Chapter Summaries

Li Zhi exchanged cultivation methods with the Supreme Beings of Immortality Mountain, then left unharmed and was welcomed by worshipful cultivators in Wang Kong Ancient City. After healing Qi Shu Bai and announcing a seven-day Dao sermon, Li Zhi went to Immortal Mound and forced its Supreme Beings to hand over five Imperial Dao Ancient Scriptures.

• Li Zhi traded his method, The Five Great Secret Realms of the Human Body as Dao Seeds, for scriptures from Stone Emperor and the other two Supreme Beings of Immortality Mountain.
• Li Zhi left Immortality Mountain with Jin Ming, Yang Xi, and Ye Tong, while onlookers took his safe emergence as proof that future generations could challenge Forbidden Zone Supreme Beings.
• In Wang Kong Ancient City, Li Zhi found believers worshiping him, summoned Qi Shu Bai, healed his Dao Injury, and met Divine Doctor Wang and other cultivators.
• Li Zhi announced that he would preach the Dao on Wang Kong Platform for seven days, prompting cultivators to notify their sects.
• Li Zhi entered Immortal Mound and demanded five Imperial Dao Ancient Scriptures; after another Supreme Being urged an end to the enmity, the scriptures were handed over.

Li Zhi visited Divine Ruins and Heaven Burial Island, collecting Imperial Dao Ancient Scriptures from the Forbidden Zone Supremes before returning to Wang Kong City. After lecturing on the Dao for seven days, he invited questions and heard a Primordial race Sage King ask whether merging their ancestral blood and Dao fragments could create a being capable of reaching immortality.

• Li Zhi visited Divine Ruins, contended with its Dao Marks, and accepted four Imperial Dao Ancient Scriptures from its Supremes before leaving.
• At Heaven Burial Island, Li Zhi caught Da Emperor Peng's God-Slaying Whip and demanded scriptures, then explained the island's connection to Desolate Heaven Emperor and the Three Lives Bronze Coffin in exchange for ten books.
• Li Zhi returned to Wang Kong City with nineteen scriptures from the three Forbidden Zones, bringing his total collection to twenty-five Imperial Dao Ancient Scriptures.
• Li Zhi lectured on the Dao at Wang Kong Platform for seven days, then urged the listeners to follow paths suited to themselves and invited them to ask questions.
• A Sage King of the Hun Tian Clan asked whether the Primordial Royal Races could merge their ancestral blood and Dao fragments to create a Supreme Being who could lead them to immortality, prompting talk of another Immortal Path on Flying Immortal Star.

Li Zhi explained the limits and possibilities of mortal-world immortality, then met Green Emperor and studied the Desolate Pagoda to advance his own cultivation path. A hundred years later, Flying Immortal Star’s seal began to break, drawing the universe’s attention as Li Zhi neared the end of his cultivation inside the pagoda.

• Li Zhi told the assembled cultivators that immortality could not be granted by outside forces, but that a path to mortal-world immortality depended on individual talent and Fortune.
• Li Zhi described bloodline cultivation as a potentially limitless path, then left Wang Kong City after answering more questions.
• In the Primordial Ruins, Li Zhi met Green Emperor and explained his method of transforming his Primordial Spirit and his planned path beyond mortality.
• Green Emperor sent Li Zhi’s Primordial Spirit Tower into the Desolate Pagoda, where Li Zhi attached himself to the tower to study its Dao Body.
• Li Zhi’s true body settled in a thatched hut, and a hundred years passed as the Golden Age’s cultivators advanced toward the Late Quasi-Emperor realm.
• The seal on Flying Immortal Star split and revealed signs of an immortal domain, while Li Zhi neared the completion of his cultivation inside the Desolate Pagoda.

After a century of discussing the Dao with the Green Emperor, Li Zhi refined his understanding of cultivation through life and death and returned to Ziwei Ancient Star as the Immortal Path on Flying Immortal Star stirred. His daughter Li Xian'er and disciple Jin Ming rejected entering the Immortal Domain to pursue their own paths, but a letter from the Dragon Lady prompted Li Zhi to leave again.

• Li Zhi and the Green Emperor exchanged insights for a hundred years, each clarifying a path of Dao evolution rooted in repeated transformations between life and death.
• Li Zhi parted from the Green Emperor, returned to Ziwei Ancient Star, and learned that Li Xian'er had reached the Quasi-Emperor realm.
• Li Xian'er and Jin Ming both refused to enter the Immortal Domain, choosing instead to pursue cultivation in the Mortal World.
• Li Xian'er resolved to accumulate ten Mortal World Reincarnation Seals, while Jin Ming planned to evolve her bloodline along a path suited to her nature as a Divine Insect.
• Li Xian'er showed Li Zhi an unopened letter from the Dragon Lady of the Myriad Dragon Tribe, and he left after reading it.
• Jin Ming wondered whether Li Zhi had a relationship with the Dragon Lady, and Li Xian'er suspected the letter concerned the Golden Divine Dragon Li Zhi had buried in Kunlun.

Li Zhi agreed to Dragon Lady’s choice to raise their unborn child in the mortal world and later observed the opening Immortal Path on Flying Immortal Star. As Ye Fan arrived, Li Zhi asked whether he intended to fight on the Immortal Path.

• Dragon Lady asked Li Zhi to let their child remain in the mortal world, and Li Zhi agreed to help raise him toward becoming a True Dragon.
• Dragon Lady visited the Purple Gold Dragon Egg and reflected on the visions of fate and the future she had witnessed.
• Li Zhi traveled to Flying Immortal Star as its ancient seal stirred, forcing local inhabitants to flee while cultivators gathered to investigate.
• Li Zhi quietly recited a Funeral Song, prompting nearby experts to debate whether the Immortal Path was real and who might enter it.
• Li Zhi considered the Immortal Path’s limits and prepared to leave before Ye Fan arrived with overwhelming qi and blood.
• Li Zhi appeared before Ye Fan and asked whether he planned to fight on the Immortal Path.

Li Zhi watched the Immortal Path open on Flying Immortal Star as Forbidden Zone Supremes began their campaign to become immortal. At Ye Fan’s invitation, he reached Immortality Mountain, where Ye Fan was fighting Stone Emperor and Black Tortoise Emperor awaited the outcome.

• Ye Fan told Li Zhi about Gu Lin and Gu Fei’s divination and invited him to help pacify Forbidden Zones if the Supremes emerged; Li Zhi agreed but said he would not pursue the Immortal Path.
• Forty-nine years later, the final seal on Flying Immortal Star broke, revealing the Immortal Path and the sealed Hua Snake, Jie Mie Heavenly Venerate, and a Chaotic Ancient Supreme.
• Li Zhi explained the seals to his disciples, while six Forbidden Zone Supremes emerged and sect leaders on Ziwei Ancient Star sought his protection; he told them the turmoil had not reached their star domain.
• Emperor Venerable’s Immortality Ascension Cauldron was reforged, and Ye Fan returned to Beidou to confront Stone Emperor and pacify Immortality Mountain.
• Li Zhi arrived at Immortality Mountain and found Black Tortoise Emperor still alive; Black Tortoise Emperor credited Li Zhi’s method with prolonging his life and predicted Stone Emperor would perish in his battle with Ye Fan.

Li Zhi helped Black Tortoise Emperor understand the Human Body Secret Realm path and attempt a final Nirvana, but Black Tortoise Emperor emerged cracked and failed to achieve true rebirth. He entered the Immortal Path on Flying Immortal Star as four more Supreme Beings followed, leaving Ye Fan facing eleven Imperial Dao Supreme Beings.

• Black Tortoise Emperor offered Immortality Mountain’s Fortune to Li Zhi in exchange for help breaking through beyond the Extreme Dao, then sent his descendants away and gave Li Zhi the mountain’s treasures.
• Li Zhi explained that the Human Body Secret Realm method and the Immortal Dao were different cultivation systems, and Black Tortoise Emperor realized his Dao Seed could not secure a true breakthrough.
• Black Tortoise Emperor used his Ancient Emperor Weapon and Dao in a final Nirvana, emerging as a young, powerful figure with a Heavenly Emperor aura but a body riddled with cracks.
• Black Tortoise Emperor entered the Immortal Path on Flying Immortal Star, and four more Supreme Beings followed, bringing the number inside to eleven.
• Ye Fan returned to Flying Immortal Star, recognized the danger if the Supreme Beings withdrew, and called for reinforcements as his children came to help him.

As six surviving Supremes fought at the Heavenly Gate, they opened it to reveal the Immortal Realm, but Black Tortoise Emperor’s dissolution exposed the danger of its laws. Ye Fan reached the gate as the Supremes hesitated, while Li Zhi and the others struggled through the vast, perilous Immortal Path.

• Ye Fan’s Daughter, Ji Ziyue, Shakyamuni, Laozi, and Li Zhi gathered at Flying Immortal Star, and Yao Guang and other newly advanced cultivators joined them before the Immortal Path.
• Six surviving Supremes reached the Heavenly Gate, learned that an Imperial Dao Expert had to be sacrificed to open it, and turned on one another in a bloody battle.
• The Supremes opened the Heavenly Gate with the Immortality Ascension Cauldron, but Black Tortoise Emperor seized the cauldron and revealed that Immortal Domain Law could erase Imperial Dao Laws.
• Black Tortoise Emperor sacrificed himself before the gate, and the five surviving Supremes hesitated to enter after witnessing his dissolution.
• Ye Fan arrived at the Immortal Sect with the Immortality Ascension Cauldron as the Supremes watched him, while Li Zhi, Laozi, Shakyamuni, and the others struggled through the dangerous Immortal Path.
• The Immortal Path’s vast law-formed worlds and shifting obstacles scattered most of the newcomers, while Li Zhi, Ye Fan, Laozi, and Shakyamuni remained able to navigate it.

Li Zhi explored a hidden world on the Immortal Path and witnessed Emperor Venerable’s ancient battle before the Golden Crow Great Emperor began his tribulation and entered the path. At the collapsing Immortal Gate, Ye Fan’s wife and daughter, Shakyamuni, and Laozi reached the Immortal Domain while four surviving Supremes turned on Ye Fan.

• Li Zhi followed the Black Tortoise Emperor’s Law Body into a Chaos Ancient Cave and saw a vision of Emperor Venerable besieged by All Emperors.
• The Golden Crow Great Emperor attained the Dao, entered the Immortal Path amid his tribulation, and disturbed a hidden place that Li Zhi broke into.
• Li Zhi found a Vermilion Bird Nirvana seed trapped in contaminated Chaos Immortal Essence and sealed both away.
• Li Zhi reached the end of the Immortal Path as the Heavenly Gate disintegrated, witnessing Ji Ziyue, Little Zi, Shakyamuni, and Laozi enter the Immortal Domain.
• Spirit Emperor, Myriad Dragon Emperor, White Tiger Daoist, and Blood Phoenix Mountain Supreme raged at the collapsing gate and attacked Ye Fan after he prevented them from entering.

As the Immortal Path collapsed, Li Zhi questioned whether fate could truly be changed, then intervened in the battle to draw the Spirit Emperor and Myriad Dragon Emperor away from Ye Fan. After Ye Fan killed White Tiger Daoist, Li Zhi took the failing Myriad Dragon Emperor to a hidden Chaos Small World to attempt a dangerous revival method.

• The Immortal Path shattered, and the quasi-emperors fled while Li Zhi reflected that the same four people had entered the Immortal Realm despite his efforts to change fate.
• The Immortality Ascension Cauldron broke apart, the Blood Phoenix Mountain Supreme died, and Li Zhi joined the battle by attacking the Spirit Emperor and sending a battle avatar against the Myriad Dragon Emperor.
• Li Zhi lured the Spirit Emperor and Myriad Dragon Emperor to the Mythological Battlefield with promises of mortal-world immortality, leaving Ye Fan and White Tiger Daoist to fight one-on-one.
• Ye Fan killed White Tiger Daoist, and Li Zhi fought off the Spirit Emperor before taking the failing Myriad Dragon Emperor away from the Mythological Battlefield.
• Li Zhi offered to revive the Myriad Dragon Emperor through a dangerous method, and the two traveled to a hidden Chaos Small World chosen by the emperor.

Li Zhi helped Myriad Dragon Emperor attempt Nirvana, but the transformation failed and left behind a precious Dragon Egg for his daughter. After Ye Fan killed Spirit Emperor and the Immortal Path turmoil ended, Li Zhi reconsidered his pride and recognized how little he had done to challenge destiny.

• Li Zhi praised the Dragon Woods in Myriad Dragon Emperor's Chaos Small World, and Myriad Dragon Emperor gave him its Dragon Wood, Dragon Grass, and Dragon Veins for Dragon Lady.
• With Li Zhi's help, Myriad Dragon Emperor attempted Extreme Dao Nirvana, but Chaos Divine Thunder struck his Dragon Egg and extinguished his consciousness.
• Myriad Dragon Emperor's consciousness appeared through a Dragon Scale and asked Li Zhi to deliver the Dragon Egg, containing his Imperial Dao Essence, to his daughter.
• Li Zhi took the Dragon Egg from the shattered Small World as Ye Fan killed Spirit Emperor in the Mythological Battlefield, ending the Immortal Path turmoil.
• Reflecting on the failed Immortal Path assault, Li Zhi questioned his arrogance, his Nirvana method, and whether his choices had made him an unwitting instrument of destiny.

After rethinking what it meant to defy fate, Li Zhi resolved to challenge the era’s Heavenly Mandate and began developing a more perfect cultivation method. His visit to the Myriad Dragon Tribe to help nurture the unborn Dragon Son sparked an idea that could transform Human Body Secret Realm cultivation, and he returned to his Dao Field to refine it.

• Li Zhi concluded that becoming a second Great Emperor while the Golden Crow Great Emperor still ruled could challenge the era’s Heavenly Mandate, and his outlook on cultivation changed.
• Li Zhi returned to the Myriad Dragon Tribe with the Myriad Dragon Emperor’s relics, where Dragon Lady received her father’s final message and took the Dragon Egg to a hidden Chaos Small World.
• Li Zhi discovered that the Dragon Son’s fate was absent from the River of Fate and agreed to seal the Small World while the child was nurtured.
• Li Zhi reasoned that cultivating a flawless Dao Seed before opening the Human Body Secret Realms could let Alternative Dao Attainers reach the Peak of the Extreme Dao, and he promised to develop a method for the Dragon Son.
• Li Zhi forged a Chaos Dragon Nest for the Dragon Egg, returned to his Dao Field without implanting a Dao Seed, and spent the next three hundred years considering how to perfect the cultivation method.

After three centuries in seclusion, Li Zhi completed the six-volume Great Dao Longevity Scripture, including a new method that nurtured a Human Body Dao Seed before cultivation of the Five Great Secret Realms. He left his Dao Field to seek someone suitable to test it, then met Zhang Bairen, who had come to discuss the Dao.

• For three hundred years, Li Zhi remained secluded on his Immortal Mountain while the cultivation world debated becoming an immortal and the Golden Crow Great Emperor established the Demon Court.
• Li Zhi perfected the Great Dao Longevity Scripture by creating the Nurturing Dao Chapter, which activated the Innate Dao Seed and added a new stage before cultivating the Five Great Secret Realms.
• Li Zhi left his Dao Field disguised as a wandering Daoist priest and set up a fortune-telling stall in Blackwater City, where Shopkeeper Wu asked him to assess his son's cultivation aptitude.
• Zhang Bairen recognized Li Zhi in the city and said he had come specifically to visit him and discuss the Dao.
• Li Zhi examined Shopkeeper Wu's son, then left Blackwater City with Zhang Bairen and discussed the Dao with him outside the city.

Li Zhi perfected the Nurturing Dao Chapter after trading scriptures with Zhang Bairen, then taught it to one hundred children on Ziwei Ancient Star. When a Great Emperor Tribulation appeared beyond the star, Li Zhi took the children into his Sea of Wheels Realm and dragged the tribulation toward the Cosmic Wilderness, where observers recognized its extraordinary power.

• Li Zhi traded his Great Dao Longevity Scripture for Zhang Bairen’s Chaotic Ancient cultivation method and used it to improve his Nurturing Dao Chapter.
• After nine years, Li Zhi completed the Nurturing Dao Chapter and taught it to one hundred human children from Ziwei Ancient Star.
• A Great Emperor Tribulation appeared beyond Ziwei after Li Zhi’s usual effort to contain the Heavenly Punishment failed.
• Li Zhi entrusted Jin Ming with the Black Tortoise Treasure Seal, gathered the hundred children into his Sea of Wheels Realm, and headed into the tribulation.
• Li Zhi used the Myriad Stars Diagram to imprison the Tribulation Cloud and pull it toward the Cosmic Wilderness as the Ten Thousand Daos attacked him.
• The Golden Crow Great Emperor and other powerful cultivators sensed Li Zhi’s tribulation and recognized that its thunder surpassed the Great Emperor Tribulation they knew.

Li Zhi endured nine years of Great Emperor-level Heavenly Punishment, and everyone on Beidou assumed he had died when his aura vanished. The Golden Crow Great Emperor sent his son with the Emperor Bell to claim an Immortality Elixir on Ziwei, while Ye Tong and Yang Xi found that Li Zhi’s Dao Field and disciples had disappeared.

• Ye Fan identified Li Zhi as the one enduring the Great Emperor-level Tribulation, while Supreme Beings across Beidou divined that surviving it might reveal an opportunity for longevity.
• Supreme Beings debated visiting Li Zhi, weighing the possibility of longevity against the danger of Ye Fan and the Golden Crow Great Emperor.
• Li Zhi’s Heavenly Punishment continued for nine years and devastated the Cosmic Wilderness; when his aura vanished, Ye Fan, Xiao Song, the Golden Crow Great Emperor, and the Forbidden Zone Supreme Beings believed he was dead.
• The Golden Crow Great Emperor agreed to send his son to Ziwei Ancient Star with the Emperor Bell to obtain an Immortality Elixir.
• Ye Tong and Yang Xi arrived on Ziwei to seek Jin Ming and Li Xian'er, but Li Zhi’s Dao Field had vanished months earlier along with them.

After waking from a century-long recovery, Li Zhi discussed his depleted strength, Li Xian'er's plans to accumulate reincarnation marks, and the threats gathering around their hidden Dao Field. He decided the Dao Field should remain concealed while he recovered, and explained that his completed cultivation path could help Forbidden Zone Supreme Beings restore their damaged Dao Fruits.

• Li Zhi woke in the Nameless Daoist Temple after nearly a hundred years of sleep and reassured Li Xian'er and Jin Ming that he could rebuild his strength.
• Li Xian'er described her plan to cultivate successive Mortal World Reincarnation Seals, while Li Zhi warned that the declining condition of Heaven and Earth could make her progress far slower than theory suggested.
• Jin Ming and Li Xian'er reported that the Golden Crow Clan had searched for the Dao Field and several Immortality Medicines, while Ye Tong and Yang Xi had driven the Golden Crow Crown Prince from Ziwei Ancient Star.
• Li Xian'er asked when the Dao Field would reemerge, but Jin Ming urged it to stay hidden until Li Zhi recovered and noted that Forbidden Zone cultivators were also seeking it.
• Li Zhi explained that completing the Human Body Secret Realm Method could help Forbidden Zone Supreme Beings repair their damaged Dao Fruits and might let them surpass the Great Emperor level.
• Li Zhi explained that the Dao Field lay at the end of a reopened Immortal Path on Ziwei Ancient Star, which was why outsiders could not find it.

Li Zhi explained that the Immortal Path could lead to different worlds beyond their own, then resumed cultivating the Great Dao Longevity Scripture from its first realm. After nurturing his Dao Seed, he discovered that it contained a perfect Great Dao Law seed of longevity.

• Li Zhi told Li Xian'er and Jin Ming that countless worlds existed beyond their own and that the Immortal Path on Ziwei Ancient Star did not lead to the Immortal Domain.
• After recovering for three years under the care of the four Mengzhang sisters, Li Zhi began cultivating the Great Dao Longevity Scripture from the beginning.
• Li Zhi demonstrated the Nurturing Dao Chapter to Li Xian'er and Jin Ming, cultivating its Drawing Qi, Blood Transfer, and Inscription realms while they watched.
• Li Zhi spent three years cultivating the Source Connection realm and nurturing the Dao Seed in his body's origin.
• Li Zhi discovered that his Dao Seed contained a perfect Great Dao Law seed of longevity, similar to the innate laws of the Longevity Immortal Body.

Li Zhi perfected the Human Body Dao Seed, rebuilt his cultivation to the Peak of the Extreme Dao, and resolved to pursue a longer-lived Dao Fruit. After Li Xian'er reported that Ye Fan had destroyed two Forbidden Zones of Life, Li Zhi moved his Dao Field to the Ziwei Ancient Star and encountered a mysterious old man at its gate.

• Li Zhi explained to Li Xian'er and Jin Ming that Dao Seeds helped cultivators refine their own Great Daos, while their eventual perfection still depended on cultivation.
• Li Zhi rebuilt his cultivation in less than two kalpas, reaching the Peak of the Extreme Dao with a perfected Great Dao and a lifespan of at least twenty thousand years.
• Li Xian'er told Li Zhi that Ye Fan and Heavenly Court had destroyed the Divine Ruins and Immortal Mound, leaving Upper Heavens and the Primordial Ancient Mine as the remaining Forbidden Zones of Life.
• Li Zhi said the Golden Age was entering a stable transition and planned to travel, assuring Li Xian'er that his cultivation had recovered.
• Li Zhi moved his Dao Field to the Ziwei Ancient Star, where a mysterious old man climbed the Tongtian Stairway and examined the closed Heavenly Gate.
• Li Zhi opened the Heavenly Gate and appeared before the old man, who recognized him as Longevity Daoist.

Li Zhi met Bright Emperor, an obscure Ancient Great Emperor who had survived by fleeing the destruction of Beidou’s forbidden zones and sought refuge in Li Zhi’s Dao Field. Bright Emperor offered rare treasures and a vast collection of scriptures in exchange for joining, hoping Li Zhi’s perfected Great Dao could restore his incomplete Dao Fruit.

• Li Zhi recognized Bai, who confirmed that he was Bright Emperor and explained that he had come to Ziwei after losing his home in Beidou.
• Bright Emperor revealed that he had escaped the destruction of Divine Ruins and Immortality Mountain and believed Li Zhi was his best chance to survive and perfect his Dao Fruit.
• Bright Emperor deduced that Li Zhi had extended the Human Body Secret Realm Cultivation System and achieved Great Dao Perfection without becoming an Emperor.
• Bright Emperor asked to join Li Zhi’s Dao Field and offered a Moon Laurel Immortal Tree, more than ten thousand scriptures, and a piece of Feathered Green Gold.
• Bright Emperor explained that he had lived another lifetime through Nirvana Rebirth, lost to Wushi while competing for the Great Emperor’s position, and later achieved Alternative Dao Attainment with an incomplete Dao Fruit.

Li Zhi and Bright Emperor discussed the Forbidden Zones, longevity methods, and how the Heaven’s Will Imprint shaped cultivation in the current era. Their conversation revealed why Li Zhi’s ascent to the Peak of the Extreme Dao without relying on the Imprint could help Great Emperors with incomplete Dao Fruits, and it left open the possibility of nurturing an Innate Dao Seed into a flawless Perfect Seed.

• Bright Emperor described how Supreme Beings in the Forbidden Zones studied longevity methods and how few had successfully lived another lifetime and proved the Dao again.
• Li Zhi accepted Bright Emperor into the Supreme Being’s Dao Field, where they began meeting regularly beneath the Moon Laurel Immortal Tree to discuss cultivation and secret arts.
• Bright Emperor praised Li Zhi’s guidance, which helped clarify his Dao and promised to perfect his Dao Fruit sooner than he had expected.
• Li Zhi realized that the Heaven’s Will Imprint had enabled many cultivators to reach the Peak of the Extreme Dao, while leaving most Great Emperors with incomplete Dao Fruits once its support was gone.
• Bright Emperor revealed that Ancient Black Tortoise Emperor and Myriad Dragon Emperor had let Li Zhi experiment with the Nirvana Method because his path to the Peak of the Extreme Dao might help them repair their incomplete Dao Fruits.
• Li Zhi learned that cultivators could potentially use the complete Human Way Laws to nurture an Innate Dao Seed into a flawless Perfect Seed, though doing so demanded exceptional aptitude.