Chapter Summaries

The Li Family fought desperately to defend Qingzhou City, but a mysterious attacker helped Phoenix Soaring Sky destroy the Sunlight Fate Wheel Array and let the demon tide enter the city. As Li Muxiu held off Phoenix Soaring Sky and Dragon Absolute God, he was gravely wounded and fell from the sky, just as a thunderous cry rang out across Qingzhou City.

• Li Xiaoran and Li Qingzheng, empowered by ancestral souls, slaughtered Demon Kings and demons to draw Phoenix Soaring Sky away from the array.
• A shapely woman on a distant mountain struck the array with purple light, and Phoenix Soaring Sky's next blow shattered it.
• Li Tiangang used the Power of Reversing Fate to escape Phoenix Soaring Sky and bring Ji Qingqing to safety as demons poured into Qingzhou City.
• Song Yufeng led the Sandalwood Palace's teachers and disciples down the mountain to fight the invading demons, while Li Tiangang went to gather the Li Family members.
• Li Muxiu rescued Li Qingzheng, then stayed behind to fight Phoenix Soaring Sky and Dragon Absolute God; they severed his arm and cut through half his body.
• As Li Muxiu fell toward the ground, a thunderous cry calling out to Second Master echoed across the city.

Li Hao returned to Qingzhou City in time to save Li Muxiu, then overwhelmed the demon leaders and slaughtered the invading Demon Tide. He learned from Phoenix Soaring Sky that the Three Desolate Gods had forced the demons to attack the Great Yu Dynasty.

• Li Hao arrived as Dragon Absolute God and Phoenix Soaring Sky attacked Li Muxiu, blocked their Saint Heart Treasure attacks, and pinned both leaders beneath his Dao Domains.
• Li Hao comforted the gravely wounded Li Muxiu, entrusted him to Evening Primrose and Candlelight God, and revealed himself to the Li Family and the defenders of Qingzhou City.
• After White God Lord recognized Li Hao as Haotian, Li Hao killed the fleeing Demon Kings with Sword Qi and cut through the Demon Tide outside the city.
• Li Hao demanded to know who had instigated the attack, and Phoenix Soaring Sky blamed the Three Desolate Gods.

Li Hao confronted two Desolate Gods who attacked Qingzhou City, revealing nine layers of Dao Domain and defeating their incarnations with Extreme Dao Reincarnation. He ended the battle considering how much stronger the Desolate Gods’ true bodies might be and what cultivation he needed next.

• Li Hao suppressed the Desolate Gods’ Dao-powered attack, then fought the graceful woman as she tore through his Dao Domains.
• Li Hao killed Dragon Absolute God and Phoenix Soaring Sky by crushing them beneath eight layers of Dao Domain.
• Li Hao revealed nine layers of Dao Domain and drove the graceful woman back, then used the Ten Extremes Sword to battle her and the Black-robed Youth.
• The graceful woman revealed she was an avatar, but Li Hao used ten percent Immortal Transformation to destroy her with Extreme Dao Reincarnation.
• Li Hao raised Immortal Transformation to twenty percent and annihilated the Black-robed Youth’s incarnation with another sword strike.
• Li Hao recalled the damaged spear and considered the Desolate Gods’ true strength, his need for more cultivation methods, and the possibility of Ultimate Transformation to Immortality.

Li Hao saved Qingzhou City by defeating the demon leaders and killing two Dao Inquiry Realm incarnations, then reunited with the Li Family. When Ji Qingqing recognized him as her son and begged for forgiveness, Li Hao said her child was already dead and cut off their remaining ties.

• Li Hao arrived at Qingzhou City, crushed Dragon Absolute God and Phoenix Soaring Sky, and killed two Dao Inquiry Realm incarnations, ending the demon assault.
• Li Tianyuan identified the enemies as incarnations and judged Li Hao invincible below the Dao Inquiry Realm.
• He Jianlan, Li Yuanzhao, and the others rushed to greet Li Hao, and he warmly bantered with Li Yuanzhao.
• Ji Qingqing approached Li Hao and asked whether he was really her son, Hao'er.
• Li Hao denied being Ji Qingqing's son and told her that her child was already dead, ending their relationship.

Li Hao reunited with the Li Family in Qingzhou City but declared that he had severed his bloodline and would no longer belong to them, while keeping ties with other relatives and friends. After leaving his parents out of his banquet, he spent the night with old companions and learned that the Li Family was mobilizing to reclaim Qing Prefecture.

• Li Hao rejected Ji Qingqing and Li Tiangang’s pleas, revealed that he had severed his Li Family bloodline, and warned them not to interfere with him again.
• Li Hao reassured Li Muxiu, He Jianlan, and others that he still cared for them, then invited his friends to a banquet and left Li Tiangang behind when he departed.
• Li Hao walked through Qingzhou City with Song Qiumo, shared Cotton Jade Crisps with her and the Candlelight God, and invited old acquaintances to Cloud Glow Pavilion.
• As Qingzhou City celebrated its safety, Li Hao heard residents confuse his identity with the dead son of the Li Family; Li Tiangang and Ji Qingqing realized they had not been invited to his banquet.
• Li Hao reunited with friends and former companions at the banquet, while the Li Family dispatched troops to reinforce Qing Prefecture’s battlefields.
• The next morning, Li Hao learned that the Li Family had sent forces to reclaim lost territory and that its summoned bloodline members had joined the campaign.

Li Hao returned to the Divine General Residence to retrieve his Official Seal and investiture decree, but Li Tiangang and Ji Qingqing tried to persuade him to return to the family. As Li Hao prepared to leave, Li Tianyuan stripped Li Tiangang of his True Dragon Position and offered the position to Li Hao, who had not yet answered.

• Li Hao visited the Divine General Residence to collect his belongings, while Li Tiangang returned from the Ancestral Shrine after the Li Family Ancestors had reprimanded him for driving Li Hao out.
• Li Tiangang and Ji Qingqing pleaded with Li Hao to forgive them, but he rejected their appeal and prepared to leave without his Official Seal and decree.
• Li Hao gave Steward Zhao a Demon King's heart, bade farewell to Li Xiaoran and the others, and headed out of the residence.
• Li Tianyuan and the other Li Family Ancestors arrived and asked Li Hao to stay, but Li Hao said he did not need to return to the family to meet them.
• Li Tianyuan stripped Li Tiangang of his True Dragon Position and offered to make Li Hao the Li Family True Dragon despite his lack of Li Family bloodline.

Li Hao refused the Li Family Ancestors’ attempts to bring him back and left the Divine General Residence after confronting Liu Yuerong. On Boundless Mountain, Li Qianfeng learned that the crisis in Qingzhou City had ended, while the Spirit Realm Buddha asked Lin Wujing about a stolen Sacred Object.

• Li Hao rejected the Li Family’s offer to make him the True Dragon or refine his Soul Avatar, saying he could be their friend but would not return.
• Li Tianyuan appointed Li Xuanli as the Li Family True Dragon, and Li Hao asked to see Liu Yuerong before leaving.
• Li Hao told Liu Yuerong he would cripple her son, Li Qianfeng, and ordered that she be treated as a prisoner.
• Li Hao suppressed Li Tiangang with his Dao Domain and walked away from the Divine General Residence despite Ji Qingqing’s cries.
• The Spirit Realm Buddha told Li Qianfeng that the Qingzhou City crisis had been quelled and that news of his mother would have to wait.
• The Spirit Realm Buddha asked Lin Wujing whether the little thief had confessed where he hid the stolen Sacred Object.

Lin Wujing tortured a prisoner for the missing sacred object and learned that Li Hao had risen to high office, while Li Hao visited friends in Qingzhou and encountered the mysterious Ying Xiaoxiao and her grandfather at a tea stall. After recognizing a possible connection between Li Hao and someone from Heaven's Gate Pass, Ying Xiaoxiao decided to follow him.

• Lin Wujing questioned the chained thief about the sacred object, but the prisoner refused to reveal its whereabouts and mocked the Buddhist Sect.
• Lin Wujing told the prisoner that Li Qianfeng had become a Third-rank Duke and Dutong General, and the prisoner reacted with pride before threatening to expose the master of the Ancient Demon Hall.
• Li Hao visited Song Yufeng, Song Qiumo, Shen Yunqing, and other friends in Qingzhou before leaving the city.
• Li Hao stopped at a tea stall run by the Tea Stall Elder and met Ying Xiaoxiao, whose lack of detectable aura and noble bearing aroused his suspicion.
• After Li Hao departed, Ying Xiaoxiao and the Tea Stall Elder discussed his Saint's Mark and his resemblance to someone they had known at Heaven's Gate Pass.
• Ying Xiaoxiao decided to follow Li Hao, and she and the Tea Stall Elder vanished from the road with the stall.

Li Hao cleared demon-occupied cities in Qing Prefecture on his way back to Azure Cliff City, where his return astonished the people who had believed he was dead. After reuniting with Ren Qianqian, he learned his clone had vanished and asked where Old Feng was.

• Li Hao rode Candlelight God through Qing Prefecture, killing the demons in a besieged city and continuing to clear other occupied cities; survivors identified him as General Haotian.
• Ying Xiaoxiao and an old man arrived after Li Hao left and absorbed the Black Miasma from the ruined city with her Golden Bracelet.
• At Dragon Gate Road, Li Hao met the herb-gathering old man he had encountered two years earlier and exchanged blessings with him before heading to Azure Cliff City.
• Li Hao entered Azure Cliff City in disguise, revealed his return to Ren Qianqian, and learned that people had believed he was dead after his clone vanished.
• Li Hao told the gathered Heaven and Man Grandmasters he had returned, then discussed his cultivation plans and asked Ren Qianqian where Old Feng was.

Li Hao learned that Old Feng had left Heaven's Gate Pass after clashing with Li Tiangang, and he sought ways to find the old man. After helping the Xia Family with You Province, Li Hao accepted their offer to study Lingyuan Pavilion and set out for the Xia Family with Ren Qianqian.

• Ren Qianqian told Li Hao that Old Feng had disappeared after confronting Li Tiangang, and Li Hao suspected that Li Tiangang had driven him away by striking at his connection to Li Hao.
• Li Hao asked Ren Qianqian to invite the Liang Province Commander, painted wanted portraits of Old Feng, and sent a Grandmaster Realm officer to ask the Xia Family to help search for him.
• Li Hao's return to Heaven's Gate Pass spread through Tianji Hall, causing demons in the surrounding region to flee, while Xia Yuanwu arrived to thank him for saving You Province.
• Li Hao declined the Xia Family's offer of a Demon King and asked to study the cultivation methods in Lingyuan Pavilion instead.
• Xia Yuanwu returned with the Xia Family head's approval, and Li Hao left Heaven's Gate Pass with Ren Qianqian to visit Lingyuan Pavilion and asked Xia Yuanwu to help find Old Feng.

Li Hao visited the Xia Family’s Lingyuan Pavilion, where he refined his spirit and object manipulation to the extreme realms before returning to Heaven’s Gate Pass. He found a ragged figure wearing broken shackles waiting in his courtyard.

• Li Hao entered the Lingyuan Pavilion and recorded the Xia Family’s cultivation manuals while Xia Linglong attended to her duties.
• Li Hao refined his divine soul into a primordial spirit that could survive apart from his body and slip through spatial rifts.
• Li Hao advanced his object manipulation, then left the pavilion after two days and refused Xia Linglong’s offer of two Demon Kings.
• Li Hao gave the Xia Family two chess pieces imbued with sword power before departing You Province with Ren Qianqian, Candlelight God, and Evening Primrose.
• Li Hao returned to Heaven’s Gate Pass and found a ragged, shackled figure drinking tea in his courtyard.

Li Hao sparred with Jiang Lichen, whose swordsmanship could cut through a Dao Domain, and learned about the True Person and Dao Law stages of the Dao Inquiry Realm. Jiang Lichen stayed in Li Hao’s courtyard, and his account of a fight outside the city gave Li Hao hope that Old Feng might still be nearby.

• Jiang Lichen challenged Li Hao to a sword duel, and Li Hao’s six-layer Dao Domain overwhelmed him after their initial exchange.
• Jiang Lichen explained the True Person Realm and Dao Law Realm, then warned Li Hao that Great Yu’s divine arrays concealed greater power.
• Jiang Lichen refused to leave until he could break through Li Hao’s Dao Domain, while Li Hao received reports that Old Feng and Little White Fox remained missing.
• Jiang Lichen told Li Hao he had seen a nimble fighter battling a Great Peace Dao Realm opponent outside the city about half a month earlier.
• Li Hao wondered whether Old Feng had stayed near Azure Cliff City after fighting Li Tiangang and then encountered another opponent.

Li Hao learned that Boundless Mountain had captured Feng Boping and planned to execute him, likely because Feng’s movements had been exposed while protecting him. He set out to rescue Old Feng with Jiang Lichen, while news of the execution spread to major factions and the Divine General Residence.

• Jiang Lichen told Li Hao that Mara was a powerful Dao realm cultivator and suggested Boundless Mountain might know more about him.
• A soldier reported that Boundless Mountain had captured Feng Boping and would execute him at Spirit Mountain Peak the next day.
• Li Hao realized Feng Boping might have been caught after his interventions exposed his whereabouts and decided to go to Boundless Mountain.
• Li Hao departed with the Candlelight God, and Jiang Lichen joined him despite Li Hao’s warning about the risks.
• Jiang Lichen revealed that the Yu Emperor had released him to receive Li Hao and promised to take a sword strike from him afterward.
• News of Feng Boping’s execution spread among major factions, and Li Muxiu turned pale when he heard it.

Li Muxiu sought the Li Family ancestors’ permission to rescue his captured friend Feng, and they reluctantly let him go. Meanwhile, Li Hao stormed Boundless Mountain and confronted the Buddha Master, demanding that he kneel.

• Li Muxiu learned that Feng had been captured by the Buddhist Sect and decided to go rescue him.
• Li Muxiu asked the Li Family ancestors to let him leave, but his father objected until his grandfather urged him to honor his friendship.
• Li Muxiu donned a Black Iron Mask and set out, while Li Qingzheng asked him to return alive.
• Li Hao and Candlelight God passed through Boundless Mountain’s Divine Array and headed for the Buddha Master’s Spirit Realm.
• Li Hao drove back the three Bodhisattvas and forced Boundless Mountain’s guardians aside as he entered the Supreme Buddha Hall.
• Li Hao demanded that the Buddha Master kneel before him as an imperial Gong-rank Noble.

Li Hao confronted the Buddha Master at Boundless Mountain and demanded Feng Boping’s release, while accusing the Buddhist Sect of using the execution to ruin his reputation. The Buddha Master admitted to manipulating events around Li Hao’s poisoned divine blood and Li Qianfeng’s rise, leaving Li Hao to weigh whether the provocation was meant to make him attack and draw the court against him.

• Li Hao entered the Buddhist hall and rebuked the Buddha Master for capturing Feng Boping, while insisting his friend was the Thief Saint.
• Li Hao sent Lin Wujing and two other Bodhisattvas flying when Lin Wujing tried to defend the Buddhist Sect, then challenged the Buddha Master over its inaction during the attacks on Liang Prefecture and Qing Prefecture.
• Li Hao demanded Feng Boping’s release, and the Buddha Master ordered Universal Salvation Bodhisattva to bring him in front of the nobles who had been invited to witness the confrontation.
• The Buddha Master said he had once intended to recruit Li Hao and admitted that Boundless Mountain had supplied the God Blood Poison Pill used against him to help Li Qianfeng become the Li Family True Dragon.
• Li Hao realized the Buddha Master had orchestrated Liu Yuerong’s actions and considered whether the provocation was meant to make him attack and turn the court against him.

Li Hao discovered that the Buddha Master had tried to use Old Feng to undermine him and the Great Yu Dynasty. After seeing Old Feng mutilated and nearly dead, Li Hao killed Lin Wujing and his witnesses, then unleashed his Dao Domains against the Buddha Master, leaving the Buddha Hall destroyed.

• Jiang Lichen stormed into the Buddha Hall and challenged the Buddha Master while Li Hao waited for Old Feng.
• Lin Wujing arrived with Old Feng chained behind him and accused Li Hao of protecting the Thief Saint.
• Li Hao killed Lin Wujing and the dozens of nobles accompanying him, then found Old Feng mutilated and unable to speak or see.
• Li Hao asked Evening Primrose to care for Old Feng while the Candlelight God carried them away from Spirit Mountain.
• Li Hao unleashed his Nine Layers of Dao Domain, added a Tenth Layer to overpower the Buddha Master's defense, and destroyed the Buddha Hall.
• The Buddha Master emerged in the exposed Spirit Realm and told Li Hao that he seemed to have fallen into madness.

Li Hao overwhelmed the Buddha Master on Spirit Mountain, but the Buddha Master merged with his demonic incarnation Mara and reached the Dao Law Realm, killing Li Hao with a single word. Li Hao revived through Blood-Drop Rebirth, and he faced the Buddha Master again with his Immortal Transformation power near its limit.

• Li Hao unleashed his Fifteen-Layer Dao Domain, destroyed the Buddha Master's lotus platform, and battered him while Jiang Lichen remained trapped but unharmed.
• The Buddha Master revealed thirteen Dao Domains, the Divine Power Extreme Realm, a Heaven and Earth Meridian, and a Primordial Spirit, but Li Hao's strength kept rising as he absorbed the power of heaven and earth.
• Li Hao drove the Buddha Master underground and battered him until the Buddhist light on his protective kasaya weakened, then attacked it with the Ten Extremes Sword.
• The Buddha Master revealed that Mara was his demonic incarnation and merged with him, then struck Li Hao with Dao Law Realm power and destroyed his body with a single word.
• Li Hao re-formed his body through Blood-Drop Rebirth as his Immortal Transformation power neared its limit, then challenged the Buddha Master over the Dao Inquiry Realm.

Li Hao used Ultimate Transformation to Immortality to overcome the Buddha Master's Dao power, defeat him, and uncover a possible way to save Feng Boping. The chapter left Li Hao holding three golden pills that his fate-reversal power revealed could restore Old Feng.

• The Buddha Master attacked Li Hao with Dao laws, but Li Hao reached Ultimate Transformation to Immortality and gained the power to tear them apart.
• Li Hao and the Buddha Master merged with their Heaven and Earth Dharma Forms and fought, until Li Hao shattered the Buddha Master's form and battered his body.
• Li Hao destroyed the Buddha Master's Primordial Spirit, killing him, then took his damaged Kasaya and a Sarira stained with Mara's aura.
• Li Hao found that Old Feng was poisoned beyond Evening Primrose's ability to treat, so he used the Power of Reversing Fate on Feng Boping.
• Li Hao's fate-reversal power drew hidden energy toward a wooden box beneath the ruined Purple-Golden Lotus Platform, where he found three golden pills that could restore Old Feng.

Li Hao healed Feng Boping’s body but discovered that parts of his soul were missing, then learned Boundless Mountain’s Buddha Master had likely caused the damage. After failing to find Feng Boping’s missing souls, Li Hao split Spirit Mountain apart and declared Boundless Mountain finished, leaving its disciples to flee or face his Sword Tide.

• Li Hao used a fate-reversal opportunity to heal Feng Boping, expelling venomous insects from his body, but Feng Boping remained confused and repeatedly called Li Hao “little mouse.”
• Jiang Lichen determined that Feng Boping had lost parts of his soul and explained they might be recovered naturally or found where they had been sealed or destroyed; Li Hao suspected the Buddha Master was responsible.
• Li Hao searched Spirit Mountain but found no trace of Feng Boping’s missing souls, discovered the torture cave, and killed the Arhats who confronted him.
• Li Hao cleaved Spirit Mountain in two, destroyed its formation, and announced that the Buddha Master was dead and Boundless Mountain was no more, giving its disciples ten breaths to leave.
• Li Qianfeng disguised himself as an outer disciple and fled the mountain while some monks stripped off their robes and escaped and others stayed to chant Buddhist Scriptures.
• When the countdown ended, Li Hao’s Sword Tide killed the chanting Arhats and shattered the surrounding halls and peaks, but spared many disciples who continued chanting.

After defeating the Buddha Master, Li Hao confronted the fleeing Li Qianfeng, crippled him, and took him into the Heaven and Earth Space. Li Hao then left for home with the Candlelight God, while Li Muxiu learned the Buddha Master was dead and Feng Boping’s soul was incomplete.

• Li Hao refused to kill the ordinary Buddhist disciples, then intercepted the fleeing crowd and exposed Li Qianfeng’s disguise.
• The old monk tried to protect Li Qianfeng, but Li Hao killed him; Li Qianfeng begged for mercy and recognized Li Hao as the Buddha Master’s killer.
• Li Hao crushed Li Qianfeng’s bones and limbs, then placed him in the Heaven and Earth Space.
• Li Hao returned to the Candlelight God and found that Feng Boping’s body was safe, though parts of his soul were missing.
• Li Muxiu arrived and learned that the Buddha Master was dead and Feng Boping’s soul had been damaged; Li Hao promised to find the missing parts.
• Li Hao declined Li Muxiu’s offer to seek protection at the Divine General Residence and departed for home with Jiang Lichen.