Chapter Summaries

Li Zhi watched Ye Fan and Tuoba Chang’s Source Arts showdown, then captured the Divine Silkworm revealed in Ye Fan’s stone and offered to buy it. He left for Dao Yi Stone Workshop and was followed by Ji Biyue, who accepted his invitation to dinner.

• Tuoba Chang cut a fist-sized Divine Source from the Divine Moon stone, while Li Zhi warned the Ji Clan’s elder that finding the Stone King would bring disaster.
• As Ye Fan began cutting his stone, Li Zhi predicted it held a living creature sealed in Divine Source and asked the elders to seal the area.
• When the stone burst with light and tried to flee, Li Zhi caught it and offered Ye Fan one hundred jin of Divine Source for the treasure.
• Li Zhi peeled away the final layer, revealed a Divine Silkworm, and privately invited it to seek him out for Divine Source.
• Li Zhi told Ye Fan he would stay at Dao Yi Stone Workshop and left the crowd, while Ji Biyue followed him and accepted his offer of dinner at the Drunken Immortal Pavilion.

Ji Biyue tried to trade for Li Zhi’s body-tempering method, but he dodged her questions and escaped Drunken Immortal Pavilion with a Light Shadow Dharma Body. Back at Dao Yi Stone Workshop, Li Zhi befriended the Little Divine Silkworm with precious source and trapped it briefly with his Heaven Transformation Divine Palm before two visitors arrived at the temple entrance.

• Ji Biyue treated Li Zhi to an Immortal Banquet and asked to exchange for his method of strengthening his physical body.
• Li Zhi told Ji Biyue that Phoenix Blood or Heavenly Thunder could temper the body, then praised his mysterious Sect Master while she questioned him about his origins.
• Li Zhi chanted a ballad about his Sect Master and vanished as a Light Shadow Dharma Body, leaving Ji Biyue furious over the banquet bill.
• Li Zhi returned to Dao Yi Stone Workshop and gave the Little Divine Silkworm Divine Source before trapping it in his Heaven Transformation Divine Palm when it tried to eat an Immortal Source pellet.
• Li Zhi let the Little Divine Silkworm eat the pellet, showed it a larger piece of Immortal Source, and watched it leave before two people arrived at the temple entrance.

Li Zhi traded an ancient scripture for Ye Fan’s Dao Scripture Wheel Sea Scroll and explained the Four Extremes tribulation facing the Barren Ancient Sacred Body. After helping the Little Divine Silkworm with its request and using its Dao Rhythm to master the Silkworm Transformation Method, Li Zhi left to find a place for his own Nirvana.

• Li Zhi welcomed Ye Fan at Three Sages Temple, and they caught up on their recent exploits and cultivation.
• Li Zhi exchanged an ancient scripture that might come from the Heaven Devouring Demonic Art or the Indestructible Heavenly Art for Ye Fan’s Dao Scripture Wheel Sea Scroll.
• Li Zhi told Ye Fan that the Holy Body faced a dangerous tribulation when breaking through into the Four Extremes Realm and offered him a hundred jin of Divine Source if he needed it.
• The Little Divine Silkworm led Li Zhi to Ye Fan’s formation, and Li Zhi took it away so Ye Fan could break through undisturbed.
• Li Zhi used the Little Divine Silkworm’s Dao Rhythm to complete his comprehension of the Silkworm Transformation Method, then rewarded it with two pieces of Immortal Source.
• Li Zhi left to find a place for his transformation and discovered a small Oasis with a natural Spiritual Lake deep in the Uninhabited Region.

Li Zhi completed his Seventh Transformative Rebirth in an Oasis, then endured Heavenly Thunder that strengthened him and transformed the surrounding land. Later, a dangerous blizzard stranded him in the Northern Domain’s Great Wilderness, where he sheltered and sensed the circulation of vitality.

• Li Zhi sealed an Oasis with Formation Flags and absorbed Immortal Source while using the Silkworm Transformation Method, forming a cocoon that refined his Life Origin.
• After nearly a month, Li Zhi emerged from his cocoon with a transformed body and completed his Seventh Transformative Rebirth.
• Heavenly Thunder shattered Li Zhi’s Array Barrier, and he absorbed thirty-six bolts by circulating the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation, expanding the Oasis with the released Life Essence.
• Two passing cultivators found the transformed Oasis and a fragment of Li Zhi’s discarded body, then decided to seal the area and inform their master.
• A blizzard disoriented Li Zhi in the Northern Domain’s Great Wilderness, so he sheltered in a mountain hollow and contemplated the dangers of the region.
• Li Zhi’s snow hut was torn apart and he was buried beneath the storm as he sensed vitality circulating through the Great Wilderness.

Li Zhi rode the Life Divine Coffin into a vast Sea of Life, where the Humanoid Immortality Elixir absorbed Life Essence before pulling him back to his body. He emerged in the Jiang Family Graveyard, where Jiang Shuwen and Jiang Caihong began their post, while Li Zhi studied the tomb of an ancient Jiang Clan Divine King.

• Li Zhi used the Life Divine Coffin to reach the Sea of Life, and the Humanoid Immortality Elixir absorbed enough Life Essence to grow a lower body before sensing danger and fleeing with him.
• Li Zhi returned to his body, strengthened his vitality with the Heaven Devouring Demonic Art, and guided the slowing coffin through an underground barrier into a Burial Cave.
• Li Zhi found the corpse of a female Great Accomplishment Divine King in a Purple Jade Coffin and learned from the tomb murals that she had been a Sage of the Jiang Clan eighty thousand years earlier.
• Jiang Shuwen and Jiang Caihong arrived to guard the Jiang Family Graveyard, and Jiang Shuwen explained that he had volunteered because Jiang Yichen's disappearance might be connected to Little Tingting and the Jiang Clan's internal dangers.
• Jiang Caihong proposed that she and Jiang Shuwen live in a sealed Divine King Hall, and Jiang Shuwen went to ask the Elder guarding the cemetery for permission.
• After reading the Divine King's history, Li Zhi reflected on how commonly Divine Blood returned among the descendants of Divine Bodies and wondered about the constitution's origins.

Li Zhi worried that his abundant Life Origin and Longevity Immortal Body made him a target, so he tried to turn the Great Accomplishment Divine King in the Purple Jade Crystal Coffin into his Guardian. His ritual caused a spectacle that alarmed the Jiang Clan, and Jiang Shuwen prepared to enter the tomb to investigate.

• Li Zhi realized the Life Spring Immortal Liquid had greatly replenished his Life Origin and feared others would capture him to refine medicine from his body.
• Li Zhi decided to examine the Great Accomplishment Divine King's corpse and make her his Guardian, but paused before opening the Purple Jade Crystal Coffin and chanted the Houtu Rebirth Sutra.
• The Divine King Sacrifice Hall shone with divine light and spiritual visions, and Jiang Caihong knelt outside, frightened and pleading guilty.
• Jiang Caihong told the arriving Elders that a veiled Purple-robed Divine King had flown from the hall, while Jiang Shuwen urged them to open it and investigate.
• After entering the hall, the Elders debated what had happened, and Jiang Shuwen volunteered to inspect the Divine King's Tomb Chamber.
• The Great Power Old Ancestor gave Jiang Shuwen a Void Teleportation Divine Talisman for protection as he prepared to enter the tomb.

Li Zhi turned the Great Accomplishment Divine King's corpse into a Guardian and sealed it in the Purple Jade Crystal Coffin to nourish for eighty-one days. As he prepared to leave the Jiang Family Graveyard, Jiang Shuwen arrived at the Tomb Chamber and startled him.

• Jiang Shuwen accepted a Divine Talisman and several protective Magic Artifacts, then entered the underground passage alone after telling Jiang Caihong to wait outside.
• Li Zhi examined the purple-clad Divine King's corpse and found no scriptures or unusual treasures in her Secret Realms.
• Li Zhi inscribed Corpse Nurturing and Spirit Controlling runes on the Purple Jade Crystal Coffin and planted a divine-sense seed to control the corpse.
• Li Zhi retrieved a rust-covered Great Halberd, remodeled the corpse's robes into armor, and sealed her in the coffin with Saint Spirit Blood Water.
• Li Zhi stored the coffin in the Hundred Herbs Diagram and climbed into the Life Divine Coffin to leave, but Jiang Shuwen's repeated apology outside the Tomb Chamber startled him.

Li Zhi stole the Jiang Clan ancestor’s coffin, triggering a search and drawing the clan’s forces toward the Cemetery. The attack proved to be a diversion: mysterious enemies invaded the Jiang Family Sacred Pure Land, where Jiang Peiyao and Jiang Tingting remained under protection as the fighting spread.

• Li Zhi escaped underground with the coffin, but the Jiang Clan sealed the area and began searching for the grave robber.
• Jiang Shuwen and Jiang Caihong suspected that Duan De was connected to the theft, while the Jiang Clan’s Holy Lord and elders rushed to the Cemetery.
• The Jiang Clan’s elders realized the tomb robbery might be a diversion and hurried back toward the Sacred Pure Land.
• A group of mysterious attackers exploited the clan’s weakened defenses, suppressed its protective formation, and stormed the Sacred Pure Land.
• Aunt Shuo kept Jiang Peiyao and Jiang Tingting from joining the battle, while Jiang Tingting worried that the attackers might be connected to Ye Fan.

Jiang Tingting and Jiang Peiyao were sent to the Jiang Clan Cemetery as mysterious attackers assaulted the clan’s Divine Land, while Jiang Shuwen suspected the attacks were meant to draw the clan’s experts away. The fighting settled into a strange stalemate, and the girls finished a Cemetery patrol without finding Li Zhi.

• Aunt Shuo sent Jiang Tingting and Jiang Peiyao through a teleportation array to the Cemetery, then joined the battle against the mysterious attackers.
• The Jiang Family Holy Lord returned to the Divine Land, while the Cemetery’s Great Power Old Ancestor led elders back to support the clan and left Jiang Feng and Jiang Lan guarding the Cemetery.
• Jiang Shuwen decided to remain at the Cemetery, suspecting the attacks were a diversion, and took Jiang Tingting and Jiang Peiyao on patrol after they insisted on helping.
• The Jiang Clan stopped the attackers from breaching its Immortal Divine City, but both sides continued an unexplained, attritional confrontation without using their full strength.
• Jiang Tingting and Jiang Peiyao asked about the ancestors during the patrol, but they found no trace of Li Zhi and were sent to rest in the Ceremonial Grand Hall.

Jiang Shuwen dismissed Jiang Caihong’s suspicions about Jiang Peiyao and Jiang Tingting, while worrying that the Jiang Clan’s Hengyu Sutra was unsuitable for Jiang Tingting’s Taiyin Body. During the night, Peiyao secretly studied a dangerous bloodline-enhancing art to protect her Holy Lord Lineage, then returned unnoticed to the hall.

• Jiang Caihong told Jiang Shuwen that the two girls had acted strangely, but he attributed their behavior to Peiyao’s jealousy of Tingting’s talent.
• Jiang Shuwen recalled that the Jiang Clan possessed a fragment of the Taiyin True Scripture and reasoned that Tingting should eventually cultivate Taiyin methods instead of the Hengyu Sutra.
• Jiang Peiyao secretly used a Secret Treasure to enter an ancestor’s tomb, where she studied the Great Emperor Bloodline Ancestor Revival Method using the tomb’s Dao Rhythm.
• Peiyao sought to strengthen her bloodline because she feared Tingting’s talent would threaten the Holy Lord Lineage’s standing in the Jiang Clan.
• After meditating until before dawn, Peiyao returned to the Ceremonial Grand Hall without Jiang Shuwen or Jiang Caihong noticing she had left.
• For several days, Peiyao and Tingting continued patrolling the Cemetery with Jiang Shuwen and Jiang Caihong.

While the Jiang Clan remained under threat, Li Zhi cultivated inside its graveyard and uncovered Jiang Peiyao’s secret use of the Emperor Bloodline Ancestor Revival Method. After the clan discovered her, it chose to keep the secret and send her to the Grand Elders for further cultivation; Li Zhi escaped once the graveyard seal weakened.

• Jiang Tingting cultivated in the Ceremonial Grand Hall while Jiang Peiyao secretly studied the Emperor Bloodline Ancestor Revival Method in an ancestor’s tomb.
• Li Zhi returned to the Jiang Family Graveyard, advanced to the Lung Divine Treasury, and found signs that someone had stolen Life Origins from ancestral corpses.
• Li Zhi hid near a Great Sage’s tomb and saw Jiang Peiyao enter, open the coffin, and become restrained by the corpse’s spiritual power.
• Li Zhi knocked Jiang Peiyao unconscious, copied her annotated Emperor Bloodline Ancestor Revival Method, returned her belongings, and fled in the Life Divine Coffin.
• The Jiang Family Holy Lord learned the truth through Soul Search and agreed with the Great Power to conceal the clan secret and send Jiang Peiyao to the Grand Elders for cultivation.
• Several days later, Li Zhi left the graveyard after its seal weakened and returned to the snow-covered earth.

Li Zhi returned to Holy City, met Duan De, and learned that his repeated Nirvana transformations had drawn dangerous karma that would threaten him if he transformed again. He revealed that he had recovered a Great Accomplishment Divine King’s corpse and asked Duan De for help making it into a protective artifact, while Duan De examined a scripture Li Zhi had taken from the Jiang Family graveyard.

• Li Zhi returned to Holy City and heard that Jiang Taixu had revived and promised Ye Fan ten million jin of Source Stones to help him break through to the Four Extremes Realm.
• Li Zhi contacted Duan De, met him at an inn, and persuaded him to discuss the dangers of Li Zhi’s Nirvana transformations over an Immortal Banquet.
• Duan De warned Li Zhi that an eighth transformation would draw his enemies through karma unless a peerless expert protected him.
• Li Zhi revealed that he had recovered the corpse of a Great Accomplishment Divine King from the Desolate Ancient Jiang Family cemetery, and Duan De reacted with disbelief before examining it as a potential artifact material.
• Li Zhi showed Duan De a copy of the Great Emperor Bloodline Ancestor Revival Method, and Duan De began reading it while Li Zhi considered whether he could awaken Great Emperor laws from Duan De’s blood.

Li Zhi asked Duan De about using an Immortality Elixir fruit to transform his body and about refining a Great Accomplishment Divine King's corpse into a Puppet General. Duan De assessed the corpse's limits, then examined the Netherworld Divine Flower Li Zhi had found in a Burial Ground world and agreed its Yin Energy and Death Qi might make the refinement possible.

• Duan De explained that the Peach Immortal Medicine fruit could strengthen Li Zhi's Longevity Immortal Body, but warned that his luck might bring Heavenly Punishment and attract powerful enemies.
• Li Zhi and Duan De left the Holy City and traveled into the Uninhabited Region, where Li Zhi reflected on Transcendence and asked Duan De about becoming an immortal.
• Li Zhi showed Duan De the Great Accomplishment Divine King's corpse and asked about refining it into a Puppet General; Duan De warned that without Yin Energy and Death Qi, it would be weak and decay quickly.
• Duan De said a Saint's corpse would require an enormous supply of Yin Energy and Death Qi, so Li Zhi took out a Divine Source box containing the Netherworld Divine Flower.
• Duan De recognized the flower's powerful Nether Qi, resentment, Death Qi, and Yin Energy, and Li Zhi explained that he had found it in a Burial Ground world beneath the Jade Pool Old Land.

Li Zhi and Duan De separated the Netherworld power from the Netherworld Divine Flower, made a King-level Puppet General, and prepared for Ye Fan’s upcoming breakthrough. After Li Zhi returned to Holy City, Black Emperor and Tu Fei considered robbing him, but Li Heishui warned them about his power and background.

• Duan De explained that the Netherworld Divine Flower could yield a Heaven Mending Divine Pill, and Li Zhi entrusted it to him to refine.
• Using the Lid of the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Pot, Duan De drew the Netherworld power from the flower and infused it into a Saint Corpse; together they refined the corpse into a Puppet General.
• Duan De told Li Zhi that the Puppet General needed eighty-one days in an Extreme Yin Land to gain King-level battle prowess, and directed him to the Nether Pool near the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Zone.
• Li Zhi returned to Holy City before Ye Fan’s full-moon breakthrough, but learned from Tu Fei that Ye Fan had gone to the Wonderful Desire Temple.
• After Li Zhi left, Black Emperor and Tu Fei discussed robbing him because they smelled Divine Medicine on him, while Li Heishui warned them about his reputation and Dao Palace Third Realm cultivation.

Li Zhi gave Ye Fan resources and encouragement before Ye Fan attempted to break the Holy Body’s curse at Dragon Pool. As Ye Fan’s tribulation began, Li Zhi secretly tried to steal the Heaven and Earth Origin Imprint, while the assembled powers waited to see what would happen next.

• Big Black Dog, Tu Fei, and Li Heishui realized they could no longer remember what Li Zhi looked like and wondered about his connection to Ye Fan.
• Li Zhi teased Ye Fan at breakfast, encouraged him to succeed in his breakthrough, and gave him Divine Source and Immortal Source.
• Ye Fan began his breakthrough at Dragon Pool before a vast crowd, while Li Zhi slipped beneath the pool and used the Heaven and Earth Sacrifice Scripture to try to steal the Heaven and Earth Origin Imprint.
• A mysterious Puppet Man, an attacker wielding a Fragment of Great Emperor Formation Pattern, and a mysterious Great Power tried to disrupt Ye Fan, but his guardians and Jiang Taixu repelled them.
• Ye Fan’s Holy Body reached minor achievement, and a vast ocean of purple lightning descended as his Heavenly Tribulation began.
• Li Zhi observed the tribulation from beneath Dragon Pool as major figures waited for the true force obstructing Ye Fan’s path to appear.

As Ye Fan underwent the tribulation to enter the Four Extremes Realm, Li Zhi used the True Scripture of Stealing Heavenly Secrets to seize essence from the Innate Dao Diagram threatening Ye Fan. The attempt triggered Heavenly Punishment, and Li Zhi faced a devastating Thunder Tribulation in the Uninhabited Region.

• Ye Fan passed his tribulations as mysterious Dao Sounds filled the air, and the Golden Little Divine Silkworm began its Nirvana tribulation.
• An Innate Dao Diagram descended toward Ye Fan, but a runic Sky Shrouding Hand formed by Li Zhi intervened, and Ye Fan persuaded Jiang Taixu not to attack it.
• Li Zhi used the Hand of Stealing Heaven to extract Great Dao Essence from the diagram, but the hand shattered and his right palm was destroyed.
• Li Zhi sealed the captured essence, regenerated his hand, and fled Divine City as Heavenly Punishment gathered overhead.
• Li Zhi escaped to the Uninhabited Region, where a powerful Thunder Tribulation struck him and he used his Red Dust Tribulation method to endure it.
• Li Zhi tried to strengthen his Heavenly Thunder Tribulation with the Jie Secret Art, and a Thunder Lake poured down over him.

Li Zhi used the cover of his tribulation to attempt an eighth transformation, consuming the Dao radiance and Peach Immortal Medicine fruit before battling the lightning and surviving inside his furnace. After the tribulation ended, cultivators found the ruined furnace and mistook it for a discarded magical treasure, leaving Li Zhi's fate uncertain.

• Li Zhi swallowed the radiance from the Innate Dao Diagram and the remaining Peach Immortal Medicine fruit, then began transforming his bloodline as the third round of lightning descended.
• Li Zhi fought the lightning dragons with the Dragon Slaying Sword Art until the Thunder Sea collapsed, then entered his Star Divine Iron Elixir Furnace to recover in Divine Spring Water.
• Nine bolts of Chaos-infused Heavenly Thunder struck the furnace, smelting it into a cracked iron ball while Li Zhi inside became a charred lump with a faint Life Fire.
• After the Tribulation Cloud dispersed, six cultivators found the scorched site and discovered the iron ball in a deep pit.
• The old cultivator surnamed Gong tried to remove the iron ball, but violet lightning struck him dead when he used Divine Power.

Liu Laosi and four bandits discovered that the scorched wreckage from Li Zhi’s tribulation was valuable Star Divine Iron and brought it to Holy City to sell. At a gathering, the Little Divine Silkworm revealed that someone was alive inside the Iron Ball, leaving the young cultivators eager to investigate.

• Li Kui and the other young men fled when Liu Laosi and four bandits arrived at the pit and claimed the scorched Iron Ball.
• Liu Laosi’s attempt to store the Iron Ball injured him, so the bandits attacked it from a distance until its Thunder Force faded and its Star Divine Iron was exposed.
• Liu Laosi and the other bandits decided to abandon their service under Tu Tian, sell the Star Divine Iron, and start a new life elsewhere.
• Yao Yuekong appraised the Iron Ball at the Heavenly Monster Treasure Pavilion and brought it to a gathering attended by Ye Fan and other young elites.
• The Little Divine Silkworm gestured urgently to the White Clad Little Nun, who told the gathering that someone alive was inside the Iron Ball.

The Jade Pool Saintess bought the charred iron ball containing Li Zhi and learned that he was undergoing Life and Death Nirvana. Unable to revive him directly, the Jade Pool Grand Elder brought the Saintess and the cocoon to the Ancient Peach Tree for nourishment.

• Ye Fan used his Origin Heaven Divine Eye to see a charred flesh ball inside the iron ball, while the Jade Pool Saintess and Dao Yi Saintess recognized it as an old friend.
• The Jade Pool Saintess bought the iron ball from Yao Yuekong for five hundred thousand jin of Source Stones and left without revealing the person's identity.
• The Jade Pool Saintess took the cocoon to the Jade Pool Holy Land, where the Grand Elder identified Li Zhi's state as Life and Death Nirvana.
• The Grand Elder's Precious Mirror could not reveal Li Zhi's true form, and she concluded that outsiders could only wait for him to complete his Nirvana.
• After the Jade Pool Saintess said Li Zhi had the Potential of a Great Emperor, the Grand Elder led her to the Ancient Peach Tree near the Immortal Pool.

The Jade Pool Grand Elders used the Immortal Tear Green Gold Pagoda to examine Li Zhi and placed his Flesh Dao Cocoon beside the Holy Spirit beneath the Ancient Peach Tree. Li Zhi awakened after twenty-one days, recovered his cultivation in seclusion, and was summoned by the Queen Mother.

• The Old Woman and the Jade Pool Saintess brought Li Zhi's cocoon to the Grand Elders, who recognized the Peach Immortal Medicine's aura and used the Immortal Tear Green Gold Pagoda to inspect him.
• The Grand Elders placed Li Zhi's cocoon beside the Holy Spirit beneath the Ancient Peach Tree, where it absorbed the Wondrous Stone's essence and briefly shone with Nine-Colored Rosy Clouds.
• On the twenty-first day, Li Zhi's cocoon burst open in a surge of divine light, and a Grand Elder's call roused him from his near-ascension.
• Li Zhi thanked the Jade Pool Saintess and the Grand Elder, then secluded himself in a bamboo tower to recover his cultivation over seven days, growing into an eleven- or twelve-year-old boy.
• Sun Yi met Li Zhi outside the tower and told him that the Queen Mother was waiting for him.