Chapter Summaries

After Li Qingyuan won Jade Face’s hand, the Jade Fox King celebrated the match and strengthened Jade Dragon Mountain with new guards. Meanwhile, Liu Wuxiang vowed revenge, but Ji Kun attacked him on Li Qingyuan’s behalf and left him begging for mercy.

• The Jade Fox King congratulated Li Qingyuan, distributed gifts, and invited everyone to Jade Face and Zhen Youde’s future dual cultivation celebration.
• Lu Ziyun rejected his reward and left angrily, while Lü Zhongyi accepted his crystals and departed on friendly terms.
• Chen Dahai, Liu Ziguang, and Yu Xianhui congratulated Li Qingyuan after learning he was a third-grade immortal formation master.
• The Jade Fox King recruited a hundred Tribulation Crossing Stage cultivators as guards, then took Li Qingyuan to see the cave abode reserved for him and Jade Face.
• A wounded Liu Wuxiang vowed to return to Jade Dragon Mountain, but Ji Kun caught up with him and shattered his defenses with the Sky Swallowing Sphere.
• Liu Wuxiang begged Ji Kun for mercy, insisting he had never knowingly offended his boss.

Ji Kun killed and devoured Liu Wuxiang, then flew back toward Jade Dragon Mountain to refine his gains. At the Flying Immortal Cave, Li Qingyuan heard about the Jade Fox Mountain’s incomplete escape-art inheritance before the Jade-Faced Fairy abruptly refused to dual cultivate with him.

• Ji Kun revealed his true form and killed Liu Wuxiang with his Feather Blade Slash, then devoured his body and True Spirit.
• Ji Kun estimated that refining Liu Wuxiang would bring him close to the True Immortal Mid Stage and flew toward Jade Dragon Mountain.
• The Jade Fox King left Li Qingyuan and the Jade-Faced Fairy alone, saying he needed to refine pills.
• The Jade-Faced Fairy described the Jade Fox Mountain’s incomplete Heavenly Immortal-level Wind-Riding Mist-Escaping Art and explained how it had saved her father from powerful pursuers.
• When Li Qingyuan began asking about the escape art, the Jade-Faced Fairy bowed and told him she would not dual cultivate with him.

The Jade-Faced Fairy proposed a contractual marriage with Li Qingyuan, posing as Zhen Youde, so he would protect her and Jade Dragon Mountain while they remained dao companions in name only. They negotiated the terms and sealed a Blood Contract, leaving Li Qingyuan free to stay at Jade Dragon Mountain while pursuing his hidden objective.

• The Jade-Faced Fairy explained that she disliked Liu Wuxiang and feared he would seize Jade Dragon Mountain after her father's death.
• Li Qingyuan analyzed why the Jade Fox King had chosen a controllable formation master instead of the stronger Liu Wuxiang.
• The Jade-Faced Fairy proposed that Jade Dragon Mountain help Li Qingyuan reach the True Immortal mid stage in exchange for his protection for two hundred thousand years.
• Li Qingyuan countered with a term of one hundred and fifty thousand years, the Wind-Riding Mist-Escaping Art, one-third of Jade Dragon Mountain's resources, and a Blood Contract rather than a Heavenly Dao Oath.
• The Jade-Faced Fairy accepted, and she and Li Qingyuan sealed the contract to become dao companions in name only.

Li Qingyuan, posing as Zhen Youde, won the Jade Fox King’s trust by acting as the Jade-Faced Fairy’s loving husband and displaying his talents in formations and alchemy. After years of settling into Jade Dragon Mountain, he discovered that the Mysterious Feminine Space’s desire to devour was focused on the Jade-Faced Fairy’s pendant.

• Li Qingyuan coached the Jade-Faced Fairy to pretend they had fallen in love naturally, then used his formation and alchemy skills to impress the fox cultivators and the Jade Fox King.
• Li Qingyuan and the Jade-Faced Fairy held their Dual Cultivation Ceremony, though they only meditated together in the bridal chamber.
• The Jade Fox King gave Li Qingyuan three bottles of First-Grade Immortal Pills and six hundred Immortal Crystals, pleased by the couple’s apparent affection.
• Over the following years, Li Qingyuan became a trusted member of Jade Dragon Mountain, while he and the Jade-Faced Fairy continued to act like a loving couple in public and cooperate as partners in private.
• Li Qingyuan asked to examine the Jade-Faced Fairy’s pendant, and the Mysterious Feminine Space surged with a desire to devour it.

Li Qingyuan learned that the Jade Ruins Fox Pendant was a token of his Jade-Faced Fairy’s lineage and its ties to the royal Jade Fox Clan, one of the three great fox clans. He agreed to help her reach the True Immortal Mid Stage in exchange for the pendant, though she wondered what he truly wanted it for.

• Li Qingyuan felt the Mysterious Feminine Space’s desire to devour surge as he examined the Jade Ruins Fox Pendant.
• The Jade-Faced Fairy explained that the Jade Fox, Qingqiu, and Tushan clans were royal fox clans with Immortal King bloodlines.
• The Jade-Faced Fairy recounted how a rival Heavenly Immortal branch had exiled her lineage and described her determination to return to the ancestral land.
• Li Qingyuan asked to have the pendant, and the Jade-Faced Fairy offered it if he helped her reach the True Immortal Mid Stage.
• Li Qingyuan accepted the condition and proposed a Blood Contract, leaving the Jade-Faced Fairy suspicious that she had gotten the short end of the stick.

Li Qingyuan used the Jade Ruins Fox Pendant to expand the Mysterious Feminine Space into a tangible world thirty thousand zhang across, then planned to seek more pendants from the Jade Fox Clan. He summoned his Second Yuan Clone to Jade Dragon Mountain so the clone could cultivate there and investigate the clan while his main body traveled.

• The Jade-Faced Fairy and Zhen Youde sealed a Blood Contract, and she entered seclusion while he agreed to accompany her on a future tempering journey.
• Li Qingyuan refined the Jade Ruins Fox Pendant in the Mysterious Feminine Space, which expanded to thirty thousand zhang and formed a small world.
• Li Qingyuan brought Yang Xiaohe, Ji Kun, and Old Zhao into the space, where they could remain hidden even from a Golden Immortal Patriarch.
• Li Qingyuan decided to improve his cultivation and gather intelligence before visiting the Jade Fox Clan's Ancestral Land, and he contacted his Second Yuan Clone.
• The Second Yuan Clone left the Creation Immortal Sect in disguise and headed for Jade Dragon Mountain.

Li Qingyuan left his Second Yuan Clone at Jade Dragon Mountain disguised as Zhen Youde, with synchronized memories and resources to cultivate toward the true immortal mid stage. He departed to travel the Western Cold Heavenly Snow Domain in search of immortal pill inheritances and materials for a Six-Turn Golden Core, while the Jade Fox King and Jade-Faced Fairy remained unaware that he had gone.

• Li Qingyuan shared his memories with the Second Yuan Clone and had him assume Zhen Youde's appearance and identity.
• Li Qingyuan told the Second Yuan Clone to use the Jade Fox King's resources and immortal pills to advance his cultivation while maintaining Zhen Youde's life at Jade Dragon Mountain.
• Li Qingyuan left the Flying Immortal Cave undetected using Yang Xiaohe's Heavenly Immortal power and heard the Jade Fox King praise Zhen Youde's alchemy talent and kindness.
• Li Qingyuan visited the Jade-Faced Fairy as she cultivated and hoped she would attain the True Immortal Dao before they met again.
• Li Qingyuan flew into the Western Cold Heavenly Snow Domain to seek higher-grade pill inheritances and materials for refining the Six-Turn Golden Core.

After a thousand years of travel and trials across the Investiture of the Gods Great World, Li Qingyuan had strengthened his Dao understanding and gathered a second set of Six-Turn Golden Core materials. In a Heavenly Domain dense with Fire Attribute principles, his southern bright illusory fire divine seed grew excited and led him deeper into the domain.

• Li Qingyuan walked across varied Heavenly Domains, cultivating through fishing, enduring volcanic flames, and fighting starry sky behemoths.
• Over a thousand years, Li Qingyuan survived battles, secret realms, and encounters with cultivators, deepening his understanding of the Dao.
• Li Qingyuan gathered a second set of Six-Turn Golden Core materials but decided to seek more supplies and a safe place before attempting to refine the pills.
• Li Qingyuan entered a Heavenly Domain dense with Fire Attribute principles, where his first-grade immortal fire divine seed reacted with excitement and longing.
• The southern bright illusory fire divine seed flew toward the domain's depths, and Li Qingyuan followed it to discover what drew it there.

Li Qingyuan entered the fire-attribute Heavenly Domain, disguised himself as a human Rogue Cultivator named Xiao Huohuo, and provoked a Fire Beast cultivator to draw him away from onlookers. After Huo Zhuo pursued the apparently wounded and fleeing Li Qingyuan, the other True Immortal cultivators left, unaware of his scheme.

• Li Qingyuan observed the savage races and brutal survival law of the fire-attribute Heavenly Domain, then absorbed the Southern Bright Illusory Fire Divine Seed into his Longevity Immortal Seed.
• Li Qingyuan changed his appearance and Immortal Power fluctuations, posing as a True Immortal Early Stage Perfection fire-attribute cultivator named Xiao Huohuo.
• Huo Zhuo, a True Immortal Mid Stage Fire Beast cultivator, attacked Li Qingyuan and summoned his Vajra Sun-Flame Pestle.
• Li Qingyuan countered Huo Zhuo's fireball with a Thunder Fire Great Thunderbolt, then clashed swords with the pestle and pretended to be injured.
• Li Qingyuan fled while threatening revenge, and Huo Zhuo pursued him as the watching True Immortal cultivators mocked Xiao Huohuo and departed.

Li Qingyuan revealed his true strength after Huo Zhuo attacked him, then joined forces with Ji Kun to defeat the robber cultivator. The chapter ended with Li Qingyuan pinning Huo Zhuo down and threatening his life as Huo Zhuo begged to settle things.

• Huo Zhuo chased Li Qingyuan across the Tail Fire Burning Heaven Domain, admitting he meant to rob and kill him.
• Li Qingyuan stopped fleeing and clashed with Huo Zhuo, whose Manifestation of Heaven and Earth and Vajra Blazing Sun Pestle failed to overcome his sword.
• Li Qingyuan revealed his true immortal mid stage cultivation and formidable body-refinement strength, then drove Huo Zhuo into retreat.
• Li Qingyuan bound Huo Zhuo with sword threads, and Ji Kun struck him with the Sky Swallowing Sphere, severely injuring him.
• Li Qingyuan shattered Huo Zhuo's Manifestation of Heaven and Earth and pinned him beneath his foot, while Huo Zhuo begged for mercy and offered his resources.

Li Qingyuan killed Huo Zhuo, learned the secrets of the Tail Fire Burning Heaven Domain from his memories, and discovered the Burning Heaven Ancient Ruins held a Heavenly Immortal’s inheritance. With a Burning Heaven Order and the ruins due to open in a hundred years, he set out for them.

• Li Qingyuan immobilized Huo Zhuo’s True Spirit, killed him, and let Old Zhao swallow and refine it.
• Old Zhao extracted Huo Zhuo’s memories and transmitted them to Li Qingyuan, revealing the Tail Fire Burning Heaven Domain’s geography, factions, and powerful cultivators.
• Li Qingyuan learned that Burning Heaven High Immortal had left a fourth-grade Pill Dao inheritance and a fire-control Divine Ability in the Burning Heaven Ancient Ruins Realm.
• Li Qingyuan found a Burning Heaven Order among Huo Zhuo’s possessions and learned the ruins would open in a hundred years.
• Li Qingyuan sent Old Zhao to refine Huo Zhuo’s True Spirit into a puppet avatar, then traveled with Ji Kun toward the Burning Heaven Ancient Ruins Realm.

Li Qingyuan adopted the new identity of Blood Shadow Daoist and waited a hundred years outside the Burning Heaven Ancient Ruins Realm while cultivators gathered. When the Burning Heaven Gate opened, a battle broke out over the Burning Heaven Orders, and Li Qingyuan prepared to slip inside amid the chaos.

• Li Qingyuan disguised himself as the blood dao cultivator Blood Shadow Daoist to avoid suspicion over Huo Zhuo's disappearance.
• He reached the Ancient Ruins Realm and found more than a hundred True Immortals and hundreds of other cultivators waiting outside, many hoping to seize Burning Heaven Orders or ambush returning adventurers.
• Li Qingyuan spent a hundred years cultivating the Slaughter Dao Blood Divine Scripture as the crowds of cultivators swelled.
• The Burning Heaven Gate appeared and opened, allowing the holders of Burning Heaven Orders to enter the Ancient Ruins Realm.
• Five half-step heavenly immortals and other powerful cultivators attacked the token holders, triggering a chaotic battle across the gathered crowd.
• Li Qingyuan watched the melee and decided to enter the Ancient Ruins Realm amid the chaos.

Li Qingyuan used Blood Shadow Divine Escape to evade the fighting outside the Burning Heaven Gate and entered with his Burning Heaven Order. Inside the ruins, he killed a Purple Fire Gold Crystal Beast and discovered that its Immortal Source Purple Fire Crystal stirred an intense hunger in his Southern Bright Illusory Fire Seed.

• Li Qingyuan raced through the battlefield, using Blood Shadow clones to escape a late-stage True Immortal and reach the Burning Heaven Gate.
• Li Qingyuan entered through the flames with his Burning Heaven Order, and thirty-seven other True Immortal cultivators followed before the fighting outside paused.
• The cultivators left outside formed alliances and prepared layers of formations to ambush those who returned with resources.
• Li Qingyuan encountered a ten-thousand-zhang Purple Fire Gold Crystal Beast and killed it with a single strike of blood-red Sword Qi.
• Li Qingyuan learned from Huo Zhuo's memories that the beast was an energy life-form whose remains condensed into an Immortal Source Purple Fire Crystal.
• Li Qingyuan sensed that the crystal had drawn his Southern Bright Illusory Fire Seed to the ruins.

Li Qingyuan discovered that Immortal Source Purple Fire Crystals could rapidly strengthen the Southern Bright Illusory Fire and set out to gather enough for it to evolve. After escaping Yan Pojun’s attack, he defeated a powerful Purple Fire Gold Crystal Beast and continued deeper into the ruins.

• Li Qingyuan duplicated a Tribulation Crossing Stage Immortal Source Purple Fire Crystal in the Mysterious Feminine Space, and the Southern Bright Illusory Fire devoured both crystals and grew slightly stronger.
• Thirty-seven True Immortal cultivators entered the Burning Heaven Ancient Ruins Realm, and Yan Pojun attacked Li Qingyuan for coveting the Burning Heaven Order.
• Li Qingyuan feigned injury, escaped Yan Pojun with the Blood Shadow Clone Great Method, and resolved to kill the Fire Qilin Race elder later.
• Three million li away, Li Qingyuan killed an Immortal Domain Realm Purple Fire Gold Crystal Beast and fed its duplicated crystals to the Southern Bright Illusory Fire.
• As the fire spirit grew clearer, Li Qingyuan flew deeper into the ruins to collect more crystals and pursue its evolution into third-grade immortal fire.

Li Qingyuan hunted deeper in the Burning Heaven Ancient Ruins Realm and killed a True Immortal Realm Purple Fire Gold Crystal Beast, obtaining a powerful crystal that strengthened the Southern Bright Illusory Fire. After sensing hidden cultivators watching him, he challenged them over whether they intended to steal his spoils.

• Li Qingyuan flew toward the central region of the ruins, where fire-attribute power grew denser, and passed two wary True Immortal cultivators without fighting.
• Li Qingyuan followed a beast's roar and found a True Immortal Realm Purple Fire Gold Crystal Beast comparable to a true immortal early stage cultivator.
• The beast attacked with earth vein fire and a purple light wave, but Li Qingyuan used the Blood Shadow Divine Sword Art and his slaughter heart state to cleave it in two.
• Li Qingyuan collected the beast's purple fire crystal and duplicated it, allowing the Southern Bright Illusory Fire Seed to consume it and grow stronger.
• Li Qingyuan sensed cultivators spying on him and asked whether they intended to seize his spoils.

Li Qingyuan, posing as Blood Shadow, agreed to join Guihai Yuan and Zuoqiu Shan in hunting a herd of True Immortal Purple Fire Gold Crystal Beasts. When they learned other races had discovered it, they hurried to the herd while Li Qingyuan secretly sent Ji Kun and Old Zhao ahead to lie in wait.

• Guihai Yuan and Zuoqiu Shan approached Li Qingyuan and proposed that the human cultivators join forces in the dangerous Burning Heaven Ancient Ruins Realm.
• Guihai Yuan revealed that he and Zuoqiu Shan had found a herd containing at least five True Immortal Purple Fire Gold Crystal Beasts, and Li Qingyuan agreed to help hunt them.
• Guihai Yuan and Zuoqiu Shan received an urgent message that Fire Beast Race and Ground Lizard Race cultivators had discovered the herd.
• The three cultivators flew toward the herd, and Li Qingyuan secretly sent Ji Kun to conceal himself nearby and wait for an opportunity with Old Zhao.

Li Qingyuan proposed striking first at a Purple Fire Gold Crystal Beast herd while other factions waited in hiding. Wen Xingyue and Zuoqiu Shan drew the herd’s attention as Li Qingyuan and Guihai Yuan secretly headed underground toward its lair.

• Three late-stage True Immortals of the Fire Beast Race watched the herd and worried about losing the Burning Heaven Order Huo Zhuo had carried.
• Two Ground Lizard Race True Immortals hid in the earth veins and decided to wait for other factions to begin fighting.
• Li Qingyuan urged Guihai Yuan, Wen Xingyue, and Zuoqiu Shan to act before more factions arrived, proposing a frontal feint and an underground strike on the herd’s lair.
• Guihai Yuan assigned Wen Xingyue and Zuoqiu Shan to attack the herd while he and Li Qingyuan infiltrated its lair.
• Wen Xingyue and Zuoqiu Shan engaged the herd, drawing the hidden factions’ attention as Li Qingyuan and Guihai Yuan disappeared into the earth veins.

Wen Xingyue and Zuo Qiuyue attacked a Purple Fire Gold Crystal Beast herd while Guihai Yuan and Li Qingyuan hid underground, where they discovered a third-grade flame-pistil qilin flower. Guihai Yuan was left to face the herd alone when Li Qingyuan vanished, just as Fire Beast and Ground Lizard cultivators arrived to fight over the herd and its treasure.

• Wen Xingyue and Zuo Qiuyue slaughtered the herd’s Tribulation Crossing Stage beasts and fought four True Immortal beasts, planning to seize the crystals and flee.
• Guihai Yuan and Li Qingyuan realized the herd included a Late-Stage True Immortal beast and three True Immortal Mid Stage beasts, and Guihai Yuan asked Li Qingyuan to hold off the three Mid Stage beasts while he faced the leader.
• Guihai Yuan attacked the herd and spotted a third-grade flame-pistil qilin flower, while Li Qingyuan recognized it as one of the three main ingredients for a Six-Turn Golden Core.
• The Purple Fire Gold Crystal Beasts overwhelmed Guihai Yuan after Li Qingyuan disappeared without a trace, leaving him to face the beasts alone.
• Five True Immortal cultivators from the Fire Beast Race and Ground Lizard Race arrived and attacked, throwing the battlefield into chaos.

Ji Kun awakened the Sky Swallowing Chicken bloodline and intercepted Wen Xingyue and Zuo Qiuyue as they tried to flee. He suppressed Wen Xingyue while Old Zhao and a Blood Divine Son Puppet blocked Zuo Qiuyue, leaving Guihai Yuan fighting the Beast Race forces alone.

• Three Fire Beast Race True Immortals and two Ground Lizard Race experts charged toward Guihai Yuan and the others, prompting Wen Xingyue and Zuo Qiuyue to retreat.
• Ji Kun awakened his Sky Swallowing Chicken bloodline, opened twenty-four Immortal Apertures, and attacked Wen Xingyue with the Sky Swallowing Sphere.
• Wen Xingyue's Star Wheel and Moon Wheel were knocked back, while Zuo Qiuyue burned his Essence Blood and fled without helping her.
• Old Zhao summoned the Myriad Souls Banner and joined the Blood Divine Son Puppet to attack Zuo Qiuyue, whose mountain Law Treasure they managed to hold off.
• Guihai Yuan continued fighting the Beast Race forces at the herd's lair.

Guihai Yuan lost his allies and troops, then self-destructed his life-bound Law Treasure and burned his True Blood to escape the encircling cultivators. The Fire Beast Race and Ground Lizard Race fought over the flame-pistil qilin flower before agreeing to cooperate against the Purple Fire Gold Crystal Beasts.

• Guihai Yuan cursed Blood Shadow Daoist, Wen Xingyue, and Zuo Qiuyue as the Purple Fire Gold Crystal Beasts and five cultivators from the Fire Beast Race and Ground Lizard Race closed in on him.
• Guihai Yuan self-destructed his Crimson Treasure Cauldron, injuring four Purple Fire Gold Crystal Beasts, then recovered his sea-heart Kunyuan fire and took the flame-pistil qilin flower.
• Guihai Yuan burned his True Blood and used the sea-heart Kunyuan fire to break through the Fire Beast Race cultivator’s defense, but the peak-stage Ground Lizard Race cultivator blocked his escape.
• Guihai Yuan threw the flame-pistil qilin flower to the Ground Lizard Race cultivator, then escaped while the Fire Beast Race and Ground Lizard Race prepared to fight over the prize.
• The four injured Purple Fire Gold Crystal Beasts attacked the two races, and the Ground Lizard Race proposed that they cooperate; the Fire Beast Race agreed.