Chapter Summaries

After the ten-year punishment ended, Li Zhōujūn released the dancers, but Zheng Yuhan decided the Long Household still had to answer for Long Yuying’s threat against her restaurant. She forced the family to choose between its destruction and making Long Yuying dance for the rest of his life, with his relatives taking turns beside him.

• Li Zhōujūn ended the ten-year punishment and told Gu Huaiyan’s group they could leave after asking the restaurant’s master.
• Zheng Yuhan confronted Long Yuying, revealed her God Venerable aura, and ordered the Long Household to stay while allowing Gu Huaiyan and Fan Liang to go.
• Gu Huaiyan knocked Fan Liang unconscious, carried him away, and expelled Long Zhenfeng from the Moonfall Sect.
• Long Zhenfeng struck Long Yuying and blamed him and the Long Household for ruining his prospects, while Long Kaotian also condemned him.
• Zheng Yuhan offered the Long Household a choice between being wiped out and having Long Yuying dance until he died, with Long Kaotian, Long Zhenfeng, and Lü Mujie taking turns dancing with him.

Long Yuying chose to attack Zheng Yuhan and was annihilated, along with Long Kaotian, Long Zhenfeng, and Lü Mujie. Li Zhōujūn left the tavern after confirming Zheng Yuhan would not hold his killing of Cheng Mengyu against him, while Moonfall God Venerable punished Gu Huaiyan and ordered the Moonfall Sect not to pursue Cheng Mengyu’s death.

• Long Yuying refused to keep dancing and attacked Zheng Yuhan, who annihilated him with her Spiritual Sense.
• Zheng Yuhan killed Long Kaotian, Long Zhenfeng, and Lü Mujie, then told Li Zhōujūn the Long Household would likely be devoured by other forces.
• Li Zhōujūn asked Zheng Yuhan about her connection to the Moonfall Sect and revealed that he had killed its elder Cheng Mengyu; Zheng Yuhan said she would not fall out with him over it.
• Zheng Yuhan sent a message to Moonfall God Venerable, while Gu Huaiyan returned to the Moonfall Sect with Fan Liang and found his clone hung beside the main hall.
• Moonfall God Venerable whipped Gu Huaiyan’s clone, and Gu Huaiyan and Fan Liang blamed Long Zhenfeng for the trouble.
• After Zheng Yuhan told Moonfall God Venerable she had killed Cheng Mengyu, he ordered Gu Huaiyan not to pursue the matter, warning that doing so could get him killed.

Li Zhōujūn returned to Taicang Holy Academy after leaving Zheng Yuhan's restaurant and meeting Yú Xīndá, who brought him half a cup of Godly Drunken Hundred Years. His reunion with the Old Dean and Mu Tingxuan was interrupted when the Black Heaven Dynasty arrived to demand an explanation about Yú Xīndá beating up its Crown Prince.

• Li Zhōujūn left Zheng Yuhan's restaurant, and she invited him to stay at any of her restaurants if he encountered one of her clones.
• Li Zhōujūn returned to Taicang Holy Academy and found Yú Xīndá waiting at his courtyard; she traded him half a cup of Godly Drunken Hundred Years for the matured heavenly treasures.
• Yú Xīndá announced she would rename her residence Wine Emperor Mountain and asked Li Zhōujūn whether he was curious about her breakthrough, but he dismissed the question.
• Li Zhōujūn visited the Old Dean and Mu Tingxuan, who discussed his stay in Moonlit City and his resemblance to Ancestor Qin.
• Lu Liping reported that the Black Heaven Dynasty's envoy had come to Taicang Holy Academy's gate to demand an explanation because Yú Xīndá beat up their Crown Prince.

Yú Xīndá faced the Black Heaven Dynasty after crippling its Crown Prince and taking his True Dragon Spine, while Mu Tingxuan and the Taicang Holy Academy backed her. When the Black Heaven Emperor threatened her with a powerful ally, Yú Xīndá prepared to summon her father, but Mu Tingxuan reminded her of the Yu Household’s rules against relying on family help.

• Mu Tingxuan and Lu Liping went to the Taicang Holy Academy entrance to deal with the Black Heaven Dynasty, and Li Zhōujūn followed.
• Yú Xīndá told the Black Heaven Dynasty’s eunuch that its Crown Prince had coveted her and that she had crippled him, while Mu Tingxuan ordered the delegation to leave.
• The eunuch demanded the Crown Prince’s True Dragon Spine, and Yú Xīndá said she had thrown it away and threatened the Black Heaven Dynasty.
• The Black Heaven Emperor announced that he would flatten the Taicang Holy Academy unless his son’s True Dragon Spine was returned.
• Yú Xīndá revealed that her father was the head of Heavenly Saint Mountain’s Yu Household, then prepared to summon him after the Black Heaven Emperor dismissed the family as a fallen Imperial Clan.
• Mu Tingxuan stopped Yú Xīndá and reminded her that she could ask her father for help only three times before reaching the God Venerable realm.

Li Zhōujūn revealed Seventh Tribulation God Venerable strength to protect the Taicang Holy Academy and forced the Black Heaven Emperor to withdraw. After the system raised Li Zhōujūn to the Third Tribulation God Emperor Realm, it assigned him a new mission to confront the Ninth Tribulation God Venerable who planned to take the Black Heaven Emperor’s son as a disciple.

• Li Zhōujūn stepped forward to defend the Taicang Holy Academy after receiving a system mission to make the Black Heaven Emperor back down.
• Li Zhōujūn revealed Seventh Tribulation God Venerable strength and slapped the Black Heaven Dynasty’s eunuch, knocking out his teeth.
• The Black Heaven Emperor demanded his son’s true dragon spine bone, but Yú Xīndá denied having it, and he withdrew after Li Zhōujūn refused to back down.
• The system rewarded Li Zhōujūn by raising his cultivation to the Third Tribulation God Emperor Realm, which he concealed from Yú Xīndá.
• Mu Tingxuan warned Yú Xīndá that the Black Heaven Emperor might enlist the Ninth Tribulation God Venerable, and the system then tasked Li Zhōujūn with confronting that cultivator.

Li Zhōujūn left Taicang Holy Academy to intercept God Venerable He Ming before he could demand Hei Wubai's True Dragon Spine. He Ming revealed his plans to exploit the Yu Family's weakened position, but Li Zhōujūn appeared in the Black Heaven Emperor's carriage before they could act.

• Li Zhōujūn told Mu Tingxuan and Yú Xīndá he would deal with the Ninth Tribulation God Venerable, then left to eat roast chicken while waiting for the meeting.
• Mu Tingxuan confiscated Yú Xīndá's wine and ordered her to quit drinking, while accepting that Yú Xīndá had crippled Hei Wubai after he tried to molest her.
• God Venerable He Ming met the Black Heaven Emperor and learned that Taicang Holy Academy had two Seventh Tribulation God Venerables guarding it.
• God Venerable He Ming explained that the Lei Yuan Divine Race was testing whether the Yu Family's God Emperor was dead, and planned to seize Hei Wubai's True Dragon Spine to help himself reach the God Emperor Realm.
• Li Zhōujūn suddenly appeared in the Black Heaven Emperor's carriage and told God Venerable He Ming and the Black Heaven Emperor they would not be going to Taicang Holy Academy.

Li Zhōujūn refused to help God Venerable He Ming recover the Innate True Dragon Spine and faced his attack. He left God Venerable He Ming’s ten thousand iron swords unable to harm him, though the swords tore his clothes.

• Li Zhōujūn told God Venerable He Ming that Taicang Holy Academy was under his protection and suggested searching for the dog that had eaten the Innate True Dragon Spine.
• God Venerable He Ming attacked Li Zhōujūn with sword gleams, but Li Zhōujūn caught them effortlessly and revealed strength befitting a Ninth Tribulation God Venerable.
• God Venerable He Ming unleashed ten thousand iron swords, destroying his carriage, and knocked the shrill eunuch unconscious with a slap.
• After the system assigned Li Zhōujūn a mission to receive the swords with his body, he activated his Fifty-Fifty ability and stood still as they struck him.
• The swords bounced off Li Zhōujūn, leaving him virtually unharmed, while God Venerable He Ming’s heart sank.

Li Zhōujūn forced God Venerable He Ming and Black Heaven Dynasty to submit, then learned about the Lei Yuan Divine Race and its conflict with the Yu Household. He set out to ask Yú Xīndá for details, while God Venerable He Ming killed Black Heaven Dynasty to prevent it from involving him.

• God Venerable He Ming recognized Li Zhōujūn as a God Emperor, begged for mercy, and promised not to trouble Taicang Holy Academy.
• At God Venerable He Ming's command, Black Heaven Emperor and the Black Heaven Dynasty knelt before Li Zhōujūn.
• God Venerable He Ming explained the Lei Yuan Divine Race's strength, its Lei Xin Tree, and its designs on the Yu Household of Heavenly Saint Mountain.
• Li Zhōujūn learned that the system's Divine Thunder Heaven Stabilizing Art required Lei Xin Wood, and resolved to help Yú Xīndá's family and obtain some from the Lei Xin Tree.
• After Li Zhōujūn left, God Venerable He Ming slaughtered Black Heaven Dynasty to keep it from causing trouble for Taicang Holy Academy.
• Li Zhōujūn headed back to Taicang Holy Academy to ask Yú Xīndá where the Lei Yuan Divine Race was located.

Li Zhōujūn visited Yú Xīndá and learned that the Lei Yuan Divine Race threatened the Yu Household, so he teleported there to pursue the Lei Xin Tree and resolve the crisis. He arrived as the Lei Yuan God Emperor and the race’s guardian ancestor discussed the Yu Household and a powerful clone left by Qin Tianyi.

• Li Zhōujūn returned to Taicang Holy Academy and found Yú Xīndá searching her residence for confiscated wine.
• Yú Xīndá confirmed that the Lei Yuan Divine Race threatened the Yu Household, and Li Zhōujūn offered to resolve the crisis while pursuing the Lei Xin Tree.
• Li Zhōujūn received the coordinates of the Lei Yuan Divine Race from the system and teleported there, leaving Yú Xīndá alarmed.
• The Lei Yuan God Emperor told the guardian ancestor that the Yu Household’s God Emperor had fallen and that the Lei Xin Tree might recover by devouring the household’s treasures.
• The Lei Yuan God Emperor discussed the Nine Tribulation God Emperor clone Qin Tianyi had left him, which he hoped not to use.

Li Zhōujūn entered the Lei Yuan Divine Race’s thunder sea and demanded Lei Xin Wood and an end to its attacks on the Yu Household. After he fought Lei Yuan God Emperor and the Tree-Guardian Ancestor to a draw, they agreed to spare the Yu Household but refused to give him any Lei Xin Wood, leaving them considering whether to use Qin Tianyi’s clone.

• Li Zhōujūn appeared beside the Lei Xin Tree, unaffected by its lightning, and demanded Lei Xin Wood and that the Lei Yuan Divine Race stop targeting the Yu Household.
• Li Zhōujūn offered one of his clones in exchange, but Lei Yuan God Emperor mistook him for a Three Tribulation Godly Emperor and refused.
• Lei Yuan God Emperor and the Tree-Guardian Ancestor attacked Li Zhōujūn together, but he effortlessly caught their divine abilities and fought them to a draw.
• Old monsters on the Hong Meng Continent discussed the clash and expected the Lei Yuan Divine Race to use the clone Qin Tianyi had given them.
• Lei Yuan God Emperor agreed to stop targeting the Yu Household but refused to part with any Lei Xin Wood, while Li Zhōujūn said he would keep trying to soften that position.
• The Tree-Guardian Ancestor warned Lei Yuan God Emperor that they could not defeat Li Zhōujūn together and urged him to use Qin Tianyi’s clone.

Li Zhōujūn confronted the Lei Yuan Divine Race to secure Lei Xin Wood and protect Heaven Saint Mountain and the Yu Family. Qin Tianyi’s clone intervened on Li Zhōujūn’s side, and the Lei Yuan God Emperor reluctantly gave him the wood and accepted Li Zhōujūn’s clone before Li Zhōujūn left.

• Lei Yuan God Emperor crushed a jade slip to summon Qin Tianyi’s Nine Tribulation God Emperor clone against Li Zhōujūn.
• Li Zhōujūn recognized Qin Tianyi as his ancestor, and Qin Tianyi ordered Lei Yuan God Emperor to give Li Zhōujūn Lei Xin Wood and stop targeting the Yu Family.
• Lei Yuan God Emperor handed Li Zhōujūn the Lei Xin Wood, triggering the system to grant him the Divine Thunder Heaven Stabilizing Art.
• Li Zhōujūn gave Lei Yuan God Emperor a clone and warned him not to target the Yu Family again; Qin Tianyi’s clone then dispersed.
• Li Zhōujūn left, while Lei Yuan God Emperor lamented his losses and doubted that Li Zhōujūn’s clone would be useful in a crisis.

After Li Zhōujūn returned to Taicang Holy Academy, Yú Xīndá and Mu Tingxuan learned that he had forced the Lei Yuan Divine Race to use Qin Tianyi’s clone and secured its promise not to target the Yu Household. Meanwhile, God Emperor Lei Bao arrived to seize the Lei Xin Tree, unaware that the Azure Emperor he had dismissed was backed by Qin Tianyi.

• Li Zhōujūn returned to his courtyard, where Yú Xīndá and Mu Tingxuan asked about his visit to the Lei Yuan Divine Race.
• Li Zhōujūn said Qin Tianyi’s clone had appeared and that Qin Tianyi had warned the Lei Yuan Divine Race not to target the Yu Household.
• Mu Tingxuan relayed news that a blue-robed God Emperor had fought the Lei Yuan God Emperor and the guardian ancestor, and Yú Xīndá realized it was Li Zhōujūn.
• Li Zhōujūn assured Mu Tingxuan that no one would force Taicang Holy Academy to surrender anything while he was there.
• God Emperor Lei Bao confronted the Lei Yuan God Emperor and the guardian ancestor, demanded the Lei Xin Tree, and threatened to kill the entire race.
• The guardian ancestor asked whether God Emperor Lei Bao knew the Azure Emperor, but Lei Bao dismissed him as a nobody without knowing his connection to Qin Tianyi.

Li Zhōujūn’s clone defended the Lei Yuan Divine Race’s Lei Xin Tree after God Emperor Lei Bao challenged their claim to it. When Lei Bao refused to leave, Li Zhōujūn fought him to a draw, leaving the watching cultivators to speculate about his strength and ties to Emperor Qin.

• Lei Yuan God Emperor revealed that Li Zhōujūn was descended from Qin Tianyi and summoned his clone for help against God Emperor Lei Bao.
• Li Zhōujūn declared the Lei Yuan Divine Race under his protection, but Lei Bao refused to leave and claimed he would take the Lei Xin Tree.
• Li Zhōujūn told the Tree Guardian Ancestor he could not summon Emperor Qin, then faced Lei Bao’s attack with the Divine Thunder Heaven Stabilizing Art.
• Li Zhōujūn’s golden lightning met Lei Bao’s purple thunder in a draw, shaking the sea of lightning around the Lei Xin Tree.
• The watching old monsters wondered whether Li Zhōujūn knew Emperor Qin, while Lei Bao, Lei Yuan God Emperor, and the Tree Guardian Ancestor were shocked by the clone’s power.

After God Emperor Lei Bao retreated from Li Zhōujūn’s clone, Lei Yuan God Emperor sent Lei Yingying to deliver Lei Xin Wood to Li Zhōujūn in exchange for another clone. God Emperor Lei Bao captured Lei Yingying and her escort, and Li Zhōujūn received a system mission to retrieve the wood.

• God Emperor Lei Bao attacked Li Zhōujūn’s clone again, but failed to overcome it and withdrew from the Lei Yuan Divine Race.
• Lei Yuan God Emperor offered Lei Xin Wood in exchange for a clone, and Li Zhōujūn agreed to the deal.
• Lei Yuan God Emperor gave Lei Yingying the Lei Xin Wood and a protective clone, then sent her to Taicang Holy Academy with a Nine Tribulation God Venerable elder.
• God Emperor Lei Bao ambushed Lei Yingying and the elder, capturing them and questioning them about Li Zhōujūn’s clone and their mission.
• Lei Yuan God Emperor noticed Lei Yingying’s aura vanish and rushed to find her, while Li Zhōujūn received a system mission to obtain the Lei Xin Wood and was given the captives’ coordinates.

Li Zhōujūn arrived in a dark void and confronted God Emperor Lei Bao, who had captured Lei Yingying and a Lei Yuan Divine Race elder. He used a one-minute Nine Tribulation God Emperor trial card to kill Lei Bao, then freed the captives and led them toward Lei Yuan God Emperor.

• Li Zhōujūn teleported into the void where God Emperor Lei Bao held Lei Yingying and a Lei Yuan Divine Race elder captive.
• God Emperor Lei Bao threatened to kill the captives unless Li Zhōujūn let him go, but Lei Yingying and the elder urged Li Zhōujūn not to spare him.
• Li Zhōujūn used the Nine Tribulation God Emperor trial card and killed God Emperor Lei Bao with a golden beam from his divine eye.
• The lightning restraints vanished, and Li Zhōujūn freed Lei Yingying and the elder.
• Li Zhōujūn opened a passage out of the void and led Lei Yingying and the elder toward Lei Yuan God Emperor.

Li Zhōujūn rescued Lei Yingying and a Lei Yuan elder, exchanged Lei Xin Wood for protection, and learned several unconfirmed legends about Emperor Qin’s disappearance. On his way to Taicang Holy Academy, he encountered a One-armed Old Man who offered protection in exchange for being led to Emperor Qin.

• Lei Yuan God Emperor learned that Li Zhōujūn had rescued Lei Yingying and the elder by killing God Emperor Lei Bao, and thanked him.
• Lei Yingying gave Li Zhōujūn the Lei Xin Wood, completing his task and restoring his cultivation to the Nine Tribulation God Emperor realm; he left a clone to protect the Lei Yuan Divine Race.
• Lei Yuan God Emperor told Li Zhōujūn three unconfirmed legends about Emperor Qin’s disappearance, but could not identify the Supreme Godly Emperor rumored to have hunted him.
• Li Zhōujūn departed for Taicang Holy Academy, while Lei Yuan God Emperor told Lei Yingying that Li Zhōujūn was a descendant of Emperor Qin.
• A One-armed Old Man confronted Li Zhōujūn, inferred that he knew Emperor Qin, and offered to keep him safe if he helped find Emperor Qin.
• Li Zhōujūn asked the One-armed Old Man what his relationship was with Emperor Qin.

The One-armed Old Man hid Li Zhōujūn from Dao An True Monarch, a Nine Tribulation God Emperor seeking Emperor Qin, and demanded compensation for using a powerful talisman. Li Zhōujūn refused to stay hidden and stepped out of the void to confront Dao An True Monarch, leaving the One-armed Old Man furious and afraid.

• The One-armed Old Man used a talisman to take Li Zhōujūn into the void and evade Dao An True Monarch.
• The One-armed Old Man explained that Dao An True Monarch was hunting for Emperor Qin and had previously severed his arm while trying to learn Emperor Qin’s whereabouts.
• Li Zhōujūn said he did not know where Emperor Qin’s main body was, and the One-armed Old Man demanded a Nine Tribulation God Emperor-grade treasure for using his talisman.
• Li Zhōujūn offered to confront Dao An True Monarch and take a treasure from him, but the One-armed Old Man warned that leaving the void would end the talisman’s protection.
• Li Zhōujūn stepped out of the void despite the warning, and the One-armed Old Man cursed him for risking their lives.

Li Zhōujūn confronted Dao An True Monarch, who had trapped him and the Nine-Headed Leopard Lord inside a sealed formation while seeking Emperor Qin’s whereabouts. Li Zhōujūn matched Dao An’s Nine Tribulation God Emperor cultivation and fought him, leaving Dao An unable to control his formation or escape.

• Dao An True Monarch emerged from hiding and sealed the area inside a hundred-mile formation, trapping Li Zhōujūn and the One-armed Old Man, who revealed himself as the Nine-Headed Leopard Lord.
• Dao An demanded that Li Zhōujūn disclose Emperor Qin’s location and threatened to torture him, while the system ordered Li Zhōujūn to seize at least ten pills from Dao An.
• Li Zhōujūn matched Dao An’s cultivation and sent streams of light over the formation to prevent Dao An from withdrawing it.
• Dao An attacked with towering waves, but Li Zhōujūn froze them with his divine eye and struck back with golden lightning.
• Li Zhōujūn caught Dao An’s sword barehanded and summoned falling stars, while the Nine-Headed Leopard Lord scrambled to avoid the destruction.
• Dao An tried to retreat but discovered that Li Zhōujūn’s streams of light had taken control of the formation.

Li Zhōujūn trapped Dao An True Monarch in his own formation and forced him to surrender twenty Nine Tribulation God Emperor-level pills. He then demanded compensation for Nine-Headed Leopard Lord’s severed arm, leaving Dao An True Monarch trapped until he complied.

• Li Zhōujūn mocked Dao An True Monarch and continued attacking him with waves of divine abilities while Dao An warned that powerful God Emperors opposed Qin Tianyi.
• Li Zhōujūn demanded twenty Nine Tribulation God Emperor-level pills, and Dao An True Monarch eventually handed over a bottle after Li threatened to keep fighting him for thousands of years.
• The system confirmed the pills were not poisoned and raised Li Zhōujūn’s cultivation and Ao Xue Flying Sword to the First Tribulation God Venerable level.
• Li Zhōujūn demanded that Dao An True Monarch remove the restriction on Nine-Headed Leopard Lord’s severed arm and provide a Nine Tribulation God Emperor-level treasure as compensation.
• Dao An True Monarch said he had no treasure left, so Li Zhōujūn told him he would remain trapped and fight until he produced one.

Li Zhōujūn, calling himself the Azure Emperor, forced Dao An True Monarch to return a pill and leave, then learned more about the Nine-Headed Leopard Lord’s connection to Emperor Qin. After Li Zhōujūn set off to search for Qin Tianyi, Dao An reported back to Returning Heaven God Emperor, and Evil Hand God Emperor volunteered to investigate the Lei Yuan Divine Race.

• Dao An True Monarch gave the Nine-Headed Leopard Lord a pill that removed the restriction on his severed arm, then left after Li Zhōujūn warned him and his allies not to cause trouble.
• The Nine-Headed Leopard Lord thanked Li Zhōujūn for avenging his arm and explained he had missed Emperor Qin’s disappearance while visiting his leopard wife.
• The Nine-Headed Leopard Lord refused to join Li Zhōujūn in searching for Emperor Qin and hurried away.
• Li Zhōujūn decided not to return to Taicang Holy Academy, bickered with the system, and walked toward the setting sun.
• Dao An True Monarch told Returning Heaven God Emperor and the other Nine Tribulation God Emperors that the Azure Emperor was powerful and had challenged them to come together if they wanted to fight.
• Evil Hand God Emperor volunteered to deal with the Lei Yuan Divine Race, while Returning Heaven God Emperor ordered the others to report any discoveries about Qin Tianyi.