Chapter Summaries

Li Zhi followed the Treasure Seeking Rat brothers to their hidden dwelling, then discovered and looted an ancient Medicine Garden concealed in the mountains. After stealing two extraordinary divine medicines, he triggered a sharp beast roar from the Fire Pool and Nether Spring.

• Treasure Seeking Rat First and Treasure Seeking Rat Second planned to trade rare Spiritual Herbs for ancient scriptures by targeting ambitious ordinary disciples.
• Li Zhi searched the brothers’ dwelling after they left, found an unopened Barrier in the rear mountain, and broke through it into an ancient Medicine Garden.
• Li Zhi collected the Medicine Gardens and Spiritual Herbs throughout the hidden mountain-and-river world.
• Li Zhi studied a golden-red Fire Pool herb and a blue Nether Spring flower, identifying their powerful effects on bloodlines, bodies, and primordial spirits.
• Li Zhi used the Hand of Stealing Heaven to pluck and seal both divine medicines, bypassing the Order Divine Chains.
• A sharp beast roar erupted from the Fire Pool and Nether Spring as Li Zhi celebrated his success.

Li Zhi survived a deadly trap in the Medicine Garden by seizing the Earth Vein that sustained its guardian beasts, then recovered and investigated the garden’s secrets. After returning to the Treasure Seeking Rats, he searched their memories and learned that their unusual potential and human transformations began with a mysterious Monster Egg.

• The Ice Dragon and firebird attacked Li Zhi inside a sealed valley, reviving whenever he defeated them and growing as strong as he was.
• Li Zhi used his divine pupil to uncover the corpses beneath the pools and seized the Earth Vein that empowered the guardians, then fought them for seven days until they vanished.
• Li Zhi spent a month recovering, studied the Earth Vein, and learned it had been infused with a Quasi-Emperor’s flesh and blood and contained powerful life essence.
• Li Zhi found no further useful information in the Medicine Garden and left, returning to find the Treasure Seeking Rats cultivating after trading the Little Medicine King for ancient scriptures.
• Li Zhi searched the rats’ memories and discovered that, twenty years earlier, they had found a mysterious Monster Egg while exploring an Earth Vein.

Li Zhi discovered the history of a Quasi-Emperor Red Dragon whose damaged Divine Embryo had been devoured by the Treasure Seeking Rats, then claimed the sealed Small World and its contents. Meanwhile, Zhu Zhu prepared a trap for Li Zhi at the Yuan Tian Ancient Vein, determined to use him to advance her Vermilion Bird Nirvana.

• Li Zhi followed the Treasure Seeking Rats' tunnel and found a sealed Small World deep within the Earth Vein.
• Inside the fire-filled Small World, Li Zhi learned that a Red Dragon Quasi-Emperor had tried to create a Divine Embryo and cultivate it toward a second life as a Vermilion Bird.
• Li Zhi discovered that the Treasure Seeking Rats had eaten the weakened Divine Embryo, gaining the power to break their bloodline limits and transform into human form.
• Li Zhi took the Small World and the Red Dragon's collection before leaving the Earth Vein.
• Zhu Zhu and three Half-Saints set a powerful Saint Dao Formation Array around the Immortality Elixir's location and ordered her people to watch for Li Zhi.
• Zhu Zhu resolved to use Li Zhi to complete her Vermilion Bird Nirvana and establish a supreme organization in the Southern Range.

Li Zhi returned to the Yuan Tian Ancient Vein after hearing rumors planted by the Vermilion Bird Clan to lure him there. Zhu Zhu met him at the clan’s temporary base and asked to trade for the fruit of the Immortal Divine Medicine he possessed.

• Li Zhi toured the Ten Great Ancient Cities of the Southern Range and recognized that rumors about the Yuan Tian Secret Realm were intended to draw him back.
• Zhu Zhu waited at the Vermilion Bird Clan’s base while its Nirvana Sacred Tree remained far from becoming a Half-Divine Tree, and her Seventh Uncle Ancestor warned that the rumors might attract dangerous factions.
• Disguised as a young Daoist, Li Zhi learned that a criminal group calling itself the Demon Hunter Organization planned to kidnap Zhu Zhu and sell her to an Old Wolf King.
• Li Zhi revealed himself as a Saint, killed the Demon Hunters after searching their memories, and sent a Light Shadow Incarnation disguised as the White-Clad Scholar into the Yuan Tian Ancient Vein.
• Zhu Zhu and two Half-Saints welcomed Li Zhi and brought him to the Vermilion Bird Clan’s temporary base, where she asked to exchange for the fruit of the Immortal Divine Medicine in his possession.

Li Zhi used Zhu Zhu’s memories to learn that the Immortality Elixir’s former growing sites had been claimed, then recalculated the Southern Range’s Earth Vein cycle to find a new treasure beneath a lake. He discovered and absorbed a vast deposit of Fortune Mud Water with the Life Divine Coffin, leaving a cavity that Earth Vein Essence began to fill.

• Li Zhi immobilized Zhu Zhu, searched her memories for information about the Immortality Elixir’s former habitat, and left after obtaining what he wanted.
• Zhu Zhu told the Seventh Uncle Ancestor that Li Zhi was a Saint who knew their schemes, and the Vermilion Bird Clan withdrew from the Yuan Tian Ancient Vein with its Spiritual Land.
• Li Zhi learned that the old Divine Soil sites had been claimed, but reasoned that changing Earth Vein cycles might have created a new place suited to the Immortal Divine Medicine.
• Li Zhi spent three years calculating the Southern Range’s Earth Veins from Beyond the Realm and identified an ordinary-looking area with unusually dense Earth Qi.
• Li Zhi descended beneath a lake and used the Life Divine Coffin to burrow through the earth until he reached a deposit of Fortune Mud Water.
• Li Zhi had the Life Divine Coffin absorb all the Fortune Mud Water, leaving a huge underground cavity as Earth Vein Essence converged on it.

Li Zhi followed the Humanoid Immortality Elixir to a hidden pool of Chaos Immortal Liquid, where it restored its body and triggered a Nine-Colored Immortal Light phenomenon over the Southern Range. The phenomenon drew cultivators from across the world, who began searching for the newly revived Immortal Medicine while arguing over its identity.

• Li Zhi let the Humanoid Immortality Elixir out of the Life Divine Coffin, and it led him to a lonely mountain that sank into the earth like an eyeball.
• Li Zhi and the Humanoid Immortality Elixir entered a mysterious space, where the elixir devoured Chaos Immortal Liquid and regrew its neck, head, and hair.
• Li Zhi entered the deepest level of the Dao Realm as Nine-Colored Immortal Light spread over the Southern Range, awakening plants and beasts.
• Demon Kings, Barbarian elders, cultivators, Primordial Era Ancestor Kings, and Sages headed for the Southern Range after the phenomenon spread across the world.
• Diviners concluded that an Immortal Divine Medicine had revived, prompting tens of thousands of cultivators to gather in the Southern Range.
• Cultivators debated which Immortal Medicine had appeared, and an old man began teaching a young cultivator about the kinds of Immortal Medicines.

Cultivators across the Southern Range searched for the Immortality Elixir behind the Nine-Colored Immortal Light, but their efforts brought clashes with the local Ancient Yao and few discoveries. At the Demon Emperor Hall, a joint attempt to trace the medicine instead revealed a mysterious figure resembling a Chaos Body, whose gaze shattered the Heaven-Piercing Formation and left the searchers injured.

• Cultivators debated which Immortality Elixir had revived, while experts from the Eastern Wilderness ruled out the Humanoid Immortality Elixir because its damaged roots could not have recovered so quickly.
• Forces poured into the Southern Range to search for the Immortal Medicine, provoking battles with the Ancient Yao and Sacred Beasts until outsiders were driven to search more cautiously.
• The widespread search uncovered Little Medicine Kings and two Ancient Medicine Kings but failed to locate the Immortal Medicine, and many forces withdrew.
• Powerhouses from human Holy Lands, clans, the Primordial Era Race, and beyond the realm gathered at the Demon Emperor Hall to borrow its Heaven-Piercing Formation after learning its Heaven and Earth Dharma Eye was inactive.
• The assembled experts used the formation and collected Immortal Light to glimpse a Nine-Colored figure in a mysterious space, and an attempt to see it more clearly caused its Chaos Divine Light to shatter the formation and injure them.
• The cultivators wondered whether the Southern Range’s heavenly phenomenon marked the awakening of a true Chaos Body rather than the revival of an Immortality Elixir.

Li Zhi left the Chaos Small World with a mirror that revealed flaws in his Dao Fruit, then underwent the Saint Fourth Heaven tribulation in the Outer Realm Starry Sky above the Southern Range. As observers suspected he had revived the Humanoid Immortality Elixir, powerful factions began leaving the Yuan Tian Ancient Vein, apparently preparing to claim it from him.

• Li Zhi awakened from his year of cultivation, explored the Chaos Small World, and fashioned the mirror-like ground into a Chaos Body Mirror that exposed flaws in his body, primordial spirit, and Dao Fruit.
• Li Zhi left the small world and, despite having suppressed his cultivation, attracted a Heavenly Tribulation and began advancing to Saint Fourth Heaven above the Southern Range.
• Cultivators used the Heaven-Piercing Formation to watch Li Zhi endure the tribulation, and Grand Elders recognized him as Longevity Daoist.
• A King from Dao Yi Holy Land denied that his sect had ever seen the Humanoid Immortality Elixir's root, prompting observers to suspect Li Zhi had revived it.
• Experts from top-tier forces hurriedly departed the Yuan Tian Ancient Vein, and a King from the Eastern Wilderness Southern Domain suggested they intended to seize the Humanoid Immortality Elixir from Li Zhi.

After returning from his tribulation, Li Zhi killed the human experts who demanded to inspect his Immortality Elixir and drew widespread anger. Sensing a greater threat, he hid and then entered Qishi Mansion to take its ancient path through the starry sky toward the strongest trial.

• The Primordial Myriad Races chose not to challenge Li Zhi over the rumored Immortality Elixir and continued searching for the Chaos Body.
• Human Saints and Ancient Saints blocked Li Zhi above the Southern Range and demanded that he prove his Immortality Elixir root was unrelated to the celestial phenomenon.
• Li Zhi attacked and killed the gathered experts, leaving more than a thousand heads suspended in the void before departing.
• The human forces called for Li Zhi to pay for the killings, while a mysterious person stopped the Four Immortal Dynasties from activating their Imperial Weapons against him.
• Li Zhi sensed a killing intent that might come from the Forbidden Zones of Life, concealed himself, and then entered Qishi Mansion to use its ancient starry path for the strongest trial.

Li Zhi consulted the Old Mansion Lord about leaving Beidou for the Strongest Trial Road, while explaining that he wanted to test his Dao rather than pursue fame. After sending a letter to the Jade Pool Saintess, he waited in Qishi Mansion, and she went to tell the Jade Pool Queen Mother that Longevity had contacted her.

• Li Zhi reached Qishi Mansion and met the Old Mansion Lord, who had advanced to the Sage King Peak.
• Li Zhi told the Old Mansion Lord that Beidou had become dangerous for his cultivation and discussed setting foot on the Strongest Trial Road with the Jade Pool Saintess.
• The Old Mansion Lord warned Li Zhi that Wang Yao might struggle on the Ancient Road and that events could defy his intentions, but Li Zhi said he wanted to test his Dao.
• Li Zhi stayed in Qishi Mansion to comprehend the Central State's Myriad Daos and sent a letter to Jade Pool Holy Land.
• The Jade Pool Saintess received Li Zhi's letter and went to inform the Jade Pool Queen Mother that Longevity had contacted her.

The Jade Pool Saintess won permission to travel the Ancient Starry Road, while Li Zhi emerged from seclusion at Qishi Mansion after reaching Dao Palace Perfection. Before leaving Beidou, he agreed to preach at Qishi Mansion and summoned Li Xian'er and Jin Ming to discuss their futures.

• Yang Yi supported the Jade Pool Saintess's decision to travel the Ancient Starry Road and gave her a Quasi-Emperor Divine Weapon, while warning her to sever her romantic ties to Li Changshou.
• Li Zhi cultivated in seclusion at Qishi Mansion, where his Dao Palace grew stronger and three Dao Deities gestated within Dao Cocoons.
• Li Zhi's breakthrough sent two Five-Colored Divine Lights into the sky, drawing students who Lin Daochen told to return in three days for a sermon.
• The Mansion Lord of Qishi Mansion asked Li Zhi to Hold a Sermon, and Li Zhi agreed before requesting that Li Xian'er and Jin Ming be brought to him.
• Li Zhi warned Li Xian'er to spend a hundred years strengthening her foundation before attempting to Sever Dao, and Jin Ming asked to accompany them on the Ancient Road.

Li Zhi prepared Li Xian'er and Jin Ming for his departure, leaving them powerful protections and advice before setting out with the Jade Pool Saintess on the Ancient Starry Road. After six months of solitary travel and trials for the Jade Pool Saintess, they reached a star marked by the bones of dead cultivators.

• Li Zhi used the Chaos Body Mirror to show Li Xian'er and Jin Ming the differences in their foundations, then gave them protections made from his Saint Dao Incarnation and Immortal Medicine Liquid.
• Li Zhi told Li Xian'er to seek Daoist Priest Duan's protection on the Sun Star if trouble arose, and then sent her and Jin Ming back to the Seven Stars Dao Field.
• The Jade Pool Saintess and Yang Yi visited Li Zhi, who revealed that he had reached the perfected Saint Fourth Heaven and agreed to guard the Jade Pool Saintess on the Ancient Starry Road.
• Li Zhi and the Jade Pool Saintess left Beidou through Qishi Mansion's Five-Colored Altar, and he gave her a Jade Hairpin containing a Saint Dao attack and White Tiger Immortal Medicine blood.
• The Jade Pool Saintess traveled alone for six months while Li Zhi followed unseen and gathered Star Cores from Suns along the way.
• The Jade Pool Saintess reached a special Ancient Road node with an atmosphere, mountains, deserts, and the bones of dead cultivators.

Wang Yao entered the Human Race’s Trial Path and fought her way through deadly ancient stars, growing stronger with each battle while Li Zhi secretly guarded her. Li Zhi studied the Death Realm’s laws and altered its heart, while Wang Yao continued toward Human Race First City.

• Wang Yao set out alone through the Gate of Trial, dodged a Bone Blade, and fought her way past seven Dao Slaying King skeletons to find the altar out of the Death Realm.
• Li Zhi studied the Death Realm’s laws, subdued its wounded Ancient Beast ruler, and cultivated a trace of vitality where the realm’s heart had once been nurtured.
• Wang Yao reached a harsh Life Star, recovered, then killed the Half-Saint Fire God Monkey Leader to learn where to find the next Five-Colored Altar.
• Wang Yao fought opponents across successive stars, honing the Western Empress Inheritance and growing into a ruthless combatant as Li Zhi secretly removed threats beyond her ability.

The Jade Pool Saintess reached the Human First Pass after becoming a Great Accomplishment King, while Li Zhi advised her to focus on surpassing herself rather than competing with other cultivators. They arrived at the pass as many Heavenly Prides gathered, and Li Zhi expected Ye Fan to draw much of their attention.

• The Jade Pool Saintess completed the ninth-heaven Severing Dao tribulation and became a Great Accomplishment King before entering the Ancient Path with Li Zhi.
• Li Zhi calmed the Jade Pool Saintess's urge to challenge the passing Heavenly Prides and explained that the trial road tested a cultivator against their former self.
• Qing Yuanzi tried to approach Li Zhi and the Jade Pool Saintess, but Xuan Jian warned them that he used an ancient Dual Cultivation technique to deceive talented women.
• Xuan Jian learned the Jade Pool Saintess came from the Ancient Beidou Star and wished her good luck before departing.
• Li Zhi explained that Beidou cultivators were resented because of their powerful inheritances and predicted Ye Fan would attract attention ahead of them.
• Li Zhi and the Jade Pool Saintess reached the Human First Pass.

Li Zhi and the Jade Pool Saintess arrived at the Human Race First Pass with 311 other cultivators and entered the ancient city after its gates opened. After the City Lord announced that a trial and selection would soon begin, Li Zhi led the Saintess through the city to help her steady her state of mind.

• Li Zhi and the Jade Pool Saintess waited outside the Human Race First Pass as cultivators discussed the approaching gate opening and the seed-level experts among them.
• The city gates opened, and Li Zhi entered with the gathered cultivators, ignoring the soldiers' contemptuous remarks.
• The Guide Envoy appeared in the central square, announced that a trial would soon select who could continue, and forbade fighting in the city.
• Li Zhi and the Jade Pool Saintess explored the busy commercial district instead of resting, and Li Zhi told her that wandering would help restore her unbalanced state of mind.

Li Zhi studied the Star Dao in Human First City, uncovering how its laws sustained life and deepening his questions about cultivation in a flawed universe. The trial began the next morning as the Guide Envoy summoned the cultivators and told them to listen to the ancient horn call.

• Li Zhi and the Jade Pool Saintess spent seven days enjoying the city, while its guards watched Li Zhi warily.
• The Jade Pool Saintess regained her original state of mind after her time in the mortal world.
• Li Zhi comprehended the Star Dao in the city plaza, drawing a pillar of starlight that attracted the city's commanders and other cultivators.
• Li Zhi returned to the inn and concluded that the ancient cities were inscribed with Star Dao laws, while reflecting on the consequences of a flawed heaven and earth.
• The horn announcing the trial's opening sounded, and the Guide Envoy appeared at the plaza to explain its connection to the Human Race's ancestors.

Li Zhi entered Saint Demise Island, where trial-takers had to comprehend the Great Dao across its zones to advance. After quickly understanding the Dao in several zones, he found the Jade Pool Saintess fighting off six cultivators and discovered Qing Yuanzi and Hong Chou watching from hiding.

• The Great Commander led the 313 trial-takers through a spatial passage to Saint Demise Island and explained its zones and dangers.
• Xuan Jian entered Zone 1, Li Zhi chose Zone 49, and the Jade Pool Saintess went to Zone 33.
• Li Zhi surveyed Zone 49, found signs of earlier battles, and quickly comprehended its natural Great Dao before moving through more zones.
• Li Zhi continued crossing zones and comprehending their related Dao profundities, passing through barriers that burdened him with million-jin shackles.
• In Zone 33, Li Zhi found the Jade Pool Saintess besieged by six cultivators and spotted Qing Yuanzi and Hong Chou secretly watching the fight.

Li Zhi rescued the Jade Pool Saintess from a plot by Qing Yuanzi and Hong Chou, then continued exploring the zones of Saint Demise Island before entering its Central Forbidden Zone. There, his Daoist Title startled the island’s Fierce Beasts and the soldiers outside.

• Qing Yuanzi and Hong Chou attacked Li Zhi, but he suppressed them, searched their souls, and took their treasures.
• After the Jade Pool Saintess defeated her attackers, Li Zhi taught her to search corpses and destroy their remains, then gave her the spoils.
• Li Zhi traveled through the zones without being challenged, encountered Xuan Jian, and returned to Zone 49 before entering the Central Forbidden Zone.
• A Saint-level Sacred Bird attacked Li Zhi, who answered with his Daoist Title, sending a purifying sound across the island and into the starry sky.
• The Fierce Beasts sensed Li Zhi’s overwhelming pressure, while the Great Commander and the soldiers outside Saint Demise Island reacted to his power.

Li Zhi entered a Dao Transformation Ancient Cave in the Central Forbidden Zone and endured its Dao Fire while reciting the Great Dao Longevity Scripture. The scripture drew other trial-takers to the cave, where Fire Fairy fought off a group and then found two Saints waiting at the entrance.

• Li Zhi used a Dao cry to frighten away the Fierce Beasts, then traveled through the Central Forbidden Zone to study its remnants of ancient laws.
• Li Zhi discovered an ancient cave containing a ball of indestructible Dao Transformation Fire and sat atop it to cultivate despite the damage it caused him.
• Li Zhi’s recitation of the Great Dao Longevity Scripture grew loud enough to draw trial-takers toward the cave.
• Fire Fairy arrived at the cave, and a group of Half-Saint trial-takers plotted to attack her and seize the supposed Immortal Scripture.
• Fire Fairy revealed her Saintly aura, killed the attackers, and suppressed her cultivation after the battle.
• Fire Fairy returned to the cave and saw two other Saints waiting outside while the scripture continued to sound from within.

Li Zhi survived the Dao Transformation Fire and used it to temper his foundation, though his cultivation fell from Peak Sage Fourth Heaven to the first level of the Saint realm. After leaving the cave with Jade Pool Saintess to head for the First Pass Trial Ground, Fire Fairy emerged transformed and faced Xuan Jian near the Blood Pool.

• The Saints abandoned the Ancient Cave, but Fire Fairy entered and found Li Zhi undergoing Dao Dissolution atop the Dao Transformation Fire.
• Fire Fairy drew in the Dao Transformation Fire, lost control of her power, and nearly burned herself alive before Li Zhi awakened and guided her through a scripture of phoenix rebirth.
• Li Zhi pushed Fire Fairy from the cave, where she spent two days reborn in flames and gained a Southern Bright Leaving Fire mark between her brows.
• After Fire Fairy left, Li Zhi completed his transformation, emerged unharmed from the Dao Transformation Fire, and met Jade Pool Saintess.
• Li Zhi told Jade Pool Saintess that the fire had dissolved four Minor Realms of his cultivation while making his Great Dao Foundation three times more solid, then they set off for the First Pass Trial Ground.
• Fire Fairy returned near the cave after passing the Blood Pool trial, and Xuan Jian challenged her to a future contest.