Chapter Summaries

Li Zhi escaped Wushi Dao Platform with Ye Fan, Duan De, and Heavenly Blind Old Man, then learned that Ye Fan intended to stay in Purple Mountain and use Wushi Bell to deter the Primordial Myriad Races. After the others left, Li Zhi underwent a Heavenly Tribulation and returned to find Duan De had dug up Ye Fan’s hidden physical body.

• Li Zhi pretended to be Great Emperor Wushi and frightened Ye Fan, Duan De, and Heavenly Blind Old Man before identifying himself and asking them to free him from the Dao Platform.
• Ye Fan used a Snow-white Crystal Skull and a Crescent-shaped Jade Pendant to lift the Chaos Waterfall, and the group studied the platform and harvested thirteen Medicine Kings.
• The group fought past Ancient Corpses and returned to the Wushi Scripture hall, where Ye Fan revealed his plan to make Wushi Bell ring for three months to deter the Primordial Myriad Races.
• Li Zhi gave Ye Fan a Transformation Divine Talisman, while Heavenly Blind Old Man and Duan De left the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Pot and nine Medicine Kings behind before escaping with Li Zhi.
• Li Zhi left Duan De to undergo his Heavenly Tribulation, then returned to find Duan De had dug up Ye Fan’s hidden body and planned to use it as collateral.

Li Zhi used the sound of Wushi Bell at Purple Mountain to strengthen his Great Dao and advance his cultivation, while the bell’s three-month ringing convinced the Primordial Races that humanity possessed formidable power. After Zhang Lin destroyed Deity Valley and the Primordial Imperial Clans assessed humanity’s Ultimate Dao Weapons, they abandoned plans to rule Beidou and agreed to pursue peace, leaving the Ten Thousand Races Conference under discussion.

• Duan De gave Li Zhi a dragon-marked Ancient Emperor Token to reinforce his assumed identity as Golden Dragon Emperor’s prince, then left to help Ye Fan show himself to the Primordial Races.
• Li Zhi stayed at Purple Mountain and cultivated as Ye Fan rang Wushi Bell for three months, tempering his Great Dao and advancing from the early to the middle stage of King Fourth Heaven.
• Wushi Bell’s continuous ringing renewed human confidence and made the Primordial Races fear that powerful human experts were controlling the weapon.
• Zhang Lin erased Deity Valley overnight, killing its three Ancestor Kings and further alarming the Primordial Races.
• The Primordial Imperial Clans counted humanity’s Ultimate Dao Weapons and abandoned plans to rule Beidou, then issued a call for peace.
• Victorious Fighting Buddha proclaimed “Peace under Heaven,” and the Primordial Races proposed a Ten Thousand Races Conference, which human Sect Masters supported.

Humanity’s factions prepared for the Ten Thousand Races Conference by inviting promising young cultivators, including Li Zhi, whose Seven Stars Dao Field had become a gathering place for wandering cultivators. After Hu Qin delivered the Jade Pool Queen Mother’s invitation, Li Zhi agreed to attend and learned that their old acquaintance Sun Yi had died in battle.

• Humanity’s factions invited young cultivators such as Xiang Yufei, Shaking Light Holy Son, Ji Haoyue, Purple Mansion Saintess, and Li Zhi to the Ten Thousand Races Conference.
• Wandering cultivators gathered around Li Zhi’s Seven Stars Dao Field, and Mengzhang enforced his rule against fighting and killing there.
• Hu Qin led Jade Pool Disciples to Li Zhi’s Dao Field, where his Myriad Stars Diagram drew them into a two-day state of enlightenment.
• Hu Qin gave Li Zhi the Jade Pool Queen Mother’s invitation, and he agreed to attend the conference at the Jade Pool Holy Land.
• Li Zhi learned from Hu Qin that Sun Yi had died in battle and gave Hu Qin a bottle of Top-grade Dragon Marrow.

After hearing of Sun Yi’s death, Li Zhi realized that his rapid cultivation had made him emotionally detached and vulnerable to a Dao Obstacle. He mourned Sun Yi, left Mengzhang and the Kirin Beast at his Dao Field, and arrived at the Jade Pool Holy Land in the Northern Domain half a month later.

• Rogue cultivators speculated about Li Zhi’s identity and plotted to send their children into his Dao Field, while the Six Great Grotto-Heavens of Yan State discussed winning his favor and Primordial Era Creatures anticipated the Myriad Races Grand Assembly.
• Li Zhi reflected on his indifference to Sun Yi’s death and realized that he was letting the Great Dao control him instead of experiencing the human world.
• Li Zhi planted a cypress tree in Sun Yi’s memory and played the Suona to mourn her as Mengzhang and the Kirin Beast came to see him.
• Li Zhi refused the Kirin Beast’s request to travel with him and told Mengzhang to leave the rogue cultivators alone and focus on cultivation.
• Li Zhi transformed into an ordinary young Daoist, left his Dao Field, and appeared at the Jade Pool Holy Land in the Northern Domain half a month later.

Li Zhi explored the gathering outside the Jade Pool and learned that the Primordial Races were divided, with most seeking peaceful places to live rather than war. He condemned the Human Race’s leaders for failing to display enough Kings at the assembly, then waited at the Oasis and saw the Son of Heaven arrive under the protection of four Kings.

• Li Zhi wandered through the Oasis and learned that many minor Primordial Races wanted land to live on, while fewer than a hundred races genuinely sought war with the Human Race.
• Li Zhi concluded that the Primordial Races were a loose alliance whose internal conflicts would resume if the Human Race stopped pressuring them.
• Li Zhi returned to the Jade Pool and found Duan De and Ye Fan tussling outside the Pure Land as distinguished guests arrived.
• Li Zhi noticed that only the Barbarian King of the Southern Range represented the major Human Race forces, and he criticized their leaders for making the Human Race appear weak.
• After waiting several days, Li Zhi went to the edge of the Oasis to await the Son of Heaven, who arrived two days later with four Kings guarding him.

Li Zhi entered Jade Pool in a dramatic disguise, blinding Son of Heaven and exposing his concern that the human race was failing to project strength at the Myriad Races Grand Assembly. The Jade Pool Queen Mother dismissed his worries, and the chapter ended as the Holy Prince killed one of Son of Heaven’s kings and confronted him.

• Li Zhi used Jade Pool’s invitation to announce his arrival, and the Divine Bell rang as his disguised procession approached.
• Son of Heaven’s attempt to see through Li Zhi’s Immortal Mist backlashed, and Li Zhi’s rebuke injured dozens of cultivators probing him with Dharma Eyes.
• Inside Jade Pool, Li Zhi asked the Jade Pool Saintess why the major human forces had not sent their kings to the assembly, then raised his concerns with the Queen Mother.
• The Queen Mother said Divine King Jiang Taixu, Gai Jiuyou, the Old Mansion Lord of Qishi Mansion, and the Northern Domain’s number-one Great Bandit had a plan to teach the Primordial Myriad Races a bloody lesson.
• After Li Zhi rested, the Holy Prince arrived, killed one of the kings beside Son of Heaven with his Black Gold Staff, and challenged Son of Heaven.

As Primordial Races gathered at Jade Pool for the Myriad Races Grand Assembly, Li Zhi watched them dismiss him as a human representative and judged the human leadership’s response to be strategically disastrous. He concluded that the human race needed to show its collective strength and win over smaller Primordial races, rather than rely on Great Emperor Wushi’s Investiture of the Gods to intimidate them.

• After the Holy Prince and the Son of Heaven stopped their clash, powerful figures from the Primordial Races arrived at Jade Pool while the expected human experts remained absent.
• Yuan Gu mocked the human race for sending only the Barbarian King, and Primordial Kings disputed that Li Zhi could count as a human representative because he was a Daoist.
• Li Zhi, disguised among the visitors, heard the debate and recognized that the Primordial Races considered solitary Daoists separate from the human factions that could represent the race.
• Li Zhi criticized the human leaders for using Great Emperor Wushi’s Investiture of the Gods to threaten the Primordial Races, arguing that the act had united groups that might otherwise have been divided.
• Li Zhi concluded that the human race should have presented its Saints and Kings together and formed alliances with smaller Primordial races to strengthen its position.

Li Zhi criticized humanity’s use of Great Emperor Wushi’s Investiture of the Gods, arguing that it made Jiang Taixu’s victories less intimidating and would invite future retaliation. He left Jade Pool and discovered Primordial Era Creatures plotting to exploit the agreement barring Saints from fighting by attacking human sects without Saint or King guardians.

• Li Zhi judged that humanity could have demonstrated its strength through its Great Powers, Kings, and Sages before using the Investiture of the Gods to force the Primordial Races to submit.
• The Jade Pool Saintess asked Li Zhi why he thought Jiang Taixu’s battle lacked significance, and Li Zhi warned that the Primordial Races might retaliate once they realized Wushi’s manifested spirit was not truly alive.
• Li Zhi left Jade Pool Holy Land, telling the Jade Pool Saintess that the conference’s outcome was already decided and that she should think for herself as its future leader.
• At a Divine Mountain near Jade Pool, Li Zhi overheard Primordial Era Creatures discussing how to attack human factions without Saints or Kings, while avoiding those protected by Ultimate Dao Weapons.

Li Zhi considered how the Primordial Races could destroy many human sects and reflected on why humanity had so few visible Kings despite its vast population. His new understanding of cultivation showed him that the Evolutionary Paths of different races converged at higher levels, and he concluded that Beidou’s ability to support countless races might stem from the Innate Chaos Body merged into the star.

• Li Zhi realized that human sects without powerful protectors faced likely destruction by the Primordial Races, while the Jade Pool Holy Land and Desolate Ancient Jiang Family might barely hold the situation together.
• Li Zhi questioned why humanity seemed to lack Kings and reasoned that Beidou had produced many capable cultivators whose strength and identities remained unknown to outsiders.
• Li Zhi recognized that the Evolutionary Paths of different races converged at higher realms, making narrow racial distinctions less meaningful among powerful cultivators.
• Li Zhi viewed the Primordial Era creatures discussing attacks on human sects through the Great Daos they cultivated rather than their races.
• Li Zhi realized that Ancient Beidou Star uniquely supported many races because its Myriad Daos did not favor one species, perhaps due to the Innate Chaos Body merged into the star.

Li Zhi explored the Northern Domain’s Primordial Myriad Races, discovering their innate Dao runes and capturing more than three thousand Great Powers for study. As the Emperor Path Competition loomed over Beidou, he considered how the Heaven Devouring Demonic Art could exploit the races’ origins to gather the seeds of the Myriad Daos.

• A Jade Horn Race Great Power challenged Li Zhi, but Li Zhi killed him and the other Primordial Era Creatures who attacked, then searched their souls and learned that the races had seized human oases and enslaved or displaced their inhabitants.
• Li Zhi wandered among the Primordial Myriad Races and found that many possessed unique Dao runes in their bloodlines, so he captured more than three thousand Great Powers over a month.
• The large-scale disappearances alarmed the Primordial Races, and some royal Ancestor Kings began paying attention to Li Zhi.
• Cultivators considered the Ancient Imperial Heirs and the current generation’s Heavenly Prides the true sources of the coming bloody Emperor Path Competition, with figures such as Huang Xudao, Divine Silkworm Daoist, and Huo Linzi seen as especially dangerous rivals.
• Li Zhi gathered the captured Great Powers in a temporary cave mansion and reflected that consuming their origins could let cultivators of the Heaven Devouring Demonic Art extract seeds of the Myriad Daos and approximate a Chaos Body.

Li Zhi forcibly extracted Origin Great Dao Runes from more than three thousand Primordial Era Great Powers, breaking through to King Fifth Heaven and provoking a Heavenly Punishment. As the punishment’s final Chaos Divine Thunder heavily wounded him, two nearby Ancestor Kings watched his battle and considered whether to approach him.

• Li Zhi used mysterious magic chains to drain more than three thousand Primordial Era Great Powers, refining their Origin Great Dao Runes and reducing them to Tribulation Ash.
• Li Zhi’s Dao attainment broke through to King Fifth Heaven, triggering a Heavenly Tribulation that mutated into a devastating Heavenly Punishment.
• Li Zhi fought to preserve his Longevity Immortal Great Dao as the Chaos-infused lightning intensified and destroyed his cave abode.
• Huoyun Ancestor King and Tuling Ancestor King watched from afar, debated Li Zhi’s identity, and recognized his extraordinary strength.
• The Heavenly Punishment formed three thousand thunder creatures resembling the Primordial Era beings Li Zhi had drained, and he battled them across a vast area.
• The final Chaos Divine Thunder struck Li Zhi, heavily wounding him and causing his Origin Aura to leak out.

Li Zhi escaped the pursuing Huoyun Ancestor King and Tuling Ancestor King, but they tracked him across the Northern Domain and used his blood to find his underground route toward Divine City. He realized they had locked onto him again while recovering inside the Life Divine Coffin.

• After spotting the two Ancestor Kings’ killing intent, Li Zhi used the Ten Thousand Mile Teleportation Talisman to escape, but they calculated his trail and pursued him.
• A Heaven-Piercing Sword Qi clashed with Tuling Ancestor King’s Town Mountain Seal, sending Li Zhi crashing into the Gobi and shaking the distant Oasis near True Demon Hall.
• Huoyun Ancestor King and Tuling Ancestor King found Li Zhi missing from the crater and discussed his Earth Evasion and the danger of continuing toward Divine City.
• Tuling Ancestor King used Li Zhi’s blood to trace his path through the earth, damaging the Town Mountain Seal as a Blood Sword formed and pointed toward Divine City.
• While recovering in the Life Divine Coffin beneath the earth, Li Zhi sensed that the Ancestor Kings had locked onto him again.

Li Zhi used a decoy incarnation to escape two Ancestor Kings, but Tuling Ancestor King tracked him underground and began forcing him out. With the Hundred Herbs Diagram still hidden and no Heavenly Tribulation available, Li Zhi faced a shrinking set of options as his pursuers sensed a powerful treasure.

• Li Zhi created a Light Shadow Body to lure Tuling Ancestor King and Huoyun Ancestor King toward Divine City while his true body fled underground in the Life Divine Coffin.
• Tuling Ancestor King and Huoyun Ancestor King confronted the incarnation, but it exploded beneath a bolt of Heavenly Thunder before they could capture it.
• Tuling Ancestor King used his clan's Ancestral Technique to reveal Li Zhi's underground route and began driving him toward the surface.
• Li Zhi hid the Life Divine Coffin and dug a cavern with the Luoyang Shovel, but the Earth Power continued pressing against him.
• Huoyun Ancestor King sealed the surrounding Uninhabited Region while Tuling Ancestor King sensed a powerful treasure and grew eager to seize it.

Li Zhi used Saint Blood and the remains of Holy Spirits to raise his cultivation while trapped underground by Tuling Ancestor King and Huoyun Ancestor King. When he emerged, he lured the two Ancestor Kings into his King Sixth Heaven tribulation, leaving all three wounded by its opening strike.

• Tuling Ancestor King sensed rare Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures near Li Zhi and persuaded Huoyun Ancestor King to wait rather than risk damaging them.
• While the Ancestor Kings wore him down, Li Zhi absorbed the Four Spirits Saint Beast's Saint Blood and plundered the Saint Dao Laws from four Holy Spirit remains, reaching the peak of King Fifth Heaven.
• After Li Zhi withdrew the Hundred Herbs Diagram, Huoyun Ancestor King seized two decoys that exploded or dissolved into poisonous blood, while Tuling Ancestor King captured a wooden substitute that also exploded.
• Li Zhi appeared ten li away and triggered his breakthrough to King Sixth Heaven, causing heavenly thunder to strike the array and target the two Ancestor Kings.
• Li Zhi linked his aura to Tuling Ancestor King and Huoyun Ancestor King, drawing them into a Chaos Thunder Pool whose first strike seriously wounded all three.

Li Zhi endured the Chaos Thunder Tribulation and killed Huoyun Ancestor King and Tuling Ancestor King, drawing the attention of powerful figures across the Northern Domain. After the battle, a deadly snowstorm and lingering saber scars sealed off the region, leaving Li Zhi’s fate unknown.

• Huoyun Ancestor King severed his Saint body to escape the tribulation, then sent the Huoyun Saber to kill Li Zhi.
• Li Zhi used the Thunder Pool to empower his White Bone Dagger, shattered the Huoyun Saber, and killed Tuling Ancestor King with the Immortal Slaying Flying Knife.
• The White Bone Dagger absorbed Heavenly Thunder and became a towering Immortal Slaying Platform that blocked everyone from seeing what happened to Li Zhi.
• Cultivators gathered in the Uninhabited Region, where a fierce storm of snow, lightning, and Sha Qi formed after the tribulation ended.
• Great Powers encountered unhealed Void Rifts filled with Greater Yin Death Qi, and several who tried to force their way through the storm were torn apart.

Human and Primordial Race powerhouses crossed a deadly snowfield to investigate the aftermath of a battle, where Crimson Scale Ancestor King revealed a White Bone Cleaver beside a beheaded, Saint-level corpse. The chapter ended with both sides confronting the weapon and the mysterious dead figure at the bottom of the pit.

• Nangong Ya used Source Arts to guide dozens of Human Great Powers through a safe underground passage into the Central Area.
• The Human Great Powers encountered bloodstained ground filled with Saint-level Killing Intent and detoured around the remains of Tuling Ancestor King.
• The groups reached a vast pit, where Crimson Scale Ancestor King arrived and dispersed the gray mist despite the dangerous saber qi within it.
• Everyone saw a White Bone Cleaver that threatened even Crimson Scale Ancestor King, along with a headless armored corpse and its severed head.
• The Human Great Powers speculated that the corpse had a Demon God True Body and a Saint-level body, while the Primordial Race Kings laughed disdainfully.

Li Zhi revived as a terrifying Heavenly Tribulation Puppet, prompting the human and Primordial Era Race powers to flee and seal off the Uninhabited Region. After Huo Tian Shu explained the legend of such puppets, Li Zhi opened his eyes and emerged as an emotionless executioner of the Heavenly Dao.

• The Primordial Era Race Kings identified the headless corpse as Longevity Daoist, the son of Golden Dragon Emperor, and saw pure Dragon Blood begin cleansing the laws that blocked his recovery.
• Crimson Scale Ancestor King tried to seize Li Zhi’s corpse, but Tianxuan Wei Yi shattered his hand with Immortal Light and claimed the corpse for the human race.
• Li Zhi’s body reassembled, took up the White Bone Immortal Slaying Saber, and radiated the terrifying aura of a Heavenly Tribulation Puppet.
• Huo Tian Shu explained that Heavenly Tribulation Puppets were ancient Peerless Heavenly Prides transformed by tribulations, and said there was no way to avoid one once encountered.
• Tianxuan Saint Wei Yi and Crimson Scale Ancestor King asked how to counter the puppet, but Huo Tian Shu said cultivators could only withstand it with their own strength.
• Li Zhi opened his eyes and walked out of the Great Pit as an emotionless humanoid Immortal Slaying Guillotine.

Li Zhi survived the Immortal Slaying Guillotine by sacrificing the Golden Divine Dragon, then endured an hour of control by a mysterious will from the Heaven and Earth Origin. After escaping, he began studying the Heavenly Tribulation’s power and fled as powerful figures arrived to investigate, leaving Gai Jiuyou unsure whether he was dead.

• Li Zhi survived the guillotine by hiding his primordial spirit in the Golden Divine Dragon, which died in his place, then returned to his body after the tribulation ended.
• A mysterious Heaven and Earth Will controlled Li Zhi for an hour before leaving him stranded in the Uninhabited Region, and he feared it would return someday.
• Li Zhi sealed the Golden Divine Dragon’s body and contemplated how the Heavenly Tribulation adjusted its power to a cultivator’s strength, hoping to uncover its mechanism.
• When he sensed newcomers, Li Zhi hid in the earth and fled toward the Northern Domain Divine City inside the Life Divine Coffin.
• The Great Sage of Myriad Dragon Nest, the Great Sage of Divine Silkworm Ridge, the Great Sage of Blood Phoenix Mountain, Wei Yi, Jiang Taixu, and Gai Jiuyou arrived and examined the site.
• Gai Jiuyou recognized that the will controlling Li Zhi was not Longevity’s, but he could not tell whether Li Zhi was dead and suggested checking his Dao Field.

Li Zhi returned to Divine City in disguise and visited Wei Yi at Tianxuan Stone Workshop, thanking him for protecting his body and explaining his survival beneath the Immortal Slaying Guillotine. Wei Yi suspected Li Zhi was not human and alerted human powers, while the city turned its attention to the upcoming clash between Ye Fan and Yuan Gu.

• The Great Sage of Myriad Dragon Nest tracked the Golden Divine Dragon's Dragon Qi and learned that the Golden Dragon Prince had died, as people in Divine City discussed Li Zhi's supposed death and power.
• Li Zhi arrived at Tianxuan Stone Workshop, where Wei Yi recognized him and asked how he had survived the Immortal Slaying Guillotine.
• Li Zhi thanked Wei Yi for stopping Crimson Scale Ancestor King and claimed the two Ancestor Kings had pursued him after he caused a disturbance while cultivating.
• After Li Zhi left, Wei Yi recalled the pure Dragon Blood from his neck, suspected he might be a Heavenly Tribulation Puppet, and warned Jiang Taixu, Gai Jiuyou, and other human powers.
• Jade Pool Saintess struggled to accept the Queen Mother's message that Li Zhi was not human, then returned to cultivating under a new sense of pressure.
• Talk in Divine City shifted to the battle two days later between Saint Body Ye Fan and Yuan Gu at Qixia Plain, seen as the first true Emperor Road Competition.

Li Zhi recovered from his tribulation and concluded that Heaven and Earth were pushing him toward the Great Emperor path by severing his attempts at the Mortal World Longevity Path. He resolved to continue exploring longevity outside the Emperor path, but the crowds gathering in Divine City soon disturbed his recovery.

• Li Zhi reviewed his rapid cultivation and the loss of his Golden Divine Dragon, and suspected an unseen force was forcing him toward becoming a Great Emperor.
• Li Zhi reasoned that Heaven and Earth restricted ordinary cultivators’ Lifespans through the Heavenly Mandate, making the Mortal World Longevity Path an act of defiance.
• Li Zhi recovered from his tribulation and considered how the Saint Spirit Life-Replacing Art had lost most of its usefulness as his remaining substitutes dwindled.
• Li Zhi decided that the Great Emperor path might be a trap and that he should continue the Longevity Daoist’s exploration rather than fight for the Emperor position.
• Cultivators crowded into Divine City, and their bustle disturbed Li Zhi as he recuperated at the inn.