Chapter Summaries

After the True Immortal Ancient Demon and Li Hao fell into the Double-Seam Demon Valley, the Sages learned that the heavens had been saved and met reinforcements from the True Realm. The Red Tassel Spear Woman learned that Li Hao might still be alive and decided to enter the dangerous gate to search for him.

• The survivors recovered Li Hao’s body and the Ancient Demon’s corpse, while the Sages watched through the Heaven Mirror and learned that the Ancient Demon had been defeated at the cost of Li Hao’s life.
• Feng Boping rushed to the Double-Seam Demon Valley, where the Sages saw a projection of Li Hao’s final battle and grieved over his apparent death.
• Law Saint urged the Sages to secure the Immortal Gate, but they found the Silver Tassel Camp already fighting Ancient Demons inside the Ancient Hall.
• The Silver-Helmed commander brought the Sages to the Red Tassel Spear Woman, who watched the battle projection and learned that Li Hao had fallen into the Forbidden Zone.
• The Red Tassel Spear Woman ordered the Silver-Helmed Sword-Wearing Youth to buy her an hour so she could enter the gate and search for Li Hao.

Chi Ying searched for Li Hao at the Double-Seam Demon Valley but could not enter the lethal fissure, then brought the Source Ancestor and God King back to the True Realm. As they departed for the Heavenly Palace, the Source Ancestor anticipated his chance to rise after Li Hao’s death.

• The Red Tassel Spear Woman took the Immortal Severing Pill, entered the Mysterious Female Gate, and learned from a Half-Saint’s memories about Li Hao and his death.
• The Source Ancestor left his Ancestral Home for the Immortal Gate, while the God King departed the Nine Nether Lands to inspect the breach and help defend the realm.
• The Red Tassel Spear Woman reached the Double-Seam Demon Valley, tried to investigate its fissure, and withdrew when its laws threatened to pull her and her soldiers inside.
• The Red Tassel Spear Woman visited the Heavenly Net Palace, failed to stop it from vanishing, and encountered the Source Ancestor and God King as they arrived at the Ancient Hall.
• The Source Ancestor and God King persuaded the Red Tassel Spear Woman to take them to the True Realm, where the Sages confronted them over their survival and Li Hao’s sacrifice.
• The silver-helmed youth led the group toward the Heavenly Palace, and the Source Ancestor privately looked forward to his own rise.

After the Sages left for the True Realm, the Sword Master and the others mourned Li Hao and honored his sacrifice while the heavens began to recover. Deep in the Double-Seam Demon Valley, Li Hao’s falling primordial spirit reached a vast palace and a clearing of Sages, where an old man beckoned him closer.

• The Sword Master and the Fox Master found the Ancient Hall empty and learned that the Sages had followed the Immortal Deity to the True Realm.
• The Sword Master and the others traveled to the Tianyuan Small World, where Feng Boping and Li Hao’s friends and family mourned beside his body.
• People flocked to the Forbidden Zone to pay homage to Li Hao while Half-Saints kept watch outside the Double-Seam Demon Valley.
• Li Hao’s primordial spirit fell through the valley with the True Immortal Realm ancient demon and emerged before a magnificent palace surrounded by dense immortal power.
• The ancient demon recognized the palace as the Immortal Emperor’s legacy, but an unseen force crushed and annihilated its primordial spirit.
• Li Hao saw an old man and dozens of Sages gathered in a grassy clearing beside a Thatched Cottage, and the old man smiled and beckoned him over.

Li Hao reached the Heavenly Calamity Hall, learned that its hidden trials guarded the Tian Yang Immortal Emperor’s Dao Heritage, and borrowed chaos origin divine blood to form a body. When he tested his Dao Heart, the Heavenly Dao Great Bell rang a fourth time after the expected three, startling the Sages.

• The Hall Guardian explained that the Heavenly Calamity Hall concealed the Immortal Emperor’s inheritance and recounted how the Immortal Deities had fought the Ancient Demons in the True Realm.
• Li Hao told the Sages what he knew of the True Realm, learned that Ancestor Xu had a friend among them and that Chen Baoyu was Saint Mitian’s disciple, and introduced himself as Haotian.
• The Sages explained that entrants could leave Double-Seam Demon Valley only by passing the Immortal Emperor’s three-step trial, beginning with a Heaven Grade Dao Heart.
• The Hall Guardian offered to teach Li Hao the trials and lent him ninth grade chaos origin divine blood, which Li Hao formed into a temporary body.
• Li Hao released his Dao Thought to the Heavenly Dao Great Bell, which rang three times and then unexpectedly tolled a fourth time.

Li Hao rang the Heaven and Earth Hong Bell nine times, revealing an eternal Dao Heart, then learned the Immortal Emperor’s trials and quickly mastered the first stages of two immortal arts. While preparing to cultivate, he drew the attention of the Flower Saint and Wandering Saint after showing them a Flower Wandering Token.

• Li Hao’s Dao Heart made the Heaven and Earth Hong Bell toll nine times, and Old Wang identified it as an eternal Dao Heart.
• Old Wang taught Li Hao the Yama and Myriad Dao Immortal Arts, while warning that other Sages were already advancing through the trials.
• Li Hao used his panel to perfect the first stages of both arts and asked Old Wang about the remaining trials.
• Old Wang explained that the second trial required defeating a twice-as-strong copy and the third required becoming a True Immortal with a three-seal immortal dao.
• Li Hao took out his Flower Wandering Token, prompting the Flower Saint and Wandering Saint to recognize it and ask whether he belonged to their society.

Li Hao painted the Heaven and Earth Hong Bell, gaining major insight and rapidly filling his Painting Dao experience before deciding that repetition alone would not bring a breakthrough. He then asked Old Wang to teach him farming, and explained his carefree approach to choosing his own destination.

• The Flower Saint and Wandering Saint learned that Li Hao belonged to the Flower Wandering Society and praised his talent before the Herding Saint entered the Black Tower for another challenge.
• The Herding Saint emerged sooner than before, and the Flower Saint observed that Li Hao’s arrival had unsettled the other Sages.
• Li Hao painted the Heaven and Earth Hong Bell, whose phantom resonated with the real bell, refined his Primordial Spirit, and granted him a glimpse of immortal essence.
• Li Hao painted the bell repeatedly over two days, maxed out his Painting Dao experience, then stopped when the repeated work no longer brought clearer insight.
• Old Wang explained where Li Hao could go and reflected on the difference between genius and diligence, while Li Hao asked him to teach him farming.
• Li Hao described a fourth kind of person who chose to stand where he was and set his own destination, leaving Old Wang struck by his outlook.

Li Hao spent three years learning about immortal medicines and playing Go with Old Wang instead of cultivating for the trials, while Bright Saint repeatedly challenged the True Venerable Tower. The chapter ended when a Sage perfected the Ten Thousand Battles Immortal Art, releasing a spear intent powerful enough to draw Li Hao’s attention from the board.

• Old Wang agreed to teach Li Hao about immortal medicines, and Li Hao spent his days learning to cultivate the herbs and hearing about the Heavenly Calamity Hall’s stars.
• Li Hao challenged Old Wang to Go and lost repeatedly, gradually improving his understanding while remaining determined to win.
• Bright Saint entered the True Venerable Tower to challenge the trial, while other Sages worried that Li Hao was wasting time; Li Hao chose to keep playing Go until he could beat Old Wang.
• Over the next year, Li Hao’s chess Dao reached ninth dan perfection, but he still never defeated Old Wang.
• Two more years passed before a Sage perfected the Ten Thousand Battles Immortal Art and released a powerful spear intent that made Li Hao look away from the board.

Lin Sheng perfected the Spear Dao and entered the second trial, while Li Hao won a game against Old Wang and broke through to the tenth dan of the Chess Dao. After revealing that he had mastered the Yama Immortal Technique, Li Hao prepared to use his new Chess Dao state of mind to improve his movement techniques and challenge the True Venerable Tower.

• Lin Sheng comprehended the Spear Dao’s origin true meaning, earned Old Wang’s permission to take the second trial, and lasted longer in the True Venerable Tower than Bright Saint and Herding Saint had on their first attempts.
• Li Hao shifted to a fierce strategy against Old Wang, sacrificed groups of stones to open gaps in his formation, and won their game by half a point.
• Li Hao gained the Chess Dao state of mind, Transcending Mortality and Entering Sainthood, and decided to apply it to his movement techniques.
• Old Wang explained that a challenger’s projection was set before a True Venerable Tower attempt began, so sudden enlightenment during the challenge could help someone pass.
• Li Hao demonstrated the perfected Yanluo Outer Image Battle Technique, Yan Blade, and Di Luo Shield Technique, revealing that he had mastered the Yama Immortal Technique.

Li Hao passed the first trial by cultivating the Yama Immortal Technique to perfected origin true meaning, then entered the True Venerable Tower to begin his challenge. As the Sages reacted to his astonishing progress, Li Hao faced a stronger version of himself and clashed swords with its Immortal Guides the Way.

• Li Hao demonstrated his mastery of the Yama Immortal Technique, and Old Wang confirmed that he had passed the first trial.
• Li Hao flew to the True Venerable Tower and entered it while the watching Sages initially assumed he could not be attempting a challenge.
• Old Wang told the Sages that Li Hao had passed the first trial in three years and explained that such talent could qualify him to become an official disciple of the Immortal Emperor.
• The Sages worried about Li Hao's competition for a disciple position, then noticed that he had remained inside the tower for a long time.
• Inside the tower, Li Hao faced a projection of himself with a stronger body and fought back against its Immortal Guides the Way using the same sword technique and layered Ripple Sword strikes.

Li Hao defeated the True Venerable Tower’s first projection by turning his endless energy and teleportation into a sword formation, then was killed by a much stronger projection after entering a deeper trial. He emerged from the tower to the astonishment of the waiting Sages and returned to Old Wang, while their reactions revealed both admiration and murderous interest.

• Li Hao studied the projection’s attacks and realized its relentless urge to attack could become a weakness, then arranged his teleportation routes into a sword formation and destroyed it.
• Li Hao entered a purple pillar, returned to the trial world, and faced a projection at least five times stronger than himself, which killed him by breaking through his Return to Emptiness Teleportation.
• Li Hao awoke beside the tower entrance, left the tower, and confused the waiting Sages by emerging after nearly two sticks of incense.
• Lin Sheng, Saint Luo, the Herding Saint, and Bright Saint reacted to Li Hao’s apparent progress with humiliation, disbelief, anger, or thoughts of seizing the Immortal Emperor Dao Heritage.
• Li Hao returned to the meditation cushions, noticed the others’ hidden killing intent, and approached Old Wang, who sighed at him with complicated emotions.

Old Wang revealed that Li Hao had passed the second trial and the first floor of the True Venerable Tower, then explained the stakes of the Official Disciple trials and the path to the True Immortal Realm. Li Hao agreed to try for the Official Disciple heritage, though he remained unsure he could overcome the tower’s stronger projections.

• Li Hao told the gathered Sages that he had survived the True Venerable Tower by constantly fleeing, while Old Wang defended his achievement and took him aside.
• Bright Saint, Herding Saint, and Lin Sheng followed them, suspecting Old Wang had secretly helped Li Hao; Old Wang rebuked their jealousy and praised Li Hao’s talent and independent cultivation.
• Old Wang revealed that Li Hao had passed the second trial and cleared the tower’s first floor, and explained that the tower had three floors with projections at two, five, and ten times a challenger’s strength.
• After the three Sages left, Old Wang urged Li Hao to pursue the Official Disciple trials and explained that the heritage could lead to the Immortal Lord Realm and potentially the Immortal King Realm.
• Old Wang taught Li Hao that advancing to the True Immortal Realm required proving one’s Dao through origin true meaning, while Official Disciples needed a Nine Flowers Immortal Seal and a soul lifespan under ten thousand years.

Old Wang taught Li Hao the True Immortal Chapter of the Heaven-Following Ancestral Scripture and explained that becoming an Official Disciple could let him leave the Imperial Hall as Li Hao’s Dao guardian. After two years of training and playing Go, Li Hao still struggled to reach the eleventh-dan mental states he needed, and he flew to challenge the True Venerable Tower again.

• Old Wang imparted the Heaven-Following Ancestral Scripture’s True Immortal Chapter to Li Hao and explained its power and the requirements for mastering it.
• Li Hao realized that perfecting the scripture would require both his Path of the Physical Body and Imperial Dao to reach eleventh dan, and he resolved to help Old Wang leave by becoming an Official Disciple.
• Old Wang told Li Hao that only a truly admitted disciple could take him outside as a Dao guardian, and Li Hao promised to make it happen.
• Over the next two years, Li Hao played Go with Old Wang and painted the Heaven and Earth Hong Bell, but neither his Chess Dao nor Painting Dao reached eleventh dan.
• After Herding Saint returned from the True Venerable Tower, Li Hao flew to challenge it again while Lin Sheng and Bright Saint watched uneasily.

Li Hao fought the True Venerable Tower’s second-floor projection, awakened the Incense God Realm through the faith gathered over five years, and finally defeated his vastly stronger opponent. The projection revealed itself as the True Venerable Tower and warned Li Hao that the next trial, the Nine Flowers Immortal Seal, would be extremely difficult.

• Li Hao raised his Body Movement Dao to tenth dan and fought the projection, but it anticipated his Cosmos Chess Game and forced him into a desperate retreat.
• The Path of Sacrifice tribulation allowed five years of accumulated incense power to reach Li Hao, awakening his Incense God Realm and strengthening his heavenly dao embryo.
• Li Hao burned the embryo’s power and used a final sword strike, drawing on heavenly venerable will to destroy the projection’s primordial spirit.
• The projection recovered, confirmed that Li Hao had passed the second-floor trial, and identified itself as the True Venerable Tower.
• The True Venerable Tower told Li Hao that the Nine Flowers Immortal Seal was difficult and offered to help if he reached a bottleneck.

Li Hao passed the second floor of the True Venerable Tower, stunning the Sages and earning Old Wang’s praise. As he learned how difficult the nine flowers immortal seal would be, he studied the Myriad Paths Record and found a new insight into space through Old Wang’s go board.

• The Tower Soul told Li Hao that “following” meant time and “heaven” meant space, then sent him out of the tower.
• The Sages learned that Li Hao had passed the second floor, and Old Wang took him aside to explain the challenge of forming a nine flowers immortal seal.
• Old Wang gave Li Hao the Myriad Paths Record, and Li Hao identified the Nine Orders and considered how the Heaven-Following Ancestral Scripture related to time and space.
• Li Hao asked Old Wang for the go board and, while studying it, realized that it contained boundless space.

Li Hao advanced his chess and painting dao, comprehending higher levels of space, water, and earth origins. He created a working painted Heaven and Earth Hong Bell that helped Saint Luo prove his dao heart, and prepared to play more chess before condensing the Nine Flowers Immortal Seal.

• Li Hao understood space through the chess dao, defeated Old Wang, and advanced to the eleventh dan with spatial origin at the third level.
• Li Hao painted the Heaven and Earth Hong Bell repeatedly until he reached the painting dao’s eleventh dan and advanced his space origin to the fourth level, alongside water and earth origin insights.
• The Sages were startled when Li Hao’s painting produced a bell that looked real, and Old Wang recognized traces of multiple dao origins in it.
• Saint Luo used the painted bell to prove his dao heart, and it rang four times to confirm his heaven grade dao heart.
• Li Hao noticed the painted bell was fading, smiled at Old Wang, and planned to play more games before condensing the Nine Flowers Immortal Seal.

Li Hao advanced his cultivation, endured the Three Tribulations Heavenly Tribulation, and condensed an Immortal Seal during the True Immortal Tribulation. He formed a Nine Flowers Immortal Seal, passing the trial to become the Immortal Emperor’s Official Disciple while Old Wang realized he might finally be able to leave.

• Li Hao embedded two Origin True Hearts into the Path of the Physical Body and Imperial Dao, triggering a heavenly tribulation that he endured while comprehending the Heaven-Following Ancestral Scripture.
• Li Hao formed an ancestral immortal body and mastered the Battle Heaven Control Method as twenty-seven tribulations fell, revealing that he had advanced three paths to becoming a Sage.
• Li Hao condensed an Immortal Seal and faced the True Immortal Tribulation, then used three Nine Sequences Great Dao origins to form a Three Flowers Immortal Seal.
• Li Hao added the origins of the Path of the Physical Body, Control Path, Sword Dao, Yanluo Battle Method, and Body Movement Dao, expanding his Immortal Seal to eight flowers.
• Li Hao added a second Sword Dao origin through Great Dream Nine Abyss-Immortal Guides the Way, forming a Nine Flowers Immortal Seal that broke through the tribulation clouds and passed the Official Disciple trial.
• Old Wang watched Li Hao succeed and realized he could finally leave after waiting for countless years.

Li Hao formed the Nine Flowers Immortal Seal and chose to become an Official Disciple and inherit the Immortal Emperor Dao Heritage rather than remain for ten thousand years to pursue a Personal Disciple trial. The Venerable God explained the path to becoming a True God and revealed that the Immortal Emperor had left guidance for Li Hao to pursue a higher rank.

• Li Hao examined his incomplete Heaven-Following Ancestral Scripture and Ancestral Immortal Body, then realized his Nine Flowers Immortal Seal amplified his immortal power 256-fold.
• Old Wang told Li Hao about the Venerable God, a former True God who resided in the True Venerable Tower, and offered him the choice to leave as an Official Disciple or stay and seek a Personal Disciple trial.
• Li Hao chose to inherit the Dao Heritage and leave, while Old Wang placed the Immortal Calamity Curse on the others to prevent them from revealing the inheritance or Li Hao’s identity.
• Old Wang told the group that Li Hao could select Immortal Guards, and that serving him could grant them a cultivation method with a chance to reach the Immortal Lord realm.
• The Venerable God explained that becoming a True God required refining divine bones, forming primordial spirit blood, and condensing a true god mark, then told Li Hao that the Immortal Emperor had left clues for aspiring Personal Disciples.

Li Hao became an Official Disciple of the Tian Yang Immortal Emperor and received protection, cultivation resources, and weapons from the Heavenly Calamity Imperial Palace. The chapter ended with Li Hao learning that finding and returning Qing Xuan, the Emperor’s Second Disciple, could earn him a chance to become a Personal Disciple.

• Venerable God told Li Hao that he would place the True Venerable Tower in his primordial spirit, then explained that he planned to search for the Tian Yang Immortal Emperor’s remains.
• Old Wang escorted Li Hao to the Heavenly Calamity Imperial Hall, where Li Huang recognized him as Haotian and directed Old Wang to give him the legacy.
• Li Hao revealed his Nine Flowers Immortal Seal and received three jade king’s tokens, which could each be exchanged for an immortal vein if their trading guilds still existed.
• Li Hao chose the Daoji Immortal Sword and Extreme Thunder Immortal Armor from the treasury, forming bonds with both.
• Li Hao entered the Inheritance Stone and witnessed Qing Xuan’s sword technique before learning that returning the Emperor’s Second Disciple could earn him a chance at promotion to Personal Disciple.

Li Hao received the Purple Forbidden supreme immortal art and became an Official Disciple of the Tian Yang Immortal Emperor. As he prepared to leave, he learned that Ying Xiaoxiao might be the reincarnation of the Personal Disciple Shi Miao and was offered ten Immortal Guard places.

• Li Hao learned that Shi Miao was a lost Personal Disciple whose Soul Core might have reincarnated, and accepted reflected Soul Cores to help identify the surviving disciples.
• Li Hao recorded six of the ten supreme immortal arts, chose Purple Forbidden, and discovered that his Space Origin let him master it to the pinnacle.
• Old Wang took Li Hao to Li Huang, who branded him as an Official Disciple and urged him to find the surviving Personal Disciples rather than eliminate them.
• Li Hao and Old Wang prepared to leave the inheritance grounds, and Old Wang told Li Hao he could choose ten Immortal Guards from among Bright Saint, Lin Sheng, and the others.

Li Hao chose five people to become his Immortal Guards before the Venerable God prepared to transfer the True Venerable Tower’s true body to him. Meanwhile, five years after the Heavenly Palace’s arrival, three true immortals threatened the Haotian Sacred Land and demanded Li Hao’s body.

• Li Hao accepted Lin Sheng, the Flower Saint, the Wandering Saint, Winter Blade, and Chen Baoyu as Immortal Guards, while Bright Saint and Herding Saint chose to pursue their own paths.
• The Venerable God told Li Hao that he could soon leave and began preparing to transfer the True Venerable Tower’s true body to him.
• The Heavenly Palace and other factions expanded their presence across the Heavenly Realms, recruiting disciples and clearing a forbidden zone along the Ancient Road.
• Three true immortals confronted Feng Boping, the Sword Master, Saint Mitian, and the Haotian Sacred Land, offering immortal stones and sect membership in exchange for Li Hao’s corpse.
• Feng Boping and the others restrained themselves from resisting, knowing the three true immortals could destroy them and suspecting they had waited for Lie Heaven Saint to leave before revealing their intentions.