Chapter Summaries

Li Qing studied the first volume of the “Dao Canon,” which revealed three possible future gains and led him to choose the path tied to his own cultivation art. He received the future-completed “Dao Tribulation Wuji Scripture” through the True Immortal stage, leaving him with new clues about his future and the Time Law.

• The white-robed old man brought Li Qing to the book pavilion and told him to study the “Dao Canon” alone.
• Li Qing touched the heavenly tome and was drawn into a white space containing three gates of light.
• Li Qing recognized that one gate held a future version of his “Dao Tribulation Wuji Scripture,” while the other gates appeared connected to Chaos and a treasure.
• Li Qing recalled that the “Dao Canon” was a scattered form of the immortal-world Book of Time, which delivered things a person might obtain in the future.
• Li Qing chose the gate containing his scripture, and the other two gates vanished.
• Li Qing received the “Dao Tribulation Wuji Scripture” from Qi Refining through True Immortal, including unfamiliar chapters that revealed his future self had cultivated wind, lightning, and yin-yang qi.

Li Qing learned that his future self had perfected the Dao Tribulation Wuji Scripture to the True Immortal level, then met Carefree Heavenly Venerate, who urged him to inherit the Dao Palace. At the Dao Trial Assembly, Li Qing watched Lin Mingye fight and recognized a spirit treasure carried by Wan Hong, suspecting she was descended from an old friend.

• Li Qing resolved to replace the Crimson Blazing Heaven Art with the Dao Tribulation Wuji Scripture, which he had created independently of the Demon Venerable’s inheritance.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerate appeared and offered to activate the Dao Treasury again if Li Qing promised to reach the Mahayana Realm and succeed him, but Li Qing sensed the burden and refused.
• Li Qing left the library pavilion with the white-robed old man and joined the Dao Trial Assembly, where he told the Dao Palace cultivators he had gained a Mahayana-level cultivation art inheritance.
• Lin Mingye, a peak Nascent Soul cultivator known for his Indestructible Golden Body, defeated a series of challengers with ease.
• Wan Hong entered the arena on a blood-colored spirit ruler, and Li Qing recognized it as one he had forged in the lower realm and wondered whether she was descended from an old friend.

Li Qing learned why Wan Hong had joined the Dao Trial Assembly and, after it ended, revealed that he knew her father, Wan Shengtian, and agreed to visit him. He also invited Miao Yun and Wan Hong’s companion to join Heaven Refining Pavilion as his registered disciples.

• Wan Hong’s Blood Spirit Ruler exhausted her power, and Lin Mingye won their battle before withdrawing from the arena; Dao Palace elders competed to take him as a disciple.
• Li Qing learned that the Myriad Treasures Merchant Alliance had collapsed after being targeted by the Demon Realm, leaving its descendants hunted for rumors of the Myriad Treasures Ancient Realm.
• Lin Mingye chose the gray-robed Venerable as his master, while Wan Hong was not selected because the Dao Palace valued battle endurance as well as talent.
• After leaving the Dao Palace, Li Qing confronted Wan Hong, Miao Yun, and their companion for gossiping about him, then asked Wan Hong about Wan Shengtian.
• Wan Hong recognized her father’s aura in Li Qing’s token and invited him to visit Wan Shengtian in Xiyunzhou; Li Qing accepted and offered Miao Yun and the other cultivator places as registered disciples in Heaven Refining Pavilion.

Li Qing tracked the Great Wilderness Bandit to Mountain Lord You Shan’s stronghold after learning that You Shan had captured Wan Hong’s parents. He rescued Wan Shengtian and his wife from the bandit hall and began confronting You Shan with Void Flame.

• Li Qing and Wan Hong arrived in Xiyunzhou, where Wan Hong explained that her father had fled to the frontier after his ties to the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild attracted danger.
• At Wan Shengtian’s floating-mountain trading market, Wan Hong learned that the Great Wilderness Bandit had captured her father, and bandits tried to seize her.
• Li Qing killed the attackers, searched two survivors’ souls, and discovered that their leader was Mountain Lord You Shan, a wanted Body Integration Realm cultivator.
• Li Qing took Wan Hong west to Heart Nurturing Hall, where he found You Shan threatening Wan Hong’s captive parents to make them reveal the secret of the Myriad Treasures Ancient Realm.
• Li Qing ignited the bandits with spirit fire, used Void Flame against You Shan, and moved Wan Hong and her parents to safety so he could focus on the battle.

Li Qing killed Mountain Lord You Shan with the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation and took control of the Heart Nurturing Hall, then reunited with Wan Shengtian, Wan Hong, and her mother. The group prepared to return to human territory, where Li Qing and Wan Shengtian could catch up.

• Mountain Lord You Shan trapped Li Qing inside the Heart Nurturing Hall and attacked him with his Meteor Hammers, but Li Qing countered with the Primordial Peerless Hammer and sword techniques.
• Mountain Lord You Shan unleashed his Extreme Evil Fiend Ghost Manifestation and shattered Li Qing's defenses, but Li Qing deployed the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation and killed him.
• Li Qing claimed Mountain Lord You Shan's Storage Bag and took control of the Heart Nurturing Hall, finding fifteen million spirit stones, a Dao Integration Pill formula, ingredients, and the Extreme Evil Fiend Ghost Manifestation inheritance.
• Li Qing brought Wan Shengtian, Wan Hong, and her mother back into the hall, where they thanked him and reunited.
• Wan Shengtian told Li Qing that a spatial storm had scattered him, the Azure Flood Dragon King, and Chenyuan during their ascension, and Li Qing invited him to return to human territory for a drink.

Li Qing set out for the Great Wilderness after agreeing to accompany Wan Shengtian’s family into the Myriad Treasures Ancient Realm when it opened in a hundred years. While searching for Earth Core Jade Milk near the Heavenly Dog Race, he seized four ancient Mystic Cloud Fruits from a powerful treant and teleported away, arriving near a Heavenly Dog Statue.

• Wan Feiyun revealed that the Myriad Treasures Ancient Realm was real and invited Li Qing to protect her family when it opened in less than two hundred years; Li Qing accepted and offered to take Fairy Wan as his registered disciple.
• Li Qing left Floating Mountain and traveled into the Great Wilderness, heading south toward the Heavenly Dog Race in search of Earth Core Jade Milk.
• Li Qing discovered four Mystic Cloud Fruits that had grown for at least five thousand years beside an azure lake and sent puppets to test the area.
• A seventh-order treant and surrounding trees attacked Li Qing, but he burned through the root cage with Void Flame and took all four fruits.
• Li Qing escaped by teleporting more than two thousand miles with Spatial Strange Light and Thousand Mile Thought, then spotted a Heavenly Dog Statue in the distance.

Li Qing reached the Earth Meridian Acupoint near the Heavenly Dog Race's territory and discovered its Crimson Jade Nectar could destroy both bodies and souls. He used his Grotto-Heaven Treasure to collect the deadly liquid, leaving the way open to explore deeper.

• Li Qing found that the Heavenly Dog Statue had sealed off teleportation, then revealed his Body Integration Realm cultivation to the Heavenly Dog Race members who confronted him.
• A Heavenly Dog Race Elder warned Li Qing about the lethal Crimson Jade Nectar in the Earth Meridian Acupoint and gave him a bone scepter to pass through the clan's blockade.
• Li Qing reached the Earth Meridian Acupoint and learned that the Crimson Jade Nectar dissolved a spirit stone, a puppet, and the split soul attached to it.
• Li Qing suspected the Elder had withheld the danger but decided his soul-splitting technique had protected him from disaster.
• Li Qing sent his Heavenly Marvel Silver Ring into the air and began collecting the Crimson Jade Nectar, while the watching Heavenly Dog Race members mistook him for an expert sent to resolve the danger.

Li Qing found a vast underground reservoir of Earth Core Jade Milk beside a giant coffin, but the coffin opened and pulled him inside. The Heavenly Dog Race investigated the resulting collapse and sensed Mahayana Realm pressure before its old clan chief entered the underground world to approach the coffin.

• Li Qing drained the crimson jade nectar from the Earth Meridian Acupoint, stored it in his Grotto-Heaven World, and followed the scent of Earth Core Jade Milk underground.
• Li Qing broke through the cave floor and discovered a stream of Earth Core Jade Milk surrounding a giant coffin protected by a blood-red restriction.
• Li Qing shattered the restriction and began collecting the jade milk with the Heavenly Marvel Silver Ring, but the coffin opened and dragged him inside before the ring returned.
• The Heavenly Dog Race Elder learned that Li Qing had removed the crimson jade nectar, then rushed to the Earth Meridian Acupoint after a massive collapse shook Holy City.
• The Heavenly Dog Race members felt Mahayana Realm pressure from the underground world, and the old clan chief entered and identified the giant coffin as being made of Profound Sky Supreme Wood.

Li Qing was trapped inside the Profound Sky Supreme Wood coffin, where he comprehended the Chaos Law and broke free of the darkness. He discovered the coffin held a shed shell left by a Mahayana Realm expert and approached it, while the Demon Venerable’s influence over him continued to grow.

• Li Qing found himself trapped in a vast, lightless void after taking the Earth Core Jade Milk and failed to escape by flying or using the Kunpeng Treasure Art.
• The Heavenly Dog patriarch and powerful experts from nearby races gathered outside the coffin, confirmed it had released the Mahayana Realm pressure, and learned it was made from Profound Sky Supreme Wood.
• Li Qing concluded the void was a prison formed by a Law and began meditating on the Chaos Dao Seed as his way out.
• Li Qing realized that Chaos encompassed all things, and his Chaos Dao Seed cracked and took root in his dantian.
• Li Qing initially comprehended the Chaos Law and used its power to shatter the void, learning that the space had been formed by an Exile Law.
• Li Qing discovered a shed shell inside the coffin, recognized it as the remnant of a Mahayana Realm expert’s transformation, and approached it.

Li Qing left the Profound Sky Supreme Wood coffin after storing the Mahayana expert’s remains, then rescued a Dao Palace spy fleeing the Beast Tooth Race. The spy revealed that the human race and Beast Tooth Race had been at war for thirty-six years, and Li Qing reached human territory under the name Wuji.

• Li Qing decided to leave the coffin, took the Mahayana expert’s remains into his Heavenly Marvel Silver Ring, and teleported out.
• Li Qing encountered a wounded human Void Refinement cultivator pursued by the Beast Tooth Race, crushed one pursuer, and escaped with the human from several Body Integration cultivators.
• The rescued cultivator told Li Qing he had spent twelve years spying on the Beast Tooth Race and had uncovered information about an injured ancestor and a promising Heavenly Fang.
• Li Qing learned that the human race and Beast Tooth Race had officially gone to war thirty-six years earlier, with several clashes and casualties already reported.
• Li Qing escorted the Dao Palace disciple into Xiyunzhou and identified himself as Wuji of the Heaven Refining Pavilion.

Li Qing discovered and subdued the Manifestation Fire, claiming his sixth Heaven and Earth Spirit Fire before returning to Heaven Refining Pavilion. There, the Pavilion Master noticed that Li Qing had comprehended the Law of Darkness and reconsidered assigning him to help refine Destiny Ships.

• Li Qing searched the grassland for the hidden spirit fire, then used the Heavenly Marvel Silver Ring to draw its wild beasts into the air and identify a Crimson Blood Horse that resisted capture.
• The Crimson Blood Horse revealed itself as the Manifestation Fire and divided into thousands of flame horses, which Li Qing trapped with the Fire Suppression Seal.
• Li Qing subdued and refined thirty-nine flame horses, then fought the remaining Manifestation Fire until he used its own Origin Flames to complete its refinement.
• Li Qing gained his sixth Heaven and Earth Spirit Fire and returned through Mulan City and Star River City to Heaven Refining Pavilion, where a Destiny Ship was being prepared for the war against the Beast Tooth Race.
• The Pavilion Master asked Li Qing to help refine more Destiny Ships, then sensed the Law of Darkness around him and realized he had become a human venerable.

The Pavilion Master of Heaven Refining Pavilion revealed that a Celestial Venerable planned to refine a Chaos Supreme Treasure and allowed Li Qing to study the complete lower volume of the “Heaven Refining Scripture” so he could assist. After comprehending its teachings on Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasures, Li Qing advanced the Immortal Slaying Sword into one, while the Pavilion Master wondered whether he could master the remaining secrets of Chaos Supreme Treasures.

• The Pavilion Master of Heaven Refining Pavilion told Li Qing that the lower volume of the “Heaven Refining Scripture” contained secrets about refining Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasures and Chaos Supreme Treasures.
• The Pavilion Master revealed that a Celestial Venerable intended to refine a Chaos Supreme Treasure and granted Li Qing three days to study the complete lower volume so he could join the effort.
• Li Qing memorized the scripture, returned to Wuji Hall, and entered seclusion to study its teachings while his disciples attended to the hall.
• After more than thirty years of study, Li Qing used his understanding of laws and Dao resonance to advance the Immortal Slaying Sword into a Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure.
• The elders and disciples of Heaven Refining Pavilion witnessed the sword’s transformation, while the Pavilion Master praised Li Qing’s progress and wondered whether he could comprehend the remaining material on Chaos Supreme Treasures.

Li Qing continued studying the Heaven Refining Scripture after the Immortal Slaying Sword became a Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure, and decades later he left seclusion to escort Wan Hong into the Myriad Treasures Ancient Realm. After learning that entry required surviving three deadly trials, Li Qing prepared to depart for the ancient realm.

• The Immortal Slaying Sword advanced to a Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure and entered the Chaos Myriad Spirits Ranking at seventy-sixth place, while Li Qing resumed nurturing it and studying the Heaven Refining Scripture.
• Over the following decades, the human race and Beast Tooth Race maintained a limited border conflict, Li Qing's disciples advanced in cultivation, and the Pavilion Master survived his Great Heavenly Tribulation before entering deathly seclusion.
• Li Qing spent fifty-seven years studying the Chaos Supreme Treasure chapter, improving his understanding of Chaos Law, and awakened when Wan Hong reported that the Myriad Treasures Ancient Realm would soon open.
• Li Qing left a message for the Pavilion Master, traveled to Star River City, and received intelligence from Wan Shengtian about the ancient realm's three dangerous trials.
• After learning that the Soul Falling Abyss, Blood Purgatory, and Ruins of Spiritual Breath tested divine sense, physical body, and magical power, Li Qing agreed to depart with Wan Hong.

Li Qing escorted Wan Shengtian’s family into the Myriad Treasures Ancient Realm, where they began the Soul Falling Abyss trial. As Li Qing led them through the abyss, he used the treasures they had obtained and his own soul abilities to repel attacks from Nether Soul Beasts.

• Li Qing and Wan Shengtian’s family restored a Teleportation Array on an isolated island and entered the Myriad Treasures Ancient Realm.
• The group reached Soul Falling Abyss, met Wan Dingyan and his Integrated Body Middle Stage grand-uncle, then went to the Mystic Light Mirror to claim trial treasures.
• Wan Hong received a gauzy garment that defended against soul attacks, while Li Qing accepted a wooden bow activated by Spiritual Sense.
• Li Qing led the group into Soul Falling Abyss, where he used the bow to kill a Six-winged Nether Bat and collected its Soul Beast Crystal.
• When the gauzy garment was destroyed, Li Qing used his Golden Brocade Armor to shield the group and accelerated their descent.
• Five stronger Nether Soul Beasts attacked, and Li Qing wounded them with the wooden bow before killing them with his Primordial Spirit Weapon, the Startle God Spear.

Li Qing led Wan Shengtian’s family through the Blood Purgatory trial, where the Blood Fiend Law sealed their mana and steadily eroded their bodies. After their Eight Trigrams Mirror failed and they fought through Blood Refined Corpse Puppets with the power of True Spirit Blood Pills, Li Qing revealed his Kunpeng transformation and carried them rapidly onward.

• Li Qing and Wan Shengtian’s family emerged from Soul Falling Abyss with thirty-five Soul Beast Crystals, then collected six pills believed to be refined from True Spirit Blood and an Eight Trigrams Mirror for the next trial.
• The group entered Blood Purgatory, where the crimson sun’s Blood Fiend Law began sprouting fleshy buds on their bodies and sealed their mana; Li Qing used the Eight Trigrams Mirror’s clouds to shield them.
• Li Qing killed the first Blood Beast with a punch and collected its Blood Fiend Crystal, then led the group onward while the mirror’s protection gradually weakened.
• After the Eight Trigrams Mirror cracked, Li Qing carried Wan Hong and her daughter while Wan Shengtian struggled behind, until Blood Refined Corpse Puppets blocked their path.
• Wan Hong gave the group True Spirit Blood Pills, which restored their blood and qi and summoned powerful True Spirit phantoms that swept through the corpse puppets.
• Li Qing transformed into a Kunpeng, carried Wan Shengtian’s family on his back, and flew past Wan Dingyan and his companion.

Li Qing and Wan Shengtian's family entered the third trial, the Ruins of Spiritual Breath, where strange fireflies burned away mana and even consumed supplies. Li Qing discovered that the vine and Waterlight Gourd worked together to repel them, but the group stopped near the exit when they found Wan Ruyu and her master battling an Integrated Body Middle Stage Fluorescent Ancient Demon.

• After crossing Blood Purgatory, Li Qing's group met Wan Ruyu and her master in the realm before the third trial.
• The Mystic Light Mirror gave Wan Hong a mysterious vine and Wan Shengtian's cultivation partner a Waterlight Gourd before the group entered the Ruins of Spiritual Breath.
• Fireflies attached to the group and burned their mana, while pills and spirit stones also ignited when they tried to replenish their strength.
• Li Qing discovered that the watery mist from the Waterlight Gourd revived the vine, and together the treasures formed a barrier that repelled the fireflies.
• Li Qing carried Wan Shengtian's family at full speed toward the exit, where they found Wan Ruyu and her master retreating from a Fluorescent Ancient Demon.

Li Qing and the others defeated the Fluorescent Ancient Demon and entered the Myriad Treasures Spirit Pool, where Li Qing used his Grotto-Heaven Treasure to take two prizes despite the pool’s limit. He reached the palace complex beyond the pool and waited for Wan Shengtian’s family before approaching the realm’s greater treasury.

• Wan Ruyu explained that the Myriad Treasures Ancestor had refined the Fluorescent Ancient Demon to test descendants, and Li Qing agreed to help Wan Ruyu’s master defeat it.
• Li Qing dispersed the demon’s magic-draining fireflies with his secret treasure while Wan Ruyu’s master restrained it; Li Qing then split the demon in two with his Heaven-Piercing Immortal Slaying Sword.
• Li Qing and the others passed through the Ruins of Spiritual Breath and were carried by a spirit-liquid tide into the Myriad Treasures Spirit Pool.
• Li Qing found a sentient Eternal Secret Silver turtle and drew it into his Grotto-Heaven Treasure, then used Spatial Strange Light to take a second treasure from the pool before it expelled him.
• Wan Ruyu told Li Qing that the greater treasury lay in the palace complex beyond the pool, and he waited for Wan Shengtian’s family to emerge.

After obtaining Eternal Secret Silver and a Creation Source Crystal, Li Qing led Wan Shengtian’s family into the Myriad Treasures Main Hall, where they faced its guardians. He held off four Heavenly Star Spirit Puppets, but one trapped him in a starlight formation and launched a devastating blow as a powerful aura emerged from his body.

• Li Qing identified the silver turtle as Eternal Secret Silver and recognized his other treasure as a Creation Source Crystal that could help a Body Integration Cultivator break through a minor bottleneck.
• Wan Shengtian told Li Qing that his family would seek opportunities in the outer hall and would proceed on their own after he escorted them there.
• Li Qing entered the Myriad Treasures Main Hall with Wan Shengtian’s family and encountered six Heavenly Star Spirit Puppets guarding the entrance.
• Li Qing used his spirit fires, Immortal Slaying Sword, and Heart Nurturing Hall to contend with the puppets while Wan Ruyu and her master fought two others.
• Li Qing discovered that the puppets’ star-patterned bodies governed their operation, but one formed a starlight formation that trapped him and prevented him from teleporting.
• As the puppet’s starlight-charged fist descended toward Li Qing, an aura capable of splitting heaven and earth surged from within him.

Li Qing used the Chaos Law to defeat four Heavenly Star Spirit Puppets and helped Wan Shengtian’s family obtain Myriad Treasures Gold Tokens. After they entered their chosen halls, Li Qing explored the Fire Refining Treasure Hall and selected a rare mountain stone as material for his fourth killing sword.

• Li Qing unleashed the Chaos Law to destroy the Heavenly Star Spirit Puppets and collected four Myriad Treasures Gold Tokens.
• Li Qing gave three tokens to Wan Shengtian’s family, and Wan Shengtian, Wan Ruyu, Wan Hong, and her mother entered halls suited to their needs.
• Li Qing entered the Fire Refining Treasure Hall and passed over its completed Spirit Treasures to search for valuable materials.
• Li Qing found a Stone of the Northern Star Extreme Mountain and judged it suitable for refining his Immortal Severing Sword.
• Li Qing chose the mountain stone and used his Myriad Treasures Gold Token to take it from the hall.

After retrieving the final materials for his killing sword, Li Qing entered the inner hall and discovered the Jade Firmament Divine Bell, a Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure guarded by deadly Law of Tremors. The Spirit of the Medicine Cauldron offered to help Li Qing subdue it and find other treasures in exchange for his help escaping the ancient realm, leaving Li Qing to pursue their bargain.

• Li Qing brought the Bei Chen Extreme Mountain rock out of the Fire Refining Treasure Hall, completing the materials needed to forge the Immortal Severing Sword.
• Li Qing followed the bell into the inner hall and found Old Woman Wen and Old Daoist Chuyun trying to approach the Jade Firmament Divine Bell.
• Li Qing used the Immortal Slaying Sword to cut through the bell waves and reach the platform, while Old Daoist Chuyun used the Wood Path Law to advance.
• The Jade Firmament Divine Bell unleashed the Law of Tremors, shattering Chuyun's body and forcing him to retreat; Li Qing sheltered inside the Heart Nurturing Hall.
• The Spirit of the Medicine Cauldron revealed that Li Qing's Chaos Law could subdue the bell and offered access to the Medicine Garden and four Law Marvels in return for help escaping.
• Li Qing agreed to help the cauldron spirit after obtaining the Jade Firmament Divine Bell and the promised opportunities.