Chapter Summaries

Li Zhōujūn killed Black Cloud Daoist and secretly followed Zhong Dong, discovering that Zhong Dong had engineered his master's death and planned to threaten the Dao Tian Sect. After the system tasked him with killing Zhong Dong, Li Zhōujūn caught him off guard and annihilated his divine soul.

• Li Zhōujūn used a Spirit Talisman to destroy Black Cloud Daoist's Immortal Soul, and Zhong Dong asked to take his master's body away.
• Li Zhōujūn left the Gravekeeper Clan, concealed himself in the void, and followed Zhong Dong.
• Zhong Dong revealed that he had plotted against Black Cloud Daoist and intended to claim his belongings, overpower the Dao Tian Sect, and pursue Murong Xue.
• The system issued Li Zhōujūn a mission to slay Zhong Dong, and Li Zhōujūn confronted him after hearing his schemes.
• Li Zhōujūn pierced Zhong Dong's brow with Sword Qi and annihilated his divine soul.

After killing Zhong Dong and Black Cloud Daoist, Li Zhōujūn used Immortal Dissolving Water to destroy Black Cloud Daoist’s body and accepted the system’s offer to ascend. He arrived in the Immortal Realm as a Third-Rank True Immortal, where Ji Sīdān and Dèng Yìchén tried to recruit him for their sect while secretly plotting to make him mine Immortal Crystals.

• Li Zhōujūn searched Zhong Dong and Black Cloud Daoist’s corpses, found Immortal Dissolving Water, and used it to dissolve Black Cloud Daoist’s body.
• The system offered Li Zhōujūn an Immortal Realm Starter Gift Pack if he ascended within an hour, so he informed Murong Xue and left the Tian Yuan Realm.
• The system gave Li Zhōujūn three Immortal Spirit Pills, one million Immortal Crystals, and a breakthrough to the Third-Rank True Immortal realm.
• Ji Sīdān and Dèng Yìchén introduced themselves as elders of Ling Yu Immortal Sect and offered Li Zhōujūn resources to join as an honorary elder.
• Ji Sīdān and Dèng Yìchén privately plotted to make Li Zhōujūn mine Immortal Crystals, and Ji Sīdān tried to charm him into going with them.
• Li Zhōujūn dodged Ji Sīdān’s touch and told her he found it filthy, leaving her face flushed.

Li Zhōujūn trapped Dèng Yìchén and Ji Sīdān with the Emperor’s Law, leaving them convinced he was an Imperial Son. His power began to run low, and Dèng Yìchén saw a chance to kill him and seize the technique.

• Dèng Yìchén and Ji Sīdān attacked Li Zhōujūn after their attempt to lure him failed.
• Li Zhōujūn used Trapping the Dragon to create a vast chessboard domain that pinned both Third-Rank True Immortals under immense pressure.
• Ji Sīdān and Dèng Yìchén recognized the Emperor’s Law, panicked, and knelt to beg for their lives, calling Li Zhōujūn an Imperial Son.
• Li Zhōujūn discovered he lacked enough immortal power to use the second move, Starfall, and considered drawing the Ao Xue Flying Sword.
• Dèng Yìchén noticed the chessboard’s pressure weakening and began plotting to kill Li Zhōujūn for the Emperor’s Law.

Dèng Yìchén and Jì Sīdān decided to kill Li Zhōujūn for his treasures, but Liǔ Dàofēng arrived and intervened, mistaking Li Zhōujūn for an Imperial Son. Dèng Yìchén then ordered Jì Sīdān to hold Liǔ Dàofēng back while he went after Li Zhōujūn.

• Dèng Yìchén persuaded Jì Sīdān to attack Li Zhōujūn and split his treasures, while each secretly planned to kill the other afterward.
• Dèng Yìchén rushed at Li Zhōujūn with a dagger, but Liǔ Dàofēng appeared and sent him flying with a massive sword.
• Liǔ Dàofēng apologized to Li Zhōujūn for arriving late and declared that he would protect him, believing his Emperor's Law proved he was an Imperial Son.
• Liǔ Dàofēng mocked Dèng Yìchén and warned him that assassinating an Imperial Son would bring ruin upon his lineage.
• Dèng Yìchén told Jì Sīdān to hold Liǔ Dàofēng back while he killed Li Zhōujūn.

Liǔ Dàofēng protected Li Zhōujūn from Ji Sīdān and Dèng Yìchén, while the two attackers turned against each other. Li Zhōujūn unleashed the second fall of the Emperor’s Law, Starfall, against Ji Sīdān as she tried to flee.

• Liǔ Dàofēng blocked Dèng Yìchén and Ji Sīdān from reaching Li Zhōujūn, then fought off their attacks.
• Ji Sīdān stabbed Dèng Yìchén and destroyed his Immortal Soul after accusing him of planning to take the treasure and abandon her.
• Ji Sīdān tried to pledge herself to Li Zhōujūn, but he refused to spare her because she had already tried to kill him.
• Li Zhōujūn used a pill to restore most of his magical power and cast Starfall over the fleeing Ji Sīdān.
• Li Zhōujūn sent black-and-white Chess Pieces crashing down, devastating the surrounding land as Ji Sīdān faced the attack in despair.

After defeating Ji Sīdān, Li Zhōujūn traveled to Guangyang City to learn about the Immortal Realm and find lodging. Tang Chan’er introduced him to the Immortal Arrival Inn, then suspected his true cultivation was far greater than it appeared.

• Liǔ Dàofēng praised Li Zhōujūn, offered him help, and left after Li Zhōujūn declined to visit Liu City.
• Li Zhōujūn reached Guangyang City and encountered Old Man Chu, who tried to sell him a copy of Immortal Realm Records.
• Tang Chan’er exposed Old Man Chu’s habit of cheating newly ascended True Immortals, and Old Man Chu fled, leaving the book behind.
• Tang Chan’er told Li Zhōujūn about the Immortal Arrival Inn, where newcomers could find lodging and missions.
• At the inn, Li Zhōujūn declined Tang Chan’er’s offer to pay for his Heaven-grade room, while she privately wondered about his hidden cultivation.

Li Zhōujūn settled into the Immortal Arrival Inn, studied the Immortal Realm, and joined Tang Chan'er for breakfast. Liu Daofeng arrived with food and recognized Li Zhōujūn as the Imperial Son, while Tang Yu'er mistook him for a rival pursuing her sister.

• Tang Yu'er criticized Li Zhōujūn for acting arrogant, and Tang Chan'er warned her to mind her words before asking about her relationship with Liu Daofeng.
• Li Zhōujūn checked into a Heaven Class room and studied the Immortal Realm Records, learning about its cultivation levels and distant regions.
• The next morning, Li Zhōujūn ordered breakfast, and Tang Chan'er joined him at his table.
• Tang Yu'er saw them together and assumed Li Zhōujūn was trying to pursue Tang Chan'er.
• Liu Daofeng arrived carrying a chicken and a duck, then froze when he recognized Li Zhōujūn as the Imperial Son.

Liǔ Dàofēng reunited with Li Zhōujūn at the inn and introduced him to his fiancée, Tang Yu'er, while Tang Chan'er discussed an upcoming Luotian Immortal Sect recruitment. Their meal was interrupted by Lian Pengyun, who came to pursue Tang Chan'er, and Li Zhōujūn suspected he might be drawn into the ensuing conflict.

• Liǔ Dàofēng warned Tang Yu'er not to provoke Li Zhōujūn, then hurried over and greeted him with conspicuous respect.
• Liǔ Dàofēng explained his engagement to Tang Yu'er and invited her to join the meal; Li Zhōujūn welcomed them and offered to pay.
• Tang Chan'er told the group that the Luotian Immortal Sect would soon recruit disciples through a comprehension test, and Li Zhōujūn said he would only watch.
• Lian Pengyun arrived with a gray-robed old man and approached Tang Chan'er, prompting Liǔ Dàofēng and Tang Yu'er to reject his claim that Liǔ Dàofēng was his brother-in-law.
• Lian Pengyun expected to become a True Disciple of the Luotian Immortal Sect and believed Tang Chan'er and the others would only qualify as Outer Disciples, while Li Zhōujūn wondered whether the brewing spectacle would involve him.

Lian Pengyun left Immortal Arrival Inn after deciding to seek revenge once he joined the Luotian Sect, while Li Zhōujūn returned to his room and then set out to check in at the Guangyang Mountain Range. After receiving the Wind Cloud Seal, he heard an angry shout nearby.

• Lian Pengyun departed the inn with the gray-robed old man and vowed to settle the humiliation after joining the Luotian Sect.
• Li Zhōujūn paid for the meal, returned to his room, and slept while Tang Chan'er, Tang Yu'er, and Liǔ Dàofēng speculated about his background and discussed joining the Luotian Sect.
• Li Zhōujūn received a system mission to check in deep within the Guangyang Mountain Range and left Guangyang City the next morning.
• Li Zhōujūn reached the mountain range's depths and completed the check-in, earning the Wind Cloud Seal.
• An angry voice shouted for someone not to let a man escape as Li Zhōujūn examined his new divine ability.

Li Zhōujūn fought off an attack from the Devil Lord Qin Zhefei and met Gong Hongzhuang and Fang Deyi of the Luotian Sect. After Qin Zhefei escaped and the Luotian Sect group departed to recruit disciples, Li Zhōujūn stayed in the mountains to roast a wild chicken.

• Li Zhōujūn unleashed the Wind Cloud Seal against Qin Zhefei, revealing that they were both Third-Rank Immortal Lords.
• Gong Hongzhuang and Fang Deyi arrived with five Heavenly Immortals and attacked Qin Zhefei, but Qin escaped using a secret art that cost him thirty thousand years of lifespan.
• Gong Hongzhuang and Fang Deyi introduced themselves as Luotian Sect members, and Li Zhōujūn told them that he had just ascended from the lower realm.
• Gong Hongzhuang explained that he and his companions had pursued Qin Zhefei to the Jade Sheng Domain while recruiting disciples, then invited Li Zhōujūn to join the sect.
• Li Zhōujūn declined because he already belonged to the Dao Tian Sect and watched Gong Hongzhuang leave for Guangyang City.
• Li Zhōujūn caught a wild chicken and prepared to roast it in the mountains.

Gong Hongzhuang and the Luotian Sect arrived in Guangyang City to recruit disciples, and their choice of lodging gave the Lian Family an advantage over its rival, the Tang Family. Li Zhōujūn returned to the city to watch the upcoming examination as Tang Chan'er worried about the pressure surrounding her future.

• Gong Hongzhuang met Gongsun Yang and the Tang and Lian Family patriarchs, then announced that the Luotian Sect’s recruitment would begin the day after tomorrow.
• Bai Zhicheng recommended Yingxian Tower, the Lian Family’s inn, and Lian Fengmao hoped Elder Bai would accept Lian Pengyun as a True Disciple.
• The Luotian Sect’s choice of Yingxian Tower alarmed the Tang Family, while Tang Chan'er feared that Lian Pengyun’s prospects could pressure her into marriage.
• Tang Wen reassured Tang Chan'er that she was not a bargaining chip and that he would oppose anyone who tried to force her.
• After finishing his roast chicken, Li Zhōujūn headed to Guangyang City to watch Tang Chan'er and the others take the Luotian Sect’s examination.
• Li Zhōujūn returned to find Guangyang City residents discussing the Luotian Sect’s arrival and the power of its Immortal Lord.

Li Zhōujūn learned that Luotian Sect had arrived in Guangyang City, while the Lian Family secured Lian Pengyun’s admission through a deal with Bai Zhicheng. The next day, Li Zhōujūn bought a jade hairpin for Murong Xue, and Lian Pengyun challenged him for it before the shopkeeper intervened.

• Li Zhōujūn returned to the inn, where Tang Chan'er, Tang Yu'er, and Liǔ Dàofēng discussed his background and Tang Chan'er's possible interest in him.
• Lian Fengmao and Lian Pengyun met Bai Zhicheng, who confirmed he would accept Lian Pengyun as a disciple in exchange for the Lian Family's Immortal Crystals.
• Lian Fengmao promised Lian Pengyun that joining Luotian Sect would let their family pressure the Tang Family into giving up Tang Chan'er.
• Li Zhōujūn visited a magic treasure shop and bought a third-grade True Immortal Artifact jade hairpin for thirty thousand Immortal Crystals, thinking of Murong Xue.
• Lian Pengyun asked Li Zhōujūn to give up the hairpin, then proposed raising the price, but the shopkeeper warned him not to cause trouble in the shop.

Li Zhōujūn left the Immortal Treasure Shop after refusing Lian Pengyun’s request to buy the hairpin, but Lian Pengyun confronted him over Tang Chan’er. When Bai Zhicheng recognized Li Zhōujūn as an Immortal Lord, Lian Pengyun’s backing collapsed, and the shop proprietor ordered an investigation into Li Zhōujūn.

• The Immortal Treasure Shop proprietor stopped Lian Pengyun from pressuring Li Zhōujūn, and Li Zhōujūn thanked him before leaving.
• Lian Pengyun waited outside, asked Li Zhōujūn to part with the hairpin, and warned him to stay away from Tang Chan’er after Li Zhōujūn refused.
• Bai Zhicheng arrived and greeted Li Zhōujūn as an Immortal Lord, then denied knowing Lian Pengyun to avoid offending Li Zhōujūn.
• Li Zhōujūn left, and the shop proprietor told Xiao Qiu to investigate the identity of the young man who bought the hairpin.
• Bai Zhicheng refused to accept Lian Pengyun as his disciple, while Lian Pengyun hurried back to the Lian Household for help.
• Bai Zhicheng bought a defensive Heavenly Immortal magic treasure and returned to the Welcome Immortal Inn to refine it.

Bai Zhicheng refused to take Lian Pengyun as his disciple, leaving the Lian family out 7.7 million Immortal Crystals and forcing Pengyun to settle for the Luotian Sect entrance examination. At the recruitment gathering, Luotian Sect elders greeted Li Zhōujūn with deference, shocking the assembled cultivators.

• Bai Zhicheng kept the Lian family's 7.7 million Immortal Crystals and refused to accept Lian Pengyun as his disciple, warning that he had saved the family from offending Li Zhōujūn.
• Lian Fengmao scolded his son and told him to take the Luotian Sect examination even if he could only enter as an Outer Disciple, while Pengyun secretly blamed Li Zhōujūn.
• A little maid reported to the old man at the Immortal Treasure Shop that Li Zhōujūn was suspected to be an Immortal Lord and had recently ascended from the lower realm.
• Crowds gathered at Guangyang City's central plaza for the Luotian Sect recruitment examination, while Li Zhōujūn watched from a teahouse balcony and Tang Chan'er warned Tang Yu'er about the illusion-filled secret realm.
• Gong Hongzhuang and the Luotian Sect elders arrived, then saluted Li Zhōujūn from afar, leaving the gathered cultivators astonished by his status.

Gong Hongzhuang began the Luotian Sect's disciple recruitment trial, sending tens of thousands of cultivators into illusions inside a crystal sphere. After the trial ended, Tang Chan'er and Liǔ Dàofēng had qualified for Inner Disciple status, while Lian Pengyun grew uneasy as the elders watched him.

• Gong Hongzhuang explained that cultivators had to pass three illusions to qualify, with the fourth and fifth offering Inner and True Disciple status, then drew them into the crystal sphere.
• Li Zhōujūn remained outside as Gong Hongzhuang and five Heavenly Immortal elders supervised the trial inside the secret realm.
• After three incense sticks burned, Gong Hongzhuang expelled the remaining cultivators, and only a little over two thousand had endured the trial.
• Tang Chan'er revealed that she had reached the fifth illusion without passing it, Tang Yu'er had passed the third, and Liǔ Dàofēng had nearly passed the fourth.
• Lian Pengyun realized he had passed four illusions and expected Inner Disciple status, but became uneasy when Bai Zhicheng and other elders watched him and whispered.

After the Luotian Sect rejected Lian Pengyun because he had offended an Immortal Lord, Li Zhōujūn accepted an invitation from the Immortal Treasure Shop owner, Duàn Cāngqióng. Li Zhōujūn endured the old man's powerful liquor, gained Fourth-Rank True Immortal cultivation, and received a mission to get Duàn Cāngqióng drunk.

• Bai Zhicheng told Lian Pengyun that the Luotian Sect's disciple quotas were full and warned that other sects would reject him for offending an Immortal Lord.
• Tang Chan'er, Tang Yu'er, and Liǔ Dàofēng returned to the inn after joining the Luotian Immortal Sect and congratulated Li Zhōujūn.
• Xiao Qiu invited Li Zhōujūn to meet the Immortal Treasure Shop owner, and the system issued him a mission to attend.
• Tang Chan'er gave Li Zhōujūn nine signature dishes to bring to the shop, where Xiao Qiu led him to Duàn Cāngqióng.
• Li Zhōujūn drank Duàn Cāngqióng's potent liquor without collapsing, completed the mission, and received Fourth-Rank True Immortal cultivation.
• The system then gave Li Zhōujūn a mission to get Duàn Cāngqióng drunk and make him concede defeat.

Li Zhōujūn drank Duàn Cāngqióng into admitting defeat and learned that Duàn wanted his help locating the Sky-Burning Divine Flame. The system then assigned Li Zhōujūn a mission to help Duàn obtain it, but Li had not yet answered Duàn's request.

• Li Zhōujūn repeatedly toasted Duàn Cāngqióng until Duàn admitted he could drink no more, triggering a system reward of Seventh-Rank High True Immortal cultivation and an upgrade for the Proud Snow Flying Sword.
• Duàn Cāngqióng told Li Zhōujūn that he had traced the missing Divine Flame Immortal Emperor and the Sky-Burning Divine Flame to the Immortal Relic Continent.
• Duàn Cāngqióng asked Li Zhōujūn to help him find the Sky-Burning Divine Flame and offered to forge him an Immortal Emperor Artifact in return.
• Li Zhōujūn's system issued a mission to help Duàn Cāngqióng obtain the divine flame, promising an Immortal Emperor Artifact and a generous reward.

Li Zhōujūn agreed to meet Duàn Cāngqióng on the Immortal Relic Continent, then used the system to teleport there after learning the journey would otherwise take years. He arrived in a desolate forest and heard a Straw-Cloaked Youth begin describing a terrifying encounter by a river.

• Duàn Cāngqióng gave Li Zhōujūn a Jade Talisman and arranged to meet him on the Immortal Relic Continent in a month.
• Li Zhōujūn paid his inn bill, learned the journey to the continent would take more than ten years, and hurried back to the Immortal Treasure Shop.
• Li Zhōujūn found the shop closed, and the system teleported him to the Immortal Relic Continent.
• Li Zhōujūn met a Straw-Cloaked Youth on a muddy forest path and paid him to explain what he had encountered.
• The Straw-Cloaked Youth recounted catching a dead fish at night and sensing someone blow against his neck.

Li Zhōujūn met Duàn Cāngqióng on the Immortal Relic Continent, and the two arranged to visit the place where the Divine Flame Immortal Emperor fell. Over breakfast, Duàn Cāngqióng told Li Zhōujūn about the Yao Family’s ancestor and the perilous Chaos Heaven; the two then set off together.

• Li Zhōujūn let the Straw-Cloaked Youth leave and traveled to a nearby city to wait for Duàn Cāngqióng.
• Duàn Cāngqióng arrived with Xiao Qiu, found Li Zhōujūn at an inn, and agreed to visit the Divine Flame Immortal Emperor’s place of death the next morning.
• At breakfast, Li Zhōujūn asked about the Yao Family, and Duàn Cāngqióng recounted how Yao Shu had vanished while exploring Chaos Heaven.
• Duàn Cāngqióng explained that Chaos Heaven was known as the Land of Buried Emperors, where Immortal Emperors sought a realm beyond their own.
• After breakfast, Duàn Cāngqióng left Xiao Qiu at the inn and traveled with Li Zhōujūn to the Divine Flame Immortal Emperor’s place of death.

Li Zhōujūn and Duàn Cāngqióng entered the Divine Flame Immortal Emperor’s hidden small world and confronted the Sky-Burning Divine Flame, who had occupied the emperor’s body. As Duàn Cāngqióng battled the flame’s attacks, it turned its attention to Li Zhōujūn and sent a sea of fire rushing toward him.

• Li Zhōujūn and Duàn Cāngqióng entered an ordinary cave that concealed the Divine Flame Immortal Emperor’s small world, where rising heat and dried corpses marked the perilous path.
• The two reached a lava-filled hall, where the Sky-Burning Divine Flame appeared in the Divine Flame Immortal Emperor’s body and revealed its imperial might.
• Duàn Cāngqióng accused the Sky-Burning Divine Flame of seizing the emperor’s body, and the flame admitted it had not fully fused with it.
• The Sky-Burning Divine Flame unleashed its Sky-Burning Divine Domain and sent nine fire dragons at the visitors.
• Duàn Cāngqióng struck the fire dragons with a hammer, but they quickly re-formed, while the Sky-Burning Divine Flame attacked Li Zhōujūn with a sea of apocalyptic flames.