Chapter Summaries

Li Qingyuan and his allies prepared to fight Five Yuan King, but Human King Dugu Lei intervened and shielded the surviving trial participants. Five Yuan King’s grief and humiliation over Young King Yuan’s death drove him to challenge Dugu Lei and threaten to seize control of the Nine Provinces Continent.

• Li Qingyuan decided to gamble that the Human King would protect him while preparing to break out with Zhao Guangzheng, Yang Xiaohe, and Hong Yuan if necessary.
• Five Yuan King searched the surviving Core Formation Prodigies with his Nascent Soul Power, learned of Li Qingyuan’s conflict with Young King Yuan, and demanded that Li Qingyuan appear.
• Dugu Lei descended amid lightning, suppressed Five Yuan King’s Soul Transformation Artistic Conception, and questioned whether Young King Yuan could really have been killed by anyone.
• Dugu Lei declared the Human King Hall trial selection complete and invoked Five Yuan King’s own past claim that fallen prodigies were merely losers who deserved to be forgotten.
• Five Yuan King brooded over the loss of his son and his plans for the future, then confronted Dugu Lei and declared that the Nine Provinces Continent would change hands.

Five Yuan King led Five Yuan Sect and more than two hundred Nascent Soul True Lords in rebellion against Human King Dugu Lei, demanding concessions over his son’s death, the Nine Provinces Nascent Soul Pact, and Red Flag Mountain. Dugu Lei rejected their demands and fought Five Yuan King, whose Five Yuan True Nascent Soul Technique unleashed five Peak Nascent Soul manifestations as Li Qingyuan watched in alarm.

• Five Yuan King rallied Five Yuan Sect and called on Nascent Soul cultivators to demand an explanation from the Human King, drawing more than two hundred True Lords into his camp.
• Dugu Lei lamented that former allies had turned against him while more than two hundred loyal Nascent Soul Cultivators gathered behind him.
• Five Yuan King demanded that Dugu Lei hand over his son's killer, abolish the Nine Provinces Nascent Soul Pact, and destroy the Heaven Severing Great Array and Red Flag Mountain.
• Dugu Lei refused, condemned the rebels, and ordered his forces to kill them before clashing with Five Yuan King using a lightning great halberd.
• Five Yuan King summoned five Peak Nascent Soul manifestations with his Five Yuan True Nascent Soul Technique and attacked Dugu Lei alongside them.
• Li Qingyuan watched the destructive battle and thought that immortals were fighting.

The Human King and the Five Yuan King fought at Pseudo-Soul Transformation level, while their forces began a battle across the secret realm. The Five Yuan King gained power through Soul Unification, and the chapter left the two kings clashing as True Monarch Skyfire protected the prodigies from Jin Yuanzi.

• The Human King used lightning attacks to destroy the Five Yuan King's five Peak Nascent Soul giants and countered the Heavenly Mandate Blade with Thunderclap Fist.
• The Five Yuan King concluded that the Human King had reached the Pseudo-God Realm, while the Human King explained that incomplete laws kept him from true Soul Transformation.
• The Five Yuan King merged with his Five Elements soul avatar, broke past Peak Nascent Soul, and reached Pseudo-Soul Transformation.
• The Human King summoned the Ascending Heaven Tower to clash with Five Yuan Mountain, then fought the Five Yuan King with his halberd as both men's forces prepared for battle.
• Jin Yuanzi, Huo Yuanzi, and the Five Yuan Sect's forces attacked the secret realm prodigies, but True Monarch Skyfire stopped Jin Yuanzi from striking them.
• True Monarch Skyfire and Jin Yuanzi began fighting as the two Nascent Soul armies clashed, while Li Qingyuan and the other Core Formation prodigies watched.

Miao Le and the Heavenly Inspector of Yan Country fought Xia Si while the Human King unleashed his Thunder God Body and defeated the Five Yuan King. The Five Yuan King escaped with more than two hundred Nascent Soul cultivators behind a Five-Colored Earth barrier, and Li Qingyuan resolved to obtain the treasure for the Mysterious Feminine Space.

• Xia Si attacked Miao Le, but Miao Le used her talisman array, puppet, tribulation lightning, and Peach Blossom Lotus Platform to withstand Xia Si's strike.
• The Heavenly Inspector of Yan Country revealed herself as Xia Si's surviving junior sister and challenged her to settle their old grudge.
• Miao Le fought a Nascent Soul Middle Stage enemy while cultivators across the battlefield joined opposing sides, and Li Qingyuan, Wang Fugui, and the other Core Formation Prodigies watched from a safe distance.
• The Human King revealed his Thunder God Body and used his lightning great halberd to overpower the Five Yuan King and batter Five Yuan Mountain.
• The Five Yuan King protected himself and his allies with Five-Colored Earth, then retreated toward Yellow Province with more than two hundred Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Li Qingyuan sensed the Mysterious Feminine Space's desire to devour the Five-Colored Earth and promised to find a way to obtain it.

After the Human King took Li Qingyuan away from the battlefield, he learned that Young King Yuan had planned to use captured prodigies as replacement bodies for aging Nascent Soul cultivators. Li Qingyuan gave the Human King the Thunder Spirit Fruit, leaving the king to ask what he wanted in return.

• The Human King ordered the gathered sect and family leaders to return home and suppress unrest while he pursued the defeated Five Yuan King.
• True Monarch Miao Le worried over Li Qingyuan, and the Human King took him away while concealing his identity from the others.
• Li Qingyuan revealed himself to the Human King, who recognized his Formless Divine Ability and assessed his cultivation and talents.
• Li Qingyuan admitted killing Young King Yuan and gave the Human King the Five Yuan Mountain Replica, which the king returned after explaining the Five Yuan Sect's plan to seize the captured prodigies' bodies.
• Li Qingyuan presented the Human King with a Thunder Spirit Fruit, and the king asked what he wanted in exchange.

Li Qingyuan traded the Human King a Nine Yang Spirit Ganoderma for one hundred Top-grade Spirit Stones and agreed to share the grotto-heaven inheritances. After hearing the Human King's vision of restoring the Nine Provinces Celestial Domain, Li Qingyuan was inspired to support his cause.

• Li Qingyuan told the Human King that he had killed Young King Yuan, obtained four of the grotto-heaven's five precious herbs, and that his daughter had inherited the secret realm's Ultimate Inheritance.
• Li Qingyuan revealed where to find an Earth Thunder Stone, and the Human King promised to remember his contribution.
• The Human King offered one hundred Top-grade Spirit Stones for a Nine Yang Spirit Ganoderma, and Li Qingyuan accepted the exchange.
• The Human King asked Li Qingyuan to leave three precious herbs with him and make rubbings of three inheritances so he could share them across the Nine Provinces Continent.
• The Human King declared his determination to restore the Nine Provinces Celestial Domain, and Li Qingyuan offered to share the grotto-heaven inheritances and help him.

Li Qingyuan became the Human King's personal disciple and received the Nine Heavens Lightning Tribulation Technique. As the Human King trapped the Five Yuan King Lineage in Huang Province and summoned forces to hunt them, Li Qingyuan was honored as His Highness Qingyuan.

• The Human King asked Li Qingyuan to become his disciple and passed on the complete Nine Heavens Lightning Tribulation Technique.
• The Human King and Li Qingyuan pursued Five Yuan King to Huang Province, where Five Yuan King raised a vast formation controlled by hundreds of Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Five Yuan King attacked Li Qingyuan with the Heavenly Mandate Blade, but the Human King blocked it and warned Li Qingyuan about the danger of Soul Transformation Artistic Conception.
• The Human King spent three months setting formations that trapped the Five Yuan King Lineage in Huang Province and restricted their escape.
• The Four Envoys and other cultivators arrived, and the Human King ordered them to guard Huang Province and hunt the Five Yuan King Lineage remnants across the Eight Provinces Continent.
• The Human King introduced Li Qingyuan as his personal disciple, safeguarded his treasures, and donated his alchemy, artifact-refinement, and talisman inheritances to the Human King Hall; the cultivators saluted him as His Highness Qingyuan.

The Human King suppressed the Five Yuan King’s rebellion, named Li Qingyuan his personal disciple, and sent him to cultivate at Human King Hall after half a year. Li Qingyuan returned to the Three Joys Immortal Sect, where Miao Le promoted him to Vice Sect Master and the sect hailed him as His Highness Qingyuan.

• The Human King entrusted the Four Envoys with artifacts and orders to contain the Five Yuan King while he left to suppress rebels elsewhere.
• The Five Yuan King warned that Heaven’s Scar would bring foreign powerhouses, and the Human King accused him of planning to serve the Outer Realm Cultivators before departing.
• The Human King gave Li Qingyuan half a year to say farewell before entering Human King Hall, and Li Qingyuan thanked True Lord Xuantian for the Xuantian Secret Technique.
• True Lord Xuantian and Miao Le explained that Baleful Yin and Myriad Phenomena had rebelled but were defeated and had retreated with other factions to Yellow Province.
• Li Qingyuan, Miao Le, and True Lord Xuantian returned to Yue Kingdom, where Miao Le promoted Li Qingyuan to Vice Sect Master and the Three Joys Immortal Sect greeted him as His Highness Qingyuan.

Li Qingyuan brought Li Xianhuang to his cave mansion and told her to serve as the concealed link between him and the family while she cultivated toward Core Formation. He repaid Miao Le with ten Top-grade Spirit Stones, then planned to refine elixirs and pursue the skill needed to become a Fourth-grade Alchemy Master, which could accelerate the family's rise.

• Li Qingyuan brought Li Xianhuang to Qingyuan Immortal Mansion, revealed his standing in the Three Joys Immortal Sect and as the Human King's disciple, and appointed her the secret link to the family.
• Li Qingyuan gave Li Xianhuang control of the cave mansion's formation and permission to use its resources while she cultivated toward Core Formation.
• Li Qingyuan visited Miao Le, gave her ten Top-grade Spirit Stones in return for her earlier trust and generosity, and congratulated her on her prospects of reaching Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Li Qingyuan spent several days with Miao Le before returning to his cave mansion.
• Li Qingyuan chose the Spirit Yuan Pill, Blood Soul Pill, and Spirit-Cleansing Pill to master as he worked toward becoming a Fourth-grade Alchemy Master.
• Li Qingyuan decided to refine the Three-Revolutions Spirit Twisting Pill first to increase the cultivation speed of Luo Ling, Qingqing, Li Xianhuang, Xiao Feng, and the family's cultivators.

Li Qingyuan gave Li Xianhuang a complete fourth-grade alchemy inheritance and pills to support her fifteen-year cultivation retreat, aiming for her to form her core. He also supplied Zhao Tongxuan and Three Joys Immortal Sect elders with pills before returning to alchemy as he prepared for a future trip to the Divine Continent.

• Li Qingyuan refined ten furnaces of Three-Revolutions Spirit Twisting Pills, producing mostly Masterwork Quality pills, then gave Li Xianhuang pills and his alchemy inheritance.
• Li Xianhuang learned that the pills and Fourth-grade Spirit Vein could help her form her core after fifteen years of seclusion, and she began her retreat.
• Li Qingyuan gave Zhao Tongxuan two bottles of pills for his cultivation before their planned trip to the Human King Hall in the Divine Continent.
• Li Qingyuan asked Zhao Tongxuan to deliver four bottles of pills to True Person Yun Le and True Person Ya Le so they could pursue Peak Core Formation and the Nascent Soul realm.
• Li Qingyuan returned to seclusion, studied the Third-grade High-rank Spirit Yuan Pill for seven days, and began refining it.

Li Qingyuan rapidly improved his alchemy, mastering several Third-grade elixirs before using a new furnace to refine Fourth-grade Spirit-Cleansing Illusionary Elixirs. His successful batch made him the Three Joys Immortal Sect’s first Fourth-grade Alchemy Master, and the sect celebrated his achievement.

• Li Qingyuan refined six batches of Spirit Yuan Pills, progressing from low-grade pills to three masterwork pills, then quickly achieved masterwork quality with Blood Soul Pills and Spirit-Cleansing Pills.
• Miao Le sent Li Qingyuan a Fourth-grade Mid-grade Alchemy Furnace, which he caught and identified as the Heavenly Flame Qilin Furnace.
• Li Qingyuan studied the Spirit-Cleansing Illusionary Elixir formula and refined three batches, producing low-grade and standard-grade pills.
• Li Qingyuan used the Mysterious Feminine Space and Longevity Seed to improve his alchemy, producing three standard-grade Spirit-Cleansing Illusionary Elixirs in his fourth batch.
• Miao Le broke through the cave mansion’s formation barrier so the elixir manifestation could rise, revealing Li Qingyuan’s success to the Three Joys Immortal Sect.
• The sect’s members celebrated Li Qingyuan as a Fourth-grade Alchemy Master, while Miao Le admired him from above.

Li Qingyuan gave True Person Yun Le and True Person Ya Le Spirit-Cleansing Illusionary Elixirs and Earth Infant Fruits to help them attempt Nascent Soul formation, then presented Miao Le with an Earth Infant Fruit Tree for the sect’s future. After spending several days cultivating with Miao Le, he planned to bring his daughter to meet her before taking the child home for a visit.

• Li Qingyuan gave True Person Yun Le and True Person Ya Le Spirit-Cleansing Illusionary Elixirs and two Earth Infant Fruits, raising their chance of forming Nascent Souls to around fifty percent.
• True Person Yun Le and True Person Ya Le accepted the gifts and went into seclusion to prepare for their breakthrough.
• Li Qingyuan gave Miao Le an Earth Infant Fruit Tree to secure the Three Joys Immortal Sect’s future inheritance once she reached the Late Nascent Soul Stage.
• Li Qingyuan and Miao Le cultivated together for several days, improving their magic power.
• Li Qingyuan asked to take his daughter home for a visit, and Miao Le asked him to bring her over the next day so they could meet.

Li Qingyuan visited Miao Le with Li Xianhuang, who received a treasured ring and Miao Le’s affection. After Li Qingyuan gifted Miao Le an ancient treasure and supplies for her sect, he left to pursue Nascent Soul cultivation while Xianhuang returned to the Mysterious Feminine Space.

• Miao Le welcomed Li Qingyuan and treated Li Xianhuang as her niece, giving her the Illusionary Rainbow Ring as a gift.
• Li Qingyuan gave Miao Le the Colorful Cloud Scarf, an ancient treasure that could trap enemies and isolate spiritual energy.
• Li Qingyuan left his cave mansion to Xianhuang and gave Miao Le elixirs to support the Three Joys Immortal Sect before departing for home and future cultivation at the Human King Hall.
• Li Qingyuan concealed Xianhuang in the Mysterious Feminine Space, where Ji Kun bullied the Flame Dragon Lizard and Zhao Guangzheng refined a banner.
• Zhenxing used the space’s elixirs and resources to cultivate toward the Nascent Soul Realm and resolved to serve Li Qingyuan loyally.

Li Qingyuan returned to Cloud Mist Mountain with his daughter, Li Xianhuang, and reunited with his family. He planned to stay for only a month before joining the Seven Kingdoms of Arid Province prodigies on the journey to the Human King Hall to pursue Nascent Soul.

• Li Qingyuan secretly left the Three Joys Immortal Sect and crossed several regions without encountering an ambush.
• Li Qingyuan arrived at Cloud Mist Mountain and brought Li Xianhuang home, where Luo Ling and the Li family welcomed them.
• Li Qingyuan reviewed the Li Clan's growing strength and gave gifts and advice to his grandson Li Yunfan and the other grandchildren.
• Li Qingyuan told Luo Ling that he had become the Human King's disciple and would leave in a month to seek Nascent Soul cultivation.
• Li Qingyuan comforted Luo Ling about her status and carried her into their bedroom.

Li Qingyuan strengthened the Li Clan by raising its Spirit Vein to Third-grade and building powerful defensive arrays before leaving for the Yue Kingdom with Li Xianhuang. He intended to seek the Human King Hall and achieve Nascent Soul.

• Li Qingyuan gave Luo Ling, Li Qingqing, and Li Xianfeng Three-Revolutions Spirit Twisting Pills, then announced that Li Xianhuang would cultivate at the Three Joys Immortal Sect and become his nominal disciple after forming her core.
• Li Qingyuan and his allies gathered resources, raised the family’s Spirit Vein to Third-grade, and established the Li Clan as a Core Formation Immortal Clan.
• Li Qingyuan fortified Cloud Mist Mountain with defensive and killing arrays, including the Earth Marsh Sword Array, and gave Li Qingqing its control hub.
• After a month of preparations, Li Qingyuan spent the final night with Luo Ling, then left with Li Xianhuang for the Yue Kingdom to seek Nascent Soul at the Human King Hall.

Li Qingyuan prepared Li Xianhuang for secluded cultivation by giving her spirit stones, protective treasures, and an inheritance of restrictions, then visited Shang Xiuxin and Li Yunmei before setting out to cultivate at Human King Hall. Shang Xiuxin and Li Yunmei reflected on his achievements and Li Yunmei’s unreturned feelings as he departed.

• Li Qingyuan gave Li Xianhuang eleven Top-grade Spirit Stones, protective tools, talisman arrays, and a restrictions inheritance before leaving her to cultivate.
• Li Qingyuan learned that Miao Le was away fighting the Corpse Puppet Sect and Myriad Phenomena Sect remnants, while Li Yunmei had become her True Disciple.
• Li Qingyuan congratulated Shang Xiuxin on reaching Core Formation and Li Yunmei on finding a renowned master, giving each of them three bottles of pills.
• Li Qingyuan learned that Miao Le had taken Zhao Tongxuan to Zhao Country, then left for Human King Hall to cultivate.
• Shang Xiuxin told Li Yunmei that she believed Li Qingyuan knew of her feelings, and Li Yunmei recalled that he had rejected her and wished only for his wellbeing.

Li Qingyuan realized the Five Yuan King rebels were targeting him and suspected Human King Hall had made him bait in a hunt. The rebels trapped him in a canyon, and as he tested one attacker’s strength, Zhao Guangzheng prepared to intervene while Bai Hezhui watched from nearby.

• Li Qingyuan left the Three Joys Immortal Sect and learned from Zhao Guangzheng that Nascent Soul cultivators were following him, including a Late Nascent Soul cultivator and a separate group of Nascent Soul prodigies.
• Li Qingyuan concluded that Human King Hall was using him as bait to draw out the Five Yuan King rebels, and he continued toward a canyon.
• Jin Yang appeared and tried to pin Li Qingyuan down with his Late Nascent Soul pressure, but Li Qingyuan broke free and fled.
• Two Mid Nascent Soul cultivators blocked Li Qingyuan’s escape routes, forming a killing formation with Jin Yang; Zhao Guangzheng took control of the Xuanming Needles.
• Bai Hezhui and four companions watched the confrontation, but she told them to wait while secretly preparing to strike Jin Yang if he attacked.
• A Mid Nascent Soul cultivator attacked Li Qingyuan with a blade aura, and Li Qingyuan countered with his talismans, cudgel, wind and thunder powers, and flying swords while warning Zhao Guangzheng to intervene if needed.

Li Qingyuan blocked a full-force strike from a Mid Nascent Soul Stage cultivator, but the battle revealed a trap aimed at Bai Hezhui. Bai Hezhui confronted the traitor Bai Yunsheng and the surrounding enemies, then revealed that she had reached the Nascent Soul Late Stage.

• Li Qingyuan combined talisman arrays, sword arrays, and the Mountain Settling Cudgel to withstand the Mid Nascent Soul Stage cultivator’s attack.
• As the attacker launched another strike, Bai Hezhui’s spear knocked aside his banner and forced Golden Sun to intervene.
• Bai Hezhui arrived with three Nascent Soul allies, and Golden Sun revealed that Li Qingyuan had been bait to draw her out.
• Bai Yunsheng stepped forward as the traitor and admitted he had joined Golden Sun’s side because he wanted Bai Hezhui, even as a corpse.
• Golden Sun’s group surrounded Bai Hezhui’s party, while Li Qingyuan prepared to flee and Bai Hezhui told him to stay behind her.
• Bai Hezhui revealed her true cultivation as a Nascent Soul Late Stage Great Cultivator, shocking everyone present.

Li Qingyuan and Bai Hezhui’s group fought the ambush by revealing hidden strength, including Bai Hezhui’s late-stage cultivation and powerful white crane. As the battle spread across multiple fronts, Li Qingyuan chose to face Golden Sun’s Golden Light Armored Beetle head-on.

• Bai Yunsheng engaged three former Human King Hall disciples, and their fight reached a stalemate.
• Bai Hezhui summoned her Late Fourth-Tier white crane, which forced Xing Ren and another Mid Nascent Soul cultivator to defend themselves.
• Bai Hezhui fought Golden Sun True Monarch and gained the advantage, while Golden Sun sent his Golden Light Armored Beetle after Li Qingyuan.
• Li Qingyuan summoned Ji Kun and attacked the beetle with its Sky Swallowing Sphere, Wind Splitting Arrows, and talismans.
• Golden Sun dismissed Li Qingyuan’s attack, claiming the beetle’s defense could not be broken by anyone below Mid Nascent Soul cultivation.

Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun struggled to hold back the Fourth-Tier Golden Light Armored Beetle while Bai Hezhui fought Golden Sun and the White Crane battled Feng Xuan and Xing Ren. Feng Xuan revealed his resentment toward the Human King Hall, and Li Qingyuan fled with Ji Kun, drawing the beetle away as it pursued them.

• Bai Hezhui explained that Fourth-Tier demons awakened powerful spirit beast bodies, while Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun’s talisman arrays failed to break the Golden Light Armored Beetle’s defenses.
• The White Crane split into three and badly injured Xing Ren, but Feng Xuan used the Wind Whisper Technique and his Wind Gathering Pearl to bind the true crane and destroy its two phantoms.
• Feng Xuan revealed that he had joined the Five Yuan King because the Human King Hall had excluded him from its selection over an age-limit technicality, and he boasted of his former Core Formation prowess.
• The White Crane attacked Feng Xuan and Xing Ren again, while Feng Xuan used the Wind Whisper Technique to hold it back and trusted that the Golden Light Armored Beetle would defeat Li Qingyuan.
• Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun fled from the beetle, but its wings let it outpace them, so Li Qingyuan taunted it and drew it into a furious pursuit beyond the horizon.