Chapter Summaries

Ao Yu manipulated the Lobster Demon into deceiving Demon Venerable Tuohai, then destroyed a clone sent by Demon Venerable Juanhai as the sea’s powerful figures plotted against one another. At Dao Tian Sect, Li Zhōujūn asked Sū Nán and Lu Zhining which would accept the position of Cloud Dwelling Mountain Lord, leaving Sū Nán convinced he was dying.

• Ao Yu reluctantly accepted the Lobster Demon’s submission, placed a restriction inside him, and instructed him what to tell Demon Venerable Tuohai.
• The Lobster Demon returned to the abyss and claimed he had watched Dao Tian Sect for three days without being detected, while Demon Venerable Tuohai dismissed him and plotted revenge against the sect.
• Ao Yu identified the green-robed old man as a clone of Demon Venerable Juanhai and destroyed it, prompting the real Juanhai to suspect Ao Yu’s scheme and prepare a counterplan.
• Li Zhōujūn ended Sū Nán and Lu Zhining’s training, and Sū Nán fled with Lu Zhining after interpreting his smile as a warning of trouble.
• Li Zhōujūn asked Sū Nán and Lu Zhining which would accept the Mountain Lord position, and Sū Nán tearfully wondered whether he was near death.

Li Zhōujūn appointed Sū Nán as Yunju Mountain Lord and became Dao Tian Sect’s Supreme Elder, while ocean demons planned to flood Qingzhou Continent. Ten days later, the Ghost Lord broke through to the Tribulation Crossing Stage and prepared to return to the Azure Continent to seek the Heavenly Ghost King’s ruins.

• Li Zhōujūn passed Yunju Mountain’s token to Sū Nán and told her and Lu Zhining to support each other.
• Demon Venerable Tuohai, Ao Yu, Demon Venerable Fuhai, Demon Venerable Juanhai, and the Merfolk patriarch agreed to flood Qingzhou Continent in a month.
• Sū Nán took up her new role and began cultivating harder, while Dao Tian Sect disciples discussed Li Zhōujūn’s promotion to Supreme Elder.
• The Ghost Lord emerged after breaking through to the Tribulation Crossing Stage, and his Ghost Extreme Sect followers congratulated him.
• The Ghost Lord ordered his followers to return with him to the Azure Continent and search for the Heavenly Ghost King’s ruins.

After three days at Yunju Mountain, Li Zhōujūn stayed behind to guide Sū Nán and Lu Zhining while preparing to fish. Meanwhile, a powerful man awakened after ten thousand years, slaughtered a city, and learned from a victim’s memories that Li Zhōujūn could help him advance, so he planned to lure Li Zhōujūn out.

• Li Zhōujūn remained at Yunju Mountain and guided Sū Nán and Lu Zhining in their cultivation when they needed help.
• A Phoenix-eyed Man emerged from a mountain after ten thousand years and traveled to a city, where he killed a brothel madam and drained the city’s inhabitants of their vital essence and blood.
• The Phoenix-eyed Man questioned an old Spirit Transformation cultivator about the world’s strongest person, and the old man insulted him before being killed by the Soul-Searching Great Law.
• The Phoenix-eyed Man learned that Li Zhōujūn was a forty-six-year-old Fifth-Rank True Immortal and decided that consuming him could help him reach Seventh-Rank High True Immortal.
• The Phoenix-eyed Man resolved to lure Li Zhōujūn out before confronting him, wary of creating unnecessary trouble with the Dao Tian Sect.

Mu Taiyu learned that the White Bone Demon Lord had escaped and destroyed nine cities, then sought Li Zhōujūn’s help. Li Zhōujūn and Zhen Yunzi set out to confront the demon, while Cai Xiling heard rumors of their strength and wondered whether Li could save her.

• An elder reported to Mu Taiyu that a blood-draining entity had destroyed nine cities, including the Cai Household, and suggested the escaped White Bone Demon Lord was responsible.
• Mu Taiyu told Li Zhōujūn about the demon’s return, and Li received a system mission to fight and slay him.
• Li Zhōujūn declared that offense was the best defense and flew off to confront the White Bone Demon Lord.
• Mu Taiyu warned Zhen Yunzi, who angrily left to support Li; Burning Mountain True Monarch hinted that Zhen was stronger than his apparent Third-Rank cultivation.
• Cai Xiling overheard You Ran Mountain disciples speculate that Li Zhōujūn could be a Seventh-Rank True Immortal and wondered whether he could kill the White Bone Demon Lord.

Li Zhōujūn followed the system’s directions toward Lan Cang City, where the White Bone Demon Lord’s blood cloud threatened the city. As Zhong Dong and Zhen Yueling faced the danger, a plainly dressed girl took Zhong Dong’s hand and promised to stay by him.

• Li Zhōujūn asked the system to locate the White Bone Demon Lord and hurried toward Lan Cang City.
• Heart Sword urged Zhong Lie to dissolve Zhong Dong’s engagement to Zhen Yueling, and Zhong Dong entered the hall and agreed.
• A servant announced that the blood cloud had reached Lan Cang City, and the White Bone Demon Lord gathered it above the city while awaiting Li Zhōujūn.
• Zhong Dong and Zhen Yueling looked up at the blood cloud as the Zhong Family elders feared the White Bone Demon Lord was its master.
• A plainly dressed girl took Zhong Dong’s hand and told him not to be afraid because she was there.

Zhong Liuer awakened the Gravekeeper Clan’s power and summoned her Dao Protector, Elder Zhuang, but the White Bone Demon Lord overwhelmed him. Just as Lan Cang City faced destruction, a gentle wind scattered the blood clouds and Li Zhōujūn announced himself.

• Zhong Liuer’s Gravekeeper Clan totem appeared, and True Heart Sword identified her as an important member of the clan.
• Elder Zhuang arrived and addressed Zhong Liuer as the Young Miss, but the White Bone Demon Lord rejected his plea to take her away.
• Elder Zhuang attacked the White Bone Demon Lord and was struck down, leaving Lan Cang City in despair.
• Elder Zhuang urged Zhong Liuer to flee while he sacrificed his clone, but a gentle wind scattered the blood clouds.
• The White Bone Demon Lord asked who had intervened, and Li Zhōujūn identified himself.

Li Zhōujūn arrived in Lan Cang City and fought the White Bone Demon Lord, revealing that he had reached Sixth-Rank True Immortal. Though the two fought evenly, Li Zhōujūn protected the city and taunted his opponent, leaving the second mission unfinished.

• Li Zhōujūn appeared to confront the White Bone Demon Lord, and the demon realized Li could break through his blood cloud.
• The White Bone Demon Lord revealed that Li was now a Sixth-Rank True Immortal and unleashed his blood-red Killing Intent and a tide of skeletons.
• Li Zhōujūn's Dharma Form crushed the skeletons, then clashed evenly with the White Bone Demon Lord while Li dispersed the shock wave before it could damage Lan Cang City.
• Li Zhōujūn completed his first mission and received early-phase Tribulation Stage cultivation, then mocked the White Bone Demon Lord for failing to defeat him.
• The White Bone Demon Lord grew furious as Li repeated that he could not beat him and prepared to attack again.

Li Zhōujūn fought the White Bone Demon Lord until Zhen Yunzi arrived and killed him with a single sword. Li Zhōujūn suspected the demon lord had survived, and the chapter ended with the White Bone Demon Lord reviving in a remote mountain range.

• The White Bone Demon Lord revealed his skeletal true form and used a Forbidden Technique, but his attacks only matched Li Zhōujūn's power.
• Li Zhōujūn charged into close combat, and his fist clashed evenly with the White Bone Demon Lord's hardened bones.
• As the White Bone Demon Lord tried to retreat, Zhen Yunzi arrived and annihilated him with a sword strike.
• Zhen Yunzi checked that Li Zhōujūn was unharmed, and they exchanged knowing remarks about hiding their cultivation.
• Li Zhōujūn suspected the White Bone Demon Lord was still alive because he had not received the system's reward.
• The White Bone Demon Lord revived in a remote mountain range and complained that the Dao Tian Sect had sent a Ninth-Rank True Immortal after him.

White Bone Demon Lord emerged to defend his mountain from Ghost Lord, who had claimed the extreme-yin site for the Ghost Extreme Sect, and the two began to fight. Meanwhile, Li Zhōujūn left Lan Cang City to search for White Bone Demon Lord, and the system revealed his location as Absolute Yin Mountain.

• White Bone Demon Lord erupted from his mountain after Ghost Lord and his followers began digging there, and Ghost Lord challenged him to settle ownership by strength.
• White Bone Demon Lord revealed his weakened Tribulation Crossing Stage Perfection cultivation and attacked Ghost Lord with a blood-cloud hand, while Ghost Lord countered with a spear of black mist.
• Mo Zhuang thanked Li Zhōujūn and Zhen Yunzi for saving the Gravekeeper Clan, and Zhen Yunzi confirmed that Li Zhōujūn could attempt the Tomb of the Immortal Lord.
• Li Zhōujūn postponed the tomb trial and left Lan Cang City to search for White Bone Demon Lord, while Zhen Yueling watched him depart and thought of him.
• Li Zhōujūn asked the system for White Bone Demon Lord's location, and it identified Absolute Yin Mountain.

Ghost Lord battled White Bone Demon Lord for control of a mountain, but White Bone Demon Lord began to recover his strength with a hidden reserve. Li Zhōujūn arrived, and Ghost Lord tried to save himself by claiming that his sect had abandoned evil; Li Zhōujūn considered using the two evil factions against each other.

• Ghost Lord struck White Bone Demon Lord with his Eighteen Black Cloud Spears, breaking his shield and wounding him.
• White Bone Demon Lord consumed a Jade Bottle of blood to restore his strength and prepared to kill Ghost Lord.
• Li Zhōujūn arrived, and White Bone Demon Lord recognized him and grew afraid.
• Ghost Lord claimed he had turned over a new leaf and urged Li Zhōujūn to defeat White Bone Demon Lord.
• Ghost Extreme Sect's cultivators backed Ghost Lord's story by saying he had forbidden them to kill, while White Bone Demon Lord angrily denounced them.
• Li Zhōujūn remained unconvinced but considered setting the two evil forces against each other.

Li Zhōujūn confronted White Bone Demon Lord, who tried to justify his past deeds and then attempted to self-detonate. Ghost Lord killed him first, and Li Zhōujūn rewarded Ghost Lord and bound the Ghost Extreme Sect to an oath not to kill good people.

• White Bone Demon Lord tried to excuse his actions to Li Zhōujūn, but Li Zhōujūn said he would kill him anyway.
• White Bone Demon Lord began to self-detonate, but Ghost Lord stabbed him from behind and killed him.
• Li Zhōujūn received rewards that advanced Ao Xue Flying Sword to a Fourth-Rank True Immortal Artifact and granted him a Golden Spirit Pill.
• Li Zhōujūn told Ghost Lord to stop killing good people, and Ghost Lord and the Ghost Extreme Sect cultivators swore oaths to the Heavenly Dao.
• Li Zhōujūn planted immortal sword intent in Ghost Lord and warned that he could use it to punish any sect member who broke the oath.

Li Zhōujūn returned toward the Dao Tian Sect and followed a system mission to help a distressed girl whose pumpkins had been destroyed. After restoring the rooted pumpkins, he conjured a grass wolf beside her, frightening her.

• Li Zhōujūn gave the White Bone Demon Lord's corpse to Ghost Lord, who decided the Ghost Extreme Sect would move again to avoid disturbances while he cultivated.
• Li Zhōujūn set out to find his disciple Jiang Xiaobai, but the system demanded that he sing a song before revealing Jiang's location.
• The system assigned Li Zhōujūn a mission to solve a maiden's troubles and directed him to a field where a girl explained that villagers had ruined pumpkins she needed to sell for her mother's medicine.
• Li Zhōujūn used spiritual energy to restore the pumpkins still attached to their roots, then wove dogtail grass into a wolf-like creature and startled the girl with it.

Li Zhōujūn left Xī Xīnyí with Erha to guard her pumpkin patch, but an Old Woman tried to steal pumpkins and threatened to turn the village against her. Li Zhōujūn summoned the Ghost Lord to deal with the trouble, and the Ghost Lord condemned the Old Woman’s behavior after seeing what happened.

• Li Zhōujūn gave Xī Xīnyí Erha to guard her pumpkin patch, then left her with the dog and watched from above the clouds.
• After night fell, an Old Woman sneaked toward Xī Xīnyí's pumpkin patch to steal pumpkins.
• Erha chased the Old Woman away, but she threatened to spread word that Xī Xīnyí had raised a wolf.
• Li Zhōujūn called the Ghost Lord, who brought his sect to the area and hurried to meet him.
• Li Zhōujūn showed the Ghost Lord what had happened, and the Ghost Lord angrily denounced the Old Woman.

Li Zhōujūn left Ghost Lord to guard the pumpkin field and protect the little girl, then hurried toward his disciple Jiang Xiaobai. As Ghost Lord punished the Old Woman, Jiang Xiaobai fled through a forest with two stronger cultivators pursuing him.

• Li Zhōujūn gave Ghost Lord the remaining Immortal Brew and left him in charge of the pumpkin field.
• Ghost Lord summoned Ghost Extreme Sect elders and disciples, ordered them to guard the pumpkins and find those who had ruined the field, and promised them a drop of the wine each.
• Ghost Lord found the Old Woman, forced a healing pill on her, and beat her awake with repeated slaps.
• Li Zhōujūn headed toward the Azure Continent border to find Jiang Xiaobai.
• Jiang Xiaobai ran through a dense forest as a young man and woman in Foundation Establishment Perfection pursued him and mocked his weaker cultivation.

Jiang Xiaobai stopped fleeing Pan Yongyan and Ding Chunzhu, who pursued him for the Spirit Fire Pill he had taken from Daoist Void Flame’s place of death. He badly wounded Pan Yongyan and stole his shield, but Ding Chunzhu then attacked him from behind with a curved blade.

• Jiang Xiaobai reached a lake outside Lingding City and faced Pan Yongyan and Ding Chunzhu, who demanded the treasures from Daoist Void Flame’s place of death.
• Pan Yongyan attacked with vines, but Jiang Xiaobai caught them and burned them with flames from his hands.
• Pan Yongyan unleashed wooden spikes, and Jiang Xiaobai used his magical ring to amplify a fiery blade-light that destroyed the spikes and sent Pan Yongyan and his shield flying.
• Jiang Xiaobai stored Pan Yongyan’s shield in his magical ring while Pan Yongyan lay wounded and Ding Chunzhu mocked him.
• Ding Chunzhu appeared behind Jiang Xiaobai and brought her curved blade down toward his neck.

Jiang Xiaobai defeated Ding Chunzhu and took her saber, but Ding Liangji’s clone appeared and threatened to kill him. Just as Jiang Xiaobai faced certain death, his master Li Zhōujūn arrived and overwhelmed Ding Liangji’s clone.

• Jiang Xiaobai struck Ding Chunzhu down, took her Phoenix Ring Saber, and dismissed her strength.
• Ding Liangji emerged from Ding Chunzhu as a clone, while she and Pan Yongyan accused Jiang Xiaobai and demanded his death.
• Jiang Xiaobai claimed Li Zhōujūn was his master, but Ding Liangji and Ding Chunzhu mocked him for lacking proof and prepared to kill him.
• Li Zhōujūn appeared, scattered Ding Liangji’s pressure, and sent his clone crashing through the trees.
• Jiang Xiaobai called the azure-robed newcomer his master, and Ding Liangji realized Jiang Xiaobai had told the truth.

Li Zhōujūn rescued Jiang Xiaobai and killed Ding Liangji, Ding Chunzhu, and Pan Yongyan after they tried to seize his Spirit Fire Pill. Pan Yangbo’s family learned that Pan Yongyan had provoked Dao Tian Sect’s Supreme Elder, and the Pan Family’s ancestor prepared to offer Li Zhōujūn a thorny apology.

• Li Zhōujūn arrived in time to protect Jiang Xiaobai, then killed Ding Liangji, Ding Chunzhu, and Pan Yongyan with sword intent.
• Ding Liangji’s main body suffered backlash from his clone’s death, and Li Zhōujūn’s sword light killed him as well.
• Li Zhōujūn gave Jiang Xiaobai medicine for his scarred hands and learned that the group had pursued him for his Spirit Fire Pill.
• Pan Yangbo appeared to avenge his son, but recognized Li Zhōujūn and fled after being ordered to scram.
• Pan Yangbo told the Pan Family’s Void Immortal ancestor what had happened, and the ancestor decided to take the family rules and a thousand-year-old thorn branch to apologize to Li Zhōujūn.

Jiang Xiaobai recounted his adventures to Li Zhōujūn, who accepted the Pan Family ancestor’s apology and explained why strength should protect rather than oppress. After learning that sea tribe members were infiltrating Azure Continent, Li Zhōujūn sent a warning to the Dao Tian Sect, while Ao Yu became excited at the prospect of a powerful sleeping being awakening.

• Jiang Xiaobai told Li Zhōujūn about his experiences in the Sea-Gazing Secret Realm, and Li Zhōujūn gave him a Dao Tian Sect inner-disciple token.
• Pan Zhenshan apologized to Li Zhōujūn for Pan Yongyan’s actions and offered thorny branches, and Li Zhōujūn spared the Pan Family and the Blazing Flame Sect.
• Li Zhōujūn explained to Jiang Xiaobai that strength should defend dignity and protect others, not fuel slaughter.
• Jiang Xiaobai reported that sea tribe members were infiltrating Azure Continent, and Li Zhōujūn sent the information to the Dao Tian Sect.
• Demon Venerable Tuohai and the Merfolk Clan’s patriarch challenged Ao Yu over his concealment of the Ninth-Rank True Immortal, while Demon Venerable Juanhai said a sleeping existence could awaken within a hundred years.
• Ao Yu grew excited when he heard that the sleeping existence might belong to his own race.

Li Zhōujūn learned that the Sea Clan was stirring and received a system mission to secure a ten-thousand-year non-invasion treaty using Heavenly Dao Oath Paper. After visiting Jiang Xiaobai, he left to confront the Sea Clan, standing above the raging sea as the chapter ended.

• Demon Venerable Juanhai told the Sea Clan leaders to keep sending people ashore while they awaited the Sea Clan Supreme's awakening.
• Zhen Yunzi and Burning Mountain True Monarch discussed the danger posed by the awakening black dragon and Zhen Yunzi warned Li Zhōujūn to return from the border of Azure Continent.
• Li Zhōujūn visited Jiang Xiaobai's cave, where Jiang Xiaobai happily prepared a pheasant for his master.
• The system gave Li Zhōujūn a mission to obtain signatures from at least five high-grade Sea Clan True Immortals on a ten-thousand-year treaty and provided Heavenly Dao Oath Paper.
• Li Zhōujūn reassured Jiang Xiaobai, then left to quiet the Sea Clan and stood above the sea.

Li Zhōujūn entered Sea Clan territory and confronted Demon Venerable Tuohai, revealing himself to be a Seventh-Rank True Immortal. Their clash alarmed both the Sea Clan and Dao Tian Sect, and the chapter left Tuohai facing Li Zhōujūn’s renewed attack while the other Sea Clan experts stood aside.

• Li Zhōujūn used the system’s coordinates to find Demon Venerable Tuohai in an abyss beneath the sea.
• Tuohai recognized Li Zhōujūn and attacked him with a freezing current after Li Zhōujūn said he had come to bring peace between humans and the Sea Clan.
• Li Zhōujūn revealed a ten-thousand-zhang Dharma Form and struck at Tuohai, who dodged by retracting his head.
• Ao Yu and other Sea Clan experts arrived, while Zhen Yunzi learned of the battle and rushed toward the Azure Continent’s border.
• Tuohai urged the gathered Sea Clan experts to help, but they watched from the sidelines as Li Zhōujūn prepared to attack him again.