Chapter Summaries

As the tenth row entered the immortal array, Lan Tianze’s plan to kill Li Yun was interrupted by waves of Blazing Immortal Fire that grew stronger each time they were dispersed. While the others struggled to survive, Li Yun used the fire-rich array to advance his Fire Dao and formed a Flame World, then fixed his gaze on Lan Tianze.

• After three Earth Immortal Ninth Layer cultivators failed earlier trials, Lan Tianze grew uneasy about whether his foundation was strong enough, while Li Yun remained eager to enter the array.
• At the Purple-Robed Woman’s command, Li Yun, Lan Tianze, and the other members of the tenth row stepped into the immortal array.
• Lan Tianze tried to attack Li Yun, but the array’s Blazing Immortal Fire erupted and forced all fifty entrants to defend themselves with immortal arts.
• The flames returned stronger after each dispersal, leaving Lan Tianze and the others struggling to resist and unable to focus on attacking one another.
• Li Yun absorbed the array’s fire-type World Spiritual Energy and advanced his Fire Dao into the Cave Void realm, opening a Flame World and beginning to gestate its Authority.
• Li Yun locked his gaze on Lan Tianze through the Blazing Immortal Fire.

As most contestants fled the Blazing Immortal Fire trial, Li Yun remained calm and confronted Lan Tianze, who suspected he had found a way to withstand the flames. Li Yun rejected Lan Tianze’s offer to cooperate and killed him with a single punch, while Lan Tianze’s Immortal Origin vanished through a Mystic Gate.

• More than a dozen contestants fled the trial, leaving only Li Yun and three others in the array.
• Lan Tianze proposed that the two Earth Immortal Eighth Layer cultivators join forces with him, but both refused and went their separate ways.
• Li Yun appeared before Lan Tianze, who suspected he had discovered a trick and offered to set aside their grudge and cooperate.
• Li Yun said he still wanted to kill Lan Tianze and attacked him with a punch infused with the Way of Nothingness True Intent.
• Li Yun shattered Lan Tianze’s Earth Immortal body, and a Mystic Gate appeared and carried away Lan Tianze’s Immortal Origin.

After killing Lan Tianze, Li Yun accepted Lian Yun Kong’s offer to follow him and took the strange stone that he recognized as Myriad Phenomena Beast Essence Blood. He left the two Earth Immortal Eighth Layers alive and prepared to continue improving his Fire Dao during the trial.

• Li Yun’s killing of Lan Tianze shocked the surviving challengers, while one Earth Immortal Eighth Layer realized his warning treasure had saved him from joining Lan Tianze.
• Another Earth Immortal Eighth Layer approached Li Yun and offered to serve under him, hoping to secure his protection.
• Lian Yun Kong introduced himself as being from the Yinglan World and offered Li Yun a strange black stone that weakened the immortal fire but threatened his other treasure.
• Li Yun recognized the stone as Myriad Phenomena Beast Essence Blood and accepted it, promising to protect Lian Yun Kong if they joined the Divine Water Immortal Palace.

Li Yun absorbed the Strange Stone into the Mysterious Gate World, where it became Myriad Phenomena Beast Essence Blood with a powerful will. He destroyed that will and used the essence to nourish the Three Thousand Great Daos, leaving Mad Saber Immortal unconscious from fright at the resulting power.

• Lian Yun Kong revealed that he had offered Li Yun the Strange Stone to escape its dangerous hidden will and test Li Yun's strength.
• The Forbidden Divine Charm broke the Seal on the Strange Stone inside the Mysterious Gate World, transforming it into Myriad Phenomena Beast Essence Blood and reviving its will.
• The revived will attacked Mad Saber Immortal, who called for Li Yun's help.
• Li Yun trapped and ground down the Myriad Phenomena Beast Essence Blood, destroying its will and turning its essence and Lan Tianze's Immortal Origin into nourishment for the Three Thousand Great Daos.
• The Three Thousand Great Daos rapidly advanced, forming many Gates of Great Dao and strengthening the Forbidden Divine Charm until the Immortal Gate trembled.
• Mad Saber Immortal realized how terrifying Li Yun's cultivation was and fainted from fright.

Li Yun used the Blazing Immortal Fire inside the Immortal Array to strengthen his cultivation and push toward condensing the Fire Dao Immortal Principle. After Lian Yun Kong and Ji Lan passed the trial and left, the Purple-Robed Woman learned Li Yun was still inside cultivating and felt provoked by his audacity.

• Li Yun absorbed the Myriad Phenomena Beast Essence Blood and raised his main body's Mysterious Gate to the peak of the Divine Martial Realm, then focused on advancing his Fire Dao.
• Li Yun drew in most of the Immortal Array's Blazing Immortal Fire, easing the pressure on the other two Earth Immortals as they waited out the trial.
• After three days, Lian Yun Kong and Ji Lan discovered Li Yun was still cultivating in the array and left without disturbing him.
• The Purple-Robed Woman awarded Lian Yun Kong and Ji Lan Great River Immortal Tokens and explained their options for pursuing the True Disciple trial or becoming Inner Sect Disciples.
• Lian Yun Kong and Ji Lan told the Purple-Robed Woman that Li Yun remained inside the array, absorbed in cultivation, and she was stunned and felt provoked.

Li Yun emerged from the Immortal Array after reaching the Earth Immortal Fifth Layer and revealing his mastery of the Long River Immortal Law. Yan Qingxuan recognized his River Immortal Token and told him the True Disciple trial had begun when the tokens were distributed, then asked how he had comprehended the law.

• Lian Yun Kong told Yan Qingxuan that Li Yun, an Earth Immortal Third Layer, had suppressed and killed the Earth Immortal Ninth Layer inside the array.
• Li Yun left the array, and Yan Qingxuan recognized the Long River Immortal Law in his aura.
• Li Yun showed Yan Qingxuan his River Immortal Token, and she sent the other fifteen trial passers to the Third Island while keeping him behind.
• Yan Qingxuan introduced herself as an Inner Sect Protector and explained that the River Immortal Token distribution had begun the true True Disciple trial.
• Yan Qingxuan asked how Li Yun comprehended the Long River Immortal Law, and he claimed he had entered a state of sudden enlightenment after sensing the token.

Li Yun learned that comprehending the Long River Immortal Law had qualified him for Long River Hall and earned him Inner Sect status. After gaining the Great River Immortal Law from another token, he asked about advancing further and chose to remain on the island, requesting support from Yan Qingxuan.

• Yan Qingxuan told Li Yun that comprehending the Long River Immortal Law had passed the first Core Disciple trial and qualified him to enter Long River Hall as an Inner Sect Disciple.
• Yan Qingxuan gave Li Yun a Great River Immortal Token, and he comprehended the Great River Immortal Law while gaining Golden Immortal Level Cognition.
• Yan Qingxuan explained that the Great River Immortal Law could qualify Li Yun for Great River Hall, while the Azure Sea Immortal Law was reserved for elite prodigies and Immortal King seeds.
• Yan Qingxuan gave Li Yun a bottle of nine Divine Water Great Dao Pills and offered him the choice to stay on the island or continue upstream.
• Li Yun chose to stay on the island longer and asked Yan Qingxuan to lend him some support.

Li Yun asked Yan Qingxuan to reopen the Immortal Array so he could keep cultivating, and offered to teach her the Long River Immortal Law in gratitude. After Yan Qingxuan defended him from mockery and left the plaza, Li Yun began devouring and refining the array’s fire energy to condense a Fire Immortal Principle.

• Li Yun told Yan Qingxuan that the Immortal Array’s pressure improved his comprehension and asked to cultivate inside it again; she agreed until the next trial-takers arrived.
• Li Yun offered to teach Yan Qingxuan the Long River Immortal Law, but she declined and jokingly asked him to guide her in the Great River Immortal Law if he mastered it.
• Yan Qingxuan reopened the Immortal Array, and Li Yun entered to resume cultivating.
• Two returning disciples mocked Li Yun for aspiring to comprehend greater immortal laws, but Yan Qingxuan scolded them and defended his status as a Long River Hall disciple.
• Yan Qingxuan and the two disciples returned to the immortal palace, leaving Li Yun alone in the array.
• Li Yun mobilized the Fire Dao within the Mystic Gate and began refining the array’s energy to condense a Fire Immortal Principle.

On Primordial Spirit Immortal Island, Abyssal Sea Immortal King questioned the elder council over the Heaven-Piercing Pagoda’s failure to produce anyone who had passed the eightieth floor. He rejected their demand to lower the trial’s difficulty and challenged them to understand what the Divine Water Immortal Palace sought to test.

• The chapter described the Heaven-Piercing Pagoda trial, where passing the sixtieth floor earned Core Disciple status, but nearly forty percent of those who failed had died inside.
• Abyssal Sea Immortal King demanded to know why no one had climbed above the eightieth floor in nearly ten years.
• Water Sword Immortal King argued that the trial was too difficult and asked for the Heaven-Piercing Pagoda’s challenge to be adjusted.
• Immortal King Mingli and the other elders supported changing the trial rules, citing the high death rate and the disadvantages faced by cultivators of different levels.
• Abyssal Sea Immortal King angrily rejected their proposal and asked whether they thought the trial existed merely to select cultivators with high cultivation.

Abyssal Sea Immortal King warned that mysterious ancient forces were stirring and that a vast upheaval might engulf the Sacred Heaven Realm and the Myriad Worlds, prompting Divine Water Immortal Palace to recruit peerless geniuses. Meanwhile, Li Yun advanced his Fire Dao to the Human Immortal level and discovered that his main Mysterious Gate had given birth to an illusory Great Dao, which he understood as the limitless.

• Abyssal Sea Immortal King told Water Sword Immortal King and the others that a tremendous change was coming and that Divine Water Immortal Palace needed to gather more destiny by recruiting geniuses.
• Water Sword Immortal King pledged to focus on the Heaven-Piercing Pagoda and order trial grounds to send more geniuses.
• Li Yun cultivated for three months inside the Immortal Array as more River Immortal Token holders gathered on Yan Qingxuan's island.
• Li Yun's Fire Dao reached the peak of the Integration Realm, survived an immortal tribulation, and became a first-level Human Immortal Immortal Principle.
• Li Yun's main Mysterious Gate crossed the peak of the Divine Martial Realm and entered the Void Comprehension Realm, causing an illusory Great Dao to form within its world.
• Li Yun realized that his Dao was the limitless.

Li Yun fused his newly born Limitless Great Dao with the Mysterious Immortal Gate and used it to overpower the Immortal Array, though the feat nearly drained his Way of Nothingness True Intent. After cultivating the Water Dao to the second level of Heaven Immortal, he emerged from the array, where Yan Qingxuan was shocked to sense the Great River Immortal Law on him.

• Li Yun discovered that his Limitless Great Dao could resonate with and partially fuse with the Mysterious Immortal Gate, then briefly used the gate to suppress the Immortal Array.
• Li Yun withdrew the Immortal Gate when its use nearly exhausted his Way of Nothingness True Intent, and he considered the power he might gain by cultivating the fusion further.
• Li Yun refined all nine Divine Water Great Dao Pills and used the Water Dao and Great River Immortal Law to reach the second level of Heaven Immortal.
• Li Yun left the Immortal Array and walked toward the Immortal Palace as more than two hundred test-takers watched him in surprise.
• Yan Qingxuan sensed the Great River Immortal Law on Li Yun and asked in shock whether he had comprehended it from the Great River Immortal Token.

Li Yun gave Yan Qingxuan a Jade Slip containing his comprehension of the Great River Immortal Law, then learned about the Heaven-Piercing Pagoda trial on Primordial Spirit Immortal Island. After traveling upstream for half a month, he arrived at the island and was stopped by a True Immortal guard.

• Li Yun handed Yan Qingxuan the Jade Slip, and she accepted it, promising to repay him generously.
• Yan Qingxuan explained that Li Yun could become a Core Disciple without taking the next trial, but advised him to challenge the Heaven-Piercing Pagoda for its rewards and the Abyssal Sea Immortal King's attention.
• Yan Qingxuan said she believed Li Yun could eventually join Azure Sea Hall, and Li Yun promised not to forget her if he did.
• Li Yun left with Yan Qingxuan's escort and continued upstream through the Divine Water Heavenly River, reaching Primordial Spirit Immortal Island after half a month.
• A True Immortal guarding the island stopped Li Yun and questioned where he had come from.

Li Yun provoked a patrolling Inner Sect True Immortal on Primordial Spirit Immortal Island to draw attention to his talent and secure faster advancement. After Li Yun shattered the disciple’s attack with one punch, a powerful figure intervened and stopped the fight.

• Li Yun showed the Great River Immortal Token and said he had come to take part in the Core Disciple trial.
• The Inner Sect True Immortal insulted Li Yun, who taunted him and explained that he wanted to attract the island’s powerful figures’ attention.
• The Inner Sect True Immortal attacked Li Yun with the Water-Linking Heaven Beast-Transforming Breaking Origin Law.
• Li Yun countered with the Great River Immortal Law and broke the True Immortal’s attack with one punch.
• The enraged Inner Sect True Immortal tried to unleash another attack, but a powerful figure’s palm suppressed him and cracked his True Immortal Principle.

Cang Ze discovered Li Yun’s mastery of the Great River Immortal Law and his extraordinary Water Dao physique, then brought him before the Abyssal Sea Immortal King. Li Yun concealed the Mystic Gate during the Immortal King’s inspection, and the king welcomed him as the prodigy he had awaited.

• Cang Ze arrived as an Inner Sect True Immortal attacked Li Yun, knocked the disciple aside, and questioned Li Yun about the Great River Immortal Law.
• Li Yun told Cang Ze that he had learned the Long River and Great Jiang Immortal Laws from immortal tokens and had perfected the Long River Immortal Law.
• Cang Ze recognized Li Yun’s near-innate Water-type physique, killed the offending Inner Sect True Immortal, and carried Li Yun to the Immortal Palace.
• The Abyssal Sea Immortal King examined Li Yun, while Li Yun concealed everything beyond his Water Dao behind the Forbidden Divine Charm.
• The Abyssal Sea Immortal King praised Li Yun’s constitution and declared him the peerless prodigy he had been waiting for.

Li Yun joined the Divine Water Immortal Palace as a Core Disciple of Great River Hall and learned that the Heaven-Piercing Pagoda evaluated immortals’ combat-strength grades through deadly trials. The Abyssal Sea Immortal King urged him to attempt the pagoda and promised a reward if he reached the eightieth floor and earned a Second Grade Heaven Immortal evaluation.

• The Abyssal Sea Immortal King invited Li Yun to join the Divine Water Immortal Palace, and Li Yun accepted.
• The Abyssal Sea Immortal King gave Li Yun an identity token and appointed him a Core Disciple of Great River Hall.
• Cang Ze explained that the Nine Grades of Immortals measured combat strength rather than cultivation realm, and that the Heaven-Piercing Pagoda tested those grades.
• The Abyssal Sea Immortal King said the palace had tasked him with finding three immortals above Second Grade, but its best candidate had only reached the seventy-seventh floor.
• The Abyssal Sea Immortal King praised Li Yun’s foundation and abilities, then offered him an Azure Sea Immortal Token and a great gift if he reached the eightieth floor and earned a Second Grade Heaven Immortal evaluation.

Li Yun agreed to enter the Heaven-Piercing Pagoda to test his combat grade and arrived there with Cang Ze. After Li Yun entered, Lian Yun Kong and Ji Lan were surrounded by people eager to learn about their connection to him.

• Li Yun confirmed with the Mad Saber Immortal that the Sacred Heaven Realm used Nine Grades of Immortals to evaluate combat ability, and learned the Mad Saber Immortal had been a sixth-grade True Immortal at his peak.
• Li Yun accepted the Abyssal Sea Immortal King’s suggestion to enter the Heaven-Piercing Pagoda, hoping a strong evaluation would help him establish himself in the Divine Water Immortal Palace.
• At the pagoda, Cang Ze reprimanded Lian Yun Kong and Ji Lan for addressing Li Yun as a fellow cultivator instead of Li the Core Disciple, revealing Li Yun’s status to the gathered crowd.
• Li Yun greeted Lian Yun Kong and Ji Lan, then entered the Heaven-Piercing Pagoda as Cang Ze returned to report to the Abyssal Sea Immortal King.
• After Cang Ze left, people surrounded Lian Yun Kong and Ji Lan and asked whether they were friends with Li Yun and where he came from.

After Lian Yun Kong and Ji Lan revealed Li Yun’s origins, the crowd dismissed him as a lowly immortal from a Yellow Grade World, while Ye Tiangong condemned their prejudice. As Li Yun challenged the Heaven-Piercing Pagoda, Ye Tiangong watched with competitive interest and Zhu Li grew hostile.

• Lian Yun Kong and Ji Lan recounted meeting Li Yun, concealing that he had killed an Earth Immortal Ninth Layer during the trial.
• The crowd learned Li Yun had come from a Yellow Grade World and mocked him, angering Lian Yun Kong and Ji Lan, who resolved to tell Li Yun what they had heard.
• Zhu Li reported Li Yun’s background to Ye Tiangong and called his success with the immortal tokens good luck.
• Ye Tiangong rebuked Zhu Li for belittling Li Yun and warned him not to question the Immortal Palace’s rules or insult a Great River Hall True Disciple.
• Ye Tiangong examined the Heaven-Piercing Tablet and wondered how far Li Yun would climb, while Zhu Li watched the pagoda with hostility.

Li Yun slowly advanced through the Heaven-Piercing Pagoda, gaining powerful cultivation benefits as he absorbed the energy and insights within its floors. While Cang Ze worried that Li Yun might not reach the fortieth floor, the Abyssal Sea Immortal King confidently hinted that Li Yun would surprise everyone.

• Zhang Hun returned to watch Li Yun's challenge, resentful that a cultivator from a Yellow Grade World had become a Great River Hall Core Disciple when he had failed.
• Li Yun reached the seventeenth floor after spending more than two hours cultivating, and over a dozen of his Great Daos rose to the Dao Evolution Realm.
• Li Yun's Primordial Chaos Mana approached the Seventh Grade threshold, greatly increasing his ability to fight stronger opponents.
• Cang Ze worried that Li Yun's slow progress would damage Great River Hall's reputation if he failed to reach the fortieth floor.
• The Abyssal Sea Immortal King rejected Cang Ze's doubts, said he had discovered hidden profundity in Li Yun, and predicted that Li Yun might surprise everyone.

Abyssal Sea Immortal King sensed Forbidden Divine Charm on Li Yun and found that Li Yun’s karma with the Water Dao had been completely concealed. After Divine Water Immortal Palace ordered him to bring Li Yun back, he suspected Li Yun might be a legendary figure reborn amid the coming upheaval of the Ninth Epoch; he and Cang Ze waited three months for news from the Heaven-Piercing Pagoda.

• Abyssal Sea Immortal King probed Li Yun, sensed Forbidden Divine Charm, and hid his discovery while granting Li Yun Core Disciple status in Great River Hall.
• Abyssal Sea Immortal King searched the Water Dao for Li Yun’s karma but found no trace of it, so he reported his concerns to Divine Water Immortal Palace.
• Divine Water Immortal Palace ordered Abyssal Sea Immortal King to ignore the Forbidden Divine Charm and bring Li Yun back, with an Immortal Sovereign-level Vice Palace Master personally stressing the order.
• Abyssal Sea Immortal King connected Li Yun to rumors of ancient figures returning during the Ninth Epoch’s upheaval, but kept his suspicions from Cang Ze.
• Abyssal Sea Immortal King drank wine with Cang Ze while they waited for events in the Heaven-Piercing Pagoda, and three months passed.

After spending three months climbing the Heaven-Piercing Pagoda, Li Yun suddenly surged up the rankings, overtaking Zhang Hun and Ye Tiangong as he cleared floor after floor. He reached the eighty-third floor with no sign of stopping, leaving the onlookers wondering whether he would climb to the ninetieth.

• After three months with no result, Li Yun appeared on the Heaven-Piercing Tablet at the hundredth position, pushing Zhang Hun off the ranking at floor fifty-eight.
• Inside the pagoda, Li Yun used his improved Great River Immortal Law to shatter the sword radiance and clear the fifty-eighth floor.
• Li Yun rapidly climbed from floor fifty-eight to floor sixty-nine, leaving the onlookers astonished by his sudden speed.
• Li Yun passed floor seventy-seven and knocked Ye Tiangong from first place to second.
• Li Yun reached floor eighty-three, prompting the crowd to wonder whether he would continue to the ninetieth floor.