Recaps

After two hundred years of searching the Primordial Demonic Cave, Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun continued capturing Void Insects while Miao Le broke through to Quasi-Dao Venerable. Myriad Dragon Ancestor and Myriad Flowers Ancestor learned that Li Qingyuan had gone off alone and set out to capture him.

• Cangxuan Old Ancestor led the growing alliance into the Fourth and Fifth Great Realms, then the cultivators swept through the remaining realms in pursuit of Void Insects.
• Li Qingyuan caught another Void Insect, bringing his and Ji Kun's total to 299, and then told Ji Kun to take him to a hidden spatial node.
• Li Qingyuan brought Miao Le out of the Mysterious Feminine Space, where she passed the Earth, Metal, and Water tribulations and advanced to Quasi-Dao Venerable.
• Miao Le swallowed a Nine-Spirit Thunder Origin Pill to temper her Thunder God Body while Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun guarded her.
• Myriad Dragon Ancestor and Myriad Flowers Ancestor decided to exploit Li Qingyuan's absence and went to find him so they could capture him and Ji Kun.

After Miao Le completed the First-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, the Myriad Dragon Ancestor and Myriad Flowers Ancestor found Li Qingyuan and attacked him. As Ji Kun held off the Myriad Dragon Ancestor, Li Qingyuan and Miao Le merged their powers and struck at the Myriad Flowers Ancestor.

• Miao Le cultivated the Nine Heavens Lightning Tribulation Technique to the First-Nine Heavenly Tribulation level, and Li Qingyuan said she could eventually ascend to Dao Venerable.
• The Myriad Dragon Ancestor and Myriad Flowers Ancestor ambushed Li Qingyuan and Miao Le, destroying their formation with two Law Treasures.
• Ji Kun activated his bloodline power and fought the Myriad Dragon Ancestor, whose Myriad Dragon Armor withstood Ji Kun's attacks.
• The Myriad Flowers Ancestor's three Mahayana allies arrived, and Li Qingyuan told Old Zhao to fight the two female cultivators while he and Miao Le targeted the Myriad Flowers Ancestor.
• Li Qingyuan and Miao Le joined hands and merged their Wood Spirit Bodies, Longevity Immortal Seeds, and swords, boosting Li Qingyuan's strength to mid Mahayana stage completion.
• Li Qingyuan advanced with the World Tree behind him and slashed at the Myriad Flowers Ancestor.

Li Qingyuan and Miao Le joined forces to overwhelm the Myriad Flowers Ancestor, while Ji Kun kept the Myriad Dragon Ancestor occupied. Li Qingyuan captured the Myriad Flowers Ancestor's Nascent Soul and handed it to Old Zhao.

• Li Qingyuan and Miao Le unleashed the Jianmu Divine Tree Slash, shattered the Myriad Flowers Ancestor's defenses, and killed Long Fantian after she used him as a shield.
• The Myriad Flowers Ancestor summoned her Flower-Person Puppet and unleashed her supreme Divine Ability, but Li Qingyuan's Heavenly Eye Divine Light dispelled it.
• Li Qingyuan's sword shattered the puppet and wounded the Myriad Flowers Ancestor, whose Nascent Soul fled with the Myriad Flowers Lotus Platform.
• Li Qingyuan immobilized and pierced the Myriad Flowers Ancestor's Nascent Soul, sealing its power and capturing it.
• Miao Le refused the Myriad Flowers Ancestor's offer and told Li Qingyuan to give her to Old Zhao, who gratefully accepted.

Old Zhao devoured Myriad Flowers Ancestor’s Nascent Soul, and Li Qingyuan turned to confront Myriad Dragon Ancestor as he burned his power and tried to escape. Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun strengthened the Earth Marsh Sword Array enough to drive Myriad Dragon Ancestor back, then Li Qingyuan called on the Jianmu Divine Tree to empower the array further.

• Old Zhao devoured Myriad Flowers Ancestor’s Nascent Soul after Li Qingyuan had slain her body.
• Myriad Dragon Ancestor burned his Dragon Origin, unleashed the Cang Dragon True Form, and struck Ji Kun away before fleeing as a dragon.
• Li Qingyuan opened the Earth Marsh Sword Array, but Myriad Dragon Ancestor broke through its sword rivers and damaged its defenses.
• Li Qingyuan summoned three Blood Divine Son Avatars to strengthen the array, while Myriad Dragon Ancestor burned more Essence Blood and pressed forward.
• Ji Kun lent the array Ecliptic Heavenly Might, enabling its sword light to overwhelm Myriad Dragon Ancestor’s armor and drive him back.
• Li Qingyuan began calling on the Jianmu Divine Tree and World Power to empower the sword array.

Li Qingyuan used the Earth Marsh Sword Array and the power of the universe to overwhelm the Myriad Dragon Ancestor, then stopped his attempted self-destruction and captured his Nascent Soul. After collecting the dragon’s body and the defeated enemies’ belongings, Li Qingyuan left with valuable materials and a vast haul of resources.

• Li Qingyuan combined the Earth Marsh Sword Array, ecliptic power, and the Jianmu Divine Tree’s phantom to unleash sword rivers that shattered the Myriad Dragon Armor and severed the Myriad Dragon Ancestor’s body.
• The Myriad Dragon Ancestor tried to self-destruct, but Li Qingyuan immobilized him with the Great Grade Heavenly Immortal Art and sent his Nascent Soul into the Myriad Souls Banner.
• Old Zhao swallowed the Myriad Dragon Ancestor’s Nascent Soul and said refining it and the Myriad Flowers Ancestor’s soul would help him advance to the middle Mahayana stage.
• Miao Le collected the Azure Dragon’s body, and Li Qingyuan planned to repair and duplicate the Myriad Dragon Armor and give the Dragon Pearl to Little Flame.
• Li Qingyuan inspected the defeated experts’ Storage Bags and law treasures, found the Myriad Dragon Ancestor’s and Myriad Flowers Ancestor’s stores exceptionally rich, and said, “Duplicate.”

Li Qingyuan duplicated valuable Law Treasures and resources, then returned with Miao Le and Ji Kun after Wu Mengzi summoned them to join the expedition to the Ninth Great Realm. There, the leaders of the Four Great Powers assembled their forces to open the Primordial Void Domain, and First Yuji ordered everyone to sacrifice the Void Insects.

• Li Qingyuan duplicated the Dragon-Head Scepter, the Myriad Flowers Lotus Platform, and the resources in the storage rings, including a Dragonfolk Puppet and more than thirteen hundred Heaven and Earth Origin Stones.
• Wu Mengzi summoned Li Qingyuan to join the cultivators heading to the Ninth Great Realm, where the Four Great Powers planned to open the Primordial Void Domain.
• Li Qingyuan gave his parents storage rings containing ghost-path resources and a Dragonfolk Puppet, while deciding to take his daughter to the Azure Profound Immortal Sect.
• Cangxuan Old Ancestor gathered nearly two hundred thousand living beings and cultivators in the central region of the Ninth Great Realm.
• First Yuji declared that the Primordial Demonic Cave’s repelling force was growing stronger and ordered everyone to take out and sacrifice their Void Insects.

The Four Great Powers and their allies sacrificed more than 115,000 Void Insects, creating Spatial Tides and enabling five Immortal Domain Realm powerhouses to reveal and open the Void Domain Gate. The gate’s devouring force pulled the gathered cultivators inside, and First Yuji led the Immortal Venerable Hall through with orders to protect the beings of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.

• Li Qingyuan sacrificed 299 Void Insects, drawing astonished reactions from the Mahayana cultivators and praise from Wu Mengzi and Cangxuan Old Ancestor.
• The gathered cultivators sacrificed 98,000 Void Insects, and fifty-six Immortal Venerables added 17,000 more, surpassing the threshold that triggered Spatial Tides.
• First Yuji, Fairy Biluò, Golden Demon God, Gu Taxian, and Fairy Meili combined their Immortal Domain Realm powers to tear through the Spatial Tides and reveal the Ancient Bronze Gate.
• The five powerhouses opened the Void Domain Gate, releasing a Devouring Vortex that dragged the gathered beings inside.
• First Yuji led twelve Immortal Venerables of the Immortal Venerable Hall through the gate and ordered them to protect the beings of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.

Li Qingyuan and the cultivators were swept into the Primordial Void Domain, where skeletal beings—including three with Immortal Domain Realm strength—rose from beneath the earth and attacked. The weaker cultivators fled through passages opened by the Immortal Venerables, while the remaining forces fought the skeletal horde.

• The spatial vortex pulled Li Qingyuan, his family, and millions of cultivators into the Primordial Void Domain, where he gathered his family and helped steady the Azure Profound cultivators.
• The earth shook, and skeletal beings of many races crawled out from underground; three possessed Immortal Domain Realm power and ordered their forces to kill the invaders.
• First Yuji opened an exit passage and ordered cultivators below Half-step Dao Venerable to leave; the Golden Demon God, Fairy Biluò, Gu Taxian, and Fairy Meili opened more passages, and many cultivators retreated.
• The Golden Demon God and Fairy Biluò engaged two Immortal Domain Realm skeletons while First Yuji battled the humanoid skeleton and drove it back.
• Gu Taxian, Fairy Meili, Wen Dao, Lian Jiuyou, the Silver Demon God, and other Immortal Venerables led the remaining cultivators into battle against the skeletal army.

Li Qingyuan and the Four Great Powers fought through the Primordial Void Domain’s growing skeletal hordes, collecting crystals left behind by the slain creatures. At the domain’s heart, Zixiao withdrew from a breathing fetal sphere, awakening its skeletal guardian, who vowed to kill the intruders and claim the Primordial Immortal Embryo.

• Li Qingyuan and his companions attacked the skeletal beings, while First Yuji killed an Immortal Domain Realm skeleton and collected the crystal it left behind.
• The Immortal Venerables and other powerful leaders joined the battle, harvesting crystals as the skeletal hordes multiplied.
• First Yuji ordered the Four Great Powers to drive forward through the growing tide, and their forces cut down thousands of skeletons.
• Li Qingyuan’s team gathered six hundred crystals, and he used his blood avatars and sword arrays to fight late Mahayana stage skeletons.
• At the heart of the Primordial Void Domain, Zixiao left the fetal sphere after sensing the approaching commotion.
• The True Immortal-level skeletal master awakened, sensed the intruders, and declared that the Primordial Immortal Embryo belonged to him.

The True Immortal Skeleton arrived on the battlefield and attacked the assembled cultivators, but First Yuji blocked its strike with his bloodline power. The Skeleton revealed its desire to claim First Yuji’s body, and First Yuji joined Fairy Biluò and Golden Demon God in an attack to kill it.

• The True Immortal Skeleton crossed the void and restrained the assembled Immortal Venerables with a devastating finger strike.
• First Yuji awakened his innate first human bloodline and shattered the Skeleton’s finger strike with his Golden Fang Tian Painted Halberd, while the other cultivators retreated.
• Cangxuan Old Ancestor and Li Qingyuan discussed how First Yuji’s bloodline inspired recognition and suppressed the bloodlines of human cultivators.
• The True Immortal Skeleton recognized First Yuji as a descendant of the first human and declared that it wanted his body to form an immortal body.
• First Yuji urged Fairy Biluò and Golden Demon God to join him, and the three attacked the True Immortal Skeleton for a chance to obtain its Principle crystal.

First Yuji, Fairy Biluò, and the Golden Demon God fought the True Immortal skeleton while cultivators from the Four Great Powers battled its skeletal armies. In the Primordial Void Domain’s Secret Realm, Zixiao began refining the Primordial Immortal Embryo to gain the power to become a True Immortal and reopen the Immortal Path.

• Fairy Biluò and the Golden Demon God joined First Yuji in shattering the True Immortal skeleton’s Great Heavenly God Palm.
• The True Immortal skeleton revived the power in his bones and attacked with Dao Bone Heavenly Sound, but First Yuji blocked the killing move with Invulnerable to All Arts and fought back with his halberd.
• Fairy Biluò and the Golden Demon God returned to assist First Yuji, while Gu Taxian and Fairy Meili led cultivators from the four worlds against the skeletal armies, suffering heavy casualties.
• Zixiao reached the Primordial Immortal Embryo in the Secret Realm and covered it with Dream Butterflies to absorb its Dao Rhyme and Immortal Path origin.
• Zixiao began refining the embryo, intending to use its power to overcome the Deterioration Era’s suppression and open the Immortal Path, though she worried the other cultivators would oppose her claim to it.

First Yuji, Fairy Biluò, and the Golden Demon God fought the True Immortal Skeleton being, but its Immortal-Slaying Incantation Seal overcame their combined attacks. The True Immortal Skeleton being seized all three and began to draw Fairy Biluò and the Golden Demon God toward its mouth to devour them.

• The True Immortal Skeleton being knocked Fairy Biluò and the Golden Demon God away, but First Yuji struck through its True Immortal Domain and fractured its bones.
• First Yuji pressed his attack with the Imperial Pole Scripture of the World, while Fairy Biluò unleashed Yellow Springs True Water and the Golden Demon God used her Immortal Golden Radiance Heavenly Wings.
• The True Immortal Skeleton being burned its Primordial Immortal Source, healed its injuries, and used the Immortal-Slaying Incantation Seal to overpower all three attackers.
• The Immortal-Slaying Incantation Seal blasted First Yuji, Fairy Biluò, and the Golden Demon God away, leaving Fairy Biluò and the Golden Demon God weakened after their bloodline powers expired.
• The True Immortal Skeleton being seized First Yuji, Fairy Biluò, and the Golden Demon God with a giant golden hand and began drawing Fairy Biluò and the Golden Demon God toward its mouth.

Gu Taxian and Fairy Meili fled the Primordial Void Domain with Gu Yaorao as First Yuji rallied human cultivators to face the True Immortal skeletal creature. First Yuji killed it with his ultimate halberd strike and claimed its crystal, leaving Fairy Biluò and the Golden Demon God stunned by his power.

• Gu Taxian and Fairy Meili burned their Essence Blood, rescued Gu Yaorao, and fled toward the ancient bronze gate as other cultivators pursued them.
• First Yuji broke the True Immortal skeletal creature’s suppression with Imperial Apex · Origin Returning Slash, freeing Fairy Biluò and the Golden Demon God.
• First Yuji called on human cultivators and beings with human bloodlines, including Li Qingyuan, to lend him their power through Innate Human Emperor Dao · Myriad Immortals Converge.
• The True Immortal skeletal creature burned its remaining immortal presence and unleashed Immortal-Slaying Divine Light, but First Yuji met it with his halberd’s Origin Returning Slash.
• First Yuji shattered the creature’s domain and cleaved its body in two, killing it and creating a permanent Heaven’s Scar.
• The creature’s remains condensed into a True Immortal Crystal, which First Yuji took as Fairy Biluò and the Golden Demon God marveled at his strength.

First Yuji slew the True Immortal skeletal being, shared its crystal with the allies who had helped, and rallied the Four Great Powers to fight as one. After a month of battle wiped out the skeletal hordes at heavy cost, he led the survivors toward the core of the Primordial Void Domain.

• First Yuji crushed the True Immortal Crystal and distributed its shares among himself, Fairy Biluò, Golden Demon God, Gu Taxian, and Fairy Meili, while rewarding those who had lent him humanity's power.
• First Yuji declared that all living beings had to unite to overcome the Deterioration Era, and Li Qingyuan was moved by his vision and reflected on the many heroes of the age.
• First Yuji ordered the Four Great Powers to kill the skeletal beings and collect their Immortal Qi crystals; Golden Demon God and the other leaders led their forces into battle.
• Li Qingyuan ordered the Mahayana Heavenly Corps to join the fighting, and the allied forces fought for over a month, destroying the skeletal hordes while suffering many casualties.
• First Yuji announced that the skeletal beings had been wiped out and led the surviving cultivators toward the core of the Primordial Void Domain.

The Four Great Powers reached the heart of the Primordial Void Domain and discovered Zixiao absorbing a mysterious treasure called the Primordial Immortal Embryo. The Immortal Venerables realized it might be their only chance to become immortals, leaving the gathered forces poised for conflict.

• The Four Great Powers and their followers recovered from their battles as they traveled, then arrived at the Primordial Void Domain’s core and heard a powerful heartbeat.
• The cultivators saw a glowing, egg-shaped object and rushed toward it, only to discover Zixiao seated atop it.
• Cangxuan Old Ancestor and the others were shocked to learn that Zixiao was an Immortal Venerable peak cultivator in the Immortal Domain Realm.
• Zixiao identified the object as the Primordial Immortal Embryo, and the Immortal Venerables sensed that it could help them enter the Immortal Path Domain.
• As the Immortal Venerables focused on the embryo and the mood grew tense, Li Qingyuan retreated and ordered the Mahayana Heavenly Corps to withdraw slowly.

Zixiao explained that the Primordial Immortal Embryo could nurture an Innate God or Devil, but its essence was mature enough to make only one Immortal Domain cultivator a True Immortal. She arranged for herself, First Yuji, Fairy Biluò, and Golden Demon God to compete for it, but collapsing space forced the others to act before the contest began.

• Zixiao revealed that the Primordial Immortal Embryo was alive and described how it could give rise to a world or serve as a tonic for the Immortal Dao.
• Zixiao explained that the embryo could produce an Innate God or Devil and had enough essence to help only one of four Immortal Domain cultivators become a True Immortal.
• Gu Taxian and Fairy Meili challenged Zixiao’s claim that only four could compete, but Zixiao crushed their domain and lifebound treasures with one finger and sent them flying.
• Zixiao proposed that she, First Yuji, Fairy Biluò, and Golden Demon God fight for the embryo, and they agreed to seal it off before battling ten million li away.
• Spatial tides and wormholes erupted as the Primordial Void Domain destabilized, and Golden Demon God and Fairy Biluò attacked the embryo, proposing to divide it into four portions as Zixiao cried out for them to stop.

As the Primordial Demonic Cave collapsed, Zixiao and First Yuji agreed that the Primordial Immortal Embryo had to be refined or destroyed before it could hatch an Innate God or Devil. With the cultivators battling over the chance at immortality, First Yuji accepted Golden Demon God’s offer to become her dao companion and moved to claim the embryo.

• Fairy Biluò and Golden Demon God urged Zixiao and First Yuji to act before the Primordial Demonic Cave disappeared, warning that the embryo could hatch a threat to the Three Realms.
• Zixiao agreed to help First Yuji defeat their rivals and let him refine the embryo, and First Yuji swore to use immortality to help the world’s living beings.
• As spatial turbulence began ejecting cultivators, Gu Taxian and Fairy Meili raised the Zhou Tian Star-Dou Grand Formation, while Lian Jiuyou, Great Elder Wen Dao, and the other factions mobilized to fight.
• Fairy Biluò proposed dividing the embryo, and Golden Demon God offered to become First Yuji’s dao companion in exchange for the chance at immortality.
• First Yuji accepted Golden Demon God’s offer and swore a Dao Companion Contract, prompting Fairy Biluò to attack before Golden Demon God blocked her and told First Yuji to take the embryo.

First Yuji seized the Primordial Immortal Embryo and swore a Heavenly Dao oath, drawing the fortune of the flourishing Immortal Dao era and nearing the True Immortal realm. After he led the survivors out of the Primordial Void Domain, the Four Great Powers departed for their respective realms, leaving him to pursue his promise to Golden Demon God.

• First Yuji suppressed the Primordial Immortal Embryo, took it into his grotto-heaven, and vowed to open an Immortal Path for all ages without bullying the weak.
• The Heavenly Dao answered First Yuji's oath with fortune and power, bringing him infinitely close to the True Immortal realm.
• First Yuji used his Space Divine Ability to evacuate Li Qingyuan and the other cultivators as the spatial storms intensified, while Golden Demon God flew beside him.
• The Four Great Powers opened the Ancient Bronze Gate and led the cultivators out of the Primordial Void Domain before it closed.
• Li Qingyuan gave his parents an eighth tier low grade puppet, and his parents departed with Zhuge Ru and Tianyou Sanren for the Netherworld Ghost Realm.
• Golden Demon God returned to the Gods-and-Devils Corpse Grotto-heaven, while Fairy Biluò and the other powers withdrew; First Yuji sent the Immortal Venerable Hall cultivators back to the Nine Heavens.

After returning from the Primordial Demonic Cave, Li Qingyuan and the other cultivators settled back into their realms as First Yuji dealt with the Immortal Venerable Hall’s rebellion and distributed rewards. Once Li Qingyuan finished clan and sect business, he agreed to take Li Xianhuang to see her mother, Luo Ling.

• First Yuji welcomed the returning cultivators and sent those from the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths back to their realms.
• Cangxuan Old Ancestor and Dao Venerable Tianfeng welcomed Li Qingyuan and the others, and the Azure Profound Immortal Sect celebrated its expanded Mahayana ranks.
• First Yuji issued a wanted notice for Second Junlin’s rebel faction, offered amnesty to those who surrendered, and left his clone to govern while he entered seclusion.
• Li Qingyuan collected 299 portions of eighth-tier resources, secretly duplicated them, and returned with Miao Le and their daughter to visit the Li Immortal Clan.
• After the Azure Profound Immortal Sect’s Mahayana celebration and other affairs, Li Xianhuang asked Li Qingyuan to take her to see Luo Ling, and he agreed.

Li Qingyuan arranged a visit to the Luoshen Clan so Li Xianhuang could see her mother, Luo Ling, and traveled there with elders and fellow disciples. The delegation arrived at the clan’s hidden world, where Luo Yuyan welcomed them.

• After Li Xianhuang said she wanted to see her mother, Li Qingyuan decided to consult Wu Mengzi and Cangxuan Old Ancestor before visiting the Luoshen Clan.
• Wu Mengzi and Cangxuan Old Ancestor postponed their cultivation and joined Li Qingyuan’s plans, while Miao Le, Bing Ling'er, and the others remained in seclusion.
• Li Qingyuan and the Azure Profound Immortal Sect delegation set out aboard an eighth-tier Flying Law Treasure, and Cangxuan Old Ancestor sent Luo Yuyan advance notice of their visit.
• After traveling for three months through Taihao Heaven and Mount Sumeru Heaven, the delegation reached the Heavenly River Barrier, where Luo Yuyan came out to welcome them.
• Luo Yuyan escorted Li Qingyuan and the delegation into the Minor Thousand World where the Luoshen Clan resided.

Li Qingyuan reunited with Luo Ling and Li Xianhuang in the Luoshen Realm, where Luo Ling accepted his proposal to marry her again. Meanwhile, the Luoshen Clan’s ancestors agreed to consider the marriage if the Azure Profound Immortal Sect met three conditions.

• Luo Yuzhu, Luo Yuxia, and Luo Yuyan welcomed Cangxuan Old Ancestor and the Azure Profound Immortal Sect to the Luoshen Realm.
• Luo Ling saw Li Xianhuang and struggled with memories of their past life, which threatened to become an inner demon.
• Luo Yuzhu arranged for Luo Ling to accompany Li Qingyuan and Li Xianhuang to her cave abode.
• Li Qingyuan proposed to Luo Ling with a ring and flowers, and Li Xianhuang embraced her mother after their reunion.
• Luo Ling revealed that she had recovered all her past-life memories and accepted Li Qingyuan’s ring as the family embraced.
• Cangxuan Old Ancestor proposed a grand wedding, and the three Luoshen Clan ancestors agreed to approve the marriage if the Azure Profound Immortal Sect met their three conditions.

Luo Yuzhu set three conditions for Li Qingyuan and Luo Ling’s marriage, then joined Cangxuan Old Ancestor and the other ancestors in discussing the Dao. After months of peaceful family time, Luo Danchen challenged Li Qingyuan, and the Luoshen Clan’s ancestors summoned cultivators across the realm for an important announcement.

• Luo Yuzhu required Luo Ling to be Li Qingyuan’s principal wife, their daughters to join the Luoshen Clan, and Li Qingyuan to win over the clan’s Mahayana elders; Cangxuan Old Ancestor agreed to relay the conditions for the young couple to decide.
• Luo Yuzhu, Luo Yuyan, Luo Yuxia, and Cangxuan Old Ancestor discussed the Dao for several months.
• Li Qingyuan spent time in the mountains with Luo Ling and Xian’er, and Luo Ling’s unstable Dao heart largely recovered.
• Luo Danchen confronted Li Qingyuan and demanded that he leave, but Luo Ling used her Goddess bloodline to suppress him and defended Li Qingyuan.
• The Yellow Brocade Great Bell rang, and Luo Yuzhu summoned all cultivators at the Void Refinement Stage and above to gather for an important announcement.

The Luoshen Clan’s ancestors approved a marriage alliance between Luo Ling and Li Qingyuan, prompting clan members and four Mahayana Dao Venerables to challenge the arrangement. Li Qingyuan faced the four challengers together, and the chapter ended as his power summoned a Second-Nine Heavenly Tribulation.

• Luo Yuzhu announced the engagement of Luo Ling and Li Qingyuan, explaining that their marriage would unite the Luoshen Clan and the Cangxuan Sect and that future daughters could inherit Luo Ling’s mantle.
• Many Luoshen Clan members objected, but Luo Yuzhu and Luo Yuyan defended the alliance and challenged four Mahayana Dao Venerables to defeat Li Qingyuan if they wanted it canceled.
• The four Dao Venerables confronted Li Qingyuan, who invited them to attack together and dismissed their strength compared with Yang Jian’s.
• As the four attacked, Li Qingyuan and Luo Ling spoke the same line, and nine-colored tribulation lightning gathered overhead, revealing a Second-Nine Heavenly Tribulation.

Li Qingyuan defeated the Luoshen Clan’s Dao Venerables with his Second-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, then accepted Luo Danchen’s challenge to compete in alchemy. As Luo Danchen began refining his signature Fire Element Tribulation Pill, Li Qingyuan requested five eighth-tier low-grade spirit plants, leaving Luo Danchen startled.

• Li Qingyuan used the Second-Nine Heavenly Tribulation to defeat and injure Luo Danchen and the other Dao Venerables, who conceded.
• Luo Danchen refused to accept his defeat and challenged Li Qingyuan to an alchemy contest, prompting Li Qingyuan to agree.
• Yun Yan the Elixir Master urged Li Qingyuan to demonstrate his alchemy skill and Human-Pill Union Art by refining a Primordial Five Elements Pill.
• Luo Yuzhu prepared the alchemy grounds, and Cangxuan Old Ancestor healed Luo Danchen before the contest began.
• Luo Danchen chose his bonded Pill Furnace and began refining his best pill, the Fire Element Tribulation Pill, while Li Qingyuan requested five eighth-tier low-grade spirit plants.

Li Qingyuan refined a pill from all five Five Elements Divine Essence Fruits without supplementary ingredients, revealing a possible self-created eighth-tier formula. His pill triggered a heavenly tribulation and radiated an eighth-tier middle-grade presence, leaving the Luoshen Clan astonished.

• Li Qingyuan requested five elemental fruits from the Five Elements Divine Essence Tree, and Luo Yuzhu supplied them while Luo Danchen mocked his plan to use no supplementary ingredients.
• Li Qingyuan displayed Southern Bright Divine Fire, startling Luo Danchen and the Luoshen Clan’s elders with its power and rarity.
• Li Qingyuan warmed up by refining masterwork Third Revolution Golden Cores, then began refining all five fruits together as onlookers suspected he had created an eighth-tier pill formula.
• Luo Danchen completed a masterwork Fire Element Tribulation Pill and proudly challenged Li Qingyuan to match him.
• Li Qingyuan condensed his pill with the Human-Pill Union Art, and its recoil opened the furnace as Five Elements Tribulation Lightning gathered around an eighth-tier middle-grade pill.
• Luo Yuzhu praised Li Qingyuan as a worthy son-in-law while the gathered cultivators stared in shock at the pill and its heavenly tribulation.