Chapter Summaries

Li Zhi gathered materials and built the Myriad Dragons Returning to the Nest Great Formation in the Tiansuan Holy Land Ruins to prepare for his breakthrough to the Dragon Transformation Realm. After activating it and drawing Dragon Qi from the land, he drew the attention of Divine Doctor Wang, who emerged from seclusion with his cultivation advanced.

• The Wind Clan's Seventh Elder stopped Feng Huang from fighting Li Zhi after he shattered Li Zhi's mountain attack, and Old Daoist Li took over entertaining the Wind Clan elder.
• Li Zhi led the Dao Yi Holy Land disciples to gather stones and refine ten thousand Dragon Subduing Stakes, then told Little Daoist Nun Yuchen he planned to construct a Dragon Nest and break through.
• Li Zhi arranged the Myriad Dragons Returning to the Nest Great Formation across the Tiansuan Holy Land Ruins, while Old Daoist Li defended his use of the site's Dragon Qi against the Wind Clan's Seventh Elder.
• Li Zhi finished a coffin-shaped Dragon Nest, activated the formation, and drew Dragon Qi from nine mountain ranges into nine enormous Divine Dragons.
• Little Daoist Nun Yuchen questioned how the gathered Dragon Qi could help Li Zhi, and Divine Doctor Wang emerged from seclusion with his cultivation advanced.

Li Zhi used Dragon Qi and Heavenly Thunder to forge a golden Divine Dragon, then transformed it with his life-and-death divine light and sent it through his Secret Realms toward the Heavenly Domain. The dragon entered the first layer, devoured a Law Dragon Tail, and grew stronger.

• Li Zhi drew nine Dragon Qi Divine Dragons into the Stone Coffin and used mysterious ancient characters to withstand the Heavenly Tribulation.
• Inside the coffin, Li Zhi compressed the Dragon Qi, infused it with Law Fragments, and guided Heavenly Thunder to forge it into a golden Divine Dragon.
• The golden Divine Dragon emerged from the shattered coffin, and Li Zhi used his black-and-white divine light to give it black-and-white eyes.
• Li Zhi sent the Divine Dragon through his Sea of Wheels, Dao Palace, and Four Extremities, where it absorbed power from his Life Immortal Liquid, Five Deities, and Immortal Divine Mountains.
• The Divine Dragon entered the first layer of the Heavenly Domain, dispersed its Chaos Mists, and swallowed a Law Dragon Tail, gaining strength.

Li Zhi endured the third wave of his Dragon Tribulation after merging with the Golden Divine Dragon, and he learned to fight with a dragon’s methods instead of relying on human techniques. As he began to turn the battle around, he comprehended the essence of Dragon Transformation and awakened new dragon abilities.

• Li Zhi opened the first three Heaven Domains, evolving a Mysterious Rune in the Golden Divine Dragon for each one, before the tribulation clouds formed overhead.
• Li Zhi fought waves of Thunder Dragons, devouring their fragments as Dragon Qi strengthened the three Heaven Domains and formed a firm golden light over his body.
• When eighty-one powerful Thunder Dragons appeared, Li Zhi merged his body and primordial spirit with the Golden Divine Dragon and faced them within the Thunder Sea.
• The Thunder Dragons overwhelmed Li Zhi, repeatedly blasting his transformed body apart, while he survived through the Phoenix Tribulation Rebirth Technique and Life Divine Spring Water.
• Li Zhi realized that human methods were poorly suited to his dragon body, and the three Mysterious Runes helped him move with greater agility and evade the Thunder Dragons.
• Li Zhi comprehended that change was the essence of Dragon Transformation and began to master the Nine Transformations of the True Dragon, awakening Dragon Tail Sweep, Flying Dragon in the Sky, and Hidden Dragon Leaping Abyss.

Li Zhi mastered the use of the Heavenly Tribulation’s Thunder Dragons to strengthen himself, then learned that future Dragon Transformation tribulations would involve a mysterious True Dragon Ancient Platform. After reaching the Dragon Transformation Realm’s third Minor Realm, he sparred with Feng Huang and Dao Yi Saintess Yuchen while the gathered elders discussed his potential and possible marriage prospects.

• Li Zhi counterattacked the eighty-one Thunder Dragons, devouring their thunderous essence and Law Fragments until they retreated into the Tribulation Cloud.
• Li Zhi glimpsed a True Dragon Ancient Platform and Chaos Thunder Pool within the thunderclouds, then withdrew as the tribulation ended.
• Feng Huang and Dao Yi Saintess Yuchen challenged Li Zhi to spar, and he explained that his unusually vast Bitter Sea gave him far greater cultivation power than ordinary cultivators of his realm.
• Li Zhi fought Feng Huang and Yuchen for more than half a day, and the observing Great Powers judged that he likely possessed Eight Prohibitions Combat Power.
• Divine Doctor Wang suggested that the Wind Clan contact Li Zhi about a young woman from the Ji Clan, but Old Daoist Li objected that romance could disrupt Li Zhi’s religious cultivation.

Li Zhi left Divine Doctor Wang and traveled with Dao Yi Holy Land’s people to its secluded Dao Land, where Little Daoist Nun Yuchen explained the sect’s traditions. After meeting Daoist Wuchen and entering the Three Yuan Temple, Li Zhi asked about its Virtual Gods and the Virtual God Realm, surprising Yuchen with his knowledge.

• Li Zhi, Feng Huang, and Little Daoist Nun Yuchen ended their spar in a draw, and Feng Huang and Yuchen challenged him to spar again after reaching the Great Power realm and before the Immortal Third Slash Dao, respectively.
• Divine Doctor Wang warned Li Zhi to beware of the Wind Clan and Dao Yi Holy Land, and Li Zhi left him three Enlightenment Tea Leaves before departing with Dao Yi Holy Land’s people.
• Little Daoist Nun Yuchen explained that Dao Yi Holy Land had two harmonious branches and that its founder rejected floating mountains in favor of understanding nature and the Ten Thousand Daos.
• Old Daoist Li brought Li Zhi and Yuchen to the sect’s remote Dao Land, where Yuchen told Li Zhi that they had to walk because acquired Dao techniques were forbidden there.
• Daoist Wuchen met Li Zhi and Yuchen at the Three Yuan Temple and guided them through it; after Li Zhi asked about the Virtual Gods and the Virtual God Realm, Yuchen asked how he knew of it.

Li Zhi revealed his knowledge of the Virtual God Realm to Dao Yi Holy Land’s elders, but Heavenly Punishment struck him when he began to disclose its secrets. After recovering, he followed Yuchen along the Green Stone Path, absorbed the Dao Rhythm left by past Grandmasters, and arrived at the Three-Colored Earth Altar.

• Yuchen brought Li Zhi to Virtual God Hall, where Yuanxu and Wuchen asked what he knew about the Virtual God Realm and its three deities.
• Li Zhi explained that the Virtual God Realm was a Spiritual World built by powerful figures of the Immortal Ancient Period, but Heavenly Punishment struck him before he could reveal more.
• Yuanxu apologized and sent Yuchen with Li Zhi to the Ancestral Hall, while Wuchen chose to enter the Ten Thousand Feet of Red Dust.
• Li Zhi absorbed the Dao Rhythm on the Green Stone Path for half a month as Yuchen guided him through Dao Yi Holy Land.
• Li Zhi and Yuchen reached the Three-Colored Earth Altar, whose atmosphere contrasted with the surging Essence, Qi, Spirit, and Dao Rhythm around it.

Li Zhi and Little Daoist Nun Yuchen entered the Dao Yi Holy Land’s Two Forms Realm, where Old Daoist Yuxuan invited them to cultivate in its dangerous Dao-tempering grounds. Li Zhi began cultivating on the Dao Seeking Temple’s central Dao Platform, where the Dao Dissolution Power intensified.

• Little Daoist Nun Yuchen guided Li Zhi through the Three-Colored Earth Altar into the Two Forms Realm and explained its Dao Dissolution Power and two cultivation temples.
• Old Daoist Yuxuan appeared, praised Li Zhi’s ability to inspect all the Dao Marks on the Blue Stone Path in fifteen days, and invited him and Little Daoist Nun Yuchen to cultivate in the sacred grounds.
• Old Daoist Yuxuan explained the ancient cultivation method and led Li Zhi and Little Daoist Nun Yuchen into the Dao Seeking Temple, promising to protect them.
• Li Zhi chose the central Dao Seeking Hall despite Yuchen’s warning that twenty-three Holy Sons and Saintesses had died there.
• Li Zhi stopped suppressing his Dao Marks, felt his cultivation begin to dissolve, then stepped onto the Dao Platform to attain enlightenment as the Dao Dissolution Power nearly doubled.

Li Zhi completed a month of dangerous cultivation on the Dao Platform, then restored his energy in the Dao Transformation Spirit Pool and traveled with Old Daoist Yuxuan and Little Daoist Nun Yuchen into the Dao Yi Secret Realm. At the Dao Yi Holy Land’s humble Ancestral Hall, he declined an offer to become its Little Heavenly Venerate, and Dao Xuan led him into the thatched hut to discuss a favor.

• Li Zhi spent a month tempering his cultivation and Golden Divine Dragon on the Dao Platform until he neared the fourth level of Dragon Transformation.
• Old Daoist Yuxuan took Li Zhi and Little Daoist Nun Yuchen to the Hundred Refinements Temple, where Li Zhi replenished his energy in the Dao Transformation Spirit Pool without further strengthening his already resilient body.
• After waiting five days for Little Daoist Nun Yuchen, Old Daoist Yuxuan led them into the Dao Yi Secret Realm, where they passed ancient Daoists and abundant medicinal plants on their way to the Ancestral Hall.
• Dao Xuan and Daoist Dexuan welcomed Li Zhi, and Dao Xuan offered him the position of Little Heavenly Venerate if he joined the Dao Yi Holy Land.
• Li Zhi refused to join because he wanted to travel freely, and Dao Xuan led him into the thatched hut to ask him for a favor.

Li Zhi entered the Dao Yi Holy Land’s hut to comprehend the Boundless Heavenly Venerate Tablet, while the elders judged his talent and discussed the danger he posed. As his attempt began, the tablet’s Dao Rhythm transformed into an army of formidable creatures that overwhelmed him in their first clash.

• Daoist Nun Daoxuan brought Li Zhi to the Boundless Heavenly Venerate Tablet and asked him to seek insights into the Great Dao Boundless Scripture.
• Little Daoist Nun Yuchen warned Li Zhi that the tablet could destroy his mind if he forced his comprehension, then explained that the Dao Yi Holy Land had failed to obtain the Combat Secret.
• Daoist Nun Daoxuan, Daoist Dexuan, and Old Daoist Yuxuan discussed Li Zhi’s exceptional talent, hidden power, and ominous presence, and agreed to befriend him rather than make him an enemy.
• Li Zhi sat with Little Daoist Nun Yuchen before the tablet and began to comprehend its Dao Rhythm.
• The tablet appeared to Li Zhi as an azure sky that produced countless Young Supreme-like creatures, and he was injured when he fought them.

Li Zhi fought the Incarnations of Ten Thousand Daos in his Mind World and overcame the trial of the Heavenly Venerate Ancient Tablet. He awoke with renewed confidence in attaining the Dao, while the three Grandmasters of Dao Yi Holy Land had withheld a warning that might have protected him from lasting harm.

• Li Zhi summoned his strongest combat form and fought the Incarnations of Ten Thousand Daos, treating them as obstacles on his path to the Dao.
• Little Daoist Nun Yuchen was awakened from enlightenment when her protective Jade Talisman crumbled, and she alerted Daoist Nun Dao Xuan, Daoist Dexuan, and Old Daoist Yuxuan to Li Zhi’s dangerous state.
• Daoist Nun Dao Xuan and the others explained that Li Zhi was undergoing the tablet’s trial, but they did not tell him that forced awakening could damage his mind and interrupt his cultivation.
• The Grandmasters debated whether Li Zhi could overcome the trial, while Little Daoist Nun Yuchen recovered her mental power beneath a Dragon Cypress Ancient Tree.
• The creatures in Li Zhi’s Mind World weakened, and he destroyed them, solidifying his confidence that Heaven and Earth could not prevent him from attaining the Dao.
• Li Zhi opened his eyes before the Heavenly Venerate Ancient Tablet, and the battle intent and Killing Intent around him vanished.

Li Zhi comprehended the four Great Emperor Characters on the Heavenly Venerate Ancient Tablet and witnessed a vision that imprinted their Great Dao Runes in his heart. To conceal his gains, he claimed his primordial spirit had been injured by failed enlightenment, and the Daoists rushed to help him recover.

• Li Zhi accelerated time in the Ancient Tablet’s Mind World and fought its myriad-dao beings for over a hundred years before the world collapsed.
• Li Zhi entered a layered state of enlightenment and understood the four characters as profound Great Dao Runes, which he saw imprinted in his heart.
• The vision severely depleted Li Zhi’s Life Origin and Primordial Spirit Origin, and he decided to hide what he had gained from the three Daoists.
• Li Zhi knocked on the Thatched Hut door and told Old Daoist Yuxuan that his forced attempt at enlightenment had injured his primordial spirit.
• Daoist Nun Dao Xuan sent Old Daoist Yuxuan to fetch Spirit Nurturing Flowers while Daoist Dexuan carried Li Zhi to the Spirit Infusion Pool.

Li Zhi recovered from his Primordial Spirit injuries after leaving the Dao Yi Secret Realm and concealed his identity in the wilderness. A Dao Yi Holy Land disciple then confronted him with a portrait of Li Zhi, unaware that the disguised herb gatherer stood before him.

• Li Zhi slept for three days in the Spirit Infusion Pool while Daoist Dexuan, Daoist Nun Dao Xuan, and Old Daoist Yuxuan watched a recording of his brutal trial and judged his potential diminished.
• Old Daoist Yuxuan sent Li Zhi out of the Dao Yi Holy Land after Li Zhi swore to keep its secrets, and Li Zhi left through a Domain Gate.
• Li Zhi discarded the Mysterious Jade Platform, hid in a mountain cave, and used a Divine Pill and the Life Divine Coffin to recover for more than half a month.
• Li Zhi shared his remaining Divine Pills among Ye Fan, Xiao Nannan, Li Heishui, Tu Fei, Pang Bo, and Big Black Dog, then disguised himself as an herb gatherer.
• A Dao Yi Holy Land disciple showed Li Zhi a portrait of him and asked whether he had seen the young Daoist, and Li Zhi denied it.

Li Zhi learned that Dao Yi Holy Land was hunting him over rumors that he possessed a world-shaking fortune, and he realized he needed to grow stronger before others could seize his treasures. While following a group of minor-sect cultivators to trace how the rumors spread, he discovered that gray-robed men were already tracking the same secret.

• Li Zhi heard in Youyue Ancient City that Dao Yi Holy Land had branded him a thief and that Dao Yi Holy Son Li Donglai was searching for him.
• After changing his appearance, Li Zhi overheard young cultivators claim that he possessed an Immortal Divine Medicine, ancient scriptures, and an Immortal Treasure, and that he could not use his magical power for three years.
• Li Zhi counted his many treasures, concluded that his wealth and unusual cultivation had made him a target, and decided to return to the Northern Domain after finding out how he had been exposed.
• Li Zhi followed the young cultivators from Cloud Rain Pavilion to the mountain forest where he had emerged from the Domain Gate.
• Seven or eight gray-robed men subdued the cultivators and searched their souls, then one of them said that Dao Yi Holy Land had leaked news of Li Zhi's treasures.

Li Zhi discovered that many Central Domain forces were searching for him and disguised himself to investigate the situation at Divine Physician Wang’s residence. After slipping away into the Tiansuan Holy Land Ruins, he severed the pursuers’ Divine Sense, prompting them to seal off the ruins to capture him.

• Li Zhi encountered gray-robed men, cultivators from several Holy Lands, and demon forces searching for him, so he stopped looking for Dao Yi Holy Son and headed to Divine Physician Wang’s residence.
• Two Wind Clan cultivators guarding the approach asked Li Zhi about the Little Daoist Priest, and he directed them toward the Divine Soil of Tiansuan Holy Land before going to Divine Physician Wang’s Thatched Cottage.
• Divine Physician Wang warned Li Zhi that the gathered Great Powers were likely after his Divine Pills and urged him to leave the Central Domain, but Li Zhi said he had a plan and departed disguised as a Medicine Boy.
• Li Zhi flew into the Tiansuan Holy Land Ruins and activated the Underground Palace’s Dao Patterns to cut off the Great Powers’ Divine Sense tracking him.
• The Great Powers concluded that Li Zhi was the Little Daoist Priest and ordered the surrounding cultivators to form a barrier sealing off the Tiansuan Ruins.

Li Zhi realized that his borrowed luck had run out, leaving him hunted by the great powers, and decided to face the coming reckoning. He prepared a powerful Void formation in the Nine Dragon Veins while his pursuers closed in on the Tianxuan Ruins.

• Li Zhi found the approach to the Tiansuan Ruins sealed, then hid in a cave beneath the Dragon Veins to evade detection.
• Li Zhi reviewed his recent dealings with Dao Yi Holy Land, the Ji Clan, the Wind Clan, and other forces, and recognized how strangely they had treated him and his actions.
• Li Zhi concluded that his borrowed Cosmic Luck had been exhausted and that the karma he had accumulated was now catching up with him.
• Li Zhi accepted the crisis as a test of his path and prepared to rely on external forces rather than confront a Great Power directly.
• Li Zhi carved Void Dao Patterns into the Nine Dragon Veins, creating a vast Void Array Disk that he expected even a Great Power would struggle to break.
• The pursuers narrowed their search to a thousand-mile radius as eight Great Powers and numerous successor Holy Sons gathered near the Tianxuan Ruins.

The major forces surrounded the Tianxuan Ruins to hunt Li Zhi, while rumors spread among rogue cultivators about his treasures and the Dao Yi Holy Land’s hidden motive. Li Zhi waited inside a Stone Coffin as the searchers discovered it and halted their encirclement to set up a formation.

• Rogue cultivators discussed Li Zhi’s supposed treasures, his origins, and why the major forces were hunting him.
• The Wind Clan Holy Lord and Dao Yi Holy Lord visited Divine Physician Wang to keep him from helping Li Zhi, and Wang sealed himself in seclusion.
• The Wind Clan Holy Lord questioned whether Li Zhi had truly stolen the Dao Yi Holy Land’s scripture, whose legacy imprint had lost its Dao Rhythm after Li Zhi comprehended it.
• Li Zhi sensed thousands of cultivators closing in through the Dragon Veins while he waited inside a Stone Coffin in the Great Pit.
• Cultivators discovered the Stone Coffin, and a Great Power ordered them to stop shrinking the encirclement and plant Formation Flags around it.

Li Zhi lured the eight Great Powers into a Void Formation that transported them to Immortality Mountain, then reinforced the barrier trapping the remaining cultivators. He revealed his Saint Weapon and overwhelming strength by killing a Half-step Great Power, and the other Half-step Great Powers attacked him together.

• Li Zhi emerged from the Green Stone Coffin and challenged the gathered forces, claiming they would either bury him or be buried themselves.
• Li Zhi offered the eight Great Powers an Immortal Divine Medicine, provoking them to reach for him and the Jade Box.
• Emperor Void's Formation transported the eight Great Powers away, and Li Zhi reinforced the barrier with Dragon Qi to trap the remaining cultivators.
• Li Zhi donned golden armor, wielded a rust-covered Great Halberd, and killed a Half-step Great Power from Great Evolution Holy Land with one strike.
• The other Half-step Great Powers realized Li Zhi meant to fight them and attacked together with their treasures.

Li Zhi slaughtered every cultivator trapped inside the formation, performed rites for the dead, gathered their remains, and escaped in his Life Divine Coffin. Outside the barrier, eight injured Great Powers returned after narrowly escaping Immortality Mountain and found the blood-soaked, empty battlefield.

• Li Zhi unleashed a terrifying dragon roar, then fought through the night and killed every cultivator within the Barrier.
• Li Zhi chanted the Houtu Rebirth Sutra to liberate the lingering souls, collected the corpses and severed limbs in the Green Stone Coffin, and vanished in the Life Divine Coffin.
• Spectators outside the Barrier debated why the hunt had stalled, unaware that Li Zhi had wiped out the forces inside.
• Eight Great Powers returned to the Tiansuan Ruins after a Ji Clan Great Power used a Void Forbidden Artifact to break their passage toward Immortality Mountain.
• The eight Great Powers broke open the Barrier and found a devastated, blood-soaked battlefield with no survivors.

After Li Zhi annihilated the cultivators who had hunted him, the Holy Lands struggled to track him down and eventually named him a wanted criminal. Having recovered in the Northern Domain, Li Zhi resolved to seek battle in Central State and headed for the Peerless Myriad Dragon Nest to cultivate his Golden Divine Dragon.

• Onlookers blamed the slaughter at the Great Pit on the return of the Ruthless Person, while the eight Great Powers recognized Li Zhi and decided to report the matter to their Holy Lords.
• The Wind Clan Holy Lord recreated Li Zhi’s battle for Dao Yi Holy Lord, showing that Li Zhi had fought with a Sacred Halberd and used no Heaven Devouring Demonic Art.
• News of Li Zhi’s victory spread across the lands, and the Holy Lands eventually declared him a wanted criminal but could not discover his whereabouts or safely send pursuers.
• Li Zhi recovered from his wounds beside the Humanoid Immortality Elixir in the Northern Domain and resolved to seek battlefield experience in Central State.
• After his injuries had healed, Li Zhi crossed the Uninhabited Region toward the Peerless Myriad Dragon Nest to cultivate the Golden Divine Dragon.

Li Zhi entered the Peerless Myriad Dragon Nest beneath Ice Snow Palace, where he purified the Fierce Ghost in the Underworld God Palace and claimed the palace as a travel residence. He reached a sleeping Primordial Race and, disguised as an Imperial Heir, learned that its Ancestor King had not yet awakened.

• Li Zhi used his Heavenly Eye and Life and Death Divine Pupil to inspect the Dragon Vein and immense stores of Divine Source and Dragon Qi beneath Ice Snow Palace.
• Li Zhi entered the rear mountain cave, unsealed the well beneath the Old Ape's corpse, and descended with the Guardian General into an Underground Palace.
• Li Zhi found the Underworld God Palace drifting in an Abyss and purified the Fierce Ghost inside it, then took the Ice Palace for his own use.
• Li Zhi and the Guardian General descended deeper into the Abyss, where the Guardian General froze a Golden Being that attacked him.
• Li Zhi posed as an Ancient Imperial Heir, and the Golden Being apologized and revealed that its race's Ancestor King was still sleeping.