Chapter Summaries

Yang Cang, Yang Yan, and Yang Tai activated the Yang Clan's ancient altar formation and sacrificed their lives to strengthen Yang Jian. Yang Jian reached the Immortal Domain Realm as a Divine Venerable, and the Yang Clan hailed him.

• Yang Jian arrived at the ancestral altar, where Yang Cang revealed the clan's reserve and asked how many drops of Nascent Soul True Blood he had condensed.
• Yang Cang, Yang Yan, and Yang Tai bound Yang Jian in the altar formation and began sacrificing their origins to him.
• The formation raised Yang Jian's Nascent Soul True Blood to 230 drops, surpassing what the ancestors believed Li Qingyuan possessed.
• Yang Cang, Yang Yan, and Yang Tai gave their remaining power to the formation and perished, urging Yang Jian to attain True Immortality and uphold the Yang Clan.
• Yang Jian broke through to the Immortal Domain Realm, opened a True Immortal Domain, and was greeted as a Divine Venerable by the Yang Clan.

In a dream created by Zixiao’s Great Dream Heart Sutra, Li Qingyuan charged into the battle on the Immortal Path and slaughtered the Investiture of the Gods Realm’s cultivators. After killing more than thirty Immortal Venerables, he drew the attention of two Immortal Domain Realm powerhouses, including a saber-wielding man who attacked him.

• Zixiao used the Great Dream Heart Sutra and immortal wine to bring Li Qingyuan into a dream of the Immortal Path.
• Investiture of the Gods Realm cultivators overwhelmed the Dharma-ending Cultivators, while Li Qingyuan joined the battle with the Green Wood Heavenly Sun Sword.
• Li Qingyuan burned a Fusion of Treasures Realm old woman to death after his Southern Bright Divine Fire devoured her Netherworld Bone Fire.
• Li Qingyuan unleashed his thunder abilities, Blood Divine Son Avatars, and Earth Marsh Sword Array to kill more than thirty enemy Immortal Venerables and rally his allies.
• Two Immortal Domain Realm cultivators charged Li Qingyuan, and the saber-wielding man swept at him with his Heavenly Will Divine Saber.

Li Qingyuan fought Heavenly Saber Immortal Venerable and Shui Qinghan in a dream, killing Shui Qinghan and later dying after defeating two more Immortal Domain Realm cultivators. He awoke beside Zixiao, recovered for a hundred years, and then entered another dream with her to continue cultivating.

• Heavenly Saber Immortal Venerable and Shui Qinghan joined forces against Li Qingyuan, who unleashed his true-blood power and battled them despite being outnumbered.
• Li Qingyuan grievously wounded both opponents, pursued and killed Shui Qinghan as the others fled, then fought three Immortal Domain Realm cultivators who ambushed him.
• Li Qingyuan killed Heavenly Saber Immortal Venerable and another attacker, but died from exhaustion as the last enemy escaped gravely wounded.
• Li Qingyuan awoke from the dream, and Zixiao explained that she had witnessed his battle while fighting on a separate True Immortal battlefield.
• Zixiao told Li Qingyuan to recover and study the battle for a hundred years; afterward, they drank Drunk Life Dream Death and entered another dream to cultivate.

Li Qingyuan repeatedly trained in Purple Cloud Fairy’s dream battles while she taught him the principles and cultivation stages of the True Immortal path. He learned how principles shape immortal domains and how immortal apertures lead toward the Immortal King Realm, leaving him stunned by the path’s difficulty.

• Li Qingyuan lost another dream battle after exhausting his Law Power and combat potential, and Zixiao praised his progress before telling him to recover.
• Li Qingyuan refined Three Lights Immortal Brew as Zixiao explained that it raised her confidence in his eventual breakthrough to the Immortal Domain Realm to seventy percent.
• Li Qingyuan continued a century-long cycle of dream battles, cultivation, and instruction, steadily tempering his Law Power and body.
• Zixiao taught Li Qingyuan that True Immortals use principles to transform their power, form immortal domains, and cultivate true spirits capable of reincarnation.
• Zixiao described supreme, high-tier, and ordinary principles, explaining that controlling even one principle could establish an immortal domain, though stronger principles strengthened its foundation.
• Zixiao explained that True Immortals cultivate immortal apertures, outlining the aperture requirements for the True Immortal, Heavenly Immortal, Golden Immortal, and Immortal King realms, and Li Qingyuan was shaken by the difficulty of the path.

Zixiao explained the path from True Immortal to Heavenly Immortal and advised Li Qingyuan to discover his own Principle through battle rather than choose one by reputation. After thousands of years of dream battles and cultivation, Li Qingyuan reached Fusion of Treasures Realm Perfection, with only the comprehension of a Principle left before the Immortal Domain Realm.

• Zixiao explained that True Immortals could reincarnate through nine lives to accumulate cultivation, but further reincarnations would gradually strip away their advantages.
• Zixiao described how True Immortals connected their thirty-six Immortal Apertures into a unified whole to break through into the Heavenly Immortal Realm, a feat achieved by only one in a thousand True Immortals.
• Li Qingyuan began secluded cultivation, refining pills and Immortal Brew while struggling to choose among the many Principles he could comprehend.
• Zixiao told Li Qingyuan to find the Principle best suited to him through endless battle and self-discovery, and explained that First Yuji had been chosen for the Primordial Immortal Embryo because he had forged his own path.
• Li Qingyuan devoted himself to dream battles, repeatedly fighting to the death and cultivating in seclusion between battles over thousands of years.
• Li Qingyuan refined more than half of his Immortal Brew and Nine-Revolution Golden Cores and reached Fusion of Treasures Realm Perfection, needing only to comprehend the Power of Principle to enter the Immortal Domain Realm.

After ten thousand years of cultivation and combat, Li Qingyuan remained just short of breaking through to the Immortal Domain Realm, so he surveyed the strength of his allies across Cangxuan Heaven before returning to Zixiao. They discussed the final battle to open the Immortal Path, then drank Drunk Life Dream Death and entered a dream that placed Li Qingyuan on the Immortal Path Battlefield.

• Li Qingyuan ended his cultivation when he could not overcome the final barrier to the Immortal Domain Realm.
• As he traveled across Cangxuan Heaven, Li Qingyuan saw that his family, disciples, and allies had grown stronger, with many reaching the Fusion of Treasures Realm or approaching it.
• Li Qingyuan returned to the Cangxuan Sect and told Zixiao that the peace was the calm before a bloody storm.
• Zixiao explained that this was the Immortal Dao’s ninth and final counterattack, and that failure to open the Immortal Path would eventually end cultivation throughout Heaven and Earth.
• Li Qingyuan and Zixiao drank the remaining Drunk Life Dream Death and entered a dream together.
• Li Qingyuan awoke on the Immortal Path Battlefield, raised his sword, and roared, "Kill!"

Li Qingyuan broke through the Immortal Venerable battlefield with his sword array and reached Zixiao as she faced a group of True Immortals. When a True Immortal attacked him with a domain, he was drawn into the fight.

• Li Qingyuan summoned 138 Blood Divine Son Avatars and formed the Earth Marsh Sword Domain with his swords.
• Li Qingyuan’s sword strike devastated the Investiture of the Gods Realm cultivators, and he crushed an Immortal Domain Realm opponent’s Law Treasure before killing him.
• Li Qingyuan fought his way into the True Immortal battlefield, where three True Immortals were besieging Zixiao and five others watched.
• The Passionate Immortal Venerable attacked Zixiao and threatened to claim her, but she resisted with her dream butterflies and time-and-space laws.
• Li Qingyuan reached Zixiao and announced his arrival, then an early-stage True Immortal enveloped him in her Harmonious Bliss domain.

Li Qingyuan and Zixiao fought overwhelming groups of True Immortals as the Hehuan True Immortal tried to subdue him and the Passionate Immortal Venerable’s allies attacked her. Li Qingyuan unleashed the Reincarnation Principle, shocking the True Immortals and turning the battle’s balance into question.

• The Hehuan True Immortal trapped Li Qingyuan in her Hehuan Immortal Domain, but he shattered her illusion with the Jianmu Meditation Method and resisted her domain with his Earth Marsh Sword Domain.
• The Passionate Immortal Venerable ordered four True Immortals to capture Zixiao, who fought them with the Great Dream Heart Sutra and fell into a disadvantage.
• Li Qingyuan strengthened his defenses with the Slaughter Dao Blood Divine Scripture and Thunder God Indestructible Body, but his domains still struggled against the Hehuan True Immortal.
• Li Qingyuan activated the Imperial Ultimate Scripture Book and revealed the Reincarnation Principle, causing the True Immortals to recognize one of the Three Supreme Laws.

Li Qingyuan revealed a trace of the reincarnation principle, alarming the eight True Immortals and marking him as a potential Immortal King. As two early-stage True Immortals crushed his domains, he used the Great Dream Heart Sutra to endure and fused more than a dozen law domains through the Earth Marsh Sword Array, unleashing power near the True Immortal level as his enemies prepared to kill him.

• Li Qingyuan released a faint trace of the reincarnation principle, and the eight True Immortals recognized his potential to become an Immortal King.
• Hehuan True Immortal vowed to capture Li Qingyuan and refine his primal Yang essence, while a water-law True Immortal joined her attack.
• The two women’s overlapping domains shattered or suppressed Li Qingyuan’s cultivation domains, leaving him injured but unafraid.
• Li Qingyuan used the Great Dream Heart Sutra to make his body illusory and deflect some of the True Immortals’ pressure.
• Li Qingyuan summoned more than a dozen law domains and merged them into the Earth Marsh Sword Domain, producing power that approached a True Immortal’s.
• Hehuan True Immortal ordered Li Qingyuan killed so they could refine his essence and True Blood into a blood pill.

Under the crushing assault of two True Immortals, Li Qingyuan forged the Jianmu Divine Tree and broke through into the Immortal Domain Realm. The True Immortals, alarmed by his new power, launched another desperate attack.

• Hehuan True Immortal and the female Water Law cultivator unleashed their bonded Law Treasures and True Immortal Domains, shattering Li Qingyuan’s Law Domains and badly injuring him.
• Li Qingyuan refused to yield and used Dao Rhyme to gather his principles, then burned his body and Divine Soul to forge the Jianmu Divine Tree.
• The Jianmu Divine Tree grew within Li Qingyuan’s Grotto-heaven World, and he declared his path to be the Jianmu Dao, which bore and governed myriad principles.
• Li Qingyuan broke through the Fusion of Treasures Realm into the Immortal Domain Realm, terrifying the two True Immortals.
• Hehuan True Immortal and the female Water Law cultivator attacked Li Qingyuan with their full power to kill him.

Li Qingyuan’s Jianmu Divine Tree overwhelmed the domains of Hehuan True Immortal and Azure Waves Immortal Venerable, even as Tieqing Fairy joined the battle. While Purple Cloud Fairy and her clones bought him time, Jianmu elevated the Green Wood Heavenly Sun Sword into a true immortal artifact, and Li Qingyuan unleashed Jianmu Divine Tree Slash.

• Hehuan True Immortal and Azure Waves Immortal Venerable attacked Li Qingyuan with their killing moves, but his Jianmu Divine Tree expanded and shattered their True Immortal domains.
• Jianmu rooted itself in the two domains and drained their law power, leaving the two female immortals terrified and calling for Tieqing Fairy.
• Tieqing Fairy attacked Li Qingyuan with her mid-stage True Immortal domain, while Purple Cloud Fairy used her dream principle to summon thirty-two clones and shield his cultivation.
• Passionate Immortal Venerable struck Purple Cloud Fairy, and three of her clones detonated themselves to hold Tieqing Fairy back.
• Jianmu poured its principles into Li Qingyuan’s Green Wood Heavenly Sun Sword, elevating it into a true immortal artifact, and Li Qingyuan unleashed Jianmu Divine Tree Slash.

Li Qingyuan killed Hehuan True Immortal and Canglang Fairy with the Jianmu Divine Tree Slash, then sacrificed himself and the World Tree sapling to destroy Tieqing Fairy. The surviving True Immortals believed Li Qingyuan was dead and feared the threat he would have posed in the Investiture of the Gods Realm.

• Li Qingyuan used the Jianmu Divine Tree Slash to destroy Hehuan True Immortal's defenses and annihilate her body and true spirit.
• Li Qingyuan caught the fleeing Canglang Fairy, whose self-detonation engulfed him and the Jianmu Divine Tree sapling.
• Li Qingyuan emerged badly wounded, and Tieqing Fairy attacked him while demanding his Soul Blood.
• Li Qingyuan seized Tieqing Fairy's hand and self-detonated his body, Law Power, True Blood, and World Tree sapling, killing her through the blast and Heavenly Dao backlash.
• Passionate Immortal Venerable and the other surviving True Immortals concluded Li Qingyuan was dead and feared the havoc he might have caused in the Investiture of the Gods Realm.

Purple Cloud Fairy sacrificed herself to destroy Duoqing True Immortal and the other four True Immortals, then returned to the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths as a butterfly. Li Qingyuan comprehended the Great Dao and began his breakthrough, declaring that he had attained the Immortal Domain Realm.

• Purple Cloud Fairy activated her self-detonation secret technique and annihilated Duoqing True Immortal and the other four True Immortals, completing the defeat of all eight attackers.
• A butterfly emerged from the destruction and returned to the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
• In the Real World, Purple Cloud Fairy awoke injured and urged Li Qingyuan to seize the chance to comprehend the principles and enter the Immortal Domain Realm.
• Li Qingyuan returned to his cave abode and combined insights from his great dreams, battles with True Immortals, and the Jianmu Divine Tree.
• Great Dao phenomena spread across the myriad heavens as Li Qingyuan’s breakthrough began, and Purple Cloud Fairy realized his power of cause and effect had wounded her.
• The Jianmu Divine Tree absorbed the Heavenly Origin Spirit Vein’s power as Li Qingyuan declared that he had attained the Dao of the Immortal Domain Realm.

Li Qingyuan’s Jianmu Divine Tree stabilized the laws of the Deterioration Era, advanced his cultivation, and bought the Myriad Heavens and Myriad Domains another ten thousand years to prepare for war. After planting the tree in his Grotto-Heaven Small World, he discovered that the Purple Stone had carried the cultivation method for the Haotian Nine Dragon True Qi Art.

• Li Qingyuan became one with the Jianmu Divine Tree, broke through to the early True Immortal stage, and transformed the Green Wood Heavenly Sun Sword into an immortal artifact, though his flesh and Law Power remained restricted.
• Dongfang Lei and Yang Jian reacted to Li Qingyuan’s breakthrough, while the Jianmu Divine Tree’s influence loosened the Great Dao’s shackles on First Yuji and gave him another ten thousand years.
• First Yuji ordered the Myriad Heavens and Myriad Domains to prepare for war and help him open the Immortal Path in ten thousand years.
• Li Qingyuan planted the Jianmu Divine Tree in his Grotto-Heaven Small World, where its Dao Rhyme aided cultivators across the Azure Profound Heaven Domain and the Azure Profound Immortal Sect.
• The Purple Stone in the Mysterious Feminine Space flew into Li Qingyuan’s hand, exploded into purple Qi, and transferred the Haotian Nine Dragon True Qi Art into him.

Li Qingyuan cultivated the first level of the Haotian Nine Dragon True Qi Art, manifesting a Purple Dragon that awed the Azure Profound Heaven Domain. He then fed the Sentient Jade to the Mysterious Feminine Space, which expanded dramatically and continued to grow.

• Li Qingyuan released a primordial Purple Dragon that coiled around the Jianmu Divine Tree, forcing nearly every living being in the Azure Profound Heaven Domain to kneel in worship.
• Purple Cloud Fairy recognized the display as Haotian Great Emperor's inheritance and estimated that their chances of success in Opening the Immortal Path had reached fifty percent.
• Li Qingyuan explained that he had cultivated the first level of the Haotian Nine Dragon True Qi Art, gaining Purple Dragon True Qi that could defend, attack, and heal him.
• Li Qingyuan offered the Sentient Jade to the Mysterious Feminine Space, whose will swallowed it and released its power of creation throughout the space.
• The Mysterious Feminine Space expanded beyond a hundred thousand zhang, while its spirit plants flourished and the nine yang divine ganoderma began growing an immortal-grade ninth leaf.

The Mysterious Feminine Space evolved into a vast world, allowing the Nine Yang Divine Ganoderma to mature. Li Qingyuan rewarded Yang Xiaohe with its creation origin, restoring her Five-colored Lotus Lamp and raising her cultivation to Mahayana peak before he stopped her advancement toward becoming a True Immortal.

• The Mysterious Feminine Space expanded to a radius of three hundred and thirteen thousand zhang, and its spirit vein neared transformation into a Heavenly Origin Spirit Vein.
• Li Qingyuan discovered that the Nine Yang Divine Ganoderma had matured and said its potency would let his Green Wood Heavenly Sun Sword evolve again.
• Li Qingyuan thanked Yang Xiaohe for tending the ganoderma and infused her with the Mysterious Feminine Space's creation origin.
• Yang Xiaohe broke through to Mahayana Dao Venerable and then Mahayana peak as her Five-colored Lotus Lamp's origin and Dao patterns repaired themselves.
• Li Qingyuan stopped supplying creation origin before Yang Xiaohe could advance to Immortal Venerable, and she protested that she wanted to become a True Immortal.

Li Qingyuan explained that the newly transformed Immortal-Grade Mysterious Feminine Space could nurture the Female Immortal Corpse, so he delayed restoring Yang Xiaohe to True Immortal. After reaching the Immortal Domain Realm, he was celebrated by the Azure Profound Immortal Sect and joined Miao Le in cultivation beneath the Jianmu Divine Tree.

• Yang Xiaohe recalled that Divine General Yang Nie had joined an Immortal Path expedition and never returned, then asked Li Qingyuan to help her reach True Immortal.
• Li Qingyuan showed Yang Xiaohe the Immortal-Grade Mysterious Feminine Space, where the Female Immortal Corpse was being nurtured by the strengthened laws and a supply of high-tier pills.
• The Female Immortal Corpse told Li Qingyuan she could fight True Immortals after ten thousand years of nurturing, and he promised to help Yang Xiaohe return to True Immortal after that.
• Li Qingyuan left the space and received congratulations from his family, Ji Kun, Dong Jun, and tens of thousands of Azure Profound Immortal Sect cultivators.
• Li Qingyuan urged the sect to cultivate for the Immortal Path opening ten thousand years later, then stayed with Miao Le to practice Unification of Mind and Spirit.
• The Jianmu Divine Tree and Taiyi Vine intertwined as Miao Le experienced the might of the Immortal Domain Realm.

Li Qingyuan helped Miao Le comprehend the Power of Principle through eight thousand years of paired cultivation, and she broke through into the Immortal Domain Realm. Luo Ling also entered the Immortal Domain Realm after merging with the Spirit of Luo River, leaving the three cultivators together in celebration.

• Li Qingyuan and Miao Le cultivated together as their Jia Wood and Yi Wood Dao Rhymes resonated through the Jianmu Divine Tree.
• Li Qingyuan shared his knowledge with Miao Le and helped her study the principles flowing through the Jianmu Divine Tree and Taiyi Vine.
• After eight thousand years, Miao Le broke through the Fusion of Treasures Realm and declared that she had entered the Immortal Domain Realm.
• Luo Ling merged with the Spirit of Luo River, refined it with the Luoshen Sword, and entered the Immortal Domain Realm with a True Immortal Primordial Spirit.
• Miao Le and Luo Ling congratulated each other, and Li Qingyuan expressed his happiness at being with his wives.

Miao Le and Luo Ling entered the Immortal Domain Realm, and Li Qingyuan shared his grim experience of the Immortal Path and the power awaiting them in the Investiture of the Gods Realm. With the coming battle two thousand years away, First Yuji began preparing the Myriad Heavens and Myriad Domains for war, while Li Qingyuan hinted that he still had two trump cards.

• Miao Le and Luo Ling entered the Immortal Domain Realm, producing vast celestial phenomena and displaying power that might let them contend with True Immortals.
• Li Qingyuan shared his ten thousand years of cultivation and the deadly history of earlier attempts to open the Immortal Path, revealing the formidable powers of the Investiture of the Gods Realm.
• Li Qingyuan told Miao Le and Luo Ling that he still had two unused trump cards and believed victory might be possible.
• First Yuji announced intensive training for the coming battle and summoned the Myriad Heavens and Myriad Domains to hone their forces against True Immortals.
• Immortal Venerables from across the domains gathered at the Origin Immortal Realm, while the Four Great Powers’ artisans and alchemists produced materials and weapons for war.
• Li Qingyuan sent Miao Le and Luo Ling to train against First Yuji and reaffirmed his resolve to open the Immortal Path and reach the Investiture of the Gods.

After two thousand years of preparation, the Four Great Powers gathered their cultivators in the Origin Immortal Realm to begin their campaign to open the Immortal Path. First Yuji executed more than a hundred traitors and rallied the united army, which set out swearing not to return until the path was opened.

• The Four Great Powers completed two thousand years of training and assembled their cultivators, including one True Immortal, twelve Immortal Domain Realm cultivators, thirty-three Fusion of Treasures Realm cultivators, 152 ordinary Immortal Venerables, and more than 43,000 Mahayana Dao Venerables.
• Six-Eared Immortal Venerable exposed more than a hundred Mahayana Dao Venerables who had planned to stay behind and seize the powers' resources.
• First Yuji declared the conspirators traitors, and they were killed by his power.
• Dongfang Lei raised the Four Great Alliances Army Banner as First Yuji vowed to lead the campaign and explained the consequences of defeat.
• The cultivators shouted that they could not retreat and that they would share their robes, then set out together for the Immortal Path.