Chapter Summaries

Li Hao and the Middle-Aged Soldier grew stronger by slaughtering and eating Ancient Demons, but the arrival of an Ancient Demon Commander cut short their chance to prepare. As the commander overwhelmed the Middle-Aged Soldier and trapped Li Hao, a female general appeared and attacked it.

• Li Hao and the Middle-Aged Soldier cleared Ancient Demon territories, strengthened their Primordial Spirits, and each condensed divine bones.
• After learning that Ancient Demon Commanders were gathering for a war outside, they accelerated their attacks and destroyed fourteen territories.
• A messenger revealed that the commander had summoned its troops, forcing the pair to flee before they could finish eating their stores of Ancient Demon flesh.
• The Ancient Demon Commander caught up with them at the canyon, froze Li Hao in place, and brutally attacked the Middle-Aged Soldier.
• The Middle-Aged Soldier charged the commander to give Li Hao a chance to escape and asked him to deliver a message to a woman surnamed Li at the Guangya Sect.
• A female general arrived, pierced the Ancient Demon Commander with her spear, and attacked it.

The Red Tassel Spear Woman killed the Ancient Demon Commander and offered to take Li Hao and Nangong Jian away, but Li Hao chose to remain by the Mysterious Female Gate and guard its crack. After a year without the promised relief arriving, Li Hao killed a Third Order Ancient Demon and continued studying how to repair the gate.

• The Red Tassel Spear Woman used her extreme realms, spear techniques, and an Immortal Talisman to kill the Ancient Demon Commander and free Nangong Jian.
• The Red Tassel Spear Woman learned that Li Hao had come from Tian Yang Immortal Emperor's Pseudo-Realm and offered to escort him and Nangong Jian away, but Li Hao chose to stay near the gate.
• Nangong Jian revealed his name to Li Hao, gathered the soldiers' skeletons, and left with the Red Tassel Spear Woman.
• Li Hao stayed by the Mysterious Female Gate, gathered ancient demon corpses, and spent a year strengthening himself while waiting for a guard who never arrived.
• A Third Order Ancient Demon approached the gate, and Li Hao killed it with his damaged weapon and Primordial Spirit.
• Li Hao decided the gate's crack could endanger the Lands of the Saints, so he studied its patterns while continuing to guard it.

After twelve years guarding the Mysterious Female Gate, Li Hao returned to the Ancient Hall and confronted the Sages who had been waiting for him. He accepted compensation for their past actions but refused to let them cross, warning that the other side of the gate was deadly.

• Li Hao spent years studying the Mysterious Female Gate, then used his body to seal its gap and returned through it to the Ancient Hall.
• The Source Ancestor and the God King mistook Li Hao's arrival for an Immortal Deity's descent, then asked him to let the Sages enter the Immortal Road.
• The Source Ancestor and the God King offered Li Hao treasures and other compensation, while several Sages argued over whether to sacrifice a small world for Ultimate Dao Power.
• Li Hao rejected the sacrifice and demanded the God King's Extreme Dao Offensive Secret Arts, along with a hundred Heaven and Earth Treasures and other compensation.
• After accepting the agreed gifts, Li Hao refused to open the Immortal Road for the Sages and warned that they would die if they crossed to the other side.

Li Hao warned the All Heavens Saints that the Immortal-Divine Land was a battlefield overrun by ancient demons, but they refused to believe him and tried to reach the sealed gate. After forcing them to retreat, he learned that Feng Boping and Lie Heaven Saint were in Mí Xū Heaven, where he found them safe and offered to help their master refine immortal medicine.

• Li Hao told the saints that ancient demons had invaded the True Realm and barred them from the gate, but most dismissed his warning and challenged his authority.
• The God King attacked Li Hao and was overwhelmed by a single palm strike; Li Hao then killed a saint who called him selfish and sealed the Ancient Hall.
• The Source Ancestor persuaded the saints to withdraw, then proposed cutting off Li Hao's incense and concealing the Second Saint Infant's progress toward the Sixth Extreme Realm.
• The Sword Master told Li Hao that Feng Boping and Lie Heaven Saint had been imprisoned in Mí Xū Heaven after confronting their former master, so Li Hao set out to find them.
• Li Hao and the Sword Master reached Mí Xū Heaven, where Supreme Saint Mitian explained that Feng Boping and Lie Heaven Saint were safe and cultivating with immortal medicine.
• Li Hao offered to help Supreme Saint Mitian refine the immortal herbs, and Mitian realized that Li Hao had reached the Sixth Extreme Realm.

Li Hao helped Saint Mitian refine an Immortal Pill, which survived a tribulation and escaped, leaving three accompanying pills behind. After Li Hao endured a campaign to ruin his reputation and visited his friends, the Source Ancestor learned that the Mortal World's Second Saint Infant had reached the Sixth Extreme Realm.

• Li Hao stayed with Saint Mitian, played Go with him, and heard how false accusations of theft had driven Old Feng and Lie Heaven Saint away.
• The Sword Master told Li Hao that Sages were spreading rumors that he monopolized the Immortal Road, cutting off his incense; Li Hao chose to endure rather than risk the ancient demons invading.
• Li Hao used primal chaos divine fire and immortal power to help Saint Mitian refine an Immortal Pill, which gained consciousness, survived a lightning tribulation, and fled after thanking Li Hao.
• Saint Mitian found three accompanying pills in the furnace and gave one to Li Hao, who declined it; Li Hao then left Mí Xū Heaven with the Sword Master.
• Li Hao visited the Azure Wave Realm, the Sword Ancestor Sacred Land, and his friends in the Cloud Radiance Realm, who affirmed their trust in him despite the rumors.
• The Source Ancestor sensed that the Mortal World's Second Saint Infant had comprehended the Sixth Extreme Realm, prompting Sages from many sacred lands to hurry to the Tianyuan Sacred Land.

The Source Ancestor and the saints entered the Immortal Road despite Li Hao’s warnings, only to find that Ancient Demons infested it and that their arrival had exposed the Mysterious Female Gate. After Li Hao arrived, he refused to take responsibility for the disaster and left with the Medicine Saint, while the saints faced the threat they had unleashed.

• The Source Ancestor gathered the saints and used the Second Saint Infant to enter the Immortal Road, brushing aside the Medicine Saint’s warnings.
• The saints broke through Li Hao’s obstruction and found his Dark Side Clone guarding the gate; after an Ancient Demon attacked, the Source Ancestor and God King killed it, while more demons approached and Li Hao’s clone was torn apart protecting them.
• The saints escaped through the gate, but another Ancient Demon emerged into the Starry Sky, confirming that their exposed auras had drawn the demons to the passage.
• Li Hao arrived, reclaimed his broken sword, and rebuked the Source Ancestor and the saints for causing the disaster, explaining that sealing the breach would not stop the demons from finding the gate.
• Li Hao refused to risk himself to rescue the saints and invited the Medicine Saint to leave with him; when another Ancient Demon appeared, he killed it, collected its corpse and the earlier one, and departed with her.

After the Saints abandoned the Immortal Gate, Ancient Demons invaded the heavens and exposed the failure of ordinary concealment formations. Li Hao built a refuge for several billion people and rejected the Source Ancestor and the other Sages when they came seeking shelter, leaving the fate of the remaining heavens uncertain.

• Li Hao killed an Ancient Demon, warned the Saints that stronger demons could overwhelm them, and told the Medicine Saint he planned to build a hidden refuge.
• Li Hao began constructing a sacred land in the Cloud Radiance Realm and invited his friends and the Medicine Saint’s disciples to take shelter there.
• The Saints left the Immortal Hall, and an Ancient Demon devoured the souls of the people in the Qinghuo Small World, including the Crimson Cloud Saint.
• The Source Ancestor and the Sages tested whether their formations could hide the Tianyuan Sacred Land, but an Ancient Demon found it and forced them to kill it at great cost.
• Li Hao told the Medicine Saint that only a Primordial Spirit stronger than an Ancient Demon’s could evade detection, and the Source Ancestor led the Sages to seek cooperation with him.
• Li Hao refused to let the Sages join his refuge, reminding them that they had abandoned the breach and that their actions had doomed countless people.

The saints followed the Sword Saint’s plan to guard the Ancient Hall and sought Li Hao’s favor, while Li Pingan returned to Great Yu and confronted his former master, Ren Fairy. Rejected by her and haunted by comparisons with his older brother Haotian, Li Pingan planned to enter the Immortal Gate and seek the Saint Realm.

• The saints agreed to guard the Ancient Hall in rotating groups, then killed the four Ancient Demons stationed at the breach, though many were injured.
• The Source Ancestor sent Xiao Tianyu and other saints to deliver the Ancient Demon corpses to Li Hao and arranged for the group to visit the Divine General Residence.
• Li Pingan returned to the Imperial Palace after slaying a Dao Inquiry Realm demon, but the Yu Emperor granted him leave instead of the Heavenly General title he wanted.
• Li Pingan visited Ren Fairy with a Dao Scale, but she refused his gift and his affection, threatened him with her sword, and sent him away.
• Li Pingan returned toward Qing Prefecture, reflected on his rivalry with his older brother Haotian, and resolved to explore the Immortal Gate and become a Sage.

After Li Pingan returned victorious to Qingzhou City, three Dao Inquiry Realm demons invaded Qing Prefecture, but the Tai Sui God swiftly defeated them. The Immortal Gate then opened above the city, and the Sages brought Li Hao’s family and allies to the Land of Myriad Heavens to ask them to persuade him to help stop the Ancient Demons; the chapter ends as they begin explaining Li Hao’s rise and the Sage he killed.

• Li Pingan returned to the Divine General Residence, where he confronted Li Yuanzhao and discussed his resentment toward the elders who saw Li Hao’s shadow in him.
• An urgent report revealed three Dao Inquiry Realm demons at Qing Prefecture’s border, so Li Pingan mobilized his guards while Li Muxiu and Li Qingzheng prepared to join the battle.
• The Tai Sui God arrived pursuing the Dragon Emperor, killed it and the three demons, and then headed for Qingzhou City when the Immortal Gate appeared.
• The Sages emerged from the Immortal Gate and told the Li Family that Li Hao was Haotian and that only he could save the myriad heavens from the Ancient Demons.
• The Source Ancestor took the Li Family, Ren Qianqian, the Yu Emperor, Xia Linglong, and others through the Immortal Gate to seek Li Hao’s help.
• The Yu Emperor asked whether a Sage had tried to assassinate Li Hao, and the Source Ancestor confirmed that Li Hao had slain that Sage and become unrivaled in just over a decade.

The Source Ancestor brought the Li Family and the Yu Emperor to meet Li Hao, hoping they would persuade him to help against the Ancient Demons, while Li Hao reunited with his loved ones and confronted Li Pingan. After the Sages publicly admitted their role in slandering Li Hao, their incense dwindled, but a bloodied Sage arrived with news of a terrifying Ancient Demon threatening the God King.

• The Source Ancestor described Li Hao's rise and asked the Li Family and the Yu Emperor to persuade him to help the All Heavens survive the Ancient Demons.
• The Source Ancestor led the group to Saint Mountain, where Li Hao joyfully reunited with Li Yuanzhao, Ren Qianqian, and the others, but ignored Li Tiangang and Ji Qingqing.
• Li Pingan demanded to know why Li Hao had not visited his parents, and Li Hao replied that the person he meant had died long ago.
• The Medicine Saint confronted the Sages over their slander of Li Hao, and they agreed to project the truth about the Mysterious Female Gate throughout the myriad heavens.
• The projections exposed the Sages' mistake, restoring Li Hao's reputation and causing their incense to dwindle as wisps of incense gathered around him.
• A wounded Three Tribulations Saint arrived at the Tianyuan Sacred Land and warned that a terrifying Ancient Demon had appeared and the God King needed help.

Li Hao rescued the Source Ancestor and the saints from pursuing ancient demons, killed more than a dozen of them, and sent the saints back to seal the Immortal Gate. He then traveled to a small world under attack, slew another ancient demon, and left the people a sword peak bearing his power before setting out to fight elsewhere.

• The Source Ancestor and the God King fled with the surviving saints as second order ancient demons pursued them, and Li Hao agreed to stop the demons but ordered the saints to return to the Ancient Hall afterward.
• Li Hao killed the pursuing ancient demons in an instant with six incomplete immortal weapons and his golden primordial spirit, then warned the saints that first order demons and their commanders posed a far greater threat.
• The Source Ancestor led the saints back to the Ancient Hall to seal the breach, while Li Hao asked the Medicine Saint and Sword Master to guard the sacred land and left to aid worlds under attack.
• Li Hao arrived at a Divine Dynasty as an ancient demon terrorized its people, killed the demon, and absorbed the Ultimate Dao Power left behind.
• Li Hao carved a mountain into a Great Sword Peak and imbued it with a mark that could release an attack containing half his power, then departed for another small world as his incense power increased.

Li Hao slew the Ancient Demons rampaging through more than a dozen small worlds and learned from the Fox Master that her Nine Provinces Immortal Island could shelter his Sacred Land inside the God Sun. As Li Hao and his allies prepared to evacuate, an Ancient Demon Commander arrived at the Mysterious Female Gate and sent a leader into the Immortal Emperor Pseudo-Realm to investigate.

• Li Hao rescued the invaded small worlds, while the Source Ancestor, the God King, and the other Sages guarded the Immortal Gate and killed demons emerging from it.
• A young man resembling the Source Ancestor left Tianyuan Sacred Land for an Immortal Ancestor Remains, while a black-flamed prisoner fled deeper into the Nine Netherworld and planned to enter the True Realm through the demons' breach.
• Li Hao finished killing the demons in the small worlds, gained a vast increase in incense and ultimate dao power, and returned to his Sacred Land.
• The Fox Master revealed that she was Li Hao's former Little White Fox and offered to shelter his entire Sacred Land in an Immortal God Remains hidden inside the God Sun.
• Feng Boping, Lie Heaven Saint, and Saint Mitian joined Li Hao's preparations to move the people of the Sacred Land and Great Yu Dynasty into the refuge.
• An Ancient Demon Commander reached the Mysterious Female Gate, failed to force it open, and gave a Demon Subduing Pill to a leader who volunteered to enter the Pseudo-Realm and investigate.

The ancient demons launched a relentless assault on the Immortal Gate, then sent a True Immortal-level Ancient Demon Leader inside by disguising it as a second order demon. Li Hao learned of the breach and found the fleeing sages, while the Source Ancestor and God King stayed behind to delay the enemy.

• The Ancient Demon Commander forced an Ancient Demon Leader to take a Demon Subduing Pill and ordered ten Minor Commanders to attack the Immortal Gate.
• The Red Tassel Spear Woman led an army toward the pseudo-realm of Tian Yang Immortal Emperor, intending to rescue its people and recruit Li Hao.
• The Source Ancestor, the God King, and the sages fought wave after wave of second order ancient demons while Xiao Tianyu sent Li Hao a warning.
• The Ancient Demon Leader entered disguised as a second order demon, broke its cultivation shackles, and revealed its True Immortal-level power.
• The Source Ancestor and the God King stayed behind as the sages fled, and the Ancient Demon Leader began overwhelming them.
• Li Hao met the fleeing sages and learned that a suspected True Immortal had entered the realm while the Source Ancestor and God King covered their retreat.

Li Hao gathered the Sages to confront a True Immortal-level Ancient Demon, while his avatar urged the Sacred Land and Great Yu to evacuate. Empowered by the All Saints Heavenly Circulation Formation, Li Hao wounded the demon and unleashed his strongest attacks, leaving the battle unresolved as his sword struck its flank.

• Li Hao agreed to fight the True Immortal-level Ancient Demon despite having only a one-percent chance, and the Military Saint organized 108 Sages into the All Saints Heavenly Circulation Formation to empower him.
• Li Hao's avatar warned the Sacred Land that the Source Ancestor and God King had fallen, ordered an evacuation, and asked Feng Boping to protect his friends and move Great Yu's people.
• The Sacred Land's leaders began seeking refuge while Li Hao and the Sages waited near the Ancient Hall for the approaching demon.
• The Ancient Demon attacked, and Li Hao used his sword strike to force its claws back while eight Incomplete Immortal Weapons cut its flank but failed to penetrate deeply.
• Li Hao expanded into Law, Heaven and Earth, manifested his Heaven and Earth Dharma Form alongside the Sages' forms, and unleashed his heavenly dao embryo.
• Li Hao recalled the Incomplete Immortal Swords and drove the sharpest one into the Ancient Demon's flank with a powerful Sword Light.

Li Hao fought the True Immortal-level Ancient Demon Leader with the Sages’ combined power, but his Incomplete Immortal Swords could not destroy its body before it healed. After the demon evaded Li Hao’s fatal attribute and grievously wounded him, Li Hao sent the Sages toward his Sacred Land and stayed behind to hold the enemy off.

• Li Hao used the Incomplete Immortal Sword to tear through the Ancient Demon Leader’s body, but the sword dulled before he could destroy all its bones, allowing the demon to heal.
• The Ancient Demon Leader suppressed Li Hao with its Immortal Domain and nearly crushed him, while Li Hao burned five golden meridians to speed up his attacks and tried again to dismantle its body.
• Li Hao’s repeated sword strikes triggered his fatal attribute, but the Ancient Demon Leader exploded into chunks and used Fate Reversal to evade the lethal effect before reforming.
• The Ancient Demon Leader severed Li Hao at the waist and devoured more than a dozen Sages trapped in its Immortal Domain.
• Li Hao freed the Sages from the battle formation and ordered them to flee to his Sacred Land while he stayed to hold off the Ancient Demon Leader with two Incomplete Immortal Weapons.

Li Hao kept the True Immortal ancient demon occupied while the Sages and civilians fled to refuge inside the Immortal God Remains on the God Sun. The demon destroyed Li Hao’s body, but he escaped as a Primordial Spirit, survived its pursuit, and reunited with the refugees after restoring his body from preserved Divine Blood.

• The Name Saint and Law Saint ordered the Sages to retreat while Li Hao stayed behind to fight the True Immortal ancient demon and buy time for their escape.
• The Sages brought Li Hao’s sacred land and the Nine Provinces Immortal Island’s inhabitants into the Immortal God Remains, then carried the refuge into the God Sun to shelter from the demon.
• Li Hao kept attacking the demon, but it adapted to his fatal attribute and destroyed his body with black lightning; his Primordial Spirit escaped and later wounded the demon before fleeing its pursuit.
• After receiving Feng Boping’s message, Li Hao headed to the God Sun and learned the refugees’ location.
• Li Hao met Feng Boping and the other Sages as a Primordial Spirit, then used Divine Blood preserved in the sacred land to restore his body.

Li Hao returned to the Sacred Land after escaping the True Immortal Ancient Demon and learned that it was slaughtering people across the heavens. Though the Sages urged him to cultivate for ten years, Li Hao began sculpting a vast dome to extend the refuge’s protection while preparing to confront the growing threat.

• Li Hao reunited with Feng Boping and the Sages, admitted that he had failed to kill the Ancient Demon, and agreed to spend ten years cultivating in the refuge.
• The Sages offered Li Hao divine medicines, but he declined them and discovered that his incense power was falling as the Ancient Demon attacked his believers.
• The Dark Saint used the Heaven Mirror to show the Sages the Ancient Demon massacring people, but the creature sensed the mirror and damaged it while its Dao soul blocked a trace back to the refuge.
• Li Hao resolved to extend the Sacred Land’s protection, warning the Sages that the Ancient Demon might grow stronger by consuming souls and could surpass the True Immortal realm.
• Li Hao left the barriers, absorbed Sun Essence, and began sculpting a huge dome to shelter the Sacred Land and all nine immortal islands.

Li Hao reached the Tenth Dan of the Path of Carving and used his new understanding to seal the Immortal God Remains against the God Sun. He advanced his Sword Dao to the Tenth Dan as well, but could not wield the terrifying Crimson Flame Immortal Sword, so he left to face the True Immortal Ancient Demon without it.

• Li Hao struggled to carve the God Sun’s Flame Current while the Sages repaired the Heaven Mirror and discovered that the True Immortal Ancient Demon was devouring people in the Small World.
• The Sages found a Crimson Flame Immortal Sword deep within the God Sun, but their combined strength could not pull it free, and Saint Mitian was badly injured when it resisted.
• Li Hao realized that carving could use anything as its blade, reached the Tenth Dan of the Path of Carving, and formed Flame Current walls and a dome that sealed and protected the Immortal God Remains.
• Li Hao sacrificed his Dao to advance his Sword Dao to the Tenth Dan, then destroyed the resulting lightning tribulation before it could expose them to the ancient demon.
• Li Hao tried to draw the Crimson Flame Immortal Sword with the aid of an array of 108 Sages, but its will wounded him and he concluded that even a true immortal might not control it.
• Li Hao reassured the Sages and his loved ones, then left the God Sun to confront the True Immortal Ancient Demon.

After the Sages vanished, the Demon Slaying Alliance sacrificed armies to lure the true immortal ancient demon toward the forbidden lands, but its plan to trap the demon failed. Li Hao arrived as the alliance faced annihilation and destroyed the demon’s physical body with his Incomplete Immortal Sword, leaving its ultimate fate unresolved.

• The true immortal ancient demon devoured the Silver Rainbow Small World and invaded others while powers across the heavens formed the Demon Slaying Alliance.
• Mu Zu organized armies to lure the demon into the Heavenly Net Palace, sacrificing more than a million Four Establishments Realm warriors, but the demon escaped the trap and destroyed Qianluo Palace.
• The demon tracked the alliance to the Double-Seam Demon Valley and used a dark vortex to pull the souls from its soldiers.
• Li Hao arrived, struck the vortex with an Incomplete Immortal Sword, and ordered the alliance to retreat before confronting the demon.
• Li Hao battled the demon and sent an Incomplete Immortal Sword through its body, destroying its physical form in an instant.

Li Hao fought the True Immortal Ancient Demon, destroyed its body, and nearly shattered its primordial spirit, but the demon’s Immortal Seal let it recover. He used his Sage’s earth tribulation to draw the Double-Seam Demon Valley over them, and both vanished inside; the armies and people across the heavens believed Li Hao had died.

• Li Hao destroyed the True Immortal Ancient Demon’s body and repeatedly wounded its primordial spirit, then hurled the body into the Double-Seam Demon Valley.
• The Ancient Demon’s Immortal Seal restored its primordial spirit, and Li Hao realized he could not kill it without Immortal Dao power.
• Li Hao attacked again and tried to drag the Ancient Demon into the forbidden zone, then broke the earth-tribulation shackles of his three sacred daos.
• The Double-Seam Demon Valley’s suction expanded and caught both Li Hao and the Ancient Demon, pulling them into the abyss.
• The Demon Subjugation Army and people watching through the World Stone believed Li Hao had sacrificed himself, and the army found his body without a divine soul.