Chapter Summaries

Li Hao defeated every Grandmaster at the gathering without personally moving, leaving Qin Wuque’s dao heart shattered. Before the crowd could resolve the confrontation, demons broke Great Yue City’s protective formation and two Three Immortalities Realm Great Demons confronted the gathered martial artists, prompting Li Hao to attack the Purple-Robed Youth with his game piece.

• After Zhou Haitang fell, Grandmasters took turns challenging Li Hao’s divine soul and were all defeated by the single game piece; Qin Wuque remained pinned and lost his confidence.
• Wen Tianen demanded that Li Hao release Qin Wuque, but Li Hao insisted Qin Wuque had to admit defeat himself.
• The city’s protective Magic Array went dark, and demons inside Great Yue City destroyed towers and killed defenders while a demon army advanced outside the walls.
• A bull demon slaughtered civilians in the city, and the city lord was thrown onto the dao discussion grounds with his armor shattered.
• The Purple-Robed Youth and the Gray-Shirt Old Man arrived as two Great Demons, overwhelming the gathered Grandmasters with their demonic pressure.
• Li Hao withdrew his Heaven and Earth Dharma Form’s hand from Qin Wuque and hurled the glowing game piece at the Purple-Robed Youth.

Li Hao drew the Dragon Firmament sword and fought the Ten Thousand Mountains Little Demon King, wounding the powerful demon despite his superior cultivation and toughness. As other Three Immortalities fighters engaged the Gray-Shirt Old Man and Niu Demon, the Grandmasters fled to defend the city, and Li Hao pressed his attack toward the Little Demon King's throat.

• The Ten Thousand Mountains Little Demon King caught Li Hao's chess piece but injured his palm, and Heaven's Mystery Mountain Man identified him.
• The Grandmasters resolved to fight, while Wen Tianen attacked the Gray-Shirt Old Man and was swiftly struck down.
• Li Hao summoned the Dragon Firmament sword and exchanged fierce strikes with the Ten Thousand Mountains Little Demon King, cutting open his fist and forcing him to reveal his true form.
• The Gray-Shirt Old Man transformed into a Jiaolong and attacked the Grandmasters, but Li He and a He Lian Family elder intervened as the Grandmasters retreated toward the city walls.
• Li Hao combined his swordsmanship with newly grasped Dao insights, cleaved deeply into the Little Demon King's forearm, and then aimed a strike at his throat.

Li Hao killed the Ten Thousand Mountains Little Demon King and his protectors, then returned to Great Yue City as the Demon Tide attacked. He prepared to face the army outside the walls and called it his final lesson for Song Yueyao, Zhou Zheng, and the other Grandmasters.

• Feng Boping stopped Uncle Gao's golden feather and faced him while Li Hao agreed to hold off the Ten Thousand Mountains Little Demon King for fifteen minutes.
• Li Hao created the Reincarnation sword art, killed the Jiao Demon and Niu Demon, and pursued the fleeing Ten Thousand Mountains Little Demon King.
• Li Hao used Flying Section to destroy the Ten Thousand Mountains Little Demon King's Divine Soul, then confirmed that he was dead.
• As the Demon Tide attacked Great Yue City, Li Hao found Shen Yunqing and the White Hall disciples and warned them that the demons were coming.
• Li Hao stepped beyond the city walls and told Song Yueyao, Zhou Zheng, and the others to watch his final lesson.

Li Hao destroyed the demon tide threatening Great Yue City, then left for Heaven's Gate Pass after reaffirming that his surname was Ji. Reports of his victories reached the Li Family, where Li Muxiu celebrated that Li Hao had surpassed Li Tiangang's younger self.

• Li Hao used the Dragon Sky Sword to annihilate the demon tide outside Great Yue City, then helped defenders at the other walls and saved grandmasters from being overwhelmed.
• Feng Boping returned after driving off a Demon King and warned Li Hao that two Demon Kings could threaten him within six months.
• Li Hao rested, accepted the grandmasters' thanks, and told them his surname was Ji; Bai Chunhai gave him the painting he had wanted.
• Li Hao left Great Yue City with Ren Qianqian, avoiding the approaching cavalry reinforcements.
• Li Tiangang received reports of Li Hao's victories at the Grandmaster Assembly and in Great Yue City, and Li Muxiu praised him for defeating the equivalent of Li Tiangang's younger self.

Li Muxiu and Li Tiangang argued over Li Hao’s reckless conduct after learning he had killed the Ten Thousand Mountains Little Demon King, and Li Tiangang decided to write his son a letter offering him a way to back down. At Boundless Mountain, the Boundless Buddha comforted Qin Wuque and Li Qianfeng, then warned that Li Hao’s exceptional talent had set him on a perilous path.

• Li Muxiu read He Jianlan’s report that Li Hao had killed the Ten Thousand Mountains Little Demon King and was astonished by his achievement.
• Li Tiangang defended his decision to criticize Li Hao, arguing that the boy’s reckless actions could create enemies and harm the Li Family’s standing.
• Li Tiangang said he would write Li Hao a letter giving him a way to retreat, while he planned to travel to Great Yu Province to report the demons’ growing threat to the Emperor.
• At Boundless Mountain, the Boundless Buddha reassured Qin Wuque and Li Qianfeng after their defeats and told Li Qianfeng to cultivate for the next three years.
• The Boundless Buddha told Qin Wuque that Li Hao’s talent had put him on a difficult road and dismissed the Buddha Children to reflect and overcome their inner demons.

Li Hao rebuilt homes at Heaven's Gate Pass while preparing for a possible attack by the Ten Thousand Mountains Demon King and other Demon Kings. After receiving warnings from Li Muxiu and a promotion from the Yu Emperor, Li Hao obtained a life-saving Sacred Heart Treasure Talisman.

• Li Hao told Song Qiumo and Li Hongzhuang that he planned to restore the city at Heaven's Gate Pass, while Song Qiumo warned that the Ten Thousand Mountains Demon King might attack after Li Hao killed his son.
• Song Qiumo agreed to stay for three years, and Li Hongzhuang volunteered to leave in her place, as they considered the danger of facing three Demon Kings.
• Li Hao burned a letter from Li Tiangang and read Li Muxiu's warning to prepare for an attack by several Demon Kings and flee with Feng Boping to a secret location near a Nether Capital Tier Mo River.
• Chu Jiuyue delivered the Yu Emperor's decree promoting Li Hao to a first-rank Bo-rank Noble and secretly gave him a life-saving Sacred Heart Treasure Talisman.

After half a year of cultivating at Heaven’s Gate Pass, Li Hao reached the limits of the great grandmaster realm while the Ten Thousand Mountains Demon King’s threat loomed. As his companions departed and he prepared with Feng Boping, Li Hao comprehended the breath of heaven and earth and attained the land immortal realm.

• Li Hao spent six months refining his Myriad Things Dao and sword arts, bringing his combat strength far beyond what it had been in Great Yue City.
• Li Hao persuaded Song Qiumo to return to Sandalwood Palace, and Li Hongzhuang left to seek help from his family in Qing Prefecture.
• Feng Boping knocked Li He unconscious, and Li Hao sent him and Ren Qianqian away to Qizhou while he and Feng Boping prepared hidden traps for the demons.
• After another half month, Li Hao understood that all things shared a breath of heaven and earth, drew in immortal qi, and attained the land immortal realm.

Li Hao reached the Grandmaster limit, surpassed the great grandmaster realm in Martial Dao, and returned to Heaven's Gate Pass as Demon Kings approached. When Feng Boping tried to flee with him, Song Qiumo arrived and joined them, and they turned back to confront the three Demon Kings.

• Li Hao absorbed immortal qi, reached the land immortal realm, and demonstrated his power by splitting the clouds with one sword and clearing snow across the surrounding land.
• Feng Boping warned Li Hao that the Ten Thousand Mountains Demon King might attack with another Demon King, while Li Hao continued practicing painting in the courtyard.
• A month later, Li Hao and Feng Boping sensed three Demon Kings approaching, so Feng Boping prepared to take Li Hao and Little White Fox away.
• Song Qiumo appeared and insisted on staying with Li Hao, and he agreed that they could try to drive off the three Demon Kings together.
• The three Demon Kings reached the camp, and the golden-furred old man attacked Li Hao's courtyard before Song Qiumo shielded it and challenged the demons.

Li Hao faced the Ten Thousand Mountains Demon King and the Dragon Lord, using suspicion and negotiation to disrupt their alliance before the battle began. After Song Qiumo drew the Dragon Lord away, Li Hao confronted the Demon King's black-robed ally and countered his teleportation attack with a trap and a sword strike.

• Li Hao bluffed that reinforcements might be nearby and tried to persuade the Dragon Lord to betray the Ten Thousand Mountains Demon King.
• The Dragon Lord refused Li Hao's offer but grew wary after Li Hao's words made the Demon King question their alliance.
• Song Qiumo lured the Dragon Lord away, leaving Feng Boping to face the Ten Thousand Mountains Demon King while Li Hao moved aside.
• The Ten Thousand Mountains Demon King ordered his black-robed ally to kill Li Hao, and the attacker teleported toward him.
• Li Hao's hidden lines and fishhook caught the black-robed man, who struck back with a guaranteed-hit attack.
• Li Hao drew the Dragon Sky Sword and unleashed a strike that gathered the momentum of heaven and earth.

Li Hao fought the Black Bird Demon King and unleashed a forbidden transformation by merging with heaven and earth after Feng Boping was gravely wounded. His Heaven and Earth Reincarnation killed the Black Bird Demon King and drove the Ten Thousand Mountains Demon King and the Silver-Robed Youth from Heaven's Gate Pass, while Song Qiumo was left severely wounded.

• Li Hao blocked the Black Bird Demon King's attacks with his sword, and their battle destroyed the camp and Hedge-Enclosed Courtyard.
• Feng Boping arrived badly wounded as the Ten Thousand Mountains Demon King and the Silver-Robed Youth revealed themselves as additional attackers.
• Feng Boping tried to send Li Hao away and hold off the three Demon Kings, but Li Hao turned back and began assimilating with heaven and earth.
• Li Hao unleashed Heaven and Earth Reincarnation, and the Dragon Sky Sword Soul restrained the Black Bird Demon King while a strand of Sword Qi killed him.
• Li Hao struck again, forcing the Ten Thousand Mountains Demon King and the Silver-Robed Youth to flee beyond Heaven's Gate Pass.
• The Ten Thousand Mountains Demon King and the Silver-Robed Youth wounded Song Qiumo during their retreat, while the Dragon Lord remained dazed.

Li Hao lost control of the Heaven and Earth Power surging through him and nearly died, but he managed to stabilize his body with Feng Boping and Song Qiumo’s help. As the three injured companions prepared to recover, the Demon Kings returned to attack.

• Li Hao found Song Qiumo wounded after the Demon Kings fled, then began breaking apart as the power within him overwhelmed his body.
• Song Qiumo tried to heal Li Hao, but her power worsened his condition, so she and Feng Boping sealed him inside a barrier to cut off the surrounding energy.
• Li Hao redirected the excess power and found inner peace, allowing Keep a Low Profile to heal him until he regained control of his body.
• Li Hao thanked Feng Boping and Song Qiumo, and the three took healing medicines while agreeing to seek revenge once recovered.
• The three Demon Kings returned and mocked the wounded Li Hao, Feng Boping, and Song Qiumo as they charged toward them.

After the three Demon Kings returned, Li Hao barely drove them off with his collapsing secret art, but they cornered him again as reinforcements arrived and a demon tide attacked. When the Ten Thousand Mountains Demon King finally struck, Li Hao activated the Sacred Heart Treasure Talisman to shield himself, Feng Boping, and Song Qiumo.

• Li Hao used his secret art again, and the Ten Thousand Mountains Demon King, the Silver-Robed Youth, and the Dragon Lord withdrew after his sword split the demon king’s palm.
• Li Hao, Feng Boping, and Song Qiumo tried to retreat, but a demon tide approached and the three Demon Kings returned to trap them.
• Li Hao prepared to use his strongest form while Feng Boping and Song Qiumo urged him to escape, but a crowd of cultivators and soldiers arrived to reinforce Heaven’s Gate Pass.
• Bai Chunhai, Lin Qingfeng, Zhou Haitang, and many others joined the defenders, fighting the demon tide outside the pass as the Demon Kings held their position.
• After regular troops arrived, the Ten Thousand Mountains Demon King attacked Li Hao and his companions, and Li Hao activated the Sacred Heart Treasure Talisman to block the blow.

Li Hao and his allies survived the attack by three Demon Kings after the Heavenly Secrets Grandmaster and Li Muxiu arrived to drive the demons away. The chapter left Li Hao determined to keep defending Heaven’s Gate Pass for three years, while Li Muxiu worried that the Emperor’s support might draw him into imperial schemes.

• Li Hao prepared to stay behind so Feng Boping and Song Qiumo could escape, but Lu Chunsheng arrived and blocked the three Demon Kings.
• Li Muxiu appeared, struck the Ten Thousand Mountains Demon King, and forced the three Demon Kings to flee after a fierce exchange.
• Li Muxiu crushed much of the demon tide, then treated Li Hao, Feng Boping, and Song Qiumo for their injuries.
• Li Hao told Li Muxiu he would repay his help as a favor and confirmed he intended to defend Heaven’s Gate Pass for three years.
• Li Hao thanked Lu Chunsheng and recognized that the Emperor had arranged support through the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion.
• Li Muxiu worried that the Emperor might be using Li Hao for imperial purposes and regretted that the boy had been drawn into such affairs.

After the battle at Heaven's Gate Pass, Li Hao mourned the fallen and began rebuilding Azure Cliff City as the Yu Emperor's hidden role in the timely reinforcements came to light. The chapter ended with a new city rising beside the pass beneath a banner bearing the characters “Haotian.”

• Li Hao thanked Li Hongzhuang for bringing reinforcements and asked Lin Qingfeng to record the dead, while Li Hongzhuang sent the Blood Fiend Army to recover the fallen.
• The Yu Emperor and Chu Jiuyue discussed the battle, and the Yu Emperor said that sincere intentions could not be seen through.
• At Heaven's Gate Pass, Feng Boping questioned Li Muxiu about the Li Family's True Dragon and learned that the True Dragon had gone to defend Liang Prefecture's eastern border amid attacks across several prefectures.
• Many martial artists stayed to help Li Hao rebuild Azure Cliff City, and caravans began traveling along Dragon Gate Road again.
• Azure Cliff City's walls and buildings rose quickly, and workers unfurled a military banner marked “Haotian.”

As Azure Cliff City recovered, Li Hao received officials and said goodbye to Song Qiumo, while the Celestial Observation Bureau began investigating the city’s Magic Arrays. He then prepared to deal with the Black Bird Demon King’s corpse, whose blood he intended to use for another purpose.

• Li Muxiu quietly said goodbye to Li Hao, accepting that Li Hao no longer needed the Li Family’s protection.
• Xiang Yuguang arrived with three Demon Suppression Generals to record the Demon King attack, but Li Hao treated him coolly and soon saw him off.
• Song Qiumo told Li Hao she was returning to Qing Prefecture and would wait for him there in three years before leaving.
• A Constellation Official from the Celestial Observation Bureau collected the City Lord Token and began inspecting the Magic Arrays, while Xia Xianglan saw the border graves and understood their cost.
• Li Hao invited Ren Qianqian and Little White Fox to help deal with the Black Bird Demon King’s corpse, and Feng Boping advised him to preserve its Dao Heart and Gilded Bird Feathers.
• Li Hao said the Demon King’s flesh would feed the gathered martial artists and asked for containers because he had another use for its precious blood.

Li Hao butchered and cooked the Black Bird Demon King for the martial artists of Azure Cliff City, and the process unexpectedly helped him achieve Entering Spirit in the Path of Cooking. After sharing the feast, he realized the breakthrough could guide him in his other paths.

• Li Hao harvested the Black Bird Demon King's precious blood, gilded feathers, heart, and other remains, then decided to cook its meat for the city.
• Li Hongzhuang summoned the Blood Fiend Army's cooking squad to help prepare supplies as Li Hao turned the Demon King's body into a feast.
• While cooking, Li Hao soothed the thoughts lingering in the Demon King's flesh and infused them with his gratitude, achieving Entering Spirit in the Path of Cooking.
• Li Hongzhuang thanked the assembled martial artists on Li Hao's behalf, and they tasted the emotions carried through the dishes as they ate.
• Li Hao delivered food to the Celestial Observation Bureau on the walls and saw that his Path of Cooking had advanced from the sixth dan to the seventh dan.
• Li Hao realized his cooking breakthrough had shown him a way toward Entering Spirit in his other paths and that he could allocate points again.

After the Ten Thousand Mountains Demon King parted from his allies, rejected a clean-robed figure’s attempt to reform him, and destroyed the demons of the Red Water River, Li Hao advanced his physical cultivation. Li Hao reached the Three Immortalities Realm and transformed into a true dragon, advancing from Indestructible to Undeclining.

• The Silver-Robed Youth and Dragon Lord discussed their escape plans and left the Ten Thousand Mountains Demon King, with the Dragon Lord taking Red God to the Dragon Gate.
• A clean-robed figure offered the Ten Thousand Mountains Demon King a chance to reform, but he refused, accepted a Sacred Heart Treasure Talisman, and slaughtered the demons in the Red Water River before flying south.
• Li Hao arranged for the Nine Cauldrons Demon King's Precious Blood to be returned to Qing Prefecture, then reviewed his skills and used a Cooking state of mind and an Art Skill Point to raise his Path of the Physical Body to seventh dan.
• Li Hao awakened the transcendent Immovable Wisdom King technique, broke through into the Three Immortalities Realm, and reached the Indestructible Realm as power of heaven and earth surged around the mountain.
• Li Hao practiced the Myriad Flood Dragon Body, transformed into a small true dragon, and advanced from the Indestructible Realm to the Undeclining Realm.

Li Hao completed several body techniques, reached the Three Immortalities Realm, and discovered a Divine Power state that multiplied his strength and healing. He sent a Great Demon King's precious blood to the Li Family, while news of a major border battle reached Li Tiangang.

• Li Hao completed the Supreme Body, reached the pinnacle of the Three Immortalities Realm, and discovered that Divine Power could briefly increase his strength and physical resilience tenfold.
• Li Hao finished cultivating his techniques and returned from the mountain with Ren Qianqian and Little White Fox, while Li Hongzhuang confirmed his breakthrough.
• He Jianlan received nine cauldrons of Great Demon King blood from Li Hao and learned that four Demon Kings had attacked Heaven's Gate Pass before fleeing.
• He Jianlan ordered a letter sent to Li Tiangang in Liang Prefecture, telling him that Li Hao had repaid his debt of gratitude.
• An officer reported that Li Tiangang's forces had slain 43,255 demons and suffered 321 deaths, with many more wounded.

Li Tiangang learned that Li Hao had helped defend Heaven’s Gate Pass and repaid an old debt with a Demon King’s Precious Blood, but he still planned to bring his son back by force. Meanwhile, demons plotted to keep Li Tiangang occupied, and Li Hao left the pass alone to hunt for a Demon King to test himself against.

• Li Tiangang discussed the danger to Heaven’s Gate Pass and said Li Hao could withdraw if he was unwilling to face the Demon Kings, but he intended to use the threat to teach him a lesson.
• A cloud sparrow delivered a letter telling Li Tiangang that Li Hao had sent him Nine Cauldrons Demon King’s Precious Blood and that four Demon Kings had attacked Heaven’s Gate Pass before the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion and Second Uncle drove them away.
• Li Tiangang realized that many people valued Li Hao and resolved to go to Heaven’s Gate Pass after the Eastern Border stabilized and drag him back to the Li Family.
• Black-robed Jiaolong figures discussed keeping Li Tiangang occupied and shifting their invasion toward the north, where they planned to test whether the Xia Family would intervene.
• At Azure Cliff City, Li Hao wrote Ren Qianqian a Spirit Refining Method, then took the Dragon Sky Sword and left the pass alone to search for a Demon King.

Li Hao cleared abandoned demon strongholds beyond Heaven's Gate Pass and learned that the Dragon Gate, Saint Palace, and Great Void Realm planned to attack Liang Prefecture. At the Fire Melt Cave, the Three-Headed Prime received news of the invasion and the vacant territories, while a golden sword struck down the departing Tianji Hall messenger.

• Li Hao entered the deserted Ten Thousand Mountains Region, destroyed its remaining demons and the Myriad Demon Hall, then continued toward the Dragon Mountain Dojo.
• At the Dragon Mountain Dojo, Li Hao killed a seductive centipede demon and a corpse demon after questioning them about the Dragon Gate’s plans for Liang Prefecture.
• Li Hao gathered four demonic body-refining manuals, raised his physical strength to 1.3 million jin, and destroyed the Dragon Mountain Dojo and the abandoned Saint Peak.
• At the Fire Melt Cave, a Tianji Hall messenger told the Three-Headed Prime that the Great Void Realm, Dragon Gate, and Saint Palace would attack Liang Prefecture and that several demon territories were vacant.
• As the black bird messenger flew away from the cave, a golden sword light sliced off her wings.