Chapter Summaries

Snow Zhi endured the secret realm’s deadly trials and awakened its power, while Li Zhōujūn subdued Tang Tianzuo and made him roast chicken. The white-haired old man began channeling the Kirin Heart’s remaining power into Snow Zhi as Tang Tianzuo watched helplessly.

• Tang Tianzuo emerged from the void, attacked the sleeping Li Zhōujūn, and was stopped; Li Zhōujūn forced him to roast chicken.
• Snow Zhi broke through the sword formation and maze, crossed the Dead Water, and endured the Sea of Fire in her Kirin form.
• Meteorites battered Snow Zhi to the brink of death, but Li Zhōujūn’s words revived her resolve and she blasted away the rocks.
• The secret realm halted the meteorites and healed Snow Zhi as her power rose toward the Eternal Tenth Stage.
• The white-haired old man revealed the Kirin Heart and began transferring its remaining power to Snow Zhi while Tang Tianzuo continued roasting chicken for Li Zhōujūn.

Xue Zhi emerged from the Kirin Clan’s trial secret realm after reaching the Eternal Tenth Stage, and she and Li Zhōujūn returned to the Eternal Continent together. There, the Black Flame Demon Emperor challenged Li Zhōujūn, and Xue Zhi stepped in to fight him.

• Xue Zhi broke through to the Eternal Tenth Stage, and the white-haired old man sent her out before vanishing with the secret realm’s images and writing.
• Li Zhōujūn released Tang Tianzuo, and Xue Zhi thanked Li Zhōujūn for helping protect the Kirin Clan’s secret realm.
• Xue Zhi agreed to travel with Li Zhōujūn to the Eternal Continent, while Li Zhōujūn received a system mission to sign in at the Louyue Ancient Kingdom.
• After more than half a month of travel, Li Zhōujūn and Xue Zhi reached the Eternal Continent, where the Black Flame Demon Emperor confronted Li Zhōujūn and claimed he would kill him.
• Xue Zhi offered to fight the Black Flame Demon Emperor, then froze the surrounding land and coated his black flames in frost as he attacked.

Xue Zhi defeated the Black Flame Demon Emperor, but an attack from the Virtual-Real Sage revealed that Li Zhōujūn could stop an Eternal Eleventh Stage strike and was said to rival an Eternal Twelfth Stage expert. The Black Flame Demon Emperor exposed Ghost Medicine Old Daoist’s plan to use Li Zhōujūn as medicine before Ghost Medicine Old Daoist’s hidden method killed him.

• Xue Zhi overwhelmed the Black Flame Demon Emperor with her ice swords and asked Li Zhōujūn whether he should live or die.
• An ancient giant hand attacked Li Zhōujūn, who stopped it with his sleeve, and the Virtual-Real Sage emerged and praised his strength.
• The Virtual-Real Sage revealed that Li Zhōujūn’s ancestor had appointed him as Li Zhōujūn’s Dao Protector and discussed the Louyue Kingdom with him.
• The Black Flame Demon Emperor warned Li Zhōujūn that Ghost Medicine Old Daoist wanted to use him as medicine and explained that the old Daoist controlled his life.
• Ghost Medicine Old Daoist triggered the method inside the Black Flame Demon Emperor, killing him as he looked toward the old Daoist’s direction.

Li Zhōujūn set out with the Virtual-Real Sage for the ruins of Louyue Kingdom, where he intended to investigate the ancient battlefield. There, Ye Qingxian was fighting the Eleventh Seat’s Demon God Remnant Soul, whose overwhelming power left her in danger.

• Ghost Medicine Old Daoist learned from Black Flame Demon Emperor’s memories that Li Zhōujūn was an Eternal Twelfth Stage powerhouse, then fled the Eternal Continent.
• The Virtual-Real Sage incinerated Black Flame Demon Emperor’s corpse, and Xue Zhi left to return to her clan.
• Li Zhōujūn persuaded the Virtual-Real Sage to travel with him toward Louyue Kingdom, though the Sage warned that Old Mr. Qin could not be found there.
• The Virtual-Real Sage brought Li Zhōujūn to the Louyue Kingdom stele and stayed behind while Li Zhōujūn headed for the ruins.
• Ye Qingxian dodged the Eleventh Seat’s Demon God Remnant Soul and struck with a sword ray, but the remnant soul caught and crushed it barehanded.

Ye Qingxian escaped the Eleventh Seat Demon God Remnant Soul with her Thousand Mile Jade Cicada, only to land near Li Zhōujūn. Li Zhōujūn subdued the remnant soul and demanded that it help him roast a chicken, leaving it furious and trapped beneath his chess-piece phantom.

• The Eleventh Seat Demon God Remnant Soul shattered Ye Qingxian's sword, wounded her, and forced her to escape by crushing her Thousand Mile Jade Cicada.
• Li Zhōujūn encountered Ye Qingxian as she fell from the void, then faced the pursuing Eleventh Seat Demon God Remnant Soul.
• Li Zhōujūn blocked the remnant soul's attacks and pinned it beneath a huge chess-piece phantom.
• Ye Qingxian thanked Li Zhōujūn before fainting, while the remnant soul identified itself as the Eleventh Seat Demon God Remnant Soul.
• Li Zhōujūn offered to release the remnant soul if it helped him roast a chicken, provoking its furious protest.

Li Zhōujūn forced the Eleventh Seat Demon God Remnant Soul to roast chickens, then used a recording of him doing so to threaten him. Ye Qingxian woke and recognized Li Zhōujūn as a powerful senior, while the Eleventh Seat realized the recording could make the Seventy-Two Demon God Halls brand him a traitor.

• Li Zhōujūn bluffed the Eleventh Seat Demon God Remnant Soul into believing he was an Eternal Twelfth Stage cultivator and made him agree to roast chickens.
• Li Zhōujūn released the Eleventh Seat Demon God Remnant Soul and gave him two hundred and fifty chickens to prepare.
• Li Zhōujūn checked on the unconscious Woman in Ruqun, and the Eleventh Seat said her injuries were not serious and she would soon wake.
• The Woman in Ruqun woke, introduced herself as Ye Qingxian, and bowed to Li Zhōujūn, whom she believed to be an Eternal Twelfth Stage senior.
• After the Eleventh Seat finished roasting the chickens, Li Zhōujūn recorded his smile beside them and threatened to send the Recording Stone to the Seventy-Two Demon God Halls.
• The Eleventh Seat Demon God Remnant Soul realized the other Seats could use the recording to call him a traitor and destroy him.

Li Zhōujūn blackmailed the Eleventh Seat Demon God Remnant Soul into becoming his informant and sent him back to the Seventy-Two Demon God Halls with a concealed clone. The Eleventh Seat returned to the halls, where the Thirteenth Throne defended his right to stay.

• Li Zhōujūn threatened to give the Recording Stone to the Seventy-Two Demon God Halls unless the Eleventh Seat became his informant, and the Eleventh Seat reluctantly agreed.
• Li Zhōujūn attached a concealed clone to the Eleventh Seat and told him to take it to the Seventy-Two Demon God Halls.
• The Eleventh Seat returned to the halls, where the other Seats welcomed him but suggested he leave their affairs because he had become weak.
• The Thirteenth Throne told the other Seats to let the Eleventh Seat stay, while the Eleventh Seat secretly acknowledged that Li Zhōujūn's clone had gone undetected.

Li Zhōujūn reunited with the Virtual-Real Sage after leaving Louyue Kingdom, then continued wandering through the Eternal Continent. In Yanguang City, he learned that Luoshui had become a performer and left without meeting her, while she watched him go and vowed to reach the continent’s summit.

• Li Zhōujūn and Ye Qingxian met the Virtual-Real Sage at the white jade stele, and Li Zhōujūn pressed him about their fishing-rod bet.
• Ye Qingxian thanked Li Zhōujūn and returned to the Land of the End, where she told Empress of the End how he had saved her.
• Empress of the End urged Ye Qingxian to reach the Eternal Twelfth Stage and repay her debt to Li Zhōujūn herself.
• Li Zhōujūn wandered into Yanguang City and heard that Luoshui, once known as Great Emperor Luoshui, was performing at the Divine Music Tower.
• Li Zhōujūn declined the Divine Music Tower owner’s invitation and left without seeing Luoshui, who recognized him from an upstairs window and vowed to reach the summit of the Eternal Continent.

Li Zhōujūn encountered Crown Prince Mu Shu during a border inspection and refused his offer of titles and riches. Mu Shu left on friendly terms, while Luoshui learned that the famed Azure Emperor was the same Li Zhōujūn she had once traveled with.

• Li Zhōujūn remained standing as Mu Shu’s procession passed, and General Lu He challenged him to bow.
• Mu Shu stopped Lu He and offered Li Zhōujūn honors and a place in his command, but Li Zhōujūn refused.
• Mu Shu accepted the refusal graciously, renewed his invitation, and continued the inspection with Lu He.
• At the Divine Music Tower, a performer told Luoshui about the encounter and revealed the Azure Emperor’s name was Li Zhōujūn.
• Luoshui realized the Azure Emperor was the same Li Zhōujūn who had once braved the Drowning God Abyss with her.

Luoshui and Sòng Xiá learned that they had been ordered to dance at the Yi Family’s birthday celebration, where Yì Chéngjǐn could threaten them. Yì Chéngjǐn had Yǔdài dragged away to be killed and planned to meet Luoshui, while Elder Qu warned him that the Azure Emperor remained in Yanguang City.

• Dù Xuányí told Luoshui and Sòng Xiá to perform at Old Master Yi’s birthday celebration in ten days and warned them not to offend the Yi Family.
• Sòng Xiá told Luoshui that Yǔdài had disappeared after falling into the hands of Yì Chéngjǐn, and feared the dancers would be in danger.
• At the Yi Family estate, Yì Chéngjǐn ordered his servants to take the badly injured Yǔdài away and feed her to the dogs.
• Elder Qu cautioned Yì Chéngjǐn to show restraint because the Crown Prince had recently left and the Azure Emperor was still in Yanguang City.
• Yì Chéngjǐn learned that Luoshui would be among the Divine Music Tower dancers and said he wanted to meet her; Elder Qu also told him that Yì Fánhuā would not attend the celebration.

Li Zhōujūn stayed in Yanguang City’s Moon Caress Tower while waiting to see Luoshui dance at the Yi Family birthday celebration. On his way back to the imperial capital, Mu Shu learned that his son had tried to bring the Azure Emperor under his command and confronted him.

• Li Zhōujūn stayed for free at Wang Cangshan’s tower, whose business boomed after nobles came hoping to see the Azure Emperor.
• Li Zhōujūn planned to watch Luoshui perform at Yì Hǎi’s birthday celebration without meeting her in person.
• Yì Chéngjǐn delivered his father’s birthday invitation to Wang Cangshan, then Yì Hǎi’s birthday celebration began in Yanguang City.
• Mu Shu headed back to the imperial capital by a shortcut that bypassed Yanguang City, but the Shepherd Emperor stopped his procession.
• The Shepherd Emperor questioned Mu Shu about trying to bring the Azure Emperor under his command, sent Lu He and the Divine Tiger Guard away, and approached his son angrily.

Shepherd Emperor punished Shepherd Shu for trying to recruit Li Zhōujūn, then ordered him to apologize to the Azure Emperor. At Moon Caress Tower, Li Zhōujūn learned that Yì Chéngjǐn planned to harm Luoshui and heard Shepherd Shu arrive to offer the Great Shepherd Divine Dynasty’s submission.

• Shepherd Emperor lashed Shepherd Shu, explained that Li Zhōujūn was an Eternal Twelfth Stage powerhouse, and told his son to apologize and let the Azure Emperor make any demands.
• Shepherd Shu discovered that the rope restraining him was an Eternal Tenth Stage treasure he could refine, and tearfully praised his father.
• Li Zhōujūn watched Luoshui dance at the Yi Family’s birthday gathering while Yì Chéngjǐn ordered Elder Qu to bring her to his room that night.
• Li Zhōujūn asked Wang Cangshan about Yì Chéngjǐn, and Wang described his cruelty toward women and the Yi Family’s political influence.
• Shepherd Shu arrived wounded and apologized to Li Zhōujūn, declaring that the Azure Emperor could do as he wished within the Great Shepherd Divine Dynasty.

Li Zhōujūn arranged for Shepherd Art and Wang Cangshan to confront the Yi Family over Yi Chéngjǐn’s abuses. At Old Master Yi’s birthday celebration, Shepherd Art presented a coffin, leaving Yi Chéngjǐn terrified and stammering as the family realized the Crown Prince had come against them.

• Li Zhōujūn had Wang Cangshan explain Yi Chéngjǐn’s misdeeds and the Yi Family’s background to Shepherd Art, who vowed to act against them.
• Yi Chéngjǐn ordered Elder Qu to bring Luoshui to his room, while Sòng Xiá and the other Divine Music Tower women prepared to leave the Yi Family.
• Shepherd Art and Wang Cangshan arrived at the Yi Family’s birthday celebration, where the family and guests knelt to greet the Crown Prince.
• Shepherd Art called a black coffin his birthday gift for Yì Hǎi, and Wang Cangshan pointed him toward Yi Chéngjǐn.
• Yi Chéngjǐn was frightened by Shepherd Art’s cold expression and stammered as he asked his father whether he had offended the Crown Prince.

Mu Shu confronted Yì Chéngjǐn over mistreating Luoshui, revealing that she was an old friend of the Azure Emperor. After confirming Luoshui was unharmed, Mu Shu secured her protection and left Yì Hǎi facing the choice of sacrificing his son to save the Yi Family.

• Wang Cangshan announced that Yì Chéngjǐn had offended both the Crown Prince and the Azure Emperor, and Mu Shu accused him of abusing women and harming commoners.
• Yì Chéngjǐn admitted he had ordered Elder Qu to take Luoshui to his room, while Yì Hǎi learned that Luoshui was the Azure Emperor's old friend.
• Mu Shu and Yì Hǎi found Luoshui unharmed; Mu Shu saluted her and said he would escort her after dealing with the Yi Family.
• Mu Shu ordered Zhou Feng, the Lord of Yanguang City, to protect Luoshui and threatened the Zhou clan if she was harmed.
• Wang Cangshan revealed his Eternal Sixth Stage cultivation and subdued Yì Chéngjǐn when he tried to attack him.
• Yì Hǎi returned and considered killing Yì Chéngjǐn to preserve the Yi Family.

Mù Shù ordered the Divine Tiger Guards to exterminate the Yi Family’s ten clans after Yì Hǎi killed Yì Chéngjǐn, leaving Yanguang City’s birthday gathering in ruins. He then prepared to take Luoshui to meet Li Zhōujūn, while Wang Cangshan sought her help in winning the Azure Emperor’s favor.

• Yì Hǎi killed Yì Chéngjǐn, but Mù Shù declared that everyone connected to the Yi Family, including its guests and Yanguang City’s lord, had to die.
• Mù Shù summoned Lu He and ordered him to exterminate the Yi Family’s ten clans, bring Luoshui to him safely, and kill Zhou Feng.
• Lu He and the Divine Tiger Guards slaughtered the people gathered at the Yi Family’s birthday celebration, including Yì Hǎi.
• Mù Shù assured Wang Cangshan that he would return with him to meet the Azure Emperor, sparing him from the purge.
• Luoshui thanked Mù Shù for the Yi Family’s destruction, and Mù Shù asked her to put in a good word for him with Li Zhōujūn.
• Mù Shù invited Luoshui to meet the Azure Emperor, and Wang Cangshan asked her to recommend him as well, offering half the profits of his Moon Caress Tower.

Luoshui accepted half the profits of Moon Caress Tower and asked Mu Shu to spare her innocent friends from the Yi Family purge. She reunited with Li Zhōujūn, who asked only for roast chickens when he visited, while Wang Cangshan prepared to take charge of Yanguang City.

• Mu Shu suggested Luoshui manage Moon Caress Tower for half its profits as Wang Cangshan was set to become Yanguang City's city lord, and Luoshui accepted.
• Luoshui asked Mu Shu and Lu He to spare her friends from Divine Music Tower and other innocents in the Yi Family purge, and they agreed.
• Mu Shu, Wang Cangshan, and Luoshui went to meet Li Zhōujūn at Moon Caress Tower, where Mu Shu and Wang Cangshan left the two old friends alone.
• Luoshui offered to repay Li Zhōujūn by offering herself, but Li Zhōujūn asked her to prepare roast chickens for him when he visited.
• Mu Shu entrusted Yanguang City to Wang Cangshan and warned him not to repeat the previous city lord's mistakes, and Wang Cangshan promised to serve faithfully.

Li Zhōujūn learned that the Seventy-Two Demon God Halls planned to attack the Luhua Realm and received a system mission to stop them. He recruited the eager Emperor Fúmèng to come along, secretly preparing him for the danger ahead.

• The Eleventh Seat told Li Zhōujūn that the Thirteenth Seat would attack the Luhua Realm in three months to capture its women for the awakening Source Lord.
• The Thirteenth Seat appointed the Eleventh, Fifteenth, Seventeenth, and Nineteenth Seats to lead the assault, while the Eleventh Seat privately warned Li Zhōujūn not to let his allies injure him.
• The system assigned Li Zhōujūn a mission to support the Luhua Realm and offered him the option to teleport there.
• In the Boundless Thunder Domain, Emperor Fúmèng explained that Lu Hua Jun had once driven back three Seats and eagerly asked Li Zhōujūn to take him to the Luhua Realm.
• Li Zhōujūn agreed to bring Emperor Fúmèng in a month and a half, privately anticipating that he would become conscripted labor, and placed an avatar on him to protect him.

Li Zhōujūn and Emperor Fúmèng waited outside the Luhua Realm for the Seventy-Two Demon God Halls to attack, while Li Zhōujūn revealed that the Eleventh Seat was secretly his spy. The Thirteenth Throne arrived with four other Eternal Twelfth Stage cultivators, leaving Lu Hua Jun facing overwhelming odds as the Luhua Realm fell into despair.

• Li Zhōujūn concealed himself and Emperor Fúmèng in the void and explained that he was waiting for the Thirteenth Throne to attack the Luhua Realm.
• Li Zhōujūn told Emperor Fúmèng that the Eleventh Seat was his spy and asked him to fight the Eleventh Seat gently when he appeared.
• The Thirteenth Throne arrived, crushed a sword strike from the Luhua Realm, and raised a black barrier around the realm.
• The Fifteenth Seat, Seventeenth Seat, and Nineteenth Seat joined the Thirteenth Throne, and the five Eternal Twelfth Stage cultivators frightened the Luhua Realm’s female cultivators.
• Lu Hua Jun confronted the five thrones, and the Fifteenth Seat ordered them to attack before reinforcements could arrive.

Emperor Fúmèng and Li Zhōujūn staged a battle to conceal the Eleventh Seat’s identity as Li Zhōujūn’s mole while Li Zhōujūn confronted the other Demon God Seats. Lu Hua Jun grew suspicious but stayed out of the staged fight, leaving Emperor Fúmèng and the Eleventh Seat to continue their act.

• Emperor Fúmèng agreed to fight the Eleventh Seat convincingly while Li Zhōujūn handled the Thirteenth, Fifteenth, Seventeenth, and Nineteenth Seats.
• Emperor Fúmèng appeared to aid Lu Hua Jun, and Li Zhōujūn soon emerged to confront the Thirteenth Seat.
• The Eleventh Seat claimed he would hold off Emperor Fúmèng, and Li Zhōujūn enclosed the four other Seats in a phantom chessboard.
• Lu Hua Jun tried to attack the Eleventh Seat, but Emperor Fúmèng repeatedly blocked her and refused to reveal that the Eleventh Seat was Li Zhōujūn’s mole.
• Emperor Fúmèng and the Eleventh Seat exaggerated their fight until Lu Hua Jun stopped interfering, though she remained suspicious.

Li Zhōujūn trapped the Thirteenth Throne and three other Demon God Hall fighters, then released them after securing a promise that they would not attack the Eternal Continent’s defensive lines before Lord Source Lord awakened. The battle ended with Lu Hua Jun thanking Li Zhōujūn and scolding Emperor Fúmèng for letting the Eleventh Seat escape.

• Li Zhōujūn fought the Thirteenth Throne, Fifteenth Seat, Seventeenth Seat, and Nineteenth Seat inside his chessboard and held his own against all four.
• The Thirteenth Throne ordered a retreat, but the four fighters discovered they could not escape Li Zhōujūn’s chessboard.
• The Thirteenth Throne promised that the Seventy-Two Demon God Halls would not attack the Eternal Continent’s defensive lines before Lord Source Lord awakened, and Li Zhōujūn released the chessboard.
• The Thirteenth Throne left with the Eleventh Seat, and Emperor Fúmèng asked Li Zhōujūn whether the promise could be trusted.
• Lu Hua Jun thanked Li Zhōujūn for rescuing her and rebuked Emperor Fúmèng for allowing the Eleventh Seat to survive.