Recaps

Li Zhōujūn revealed himself as the Azure Emperor, defeated threats from the Evil Spirit Realm, and confronted Lord Liǔ with help from True Man Jiaqian. The arc ended with Qin Tianyi’s message drawing Li Zhōujūn toward the Main World and revealing that his old ancestor had orchestrated events.

• Li Zhōujūn saved Cai Youwan’s village from Long Fusheng, then left Cai in Xiao Jian Shangren’s care and set out for the Purple Gold Emperor’s birthday banquet.
• At the banquet, the Dao Realm’s dignitaries recognized Li Zhōujūn as the Azure Emperor, and Jiu Shangren later returned empowered by the Evil Spirit Path to challenge him.
• Li Zhōujūn defeated Jiu Shangren and Taishizun’s clone, then entered the Evil Spirit Realm and survived the Three Ancestors’ Great Killing Array while reaching the Ninth-Rank Dao Venerable Realm.
• Li Zhōujūn ordered Wrath and Delusion to hunt Greed, resumed fishing in the Dao Realm, and stopped Sī Qīng’s attack before she withdrew to report his strength to Lord Liǔ.
• Li Zhōujūn met True Man Jiaqian, who explained the Four Great Divine Books and helped confront Lord Liǔ, forcing the Dao Realm’s ruler to bow to Li Zhōujūn.
• True Man Jiaqian exposed Lord Liǔ’s plan to sacrifice five Half-Step Dao Masters, and Li Zhōujūn demanded an explanation for his imprisonment of Qin Tianyi.
• Lord Liǔ agreed to help Qin Tianyi advance and spare Sī Qīng, but found Qin’s chains broken and a message saying his true body awaited Li Zhōujūn in the Main World.
• True Man Jiaqian recognized the message’s handwriting, and Li Zhōujūn realized his old ancestor had orchestrated the events.

Li Zhōujūn traveled to Tianhai Academy, where he saved its disciples, tangled with the Chu Family, and settled into an easy life. When powerful Dao Masters threatened to sacrifice the academy to open a hidden secret realm, he stood against them and revealed overwhelming strength.

• Li Zhōujūn entered the Main World, delivered True Man Jiaqian’s gifts to Sun Zixiang at Tianhai Academy, and became an academy elder through his connection to Qin Tianyi.
• When Evil Beast Old Man threatened the disciples during the Inner Court Grand Competition, Li Zhōujūn entered the secret realm, crushed the horde, and saved them from the Seventh-Rank Dao Master.
• Li Zhōujūn learned that Tianhai Academy faced danger from a hidden secret realm, then defeated Chu Shengduan after he destroyed Li’s roast chicken.
• Li Zhōujūn met Zhang Ziqiang after following Chu Shengduan’s false map, and Zhang mistook Li’s toughness for a cultivation method and called him Master.
• Li Zhōujūn reunited with Li Menglan and helped her and her friends reach Tianhai Academy, where Chu Gecqing arranged for them to take the entrance examination.
• After three years, Li Zhōujūn refused to abandon Tianhai Academy when the secret realm began opening and warned the gathered experts not to harm it.
• Zhang Ziqiang killed Old Man of the Ancient Tomb to open the secret realm, and Li Zhōujūn invited the assembled Eighth-Rank Dao Masters to attack him.
• Li Zhōujūn shattered the Eighth-Rank Dao Masters’ combined attack with a flicked stone, leaving them to wonder whether he was a Ninth-Rank Dao Master.

Li Zhōujūn freed the formation world, confronted threats to the Myriad Manifestations Supreme Sect, and met Lin Xun again. He helped her claim Empress Hai Xi’s inheritance, and Lin Xun emerged as a Dao Emperor with her face healed.

• Jinmang Dao Master attacked Zhang Ziqiang, but Li Zhōujūn revived him with a Shore of Rebirth Flower and helped him reach the Ninth-Rank Dao Master realm.
• Zhang Ziqiang challenged Qingyan Jun and Qinghai King, while Li Zhōujūn defeated Qinghai King and then sent Zhang Ziqiang to help rescue True Man Jiaqian.
• Li Zhōujūn escaped the grand array world and persuaded the Myriad Manifestations Emperor to remove the formation, then visited the sect as an honored guest.
• Xiao Yechen attacked the Myriad Manifestations Supreme Sect, but Li Zhōujūn defeated his techniques and forced him to retreat, and later, Lin Xun killed Xiao Yechen when he returned to threaten the sect.
• Li Zhōujūn reunited with Lin Xun at her marsh palace, then opened the Dao Emperor Secret Realm’s bronze gate and gave her control of its inheritance.
• Lin Xun accepted Empress Hai Xi’s inheritance and began refining her remains while Li Zhōujūn guarded her from the Emperor Lightning Tribulation.
• Lin Xun broke through to the Dao Emperor realm, her damaged face healed, and she offered herself to Li Zhōujūn.

Li Zhōujūn helped Lin Xun secure her place in the Lin Family, then confronted powerful emperors and entered the world within a painting. After emerging, he became entangled with Luo Baiyu, the key to a secret realm, while Azure Ink Painting Saint began targeting him; the stretch ends with Phoenix Emperor welcoming him and his companions at the True Phoenix Pavilion.

• Lin Xun defeated Lin Yan and became the Lin Family heir, then rejected Shangguan Chenfeng and told Li Zhōujūn she still intended to wait for him.
• Lin Xun killed Lin Yan after Emperor Mo Ran exposed their plot, then persuaded him to serve her and presented the elders with evidence of the conspiracy.
• Great Emperor Fuhai attacked the Lin Family over Lin Yan’s death, but Northern Star Great Emperor and Li Zhōujūn arrived, and Northern Star killed Fuhai.
• Great Emperor Xuannan threatened the Moon Yao Domain and battled Northern Star Great Emperor, but Li Zhōujūn destroyed Xuannan’s Ancient Saint Scroll and advanced to the Third-Rank Dao Emperor Realm.
• Li Zhōujūn, Northern Star Great Emperor, Great Emperor Xuannan, and other powerful cultivators were drawn into a painted world, where Li Zhōujūn defeated Ink Mountain Painting Immortal and reached the Seventh-Rank Dao Emperor Realm.
• Li Zhōujūn met Luo Baiyu, who was the key to a ninth-grade Dao Saint secret realm, and agreed to help the Central Great Emperor explore it.
• Ink Mountain Painting Immortal smashed Luo Baiyu’s bottle of chicken soup, but Li Zhōujūn appeared to protect her and made the Painting Immortal apologize before she returned to Azure Ink Painting Saint.
• Li Zhōujūn met Myriad Manifestations Emperor and Medicine Emperor at the True Phoenix Pavilion, where Phoenix Emperor thanked him for saving her and Northern Star Great Emperor in the painted world.