Chapter Summaries

Li Qingyuan endured nearly two years of agony to establish the first revolution of the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique, then received the complete technique and learned it could lead to the Daluo Golden Immortal realm. He remained in seclusion to digest the technique and begin cultivating its three divine abilities.

• Yang Xiaohe explained the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique's demanding requirements, and Zhao Guangzheng recalled being defeated by a Yang Clan steward who had cultivated its third revolution.
• Li Qingyuan used the Longevity Seed to fuse his magic power and Wind Thunder Body, then began cultivating the technique amid excruciating pain.
• Li Qingyuan swallowed a Three Talents Infant Transformation Pill and completed eighty-one Great Heavenly Cycles over nearly two years.
• The completed first revolution gave Li Qingyuan Profound Technique Magic Power and a treasure body, while the Mysterious Feminine Space sent him information about later revolutions.
• After three months of sorting through the information, Li Qingyuan obtained the complete Nine Revolutions Profound Technique and continued seclusion to cultivate its three divine abilities.

Human Emperor Dugu Lei reached the threshold of the first revolution of the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique and set out to unite the Nine Provinces against the extraterritorial Soul Transformation cultivators. When the Water Tribe refused to fight alongside the other races, he annihilated its forces and ordered their remains turned into resources for the coming battle.

• Dugu Lei completed twenty years of cultivation and reached the threshold of the first revolution of the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique.
• Dugu Lei ordered the Eight Kings to gather the Nascent Soul Cultivators of the eight provinces and assemble them in the Central Divine Continent within half a year.
• Dugu Lei offered the Earth Core Sea Water Tribe one last chance to join the other races in opening the Heavenly Gate, but the five Demon Kings refused.
• Dugu Lei killed the five Demon Kings and most of the Fourth-Tier Water Tribe great demons, while Nascent Soul cultivators ambushed and killed the few that fled.
• Dugu Lei ordered the demon infants sacrificed to the Heaven Severing Great Array and assigned the remaining materials for crafting weapons, puppets, formations, and talisman papers.

Li Qingyuan and the rulers of the Nine Provinces rallied human cultivators and demon races to travel to the Central Divine Continent and help the Human Emperor Open Heavenly Gate. Their forces gathered for a battle that would determine whether the Nine Provinces revived or fell further.

• Li Qingyuan arrived at Wind Thunder Immortal Sect, where more than a hundred Nascent Soul True Lords gathered under his authority in Desolate Province.
• Li Qingyuan declared that the Human Emperor sought to revive the Heavenly Dao and called on cultivators to Open Heavenly Gate; 107 Nascent Soul True Lords followed him toward the Central Divine Continent.
• Miao Le led fifty Nascent Soul True Lords from Huang Province toward the Central Divine Continent.
• Wang Decai, Ye Bufan, and Bai Hezhui rallied cultivators from Tian, Xuan, and Di Provinces to aid the Human Emperor.
• The Flood Dragon race, the Tiger-led Beast Race, and the Vermilion Bird-led Feather Race sent their Great Demons toward the Central Divine Continent.

The Human Emperor gathered 1,440 Nascent Soul-level combatants to begin the Nine Provinces Revival Plan by breaking the Heaven Severing Great Array. After studying the formation jade slip for two and a half years, Li Qingyuan devised a method that raised their chances of success, and the assembled forces followed the Human Emperor toward Red Flag Mountain.

• The Human Emperor counted the Nine Provinces’ human and demonic forces and announced the plan to break the Heaven Severing Great Array and open Heaven’s Scar.
• The Human Emperor presented a jade slip of formation knowledge preserved by generations of cultivators, and the gathered combatants studied it.
• Li Qingyuan continued comprehending the formations long after the other experts withdrew, eventually mastering the jade slip’s contents and the key points of the Heaven Severing Great Array.
• Li Qingyuan explained how to locate and break the third formation foundation, and the Human Emperor judged his method could raise their chances of success to nearly eighty percent.
• The Human Emperor led all 1,440 combatants toward Red Flag Mountain to break the Absolute Heaven Array.

Li Qingyuan and the Human Emperor led 1,448 Nascent Soul combatants in breaking the Absolute Heaven Array to revive the Nine Provinces Heavenly Dao. After hundreds of cultivators sacrificed themselves and five hundred array foundations were destroyed, Li Qingyuan urged everyone to press on until the array was broken.

• The Human Emperor appointed Li Qingyuan to command the effort to break the Absolute Heaven Array, and Li Qingyuan and Miao Le jointly dismantled its yin-and-yang third foundation.
• Li Qingyuan directed Nascent Soul cultivators and Fourth-Tier Great Demons to attack the array foundations, while the Human Emperor joined the operation and led the Four Envoys and Four Great Divine Beasts.
• The Human Emperor sacrificed the Nascent Souls of dozens of Water Tribe Great Demons into Formation Flags to aid the array-breaking.
• Xuantian, Xun Kuang, True Monarch Skyfire, and hundreds of other aging Nascent Soul combatants sacrificed themselves to weaken the array and help the others advance.
• The Human Emperor and Li Qingyuan led the remaining forces to destroy five hundred array foundations, and Li Qingyuan vowed that they would keep moving forward.

After ten years of sacrifice and relentless effort, the Nine Provinces cultivators reached the core of the Heaven Severing Great Array, where the Human Emperor prepared to sacrifice older cultivators to open a path. Li Qingyuan instead joined forces with Miao Le to search for another way, but the Jianmu Sapling drew him into an array foundation, and he vanished.

• The Nine Provinces cultivators destroyed more than thirteen hundred array foundations over ten years, with Li Qingyuan, Dugu Lei, and Zhao Guangzheng leading the effort.
• At the core of the Heaven Severing Great Array, Dugu Lei called on the older Nascent Soul Cultivators and transformed great demons to step forward and sacrifice their Primordial Spirit Power.
• Li Qingyuan and the young prodigies refused to let the seniors sacrifice themselves, and Li Qingyuan claimed he could pry open the core array foundations himself.
• Li Qingyuan and Miao Le joined their power and activated the Divine General Heavenly Eye, but his search through the core array foundations yielded no results for two and a half months.
• The Jianmu Sapling sensed an array foundation, flew into it, and vanished; Li Qingyuan followed it and disappeared, leaving Miao Le and the others unable to enter.

Li Qingyuan discovered and took a branch of the Jianmu Divine Tree from the Heaven Severing Great Array’s hidden formation space. After the Crystal Immortal Coffin claimed most of the branch and gave him the Ten Ultimate Array Codex, the formation space collapsed, leaving Li Qingyuan to escape.

• The Human Emperor and Miao Le waited for Li Qingyuan, while Miao Le reassured the Li Clan that he was likely safe.
• Li Qingyuan found a withered Jianmu branch that resonated with his Longevity Seed, Jianmu Sapling Primordial Spirit, and Green Wood Heavenly Sun Sword.
• Li Qingyuan used the Light of Fortune to pull the Jianmu branch into the Mysterious Feminine Space.
• The Crystal Immortal Coffin took the branch’s source Dao Rhyme, leaving Li Qingyuan three zhang of trunk, and sent him the Ten Ultimate Array Codex.
• The formation space collapsed after losing its source of power, and Li Qingyuan flew toward the light to escape.

Li Qingyuan escaped the collapsing Heaven Severing Great Array and proposed altering it to protect the Nine Provinces from Outer Realm invaders. After comprehending the Ten Ultimate Array Codex for sixty years, he faced an imminent invasion as Outer Realm Cultivators appeared beyond Heaven's Scar.

• Li Qingyuan broke out of the activated array, told the Human King he had destroyed its core foundation, and proposed changing the formation rather than letting it collapse.
• The Human King and the others agreed to guard Li Qingyuan while he studied the Heaven Severing Great Array using the Ten Ultimate Array Codex.
• Li Qingyuan realized the Crystal Immortal Coffin, the array, and the Jianmu branch might be linked by fate, but steadied his Dao heart and continued his study.
• Li Qingyuan comprehended the formation for sixty years as the array's foundations crumbled and more Nine Provinces cultivators joined the guard.
• Outer Realm Cultivators appeared beyond the widening Heaven's Scar and began attacking the formation.

Li Qingyuan and the Nine Provinces cultivators opened the Heavenly Gate, unleashing a Heavenly Dao vortex that dragged Outer Realm Cultivators into their world. As the invaders were swept through Heaven's Scar, Li Qingyuan and the Human Emperor attacked them.

• Hong Yuan reassured Li Xianhuang that Heaven's Scar would initially admit only Soul Transformation Stage cultivators and promised to lead the Li Immortal Clan to safety.
• Li Qingyuan and the Nine Provinces cultivators spent more than two years transforming the Heaven Severing Great Array into a Heaven Imprisoning Great Array around Heaven's Scar.
• Li Qingyuan and the Human Emperor led 1,246 Nascent Soul combat units in striking the sealing barrier and opening the Heavenly Gate.
• The expanding Heaven's Scar formed a Heavenly Dao vortex that sucked hundreds to over a thousand Outer Realm Cultivators, along with foreign energy and mountain ranges, into the Nine Provinces Continent.
• The Human Emperor used the Five Thunders Secret Technique to kill Nascent Soul Cultivators and drive back five Early Soul Transformation Stage cultivators.
• Li Qingyuan transformed into a hundred-meter giant and crushed Nascent Soul Cultivators while grinding down an Early Soul Transformation Stage cultivator.

Li Qingyuan fought Jin Wujiu amid the invasion and killed the Early Soul Transformation Stage Perfection Cultivator with the Green Wood Heavenly Sun Sword. As the Nine Provinces Heavenly Dao revived, Li Qingyuan began facing the continent’s first Three-Colored Soul Transformation Lightning Tribulation.

• Li Qingyuan fought Jin Wujiu, who summoned a Nascent Soul Clone, while the Human Emperor Teacher and the other defenders battled Outer Realm cultivators across the battlefield.
• Li Qingyuan opened the Gate of Space and sent Zhao Guangzheng, Ji Kun, Little Flame, the Second Yuan Clone, and the Blood Shadow Clone to attack the invaders.
• Li Qingyuan drew the Green Wood Heavenly Sun Sword and cleaved through Jin Wujiu’s Golden Profound Sword, then killed Jin Wujiu’s original body.
• Zhao Guangzheng captured Jin Wujiu’s weakened Primordial Spirit incarnation in the Soul Refining Banner.
• Li Qingyuan received the returning power of heaven and earth, and a Three-Colored Soul Transformation Lightning Tribulation descended upon him.
• The Human Emperor urged Li Qingyuan to cross the tribulation and ascend to Soul Transformation.

Li Qingyuan faced a Four-Colored Soul Transformation Lightning Tribulation while foreign cultivators attacked him and Dugu Lei. As Li Qingyuan endured the tribulation, Dugu Lei and the other half-step Soul Transformation cultivators also drew the Heavenly Dao’s attention, leaving their allies at risk if the enemies broke through.

• The Heavenly Dao Vortex killed thousands of cultivators, while three Early Soul Transformation cultivators attacked Li Qingyuan and he defended himself with the Five Yuan Mountain.
• A Four-Colored Soul Transformation Lightning Tribulation formed, and Li Qingyuan pursued one attacker before the first bolt struck him.
• Li Qingyuan endured the successive lightning bolts, healing and tempering his body as his cultivation and Primordial Spirit advanced.
• Dugu Lei borrowed Li Qingyuan’s lightning tribulation to wield a Three-Colored Lightning Tribulation against five Early Soul Transformation cultivators, but warned Li Qingyuan that he could not hold out much longer.
• The Heavenly Dao began forming tribulations for Dugu Lei and the other half-step Soul Transformation cultivators, while Miao Le urged Li Qingyuan to complete his breakthrough and kill the foreign enemies.

Li Qingyuan entered the Soul Transformation Stage and led his allies through tribulations as they became powerful Soul Transformation fighters and overwhelmed the invading cultivators. After helping the Human Emperor begin his own tribulation, Li Qingyuan watched as the newly advanced Human Emperor’s cultivation surged and a fourth-tier lightning tribulation gathered above him.

• Li Qingyuan entered the Early Soul Transformation Stage, and the Five-colored Lotus Lamp, Soul-Refining Restriction Banner, and Green Wood Heavenly Sun Sword began transforming into Treasure Artifacts.
• Yang Xiaohe, Zhao Guangzheng, Ji Kun, and the Flame Dragon Flood Dragon fought the invading cultivators while undergoing their own tribulations.
• Li Qingyuan used the Light of Fortune to evolve the Second Yuan Clone and Blood Shadow Clone, whose corpse puppets then triggered tribulations to advance to the fifth tier.
• Li Qingyuan killed an Early Soul Transformation Stage cultivator and gave the captured Nascent Soul remnant to Zhao Guangzheng, while his allies defeated more opponents.
• Li Qingyuan brought Yang Xiaohe, Zhao Guangzheng, and Ji Kun to the Human Emperor and urged him to focus on his tribulation.
• The Human Emperor entered the Early Soul Transformation Stage, advanced the Thunder God Halberd into a Low-grade Treasure Artifact, and then drew down a fourth-tier lightning tribulation as his cultivation surged.

Human Emperor Dugu Lei broke through to the Middle Soul Transformation Stage as Nine Provinces forces crushed the retreating Outer Realm cultivators. As eighteen more powerhouses underwent tribulations, Li Qingyuan captured an enemy Soul Transformation cultivator, but the Fist Dao Heavenly Monarch emerged from the Heavenly Dao Vortex and attacked him.

• Dugu Lei absorbed his lightning tribulation, completed his Thunder God Treasure Body, and advanced to the Middle Soul Transformation Stage.
• Outer Realm cultivators tried to escape upstream toward the Heavenly Dao Vortex, but Nine Provinces fighters led by Wang Fugui and others slaughtered their Nascent Souls.
• Little Flame passed his tribulation, became a Fifth-tier Sub-dragon, and joined Li Qingyuan in pursuing the fleeing Soul Transformation cultivators.
• Li Qingyuan used the Three-Colored Lightning Tribulation to cripple the nine remaining Early Soul Transformation cultivators while his allies surrounded them.
• The Four Great Divine Beasts, the Four Envoys, and eight other humans and demons began their tribulations, bringing the number of new Soul Transformations behind Li Qingyuan to eighteen.
• Li Qingyuan captured an enemy Soul Transformation Nascent Soul, but the Fist Dao Heavenly Monarch emerged from the Heavenly Dao Vortex and sent a powerful barrage of flaming punches at him.

Li Qingyuan fought Fist Dao Heavenly Monarch, a powerful Late Soul Transformation Stage cultivator, and proved he could match him with his Wind Thunder techniques. When Red Moon Heavenly Monarch arrived and targeted Li Qingyuan, the Human Emperor intervened and told his disciple to leave the newcomer to him.

• Li Qingyuan exchanged powerful blows with Fist Dao Heavenly Monarch and withstood his Heavenly Dragon Descends attack.
• Fist Dao Heavenly Monarch transformed into a hundred-zhang giant, but Li Qingyuan used the Wind Thunder Drum and Manifestation of Heaven and Earth to fight him evenly.
• Li Qingyuan and Fist Dao Heavenly Monarch shattered each other's Dharma Aspects, and Fist Dao Heavenly Monarch prepared his Fist Dao Killing Move.
• Red Moon Heavenly Monarch arrived, recognized Li Qingyuan as a Wood Attribute cultivator, and tried to claim him for his Five Elements Cauldrons.
• The Human Emperor appeared wielding the treasure-grade Thunder God's Halberd and told Li Qingyuan to leave Red Moon Heavenly Monarch to his master.

The Human Emperor overwhelmed Red Moon Heavenly Monarch with lightning and killed him using the Five Thunders Bombardment. As Li Qingyuan faced the Fist Dao Heavenly Monarch, he found a flaw in his killing move and prepared to strike.

• The Human Emperor fought Red Moon Heavenly Monarch, suppressing him with his combat strength and lightning arts as Red Moon tried to flee toward the Heavenly Dao Vortex.
• The Eight Humans Eight Demons, the Nine Provinces Celestial Domain, and the Eighteen Soul Transformations passed their tribulations, while Miao Le and the others killed cultivators from beyond the domain and claimed their Soul Transformation Nascent Souls.
• Li Qingyuan turned down Yang Xiaohe's offer of help and challenged the Fist Dao Heavenly Monarch, using the Divine General Heavenly Eye to find a flaw in his Dragon Tiger Descends to the Mortal Realm killing move.
• The Human Emperor killed Red Moon Heavenly Monarch with the Five Thunders Bombardment, prompting the Nine Provinces cultivators to cheer for him.
• Li Qingyuan told the Fist Dao Heavenly Monarch it was his turn and unleashed Limitless Fortune—Myriad Phenomena Return to Origin.

Li Qingyuan killed the Fist Dao Heavenly Monarch and the Nine Provinces cultivators gained thousands of Top-grade Spirit Stones and other resources. Zhao Guangzheng learned that the Heavenly Dao Vortex could soon draw even mightier outsiders, and a second wave of enemies began descending as the Nine Provinces prepared to fight.

• Li Qingyuan broke through the Fist Dao Heavenly Monarch’s defenses, killed his body, and captured his Soul Transformation Nascent Soul for Zhao Guangzheng.
• Li Qingyuan and the Human Emperor assessed the captured cultivators’ riches, finding more than three thousand Top-grade Spirit Stones among the spoils.
• Zhao Guangzheng refined the Fist Dao Heavenly Monarch into the Soul Refining Banner and learned that the vortex lay in the Myriad Severance Mountain Range, where three regions met.
• Zhao Guangzheng warned that the expanding Heavenly Dao Vortex could soon attract Void Refining Dao Lords, Body Integration Old Monsters, and Mahayana Dao Venerables.
• Li Qingyuan spotted another wave of Soul Transformation cultivators descending, and the Nine Provinces forces vowed to fight to the death to protect their homeland.

Cultivators gathered at the revived Ancient Grotto-heaven, and Lingjian Dao Lord arrived to claim it for the Divine Sword Sect. When he entered the vortex, its Heavenly Dao began devouring and assimilating him, so he retreated and sent Quijian and the sect’s disciples in his place.

• Cultivators surrounded the Heavenly Dao Vortex, while Quijian Heavenly Monarch declared the grotto-heaven belonged to the Divine Sword Sect and threatened intruders.
• Lingjian Dao Lord arrived, forced the other cultivators to retreat, and summoned Divine Sword Sect Soul Transformation cultivators from his sleeve.
• Lingjian Dao Lord entered the vortex but found its incomplete Heavenly Dao trying to devour and assimilate him as he descended.
• Lingjian Dao Lord escaped the vortex and told Quijian to lead the sect’s disciples inside while he remained behind to protect them.

The Human Emperor, Li Qingyuan, and the Nine Provinces’ Spirit Transformation fighters ambushed the Divine Sword Sect’s arrivals, overwhelming them with coordinated attacks. As the battle spread across Red Flag Mountain, the defenders held off the Sect’s strongest fighters and began suppressing its Middle Soul Transformation cultivators.

• Kuijian Heavenly Monarch ordered the Divine Sword Sect’s twenty-four cultivators to kill the locals and capture some alive for intelligence.
• The Human Emperor and Li Qingyuan joined forces against Kuijian Heavenly Monarch and suppressed him with their profound techniques and coordinated attacks.
• Kuijian Heavenly Monarch failed to send a transmission, then called on Ling Xu and Mu Xu for help and ordered his disciples to capture the defenders’ relatives and friends.
• Zhao Guangzheng used the Soul Refining Banner to hold back Ling Xu, while Yang Xiaohe trapped Mu Xu with the Five-colored Lotus Lamp.
• Ji Kun, Ao Run, Miao Le, Wang Decai, Bai Hezhui, and Qing Qiu each held off a Middle Soul Transformation cultivator, while Jin Po and Zhu Yu teamed up against another.

The Nine Provinces cultivators fought the Divine Sword Sect, and Li Qingyuan and the Human Emperor killed Quijian Heavenly Monarch after pretending to consider his offer. They wiped out the invading sect, shared out its resources, and prepared for a possible third wave of Soul Transformation Cultivators.

• Li Qingyuan and the Human Emperor pretended to negotiate with Quijian Heavenly Monarch, then blinded him with the Heavenly Eye and killed him with a surprise attack.
• The Human Emperor gave Li Qingyuan the resources taken from Quijian Heavenly Monarch and Red Moon Heavenly Monarch before joining the battle.
• Li Qingyuan and the Nine Provinces cultivators killed or captured several Soul Transformation Cultivators and wiped out the Divine Sword Sect in less than a quarter hour.
• Li Qingyuan copied and distributed the invaders' resources, including Top-grade Spirit Stones and elixirs, to strengthen the Nine Provinces fighters.
• Li Qingyuan took elixirs to restore his magic power and worried that a large third wave of Soul Transformation Cultivators could endanger the Nine Provinces.

Lingjian Dao Lord conscripted twenty-three Spirit Transformation Cultivators to enter the Ancient Grotto-heaven, but Li Qingyuan and Human Emperor Phoenix Tail ambushed and killed them. Lingjian Dao Lord then discovered that all their soul blood had scattered, leaving him to realize the entire group was dead.

• Lingjian Dao Lord, unable to contact Kui Jian, seized twenty-three weakly backed Spirit Transformation Cultivators and ordered them to explore the Ancient Grotto-heaven under Kui Jian’s command.
• Li Qingyuan and Human Emperor Phoenix Tail led their Nine Provinces forces in an ambush as the twenty-three cultivators emerged from the Devouring Vortex.
• Li Qingyuan killed one Late Soul Transformation cultivator with a Fortune Sword strike, while Human Emperor Phoenix Tail captured and gravely wounded the other.
• The Nine Provinces forces slaughtered all twenty-three intruders, and Li Qingyuan copied and doubled their loot before distributing part of it to his allies.
• Lingjian Dao Lord sensed that the twenty-three cultivators’ soul blood had scattered and realized they had all been killed.