Chapter Summaries

Lin Suqing told Li Zhōujūn that Shen Xianning, Murong Xue’s current life, was gravely injured by Chu Bùjìng and needed the Nether Sea Glazed Bottle to survive. Li Zhōujūn went to the Ghost Sea to seek it, where his arrival sent a gigantic octopus fleeing and left Lu Qicang furious at being spat out.

• Lin Suqing revealed Shen Xianning’s identity as Murong Xue and explained that Chu Bùjìng’s demonic sword wound had lowered Shen Xianning’s cultivation and threatened her life.
• Lin Suqing said only the water in Ghost Sea Great Emperor’s Nether Sea Glazed Bottle could remove the demonic energy, while True Jade Great Emperor and other factions threatened the Great Cold Snow Domain.
• Li Zhōujūn promised to obtain the bottle, gave Lin Suqing a jade pendant containing one of his avatars, and accepted the system’s mission to fight Chu Bùjìng for at least two hundred and fifty years after helping Shen Xianning.
• Li Zhōujūn teleported to the Ghost Sea, where a gigantic octopus recognized him as the Azure Emperor, fled, and spat out the Twelfth-Rank Origin Emperor it had swallowed.
• Lu Qicang cursed the fleeing octopus for spitting him out before he could punch his way through its belly.

Li Zhōujūn reunited with Lu Qicang in the Ghost Sea and asked him to deliver a healing treasure to Lin Suqing for Shen Xianning. He planned to confront Chu Bùjìng over Shen Xianning’s injury, while he and Lu Qicang considered whether the Ghost Sea Great Emperor would lend the treasure.

• Li Zhōujūn found Lu Qicang after a giant octopus spat him out, and the two joked about Lu’s embarrassing ordeal.
• Lu Qicang explained that he had come to the Ghost Sea more than ten years earlier to search for Li Zhōujūn and feared he might be dead.
• Li Zhōujūn recounted his clash with the True Jade Great Emperor, which ended with the emperor roasting two chickens for him.
• Li Zhōujūn asked Lu Qicang to take a treasure from the Ghost Sea Great Emperor to Lin Suqing for Shen Xianning.
• Lu Qicang warned Li Zhōujūn that Chu Bùjìng was a powerful Fourth Tribulation Emperor, but Li Zhōujūn insisted he would make him pay.
• Li Zhōujūn recalled a gray-robed old man in the Yellow Sand Domain who was likely the Ghost Sea Great Emperor.

Li Zhōujūn learned that the Nether Sea Glazed Bottle was held by the Imperial Sea Emperor Venerable and agreed to help the Ghost Sea Great Emperor retrieve it. He left Lu Qicang behind and teleported with the Ghost Sea Great Emperor to the Imperial Sea Holy Land, leaving the latter awed by his power.

• The Ghost Sea Great Emperor told Li Zhōujūn and Lu Qicang that the Imperial Sea Emperor Venerable had taken the Nether Sea Glazed Bottle from him.
• The Ghost Sea Great Emperor asked Li Zhōujūn to help him reclaim the bottle, and Li Zhōujūn agreed to go with him.
• Li Zhōujūn told Lu Qicang to stay behind because the task he had entrusted to him was more important, and gave him a jade pendant containing an incarnation for protection.
• Li Zhōujūn used the system to teleport himself and the Ghost Sea Great Emperor to the Imperial Sea Holy Land.
• The Ghost Sea Great Emperor realized he could not resist Li Zhōujūn's power and reconsidered his earlier wariness of him.

At the Imperial Sea Holy Land, the Imperial Sea Great Emperor celebrated the Immortal Lai Dragon Lord’s survival of the Emperor Realm Third Decay tribulation with him and Mountain Moving Divine Lord. The Ghost Sea Great Emperor and Li Zhōujūn arrived at the Heavenly Gate so the Ghost Sea Great Emperor could collect a debt from the Imperial Sea Emperor Venerable.

• The Imperial Sea Great Emperor, Mountain Moving Divine Lord, and Immortal Lai Dragon Lord toasted the Dragon Lord’s entry into the Emperor Realm Third Decay.
• The Immortal Lai Dragon Lord returned the Nether Sea Glazed Bottle to the Imperial Sea Emperor Venerable and thanked him for providing it during the tribulation.
• Mountain Moving Divine Lord warned that the Ghost Sea Great Emperor had also reached the Emperor Realm Third Decay, but the Imperial Sea Emperor Venerable dismissed the threat.
• The Ghost Sea Great Emperor and Li Zhōujūn appeared before the Imperial Sea Holy Land’s Heavenly Gate.
• The Ghost Sea Great Emperor wounded the gate’s guardian with his voice and announced that he had come to collect a debt from the Imperial Sea Emperor Venerable.

Ghost Sea Great Emperor and Li Zhōujūn confronted Imperial Sea Emperor Venerable and his two allies over the Nether Sea Glazed Bottle. Li Zhōujūn insisted on fighting all three alone, and as Immortal Lai Dragon Lord attacked, Ghost Sea Great Emperor fled to safety.

• Imperial Sea Emperor Venerable, Mountain Moving Divine Lord, and Immortal Lai Dragon Lord arrived at the Heavenly Gate and confronted Ghost Sea Great Emperor and Li Zhōujūn.
• Ghost Sea Great Emperor demanded the Nether Sea Glazed Bottle, but Imperial Sea Emperor Venerable refused and threatened Li Zhōujūn.
• Li Zhōujūn declared that he had come to help reclaim the bottle and challenged all three opponents to fight him together.
• Immortal Lai Dragon Lord attacked Li Zhōujūn with divine lightning while Ghost Sea Great Emperor ran far away.

Li Zhōujūn faced Imperial Sea Emperor Venerable, Mountain Moving Divine Lord, and Immortal Lai Dragon Lord alone to obtain the Nether Sea Glazed Bottle for Ghost Sea Great Emperor. After surviving Immortal Lai Dragon Lord’s opening attack unharmed, Li Zhōujūn was targeted by the three experts’ combined divine abilities.

• Immortal Lai Dragon Lord struck Li Zhōujūn with ten directions of thunder, but Li Zhōujūn emerged from the blast unharmed and dismissed the attack.
• Imperial Sea Emperor Venerable, Mountain Moving Divine Lord, and Immortal Lai Dragon Lord surrounded Li Zhōujūn and agreed to unleash their strongest divine abilities together.
• Old monsters across the Source Realm watched and discussed Li Zhōujūn’s confrontation, while True Jade Great Emperor mocked him and planned to seize the Great Cold Snow Domain from Shen Xianning.
• Lin Suqing realized Li Zhōujūn had come for the Nether Sea Glazed Bottle and worried that he might be hurt fighting three experts.
• Imperial Sea Emperor Venerable offered the bottle if Li Zhōujūn endured their combined strike, while Ghost Sea Great Emperor urged him to take it and shame the three opponents.
• Imperial Sea Emperor Venerable, Mountain Moving Divine Lord, and Immortal Lai Dragon Lord launched a giant seawater palm, one hundred thousand mountain phantoms, and a lightning spear at Li Zhōujūn.

Li Zhōujūn withstood the combined divine abilities of Imperial Sea Emperor Venerable, Immortal Lai Dragon Lord, and Mountain Moving Divine Lord, earning the Nether Sea Glazed Bottle. True Jade Great Emperor plotted to attack the Great Cold Snow Domain, while the Ghost Sea Great Emperor was left baffled by Imperial Sea Emperor Venerable’s contempt for him.

• Li Zhōujūn used his golden Dharma Form to stop and seize the three powerhouses’ combined attacks, astonishing the witnesses and True Jade Great Emperor.
• True Jade Great Emperor decided to summon four allies and attack the Great Cold Snow Domain, but they ignored him to watch the battle.
• Imperial Sea Emperor Venerable stopped Immortal Lai Dragon Lord and Mountain Moving Divine Lord from attacking again, saying he would honor his promise.
• Imperial Sea Emperor Venerable gave the Nether Sea Glazed Bottle to Li Zhōujūn and said he would let him and the Ghost Sea Great Emperor leave.
• The Ghost Sea Great Emperor wondered why Imperial Sea Emperor Venerable despised him so much.

Li Zhōujūn left Imperial Sea Holy Land with Ghost Sea Great Emperor after securing the Nether Sea Glazed Bottle, while Imperial Sea Emperor Venerable and his companions rejected True Jade Great Emperor’s plan to attack the Great Cold Snow Domain. True Jade Great Emperor was left furious, and Imperial Sea Emperor Venerable’s group discussed making peace with Azure Emperor and meeting him again.

• Li Zhōujūn thanked Imperial Sea Emperor Venerable for the Nether Sea Glazed Bottle, then teleported back to Ghost Sea with Ghost Sea Great Emperor.
• Imperial Sea Emperor Venerable, Mountain Moving Divine Lord, and Immortal Lai Dragon Lord bade Li Zhōujūn farewell as the onlookers withdrew.
• True Jade Great Emperor urged Yi Zishi, Yi Fantian, Southern Barbarian Wolf Ancestor, and North Star Sparrow Ancestor to join his plan to seize the Great Cold Snow Domain, but they chose to enter seclusion.
• True Jade Great Emperor proposed that Imperial Sea Emperor Venerable, Immortal Lai Dragon Lord, and Mountain Moving Divine Lord help him take revenge on Li Zhōujūn and attack the Great Cold Snow Domain.
• Imperial Sea Emperor Venerable, Immortal Lai Dragon Lord, and Mountain Moving Divine Lord denounced True Jade Great Emperor and drove away his voice transmission.
• Imperial Sea Emperor Venerable and his companions resumed drinking, discussed the gatekeeper elder’s recovery, and considered meeting Li Zhōujūn again.

True Jade Great Emperor and four other rulers decided to attack the Great Cold Snow Domain, believing Azure Emperor could not stop them all. Meanwhile, Li Zhōujūn entrusted Lu Qicang with the Nether Sea Glazed Bottle, and Lu Qicang set out with Ghost Sea Great Emperor while wondering why the latter trusted Li Zhōujūn so much.

• Southern Barbarian Wolf Ancestor revealed that he had faked going into seclusion to reduce the forces expected to divide the Great Cold Snow Domain’s treasures.
• North Star Sparrow Ancestor, Yi Fantian, and Yi Zishi arrived, and Yi Zishi guessed that Shen Xianning had stopped True Jade Great Emperor’s true body.
• True Jade Great Emperor, Southern Barbarian Wolf Ancestor, North Star Sparrow Ancestor, Yi Fantian, and Yi Zishi agreed to attack the Great Cold Snow Domain and vanished from the hall.
• Li Zhōujūn gave Lu Qicang the Nether Sea Glazed Bottle and asked him to take it to a designated place, while Ghost Sea Great Emperor offered to accompany them.
• Lu Qicang concealed their destination from Ghost Sea Great Emperor, then wondered whether Ghost Sea Great Emperor had been clinging to Li Zhōujūn’s coattails.

Li Zhōujūn teleported to Chu Bùjìng’s hiding place and launched a relentless assault while Chu Bùjìng was recovering from his injuries. As onlookers recognized the Azure Emperor and his opponent, the fight continued with Chu Bùjìng trying to evade his attacks.

• After seeing Lu Qicang and the Ghost Sea Great Emperor off, Li Zhōujūn asked the system for Chu Bùjìng’s location and teleported there.
• Chu Bùjìng recovered inside a volcanic hideout and vowed to conquer the Great Cold Snow Domain after healing from his battle with Shen Xianning.
• Li Zhōujūn appeared inside the volcano, introduced himself as someone there to cause trouble, and destroyed the volcano with his Divine Buddha World-Suppressing Finger.
• Chu Bùjìng dodged Li Zhōujūn’s Golden Lightning, falling stars, and icy sword intent, unable to get a word in edgewise.
• Source Realm onlookers recognized Chu Bùjìng and noted that the Azure Emperor had reached the Fourth Tribulation of the Emperor Realm.

After Li Zhōujūn overwhelmed Chu Bùjìng, several factions reconsidered their plans to attack the Great Cold Snow Domain. True Jade Great Emperor tried to leave when his Jade Heaven Holy Land came under threat, but his allies surrounded him and demanded compensation.

• Imperial Sea Emperor Venerable, Immortal Lai Dragon Lord, and Mountain Moving Divine Lord decided to pressure True Jade Great Emperor by invading his Jade Heaven Holy Land and went there to support the Great Cold Snow Domain.
• True Jade Great Emperor and four other Third Decay powerhouses watched Li Zhōujūn force Chu Bùjìng to dodge, and most of them refused to attack the Great Cold Snow Domain until the battle was decided.
• Lin Suqing realized Azure Emperor might be a Fourth Tribulation powerhouse and prepared the jade pendant he had given her in case True Jade Great Emperor attacked.
• True Jade Great Emperor received word that the three Imperial Sea powerhouses had invaded his holy land and were plundering it, so he abandoned the attack and tried to leave.
• Southern Barbarian Wolf Ancestor, North Star Sparrow Ancestor, Yi Zishi, and Yi Fantian surrounded True Jade Great Emperor and demanded compensation for his insults and for abandoning them.

True Jade Great Emperor returned to find Jade Heaven Holy Land looted by Imperial Sea Emperor Venerable, Immortal Lai Dragon Lord, and Mountain Moving Divine Lord, and was forced to endure their demands. Meanwhile, Ghost Sea Great Emperor and Lu Qicang arrived at Great Cold Snow Domain and learned that Li Zhōujūn was a Fourth Tribulation Emperor Realm expert.

• North Star Sparrow Ancestor, Southern Barbarian Wolf Ancestor, Yi Zishi, and Yi Fantian took all of True Jade Great Emperor's treasures before letting him leave.
• True Jade Great Emperor returned to Jade Heaven Holy Land and learned from Weng Xingshan that Imperial Sea Emperor Venerable, Mountain Moving Divine Lord, and Immortal Lai Dragon Lord had looted its immortal mountains and spirit springs.
• True Jade Great Emperor found the three visitors drinking and enjoying the company of Jade Heaven Holy Land's female cultivators, then ordered the women out and demanded an explanation.
• Imperial Sea Emperor Venerable claimed the looting was compensation for True Jade Great Emperor's failure to welcome them, while Immortal Lai Dragon Lord threatened to take ninety-nine female cultivators; True Jade Great Emperor suppressed his anger and drank with them.
• Ghost Sea Great Emperor and Lu Qicang arrived at Great Cold Snow Domain, saw Li Zhōujūn's Fourth Tribulation of the Emperor Realm aura, and recognized his strength.

Ghost Sea Great Emperor and Lu Qicang delivered the Nether Sea Glazed Bottle to the Great Cold Snow Domain, while its would-be attackers withdrew. Shen Xianning began purging her demonic energy and recovering so she could aid Li Zhōujūn in his battle with Chu Bùjìng.

• Yi Zishi, Yi Fantian, North Star Sparrow Ancestor, and Southern Barbarian Wolf Ancestor abandoned their plans to attack the Great Cold Snow Domain and left.
• Lu Qicang confirmed that Li Zhōujūn had sent the Nether Sea Glazed Bottle to help Shen Xianning, and he gave it to Lin Suqing.
• Lin Suqing brought the bottle to Shen Xianning, who learned that Li Zhōujūn was fighting Chu Bùjìng and saw him forcing Chu to evade his attacks.
• Shen Xianning returned to secluded cultivation to purge the demonic energy and recover, intending to help Li Zhōujūn once she regained her strength.
• Lin Suqing returned to the reception hall, learned Lu Qicang and Ghost Sea Great Emperor had departed, and turned her attention to Li Zhōujūn and Chu Bùjìng's battle.

Li Zhōujūn continued attacking the wounded Chu Bùjìng, while opportunists arrived too late to plunder the Jade Heaven Holy Land. After leaving the Great Cold Snow Domain, the Ghost Sea Great Emperor offered to help Lu Qicang recover his cultivation by seeking out the Emperor Medicine Divine Pavilion.

• Li Zhōujūn kept unleashing divine abilities as Chu Bùjìng dodged and waited for his Source Energy to run out.
• Yi Zishi, Yi Fantian, North Star Sparrow Ancestor, and Southern Barbarian Wolf Ancestor found the Jade Heaven Holy Land almost entirely plundered and left without taking action.
• The True Jade Great Emperor endured Immortal Lai Dragon Lord, Imperial Sea Emperor Venerable, and Mountain Moving Divine Lord staying in his last remaining great hall.
• The Ghost Sea Great Emperor asked Lu Qicang whether he wanted to restore his Emperor Realm Third Decay cultivation.
• The Ghost Sea Great Emperor revealed that Xiao Haodi, master of the Emperor Medicine Divine Pavilion, had once been saved by him and suggested they ask him to refine a suitable pill.

Li Zhōujūn kept Chu Bùjìng occupied for three years while Shen Xianning recovered from her injuries and regained her Fourth Tribulation of the Emperor Realm cultivation. Shen Xianning joined Li Zhōujūn on the battlefield, and they prepared to kill Chu Bùjìng together.

• Li Zhōujūn continued bombarding the injured Chu Bùjìng with divine abilities for three years, leaving him exhausted, furious, and unable to escape or attack.
• Shen Xianning recovered her Fourth Tribulation of the Emperor Realm cultivation and hurried to join Li Zhōujūn.
• Chu Bùjìng declared he would use his final trump card and fight Li Zhōujūn to the death.
• Shen Xianning arrived playing her pipa, and Chu Bùjìng panicked when he realized she had recovered her strength.
• Li Zhōujūn and Shen Xianning exchanged a glance, then Shen Xianning gathered frost into swords as they prepared to kill Chu Bùjìng together.
• The system changed Li Zhōujūn's mission to killing Chu Bùjìng with Shen Xianning and raised the reward to a breakthrough to the first-stage Source Saint.

Li Zhōujūn and Shen Xianning defeated Chu Bùjìng after he burned his lifespan to reach his peak, and he chose to die by his own hand. The system confirmed Li Zhōujūn had completed his mission and advanced to first-tier Origin Saint.

• Shen Xianning attacked Chu Bùjìng with a storm of frost swords, prompting him to unleash Devour Life Reverse Universe and restore his strength to its peak.
• Li Zhōujūn joined Shen Xianning’s attack with a Giant Jade Finger, and the two forces held Chu Bùjìng in a stalemate.
• Shen Xianning sent another wave of flying swords through Chu Bùjìng’s demonic aura, forcing him to fall wounded into the volcanic ruins.
• Chu Bùjìng asked whether Li Zhōujūn had attacked for Shen Xianning, then requested the dignity of ending his own life and dispersed body and soul.
• The system credited Li Zhōujūn and Shen Xianning with Chu Bùjìng’s death and announced Li Zhōujūn’s breakthrough to first-tier Origin Saint.

After Li Zhōujūn and Shen Xianning defeated Chu Bùjìng, they shared a tender night together before Shen Xianning returned to the Great Cold Snow Domain. Li Zhōujūn then learned that Lu Qicang needed Third Decay Emperor Realm true dragon blood to restore his cultivation.

• Immortal Lai Dragon Lord, Imperial Sea Emperor Venerable, and Mountain Moving Divine Lord left the Jade Heaven Holy Land after taking ninety-nine beauties as compensation.
• Li Zhōujūn gave Shen Xianning a jade hairpin, kissed her, and promised to marry her.
• Shen Xianning told Li Zhōujūn that Lu Zhining and Sū Nán were cultivating in seclusion and that she had to return to the Great Cold Snow Domain at dawn.
• Shen Xianning left at dawn, and Li Zhōujūn later learned that Xiao Haodi could not refine a Three Tribulation Emperor Pill for Lu Qicang without Third Decay Emperor Realm true dragon blood.
• Ghost Sea Great Emperor sent Li Zhōujūn a letter about the needed dragon blood, and Li Zhōujūn realized Immortal Lai Dragon Lord might be able to provide it.

Shen Xianning returned the Nether Sea Glazed Bottle to Li Zhōujūn, who told her to keep it and reminded her to wear the jade pendant and hairpin containing his clones. Meanwhile, three Qi Family cultivators trapped Immortal Lai Dragon Palace and confronted Immortal Lai Dragon Lord, intending to refine him into a pill.

• Shen Xianning explained that the Nether Sea Glazed Bottle had purged the demonic energy from her body and offered it to Li Zhōujūn, who insisted she keep it.
• Shen Xianning revealed that she had left Li Zhōujūn's jade pendant behind before fighting Chu Bùjìng, and he urged her to keep the pendant and her jade hairpin with her.
• Shen Xianning planned to return to the Great Cold Snow Domain and embraced Li Zhōujūn before leaving.
• Three Qi Family cultivators used an Isolation Order to seal Immortal Lai Dragon Palace, then entered the sea to confront Immortal Lai Dragon Lord.
• Qi Guanyu, Qi Heng, and Qi Hongzhen announced that they intended to refine Immortal Lai Dragon Lord into a pill, and he prepared to fight them.

Qi Heng, Qi Guanyu, and Qi Hongzhen revealed the Qi Family’s power before trapping Immortal Lai Dragon Lord in a net that suppressed his strength. Li Zhōujūn teleported to rescue him and faced the three elders, who recognized him as the Azure Emperor and greeted him respectfully.

• Qi Guanyu and Qi Hongzhen boasted about the Four Great Ancient Emperor Families and revealed that Han Dancui would marry Qi Zhengqing.
• Qi Heng ordered an attack, and he, Qi Guanyu, and Qi Hongzhen trapped Immortal Lai Dragon Lord in a golden net that blocked his calls for help and shrank his dragon form.
• Li Zhōujūn considered Ghost Sea Great Emperor’s request for Emperor Realm Third Decay true dragon blood, and the system gave him a mission to rescue Immortal Lai Dragon Lord in exchange for a cultivation breakthrough.
• Li Zhōujūn teleported to Immortal Lai Dragon Lord, who called for his help, and the three Qi Family elders recognized Li Zhōujūn as the Azure Emperor and saluted him.

Li Zhōujūn saved Immortal Lai Dragon Lord from the Qi Family and asked him for dragon blood. After learning Li Zhōujūn was engaged to Shen Xianning, Immortal Lai Dragon Lord promised to keep their relationship secret.

• Qi Heng asked Li Zhōujūn to hand over Immortal Lai Dragon Lord, but Li Zhōujūn ordered Qi Heng, Qi Guanyu, and Qi Hongzhen to leave.
• Qi Heng, Qi Guanyu, and Qi Hongzhen withdrew and debated Li Zhōujūn's strength, concluding he was likely a Fourth Tribulation Emperor Realm expert.
• Immortal Lai Dragon Lord thanked Li Zhōujūn for rescuing him, and Li Zhōujūn asked him for a small bottle of dragon blood.
• Immortal Lai Dragon Lord offered Li Zhōujūn beauties from Jade Heaven Holy Land, but Li Zhōujūn declined and confirmed that Shen Xianning was his fiancée.
• Immortal Lai Dragon Lord envied Li Zhōujūn and promised not to reveal his relationship with Shen Xianning.