Chapter Summaries

Li Zhōujūn learned about the Immortal Flower and received a map to Phoenix Arrival Continent from Jia Qingshi. After parting ways with Mo Yanjun, he decided to seek the flower and set off for the continent.

• Jia Qingshi gave Li Zhōujūn a jade slip showing Phoenix Arrival Continent and explained that the Immortal Flower might have intelligence, transform into human form, and possess the Immortal Heavenly Venerate’s protective techniques.
• Mo Yanjun asked Li Zhōujūn about seeking the Immortal Flower and hinted she might pursue it as a betrothal gift.
• Li Zhōujūn left Mo Yanjun, who turned her attention toward Phoenix Arrival Continent.
• Li Zhōujūn decided to try for the Immortal Flower and used Jia Qingshi’s map to set off for Phoenix Arrival Continent.

Li Zhōujūn listened to a teahouse storyteller recount the legend of the Nirvana Stone while the Divine Heaven Old Ancestor and Liu Chengde searched for it. Their search led them into a trap set by Night-Walking Heavenly Venerate, who planned to use Heavenly Venerates to refine his Hundred Venerate Banner.

• Li Zhōujūn listened to the legend of the divine phoenix and the Nirvana Stone in a teahouse, where the Divine Heaven Old Ancestor noticed him.
• The Divine Heaven Old Ancestor told Liu Chengde that he had come to find the Nirvana Stone and hoped it would help him reach the Great Heavenly Venerate realm.
• The Divine Heaven Old Ancestor revealed a divine phoenix feather and used it to lead Liu Chengde to the valley where the phoenix had fallen.
• Night-Walking Heavenly Venerate appeared and revealed that the feather had been bait to lure Heavenly Venerates to him for his Hundred Venerate Banner.

Night-Walking Heavenly Venerate revealed that he had used the Phoenix Feather and Nirvana Stone as bait to trap and kill Heavenly Venerates, then gravely wounded Divine Heaven Old Ancestor. The System teleported Li Zhōujūn to the valley, where he appeared in the path of Night-Walking Heavenly Venerate’s attack and survived it unharmed.

• Night-Walking Heavenly Venerate explained that he had killed the divine phoenix, refined its soul into the Hundred Venerate Banner, and set a trap to lure Heavenly Venerates.
• Divine Heaven Old Ancestor confronted Night-Walking Heavenly Venerate, but his warning that the Great Heavenly Venerates would come did not deter him.
• Divine Heaven Old Ancestor shielded Liu Chengde and fought back, but Night-Walking Heavenly Venerate’s casual strike sent him flying and left him gravely wounded.
• The System assigned Li Zhōujūn a mission to collect the Immortal Flower, Nirvana Stone, and divine phoenix feather, then began teleporting him before he could pay for his tea.
• Li Zhōujūn appeared in the valley and withstood Night-Walking Heavenly Venerate’s demonic palm without injury, giving Liu Chengde hope that Divine Heaven Old Ancestor could survive.

Li Zhōujūn confronted Night-Walking Heavenly Venerate and demanded the Nirvana Stone and Phoenix Feathers. After Li Zhōujūn easily destroyed the Hundred Venerate Banner’s phantoms, Night-Walking Heavenly Venerate summoned a black phoenix and prepared to fight seriously.

• Li Zhōujūn demanded Night-Walking Heavenly Venerate hand over the Nirvana Stone and asked whether he carried three Phoenix Feathers.
• Night-Walking Heavenly Venerate silenced Liu Chengde, summoned phantoms from his Hundred Venerate Banner, and threatened to imprison Li Zhōujūn if he won.
• Divine Heaven Old Ancestor told Liu Chengde to give his Phoenix Feather to Li Zhōujūn if he died.
• Li Zhōujūn blocked the phantoms’ attacks and destroyed them with countless flying swords, confirming his Great Heavenly Venerate strength.
• Night-Walking Heavenly Venerate summoned a black phoenix from the banner, and Li Zhōujūn remarked that the Divine Phoenix really had been killed by him.

Li Zhōujūn confronted Night-Walking Heavenly Venerate over the Nirvana Stone and effortlessly survived his combined attack with the Black Fire Phoenix. Night-Walking Heavenly Venerate fled, but Li Zhōujūn pursued him, while Divine Heaven Old Ancestor and Liu Chengde remained behind.

• Night-Walking Heavenly Venerate questioned Li Zhōujūn about finding his hidden formation, then attacked him with four fireballs and the Black Fire Phoenix’s demonic energy.
• Li Zhōujūn casually countered Night-Walking Heavenly Venerate’s attack with a sword light, whose shockwave shattered the formation barrier.
• Night-Walking Heavenly Venerate fled, and Li Zhōujūn chased after him while Divine Heaven Old Ancestor asked Li Zhōujūn to return to the teahouse.
• During the pursuit, Li Zhōujūn called himself an ordinary little Heavenly Venerate, but Night-Walking Heavenly Venerate insisted he was a Great Heavenly Venerate.
• Night-Walking Heavenly Venerate kept the Nirvana Stone because he used it as bait to attract Heavenly Venerates and locate them through the Phoenix Feather.

Li Zhōujūn fought Night-Walking Heavenly Venerate over the Nirvana Stone, but the elder fled when he could not harm Li Zhōujūn. Li Zhōujūn learned he could teleport to the stone’s coordinates as often as needed and prepared to pursue him at his leisure.

• Night-Walking Heavenly Venerate shrouded the continent in darkness and attacked Li Zhōujūn from hiding, but Li Zhōujūn’s Indestructible True Dragon Body blocked his blows.
• A young-looking Seventh-Rank Saint and a cold-faced girl on Xuan Star Continent watched the fight and feared its aftershocks could destroy their world.
• Unable to injure Li Zhōujūn, Night-Walking Heavenly Venerate promised him another palm, left a clone behind, and fled with the Nirvana Stone.
• Li Zhōujūn’s system detected the stone moving and confirmed he could teleport to its coordinates without limit until he obtained it.
• Night-Walking Heavenly Venerate congratulated himself on escaping and vowed to kill Li Zhōujūn when they met again.

Li Zhōujūn repeatedly caught up with Night-Walking Heavenly Venerate and demanded the Nirvana Stone, eventually cornering him in Lishui City. Night-Walking Heavenly Venerate threatened to fight, and his unleashed pressure cracked the city streets as the terrified crowd feared a battle might begin.

• Li Zhōujūn caught up with Night-Walking Heavenly Venerate again, but Night-Walking Heavenly Venerate fled beneath a curtain of night.
• Night-Walking Heavenly Venerate hid among the crowds in Lishui City and boasted that Li Zhōujūn could not find him, only for Li Zhōujūn to appear in front of him.
• Li Zhōujūn demanded the Nirvana Stone, and Night-Walking Heavenly Venerate explained that he needed it to lure Heavenly Venerates with the Phoenix Feather.
• Night-Walking Heavenly Venerate offered a High-grade Heavenly Venerate Artifact in exchange, but Li Zhōujūn demanded both the artifact and the Nirvana Stone.
• Night-Walking Heavenly Venerate refused and released his Heavenly Venerate pressure, cracking the street and forcing the onlookers to their knees.

Li Zhōujūn obtained the Nirvana Stone from Night-Walking Heavenly Venerate and hurried back toward Phoenix Arrival Continent. There, Mo Yanjun faced an old demonic-path enemy who had become a Great Heavenly Venerate, while powerful observers discussed the Immortal Flower and the experts arriving to claim it.

• Night-Walking Heavenly Venerate gave Li Zhōujūn the Nirvana Stone and revealed that the divine phoenix's feathers could improve the odds of forging a Heavenly Venerate body.
• The system told Li Zhōujūn that collecting one Phoenix Feather would complete the treasure mission, and he refused the Lishui Saint's invitation before heading for Phoenix Arrival Continent.
• Mo Yanjun encountered a bewitching old enemy who threatened to kill her and turn her body into a puppet.
• The old enemy revealed her Great Heavenly Venerate cultivation as powerful observers discussed the Immortal Flower, the Sword Emperor, and the Snow God.
• Qiu Caixuan attacked Mo Yanjun, appearing before her and reaching for her throat.

After Qiu Caixuan killed Mo Yanjun, Mo Yanjun transformed into the Immortal Flower, drawing powerful Great Heavenly Venerates to Phoenix Arrival Continent. As the Sword Emperor, Snow Aunt, and Wind Emperor prepared to break its barrier, Li Zhōujūn learned the flower’s location and chose to teleport there.

• Qiu Caixuan killed Mo Yanjun, whose body then transformed into the Immortal Flower.
• Qiu Caixuan reached for the flower but was blasted away by the protective runes left by the Immortal Heavenly Venerate.
• The Sword Emperor and Snow Aunt appeared, and Snow Aunt revealed that the Wind Emperor was also pursuing the Immortal Flower.
• The Sword Emperor, Snow Aunt, and Wind Emperor agreed to attack the flower’s barrier together.
• Li Zhōujūn learned that Mo Yanjun was the Immortal Flower and asked the system to teleport him to its location.

The Sword Emperor, Wind Emperor, and Snow Aunt failed to break the Immortal Flower’s barrier, and Gu Tianzun joined them after catching the Sword Emperor’s strike. Li Zhōujūn arrived and told the four Great Heavenly Venerates to withdraw, leaving Jia Qingshi worried that he had challenged enemies too powerful to face.

• The Sword Emperor, Wind Emperor, and Snow Aunt attacked the Immortal Flower’s barrier together, but its golden runes held firm.
• Jia Qingshi spotted his senior brother, Gu Tianzun, among the onlookers and hoped he would not obtain the Immortal Flower.
• Gu Tianzun caught a sword strike from the Sword Emperor, proving himself strong enough to join the assault on the barrier.
• Snow Aunt urged the group to break the barrier before other powerful cultivators arrived.
• Li Zhōujūn stepped out of the void, blocked the barrier, and told the Sword Emperor, Wind Emperor, Snow Aunt, and Gu Tianzun to withdraw.

Li Zhōujūn arrived to protect the Immortal Flower and challenged Sword Emperor, Wind Emperor, Snow Aunt, and Gu Tianzun alone. He repelled their combined attacks with his golden eye and declared that none of them could take the flower while he remained there.

• Li Zhōujūn greeted Jia Qingshi and told Wind Emperor and Gu Tianzun to leave the Immortal Flower alone.
• Sword Emperor agreed with Snow Aunt, Wind Emperor, and Gu Tianzun to attack Li Zhōujūn together.
• Snow Aunt froze the area, while Sword Emperor, Wind Emperor, and Gu Tianzun launched their attacks at Li Zhōujūn.
• Li Zhōujūn used his golden eye to shatter or disrupt all four attacks, remaining unharmed.
• Jia Qingshi claimed Li Zhōujūn as his sworn brother as other Great Heavenly Venerates questioned him about the Azure Emperor.
• Li Zhōujūn told the four Great Heavenly Venerates that no one could take the Immortal Flower while he was there.

Li Zhōujūn defeated the four Heavenly Venerates competing for the Immortal Flower and took it after breaking its barrier, which released the Immortal Heavenly Venerate’s remnant soul. The Immortal Heavenly Venerate explained the Nine Tribulation realm and Hongmeng, then revealed that Li Zhōujūn had claimed the flower for Mo Yanjun, leaving Qiu Caixuan terrified of his possible retaliation.

• Li Zhōujūn blocked the attacks of Sword Emperor, Wind Emperor, Snow Aunt, and Gu Tianzun until they each gave up competing for the Immortal Flower.
• Li Zhōujūn reached through the barrier, took the Immortal Flower, and shattered the barrier, releasing a golden remnant soul.
• The Immortal Heavenly Venerate appeared and explained that the Heavenly Venerable Realm had nine tribulations, identifying the four defeated cultivators as Eight Tribulation Heavenly Venerates.
• The Immortal Heavenly Venerate offered the flower to Li Zhōujūn and described Hongmeng as the realm beyond the Nine Tribulation Heavenly Venerate.
• Li Zhōujūn admitted he wanted the Immortal Flower for Mo Yanjun, and Qiu Caixuan feared he would punish her for causing Mo Yanjun’s transformation.

Li Zhōujūn learned that powerful beings opposed anyone breaking through beyond the Heavenly Venerable Realm, then dealt with Qiu Caixuan for killing Mo Yanjun. After Li left, Gu Tianzun turned his attention to Jia Qingshi, while the other powerful figures considered pursuing breakthroughs of their own.

• Immortal Heavenly Venerate warned Li Zhōujūn that unknown existences opposed reaching beyond the Heavenly Venerable Realm and faded away without revealing who had stopped him.
• Li Zhōujūn asked who had exposed the Immortal Flower, and the gathered figures turned their attention to Qiu Caixuan.
• Gu Tianzun crippled Qiu Caixuan with silver needles and killed her, then offered to help Li Zhōujūn find something left behind by a divine phoenix that might restore his wife.
• Li Zhōujūn thanked Gu Tianzun and left, while Gu Tianzun confronted his frightened junior brother Jia Qingshi.
• Sword Emperor told Wind Emperor and Snow Aunt he planned to return to Sky Sword Tower and cultivate, urging them to seek breakthroughs after seeing the power of Nine Tribulation Heavenly Venerates.

Li Zhōujūn returned to the Jade Tea House, where he defended Níng Qíng from a powerful customer who refused to pay. The Stone Emperor recognized Li Zhōujūn as the Azure Emperor, settled his tea bill, and made the old man pay before he left.

• Li Zhōujūn found Níng Qíng arguing with a disheveled Ninth-Rank Saint who had run up an unpaid tea bill.
• Li Zhōujūn offered to settle his own previous bill, and Níng Qíng recognized him as the customer who had ordered the tea house’s most expensive tea without paying.
• The Stone Emperor arrived, greeted Li Zhōujūn as the Azure Emperor, and praised his feats against four Great Heavenly Venerates and the Immortal Heavenly Venerate.
• The Stone Emperor put Li Zhōujūn’s bill on his tab and confronted the old man for freeloading.
• The old man paid Níng Qíng and slunk away.

Li Zhōujūn accepted the Divine Phoenix feather from Liu Chengde and completed the system’s collection quest to recreate Mo Yanjun’s Heavenly Venerate body and soul. He agreed to help Liu Chengde return to the Divine Heaven Sect, then prepared to use the Stone Emperor’s private room for the creation.

• Liu Chengde gave Li Zhōujūn the Divine Phoenix feather and explained that Night-Walking Heavenly Venerate had used it as bait, while the Stone Emperor realized how narrowly he had avoided the same trap.
• The system announced that Li Zhōujūn had completed the collection quest and revealed that he was a Six Tribulations Heavenly Venerate.
• Liu Chengde said he planned to return to the Divine Heaven Sect despite his master’s death, and the Stone Emperor offered him support and invited him to join the Divine Stone Dynasty.
• Li Zhōujūn offered to accompany Liu Chengde to the Divine Heaven Continent and asked him to wait for a voice transmission.
• The Stone Emperor offered Li Zhōujūn a secluded private room and promised to guard him while he recreated Mo Yanjun’s Heavenly Venerate body.

Li Zhōujūn spent ten years creating Mo Yanjun’s body and a stone world for her, then left the Stone Emperor’s private room and brought Liu Chengde back to the Divine Heaven Continent. There, Liu Chengde recognized a legless beggar as a prominent disciple of the Divine Heaven Sect, but the young man denied knowing him.

• Li Zhōujūn used the Immortal Flower, Phoenix Feather, and Nirvana Stone to create Mo Yanjun’s body and placed her in a small world he fashioned inside a stone.
• Li Zhōujūn spent ten years in the Stone Emperor’s private room, then drank tea with the Stone Emperor, who told him Liu Chengde had been waiting.
• Li Zhōujūn summoned Liu Chengde and carried him to the Divine Heaven Continent, where he agreed to accompany him to the Divine Heaven Sect.
• Liu Chengde spotted a young beggar with both legs severed and said he seemed to be Huazhong, one of the Divine Heaven Sect’s outstanding disciples.
• Liu Chengde confronted the beggar about his condition and the sect, but the young man asked whether Liu Chengde had mistaken him for someone else.

Liu Chengde learned that the Divine Heaven Sect had been destroyed and reunited with Huazhong, a crippled former prodigy who warned him that the Abyssal God Hall was hunting survivors. When Xu Jin, the Abyssal God Hall’s branch-hall Divine Son, confronted them, he recognized Li Zhōujūn as the Azure Emperor and agreed to spare the sect’s remnant.

• Huazhong told Liu Chengde that the Abyssal God Hall had destroyed the Divine Heaven Sect after its Heavenly Venerate master arrived, and explained that Xu Jin had crippled him after he lost their battle and insulted him.
• Liu Chengde told Huazhong that the Sect Master had died, but refused to abandon him despite Huazhong’s warning that Abyssal God Hall spies would pursue him.
• Xu Jin arrived with black-robed experts, and the crowd knelt as he approached Liu Chengde and Li Zhōujūn.
• Xu Jin recognized Li Zhōujūn as the Azure Emperor and, citing respect for him, promised that the Abyssal God Hall would stop pursuing the Divine Heaven Sect’s remnant.
• Xu Jin ordered his subordinates to take Huazhong back for treatment, while Huazhong continued to taunt him.

Li Zhōujūn visited the Abyssal God Hall’s branch and learned that its main hall was led by powerful Nine Tribulation Heavenly Venerates. He declined an offer to join and asked why the Divine Heaven Sect had been destroyed, leaving the Abyssal God Hall’s alluring Palace Mistress warning him not to become its enemy.

• Xu Jin led Li Zhōujūn and Liu Chengde through a spatial gate into the Abyssal God Hall’s branch palace.
• Xu Long met Li Zhōujūn and revealed that he was a Seven Tribulation Great Heavenly Venerate, while the main hall’s four Palace Mistresses were Nine Tribulation Heavenly Venerates.
• Palace Mistress Yi offered Li Zhōujūn a position in the main hall, but he declined and asked why the Divine Heaven Sect had been destroyed.
• Palace Mistress Yi admitted ordering the sect’s destruction because its members had taken something belonging to the Abyssal God Hall, and she warned Li Zhōujūn not to become its enemy.

Li Zhōujūn refused Yi Cailian’s invitation to join the Abyssal God Hall and warned Liu Chengde and Huazhong to leave the Divine Heaven Continent. Meanwhile, the Abyssal God Hall’s palace masters prepared to recover a fragment of the fallen Ancient God Emperor Jiuyun’s Godhead for the Abyssal Lord.

• Li Zhōujūn left the Abyssal God Hall with Liu Chengde and Huazhong after Huazhong argued with Xu Jin.
• Yi Cailian told Xu Long that Li Zhōujūn was difficult to gauge and advised the Abyssal God Hall to avoid provoking him.
• Li Zhōujūn warned Liu Chengde and Huazhong that the Abyssal God Hall was powerful, then returned to the stone world to check on Mo Yanjun.
• Yi Cailian told Li Tucang, Qiu Yue, and Jing Hua that Li Zhōujūn’s strength seemed to surpass her own, while Qiu Yue said he wanted to challenge him.
• Jing Hua explained that the Abyssal Lord sought Emperor Jiuyun’s shattered Godhead Fragment to study it and create another god for the Abyssal God Hall.
• The palace masters revealed that the Divine Heaven Sect had been destroyed because it possessed one of Emperor Jiuyun’s Godhead Fragments.

The Abyssal God Hall learned that Qin Tianyi held a fragment of Emperor Jiuyun’s Godhead and sent Qiu Yue to seize it before the Martial God Hall could intervene. As Li Zhōujūn hurried back to Dao Tian Holy Palace, Qiu Yue and his army surrounded it, facing Qin Tianyi and Elder Rong.

• Li Tucang, Jing Hua, Qiu Yue, and Yi Cailian discussed the Martial God Hall’s search for Emperor Jiuyun’s Godhead and learned that Qin Tianyi held the second fragment in Chaos Continent.
• Li Tucang ordered Qiu Yue to retrieve Qin Tianyi’s fragment, and Qiu Yue departed through a spatial rift.
• Li Zhōujūn received a system mission to return to Dao Tian Holy Palace and set off, despite questioning the reward’s usefulness.
• Qiu Yue transformed into a giant and surrounded Dao Tian Holy Palace with his armored army while Qin Tianyi and Elder Rong stood calmly before the main hall.