Chapter Summaries

Black Wind Divine Lord and White Wind Divine Lord attacked Purple Mountain Sect to seize Yun Liuyi’s Immortal Realm Mighty Being’s Opportunity and Fortune. Li Zhōujūn intercepted the jade pearl and returned it, saying he had promised to help Yun Liuyi, while the two Divine Lords reconsidered attacking him.

• Black Wind Divine Lord attacked Purple Mountain Sect’s protective array and demanded that Yun Liuyi hand over the Opportunity and Fortune, while White Wind Divine Lord joined him.
• Yun Liuyi gave the jade pearl to the Divine Lords, despite Yun Kuangge warning her that they might not keep their word.
• Li Zhōujūn appeared and caught the jade pearl, then examined it and tossed it back to Yun Liuyi, saying he did not care for it.
• White Wind Divine Lord cautioned Black Wind Divine Lord that Li Zhōujūn might have powerful backing, so Black Wind Divine Lord apologized and asked why he had intervened.
• Li Zhōujūn said he had promised to help Yun Liuyi, and Yun Liuyi felt guilty toward him.

Li Zhōujūn trapped Black Wind Divine Lord and White Wind Divine Lord with his chessboard and forced them to abandon their attempt to seize the Immortal Realm opportunity. Yun Liuyi’s feelings for Chen Tianqing remained uncertain, while Chen Tianqing’s master revealed that he had engineered the meeting to make Yun Liuyi favor him.

• Black Wind Divine Lord and White Wind Divine Lord attacked Li Zhōujūn, who trapped them inside his immovable chessboard.
• Yun Kuangge mistook Yun Liuyi’s embarrassment for affection for Li Zhōujūn and urged her to forget Chen Tianqing.
• Chen Tianqing asked the Black-robed Old Man whether his plan to have Chen Tianqing rescue Yun Liuyi would make her like him, and the old man encouraged him to seek a powerful backer.
• Black Wind Divine Lord admitted defeat, and Li Zhōujūn released him and White Wind Divine Lord.
• White Wind Divine Lord persuaded Black Wind Divine Lord to abandon the Immortal Realm opportunity and value the lives they had kept.

After leaving Purple Mountain Sect with a map of Eternal Heaven, Li Zhōujūn fell asleep in a lakeside pavilion and woke to find an armed child staring at him. The child was the Little Killing God, whose recent slaughter of Great Emperor Beiyao had alarmed the Northern Continent.

• Yun Kuangge and Yun Liuyi thanked Li Zhōujūn for saving them, and Li Zhōujūn declared their grudges settled.
• Yun Kuangge gave Li Zhōujūn a map of Eternal Heaven, and Li Zhōujūn left Purple Mountain Sect.
• Yun Kuangge urged Yun Liuyi to pursue Li Zhōujūn, but she affirmed that she still liked Chen Tianqing, and Yun Kuangge opposed their relationship.
• Li Zhōujūn studied the map in a lakeside pavilion, then fell asleep as an armored child carrying a White Tassel Spear and a bloody head approached him.
• Powerful divine senses discussed how the Little Killing God had destroyed Great Emperor Beiyao's imperial dynasty, while Yun Kuangge warned Yun Liuyi to keep Purple Mountain Sect's disciples out of trouble.
• Li Zhōujūn woke the next morning to find the Little Killing God staring coldly at him.

Li Zhōujūn defeated Wang Xuan’s attack, and Wang Xuan swore brotherhood with him after recognizing his strength. As Golden Snow Mountain moved against them, the two encountered Chen Tianqing and Yun Liuyi in the mountains.

• Wang Xuan thrust his White Tassel Spear at Li Zhōujūn, but it could not pierce Li Zhōujūn’s skin, and Li Zhōujūn repeatedly smacked him on the head.
• Wang Xuan fled, but Li Zhōujūn chased him; Wang Xuan then set out incense and an altar and acknowledged Li Zhōujūn as his big brother, completing the system mission and earning cultivation at the first level of the Great Sun Realm.
• Wang Xuan explained that he had vowed to become the big brother of anyone who defeated him, and he promised to follow Li Zhōujūn until he could surpass him.
• At Golden Snow Mountain, True Lord Taiyun and True Lord Taixian ordered True Lord Tailing to erase Wang Xuan’s consciousness and turn Li Zhōujūn into a killing puppet.
• Wang Xuan followed Li Zhōujūn through a mountain range, where they met Chen Tianqing; Wang Xuan sensed the Black-robed Old Man within him and recalled hearing him plot against Yun Liuyi.
• Yun Liuyi arrived and warned Chen Tianqing that the Little Killing God Wang Xuan had come and had slain Great Emperor Beiyao.

Wang Xuan revealed that he was the Little Killing God and exposed Chen Tianqing and Old Man Heavenly Eagle’s plot against Yun Liuyi. He killed Old Man Heavenly Eagle, while Yun Liuyi rejected Chen Tianqing’s attempt to shift the blame.

• Yun Liuyi warned Chen Tianqing and Li Zhōujūn about the Little Killing God, and Wang Xuan revealed himself by unleashing his Third Tribulation of the Immortal Realm aura.
• Wang Xuan told Yun Liuyi that Chen Tianqing had plotted against her with the remnant soul inside him, then used his power to pull Old Man Heavenly Eagle out of Chen Tianqing’s body.
• Yun Liuyi recognized Old Man Heavenly Eagle as the person who had ambushed her and realized that Chen Tianqing and his master had arranged both her injury and her rescue.
• Old Man Heavenly Eagle asked Wang Xuan to spare him, but Chen Tianqing provoked Wang Xuan by threatening to kill him someday if his master was harmed.
• Wang Xuan destroyed Old Man Heavenly Eagle’s remnant soul with a punch, and Yun Liuyi refused to rescue Chen Tianqing or accept his attempt to blame his master.

Yun Liuyi rejected Chen Tianqing, but True Lord Tailing arrived to seize control of Wang Xuan and attack Li Zhōujūn. Li Zhōujūn blocked his strike and revealed strength on par with the Immortal Realm Seventh Tribulation, while True Lord Tailing’s next attack drew the attention of Eternal Heaven’s old monsters.

• Yun Liuyi refused to save Chen Tianqing, who bitterly regretted not killing her earlier.
• True Lord Tailing appeared, declared he had cultivated Wang Xuan to serve Golden Snow Mountain, and threatened to erase his intelligence.
• Li Zhōujūn stepped forward to protect Wang Xuan, and his system issued a mission to show True Lord Tailing his might.
• True Lord Tailing attacked Li Zhōujūn and Wang Xuan, but Li Zhōujūn stopped his hand with a wave of his sleeve.
• True Lord Tailing unleashed sword formations carried by whirlwinds against Li Zhōujūn, drawing the attention of Eternal Heaven’s old monsters.

Li Zhōujūn stopped True Lord Tailing from attacking Wang Xuan and revealed his identity as the Azure Emperor, while Yun Liuyi killed Chen Tianqing after he threatened her. True Lord Tailing returned to Golden Snow Mountain and learned that the mysterious thing beneath it was stirring.

• Li Zhōujūn froze True Lord Tailing's hurricane technique, forcing True Lord Tailing to withdraw while vowing that Golden Snow Mountain would seek revenge.
• Li Zhōujūn revealed that he had ascended from the lower realm and was also known as the Azure Emperor, then received a mission-completion notification and reached the Great Sun Realm Third Level.
• A White-robed Woman in Central Continent took interest in the Azure Emperor after hearing that he came from the lower realm.
• Wang Xuan confronted Chen Tianqing, and Yun Liuyi killed Chen Tianqing after he threatened to enslave the women in her Household.
• True Lord Tailing questioned True Lord Taiyun and True Lord Taixian about not helping him, and they explained that the thing beneath Golden Snow Mountain was stirring.

True Lord Taixian, True Lord Taiyun, and True Lord Tailing completed the Fire Gold Divine Lord, while Li Zhōujūn sent Wang Xuan on his way with a life-saving stone. Wang Xuan headed to the Morning God Clan to capture divine chickens for Li Zhōujūn, but the clan shut its gates and sent Si Chenmie to seek help from Great Emperor Xuewu.

• True Lord Tailing proposed testing the newly completed Fire Gold Divine Lord against the Azure Emperor, but True Lord Taixian said they should observe it first.
• Li Zhōujūn traveled with Wang Xuan, who finally left after growing tired of eating roast chicken every day.
• Li Zhōujūn gave Wang Xuan a stone containing a projection of his avatar, and Wang Xuan decided to capture divine chickens from the Morning God Clan for him.
• The Morning God Clan refused to open its protective formation when Wang Xuan arrived, insisting that he only wanted to make friends.
• Si Chenwang sent Si Chenmie through a secret exit to invite Great Emperor Xuewu to help the clan.

Si Chenmie sought Great Emperor Xuewu’s help against Wang Xuan’s challenge to the Morning God Clan and received a blood-red umbrella. When Wang Xuan mocked Great Emperor Xuewu, the umbrella unfurled and she confronted him.

• Si Chenmie arrived at the Martial God Hall and discovered that Si Chenyao had joined Great Emperor Xuewu’s tutelage.
• Si Chenmie asked Great Emperor Xuewu for help against Wang Xuan, and Great Emperor Xuewu gave him a blood-red umbrella to use against Wang Xuan.
• Si Chenmie returned to the Morning God Clan, where Wang Xuan had been waiting outside its protective formation.
• Si Chenmie warned Wang Xuan to leave and displayed the umbrella, prompting Si Chenwang and the clan elders to emerge from the formation.
• Wang Xuan mocked Great Emperor Xuewu, causing the umbrella to fly open as Great Emperor Xuewu’s voice challenged him.

Wang Xuan summoned Li Zhōujūn’s clone to stop Great Emperor Xuewu from attacking him, and the two sides reached a truce over the Morning God Clan. After Li Zhōujūn took Wang Xuan away, he revealed that his true body was in the Northern Continent’s dangerous Drowning God Abyss.

• Great Emperor Xuewu sent a restrained bolt of blood-red lightning at Wang Xuan, who summoned Li Zhōujūn’s clone with the stone he had been given.
• Li Zhōujūn’s clone blocked the lightning, and Great Emperor Xuewu recognized him as the Azure Emperor while Si Chenmie explained his reputation to the Morning God Clan.
• Wang Xuan claimed he had wanted to catch divine chickens for Li Zhōujūn, alarming the Morning God Clan, while Great Emperor Xuewu said the clan was under her protection because Si Chenyao had become her disciple.
• Li Zhōujūn and Great Emperor Xuewu agreed to let the dispute end, and Li Zhōujūn took Wang Xuan away after their clones matched strength.
• Li Zhōujūn recalled Great Emperor Xuewu’s name, and Wang Xuan explained her history with Great Emperor Luoshui before joking about arranging a marriage.
• Li Zhōujūn told Wang Xuan that his true body was in the Drowning God Abyss, and Wang Xuan warned him about the Forbidden Land but refused to go looking for him.

Li Zhōujūn fished beside the Drowning God Abyss, where Great Emperor Luoshui revealed the danger lay underwater and agreed to investigate with him. When they entered the abyss, the man inside the Golden Coffin sent the lizard-like monster to attack them and claim their heart blood essence.

• Li Zhōujūn fished safely at the shore while a lizard-like monster and a man inside a Golden Coffin waited beneath the abyss among the corpses of powerful cultivators.
• Great Emperor Luoshui joined Li Zhōujūn and told him that Immortal Realm cultivators had entered the abyss seeking a connection to eternity, but none had returned.
• The system gave Li Zhōujūn a mission to enter the Drowning God Abyss and uncover its truth, with a cultivation reward.
• Great Emperor Luoshui tested Li Zhōujūn's strength and explained that an Immortal Realm Ninth Tribulation cultivator had escaped the abyss after losing a leg.
• Li Zhōujūn entered the water, followed by Great Emperor Luoshui, and the man in the Golden Coffin ordered the lizard-like monster to attack them and take their heart blood essence.

Li Zhōujūn and Great Emperor Luoshui descended to the bottom of the Drowning God Abyss, where they confronted the Black Water Lizard and discovered a palace filled with corpses and strange statues. They met the unseen master within a Golden Coffin, whose lid began to open as their conversation continued.

• A Black Water Lizard ambushed Li Zhōujūn, but he matched its strength and grabbed it after it failed to drag him down.
• Great Emperor Luoshui's water swords could not harm the lizard, and a deep male voice revealed it was only his chess piece.
• Li Zhōujūn released the lizard and, with Great Emperor Luoshui, followed the voice deeper into the abyss.
• They found a palace, a forest of Immortal Realm corpses, and a Golden Coffin surrounded by statues.
• The voice from the Golden Coffin explained the statues, and the coffin's lid began to open.

Li Zhōujūn fought the Golden Corpse Emperor at the bottom of the Drowning God Abyss and proved impossible to injure, then learned about the Forbidden Zone of Eternal Heaven. The Golden Corpse Emperor explained that he had been hidden there after offending his sect master’s daughter and reflected on how powerless he had been against his Household.

• The white-haired middle-aged man emerged from the Golden Coffin and attacked Li Zhōujūn to keep him from leaving and putting his rescuer in danger.
• Li Zhōujūn stopped the man’s attacks, while Great Emperor Luoshui and the Black Water Lizard watched in alarm.
• The man transformed into the Golden Corpse Emperor and unleashed his full strength, but still could not hurt Li Zhōujūn.
• Li Zhōujūn asked about the Forbidden Zone, and the Golden Corpse Emperor explained its dangers and why he had been concealed in the abyss.

Li Zhōujūn left the Drowning God Abyss after completing his mission, while Great Emperor Luoshui promised to handle Golden Snow Mountain’s threat and warned them against attacking the Azure Emperor. As Li Zhōujūn departed the mountain range, he encountered an arrogant woman and a burly man.

• Li Zhōujūn left the Drowning God Abyss with Great Emperor Luoshui after breaking through to the Great Sun Realm Seventh Level.
• Wang Xuan arrived, joked that Li Zhōujūn had won Great Emperor Luoshui over, then vanished when Li Zhōujūn offered him roast chicken.
• Great Emperor Luoshui confronted the three True Lords of Golden Snow Mountain, revealed her Immortal Realm Ninth Tribulation strength, and ordered them not to attack the Azure Emperor.
• The three True Lords of Golden Snow Mountain accepted Great Emperor Luoshui’s warning and decided to leave the Azure Emperor alone.
• Li Zhōujūn encountered an arrogant woman and a burly man as he left the mountain range, and the woman ordered him to stop.

Li Zhōujūn faced Gu Jingxiang and Lei Dahan after Gu Jingxiang accused him of being connected to Yan Jin. The Golden Corpse Emperor emerged from the Drowning God Abyss, and the system gave Li Zhōujūn a mission to make Gu Jingxiang wary of him.

• Gu Jingxiang ordered Lei Dahan to kill Li Zhōujūn, but Li Zhōujūn dodged his attacks and blocked his divine ability.
• Gu Jingxiang identified herself as the Hidden Immortal Sect’s Young Sect Master and demanded that Li Zhōujūn explain his connection to Yan Jin.
• The Golden Corpse Emperor emerged from the Drowning God Abyss and demanded to know what Gu Jingxiang had done to Elder Weng.
• Lei Dahan revealed that the sect master had soul-searched Elder Weng to discover where the Golden Corpse Emperor was hiding.
• Gu Jingxiang justified protecting Zhao Wuhua because of the Southern Domain Zhao Family and declared that both the Golden Corpse Emperor and Li Zhōujūn would die.
• The system issued Li Zhōujūn a mission to make Gu Jingxiang wary of him, promising a breakthrough to the Immortal Realm First Tribulation as a reward.

Li Zhōujūn protected the Golden Corpse Emperor from Gu Jingxiang and Gu Baide, then traveled alone to the Forbidden Zone to complete his task. He entered through a gate in the Central Continent’s frozen polar region and continued deeper inside.

• Gu Jingxiang summoned her father, Gu Baide, with a jade slip and demanded that he kill the Golden Corpse Emperor and Li Zhōujūn.
• Li Zhōujūn blocked Gu Baide’s clone with a finger, revealing strength at least at the Eternity Sixth Stage, and vowed to protect the Golden Corpse Emperor.
• Gu Baide withdrew with Gu Jingxiang and Lei Dahan, while the Golden Corpse Emperor thanked Li Zhōujūn and vowed to return to the Forbidden Zone to grow stronger.
• Li Zhōujūn set off alone for the Central Continent to find the Hidden Immortal Sect and complete his task.
• After months of travel through the frozen polar region, Li Zhōujūn entered a gate between two mountains and found the Forbidden Zone’s spiritual energy much denser.

Li Zhōujūn crossed into the Eternal Continent, where Zhou Éqīng of Wǔchéng Mountain rescued him from a Mountain Devouring Demon Lord clone and offered to guide him through the Géhuāng Mountain Range. Traveling with Zhou Éqīng and her junior disciples, he learned that the Hidden Immortal Sect’s Gu Jingxiang had recently been driven back after seeking him in the Barbaric Land, while Zhou Éqīng began to suspect Li Zhōujūn’s connection to the story.

• Li Zhōujūn reached the boundary between the snowy region and the spring-filled mountains, where a Mountain Devouring Demon Lord clone attacked him with spiritual force and divine might.
• A flying sword from Zhou Éqīng dissolved the goat’s attack, and the clone retreated into the earth; Zhou Éqīng emerged and explained that the creature was one of the demon lord’s scattered clones.
• Zhou Éqīng explained that the region was the Eternal Continent and offered to escort Li Zhōujūn through the dangerous Géhuāng Mountain Range.
• Zhou Éqīng’s fellow disciples Zhū Miàoyuàn and Chén Màogē joined them, and Li Zhōujūn learned that Zhou Éqīng was at the Eternal Fourth Stage while the other two were at the Eternal Third Stage.
• Zhū Miàoyuàn told Li Zhōujūn that Gu Jingxiang had gone to the Barbaric Land to support the Southern Domain Zhao Family’s Young Master but had been driven back to the Hidden Immortal Sect by a Great Expert Wandering the Seas.
• Zhou Éqīng looked at Li Zhōujūn suspiciously, seeming to suspect he was connected to Gu Jingxiang’s failed trip.

After reaching the Southern Domain, Li Zhōujūn traveled toward the Hidden Immortal Sect and stopped at an abandoned inn, where he encountered You Daoren, a thief pursued by the Reincarnation Pavilion. Li Zhōujūn exposed You Daoren’s attempt to bluff his pursuer, leaving the old man in trouble with Cháng Yì.

• Li Zhōujūn parted ways with Zhōu Éqīng, Zhū Miàoyuàn, and Chén Màogē, bought a map in Chónghú City, and set out for the Hidden Immortal Sect.
• At an abandoned inn, Li Zhōujūn roasted a chicken while a cloaked old man watched, then pretended to sleep as the stranger prepared to leave.
• Li Zhōujūn insisted the old man take back his cloak, and the old man discovered he could not push it away from him.
• Cháng Yì arrived and accused the old man of stealing the Reincarnation Pavilion’s Priceless Treasure; the old man identified himself as You Daoren and claimed an untouchable backer supported him.
• Li Zhōujūn questioned why such a powerful backer would need You Daoren to steal, undermining his bluff and revealing that Li Zhōujūn was getting even for You Daoren’s earlier attempt to frame him.

Li Zhōujūn helped Cháng Yì capture You Daoren, who had stolen treasures from a Reincarnation Pavilion branch, and then continued to the Hidden Immortal Sect. At the sect gate, Cháng Yì arrived and made its disciples realize Li Zhōujūn was his friend.

• Cháng Yì attacked You Daoren, who escaped the blow with a substitute technique and struck at Li Zhōujūn from behind.
• Li Zhōujūn seized You Daoren and held him still while Cháng Yì searched his soul, then Cháng Yì took the incapacitated thief away.
• Cháng Yì promised Li Zhōujūn a top-grade Eternal Realm Seventh Order pill as a reward, but Li Zhōujūn declined to arrange a meeting.
• At the Hidden Immortal Sect, Gu Baide worried about the young man in blue while Gu Jingxiang spoke of her relationship with Young Master Zhao.
• Li Zhōujūn arrived at the sect gate, where Cháng Yì appeared and told the gatekeeping disciples that Li Zhōujūn was his friend.

Li Zhōujūn visited the Hidden Immortal Sect to speak with its Sect Master and Young Sect Master, while Cháng Yì repaid him for helping capture You Daoren. Gu Baide and Gu Jingxiang recognized Li Zhōujūn as an enemy, and Cháng Yì stood beside him despite the risk of angering Zhao Wuhua.

• Cháng Yì gave Li Zhōujūn the promised pills and learned he had come to speak with the Hidden Immortal Sect's leaders.
• He Jixiong mistook Li Zhōujūn for an Eternal Realm Seventh Order powerhouse and hurried to tell Gu Baide and Gu Jingxiang he was waiting outside.
• Gu Baide and Gu Jingxiang arrived at the side hall, recognized Li Zhōujūn, and accused him of being their enemy.
• Gu Jingxiang said Zhao Wuhua would resent them for returning from the Barbaric Land empty-handed and urged her father not to let Li Zhōujūn leave.
• Cháng Yì appeared behind Li Zhōujūn and challenged Gu Baide and Gu Jingxiang for insulting him.