Chapter Summaries

Yan Siman withdrew after Yan Xungui stopped her from attacking Li Zhōujūn, and Li praised Yan Zunli to the Yan elder. Later, Fu Can Demon Emperor approached Yan Siman to recruit her and learn the secret of her power, but she attacked him instead.

• Yan Xungui arrived and prevented Yan Siman from taking revenge on Li Zhōujūn, so Yan Siman retreated.
• Yan Xungui apologized to Li Zhōujūn, who praised Yan Zunli and surprised the young man with the recognition.
• Xiao Feng questioned Xiao Wusan about offending Li Zhōujūn, and Xiao Wusan claimed he had been setting an example.
• After leaving the Emperor's Demise Battlefield, Yan Siman's power fell and half her hair turned white from using her secret technique.
• Fu Can Demon Emperor appeared and offered to help Yan Siman get revenge, hoping to learn about her secret technique.
• Yan Siman recognized Fu Can Demon Emperor and used her secret technique again to attack him, leaving him bewildered.

Fu Can Demon Emperor defeated Yan Siman with one move and took the secret art she offered, while Li Zhōujūn watched through Ling Tianzi’s formation. Yan Siman died still despairing over the gap between her strength and that of Fu Can Demon Emperor and Azure Emperor.

• Yan Siman attacked Fu Can Demon Emperor with countless laws, but his Four Demonic Aspects shattered them and pierced through her body.
• Li Zhōujūn matched Fu Can Demon Emperor’s cultivation with Fifty-Fifty and watched their battle through Ling Tianzi’s spatial turbulence array formation.
• Yan Siman offered Fu Can Demon Emperor the secret art, hoping he would use it to kill Azure Emperor, and Fu Can Demon Emperor accepted the jade slip.
• Fu Can Demon Emperor noticed Li Zhōujūn watching and displayed the secret art to him before leaving.
• Yan Siman’s body began to dissipate, and Li Zhōujūn told Yan Xuanqing that Fu Can Demon Emperor had defeated her in one move.

After Yan Siman’s death, Li Zhōujūn and Yan Xuanqing continued deeper into the Emperor’s Demise Battlefield. At Zhenbian Palace, Zhang Wenyyao confronted Dao Tian Immortal Palace’s Saint Han Tiansong and demanded that they compete for the Ninth-Rank Tier 2 Emperor Artifact, the Zhentian Drum.

• Cultivators credited Li Zhōujūn with overpowering Yan Siman, while Li Zhōujūn hid his embarrassment and agreed to keep exploring with Yan Xuanqing.
• Yan Xungui bid farewell to Li Zhōujūn, who then led Yan Xuanqing toward the battlefield’s deeper reaches.
• Zhang Wenyyao ordered his forces to guard Zhenbian Palace and drive away intruders, with Sun-Shooting Immortal Emperor ready to assist them.
• Han Tiansong and Han Qingge emerged from Zhenbian Palace with Dao Tian Immortal Palace’s disciples.
• Zhang Wenyyao told Han Tiansong that the Zhentian Drum would go to whoever won their contest, and the Dao Tian Immortal Palace group looked grim.

Han Tiansong and Zhang Wenyyao agreed to settle their dispute over the Zhentian Drum through combat, with Han Qingge allowed to fight Zhang Wenyyao if her brother lost. Han Tiansong began their battle by unleashing the Record of Worldly Phenomena, leaving Zhang Wenyyao facing a flood of fire and thunder.

• Han Tiansong and Zhang Wenyyao agreed that the loser would leave, and Zhang Wenyyao offered Han Qingge a chance to fight him if Han Tiansong lost.
• Han Tiansong accepted the offer and revealed that his recording stone had captured Zhang Wenyyao's promise.
• Han Tiansong charged Zhang Wenyyao, who repelled his duststorm with a silver spear.
• Han Tiansong opened the Record of Worldly Phenomena and sent clouds of fire and bolts of thunder toward Zhang Wenyyao.

Li Zhōujūn and Yan Xuanqing reached Zhenbian Palace, where Haotian Immortal Court and Dao Tian Immortal Palace forces were contesting the area. After the Azure Emperor’s arrival prompted both sides to pay their respects, Li Zhōujūn asked Feng Aoyang what was happening, leaving Sun-Shooting Immortal Emperor uneasy about his apparent concern for Dao Tian Immortal Palace.

• Li Zhōujūn and Yan Xuanqing approached Zhenbian Palace, and Yan Xuanqing explained its history as the stronghold of the fallen Town Border Immortal Emperor.
• Two silver-armored divine generals ordered a group of black-robed Immortal Venerables away from Zhenbian Palace, and the group fled after recognizing Haotian Immortal Court’s power.
• The silver-armored divine generals recognized Li Zhōujūn as the Azure Emperor and bowed, then softened their orders to let him pass.
• Sun-Shooting Immortal Emperor and Feng Aoyang recognized Li Zhōujūn and came to greet him.
• Li Zhōujūn asked Feng Aoyang what was happening, and Sun-Shooting Immortal Emperor grew uneasy at the Azure Emperor’s apparent concern for Dao Tian Immortal Palace.

Li Zhōujūn forced the Haotian Immortal Court forces to withdraw from their attack on Dao Tian Immortal Palace, then learned that a valuable Emperor Artifact remained inside Zhenbian Palace. He prepared to enter and claim it, planning to use it to gain the power needed to defeat the Demon Emperor sealed there.

• Li Zhōujūn ordered Sun-Shooting Immortal Emperor to leave, and Sun-Shooting Immortal Emperor withdrew with Zhang Wenyyao and the others after Zhang recognized Azure Emperor.
• Feng Aoyang, Han Tiansong, and Han Qingge thanked Li Zhōujūn and greeted him respectfully, while he kept his identity as Dao Tian Immortal Palace’s Supreme Elder secret.
• Han Tiansong and Han Qingge told Li Zhōujūn that a Ninth-Rank Tier 2 Emperor Artifact inside Zhenbian Palace suppressed a Second-Realm Demon Emperor.
• The system offered Li Zhōujūn a mission to obtain the artifact and eliminate the Demon Emperor, and he confirmed he could exchange the artifact for temporary Second-Realm Immortal Emperor cultivation.
• Feng Aoyang warned that an Immortal Emperor entering Zhenbian Palace could cause it to collapse and free the Demon Emperor, while Yan Xuanqing chose to wait outside as Li Zhōujūn prepared to go in.

Li Zhōujūn entered the Town Border Immortal Palace and found the Town Border Immortal Emperor guarding a sealed demon pig emperor. He used the system to take the Emperor Artifact spear and gain Ninth-Rank Third-Realm Immortal Emperor cultivation, leaving the Town Border Immortal Emperor stunned.

• Li Zhōujūn entered the Town Border Immortal Palace, which remained intact despite the Dao Tian Immortal Palace cultivators expecting it to collapse.
• Li Zhōujūn crossed a corpse-strewn passage and found a ruined hall containing a sealed demon pig emperor and the Town Border Immortal Emperor’s Immortal Emperor Soul.
• The Town Border Immortal Emperor warned Li Zhōujūn that pulling out the spear could revive the demon pig emperor and said only a Ninth-Rank Third-Realm Immortal Emperor could readily lift it.
• Li Zhōujūn asked the system to exchange for the spear, and the system took it and granted him Ninth-Rank Third-Realm Immortal Emperor cultivation for one hour.
• Li Zhōujūn’s aura spread through the palace, alarming Feng Aoyang and Han Tiansong outside and convincing the Town Border Immortal Emperor of his power.

Li Zhōujūn defeated Pig Demon Emperor and watched Town Border Immortal Emperor’s remnant soul dissipate, earning a major cultivation breakthrough before leaving Emperor’s Demise Battlefield. He parted from Yan Xuanqing and set off, eager to test his new strength against Fu Can Demon Emperor.

• Li Zhōujūn praised Town Border Immortal Emperor’s deeds, then obliterated Pig Demon Emperor with Golden Lightning as the dying emperor found peace in his release.
• When Town Border Immortal Emperor dissipated, the system rewarded Li Zhōujūn with Third-Rank Immortal Venerable cultivation and raised Ao Xue Flying Sword to match his realm.
• Li Zhōujūn returned from Zhenbian Palace, revealed his Ninth-Rank Third-Realm Immortal Emperor aura, and destroyed the palace so Town Border Immortal Emperor could rest there.
• Feng Aoyang and Han Tiansong discussed building ties with Duan Tian Hall before leading Dao Tian Immortal Palace back with the Zhentian Drum.
• At Emperor’s Demise Battlefield’s outskirts, Li Zhōujūn told Yan Xuanqing to cultivate and give his regards to Elder Duan, then departed before she could give him her sachet.
• Li Zhōujūn tested his new travel speed and considered seeking out Fu Can Demon Emperor for a fight.

Fu Can Demon Emperor reconsidered discarding Yan Siman’s dangerous secret technique, while Haotian Immortal Court decided to conceal Azure Emperor’s ties to Dao Tian Immortal Palace. Li Zhōujūn was teleported to confront Demon Emperor Xi Yang, who mocked him and faced another attack.

• Fu Can Demon Emperor learned that using Yan Siman’s secret technique three times would kill him, but picked it back up in case he needed it.
• Haotian Immortal Emperor agreed with Old Immortal Bai Shu that Haotian Immortal Court should keep Azure Emperor’s relationship with Dao Tian Immortal Palace secret and ordered the court to punish anyone who revealed it.
• Li Zhōujūn learned that thirty minutes remained on his Ninth-Rank Third-Realm Immortal Emperor cultivation and considered what to do with the time.
• Demon Emperor Xi Yang mocked Azure Emperor while alone in his cave, prompting the system to assign Li Zhōujūn a mission to beat him into submission.
• The system teleported Li Zhōujūn to Demon Emperor Xi Yang, who tried to dismiss his earlier taunts as a joke.
• Li Zhōujūn attacked Demon Emperor Xi Yang, who regretted provoking him.

Li Zhōujūn overpowered Demon Emperor Xi Yang in the Heaven Sealing Array and forced him to yield, earning a system reward that advanced him to Mid-Rank Immortal Venerable. He left Demon Sealing Cave and returned toward Dao Tian Immortal Palace, while Yue Qingdai was left exasperated by his teasing.

• Demon Emperor Xi Yang attacked Li Zhōujūn, but Li Zhōujūn seized his fist and subdued him.
• Yue Qingdai sensed the fight through the Heaven Sealing Array and witnessed Li Zhōujūn forcing Demon Emperor Xi Yang to yield.
• The system rewarded Li Zhōujūn with advancement to Fourth-Rank Immortal Venerable and upgraded Ao Xue Flying Sword to the same realm.
• Demon Emperor Xi Yang yielded wholeheartedly, and Li Zhōujūn released him rather than risk provoking his self-destruction.
• Li Zhōujūn left the Demon Sealing Cave and called Yue Qingdai a little girl, leaving her frustrated as he walked back toward Dao Tian Immortal Palace.

Li Zhōujūn agreed to investigate a mysterious ruin in one of Dao Tian Immortal Palace’s Three Thousand Small Worlds after Yue Qingdai asked for his help. He arrived with Shepherd Qin Baizhi at a vast abyss where the ruin’s array had resisted her attacks.

• Demon Emperor Xi Yang berated himself for provoking Li Zhōujūn, then reassured himself that he had merely underestimated the Azure Emperor.
• Yue Qingdai explained that the Shepherd had found a ruin beneath a split continent, but even a Ninth-Rank Second-Realm Immortal Emperor could not break its array.
• Li Zhōujūn accepted Yue Qingdai’s request to investigate and played along with her assumption that he was a Peak Perfection Emperor Realm Spirit Array Master.
• Qin Baizhi introduced herself as Dao Tian Immortal Palace’s Shepherd and opened a passage for Li Zhōujūn.
• Qin Baizhi brought Li Zhōujūn to the abyss and showed him the ruin whose array she had been unable to disturb.

Li Zhōujūn entered the array that had resisted the Chuyun Realm’s strongest cultivators and found Ghost Array Master inside. Ghost Array Master revealed that he had damaged the realm to draw Ling Tianzi into another contest, then challenged Li Zhōujūn to an array competition.

• The Chuyun Realm’s peak experts attacked the array together, but its barrier remained unharmed.
• Li Zhōujūn passed through the barrier using the system’s Method of Array Breaking and Shuttle, astonishing Qin Baizhi.
• Inside a stone grotto, Ghost Array Master appeared and identified himself to Li Zhōujūn.
• Ghost Array Master admitted he had cracked the Chuyun Realm’s continent to provoke Ling Tianzi, whom he had waited two hundred thousand years to challenge.
• Ghost Array Master proposed competing with Li Zhōujūn and promised to leave the Chuyun Realm and publicly declare his inferiority if he lost.

Li Zhōujūn competed with Ghost Array Master by attempting to escape his Nether Ghost Dragon Trapping Array. Using his system-granted ability to move through any array, Li Zhōujūn walked out effortlessly, and Ghost Array Master conceded defeat.

• Li Zhōujūn agreed to Ghost Array Master's challenge and gained his spirit array cultivation and extensive array knowledge through the system.
• Li Zhōujūn and Ghost Array Master entered a consciousness-space battle, where each evolved a world to support their arrays.
• Ghost Array Master trapped Li Zhōujūn inside the Nether Ghost Dragon Trapping Array and said escaping would count as victory.
• Li Zhōujūn walked through the array's green mist with ease, leaving Ghost Array Master stunned.
• Ghost Array Master admitted defeat and asked Li Zhōujūn's title, and Li Zhōujūn introduced himself as Azure Emperor.

Li Zhōujūn defeated Ghost Array Master in their formation contest, and Ghost Array Master admitted defeat before departing. Qin Baizhi learned of the result, while a mysterious young figure appeared among the Chuyun Realm cultivators.

• Ghost Array Master admitted defeat to Li Zhōujūn and promised to fulfill his commitments.
• Wuji Immortal Emperor, now backed by Taichu Holy Land, resolved to demand compensation from Dao Tian Immortal Palace and Haotian Immortal Court.
• Li Zhōujūn and Ghost Array Master emerged from the ruins and met Qin Baizhi, who recognized Ghost Array Master.
• Ghost Array Master asked Li Zhōujūn to compete with Ling Tianzi someday, then departed after promising to announce his defeat.
• Qin Baizhi asked whether Li Zhōujūn had beaten Ghost Array Master, and Li Zhōujūn called it barely a victory.
• A young figure moved through the Chuyun Realm cultivators, and Qin Baizhi showed a trace of tension.

Li Zhōujūn returned from Dao Tian Immortal Palace’s Three Thousand Small Worlds after defeating Ghost Array Master, whose public edict praised the Azure Emperor’s array dao and stirred the Immortal Realm. The chapter also revealed Qin Baizhi’s forbidden feelings for Lin Xiuming, who had reached the Tribulation Crossing Stage, while Li Zhōujūn headed back to Dao Tian Immortal Palace.

• Li Zhōujūn noticed Qin Baizhi’s reaction to Lin Xiuming but left the Three Thousand Small Worlds without questioning her.
• Qin Baizhi recalled how she had watched Lin Xiuming rise from poverty through years of hard cultivation, helped him in secret, and developed feelings for him despite the herder’s rules.
• Li Zhōujūn rejoined Yue Qingdai, and Ghost Array Master’s imperial edict appeared across the Immortal Realm, declaring that Li Zhōujūn had defeated him in array dao.
• Yue Qingdai teased Li Zhōujūn about Dao Tian Immortal Palace attracting attention, then teleported away while he began the return journey on foot.
• Powerful figures across the Immortal Realm read Ghost Array Master’s edict and marveled at the strength of Li Zhōujūn and Dao Tian Immortal Palace.

After Qing Emperor’s identity as a member of Dao Tian Immortal Palace became known, Fu Can Demon Emperor decided to keep studying arrays, while Wuji Immortal Emperor and Haotian Immortal Emperor adjusted their plans. Haotian Immortal Court returned Wuji Immortal Palace’s own lands as a publicized “gift,” leaving Wuji furious and unable to retaliate without damaging his reputation.

• Fu Can Demon Emperor learned Qing Emperor was a Peak Perfection Emperor Realm Spirit Array Master and resumed studying array formations so he would not be caught unprepared.
• Wuji Immortal Emperor decided not to provoke Dao Tian Immortal Palace after learning Qing Emperor belonged to it.
• Haotian Immortal Emperor ordered his troops to withdraw from lands that had originally belonged to Wuji Immortal Palace and publicly framed the withdrawal as a gift.
• Wuji Immortal Emperor received Haotian Immortal Court’s envoy and realized the so-called gift consisted of territory Wuji Immortal Palace already owned.
• Wuji Immortal Emperor cursed Haotian Immortal Emperor and hesitated to act against Haotian Immortal Court because the public might call him ungrateful.

Liu Yangze, Yan Xuanqing, and Duàn Cāngqióng reacted to the revelation that Li Zhōujūn was the Azure Emperor, while Yan Xuanqing gave her master the Thunder-forged Divine Iron Li had offered. Back at Cloud Bridge Palace, Yue Qingdai questioned Li Zhōujūn about Qin Baizhi’s unusual behavior, and he chose to feign ignorance about her apparent feelings for someone from the Three Thousand Small Worlds.

• Liu Yangze and the middle-aged kitchen helper admired the Azure Emperor’s strength and were glad he belonged to Dao Tian Immortal Palace.
• Yan Xuanqing confirmed to Duàn Cāngqióng that Li Zhōujūn was the Azure Emperor and told him she had obtained the Sword-Holding Immortal Emperor’s Origin with Li’s help.
• Yan Xuanqing returned the Thunder-forged Divine Iron Li had offered Duàn Cāngqióng, who accepted it and promised to repay Li by forging him an Emperor artifact.
• Yue Qingdai visited Li Zhōujūn at Cloud Bridge Palace and asked whether he had noticed anything unusual about Qin Baizhi.
• Li Zhōujūn recognized that Qin Baizhi had feelings for a young person from the Three Thousand Small Worlds but decided to pretend he knew nothing.

Yue Qingdai confronted Qin Baizhi about breaking the shepherds’ rules to help Lin Xiuming, then allowed their relationship on the condition that he reach the Immortal Realm unaided. Qin Baizhi resolved to stop interfering, while Liu Yangze refused a middle-aged fat man’s offer to become his disciple.

• Li Zhōujūn declined to help Yue Qingdai further and asked her to bring chicken soup or chickens next time.
• Lin Xiuming vowed to grow strong enough to overcome whatever kept Qin Baizhi from standing beside him, while Qin Baizhi watched from concealment.
• Yue Qingdai told Qin Baizhi she could love Lin Xiuming but must not help him or disrupt the Three Thousand Small Worlds’ rules; she would bless them if he ascended on his own.
• Qin Baizhi admitted she had used a clone to destroy promising candidates while helping Lin Xiuming, then resolved to stop and left to inspect other small worlds.
• Yue Qingdai returned to Sky Dome Hall and considered replacing Qin Baizhi if she continued breaking the rules.
• Liu Yangze rejected the middle-aged fat man’s offer to make him a disciple, saying the man was too fat and kept calling him little fatty.

Little Fatty Liu Yangze became Niu Tianbao’s disciple after the Immortal Emperor offered him rare cultivation treasures. Meanwhile, Hao Huang and Ying Shanshan ascended to the Immortal Realm, where Zhuo Jingyue attacked them before Gong Xuan intervened.

• Niu Tianbao forced Little Fatty Liu Yangze to kneel, then won his eager allegiance by offering him rare cultivation resources.
• Niu Tianbao revealed that he was the Immortal Emperor Tianbao, a former member of the Dao Tian Immortal Palace who had hidden in its kitchen.
• Li Zhōujūn reflected on his friends and disciples in the Lower Realm before heading to the kitchen to look for chicken.
• Hao Huang and Ying Shanshan ascended to the Immortal Realm and discussed seeking Li Zhōujūn, but decided they first needed to learn where they were.
• Zhuo Jingyue confronted Hao Huang and Ying Shanshan, called them demons, and attacked them with a powerful sword strike.
• Gong Xuan blocked Zhuo Jingyue’s attack, and he demanded to know why she had intervened.

Gong Xuan and Zhuo Jingyue staged a good-cop, bad-cop act to persuade Hao Huang and Ying Shanshan to join Gong Xuan as her demon companions. After seeing through their scheme, Hao Huang asked whether the Dao Tian Immortal Palace knew the Dao Tian Sect, hoping to learn about his friend Li.

• Gong Xuan defended Hao Huang and Ying Shanshan while Zhuo Jingyue threatened them, then Zhuo revealed they had planned the act together.
• Gong Xuan asked Zhuo Jingyue to let her take the two demons under her command, and Ying Shanshan realized she had an ulterior motive.
• Hao Huang told Ying Shanshan that Gong Xuan and Zhuo Jingyue were trying to make them willingly follow Gong Xuan.
• Zhuo Jingyue warned Gong Xuan to keep the demons in line and left with the Dao Tian Immortal Palace disciples.
• Hao Huang asked Gong Xuan about the Dao Tian Sect, and Ying Shanshan said her master's friend Li might have joined the Dao Tian Immortal Palace.