Chapter Summaries

Feng Boping and the others tried to protect Li Hao’s corpse from three True Immortals who wanted it for pill refining, while Li Hao inherited the True Venerable Tower and returned to the Heavenly Realms. He arrived at Saint Mountain just as the cold beauty attacked Saint Mitian and demanded an answer, and Li Hao confronted the True Immortals.

• The cold beauty and the Silver-Robed Youth demanded Li Hao’s body, but Feng Boping refused to surrender it, and Saint Mitian’s group secretly planned to stall for help.
• Feng Boping offered to stay and fight the True Immortals with a forbidden technique, while the Sword Master resolved to grow strong enough to avenge them.
• The cold beauty struck Saint Mitian with overwhelming force when he continued to stall, and Feng Boping caught his injured master.
• Li Hao absorbed the True Venerable Tower, which the Venerable God explained would nourish and protect his Primordial Spirit, then prepared to leave the forbidden zone with the others.
• Old Wang opened a passage to Li Hao’s sacred land, and Li Hao returned with the group to find three True Immortals threatening his friends.
• Li Hao asked what the True Immortals wanted and faced them as murderous intent rose within him.

Li Hao returned to the Sacred Land as a true immortal and swiftly killed two of the three intruding cultivators with the Daoji Immortal Sword. He learned that the surviving woman belonged to the Zhan Tian Clan, while Old Wang revealed that his immortal kingdom could block the clan’s death-tracking secret realm.

• Li Hao appeared beside Old Wang, halted the three true immortals, and reunited with Feng Boping and the others.
• Zuo Chunqiu offered immortal stones and invoked the Xuan Zhan Sect, but Li Hao attacked with the Daoji Immortal Sword.
• The sword killed the silver-armored young man and Zuo Chunqiu, while it spared the woman in the colorful skirt.
• The woman warned Li Hao that she belonged to the Zhan Tian Clan, and Old Wang explained the clan’s history and its Primordial Spirit Secret Realm.
• Old Wang revealed that his immortal kingdom could block the secret realm’s tracking power, leaving the woman’s threat ineffective.

Li Hao returned to the Haotian Sacred Land, killed the True Immortals who had threatened it, and learned how True Realm visitors were exploiting the Heavenly Realms. After Old Wang helped him eliminate more intruders, Li Hao reunited with his true body, attained an Ancestral Immortal Body, and became a first-level True Immortal.

• Li Hao killed the three True Immortals who had tried to seize his body, then reunited with Feng Boping, Lin Qingying, and the others at the Haotian Sacred Land.
• Feng Boping and the others told Li Hao that the Source Ancestor and God King had gone to the True Realm and that some True Immortals were abusing the Heavenly Realms and forcibly taking disciples.
• Old Wang revealed the locations of the remaining True Immortals, and Li Hao pointed out several who were mistreating locals; they were annihilated from afar.
• Li Hao withdrew his Primordial Spirit from the Chaos Origin Body and merged it with his true body, which absorbed immortal power and became an Ancestral Immortal Body.
• Li Hao reached the first level of the True Immortal Realm, and news of his return sparked cheers throughout the Heavenly Realms as incense power gathered above the Haotian Sacred Land.

Li Hao returned to the Heavenly Realms, learned that Ying Xiaoxiao had likely gone to the True Realm, and decided to search for her there with Old Wang and his friends. After they crossed into the True Realm, four True Immortals arrived and took an interest in Lin Qingying.

• Li Hao accepted the Heavenly Realms' incense and reunited with Feng Boping, Saint Mitian, Lin Sheng, and the others.
• Old Wang traced temporal fluctuations and concluded that Ying Xiaoxiao had likely passed into the True Realm, prompting Li Hao to hurry after her.
• Feng Boping, Lin Qingying, the Sword Master, and others chose to accompany Li Hao, while Saint Mitian stayed behind to watch over their home.
• Li Hao, Old Wang, and their companions traveled to the Starry Sky Ancient Hall, entered the True Realm, and waited while Old Wang began setting up an Immortal Array.
• Four True Immortals arrived outside the Profound Gate, noticed Li Hao's low cultivation, and focused their attention on Lin Qingying's unusual sword intent Dao Embryo.

Li Hao protected Lin Qingying from a True Immortal who tried to force her into his sect, then led his friends into the True Realm while Old Wang uncovered signs of the Heavenly Palace’s survival and mourned the decline of Heart Questioning Floating Pagoda City. The group entered the city and saw the Heaven One Sect’s Ten Thousand Mountains Sword Pavilion arrive to recruit disciples.

• A young True Immortal from the Spring Sword Sect tried to recruit Lin Qingying, but she said she would follow Li Hao, who refused the offer on her behalf.
• The young True Immortal attacked Li Hao, and Li Hao killed him with Daoji despite his eighth-layer cultivation; Old Wang secretly dealt with the three surviving True Immortals after they fled.
• Li Hao, Feng Boping, Lin Qingying, and the others crossed the battlefield and traveled toward an Immortal Gate while Old Wang left briefly to visit the ancient battlefield.
• At the teleportation point, Old Wang recognized the Heavenly Palace guards and opened a passage himself, revealing that he was an Immortal King.
• The group arrived at Heart Questioning Floating Pagoda City, where Old Wang lamented its decline from its former glory as Li Hao paid the entrance fee.
• The Heaven One Sect’s Ten Thousand Mountains Sword Pavilion appeared over the city, drawing cultivators who hoped to join its recruitment trials.

Li Hao explored recruitment in the True Realm while his companions tested their Dao hearts and joined sects suited to them. After a Disaster Clan woman named Shen Xiuhua was turned away from the Ten Thousand Mountains Sword Pavilion, the Red-Nosed Old Man offered to recruit Li Hao into Great Dream Nine Abyss if he passed its tests and brought another person along.

• Old Wang gave Li Hao three willow leaves and an origin mark, then left to search for God Daughter Shi Miao’s reincarnated body.
• The Ten Thousand Mountains Sword Pavilion announced its recruitment requirements, and Lin Qingying reached five Dao-heart chimes while the Sword Master and the others tested themselves.
• Li Hao recorded the Ten Thousand Mountains Starting Form, ate with the Red-Nosed Old Man, and later joined the Limping Old Man in fishing for Dragon Sparrows.
• Li Hao’s companions joined different sects, while Feng Boping joined the Grave Sect and promised to seek Li Hao again after he reached the Ten Thousand Mountains Sword Pavilion’s pinnacle.
• Shen Xiuhua emerged from the Heart Questioning Pagoda with a remarkable Dao heart, but the Ten Thousand Mountains Sword Pavilion stopped her from joining.
• The Red-Nosed Old Man offered to accept Li Hao into Great Dream Nine Abyss if he achieved six Dao-heart chimes, learned Immortal Guides the Way within seven days, and brought another person; Li Hao saw Shen Xiuhua being turned away.

Li Hao achieved the Heart Questioning Nine Echoes and chose to join Great Dream Nine Abyss, despite the Ten Thousand Mountains Sword Pavilion competing for him. As the red-nosed old man led Li Hao and Yue Xi toward the sect, Lin Qingying chose the Ten Thousand Mountains Sword Pavilion, and Li Hao gave protective willow leaves to her and Old Feng.

• Shen Xiuhua, who revealed her name as Yue Xi, became the red-nosed old man's disciple after Cui Yuesheng refused to accept her into the Ten Thousand Mountains Sword Pavilion.
• Li Hao entered the Heart Questioning Pagoda and rang its bell nine times, stunning the square and drawing competing offers from the sects.
• Li Hao chose Great Dream Nine Abyss because he had given the red-nosed old man his word, then taught supreme Immortal Arts to his companions as they considered joining other factions.
• Lin Qingying awoke from her contemplation and chose the Ten Thousand Mountains Sword Pavilion, while Li Hao gave her a protective willow leaf and gave another to Old Feng before leaving.
• As Li Hao traveled toward Great Dream Nine Abyss with Yue Xi and Lin Yu Feng, Yue Xi proposed a Sword Dao spar, but Li Hao said he found sparring dull and boring.

Li Hao and Yue Xi joined Sword Abyss under Li Tiemu, while Lin Yu Feng was accepted into Spear Abyss. After Li Tiemu demonstrated the sect’s core sword art, Yue Xi revealed her eight-chime eternal dao heart and said Li Hao’s had sounded one more chime.

• Li Tiemu explained the True Realm’s regions and powers as he led Li Hao, Lin Yu Feng, and Yue Xi to Great Dream Nine Abyss.
• Li Tiemu arranged for Lin Yu Feng to become Tao Chun Feng’s disciple in Spear Abyss, then brought Li Hao and Yue Xi to Sword Abyss.
• Li Hao and Yue Xi agreed to become Li Tiemu’s disciples, but a disturbance from the Broken Iron in the Sword Immortal Pavilion interrupted their tea ceremony.
• Li Tiemu named Yue Xi his Sixth Brother and Li Hao his Seventh Brother, then taught them the first form of the Great Dream Nine Abyss Immortal Sword.
• Li Hao met his senior disciples Lu Wu Chen, Wei Hongye, and Xu Jianming, and Yue Xi disclosed that her eternal dao heart had sounded eight chimes while Li Hao’s had sounded nine.

Li Hao joined Sword Abyss Heaven Yard, passed Li Tiemu’s test despite spending his first days exploring and pursuing chess, painting, and cooking, then spent months practicing with local masters while Yue Xi advanced rapidly. A year after joining, Yue Xi returned to Emperor Sword Cliff for her second name-inscription challenge, drawing a crowd eager to see whether she could improve her ranking.

• Li Hao learned about Sword Abyss’s cultivation sites, received his residence and supplies, and named his courtyard Idlers Yard before inviting Evening Primrose to explore it with him.
• Li Hao spent days touring nearby Sacred Dynasties with Evening Primrose and recruited masters of chess, painting, and other pursuits to serve as practice partners.
• Yue Xi demonstrated that she had mastered Immortal Guides the Way, and Li Hao also passed Li Tiemu’s test; Li Hao then recorded the rudiments of Immortal Draws Sword after Li Tiemu taught it.
• Li Hao spent months playing games and painting with the recruited masters, while Yue Xi inscribed her name on Emperor Sword Cliff and later gained a famous sword from Sword Abyss Tower.
• One year after joining Heaven Yard, Yue Xi returned to Emperor Sword Cliff to attempt her second name-inscription challenge as disciples gathered to watch.

Yue Xi improved her position on the Emperor Sword Cliff but learned that Li Hao had left the mountain, while Li Hao gained insight into angling and time from Old Han. Li Hao advanced his Sword Dao to the eleventh dan and returned to Sword Abyss, flying over the cliff whose challenge he had yet to face.

• Yue Xi challenged the Emperor Sword Cliff and carved her name three feet above its previous position, surpassing hundreds of prodigies.
• Yue Xi learned from her steward that Li Hao had gone down the mountain, then set aside her disappointment.
• Li Hao fished with Old Han and comprehended the Fishing Origin Mental State after drawing forth a time projection of the Heart Questioning Pagoda's destruction.
• Old Han explained the pagoda's history and gave Li Hao a small black tower that might save his life.
• Li Hao advanced his Sword Dao to the eleventh dan, raising Immortal Draws Sword to its pinnacle and the Azure Sky Sword Technique to perfection.
• Li Hao returned to Sword Abyss and flew over the Emperor Sword Cliff.

Li Hao replaced one flower in his Nine Flowers Immortal Seal with the Time Origin Great Dao, then acquired the quasi-emperor-grade Sword God Art at the Sword Abyss Tower. As he cultivated toward the level needed to leave the mountain, Gu Yan’s astonishing sword talent and Yue Xi’s determination raised the stakes, before Li Tiemu summoned all disciples.

• Li Hao condensed a new Nine Flowers Immortal Seal incorporating the Time Origin Great Dao and reached the eleventh dan of the Sword Dao during his first year at the Sword Abyss.
• Li Tiemu brought Gu Yan to the Sword Abyss, introduced him as an Ancient Immortal Descendant with an innate sword immortal body, and watched him master Immortal Guides the Way after a single demonstration.
• Li Hao sought to hunt Ancient Demons but learned that Sword Abyss disciples could not leave for field training before reaching the True Immortal Realm Fifth Layer.
• At the Sword Abyss Tower, Li Hao drew the Sword God Art, a quasi-emperor-grade sword art, and comprehended its first sword to perfection.
• Li Hao reached the True Immortal Realm Third Layer as Gu Yan left his name on Emperor Sword Cliff ahead of Yue Xi, who renewed her resolve to surpass him.
• Li Hao reached the True Immortal Realm Fourth Layer, and Li Tiemu summoned all disciples to assemble.

The Sword Abyss opened seven trials on Emperor Sword Mountain, offering every disciple who passed a chance to study the Emperor Sword as the sect prepared for the Southern Region Assembly Battle. The disciples entered the mountain to compete, while Li Tiemu revealed that Gu Yan’s sword mastery might already have reached the fourth layer of the sword dao origin.

• Li Hao joined the gathered disciples and learned that the Sword Abyss would open Emperor Sword spots through trials on Emperor Sword Mountain.
• Ji Qingxuan arrived after earning merit for slaying seven Ancient Demon Commanders, and Li Tiemu announced that the sect would open its cultivation resources to prepare for the Southern Region Assembly Battle.
• The elders revealed seven increasingly difficult trials, culminating in a fight against an Ancestral Dragon at the True Immortal Realm Ninth Layer; the selection would last two years and forbid outside weapons and immortal pills.
• Ji Qingxuan, the senior disciples, Li Hao, and the other disciples entered Emperor Sword Mountain to begin the trials.
• After the disciples entered, Li Tiemu told Zhou Qingyun and the Old Woman that Gu Yan might have reached the fourth layer of the sword dao origin, and they watched as the Abyss Master awaited the contenders at the summit.

Li Hao entered Emperor Sword Mountain, rescued Hu Hongyao, and became absorbed in a Go game with Spirit Clan members instead of heading for the central region. As Gu Yan finally began the trial, Abyss Master Yun Wumian noticed Li Hao playing Go in the valley and reacted with surprise.

• Yue Xi flew ahead, while Gu Yan stayed behind because he thought competing alongside everyone would make the challenge boring; Li Hao went on alone.
• Li Hao entered the first level, drove off four Spirit Clan fighters, and saved Hu Hongyao, who promised to bring him food from her hometown.
• Li Hao reached a ravine where A Ling attacked him, but his Ancestral Immortal Body shrugged off her strike; he then asked to watch the Spirit Clan elder and his disciple play Go.
• After Li Hao analyzed the game, the Spirit Clan elder invited him to play, while A Ling told the middle-aged Spirit Clan man that Li Hao's Immortal Body was too tough for her to injure.
• Yun Wumian welcomed Ji Qingxuan and three other disciples at the summit, then watched Gu Yan enter the first level and noticed Li Hao's gathering in the ravine with surprise.

Gu Yan awakened the power of his ancient immortal bloodline and defeated the Ancestral Dragon, while Yue Xi also forced her way to the summit through her Disaster Clan power. On the trial’s final day, Li Hao finally left his two-year Go match and began ascending Emperor Sword Mountain, killing the demons in his path and striking down the Ancestral Dragon with one sword; the chapter ends as someone teleports onto the summit.

• Gu Yan awakened his ancient immortal bloodline, defeated the Ancestral Dragon, and reached the summit, shocking the disciples and elders.
• After Yue Xi lost on the sixth layer, she drew on the Disaster Clan’s calamity power, defeated the demon, and forced her way through the seventh layer before collapsing at the summit.
• Li Hao bid farewell to the Spirit Clan elder after spending two years playing Go on the first layer, then teleported to the second layer on the trial’s final day.
• Li Hao swept through the next layers and killed three ancient demons on the fifth layer before continuing upward.
• On the seventh layer, Li Hao used One Sword Azure Sky to split the Ancestral Dragon’s body and entered the teleportation array to the summit.
• The disciples gathered around the unconscious Yue Xi as signs of teleportation appeared along the Immortal Dao beyond the summit.

Li Hao reached the summit of Emperor Sword Mountain after defeating the Ancestral Dragon, but left early after grasping the rudiments of the Emperor Sword styles. As the disciples completed half a year of study, the Sword Abyss prepared to depart for the Southern Region Assembly Battle.

• Li Hao arrived at the summit, startling the elders and disciples, and Zhou Qingyun and the old woman found the Ancestral Dragon badly wounded by his sword strike.
• Yun Wumian healed Yue Xi, revealed the Emperor Sword Intent on two Sword-Mark Monuments, and announced that the disciples could study them for half a year.
• Li Hao recognized the sword marks as Severing Sky and Drawing Moon, then asked Yun Wumian to let him leave because he wanted to play chess, paint, eat, and carve instead.
• Yun Wumian explained the Southern Region Assembly Battle and promised the Sword Abyss would protect Li Hao; Li Hao still descended the mountain and went to play a game with the Spirit Clan Elder and A Ling.
• Yun Wumian and Li Tiemu discussed restoring Great Dream Nine Abyss to its former standing, and Yun Wumian urged Li Tiemu not to reshape the disciples under the weight of their ambitions.
• After half a year, Yun Wumian withdrew the Sword-Mark Monuments and called the disciples away from their contemplation so they could join the other abysses before setting out.

After the Emperor Sword Mountain trial, Li Hao reunited with his fellow disciples, who learned he had spent years playing Go at the mountain’s first layer. As the sect prepared for the Southern Region Contest and the dangerous Demon Subduing Division campaign, Li Hao gained Yun Wumian’s promise to spare the Spirit Clan and traveled with the Sword Abyss to Great Dream Mountain.

• Li Tiemu explained that four Sword Abyss disciples would compete in the Southern Region Assembly Battle, while Wei Hongye and Lu Wu Chen would join the Demon Subduing Division to earn immortal merit at the Yan-Chu Border.
• Gu Yan, Yue Xi, and Murong Qingwu found Li Hao playing Go with Spirit Clan members; Gu Yan challenged him, but a Spirit Clan elder stopped his sword strike, and the disciples left without a fight.
• Li Hao finished his game, then asked Yun Wumian to spare the Spirit Clan; Yun Wumian agreed not to kill them unless they were Demon Race or Ancient Demons.
• Li Hao reunited with Li Tiemu, who led the Sword Abyss disciples to Great Dream Mountain to meet disciples from the other abysses.
• The Spear Abyss disciples arrived at Great Dream Mountain, and Lin Yu Feng spotted Li Hao and came over to bow to him.

Li Hao and the other Great Dream Nine Abyss disciples gathered with the sects of the Yan Chu Immortal Dynasty before entering the Ancient Immortal Realm for a trial. The chapter left them facing a vast Black Tablet in the realm’s storm-wracked wilderness.

• Li Hao discovered Lin Yu Feng had become a second-layer true immortal, and Tao Chun Feng praised him as a prodigy wielding the Ten Great Immortal Art Thunder Howl.
• The Dream Master addressed the assembled disciples and opened a spatial passage, while Ji Qingxuan, Lu Wu Chen, and Wei Hongye gave Li Hao and his companions supplies and protective armor.
• Li Tiemu led his disciples through the passage to the Yan Chu Immortal Dynasty’s gathering place, where Li Hao saw the Ten Thousand Mountains Sword Pavilion and learned about the sects’ quotas for the Southern Region Assembly Battle.
• Third Prince Chu Xiangtian announced a trial in the Ancient Immortal Realm, and Li Tiemu explained that its forty-nine desolate regions were so dangerous that even immortal kings could not reach the fortieth.
• Li Tiemu led Li Hao and the others into the Ancient Immortal Realm, where they encountered a storm-filled landscape and an enormous Black Tablet resembling the Heavenly Stele.

Chu Xiangtian announced a three-year trial in the Ancient Immortal Realm, where nearly twenty thousand Heavenly Prodigies would compete for one thousand places in the Southern Region Assembly Battle. Li Hao raced through the desolate domains and reached the Tenth Desolate Domain, where he encountered a mysterious young woman.

• Chu Xiangtian explained that only one thousand contenders would qualify and that passing through the Tenth Desolate Domain granted automatic entry to the Southern Region Assembly Battle.
• Li Tiemu described the dangers of the desolate domains, and the Imperial Clan members entered first before disciples from the sects followed.
• Li Hao avoided a sudden lightning strike in the First Desolate Domain, then used his space origin to race ahead of Murong Qingwu, Yue Xi, and Gu Yan.
• Li Hao advanced rapidly to the Eighth Desolate Domain, drawing attention as his ranking climbed, and then reached the Ninth Desolate Domain ahead of many Imperial Clan contenders.
• Li Hao cut through the dangerous mist wall and entered the Tenth Desolate Domain, where he met a beautiful young woman who noticed his True Immortal Realm Third Layer cultivation.

Li Hao reached the Mist Wall separating the Tenth and Eleventh Desolate Domains and broke through it with his sword despite having only True Immortal Realm Third Layer cultivation. As he entered the Eleventh Desolate Domain, powerful Yan-Chu observers took notice of his talents and debated recruiting him.

• Li Hao met Xing Lan of Star Palace, then traversed the Tenth Desolate Domain while evading attacks from Great Dao Origins and Primordial Immortal Arts.
• Xing Lan waited for Li Hao at the Tenth Domain's Mist Wall, warned him about the Eleventh Domain, and went ahead after revealing her Immortal Lord Realm cultivation.
• A prince of the Yan Chu Imperial Family challenged Li Hao, but Xing Lan intervened before the argument escalated; Li Hao later dodged a lightning-and-fire attack that struck one of the princes.
• Chu Xiangtian and other imperial family members watched Xing Lan advance and discussed recruiting the unidentified number 996, while two powerful figures—the White-Haired Elder and Golden Armor—noticed Li Hao and argued over whether to recruit him.
• Li Hao gathered his Ultimate Realm powers, cut through the Mist Wall with One sword strike-Blue Heaven, and used Sole Self Sword Dao to break apart the attacks within it.
• Li Hao crossed into the Eleventh Desolate Domain, a region where only Immortal Lord Realm cultivators were expected to venture.

Li Hao broke through the Mist Wall into the Eleventh Desolate Domain, then returned after deciding he had already qualified for the competition. Shangguan Hong and Yuan Xinggang recruited him, but Li Hao accepted only Yuan Xinggang’s offer to join the State Supervisory Academy while cultivating independently, and the two elders suspected he carried an Era of Emperor's Fall Inheritance.

• Li Hao’s identification number surged to seventeenth, revealing that he had broken through the Tenth Desolate Domain and drawing attention from Li Tiemu and the sect representatives.
• Li Hao entered the Eleventh Desolate Domain, dodged a fiery spear, and returned through the Mist Wall rather than risk staying longer.
• Shangguan Hong brought Li Hao to the hill and offered him a military career, but Li Hao declined full service and asked to cultivate on his own.
• Yuan Xinggang offered to accept Li Hao into the State Supervisory Academy without interfering in his cultivation, and Li Hao agreed.
• Shangguan Hong gave Li Hao a Chu King Token and a nominal squad-leader post, while Li Hao introduced himself as Haotian.
• Yuan Xinggang told Shangguan Hong that Li Hao might have received an Era of Emperor's Fall Inheritance, and Li Hao was teleported back to the Square before the Black Immortal Stele.