Chapter Summaries

Li Qingyuan learned that the Mysterious Feminine Space had been refined by the Ten Ultimate Immortal and Purple Cloud Fairy’s master, a being who nearly transcended the Eternal Immortal Emperor realm. The Ten Ultimate Immortal revealed that he had left decrees concerning the space’s destined person, and Li Qingyuan asked how to awaken his final Will Imprint.

• Zhao Guangzheng valued the sect-founding gifts at no less than eighty thousand Immortal Crystals, and the sect’s higher-ups distributed the resources according to contribution and need.
• The Ten Ultimate Immortal summoned Li Qingyuan to her Han Jue Grotto-Heaven, where the Purple Cloud Fairy was also waiting.
• The Ten Ultimate Immortal told Li Qingyuan she had shared the secret of the Mysterious Feminine Space with the Purple Cloud Fairy.
• The Purple Cloud Fairy revealed that their master had personally refined the Mysterious Feminine Space and had nearly transcended the Eternal Immortal Emperor realm before entering eternal extinction.
• The Ten Ultimate Immortal explained that their master had decreed they should help the space’s destined person and, when the time was ripe, activate its core to awaken his final Will Imprint.
• Li Qingyuan asked how he could activate the Will Imprint.

Li Qingyuan learned that the Mysterious Feminine Space’s hidden will imprint required at least Golden Immortal cultivation to activate, then duplicated resources for the seniors, his companions, and his followers. He began seclusion in his fourth-grade Immortal Vein cave abode, where a Three-Aperture Immortal Pill started forming his first Immortal Aperture.

• The Ten Ultimate Immortal and the Purple Cloud Fairy told Li Qingyuan that he needed at least Golden Immortal cultivation, and possibly Immortal King cultivation, to activate their Masters’ will imprint in the Mysterious Feminine Space.
• Zixiao proposed erasing the memories of everyone who knew about the space except Miao Le, Luo Ling, Ji Kun, and Er Yuan, and the Purple Cloud Fairy agreed to use the Great Dream Heart Sutra.
• Li Qingyuan duplicated the resources the two seniors gave him, returned the originals and copies to them, and watched them prepare to cultivate in seclusion.
• Li Qingyuan duplicated resources for Miao Le, Luo Ling, Ji Kun, and his other followers before returning to his own cave abode to begin seclusion.
• Li Qingyuan swallowed a Three-Aperture Immortal Pill and used his cultivation arts to refine it until his first Immortal Aperture began to take shape.

Li Qingyuan used a Three-Aperture Immortal Pill and abundant resources to condense three Immortal Apertures over 180 years, strengthening his True Immortal Small World and raising his combat power. As he and his wives continued cultivating in seclusion, Second Junlin underwent a True Immortal lightning tribulation and became an immortal.

• Li Qingyuan slowly refined the Three-Aperture Immortal Pill and condensed the Shanzhong Immortal Aperture, whose star tempered his True Immortal Small World.
• Li Qingyuan condensed two more Immortal Apertures over the next 120 years, forming three Immortal Aperture Stars and boosting his combat strength.
• Li Qingyuan, Miao Le, and Luo Ling continued cultivating with Immortal Pills, Immortal Crystals, and the fourth-grade immortal vein.
• After five hundred years of secluded cultivation, Second Junlin faced his True Immortal lightning tribulation and announced that he had become an immortal.

Second Junlin survived his true immortal tribulation and entered seclusion, while cultivators of the Creation Immortal Sect became immortals over the following millennia. After thirty thousand years of cultivation, Li Qingyuan opened all twelve immortal apertures and reached true immortal early stage perfection.

• Second Junlin survived his lightning tribulation, awakened the Immortal King's inheritance in his bloodline, and entered seclusion to open immortal apertures.
• Gu Taxian and Liu Meili underwent their true immortal tribulations together and entered the True Immortal Realm.
• Silver Demon God, Diana, Bing Ling'er, Wu Mengzi, Zhao Lingwang, and Zhao Guangzheng became true immortals over the following twenty thousand years.
• Li Xianhuang survived her tribulation and became a true immortal, while Li Qingyuan and Luo Ling sensed her breakthrough from seclusion.
• Ao Yuan underwent his true immortal tribulation, became a true dragon, and brought the Creation Immortal Sect's total to twenty-one true immortals.
• After thirty thousand years in seclusion, Li Qingyuan opened all twelve immortal apertures and reached true immortal early stage perfection.

After exhausting his resources, Li Qingyuan left seclusion at true immortal early stage perfection, still short of the resources needed to break through. Bing Ling'er visited with her immortal-grade Nine Yin Ultimate Body and revealed its final inheritance, the Heavenly Desire Great Method, before they began dual cultivation.

• Li Qingyuan reflected that he had opened twelve immortal apertures but lacked the resources to condense an immortal wheel and reach the true immortal mid stage.
• Bing Ling'er arrived at Li Qingyuan's cave abode and congratulated him on his cultivation progress.
• Li Qingyuan noted that Bing Ling'er had reached the true immortal realm and opened four immortal apertures.
• Bing Ling'er explained that her Nine Yin Ultimate Body had entered the immortal grade and that she had mastered the Heavenly Desire Great Method.
• Li Qingyuan activated the cave abode's formations, and he and Bing Ling'er began dual cultivation.

After a hundred years of dual cultivation with Bing Ling'er, Li Qingyuan saw his cultivation improve while she attempted to open her fifth immortal aperture. Miao Le then emerged from seclusion at true immortal early stage perfection, and she and Li Qingyuan began dual cultivation using their Fivefold Unity method.

• Li Qingyuan completed a hundred years of dual cultivation with Bing Ling'er, strengthening his immortal apertures and helping her build power toward opening her fifth aperture.
• Li Qingyuan reflected on Bing Ling'er's inheritance from the Great North Cold Immortal and believed she could eventually reach heavenly immortal peak stage.
• Miao Le emerged from thirty thousand years of seclusion with all twelve immortal apertures open and reached true immortal early stage perfection.
• Li Qingyuan welcomed Miao Le, and they agreed that dual cultivation could help them advance after reaching the limits of their current cultivation.
• Li Qingyuan and Miao Le practiced Fivefold Unity, causing their immortal apertures, Longevity Immortal Seeds, Principles, and true immortal small worlds to resonate.

After Li Qingyuan and Miao Le spent a century cultivating together, Miao Le reached the limit of the True Immortal Early Stage. Luo Ling also perfected that stage, and Li Qingyuan began a hundred years of dual cultivation with her, drawing on their complementary water and wood Principles.

• Li Qingyuan and Miao Le completed a hundred years of dual cultivation, bringing Li Qingyuan close to the True Immortal Mid Stage bottleneck.
• Luo Ling manifested her Luoshen Dharma Body and perfected the True Immortal Early Stage.
• Miao Le explained that her Jia Wood constitution made her cultivation with Li Qingyuan especially effective, while Luo Ling’s Luoshen bloodline could help her advance further.
• Li Qingyuan embraced Luo Ling and entered her bedchamber with her to practice the Luoshen clan’s dual cultivation art.
• After another hundred years, their water and wood Principles had nourished one another, and both cultivators’ Immortal Aperture stars shone more brightly.

After centuries of dual cultivation with Luo Ling and his other dao companions, Li Qingyuan strengthened his cultivation until his immortal apertures neared the formation of an immortal wheel. He then turned to improving his alchemy, and his Second Yuan Clone broke through to the True Immortal realm, giving him a partner for refining pills.

• Li Qingyuan gained the equivalent of six thousand years of arduous cultivation in three centuries with Luo Ling, strengthening his primordial spirit, body, and immortal apertures.
• Li Qingyuan continued dual cultivation with Miao Le, Luo Ling, and Bing Ling'er, but his supply of immortal crystals and pills ran out.
• After two thousand years of dual cultivation, Li Qingyuan had polished his twelve immortal apertures to their limits and expected to form an immortal wheel within ten thousand years.
• Li Qingyuan decided to improve his Alchemy Skill so he could turn the sect's spirit medicines into immortal pills.
• Li Qingyuan's Second Yuan Clone broke through to the True Immortal realm in both cultivation and physical refinement, and Li Qingyuan planned to refine pills with the clone to improve his chances of becoming a first-grade immortal pill alchemist.

Li Qingyuan gathered the Creation Immortal Sect’s alchemy inheritances and taught its leading alchemists by refining a First-Grade Immortal Pill. After a failed first attempt, he and Er Yuan succeeded on their second, leaving the sect celebrating its first Immortal-Grade alchemist.

• Li Qingyuan ordered the sect to bring him its alchemy arts, pill-refining methods, inheritances, and secret volumes, then invited Mahayana Elixir Masters to observe his work.
• Li Qingyuan and Er Yuan spent several months studying the sect’s Pill Dao Inheritances and explained the Water-Fire True Intention Pill to the gathered alchemists.
• Li Qingyuan and Er Yuan used earth vein Elixir Fire and Southern Bright Illusory Fire to refine the ingredients, but the first batch of pill embryos failed during condensation.
• Li Qingyuan and Er Yuan refined the Water-Fire True Intention Pill again, and two Immortal Pills emerged successfully.
• Yun Yan and the other observers marveled at the result as the Creation Immortal Sect cheered its new Immortal-Grade alchemist.

Li Qingyuan mastered all nine of the Creation Immortal Sect’s first-grade immortal pill formulas at premium grade and began refining the second-grade Dao Pivot Aperture Nurturing Pill. First Yuji broke through to the True Immortal mid stage and headed to Li Qingyuan’s residence, hoping to obtain the pill.

• Li Qingyuan and his Second Yuan Clone studied the Water-Fire Pill-Tempering Method and improved their alchemy through repeated practice.
• Over five years, Li Qingyuan and his Second Yuan Clone brought all nine first-grade immortal pill formulas possessed by the Creation Immortal Sect to premium grade.
• Li Qingyuan and his Second Yuan Clone began refining the second-grade Dao Pivot Aperture Nurturing Pill using the five elements law.
• First Yuji condensed an immortal wheel and advanced to the True Immortal mid stage.
• First Yuji went to the Qingyuan Immortal Mansion to see how far Li Qingyuan’s alchemy could go.

Li Qingyuan and the Second Yuan Clone successfully refined a Dao Pivot Aperture Nurturing Pill, making Li Qingyuan a second-grade immortal alchemist and strengthening the Creation Immortal Sect. Li Qingyuan then set his sights on refining the third-grade Six-Turn Golden Core.

• True Immortals and other sect members gathered to watch Li Qingyuan and the Second Yuan Clone attempt the difficult second-grade Dao Pivot Aperture Nurturing Pill.
• Li Qingyuan controlled the flames while the Second Yuan Clone adjusted the ingredients, refining the medicinal liquid with the Five Elements Pill Tempering Art.
• Li Qingyuan and the Second Yuan Clone condensed the pill, and a Dao Pivot Aperture Nurturing Pill emerged successfully on their first attempt.
• Li Qingyuan announced that he had become a second-grade immortal alchemist, and the Creation Immortal Sect celebrated the benefits his achievement would bring.
• Li Qingyuan declared that he would next refine the third-grade Six-Turn Golden Core to advance his cultivation and physical strength.

Li Qingyuan mastered three second-grade immortal pills, establishing himself as the foremost alchemist in the Thunderfire Burning the Firmament Domain. The two supreme elders emerged at the perfected late-stage true immortal realm, and the sect’s rising fortune triggered Li Qingyuan’s opportunity to break through to the true immortal mid stage.

• Li Qingyuan used the Mysterious Feminine Space to deepen his understanding of alchemy and rapidly improved his success refining the Dao Pivot Aperture Nurturing Pill.
• Li Qingyuan and Er Yuan refined batches of the Three Pure Ones Spirit-Nourishing Pill, eventually producing twenty-one pills, most of them standard grade or better.
• Li Qingyuan studied the Little Thunderfire True Spirit Pill and refined seven premium-grade pills from six sets of materials.
• Li Qingyuan concluded that his alchemy skills made him the foremost alchemist in the Thunderfire Burning the Firmament Domain.
• The white-robed and purple-robed supreme elders emerged from seclusion with perfected late-stage true immortal cultivation, astonishing the Creation Immortal Sect.
• Li Qingyuan felt his twelve immortal apertures stir as the sect’s fortune rose, then entered his cave abode to pursue a breakthrough to the true immortal mid stage.

Li Qingyuan seized an opportunity to break through and used three second-grade immortal pills to strengthen his spirit, body, and law power during seclusion. After a thousand years, he condensed his twelve immortal apertures into a Dharma wheel and entered the True Immortal Mid Stage, transforming in every respect.

• Li Qingyuan recognized his breakthrough opportunity and resolved to make his advancement certain by refining three premium second-grade immortal pills.
• Li Qingyuan refined the pills with his cultivation methods as heavenly phenomena stirred around the sect, and First Yuji sent the gathered cultivators back to their duties.
• The Ten Ultimate Immortal and the Purple Cloud Fairy realized that their breakthrough phenomena had helped bring about Li Qingyuan's opportunity and reflected on their deepening karma with him.
• After a thousand years in seclusion, Li Qingyuan linked his twelve immortal apertures into a complete Dharma wheel and entered the True Immortal Mid Stage.
• Li Qingyuan found that his immortal power had more than doubled and that the breakthrough had transformed him beyond his cultivation alone.

After reaching True Immortal Mid Stage and perfecting the early stage of his Six-Turn Profound Technique, Li Qingyuan launched a trade network to gather resources for Six-Turn Golden Cores. Ten years later, lacking the rare ingredients needed for more than one batch, he decided to venture beyond the Thunderfire Burning the Firmament Domain.

• Li Qingyuan advanced his Immortal Dao cultivation and Primordial Spirit to True Immortal Mid Stage, while his Six-Turn Profound Technique reached early-stage perfection.
• Li Qingyuan announced that the Creation Immortal Sect would trade his pills for cultivation resources, and the Ten Ultimate Immortal and Purple Cloud Fairy offered formations and immortal wines.
• First Yuji ordered sect cultivators to spread the news, and customers from across the Thunderfire Burning the Firmament Domain and beyond began trading with the sect.
• Over ten years, Li Qingyuan mastered eighteen first-grade pill types and seven second-grade types, refining each to premium quality.
• Li Qingyuan found that the sect had gathered materials for only one batch of Six-Turn Golden Cores and doubted he could make enough pills to advance.
• Li Qingyuan decided to leave the Thunderfire Burning the Firmament Domain to explore the Investiture of the Gods Great World and collect rare ingredients himself.

Li Qingyuan prepared to leave the Creation Immortal Sect with Ji Kun and Old Zhao, while the others stayed behind to cultivate and support the sect. After a century of learning artifact refining from Supreme Elder Ten Absolutes, he completed a True Immortal Sword Array and secretly departed for the Investiture of the Gods Great World with Yang Xiaohe, Ji Kun, and Old Zhao.

• Li Qingyuan chose Ji Kun and Old Zhao to accompany him on his tempering journey, leaving Little Flame, Miao Le, Luo Ling, Bing Ling'er, Diana, and his Second Yuan Clone behind.
• Zhao Guangzheng described his Slaughter Dao techniques and revealed that he was developing a way to make True Spirit Clones by devouring True Immortals' True Spirits.
• Li Qingyuan took Ji Kun and Old Zhao to visit Supreme Elder Ten Absolutes, who was skilled in artifact refining.
• After a hundred years of instruction from Ten Absolutes, Li Qingyuan completed the True Immortal Sword Array using 365 Heavenly Cycle Swords, 24 Solar Terms Flying Swords, and four Four Seasons Flying Swords.
• Li Qingyuan staged the appearance of secluded cultivation, then secretly left the Creation Immortal Sect with Yang Xiaohe, Ji Kun, and Old Zhao for the Investiture of the Gods Great World.

Li Qingyuan traveled to the eastern edge of the Twenty-Four Heavenly Domains of the Thunder Department and disguised himself as an ordinary Rogue Cultivator named Zhen Youde. After learning that the Jade Dragon Fox King was seeking a live-in son-in-law to protect Jade Dragon Mountain, Li Qingyuan joined other cultivators heading there.

• Li Qingyuan reflected on the vastness and diversity of the Investiture of the Gods Great World as he reached the Hurricane Vast Sea Domain.
• Li Qingyuan disguised himself as a True Immortal Early Stage Rogue Cultivator named Zhen Youde, while Ji Kun posed as a pet spirit bird.
• Li Qingyuan stopped Chen Dahai, Liu Ziguang, and Yu Yuanhui and gave them immortal crystals in exchange for information about their destination.
• Chen Dahai explained that the aging Jade Dragon Fox King was recruiting a live-in son-in-law to protect Jade Dragon Mountain and his Mahayana-stage daughter, the Jade-Faced Fairy.
• Li Qingyuan decided to join the search, and he flew with Chen Dahai, Liu Ziguang, and Yu Yuanhui toward Jade Dragon Mountain.

Li Qingyuan attended the Jade Dragon Mountain matrilocal marriage gathering with Chen Dahai and his sworn siblings, where the Jade Dragon Fox King announced his plans to recruit a son-in-law and a guard corps. After Fairy Jade Face appeared, Li Qingyuan felt the Mysterious Feminine Space begin craving something, leaving him intrigued by what he might find at Jade Dragon Mountain.

• Chen Dahai guided Li Qingyuan and his sworn siblings across Two Domains Mountain into the Western Cold Heavenly Snow Domain and toward Jade Dragon Mountain.
• Li Qingyuan overheard Liu Ziguang and the others discussing their plan to help Chen Dahai become Jade Dragon Mountain's son-in-law and gain access to its resources.
• Li Qingyuan surveyed the cultivators gathered at the Flying Immortal Cave Abode as the fox clan welcomed hundreds of guests to the marriage gathering.
• The Jade Dragon Fox King arrived, announced that he was recruiting a husband for his daughter and a hundred Tribulation Crossing cultivators for a guard corps, and introduced Fairy Jade Face.
• Fairy Jade Face greeted the guests and returned to her carriage, after which the Mysterious Feminine Space began craving something and Li Qingyuan suspected his visit to Jade Dragon Mountain had been worthwhile.

Li Qingyuan sensed that the Mysterious Feminine Space craved something connected to the Jade-Faced Fairy and decided to pretend to marry into Jade Dragon Mountain to obtain it. As the husband-selection gathering began, the Jade Dragon Fox King announced an age-based first test, and Liu Wuxiang stepped forward to take it.

• Li Qingyuan followed the Mysterious Feminine Space’s devouring pull to the Jade-Faced Fairy and decided that marrying into her family was worth the chance to help the space advance.
• Lu Ziyun and Lü Zhongyi argued over who should become the Jade Dragon Fox King’s son-in-law, then clashed with their true immortal powers before Liu Wuxiang told them the choice belonged to the Fox King and his daughter.
• The Jade Dragon Fox King suppressed the rivals and announced that the gathering would be fair and impartial.
• The Jade Dragon Fox King introduced an age-based first test that would eliminate older True Immortals, then presented a jade stele to measure cultivation years.
• Liu Wuxiang confidently volunteered to take the first test.

At the Jade Dragon Mountain husband-selection gathering, Li Qingyuan concealed his true age and earned a high potential score, drawing Liu Wuxiang’s hostile attention. Liu Wuxiang pushed for the combat assessment, where he believed his strength would give him the advantage, and the Jade Fox King considered his own plans.

• Liu Wuxiang, Lu Ziyun, and Lü Zhongyi tested their aptitude, with Liu Wuxiang scoring highest among the three mid-stage true immortals.
• Chen Dahai and Liu Ziguang took the test, while Li Qingyuan judged Liu Ziguang’s prospects to be limited.
• Li Qingyuan used Yang Xiaohe’s help to make the stele record his bone age as two hundred and thirty thousand years, earning praise from the Jade Fox King.
• The Jade Fox King awarded Li Qingyuan nine points and Liu Wuxiang eight, prompting Liu Wuxiang to regard Li Qingyuan with murderous intent before dismissing him as weak.
• Liu Wuxiang urged the Jade Fox King to begin the combat assessment, confident that his strength would prevail, while the Jade Fox King saw through his motives and weighed his own plans.

The Old Fox King tested the candidates for a live-in son-in-law by asking them to demonstrate their value to Jade Dragon Mountain. Li Qingyuan strengthened the cave’s formation into a third-grade formation, drove Liu Wuxiang away, and won the Old Fox King’s approval as his son-in-law.

• The Old Fox King explained that he wanted a son-in-law who could protect Jade Dragon Mountain’s legacy without taking over the fox clan’s inheritance.
• Liu Wuxiang, Lu Ziyun, and Lü Zhongyi displayed their strength, while four early-stage cultivators withdrew and a puppet master’s creation was dismissed as too weak.
• Li Qingyuan offered to study and improve Jade Dragon Mountain’s second-grade immortal formation, and the Old Fox King gave him the cave’s jade slip and materials.
• After months of work, Li Qingyuan upgraded the formation to third grade and used its jade dragon to injure Liu Wuxiang, who fled while swearing revenge.
• The Old Fox King praised Li Qingyuan and accepted him as a worthy son-in-law, and Li Qingyuan addressed him as his father-in-law.