Arc 46The Golden Slips and Immortal Domain

Li Qing freed himself from the Demon Venerable, strengthened the Human Race, and prepared to enter the Lingxiao Immortal Domain with Shen Ningbing restored to him. Inside the domain, he gathered Town Stones and discovered an Immortal Bamboo Shoot as he pursued the Golden Slip inheritance.

  • Li Qing restored Rice Bucket in the Heavenly Demon Life Spring, then forced his way into the Ice Spirit Clan’s territory and found Shen Ningbing sealed in black ice.
  • Li Qing was possessed by the awakened Demon Venerable, who seized the Chaos Minor Realm and fought the assembled experts before escaping their pursuit.
  • Li Qing severed his Karma Threads from the Demon Venerable, defeated him in a battle of wills, and regained control of his body.
  • Li Qing returned to Tianyuan Continent, killed Yellow Springs Ghost Mother, helped Long Yi reach Mahayana, and plundered the Myriad Beast Domain with him.
  • Li Qing advanced to Mid Mahayana, forged his four killing swords into Chaos Supreme Treasures, and later returned to the Ice Spirit Clan to bring Shen Ningbing away.
  • When the Lingxiao Immortal Domain opened early, Li Qing entered with Long Yi, gathered Town Stones, and followed the Golden Slip to an Immortal Estate.
  • Li Qing and Black Spirit Demon Venerable each took a Golden Slip from the estate, and Li Qing found an Immortal Bamboo Shoot identified as one of the Queen Mother of the West’s three great immortal treasures.
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Ch. 1155Settling Accounts with the Ghost Horn Race

Li Qing plundered the Ghost Horn Race’s spiritual veins and seized the Chaos Origin hidden in its forbidden zones, then went to the Heavenly Demon Hall to borrow a Heavenly Demon Life Spring for Rice Bucket. The Heavenly Demon ancestors initially refused, but changed their minds after Li Qing offered Six-Winged Heavenly Demon’s crimson gold bamboo slip and prepared to leave.

  • Li Qing stripped the Ghost Horn Race of its remaining high-grade spiritual veins and looted Azure-Eyed Nether Venerate’s and Yellow Springs Ghost Mother’s cave abodes.
  • Li Qing sensed Chaos Origin sealed in the Nine Nether Yellow Springs Waterfall and Ten Thousand Corpses Burial Ridge, broke into both forbidden zones, and absorbed the stored Chaos Origin.
  • Li Qing left the Ghost Horn Race and approached the Heavenly Demon Hall, where two Heavenly Demon ancestors challenged his intentions.
  • Li Qing summoned Rice Bucket and asked to borrow a Heavenly Demon Life Spring to restore the tiger demon’s damaged consciousness, but a Heavenly Demon ancestor doubted the spring could help him and refused.
  • Li Qing offered the crimson gold bamboo slip left by Six-Winged Heavenly Demon, then turned to leave when the ancestor dismissed it; the Heavenly Demon ancestors stopped him and said the request could be discussed.

Ch. 1156Rice Bucket Integrates the Dao

Li Qing traded the Heavenly Demon Race an agreement to seek the remaining Golden Slips in the Lingxiao Immortal Domain, then used their Heavenly Demon Life Spring to restore Rice Bucket’s consciousness and help him advance to the Body Integration Realm. Afterward, Li Qing went to the Ice Spirit Clan’s territory to find Shen Ningbing, but forced his way inside when the clan’s ancestor denied she was there.

  • Li Qing learned that the Golden Slip held part of an immortal inheritance and agreed to cooperate with the Heavenly Demon Race to find the other slips at the next opening of the Lingxiao Immortal Domain.
  • Li Qing placed Rice Bucket in the Heavenly Demon Life Spring, where Rice Bucket’s body transformed and he advanced to the Body Integration Realm after surviving his tribulation.
  • Rice Bucket regained his consciousness, told Li Qing how he had ended up in the Beast Fighting Arena, and learned that Li Qing had reached the Mahayana Realm.
  • Li Qing traveled to the Ice Spirit Clan’s territory and demanded to see Shen Ningbing, whom the clan’s ancestor claimed was not there.
  • Li Qing opened a Space Tunnel into the Ice Snow Wonderland and forced his way into the Ice Spirit Clan’s territory, warning that he would fight if necessary.

Ch. 1157A Lone Foray into the Ice Spirit Clan

Li Qing fought the Ice Spirit Clan Ancestors to force them to let him see Shen Ningbing, only to learn that her cultivation method had transformed her into an Ice Spirit Clan member. He found her sleeping in the Cold Abyss and briefly awakened her, leaving them reunited through divine sense.

  • Four Ice Spirit Clan Ancestors awakened and attacked Li Qing after he demanded they release his old acquaintance.
  • Li Qing fought off the Ancestors' attacks and shattered the Ice Empress's Dharma Body before Hansongzi intervened and ended the battle.
  • Ancestor Binghua explained that Shen Ningbing had become an Ice Spirit Clan member after cultivating the clan's adapted Profound Ice Immortal Art.
  • Ancestor Binghua led Li Qing into the Cold Abyss, where he found Shen Ningbing sealed inside ten-thousand-year black ice.
  • Li Qing sent a wisp of divine sense into Shen Ningbing's sea of consciousness, and she awakened briefly and told him she had missed him.

Ch. 1158A Temporary Farewell

Li Qing reunited with Shen Ningbing in the Cold Abyss and promised to take her away in a thousand years, then returned to Human Race territory and strengthened its recovery after the war. He remained troubled by his inability to find the Lingyun Sect disciples and by the Demon Venerable’s Will growing more present within his consciousness.

  • Li Qing met Shen Ningbing’s Primordial Spirit and learned how her ascension had left her body irreversibly transforming into ice, while Ancestor Bingyun had perished.
  • Li Qing promised to return in a thousand years to take Shen Ningbing away, then bowed to Ancestor Bingyun’s ice sculpture before leaving with Ancestor Binghua.
  • Ancestor Binghua and the other Ice Spirit Clan ancestors discussed Li Qing’s strength and loyalty, deciding that the clan should draw closer to him through Shen Ningbing.
  • Li Qing failed to detect the Lingyun Sect disciples through heavenly-secret deductions and resolved to seek a way to send his Dao Body back to the lower realm after the war.
  • Li Qing visited several races, returned to the Dao Palace, issued a search task for his old acquaintances, and transplanted spirit veins into the Heaven Refining Pavilion’s former grounds and his Wuji Grotto-Heaven.
  • Li Qing offered to help Spirit Venerable Yu Ji leave her Artifact Spirit body, but she chose to wait until he and the Demon Venerable’s Will had settled their conflict; Li Qing sensed that the Will’s influence was nearing a crisis.

Ch. 1159Taking the Dao Fruit, Refining Immortal Flame

After nine peaceful years, Li Qing redirected the faith offerings gathered in his Wuji Grotto-Heaven and used two Fire Origin Dao Fruits to refine a genuine Void Fire seed, greatly increasing his cultivation. He then turned to studying the Heaven Refining Scripture anew, preparing to elevate his Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasures into Chaos Supreme Treasures.

  • Li Qing redirected the human race’s faith wish power into an altar and cauldron rather than letting it bless his body.
  • Li Qing swallowed a Fire Origin Dao Fruit, endured its unruly Immortal Spiritual Power, and used Void Fire to calm and refine it.
  • Li Qing swallowed a second Fire Origin Dao Fruit and fused its Flame Immortal Essence with Void Fire to form a genuine, if weak, immortal flame seed.
  • Li Qing gained roughly twenty percent more mana from the two fruits and decided to pause cultivation while he adapted to the increase.
  • Li Qing summoned the Four Immortal Slaying Swords and began reexamining the Heaven Refining Scripture to learn how to refine a Chaos Supreme Treasure.

Ch. 1160Demon Venerable's Revival

After the Two Realms Battlefield vanished and the Spirit Realm fell into darkness, the Demon Venerable revived by taking control of Li Qing through Karma Threads. He began settling Li Qing’s karmic debts and headed toward the Chaos Immortal Treasure, while Li Qing struggled to regain his body.

  • The Two Realms Passages closed, but the Two Realms Battlefield disappeared with its fighters still missing, prompting Li Qing and other Mahayana cultivators to investigate.
  • A vast presence darkened the Spirit Realm, and Karma Threads bound Li Qing as the Demon Venerable awakened inside his body and took control.
  • The Demon Venerable summoned the Xuantian Immortal Hall, which hailed him as Karma Celestial Venerable, and said he would repay Li Qing’s karmic debts before returning to the Immortal World.
  • The Demon Venerable erased Xia Wushuang’s Great Dao Oath and sent him through a Space Tunnel to Tianyuan Continent.
  • After sensing that demons had found the Chaos Immortal Treasure, the Demon Venerable entered the void, but Li Qing briefly tugged at his Karma Threads before the Demon Venerable subdued him again.

Ch. 1161Ultimate Chaotic Melee

The Demon Venerable used the Karma Law Sword to destroy the altar at the Two Realms Battlefield, then reached the Chaos Minor Realm sought by the Demon Realm Progenitors. As the Spirit and Demon Realm’s late Mahayana experts began a catastrophic battle outside it, Li Qing’s body approached the realm and leapt inside.

  • Li Qing remained trapped in his sea of consciousness by Karma Threads while the Demon Venerable controlled his body and rushed to the Two Realms Battlefield.
  • The Demon Venerable severed the battlefield’s karmic connections, destroying the altar and releasing the souls trapped in its cauldron, then grievously wounded a Demon Realm Saint Ancestor who confronted him.
  • The Demon Realm Progenitors and Spirit Realm experts gathered around a Chaos Minor Realm whose frozen interior defied investigation, and Old Lord Raven confirmed that ravens entering it could not move.
  • The Demon and Spirit Realm’s late Mahayana experts began fighting with their supreme treasures and Laws, shaking the surrounding void.
  • Li Qing’s body approached the Chaos Minor Realm unnoticed until the Karma Threads briefly exposed him, then leapt into the realm.

Ch. 1162Immortal Treasure Emerges

The Demon Venerable used the frozen Chaos Minor Realm to break its Time Law seal, but Six Paths Progenitor refined the realm into the Primordial Chaos Demon Cauldron and fled with it. When the Demon Venerable emerged from the cauldron with the immortal treasure, the Spirit Realm and Demon Realm experts joined forces to attack him, leaving him wounded and surrounded.

  • The Demon Realm Progenitors summoned their supreme treasures, and Six Paths Progenitor began refining the Chaos Minor Realm while Lingxu Zi and the Spirit Realm experts tried to stop him.
  • The Kirin King arrived and joined the battle, but Nirvana Origin Progenitor opened breaches in the realm so Six Paths Progenitor could draw it into his cauldron.
  • Inside the realm, the Demon Venerable set a formation to melt the Chaos Mist, erased the Time Law seal, and severed the realm's connection to the outside world with Karma Law.
  • Six Paths Progenitor loaded the Chaos Minor Realm into the Primordial Chaos Demon Cauldron and fled to the Demon Realm, pursued by experts from both realms.
  • The cauldron released the Demon Venerable, who wounded Six Paths Progenitor with the Karma Immortal Sword and faced the assembled experts while holding the Xuantian Immortal Hall.
  • Lingxu Zi struck the Demon Venerable's shoulder with the Huntian Treasure Seal, and the experts from both realms surrounded him.

Ch. 1163Escape

The Demon Venerable survived the experts’ siege by using a Thousand Illusions Immortal Talisman projection, then escaped with the Six Paths Progenitor’s help. Their alliance collapsed when the Six Paths Progenitor demanded the immortal treasure, and the two began fighting; the Demon Venerable revealed mastery of both Chaos Law and Karma Law before the Six Paths Progenitor launched his Sacred Demon Seal.

  • The gathered experts destroyed the Demon Venerable’s apparent body, and the Kirin King seized the wooden box left behind before fleeing through a Space Tunnel as the Demon Realm Progenitors pursued him.
  • The Six Paths Progenitor returned to his sacred island, where the Demon Venerable emerged unharmed from the Primordial Chaos Demon Cauldron and revealed that his apparent death had been a Thousand Illusions Immortal Talisman projection.
  • The Demon Venerable showed the Six Paths Progenitor a faintly glowing seed but refused to explain its origin or surrender it, so the Six Paths Progenitor sealed the island and attacked him.
  • The Demon Venerable used a Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Talisman and swords formed from Karma Law and Chaos Law to destroy several Six Paths demonic visages and briefly disrupt the Six Paths Progenitor’s control of the cauldron.
  • The Six Paths Progenitor struck with the Six Paths Sacred Demon Seal, and the Demon Venerable answered by gathering limitless immortal light in his palms.

Ch. 1164Contingency Plan

Li Qing seized temporary control from the Demon Venerable and fled the Demon Realm, with Primordial Nightmare pursuing him into the Spirit Realm. After reaching Carefree Heavenly Venerate, he asked him to strip away all his luck, but the Demon Venerable awakened and Primordial Nightmare dragged Li Qing back to the Demon Realm.

  • The Demon Venerable shattered Six Paths Progenitor's attack, defeated him, and escaped the demonic lake before Primordial Nightmare trapped him in a dream domain.
  • Li Qing exploited the Demon Venerable's weakened state by merging with his memories, briefly reclaimed his body, and escaped Primordial Nightmare's dream domain using the Wind Thunder Silver Wings and Kunpeng Divine Power.
  • Li Qing raced through the Spirit Realm toward Tianyuan Continent as Primordial Nightmare pursued him, passing the Giant Spirit Race's royal city and the Great Yu Kingdom without stopping.
  • Li Qing reached Carefree Heavenly Venerate and asked him to strip away all his luck, then told him to return and guard the human race.
  • The Demon Venerable awakened and regained control of Li Qing, and Primordial Nightmare seized them both and carried them back to the Demon Realm.

Ch. 1165Great Dream of Ten Thousand Ages

Li Qing and the Demon Venerable endured the Primordial Nightmare’s Great Dream of Ten Thousand Ages for twelve years before joining forces to drive her away with the Primal World Seed’s immortal power. With the Primordial Nightmare gone, the Demon Venerable prepared to seize Li Qing’s body again, but Li Qing used the Heavenly Secret Gu to sever their karmic connection.

  • The Primordial Nightmare trapped Li Qing and the Demon Venerable in Great Dream of Ten Thousand Ages, where they endured nightmares for twelve years.
  • The Primordial Nightmare ended the dream and attacked, so Li Qing and the Demon Venerable used the Primal World Seed’s Immortal Spiritual Power to repel her with the World-Burning Immortal Fire Talisman and immortal-light divine birds.
  • The Primordial Nightmare fled using the Nightmare Escape Light, and the Demon Venerable turned to suppress Li Qing and take control of his body.
  • Li Qing’s Heavenly Secret Gu and Luck Gu emerged, and the Luck Gu recovered much of the luck that Carefree Heavenly Venerate had stripped away.
  • Li Qing activated the Heavenly Secret Gu’s Heavenly Number Change, severing every Karma Thread linking him to the Demon Venerable, and the Gu died in the process.
  • The Demon Venerable acknowledged Li Qing’s move but challenged him to force him out by will alone.

Ch. 1166All Trump Cards Revealed

Li Qing used the Nine-headed Serpent Spirit to empower his soul and defeat the Demon Venerable’s attempt to take control of his body, forcing the Demon Venerable back into slumber. After regaining control, Li Qing spoke with the Xuantian Immortal Hall and Spirit Venerable Yu Ji about their plans to accompany him when he ascended.

  • Li Qing abandoned his attempts to seize his body all at once and kept the Demon Venerable occupied while his Nine-headed Serpent Spirit absorbed his sealed reserves.
  • Li Qing sacrificed the Nine-headed Serpent Spirit with the Nine Snake Heart Method, summoning a late-Mahayana true spirit that empowered his soul enough to wound the Demon Venerable.
  • The Demon Venerable crushed Li Qing’s Soul Piercing Spear and used an immortal talisman to summon heavenly thunder, but Li Qing continued attacking until both souls were near collapse.
  • The Demon Venerable acknowledged Li Qing as a worthy successor, warned that the awakened Primal World Seed would draw the immortal realm’s attention, and returned to slumber.
  • Li Qing regained control of his body and told the Xuantian Immortal Hall that he would take it with him when he ascended.
  • Li Qing agreed to help Spirit Venerable Yu Ji escape her Artifact Spirit body and said he hoped they could ascend together.

Ch. 1167A Reunion After Long Separation

Li Qing recovered in the Demon Realm, grew notorious for defeating its Saint Ancestors, and reunited with the Formless Sage Ancestor who had tormented him in the lower realm. He killed Formless and prepared to return, while the Xuantian Immortal Hall warned that the Demon Venerable's memories were changing his behavior.

  • Li Qing spent decades traveling through the Demon Realm as he recovered, refined his artifact knowledge, and defeated several Demon Realm Saint Ancestors who challenged him.
  • At Demon Abyss City, Li Qing recognized the Formless Sage Ancestor and pursued him as Formless fled across the Demon Realm seeking help.
  • Night Star refused to aid Formless, and Six Paths Progenitor also declined to intervene while rebuilding Six Extremes Sacred Island.
  • Li Qing struck Formless with a Chaos Great Hand Seal, captured him, and assimilated him into Chaos Power after rejecting his plea for mercy.
  • The Xuantian Immortal Hall observed that Li Qing was becoming more like Lord Immortal Venerable, and Li Qing opened a void rift to return.

Ch. 1168Immortal Dao Token

As the Lingxiao Immortal Domain's opening drew closer, Carefree Heavenly Venerate traded two Immortal Dao Tokens to Heavenly Cauldron Old Lord for Chaos Origin and a promise to guard a human junior's breakthrough to Mahayana. Meanwhile, a ferocious Suanni attacked the Heavenly Dog Race, but a treasure tower wrapped in Chaos Mysterious Yellow Qi struck toward it.

  • Powerful races on Tianyuan Continent annexed weaker races and fought over Immortal Dao Tokens as rumors spread that Wuji Celestial Venerable had died.
  • Heavenly Cauldron Old Lord arrived from the Barbaric Continent seeking two Immortal Dao Tokens, and Carefree Heavenly Venerate asked him to help protect a human junior attempting to break through to Mahayana.
  • Heavenly Cauldron Old Lord agreed to guard the breakthrough in exchange for the tokens and departed after the trade.
  • A Suanni True Spirit descended on Tianyuan Continent and targeted the Heavenly Dog Race to seize its Immortal Dao Tokens.
  • The Suanni's Spiritual Pressure knocked out countless Heavenly Dog Race members, and a treasure tower trailing Chaos Mysterious Yellow Qi blasted toward it.

Ch. 1169The Heavenly Venerate Returns

Carefree Heavenly Venerate fought a true-spirit Suanni to protect the Heavenly Dog Race, but Yellow Springs Ghost Mother joined the battle and forced him into danger. Li Qing returned in time, defeated Yellow Springs Ghost Mother with his supreme laws, and left the human side facing the still-unresolved Suanni battle.

  • Carefree Heavenly Venerate attacked the Suanni with the Chaos Profound Yellow Tower after it tried to subdue the Heavenly Dog Race, and the two fought across the sky above the Holy City.
  • Yellow Springs Ghost Mother arrived and restrained the Chaos Profound Yellow Tower while attacking Carefree Heavenly Venerate, leaving him wounded and at a disadvantage.
  • The human cultivators prayed for Wuji Celestial Venerable, and Li Qing returned from collecting a Chaos Origin, destroyed Yellow Springs Ghost Mother's Mahayana corpse, and joined the battle.
  • Carefree Heavenly Venerate reclaimed the Chaos Profound Yellow Tower and fought the Suanni while Li Qing confronted Yellow Springs Ghost Mother.
  • Li Qing severed the Yellow Springs River with his Four-Colored Killing Sword, burned Yellow Springs Ghost Mother's Dharma Body with Great Void Immortal Fire, and killed her with his Chaos Law Sword and Karma Law Sword.

Ch. 1170Famous Throughout the World

After Li Qing killed the Yellow Springs Ghost Mother and drove off the True Spirit Suanni, the Human Race’s fortune surged as the Ghost Horn Race declined. Back in seclusion, Li Qing assessed the danger of his awakening Primal World Seed and began trying to refine his Four Immortal Slaying Swords into Chaos Supreme Treasures.

  • Li Qing reclaimed and refined the Yellow Springs River while the Carefree Heavenly Venerate defeated the True Spirit Suanni, which escaped before Li Qing could pursue it.
  • Li Qing and the Carefree Heavenly Venerate became sworn brothers, and news of the Yellow Springs Ghost Mother’s death spread across the Tianyuan Continent as the Human Race gained fortune and new vassals.
  • At the Dao Palace, Li Qing taught his disciples and promised each a Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure upon reaching the Body Integration Realm; he praised Li Qiyin’s progress toward Dao Fusion.
  • In seclusion, Li Qing sensed that his Primal World Seed was awakening and concluded he needed to ascend to the Immortal World before it attracted the attention of powerful immortals.
  • Li Qing learned from the Xuantian Immortal Hall about the Yellow Springs Dao Diagram and began preparing to use three masses of Chaos Origin to upgrade his Four Immortal Slaying Swords.

Ch. 1172Long Yi's Breakthrough

After two centuries refining the Immortal Slaying Sword and two other killing swords with Chaos Origin, Li Qing paused before completing them when Long Yi began his Mahayana breakthrough. As Long Yi neared success, the Beast Race and Three-Eyed Sacred Race intervened, and Li Qing wounded Mingzun with the unfinished Chaos Immortal Slaying Sword before Lingxu Zi appeared.

  • Li Qing infused three killing swords with Chaos Origin and burned them with Great Void Immortal Fire for two hundred years, turning them into Chaos Minor Treasures that still needed further refinement.
  • Li Qing learned that Long Yi was preparing to break through to Mahayana and put away the swords before they became Chaos Supreme Treasures.
  • Long Yi overcame his inner demon and began absorbing vast amounts of spiritual energy as his Nascent Soul solidified.
  • Beast Race ancestors attacked Long Yi's breakthrough, but Carefree Heavenly Venerate blocked them with the Chaos Profound Yellow Tower.
  • Mingzun challenged Carefree Heavenly Venerate, and Li Qing struck Mingzun with the Chaos Immortal Slaying Sword and then attacked with a Karma Law Sword.
  • Lingxu Zi arrived as a Late Mahayana-stage powerhouse, prompting Li Qing to recognize him as someone he thought had died in the Demon Realm.

Ch. 1173Unrivaled in This Age

Li Qing drove Lingxu Zi, Mingzun, and the beast ancestors from human territory, then guarded Long Yi through his breakthrough into Mahayana. After Long Yi completed his tribulation, he and Li Qing attacked the Myriad Beast Domain, where Li Qing trapped its beast ancestors and began refining one into a pill.

  • Lingxu Zi recognized Li Qing as the human cultivator he had helped kill in the Demon Realm, but Li Qing used the Great Void Immortal Fire and his laws to overwhelm him and Mingzun, forcing Lingxu Zi to retreat with Mingzun.
  • Li Qing rushed to Carefree Heavenly Venerate's aid, killed an Early Mahayana beast ancestor with the immortal fire, and drove the remaining beast ancestors from human territory.
  • Long Yi emerged from a golden dragon egg, survived a seven-day Mahayana tribulation, and became humanity's third Mahayana Celestial Venerable and its first Mahayana expert with True Spirit Bloodline.
  • Li Qing invited Long Yi to attack the Myriad Beast Domain, and Long Yi agreed before the two set off together.
  • Long Yi challenged the beast race, while Li Qing trapped two beast ancestors in a Great Void Immortal Fire formation, killed a bull ancestor who attempted to self-destruct, and sealed a Mid Mahayana beast ancestor in a furnace to refine it into a pill.

Ch. 1174Sweeping Through the Myriad Beast Domain

Li Qing and Long Yi destroyed the Beast Race’s Mahayana ancestors, stripped the Myriad Beast Domain of its spirit veins and treasures, and uncovered Chaos Origin and an immortal herb seed. After returning to human territory, Li Qing honored his old agreement by giving Luo Hongye a Fire Origin Dao Fruit pit, then departed for the Wuji Grotto-Heaven.

  • Li Qing refined a Mid Mahayana stage Beast Race ancestor into a pill with the Demon Refining Pill Art while Long Yi defeated the Fushan Divine Ape, which chose Liberation by Violence rather than self-destructing.
  • Li Qing uprooted all eight high-grade spirit veins in the Myriad Beast Domain and joined Long Yi in plundering the Beast Race’s grotto-heavens and cultivation grounds.
  • Li Qing found an immortal herb seed and extracted two portions of Chaos Origin from a hidden Secret Realm.
  • Li Qing and Long Yi left the ruined Myriad Beast Domain and returned to human territory.
  • Li Qing found Luo Hongye and fulfilled their agreement by giving her a Fire Origin Dao Fruit pit before departing for the Wuji Grotto-Heaven.

Ch. 1175Mid Mahayana Stage

Li Qing cultivated in seclusion for more than two centuries, advanced to the Mid Mahayana stage, and humanity’s standing and influence continued to grow. After the first Immortal Dao Token appeared and was seized by a Mid Mahayana expert from the Xuanming Realm, Li Qing’s breakthrough shook Tianyuan Continent and elevated humanity to seventh place on the Myriad Races Dao Tablet.

  • Li Qing used nine high-grade spirit veins and refined a Beast Race ancestor’s demon core, steadily advancing toward the Mid Mahayana stage while the four killing swords began transforming into sword embryos.
  • Over the following centuries, the Yin-Yang Saintess succeeded the deceased old sect master, Long Xudao died attempting a breakthrough, and a Dao Palace disciple with an Indestructible Golden Body advanced into the Body Integration Realm.
  • Li Qiyin merged with the Dao, comprehended the Great Yin Law, and became the Great Yin Venerable; Li Qing rewarded her with the Jade Firmament Divine Bell.
  • The first Immortal Dao Token appeared in the Vast Savage Realm, and after a battle involving more than ten Mahayana experts, a Mid Mahayana expert from the Xuanming Realm seized it and escaped.
  • Li Qing broke through to the Mid Mahayana stage, causing the Myriad Races Dao Tablet to raise humanity to seventh place, then restrained his power before Tianyuan Continent’s foundational laws could collapse into chaos.

Ch. 1176Four Immortal Slaying Swords

After reaching the Mid Mahayana stage, Li Qing guided his four Chaos sword embryos through the Chaos Dao Tribulation, forging them into Chaos Supreme Treasures. He also used the tribulation’s Chaos Dao Fire to complete his Grotto-Heaven World, and the four swords’ appearance on the Chaos Myriad Spirits Ranking shook the Spirit Realm.

  • Li Qing used his Chaos Law to accelerate the four sword embryos’ transformation into killing swords.
  • Li Qing took the four swords into the void and endured their combined Chaos Dao Tribulation, surviving its heavenly lightning and Chaos Dao Fire.
  • At the Xuantian Immortal Hall’s suggestion, Li Qing channeled the Chaos Dao Fire into his Grotto-Heaven World and recreated it as a complete world with all laws intact.
  • Li Qing recovered from his injuries as the four swords finished advancing into Chaos Supreme Treasures.
  • The Chaos Myriad Spirits Ranking listed the four Chaos Immortal swords, and Li Qing declared them worthy of the name Immortal Slaying.

Ch. 1177A Single Sword Slays Mahayana, Shaking the Spirit Realm with Its Might

Li Qing used the Chaos Immortal Severing Sword to kill an Early Mahayana cultivator who threatened a Human Race disciple, and his power made outsiders treat Human Race territory as forbidden. After decades of quiet cultivation, Li Qing traveled to the Ice Spirit Clan to bring Shen Ningbing back when their thousand-year appointment arrived.

  • Li Qing killed an Early Mahayana cultivator with a sword strike from afar after more than ten Mahayana cultivators attacked Human Race territory to seize an Immortal Dao Token.
  • The surviving Mahayana cultivators fled, while the Three-Eyed Sacred Race discussed luring Li Qing into dangerous formations in the Lingxiao Immortal Domain.
  • The disciple who received the Immortal Dao Token gave it to the Dao Palace, and Li Qing later received three more tokens after the Myriad Races Dao Tablet distributed six to the Human Race.
  • Li Qing cultivated for decades, then opened a Space Tunnel to the Ice Spirit Clan's wondrous realm of ice and snow to bring Shen Ningbing back.
  • Hansongzi welcomed Li Qing, and Binghua led him toward the Cold Abyss, where Shen Ningbing was about to emerge.

Ch. 1179Lingxiao Immortal Domain Opens

Li Qing reunited with Shen Ningbing, took her traveling through the Spirit Realm for several decades, and returned to Tianyuan Continent as the Lingxiao Immortal Domain opened. Powerful beings gathered at its entrance, and Li Qing immediately attacked the Three-Eyed Sacred Race ancestors who arrived.

  • Li Qing brought Shen Ningbing away from the Ice Spirit Clan after she emerged from the Essence of Profound Ice, and the clan’s ancestors chose not to challenge him.
  • Li Qing and Shen Ningbing traveled through Tianyuan Continent and the Spirit Realm, where he gave her protective jade ornaments and killed anyone who threatened them.
  • After several decades, Li Qing and Shen Ningbing returned to Tianyuan Continent as the Lingxiao Immortal Domain opened more than a hundred years early.
  • Mahayana powerhouses, True Spirits, and ancestors of powerful races gathered before the immortal gate, including the Insect Race Mother Queen.
  • Li Qing used the Chaos Law to form a prison and suppress the arriving Mahayana Ancestors of the Three-Eyed Sacred Race.

Ch. 1180Town Stones

Li Qing entered the Lingxiao Immortal Domain with Long Yi after the immortal gate opened and separated the arriving cultivators across the vast realm. There, he broke an Immortal Dao Restriction around thirteen strange stones, and Demon Venerable, the Xuantian Immortal Hall, and Spirit Venerable Yu Ji revealed themselves and explained the stones’ purpose.

  • Li Qing and Long Yi prepared to fight Lingxu Zi and the Three-Eyed Sacred Race, but the immortal gate opened and forced them to set aside their feud.
  • Li Qing sent Shen Ningbing back to Wuji Grotto-Heaven, then entered the Lingxiao Immortal Domain with Long Yi, where they arrived in separate locations.
  • Li Qing found that the realm suppressed most of his abilities, though his Great Void Immortal Fire and Chaos Supreme Treasure retained their power.
  • Li Qing used the Primal World Seed to break the Immortal Dao Restriction surrounding thirteen golden-marked boulders.
  • Demon Venerable awakened and, along with the Xuantian Immortal Hall and Spirit Venerable Yu Ji, identified the boulders as Town Stones that could restore part of the Heaven-reaching Killing Formation.
  • Li Qing used the Primal World Seed to scatter the Town Stones so he could collect them.

Ch. 1181Immortal Talisman Treasure Hoard

Li Qing entered a Golden Immortal’s Immortal Estate with Black Spirit Demon Venerable to retrieve the remaining Golden Slips and found a hidden Immortal Bamboo Shoot in the backyard. He learned the shoot could transform his Immortal Body toward that of a Mystic Immortal.

  • Li Qing followed the reacting Golden Slip to the Heavenly Demon Race ancestors and entered the Immortal Estate behind a waterfall.
  • Li Qing resisted the Demon Immortal Diagram’s soul pressure and met Black Spirit Demon Venerable inside the estate.
  • Li Qing and Black Spirit Demon Venerable endured the Golden Immortal’s residual pressure and each took one Golden Slip from the front hall.
  • At the Demon Venerable’s urging, Li Qing searched the backyard and found an Immortal Bamboo Shoot hidden beneath tables and chairs.
  • Xuantian Immortal Hall identified the shoot as one of the Queen Mother of the West’s three great immortal treasures and explained that consuming it could transform Li Qing’s body toward a Mystic Immortal’s.
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