Chapter Summaries

Li Zhi and Jade Pool Saintess searched the old Jade Pool grounds, where Li Zhi comprehended several chapters of the Western Empress’s Emperor Scripture. When Sacred Lake’s Black Mist carried them into another space, a mysterious beauty appeared in place of Jade Pool Saintess and challenged Li Zhi after his Daoist title exposed a technique associated with Dao Yi Holy Land.

• Li Zhi used the Jie Secret and the Immortal Tree’s power to comprehend the Great Dao True Meaning of the Western Empress Inscription without a Scripture Guide, astonishing Jade Pool Saintess.
• Li Zhi and Jade Pool Saintess found the Dao Palace, Four Extremes, and Dragon Transformation chapters; Jade Pool Saintess rebuilt three Secret Realms with her Enlightenment Tea Leaves.
• Jade Pool Saintess recalled that the Celestial Altar inscriptions might be on a sentient mountain near Sacred Lake, so she and Li Zhi went to search there.
• Black Mist erupted from Sacred Lake, swallowed Li Zhi and Jade Pool Saintess, and carried them away as Li Zhi held on to her wrist.
• Li Zhi found that the person he was holding was a mysterious Peerless Beauty who tried to bewitch him, then drove her back by shouting “Boundless Heavenly Venerate.”
• The Peerless Beauty recognized a Dao Yi Saintess technique, demanded to know Li Zhi’s connection to Dao Yi Holy Land, and stopped approaching him.

Li Zhi fought a mysterious Peerless Beauty who transformed into a powerful old woman, then captured her in the Hundred Herbs Diagram. After restoring his magical power, he entered the diagram’s Small World and burrowed into a gray-aura space inside the mountain.

• Li Zhi questioned the Peerless Beauty about Jade Pool Holy Land, but she noticed the Immortal Divine Medicine’s aura on him and tried to seduce and seize him.
• Li Zhi escaped her attacks with Shadow Escape, his Luoyang Shovel, Supreme Yang lightning, and the Snakeskin Cosmos Pouch, then struck her with the Mountain River Great Seal.
• Li Zhi trapped the Peerless Beauty in a pit and burned her with Divine Fire, causing her to wither into an old woman who threatened to eat him.
• The old woman froze Li Zhi in place, but she recoiled from the scarlet Dharma Chains summoned by his Three-layered Altar.
• Li Zhi used the Hundred Herbs Diagram to seal and suppress the old woman beneath the Medicine Mountain, spending large amounts of Pure Source and Divine Source to restore its power.
• After replenishing his magical power, Li Zhi entered the diagram’s Small World and burrowed into a hazy gray space inside the mountain.

Li Zhi escaped the Black Mist and reunited with the Jade Pool Saintess in a Small World filled with Yin Energy, where they searched for an exit. He guessed the world had formed from a Burial Ground and began exploring underground tombs with the Life Divine Coffin, but found only empty chambers and decayed remains.

• Li Zhi soul-searched the suppressed old woman and learned she had been a Jade Pool Saintess whose resentful corpse developed a new consciousness in the Black Mist.
• After traveling through the Black Mist for several days, Li Zhi emerged and found the Jade Pool Saintess fighting a Fierce Ghost, which she burned to ash with her Emperor Scripture techniques.
• The Jade Pool Saintess explained that the Small World was largely covered by Black Mist and filled with Yin Beasts, Fierce Ghosts, and a Nether River, and she and Li Zhi searched for a way out.
• Li Zhi examined the Nether River and guessed the Small World had evolved from a Burial Ground with countless Ancient Corpses buried beneath it.
• Li Zhi enlarged the Life Divine Coffin and took the Jade Pool Saintess underground to explore tombs, but they found only empty chambers, decayed diagrams, and worthless remains.

Li Zhi and Jade Pool Saintess searched underground for a way to reach the Heaven Pillar Divine Mountain, but a mysterious Barrier and distorted direction forced them to surface at the edge of the Black Mist. Li Zhi discovered a rare burial configuration nearby, and Jade Pool Saintess offered him a position at the Jade Pool Holy Land after questioning his lineage, leaving him troubled by the danger of possessing its Emperor Scripture.

• Li Zhi and Jade Pool Saintess found that the burial caves held no human cultivators and realized the Black Mist was absorbing the Yin Energy and Death Qi from the corpses.
• They abandoned the search for more corpses and traveled underground toward the Heaven Pillar Divine Mountain, but an indestructible Barrier blocked their way.
• Li Zhi and Jade Pool Saintess surfaced outside the Black Mist and discovered that a mysterious force had diverted their underground route along its edge.
• Li Zhi identified a fifty-li area as the rare Feng Shui configuration Silver Dragon Sitting on Egg and explained its power to nourish the dead back to life.
• Jade Pool Saintess suspected Li Zhi had learned Feng Shui from Duan De and offered him a Guest Elder position at the Jade Pool Holy Land.
• Li Zhi realized Jade Pool Saintess had not approved of his obtaining the Emperor Scripture and worried that the Holy Land might try to reclaim it.

Li Zhi and Jade Pool Saintess entered an ancient Burial Cave and discovered the remains of Yin Shan, Fighting Saint Emperor’s beloved, along with carvings recounting their tragic past. The chapter left them wondering whether the Emperor had prepared the tomb to resurrect her with a Saint Spirit Divine Flower.

• Li Zhi used 128 Coffin Locking Nails to suppress the subterranean Yin Dragon and locate the Burial Cave’s Life Gate.
• Li Zhi and Jade Pool Saintess dug to the Life Gate, used Earth Evasion to enter the underground chamber, and found a giant Divine Source coffin.
• Li Zhi and Jade Pool Saintess examined carvings that depicted a girl’s romance with a young man, her death, and her burial by a figure identified as Fighting Saint Emperor.
• Li Zhi and Jade Pool Saintess confirmed that the woman in the Divine Source was Yin Shan, whose Immortal Platform was shattered and whose body held no soul.
• Li Zhi and Jade Pool Saintess heard Fighting Saint Emperor’s vow to find a Saint Spirit Divine Flower and resurrect Yin Shan, though neither knew of the flower.

Li Zhi and the Jade Pool Saintess left the Burial Cave untouched and crossed the deadly Black Mist region to reach the Heavenly Pillar Divine Mountain. There, they discovered the Black Mist poured from its summit and concluded that climbing the pillar was their only hope of escape.

• The Jade Pool Saintess persuaded Li Zhi to leave the woman sealed in Divine Source undisturbed, and they departed the Burial Cave empty-handed.
• Li Zhi used the Burial Cave's location to determine that the Heavenly Pillar Divine Mountain lay two hundred li into the Black Mist, and he and the Jade Pool Saintess set out for it.
• Li Zhi and the Jade Pool Saintess fought through more than a hundred battles over three months, exhausting many of their protective items and artifacts while growing stronger.
• The pair reached the Heavenly Pillar Divine Mountain, a towering stone pillar surrounded by a gravity field that kept the Black Mist at bay.
• Li Zhi and the Jade Pool Saintess observed that the Black Mist emerged from the pillar's summit, then found that its increasing pressure made flying upward impossible and decided they would have to climb.

Li Zhi and Jade Pool Saintess traced the Black Mist to an underground cavern beneath Heavenly Pillar Divine Mountain, where they discovered and collected a lake of diluted Saint Spirit Blood. Their Dao Palace Deities then found a dying Saint Spirit Qilin pinned beneath the mountain, with a mysterious flower growing between its brows.

• Li Zhi failed to climb Heavenly Pillar Divine Mountain because of its crushing gravity, and Jade Pool Saintess could not climb higher than he had.
• Li Zhi proposed entering the mountain from underground, and he and Jade Pool Saintess descended through the earth to a cavern filled with crystal mountains and a Nether Lake.
• Li Zhi sensed an Immortal Lake across the Nether Lake, and Jade Pool Saintess identified its scarlet water as diluted Saint Spirit Blood.
• Li Zhi drained nearly the entire Blood Lake into his Divine Diagram, while Jade Pool Saintess collected some in her Jade Pure Bottle; they found a spring and a crack through which Saint Blood seeped.
• Li Zhi and Jade Pool Saintess sent their Dao Palace Deities through the crack and discovered a Saint Spirit Qilin pinned beneath a stone pillar, with a nearly blooming mysterious flower between its brows.

Li Zhi and the Jade Pool Saintess survived the Nether Lake’s eruption by taking refuge in the Saint Tower, then fell asleep and were drawn into a strange vision where Li Zhi lived as a young man named Longevity. The vision left him heading to Wang Yao’s home with crabs and prawns, unaware of his true identity.

• Li Zhi and the Jade Pool Saintess abandoned their attempt to approach the Saint Spirit Kirin and searched the Nether Lake for a way out.
• The Nether Lake erupted, spreading black mist and trapping the two in the Crystal Stone Forests.
• Li Zhi and the Jade Pool Saintess revived the Saint Tower together, and it sheltered them from the black mist.
• The two recovered inside the Saint Tower but soon fell asleep as their consciousnesses were summoned away.
• Li Zhi awoke in a beautiful village with a new fragment of memory and believed he was Longevity, a young man who caught crabs and prawns for Wang Yao.
• Longevity hurried to Wang Yao’s home and called to her from outside the fence.

The chapter recounts Longevity and Wang Yao’s repeated, tragic lives as they try to save each other from Dao Injuries, while the Divine Physician and other powerful figures manipulate their fate. In the latest cycle, they obtain suspicious black divine flowers, but Longevity chooses to seek a way to recover by shedding his body and living another Lifetime.

• Longevity and Wang Yao reunited after she was gravely wounded, and a Divine Physician said only an Immortality Elixir or a Saint Spirit Divine Flower made from a captured Qilin could heal her Dao Injury.
• The Divine Physician’s fury triggered Black Mist that destroyed the world, after which Longevity and Wang Yao’s lives began again in altered forms.
• In another cycle, Wang Yao chose to hunt a Sacred Kirin to save Longevity, prompting a Daoist to unleash another world-ending Black Mist.
• A Holy Emperor watched as the lovers planted Spirit Seeds in two Sacred Kirin and grew black Netherworld Divine Flowers, which he said would keep them together while their flesh rotted forever.
• Longevity doubted the flowers were genuine and said he would sever his decayed body, shed a Divine Embryo, and live another Lifetime, while Wang Yao sealed the flowers and agreed to wait.

Li Zhi and the Jade Pool Saintess escaped the Saint Spirit Kirin’s consciousness world by defeating it, then awoke as the Nether Lake began to stir. They fled upward while Li Zhi revived the Hundred Herbs Diagram to suppress the awakening Kirin remnant soul.

• Li Zhi severed his old body and, after destroying the Girl who resembled the Jade Pool Saintess, restored the Saintess’s consciousness in the otherworld.
• Li Zhi explained that they could escape the consciousness world by killing its core, and he and the Jade Pool Saintess manifested powerful imagined forms to fight the Immortal Kirin.
• The Jade Pool Saintess’s War Gods wounded the Immortal Kirin, and Li Zhi killed it with the Immortal Slaying Guillotine, causing the consciousness world to collapse.
• The Saint Spirit Kirin’s remnant soul awakened inside the Immortal Source, drawing in Nether River Water and Black Mist as its corpse began breathing and the Stone Pillar cracked.
• Li Zhi and the Jade Pool Saintess awoke in the Holy Tower and fled upward as the Nether Lake sank; Li Zhi revived the Hundred Herbs Diagram and sent its Divine Peak to suppress the lake.

Li Zhi and the Jade Pool Saintess escaped the Jade Pool Old Land as the Heavenly Pillar Divine Mountain unleashed a torrent of power, and Li Zhi discovered the Hundred Herbs Diagram’s connection to Longevity Daoist. He learned the truth behind the Saint Spirit Kirin’s grudge and left with sympathy for its unjust fate.

• Li Zhi sealed the Netherworld Divine Flower, escaped the underground with the Jade Pool Saintess, and found that the Heavenly Pillar Divine Mountain had absorbed the Black Mist.
• A column of black water burst from the mountain, opening a spatial rift that Li Zhi and the Jade Pool Saintess crossed with the Hundred Herbs Diagram.
• Li Zhi and the Jade Pool Saintess escaped the Jade Pool Old Land, after which Li Zhi vanished and the Jade Pool Saintess reunited with her Martial Aunt.
• The Hundred Herbs Diagram revealed Longevity Daoist’s cottage and letter, explaining his legacy and how his memories had awakened within the Artifact Spirit.
• Li Zhi examined the Saint Spirit Kirin’s memories and learned that the Fighting Saint Emperor had killed it before birth and that it had transformed the Saint Spirit Divine Flower into the Netherworld Divine Flower to defy him.

Li Zhi studied the Dao Palace teachings in the Emperor Scripture, perfected his Kidney Divine Treasury, and learned how Saint Spirit Blood could be used to temper his body with the Myriad Daos. He traveled to Qu Prefecture to investigate the Cloud Break Mountain Range, where a local cultivator warned him that the beautiful mountain range was ominous.

• Li Zhi considered using the Saint Spirit Soul Power and essence blood to transform himself, then completed his cultivation in the Uninhabited Region and perfected his Kidney Divine Treasury.
• Li Zhi compared the Dao Palace teachings of the Emperor Scripture and the Primordial Longevity Art, concluding that Immortality Elixirs were the proper candidates for his remaining Companion Immortal Trees.
• Li Zhi read Longevity Daoist's notes on bathing in Saint Spirit Blood and decided to use the Cloud Break Mountain Range as special terrain for his transformation.
• Li Zhi reached Chaoyang City and learned that Ye Fan had killed disciples of the Ji Clan and Shaking Light Holy Land in Qu Prefecture before later killing ten more Shaking Light disciples elsewhere.
• Li Zhi asked an old cultivator to guide him to the Cloud Break Mountain Range, where the guide warned him not to claim the ominous place for himself.

Li Zhi reunited with Duan De at the Ruthless Great Emperor's Dao Field and helped him enter it by providing Saint Spirit Essence Blood. On the Green Stone Dao Platform, Li Zhi began a transformation to forge a Flawless Dao Foundation, while Duan De warned himself that the process would eventually attract Heaven's Thunder.

• Li Zhi explored the Cloud Break Mountain Range, found a Robber's Tunnel, and recognized Duan De when nine Divine Blades attacked him from inside.
• Li Zhi told Duan De about the Saint Spirit Blood and Soul Power he had obtained, and Duan De warned that the Soul Power's Life Imprint needed to be destroyed by an Imperial Weapon.
• Duan De used Li Zhi's Saint Spirit Essence Blood to silence the Dao Pattern Barrier, and they entered the Ruthless Person's Dojo through the tunnel.
• Duan De removed and refined the Lid of the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Pot while Li Zhi prepared to transform on the Green Stone Dao Platform.
• Li Zhi began transforming inside the Divine Iron Elixir Furnace, and Duan De realized he was trying to forge a Flawless Dao Foundation and kept quiet about the Heaven's Thunder it would provoke.

Li Zhi completed his Sixth Transformative Rebirth while Duan De used the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Pot Lid to expose him to the Myriad Dao Laws. After the transformation removed the Green Emperor Great Dao’s influence from Li Zhi, he and Duan De left the Ruthless Person's Dojo as strange phenomena drew cultivators to the Cloud Break Mountain Range.

• Duan De used the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Pot Lid to release special Dao Fire, causing the Myriad Dao Laws to scour Li Zhi during his transformation.
• Li Zhi endured the washing of the Myriad Daos and gained Dao imprints from visions of a Divine Silkworm and a powerful White-Robed Fairy.
• The transformation caused sacred phenomena across the Cloud Break Mountain Range, and the City Lord of Chaoyang City tried to suppress news of them.
• Li Zhi completed his Sixth Transformative Rebirth, grew into a young man, and felt his body and primordial spirit strengthen.
• Duan De told Li Zhi that the Green Emperor Great Dao had threatened to make him an alternative Green Emperor Descendant, but the transformation had eliminated its influence.
• Li Zhi and Duan De left the Ruthless Person's Dojo along the Divine Path, which vanished after they passed.

After reaching Holy City, Li Zhi reunited with Little Daoist Nun Yuchen and discovered that her Dao Heart had begun to waver. He used a secret technique to guide her consciousness through trials in an Immortal Dao World, where she drew a Divine Thought Sword to confront her inner turmoil.

• Duan De left Li Zhi with the unpaid restaurant bill before heading to Holy City, and Li Zhi spent two more days in Chaoyang City.
• Li Zhi broke through to the Dao Palace Third Realm while traveling and studied the scriptures he had gained during his transformation.
• Li Zhi reached Holy City, learned of an auction featuring a Primordial Divine Medicine, and went to the Dao Yi Stone Workshop to seek Little Daoist Nun Yuchen's help securing an invitation.
• Li Zhi found that Little Daoist Nun Yuchen's Dao Heart had weakened after she compared her cultivation with the heirs of Great Emperor Ancient Scriptures.
• Li Zhi guided Little Daoist Nun Yuchen's consciousness into an Immortal Dao World and urged her to cut through her thoughts, prompting a Divine Thought Sword to emerge and strike toward her primordial spirit.

Li Zhi accompanied Little Daoist Nun Yuchen to a major auction after helping her complete the Dragon Slaying Sword Art. When the Primordial Divine Medicine appeared, Li Zhi recognized it as the Humanoid Immortality Elixir and drove its price to one hundred thousand jin of Source Stones, leaving the auction hall stunned.

• Li Zhi fed Little Daoist Nun Yuchen a pill after cleansing her primordial spirit, and she woke with her Dragon Slaying Sword Art at Great Achievement.
• Little Daoist Nun Yuchen told Li Zhi about the sensation caused by the divine medicine found in the Dao Yi Stone Workshop and agreed to take him to the auction.
• Li Zhi and Little Daoist Nun Yuchen attended the Holy Lord Level Auction at the Heavenly Monster Treasure Pavilion, where Elder Lu presented the Humanoid Divine Medicine.
• Li Zhi recognized the medicine as the Humanoid Immortality Elixir and decided he would obtain it, while powerful bidders raised the price to forty-one thousand jin of Source Stones.
• Li Zhi outbid the Ancient Hua Dynasty and other competitors, raising his offer first to sixty thousand and then to one hundred thousand jin of Source Stones.

Li Zhi won the Divine Medicine Rootstalk at auction and returned to Dao Yi Stone Workshop to cultivate it in the Hundred Herbs Diagram. He planted it near the Chaos Immortal Pool, but the rootstalk showed no response to Divine Spring Water.

• Li Zhi won the Divine Medicine Rootstalk for one million jin of Source Stones and left the auction to enter seclusion.
• Rumors spread through the Holy City about Dao Yi Holy Land’s extravagant bid, while young cultivators approached Ye Fan in his Gu Feng disguise after he sold his medicines for one million jin of Source Stones.
• Yao Yuekong told Ye Fan and Li Heishui that Dao Yi Holy Land’s bid had surprised the Heavenly Monster Treasure Pavilion, then began recounting an earlier stone-gambling match involving a little Daoist.
• Li Zhi returned to Dao Yi Stone Workshop and examined Longevity Daoist’s notes on cultivating Immortality Elixirs before asking the Hundred Herbs Diagram’s Artifact Spirit where to plant the medicine.
• The Artifact Spirit led Li Zhi to the sealed Chaos Immortal Pool, where he planted the rootstalk in one of its Medicine Fields and watered it with ten jin of Divine Spring Water.
• Li Zhi waited, but the Divine Medicine Rootstalk neither changed nor absorbed the water.

Li Zhi revived the Humanoid Immortality Elixir in the Life Divine Coffin and advanced his Spleen Divine Treasury while studying its Dao Rhythm. Half a month later, Ye Fan returned to Holy City and sought Li Zhi, but learned that he had entered seclusion.

• Li Zhi used the essence of a Peach Immortal Medicine to restore the Humanoid Immortality Elixir's dormant roots, then planted them in the Life Divine Coffin with Divine Spring Water and Saint Spirit Blood Water.
• As Li Zhi observed the medicine sprout, he comprehended its Dao Rhythm, perfected his Spleen Divine Treasury, and gained new insight into the Silkworm Transformation Method.
• The medicine grew slightly over half a month, and Li Zhi left seclusion; the Hundred Herbs Diagram returned to the Heaven and Earth Temple in his Wheel Sea.
• The million-jin auction of the Primordial Divine Medicine drew crowds to Holy City's Stone Workshops and drove up auction prices, while Tuoba Chang gained renown as a Source Art prodigy.
• After reappearing in Holy City, Ye Fan left his companions and visited the Dao Yi Holy Land's Stone Workshop in disguise, where Little Daoist Nun Yuchen recognized him as Gu Feng.
• Ye Fan asked why Longevity Daoist had bought the incomplete Divine Medicine, learned that Li Zhi had paid for it himself, and left a message after Yuchen said Li Zhi was in seclusion.

Ye Fan and Li Heishui arrived at Ji Clan Stone Workshop to face Tuoba Chang in a Source Arts contest, while Li Zhi reunited with Ye Fan in disguise. Li Zhi rallied the spectators to demand a competition across the Stone Gardens and began scheming to profit from the crowd’s excitement.

• Ye Fan left Dao Yi Stone Workshop, reunited with Li Heishui, and headed to Ji Clan Stone Workshop to challenge Tuoba Chang.
• After learning that Gu Feng was Ye Fan and that he had gone to Ji Clan Stone Workshop, Li Zhi altered his appearance and followed the crowd there.
• Li Zhi walked ahead of Tuoba Chang’s group, joined Ye Fan by the Heavenly Stone Garden, and proposed that the contest proceed through every level of Ji Clan Stone Workshop.
• Li Zhi persuaded the spectators to cheer for Tuoba Chang and Gu Feng, while Ye Fan and Li Heishui watched in disbelief.
• Li Zhi tried to recruit Li Heishui and Yao Yuekong to arrange betting, then approached Ji Biyue about sharing the profits from a gambling ring.
• Ji Biyue agreed to cooperate but demanded seventy percent of the profits, and Li Zhi refused her terms.

Ye Fan and Tuoba Chang began their Source Art contest at the Ji Clan Stone Workshop, while Li Zhi turned the spectacle into a profitable Gambling Ring. After three rounds in the Heavenly Stone Garden yielded almost nothing for the contestants, Li Zhi closed the ring with a profit of seven hundred thousand jin of Source.

• An elder of the Ji Clan captured Li Zhi, while Ye Fan and Tuoba Chang agreed to begin their contest at the lakeshore.
• A group of cultivators opened a Gambling Ring, and Tuoba Chang and Ye Fan each cut out an Exotic Source worth about fifteen hundred jin of Pure Source, producing a draw.
• Li Zhi persuaded the Ji Clan elder to let the outside Gambling Ring continue, then spotted a crowd of wealthy Heavenly Prides arriving at the Heavenly Stone Garden.
• The Ji Clan elder stopped Li Zhi from starting another Gambling Ring on the islet, but Li Zhi used the Water Moon Technique to broadcast the contest outside.
• Ye Fan and Tuoba Chang failed to find valuable treasures in three consecutive rounds, and Li Zhi ended the Gambling Ring with a net profit of seven hundred thousand jin of Source.