Chapter Summaries

Li Zhōujūn and Li Xin followed a magical leaf to search for the egg, but encountered a battle between Tianquan Holy Land and Shenqing Palace. When Tong Li threatened Su Shenhua, Li Zhōujūn stood up for him, and Tong Li challenged him to take one move.

• Li Xin used a magical green leaf to lead Li Zhōujūn and Su Shenhua toward the egg.
• The three encountered Chen Lingxi and others from Tianquan Holy Land fighting Shenqing Palace, and Li Xin suggested they avoid the battle.
• Wang Longqi's flying sword cut Su Shenhua's cheek, and Su Shenhua attacked him in anger before Tong Li knocked him away with a folding fan.
• Tong Li defended Shenqing Palace and threatened Su Shenhua, but Li Zhōujūn vowed that Tong Li could not harm him.
• Tong Li recognized Li Zhōujūn and challenged him to take one move.

Li Zhōujūn effortlessly caught Tong Li’s fan strike, secured an apology for Su Shenhua, and continued traveling with Li Xin and Su Shenhua. They reached a blood-cloud vortex where four powerful Dao Lords gathered around a guarded egg, which began cracking before they could approach it.

• Li Zhōujūn caught Tong Li’s thrown fan with ease, earning Tong Li’s respect and leaving the watching cultivators stunned.
• Li Zhōujūn demanded that Wang Longqi apologize to Su Shenhua, and Wang Longqi complied before Tong Li and Shenqing Palace departed.
• Chen Lingxi offered to investigate the Ping Household’s attempt to hunt Li Zhōujūn, alarming Ping Wanyu, and Li Zhōujūn then continued traveling with Li Xin and Su Shenhua.
• The three companions encountered blood clouds and a vortex containing a black-patterned egg, while Gongsun Zhan, Tong Li, Xiang Chongwu, and Huo Zirui gathered before its barrier.
• The egg began cracking, and Tong Li reacted with surprise because fewer than ten days had passed.

The Profound Ghost Celestial Lord emerged from the egg and revealed that he had lured the Dao Lords there to use them as nourishment. After he defeated Tong Li, Gongsun Zhan, Huo Zirui, and Xiang Chongwu with one punch, the system gave Li Zhōujūn a mission to challenge his claim of supremacy.

• The Profound Ghost Celestial Lord emerged from the egg and identified himself as the expert who had lured the Dao Lords into his world.
• The Profound Ghost Celestial Lord declared that he intended to consume the gathered cultivators, while Li Zhōujūn remained calm despite Su Shenhua's fear.
• Tong Li attacked the Profound Ghost Celestial Lord, but his folding fan was casually deflected without harming him.
• Huo Zirui urged Tong Li, Gongsun Zhan, and Xiang Chongwu to join forces, and all four attacked the Profound Ghost Celestial Lord together.
• The Profound Ghost Celestial Lord shattered their combined attacks with one punch, badly injuring all four prodigies.
• The system assigned Li Zhōujūn a mission to make the Profound Ghost Celestial Lord recognize that he was not yet the ruler, offering a breakthrough to the Ninth-Rank Dao Lord realm as a reward.

Li Zhōujūn confronted Profound Ghost Celestial Lord after the latter overwhelmed the four top Dao Lords. He stopped two of Profound Ghost Celestial Lord’s attacks, leaving the gathered cultivators stunned and Profound Ghost Celestial Lord slightly uneasy.

• Li Zhōujūn appeared and reassured Li Xin and Su Shenhua that they would be safe.
• Profound Ghost Celestial Lord attacked Li Zhōujūn with a giant black palm, but Li Zhōujūn blocked it with Divine Light.
• Profound Ghost Celestial Lord turned the palm into black mist that formed a gigantic maw to swallow Li Zhōujūn.
• Li Zhōujūn opened the Divine Eye on his forehead and halted the maw with bolts of golden lightning.
• Xiao Lan and Xiao Tiantian watched Li Zhōujūn display power that rivaled Profound Ghost Celestial Lord.

Li Zhōujūn faced Profound Ghost Celestial Lord’s overwhelming Dharma Form and fought him to a standstill. Profound Ghost Celestial Lord fled, the world’s seal lifted, and Li Zhōujūn reached the Ninth-Rank Dao Lord realm.

• Profound Ghost Celestial Lord summoned a colossal black Dharma Form and attacked Li Zhōujūn, who answered with a jade-white Dharma Form of his own.
• The two Dharma Forms clashed, shaking the Battlefield of All Heavens, while Profound Ghost Celestial Lord sealed the cracks that Dao Lord cultivators tried to escape through.
• Profound Ghost Celestial Lord offered Li Zhōujūn a favor to end their fight, but Li Zhōujūn refused, so Profound Ghost Celestial Lord withdrew and fled through a spatial rift.
• Li Zhōujūn completed his quest and advanced to the Ninth-Rank Dao Lord realm as Profound Ghost Celestial Lord’s departure lifted the seal over the world.
• Su Shenhua, Li Xin, Huo Zirui, and Gongsun Zhan thanked Li Zhōujūn, with Huo Zirui offering him a summoning scroll and Gongsun Zhan inviting him for wine.

After saving everyone in the Battlefield of All Heavens, Li Zhōujūn rejected Li Tiandi’s offer to make him Cheng Tian City’s son-in-law and future master, then prepared to leave. As he stepped into the void, the Soul Refining Hall threatened Cheng Tian City over him, and the system tasked him with preventing its destruction.

• Li Zhōujūn left the Battlefield of All Heavens with Li Xin and Su Shenhua after the four pinnacle Dao Lords praised and thanked him.
• Li Tiandi rewarded Su Shenhua with a Tranquil Heart Seal and offered Li Zhōujūn his daughter’s hand and the future rule of Cheng Tian City, but Li Zhōujūn refused.
• Li Xin spoke with Li Zhōujūn on a watchtower, warning him about Xiang Chongwu, the other pinnacle Dao Lords, and the Profound Ghost Celestial Lord.
• Li Zhōujūn decided to leave Cheng Tian City immediately, while Li Xin worried that her father was anticipating trouble.
• A black-robed man from the Soul Refining Hall demanded that Li Tiandi hand over Li Zhōujūn to be made into a Soul Weapon, and Li Tiandi refused.
• The system gave Li Zhōujūn a mission to prevent Cheng Tian City’s destruction and offered a breakthrough to the Dao Ancestor realm as the reward.

Li Zhōujūn teleported to the Soul Refining Realm and revealed himself as the Azure Emperor while confronting the Soul Refining Hall. The Great Emperor of Soul Refining rushed back to defend his lair, and Li Tiandi began to suspect that Li Zhōujūn and the Azure Emperor were the same person.

• Li Zhōujūn used the system’s coordinates to teleport to the Soul Refining Realm and announced that he was Li Zhōujūn, also known as the Azure Emperor.
• Gu Yujin formed the Chains Locking Souls Great Formation around Li Zhōujūn, but Li Zhōujūn walked free and remained unharmed after the Hall members attacked him.
• Gu Yujin contacted the Great Emperor of Soul Refining, who broke off his confrontation with Li Tiandi and hurried back to the Soul Refining Hall.
• Li Xin told Li Tiandi that Li Zhōujūn had once called himself the Azure Emperor, leading Li Tiandi to consider whether they were the same person.
• Li Tiandi decided to go to the Soul Refining Realm to investigate Li Zhōujūn’s identity.

Li Zhōujūn overwhelmed the Soul Refining Hall, but its Great Emperor returned and invoked a protective talisman to summon King Senluo. King Senluo threatened Li Zhōujūn as Li Tiandi headed to the Soul Refining Realm to uncover whether the Azure Emperor was really him.

• Li Zhōujūn wielded the Ao Xue Flying Sword to hold off the Soul Refining Hall’s combined attack, while Gu Yujin killed a cultivator who urged the others to flee.
• Gu Yujin revealed that the Great Emperor of Soul Refining served King Senluo, and the system raised Li Zhōujūn’s cultivation to the First-Rank Dao Sect realm.
• The Great Emperor of Soul Refining returned, mistook Li Zhōujūn’s identity, and warned him to leave before Li Zhōujūn refused to back down.
• The Great Emperor of Soul Refining used King Senluo’s protective talisman, summoning King Senluo, who threatened to kill Li Zhōujūn and add his skull to his throne.
• Li Tiandi set out for the Soul Refining Realm to learn whether the Azure Emperor was truly Li Zhōujūn.

Li Zhōujūn defeated King Senluo’s sword strike and forced the Great Emperor of Soul Refining to hand Ye Qi over to Luo Liufeng. Li Tiandi then arrived at the Soul Refining Hall, leaving the Great Emperor facing another humiliation.

• Li Zhōujūn blocked King Senluo’s sword ray, and the talisman gate shattered as his cultivation rose to Third-Rank Dao Venerable.
• Luo Liufeng arrived and demanded that the Great Emperor of Soul Refining release Ye Qi, explaining that she had come for her disciple Luo Zhenxue’s sake.
• The Great Emperor of Soul Refining yielded to Luo Liufeng’s threat and sent Ye Qi out of the void.
• Ye Qi thanked Luo Liufeng and Li Zhōujūn, while Luo Liufeng told him to stop seeking Luo Zhenxue and focus on becoming the Glazed Jade God Clan’s future leader.
• The Great Emperor warned that King Senluo would target the Glazed Jade God Clan, and Li Tiandi appeared at the Soul Refining Hall.

Li Zhōujūn revealed himself as the Azure Emperor and helped bring the Soul Refining Hall to the brink of destruction. After leaving Ye Qi outside the Soul Refining Realm, Li Zhōujūn departed while King Senluo resolved to kill him and began drawing power from his skull throne.

• Li Tiandi arrived to help the Azure Emperor, then realized Li Zhōujūn was the powerful expert who had attacked the Soul Refining Hall.
• Li Zhōujūn refused Great Emperor of Soul Refining's offer to serve him, noting that he had betrayed King Senluo.
• Luo Liufeng declared that she would destroy the Soul Refining Hall because her clan held an irreconcilable blood feud with King Senluo.
• Li Zhōujūn brought Ye Qi out of the Soul Refining Realm but declined to take him as a disciple.
• King Senluo vowed to take Li Zhōujūn's head and drew energy from his skull throne.

Li Zhōujūn reached the Three Kings Domain and watched a dispute involving Luo Zhenxue, Luo Haojie, Yuanshan, and Ye Qi unfold in an inn. Ye Qi recognized Li Zhōujūn as the Azure Emperor, shocking everyone present.

• The system tasked Li Zhōujūn with storming King Senluo’s territory, and he traveled to the Three Kings Domain without teleporting.
• In No Man’s Land, Li Zhōujūn overheard Luo Haojie and Luo Zhenxue discussing the domain and realized she might be Luo Liufeng’s disciple.
• Yuanshan confronted Luo Haojie over Ye Qi’s relationship with Luo Zhenxue, and both men revealed Ninth-Rank Dao Lord auras.
• Ye Qi arrived, pulled Yuanshan back, and pretended not to know Luo Zhenxue because he lacked the backing to challenge the Glazed Jade God Clan.
• Ye Qi noticed Li Zhōujūn at a nearby table and recognized him as the Azure Emperor, startling Yuanshan, Luo Zhenxue, and Luo Haojie.

Li Zhōujūn met Luo Jiushang, the childlike ancestor of the Glazed Jade God Clan, who scolded Ye Qi for his cowardice toward Luo Zhenxue and sent him and Yuanshan away. Luo Jiushang then learned Immortal Doctor Miao might restore his appearance and warned Li Zhōujūn against confronting King Senluo inside the Senluo Death Domain.

• Ye Qi and the others paid their respects to Li Zhōujūn, who asked Luo Zhenxue about her master.
• Luo Jiushang arrived, introduced himself as the Glazed Jade God Clan's ancestor and King Luo, and shared a toast with Li Zhōujūn.
• Luo Jiushang criticized Ye Qi for hiding his feelings for Luo Zhenxue, then sent Ye Qi and Yuanshan far away.
• Luo Zhenxue told Luo Jiushang that Immortal Doctor Miao would visit in about a month and might have found a way to restore his original appearance.
• Luo Jiushang warned Li Zhōujūn not to fight King Senluo inside the Senluo Death Domain.

Li Zhōujūn entered the Senluo Death Domain despite Luo Jiushang’s warnings and confronted King Senluo. He matched King Senluo’s power and shattered his bone spear, while a blue-haired, snake-tailed woman appeared beside Luo Jiushang.

• Luo Jiushang warned Li Zhōujūn not to fight King Senluo in the Senluo Death Domain before leaving with Luo Zhenxue and Luo Haojie.
• Li Zhōujūn arrived at the Senluo Death Domain and saw a vision of King Senluo slaughtering an army to create the Path of Achievement.
• Luo Jiushang appeared and tried to dissuade Li Zhōujūn, but he stepped onto the bone road and entered the domain.
• King Senluo confronted Li Zhōujūn, mocked Luo Jiushang, and formed a spear from countless dried bones.
• Li Zhōujūn activated his Fifty-Fifty ability, matched King Senluo’s cultivation, and shattered the spear with a punch.
• Luo Jiushang realized Li Zhōujūn could fight King Senluo, then tried to flee when a blue-haired, snake-tailed woman appeared beside her.

Lin Xiuxiang reunited with Luo Jiushang while Li Zhōujūn faced King Senluo, who unleashed his full Senluo Death Prison technique. Li Zhōujūn challenged the attack to move him even slightly, leaving Luo Jiushang and Lin Xiuxiang stunned by his confidence.

• Lin Xiuxiang tried to hug and tease Luo Jiushang, who told her Li Zhōujūn was his friend and that he was fighting King Senluo.
• King Senluo recognized Li Zhōujūn’s strength and summoned the Senluo Death Prison, filled with the souls of enemies he had killed.
• Luo Jiushang warned Li Zhōujūn that the attack had once nearly destroyed him and was now far stronger.
• Observers across the Dao Realm saw Li Zhōujūn confronting King Senluo, and the Profound Ghost Celestial Lord abandoned his plan to seek revenge.
• Li Zhōujūn declared that he would stand still and count any movement caused by King Senluo’s attack as his defeat.
• Luo Jiushang and Lin Xiuxiang questioned Li Zhōujūn’s confidence, and Luo Jiushang insisted his old eyes were not failing.

Li Zhōujūn survived King Senluo’s devastating attack unharmed, completed his mission, and gained cultivation to the Sixth-Rank Dao Sect Realm. He left the Senluo Death Domain, while the system assigned him a new mission to visit King Senluo daily until he paid compensation.

• King Senluo’s palace strike crashed down on Li Zhōujūn, but Li Zhōujūn emerged uninjured and astonished the watching experts.
• The system announced Li Zhōujūn had completed his mission and raised his cultivation to the Sixth-Rank Dao Sect Realm, then tasked him with visiting King Senluo every day until he compensated him.
• Li Zhōujūn told King Senluō that their business was not over, then left the Senluo Death Domain instead of continuing the fight.
• King Senluō assumed Li Zhōujūn had been bluffing and returned to his lair, while Luo Jiushang and Lin Xiuxiang asked whether Li Zhōujūn was injured.
• Li Zhōujūn assured Luo Jiushang and Lin Xiuxiang that he was fine, then left.

Li Zhōujūn returned to the Senluo Death Domain and proved he was unharmed, leaving King Senluo terrified by the gap between them. King Senluo turned to a desperate plan involving the evil spirit sealed in the domain and Ye An’s Nether Evil Saint Body.

• King Senluo told Ye An that the Azure Emperor had been seriously wounded and promised to avenge the arm Ye Qi had cut off.
• Li Zhōujūn arrived at the Path of Achievement, denied ever being injured, and withstood King Senluo’s weaker divine ability without harm.
• Li Zhōujūn said he would return the next day, while observers realized he intended to torment King Senluo, who feared he could neither fight nor flee.
• King Senluo revealed that an evil spirit sealed in the Senluo Death Domain empowered him and that Ye An’s Nether Evil Saint Body was suited to possession.
• King Senluo told Ye An she would repay him by undergoing a ritual sacrifice that would let the evil spirit’s power enter her and help him oppose Li Zhōujūn.

King Senluo used Ye An as a vessel to summon a powerful evil spirit, which confronted Li Zhōujūn when he arrived at the Senluo Death Domain. Just as the spirit attacked, Emperor Nian appeared and stopped her, leaving King Senluō’s defeat seemingly imminent.

• King Senluo summoned an evil spirit into Ye An’s body, and the spirit agreed to help him kill Li Zhōujūn.
• Li Zhōujūn arrived at the Senluo Death Domain, where King Senluo and the possessed Ye An confronted him.
• The possessed Ye An attacked Li Zhōujūn with overwhelming power, while the watching cultivators realized King Senluo had made Ye An the spirit’s vessel.
• Emperor Nian arrived and dissolved the attack, revealing himself as a Ninth-Rank Dao Venerable who helped suppress Void Heaven.
• Emperor Nian checked on Li Zhōujūn, and the assembled cultivators were astonished that the two seemed to know each other.

Emperor Nian defeated Ye An and reinforced the seal holding the Black-clothed Woman, then left King Senluo at Li Zhōujūn’s mercy. As the Dao Realm’s experts demanded King Senluo’s death, Master Congyang appeared and killed him herself, leaving Li Zhōujūn to explain his hesitation.

• Emperor Nian annihilated Ye An’s avatar and reinforced the seal around the Black-clothed Woman, saying it should hold for a hundred thousand years.
• Emperor Nian departed after telling Li Zhōujūn to decide King Senluo’s fate, and King Senluo offered Li Zhōujūn his storage ring in exchange for mercy.
• Li Zhōujūn accepted the ring, completed his quest, and advanced to the Seventh-Rank Dao Ancestor Realm, but refused to promise King Senluo would be spared.
• Luo Jiushang and the Dao Realm’s experts demanded King Senluo’s execution for colluding with an evil spirit, while Li Zhōujūn urged him to take his own life.
• Master Congyang appeared and killed King Senluo with a blood-red flower bud at his throat, then rebuked Li Zhōujūn for hesitating.

Three months after King Senluo's death, Li Zhōujūn visited a thousand-yearly trade fair at Treasure Gathering Mountain. Feng Lingxiu identified him as the Azure Emperor and helped him gain entry, where he noticed Ye Qi but avoided getting involved in his feud with the Glazed Jade God Clan.

• Li Zhōujūn declined Luo Jiushang's invitation for drinks and left after Master Congyang vanished.
• Li Zhōujūn learned about the trade fair at Treasure Gathering Mountain and flew there without hearing that visitors needed an invitation or Dao Venerable cultivation.
• The gatekeeper initially asked Li Zhōujūn for an invitation, but Feng Lingxiu recognized him as the Azure Emperor and the gatekeeper welcomed him inside.
• Li Zhōujūn entered the fair with Feng Lingxiu and her companions, then spotted Ye Qi at a stall.
• Li Zhōujūn avoided approaching Ye Qi, said farewell to Feng Lingxiu, and took another road toward the summit.

Old Immortal Pengchi attacked Feng Lingxiu and the Congyang Mountain nuns to seize their Golden Rainbow Grass, but Li Zhōujūn appeared to protect them. When Pengchi refused to back down, the system gave Li Zhōujūn a mission to repel him and promised to raise his cultivation to Ninth-Rank Dao Sect.

• Li Zhōujūn spent the day wandering Treasure Gathering Mountain before Feng Lingxiu led the Congyang Mountain nuns home with the Golden Rainbow Grass.
• Old Immortal Pengchi intercepted the spirit boat and demanded the Golden Rainbow Grass, threatening the nuns when Feng Lingxiu refused.
• Old Immortal Pengchi wounded Ning Xuan with a cold snort and punched through the spirit boat as Feng Lingxiu prepared to surrender the treasure to save her junior sisters.
• Li Zhōujūn appeared before the spirit boat and asked Old Immortal Pengchi to let the matter go, but Pengchi refused and challenged him.
• The system issued Li Zhōujūn a mission to repel Old Immortal Pengchi, with a reward of Ninth-Rank Dao Sect cultivation.