Chapter Summaries

Returning Heaven God Emperor considered using another powerful figure’s name, while Dragon Girl learned that the Saintess had escaped. Li Zhōujūn followed a system mission to the Nameless Realm to find Azure Meteorite, arriving without using magical power and drawing the attention of a young woman.

• Blade Maniac beat Returning Heaven God Emperor, then allowed him to use Blade Maniac’s name when dealing with the Supreme Demon God Palace, warning him not to disgrace it.
• Returning Heaven God Emperor decided Thousand Armies God Emperor might be a better name to borrow and went into seclusion instead of confronting the Supreme Demon God Palace.
• Dragon Girl learned that the newly advanced God Emperor Saintess had escaped to experience the world, and ordered a search across the Hong Meng Continent.
• Li Zhōujūn received a system mission to gather materials for upgrading the Ao Xue Flying Sword and learned that the Nameless Realm contained Azure Meteorite but could collapse if he used magical power there.
• Li Zhōujūn entered the Nameless Realm by falling through its barrier, while a young woman in a nearby city spotted his blazing descent and worried that someone else had found the Azure Meteorite.

Li Zhōujūn arrived in Sijiang Commandery City after fleeing the meteor crater, while a girl in white learned that someone else might seek the Azure Meteorite. The chapter ended as Li Zhōujūn called out to a woman carrying her sick baby after a wealthy young man kicked them down.

• The Commandery Governor and Commandery Lieutenant sealed off the crater, agreed to report the fall to the imperial court, and kept the incident from the public.
• The girl in white inspected the crater, realized someone else knew about the Azure Meteorite, and set off for Sijiang Commandery City to search for it sooner.
• Li Zhōujūn reached Sijiang Commandery City and saw a wealthy young man kick a disheveled woman carrying a baby girl afflicted with gray blotches.
• The girl in white, watching from the crowd, prepared to confront the young man in ornate clothes.
• Li Zhōujūn called out to the woman as she tried to leave.

Li Zhōujūn devised a scheme to draw public sympathy toward a mother and her sick infant, hoping others would help pay for treatment while he searched for the Azure Meteorite. Kong Cai’er mistook his plan for cruelty and challenged him, but began to see the crowd rallying to the woman.

• Li Zhōujūn recognized that the baby girl’s gray spots were linked to her affinity for spiritual energy and learned that a miracle doctor had herbs that might treat her.
• Unable to access his stored wealth, Li Zhōujūn told the mother he would pay for treatment if she knelt around the city for a year, intending to provoke bystanders into helping her.
• Onlookers criticized Li Zhōujūn but gave the mother money, and the richly dressed young man contributed silver to make himself look generous.
• The mother realized Li Zhōujūn’s apparent cruelty had prompted people to help and bowed toward him as he watched from a distance.
• Kong Cai’er confronted Li Zhōujūn, called his proposal vicious, and offered to pay for the treatment herself before noticing the crowd already aiding the mother and child.

Li Zhōujūn helped Kong Cai'er realize he had arranged for a mother and daughter to receive aid, then set off with her to search for the Azure Meteorite. Kong Cai'er insisted on following him until he made a request, and their journey ended with the two sharing a roast rabbit by a campfire.

• Kong Cai'er promised to help the mother and daughter and offered Li Zhōujūn one request, but he refused and joked about impossible demands.
• Kong Cai'er secretly gave the woman a golden bracelet, and Li Zhōujūn tried to leave after deciding she had enough help.
• Kong Cai'er followed Li Zhōujūn, who used the system to learn the Azure Meteorite's location and began traveling there with her.
• When a wild rabbit ran past, Li Zhōujūn killed it with a small stone and roasted it while Kong Cai'er accompanied him.
• Kong Cai'er first refused to ask for rabbit, then reached for it when Li Zhōujūn nearly finished; he gave her a leg.

Li Zhōujūn and Kong Cai'er spent the night in the woods, where he built her a shelter and shared food with her. In the morning, Kong Cai'er refused to leave until Li Zhōujūn thought of a request she considered reasonable, deciding to travel with him instead.

• Li Zhōujūn gave Kong Cai'er his untouched roasted rabbit, and she ate it before asking why he was traveling in that direction.
• Li Zhōujūn urged Kong Cai'er to stay near him overnight because the woods were dangerous, then built a simple shelter beside the fire.
• Kong Cai'er fell asleep in the shelter, and Li Zhōujūn teased her the next morning about snoring.
• Li Zhōujūn shared a roasted sweet potato with Kong Cai'er and asked her to return home.
• Kong Cai'er rejected his request that she go back and told Li Zhōujūn she would go wherever he went.

Li Zhōujūn and Kong Cai'er reached a village at dusk and persuaded Kong Xue to let them stay overnight. After learning that Kong Xue had only one old hen, they agreed to have eggs for dinner instead of slaughtering it.

• Li Zhōujūn and Kong Cai'er arrived at Kong Xue's home and paid her broken silver for a night's lodging.
• Kong Cai'er and Kong Xue introduced themselves and discovered they shared the surname Kong.
• Kong Xue offered to slaughter her chicken for dinner, but Li Zhōujūn pointed out that it might be her only hen.
• Kong Cai'er and Li Zhōujūn persuaded Kong Xue to make stir-fried eggs instead, and Kong Cai'er took her to the kitchen.

Li Zhōujūn and Kong Cai'er shared dinner and lodging at Kong Xue's home, where they learned that a neighboring family had been taking advantage of her lamp. Kong Cai'er struck the neighbor's abusive wife, and the woman's husband arrived to hear her explain the dispute.

• Kong Cai'er, Li Zhōujūn, and Kong Xue ate dinner together, and Li Zhōujūn washed the dishes.
• Kong Cai'er and Li Zhōujūn agreed to share a room so Kong Xue could keep both beds.
• Kong Xue explained that a neighboring child studied by light passing through a hole in her wall after Kong Cai'er extinguished the hall lamp.
• The neighbor's wife berated Kong Xue and demanded that she relight the lamp, then threatened to enlarge the hole.
• Li Zhōujūn stopped the woman from leaving, and Kong Cai'er slapped her, knocking out several teeth.
• The neighbor's husband came out with a hoe, and Kong Cai'er accused his family of stealing Kong Xue's lamplight.

Li Zhōujūn and Kong Cai'er left Kong Xue after standing up for her and sharing a meal with her. Meanwhile, demons searched for the missing Saintess and discussed a supposed Demon-Slaying Madman, leaving the Thousand Armies God Emperor baffled by rumors that he had been hunting demons.

• Kong Cai'er claimed Kong Xue as her little sister and promised to help her if anyone bullied her.
• Li Zhōujūn and Kong Cai'er spent the night at Kong Xue's home, and Li Zhōujūn made fish stew for them the next morning.
• Kong Cai'er told Kong Xue to keep a low profile until she returned, then left with Li Zhōujūn.
• Several great demons searched for the Saintess and debated whether she might be in a world without spiritual energy.
• The demons discussed a human Supreme Godly Emperor who was reportedly hunting their kind under the name Thousand Armies God Emperor.
• The Thousand Armies God Emperor heard the rumors and wondered how he could have hunted demons without knowing it.

Returning Heaven God Emperor used Thousand Armies God Emperor’s name to kill demons, prompting Thousand Armies to order him to continue while beating him for the unauthorized impersonation. Meanwhile, after three years of traveling together, Li Zhōujūn and Kong Cai'er bickered over growing old together and immortality.

• Thousand Armies God Emperor sent an incarnation to investigate who had been using his name to slaughter demons.
• Returning Heaven God Emperor killed three Nine Tribulation God Emperors of the Demon Race and wrote that Thousand Armies God Emperor had slain them.
• Thousand Armies God Emperor learned that the Supreme Demon God Palace had threatened him and ordered Returning Heaven God Emperor to keep killing demons under his name.
• Thousand Armies God Emperor beat Returning Heaven God Emperor for impersonating him without permission, while Returning Heaven did not dare fight back.
• After three years of traveling, Li Zhōujūn and Kong Cai'er discussed growing old together, and Kong Cai'er tried to persuade him that she could make him immortal.

Li Zhōujūn talked Tian Youzhi out of drowning himself by urging him to build a harmonious family and set an example for others. As Li Zhōujūn and Kong Cai'er continued on together, Dragon Girl worried that human Supreme Godly Emperors would find the Supreme Demon God Palace before its leaders emerged from seclusion.

• Tian Youzhi tried to drown himself, then climbed back to shore because he remembered the adult books hidden under his bed.
• Tian Youzhi explained that his parents had forced him to end his relationship and arranged a marriage for him, so he wanted his death to make them understand his feelings.
• Li Zhōujūn advised Tian Youzhi to treat his family well and build a harmonious household that others could follow, and Tian Youzhi resolved to write a book if he succeeded.
• Kong Cai'er admired Li Zhōujūn and decided she would stay with him if he refused to cultivate with her; they continued walking and bickering about food.
• Dragon Girl learned that Soul Supreme, Blade Maniac, and Thousand Armies God Emperor seemed to be targeting the Supreme Demon God Palace, while Saintess remained missing.

Li Zhōujūn reached the Azure Meteorite and collected it with his bare hands, revealing his overwhelming strength to Kong Cai'er. As the system marked his mission one-third complete, powerful figures arrived, and Kong Cai'er warned him that her relatives could threaten even a human Supreme Godly Emperor.

• The Supreme Demon God Palace elders dismissed the loss of several Demon Race stragglers and decided to wait for Great Supreme and Second Supreme to leave seclusion before responding to the humans.
• After traveling for ten years, Li Zhōujūn received the Azure Meteorite's coordinates and left Kong Cai'er to retrieve it.
• Kong Cai'er followed Li Zhōujūn to the crater, offered him the Azure Meteorite, and warned that touching it without Supreme Godly Emperor strength was deadly.
• Li Zhōujūn picked up the Azure Meteorite, completing one-third of his mission, and Kong Cai'er concluded that he was a Supreme Godly Emperor.
• Dark clouds and powerful voices appeared overhead, and Kong Cai'er urged Li Zhōujūn to flee before her Great-Granduncle, Second Granduncle, and Third Grandmother found him.

Li Zhōujūn revealed himself as the Azure Emperor to Kong Cai'er and the Supreme Demon God Palace’s God Emperors, then let Seven Peaks God Emperor go with a warning for the Palace. Back at the Palace, Kong Cai'er declared she intended to kidnap Li Zhōujūn and make him her Bandit Chief's Wife, while Seven Peaks reported the Azure Emperor’s threat to Dragon Girl.

• Nine Seas God Emperor and Seven Peaks God Emperor recognized Li Zhōujūn as the Azure Emperor and tried to flee with Kong Cai'er.
• Seven Peaks God Emperor kowtowed to Li Zhōujūn, who spared him and ordered him to warn the Supreme Demon God Palace not to plot against the human race.
• Li Zhōujūn left to search for Tears of the Heartless, then agreed to spar with Blade Maniac after receiving his voice transmission.
• Dragon Girl reprimanded Kong Cai'er for sneaking out, and Kong Cai'er admitted she wanted to protect Li Zhōujūn and make him her Bandit Chief's Wife.
• Seven Peaks God Emperor returned to the Supreme Demon God Palace with a lump on his head and told Dragon Girl that Li Zhōujūn had made him deliver a warning.

Li Zhōujūn tested Blade Maniac’s strength, then learned of a Ruthlessness-path Supreme Godly Emperor from the Murong Family who planned to challenge the Top Ten. The family head’s name was Murong Xue, leaving Li Zhōujūn stunned by the possible connection to the Murong Xue he knew.

• Blade Maniac struck at Li Zhōujūn, who caught the powerful blade with his bare hand without moving.
• Returning Heaven God Emperor introduced his beloved, Di Panqiao, to Li Zhōujūn and Blade Maniac, then repeatedly asked her to kiss him until Blade Maniac slapped him.
• Returning Heaven God Emperor left with Di Panqiao, while Blade Maniac and Li Zhōujūn discussed the great difference in their power.
• Blade Maniac told Li Zhōujūn that the Murong Family’s female Supreme Godly Emperor cultivated the Path of Ruthlessness and intended to challenge the Top Ten Supreme Godly Emperors.
• Blade Maniac named the family head as Murong Xue, and Li Zhōujūn wondered whether she was connected to the Murong Xue he knew.

Li Zhōujūn joined Qin Tianyi to challenge the Azure Ancestor, while discussing his feelings for Murong Xue and his fear of failing to protect a partner. They arrived as Luo Qianqiu merged with her previous incarnation, leaving the Azure Ancestor worried about how she might react when her memories returned.

• Li Zhōujūn left Blade Maniac after Qin Tianyi summoned him to see the completed divine sword and challenge the Azure Ancestor.
• Li Zhōujūn told Qin Tianyi that he had nearly confessed his feelings to Murong Xue but feared making someone wait for him or putting her in danger.
• Qin Tianyi and Li Zhōujūn departed the Forbidden Zone, leaving Nine-Headed Leopard Lord lamenting the loss of his backer.
• Qin Tianyi and Li Zhōujūn arrived before the Azure Ancestor, who was protecting Luo Qianqiu as she merged with her previous incarnation.
• The Azure Ancestor insisted that Luo Qianqiu was her own person, while Qin Tianyi teased him about whether she would still spar with Li Zhōujūn after recovering her memories.

Luo Qianqiu emerged from her clash with Emperor Luo as a Supreme Godly Emperor, and the two agreed to share control of their body. Azure Ancestor tried to match her with Li Zhōujūn, while he and Qin Tianyi left to fight; Li Zhōujūn and Luo Qianqiu stayed behind discussing Qin Tianyi's mysterious past.

• Azure Ancestor and Qin Tianyi sensed that Luo Qianqiu and Emperor Luo had clashed, then waited as rosy light and Buddhist chants filled the cavern.
• Luo Qianqiu emerged, confirmed she was herself, and explained that she and Emperor Luo would share control of their body for ten years at a time.
• Azure Ancestor tried to arrange a marriage between Luo Qianqiu and Li Zhōujūn, but Li Zhōujūn said it would not be appropriate.
• Qin Tianyi challenged Azure Ancestor, and the two old men flew into the void to battle.
• Luo Qianqiu told Li Zhōujūn that Qin Tianyi's strength rivaled Azure Ancestor's and that his claimed origins in a minor world might conceal a deeper mystery.

Li Zhōujūn and Luo Qianqiu left her world after learning Returning Heaven God Emperor was in trouble, only to discover that the Ancient Tower Clan had taken him because of his relationship with Di Panqiao. Li Zhōujūn vowed to rescue his friend and head for the clan’s lair.

• Luo Qianqiu showed Li Zhōujūn her peaceful world, but they departed when he sensed Returning Heaven God Emperor was in trouble.
• At Returning Heaven Divine Palace, Li Zhōujūn and Luo Qianqiu found Di Panqiao waiting alone, and she admitted she belonged to a mysterious faction.
• Luo Qianqiu revealed herself as Emperor Luo after spotting the black tower totem on Di Panqiao’s arm and identified her faction as the Ancient Tower Clan.
• Di Panqiao explained that the clan forbade relationships with Hong Meng beings and had taken Returning Heaven after he declared he would marry her.
• Di Panqiao begged Li Zhōujūn to save Returning Heaven, and he promised to charge into the Ancient Tower Clan’s lair despite Emperor Luo’s warning.

Returning Heaven God Emperor confronted the three rulers of the Ancient Tower Clan over his wish to marry Di Panqiao, learning that she was central to the clan’s return to the Dao Realm. Li Zhōujūn arrived at the Ancient Tower with Luo Qianqiu and Di Panqiao, leaving the rulers to face him.

• Returning Heaven God Emperor demanded that Di Wanren, Di BuHuo, and Di YeYe let him marry Di Panqiao, but they rejected him and revealed her connection to a powerful Dao Realm clan.
• Di Wanren, Di BuHuo, and Di YeYe threatened to kill Returning Heaven God Emperor and introduced themselves, but Di YeYe punched him after he insulted him.
• The three rulers sensed someone approaching and went to the Ancient Tower’s entrance, where they found Li Zhōujūn with Luo Qianqiu and Di Panqiao.
• Di YeYe accused Di Panqiao of betraying the Ancient Tower Clan, while the chapter explained that the clan depended on her marriage to a Dao Realm scion to return home.
• Li Zhōujūn asked the three rulers whether Returning Heaven God Emperor was there.

Li Zhōujūn confronted the Ancient Tower Clan to save the Returning Heaven God Emperor and protect Di Panqiao, but the clan refused and offered him marriage into their bloodline instead. After he easily caught Di BuHuo’s strike, Li Zhōujūn challenged all three clan rulers to attack him together.

• Li Zhōujūn asked Di Wanren to release the Returning Heaven God Emperor and leave Di Panqiao alone, but Di Wanren refused and warned him to leave.
• Luo Qianqiu chose to stand with Li Zhōujūn despite Emperor Luo’s warning, while Di Panqiao worried about both their safety and the Returning Heaven God Emperor.
• Di BuHuo struck at Li Zhōujūn, who used his Fifty-Fifty ability to catch the attack and taunted him.
• Di Wanren offered Li Zhōujūn a marriage into the Ancient Tower Clan, but Li Zhōujūn rejected the offer.
• Li Zhōujūn told Di Wanren, Di BuHuo, and Di YeYe to attack him together, as Emperor Luo urged Luo Qianqiu to flee.

Li Zhōujūn faced the three elders of the Ancient Tower Clan and effortlessly stopped their Black Tower Suppressing Heaven technique. After a three-day stalemate, the elders withdrew, but Di YeYe still refused to concede.

• The three elders—Di Wanren, Di YeYe, and Di BuHuo—attacked Li Zhōujūn, while Luo Qianqiu stood ready to help if needed.
• The elders summoned a massive Black Tower and sent it crashing toward Li Zhōujūn, but his aura held it motionless above him.
• Li Zhōujūn remained calm and told the elders he would leave if they accepted his conditions, while Emperor Luo realized he could truly withstand them.
• After three days and nights, Di BuHuo exhausted his magical power and severed his connection to the tower, forcing all three elders to withdraw their power.
• Li Zhōujūn asked what the elders thought of his conditions, but Di YeYe blamed the failure on Di BuHuo's exhaustion and claimed he could have won if his cultivation were not sealed.

The Ancient Tower Clan tried to separate Di Panqiao from the Returning Heaven God Emperor so she could marry Liu Daochen and help the clan return to the Dao Realm. Li Zhōujūn defended the couple, and the chapter ended with Liu Daochen turning hostile toward him.

• Di Wanren offered to hand over the Returning Heaven God Emperor but insisted Di Panqiao could not remain with him, explaining that the Ancient Tower Clan hoped Liu Daochen would help them return to the Dao Realm.
• Di Wanren released the Returning Heaven God Emperor, and Di Panqiao chose to leave with the elders, telling him they should part.
• Li Zhōujūn urged Di Panqiao to stay with the Returning Heaven God Emperor and promised that even ten Willow Clans could not separate them.
• Liu Daochen arrived as a clone and revealed that Di Panqiao had helped him when they were children, leading him to decide he would marry her.
• Liu Daochen offered to spare the Returning Heaven God Emperor and demanded that Li Zhōujūn kowtow and apologize, but Li Zhōujūn refused and stood by the couple.
• Liu Daochen declared Li Zhōujūn foolish and deserving of death.