Chapter Summaries

Li Tianwei used his Spirit Light Wheel and Sacred Soul Banner to turn the battle against Lingxu Sacred Land’s Body Integration Realm ancestors, summoning powerful souls to support him and his allies. With their advantage gone, three Integrated Body Peak Stage ancestors combined their power into a form that wielded Tribulation Transcendence Realm strength.

• More than a dozen Body Integration Realm ancestors attacked Li Tianwei and the Lingxu Holy Master’s side, while Bai Muxu held off one opponent.
• Li Tianwei summoned the Book Spirit, which activated formations to seal the battlefield and prevent anyone from escaping.
• Li Tianwei released the Sacred Soul Banner’s evil souls, including Su Qianhe, the Heavenly Blood Demon Ancestor, and Cloud End Disciple.
• The summoned souls helped block the three Integrated Body Peak Stage ancestors and eased pressure on the Lingxu Holy Master’s group.
• The ancestors recognized Li Tianwei as the key to the changed battle and fused their power into the Heavenly Origin Fusion Form, unleashing an aura of the Tribulation Transcendence Realm.

Li Tianwei faced three Integrated Body Peak Stage ancestors who used a secret art to wield Tribulation Crossing Realm power. He began transforming his Nascent Soul into a devastating phenomenon he called the Scene of Heavenly Meteor, leaving the battle at the moment their attack struck.

• The three Integrated Body Peak Stage ancestors activated a secret art that gave them Tribulation Crossing Realm power, turning the battle against Li Tianwei.
• The Lingxu Holy Master angrily attacked two Body Integration ancestors after realizing they had hidden the secret art from him.
• The ancestors merged their manifestations into a three-headed, six-armed dharma body and demanded that Li Tianwei yield.
• Li Tianwei asked whether they had ever seen a scene of Extraterrestrial Starfall, and the Heavenly Blood Demon Ancestor sensed an unfamiliar power gathering in Li Tianwei's Nascent Soul.
• Li Tianwei invoked the Scene of Heavenly Meteor, causing his Nascent Soul to curl up as fissures spread across it and heaven and earth began to turn white.
• The three-headed, six-armed manifestation struck at Li Tianwei as his Nascent Soul reenacted the collapse of the Golden Core.

Li Tianwei collapsed his Nascent Soul inward and unleashed a black-hole-like power that overwhelmed the Integrated Body ancestors. The ancestors died while the Lingxu Holy Master, Li Tianchen, and Lingxu Sacred Land’s disciples emerged unharmed.

• The Lingxu Holy Master, Dong Yuan, Elder Ling, and the Integrated Body ancestors feared Li Tianwei’s Nascent Soul collapse would kill everyone nearby.
• Li Tianchen stayed calm and trusted Li Tianwei, while Elder Ling urged him to flee.
• Li Tianwei’s Nascent Soul cracked and collapsed inward, transforming into an eerie black Golden Core that swallowed the surrounding world.
• Li Tianwei declared the technique’s release, unleashing energy that shattered the fused Dharma form, tribulation power, and laws.
• The Integrated Body ancestors realized they could not escape Li Tianwei’s attack and died, believing the others would perish too.
• The ancestors saw that the Lingxu Holy Master, Li Tianchen, and the disciples remained completely unharmed.

Li Tianwei’s Nascent Soul outburst annihilated the attacking Body Integration ancestors while his Extreme Good Lead Hua Scripture protected those who meant him well. As the battle ended, he stopped suppressing his peak Golden Core and began a breakthrough under a vast heavenly tribulation.

• Li Tianwei’s Extreme Good Lead Hua Scripture shielded the Lingxu Holy Master, Bai Muxu, and the Lingxu Sacred Land’s disciples from his Nascent Soul outburst, while the system collected the defeated ancestors’ souls into the soul banner.
• Bai Muxu recognized the changed Extreme Good Lead Hua Scripture, and the Lingxu Holy Master marveled at the outburst’s power.
• The Heavenly Blood Demon Ancestor and Su Qianhe watched the battle end and feared returning to the soul banner.
• Li Tianwei sensed that his Nascent Soul was close to breaking through and decided to stop suppressing his peak Golden Core.
• Dark clouds spread across tens of thousands of miles above the warped Lingxu Sacred Land as Li Tianwei’s breakthrough began and the onlookers recognized a heavenly tribulation.

Li Tianwei’s Nascent Soul Tribulation became a barrage of bizarre, overwhelming tribulations as the Evil Demons interfered with the heavens. Cut off from his system and unable to sense the danger, Li Tianwei welcomed the powerful trials, while a Red Pupil watched from above.

• Thunderclouds and strange phenomena gathered over Lingxu Sacred Land as Li Tianwei prepared to form a Nascent Soul, leaving Lingxu Holy Master and the others unable to identify the tribulation.
• An invisible Wind Tribulation sealed Li Tianwei’s seven apertures and Spiritual Platform, while the Evil Demons’ power prevented the system from warning him.
• Netherfire and descending illusory phenomena joined the attack, and Lingxu Holy Master and the others saw a great terror in the heavens and cried out warnings through bloody tears.
• Li Tianwei resisted the escalating tribulations with excitement, believing their strength would bring him greater benefits.
• A scarlet Red Pupil watched as tribulations of many cultivation levels battered Li Tianwei, revealing that the Evil Demons had seized control of the heavenly tribulation.

Li Tianwei absorbed the heavenly tribulation as he advanced toward the Nascent Soul stage, while Red Pupil invaded the Cultivation World and unleashed its concentrated evil upon him. The chapter ended with that ultimate evil pouring into Li Tianwei, who remained unaware of what was happening outside.

• Li Tianwei absorbed the heavenly tribulations into the hollow Nascent Soul forming inside his Golden Core.
• Red Pupil drew closer to the world, halted the tribulation, and opened a scarlet eye in the sky.
• Red Pupil's evil influence corrupted the Lingxu Sacred Land, overwhelming its cultivators and even three Tribulation Crossing Realm powers.
• The system lost its connection with Li Tianwei and could do nothing as the invasion spread.
• Red Pupil's tentacles avoided Li Tianwei's body and funneled the roots of ultimate evil into his consciousness.

As Red Pupil flooded Li Tianwei with Evil Thoughts to corrupt him, Li Tianwei mistook the assault for an epiphany and embraced it. He experienced countless lives and sufferings while absorbing the Evil Thoughts, and the chapter left him declaring that his own acknowledgment was the truth.

• Red Pupil filled Lingxu Sacred Land with Supreme Resentment and sent blood threads toward Li Tianwei, hoping to defile him.
• Li Tianwei sensed an epiphany as the Evil Thoughts poured into his consciousness and interpreted the negative emotions as a chance to understand their opposite sides.
• Li Tianwei closed his eyes and let the Evil Thoughts enter him as they transformed Lingxu Sacred Land into a gray, decayed domain.
• Li Tianwei experienced countless lives, hopes, and sufferings without resisting, while Red Pupil noticed that he seemed to be absorbing the Evil Thoughts.
• Li Tianwei’s understanding deepened, and he concluded that what he acknowledged was therefore the truth.

Li Tianwei turned Red Pupil’s invasion around by absorbing its blood threads and Evil Thoughts, using the sudden enlightenment to comprehend new Dao Intents. Red Pupil shrank and panicked as Li Tianwei continued absorbing without being corrupted.

• Li Tianwei’s body reached for Red Pupil’s blood threads and began drawing them into his Nascent Soul.
• Red Pupil chose to pour more of its utterly evil power into Li Tianwei, expecting the Evil Thoughts to corrupt him.
• Li Tianwei remained unaffected as he absorbed the power and comprehended new Dao Intents.
• Li Tianwei’s void hollow manifestation filled with starlike specks, each containing a Dao Intent he had comprehended.
• Red Pupil shrank by half, grew terrified, and begged Li Tianwei to let go, but Li Tianwei could not hear it.

Li Tianwei absorbed Red Pupil’s stored evil thoughts until he reached 1,500 Dao intents, causing Red Pupil to shatter and ending the corruption over Lingxu Sacred Land. He emerged from his tribulation as a Nascent Soul cultivator, and the system and Lingxu Sacred Land members congratulated him.

• Li Tianwei continued absorbing Red Pupil’s evil aura, raising his Dao intents past 1,000 while Red Pupil shrank.
• Li Tianwei exhausted Red Pupil’s stored foul aura and reached 1,500 Dao intents, causing Red Pupil to shatter.
• Li Tianwei’s breakthrough ended the evil influence over Lingxu Sacred Land and restored the disciples’ senses.
• Li Tianwei opened his eyes and announced that he had achieved the Nascent Soul Realm.
• The system congratulated Li Tianwei, and the Lingxu Holy Master, Bai Muxu, the ancestors, and the disciples congratulated him as well.

The Baiyuan Holy Master and the leaders of the other Great Sacred Lands discussed how to stop Li Tianwei, but urgent news revealed that he had defeated more than a dozen Body Integration ancestors and reached the Nascent Soul Realm. The Baiyuan Holy Master urged the three lands to ally against him before Lingxu Sacred Land claimed the resources and chances to ascend.

• The Baiyuan Holy Master described Li Tianwei’s killings in Xiling City and Jing'an City and proposed that the Great Sacred Lands encircle and kill him.
• Messengers reported that Li Tianwei had crushed more than a dozen Body Integration ancestors in Lingxu Sacred Land and reached the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Qinglan Sacred Master suggested setting the matter aside, while Yincang Holy Master showed signs of retreating.
• The Baiyuan Holy Master warned that Li Tianwei would eventually target them and urged the three Great Sacred Lands to form an alliance and share their resources.

After consolidating his Nascent Soul cultivation, Li Tianwei inspected the Sacred Soul Banner and found that souls from Jing'an City had begun arriving there. He used the Extreme Good Lead Hua Scripture to control the captured Body Integration ancestors while leaving their consciousnesses trapped in the Eighteen Layers of Hell.

• Li Tianwei saw that the Sacred Soul Banner’s Eighteen Layers of Hell continued operating and noticed several souls had arrived after dying in Jing'an City.
• Li Tianwei gathered the captured Body Integration ancestors’ scattered Divine Souls and listened as they begged for release or a quick death.
• Li Tianwei praised the ancestors’ willingness to help Lingxu Sacred Land, then invoked the Extreme Good Lead Hua Scripture to cleanse and control them.
• The ancestors’ Divine Souls submitted to Li Tianwei while their consciousnesses remained awake and continued suffering in the Eighteen Layers of Hell.

Li Tianwei controlled the Body Integration ancestors' souls and planned to use their experience to teach Lingxu Sacred Land's disciples while their consciousnesses endured purification. He returned to the main hall with their souls in tow and prepared to address the sect, while considering how to make cultivation accessible to everyone.

• Li Tianwei controlled all fifteen Body Integration cultivators in the Sacred Soul Banner with the Extreme Good Lead Hua Scripture, intending to use their bodies to teach disciples as their souls were cleansed.
• Li Tianwei decided the Eighteen Layers of Hell in the soul banner needed to be expanded and left his cave dwelling with more than a dozen evil souls following him.
• Li Tianwei planned to investigate corruption in the nations and cities under Lingxu Sacred Land and find a way for people without spiritual roots to cultivate.
• Li Tianwei arrived at the main hall with the Body Integration souls, where the Lingxu Holy Master felt reassured by the strength they represented.
• Li Tianwei greeted the disciples and Bai Muxu, then took his seat as the assembled people fixed their attention on him.

Li Tianwei exposed the exploitation and neglect of poor-aptitude cultivators across Lingxu Sacred Land and proposed reforms to admit anyone with a spirit root and improve supervision. He rallied the disciples behind sweeping change, ending with his focus on the Heart-Questioning Stairway and the system suspecting he had a grudge against it.

• Li Tianwei described the abuses in Zixuan Mansion and other territories, where sentries acted like Evil Cultivators under the protection of ancestor Su Qianhe.
• Li Tianwei proposed monitoring every region with teleportation arrays and spirit vessels and admitting disciples regardless of spirit-root aptitude.
• Li Tianwei revealed that a poorly gifted pill-refining boy had improved the Foundation Establishment Pill formula, exposing how Lingxu Sacred Land profited from people whose talents it neglected.
• Li Tianwei argued that developing everyone's abilities would drive progress and called for thorough reform beginning with the Heart-Questioning Stairway.
• Several disciples pledged to follow Li Tianwei, while the system privately suspected he had made his speech to target the Heart-Questioning Stairway.

Li Tianwei uprooted the Heart-Questioning Stairway and transformed it with his knowledge and fifteen hundred Dao intents. He returned it to its place and declared that it would help Lingxu Sacred Land disciples understand themselves and find their own paths.

• Li Tianwei revealed his Nascent Soul Realm aura and fifteen hundred Dao intents before the Lingxu Sacred Land elders and disciples.
• Li Tianwei lifted the Heart-Questioning Stairway and the Spiritual Vein beneath it, then examined the damaged legacy left by an ascended patriarch.
• Li Tianwei redesigned the stairway with questions and formations drawn from his knowledge, adding his Dao intents so visitors could discover their aptitudes and comprehend the Dao.
• Li Tianwei returned the transformed stairway, rocks, and Spiritual Vein to their original places without damage.
• Li Tianwei announced that the stairway would no longer judge aptitude and invited every Lingxu Sacred Land disciple to use it to discern their own heart.

After Li Tianwei transformed the Heart-Questioning Stairway into a place to test understanding and validate one’s heart, Lingxu Sacred Land’s members eagerly climbed it. Li Tianchen made progress through its unfamiliar trials while Elder Ling struggled, and Li Tianwei decided to write a textbook to help everyone learn.

• Li Tianwei allowed anyone from Lingxu Sacred Land to climb the transformed Heart-Questioning Stairway, and Dong Yuan and other cultivators sensed its benefits.
• Li Tianchen climbed the stairway, where Elder Ling was drawn into its trials and failed to understand the first problems.
• Li Tianchen solved the initial illustrated problem and continued through trials involving cultivation, farming, Dao intent, and Li Tianwei’s Divine Ability.
• Li Tianwei outlined plans to overhaul Lingxu Sacred Land, invest its resources, and make its secrets public.
• After noticing that few climbers could understand the stairway’s trials, Li Tianwei decided to write them a textbook.

Li Tianwei’s reforms to expand spiritual-root testing and establish Flying Ships and teleportation arrays provoked resistance from sects across Lingxu Sacred Land’s territories. Backed by the three great sacred lands and Evil Demons, more than two hundred sects formed the Haoran Righteous Alliance and declared their revolt while Li Tianwei remained focused on carrying out his reforms.

• Local sects condemned Li Tianwei’s reforms, fearing Lingxu Sacred Land would compete with them for cultivators and take control of every territory.
• Qingyuan Cang Sacred Sect spread news of the reforms, and local forces mistook Lingxu Sacred Land’s recent losses for a chance to challenge it.
• The three great sacred lands and Evil Demons secretly supported local sects as they organized against Lingxu Sacred Land.
• Li Tianwei recalled the existing stationed representatives and assigned disciples who had heard his teachings to replace them.
• Led by Supreme Sacred Sect, Three Absolute Sect, and Mingwang Sect, more than two hundred sects formed the Haoran Righteous Alliance and expelled Lingxu Sacred Land’s representatives.
• Alliance leaders declared that they would revolt and make their force the next Lingxu Sacred Land.

Jiang Tiancheng formed the Haoran Righteous Alliance to oppose the Lingxu Sacred Land and secured the Baiyuan Holy Master's support for an attack five days later. As the alliance prepared to challenge Li Tianwei, the Lingxu Sacred Land continued its reforms, and Li Tianwei calmly reviewed reports of resistance.

• Jiang Tiancheng rallied cultivators' grievances against the Lingxu Sacred Land and established the Haoran Righteous Alliance to seize the chance to challenge it.
• The Baiyuan Holy Master met Jiang Tiancheng and agreed to provide support, while privately fearing Li Tianwei and expecting the alliance members to die.
• Jiang Tiancheng set the alliance's attack for five days later and accepted resources and other promises from the Baiyuan Holy Master.
• The Baiyuan Holy Master hurried out of Lingxu Sacred Land territory, sensing an ominous threat, and raced back toward the three great sacred lands.
• Returning disciples and guards climbed the Heart-Questioning Stairway, and the Law Enforcement Hall detained some of them as the Lingxu Sacred Land continued changing.
• Li Tianwei read reports about the Haoran Righteous Alliance and resistance across the territories under the Lingxu Sacred Land's rule, dismissing the alliance as unrepresentative.

Li Tianwei planned a sweeping transformation of the Cultivation World while the Lingxu Holy Master reported that the Haoran Righteous Alliance’s actions had corrupted returning disciples and garrison personnel. The chapter also revealed that Tribulation Crossing Realm ancestors had fallen into dangerous chaos since Li Tianwei’s Nascent Soul breakthrough, and Li Tianwei turned his attention back to dealing with the alliance.

• Li Tianwei told the Lingxu Holy Master to send returning disciples and garrison personnel through the Heart-Questioning Stairway and let the Law Enforcement Hall handle those with problems.
• The Lingxu Holy Master explained that many once-upright disciples had become corrupt after serving in the territories, and said they had been shaped by the Cultivation World’s dark conditions.
• The Lingxu Holy Master reported that three Tribulation Crossing Realm ancestors had become chaotic after sensing the Sacred Land’s crisis on the day Li Tianwei reached the Nascent Soul Stage, and warned everyone to avoid the depths of the Sacred Land if anything changed there.
• Li Tianwei learned that Tribulation Crossing Realm cultivators endured constant pressure from the Ascension Tribulation and that their chaos could make them lose control.
• Li Tianwei decided to deal with the Haoran Righteous Alliance first and considered wiping it out at once.

Li Tianwei investigated the three Tribulation Crossing ancestors’ simultaneous rampage in the depths of the Lingxu Sacred Land. He reached the ruined cultivation grounds and saw Venerable Tiangang unleash his towering dharma body.

• Li Tianwei and the Lingxu Holy Master sensed three Tribulation Crossing ancestors rampaging toward the Twelve Peaks at once.
• The Lingxu Holy Master warned Li Tianwei of the danger, and Li Tianwei ordered him to gather the disciples and elders while he went to investigate alone.
• Li Tianwei crossed into the Sacred Land’s devastated depths and sensed that a hidden force was nearing a critical point.
• Venerable Tiangang appeared in a gigantic dharma body, crushing mountains as Li Tianwei recognized him as one of the Sacred Land’s three ancestors.

Li Tianwei survived Venerable Tiangang’s devastating attack and fought back, knocking the chaotic patriarch unconscious. As Li Tianwei prepared to strike again, Daoist Xixuan and Daoist Xuanyao arrived and unleashed their powers.

• Venerable Tiangang attacked Li Tianwei with Heavenly Descent, reducing the surrounding mountain range to nothing, but Li Tianwei emerged unharmed.
• Li Tianwei realized Venerable Tiangang could threaten Lingxu Sacred Land and decided to stop him by force.
• Li Tianwei struck Venerable Tiangang with two Divine Abilities, briefly awakening him before knocking him unconscious again.
• Daoist Xixuan and Daoist Xuanyao arrived and launched Nine Suns Radiance Rhyme and Evening Sky Setting Sun, devastating the Endless Mountain Range.