Chapter Summaries

Li Zhi crossed into the Southern Domain with Sun Yi and headed toward Yan State while discussing his cultivation and why he had avoided the Ruthless Great Emperor’s Dao Field. He left Sun Yi’s question about what true experience meant unanswered as they flew on.

• Li Zhi arrived in the Southern Domain through a Domain Gate with Sun Yi, and they stopped at the Hundred Flowers Sect before setting out for Yan State.
• Li Zhi revealed that he had gained access to the Jade Pool Holy Land’s Scripture Repository by nourishing its Nine Orifices Eight Holes Saint Spirit Wondrous Stone with his Longevity Blood.
• Sun Yi asked why Li Zhi had refused the invitation to explore the Ruthless Great Emperor’s Dao Field, and Li Zhi said he considered fighting above his level dangerous and pointless.
• Li Zhi explained that he believed cultivators often sought praise by defeating weaker opponents, and Sun Yi asked what he considered true experience.

Li Zhi explained his approach to improving combat strength to Sun Yi before they parted ways in Yan State, where he went to the Nether Pool to prepare a corpse for refinement and search Green Emperor's Yang Tomb. After completing his Heart Divine Treasury through cultivation in the volcano's magma, he set out for the Fire Domain of Jin State to condense its Companion Immortal Tree.

• Li Zhi told Sun Yi that combat prowess came from controlling and testing one's strength and that cultivators should prepare for danger through targeted training.
• Sun Yi revealed that she had come to Yan State to investigate whether Ye Fan would enter the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Zone for Divine Medicine.
• Li Zhi parted from Sun Yi near Yan Capital and entered the Nether Pool, where he placed the Purple Jade Crystal Coffin in an Extreme Yin Vein to nurture its corpse for eighty-one days.
• Li Zhi searched Green Emperor's Yang Tomb for an Extreme Yang Land but found none, so he absorbed Divine Fire Liquid in the volcano to cultivate his Heart Divine Treasury.
• After more than a month, Li Zhi completed his Heart Divine Treasury and left for the Fire Domain of Jin State to condense its Companion Immortal Tree.

Li Zhi considered the Immortal Fire as a template for his Companion Immortal Tree and planned to undergo his final rebirth in the Green Emperor’s chosen land. After killing cultivators who ambushed him in the Primordial Ruins, he left for the Barren Ancient Forest, where a young man stopped him beside a group building a Magic Array.

• Li Zhi recalled Duan De’s warnings about reaching Dao Palace Great Perfection, choosing a protective Treasure Land, and concealing his transformation, then decided to seek Ye Fan and observe the Kirin Immortality Elixir.
• Cultivators from the Six Great Grotto-Heavens of Yan State surrounded Li Zhi and attacked him, but he bound their magical treasures and turned them and their weapons to ashes.
• Eight Elders examined the Tribulation Ash, feared a powerful figure had killed the disciples, and ended the joint trial before leaving the Primordial Ruins with the survivors.
• Li Zhi left the Primordial Ruins for the Barren Ancient Forest and found cultivators constructing a large Magic Array near its entrance.
• A young cultivator called Li Zhi over, and Li Zhi stopped and greeted him.

Li Zhi searched for Ye Fan, then traveled to the Fire Domain of Jin State to cultivate by observing its Immortal Fire. The Immortal Fire awakened and sent its Nine-colored Radiance into Li Zhi’s Divine Treasury of the Heart, where it fused with his newly formed seed.

• Li Zhi questioned a young man surnamed Wu about Ye Fan, warned him against entering the Forbidden Zone of Life to seek Divine Medicine, and disappeared before Wu could respond.
• Li Zhi learned in Yan Capital that the Old Emperor of the Ancient Hua Dynasty had entered the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Zone, while Ye Fan’s whereabouts remained unknown.
• Li Zhi traveled to the Fire Domain of Jin State and crossed its layers of increasingly dangerous flames, using the Heaven Transformation Divine Palm and the Hundred Herbs Diagram to protect himself.
• In the ninth layer, Li Zhi sat near the Immortal Fire and comprehended its Dao insights, causing a scarlet seed to condense within his Divine Treasury of the Heart.
• The Immortal Fire awakened and sent its Nine-colored Radiance past the Hundred Herbs Diagram’s protection, where it fused with Li Zhi’s seed without harming him.

Li Zhi fled the Fire Domain, waited in Yan Capital for Ye Fan, and helped Zhang Wenchang regain hope while the Ji Clan searched for Ye Fan. After reuniting with Ye Fan and Ji Ziyue outside the city, Li Zhi asked to borrow the Kirin Immortality Elixir's seed to complete his Dao Palace Realm.

• Li Zhi returned to the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Zone but left when he found the area heavily guarded, then settled in Zhang Wenchang's Small Tavern in Yan Capital.
• Li Zhi drove off the Ji Clan disciples harassing Zhang Wenchang and dissolved the seal on Ji Ziyue's cultivation.
• Li Zhi reassured Zhang Wenchang about his homesickness and stayed at the tavern while waiting for Ye Fan.
• More than a month later, Ji Ziyue brought Ye Fan to the tavern, and Li Zhi secretly took Zhang Wenchang away from Yan Capital.
• Li Zhi reunited with Ye Fan and Ji Ziyue in a mountain forest and asked to borrow the Kirin Immortality Elixir's seed.

Li Zhi completed his Dao Palace cultivation with the Kirin Immortality Elixir's seed, then returned to the Primordial Ruins and sensed the damage the ruins had suffered. After avoiding a group of cultivators near the Nether Pool, he descended into its depths to reach the Underground Yin Vein where he had hidden the Purple Jade Crystal Coffin.

• Li Zhi told Ye Fan and Ji Ziyue that humanity on Beidou had migrated from the Ziwei Star Domain, and Ye Fan gave Ji Ziyue Divine Spring Water and a Saint Fruit before she left.
• Li Zhi condensed the Lung Divine Treasury's Companion Immortal Tree, completed his Dao Palace Realm, and returned the Kirin Immortality Elixir's seed to Ye Fan.
• Ye Fan and Li Zhi parted ways, and Ji Hui led Ji Clan disciples in pursuit toward Tai Xuan Sect.
• Li Zhi returned to the Primordial Ruins and sensed their vitality declining as he approached the Nether Pool.
• Li Zhi watched Wu Sidao and the other cultivators leave the Nether Pool after several of them were frozen by its Extreme Yin Energy.
• Li Zhi entered the Nether Pool, used his Nine-colored Flame Immortal Tree and a Divine Power barrier to withstand the cold, and reached the Underground Yin Vein where he had buried the Purple Jade Crystal Coffin.

Li Zhi placed the Purple Jade Crystal Coffin in the Extreme Yin Pool and was trapped in a massive ice mountain until he recovered. When Li Shixian led the Central State cultivators into the Nether Pool, Li Zhi sensed that they had awakened a terrifying presence and intervened, but the group was already caught in a deadly battle.

• Li Zhi sent the Purple Jade Crystal Coffin into the Extreme Yin Pool, whose cold qi froze him inside a growing ice mountain.
• After expelling the Yin Cold Qi and carving a passage out, Li Zhi overheard Li Shixian boast that his Yin Yang Great Banners would protect the group in the Nether Pool.
• Wu Sidao refused to enter the pool, while Li Shixian and the others used their banners to descend.
• Li Zhi sensed danger, escaped the ice mountain, and struck the Nether Pool with a Secret Art, triggering a violent eruption as the cultivators screamed below.
• Li Zhi summoned Yin Soldiers to attack the fleeing Silver Dragon, revealing Li Shixian, who fought back with the banners.
• A black spear shattered Li Shixian’s attempt to summon his great-grandfather’s divine sense and broke the Yin Banner, so Li Shixian transformed the Yang Banner into a Three-legged Golden Crow to escape.

Li Shixian was seized by Li Zhi’s mysterious power, while three powerful investigators searched the Nether Pool and suspected a Saint Weapon had appeared. In Yan Capital, Ye Fan reunited with Black Emperor and his companions, who urged him to explore Green Emperor’s tomb as rumors about him and the Demon Emperor’s Tomb spread through the city.

• Li Zhi pulled Li Shixian and the Golden Crow Yang Banner into the Yin Mist, then left with the Purple Jade Crystal Coffin after confirming the Guardian General’s transformation had survived.
• Wu Sidao saw the Divine King Pure Land appear and hurried toward Yan Capital to report the change at the Demon Emperor’s Yin Tomb.
• The Yin Yang Sect’s Grand Elder, the Four Symbols Sacred Land’s Grand Elder, and the Ancient Hua Dynasty’s Imperial Uncle investigated the Nether Pool and concluded that a Saint Weapon had likely appeared.
• Li Zhi entered the Lava Pool while rumors spread in Yan Capital about the tomb, Ye Fan, Hua Yunfei, and the factions gathering in the city.
• Ye Fan reunited with Black Emperor, Li Heishui, Tu Fei, and Pang Bo, who teased him about local gossip and discussed the treasures in Green Emperor’s tomb.
• Black Emperor, Tu Fei, and Li Heishui urged Ye Fan to guide them to Green Emperor’s tomb, and Ye Fan became interested despite wanting to find Xiao Nannan.

Ye Fan discovered that Li Zhi was undergoing a transformation in the Yang Spring beneath the Primordial Ruins, then left Yan Capital with his companions. After Li Zhi’s emergence sparked a wondrous phenomenon, a Purple Armored Figure killed the Great Powers who tried to seize the supposed Immortal Pill.

• At the Nether Pool, Ye Fan used his Origin Heaven Divine Art to find two sealed supreme-grade Spiritual Veins and sensed Li Zhi in the Yang Spring.
• Ye Fan told his companions that Li Zhi was transforming in the Yang Spring, then said they should go find Xiao Nannan and left Yan Capital with them.
• A pillar of light and a succession of strange visions erupted from the volcano, drawing cultivators and Great Powers to the Primordial Ruins.
• The Grand Elder of the Yin Yang Sect broke the barrier by the Lava Pool, and a Great Halberd emerged to kill him.
• The other Great Powers attacked the Purple Armored Figure, who enveloped them in a deathly pure land and cut them down with his Great Halberd.

Li Zhi completed his ninth transformation in Green Emperor’s Yang Spring while the Guardian General protected him from the Great Powers outside. When the pill shell shattered under Chaos Thunder, the figure revealed inside was identified as Longevity Daoist, leaving the onlookers stunned.

• The Purple Clothed Figure killed six Great Powers with the deathly Pure Land and vanished, while the Grand Elder of Four Symbols Sacred Land urged the other factions to summon their Imperial Weapons.
• Inside the Lava Pool, Li Zhi used the Yang Spring and the Nine Marvels Immortality Elixir fruit to complete his dangerous ninth transformation and form a Divine Embryo.
• The pill phenomenon vanished, the Purple Clothed Figure flew away, and the battered Yin Yang Great Banner emerged from the pool before exploding.
• A black pill flew out, and several Great Powers tried to seize it before Chaos Thunder shattered its shell.
• Yao Xi recognized the figure inside the light as Longevity Daoist, and the Great Powers realized that the supposed Immortal Pill had been a person undergoing Nirvana.

Li Zhi endured successive waves of a terrifying Heavenly Tribulation by absorbing thunder and refining his body, drawing the attention of cultivators across the Primordial Ruins. After surviving the Thunder Beasts, he faced a fourth wave so deadly that he would have to fight back.

• Ten Thousand Daos of thunder engulfed the Primordial Ruins, killing hundreds as Li Zhi absorbed the lightning into his body and formed a Purple Sun.
• Li Zhi endured nine waves of ordinary thunder and nine bolts of Chaos Thunder, using his blood vitality to grind down the most powerful strikes.
• Nine Suanni attacked Li Zhi, but he absorbed their attacks, grew stronger, then crushed them with the Heaven Flipping Divine Palm and swallowed their thunder.
• Nine Thunder Roc wounded Li Zhi, whose life-rich blood prompted cultivators to debate whether he possessed the Longevity Immortal Body or the Life Divine Body.
• Ji Ziyue told Ji Haoyue that Li Zhi was Ye Fan's friend and had come to the Other Shore of the Starry Sky, while Li Zhi survived the Thunder Beasts and faced a fourth wave that forced him to fight back.

Li Zhi appeared to die beneath a mysterious final Thunder Tribulation, leaving only a Blood Lotus, while news of Ye Fan’s battles soon displaced the rumors about him. In secret at the Spirit Void Grotto-Heaven, Li Zhi survived with a terrible wound to his neck and used the Divine King Bone Mirror to draw out the law power that kept it from healing.

• Li Zhi fought nine Humanoid Lightnings, consumed a Heaven Mending Divine Pill, and faced a final tribulation that killed anyone who looked at it.
• The tribulation dissipated, leaving a Blood Lotus that the Imperial Uncle of the Ancient Hua Dynasty collected and took back to the Central State.
• Word spread that Li Zhi had died beneath a tribulation more terrifying than the Holy Body’s, but attention soon shifted to Ye Fan’s battles with Hua Yunfei and the Yin Yang Sect.
• Ye Fan killed the Yin Yang Sect’s Saintess and many of its experts, leading most cultivators to doubt that his Dao Injury was still serious.
• More than half a month later, Li Zhi recovered in the Spirit Void Grotto-Heaven, then used the Divine King Bone Mirror and the Heaven Devouring Demonic Art to remove the mysterious law power from his neck wound.

After surviving the tribulation’s Immortal Slaying Guillotine, Li Zhi recovered in Spirit Void Grotto-Heaven and spoke with its Grand Elder, who recognized him as the Longevity Immortal Body and urged him to join the Shaking Light Holy Land alongside Weiwei. Li Zhi erased the Grand Elder’s memories of their encounter and left without accepting his offer.

• Li Zhi recovered from his injuries after using the Saint Spirit Life-Replacing Art to make an Ancient Emperor descendant take the tribulation’s fatal slash.
• Li Zhi freed Spirit Void Grotto-Heaven’s Grand Elder from Mysterious Ice and offered him a Great Power scripture and Pure Source as payment for using his Secret Chamber.
• The Grand Elder urged Li Zhi to join Spirit Void Grotto-Heaven and the Shaking Light Holy Land, offering to match him with Weiwei.
• The Grand Elder revealed that he recognized Li Zhi as the boy with the Longevity Immortal Body after witnessing the Jiang Clan and Nangong Wentian fight over him.
• Li Zhi immobilized the Grand Elder and erased his memories of the encounter.

After leaving Yan Land, Li Zhi remained missing while the Jade Pool Saintess and Little Daoist Nun Yuchen investigated his apparent death and the power behind his tribulation. Yuchen reached the Primordial Ruins and used Li Zhi’s Houtu Rebirth Sutra to guide away the dead, leaving the Dao Yi elders astonished by the scripture.

• Li Zhi restored the Dao Pattern Barrier at Spirit Void Grotto-Heaven, left Yan Land, and departed the Southern Domain.
• The Jade Pool Saintess questioned Sun Yi about Li Zhi’s tribulation, and her Beautiful Martial Aunt suspected his mysterious Guardian had killed the observers and concealed the final tribulation.
• The Jade Pool Saintess reflected on Li Zhi’s extraordinary spiritual cultivation and wondered why he had transformed near the Green Emperor’s Great Tomb.
• Little Daoist Nun Yuchen and Dao Yi Holy Land’s disciples arrived at the Primordial Ruins, where Yuchen chanted Li Zhi’s Houtu Rebirth Sutra to guide away the dead souls.
• Dao Yi elders recognized that Yuchen’s scripture seemed to connect with reincarnation power and discussed Li Zhi’s talent as they prepared to search for him.

Li Zhi traveled to the Central Domain to prepare for cultivating the Four Extremes Realm, but first inspected the ruins of Tiansuan Holy Land and discussed its fate with Divine Doctor Wang. He claimed the Seven Big Dipper Holy Lands were destined to produce Great Emperors, and Divine Doctor Wang was surprised by his deduction.

• Dao Yi Saintess transcended the Lost Souls of the cultivators Li Zhi had killed, then contacted him and learned he was in the Central Domain.
• Dao Yi Saintess and the Dao Yi Holy Land group departed for the Central Domain, and Jade Pool Saintess followed after concluding Li Zhi had left the Southern Domain.
• Li Zhi arrived in the Central Domain and planned to use Immortality Mountain to help cultivate the Four Extremes Chapter of the Primordial Longevity Art.
• Li Zhi examined the former site of Tiansuan Holy Land and concluded that its land lacked the foundations to sustain its fortune.
• Divine Doctor Wang invited Li Zhi to tea, and Li Zhi explained that the Seven Big Dipper Holy Lands were destined to produce Great Emperors, though Tiansuan's had yet to appear.

Li Zhi spent days discussing medicine and alchemy with Divine Doctor Wang, then learned that Dao Yi Holy Son Li Donglai had come to challenge him. The two met at the Tiansuan Holy Land Martial Arena, where Li Zhi began the fight by summoning the Mountain River Great Seal.

• Li Zhi introduced himself to Divine Doctor Wang as the Longevity Daoist and discussed medicine and alchemy with him for seven days.
• Li Zhi told Divine Doctor Wang that Li Donglai had threatened to teach him a lesson, and Wang offered to restrain the Holy Son.
• Dao Yi Holy Land disciples arrived at Divine Doctor Wang's residence with Li Donglai and his great-grandfather, while Little Daoist Nun Yuchen greeted Li Zhi.
• Li Donglai challenged Li Zhi, and the two agreed to fight at the Martial Arena in the ruins of Tiansuan Holy Land.
• Li Donglai prepared to attack Li Zhi, but Li Zhi formed hand seals and summoned the Mountain River Great Seal to suppress him.

Li Zhi defeated Li Donglai with a single overwhelming strike, then fled when Dao Yi Holy Land tried to recruit him as its future Heavenly Venerate. As he traveled through the Central Domain, he comprehended the Great Dao and reached the threshold of the second level of the Four Extremes Realm.

• Li Zhi crushed Li Donglai beneath a summoned mountain, leaving the spectators stunned and Li Donglai unable to move.
• Divine Physician Wang and a Great Power from Dao Yi Holy Land debated Li Zhi's immense magic power and whether he possessed a special constitution.
• Little Daoist Nun Yuchen and Dao Yi Holy Land's disciples urged Li Zhi to join their sect and become its future Heavenly Venerate, while Divine Physician Wang protested.
• Li Zhi escaped in black mist after Dao Yi Holy Land's followers treated his appointment as settled, and its Great Power announced that the Holy Land had named him its Little Heavenly Venerate.
• Li Zhi wandered the Central Domain, comprehended the Dao through observing the world, and touched the second level of the Four Extremes Realm after a little over a month.

After overcoming a powerful Heavenly Tribulation, Li Zhi reached Shouxian City to learn about the Enlightenment Tea Leaves and heard Dao Yi Holy Land had announced him as its Little Heavenly Venerate. When four young Heavenly Prides challenged the title, an old cultivator identified Li Zhi as their opponent, and Li Zhi agreed to fight in exchange for local guidance and a secret about Immortality Mountain.

• Li Zhi left the Great Wilderness after refining the Heavenly Thunder from his tribulation and entered the prosperous city near Immortality Mountain.
• At a restaurant, Li Zhi heard cultivators discuss the coming Enlightenment Tea harvest, the Golden Age, and rumors of Dao Yi Holy Land's Little Heavenly Venerate.
• Li Zhi realized the rumored Little Heavenly Venerate was himself after hearing that he had defeated Dao Yi Holy Son Li Donglai, and he felt awkward as the old cultivators praised him.
• Four young Heavenly Prides from the Wind Clan, Immortal Crane Clan, Great Evolution Holy Land, and Purple Mansion Holy Land mocked the Little Heavenly Venerate and challenged his reputation.
• An old cultivator pointed out Li Zhi and privately offered to guide him near Immortality Mountain and share a secret about collecting Enlightenment Tea Leaves if he taught the young men a lesson; Li Zhi accepted.
• The four young men laughed at Li Zhi, while Xiang Yiba of Great Evolution Holy Land prepared to face him.

Li Zhi subdued four young Heavenly Prides in Shouxian City and accompanied the old man who hired him on a journey to the outskirts of Immortality Mountain. After learning where Enlightenment Tea Leaves might appear, Li Zhi left the forest safely with the old man and was warned to avoid the humiliated youths.

• Li Zhi sealed the cultivation of four young Heavenly Prides with a single palm and warned that their seals would weaken their cultivation if left unbroken for ten days.
• The old man took Li Zhi from Shouxian City through the dangerous Primeval Forest toward Immortality Mountain, explaining how to avoid Savage Beast Kings.
• The old man showed Li Zhi a valley where Enlightenment Tea Leaves passed out of Immortality Mountain and warned him against entering the Forbidden Zone.
• Li Zhi and the old man returned by a different forest path and avoided the Savage Beasts.
• The old man parted from Li Zhi and cautioned him that the four young Heavenly Prides might seek revenge with help from their clans.

Li Zhi killed four young Heavenly Prides who confronted him, then watched a mysterious figure slay Elder Feng You. The chapter left the identity and purpose of the halberd-wielding figure unknown.

• Elder Feng You attacked He Cheng, who escaped into the Primeval Forest, and Feng You pursued him while Feng Yun and three other Heavenly Prides confronted Li Zhi.
• Li Zhi provoked Feng Yun, Ye Lang, He Ziqing, and Xiang Yiba into revealing their identities and cultivation, then manipulated them into fighting among themselves.
• After Ye Lang’s Soul Suppressing Bell disrupted Xiang Yiba, Li Zhi used his Speech Art divine ability to distract the others and killed all four with the Divine King Bone Mirror.
• Li Zhi searched the four corpses, burned them, and played the Houtu Rebirth Sutra on his Suona while Elder Feng You returned carrying He Cheng’s head.
• Elder Feng You attacked Li Zhi, but a Mysterious Figure stabbed him through the chest with a rusty Great Halberd, turning him and He Cheng’s head into ice shards.