Chapter Summaries

Li Qing completed his Mahayana Dharma Body and endured a world-shaking heavenly tribulation, becoming the Wuji Celestial Venerable. He then confronted the three foreign Mahayana cultivators who had tried to block his advancement, intent on killing them.

• Li Qing wounded and imprisoned the Six-winged Heavenly Demon with Chaos Law before reconstructing his Mahayana Dharma Body from Solar True Essence and World Vital Energy.
• Li Qing faced a terrifying Mahayana Heavenly Tribulation, forged his Dharma Body into the Immortal Body of Ten Thousand Tribulations, and destroyed the lightning palaces and Chaos Spirit Breaking Spear.
• Li Qing completed his tribulation and became the Wuji Celestial Venerable as golden lotuses appeared across the human territory and its cultivators hailed him.
• The Purple Gold Thunder Dragon left after Li Qing completed his tribulation, while Li Qing locked onto the three foreign Mahayana cultivators and declared that they would not leave alive.
• The Six-winged Heavenly Demon broke free of the Chaos Cage and joined the other two foreign Mahayana cultivators against Li Qing, who summoned a Four-Colored Killing Sword and advanced to fight all three.

After ascending to Mahayana, Li Qing fought three foreign Mahayana cultivators and killed them all with the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation. He was acclaimed as the Wuji Celestial Venerable and announced that he would teach the Dao at the Dao Palace in seven days.

• Li Qing overwhelmed the Six-winged Heavenly Demon, Azure-Eyed Nether Venerate, and Star Eye Divine Lord with his Chaos sword and Dharma body, then shattered their three Law Domains.
• Li Qing summoned the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation and used it to destroy the Dharma bodies of all three enemies, killing the Six-winged Heavenly Demon and Azure-Eyed Nether Venerate outright.
• Li Qing restrained and crushed Star Eye Divine Lord's fleeing Nascent Soul despite his threats of retaliation from the Three-Eyed Sacred Race.
• Li Qing collected the enemies' relics, dispersed the blood-rain omen over human territory, and recovered his strength as cultivators celebrated his victory.
• Li Qing accepted the cultivators' congratulations and invited everyone to hear him expound the scriptures and teach the Dao at the Dao Palace in seven days.

After defeating the foreign Mahayana cultivators, Li Qing visited the Dragon and Feng Families to repay their aid before taking charge of the Dao Palace. He established the Wuji Grotto-Heaven, rested, and began exploring the power he had gained in the Mahayana Realm.

• Li Qing used his Chaos Power to repair the land scarred by the battle, then went to Panlong City and promised the Dragon Family his help in return for summoning a true dragon to aid him.
• Li Qing reunited with his four disciples and Long Yi, thanked them, and declined the Dragon Family's invitation to stay.
• Li Qing visited the Feng Family with his disciples, thanked them for summoning a heavenly phoenix, and gave Su Ling a Life Token as a protective talisman.
• Li Qing arrived at the Dao Palace, announced that he would preach there in six days, and created a statue of himself in its main hall.
• Li Qing opened the Wuji Grotto-Heaven using the Dao Palace as an anchor and gave his disciples tokens to enter and leave it freely.
• After resting in the Wuji Grotto-Heaven, Li Qing reflected on his new Mahayana strength and sent his Nascent Soul beyond the ninth heavens to roam among the stars.

Li Qing returned from the void, examined the spoils from three slain Mahayana cultivators, and uncovered evidence that the Ghost Horn Race was collecting souls for a Chaos Immortal Treasure. After preaching to human cultivators beneath the Dao Palace, he confronted a Demon Realm powerhouse at the Two Realms Passage and entered the tunnel to pursue it.

• Li Qing encountered a powerful Rahu in the void, declined its invitation to search for a lost ancient realm, and returned to Wuji Grotto-Heaven.
• Li Qing inspected his spoils, including the Chaos Profound Yellow Tower he planned to return to Carefree Heavenly Venerate, and discovered that Azure-Eyed Nether Venerate's bone gourd held souls gathered during the Demonic Calamity.
• Li Qing realized that the Ghost Horn Race might be collecting souls to help activate a Chaos Immortal Treasure, then studied the Myriad Star Bead and resumed consolidating his cultivation.
• Li Qing appeared at the Dao Palace and preached for three days and nights, helping many human cultivators comprehend the Dao and break through bottlenecks.
• Li Qing arrived at the trembling Two Realms Passage, shattered a probing Demonic Claw, and entered the tunnel as the Demon Realm powerhouse tried to retreat.

Li Qing crossed into the Demon Realm and severely wounded Azure Origin Saint Ancestor before returning to Human Race territory. After speaking with Carefree Heavenly Venerate about the war and the Ghost Horn Race’s vulnerability, Li Qing set out toward Ghost Horn territory to settle old scores.

• Li Qing pursued the Demon Realm cultivator through the Space Tunnel, crossed realms, and identified his opponent as Azure Origin Saint Ancestor.
• Li Qing overwhelmed Azure Origin Saint Ancestor with his Chaos techniques and treasures, but Azure Origin escaped into demonic mist.
• Li Qing returned to the Spirit Realm, placed a hidden restriction at the Two Realms Passage, and traveled to the Two Realms Battlefield to contact Carefree Heavenly Venerate.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerate told Li Qing to guard the Human Race, revealed that Yellow Springs Ghost Mother was trapped in the battlefield, and urged him to strike the vulnerable Ghost Horn Race.
• Li Qing left the battlefield and extended a Chaos-paved Great Dao toward the Ghost Horn Race’s territory.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.