Chapter Summaries

The three Mahayana Dao Venerables discussed the weakened Nine Provinces Celestial Domain and predicted that its recovering Heavenly Dao would soon permit stronger cultivators to enter. In the Tai Cang Immortal Realm, Li Qingyuan ambushed and killed seven Soul Transformation pursuers, collected their resources, and learned of the Taicang Baptism.

• Seven Profound Dao Venerable explained that the Nine Provinces Celestial Domain could use sacrificial Soul Transformation cultivators and returning treasures to resist invasion, while its Heavenly Dao continued recovering.
• Li Qingyuan led seven Soul Transformation cultivators into an ambush and used his Soul Refining Banner, Zhao Guangzheng's restriction formation, and Yang Xiaohe to heavily injure and trap them.
• Li Qingyuan slew one of the trapped cultivators, while Zhao Guangzheng captured the seven divine souls for the Soul Refining Banner.
• Li Qingyuan collected more than ten thousand eight hundred Top-grade Spirit Stones and numerous other treasures, keeping the Mysterious Feminine Space's hidden functions secret.
• Zhao Guangzheng advised Li Qingyuan to join a sect and hunt immortal beasts for the Taicang Baptism, which Li Qingyuan asked him to explain.

Li Qingyuan learned how the Taicang Baptism and soul crystals could help Soul Transformation cultivators advance, then infiltrated a Lingxi Sect team by taking the identity of Ma Chao. He prepared to imitate Ma Chao’s water-attribute techniques before the team began hunting immortal beasts.

• Zhao Guangzheng explained that the Tai Cang Immortal Realm opened once every ten thousand years and that its soul crystals and mountain-top baptism could strengthen cultivators’ foundations.
• Li Qingyuan decided to seek a team in the realm so he could earn support from major powers and better protect the Nine Provinces.
• After secretly following a middle-tier team for seven days, Li Qingyuan used underground escape to capture a resting Late Soul Transformation disciple without being detected.
• Li Qingyuan ordered Zhao Guangzheng to interrogate the captive, spare his life if possible, and erase his memories before releasing him.
• Li Qingyuan took the captive’s identity as Ma Chao, a Lingxi Sect disciple, and learned about the team’s leader Yan Lingyue and their plans for the Taicang Baptism.
• With a little over an hour before the team resumed its hunt, Li Qingyuan began studying Ma Chao’s Mysterious Water Treasure Codex and techniques.

Disguised as Ma Chao, Li Qingyuan joined Lingxi Sect’s disciples as they traveled to a supposed Immortal Pool, but he suspected the fire beasts were an illusion. Yan Lingyue spotted an ambush, and two allied forces surrounded the sect, prompting her to order a charge through their encirclement.

• Li Qingyuan disguised himself as Ma Chao and joined Yan Lingyue and 1,099 Lingxi Sect disciples on their journey to the Immortal Pool.
• The group reached a vast magma lake where Yan Lingyue ordered them to attack the seemingly quiet fire beasts.
• Li Qingyuan questioned the beasts’ behavior, and Zhao Guangzheng warned him that immortal beasts could be cunning and coordinated.
• Yan Lingyue sensed danger and ordered the disciples to stop, withdraw, and prepare for battle.
• Two groups led by the men surnamed Fang and Zhong revealed an illusion and surrounded Lingxi Sect with more than 3,000 disciples.
• The man surnamed Fang demanded the female cultivators while the man surnamed Zhong claimed the resources, and Yan Lingyue ordered Lingxi Sect to charge at one point and break through.

Yan Lingyue led the Lingxi Sect disciples in a desperate breakout against the far larger forces of the Refining Yin Sect and its allies. After her secret art carved open a path, Li Qingyuan slipped away from the fleeing group and was pursued by three cultivators, whom he viewed as a chance to seize more resources.

• Yan Lingyue and the Lingxi Sect disciples fought the man surnamed Fang, the man surnamed Zhong, and their forces, but the outnumbered Lingxi disciples began to fall.
• Li Qingyuan, disguised as Ma Chao, battled three Late Soul Transformation Stage cultivators while secretly collecting the belongings of fallen Lingxi Sect disciples.
• Yan Lingyue activated Nine Purple Departing Fire Transformation, reached Extreme Dao Soul Transformation combat power, and killed or injured many enemies to open a path through the siege.
• The Lingxi Sect disciples followed Yan Lingyue’s path and broke out, while the man surnamed Fang and the man surnamed Zhong recovered and ordered a pursuit.
• Li Qingyuan left the fleeing Lingxi Sect group, but a Peak Soul Transformation Stage cultivator and two Late Soul Transformation Stage cultivators pursued him, and he welcomed the chance to take their resources.

Li Qingyuan escaped his pursuers, then used Zhao Guangzheng and the Soul Refining Banner to kill them and obtain an Immortal Beast Soul Crystal. He rejoined the surviving Lingxi Sect disciples, where Yan Lingyue gathered allies to prepare for retaliation against the Lianyin Sect and Qianzhen Sect.

• Li Qingyuan lured a Peak Soul Transformation cultivator and two Late Soul Transformation cultivators to a sandbar, where Zhao Guangzheng trapped them, drove them to kill one another, and harvested their souls.
• Li Qingyuan found an Immortal Beast Soul Crystal among the spoils, learned about its benefits and the Tai Cang Immortal Realm's inner region, and flew toward Yan Lingyue's gathering call.
• Li Qingyuan rejoined the Lingxi Sect survivors disguised as Ma Chao and claimed that top-grade Fifth-grade Talisman Charms had helped him escape.
• Wanyuan told Li Qingyuan that he had killed four pursuers and praised Yan Lingyue, who had suffered serious injuries defending the sect's disciples.
• A seductive female cultivator and a towering man from the Three Spirits Sect arrived in response to Yan Lingyue's call and offered to help her.

Yan Lingyue reunited the Three Spirits Sect and led its forces to avenge the Lingxi Sect by attacking the Lianyin Sect and Qianzhen Sect. You Yanmei’s group fell into an ambush, but Dian Kui arrived as she fought off her attackers.

• Yan Lingyue, Dian Kui, and You Yanmei united their three sects and planned to eliminate the Lianyin Sect and Qianzhen Sect before joining the Canglan Domain’s forces.
• Yan Lingyue led more than two thousand seven hundred disciples toward a valley, while You Yanmei took five hundred Lingyan Sect disciples ahead as bait.
• The Man surnamed Fang and the Man surnamed Zhong revealed their illusion formation and ambushed You Yanmei’s group with two thousand eight hundred disciples.
• You Yanmei fought the Man surnamed Fang and the Man surnamed Zhong after they tried to capture her and the other Female Cultivators alive.
• Dian Kui struck with his Heavenly Star Hammer and threatened anyone who dared harm You Yanmei.

Three Spirits Sect forces attacked the Refining Yin Sect and Qianzhen Sect, while Li Qingyuan secretly looted the battlefield behind Dian Kui. The Man surnamed Fang was killed, and the Man surnamed Zhong escaped with some disciples as Li Qingyuan rushed to claim more spoils.

• Yan Lingyue, Dian Kui, and You Yanmei led around 2,800 Three Spirits Sect disciples in an attack on the Refining Yin Sect and Qianzhen Sect forces.
• Dian Kui battered the opposing Soul Transformation cultivators while Li Qingyuan followed behind, killing wounded enemies and collecting their Storage Bags.
• In the Mysterious Feminine Space, Ao Run, Bai Hezhui, Li Xianhuang, and Miao Le watched Li Qingyuan profit from the battle and discussed his cautious ways.
• Yan Lingyue called for Dian Kui's help, and the two joined forces to overwhelm the Man surnamed Fang while the Man surnamed Zhong abandoned him and led a breakout.
• Dian Kui struck the Man surnamed Fang with the Heavenly Star Hammer, and Yan Lingyue killed him with the Heavenly Demon Purple Blade.
• Li Qingyuan charged after the remaining trapped disciples, crying out for revenge while eager to collect more spoils.

After the Three Spirits Sect forces defeated Lianyin Sect and Qianzhen Sect, Li Qingyuan collected valuable spoils and was recruited into Lingjia Sect under his Ma Chao disguise. The allied sects then hurried to Tianshan Snow Pool to seize thousands of Immortal Beasts, and Li Qingyuan looked forward to obtaining more Soul Crystals.

• Li Qingyuan looted the defeated forces, bringing his Top-grade Spirit Stones above sixty thousand and gaining eight Fire-Attribute Soul Crystals.
• After a two-hour rest, the Three Spirits Sect forces set out, and Dian Kui praised Ma Chao’s physique and arranged for him to join Lingjia Sect.
• Dian Kui received word of a newly formed Immortal Pool containing at least three thousand Immortal Beasts and led his forces to meet Yunyin Sect.
• Luo Yun explained that Yunyin Sect and two other forces were vying for the Ice Attribute Immortal Beasts at Tianshan Snow Pool.
• Dian Kui, Yan Lingyue, and Luo Yun agreed to act immediately, and the four sects marched toward the pool as Li Qingyuan prepared to hunt for Soul Crystals.

Li Qingyuan joined the Four Great Sects in a hunt for thousands of immortal beasts at the Tianshan Snow Pool and demonstrated formidable strength while collecting soul crystals. He left the battle eager to gather enough crystals for the Taicang Baptism and advance toward Extreme Dao Soul Transformation.

• A yellow-robed cultivator learned that the Yunyin Sect had arrived and gathered disciples to cooperate with the Demonic Puppet Sect and other forces against them.
• Luo Yun agreed with Dian Kui, Yan Lingyue, and You Yanmei to divide the immortal beasts’ rewards, then led the Four Sects into battle at the Tianshan Snow Pool.
• Yan Lingyue noticed Li Qingyuan fighting among the Peak Soul Transformation cultivators and considered cultivating him as a future ally.
• The Four Heavenly Chosen reached the Late Soul Transformation and Peak Soul Transformation beasts, where more than four thousand Snow White Flying Bears counterattacked.
• Li Qingyuan used the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique and his Mysterious Water Shuttle to freeze and shatter groups of flying bears, earning praise from Dian Kui.
• Li Qingyuan continued killing beasts at high speed and resolved to gather enough soul crystals to advance through the Taicang Baptism toward Extreme Dao Soul Transformation.

The four great sects battled the Immortal Beast Swarm as Li Qingyuan avoided a hidden threat beneath the Snow Pond. The fourth-Nirvana Beast King emerged and attacked the cultivators, but the Four Great Heavenly Chosen joined forces against it while Li Qingyuan resumed fighting; thousands of cultivators then rushed toward the battle.

• The Four Great Heavenly Chosen and the sect armies fought the Immortal Beasts, while Li Qingyuan killed Soul Transformation beasts and collected their Soul Crystals.
• Old Zhao warned Li Qingyuan that a hidden force beneath the Snow Pond had targeted him, so Li Qingyuan feigned exhaustion and retreated toward the main formation.
• The Beast King unleashed a wave from the Snow Pond that froze more than three hundred cultivators, then shattered many of them with its roar.
• Luo Yun confronted the Beast King, and Yan Lingyue and Dian Kui defeated their own opponents and joined him; Yan Lingyue killed a third-Nirvana Immortal Beast, and Dian Kui crushed another with his Heavenly Star Hammer.
• You Yanmei joined the Four Great Heavenly Chosen, and together they weakened the fourth-Nirvana Beast King while Li Qingyuan returned to the front and resumed killing Immortal Beasts.
• Zhao Guangzheng warned Li Qingyuan that thousands of cultivators were rushing over and might try to steal from the victors.

Yan Lingyue, Dian Kui, Luo Yun, and You Yanmei killed the Beast King and claimed its enormous Soul Crystal, but rival factions surrounded their sects after breaking through the defenses. Yan Lingyue proposed settling the standoff through arena duels, and the rival leaders agreed to hear the terms.

• Thousands of Soul Transformation Cultivators attacked the Tianshan Immortal Pool while Yan Lingyue, Dian Kui, Luo Yun, and You Yanmei destroyed the Beast King and Luo Yun took its Soul Crystal.
• The attackers shattered the defensive formations, forcing Yan Lingyue to order the four great sects to abandon the remaining Immortal Beasts and retreat.
• Huang Yuan, Song Xiu, Wan Dashan, and Wan Xiaoshan confronted the four sects over their share of the Immortal Beasts and Soul Crystals.
• Yan Lingyue suppressed Wan Xiaoshan in a clash of Primordial Spirit Intents, and the four great sects rallied behind her as both sides prepared to fight.
• Yan Lingyue proposed resolving the dispute through arena duels, and Wan Dashan and the others agreed.

Yan Lingyue and the others negotiated a wager with the Wanshan Immortal Sect, then agreed to settle control of the Soul Crystals through a five-round contest. Li Qingyuan, fighting as Ma Chao, joined their Late Soul Transformation Stage team as the first round began.

• Yan Lingyue insisted that the Wanshan Immortal Sect clear out rival forces and wager only half its Soul Crystals, but Wan Xiaoshan demanded that both sides stake all their crystals.
• Dian Kui threatened to fight to the death, and Wan Dashan agreed to a contest after Huang Yuan and Song Xiu accepted the terms.
• The sects drove away the minor forces and seized the remaining Soul Crystals, then each side put thousands of Soul Crystals into the wager.
• Yan Lingyue set out five rounds of matches, and the four allied sects selected Li Qingyuan and nine other Late Soul Transformation Stage cultivators for the opening round.
• Yan Lingyue promised rewards to the team, and two Late Soul Transformation Stage cultivators entered the arena and began fighting.

Li Qingyuan swept through the Wanshan Immortal Sect’s remaining Late Soul Transformation Stage fighters with his Mysterious Water Thousand Illusions Kill, securing the spell battle’s first round for Yan Lingyue’s side. He returned to camp to restore his magic power and resolved to obtain more Soul Crystals.

• The Wanshan Immortal Sect defeated the Yunyin Sect in the first match, while the remaining spell battles left the sides tied at four wins, two draws, and four losses.
• Yan Lingyue sent Li Qingyuan into the eighth match, where he severed Zong Hao’s arm and forced Wan Dashan to concede.
• Li Qingyuan defeated the next Wanshan Immortal Sect disciple with one Mysterious Water Thousand Illusions Kill, then defeated the tenth contestant the same way.
• As the four Wanshan Immortal Sect winners continued fighting, Li Qingyuan defeated all four in a single strike each, giving Yan Lingyue’s side the round.
• Li Qingyuan returned to camp, refined Top-grade Spirit Stones to recover his magic power, and considered how to obtain more Soul Crystals.

Li Qingyuan disguised himself as Ma Chao after reaching Peak Soul Transformation and entered the losing duels against Wanshan Immortal Sect. He defeated his first opponent so decisively that Wanshan conceded, leaving him to challenge the remaining contestants.

• Wanyuan won Lingxi Sect's opening Peak Soul Transformation duel despite suffering severe injuries, but Lingxi Sect's next contestant lost.
• Wanshan Immortal Sect dominated the following matches, leaving the score at one victory, two draws, and six defeats for Lingxi Sect's side.
• Li Qingyuan used the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique to disguise his cultivation as Peak Soul Transformation Ma Chao and answered Yan Lingyue's call for another fighter.
• Li Qingyuan used the Mysterious Water Great Halberd and freezing techniques to overwhelm a Wanshan Immortal Sect cultivator and freeze him into an ice sculpture.
• Wan Dashan conceded to save his sect's Spirit Transformation elites, and Li Qingyuan challenged the remaining fighters.

Li Qingyuan continued challenging Wanshan Immortal Sect’s Peak Soul Transformation cultivators and defeated a powerful body cultivator, then a beast tamer and his Golden Light Armored Beetle. He demanded another opponent, declaring that none of the sect’s cultivators at his realm could withstand him.

• Li Qingyuan used Ice Intent and his Great Halberd to freeze and shatter a Peak Soul Transformation Black Demon Treasure Body in one exchange.
• The crowd recognized Li Qingyuan as a top-tier Soul Transformation cultivator, while sect leaders argued over which sect he belonged to.
• Li Qingyuan challenged Wanshan Immortal Sect again, facing its Peak Soul Transformation beast tamer and his Golden Light Armored Beetle.
• Li Qingyuan summoned Ji Kun and Ao Run, who disrupted the beetle’s defenses while he battered its master with halberd strikes.
• Li Qingyuan captured the beetle’s Nascent Soul after he and his spirit pets pierced its defenses, then called for another challenger.

Li Qingyuan, posing as Ma Chao, survived Wang Kai’s self-destruction with the Soul Refining Banner, forcing the opposing side to concede the second round. After his side lost the third and fourth rounds, Wan Dashan, Wan Xiaoshan, and Huang Yuan stepped forward to fight in the final round.

• Wan Xiaoshan pressured Wang Kai into agreeing to exhaust Ma Chao, even at the cost of his life, and Wang Kai charged into the second round.
• Zhao Guangzheng and Yan Lingyue warned that Wang Kai was about to self-destruct, but Li Qingyuan refused Yan Lingyue’s intervention and used the Soul Refining Banner to defend himself.
• Li Qingyuan survived Wang Kai’s self-destruction, and Wan Dashan conceded the second round before demanding that the next fighters be first-Nirvana Soul Transformation Cultivators.
• Li Qingyuan returned to his camp and exchanged Sound Transmission Jade Slips with cultivators who gathered around him.
• Their side lost the third round and then lost the fourth round, with three losses, one draw, and one win.
• Wan Dashan, Wan Xiaoshan, and Huang Yuan stepped forward for the final round and challenged their opponents to send fighters.

Dian Kui fought Wan Xiaoshan in the final round, matching the Mahayana sect disciple despite his powerful Flowing Crystal Pagoda and Yellow Flow Crystal Sand. After thirty exchanges ended in a stalemate, Wan Xiaoshan unleashed his Nine Heavens Starfall killing move, leaving the fight's outcome unresolved.

• Wan Xiaoshan challenged Yan Lingyue and revealed his third-Nirvana strength and High-grade Gemstone natal treasure, the Flowing Crystal Pagoda.
• Yan Lingyue warned Luo Yun that fighting Wan Xiaoshan would put their side at a disadvantage, and Dian Kui volunteered to face him.
• Dian Kui and Wan Xiaoshan clashed with their natal treasures, as Dian Kui used his Soul Transformation Treasure Body and Heavenly Star Hammer against the Flowing Crystal Pagoda.
• Wan Xiaoshan transformed his pagoda into a storm of Yellow Flow Crystal Sand, forcing Dian Kui to defend and counter with Meteor Beyond the Heavens.
• After thirty exchanges left them evenly matched, Wan Xiaoshan declared that his next move would defeat Dian Kui and unleashed Nine Heavens Starfall.

Dian Kui and Wan Xiaoshan fought to a draw, while Huang Yuan used a Blood Burning Divine Pill to defeat Luo Yun. Yan Lingyue then faced Wan Dashan and opened with the Annihilation Cross Slash.

• Dian Kui unleashed his Yellow Turban Warrior bloodline and fought Wan Xiaoshan’s Yellow Flow Crystal Sand attack until both were badly injured and the match ended in a draw.
• Wan Dashan called for the second match, and Yan Lingyue sent Luo Yun to fight Huang Yuan so she could preserve her strength for the final battle.
• Luo Yun and Huang Yuan fought evenly until Huang Yuan swallowed a Blood Burning Divine Pill, temporarily reaching fourth-Nirvana cultivation.
• Huang Yuan used his increased power to defeat Luo Yun, who conceded as both sides argued over the pill.
• Wan Dashan mocked Yan Lingyue and offered to recommend her as a Dao companion; Yan Lingyue rejected him and struck with the Heavenly Demon Purple Blade’s Annihilation Cross Slash.

Yan Lingyue defeated Wan Dashan after unleashing her Nine Purple Departing Fire Transformation and Heavenly Demon Purple Moon Slash, forcing the opposing forces to retreat. The allied cultivators celebrated her victory as Li Qingyuan looked forward to dividing the spoils.

• Wan Dashan used his Sun Moon Divine Mountain to suppress Yan Lingyue, but she fought back with the Red Dragon Treasure Technique.
• Wan Dashan unleashed Sun and Moon Refined Together, threatening to overwhelm Yan Lingyue and her Red Dragon.
• Yan Lingyue activated Nine Purple Departing Fire Transformation and struck Wan Dashan with Heavenly Demon Purple Moon Slash, severing his left arm.
• Wan Dashan ordered a retreat, and Huang Yuan and Song Xiu led their Soul Transformation Cultivators away.
• The allied cultivators hailed Yan Lingyue as invincible while Li Qingyuan thought it was time to divide the spoils.

Yan Lingyue distributed the Immortal Beast Soul Crystals after the battle, while Li Qingyuan secretly returned to Tianshan Snow Pool to establish a cultivation retreat for the Nine Provinces cultivators. He left them protected at the pool’s sixth-tier Spirit Vein and prepared to venture deeper into the Tai Cang Immortal Realm.

• Yan Lingyue distributed the Soul Crystals, giving the fourth-Nirvana crystals to Dian Kui, Luo Yun, and You Yanmei, and awarding Ma Chao thirty Peak Soul Transformation Stage Soul Crystals and one first-Nirvana crystal for his contribution.
• You Yanmei invited Ma Chao to join Lingyan Sect as her Dao companion, but he suggested she pair with Dian Kui instead, and she rejected the idea.
• Yan Lingyue and Luo Yun agreed that their sects would travel deeper into the Tai Cang Immortal Realm together after recovering at camp.
• Li Qingyuan secretly returned to Tianshan Snow Pool, discovered its sixth-tier Spirit Vein, and brought the Nine Provinces cultivators there to cultivate in seclusion for a hundred years.
• Li Qingyuan gave the Nine Provinces cultivators spirit stones, elixirs, and Soul Crystals, then left Yang Xiaohe to protect them behind a formation created by the Five-colored Lotus Lamp.
• Li Qingyuan returned to camp, sent his Second Yuan Clone to join the secluded cultivators, and set out with Old Zhao and Ji Kun.