Chapter Summaries

Li Qingyuan and Yang Jian began their heavily anticipated duel as cultivators placed enormous bets on the outcome. After Li Qingyuan gradually gained the advantage, Yang Jian awakened more of his ancestral bloodline and surged to mid Mahayana stage completion, leaving the fight’s outcome uncertain.

• Cultivators wagered on Li Qingyuan, Yang Jian, or a draw, while Zhao Lingwang opened the betting pool and several elders placed substantial bets on their chosen fighters.
• Li Qingyuan and Yang Jian confronted each other across a vast battlefield, and their clashing Law domains shook the surrounding heavens.
• The two fought at close range with their Law Treasures and profound techniques, and Li Qingyuan began to suppress Yang Jian with his greater reserves and Thunder God Body.
• Yang Jian invoked his ancestral bloodline, raising his cultivation to mid Mahayana stage completion and perfecting his Nine Revolutions Profound Technique to the fourth turn.
• Onlookers marveled at Yang Jian’s strength and wondered whether Li Qingyuan could still defeat him.

Yang Jian and Li Qingyuan fought in a contest of strength, with Yang Jian overwhelming Li Qingyuan’s formation before Li Qingyuan unveiled a vast sword world. The battle remained unresolved as the true Earth Marsh Sword Array began.

• Jin Longzi and Gu Yaorao reacted warily to Yang Jian’s bloodline power, while Ran Liu judged that he had the potential to become an Immortal King.
• Yang Jian offered to let Ji Kun join the fight, but Li Qingyuan declined and summoned three Blood Divine Son Avatars.
• Li Qingyuan combined his avatars with the Earth Marsh Sword Array and the Slaughter Dao Blood Divine Scripture to confront Yang Jian’s attacks.
• Yang Jian unleashed Manifestation of Heaven and Earth and drove Li Qingyuan and his avatars back with a devastating strike.
• Li Qingyuan summoned the Green Wood Heavenly Sun Sword and the Myriad Souls Banner demonic sword, merging their powers into a World of Swords and activating the true Earth Marsh Sword Array.

Li Qingyuan and Yang Jian fought on equal terms, then clashed with their Heavenly Eye Spiritual Powers and both suffered severe injuries. Yang Jian conceded defeat, while Li Qingyuan’s Longevity Immortal Seed restored his strength and left the victor clear.

• Li Qingyuan used the Earth Marsh Sword Realm and his formations to battle Yang Jian across hundreds of thousands of li without giving ground.
• Yang Jian acknowledged Li Qingyuan’s superior Immortal Path foundation and Divine Abilities, and Li Qingyuan defended the value of bloodlines and family inheritance.
• Yang Jian unleashed his Heavenly Eye Spiritual Power, Annihilation Banned Light, and Li Qingyuan countered with his Profound Technique Heavenly Eye and Thunder God’s Eye.
• The two Heavenly Eye attacks collided and exploded, severely injuring both fighters and leaving them exhausted.
• Yang Jian admitted defeat, and Li Qingyuan’s Longevity Immortal Seed restored his body and Law Power, confirming his victory.

Li Qingyuan defeated Yang Jian and was acclaimed as the foremost Heavenly Chosen of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths. Sixty years later, Diana reached the Mahayana stage, and Meili Immortal Venerable revealed a way to obtain a Ninth-Tier Item through a battle between Kings of a Hundred Battles.

• Li Qingyuan withdrew his abilities after defeating Yang Jian, who accepted the loss and began healing; Great Elder Wen Dao declared Li Qingyuan the winner.
• Cangxuan Old Ancestor collected the wager, while Luo Ling and the gathered cultivators praised Li Qingyuan as the Number One Heavenly Chosen.
• Meili Immortal Venerable and other experts sent messages about Li Qingyuan, and Great Elder Wen Dao ordered the assessment to continue before the group headed to the Ninth Demon Domain.
• Sixty years later, Diana survived her heavenly tribulation, attained Mahayana, and joined the Immortal Venerable Hall as its seventy-eighth Mahayana Heavenly Chosen.
• Lian Jiuyou proposed abandoning the battlefield for the Ninth Demon Domain, but Meili Immortal Venerable explained that a battle between Kings of a Hundred Battles could yield a Ninth-Tier Item.

After six hundred years of trials and resource extraction, the Four Great Powers departed for the Ninth Demon Domain, where they found four ancient dharma forms and met the Hall Master of Immortal Venerable Hall. Li Qingyuan recognized the Hall Master as First Yuji.

• Wen Dao proposed a deadly duel between Jin Longzi and Gu Yaorao, but Meili Immortal Venerable dismissed the idea as a joke.
• The Four Great Powers concluded their extraction after more than two hundred Mahayana cultivators and many others had died in the trials and arena.
• Wen Dao, Meili Immortal Venerable, Lian Jiuyou, and Silver Demon God led their forces toward the ninth great realm of the Primordial Demonic Cave.
• After three days of travel, Li Qingyuan and the others entered the vast Ninth Demon Domain and continued onward to the resource-gathering site.
• Li Qingyuan and the other cultivators sensed four ancient dharma forms, and Wen Dao bowed to the Hall Master of Immortal Venerable Hall, whom Li Qingyuan identified as First Yuji.

Li Qingyuan and the other cultivators met First Yuji and the leaders of the Four Great Powers as the Heavenly Kingdom Secret Realm ended. The returning cultivators emerged from the collapsing realm, and Li Qingyuan recognized his master among them.

• The cultivators bowed to First Yuji, who welcomed the five Kings of a Hundred Battles as named disciples and praised their potential.
• First Yuji noticed Li Qingyuan’s many immortal inheritances and his karmic connection to Lei'er, and admired his bond with Miao Le.
• The Yellow Springs Pavilion, Demon God Palace, and Ancient Immortal Alliance arrived, and their leaders were greeted by their followers.
• Li Qingyuan surveyed the assembled forces as the Golden Heavenly Stairway disintegrated and the Heavenly Kingdom Secret Realm’s time limit expired.
• Dozens of cultivators emerged from the collapsing realm, and Li Qingyuan recognized an old man transformed from a Golden Butterfly and called him Master.

Li Qingyuan reunited with Wu Mengzi and gave him a Peak Mahayana Pill, while Wu Mengzi rewarded Xiao Baiyi and welcomed Miao Le as his true disciple. After meeting other powerful acquaintances, Li Qingyuan asked where Elder Zixiao was.

• Wu Mengzi reunited with Li Qingyuan and Xiao Baiyi, and was astonished by Li Qingyuan’s rapid rise to the early Mahayana stage.
• Li Qingyuan gave Wu Mengzi a Peak Mahayana Pill, which gave him a strong chance to reach the Mahayana peak.
• Wu Mengzi gave Xiao Baiyi cultivation resources and pills, then offered Miao Le the same support and accepted her as his true disciple.
• Wu Mengzi privately told Li Qingyuan that he had another important item to give him after they returned to the sect.
• Li Qingyuan greeted Sun Liuyun and Yang Haoran, then noticed that Elder Zixiao was absent and asked where she was.

The Four Great Powers discovered that Zixiao had vanished and First Yuji revealed that she was a mysterious cultivator as powerful as himself. The powers united to search for Void Insects and open the Primordial Void Domain before the Primordial Demonic Cave expelled them.

• Cangxuan Old Ancestor and the others realized Zixiao had parted from her companions and was missing from the High Antiquity Battlefield.
• First Yuji privately told Cangxuan Old Ancestor that Zixiao had matched him in a three-move test and warned him to keep her strength secret.
• Fairy Biluò, Gu Taxian, Fairy Meili, and the Golden Demon God agreed with First Yuji that the Four Great Powers should seek to open the Primordial Void Domain together.
• Fifty-six Tribulation Crossing Immortal Venerables met for seven days and agreed to forbid conflict, search the nine worlds for Void Insects, and offer an eighth-tier low-grade cultivation resource for each one found.
• First Yuji warned that the Primordial Demonic Cave would likely expel them within three to five hundred years, then ordered the Immortal Venerable Hall cultivators to move out.

Cangxuan Old Ancestor led a team from the Ninth Great Realm to the Third Great Realm to gather cultivators and capture Void Insects. After splitting into search teams, Li Qingyuan sent Diana, Ji Kun, and Old Zhao to contact his family, then helped Miao Le prepare to advance toward the Quasi-Dao Venerable realm.

• Cangxuan Old Ancestor divided his team’s mission, traveled with the cultivators inside his Mahayana grotto-heaven, and reached the Third Great Realm in three days.
• Cangxuan Old Ancestor divided the cultivators into six search teams, and Wu Mengzi led the team that included Li Qingyuan.
• Li Qingyuan asked Wu Mengzi for permission to bring his family and retreating Azure Profound Realm cultivators from the First Great Realm, then sent Diana, Ji Kun, and Old Zhao to find them.
• Wu Mengzi ordered the cultivators to search for Void Insects near Spatial Wormholes and limited their dispersal to a radius of ten million li.
• Li Qingyuan sent Miao Le into the Mysterious Feminine Space, where she drank Ninth-Tier Quasi-Immortal Brew and began cultivating toward the Quasi-Dao Venerable realm.

Li Qingyuan and Bing Ling'er began capturing Void Insects across the third Great Realm, using their abilities to locate and restrain the elusive creatures. After sixty years, their team had captured 123, and Wu Mengzi received permission from Cangxuan Immortal Venerable to pursue more in other Great Realms.

• Li Qingyuan used his Heavenly Eye Divine Light to find three Void Insects that Bing Ling'er had failed to detect, then trapped them with Dream Butterfly Evasion and reinforced the nets with lightning.
• Li Qingyuan and Bing Ling'er traveled among spatial nodes, capturing eight Void Insects before leaving one node to the Ancient Immortal Alliance under the Four Great Powers' agreement.
• After more than a decade, the factions had captured sixty percent of the Void Insects in the third Great Realm, and Li Qingyuan led his team in searching for those that had escaped.
• Ji Kun helped Li Qingyuan track and capture Void Insects, and their team collected 123 over sixty years.
• Wu Mengzi told Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun that Cangxuan Immortal Venerable had approved their journey to other Great Realms to capture more Void Insects.

After two hundred years of searching the Primordial Demonic Cave, Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun continued capturing Void Insects while Miao Le broke through to Quasi-Dao Venerable. Myriad Dragon Ancestor and Myriad Flowers Ancestor learned that Li Qingyuan had gone off alone and set out to capture him.

• Cangxuan Old Ancestor led the growing alliance into the Fourth and Fifth Great Realms, then the cultivators swept through the remaining realms in pursuit of Void Insects.
• Li Qingyuan caught another Void Insect, bringing his and Ji Kun's total to 299, and then told Ji Kun to take him to a hidden spatial node.
• Li Qingyuan brought Miao Le out of the Mysterious Feminine Space, where she passed the Earth, Metal, and Water tribulations and advanced to Quasi-Dao Venerable.
• Miao Le swallowed a Nine-Spirit Thunder Origin Pill to temper her Thunder God Body while Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun guarded her.
• Myriad Dragon Ancestor and Myriad Flowers Ancestor decided to exploit Li Qingyuan's absence and went to find him so they could capture him and Ji Kun.

After Miao Le completed the First-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, the Myriad Dragon Ancestor and Myriad Flowers Ancestor found Li Qingyuan and attacked him. As Ji Kun held off the Myriad Dragon Ancestor, Li Qingyuan and Miao Le merged their powers and struck at the Myriad Flowers Ancestor.

• Miao Le cultivated the Nine Heavens Lightning Tribulation Technique to the First-Nine Heavenly Tribulation level, and Li Qingyuan said she could eventually ascend to Dao Venerable.
• The Myriad Dragon Ancestor and Myriad Flowers Ancestor ambushed Li Qingyuan and Miao Le, destroying their formation with two Law Treasures.
• Ji Kun activated his bloodline power and fought the Myriad Dragon Ancestor, whose Myriad Dragon Armor withstood Ji Kun's attacks.
• The Myriad Flowers Ancestor's three Mahayana allies arrived, and Li Qingyuan told Old Zhao to fight the two female cultivators while he and Miao Le targeted the Myriad Flowers Ancestor.
• Li Qingyuan and Miao Le joined hands and merged their Wood Spirit Bodies, Longevity Immortal Seeds, and swords, boosting Li Qingyuan's strength to mid Mahayana stage completion.
• Li Qingyuan advanced with the World Tree behind him and slashed at the Myriad Flowers Ancestor.

Li Qingyuan and Miao Le joined forces to overwhelm the Myriad Flowers Ancestor, while Ji Kun kept the Myriad Dragon Ancestor occupied. Li Qingyuan captured the Myriad Flowers Ancestor's Nascent Soul and handed it to Old Zhao.

• Li Qingyuan and Miao Le unleashed the Jianmu Divine Tree Slash, shattered the Myriad Flowers Ancestor's defenses, and killed Long Fantian after she used him as a shield.
• The Myriad Flowers Ancestor summoned her Flower-Person Puppet and unleashed her supreme Divine Ability, but Li Qingyuan's Heavenly Eye Divine Light dispelled it.
• Li Qingyuan's sword shattered the puppet and wounded the Myriad Flowers Ancestor, whose Nascent Soul fled with the Myriad Flowers Lotus Platform.
• Li Qingyuan immobilized and pierced the Myriad Flowers Ancestor's Nascent Soul, sealing its power and capturing it.
• Miao Le refused the Myriad Flowers Ancestor's offer and told Li Qingyuan to give her to Old Zhao, who gratefully accepted.

Old Zhao devoured Myriad Flowers Ancestor’s Nascent Soul, and Li Qingyuan turned to confront Myriad Dragon Ancestor as he burned his power and tried to escape. Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun strengthened the Earth Marsh Sword Array enough to drive Myriad Dragon Ancestor back, then Li Qingyuan called on the Jianmu Divine Tree to empower the array further.

• Old Zhao devoured Myriad Flowers Ancestor’s Nascent Soul after Li Qingyuan had slain her body.
• Myriad Dragon Ancestor burned his Dragon Origin, unleashed the Cang Dragon True Form, and struck Ji Kun away before fleeing as a dragon.
• Li Qingyuan opened the Earth Marsh Sword Array, but Myriad Dragon Ancestor broke through its sword rivers and damaged its defenses.
• Li Qingyuan summoned three Blood Divine Son Avatars to strengthen the array, while Myriad Dragon Ancestor burned more Essence Blood and pressed forward.
• Ji Kun lent the array Ecliptic Heavenly Might, enabling its sword light to overwhelm Myriad Dragon Ancestor’s armor and drive him back.
• Li Qingyuan began calling on the Jianmu Divine Tree and World Power to empower the sword array.

Li Qingyuan used the Earth Marsh Sword Array and the power of the universe to overwhelm the Myriad Dragon Ancestor, then stopped his attempted self-destruction and captured his Nascent Soul. After collecting the dragon’s body and the defeated enemies’ belongings, Li Qingyuan left with valuable materials and a vast haul of resources.

• Li Qingyuan combined the Earth Marsh Sword Array, ecliptic power, and the Jianmu Divine Tree’s phantom to unleash sword rivers that shattered the Myriad Dragon Armor and severed the Myriad Dragon Ancestor’s body.
• The Myriad Dragon Ancestor tried to self-destruct, but Li Qingyuan immobilized him with the Great Grade Heavenly Immortal Art and sent his Nascent Soul into the Myriad Souls Banner.
• Old Zhao swallowed the Myriad Dragon Ancestor’s Nascent Soul and said refining it and the Myriad Flowers Ancestor’s soul would help him advance to the middle Mahayana stage.
• Miao Le collected the Azure Dragon’s body, and Li Qingyuan planned to repair and duplicate the Myriad Dragon Armor and give the Dragon Pearl to Little Flame.
• Li Qingyuan inspected the defeated experts’ Storage Bags and law treasures, found the Myriad Dragon Ancestor’s and Myriad Flowers Ancestor’s stores exceptionally rich, and said, “Duplicate.”

Li Qingyuan duplicated valuable Law Treasures and resources, then returned with Miao Le and Ji Kun after Wu Mengzi summoned them to join the expedition to the Ninth Great Realm. There, the leaders of the Four Great Powers assembled their forces to open the Primordial Void Domain, and First Yuji ordered everyone to sacrifice the Void Insects.

• Li Qingyuan duplicated the Dragon-Head Scepter, the Myriad Flowers Lotus Platform, and the resources in the storage rings, including a Dragonfolk Puppet and more than thirteen hundred Heaven and Earth Origin Stones.
• Wu Mengzi summoned Li Qingyuan to join the cultivators heading to the Ninth Great Realm, where the Four Great Powers planned to open the Primordial Void Domain.
• Li Qingyuan gave his parents storage rings containing ghost-path resources and a Dragonfolk Puppet, while deciding to take his daughter to the Azure Profound Immortal Sect.
• Cangxuan Old Ancestor gathered nearly two hundred thousand living beings and cultivators in the central region of the Ninth Great Realm.
• First Yuji declared that the Primordial Demonic Cave’s repelling force was growing stronger and ordered everyone to take out and sacrifice their Void Insects.

The Four Great Powers and their allies sacrificed more than 115,000 Void Insects, creating Spatial Tides and enabling five Immortal Domain Realm powerhouses to reveal and open the Void Domain Gate. The gate’s devouring force pulled the gathered cultivators inside, and First Yuji led the Immortal Venerable Hall through with orders to protect the beings of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.

• Li Qingyuan sacrificed 299 Void Insects, drawing astonished reactions from the Mahayana cultivators and praise from Wu Mengzi and Cangxuan Old Ancestor.
• The gathered cultivators sacrificed 98,000 Void Insects, and fifty-six Immortal Venerables added 17,000 more, surpassing the threshold that triggered Spatial Tides.
• First Yuji, Fairy Biluò, Golden Demon God, Gu Taxian, and Fairy Meili combined their Immortal Domain Realm powers to tear through the Spatial Tides and reveal the Ancient Bronze Gate.
• The five powerhouses opened the Void Domain Gate, releasing a Devouring Vortex that dragged the gathered beings inside.
• First Yuji led twelve Immortal Venerables of the Immortal Venerable Hall through the gate and ordered them to protect the beings of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.

Li Qingyuan and the cultivators were swept into the Primordial Void Domain, where skeletal beings—including three with Immortal Domain Realm strength—rose from beneath the earth and attacked. The weaker cultivators fled through passages opened by the Immortal Venerables, while the remaining forces fought the skeletal horde.

• The spatial vortex pulled Li Qingyuan, his family, and millions of cultivators into the Primordial Void Domain, where he gathered his family and helped steady the Azure Profound cultivators.
• The earth shook, and skeletal beings of many races crawled out from underground; three possessed Immortal Domain Realm power and ordered their forces to kill the invaders.
• First Yuji opened an exit passage and ordered cultivators below Half-step Dao Venerable to leave; the Golden Demon God, Fairy Biluò, Gu Taxian, and Fairy Meili opened more passages, and many cultivators retreated.
• The Golden Demon God and Fairy Biluò engaged two Immortal Domain Realm skeletons while First Yuji battled the humanoid skeleton and drove it back.
• Gu Taxian, Fairy Meili, Wen Dao, Lian Jiuyou, the Silver Demon God, and other Immortal Venerables led the remaining cultivators into battle against the skeletal army.

Li Qingyuan and the Four Great Powers fought through the Primordial Void Domain’s growing skeletal hordes, collecting crystals left behind by the slain creatures. At the domain’s heart, Zixiao withdrew from a breathing fetal sphere, awakening its skeletal guardian, who vowed to kill the intruders and claim the Primordial Immortal Embryo.

• Li Qingyuan and his companions attacked the skeletal beings, while First Yuji killed an Immortal Domain Realm skeleton and collected the crystal it left behind.
• The Immortal Venerables and other powerful leaders joined the battle, harvesting crystals as the skeletal hordes multiplied.
• First Yuji ordered the Four Great Powers to drive forward through the growing tide, and their forces cut down thousands of skeletons.
• Li Qingyuan’s team gathered six hundred crystals, and he used his blood avatars and sword arrays to fight late Mahayana stage skeletons.
• At the heart of the Primordial Void Domain, Zixiao left the fetal sphere after sensing the approaching commotion.
• The True Immortal-level skeletal master awakened, sensed the intruders, and declared that the Primordial Immortal Embryo belonged to him.

The True Immortal Skeleton arrived on the battlefield and attacked the assembled cultivators, but First Yuji blocked its strike with his bloodline power. The Skeleton revealed its desire to claim First Yuji’s body, and First Yuji joined Fairy Biluò and Golden Demon God in an attack to kill it.

• The True Immortal Skeleton crossed the void and restrained the assembled Immortal Venerables with a devastating finger strike.
• First Yuji awakened his innate first human bloodline and shattered the Skeleton’s finger strike with his Golden Fang Tian Painted Halberd, while the other cultivators retreated.
• Cangxuan Old Ancestor and Li Qingyuan discussed how First Yuji’s bloodline inspired recognition and suppressed the bloodlines of human cultivators.
• The True Immortal Skeleton recognized First Yuji as a descendant of the first human and declared that it wanted his body to form an immortal body.
• First Yuji urged Fairy Biluò and Golden Demon God to join him, and the three attacked the True Immortal Skeleton for a chance to obtain its Principle crystal.