Chapter Summaries

After learning about the looming crisis and receiving Jade Slips from Taixu Bai, Ji Haoyuan was pulled into the Primordial Spirit Arena by a blue-robed youth who accused him of killing Senior Brother Wu and others. Ji Haoyuan wounded the youth and, realizing their displayed cultivation was equal, prepared to finish him off.

• Ji Haoyuan returned to his dojo with Jade Slips from Taixu Bai containing information about secret realms, daoist methods, and divine abilities.
• A blue-robed youth pulled a wisp of Ji Haoyuan's Primordial Spirit into the Primordial Spirit Arena and threatened to kill him there.
• The youth attacked Ji Haoyuan with a rune-covered blade, but Ji Haoyuan's golden spear pierced through it.
• Ji Haoyuan summoned a massive hammer and struck the youth, severely wounding him.
• The youth accused Ji Haoyuan of killing Senior Brother Wu and the others, and Ji Haoyuan declared that he would show no mercy.

Ji Haoyuan defeated an Upper Realm cultivator who had tested him through the Primordial Spirit Arena, then set out for Thousand Dao Peak to study its scriptures and strengthen his cultivation. After hearing of an immortal treasure and a deadly battle in Heaven's Marsh, he arrived at Thousand Dao Peak, where two hostile Great Vehicle Realm cultivators from the Divine Ruins confronted him.

• Ji Haoyuan destroyed the blue-robed young man's body and Primordial Spirit, learning that someone in the Upper Realm had sent him to probe Ji Haoyuan through the Primordial Spirit Arena.
• Ji Haoyuan returned to the real world and studied the Jade Slips for half a month before leaving the Myriad Laws Sacred Land for Thousand Dao Peak.
• On his journey, Ji Haoyuan heard that an immortal treasure had appeared in Heaven's Marsh and that Great Vehicle Realm cultivators had fought fiercely over it.
• Ji Haoyuan crossed countless star systems and reached Thousand Dao Peak, where a Great Vehicle Realm man and woman from the Divine Ruins approached him with hostility.

Ji Haoyuan fought two Mahayana cultivators from the Divine Ruins who sought to capture him because he was on their blacklist. After wounding them with his techniques and Soul Extinguishing Spear, he escaped into Thousand Dao Peak using the Illusory Bubble Art.

• Ji Haoyuan learned that the Divine Ruins had blacklisted him when the handsome man and Junior Sister Yan demanded to inspect his memories and threatened to capture him.
• The handsome man and Junior Sister Yan attacked, but Ji Haoyuan blocked their strikes with the Five Thunder Golden Seal and Pure Yang Great Hand Seal, then counterattacked with the Soul Extinguishing Spear.
• The handsome man used the eye on his forehead to pin the spear, while Ji Haoyuan revealed his own lightning eye and wounded him.
• The Soul Extinguishing Spear broke free and injured Junior Sister Yan, leaving both Mahayana cultivators grim and intent on killing Ji Haoyuan.
• Ji Haoyuan vanished with the Illusory Bubble Art and passed through their blockade into Thousand Dao Peak.

Ji Haoyuan deciphered the rune assault guarding a mysterious mountain and entered, where he learned that a climb was about to begin. When a Golden Horn Tribe cultivator tried to provoke and attack him, Ji Haoyuan shattered the man's weapons with a single palm.

• Ji Haoyuan perceived the mountain's rune patterns, passed its attack, and reached the mountain's foot.
• A Golden Horn Tribe man mocked Ji Haoyuan and demanded to know his origins and Dao lineage.
• Ji Haoyuan declined the man's invitation and then ignored his hostile questions.
• The Golden Horn Tribe man attacked Ji Haoyuan with weapons formed from golden mana.
• Ji Haoyuan destroyed the weapons with a Golden Giant Palm, shocking the onlookers.

Ji Haoyuan defeated the Golden Horn Tribe man, Jin Lie, and his Light Feather Tribe companion, then made them join his team. They explained that Hundred Treasures Mountain offered an opportunity on every step, each contested through battle, as more cultivators arrived.

• Ji Haoyuan broke Jin Lie’s attack and overwhelmed him with the Pure Yang Great Hand Seal.
• A Light Feather Tribe woman attacked Ji Haoyuan with spears of light, but his Red Lotus Pure Fire destroyed them as he crushed Jin Lie into blood mist.
• Ji Haoyuan let Jin Lie reform, then ordered him and the Light Feather Tribe woman to follow him when they climbed the mountain; both agreed.
• The Light Feather Tribe woman and Jin Lie explained that each step of Hundred Treasures Mountain held an opportunity that cultivators fought over, often to the death.
• Several figures arrived from outside as light appeared at the edge of the area.

Ji Haoyuan and the other cultivators encountered people from the Divine Ruins, but the appearance of mysterious stairs interrupted their standoff. Ji Haoyuan deciphered the runes on the steps, endured spatial attacks, and obtained an eighth-tier Void Divine Crystal.

• A black-robed Mahayana Saint Monarch from the Divine Ruins demanded that everyone leave, and his group recognized Ji Haoyuan from their blacklist.
• Illusory treasures appeared above newly formed stairs, and a cultivator who rushed toward them vanished in a beam of Guiding Light.
• Ji Haoyuan and the others rushed onto the stairs, where he found himself amid runes that unleashed powerful spatial attacks.
• Ji Haoyuan used his Five-Colored Rosy Cloud to block the attacks, then studied the runes and comprehended the spatial laws behind them.
• After the phenomena stopped, an eighth-tier Void Divine Crystal appeared in Ji Haoyuan's hand, and he realized that understanding the runes was the way to ascend the mountain.

Ji Haoyuan climbed Hundred Treasures Mountain, mastering Red Lotus Karmic Fire and studying the rules embodied in each step. On the final step, he comprehended reality, illusion, and a trace of time’s rules, leaving with his strength greatly enhanced and an Immortal Treasure Fragment within reach.

• Ji Haoyuan stepped onto the second step and fought off flame-born creatures while analyzing its runes.
• Ji Haoyuan transformed his Red Lotus Pure Fire into Red Lotus Karmic Fire, burning away curses and other traces from his body, and received a half-ninth-rank Heavenly Fire Divine Crystal.
• Ji Haoyuan climbed more than ten steps, enduring attacks from storms, lightning, mountains, tsunamis, and light and darkness while collecting valuable materials and divine objects.
• Ji Haoyuan reached the final step, where rules of reality and illusion, with traces of time, threatened to trap him.
• Ji Haoyuan comprehended the rules and emerged able to influence reality and illusion with a thought while grasping a thread of time’s rules.

Ji Haoyuan exposed a strange flower’s illusion and destroyed it, then comprehended a stone tablet’s Great Dao laws and broke through to the Mahayana Realm. As a Heavenly Tribulation loomed, a genuine Half-Immortal Treasure appeared, and Ji Haoyuan took the banner into his hand.

• Ji Haoyuan noticed his cultivation realm had not advanced and resisted the illusory Immortal gate after the Soul Extinguishing Spear warned him.
• Ji Haoyuan opened his Eye of Divine Punishment and saw that a purplish-black flower had trapped him in an illusion.
• Ji Haoyuan attacked the flower with the Soul Extinguishing Spear, defended against its Primordial Spirit-destroying sound waves, and destroyed it with five-colored lightning.
• After the flower and its mist vanished, Ji Haoyuan discovered a stone tablet inscribed with Immortal Dao Runes and comprehended its exposition of Great Dao laws.
• Ji Haoyuan perfected his Dao and entered the Mahayana Realm, with only the Heavenly Tribulation standing between him and becoming a Saint Monarch.
• A silver-white banner carrying a genuine Half-Immortal Treasure’s Immortal Dao opportunity flew to Ji Haoyuan, and he took it into his hand.

After leaving Hundred Treasures Mountain with the Life Extinguishing Banner, Ji Haoyuan was confronted by Divine Ruins cultivators who demanded his treasures. He fought back with overwhelming power, and the chapter left the two surviving Mahayana cultivators facing his Yin-Yang Cosmic Divine Thunder.

• Ji Haoyuan acquired the Life Extinguishing Banner, left his imprint on it, and stepped through a door of light out of Hundred Treasures Mountain.
• The Gloom Man and the Tall and Thin Man confronted Ji Haoyuan and demanded his treasures, threatening to kill him if he refused.
• Ji Haoyuan attacked from concealment and killed Junior Sister Chen, Junior Brother Zhang, and a scarred cultivator.
• The Gloom Man and the Tall and Thin Man unleashed their power, but Ji Haoyuan evaded them with an afterimage and struck the Divine Ruins cultivators with lightning.
• Ji Haoyuan’s lightning killed the remaining Dao Integration cultivators and badly injured the two Mahayana cultivators.
• The Gloom Man and the Tall and Thin Man recognized the descending attack as Yin-Yang Cosmic Divine Thunder.

Ji Haoyuan killed the Divine Ruins cultivators who had tried to ambush him, then sensed the God Slaying Banner emerging and rushed toward it. There, he found a fierce battle over the Half-Immortal Treasure and struck the Myriad Poison Flying Centipede with powerful lightning.

• Ji Haoyuan’s Yin-Yang Cosmic Divine Thunder destroyed the Gloom Man and the Tall and Thin Man, and his Soul Extinguishing Spear shattered their Primordial Spirits.
• Ji Haoyuan sensed the Body Destroying Banner resonating with the emerging God Slaying Banner and flew toward the mountain where it appeared.
• The Myriad Poison Flying Centipede attacked cultivators from various factions while the Bewitching Youth tried to seize the God Slaying Banner.
• The outmatched cultivators considered retreating rather than let the Divine Ruins and demonic forces take the treasure.
• Ji Haoyuan arrived in a streak of Escape Light and struck the Myriad Poison Flying Centipede with golden lightning, damaging its carapace.

Ji Haoyuan destroyed the Myriad Poison Flying Centipede with Five Elements Cycle Annihilation Divine Lightning, then faced the Scorpion-tailed Demonic Youth wielding the God Slaying Banner. After the banner’s attack pierced Ji Haoyuan’s body, he re-formed elsewhere as the Soul Extinguishing Spear struck at his enemy.

• Ji Haoyuan unleashed Five Elements Cycle Annihilation Divine Lightning and annihilated the Myriad Poison Flying Centipede.
• The Scorpion-tailed Demonic Youth revealed the God Slaying Banner and used its God Extinguishing Storm to kill one Mahayana cultivator and gravely wound another.
• Ji Haoyuan struck the banner with a golden fist seal, allowing the wounded sacred-land cultivator to escape.
• The Scorpion-tailed Demonic Youth attacked Ji Haoyuan with the God Slaying Banner, piercing his body with dark-gold blade lights and God Slaying rules.
• Ji Haoyuan’s body burst apart and re-formed at a distance as the Soul Extinguishing Spear lunged at the Scorpion-tailed Demonic Youth.

Ji Haoyuan used the Body Destroying Banner to kill the Scorpion-tailed Demonic Youth and claim the God Slaying Banner. When two Mahayana Saint Monarchs tried to seize it, Ji Haoyuan drove them back and defended his spoils, and they apologized for their greed.

• The Scorpion-tailed Demonic Youth tried to use the God Slaying Banner to destroy Ji Haoyuan’s Soul Extinguishing Spear, but Ji Haoyuan attacked him from behind with the Body Destroying Banner.
• The Body Destroying Banner severed the Scorpion-tailed Demonic Youth’s control of the God Slaying Banner and struck him, annihilating his body, Primordial Spirit, and true spirit.
• Two Mahayana Saint Monarchs rushed to seize the now-ownerless God Slaying Banner, but Ji Haoyuan used the Body Destroying Banner to send them flying.
• Ji Haoyuan claimed the God Slaying Banner and warned the two Mahayana Saint Monarchs that it was his spoils of war and that he would kill anyone who challenged him.
• The two Mahayana Saint Monarchs apologized to Ji Haoyuan and promised to remember his life-saving grace.

Ji Haoyuan merged the God Slaying Banner and the Body Destroying Banner into the Life-Slaying Banner, then left Thousand Dao Peak as his Mahayana Heavenly Tribulation began. As he fought the tribulation with the Five-Colored Canopy and Lesser Chaos Divine Thunder, the handsome man and the woman in pink watched for a chance to kill him.

• Ji Haoyuan merged the God Slaying Banner and the Body Destroying Banner into the black-and-white Life-Slaying Banner, whose aura stirred greed among those at Thousand Dao Peak.
• Ji Haoyuan put away the Life-Slaying Banner and fled Thousand Dao Peak, but his Mahayana Heavenly Tribulation appeared as he left.
• The handsome man and the woman in pink recognized Ji Haoyuan and planned to attack after he completed his tribulation.
• Ji Haoyuan used the Five-Colored Canopy and Lesser Chaos Divine Thunder to withstand the tribulation's lightning spheres and lightning palace.
• The tribulation formed a Thunder Giant that raised a divine lightning hammer and struck toward Ji Haoyuan.

Ji Haoyuan survived his final tribulation and advanced to the mid-stage Mahayana Realm, then killed two Divine Ruins cultivators who tried to attack him. A figure claiming to be an Upper Realm immortal emerged from their token and tried to seize Ji Haoyuan as a vessel, as Ji Haoyuan's power and tribulation clouds erupted in response.

• Ji Haoyuan used his Soul Extinguishing Spear and golden fist imprints to destroy the lightning giant and the final wave of heavenly tribulation.
• The Great Dao's feedback advanced Ji Haoyuan from the early Mahayana Realm to the mid-stage Mahayana Realm.
• Ji Haoyuan trapped the handsome man and the woman in the pink dress with spatial laws and killed them with one spear strike.
• Ji Haoyuan collected the two cultivators' items and found a trembling token that released a figure surrounded by Immortal Light.
• The figure accused Ji Haoyuan of killing its vessel and tried to bind him as a new vessel, while Ji Haoyuan's power and tribulation clouds surged against it.

After Ji Haoyuan used the Life-Slaying Banner to destroy an Upper Realm figure and its fleeing spirit, rumors spread that he had obtained an Immortal Treasure. Mahayana visitors arrived at the Myriad Laws Sacred Land to question his master, and a Gray-robed Elder demanded that Nanhua be summoned.

• Ji Haoyuan revealed the complete Life-Slaying Banner, split the figure in two, and vaporized it and its escaping spirit.
• News that Ji Haoyuan had obtained an Immortal Treasure spread through the Lower Realm, along with rumors that he should hand it to a Mahayana Saint Monarch or the Lower Realm Alliance.
• Ji Haoyuan learned that several Mahayana cultivators had come to the Myriad Laws Sacred Land, but left his master and the others to handle them.
• In the reception hall, Jinyun asked Taixu Bai whether Nanhua had obtained an Immortal Treasure, while Saint Monarch Lingyuan objected to the visitors' questions.
• A Gray-robed Elder argued that the matter concerned the whole Lower Realm and urged the Sacred Land to summon Nanhua for questioning.

Taixu Bai drove Ao Yuan and the other visitors from the Myriad Laws Sacred Land after they pressured the Sacred Land over Ji Haoyuan’s immortal treasure. Once Ji Haoyuan emerged from seclusion and learned his allies had been threatened, he left openly with the Life-Slaying Banner and faced a gathering of pursuers.

• Ao Yuan demanded that Saint Monarch Lingyuan, Luo Changsheng, and Taixu Bai consider the Lower Realm’s interests and stop obstructing their group.
• Taixu Bai attacked Jinyun and the others, then overwhelmed Ao Yuan and forced the visitors to retreat from the Myriad Laws Sacred Land.
• Ji Haoyuan completed the initial refinement of the Life-Slaying Banner and emerged from seclusion several years later.
• Jiang Miaoran, Miao Zixi, and the others told Ji Haoyuan that factions had targeted Myriad Laws Sacred Land cultivators, including members of his Ji Family.
• Ji Haoyuan left the Sacred Land carrying the Life-Slaying Banner, drew more than a dozen groups of pursuers, and stopped to confront them.
• Ji Haoyuan recognized the Golden Horn Tribe and Light Feather Tribe cultivators who had previously confronted him at the Sacred Land among those gathered behind him.

Ji Haoyuan confronted cultivators who demanded the immortal treasure he had obtained at Thousand Dao Peak, then fought back when the Golden Horn Tribe Mahayana cultivator attacked and tried to probe his memories. After Ji Haoyuan gravely wounded him and the others joined the assault, Ji Haoyuan summoned vast Tribulation Clouds over the battlefield.

• The Golden Horn Tribe and Light Feather Tribe cultivators demanded that Ji Haoyuan surrender his immortal treasure and blamed him for any harm that might come to his allies.
• The Golden Horn Tribe Mahayana cultivator attacked Ji Haoyuan with a golden palm imbued with Primordial Spirit power.
• Ji Haoyuan pierced the golden palm with a Crimson Thunderbolt and hurled a lightning-wreathed golden spear through the Golden Horn Tribe Mahayana cultivator.
• The Light Feather Tribe Mahayana cultivator and the others attacked Ji Haoyuan, while Dao Integration Heavenly Monarchs formed a perimeter.
• Ji Haoyuan summoned Tribulation Clouds across hundreds of thousands of miles, alarming the surrounding cultivators.

Ji Haoyuan, also called Nanhua, unleashed his overwhelming Mahayana power against the cultivators who had attacked him and killed several of them. Ao Yuan arrived and ordered him to stop, then stripped him of his Alliance standing and demanded that he return to headquarters for punishment.

• Ji Haoyuan shattered the attackers’ formations and killed the Golden Horn Tribe Mahayana cultivator despite the Alliance’s threats.
• Ji Haoyuan continued attacking, destroying several more Mahayana cultivators as the Light Feather Tribe cultivator and the others tried to flee.
• Ao Yuan of the True Dragon Clan arrived and told Ji Haoyuan to stop, citing the Alliance’s need to face the Divine Ruins’ great enemy.
• Ao Yuan declared Ji Haoyuan stripped of every Alliance identity and ordered him to return to headquarters to accept punishment.
• Ji Haoyuan ignored Ao Yuan’s arrival and killed another Mahayana cultivator with the Soul Extinguishing Spear, then blasted a female Mahayana cultivator apart with Pure Yang laws.

Ji Haoyuan rejected Ao Yuan’s demand to submit and defeated the True Dragon elder in their first clash. Ao Yuan’s Time God Fire failed to strip Ji Haoyuan of his cultivation, and the chapter left Ao Yuan surrounded by Ji Haoyuan’s Red Lotus Karmic Fire.

• Ao Yuan declared that he would suppress Ji Haoyuan on behalf of the Alliance.
• Ao Yuan attacked with a massive dragon claw, but Ji Haoyuan’s palm strike wounded him and sent his severed claw falling from the void.
• Ao Yuan unleashed his Time God Fire, which burned through Ji Haoyuan’s body.
• Ji Haoyuan returned through another time and space using his Past Heart and the Dao of Nothingness, leaving Ao Yuan’s divine ability ineffective.
• Ji Haoyuan summoned Red Lotus Karmic Fire, and crimson flames coiled around Ao Yuan’s dragon body.

Ji Haoyuan burned Ao Yuan’s dragon body with Red Lotus Karmic Fire, then pursued his fleeing Primordial Spirit with the Life-Death Yin-Yang Treasure Bottle. Ao Shan asked Ji Haoyuan to forgive Ao Yuan for the sake of the Lower Realm, but Ji Haoyuan remained unmoved.

• Ji Haoyuan’s Red Lotus Karmic Fire burned Ao Yuan’s dragon body and Primordial Spirit, forcing Ao Yuan to flee using a Substitution Art.
• Ao Yuan returned from the past and immediately fled, while the other Mahayana cultivators watching lost hope.
• Ji Haoyuan created the Life-Death Yin-Yang Treasure Bottle and sent its beam after Ao Yuan through space and time.
• Ao Yuan called for his brother, and an Immortal Light Sword Light struck the treasure bottle, revealing power beyond the Mahayana level.
• Ao Shan appeared and offered compensation and an apology on behalf of the True Dragon Clan, but Ji Haoyuan was not willing to let the matter pass.