Chapter Summaries

Lin Zhe Yuan agreed to the Aged Demonic Cultivator’s plan to take Li Zhōujūn’s body and waited for a chance to obtain a piece of him. Li Zhōujūn completed the Nine Heroes Tower challenge, advanced to the Fourth-Rank Saint Realm, and was taken to receive his reward as Lin Zhe Yuan prepared to act.

• The Aged Demonic Cultivator told Lin Zhe Yuan he could transfer Lin Zhe Yuan’s soul into Li Zhōujūn’s body if Lin Zhe Yuan let him occupy his own, and Lin Zhe Yuan agreed.
• Li Zhōujūn trapped the nine prodigy phantoms with an intangible chessboard and fought them evenly for three hours.
• The Nine Heroes Tower counted the challenge as complete, and Li Zhōujūn withdrew from the phantoms.
• The system raised Li Zhōujūn’s cultivation to the Fourth-Rank Saint Realm and leveled up his Ao Xue Flying Sword.
• A beam of golden light took Li Zhōujūn into the void to receive the tower’s reward, while Lin Zhe Yuan waited outside for a chance to take his hair or skin.

Li Zhōujūn emerged from the Nine Heroes Tower after clearing its trial and advancing to the peak of the Fourth-Rank Saint realm. As Lin Zhe Yuan tried to obtain something Li Zhōujūn had touched, Chu Lieyang criticized him in front of the gathered prodigies.

• Li Zhōujūn received the Nine Heroes Tower's reward, while the prodigies outside marveled at his feat of defeating nine opponents over three hours.
• Three days later, Li Zhōujūn emerged at the peak of the Fourth-Rank Saint realm, and Chu Lieyang, Ye Qinghan, and Dong Qiuyue congratulated him.
• Lin Zhe Yuan approached Li Zhōujūn, hoping to get close enough to obtain a trace of his saliva for the Aged Demonic Cultivator.
• Lin Zhe Yuan offered Li Zhōujūn a cup of wine, but Li Zhōujūn hesitated and Chu Lieyang rebuked Lin Zhe Yuan for imposing on him.

Lin Zhe Yuan tried to obtain Li Zhōujūn’s hair so the Aged Demonic Cultivator could possess his body, but Li Zhōujūn rejected his wine and ignored his disguise as a woman. Lin Zhe Yuan remained in Nine Heroes City, planning to approach Li Zhōujūn again before he left.

• Li Zhōujūn declined Lin Zhe Yuan’s wine and left the venue, followed by Dong Qiuyue and Feng Yuehua, while Chu Lieyang mocked Lin Zhe Yuan.
• The Aged Demonic Cultivator advised Lin Zhe Yuan to have Ye Qinghan use a honey trap, but Lin Zhe Yuan refused.
• The Aged Demonic Cultivator transformed Lin Zhe Yuan into a woman and gave him power to help him steal Li Zhōujūn’s hair.
• Lin Zhe Yuan tried to bump into Li Zhōujūn, but Li Zhōujūn dodged him and left without showing interest.
• After female prodigies praised Li Zhōujūn, the Aged Demonic Cultivator advised Lin Zhe Yuan to strike up a conversation and try again.

Lin Zhe Yuan tried to obtain a strand of Li Zhōujūn’s hair, but his disguise failed and he settled for collecting the chicken bones Li Zhōujūn had left behind. Ye Qinghan witnessed Lin Zhe Yuan’s humiliating behavior while the Nine Heroes Tower trial continued under another Ye Family expert.

• Lin Zhe Yuan borrowed power from the Aged Demonic Cultivator and tried to pull out Li Zhōujūn’s hair, but Li Zhōujūn easily stopped him and sent him flying.
• Lin Zhe Yuan accidentally revealed his male voice, leading the watching heaven’s prideful to recognize him and leaving Li Zhōujūn bewildered.
• The Aged Demonic Cultivator suggested Lin Zhe Yuan collect the chicken bones Li Zhōujūn had left at a roadside stall instead of taking control of Lin Zhe Yuan’s body.
• Lin Zhe Yuan took the stall owner’s barrel of chicken bones and hurried back to the Lin Family, threatening the owner when he objected.
• Ye Qinghan saw Lin Zhe Yuan’s behavior as she paused presiding over the Nine Heroes Tower trial to seek a chance to recruit Li Zhōujūn.

Lin Zhe Yuan helped Daoist Shang Jue use Li Zhōujūn’s chicken bone to enter his consciousness and seize his body. Li Zhōujūn resisted the attack and trapped Daoist Shang Jue, leaving the remnant soul unable to escape or safely continue fighting.

• Lin Zhe Yuan brought chicken bones to his room, and Daoist Shang Jue identified the bone Li Zhōujūn had spat out.
• Daoist Shang Jue used Demonic Marks to enter Li Zhōujūn’s consciousness as Li Zhōujūn traveled toward Dao Tian Holy Palace.
• Li Zhōujūn learned that Daoist Shang Jue was helping someone else seize his body, then destroyed the demonic skulls with a punch.
• Daoist Shang Jue tried to flee, but Li Zhōujūn blocked him and kept fighting inside his consciousness.
• Daoist Shang Jue realized his remnant soul might dissipate if the stalemate continued, but he could neither escape nor risk an all-out battle.

Li Zhōujūn learned that Lin Zhe Yuan had hired Daoist Shang Jue to seize his body, then returned to the Dao Tian Holy Palace and set out with Old Man Rong to punish the Lin Family. Old Man Rong captured Daoist Shang Jue, and Li Zhōujūn ordered him burned while Lin Zhe Yuan remained unaware of the danger approaching.

• Daoist Shang Jue confessed that Lin Zhe Yuan had promised him a body in exchange for helping seize Li Zhōujūn's body, then escaped using a secret technique.
• Li Zhōujūn reached the Fifth-Rank Saint Realm, received a mission to annihilate the Lin Family, and returned to the Dao Tian Holy Palace.
• Qin Tianyi sent Old Man Rong to take Li Zhōujūn to the Lin Family, while Daoist Shang Jue returned to Lin Zhe Yuan, told him to wait for death, and fled with his jade pendant.
• Old Man Rong brought Li Zhōujūn above Nine Heroes City and captured Daoist Shang Jue from the void.
• Daoist Shang Jue begged for mercy, but Li Zhōujūn ordered Old Man Rong to burn him without leaving ashes.

Elder Rong destroyed the Lin Family, completing Li Zhōujūn’s mission and raising his cultivation to the Sixth-Rank Saint Realm. After Li Zhōujūn settled at the Dao Tian Holy Palace, the Lin Family’s ancestor vowed revenge, while the Nether Ancestor arrived intending to make Li Zhōujūn suffer.

• Elder Rong killed Daoist Shang Jue and burned the Lin Family to ashes as Li Zhōujūn watched.
• The system rewarded Li Zhōujūn with Sixth-Rank Saint cultivation and upgraded the Ao Xue Flying Sword; Li Zhōujūn then returned to the Dao Tian Holy Palace with Elder Rong.
• Li Zhōujūn spoke with Qin Tianyi and settled into a small loft at the Dao Tian Holy Palace.
• Lin Maosen learned that his clone and the Lin Family had been destroyed, identified the attacker as a Ninth-Rank Saint, and vowed revenge.
• The Nether Ancestor visited Qin Tianyi with the Nine Nether Divine Chicken and proposed using its extreme frost to make Li Zhōujūn suffer while tempering his body.

Li Zhōujūn left the Dao Tian Holy Palace to find roast chicken and was tricked by two Flower Snow Valley disciples into going to their sect. He arrived at Flower Snow Valley, where its master Zhao Di was draining the blood of handsome captives, unaware of the danger awaiting him.

• The Nether Ancestor wanted to help Li Zhōujūn increase his cultivation with the Nine Nether Divine Chicken, but Qin Tianyi told him Li Zhōujūn had gone out.
• Li Zhōujūn stopped in a small city for roast chicken, and two Flower Snow Valley disciples decided to lure him to their sect as a potential Blood Slave.
• The square-faced woman falsely claimed her master needed Li Zhōujūn to taste a new roast chicken recipe, and he agreed to follow the women.
• At Flower Snow Valley, Zhao Di drained the blood of a handsome man and killed a beautiful woman, leaving the other captives terrified.
• Li Zhōujūn asked about the women’s master’s cultivation as they led him to Flower Snow Valley, then arrived at the sect.

Li Zhōujūn followed two women to Zhao Di’s palace expecting roast chicken, only to discover he had been lured into a blood-feeding lair. He fought off Zhao Di’s attacks and left the Valley Master terrified as he continued insisting on chicken.

• The square-faced woman brought Li Zhōujūn into the palace, where Zhao Di was surrounded by captives and welcomed him as fresh blood food.
• Li Zhōujūn demanded roast chicken, and Zhao Di attacked him after threatening to roast him instead.
• Li Zhōujūn calmly withstood Zhao Di’s pressure, revealing strength on par with a Seventh-Rank Saint and alarming the two women.
• Zhao Di tried a sonic technique and then blood hands, but Li Zhōujūn repelled them with Golden Lightning.
• Zhao Di’s giant blood hand could not push down against Li Zhōujūn’s single finger, and Li Zhōujūn offered to keep fighting until Zhao Di agreed to make roast chicken.

Li Zhōujūn forced Zhao Di to stop fighting and roast him a chicken, then learned that Yao Shu had been lured to Flower Snow Valley while seeking help for her gravely injured master. He recognized her connection to the Yao Family and left her fate—and her master's—poised for his intervention.

• Zhao Di yielded to Li Zhōujūn, who supplied a chicken and demanded that Zhao Di roast it or face the destruction of Flower Snow Valley.
• Zhao Di killed the long-faced woman and square-faced woman, then left to prepare the chicken after Li Zhōujūn gave him two hours.
• The captives begged Li Zhōujūn for help, and he questioned them about how they had ended up at Flower Snow Valley.
• Li Zhōujūn recognized Yao Shu and asked about her ties to the Yao Family of the Peach Domain in the Eternal Immortal Realm.
• Yao Shu explained that she had come seeking help for her gravely injured master and had been deceived by a Flower Snow Valley disciple.

Li Zhōujūn drove Zhao Di from Flower Snow Valley, gained a cultivation breakthrough, and agreed to help Yao Shu's master, who was suffering from Cold Poison Saint's cold poison. Yao Shu brought him to the courtyard where her Seventh-Rank Saint master lay ill.

• Li Zhōujūn provoked Zhao Di until he fled, abandoning Flower Snow Valley, and the system raised Li Zhōujūn's cultivation to the Seventh-Rank Saint realm.
• Yao Shu explained that her master was suffering from cold poison inflicted by a clone of Cold Poison Saint, an Eighth-Rank Saint.
• The system gave Li Zhōujūn a mission to force out some of the cold poison and use the Profound Nether Heart Sutra to turn it to his own use.
• Li Zhōujūn offered to help Yao Shu's master, and Yao Shu led him to the city courtyard where she was staying.
• Li Zhōujūn saw Yao Shu's master lying in bed, her forehead covered in cold sweat.

Li Zhōujūn cured Mu Li of Cold Poison Saint’s cold poison, then faced the saint’s attack on the city. The Nether Ancestor intervened to protect Li Zhōujūn, leaving Cold Poison Saint shocked as the giant hand closed in.

• Li Zhōujūn extracted the cold poison from Mu Li, earning the Cold Fiend Sky Breaking Sword Art from the system, and Mu Li woke and thanked him.
• Cold Poison Saint appeared over the city and unleashed a storm of ice spikes that devastated it, while Li Zhōujūn dispersed the freezing wind around the courtyard.
• At Dao Tian Holy Palace, the Nether Ancestor urged Qin Tianyi to locate Li Zhōujūn and saw him facing Cold Poison Saint’s attack.
• The Nether Ancestor sent a gigantic black hand through Qin Tianyi’s image and struck at Cold Poison Saint, who realized a Ninth-Rank Saint had come to Li Zhōujūn’s aid.

Li Zhōujūn returned to Dao Tian Holy Palace after Nether Ancestor killed Cold Poison Saint and sent him back. There, his sparring match with Nine Nether Divine Chicken revealed that he was a Seventh-Rank Saint and awakened his Eye of Saint Extermination, leaving the chicken terrified.

• Nether Ancestor erased Cold Poison Saint, told Li Zhōujūn to return to Dao Tian Holy Palace, and left Mu Li and Yao Shu unharmed.
• Li Zhōujūn returned to the palace, where Nether Ancestor and Ancestor Qin were playing chess with Nine Nether Divine Chicken.
• Nether Ancestor arranged for Nine Nether Divine Chicken to use its Extreme Nether Ice Power on Li Zhōujūn, and Li Zhōujūn agreed to the match.
• Nine Nether Divine Chicken's cold attack coated Li Zhōujūn in frost, but the frost cracked away as he awakened the Eye of Saint Extermination.
• Li Zhōujūn revealed the pressure of a Seventh-Rank Saint and trapped Nine Nether Divine Chicken in a dark space, where it saw him transformed into a gigantic eye.

Li Zhōujūn left Chaos Continent to fulfill a system mission and encountered Dong Qiuyue fighting a powerful sea monster. He rescued her and another woman, who asked whether Dong Qiuyue knew him.

• The Nether Ancestor rescued the Nine Nether Divine Chicken from Li Zhōujūn, then left after Qin Tianyi and Li Zhōujūn denied conspiring against him.
• Qin Tianyi advised Li Zhōujūn to explore Chaos Heaven, and the system assigned him a mission to sign in on three continents.
• Li Zhōujūn crossed the sea toward Shenfeng Continent after leaving Chaos Continent.
• Li Zhōujūn found Dong Qiuyue and another woman battling a Fifth-Rank Saint's tentacles.
• Li Zhōujūn froze the sea and used ice swords to kill the tentacled monster, then Dong Qiuyue's companion asked if she knew him.

Li Zhōujūn traveled to the Shenfeng Continent with Dong Qiuyue and Gongsun Wei, where they witnessed a clash between Divine Emperor Huang and his senior brother. After the old man left, Divine Emperor Huang offered Dong Qiuyue a place in his harem, and she calmly refused.

• Dong Qiuyue introduced Li Zhōujūn to Gongsun Wei and explained that they were heading to the Shenfeng Continent for a Saint trial.
• Li Zhōujūn agreed to travel with Dong Qiuyue and Gongsun Wei, and the three crossed the sea to the Shenfeng Continent.
• The three arrived in a border town and saw Seventh-Rank Saints Divine Emperor Huang and his senior brother arguing over stolen wine.
• Divine Emperor Huang attacked with four golden hand seals, but his senior brother effortlessly blocked them and vanished after taunting him.
• Divine Emperor Huang offered Dong Qiuyue a golden hairpin and a place in his harem, but she declined because she already had someone in her heart.

Li Zhōujūn rescued Dong Qiuyue from Divine Emperor Huang and revealed his strength as the Azure Emperor. He traveled with Dong Qiuyue and Gongsun Wei to Star City for the Star Palace trial, where they encountered the carriage of Divine Emperor Huang’s Second Imperial Prince.

• Divine Emperor Huang tried to abduct Dong Qiuyue, but Li Zhōujūn shattered his golden bell and defeated his golden lion attack with a gale.
• Li Zhōujūn introduced himself as the Azure Emperor, and Divine Emperor Huang withdrew after realizing he was outmatched.
• Dong Qiuyue thanked Li Zhōujūn, and he asked whether she had someone in her heart; Gongsun Wei realized Dong Qiuyue’s feelings were for him.
• Li Zhōujūn agreed to accompany Gongsun Wei and Dong Qiuyue to Star Palace, and the three set off for Star City.
• The trio arrived outside Star City and saw a carriage marked with Huang, which Gongsun Wei identified as belonging to Divine Emperor Huang’s Second Imperial Prince.

Li Zhōujūn, Dong Qiuyue, and Gongsun Wei stayed at an inn in Star City while discussing the Star Palace trial. Huang Daofeng mistook Li Zhōujūn for an ordinary disciple until Qi Mengying arrived to escort him to the Myriad Stars Palace as the Azure Emperor.

• Li Zhōujūn booked three rooms at an inn and met with Dong Qiuyue and Gongsun Wei to hear how the Star Palace trial worked.
• Li Zhōujūn slept until noon, then met Huang Daofeng, the second prince of the Divine Radiance Dynasty, who assumed he was a young disciple unable to enter the trial.
• Huang Daofeng introduced himself and tried to ingratiate himself with Li Zhōujūn and the two women, while overlooking Li Zhōujūn in favor of their beauty.
• Qi Mengying entered the inn and respectfully told Li Zhōujūn that the Star Palace had sent her to escort the Azure Emperor to the Myriad Stars Palace.
• Huang Daofeng and the inn’s occupants realized that Li Zhōujūn was the Azure Emperor who had defeated his father.

Li Zhōujūn accepted Qi Mengying’s offer to stay at the Myriad Stars Palace, while Bai Sheng and his disciple decided to visit him. Meanwhile, Lin Maosen learned that Li Zhōujūn might have destroyed the Lin Family and resolved to hunt him down on the Shenfeng Continent.

• Li Zhōujūn left the inn with Dong Qiuyue and Gongsun Wei after Qi Mengying invited him to stay at the Myriad Stars Palace, and he chose an unoccupied palace.
• Gongsun Wei teased Dong Qiuyue about Qi Mengying offering to personally handle Li Zhōujūn’s needs, but Dong Qiuyue defended him.
• Bai Sheng, a Seventh-Rank Saint opposed to Divine Emperor Huang, agreed to take his disciple to meet Li Zhōujūn at the neighboring palace.
• A black shadow reported to Lin Maosen that Old Man Rong had attacked the Lin Family and that Li Zhōujūn was likely involved and had gone to the Shenfeng Continent.
• Lin Maosen ordered his subordinate to locate Li Zhōujūn and vowed to kill him himself, confident that his old Ninth-Rank Saint allies would protect him from retaliation.

Li Zhōujūn met Bai Sheng, while the Star Palace prepared for a threatened attack by the Seven Saints of the Demonic Path. As the Star Palace trial began, Dong Qiuyue and Gongsun Wei joined the line for the Fourth-Rank Saint battlefield.

• Bai Sheng visited Li Zhōujūn, praised his bearing, and privately concluded that the Azure Emperor was likely stronger than himself.
• The Star Palace elders warned the Palace Master that the Seven Saints of the Demonic Path intended to seize the Star Source, but he ordered the trial to proceed as usual.
• Huangfu Ren told the Seven Saints to wait until the trial drew the Star Palace's attention before attacking and taking the Star Source.
• The Star Palace trial began in a vast floating square, where Li Zhōujūn sat beside Bai Sheng among the high-grade Saints.
• Li Zhōujūn spotted Dong Qiuyue and Gongsun Wei waiting in line for the Fourth-Rank Saint battlefield.

Star Palace’s trial began, and Dong Qiuyue took first place on the Fourth-Rank battlefield while Qi Mengying led the Fifth-Rank. The Seven Saints of the Demonic Path attacked Star Palace for its Star Source, and the chapter ended with Xu Yisheng confronting them as Li Zhōujūn watched, ready to intervene if the Palace Master fell.

• Gu Wu explained the trial rules, and the cultivators entered their rank-specific battlefields to compete for tokens.
• By the third day, Dong Qiuyue led the Fourth-Rank battlefield and Qi Mengying led the Fifth-Rank battlefield while Li Zhōujūn slept in the viewing stands.
• Black clouds shrouded Star Palace, and Gu Wu identified the Seven Saints of the Demonic Path as intruders seeking the Star Source.
• Ke Gang attacked Gu Wu, but Xu Yisheng appeared and crushed the demonic fist with one hand.
• Li Zhōujūn told Bai Sheng he would intervene if Xu Yisheng lost, and Xu Yisheng challenged the Seven Saints for underestimating him.