Chapter Summaries

Li Zhi uncovered the Immortal Severing Gourd’s ancient origins and began exploring the Boundary Sea, where the Shadow Probing Shovel helped him investigate countless broken worlds. After gathering materials and studying the Chaos Purple-Gold Gourd, he began refining an artifact on an Immortal Island.

• Li Zhi read Immortal Severing Daoist’s inscription and saw the gourd’s history: it awakened in darkness, became Qi, and eventually rose to the rank of an Immortal King Giant.
• Li Zhi concluded that searching the Boundary Sea’s buried history suited his cultivation better than imitating other powerful figures, and he set out to explore it.
• A Shadow Probing Shovel returned to Li Zhi, who used it to extract unique substances from broken worlds while allowing fleeing True Immortals to escape.
• Over tens of thousands of years, Li Zhi explored broken worlds, discovered extinct races and ancient cultivation traces, and recognized the immense value of the Boundary Sea’s Immortal Islands.
• Li Zhi gathered artifact-refining materials, studied the Chaos Purple-Gold Gourd, and began refining an artifact on an Immortal Island containing Cosmic Origin Essence.

Li Zhi reforged the Immortal Severing Gourd and sent it to the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands after the Miniature Dragon’s sacrifice called for help. The gourd offered the realm a measure of protection, while Li Zhi recognized that it could only delay the devastation of the Great Reckoning.

• Li Zhi fused the World Stone Cauldron and several Immortal King Weapons into the Immortal Severing Gourd, then strengthened the Ancestral Dragon Armor and Shadow Probing Shovel.
• As the Great Reckoning began, the Miniature Dragon founded the Divine Court and gathered the remaining experts and living beings of the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands to perform a sacrifice to Li Zhi.
• Tuoba Yaoyang and Tuoba Yu'er hoped the sacrifice would reach their teacher, while Immortal King Mingli and other Lords of the Forbidden Zones watched without intervening.
• Li Zhi heard the Sacrificial Sound and sent the Immortal Severing Gourd across space and time to the Border Wasteland Sacrificial Platform.
• The Immortal Severing Gourd reached the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands and gave its inhabitants a sense of security, but Li Zhi understood that it could only help them endure a little longer.
• Li Zhi reflected on the Desolate Heaven Emperor’s vision of his fate atop the Three Lives Bronze Coffin and the Corpse Immortal Emperor’s fate as a corpse imprisoned through the ages.

Li Zhi explored the Boundary Sea in search of an undying world and found a deadly trench whose sacrificial laws threatened even Immortal Kings. With the Three-layered Altar and the Houtu Rebirth Sutra, he endured the abyss and broke through a Realm Wall into a vast world frozen at the instant of its sacrifice.

• Li Zhi searched the Boundary Sea for an indestructible world, studying its islands and the laws beyond the Immortal King level.
• Thirty thousand years later, Li Zhi found a trench filled with Chaos Extinction Law that could sacrifice the life force of anyone who approached.
• Li Zhi descended into the Ink Sea and reached the Sea Abyss, where its sacrificial laws rapidly tore apart Immortal King Origin.
• Li Zhi summoned the Three-layered Altar and comprehended the abyss’s sacrificial power as visions of a sacrificed world filled his mind.
• The Houtu Rebirth Sutra freed Li Zhi from the despair of the vision, and his merit light softened the abyss’s laws for the altar to absorb.
• Li Zhi used the Three-layered Altar and Shadow Probing Shovel to break through an undying Realm Wall and entered a lifeless world frozen at the moment of sacrifice.

Li Zhi explored the Boundary Sea, studied Emperor Cang’s cultivation system, and created three scriptures that began his own method. As Li Zhi continued his search for a path to Emperor, the Great Reckoning devastated the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, leaving only eight ancient lands mostly intact.

• Li Zhi explored Emperor Cang’s dead but indestructible world and studied its scriptures, deducing how Emperor Cang might have exchanged a world’s life force for a Quasi-Immortal Emperor Scripture.
• Li Zhi spent three hundred thousand years studying the world’s cultivation system and reconstructed an Immortal King Scripture while searching for the key to Dao Gives Birth to One.
• Li Zhi spent five hundred thousand years exploring Boundary Sea ruins, deepening his Great Dao and creating three scriptures as the prologue to his own cultivation system.
• Li Zhi planned to use Shi Hao’s future opening of the Sixth Secret Realm to advance his Human Body Secret Realm Method toward the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm.
• Li Zhi strengthened his primordial spirit by comprehending the indestructibility of Emperor Cang’s world, while the Divine Court’s defenders in the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands were worn down by the Great Reckoning.
• The Great Reckoning shattered the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands again, and only eight of its nineteen ancient lands remained more or less intact.

The Miniature Dragon led the Divine Court from the shattered Nine Heavens and Ten Lands into the Immortal Domain, seeking a place where its people could survive and continue cultivating. They arrived to find the Immortal Domain devastated by war, then traveled toward its rarely visited depths.

• Under Tuoba Yaoyang's leadership, the Divine Court sealed the remaining ancient lands into hundreds of continents to preserve their origins before leaving the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
• Tuoba Yu'er asked the Miniature Dragon whether Shi Hao would revive, and he assured her that Shi Hao would return.
• The Miniature Dragon spoke with the Lord of the Forbidden Zone, who said he was waiting for someone to appear before leaving with his Forbidden Zone.
• The Immortal Severing Gourd carried the Divine Court through the Realm Wall and into the Immortal Domain.
• Tuoba Yaoyang and Tuoba Yu'er observed that the Immortal Domain was ruined, while the Miniature Dragon recognized the devastation as the aftermath of a battle between Immortal Kings.
• The Miniature Dragon led the Divine Court away from the ruined Border Wasteland and toward the depths of the Immortal Domain.

The Divine Court settled in the Immortal Domain’s forbidden scarlet wasteland, where Li Zhi returned through a grand sacrifice and confronted the primordial-spirit Fusion Monsters. He freed four Immortal Kings from their dark fusion, but a devastating sword strike emerged from the Guiding Ancient Hall as he faced them.

• The Divine Court chose the scarlet wasteland as its base, built a city and Sacrificial Platform, and sacrificed True Immortal beasts to summon Li Zhi.
• Li Zhi arrived in the wasteland and went to the Guiding Ancient Hall to seek lost Immortal Ancient methods and offer to free its primordial-spirit monsters from darkness.
• The Four-Headed Eight-Armed Monster attacked Li Zhi, but he used the Immortal Severing Gourd to absorb its attacks and sever the dark chains binding its origins.
• The monster split into four freed Immortal King primordial spirits, who thanked Li Zhi and began forming new bodies.
• A terrifying sword aura erupted from the Guiding Ancient Hall, and Li Zhi transformed the Immortal Severing Gourd into a Nine-Colored Great Blade to meet it.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Zhi, using the Nine-Colored Great Blade, shatters the Guiding Ancient Hall's barrier and forces out the Nine-Headed Fusion Monster.
• Li Zhi demands the original methods of the Immortal Ancient Method and the Immortal Kings' methods in exchange for freeing them.
• The Nine-Headed Monster complies, and Li Zhi obtains the Three Great Sword Arts, the Immortal Domain System's method, and the Immortal Kings' scripts.
• Li Zhi frees four Immortal Kings, who express their desire to leave the Immortal Domain and avoid further involvement in its affairs.
• Li Zhi returns to the Divine Court, and the Guiding Ancient Hall's inhabitants discuss Li Zhi's origins.
• Two Hundred Thousand Years pass, during which Li Zhi senses Shi Hao opening the Sixth Human Secret Realm.
• Li Zhi's cultivation progresses, and he elevates his Immortal King Scripture towards becoming a Quasi-Immortal Emperor Scripture.

Character Developments

• Li Zhi demonstrates his power, nearly surpassing an Immortal King, and obtains several ancient methods and Immortal King scripts.
• The freed Immortal Kings decide to leave the Immortal Domain and avoid further involvement in its affairs.
• Li Zhi's cultivation in the Human Body Secret Realm Method and the Immortal Ancient Dao Seed Method progresses significantly.

Significant Themes

• The struggle for power and control within the Immortal Domain.
• The pursuit of ancient methods and Immortal King scripts for increased cultivation and understanding.
• The theme of freedom and the desire to avoid involvement in worldly affairs.

Character Interactions

• Li Zhi interacts with the Nine-Headed Fusion Monster, demanding ancient methods and scripts in exchange for freeing them.
• Li Zhi interacts with the four freed Immortal Kings, who express their desire to leave the Immortal Domain and avoid further involvement in its affairs.
• The inhabitants of the Guiding Ancient Hall discuss Li Zhi's origins after his departure.

Li Zhi condensed the ultimate Dao Fruit of the Immortal Ancient Method and concluded that he still needed the Divine Path’s ultimate Dao Fruit to reach the Quasi-Immortal Emperor Realm. As the Great Reckoning spread, he explored deeper into the Boundary Sea, found the Ancestral Dragon’s corpse, and faced a Dark Ancestral Dragon.

• Li Zhi formed Heavenly Daos within his Five Great Secret Realms, greatly increasing his power and bringing him one step closer to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor Realm.
• Li Zhi reasoned that Desolate Heaven Emperor had reached the Quasi-Immortal Emperor Realm through the peak achievements of three cultivation systems, and considered how the transformation of his Sixth Secret Realm might reveal the Divine Path’s ultimate Dao Fruit.
• The Great Reckoning spread across the worlds as the Immortal Domain opened its gates, the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands reconnected with it, and Human Body Secret Realm cultivation became widespread.
• Li Zhi continued exploring the Boundary Sea and discovered a corrupted Great World where its inhabitants traded pure Life Force to dark beings for power.
• Li Zhi found the Earthen Jar containing the Ancestral Dragon’s corpse, shattered it, and released the corpse.
• The released Dark Matter formed a Dark Ancestral Dragon, which attacked Li Zhi and offered to make him an Emperor in exchange for his Essence.

Li Zhi uncovered the dark world’s origins and was struck by a drop of the World Destroying Old Man’s True Blood, which he transformed into power to reach the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm. He returned to the Dam Boundary, where Shi Hao had already crossed the Boundary Sea to confront the source of darkness, while Li Zhi faced the limits on how long he could remain in this spacetime.

• Li Zhi defeated the dark world’s Immortal King experts, suppressed the Ancestral Dragon’s corpse, and learned how the dark world arose from fallen Immortal Kings and mysterious Great Dao Runes.
• Li Zhi discovered a severed limb of the World Destroying Old Man, and a drop of its Black True Blood broke through his defenses and entered his body.
• Li Zhi used his altar and the Great Method of Self-Transformation to refine the True Blood into Great Dao Runes, awaken the Dao Deity, and enter the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm.
• Li Zhi suppressed a strand of the World Destroying Old Man’s will in the form of a Nine Nether Howl and began comprehending the cultivation system he had created.
• After stabilizing his cultivation, Li Zhi left the Life Divine Coffin and used the Daoist above his head to resist spacetime’s attempt to expel him, though he knew he could not remain or act for long.
• Li Zhi returned to the Dam Boundary, saw Shi Hao’s footprints leading across the Boundary Sea, and realized that Shi Hao had gone to confront the source of darkness.

Li Zhi met Ye Qingxian at the Boundary Sea dam and revealed that he came from the same later age as her grandfather, Ye Fan. After Li Zhi’s power nearly disrupted the dam, Ye Qingxian helped bring him back to his senses, then pressed him for answers about Earth and the far shore of the Boundary Sea.

• Ye Qingxian introduced herself as Ye Fan’s granddaughter, and Li Zhi recognized her and said he had known Ye Fan when he was mortal.
• Li Zhi’s thoughts about history and his place in it destabilized his Dao Heart, releasing power that threatened the Boundary Sea dam.
• Ye Qingxian used the Myriad Mother Qi Cauldron, the Wushi Emperor Bell, and the God Crossing Technique to shield herself and awaken Li Zhi.
• Li Zhi thanked Ye Qingxian and restored her body and the Great Dao phantoms of the two treasures with his azure light.
• Ye Qingxian questioned Li Zhi about Earth, the later age, and Desolate Heaven Emperor, while Li Zhi declined to explain the truth about the Red-Haired Monster.
• Ye Qingxian asked Li Zhi what lay beyond the Boundary Sea and where Desolate Heaven Emperor had gone, but Li Zhi said he could not tell her.

Li Zhi reflected on the repeating nature of ancient history and found a new perspective on transcendence before the Dark Turmoil engulfed the All Heavens and Myriad Worlds. The Divine Court suffered devastating losses, and Tuoba Yu'er faced a Dark Commander after Tuoba Yaoyang sacrificed himself.

• Li Zhi told Ye Qingxian to be careful as the Dark Turmoil approached, then left the Dam Boundary.
• Li Zhi visited Mount Tai, reflected on the closed loop of ancient history, and formed a new idea about transcending it.
• The Dark Army poured through Guiding Ancient Halls into the All Heavens and Myriad Worlds, turning the Immortal Domain into a brutal battlefield.
• The Divine Court Army was overwhelmed, and Tuoba Yaoyang burned his origin and laws to destroy many Dark Living Beings before dying with them.
• Tuoba Yu'er sacrificed her Immortal King Essence Blood and Special Dao Seed to unleash the Killing Sword, but a Dark Commander summoned three Dark Demon Dragons that wiped out the Divine Court Army.
• Three Immortal Ancient Prodigies sacrificed their blood and souls to the Killing Formation to empower Tuoba Yu'er against the Dark Commander.

Tuoba Yu'er sacrificed herself and the Divine Court’s people to summon Li Zhi as the war against the Dark Army devastated the worlds and Desolate Heaven Emperor fought three Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors. The World Destroying Old Man entered the battle and confronted Shi Hao, while the Divine Court’s sacrificial rite reached the Boundary Sea and drew Emperor Cang’s attention.

• Tuoba Yu'er fused her True Soul with the Immortal Slaying Sword, but the Dark Commander and Fusion Monsters broke the formation and killed its defenders.
• Tuoba Yu'er ordered the Divine Court to begin the Blood Sacrifice, then gave up her body and primordial spirit to leave a Dao Seed on the Ancestral Altar; the Three Immortals from Outside the World held off the Dark Army.
• The Ten Crown King, the Banished Immortal, and the Ten Fiends fought the Dark Army as the battle spread, while Desolate Heaven Emperor continued fighting Emperor Cang, Emperor Yu, and Emperor Hong.
• Shi Fan, Qin Hao, and Shi Yi sacrificed their blood souls to help Shi Hao, who transformed into a more perfect Immortal Embryo as the three Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors tried to stop him.
• The World Destroying Old Man entered the Boundary Sea, joined the three Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors, and argued with Shi Hao that he should abandon his attachments.
• The Divine Court’s people sacrificed themselves to summon Li Zhi, and Emperor Cang sensed the familiar, profound aura of their Sacrificial Sound from the Boundary Sea.

Li Zhi emerged from the River of Time as Shi Hao fought Emperor Cang, Emperor Hong, and Emperor Yu, and he warned the World Destroying Old Man that embracing darkness had closed off his path to becoming an Immortal Emperor. The World Destroying Old Man rejected his advice, and Li Zhi watched the battle as the River of Time began to fracture around them.

• Shi Hao blocked the three Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors as they swallowed the World Destroying Old Man’s Emperor Pills and charged toward the Immortal Domain.
• Li Zhi emerged onto the Divine Court's Ancestral Altar and used his Dao Sound to halt the fighting and erase the living beings’ killing intent.
• Emperor Yu, Emperor Hong, and Emperor Cang resumed their assault on Shi Hao while the World Destroying Old Man warned Li Zhi against disrupting time.
• Li Zhi told the World Destroying Old Man that his choice to embrace darkness had made becoming an Immortal Emperor impossible unless he defeated the one on the Stone Throne and fused with Primal Matter.
• The World Destroying Old Man rejected Li Zhi’s warning, and Li Zhi observed Shi Hao’s fierce battle with the three emperors to learn from their techniques.
• The four Quasi-Immortal Emperors’ battle tore through the void and severed the River of Time as three streaks of rainbow light from downstream locked onto their location.

Li Zhi encountered three Quasi-Immortal Emperors from the lower reaches of the River of Time, who mistook him for Ancestor-Shou, then traded with the World Destroying Old Man for the Ten Fiends Ancient Methods and returned to the Immortal Domain. As the Zhe Tian Trio joined the battle and the Immortal Domain continued to collapse, Li Zhi considered the clues about his future and prepared to leave the era.

• Three Quasi-Immortal Emperors arrived and joined Emperor Yu, Emperor Hong, and Emperor Cang in attacking Desolate Heaven Emperor, surrounding Shi Hao with six enemies.
• The World Destroying Old Man revealed Li Zhi to the newcomers, and the man with the Heaven Measuring Ruler recognized him as Ancestor-Shou but realized his aura was only that of a Quasi-Immortal Emperor.
• The man with the Heaven Measuring Ruler returned to the assault on Desolate Heaven Emperor despite recognizing Li Zhi, citing a Life Curse that bound him to intercept Desolate.
• Li Zhi asked the World Destroying Old Man for the Ten Fiends Ancient Methods, received them in exchange for leaving the battle, and returned to the Immortal Domain.
• A bell rang from the lower reaches of the River of Time, and the Zhe Tian Trio broke through and joined the battlefield as the Immortal Domain's Dark Turmoil continued.
• Back at the Divine Court's ancestral altar, Li Zhi considered how he might become a Quasi-Immortal Emperor and disappear from the All Heavens and Myriad Worlds before time fragments enveloped him.

Li Zhi revived the Divine Court disciples, including Tuoba Yu'er, while Desolate Heaven Emperor ended the Dark Turmoil. As Li Zhi traveled back downstream along the River of Time, he seized three visions of the future that revealed his connection to a mysterious altar and strange events involving the Weird Clan.

• Li Zhi met Ye Fan, the Female Emperor, and Great Emperor Wushi, but the Great Karma Power prevented him from explaining the Weird Clan's origins.
• Li Zhi used the Immortal Domain's vitality to revive the Divine Court disciples and restore Tuoba Yu'er, who begged him to quell the Dark Turmoil.
• Desolate Heaven Emperor suppressed the World Destroying Old Man and destroyed the Dark Army, ending the Dark Turmoil.
• Li Zhi departed for downstream of the River of Time, where turmoil prompted him to use the Hand of Stealing Heaven to seize three future scenes.
• Li Zhi saw a vision of himself replacing a mysterious altar, a Weird Clan sacrifice failing as a Quasi-Immortal Emperor dissolved, and a figure digging up a mysterious coffin on the High Plateau.

After being expelled from the River of Time and losing his memories of the future, Li Zhi returned to the Nether Soil, where Duan Renxing awakened an ancient Daoist buried beneath an Emperor's Tomb. The Daoist granted Duan Renxing a Flower of Longevity and gave two Kings the foundation to become Saints, then transformed the Nether Soil with Immortal Spirit Qi.

• Li Zhi saw three visions of future events before the River of Time expelled him and Great Karma Power erased his memories.
• Duan Renxing led several Kings to a flower-covered Emperor's Tomb, where greedy seekers were cursed and died upon stepping onto the mound.
• Duan Renxing and two Kings dug into the Underground Palace, where he offered sacrifices at an altar and summoned his ancestor.
• An ancient Daoist emerged from the earth after sleeping for a hundred thousand years and offered to grant the three Kings' wishes.
• The Daoist gave Duan Renxing a Flower of Longevity, bestowed mysterious blood on the two Kings to help them become Saints, and replaced the Nether Soil's Yin Fiend Qi with Immortal Spirit Qi.

Li Zhi returned to Earth after failing to reach the Immortal Emperor Realm, then found a way to cultivate the Ghost Immortal path and pursue the Great Luo Dao Fruit. Meanwhile, Desolate Heaven Emperor, Heavenly Emperor Ye, and Chu Feng questioned the Sick One about their shared appearance and his past, and he began explaining what he had sacrificed.

• Li Zhi revealed that he had spent a hundred thousand years buried in the soil, but still could not touch the Immortal Emperor Realm.
• Li Zhi explored Earth, found a coordinate leading to the Great Underworld, and cultivated a Pure Yang Heroic Spirit that returned at Immortal King Peak with the Great Underworld's Ghost Path method.
• Li Zhi decided to advance his Ghost Immortal Dao Fruit in the extinct Upper Heavens and pursue a Great Luo Dao Fruit through his Five Immortals Method.
• Desolate Heaven Emperor, Heavenly Emperor Ye, and Chu Feng appeared before the Sick One to ask about his past and why their appearances resembled his.
• The Sick One said that Above Sacrifice Dao, he had sacrificed the past, present, future, himself, all worlds, and everything beyond the Great Dao.

The Sick One revealed to Desolate Heaven Emperor, Heavenly Emperor Ye, and Chu Feng that he had learned he was a Figure in the Painting and could never erase his existence. After the three sent him to Return to Void, they resolved to seek out Longevity Daoist, whom they suspected was the visitor who had spoken with him.

• Desolate Heaven Emperor, Heavenly Emperor Ye, and Chu Feng tried to trace the Sick One's origins, but his aura changed and he accepted that his fate as a Figure in the Painting could not be escaped.
• The three Heavenly Emperors witnessed the Sick One's painful past, including the repeated loss and revival of his family and friends, and learned that he believed the Scribe needed him to begin another story.
• The Sick One told them that their futures might follow his path and hinted that they could awaken from their comfortable lives by meeting an unnamed person who knew he had entered someone else's painting.
• The Sick One asked the three to send him to Return to Void, and they did so, leaving only the teacups behind on the High Plateau.
• Desolate Heaven Emperor and Heavenly Emperor Ye identified the visitor as Longevity Daoist, and Ye Fan said they had to find him while recalling only Li Zhi's mortal-world memories.

Li Zhi explained that the man before them was not truly the Li Zhi who had died fighting the Weird, but a being reconstructed from his life trajectory. As Desolate Heaven Emperor, Ye Fan, and Chu Feng confronted the implications of that distinction, the chapter left the nature of resurrection in doubt.

• Desolate Heaven Emperor and Ye Fan returned to plan their next steps, leaving Chu Feng frustrated that they were keeping him out of their discussion.
• In Antique Style Jewelry Shop, Li Zhi asked a young couple how someone could leave a painting, then vanished after the young man explained a chemical method for removing pigments.
• Li Zhi's novel burned away, erasing the remaining traces of Sick One's life, and Li Zhi met Desolate Heaven Emperor, Ye Fan, Chu Feng, and his three children at his secluded farmhouse.
• Li Zhi refused to accept his children as truly his, showing them a scroll depicting his death after his battle against the Weird on the High Plateau.
• Li Zhi revealed that a senior had reconstructed him on an altar in the Sacrifice Sea, making him a being born from a copy of his former life trajectory rather than the original Li Zhi.
• Desolate Heaven Emperor, Ye Fan, and Chu Feng realized that their own revived relatives might likewise be copied imprints rather than the people who had died.

Li Zhi reunited with his resurrected family and spoke privately with Li Xian'er about death, the true universe, and the fate awaiting Desolate Heaven Emperor, Ye Fan, and Chu Feng. He predicted that the three Heavenly Emperors would eventually fight and bring the myriad worlds back to nothingness, leaving Li Xian'er asking what they could do if that war began.

• Ye Fan asked Li Zhi what he had discussed with the senior on the High Plateau, and Li Zhi said they had talked about family, life and death, and the truth behind the Myriad Ages Heavens One Scroll Painting.
• Desolate Heaven Emperor, Ye Fan, Chu Feng, Li Jizu, and the Dragon Son left Li Zhi's courtyard, while Li Xian'er stayed behind.
• Li Xian'er told Li Zhi that her experience of resurrection through the Stealing Heavenly Secrets convinced her that he had not truly died, and he invited her to share a drink instead of answering.
• While drinking beneath the great tree, Li Zhi told Li Xian'er that the true universe was far larger than the All Heavens and Myriad Worlds.
• Li Xian'er worried that the three Heavenly Emperors could not maintain peace among their followers after the Weird Clan disappeared, and Li Zhi predicted that they would eventually fight and return the myriad worlds to nothingness.
• Li Xian'er asked what they should do if the three Heavenly Emperors went to war, while Li Zhi judged their future even more tragic than the Sick One's because they had not yet become the Unique.