Chapter Summaries

Li Zhi reflected on how reaching the limits of the Heaven and Earth Myriad Daos could prepare him to attain immortality, and how he could strengthen his attributes to rival a Chaos Body. After Xin Ming became a Sage King, Cang Ming offered to guide Li Zhi to the Mythological Ancient Hunting Ground, where his ancestors had sought breakthroughs.

• Li Zhi concluded that he needed to push all his attributes to the Heaven and Earth Limit to break through the shackles that hindered immortality and attaining the Dao.
• Li Zhi, Cang Ming, and Xin Ming meditated in the starry sky, and Xin Ming's Sage King Tribulation appeared.
• Xin Ming entered the Thunder Sea, survived his tribulation, and became a Sage King.
• Cang Ming asked Li Zhi where he planned to train next, and Li Zhi said he wanted to visit the Trial Ancient Roads of other races.
• Cang Ming offered to take Li Zhi to the Mythological Ancient Hunting Ground, explaining that his ancestors had left its coordinates as a place to seek breakthroughs.

Li Zhi, Cang Ming, and Xin Ming traveled to the Mythological Ancient Hunting Ground, where they found the remains of a vanished ancient land and entered a Demon Sea Eye filled with God-Demon Origin. Cang Ming began absorbing the origin while Li Zhi searched the strange ocean and found an island in an area with weaker God-Demon Law.

• Li Zhi accepted Cang Ming’s invitation to search the Mythological Other Shore and brought Xin Ming along.
• The three arrived in a lightless void and used their Heaven’s Eyes to discover the corpses of powerful Gods, Demons, and Ancient Beasts.
• Li Zhi speculated that an unimaginable battle had destroyed the ancient continent, and the group was struck by a dangerous wave from the Demon Sea Eye.
• Li Zhi and Cang Ming entered the Sea Eye while Xin Ming stayed behind, and they found a black-and-silver ocean containing God-Demon Origin.
• Cang Ming shared his bloodline Secret Art with Li Zhi, then transformed and entered the ocean to absorb its origin.
• Li Zhi studied the ocean’s God-Demon Laws and discovered an island where those laws were relatively thin.

Li Zhi endured the Lunar Divine Power on a fragment of the Taiyin Human Emperor’s seal, then tempered himself for six years in the God-Demon Ocean until he reached Sage King Seventh Heaven. He asked the fragment’s Soldier Soul to leave with him and help him find its main body, but it still refused to communicate.

• Li Zhi was frozen by the island’s Lunar Divine Power, then used the Taiyin True Scripture to break free and discovered that the island was a fragment of the Taiyin Human Emperor’s seal.
• The God-Demon Ocean swallowed the fragment while Xin Ming gave up waiting for Li Zhi and Cang Ming and left to seek the Mythological Other Shore.
• Cang Ming emerged from his Dao Cocoon a year later at Sage King Eighth Heaven, grew two dragon horns, and waited near the Sea Eye for Li Zhi.
• Li Zhi communicated with the fragment’s Soldier Soul and studied the God-Demon Origin, then stopped absorbing it and plunged into the ocean to temper himself.
• After six years of resisting the ocean’s dissolving power, Li Zhi reached Sage King Seventh Heaven and strengthened his Origin beyond the God-Demon Origin Power.
• Li Zhi asked the Soldier Soul to leave with him so he could find and repair its main body, but it remained aloof.

Li Zhi emerged from the Demon Sea Eye and began a breakthrough tribulation, drawing the attention of cultivators across the Mythological Ancient Hunting Ground. After Di Tian’s attempt to enter the Thunder Sea was repelled, an Imperial Weapon unleashed Great Yin Divine Thunder at Li Zhi, who answered with forbidden arts; the clash left the surrounding cultivators unable to see what happened next.

• Li Zhi left the Demon Sea Eye, where swarms of Silver Minnows attacked him as Cang Ming fought a powerful Silver Fish Python.
• Li Zhi’s Minor Realm breakthrough tribulation descended, and Cang Ming and the Fish Python Heavenly King fled its reach.
• Di Tian approached the Thunder Sea to test Li Zhi, but Cang Ming tried to block him; Li Zhi’s thunder fist then struck Di Tian and shattered the bones in his fist, forcing him to retreat.
• Qing Shi Xianzi and Ling'er witnessed Di Tian’s defeat and decided to leave, while a Taiyin force from an Imperial Weapon formed a barrier around Li Zhi’s tribulation and attacked him with Great Yin Divine Thunder.
• Li Zhi unleashed Overthrow of Ten Thousand Daos, disrupting the surrounding laws, then used Divine Light of the Great Dao to melt the unstable Great Yin Divine Thunder; nearby Ancient Beasts vanished in the radiance.

Li Zhi recovered from the Great Yin Divine Thunder in a remote region of the Mythological Ancient Hunting Ground and prepared a Taiyin-powered Forbidden Artifact while reflecting on his strength and secret technique. He reunited with Cang Ming and discovered that his ally was badly injured by a Great Sage Law, so he offered to treat him.

• After a wave-like force swallowed the divine light, Li Zhi survived and hid in an unvisited region with the Imperial Weapon Fragment.
• Li Zhi healed his wounds and sealed the expelled Lunar Divine Power into a Mysterious Ice Dao Platform that could erupt with Great Sage-level killing intent.
• Li Zhi considered the backlash from creating Overthrow of Ten Thousand Daos and concluded that he would need far greater cultivation to contend with the Myriad Dao.
• After a month of recovery, Li Zhi stabilized his cultivation at mid-stage Sage King Seventh Heaven and sensed that his attributes still fell short of the Chaos Body.
• Li Zhi found Cang Ming, thanked him for his protection, and offered to heal the foreign Great Sage Law entrenched in his injured body.

Li Zhi and Cang Ming entered the Mythological Ancient Hunting Ground, found Xin Ming dead, and spent more than two months hunting its ancient beasts. They traced the beasts’ origins to a strange Heavenly Domain Small World, where Li Zhi guided them through a law-marked nebula to a barren Ancient Continent with two immense Stone Pillars.

• Li Zhi expelled the Alien Law from Cang Ming and learned that Great Sages had entered the Mythological Ancient Hunting Ground to reach the Other Shore of Gods.
• Li Zhi and Cang Ming searched for Xin Ming, found his drained corpse, and Li Zhi recited the Scripture of Rebirth before turning the body to cosmic dust.
• Li Zhi hunted ancient beasts with Cang Ming for more than two months, capturing numerous species, including several powerful Beast Kings.
• Li Zhi concluded that the beasts came from a Heavenly Domain Small World connected to the Heavenly Venerate’s Dragon Transformation Realm and led Cang Ming to search for their lair.
• Li Zhi and Cang Ming crossed a law-marked nebula in the form of a Golden Divine Dragon and arrived at a barren Ancient Continent bearing two Stone Pillars engraved with divine beasts.

Li Zhi and Cang Ming entered a Dragon-filled Heavenly Domain Small World and raided the Gray Flood Dragon Great Sage’s unguarded Dragon Palace. Li Zhi took nine Dragon Eggs and entered the Dragon Transformation Pool, where his Dragon Transformation Realm began condensing nine mysterious Great Dao Runes.

• Li Zhi and Cang Ming entered the Heavenly Domain Small World and found it filled with powerful Dragon Blood Ancient Beasts.
• They reached the Dragon Palace, where Li Zhi disrupted its Great Sage Formation and Cang Ming seized eight Silver-winged Flying Dragons guarding the entrance.
• Cang Ming learned that the Gray Flood Dragon Great Sage had used a Dragon Blood Pool to cultivate Dragonkind with True Dragon bodies, and Li Zhi led them to the Dragon Transformation Pool.
• They found nine golden Dragon Eggs absorbing the pool’s Dragon Blood, and Li Zhi sealed all nine for himself.
• Li Zhi entered the Dragon Transformation Pool despite Cang Ming’s warning, used the Dragon Transformation Chapter to withstand its blood dragons, and caused nine Great Dao Runes to condense in his Dragon Transformation Realm.

Li Zhi awakened the nine True Dragon runes in his Dragon Transformation Realm while Cang Ming defended the Dragon Palace from the Silver Dragon Queen. After Cang Ming lured the queen away, two python sisters entered the Dragon Transformation Pool to attempt their own transformations, but the pool’s power began destroying them.

• Li Zhi used the Dragon Transformation Pool’s Nirvana Power to awaken his nine True Dragon runes and form a Great Dragon of dragon qi.
• The Silver Dragon Queen returned to the Dragon Realm, attacked Cang Ming, and demanded vengeance for her slain children.
• Cang Ming taunted the queen with her children’s remains, then escaped with her into the chaotic region outside the Heavenly Domain Small World.
• Two python sisters reached the unguarded Dragon Palace and saw a sleeping five-clawed Golden Dragon in the Dragon Transformation Pool.
• The sisters entered the pool to transform into dragons, but their bodies began to dissolve and shatter under its Power of Law.

Li Zhi rescued two Snake Demons, took the Dragon Palace and its nine Dragon Veins, then searched the Mythological Ancient Hunting Ground for Cang Ming. He found Cang Ming trapped in a Thunder Tribulation and surrounded by the Silver-winged Flying Dragon Queen and the Yuanchu, who were waiting for the tribulation to end so they could kill him.

• The Five-Clawed Golden Dragon saved the two Snake Demons from the Dragon Blood and formed Dao Cocoons for their transformation, while Li Zhi added a rune of the Nine Transformations of the True Dragon to each cocoon.
• After learning of the Silver-winged Flying Dragon Queen, Li Zhi tore the Dragon Palace and the nine Dragon Veins from the earth and stored them in the Hundred Herbs Diagram.
• Li Zhi pursued Cang Ming across several Heavenly Domain Small Worlds, noticed that their Ancient Beasts were divided by Primordial Ten Fiends bloodlines, and lost Cang Ming's trail near the Cosmic Islands.
• Rather than divine Cang Ming's whereabouts, Li Zhi used a map gathered from the Ancient Beasts and opened a Star Gate to a previously overlooked star field.
• Li Zhi found Cang Ming struggling through a Thunder Tribulation while the Silver-winged Flying Dragon Queen and the Yuanchu blocked his escape; the two agreed to kill him and divide his remains and treasures once the tribulation ended.

Li Zhi protected Cang Ming during his tribulation, killed the Silver-winged Flying Dragon and Yuanchu, and stewed them into a restorative soup. After Cang Ming recovered, he chose to part ways with Li Zhi, recognizing the widening gap between them and the importance of self-awareness.

• Li Zhi gave Cang Ming a Divine Pill to help him recover and trapped the Silver-winged Flying Dragon and Yuanchu in the Four Symbols Seal God Great Array.
• Li Zhi killed the two Ancient Beast Kings and stewed their bodies into Dragon Phoenix Great Tonic Soup while Cang Ming completed his tribulation and reached Sage King Eighth Heaven.
• Cang Ming drank the soup and recovered his depleted Life Origin as Li Zhi explained its benefits and taught him cooking methods.
• Li Zhi asked Cang Ming whether he would seek opportunities at the Other Shore of Gods or travel with him through Beast Domain Small Worlds.
• Cang Ming decided to travel alone, realizing that he needed to understand himself and avoid becoming Li Zhi's follower.

Li Zhi explored the Beast Domain Small Worlds, studying their Great Dao and uncovering the Heavenly Venerate Dao behind their species-specific laws before leaving to face his eighth Sage King tribulation. Meanwhile, the Mythological Other Shore grew crowded and violent, and newcomers found that the Ancient Beasts of the Hunting Ground had been nearly wiped out.

• Li Zhi gave Cang Ming an aura-bearing jade talisman and warned him about dangers in the Other Shore before they parted ways.
• Li Zhi returned to the Beast Domain Small Worlds, explored the Celestial Wolf Great Sage’s Dao Field, and spent half a year comprehending its laws.
• Li Zhi used the Myriad Dao Immortal Tree in several Beast Domain Small Worlds and discovered that their laws had evolved from the Heavenly Venerate Great Dao.
• After more than four years of cultivation, Li Zhi left for the Star Ruins to undergo his eighth Sage King tribulation.
• Powerful cultivators flocked to the Mythological Other Shore, where battles and killings intensified as newcomers gathered life energy to cross the Bitter Sea.
• Later arrivals found the Mythological Ancient Hunting Ground nearly devoid of Ancient Beasts after earlier cultivators had slaughtered them.

Li Zhi found that cultivators had slaughtered nearly all the Ancient Beasts in the Beast Domain Small Worlds to gather life essence, so he purified the dead and vowed to avenge them. At the Star Shore, he killed forty-eight cultivators involved in the slaughter and used the gathered merit to create a Nine-story Divine Tower.

• Cultivators searched out the Beast Domain Small Worlds and slaughtered nearly all their Ancient Beasts to collect life essence.
• Li Zhi returned to find the Beast Domain Small Worlds devastated, purified the resentful spirits, and vowed to deliver justice for the dead.
• A Divine Ring formed behind Li Zhi as he delivered the departed souls, and he traveled to the Star Shore.
• Li Zhi attacked the Vampire Bat Clan's Young Supreme and killed him and forty-seven other cultivators who had joined the slaughter.
• Li Zhi recited the Lingbao Heavenly Lord Salvation Scripture, transformed the Divine Ring's merit into golden liquid, and formed a Nine-story Divine Tower with Mysterious Yellow Essence Qi.

Li Zhi completed the Golden Pagoda of Merit and learned more about how his liberation of spirits had earned him merit. When the Blood Bat Great Sage came seeking revenge, Li Zhi fought him to a standstill, and the Blue Gold Great Sage arrived as a new challenger.

• Ancient-race cultivators recognized Li Zhi’s newly forged Golden Pagoda of Merit and explained its extraordinary defensive power and rarity.
• Li Zhi drew the pagoda into his Immortal Platform, then contemplated its power and how the Houtu Rebirth Sutra had helped him accumulate merit by liberating True Spirits.
• The Blood Bat Great Sage arrived demanding to know who had killed his grandson, and Li Zhi calmly identified himself as the killer.
• The Blood Bat Great Sage attacked Li Zhi, but the Golden Pagoda of Merit blocked his claw; Li Zhi counterattacked with his Golden Cudgel and condemned the human lives used to forge the Bloodthirsty Demonic Blade.
• Li Zhi and the Blood Bat Great Sage fought evenly, astonishing the watching cultivators, until the Blue Gold Great Sage arrived and challenged the Blood Bat Great Sage.

Li Zhi fought Blood Bat Great Sage and broke through his Blood Sea phenomenon with a Chaos Green Lotus, then prepared to face Blood Bat Great Sage and Blue Gold Great Sage together. As the two Great Sages joined forces, Li Zhi revealed ten Sea of Wheels Phenomena and activated the power of his Five Great Secret Realms.

• Li Zhi fought Blood Bat Great Sage and cleaved through his weapon and body with one cudgel strike.
• Blood Bat Great Sage restored himself and trapped Li Zhi inside his Blood Sea Cultivating Demon Lotus phenomenon.
• Li Zhi formed a Chaos Green Lotus that resisted the Blood Sea and broke through the phenomenon, shocking Blood Bat Great Sage.
• Blue Gold Great Sage warned Blood Bat Great Sage about Li Zhi's Dragon Roar Dao Cry, then joined him with a Divine Bell as Blood Bat Great Sage drew a Blood-colored Long Halberd.
• Li Zhi welcomed the two Great Sages' combined attack, revealed ten Sea of Wheels Phenomena, and activated the power of his Five Great Secret Realms.

Li Zhi survived a battle against Blood Bat Great Sage and Blue Gold Great Sage by using the Heavenly Venerate Bitter Sea to kill them, then returned by Ancient Ship to the Star Shore. He realized he had unconsciously avoided the Mythological Other Shore, where Ye Fan had attained the Dao, and prepared to pursue his own path.

• Blood Bat Great Sage and Blue Gold Great Sage joined forces against Li Zhi, but their clash opened a void Black Hole that swallowed all three into the Heavenly Venerate Bitter Sea.
• Li Zhi's magical power was sealed in the sea, but he remained unharmed, shattered both Great Sages' skulls, and seized their bodies before reaching an Ancient Ship.
• Li Zhi recovered on the ship, took the Great Sages' treasures, refined their blood into Blood Pills, and turned Blue Gold Great Sage's Divine Gold bones into metal.
• Li Zhi's Ancient Ship returned to the Star Shore, where cultivators recognized him as Longevity Daoist and speculated about the two Great Sages.
• Li Zhi realized he had unconsciously avoided the Mythological Other Shore because it was where Ye Fan had attained the Dao, and he wanted to forge his own path.

Li Zhi left the Mythological Other Shore, deciding to seek his own path rather than risk being shaped by Ye Fan's Great Dao. After learning that Wang Yao had continued ahead, he hurried to the Human Race Fiftieth City, where he learned she had already moved on.

• Li Zhi gave the Ancient Ship to the waiting cultivators and revealed that he had killed Blood Bat Great Sage and Blue Gold Great Sage in the Heavenly Venerate Bitter Sea.
• Li Zhi traveled to Heavenly Soldier Ancient Star, then returned to the Human Race Thirtieth City and asked the Guide Envoy about Wang Yao.
• The Guide Envoy told Li Zhi that Wang Yao had left the Thirtieth City twenty years earlier, so Li Zhi set off to fulfill his promise to guard her path.
• Li Zhi crossed more than ten ancient lands in half a year and reached the Human Race Fiftieth City, where Guide Envoy Zhao Gongyi told him that Wang Yao had left three years earlier.
• Li Zhi told Zhao Gongyi that the Mythological Other Shore was not his Place of Attaining Dao.

After comprehending the Great Daos of the Holy Body and Hegemon Body, Li Zhi returned to the Human Race Fiftieth City and refined his cultivation by remaining in the Divine Prohibition Realm. His practice drew Gu Lin, a Kirin-blooded Sage King trapped short of the Great Sage realm, into challenging him, and their battle began in the starry sky.

• Li Zhi comprehended the Great Daos of the Hegemon Body and the Great Completion Holy Physique before returning his thoughts to Beidou and the approaching Immortal Path opening.
• Li Zhi entered the Divine Prohibition Realm to study and repair his Great Dao, completing his Four Extremes Chapter and further revising the Great Dao Longevity Scripture.
• Li Zhi practiced Xingyi Quan in the starry sky, manifesting Five Elements power and the forms of divine beasts.
• Gu Lin, a Sage King Peak cultivator whose Kirin True Blood had obstructed his breakthrough to Great Sage, saw Li Zhi as the opponent who might help him break through and left the city to challenge him.
• Gu Lin attacked with Kirin Stomps Heaven, and Li Zhi answered with Kirin Roar.

Li Zhi fought Gu Lin on the Human Ancient Road and pushed him past his limits, allowing him to break through to the Great Sage realm. Afterward, Gu Lin gifted Li Zhi a bottle of Kunpeng Essence Blood, which Li Zhi tried to refuse.

• Li Zhi entered the Divine Prohibition Realm and overpowered Gu Lin, who recklessly fought to break through his cultivation shackles.
• At Zhao Gongyi's urging, Li Zhi unleashed Overthrow of Ten Thousand Daos, and Gu Lin broke through to the Great Sage realm before his body was destroyed and re-formed.
• Zhao Gongyi confirmed that Li Zhi had entered the Divine Prohibition Realm, and Gu Lin survived his Great Sage Tribulation and reached the Great Sage Third Heaven.
• Li Zhi, Zhao Gongyi, and Gu Lin shared a feast, where Gu Lin thanked Li Zhi for helping him break through.
• Gu Lin offered Li Zhi a bottle of Kunpeng Essence Blood, but Li Zhi said it was too precious and tried to return it.

Li Zhi spent twenty years traveling the Ancient Roads before catching up with the Jade Pool Saintess, rescuing her from three Sage Kings who were harassing her. They decided to continue toward the end of the Ancient Path together and return to Beidou.

• Zhao Gongyi explained to Gu Lin that befriending Li Zhi could bring dangerous enemies, and Gu Lin accepted his warning.
• Li Zhi studied the refined Kun Peng Essence Blood, then spent twenty years crossing different Ancient Roads and tempering his Dao Heart.
• Li Zhi reached the Human Race's Eighty-First Pass and learned that the Jade Pool Saintess had left a month earlier to escape persistent admirers.
• Li Zhi found the Jade Pool Saintess being besieged by three Sage Kings and killed them with one palm.
• The Jade Pool Saintess told Li Zhi about her journey and her wish to return to Beidou, and Li Zhi proposed that they travel together.

Li Zhi and the Jade Pool Saintess traveled through the ruined Human Trial Ancient Road, where Li Zhi awakened the Great Dao and gained insight into how Heaven and Earth treated living beings. At the Ninety-Ninth Pass, they rebuilt the city and left behind techniques for future trial-takers.

• Li Zhi told the Jade Pool Saintess that he planned to return to Beidou, then traveled with her along the Human Trial Ancient Road after they reunited a century later.
• Over twenty years on the desolate road, Li Zhi reached the Sage King Peak and the Jade Pool Saintess advanced to the fifth minor realm of the Sage King realm.
• After reflecting on the loss of the Heavenly Mandate, Li Zhi awakened the Great Dao, surged to the peak of the Sage King realm, and shared his understanding with the Jade Pool Saintess.
• Li Zhi and the Jade Pool Saintess reached the ruined Ninety-Ninth Pass and decided to rebuild its city.
• Li Zhi constructed a Starry Sky Ancient City, engraved four Divine Beast techniques on Ancient Steles, and set a Five-Colored Altar in its square.
• The Jade Pool Saintess smelted a Star Core into an Ancient Stele and left a sword lotus technique for future trial-takers.