Chapter Summaries

Li Zhōujūn obtained the Virtual-Real Fire, rejected Virtual-Real Sage’s offer to become his disciple, and returned to the Reincarnation Pavilion to give the fire to Gu Zhiyi. Meanwhile, Ghost Medicine Old Daoist threatened Black Flame Demon Emperor with becoming a test subject unless he accepted a dangerous plan.

• Black Flame Demon Emperor killed Han Changkong, and Li Zhōujūn claimed the Virtual-Real Fire before the other Eternal Ninth Stages were expelled from the realm.
• Virtual-Real Sage offered to take Li Zhōujūn as his disciple, but Li Zhōujūn refused and left through a door back to the Reincarnation Pavilion.
• Gu Zhiyi thanked Li Zhōujūn for obtaining the Virtual-Real Fire, gave him ninety-nine Divine Pills, and welcomed him with a whole-chicken feast.
• Ghost Medicine Old Daoist rebuked Black Flame Demon Emperor for failing to obtain the fire and threatened to make him a test subject.
• Ghost Medicine Old Daoist offered to help Black Flame Demon Emperor reach the Eternal Tenth Stage while placing him under control, then ordered him to accept an unspecified task.

Li Zhōujūn reached the Central Region and advanced to Eternal Eighth Stage, while Ghost Medicine Old Daoist forced the newly advanced Black Flame Demon Emperor to capture the Azure Emperor. On his travels, Li Zhōujūn encountered two sparring disciples and their suspicious White-robed Woman master, who apologized after attacking him.

• Li Zhōujūn traveled to the Central Region, checked in, and gained Eternal Eighth Stage cultivation.
• The Black Flame Demon Emperor reached Eternal Tenth Stage, but Ghost Medicine Old Daoist used a technique to keep him under control.
• Ghost Medicine Old Daoist ordered the Black Flame Demon Emperor to capture the Azure Emperor so he could refine him into a pill; the Black Flame Demon Emperor agreed while secretly vowing to kill Ghost Medicine Old Daoist if he found an opening.
• While walking through the Central Region, Li Zhōujūn watched Ōuyáng Lièlóng and Chǔ Běimò spar and praised Ōuyáng Lièlóng's spear technique.
• The White-robed Woman attacked Li Zhōujūn, then shielded her disciples until they explained he had done nothing wrong.
• The White-robed Woman apologized to Li Zhōujūn and offered to make amends.

Li Zhōujūn asked Mi Xuěyuán to guide him to Sunken Moon Valley, while the Virtual-Real Sage waited there and spoke with Qin Tianyi about the Azure Emperor and the buried history of Louyue Kingdom. Qin Tianyi disappeared after asking the Virtual-Real Sage to protect Li Zhōujūn without revealing his existence.

• Li Zhōujūn asked Mi Xuěyuán to take him to Sunken Moon Valley, and she agreed to guide him despite warning that visitors had to pass a trial.
• At Sunken Moon Valley, the Virtual-Real Sage decided to wait for Li Zhōujūn and hoped to persuade him to become his disciple.
• Qin Tianyi appeared and warned the Virtual-Real Sage not to seek the Azure Emperor as a disciple, revealing that the Azure Emperor was his junior.
• The Virtual-Real Sage explained that a Demon God's remnant soul had eroded his body, and Qin Tianyi urged him to protect Li Zhōujūn while keeping Qin's existence secret.
• Qin Tianyi explained that Lou Zhangyun had destroyed Louyue Kingdom to thwart the Twelve Demon Gods, and that Qin had split the last surviving Demon God into fragments and suppressed them.
• Qin Tianyi's fading incarnation disappeared, and the Virtual-Real Sage promised to protect the Azure Emperor.

Li Zhōujūn traveled with Mi Xuěyuán and her disciples while Yan Shifu emerged from seclusion and pursued them on Guo Rongyin’s orders. Yan Shifu confronted Mi Xuěyuán by a stream, demanding information about Louyue Ancient Kingdom, as Li Zhōujūn fished nearby.

• Mi Xuěyuán led Li Zhōujūn and her two disciples along remote routes toward Sunken Moon Valley.
• Guo Rongyin asked Yan Shifu to retrieve the item Mi Xuěyuán had taken, and Yan Shifu revealed that a man in azure had overwhelmed every peer in the Virtual-Real Realm.
• Yan Shifu left to pursue Mi Xuěyuán after receiving information about her whereabouts.
• Mi Xuěyuán explained that Night Cold Palace had destroyed Returning Egret Sect while searching for a safe route to Louyue Ancient Kingdom, though the sect had no such map.
• Yan Shifu confronted Mi Xuěyuán and her disciples beside a stream and threatened to take the information herself.

Yan Shifu fled when Li Zhōujūn appeared, saving Mi Xuěyuán and her disciples, then told Guo Rongyin that the Azure Emperor had defeated a host of powerful cultivators in the Virtual-Real Realm. The Virtual-Real Sage warned Guo Rongyin not to harm the Azure Emperor, leaving her furious and unable to act against him directly.

• Yan Shifu trapped Mi Xuěyuán, Ōuyáng Lièlóng, and Chǔ Běimò, but fled as soon as she heard Li Zhōujūn’s voice.
• Mi Xuěyuán and her disciples thanked Li Zhōujūn, then continued with him toward Sunken Moon Valley.
• Yan Shifu returned to the Night Cold Palace and told Guo Rongyin that she and more than ninety Eternal Ninth Stage cultivators had failed to defeat the Azure Emperor in the Virtual-Real Realm.
• The Virtual-Real Sage appeared and warned Guo Rongyin not to harm the Azure Emperor, threatening to blockade the Night Cold Palace if she did.
• Guo Rongyin considered using someone else to target the Azure Emperor, but the Virtual-Real Sage returned and warned that he would hold her responsible regardless of who acted.

Li Zhōujūn reached Sunken Moon Valley, where its spirit guardian had secretly been ordered by the Virtual-Real Sage to let him enter. After the guardian punished a group from the Huá Yuè Sect, he welcomed Li Zhōujūn and warned him to avoid the valley’s dangerous residents.

• Mi Xuěyuán and her disciples thanked Li Zhōujūn for saving them from Yan Shifu, then parted ways with him near Sunken Moon Valley.
• The Virtual-Real Sage ordered the valley’s spirit guardian to admit Li Zhōujūn and let him stay in the eastern area, while keeping the Sage’s involvement secret.
• Yue Tēngjiāng and the Huá Yuè Sect disciples arrived and asked Li Zhōujūn about the trial, then Yue Tēngjiāng was slapped into the ground by the guardian.
• Chényuè introduced himself as the spirit of Sunken Moon Valley, let Li Zhōujūn enter, and warned him to stay away from the valley’s western, northern, and southern areas.

Li Zhōujūn settled into Sunken Moon Valley, where he met its powerful residents and spent months fishing and roasting chicken. Xue Zhi warned him to stop roasting chicken, and the black-robed old woman in the north prepared to teach him a lesson.

• Chen Yue brought Li Zhōujūn into Sunken Moon Valley, introduced him to Xue Zhi and the two Eternal Eleventh Stage residents, and assigned him a residence by the lake.
• Li Zhōujūn began fishing on the eastern shore as Xie Tiansheng emerged from an explosion in the south, and Chen Yue repaired the damage after Xie Tiansheng promised him Divine Pills.
• After several months, Xue Zhi asked Li Zhōujūn why he kept fishing without catching anything, then warned him against roasting chicken so often in the valley.
• The black-robed old woman in the north, whose feet resembled chicken claws, grew angry at Li Zhōujūn for roasting several chickens a day and produced a feather to attack him.

Li Zhōujūn’s chicken roasting angered Old Mother Angshan, but the Virtual-Real Sage protected him and drove her away. Afterward, Li Zhōujūn learned the Sage’s injury came from a Demon God Remnant Soul and offered to find a cure, while the Sage avoided discussing the fishing rod.

• Sunken Moon warned Li Zhōujūn that roasting a chicken near Old Mother Angshan, a black hen, would provoke her, just as her feather flew at him.
• The Virtual-Real Sage stopped the feather and fought off Old Mother Angshan when she attacked Li Zhōujūn; she left after learning his name.
• The Virtual-Real Sage revealed that a Demon God Remnant Soul at the Eternal Twelfth Stage had injured him, and Li Zhōujūn promised to seek a way to heal him.
• When Li Zhōujūn brought up the fishing rod, the Virtual-Real Sage sent him away, leaving Li Zhōujūn to wonder if giving it to him mattered.

Li Zhōujūn learned from Xue Zhi about the Eternal Twelfth Stage Emperor Fúmèng and the Boundless Thunder Domain, then used the system to teleport there. He arrived as Emperor Fúmèng confronted a Demon God Abyss figure and prepared to fight.

• Li Zhōujūn asked Xue Zhi whether Eternal Twelfth Stage cultivators existed beyond the Eternal Continent, and she told him about Emperor Fúmèng and the Boundless Thunder Domain.
• Li Zhōujūn left Sunken Moon Valley after writing a letter promising to find a way to treat the Virtual-Real Sage.
• The Virtual-Real Sage read the letter, learned from Xue Zhi where Li Zhōujūn might have gone, and set out to search for him.
• Li Zhōujūn asked the system to teleport him to the Boundless Thunder Domain, and the system sent him there.
• Emperor Fúmèng challenged a Demon God Abyss figure, boasting that he would shatter its Thirteenth Seat.

Li Zhōujūn rescued Emperor Fúmèng from the Thirteenth Seat and matched the demon’s power, forcing him to withdraw. Afterward, Fúmèng agreed to Li Zhōujūn’s request, while the Virtual-Real Sage hurried to find the Boundless Thunder Domain.

• Emperor Fúmèng attacked the Thirteenth Seat, but the demon swallowed his lightning and sent him crashing toward the Boundless Thunder Domain.
• Li Zhōujūn appeared, steadied Fúmèng, and introduced himself before the Thirteenth Seat.
• The Thirteenth Seat created black spheres to attack Li Zhōujūn and Fúmèng, but Li Zhōujūn halted them by matching the demon’s cultivation.
• The Thirteenth Seat recognized Li Zhōujūn as a hidden expert, then withdrew his power and vanished.
• Fúmèng thanked Li Zhōujūn, agreed to his request, and invited him to drink for three days and nights.
• The Virtual-Real Sage searched for the Boundless Thunder Domain while praying Li Zhōujūn would survive.

Li Zhōujūn brought the Virtual-Real Sage to Emperor Fúmèng so he could remove the Demon God Remnant Soul's power from the Sage’s body. After the Sage drank himself unconscious, Li Zhōujūn left him in Emperor Fúmèng’s care, while the Thirteenth Throne learned Li Zhōujūn’s identity and anticipated their next battle.

• Emperor Fúmèng poured Li Zhōujūn potent wine, and Li Zhōujūn asked him to dispel the Demon God Remnant Soul’s power from a friend’s body.
• The Virtual-Real Sage arrived searching for Li Zhōujūn, who explained that Emperor Fúmèng had agreed to help if the Sage drank wine for three days first.
• Li Zhōujūn brought the Virtual-Real Sage to the hall, where the Sage drank three cups and collapsed unconscious.
• Emperor Fúmèng promised to remove the Demon God Remnant Soul’s power from the Virtual-Real Sage and asked Li Zhōujūn about his plans.
• The Thirteenth Throne learned that Li Zhōujūn was the Azure Emperor of the Eternal Continent’s southern region and said they would battle again soon.

After returning from the Boundless Thunder Domain, Li Zhōujūn encountered Xue Zhi and agreed to accompany her to the ruined Taxian Realm so she could seek a breakthrough. Their search was interrupted when Old Mother Angshan confronted them, threatening Li Zhōujūn and warning Xue Zhi to stay out of the way.

• Li Zhōujūn received the system reward for completing his mission and advanced to the Eternal Ninth Stage.
• A Space Black Hole threatened Li Zhōujūn, but Xue Zhi used a talisman from her father to destroy it.
• Xue Zhi asked Li Zhōujūn to accompany her to the Taxian Realm, where she hoped to find an opportunity to reach the Eternal Tenth Stage, and he agreed.
• After months of searching, Old Mother Angshan appeared and challenged Li Zhōujūn, while Xue Zhi stood between them and refused to let her attack him.
• Old Mother Angshan threatened Xue Zhi and cited the Kirin Clan Leader's Eternal Eleventh Stage cultivation as she warned that she could attack her.

Old Mother Angshan trapped Li Zhōujūn and attacked him, but he easily dodged her blows while roasting and eating chicken. Emperor Fúmèng appeared and recognized Li Zhōujūn as his benefactor, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Old Mother Angshan swept Xue Zhi aside and trapped Li Zhōujūn in a formation before transforming into a giant black hen and attacking him with a hurricane.
• Li Zhōujūn stood firm against Old Mother Angshan’s wind and dodged her attacks with ease.
• Li Zhōujūn roasted and ate chicken as he evaded Old Mother Angshan, enraging her further.
• Xue Zhi recalled Li Zhōujūn’s reputation as the Azure Emperor and suspected his strength exceeded the Eternal Ninth Stage.
• Emperor Fúmèng appeared, saw Li Zhōujūn facing Old Mother Angshan, and recognized him as his benefactor.

Xue Zhi told Emperor Fúmèng she was seeking the Taxian Realm with Li Zhōujūn, who revealed Eternal Twelfth Stage strength and forced Old Mother Angshan to disclose its location. Elder Fei then asked Li Zhōujūn to give him Old Mother Angshan, leaving her horrified that he also wanted to eat her.

• Xue Zhi greeted Emperor Fúmèng and explained that she planned to search for the Taxian Realm with Li Zhōujūn.
• Li Zhōujūn revealed his Eternal Twelfth Stage cultivation, knocking Old Mother Angshan down and reducing her to the size of an ordinary hen.
• Li Zhōujūn threatened to cook Old Mother Angshan, who revealed the Taxian Realm's location to save her life.
• Elder Fei arrived and asked Li Zhōujūn to give him Old Mother Angshan as nourishment for the bedridden Cui.
• Old Mother Angshan realized Elder Fei had come to claim her rather than rescue her.

Li Zhōujūn gave Old Mother Angshan to Elder Fei to help heal Old Woman Cui, then rested with Xue Zhi in a mortal teahouse. He suggested Xue Zhi remain in the small world for a while to seek the answer she needed, and they vanished from the crowded teahouse.

• Emperor Fúmèng explained that the Thirteenth Throne had badly injured Old Woman Cui, so Li Zhōujūn let Elder Fei take Old Mother Angshan to her.
• Elder Fei thanked Li Zhōujūn and left with the unconscious Old Mother Angshan, while Emperor Fúmèng explained why he had come and said he had healed Li Zhōujūn's friend.
• Xue Zhi asked Li Zhōujūn about fighting the Thirteenth Throne, and he said neither of them had won or lost before they chose to rest.
• Li Zhōujūn and Xue Zhi visited a teahouse in a small world, where crowds gathered to see them.
• Li Zhōujūn suggested Xue Zhi stay in the world longer to find the answer she sought, and the two disappeared after leaving exact payment for their tea.

Li Zhōujūn took Xue Zhi through the mortal world, teaching her to look beyond first impressions as she watched a beggar deceive the people who helped him. Months later, two demon gods arrived to reclaim the Second Throne's finger bone, and an enormous turtle emerged beneath the world.

• Li Zhōujūn warned Xue Zhi not to judge the Old Beggar too quickly, but she saw him discard a child's sesame cake and secretly paralyzed him.
• Li Zhōujūn asked Xue Zhi whether anyone had found her ancestor's remains; she said the ancestor's life tablet had shattered, meaning the soul had dispersed.
• A black-robed man and woman entered the mortal world, identifying it as the Second Throne's finger bone and planning to find Old Turtle.
• Xue Zhi recognized the newcomers as two Eternal Ninth Stage demon gods while Li Zhōujūn calmly roasted a chicken.
• The world shook, and an enormous shadow resembling a gigantic turtle appeared beneath it, terrifying the mortals.

Tian Canjun and Di Que Nü attacked Old Turtle to reclaim the Second Throne’s finger bone, while Xue Zhi intervened to save him. As Di Que Nü unleashed a Thirteenth Throne Demonic Mark against Xue Zhi, a blue-robed figure appeared in front of her.

• Tian Canjun and Di Que Nü confronted Old Turtle and attacked after he refused to surrender the Second Throne’s finger bone.
• Xue Zhi explained to Li Zhōujūn how Old Turtle had fallen into his ruined state while suppressing the finger bone, and Li Zhōujūn watched as he ate roasted chicken.
• Tian Canjun used an iron chain bestowed by the Thirteenth Throne to bind Old Turtle and break through his lightning storm.
• Xue Zhi transformed into a snow-white qilin and attacked Tian Canjun and Di Que Nü, prompting Di Que Nü to take her on while Tian Canjun restrained Old Turtle.
• Di Que Nü used a Demonic Mark carrying the power of a strike from the Thirteenth Throne against Xue Zhi, but a blue-robed figure appeared before her.

Li Zhōujūn saved Xue Zhi from Di Que Nü, then faced the Thirteenth Throne’s avatar and forced it to withdraw. The Thirteenth Throne later told the Fourteenth Throne that the Azure Emperor could match him, while the Fourteenth Throne anticipated the Source Lord’s awakening.

• Li Zhōujūn blocked Di Que Nü’s attack, and Xue Zhi thanked him for saving her.
• Tian Canjun revealed that the Thirteenth Throne had given them an avatar, and Di Que Nü summoned it by having Tian Canjun crush a black Jade Talisman.
• The Thirteenth Throne’s avatar recognized Li Zhōujūn, exchanged words with him, then departed with the iron chains it had used to suppress Old Turtle.
• The Thirteenth Throne told the Fourteenth Throne that the Azure Emperor could match him, and the Fourteenth Throne said the Source Lord would eventually empower the Thirteenth Throne.

Li Zhōujūn offered Tian Canjun and Di Que Nü a chance to survive if they endured a hundred moves against him using only Eternal Ninth Stage strength. He defeated them with one finger, and they died after waking briefly in the ravine.

• The Thirteenth Throne's clone abandoned Tian Canjun and Di Que Nü and took back Old Turtle's iron chains as he left.
• Li Zhōujūn promised to let Tian Canjun and Di Que Nü go if they survived a hundred moves against his Eternal Ninth Stage strength.
• Tian Canjun unleashed evil ghosts while Di Que Nü transformed into a stone giant and charged Li Zhōujūn.
• Li Zhōujūn flew high into the sky and crushed both attackers into a ravine with a single finger.
• Tian Canjun and Di Que Nü awoke briefly, then died after Li Zhōujūn told them they had failed to last even one move.

After helping Old Turtle suppress the Second Throne’s finger bone, Li Zhōujūn and Xue Zhi entered the ruined Taxian Realm to seek a Kirin Clan trial secret realm. Xue Zhi entered the dangerous trial alone, while Li Zhōujūn watched from outside and secretly placed a clone on her as a precaution.

• Old Turtle explained that he had endured his injuries to pursue nirvana and honor Elder Qin, then left after Li Zhōujūn placed a clone behind to guard the site.
• Several days later, Li Zhōujūn and Xue Zhi found the drifting Taxian Realm and entered it.
• Xue Zhi led Li Zhōujūn through underground passages to a mural describing the secret realm’s five deadly trials and their rules.
• Xue Zhi used her blood to activate the mural, and Li Zhōujūn resisted its pull while secretly sending a clone onto her before she was drawn inside.
• The mural came to life, letting Li Zhōujūn watch Xue Zhi’s progress through the secret realm.