Chapter Summaries

Li Yi fought the shadowy figure, whom Zi Yan recognized as his father, the lord of Blackwater City. Their attacks collided with devastating force, leaving the battle's outcome unknown.

• Thousands of cultivators gathered to witness Li Yi and the shadowy figure's clash, and Zi Yan recognized the figure as his father, the lord of Blackwater City.
• Li Yi demanded the figure's identity, then unleashed Divine Sorrow, sending a blood-red blade toward him.
• The shadowy figure redirected a pillar of moonlight with his crescent weapon, and the two attacks collided, devastating the surrounding region.
• Li Yi poured his spiritual powers into the Green Lotus Ancient Sword, while the shadowy figure transformed his weapon into a gigantic purple moon.
• The cultivators fled as Li Yi's giant sword and the purple moon collided, destroying nearly a hundred mountain ranges and shaking Blackwater City.

After surviving a fierce battle and killing an assassin who tried to exploit his injuries, Li Yi returned to Blackwater City and ran the Treasure Refining Pavilion for ten thousand years. Zi Yan continued visiting him, and Li Yi sensed that the time had come for something he had long been asked to do.

• Li Yi and the masked dark figure suffered heavy injuries in their battle, and the dark figure withdrew after realizing he could not defeat Li Yi.
• An assassin attacked Li Yi from the void, but Li Yi evaded the strike, killed him, and destroyed his soul.
• Ten thousand years passed, during which Li Yi's Treasure Refining Pavilion gained a reputation in Blackwater City for trading Magic Treasures only for materials.
• Li Yi recalled saving the red-haired boy Xiao Wu, who had lost part of his soul and his memories, and continued receiving visits from Zi Yan.
• After Zi Yan hesitated before leaving, Li Yi watched him go and thought that the time had come.

Zi Yan was ambushed by Quasi-Saints and his elder brother Zi Lang, who wanted the clan's token. After burning his Magic Power and Essence Blood to escape, Zi Yan reached the Treasure Refining Pavilion and collapsed outside.

• A masked Quasi-Saint led dozens of attackers against Zi Yan, who wounded the leader before being gravely injured by their combined assault.
• Zi Yan fled toward the Treasure Refining Pavilion, but Zi Lang appeared and struck him down.
• Zi Lang demanded the token, blaming Zi Yan for taking the opportunity he had waited a hundred million years to obtain.
• Zi Yan refused to hand over the token, and Zi Lang attacked him with a storm of purple blades.
• Zi Yan burned his Magic Power and Essence Blood, transformed into a purple Heavenly Dragon, and escaped toward the Treasure Refining Pavilion.
• Zi Yan reached the pavilion, changed back into human form, and fell unconscious outside.

Li Yi intervened when the green-robed elder tried to abduct Zi Yan for his token, killing the elder and his subordinates and saving Zi Yan. After healing Zi Yan, Li Yi vanished, leaving onlookers more fearful of the Treasure Refining Pavilion.

• Zi Lang approached the Treasure Refining Pavilion to capture Zi Yan, but the pavilion remained silent.
• The green-robed elder ignored Li Yi's warning, seized Zi Yan, and tried to flee toward the City Lord's Mansion.
• Li Yi emerged from the pavilion, blocked the elder with his sword and spiritual pressure, and stopped his escape.
• When the elder's subordinates threatened Li Yi, he killed all of them with sword-qi lotuses.
• The elder tried to kill Zi Yan, but Li Yi struck his mind with Divine Sorrow and killed him, then used the elder's life force to heal Zi Yan.
• Zi Yan thanked Li Yi after waking, and Li Yi vanished as nearby cultivators reacted with awe.

After Xing Shang, a Sovereign of the Silver Horn Clan, attacked the Treasure Refining Pavilion to avenge the Elder in Green Robes, Li Yi confronted him. Li Yi and the ancient Azure Dragon prepared to meet Xing Shang’s next assault as their battle escalated above Blackwater City.

• After an explosion shook Blackwater City, a Silver Horn Clan warrior searched a captive’s soul and learned that the Elder in Green Robes had died at the Treasure Refining Pavilion.
• Xing Shang attacked the pavilion with silver threads and crushing dark clouds, but Li Yi’s cry tore open the clouds and he confronted Xing Shang.
• Xing Shang revealed that he was a Sovereign and struck Li Yi with a powerful punch; Li Yi’s Green Lotus Ancient Sword became an ancient Azure Dragon that shattered the attack.
• Li Yi stood on the ancient Azure Dragon as Blackwater City’s cultivators watched the two Sovereigns prepare to fight.
• Xing Shang summoned more than ten enormous cloud blades and slashed at Li Yi, who joined with the ancient Azure Dragon and channeled his divine abilities into it.
• The ancient Azure Dragon transformed, growing four pairs of wings, sword-like horns, a chaotic world above its head, destructive lightning, and a third eye of creation.

Li Yi and Xing Shang fought an escalating battle above Blackwater City, unleashing a sword-aura flood and lotus flowers against Xing Shang’s dark mountains. Their powers reached a stalemate as the fight expanded into a clash between a vast ocean and a continent of darkness, leaving the city’s cultivators terrified.

• Li Yi sent Ancient Azure Dragon’s five gigantic claws against Xing Shang’s mountain-sized black cloud blades, but the attack proved insufficient to defeat him.
• Li Yi formed a seal and unleashed a flood of sword auras and floating lotuses, shattering Xing Shang’s cloud blades and driving the torrent toward him.
• Xing Shang formed thousands of seals, collapsed the void into darkness, and summoned two mountains of black light to meet Li Yi’s flood.
• Li Yi poured his Magic Power into Ancient Azure Dragon, swelling the flood into a vast ocean as Xing Shang transformed his mountains into a continent of darkness.
• The ocean and dark continent collided in a world-shaking stalemate above Blackwater City, leaving the watching cultivators in awe and terror.

Li Yi and Xing Shang fought to a standstill before unleashing their strongest attacks over Blackwater City. Li Yi’s plain sword thrust shattered Xing Shang’s tower and Power of Law, but the strike injured Li Yi as well, leaving both men wounded as he declared victory.

• Xing Shang recognized Li Yi’s immense potential and resolved to kill him before he could grow stronger.
• Xing Shang summoned dark rain that crumbled the continent into particles, then used a drop of black liquid to forge an eighteen-story tower imbued with the Power of Law.
• Li Yi entered a mysterious state as his Green Lotus Ancient Sword rang out, causing swords throughout Blackwater City to answer.
• Xing Shang sent the completed tower crashing down on Li Yi, who opened his eyes at the last moment and thrust his sword forward.
• Li Yi’s seemingly ordinary strike pierced and destroyed the tower, causing Xing Shang to suffer a backlash and spit blood.
• Li Yi tried to recall the power behind his strike, then told Xing Shang he had lost as blood trickled from Li Yi’s mouth.

Li Yi defeated Xing Shang but was nearly killed when Old Ancestor Xing Bing attacked him. The Purple Scale Old Ancestor intervened, drove off the Silver Horn Clan, and executed Zi Lang and Zi Ming for betraying Blackwater City.

• Xing Shang revealed that Li Yi was only in the Primordial Chaos Realm, shocking the cultivators of Blackwater City.
• Old Ancestor Xing Bing attacked Li Yi, and Li Yi fled while preparing to use the Vast King's law fragment.
• The Purple Scale Old Ancestor rescued Li Yi and confronted Old Ancestor Xing Bing over the attack on the City Lord's Mansion.
• The two ancestors fought, and Old Ancestor Xing Bing withdrew with Xing Shang and the Silver Horn Clan after being struck away.
• The Purple Scale Old Ancestor seized Zi Lang and Zi Ming and killed them for inviting the Silver Horn Clan into Blackwater City.

Li Yi met Purple Scale Old Ancestor after the elder intervened in Blackwater City's battle, then heard his offer to join the Purple Scale Clan in exchange for protection and a Scarlet Token to enter the Blood Rock Secret Realm. When Purple Scale Old Ancestor revealed the token, its illusions ensnared Li Yi until the Chaos Green Lotus shattered them, leaving Li Yi demanding an explanation.

• Purple Scale Old Ancestor defeated Old Ancestor Xing Bing and thanked Li Yi for helping Blackwater City.
• Li Yi recognized Zi Yan as the mysterious person who had tested him, while Zi Yan acted as though they were meeting for the first time.
• Purple Scale Old Ancestor offered Li Yi protection from the Silver Horn Clan if he joined the Purple Scale Clan as an elder.
• Purple Scale Old Ancestor explained that the Scarlet Token granted entry to the Blood Rock Secret Realm and offered it as a path toward the Divine Lord Realm.
• The Scarlet Token trapped Li Yi in a blood-colored illusion, but he used the Chaos Green Lotus to break free and angrily confronted Purple Scale Old Ancestor.

Li Yi refused the Purple Scale Old Ancestor’s offer to pursue the token after recognizing it as a trap, and the Old Ancestor threatened to kill him to keep the secret. Li Yi fought his way out of the Old Ancestor’s Small World, leaving them facing off above the City Lord’s Mansion.

• Li Yi rejected the Purple Scale Old Ancestor’s proposal and tried to leave with a warning that he could not control the token’s reaction.
• The Purple Scale Old Ancestor threatened Li Yi with submission or death, and Li Yi attacked with a towering sword phantom while attempting to escape.
• The Purple Scale Old Ancestor trapped Li Yi inside the Small World with formations that collapsed the sky and killed many members of his clan.
• Li Yi used the Chaos Green Lotus and the Vast Law’s aura to break through the Small World’s sky and escape.
• The Purple Scale Old Ancestor confronted Li Yi above the City Lord’s Mansion, and Li Yi stood his ground atop the Chaos Green Lotus.

Li Yi used the Monarch-level Power of Law through the Green Lotus Ancient Sword to overwhelm Purple Scale Old Ancestor in Blackwater City. Purple Scale Old Ancestor escaped with the Scarlet Token after Li Yi revealed his Law pressure, leaving Li Yi badly injured and bracing for the Silver Horn Clan’s retaliation.

• Purple Scale Old Ancestor attacked Li Yi, who transformed into his Chaos True Body and infused the Green Lotus Ancient Sword with the Power of Law.
• Li Yi’s sword strike shattered Purple Scale Old Ancestor’s beast claw and sent him flying with a deep wound.
• Li Yi planted his sword and formed Green Lotus vines that engulfed Purple Scale Old Ancestor, but Purple Scale Old Ancestor used the Scarlet Token to break free.
• Li Yi unleashed the pressure of Law through his eyes, frightening Purple Scale Old Ancestor into abandoning the fight and returning to the City Lord’s Mansion.
• Li Yi let Purple Scale Old Ancestor go because his body was at its limit and he needed to recover before facing possible retaliation from the Silver Horn Clan.

More than a century after Li Yi’s battle with the Purple Scale Old Ancestor, Blackwater City braced for a conflict as the Purple Scale Clan gathered its experts and plotted against him. The Purple Scale Old Ancestor also demanded more captives with Special Bloodlines, which he considered more important than Li Yi’s treasures.

• Li Yi stayed in Blackwater City to recover and prepare for the Silver Horn Clan, then unleashed his killing intent in his secret chamber.
• The Purple Scale Old Ancestor met with the Purple Scale Clan’s experts, including Zi Yan, and warned that Li Yi could use the Power of Law despite being in the Chaotic Origin Realm.
• The Purple Scale Old Ancestor persuaded the gathered experts to let the Silver Horn Clan fight Li Yi first, planning to attack whichever side survived and seize its spoils.
• The Purple Scale Old Ancestor asked whether the clan had found enough Chaotic Origin Realm cultivators with Special Bloodlines, and the others produced nearly twenty captives.
• The Purple Scale Old Ancestor complained that they were still short seven or eight captives, stressed that this search mattered more than Li Yi’s treasures, and swept the captives away.

Purple Scale Old Ancestor used the Scarlet Token to enter Blood Rock Saint Venerable’s hidden Blood Pool and began sacrificing powerful cultivators to complete his inheritance. Fifty years later, Li Yi finished refining a dark-gold Law Talisman in the Treasure Refining Pavilion.

• Purple Scale Old Ancestor fed blood-red runes into the Scarlet Token, opened a stone door, and entered the hidden Blood Pool.
• Purple Scale Old Ancestor chained the captured cultivators above the Blood Pool and began drawing out their Blood Qi to create more Blood Cocoons.
• Purple Scale Old Ancestor said he needed eight more cocoons to complete his preparations for Blood Rock Saint Venerable’s inheritance.
• After recovering from his injuries, Li Yi stayed in Blackwater City and studied Hongjun’s memories to learn how to seal the Power of Law into talismans.
• Li Yi completed a dark-gold Law Talisman after decades of work.

Li Yi left Blackwater City and confronted Old Ancestor Xing Bing and the Silver Horn Clan, who tried to force him to surrender and hand over his treasures. After Li Yi killed a Silver Horn cultivator, Xing Bing’s forces began forming an array, and the battle continued with Li Yi’s sword attacks meeting Xing Bing’s ice defenses.

• Li Yi left Blackwater City with Xiao Wu, then stored him away before the coming fight.
• The Purple Scale Old Ancestor learned Li Yi had left the city and prepared to follow so he could reap the benefits afterward.
• Old Ancestor Xing Bing arrived with thousands of Silver Horn Clan cultivators and demanded Li Yi surrender his treasures or die.
• Li Yi rejected Xing Bing’s offer, mocked Xing Shang, and killed a Silver Horn Hunyuan cultivator with a single sword strike.
• Old Ancestor Xing Bing ordered his forces to form an array while he blocked Li Yi’s sword attacks with walls and fortresses of ice.

Li Yi unleashed the Power of Law and gravely wounded Old Ancestor Xing Bing, then used a golden talisman to shatter the Silver Horn Clan's formation. He slaughtered nearly a thousand clan cultivators, driving Old Ancestor Xing Bing into a furious counterattack.

• Li Yi transformed into his Chaos True Body and attacked Old Ancestor Xing Bing with a sword strike empowered by the Power of Law.
• Old Ancestor Xing Bing's Icebound World failed to stop Li Yi's strike, which pierced his chest and damaged his soul.
• Li Yi flooded the battlefield with his Blood Sea, but the Silver Horn Clan's formation shielded its fighters from his attacks.
• Li Yi used an ancient golden talisman to destroy the formation and send thousands of Silver Horn Clan cultivators flying.
• Li Yi and his clones slaughtered nearly a thousand Silver Horn Clan cultivators, prompting Old Ancestor Xing Bing to swear he would fight Li Yi to the death.

Li Yi killed Old Ancestor Xing Bing and wiped out the Silver Horn Clan cultivators, including Xing Shang, though the battle left him gravely wounded. Purple Scale Old Ancestor arrived with a vast force of clan experts, intent on killing Li Yi while he was weakened.

• Li Yi used a Law Talisman to destroy Old Ancestor Xing Bing’s snowball attack, then seized and subdued him.
• The Silver Horn Clan cultivators fled, but Li Yi trapped and slaughtered them with the Blood Sea and a lotus gear.
• Xing Shang escaped the massacre and vowed revenge, but Li Yi killed him with his hair before he could get away.
• Li Yi crushed Old Ancestor Xing Bing, collected his memories and spoils, and then collapsed from injuries caused by repeatedly using the Power of Law.
• Li Yi called out Purple Scale Old Ancestor, who appeared as hundreds of thousands of Purple Scale Clan warriors arrived to surround the battlefield.

Li Yi fought the Purple Scale Clan’s army and, amid the slaughter, achieved a breakthrough that awakened a new power. He used Mythical Power to devastate the clan’s forces, leaving the Purple Scale Old Ancestor unable to understand what he had become.

• Li Yi and the Purple Scale Old Ancestor began fighting as the Purple Scale Clan’s army formed a giant beast and attacked Li Yi.
• Li Yi used a Law Talisman to break the beast’s energy beam and enter the formation, bluffing that he had more talismans to keep the clan’s experts at bay.
• Li Yi slaughtered cultivators inside the formation until the Purple Scale Old Ancestor and the clan’s other experts entered to attack him.
• While battling the clan’s forces, Li Yi fell into sudden enlightenment and broke through as a vast vortex poured power of life into him.
• Li Yi unleashed a sword strike powered by Mythical Power, blasted back the Purple Scale Old Ancestor and the other experts, and vaporized many cultivators.
• Li Yi explained that Mythical Power came from the convictions of living beings and would endure as long as they did.

Li Yi slaughtered the Purple Scale Clan army and fought the Purple Scale Old Ancestor, whose crimson token shielded him while he attempted to break through to the Divine Lord Realm. Li Yi destroyed him with a monarch-grade fragment of a Law, then killed the last two Imperial Venerables.

• Li Yi unleashed Mythical Power and killed or gravely wounded most of the remaining Purple Scale Clan cultivators.
• The Purple Scale Old Ancestor used the crimson token to raise a barrier that withstood Li Yi's attacks, though sustaining it consumed his Essence Blood and soul.
• The Purple Scale Old Ancestor began a Law Tribulation to break through to the Divine Lord Realm, and its pressure destroyed the surrounding mountains and killed nearly everyone left.
• Li Yi unleashed the monarch-grade fragment of the Vast Law, shattered the token's barrier, and reduced the Purple Scale Old Ancestor to ashes before he could complete his breakthrough.
• Li Yi claimed the crimson token and killed the two fleeing Purple Scale Clan Imperial Venerables with sword beams.

Li Yi attacked Winged City and destroyed the Silver Horn Clan's stronghold to gather divine objects for reforging Ancient Sword. He spared Zi Yan and left a warning to protect the Purple Scale Clan as he departed Blackwater City.

• Li Yi shattered Winged City's barrier, killed its Silver Horn Clan Imperial Sovereign, and destroyed the City Lord's Mansion's miniature world, killing the cultivators inside and taking its divine objects.
• At Blackwater City, Zi Yan and more than one hundred thousand Purple Scale Clan cultivators knelt outside the city while Zi Yan repeatedly kowtowed in apology.
• Li Yi agreed to spare Zi Yan after seeing Xiao Wu's concern, then left Blackwater City on a white cloud with Xiao Wu.
• Before the cloud disappeared, Li Yi's sword beam branded a warning on Blackwater City's walls that anyone who harmed the Purple Scale Clan within one hundred thousand years would be exterminated.
• Zi Yan thanked Li Yi and ordered his clansmen to swear never to seek trouble with him.

The Stone Coffin left its pocket dimension and traveled backward through the Eternal World’s history, absorbing Exotic Power from ancient doomsday battlefields. When a mysterious hand attacked it, an ancient Demonic Shadow intervened long enough for the Stone Coffin to escape, and its journey continued.

• The Stone Coffin tore open a passage, traveled along a road of iron chains, and left its pocket dimension as the dimension collapsed.
• Li Yi sensed that the Main Body was leaving, but chose not to interfere, while powerful beings searched the now-empty pocket dimension.
• The Stone Coffin traveled upstream through history and absorbed Exotic Power from more than a dozen ancient doomsday battlefields, changing as it went.
• A transparent hand attacked the Stone Coffin on a battlefield, but its chains became black dragons and held the hand back long enough for the coffin to escape.
• An ancient Demonic Shadow appeared and caused the hand to withdraw, after which the Stone Coffin continued its journey more cautiously.