Chapter Summaries

Li Zhi followed the survival path Emperor Void had left through Immortality Mountain and reached the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree. With the tree’s help, he comprehended the Great Dao, transformed his Mysterious Immortal Tree, and left with his cultivation greatly advanced as spiritual lights gathered around the ancient tree.

• Li Zhi entered Immortality Mountain after using his Living Being Eye to identify Emperor Void’s hidden path of survival among the Void Dao Patterns.
• Li Zhi crossed the mountain without encountering any Holy Spirits and found the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree near the central region.
• Li Zhi poured Divine Spring Water at the tree’s roots, climbed onto a branch, and began comprehending the Heaven and Earth Myriad Daos with his Mysterious Immortal Tree above his head.
• The Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree shared its essence with Li Zhi’s little tree, helping him form one hundred and eight Dao-shaped leaves and greatly improving his comprehension and perception.
• Li Zhi declined to undergo Tribulation Transcendence in Immortality Mountain, thanked the tree, and poured it more Life Divine Spring as spiritual lights flew toward it from across the mountain.

Li Zhi finished cultivating in Immortality Mountain, reaching Four Extremities Great Perfection and gathering rare treasures. He witnessed brief images of Ruthless Great Emperor and Great Emperor Wushi, then concealed himself beneath the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree to await Xiao Nannan and the others, who were approaching with a Big Black Dog.

• Li Zhi collected more than a thousand matured Enlightenment Tea Leaves and condensed four Heavenly Pillar Divine Mountains, with the leg mountains remaining phantoms until he imprinted them into his Secret Realm.
• With the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree's aid, Li Zhi cultivated the Primordial Longevity Art, broke through two barriers, and reached Four Extremities Great Perfection without sensing a Heavenly Tribulation.
• Li Zhi dug up two Little Medicine Kings, stored them in the Hundred Herbs Diagram, and prepared to leave Immortality Mountain.
• Li Zhi saw brief ancient images of Ruthless Great Emperor and Great Emperor Wushi beneath the tea tree but could not comprehend their Dao arts, so he rested and waited for Xiao Nannan and the others.
• Li Zhi concealed himself in Life Immortal Mist as a Big Black Dog carrying Xiao Nannan arrived near an ancient forest.

Ye Fan and the others found Li Zhi beneath the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree in Immortality Mountain, where he welcomed them with tea and revealed that his metamorphosis was complete. After explaining how to escape, Li Zhi watched in disbelief as they stripped every tea leaf from the tree.

• Ye Fan and his companions saw the ancient phantoms of Great Emperor Wushi and Ruthless Great Emperor beneath the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree, while Xiao Nannan also noticed Li Zhi there.
• Li Zhi invited the group to drink Enlightenment Tea and revealed his identity when he recognized Ye Fan as Little Leaf.
• Li Zhi told Ye Fan that Emperor Void's Life Gate could teleport them out of Immortality Mountain and said he had come there to cultivate after completing his metamorphosis.
• Big Black Dog questioned how Li Zhi obtained mature tea leaves, and Li Zhi said the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree had given them to him.
• Ye Fan and the others stripped every immature leaf from the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree, leaving Li Zhi dumbfounded as Xiao Nannan blamed Doggy for teaching her their behavior.

Li Zhi and the others left the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree and followed Xiao Nannan’s path toward the center of Immortality Mountain, where they discovered a Nether River and Yellow Springs concealing a mysterious life-and-death terrain. The group spotted a black divine herb in the Yellow Springs, but Ye Fan warned them not to approach it.

• Ruthless Great Emperor and Great Emperor Wushi appeared together as imprints, and Li Zhi comprehended a Ghost Face Mask pattern while the others gained nothing.
• Li Zhi stopped Ye Fan, Pang Bo, Li Heishui, and Tu Fei from digging up the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree, warning that disturbing it could alert the mountain’s guardians and drive away other Immortality Elixirs.
• Li Zhi poured Divine Spring Water onto the tree’s roots and explained that he had earned its favor; the group then followed Xiao Nannan away without learning how many mature tea leaves he had obtained.
• The group reached the Nether River and Yellow Springs, where Li Zhi identified a Yellow Springs Life-Death Diagram and used his Living Being Eye to search for its hidden fortune.
• Pang Bo, Tu Fei, Li Heishui, and Big Black Dog spotted a black divine herb emerging from the Yellow Springs, but Ye Fan used source arts to recognize the area as dangerous and shouted for them to wait.

Li Zhi and the others collected three Netherworld Grass stalks from Yellow Springs Pool with help from his Guardian General, then continued deeper into Immortality Mountain. Near ancient caves, Xiao Nannan befriended several mysterious golden creatures that seemed to be luring her inside, while Li Zhi tried to keep her safe.

• Li Zhi explained that Netherworld Grass could strengthen Divine Sense and extend a Great Power’s lifespan, then waited with the group for two more stalks to surface.
• Li Zhi sent his Guardian General into Yellow Springs Pool to retrieve all three stalks, sealed them in boxes, and promised to share the resulting Divine Pills with everyone.
• The group entered a rocky region and found an ancient cave beside a jade-like skeleton, a golden “Kill” command token, and an Ancient Scroll associated with Heaven’s Court.
• Li Zhi and Xiao Nannan moved away from the command token’s killing intent and examined the cave marks, but Li Zhi found no remaining Dao Patterns to study.
• A golden Little Swallow, a Golden Calf, a golden foal pulling a carriage, and a Golden Figure came out of the cave to play with Xiao Nannan and appeared to invite her inside.
• Li Zhi offered the golden creatures nuts and then Spiritual Gold Beans when they would not eat the nuts.

Li Zhi and Xiao Nannan helped golden creatures in an ancient cave by removing a stone that blocked their spring, revealing a powerful source of golden Divine Spring Water. When they reunited with Ye Fan and the others, the group’s greed toward the creatures brought down a terrifying pressure that immobilized them.

• Xiao Nannan and Li Zhi followed the Golden Little Creatures into an ancient cave, where the creatures asked him to move a stone blocking their water source.
• Li Zhi found that the Stone Ox emitted a roar that blasted him into a wall, then used the Hundred Herbs Diagram and Luoyang Shovel to remove it.
• A torrent of golden Divine Spring Water burst from the fissure, and the pool’s Life Essence grew denser as the Golden Little Creatures celebrated with Li Zhi and Xiao Nannan.
• Ye Fan and the others called for Xiao Nannan and Li Zhi, who left the cave and reunited with them at its entrance.
• Big Black Dog identified the Golden Little Creatures as valuable treasures, and the group moved toward the cave before a terrifying pressure immobilized them.
• Xiao Nannan took Li Zhi’s hand and walked over to Ye Fan and the others, asking what had happened to them.

Li Zhi and the group escaped the sentient Immortal Tears Green Gold, and Li Zhi gained a destructive power in his eyes after being affected by its sorrow. After resting and sharing golden Divine Spring Water, they continued toward Immortality Mountain’s center, where they sensed an Immortal Divine Medicine.

• Li Zhi and the sentient Immortal Tears Green Gold shared a vision of sorrow that made everyone except Nannan weep until she brought them back to their senses.
• Li Zhi closed his eyes and left with the group, while the force of destruction awakened in his pupils and remained unstable.
• Big Black Dog identified the sentient treasure as Immortal Tears Green Gold, and Li Zhi explained that Nannan and he had visited a mine and collected golden Divine Spring Water.
• Li Zhi shared the spring water with the group, accepted the Assassin Divine Dynasty’s killing Sacred Art from Ye Fan, and considered how it could inform his Red Dust Tribulation Cultivation Method.
• The group continued toward the center of Immortality Mountain and smelled an Immortal Divine Medicine; Ye Fan warned them not to move or search with divine sense, and they watched Li Zhi.

Li Zhi used Silver Fine Sand and Xiao Nannan to harvest eight Divine Medicine Eggs from the Black Tortoise Immortality Elixir without taking the mature medicine. The group continued through Immortality Mountain and found four ancient halls containing powerful beings suppressed by Emperor Void’s Void Dao Patterns.

• Li Zhi asked Xiao Nannan to locate the Black Tortoise Immortality Elixir and used Ye Fan’s Origin Heaven Divine Eye to inspect the abandoned Treasure Land where it had once taken root.
• Li Zhi buried himself in Silver Fine Sand while Xiao Nannan called the Little Green Turtle over, and the Black Tortoise Immortality Elixir laid eight Divine Medicine Eggs before falling asleep.
• Li Zhi collected the eggs and sand, gave one egg to each companion, and explained that he avoided taking the mature medicine to keep from alerting Immortality Mountain’s powerful inhabitants.
• The group continued along Emperor Void’s Life Gate and found four ancient halls on black mountains, where Li Zhi saw Void Dao Patterns suppressing powerful life-forms.
• Xiao Nannan saw no Golden Little Creature leading to the halls, and Li Zhi warned that the beings inside were powerful and their suppression was nearly exhausted.

Li Zhi used a secret art to steal Spiritual Herbs from the Medicine Fields on Immortality Mountain, while Xiao Nannan unexpectedly pulled an entire Medicine Field toward the group. The Medicine Field’s Dao Patterns exploded as everyone rushed to collect its herbs.

• The group found Medicine Fields filled with ancient Spiritual Herbs but saw the corpses of experts and detected poison that sickened Big Black Dog, Li Heishui, and Tu Fei.
• After finding four Ten-Thousand-Year Spiritual Herbs, Tu Fei watched as Li Zhi used a rune-formed giant hand to steal thirteen more herbs from the mountain’s Medicine Fields.
• Li Zhi stored the stolen herbs in the Hundred Herbs Diagram, and Black Emperor recognized that the technique had required a Quasi-Emperor Divine Weapon.
• Xiao Nannan extended a Sky Shrouding Hand and pulled an entire Medicine Field toward the group before her hand shattered.
• Li Zhi pinned the incoming Medicine Field with a mountain phantom while Ye Fan and the others gathered its herbs, but its Dao Patterns soon exploded.

Li Zhi separated from Ye Fan and the others in Immortality Mountain and used an ancient void array to escape with a pursuer. The array brought them to the Ji Clan’s Void Divine Palace, where Li Zhi and the Ji Clan fought the Immortality Mountain visitors.

• Li Zhi and the others fled the Medicine Field as the presence in the Ancient Hall began to awaken, then reached the central region of Immortality Mountain.
• Xiao Nannan led the group to an ancient chessboard, and Black Emperor used its Array Patterns to teleport Pang Bo and Tu Fei to separate destinations.
• Li Zhi stayed behind while Ye Fan, Xiao Nannan, and the others teleported away; he then used the chessboard to escape with a Stone Wolf and an old Daoist pursuing him.
• Li Zhi and his pursuers arrived in the Ji Clan’s Void Divine Palace, where a Ji Clan Elder and a talented youth prepared to confront them.
• The youth attacked the old Daoist, while Li Zhi’s Guardian General fought him and the Ji Clan Elder battled the Stone Wolf.

Li Zhi used the Void Mirror’s power to help the Ji Clan kill two pursuers from Immortality Mountain, then revealed his knowledge of Ji Zi’s identity. A combined Heavenly Tribulation struck outside the Ancient Void Palace, where Li Zhi endured it and recovered, leaving Ji Zi and Ji Yuanxu intent on learning more from him.

• Li Zhi urged the Ji Clan youth to awaken the Void Mirror, and its power let Li Zhi’s Guardian General and Ji Yuanxu kill the old man from Immortality Mountain and the Stone Wolf.
• Li Zhi introduced himself as Li Changshou, explained how he reached the Void Divine Palace through Emperor Void’s array, and revealed that the young man was Ji Zi, Emperor Void’s biological son.
• When Li Zhi’s Heavenly Tribulation arrived, Ji Yuanxu sent him outside the palace, where two overlapping tribulations buried the plaza in thunder.
• Li Zhi endured the thunder with the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation technique while the Five Gods Nurturing Life Art strengthened his primordial spirit; Ji Zi and Ji Yuanxu watched as Ji Clan elders gathered.
• After the three-hour Thunder Sea ended, Li Zhi drank golden Life Divine Spring Water and restored his body, while Ji Zi told the Ji Clan elders that Li Zhi was his friend and ordered them to keep the palace incident secret.

After recovering from his tribulation in the Ancient Void Palace, Li Zhi learned from Ji Zi that the greatest Dark Turmoil in history was approaching and offered him Enlightenment Tea Leaves to help him prepare. Ji Zi welcomed Li Zhi as a guest of the Ji Clan, and the two agreed to spar and study the Ji Clan’s extensive collection of cultivation scriptures.

• Li Zhi asked Ji Zi to let him comprehend the Dao in the Ancient Void Palace, and Ji Zi ordered Ji Yuanxu to keep the day’s events secret.
• After a month of cultivation, Li Zhi awakened at Four Extremities Great Perfection and thanked Ji Zi for protecting him.
• Ji Zi asked whether the Dark Turmoil was near, and Li Zhi warned that it would be the greatest in history before offering him Enlightenment Tea Leaves.
• Li Zhi and Ji Zi discussed their backgrounds, and Ji Zi invited him to read the Ji Clan’s collections, excluding the Void Scripture unless Ji Zi taught it to him.
• Ji Zi and Li Zhi agreed to spar, and Li Zhi learned that the Ancient Void Palace held a vast collection of scriptures and cultivation records.

Li Zhi explored Ji Clan’s Scripture Repository, then trained and sparred with Ji Zi in the void for six months. Their cultivation realms barely changed, but their understanding of the Dao and combat abilities improved greatly, leaving Li Zhi ready to enter the Dragon Transformation Realm.

• Li Zhi reflected on the path to attaining the Dao and praised Ji Clan’s collection of scriptures, while Ji Zi lamented that his clan still had to contend with Immortality Mountain’s Supreme Beings.
• Li Zhi memorized the repository’s scriptures over seventeen days, beginning with the cultivation notes of Great Powers rather than the Great Emperor Ancient Scriptures.
• Li Zhi and Ji Zi went to an arena forged from compressed stars and fought, with Li Zhi falling behind because his combat techniques were limited compared with Ji Zi’s Void Divine Techniques.
• Ji Zi identified the mismatch between Li Zhi’s cultivation and his divine abilities, and Li Zhi said he would incorporate techniques from the repository into the Seven Forms of Loose Hands.
• Li Zhi and Ji Zi used Enlightenment Tea Water to cultivate and fought minor battles every three days and major battles every seven days for six months.
• Their understanding of the Dao advanced greatly, and Li Zhi consolidated his Four Extremes Realm cultivation and became ready to enter the Dragon Transformation Realm.

After seven months of sparring and Dao discussions inside the Ancient Void Palace, Li Zhi and Ji Zi emerged, with Ji Zi having advanced three minor cultivation levels. Li Zhi traveled through the Ji Clan’s Domain Gate toward the Central Domain, while the Ji Clan Holy Lord questioned Ji Ziyue and Ji Biyue about him.

• The Ji Clan’s Great Powers waited outside the sealed Ancient Void Palace and discussed Li Zhi’s identity and the Dao Yi Holy Land’s claim that he was its Little Heavenly Venerate.
• Ji Zi and Li Zhi emerged after half a year of sparring, and Ji Zi revealed that his cultivation had risen to the fifth level of Dragon Transformation.
• Ji Zi asked the Ji Clan Holy Lord to let Li Zhi use the Domain Gate to visit Divine Doctor Wang, and Li Zhi departed for the Tiansuan Ruins in the Central Domain.
• Ji Zi left with Ji Yuanxu to undergo his Heavenly Tribulation, while the Ji Clan Holy Lord summoned Ji Ziyue, Ji Biyue, and Ji Haoyue to ask about Li Zhi.
• Ji Biyue called Li Zhi greedy, lecherous, shameless, and recklessly bold, and Ji Ziyue asked whether he was visiting the Ji Clan.

Li Zhi returned to the Tianxuan Ruins to prepare for an unusual Dragon Transformation breakthrough, then visited Divine Doctor Wang to seek help with his eyes. There, he found the doctor and a Dao Yi Holy Land elder eager to see him, while the Wind Clan Holy Lord invited him to visit.

• The Ji Clan Holy Lord sent Ji Biyue to follow Li Zhi and investigate his background, and Ji Ziyue secretly followed her.
• Li Zhi surveyed the Tianxuan Ruins and planned to use its Dragon Qi to cultivate the Human Body Great Dragon through nine True Dragon transformations.
• Li Zhi went to Divine Doctor Wang to ask for help with his Divine Eye before attempting his breakthrough.
• Divine Doctor Wang and the Dao Yi Holy Land elder greeted Li Zhi excitedly, and Li Zhi explained that his eyes were not injured but covered as part of his cultivation.
• The Wind Clan Holy Lord invited Li Zhi to visit the Wind Clan, then left after the others discouraged his questions about the Holy Body and the Little Heavenly Venerate title.

Li Zhi learned why Dao Yi Holy Land had named him its Little Heavenly Venerate and agreed to consider helping it decipher a tablet linked to Boundless Heavenly Venerate. He then joined Divine Doctor Wang in refining pills from Netherworld Grass, while Ji Biyue encountered Ji Ziyue outside the sealed grounds and accused her of endangering the Ji Clan.

• Divine Doctor Wang dismissed Old Daoist Li, but Li Zhi asked why Dao Yi Holy Land had called him its Little Heavenly Venerate.
• Old Daoist Li privately explained that Dao Yi Holy Land wanted Li Zhi to study an ancient tablet connected to Boundless Heavenly Venerate, and Li Zhi agreed to consider the request.
• Li Zhi showed Divine Doctor Wang three stalks of Netherworld Grass and said he could separate their harmful netherworld energy so they could be made into Divine Pills.
• Li Zhi and his Guardian General spent seven days processing the Netherworld Grass before he and Divine Doctor Wang began refining the pills in an old Tiansuan Holy Land alchemy chamber.
• Ji Biyue left the Formation surrounding Divine Doctor Wang's residence, but Ji Ziyue followed her and asked whether she had seen Li Zhi.
• Ji Biyue confronted Ji Ziyue, accusing her of having Li Zhi kill Ji Hui and seeking more Ji Clan victims.

Ji Biyue confronted Ji Ziyue over passing on the Void Scripture’s secret arts, then waited outside Divine Physician Wang’s cottage as Li Zhi endured a tribulation to refine Divine Pills. After the furnace yielded twelve Divine Pills and twenty-four weaker pills, Ji Biyue offered to buy the latter while Divine Physician Wang urged Li Zhi to give her a Divine Pill.

• Ji Biyue accused Ji Ziyue of betraying the Ji Clan by sharing the Void Scripture’s secret arts, and Ji Haoyue took his tearful sister away to return to the clan.
• Ji Biyue stayed outside Divine Physician Wang’s Formation, where a month later she watched Li Zhi endure thirty-six waves of Heavenly Tribulation for the Divine Pills.
• Divine Physician Wang explained that Li Zhi used the refined Thunder Force to complete the pills’ Heavenly Thunder Washing, and Li Zhi opened the furnace to reveal twelve Divine Pills and twenty-four weaker pills.
• Li Zhi gave Divine Physician Wang one Divine Pill and asked him to sell the weaker pills, while Ji Biyue offered the Ji Clan’s money for them.
• Divine Physician Wang privately advised Li Zhi to give Ji Biyue a Divine Pill to win her favor, but Li Zhi denied that they had that kind of relationship.

Li Zhi met Ji Biyue in Anyuan City, repaid her with Golden Divine Spring Water, and agreed to let the Ji Clan exchange his Substandard Pills for Spiritual Herbs. After they discussed the Divine Pills and recent events, Li Zhi headed for a prolonged retreat while Ji Biyue returned to the Ji Clan.

• Divine Doctor Wang gave Li Zhi the Substandard Pills and left to rest, asking him to entertain Ji Biyue.
• Li Zhi took Ji Biyue to a restaurant, where he gave her ten liters of Golden Divine Spring Water as repayment for her earlier hospitality.
• Ji Biyue tried to win Li Zhi's sympathy by describing her troubles within the Ji Clan, but he declined to involve himself in the clan's disputes.
• Ji Biyue offered to buy Li Zhi's Substandard Pills for the Ji Clan, and he let her take them in exchange for Spiritual Herbs of equal value.
• Li Zhi refused to sell the Divine Pills, explaining that they belonged to others, and he and Ji Biyue parted ways outside Anyuan City.

Li Zhi consumed a Divine Pill, strengthened his primordial spirit, and opened his eyes to awaken the Life and Death Divine Pupil. The chapter ends with the Wind Clan Holy Lord telling Feng Huang to meet the unusually powerful Little Heavenly Venerate from the Dao Yi Holy Land.

• Ji Biyue vowed to win Li Zhi over, while Li Zhi returned to Divine Doctor Wang and learned that the doctor’s cultivation had improved after refining the medicine.
• Li Zhi entered seclusion and consumed a Divine Pill to strengthen his primordial spirit and help his Divine Eye finish gestating.
• Li Zhi’s eyes opened, and their black-and-white rays pierced through the mountain and destroyed a distant peak; he recognized his awakened ability as the Life and Death Divine Pupil.
• Divine Doctor Wang warned Li Zhi to conceal the natural Great Dao mark on his forehead, and Li Zhi discovered that his pupil could reveal life-and-death paths and mysterious doors within his body.
• The Wind Clan Holy Lord urged Feng Huang to gain experience by sparring with the Little Heavenly Venerate, whom he said possessed Four Extremities Great Perfection cultivation despite appearing only twelve or thirteen years old.

Li Zhi gathered Dragon Subduing Stakes in Tiansuan Holy Land’s ruins to prepare a Myriad Dragons Returning to the Nest Great Formation, despite Divine Doctor Wang’s warning about the Saint guarding its Divine Soil. When Feng Huang challenged him to a spar, Li Zhi agreed to settle it in one move and unleashed the Mountain River Great Seal.

• Feng Huang asked the Wind Clan Holy Lord to find her a worthy opponent, and he directed her to Li Zhi at Divine Doctor Wang’s Thatched Cottage.
• Old Daoist Li sent Little Daoist Nun Yuchen and Dao Yi Holy Land disciples to find Li Zhi, while Li Zhi refined stone pillars and told Divine Doctor Wang he needed ten thousand Dragon Subduing Stakes for his formation.
• Divine Doctor Wang warned Li Zhi not to touch Tiansuan Holy Land’s Divine Soil because a Saint remained there, but Li Zhi continued mining for stones rich in Dragon Qi.
• Feng Lie confronted Li Zhi while he mined, but Li Zhi sent him flying and injured him; Feng Huang arrived and challenged Li Zhi to spar.
• Li Zhi refused Feng Huang’s challenge until the Wind Clan disciples blocked his way, then proposed that the loser mine for him; Feng Huang accepted.
• Little Daoist Nun Yuchen arrived as Li Zhi and Feng Huang prepared to fight, and Li Zhi attacked with the Mountain River Great Seal, which expanded into a towering Black Mountain.