Chapter Summaries

Li Zhōujūn fought off attacks from five sea-clan True Immortals, turning Demon Venerable Tuohai’s sword against Demon Venerable Fuhai and overpowering the Merfolk Clan Chief’s trident. The sea-clan fighters regrouped and planned to press their attack, convinced Li Zhōujūn was nearly exhausted.

• Demon Venerable Tuohai charged Li Zhōujūn with his shell, then launched a seventh-rank flying sword at him.
• Li Zhōujūn caught the sword between his palms, prompting the sea-clan True Immortals to join forces against him.
• Li Zhōujūn redirected Tuohai’s sword into Demon Venerable Fuhai’s tendrils, severing both before dodging Demon Venerable Juanhai’s seaweed and Ao Yu’s attack.
• Li Zhōujūn struck the Merfolk Clan Chief’s trident with his fist and forced the weapon to bend before both fighters retreated.
• Demon Venerable Juanhai urged the sea-clan True Immortals to keep attacking and promised they would divide Li Zhōujūn’s treasures.

Li Zhōujūn fought five top-tier True Immortals of the sea clans while drawing them away from the sea’s inhabitants and secretly laying out an Immortal Locking Array. His words about seeking ten thousand years of peace for Azure Continent inspired its people as the sea-clan leaders urged their allies to kill him before a Ninth-Rank True Immortal arrived.

• Demon Venerable Juanhai, Demon Venerable Fuhai, Demon Venerable Tuohai, Ao Yu, and the Merfolk Clan Patriarch attacked Li Zhōujūn, who held his own against all five.
• The sea-clan True Immortals shifted their battle toward the sky to spare sea creatures, but Li Zhōujūn kept fighting them underwater until he had drawn them away from all living creatures nearby.
• The battlefield moved above the sea, where Azure Continent’s cultivators watched Li Zhōujūn face the five Seventh-Rank True Immortals, and Dao Tian Sect’s mountain lords learned he had become a Supreme Elder.
• While the sea-clan True Immortals taunted Li Zhōujūn, he secretly continued laying out the Immortal Locking Array and said he had entered the abyss seeking ten thousand years of peace for Azure Continent.
• The people of Azure Continent were moved by Li Zhōujūn’s words, while Demon Venerable Juanhai urged the others to kill him before a Ninth-Rank True Immortal arrived.

Li Zhōujūn endured the combined attack of five Seventh-Rank sea-race True Immortals and demanded they agree not to invade Azure Continent for ten thousand years. He revealed that the Immortal Locking Array had trapped them, leaving the sea-race fighters fearful that Dao Tian Sect’s Ninth-Rank elders would arrive.

• Ao Yu, Demon Venerable Fuhai, Demon Venerable Juanhai, Demon Venerable Tuohai, and the Merfolk Clan Chief unleashed their strongest divine abilities against Li Zhōujūn.
• Li Zhōujūn blocked their combined attack with his Dharma Form, while golden rune chains restrained the residual power from reaching Azure Continent.
• Zhen Yunzi watched as Azure Continent’s people and Dao Tian Sect members praised Li Zhōujūn, and Old Woman Xue arrived beside him.
• Old Woman Xue told Zhen Yunzi that Old Man Chen could remain in the Tian Yuan Realm for at most ten more years unless he obtained a Heaven-Bestowed Divine Office and advanced.
• Li Zhōujūn demanded that the sea-race True Immortals sign an agreement not to invade Azure Continent for ten thousand years, but they refused.
• Li Zhōujūn revealed that the Immortal Locking Array had sealed the space around them, making the sea-race True Immortals fear the arrival of Dao Tian Sect’s Ninth-Rank elders.

Li Zhōujūn faced the awakened Black Dragon, the Sea Clan’s Half-step Heavenly Immortal, after trapping five Sea Clan True Immortals in an Immortal Locking Array. Zhen Yunzi and Old Woman Xue arrived to protect him, but Li Zhōujūn insisted he could handle the Black Dragon alone.

• The Black Dragon emerged from the parted sea, and Ao Yu and the other Sea Clan True Immortals greeted him as their Divine Lord.
• Li Zhōujūn told the Black Dragon to sign the Ten Thousand Year Non-Aggression Pact with Qingzhou, prompting the Black Dragon to shatter the Immortal Locking Array.
• Zhen Yunzi and Old Woman Xue appeared beside Li Zhōujūn and declared that the Black Dragon could not bully a Dao Tian Sect junior.
• Li Zhōujūn told the two Ninth-Rank True Immortals that he was enough to face the Black Dragon alone.
• The Black Dragon mocked Dao Tian Sect for producing an arrogant young man like Li Zhōujūn.

Li Zhōujūn faced the Black Dragon alone, and the battle revealed that he had reached the Half-step Heavenly Immortal realm. The Sea Race experts were left stunned as Dao Tian Sect elders emerged from seclusion and praised him.

• Li Zhōujūn reassured Zhen Yunzi that he could handle the Black Dragon, and Zhen Yunzi allowed him to fight alone.
• The Black Dragon summoned dozens of enormous water pillars and sent them toward Li Zhōujūn's Dharma Form.
• Li Zhōujūn's Dharma Form erupted with spiritual light and stamped down, pinning the water pillars in place.
• The people of Azure Continent realized that Li Zhōujūn was a Half-step Heavenly Immortal, while Ao Yu, Juan Hai, and the other Sea Race True Immortals were left dumbfounded.
• Dao Tian Sect's secluded Supreme Elders emerged, learned that Li Zhōujūn was fighting the Black Dragon, and praised him as a peerless talent.

Li Zhōujūn fought the Black Dragon Demon Venerable to a bloody standstill, while Zhen Yunzi and Old Woman Xue shielded Azure Continent from the battle’s aftershocks. As the fight continued, the black dragon began considering Li Zhōujūn’s offer to sign a contract, intending to break it later.

• Li Zhōujūn’s Dharma Form matched the black dragon’s power, and the two clashed in a series of blows that left both injured.
• The black dragon bit into Li Zhōujūn’s Dharma Form, but the exchange also drew blood from the dragon and convinced onlookers that neither had won.
• The black dragon charged again, and Li Zhōujūn fought him while Zhen Yunzi and Old Woman Xue protected Azure Continent from the destructive aftershocks.
• Zhen Yunzi and Old Woman Xue discussed how difficult it would be to defeat the black dragon, while Zhen Yunzi praised Li Zhōujūn’s strength.
• The black dragon considered signing Li Zhōujūn’s contract, believing he could break it after Li Zhōujūn was forced out of the Tian Yuan Realm.

Li Zhōujūn revealed that he could wield the Power of Heavenly Dao and forced the sea races to sign a treaty barring them from invading Azure Continent for ten thousand years. After the sea races departed, he received a system reward promising True Immortal cultivation after a century of seclusion.

• Li Zhōujūn gathered the Power of Heavenly Dao and shaped it into a treaty, astonishing the Black Dragon, the sea-race True Immortals, and the people of Azure Continent.
• The Black Dragon, Ao Dahei, signed the treaty with his vital blood, and Ao Yu and the other sea-race True Immortals followed.
• Li Zhōujūn received the system reward task promising True Immortal cultivation after one hundred years of seclusion.
• Li Zhōujūn dismissed Ao Dahei, who led the sea-race True Immortals back into the sea despite being mocked.
• The people of Azure Continent celebrated ten thousand years of peace as Li Zhōujūn looked forward to returning to seclusion.

Li Zhōujūn spent a hundred years in seclusion while Dao Tian Sect and its disciples changed around him. He awakened as a True Immortal, received a mission to visit the Immortal Lord’s Tomb, and set out to return to the sect first.

• Li Zhōujūn returned to Dao Tian Sect, gave Murong Xue two Golden Spirit Pills to share with Sū Nán and Lu Zhining, and went to sleep in seclusion.
• During Li Zhōujūn’s seclusion, Old Man Chen and later Mu Taiyu ascended to the Immortal Realm, Jiang Xiaobai attained the Dao and ascended, and Sū Nán and Lu Zhining reached the Virtual Immortal Realm.
• Murong Xue reached the consummate stage of Tribulation Transcendence, became Dao Tian Sect’s sect master, and watched a hundred years pass while Li Zhōujūn remained in seclusion.
• Li Zhōujūn awakened after a hundred years and traveled to a distant barren mountain to undergo the Lightning Tribulation, but the Heavenly Dao ignored him.
• The system awarded Li Zhōujūn True Immortal cultivation without a tribulation and assigned him a no-time-limit mission to sign in before an immortal lord’s corpse in the Immortal Lord’s Tomb.
• Li Zhōujūn decided to return to Dao Tian Sect before attempting the mission and wondered how his old acquaintances had fared.

Li Zhōujūn returned to Yunju Mountain after a hundred years away and reunited with his disciples Sū Nán and Lu Zhining, who had built up the sect. He then went to see Murong Xue, and the two sat together sharing wine.

• Li Zhōujūn secretly arrived at Yunju Mountain and saw that Sū Nán and Lu Zhining had made the sect prosper.
• Sū Nán and Lu Zhining summoned elders Fu Hao and Su Yuhai to find a secret realm where the disciples could train.
• Li Zhōujūn appeared in Cloud Dwelling Hall, reunited with his disciples, and learned they had reached the Virtual Immortal Realm with help from Murong Xue's Golden Spirit Pills.
• Sū Nán teased Li Zhōujūn about Murong Xue, and he left to visit her.
• Li Zhōujūn found Murong Xue on the roof of Dao Tian Hall, and they sat together with jars of wine.

Li Zhōujūn left Murong Xue sleeping with one of his clones in a jade pendant and set out for the Gravekeeper Clan. In Xin Xiao City, he reunited with the long-lived Xī Xīnyí and the grass-woven dog he had made for her, seeing how much time had passed for mortals.

• Li Zhōujūn and Murong Xue reminisced over wine until she fell asleep on his shoulder.
• Li Zhōujūn carried Murong Xue to a bedroom, left a jade pendant containing his clone beside her, and departed; Murong Xue woke and worried she might become a burden to him.
• Li Zhōujūn found Zhen Yunzi in secluded cultivation and chose not to disturb him, then headed toward the Gravekeeper Clan.
• In Xin Xiao City, the dog Li Zhōujūn had woven from dog-tail grass recognized him and ran to circle him.
• Xī Xīnyí recognized Li Zhōujūn as the immortal who had saved her pumpkin field, and he recognized her as the girl who had grown old.

Li Zhōujūn left Xī Xīnyí after discovering that a century had passed while he slept, then reached the Gravekeeper Clan and asked to enter the Tomb of the Immortal Lord. Mo Xuanhe welcomed him into the clan’s small world and went to notify the clan leader.

• Xī Xīnyí recognized Li Zhōujūn after he vanished from the bun shop, and she told her granddaughter that seeing him again left her with no regrets.
• Li Zhōujūn flew across the desert to the Gravekeeper Clan and saw Mo Xuanhe turn away five elderly Tribulation Transcendence cultivators seeking entry to the tomb.
• Mo Xuanhe recognized Li Zhōujūn and escorted him into the Gravekeeper Clan after Li Zhōujūn said he had come to enter the Tomb of the Immortal Lord.
• The Gravekeeper Clan members recognized Li Zhōujūn and spread news of his arrival through Mo City.
• Mo Xuanhe brought Li Zhōujūn to the great hall, served him tea, and left to notify the clan leader.

Li Zhōujūn entered the Gravekeeper Clan’s Tomb of the Immortal Lord and encountered the sentient Faceless Puppet, which challenged him with the power of a Third-Rank True Immortal. The chapter ended with Li Zhōujūn sealing the bronze gate behind himself instead of fleeing.

• Mo Wénfán welcomed Li Zhōujūn and led him to the cavern entrance to the tomb, thanking him for saving Mo Liuer and Lan Cang City.
• Mo Liuer arrived after Li Zhōujūn had entered the cavern and told Mo Wénfán she no longer blamed him for separating her from Zhong Dong.
• Li Zhōujūn descended into a vast underground plaza and forced open the bronze gate at its far end.
• A featureless figure dragged Li Zhōujūn through the gate and identified itself as the Faceless Divine Lord, a puppet made by Immortal Lord Mo Yu.
• The Faceless Puppet released the power of a Third-Rank True Immortal, but Li Zhōujūn shut the bronze gate behind himself and chose to face it.

Li Zhōujūn defeated the Faceless Puppet by trapping it in an Immortal Locking Array, then continued through the tomb to the Immortal Lord Hall. Finding signs that someone had already disturbed the tomb’s mechanisms, he suspected an unknown person was still inside.

• Li Zhōujūn revealed his Fourth-Rank True Immortal Artifact, the Ao Xue Flying Sword, and cut the Faceless Puppet in half.
• The Faceless Puppet revived, reached Fourth-Rank True Immortal strength, and claimed it could not die beneath the Immortal Lord realm.
• Li Zhōujūn trapped the Faceless Puppet in an Immortal Locking Array and ignored its pleas to be released.
• Li Zhōujūn reached the Immortal Lord Hall and noticed that mechanisms along the passage had already been triggered or destroyed.
• Li Zhōujūn questioned who had disturbed the tomb and suspected someone inside it.

Li Zhōujūn entered the Immortal Lord’s tomb and confronted a black-clothed woman who revealed herself as Zhan Lan, the Daughter of the War Demon Emperor, fighting Immortal Lord Mo Yu for control of her body. Mo Yu asked Li Zhōujūn to help kill Zhan Lan, but Zhan Lan warned that her father would take revenge.

• Li Zhōujūn opened the tomb’s great door and found the black-clothed woman, who attacked him while claiming she and Mo Yu would die together.
• Li Zhōujūn met the woman’s strike with Immortal Lord-level power, shaking the tomb and the Gravekeeper Clan’s minor world.
• The black patterns faded, and Immortal Lord Mo Yu appeared in white robes and explained that Zhan Lan had seized control of her body after Mo Yu and several allies tried to kill her.
• Mo Yu explained that she and Zhan Lan had wagered over whether a True Immortal under five hundred years old would reach the tomb, and she asked Li Zhōujūn to help kill Zhan Lan in exchange for her treasures and the Faceless Puppet.
• Zhan Lan’s face appeared over Mo Yu’s as she warned that her father would never forgive them if they killed her.

Li Zhōujūn fought Zhan Lan after she fled Immortal Lord Mo Yu’s body, while Mo Yu turned her sword attack on them both. A hidden mark in Zhan Lan’s Immortal Soul summoned her father, War Demon Emperor, whose arrival left Mo Yu defeated and convinced him that Li Zhōujūn was an Immortal Emperor.

• Li Zhōujūn blocked Zhan Lan’s escape and fought her as she took the form of a Black-clothed Woman.
• Immortal Lord Mo Yu unleashed ten thousand sword shadows against Li Zhōujūn and Zhan Lan, intending to kill or severely injure them both.
• A terrifying aura from Zhan Lan stopped the sword rain, and a crack in the void revealed War Demon Emperor seated on a flaming throne.
• War Demon Emperor’s voice made Immortal Lord Mo Yu vomit blood and caused the sword shadows to collapse.
• War Demon Emperor mistook Li Zhōujūn for an Immortal Emperor, leaving Zhan Lan and Immortal Lord Mo Yu stunned and Mo Yu afraid of the consequences of betraying him.

Li Zhōujūn refused the War Demon Emperor’s demand to spare Zhan Lan and fought him inside the Immortal Lord Hall. He killed Zhan Lan, and the enraged War Demon Emperor vowed to kill him.

• The War Demon Emperor asked Li Zhōujūn to spare Zhan Lan, but Li Zhōujūn refused after the system ordered him to kill her.
• The War Demon Emperor threatened to fight Li Zhōujūn, and the system severed the hall from the Tian Yuan Realm so they could unleash their full power.
• Li Zhōujūn revealed the aura and laws of an Immortal Emperor, while Immortal Lord Mo Yu regretted attacking him after revealing her plan to steal their Immortal Souls.
• The War Demon Emperor attacked with a lava-covered hand, and Li Zhōujūn countered with sword light that shattered it.
• Li Zhōujūn redirected a fragment of his sword light to kill Zhan Lan and blocked the War Demon Emperor’s attempt to save her.
• The War Demon Emperor rose from his throne and swore to kill Li Zhōujūn, while Immortal Lord Mo Yu watched in terror.

Li Zhōujūn fought the War Demon Emperor until Liuli Immortal Emperor arrived and drove him away. Immortal Lord Mo Yu died after giving Li Zhōujūn her treasures, and he buried her with a protective array.

• Li Zhōujūn repelled the War Demon Emperor's lava attack with the Immortal Emperor's Laws, while Immortal Lord Mo Yu's sword attack failed and destroyed her Natal Flying Sword.
• Liuli Immortal Emperor appeared to hunt the War Demon Emperor, who withdrew and vanished before she arrived.
• Immortal Lord Mo Yu apologized to Li Zhōujūn, asked him to spare the Gravekeeper Clan, and died by burning up her remaining Immortal Soul.
• Li Zhōujūn received a system reward that raised his cultivation to the Second-Rank True Immortal realm, then took Immortal Lord Mo Yu's storage ring and found three powerful Spirit Talismans.
• Li Zhōujūn buried Immortal Lord Mo Yu and used one of the talismans to protect her grave from attacks by cultivators below the Immortal Lord realm.

Li Zhōujūn left Immortal Lord Mo Yu’s tomb and told the Gravekeeper Clan that she had died after helping him defeat an Immortal Lord-level demon cultivator. Zhong Dong then arrived with his master and demanded that Mo Liuer leave with him, but learned she was married and had a child, leaving him consumed by rage.

• Li Zhōujūn refused to release the Faceless Puppet from the Immortal Locking Array after it threatened to kill him.
• Li Zhōujūn told Mò Wénfán and the Gravekeeper Clan’s True Immortals that Immortal Lord Mo Yu had died after joining him to defeat a demon cultivator, and they thanked him for honoring her.
• Zhong Dong arrived with his black-robed master after Mo Xuanhe was thrown through a rift, and asked Mo Liuer to go with him to the Immortal World.
• Mo Liuer refused because she was married, and Mo Aohan stepped in to protect her, revealing that she had a child.
• Zhong Dong’s master dismissed the Gravekeeper Clan as a tiny lower realm and challenged Li Zhōujūn’s claim to be an Immortal Lord, while Zhong Dong seethed over Mo Liuer’s marriage.

Black Cloud Daoist threatened the Gravekeeper Clan while Zhong Dong confronted his former lover, Mo Liuer, who had chosen her husband and child over leaving for the Immortal Realm with him. After Zhong Dong nearly killed Mo Aohan, he released him when he saw Mo Liuer's desperation.

• Black Cloud Daoist revealed he was a Ninth-Rank True Immortal from the Immortal Realm and warned the Gravekeeper Clan not to interfere in the younger generation's affairs.
• Zhong Dong challenged Mo Aohan to a life-and-death battle, but Mo Liuer stopped her husband and told Zhong Dong she would stay with her family.
• Black Cloud Daoist urged Zhong Dong to take Mo Liuer by force, and Mo Aohan stepped between them to defend her choice.
• Zhong Dong seized Mo Aohan by the neck, but released him after Mo Liuer tearfully begged him to stop.
• Li Zhōujūn reflected that a century had passed since Zhong Dong and Mo Liuer parted, and Mo Liuer had since married and had a child.

Black Cloud Daoist threatened the Gravekeeper Clan and demanded entry to the Tomb of the Immortal Lord, while Zhong Dong tried to stop him. Li Zhōujūn chose to kill Black Cloud Daoist and unleashed a powerful sword strike, leaving the Daoist facing imminent defeat.

• Black Cloud Daoist revealed that he had come to enter the Tomb of the Immortal Lord and threatened to slaughter the Gravekeeper Clan if they refused.
• Zhong Dong pleaded with Black Cloud Daoist to abandon the tomb, but Black Cloud Daoist sent him flying and declared that anyone obstructing cultivation must die.
• Li Zhōujūn chose the system's mission to kill Black Cloud Daoist before its half-hour deadline.
• Black Cloud Daoist attacked with five enormous water dragons, and Li Zhōujūn destroyed them with a Spirit Talisman that formed a colossal sword.
• Black Cloud Daoist stared in despair as the sword descended, while Zhong Dong shouted for his master to run.