Recaps

Li Hao painted the Heaven and Earth Hong Bell, gaining major insight and rapidly filling his Painting Dao experience before deciding that repetition alone would not bring a breakthrough. He then asked Old Wang to teach him farming, and explained his carefree approach to choosing his own destination.

• The Flower Saint and Wandering Saint learned that Li Hao belonged to the Flower Wandering Society and praised his talent before the Herding Saint entered the Black Tower for another challenge.
• The Herding Saint emerged sooner than before, and the Flower Saint observed that Li Hao’s arrival had unsettled the other Sages.
• Li Hao painted the Heaven and Earth Hong Bell, whose phantom resonated with the real bell, refined his Primordial Spirit, and granted him a glimpse of immortal essence.
• Li Hao painted the bell repeatedly over two days, maxed out his Painting Dao experience, then stopped when the repeated work no longer brought clearer insight.
• Old Wang explained where Li Hao could go and reflected on the difference between genius and diligence, while Li Hao asked him to teach him farming.
• Li Hao described a fourth kind of person who chose to stand where he was and set his own destination, leaving Old Wang struck by his outlook.

Li Hao spent three years learning about immortal medicines and playing Go with Old Wang instead of cultivating for the trials, while Bright Saint repeatedly challenged the True Venerable Tower. The chapter ended when a Sage perfected the Ten Thousand Battles Immortal Art, releasing a spear intent powerful enough to draw Li Hao’s attention from the board.

• Old Wang agreed to teach Li Hao about immortal medicines, and Li Hao spent his days learning to cultivate the herbs and hearing about the Heavenly Calamity Hall’s stars.
• Li Hao challenged Old Wang to Go and lost repeatedly, gradually improving his understanding while remaining determined to win.
• Bright Saint entered the True Venerable Tower to challenge the trial, while other Sages worried that Li Hao was wasting time; Li Hao chose to keep playing Go until he could beat Old Wang.
• Over the next year, Li Hao’s chess Dao reached ninth dan perfection, but he still never defeated Old Wang.
• Two more years passed before a Sage perfected the Ten Thousand Battles Immortal Art and released a powerful spear intent that made Li Hao look away from the board.

Lin Sheng perfected the Spear Dao and entered the second trial, while Li Hao won a game against Old Wang and broke through to the tenth dan of the Chess Dao. After revealing that he had mastered the Yama Immortal Technique, Li Hao prepared to use his new Chess Dao state of mind to improve his movement techniques and challenge the True Venerable Tower.

• Lin Sheng comprehended the Spear Dao’s origin true meaning, earned Old Wang’s permission to take the second trial, and lasted longer in the True Venerable Tower than Bright Saint and Herding Saint had on their first attempts.
• Li Hao shifted to a fierce strategy against Old Wang, sacrificed groups of stones to open gaps in his formation, and won their game by half a point.
• Li Hao gained the Chess Dao state of mind, Transcending Mortality and Entering Sainthood, and decided to apply it to his movement techniques.
• Old Wang explained that a challenger’s projection was set before a True Venerable Tower attempt began, so sudden enlightenment during the challenge could help someone pass.
• Li Hao demonstrated the perfected Yanluo Outer Image Battle Technique, Yan Blade, and Di Luo Shield Technique, revealing that he had mastered the Yama Immortal Technique.

Li Hao passed the first trial by cultivating the Yama Immortal Technique to perfected origin true meaning, then entered the True Venerable Tower to begin his challenge. As the Sages reacted to his astonishing progress, Li Hao faced a stronger version of himself and clashed swords with its Immortal Guides the Way.

• Li Hao demonstrated his mastery of the Yama Immortal Technique, and Old Wang confirmed that he had passed the first trial.
• Li Hao flew to the True Venerable Tower and entered it while the watching Sages initially assumed he could not be attempting a challenge.
• Old Wang told the Sages that Li Hao had passed the first trial in three years and explained that such talent could qualify him to become an official disciple of the Immortal Emperor.
• The Sages worried about Li Hao's competition for a disciple position, then noticed that he had remained inside the tower for a long time.
• Inside the tower, Li Hao faced a projection of himself with a stronger body and fought back against its Immortal Guides the Way using the same sword technique and layered Ripple Sword strikes.

Li Hao defeated the True Venerable Tower’s first projection by turning his endless energy and teleportation into a sword formation, then was killed by a much stronger projection after entering a deeper trial. He emerged from the tower to the astonishment of the waiting Sages and returned to Old Wang, while their reactions revealed both admiration and murderous interest.

• Li Hao studied the projection’s attacks and realized its relentless urge to attack could become a weakness, then arranged his teleportation routes into a sword formation and destroyed it.
• Li Hao entered a purple pillar, returned to the trial world, and faced a projection at least five times stronger than himself, which killed him by breaking through his Return to Emptiness Teleportation.
• Li Hao awoke beside the tower entrance, left the tower, and confused the waiting Sages by emerging after nearly two sticks of incense.
• Lin Sheng, Saint Luo, the Herding Saint, and Bright Saint reacted to Li Hao’s apparent progress with humiliation, disbelief, anger, or thoughts of seizing the Immortal Emperor Dao Heritage.
• Li Hao returned to the meditation cushions, noticed the others’ hidden killing intent, and approached Old Wang, who sighed at him with complicated emotions.

Old Wang revealed that Li Hao had passed the second trial and the first floor of the True Venerable Tower, then explained the stakes of the Official Disciple trials and the path to the True Immortal Realm. Li Hao agreed to try for the Official Disciple heritage, though he remained unsure he could overcome the tower’s stronger projections.

• Li Hao told the gathered Sages that he had survived the True Venerable Tower by constantly fleeing, while Old Wang defended his achievement and took him aside.
• Bright Saint, Herding Saint, and Lin Sheng followed them, suspecting Old Wang had secretly helped Li Hao; Old Wang rebuked their jealousy and praised Li Hao’s talent and independent cultivation.
• Old Wang revealed that Li Hao had passed the second trial and cleared the tower’s first floor, and explained that the tower had three floors with projections at two, five, and ten times a challenger’s strength.
• After the three Sages left, Old Wang urged Li Hao to pursue the Official Disciple trials and explained that the heritage could lead to the Immortal Lord Realm and potentially the Immortal King Realm.
• Old Wang taught Li Hao that advancing to the True Immortal Realm required proving one’s Dao through origin true meaning, while Official Disciples needed a Nine Flowers Immortal Seal and a soul lifespan under ten thousand years.

Old Wang taught Li Hao the True Immortal Chapter of the Heaven-Following Ancestral Scripture and explained that becoming an Official Disciple could let him leave the Imperial Hall as Li Hao’s Dao guardian. After two years of training and playing Go, Li Hao still struggled to reach the eleventh-dan mental states he needed, and he flew to challenge the True Venerable Tower again.

• Old Wang imparted the Heaven-Following Ancestral Scripture’s True Immortal Chapter to Li Hao and explained its power and the requirements for mastering it.
• Li Hao realized that perfecting the scripture would require both his Path of the Physical Body and Imperial Dao to reach eleventh dan, and he resolved to help Old Wang leave by becoming an Official Disciple.
• Old Wang told Li Hao that only a truly admitted disciple could take him outside as a Dao guardian, and Li Hao promised to make it happen.
• Over the next two years, Li Hao played Go with Old Wang and painted the Heaven and Earth Hong Bell, but neither his Chess Dao nor Painting Dao reached eleventh dan.
• After Herding Saint returned from the True Venerable Tower, Li Hao flew to challenge it again while Lin Sheng and Bright Saint watched uneasily.

Li Hao fought the True Venerable Tower’s second-floor projection, awakened the Incense God Realm through the faith gathered over five years, and finally defeated his vastly stronger opponent. The projection revealed itself as the True Venerable Tower and warned Li Hao that the next trial, the Nine Flowers Immortal Seal, would be extremely difficult.

• Li Hao raised his Body Movement Dao to tenth dan and fought the projection, but it anticipated his Cosmos Chess Game and forced him into a desperate retreat.
• The Path of Sacrifice tribulation allowed five years of accumulated incense power to reach Li Hao, awakening his Incense God Realm and strengthening his heavenly dao embryo.
• Li Hao burned the embryo’s power and used a final sword strike, drawing on heavenly venerable will to destroy the projection’s primordial spirit.
• The projection recovered, confirmed that Li Hao had passed the second-floor trial, and identified itself as the True Venerable Tower.
• The True Venerable Tower told Li Hao that the Nine Flowers Immortal Seal was difficult and offered to help if he reached a bottleneck.

Li Hao passed the second floor of the True Venerable Tower, stunning the Sages and earning Old Wang’s praise. As he learned how difficult the nine flowers immortal seal would be, he studied the Myriad Paths Record and found a new insight into space through Old Wang’s go board.

• The Tower Soul told Li Hao that “following” meant time and “heaven” meant space, then sent him out of the tower.
• The Sages learned that Li Hao had passed the second floor, and Old Wang took him aside to explain the challenge of forming a nine flowers immortal seal.
• Old Wang gave Li Hao the Myriad Paths Record, and Li Hao identified the Nine Orders and considered how the Heaven-Following Ancestral Scripture related to time and space.
• Li Hao asked Old Wang for the go board and, while studying it, realized that it contained boundless space.

Li Hao advanced his chess and painting dao, comprehending higher levels of space, water, and earth origins. He created a working painted Heaven and Earth Hong Bell that helped Saint Luo prove his dao heart, and prepared to play more chess before condensing the Nine Flowers Immortal Seal.

• Li Hao understood space through the chess dao, defeated Old Wang, and advanced to the eleventh dan with spatial origin at the third level.
• Li Hao painted the Heaven and Earth Hong Bell repeatedly until he reached the painting dao’s eleventh dan and advanced his space origin to the fourth level, alongside water and earth origin insights.
• The Sages were startled when Li Hao’s painting produced a bell that looked real, and Old Wang recognized traces of multiple dao origins in it.
• Saint Luo used the painted bell to prove his dao heart, and it rang four times to confirm his heaven grade dao heart.
• Li Hao noticed the painted bell was fading, smiled at Old Wang, and planned to play more games before condensing the Nine Flowers Immortal Seal.

Li Hao advanced his cultivation, endured the Three Tribulations Heavenly Tribulation, and condensed an Immortal Seal during the True Immortal Tribulation. He formed a Nine Flowers Immortal Seal, passing the trial to become the Immortal Emperor’s Official Disciple while Old Wang realized he might finally be able to leave.

• Li Hao embedded two Origin True Hearts into the Path of the Physical Body and Imperial Dao, triggering a heavenly tribulation that he endured while comprehending the Heaven-Following Ancestral Scripture.
• Li Hao formed an ancestral immortal body and mastered the Battle Heaven Control Method as twenty-seven tribulations fell, revealing that he had advanced three paths to becoming a Sage.
• Li Hao condensed an Immortal Seal and faced the True Immortal Tribulation, then used three Nine Sequences Great Dao origins to form a Three Flowers Immortal Seal.
• Li Hao added the origins of the Path of the Physical Body, Control Path, Sword Dao, Yanluo Battle Method, and Body Movement Dao, expanding his Immortal Seal to eight flowers.
• Li Hao added a second Sword Dao origin through Great Dream Nine Abyss-Immortal Guides the Way, forming a Nine Flowers Immortal Seal that broke through the tribulation clouds and passed the Official Disciple trial.
• Old Wang watched Li Hao succeed and realized he could finally leave after waiting for countless years.

Li Hao formed the Nine Flowers Immortal Seal and chose to become an Official Disciple and inherit the Immortal Emperor Dao Heritage rather than remain for ten thousand years to pursue a Personal Disciple trial. The Venerable God explained the path to becoming a True God and revealed that the Immortal Emperor had left guidance for Li Hao to pursue a higher rank.

• Li Hao examined his incomplete Heaven-Following Ancestral Scripture and Ancestral Immortal Body, then realized his Nine Flowers Immortal Seal amplified his immortal power 256-fold.
• Old Wang told Li Hao about the Venerable God, a former True God who resided in the True Venerable Tower, and offered him the choice to leave as an Official Disciple or stay and seek a Personal Disciple trial.
• Li Hao chose to inherit the Dao Heritage and leave, while Old Wang placed the Immortal Calamity Curse on the others to prevent them from revealing the inheritance or Li Hao’s identity.
• Old Wang told the group that Li Hao could select Immortal Guards, and that serving him could grant them a cultivation method with a chance to reach the Immortal Lord realm.
• The Venerable God explained that becoming a True God required refining divine bones, forming primordial spirit blood, and condensing a true god mark, then told Li Hao that the Immortal Emperor had left clues for aspiring Personal Disciples.

Li Hao became an Official Disciple of the Tian Yang Immortal Emperor and received protection, cultivation resources, and weapons from the Heavenly Calamity Imperial Palace. The chapter ended with Li Hao learning that finding and returning Qing Xuan, the Emperor’s Second Disciple, could earn him a chance to become a Personal Disciple.

• Venerable God told Li Hao that he would place the True Venerable Tower in his primordial spirit, then explained that he planned to search for the Tian Yang Immortal Emperor’s remains.
• Old Wang escorted Li Hao to the Heavenly Calamity Imperial Hall, where Li Huang recognized him as Haotian and directed Old Wang to give him the legacy.
• Li Hao revealed his Nine Flowers Immortal Seal and received three jade king’s tokens, which could each be exchanged for an immortal vein if their trading guilds still existed.
• Li Hao chose the Daoji Immortal Sword and Extreme Thunder Immortal Armor from the treasury, forming bonds with both.
• Li Hao entered the Inheritance Stone and witnessed Qing Xuan’s sword technique before learning that returning the Emperor’s Second Disciple could earn him a chance at promotion to Personal Disciple.

Li Hao received the Purple Forbidden supreme immortal art and became an Official Disciple of the Tian Yang Immortal Emperor. As he prepared to leave, he learned that Ying Xiaoxiao might be the reincarnation of the Personal Disciple Shi Miao and was offered ten Immortal Guard places.

• Li Hao learned that Shi Miao was a lost Personal Disciple whose Soul Core might have reincarnated, and accepted reflected Soul Cores to help identify the surviving disciples.
• Li Hao recorded six of the ten supreme immortal arts, chose Purple Forbidden, and discovered that his Space Origin let him master it to the pinnacle.
• Old Wang took Li Hao to Li Huang, who branded him as an Official Disciple and urged him to find the surviving Personal Disciples rather than eliminate them.
• Li Hao and Old Wang prepared to leave the inheritance grounds, and Old Wang told Li Hao he could choose ten Immortal Guards from among Bright Saint, Lin Sheng, and the others.

Li Hao chose five people to become his Immortal Guards before the Venerable God prepared to transfer the True Venerable Tower’s true body to him. Meanwhile, five years after the Heavenly Palace’s arrival, three true immortals threatened the Haotian Sacred Land and demanded Li Hao’s body.

• Li Hao accepted Lin Sheng, the Flower Saint, the Wandering Saint, Winter Blade, and Chen Baoyu as Immortal Guards, while Bright Saint and Herding Saint chose to pursue their own paths.
• The Venerable God told Li Hao that he could soon leave and began preparing to transfer the True Venerable Tower’s true body to him.
• The Heavenly Palace and other factions expanded their presence across the Heavenly Realms, recruiting disciples and clearing a forbidden zone along the Ancient Road.
• Three true immortals confronted Feng Boping, the Sword Master, Saint Mitian, and the Haotian Sacred Land, offering immortal stones and sect membership in exchange for Li Hao’s corpse.
• Feng Boping and the others restrained themselves from resisting, knowing the three true immortals could destroy them and suspecting they had waited for Lie Heaven Saint to leave before revealing their intentions.

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.