Chapter Summaries

Li Yi was ambushed by Golden Immortals seeking the bounty placed on him by Venerable Blazing Fire, Venerable Green Mountain, and Venerable Great Mountain Sword. He used the Slaughter Sword Dao to kill thousands of pursuers and left the blood-soaked battlefield.

• Li Yi discovered dozens of Golden Immortals hiding nearby and used the Green Lotus Ancient Sword and black sword aura to overwhelm them.
• A finely dressed Golden Immortal explained that the attackers sought the bounty for Li Yi's death, then ordered thousands of Golden Immortals to attack.
• Li Yi dodged the assault with Sword Light Flying Wings but was repeatedly wounded, so he flew into the attackers' midst and summoned the Nine-Colored Pagoda.
• The pagoda's soul technique stunned the Golden Immortals, allowing Li Yi to unleash the Slaughter Sword Dao and trap them inside a black Lotus World.
• The lotus vines and sword aura killed all several thousand Golden Immortals, and Li Yi departed after the battlefield fell silent.

After Li Yi killed several thousand Golden Immortals, the hunters backed off, but the factions behind three Grand Unity Golden Immortals began searching for him to protect their authority. Li Yi concealed his identity and cautiously continued toward the East Sea, knowing he needed to grow stronger and could call on his Main Body if pushed too far.

• Cultivators arrived at the battlefield and were shocked by the slaughter, prompting Golden Immortal hunting groups and several Grand Unity Golden Immortals to pause their pursuit of Li Yi.
• Cultivators speculated that the factions behind the three Grand Unity Golden Immortals would have to respond to the public humiliation.
• Old Ancestor Lu Ya questioned Venerable Blazing Fire about the incident and ordered him to protect their authority.
• The Fire Worship Sacred Dynasty and the Eastern Alliance sent people to search for Li Yi, while Venerable Great Mountain Sword took no apparent action.
• Li Yi resolved to become stronger and concealed his face and wings as he cautiously traveled toward the East Sea.

Li Yi fought Venerable Blazing Fire while Venerable Green Mountain and Venerable Great Mountain Sword surrounded him. When his attacks failed to defeat the Grand Unity Golden Immortal, his Main Body intervened, froze all three for a hundred thousand years, and Li Yi fled toward Penglai Island.

• Venerable Blazing Fire, Venerable Green Mountain, and Venerable Great Mountain Sword cornered Li Yi, who summoned the Nine-Colored Pagoda and attacked Venerable Blazing Fire.
• Li Yi used his Lotus Projection to trap Venerable Blazing Fire in the Black Lotus World, but Venerable Blazing Fire broke free with only minor wounds.
• Li Yi called on his Main Body, whose overwhelming will swept across the Primordial World and drew the attention of Ancestor Tun Tian, Hongjun, and other powerful figures.
• The Main Body took control of Li Yi's body and froze Venerable Blazing Fire, Venerable Green Mountain, and Venerable Great Mountain Sword for a hundred thousand years.
• After the Main Body departed, Li Yi flew toward Penglai Island.

Li Yi returned to Penglai Island and spent over a hundred thousand years refining his Sword Dao, defining its four realms and purifying his Power of Slaughter. As a great calamity approached across the Primordial World, Main Body and other powerful figures began to act, while Li Yi’s Dao and body became one.

• Li Yi returned to Penglai Island, praised the Azure Flood Dragon’s progress, and began cultivating in seclusion.
• Li Yi reflected on his past and divided the Sword Dao into the Nirvana, Reincarnation, Rule, and Law realms.
• Over a hundred thousand years passed as Li Yi occasionally preached to the plant spirits and continued deepening his Sword Dao.
• The Primordial World showed signs of an approaching calamity as ferocious beasts grew more violent and the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans withdrew toward their territories.
• Main Body left his cave on Buzhou Mountain after sealing the twelve Blood Cocoons, while Daoist Hongjun and an old man on an ordinary mountain also departed.
• The black-haired man in the Demon Domain declared that his era was beginning, as Li Yi formed a purer black lotus and made the Dao and his body one.

The Main Body subdued Golden Armor Ancestor and more than twenty other Grand Unity Golden Immortals, then gathered their factions to build a fortified base in the Primordial World. He left the new city and its leaders prepared to carry out his plans.

• The Main Body appeared before Golden Armor Ancestor, marked him with a red seal, and sent him to prepare his followers to leave.
• Over the next month, the Main Body subdued more than twenty Grand Unity Golden Immortals and assembled their followers at Silver Bone Ancestor’s former retreat.
• The Main Body leveled the surrounding mountains, built a vast city, and placed nine mountains around it to form a powerful protective formation.
• He forged nine Black Giant Coffins and a blood-red tower from precious materials, placing the tower in the city and one coffin on each mountain.
• The Main Body changed the marks on Silver Bone Ancestor, White Stone Ancestor, Golden Armor Ancestor, Black Nether Ancestor, and Cold Ice Ancestor to gold, then entered the tower.

Silver Bone Ancestor and the others established Blood Prison City and prepared to collect Essence Blood using the techniques Main Body had passed down. When Beast Emperor Shen Ni sent a force to destroy the new city, Main Body’s Nine-Colored Pagoda annihilated the fierce beasts and drove off their commanders, leaving Blood Prison City feared across the Primordial World.

• Silver Bone Ancestor and the others named their stronghold Blood Prison City, organized its cultivators, and became the Blood Prison Five Ancestors.
• Beast Emperor Shen Ni ordered thirty Grand Unity Golden Immortals and ten million fierce beasts to probe and destroy Blood Prison City.
• The fierce beast army arrived outside the city, where Main Body summoned the Nine-Colored Pagoda and killed the beasts while gravely injuring the Grand Unity Golden Immortals.
• The major factions warned their leaders not to provoke Blood Prison City, and the Fierce Beast Domain made no further response.

As the major powers fought over the Three Clans Alliance’s abandoned lands, Luo Hou plotted to inflame the conflict and joined forces with the Beast Emperor. Old Ancestor Lu Ya then prepared the Six Great Sacred Dynasties to attack the Two Great Alliances, leaving the struggle on the verge of a larger war.

• Luo Hou told Blood Demon that he would let the major powers weaken each other, and revealed that Hongjun, Beast Emperor Shen Ni, Yang Mei, and another being matched his strength.
• Blood Demon reported that the Beast Emperor had agreed to send troops, and Luo Hou ordered a secret team to frame the rival powers and intensify their fighting.
• The Six Great Sacred Dynasties and Two Great Alliances clashed over the former Three Clans strongholds, while casualties and suspicion among the factions grew.
• Venerable Blazing Fire told Old Ancestor Lu Ya that the other five Sacred Dynasties had agreed to join an operation against the Two Great Alliances.
• Old Ancestor Lu Ya ordered the warbands to prepare to set out, as more than one hundred Grand Unity Golden Immortals anticipated gaining territory and momentum.

The Six Great Sacred Dynasties launched a devastating attack on the Eastern and Western Alliances, which joined forces and prepared for a decisive battle. As hundreds of billions of troops advanced, the Blood Prison Five Ancestors and the Fierce Beast Domain prepared to exploit the coming conflict, while Beast Emperor Shen Ni waited for the Demon Domain to act.

• The Six Great Sacred Dynasties' surprise attack killed nine Daluo Golden Immortals and more than ten thousand Golden Immortals from the Eastern and Western Alliances, along with over a million lesser immortals.
• Old Ancestor Black Mountain and the other Eastern Alliance elders decided to activate a forbidden formation that would sacrifice Mystic Immortals and heavenly immortals, and Venerable Green Mountain reported that the Western Alliance agreed to cooperate.
• The Eastern and Western Alliances joined forces and surrounded their encampments with dense, dangerous formations as the Six Great Sacred Dynasties sent hundreds of billions of troops toward them.
• Silver Bone Ancestor ordered the Blood Prison forces to prepare to collect blood essence and corpses once the war began, promising that their master would accompany them.
• Beast Emperor Shen Ni learned that the Demon Domain planned to wait until the Six Great Sacred Dynasties and the alliances had revealed their trump cards before advancing, and he prepared the gathered fierce beasts to wait.

Old Ancestor Lu Ya and the Six Great Sacred Dynasties breached the Eastern and Western Alliances' restrictions and then fought their armies in a devastating battle. The war escalated into mass casualties and self-detonations, with neither side willing to retreat.

• Old Ancestor Lu Ya, Old Ancestor Yin Yang, Old Ancestor Qian Kun, Ancestor Tun Tian, and the other Sacred Dynasty leaders led a hundred billion troops through the Alliances' restrictions, losing tens of millions of cultivators before breaking through in less than three days.
• Old Ancestor Black Mountain confronted Old Ancestor Lu Ya and warned that the Demon Domain and Fierce Beast Domain could profit from their conflict, but Old Ancestor Lu Ya rejected his appeal.
• The armies of the Six Great Sacred Dynasties and the Eastern and Western Alliances charged into battle, unleashing devastating divine abilities that killed cultivators by the millions.
• As hatred mounted, cultivators on both sides began detonating their Magic Treasures and bodies, and the self-destruction of Golden Immortals and Daluo Golden Immortals caused especially immense losses.
• Both sides continued using forbidden arts and exhausting their trump cards as the battlefield became a scene of relentless slaughter.

The Six Great Sacred Dynasties gained the advantage until Old Ancestor Black Mountain and Old Ancestor Tian Yin activated the Myriad Heavens Fiend Qi Array, sacrificing billions of their own cultivators to unleash it. Lu Ya and the other leaders broke out after three days, but their forces had suffered catastrophic losses and they faced Black Mountain’s allies with murderous anger.

• The Six Great Sacred Dynasties slowly overwhelmed the Eastern and Western Alliances, while Old Ancestor Black Mountain confirmed that Old Ancestor Tian Yin’s fiend-qi array was ready.
• Old Ancestor Black Mountain ordered the alliance’s Daluo Golden Immortals to withdraw about 20 billion cultivators, then activated restrictions that killed the more than 10 billion left on the battlefield and turned them into blood-red runes.
• Six stone pillars rose and formed the Myriad Heavens Fiend Qi Array, which gathered fiend qi and drove many of the Six Great Sacred Dynasties’ cultivators into a frenzy.
• Lu Ya organized the Zenith Heaven Immortals and Daluo Golden Immortals to attack the array and its pillars, and they broke free after three days.
• Lu Ya and the other leaders saw that only about 50 billion cultivators remained and glared murderously at Old Ancestor Black Mountain and the others.

The leaders of the Six Great Sacred Dynasties and the Two Great Alliances fought one another after their armies withdrew. Their battle was interrupted when nine Black Giant Coffins fell from the sky, leaving everyone stunned.

• Lu Ya ordered the remaining fifty billion troops to retreat, leaving the six leaders from each side to face one another.
• The twelve leaders paired off and began fighting, shaking the land and sky with their immense Magic Power.
• Lu Ya and Old Ancestor Black Mountain exchanged devastating attacks, leaving both badly injured before they stopped and looked to the other battles.
• Yin-Yang Ancestor, Ancestor Tun Tian, Old Ancestor Purple Thunder, Old Ancestor Sky Sword, and the others unleashed their ultimate techniques.
• Nine Black Giant Coffins suddenly fell onto the battlefield, bringing the fighting to a halt.

The Blood Prison Five Ancestors collected corpses from the battlefield after a pair of merciless eyes warned the combatants not to interfere. The Heavenly Dao announced that the Great Tribulation was beginning, forcing the factions to abandon their battle as Li Yi prepared to use the upheaval to advance his sword path.

• Silver Bone Ancestor told Lu Ya and the others that Blood Prison City had come to collect the battlefield’s corpses, provoking their anger.
• A pair of enormous eyes appeared in the sky and warned the combatants that anyone who obstructed Blood Prison City would be erased.
• Silver Bone Ancestor activated the giant coffin formation, and the people of Blood Prison City collected the corpses before departing with the coffins.
• The Heavenly Dao warned all beings that the Great Tribulation was beginning, and Lu Ya, Yin-Yang Ancestor, Qiankun Ancestor, and the others deduced that the Fierce Beast Domain and Demon Domain were invading.
• Li Yi reached the peak of the Slaughter Sword Dao, sensed the coming Great Tribulation, and considered using it to comprehend the Nirvana Sword Dao.

The Demon Domain and Fierce Beast Domain swept through the Primordial World, slaughtering and corrupting cultivators as survivors fled east to join the resistance. At the eastern border, Luo Hou and Beast Emperor Shen Ni confronted one another while a six-hundred-billion-strong allied army advanced to meet them.

• Bloodfiend and the Demon Domain's ten great generals led hundreds of billions of troops east, killing or corrupting cultivators throughout the Western Region.
• Tens of trillions of fierce beasts poured out of the Fierce Beast Domain and ravaged the northern part of the Primordial World, destroying everything in their path.
• Cultivators fled toward the east, recognizing that they had to unite against the Demon Domain and the Fierce Beast Domain.
• Luo Hou and Beast Emperor Shen Ni halted their armies at the eastern border and unleashed auras powerful enough to shatter space.
• Luo Hou and Shen Ni discussed the threat posed by Hongjun and Yang Mei and agreed their chances depended on another powerful figure staying out of the conflict.
• The Six Great Sacred Dynasties, the Eastern and Western Alliances, the Three Clans Alliance, and gathered cultivators formed a six-hundred-billion-strong army that advanced toward the eastern border with Li Yi among them.

The allied forces of the Primordial World clashed with the armies of the Demon Domain and Fierce Beast Domain in a devastating battle. As Grand Unity Golden Immortals began fighting one another, Li Yi continued slaughtering enemies with his perfected Slaughter Sword Dao, knowing he was not yet strong enough to join them.

• The allied forces met the armies of the Demon Domain and Fierce Beast Domain near the eastern border, and both sides charged into battle.
• Dragons, phoenixes, and Qilin unleashed powerful attacks, while the Demon Domain and fierce beasts retaliated with deadly techniques and caused massive casualties.
• Lu Ya, Ancestor Tun Tian, Old Ancestor Destruction, and other leaders slaughtered enemies, until the Blood Demon and the Fierce Beast Domain experts answered with their ultimate moves.
• Li Yi used Lotus Manifestation to destroy thousands of surrounding fierce beasts with his perfected Slaughter Sword Dao.
• Lu Ya and the other Grand Unity Golden Immortals left the main battle to fight opponents of the same realm, creating a separate zone of combat.
• Li Yi considered joining the Grand Unity Golden Immortals but stayed back and continued attacking fierce beasts and Demon Domain cultivators.

Luo Hou stopped the battle and challenged Lu Ya and the other leaders, then overwhelmed them with his demonic arts. As Qiankun Ancestor, Yin-Yang Ancestor, and Lu Ya escaped, Luo Hou sensed Hongjun and Yang Mei appearing in the distance.

• Luo Hou ordered Blood Demon and the Fierce Beast Domain experts to stand down and gave Lu Ya and the others one chance to attack him.
• Ao Zhan attacked Luo Hou, who struck him back and shattered four of his five claws.
• Lu Ya, Swallowing Heaven, and the other great powers unleashed their ultimate techniques against Luo Hou.
• Luo Hou used Devour All Under Heaven to swallow the attacks and consume Swallowing Heaven, Old Ancestor Golden Body, Old Ancestor Destruction, and others.
• Qiankun Ancestor and Yin-Yang Ancestor escaped in transformed forms, and Lu Ya fled as a streak of light.
• Luo Hou let the three escape and recognized Hongjun and Yang Mei in the distance.

Luo Hou and Shen Ni confronted Hongjun and Yang Mei after the two rescued the alliance by wiping out the charging forces. The four ancient powers fought over the Primordial World's great momentum, leaving the battlefield below stunned by their overwhelming strength.

• Luo Hou's assault devastated the alliance's top experts, and Li Yi prepared to withdraw as the alliance's morale collapsed.
• Hongjun and Yang Mei arrived and reduced hundreds of millions of ferocious beasts and countless Demon Domain cultivators to ash with two sweeps of azure light.
• Shen Ni confronted Hongjun and Yang Mei, while the four powers' competing plans to claim the Primordial World's great momentum became clear.
• Yang Mei and Shen Ni transformed their attacks into a clash of the Hollow Willow Tree's branch and Shen Ni's Blood-Eyed Tyrannosaurus form.
• Luo Hou summoned his Supreme Heavenly Demon Incarnation and attacked Hongjun, who countered with a Taiji Diagram.
• Hongjun, Yang Mei, Luo Hou, and Shen Ni battled above the battlefield, shattering space and conjuring destructive forces as the survivors watched in awe.

The Main Body arrived on the battlefield as the four great experts continued their stalemate, while the Blood Prison Five Ancestors harvested Essence Blood through the Black Giant Coffins and blood-red tower. After the armies suffered enormous losses, the Main Body easily withstood Luo Hou’s strongest attacks and departed, leaving the other experts shocked by his power.

• A mysterious will immobilized Blood Demon and the other Demon Domain experts, then the Blood Prison Five Ancestors arrived and connected nine Black Giant Coffins to their blood-red tower.
• The Demon Domain and Fierce Beast Domain armies charged the alliance as Li Yi fought, while blood-red nets gathered Essence Blood from the fallen across the battlefield.
• After more than half the fighters had died, Luo Hou and the others stopped fighting, and Hongjun led the surviving alliance cultivators away.
• The Main Body emerged from the blood-red tower, and Luo Hou attacked him with his Supreme Heavenly Demon Incarnation and a black sun.
• The Main Body remained unharmed by Luo Hou’s black sun and stopped the Demonic Shadow’s punch with one hand, then left with the Blood Prison Five Ancestors and the nine coffins.

After five hundred thousand years of border skirmishes, the allied forces and the Fierce Beast Domain and Demon Domain prepared for a final battle. Li Yi reflected on the slaughter and his growing understanding of life, then withdrew to a remote mountain to prepare for a breakthrough in the Power of Life.

• Hongjun and Yang Mei unified the allied forces, then entered seclusion while the Three Clans gained influence.
• The two powers spent five hundred thousand years gathering strength as raids and local clashes continued across their borders.
• Li Yi became known as the Green Lotus Sword Master after killing nearly ten thousand Golden Immortals and surviving pursuits by Grand Unity Golden Immortals.
• Li Yi reviewed the spiritual treasures he had acquired, including the Earth Suppressing Bead, Blood Spirit Pagoda, and Purple Cloud Halberd.
• Li Yi recognized that his experiences of life and death had brought him close to manifesting the Rebirth Sword Dao.
• Li Yi settled on a remote barren mountain, calmed his mind, and prepared to draw upon the Power of Life.

Li Yi comprehended the Power of Life, transformed the barren mountain, and broke through to Peak Golden Immortal. He named the sword dao wielded through life force the Rebirth Sword Dao and considered how to balance it with the Power of Slaughter.

• Li Yi reflected on his past lives and concluded that living was the highest pursuit.
• As Li Yi's understanding deepened, green light gathered around him and plants transformed the barren mountain into a vibrant immortal mountain.
• Li Yi realized that life joined matter and will through the Power of Life, drawing that power into his body and transforming his will and lotus manifestation.
• Li Yi reached Peak Golden Immortal and tested his paired lotuses, which drained a mountain's life force and destroyed it with black sword auras.
• Li Yi considered using the Power of Life to weaken enemies and support allies, then named its sword dao the Rebirth Sword Dao.

After fifty thousand years of seclusion, Li Yi nearly harmonized the Power of Slaughter and the Power of Life and gained a deeper understanding of nirvana. When the final battle began, he slaughtered enemy forces with his twin lotus while reviving alliance cultivators, and the powers fused faster as the battlefield raged.

• Li Yi spent fifty thousand years refining the transformation between the Power of Slaughter and the Power of Life and comprehending the Nirvana True Meaning.
• The alliance assembled more than seven trillion cultivators as the Fierce Beast Domain and the Demon Domain advanced, and both sides clashed at the border.
• Li Yi unleashed black lotuses that annihilated nearly a million fierce beasts and tens of thousands of Demon Domain cultivators.
• Li Yi wielded the Slaughter Sword Dao and Rebirth Sword Dao together, destroying enemies with black light and reviving wounded alliance cultivators with green light.
• Li Yi drove into the enemy ranks as the two powers fused faster, slaughtering enemies until many began avoiding him.