Chapter Summaries

Old Han confronted the Supreme to help Li Hao escape, but the Dao Source Immortal Emperor intervened and negotiated for Li Hao to leave with him. As Ying Xiaoxiao faded, she reassured Li Hao that she would continue watching over him in the distant future.

• The Supreme sealed the World Stones and unleashed his Emperor's Might as Old Han challenged him and tried to carry Li Hao and Ying Xiaoxiao away in the Black Tower.
• The Dao Source Immortal Emperor appeared, blocked the Supreme and Old Han, and declared that he would take Li Hao.
• The Dao Source Immortal Emperor negotiated with the Supreme, offering the damaged Emperor Slaying Arrow and a future challenge in exchange for Li Hao; the Supreme eventually yielded.
• Li Hao stayed beside Ying Xiaoxiao as her body crumbled, while she realized the Dao Source Immortal Emperor's intervention would send Li Hao to the Original True World.
• Ying Xiaoxiao told Li Hao that she would not die and would keep watching over him as long as the River of Time endured.

Ying Xiaoxiao faded away after telling Li Hao that her second incarnation was in the Northern Region’s Su Clan, and Li Hao reached the Immortal Lord Realm while painting her from memory. With the Dao Source Immortal Emperor’s protection and a route to the Original True World, Li Hao left the Southern Region to seek Ying Xiaoxiao’s incarnation in the Northern Region.

• Ying Xiaoxiao asked Li Hao to paint her before her body and divine sense disappeared, and she told him her second incarnation was in the Northern Region’s Su Clan.
• Li Hao completed the painting, then broke through to the Immortal Lord Realm and comprehended Painting Dao True Meaning.
• The Dao Source Immortal Emperor gave Li Hao a Domain Seal and Mystic Turtle Source Shell, and promised to protect his friends from the Supreme.
• Li Hao thanked the Dao Source Immortal Emperor, asked him to spare his friends, and chose to visit the Northern Region before going to the Original True World.
• Li Hao left through the passage the Dao Source Immortal Emperor opened, while Di Jiming watched him with anger.

Li Hao left the Southern Region after clashing with Di Jiming, while the Dao Source Immortal Emperor sent him through a vortex and Old Han departed with Looking at Mountains and Rivers. The assembly continued without him, and afterward several emperors confronted Emperor Chu over the danger his actions had brought to Li Hao.

• Li Hao struck back at Di Jiming with a sword, and their attacks clashed before the Dao Source Immortal Emperor stopped Di Jiming from pursuing him.
• Li Hao entered the vortex and vanished from the Southern Region, while Lin Qingying silently accepted Wu Wei Shi Mu's offer to become her disciple.
• Old Han took Looking at Mountains and Rivers away in the Black Tower, and the Southern Region's True Immortal and Immortal Lord competitions resumed and concluded.
• Di Linchen won the True Immortal bracket, while Di Jiming took first place in the Immortal Lord battles.
• The Heavenly Illumination Emperor, the Original Venerable Empress, Emperor Jin, and Emperor Qin confronted Emperor Chu over the cost of his actions and the danger to Li Hao.

After the Dao Source Immortal Emperor concealed Li Hao's aura and sent him to the Northern Region, Li Hao reached Gusu Emperor Star to seek the Su Clan and Ying Xiaoxiao's Reincarnated Body. He arrived in a demon-ruled land where humans were treated as prey, and a divination mirror inspected everyone entering the city.

• The Red Frontier Empress and the other surviving ancient emperors resolved to await the return of Li Hao and Imperial Daughter Shi Miao's Reincarnated Body before clearing their lord's name.
• The Dao Source Immortal Emperor's Mystic Turtle Emperor Soul escorted Li Hao through a concealed route to the Northern Region and gave him a scroll for the Su Clan.
• Li Hao emerged near a General King Star, learned that the Northern Region was demon territory, and entered its city while concealing his identity.
• Li Hao learned the demon languages and saw humans displayed as food, captives, and merchandise, but chose not to intervene before reaching the Su Clan.
• Li Hao paid ten thousand immortal stones to teleport to Gusu Emperor Star, where a divination mirror faced the arrival array.

Li Hao reached Gusu City and delivered an ancient scroll to the Su Clan, hoping it would help him find the reincarnated person Ying Xiaoxiao had mentioned. The scroll proved to be an ancestral marriage pact, and the chapter ended with the Su Clan’s Madam demanding to know where he had obtained it.

• Li Hao learned that an Immortal Emperor resided on Gusu Emperor Star and traveled through several cities to reach Gusu City.
• Outside the Su Clan estate, Li Hao heard that Su Muqing was to marry the Lin Clan’s true-fated Emperor Son, then presented his ancient scroll to a guard.
• After reading the scroll, the Su Clan’s Madam recognized it as an ancient marriage pact and summoned Li Hao to Jingwei Hall.
• Li Hao saw that the Madam resembled Ying Xiaoxiao and was stunned, but her maid rebuked him for staring.
• The Madam asked whether Li Hao had come to marry her daughter, and Li Hao was surprised to learn the scroll was a marriage pact.
• When Li Hao could not explain the pact, the Madam demanded to know where he had obtained it.

Li Hao presented the Su Clan with a marriage contract but insisted he only wanted to find Ying Xiaoxiao’s reincarnated body. After the clan matriarch confined him to the Small Annex Garden, he spotted Ying Xiaoxiao and rushed toward her.

• Li Hao told Madam Su that he had received the marriage contract from a senior but refused to name the senior or marry a Su Clan daughter.
• Madam Su ordered Yaoqin to take Li Hao to rest, then arranged for him to stay in the Small Annex Garden while she considered the contract’s implications.
• Yaoqin brought Li Hao to Sea Moon Hall and limited him to the Small Annex Garden, where he searched for the woman he sought but could not find her.
• Li Hao heard two Immortal Lords fighting at the Su Clan’s Martial Arts Arena and saw a woman in blue-green clothing pass by.
• Li Hao recognized Ying Xiaoxiao’s face and teleported in front of her.

Li Hao met Su Muqing before she had awakened her past-life memories, but she rejected him as a presumptuous guest. While Su Muqing invited Su Qiyu to the Sword Pool Victory, Madam Su told Su Zhenyuan about Li Hao’s ancestral marriage agreement, and he welcomed the match without knowing which daughter it concerned.

• Li Hao mistook Su Muqing for Ying Xiaoxiao, asked her name, and was stopped by a guard after she ordered him expelled; the steward identified her and Su Wanqing as members of the Su Clan.
• Li Hao urgently asked to see Madam Su, and Yaoqin went to report his request while he waited at Sea Moon Hall.
• Su Muqing invited Su Qiyu to join the Sword Pool Victory six years later, and he agreed provided he had not yet become an immortal king.
• Su Zhenyuan returned to the Main Hall after failing at an undisclosed task, and Madam Su showed him the ancient marriage agreement brought by Li Hao.
• Su Zhenyuan recognized the agreement as one arranged by their ancestor and happily assumed it promised one of their daughters to an exceptional suitor.

Su Zhenyuan tested Li Hao’s soul lifespan and discovered that he had reached the Immortal Lord Realm before turning one hundred, confirming his extraordinary aptitude. Li Hao asked to marry Su Muqing, but the Su Clan objected because she was engaged to the Lin Clan, and Su Zhenyuan proposed that Li Hao meet his other daughters first.

• Madam Su summoned Li Hao to the Main Hall, where Su Zhenyuan questioned him about the Betrothal Document and his connection to the Emperor Lord.
• Su Zhenyuan used the Soul Mirror and revealed that Li Hao had a soul lifespan of only 96 years despite being at the first level of the Immortal Lord Realm.
• Impressed by Li Hao’s aptitude, Su Zhenyuan agreed to honor the ancestor’s promise and planned to summon his daughters home.
• Li Hao said he wanted to marry Su Muqing, but Madam Su rejected the request because Su Muqing was already engaged to the Lin Clan.
• Li Hao insisted he had come only for Su Muqing, and Su Zhenyuan suggested that he meet his other three daughters before they discussed the matter further.

Li Hao asked Su Zhenyuan for permission to stay by Su Muqing’s side, recognizing her as the reincarnation of Ying Xiaoxiao. Su Zhenyuan gave him a chance to win her approval, and agreed to let him remain with her for one hundred years, leaving Su Muqing stunned.

• Su Muqing and Su Wanqing sparred in the Su Clan’s martial arts arena, impressing the disciples with their talent and power.
• A Personal Guard summoned Su Wanqing to Bright Emperor Hall for a discussion about her marriage, and Su Muqing accompanied her.
• Su Muqing and Su Wanqing recognized Li Hao as the man they had encountered earlier, while Li Hao stared at Su Muqing and recalled meeting Ying Xiaoxiao in the past.
• Li Hao told Su Zhenyuan he wanted to remain by Su Muqing’s side, and Su Zhenyuan offered him ten years to win her approval despite her engagement to the Lin Clan’s Emperor Son.
• Li Hao requested one hundred years with the same rights as Su Muqing, and Su Zhenyuan agreed, shocking Su Muqing.

Su Zhenyuan upheld the ancestral Betrothal Document and ordered Su Muqing to give Li Hao a hundred years before refusing the marriage. Li Hao stayed at her residence to guard the soul he believed lay dormant within her, and the chapter ended with him exploring the laws of the Immortal Lord Realm.

• Su Zhenyuan declared that Su Muqing must obey the betrothal for a hundred years, while Su Muqing vowed she would never love Li Hao.
• Li Hao followed Su Muqing to her residence despite her anger, and she agreed to let him stay in the courtyard as long as he kept away from her bedchamber.
• Yaoqin delivered Su Qingmei's advice that Su Muqing should focus on her own affairs and let the hundred years pass.
• Li Hao settled outside Su Muqing's bedchamber, sculpted furniture, and set out a board of black and white stones as he waited.
• Li Hao examined his cultivation and sensed that Immortal Lord Realm power allowed him to manifest laws formed from the great daos.

Li Hao advanced his Form Dao origin to the sixth level while forging the heavenly immortal body, then waited three months outside Su Muqing’s hall. When Su Muqing and Su Wanqing went to a painting exhibition, Li Hao followed them and entered the Lake Painting Pavilion with help from a formidable white-haired woman, who challenged his painting skill.

• Li Hao absorbed his physical-body insights, reached the sixth level of Form Dao origin, and began forging the heavenly immortal body while waiting outside Su Muqing’s hall.
• After three months, Su Wanqing visited Su Muqing and invited her to a painting exhibition; both sisters dismissed Li Hao’s leisure as wasted talent.
• Su Wanqing questioned whether Li Hao truly liked Su Muqing or sought her bloodline, leaving him unsure whether his feelings came from affection or guilt.
• The next day, Li Hao followed the sisters from Su Manor to the Lake Painting Pavilion, keeping pace despite their superior cultivation and movement techniques.
• Denied entry for lacking an invitation, Li Hao claimed his paintings surpassed those on display, and a white-haired woman admitted him and challenged him to prove his skill.

Li Hao attended Lan Qin’s painting gathering after the Dragon Rhyme Painting Immortal brought him inside, then stunned the guests with his painting of the Space Origin Divine Tree. When the Dragon Rhyme Painting Immortal challenged him to demonstrate his Painting Dao, she unveiled her Dragon Lake Painting Realm, and Li Hao began summoning an ancient realm of his own.

• Su Muqing demanded that Lan Qin remove Li Hao, but he presented his Space Origin Divine Tree painting and claimed he had painted it himself.
• The guests learned that Li Hao had reached the Immortal Lord Realm with only a hundred years of soul lifespan, while Jiang Huanhuan believed his account and befriended him.
• The Dragon Rhyme Painting Immortal arrived, confirmed she had brought Li Hao inside, and challenged him to paint after he had called her exhibited works mediocre.
• The Dragon Rhyme Painting Immortal manifested her Dragon Lake Painting Realm above the lake, filling it with powerful Dragon Souls and ancient scenery.
• Li Hao closed his eyes and released time, space, and Nine Sequences Great Dao power, beginning to unfold a vast, ancient painting realm.

Li Hao defeated the Dragon Rhyme Painting Immortal in a contest of painting realms, then continued staying beside Su Muqing despite her rejection. Over the following years, he advanced his heavenly immortal body toward the strength needed to face the Southern Region Supreme, while Su Muqing prepared for the Sword Pool Victory.

• Li Hao's Years Painting Realm overwhelmed the Dragon Rhyme Painting Immortal's thousand dragons, and she conceded defeat and apologized.
• Lin Jinrou invited Li Hao to teach her the Painting Dao, but he refused and hurried after Su Muqing; the Lin Clan's Emperor Son, Lin Zhixuan, heard that someone had pursued Muqing but dismissed the report.
• Li Hao stayed in the Su Clan courtyard, where Su Wanqing repeatedly sought his guidance in painting while Su Muqing continued to reject him.
• Su Muqing and Su Wanqing discussed the upcoming Sword Pool Victory, and Su Muqing said they would win its laurels together.
• A year later, Li Hao's heavenly immortal body reached major completion, and over the following years his immortal power continued accumulating until his body attained perfected major completion.

After nearly six years with the Su Clan, Li Hao had perfected his heavenly immortal body and advanced several of his arts while continuing to wait near Su Muqing. He followed Su Muqing and her sisters to the Sword Pool Victory, where the Immortal Charm Purple Osmanthus was about to bloom, and ended the chapter surprising everyone by denying that he was pursuing her.

• Li Hao reflected on his cultivation and arts, noting that his heavenly immortal body was complete and that his Chess Dao was close to a breakthrough.
• Su Wanqing and Su Wanxue visited Li Hao and brought news that the Sword Pool Victory would begin in half a month, with the Immortal Charm Purple Osmanthus set to appear.
• Su Muqing criticized Li Hao for neglecting cultivation and relying on their Betrothal Document, while Li Hao remained focused on her; Su Wanqing gave him three Primordial Origin Immortal Pills.
• Li Hao followed Su Muqing and her sisters to Sword God Peak, where the clan prodigies gathered around the silver, golden, and purple immortal osmanthus branches.
• The crowd whispered that Li Hao was Su Muqing's suitor, and Lin Jinrou asked whether he intended to pursue her; Li Hao denied it.
• Jiang Huanhuan arrived at the gathering and greeted Li Hao with delighted surprise.

Li Hao rejected Jiang Huanhuan’s offer to join the Jiang Family and reaffirmed his pursuit of Su Muqing at the Sword Pool Victory gathering. After Immortal King Tan announced the contests for the scarce osmanthus blossoms, the gathering’s battles began, and Su Wanqing urged Li Hao to compete.

• Jiang Huanhuan offered Li Hao the Jiang Family’s best cultivation resources, but he refused because he had come only for Su Muqing.
• Lin Jinrou warned Li Hao that Su Muqing was betrothed, while Su Muqing and Jiang Huanhuan insisted he had no chance; Li Hao said he would follow his heart regardless.
• Su Qiyu arrived, learned about Li Hao’s betrothal document and short soul lifespan, and silenced his cousins when they mocked him.
• Immortal King Tan explained that winning five or ten matches earned chances to pick lesser osmanthus blossoms, while defeating everyone in one’s realm could earn an Immortal Charm Purple Osmanthus blossom.
• Bai Mochen won ten of thirteen matches and secured a divine spring golden osmanthus blossom; afterward, Su Wanqing encouraged Li Hao to enter the contest.

Li Hao declined to compete for fame and stayed beside Su Muqing while she dominated the Battle Stage. Su Wanqing lost her bid for the Immortal Charm Purple Osmanthus to Lin Jinrou, and Li Hao offered to pick the blossom for her.

• Li Hao refused to fight for victories, prompting Su Muqing to scorn his lack of ambition and reject the idea of giving him more time beside her.
• Su Muqing entered the Battle Stage, defeated twenty opponents with her time-manipulating sword art, and secured the right to choose an Immortal Charm Purple Osmanthus.
• Su Wanqing defeated Jiang Yingtong, whose Destruction Eye was wounded by Su Wanqing's blood-red sword qi, while Li Hao sensed an ancient demon quality in the blood energy.
• Lin Jinrou defeated Su Wanqing after revealing that her Mystic Meridians had merged into a Dao Meridian, claiming the chance to choose the purple blossom.
• Li Hao noticed Su Wanqing's regret over losing the blossom and told her he would pick it for her.

Li Hao took the Battle Stage and challenged every first-level Immortal Lord present, asking to face them all at once. He unleashed the Sole Self Sword and shattered the gathered prodigies in one strike, leaving Immortal King Tan to intervene before their primordial spirits were destroyed.

• Li Hao promised Su Wanqing he would pick the Immortal Charm Purple Osmanthus for her, then stepped onto the Battle Stage.
• Li Hao challenged everyone in his realm and asked to fight them all together, enraging the gathered aristocratic clan prodigies.
• Thirty-four prodigies crowded onto the stage, and Immortal King Tan approved their fight after Li Hao asked him to begin at once.
• Li Hao revealed a Nine Flowers Nine Sequences Immortal Seal and summoned his Heaven and Earth Dharma Form.
• Li Hao struck with Sole Self Sword, Azure Sky, shattering the prodigies’ attacks and bodies in a single blow.
• Immortal King Tan protected the weaker primordial spirits, and the gathering fell silent at the devastation on the stage.

Li Hao defeated thirty-four prodigies with one strike and revealed extraordinary Sword Dao by picking an Immortal Charm Purple Osmanthus despite stronger cultivators failing. He gave the blossom to Su Wanqing, while Su Muqing watched with a cold, unreadable expression.

• Li Hao defeated the thirty-four prodigies on the Battle Stage with a single sword strike, and the spectators recognized his Nine Sequence Origin and immense talent.
• A hidden Soul Age Mirror revealed that Li Hao was 102 years old, and the prodigies resumed the Sword Pool Victory contest, where Lin Jinrou and Jiang Huanhuan secured undefeated records while Su Wanxue was defeated.
• Su Muqing and Su Qiyu picked Immortal Charm Purple Osmanthus blossoms, and Su Qiyu gave his blossom to Su Wanxue after Su Wanqing declined it.
• Li Hao endured the sword stele's powerful Sword Intent and picked an Immortal Charm Purple Osmanthus, while Jiang Huanhuan fell into the Sword Pool trying to do the same.
• Li Hao returned and handed his blossom to Su Wanqing as Su Muqing looked on.

After the Sword Pool Victory gathering, Li Hao remained at the Su Clan and deepened his understanding of the Chess Dao while Su Muqing stayed distant and Lin Zhixuan prepared to break through in seclusion. Two years later, Li Hao comprehended the twelfth-stage Chess Realm and began merging his Primordial Spirit power with his Immortal Body, realizing he could make his body a game of heaven and earth.

• Li Hao gave the Immortal Charm Purple Osmanthus to Su Wanqing, while Su Muqing accused him of using petty tricks to win her attention.
• Immortal King Tan ended the gathering, and news of Li Hao's talent spread across the Gusu Emperor Star; Lin Zhixuan dismissed the reports and entered seclusion to refine Candle Dragon Immortal Power.
• Li Hao returned to the Su Clan, continued studying Go and carving, and spent two years waiting outside Su Muqing's closed hall while Lin Jinrou and Jiang Huanhuan visited him.
• Li Hao saw a falling leaf as a way to leave the game and comprehended the twelfth-stage Chess Realm, where all things within its reach became weapons.
• Li Hao's Chess Dao insights raised his time origin to the fifth level, and he began fusing Primordial Spirit power into his Immortal Body to form a game of heaven and earth.

Li Hao completed much of his cultivation in the Chess Dao, forging a heaven and earth immortal body and strengthening his powers before joining the Su Clan’s Heavenly Prodigies at an urgent meeting. Su Zhenyuan revealed that the demons planned a deadly contest in three years, leaving the Su family determined to fight and Li Hao concerned about the stakes.

• Li Hao fused his Primordial Spirit with his Immortal Body through the Chess Dao, developing a heaven and earth immortal body and strengthening his immortal power.
• Su Muqing emerged from seclusion after the Vermilion Bird Resonance Call and hurried to the Bright Emperor Hall, with Li Hao following her.
• Su Zhenyuan told the gathered Su Clan disciples that the Northern Region Demons would send their top twenty contestants to challenge the Human Race, wagering King-Level cities and the return of human prisoners on the matches.
• Li Hao deduced that the demons intended to kill human Heavenly Prodigies and weaken the Human Race’s future, and Su Zhenyuan confirmed his assessment.
• Su Zhenyuan announced that the Human Race would fight the demons in three years, restricting participants to those with less than a thousand years of Soul Lifespan; Su Muqing and the others vowed to compete.
• After the others departed, Su Zhenyuan lamented that he could not protect his children, while Su Qingmei comforted him and suggested arranging Su Muqing’s marriage to preserve their bloodline.