Chapter Summaries

At Qinghe Fallen City, the Sword Abyss disciples feared Li Hao had died in a major Ancient Demon battle, but a divination later confirmed his life light remained. While they trained for the Southern Region Assembly Battle, Li Hao became a spirit official and cultivated in the Water Moon Secret Realm; nearly three years later, Gu Xingwan said it was time to leave for the Immortal Capital Imperial City.

• Ji Qingxuan and Lu Wu Chen suspected Li Hao had fallen in a near-heaven-grade Ancient Demon battle after learning he had arrived at the border but never reported to the sect.
• Murong Qingwu told the Sword Abyss disciples that Li Hao alone had passed the Yan Chu Immortal Dynasty's Ancient Immortal Realm trial, and Lu Wu Chen agreed to ask the Dream Master to check his fate.
• Li Hao taught Gu Xingwan how to gather power within her body before releasing it through her sword, then received his spirit official token, garment, and sword from Gu Changming.
• Li Hao exchanged immortal merit for immortal stones and spent his days alternating between cultivation and eating Ancient Demon meat in the Water Moon Secret Realm.
• Gu Yan and the other Sword Abyss disciples trained with veteran soldiers, and Wei Hongye told Yue Xi and Murong Qingwu that the Dream Master's divination showed Li Hao was still alive.
• Nearly three years passed without another Ancient Demon incursion, and Gu Xingwan told Li Hao they should leave for the Immortal Capital Imperial City in the final month.

As the three-year deadline for the Southern Region Assembly Battle approached, disciples gathered in the Yan Chu Immortal Capital to challenge the Tenth Desolate Domain and settle the rankings. Li Hao stayed behind rather than pursue a higher rank, while Gu Xingwan, Yue Xi, Murong Qingwu, and Gu Yan set out for the Imperial City; the chapter ended with Xing Lan looking for Li Hao among the arriving contestants.

• Li Hao declined to travel with Gu Xingwan, saying he had already secured a place and would wait until the rewards were distributed; Gu Xingwan left disappointed.
• Yue Xi lost to a Golden-armored Soldier after forcing him to use Immortal Lord power, and Ji Qingxuan, Wei Hongye, Lu Wu Chen, and Murong Qingwu praised her progress.
• Murong Qingwu, Yue Xi, and Gu Yan departed for the Imperial City, while Huo Xiaoqi left the Yinglong Imperial Guard Camp and asked Shi Tianjin to pass a message to Chong Er.
• Contestants and their escorts gathered at the Imperial Palace Platform before entering the Ancient Immortal Realm as the three-year trial reached its end.
• An Imperial Clan prince ordered Murong Qingwu, Yue Xi, and Gu Yan out of his way; Gu Yan vowed to defeat him if they met in battle.
• Imperial Clan members rushed into the Desolate Region to compete, while Xing Lan searched the gathering for the youth who had fought beside her and told her fellow disciples to pursue a hundred places for the Star Palace.

As the Southern Region Assembly Battle drew near, disciples from the Great Dream Nine Abyss and other sects entered the Desolate Region while Li Hao stayed behind to cultivate. On his way to the Immortal Capital, Li Hao encountered Mi Xueyao, the Ancient Demon Woman, in Qinghe Fallen City and was startled to find her inside Human Race territory.

• Li Tiemu reunited with Gu Yan, Murong Qingwu, and Yue Xi, praised their progress, and explained that Li Hao had not been seen for three years but was protected by the Primal Tribulation Dao Fish.
• Lin Mingrong, Gu Yan, Murong Qingwu, and Yue Xi entered the Desolate Region to compete, while Li Tiemu watched for a promising disciple from the Spear Abyss.
• Lin Qingying refused Tian Hongyi's offer to guide her through the Desolate Region and went in alone; Tian Hongyi rebuked another woman who asked him for help.
• Huo Xiaoqi entered the Desolate Region, while Chu Xiangtian and other powerful figures discussed the approaching competitors and Chu Xiangtian rejected a proposal to test Boya Xuejian beforehand.
• Li Hao cultivated in the Water Moon Secret Realm for three years, advancing to the true immortal realm ninth layer, then left for the Immortal Capital after waiting five more days.
• Mi Xueyao deliberately drew Li Hao into an alley in Qinghe Fallen City, where he recognized her and questioned why an Ancient Demon was in Human Race territory.

Li Hao parted ways with Mi Xueyao, whose mysterious Reincarnation Fragment let her travel through human territory undetected, and hurried to the Yan Chu Immortal Capital. There he reunited with his companions, learned they had all qualified, and faced Li Tiemu’s insistence that he compete for the top ten.

• Mi Xueyao told Li Hao she would seek him out again, then vanished by teleportation; Li Hao suspected she used a Reincarnation Fragment to evade the border defenses.
• Li Hao left for the Border Teleportation Array, while Yue Xi and the others discussed their rankings and waited for him at the Immortal Stele.
• The disciples watched Ye Chen climb to seventeenth place and discussed the powerful Immortal Lords occupying the top ranks.
• Li Hao arrived and reunited with Li Tiemu, Yue Xi, Gu Yan, Murong Qingwu, and Lin Mingrong, learning that his companions had all qualified for the selection.
• Li Hao saw that his own rank had fallen to twenty-fifth and said he had come to watch the fun, prompting Li Tiemu to remind him that the top ten offered benefits.

Li Hao entered the Desolate Region and advanced from the Eleventh Domain into the Twelfth, pushing his ranking from twenty-fifth to tenth. The chapter ended with him dodging deadly attacks in the Twelfth Desolate Domain while Zhang Xuanyu planned to challenge the newcomer who had displaced him.

• Li Hao agreed to compete for the selection rewards, and Li Tiemu revealed that Li Hao ranked twenty-fifth under identification number 996.
• The surrounding abysses were astonished by Li Hao’s rank, and Su Yechen recognized his number from its earlier position at nineteenth.
• Li Hao broke through the Mist Walls of the Tenth and Eleventh Desolate Domains using his power, sword arts, and spatial and time origins.
• Li Hao entered the Twelfth Desolate Domain, and his number surged from twenty-fifth to tenth, knocking Zhang Xuanyu out of the top ten.
• Zhang Xuanyu learned that an unidentified competitor had taken his place and decided to wait before challenging him with a trump card.
• Li Hao narrowly avoided a Thunder Sword, then dodged rolling white mist and a dangerous black particle in the Twelfth Desolate Domain.

Li Hao returned from the Twelfth Desolate Domain and found himself ranked tenth, drawing attention from the Great Dream Nine Abyss Sect and its rivals. As the rankings neared their final lock, Zhang Xuanyu entered the domains to reclaim tenth place, while Li Hao remained calm and the surrounding disciples awaited the outcome.

• Li Hao left the Twelfth Desolate Domain after three days, and Yuan Xinggang and Shangguan Hong praised his progress and potential for the Southern Region Assembly Battle.
• Li Hao discovered he had risen from twenty-fifth to tenth place and reunited with Li Tiemu, Zhou Qingyun, and the other Great Dream Nine Abyss disciples.
• Lin Mingrong, Gu Yan, Yue Xi, and Su Yechen reacted to Li Hao's ranking, while Li Hao told curious disciples that they could succeed through hard work.
• Li Tiemu warned Li Hao that Zhang Xuanyu, a Ten Thousand Mountains Sword Pavilion disciple with Emperor Clan blood, might challenge his position, but Li Hao said he would accept whatever fate brought.
• Zhang Xuanyu entered the domains intending to use the Emperor Blood Secret Art to hold on for two days and reclaim tenth place, worrying Lin Qingying.
• Imperial family members discussed Boya Xuejian and their rankings as the final two days passed and the competition for places near the top thousand intensified.

Zhang Xuanyu emerged from the Twelfth Desolate Domain unable to reclaim tenth place, while Li Hao held onto the rank and celebrated with his sect. After the trial ended, Chu Xiangtian summoned the Grand Marshal Who Pacifies the Nation to bring out the remaining disciples and called the top thousand prodigies to the Immortal Platform.

• Zhang Xuanyu returned from the Twelfth Desolate Domain in eleventh place, and his sect accepted that he could not overtake the person in tenth.
• Lin Qingying brushed off Tian Hongyi's talk of reaching the summit and left him to return to her cultivation spot.
• Li Hao told Li Tiemu that he had spent three days in the Twelfth Desolate Domain, and he kept the nature of his Immortal Seal secret.
• Chu Xiangtian announced the trial's end and respectfully asked the Grand Marshal Who Pacifies the Nation to bring out the disciples still in the Desolate Region.
• The Grand Marshal's immortal power swept through the Desolate Region and pushed out the remaining disciples.
• Chu Xiangtian summoned the Immortal Platform and invited the prodigies ranked in the top thousand to ascend it.

Li Hao was revealed as the tenth-ranked name on the Immortal Stele, shocking the gathered sects because he belonged to the Great Dream Nine Abyss and was still in the true immortal realm. He joined the other top-ranked cultivators on the Immortal Platform as the Southern Region Assembly Battle was about to begin.

• Golden beams summoned the top-ranked cultivators, including Chu Tianhuang, Boya Xuejian, Xing Lan, and Tian Hongyi, to the Immortal Platform.
• The Sword Abyss elders lamented that their sect had been overlooked, while the old woman pointed out that Li Hao had made the top ten and could restore its reputation.
• The tenth beam landed on Li Hao, stunning Zhang Xuanyu, Cui Yuesheng, and Huo Qiling when they recognized him as a Great Dream Nine Abyss disciple still in the true immortal realm.
• Li Hao boarded the Immortal Platform and exchanged glances with a startled Xing Lan before dismissing the seventh-ranked Imperial Daughter's doubts about his achievement.
• Chu Xiangtian opened the proceedings, and thirty-six State Supervisory Academy elders gathered above the platform with their Heaven and Earth Dharma Forms.

The Yan Chu Immortal Dynasty projected the Ancient Immortal Realm’s contestants across its Nine Thousand Immortal Cities, while Zhang Xuanyu and Imperial Clan members challenged Li Hao’s tenth-place standing. Li Hao refused to back down and dared Chu Tianzheng to make him move, declaring that Chu Tianzheng was not worthy of being his opponent.

• Chu Xiangtian activated the array that revealed the Ancient Immortal Realm and its contestants throughout the Nine Thousand Immortal Cities, including the Imperial Palace projection.
• Zhang Xuanyu confronted Li Hao about his ranking, but Li Hao refused to answer and warned him not to pick a fight.
• An Imperial Daughter accused Li Hao of relying on an Immortal Weapon, and Chu Tianzheng publicly demanded that he leave the platform.
• The crowd mocked Li Hao and Great Dream Nine Abyss Sect, while Li Tiemu and the others struggled to defend him amid doubts about how he had earned his rank.
• Xing Lan defended Li Hao, but Li Hao told her to stop and challenged Chu Tianzheng to make him move a single step.
• Chu Tianzheng laughed at Li Hao’s challenge, and Li Hao replied that Chu Tianzheng was not qualified to be his opponent.

Li Hao faced Chu Tianzheng’s challenge without summoning his immortal weapon and shattered the prince’s powerful palm strike with his sword. As Chu Tianzheng pressed the attack, Li Hao used four Immortal Arts to restrain him and drove a sword strike through his armor.

• Chu Tianzheng challenged Li Hao to fight and unleashed the Immortal Arts technique Suppress Origin with his second-level Immortal Lord strength.
• Li Hao countered with a sword strike that broke Chu Tianzheng’s attack and cut an illusory scar through the projected Imperial Palace.
• Chu Tianzheng attacked again with a phantom mace, forcing his way into Li Hao’s Dao domain.
• Li Hao used Solidification, Purple Forbidden, Invincible, and Blue Heaven to halt Chu Tianzheng briefly, then struck his immortal armor with the Azure Sky Sword Technique fused with the Sword God Art.
• Li Hao compressed his sword power and sent countless strands of sword qi into Chu Tianzheng’s armor.

Li Hao defeated Chu Tianzheng, forcing the Imperial Clan Immortal Lord’s primordial spirit from his body and stunning the spectators across the Nine Thousand Immortal Cities. Chu Xiangtian stopped Li Hao from attacking again, but Li Hao taunted Chu Tianzheng and challenged the Imperial Daughter’s claim that his status deserved special treatment.

• Li Hao burned Chu Tianzheng’s primordial spirit with Netherworld Dao, Severing Blade, then crushed his body after Chu Tianzheng retreated from it.
• Spectators at the Immortal Platform and across Yan Chu’s Nine Thousand Immortal Cities watched in shock as Li Hao’s strength and four long-lost immortal techniques were revealed.
• Chu Xiangtian intervened to shield Chu Tianzheng from Li Hao, then restrained his brother when Chu Tianzheng tried to attack again.
• Li Hao tossed Chu Tianzheng’s shattered body at his feet and stood on its chest, taunting him about doubting Li Hao could reach tenth place.
• The Imperial Daughter accused Li Hao of trampling an imperial body, and Li Hao challenged her to explain how imperial status could make someone invincible in a contest.

Li Hao used the Chu King Token to stop the Imperial Daughter and Chu Tianzheng from challenging him, then drew the favor of State Teacher Yuan Xinggang and Grand Marshal Shangguan Hong. The ceremony named the thousand qualifiers who would represent Yan-Chu in the Southern Region battle, and the Imperial Emperor appeared to bestow their rewards.

• Li Hao showed the Chu King Token after crushing Chu Tianzheng's immortal body, making the Imperial Daughter and the other imperial family members back down.
• Yuan Xinggang and Shangguan Hong arrived, restored Chu Tianzheng with a drop of blood, and Shangguan Hong invited Li Hao to train with the Chu Immortal Army, but Li Hao hesitated to accept.
• Yuan Xinggang cleared away Chu Tianzheng's shattered body and told Chu Xiangtian to continue the ceremony, as the remaining qualifiers assembled on the Immortal Platform.
• Chu Xiangtian announced that the thousand qualifiers would represent Yan-Chu in the Southern Region battle in seven years and that the Imperial Family would open the Imperial Secret Treasury to aid them.
• Chu Xiangtian asked the Imperial Emperor to bestow rewards, and the Imperial Palace doors opened, revealing the emperor's overwhelming presence to Li Hao and the gathered crowd.

Emperor Chu rewarded the top contestants and opened the Chaos Secret Realm to everyone fighting for Yan Chu, granting Li Hao the name Haotian and a drop of emperor blood essence. The group entered the realm and learned that its nine Immortal Seal Towers led to the Origin Secret Realm, then began choosing towers.

• Emperor Chu recognized Li Hao’s ancestral immortal body, asked about his master, and heard that Li Hao knew little about him.
• Emperor Chu awarded Chu Tianhuang a Fragment of Fate, gave Boya Xuejian and the third-place contestant Immortal Weapons and emperor blood essence, and rewarded the other top contestants.
• Emperor Chu granted Li Hao a drop of emperor blood essence and opened the Chaos Secret Realm to all who would fight for Yan Chu, offering top performers a chance to enter the Origin Secret Realm.
• Li Hao and the others entered the Chaos Secret Realm, where they found nine Immortal Seal Towers and learned that each tower corresponded to the number of flowers in a cultivator’s Immortal Seal.
• Chu Xiangtian explained the towers and the realm’s arrangements, after which the imperial daughter charged toward the towers and the others followed.

Chu Xiangtian sent the qualifiers into the Origin Secret Realm and warned them about its dangers and rivals from other Immortal Dynasties. Chu Tianhuang, Boya Xuejian, and Li Hao entered the ninth Immortal Tower with nine-flower Immortal Seals, while the others chose towers according to their seals; Li Hao felt an overwhelming affinity as he entered.

• Chu Xiangtian explained that the Origin Secret Realm connected to other Immortal Dynasties and gave the qualifiers chaos tokens for their seven-year stay.
• Chu Tianhuang revealed a nine-flower Immortal Seal and entered the ninth Immortal Tower, followed by Boya Xuejian, who also proved he had one.
• Li Hao asked whether he could leave the realm early, then entered the ninth tower and revealed that his Immortal Seal had nine flowers.
• Xing Lan entered the eighth tower, while the other qualifiers chose towers according to their Immortal Seals; Chu Tianzheng entered the sixth and Zhang Xuanyu the seventh.
• Li Hao felt an overwhelming sense of affinity as soon as he entered the Immortal Tower.

Li Hao met Emperor Chu, who offered him a thousand years in the Origin Secret Realm and proposed marriage to Chu Yueli to bind him to Yan-Chu. Li Hao reluctantly agreed to compete for first place in the True Immortal division in exchange for Emperor Chu reconsidering the marriage, then entered the Origin Secret Realm.

• Yuan Xinggang brought Li Hao before Emperor Chu, who questioned him about Tian Yang Immortal Emperor's Personal Disciples and the great war against the ancient demons.
• Emperor Chu offered Li Hao exclusive access to the Origin Secret Realm for a thousand years, but Li Hao said he wanted time to consider it.
• Emperor Chu proposed that Li Hao marry Chu Yueli, and Li Hao refused, so Emperor Chu said he could become her concubine if he won first place in the True Immortal division.
• Li Hao asked Emperor Chu to revoke the marriage decree if he took first place, accepted an Illusion Light Stone, and entered the Origin Secret Realm.
• Yuan Xinggang told Shangguan Hong that Emperor Chu intended to use Li Hao's potential as a Personal Disciple to challenge the Heavenly Palace.

Li Hao, Chu Tianhuang, and Boya Xuejian reached Chaos Receiving City, where the Grand Tutor explained its rules and warned them about the dangers of the Heavenly Dao Bridge. After the three left to cross it, the Grand Tutor discovered that Li Hao had secretly added a clever black stone to his go game.

• Li Hao arrived at the Ninth Layer and learned from Chu Tianhuang that Chaos Receiving City lay closest to Great Dao Origin and that the Origin Cities offered a way to study the nine orders.
• Chu Tianhuang explained that the three needed to cross the Heavenly Dao Bridge to reach the Origin Cities, then led Li Hao and Boya Xuejian to meet the Grand Tutor.
• The Grand Tutor gave the three Golden Talismans, explained the city's rules, and warned them that the Heavenly Dao Bridge was perilous.
• Chu Tianhuang, Boya Xuejian, and Li Hao left to attempt the Heavenly Dao Bridge while the Grand Tutor prepared to watch over them.
• The Grand Tutor noticed a new black stone on his go board and used reversed time to discover that Li Hao had placed it before leaving.

Li Hao, Chu Tianhuang, and Boya Xuejian reached the Heavenly Dao Bridge, where they learned that travelers had to endure attacks from countless great dao origins while seeking the source needed to enter an Origin City. After a Stout Man failed to find the space origin, the three joined Chu Tianhuang and others on the bridge, with Boya Xuejian heading deeper to seek the five dao source.

• Chu Tianhuang explained how gathering a great dao origin could bring his younger siblings to the ninth layer and described the legendary power of a Nine Flowers Immortal Seal formed from all nine orders.
• Li Hao chose Five Dao Origin City to pursue the metal and wood daos, while Chu Tianhuang planned to seek Space-Time Origin City and Boya Xuejian chose Five Dao Origin City as well.
• Qi Tianshou of the Red Frontier Immortal Dynasty introduced himself to Chu Tianhuang and exchanged a communication token with him.
• A Stout Man challenged the Heavenly Dao Bridge, punched through its attacks, but failed to locate the elusive space origin and retreated.
• Chu Tianhuang stepped onto the bridge, followed by four other challengers, then Li Hao and Boya Xuejian; Boya Xuejian moved deeper to search for the five dao source.

Li Hao used spacetime power to evade the Heavenly Dao Bridge’s immortal arts while the Immortal Lord prodigies tested one another and searched for Great Dao origins. He settled down to fish for origins instead, while Chu Yueli received an upsetting message from her mother on the Sixth Layer.

• Li Hao altered the spacetime around himself to avoid the bridge’s attacks, and Boya Xuejian noticed his technique.
• Chu Tianhuang and four other Immortal Lord prodigies endured an escalating bombardment before breaking off to search for Great Dao origins; several remarked on Li Hao’s unusual strength.
• Chu Tianhuang told Li Hao that Boya Xuejian had already found his origin, then headed deeper to seek spacetime origins.
• Li Hao sat on the bridge and used his Fishing Dao to hook a Great Dao origin as bait, while the others searched unsuccessfully for spacetime origins.
• Chu Yueli received a message from her mother through the Golden Twin Fish Jade Pendant and reacted with anger and shock at what her father had done.

Chu Yueli learned that her father planned to betroth her as a concubine to Li Hao if he won the True Immortal division, and she rushed to improve her standing. At the Heavenly Dao Bridge, Li Hao used a Great Dao as bait and pulled up a Fire Dao Origin, drawing a crowd and Chi Yingzi's attention.

• Chu Yueli protested her proposed marriage to her mother, who promised to ask the emperor to reconsider.
• Chu Yueli learned that her father would make her Li Hao's concubine if he took first place in the True Immortal division, and she hurried out to cultivate.
• Li Hao spotted the Red Tassel Immortal Lord beneath the Heavenly Dao Bridge, and they recognized each other.
• Chi Yingzi stepped onto the bridge and asked Li Hao what he was doing; he explained that he was fishing for Daos.
• Li Hao caught a temperature Great Dao, used it as bait, and drew out the Fire Dao Origin.
• The onlookers reacted to Li Hao's catch, and Chi Yingzi came to his side to inspect it.

Li Hao gave the Fire Dao Origin to Chi Yingzi in gratitude for saving his life, then continued fishing for dao origins on the Heavenly Dao Bridge while aiming for Time-Space Origin City. When Chu Yueli arrived, she entered his dao domain, discovered his command of time and space, and argued with him over their marriage decree before flying off in anger.

• Li Hao offered Chi Yingzi the Fire Dao Origin because she had once saved him, and she accepted it and gave him her communication token.
• After Chi Yingzi left, Li Hao resumed fishing for dao origins, while the Grand Tutor realized he was aiming to enter Time-Space Origin City.
• Chu Tianhuang brought Chu Yueli and other Imperial Clan members to the Heavenly Dao Bridge, where Chu Yueli accused Li Hao of showing off.
• Chu Yueli entered Li Hao's dao domain to draw immortal arts toward him, but discovered that his control of time and space disrupted her and diverted the attacks.
• Chu Yueli confronted Li Hao about their marriage decree, but he told her to ask her imperial father to rescind it and said he did not want to marry her.
• Chu Yueli flew away, vowing not to let Li Hao have his way, leaving him wondering whether she meant to force him to marry her.