Chapter Summaries

Li Yun reached the Heaven-Piercing Pagoda’s ninety-ninth floor, establishing himself as a top-tier first-grade Heaven Immortal and stunning everyone who witnessed it. The Abyssal Sea Immortal King personally welcomed him and took him to the Sacred Heaven Realm, while Cang Ze was left to oversee affairs on Primordial Spirit Immortal Island with two other Immortal Kings.

• Li Yun’s name stopped at the ninety-ninth floor of the Heaven-Piercing Tablet, convincing the crowd that he had reached the pagoda’s summit and become a top-tier first-grade Heaven Immortal.
• Li Yun emerged from the pagoda, and Lian Yun Kong and Ji Lan hesitated to approach him because of the immense gap his achievement had created.
• The Abyssal Sea Immortal King appeared with Cang Ze, congratulated Li Yun, and explained that the Sacred Heaven Realm had ordered him to bring Li Yun back after his result surpassed the ninetieth floor.
• Cang Ze congratulated Li Yun and showed him unusual deference, while Li Yun modestly credited his success to luck.
• The Abyssal Sea Immortal King took Li Yun toward the Sacred Heaven Realm and instructed Cang Ze to leave local affairs to the Water Sword Immortal King and Immortal King Mingli until his return.

Li Yun and the Abyssal Sea Immortal King traveled to Kunhuang Island after the route to Divine Water Immortal Palace headquarters was blocked, and Li Yun considered escaping by sending only his Water Dao Avatar onward. On the island, Jing Lin took Li Yun to a garden to wait while the Abyssal Sea Immortal King went to meet the Great Kun Immortal Emperor, leaving Li Yun uneasy about Jing Lin’s strange manner.

• The Abyssal Sea Immortal King learned the teleportation route to headquarters could not be used because a Starry Sky Beast had destroyed an array foundation, so he chose to teleport to Kunhuang Island instead.
• Li Yun suspected the breakdown was no coincidence and planned to slip away during the journey, sending his Water Dao Avatar to meet Divine Water Immortal Palace’s leaders.
• The Abyssal Sea Immortal King and Li Yun arrived on Kunhuang Island, where he explained they would borrow the Great Kun Immortal Emperor’s Divine Feather Flying Ship to continue toward the palace.
• Jing Lin and Chu Xie greeted the Abyssal Sea Immortal King, then Chu Xie accompanied him while Jing Lin led Li Yun to a garden to wait.
• Jing Lin ordered two women to serve Li Yun and left, while Li Yun sensed something odd behind Jing Lin’s courteous smile.

Li Yun pretended to be an inexperienced cultivator while Jing Lin’s two women questioned him and kept watch. After learning about the vast Xuanbo Sea Domain and the many islands beyond Kunhuang Island, he sought a chance to escape their surveillance by asking them to show him around.

• After Jing Lin left, the two women approached Li Yun, and he suspected they had been assigned to monitor and investigate him.
• Li Yun acted shy and claimed he had come from a Yellow Grade World, prompting the women to dismiss him as an ignorant country bumpkin.
• While they questioned him, Li Yun learned that Kunhuang Island lay in the remote Xuanbo Sea Domain and that billions of cultivators inhabited the region’s many islands.
• Li Yun realized that escaping Kunhuang Island could let him blend in with travelers on the sea, so he asked the women to take him around the island.
• The two women exchanged glances and agreed to show Li Yun around Kunhuang Island.

Li Yun toured Kunhuang Island under the watch of two Golden Immortal maidservants while searching for a chance to escape. After learning that Yuanhai might wait months to meet the secluded Immortal Emperor, Li Yun returned to the garden and arranged to enter seclusion, where he planned to advance his Immortal Soul and carry out his escape plan.

• Two maidservants showed Li Yun around Kunhuang Island, whose immense size and powerful seals made him fear he could not escape.
• Li Yun asked when Yuanhai would leave, and a maid told him the Immortal Emperor’s seclusion could delay their departure by half a month or as long as three to five months.
• Li Yun acted timid around the maidservants, easing their suspicion as they continued touring the island with him for two days.
• Li Yun decided to use his time on the island to strengthen his Immortal Soul and raise the level of Cognition Points he could gain.
• Li Yun asked to return to the garden and enter seclusion, and the maidservants agreed, believing they could watch him there.

Li Yun advanced his cultivation in the meditation chamber, then left with Bai E and learned that the Great Kun Immortal Emperor would soon take him to Divine Water Immortal Palace. As he grew suspicious of the trip, he relied on a hidden spatial passage that could let his Water Dao Avatar return to his main body.

• Li Yun used all his Earth Immortal Level Cognition Points to advance his Immortal Soul while meditating in the chamber.
• Hong He left to report to Lord Jing Lin and remained away for three days, leaving Bai E to guard Li Yun alone.
• Li Yun told Bai E he could not settle into meditation and persuaded her to accompany him on another stroll; his main body secretly slipped out of the chamber after them.
• Hong He returned the next day and told Li Yun the Great Kun Immortal Emperor would emerge in half a month and take him and the Abyssal Sea Immortal King to Divine Water Immortal Palace.
• Li Yun became wary of the planned journey and took confidence from the hidden passage connecting his Water Dao Avatar to his main body's Mysterious Gate World.

Jing Lin and Bai E brought Li Yun to meet the Great Kun Immortal Emperor, who then took them aboard the Divine Feather Flying Ship bound for the Divine Water Immortal Palace. Li Yun and the Abyssal Sea Immortal King grew wary of the journey’s suspicious coincidences, while Li Yun’s true body remained hidden on Kunhuang Island.

• Jing Lin received the Great Kun Immortal Emperor’s order and took Li Yun with Bai E and Hong He to Kunhuang Palace.
• Li Yun met the Great Kun Immortal Emperor, who praised his foundation as a top-tier first grade Heaven Immortal.
• The Great Kun Immortal Emperor launched the Divine Feather Flying Ship, and Li Yun joined the group traveling to the Divine Water Immortal Palace.
• Li Yun tried to warn the Abyssal Sea Immortal King about the trip, but the Abyssal Sea Immortal King told him to stay quiet and remain alert.
• Li Yun kept his true body hidden on Kunhuang Island and felt relieved as the Great Kun Immortal Emperor departed with most of his forces.

Li Yun cultivated Divine Mountain Suppressing Void in hiding on Kunhuang Island, then witnessed Immortal Emperor Queyue ambush Great Kun Immortal Emperor’s flying boat. A black-clad Immortal King attacked the passengers, but the Divine Water Immortal Palace intervened, leaving Li Yun temporarily safe.

• Li Yun used his accumulated points to perfect the second layer of Divine Mountain Suppressing Void and raise his Immortal Soul to the third level of Heavenly Immortal.
• The Water Dao Avatar saw Immortal Emperor Queyue intercept the Divine Feather Flying Boat and battle Great Kun Immortal Emperor above Xuanbo Sea Domain.
• Six Immortal Kings and many Mystic Immortals attacked the flying boat, while Li Yun sensed a trap and retreated into its cabin.
• A black-clad Immortal King appeared and attacked the passengers, advancing toward the cabin where Li Yun was hiding.
• Two Immortal Kings from the Divine Water Immortal Palace challenged the attacker, and an Immortal Emperor struck him down.
• Li Yun withdrew his main body’s consciousness after realizing the Divine Water Immortal Palace had come to receive the group.

After the battle on Kunhuang Island, Li Yun stayed hidden while the Divine Feather Flying Ship departed, then encountered Zhen Jiu, a thief who had broken through the island’s protective array. Li Yun proposed that they cooperate, and Zhen Jiu agreed to talk.

• Immortal Emperor Queyue fled before Divine Water Immortal Palace’s reinforcements arrived, while Great Kun Immortal Emperor lost two Mystic Immortals and dozens of Golden Immortals from Kunhuang Island.
• Immortal Emperor Wanli escorted the Divine Feather Flying Ship onward and played chess with Great Kun Immortal Emperor, leaving Li Yun behind.
• Li Yun discovered a spatial crack in Kunhuang Island’s protective array and caught Zhen Jiu crawling through it.
• Zhen Jiu deduced that Li Yun was not from Kunhuang Island, and Li Yun acknowledged that they were both thieves.
• Li Yun suggested they cooperate so neither would be left to face trouble alone, and Zhen Jiu agreed to talk.

Li Yun questioned Zhen Jiu, a Heaven Immortal thief who had spent decades preparing to rob Kunhuang Island, and exposed his secret treasure’s ability to conceal his traces. After deducing that someone had sent Zhen Jiu to frame the Shadowless Tribe, Li Yun warned that his unseen patron would kill him once the job was done.

• Li Yun learned that Zhen Jiu had twice scouted Kunhuang Island and now planned to loot the Great Kun Immortal Emperor’s home before fleeing.
• Li Yun challenged Zhen Jiu’s claim that he could escape an Immortal Emperor and pointed out that his trail left flaws behind.
• Zhen Jiu accidentally revealed that he carried a secret treasure of the Shadowless Tribe, then watched Li Yun replay his entry into Kunhuang Island with an Immortal Art.
• Li Yun concluded that the Shadowless Tribe was not backing Zhen Jiu and suspected someone had given him the treasure to frame the tribe.
• Li Yun told Zhen Jiu that his hidden patron would likely kill him to silence him after he robbed Kunhuang Island.

Li Yun uncovered that Zhen Jiu had been manipulated into provoking a conflict between Kunhuang Island and the Shadowless Tribe, then persuaded him to cooperate in a raid. After erasing traces around them, Li Yun and Zhen Jiu infiltrated Kunhuang Palace and reached its interior.

• Li Yun deduced that the supposed Great Void Holy Son had used Zhen Jiu as a pawn to provoke conflict and create chaos in the Xuanbo Sea Domain.
• Zhen Jiu admitted he knew nothing of a specific target and agreed to cooperate with Li Yun.
• Li Yun used an Immortal Art to erase the surrounding auras and traces, then concealed Zhen Jiu while leaving the marks on him intact to avoid alerting the Great Void Holy Son.
• Li Yun and Zhen Jiu returned to Kunhuang Island and began infiltrating its treasure-storage site.
• Li Yun and Zhen Jiu exploited the island's relaxed guards and quietly made their way inside Kunhuang Palace.

Li Yun and Zhen Jiu reached the empty Kunhuang Palace and discovered an immortal array behind the Great Kun Immortal Emperor’s throne. Zhen Jiu revealed that his Array-Breaking Immortal Shuttle had detected the hidden treasury array, and Li Yun asked whether he could open it without alerting anyone.

• Zhen Jiu wondered why Kunhuang Palace was empty and marveled at the Great Kun Immortal Emperor’s throne.
• Li Yun pointed out the hidden immortal array behind the throne and explained that the treasury was concealed there.
• Zhen Jiu revealed his Array-Breaking Immortal Shuttle, which had helped him enter Kunhuang Island and could detect arrays, seals, and barriers.
• Li Yun recognized the shuttle and reassured Zhen Jiu that he did not intend to take it.
• Li Yun asked Zhen Jiu how confidently he could break the treasury’s array without alerting anyone, including the distant Great Kun Immortal Emperor.

Li Yun and Zhen Jiu debated whether they could safely break into the Treasure Vault Immortal Array, while Li Yun searched for a way to identify its weakness. He contacted Immortal Venerable Shenyue through the Immortal Gate, and Shenyue was stunned to see Li Yun had mastered his technique.

• Li Yun questioned how Zhen Jiu had broken the Island-Protecting Immortal Array without alerting the Great Kun Immortal Emperor, and learned he had exploited an existing flaw.
• Li Yun checked the system’s progress on the Treasure Vault Immortal Array but found he lacked enough Cognition Points to raise it.
• Li Yun sensed movement beyond the Immortal Gate and crossed the Space-Time passage to look through its curtain.
• Li Yun saw Immortal Venerable Shenyue, whose presence triggered a surge of Cognition Points and repaired his Divine Mountain Suppressing Void technique.
• Immortal Venerable Shenyue called out to Li Yun and explained that he could sense him but could not reach or locate his Immortal Gate.
• Li Yun agreed to talk, and Immortal Venerable Shenyue was shocked to see him manifest with a seemingly flawless mastery of Divine Mountain Suppressing Void.

Immortal Venerable Shenyue explained the Immortal Scar Realm and the limits of Immortal Venerables to Li Yun, who had appeared with an Immortal Gate projection he could control. Shenyue ended by recounting a legend about Mountain Man, a mysterious figure who walked out of the Supreme Immortal Gate and erased an Immortal Venerable with a glance.

• Immortal Venerable Shenyue suspected Li Yun had learned his Divine Mountain Suppressing Void technique by observing him through the Mysterious Immortal Gate, but hid his displeasure and sought to build a connection.
• Li Yun asked what the Immortal Scar Realm was, and Shenyue explained that it was a realm formed from the Supreme Immortal Gate's shadow and was even higher in grade than the Great Void World.
• Shenyue told Li Yun that Immortal Venerables entered the Immortal Scar Realm through Immortal Gate projections but could not leave, and that they came to escape the Epoch Calamity and seek a path to becoming true Immortal Beings.
• Li Yun asked what a true immortal was, and Shenyue said that even an ancient Immortal Venerable from the First Epoch could not define one.
• Shenyue recounted the legend of Mountain Man, who walked out of the Supreme Immortal Gate, collapsed an Immortal Venerable's Dao with a single look, and then returned through the gate.

Li Yun befriended Immortal Venerable Shenyue and asked him to help break the Immortal Emperor’s treasure vault array. Shenyue used Li Yun’s Immortal Gate Projection to reach through the passage, and his finger began pressing toward the array in Kunhuang Palace.

• Li Yun learned that an Immortal Being had once erased an Immortal Venerable from memory and wondered whether such beings awaited at the end of the Immortal Path.
• Immortal Venerable Shenyue asked Li Yun to visit and chat, and Li Yun agreed before asking for his help.
• Li Yun explained his plan to steal an Immortal Emperor’s treasure vault, and Shenyue agreed to help if he could reach its immortal array.
• Li Yun activated the Immortal Gate in his main body, allowing Shenyue to see the treasure vault through a passage.
• Shenyue’s first attempt to reach through the Immortal Gate failed, but Li Yun strengthened the projection, letting Shenyue’s finger pass through toward the array behind the Immortal Emperor’s throne.

Li Yun and Zhen Jiu broke into Great Kun Immortal Emperor's treasury and spent three days plundering it. After the vault was emptied, Li Yun noticed something they had missed.

• Li Yun used the Immortal Gate to destroy the treasury's defenses, then entered with Zhen Jiu and concealed how he had done it.
• Li Yun began collecting the vault's immortal herbs, techniques, artifacts, and other treasures, while Zhen Jiu worried that Great Kun Immortal Emperor would pursue them.
• Zhen Jiu joined the plundering but limited himself to mostly True Immortal-level treasures and a few Golden Immortal-level items.
• After filling his own storage ring, Zhen Jiu spent the next two days helping Li Yun, whose Heavenly Origin Ring expanded as it absorbed the treasures.
• Three days after entering, Li Yun and Zhen Jiu had emptied the treasury, but Li Yun spotted something else inside.

Li Yun seized the Spirit Vein hidden beneath the Great Kun Immortal Emperor’s treasury and absorbed it into the Mysterious Gate World before helping Zhen Jiu escape Kunhuang Island. After Li Yun erased the mark tracking Zhen Jiu, the pursuer discovered it was gone and wondered what had happened.

• Li Yun pulled the complete Spirit Vein from beneath the treasury and sent it into the Mysterious Gate World, where the Great Dao Avatars began refining it.
• Li Yun confirmed the treasury held nothing else worth taking and returned with Zhen Jiu to the barren mountain in the west.
• Li Yun offered to conceal Zhen Jiu’s aura and erase the Great Void Holy Son’s trace, while Zhen Jiu planned to hide and cultivate after escaping.
• Li Yun and Zhen Jiu exchanged a Message Talisman and agreed to work together again if they found another target.
• Zhen Jiu used the Array-Breaking Immortal Shuttle to open a crack in Kunhuang Island’s protective array, and Li Yun erased the tracking mark on Zhen Jiu as they fled.
• The pursuer discovered that the mark on Zhen Jiu had vanished and wondered what had happened to him on Kunhuang Island.

After three years of cultivation, Li Yun had brought nearly all the Three Thousand Great Daos in his Mystic Gate to immortality, but the Fate Dao remained incomplete and his main body could not ascend. He suspected the missing Fate Dao was blocking his breakthrough, so he decided to ask Immortal Venerable Shenyue about the dangerous Ethereal Immortal Palace.

• Zhen Jiu escaped with the Array-Breaking Immortal Shuttle after he and Li Yun fled an Immortal King's pursuit, and Li Yun hid on a small island.
• Li Yun sent out twenty-seven Great Dao Avatars that had condensed Immortal Principles to seek opportunities and cultivate.
• Over three years, Li Yun refined treasures stolen from the Immortal Emperor's treasury, and all of the Mystic Gate's Great Daos except the Fate Dao condensed Immortal Principles.
• Li Yun's Mystic Gate reached the Integration Realm limit, but an unseen force prevented it from ascending, while its Forbidden Divine Charm and Primordial Chaos Mana grew stronger.
• Li Yun suspected the incomplete Fate Dao was blocking his ascension and considered searching for the dangerous Ethereal Immortal Palace.
• Li Yun decided to contact Immortal Venerable Shenyue again to learn what she thought of the Ethereal Immortal Palace.

Li Yun asked Immortal Venerable Shenyue about the Ethereal Immortal Palace and learned that it had appeared across many epochs and was closely tied to the Immortal Venerable Dao. Shenyue explained that becoming an Immortal Venerable required sufficient fate and destiny to bear an Immortal Venerable Dao Fruit, leaving Li Yun stunned by the revelation.

• Li Yun met Immortal Venerable Shenyue again, and Shenyue marveled at how quickly Li Yun had cultivated Divine Mountain Suppressing Void.
• Li Yun asked Shenyue about the Ethereal Immortal Palace, and Shenyue revealed that it had appeared from the First Epoch onward in the middle to late period of each epoch.
• Li Yun wondered whether the palace heralded each Epoch Calamity, but Shenyue said it was instead deeply connected to the Immortal Venerable Dao.
• Shenyue explained that Immortal Sovereigns advanced through cultivation, while becoming an Immortal Venerable required the fate and destiny to bear an Immortal Venerable Dao Fruit.
• Li Yun understood that someone without a sufficiently powerful life pattern would collapse if they received an Immortal Venerable Dao Fruit.

Immortal Venerable Shenyue explained how Fate Number and Configuration determine whether an Immortal Sovereign can become an Immortal Venerable, and how the Ethereal Immortal Palace can strengthen them through destined reincarnation. Li Yun learned that the trials could be deadly, while wondering whether mastering the Lesser Destiny Art without taking its Stone Tablet would still let him enter.

• Li Yun questioned the connection between Immortal Principles and Immortal Venerable Dao Fruits, and Immortal Venerable Shenyue explained that Immortal Sovereign laws could evolve into Authority while Fate Number and Configuration remained the key threshold.
• Immortal Venerable Shenyue revealed that the Ethereal Immortal Palace contained a fortune that could strengthen a cultivator’s Fate Number and Configuration.
• Immortal Venerable Shenyue explained that Stone Tablets released by the Ethereal Immortal Palace contained the Lesser Destiny Art and marked their holders as Children of Destiny who could enter the palace.
• Immortal Venerable Shenyue said that entrants underwent reincarnations with sealed memories and cultivation, and returned with strengthened Fate Number and Configuration if they survived.
• Shenwu Immortal Venerable warned Li Yun that reincarnation difficulty ranged randomly from one to nine stars, with higher difficulties risking death, and Immortal Venerable Shenyue said entrants could choose whether to continue after each trial.

Li Yun learned how dangerous Ethereal Immortal Palace’s predestined reincarnations were and heard about the Lord of War, who survived a record twenty-seven, including a Seven Stars reincarnation. After Immortal Venerable Shenyue revealed his own six reincarnations, Li Yun resolved to visit the palace to strengthen his fate and overcome the obstacle to becoming an immortal.

• Immortal Venerable Shenyue told Li Yun that the record was twenty-seven predestined reincarnations, survived by the Lord of War, who became an Earth Venerable.
• Immortal Venerable Shenyue explained that Immortal Venerables were divided into Human Venerable, Earth Venerable, and Heavenly Venerable realms.
• Immortal Venerable Shenyue said the Lord of War refused to risk another reincarnation after narrowly surviving a Seven Stars challenge.
• Li Yun asked Immortal Venerable Shenyue about his own record, and Shenyue admitted he had completed six reincarnations before leaving the palace.
• Li Yun suspected his fate was too weak to bear the Mystic Gate and decided he had to visit Ethereal Immortal Palace.