Chapter Summaries

Li ChunJun secured the Profound Yellow Sect and the Three Saint Venerables of Heaven, Earth, and Man as allies before setting out for Star Abyss to strengthen himself. On the journey, Liu Yu showed him a first design for a Void Storm Dharma Idol, and he arrived at Star Abyss with the three Venerables.

• Li ChunJun reassured the Three Friends of Heaven, Earth, and Man that he understood the risks of provoking Wuji Sect and Heavenly Palace, and they offered him resources and their protection.
• Huang Daozhen and Heaven Saint Venerable arranged for Li ChunJun and the three Venerables to join the Profound Yellow Sect and build ties with other disciples.
• Li ChunJun requested Void Dao Pills and Destruction Dao Pills, then boarded Heaven Saint Venerable's battleship with the three Venerables to travel to Star Abyss.
• Liu Yu presented Li ChunJun with a first Void Storm Dharma Idol design using the Mystic Yellow Supreme's research, and Li ChunJun decided to consider changes while postponing a Dominion Dharma Idol.
• Li ChunJun and the three Venerables passed through a star gate and traveled for over two weeks before reaching Star Abyss.

Li ChunJun entered Star Abyss to seek its guards and treasures while the Heaven, Earth, and Man Saint Venerables discussed their hopes for his future. After ten days without finding a guard, he encountered two Void Refinement cultivators fighting one and then saw three Wuji Sect cultivators arrive, apparently intending to steal the kill.

• Heaven Saint Venerable brought Li ChunJun to Star Abyss, gave him a jade slip of information, and watched him enter.
• The Heaven, Earth, and Man Saint Venerables resolved to serve as Li ChunJun's guardians and hoped he would eventually help them rise to glory.
• Li ChunJun descended into Star Abyss and reviewed how its guards offered valuable energy and insights, while stronger guardians led to a dangerous inheritance trial.
• After ten days without spotting a guard, Li ChunJun sensed a senior brother and younger sister battling a blue-green Star Abyss Guard.
• Three Wuji Sect cultivators rushed toward the pair and ordered bystanders to leave, prompting Li ChunJun to recognize they were stealing the kill.

Li ChunJun defeated three Wuji Sect Void Refinement cultivators who attacked him in the Star Abyss, then destroyed a cyan Star Abyss Guard. He gained no experience from the Guard, but its captured consciousness contained valuable Void Refinement battle experience.

• Dongfang Yu and Dong ChangYue fled after a Wuji Sect cultivator insulted the Red Sun Sword Sect and ordered them away.
• A Wuji Sect cultivator attacked Li ChunJun, recognized him, and summoned his two companions to fight.
• Li ChunJun's Crimson Sky Sword overwhelmed the three cultivators' attacks and defenses, killing all three despite their call for reinforcements.
• Dongfang Yu and Dong ChangYue escaped toward the edge of the Star Abyss, and Li ChunJun chose not to pursue them.
• Li ChunJun destroyed the cyan Star Abyss Guard and discovered that its captured consciousness held a Void Refinement cultivator's battle experience.

After Li ChunJun killed three Wuji Sect Void Refinement experts, the Wuji Sect and Heavenly Palace secretly ordered their people in the Star Abyss to capture and kill him. Li ChunJun accepted the Profound Yellow Sect’s support and prepared to hunt their forces, while Lan Jing reported that her group had encountered a Wuji Sect squad.

• Dongfang Yu and Chang Yue escaped the Star Abyss, recognized Li ChunJun, and agreed to report his strength to the Red Sun Sword Sect without stirring up trouble.
• Yuan Taiji ordered the Wuji Sect’s Void Refinement experts to pursue Li ChunJun and secretly enlisted the Heavenly Palace’s help.
• Huang Daozhen offered support from the Profound Yellow Sect, and Li ChunJun asked him to investigate enemy movements in the Star Abyss.
• Li ChunJun learned that Profound Yellow Sect elder Lan Jing and her companions would follow his orders and search for Heavenly Palace and Wuji Sect experts.
• Lan Jing told Li ChunJun that her group had encountered a Wuji Sect squad three hours earlier.

After reuniting with Lan Jing, Li ChunJun attacked Zhuo Long and his five Wuji Sect companions, only to discover they had anticipated his move and lured him into a trap. Zhuo Long activated the Myriad Realms Compass, while dozens of Wuji Sect and Heavenly Palace cultivators closed in on Li ChunJun.

• Li ChunJun met Lan Jing, who reported that Zhuo Long and five other powerful Wuji Sect cultivators were nearby.
• Li ChunJun rushed ahead and ambushed Zhuo Long, but Zhuo Long’s Heart Power warned him in time to block the sword strike.
• Zhuo Long and his five companions formed a battle formation and repelled Li ChunJun’s Sword Qi Storm.
• Lan Jing warned Li ChunJun that dozens of Wuji Sect and Heavenly Palace cultivators were approaching, revealing that Zhuo Long’s group had been bait.
• Zhuo Long transformed his Dao Artifact into the Wuji Sect’s superior Dao Artifact, the Myriad Realms Compass, and trapped Li ChunJun as reinforcements converged.

Li ChunJun escaped the Myriad Realms Compass and used Void Bridge to ambush scattered Wuji Sect and Heavenly Palace squads before they could regroup. After killing multiple squads, he left both factions in an uproar as their cultivators' life lamps went out.

• Li ChunJun broke through the Myriad Realms Compass with Beyond Void and ordered Lan Jing to give him the coordinates of nearby Void Refinement cultivators.
• Lan Jing and five other Profound Yellow Sect cultivators held Zhuo Long and his group off while Li ChunJun used Void Bridge to reach the nearest Wuji Sect squad.
• Li ChunJun killed four Void Refinement cultivators, then traveled between enemy squads and killed three more and a squad of six.
• Wuji Sect and Heavenly Palace squads began joining forces, but Li ChunJun killed three additional squads before they could fully regroup.
• Wuji Sect lost nineteen Void Refinement cultivators and the Heavenly Palace lost seven in half an hour, prompting both factions to alert their highest authorities.

After Li ChunJun killed nineteen Wuji Sect cultivators, the Wuji Sect debated retaliation as the Profound Yellow Sect vowed to protect him and mobilized its forces. Yuan Wuji ordered the Aurora Special Operations Team into the Star Abyss, and Li ChunJun then approached a Wuji Sect squad of thirteen Void Refinement Realm cultivators.

• Yuan Wuji and the Wuji Sect elders called Li ChunJun’s attack an act of war and discussed sending Dharma Laksanas into the Star Abyss.
• The Profound Yellow Sect declared it would defend Li ChunJun, mobilized its cultivators, and gained the protection of the Heaven Earth Human Three Saint Venerables.
• The Heavenly Principle Sect refused to allow Dharma Laksanas into the Star Abyss, while the Heavenly Palace said it could offer little help.
• Yuan Wuji ordered Yuan Zhen Wu to lead more elites into the Star Abyss and sent the Aurora Special Operations Team to kill Li ChunJun.
• Li ChunJun appeared near a Wuji Sect squad containing thirteen Void Refinement Realm cultivators.

Li ChunJun ambushed thirteen Void Refinement experts and fought them in a devastating battle, killing eight before Mo He’s group nearly burned him to ash. He fled as reinforcements led by Gui Xing approached, and Mo He ordered the survivors to pursue him and kill him before he grew stronger.

• Li ChunJun prepared to exploit his ability to revive and attacked Mo He’s thirteen Void Refinement experts.
• Mo He detected Li ChunJun’s faint presence and coordinated the group’s Dao Arts into a formation that struck him with a devastating blast.
• Li ChunJun fought the thirteen experts with the Crimson Sky Sword, Dharma Idol Armament, and Beyond Void, killing eight while suffering grievous injuries.
• Li ChunJun turned and fled as Mo He and the four surviving experts realized reinforcements led by Gui Xing were nearing.
• Mo He warned that Li ChunJun’s rapid growth threatened the Wuji Sect and ordered the survivors to pursue him with Gui Xing’s reinforcements.

Li ChunJun used his near-fatal wounds to lure Mo He and the Wuji Sect pursuers into continuing their hunt while he secretly advanced to Life Level 38. His new strength brought him closer to forging a Dharma Idol, but Mo He’s forces were closing in and had split off elders to intercept him.

• Mo He ordered his depleted Void Refinement cultivators to pursue Li ChunJun before his Flame Phoenix Bloodline could restore him.
• Li ChunJun pretended to be near death, secretly used a Void Dao Pill to advance, and disguised his condition with the Burning True Spirit art.
• Mo He saw Li ChunJun flee with his Qi and Blood failing and reported the apparent opportunity to Gui Xing.
• Gui Xing told Mo He that nine swift elders had gone ahead to intercept Li ChunJun while the rest joined the pursuit.
• After advancing to Life Level 38, Li ChunJun found his Dao Comprehension and combat power greatly increased and estimated he could forge his Void Storm Dharma Idol within ten years.

Li ChunJun charged into a group of nine Wuji Sect Void Refinement cultivators, pretending to use a life-burning secret technique as he slaughtered them with his Sword Qi Storm. When reinforcements led by Gui Xing arrived, Li ChunJun turned to attack them, intent on facing his enemies wave by wave.

• Li ChunJun calculated that killing fewer than 300 Void Refinement cultivators could raise his Life Level to 39, then charged at nine Wuji Sect cultivators.
• The nine mistook Li ChunJun’s Heart Power Fire for the Burning True Spirit secret technique and tried to coordinate their defense.
• Li ChunJun’s Sword Qi Storm killed five of the nine and trapped the rest in a maze of void ripples.
• Mo He and his pursuers joined the fight, but Li ChunJun killed two more cultivators and forced the others to burn their mana to survive.
• Mo He called for reinforcements, and Gui Xing arrived with ten Void Refinement cultivators as Li ChunJun killed the last two cultivators beside Mo He.
• Li ChunJun charged straight at Gui Xing’s reinforcements, ready to fight them one wave at a time.

Yuan Zhen Wu ordered the Wuji Sect to mobilize against Li ChunJun, believing his growing power threatened the sect’s standing. As successive waves of Void Refinement cultivators attacked, Li ChunJun slaughtered them, and the Wuji Sect’s lifebinding lamps went out in alarming numbers.

• Yuan Zhen Wu learned that Mo He and Gui Xing had failed to stop Li ChunJun, and ordered the sect’s Void Refinement cultivators to surround and kill him while preventing the Profound Yellow Sect from aiding him.
• Yuan Zhen Wu threatened deserters and those who spread panic with charges of Betraying the Sect, and offered resources for forging a top-tier dharma aspect to whoever killed Li ChunJun.
• Wuji Sect cultivators rushed toward Li ChunJun in separate waves, but he killed each wave within moments, even as he fought in the Burning True Spirit state.
• Primordial Soul disciples at the Eternal Flame Hall reported that dozens of Wuji Sect elders’ lifebinding lamps had gone out in quick succession.
• The elder overseeing the hall panicked as the death count passed forty, and the news reached Sect Master Yuan Taiji, who flew into a fury.

Yuan Taiji learned that Li ChunJun had wiped out more Wuji Sect and Heavenly Palace squads, exposing how Li had faked using the Burning True Spirit art to lure the forces into attacking piecemeal. As Yuan Zhen Wu prepared to join Zhuo Long with sixty-five Void Refinement cultivators, Zhuo Long sent a distress call and ten more life lamps went out.

• Yuan Taiji confronted Two Forms Venerable over the Wuji Sect’s heavy losses and learned that twelve more Void Refinement elders had died.
• Yuan Zhen Wu told Yuan Taiji that he had blocked Li ChunJun’s route to the Profound Yellow Sect and was coordinating with Flame Sparrow of the Heavenly Palace.
• Yuan Taiji learned that another sixteen Wuji Sect cultivators and twenty-one Heavenly Palace cultivators had died, and Yuan Zhen Wu realized Li had disguised a less damaging secret art as Burning True Spirit to provoke piecemeal attacks.
• Yuan Zhen Wu claimed he and Zhuo Long would soon unite sixty-five Void Refinement cultivators to surround Li ChunJun, but then received Zhuo Long’s distress call.
• Yuan Taiji’s elder reported that ten more life lamps had gone out, nearly one per breath.

Yuan Taiji decided to involve the Heavenly Palace in killing Li ChunJun while avoiding an all-out war with the Profound Yellow Sect. At the Star Abyss, Yuan Zhen Wu saw Li ChunJun’s Sword Qi Storm annihilating Zhuo Long’s force and chose to retreat rather than send his own cultivators to their deaths.

• Yuan Taiji lost faith in Yuan Zhen Wu’s ability to kill Li ChunJun and resolved to arrange further safeguards.
• Yuan Taiji planned for the Wuji Sect’s Sacred Ones to hold off the Profound Yellow Sect while a Heavenly Palace Dharma Idol attacked Li ChunJun, and he asked the old man to contact Puhua Honored One.
• Yuan Zhen Wu and his thirty Void Refinement cultivators reached the battlefield and saw Li ChunJun’s Sword Qi Storm killing Zhuo Long’s group at a rapid pace.
• Yuan Zhen Wu’s cultivators recognized that Li ChunJun’s Dao Arts made him far stronger than they could handle and urged Yuan Zhen Wu not to sacrifice them needlessly.
• Yuan Zhen Wu agreed and ordered his group to retreat, promising they would avenge Zhuo Long and the others once the Aurora Special Operations Team arrived.

Li ChunJun continued slaughtering the Wuji Sect cultivators after Yuan Zhen Wu abandoned them, and Zhuo Long sacrificed himself to unleash the Myriad Realms Compass's power and collapse the Star Abyss. Li ChunJun survived the resulting Void Storm and discovered a palace that appeared to be the Inheritance Hall.

• Yuan Zhen Wu retreated with his forces, leaving Zhuo Long and the remaining cultivators to face Li ChunJun alone.
• Li ChunJun exploited the enemies' shattered morale and renewed his attack, killing more cultivators as Yuan Zhen Wu fled farther away.
• Zhuo Long trapped Li ChunJun with the Myriad Realms Compass, then sacrificed himself and the surviving cultivators to trigger a localized collapse of the Star Abyss.
• Li ChunJun survived the Void Storm by relying on his newly advanced Void Dao Body and Destruction Dao Body.
• Li ChunJun emerged from the storm and found a palace hidden between the Star Abyss and the void, which he recognized as the Inheritance Hall.

Li ChunJun entered the Inheritance Hall, chose a combat trial, and recovered in its Life Creation Pool while ordering Lan Jing to track Yuan Zhen Wu’s group. After three days, he began the trial and found himself facing three Seven-Colored Guardians in an endless desert.

• Star Light accepted Li ChunJun’s qualifications and arranged a combat trial against three Seven-Colored Guardians after he requested time to recover.
• Li ChunJun contacted Lan Jing and told her to track Yuan Zhen Wu’s group, explaining that Yuan Zhen Wu had fled after Li killed more than half of Zhuo Long’s forces.
• Li ChunJun vowed to eliminate the Wuji Sect and Heavenly Palace forces in the Star Abyss, and Lan Jing pledged to obey his orders.
• Li ChunJun recovered in three days, then asked Star Light to begin the trial.
• Star Light transported Li ChunJun to an endless desert, where three streaks of seven-colored light descended from the sky.

Li ChunJun defeated three Seven-Colored Guardians and learned from Star Light why genuine Immortal Artifacts were so valuable and how they were made. Recognizing Li ChunJun’s unusual potential, Star Light offered him a reward to become the future successor of Emperor Chi Rong’s Dao Protector.

• Li ChunJun used his Sword Qi Storm to destroy the three Seven-Colored Guardians after finding no clear weakness in them.
• Star Light showed Li ChunJun the remaining rewards and explained that genuine Immortal Artifacts were Great Dao manifestations made by one Unity cultivator killing another.
• Li ChunJun learned that Immortal Artifacts let Unity cultivators pursue additional Great Daos and could provide crucial protection in battles with their peers.
• Star Light said Li ChunJun stood apart from the other candidates because he had defeated the guardians through strength alone and displayed resonance between the Void and Destruction Great Daos.
• Star Light offered Li ChunJun an appointment and reward in exchange for becoming the Dao Protector of Emperor Chi Rong’s future successor.

Li ChunJun negotiated with Star Light to become Blazing Sun Dao Venerable’s Dao Protector in exchange for combat experience and other benefits. After sealing the agreement, he began studying Blazing Sun’s battles, starting with those fought at the Dharma Idol Realm.

• Star Light explained that Blazing Sun Dao Venerable had set aside resources to hire a Dao Protector until his successor reached the Ninth-Order Supreme Saint Realm, and proposed Li ChunJun for the role.
• Li ChunJun negotiated for combat experience involving the Destruction and Void Laws, and Star Light gave him four crystals containing Blazing Sun’s Dao Arts and battles.
• Li ChunJun copied the agreement onto pure gold jade, swore the required oath, and received a token granting access to the Inheritance Hall and its Life Creation Pool.
• Li ChunJun asked Star Light for a Star Abyss map to find his opponents, but Star Light said he could not alter the trials’ rules.
• Li ChunJun told Star Light to have any future successor bring his token to the Profound Yellow Sect, then entered a side hall to absorb the combat experience.
• Li ChunJun studied Blazing Sun’s Dharma Idol-level battles for several days and found that the experience suited him despite its limited value as a direct fighting guide.

Li ChunJun used Blazing Sun Dao Venerable’s combat experience to refine his tactics and learned the Burning True Spirit secret art. He ambushed a Wuji Sect force in the Star Abyss, killed more than half its cultivators, and escaped when the Aurora Six arrived.

• Li ChunJun finished studying Blazing Sun Dao Venerable’s Dharma Idol-level experience and decided to test it in battle.
• Lan Jing told Li ChunJun that the Wuji Sect had deployed the Aurora Special Operations Team in five groups, able to reinforce each other quickly with a high-grade Dao Artifact.
• Li ChunJun asked Star Light to teleport him to the location of a Wuji Sect force and used Burning True Spirit to amplify his attack.
• Li ChunJun’s optimized Sword Qi Storm killed more than half of the thirty-odd Void Refinement Realm cultivators before reinforcements arrived.
• Li ChunJun escaped the Aurora Six by activating Star Light’s token as their beam struck, and the resulting Void Law fluctuations concealed his disappearance.

Li ChunJun recovered in the Life Creation Pool, then ambushed another Wuji Sect team to gain experience and materials. He escaped again before the Aurora Special Operations Team could kill him, while their Saint’s intervention sparked a battle between Saints and left the team realizing they could not control the situation.

• The Aurora Special Operations Team searched the starry sky for Li ChunJun without finding him, and its captain vowed to kill him rather than capture him.
• Li ChunJun restored his essence in the Life Creation Pool, replenished its energy, and planned another ambush to reach Life Level 39.
• Li ChunJun asked Lan Jing for the coordinates of an isolated Wuji Sect team, and Star Light sent him there under the Rules.
• Li ChunJun attacked more than forty Wuji Sect Void Refinement experts, killing over half before the Aurora Special Operations Team arrived.
• A Wuji Sect Saint broke through the Star Abyss’s barriers to aid the Aurora Special Operations Team, prompting the Three Saint Venerables of Heaven, Earth, and Human to attack him and ignite a battle between Saints.
• Li ChunJun escaped with his token before the Aurora Special Operations Team’s full-force attack landed, leaving its members unable to catch him.

After the Aurora Special Operations Team failed to find Li ChunJun, Yuan Taiji suspended its hunt and decided to enter the Star Abyss himself, fearing Li ChunJun’s rapid growth. When Li ChunJun attacked the Heavenly Palace, the Aurora Six delayed their response to let its forces suffer more losses.

• The Aurora Special Operations Team failed to find any clues to Li ChunJun’s escape, and Yuan Taiji ordered them to suspend the hunt and focus on defense.
• Yuan Taiji warned that Li ChunJun was growing stronger at an extraordinary rate, speculated about his Flame Phoenix Bloodline, and resolved to enter the Star Abyss himself while ordering the Aurora Six to track Li ChunJun.
• The Aurora Six promised to mark Li ChunJun so they could follow him wherever he hid.
• A member of the Aurora Special Operations Team reported that Li ChunJun had attacked the Heavenly Palace and killed more than a dozen Void Refinement Realm cultivators.
• The team leader chose to delay their rescue, then sent the Aurora Six rushing toward the Heavenly Palace after it had suffered further losses.