Chapter Summaries

Li Qingyuan used the Earth Marsh Sword Realm to hold off four Mahayana cultivators, then turned the fight with Ji Kun’s surprise attack and his own Five Thunders Bombardment. He killed one opponent and absorbed his soul and Nascent Soul, leaving Seven Profound Dao Venerable and Heavenly Frost Dao Venerable stunned.

• Li Qingyuan opened the Earth Marsh Sword Realm and blocked the combined attacks of Chunhuazi and three other early Mahayana cultivators for five breaths before the sword formation shattered.
• Ji Kun emerged from Li Qingyuan’s sleeve, surged to perfected early Mahayana stage, and severely wounded two of the cultivators with a single attack.
• One surviving early Mahayana cultivator tried to flee, but Li Qingyuan trapped him in the reopened sword realm and unleashed the First-Nine Great Heavenly Tribulation.
• Li Qingyuan’s lightning and Sword Qi destroyed the cultivator’s body and Dharma Body, and Zhao Guangzheng devoured his Nascent Soul and Divine Soul.
• Li Qingyuan turned to ask Seven Profound Dao Venerable and Heavenly Frost Dao Venerable whether they were unharmed, leaving both astonished by his strength.

Li Qingyuan and his allies overwhelmed their Mahayana enemies, killing two Dao Venerables and defeating Chunhuazi. The chapter ended with Li Qingyuan holding Chunhuazi’s captured Nascent Soul Infant and seized treasures.

• Ji Kun pursued Chunhuazi and suppressed her with his speed and the Great Sun Sky Swallowing Sphere.
• Diana pierced a one-armed Dao Venerable with her Setting Sun Divine Spear, and the Lotus Holy Child joined the attack.
• The Yinglong Chief and the other divine beasts trapped an injured Dao Venerable, but Li Qingyuan immobilized him and killed him before he could self-destruct.
• Old Zhao devoured the Dao Venerable’s Nascent Soul Infant, while Li Qingyuan claimed his Law Treasure and Space Ring.
• Ji Kun’s Great Sun Sky Swallowing Divine Ability trapped Chunhuazi in a devouring darkness, and Li Qingyuan cut her down and captured her Nascent Soul Infant.

After Li Qingyuan defeated the Mahayana enemies, the survivors hailed him as invincible despite his youth, while Zhao Guangzheng went into seclusion to attempt a breakthrough. Li Qingyuan received an immortal crystal from Heavenly Frost Dao Venerable and agreed to give three of the four crystals to the Female Immortal Corpse in exchange for protection in the Primordial Demonic Cave.

• Heavenly Frost Dao Venerable and Seven Profound Dao Venerable marveled that six-thousand-year-old Li Qingyuan had defeated opponents at the early Mahayana level, while Heavenly Frost Dao Venerable accepted his injuries and comforted Bing Ling'er.
• Diana killed the last wounded early Mahayana cultivator and captured his nascent soul, allowing Zhao Guangzheng to refine the spoils and enter seclusion with the Myriad Souls Banner to pursue a Mahayana breakthrough.
• Li Qingyuan learned from the Female Immortal Corpse that the Blood Divine Son Inheritance carried a curse and karmic power, though Zhao Guangzheng's ghostly, artifact-spirit nature made him resistant to it.
• Heavenly Frost Dao Venerable gave Li Qingyuan an extraordinary energy stone, which the Female Immortal Corpse identified as an immortal crystal.
• Li Qingyuan found he could refine only a tiny amount of the immortal crystal and agreed to keep one while giving the other three to the Female Immortal Corpse in exchange for protection in the Primordial Demonic Cave.

Li Qingyuan traded Five Elements Tribulation Pills for immortal crystals, made promises of aid to Seven Profound Dao Venerable and Heavenly Frost Dao Venerable, and learned about the major Mahayana factions. He then assessed the duplicated treasures from four slain Mahayana Dao Venerables and celebrated an unprecedented haul.

• Li Qingyuan exchanged Five Elements Tribulation Pills for immortal crystals from Seven Profound Dao Venerable and Heavenly Frost Dao Venerable, then gave them tokens promising his help.
• Bing Ling'er told Heavenly Frost Dao Venerable that Li Qingyuan had already supplied her with pills to prepare for Mahayana.
• Heavenly Frost Dao Venerable and Seven Profound Dao Venerable explained that the four major factions and independent forces together included around seven thousand Mahayana Dao Venerables.
• Li Qingyuan assessed the duplicated storage rings and law treasures of four slain Mahayana Dao Venerables, planning to use their origins to strengthen his weapons.
• Li Qingyuan discovered Chunhuazi's storage ring contained ingredients and a formula for Heaven-Seizing Fortune-Creation Pills, along with an eighth tier spirit vein and many other resources.
• Li Qingyuan resolved to improve his alchemy and celebrated the treasures as an unprecedented bumper harvest.

Li Qingyuan rewarded the cultivators who helped defeat the one-armed Dao Venerable, then gathered his companions to cultivate in the Primordial Demonic Cave. After sixty years, Ji Kun advanced his bonded Law Treasure, and Li Qingyuan’s Green Wood Heavenly Sun Sword became an early Mahayana Law Treasure as Li Qingyuan neared the Mahayana realm.

• Li Qingyuan distributed rewards to Ji Kun, Diana, Daoist Xuanzhen, the Lotus Holy Child, and the five divine beasts, then invited the injured Seven Profound Dao Venerable and Heavenly Frost Dao Venerable to explore the Primordial Demonic Cave with them after they recovered.
• Li Qingyuan established an eighth tier formation, and he, Ji Kun, and Diana began secluded cultivation, refining Mahayana Law Treasures into their bonded treasures.
• The Yinglong Chief refined his reward while the Seven Profound Dao Venerable and Heavenly Frost Dao Venerable used Five Elements Tribulation Pills to restore their strength; the other cultivators also trained.
• After sixty years, Ji Kun finished refining a perfected early Mahayana Law Treasure into his Sky Swallowing Sphere, greatly increasing his combat strength toward the middle Mahayana stage.
• Li Qingyuan completed the refining of a Mahayana Law Treasure into his Green Wood Heavenly Sun Sword, advancing it to the early Mahayana stage and reaching the pinnacle of quasi-Dao Venerable cultivation.

Li Qingyuan studied the Slaughter Dao Blood Divine Scripture and discovered that its Blood Divine Son Avatars could greatly amplify his combat strength. His thoughts triggered a terrifying presence from beyond the ancient ages, and the Female Immortal Corpse warned him not to invoke the names of Immortal Emperors.

• Li Qingyuan decided to study the Slaughter Dao inheritance before tempering his body with the Eighth Tier Divine Monkey Brew.
• Li Qingyuan read the incomplete Slaughter Dao Blood Divine Scripture, which cultivated the Great Dao of Blood and the Great Dao of Slaughter through essence blood and killing.
• Li Qingyuan learned that Blood Divine Son Avatars could combine into a formation that amplified combat strength, and connected the inheritance to Ancestor Minghe.
• A terrifying ancient will manifested in the Primordial Demonic Cave, then broke off before it could descend upon Li Qingyuan.
• The Female Immortal Corpse warned Li Qingyuan that naming an Immortal Emperor could draw the emperor's imprints across the Myriad Worlds, and Li Qingyuan asked whether she had recognized the Scripture's origin from the start.

Li Qingyuan studied the Slaughter Dao Blood Divine Scripture and spent decades mastering its techniques, including the method for creating Blood Divine Son clones. After forming three clones, he left seclusion and prepared to lead everyone into battle.

• The Female Immortal Corpse warned Li Qingyuan about the danger of invoking an Immortal Emperor’s true name, and he resumed studying the scripture.
• Li Qingyuan studied the scripture’s killing-heart cultivation, Blood Fiend Divine Sword, and Blood Divine Son clone techniques over several decades.
• Li Qingyuan used kidney water immortal crystal to preserve his lifespan and Essence Blood while condensing three Blood Divine Son clones.
• Li Qingyuan explained that the crystal could produce many more clones, while Luo Ling had refined the other crystal and greatly advanced her cultivation.
• Li Qingyuan emerged from seclusion, put away the Formation Flags, and ordered everyone to follow him into battle.

After recovering and recruiting cultivators across the Sixth and Seventh Demon Domains, Li Qingyuan led a growing force into the Eighth Demon Domain. They arrived amid a fierce clash between three Mahayana-level fighters, and Li Qingyuan recognized someone familiar among them.

• Seven Profound Dao Venerable and Heavenly Frost Dao Venerable recovered much of their strength, and Li Qingyuan’s group began recruiting cultivators in the Sixth Demon Domain.
• After finding the remains of eight Mahayana Dao Venerables in the Seventh Demon Domain, Li Qingyuan ordered the group to expand its ranks before advancing.
• The group grew to three hundred and sixty people, including Nine Dragons Dao Venerable, who submitted after Ji Kun defeated him in several exchanges.
• Li Qingyuan led the assembled force through the spatial node into the Eighth Demon Domain.
• The newcomers sensed three Mahayana-level fighters battling nearby, and Li Qingyuan recognized a familiar face among them.

Li Qingyuan and the Lotus Holy Child joined Yang Jian and the Heavenly Hound in battling the Three-Headed Flood Dragon Python, who had pursued Yang Jian out of hatred for the Yang Clan. When Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun joined the fight, the flood dragon judged the danger and fled, leaving the group unable to catch him.

• The Lotus Holy Child joined Yang Jian and the Heavenly Hound in fighting the middle Mahayana Three-Headed Flood Dragon Python, who activated his bloodline power and gained the advantage.
• Yang Jian activated his ancient bloodline and fought alongside the Heavenly Hound, bringing the battle back to a stalemate.
• Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun entered the battle, and the Three-Headed Flood Dragon Python recognized the Sky Swallowing Chicken’s origins and became wary.
• The Three-Headed Flood Dragon Python fled, taking Ji Kun’s full-powered strike on his back and burning essence blood to escape.
• Yang Jian explained that the Three-Headed Flood Dragon Clan could sense danger, while Li Qingyuan praised the Python’s talent.

Yang Jian brought Li Qingyuan and his group to a camp in the ancient ruins, where three Tribulation Crossing Immortal Venerables had gathered. The Great Elder of the Immortal Venerable Hall turned his attention to Li Qingyuan, whose power surpassed that of any immortal-path expert he had encountered.

• The Three-Headed Flood Dragon Python burned his essence blood to escape after Ji Kun struck him, while Li Qingyuan and Yang Jian greeted each other.
• Yang Jian explained that his ancestor had tasked him with subduing the Three-Headed Flood Dragon Python and revealed that three Immortal Venerable ancestors were nearby.
• Yang Jian led Li Qingyuan and the others to the ancient ruin camp, where three Tribulation Crossing Immortal Venerables and their forces had assembled.
• Yang Jian introduced the three ancestors as the Great Elder of the Immortal Venerable Hall, the Third Ancestor of the Yang Clan, and an ancestor of the Luoshen Ancient Clan.
• The Third Ancestor of the Yang Family praised Li Qingyuan, and the Great Elder of the Immortal Venerable Hall examined him with a powerful gaze.

Li Qingyuan impressed the Great Elder of the Immortal Venerable Hall and learned that Luo Yuyan had investigated his past lives with Luo Ling. The scouting squad returned with Luo Ling, now a Quasi-Dao Venerable, and she reunited with Li Qingyuan and Miao Le.

• The Great Elder praised Li Qingyuan’s talent and lamented that the Deterioration Era prevented even exceptional cultivators from reaching immortality.
• Luo Yuyan introduced herself as Luo Ling’s Heavenly Grandmother and said she knew about Li Qingyuan and Luo Ling’s past lives.
• Luo Yuyan accepted that Li Qingyuan and Luo Ling might choose their own relationship, provided he did not hinder Luo Ling’s cultivation.
• The Great Elder said Li Qingyuan, Yang Jian, and Luo Ling might one day compete for the Immortal Venerable Hall’s future Hall Master position.
• The scouting squad returned, and Li Qingyuan and Miao Le were surprised to see Luo Ling had become a Quasi-Dao Venerable.
• Luo Ling reunited with Li Qingyuan and Miao Le, greeting them as fellow Daoists after a long separation.

At the Immortal Venerable Hall gathering, Xuan Yin Dao Venerable publicly accused Li Qingyuan of pursuing Luo Ling, but Luo Ling rejected his interference and Ji Kun attacked him. Xuan Yin Dao Venerable answered Ji Kun’s assault with a palm strike, leaving their clash underway.

• Miao Le greeted Luo Ling, stirring memories and unfamiliar emotions that faded when Li Qingyuan addressed Luo Ling formally as a fellow Daoist.
• Xuan Yin Dao Venerable insulted Li Qingyuan and accused him of shamelessly flirting with Luo Ling, prompting the Luoshen Ancient Clan’s cultivators to support him.
• Bing Ling'er tearfully claimed that she had offered to be Li Qingyuan’s concubine but that he had refused her because he loved Luo Ling.
• Luo Ling told Xuan Yin Dao Venerable that her private affairs were none of his concern and demanded that he address her as Luo Ling or the Goddess of the Luo Clan.
• Ji Kun attacked Xuan Yin Dao Venerable with his Great Sun Sky Swallowing Sphere, declaring that anyone who interfered with Li Qingyuan and Luo Ling’s romance would die by his hand.
• Xuan Yin Dao Venerable struck at Ji Kun with a gigantic palm and vowed to suppress him.

Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun battled Xuan Yin Dao Venerable after he challenged them, and their combined Ecliptic Heaven-Piercing Slash defeated him. Xuan Yin Dao Venerable’s Spirit Pet, the Xuan Yin Black Snake, died protecting him, and Xuan Yin was left gravely wounded.

• Ji Kun’s Sky Swallowing Sphere and Xuan Yin Dao Venerable’s Xuan Yin Heaven-Sealing Banner clashed evenly, alarming the watching cultivators.
• Xuan Yin Dao Venerable grew furious at the suggestion that Li Qingyuan might defeat him and attacked Ji Kun with Xuan Yin Slash.
• Xuan Yin Dao Venerable summoned his Xuan Yin Black Snake Spirit Pet to help fight Ji Kun, so Li Qingyuan joined the battle and struck the snake with his sword.
• Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun combined their powers in the Ecliptic Heaven-Piercing Slash, breaking through Xuan Yin Dao Venerable’s defenses.
• Xuan Yin Dao Venerable forced the Xuan Yin Black Snake to take the strike; the snake was killed, and the slash badly wounded Xuan Yin and sent him flying.

Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun stunned the gathered cultivators by defeating Xuan Yin Dao Venerable, until Cangxuan Old Ancestor arrived and killed him for insulting Li Qingyuan and the Immortal Venerable Hall. The Immortal Venerable Hall then admitted Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun as Mahayana Dao Venerables, while Cangxuan Old Ancestor reaffirmed Li Qingyuan’s place as the Azure Profound Immortal Sect’s future leader.

• Ji Kun devoured the Xuan Yin Black Snake’s demonic Nascent Soul and gallbladder, while Li Qingyuan demanded that Xuan Yin Dao Venerable kneel and apologize.
• Xuan Yin Dao Venerable refused, and Li Qingyuan held back from killing him because the Immortal Venerable Hall’s elders were present.
• Cangxuan Old Ancestor arrived and killed Xuan Yin Dao Venerable with one finger, declaring that the insult to Li Qingyuan was an insult to him and the Immortal Venerable Hall.
• Luo Yuyan invited Li Qingyuan to marry into the Luoshen Ancient Clan as Luo Ling’s Dao companion, but Cangxuan Old Ancestor and Wen Dao rejected her proposal.
• Wen Dao announced that the Immortal Venerable Hall had admitted Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun among its Mahayana Dao Venerables.

Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun received Immortal Venerable Tokens and discovered the Immortal Venerable Hall’s formidable roster and resources. As they prepared to register as its seventy-third and seventy-fourth heavenly chosen, the Third Ancestor of the Yang Family interrupted.

• Wen Dao announced that Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun could join the Immortal Venerable Hall, and they thanked him and accepted their tokens.
• Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun used their tokens to view the Hall’s virtual space, where they saw First Yuji, the eighteen elders, and the seventy-two Mahayana heavenly chosen.
• Wen Dao explained the Hall’s ranks, membership requirements, and extensive roster of late Mahayana and Mahayana peak cultivators.
• Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun examined the Hall’s rare inheritances, treasures, and other resources available for trade.
• Wen Dao told Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun to write their names on their tokens, but the Third Ancestor of the Yang Family suddenly interrupted.

Yang Jian and Luo Ling joined Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun on the Immortal Venerable Hall’s Firmament Ranking, shocking the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths with their cultivation and young ages. As the elders anticipated a final golden age of cultivation, a powerful golden-haired man sensed that the four had appeared.

• Yang Xiao praised Yang Jian’s talent, and Great Elder Wen Dao gave Immortal Venerable Tokens to Yang Jian and Luo Ling.
• Li Qingyuan, Ji Kun, Yang Jian, and Luo Ling inscribed their names on their tokens and appeared as Quasi-Dao Venerable Dharma Idols on the Firmament Ranking.
• Great Elder Wen Dao revealed their ages, ranging from 5,500 to 6,130 years, stunning the Dao Venerables who witnessed the ranking update.
• The Immortal Venerable Hall’s elders and the seventy-two ranked Heavenly Chosen learned of the four newcomers and took their arrival as a sign that the final golden age of cultivation was beginning.
• A golden-haired middle-aged man opened his eyes, declared that the Deterioration Era’s ninth golden age was his final chance to become immortal, and sensed that the four had appeared.

The Six-Eared Macaque lineage and Myriad Dragon Heavenly Domain attacked Flower Fruit Mountain to destroy the Ao Lai Sun Family, and their assault shattered its defenses. Dongfang Lei arrived, revealed himself as Yuji Immortal Venerable’s personal disciple, and led reinforcements in a counterattack against the invaders.

• Sun Tianyu led the Six-Eared Macaques in an assault on Flower Fruit Mountain, while the Ao Lai Sun Family’s elderly Dao Venerable tried to defend the mountain formation.
• Long Canghai and the Myriad Dragon Heavenly Domain joined the attack, and the combined forces broke through the formation despite the Sun Family’s desperate resistance.
• Sun Tianyu defeated the elderly Sun Family defender and prepared to kill him, but Dongfang Lei intervened with a heavenly thunder attack.
• Dongfang Lei held off Sun Tianyu and Long Canghai with his Peerless Under Heaven technique and declared that Yuji Immortal Venerable was his master.
• Dongfang Lei’s reinforcements joined the Ao Lai Sun Family in surrounding the attackers, and he ordered the rebels killed without mercy.

Thunder Flame Dao Venerable attacked the Azure Profound Immortal Sect, but Tianfeng Old Ancestor used Tiandu Peak to defend the sect. As rebellions spread across the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, Six-Eared Immortal Venerable attacked Five Directions Divine Beast Heaven for its Five Spirits Heaven-Shaking Seal, until a golden-horned Yinglong emerged to confront him.

• Thunder Flame Dao Venerable and Thunder Fire Spirit Lord led an army toward the Azure Profound Immortal Sect, seeking to destroy it and seize its treasures.
• Tianfeng Old Ancestor brought out Tiandu Peak and shattered Thunder Flame Dao Venerable’s Leiyan Great Hand Seal, then rallied the sect’s elders to defend the mountain gate.
• Rebels invaded Super Heavenly Domains throughout the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, triggering simultaneous battles between Mahayana Dao Venerables.
• Six-Eared Immortal Venerable demanded the Five Spirits Heaven-Shaking Seal from Five Directions Divine Beast Heaven and crushed the defenders’ grand formation when they refused.
• Six-Eared Immortal Venerable used his Five Elements Space divine ability to trap the battlefield, but a golden-horned Yinglong tore through space and challenged him.

Long Aotian revealed himself as the Yinglong Clan’s ancestor and fought the Six-Eared Immortal Venerable, overpowering him and exposing the Immortal Venerable Hall’s trap. At the Hall’s Origin Immortal Realm headquarters, Yang Cang faced an invasion by three Immortal Venerables, and First Yuji appeared to stop a sneak attack.

• Long Aotian appeared in the Five Directions Divine Beast Heaven, surprising the Six-Eared Immortal Venerable and the Yinglong Clan’s Mahayana Dao Venerable.
• Long Aotian and the Six-Eared Immortal Venerable clashed, and Long Aotian’s Yinglong techniques and awakened bloodline repeatedly wounded and overwhelmed his opponent.
• The Six-Eared Immortal Venerable ordered a retreat after Long Aotian revealed that the Hall Master had anticipated the invasion and that the Immortal Venerable Hall had ways to conceal its movements.
• Three Immortal Venerables and their forces attacked the Immortal Venerable Hall’s headquarters in the Origin Immortal Realm, where Yang Cang confronted them with the Divine General Yang Family.
• One of the invaders attacked Yang Cang from behind, but First Yuji emerged from the void and repelled the strike with a finger.

First Yuji confronted Second Junlin at the Immortal Venerable Hall, revealing an immortal domain prototype and overwhelming Second Junlin and his two companions. Second Junlin fused the Junlin Sword with his Mahayana grotto-heaven and fought back, while the clash shook the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.

• First Yuji appeared before Second Junlin and demanded his true blood in exchange for sparing him and his followers.
• Second Junlin accused First Yuji of misleading Six-Ears about his trip to the Primordial Demonic Cave, and First Yuji admitted he had gone there as a clone.
• Second Junlin attacked with a gigantic hand, but First Yuji's Star Plucking Hand destroyed it and swept toward him.
• First Yuji opened his immortal domain prototype and suppressed Second Junlin and his two companions, revealing power at the pinnacle of Immortal Venerables.
• Second Junlin fused the Junlin Sword with his Mahayana grotto-heaven and unleashed Reign over all beneath heaven, weakening First Yuji's immortal domain as their battle shook the Heavenly Yuan Immortal Realm.