Chapter Summaries

Li Qingyuan obtained the Dragon Origin Grass from Myriad Medicine Divine Mountain despite fearing a hidden being, then gathered nearly all the mountain’s spirit plants and led a group into the Five Fiends Secret Realm. The group entered the Yin Fire Realm, where Li Qingyuan used its dangerous earth-vein yin fire to temper his body.

• A hidden little girl revealed that she had given Li Qingyuan the Dragon Origin Grass to test him as a potential inheritor, and decided he was worth testing further.
• Li Qingyuan seized the returning Dragon Origin Grass, then challenged the Fourth-grade Spirit Plant puppets and collected every remaining Third-grade and Second-grade Spirit Plant.
• Li Qingyuan summoned his companions, ordered Zhao Guangzheng to leave some people pursuing the last Five Yuan Sect remnants, and led the stronger cultivators toward the immortal estate secret realm.
• Zhao Dai, Xia Yuanji, Sun He, Qi Yuxuan, Zhao Chong, and Zhao Tongxuan stayed behind, while Li Qingyuan and the others crossed the Heaven-Reaching Bridge into the Yin Fire Realm.
• Zhao Chong and Zhao Tongxuan retreated after the yin fire injured them, while Li Qingyuan endured it and used the Wind Thunder Hegemonic Body to temper his flesh.

Li Qingyuan endured the Yin Fire, Bi Feng, and Heavenly Lightning secret realms to temper his body, drawing closer to Late-Stage Core Formation. In the lightning realm, he encountered Xia Ying and ordered Zhenxing to kill the Five Yuan Sect cultivators with her.

• Li Qingyuan spent a month crossing the Yin Fire Secret Realm, using its flames and elixirs to temper his flesh until his golden core reached a bottleneck.
• Zhao Wuji, Ji Kun, and the Flame Dragon Lizard spent a month forging Ji Kun’s natal magic treasure from five golden cores and Ji Kun’s ancient eggshell fragments.
• Li Qingyuan endured another month of Bi Feng as he advanced to the third secret realm, while most of the other Mid-Stage Core Formation cultivators collapsed from exhaustion.
• He entered the lightning realm and used the lightning to temper his body, beginning to condense his fifth Thunder God Mark as Zhao Jue, Yu Xiao'er, Tan Yueyi, and Zhenxing followed.
• Li Qingyuan encountered Xia Ying and the Five Yuan Sect survivors; when Xia Ying attacked, Zhenxing restrained her whip, and Li Qingyuan ordered him to kill them all.

Li Qingyuan and Zhenxing fought through the Heavenly Thunder Secret Realm, killing Xia Ying and numerous Five Yuan Sect cultivators while gathering their resources. After reaching the realm’s core, Li Qingyuan entered seclusion and broke through to a Late-Stage Core Formation physical body, leaving Zhenxing to weigh whether to betray him.

• Zhenxing killed Xia Ying and the exhausted cultivators accompanying her, then handed their storage rings and magic treasures to Li Qingyuan.
• Li Qingyuan ordered Blood Shadow to study and draw talismans while Zhao Guangzheng supplied materials, then continued tempering his body as the group advanced.
• Li Qingyuan and Zhenxing killed more than a hundred Mid-Stage Core Formation Five Yuan Sect prodigies and over ten Late-Stage Core Formation cultivators, collecting their resources.
• At the core of the secret realm, Li Qingyuan began seclusion to advance his physical cultivation and told Zhao Guangzheng to kill Zhenxing if he showed disloyalty.
• After more than a month of cultivation, Li Qingyuan’s Physical Core Formation transformed into a three-inch golden core, and Zhenxing considered attacking him to regain his freedom.

Li Qingyuan reached Late-Stage Core Formation in both Dharma and body cultivation, then entered the Sin Secret Realm with Zhenxing. He resisted the resentful souls summoned by his past killings and continued forward, while Zhao Guangzheng recognized his formidable demonic resolve.

• Li Qingyuan completed his breakthrough to Late-Stage Core Formation in both cultivation paths at age eighty-six, and Zhenxing congratulated him.
• Li Qingyuan and Zhenxing continued through the Five Fiends Secret Realm, killing Young King Yuan's followers and taking their resources before reaching the Sin Secret Realm.
• Zhenxing explained that the Sin Secret Realm tested sin and Karma, and Li Qingyuan entered despite questioning what those concepts meant.
• The Sin Secret Realm confronted Li Qingyuan with thousands of resentful souls connected to people who had died because of him.
• Li Qingyuan used his Nascent Soul Divine Sense and Heart Demon Pupil to repel the souls, reaffirmed his resolve, and pressed onward.
• Zhao Guangzheng praised Li Qingyuan's Dao heart and predicted that he would surpass him.

Young King Yuan led his surviving prodigies into Forbidden Treasure Mountain, where ancient restrictions made its abundant treasures deadly to approach. A month later, Li Qingyuan and Zhenxing arrived, and Zhao Guangzheng recognized the restrictions and offered to guide them through.

• Young King Yuan and his elite followers entered Forbidden Treasure Mountain and found a Five Yuan Fruit Tree guarded by a lethal formation.
• A Rou tested the tree and lost her right arm when its restrictions struck; Young King Yuan shielded her with the Spirit Soul Bell.
• Jin Lingzi tried to seize an ancient Nascent Soul treasure, but its restrictions injured him and repelled the group.
• A prodigy was killed after his divine sense triggered another trap, so Young King Yuan ordered everyone to stay low and avoid releasing divine sense.
• One month after entering the mountain, Li Qingyuan and Zhenxing arrived, and Zhao Guangzheng offered to guide them through its restrictions.

Li Qingyuan and Zhao Guangzheng dismantled the restrictions around a Five Yuan Fruit Tree, allowing Li Qingyuan to collect and replicate it. The group continued through the dangerous secret realm and spotted a rare ancient Nascent Soul flying-needle treasure.

• Zhao Guangzheng revealed three restrictions around the Five Yuan Fruit Tree and explained how they worked.
• Li Qingyuan supplied Zhao Guangzheng with a Sun Moon Flame Soul Lotus and a Heavenly Infant Fruit to restore his strength, then learned about restrictions as Zhao Guangzheng dismantled them.
• Li Qingyuan collected the Five Yuan Fruit Tree, replicated it twice in the Mysterious Feminine Space, and planted the copies.
• Ji Kun completed its refinement of a Late-Stage Core Formation Five Elements golden core and gained a powerful natal magic treasure.
• Zhao Guangzheng warned Li Qingyuan and Zhenxing that the surrounding restrictions could be triggered by magic power or divine sense, then scouted ahead.
• The group found a rare ancient Nascent Soul flying-needle magic treasure, and Li Qingyuan told Zhao Guangzheng that he wanted it.

Li Qingyuan and Zhenxing disguised themselves as Mu Lingzi and Shui Lingzi after mastering restriction-breaking techniques and collecting treasures in Forbidden Mountain. They joined Young King Yuan’s group at the exit, where rival factions prepared to cooperate against the final formations and Li Qingyuan spotted a Soul Suppressing Stone he needed.

• Li Qingyuan subdued the Xuanming Needle, then followed Zhao Guangzheng through Forbidden Mountain while learning to break restrictions and gathering spirit plants, Ancient Treasures, and ores.
• Over several months, Li Qingyuan advanced his Restriction Attainment and independently removed the restrictions on the Mountain Settling Cudgel.
• Zhao Guangzheng detected a group near the secret realm’s exit, returned to the Mysterious Feminine Space, and Li Qingyuan and Zhenxing approached disguised as Mu Lingzi and Shui Lingzi.
• Li Qingyuan and Zhenxing joined Young King Yuan’s camp and encountered Jin Lingzi, while Wang Fugui and the other geniuses confronted Young King Yuan over his slaughter.
• Yu Jiao proposed that the rival groups work together to break the final three restriction formations, which contained twenty Top-grade Spirit Stones, unusual blood, and a stone stele.
• Zhao Guangzheng identified the stele as the Soul Suppressing Stone, and Li Qingyuan resolved to obtain it for the Myriad Souls Banner.

After months of failing to break the restriction formation, the factions joined forces and shattered it, setting off a brutal scramble for the treasures. Li Qingyuan used the chaos to seize the Soul Suppressing Stone and was then ordered by Young King Yuan to help claim the Ancient Treasure Blood.

• Zhang Tianyu and Tu Lingzi fought over the factions’ failure to break the restrictions until Young King Yuan forced them to stop.
• Li Qingyuan had Zhao Guangzheng secretly guide Zhenxing as he joined Zhen Shui, Zhang Tianci, Yu Jiao, and Yu Xiao in studying the formation.
• Zhenxing, Zhen Shui, Zhang Tianci, Yu Jiao, and Yu Xiao exposed flaws in the restrictions, and the gathered prodigies attacked until the formation broke.
• Zhenxing blasted twenty Top-grade Spirit Stones into the air, triggering a chaotic battle as disciples from the factions scrambled to seize them.
• While Young King Yuan and other Peak Core Formation cultivators fought over the Ancient Treasure Blood, Li Qingyuan resisted the Soul Suppressing Stone’s attack and stored it in his Space Ring.
• Young King Yuan praised Li Qingyuan and ordered him to help seize the Ancient Treasure Blood.

Disguised as Mu Lingzi, Li Qingyuan manipulated the battle over the Ancient Treasure Blood and Top-grade Spirit Stones, provoking the assembled Core Formation cultivators into a catastrophic melee. After three days, the survivors regained their senses amid the bodies and struggled to understand the massacre.

• Li Qingyuan, posing as Mu Lingzi, urged Young King Yuan to claim the Ancient Treasure Blood while tying down Jiang Xuanxu and inflaming the factions’ greed.
• Jin Lingzi, Ye Xuan, Jiang Xuanxu, and other prodigies fought over the treasure and Top-grade Spirit Stones as cultivators died across the battlefield.
• Jiang Xuanxu sent Li Qingyuan flying, shattering his Space Ring and spilling valuable spirit plants and treasures, which drew dozens of cultivators into pursuing Li Qingyuan.
• Zhenxing nearly killed a Five Yuan Sect disciple while overcome by his inner demon, but Li Qingyuan warned him to stop before their disguises were exposed.
• Li Qingyuan used the Heart Demon Pupil to intensify the cultivators’ killing intent, helping turn the battle into an uncontrollable slaughter that continued for three days.
• The surviving cultivators finally regained their senses and found the summit strewn with roughly two hundred corpses, leaving them horrified and confused.

Young King Yuan and Wang Fugui’s forces fought over the Ancient Treasure Blood until Wang Shou Cai betrayed Wang Fugui and gravely wounded him. Just as Young King Yuan appeared poised to claim victory, Li Qingyuan and Zhenxing suddenly turned against their own side.

• Young King Yuan and Wang Fugui recognized that the fighting over the Ancient Treasure Blood seemed manipulated, but Li Qingyuan persuaded Young King Yuan that Wang Fugui had been sent by the Human King to obstruct him.
• Young King Yuan attacked Wang Fugui, and their forces and allies joined a chaotic battle while several sects waited on the sidelines.
• Young King Yuan used Soul Unification to overpower Wang Fugui, who began awakening his God of Wealth Bloodline as Wang Xiao Er appeared to shield him.
• Wang Shou Cai stabbed Wang Fugui through the heart, revealed that he and his father had secretly served the Five Yuan King, and joined Young King Yuan.
• Young King Yuan promised to take Wang Fugui’s God of Wealth Bloodline and give it to Wang Shou Cai, then challenged anyone to stop him.
• Li Qingyuan and Zhenxing exchanged a glance and attacked Young King Yuan and Jin Lingzi, triggering a sudden upheaval.

Li Qingyuan’s group witnessed the Five Fiends Secret Realm transform into a powerful lotus, while Li Xianhuang emerged with a vast formation inheritance that left her unable to move. Li Qingyuan ambushed Young King Yuan, stole the Ancient Treasure Blood, and destroyed his soul avatar, provoking Young King Yuan into a vengeful attack.

• The Five Fiends Secret Realm collapsed into a multicolored lotus, and Young King Yuan was injured when he tried to seize it.
• Li Xianhuang appeared above a divine mountain as a formation inheritance entered her brow, and the gathered factions realized she could not move until she finished absorbing it.
• Young King Yuan ordered Jin Lingzi to capture Li Xianhuang, while Li Qingyuan silently moved closer to him and Zhenxing went to assist Jin Lingzi.
• Li Qingyuan, disguised as Mu Lingzi, struck Young King Yuan with the Xuanming Needle, then killed A Rou and took the Ancient Treasure Blood.
• Young King Yuan used his soul avatar to recover from the fatal wound, but the avatar shattered; enraged, he charged at Li Qingyuan and threatened his family and clan.

Li Qingyuan revealed his identity and fought Young King Yuan while Zhenxing attacked Jin Lingzi and the gathered factions turned against the Five Yuan Sect. Young King Yuan invoked the Five Yuan True Nascent Soul Technique as the battle escalated.

• Li Qingyuan and Young King Yuan clashed over the Nine Yang Spirit Ganoderma, while Zhenxing ambushed Jin Lingzi and drove him into retreat.
• Wang Fugui ordered the Wang Family and Tongbao Pavilion disciples to capture Wang Shou Cai as the Five Yuan Sect's forces fell into disarray.
• Li Qingyuan revealed his true appearance to Young King Yuan, and the two exchanged talisman arrays, magic tools, and attacks in the sky.
• Young King Yuan's flood dragon and tiger joined the fight, but Ji Kun defeated both with the Sky Swallowing Sphere.
• Ye Xuan, Jiang Xuanxu, and the other prodigies attacked the Five Yuan Sect's disciples, leaving them outnumbered and suffering casualties.
• Young King Yuan burned five drops of essence blood and unleashed the Five Yuan True Nascent Soul Technique.

Young King Yuan used the Five Yuan True Nascent Soul Technique to summon five False Nascent Soul giants and attack Li Qingyuan. Li Qingyuan resisted with his talisman arrays and other techniques, but Young King Yuan brought out the Five Yuan Mountain and the battle continued after Li Qingyuan emerged from the rubble.

• Young King Yuan burned five drops of Essence Blood to summon five False Nascent Soul giants and armed them with Quasi-Fourth Tier magic tools.
• Tu Lingzi praised Young King Yuan’s technique as the Five Yuan Sect’s morale rose, while the gathered geniuses worried that Li Qingyuan would be overwhelmed.
• Young King Yuan commanded the giants to attack Li Qingyuan, who used the Five Elements Talisman Array to repel their weapons and withstand their combined assaults.
• Young King Yuan summoned the Five Yuan Mountain, and its clash with Li Qingyuan’s Nine Cauldrons United shattered Li Qingyuan’s demonic cauldron and sent him crashing into a cliff.
• Li Qingyuan burst from the rubble and launched five sets of Five Elements Talisman Paper at Young King Yuan, who demanded to know where a rogue cultivator had obtained so many high-grade talisman arrays.

Li Qingyuan fought Young King Yuan’s desperate assault while Wang Fugui recovered and the Five Yuan Sect’s forces collapsed. As a mysterious eye chose Li Xianhuang, Li Qingyuan protected her, and she recognized him as her father.

• Li Qingyuan used Blood Shadow to keep drawing talisman arrays as he and Young King Yuan traded attacks, while Young King Yuan consumed pills and a Five Yuan Fruit to strengthen his assault.
• Wang Fugui treated his poisoned wounds, and Zhenxing killed the captured Jin Lingzi after Young King Yuan refused to save him.
• Young King Yuan unleashed Five Yuan Mountain and the Spirit Soul Bell against Li Qingyuan, who fought on while waiting for Wang Fugui to recover.
• The formation inheritance entered Li Xianhuang’s Sea of Consciousness, and a living eye emerged from the immortal mountain and settled in her palm.
• Young King Yuan sent a crimson fire giant to seize the eye, but Li Qingyuan intervened and shattered its hand with his Great Halberd.
• Li Xianhuang saw Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun arrive, sensed their familial bond, and softly called Li Qingyuan her father.

Li Qingyuan fled with Li Xianhuang while Young King Yuan and the other prodigies pursued them, then stopped in a magma cave to face Young King Yuan alone. As the two prepared to fight, Li Qingyuan began using the Five Energies Returning to Origin Technique.

• Li Qingyuan tied Li Xianhuang to him with the Wood Spirit Vine and broke through the surrounding prodigies using his Wind Thunder Wings.
• Li Qingyuan struck down a Heavenly Saber Gate prodigy and escaped at speed rivaling an Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator, with Young King Yuan and others chasing him.
• The cultivators at Myriad Medicine Divine Mountain discovered that its Third-tier Spirit Plants and treasure herbs were gone and suspected Li Qingyuan had taken them.
• After a day of pursuit, Li Qingyuan reached a magma cave and had Ji Kun, Blood Shadow, and the Flame Dragon Lizard protect Li Xianhuang.
• Young King Yuan caught up and attacked with his False Nascent Soul giants and five Vajra Dharma manifestations, while Li Qingyuan gathered his strength and began the Five Energies Returning to Origin Technique.

Li Qingyuan used the Five Energies Returning to Origin Technique to overwhelm Young King Yuan and his False Nascent Soul giants. After feigning negotiations while both men recovered, Li Qingyuan launched another attack, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Li Qingyuan absorbed five kinds of energy, raised his cultivation to the False Nascent Soul realm, and drove back Young King Yuan’s five giants and their magical artifacts with his talisman arrays.
• Li Qingyuan smashed the white-gold giant with the Mountain Settling Cudgel, then broke Young King Yuan’s Spirit Soul Bell and defeated the yellow-earth giant.
• Li Xianhuang learned from Ji Kun and the Undying Bird that Li Qingyuan had the Wood Spirit Body and that his chicken was an Ancient Fierce Bird called the Sky Swallowing Chicken.
• Young King Yuan proposed peace while he and Li Qingyuan secretly replenished their strength with Top-grade Spirit Stones.
• Li Qingyuan said Young King Yuan himself was what mattered, absorbed a precious spirit plant, and struck at him with the Mountain Settling Cudgel.

Li Qingyuan defeated and captured Young King Yuan after their spells, treasures, and divine senses reached a stalemate. He began refining him into a corpse puppet, but a dormant Peak Core Formation aura in Young King Yuan’s bloodline suddenly awakened.

• Li Qingyuan broke the deadlock by destroying the wood giant and binding Young King Yuan’s remaining attacks, while their pupil techniques left both men wounded.
• Young King Yuan collapsed from exhaustion and tried to escape with a talisman, but Ji Kun and Li Qingyuan stopped him and bound him.
• Li Qingyuan offered Young King Yuan’s body to Zhao Guangzheng, who chose instead to become the Main Soul and artifact spirit of the Soul-Refining Restriction Banner.
• Li Qingyuan began refining Young King Yuan with Yin Sha Qi and the Power of Wind and Thunder to make him a corpse puppet.
• A dormant Peak Core Formation aura erupted from Young King Yuan’s bloodline, and a voice resembling a younger Five Yuan King demanded to know who was there.

Li Qingyuan refined Young King Yuan into his second Natal Corpse Puppet, named Second Yuan, and reunited with his daughter, Li Xianhuang. After discussing Five Yuan King's possible designs on his son and claiming Young King Yuan's immense hoard, Li Qingyuan heard Five Yuan King roar outside the collapsing Void Refinement Grotto-heaven.

• Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun restrained Young King Yuan and refined him into a Corpse Puppet, then Li Qingyuan formed its spirit soul using his blood essence and divine sense.
• Li Qingyuan named the clone Second Yuan and stored him in the Mysterious Feminine Space, then recovered from the strain of the Five Energies Returning to Origin Technique as his Halberd of Subduing with Virtue shattered.
• Li Xianhuang reunited with Li Qingyuan, and he warned her to remain vigilant even toward family in the Cultivation World.
• Zhao Guangzheng explained that Five Yuan King had used a bloodline secret technique to control Young King Yuan, and Li Qingyuan suspected he might have intended to take over his son's body.
• Li Qingyuan claimed Young King Yuan's magic tools, treasures, and vast storage-bag haul, then heard Five Yuan King roar outside the collapsing grotto-heaven, asking who had killed his son.

Li Qingyuan and his companions took refuge in the Mysterious Feminine Space as the Five Yuan King and the Human King tried to break into the grotto-heaven. After the Heavenly Eye acknowledged Li Qingyuan, the Five-colored Lotus Lamp also entered his body, leaving its frightened artifact spirit trapped in the space.

• Li Qingyuan drew his daughter, Zhao Guangzheng, Ji Kun, Blood Shadow, and the Flame Dragon Lizard into the Mysterious Feminine Space while the Five Yuan King and the Human King attacked the spatial barrier.
• The Undying Bird Primordial Spirit Hong Yuan emerged from Li Xianhuang, swore oaths not to harm her or reveal the space, and agreed to take her as a disciple.
• Zhao Guangzheng used the Soul Suppressing Stone to absorb the dead souls in the grotto-heaven, including more than two thousand Core Formation cultivators, while Shui Lingzi's soul was found to have been consumed by Zhenxing.
• Zhenxing chose to remain under Li Qingyuan's command and entered the Mysterious Feminine Space instead of returning to the Five Yuan Sect.
• The Heavenly Eye resonated with the space, acknowledged Li Qingyuan as its master, and settled on the Jianmu Sapling in his Mud Pill Palace.
• The Five-colored Lotus Lamp arrived after the Heavenly Eye acknowledged Li Qingyuan, entered his body, and brought its crying artifact spirit into the Mysterious Feminine Space.

Li Qingyuan discovered that the Five-colored Lotus Lamp housed an artifact spirit named Yang Xiaohe, whose history revealed a fallen guardian of the Nine Provinces Celestial Domain and the severed immortal path. After the Void Refinement Grotto-heaven collapsed, the Five Yuan King searched for his son’s killer, and Li Qingyuan asked whether his allies could defeat him.

• Li Qingyuan used the Light of Fortune to restore the Five-colored Lotus Lamp and help Yang Xiaohe grow, but the process shrank the Mysterious Feminine Space.
• Yang Xiaohe explained that her master, Yang He, had taken her brother Yang Nie’s place guarding the Nine Provinces Celestial Domain and had eventually transformed into the Dao.
• Yang Xiaohe said the Divine General Family’s ancestor was named Yang Jian, though she believed he had likely died after the immortal path was severed.
• The Void Refinement Grotto-heaven collapsed, and the Five Yuan King demanded to know who had killed his son.
• Li Qingyuan asked Senior Hong Yuan, Elder Zhao, and Yang Xiaohe whether they could join forces to fight or kill the Five Yuan King.