Chapter Summaries

Shao Hao discovered that the Cyan Moon Fire was the remnant imprint of Fairy Qing Yue, a disciple of Daoist Yuxu, and brought it to Li Yu. After Qing Yue reunited with her master and faded away, the Lord of the Forbidden Zone set out to find her reincarnation, Yue Chan, while Shao Hao continued exploring Fire Province.

• Shao Hao prepared to use ancient Immortal sacrificial scriptures to communicate with the Cyan Moon Fire, but Li Yu told him to use a white feather instead.
• Shao Hao summoned Fairy Qing Yue, who learned that Daoist Yuxu had been revived and asked to see him.
• Li Yu brought Qing Yue to the Lord of the Forbidden Zone, who reunited with his former disciple before her lingering imprint dispersed.
• The Lord of the Forbidden Zone decided to take Yue Chan, Qing Yue's reincarnation, as his disciple and left to find her.
• Shao Hao continued traveling through Fire Province and decided to search for another Immortal mansion.

Shao Hao entered the Fire Province immortal manor under Li Yu’s protection and gathered its treasures, including the Heaven and Earth Primordial Embryo. A seven-colored immortal gold woman confronted him, but Li Yu manifested through the talisman decree as Shao Hao greeted his patriarch.

• Li Yu explained why he wanted the Heaven and Earth Primordial Embryo and gave Shao Hao a talisman decree to protect him from the immortal manor’s True Immortal.
• Shao Hao followed the Supreme Hall’s map to a hidden underground manor and descended into its depths with the talisman shielding him from deadly battle marks.
• Shao Hao recognized the Primordial Chaos Stone doors, stored them away, and collected the immortal gold and divine materials inside the hall.
• Shao Hao took the gray-black stone at the center of the hall, which the seven-colored immortal gold woman identified as the Heaven and Earth Primordial Embryo and demanded back.
• Li Yu appeared through the talisman decree as a vast Taiji Diagram filled the hall, and Shao Hao greeted his patriarch.

Li Yu completed Jin Cai’s transformation, gave her a cultivation art, and accepted her as a disciple before sending Shao Hao to prepare for the Three Thousand Provinces competition. In the city, Shao Hao reunited with Little Stone, who explained how his visit to Celestial Immortal Academy had led to rumors about him bathing with its Ten Beauties.

• Li Yu healed Jin Cai’s remaining metallic leg, gave her the Golden Origin Heavenly Skill, and accepted her into his sect.
• Li Yu told Shao Hao to prepare for the Three Thousand Provinces competition and seek a chance to enter the Immortal Ancient Ruins.
• Jin Cai left for Stone Village to meet Li Yu, while Shao Hao set out for Sin Province to compete.
• Shao Hao heard rumors that Huang had caused trouble at Celestial Immortal Academy and bathed with its Ten Beauties, and realized the rumors concerned Little Stone.
• Little Stone, disguised as a bearded man, told Shao Hao that he had fallen into a pool while escaping the academy and admitted he had glimpsed the Ten Beauties.

Shao Hao and Little Stone returned to Sin Province and learned that cultivators from other provinces had gathered to compete for places in the Immortal Ancient Ruins. When Sword Valley’s arrogant Dugu Jianyun provoked Fire Nation and slandered the Sinful Blood lineage, a Bone Mirror revealed a world-shaking omen from Shao Hao and Little Stone.

• Little Stone told Shao Hao he had bathed in the Tribulation Divine Lotus’s pool and taken a lotus flower with Little Pagoda under Master Qi’s name.
• Shao Hao and Little Stone passed the Celestial Immortal Academy’s inspection and teleported back to Sin Province, arriving in Fire Nation’s capital.
• They learned that cultivators from across the provinces had come to Sin Province to compete for places in the Immortal Ancient Ruins.
• Nine phoenixes pulled Dugu Jianyun’s carriage over the capital, and its occupants insulted Fire Nation and the Sinful Blood lineage.
• Little Stone challenged the carriage’s insult, and a yellow-robed Sword Valley girl used a Bone Mirror on him and Shao Hao.
• The Bone Mirror revealed enormous runes above Shao Hao and Little Stone, prompting the crowd to cry out about a Sinful Blood Cloud Burst and a peerless great omen.

Shao Hao and Little Stone confronted the Sword Valley prodigy Dugu Jianyun and Demon Dragon Dao prodigy Long Yun after the two arrived to investigate the Sinful Blood Cloud Burst. Little Stone matched Long Yun’s strongest attack, while Shao Hao challenged Dugu Jianyun, leaving a second battle about to begin.

• The Yellow-robed young girl attacked Shao Hao and Little Stone with the Rain Sword, but Little Stone knocked her back with a slap.
• Dugu Jianyun emerged from the carriage, announced that he would kill the two sinners, and drew Little Stone’s challenge.
• Long Yun arrived in a dragon-pulled chariot and attacked Little Stone with True Dragon Grasping Claw after Little Stone mocked him as a meal.
• Little Stone struck Long Yun’s dragon claw with a fist, and the two appeared evenly matched, surprising the onlookers and Dugu Jianyun.
• Shao Hao challenged Dugu Jianyun to a sword fight, and Dugu Jianyun drew his sword as moonlike sword light spread across the land.

Little Stone and Shao Hao defeated the young masters of the Demon Dragon Dao and Sword Valley in the Fire Nation Capital. Their victories shocked the spectators and left the city fearing the consequences of killing such powerful disciples.

• Huo Ling'er and the Fire Emperor watched Little Stone and Shao Hao fight from the city below, and the Fire Emperor teased her about worrying for Shao Hao.
• Little Stone used the Kunpeng Treasure Technique to seize Long Yun in his flood dragon form and beat him into defeat.
• Spectators recognized Little Stone as Huang, the champion of the Five Elements State Divine Tablet.
• Dugu Jianyun used Sword Valley's punitive sword to attack Shao Hao's sinful blood, but Shao Hao extinguished the flames with his Will Control.
• Shao Hao unleashed the Grass Character Sword Art through his saber, shattered Dugu Jianyun's attack, and killed him.
• The crowd reacted in alarm as both young masters fell and feared that their deaths would bring disaster.

After Little Stone and Shao Hao killed prodigies from the Demon Dragon Dao and Sword Valley, two Heavenly Gods attacked the Fire Nation, but Undying Daoist drove them off with one strike. The group reunited with old friends and headed to Stone Village, while the two sects marked Tai Hao and Shao Hao for death.

• Little Stone and Shao Hao pulled sinew from the slain flood dragon as Heavenly Gods from the Demon Dragon Dao and Sword Valley arrived.
• The two Heavenly Gods attacked Little Stone and Shao Hao, threatening to destroy the Fire Nation Capital and its people.
• Undying Daoist emerged from the Fire Nation Capital and sent both Heavenly Gods flying with a single strike.
• Little Stone and Shao Hao recognized Undying Daoist as Kunpeng Son's Kun body, and he told them that numerous young beasts had hatched and overwhelmed him.
• Little Stone reunited with Huo Ling'er and the Fire Emperor, then invited everyone to Stone Village for a meal.
• Tai Hao and Shao Hao became famous for their Formation Slash Heavenly Prodigy feat, and the Demon Dragon Dao and Sword Valley put them on their kill lists.

Lord of Sword Valley and the Demon Dragon Dao Master attacked Stone Village to avenge their fallen followers, but Dragon Son Baxia crushed their forces. The two sect leaders summoned their True Immortal patriarchs, who fled in terror after seeing the white-robed figure, only to be captured by him.

• Lord of Sword Valley and the Demon Dragon Dao Master gathered their forces and charged toward Stone Village while its people ate flood dragon meat.
• Kunpeng Son sensed the approaching attackers, and Huo Ling'er worried that the two sects had come for revenge.
• The two sects launched a combined assault, but Dragon Son Baxia swept away their armies and killed their Heavenly Gods with one claw.
• Lord of Sword Valley and the Demon Dragon Dao Master summoned their True Immortal patriarchs after recognizing the Supreme Hall.
• The True Immortals saw the white-robed figure and tried to flee, but he seized them with a single grasp as Little Stone laughed.

Li Yu helped Kunpeng Son avenge his mother by letting him kill the two crippled true immortals, then restored the Desolate Heaven Battle Halberd and let Little Stone’s group feast on the immortals. At the feast, Li Yu revealed that Huo Ling'er was the reincarnation of a phoenix, leaving her stunned.

• Dragon Son Baxia killed the Lord of Sword Valley and the Demon Dragon Dao Master, while Li Yu sealed the two true immortals who remained.
• Li Yu gave the two crippled immortals to Kunpeng Son, who recognized them as his mother’s killers and beat them to death.
• Little Stone asked to eat the immortals, and Li Yu erased the Dao laws in their bodies so the group could safely prepare them as food.
• Li Yu returned Kunpeng’s repaired Desolate Heaven Battle Halberd to Kunpeng Son, and the group used it to cut up the golden flood dragon and swordfish.
• The Fire Emperor and the others ate the true-immortal meat, and Li Yu revealed that Huo Ling'er was the reincarnation of a phoenix.

Li Yu restored Huo Ling'er’s Phoenix Body and then studied the Heaven and Earth Primordial Embryo and a Quasi Immortal Emperor’s Emperor Fire to strengthen his Dao. He concluded that the damaged Heavenly Dao limited his progress and set his sights on the foreign realm’s World Tree as the Heavenly Proud One Competition began.

• Li Yu used the Phoenix egg to transform Huo Ling'er, and the Fire Emperor was told she would emerge from it in three days.
• Li Yu studied the Heaven and Earth Primordial Embryo and found that the incomplete Heavenly Dao limited the rules he could comprehend.
• Li Yu concluded that he needed the foreign realm’s World Tree to advance toward Immortal Emperor.
• Li Yu examined the Emperor Fire and identified the Quasi Immortal Emperor’s Path of Light as useful nourishment for his own Dao.
• Li Yu marked the Dark Immortal Emperor’s uncorrupted body fragment as a target to obtain during the coming opportunities.
• The bell announced the start of the Three Thousand Provinces Heavenly Proud One Competition and the journey to the Immortal Ancient Ruins.

Shao Hao, Little Stone, and their companions entered Sin Province’s Three Thousand Provinces Competition to qualify for the Immortal Ancient Ruins. They swept through the Spirit Realm preliminary trial and secured places, while Qi Daolin guarded them outside.

• Qi Daolin led Little Stone, Shao Hao, Zhu Yan, Qiong Qi, and the Heaven Swallowing Sparrow to register Supreme Hall for the competition.
• Qi Daolin intimidated the registrar into handing over their number plates by naming himself and warning of the destruction of Demon Dragon Dao and Sword Valley.
• Three days later, the group entered the Spirit Realm preliminary trial, where the first thousand contestants to reach Summit Peak would qualify.
• Little Stone and his companions fought through the crowded trial, with Zhu Yan, Qiong Qi, and the Heaven Swallowing Sparrow helping clear their path.
• Shao Hao and the others reached the finish line and qualified to enter the Immortal Ancient Ruins.

The Immortal Ancient Ruins opened, and qualified cultivators began the trial on the Golden Light Grand Paths. Shao Hao and Little Stone encountered the heir of Immortal Hall, whose armored subordinate they attacked after learning his identity.

• Qi Daolin explained that the Immortal Ancient Ruins offered a final chance to seek opportunities and reminded Shao Hao and the others to build their own divine flames.
• The Flowers of the Great Dao bloomed, forming three thousand Golden Light Grand Paths, and Shao Hao, Little Stone, and their companions set out for the ruins.
• Unqualified cultivators who tried to enter were killed, while the pressure on the paths forced many qualified cultivators to retreat.
• A white-clothed youth claiming to be the heir of Immortal Hall demanded that Shao Hao and his companions serve him.
• Little Stone struck the armored man who defended the heir, blasting him off the path until he exploded into bloody mist.

The Golden-furred Raging Ape fought Young Master of Immortal Hall on the Golden Light Grand Path, resisting his Bronze Immortal Hall technique and shattering its summoned palace. The fight ended before the path was damaged, and Qi Daolin revealed that the monkey was Supreme Hall’s mountain-protecting divine beast.

• Young Master of Immortal Hall demanded Little Stone become his servant, but the Golden-furred Raging Ape attacked him with his iron rod.
• Young Master of Immortal Hall wielded the Void Battle Halberd, and the two exchanged blows as spectators watched.
• Young Master of Immortal Hall summoned a phantom Bronze Immortal Hall with Immortal King Nine Seals, but the Golden-furred Raging Ape used Heavenly Law Manifestation and Three Heads, Six Arms to shatter it.
• Cultivators on the Golden Light Grand Path stopped the fight to prevent damage that could keep everyone from entering the Immortal Ancient Ruins, and Young Master of Immortal Hall withdrew.
• Qi Daolin announced that the Golden-furred Raging Ape was Supreme Hall’s mountain-protecting divine beast, prompting spectators to note the rivalry between Supreme Hall and Bronze Immortal Hall.

At the entrance to the Immortal Ancient Ruins, Little Stone and Shao Hao chose separate paths to cultivate their foundations instead of entering the ruins. Little Stone began burning his body with the Fire of the Great Dao, endured severe injuries, and instantly healed himself with Rebirth from a Drop of Blood.

• Shao Hao and Little Stone saw that the Immortal Ancient Ruins lay within the lotus pod of the Flowers of the Great Dao, and Shao Hao recounted how darkness had helped bring about its defeat.
• Little Stone chose to refine his body with the Three Thousand Great Daos, while Shao Hao chose to temper his body and spirit with heavenly tribulation and lightning.
• The two sent the Qiongqi and the Heaven Swallowing Sparrow onward, then meditated at the entrance as spectators mocked their decision to stay outside.
• Little Stone invoked the verse about Heaven and Earth as Furnace and Creation as Craftsman, then used the Fire of the Great Dao to burn his body and forge his true self.
• As Little Stone's body charred and his blood burned away, Qi Daolin praised his resolve while the Bronze Immortal Hall mocked him.
• Little Stone shouted Rebirth from a Drop of Blood and healed his grievous injuries instantly, prompting Qi Daolin to boast about the Supreme Hall's divine abilities.

Shi Hao endured the Great Dao Furnace’s flames, ignited Divine Fire, and became the first to cultivate Immortal Qi at that breakthrough, stunning the witnesses. Shao Hao then began drawing heavenly tribulation to temper himself as Shi Hao guarded him, while the Bronze Immortal Hall doubted he would survive.

• Shi Hao chose to withstand the Dao Fire, and the Three Thousand Great Daos formed a cyan Great Dao Furnace around him.
• The Supreme Golden Core restored Shi Hao’s life force whenever the flames burned him down, and a month of tempering purified his body and ignited his Divine Fire.
• Shi Hao broke apart the furnace and emerged with Immortal Qi, an unprecedented achievement that astonished the onlookers and delighted Qi Daolin.
• Shao Hao revealed that he had guarded Shi Hao and asked him to keep his distance while he prepared to break through.
• Shao Hao summoned heavenly tribulation, filling the sky with dark clouds and lightning as the Bronze Immortal Hall doubted he would survive.

Shao Hao survived a devastating Heavenly Tribulation, formed his Divine Flame, and attained the Primordial Saintly Body and Immortal Qi. He and Little Stone entered the Immortal Ancient Ruins to seek the legacy of their ancestors, where Shao Hao warned that immortals might be waiting.

• Shao Hao used the Thunder Emperor's technique to form a thunder cauldron and endure successive lightning trials that repeatedly destroyed and restored his body.
• Shao Hao ignited his Divine Flame, completed his transformation into a Primordial Saintly Body, and cultivated a strand of Immortal Qi that swept away the Sea of Lightning.
• The onlookers marveled that Shao Hao and Little Stone had both cultivated Immortal Qi, while an old man from the Bronze Immortal Hall secretly sent a threat against them.
• Shao Hao and Little Stone entered the Immortal Ancient Ruins, leaving behind the spectators outside.
• Shao Hao led Little Stone toward a hidden place containing their ancestors' legacy and warned him to keep the Little Pagoda ready because immortals might be there.

Shao Hao and Little Stone entered a void rift and explored an ancient black ship filled with the blood of Immortals and the remains of powerful beings. After Shao Hao collected a pair of True Dragon horns, they reached an altar that made their Sinful Blood runes flare, leaving them wondering how it was connected to their ancestors.

• Shao Hao and Little Stone entered the void rift and were pulled onto the deck of an ancient black ship.
• Shao Hao and Little Stone used Little Stone's white pagoda to shield themselves from the ship's bloodstains and killing intent as they explored.
• Little Pagoda warned Shao Hao and Little Stone away from vats containing the blood of Foreign Territory Immortals and an Immortal King.
• Shao Hao used a talisman from his Patriarch to collect a True Dragon Horn, then revealed that he had a second horn as well.
• Shao Hao and Little Stone reached a massive altar, where their Sinful Blood runes appeared and released beams of light.

Shao Hao and Little Stone witnessed the Seven Kings’ battle and learned that their bloodline carried honor rather than sin, then entered the world inside the black ship. Li Yu appeared and collected a cauldron containing the heads of ancient immortals, before leading them onward to search for King Vajra.

• Shao Hao and Little Stone saw the Seven Kings fight without retreating and recognized the sacred runes on their own foreheads as signs of their ancestry.
• Shao Hao and Little Stone entered the vast world within the black ship and learned from Little Pagoda that its corpses belonged to people who had entered across many eras.
• Shao Hao and Little Stone found a stone cauldron containing the severed heads of immortals, and Li Yu explained that the heads had been sealed to prevent their bodies from being corrupted by darkness.
• Li Yu stored the cauldron in the Resource Library, intending to restore the immortals, and told Shao Hao and Little Stone to follow him as they searched for King Vajra.

Li Yu reached the abyss where King Vajra had died, suppressed the darkness, and collected the Grand Unity Sword Embryo and the Immortal Emperor’s severed body hidden inside it. He gave Little Stone the sword embryo and reforged dragon-horn blades for Shao Hao before leaving to collect the black ship.

• Li Yu, Shao Hao, and Little Stone found King Vajra’s body at the abyss, where his lingering consciousness asked Li Yu to take over suppressing the darkness.
• Li Yu stored King Vajra’s body in the Resource Library, then sealed the darkness and the risen corpses within the Taiji Heavenly Prison.
• Li Yu found the Grand Unity Sword Embryo, retrieved the Dark Immortal Emperor’s severed body hidden inside it, and gave the reforged sword embryo to Little Stone.
• Li Yu forged Shao Hao’s dragon horns into twin blades shaped like Tang sabers.
• Li Yu sent Shao Hao and Little Stone out of the Immortal Ancient World, collected the black ship, and vanished.

Li Yu gathered the Immortal Kings to prepare an attack on the Foreign Territory, revealing that he could wield Immortal Emperor-level power and explaining that he first intended to eliminate threats within the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths. The group set out to recruit the surviving King Xuanwu and planned to pass Fallen Immortal Ridge on their way to the Foreign Territory.

• Li Yu summoned the Immortal Kings to Stone Village and declared that he was ready to attack the Foreign Territory using the Immortal Emperor's severed body.
• Li Yu displayed a brief aura of Imperial Might and told the group he could unleash it seven or eight times, convincing them victory was possible.
• Li Yu said they would first deal with unstable forces at Fallen Immortal Ridge, while leaving detached forbidden zones such as the Burial Earth alone.
• Li Yu revealed that King Xuanwu was still alive but severely injured, and the Immortal Kings eagerly agreed to visit him.
• Li Yu led the group through the void toward Xuan Province to find King Xuanwu.