Chapter Summaries

Li Yu planned to use the Investiture of the Gods War to seize the Primordial Violet Qi and began distributing gourd fragments to potential pawns. In Xuzhou, he arranged for Long Aotian to discover a fragment at a street stall, then left as his scheme advanced.

• Li Yu resolved to intensify the Investiture of the Gods War and use the resulting conflict among the Saints to pursue the Primordial Violet Qi.
• Li Yu mastered the Xiantian One Qi True Method and the Soul Scattering Great Divine Ability, disguising his deeper abilities beneath his apparent identity.
• Li Yu traveled to Xuzhou and planted a gourd fragment inside refined iron ore at a street stall for a Long Aotian protagonist to find.
• Long Aotian arrived at the stall, bought the ore, and uncovered the crimson jade fragment as the crowd celebrated his luck.
• Li Yu watched Long Aotian claim the fragment, confirmed that one gourd piece had been distributed, and left.

Li Yu continued distributing gourd fragments to draw the Saints and their disciples into conflict, then planted a Chaos Primordial Dragon bloodline in the Dragon King's Third Prince and settled in Yizhou City to await Su Daji. He planned to empower Su Daji and Kong Xuan to intensify the Investiture of the Gods War and test his Qi-transformed-into-Chaos technique.

• Li Yu scattered more than a dozen gourd fragments across the world, expecting them to attract powerful cultivators and spark conflict.
• Li Yu visited Chentang Pass, saw Nezha’s Mind, and left without meeting Li Jing or Nezha.
• Li Yu watched the Dragon King’s Third Prince feed on fish and secretly gave him a drop of Chaos Primordial Dragon blood.
• Li Yu traveled to Jizhou, bought a shop in Yizhou City, and waited for Su Daji to come to him.
• Li Yu planned to strengthen Su Daji and Kong Xuan, and to use Kong Xuan to test Qi transformed into Chaos.

Nezha’s bathing in the East Sea stirred the waters and drew Ao Bing into a fight. Ao Bing transformed into a Chaos Primordial Dragon and killed Nezha, while Li Yu watched and celebrated the conflict this would provoke among the powerful figures.

• Li Yu sensed the East Sea disturbance as Nezha’s red silk stirred the sea and soiled the East Sea Dragon Palace.
• Ao Bing confronted Nezha and demanded that he answer to his elders for disturbing the East Sea.
• Fearing his father’s punishment, Nezha struck Ao Bing with the Cosmic Ring and bound him.
• Nezha mistook the bound Ao Bing for a source of dragon sinew for his father’s armor belt and beat him to death.
• Ao Bing revived as a gigantic Chaos Primordial Dragon, shattered Nezha’s rings, and swallowed him.
• Li Yu gloated that Ao Bing’s killing of Nezha would make Haotian, Nuwa, Yuanshi, and Hongjun fight among themselves.

After Ao Bing killed Nezha, Taiyi True Person attacked him, but Ao Bing’s newfound power let him turn the fight around. Guangchengzi joined the battle with the Heaven-Overturning Seal, and Haotian intervened to protect his Heavenly Court general, leaving the conflict between Heaven and the Chan Sect escalating.

• Nuwa and Primordial Heavenly Venerate learned that Ao Bing had killed Nezha and wondered which Saint had empowered Ao Bing with a Chaos Dragon body.
• Taiyi True Person confronted Ao Bing over Nezha’s death and struck him with his whisk, but Ao Bing survived with only superficial wounds.
• Ao Bing fought back and drove Taiyi True Person across the seas, alarming onlookers who saw the dragon gain the upper hand.
• Guangchengzi attacked Ao Bing with the Heaven-Overturning Seal, claiming he was eliminating a wicked fiend.
• Haotian blocked Guangchengzi’s attack with a bronze mirror and insisted that Ao Bing, as a Heavenly Court general, should be judged by Heaven.

Li Yu continued arranging pieces for the coming Investiture of the Gods War, planting a hidden opportunity with Su Daji and then traveling to Three Mountains Pass to study Kong Xuan’s Five-Colored Divine Light. He found a way to create an opening near the slaughterhouse that supplied Kong Xuan with cattle.

• Li Yu watched Su Daji buy jewelry at Liren Hall and secretly placed a hidden move in one of her golden hairpins.
• Li Yu left Yizhou and traveled for two months to Three Mountains Pass, intending to give Kong Xuan a fortuitous opportunity and study his Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Li Yu explored the satellite city and noticed that a slaughterhouse sent three cattle each day into the pass for Kong Xuan.
• Li Yu shattered the butcher’s whetstone, prompting the butcher to send Ergouzi to find a replacement and giving Li Yu an opening to act.

Ergouzi brought a mysterious black whetstone to the slaughterhouse, and its Five Elements aura reached Kong Xuan through the beef. Kong Xuan uncovered a five-colored jade stone inside the whetstone, used it to complete his understanding of the Five Elements, and broke through to the Quasi-Saint realm, while Li Yu judged Kong Xuan more valuable as a thug than as a research subject.

• Ergouzi brought a black whetstone to the slaughterhouse, where Butcher Wang sharpened his knife before preparing beef for Three Mountains Pass.
• Kong Xuan sensed a mysterious Five Elements aura in the beef, traced it to the whetstone, and took it back to his residence.
• Kong Xuan shattered the whetstone and found a five-colored jade stone that showed him the Five Elements’ principles of growth and annihilation.
• Kong Xuan comprehended the jade stone, completed his Five Elements Dao, and broke through to the Quasi-Saint realm.
• Li Yu concluded that Kong Xuan’s Innate Five-Colored Divine Light offered little research value but that Kong Xuan remained a useful thug.

Li Yu’s plan brought a Hong Yun successor carrying a Nine-Nine Soul Scattering Gourd Shard to Two Realms Pass, where the treasure drew powerful cultivators. The Great Sorrow Demon Lord seized Young Master Long’s Vermilion Jade Pendant, while Long’s strange cries revealed a sorrow no one understood.

• Li Yu sensed the Gourd Shards he had planted and expected a Hong Yun successor to reclaim the relics.
• Rumors of a Nine-Nine Soul Scattering Gourd Shard spread through Two Realms Pass, attracting cultivators’ attention.
• Young Master Long arrived at Two Realms Pass and killed the Savage Ox King with the Vermilion Jade Pendant.
• A young monk and the Great Sorrow Demon Lord appeared to claim the treasure, and the Demon Lord’s spell made Young Master Long cry out about his incomprehensible misfortunes.
• The Great Sorrow Demon Lord pulled the Vermilion Jade Pendant from Young Master Long and claimed it.

Golden Cicada Child claimed the Soul Scattering Gourd Shard after Great Sorrow Demon Lord failed to escape with it, then restrained the gathered cultivators. Ox Demon King arrived and attacked Golden Cicada Child, whose defenses held, while a green-robed figure emerged from Two Realms Pass.

• Golden Cicada Child confronted Great Sorrow Demon Lord and proved immune to his Great Sorrow Spell and the Jade Flute’s self-destruction.
• Great Sorrow Demon Lord announced that Hong Yun’s Legacy Treasure had appeared, then hurled the Soul Scattering Gourd Shard toward the arriving cultivators.
• Golden Cicada Child froze tens of thousands of cultivators with the Vajra Body Protection Spell and took the shard.
• Ox Demon King appeared, challenged Golden Cicada Child, and repeatedly struck him with an iron staff without breaking his golden protection.
• A green-robed figure stepped out of Two Realms Pass, saying the commotion was large enough for him to appear.

A mysterious cultivator wielding Hong Yun’s signature divine ability seized the Soul Scattering Gourd Shard from Golden Cicada Child after defeating the Ox Demon King and breaking through Golden Cicada Child’s defense. The chapter ended with news of the Hong Yun successor shocking the world.

• The Ox Demon King’s roar killed the cultivators who mocked him, while an azure-clouded cultivator revealed that Golden Cicada Child was Tathagata Buddha’s chief disciple.
• The azure-clouded cultivator challenged the Ox Demon King, then used Xiantian One Qi Great Capture to seize him and hurl him thousands of miles away.
• Golden Cicada Child recognized the stranger as a Hong Yun successor and said his protective ability prevented him from handing over the gourd shard.
• The Hong Yun successor used two azure hands to shatter Golden Cicada Child’s golden lotus defense, and Golden Cicada Child threw him the gourd shard.
• News spread that the Hong Yun successor had defeated the Ox Demon King in one move and broken Golden Cicada Child’s defense with one punch.

Li Yu used Young Master Long’s ruin as a cover to draw attention toward a supposed Hong Yun successor, then arranged for Young Master Long to receive another chance. As night fell, armed men entered the ruined temple to capture the crippled Young Master Long for corpse refining.

• News that the Hong Yun successor had appeared spread through the Hong Huang world, prompting people to search for the successor and the Primordial Violet Qi.
• Li Yu watched Young Master Long suffer public humiliation after losing his treasures, followers, and cultivation, and revealed that he had engineered Young Master Long’s supposed transmigration and downfall.
• Li Yu decided to use Young Master Long as a smokescreen and give him an opportunity to rise again.
• Young Master Long sought shelter in a ruined temple at Two Realms Pass and resolved that strength mattered more than reputation or glory.
• Several men entered the ruined temple, intending to sell the crippled Young Master Long to Lord Black Soul for corpse refining.

Young Master Long was beaten and nearly killed by bandits, but the blood on a shattered statue awakened Hong Yun’s power and healed him. He accepted Hong Yun’s inheritance and rose to the peak of the Grand Unity True Immortal realm, vowing revenge on those who had humiliated and betrayed him.

• The bandits attacked the injured Young Master Long, and their leader stabbed him in the thigh while the others prepared to join in.
• Young Master Long smashed his head against the shattered statue rather than let the bandits kill him, and his blood triggered a scarlet power that healed and empowered him.
• Young Master Long swept his hand and turned the fleeing bandits to ash, then bowed to the shattered statue in gratitude.
• Hong Yun’s voice told Young Master Long to bow three times to receive his true inheritance, and Young Master Long accepted the task of protecting Hong Yun’s reincarnated body.
• Hong Yun’s inheritance flooded Young Master Long with power, raising his cultivation to the peak of the Grand Unity True Immortal realm.
• Young Master Long laughed and vowed to kill those who had humiliated and betrayed him.

Young Master Long revealed that he had recovered his power, killed the brocade-robed youth who had betrayed him, and began seeking revenge. Li Yu used Long Aotian’s appearance as a Hong Yun successor to draw Zhenyuanzi to Two Realms Pass and prepare his trap.

• Young Master Long confronted the brocade-robed youth outside Cloud Mist Pavilion and crushed him to ashes with a cloud-formed finger.
• Li Yu noted that Long Aotian had used White Cloud True Qi to conceal his identity as Hong Yun’s successor and hoped the new pawn would complicate matters for the Saints.
• Li Yu decided to use Zhenyuanzi to uncover clues about Hong Yun and the Primordial Violet Qi, and took out the gourd fragment he had seized from Golden Cicada Child.
• Zhenyuanzi arrived at Two Realms Pass, declared that he would protect Hong Yun’s successor, and publicly warned others against harming him.
• Li Yu suspected Zhenyuanzi wanted to win Long Aotian’s trust and prepared to begin the next stage of his plan.

Zhenyuanzi learned about the Soul Scattering Gourd Shard and used its resonance to locate two people he believed were connected to Hong Yun. He captured them and tried to flee to Wuzhuang Temple, but Minghe intercepted him.

• The leaders near Two Realms Pass told Zhenyuanzi that the Hong Yun Successor had defeated the Ox Demon King and Golden Cicada Child and taken the Soul Scattering Gourd Shard.
• Zhenyuanzi suspected Hong Yun had reincarnated and used the Earth Book and a gourd shard to search for the Hong Yun Successor.
• Zhenyuanzi detected two resonances and suspected one target was Hong Yun's reincarnated body, so he captured both people and concealed them in the Earth Book.
• Zhenyuanzi rushed toward Wuzhuang Temple, but Minghe blocked his way, and Zhenyuanzi attacked him.

Zhenyuanzi fought Nether River after capturing Great Sorrow Demon Lord, then discovered Golden Cicada Child was trapped alongside him. Convinced the two were tied to Hong Yun, Zhenyuanzi refused to release them, and Nether River’s astonishment turned to laughter when he learned Tathagata’s disciple had also been captured.

• Nether River attacked Zhenyuanzi with the Yuan Tu and Abi Twin Swords, but Zhenyuanzi trapped the swords in his Sleeve Universe and struck back with exploding Ginseng Fruits.
• Nether River forced his swords free and demanded to know why Zhenyuanzi had captured his disciple, Great Sorrow Demon Lord.
• Zhenyuanzi discovered that Great Sorrow Demon Lord and Golden Cicada Child were inside the Earth Book and concluded they were Hong Yun’s successor and reincarnated body.
• Zhenyuanzi refused to release the captives, claiming Great Sorrow Demon Lord was fated to visit him, and Nether River attacked him again.
• Great Sorrow Demon Lord called for help while Golden Cicada Child tried to mediate; Nether River then laughed at Zhenyuanzi for capturing a disciple of Tathagata as well.

Zhenyuanzi tried to awaken Golden Cicada Child’s identity as Hong Yun’s reincarnation, but the spell triggered the Buddhist power accumulated across Golden Cicada Child’s lifetimes and drew Rulai’s intervention. After Rulai rescued his disciple and Old Ancestor Nether River attacked the wounded Zhenyuanzi, Zhenyuanzi fled and crashed near Two Realms Pass, where Li Yu helped him without knowing their connection.

• Old Ancestor Nether River concluded that Golden Cicada Child was Hong Yun’s successor and withdrew from the battle, while Zhenyuanzi realized the captive was Rulai’s disciple.
• Zhenyuanzi used the Earth Book and Xiantian Hong Yun True Qi to tell Golden Cicada Child that he was Hong Yun reincarnated and urge him to defect from Rulai.
• The spell broke Golden Cicada Child’s Nirvana Reincarnation Method, causing the Buddhist cultivation from his previous lives to erupt, and Rulai’s Buddha palm rescued and suppressed him.
• Rulai’s attack badly injured Zhenyuanzi, and Old Ancestor Nether River resumed fighting; Zhenyuanzi abandoned Great Sorrow Demon Lord and escaped after a day of battle.
• Zhenyuanzi fell onto Li Yu’s cliffside cave dwelling, and Li Yu gave him a Life-Giving Creation Pill and introduced himself.

Li Yu revealed how he had used altered gourd fragments to deceive Zhenyuanzi and gain access to Hong Yun’s secrets, then accepted a token directing him to Qianyuan Mountain. As Li Yu set off to join the sect, he recognized Zhenyuanzi disguised as an injured old man and realized the immortal was testing him.

• Li Yu explained that he had installed Blank Systems in the gourd fragments, making Zhenyuanzi’s method point to the target Li Yu chose.
• Zhenyuanzi gave Li Yu a Ginseng Fruit Tree leaf disguised as a jade pendant and invited him to seek admission to Qianyuan Mountain.
• Li Yu used the pendant to find that Qianyuan Mountain was part of Longevity Mountain and decided to travel there before its gates opened.
• Three days into his journey, Li Yu heard an old man calling for help and recognized the supposed victim as Zhenyuanzi in disguise.
• Li Yu realized Zhenyuanzi was testing whether he would help the old man, despite having just been tricked by him.

Li Yu rescued Zhenyuanzi from a staged snakebite, then encountered him disguised as a woman while Zhenyuanzi tested his courage against Lion Camel King. After Li Yu blocked the demon’s roar despite being badly outmatched, the disguised Zhenyuanzi seized him and fled.

• Li Yu cured the white-haired Zhenyuanzi’s staged snakebite with a Detoxification Pill, letting him kowtow before departing.
• Days later, Li Yu recognized Zhenyuanzi disguised as a white-clothed woman fleeing Lion Camel King and intervened with his sword.
• Lion Camel King countered Li Yu’s Pine Needle Sword Rain with his Lion’s Roar, shattering the mountains and sending sound waves toward him.
• Li Yu blocked the roar with a powerful Green Pine Sword strike, though he was injured, and Zhenyuanzi was astonished by his courage and swordsmanship.
• The disguised Zhenyuanzi detonated a sword pellet to hold Lion Camel King back, grabbed Li Yu, and fled into the sky.

Li Yu escaped Zhenyuanzi’s final test and reached Qianyuan Mountain, where the disciple-recruitment assembly began. He learned that immortals could enter the sect only by climbing the supposedly impassable Heavenly Ladder and crossing the Heavenly Road, and he decided he could succeed.

• Li Yu accused the disguised Zhenyuanzi of pretending to need rescue, then left him behind.
• Zhenyuanzi ended his tests, and Li Yu traveled for more than twenty days to Qianyuan Mountain.
• Li Yu settled among the cultivators gathered outside Qianyuan Mountain and waited for the recruitment assembly.
• Qianmingzi opened the assembly and explained the standard entry route and the alternate Heavenly Ladder and Heavenly Road for cultivators above the Immortal Realm.
• Li Yu heard that only True Master Qianyuan had ever passed the alternate route and resolved to climb it himself.

Li Yu volunteered to climb Qianyuan Mountain’s Heavenly Ladder, despite everyone expecting him to fail. He passed the first Heavenly Gate with ease, leaving Qianmingzi and the assembled cultivators stunned.

• Qianmingzi announced that Immortal Realm cultivators could climb the Heavenly Ladder, and Li Yu stepped forward to challenge the Heavenly Gate.
• Qianmingzi registered Li Yu’s name and origin before Li Yu entered the Heavenly Ladder.
• Qianmingzi began the entrance tests for the other cultivators while Li Yu made his way up the ladder.
• A radiant Heavenly Gate appeared, and Li Yu calmly passed through it, stunning Qianmingzi and the crowd.

Li Yu entered the Qianyuan Assembly’s Nine Heavens Gate trials and passed all nine gates with startling ease. He appeared before Qianmingzi, who confirmed that he had passed and could only marvel at the difference between them.

• Li Yu climbed the heavenly ladder through the first Heaven’s Gate, while Qianmingzi praised his resolve and expected the later trials to stop him.
• Li Yu quickly passed the second gate, then raced through the first six, leaving Qianmingzi and the watching cultivators astonished.
• Li Yu opened the seventh gate with a sword strike and passed through the eighth with a casual wave.
• The Ninth Heaven’s Gate opened by itself amid auspicious signs, and Li Yu passed through.
• Li Yu appeared on Qianmingzi’s cloud platform, asked whether he had passed, and said he had cleared the final three stages by casually walking around.