Chapter Summaries

Li Zhōujūn revealed his strength by trapping the Seven Saints of the Demonic Path in a chessboard array and exposing them inside their own demonic mist. The Seven Saints struggled against his relentless attacks as Xu Yisheng prepared to strike, leaving them trapped and facing defeat.

• Xu Yisheng fought the Seven Saints of the Demonic Path, but their Seven Demonic Star Array concealed them and confused him with illusions.
• Bai Sheng feared the Seven Saints would kill everyone, while Li Zhōujūn calmly used Emperor's Law: Trapping the Dragon to enclose the battlefield in a giant chessboard.
• Li Zhōujūn's chess pieces dispersed the demonic mist and revealed the Seven Saints surrounding Xu Yisheng.
• The Seven Saints blocked Li Zhōujūn's first wave of chess pieces, but he immediately sent another wave with undiminished force.

Li Zhōujūn trapped the Seven Saints of the Demonic Path and let Xu Yisheng finish them off, but Lin Maosen appeared and declared he would kill anyone who opposed him. The chapter left Li Zhōujūn bewildered as Huangfu Ren celebrated the arrival of a Ninth-Rank Saint.

• Li Zhōujūn wore down the Seven Saints of the Demonic Path with his Trapped Dragon formation and offered Xu Yisheng the chance to take over.
• Xu Yisheng attacked and killed several of the Seven Saints, while Li Zhōujūn kept the survivors from escaping.
• Feng Youling begged Xu Yisheng for mercy, but Huangfu Ren killed her before Xu Yisheng could act.
• As Xu Yisheng prepared to attack Huangfu Ren, Lin Maosen emerged from the void and threatened anyone who touched him.
• Huangfu Ren laughed at Li Zhōujūn, believing Lin Maosen's intervention meant the Azure Emperor would die.

Li Zhōujūn fought Lin Maosen, a Ninth-Rank Saint seeking revenge for the Lin Family, and revealed strength enough to trade blows with him. The chapter ended with dust obscuring Li Zhōujūn after a clash, leaving Lin Maosen and the watching cultivators uncertain whether he had survived.

• Lin Maosen confronted Li Zhōujūn and vowed to avenge the Lin Family by killing him.
• Lin Maosen attacked with poisonous vines, but Li Zhōujūn shattered them with lightning and fought him to a standstill.
• Lin Maosen grew more ruthless, and the System issued Li Zhōujūn a mission to eliminate him.
• Li Zhōujūn punched apart Lin Maosen’s giant vine, then stabilized the collapsing void to protect Dong Qiuyue in the trial battlefield.
• Lin Maosen crushed down at Li Zhōujūn with an enormous vine finger, and their collision buried Li Zhōujūn’s position in dust.

Li Zhōujūn summoned Qin Tianyi’s clone by pretending to strangle himself, and the clone revealed Heavenly Venerate-level strength before killing Lin Maosen’s threat. After earning a system reward, Li Zhōujūn returned to his seat while Xu Yisheng dealt with Huangfu Ren.

• Li Zhōujūn stopped Lin Maosen from fleeing, and they fought to a standstill.
• Li Zhōujūn strangled himself to summon Qin Tianyi’s clone, which appeared when he was on the verge of death.
• Qin Tianyi’s snort severely wounded Lin Maosen, who cursed Li Zhōujūn and then self-destructed; Qin Tianyi blocked the blast.
• The system rewarded Li Zhōujūn with Eighth-Rank Saint cultivation and upgraded the Ao Xue Flying Sword, while Qin Tianyi teased him before his clone dispersed.
• Xu Yisheng asked Li Zhōujūn what to do with Huangfu Ren, then crippled Huangfu Ren and ordered him taken to the Star Palace prison.

After the trial ended, Li Zhōujūn left Star Palace and set out for the next continent by ferry. Xu Yisheng roasted a Nine Nether Divine Chicken for him, while news of the Azure Emperor’s power spread across Shenfeng Continent.

• Xu Yisheng knocked out Xuliu, a Nine Nether Divine Chicken, and roasted it after Xuliu refused to follow him.
• Li Zhōujūn tasted the roast chicken, learned it was a Nine Nether Divine Chicken, and made another chicken beside Nether Ancestor fear for its safety.
• The trial ended with Dong Qiuyue taking first place in the Fourth-Rank Saint battlefield after defeating Huang Daofeng.
• Li Zhōujūn asked Xu Yisheng to look after Dong Qiuyue, then left without meeting her.
• News spread across Shenfeng Continent that the Azure Emperor was a Ninth-Rank Saint, leaving Divine Emperor Huang relieved he had not offended him.
• Li Zhōujūn boarded a ferry to travel to the next continent, while several passengers secretly sized up him and the other well-dressed travelers.

Li Zhōujūn and the ferry’s passengers encountered a deadly mist that drained people’s cultivation and vital essence, while an unknown creature attacked the vessel. The system gave Li Zhōujūn a mission to make the creature understand his might.

• A moving Sea Secret Realm’s mist enveloped Li Zhōujūn’s ferry, where passengers spotted the decayed Shenfeng Nine Ferry and its skeletal remains.
• The Demon Suppressing Six Fiends revealed themselves, and the mist drained their weakest member, Sixth Brother, leaving only a skeleton.
• First Brother warned the passengers that the mist would kill them all, silencing those who had mocked the fiends’ fate.
• An unknown creature rammed the ferry, terrifying the passengers who could not fly through the sea’s laws.
• Li Zhōujūn received a system mission to make the unknown creature understand his might.

Li Zhōujūn used the Ao Xue Flying Sword to kill a giant shark attacking the ferry, then faced the Demon Owl Saint, who emerged from the mist and challenged him. Li Zhōujūn struck the Ninth-Rank Saint with a punch, leaving him gravely wounded and convinced Li Zhōujūn was also a Ninth-Rank Saint.

• Li Zhōujūn sent the Ao Xue Flying Sword into the sea, where it tore the giant shark to pieces and returned to him.
• The system rewarded Li Zhōujūn with three strands of Chaos Qi for completing his task.
• The Demon Owl Saint appeared from the mist, identified himself as a Ninth-Rank Saint, and threatened Li Zhōujūn.
• Li Zhōujūn punched the Demon Owl Saint in the face, sending him flying and badly injuring him.
• The Demon Owl Saint accused Li Zhōujūn of hiding his Ninth-Rank Saint strength and scheming against him.

Li Zhōujūn revealed himself as the Azure Emperor and drove off Demon Owl Saint, then met Zhong Chan and sensed the dangerous power within her. After learning the Demonic Sword was lodged in her body, he received a system mission to extract it and offered to help, prompting an old man to warn him against making such a claim lightly.

• Li Zhōujūn identified himself as the Azure Emperor and challenged Demon Owl Saint, who fled into the void after displaying his power.
• The next morning, Zhong Chan introduced herself to Li Zhōujūn and told him she came from the Demon Suppressing Continent.
• Li Zhōujūn sensed a powerful force within Zhong Chan, and the narration revealed that the Demonic Sword was trying to lead her into the demonic path.
• The system tasked Li Zhōujūn with extracting the Demonic Sword and provided a method for doing so.
• Li Zhōujūn told Zhong Chan he could extract the sword, but an old man warned him not to make such a reckless claim.

Li Zhōujūn removed the Demonic Sword from Zhong Chan and used the system to tame it, making Mo Qing his devoted servant. A white-robed woman deep in the Demon Suppressing Continent sensed the force and wondered who had caused it.

• Cheng Yuan warned Li Zhōujūn that no one had been able to remove the Demonic Sword from Zhong Chan, but Zhong Chan agreed to let him try.
• Li Zhōujūn pulled the Demonic Sword from Zhong Chan, and its influence briefly drove the ferry’s passengers and Cheng Yuan toward bloodlust.
• Cheng Yuan caught the unconscious Zhong Chan and realized Li Zhōujūn was likely a Heavenly Venerate.
• The Demonic Sword cursed Li Zhōujūn and refused to follow him, but the system erased its former master’s remnant thought and bound it to Li Zhōujūn.
• The sword became a Black-clothed Woman named Mo Qing and greeted Li Zhōujūn as her master.
• A black-haired woman in white robes deep in the Demon Suppressing Continent sensed the change and wondered who was responsible.

After Li Zhōujūn subdued the Demonic Sword, the Demonic Heavenly Venerate broke free from her seal on the Demon Suppressing Continent. Li Zhōujūn arrived and admitted he had refined her artifact, leaving the two Heavenly Venerates facing off.

• Li Zhōujūn sent the restored Mo Qing into his sleeve, and the ferry continued toward the Demon Suppressing Continent.
• The Demon Suppressing Continent shook as Zhong Zhentian and Zhong Tian went to reinforce the seal, while Zhong Zhentian ordered the other elders to flee if they failed.
• Cheng Yuan suspected that taking the Demonic Heavenly Venerate’s natal artifact had triggered her escape, and Li Zhōujūn promised to protect the continent.
• The stone mountain shattered, and the Demonic Heavenly Venerate emerged after overpowering Zhong Zhentian and Zhong Tian.
• Li Zhōujūn arrived with Zhong Chan and Cheng Yuan, admitted that he had refined the Demonic Heavenly Venerate’s artifact, and heard her demand its return and one of his arms.

Li Zhōujūn gained Ninth-Rank Saint cultivation and faced the white-clad female demon, whose power matched his after his abilities brought him to her level. He endured her attacks and survived a strike empowered by the Eye of Demonic Fall, leaving their fight unresolved.

• The system rewarded Li Zhōujūn with Ninth-Rank Saint cultivation and upgraded the Ao Xue Flying Sword after he completed his mission.
• Zhong Zhentian worried that Li Zhōujūn could not defeat the white-clad female demon, who attacked by covering the Demon Suppressing Continent with a blood sea.
• Li Zhōujūn dispelled the demon's blood maw and countless blood blades with punches while protecting the Zhong Family from her pressure.
• Li Zhōujūn rushed to interrupt the demon's hand seals, but blood-sea tentacles delayed him until she opened the Eye of Demonic Fall and immobilized him.
• The white-clad female demon struck Li Zhōujūn in the chest, but his body remained unharmed because his passive ability made him Fifty-Fifty with her attack.

Li Zhōujūn defeated Mo Yanjun’s attack without injury and traded her bonded sword for information about a fallen Great Heavenly Venerate’s resting place. He kept the sword until Mo Yanjun agreed to guide him there, then declined the Zhong Family’s invitation and planned to explore the Demon Suppressing Continent.

• Li Zhōujūn withstood Mo Yanjun’s full-strength palm strike, leaving her shocked and unwilling to continue fighting.
• Mo Yanjun offered the location of a fallen Great Heavenly Venerate’s resting place in exchange for her bonded magic treasure, Mo Qing.
• After Mo Yanjun gave Li Zhōujūn a jade slip, he insisted she guide him to the site before he returned the sword.
• Mo Yanjun accepted Li Zhōujūn’s terms and left, saying the jade slip could be used to contact her.
• Zhong Zhentian and Zhong Tian thanked Li Zhōujūn and invited him to visit the Zhong Family, but he declined and chose to explore the Demon Suppressing Continent.

Li Zhōujūn summoned Mo Yanjun to explore an island formed from a fallen Great Heavenly Venerate, where its remains held a dangerous opportunity. Mo Yanjun overcame her fear enough to agree to lead the way, while Li Zhōujūn followed behind and promised to protect her.

• Li Zhōujūn saw the destruction across the Demon Suppressing Continent and summoned Mo Yanjun to guide him to the Great Heavenly Venerate's remains.
• Mo Yanjun brought Li Zhōujūn to an island shaped like a person, warning him that she had once been trapped there by a terrifying formation.
• Li Zhōujūn pressed Mo Yanjun to confront her fear of the island, and she admitted that the danger had nearly trapped her for life.
• Li Zhōujūn returned the Mo Qing Sword and erased his mark, but the sword warned Mo Yanjun that he was terrifyingly powerful.
• Mo Yanjun agreed to explore the remains and go first after Li Zhōujūn threatened to take back her natal treasure.

Li Zhōujūn and Mo Yanjun explored Heaven-Bestowed Island, where they learned its people descended from mortals who crossed a shattered breach and suspected the Great Heavenly Venerate had made the island into a vast world. They reached its heart-shaped volcanic mountain, and Li Zhōujūn began roasting a chicken as an unnoticed change unfolded.

• Li Zhōujūn and Mo Yanjun met Gong Yuru gathering herbs and learned that her ancestors had arrived on Heaven-Bestowed Island through a shattered breach centuries earlier.
• Mo Yanjun suspected the Great Heavenly Venerate had left a remnant will on the island, while Li Zhōujūn guessed he had transformed himself to create a world rivaling Chaos Heaven.
• Li Zhōujūn and Mo Yanjun left Gong Yuru and traveled to the island’s heart, where they found a dangerously hot, heart-shaped mountain.
• Li Zhōujūn prepared a chicken and roasted it over the volcanic crater while Mo Yanjun warned that the island’s lifeline might be dangerous.
• Mo Yanjun became tempted by the chicken’s aroma as an unexpected change began without either of them noticing.

Li Zhōujūn and Mo Yanjun escaped the Great Heavenly Venerate’s illusion after the system restored Li Zhōujūn’s memories, and the illusion’s creator emerged from the magma. The Man in Red mistook Li Zhōujūn for a Great Heavenly Venerate, leaving Mo Yanjun wondering if he truly had reached that realm.

• The system restored Li Zhōujūn’s memories and gave him the method to break the illusion while he and Mo Yanjun lived as a married couple in a village.
• Li Zhōujūn broke the illusion, and he and Mo Yanjun returned to the volcanic crater, where she warned him to keep their illusionary marriage secret.
• Li Zhōujūn began roasting another chicken, and Mo Yanjun wondered whether he had reached the Great Heavenly Venerate realm.
• The Man in Red emerged from the magma and treated Li Zhōujūn as a fellow Great Heavenly Venerate, shocking Mo Yanjun.

Li Zhōujūn learned that the Nirvana Pearl belonged to Nirvana Heavenly Venerate and decided to compete for it after the system ordered him to swallow it. Great Heavenly Venerate Jia Qingshi challenged him for the pearl, and their battle began with Li Zhōujūn meeting Jia's Frost Dragons head-on.

• Mo Yanjun told the Man in Red that she and Li Zhōujūn had come seeking an opportunity, and he revealed that he was Nirvana Heavenly Venerate and held the Nirvana Pearl.
• Nirvana Heavenly Venerate explained the pearl's benefits and warned Li Zhōujūn that gaining its recognition could be deadly, while observing that Li Zhōujūn seemed to be a Great Heavenly Venerate.
• Great Heavenly Venerate Jia Qingshi arrived and asked Li Zhōujūn to yield the Nirvana Pearl, but Li Zhōujūn refused to give up his chance to claim it.
• The system issued Li Zhōujūn a mission to swallow the Nirvana Pearl, and Jia Qingshi declared that they would fight for it.
• Jia Qingshi blanketed the island in snow and sent countless Frost Dragons at Li Zhōujūn, who struck them head-on with his scaled fist.

Li Zhōujūn revealed his Great Heavenly Venerate strength and swallowed the Nirvana Pearl, gaining Heavenly Venerate cultivation and a stronger divine soul. The Nirvana Heavenly Venerate's attempt to possess him failed, leaving him to conceal his defeat.

• Li Zhōujūn emerged unharmed from Jia Qingshi's attack, revealing his power and prompting Jia Qingshi to back down.
• Mo Yanjun warned Li Zhōujūn that Jia Qingshi might ambush him, and Li Zhōujūn said he trusted her.
• The Nirvana Heavenly Venerate handed Li Zhōujūn the Nirvana Pearl, which Li Zhōujūn swallowed whole.
• Li Zhōujūn's system helped him crunch the pearl and rewarded him with Heavenly Venerate cultivation, an enhanced Ao Xue Flying Sword, and a stronger divine soul.
• The Nirvana Heavenly Venerate revealed that he had hidden part of his divine soul in the pearl to possess Li Zhōujūn, but Li Zhōujūn had swallowed it.
• The Nirvana Heavenly Venerate agreed with Li Zhōujūn's claim that the pearl's divine-soul power had strengthened him.

Li Zhōujūn left the Nirvana Heavenly Venerate to continue her evolution, and his farewell made her feel guilty and resolve to become his friend. On the Cold Abyss Continent, Mo Yanjun admitted she had fallen for him, and Li Zhōujūn started digging a hole after she challenged him to die for her.

• Li Zhōujūn let the Nirvana Heavenly Venerate’s attempt to seize his body go, while Jia Qingshi introduced himself and departed.
• Li Zhōujūn called the Nirvana Heavenly Venerate a potential close friend and left with Mo Yanjun, prompting her to feel guilty and decide to become his friend.
• The Nirvana Heavenly Venerate returned to the lava to pursue her evolution and the possibility of reaching beyond the Great Heavenly Venerate level.
• On the Cold Abyss Continent, Mo Yanjun asked Li Zhōujūn why he had spared the Nirvana Heavenly Venerate, and he teased her to guess.
• Mo Yanjun said she had fallen for Li Zhōujūn, and when she told him she liked him alive, he began digging a hole to bury himself.

Li Zhōujūn found a mysterious crystal on the Cold Abyss Continent, drawing the attention of the Tang Family and revealing its connection to Jia Qingshi. Jia Qingshi appeared to shield Li Zhōujūn from the Tang Family, leaving its members stunned by how respectfully he treated the visitors.

• Li Zhōujūn dug up a crystal that Mo Yanjun recognized as carrying Jia Qingshi's aura, and Jia Qingshi sensed Li Zhōujūn's arrival.
• Tang Junfeng and his guards confronted Li Zhōujūn and Mo Yanjun for entering the Tang Family's Forbidden Land, and Mo Yanjun killed Skinny Dog with a sword.
• A Tang Family guard identified Li Zhōujūn's crystal as the opportunity Jia Qingshi had bestowed, and Tang Junfeng demanded that Li Zhōujūn hand it over.
• Jia Qingshi's overwhelming aura forced Tang Junfeng and his guards to their knees, and he apologized to Li Zhōujūn and Mo Yanjun for letting the Tang Family disturb them.
• The Tang Family realized Jia Qingshi treated Li Zhōujūn and Mo Yanjun with deference and wondered if the two visitors were also above the Saint realm.

Li Zhōujūn and Mo Yanjun met Jia Qingshi, who killed the Tang Family members for offending them and invited the pair to his ice-cavern palace. Jia Qingshi revealed that the Immortal Flower would appear on Phoenix Arrival Continent in two months and asked Li Zhōujūn to stop his mortal enemy from obtaining it.

• Jia Qingshi invited Li Zhōujūn to visit him and offered to share an opportunity.
• Jia Qingshi killed Tang Junfeng and the other Tang Family members for offending Li Zhōujūn and Mo Yanjun.
• Li Zhōujūn and Mo Yanjun followed Jia Qingshi to his ice-cavern palace and heard about the Heavenly Mechanism Palace.
• Jia Qingshi told Li Zhōujūn that the Immortal Flower would appear on Phoenix Arrival Continent in two months and could grant its wielder the Immortal Body.
• Jia Qingshi asked Li Zhōujūn to seize the Immortal Flower so his mortal enemy could not obtain it.