Chapter Summaries

Li Zhi forged a powerful War Banner, received a Divine Light Platform, and left the Ninth City to continue along the Ancient Road. He learned Wang Yao had chosen to travel independently, while she and Yan Feiyan reached a mysterious Wandering Life Star and planned to use it to bypass a severed stretch of the road.

• Li Zhi tested the War Banner’s Blood Lotus and Black Lotus transformations, then returned to the Ninth City, where the Guide Envoy and a Sage King welcomed him.
• At a banquet, Li Zhi asked for a Divine Light Platform instead of secret techniques, and the Guide Envoy and Ancient Path Guardian granted his request.
• Li Zhi learned that Wang Yao had become a Saint, killed a powerful trial-taker, and left three months earlier to pursue a Wandering Life Star with other seed-level trial-takers.
• After seeing that Wang Yao’s Soul Lamp still shone, Li Zhi accepted their separation, rested for two days, and used the Divine Light Platform to depart toward the Tenth City.
• On the Wandering Life Star, Yan Feiyan discussed Daoist Priest Seven Stars’s prediction that the star would reach the Thirtieth City’s region in ten years and let them bypass a severed section of the road.
• Wang Yao decided to continue alone rather than wait for Li Zhi, seeking to prove herself and avoid relying on him.

Li Zhi arrived at the ruins of the Tenth City and found the shattered Life Ancient Star, where billions of beings had perished. He gathered the star’s core fragments and revived the Ancient Star, then entered profound enlightenment as its surviving Saint Dao Laws began to recover.

• Li Zhi used a Divine Light Platform to reach the former Tenth City and found its ruins and the shattered Life Ancient Star.
• Moved by the slaughter of its inhabitants, Li Zhi invoked transcendence and walked across the ruins, guiding the souls of the dead onward.
• Li Zhi gathered fragments of the Life Ancient Star’s core with the Star Plucking Hand and reforged them into a blazing sphere with Dao Fire.
• Li Zhi chanted the Dao Palace Chapter of the Great Dao Longevity Scripture, drawing the star’s mountains, waters, and surviving plant life together to restore the Ancient Star.
• As the Ancient Star revived, Li Zhi entered profound enlightenment and his consciousness began to act as its Heavenly Dao Will, awakening its surviving Saint Dao Laws.

After the Ancient Road’s eighteen-year upheaval ended, the Tenth City’s evacuees returned to rebuild and discovered that the shattered Sage Becoming Star had been restored with extraordinary Dao laws and five newly arranged continents. Zi Tong entered the central continent to investigate its secrets, leaving the group waiting beyond the star.

• The Human Race’s Guide Envoy and cultivators returned to the Tenth City to rebuild it and reconnect the Ancient Road.
• The returning group found the destroyed Sage Becoming Star restored, with dense Heaven and Earth Essence, undying Saint Dao Laws, and five unusual continents.
• Zi Tong sensed that a supreme Dao Palace scripture had shaped the continents, while the Guide Envoy and others wondered who had restored the star.
• Zi Tong volunteered to investigate, received a protective Divine Talisman from the Guide Envoy, and traveled to the central continent.
• Zi Tong reached a Divine Mountain, summoned five Dao Palace Deities, and had them form a formation and chant scriptures.

Zi Tong’s mysterious enlightenment on the Sage Becoming Star propelled her through the Saint Ascension Tribulation, where she saw a tangible incarnation of the Great Dao. The Ancient Star then awakened a colossal Human Race cultivator whose unknown thunder tribulation shook the starry sky.

• Zi Tong entered a mysterious state of enlightenment, rapidly advancing to the Saint level before the Guide Envoy teleported her away from the Saint Ascension Tribulation.
• Zi Tong survived the tribulation, became a Saint, and described seeing a towering incarnation of the Great Dao that she could not clearly reproduce.
• The Ancient Star erupted with storms and tribulation clouds, prompting the Guide Envoy to order everyone to retreat aboard a Starry Sky Battleship.
• A colossal Starry Sky Giant emerged above the Ancient Star, swallowed its thunderclouds, and moved into a sparse starfield as an even more powerful tribulation began.
• The giant shrank under the lightning, revealing Human Race blood and qi and a ninth-heaven Saint aura that left the Guide Envoy and Great Commander unable to identify his tribulation.

After restoring the shattered Life Ancient Star and surviving a half-month thunder tribulation, Li Zhi became a peak Saint and joined the Human Race on the Ancient Road. He collected Supreme-level Death Qi to refine a Forbidden Artifact, then agreed to remain on the Ancient Road for several years before visiting other Trial Ancient Roads to develop his cultivation scripture.

• Li Zhi absorbed the Heavenly Thunder through his Martial Dao True Body and emerged from the tribulation as a peak Saint, while the Human Race celebrated the restored ancient star.
• Li Zhi examined the transformations in his Dao Palace Realm and suppressed his breakthrough to Sage King until he created the Four Extremes Chapter of the Great Dao Longevity Scripture.
• Li Zhi gathered Supreme-level Death Qi from the Star Ruins into a Divine Source altar, intending to imitate his Three-layered Altar and refine a Forbidden Artifact for protection against the Forbidden Zone Supremes.
• The Guide Envoy welcomed Li Zhi and thanked him for restoring the Sage Becoming Star, and more than a hundred thousand former residents settled there.
• Li Zhi asked for coordinates to other Ancient Roads, then agreed to stay a few years to receive possible rewards and learn more about Supreme Immortal Liquid.
• After the Guide Envoy gave him coordinates for seven or eight Alien Race Trial Ancient Roads, Li Zhi left the Tenth City region.

After restoring the Tenth Pass Life Ancient Star and receiving his reward at the Thirtieth City, Li Zhi traveled through the space-time passage to the Heavenly Soldier Ancient Star. He arrived over a vast ocean just as someone named Jing Kong attacked a Black Dragon’s tribulation, intensifying the Heavenly Thunder.

• The Guide Envoy and the Great Commander discussed Li Zhi’s extraordinary ability to restore a Life Ancient Star as the Tenth Pass was rebuilt.
• Li Zhi traveled across ruined sections of the Ancient Path, gathered residual Supreme Death Qi, and witnessed Gai Jiuyou end the twenty-one-year war.
• At the Thirtieth City, Li Zhi collected three drops of Supreme Immortal Liquid and declined to restore the shattered Life Ancient Star there.
• The Guide Envoy recommended that Li Zhi visit the Heavenly Soldier Ancient Star, and Li Zhi left through the Five-Colored Altar.
• Li Zhi emerged from the strange space-time passage above the ocean surrounding the Heavenly Soldier Ancient Star.
• A magical arrow from Jing Kong struck the Tribulation Cloud above a Black Dragon, worsening its tribulation, and the dragon accused Jing Kong of ambushing it.

Li Zhi arrived at the Heavenly Soldier Ancient Star, seized Jing Kong and the Black Dragon Crown Prince during their battle, killed them, and cooked their bodies. After exploring the star’s unusual Dao, he set off inland, while the South Sea Dragon King learned that his son had died and suspected Jing Kong.

• Jing Kong attacked the Black Dragon Crown Prince during his tribulation, revealing his Saint-level strength and Kunpeng bloodline as they fought in the Thunder Sea.
• Li Zhi captured both fighters with the Star Plucking Hand, searched and destroyed their souls, staged their deaths as mutual destruction, and took their corpses.
• Li Zhi learned that the Heavenly Soldier Ancient Star held more than a hundred Saints and four Great Sages, then ate the Black Dragon and Demon Whale and studied the star’s Dao.
• Li Zhi concluded that the star’s altered Great Dao could hinder long-term cultivation, though it might help him temper his foundation, and headed inland.
• Old Turtle told the South Sea Dragon King that the Black Dragon Crown Prince had perished during his tribulation and that Jing Kong’s aura had been present at the scene.

The Golden Peng King and the South Sea Dragon King clashed after learning their children had been killed, but Lin Han stopped them and warned that someone might be manipulating the conflict. Meanwhile, Li Zhi explored the Heavenly Soldier Ancient Star, reached the sacred mountain range above the Heavenly Venerate Immortal Platform, and advanced his formation comprehension.

• The South Sea Dragon King confronted the Golden Peng King over Jing Kong’s role in his Crown Prince’s death, but learned that the Golden Peng King’s daughter and son-in-law had also died.
• The Golden Peng King attacked the South Sea Dragon King, broke his halberd, and nearly defeated him before Lin Han intervened.
• Lin Han mediated a truce between the two Sage Kings, then warned the Lin Clan that an Outer Domain Trial Taker had arrived and urged them to stay inside.
• Li Zhi traveled through the Heavenly Soldier Ancient Star, studying its abundant Dao sites while considering the source of its prosperous cultivation environment.
• Li Zhi reached the ancient mountain range corresponding to the Heavenly Venerate’s forehead and cultivated amid its Dao Marks, advancing his Array Dao to formation great grandmaster.

Li Zhi killed the South Sea Dragon King and the Golden Roc King, then returned to Heavenly Soldier Ancient Star and discovered the secret realm where the Golden Crow Clan Supreme was undergoing Nirvana. He escaped the Fire Crow Great Sage’s attack, but the Fire Crow found the coordinate imprint he had left behind.

• The South Sea Dragon King and the Golden Roc King confronted Li Zhi over the South Sea Dragon King’s son, and Li Zhi lured them beyond the realm and killed them.
• Li Zhi returned alone to Heavenly Soldier Ancient Star, while the Human Ancient Road’s Path Guardians warned its Great Sages not to attack trial-takers.
• Li Zhi used the Earth Art to locate the Heavenly Venerate Immortal Platform Secret Realm beneath the Primeval Ancient Vein and entered its underground world.
• Li Zhi saw the Fire Crow Great Sage guarding the Golden Crow Clan Supreme’s Nirvana Divine Egg and escaped through a Domain Gate as the Fire Crow attacked.
• The Fire Crow Great Sage found the coordinate imprint Li Zhi had left in the Void.

Li Zhi drove Fire Crow Great Sage to flee with the Golden Crow Divine Egg by faking the arrival of a Quasi-Emperor, then entered the Heavenly Venerate Immortal Platform Secret Realm to cultivate. As Daoist Qing Huang and other human Path Guardians arrived to investigate the incident, Li Zhi sealed the underground space and began comprehending the Great Dao.

• Fire Crow Great Sage reconstructed the earlier scene, detected Li Zhi’s message about the Nirvana Golden Crow Divine Egg, and ordered the Ancient Beasts to investigate the human cultivator sought by the South Sea Dragon King and Golden Peng Sage King.
• Li Zhi used a formation and Quasi-Emperor-level Holy Spirit Flesh to create the illusion of a Holy Spirit Quasi-Emperor threatening the Heavenly Soldier Ancient Star.
• Fire Crow Great Sage activated the Quasi-Emperor Divine Bell and escaped through a Domain Gate with the Golden Crow Divine Egg, leaving only a small region of Immortal Divine Fire behind.
• Li Zhi entered the Immortal Platform Secret Realm, sealed its underground space with an Eight Trigrams formation, and began tempering his body and comprehending the Great Dao in the remaining Divine Fire.
• Daoist Qing Huang, two Great Sage Path Guardians, and Lin Han arrived at the Primeval Ancient Vein to question Fire Crow Great Sage about the Holy Spirit Quasi-Emperor and the Golden Crow Divine Egg.

The Human Race Protectors agreed that Heavenly Soldier Ancient Star would not remain a node on the Trial Ancient Road, and they failed to enter its Core Secret Realm. Left alone, Li Zhi comprehended the Divine Fire’s Great Dao Runes, advanced to Sage King Fourth Layer, and repeatedly tempered his cultivation until it could no longer fall below Sage King Third Layer middle stage.

• The Great Sages of Heavenly Soldier Ancient Star told Daoist Qing Huang that their star could serve only as a temporary foothold, and he agreed to notify the Guide Envoys to stop sending trial-takers there.
• Lin Han and the Human Race Protectors found Fire Crow Great Sage absent and were displaced into the Outer Realm when they tried to enter the Core Secret Realm; Daoist Qing Huang identified the barrier as a Five-Colored Altar formation.
• The Protectors failed to breach the formation, gave Lin Han a way to contact them if a Quasi-Emperor of the Saint Spirit Race arrived, and took most qualified trial-takers away.
• Li Zhi used the Great Dao Tree and The Sole True God to comprehend the Divine Fire’s Runes, completing the framework of his Four Extremes Chapter and the Formation Secret as his cultivation rose to Sage King Fourth Layer middle stage.
• Li Zhi entered a Divine Fire Furnace and cycled through nine rounds of cultivation loss and recovery, until his cultivation could no longer fall below Sage King Third Layer middle stage.

After ten years of cultivation in the Heavenly Venerate Immortal Platform Secret Realm, Li Zhi emerged as an early fourth-layer Sage King and triggered a Thunder Tribulation powerful enough to rival a Great Sage’s. He survived its initial waves and transformed it into a brutal trial that ground down his cultivation while he used the Thunder Pool’s laws to replenish himself.

• Li Zhi withdrew the Innate Bagua Diagram and left Heavenly Soldier Ancient Star before his immense Thunder Tribulation could endanger it.
• The Saints and three Great Sages of Heavenly Soldier Ancient Star observed the tribulation but could not see through its Chaos Mists.
• Li Zhi manifested his Martial Dao True Body and endured the first nine layers of Divine Thunder, using the lightning to temper himself.
• Li Zhi inscribed the Ten Thousand Thunder Severing Dao Formation in the Thunder Sea, causing the tribulation to grind away at his cultivation.
• Li Zhi recited the Four Extremes Chapter of the Great Dao Longevity Scripture to absorb Origin Laws from the Thunder Pool and restore the cultivation being worn away.

Li Zhi survived a Heavenly Punishment tribulation by prying open the Heaven and Earth Myriad Daos and absorbing higher-level Great Dao Origins, reaching the mid-stage of the fourth heaven of the Sage King realm. He left the Heavenly Soldier Ancient Star and traveled through the stars aboard a modified battleship, where he nourished a Divine Egg carrying an Immortal Phoenix aura.

• Li Zhi used his Four Extremes Chapter to pry into the Heaven and Earth Myriad Daos during his tribulation and absorb their Great Dao Origins, provoking Heavenly Punishment.
• Great Sage Lin Han identified the tribulation as multiple Sage King tribulations layered together and suspected the hidden Longevity Daoist was undergoing it.
• After more than half a month, Li Zhi survived the tribulation, recovered in the starry sky, and gained a greatly increased lifespan.
• Li Zhi opened a Domain Gate and left the Heavenly Soldier Ancient Star without meeting the cultivators who had waited for him.
• Li Zhi modified a Starry Sky Battleship with the Soldier Secret and traveled onward, using Kunlun Immortal Liquid to nourish a Divine Egg with a pure Immortal Phoenix aura.

After recovering from his tribulation, Li Zhi searched for the stars formed from Lingbao Heavenly Lord’s body and found that the limbs had been destroyed in an ancient battle. On his way toward the Heavenly Venerate’s torso, he encountered Xin Ming fleeing a Starry Sky Giant and stepped in to face the pursuer.

• Li Zhi soothed the unborn Five-colored Phoenix Bird in its Divine Egg and placed it in a Fire Essence Nest to continue gestating.
• Li Zhi used the Myriad Stars Diagram and Innate Bagua Diagram to locate the stars formed from the Heavenly Venerate’s limbs, then traveled to their ruins.
• Li Zhi found that all four limb-stars had been destroyed in ancient battles, apparently by Quasi-Emperor-level powerhouses, and set course for the region formed from the Heavenly Venerate’s torso.
• Li Zhi encountered Xin Ming of the God Race fleeing a three-thousand-zhang Starry Sky Giant, let Xin Ming aboard, and then went out to confront the pursuer.
• The Starry Sky Giant attacked Li Zhi, and their fists collided; Li Zhi welcomed a proper fight after discovering the giant’s body was exceptionally powerful.

Li Zhi battled the Starry Sky Giant in the Void, trading physical blows and powerful techniques until a sudden eruption from the Void Cracks interrupted them. Li Zhi spotted a shattered God-Demon Corpse surrounded by Chaos Qi, its vital essence still present.

• Li Zhi enlarged his Martial Dao True Body and fought the Starry Sky Giant, while Xin Ming realized escape was blocked by two Sage King figures.
• Li Zhi and the Starry Sky Giant continued their clash, and the giant accused Li Zhi of sheltering Xin Ming before unleashing divine techniques.
• Li Zhi countered the Gods and Demons Tearing Heaven Palm, the Gods and Demons Slaying Immortals Slash, and the Gods and Demons Swallowing Heaven with strikes from his Sky Splitting Four Strikes.
• Li Zhi prepared to suppress the Starry Sky Giant with his White Tiger Strike as the giant raised a Quasi-Emperor Corpse’s palm, but the Void Cracks erupted with Chaos Qi.
• Li Zhi and the Starry Sky Giant retreated from the eruption, and Li Zhi used his Heavenly Eye to identify a shattered God-Demon Corpse within the lingering Chaos Qi.

Li Zhi captured a God-Demon Corpse and brought Cang Ming and Xin Ming together after learning they were both searching for the Cosmic Lake. The three joined forces to reopen the shattered void, where they sensed a hidden Chaos Small World.

• Li Zhi sealed the starry sky and collected the God-Demon Corpse before persuading Cang Ming to speak with him.
• Cang Ming told Li Zhi that Xin Ming had stolen Star River Divine Sand, and Xin Ming returned it and revealed what he knew about the Cosmic Lake.
• Li Zhi, Cang Ming, and Xin Ming discussed the Cosmic Lake’s origins and powers, then agreed to search for it together.
• While sharing a meal aboard Li Zhi’s Starship, Xin Ming explained his wish to overcome the limits of his divine bloodline, and Cang Ming demanded compensation if they failed to find the Cosmic Lake.
• Li Zhi gathered the Chaos Qi from the shattered void, and the three used Xin Ming’s formation diagram to pierce it open again.
• Xin Ming sensed that the gateway led to a Chaos Small World hidden within the void.

Li Zhi, Xin Ming, and Cang Ming crossed a perilous void to reach a Chaos Ancient Continent, where they fought its supernatural guardians and searched for fortune. After surviving a month of battles, they reached the continent’s center and found three fleshly giant beasts with Quasi-Emperor auras asleep beside a starry lake.

• Li Zhi led Xin Ming and Cang Ming through the Great Void Rift and across a month of dangerous void currents to the Chaos Ancient Continent.
• The three were attacked by Chaos Sword Qi and separated by Teleportation Dao Patterns; Li Zhi fought Chaos Wraiths and learned that they were formed from the laws and remnant souls of dead Gods and Demons.
• Li Zhi found a Chaos Gourd growing beside a Chaos Spirit Spring, defeated the beast guarding it, collected its hoard, and moved the valley into the Hundred Herbs Diagram.
• Li Zhi fought six Great Sage-level Wraiths and was injured, while Xin Ming and Cang Ming struggled through their own battles across the continent.
• After more than a month, Li Zhi, Xin Ming, and Cang Ming reached the center of the continent and saw three sleeping giant beasts with Quasi-Emperor auras beside a starry lake.

Li Zhi, Cang Ming, and Xin Ming discovered that the three creatures guarding the Cosmic Lake only carried Quasi-Emperor power in parts of their bodies and had likely transformed from Quasi-Emperor corpses. Xin Ming identified Easy Fetus Grass as a possible cause, leaving the group with a new clue about the creatures’ origins.

• Li Zhi, Cang Ming, and Xin Ming retreated from the Cosmic Lake after finding three sleeping beasts with terrifying Quasi-Emperor auras.
• Cang Ming and Xin Ming questioned how three Quasi-Emperor beings could exist on the small Chaos Ancient Continent, and Li Zhi noticed their dense Death Qi and ancient aura.
• Li Zhi secretly approached the beasts and used the Chaos Body Mirror to record their Dao laws, then escaped when they stirred up a Chaos Storm.
• Li Zhi examined the images with Cang Ming and Xin Ming and determined that the creatures were Sage King-level beings formed from Quasi-Emperor corpses, with only parts of their bodies retaining Quasi-Emperor characteristics.
• Xin Ming recalled an ancient God Race tale stating that Easy Fetus Grass, a spiritual herb born in Chaos Immortal Earth, could reshape corpses into new forms.

Li Zhi, Cang Ming, and Xin Ming killed the three Chaos Ancient Beasts guarding the Cosmic Lake and shared the Chaos Divine Blood they extracted. Cang Ming tested the lake’s power and barely escaped after its water stripped the flesh from his lower body.

• Cang Ming asked whether the legendary Easy Fetus Grass could reshape his God-Demon True Body, but Xin Ming said the Cosmic Lake’s surroundings could not nurture it.
• Li Zhi, Cang Ming, and Xin Ming prepared a Chaos Killing Formation and awakened a Quasi-Emperor corpse remnant to attack the three sleeping Chaos Ancient Beasts.
• The beasts unleashed Quasi-Emperor Laws, but Li Zhi strengthened the formation with Chaos Qi and destroyed them with three Chaos Killing Swords.
• Xin Ming extracted a jar of Chaos Divine Blood from the beasts, and Li Zhi divided it equally among the three before refining the remains of their corpse remnant.
• After the group found no Quasi-Emperor Magic Artifact fragments and rested, Cang Ming entered the Cosmic Lake to test it.
• The lake stripped the flesh from Cang Ming’s lower body when he waded chest-deep, forcing him to retreat and regenerate while exhausted.

Li Zhi explored the Cosmic Lake and discovered it contained a compressed minor universe from the Immortal Ancient Period, whose Divine Path laws helped him temper his body and deepen his understanding of the Dao. After several years of cultivation and fighting on the Chaos Ancient Continent, he, Cang Ming, and Xin Ming returned to the Heavenly Venerate Ancient Domain with stronger cultivation, while Li Zhi recognized how much weaker the outside world's Great Dao foundation was.

• Cang Ming and Xin Ming entered the Cosmic Lake but suffered severe physical damage from its crushing pressure, while Li Zhi ventured deeper and found a young minor universe within it.
• The Sole True God in Li Zhi's Dao Palace resonated with the lake's Divine Path laws, and Li Zhi realized the lake was a compressed universe left from the Immortal Ancient Period.
• Li Zhi persuaded Cang Ming and Xin Ming to cultivate in the shallows, and the three trained with the Cosmic Lake for three years.
• Li Zhi reached the fifth heaven of the Sage King level and advanced his physical body to the Great Sage level after refining primordial substances, including remnants of Easy Fetus Grass.
• Cang Ming gained two additional arms, while Xin Ming reached the peak of the ninth heaven of the Saint level without transforming his divine blood into Divine King Blood.
• The three returned through a Starry Dao to the Heavenly Venerate Ancient Domain, and Li Zhi reflected on the difference between the incomplete minor universe's laws and the outside world's Great Dao.