Chapter Summaries

Li Zhi reunited with Li Xian'er, learned of her extraordinary talent for finding ancient tombs, and helped her sever her mortal ties so she could pursue cultivation. They left for Ye Fan’s mountain, where they arrived as Huang Tiannv underwent a Lightning Tribulation.

• Li Xian'er told Li Zhi how she had discovered her family’s cultivation secrets and found seventy-eight cultivator tombs, including three Great Sage tombs.
• Li Zhi taught Li Xian'er the Feng Shui Burial Scripture and the Earth Book, which she quickly understood, and she proposed exploring two Dao Pattern-protected Quasi-Emperor tombs.
• Li Xian'er decided to fake her death and leave her mortal family behind, while Li Zhi explained his choices and told her to respect others’ decisions.
• Li Xian'er staged her death, was buried, then disappeared from her coffin after giving her mortal possessions to Li Dapeng.
• Li Zhi and Li Xian'er secretly blessed Zhou Yaoyang’s family with Divine Spring Water, then left the metropolis and traveled to Ye Fan’s mountain.
• Li Zhi and Li Xian'er arrived during Huang Tiannv’s Lightning Tribulation, and Li Xian'er said she knew of her through past conflicts with cultivators from the Zhu Huang lineage.

Li Zhi brought Li Xian'er to Ye Fan and asked him to help explore a secret realm connected to Great Emperor Nuwa. They uncovered an entrance beneath a ruined Nuwa Temple on the Loess Plateau, where Li Xian'er excavated a mysterious Mud Man from a sealed small world.

• Li Zhi told Li Xian'er to strengthen her foundation on Earth, then joined Ye Fan and explained that her discoveries had led them to a possible Quasi-Emperor tomb tied to Great Emperor Nuwa.
• Ye Fan agreed to explore the secret realm with Li Zhi and Li Xian'er, and they set out for the Loess Plateau the next morning.
• Li Xian'er showed Ye Fan the ruined Nuwa Temple and explained how she had sensed the secret realm; Ye Fan used Source Arts to dig beneath it and found a sealed passage concealed by soil transformed from Xirang.
• Li Zhi and Ye Fan identified the patterned Mud Slab at the passage's end as the entrance to an independent Small World, and Ye Fan lent Li Xian'er his magic power so she could examine it.
• Li Xian'er carefully removed the mud covering the slab and revealed a mysterious one-chi-tall Mud Man with a faint divine aura.

Li Zhi, Ye Fan, and their companions entered the Wa Huang Longevity World, where they discovered that Nuwa Niangniang had created a secluded home for unusually pure-blooded humans. They found a warning left by the Longevity Daoist and realized he had visited the world before them.

• Li Xian'er uncovered ten Mud Men and a Teleportation Array, which Ye Fan used to bring the group into a hidden world.
• Ye Fan surveyed the world and found ten mortal tribes whose people lived long, healthy lives despite lacking cultivation methods.
• The group explored the Holy Mother Palace, found a fading Five-Colored Dao Bone, and learned from a carving that Nuwa Niangniang had created the Wa Huang Longevity World for perfect humans.
• Li Zhi and Ye Fan discovered that the mortals had exceptionally pure bloodlines and speculated that the world had been an experimental field for a Longevity Method.
• Li Xian'er found a message beneath Nuwa Niangniang's statue stating that the Longevity Daoist had visited and warning later visitors not to destroy the pure land.
• Li Zhi realized that the Longevity Daoist had obtained his portion of the Wa Huang Scripture from this world, and the group decided to leave.

Li Zhi helped Li Xian'er cultivate in the Wa Huang Longevity World, where she learned about its history and advanced to the Dao Palace Realm. When she asked to explore another suspected Quasi-Emperor tomb, Li Zhi agreed to accompany her, and they arrived at Da Luo Mountain.

• Li Zhi told Li Xian'er to cultivate in the Wa Huang Longevity World and passed her the Stone Emperor's Chapter of Understanding the Heavens.
• After three years, Li Xian'er had reached the Dao Palace Realm, completed two transformations of body and soul, and opened her Liver Divine Treasury.
• Li Xian'er learned that the world had once been home to the Golden Phoenix Clan and that Longevity Daoist had destroyed its ancient Battle Puppets.
• When Li Xian'er hesitated to involve Ye Fan in exploring another tomb, Li Zhi's avatar appeared and offered to go with her.
• Li Zhi taught Li Xian'er the Soldier Secret, and they traveled to Da Luo Mountain, which Li Xian'er had identified as a great tomb.

Li Zhi and Li Xian'er excavated an ancient tomb on Da Luo Mountain and brought its coffin back to Wa Huang Longevity World. Inside, they met the fading image of Daoist Tianyan and found his Generational Saint Soldier-level Starry Daoist Robe.

• Li Xian'er used explosives and tomb-raiding techniques to bypass the tomb's defenses and reach its chamber with Li Zhi.
• Li Zhi collected the starry coffin into the Myriad Bath Furnace, and he and Li Xian'er left Da Luo Mountain before seven or eight cultivators arrived to search for the tomb's contents.
• Back in Wa Huang Longevity World, Li Xian'er opened the coffin and released Daoist Tianyan's luminous figure.
• Daoist Tianyan said he had failed on the Longevity Path, wished them success, and then dissipated.
• Li Zhi saw that no bones remained in the coffin and recognized the Starry Daoist Robe inside as a Generational Saint Soldier.

Li Zhi and Li Xian'er discovered a Wordless Heavenly Book made from Divine Mark Purple Gold in Daoist Tianyan's coffin and learned how Tianyan pursued a path toward immortality. Li Zhi explained why true immortality and genuine Immortal Dao transformation were impossible in the Mortal Realm, leaving Li Xian'er with a powerful treasure to refine and study.

• Li Zhi removed the crystalline pillow from Daoist Tianyan's coffin and discovered it was a blank book made from Divine Mark Purple Gold, bound with Eternal Blue Gold thread.
• Li Zhi identified it as a Wordless Heavenly Book and sealed it in Li Xian'er's Sea of Consciousness, advising her to refine it with the Soldier Secret.
• Li Xian'er refined the book and found a divine sense inheritance, which Li Zhi read and explained as an account of Daoist Tianyan's origins and cultivation path.
• Li Zhi revealed that Tianyan was Fuxi Great Emperor's youngest son, who severed his bloodline and Saint cultivation to pursue a Longevity Immortal Path, but died at Great Sage Peak after failing to cultivate Immortal Qi.
• Li Zhi explained that Tianyan used a Quasi-Emperor Artifact made from Flood Dragon Skin to deduce Immortal Dao Scriptures from the book's Origin Dao Marks and attempted to recreate the True Dragon Treasure Technique.
• Li Zhi told Li Xian'er that cultivators in the Mortal Realm could not become true immortals, distinguishing genuine Immortal Dao laws and artifacts from later creations that only matched their power.

Li Zhi and Li Xian'er uncovered the Heavenly Dragon Immortal Scripture, its secret techniques, and a longevity method inside the giant coffin. While Li Xian'er cultivated in the abandoned Empress Nuwa Temple, Hexi cultivators tracked her down, and two of them approached with rifles after mistaking her radiance for treasure light.

• Li Xian'er refined the Innate Bagua Diagram and found the Heavenly Dragon Immortal Scripture and four secret techniques, which Li Zhi examined.
• Li Xian'er discovered writing beneath the coffin, and Li Zhi found a longevity method attributed to Fuxi Great Emperor before telling her to keep the coffin.
• Li Zhi sent Li Xian'er to cultivate at the abandoned Empress Nuwa Temple and planned to show her Ye Fan's Dao-Severing Tribulation.
• Hexi cultivators used Heavenly Eye System footage and an artificial intelligence algorithm to trace Li Xian'er toward Da Luo Mountain.
• A Golden-haired Rat led two Dao Palace cultivators toward the temple, where they saw Li Xian'er's radiance and drew large-caliber automatic rifles.

Li Xian'er survived attacks by modern weapons and pursued the cultivators who had destroyed the statue of Nuwa Niangniang. After defeating their forces and driving them through several minor sects, she reached Kongtong Mountain, where an old Daoist recognized the danger and let her pass.

• Two cultivators fired missiles at Li Xian'er, but her Magic Robe protected her from the explosions.
• Li Xian'er walked through gunfire and pursued the fleeing cultivators to their allies, where their cannons and missiles also failed to harm her.
• Li Xian'er killed most of the group with her Crimson Jade Sword, then pursued the survivors as they fled northwest.
• The survivors tried to trap Li Xian'er with a minor sect's Formation, but she broke through and nearly wiped out the sect.
• An old Daoist from the Dragon Transformation Realm asked why Li Xian'er was pursuing the cultivators, then let her pass after she named Nuwa Niangniang.
• The old Daoist ordered his disciples to drive the fleeing cultivators down from Kongtong Mountain.

Li Xian'er slaughtered the cultivators who pursued her west and entered the Tianshan Sword Sect to learn the location of Kunlun's Ancient Magic Array. As the sect plotted to exploit her, Li Zhi revealed that he needed to reach Kunlun to preserve his fading incarnation and told her his blood could kill the sect's experts.

• Li Xian'er drove the cultivators from the Kongtong Sect, then led their recruited allies toward Tianshan and killed them along the way.
• At Tianshan, Xin Zilong approached Li Xian'er, and she asked about Kunlun's Ancient Magic Array before accepting the elders' invitation into the sect.
• The Tianshan Sect's Sect Master told Xin Zilong that Li Xian'er was a tomb robber who had obtained Nuwa Niangniang's inheritance and urged him to coax her secrets from her.
• Inside the Heavenly Pool, Li Xian'er asked Li Zhi why he had let her enter the sect, and he explained that the sect knew Kunlun's location and that his incarnation was fading.
• Li Zhi told Li Xian'er to lower the Tianshan Sect's guard and use his blood to kill its experts if they tried to trap her.

Li Zhi and Li Xian'er entered Kunlun’s hidden Immortal Land, where he established a safe place for her to cultivate. After several years, Li Xian'er reached Dao Palace Great Perfection, while Li Zhi forbade her from advancing until she could choose the right laws to inscribe.

• Li Xian'er used Li Zhi’s Black Blood to annihilate the Tianshan Sword Sect’s upper ranks, and the sect sealed its mountain to hide the massacre.
• On the journey to Kunlun, Li Xian'er asked why Li Zhi’s Essence Blood felt so evil; Li Zhi suspected Dark Matter might be evolving within him.
• Li Zhi used Daoist Tianyan’s Innate Bagua Diagram to guide Li Xian'er through Kunlun’s Ancient Magic Array into the Kunlun Immortal Land.
• Li Zhi found a safe area, a Little Medicine King White Lotus, and an Ancient Cultivator’s Cave for Li Xian'er, warning her not to leave the surrounding region.
• After several years of cultivation, Li Xian'er reached Dao Palace Great Perfection, but Li Zhi stopped her from entering the Four Extremities Realm before choosing the proper laws.

Li Zhi explained why a solid Dao Foundation mattered more than early cultivation speed and continued preparing Li Xian'er for her future breakthrough. After training her body and fighting Ancient Beasts in Kunlun, Li Xian'er asked to explore a mountain forest where she sensed an Ancient Cultivator's cave dwelling.

• Li Zhi explained that gaps in a cultivator's Dao Path could limit their future, and identified opening the Bitter Sea, entering the Four Extremes Realm, and Severing Dao as crucial stages for building a Dao Foundation.
• Li Zhi delayed Li Xian'er's Four Extremes breakthrough, planning to give her another transformation with Divine Phoenix Immortality Elixir after she went to Beidou.
• Li Xian'er completed four foundation-stage transformations, reached Dao Palace Great Perfection, and began tempering her body with Li Zhi's Red Dust Tribulation technique and Golden Body Liquid.
• Li Zhi identified Li Xian'er's constitution as a possible Innate Reincarnation Body, sensitive to life, death, and reincarnation.
• Li Zhi used the Beast Taming Rune to suppress Ancient Beasts in safe regions of Kunlun and made them Li Xian'er's sparring opponents.
• Li Xian'er asked Li Zhi to let her explore a mountain forest where she sensed an Ancient Cultivator's cave dwelling inside a Dragon Vein.

Li Zhi and Ye Fan explored Kunlun, where Ye Fan claimed the Myriad Things Source Cauldron and began Earth’s gradual transformation. Li Zhi sacrificed his avatar to nurture his Divine Dragon Clone in the Dragon Cave, while Li Xian'er left with Ye Fan for Beidou; meanwhile, a mysterious Chaos beam had troubled the Seven Stars Dao Field for ten years.

• Li Xian'er continued cultivating in Kunlun while Li Zhi warned her not to venture beyond the safe area, and Ye Fan arrived with Xiao Song after collecting eight map fragments.
• Ye Fan, Xiao Song, Li Zhi, and Li Xian'er explored Kunlun, gathered its treasures, encountered the White Tiger Immortal Medicine, and collected Immortal Liquid from the Immortal Pool.
• Ye Fan took Emperor Venerable's Myriad Things Source Cauldron, prompting Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountain to nourish Earth instead of draining the Ancient Star's essence.
• Li Zhi asked Ye Fan to take Li Xian'er to Beidou, then entered the Dragon Cave and activated Feathered Emperor's Dao Patterns to nurture his Divine Dragon Clone, causing his avatar to disperse.
• At the Seven Stars Dao Field, cultivators and Primordial Era Race Kings watched a Chaos beam that had grown increasingly powerful over ten years, wondering what Li Zhi was cultivating.

After ten years of cultivation, Li Zhi transformed into a Saint by surviving an immense tribulation in the starry sky. He remained there absorbing Star Essence and comprehending the changes in his body and laws.

• Li Zhi’s cultivation stirred a vast Tai Chi Diagram that gathered Heaven and Earth Essence across a hundred thousand li, alarming those in the Dao Field and drawing powerful figures toward it.
• Life Essence and Death Qi poured from Li Zhi’s Daoist Temple, and his chanting led those gathered below Longevity Peak into an Enlightenment State.
• Li Zhi traveled into the depths of the starry sky and faced a Thunder Tribulation made from Saint-level laws and the Emperor Sutras he had comprehended.
• After ten days, Li Zhi survived the tribulation and transformed from mortal to Saint.
• Li Zhi absorbed Star Essence in the starry sky and reflected on the transformation of his primordial spirit, physical body, and Great Dao Laws.

After completing his tribulation and becoming a Saint, Li Zhi returned toward Beidou and found thirty-three Ancient Ancestor Kings waiting to kill him. He began fighting Cang Ling in the Outer Realm Battlefield, summoning a Heavenly Stele as the battle opened.

• Thirty-three Ancient Ancestor Kings gathered in the Outer Realm Starry Sky, planning to intercept Li Zhi with a Primordial Era Saint Extermination Array.
• Li Zhi finished absorbing Star Essence, formed a Starry Dao, and traveled back toward Beidou.
• The Ancestor Kings blocked Li Zhi and declared their intention to kill him publicly, but he welcomed the chance to test his skills and invited them to attack.
• Cang Ling of the Divine Mastiff Clan charged Li Zhi, who used Words Manifest Laws to force Cang Ling to reveal his true form.
• Cang Ling attacked Li Zhi’s Sacred Pure Land with his axes, and Li Zhi summoned a mysterious Heavenly Stele that silenced the battlefield.

Li Zhi trapped thirty-three Primordial Ancestor Kings in his Great Dao Furnace, suppressing them with his Longevity Dao and seizing their Quasi-Emperor Forbidden Artifact. As onlookers gathered, Gai Jiuyou called Li Zhi’s pursuit of the Longevity Dao Fruit a path of certain death.

• The thirty-three Ancestor Kings attacked Li Zhi after seeing the Great Emperor scriptures engraved on his Heavenly Stele, and he trapped them inside his Great Dao Furnace.
• Li Zhi recited his Great Dao Longevity Scripture, intensifying the Dao Fire and forcing the trapped Ancestor Kings to resist with their own Great Dao Laws.
• Three Sage King Ancestor Kings used a Purple Gourd Forbidden Artifact to launch a Law Sword at Li Zhi, but the Hundred Herbs Diagram blocked it.
• Li Zhi used Star Plucking Hand to seize the Purple Gourd, while the Hundred Herbs Diagram suppressed the three Sage King Ancestor Kings.
• Powerful figures gathered to watch Li Zhi suppress the remaining Ancestor Kings in a silent Great Dao contest.
• Gai Jiuyou told Xia Jiuyou that Li Zhi had chosen a path of certain death because he sought a Longevity Dao Fruit instead of the Great Emperor Dao Fruit.

Li Zhi defeated thirty-one Ancestor Kings in a Great Dao Contest, though absorbing their Saint Dao Laws left him bound by a Dao Injury and halted his cultivation. After recovering enough to return to Beidou with Gai Jiuyou and Xia Jiuyou, he welcomed them to his Dao Field, where Gai hoped to learn from Li Zhi’s Dao of Longevity.

• Gai Jiuyou warned Xia Jiuyou not to comprehend Li Zhi’s alluring Great Dao, while Great Sage Hun Tuo pulled the Ancient Ancestor Kings away from it.
• Li Zhi’s Great Dao Furnace shattered the Saint Dao Imprints of the Ancestor Kings and stripped them of their cultivation despite Great Sage Hun Tuo’s pleas for mercy.
• Li Zhi reinforced the furnace with divine light and two mysterious worlds, defeated the final seven Ancestor Kings, and collected them.
• Li Zhi remained bound by the Ancestor Kings’ Saint Dao Laws for seven days as Gai Jiuyou and Xia Jiuyou guarded him.
• Li Zhi gave Xia Jiuyou a Saint Cauldron forged from Nine Heavens White Jade and invited Gai Jiuyou to his Dao Field.
• Li Zhi returned to Beidou with Gai Jiuyou and Xia Jiuyou, and his Seven Stars Dao Field displayed the aura of a newly attained Saint.

Gai Jiuyou and Xia Jiuyou visited Li Zhi at the Seven Stars Dao Field, where they met his young disciple Jin Ming. As Li Zhi explained the Immortal Ancient Ten Fiends and their powers, Gai Jiuyou pondered the meaning of his own cultivation path.

• Li Zhi led Gai Jiuyou and Xia Jiuyou to Longevity Peak, where the Four Great Maidservants withdrew and Jin Ming stayed to greet them.
• Gai Jiuyou examined Jin Ming, gave her a Protective Talisman, and learned from Li Zhi that she carried a trace of the Heavenly Horned Ant bloodline.
• Li Zhi brewed Enlightenment Tea and described the Immortal Ancient Ten Fiends and the distinctive powers of several of their bloodlines.
• Xia Jiuyou asked about the Nine Nether Howl, and Li Zhi said that Nine Nether represented world destruction to that race's Ancestor.
• Gai Jiuyou reflected on his Tribulation Crossing Immortal Melody and wondered what he was struggling to cross toward, feeling unable to see the Other Shore.

Gai Jiuyou considered how to complete the Tribulation Crossing Immortal Melody, while Li Zhi celebrated becoming a Saint at the Seven Stars Dao Field. The celebration turned into a gathering of powerful guests, including several Ancient Imperial Heirs, whose intentions remained uncertain.

• Gai Jiuyou concluded that his declining lifespan left him unable to risk healing his Dao Injury, but said Xia Jiuyou might still fulfill his wish to prove the Dao and become an Emperor.
• Gai Jiuyou and Xia Jiuyou left Li Zhi’s Dao Field, and Gai Jiuyou resolved to complete the Tribulation Crossing Immortal Melody with a path through death and rebirth.
• Li Zhi celebrated his breakthrough with the Dao Field’s residents and gave Saint Weapons to his four maidservants, while refusing the Kirin Beast’s request for a gift.
• Ji Zi visited Li Zhi and congratulated him, then Holy Lord Yao Guang arrived and joined them in the hall.
• Huo Qilinzi, Huo Lin’er, Huang Xudao, Dragon Lady, Jade Pool Saintess, Jiang Yifei, Yao Yuekong, Son of Heaven, and Holy Prince arrived in succession, prompting Yao Guang to warn Li Zhi that the Ancient Imperial Heirs might be seeking trouble.

Li Zhi hosted a congratulatory banquet for the Peerless Heavenly Prides and preached his Great Dao, drawing them into a powerful state of enlightenment before they struggled free. After most guests departed, Black Emperor asked why Li Zhi had revealed his own scripture to potential enemies.

• Li Zhi welcomed Son of Heaven, Holy Prince, and the other guests to Longevity Peak, where Son of Heaven and Holy Prince traded insults until Li Zhi calmed them.
• Black Emperor and Duan De arrived after suppressing Son of Heaven's attendants, and Li Zhi ended the renewed tension before beginning his sermon.
• Li Zhi openly recited his Great Dao Longevity Scripture, and its Dao Realm affected the guests until Duan De and Black Emperor broke free and the others escaped it through their own foundations.
• Li Zhi explained that his Great Dao had avoided Jade Pool Saintess and Yao Yuekong to protect their foundations, then saw off most of his guests while Dragon Lady stayed in Yan Capital.
• Little Xiaojin suggested Jade Pool Saintess become Li Zhi's wife, and Li Zhi sent Xiaojin and the Kirin Beast to swim a hundred laps in Sinking Pool.
• Black Emperor asked Li Zhi why he had revealed his scripture to the Ancient Imperial Heirs and risked letting them discover how to counter him.

Li Zhi explained that he had spread the Great Dao Longevity Scripture so all living beings could help expose its flaws and contribute Great Dao Qi. He declined to leave Beidou for the Ancient Starry Road yet, but agreed to notify the Jade Pool Saintess if he decided to go; meanwhile, Black Emperor suddenly remembered a missed opportunity on the way to the Central Domain.

• The Jade Pool Saintess, Duan De, and Black Emperor warned Li Zhi that spreading his scripture could reveal his methods to enemies, but Li Zhi explained that he intended to use the wisdom of all living beings to perfect it and gather Great Dao Qi.
• Li Zhi described how the recovering Beidou world was producing more Saints and Ancestor Kings, and Duan De and Black Emperor departed after hearing his reasoning.
• The Jade Pool Saintess asked whether Li Zhi planned to travel the Ancient Starry Road; he said he would remain in Beidou for now and might leave only if his cultivation reached a bottleneck.
• The Jade Pool Saintess asked to travel with Li Zhi when he eventually set out, and he agreed to notify her; afterward, he told Mengzhang that she would not hold him back on the road.
• On the way to the Central Domain, Black Emperor startled Duan De by suddenly realizing they had missed a heaven-defying opportunity.