Chapter Summaries

After returning from the grotto-heaven, Li Qingyuan completed a private Spirit Plant mission for Purple Cloud Fairy and discovered her mysterious connection to the Six Void Dream Butterfly. She gave him the butterfly and Yellow Millet Dream wine to aid his cultivation, then revealed that she hoped he would one day help reopen the immortal road.

• Li Qingyuan returned to the Azure Profound Immortal Sect with Mo Ni and Xiao Baiyi after the grotto-heaven expedition, where two of the eight Spirit Lords had died.
• Li Qingyuan delivered a Purple Spirit Ganoderma and three other Spirit Plants to Purple Cloud Fairy at Wo Yun Peak and received a token to finalize his mission.
• Purple Cloud Fairy examined the Six Void Dream Butterfly, infused it with the laws of time and space, and told Li Qingyuan that his understanding would help him begin the Great Dream Heart Sutra.
• Purple Cloud Fairy returned the butterfly to Li Qingyuan and gave him Seventh-tier Yellow Millet Dream wine to aid his cultivation and temper his state of mind.
• After Li Qingyuan left, Purple Cloud Fairy wondered why she could not see through his past life and wished for him to someday stand beside her and reopen the immortal road.

Li Qingyuan spent eight years cultivating Dream Butterfly Evasion before marking his thousandth birthday alone and remembering his lost family. Bing Ling'er surprised him with a birthday celebration, then confessed she wanted him rather than the soul blood he returned to her.

• Li Qingyuan had Yun Yan swear to keep the Mysterious Feminine Space secret, then sent his clone to learn alchemy while he cultivated.
• Li Qingyuan's allies and companions trained in seclusion as he advanced Dream Butterfly Evasion to minor mastery over eight years.
• On his thousandth birthday, Li Qingyuan drank alone beneath the moon and mourned his family and Luo Ling.
• Bing Ling'er arrived with fireworks, longevity noodles, and gifts after learning Li Qingyuan's birth date from her father.
• Li Qingyuan returned Bing Ling'er's soul blood, but she refused it and told him she wanted him.

After awakening from a ten-year dream in which he lived a thousand years as Luo Changfeng, Li Qingyuan absorbed the cultivation power gained in the dream and improved his strength. He emerged from seclusion with newly refined elixirs and brought gifts to Zuoqiu Ling, leaving his visit poised to surprise the other elder brother as well.

• Li Qingyuan awoke grieving for Luo Changfeng and Luo Ling, then circulated the Great Dream Heart Sutra and absorbed the magic power gained in the dream.
• After a year of seclusion, Li Qingyuan finished refining the dream’s power and reckoned that ten years of dreaming had given him the gains of a century of cultivation.
• Li Qingyuan learned that Ji Kun and Little Flame remained in cultivation while his Second Yuan Clone studied alchemy under Yun Yan.
• Yun Yan presented three Grand Void Wonderful Spirit Pills and two batches of Heavenly Origin Void Pills, which Li Qingyuan replicated.
• Li Qingyuan visited Zuoqiu Ling and offered him a Grand Void Wonderful Spirit Pill, prompting Zuoqiu Ling to recognize the seventh-tier elixir.

Li Qingyuan gave valuable pills to Zuoqiu Ling and Huyan Xin, then asked them to show him the vacant fief of an Eighth Peak Silver Robe Elder. They brought him to the hundred-thousand-li territory and Zuoqiu Ling summoned its clans and cultivators to pay respects.

• Li Qingyuan presented Zuoqiu Ling with a Grand Void Wonderful Spirit Pill and Heavenly Origin Void Pills, and Zuoqiu Ling accepted them warmly.
• Huyan Xin arrived, received the same gifts from Li Qingyuan, and accepted the Grand Void Wonderful Spirit Pill he had been saving resources to obtain.
• At the banquet, Li Qingyuan asked about the vacant fief of the Eighth Peak's fifth Silver Robe Elder, and Zuoqiu Ling and Huyan Xin agreed to accompany him.
• The three flew more than two million li, and Zuoqiu Ling identified the vacant hundred-thousand-li region as Li Qingyuan's fief.
• Zuoqiu Ling revealed his ten-thousand-zhang Dharma Form and ordered the local clans and cultivators to come pay their respects.

Zuoqiu Ling and Huyan Xin summoned the cultivators of a vast territory to announce Li Qingyuan as their new Silver Robe Elder and lord. Li Qingyuan challenged six Void Refining Dao Lords to test their strength, then defeated them all with a single sword strike.

• Zuoqiu Ling and Huyan Xin gathered the cultivators within a hundred-thousand-li region and announced that a Silver Robe Elder would govern them on the Azure Profound Immortal Sect’s behalf.
• Li Qingyuan appeared in his silver robe, and Huyan Xin warned the assembled cultivators to obey him as their lord.
• Li Qingyuan asked six Void Refining cultivators to withstand ten exchanges and offered each a Heavenly Origin Void Pill if they succeeded.
• Deng Taixuan and five other Dao Lords attacked Li Qingyuan together after he urged them to come at him all at once.
• Li Qingyuan unleashed his Thunder God Body, Thunder Fire Golden Body Dharma Form, Slaughter Domain, and Green Wood Heavenly Sun Sword, shattering the six Dao Lords’ combined attack with one strike.

Li Qingyuan defeated six Void Refining cultivators, claimed his territory, and revealed that he was a Sixth-tier Alchemist. After securing the Lord’s Mansion and receiving lavish tributes from local families, he established plans for them to help govern his territory and offered them discounted elixirs.

• Li Qingyuan defeated the six Void Refining cultivators, who recognized him as the renowned Heavenly Chosen and pledged themselves and their forces as his retainers.
• Li Qingyuan gave the six Huiyuan Pills and revealed he could refine Sixth-tier elixirs, then parted ways with Zuoqiu Ling and Huyan Xin.
• Li Qingyuan activated the Lord’s Mansion formation, entered seclusion, and waited for the local families to arrive and pay their respects.
• The three great families and other local powers brought tributes to the Lord’s Mansion, where Old Zhao used seven Void Refining Soul Slaves to manage their arrival.
• Li Qingyuan ordered the families to form a Lord’s Mansion Elder Council and patrol guards, accepted their tributes, and offered his retainers Fifth-tier and Sixth-tier elixirs at sixty percent of market prices.

Li Qingyuan traveled to Wind Fire Valley to find Yun Yan the Elixir Master's descendants and discovered that the Zhao Family had taken control of the Yun Clan. He left after witnessing Yun Feng accept the Zhao Family's support and compromise the Yun Clan's future, hoping to find someone among the descendants still worth helping.

• Li Qingyuan sold fifth-tier and sixth-tier elixirs, left the newly established Lord's Mansion, and asked Yun Yan the Elixir Master where his family lived.
• Yun Yan directed Li Qingyuan to Wind Fire Valley on the border of Tianfeng Domain and Liusha Domain, and Li Qingyuan reached the Yun Clan's lands after a month's journey.
• Li Qingyuan entered the clan grounds disguised as a butterfly, while Zhao Qiong worried about his elder sister's attempt to seize Yun Yan's remains and Pill Dao inheritance.
• Yun Feng told Zhao Qiong that Yun Clan geniuses had died and requested more marriage alliances; Zhao Qiong offered elixirs and Zhao Clan cultivators in return for the Yun Clan's continued submission.
• Yun Feng accepted the elixirs and left, believing they might help him advance, while Li Qingyuan silently departed and judged that Yun Feng had sacrificed the Yun Clan's chance to rise.

Yun Ji fled the Yun Clan lineage to escape a forced marriage to Zhao Qingquan, but Yun Tong caught up and tried to take her back. Just as she activated a Nascent Soul Detonation Pill, Li Qingyuan killed Yun Tong and offered to take her as his disciple.

• Yun Ji mourned her dead brother and learned that Elder Yun Hua had ordered her to marry Zhao Qingquan after she formed a Nascent Soul.
• Yun Ji concealed her anger, accepted the Earth Infant Pill, and later fled Wind Fire Valley under the pretext of a mission.
• Yun Tong revealed that he had followed Yun Ji on Yun Feng's orders and attacked her when she tried to escape to the Liusha Domain.
• After Yun Tong defeated her defenses, Yun Ji activated a Nascent Soul Detonation Pill, choosing to die rather than be forced into Zhao Qingquan's hands.
• Li Qingyuan appeared, annihilated the pill and Yun Tong, then praised Yun Ji and asked her to become his disciple.

Li Qingyuan rescued Yun Ji, took her as his disciple, and brought her back to the Azure Profound Immortal Sect, where he equipped her with abundant cultivation resources. After arranging for Kong Huan to guide her, he answered a summons from his master Wu Mengzi, who recognized the Dao Rhyme of the Great Dream Heart Sutra on him.

• Li Qingyuan told Yun Ji he had rescued her to repay Yun Yan the Elixir Master's kindness, and Yun Ji accepted him as her master and vowed to restore the Yun Family.
• Li Qingyuan brought Yun Ji from Tianfeng Domain to the Azure Profound Immortal Sect and flew with her to his Seventh-Tier Cave Mansion on Boundless Peak.
• Li Qingyuan introduced Yun Ji to Kong Huan as his second disciple and gave her cultivation resources, assigning Kong Huan to teach her lightning arts after she formed her Nascent Soul.
• Li Qingyuan received a summons and went to Wu Mengzi's cave mansion on Boundless Main Peak.
• Wu Mengzi praised Li Qingyuan and said he sensed the Dao Rhyme of someone who had mastered the Great Dream Heart Sutra.

Li Qingyuan spent thirteen years learning the Great Dream Heart Sutra from Wu Mengzi, greatly improving his Butterfly Transformation Technique and Dream Butterfly Evasion. Wu Mengzi gave him Volume Three and revealed that a Nine Heavens and Ten Earths grand feast was planned to cultivate powerful figures for the reopening of the immortal path, then explained how they could seek an Immortal Ancient Relic.

• Wu Mengzi explained that the Butterfly Transformation Technique could theoretically transform all eight hundred and forty million particles of the body into Dream Butterflies, and discussed the uncertainties of dream cultivation.
• Li Qingyuan asked how to increase his three thousand transformed butterflies, and Wu Mengzi guided him through the technique for thirteen years.
• Li Qingyuan reached four thousand eight hundred butterflies and demonstrated a stronger Dream Butterfly Evasion, earning Wu Mengzi's praise.
• Wu Mengzi allowed Li Qingyuan to teach the first level of the Great Dream Heart Sutra to his two female disciples and gave him Volume Three to study.
• Wu Mengzi revealed that a grand feast would take place in less than three hundred years to prepare Void Refining cultivators for the immortal path's reopening.
• Wu Mengzi explained that the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths could use the Heavenly Origin Spirit Vein and Primordial Void Realm to locate an Immortal Ancient Relic, and Li Qingyuan wondered whether it had been home to ancient true immortals.

Wu Mengzi explained why Immortal Ancient Relics were opened only to Void Refinement Cultivators and described the catastrophic death toll of past expeditions. After Li Qingyuan left to prepare for the next opening, the Cangxuan Old Ancestor urged Wu Mengzi to reach the Mahayana Peak and pass the Azure Profound Immortal Sect’s legacy to Li Qingyuan.

• Wu Mengzi told Li Qingyuan that all nineteen Heavenly Origin Spirit Veins had to be activated to open an Immortal Ancient Relic, and that sending cultivators above the Void Refinement Stage would risk damaging them.
• Wu Mengzi explained that only Void Refinement Cultivators could cross the Primordial Void Realm and that the relics were open to them despite their deadly battles; one expedition lost five hundred thousand of more than eight hundred thousand cultivators.
• Wu Mengzi recounted that an earlier relic expedition killed all one million Void Refinement Cultivators sent inside, though hundreds of thousands later resumed entering the relics.
• Li Qingyuan asked to bring several Void Refinement Cultivators from the Nine Provinces Domain to reside temporarily on Eighth Peak, and Wu Mengzi approved.
• After Li Qingyuan departed, Wu Mengzi praised his hidden opportunities and talent, and the Cangxuan Old Ancestor revealed he had fifteen thousand years left and urged Wu Mengzi to reach the Mahayana Peak so Li Qingyuan could eventually inherit the Sentient Jade.

Li Qingyuan left his cave abode in the care of Er Yuan and Li Yan, then returned to the Nine Provinces Domain through the Heavenly Dao Vortex. He reunited with Miao Le at the Human Emperor Hall and asked where Xian'er and Ao Run were.

• Li Qingyuan entrusted his disciples Kong Huan and Yun Ji to Er Yuan and Li Yan, and Er Yuan promised to guide their cultivation and teach them a supreme secret art.
• Li Qingyuan departed with three Void Refinement Stage fighters’ treasures, leaving the fighters behind to cultivate.
• Li Qingyuan traveled by high-grade teleportation array to the Heavenly Frost Region and evaded cultivators who recognized him.
• Li Qingyuan returned to the Nine Provinces Domain through the Heavenly Dao Vortex and was welcomed by Yang Xiu and Yang Biao at Heaven Pillar Mountain.
• Miao Le sensed Li Qingyuan’s return through their Longevity Seeds and embraced him at the Human Emperor Hall.
• Li Qingyuan praised the progress of the Human Emperor Hall and Li Clan, then asked where Xian'er and Ao Run were.

Li Qingyuan reunited with Miao Le and spent decades cultivating with her, sharing their Dao insights and strengthening their Longevity Seeds. He then helped her fuse a Six Yang Divine Ganoderma into her natal sword, bringing it to Peak Void Refinement Stage and beginning to refine its feedback into her cultivation.

• Miao Le reassured Li Qingyuan about Xian'er and teased him over rejecting Ao Run's offer to become her Dragon Knight.
• Li Qingyuan brought Miao Le into the Wind Thunder Hall and concealed it behind a Seventh Tier Low Grade formation.
• Li Qingyuan and Miao Le dual cultivated for thirty years, merging their magic powers, Longevity Seeds, and Dao insights.
• Li Qingyuan gave Miao Le one of his two Six Yang Divine Ganoderma to refine into her natal flying sword.
• After refining the spirit plant and fusing it into the sword, Miao Le's Green Wood Heavenly Sun Sword reached Peak Void Refinement Stage.
• Li Qingyuan embraced Miao Le and began helping her refine the sword's feedback to raise her cultivation.

Miao Le broke through to the Mid Void Refining Stage after refining the energy from her natal sword with Li Qingyuan’s help, while Li Qingyuan advanced his Nine Revolutions Profound Technique to Second Revolution Mid Stage Perfection. After preaching to the Nine Provinces cultivators for ten years and directing them toward the Immortal Ancient Relic, Li Qingyuan and Miao Le prepared to travel to the Azure Profound Immortal Sect.

• Miao Le refined the Green Wood Heavenly Sun Sword’s energy with Li Qingyuan’s support and advanced to the Mid Void Refining Stage.
• Li Qingyuan consumed thirty First Revolution Golden Cores and advanced his Nine Revolutions Profound Technique to Second Revolution Mid Stage Perfection.
• Li Qingyuan gathered the clan and Nine Provinces cultivators, preached the Dao for ten years, and gave elixirs and Heavenly Origin Void Pills to those nearing Void Refining.
• Li Qingyuan told the cultivators to enter Void Refining and follow the Yang Family’s experts into the Immortal Ancient Relic.
• Li Qingyuan left Li Yunzhou and Li Yunfan to guard the Human Emperor Hall and set out with Miao Le for the Azure Profound Immortal Sect.

Li Qingyuan and Miao Le returned to the Azure Profound Immortal Sect, where Miao Le met his disciples and welcomed Yun Ji as family. Li Qingyuan gathered scarce ingredients for the Second Revolution Golden Core and entrusted its refinement to Yun Yan, then returned to find Miao Le, Kong Huan, and Yun Ji enjoying tea together.

• Li Qingyuan and Miao Le traveled from the Nine Provinces Domain to the Azure Profound Immortal Sect, with the Heavenly Frost Dao Venerable helping them activate the grand Teleportation Array.
• Li Qingyuan introduced Miao Le as his wife and the disciples’ Mistress; Miao Le gave Kong Huan and Yun Ji gifts and comforted Yun Ji by promising to treat her as family.
• Li Qingyuan exchanged contribution points and Top-grade Spirit Stones for ingredients, gathering enough materials for six batches of the Second Revolution Golden Core.
• Li Qingyuan asked Yun Yan the Elixir Master to refine the pills, and Yun Yan agreed confidently.
• Li Qingyuan returned to his cave abode and found Miao Le, Kong Huan, and Yun Ji chatting and laughing over tea.

Li Qingyuan reunited with Miao Le, delivered Bing Ling'er the resources from her father, and laid out an intense cultivation plan with Miao Le. As cultivators across the Azure Profound Realm prepared for the Immortal Ancient Relic, Yang Xuan resolved to reach his peak and challenge Li Qingyuan again.

• Bing Ling'er visited Li Qingyuan and Miao Le, then received cultivation resources from her father, Heavenly Frost Dao Venerable, and left hoping to explore the Ancient Secret Realm with them.
• Miao Le said Bing Ling'er seemed interested in Li Qingyuan, but he denied it and insisted that his heart was devoted to cultivation and Miao Le.
• Li Qingyuan and Miao Le planned their cultivation for the next two hundred years, aiming to reach Late Void Refining Stage as quickly as possible.
• Li Qingyuan and Miao Le entered secluded cultivation in a Seventh-Tier Spirit Vein cave mansion while Yun Yan refined pills and worked on Second Revolution Golden Core methods.
• Void Refining Cultivators across the Azure Profound Realm worked to increase their strength, while Yang Xuan cultivated with Origin Stones and Golden Cores and vowed to challenge Li Qingyuan again.

Li Qingyuan used decades of seclusion, dual cultivation, and Second Revolution Golden Cores to break through to the Late Void Refining Stage before the Immortal Ancient Relic opened. The chapter ended with his Primordial Spirit reaching Peak Void Refining Stage and his confidence that he could claim the relic.

• Li Qingyuan and Miao Le cultivated in seclusion for a hundred years, then dual cultivated for fifty years before returning to individual cultivation.
• Yun Yan the Elixir Master refined eighteen Second Revolution Golden Cores and explained that only cultivators with the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique or Body Integration Spirit Lords and above could safely refine them.
• Li Qingyuan consumed the Second Revolution Golden Cores over less than twenty years, refining their medicinal effects to improve his cultivation.
• Li Qingyuan broke through to the Late Second Revolution Stage and Late Void Refining Stage, while his Primordial Spirit reached Peak Void Refining Stage.
• Li Qingyuan declared that he would claim the Immortal Ancient Relic and believed few could contend with him before the Three Tribulations of Body Integration.

Li Qingyuan advanced to the Late Void Refining Stage, while Ji Kun, Little Flame, and Er Yuan also strengthened their cultivation through tribulations, upgrading his Void Refining Elite Squad. After Li Qingyuan and Miao Le attended a celebration banquet, Er Yuan stayed behind to guide Kong Huan and Yun Ji as they prepared for future breakthroughs and the Immortal Ancient Relic.

• Li Qingyuan passed the Six-Colored Peak Great Heavenly Tribulation and stabilized his Late Void Refining Stage cultivation.
• Ji Kun revealed his Sky Swallowing Chicken bloodline and reached the Peak Void Refining Stage, while Little Flame and Er Yuan underwent tribulations and advanced their cultivation.
• Zuoqiu Ling and Huyan Xin assessed Li Qingyuan's strength and predicted that he would soon become their equal as a Gold Robe Elder.
• Li Qingyuan, Miao Le, Ji Kun, and Little Flame went to Zuoqiu Ling's residence for a celebration banquet while Er Yuan remained at the cave mansion.
• Er Yuan gave Kong Huan a Nirvana Elixir and encouraged her and Yun Ji to pursue Extreme Dao Soul Transformation before advancing further.
• Er Yuan continued teaching Yun Ji alchemy and secret techniques, while Kong Huan suspected that Yun Ji had fallen for him.

Myriad Dragon Ancestor and other powerful leaders prepared their disciples to target Li Qingyuan in the Immortal Ancient Relic, while Yang Jian revealed his extraordinary strength and rejected a proposed marriage alliance. The chapter left the factions gearing up for the relic’s opening and Yang Jian pursuing his own path.

• Myriad Dragon Ancestor gave Long Xuantian a Bodhi Leaf to help him pass the Primordial Spirit Tribulation and ordered him to seize the Immortal Ancient Relic’s resources, with Li Qingyuan’s death only a secondary goal.
• Eight Extremes Ancestor ordered Long Yuan and Long Yu to lead their sect’s expedition and capture or kill Li Qingyuan, Sun Mulan, or Bing Ling’er.
• Myriad Flowers Ancestor warned Hua Yuenu that Li Qingyuan’s strongest trump cards would be restricted inside the Immortal Ancient Relic and told her to capture him if she had the chance.
• Yang Jian defeated two Early Body Integration Spirit Lords after passing the Magic Power Tribulation, impressing the Yang Family Third Ancestor.
• The Yang Family Third Ancestor told Yang Jian that the Luoshen Ancient Clan wanted a marriage alliance with him, but Yang Jian rejected it and left.

The Luoshen Ancient Clan prepared to send Luo Ling to the Immortal Ancient Relic, while Li Qingyuan and Miao Le established their reputations among Azure Profound Immortal Sect cultivators. Mo Ni completed two Body Integration tribulations, and Shen Tiandu began a breakthrough into Body Integration.

• The Luoshen Ancient Clan's ancestors agreed that Luo Ling would join the Immortal Ancient Relic expedition in secret under Luo Shuang's lead, and the Clan Leader said Luo Ling's past-life aura had been erased.
• Li Qingyuan upgraded his Earth Marsh Sword Array over more than ten years, then defeated numerous Void Refinement cultivators who challenged his standing as the Azure Profound Realm's Number One Heavenly Chosen.
• Miao Le, Er Yuan, and Little Flame impressed sect cultivators with their strength in sparring, while Li Qingyuan kept Peak Void Refinement cultivator Ji Kun as a hidden trump card.
• Mo Ni passed the Integrated Body Physical Body Tribulation and Magic Power Tribulation, causing a powerful phenomenon above the Boundless lineage.
• Three lotus flowers appeared above Tiandu Peak as Shen Tiandu began merging his essence, vital energy, and Primordial Spirit, and sect cultivators recognized his breakthrough.