Chapter Summaries

Li Qingyuan created a Thunder Method body refinement Immortal Method, and First Yuji praised him and gave him the Thunder Emperor Bone. First Yuji revealed that the Deterioration Era would soon corrode immortals, and called on the gathered powers to prepare to break its prison and open the immortal path.

• Thunderbolts formed golden lotuses across the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, drawing First Yuji and the Immortal Domain Realm powerhouses to the Origin Immortal Realm.
• First Yuji praised Li Qingyuan and Dongfang Lei for reaching the Mahayana peak, and recognized Li Qingyuan's newly created body refinement Immortal Method.
• First Yuji gave Li Qingyuan the Thunder Emperor Bone, which Li Qingyuan secretly replicated in his Fortune Space.
• First Yuji warned that the Heavenly Dao's corrosion would intensify within ten to thirty thousand years and weaken his combat strength.
• First Yuji revealed that the Immortal Venerable Hall had planned for ten million years to open the immortal path, and ordered the cultivators to gather resources and nurture more powerful cultivators.

Li Qingyuan returned to the Azure Profound Immortal Sect after reaching the Mahayana peak, and Wu Mengzi announced he would step down to cultivate. Li Qingyuan accepted the sect master’s position and the Sentient Jade, then prepared to share an important announcement with the sect’s Mahayana cultivators.

• Li Qingyuan returned to Cangxuan Heaven and revealed that both his cultivation and physique had reached the Mahayana peak.
• Wu Mengzi summoned the sect’s Mahayana cultivators, and thirty-eight Dao Venerables gathered in the Azure Profound Grand Hall.
• Bing Ling’er was revealed to rule both the Heavenly Frost and Divine Fire Regions after her father’s death, while Li Xianhuang and Li Changsheng had advanced to the late Mahayana stage.
• Wu Mengzi announced that he would resign as sect master and enter seclusion to pursue the Fusion of Treasures Realm.
• Li Qingyuan accepted the sect master’s token and the Sentient Jade, calming the Fortune Space’s urge to devour the jade.
• Li Qingyuan told the assembled cultivators that he had an important announcement and ordered them not to divulge it.

Li Qingyuan organized the Azure Profound Immortal Sect to prepare for opening the Immortal Path, then devoted the Sentient Jade’s power to advancing toward the Immortal Venerable realm. While he remained in seclusion, Luo Ling and Miao Le made breakthroughs, and Miao Le unexpectedly became a Grotto-Heaven Immortal Venerable.

• Li Qingyuan told the sect that the Heavenly Dao was eroding cultivators and assigned its Mahayana Dao Venerables to oversee the sect or continue cultivating; Wu Mengzi entered seclusion to pursue the Fusion of Treasures realm.
• Li Qingyuan used the Sentient Jade and a Primordial Spirit Nurturing Pill to solidify his Mahayana grotto-heaven, deciding to consume its stored Immortal Venerable origin to prepare for opening the Immortal Path.
• Luo Ling broke through to Mahayana peak after five hundred years and returned to the Luoshen Ancient Realm in response to the Spirit of Luo River’s call.
• Three hundred years later, Miao Le passed her Four-Nine Heavenly Tribulation and reached Mahayana peak, while her Green Wood Heavenly Sun Sword advanced into an Immortal Venerable Law Treasure.
• Miao Le’s Taiyi Longevity Scripture merged her Grotto-Heaven Immortal Venerable with her Mahayana peak cultivation, making her a Grotto-Heaven Immortal Venerable; the Purple Cloud Fairy said Miao Le’s presence strengthened her confidence in opening the Immortal Path.

After Miao Le became a Grotto-Heaven Immortal Venerable, Li Qingyuan gathered powerful allies to help Ji Kun propose to the Golden Crow clan’s princess, Dong Jun. Their enormous party arrived at Yang Valley, where two Golden Crow sentries mistook them for an invading army.

• Miao Le advanced to Grotto-Heaven Immortal Venerable, astonishing Li Qingyuan and Li Changsheng.
• Li Qingyuan gathered three Immortal Venerables and fifty Dao Venerables to accompany Ji Kun’s marriage proposal.
• Wu Mengzi carried the group and their betrothal gifts to the Immortal Ancient Remnant Realm on the Spring Autumn Cicada.
• The party arrived in Golden Crow territory at Yang Valley, where its combined pressure terrified two sentries.
• The sentries fell from the sky and called for the clan leader, believing the Golden Crow clan was under attack.

Ji Kun and Dong Jun sought the Golden Crow clan’s blessing to marry, and Jin Hong agreed after setting three conditions, including a request for Li Qingyuan to refine a rare ninth-tier pill. The wedding was set for two months later, leaving the couple joyful and the clan preparing for the ceremony.

• Jin Hong confronted Li Qingyuan and his powerful companions as Wu Mengzi formally requested Dong Jun’s hand for Ji Kun.
• Dong Jun emerged from seclusion and reunited with Ji Kun, and Jin Hong agreed to their marriage after the clan’s elders supported the match.
• Jin Hong required Ji Kun and Dong Jun to aid the Golden Crow clan when called and to send at least one talented child to be raised there.
• Jin Hong asked Li Qingyuan to refine the Red Crow Nirvana Blood Pill within ten thousand years, and Li Qingyuan agreed to attempt at least two pills from three sets of ingredients.
• Wu Mengzi proposed a wedding date two months away, and Jin Hong agreed to prepare the ceremony as Ji Kun and Dong Jun celebrated.

After Ji Kun and Dong Jun’s wedding, Li Qingyuan cultivated with the Sentient Jade and reached the Grotto-Heaven Immortal Venerable realm in five thousand years, followed by Miao Le and Luo Ling. He then planned to refine the Red Crow Nirvana Blood Pill for Ji Kun and Dong Jun before pursuing his own advancement as a Ninth-Tier Pill Immortal.

• Ji Kun fetched Dong Jun for their wedding, and five hundred Mahayana Dao Venerables attended the celebration at the Azure Profound Immortal Sect.
• Li Qingyuan entered seclusion to refine the Sentient Jade while Ji Kun and Dong Jun practiced dual cultivation, allowing Dong Jun to reach Mahayana Peak and Ji Kun to solidify half his Mahayana Grotto-heaven.
• Five thousand years later, Li Qingyuan broke through to the Grotto-Heaven Immortal Venerable realm, and Miao Le and Luo Ling also reached that realm.
• Li Qingyuan began cultivating with the Sentient Jade and Thunder Emperor’s Bone while Miao Le and Luo Ling pursued the True Blood Realm.
• Li Qingyuan remembered his promise to refine the Red Crow Nirvana Blood Pill for Ji Kun and Dong Jun, then decided to pursue becoming a Ninth-Tier Pill Immortal.

Li Qingyuan attempted to refine the ninth-tier Red Crow Nirvana Blood Pill with help from his Second Yuan Clone, using six sets of ingredients duplicated from the Golden Crow clan’s three sets. He succeeded in producing two pills, and Zixiao recognized his rare talent and potential to become an Immortal King.

• Ji Kun and Dong Jun returned with three sets of ingredients, and Jin Ni entrusted them to Li Qingyuan.
• Li Qingyuan duplicated the ingredients into six sets with the Light of Fortune and began refining alongside Er Yuan.
• Li Qingyuan and Er Yuan combined the medicinal liquids in the ninth-tier Pill Furnace, suppressing the fierce backlash as one pill embryo exploded.
• Li Qingyuan and Er Yuan completed the refinement and released two Red Crow Nirvana Blood Pills, whose fiery power formed a Three-Legged Golden Crow.
• Zixiao saw the pills and praised Li Qingyuan’s talent, saying he had the makings of an Immortal King.

Li Qingyuan refined three batches of Red Crow Nirvana Blood Pills, becoming a Ninth-Rank Pill Immortal and producing eight pills for the Golden Crow Clan. After Immortal Venerable Jinni took the pills back for the clan to distribute, Yun Yan the Elixir Master asked Li Qingyuan for a physical body.

• Li Qingyuan successfully refined two Red Crow Nirvana Blood Pills in his first batch, then studied the Mysterious Feminine Space’s alchemy guidance to improve his skill.
• After sharing his insights with Er Yuan, Li Qingyuan and his clone produced three pills in the second batch, including two standard-grade pills.
• Li Qingyuan and Er Yuan refined a final batch of three premium-grade pills, bringing their total to eight Red Crow Nirvana Blood Pills.
• Li Qingyuan gave the pills to Immortal Venerable Jinni, who said the Golden Crow Clan’s elders and Clan Leader would decide their recipients and promised to advocate for Dong Jun to receive a premium-grade pill.
• Ji Kun and Dong Jun left with Immortal Venerable Jinni to return to the Golden Crow Clan, while Yun Yan the Elixir Master asked Li Qingyuan if he could have a physical body.

Li Qingyuan and Er Yuan created a new ninth-tier Five Elements immortal pill for Yun Yan to use as a body, and Li Qingyuan endured its Five-Nine Pill Tribulation. Yun Yan entered the masterwork pill and began shaping it into a physical body.

• Li Qingyuan and Er Yuan chose five rare Five Elements spirit plants and refined them together into a new ninth-tier immortal pill.
• The pill’s birth triggered a Five-Nine Pill Tribulation, which Wu Mengzi recognized as proof that Li Qingyuan had created a new pill formula.
• Li Qingyuan took most of the tribulation’s force himself, while the remaining lightning raised the pill’s quality from authentic to masterwork.
• After the tribulation ended, Li Qingyuan called Yun Yan to enter the pill, and Yun Yan began the process of uniting himself with it to form a body.

Yun Yan the Elixir Master used a ninth-tier immortal pill and the Human-Pill Union Art to restore his body, then survived a third-nine heavenly tribulation and reached the late Mahayana stage. After Li Qingyuan removed Yun Yan’s memories of the Mysterious Feminine Space, Yang Cang arrived and asked him to refine a Fifth Revolution Golden Core for the Yang Clan.

• Yun Yan the Elixir Master dissolved his Primordial Spirit into the ninth-tier immortal pill as Li Qingyuan used Southern Bright Divine Fire to begin restoring him.
• Yun Yan’s pill body took shape, and he returned to life as a Mahayana Dao Venerable while Yun Ji and Kong Huan celebrated.
• Yun Yan summoned the Southern Bright Illusory Fire Pagoda, advanced to the late Mahayana stage, and endured the third-nine heavenly tribulation.
• Yun Yan thanked Li Qingyuan for saving his life, and Li Qingyuan erased Yun Yan’s memories concerning the Mysterious Feminine Space.
• Yang Cang arrived unseen and asked Li Qingyuan to refine a Fifth Revolution Golden Core for the Yang Clan.

Li Qingyuan drew the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths’ most powerful factions to the Azure Profound Immortal Sect after becoming a Ninth-Tier Pill Immortal. He announced the Five-Origin Immortal Venerable Pill and pledged to refine ninth-tier pills for free for a hundred years, then began taking requests.

• Yang Cang asked Li Qingyuan to refine a Fifth Revolution Golden Core, but Li said his current skill and the scarcity of ingredients made the task difficult.
• Zhao Lingwang and the Ao Lai Sun Family requested ninth-tier pills, and Li judged both formulas manageable.
• More than twenty Immortal Venerable Elders and thousands of Mahayana Dao Venerables gathered at the Azure Profound Immortal Sect to ask Li to refine pills.
• Li revealed the Five-Origin Immortal Venerable Pill, which used top-grade eighth-tier spirit plants and could help Mahayana peak cultivators become Grotto-Heaven Immortal Venerables.
• Li pledged to refine ninth-tier pills for free for the Myriad Heavens and Myriad Domains for a hundred years, then told the assembled cultivators to form a line.

Li Qingyuan accepted Yun Yan’s Southern Bright Illusory Fire and spent a century refining Ninth-Tier Immortal Pills with Er Yuan, improving their alchemy skills and helping cultivators across the Myriad Heavens and Myriad Domains. As the hundred-year deadline arrived, Li Qingyuan and Er Yuan successfully refined two Fifth Revolution Golden Cores for Yang Cang, leaving him overwhelmed with joy.

• Yun Yan offered Li Qingyuan the Southern Bright Illusory Fire Seed to repay him for saving his life, and the fire acknowledged Li Qingyuan as its master.
• Li Qingyuan and Er Yuan refined Ninth-Tier Immortal Pills for Zhao Lingwang, Sun Liuyun’s family, and other visiting powers, steadily advancing their alchemy skills over a hundred years.
• Li Qingyuan agreed to refine Fifth Revolution Golden Cores for Yang Cang and offered a missing Ninth Tier Spirit Plant in exchange for a share of the pills.
• After studying the formula for several months, Li Qingyuan and Er Yuan successfully refined two Fifth Revolution Golden Cores.
• Yang Cang celebrated the successful pills and said he could die without regrets after witnessing the lost techniques and golden cores return.

After completing the Yang Clan’s commission, Li Qingyuan distributed pills to his family and subordinates and urged them to cultivate ahead of Opening the Immortal Path. He entered seclusion to strengthen himself, hoping to survive the Deterioration Era and face what was coming.

• Li Qingyuan gave Yang Cang the commissioned Fifth Revolution Golden Cores, accepted his agreed payment, and announced that he would enter seclusion after a hundred years of pill refining.
• Li Qingyuan and Er Yuan refined more pills over the next ten years, then Li Qingyuan distributed them among his family, disciples, and the Mahayana elders he considered worth nurturing.
• Li Changsheng introduced Kong Huan and Mu Yue as his two partners; Miao Le welcomed them and passed Kong Huan a family heirloom, while Li Qingyuan told everyone to let the younger generation follow its own plans.
• Li Qingyuan warned everyone to improve their cultivation before Opening the Immortal Path and promised to provide more pills when they ran out.
• Li Qingyuan wondered what Opening the Immortal Path entailed, then used the Sentient Jade, the two Thunder Emperor's Bones, and a ninth-tier pill to begin cultivating in seclusion.

During Li Qingyuan’s seclusion, his family and allies made major breakthroughs while he strengthened his body, laws, and treasures. After swallowing a Fifth Revolution Golden Core, he witnessed Old Zhao and Diana become Grotto-Heaven Immortal Venerables, completing the Immortal Venerable dream team he had nurtured.

• Li Changsheng reached the Mahayana peak and prepared to use a Fifth Revolution Golden Core to advance his Nine Revolutions Profound Technique.
• Ji Kun became a Grotto-Heaven Immortal Venerable, and Dong Jun awakened third-generation Golden Crow bloodline and broke through as well.
• At fifty thousand years old, Li Qingyuan entered the flesh grotto-heaven stage, fused it with his Law Power grotto-heaven, and refined his Green Wood Heavenly Sun Sword with true blood.
• Li Qingyuan continued cultivating, accumulated more true blood, and swallowed a masterwork-quality Fifth Revolution Golden Core to advance his Profound Technique.
• Old Zhao and Diana broke through the Mahayana peak and became Grotto-Heaven Immortal Venerables, giving Li Qingyuan the Immortal Venerable dream team he had cultivated.

Li Qingyuan spent ten thousand years cultivating until his two Nascent Souls each held one hundred drops of True Blood, bringing his power close to the Immortal Domain Realm. When Wu Mengzi advanced to the Fusion of Treasures Realm, he discovered that Li Qingyuan possessed two hundred drops of True Blood, astonishing him as a miracle of the Deterioration Era.

• Diana awakened her bloodline and reached Grotto-Heaven Immortal Venerable, while the Mahayana Heavenly Corps began advancing toward Immortal Venerable strength.
• Li Qingyuan cultivated through ten thousand years of seclusion, raising the True Blood in both his Jia Wood Nascent Soul and Wind Thunder Nascent Soul to one hundred drops each.
• Li Qingyuan blood-refined the Green Wood Heavenly Sun Sword until it rivaled the lifebound Law Treasure of an Immortal Domain Realm powerhouse, while exhausting most of his cultivation resources.
• Wu Mengzi fused his lifebound Law Treasure with his Immortal Venerable Grotto-heaven and advanced to the Fusion of Treasures Realm.
• Wu Mengzi questioned Li Qingyuan's cultivation, and Li Qingyuan revealed his two hundred drops of True Blood, shocking his master.

Li Qingyuan drank Zixiao’s wine, fell asleep, and entered a shared dream with her. He awoke amid a battle in the Investiture of the Gods Realm, where he killed a Kui Ox descendant before facing a golden-armored enemy who condemned his Fallen Immortal Bloodline.

• Li Qingyuan sensed erosion within the Heaven and Earth Great Dao and decided to break through to the Fusion of Treasures Realm.
• Zixiao summoned Li Qingyuan to her hidden immortal abode and invited him to drink Dreams of Old, Battles of Sorrow.
• The wine sent Li Qingyuan to sleep as his Great Dream Heart Sutra surged, and Zixiao used the sutra to enter a shared dream with him.
• Li Qingyuan awoke under attack, killed a Kui Ox descendant with a sword strike, and watched a Grotto-Heaven Immortal Venerable die in battle.
• A golden-armored enemy attacked Li Qingyuan with a spear and declared that those of the Fallen Immortal Bloodline must be killed without mercy; Li Qingyuan wondered where he was.

Li Qingyuan arrived on the Immortal Path battlefield, defeated and killed the golden-armored Immortal Venerable, and learned that the Investiture of the Gods Realm hunted fallen immortal bloodlines. As Immortal Venerables surrounded him, he unleashed a vast sword array against two attackers, who recognized his strength and tried to retreat.

• Li Qingyuan used the Green Wood Heavenly Sun Sword to shatter the golden-armored Immortal Venerable's Dharma Idol, then seized and subdued him with thunder and wind laws.
• Li Qingyuan killed the golden-armored Immortal Venerable, searched his soul, and learned that the Investiture of the Gods Realm blocked ascension and persecuted fallen immortal bloodlines.
• Li Qingyuan discovered that Purple Cloud Fairy was missing and saw that his side faced overwhelming enemy numbers on both the Immortal Venerable and Mahayana Dao Venerable battlefields.
• Two blood refinement realm Immortal Venerables attacked Li Qingyuan and demanded the golden-armored Immortal Venerable's Nascent Soul, which contained fifty drops of True Blood.
• Li Qingyuan summoned twenty-eight Blood Divine Son Avatars and activated the Earth Marsh Sword Array with his flying swords, forcing the two Immortal Venerables to retreat.

Li Qingyuan used the Earth Marsh Sword Array to kill Demon Dragon Immortal Venerable and Sword-Wielding Immortal Venerable, but their True Immortal master arrived and overwhelmed him. To prevent the True Immortal from searching his soul, Li Qingyuan self-destructed, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Li Qingyuan trapped Demon Dragon Immortal Venerable and Sword-Wielding Immortal Venerable in the Earth Marsh Sword Array, and their attempts to escape failed.
• Demon Dragon Immortal Venerable sent a Jade Slip through the array to summon his master, while Li Qingyuan attacked the two Immortal Venerables.
• Li Qingyuan's sword formation destroyed both Immortal Venerables and claimed their storage bags.
• A True Immortal Mid Stage cultivator arrived, crushed the sword formation, and used his domain to immobilize and injure Li Qingyuan.
• As the True Immortal reached to search his soul, Li Qingyuan detonated his true blood, Nascent Souls, Primordial Spirit, and body, shattering the core of the True Immortal Domain.

Li Qingyuan woke from Zixiao’s dream of the Immortal Path Battlefield and learned about her four failed attempts to open the Immortal Path. Zixiao offered to train him for the next war, hoping to raise his cultivation to the Immortal Domain Realm.

• Li Qingyuan woke in Zixiao’s cave abode in agony after experiencing a battle with a True Immortal in her dream.
• Zixiao explained that the battlefield was real, described her four failed Immortal Path Wars, and revealed that Yang Nie had fought in the most recent one.
• Zixiao said the next attempt had a thirty-percent chance of success and that Yuji could hold on for another ten thousand years.
• Zixiao offered to help Li Qingyuan reach the Immortal Domain Realm by letting him repeatedly enter the Immortal Path Battlefield in dreams.
• Zixiao gave Li Qingyuan a rare immortal brew to advance his cultivation, and Li Qingyuan promised not to disappoint her.

Li Qingyuan cultivated with the Three Lights Five-Revolution Immortal Brew and broke through to the Fusion of Treasures Realm, condensing 260 drops of Nascent Soul True Blood and greatly increasing his strength. As he arrived before the Purple Cloud Fairy to thank her, heavenly phenomena revealed that an Immortal Domain Realm cultivator had died.

• Li Qingyuan told Miao Le, Luo Ling, Bing Ling'er, Li Xianhuang, and Li Changsheng that the Immortal Path would open within ten thousand years, then shared the Three Lights Immortal Brew with them.
• Li Qingyuan added two Fifth Revolution Golden Cores to the brew and consumed it, using its power to advance his cultivation and condense more Nascent Soul True Blood.
• After a thousand years of seclusion, Li Qingyuan fused his Immortal Venerable Grotto-heaven with the Green Wood Heavenly Sun Sword and broke through to the Fusion of Treasures Realm.
• Li Qingyuan reached 260 drops of Nascent Soul True Blood and strengthened his Primordial Spirit, Dharma Body, cultivation, sword, and Nine Revolutions Profound Technique.
• The Purple Cloud Fairy congratulated Li Qingyuan, but the Great Dao wailed and she recognized the signs of an Immortal Domain Realm cultivator's death.