and add its memories to the Resource Library.
• Li Yu learned that an Immortal Emperor was lawless and boundless, with only the mind and only the self, and saw how that realm connected to his own path.
• Li Yu decided to study the Heavenly God Tree and Nine Revolutions Yang Return Grass himself rather than rely on the system.
• Yue Chan asked Li Yu for an audience, and he told her she was free to leave.
• Yue Chan left Stone Village while cursing Little Stone, who was also in trouble.

After Little Stone escorted Yun Xi back to the Heavenly Human Race, the clan’s Ancestor tried to force him to marry into the clan and surrender his secret techniques. Little Stone refused and revealed a powerful figure through a Taiji Diagram, leaving the Ancestor terrified.

• Little Stone escorted Yun Xi to her clan after rescuing her, and the Heavenly Human Ancestor planned to claim his abilities by arranging a marriage.
• Yun Xi offered to marry Little Stone out of guilt, but her grandfather rejected the idea and brought Little Stone to the Heavenly Human Hall.
• The Heavenly Human Ancestor offered Little Stone a clan bride and demanded he hand over his cultivation methods, but Little Stone refused.
• The Heavenly Human Ancestor bound Little Stone and threatened to search his soul, claiming his Escaping One Realm strength made him invincible.
• Little Stone summoned a figure on a Taiji Diagram who asked who dared claim invincibility, and the Heavenly Human Ancestor collapsed in terror, recognizing an immortal.

Little Stone forced the Heavenly Human Ancestor to surrender the Immortal Exquisite and left the Heavenly Human Race in peace. He headed toward Celestial Immortal Academy, while Shao Hao searched Fire Province for rare flames that could benefit Stone Village.

• Little Stone revealed his immortal pagoda, and the Heavenly Human Ancestor apologized after realizing how powerful his backing was.
• Little Pagoda demanded the Immortal Exquisite, and Little Stone accepted it as compensation for the dispute.
• The Heavenly Human Ancestor gave Little Stone the Immortal Exquisite, then told Yun Xi's grandfather that Little Stone's family could include multiple true immortals and hoped Yun Xi would grow closer to him.
• Little Stone decided to test the heavenly ladder at Celestial Immortal Academy and traveled there by teleportation formation.
• Shao Hao heard that Chaos Flame and Great Scarlet Heaven Fire might be hidden in Fire Province and joined the search, hoping to find flames useful to Stone Village.

Shao Hao destroyed a Demon Dragon Dao mine, then followed the Supreme Hall’s compass to buried Immortal Ancient ruins and discovered the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin. Li Yu revealed that the coffin held an Emperor Fire and decided to let Shao Hao take it.

• Shao Hao saw a Demon Dragon Dao mine, attacked it with the Thunder Emperor’s Nine Heavens Divine Thunder, and destroyed the mine and its flood dragon guards.
• Shao Hao searched the wilderness for Chaos Flame for half a month without success before the Supreme Hall’s compass pointed toward a fissure.
• Shao Hao descended into the fissure and found an ancient underground city whose ruins resembled Immortal Ancient architecture.
• Shao Hao approached an altar shrouded in chaos mist and discovered the skeletons of nine true dragons behind a Bronze Coffin.
• Li Yu recognized the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin and revealed that it contained an Emperor Fire, then decided to let Shao Hao take it.

Shao Hao retrieved the Nine Dragons Coffin Pull with the Supreme Hall and found a World Treasure Box filled with rare immortal materials and talismans. As he left the ruins, Cyan Moon Fire erupted, and he spotted a familiar-looking figure within the moon.

• Shao Hao used the Supreme Hall to retrieve the Nine Dragons Coffin Pull from the ruins.
• He searched the ancient city and found that its Medicine Hall and Artifact Refining Pavilion had been ruined by time.
• Shao Hao stored a dangerous Bronze Box in the Supreme Hall, where it opened and revealed more than ten pieces of Profound Extreme Immortal Gold and over a thousand talismans, including Immortal Talismans.
• As Shao Hao prepared to leave, cyan light and Cyan Moon Fire surged across the ruins beneath a bright moon containing a vague figure.
• Shao Hao sensed that the fire might be immortal fire and thought the figure looked familiar, but dismissed the possibility that he had seen it before.