Chapter Summaries

Thirty years after Li Qingyuan established Arid Province’s Hundred-Year Plan, the Wind Thunder Immortal Sect had become a regional powerhouse, and Li Qingyuan emerged from seclusion at Mid Nascent Soul Stage with Late Nascent Soul Divine Sense. He celebrated the sect’s growth and his family’s progress before returning to seclusion with Soul Transformation Spirit Liquid for the Jianmu Sapling.

• Li Qingyuan’s plan rebuilt the Seven Kingdoms of Arid Province, established free Arid Province Academies, and made Yue Kingdom the region’s political and cultural center.
• Li Qingyuan exchanged his contribution points for a High-grade Fourth Tier Spirit Vein and had it relocated to the Wind Thunder Immortal Sect, greatly enriching the sect and Yue Kingdom’s spiritual energy.
• Li Qingyuan appointed Zhenxing to manage the sect and regional affairs, then entered thirty years of seclusion with Miao Le while Luo Ling cultivated separately.
• Li Qingyuan emerged at Mid Nascent Soul Stage with Late Nascent Soul Divine Sense, and the Wind Thunder Immortal Sect’s cultivators congratulated him.
• Li Qingyuan praised the sect’s growth and noted Li Xianhuang’s, Li Qingqing’s, Li Xianfeng’s, Luo Ling’s, and Li Yunfan’s cultivation progress, as well as the Li Immortal Clan’s expanding strength.
• Li Qingyuan returned to his Immortal Mansion and offered Soul Transformation Spirit Liquid to the Jianmu Sapling, wondering how much its divine sense would improve.

After thirty years of seclusion, Li Qingyuan advanced to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage and reached Peak Nascent Soul divine sense, then refined a Flood Dragon Blood Elixir that rose to Fourth-grade High-rank. He kept the rare pill for himself and prepared to use it to condense a third Wind Thunder Divine Mark.

• Li Qingyuan consumed the Soul Transformation Spirit Liquid, growing the Jianmu Sapling to forty-two inches and raising his divine sense to Nascent Soul Late-Stage Perfection.
• Li Qingyuan produced large quantities of Third-grade and Fourth-grade elixirs for distribution through the Wind Thunder Immortal Sect and the sects of the Seven Kingdoms of Arid Province.
• Li Qingyuan studied the Flood Dragon Blood Elixir recipe and refined several batches, improving his skill until he could reliably produce Masterwork pills.
• Li Qingyuan refined the final batch using a fourth-tier Lightning Python demon infant, producing a Masterwork elixir that advanced to Fourth-grade High-rank and triggered a heavenly phenomenon.
• Li Qingyuan kept the Flood Dragon Lightning Python Elixir, gave three other Masterwork pills to Ji Kun, the Flame Dragon Flood Dragon, and Zhenxing, and ordered Zhenxing to distribute the remaining elixirs.
• Li Qingyuan planned to consume the elixir to condense his third Wind Thunder Divine Mark and attempt a breakthrough in physical cultivation.

Li Qingyuan consumed a Masterwork Flood Dragon Lightning Python Elixir and advanced his physical body to the Mid Nascent Soul Stage, bringing both his body and magic power to that stage. After stabilizing his breakthrough, he emerged from seclusion while Miao Le continued cultivating toward the Nascent Soul Late Stage so they could assist Human King Teacher with an unknown task.

• Li Qingyuan swallowed the Masterwork Flood Dragon Lightning Python Elixir and cultivated for two and a half months as its power transformed his body.
• Li Qingyuan condensed his third Wind Thunder Divine Mark and reached the Mid Nascent Soul Stage Physical Body, fusing his body and magic power through the Longevity Seed and Jianmu Sapling.
• Li Qingyuan reflected on the Five Yuan King and the Human King, and resolved to seek a path to Soul Transformation beyond the God-Forsaken Domain.
• Miao Le entered Li Qingyuan's grotto-heaven, and the two spent several days together before he emerged from seclusion.
• Miao Le continued cultivating toward the Nascent Soul Late Stage, while Li Qingyuan wondered what Human King Teacher would ask them to do and when he would attack the Five Yuan King.

After thirty years in seclusion, Li Qingyuan learned that the Seven Kingdoms of Arid Province and the Nine Provinces had changed greatly, then accepted a mission to find two elusive Taiyi Gate remnants. He tracked them down in a village near the borders of Xuan Province, Earth Core Sea, and Heavenly Province, where he recognized one as Great Monk Zhen Wu.

• Zhenxing reported that most rebels had been eliminated and that the Wind Thunder Immortal Sect had risen among the Nine Provinces’ superpowers.
• Tang Nan told Li Qingyuan that two Taiyi Gate Nascent Soul cultivators who used the Formless Divine Ability remained at large, and Li agreed to hunt them.
• Li Qingyuan left Ji Kun, Little Flame, and his clones in seclusion and set out with Old Zhao and Yang Xiaohe to search the continent.
• After two and a half years of searching, Li Qingyuan detected the remnants near the meeting point of Xuan Province, Earth Core Sea, and Heavenly Province.
• Li Qingyuan confronted the cultivators in a village and identified one as Great Monk Zhen Wu, a Mid Nascent Soul Stage physical-body cultivator.

Zhen Wu and Zhensu survived their masters’ betrayals and learned that the elders had arranged their deaths to preserve Taiyi Gate’s legacy. After Li Qingyuan captured the elders’ souls, Zhen Wu founded the Zhenwu Sect on Mount Wugong and abandoned Buddhism to become Daoist Zhang.

• Zhen Wu fought Monk Yuan Kai, who let Zhen Wu kill him so the younger monk could survive and revive Taiyi Gate.
• Zhensu killed his master, who urged him to follow Zhen Wu and later regretted having raised him to continue the family line.
• Li Qingyuan gathered Yuan Kai’s soul and the other elder’s soul with the Soul Refining Banner and sent them to be refined.
• A month later, Zhen Wu destroyed the Taiyi Gate Branch Temple stele and renamed the sect the Zhenwu Sect.
• Zhen Wu grew his hair, took the name Daoist Zhang, and declared that he would abandon Buddhism and cultivate his own Dao.

Li Qingyuan improved his cultivation resources and produced Masterwork Heavenly Infant Pills, then gave them to Li Xianhuang and his Nascent Soul companions to aid their breakthroughs. Li Xianhuang began preparing to form Nascent Soul, while Ji Kun, the Flame Dragon Flood Dragon, Er Yuan, and Blood Shadow also started advancing.

• Li Qingyuan strengthened Arid Province and spent decades developing his alchemy, artifact-refining, and talisman skills while the Wind Thunder Immortal Sect and Li Immortal Clan grew.
• At age 178, Li Qingyuan used his last Top-grade Spirit Stone and Heaven Spirit Grass to make Fourth-grade Purifying Elixir Liquid.
• Li Qingyuan upgraded a standard Heavenly Infant Pill into a Masterwork Quality pill and sent it to Li Xianhuang to help her form Nascent Soul.
• Li Xianhuang, whose Nine Yuan Nirvana Phoenix Technique had reached Three Yuan, Three Revolutions, began absorbing spiritual energy and preparing for her breakthrough.
• Li Qingyuan made four more Masterwork Heavenly Infant Pills and gave them to Ji Kun, the Flame Dragon Flood Dragon, Er Yuan, and Blood Shadow.
• Ji Kun and the others swallowed their pills and began charging toward their next realms.

Li Qingyuan refined pills and cultivated in seclusion while members of his Nascent Soul Dream Team advanced to the Middle Stage. He emerged when his daughter Li Xianhuang formed her Nascent Soul and began facing her Inner Demon Tribulation.

• Li Qingyuan gave Zhenxing a top-quality Heavenly Infant Pill, sent elixirs to the Wind Thunder Immortal Sect treasury, and entered seclusion to cultivate.
• During Li Qingyuan's seclusion, Ji Kun and the Flame Dragon Flood Dragon advanced to Fourth-Tier Mid Stage, while Er Yuan and Blood Shadow reached Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Zhenxing broke through to Nascent Soul Middle Stage in the seventh year of Li Qingyuan's seclusion.
• In the tenth year, Li Qingyuan emerged as Li Xianhuang formed her Nascent Soul and passed the Heavenly Infant Lightning Tribulation.
• Li Xianhuang began her Inner Demon Tribulation as Li Qingyuan and Luo Ling watched.

Li Xianhuang and Zhao Tongxuan both successfully formed their Nascent Souls, prompting celebrations at their respective sects. Li Qingyuan invited the Nascent Soul cultivators of the Seven Kingdoms of Arid Province to a ceremony for his daughter, while Yun Le Immortal Sect prepared to attend.

• Li Xianhuang overcame the Nascent Soul tribulations and condensed her Nascent Soul, reaching Nascent Soul Early Stage with Middle Stage divine sense.
• Li Qingyuan celebrated Li Xianhuang’s breakthrough and ordered invitations sent to the Nascent Soul cultivators of the Seven Kingdoms of Arid Province.
• Zhao Tongxuan broke through to Nascent Soul at Yun Le Immortal Sect, and Yun Le and Ya Le congratulated him.
• Li Yunmei arrived to congratulate Zhao Tongxuan and announced Li Xianhuang’s breakthrough and the invitation to her Nascent Soul ceremony.
• Yun Le accepted the invitation and said Yun Le Immortal Sect would attend, hoping to obtain Fourth-grade Elixirs for Zhao Tongxuan.

At Li Xianhuang’s Nascent Soul celebration, Li Qingyuan’s family and allies gathered before he returned to seclusion. Twenty years later, Shang Xiuxin and Li Yunmei attempted to form Nascent Souls; Shang Xiuxin succeeded, but Li Yunmei became trapped in an inner demon and emerged as a False Nascent Soul cultivator.

• Li Qingyuan hosted Li Xianhuang’s Nascent Soul celebration, where many Heavenly Chosen and Nascent Soul True Lords gathered.
• After the guests departed, Li Qingyuan returned to seclusion, and another twenty years passed.
• Shang Xiuxin and Li Yunmei began forming Nascent Souls, with Li Qingyuan, Miao Le, and Luo Ling watching over them.
• Shang Xiuxin and Li Yunmei shattered their Golden Cores and began transforming them into Nascent Souls, but Li Yunmei became ensnared by an illusion of marrying Li Qingyuan and raising a family with him.
• Li Yunmei failed the Inner Demon Tribulation but stabilized her illusory Nascent Soul and became a False Nascent Soul cultivator.

Li Qingyuan witnessed Shang Xiuxin form a Nascent Soul and, after ten years of seclusion, Miao Le broke through to the Nascent Soul Late Stage. He announced a Dual Cultivation Ceremony with Miao Le and Luo Ling, which began with the Human King presiding.

• Li Qingyuan comforted Li Yunmei after her failed attempt to form a Nascent Soul and promised to search for a way to help her.
• Shang Xiuxin passed the Inner Demon Tribulation, formed a Nascent Soul, and held a celebration attended by cultivators from across the region.
• After ten years of seclusion, Miao Le passed the Two-Colored Nascent Soul Minor Heavenly Tribulation and reached the Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• Li Qingyuan announced that he would hold a Dual Cultivation Ceremony with Miao Le and Luo Ling three months later.
• More than thirty Nascent Soul Late Stage Great Cultivators attended the ceremony, and the Human King arrived to preside and gave the couple one hundred Top-grade Spirit Stones.
• The Human King began the ceremony by calling for the first bow to the Heaven and Earth Great Dao.

Li Qingyuan, Miao Le, and Luo Ling completed their Dual Cultivation Ceremony, and more than a month later the Human King asked Li Qingyuan and Miao Le to help refine a magic treasure. The Human King then led Li Qingyuan to meet an Immortal hidden beneath the Great Profound Dynasty’s royal treasury.

• Li Qingyuan, Miao Le, and Luo Ling bowed to Heaven and Earth, the Goddess of the Nine Heavens, and their ancestors before celebrating their ceremony with a seven-day banquet.
• After the banquet, Li Qingyuan practiced dual cultivation with Luo Ling and Miao Le.
• The Human King taught Li Xianhuang the Golden Wing Evasion Light Art and later told Li Qingyuan that Miao Le’s Nascent Soul Late Stage advancement made them suitable to help refine his magic treasure.
• The Human King praised Li Qingyuan’s strength, and Li Qingyuan admitted he had gained an inheritance in the Void Refinement Grotto-heaven.
• The Human King led Li Qingyuan to Diqiu City and through the royal treasury’s guarded passages to a bronze gate, then opened it and invited him inside to meet an Immortal.

Li Qingyuan climbed toward the Crystal Immortal Coffin with Human King and, with help from the Mysterious Feminine Space, reached the thousand-zhang mark. The coffin entered his Mysterious Feminine Space, where he discovered a female corpse inside, and he left with Human King planning to investigate it in secret.

• Human King led Li Qingyuan into the underground mountain range and explained that those who reached within a thousand zhang of the coffin could ask its remaining Dao traces three questions.
• Li Qingyuan struggled for months against the coffin’s pressure, then drew power from the inhabitants and avatars of the Mysterious Feminine Space to cover the final hundred zhang.
• The Crystal Immortal Coffin flared, absorbed the mountain’s Dao traces, and flew into Li Qingyuan’s brow before settling inside the Mysterious Feminine Space.
• Li Qingyuan examined the coffin and found a lifeless female corpse within, while its laws and power merged with the Mysterious Feminine Space.
• Human King searched Li Qingyuan for the coffin but could not find it, then explained that the coffin had bestowed the Thunder God Body and a cultivation technique on him in the past.
• Li Qingyuan reassured Human King and left with him, intending to explore the coffin’s mysteries later.

The Human King explained that breaking the Heaven Severing Great Array could revive the Nine Provinces Heavenly Dao, but also allow powerful Soul Transformation Cultivators from beyond to invade. After Li Qingyuan returned with Miao Le, the Human King took them toward the array and the magical treasure being forged for the coming campaign against the Five Yuan King Lineage.

• The Human King told Li Qingyuan that the Heaven Severing Great Array had endured for a hundred thousand years and that finding its source could enable the Nine Provinces Heavenly Dao Revival Plan.
• The Human King warned that breaking the array would reconnect the Nine Provinces to the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, allowing outside Soul Transformation Cultivators to descend; he said the Five Yuan King Lineage had to be eliminated first and the revival plan remained uncertain.
• The Human King instructed Li Qingyuan to return with Miao Le and meet him at the Eight Directions Pavilion, where they would travel to see the magical treasure being forged.
• Li Qingyuan returned to Arid Province, arranged its affairs, and made Li Xianhuang acting Sect Master of the Wind Thunder Immortal Sect before setting out with Miao Le for Diqiu City.
• The Human King led Li Qingyuan and Miao Le away on Qing Qiu, directing the Azure Dragon to ascend toward the Heaven Severing Great Array.

Li Qingyuan learned that the Azure Flood Dragon Royal Clan and the Human King Hall were allies seeking to revive the Nine Provinces Heavenly Dao and preserve their bloodlines. At Red Flag Mountain, the Human King revealed the generations of sacrifice behind the Heaven Severing Great Array, and Qing Qiu discovered that the invited dragon expert was his aunt.

• Qing Qiu explained that the Azure Flood Dragon Lineage had five Peak Nascent Soul experts and that the North Sea Flood Dragon Clan had eleven, while the Human King described their longevity and strength.
• Qing Qiu said his clan had secretly helped the Human King quell the Five Yuan King rebellion and wanted to revive the Heavenly Dao to prevent its dragon bloodline from fading.
• The Human King brought Li Qingyuan and Miao Le to Red Flag Mountain, where they saw Nascent Soul Cultivators nourishing the Heaven Severing Great Array with their magic power.
• The Human King explained that generations of cultivators and Human Kings had sacrificed themselves over thousands of years to open a path through the array to Heaven's Scar.
• A woman appeared in turquoise-blue radiance and greeted the Human King, and Qing Qiu realized that she was the expert invited from his clan—and his aunt.

Li Qingyuan and the others met Ao Run on Red Flag Mountain, where the dragon cultivator revealed her formidable cultivation and teased Li Qingyuan before agreeing to spar with Miao Le. The Human King then gathered rare materials beneath Heaven’s Scar to begin refining a powerful magical treasure, whose name he had just started to announce.

• Qing Qiu, Li Qingyuan, Miao Le, and the Human King ascended Red Flag Mountain and met Ao Run at its summit.
• Ao Run greeted Li Qingyuan and Miao Le, praised Li Qingyuan’s reputation, and asked about his combat strength.
• Qing Qiu interrupted Ao Run and discovered that she had condensed a Nascent Dragon Yuan, while the Human King recognized her as a dragon-race genius.
• Miao Le offered to spar with Ao Run, who agreed to fight her after helping the Human King refine his treasure.
• The Human King pointed out Heaven’s Scar and displayed rare materials for refining a Fourth-Tier Peak magical artifact, then began to name the treasure.

The Human King, Li Qingyuan, Miao Le, and Ao Run spent years forging the Wind Thunder Drum, using the Azure Sea Blue Sky Formation to sustain their power and Heaven’s Scar’s Heavenly Dao energy to temper the artifact. The drum was completed beneath Heaven’s Scar, triggering continent-wide wind and thunder phenomena.

• The Human King gave Li Qingyuan, Miao Le, and Ao Run the Wind Thunder Drum’s forging plans and asked Ao Run to guard and support the work with the Dragon Clan grand formation.
• Ao Run activated the Azure Sea Blue Sky Formation, while the Human King, Li Qingyuan, and Miao Le began refining the materials with lightning and yin-yang Wood Attribute magic power.
• After five years, the group had turned the main ingredients and supplementary materials into spiritual liquids, then began blending them to shape the drum.
• Eight months later, the Wind Thunder Drum took form and absorbed gangwind, Heavenly Thunder, and Heavenly Dao Power spilling from Heaven’s Scar.
• After another eight months of forging, the Wind Thunder Drum was completed, unleashing powerful wind and thunder phenomena across the Nine Provinces Continent.

The Human King tested the newly forged Wind Thunder Drum and ordered the Eight Provinces to gather for an assault on Yellow Province. At Diqiu City, he announced that he had found a way to break the Five Yuan Great Formation, and the gathered cultivators pledged to attack the Five States and kill the Five Yuan King.

• The Human King bound the Wind Thunder Drum and demonstrated how its wind and thunder could overwhelm the Nine Provinces Heavenly Dao and threaten even a Middle Soul Transformation expert.
• The Human King ordered Li Qingyuan, Miao Le, Ao Run, and Qing Qiu to summon the Late Nascent Soul Cultivators and prepare to annihilate Yellow Province and behead the Five Yuan King.
• Qing Qiu, Ao Run, Li Qingyuan, and Miao Le left Red Flag Mountain to carry out the order and return to their respective lands.
• One month later, Li Qingyuan and five other Nascent Soul Cultivators traveled to Diqiu City, where sixty-five Late Nascent Soul Great Cultivators had assembled.
• The Human King announced that he had found a way to break the Five Yuan Great Formation, and the gathered cultivators vowed to break Yellow Province and behead the Five Yuan King.

The Human King launched the second hundred-year campaign to capture Nascent Soul cultivators and break the Five Yuan Great Formation in Yellow Province. After Li Qingyuan revealed that his Second Yuan Clone had been made from the Five Yuan King’s son, the enraged king flew out of the formation to attack him.

• The Human King announced plans to capture three hundred Nascent Soul cultivators and called on the Dragon, Feather, and Tiger races to join the campaign.
• The Human King, Li Qingyuan, and sixty-four Late Nascent Soul Great Cultivators traveled toward Yellow Province alongside the Four Great Divine Beasts.
• The Human King confronted Dugu Yuan outside the Five Yuan Great Formation and demanded that he sacrifice himself or face death.
• Li Qingyuan brought out his Second Yuan Clone, which wielded five Nascent Soul infants and revealed the aura of the Five Yuan King’s refined son.
• Li Qingyuan provoked the Five Yuan King, who flew out of the formation and charged at him in fury.

The Human King fought off the Five Yuan King's attack while Li Qingyuan taunted him with the fate of Young King Yuan. As the Human King prepared to break the Yellow Province formation, three beast clans arrived with thirty Late Fourth Tier demons to serve as his vanguard.

• The Human King intercepted the Five Yuan King's blade strike with his Thunder God Halberd and drove him back into the Five Yuan Great Formation.
• Li Qingyuan taunted the Five Yuan King by revealing that he had used Young King Yuan to refine a puppet clone and help another cultivator form a Nascent Soul.
• The Human King and the Five Yuan King faced each other with their forces assembled outside the Yellow Province formation.
• Ao Run, Jin Po, and Zhu Yu led the Flood Dragon, Fierce Tiger, and Avian clans to join the Human King with thirty Late Fourth Tier Great Demons.
• The Human King ordered his forces to enter the formation, slay its generals, and seize its banners.

Human King began breaking the Five Yuan Great Formation and sent Li Qingyuan into it as the first attacker. Li Qingyuan overwhelmed the formation’s defenders and declared himself the first to seize the banner, King of Arid Province.

• Ao Run offered to fight Five Yuan King, but Human King ordered her and the others to focus on breaking the formation.
• Human King used his Thunder God Heavenly Eye to find a flaw in the Five Yuan Great Formation while Five Yuan King powered it up with the Five-Colored Earth.
• Li Qingyuan volunteered to enter the formation, and Human King hurled him through a brief opening with the Power of Rushing Thunder.
• Five Yuan King ordered eighteen formation guardians to kill Li Qingyuan, who used his attacks to defeat three Mid Nascent Soul Stage cultivators and capture their Nascent Soul Infants.
• Li Qingyuan joined Ji Kun, the Flame Dragon Flood Dragon, Er Yuan, and Blood Shadow, then charged a Late Nascent Soul Stage defender and proclaimed himself King of Arid Province.