Chapter Summaries

Li Qingyuan secured Little Flame’s seclusion and the Dragon Venerable Jade Marrow, then joined the Canglan Domain cultivators heading for the Immortal Ancient Continent. He arrived at their gathering place, where Qin Gan and Nangong Ling led the assembled force.

• Li Qingyuan set up protective formations for Little Flame, and the other cultivators swore not to reveal the seclusion site or the Dragon Venerable Jade Marrow.
• Li Qingyuan left another trapping formation at the relic entrance, then agreed to join the Canglan Domain party after Qin Kun contacted its leaders.
• Li Qingyuan and nearly three hundred Canglan cultivators traveled by flying artifact toward their main force, learning that an ancient Teleportation Array could take them to the Immortal Ancient Continent.
• Three days later, Li Qingyuan reached a floating continent where six hundred Canglan cultivators awaited under Qin Gan and Nangong Ling.
• The Canglan cultivators greeted Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun, calling Ji Kun the Sky Swallowing Demon Venerable.

Li Qingyuan and the Canglan Domain cultivators entered an Ancient Teleportation Formation, where an army of Immortal Ancient beings ambushed them. Li Qingyuan and his allies began fighting back, and the Eight-armed Being commander attacked Li Qingyuan.

• Ji Kun demonstrated his overwhelming strength to Qin Gan and Nangong Ling, then obeyed Li Qingyuan as the group set out for the Ancient Teleportation Formation.
• Li Qingyuan noticed signs that the formation had been repaired and made more than eight hundred Thunder Fire Thunder Pearls to protect the Canglan Domain cultivators.
• Li Qingyuan led the group through the formation, where more than a thousand Immortal Ancient beings immediately attacked them.
• Li Qingyuan's group used the Thunder Fire Thunder Pearls to blunt the ambush, and Li Qingyuan, Ji Kun, Old Zhao, and the Second Yuan Clone killed many enemies.
• A commander with Three Tribulations of Body Integration cultivation led three thousand more Immortal Ancient beings against the group, while the Canglan cultivators rallied and drove back the attackers inside the formation.
• The Eight-armed Being commander charged Li Qingyuan and called on him to die.

Li Qingyuan fought the Three Tribulations of Body Integration Asura Commander while the Asura army threatened to annihilate the Canglan Domain cultivators. After the Commander brought out a Seventh Tier Venerable Magic Treasure, Li Qingyuan summoned the Thunder Fire Glazed Lamp and unleashed a devastating attack, leaving the battle's outcome unresolved.

• Li Qingyuan clashed with the Asura Commander, whose Vajra Pestle blocked his sword strikes, as thousands of Asuras attacked the Canglan Domain cultivators.
• Ji Kun intercepted two Second Tribulation Asuras, while Old Zhao used the Forbidden Banner Killing Realm and Soul Slaves to protect the cultivators.
• Li Qingyuan used Manifestation of Heaven and Earth to overpower the Commander, who activated his Asura Bloodline and transformed into an Asura Dharma Form.
• After dozens of exchanges, Li Qingyuan severely injured the Commander and severed two of his arms, but the Commander produced a Seventh Tier Venerable Magic Treasure.
• Li Qingyuan summoned the Thunder Fire Glazed Lamp and fired its Thunder Fire Combined Attack at the Commander.

Li Qingyuan used the Thunder Fire Glazed Lamp to kill the Asura Commander, then led his allies and the Canglan Domain cultivators to defeat the Asura army. After gathering the spoils, he led them deeper into the Immortal Ancient Continent in search of Body Integration opportunities.

• The Asura Commander tried to seal Li Qingyuan’s attack with the Black Fiend Divine Bead, but Li Qingyuan’s thunder-fire wave shattered his defenses and annihilated his body, leaving his Nascent Soul sealed.
• Li Qingyuan ordered a counterattack, and Ji Kun sealed and beheaded two Asura warriors before handing their Nascent Souls to Old Zhao.
• Li Qingyuan, Ji Kun, Old Zhao, and the Canglan Domain cultivators routed the Asura army, killing over three thousand two hundred while fewer than a thousand escaped.
• Qin Gan reported that fifty Canglan Domain cultivators had died and more than thirty were injured; Li Qingyuan gathered the resources and distributed the spoils, keeping seventy percent with his strongest allies.
• Li Qingyuan led the Second Yuan Clone, Ji Kun, Old Zhao, and over seven hundred Canglan Domain cultivators into the Immortal Ancient Continent to seek opportunities and face its other races.

Li Qingyuan led his army to rescue Ju Luo and the surviving cultivators of the Beiluo Heavenly Domain from an Asura ambush. He left the battlefield with both Asura commanders dead and Ju Luo stunned by how powerful he had become.

• Li Qingyuan ordered his more than seven hundred cultivators to reinforce Ju Luo and the Beiluo Heavenly Domain survivors, who had been ambushed by three thousand Asura warriors.
• Old Zhao, empowered by Li Qingyuan's soul banner, killed Pimale and captured his soul while Ji Kun and the others attacked the Asura army.
• After the Asura forces began to retreat, Li Qingyuan pursued them and killed two Body Integration First Tribulation warriors who had been thrown in his path.
• Li Qingyuan broke Pimaduo's Asura Dharma King Seal and killed him with the Green Wood Heavenly Sun Sword.
• Ju Luo watched Li Qingyuan's victory and marveled at his strength after only eight hundred years.

Li Qingyuan gathered cultivators from across the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, building an army of more than eleven thousand Void Refining Cultivators as they fought Immortal Ancient beings and claimed relics across the continent. With Qi Sanhe reporting a major relic ahead, Li Qingyuan ordered the army to advance toward it.

• Li Qingyuan and his allies led more than thirteen hundred cultivators to defeat an Asura force, then welcomed Ju Xing and Luo Hao into their alliance.
• Yang Xuan investigated a relic with his cousin Yang Can, learned the Divine Son Yang Jian was an extraordinary prodigy, and affirmed his resolve to keep striving.
• Li Qingyuan recruited Ju Xing and Luo Hao, organized his forces, and led them onward after defeating the Bikshu Race and rescuing cultivators from Taihao Heaven.
• Over twenty-five years, Li Qingyuan's army grew to more than eleven thousand cultivators as it fought rival forces, defeated powerful Immortal Ancient beings, and seized opportunities and resources.
• Qi Sanhe reported that a large relic lay a hundred thousand li ahead, and Li Qingyuan ordered his army to press onward.

At the Shattered Continent’s quicksand region, Tie Siming, the Young Daoist, and the Asura Spirit Venerable encountered Li Qingyuan and his formidable army. After Asura clansmen identified Li Qingyuan as the killer of their commanders and thousands of warriors, the Asura Spirit Venerable attacked him with his Asura Eye.

• Tie Siming rejected the Asura Spirit Venerable’s proposal to become his Dao companion and revealed that she was the famed Crimson Serpent Fairy, a Spirit Venerable only 3,800 years old.
• Tie Siming sensed a large group approaching, and the Young Daoist and Asura Spirit Venerable soon detected them too.
• Li Qingyuan arrived in a Golden Chariot at the head of an army of more than ten thousand, and the three Spirit Venerables sensed his hidden power.
• Asura clansmen told the Asura Spirit Venerable that Li Qingyuan had killed Commander Wu He, Commanders Pimaduo and Pimale, and three thousand Asura warriors.
• The Asura Spirit Venerable transformed into his thousand-zhang Dharma Form, opened his Asura Eye, and fired a blood-red beam at Li Qingyuan.

Li Qingyuan, Old Zhao, and Ji Kun fought the Asura Spirit Venerable, combining their defenses and attacks to withstand his Asura Baleful Eye and Golden File Blade. After the Asura Spirit Venerable launched a powerful strike, Li Qingyuan summoned the Thunder Fire Heaven Refinement Hand to counter him.

• Old Zhao’s Forbidden Banner Killing Realm and Ji Kun’s Sky Swallowing Sphere weakened the Asura Baleful Eye lightwave, but Li Qingyuan had to stop the remaining force with the Thunder Fire Glazed Lamp.
• Li Qingyuan’s Thunder Fire Combined Attack shattered the lightwave and forced the Asura Spirit Venerable’s Dharma Form back, while the army rallied behind him.
• The Asura Spirit Venerable dismissed Li Qingyuan’s strength as dependent on magic treasures and attacked with his natal Golden File Blade.
• Old Zhao’s Ghost Annihilation Blade and Ji Kun’s Sun Wheel Slash weakened the Golden File Blade but were shattered, knocking both allies back.
• Li Qingyuan drew on his stored mana and the Thunder Fire Glazed Lamp to unleash the Thunder Fire Heaven Refinement Hand against the Asura Spirit Venerable.

Li Qingyuan overwhelmed the Asura Spirit Venerable with the Thunder Fire Glazed Lamp, but the shifting sands suddenly receded and revealed the Ancient Immortal City. The factions entered the newly opened ruins, where a million-strong army gathered and several people connected to Li Qingyuan were among them.

• Li Qingyuan used the Thunder Fire Glazed Lamp to break the Asura Spirit Venerable's defense and send him crashing into the shifting sands, while Qi Sanhe rallied the Wind Thunder Legion.
• Li Qingyuan let the Asura Spirit Venerable believe he was exhausted, then revealed that he could still power the Glazed Lamp and fight again.
• The shifting sands collapsed to reveal the Ancient Immortal City, and the Asura Spirit Venerable led his warriors toward it.
• Tie Siming and the young Daoist led their forces into the secret realm, and Li Qingyuan followed with the Wind Thunder Legion.
• Nine other entrances opened, and forces from ten factions poured into the Immortal City World; some of the arriving cultivators had ties to Li Qingyuan.

Li Qingyuan and the other cultivators entered North Cold Immortal City, where its snowman guardian began a trial to choose an heir to Great North Cold Immortal’s inheritance. The armies battled through an endless horde of Ice and Snow Giants, and Li Qingyuan joined the fighting with the Sacred Heart Seal.

• More than one hundred thousand Void Refining cultivators arrived at the vast, snowbound North Cold Immortal City, and the Asura Spirit Venerable hoped to claim its inheritance.
• A three-foot Snowman announced the start of the inheritance selection and summoned millions of Ice and Snow Giants as the first trial.
• Daoist Xuan Lei led his followers into battle with Jade Purity Divine Thunder, while the Asura Spirit Venerable and Tie Siming charged with their forces.
• Li Qingyuan ordered his army forward, using the Sacred Heart Seal as his troops and commanders fought through hundreds of thousands of Ice and Snow Giants.
• As the giants continued to multiply, Li Qingyuan gathered his power, dived into battle, and unleashed the Sacred Heart Secret Technique, Myriad Blades Piercing Clouds.

Li Qingyuan and the other forces fought through the Ice and Snow Giants and passed the first trial, while the Extreme Cold Spirit Infant selected possible heirs and eyed several women as potential targets. The Three-foot Snowman then began the second trial.

• Li Qingyuan led Ji Kun, Old Zhao, Qi Sanhe, and their troops through the Ice and Snow Giants as other forces fought toward the end of the battlefield.
• The Extreme Cold Spirit Infant examined candidates, fixated on Luo Ling’s Luoshen Bloodline, and identified a virgin Nine Yin Ultimate Body as a likely heir to North Cold’s inheritance and a target for possession.
• The Extreme Cold Spirit Infant also noticed a woman who had cultivated a Longevity Seed and comprehended Yin and Yang Law.
• Li Qingyuan and his allies unleashed their strongest attacks and cleared a million-li path through the giants, while the other three great forces also passed the trial.
• Li Qingyuan recovered his mana and resolved to strengthen himself so he could eventually suppress the Asura Spirit Venerable.
• The Three-foot Snowman ended the first trial, expelled those who had not passed, and announced the start of the second trial.

The Foundation Assessment began as cultivators climbed a heavenly stairway that tested their foundations against Great North Cold Immortal’s. Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun received powerful assistance from the stairway and surged past most competitors, leaving Asura Spirit Venerable stunned.

• Three-foot Snowman announced that cultivators needed at least half of Great North Cold Immortal’s foundation to pass, while those reaching seventy percent could earn a special reward.
• The golden Foundation Heavenly Stairway appeared, and Asura Spirit Venerable stepped onto it as the first cultivator to climb.
• The stairway rejected more than ten thousand cultivators at the first step, while Daoist Xuan Lei and Tie Siming advanced steadily.
• Li Qingyuan led Ji Kun and the other cultivators of his forces onto the stairway, where its assisting force propelled him and Ji Kun rapidly through the early cultivation realms.
• Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun reached the Nascent Soul Realm alongside Daoist Xuan Lei, prompting Asura Spirit Venerable to question how his foundation could be inferior to theirs.

Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun climbed the Heavenly Ladder so quickly that they reached its Small World first, where Extreme Cold Spirit Infant realized they had potential for Golden Immortals and planned to seize them. Bing Ling'er arrived with the veiled Luo River Spirit, whose inexplicable familiarity with Li Qingyuan left Bing Ling'er feeling like an outsider.

• Asura Spirit Venerable tried to attack Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun, but the Heavenly Ladder blasted him away and reduced his remaining challenge attempts to three.
• Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun surpassed Daoist Xuan Lei and Tie Siming, then surged ahead through the Heavenly Ladder's trials as Tie Siming marveled at their foundations.
• Li Qingyuan reached the Heavenly Ladder Small World first, and Extreme Cold Spirit Infant recognized his and Ji Kun's potential for Golden Immortals and plotted to make them her henchmen.
• Bing Ling'er and the veiled Luo River Spirit entered the Small World, where Bing Ling'er reunited with Li Qingyuan and praised him for avenging the Myriad Dragon Dragon Palace's attack.
• Li Qingyuan and the Luo River Spirit denied ever meeting, despite their mutual feeling of familiarity, and Bing Ling'er felt left out.

Li Qingyuan reunited with Miao Le in the Heavenly Ladder Small World, where eleven cultivators with exceptional foundations gathered. The Extreme Cold Spirit Infant awarded each of them one hundred Heaven and Earth Origin Stones and announced that the final trial would determine who could see the North Cold Immortal's inheritance.

• Ji Kun arrived and greeted Bing Ling'er, then questioned the veiled Luo Ling until Luo Shuang stepped in to protect her sister.
• Yang Xuan arrived and exchanged greetings with Li Qingyuan and Luo Shuang, then Tie Siming and Yang Can entered the small world.
• Miao Le reunited joyfully with Li Qingyuan, and she and Bing Ling'er discussed how they had qualified for the trial.
• The Extreme Cold Spirit Infant noted that eleven Void Refining cultivators had foundations at least seventy percent as strong as North Cold's, then gave each of them one hundred Heaven and Earth Origin Stones.
• After the cultivators collected their stones and formed cautious groups, the Extreme Cold Spirit Infant announced the final assessment for access to the North Cold Immortal's inheritance.

Li Qingyuan and Long Xuantian nearly clashed after reaching the deeper immortal city, but the Extreme Cold Spirit Infant stopped the confrontation by warning that violence would expel them from the inheritance trial. She revealed the final trial was the Inner Demon Bridge, and the cultivators began crossing toward the Great North Cold Immortal's inheritance.

• Li Qingyuan encountered Long Xuantian among nearly five hundred cultivators, and both sides prepared to fight.
• The Asura Spirit Venerable proposed joining Long Xuantian to attack Li Qingyuan, but Yang Can, Yang Xuan, Tie Siming, and Daoist Xuan Lei stood with Li Qingyuan and threatened a counterattack.
• The Extreme Cold Spirit Infant warned that anyone who fought during the trial would be expelled, so both factions withdrew their mana.
• The Extreme Cold Spirit Infant revealed the Inner Demon Bridge as the final trial leading to the Great North Cold Immortal's inheritance.
• The Asura Spirit Venerable, Tie Siming, Daoist Xuan Lei, Yang Can, Yang Xuan, and other cultivators entered the mist-covered bridge in groups.
• Luo Shuang and Luo Ling passed Li Qingyuan before entering, and Li Qingyuan then led his companions onto the Inner Demon Bridge.

The Extreme Cold Spirit Infant used the Inner Demon Bridge to magnify cultivators’ deepest fears and temptations, eliminating most of the nearly five hundred who entered. Eighteen remained, including eleven from the Heavenly Ladder Small World, as the Spirit Infant turned its attention to Li Qingyuan.

• The Extreme Cold Spirit Infant exposed the Asura Spirit Venerable to his bloodline’s memory of the Buddhist Sect crushing and enslaving the Asura Race, causing him and the other Asura warriors to be thrown from the bridge.
• Over half an hour, the Spirit Infant’s attacks eliminated all but eighteen cultivators, eleven of whom came from the Heavenly Ladder Small World.
• Yang Fan resisted the Spirit Infant’s attempts to provoke envy of Yang Xuan, holding to his own path and refusing to compare himself with others.
• The Spirit Infant found Yang Xuan’s resolve equally unshakable and failed to tempt Yang Can, whose inner demon depicted him destroying a demonized Yang Haoran and sacrificing himself to atone.
• The Spirit Infant chose Li Qingyuan as its next target, reasoning that his ruthless killing and Myriad Souls Banner marked him as a demonic cultivator with powerful inner demons.

Li Qingyuan overcame the Inner Demon Bridge by embracing the slaughter he saw as necessary to protect his original resolve, forging the Slaughter Law and strengthening his Fortune Laws. The Extreme Cold Spirit Infant glimpsed a terrifying red sun within his heart, then discovered that Li Qingyuan was also the inner demon of Bing Ling'er and a source of fear or affection for the other women.

• Li Qingyuan faced accusations over the countless lives he had taken and declared that killing was a means of defending his resolve to live and attain immortality.
• Li Qingyuan’s killing intent erupted, and he forged the Slaughter Law, merging it into his Fortune Laws.
• Old Zhao and Yun Yan the Elixir Master praised Li Qingyuan’s breakthrough, while the Extreme Cold Spirit Infant questioned the hatred and convictions driving him.
• The Extreme Cold Spirit Infant entered Li Qingyuan’s heart and saw a radiant red sun, then fled after its light seared its eyes.
• The Extreme Cold Spirit Infant examined the others and found that Li Qingyuan was Bing Ling’er’s inner demon, while Miao Le feared losing him and Luo Ling had already developed feelings for him.
• The Extreme Cold Spirit Infant vowed to repay Bei Han by making her successor become a concubine.

Seventeen cultivators crossed the Inner Demon Bridge and entered the inheritance space of the Great North Cold Immortal, where they received two gifts and learned that a third required someone to resonate with the inheritance. After the other cultivators failed to seize the Inheritance Seal, Li Qingyuan made it resonate with him.

• The Extreme Cold Spirit Infant welcomed the seventeen survivors and awarded each one hundred Heaven and Earth Origin Stones and a piece of Profound Ice Jade Stone.
• The Extreme Cold Spirit Infant explained that the final gift would be given only after someone resonated with the inheritance and obtained it.
• Tie Siming, Daoist Xuan Lei, and the other Spirit Venerables tried and failed to hold the Inheritance Seal.
• The Peak Void Refining Stage cultivators, including Yang Xuan, also failed to seize the seal.
• Li Qingyuan grasped the Inheritance Seal and used his Fortune Laws and Ice Law to make it resonate with him.

Bing Ling'er received the Great North Cold Immortal's inheritance, but the Extreme Cold Spirit Infant broke free from its chains and seized Luo Ling. The cultivators united against the powerful Spirit Infant as Luo Shuang was badly injured trying to rescue her sister.

• Li Qingyuan, Luo Ling, and Miao Le each failed to claim the Inheritance Seal before Bing Ling'er took it and entered the inheritance space.
• Bing Ling'er met the Great North Cold Immortal and began inheriting her Dao, while male cultivators plotted to capture her for her Nine Yin Ultimate Body.
• Li Qingyuan, Yang Can, Yang Xuan, Yang Fan, and Tie Siming confronted the cultivators who threatened Bing Ling'er.
• The Extreme Cold Spirit Infant broke its Ice Law chains, revealed its true form, and was recognized as a Body Integration Spirit Lord.
• The Extreme Cold Spirit Infant bound Luo Ling and pulled her to its side; Luo Shuang attacked to protect her sister but was struck down and badly injured.

The Extreme Cold Spirit Infant revealed its Integrated Body Peak Stage strength and overwhelmed the cultivators, who joined forces under Li Qingyuan’s Illusory Fire Refining Heaven Pagoda. Yun Yan said they could lure the Spirit Infant inside the pagoda and had a sixty percent chance of defeating it, and Li Qingyuan accepted the plan.

• The Extreme Cold Spirit Infant injured Luo Shuang and four Integrated Body Early Stage Immortal Ancient beings, then threatened to turn the cultivators into puppets and seize Luo Ling’s body.
• Li Qingyuan warned that the Luoshen Ancient Clan’s Immortal Venerable could track the Spirit Infant through Luo Ling’s bloodline, but the Spirit Infant dismissed the threat and attacked.
• Yang Can, Tie Siming, and Daoist Xuan Lei struck together, but the Extreme Cold Spirit Infant shattered their attacks and heavily wounded them.
• Li Qingyuan summoned the Illusory Fire Refining Heaven Pagoda, and the cultivators poured their power into it to withstand the Spirit Infant’s assault.
• Yun Yan told Li Qingyuan that the pagoda could hold for only an hour and that luring the Spirit Infant inside gave them a sixty percent chance of victory; Li Qingyuan agreed to try.