Recaps

Li Zhōujūn shattered the Qi Family’s Five Peaks Emperor Slaying Array with one punch and forced its Supreme Elders to retreat, then blocked the only exit to the Qi Family’s world. When Qi Yongxiu summoned the clan’s Old Ancestor, the Old Ancestor awakened and unleashed a terrifying aura into the Source Realm.

• Li Zhōujūn broke the Five Peaks Emperor Slaying Array, and its collapse badly injured Qi Jianxi, Qi Fengmao, Qi Qian, Qi Shouxin, and Qi Jianhai.
• Li Zhōujūn told the five Supreme Elders that he would block the Qi Family’s only exit until he grew bored, while observers discussed the Qi Family’s humiliation.
• Qi Yongxiu declared that the Qi Family would summon Ancestor Qi, then went to the mountain where the white-haired Old Ancestor was undergoing the Emperor Soul Decay.
• Qi Yongxiu begged the Old Ancestor for help, and the Old Ancestor opened his eyes and released a terrifying aura that surged into the Source Realm.
• Li Zhōujūn calmly refilled his teacup as cultivators wondered whether he could handle the awakened Old Ancestor.

Li Zhōujūn faced Ancestor Qi after the Qi Family’s ancestor emerged from seclusion with his Emperor Soul already damaged by tribulation. Their opening attacks collided, and Ancestor Qi challenged Li Zhōujūn to see whose Emperor Soul would be erased first.

• Qi Jianxi feared that Ancestor Qi’s intervention would worsen the damage to his Emperor Soul and bring disaster upon the Qi Family.
• Ancestor Qi and Qi Yongxiu emerged from the stone stele, and Ancestor Qi’s overwhelming pressure spread across the Source Realm.
• Ancestor Qi forgot his own name, prompting Qi Yongxiu to remind him that he was Qi Haohan.
• Li Zhōujūn identified himself and urged Ancestor Qi to return, but Ancestor Qi refused and attacked.
• Li Zhōujūn blocked Ancestor Qi’s sleeve strike and shattered his phantom foot with a teacup.
• Ancestor Qi recognized that Li Zhōujūn was also undergoing the Five Decays of the Emperor Realm and vowed to slay him.

Li Zhōujūn defeated Ancestor Qi’s attacks without suffering a scratch, and Ancestor Qi’s imperial soul faded after he exhausted himself. With the Qi Family driven back through its passageway, the story left Qin Tianyi preparing to hand Tianyi Hall over to Zhōujūn in a few days.

• Ancestor Qi attacked Li Zhōujūn with sword, fire, and lightning techniques, but their first two attacks clashed and his lightning left Li Zhōujūn unharmed.
• Qi Yongxiu celebrated the lightning strike, while the five Qi Family Supreme Elders rebuked him for risking Ancestor Qi’s imperial soul.
• Li Zhōujūn remained uninjured as Ancestor Qi’s imperial soul succumbed to the Five Decays, and Ancestor Qi fell to his death.
• Li Zhōujūn ordered the Qi Family to return through its passageway, and Qi Yongxiu and the five Supreme Elders fled inside.
• Qin Tianyi remarked that Tianyi Hall would be handed over to Zhōujūn in a few days.

After Li Zhōujūn drove the Qi Family back to its world, the Han Family decided to cancel Han Dancui’s engagement to Qi Zhengqing and pursue a match with the Wei Family instead. The Qi Family sealed its gates, choosing to retreat into its own world rather than enter the Source Realm.

• Li Zhōujūn watched the Qi Family retreat and asked Shen Xianning whether Zhi Ning and Sū Nán had reached Source Venerable; she said they needed more time to absorb their opportunities.
• Qi Jianxi blamed Qi Yongxiu for the Ancestor’s death, and the Qi Family’s Supreme Elders beat their Patriarch after he said they shared responsibility.
• Han Zhijian and the Han Family’s Supreme Elders agreed that Han Dancui’s marriage contract with Qi Zhengqing should be dissolved because the Azure Emperor was too powerful to antagonize.
• Han Zhijian rejected a proposed match with the Imperial Sea Emperor Venerable and decided to approach the Wei Family about its Young Master.
• After three days of beating Qi Yongxiu, Qi Jianxi ordered the Qi Family to seal its gates and remain in its own world, with no one entering the Source Realm.

After sitting outside the Qi Family for two and a half years, Li Zhōujūn became the new Lord of Tianyi Hall and reached the First Tribulation of the Source Emperor Realm. The four Great Elders recognized him, then warned that the Wancang Old Ancestor was preparing to attack Tianyi Hall.

• Qi Jianxi told Qi Yongxiu that the Han Family would likely end his son's engagement because the Qi Family had fallen into a vulnerable position.
• Li Zhōujūn completed his task outside the Qi Family, advanced to the twelfth-stage Source Saint realm, and received the jade pendant naming him Lord of Tianyi Hall.
• Qin Tianyi told Li Zhōujūn to take over Tianyi Hall and revealed that Qin Shaoxian, ancestor of the Qin Family, had once been a child he found and raised.
• Li Zhōujūn used the jade pendant to teleport to Tianyi Hall, where Xu Yiyan, Yang Yunsuanyuan, Jin Quan, and Yan Xunqing welcomed him as their new Lord.
• The system recognized Li Zhōujūn's succession and raised his cultivation to the First Tribulation of the Source Emperor Realm.
• Xu Yiyan told Li Zhōujūn that the Wancang Old Ancestor planned to move against Tianyi Hall after Qin Tianyi's apparent death.

Li Zhōujūn toured Tianyi Hall with Xu Yiyan and chose a site for his new residence on Auspicious Cloud Mountain. Meanwhile, the Wancang Old Ancestor learned that Qin Tianyi had died and decided to personally take over Tianyi Hall.

• Jin Quan, Yang Yunsuanyuan, and Yan Xunqing left after discussing the Myriad Azure Holy Land, while Xu Yiyan stayed to show Li Zhōujūn around Tianyi Hall.
• Xu Yiyan explained Tianyi Hall's palaces and told Li Zhōujūn that Huangfu Yixin was an Inner Disciple of the Flying Dragon Palace.
• Li Zhōujūn named his cultivation site Auspicious Cloud Mountain and asked Xu Yiyan to build a three-story pavilion with courtyards, trees, chickens, and a fish pond.
• Gu He reported that Qin Tianyi had died and that Tianyi Hall's elders were waiting for its new Hall Master, whose cultivation might be below the Ascension Stage Source Emperor Realm.
• The Wancang Old Ancestor said he would personally deal with Tianyi Hall and merge it into the Myriad Azure Holy Land, then told Gu He to befriend the Azure Emperor.

Li Zhōujūn settled into his new residence at Tianyi Hall and let Li Qicai cultivate there, while the Inner Disciples worried about their absent new Hall Master. Myriad Azure Ancestor attacked Tianyi Hall, and Li Zhōujūn calmly continued watching Li Qicai roast a chicken as three figures flew out to confront the threat.

• Xu Yiyan showed Li Zhōujūn the completed pavilion on Auspicious Cloud Mountain, and he approved of it.
• Li Zhōujūn summoned Li Qicai and told her she could cultivate at Tianyi Hall.
• Duan Dai'e arrived to preach to the Inner Disciples, who questioned her about the missing new Hall Master.
• Myriad Azure Ancestor appeared above Tianyi Hall and stomped on the void, making the hall tremble.
• Li Zhōujūn dismissed the disturbance when Li Qicai asked about it, while three figures flew out of Tianyi Hall to meet the attacker.

Wancang Old Ancestor attacked Tianyi Hall and demanded its submission, but the elders named Azure Emperor as their new Hall Master. Li Zhōujūn teleported to confront Wancang Old Ancestor, who was left stammering in shock.

• Wancang Old Ancestor confronted Tianyi Hall’s three Third Decay experts and demanded that the sect submit to Myriad Azure Holy Land or be crushed.
• Xu Yiyan warned Li Zhōujūn that Wancang Old Ancestor had attacked, and the system issued a mission to repel him.
• Jin Quan announced across the Source Realm that Azure Emperor was Tianyi Hall’s new Hall Master, frightening Wancang Old Ancestor.
• Wancang Old Ancestor doubted the announcement and accused Tianyi Hall of bluffing about Azure Emperor.
• Li Zhōujūn teleported to Wancang Old Ancestor, and Tianyi Hall’s elders welcomed him as their Hall Master.
• Wancang Old Ancestor recognized Li Zhōujūn and asked in shock whether he really was Tianyi Hall’s new Hall Master.

Li Zhōujūn became Tianyi Hall’s Hall Master and compelled Wancang Old Ancestor to provide the hall with a wealth of treasures before leaving. After Li Zhōujūn reached the seventh level of the Source Emperor Realm, Qin Tianyi revealed that other realm lords threatened the Source Realm and urged him to grow strong enough to take over its defense.

• Li Zhōujūn had Tianyi Hall’s four Great Elders ask Wancang Old Ancestor for whatever the hall needed, and Wancang Old Ancestor surrendered ten Three Tribulation Emperor Pills and several Three Tribulation Emperor Weapons.
• Xu Yiyan presented the treasures to Li Zhōujūn, who entrusted the ring to her, while Huangfu Yixin realized that the Azure Emperor was the Li Zhōujūn she knew.
• Wancang Old Ancestor departed Tianyi Hall in distress, and the system rewarded Li Zhōujūn with seventh-level Source Emperor cultivation.
• Qin Tianyi watched Li Zhōujūn and considered whether to release a sealed enemy to challenge him.
• Qin Tianyi reflected on the mysterious visitor who had foretold Li Zhōujūn’s arrival and warned that other realm lords were joining forces against the Source Realm.
• Qin Tianyi told Li Zhōujūn to reach the Five Decays of the Emperor Realm soon so he could take up the burden of protecting the Source Realm.

Li Zhōujūn reunited with his disciples Lu Zhining and Sū Nán after they broke through to the tenth-tier Source Venerable Realm, and they learned he had reached the Fourth Tribulation of the Emperor Realm. Meanwhile, Qin Tianyi released Chen Fu on the condition that he serve as a combat test for Qin Tianyi’s descendant, Li Zhōujūn.

• Shen Xianning welcomed Lu Zhining and Sū Nán after they emerged from seclusion at the tenth-tier Source Venerable Realm and told them she and Li Zhōujūn had confirmed their relationship.
• Li Zhōujūn traveled to the Great Cold Snow Domain, effortlessly dodged his disciples’ greeting, and revealed that Wancang Old Ancestor treated him with deference.
• Shen Xianning confirmed that Wancang Old Ancestor had left in tears after meeting Li Zhōujūn, leaving Lu Zhining and Sū Nán shocked by their master’s strength.
• Qin Tianyi visited the imprisoned Chen Fu and offered to release him if he acted as a whetstone for Qin Tianyi’s descendant.
• Chen Fu agreed to fight Li Zhōujūn under Qin Tianyi’s supervision, despite being forbidden to kill him.

Chen Fu challenged Li Zhōujūn at the behest of Qin Tianyi, forcing the Azure Emperor to face a Five Decays of the Emperor Realm powerhouse. Before departing to meet Chen Fu, Li Zhōujūn and Shen Xianning exchanged wine and officially became husband and wife; Chen Fu waited for him to appear.

• Qin Tianyi freed Chen Fu and reminded him that he could leave if he defeated Li Zhōujūn ten times.
• Chen Fu appeared above the Source Realm, revealed his Five Decays of the Emperor Realm aura, and publicly challenged Li Zhōujūn.
• Shen Xianning, Sū Nán, and Lu Zhining sensed Chen Fu's pressure, and Li Zhōujūn used his Fifty-Fifty ability to shield his disciples.
• Li Zhōujūn reassured Shen Xianning that he could handle Chen Fu, and the two drank wine and declared themselves husband and wife.
• Li Zhōujūn vanished to meet Chen Fu, who mocked him for not appearing sooner.

Li Zhōujūn fought Chen Fu, an Emperor Realm Expert at the Five Decays, and forced him to surrender. The system rewarded Li Zhōujūn with a breakthrough, while Chen Fu secretly planned to escape and seek revenge elsewhere.

• Li Zhōujūn appeared before Chen Fu and accepted his challenge, drawing alarmed reactions from observers across the Source Realm.
• Chen Fu attacked with a powerful punch, but Li Zhōujūn caught it and revealed that he had also reached the Five Decays of the Emperor Realm.
• Chen Fu transformed into a blood-red Dharma Form and repeatedly clashed with Li Zhōujūn, whose chessboard blocked the Dharma Form from draining the life force of nearby beings.
• Li Zhōujūn prepared to continue the fight inside the chessboard, but Chen Fu abruptly surrendered, completing the system mission and raising Li Zhōujūn’s cultivation to the Twelfth-Order Ascension Stage Origin Emperor.
• Chen Fu asked Li Zhōujūn to surrender to him ten times and secretly resolved to escape the Source Realm and pursue revenge in another world.

Qin Tianyi killed Chen Fu after Chen Fu failed to defeat Li Zhōujūn, then left the Source Realm to prepare for what came next. He arrived at the Changgan Realm, where the Changgan Great Emperor and four other supreme figures were discussing how to divide the Source Realm, and Qin Tianyi announced his arrival by shaking their hall.

• Qin Tianyi told Chen Fu that he had failed their agreement and swept him into ash despite Chen Fu's plea for another chance.
• Qin Tianyi told Li Zhōujūn to wait for news and keep his role in Chen Fu's death secret before disappearing.
• The Source Realm's powerful figures assumed Li Zhōujūn had killed Chen Fu, while Shen Xianning, Sū Nán, and Lu Zhining celebrated his safety.
• The Tianyi Hall elders discussed their sudden rise as the Source Realm's leading force and agreed to screen new recruits carefully.
• Qin Tianyi left the Source Realm and went to the Changgan Realm, where the Changgan Great Emperor and four allies discussed dividing the Source Realm.
• Qin Tianyi's arrival shook the great hall, and the Changgan Great Emperor told the gathered figures that their old friend had arrived.

Qin Tianyi fought Great Emperor Changgan and the other four Realm Lords, injuring them badly enough to secure ten thousand years for the Source Realm. The Realm Lords agreed to wait for Qin Tianyi to die before attacking again, while Li Zhōujūn continued working in Tianyi Hall.

• Qin Tianyi appeared before Great Emperor Changgan, Great Emperor Wangsheng, Great Emperor Canglong, Great Emperor Jiuyu, and Buddha Ancestor Qile, then challenged them to a fight.
• Qin Tianyi and the five Realm Lords fought for at least a hundred years, and the battle devastated the Changgan Realm.
• Qin Tianyi withdrew after injuring the five Realm Lords and warned that he could trade his life for one of them if they attacked the Source Realm while wounded.
• Great Emperor Changgan and the others agreed to wait for Qin Tianyi to die before renewing their attack on the Source Realm.
• Qin Tianyi returned to the Source Realm and saw Li Zhōujūn handling records and affairs in Tianyi Hall.

Qin Tianyi revealed that the Source Realm was threatened by five rival Realm Lords and asked Li Zhōujūn to inherit his position before his remaining ten thousand years ran out. Li Zhōujūn agreed, broke through to the Five Decays of the Emperor Realm, and accompanied Qin Tianyi to the Heaven and Earth Tablet to begin the transfer.

• Li Zhōujūn managed Tianyi Hall while Qin Tianyi explained that he was the Source Realm Lord and had only ten thousand years left to live.
• Qin Tianyi told Li Zhōujūn about the five rival Realm Lords and urged him to take over the Source Realm before they attacked.
• Li Zhōujūn asked whether Qin Tianyi could extend his life, and Qin Tianyi said only the legendary Myriad Luo Returning Source Grass could restore his origin.
• Qin Tianyi asked Li Zhōujūn to accept the position so he could relinquish his duties and roam the myriad realms during his remaining years.
• Li Zhōujūn accepted the system mission, broke through to the Five Decays of the Emperor Realm, and followed Qin Tianyi to the Source Realm's Heaven and Earth Tablet.
• Qin Tianyi prepared to erase his name from the tablet, while Li Zhōujūn admitted that contending with the five Realm Lords would take some effort.

Li Zhōujūn inscribed his name on the Heaven and Earth Tablet of the Source Realm and became its Realm Lord. Despite Qin Tianyi’s warning that he was not yet strong enough to face the Five Great Realm Lords, Li Zhōujūn prepared to confront them, and the system offered to teleport him to their location.

• Qin Tianyi erased his name from the Heaven and Earth Tablet and instructed Li Zhōujūn to inscribe his own.
• Li Zhōujūn subdued the storm in a moment and entered a state of unity with Heaven and Earth, astonishing Qin Tianyi.
• Li Zhōujūn used Fifty-Fifty against the sea of Source Energy to complete his inscription quickly and became the Realm Lord of the Source Realm.
• Li Zhōujūn told Qin Tianyi he would avenge him, but Qin Tianyi warned that the Five Great Realm Lords were still beyond his current strength.
• Li Zhōujūn asked the system to teleport him to the Five Great Realm Lords, and the system reported that they were gathered together recovering from their injuries.

Li Zhōujūn traveled to the Changgan Realm and attacked the Five Great Realm Lords, claiming Qin Tianyi as his ancestor. As the five struggled to withstand his repeated assaults, they sensed other Realm Lords had surrounded the realm and were waiting for them to weaken.

• Li Zhōujūn departed from Qin Tianyi, who stayed behind and worried about his safety.
• The Five Great Realm Lords gathered in Changgan Realm to heal together and guard against one another after their fight with Qin Tianyi.
• Li Zhōujūn appeared in their hall, introduced himself as the Azure Emperor, and revealed that Qin Tianyi was his ancestor.
• Li Zhōujūn destroyed the hall and repeatedly attacked the Five Great Realm Lords with enormous finger strikes, forcing them to defend together.
• Changgan Great Emperor and Great Emperor Jiuyu discussed their dwindling Source Energy and the danger of other Realm Lords waiting to strike.
• The Five Great Realm Lords sensed that many Realm Lord powerhouses had surrounded Changgan Realm.

Li Zhōujūn stopped fighting Great Emperor Changgan and challenged the ninety-two Realm Lords who had gathered, insisting that they all attack him together. After effortlessly shattering their combined divine abilities and surviving Ancestor Yu’s assault with countless worlds, Li Zhōujūn trapped everyone inside a chessboard phantom and declared that no one could flee until he had had his fill.

• Li Zhōujūn stopped his attack on Great Emperor Changgan and challenged the Realm Lords watching from the shadows to face him together.
• Ninety-two Realm Lords appeared, bringing the total opponents, including Great Emperor Changgan and the other Five Great Realm Lords, to ninety-seven.
• The ninety-seven Realm Lords unleashed their divine abilities, but Li Zhōujūn shattered them with one punch.
• Ancestor Yu hurled countless worlds at Li Zhōujūn, who emerged from the dust completely unharmed.
• Li Zhōujūn enveloped the Changgan Realm in a chessboard phantom and warned the Realm Lords that none could escape before he had had his fill.

Li Zhōujūn overwhelmed the Realm Lords trapped in his chessboard and forced them to submit to him and the Source Realm. He spared Great Emperor Changgan and the other four who had fought Qin Tianyi on the condition that they kowtow and apologize, then sent the rest away while Qin Tianyi waited anxiously in the Source Realm.

• Ancestor Yu urged the Realm Lords to attack together, but Li Zhōujūn struck them with Golden Lightning and the enormous Ao Xue Flying Sword.
• Li Zhōujūn relentlessly battered the trapped Realm Lords until their confidence and Dao hearts shattered, then demanded they submit to him and the Source Realm.
• Ancestor Yu and most of the Realm Lords submitted, and Li Zhōujūn offered to spare Great Emperor Changgan, Great Emperor Canglong, Great Emperor Jiuyu, Great Emperor Wangsheng, and Buddha Ancestor Qile if they kowtowed and apologized to Qin Tianyi.
• The five Realm Lords agreed to submit, completing Li Zhōujūn's mission and earning him the Myriad Luo Origin-Returning Herb.
• Li Zhōujūn withdrew the phantom chessboard, sent the other Realm Lords away, and kept the five who had fought Qin Tianyi behind; Qin Tianyi worried about Li Zhōujūn in the Source Realm.

Li Zhōujūn subdued the Five Great Realm Lords, helped Qin Tianyi recover, and later traveled the myriad realms with Shen Xianning. After Changgan Great Emperor recounted Li Zhōujūn’s deeds as a storyteller, Li Zhōujūn and Shen Xianning set off together again.

• Li Zhōujūn brought the Five Great Realm Lords before Qin Tianyi, and they knelt to apologize and pledged to serve the Source Realm.
• Li Zhōujūn gave Qin Tianyi the Myriad Luo Returning Source Grass, and Qin Tianyi spared the Five Great Realm Lords before they left.
• Twenty thousand years later, Qin Tianyi recovered and began traveling the myriad realms, while Li Zhōujūn made arrangements for Sū Nán, Lu Zhining, and the Source Realm.
• After traveling together for tens of thousands of years, Li Zhōujūn told Shen Xianning he would help her prove the Realm Lord Dao.
• Changgan Great Emperor, now a storyteller, met Li Zhōujūn and Shen Xianning after recounting the Azure Emperor’s battle, and Li Zhōujūn and Shen Xianning departed together.