Chapter Summaries

Li Zhōujūn traveled to the Emperor Medicine Divine Pavilion with the Immortal Lai Dragon Lord and delivered the dragon blood Lu Qicang needed to restore his cultivation. After Li Zhōujūn arrived, the Dragon Lord left to find Imperial Sea Emperor Venerable, carrying a jade pendant containing one of Li Zhōujūn’s clones.

• Li Zhōujūn invited the Immortal Lai Dragon Lord to accompany him to the Emperor Medicine Divine Pavilion, and the Dragon Lord carried him there in dragon form.
• Qi Heng, Qi Guanyu, and Qi Hongzhen reported their encounter with Li Zhōujūn to Qi Yongxiu, who confirmed Li Zhōujūn’s Fourth Tribulation Emperor strength and dismissed their failure to capture the Dragon Lord.
• Li Zhōujūn arrived at the Emperor Medicine Divine Pavilion on the Dragon Lord’s back, startling the guardian elder and cultivators, while Ghost Sea Great Emperor, Xiao Haodi, and Lu Qicang came out to greet him.
• Li Zhōujūn gave Lu Qicang the Dragon Lord’s blood so Lu could refine the pill needed to restore his cultivation.
• The Dragon Lord decided to visit Imperial Sea Emperor Venerable, and Li Zhōujūn gave him a jade pendant containing one of his clones.

Xiao Haodi completed a dragon-blood Emperor Pill that could restore Lu Qicang’s cultivation, but the Qi Family tried to claim the pill and confronted Xiao Haodi at the Emperor Medicine Divine Pavilion. Ghost Sea Great Emperor joined the standoff, only to find that all three Qi elders were also at the Emperor Realm Third Decay.

• Li Zhōujūn departed after the dragon blood was delivered, and forty-nine days later tribulation clouds gathered over the Emperor Medicine Divine Pavilion.
• Qi Yongxiu ordered Qi Heng, Qi Guanyu, and Qi Hongzhen to buy Xiao Haodi’s pill for up to ten times its value or take it by force if necessary.
• Xiao Haodi used a bronze bell to withstand nine bolts of divine lightning and completed a golden pill amid a vision of dragons.
• Xiao Haodi gave the pill to Lu Qicang so he could enter seclusion and restore his cultivation.
• The three Qi elders demanded the pill, but Xiao Haodi refused because he had already given it to Lu Qicang and lacked more dragon blood to make another.
• Ghost Sea Great Emperor appeared to defend Xiao Haodi, and the three Qi elders revealed that they also possessed Emperor Realm Third Decay auras.

Qi Yongxiu arrived at the Emperor Medicine Divine Pavilion and demanded Xiao Haodi's Dragon Blood Body Sculpting Pill, threatening to take it by force. Li Zhōujūn's clone appeared to defend the pill, and his contemptuous challenge left the Qi Family stunned.

• Qi Heng, Qi Guanyu, and Qi Hongzhen demanded the pill, but the Ghost Sea Great Emperor warned that taking it would offend the Azure Emperor.
• Lu Qicang revealed he had an Azure Emperor clone, but Qi Yongxiu arrived and threatened to destroy it while claiming the pill for the Qi Family.
• Qi Yongxiu offered to pay ten times the price or seize the pill, and Lu Qicang prepared to surrender it to protect the others.
• Li Zhōujūn received a system mission to make Qi Yongxiu suffer a setback through a clone, and his clone emerged from Lu Qicang's jade pendant.
• Li Zhōujūn challenged Qi Yongxiu to try destroying his clone and dismissed the Qi Family as unworthy of his opposition, shocking its members.

Li Zhōujūn’s clone stopped Qi Yongxiu’s powerful cauldron attack, forcing the Qi Family Patriarch to retreat from the Emperor Medicine Divine Pavilion. The system rewarded Li Zhōujūn by raising his cultivation to Fourth Stage Origin Saint, while Shen Xianning realized his true body was stronger than Qi Yongxiu.

• Qi Yongxiu summoned his Cauldron Suppressing Mountains and Rivers divine ability and sent the enormous cauldron crashing toward Li Zhōujūn’s clone.
• Shen Xianning prepared to support Li Zhōujūn, but his voice reached her through her hairpin and told her not to hurry.
• Li Zhōujūn caught the descending cauldron with one hand, leaving Qi Yongxiu unable to force it down.
• The system announced that Li Zhōujūn had completed his mission and advanced to Fourth Stage Origin Saint.
• Qi Yongxiu withdrew his divine ability and left with Qi Heng, Qi Hongzhen, and Qi Guanyu, while Wei Yan mocked the onlookers who had misunderstood the clash.

Li Zhōujūn’s clone dispersed after the conflict with the Qi Family, and Qi Yongxiu summoned Supreme Elder Qi Jianxi to seek revenge. Meanwhile, Li Zhōujūn returned to the Tianqing Domain, where he met Huangfu Yixin as she prepared to leave Tianyi Pavilion for Tianyi Hall.

• Li Zhōujūn ended his clone after Lu Qicang, Ghost Sea Great Emperor, and Xiao Haodi thanked him for his help.
• Qi Yongxiu told Supreme Elder Qi Jianxi how Li Zhōujūn had thwarted the Qi Family, and Qi Jianxi promised to handle the matter.
• Qi Yongxiu believed Qi Jianxi, a peak first-rate Fourth Tribulation Emperor Realm cultivator, could defeat Li Zhōujūn.
• Li Zhōujūn fished beside Xijing River while Little Cai roasted a chicken and asked him to call her Mister rather than master.
• Huangfu Yixin met Li Zhōujūn and explained that she would soon return to Tianyi Hall, leaving her Tianqing Domain pavilion post to her younger sister, Huangfu Shuyun.

Qi Jianxi drew Li Zhōujūn into a spiritual world to kill him, but Li Zhōujūn resisted his powerful attacks and found Qi Jianxi’s hiding place. The battle escalated as Qi Jianxi prepared to use his trump card.

• After Huangfu Yixin left, Qi Jianxi approached Li Zhōujūn, compared the Azure Emperor to a conspicuous flower, and announced that he had come to pluck it.
• Qi Jianxi transported Li Zhōujūn into a spiritual world of his own making, while Little Cai was left behind beside the fire and worried about Sir.
• Li Zhōujūn recognized Qi Jianxi as a member of the Qi Family and dismissed his threat, prompting the system to issue a mission to make Qi Jianxi terrified and block the Qi Family’s entrance for two and a half years.
• Qi Jianxi sent water-formed figures and then a giant water warrior to attack, but Li Zhōujūn blocked their assaults and evaded the giant’s punch.
• Li Zhōujūn used his divine eye to locate Qi Jianxi and struck him with thunderbolts and falling star-like chess pieces, forcing Qi Jianxi to prepare his trump card.

Li Zhōujūn overwhelmed Qi Jianxi in Qi Jianxi’s mental world, making him feel terrified and unable to expel Li Zhōujūn. Meanwhile, Qi Yongxiu planned to secure a pill for Qi Zhengqing, while Immortal Lai Dragon Lord urged the despairing Imperial Sea Emperor Venerable to steal Han Dancui away.

• Qi Jianxi transformed into a giant water Dharma Form, but Li Zhōujūn’s giant sword forced him to use all his strength to resist.
• Li Zhōujūn matched Qi Jianxi’s attempt to expel him from the mental world, terrifying Qi Jianxi and completing the first stage of his mission.
• Qi Yongxiu reassured Qi Zhengqing that he would capture Immortal Lai Dragon Lord and obtain the Dragon Origin Body Tempering Pill after Qi Jianxi dealt with Li Zhōujūn.
• At the Imperial Sea Holy Land, Immortal Lai Dragon Lord proposed that he and Imperial Sea Emperor Venerable steal Han Dancui, and Imperial Sea Emperor Venerable stared at him in shock.

Li Zhōujūn defeated Qi Jianxi by surviving the destruction of Qi Jianxi’s mental world, then named Little Cai Li Qicai and teleported to the gates of Qi Family. Qi Jianxi, wounded and furious, ordered the Qi Family elders to join him in a formation, but Li Zhōujūn arrived before they could act.

• Immortal Lai Dragon Lord encouraged Imperial Sea Emperor Venerable to regain his resolve rather than give up.
• Qi Jianxi destroyed his mental world in an attempt to injure Li Zhōujūn, but Li Zhōujūn used Fifty-Fifty to withstand the blast.
• Li Zhōujūn returned to Little Cai, gave her the full name Li Qicai, and asked the system to teleport him to Qi Family.
• Qi Jianxi returned to Qi Family injured and told Qi Yongxiu that he had failed to defeat the Azure Emperor.
• Qi Jianxi ordered Qi Yongxiu to summon four Fourth Tribulation elders to form Qi Family’s Five Peaks Emperor Execution Formation.
• Li Zhōujūn appeared at the gates of Qi Family.

Li Zhōujūn blockaded the entrance to the Qi Family’s world, while Qi Jianxi and the other Supreme Elders prepared the Five Peaks Emperor Slaying Array. Qi Yongxiu returned inside, and the Qi Family resolved to make the Azure Emperor pay for his challenge.

• Li Zhōujūn sealed all but one of the Qi Family’s exits and waited outside its entrance.
• Qi Jianxi told Qi Shouxin, Qi Jianhai, Qi Fengmao, and Qi Qian that he had self-detonated his spiritual world to escape Li Zhōujūn.
• The Supreme Elders ordered Qi Yongxiu to stall Li Zhōujūn while they prepared the Five Peaks Emperor Slaying Array.
• Li Zhōujūn told Qi Yongxiu he would blockade the entrance and offered to beat him back inside; Qi Yongxiu returned to the Qi Family’s world.
• Qi Jianxi and the other Supreme Elders finished preparing the array and turned their attention toward Li Zhōujūn.

Li Zhōujūn faced the Qi Family’s five Fourth Tribulation Supreme Elders and their Five Peaks Emperor Slaying Array. He shattered its mountains with one punch, leaving the array cracked and Qi Jianxi and the others stunned.

• Li Zhōujūn waited outside the Qi Family’s world until Qi Jianxi and four other Supreme Elders emerged and activated the Five Peaks Emperor Slaying Array.
• The five elders took positions in the array while Shen Xianning watched from the Great Cold Snow Domain and prepared to help if needed.
• Qi Jianxi and the others combined their power to summon five enormous mountains and sent them crashing down on Li Zhōujūn.
• The system changed Li Zhōujūn’s skill into One Punch Shatters All Formations, and he destroyed the mountains and cracked the array with a single punch.

Li Zhōujūn shattered the Qi Family’s Five Peaks Emperor Slaying Array with one punch and forced its Supreme Elders to retreat, then blocked the only exit to the Qi Family’s world. When Qi Yongxiu summoned the clan’s Old Ancestor, the Old Ancestor awakened and unleashed a terrifying aura into the Source Realm.

• Li Zhōujūn broke the Five Peaks Emperor Slaying Array, and its collapse badly injured Qi Jianxi, Qi Fengmao, Qi Qian, Qi Shouxin, and Qi Jianhai.
• Li Zhōujūn told the five Supreme Elders that he would block the Qi Family’s only exit until he grew bored, while observers discussed the Qi Family’s humiliation.
• Qi Yongxiu declared that the Qi Family would summon Ancestor Qi, then went to the mountain where the white-haired Old Ancestor was undergoing the Emperor Soul Decay.
• Qi Yongxiu begged the Old Ancestor for help, and the Old Ancestor opened his eyes and released a terrifying aura that surged into the Source Realm.
• Li Zhōujūn calmly refilled his teacup as cultivators wondered whether he could handle the awakened Old Ancestor.

Li Zhōujūn faced Ancestor Qi after the Qi Family’s ancestor emerged from seclusion with his Emperor Soul already damaged by tribulation. Their opening attacks collided, and Ancestor Qi challenged Li Zhōujūn to see whose Emperor Soul would be erased first.

• Qi Jianxi feared that Ancestor Qi’s intervention would worsen the damage to his Emperor Soul and bring disaster upon the Qi Family.
• Ancestor Qi and Qi Yongxiu emerged from the stone stele, and Ancestor Qi’s overwhelming pressure spread across the Source Realm.
• Ancestor Qi forgot his own name, prompting Qi Yongxiu to remind him that he was Qi Haohan.
• Li Zhōujūn identified himself and urged Ancestor Qi to return, but Ancestor Qi refused and attacked.
• Li Zhōujūn blocked Ancestor Qi’s sleeve strike and shattered his phantom foot with a teacup.
• Ancestor Qi recognized that Li Zhōujūn was also undergoing the Five Decays of the Emperor Realm and vowed to slay him.

Li Zhōujūn defeated Ancestor Qi’s attacks without suffering a scratch, and Ancestor Qi’s imperial soul faded after he exhausted himself. With the Qi Family driven back through its passageway, the story left Qin Tianyi preparing to hand Tianyi Hall over to Zhōujūn in a few days.

• Ancestor Qi attacked Li Zhōujūn with sword, fire, and lightning techniques, but their first two attacks clashed and his lightning left Li Zhōujūn unharmed.
• Qi Yongxiu celebrated the lightning strike, while the five Qi Family Supreme Elders rebuked him for risking Ancestor Qi’s imperial soul.
• Li Zhōujūn remained uninjured as Ancestor Qi’s imperial soul succumbed to the Five Decays, and Ancestor Qi fell to his death.
• Li Zhōujūn ordered the Qi Family to return through its passageway, and Qi Yongxiu and the five Supreme Elders fled inside.
• Qin Tianyi remarked that Tianyi Hall would be handed over to Zhōujūn in a few days.

After Li Zhōujūn drove the Qi Family back to its world, the Han Family decided to cancel Han Dancui’s engagement to Qi Zhengqing and pursue a match with the Wei Family instead. The Qi Family sealed its gates, choosing to retreat into its own world rather than enter the Source Realm.

• Li Zhōujūn watched the Qi Family retreat and asked Shen Xianning whether Zhi Ning and Sū Nán had reached Source Venerable; she said they needed more time to absorb their opportunities.
• Qi Jianxi blamed Qi Yongxiu for the Ancestor’s death, and the Qi Family’s Supreme Elders beat their Patriarch after he said they shared responsibility.
• Han Zhijian and the Han Family’s Supreme Elders agreed that Han Dancui’s marriage contract with Qi Zhengqing should be dissolved because the Azure Emperor was too powerful to antagonize.
• Han Zhijian rejected a proposed match with the Imperial Sea Emperor Venerable and decided to approach the Wei Family about its Young Master.
• After three days of beating Qi Yongxiu, Qi Jianxi ordered the Qi Family to seal its gates and remain in its own world, with no one entering the Source Realm.

After sitting outside the Qi Family for two and a half years, Li Zhōujūn became the new Lord of Tianyi Hall and reached the First Tribulation of the Source Emperor Realm. The four Great Elders recognized him, then warned that the Wancang Old Ancestor was preparing to attack Tianyi Hall.

• Qi Jianxi told Qi Yongxiu that the Han Family would likely end his son's engagement because the Qi Family had fallen into a vulnerable position.
• Li Zhōujūn completed his task outside the Qi Family, advanced to the twelfth-stage Source Saint realm, and received the jade pendant naming him Lord of Tianyi Hall.
• Qin Tianyi told Li Zhōujūn to take over Tianyi Hall and revealed that Qin Shaoxian, ancestor of the Qin Family, had once been a child he found and raised.
• Li Zhōujūn used the jade pendant to teleport to Tianyi Hall, where Xu Yiyan, Yang Yunsuanyuan, Jin Quan, and Yan Xunqing welcomed him as their new Lord.
• The system recognized Li Zhōujūn's succession and raised his cultivation to the First Tribulation of the Source Emperor Realm.
• Xu Yiyan told Li Zhōujūn that the Wancang Old Ancestor planned to move against Tianyi Hall after Qin Tianyi's apparent death.

Li Zhōujūn toured Tianyi Hall with Xu Yiyan and chose a site for his new residence on Auspicious Cloud Mountain. Meanwhile, the Wancang Old Ancestor learned that Qin Tianyi had died and decided to personally take over Tianyi Hall.

• Jin Quan, Yang Yunsuanyuan, and Yan Xunqing left after discussing the Myriad Azure Holy Land, while Xu Yiyan stayed to show Li Zhōujūn around Tianyi Hall.
• Xu Yiyan explained Tianyi Hall's palaces and told Li Zhōujūn that Huangfu Yixin was an Inner Disciple of the Flying Dragon Palace.
• Li Zhōujūn named his cultivation site Auspicious Cloud Mountain and asked Xu Yiyan to build a three-story pavilion with courtyards, trees, chickens, and a fish pond.
• Gu He reported that Qin Tianyi had died and that Tianyi Hall's elders were waiting for its new Hall Master, whose cultivation might be below the Ascension Stage Source Emperor Realm.
• The Wancang Old Ancestor said he would personally deal with Tianyi Hall and merge it into the Myriad Azure Holy Land, then told Gu He to befriend the Azure Emperor.

Li Zhōujūn settled into his new residence at Tianyi Hall and let Li Qicai cultivate there, while the Inner Disciples worried about their absent new Hall Master. Myriad Azure Ancestor attacked Tianyi Hall, and Li Zhōujūn calmly continued watching Li Qicai roast a chicken as three figures flew out to confront the threat.

• Xu Yiyan showed Li Zhōujūn the completed pavilion on Auspicious Cloud Mountain, and he approved of it.
• Li Zhōujūn summoned Li Qicai and told her she could cultivate at Tianyi Hall.
• Duan Dai'e arrived to preach to the Inner Disciples, who questioned her about the missing new Hall Master.
• Myriad Azure Ancestor appeared above Tianyi Hall and stomped on the void, making the hall tremble.
• Li Zhōujūn dismissed the disturbance when Li Qicai asked about it, while three figures flew out of Tianyi Hall to meet the attacker.

Wancang Old Ancestor attacked Tianyi Hall and demanded its submission, but the elders named Azure Emperor as their new Hall Master. Li Zhōujūn teleported to confront Wancang Old Ancestor, who was left stammering in shock.

• Wancang Old Ancestor confronted Tianyi Hall’s three Third Decay experts and demanded that the sect submit to Myriad Azure Holy Land or be crushed.
• Xu Yiyan warned Li Zhōujūn that Wancang Old Ancestor had attacked, and the system issued a mission to repel him.
• Jin Quan announced across the Source Realm that Azure Emperor was Tianyi Hall’s new Hall Master, frightening Wancang Old Ancestor.
• Wancang Old Ancestor doubted the announcement and accused Tianyi Hall of bluffing about Azure Emperor.
• Li Zhōujūn teleported to Wancang Old Ancestor, and Tianyi Hall’s elders welcomed him as their Hall Master.
• Wancang Old Ancestor recognized Li Zhōujūn and asked in shock whether he really was Tianyi Hall’s new Hall Master.

Li Zhōujūn became Tianyi Hall’s Hall Master and compelled Wancang Old Ancestor to provide the hall with a wealth of treasures before leaving. After Li Zhōujūn reached the seventh level of the Source Emperor Realm, Qin Tianyi revealed that other realm lords threatened the Source Realm and urged him to grow strong enough to take over its defense.

• Li Zhōujūn had Tianyi Hall’s four Great Elders ask Wancang Old Ancestor for whatever the hall needed, and Wancang Old Ancestor surrendered ten Three Tribulation Emperor Pills and several Three Tribulation Emperor Weapons.
• Xu Yiyan presented the treasures to Li Zhōujūn, who entrusted the ring to her, while Huangfu Yixin realized that the Azure Emperor was the Li Zhōujūn she knew.
• Wancang Old Ancestor departed Tianyi Hall in distress, and the system rewarded Li Zhōujūn with seventh-level Source Emperor cultivation.
• Qin Tianyi watched Li Zhōujūn and considered whether to release a sealed enemy to challenge him.
• Qin Tianyi reflected on the mysterious visitor who had foretold Li Zhōujūn’s arrival and warned that other realm lords were joining forces against the Source Realm.
• Qin Tianyi told Li Zhōujūn to reach the Five Decays of the Emperor Realm soon so he could take up the burden of protecting the Source Realm.

Li Zhōujūn reunited with his disciples Lu Zhining and Sū Nán after they broke through to the tenth-tier Source Venerable Realm, and they learned he had reached the Fourth Tribulation of the Emperor Realm. Meanwhile, Qin Tianyi released Chen Fu on the condition that he serve as a combat test for Qin Tianyi’s descendant, Li Zhōujūn.

• Shen Xianning welcomed Lu Zhining and Sū Nán after they emerged from seclusion at the tenth-tier Source Venerable Realm and told them she and Li Zhōujūn had confirmed their relationship.
• Li Zhōujūn traveled to the Great Cold Snow Domain, effortlessly dodged his disciples’ greeting, and revealed that Wancang Old Ancestor treated him with deference.
• Shen Xianning confirmed that Wancang Old Ancestor had left in tears after meeting Li Zhōujūn, leaving Lu Zhining and Sū Nán shocked by their master’s strength.
• Qin Tianyi visited the imprisoned Chen Fu and offered to release him if he acted as a whetstone for Qin Tianyi’s descendant.
• Chen Fu agreed to fight Li Zhōujūn under Qin Tianyi’s supervision, despite being forbidden to kill him.