Chapter Summaries

Li Zhōujūn fought True Jade Great Emperor above the Ghost Sea until True Jade agreed to roast him two chickens, while the cautious Ghost Sea Great Emperor mistook their fight and meal for a trap. After True Jade left, Li Zhōujūn advanced to the First-Rank Source Emperor Realm and headed toward shore, leaving the Ghost Sea Great Emperor convinced his supposed allies were still plotting against him.

• True Jade Great Emperor warned Li Zhōujūn about the Ghost Sea Great Emperor, but Li Zhōujūn refused to move and kept fighting.
• The Ghost Sea Great Emperor watched from the deep and decided the Azure Emperor and True Jade Great Emperor were allies staging a fight to lure him out.
• Li Zhōujūn agreed to stop fighting if True Jade Great Emperor roasted him one spicy chicken and one plain chicken, and True Jade prepared them while the Ghost Sea Great Emperor took their meal as proof of an alliance.
• After Li Zhōujūn ate the chickens, True Jade Great Emperor left, and Li Zhōujūn broke through to the First-Rank Source Emperor Realm.
• Li Zhōujūn headed slowly toward the shore, while the Ghost Sea Great Emperor ignored calls to attack and recorded the names of those urging him to act.

Li Zhōujūn traveled from the Ghost Sea to Sand Trap City in the Yellow Sand Domain to search for the Seven-Colored Sea-Burning Flame. There, he saw a wolf-eyed beastkin girl being sold as a slave at an exorbitant price.

• The Ghost Sea Great Emperor feared Li Zhōujūn and the True Jade Great Emperor were still nearby, so he decided to hide for a thousand years.
• Li Zhōujūn left the Ghost Sea and reached Sand Trap City months later, where he became interested in the rumored Seven-Colored Sea-Burning Flame.
• Li Zhōujūn observed the city's street performers and saw beastkin being displayed in cages for sale.
• Chen Fuhai refused to lower the price of a fierce, Source Master Realm Wolf Girl, demanding three hundred thousand low-grade Source Crystals.
• The onlookers balked at Chen Fuhai's price while Li Zhōujūn watched the scene.

Li Zhōujūn learned that the Seven-Colored Sea-Burning Flame might be in Mad Sand Valley and prepared to head there, then reunited with Meng Lai in Sand Trap City. Meng Lai offered to help him find the flame, but their conversation ended when Meng Lai’s junior sister pinched him again.

• Si Yumo bought the Wolf Girl from Chen Fuhai, named her Si Xiaowei, and led her away.
• Li Zhōujūn paid a tea stall owner for information and learned that the Seven-Colored Sea-Burning Flame might be in Mad Sand Valley in the Yellow Sand Domain.
• Li Zhōujūn left the tea stall and encountered Meng Lai, whom he had last met in the Tianqing Domain more than two hundred years earlier.
• Meng Lai offered to help Li Zhōujūn obtain the flame as repayment for Li Zhōujūn’s past help to Tianyi Pavilion.
• Meng Lai explained that he wanted to leave his troublesome junior sister behind at the local Tianyi Pavilion, but she pinched his waist as he spoke.

Meng Lai reunited with his junior sister Si Yumo, who had bought the wolf girl Si Xiaowei, and urged her to stay safely at Tianyi Pavilion while he helped Li Zhōujūn pursue the Seven-Colored Sea-Burning Flame. After Si Yumo left, Meng Lai explained that he had deliberately waited for Li Zhōujūn to repay him for helping Tianyi Pavilion, and Li Zhōujūn agreed to travel with him.

• Si Yumo teased Meng Lai about badmouthing her and introduced the wolf girl she had named Si Xiaowei.
• Si Yumo asked Meng Lai to reimburse her for Si Xiaowei, and he gave her ten thousand top-grade Source Crystals despite her refusal to obey him.
• Meng Lai persuaded Si Yumo to go to Tianyi Pavilion in the Yellow Sand Domain instead of joining the dangerous competition for the Seven-Colored Sea-Burning Flame.
• Si Yumo told Li Zhōujūn that she admired the Azure Emperor and thanked him for keeping quiet about her getting her money back from the beast seller.
• After Si Yumo departed with Si Xiaowei, Meng Lai admitted he had waited for Li Zhōujūn to repay his help to Tianyi Pavilion, and Li Zhōujūn agreed to go with him.

Li Zhōujūn and Meng Lai set out for the Sand River Mountain Range to find the Seven-Colored Sea-Burning Flame, unaware that Xu Meike and Blood Charm Aunt had already obtained it. As they approached Mad Sand Valley, Blood Charm Aunt detected two demon ambushers and planned to kill them.

• Li Zhōujūn revealed that he had reached the First-Rank Source Emperor Realm, and Meng Lai confirmed the Sea-Burning Flame was hidden in the Sand River Mountain Range rather than Mad Sand Valley.
• Li Zhōujūn and Meng Lai traveled toward the Sand River Mountain Range, and Meng Lai learned that his junior sister Si Yumo had arrived safely at Tianyi Pavilion in the Yellow Sand Domain.
• Xiaoye and Youya waited in Mad Sand Valley, complaining that the passing cultivators were too powerful for them to rob safely.
• Xu Meike revealed that she and Blood Charm Aunt had captured the Seven-Colored Sea-Burning Flame and planned to refine it so Blood Charm Aunt could eventually regain a body.
• Blood Charm Aunt detected Xiaoye and Youya in Mad Sand Valley and decided to kill them for their resources.

Xu Meike entered Mad Sand Valley and was confronted by the Source King demons Xiaoye and Youya, who tried to rob her. Blood Charm Aunt took control of Xu Meike and revealed her Ninth-Rank Source Emperor power, but Meng Lai arrived before she could attack the demons.

• Xiaoye and Youya argued over whether to rob a Great Source Master, then decided to resume their old work together.
• Xiaoye and Youya stopped Xu Meike in Mad Sand Valley and demanded one-tenth of her heavenly treasures, but Xu Meike claimed she had no money.
• Xu Meike revealed that she intended to rob the demons' lives, and Blood Charm Aunt took over her body and unleashed a Ninth-Rank Source Emperor aura.
• Blood Charm Aunt threatened to refine Xiaoye and Youya into beast pills, while the frightened demons realized Xu Meike was not acting alone.
• Meng Lai appeared alone and ordered Blood Charm Aunt to stop, while Li Zhōujūn remained hidden nearby.

Meng Lai confronted Blood Charm Aunt, who was controlling Xu Meike, and trapped her with four powerful Alchemical Puppets. Blood Charm Aunt killed Xu Meike, seized her body, and refined the Seven-Colored Sea-Burning Flame to reach Eleventh-Rank Source Emperor strength, but Li Zhōujūn appeared in her path as the chapter ended.

• Xiaoye and Youya identified Meng Lai as a True Disciple of Tianyi Hall, prompting Blood Charm Aunt to try to leave rather than risk attacking him.
• Meng Lai struck at Blood Charm Aunt, was knocked into a mountain wall, then deployed four Ninth-Rank Source Emperor Alchemical Puppets to surround her.
• Trapped and fearing defeat, Blood Charm Aunt decided to seize Xu Meike's body and refine the Seven-Colored Sea-Burning Flame.
• Blood Charm Aunt annihilated Xu Meike's soul, took control of her body, and swallowed the flame before Meng Lai's puppets could stop her.
• The flame raised Blood Charm Aunt's strength to Eleventh-Rank Source Emperor, and she prepared to leave without attacking Meng Lai.
• Li Zhōujūn appeared in Blood Charm Aunt's path, alarming Meng Lai because Li Zhōujūn was only a First-Rank Source Emperor.

Li Zhōujūn blocked Blood Charm Aunt’s escape and revealed that his cultivation had reached Eleventh-Rank Source Emperor, shocking her and the others. With Meng Lai’s help, she found herself facing two Eleventh-Rank opponents, but she refused to surrender and prepared to fight using the Seven-Colored Sea-Burning Flame.

• Blood Charm Aunt confronted Li Zhōujūn after he appeared in her path, but cautiously held back from attacking him.
• Xiaoye, Youya, and Meng Lai were stunned when Li Zhōujūn’s aura rose from First-Rank to Eleventh-Rank Source Emperor.
• Meng Lai summoned a golden sphere that fused with his four Alchemical Puppets, creating an Eleventh-Rank Source Emperor puppet.
• Blood Charm Aunt realized she faced Li Zhōujūn and the puppet, but declared that the Seven-Colored Sea-Burning Flame could still let her fight back.

Li Zhōujūn and Meng Lai defeated Blood Charm Aunt in Mad Sand Valley and obtained the Seven-Colored Sea-Burning Flame. After seeing Li Zhōujūn use a finger technique resembling the Azure Emperor’s, Meng Lai wondered if his companion was the legendary emperor.

• The system gave Li Zhōujūn a mission to obtain the Seven-Colored Sea-Burning Flame and break through to the twelfth-stage Origin Emperor realm.
• Blood Charm Aunt attacked Li Zhōujūn with a seven-colored fireball while Meng Lai fought her with an Eleventh-Rank Source Emperor Alchemical Puppet.
• Li Zhōujūn dispelled the fireball and struck Blood Charm Aunt with a finger technique that reminded Meng Lai of the Azure Emperor’s power.
• Meng Lai used the Alchemical Puppet to pierce Blood Charm Aunt, then captured her fleeing soul with the Soul Binding Rope.
• The Seven-Colored Sea-Burning Flame left Xu Meike’s body and circled Li Zhōujūn, choosing him as its prospective master.
• Blood Charm Aunt, bound as a soul, shouted at Meng Lai and the other disciples of major powers to kill her.

Li Zhōujūn and Meng Lai captured Blood Charm Aunt, and Li Zhōujūn confirmed that he was the Azure Emperor. The group was left with Meng Lai assigning Xiaoye and Youya a new cultivation deadline as punishment for their earlier attempt to rob people.

• Meng Lai captured Blood Charm Aunt with the Soul Binding Rope and sent her to Tianyi Hall, while Li Zhōujūn collected the Seven-Colored Sea-Burning Flame and received the system’s reward of Twelfth-Rank Origin Emperor cultivation.
• Li Zhōujūn confirmed to Meng Lai that he really was the Azure Emperor, then offered to address each other as brothers.
• Youya and Xiaoye learned Li Zhōujūn’s identity and stayed quiet, while Meng Lai wondered about his strength and the Seven-Colored Sea-Burning Flame.
• Meng Lai praised Youya and Xiaoye for helping keep Blood Charm Aunt occupied, but said their merits would not erase their earlier fault of trying to rob people.
• Meng Lai promised the demons heavenly treasures and ordered them to reach the Source Emperor realm within three hundred years, or face accountability.

After Meng Lai left for Jade Sand City, Li Zhōujūn refined the Seven-Colored Sea-Burning Flame, advanced to the First-Rank Origin Sect realm, and named its transformed spirit Little Cai. He then set out to meet Meng Lai’s junior sister, Si Yumo, though he did not know where Jade Sand City was.

• Meng Lai and Li Zhōujūn agreed that Meng Lai and Si Yumo would wait for him in Jade Sand City while he handled other matters.
• After Xu Meike’s corpse was buried, Li Zhōujūn refined the Seven-Colored Sea-Burning Flame at an oasis, advancing to the First-Rank Origin Sect realm as the flame recovered and reached the same realm.
• The Ao Xue Flying Sword advanced to a Seventh-Rank, First-Order Origin Artifact but remained asleep in Li Zhōujūn’s dantian.
• The Seven-Colored Sea-Burning Flame transformed into a little girl and told Li Zhōujūn that the Sea-Burning Emperor had protected her before dying in battle.
• Li Zhōujūn named the flame spirit Little Cai, and she celebrated her new name inside his dantian.
• After noticing that it had become night, Li Zhōujūn headed toward Jade Sand City to meet Si Yumo, unsure of the city’s location.

Li Zhōujūn secretly helped the injured Liu Liepeng and unconscious Lu Lingxiu on their way to Jade Sand City. Their journey halted when the wanted Tiger Snake Two Ghosts ambushed them, revealing that someone had hired them to capture Lu Lingxiu.

• Li Zhōujūn overheard Liu Liepeng say he was taking the unconscious Purple Skirt Woman to Jade Sand City and decided to follow them.
• Li Zhōujūn used two streams of light to heal Liu Liepeng and strengthen the Purple Skirt Woman, then remained hidden as Liu Liepeng thanked him and continued onward.
• Tiger Ghost Huang and Snake Ghost Bai blocked Liu Liepeng’s path, and Liu Lieyang recognized the two wanted Twelfth-Rank Origin Emperors.
• Snake Ghost Bai and Tiger Ghost Huang demanded that Liu Lieyang leave Lu Lingxiu behind, saying a major figure had hired them to wait for her.
• Liu Lieyang accused Mai Jiaxiu, the Young Sect Master of the Jingchen Sect, of colluding with wanted criminals, while Li Zhōujūn watched from the void.

Liu Lieyang defended Lu Lingxiu against the Tiger Snake Two Ghosts until Li Zhōujūn intervened, killing Tiger Ghost Huang and crippling Snake Ghost Bai. Mai Jiaxiu and Elder Ying arrived, and Mai Jiaxiu revealed that he wanted Lu Lingxiu’s War God Bone.

• Liu Lieyang refused to abandon Lu Lingxiu and prepared to fight the Tiger Snake Two Ghosts.
• Li Zhōujūn’s Ao Xue Sword killed Tiger Ghost Huang and severed Snake Ghost Bai’s body and cultivation.
• Mai Jiaxiu and Elder Ying emerged from the void, and Liu Lieyang realized Lu Shengjing had likely died holding Elder Ying back.
• Mai Jiaxiu dismissed the defeated ghosts and called for the hidden expert, while Elder Ying admitted he could not sense anyone nearby.
• Mai Jiaxiu revealed that he coveted Lu Lingxiu’s War God Bone for its power to raise his battle prowess above his cultivation rank.

Li Zhōujūn summoned Jiang Ansha, the master of Tianyi Pavilion in the Yellow Sand Domain, by using his Holy Son Token while Mai Jiaxiu prepared to kill Liu Lieyang and Lu Lingxiu. Jiang Ansha arrived unseen, learned that Mai Jiaxiu had allied with Snake Ghost Bai, and resolved to punish him.

• Mai Jiaxiu denied colluding with Snake Ghost Bai and threatened Liu Lieyang, while Li Zhōujūn decided to use his Holy Son identity.
• Li Zhōujūn used the Holy Son Token to order Jiang Ansha to come to his location.
• Jiang Ansha received the order while entertaining Meng Lai and Si Yumo, then left without explaining further.
• Mai Jiaxiu killed Snake Ghost Bai, mocked the unseen observer, and ordered Old Eagle to attack Liu Lieyang and Lu Lingxiu.
• Jiang Ansha watched from the void, realized Mai Jiaxiu had colluded with Snake Ghost Bai, and vowed to tear Mai Jiaxiu limb from limb.

Jiang Ansha rescued Liu Lieyang and exposed Mai Jiaxiu’s lies, then confronted Mai Zhuangzhi over his son’s crimes. The chapter ended with Jiang Ansha asking the hidden Holy Son to decide Mai Jiaxiu’s fate.

• Jiang Ansha appeared and blasted off Elder Ying’s arm as Elder Ying attacked Liu Lieyang.
• Mai Jiaxiu accused Liu Lieyang of colluding with the Tiger Snake Two Ghosts, but Jiang Ansha rebuked him and declared that he had colluded with someone wanted by Tianyi Pavilion.
• Jiang Ansha killed Elder Ying and seized Mai Jiaxiu, then drew Mai Zhuangzhi’s avatar out of his son.
• Mai Zhuangzhi kicked Mai Jiaxiu away and offered him to Tianyi Pavilion rather than risk opposing Jiang Ansha.
• Jiang Ansha bowed toward the void and asked the Holy Son to appear and decide the matter.

Li Zhōujūn revealed himself as the Saint of Tianyi Hall and handed Mai Jiaxiu’s case to Jiang Ansha. Jiang Ansha arrested Mai Jiaxiu and planned to investigate his father and destroy the Jingchen Sect if its guilt was confirmed.

• Jiang Ansha mistook Li Zhōujūn’s hidden position, then bowed to him after Li revealed himself as Tianyi Hall’s Saint.
• Mai Zhuangzhi, Liu Lieyang, and Mai Jiaxiu paid their respects to Li, while Mai Jiaxiu repeatedly begged for mercy.
• Li reminded Mai Jiaxiu that he had insulted him and pointed out that Mai Jiaxiu regretted being caught, not his crimes.
• Li ordered Jiang Ansha to handle the case according to Tianyi Pavilion’s procedures and submit the records for review.
• Jiang Ansha arrested Mai Jiaxiu and let Mai Zhuangzhi’s avatar leave while warning that the Jingchen Sect could be implicated.
• Jiang Ansha told Li that Mai Zhuangzhi had likely known about the collusion and planned to confirm the evidence before ordering the Jingchen Sect’s destruction.

Li Zhōujūn reached the Tianyi Pavilion in the Yellow Sand Domain, where Meng Lai learned that his Brother Li was Tianyi Hall’s Holy Son. Qin Tianyi then told Li Zhōujūn he planned to fake his death and hand Tianyi Hall and its leadership to him.

• Li Zhōujūn accepted Jiang Ansha’s offer to guide him to Jade Sand City and bring Liu Lieyang and the unconscious Lu Lingxiu along.
• In Jade Sand City, Liu Lieyang took Lu Lingxiu to seek refuge with the Lu Family’s eldest young master, possibly the exiled Lu Yuanke.
• Jiang Ansha led Li Zhōujūn through a hidden passage into the Tianyi Pavilion’s secluded paradise.
• Meng Lai and Si Yumo were surprised when Jiang Ansha revealed that Brother Li was Tianyi Hall’s Holy Son.
• Qin Tianyi told Li Zhōujūn he would forge him a hall-master token, fake his death, and pass the leadership of Tianyi Hall to him.

Li Zhōujūn settled into his role as Tianyi Hall’s Holy Son and confirmed to Si Yumo that he was the Azure Emperor. When Huang Zixin reported that Jiang Ansha was trapped by a powerful whale shark at Jingchen Sect, Li Zhōujūn chose to go face it despite her warning.

• Qin Tianyi departed to travel, while Meng Lai questioned Li Zhōujūn about becoming Tianyi Hall’s Holy Son and learned Qin Tianyi was his Old Ancestor.
• Huang Zixin escorted Li Zhōujūn to his residence, where Si Yumo brought him a meal and deduced that he was the Azure Emperor.
• Huang Zixin arrived in distress and reported that Jiang Ansha and the Pavilion Master were in danger after a first-tier Source Venerable Realm whale shark appeared beneath Jingchen Sect.
• The system tasked Li Zhōujūn with suppressing the whale shark and rescuing Jiang Ansha, offering him an immediate teleport to her location.
• Li Zhōujūn said he wanted to face the whale shark, while Huang Zixin warned him not to take the risk.

Li Zhōujūn arrived at Jingchen Sect as the Whale Shark defended it from Tianyi Pavilion, then revealed enough strength to earn the intervention of the Ghost Sea Great Emperor. The Great Emperor took the Whale Shark away after Li Zhōujūn spared it, while privately concluding that Li Zhōujūn was hiding his true power.

• The Whale Shark attacked the barrier protecting Jiang Ansha and the Tianyi Pavilion experts as Mai Zhuangzhi pleaded with it to flee and save itself.
• Li Zhōujūn arrived, caught the Whale Shark's tail, and faced its renewed attack before a gray-robed old man appeared and subdued it.
• The gray-robed old man identified himself as the Whale Shark's ancestor and asked Li Zhōujūn to spare it; Li Zhōujūn's system then credited him with completing his task and advanced his cultivation to the first level of the Source Venerable Realm.
• Li Zhōujūn let the gray-robed old man take the Whale Shark back to the Ghost Sea, and the man recognized him as Qingdi.
• The Ghost Sea Great Emperor privately suspected Li Zhōujūn was concealing his strength and told the Whale Shark that the Holy Son was no weaker than he was.

Li Zhōujūn left the Jingchen Sect crisis in Jiang Ansha’s hands after the Ghost Sea Great Emperor took away the Old Whale Shark, and the Tianyi Hall elders arrived to pay their respects to him. As Li Zhōujūn departed for other business, Meng Lai arrived too late to help and tried to arrange a future gathering to recount his exploits with the Holy Son.

• Huang Zixin apologized for failing to protect Li Zhōujūn, who reassured her, while the Woman in Ruqun invited him to meet at Yiyue Tea House in Jade Sand City.
• Li Zhōujūn told Jiang Ansha to handle the Jingchen Sect, and Jiang Ansha vowed that its members would not be spared for offending the Holy Son.
• Five Tianyi Hall Source Venerables arrived, learned that Li Zhōujūn had resolved the crisis, and bowed to him before departing; Han Yunhan glanced back at him with curiosity.
• Li Zhōujūn prepared to leave, but Meng Lai arrived boasting that he had rushed to protect the Holy Son and regretting that he had missed the battle.
• Meng Lai asked Jiang Ansha to gather the Tianyi Pavilion experts so he could tell them how he and Li Zhōujūn had subdued Blood Charm Aunt.