Recaps

Li Zhōujūn left Xī Xīnyí after discovering that a century had passed while he slept, then reached the Gravekeeper Clan and asked to enter the Tomb of the Immortal Lord. Mo Xuanhe welcomed him into the clan’s small world and went to notify the clan leader.

• Xī Xīnyí recognized Li Zhōujūn after he vanished from the bun shop, and she told her granddaughter that seeing him again left her with no regrets.
• Li Zhōujūn flew across the desert to the Gravekeeper Clan and saw Mo Xuanhe turn away five elderly Tribulation Transcendence cultivators seeking entry to the tomb.
• Mo Xuanhe recognized Li Zhōujūn and escorted him into the Gravekeeper Clan after Li Zhōujūn said he had come to enter the Tomb of the Immortal Lord.
• The Gravekeeper Clan members recognized Li Zhōujūn and spread news of his arrival through Mo City.
• Mo Xuanhe brought Li Zhōujūn to the great hall, served him tea, and left to notify the clan leader.

Li Zhōujūn entered the Gravekeeper Clan’s Tomb of the Immortal Lord and encountered the sentient Faceless Puppet, which challenged him with the power of a Third-Rank True Immortal. The chapter ended with Li Zhōujūn sealing the bronze gate behind himself instead of fleeing.

• Mo Wénfán welcomed Li Zhōujūn and led him to the cavern entrance to the tomb, thanking him for saving Mo Liuer and Lan Cang City.
• Mo Liuer arrived after Li Zhōujūn had entered the cavern and told Mo Wénfán she no longer blamed him for separating her from Zhong Dong.
• Li Zhōujūn descended into a vast underground plaza and forced open the bronze gate at its far end.
• A featureless figure dragged Li Zhōujūn through the gate and identified itself as the Faceless Divine Lord, a puppet made by Immortal Lord Mo Yu.
• The Faceless Puppet released the power of a Third-Rank True Immortal, but Li Zhōujūn shut the bronze gate behind himself and chose to face it.

Li Zhōujūn defeated the Faceless Puppet by trapping it in an Immortal Locking Array, then continued through the tomb to the Immortal Lord Hall. Finding signs that someone had already disturbed the tomb’s mechanisms, he suspected an unknown person was still inside.

• Li Zhōujūn revealed his Fourth-Rank True Immortal Artifact, the Ao Xue Flying Sword, and cut the Faceless Puppet in half.
• The Faceless Puppet revived, reached Fourth-Rank True Immortal strength, and claimed it could not die beneath the Immortal Lord realm.
• Li Zhōujūn trapped the Faceless Puppet in an Immortal Locking Array and ignored its pleas to be released.
• Li Zhōujūn reached the Immortal Lord Hall and noticed that mechanisms along the passage had already been triggered or destroyed.
• Li Zhōujūn questioned who had disturbed the tomb and suspected someone inside it.

Li Zhōujūn entered the Immortal Lord’s tomb and confronted a black-clothed woman who revealed herself as Zhan Lan, the Daughter of the War Demon Emperor, fighting Immortal Lord Mo Yu for control of her body. Mo Yu asked Li Zhōujūn to help kill Zhan Lan, but Zhan Lan warned that her father would take revenge.

• Li Zhōujūn opened the tomb’s great door and found the black-clothed woman, who attacked him while claiming she and Mo Yu would die together.
• Li Zhōujūn met the woman’s strike with Immortal Lord-level power, shaking the tomb and the Gravekeeper Clan’s minor world.
• The black patterns faded, and Immortal Lord Mo Yu appeared in white robes and explained that Zhan Lan had seized control of her body after Mo Yu and several allies tried to kill her.
• Mo Yu explained that she and Zhan Lan had wagered over whether a True Immortal under five hundred years old would reach the tomb, and she asked Li Zhōujūn to help kill Zhan Lan in exchange for her treasures and the Faceless Puppet.
• Zhan Lan’s face appeared over Mo Yu’s as she warned that her father would never forgive them if they killed her.

Li Zhōujūn fought Zhan Lan after she fled Immortal Lord Mo Yu’s body, while Mo Yu turned her sword attack on them both. A hidden mark in Zhan Lan’s Immortal Soul summoned her father, War Demon Emperor, whose arrival left Mo Yu defeated and convinced him that Li Zhōujūn was an Immortal Emperor.

• Li Zhōujūn blocked Zhan Lan’s escape and fought her as she took the form of a Black-clothed Woman.
• Immortal Lord Mo Yu unleashed ten thousand sword shadows against Li Zhōujūn and Zhan Lan, intending to kill or severely injure them both.
• A terrifying aura from Zhan Lan stopped the sword rain, and a crack in the void revealed War Demon Emperor seated on a flaming throne.
• War Demon Emperor’s voice made Immortal Lord Mo Yu vomit blood and caused the sword shadows to collapse.
• War Demon Emperor mistook Li Zhōujūn for an Immortal Emperor, leaving Zhan Lan and Immortal Lord Mo Yu stunned and Mo Yu afraid of the consequences of betraying him.

Li Zhōujūn refused the War Demon Emperor’s demand to spare Zhan Lan and fought him inside the Immortal Lord Hall. He killed Zhan Lan, and the enraged War Demon Emperor vowed to kill him.

• The War Demon Emperor asked Li Zhōujūn to spare Zhan Lan, but Li Zhōujūn refused after the system ordered him to kill her.
• The War Demon Emperor threatened to fight Li Zhōujūn, and the system severed the hall from the Tian Yuan Realm so they could unleash their full power.
• Li Zhōujūn revealed the aura and laws of an Immortal Emperor, while Immortal Lord Mo Yu regretted attacking him after revealing her plan to steal their Immortal Souls.
• The War Demon Emperor attacked with a lava-covered hand, and Li Zhōujūn countered with sword light that shattered it.
• Li Zhōujūn redirected a fragment of his sword light to kill Zhan Lan and blocked the War Demon Emperor’s attempt to save her.
• The War Demon Emperor rose from his throne and swore to kill Li Zhōujūn, while Immortal Lord Mo Yu watched in terror.

Li Zhōujūn fought the War Demon Emperor until Liuli Immortal Emperor arrived and drove him away. Immortal Lord Mo Yu died after giving Li Zhōujūn her treasures, and he buried her with a protective array.

• Li Zhōujūn repelled the War Demon Emperor's lava attack with the Immortal Emperor's Laws, while Immortal Lord Mo Yu's sword attack failed and destroyed her Natal Flying Sword.
• Liuli Immortal Emperor appeared to hunt the War Demon Emperor, who withdrew and vanished before she arrived.
• Immortal Lord Mo Yu apologized to Li Zhōujūn, asked him to spare the Gravekeeper Clan, and died by burning up her remaining Immortal Soul.
• Li Zhōujūn received a system reward that raised his cultivation to the Second-Rank True Immortal realm, then took Immortal Lord Mo Yu's storage ring and found three powerful Spirit Talismans.
• Li Zhōujūn buried Immortal Lord Mo Yu and used one of the talismans to protect her grave from attacks by cultivators below the Immortal Lord realm.

Li Zhōujūn left Immortal Lord Mo Yu’s tomb and told the Gravekeeper Clan that she had died after helping him defeat an Immortal Lord-level demon cultivator. Zhong Dong then arrived with his master and demanded that Mo Liuer leave with him, but learned she was married and had a child, leaving him consumed by rage.

• Li Zhōujūn refused to release the Faceless Puppet from the Immortal Locking Array after it threatened to kill him.
• Li Zhōujūn told Mò Wénfán and the Gravekeeper Clan’s True Immortals that Immortal Lord Mo Yu had died after joining him to defeat a demon cultivator, and they thanked him for honoring her.
• Zhong Dong arrived with his black-robed master after Mo Xuanhe was thrown through a rift, and asked Mo Liuer to go with him to the Immortal World.
• Mo Liuer refused because she was married, and Mo Aohan stepped in to protect her, revealing that she had a child.
• Zhong Dong’s master dismissed the Gravekeeper Clan as a tiny lower realm and challenged Li Zhōujūn’s claim to be an Immortal Lord, while Zhong Dong seethed over Mo Liuer’s marriage.

Black Cloud Daoist threatened the Gravekeeper Clan while Zhong Dong confronted his former lover, Mo Liuer, who had chosen her husband and child over leaving for the Immortal Realm with him. After Zhong Dong nearly killed Mo Aohan, he released him when he saw Mo Liuer's desperation.

• Black Cloud Daoist revealed he was a Ninth-Rank True Immortal from the Immortal Realm and warned the Gravekeeper Clan not to interfere in the younger generation's affairs.
• Zhong Dong challenged Mo Aohan to a life-and-death battle, but Mo Liuer stopped her husband and told Zhong Dong she would stay with her family.
• Black Cloud Daoist urged Zhong Dong to take Mo Liuer by force, and Mo Aohan stepped between them to defend her choice.
• Zhong Dong seized Mo Aohan by the neck, but released him after Mo Liuer tearfully begged him to stop.
• Li Zhōujūn reflected that a century had passed since Zhong Dong and Mo Liuer parted, and Mo Liuer had since married and had a child.

Black Cloud Daoist threatened the Gravekeeper Clan and demanded entry to the Tomb of the Immortal Lord, while Zhong Dong tried to stop him. Li Zhōujūn chose to kill Black Cloud Daoist and unleashed a powerful sword strike, leaving the Daoist facing imminent defeat.

• Black Cloud Daoist revealed that he had come to enter the Tomb of the Immortal Lord and threatened to slaughter the Gravekeeper Clan if they refused.
• Zhong Dong pleaded with Black Cloud Daoist to abandon the tomb, but Black Cloud Daoist sent him flying and declared that anyone obstructing cultivation must die.
• Li Zhōujūn chose the system's mission to kill Black Cloud Daoist before its half-hour deadline.
• Black Cloud Daoist attacked with five enormous water dragons, and Li Zhōujūn destroyed them with a Spirit Talisman that formed a colossal sword.
• Black Cloud Daoist stared in despair as the sword descended, while Zhong Dong shouted for his master to run.

Li Zhōujūn killed Black Cloud Daoist and secretly followed Zhong Dong, discovering that Zhong Dong had engineered his master's death and planned to threaten the Dao Tian Sect. After the system tasked him with killing Zhong Dong, Li Zhōujūn caught him off guard and annihilated his divine soul.

• Li Zhōujūn used a Spirit Talisman to destroy Black Cloud Daoist's Immortal Soul, and Zhong Dong asked to take his master's body away.
• Li Zhōujūn left the Gravekeeper Clan, concealed himself in the void, and followed Zhong Dong.
• Zhong Dong revealed that he had plotted against Black Cloud Daoist and intended to claim his belongings, overpower the Dao Tian Sect, and pursue Murong Xue.
• The system issued Li Zhōujūn a mission to slay Zhong Dong, and Li Zhōujūn confronted him after hearing his schemes.
• Li Zhōujūn pierced Zhong Dong's brow with Sword Qi and annihilated his divine soul.

After killing Zhong Dong and Black Cloud Daoist, Li Zhōujūn used Immortal Dissolving Water to destroy Black Cloud Daoist’s body and accepted the system’s offer to ascend. He arrived in the Immortal Realm as a Third-Rank True Immortal, where Ji Sīdān and Dèng Yìchén tried to recruit him for their sect while secretly plotting to make him mine Immortal Crystals.

• Li Zhōujūn searched Zhong Dong and Black Cloud Daoist’s corpses, found Immortal Dissolving Water, and used it to dissolve Black Cloud Daoist’s body.
• The system offered Li Zhōujūn an Immortal Realm Starter Gift Pack if he ascended within an hour, so he informed Murong Xue and left the Tian Yuan Realm.
• The system gave Li Zhōujūn three Immortal Spirit Pills, one million Immortal Crystals, and a breakthrough to the Third-Rank True Immortal realm.
• Ji Sīdān and Dèng Yìchén introduced themselves as elders of Ling Yu Immortal Sect and offered Li Zhōujūn resources to join as an honorary elder.
• Ji Sīdān and Dèng Yìchén privately plotted to make Li Zhōujūn mine Immortal Crystals, and Ji Sīdān tried to charm him into going with them.
• Li Zhōujūn dodged Ji Sīdān’s touch and told her he found it filthy, leaving her face flushed.

Li Zhōujūn trapped Dèng Yìchén and Ji Sīdān with the Emperor’s Law, leaving them convinced he was an Imperial Son. His power began to run low, and Dèng Yìchén saw a chance to kill him and seize the technique.

• Dèng Yìchén and Ji Sīdān attacked Li Zhōujūn after their attempt to lure him failed.
• Li Zhōujūn used Trapping the Dragon to create a vast chessboard domain that pinned both Third-Rank True Immortals under immense pressure.
• Ji Sīdān and Dèng Yìchén recognized the Emperor’s Law, panicked, and knelt to beg for their lives, calling Li Zhōujūn an Imperial Son.
• Li Zhōujūn discovered he lacked enough immortal power to use the second move, Starfall, and considered drawing the Ao Xue Flying Sword.
• Dèng Yìchén noticed the chessboard’s pressure weakening and began plotting to kill Li Zhōujūn for the Emperor’s Law.

Dèng Yìchén and Jì Sīdān decided to kill Li Zhōujūn for his treasures, but Liǔ Dàofēng arrived and intervened, mistaking Li Zhōujūn for an Imperial Son. Dèng Yìchén then ordered Jì Sīdān to hold Liǔ Dàofēng back while he went after Li Zhōujūn.

• Dèng Yìchén persuaded Jì Sīdān to attack Li Zhōujūn and split his treasures, while each secretly planned to kill the other afterward.
• Dèng Yìchén rushed at Li Zhōujūn with a dagger, but Liǔ Dàofēng appeared and sent him flying with a massive sword.
• Liǔ Dàofēng apologized to Li Zhōujūn for arriving late and declared that he would protect him, believing his Emperor's Law proved he was an Imperial Son.
• Liǔ Dàofēng mocked Dèng Yìchén and warned him that assassinating an Imperial Son would bring ruin upon his lineage.
• Dèng Yìchén told Jì Sīdān to hold Liǔ Dàofēng back while he killed Li Zhōujūn.

Liǔ Dàofēng protected Li Zhōujūn from Ji Sīdān and Dèng Yìchén, while the two attackers turned against each other. Li Zhōujūn unleashed the second fall of the Emperor’s Law, Starfall, against Ji Sīdān as she tried to flee.

• Liǔ Dàofēng blocked Dèng Yìchén and Ji Sīdān from reaching Li Zhōujūn, then fought off their attacks.
• Ji Sīdān stabbed Dèng Yìchén and destroyed his Immortal Soul after accusing him of planning to take the treasure and abandon her.
• Ji Sīdān tried to pledge herself to Li Zhōujūn, but he refused to spare her because she had already tried to kill him.
• Li Zhōujūn used a pill to restore most of his magical power and cast Starfall over the fleeing Ji Sīdān.
• Li Zhōujūn sent black-and-white Chess Pieces crashing down, devastating the surrounding land as Ji Sīdān faced the attack in despair.

After defeating Ji Sīdān, Li Zhōujūn traveled to Guangyang City to learn about the Immortal Realm and find lodging. Tang Chan’er introduced him to the Immortal Arrival Inn, then suspected his true cultivation was far greater than it appeared.

• Liǔ Dàofēng praised Li Zhōujūn, offered him help, and left after Li Zhōujūn declined to visit Liu City.
• Li Zhōujūn reached Guangyang City and encountered Old Man Chu, who tried to sell him a copy of Immortal Realm Records.
• Tang Chan’er exposed Old Man Chu’s habit of cheating newly ascended True Immortals, and Old Man Chu fled, leaving the book behind.
• Tang Chan’er told Li Zhōujūn about the Immortal Arrival Inn, where newcomers could find lodging and missions.
• At the inn, Li Zhōujūn declined Tang Chan’er’s offer to pay for his Heaven-grade room, while she privately wondered about his hidden cultivation.

Li Zhōujūn settled into the Immortal Arrival Inn, studied the Immortal Realm, and joined Tang Chan'er for breakfast. Liu Daofeng arrived with food and recognized Li Zhōujūn as the Imperial Son, while Tang Yu'er mistook him for a rival pursuing her sister.

• Tang Yu'er criticized Li Zhōujūn for acting arrogant, and Tang Chan'er warned her to mind her words before asking about her relationship with Liu Daofeng.
• Li Zhōujūn checked into a Heaven Class room and studied the Immortal Realm Records, learning about its cultivation levels and distant regions.
• The next morning, Li Zhōujūn ordered breakfast, and Tang Chan'er joined him at his table.
• Tang Yu'er saw them together and assumed Li Zhōujūn was trying to pursue Tang Chan'er.
• Liu Daofeng arrived carrying a chicken and a duck, then froze when he recognized Li Zhōujūn as the Imperial Son.

Liǔ Dàofēng reunited with Li Zhōujūn at the inn and introduced him to his fiancée, Tang Yu'er, while Tang Chan'er discussed an upcoming Luotian Immortal Sect recruitment. Their meal was interrupted by Lian Pengyun, who came to pursue Tang Chan'er, and Li Zhōujūn suspected he might be drawn into the ensuing conflict.

• Liǔ Dàofēng warned Tang Yu'er not to provoke Li Zhōujūn, then hurried over and greeted him with conspicuous respect.
• Liǔ Dàofēng explained his engagement to Tang Yu'er and invited her to join the meal; Li Zhōujūn welcomed them and offered to pay.
• Tang Chan'er told the group that the Luotian Immortal Sect would soon recruit disciples through a comprehension test, and Li Zhōujūn said he would only watch.
• Lian Pengyun arrived with a gray-robed old man and approached Tang Chan'er, prompting Liǔ Dàofēng and Tang Yu'er to reject his claim that Liǔ Dàofēng was his brother-in-law.
• Lian Pengyun expected to become a True Disciple of the Luotian Immortal Sect and believed Tang Chan'er and the others would only qualify as Outer Disciples, while Li Zhōujūn wondered whether the brewing spectacle would involve him.

Lian Pengyun left Immortal Arrival Inn after deciding to seek revenge once he joined the Luotian Sect, while Li Zhōujūn returned to his room and then set out to check in at the Guangyang Mountain Range. After receiving the Wind Cloud Seal, he heard an angry shout nearby.

• Lian Pengyun departed the inn with the gray-robed old man and vowed to settle the humiliation after joining the Luotian Sect.
• Li Zhōujūn paid for the meal, returned to his room, and slept while Tang Chan'er, Tang Yu'er, and Liǔ Dàofēng speculated about his background and discussed joining the Luotian Sect.
• Li Zhōujūn received a system mission to check in deep within the Guangyang Mountain Range and left Guangyang City the next morning.
• Li Zhōujūn reached the mountain range's depths and completed the check-in, earning the Wind Cloud Seal.
• An angry voice shouted for someone not to let a man escape as Li Zhōujūn examined his new divine ability.

Li Zhōujūn fought off an attack from the Devil Lord Qin Zhefei and met Gong Hongzhuang and Fang Deyi of the Luotian Sect. After Qin Zhefei escaped and the Luotian Sect group departed to recruit disciples, Li Zhōujūn stayed in the mountains to roast a wild chicken.

• Li Zhōujūn unleashed the Wind Cloud Seal against Qin Zhefei, revealing that they were both Third-Rank Immortal Lords.
• Gong Hongzhuang and Fang Deyi arrived with five Heavenly Immortals and attacked Qin Zhefei, but Qin escaped using a secret art that cost him thirty thousand years of lifespan.
• Gong Hongzhuang and Fang Deyi introduced themselves as Luotian Sect members, and Li Zhōujūn told them that he had just ascended from the lower realm.
• Gong Hongzhuang explained that he and his companions had pursued Qin Zhefei to the Jade Sheng Domain while recruiting disciples, then invited Li Zhōujūn to join the sect.
• Li Zhōujūn declined because he already belonged to the Dao Tian Sect and watched Gong Hongzhuang leave for Guangyang City.
• Li Zhōujūn caught a wild chicken and prepared to roast it in the mountains.

Gong Hongzhuang and the Luotian Sect arrived in Guangyang City to recruit disciples, and their choice of lodging gave the Lian Family an advantage over its rival, the Tang Family. Li Zhōujūn returned to the city to watch the upcoming examination as Tang Chan'er worried about the pressure surrounding her future.

• Gong Hongzhuang met Gongsun Yang and the Tang and Lian Family patriarchs, then announced that the Luotian Sect’s recruitment would begin the day after tomorrow.
• Bai Zhicheng recommended Yingxian Tower, the Lian Family’s inn, and Lian Fengmao hoped Elder Bai would accept Lian Pengyun as a True Disciple.
• The Luotian Sect’s choice of Yingxian Tower alarmed the Tang Family, while Tang Chan'er feared that Lian Pengyun’s prospects could pressure her into marriage.
• Tang Wen reassured Tang Chan'er that she was not a bargaining chip and that he would oppose anyone who tried to force her.
• After finishing his roast chicken, Li Zhōujūn headed to Guangyang City to watch Tang Chan'er and the others take the Luotian Sect’s examination.
• Li Zhōujūn returned to find Guangyang City residents discussing the Luotian Sect’s arrival and the power of its Immortal Lord.

Li Zhōujūn learned that Luotian Sect had arrived in Guangyang City, while the Lian Family secured Lian Pengyun’s admission through a deal with Bai Zhicheng. The next day, Li Zhōujūn bought a jade hairpin for Murong Xue, and Lian Pengyun challenged him for it before the shopkeeper intervened.

• Li Zhōujūn returned to the inn, where Tang Chan'er, Tang Yu'er, and Liǔ Dàofēng discussed his background and Tang Chan'er's possible interest in him.
• Lian Fengmao and Lian Pengyun met Bai Zhicheng, who confirmed he would accept Lian Pengyun as a disciple in exchange for the Lian Family's Immortal Crystals.
• Lian Fengmao promised Lian Pengyun that joining Luotian Sect would let their family pressure the Tang Family into giving up Tang Chan'er.
• Li Zhōujūn visited a magic treasure shop and bought a third-grade True Immortal Artifact jade hairpin for thirty thousand Immortal Crystals, thinking of Murong Xue.
• Lian Pengyun asked Li Zhōujūn to give up the hairpin, then proposed raising the price, but the shopkeeper warned him not to cause trouble in the shop.

Li Zhōujūn left the Immortal Treasure Shop after refusing Lian Pengyun’s request to buy the hairpin, but Lian Pengyun confronted him over Tang Chan’er. When Bai Zhicheng recognized Li Zhōujūn as an Immortal Lord, Lian Pengyun’s backing collapsed, and the shop proprietor ordered an investigation into Li Zhōujūn.

• The Immortal Treasure Shop proprietor stopped Lian Pengyun from pressuring Li Zhōujūn, and Li Zhōujūn thanked him before leaving.
• Lian Pengyun waited outside, asked Li Zhōujūn to part with the hairpin, and warned him to stay away from Tang Chan’er after Li Zhōujūn refused.
• Bai Zhicheng arrived and greeted Li Zhōujūn as an Immortal Lord, then denied knowing Lian Pengyun to avoid offending Li Zhōujūn.
• Li Zhōujūn left, and the shop proprietor told Xiao Qiu to investigate the identity of the young man who bought the hairpin.
• Bai Zhicheng refused to accept Lian Pengyun as his disciple, while Lian Pengyun hurried back to the Lian Household for help.
• Bai Zhicheng bought a defensive Heavenly Immortal magic treasure and returned to the Welcome Immortal Inn to refine it.

Bai Zhicheng refused to take Lian Pengyun as his disciple, leaving the Lian family out 7.7 million Immortal Crystals and forcing Pengyun to settle for the Luotian Sect entrance examination. At the recruitment gathering, Luotian Sect elders greeted Li Zhōujūn with deference, shocking the assembled cultivators.

• Bai Zhicheng kept the Lian family's 7.7 million Immortal Crystals and refused to accept Lian Pengyun as his disciple, warning that he had saved the family from offending Li Zhōujūn.
• Lian Fengmao scolded his son and told him to take the Luotian Sect examination even if he could only enter as an Outer Disciple, while Pengyun secretly blamed Li Zhōujūn.
• A little maid reported to the old man at the Immortal Treasure Shop that Li Zhōujūn was suspected to be an Immortal Lord and had recently ascended from the lower realm.
• Crowds gathered at Guangyang City's central plaza for the Luotian Sect recruitment examination, while Li Zhōujūn watched from a teahouse balcony and Tang Chan'er warned Tang Yu'er about the illusion-filled secret realm.
• Gong Hongzhuang and the Luotian Sect elders arrived, then saluted Li Zhōujūn from afar, leaving the gathered cultivators astonished by his status.

Gong Hongzhuang began the Luotian Sect's disciple recruitment trial, sending tens of thousands of cultivators into illusions inside a crystal sphere. After the trial ended, Tang Chan'er and Liǔ Dàofēng had qualified for Inner Disciple status, while Lian Pengyun grew uneasy as the elders watched him.

• Gong Hongzhuang explained that cultivators had to pass three illusions to qualify, with the fourth and fifth offering Inner and True Disciple status, then drew them into the crystal sphere.
• Li Zhōujūn remained outside as Gong Hongzhuang and five Heavenly Immortal elders supervised the trial inside the secret realm.
• After three incense sticks burned, Gong Hongzhuang expelled the remaining cultivators, and only a little over two thousand had endured the trial.
• Tang Chan'er revealed that she had reached the fifth illusion without passing it, Tang Yu'er had passed the third, and Liǔ Dàofēng had nearly passed the fourth.
• Lian Pengyun realized he had passed four illusions and expected Inner Disciple status, but became uneasy when Bai Zhicheng and other elders watched him and whispered.