Recaps

Human Emperor Dugu Lei sacrificed Nascent Soul essence to strengthen the Absolute Heaven Array and appointed eight provincial kings to prepare the Nine Provinces for its revival. After returning to Arid Province, Li Qingyuan spent decades building his strength and ultimately reached the Nascent Soul Late Stage.

• Dugu Lei and the cultivators sacrificed hundreds of Nascent Soul prisoners into the Absolute Heaven Array, then Dugu Lei used his Heavenly Eye to study the formation.
• Dugu Lei appointed Li Qingyuan, Wang Decai, Ye Xuan, Bai Hezhui, Ao Run, Jin Po, Zhu Yu, and Miao Le as the Eight Kings and ordered them to strengthen the Nine Provinces within three hundred years.
• The Four Envoys and Four Great Divine Beasts stayed to guard Red Flag Mountain while Dugu Lei and the Eight Kings returned to their duties across the provinces.
• Li Qingyuan returned to Wind Thunder Immortal Sect, distributed Top-grade Spirit Stones, refined his crafts and cultivation arts for ten years, and then entered seclusion.
• After fifty years of cultivation, Li Qingyuan endured repeated Two-colored Lightning Tribulations and advanced to the Nascent Soul Late Stage.

Li Qingyuan advanced to the Late Nascent Soul Stage, developed a faint Soul Transformation Artistic Conception, and visited the Human Emperor to seek guidance. Before leaving, he urged Luo Ling to attempt Nascent Soul formation and promised to refine a pill to help her.

• Li Qingyuan reached the Late Nascent Soul Stage at age 286, and the Jianmu Sapling grew as his divine sense began to show a trace of Wood Artistic Conception.
• Li Qingyuan checked on his companions, then told the Wind Thunder Immortal Sect he was leaving and visited Luo Ling, who declined to pursue Nascent Soul formation out of fear of failing and burdening him.
• Li Qingyuan encouraged Luo Ling to try with a Three Talents Infant Transformation Pill and asked her to persuade Qingqing to attempt cultivation as well.
• Li Qingyuan traveled to Diqiu City and met the Human Emperor, who recognized his new Soul Transformation Artistic Conception and asked about his Soul Refining Banner and its artifact spirit.
• After Li Qingyuan explained how he had subdued Zhao Guangzheng, he asked the Human Emperor what the first step was in comprehending Soul Transformation Artistic Conception.

The Human Emperor taught Li Qingyuan about Soul Transformation Artistic Conception and showed him how Wood Artistic Conception could wither and revive life. After twenty years of traveling and learning from nature and the mortal world, Li Qingyuan returned to the Wind Thunder Immortal Sect to complete his own artistic conception, transform his divine sense into Primordial Spirit power, and pursue Peak Nascent Soul.

• The Human Emperor confirmed Li Qingyuan’s understanding of divine sense, the Primordial Spirit, and Soul Transformation Artistic Conception, then demonstrated his Wood Artistic Conception.
• Li Qingyuan experienced the Wood Artistic Conception’s withering and restorative power, recognized its ties to Life and Death Artistic Conception, and spent a year learning from the Human Emperor.
• Li Qingyuan left Zhi Shui Palace and traveled across the Nine Provinces Continent, observing its peoples, landscapes, and natural phenomena while cultivating the Jianmu Meditation Method.
• Over twenty years, Li Qingyuan’s Jianmu Sapling grew from sixty inches to ninety inches, and more than half of his Nascent Soul divine sense transformed into Primordial Spirit power.
• At age three hundred and six, Li Qingyuan returned to the Wind Thunder Immortal Sect and announced secluded cultivation to complete his Soul Transformation Artistic Conception and advance toward Peak Nascent Soul.

After sixty years of seclusion, Li Qingyuan comprehended the Fortune Artistic Conception and transformed his Divine Sense into a Primordial Spirit, causing a phenomenon across the Nine Provinces. He tested his strength, then tried to refine the Heavenly Eye, which swallowed his Nascent Soul Power and overwhelmed his mind.

• Li Qingyuan spent thirty years mastering Intent Realms and developed the idea of combining them all within a greater Intent Realm.
• He spent another thirty years comprehending the Fortune Artistic Conception, which caused a phenomenon that shook the Nine Provinces.
• Human Emperor Dugu Lei recognized the phenomenon as the birth of an unrivaled divine ability and believed Li Qingyuan was responsible.
• Li Qingyuan's Jianmu Sapling grew to one hundred and twenty inches as his Nascent Soul Divine Sense transformed into a Primordial Spirit.
• Li Qingyuan judged that he could defeat the Five Yuan King, but felt the incomplete Nine Provinces Heavenly Dao shackling his power.
• Li Qingyuan tried to refine the Heavenly Eye on the Jianmu Sapling, but it swallowed his Nascent Soul Power and left his mind blank.

Li Qingyuan received Yang Nie’s inheritance and learned that the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique required both Dharma and body cultivation at the Soul Transformation Stage, so he could not begin practicing it. After thirty years of seclusion, he reached Peak Nascent Soul in both cultivation paths and stood at the pinnacle of the Nine Provinces, awaiting the Heavenly Dao’s revival before attempting Spirit Transformation.

• Li Qingyuan examined Yang Nie’s message and learned the origins, inheritance rules, and requirements of the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique.
• Li Qingyuan studied the first-revolution heart method and learned its Manifestation of Heaven and Earth, Five Elements Evasion Technique, and Transformation Divine Ability.
• Li Qingyuan attempted to cultivate the technique, but his magic power rebounded because his cultivation and physical body had not reached the Soul Transformation Stage.
• Li Qingyuan entered seclusion to raise his cultivation, and thirty years later he had reached Peak Nascent Soul in both magic power and physical strength.
• Li Qingyuan resolved to accumulate magic power and wait for the Heavenly Dao to revive before attempting Spirit Transformation.

Li Qingyuan emerged from over a century of seclusion as a Peak Nascent Soul cultivator and spent time with his family before three members of the Li clan successfully formed Nascent Souls. He ordered a celebration for Li Xianfeng, Li Yunfan, and Li Yunzhou as the clan gained three new Nascent Soul True Lords.

• Li Qingyuan advanced to Peak Nascent Soul, returned to the Wind Thunder Immortal Sect, and considered cultivating the first revolution of the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique.
• Li Qingqing and Luo Ling declined to attempt Nascent Soul formation, explaining that they planned to take Reincarnation Elixirs and seek better aptitude in their next lives.
• Li Qingyuan reunited with Luo Ling and later welcomed Li Xianhuang, whose achievements as a Nascent Soul prodigy had made her famous across Huang Province.
• Li Xianfeng, Li Yunfan, and Li Yunzhou each passed the Inner Demon Tribulation and successfully formed Nascent Souls.
• Li Qingyuan ordered a Nascent Soul Formation Celebration for the three new Nascent Soul True Lords and invited cultivators from all directions.

After thirty years of travel and cultivation, Miao Le comprehended her own Soul Transformation Artistic Conception and defeated powerful cultivators across the Nine Provinces. The three spouses reached Yu Province, where Ao Run challenged Miao Le to a wagered duel and asked for Li Qingyuan’s Dragon Origin Grass as her stake.

• Li Qingyuan and Miao Le dual cultivated for ten years, helping Miao Le reach Peak Nascent Soul and begin comprehending a Soul Transformation Artistic Conception.
• Over thirty years of traveling and practicing, Miao Le cultivated her Primordial Spirit and perfected her Yin Yang Intent, becoming a Pseudo-God Realm powerhouse.
• Miao Le defeated Ye Bufan, Bai Hezhui, Wang Decai, and several powerful demon beasts as the three spouses traveled across the provinces.
• In Yu Province, Ao Run met Li Qingyuan, Miao Le, and Luo Ling, then challenged Miao Le to a duel for a Dragon Clan Treasure Bone.
• Ao Run offered the dragon skull as her wager and asked Li Qingyuan to stake his Dragon Origin Grass.

Li Qingyuan and Ao Run wagered Dragon Origin Grass against a flood dragon skull and a hundred years of service as a mount, then Miao Le fought Ao Run for the prize. Miao Le overwhelmed Ao Run with her Yin Yang Myriad Wood Sword, and Ao Run conceded and agreed to become Li Qingyuan’s mount.

• Li Qingyuan agreed to wager the remaining two-thirds of his Dragon Origin Grass against Ao Run’s flood dragon skull and a hundred years of service as a mount.
• Ao Run and Miao Le began their duel, wielding their weapons and Soul Transformation Intent against one another.
• Miao Le held the advantage through hundreds of exchanges by using Yin Yang Intent to counter Ao Run’s Water Intent and powerful close-combat attacks.
• Miao Le unleashed the Yin Yang Myriad Wood Sword, filling the battlefield with countless sword qi that broke Ao Run’s armor and scales.
• Ao Run conceded and offered to become Li Qingyuan’s mount.

After Miao Le defeated Ao Run, Li Qingyuan honored their wager before gifting Ao Run Dragon Origin Grass in exchange for a dragon bone. His guidance helped Ao Run complete her Nascent Soul and perfect her Water Intent, and after leaving Yu Province with Miao Le and Luo Ling, Li Qingyuan resumed refining Five Yuan Mountain.

• Miao Le defeated Ao Run, who accepted the wager and carried Li Qingyuan through the sky and underground for a day.
• Li Qingyuan gave Ao Run two-thirds of the Dragon Origin Grass, and Ao Run traded him a half-step fifth-tier Flood Dragon skull.
• Li Qingyuan, Miao Le, and Luo Ling stayed in Yu Province for two and a half years while Li Qingyuan discussed the Dao with Ao Run and helped her advance her Water Intent.
• Ao Run completed her Nascent Soul and perfected her Water Intent, then thanked Li Qingyuan as he prepared to leave with Miao Le and Luo Ling.
• Li Qingyuan resumed refining Five Yuan Mountain aboard their flying boat, hoping to expand the Fortune Space.

Li Qingyuan refined Five Yuan Mountain and used its Five-Colored Earth to evolve the Mysterious Feminine Space into an embryonic Small World with the Five Elements Law and a Fourth-grade Low-rank Spirit Vein. After refining premium Three Talents Infant Transformation Pills for Ji Kun, Little Flame, and Li Xianhuang, he began cultivating the Wind Thunder Hegemonic Body with the Wind Thunder Drum.

• Li Qingyuan completed refining Five Yuan Mountain, and Zhao Guangzheng identified it as a powerful Body Integration Realm magic treasure with three layers of restrictions.
• Li Qingyuan used the Light of Fortune to devour the Five-Colored Earth, expanding the Mysterious Feminine Space to a three-thousand-zhang radius and granting it the Five Elements Law.
• Li Qingyuan moved a Fourth-grade Low-rank Spirit Vein and many Spirit Plants into the space, then promised Little Flame the Dragon Origin Grass to aid its advancement.
• Li Qingyuan refined three premium Three Talents Infant Transformation Pills and gave one each to Ji Kun, Little Flame, and Li Xianhuang.
• Li Qingyuan summoned the Wind Thunder Drum and began using its power and the Wind Thunder Intent Realm to cultivate the Wind Thunder Hegemonic Body.

Li Qingyuan’s spirit pets and clones advanced to Nascent Soul Late Stage, while he completed his Wind Thunder Hegemonic Body. He returned the Wind Thunder Drum to the Human Emperor Teacher, who invited him to spar.

• Ji Kun broke through to Fourth-Tier Peak and became a formidable guardian divine beast of the Wind Thunder Immortal Sect.
• Er Yuan passed his tribulation, entered Nascent Soul Late Stage, and forged the Spirit Soul Blade by combining his magic treasures.
• Blood Shadow passed a Two-Colored Nascent Soul Minor Heavenly Tribulation and advanced to Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• Li Qingyuan shattered his final two Wind Thunder Divine Marks and completed his Wind Thunder Hegemonic Body.
• Li Qingyuan traveled to Diqiu City and returned the Wind Thunder Drum to the Human Emperor Teacher.
• The Human Emperor Teacher praised Li Qingyuan and invited him to spar, and Li Qingyuan accepted.

Li Qingyuan and the Human Emperor fought at full strength in the Northern Border Desert, testing their lightning arts and physical abilities. After the Human Emperor unleashed Five Thunders Bombardment, Li Qingyuan answered with Infinite Fortune: Myriad Phenomena Return to Origin.

• The Human Emperor praised Li Qingyuan’s talent and explained that he wanted to Open Heavenly Gate so the Nine Provinces’ cultivators could pursue a greater immortal path.
• The Human Emperor and Li Qingyuan clashed with their halberds, and the Human Emperor recognized that Li Qingyuan had reached the third level of the Nine Heavens Lightning Tribulation Technique.
• The Human Emperor activated his Thunder God Body, while Li Qingyuan activated his Wind Thunder Hegemonic Body, and Li Qingyuan gained a slight advantage in their ensuing fight.
• The Human Emperor gathered his essence, qi, spirit, and Intent into the killing move Five Thunders Bombardment.
• Zhao Guangzheng and Yang Xiaohe identified the ancient origins of the Human Emperor’s five lightning arts and praised his comprehension.
• Li Qingyuan merged his Primordial Spirit, Jia Wood Magic Power, and Wind Thunder Hegemonic Body, then countered Five Thunders Bombardment with Infinite Fortune: Myriad Phenomena Return to Origin.

Li Qingyuan defeated the Human Emperor and became the Nine Provinces’ strongest cultivator, then joined him in preparing the continent for a chance to revive its Heavenly Dao. After eighty years of gathering resources and cultivating Nascent Soul experts, Li Qingyuan left seclusion upon learning that Li Qingqing was near death.

• Li Qingyuan overwhelmed the Human Emperor’s Five Thunders technique, defeated him, and was hailed as the strongest cultivator on the Nine Provinces’ immortal path.
• The Human Emperor gave Li Qingyuan the Wind Thunder Drum and explained that the Heaven Severing Great Array would weaken in eighty years, creating a chance to revive the Nine Provinces Heavenly Dao.
• Li Qingyuan, the Human Emperor, and their allies gathered High-grade Fourth Tier Spirit Veins, refined Top-grade Spirit Stones, and ordered cultivators to cultivate and prepare for the coming battle.
• Over the next eighty years, the leaders used spirit stones, pills, and artistic conception records to raise more Nascent Soul Cultivators and strengthen their forces.
• Li Qingyuan learned that Li Qingqing’s lifespan was nearly over, left seclusion, and rushed to her cave abode.

Li Qingyuan returned from seclusion to find his sister Li Qingqing near the end of her life, and he took her home for a final walk through their childhood places. Li Qingqing passed away in the dandelion-filled hills, asking Li Qingyuan to find her again.

• Li Qingyuan arrived at Li Qingqing’s residence and learned from her and Li Yunxian that Li Qingqing had reached the end of her lifespan at age 476.
• Li Qingqing explained that she had kept her decline from Li Qingyuan so he would not abandon secluded cultivation and hinder the Li Clan’s role in the Nine Provinces’ undertaking.
• Li Qingyuan reunited with Luo Ling and took both women from the Wind Thunder Immortal Sect to the Li Clan’s ancestral land.
• Li Qingqing asked Li Qingyuan to take her to the back mountain near Cloud Mist Town, where they remembered playing together as children.
• Li Qingqing’s lifespan ended, and she dissolved into spiritual light as her soul departed for reincarnation, leaving Li Qingyuan with her request to find her again.

After Li Qingqing’s departure, Luo Ling dissolved into the Dao to begin reincarnation, leaving Li Qingyuan grieving but determined to become immortal and find her again. As war neared, he returned to cultivation and devoted himself to mastering the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique.

• Li Qingyuan and Luo Ling visited the former Luo Clan and watched a wedding that reminded them of their own four centuries earlier.
• Luo Ling urged Li Qingyuan to prepare for the coming war, and he resumed seclusion to refine Three Talents Infant Transformation Pills.
• On his third day of seclusion, Li Qingyuan sensed Luo Ling’s farewell and arrived too late to stop her from dissolving into the Dao.
• Li Xianhuang and the family saw Luo Ling off, while Hong Yuan promised to help Li Xianhuang find her mother after reaching Mahayana.
• Li Qingyuan held a simple seven-day funeral for Luo Ling, placed her spirit tablet in the ancestral hall, and told Miao Le to prepare for war.
• Li Qingyuan began cultivating the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique with Three Talents Infant Transformation Pills, determined to master it.

Li Qingyuan endured nearly two years of agony to establish the first revolution of the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique, then received the complete technique and learned it could lead to the Daluo Golden Immortal realm. He remained in seclusion to digest the technique and begin cultivating its three divine abilities.

• Yang Xiaohe explained the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique's demanding requirements, and Zhao Guangzheng recalled being defeated by a Yang Clan steward who had cultivated its third revolution.
• Li Qingyuan used the Longevity Seed to fuse his magic power and Wind Thunder Body, then began cultivating the technique amid excruciating pain.
• Li Qingyuan swallowed a Three Talents Infant Transformation Pill and completed eighty-one Great Heavenly Cycles over nearly two years.
• The completed first revolution gave Li Qingyuan Profound Technique Magic Power and a treasure body, while the Mysterious Feminine Space sent him information about later revolutions.
• After three months of sorting through the information, Li Qingyuan obtained the complete Nine Revolutions Profound Technique and continued seclusion to cultivate its three divine abilities.

Human Emperor Dugu Lei reached the threshold of the first revolution of the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique and set out to unite the Nine Provinces against the extraterritorial Soul Transformation cultivators. When the Water Tribe refused to fight alongside the other races, he annihilated its forces and ordered their remains turned into resources for the coming battle.

• Dugu Lei completed twenty years of cultivation and reached the threshold of the first revolution of the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique.
• Dugu Lei ordered the Eight Kings to gather the Nascent Soul Cultivators of the eight provinces and assemble them in the Central Divine Continent within half a year.
• Dugu Lei offered the Earth Core Sea Water Tribe one last chance to join the other races in opening the Heavenly Gate, but the five Demon Kings refused.
• Dugu Lei killed the five Demon Kings and most of the Fourth-Tier Water Tribe great demons, while Nascent Soul cultivators ambushed and killed the few that fled.
• Dugu Lei ordered the demon infants sacrificed to the Heaven Severing Great Array and assigned the remaining materials for crafting weapons, puppets, formations, and talisman papers.

Li Qingyuan and the rulers of the Nine Provinces rallied human cultivators and demon races to travel to the Central Divine Continent and help the Human Emperor Open Heavenly Gate. Their forces gathered for a battle that would determine whether the Nine Provinces revived or fell further.

• Li Qingyuan arrived at Wind Thunder Immortal Sect, where more than a hundred Nascent Soul True Lords gathered under his authority in Desolate Province.
• Li Qingyuan declared that the Human Emperor sought to revive the Heavenly Dao and called on cultivators to Open Heavenly Gate; 107 Nascent Soul True Lords followed him toward the Central Divine Continent.
• Miao Le led fifty Nascent Soul True Lords from Huang Province toward the Central Divine Continent.
• Wang Decai, Ye Bufan, and Bai Hezhui rallied cultivators from Tian, Xuan, and Di Provinces to aid the Human Emperor.
• The Flood Dragon race, the Tiger-led Beast Race, and the Vermilion Bird-led Feather Race sent their Great Demons toward the Central Divine Continent.

The Human Emperor gathered 1,440 Nascent Soul-level combatants to begin the Nine Provinces Revival Plan by breaking the Heaven Severing Great Array. After studying the formation jade slip for two and a half years, Li Qingyuan devised a method that raised their chances of success, and the assembled forces followed the Human Emperor toward Red Flag Mountain.

• The Human Emperor counted the Nine Provinces’ human and demonic forces and announced the plan to break the Heaven Severing Great Array and open Heaven’s Scar.
• The Human Emperor presented a jade slip of formation knowledge preserved by generations of cultivators, and the gathered combatants studied it.
• Li Qingyuan continued comprehending the formations long after the other experts withdrew, eventually mastering the jade slip’s contents and the key points of the Heaven Severing Great Array.
• Li Qingyuan explained how to locate and break the third formation foundation, and the Human Emperor judged his method could raise their chances of success to nearly eighty percent.
• The Human Emperor led all 1,440 combatants toward Red Flag Mountain to break the Absolute Heaven Array.

Li Qingyuan and the Human Emperor led 1,448 Nascent Soul combatants in breaking the Absolute Heaven Array to revive the Nine Provinces Heavenly Dao. After hundreds of cultivators sacrificed themselves and five hundred array foundations were destroyed, Li Qingyuan urged everyone to press on until the array was broken.

• The Human Emperor appointed Li Qingyuan to command the effort to break the Absolute Heaven Array, and Li Qingyuan and Miao Le jointly dismantled its yin-and-yang third foundation.
• Li Qingyuan directed Nascent Soul cultivators and Fourth-Tier Great Demons to attack the array foundations, while the Human Emperor joined the operation and led the Four Envoys and Four Great Divine Beasts.
• The Human Emperor sacrificed the Nascent Souls of dozens of Water Tribe Great Demons into Formation Flags to aid the array-breaking.
• Xuantian, Xun Kuang, True Monarch Skyfire, and hundreds of other aging Nascent Soul combatants sacrificed themselves to weaken the array and help the others advance.
• The Human Emperor and Li Qingyuan led the remaining forces to destroy five hundred array foundations, and Li Qingyuan vowed that they would keep moving forward.

After ten years of sacrifice and relentless effort, the Nine Provinces cultivators reached the core of the Heaven Severing Great Array, where the Human Emperor prepared to sacrifice older cultivators to open a path. Li Qingyuan instead joined forces with Miao Le to search for another way, but the Jianmu Sapling drew him into an array foundation, and he vanished.

• The Nine Provinces cultivators destroyed more than thirteen hundred array foundations over ten years, with Li Qingyuan, Dugu Lei, and Zhao Guangzheng leading the effort.
• At the core of the Heaven Severing Great Array, Dugu Lei called on the older Nascent Soul Cultivators and transformed great demons to step forward and sacrifice their Primordial Spirit Power.
• Li Qingyuan and the young prodigies refused to let the seniors sacrifice themselves, and Li Qingyuan claimed he could pry open the core array foundations himself.
• Li Qingyuan and Miao Le joined their power and activated the Divine General Heavenly Eye, but his search through the core array foundations yielded no results for two and a half months.
• The Jianmu Sapling sensed an array foundation, flew into it, and vanished; Li Qingyuan followed it and disappeared, leaving Miao Le and the others unable to enter.

Li Qingyuan discovered and took a branch of the Jianmu Divine Tree from the Heaven Severing Great Array’s hidden formation space. After the Crystal Immortal Coffin claimed most of the branch and gave him the Ten Ultimate Array Codex, the formation space collapsed, leaving Li Qingyuan to escape.

• The Human Emperor and Miao Le waited for Li Qingyuan, while Miao Le reassured the Li Clan that he was likely safe.
• Li Qingyuan found a withered Jianmu branch that resonated with his Longevity Seed, Jianmu Sapling Primordial Spirit, and Green Wood Heavenly Sun Sword.
• Li Qingyuan used the Light of Fortune to pull the Jianmu branch into the Mysterious Feminine Space.
• The Crystal Immortal Coffin took the branch’s source Dao Rhyme, leaving Li Qingyuan three zhang of trunk, and sent him the Ten Ultimate Array Codex.
• The formation space collapsed after losing its source of power, and Li Qingyuan flew toward the light to escape.

Li Qingyuan escaped the collapsing Heaven Severing Great Array and proposed altering it to protect the Nine Provinces from Outer Realm invaders. After comprehending the Ten Ultimate Array Codex for sixty years, he faced an imminent invasion as Outer Realm Cultivators appeared beyond Heaven's Scar.

• Li Qingyuan broke out of the activated array, told the Human King he had destroyed its core foundation, and proposed changing the formation rather than letting it collapse.
• The Human King and the others agreed to guard Li Qingyuan while he studied the Heaven Severing Great Array using the Ten Ultimate Array Codex.
• Li Qingyuan realized the Crystal Immortal Coffin, the array, and the Jianmu branch might be linked by fate, but steadied his Dao heart and continued his study.
• Li Qingyuan comprehended the formation for sixty years as the array's foundations crumbled and more Nine Provinces cultivators joined the guard.
• Outer Realm Cultivators appeared beyond the widening Heaven's Scar and began attacking the formation.

Li Qingyuan and the Nine Provinces cultivators opened the Heavenly Gate, unleashing a Heavenly Dao vortex that dragged Outer Realm Cultivators into their world. As the invaders were swept through Heaven's Scar, Li Qingyuan and the Human Emperor attacked them.

• Hong Yuan reassured Li Xianhuang that Heaven's Scar would initially admit only Soul Transformation Stage cultivators and promised to lead the Li Immortal Clan to safety.
• Li Qingyuan and the Nine Provinces cultivators spent more than two years transforming the Heaven Severing Great Array into a Heaven Imprisoning Great Array around Heaven's Scar.
• Li Qingyuan and the Human Emperor led 1,246 Nascent Soul combat units in striking the sealing barrier and opening the Heavenly Gate.
• The expanding Heaven's Scar formed a Heavenly Dao vortex that sucked hundreds to over a thousand Outer Realm Cultivators, along with foreign energy and mountain ranges, into the Nine Provinces Continent.
• The Human Emperor used the Five Thunders Secret Technique to kill Nascent Soul Cultivators and drive back five Early Soul Transformation Stage cultivators.
• Li Qingyuan transformed into a hundred-meter giant and crushed Nascent Soul Cultivators while grinding down an Early Soul Transformation Stage cultivator.

Li Qingyuan fought Jin Wujiu amid the invasion and killed the Early Soul Transformation Stage Perfection Cultivator with the Green Wood Heavenly Sun Sword. As the Nine Provinces Heavenly Dao revived, Li Qingyuan began facing the continent’s first Three-Colored Soul Transformation Lightning Tribulation.

• Li Qingyuan fought Jin Wujiu, who summoned a Nascent Soul Clone, while the Human Emperor Teacher and the other defenders battled Outer Realm cultivators across the battlefield.
• Li Qingyuan opened the Gate of Space and sent Zhao Guangzheng, Ji Kun, Little Flame, the Second Yuan Clone, and the Blood Shadow Clone to attack the invaders.
• Li Qingyuan drew the Green Wood Heavenly Sun Sword and cleaved through Jin Wujiu’s Golden Profound Sword, then killed Jin Wujiu’s original body.
• Zhao Guangzheng captured Jin Wujiu’s weakened Primordial Spirit incarnation in the Soul Refining Banner.
• Li Qingyuan received the returning power of heaven and earth, and a Three-Colored Soul Transformation Lightning Tribulation descended upon him.
• The Human Emperor urged Li Qingyuan to cross the tribulation and ascend to Soul Transformation.