Chapter Summaries

Li Zhi destroyed the Red-Haired Monster’s influence through a Heavenly Tribulation but suffered severe damage to his primordial spirit. After recovering in Qin City, he traveled through the Qinling Mountains and encountered cultivators who mistook him for a ghost.

• Li Zhi swallowed the divine thunder and entered the Thunder Pool, destroying the strange force inside him at the cost of his body and primordial spirit.
• Li Zhi regenerated his body, reached the ninth Minor Realm of Immortal One, and learned that his primordial spirit injuries could threaten his future cultivation.
• Duan De sealed the Robber's Tunnel, concealed the devastation, and promised to take Li Zhi to the Immortal Transformation Pool to seek a way to heal his injuries.
• Duan De left Qin City to explore tombs in the Qinling Ancient Vein, while Li Zhi rested before setting out after ten days.
• As Li Zhi traveled through the Qinling Mountains, a group of cultivators mistook him for a ghost because they could not sense his living aura.

Li Zhi investigated Qin Sect from afar while seeking the Nine Secrets, wary of its hidden powers and the risks to his damaged primordial spirit. He encountered Princess Yue Ling in disguise and traveled with her to discuss a favor.

• Li Zhi joined Gu Dali and the elders on a three-day search for Fierce Ghosts after learning they had robbed ancestral graves, then parted from them without finding any.
• Li Zhi reached Qin Sect and observed its branches, villagers, and hidden defenses, concluding that the surrounding villagers shared an extraordinary bloodline and that the main peak concealed mysteries.
• Li Zhi decided against joining Qin Sect to seek the Soldier Secret because he feared its hidden experts and the God Crossing Technique could exploit his damaged primordial spirit.
• Li Zhi recognized Princess Yue Ling beneath her disguise near Qin Sect and revealed that he was Li Zhi, whom she had known from Qishi Mansion.
• Li Zhi and Princess Yue Ling moved three thousand li away to talk, where she revealed her true appearance and asked whether he had come for Qinling Mountains' Immortal Transformation Pool.

Li Zhi infiltrated the Qin Sect and obtained the Soldier Secret, though its scripture aggravated his Primordial Spirit injuries. He left to search the Qinling Mountains for the Immortal Transformation Pool and a remedy, but after more than a month he had found only depleted pools and a fragment of pure Yang stone.

• Li Zhi told Princess Yue Ling he had come to the Qin Sect seeking the Soldier Secret, and she later returned to the sect with his divine sense secretly attached to her.
• Li Zhi used a Puppet Doll to search the Qin Sect and found weapon carvings that revealed the Soldier Secret, enduring a severe assault on his Primordial Spirit as he memorized its scripture.
• Li Zhi studied the Soldier Secret, learned its weapon-forging and weapon-nurturing methods, and decided he would not forge a Unique Immortal Weapon.
• Li Zhi left the Qin Sect and searched the Qinling Mountains for the Immortal Transformation Pool while healing his injuries, but found only false pools already picked clean.
• Li Zhi found a fragment of stone radiating pure Yang Qi at one pool and angrily complained that other cultivators had taken everything worthwhile.

Li Zhi met the dying Gai Jiuyou in the Qinling Mountains and spent two months discussing the Immortal Transformation Pool, the Green Emperor, and cultivation. After recovering much of his strength with Sacred Lotus Root, Li Zhi parted from Gai Jiuyou better informed about which of his cultivation ideas were dangerous.

• Li Zhi met the Sick Old Man at an Immortal Transformation Pool and learned that he was Gai Jiuyou, the former Unrivaled Under Heaven.
• Li Zhi shared his theories about Gai Jiuyou’s failed attempt to attain the Dao and the Green Emperor’s strength, while Gai Jiuyou questioned him about his knowledge.
• Li Zhi and Gai Jiuyou traveled together through the Qinling Mountains, where Li Zhi found Sacred Lotus Root and recovered roughly ninety percent of his strength.
• Li Zhi proposed cultivating where the Ancient Dragon Lair’s Holy Spirit had been born, but Gai Jiuyou warned that the place would create shackles for a flesh-and-blood cultivator.
• After two months together, Li Zhi parted from Gai Jiuyou, having learned which of his unusual cultivation methods might work and which would lead to death.

Li Zhi reflected on how exhaustive planning and guidance from Gai Jiuyou had transformed his cultivation, then parted ways with him and continued searching the Qinling Mountains. He found an ancient site that might be where the Immortal Transformation Pool would descend and recognized traces left by two explorers.

• Li Zhi explained that his path to attaining the Dao depended on the Heavenly Book, unconventional ideas, and systematically anticipating cultivation problems, which helped him enter sudden enlightenment and heal his primordial spirit.
• Gai Jiuyou was shaken by Li Zhi's arguments about Alternative Dao Attainers and realized he had overestimated himself when he attained the Dao under Green Emperor's Great Dao Suppression.
• Li Zhi and Gai Jiuyou parted ways after traveling together for two months, and Li Zhi followed Gai Jiuyou's warning to leave the Ancient Dragon Lair alone until he reached Great Emperor Level cultivation.
• Li Zhi searched the Qinling Mountains for Duan De while studying the Earth Veins through the Earth Book, and he discovered unusual Earth Qi beneath an ordinary Stone Forest near a dried-up lake.
• Li Zhi found ancient marks and Sanskrit inscriptions in the Stone Forest, recognized a monk and an old man riding an azure ox, and guessed that the Immortal Transformation Pool would descend there.

Li Zhi reunited with Ye Fan and the others at the Stone Forest, where he explained that the site was only the entrance to the Immortal Transformation Pool and refused to join their search. He left to wait for someone, warning Ye Fan that a major event lay ahead as the group prepared to continue without him.

• Li Zhi watched Li Heishui and the others arrive at the Stone Forest, then waited until Ye Fan joined them before revealing himself.
• Li Zhi startled the group with his ghostly appearance, stopped Ji Haoyue's divine blood, and briefly trapped everyone in his Dao Domain before lifting it.
• Li Zhi told the group that the Stone Forest was only the entrance to the Immortal Transformation Pool and that it had not yet descended into the mortal world.
• Li Zhi declined to search with Ye Fan and the others, saying he had his own arrangements and needed to wait for Daoist Priest Duan.
• Li Zhi privately assured Ye Fan that he would not miss what he was meant to obtain and predicted that the coming spectacle would make his name known throughout the world.
• After Li Zhi left, Li Heishui joked that he had departed because Ji Ziyue was the only girl among them and was already taken.

Li Zhi avoided joining Ye Fan’s group and later reached the Immortal Transformation Pool with Gai Jiuyou, while powerful cultivators gathered and fought over access to its treasures. The chapter ended with the pool’s shore descending into bloody chaos as cultivators rushed into the water and battled for advantageous positions.

• Li Heishui speculated that Li Zhi traveled only with beautiful women, and Ye Fan accidentally revealed that Li Zhi had a son and a daughter.
• Li Zhi chose not to accompany Ye Fan, reasoning that he would risk becoming a supporting figure in Ye Fan’s rise and the conflict that would damage Wang Teng’s path.
• More than ten days later, the Immortal Transformation Pool appeared, drawing powerful figures and young elites from across the lands.
• Li Zhi met Gai Jiuyou and accompanied him to the Ascension Ground, where Xiang Yufei fought Wang Teng, Ye Fan fought Wang Chong and others, and battles broke out over routes to the pool.
• Li Zhi and Gai Jiuyou reached the Immortal Transformation Pool ahead of most cultivators; Gai Jiuyou stared at the water in shock, while Li Zhi’s Heavenly Eye could not reveal its source of vitality.
• Cultivators leaped into the pool seeking treasures, and fighting over positions turned its shore into a battlefield where many died.

Li Zhi stayed out of the treasure hunt and began gathering the Immortal Transformation Pool’s yang qi and the Ancient Dragon Lair’s yin qi, believing their balance held unusual power. As the Red-Haired Monster advanced toward the pool and battles escalated, Yan Ruyu and the Jade Pool Saintess guarded Li Zhi while Peacock King and Red Dragon Old Daoist asked Yan Ruyu to lend them the Green Lotus Emperor Weapon.

• Li Zhi asked Gai Jiuyou about the killing intent and mysterious life force within the Immortal Transformation Pool, then discussed his belief in reincarnation and the Green Emperor’s possible pursuit of immortality.
• A Divine Pearl emerged from the Ancient Dragon Lair, drew cultivators inside, and released a Red-Haired Monster when a Great Power shattered it; Duan De then rushed toward a Green Copper bearing a Little Green Lotus in the Immortal Pool.
• Li Zhi cleared a balanced yin-and-yang site, set up the Myriad Dragons Returning to the Nest Great Formation with thirty-six True Dragon Banners, and used it to draw yin and yang qi into a millstone holding Nine Heavens Breathing Earth.
• Ye Fan identified Li Zhi’s qi-gathering, while the Jade Pool Saintess and Yan Ruyu went to guard him; the battles intensified as the Red-Haired Monster slaughtered cultivators and headed toward the Immortal Pool.
• Peacock King and Red Dragon Old Daoist asked Yan Ruyu to lend them the Green Lotus Emperor Weapon as Gai Jiuyou continued watching the Immortal Pool and Ancient Dragon Lair.

Li Zhi continued extracting Yin Yang Essence in the Ancient Dragon Lair, intimidating the jade creatures with his mysterious altar and Blood Sea. The Green Emperor emerged from the Immortal Transformation Pool, destroyed the Red-Haired Monster, and the chapter ended as the Immortal Emperor of the Central Continent attacked Li Zhi but his divine beams were blocked.

• Yan Ruyu lent Peacock King and the others the Chaos Green Lotus but stayed with Li Zhi, while the Jade Pool Saintess remained to protect him.
• A Jade Little Man and its jade entourage confronted Li Zhi for stealing Origin Immortal Essence, but Li Zhi revealed a mysterious altar, Blood Sea, and terrifying Divine Punishment, forcing them to back down.
• The Jade Little Men joined the Red-Haired Monster in attacking cultivators, but the Green Emperor emerged from the Immortal Transformation Pool and destroyed the jade creatures and the Red-Haired Monster.
• The Red-Haired Monster's corpse revealed a Supreme Yang Divine Pill, which shattered into fragments; Li Zhi used Dragon Vein power to seize six, while Yan Ruyu, the Jade Pool Saintess, and two Jade Pool Elders obtained four more.
• The Immortal Emperor of the Central Continent emerged from the Ancient Dragon Lair and attacked Li Zhi with divine beams, but the beams dispersed before reaching him.

After the Green Emperor destroyed the Holy Spirit from the Ancient Dragon Lair, Li Zhi used the chaos at the Immortal Transformation Pool and Dragon Lair to retrieve treasures with Dragon Claws infused with Heavenly Punishment. He gathered silt from the pool and a Dragon Vein frozen by Taiyin Power, then promised to deliver the Immortal Treasures to the Jade Pool Saintess and Yan Ruyu after returning to Qishi Mansion.

• The Green Emperor lent the Taihuang Sword to the Immortal Emperor of the Central Continent, then killed him and his Ancient War Chariot when he attacked with the sword and the Chaos Green Lotus.
• The Green Emperor's killing intent disappeared, leaving a piece of Green Copper that drew a crowd, while cultivators rushed to fight over treasures in the Immortal Transformation Pool and Ancient Dragon Lair.
• Li Zhi completed his preparations and used the True Scripture and thirty-six Formation Flags to form a giant Dragon Qi Divine Dragon with Yin and Yang Dragon Claws.
• Li Zhi sent the Ultimate Yang Dragon Claw into the Immortal Transformation Pool and collected silt from its depths, then used the Ultimate Yin Dragon Claw to retrieve a Dragon Vein frozen by Taiyin Power from the Ancient Dragon Lair.
• Cultivators began summoning their own Thunder Tribulations to compete for treasures, throwing both locations into chaos.
• Li Zhi told the Jade Pool Saintess and Yan Ruyu that he had completed the task and would deliver the Immortal Treasures to them after passing through the Divine Punishment and returning to Qishi Mansion.

Li Zhi survived a devastating Divine Punishment, recovered in the Qinling Mountains, and uncovered extraordinary treasures hidden in the spoils from the Immortal Transformation Pool and Ancient Dragon Lair. After visiting the Great Master of Heavenly Calculation’s tomb and returning to Qishi Mansion, he used the Earth Book to reassess its terrain and began to understand why it had been built there.

• Li Zhi left the Immortal Transformation Pool and Ancient Dragon Lair under Divine Punishment, then survived its deadly lightning after expending Immortal Treasures and two Immortal Pill fragments.
• Li Zhi spent three months recovering in a hidden Qinling Mountains cave, and the Divine Punishment refined his Pure Yang Primordial Spirit to perfection.
• Li Zhi searched the stolen materials in the Hundred Herbs Diagram, found several precious treasures, and refined three Dream Divine Marrow creatures into sealed Dragon Marrow pieces.
• Li Zhi discovered Dragon Pattern Black Gold in the Dragon Vein, suspected the Dream Divine Marrow mother plant had stolen it from the Nine-Aperture Stone Man, and forged a taller Dao Platform from the vein and another Dao Platform.
• Li Zhi visited the Great Master of Heavenly Calculation’s tomb at Yinlongchuan and left a Mutton-Fat White Jade Divine Iron Scripture bearing the Earth Book’s contents.
• Li Zhi returned to Qishi Mansion, heard that Saint Body Ye Fan had killed Northern Emperor Wang Teng’s younger brother and uncle, and used the Earth Book to examine Qishi Mansion’s terrain.

Li Zhi returned to Qishi Mansion, where Zhuang Ming showed him a history of ancient Imperial Dao Supreme Beings that he had compiled. Li Zhi then exchanged treasures and scriptures with Jade Pool Saintess and Yan Ruyu, leaving with Green Emperor’s Immortal Scripture and continuing his study of cultivation methods.

• Zhuang Ming showed Li Zhi his Examination of Past Emperors, a scroll recording nearly a hundred ancient Imperial Dao Supreme Beings across several eras.
• Li Zhi visited Jade Pool Saintess, gave her the Nine Heavens White Jade and Blue Little Dragon God Marrow, and received the Celestial Platform Chapter of the Emperor Scripture and details from Empress Mother's cultivation notes.
• Li Zhi advised Jade Pool Saintess to travel the Ancient Starry Road, but told her he planned to remain on Ancient Beidou Star for the coming century to witness the Great Dao's transformation.
• Li Zhi gave Jade Pool Saintess the Sun True Scripture and Taiyin True Scripture, then left her cave dwelling after three days.
• Li Zhi exchanged a handwritten copy of the five volumes of the Primordial Longevity Art with Yan Ruyu for Green Emperor's Immortal Scripture.

Li Zhi advised the Dao Yi Saintess to leave Qishi Mansion and gave her Divine Marrow and the Sun True Scripture before using a secret art to transform her in the Immortal Mansion World. He then told the Old Mansion Lord he would remain in Beidou rather than pursue the Ancient Starry Road, believing the coming transformation of the world offered another path toward immortality.

• Li Zhi spoke with the Dao Yi Saintess, who revealed that she remained at the eighth heaven of Dragon Transformation and felt increasingly outpaced by other prodigies.
• Li Zhi urged the Dao Yi Saintess to leave Qishi Mansion and said he would leave too, arguing that the mansion hindered the growth of most cultivators.
• Li Zhi gave the Dao Yi Saintess Divine Marrow and two volumes of the Sun True Scripture, then offered to use Heaven and Earth Furnace Refines the True Soul to transform her.
• The Dao Yi Saintess accepted the risk, and Li Zhi refined her in the Immortal Mansion World for thirty-six days, remaking her body and bringing her close to the Celestial Altar Realm.
• Li Zhi bade farewell to the Old Mansion Lord and explained that he would stay in Beidou instead of taking the Ancient Starry Road, believing its coming transformation would bring him closer to immortality.

Li Zhi concluded that Ye Fan’s Yin Yang Death Curse was a chance to strengthen his Dao foundation and refused the Yin Yang Sect’s demand that he attack him. While traveling with Dao Yi Saintess, he reflected on the different paths to immortality and realized his powerful Pure Yang Primordial Spirit was causing his mind to drift from his body.

• After leaving the Old Mansion Lord, Li Zhi told Ji Ziyue and Ye Fan’s companions that surviving the Yin Yang Death Curse could transform Ye Fan and give him an unmatched foundation.
• Li Zhi advised two Central State Great Powers to befriend Ye Fan, then refused the Yin Yang Sect’s request to help deal with him.
• When the Yin Yang Sect’s disciples and Great Powers attacked Li Zhi, they were reduced to Tribulation Ash.
• Li Zhi discussed the Five Immortal Paths and the Dao Seed Method with Dao Yi Saintess, then briefly entered a strange Dao Realm that frightened her.
• Li Zhi recognized that his Pure Yang Primordial Spirit was overwhelming his body and needed an Immortal Two breakthrough, then told Dao Yi Saintess about the Four Chaos Monkeys.

After Dao Yi Saintess established her Dao, she parted ways with Li Zhi, who traveled through Central State and the Eastern Wilderness Southern Domain before reaching Yan Capital. There, a boy named Gu Xiaozhong asked Li Zhi to tell his fortune, and the sand tray formed an image of a stick figure running toward a colossal cauldron.

• Dao Yi Saintess established her Dao after contemplating the destruction of the Yin Yang Divine City, then set out alone to enter the mortal world.
• Li Zhi left for the Great Xia Dynasty's Imperial Capital, traveled through Central State, and returned to the Eastern Wilderness Southern Domain.
• Li Zhi wandered through the Great Wilderness, exchanging insights with fierce birds and beasts until he reached Yan Capital.
• Gu Xiaozhong stopped Li Zhi and asked whether he would become an immortal, and Li Zhi agreed to tell his fortune.
• Gu Xiaozhong drew an incense burner in Li Zhi's sand tray, and Li Zhi used the Hand of Stealing Heaven to reshape the sand into a stick figure running toward a colossal cauldron.

Li Zhi helped an ordinary boy gain the chance to cultivate, then ended his hesitation and underwent a terrifying tribulation in the Primordial Ruins. Observers recognized his extraordinary talent and watched as he entered the Thunder Pool and used the Demon Emperor Hall’s Dragon Transformation Secret Technique to temper his bloodline.

• Li Zhi told the boy’s mother that her son could cultivate at Jade Cauldron Grotto-Heaven only after meeting an Immortal, then secretly gave him Divine Spring Water to help him open his Bitter Sea.
• Li Zhi traveled to the Primordial Ruins, reflected on seizing chances to defy fate, and released the cultivation he had been accumulating at the Immortal One level.
• Li Zhi entered the Ten Thousand Spirits Great Tribulation as thunder shattered hundreds of mountains and transformed into a continent filled with thunder beasts.
• Cultivators watching nearby recognized Li Zhi, and Shen Youzhi praised him as a figure with the bearing of a Great Emperor.
• Two Great Yao from Demon Emperor Hall discussed Li Zhi’s immense potential and considered introducing him to Qi Lin and marrying him to Qi Qi.
• The Great Yao watched Li Zhi enter the Thunder Pool and use the Yao Emperor’s Dragon Transformation Secret Technique to temper his bloodline.

After surviving his tribulation, Li Zhi became an Immortal Two Great Power and gained a deeper understanding of the Primordial Ruins’ terrain. While others chose not to disturb him, Weiwei went to confront him, and Li Zhi began considering how to cultivate multiple supreme Sea of Wheels Phenomena.

• Li Zhi survived three days of Heavenly Thunder and became an Immortal Two Great Power, with his bloodline showing the beginnings of Seven-Colored Divine Light.
• Li Zhi sensed profound changes to his body, spirit, magical power, and control of Heaven and Earth, then entered deep meditation inside his Protective Formation.
• The Southern Range Demon Emperor Hall’s Old Demons reported what they had witnessed to Southern Demon Qi Lin, while factions debating whether to visit Li Zhi ultimately chose to wait for Ye Fan outside the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Zone.
• The master of the Spirit Void Grotto-Heaven turned back, and Weiwei flew alone into the Primordial Ruins to confront Li Zhi over her master’s suggestion that she marry him.
• Li Zhi comprehended the Yin Yang Life and Death Diagram from the Primordial Ruins’ terrain and considered cultivating multiple Sea of Wheels Phenomena before merging them into one.

Li Zhi cultivated the Yin Yang Life and Death Diagram and reached the consummate level of Immortal Two’s first minor realm. He clashed with Weiwei after she mistook his scrutiny for an attempt to take advantage of her, and their misunderstanding was resolved before they went to confront her master, who had already fled.

• Li Zhi cultivated the Yin Yang Life and Death Diagram, formed the Kunpeng Divine Form, and advanced to the consummate level of Immortal Two’s first minor realm.
• Weiwei entered an Enlightenment State while observing Li Zhi’s breakthrough, and Li Zhi noticed the unusual Immortal Qi within her.
• Weiwei awoke, accused Li Zhi of staring at her, and attacked him; they fought and argued until their anger subsided.
• Li Zhi and Weiwei compared what her master had told them and discovered that he had falsely claimed Li Zhi wanted Weiwei as his Dao Companion.
• Li Zhi asked Weiwei to return with him to the Spirit Void Grotto-Heaven to confront her master, but they found that he had left after writing a letter.

After Weiwei read her master's farewell letter, she helped Li Zhi locate the Primordial Ruins’ hidden formation nodes and refine a powerful Yin Yang Tai Chi Diagram. Li Zhi then studied the Green Lotus Emperor Scripture and rebuilt his Life Spring, but the resulting surge of Life Essence drove Death Qi toward the shore and left him with an ominous feeling.

• Weiwei read her master's letter, learned he had chosen to leave without extending his life, and vowed to devote herself to becoming an immortal.
• Li Zhi visited Weiwei, declined to rely on her, then asked her Fairy Spirit Eyes to locate Green Emperor's arrangements beneath the Primordial Ruins.
• With Weiwei's help, Li Zhi established a formation and used a Heaven and Earth Furnace to refine the Nine Heavens Breathing Earth and Yin Yang Qi into a Great Power-level Yin Yang Tai Chi Diagram.
• After Weiwei departed, Li Zhi began comprehending the Green Lotus Emperor Scripture and used its method to recreate his Life Spring.
• Li Zhi doubled the Life Spring's diameter, filling the Bitter Sea with Life Essence and pushing Death Qi toward the shore as the sea churned ominously.

Li Zhi formed a Dead Qi Abyss in his Bitter Sea, created the embryonic form of an Ancient Scripture, and advanced to the Third Heaven of Immortal Two after surviving a powerful tribulation. Several years later, he returned to Jin State and entered the Fire Domain to cultivate his Divine Fire Tribulation.

• Li Zhi used the Taiyin True Scripture to shape a Dead Qi Abyss and Death Qi Wheel, balanced vitality and death in his Bitter Sea, and connected the Divine Bridge to the Other Shore Immortal Realm.
• The chanting in Li Zhi's Sea of Wheels produced the embryonic form of an Ancient Scripture, greatly increasing his magical power.
• Li Zhi shattered the Thunder Pool during his tribulation, advanced from the First Heaven to the Third Heaven of Immortal Two, and emerged unharmed.
• Gui Long and Jin Zhao of the Southern Range Demon Emperor Hall discussed Li Zhi's rapid progress, and Li Zhi challenged Jin Zhao to a fight to test his strength.
• Jin Zhao judged that Li Zhi possessed Eight Prohibitions Combat Power, though Li Zhi lost their battle without using his full strength.
• Several years later, Li Zhi returned to Jin State and entered the Fire Domain without protective magic to temper his body with the Red Dust Tribulation Divine Fire Tribulation.