Chapter Summaries

Li Qingyuan killed Blood Dragon Son while still at Peak Core Formation, collected his treasures, and headed back to Diqiu City. At the Human King Hall Mission Hall, his return with Blood Dragon Son’s Nascent Soul shocked the cultivators there.

• Li Qingyuan sealed Blood Dragon Son’s Nascent Soul and stored it away, then prepared to return south and Impact Nascent Soul Stage.
• Li Qingyuan looted Blood Dragon Son’s ring and claimed the damaged Blood Dragon Drill, planning to restore and duplicate it for the Li Clan.
• After half a month of studying lightning arts during the journey, Li Qingyuan flew to Diqiu City and arrived at the Human King Hall Mission Hall.
• Wang Fugui and Ye Xuan discussed joining forces to hunt Nascent Soul cultivators, while Bai Hezhui accepted a mission to kill the Great Elder of the Earth Blade Sect.
• Bai Hezhui sensed Li Qingyuan approaching and remarked that he felt stronger than before.
• Li Qingyuan reported his mission by presenting Blood Dragon Son’s Nascent Soul, leaving Wang Fugui, Ye Xuan, and the other cultivators stunned that he had killed a Nascent Soul cultivator while at Core Formation.

After turning in Blood Dragon Son’s mission, Li Qingyuan reunited with Wang Fugui and Ye Xuan, then prepared to enter seclusion. He exchanged 15,000 contribution points for a Three Talents Infant Transformation Pill at half price and planned to use it to reach the Nascent Soul Realm.

• Bai Hezhui, Tang Nan, and the Shi Brothers discussed Li Qingyuan’s victory over Blood Dragon Son, and Bai Hezhui resolved to challenge him after he reached the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Li Qingyuan received 2,500 contribution points for killing Blood Dragon Son and kept the Nascent Soul for his Second Yuan Clone’s advancement.
• Wang Fugui and Ye Xuan invited Li Qingyuan to a ten-day banquet with the Human King Hall’s prodigies, then planned to hunt Nascent Soul Early Stage rebels together.
• Before entering seclusion, Li Qingyuan gave Zhao Tongxuan Masterwork Three-Revolutions Spirit Twisting Pills to support his cultivation.
• Li Qingyuan exchanged 15,000 contribution points for a Three Talents Infant Transformation Pill at half price under the Human King’s decree and prepared to attempt a breakthrough.

Li Qingyuan copied a Masterwork Three Talents Infant Transformation Pill, gave one to Ji Kun, and entered five years of seclusion to attempt his breakthrough. He shattered his Core Formation and began forming a Nascent Soul, but the tribulation gathering over his cave abode proved to be the rare Two-Colored Nascent Soul Heavenly Tribulation.

• Zhao Guangzheng explained the Three Talents Infant Transformation Pill's power, and Li Qingyuan copied it with the Light of Fortune.
• Li Qingyuan gave one pill to Ji Kun and planned to find a treasured land for Ji Kun and his other companions to advance.
• Li Qingyuan spent five years accumulating power before using the pill to shatter his Core Formation and form a Nascent Soul.
• Li Qingyuan passed the Magic Power Tribulation, and the Nascent Soul Minor Heavenly Tribulation descended.
• Xun Kuang and the Human King Hall cultivators watched the lightning gather and recognized it as a Two-Colored Nascent Soul Heavenly Tribulation.

Yun Le and Ya Le faced their Inner Demon Tribulation while forming Nascent Souls, reliving the failures of their predecessors. Ya Le gave in and formed only a False Nascent Soul, but Yun Le overcame his fear and successfully became a Nascent Soul True Lord.

• Yun Le and Ya Le began forming Nascent Souls as the sect watched, while Miao Le explained that they still had to survive the Inner Demon Tribulation.
• Yun Le relived his master's failed breakthrough and imagined that he too would die after years of managing Three Joys Immortal City.
• Ya Le saw the repeated failures of earlier generations and lost his resolve, ending with a half-formed Nascent Soul and becoming a False Nascent Soul cultivator.
• Yun Le rejected the inner demon's vision by recalling Zhao Tongxuan's faith in him and the later success of Miao Le and the sect.
• Yun Le completed his Nascent Soul, declared that his lineage had succeeded, and received the sect disciples' greetings as True Monarch Yun Le.

Li Qingyuan endured a Two-Colored Nascent Soul Lightning Tribulation while forming Nascent Souls through both his magic power and physical body. After the tribulation passed, his two Nascent Souls were nearly complete when an Inner Demon Tribulation began.

• Zhao Tongxuan watched the lightning tribulation at the Human King Hall and anticipated Li Qingyuan's Nascent Soul breakthrough.
• Li Qingyuan summoned his own lightning and used the Green Wood Heavenly Sun Sword to weaken the Two-Colored Lightning Tribulation before enduring its remaining power.
• Li Qingyuan absorbed the lightning to strengthen himself, shattered his Physical Core Formation, and began forming a physical body Nascent Soul alongside his magic power Nascent Soul.
• Xun Kuang and the other cultivators marveled as Li Qingyuan endured successive lightning bolts and formed Nascent Souls through both the dharma and body paths.
• Li Qingyuan used the lightning to merge his Wind God Mark and Thunder God Mark into a Wind Thunder Divine Mark while the Three Talents Infant Transformation Pill replenished his magic power.
• The Two-Colored Lightning Tribulation ended, but Li Qingyuan's aura became unstable as Xun Kuang and Wang Decai identified the start of his Inner Demon Tribulation.

Li Qingyuan faced a series of inner-demon illusions drawn from his past regrets and the chance to serve famous rulers and heroes, repeatedly rejecting them in favor of immortality. At the end, a figure resembling Mao Zedong appeared and called on him to help the suffering people, leaving Li Qingyuan wavering.

• Li Qingyuan saw an illusion of the happy family and healthy childhood he had never experienced, then shattered it and rejected the promise of a youthful, healthy body.
• He dismissed scenes of his lonely school years and long-lost romantic interests, insisting that his pursuit of immortality mattered more.
• Li Qingyuan refused offers from King Zhao Zheng of Qin, Emperor Wu of Han, and the three brothers of Shu Han to help shape history.
• After Li Qingyuan rejected Chancellor Zhuge's plea to restore the Han dynasty, a figure resembling Mao Zedong invited him to join the effort to help the suffering people.
• Li Qingyuan began moving toward the figure, his resolve wavering as tears filled his eyes.

Li Qingyuan overcame the Inner Demon Tribulation and successfully formed both a magic-power Nascent Soul and a physical Nascent Soul, becoming True Monarch Qingyuan. He left the Human King Hall celebrated as the Number One Heavenly Chosen of the Nine Provinces, with his cultivation and divine sense surging to new heights.

• As Li Qingyuan’s Inner Demon Tribulation disrupted his Nascent Soul formation, Xun Kuang and the others urged him to overcome it while onlookers watched anxiously.
• Li Qingyuan recalled the poems and verses he cherished from his previous life, found resolve in his teacher’s words, and broke through his inner demon.
• Li Qingyuan formed both Nascent Souls and reached Nascent Soul Early-Stage Perfection, while his divine sense advanced to Mid Nascent Soul Stage Perfection.
• Li Qingyuan sang of his breakthrough as wind, lightning, wood, and fire gathered around him and his Nascent Soul power spread across the mountains and rivers.
• Tang Nan and the other cultivators congratulated Li Qingyuan as True Monarch Qingyuan, and Li Qingyuan reflected on his achievement at age one hundred and six.

After forming Nascent Souls through both his Dharma and physical paths, Li Qingyuan defeated powerful challengers and demonstrated that he could contend with cultivators above his level. Human King Dugu Lei authorized him to enter the Elder Hall trial and offered him the chance to become King of Arid Province if he killed enough rebel traitors.

• Xun Kuang and Wang Decai praised Li Qingyuan's dual Nascent Soul formation, while Bai Hezhui sensed danger from his newly advanced Azure Sun Sword.
• Ning Wu challenged Li Qingyuan to a physical-body battle, but Li Qingyuan's Wind Thunder Hand shattered Ning Wu's Demon Ape technique and injured him with one strike.
• Li Qingyuan defeated Tang Nan's Nascent Soul flying sword with his Azure Sun Sword, and the Mid Nascent Soul Stage cultivators declined to challenge him.
• Human King Dugu Lei permitted Li Qingyuan to take the Elder Hall trial and promised him the title of King of Arid Province if he killed three Mid Nascent Soul Stage or ten Nascent Soul Early Stage rebel traitors.

After Dugu Lei named Li Qingyuan King of Arid Province and set out plans to pacify the realm, he warned Li Qingyuan to grow stronger quickly for an undisclosed future task. Li Qingyuan celebrated his Nascent Soul advancement, exchanged for a Three Talents Infant Transformation Pill, and set off to return to Desolate Province.

• Dugu Lei named Li Qingyuan King of Arid Province, opened the Elder Hall trials to Nascent Soul cultivators, and tasked them with purging rebels while he entered seclusion.
• Dugu Lei praised Li Qingyuan’s simultaneous Dharma and Body Nascent Soul advancement, revealed his limited lifespan, and urged him to reach Peak Nascent Soul within three hundred years to receive a great fortune.
• Dugu Lei told Li Qingyuan to catch up to True Monarch Miao Le and said the two would need to reach Nascent Soul Late Stage and join forces to help him.
• One month later, Li Qingyuan held a ten-day Nascent Soul ceremony, where cultivators across the realm offered congratulations, resources, and marriage alliances.
• Li Qingyuan claimed Nascent Soul-level missions in Desolate Province and exchanged 15,000 contribution points for a Masterwork-quality Three Talents Infant Transformation Pill.
• Li Qingyuan flew toward Desolate Province, eager to reunite with old friends and expecting Ji Kun to have advanced to Fourth-Tier Great Demon.

Li Qingyuan found a spirit-rich island in the Earth Core Sea so Ji Kun could attempt to advance to the Fourth Tier. After they killed the island’s Fourth-tier Lightning Python, Ji Kun began his breakthrough under a lightning tribulation.

• Li Qingyuan chose a coral island with a Fourth-grade Low-rank Spirit Vein and summoned Zhao Guangzheng, Zhenxing, Ji Kun, and the Second Yuan Clone to clear and seal it.
• Zhenxing fought the Four-Legged Lightning Python while Ji Kun and Er Yuan defeated its clan and other demonic beasts.
• Li Qingyuan ordered Ji Kun and Er Yuan to help Zhenxing, and together they killed the lightning python; Li Qingyuan captured its demon infant.
• Ji Kun said he was ready to attempt the Fourth Tier, and Li Qingyuan gave him a Fourth-Tier Peak Three Talents Infant Transformation Pill.
• Ji Kun’s Demonic Core shattered and began forming a demon infant as he grew to enormous size and faced the descending lightning tribulation.

Ji Kun endured a Two-Colored Lightning Tribulation, formed its demon infant, and advanced to the fourth tier, awakening the Devouring Spirit Body. Li Qingyuan set plans to strengthen his forces further and headed back to Desolate Province with Ji Kun, Zhao Guangzheng, and Zhenxing.

• Ji Kun faced a Two-Colored Lightning Tribulation while Li Qingyuan, Zhao Guangzheng, and Zhenxing watched.
• Ji Kun used its Sky Swallowing Sphere and Devouring Spirit Body to absorb most of the lightning as it formed its demon infant and survived the tribulation.
• Ji Kun reached the fourth tier, shrank to one zhang tall, and revealed that it had cultivated for only two and a half years.
• Ji Kun explained that its Devouring Spirit Body could dissolve most attacks from opponents of the same realm and that its inherited secret art might let it kill a Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator.
• Li Qingyuan announced plans to help his Second Yuan Clone form Nascent Soul, then set off for Desolate Province with Zhao Guangzheng, Zhenxing, and Ji Kun.
• Ji Kun demonstrated its fast escape technique by carrying Li Qingyuan, Zhao Guangzheng, and Zhenxing thousands of zhang with a single flap of its wings.

During the Mysterious Heaven Sect’s spirit-root examination, True Lord Xuantian discovered a girl named Xuan Xinyue with a Mutated Wind Spirit Root and considered sending her to the Three Joys Immortal Sect for protection. A distress call drew him away, where Baleful Yin, Myriad Phenomena, and Ghost Hand Enchantress ambushed him, leaving him to order his elders to summon True Monarch Miao Le.

• True Lord Xuantian lamented the Mysterious Heaven Sect’s declining disciples while watching the spirit-root examination with the Great Elder and Second Elder.
• Xuan Xinyue revealed a Mutated Wind Spirit Root, and True Lord Xuantian declared her a True Disciple before deciding she should be taught by True Monarch Miao Le at the Three Joys Immortal Sect.
• A command token carried a plea for help from the Wang Clan, which Baleful Yin had attacked, and True Lord Xuantian left with the Great Elder and Second Elder to respond.
• At the devastated Wang Clan, True Lord Xuantian confronted Baleful Yin, who fought alongside his Nascent Soul Early-Stage Perfection corpse puppet.
• Myriad Phenomena joined Baleful Yin, and Ghost Hand Enchantress arrived as a third Nascent Soul Middle Stage opponent.
• True Lord Xuantian ordered the Great Elder and Second Elder to flee and summon True Monarch Miao Le.

True Monarch Miao Le revealed herself in the enemy camp, destroyed Yin Sha True Monarch’s Natal Corpse Puppet, and fought alongside True Lord Xuantian against the attackers. Li Qingyuan then arrived as a Nascent Soul Cultivator, shocking the enemy as the battle continued.

• True Lord Xuantian fought Baleful Yin, Myriad Phenomena, and True Lord Wan Luo while the Corpse Puppet Sect and Myriad Phenomena Sect sent eighteen Core Formation Cultivators to slaughter the Mysterious Heaven Sect.
• True Monarch Miao Le revealed her disguise, killed Yin Sha True Monarch’s Nascent Soul Early Stage Natal Corpse Puppet, and seized Baleful Yin’s Nascent Soul.
• Miao Le used a Sky-Sealing Talisman and her spiritual power to kill seventeen Core Formation Cultivators, then fought off the Flame Swallowing Spirit Sparrow.
• Yin Sha True Monarch, True Monarch Enchantress, and the Flame Swallowing Spirit Sparrow joined forces against Miao Le while True Lord Xuantian battled True Lord Wan Luo.
• Li Qingyuan rode lightning into the battlefield as a Nascent Soul Cultivator, leaving Yin Sha True Monarch stunned.

Li Qingyuan revealed that he had formed a Nascent Soul and overwhelmed True Monarch Enchantress with his sword techniques. As Yin Sha, Myriad Phenomena, and their allies fled, Ji Kun killed the Flame Swallowing Spirit Sparrow, while Li Qingyuan pursued and gravely wounded True Monarch Enchantress, who begged for mercy.

• Yin Sha and Myriad Phenomena were shocked to learn that Li Qingyuan had reached the Nascent Soul Realm, and True Monarch Enchantress challenged him to fight.
• Li Qingyuan’s Green Wood Heavenly Sun Sword overpowered True Monarch Enchantress’s Ghost Hand Magic Treasure and wounded her with a storm of Sword Qi.
• True Monarch Enchantress released her Nascent Soul and fled as Yin Sha, Myriad Phenomena, and the Flame Swallowing Spirit Sparrow also tried to escape.
• Ji Kun suppressed the Flame Swallowing Spirit Sparrow, endured its fire, tore out its demon infant, and swallowed it.
• Li Qingyuan intercepted True Monarch Enchantress and struck her Nascent Soul with One Sword Wind Thunder, leaving it gravely wounded.
• True Monarch Enchantress begged Li Qingyuan to spare her and offered to become his cultivation furnace.

Li Qingyuan and Miao Le defeated their remaining enemies and captured several Nascent Souls before parting from True Lord Xuantian, who received a powerful pill from Li Qingyuan. During their flight, Li Qingyuan gave Miao Le a Three Talents Infant Transformation Pill and materials and instructions for a powerful sword, and she eagerly embraced him.

• Miao Le destroyed Yin Sha True Monarch's body and spared his Nascent Soul at Li Qingyuan's request, while Ji Kun and True Lord Xuantian joined forces to capture Wan Luo True Monarch's Nascent Soul.
• Li Qingyuan and Miao Le greeted True Lord Xuantian, exchanged gifts, and departed after Li Qingyuan presented him with a jade box.
• True Lord Xuantian opened the box and discovered a pill powerful enough to help him attempt advancement to the Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• Li Qingyuan gave Miao Le a Three Talents Infant Transformation Pill and materials and refinement instructions for the Green Wood Heavenly Sun Immortal Sword.
• Miao Le eagerly threw herself at Li Qingyuan aboard the flying magic treasure and demanded that he love her.

Li Qingyuan and Miao Le returned to the Three Joys Immortal Sect after discussing the sect’s growing strength, their Dao companion ceremony, and plans for a future child. They announced Li Qingyuan’s Nascent Soul breakthrough to the sect, which celebrated its rise to three Nascent Souls.

• Li Qingyuan concealed his formation and shut off visual sharing while Zhenxing regretted missing the view and recoiled when Zhao Guangzheng teased him about finding a Dao companion.
• On the way back to the sect, Miao Le told Li Qingyuan about her cultivation progress, the advances of Xian'er and other disciples, and the sect’s three Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Li Qingyuan and Miao Le agreed to discuss claiming the former Corpse Puppet Sect and Myriad Phenomena Sect spirit veins as branch sects.
• Miao Le asked Li Qingyuan to hold a Dao companion ceremony and have a child with her, and he agreed to speak with Luo Ling and visit his parents before the ceremony.
• Miao Le and Li Qingyuan returned to the sect and revealed their Nascent Soul power, prompting the elders, disciples, and cultivators to celebrate Li Qingyuan’s breakthrough.

Li Qingyuan announced his Nascent Soul advancement, rallied Yue Kingdom’s cultivators under the Three Joys Immortal Sect, and founded the Wind Thunder Immortal Sect as its branch. With Li Xianhuang named the sect’s Nascent Soul Seed, he looked beyond the new sect toward becoming the King of Arid Province.

• Li Qingyuan revealed that he had defeated Yin Sha True Monarch and Myriad Phenomena True Monarch, then offered elixirs and spirit plants to recruit cultivators into the Three Joys Immortal Sect.
• True Monarch Miao Le appointed Li Qingyuan and True Person Yun Le to establish branch sects on the former Myriad Phenomena Sect and Corpse Puppet Sect territories, while the Mysterious Heaven Sect pledged its support.
• One month later, Li Qingyuan founded the Wind Thunder Immortal Sect at Tiandu Peak, naming Ji Kun its guardian beast, Zhenxing its vice sect master, and Li Xianhuang its True Disciple and Nascent Soul Seed.
• Li Qingyuan led the assembled cultivators in celebrating the new sect and promised to make it the foremost Immortal Sect of Desolate Province.
• As the sect-founding and recruitment ceremonies began, Li Qingyuan declared that his greater goal was to become the King of Arid Province.

Li Qingyuan secretly entered Xiang Country and tracked down seven rebel cultivators hiding in a mortal town. After they turned on Xiongtu and attacked, Li Qingyuan called on Zhao Guangzheng and Ji Kun to subdue them, leaving the battle about to begin.

• Li Qingyuan traveled to Xiang Country in search of cultivators who had rebelled against the Human King.
• A hidden family of seven rebel cultivators discussed their fears and regretted siding with the Five Yuan King.
• Li Qingyuan appeared above the town and exposed the family’s formation and identities, then revealed that Xiongtu had been contacting cultivators outside.
• The household heads and Fairy Qiao Yu attacked Li Qingyuan and Xiongtu, while Xiongtu denied betraying the group.
• Li Qingyuan summoned Zhao Guangzheng, who used a soul banner to suppress the seven cultivators, and Li Qingyuan sent out Ji Kun to help kill them and seize their Nascent Souls.

Li Qingyuan and his allies defeated the Nascent Soul cultivators who had attacked them, collecting their Nascent Souls and souls. With eight Nascent Soul Infants spanning all Five-Element Attributes, Li Qingyuan had the materials needed for the Five Nascent Soul Transformation Elixir and planned to use it to help his Second Yuan Clone reach Nascent Soul Stage.

• Ji Kun stunned the Core Formation cultivators and helped Li Qingyuan catch Xiong Tu off guard.
• Li Qingyuan destroyed Xiong Tu's body and captured his Nascent Soul, while Ji Kun killed Fairy Qiao Yu and delivered her Nascent Soul.
• Zhao Guangzheng used the Soul-Refining Restriction Banner to suppress Baili Ao and Liu Yundan, and Li Qingyuan joined him to pull their souls into the Myriad Souls Banner.
• Li Qingyuan collected the Nascent Souls and souls of the defeated cultivators, and Zhao Guangzheng refined the captured souls to strengthen himself and the banner.
• Li Qingyuan gathered eight Nascent Soul Infants whose attributes covered all Five Elements and declared that the materials for the Five Nascent Soul Transformation Elixir were complete.

Li Qingyuan helped Er Yuan form a Nascent Soul, and the clone survived its lightning tribulation, strengthening the Wind Thunder Immortal Sect. He then began preparing the Flame Dragon Lizard and Blood Shadow Clone to advance to the Nascent Soul Realm.

• Li Qingyuan and Zhao Guangzheng refined the Five Nascent Soul Transformation Elixir, and Li Qingyuan gave it to Er Yuan to aid his breakthrough.
• Over five years, Li Qingyuan cultivated, forged Fourth-grade artifacts, and joined Miao Le and other Nascent Soul True Lords in defeating rebels and demonic cultivators across the Seven Kingdoms of Arid Province.
• Er Yuan shattered his golden core, consumed the elixir, and formed a Nascent Soul as a One-colored Nascent Soul Minor Heavenly Tribulation struck the Wind Thunder Immortal Sect.
• Er Yuan endured the lightning tribulation with the Five Yuan Mountain Replica and Spirit Soul Bell, which rose to become a Nascent Soul Magic Treasure.
• Li Qingyuan brought the Flame Dragon Lizard and Blood Shadow Clone into the Spirit Gathering Formation to refine Red Dragon Treasure Blood spiritual liquid and prepare for their own breakthroughs.