Chapter Summaries

Li Hao killed the Qin Family’s young master and his guards after they attacked him over the Dao Rhythm Blood Fruit. He then arrived at the Crimson Blood Vine Demon King’s cavern, claimed to belong to the unknown Ancient Divine Clan, and left Qin Tianchen and the gathered cultivators stunned.

• Li Hao killed the short thief who offered him the Dao Rhythm Blood Fruit, then fought the pursuing Qin Family party when they demanded the corpse and fruit.
• Li Hao endured the elder’s attack, wounded the young master, and killed him and the middle-aged guard, while the elder escaped using fate reversal.
• Ji Yun'ge told Li Hao that the escaped elder would report the deaths, and a Qin Family distress signal appeared in the distance.
• At the cavern, Qin Tianchen learned that his younger brother had been killed and saw Li Hao approach wearing his brother’s clothes and carrying his sword.
• Li Hao introduced himself as a member of the Ancient Divine Clan, astonishing Qin Tianchen and the gathered talents.

Li Hao fought Qin Tianchen, overpowering the Qin Family prodigy even after he entered the Divine Power State. When Qin Tianchen’s sword wounded him, Li Hao unleashed more of his power and struck Qin Tianchen’s head, leaving the battle’s outcome at the moment of impact.

• Qin Tianchen attacked Li Hao with his Three Thousand Illusory Shadows movement technique, but Li Hao countered his strikes and forced him back with sword intent.
• Qin Tianchen entered the Divine Power State, and Li Hao revealed that he had reached the same Power Circulation Extreme Realm before knocking Qin Tianchen into a crater.
• Li Hao pressed his attack while Qin Tianchen’s two Unique Skill Realm elders intervened, and the four fought in a chaotic melee.
• Qin Tianchen cut Li Hao’s back with his Nine Forged Divine Weapon, drawing blood and prompting Li Hao to focus on him.
• Li Hao borrowed power from heaven and earth, pursued Qin Tianchen past his talismans and movement technique, and struck his head with a punch that made it explode.

Li Hao defeated Qin Tianchen and a Qin Family elder, then absorbed the Crimson Blood Vine Demon King’s original body and took its second blood body with him. As Li Hao continued his journey, Ji Yun'ge recognized Ji Family blood in him.

• Li Hao smashed Qin Tianchen’s head, survived the two Qin Family elders’ attacks, and forced Qin Tianchen to flee.
• Li Hao fought and killed a Qin Family elder, then refined the elder’s remains with the Spirit Offering True Devil Art.
• Li Hao absorbed the Crimson Blood Vine Demon King’s original body and let its second blood body accompany him as a vine bracelet.
• Li Hao escaped followers, absorbed several Demon Kings, and strengthened his body while traveling with the vine demon.
• Ji Yun'ge told Li Hao that his exposed divine blood revealed he carried the blood of the Ji Family.

Li Hao returned Ji Yun'ge to the Ji Family and learned that his mother, Ji Qingqing, was imprisoned for marrying an outsider. Ji Yun'ge gave him Candlelight God and his wife, and Li Hao unlocked the Merit Treasure Trove, whose appearance stunned the Great Yu Dynasty and the Yu Emperor.

• Ji Yun'ge recognized Li Hao as Ji Qingqing's son and explained that winning first place on the Ji Family's Heavenly Prodigy Ranking could help him visit her and eventually secure her freedom.
• Li Hao crossed Liang Prefecture, slew numerous Demon Kings, and reached the Ji Family's territory with Ji Yun'ge.
• Ji Yun'ge gave Li Hao the unconscious Candlelight God and his wife, explaining that he had erased their memories and made them regard Li Hao as their master.
• After Ji Yun'ge's obsession faded, Li Hao's golden page announced that he had earned 100,000 merit, unlocked the Merit Treasure Trove, and taken first place on the Merit Board as Chong Er.
• The Merit Treasure Trove appeared across the Great Yu Dynasty, and the court and Yu Emperor reacted with astonishment to its powerful offerings and the unknown name Chong Er.

The Merit Treasure Trove transformed the Great Yu Dynasty’s prospects, and the Yu Emperor decreed that the unknown Chong Er would become a Divine General and First-rank Duke. Song Yufeng recognized Chong Er as Li Hao and ordered Black White Hall to keep his identity secret, while the demons resolved to attack Qing Prefecture and destroy the Li Family.

• The Yu Emperor and his court discussed the Merit Treasure Trove’s rewards and the identity of Chong Er, then decreed that Chong Er would receive the title of Divine General and First-rank Duke.
• News of Chong Er’s achievement spread throughout the dynasty, and Wang Family members realized that the Merit Treasure Trove could reshape their fortunes and bring more people to Mo Rivers.
• Song Yufeng recognized Chong Er as Li Hao, concluded that he had cleared the Dragon City Fallen River, and told Black White Hall’s elders and Song Yueyao to keep his identity secret to protect him from demons.
• A coalition of demons learned of the decree and, following the Black Mountain Wild God’s direction, decided to stop waiting and prepare to conquer Great Yu.
• The demons chose to attack Qing Prefecture and destroy the Li Family, while discussing the dangers posed by the Yu Emperor’s Ninth Brother and the Candlelight God’s possible return.

Li Hao and Ji Yun'ge returned to the Ji Family’s Saint Mountain after clearing the Mo River. Ji Yun'ge reunited with his family and old brothers, but his soul was fading, and the chapter left him on his way to the Ancestral Shrine.

• The Dragon King agreed to wait one month before attacking Qing Prefecture if the missing figure had not emerged from the Merit Treasure Trove.
• Li Tiangang discovered the Merit Treasure Trove’s message and hurried toward the Ji Family to find Hao'er.
• Li Hao followed Ji Yun'ge through a spatial ripple into the Ji Family’s territory, while the Crimson Blood Vine Demon King was admitted through a narrow gap.
• Ji Yun'ge revealed that the Mo River’s corrosion meant he would fade away, then entered the Ji Family Saint Mountain and announced his return.
• Ji Yun'ge reunited with his wife, sons, granddaughter Ji Nian'ge, and other family members, who escorted him toward the Ancestral Shrine.
• Tianchao arrived and called out to Ji Yun'ge, who tearfully answered him.

Ji Yun'ge returned to the Ji Family after Li Hao rescued him from the Mo River, but the erosion had left him close to dispersing. Before entering the Ancestral Shrine, he asked the Family Head to consider accepting Li Hao; at the mountain gate, Li Hao introduced himself to Ji Boduan as Ji Le Ping.

• Ji Yun'ge reunited with Ji Tianchao and his family, then explained that Li Hao had freed him from a Nether Capital Tier Mo River and praised the boy's extraordinary talent.
• Ji Daoxin discovered that Ji Yun'ge was nearing dispersal and promised to consider Li Hao for the Ji Family if the boy proved as capable as described.
• Ji Yun'ge comforted his grieving relatives, asked them to look after Li Hao, and entered the Ancestral Shrine to speak with the Thirteenth Child.
• Ji Family youths gathered around Li Hao at the mountain gate until Ji Boduan arrived to escort him up the mountain.
• Li Hao withheld his real name and told Ji Boduan to call him Ji Le Ping.

Li Hao arrived at the Ji Family’s Saint Mountain, where many relatives insulted him for taking his mother’s surname. As Ji Yun'ge explained Li Hao’s talent and defended his choice to the family, he asked Ji Tianchao to let the boy keep him company after his death.

• Ji Boduan escorted Li Hao through Saint Mountain while Ji Family members jeered at him for calling himself Ji Le Ping.
• Li Hao challenged the Ji Family’s treatment of its guest, and Ji Boduan took him to the Guest Welcoming Hall to wait while the Family Head discussed his admission.
• Ji Yun'ge learned from Ji Qingmeng that Ji Qingyuan was opposing Li Hao’s admission, though the Family Head had promised to give him a chance.
• Ji Qingmeng told Ji Yun'ge that Li Hao had taken his mother’s surname, but Ji Yun'ge defended him and explained how he had cleared the Mo River.
• Ji Yun'ge urged his family to treat Li Hao sincerely and asked Ji Tianchao to let him keep them company after Ji Yun'ge died.

The Ji Family Council debated whether Li Hao should be admitted and whether he would belong to its legitimate or illegitimate lineage, while Ji Qingyuan backed a strength-based test. At the Guest Welcoming Hall, Li Hao defeated Ji Yufen with two slaps, then faced Ji Mingque’s spear attack.

• Ji Daoxin proposed admitting Li Hao, with his lineage status determined by his bloodline and whether he possessed a sacred bone.
• Ji Qingyuan supported judging Li Hao by strength, and a guard reported that Li Hao had begun fighting Ji Yufen.
• Ji Yufen ordered his Dao Follower to attack Li Hao, but Li Hao defeated the Dao Follower and rebuked Ji Yufen for insulting him.
• Li Hao struck Ji Yufen twice, breaking his Kun Feather Treasure Body and knocking him unconscious.
• Ji Mingque confronted Li Hao and launched a spear strike to test his strength.

Li Hao stopped Ji Mingque’s spear and confronted the Ji Family members who had mistreated him at the Guest Welcoming Hall. After Ji Yun'ge faded away, Ji Tianchao arrived and fiercely defended Li Hao, condemning the clan for dishonoring the boy who had brought the War God home.

• Li Hao blocked Ji Mingque’s Destructive Spear Light with a punch and challenged him to take a punch in return, but their fight was interrupted by Ji Qingyuan and the elders.
• Ji Yunyue defended Li Hao against Ji Qingfeng, who argued that Li Hao was not yet a member of the Ji Family.
• Ji Yun'ge spent his final moments with Ji Ximu and faded away, while Ji Tianchao and the family mourned him.
• Ji Qingmeng reported that the Family Head had agreed to let Li Hao join the Ji Family, pending a sacred-bone test, and that Ji Yunyue and Ji Qingyuan were confronting one another.
• Ji Tianchao arrived at the Guest Welcoming Hall, demanded to know who had behaved outrageously, and rebuked Ji Mingque’s group and Ji Qingyuan for disrespecting Li Hao and Ji Yun'ge.

Li Hao was accepted into the Ji Family after defeating Ji Yufen and escorting Ji Yun'ge's heroic soul home. At the Sacred Offering Platform, he began the test to determine whether he possessed a sacred bone.

• Ji Tianchao rebuked Ji Yufen's mother and ordered Ji Yufen to cultivate on Bitter Cliff Mountain for ten years, while Ji Tianchao's eldest brother challenged his handling of the family rules.
• Ji Tianchao declared Li Hao a Heavenly Prodigy after his victory over Ji Yufen, and Li Hao knocked Ji Yufen unconscious again when he tried to rise.
• Ji Daoxin ruled that Li Hao could enter the Ji Family genealogy and ordered a sacred-bone test; Ji Yunyue learned his name was Leping and took him to the Sacred Offering Platform.
• At the platform, Li Hao asked about Ji Yun'ge and learned that he had departed, then followed Ji Daoxin's instructions and smeared his blood onto the Sacred Pillar.

Li Hao proved his Ji Family bloodline but found he had no sacred bone, then challenged for the Dao Seed to win his mother’s release. After ringing the Sacred Bell, he defeated two Ji Family Heavenly Prodigies, including Ji Mingshou, and left the gathered clan stunned.

• The Sacred Pillar confirmed Li Hao’s Ji Family bloodline, but he awakened no sacred bone.
• Li Hao told Ji Daoxin he wanted to see his mother and would challenge for the Dao Seed to secure her pardon.
• Li Hao rang the Sacred Bell and summoned the Ji Family Heavenly Prodigies to Heavenly Dao Mountain.
• Li Hao defeated a Four Establishments Realm prodigy with a single blow, revealing that he was only in the Three Immortalities Realm.
• Li Hao confronted Ji Mingshou after he insulted Li Hao’s given name, then struck him off the platform and knocked him unconscious.

Li Hao defeated Ji Rufeng and four Ji Family Heavenly Prodigies, revealing his extreme physical power and Divine Power State. He refused to withdraw before the Ji Family’s strongest Heavenly Prodigy, Ji Xuanshen, even after learning that conceding would not free his mother, and the two prepared to fight.

• Li Hao defeated the Defying Fate Realm Heavenly Prodigy with one punch, then challenged the Ji Family’s fighters below the Dao Realm.
• Ji Rufeng entered the arena and lost to Li Hao’s fist, revealing that Li Hao had reached the Power Circulation Extreme Realm and mastered the Divine Power State.
• Four Heavenly Prodigies attacked Li Hao together, but he defeated them swiftly and emerged without injury.
• Ji Xuanshen stopped Ji Qingshuang from fighting and descended into the arena to face Li Hao.
• Ji Daoxin offered Li Hao a chance to withdraw, but Li Hao learned that conceding would not release his mother and chose to continue.
• Ji Xuanshen revealed his Dao Domain, while Li Hao insisted he could match it and called for the fight to begin.

Li Hao fought Ji Xuanshen, enduring his Dao Domain and defeating him with a devastating burst of Immortal Transformation. When Ji Xuanshen invoked his Sacred Bone and its Sage-like power, Li Hao refused to yield and summoned his Heaven and Earth Dharma Form to strike back.

• Li Hao revealed that he had mastered the Heaven and Earth Meridian, then entered Ji Xuanshen's Dao Domain and punched him hard enough to shatter his chest and send him flying.
• Ji Xuanshen intensified his Fission Rule, but Li Hao escaped above the Dao Domain and pushed his Immortal Transformation to eighty-five percent.
• Li Hao and Ji Xuanshen clashed in midair, and Li Hao broke Ji Xuanshen's sword strike and smashed him into a deep pit, apparently winning the fight.
• Ji Xuanshen rose from the pit and activated the Sacred Bone in his chest and abdomen, using its overwhelming force to press Li Hao downward.
• Li Hao resisted the Sacred Bone's power, vowed to forge his own Sacred Bone, and summoned a colossal Heaven and Earth Dharma Form that joined him in punching at Ji Xuanshen.

Li Hao defeated Ji Xuanshen and every Ji Family Heavenly Prodigy, earning the title of Dao Seed after revealing power that might have reached the legendary land immortal realm. He told the Ji Family he planned to leave after bringing Yun Ge home and helping his mother atone, leaving its members stunned and afraid they had driven him away.

• Li Hao and Ji Xuanshen unleashed their strongest attacks, and Li Hao shattered Ji Xuanshen’s Dao Domain and defeated him, then survived the power of heaven and earth by using his Heaven and Earth Dharma Form to protect himself.
• Li Hao challenged the remaining Heavenly Prodigies, but none dared to enter the arena.
• Ji Daoxin declared Li Hao the Ji Family’s strongest Heavenly Prodigy and Dao Seed, and the family members celebrated his victory.
• Li Hao declined to use the divine medicine offered by Ji Yunyue and told Ji Yunqing he had come only to bring Yun Ge home and see his mother.
• Li Hao said he would leave after helping his mother atone, and the Ji Family members panicked and regretted how they had treated him.

Li Hao rejected the Ji Family’s offer of resources and explained that he had come only to atone for his mother’s sins. After igniting four Extremity Dao Tablets, he received a Sage’s Mark and learned it could lead him to the Sage, but he chose not to activate it yet.

• Li Hao told Ji Daoxin he would not stay for the Ji Family’s resources, and said he had come to atone for his mother’s sins.
• Ji Tianchao learned through voice transmission that Li Hao had attained four extreme realms and urged him to test the Extremity Dao Tablets.
• Li Hao ignited four tablets, revealing his fourth extreme realm to the stunned Ji Family members.
• A Sage’s aura descended and bestowed a Saint’s Mark on Li Hao, containing a route to the Sage and a reserve of protective power.
• Li Hao understood that the mark could take him to the Sage, but decided not to activate it while he still had unfinished business.

After receiving a Saint's Mark, Li Hao was taken to his mother's palace and learned that she had been separated from him since he was a hundred days old. As he waited to visit her on Heaven Imprisoning Island, he recognized her in a youthful portrait and asked for paper and a brush.

• Li Hao received a Saint's Mark, and Ji Tianchao and Ji Daoxin learned that he had seen a Sage, while the Ji Family elders celebrated his potential.
• Ji Daoxin left Li Hao with Ji Tianchao and instructed Ji Qingyuan to mend his conflict with the boy; Ji Tianchao promised Li Hao he would see his mother within six or seven days.
• Ji Tianchao's family took Li Hao to his mother's palace and told him he could use the Sky Gazing Mirror to watch her on Heaven Imprisoning Island.
• Li Hao revealed that he had spent only a little over a hundred days with his mother before she left, but said he did not resent her and had risked coming to the Ji Family to help her.
• Li Hao found a portrait of his mother as a young girl, recognized her face from his memories, and asked the attendants for paper and a brush.

Li Hao painted scenes from his forgotten past, reaching the Painting Dao’s spirit-entering state, then used its insight to advance his Imperial Dao and discover a path beyond the Extreme Realm. After two days of secluded cultivation, he emerged to find the Ji Family waiting to apologize for their juniors.

• Li Hao painted vivid memories of his childhood, his first master Lin Haixia, and a woman whose face had become clear to him, entering the Painting Dao’s spirit state.
• Li Hao spent his available spirit-entering insight on the Imperial Dao, transforming his Meridian Opening Methods and discovering how to condense qi meridians beyond the 108 mortal meridians.
• Li Hao condensed twelve qi meridians and improved his Spirit Refining and Object Manipulation Methods, extending their ranges closer to their limits.
• After two days of cultivation, Li Hao removed his barrier and emerged from the hall to find Ji Family elders and juniors waiting to apologize for their earlier offense.
• Li Hao accepted the apology and told the Ji Family to leave him alone so he could continue his secluded cultivation.

Li Hao saw his mother, Ji Qingqing, through the Sky-Viewing Mirror and learned why she had been imprisoned on Heaven Imprisoning Island. As Li Hao set out to rescue her, his father, Li Tiangang, reached the Ji Family and learned that his son was safe and regarded as one of their Heavenly Prodigies.

• Ji Yunyue showed Li Hao Ji Qingqing on Heaven Imprisoning Island, where he saw her living in harsh conditions and learned that special laws prevented cultivation there.
• Ji Yunyue explained that Li Hao would need twin flowers to neutralize Ji Qingqing's poison before she could leave the island, and Li Hao agreed to visit his grandfather, Ji Yunzhan.
• Li Hao met Ji Yunzhan in the Ji Family Ancestral Hall, then left with Ji Yunyue the next morning after the Wild Sea calmed so they could reach his mother.
• Li Tiangang found the Ji Family's territory after being trapped outside by a bewildering array and told Ji Yunyu that he had come to find his wife, Ji Qingqing.
• Ji Yunyu questioned Li Tiangang about his son and recognized him as the father of Ji Le Ping, also known as Li Hao, then reassured him that Li Hao was safe and Ji Qingqing would soon be released.

Li Tiangang arrived at the Ji Family and learned that Li Hao had defeated its Heavenly Prodigies, including Ji Xuanshen, while still in the Three Immortalities Realm. Overcome with guilt for how he had treated Li Hao and Ji Qingqing, Li Tiangang asked to go to Heaven Imprisoning Island and reunite with them.

• Ji Yunyu told Li Tiangang that Li Hao had defeated every Ji Family Heavenly Prodigy and earned the clan's recognition.
• Li Tiangang met the Ji Family elders, who welcomed him courteously because of Li Hao's achievements.
• Ji Xuanshen asked Li Tiangang how he had raised Li Hao and learned that Li Tiangang knew little about his son's cultivation or strength.
• Ji Yunqing told Li Tiangang that Li Hao had gone to Heaven Imprisoning Island to fetch Ji Qingqing.
• Li Tiangang admitted he had wronged his wife and son and pleaded to accompany them; Ji Yunqing agreed to let the family reunite by the Wild Sea.