Chapter Summaries

Li Zhi conquered the God-Slaying Insect Nest, gained thousands of insect corpses and eggs, and continued through the Ancestral Temple’s Small Worlds. In the Thirty-First Layer Temple Small World, he found a hidden Longevity Method and faced an army of resurrected Heavenly Soldiers.

• Yan Ruyan offered Li Zhi the Spirit Controlling Sect’s Secret Art for cultivating God-Slaying Insects, while Wang Chan provided Secret Medicine.
• Li Zhi used his Death Realm to kill the God-Slaying Insects, took the Five-Colored Iron Essence Insect Nest, and gave Wang Chan and Yan Ruyan corpses and eggs before sending them away.
• Li Zhi found more than a dozen Small Worlds empty and concluded that the Four Great Divine Dynasties and the Shaking Light Holy Land had removed nearly everything they could carry.
• A Blood-Colored Lightning attacker wielding a Black Iron Halberd charged Li Zhi in the Thirty-First Layer Temple Small World, and Li Zhi destroyed him with one palm strike.
• Li Zhi saw Heavenly Soldiers and skeletons rising from Ancient Tombs, recognized the signs of a Longevity Method, and changed his Daoist Robe into Silver-Golden Armor.

Li Zhi wiped out the revived Heavenly Soldiers and Generals in the Thirty-First Layer Temple Small World, then faced the Stone Man powering their resurrection. He shattered it with the Jie Secret, rupturing the Small World and opening a rift in the sky beyond the Ancestral Temple.

• Li Zhi slaughtered formations of Heavenly Soldiers and Generals to hone his combat strength and seek the Longevity Secret Art, while Huo Qilinzi joined the fight and Huo Lin'er asked what he had discovered.
• Li Zhi told Huo Qilinzi and Huo Lin'er that the graveyard held the remains of 108,000 Heavenly Soldiers and Generals, and the siblings left for the Thirty-Second Layer Small World.
• Li Zhi fought for a day and night and destroyed all 10,800 Heavenly Soldiers and Generals in the Thirty-First Layer Temple Small World.
• Li Zhi used a powerful slash to annihilate the Blood-Colored Lightning and rain clouds, but a Stone Man in a Divine Shrine then gathered power and threatened to emerge from the graveyard.
• Li Zhi struck the Stone Man, then activated the Jie Secret and shattered it, causing a Great Void Rift to open and blade qi to cleave the sky outside the Ancestral Temple.

Li Zhi broke through the Thirty-First and Thirty-Second Layer Small Worlds, extracting Order Divine Chains and befriending Huo Qilinzi and Huo Lin'er. After the three studied the chains, Li Zhi headed for the Thirty-Third Layer Small World to confront four Half-Saint-level God-Slaying Insects, while the siblings followed.

• Li Zhi cleaved open the Thirty-First Layer Small World, seized an Order Divine Chain from its origin, and proceeded to the next layer as Gai Jiuyou and the Ancestor Kings watched.
• In the Thirty-Second Layer Small World, Li Zhi met Huo Qilinzi and Huo Lin'er, invited them to his Dao Field, and showed them how he extracted the Feathered Ascension to Immortality Great Dao Laws.
• Li Zhi left the Thirty-Second Layer with the siblings and freed the cultivators trapped there.
• The three studied the Order Magic Chains in a cave mansion, and the Kirin Beast said it had seen something like them before.
• After the chains dissipated, Li Zhi learned that four Half-Saint-level God-Slaying Insects were slaughtering cultivators in the Thirty-Third Layer Small World and went there with the Kirin Beast.
• Huo Qilinzi told Huo Lin'er to follow Li Zhi, and the siblings set out after him.

Li Zhi entered the Thirty-Third Layer Temple Small World and fought a Half-Saint-level God-Slaying Insect while the Taihuang Sword headed for the Blood Sacrificial Platform. He then drew three God-Slaying Insects into a starlight-sealed domain to battle them, while other cultivators found the platform empty and moved on to the Thirty-Fourth Temple Small World.

• Li Zhi entered the Thirty-Third Layer Temple Small World and saw four Half-Saint-level God-Slaying Insects attacking cultivators protected by Saint Weapons.
• The Great Xia cultivators revived the Taihuang Sword, which killed one God-Slaying Insect and rushed toward the Blood Sacrificial Platform.
• Li Zhi drove another God-Slaying Insect away from Dao Yi Holy Land's cultivators, then fought it with his fists after his White Bone Immortal Slaying Saber failed to pierce its body.
• Li Zhi summoned three hundred and sixty-five stars and sealed three God-Slaying Insects inside an independent Small World, stunning the watching cultivators and Ancient Imperial Clans.
• Cultivators who reached the Blood Sacrificial Platform found nothing there and proceeded toward the Thirty-Fourth Temple Small World.

Li Zhi reunited with Ye Fan’s group after killing three Half-Saint God-Slaying Insects and explained the Nine Heavens Deity Coffin and the Mortal World’s longevity paths. He remained behind rather than returning with them, sending insect corpses and medicinal materials back through his Stone Dragon Pendant.

• Ye Fan and his companions returned to the Thirty-Third Layer Temple Small World and found Li Zhi standing victorious over three dead God-Slaying Insects, his badly wounded body healing through a blood-colored Phoenix’s Nirvana.
• Li Zhi stored the insect corpses, offered Black Emperor a share at his Dao Field, and told Ye Fan to take insect corpses and Golden Body Liquid ingredients back in the Stone Dragon Pendant, which held one of his divine sense incarnations.
• Li Zhi told the group that he had destroyed the God-Slaying Insects and their Insect Nest, killed the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals in two other small worlds, and found their buried Saint Weapons already drained and decayed.
• Li Zhi explained that the Nine Heavens Deity Coffin contained a path through the Ninefold Death Realm and said that the Mortal World had nine paths to longevity, with some ancient Great Emperors still alive.
• Li Zhi revealed that some Heavenly Venerates and Ancient Emperors had gained longevity and power through Mortal World paths, then considered Duan De’s accumulated reincarnation marks and five lifetimes.

Daoist Priest Li and the others entered the Thirty-Fourth Temple Small World, where he used a reincarnation technique to grind Corpse Ghosts into soul force and Death Qi. After Taihuang Sword destroyed the source of the ghosts, the group found a passage to the Thirty-Fifth Temple Small World, while Daoist Priest Li planned to seize power from the corrupted Ancestral Vein.

• Daoist Priest Li told Big Black Dog that Great Emperor Wushi had achieved Feathered Ascension to Immortality and told Ji Ziyue that Emperor Void had died in battle against a Supreme from Immortality Mountain.
• The group entered the Thirty-Fourth Temple Small World and found it filled with Corpse Ghosts, corpses, and ghostly hands.
• Daoist Priest Li used the Reincarnation Passage and Yin Yang Tai Chi Diagram to draw Corpse Ghosts into a mill that yielded pure soul force and Death Qi.
• Taihuang Sword split apart the Black Mountain Body that produced Corpse Ghosts, revealing a passage through the Earth Vein to the Thirty-Fifth Temple Small World.
• Daoist Priest Li discovered that Central State's First Ancestral Vein had been turned into a Ghost Vein and asked Duan De to help him sever it when the group left the Ancestral Temple.

Li Zhi and the other cultivators reached the Feathered Divine Dynasty’s Thirty-Fifth Layer Small World, where two Saint-level Dao Children claimed the Feathered Emperor still lived. Li Zhi revealed that the Stone Fetus was the Emperor’s former body after he transformed into a Saint Spirit, while the Dao Children grew angry at the crowd’s hesitation to enter and apologize.

• After the Taihuang Sword led the Daxia imperial family into the next layer, Li Zhi stayed behind briefly to have his Dao Palace Deities refine the Fierce Ghosts with Duan De’s Coffin-Suppressing Divine Lamp.
• Li Zhi and the others entered the Thirty-Fifth Layer Small World and found carvings of the Feathered Emperor accompanied by two Dao Children, who appeared alive and demanded that everyone apologize to the Emperor.
• The Dao Children opened the sacred temple, revealing a Stone Fetus in an Ancient Cave on the Central State’s First Ancestral Vein, and identified it as the Feathered Emperor.
• Li Zhi told the Heavenly Blind Old Man that the Stone Fetus was the Feathered Emperor’s Saint Spirit Stone Skin and that the Emperor had left long ago to continue his transformation elsewhere.
• Li Zhi explained that he had learned about the Feathered Emperor’s Longevity Method in another Small World, astonishing the Heavenly Blind Old Man, while the Dao Children grew angry at the crowd’s delay.

Li Zhi entered the Central State First Ancestral Vein and discovered that it contained nine Small Worlds and might be the transformed spine of the Chaos Body. After he revived the Hundred Herbs Diagram to drain the Ancestral Vein’s essence, the two Dao Children attacked him, while Gai Jiuyou and Great Sage Hun Tuo sensed the weapon’s power above; the Dao Children were killed.

• Li Zhi split the stone embryo and revealed that the Feathered Emperor had undergone Feathered Ascension, prompting the two Dao Children to search the depths of the Ancestral Vein.
• Li Zhi entered the Ancestral Vein and realized it held nine Small Worlds and might have formed from the Chaos Body’s spinal Great Dragon.
• Li Zhi revived the Hundred Herbs Diagram to draw essence qi from the Ancestral Vein and protect its Small Worlds, awakening the two Dao Children.
• The two Dao Children attacked Li Zhi with a Feather Fan and a Yin-Yang Precious Vase, but his fully revived Quasi-Emperor Weapon killed them.
• At the Ancestral Temple, Gai Jiuyou and Great Sage Hun Tuo sensed the Quasi-Emperor weapon’s aura, and Gai Jiuyou assured Hun Tuo that no Quasi-Emperor had descended.

Li Zhi explored the nine underground Small Worlds beneath the Central State's First Ancestral Vein, collecting Divine Sources and materials before entering an ancient hall that had belonged to Feathered Emperor. Inside, he found traces of Feathered Emperor's private life and a cryptic couplet, but the missing calligraphy between its lines left a mystery unresolved.

• Boss Tu suppressed Feathered Emperor's two Dao Children, erased their consciousnesses, and turned them into sources of essence for plants in the Medicine Field.
• Li Zhi abandoned his plan to sever the Central State's First Ancestral Vein after Boss Tu warned that doing so would disrupt Heaven's balance and invite Heavenly Punishment.
• Li Zhi searched the nine underground Small Worlds, found Top-grade Dragon Marrow and veins of Divine Source and Divine Materials, and dug up their valuable deposits.
• Li Zhi used the Luoyang Shovel to enter an ancient hall protected by weakened Great Emperor Dao Patterns and found a Jade Bed and tea implements associated with Feathered Emperor.
• Li Zhi and the Kirin Beast drank Enlightenment Tea, then discovered a couplet reading “Feathered Ascension, Immortal and Undying” and “Reverse Yin and Yang, Struggle Across the Mortal World,” with another piece of calligraphy missing between them.

Li Zhi and the Kirin Beast explored the sealed Small Worlds, where Li Zhi used his Three Thieving Altars to seize a living Dao Origin of the Dao of Power and found Feathered Green Gold Raw Ore. As the Small World shook from the battle outside, they uncovered a hall full of Stone Tablets and Li Zhi took the entire collection into the Small World within the Hundred Herbs Diagram.

• Li Zhi let the Kirin Beast keep the Emperor-paper couplet, took the Jade Bed and black stone tea table, and moved the Ancient Hall with its surrounding land.
• Li Zhi arranged the Three Thieving Altars across the nine Small Worlds and used the Hand of Stealing Heaven to capture a living Dao Origin of the Dao of Power.
• Li Zhi found Feathered Green Gold Raw Ore and promised to craft the Kirin Beast a bell with a Dragon Pattern Black Gold clapper.
• Li Zhi and the Kirin Beast searched more Ancient Halls, but found them empty because the Feathered Emperor had taken the valuables away.
• As the Small World shook, Li Zhi opened the final Ancient Hall and found more than a thousand Stone Tablets recording cultivation and other arts.
• Li Zhi took the Ancient Hall and all its Stone Tablets into the Small World within the Hundred Herbs Diagram.

Li Zhi escaped the sealed depths of the Central State's First Ancestral Vein and emerged as three Imperial Weapons faced off above the Ancestral Temple. He revealed to Duan De and the Heavenly Blind Old Man that the Feathered Emperor had survived by transforming into a Holy Spirit, while keeping his own discoveries—including the Feathered Divine Dynasty’s true inheritance—private.

• Li Zhi left the nine Dragon Vein Small Worlds as the Great Emperor Dao Patterns resealed the Ancestral Vein, then hurried out as the Thirty-Sixth Layer Temple Small World began to collapse.
• Li Zhi found Ji Haoyue, Ye Fan, and the Shaking Light Holy Son confronting one another with the Void Mirror, Heaven Swallowing Demonic Pot, and Dragon Pattern Black Gold Cauldron.
• Li Zhi spoke with Duan De and Big Black Dog about the damaged Five-Colored Altar, Pang Bo’s departure, and the two Dao Children, then warned that the Ancestral Vein’s Dao Patterns had recovered.
• Li Zhi told Duan De and the Heavenly Blind Old Man in a secluded Dao Domain that the Feathered Emperor had awakened six thousand years earlier and transformed into a Holy Spirit.
• Li Zhi explained that the Feathered Divine Dynasty’s true inheritance was in the Stone Tablets he had found, while the treasures in the eighty-one temples were comparatively ordinary.

The three Imperial Weapons’ clash destroyed the Thirty-Sixth Layer Temple Small World, and Ye Fan left for the Ancient Starry Road after exploring the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Zone. With the Central State Ancestral Temple journey over, Li Zhi revealed that the Immortality Ascension Cauldron lay at Kunlun and baited the surrounding forces with promises of other treasures, leaving Duan De and the others wary of what he would do next.

• The Dragon Pattern Black Gold Cauldron, Void Mirror, and Heaven Swallowing Demonic Pot clashed, collapsing the Small World and forcing the major forces to stop fighting over the Five-Colored Altar.
• The Black Emperor activated a teleportation array to the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Zone, where Ye Fan gathered treasures before departing on the Ancient Starry Road; Li Zhi chose not to return to Earth.
• The Huang Slave stopped Huo Qilinzi from approaching the Nine Marvels Immortality Elixir, while the destruction of the teleportation array ended the other cultivators’ hopes of entering the Forbidden Zone.
• Li Zhi told the gathered cultivators that the Immortality Ascension Cauldron was at Kunlun and claimed it was near the White Tiger Immortal Medicine and a Deep Scar Purple Gold Artifact Embryo.
• Li Zhi challenged the surrounding cultivators to defeat him for the locations of the treasures and the Feathered Immortal Scripture, while Duan De warned the Holy Prince and others that Li Zhi was about to trick people.

Li Zhi provoked a siege in the Immortal World, using the attacking Kings to temper his Great Dao before returning to his Dao Field. He left with plans to refine Golden Body Liquid and welcomed Huo Lin'er and Huo Qilinzi’s planned visit.

• Li Zhi revealed secrets about the Ancestral Vein, drew attacks from dozens of Kings, and used their Great Dao Laws to temper his own without killing anyone.
• Duan De and Big Black Dog watched the battle, while Son of Heaven decided to enter seclusion to Sever Dao rather than use a Forbidden Artifact against Li Zhi.
• Li Zhi gave up on severing the Ghost Vein because the Feathered Emperor’s Dao Patterns required Quasi-Emperor strength, then returned the Coffin-Suppressing Ancient Lamp to Duan De.
• Li Zhi proposed using Divine Phoenix Immortality Elixir medicinal liquid to refine Golden Body Liquid, and Big Black Dog followed him to his Dao Field to inspect a trial batch first.
• Li Zhi, Duan De, and Big Black Dog returned to the Southern Domain, where Duan De and Big Black Dog traded boasts and the Four Great Maidservants warned each other to guard their treasures.
• Huo Lin'er returned to Fire Qilin Cave and agreed with Huo Qilinzi to visit Li Zhi’s Dao Field.

Li Zhi refined Golden Body Liquid from God-Slaying Insects and used rare treasures to create a supreme version capable of transforming his body. After enduring its baptism in the Elixir Furnace, he emerged with a body radiating Saintly Might, though its aura differed from that of an ordinary Half-Saint.

• Black Emperor tried to bite Li Zhi and injured his teeth, then bargained with him for Golden Body Liquid.
• Li Zhi showed Duan De and Black Emperor the Feathered Divine Dynasty’s inheritance and exchanged a copy of its Stone Tablets for Wushi’s Array Essentials.
• Li Zhi refined one and a half vats of Golden Body Liquid, which helped the Four Great Maidservants, the Kirin Beast, and Divine Deer Little Bai; Mengzhang and Hongye advanced to Immortal Two Great Powers.
• Black Emperor traded two drops of the Divine Phoenix Immortality Elixir’s Medicinal Liquid for half of Li Zhi’s Golden Body Liquid.
• Li Zhi refined three liters of Supreme Enhanced Golden Body Liquid, diluted it, and entered the Elixir Furnace to temper his body.
• Li Zhi’s flesh and bones transformed as he absorbed the Divine Liquid, and several days later he emerged radiating an unusual Saintly Might.

Li Zhi returned to Earth in his incarnation after Ye Fan brought back the Stone Dragon Pendant, and learned that Ye Fan’s parents had died. As Li Zhi headed home after asking Ye Fan to watch for the Kunlun Immortal Ascension Ground, a security guard stopped him at the villa complex entrance.

• Li Zhi endured eighty-one thunder weapons comparable to Saint Weapons, forged a Flawless Golden Body, and gave Supreme Golden Body Liquid to Big Black Dog and Duan De.
• Li Zhi met Huo Qilinzi and Huo Lin'er in Yan Capital, discussed the Dao with them for three days, then sealed his Dao Field for secluded cultivation.
• Ye Fan returned to Earth, learned that his parents had died, and later established Heavenly Court after a series of battles across the lands.
• Ye Fan released Li Zhi’s incarnation from the Stone Dragon Pendant; Li Zhi learned of his parents’ deaths and gave pills to Ye Fan’s disciple Xiao Song.
• Li Zhi explained that the Feathered Divine Dynasty had drained Earth’s essence to nourish the Immortality Ascension Cauldron, then asked Ye Fan to notify him if he found the Kunlun Immortal Ascension Ground.
• Li Zhi set out for his villa to see his family, but a security guard stopped him at the entrance to the complex.

Li Zhi returned to Earth and discovered that Zhou Mei and their children had built lives without him, while his son Zhou Yaoyang despised him for abandoning the family. The chapter left Li Zhi wandering the streets, questioning whether leaving to pursue immortality had been a mistake.

• Li Zhi learned from a security guard that Zhou Mei rarely visited their old villa and found that every trace of himself had been removed from it.
• Li Zhi secretly entered Zhou Mei's office at Yaoyang Group and learned that her son, Zhou Yaoyang, was a married playboy with a young son.
• Zhou Mei told Zhou Yaoyang that his younger sister was gravely ill and wanted them to visit her, but Zhou Yaoyang angrily rejected her and blamed their father for the family's troubles.
• Zhou Mei discussed her grandson Lin'er's upcoming first birthday and urged Zhou Yaoyang to treat his wife Miaorong responsibly and help manage the group.
• Li Zhi heard Zhou Yaoyang's hatred and Zhou Mei's lingering feelings, then wandered the streets in despair and questioned his decision to leave Earth.

Li Zhi rushed home after learning that Li Xian'er was gravely ill and found her near death from potent Death Qi and Yin Energy. He stabilized her with Life Divine Spring Water, but his incarnation could not yet remove the forces threatening her life.

• Li Zhi remembered Zhou Mei's remark about Xian'er and hurried from the city to his hometown.
• He found Li Xian'er emaciated and barely alive, while Li Zhong's wife and Li Dapeng's wife cared for her and discussed her illness.
• Li Zhi heard that Li Xian'er had pursued cultivation and searched ancient tombs, and that she longed for her father.
• He fed Li Xian'er Life Divine Spring Water, which strengthened her Life Fire and kept her from dying immediately.
• Li Zhi discovered that Li Xian'er had reached the Divine Bridge Realm, but Death Qi and a deeply rooted strand of Yin Energy continued to erode her life.

Li Zhi returned and used Life Divine Water to save Li Xian'er from the brink of death, though her relatives believed she was dying. After she awoke, Li Xian'er revealed that her father had returned and reaffirmed her resolve to carry on the Li Family's path of cultivation.

• Li Zhi found that Li Xian'er's injuries and Death Qi were beyond his ability to cure, but he gave her Life Divine Water before she fell into a deep sleep.
• Doctor Xu and the villagers believed Li Xian'er was experiencing a final rally before death, and they prepared for her funeral.
• Zhou Mei and Zhou Yaoyang arrived, but Zhou Yaoyang kicked Li Xian'er and insisted their family had severed ties with the Li Family; Li Dapeng slapped him and took responsibility for Li Xian'er.
• That night, Li Xian'er woke feeling strong and told Li Dapeng, Dapeng's Wife, and the old woman that Li Zhi had returned and saved her with Life Divine Water.
• Li Xian'er recalled how she had inherited Li Zhi's cultivation method, opened her Bitter Sea, reached the Divine Bridge realm, and been afflicted by Death Qi while excavating a Great Sage Tomb.

Li Xian'er believed she was near death and planned to sever her worldly attachments so she could follow Li Zhi onto the Path of Cultivation. After Li Zhi returned and revealed himself, she learned he had been watching over her, and he recognized her fierce resolve to pursue the Dao.

• Li Dapeng, the old woman, and Dapeng's Wife left Li Xian'er alone, believing she was dying and giving her a final night to herself.
• Li Xian'er reflected on severing her family ties, wondered who had given her Life Divine Liquid, and considered faking her death despite being unable to move her legs.
• Li Zhi applauded Li Xian'er's song and revealed that he had returned, delighting her.
• Li Zhi explained that he had watched the family through Mind-Reading and saw in Li Xian'er a ruthless resolve that could carry her along the Longevity Immortal Path.
• Heavy snow and Yin Cold Qi swept over Da Li Village as Li Dapeng and his family worried about Li Xian'er from their home.

Li Zhi reflected on severing his worldly ties and reconsidered whether Li Xian'er should cultivate after discovering her unusual constitution. He healed her and sealed the Death Qi, then listened as she recounted her family’s years apart and how she began searching for him through cultivation.

• Li Zhi considered his fading attachments to his family and the choices he had planned to offer them about living as mortals or entering cultivation.
• After seeing Li Xian'er, Li Zhi reconsidered his plans because of her courage, talent, and apparent special constitution.
• Li Zhi healed Li Xian'er and used most of his incarnation’s vital essence to seal the Death Qi in her Wheel Sea, shortening the incarnation’s remaining time to three months.
• Li Xian'er recovered fully, showed Li Zhi her new warrior outfit, and asked whether she looked cool.
• Li Xian'er told Li Zhi how Zhou Mei gradually stopped visiting their old home, how Li Jizu grew resentful and changed his name, and how she began cultivating to find her father.