Chapter Summaries

Li Hao fished up numerous Great Dao Origins deep within the Heavenly Dao Bridge, including Form Dao and Space Dao, while the other cultivators struggled to find the Nine Sequences origins. He had collected nearly all the Nine Sequences origins except the golden dao source when the Heavenly Pool Princess arrived and questioned the disorder on the bridge.

• Li Hao caught the Form Dao origin by compressing his time-space Dao Domain around it and then resumed fishing among the mist crystals.
• Li Hao used time as a line to bind and capture the source of space dao, then discovered two more concealed Great Dao Origins nearby.
• Li Hao gathered many Great Dao Origins, including nearly all the Nine Sequences origins, and found that only the golden dao source remained elusive.
• The Red-Armored Youth learned that someone had taken the Fire Dao Origin and left the Heavenly Dao Bridge in anger.
• The Heavenly Pool Princess asked why the bridge was in chaos, and an attendant explained that the Nine Sequences origins had not appeared.

Li Hao traded a Source of Space Dao to Jiang Tianchi for immortal stones, then exchanged a time origin with Chu Tianhuang for Yan-Chu’s sword art, Three Thousand Spring Thunder. He remained on the Heavenly Dao Bridge, practicing the technique while other prodigies struggled to find the rare origins.

• Jiang Tianchi searched the Heavenly Dao Bridge for half a month before sensing a Source of Space Dao, but Li Hao caught it first and agreed to trade it for chess and guqin manuals and immortal stones.
• Jiang Tianchi gave Li Hao two hundred thousand immortal stones and promised another three hundred thousand at the Southern Region Assembly Battle before using the origin to enter Time-Space Origin City.
• Li Hao offered Chu Tianhuang a time origin in exchange for the imperial sword art Three Thousand Spring Thunder, and Chu Tianhuang accepted.
• Chu Tianhuang received the time origin and left for Time-Space Origin City after transmitting the sword art to Li Hao.
• Li Hao stayed on the Heavenly Dao Bridge and practiced Three Thousand Spring Thunder, whose single move unleashed three thousand sword shadows.

Li Hao perfected the Three Thousand Spring Thunder Sword Art, then traded a Space Dao Origin to Chi Man for powerful sword and fist arts and immortal stones. After gathering more Dao Origins and trading for additional sword arts, Li Hao created a disguised avatar to sell his remaining origins and further strengthen his Sole Self Sword Dao.

• Li Hao perfected the Three Thousand Spring Thunder Sword Art and absorbed its sword intents into his Sole Self Sword Dao.
• Li Hao traded a Space Dao Origin to Chi Man for the True Immortal Chapters of the Heaven Splitting Sword and Chaos God Fist, plus a primordial immortal vein worth two hundred thousand immortal stones.
• Chi Man warned his Imperial Clan companions not to provoke a ninth-layer True Immortal with time-space power in his Dao Domain, then entered Time-Space Origin City.
• Li Hao traded Dao Origins to experts from other dynasties for supreme sword arts and immortal stones, and briefly encountered Chu Yueli in the mist.
• After three months of gathering dozens of nine sequence origins, Li Hao created a disguised avatar to trade them for more sword arts.

Li Hao entered Fire Dao Origin City to explore its five Origin Divine Trees and discovered a secluded golden tree tended by an enigmatic old man. When the trees began their annual Spiritual Burst, the old man explained that cultivators above the third layer of Dao Realm comprehension could compete for a chance to cultivate on a divine tree.

• Li Hao sold Nine Sequence Origins to Heavenly Prodigies, gathered cultivation resources, and used a Fire Dao Origin to enter Fire Dao Origin City.
• Li Hao explored the city, saw Boya Xuejian combining water Dao with Sword Dao, and noticed several powerful Immortal Lord cultivators.
• Li Hao met an old man fishing beside a golden tree outside the city and learned that the Five Absolutes Immortal Emperor had built the city, which had been left empty since the Emperor Fall Battle.
• Li Hao asked to cut a root from the golden tree for sculpting, and the old man allowed him to take a section.
• The Origin Divine Trees began their annual Spiritual Burst, and the old man told Li Hao that cultivators above the third layer could try to earn a divine tree's recognition.

Li Hao carved figures of Lin Qingying and Ying Xiaoxiao from divine wood, gaining insights into the Dao before discovering that he had spent more than a month at the golden tree. When Jin Fengling arrived seeking the Origin Dao Fruit and attacked Li Hao, the old man let him take shelter against the tree, and Jin Fengling left after naming himself and threatening him.

• Li Hao carved Lin Qingying and her No-Sword Dao into divine wood, then began carving Ying Xiaoxiao with the Time Origin.
• After more than a month passed, the old man recognized Ying Xiaoxiao as a peerless figure from the True Realm's past and discussed how Li Hao's minor arts could reveal Great Daos.
• Li Hao tried to restore the golden Divine Tree by pouring in immortal power for three days, but the old man told him to focus on his own cultivation.
• Jin Fengling arrived demanding the Origin Dao Fruit, accused Li Hao of taking it, and attacked him despite the old man's warning.
• Li Hao broke through Jin Fengling's attack and sheltered himself against the golden tree after the old man urged him to hide there.
• Jin Fengling failed to force Li Hao out, identified himself as a member of the Jin Yun Immortal Dynasty's Imperial Family, and returned to Origin City.

Li Hao heard the old man’s history as an Origin Divine Tree and received a Golden Dao Divine Tree Dao Fruit in exchange for promising to protect the origin world if the Ancient Demons returned. Using the fruit to deepen his insight while carving, Li Hao advanced his Path of Carving and entered the Dao with all Nine Orders.

• The old man told Li Hao that he had once fought an Ancient Demon to protect Origin City and his four younger siblings, then moved his Origin Dao Seed outside the city after his Origin Divine Fire went out.
• The old man revealed that he had recovered but was kept from returning to Origin City, and explained that Divine Tree Dao Fruits could greatly advance a cultivator’s Dao Realm.
• The old man asked Li Hao to protect the origin world if the Ancient Demons returned, and gave him a Golden Dao Divine Tree Dao Fruit in return for his promise.
• Li Hao swallowed the Dao Fruit, caught a Divine Water Dao Fish, and returned to carving as his Golden Dao insight surged.
• Li Hao carved a miniature Origin Divine Tree and advanced his Path of Carving to rank 11, comprehending the Sculpting state of mind called Carving Origin.
• Li Hao mastered the Five Dao Sources, Time and Space, Form and Control, and all Nine Orders entered the Dao.

Li Hao comprehended the Path of Carving, condensed a Nine Sequences Immortal Seal, and learned about the legendary Dao Source Immortal Seal and the True Realm’s worsening crisis after reincarnation collapsed. After a year of cultivation and carving at Five Dao Origin City, he decided to visit the Five Dao Source Divine Tree’s Spiritual Burst.

• Li Hao used his carving breakthrough to briefly bring an Origin Divine Tree sapling to life, and the old man recognized his talent and knowledge of the Nine Sequences Great Dao.
• The old man explained that a Nine Sequences Immortal Seal could potentially become a Dao Source Immortal Seal, which was linked to the potential to reach the Emperor Realm.
• Li Hao replaced the Sword Dao and Netherworld Dao on his Nine Flowers Immortal Seal with the Golden Dao and Wood Dao, creating a Nine Sequences Immortal Seal with vastly amplified power.
• The old man told Li Hao that reincarnation’s destruction was causing the True Realm’s populations to dwindle while the Ancient Demons continued to emerge from reincarnation.
• Li Hao carved a living figure resembling Ren Qianqian, who wielded the Void Sword Dao, and learned that a year had passed in Five Dao Origin City.
• The old man encouraged Li Hao to attend the Five Dao Source Divine Tree’s Spiritual Burst, and Li Hao agreed to go.

Li Hao climbed the Water Dao Origin Divine Tree, formed a contract with her, and received a Divine Tree Dao Fruit after revealing his Nine Sequences Immortal Seal. He learned that the five trees had kept Mister Jin outside not out of greed, but to protect him from being drawn into the coming battle, leaving Li Hao to understand the siblings’ long-standing estrangement.

• Li Hao left Mister Jin and headed to the Water Dao Origin Divine Tree, where he saw Boya Xuejian and two others climbing toward its crown.
• Although his water Dao comprehension was only at the second layer, the Water Dao Origin Divine Tree lifted Li Hao upward after recognizing his Nine Sequences Immortal Seal.
• The Water Dao Origin Divine Tree offered Li Hao a Heavenly Dao Contract and a Divine Tree Dao Fruit, and he agreed before reaching the crown alongside Boya Xuejian.
• Boya Xuejian challenged Li Hao to fight before the Southern Region Assembly Battle, then accepted his own Dao Fruit and departed.
• The Water Dao Origin Divine Tree formed a contract with Li Hao and promised to notify her siblings so they might give him Dao Fruits as well.
• Li Hao told the Water Dao Origin Divine Tree what Mister Jin had shared, and she explained that the five siblings had kept him away to protect him from the danger awaiting Origin City.

Li Hao gained the five Origin Divine Trees’ support and cultivated in their secret realms, advancing his dao origins before awakening a path tied to the Five Absolutes Immortal Emperor. After revealing his immense talent and power, he left the Golden Dao Divine Tree Secret Realm with the coming war against the Ancient Demon Clan still ahead.

• Li Hao told the Water Dao Origin Divine Tree that Mister Jin had asked him to protect the Origin World rather than help reclaim his position, and the five Origin Divine Trees agreed to support him.
• Li Hao contracted with the divine trees and cultivated in their secret realms, raising his water dao origin to the fourth level and later advancing his fire dao origin.
• After his five dao realms reached the fourth level, Li Hao touched the Five Absolutes Immortal Emperor’s Emperor Path and forged the Five Absolutes Sword Slash by combining the Five Daos with his Sole Self Sword Dao.
• The divine trees discovered that Li Hao was only about a hundred years old and urged him to hide his strength from Ancient Demon Clan spies.
• Li Hao accepted the Golden Dao Divine Tree’s sweet dew and emerged from its secret realm several months later.

After leaving Five Dao Origin City, Li Hao learned that Gu Yan and the others had reached the Heavenly Dao Bridge and entered an Origin City. He captured a Space Origin to enter Time-Space Origin City, where he found several familiar cultivators and began painting while waiting for the next spiritual burst.

• The Golden Dao Origin Divine Tree gave Li Hao five Origin Divine Leaves that could summon protective manifestations of the divine trees.
• Li Hao left Five Dao Origin City, returned to Origin Reception City, and asked the Grand Tutor about Gu Yan and the others; the Grand Tutor said they had entered the Heavenly Dao Bridge.
• Li Hao returned to the bridge, used a Space Origin to open a passage, and entered Time-Space Origin City.
• Li Hao found Chu Tianhuang, Chu Yueli, Xing Lan, and Yue Xi gathered near the Time Origin Divine Tree, while only three people were at the Space Origin Divine Tree.
• Li Hao spread his Dao Domain near the Time Origin Divine Tree and began painting as he waited for its next spiritual burst.

Li Hao failed to paint the Time Origin Divine Tree but completed a painting of the Space Origin Divine Tree during the spiritual burst. After learning that a purple-robed youth had tried to sabotage him, Li Hao confronted him and raced ahead toward the tree.

• Li Hao repeatedly failed to paint the shifting leaves of the Time Origin Divine Tree, then studied the Space Origin Divine Tree and discovered that its spatial ruptures followed a cycle of one thousand and eight changes.
• After four months, Li Hao completed a painting of the Space Origin Divine Tree as a spiritual burst began, and Chi Man stopped a purple-robed youth from disrupting him.
• Li Hao realized the spiritual burst was likely his last chance to climb the divine trees and seek a Divine Tree Dao Fruit.
• Evening Primrose told Li Hao that the purple-robed youth had tried to ruin his painting, while Chi Man had protected him.
• Li Hao confronted the purple-robed youth on the Space Origin Divine Tree, exchanged attacks, and surged past him through the spatial turbulence.

Li Hao gained the Space Origin Divine Tree’s recognition by offering his painting and received a Space Dao Fruit, then failed to obtain a Time Dao Fruit from its cold and demanding elder sister. He climbed the Time Divine Tree and encountered Yue Xi and Chu Yueli, leaving Chu Yueli behind as he continued upward.

• The Purple-Robed Youth resented Li Hao for humiliating him, while Chi Man watched Li Hao climb past him toward the crown.
• The Space Origin Divine Tree offered Li Hao a Dao Fruit in exchange for his painting, cleared a path through the spatial turbulence, and sent him to her sister.
• The Time Origin Divine Tree refused to give Li Hao a Dao Fruit, saying his Time Origin Dao was only at the Third Level and that she had already given both fruits to a young woman.
• The Time Origin Divine Tree sent Li Hao back outside, where he began climbing and met Yue Xi, who had reached the threshold of the second level in time origin.
• Li Hao encountered Chu Yueli, traded barbed remarks with her, and rushed upward ahead of her.

Li Hao climbed the Time Origin Divine Tree, recalled moments from his past, and used Angling to reach fifty thousand years into the past. As the Spiritual Burst ended, the Time Origin Divine Tree gave him a portion of its Origin Dew, while the Space Divine Tree’s avatar teased it for showing softness.

• Li Hao passed Chu Yueli and caught up with Chu Tianhuang and other Immortal Lord Realm experts ascending the Time Origin Divine Tree.
• Li Hao reached a high branch below the crown, where he sat apart from the experts competing for the Divine Tree’s recognition.
• Li Hao used Angling to explore the river of time and reached a Time Shard from fifty thousand years ago, which showed a dying Immortal King falling into a mist-shrouded valley.
• The Time Origin Divine Tree gave Li Hao a portion of its Origin Dew as the allotted time neared its end.
• The Space Divine Tree’s avatar asked the Time Divine Tree whether it had gone softhearted.

The Time Origin Divine Tree and the Space Origin Divine Tree examined Li Hao’s unusual past and suspected he had inherited a powerful legacy from his previous life. After consuming Time Dew, Li Hao comprehended the fourth layer of the Time Origin Great Dao and found meaning in living his life despite time’s stillness; the two Divine Trees were impressed by his response.

• The Time Origin Divine Tree watched Li Hao’s Time Shards and reflected on his lonely childhood and reincarnated nature.
• The Space Origin Divine Tree explained that she had investigated Li Hao, and the sisters discussed the power concealing his past and the legacy he might have found in the Demon Valley Forbidden Land.
• Li Hao consumed the Time Dew and experienced a vision of time as a still, cyclical power, advancing his Time Origin Great Dao from the third layer to the fourth.
• Li Hao questioned the meaning of struggle, then accepted that living his life well gave it meaning and felt his Dao heart strengthen.
• The Space Origin Divine Tree noted Li Hao’s breakthrough, and the Time Origin Divine Tree concluded that he was different from others and deserved the dew.

After seven years in the Origin Secret Realm, Li Hao and the other prodigies returned to the Chaos Secret Realm as the Southern Region Assembly Battle approached. With three months left to prepare, Li Hao returned to the Great Dream Nine Abyss while Chu Yueli continued plotting to end their engagement.

• The Origin Secret Realm expelled its cultivators, and Chu Yueli saw that Li Hao remained at the True Immortal Realm ninth layer and resolved to ask her imperial father to annul their engagement.
• The Time Origin Divine Tree told Li Hao that Daoyuan’s opportunity was hidden within the Dao heart, and Li Hao and Yue Xi bowed before leaving the Time-Space Origin City.
• The Grand Tutor gathered the returning cultivators and sent them out of the Origin Secret Realm; Li Hao reunited with Gu Yan and Xing Lan in the Chaos Secret Realm.
• Chu Xiangtian announced that the Southern Region Assembly Battle would begin in three months and forbade contestants from using Immortal Weapons and Treasure Armor.
• Chu Tianhuang greeted Li Hao before the other Imperial Clan members, while Gu Yan warned Li Hao against getting drawn into the dynasty’s internal struggles.
• Li Hao and the others left the Chaos Secret Realm and returned to the Great Dream Nine Abyss.

After returning from the Origin Secret Realm, Li Hao learned that the Great Dream Nine Abyss Sect had been promoted and prepared for the Southern Region Assembly Battle under the Dream Master's guidance. In the Langya Painting Realm, he painted the Space Origin Divine Tree, astonishing the Dream Master with his mastery of several great daos, and asked her to teach him.

• Li Hao returned to the Great Dream Nine Abyss Sect, where Li Tiemu told him the sect had become a Heaven Two Sect and urged him to prepare for the Southern Region Assembly Battle.
• Li Tiemu warned Li Hao about powerful competitors, including the Heavenly Palace Supreme's mysterious personal disciple, while the Dream Master offered rewards to competitors who placed highly.
• The Dream Master summoned Li Hao to the Langya Painting Realm, invited him to stay and seek her cultivation guidance, and agreed to send a message to the Demon Subduing Division for him.
• Li Hao painted the Space Origin Divine Tree, deepening his painting dao and revealing to the Dream Master that his space, water, and earth daos had reached the fourth layer.
• Li Hao asked the Dream Master to guide him, and she recognized that he used the painting dao to comprehend other great dao origins.

The Southern Region’s powers prepared their young geniuses for the upcoming Assembly Battle, while Li Hao continued studying the Painting Dao in the Langya Painting Realm. The chapter left Li Hao at the ninth layer of cultivation as the battle approached, with the Dream Master asking why he had not used his Flying Immortal Pill.

• Emperor Chu urged the imperial princes and princesses to fight for the top ten and promised divine crow protection to those who qualified; Chu Yueli and Chu Tianhuang each saw the prize as crucial to their ambitions.
• In the Red Frontier Immortal Dynasty, a red-haired young man killed a Wind Thunder Violent Ape, and his master allowed him to visit an ancient coffin before the Assembly Battle.
• Emperor Qin ordered the Black-Robed Youth to take first place and permitted him to visit the dragon’s eye for a gift.
• The Supreme told four novice disciples to perform well and advised Sword Heart to avoid injuring their opponents too severely.
• Gu Yan concealed that the Sword Dao Origin Divine Tree had granted him a Dao Fruit, awakening his Ancient Immortal Sword Body and giving him confidence that he could defeat an Immortal Lord as a True Immortal.
• Li Hao painted a leaf of the Time Divine Tree under the Dream Master’s guidance, and she asked why he had not used his Flying Immortal Pill despite the approaching battle.

Li Hao cooked and consumed the Flying Immortal Pill, reaching the tenth layer of the true immortal realm before the southern region assembly battle. The Dream Master gathered the Great Dream Nine Abyss disciples aboard her flying ship and set out for the Heavenly Palace, with Li Hao assigned to stay in her room.

• Li Hao cooked the Flying Immortal Pill to remove its toxins, then consumed it and advanced to the tenth layer of the true immortal realm, reaching its peak.
• The Dream Master warned two newly advanced immortal lord realm disciples that the assembly battle was a life-or-death struggle and told them to lead the Nine Abysses’ defense alongside Haotian.
• The Dream Master returned to Li Hao, praised his prospects in the true immortal realm division, and prepared to leave with him for the assembly battle.
• The Dream Master summoned a flying-ship Domain Artifact and transferred the elders and disciples of the Nine Abysses aboard for the three-day journey.
• The Dream Master privately directed Li Hao to stay with her in Heaven-Class Room One as the ship headed toward the Heavenly Palace.

Li Hao met the Dream Master's disciples, Yin Jingcheng and Meng Huaiyue, and clashed with Yin Jingcheng before the Dream Master defended him. The group then departed for the Southern Region Assembly Battle, while Emperor Chu left Yuan Xinggang and Shangguan Hong to guard the Immortal Dynasty against the Ancient Demons.

• Li Hao met the Dream Master's disciples, Yin Jingcheng and Meng Huaiyue, and learned they were First-Rank Demon Subduing Guards and candidates in the Spirit Official selection.
• The Dream Master introduced herself as a member of the Great Dream Clan and reprimanded Yin Jingcheng for questioning Li Hao's background and speaking to him with barbed remarks.
• The Dream Master warned her disciples that they might face Tian Hongyi of the Ten Thousand Mountains Sword Pavilion, then told Li Hao they would first meet at the Imperial Capital.
• Li Hao admired the Dream Master's paintings as their flying ship reached the Imperial Capital, where sects and the Imperial Clan prepared to depart for the Supreme Heavenly Palace.
• Emperor Chu placed the sects and Imperial Clan inside a shrinking Immortal City and left it in his palm, ordering Yuan Xinggang and Shangguan Hong to guard the dynasty against a possible Ancient Demon attack.

Li Hao and the Yan-Chu delegation reached the Heavenly Palace to attend the Southern Region Assembly Battle and pay their respects to the Immortal Emperor. As they arrived at the palace hall, Yue Xi wrestled with whether to ask the Emperor to clear the Calamity Clan’s name.

• Emperor Chu carried the Immortal City to the Heavenly Palace, where Feng Leixiang met them and guided them toward the palace hall.
• The delegation descended from their ships and climbed the white-jade staircase on foot, while Li Hao exchanged glances with Lin Qingying and drew jealous looks from Chu Yueli and Tian Hongyi.
• Yue Xi considered asking the Immortal Emperor to clear her clan’s name, but Murong Qingwu and Li Tiemu warned her that she would need to earn the right to speak; Gu Yan relaxed when Yue Xi agreed not to act impulsively.
• The group reached the top of the staircase and saw the Heavenly Palace Hall, where the Immortal Emperor resided.