Chapter Summaries

Li Zhi and the Jade Pool Saintess reached the Blood Lake, the Human First Pass’s ultimate trial ground, and entered its Bloody Battlefield to face versions of themselves. Li Zhi defeated his stronger former self, discovered a Mirror Dao Pattern, and was expelled from the battlefield.

• Li Zhi explained to the Jade Pool Saintess that the Blood Lake trial let cultivators confront themselves and understand their strengths and weaknesses.
• Li Zhi gave the Jade Pool Saintess a jade hairpin containing White Tiger Immortal Medicine Liquid, and they entered separate Bloody Fissures in the Blood Lake.
• Li Zhi’s Bloody Figure appeared at Peak Sage Fourth Heaven, reflecting the cultivation aura Heaven and Earth had recorded before his cultivation fell.
• Li Zhi fought Blood Li Zhi for three days, studied his flaws, and developed the Guard the Path secret technique to strip away the copy’s Great Dao power.
• Li Zhi comprehended a special Mirror Dao Pattern, defeated Blood Li Zhi, and was forced out of the Bloody Battlefield with minor injuries.

Li Zhi and the Jade Pool Saintess left Saint Demise Island after completing their trials, and the Great Commander announced that 248 cultivators had survived the first pass. The survivors returned to the Human Race First City, where they prepared to leave soon for the next stage of the Strongest Trial Ancient Road.

• Li Zhi gave the badly injured Jade Pool Saintess Immortal Liquid after she fought her own reflection in the Bloody Battlefield and gained insight into her weaknesses.
• Li Zhi explained that the Bloody Battlefield's apparent resurrection was an illusion created by protective Dao Patterns, then he and the Jade Pool Saintess returned to the island's outer zone.
• The trial period ended, and Fire Fairy, Sword Fairy, Wang Yao, and other trial-takers emerged as observers discussed their injuries and the missing cultivators.
• The Jade Pool Saintess joined Li Zhi, whose regressed cultivation and hard-to-remember appearance drew attention from the other survivors and the Great Commander.
• The Great Commander confirmed that 248 cultivators survived, reopened Saint Demise Island, and transported everyone back to the Human Race First City.

Li Zhi and the Jade Pool Saintess uncovered a plot to steal her Great Emperor Ancient Scripture and destroyed the conspirators’ clan. The Great Commander then challenged Li Zhi, whose astonishing Martial Dao True Body revealed his formidable power to the city.

• The Guide Envoy investigated Li Zhi’s qualifications at the Great Commander’s request, then secretly visited Li Zhi and left after Li Zhi detected him.
• The Jade Pool Saintess used the White Jade Divine Pagoda to defeat an unfamiliar Saint, and Li Zhi’s Soul Search revealed a plot to seize her Great Emperor Ancient Scripture.
• The Jade Pool Saintess destroyed the ancient family behind the plot, and the Guide Envoy warned her and Li Zhi before departing.
• Black-robed cultivators regrouped and planned another attempt to capture Li Zhi and the Jade Pool Saintess, while the next morning the Great Commander challenged Li Zhi.
• Li Zhi and the Great Commander fought in the Outer Realm Starry Sky, and witnesses recognized Li Zhi’s giant form as his Martial Dao True Body.

After defeating Great Commander Celestial Wolf, Li Zhi left Human Race First City for the Bloody Battlefield, where the trial-takers were ordered to fight their way to the Second Pass. He began hunting the other trial-takers while a group of them plotted to kill him.

• Li Zhi defeated Great Commander Celestial Wolf in a spar, and the Guide Envoy revealed that Li Zhi's cultivation had regressed from the Fourth Heaven of Sainthood to the First Heaven.
• After Li Zhi's reputation spread, the Guide Envoy announced that the trial-takers must kill their way to the Second Pass through the Bloody Battlefield.
• Li Zhi warned the trial-takers that he would attack them there; Fire Fairy and Sword Fairy chose to remain in First City and cultivate instead.
• Li Zhi and the other trial-takers teleported to the Bloody Battlefield, where he found the Jade Pool Saintess and set out to hunt the others.
• More than twenty trial-takers debated how to kill Li Zhi, while he approached other trial-takers and killed nearly everyone he found.

Li Zhi slaughtered the inhabitants and trial-takers in the Primordial Battlefield to accelerate the birth of a Dao Origin, then sealed the battlefield with the Great Formation of Stars. As he engraved Dao Patterns, the Jade Pool Saintess took control of the formation and summoned a Jade Pool Immortal Realm to fight the invading native lords.

• Li Zhi explained to the Jade Pool Saintess that the Primordial Battlefield was a natural furnace that nurtured Dao Origins, and that the corpses could speed up the process.
• Li Zhi borrowed the White Jade Divine Pagoda and used it with the Innate Bagua Diagram to spread the Great Formation of Stars across the Primordial Battlefield.
• The Lord of the Demon Kingdom, the Lord of the Divine Kingdom, and other native experts broke through the formation and entered, while the Lord of the Spirit Clan withdrew.
• Li Zhi summoned a Great Yin Jade Rabbit and a Three-legged Golden Crow to attack the intruders, and the native experts killed both after a fierce battle.
• The Jade Pool Saintess took control of the formation through a Star Token and summoned a Starlight Immortal Lotus and the Jade Pool Immortal Realm, where a Golden Armored Goddess emerged to confront the invaders.

The Jade Pool Saintess used the Celestial Stars Formation to unleash the Jade Pool’s forbidden techniques, killing the intruding Sage Kings and Saints while Li Zhi prepared their corpses for a grand sacrifice. After the formation vanished, Li Zhi began the ritual, drawing Heavenly Punishment over the battlefield.

• The Jade Pool Saintess controlled the Goddess to attack the intruders with Heavenly River Sword Qi, the Jade Pool Immortal Folding Hand, and the Jade Pool Flying Immortal Palm, killing three Sage Kings and five Saints.
• The native kingdoms panicked at the deaths of their leaders, and their rulers sought help from the Spirit King, who forbade his clan from approaching the battlefield.
• The Jade Pool Saintess entered enlightenment after displaying One Thought Creates World, while Li Zhi inscribed Dao Patterns onto the corpses to make them foundations for a Heaven and Earth Furnace.
• Li Zhi warned the Jade Pool Saintess to keep away, withdrew the Celestial Stars Formation, and scattered the Corpse Puppets across the battlefield.
• Li Zhi began a sacrifice before a Three-layered Altar as the Corpse Puppets burned and released their essences and divine laws, bringing dark clouds and Heavenly Punishment over the battlefield.

Li Zhi captured the Five-colored Immortal Phoenix formed from the Primordial Battlefield’s Dao Origin and gave a portion of its essence to the Jade Pool Saintess. He then spoke with the Spirit King, who questioned whether the battlefield would produce Dao Origin again, and asked why a jade-born cultivator sought a flesh-and-blood body.

• Heavenly Punishment engulfed the battlefield as dragons, a phoenix, and a white tiger absorbed Law Fragments, while a mysterious hand nearly seized the sealed world and the cultivators began to glow with Dao essence.
• The phenomena vanished, the Corpse Puppets dissolved, and the Primordial Battlefield flourished as a Five-colored Immortal Phoenix appeared; Li Zhi sealed it into the Immortal Phoenix Seal.
• Li Zhi gave the Jade Pool Saintess a portion of the Immortal Blood Dao Origin and told her to refine it before they reached the Human Second Pass.
• Li Zhi explored the Small World, entered Spirit Clan territory, and accepted the Spirit King's invitation for tea.
• The Spirit King asked whether the Primordial Battlefield would produce Dao Origin again, and Li Zhi said he had not damaged its arrangements before asking why the jade-born Spirit King sought a body of flesh and blood.

Li Zhi discussed the limits of sentient Divine Jade beings with the Spirit King and traded a portion of Dao Origin for a rare Nine Heavens Azure Divine Jade King and Golden Divine Milk. The Spirit King gave the Dao Origin to Biluo, hoping it would help his child break free of the Divine Jade Clan’s innate limitations, while Li Zhi returned to the Jade Pool Saintess and studied the clan’s cultivation method.

• The Spirit King explained that sentient Divine Jade cultivators struggled to reach Great Dao Perfection and showed Li Zhi jade remains of deceased clan members.
• The Spirit King asked Li Zhi for Dao Origin, offering a Nine Heavens Azure Divine Jade King and half the Golden Divine Milk in exchange.
• Li Zhi accepted the trade, handing over a portion of Dao Origin and taking the treasures before leaving the Spirit Clan’s territory.
• The Spirit King gave the Dao Origin to Biluo, who objected that the Nine Heavens Azure Divine Jade King had been intended for his Destined Divine Weapon, Azure Heaven.
• The Spirit King reminded Biluo that he carried the clan’s hopes of overcoming their innate limits, and Biluo refined the Dao Origin under his protection.
• Li Zhi returned to the Jade Pool Saintess’s secluded area and began studying Divine Jade cultivation, which relied on the Great Dao Laws engraved in the body rather than the Five Great Secret Realms.

After surviving the Bloody Battlefield, Li Zhi and the Jade Pool Saintess traveled to the Human Race Second Holy City, where they planned to enter the Primordial Dao Field. They arrived at the city, and its guards noticed the new batch of trial-takers.

• Li Zhi pondered the mysteries of physical bodies and primordial spirits while comprehending a Five-colored Immortal Phoenix Dao Origin.
• The trial ended, and the Five-Colored Altar transported Li Zhi and the Jade Pool Saintess away as the Guide Envoy realized only two people had survived.
• During their journey through the Space-Time Corridor, Li Zhi explained the trials of the first nine passes and advised the Jade Pool Saintess to strengthen her foundation before achieving Sainthood.
• Li Zhi said the Primordial Dao Field might restore his cultivation, while he planned to rebuild it gradually rather than advance too quickly.
• Li Zhi and the Jade Pool Saintess arrived at the Second Holy City, where the soldiers welcomed the arrival of a new batch of trial-takers.

Li Zhi and the Jade Pool Saintess reached the Human Race Second City as the only survivors of their batch, prompting the Guide Envoy to delay their trial while he weighed the danger of sending them onward alone. Li Zhi insisted on setting his own pace, and the next morning they arrived at the Primordial Trial Ground, where city factions appeared ready to enter and claim its opportunities.

• Li Zhi and the Jade Pool Saintess emerged from the Star Gate alone, and the Guide Envoy confirmed they had killed the other trial-takers in the Bloody Battlefield.
• The Guide Envoy delayed opening the Primordial Dao Field, while rumors spread and Li Zhi and the Jade Pool Saintess refused invitations from the city's cultivators.
• At a banquet, Li Zhi rejected the Guide Envoy's proposal to wait for the next batch and declared he would advance without hesitation; the Guide Envoy agreed to escort them to the trial ground the next morning.
• Li Zhi told the Jade Pool Saintess that he had deliberately challenged the commanders so they could not control his cultivation pace.
• The Guide Envoy ordered that only eligible cultivators be allowed into the Primordial Trial Ground and warned his commanders not to provoke Li Zhi.
• At dawn, Li Zhi and the Jade Pool Saintess arrived at the trial ground, where disciples of major forces stood beside the Great Commander, apparently intent on entering with them and taking opportunities.

Li Zhi entered the Primordial Dao Field with the Jade Pool Saintess and discovered that the world was rich in treasures and the Dao of Power. After cultivating on the Gravity Divine Peak, he defeated the disciples who attacked him and gained a deeper understanding of his strength.

• Li Zhi and the Jade Pool Saintess entered the Primordial Dao Field as the Second City's powerful clans expected their own disciples to claim its Fortune.
• Li Zhi explored the ancient wilderness, sensed the Dao of Power, and parted ways with the Jade Pool Saintess so each could seek their own Fortune.
• Li Zhi climbed the Gravity Divine Peak and practiced the Hunyuan Stance under its crushing gravity, awakening an immense immortal Great Dao power.
• The Second City's disciples attacked and shattered the mountain, then fought among themselves over the Chaos Divine Mountain Core.
• Li Zhi took the Chaos Divine Mountain Core, confronted the attackers for violating the rules, and killed them all with a single palm strike.
• After the cultivators returned to Heaven and Earth as Essence, Li Zhi realized his power had more than doubled.

After the ambush against Li Zhi ended in the deaths of the attackers, their families demanded justice while the Guide Envoy refused to intervene. Li Zhi and the Jade Pool Saintess explored the Primordial Dao Field, and Li Zhi left for a dangerous Dao-comprehension site after strengthening his body in a Primordial Magnet Immortal Cave.

• The senior figures of the dead cultivators' forces blamed Li Zhi and the Jade Pool Saintess, but the Guide Envoy warned them that attacking trial participants could bring the Ancient Path Enforcer's judgment.
• Two surviving disciples condemned Liu Rong's group for breaking the rules, then hid far away as Li Zhi continued exploring the Dao Field.
• Li Zhi found the dangerous Immortal Pool and warned Wang Yao to leave it; she explained that her Divine Tower protected her from the mountain's mind-clouding power and resumed cultivating in the pool.
• Li Zhi entered the Primordial Magnet Immortal Cave, ate one of its Divine Fruits, and cultivated until the Primordial Magnet Immortal Light greatly strengthened his body.
• Li Zhi punched a hole in the sky, sensed an Ancient Great Emperor's aura, and headed toward the Dao Field's dangerous grounds for comprehending the Dao.

Li Zhi cultivated in an ancient Dao Field, then endured a powerful tribulation and tempered himself in the Dao-dissolution flames surrounding an ancient star. After stabilizing his Sage Seventh Heaven cultivation, he left the star ready for cultivators to enter where its protective flames had faded.

• Li Zhi broke through the formations around an empty Dao Field and refined the True Dragon and Five-colored Immortal Phoenix Dao Origins, reaching Sage Seventh Heaven in seven days.
• Li Zhi found an ancient star wrapped in silver Dao-dissolution flames and captured an imprint describing the Emperor's death and the Heavenly Court's collapse.
• Li Zhi underwent a three-day tribulation, fought the Heavenly Court army conjured by the Thunder Pool, and killed all one hundred thousand soldiers and generals.
• Li Zhi spent more than half a year tempering himself in the flames, stabilizing his cultivation at early Sage Seventh Heaven and strengthening his body and primordial spirit.
• Li Zhi consumed nearly half the star's silver flames, weakening its barrier so cultivators could enter some areas of the ancient star.

Li Zhi explored the dead Ancient Star, left a Dao imprint that seemed to gain imperishable life, and discovered a vast reserve of Earth Fire Liquid and a stone sphere containing Emperor Blood. Unable to move or break the sphere, he struck it and suddenly found an idea.

• Li Zhi entered the Ancient Star’s depths and comprehended the Great Emperor imprint near its Star Core, leaving behind his own Dao imprint.
• A mysterious scripture from the Divine Cocoon in Li Zhi’s Dao Palace Realm awakened his imprint, and he emerged from Enlightenment after five months at the peak of Sage Seventh Heaven.
• Li Zhi explored the Earth Core, let the Humanoid Immortality Elixir absorb its Immortal Substance, and collected some Earth Fire Liquid without exhausting the star’s supply.
• Li Zhi found a massive stone sphere radiating an Ancient Great Emperor’s aura and discovered through his Life Divine Eye that Emperor Blood lay inside.
• Unable to move or break the sphere, Li Zhi punched it, heard it ring like a war drum, and came up with an idea.

Li Zhi extracted nearly one-fifth of the Emperor Blood from the Stone Ball, then returned toward the Primordial Dao Field after more than a year away. In the Human Race Second Holy City, new trial-takers heard that Li Zhi had died, while Li Zhi found he could no longer locate the Primordial Dao Field.

• Li Zhi used the Calculation Scripture to map the Stone Ball’s interior, siphoned out a six-inch sphere of Emperor Blood, and sealed it in a Divine Source Box.
• Li Zhi decided not to take more blood, left the Ancient Star, and flew toward the Primordial Dao Field.
• A year later, Great Commander Liu Kui told newly arrived Saint seed-level experts that Li Zhi had died in the Primordial Dao Field and recounted how the Jade Pool Saintess had been sent to the Third City for her protection.
• Li Zhi arrived at the void where the Primordial Dao Field was located but could no longer find or enter it.

Li Zhi found the Primordial Dao Field hidden away and used a starry-sky formation to return to the region of the Human Second City. There, he fought an Evil God fleet and destroyed it before the city’s soldiers arrived, leaving them stunned by his merit-lit chanting.

• Li Zhi discovered that the closed Primordial Dao Field had concealed itself, then opened a spacetime passage with a Great Formation of Stars to travel back toward the Human Second City.
• Sword Fairy and Fire Fairy discussed their belief that Li Zhi had survived the Primordial Magnetic Immortal Cave and traveled to the Lost Mountain Range.
• Li Zhi arrived in the Human Second City’s star region and encountered ten Evil God battleships, whose commanders mistook him for a Human Race Protector and attacked.
• Li Zhi blocked the battleships’ divine lights, then used the True Dragon Slaying Immortal Diagram and White Bone Immortal Slaying Saber to destroy the fleet and kill its Evil Gods.
• The Guide Envoy and soldiers from the Human Second City reached the battlefield and saw Li Zhi chanting as the corpses vanished and the ruined ships lost their Essence.

Li Zhi killed a group of Evil Gods near Human Second Pass, then traveled through the next pass cities while searching for the Jade Pool Saintess. He reached Human Race Ninth Pass and learned that several alien armies had gathered outside the city.

• Li Zhi revealed himself to the Guide Envoy after killing the Evil Gods, and the Guide Envoy briefed him on the conflict spreading along the Ancient Path.
• Li Zhi exchanged his reward for the Star Coordinates of the pass cities, then agreed not to trouble the major powers unless they came after him.
• The Guide Envoy opened the Teleportation Array to Human Race Third City for Li Zhi, then warned the city’s leaders against seeking revenge and sent the Third Commander to speak with them.
• Two months later, returning trial-takers discussed Li Zhi’s feat, while Young Master Yan analyzed what he had learned about him.
• Li Zhi failed to find the Jade Pool Saintess in Third City, completed trials in the Fourth through Eighth pass cities over three years, and advanced to the eighth heaven of the Saint realm.
• At Human Race Ninth Pass, an iron-armored soldier told Li Zhi that the Light Race, Saint Spirit Race, Winged Race, and Primordial Demon Race had stationed their armies outside the city.

Li Zhi reached the besieged Ninth Holy City and learned that the Four-Race Allied Forces had surrounded it. Convinced he could defeat them, he walked through the City Protection Array to face their leaders, leaving the city’s commanders and guardians stunned and worried.

• Li Zhi told a soldier he was a trial-taker from the Eighth Pass and offered to fight the eighty-thousand-strong allied army outside the city.
• Great Commander Zhen learned Li Zhi’s identity as Daoist Priest Longevity and explained how the nickname Blood Hand Butcher had spread along the Ancient Path.
• Li Zhi assessed the enemy’s sixteen Saint-level experts and rejected Great Commander Zhen’s plan to wait behind the city’s defenses.
• Li Zhi created a Starry Dao and passed through the City Protection Array into the void, prompting the Guide Envoy to mistake the path for a flaw in the formation.
• The Light Race Sage King challenged Li Zhi as the city’s leaders recognized him, and Li Zhi began gathering starlight beneath his feet.

Li Zhi overwhelmed the Four-Race Allied Forces by killing twelve Saints and refining them into a powerful War Banner, then faced a siege by four Sage Kings. When they blasted his sealed body to ashes, they realized it was only a substitute and could not find his true body.

• Li Zhi refined the Blood Demon into a War Banner and revealed that he had mastered the Soldier Secret and the Nine Secrets: Lin.
• Li Zhi killed twelve Saints, leaving the Four-Race Allied Forces shaken as the Human Race Ninth City cheered for him.
• The Light Race's Sage King ordered the Saints to attack, and the four Sage Kings deployed a hundred Starry Sky Battleships to trap Li Zhi in a Void Locking Great Formation.
• The Guide Envoy and the city's commanders held back the Human army, while soldiers gathered on the walls to cheer for Li Zhi.
• Li Zhi revealed that he had also grasped the Formation Secret and that a Star Array followed him through the Starry Universe.
• The four Sage Kings attacked Li Zhi, destroyed his substitute, and failed to locate his true body with the Saint Spirit Race Sage King's tracking ability.

Li Zhi trapped the Four-Race Allied Forces in his Great Formation of Stars, defeated their four Sage Kings, and claimed their battleships and remains. After cleansing the War Banner through its tribulation and liberating the slain spirits, he was celebrated in the Ninth Holy City, where its leaders discussed how to reward him.

• Li Zhi turned the Void Locking Great Formation against the enemy fleet and used the Great Formation of Stars to isolate the four Sage Kings and their forces.
• Li Zhi seized all one hundred starry sky battleships, sent their crews into the Blood-colored War Banner, and battled the four Sage Kings for more than half a month.
• Li Zhi killed the Light Race, Winged Race, and Primordial Demon Race Sage Kings, then annihilated the Saint Spirit Race Sage King's primordial spirit and sealed his body.
• Li Zhi recited liberation scriptures as the War Banner endured thunder tribulation, clearing its resentment and removing the hatred he sensed from Heaven and Earth.
• The cultivators of the Human Race Ninth Holy City cheered Li Zhi's victory, while three Sage Kings discussed how to receive and reward him.
• The Longevity War Banner survived its tribulation and gained the aura of a Generational Saint Soldier.