Chapter Summaries

Li Zhōujūn and Emperor Fúmèng left the Luhua Realm after Lu Hua Jun saw through their act, while Emperor Fúmèng decided to pursue her. On the way back, the Eleventh Seat used more acting to deflect suspicion and convince the other Seats that he was loyal.

• Li Zhōujūn declined Lu Hua Jun’s invitation, and Emperor Fúmèng followed him out of the Luhua Realm.
• Lu Hua Jun concluded that Li Zhōujūn, Emperor Fúmèng, and the Eleventh Seat were working together and kept up her own act.
• Li Zhōujūn told Emperor Fúmèng that Lu Hua Jun had likely seen through their performance, and Emperor Fúmèng admitted he had some interest in her before turning back to pursue her.
• The Thirteenth Seat told the other Seats that the Seventy-Two Demon God Halls would recuperate, while the Eleventh Seat claimed Li Zhōujūn was stronger than Qin Tianyi to ease their wounded pride.
• When the Fifteenth Seat questioned the Eleventh Seat’s suspicious encounters, the Eleventh Seat acted heartbroken, and the Thirteenth Seat defended him as a loyal fighter.

Emperor Fúmèng tried to win Lu Hua Jun’s heart but fled when she attacked him, while Li Zhōujūn showed that he attracted women without trying. At the Seventy-Two Demon God Halls, the Source Lord’s Divine Blood went to the Eleventh Seat, whose fear grew as the Azure Emperor’s clone inside him risked being exposed.

• Emperor Fúmèng teased Lu Hua Jun about her age and how many “gold bricks” he could embrace, but she attacked him with her greatsword and he fled.
• Li Zhōujūn criticized Emperor Fúmèng’s attempt to court Lu Hua Jun, then drew the attention of women in a small world, prompting Fúmèng to ask to return to the Boundless Thunder Domain.
• At the Seventy-Two Demon God Halls, the Thirteenth Throne admitted he could not match the Azure Emperor and called for the Seats to avoid attacking the Eternal Continent’s defenses until the Source Lord awakened.
• The Source Lord’s aura filled the hall, and a powerful drop of Divine Blood appeared, stirring the gathered Seats’ excitement and the Eleventh Seat’s fear that his Azure Emperor clone would be discovered.
• The Divine Blood flew into the Eleventh Seat, greatly increasing his power and leaving him despairing, while the other Seats looked on with envy and the Thirteenth Throne considered the gift a possible advantage.

The Eleventh Seat received the Source Lord’s Divine Blood and was appointed Vice Hall Master of the Seventy-Two Demon God Halls, despite the Source Lord failing to detect Li Zhōujūn’s clone inside him. He followed Li Zhōujūn’s instructions to restrain the Halls, while the awakened Source Lord watched from a crescent-moon remnant space.

• The Source Lord’s Divine Blood raised the Eleventh Seat’s cultivation to the pinnacle of the Eternal Twelfth Stage, and the Source Lord named him Vice Hall Master.
• The Eleventh Seat realized the Source Lord had not detected Li Zhōujūn’s clone and secretly told Li Zhōujūn about his new position.
• The Seats urged the Eleventh Seat to attack the Eternal Continent, but Li Zhōujūn ordered him to keep them in check.
• The Eleventh Seat banned provocations against the Eternal Continent and urged the Halls to learn about its people, gaining the Thirteenth Throne’s support.
• The Source Lord watched the Eleventh Seat’s actions, then swallowed the frozen female cultivators before him and expelled their skeletons.

Li Zhōujūn visited the Hundred Dust Realm and encountered Tang Moyi selling roast chicken made with a spirit medicine she said had belonged to her murdered father. When Great Yue Academy’s Law Enforcement Hall confronted her, Pei Qingyue’s hidden sympathy for her cause became clear.

• The Empress of the End heard from Lu Hua Jun that the Azure Emperor had held off four Demon God Thrones and secured a truce for the Eternal Continent.
• Li Zhōujūn arrived in the Hundred Dust Realm after catching the scent of a roast chicken stall and ate there.
• The stall’s elderly owner revealed herself as Tang Moyi when Pei Qingyue and Great Yue Academy disciples confronted her over the spirit medicine.
• Tang Moyi accused Li Chusheng of murdering her father, Tang Jieceng, stealing his spirit medicine, and selling it only to nobles.
• A disciple revealed that Pei Qingyue had known Tang Moyi was there but had chosen not to arrest her, and Pei Qingyue showed respect for her.

Li Zhōujūn revealed his Eternal Eleventh Stage power to protect Tang Moyi and gave her a ruler to punish her enemies. After leaving the Hundred Dust Realm, he was confronted by Tai Kui Realm protectors, who mistook his claim to be the Azure Emperor for madness and departed without fighting.

• Li Chusheng tried to kill Tang Moyi, but Li Zhōujūn revealed his Eternal Eleventh Stage aura and left Li Chusheng terrified.
• Li Zhōujūn gave Tang Moyi a powerful ruler that could whip any cultivator below the Eternal Realm, then vanished as she turned to face Li Chusheng.
• The Great Protector and Third Protector of the Tai Kui Realm confronted Li Zhōujūn over interfering in the Hundred Dust Realm, and he claimed to be the Azure Emperor.
• The two protectors dismissed Li Zhōujūn as a madman and left without arresting or fighting him, disappointing the chubby little boy waiting to watch a spectacle.

Li Zhōujūn used a system card to seal the gray-eyed old man's cultivation, forcing him and the Fatty Doll to dance before leaving with his cultivation raised to the Eternal Twelfth Stage. The Fatty Doll plotted revenge, but Elder Wu took him back to the upper realm as the Seventy-Two Demon God Halls learned that the Source Lord would emerge from seclusion that day.

• The Fatty Doll ordered the gray-eyed old man to kill Li Zhōujūn because Li had not fought the Tai Kui Realm's Protectors, and Li received a system mission to make them dance.
• Li Zhōujūn used the Seal Cultivation Card to bind the gray-eyed old man's cultivation and spiritual power, then demanded that he and the Fatty Doll dance.
• The gray-eyed old man and the Fatty Doll danced, and the system raised Li Zhōujūn's cultivation to the Eternal Twelfth Stage before he left.
• The Fatty Doll killed the gray-eyed old man with a slap and ordered Elder Wu to investigate Li Zhōujūn's connections, but Elder Wu identified him as the Azure Emperor and took the Fatty Doll back by force.
• The Eleventh Seat told the other Seats that the Source Lord would emerge from seclusion that day and worried about being caught between the Source Lord and the Azure Emperor.

Li Zhōujūn entered the Seventy-Two Demon God Halls and revealed an aura that matched the Source Lord’s, forcing the Source Lord to consider negotiation. The chapter ended with the Source Lord asking what Li Zhōujūn wanted.

• The Source Lord appeared in the Seventy-Two Demon God Halls, and his aura shook the myriad heavens and worlds.
• The Source Lord questioned the Eleventh Seat about the Eternal Continent, and the Eleventh Seat advised him not to attack yet.
• Li Zhōujūn arrived at the Seventy-Two Demon God Halls and offered to negotiate with the Source Lord.
• The Source Lord ordered the Thrones to attack, but Li Zhōujūn raised his cultivation to match the Source Lord’s.
• The Source Lord suspected Li Zhōujūn came from the same world as he did, then asked what Li Zhōujūn wanted.

Li Zhōujūn forced the Source Lord and the Seats of the Seventy-Two Demon God Halls to dance rather than risk a fight, completing his system task and earning a ticket to the Source Realm. After Li Zhōujūn’s incarnation vanished, the Source Lord ordered the Halls to stop opposing the Eternal Continent and help protect it.

• Li Zhōujūn demanded that the Source Lord dance, and the Source Lord answered by attacking him with a massive palm.
• Li Zhōujūn met the Source Lord’s attack head-on, and the Source Lord decided not to risk a fight to the death.
• The Source Lord and the other Seats danced at Li Zhōujūn’s command, completing Li Zhōujūn’s system task and earning him a ticket to the Source Realm.
• Li Zhōujūn warned the Source Lord that he would return in person if the Eternal Continent were infringed upon, then his incarnation dissipated.
• The Source Lord learned that Li Zhōujūn had sent only an incarnation and ordered the Seventy-Two Demon God Halls to help resolve any threats to the Eternal Continent.

Li Zhōujūn learned from Qin Tianyi that many of his past trials had been orchestrated to help him grow and heard how the Source Realm worked. After Qin Tianyi departed, Li Zhōujūn set out for the Source Realm, while his clone and the Eleventh Seat remained at the Seventy-Two Demon God Halls.

• Qin Tianyi revealed that he had arranged the Seventy-Two Demon God Halls, Louyue Ancient Kingdom, and other trials for Li Zhōujūn, and had preserved the souls of those who died in his schemes.
• Qin Tianyi explained that the Source Realm used Source Energy, that its cultivation ranks began with Source Sovereign, and that traveling there could be dangerous for lower-realm cultivators.
• Qin Tianyi offered Li Zhōujūn a place as Tianyi Hall's Holy Son but advised him to rely on himself and temper his abilities among other factions.
• Qin Tianyi told Li Zhōujūn that an unexpected woman had been waiting for him in the Source Realm, then vanished.
• Li Zhōujūn told the system he was heading to the Source Realm and noted that his clone and the Eleventh Seat were at the Seventy-Two Demon God Halls.
• The system agreed, and the space around Li Zhōujūn spun as he departed for the Source Realm.

Li Zhōujūn arrived in the Source Realm, where the system converted his cultivation to Source Energy and assigned him a mission to investigate the beast that attacked him. After encountering the survivors of a deadly Black Wind Tiger attack, he met Su Xi'an, who apologized for mistaking him for the attacker and offered him help through Yingyun Sect.

• The system converted Li Zhōujūn's spiritual energy into Source Energy and changed his cultivation to the Source User Twelfth Stage.
• Li Zhōujūn met two men and a woman in an abandoned temple, then found their corpses the next day after a beast attacked him and fled.
• The system assigned Li Zhōujūn a mission to investigate the attacker and promised a breakthrough to the First-Order Source Master Realm upon completion.
• Su Xi'an appeared and attacked Li Zhōujūn, but he disarmed her without effort before Su Xi'an's injured elder sister stopped her.
• Su Xi'an explained that a Second-Rank Source Demon Black Wind Tiger had killed her brothers and gravely wounded her sister, then buried her brothers and offered Li Zhōujūn a pill and help from Yingyun Sect.
• Su Xi'an left to take her elder sister back for treatment, while Li Zhōujūn remained set on pursuing the beast.

Su Xi'an carried her gravely wounded sister Su Xīníng toward the Su Family while Li Zhōujūn confronted the Black Wind Tiger. Li Zhōujūn chased the beast until it collapsed, and the system rewarded him by raising his cultivation to the First-Order Source Master Realm.

• Su Xi'an activated her silver bracelet to shield herself and Su Xīníng from the returning Black Wind Tiger.
• Li Zhōujūn appeared before the tiger, and it fled after recognizing him; Su Xīníng told Su Xi'an that Li Zhōujūn was stronger than he seemed.
• Su Xi'an sent a message to her master and carried Su Xīníng toward the Su Family for treatment.
• Li Zhōujūn chased the Black Wind Tiger around the mountain from day to dawn until it collapsed from exhaustion.
• The system announced that Li Zhōujūn had completed his mission and raised his cultivation to the First-Order Source Master Realm.

Li Zhōujūn killed the Black Wind Tiger and discarded the Prison Dog Stone it carried, while its owner, Chen Qingchou, learned that his plot against Su Xi'an had failed. Months later in Yingyun City, Su Xi'an reunited with Li Zhōujūn, thanked him for saving her and her eldest sister, and confirmed that he had killed the tiger.

• Li Zhōujūn crushed the Black Wind Tiger's head, burned its body to ash, and tossed aside a red Prison Dog Stone he found among the remains.
• Chen Qingchou learned that his Black Wind Tiger had been killed and realized that Su Xi'an had survived his attempt to eliminate her.
• Months later, Li Zhōujūn arrived in Yingyun City and watched as Su Xi'an emerged from Baitong Pavilion to greet him.
• Su Xi'an took Li Zhōujūn to Jade Tea Fragrance and explained that she had searched for him after her master helped heal her eldest sister.
• Su Xi'an showed Li Zhōujūn the Prison Dog Stone and confirmed that he had killed the Black Wind Tiger; he admitted discarding it because he thought it was useless.

Li Zhōujūn learned about Tianyi Pavilion’s recruitment drive and the ongoing war against the Great Dream Demon Palace, whose agents planned to ambush the recruitment party near Yingyun City. After receiving the Holy Son Token of Tianyi Hall, Li Zhōujūn was given a mission to find the attackers and make them pay.

• Su Xi'an explained that Tianyi Pavilion was recruiting Patrolling Envoys to help fight the scattered demon cultivators of the Great Dream Demon Palace.
• Two Great Dream Demon Palace agents planned to ambush Tianyi Pavilion elder Ma Zhifeng and considered killing Yingyun Sect’s Sect Master Zhong Ju as well.
• Li Zhōujūn and Su Xi'an heard that Ma Zhifeng had been attacked on the way to Yingyun City and that Zhong Ju had rushed to help him.
• Qin Tianyi sent Li Zhōujūn the Holy Son Token and advised him to keep his identity secret unless necessary.
• The system assigned Li Zhōujūn a mission to find and punish the attackers, offering to teleport him to the ambush site.

Li Zhōujūn teleported to the site of the attack on Tianyi Pavilion’s forces and saved Zhong Ju from a powerful assassin of the Great Dream Demon Palace. After they killed the red-robed figure, Li Zhōujūn completed his mission and gave Zhong Ju his name.

• Li Zhōujūn teleported from Su Xi'an to the attack site after learning the red-robed figure’s appearance.
• Zhong Ju found Elder Ma Zhifeng and seven Tianyi Pavilion Patrolling Envoys dead, then was ambushed by a soul-devouring black wolf summoned by the red-robed figure.
• Li Zhōujūn appeared and blocked the attack, then used his Giant Jade Finger to hold the red-robed figure in place.
• Zhong Ju struck the red-robed figure with a giant sword at Li Zhōujūn’s signal, killing it.
• Li Zhōujūn received the system’s reward of Source Master Twelfth Order cultivation, and told Zhong Ju his name before leaving.

Li Zhōujūn returned to Yingyun City as Tianyi Pavilion prepared to resume recruiting, while Su Xi'an learned that Chen Qingchou had attacked her and vowed to avenge her family herself. The chapter left Li Zhōujūn considering how to protect the recruitment and Han Siyin promising to support Su Xi'an.

• Huangfu Yixin arrived after Li Zhōujūn left, learned that Zhong Ju had killed Lord Yin Yang with Li Zhōujūn's help, and ordered Zhong Ju to protect Tianyi Pavilion's next recruitment team.
• Li Zhōujūn returned to Yingyun City, rented a top-tier room, and received a system mission to ensure Tianyi Pavilion's recruitment proceeded smoothly.
• Li Zhōujūn asked the system for the location of the person controlling Great Dream Demon Palace, but the system demanded that he call it Dad.
• Han Siyin told Su Xi'an that Chen Qingchou had attacked her because she was a rival to become Yingyun Sect's next Sect Master.
• Su Xi'an said she wanted to kill Chen Qingchou herself for the deaths and injuries he had caused her family, and Han Siyin agreed to support her.

Huangfu Shuyun arrived in Yingyun City to recruit for Tianyi Pavilion amid attacks by remnants of the Great Dream Demon Palace. She checked into Fuzhi Inn, where Li Zhōujūn was already staying, while he considered how to prevent the recruitment from being disrupted.

• Zhong Ju, Han Dong, and Gu Jin waited outside Yingyun City to welcome Huangfu Shuyun and worried about protecting the Ninth-order Source Lord while their old sect master was in seclusion.
• Huangfu Shuyun arrived and told the Yingyun Sect leaders that she had come alone to recruit people and needed them to keep the proceedings under control.
• Huangfu Shuyun explained that Tianyi Pavilion was stretched thin because Great Dream Demon Palace remnants were attacking across the Tianqing Domain, then set the recruitment for noon the next day at Yingyun City's largest plaza.
• Huangfu Shuyun checked into Fuzhi Inn in the Class-A room opposite Li Zhōujūn's, while Li Zhōujūn considered the danger of Great Dream Demon Palace death soldiers causing trouble at the crowded recruitment.

Li Zhōujūn used the system’s prediction to identify and stop ten Great Dream Demon Palace Death Warriors from destroying Tianyi Pavilion’s recruitment in Yingyun City. After completing the mission and reaching the First-order Great Source Master Realm, he prepared to leave Yingyun City.

• The system revealed that ten Great Dream Demon Palace Death Warriors would attack Tianyi Pavilion’s recruitment, and Li Zhōujūn thanked it for the warning.
• The goateed elder ordered the ten Great Source Master Realm Death Warriors to self-detonate at the recruitment and cause as many deaths as possible.
• At the crowded recruitment square, Li Zhōujūn identified the attackers, matched Huangfu Shuyun’s cultivation, and gained the power of a Ninth-order Source Lord.
• When the Death Warriors began to self-detonate, Li Zhōujūn’s ten Chess Pieces trapped them in small chessboards, containing their explosions and saving the crowd.
• Huangfu Shuyun and Zhong Ju suspected Li Zhōujūn had intervened, while Su Xi’an realized he was likely the Ninth-order Source Lord who had saved her Sect Master.
• After completing the mission, Li Zhōujūn reached the First-order Great Source Master Realm and prepared to leave Yingyun City.

Huangfu Yixin learned that the Great Dream Demon Lord had allied with Xijing River’s Old Catfish, Nishen True Monarch, and went to confront the threat while requesting reinforcements. At Xijing River, Li Zhōujūn’s fishing was interrupted when Nishen True Monarch raised a monstrous wave toward him.

• Huangfu Shuyun reported that twenty-three Great Origin Masters and two Origin Lords had been recruited for background investigations, and told Huangfu Yixin that Li Zhōujūn had stopped a Death Warrior’s self-detonation aftermath.
• Huangfu Yixin received word that the Great Dream Demon Lord was supplying Dream Crystals to Old Catfish in exchange for causing periodic tidal waves.
• Huangfu Yixin recognized the arrangement as a trap, requested a Seventh-Rank Origin King from Tianyi Hall, and left Huangfu Shuyun to protect the pavilion.
• Li Zhōujūn fished at Xijing River while anglers nearby speculated about the enormous catfish known as Nishen True Monarch.
• Nishen True Monarch struck the river with his tail, sending a huge wave toward Li Zhōujūn and interrupting his attempt to reel in a fish.

Li Zhōujūn fought Nishen True Monarch to protect the Tianqing Domain, while Huangfu Yixin arrived and exposed the Great Dream Demon Lord’s plot to kill her. The three faced off as Nishen True Monarch’s alliance with the demon lord fell apart.

• Li Zhōujūn stopped Nishen True Monarch’s waves from reaching the riverbank and attacked the colossal catfish with a Giant Jade Finger.
• Nishen True Monarch dodged the attack and fought Li Zhōujūn in a clash of physical strength as cultivators watched from shore.
• Huangfu Yixin arrived, and Nishen True Monarch realized the plan to lure and kill her had become dangerous.
• Nishen True Monarch called out the Great Dream Demon Lord, then exposed him by sweeping his tail through the void and forcing him into view.
• Huangfu Yixin joined Li Zhōujūn and told the Great Dream Demon Lord that Tianyi Pavilion’s defense of the region had earned it allies.

Huangfu Yixin and Li Zhōujūn fought the Great Dream Demon Lord and Nishen True Monarch, killing the Great Dream Demon Lord and trapping Nishen True Monarch. Li Zhōujūn confirmed with the system that killing the river beast would still fulfill his mission.

• Huangfu Yixin battled the Great Dream Demon Lord with a rune-formed Frost Dragon while Li Zhōujūn faced Nishen True Monarch.
• Nishen True Monarch attacked Li Zhōujūn with a water column and thunder, but Li Zhōujūn endured the lightning and countered with powerful punches.
• As Huangfu Yixin moved to kill him, the Great Dream Demon Lord prepared to self-destruct, but Nishen True Monarch distracted him by promising help.
• Huangfu Yixin pierced the Great Dream Demon Lord's brow with a flying sword and destroyed his corpse with the Frost Dragon.
• Nishen True Monarch tried to flee, but Li Zhōujūn hooked him with a fishing rod and asked the system whether killing him would count toward the mission.
• The system confirmed that the mission to suppress the river beast would still count if Nishen True Monarch died.