Chapter Summaries

Li Yi attained sudden enlightenment on the battlefield and comprehended the Nirvana Sword Dao, then used it to fight a Grand Unity Golden Immortal. Though Li Yi crippled the enemy with a devastating slash, both were badly injured, and Li Yi escaped into a black giant coffin.

• Li Yi entered sudden enlightenment, transformed the Twin Lotuses into a Taiji Diagram, and harmonized the Powers of Slaughter and Life.
• Li Yi tested his newly comprehended Nirvana Sword Dao by annihilating ferocious beasts beneath the Taiji Diagram.
• A burly Grand Unity Golden Immortal ambushed Li Yi, but Li Yi trapped him in the Taiji Diagram and drained much of his vitality.
• The burly man destroyed the Taiji Diagram by exploding hundreds of Houtian Spiritual Treasures, badly injuring Li Yi and losing much of his own strength.
• Li Yi unleashed a Nirvana Sword Dao slash that shattered the burly man's demonic blade and forced him to explode his body and flee as a blood-red soul.
• Too injured to pursue, Li Yi flew to a black giant coffin and slipped inside.

Li Yi hid in the Black Giant Coffin to recover while the Four Supremes fought over the fate of the battlefield. Shen Ni and Luo Hou sacrificed themselves in a devastating blast, after which Hongjun and Yang Mei survived and eliminated the remaining combatants.

• Li Yi reflected on his strength and the cost of his final sword move while using the Power of Life to heal inside the Black Giant Coffin.
• Hongjun, Yang Mei, Luo Hou, and Shen Ni entered the battle, displaying their powerful treasures as the armies continued to suffer heavy losses.
• Shen Ni attacked Yang Mei with the God Slaying Spear while Luo Hou’s Demonic Shadow assaulted Hongjun.
• Hongjun trapped Luo Hou beneath a Jade Butterfly of Creation fragment, and he and Yang Mei joined forces against Shen Ni.
• Shen Ni self-destructed, and Luo Hou sacrificed his Demonic Shadow, creating a black hole that swallowed most of the remaining fighters.
• Hongjun retrieved the Jade Butterfly of Creation and left, while Yang Mei killed nearly all the surviving ferocious beasts and Demon Domain cultivators before departing.

After the calamity, Li Yi used the Golden Light of Merit to advance his cultivation and perfect his Nirvana Sword Dao. Meanwhile, the Main Body created a vast Small World for the Blood Prison cultivators, as the three tribes began claiming territory across the Primordial World.

• The Heavenly Dao rewarded contributors to the calamity with Golden Light of Merit, and Li Yi returned to Penglai Island to recover.
• After fifty years of seclusion, Li Yi reached the peak of the Golden Immortal realm and completed his Nirvana Sword Dao.
• Li Yi tested his perfected sword techniques, then resolved to pursue the Reincarnation Sword Dao and advance to Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
• The Main Body created and expanded a Small World, where the Blood Prison Five Ancestors moved the nine Black Giant Coffins and the Grand Unity Golden Immortals entered seclusion.
• With Hongjun, Yang Mei, and many Grand Unity Golden Immortals withdrawn, Ancestral Dragon, Heavenly Phoenix, and Ancestor Lin led their tribes in claiming territory and subduing other races.

After two million years of peaceful expansion, the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans declared themselves rulers of their respective kinds, angering powerful beings across the Primordial World. On Penglai Island, Li Yi began to grasp Self Reincarnation by observing the life cycles of plants, bringing him closer to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.

• Li Yi struggled to advance his understanding of reincarnation while Azure Flood Dragon slept, then realized that life and death could illuminate the cycle between existence and nonexistence.
• The Dragon Ancestor declared the Dragon Clan Lord of Scales and Armor, the Phoenix Clan claimed dominion over Flying Birds, and the Qilin Clan proclaimed itself Lord of Beasts.
• Li Yi condemned the clans' declarations, while a being trapped in a Western Region black hole cursed Hongjun, Yang Mei, and the clans; Hongjun and Yang Mei also reacted with displeasure.
• Li Yi planted short-lived flowers and plants on Penglai Island and observed their life cycles, gradually understanding the levels of reincarnation and crossing the threshold into Self Reincarnation.

Li Yi and the Main Body traveled to Buzhou Mountain as the Twelve Ancestral Witches emerged from their blood cocoons. After greeting them and concealing their connection, Li Yi began considering how to help them cultivate, then sensed a hidden presence nearby.

• The Main Body sensed that the Twelve Ancestral Witches were about to awaken and traveled with Li Yi to their cave on Buzhou Mountain.
• The twelve blood cocoons burst open, and Dijiang, Jumang, Rushou, Gonggong, Zhurong, Tianwu, Qiangliang, Xizi, Zhujiuyin, Shebishi, Houtu, and Xuanming took form.
• The Ancestral Witches greeted the Main Body and Li Yi, who told them to call him Green Lotus Sword Master and keep his connection to the Main Body secret.
• The Main Body examined the Ancestral Witches and revealed that their souls were fused with their flesh and baleful energy, prompting Li Yi to consider creating a cultivation method for them.
• Li Yi wondered how the rest of the Witch Clan had come to exist, then sensed a terrifying fluctuation in the cave and suspected something valuable was hidden there.

Li Yi and the Main Body studied Pangu’s Heart, gaining insights into Pangu’s power and the Dao. Li Yi left to explore Buzhou Mountain and discovered twelve Sea-Calming Divine Beads, then decided to seek fellow cultivators.

• Li Yi and the Main Body entered the blood-red space and found Pangu’s Heart above a Blood Pool filled with sentient spiritual blood.
• Li Yi received visions of Pangu and insights into his cultivation, while the Main Body reconstructed Pangu’s form and continued its deductions.
• Li Yi left the space, released Dijiang and the others from the cave, and began searching Buzhou Mountain for treasures.
• After two hundred years of searching, Li Yi found a formation that resisted his spiritual perception and broke it by force.
• Li Yi captured twelve escaping beads from the collapsed formation and recognized them as the Sea-Calming Divine Beads.
• Li Yi decided to seek fellow cultivators and discuss the Dao with them.

Li Yi reached the summit of Buzhou Mountain and met Fu Xi and Nuwa, then joined them in discussing their Daos. After a thousand years of conversation, the three remained together, with Fu Xi and Nuwa having learned more about the world beyond the mountain.

• Li Yi climbed to the summit of Buzhou Mountain and met Fu Xi and Nuwa, both peak Golden Immortals.
• Fu Xi explained his Dao of calculation and formations, while Nuwa shared her Dao of creation.
• Li Yi demonstrated his Dao of intent and the sword, revealing a twin lotus and a Taiji Diagram formed from sword energy.
• The three praised one another’s insights, and Li Yi advised Fu Xi and Nuwa to improve their combat skills.
• Li Yi told Fu Xi and Nuwa about major events in the Primordial World as they discussed the Dao for a thousand years.

Ao Fang visited Penglai Island to recruit Li Yi into the Dragon Clan, but Li Yi rejected his offer and ordered him to leave after Ao Fang threatened him. Ao Fang departed vowing revenge and claiming he would take Penglai Island.

• Ao Fang arrived at Penglai Island and assessed Li Yi, hoping to recruit the renowned Green Lotus Sword Master for the Dragon Clan.
• Li Yi welcomed Ao Fang to the island, where Ao Fang marveled at its spiritual treasures and Blessed Land.
• Ao Fang offered Li Yi the position of honorary elder and promised resources and a path to greater cultivation, but Li Yi politely refused.
• Ao Fang threatened Li Yi over living in Dragon Clan territory, and Li Yi ordered him to leave.
• Ao Fang left Penglai Island and vowed to kill Li Yi and claim the island for himself.

Ao Xuan led the Dragon Clan in an attack to seize Penglai Island, forcing Li Yi to fight them after evacuating his treasures and spiritual companions. Outnumbered, Li Yi fled after badly wounding two elders, and Ao Xuan was left guarding the island while fearing Li Yi would return.

• Ao Fang told Ao Xuan about Penglai Island, and Ao Xuan decided the Dragon Clan would claim it.
• Sensing danger, Li Yi sent the Azure Flood Dragon away and prepared to defend Penglai Island.
• Ao Xuan arrived with six Grand Unity Golden Immortals and attacked Li Yi's protective formation, which collapsed after a day and night.
• Li Yi ambushed and crippled one elder, then fought Ao Xuan and the Dragon Clan as they joined forces against him.
• Li Yi badly wounded another elder with the Nirvana Sword Dao and escaped, promising to return for Penglai Island.

Li Yi secluded himself in the Northern Netherworld to comprehend reincarnation and break through to the Great Luo Realm. After five hundred years, he attained the Great Luo Merit Position with a new Power of Samsara, then met Kunpeng and Old Ancestor Cang Qiong.

• Li Yi fled with Azure Flood Dragon to an underwater crag in the Northern Netherworld and began seclusion, ordering Azure Flood Dragon not to disturb him.
• Li Yi contemplated Self Reincarnation for five hundred years as his life and slaughter powers transformed and a black-and-green cocoon formed around him.
• Li Yi understood reincarnation and broke through, transforming his magic power into the silvery-white Power of Samsara and attaining the Great Luo Merit Position.
• Li Yi sensed two visitors drawn by his breakthrough and met Kunpeng and Old Ancestor Cang Qiong above the sea.
• Old Ancestor Cang Qiong explained that he had hidden in the Northern Netherworld to escape the great tribulation, and he and Kunpeng departed after exchanging insights with Li Yi.

Li Yi consolidated his power in the Northern Darkness and prepared to return to settle accounts with the Dragon Clan, while Luo Hou secretly enslaved elders from all three tribes. The Main Body’s breakthrough as the Blood Prison Supreme shook the Primordial World and reignited the ambitions of its powerful figures.

• Li Yi condensed a Will Sarira, consolidated his realm, and decided to return east with the Azure Flood Dragon to take revenge on the Dragon Clan.
• Luo Hou enslaved Ao Kong and ordered him to spy on the Dragon Clan, then secretly recruited Feng Lie, Mo Yun, and other followers among the three tribes.
• Li Yi displayed his power by forming two interlocking gears that shattered icebergs and made nearby beings tremble.
• The Main Body advanced on Northern Zhou Mountain, and his Blood Prison Supreme aura spread across Buzhou Mountain, forcing cultivators and creatures to their knees.
• Hongjun, Yang Mei, and Luo Hou reacted to the Main Body’s breakthrough, while Ancestor Lin’s ambition to vie for supremacy grew stronger.
• The Primordial World erupted with discussion of the Blood Prison Supreme’s return, and Dijiang urged Gonggong and the others to go back to the Great Venerable.

Li Yi returned to Penglai Island to settle his score with Ao Xuan and Ao Fang, defeating the Dragon Clan’s overwhelming forces. After killing Ao Fang, he declared that his conflict with the Dragon Clan was not over.

• Li Yi attacked Penglai Island and confronted Ao Xuan, who revealed more than twenty Grand Unity Golden Immortals and Ao Fang waiting to ambush him.
• Li Yi used his speed to kill five of the Dragon Clan’s fighters, forcing Ao Xuan and Ao Fang to rally the survivors and form a powerful ice formation.
• Li Yi broke through the formation with the black and green gears, then used them to grind more than a dozen Grand Unity Golden Immortals to dust.
• Ao Xuan ordered the survivors to flee in different directions, but Li Yi pursued and killed every one of them, including Ao Xuan.
• Ao Fang threatened Li Yi with the Dragon Clan’s power, but Li Yi cut off his head and declared that his conflict with the Dragon Clan was not over.

After the Dragon Clan destroyed Penglai Island, Li Yi annihilated its invading army and began attacking its strongholds to extract its spirit veins. He left the Dragon Clan in chaos after seizing nearly a hundred spirit veins and killing nearly a hundred Grand Unity Golden Immortals.

• Ao Dian learned that Li Yi had killed Ao Fang, the Eleventh Elder, and more than twenty Grand Unity Golden Immortals, then sent two hundred thousand Dragon Clan troops to Penglai Island.
• Ao Dian ordered his troops to attack Penglai Island, forcing Li Yi to watch as they nearly reduced it to ruins.
• Li Yi unleashed the full power of his Reincarnation Intent, slaughtering the two hundred thousand Dragon Clan troops and exhausting himself.
• Li Yi flew to a Black Dragon Clan stronghold, killed its elders, and extracted its spirit vein.
• Over the next three days, Li Yi extracted nearly a hundred spirit veins from Dragon Clan strongholds and killed nearly a hundred Grand Unity Golden Immortal experts, throwing the Dragon Clan into an uproar.

Li Yi fought the Ancestral Dragon after draining the Dragon Clan’s spiritual veins, then forced him to abandon his demand to have them returned. Li Yi restored Penglai Island with the veins, unaware that his deeds had made him notorious across the Primordial World.

• The Ancestral Dragon confronted Li Yi, who escaped his golden claw and challenged him to a fight.
• Li Yi struck the Ancestral Dragon’s soul with his black and green gears, but both suffered severe injuries when the dragon attacked the gears directly.
• Li Yi threatened to ambush the Dragon Clan if the Ancestral Dragon pressed him, and the Ancestral Dragon withdrew after failing to reclaim the spiritual veins.
• Li Yi planted the stolen veins on Penglai Island, repaired its mountains, and brought back its spiritual beings and Heaven and Earth Spirit Roots.
• Rumors of Li Yi’s victories spread, and many powerful Grand Unity Golden Immortals began to regard him as someone not to provoke.

After completing Self Reincarnation, Li Yi left Penglai Island with Azure Flood Dragon and explored the Primordial World. He befriended Zhen Yuanzi at Wuzhuang Temple, while the Witch Clan established its settlement around Pangu Hall.

• Li Yi completed Self Reincarnation after a million years of secluded cultivation and set out to explore with Azure Flood Dragon.
• Main Body built a city for the Witch Clan, concealed Pangu Hall, and instructed Dijiang and the others not to disturb him unless the clan faced annihilation.
• Li Yi discovered a peaceful mountain range protected by a formation and met its owner, Zhen Yuanzi.
• Zhen Yuanzi welcomed Li Yi to Wuzhuang Temple and had Qing Feng and Ming Yue serve four Ginseng Fruits.
• Li Yi and Zhen Yuanzi discussed the Dao for over two hundred years and became friends, while Azure Flood Dragon roamed the mountains.

Li Yi traveled to the Sun Star and Moon Star to comprehend their opposing powers as a path toward understanding Yin and Yang. After spending thousands of years mastering their fire and ice, he gained the Sun Moon Twin Pupils and returned to the Primordial World.

• Li Yi left Zhen Yuanzi and entered the Sun Star to study its flames, using insights from his Main Body to guide his cultivation.
• Li Yi endured the True Sun Fire for thousands of years as his Power of Samsara repaired the damage and his fire dragon transformed.
• Li Yi comprehended fire as the root and beginning of Yang, and his golden fire dragon absorbed a massive vortex before entering his right eye.
• Li Yi traveled to the Moon Star, where an ice phoenix appeared after five thousand years of cultivation.
• Li Yi formed a golden sun in his right pupil and an icy crescent moon in his left, named the divine ability Sun Moon Twin Pupils, and headed back to the Primordial World.

Li Yi returned to Wuzhuang Temple, where he apologized for Azure Flood Dragon stealing Zhen Yuanzi’s Ginseng Fruits and explained his unusual cultivation path. Meanwhile, Luo Hou’s followers spread a rumor that the God Slaying Spear could reveal the path to Supreme, drawing the three clans and countless cultivators to a battlefield where conflict loomed as the relic began to stir.

• Li Yi restrained Azure Flood Dragon, who admitted stealing Ginseng Fruits, and apologized to Zhen Yuanzi on his mount’s behalf.
• Li Yi told Zhen Yuanzi that he pursued his Dao by pushing his innate divine ability to its limits and seeking its essence.
• Luo Hou declared that the grand show was about to begin, and a rumor spread that the God Slaying Spear could help its wielder become a Supreme.
• Ancestor Dragon, Heavenly Phoenix, Ancestor Lin, and countless cultivators gathered at the borderland battlefield, where the three clan leaders drove away rival cultivators.
• The God Slaying Spear’s killing intent surged from beneath the earth, and the three clan leaders watched one another as the battlefield grew tense.

The God Slaying Spear appeared, drawing powerful cultivators into a battle over the treasure. Ancestral Dragon used the Azure Dragon Sacred Beast’s power to repel Cang Qiong, but the cracked spear split into six pieces, and the rival factions left with three pieces each.

• The God Slaying Spear emerged from a fissure, and cultivators rushed to seize it as the Three Clans tried to keep them away.
• Ancestral Dragon, Heavenly Phoenix, and Ancestor Lin clashed with Yin-Yang Ancestor, Qiankun Ancestor, and Old Ancestor Cang Qiong over the spear.
• Ancestral Dragon summoned the Azure Dragon Sacred Beast’s power, shattered Cang Qiong’s Thirty-six Heavens, and then dismissed the power before it could further erode his mind.
• The cultivators noticed that the God Slaying Spear had cracked and felt its profound Dao rhythm when they sensed it with Divine Sense.
• A pitch-black figure split the God Slaying Spear into six pieces, and Ancestral Dragon’s faction took the three longer pieces while Cang Qiong and the others took the shorter ones and departed.

Luo Hou used the God Slaying Spear fragments to make Ancestor Dragon and the other clan leaders pursue Supreme power, while their study of its slaughter insights exposed them to Innate Killing Intent. Ancestor Dragon and two others became Quasi-Supremes, and Li Yi continued refining his understanding of the sun and moon above Wuzhuang Temple.

• Luo Hou revealed that the God Slaying Spear's killing intent would taint Ancestor Dragon and the others, destabilize their foundations, and drive the three clans toward war.
• Ancestor Dragon returned to the East Sea Dragon Palace, studied his fragment of the God Slaying Spear, and absorbed its killing insights for a thousand years.
• Ancestor Dragon emerged as a Quasi-Supreme, and signs of breakthroughs appeared at Buzhou Mountain and the Southern Volcano, creating three Quasi-Supremes in one day.
• The Primordial World reacted to the three clans' rising power as cultivators fled or joined them.
• Azure Flood Dragon complained about Li Yi watching the sun and moon, and Zhen Yuanzi defended Li Yi's cultivation.
• Li Yi continued observing the sun and moon, developing a gentler, life-giving understanding of both.

The Witch Clan's Blood Pool gave birth to billions of powerful Witch People, who received an inheritance and were organized into twelve tribes. Meanwhile, Ancestor Dragon attacked Yin-Yang Ancestor, leaving him gravely wounded.

• Dijiang and the other Ancestral Witches watched the Blood Pool boil and sensed their connection to its blood growing stronger.
• Tens of thousands of blood cocoons cracked open, and billions of Witch People emerged and bowed to the Ancestral Witches.
• The Great Venerable revealed twelve suns and a black stone stele containing the Witch Clan's divine abilities, combat techniques, and Primordial Saint Body inheritance.
• Dijiang and the other Ancestral Witches divided the Witch People into twelve tribes and assigned each tribe an Ancestral Witch as its chief.
• Ancestor Dragon demanded that Yin-Yang Ancestor submit to the Dragon Clan and struck him with a blood-dripping dragon claw, gravely wounding him.