Chapter Summaries

Li Zhōujūn rescued Chu Gecqing from Chu Shengduan and pursued the Seventh-Rank Dao Master for three days, insisting he owed him a roast chicken. After collecting the chicken and a map back to Tianhai Academy, Li Zhōujūn set out along Chu Shengduan’s suspicious route, unaware it passed the home of a dangerous Eighth-Rank Dao Master.

• Li Zhōujūn mocked Chu Shengduan over the missing roast chicken until Chu Shengduan spat blood, dispersed his avatars, and fled.
• Chu Gecqing returned to the Tianhai Mountain Range, then left to warn her father that Chu Shengduan was plotting trouble.
• After chasing Chu Shengduan for three days, Li Zhōujūn stopped when Chu Shengduan agreed to roast him a chicken.
• Li Zhōujūn complained that the chicken was over-roasted, then returned to ask Chu Shengduan for directions back to Tianhai Academy.
• Chu Shengduan gave Li Zhōujūn a map whose route passed a madman’s home, hoping the Eighth-Rank Dao Master would kill him.
• Li Zhōujūn suspected the route was dangerous but chose to follow it, confident in Fifty-Fifty.

Li Zhōujūn followed Chu Shengduan’s map to a road guarded by the injured Eighth-Rank Dao Master Zhang Ziqiang. After Zhang’s punch failed to harm him, Li Zhōujūn turned to leave, but Zhang chased after him, eager to test his physical strength.

• Chu Shengduan gave Li Zhōujūn a false map, then followed him to witness his downfall before returning to the Chu Family.
• After three days of following Li Zhōujūn, Chu Shengduan watched him stop to roast and eat another chicken.
• Li Zhōujūn spotted the lone thatched hut and met Zhang Ziqiang, who claimed the road as his own and demanded a fight.
• Zhang Ziqiang attacked Li Zhōujūn with a powerful punch, but Li Zhōujūn remained unharmed.
• Li Zhōujūn turned away, and Zhang Ziqiang shouted for him not to leave and chased after him.

Li Zhōujūn left Zhang Ziqiang’s hut after Zhang insisted on becoming his disciple, while Chu Shengduan was forced to help Zhang temper his body. Elsewhere, Li Menglan and her two friends were stopped on the road to Tianhai Academy by the Fourth-Rank Dao Master Black Crow Lord, who demanded their World Condensation Drops.

• Zhang Ziqiang mistook Li Zhōujūn’s toughness for a cultivation method and repeatedly insisted that Li was his master.
• Li Zhōujūn left the hut, and Zhang ordered Chu Shengduan to punch his chest to help train his body.
• Li Zhōujūn saw Chu Shengduan pounding Zhang and reflected that Chu’s scheme had backfired.
• Li Menglan traveled toward Tianhai Academy with Hu Manrong and Nan Sisi, her fellow Second-Rank Dao Masters.
• Black Crow Lord blocked the three travelers and demanded their World Condensation Drops, revealing that he was a Fourth-Rank Dao Master.

Li Zhōujūn arrived just as Black Crow Lord was demanding the World Condensation Drops from Li Menglan and her friends, then sent the Fourth-Rank Dao Master flying with a kick. After reuniting with Li Menglan and meeting Nan Sisi and Hu Manrong, he learned they were heading to Tianhai Academy and considered the academy’s future danger.

• Li Menglan, Nan Sisi, and Hu Manrong reluctantly discussed handing over their World Condensation Drops to Black Crow Lord, who threatened to kill them if they refused.
• Li Zhōujūn arrived, and Black Crow Lord demanded that he hand over his valuables too.
• Li Zhōujūn gave Black Crow Lord three seconds to leave, then grabbed him and kicked him flying into the distance.
• Li Zhōujūn told Li Menglan that he was a Fourth-Rank Dao Master, and Nan Sisi and Hu Manrong greeted him as a senior before he invited them to call him by name.
• Li Menglan explained that they were on their way to Tianhai Academy, and Li Zhōujūn thought about the disaster that might threaten it three years later.

Li Zhōujūn traveled to Tianhai Academy with Li Menglan, Nan Sisi, and Hu Manrong, where Chu Gecqing welcomed him and invited him to dinner. He arranged for his companions to take the regular entrance examination and then returned to his courtyard to fish.

• Li Zhōujūn told Li Menglan that he was an elder of Tianhai Academy, and she refused to use his position to gain special admission for herself or her friends.
• On the journey, Nan Sisi asked how Li Menglan had met Li Zhōujūn, while Hu Manrong felt jealous as the women talked about him.
• Near Tianhai Academy, Chu Gecqing appeared and invited Li Zhōujūn to a meal, but he initially refused until she mentioned the roasted chicken she had studied making.
• Li Zhōujūn asked Chu Gecqing to help Li Menglan, Nan Sisi, and Hu Manrong take the normal entrance examination, and she agreed.
• Li Menglan urged Li Zhōujūn to seize his chance with Chu Gecqing, then Chu took the three prospective students away while Li Zhōujūn returned to his courtyard to fish.

After three years of peaceful fishing and eating Chu Gecqing’s roast chicken, Li Zhōujūn learned that the secret realm’s opening threatened everyone at Tianhai Academy. Chu Gecqing urged him to flee before the Eighth-Rank Dao Masters sacrificed the academy, while Li Zhōujūn’s system tasked him with protecting it.

• Li Zhōujūn visited Chu Gecqing, enjoyed her unusual roast chicken, and declined her offer to join forces with the Chu Family for the secret realm.
• Three years passed as Li Zhōujūn continued fishing and living at ease while Chu Zhenjia and other powerful figures gathered in secret around Tianhai Academy.
• The system assigned Li Zhōujūn a mission to protect Tianhai Academy and promised a breakthrough to the Seventh-Rank Dao Master realm if he succeeded.
• Chu Gecqing found Li Zhōujūn fishing and told him the secret realm could only be entered by sacrificing an Eighth-Rank Dao Master or the entire Tianhai Academy.
• Chu Gecqing urged Li Zhōujūn to gather his friends and escape before the academy was sacrificed.

Li Zhōujūn stayed at Tianhai Academy as powerful figures gathered around a secret realm, and he warned them not to attack the academy. When the Palm Fire Divine Lord threatened to sacrifice it, Zhang Ziqiang appeared, struck him, and knelt before Li Zhōujūn as his disciple.

• Li Zhōujūn refused to leave Tianhai Academy, and Chu Gecqing sat beside him as the academy shook and a rift split its grounds.
• Venerable Tianhai, Zhu Jianbing, and Li Du struggled to understand the upheaval while Chu Zhenjia spotted his daughter and Li Zhōujūn among those inside.
• Li Zhōujūn addressed the hidden experts in the void, allowing them to compete for the secret realm but forbidding them from harming Tianhai Academy.
• The Palm Fire Divine Lord emerged, dismissed Li Zhōujūn's warning, and threatened to sacrifice the academy to open the secret realm.
• Zhang Ziqiang struck the Palm Fire Divine Lord, then went to Li Zhōujūn and bowed, calling him Master as Chu Gecqing watched in shock.

Li Zhōujūn faced a gathering of eighth-grade Dao Masters at Tianhai Academy after Zhang Ziqiang revealed himself as Li’s devoted disciple. The Palm Fire Divine Lord fled after forcing the others out of hiding, while the remaining experts challenged Li’s right to protect the academy.

• Zhang Ziqiang knelt to Li Zhōujūn and declared that he would support his master, though Li denied being his master.
• The Palm Fire Divine Lord challenged Zhang Ziqiang, then unleashed a Sea of Fire to force the hidden eighth-grade Dao Masters to reveal themselves before fleeing.
• Li Zhōujūn counted more than thirty eighth-grade Dao Masters, while Chu Zhenjia urged Chu Gecqing to escape and she stayed near Li.
• Old Man of the Ancient Tomb asked Li Zhōujūn not to risk their lives for Tianhai Academy’s people, and Zhang Ziqiang angrily cursed him.
• Li Zhōujūn quieted Zhang Ziqiang with a gesture as the assembled Dao Masters watched him warily.

Li Zhōujūn blocked the Eighth-Rank Dao Lords from attacking Tianhai Academy, then gave the secret realm to the Chu Family and Zhang Ziqiang. After Zhang Ziqiang killed Old Man of the Ancient Tomb and opened the entrance, Li Zhōujūn challenged the assembled Dao Lords to get past him.

• Old Man of the Ancient Tomb urged the Eighth-Rank Dao Lords to destroy Tianhai Academy, but Chu Zhenjia sided with Li Zhōujūn to protect his daughter, Chu Gecqing.
• Li Zhōujūn announced that he would give the secret realm to the Chu Family and Zhang Ziqiang, who declared that he wanted to fight the Dao Lords to temper himself.
• After Old Man of the Ancient Tomb cursed Li Zhōujūn, Zhang Ziqiang killed him and threw his body into the rift, opening the secret realm's entrance.
• Palm Fire Divine Lord returned and joined the other Dao Lords, who began to prepare to attack Li Zhōujūn.
• Li Zhōujūn invited all the Eighth-Rank Dao Lords to attack him together while he guarded the secret realm.

Li Zhōujūn faced the combined attack of the Eighth-Rank Dao Masters at Tianhai Academy and effortlessly repelled them with a single stone. After catching a fish, he left the attackers stunned, while Zhang Ziqiang warned them to retreat and take the chance his master had given them.

• Palm Fire Divine Lord urged the Eighth-Rank Dao Masters to attack Li Zhōujūn and Zhang Ziqiang together.
• Qingfeng Dao Master, Old Ancestor Yuanshan, Palm Fire Divine Lord, and the other Eighth-Rank Dao Masters launched their divine abilities at Li Zhōujūn.
• Li Zhōujūn flicked a stone that shattered every attack, then pulled a large fish from the pond with his fishing rod.
• The Eighth-Rank Dao Masters wondered whether Li Zhōujūn was a Ninth-Rank Dao Master, while Chu Zhenjia and Chu Gecqing realized how powerful he was.
• Zhang Ziqiang called the attackers ants and told them Li Zhōujūn was sparing them and they should leave.

Li Zhōujūn and Zhang Ziqiang confronted the eighth-grade Dao Masters gathered outside a secret realm, only to discover that Jinmang Dao Master had lured them there as prey. Jinmang Dao Master attacked Zhang Ziqiang, but Li Zhōujūn protected him while Zhang Ziqiang continued mocking their enemy.

• The eighth-grade Dao Masters reconsidered entering the secret realm after Li Zhōujūn demonstrated his strength, but a flash of golden light renewed their desire to enter.
• Jinmang Dao Master emerged from the secret realm and the Dao Masters realized he had planned to refine them into pills to stabilize his unstable ninth-grade realm.
• Li Zhōujūn reassured Chu Gecqing and Chu Zhenjia that he had not known Jinmang Dao Master was hiding inside.
• Jinmang Dao Master demanded an explanation from Li Zhōujūn for ruining his scheme, and Zhang Ziqiang insulted him.
• Jinmang Dao Master tried to crush Zhang Ziqiang with a divine ability, but Li Zhōujūn blocked the attack.
• Zhang Ziqiang continued taunting Jinmang Dao Master, while the eighth-grade Dao Masters admired his audacity.

Jinmang Dao Master attacked Zhang Ziqiang, who deliberately took the blow and appeared to die. Li Zhōujūn revived him with a Shore of Rebirth Flower, and Zhang Ziqiang broke through to the Ninth-Rank Dao Master realm, leaving Jinmang Dao Master looking for a chance to escape.

• Jinmang Dao Master dismissed Zhang Ziqiang’s challenge and unleashed eighteen golden weapons at him.
• Zhang Ziqiang charged into the attack and was pulverized, while Li Zhōujūn let the others believe he had died.
• Li Zhōujūn used a Shore of Rebirth Flower to revive Zhang Ziqiang and help him condense a body at the Ninth-Rank Dao Master realm.
• Jinmang Dao Master tried to attack Zhang Ziqiang during his revival, but Li Zhōujūn blocked him.
• Zhang Ziqiang thanked Li Zhōujūn and said his master cared about him, while Jinmang Dao Master prepared to slip away.
• Palm Fire Divine Lord tearfully told Zhang Ziqiang he was glad he had survived.

Zhang Ziqiang helped drive off Jinmang Dao Master, then left Li Zhōujūn to confront Qingyan Jun and settle an old score. Qingyan Jun immediately smashed him into the ground but waited when they saw he was still alive.

• Palm Fire Divine Lord spoke emotionally to Zhang Ziqiang, who slapped him away just as Jinmang Dao Master launched a surprise attack.
• Zhang Ziqiang took Jinmang Dao Master's flying sword into his chest, absorbed its power, and healed while Jinmang Dao Master fled.
• Li Zhōujūn's missions were completed, advancing his cultivation to the Eighth-Rank Dao Master realm, and Zhang Ziqiang sent the Eighth-Rank Dao Masters away.
• Zhang Ziqiang left Li Zhōujūn and declared he would take revenge on Qingyan Jun, whom Chu Zhenjia identified as the third-ranked of the Main World's top ten Ninth-Rank Dao Masters.
• Qingyan Jun launched Zhang Ziqiang into the air and kicked him into a crater, then waited after seeing he had survived.

Zhang Ziqiang challenged Qingyan Jun and was repeatedly defeated, but Li Zhōujūn arrived and explained that Qingyan Jun had recognized his disciple’s unusual strength and potential. Just as Li Zhōujūn and Zhang Ziqiang prepared to leave, Qinghai King attacked Qingyan Jun and demanded an item, leaving Zhang Ziqiang ready to protect his master.

• Zhang Ziqiang repeatedly fought Qingyan Jun, who defeated him while pointing out his talent and unusual method of strengthening his body through injuries.
• Li Zhōujūn emerged from the void, thanked Qingyan Jun for holding back, and told Zhang Ziqiang to learn from her and stop acting recklessly.
• After Qingyan Jun left, Li Zhōujūn said he and Qingyan Jun were evenly matched, but Qinghai King suddenly sent her crashing back and demanded that she hand over an item.
• Qingyan Jun warned Li Zhōujūn and Zhang Ziqiang to leave, while Qinghai King implied he could use them to threaten her.
• Zhang Ziqiang realized Qinghai King was likely stronger than Li Zhōujūn and told his master to go ahead while he covered him.

Li Zhōujūn faced Qinghai King to protect Qingyan Jun and revealed power equal to his opponent's. Qinghai King trapped them in the Sea King's Dao Domain and attacked again as Li Zhōujūn opened the divine eye on his forehead.

• Li Zhōujūn dismissed Zhang Ziqiang's offer to cover him and challenged Qinghai King to leave or be beaten.
• Qinghai King struck with a giant hand of condensed water, but Li Zhōujūn caught it with a fist powered by jade-colored Dragon Scales and immense vital energy.
• Qinghai King recognized Li Zhōujūn's strength and explained that Qingyan Jun carried a treasure that could help someone escape the Desolate Land before its destruction.
• Zhang Ziqiang taunted Qinghai King, who transported everyone into the Sea King's Dao Domain and declared himself ruler there.
• Qinghai King attacked Li Zhōujūn with streams of water, and Li Zhōujūn opened the divine eye on his forehead as Golden Lightning crackled within it.

Li Zhōujūn fought the Qinghai King inside the Sea King's Dao Domain and forced him to flee. Afterward, Qingyan Jun thanked Li Zhōujūn but remained wary of him, while Zhang Ziqiang continued to provoke everyone.

• Li Zhōujūn used three thousand bolts of Golden Lightning to counter the Qinghai King's water attacks, while Zhang Ziqiang taunted the Qinghai King.
• The Qinghai King intensified his attack, but Li Zhōujūn blocked it effortlessly as the Qinghai King realized he could not win.
• The Qinghai King recalled that he needed the key-like object carried by Qingyan Jun to escape the contracting array and leave the Desolate Land.
• Unable to defeat Li Zhōujūn, the Qinghai King fled into the void, and his Sea King's Dao Domain dispersed.
• Qingyan Jun thanked Li Zhōujūn but stayed wary of him; Li Zhōujūn assured her he did not want her object.
• Zhang Ziqiang teased Qingyan Jun and then insisted to Li Zhōujūn that he would change, prompting Li Zhōujūn to lower his raised hand.

Li Zhōujūn sent Zhang Ziqiang and Qingyan Jun to protect True Man Jiaqian, who was being forced to surrender two divine books. After they drove off his attackers, Qingyan Jun knocked Zhang Ziqiang down and left, while True Man Jiaqian remained bewildered by the reunion.

• Li Zhōujūn tasked Zhang Ziqiang with protecting True Man Jiaqian, and Qingyan Jun joined them when Zhang hesitated.
• Palm Fire Divine Lord threatened to use his Soul-Searching Great Law on True Man Jiaqian to find two hidden divine books.
• Zhang Ziqiang and Qingyan Jun arrived, and Qingyan Jun told True Man Jiaqian that Li Zhōujūn had sent them to save him.
• Zhang Ziqiang ordered the surrounding Dao Masters to leave, then kicked Palm Fire Divine Lord away when he refused to go.
• True Man Jiaqian failed to recognize Zhang Ziqiang, and Qingyan Jun knocked Zhang Ziqiang into the ground before leaving.

Li Zhōujūn’s circle reunited at Tianhai Academy, where Qu Lian'ao was exposed for hiding inside Sun Zixiang and coveting her body and True Man Jiaqian’s divine book. True Man Jiaqian killed Qu Lian'ao after searching her soul, then pledged his life to Li Zhōujūn.

• Zhang Ziqiang brought True Man Jiaqian to Tianhai Academy to see Li Zhōujūn and Sun Zixiang.
• Qu Lian'ao emerged from Sun Zixiang and introduced herself to Li Zhōujūn, while Sun Zixiang realized someone had been hiding inside her.
• True Man Jiaqian reunited with Sun Zixiang and thanked Li Zhōujūn for sending Qingyan Jun and Zhang Ziqiang to save him.
• True Man Jiaqian learned Qu Lian'ao had possessed Sun Zixiang and used soul-searching to uncover her plan to seize Sun Zixiang’s body and steal his divine book.
• True Man Jiaqian scattered Qu Lian'ao’s soul, then pledged his life to Li Zhōujūn.

Li Zhōujūn accepted a system mission to resolve the formation crisis and teleported to the formation’s location, where Qingyan Jun explained that her sect planned to destroy the sealed world. Jun Nance arrived to take Qingyan Jun away and warned Li Zhōujūn that the world would be crushed, leaving Li Zhōujūn intent on protecting it.

• Li Zhōujūn sent True Man Jiaqian and Sun Zixiang off, then told Zhang Ziqiang to cultivate while concealing his plan to confront the formation.
• After Zhang Ziqiang left, Li Zhōujūn asked the system for the formation’s location and teleported to a misty swamp blocked by enormous black chains.
• Qingyan Jun explained that the formation world would soon be destroyed by her sect, which intended to remake it for outside cultivators.
• Jun Nance entered through the chains, insulted the people of the formation world, and declared that his sect would destroy it.
• Li Zhōujūn said he wanted to protect the world, and Jun Nance identified himself as a Hundred-Ranking Disciple of the Myriad Manifestations Supreme Sect before leaving with Qingyan Jun.

Li Zhōujūn escaped the grand array world and met Earth-Tunneling King in the desert, then hired him to lead the way to the Myriad Manifestations Supreme Sect. Myriad Manifestations Emperor noticed the array had been breached and set out, while Earth-Tunneling King remained unaware that the sect master might be coming.

• Qingyan Jun left the grand array world with Jun Nance, but Li Zhōujūn stayed behind, left a clone, and used Method of Array Breaking and Shuttle to escape.
• Li Zhōujūn encountered Earth-Tunneling King in the desert and told him he had come out from inside the grand array world.
• Earth-Tunneling King explained that escaping the array should require Dao Emperor Realm cultivation, then speculated Li Zhōujūn was searching for a treasure.
• Li Zhōujūn used Fifty-Fifty to take half of Earth-Tunneling King's wealth and paid him to lead the way to the Myriad Manifestations Supreme Sect.
• Myriad Manifestations Emperor sensed that someone had forced open his array and left the sect to investigate.
• As Li Zhōujūn followed Earth-Tunneling King toward the sect, Earth-Tunneling King kept doubting that Li Zhōujūn had truly escaped the array.