Chapter Summaries

After thousands of years of cultivation, Li Qingyuan reached the absolute peak of the True Immortal realm and perfected the Innate Five Elements Golden Body. He challenged the Creation Immortal Sect’s True Immortal elders to spar and test their progress.

• Li Qingyuan dual cultivated separately with Miao Le, Luo Ling, and Bing Ling'er for three thousand years, strengthening their cultivation and his own.
• After further seclusion, Li Qingyuan condensed his third immortal aperture wheel and reached the utmost limit of the True Immortal realm.
• Li Qingyuan spent ten thousand years refining his laws, primordial spirit, and body, reaching combat strength beyond the quasi-Heavenly Immortal realm.
• Li Qingyuan studied and perfected the Innate Five Elements Golden Body in a thousand years, using the Jianmu Divine Tree Dao Foundation and his Five Elements attainments.
• Li Qingyuan manifested the completed golden body above the Creation Immortal Sect’s True Immortal Arena and summoned the sect’s True Immortal elders to spar.

Li Qingyuan withstood attacks from the Creation Immortal Sect’s True Immortal elders, then defeated them all with one Five Elements Golden Light punch. As the sect watched in shock, two Supreme Elders began Heavenly Immortal tribulations, raising hopes that the sect would soon gain Heavenly Immortal powerhouses.

• Golden Demon God attacked Li Qingyuan, but his golden body absorbed her strike and sent her flying with an invisible ripple of force.
• Silver Demon God joined her sister, and their combined blades also failed to harm Li Qingyuan, who remained unmoved in his ten-thousand-zhang form.
• Sun Liuyun activated his Lingming Stone Monkey bloodline and struck Li Qingyuan hard enough to push him back, but he still could not break Li Qingyuan’s defenses.
• Fairy Biluò, Second Junlin, and dozens of other True Immortal cultivators joined the attack, yet they failed to defeat Li Qingyuan.
• Li Qingyuan unleashed Five Elements Golden Light, annihilating the elders’ defenses and sending them flying while shattering the arena’s protective barrier with one punch.
• Two Heavenly Immortal pressures rose from the Supreme Elders’ residences, and tribulation clouds formed as the elders began their Heavenly Immortal tribulations.

The Ten Ultimate Immortal and Purple Cloud Fairy underwent the Eight-Nine Heavenly Immortal Tribulation as cultivators of the Creation Immortal Sect watched. After enduring the final lightning strikes and completing their transformations, both ascended to the Heavenly Immortal Realm.

• The Creation Immortal Sect’s cultivators gathered to observe as the Ten Ultimate Immortal and Purple Cloud Fairy began their Heavenly Immortal tribulations.
• The Ten Ultimate Immortal used a fourth-grade immortal formation and the Great Dao of Extreme Cold to weaken the lightning while tempering herself with its power.
• Purple Cloud Fairy faced the tribulation with her Power of Space and Time, deflecting part of each strike and refining the rest.
• As the seventh set of nine strikes strained their defenses, both women swallowed fifth-tier Feathering Heavenly Immortal Pills and completed their transformations into Heavenly Immortal bodies, spirits, and primordial spirits.
• Both women endured the final set of nine strikes with only minor injuries, ascended to the Heavenly Immortal Realm, and released their pressure across the surrounding lands.

Ten Absolutes and Zixiao overcame their Heavenly Immortal tribulations together, establishing the Creation Immortal Sect as a great Heavenly Immortal sect. After Heavenly Immortals from across the Thunder Department arrived to congratulate them, Li Qingyuan began seclusion to advance his alchemy and support the sect’s future cultivation.

• Ten Absolutes and Zixiao each attained the Heavenly Immortal realm and condensed forty-two immortal apertures.
• The Xuanlei Domain Lord arrived, congratulated Ten Absolutes and Zixiao, and acknowledged the Creation Immortal Sect’s strength.
• Heavenly Immortals from the Twenty-Four Heavenly Domains of the Thunder Department gathered to offer congratulations before departing.
• Li Qingyuan resolved to study the inheritance texts and improve his cultivation arts, especially alchemy, to provide pills and resources for the sect.
• Li Qingyuan entered seclusion in the Qingyuan Immortal Mansion to pursue Heavenly Immortal-level alchemy.

Li Qingyuan studied the Heavenly Immortal pill formulas he had collected and chose the Great Thunderfire True Spirit Pill as his first fourth-grade pill to refine. After cultivating his primordial spirit for a thousand years, he emerged into a banquet celebrating the Creation Immortal Sect’s Heavenly Immortals, where his pill refinement stunned the gathered cultivators.

• Li Qingyuan selected the Great Thunderfire True Spirit Pill because its thunderfire properties suited his cultivation and his Vermilion Bird Flame could aid the refinement.
• Li Qingyuan swallowed a Heavenly Immortal Primordial Spirit Pill and used the Jianmu Meditation Method to strengthen his primordial spirit through a thousand years of cultivation.
• The Creation Immortal Sect held a banquet for its newly stabilized Heavenly Immortals, attended by powerful cultivators from across the Thunder Department’s Twenty-Four Domains.
• Dongfang Lei praised Li Qingyuan’s talent and wondered whether he had entered seclusion to seek the half-step Heavenly Immortal realm.
• Thunderfire erupted from the Qingyuan Immortal Mansion, and a fourth-grade immortal pill appeared above it as lightning and fire dragons formed around it.
• The gathered Heavenly Immortals and other cultivators recognized the pill as a fourth-grade Heavenly Immortal great pill.

Li Qingyuan refined a perfect fourth-grade Great Thunderfire True Spirit Pill, revealing himself as a Heavenly Immortal Alchemist despite his True Immortal cultivation. His achievement stunned the banquet and left the Heavenly Immortals vying for his services.

• Li Qingyuan refined the Great Thunderfire True Spirit Pill, and Lei Sui and the Xuanlei Domain Lord identified its formula and significance.
• Li Qingyuan crushed the pill’s thunderfire dragons, greeted the guests, and used Shrink the Earth to an Inch to reach the banquet.
• Dongfang Lei and the other guests praised Li Qingyuan’s Heavenly Immortal Primordial Spirit and alchemy, while the Xuanlei Domain Lord revealed that he was not yet three hundred thousand years old.
• Han Fengxian and the Heavenly Immortal guests congratulated Li Qingyuan, and Dongfang Lei’s standing as the foremost Heaven’s Chosen faded beside him.
• The Heavenly Immortals rushed to ask Li Qingyuan to refine pills for them, making him the focus of the gathering.

Li Qingyuan’s alchemy skills and the Creation Immortal Sect’s influence grew rapidly after the banquet, where Ten Absolutes and Zixiao demonstrated extraordinary combat prowess. The sect became a leading pill-producing power, while the two women agreed to visit Han Fengxian’s domain and prepare for future cooperation.

• Li Qingyuan welcomed cooperation with Heavenly Immortals but cautiously declined their commissions until he had improved, then offered True Immortals pills in exchange for their Heavenly Immortal pill formulas.
• Ten Absolutes defeated four veteran early-stage Heavenly Immortals, Zixiao defeated the middle-stage Golden Flash Fairy, and Ten Absolutes fought the middle-stage great perfection Xuanlei Domain Lord to a draw.
• Lei Sui and Han Fengxian recognized the women’s exceptional strength and discussed building relations with them ahead of the Heavenly Immortal Tournament.
• After the banquet ended, Ten Absolutes and Zixiao agreed to visit Han Fengxian’s Hurricane Vast Sea Domain, while Li Qingyuan secluded himself to refine pills.
• Li Qingyuan mastered several fourth-grade pill formulas and produced premium-grade pills, helping the Creation Immortal Sect become the Thunder Department’s second-largest pill-producing sect.
• As the sect attracted customers, cultivators, and resources from across the region, its influence and the renown of Ten Ultimate Immortal, the Purple Cloud Fairy, and Li Qingyuan surged.

Ji Kun broke through to the True Immortal peak stage, and Li Qingyuan gave him two powerful Nine Suns Heavenly Star Pills to help him advance and challenge the Golden Crow clan. Li Qingyuan then taught Miao Le the Innate Five Elements Golden Body during their dual cultivation.

• Ji Kun opened all thirty-six immortal apertures and reached the True Immortal peak stage, thrilling the Creation Immortal Sect.
• Li Qingyuan and Miao Le discussed Ji Kun’s determination to rescue Dong Jun and his hardships with the Golden Crow clan.
• Li Qingyuan gave Ji Kun two pinnacle fourth-grade Nine Suns Heavenly Star Pills and urged him to grow stronger for the Heavenly Immortal Championship.
• Ji Kun accepted the pills, vowed to prove the Sky Swallowing Chicken lineage was the true heir of the sun, and returned to secluded cultivation.
• Li Qingyuan entered Miao Le’s True Immortal small world with her and taught her the Innate Five Elements Golden Body while they practiced dual cultivation.

Li Qingyuan helped Miao Le master the innate five elements golden body before returning to seclusion to seek the primordial chaos Qi needed for One Qi Transforms into the Three Pure Ones. After a century of meditation, he realized that he himself was the Great Dao’s seed and primordial ancestor Qi, and an ancient presence awakened within him.

• Li Qingyuan shared his innate five elements golden body and cultivation insights with Miao Le, who reached initial mastery after ten years.
• Li Qingyuan urged Miao Le and Luo Ling to keep cultivating toward the Heavenly Immortal Realm, then entered seclusion to pursue One Qi Transforms into the Three Pure Ones.
• Li Qingyuan searched his body for primordial chaos Qi for years but found nothing, then reconsidered the inheritance’s explanation of Qi as the Great Dao’s seed.
• After a hundred years of meditation, Li Qingyuan realized that primordial chaos Qi existed within him as a whole and that he himself was the seed of the Great Dao.
• An ancient, boundless presence awakened from Li Qingyuan as he celebrated his enlightenment.

Li Qingyuan fused his Three Treasures with the aid of his Jianmu Divine Tree Dao Foundation and awakened primordial chaos Qi. He ended the chapter holding a wisp of the ancient substance and recognizing what he had found.

• Li Qingyuan entered meditation and realized he needed to sense primordial chaos Qi through his whole being rather than search for it in one part of himself.
• Li Qingyuan tried to merge his primordial spirit, flesh, and dharma power miniatures, but they resisted one another.
• Li Qingyuan opened his Jianmu Divine Tree Dao Foundation, bringing him into unity with heaven and man and allowing the three miniatures to fuse.
• The fusion stirred the Creation Immortal Sect, and Ten Ultimate Immortal and Purple Cloud Fairy recognized the presence as primordial chaos Qi.
• Li Qingyuan condensed a wisp of primordial chaos Qi and declared that he had finally found it.

Li Qingyuan cultivated primordial chaos Qi and learned that he had become the Ten Ultimate Immortal and Zixiao’s junior disciple brother after receiving Shangqing Lingbao Heavenly Venerable’s inheritance. He continued his seclusion to strengthen the Qi, while the meaning of being called a “seed” remained unexplained until he reached the golden immortal realm.

• Li Qingyuan circulated primordial chaos Qi through his body and felt it nourish his cultivation, Primordial Spirit, and physical body.
• The Ten Ultimate Immortal and Purple Cloud Fairy asked Li Qingyuan about their Master, and he confirmed that Shangqing Lingbao Heavenly Venerable had taught him One Qi Transforms into the Three Pure Ones.
• Li Qingyuan told the two women that their Master’s remnant will had dissipated after teaching him, leaving them saddened that they could not see him again.
• Zixiao and the Ten Ultimate Immortal welcomed Li Qingyuan as their junior disciple brother and told him he was the only one able to cultivate primordial chaos Qi in the deterioration era.
• The two Senior Sisters urged Li Qingyuan to stabilize and strengthen his primordial chaos Qi, while leaving the meaning of “seed” for him to learn at the golden immortal realm.
• Li Qingyuan resumed his seclusion, intending to nurture his Qi so he could eventually command and wield it against his enemies.

After fifty thousand years of seclusion, Li Qingyuan reached minor achievement in nurturing Primordial Chaos Qi and mastered One Qi Protection. He proved it could withstand the combined attacks of Miao Le, Luo Ling, and Ji Kun, then returned to cultivation to pursue a breakthrough beyond the True Immortal peak stage.

• Li Qingyuan spent fifty thousand years nurturing Primordial Chaos Qi until he crossed the threshold of controlling it.
• Li Qingyuan summoned Miao Le, Luo Ling, and Ji Kun and asked them to attack him with all their strength.
• Miao Le and Luo Ling unleashed their strongest Divine Abilities, but Li Qingyuan's three-inch Qi wall blocked every strike.
• Luo Ling and Miao Le awakened their bloodline powers, and Ji Kun reached the Quasi-Heavenly Immortal realm, but their combined attacks were all annihilated by Li Qingyuan's One Qi Protection.
• Li Qingyuan sent Miao Le, Luo Ling, and Ji Kun away to cultivate, then returned to his cave abode to pursue a breakthrough beyond the True Immortal peak stage.

Li Qingyuan advanced his law power and flesh to the Half-Step Heavenly Immortal realm through ten thousand years of resource-intensive seclusion. As he planned to keep cultivating for the Heavenly Immortal Championship, a towering Golden Armored Divine General appeared near the Creation Immortal Sect and greeted its cultivators.

• Li Qingyuan absorbed over ten thousand immortal crystals and broke through to Half-Step Heavenly Immortal, transforming his True Immortal Small World and Jianmu Dao foundation.
• Li Qingyuan continued cultivating his flesh with immortal crystals, pills, and the Thunderfire True Spirit, eventually reaching Half-Step Heavenly Immortal flesh.
• Li Qingyuan reflected on his three hundred thousand years of cultivation and expected to compete in the Heavenly Immortal Championship in roughly two hundred thousand years.
• A thousand-zhang Golden Armored Divine General arrived a million li from the Creation Immortal Sect and greeted the cultivators as an old acquaintance.

Yang Jian visited the Creation Immortal Sect with a Yang Family Heavenly Immortal and brought congratulatory gifts, then reunited with Li Qingyuan, who had also reached the half-step Heavenly Immortal realm. After acknowledging each other as rivals and companions on the Dao Path, Yang Jian and his party were invited into the cave abode to discuss the purpose of their visit.

• Yang Jian arrived at the Creation Immortal Sect with a Heavenly Immortal of the Yang Family and his peak-stage True Immortal spirit pet, Heavenly Hound Hunting Star.
• Sun Liuyun and First Yuji welcomed Yang Jian, and Yang Jian presented thirty thousand immortal crystals and three Fourth-Grade Immortal Pills as congratulatory gifts for Ten Absolutes and Zixiao.
• Yang Jian asked after Li Qingyuan, and Ji Kun greeted Hunting Star with familiar teasing when the two spirit pets met.
• Li Qingyuan emerged from Qingyuan Immortal Mansion, and Yang Jian recognized that he had reached half-step Heavenly Immortal through dual cultivation of Dharma and body.
• Yang Jian and Li Qingyuan saluted each other as peers who would keep pace on the Dao Path, then First Yuji invited Yang Jian and the Yang Family Heavenly Immortal into the cave abode for talks.

Yang Jian visited the Creation Immortal Sect and invited its leaders to join him in pursuing a great opportunity: the tomb grotto-heaven of the vanished Heavenly Champion. The hall erupted in shock at the discovery, and the group’s attention turned to the treasures and legacy that might await them.

• Guan Tianlin introduced himself as Yang Jian’s protector and joined the reception hosted by First Yuji and Li Qingyuan.
• Li Qingyuan asked why Yang Jian had left his cultivation, and Yang Jian explained that battle and travel tempered the mind and advanced the Yang Clan’s Nine Revolutions Profound Technique.
• Yang Jian said he had come to reunite with his friends and invite them to claim a great opportunity together.
• The guests discussed the Heavenly Champion, who had won the Heavenly Immortal Championship three times before disappearing and being presumed dead.
• Yang Jian revealed that a Yang Clan disciple had discovered the Heavenly Champion’s Tomb Grotto-Heaven, shocking the Creation Immortal Sect’s leaders.

Yang Jian invited Li Qingyuan and the Creation Immortal Sect's Heaven's Chosen to explore Heavenly Champion's Tomb Grotto-Heaven alongside several Golden Immortal forces. After Li Qingyuan and Yang Jian fought to a draw, the gathered young cultivators set out, leaving Guan Tianlin astonished by the Ancestral Land's Heaven's Chosen.

• Yang Jian explained that several Golden Immortal forces, including his clan, the Nine Heavens Thunder Venerable, the Taiyin Primordial Sovereign, and Yan Ancestor, were converging on Heavenly Champion's Tomb Grotto-Heaven.
• Yang Jian invited the Creation Immortal Sect's cultivators at the True Immortal peak stage or above to join his party, and they agreed to leave in ten days.
• Li Qingyuan and Yang Jian sparred for three days and nights, fought evenly, and ended their battle in a draw.
• Ten days later, Li Qingyuan, Yang Jian, Ji Kun, and the Creation Immortal Sect's other Heaven's Chosen assembled to depart for the tomb.
• Dongfang Lei arrived to join the group, and Guan Tianlin reflected that the Ancestral Land's young cultivators had exceptional potential.

Guan Tianlin brought Li Qingyuan and the others to Heavenly Champion's tomb, where five Golden Immortals had gathered. Ji Kun reunited with Dong Jun but was kept from reaching her by Nishang, while Li Qingyuan spotted the Amaterasu Divine Clan nearby.

• Guan Tianlin led the group on his Heavenly Horse Qilin to the tomb, where they sensed five Golden Immortals and saw their manifestations.
• Ji Kun recognized Dong Jun in Golden Crow Nishang's great-sun manifestation and rushed to reunite with her.
• Nishang raised a barrier between Ji Kun and Dong Jun, then ordered Dong Jun to return; Dong Jun left to protect Ji Kun from Nishang.
• Ji Kun nearly attacked Nishang, but Li Qingyuan stopped him, and Ji Kun resolved to grow strong enough to reclaim Dong Jun.
• Li Qingyuan noticed the Amaterasu Divine Clan and identified its Great Elder, Yun Zhongzi, as a Heavenly Immortal late stage powerhouse.

Li Qingyuan and the other Heaven’s Chosen faced pressure from the Golden Immortals and ten Heavenly Immortal factions as the Heavenly Champion’s Tomb was opened. Li Qingyuan entered the tomb with his companions, while Yang Xiaohe remained outside with the Yang Family.

• Taiyin Primordial Sovereign provoked the ten Heavenly Immortal factions against the Dharma-Ending Heaven’s Chosen, and Guan Tianlin stopped Yun Zhongzi from pressuring Li Qingyuan.
• Taiyin Primordial Sovereign secretly ordered the Amaterasu Divine Clan and Black Dragon Clan to destroy the Creation Immortal Sect and capture Miao Le and Luo Ling.
• Yan Ancestor shattered the spatial barrier and opened the tomb’s stone gate, revealing the primordial power of Heavenly Champion’s Grotto-Heaven.
• Yang Zhao barred Li Qingyuan from bringing Yang Xiaohe into the tomb, so Li Qingyuan sent the Five-colored Lotus Lamp and Yang Xiaohe to the Yang Clan.
• Li Qingyuan entered the tomb with First Yuji, Ji Kun, Miao Le, and Luo Ling as the stone gate began to close.

The Golden Immortal Colossi discussed the karma surrounding Li Qingyuan and revealed that they had sent the True Immortal Heaven’s Chosen into Heavenly Champion’s tomb to retrieve a coveted object. Inside, Li Qingyuan and the others discovered a half-step Primordial World containing a half-step Golden Immortal inheritance.

• Yang Zhao told Yang Xiaohe that she could not enter the tomb and help Li Qingyuan, then confirmed the Golden Immortals had sent the Heaven’s Chosen to retrieve an object from Heavenly Champion’s world.
• Yang Xiaohe inferred that the object was the true reason the Golden Immortals had gathered, and Yang Zhao admitted it.
• The Golden Immortal Colossi discussed their interest in the object and their hopes of gaining more cultivation to advance toward Immortal Kings.
• The True Immortal Heaven’s Chosen entered Heavenly Champion World and realized it had transformed into a half-step Primordial World.
• Yang Jian explained that the world had developed wisps of chaos origin power, revealing Heavenly Champion had left behind a half-step Golden Immortal inheritance.
• Li Qingyuan surveyed the world and said the inheritance had made the expedition more interesting.

Ji Kun erupted in fury when Jin Taiyan claimed Dong Jun as his fiancée and mocked him, but Li Qingyuan urged him to wait until they could free her from the Golden Crow clan. As the teams set out to search the Half-Step Golden Immortal world, the Yin and Yang Mystic Boy mocked Ji Kun and Jin Taiyan for not fighting.

• The factions learned that the Heavenly Champion Tomb Cave was a Half-Step Golden Immortal Chaos Origin World, and the gathered cultivators rushed to seize its inheritance and resources.
• Yang Jian introduced Yang Kai to Li Qingyuan and explained that the Creation Immortal Sect was entering with the Yang Clan’s team; he asked Li Qingyuan to retrieve something for Yang Zhao in exchange for a reward.
• The Golden Immortal factions divided into squads and set out to search the world, planning to regroup at the central inheritance grounds.
• Jin Taiyan belittled Ji Kun and told Dong Jun she was his fiancée, while Dong Jun recalled that the Golden Crow clan had raised her as a breeding tool for Jin Taiyan.
• Ji Kun unleashed his killing intent against Jin Taiyan, but Li Qingyuan warned him that Dong Jun might be restrained and told him to wait for his plan; Ji Kun reluctantly held back.
• The Yin and Yang Mystic Boy mocked Ji Kun and Jin Taiyan, urging them to fight over the sun’s rightful lineage.