Chapter Summaries

After learning that Ancient Demon Huanglong’s Heartstone had appeared in his inheritance vision, Han Yi was forced to abandon Silver Lake Immortal City as mysterious Demon Lords drove Sui Zhu’s front line into retreat. While fleeing toward the Origin Arts Immortal Domain, he was targeted by a veteran Golden Immortal of the Lion Camel demon race and drew the pursuer away from Sound Saint and Xuan Cheng.

• Han Yi began refining Yuan Jingtian’s Ancient Demon Heartstone and discovered that its inheritance came from the Ancient Demon Huanglong.
• Sound Saint informed Han Yi that unfamiliar Demon Lords had appeared across the fronts, forcing Sui Zhu to retreat and evacuate Silver Lake Immortal City.
• Han Yi agreed to flee with Sound Saint and Xuan Cheng toward the Origin Arts Immortal Domain as the demon forces pushed forward.
• The group encountered a vast Golden Immortal battlefield, and a veteran Golden Immortal of the Lion Camel demon race recognized Han Yi and pursued him for the bounty on his head.
• Han Yi sent Sound Saint and Xuan Cheng onward while he fled in another direction to lead the pursuer away.

Han Yi lured a Lion Camel Heavenly Demon away from the main battlefield and survived its devastating roar by relying on his defenses and the Embryonic Transformation and Form-Shifting Immortal Art. After escaping through the Ancient Barbarian River, he circled back toward the Origin Arts Immortal Domain and found the Original Arts Daoist Grounds, Qingshu Mountain Range, and Profound Elixir Immortal Sect still untouched by the fighting.

• Sound Saint warned Xuan Cheng not to interfere as Han Yi drew the Lion Camel Heavenly Demon away from the battlefield.
• Han Yi accelerated with the Mind Realm Immortal Art, then attacked the pursuing demon with the Heavenly Demon Halberd fragment and Green Duckweed Sword.
• The Lion Camel Heavenly Demon struck Han Yi with the Lion Camel Heaven Roar and knocked aside both of his sixth-tier immortal artifacts, but Han Yi vanished before it could find him.
• Han Yi used the Embryonic Transformation and Form-Shifting Immortal Art to escape as a speck of soil carried by a demon bird and the Ancient Barbarian River.
• Han Yi recovered his artifacts, explained his cautious escape, and headed north toward the Origin Arts Immortal Domain.
• Han Yi reached the area near the Original Arts Daoist Grounds and saw that it, the Qingshu Mountain Range, and the Profound Elixir Immortal Sect remained unaffected by the battle.

Han Yi returned to the Mystic Pill Sect, strengthened its defenses, and arranged to establish a branch sect while the demon war remained at a stalemate. After a century of cultivation brought him to peak Profound Immortal, a vast phenomenon arose from the Eastern Sovereign Demon Court and spread across the Great Luo Immortal Realm.

• Han Yi learned that the demon armies had halted at the borders after occupying eight Sui Zhu immortal domains and building linked demon formations, and he suspected their campaign served a larger purpose.
• Daoist Jinming warned Han Yi that the Demon Ape Great Sage had placed a bounty on him and told him to avoid the front lines.
• Han Yi returned to the Mystic Pill Sect, convened the elders, and proposed establishing a branch sect in the Jade Lake Immortal Domain as a refuge and source of divine power crystals.
• Over the following years, Daoist Jinming and the Primordial Art Immortal Lord drove off or killed demons who infiltrated the Origin Arts Immortal Domain to hunt Han Yi.
• After a century of cultivation, Han Yi reached peak Profound Immortal and experienced Grand True Realm, then sensed a vast fluctuation from the Eastern Sovereign Demon Court as a phenomenon spread across the Great Luo Immortal Realm.

Han Yi witnessed Primordial Unity attain Celestial Venerable status, then returned to the Sui Zhu Immortal Court and strengthened his reputation and Sword Realm. While cultivating beneath Jade Lake, he sensed a disturbance at the Radiant Flame Dao Court and saw the Grave-Crossing Dao Boat rise into the sky.

• Han Yi and the other cultivators recognized Primordial Unity’s heavenly phenomena as his ascension to Celestial Venerable status.
• Seven days later, Han Yi learned that the demon army had withdrawn and ordered Lian Tingxi to keep the Mystic Pill Sect’s sixth-tier immortal formation active.
• Han Yi returned to the Sui Zhu Immortal Court, reached the top of the Void Tower rankings, and exchanged immortal marks for swords to strengthen his Sword Realm.
• Han Yi traveled to Jade Lake, replenished his divine power, and cultivated in the divine aperture world for twenty years.
• Han Yi sensed tremors from the Radiant Flame Dao Court and saw the Grave-Crossing Dao Boat slowly rise above the horizon.

After the Radiant Flame Dao Court departed the Great Luo Immortal Realm aboard the Grave-Crossing Dao Boat, Han Yi investigated the abandoned territory and searched for records about the Sacrificial Daoists. He found a hidden book in Radiant Flame Immortal City bearing the cryptic line, “Chaos cataclysm, crossing graves to survive.”

• Han Yi discovered that Immortal Realm space had returned to normal and learned that the Radiant Flame Dao Court, Azure Profound Immortal Venerable, and others had left Great Luo aboard the Grave-Crossing Dao Boat.
• Han Yi returned to the Mystic Pill Sect, then traveled to the former Radiant Flame territory to investigate the Dao Boat’s departure site and search for clues.
• Han Yi examined the enormous chasm left by the Dao Boat, then found that the nearby immortal city had been emptied of its inhabitants.
• Han Yi reached Radiant Flame Immortal City, avoided drawing the attention of the Red Fox Demon Lord, and searched its buildings for records.
• Han Yi found a concealed ancient book beneath a meditation cushion and read its lone line: “Chaos cataclysm, crossing graves to survive.”

Han Yi reunited with Qin Yi in Radiant Flame Immortal City and learned that a Dao Tomb Calamity would soon sweep through the chaos. After Qin Yi slew the Red Fox Demon Lord and fled, Han Yi escaped with the demon lord’s corpse and returned to Sui Zhu, increasingly alarmed by the approaching catastrophe.

• Han Yi collected records in Radiant Flame Immortal City and unexpectedly encountered Qin Yi, whose strength had advanced to the brink of the Taiyi Immortal Lord realm.
• Qin Yi killed several pursuing peak Golden Immortals with his seventh-tier Human Emperor Sword and told Han Yi he planned to pass the Taiyi tribulation before traveling through the Nine Realms.
• Qin Yi explained that the words “Chaos calamity, cross the grave to survive” referred to the Dao Tomb Calamity, which would threaten the entire chaos and was drawing near.
• Three Eastern Sovereign demon lords ambushed Qin Yi, and he killed the Red Fox Demon Lord with one strike before fleeing from the other two.
• Han Yi seized the Red Fox Demon Lord’s corpse, escaped Radiant Flame Immortal City, and returned to Sui Zhu by way of Profound Spirit Immortal City.
• Han Yi considered the signs that the calamity was approaching and concluded that the recent urgent events across the Great Luo Immortal Realm might be connected to it.

Han Yi reported clues about the Radiant Flame Dao Court and the chaotic calamity to the Golden Immortal Pavilion, earning an unprecedented reward of sixty-nine million immortal marks. After he resumed cultivating, more than a dozen Dao Ancestor auras erupted across the Immortal Realm, signaling that the Dao Ancestors had returned.

• Han Yi absorbed the Red Fox Demon Lord's core into the Huanglong Demon Spirit Realm and planned to sell the remaining corpse.
• Han Yi submitted his Radiant Flame Immortal City intelligence to Golden Immortal Wishful and received sixty-nine million immortal marks.
• Golden Immortal Wishful found that the information available to her did not explain Han Yi's enormous reward and realized the world spirit had withheld part of his submission.
• Han Yi reviewed the Immortal Court's intelligence, concluded that the mysteries of chaos were beyond his reach, and returned to cultivation.
• Three months later, more than a dozen Dao Ancestor auras erupted across the Immortal Realm, and Han Yi recognized that the Dao Ancestors had returned.

Eleven Dao Ancestors returned after Primordial Unity attained Celestial Venerablehood, and their return reshaped the Immortal Realm’s political landscape. Three years later, Han Yi received an invitation from Pure Yang Mountain to attend its first Sword Debate Immortal Assembly and sensed the power of Pure Yang Dao Ancestor.

• Demon Emperor Di Jun told the gathered Dao Ancestors that Primordial Unity had become a Celestial Venerable, and Primordial Unity’s aura warned them not to attack.
• The Dao Ancestors dispersed, while Di Jun reflected on the karmic debt he and Primordial Unity had incurred by helping Primordial Unity ascend.
• Hongjun Grand Celestial Venerable observed the events from Purple Firmament Palace, and Han Yi sensed the returned Dao Ancestors before their auras vanished.
• Over the next six months, the Immortal Courts settled territorial disputes, and Pure Yang Dao Ancestor established Pure Yang Mountain in the Azure Profound and South Pole Immortal Regions.
• Three years later, Profound Immortal Qingyan delivered Han Yi an invitation to Pure Yang Mountain’s first Sword Debate Immortal Assembly, where he sensed Pure Yang Dao Ancestor’s overwhelming Sword Dao.

After receiving a personal invitation from the Pure Yang Dao Ancestor, Han Yi traveled back through the former Chaos Demon Zone to revisit places from his past and leave an alchemy legacy. He reached Pure Yang Mountain six months before the sword discussion assembly and sensed the Dao Ancestor’s overwhelming sword intent.

• Han Yi learned that Golden Immortal Jinming had entered seclusion, possibly to break through to the Taiyi realm, and Qingyan warned him that the Demon Ape Great Sage’s bounty still stood.
• Han Yi traveled from Southern Extreme Immortal City into the former Chaos Demon Zone and visited the Devour Heaven Mountains and his old home in the Mystic Pill Mountain Range.
• Han Yi left his alchemy insights in a book called Record of Mystic Alchemy for the Mingxu Sect and continued revisiting familiar lands.
• Han Yi journeyed through the South Pole and Azure Profound Immortal Regions for three years before arriving early at Pure Yang Mountain.
• Han Yi sensed the Pure Yang Dao Ancestor’s sword intent, which stirred the sword intent within him and made the Green Duckweed Sword tremble.

Han Yi attended the Sword Debate Immortal Assembly at Pure Yang Mountain, where he encountered the Demon Court’s mysterious Donghuang Bu’er and faced the attention of demons who wanted to claim the bounty on him. The Pure Yang Dao Ancestor opened the assembly with a sword demonstration that advanced Han Yi’s sword-art insights, and Immortal Venerable Polestar stepped forward to begin the next segment.

• Li Shu welcomed Han Yi to Pure Yang Mountain and escorted him to the Sword Debate Plaza, where Han Yi recognized Donghuang Bu’er among the gathered immortals.
• Over six months, 3,786 immortals assembled, including many celestial demons who eyed Han Yi as a potential bounty target, but none dared attack him on Pure Yang Mountain.
• The Pure Yang Dao Ancestor descended into the plaza, and the assembled immortals bowed to him.
• The Pure Yang Dao Ancestor demonstrated his golden sword, filling Han Yi with sword insights and rapidly improving his fifth-tier Immortal Sword Art.
• After the Dao Ancestor withdrew his sword and began the assembly’s second segment, Immortal Venerable Polestar stepped forward to expound on his sword dao.

At Pure Yang Mountain’s sword-discussion Immortal Assembly, Han Yi advanced his sword dao, created the eighth form of his Sword Canon, and received a Split Green Duckweed Sword from Pure Yang Dao Ancestor. As Han Yi left the mountain, Senior Taiyuan identified the sword energy gathering there as the making of a Chaos Sword Embryo, and Han Yi asked what it was.

• Polestar Sword Venerable demonstrated an incomplete sword formation, and Pure Yang Dao Ancestor’s guidance repaired some of its flaws.
• Donghuang Bu’er demonstrated a sword strike inspired by a Celestial Venerable phenomenon, and Han Yi unveiled the eighth form of his Sword Canon, Utter Destruction.
• Pure Yang Dao Ancestor rewarded Han Yi with a golden ring containing a Split Green Duckweed Sword, making the gathered immortals and celestial demons wary of him.
• Han Yi fought a Demon Ape celestial demon in the sword dao grotto-heaven, then left Thunder Sword Realm carved into the mountainside as his contribution to the assembly.
• After Han Yi left Pure Yang Mountain, he saw sword light gathering there, and Senior Taiyuan told him that Pure Yang Dao Ancestor was nurturing a Chaos Sword Embryo.

Han Yi learned that the Pure Yang Dao Ancestor was using a Chaos Sword Embryo to pursue the path of a Sword Dao Heavenly Venerable, then survived an assassination attempt by three masked peak Golden Immortals. He returned to the Sui Zhu Immortal Court and commissioned an investigation into the likely Black Realm assassins.

• Taiyuan Divine Saber explained the two paths to forming a Chaos Sword Embryo and surmised that the Pure Yang Dao Ancestor had found a supreme Sword Dao treasure.
• Han Yi left Pure Yang Mountain, reflected on the approaching chaos calamity, and encountered three masked peak Golden Immortals who attacked him with a mirror space, a black rune, and crimson-gold fire.
• Han Yi spent his remaining 1,389 units of Life Seed to break free of the rune, then used the Green Duckweed Sword to cut through the mirror space and escape.
• The three assassins abandoned their pursuit and fled separately, while Han Yi entered spatial turbulence and obscured his karmic traces before teleporting back to the Sui Zhu Immortal Court.
• Han Yi submitted an investigative mission to Wishful Golden Immortal, asking for peak Golden Immortals whose methods matched those of the likely Black Realm assassins to be identified.

After surviving an attack by Black Realm assassins, Han Yi absorbed eight Split Green Duckweed Swords, stocked up on protective artifacts, and partnered with Li Zhengyang to establish Immortal Exchange Pavilion. The chapter ended when an Immortal Lord's aura erupted nearby, and Han Yi suspected Golden Immortal Zhenxiao had broken through.

• Han Yi escaped three masked peak Golden Immortal assassins and considered who might have commissioned the Black Realm to kill him.
• Han Yi merged eight Split Green Duckweed Swords into the Green Duckweed Sword, bringing it to the sixth tier, and learned it would need a Sword Heart to advance further.
• Han Yi spent twenty million immortal marks on talismans and single-use artifacts to prepare for future attacks.
• Han Yi proposed investing in a commercial pavilion with Li Zhengyang, and they agreed to establish Immortal Exchange Pavilion with thirty million immortal marks and open it in three years.
• Li Zhengyang told Han Yi that Yang Jiuhuan had left a message saying she was safe and pursuing a fortuitous opportunity with Ye Wuxian.
• Han Yi sensed an Immortal Lord's aura erupt nearby and concluded that Golden Immortal Zhenxiao had likely broken through.

After more than six jia cycles of cultivation, Han Yi reached the peak of the Great True realm and learned that the Ancient Firmament Dao Stairway had appeared again. He discovered that Ten Thousand Tribulations Dao Ancestor had anchored it for thirty-six years, and agreed to travel there with Jinming Daoist.

• Han Yi learned that Daoist Zhenxiao had become an Immortal Lord and that the three assassins who had ambushed him were Black Realm Heavenly Gang assassins.
• Han Yi opened the Immortal Exchange Pavilion, then spent years cultivating across the Immortal Court, the Mystic Pill Sect, and the Jade Lake Immortal Domain.
• Han Yi broke through to the peak of the Great True realm, reaching a height of ninety-one thousand three hundred and thirty-three zhang in his ancient god true body.
• Han Yi received Jinming Daoist's news that the Ancient Firmament Dao Stairway had appeared in the far northern void and traveled to the Original Arts Daoist Grounds.
• Jinming Daoist told Han Yi that Ten Thousand Tribulations Dao Ancestor had anchored the stairway for thirty-six years, and Han Yi agreed to go with him.

Han Yi learned about the newly emerged Dao Ancestors and reached the Ancient Firmament Dao Stairway, where each step tested a different skill. He repeatedly failed its first alchemy trial and began reviewing his neglected Alchemy Technique.

• Daoist Jinming told Han Yi about Taicang, Ten Thousand Tribulations, and Zhen Yuan, the three Dao Ancestors who had entered the world in recent centuries.
• Daoist Jinming brought Han Yi to the Ancient Firmament Dao Stairway, which Ten Thousand Tribulations Dao Ancestor had bound in place with tribulation lightning.
• Daoist Jinming explained that the stairway tested skills such as alchemy and that passing trials could grant access to levels of the Ancient Firmament World-Heaven.
• Han Yi entered an alchemy trial to refine an Ascension Pill, but his pill furnace exploded and the stairway expelled him.
• Han Yi tried the alchemy trial twice more and failed both times, then admitted his Alchemy Technique lagged behind his cultivation and began simulating the refinement process.

Han Yi discovered that the Ancient Firmament Dao Stairway was the manifestation of the Chaos supreme treasure Ancient Firmament Seal and continued its trials to form a connection with it. After the Ten Thousand Tribulations Dao Ancestor released the stairway, Han Yi returned with Daoist Jinming, who was confronted by someone in the void.

• Han Yi refined an Ascension Pill and made a Sky-Sea Thread immortal talisman, then raised his beast-taming art to immortal grade in the stairway’s trials.
• Han Yi inspected the Ancient Firmament Seal entry on his proficiency panel and learned that the seal had belonged to the Ancient Firmament Dao Ancestor, contained a Heavenly Venerable inheritance, and manifested as the stairway and its world-heaven.
• Han Yi continued through the stairway’s varied trials, reached the first level at the tenth stage, and increased his Ancient Firmament Seal refinement progress from zero to one.
• After Han Yi reached the twelfth stage, the Ten Thousand Tribulations Dao Ancestor removed the lightning restraints, and the Ancient Firmament Dao Stairway vanished.
• Daoist Jinming took Han Yi back and urged him to undergo the Golden Immortal tribulation; Han Yi said he expected to become a Golden Immortal within two hundred years.
• Daoist Jinming encountered ripples in the void, sneered at whoever had blocked his path, and prepared to confront them.

Han Yi and Daoist Jinming were ambushed by nine Black Realm Heavenly Gang assassins, and Han Yi used his newly advanced Mind Realm Immortal Art and Green Duckweed Sword to kill one and injure another. After a Black Realm Immortal Lord appeared, Han Yi prepared to face the One-Star Star Lord.

• Daoist Jinming warned Han Yi about nine peak Golden Immortal Heavenly Gang assassins, then attacked while Han Yi readied his defenses and weapons.
• Three assassins trapped Daoist Jinming in a formation, while the other six attacked Han Yi; Han Yi shattered one assassin’s mirror and killed a Sky Demon before its rune could take effect.
• Han Yi evaded the assassins’ attacks, while the dwarf assassin failed to bind him with a wooden doll and Daoist Jinming remained trapped but alive.
• Han Yi cut a Sword Immortal’s sixth-tier sword in two and forced the assassin to flee, prompting the remaining assassins to retreat at a cold command.
• A black-robed One-Star Star Lord emerged, and Han Yi began transforming as he prepared to face the Immortal Lord.

Han Yi used the Yueguang Divine Spear to repel a Black Realm Star Lord, but the attack exhausted his powers and left him gravely injured. Immortal Lord Dongming’s arrival drove the assassin away, and Daoist Jinming carried Han Yi toward Sui Zhu for safety.

• The Black Realm Star Lord approached Han Yi, who transformed into a Taizhen Realm ancient god and raised the Yueguang Divine Spear.
• The ancient divine artifact absorbed Han Yi’s divine, immortal, and demon power, then struck the Black Realm Star Lord and cracked his Mirage Dragon Profound Pearl.
• Immortal Lord Dongming appeared and forced the Black Realm Star Lord to flee, then destroyed three fleeing Heavenly Gang assassins.
• Han Yi stored the Yueguang Divine Spear and accepted a favor from Immortal Lord Dongming for saving his life.
• Daoist Jinming gave Han Yi an immortal pill, placed him in the Immortal Spirit Realm, and hurried toward Sui Zhu while realizing Han Yi surpassed him.

After surviving a Black Realm ambush, Han Yi recovered and advanced his Cosmic Light Mind Realm while Primordial Art Immortal Lord retaliated against Black Realm. Sixty-five years later, Han Yi reached the peak of the Mystic Immortal realm and prepared to restore his Ancient God cultivation before attempting the Golden Immortal tribulation.

• Daoist Jinming escorted the wounded Han Yi to his immortal pavilion, then reported the ambush to Primordial Art Immortal Lord.
• Han Yi discovered that his fifth-tier Mind Realm Immortal Art had become the Cosmic Light Mind Realm, combining time and space, and focused on recovering.
• Primordial Art Immortal Lord revealed that he had advanced toward the Immortal Venerable realm and attacked a Black Realm stronghold, killing four Star Lords before retreating from a five-star Star Lord.
• Rumors spread about Han Yi's clash with a Star Lord, while the Immortal Realm saw renewed activity from Celestial Venerables and Wanming Immortal Venerable lost a battle to Yinglong Immortal Venerable.
• Over sixty-five years, Han Yi reached the complete third level of immortal power and decided to visit the Jade Lake Immortal Domain to restore his Ancient God cultivation before going to Ten Thousand Tribulations Heaven.

After restoring his ancient god cultivation, Han Yi left Jade Lake and underwent the Golden Immortal Tribulation in Ten Thousand Tribulations Heaven, becoming a Golden Immortal. He then entered the Void Tower to challenge the Golden Immortal floors, drawing the attention of immortals across the Immortal Court.

• Han Yi replenished his divine power crystals beneath Jade Lake and spent fifteen years restoring his ancient god cultivation beyond its former peak.
• Han Yi avoided returning to the Jade Lake Branch Sect and traveled to Ten Thousand Tribulations Heaven to undergo his Golden Immortal Tribulation.
• Han Yi endured two waves of divine lightning, completed his tribulation, and comprehended the changes in his Golden Immortal power and Dao might.
• After recovering in Ten Thousand Tribulations Heaven, Han Yi entered the Void Realm and began clearing the Golden Immortal floors of the Void Tower.
• Immortals noticed Han Yi's name disappear from the Profound Immortal Rankings and realized he was challenging the Golden Immortal Rankings.