Chapter Summaries

Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Mo, the progenitor of all living things, encounters the Mortal World Immortal's barrier, which blocks his [Myriad Phenomena Immortal Realm].
• The Mortal World Immortal reveals their true power, transforming the [Hundred Thousand Mountains] into an immortal realm to trap Chen Mo.
• Li Kuanghua and Li Qiu begin destroying Chen Mo's avatars within the [Hundred Thousand Mountains] to keep him trapped.
• Li Zhiheng, on the Immortal Domain battlefield, senses the Mortal World Immortal's power and realizes they are stronger than the Human Progenitor within him.

Character Developments

• Chen Mo: Realizes the threat posed by the Mortal World Immortal and feels fear for the first time.
• Mortal World Immortal: Reveals their true strength and understanding of the human realm's history and immortals.
• Li Kuanghua: Discovers the Mortal World Immortal's true identity and feels reverence for them.
• Li Zhiheng: Discovers the Mortal World Immortal's power and understands their connection to the Human Progenitor.

Significant Themes

• The power of memory and time, as demonstrated by the Mortal World Immortal's ability to trap Chen Mo within their immortal realm.
• The erasure of existence, as Chen Mo faces the prospect of being forgotten and eliminated by the Mortal World Immortal.

Character Interactions

• Mortal World Immortal and Chen Mo: The Mortal World Immortal calmly looks down on Chen Mo, threatening to erase his existence from the human world.
• Li Kuanghua and Mortal World Immortal: Li Kuanghua feels reverence for the Mortal World Immortal and follows their instructions to destroy Chen Mo's avatars.
• Li Zhiheng and the Human Progenitor: Li Zhiheng realizes the connection between the Mortal World Immortal and the Human Progenitor, understanding that the Mortal World Immortal is even stronger than the power within him.

Summary of Chapter: "Counterfeit"

Key Plot Points and Events

• Mortal World Immortal, an ancient and powerful being, reveals its true identity as the collective consciousness of the human race, having waited for generations to lead humanity to a greater future.
• Chen Mo, a powerful immortal, is suppressed by Mortal World Immortal.
• The Azure Cloud Li Family faces a threat from Immortal Court Empress Hua Ji, who is stopped by Li Yaotie.
• The Azure Cloud Li Family confronts the Heavenly Dao Prophet, who has taken the form of their ancestor, Li Xiang. She reveals that she seeks to make the Li Family the supreme immortal clan of all ages.

Character Developments

• Mortal World Immortal: Reveals its true identity and purpose, showing a deep connection to humanity's past and future.
• Li Yaotie: Demonstrates his power and courage by facing Hua Ji, showing growth and maturity.
• Heavenly Dao Prophet: Reveals her true intentions and madness, showing a deep obsession with the Li Family's legacy.

Significant Themes

• Identity and legacy: Characters struggle with their identities and the legacies they carry, with the Heavenly Dao Prophet's counterfeit identity being a central theme.
• Power and responsibility: Characters grapple with the power they wield and the responsibilities that come with it, particularly in relation to humanity's future.
• Madness and obsession: Several characters, including the Heavenly Dao Prophet, are driven by obsession, leading to madness and destructive behavior.

Character Interactions

• Mortal World Immortal and Chen Mo: A tense standoff between two powerful beings, with Mortal World Immortal revealing its true nature.
• Li Yaotie and Hua Ji: A fierce battle between two powerful immortals, with Li Yaotie holding Hua Ji back to buy time for reinforcements.
• The Azure Cloud Li Family and the Heavenly Dao Prophet: A tense confrontation between the Li Family and the Heavenly Dao Prophet, who reveals her true intentions and the depth of her obsession.

Key Plot Points

• The Heavenly Dao Prophet reveals he has been influencing the world's changes to ensure the Azure Cloud Li Family's emergence remains unchanged.
• He confesses his desire to become the Li Family's ancestor and create a perfect future for them.
• The Li Family rejects him, stating he cannot replace their true ancestor.

Character Developments

• The Heavenly Dao Prophet: Becomes increasingly emotional and desperate, revealing his true motivations and the extent of his influence on the world.
• Li Yunbing: Shows a new level of understanding and wisdom, seeing through the Heavenly Dao Prophet's true nature.

Significant Themes

• Identity and belonging: The Heavenly Dao Prophet's struggle to be accepted as the Li Family's ancestor and his desire to create a perfect world for them.
• Manipulation vs. genuine care: The Heavenly Dao Prophet's actions are driven by his desire to control and manipulate, while the Li Family values genuine, selfless care and understanding.

Character Interactions

• The Heavenly Dao Prophet and the Azure Cloud Li Family: The Prophet's desperate pleas for acceptance are met with rejection and pity from the Li Family.
• Li Yunbing and the Heavenly Dao Prophet: Li Yunbing sees through the Prophet's true nature and expresses the Li Family's feelings, further rejecting the Prophet's attempts to replace their ancestor.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Heavenly Dao Prophet (Li Xiang's body) is overwhelmed by memories and pain, causing him to unconsciously destroy Dao paths in the Immortal Domain.
• The Azure Cloud Li Family prepares for an attack, sensing the immense power leaking from Heavenly Dao Prophet.
• The power of Heavenly Dao Prophet spreads throughout the human world, causing cultivators to feel their Great Daos trembling.

Character Developments

• Heavenly Dao Prophet (Li Xiang's body) struggles with his identity and the pain of his memories.
• Li Yunlin, the elder of the Azure Cloud Li Family, demonstrates his immense power and understanding of the Great Dao.
• Aba (the first Human Emperor) reflects on Li Xiang's past power and the true nature of the Mahayana realm.

Significant Themes

• The struggle between identity and destiny.
• The power of the Heavenly Dao Prophet and its impact on the human world.
• The true nature of the Mahayana realm and the Great Dao.

Character Interactions

• The Azure Cloud Li Family members prepare to face Heavenly Dao Prophet together.
• Li Yunlin and Li Jianning discuss the destruction of the Great Dao paths.
• Aba reflects on his teacher, Li Xiang, and the true nature of the Mahayana realm.

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Heavenly Dao Prophet's power shakes the world, alarming even the strongest cultivators.
• The Heavenly Dao Prophet reveals that he bestowed parts of his power to the twenty-four Emperor Fruits, allowing the myriad races to reach the Ninth Tribulation.
• The Azure Cloud Li Family faces the Heavenly Dao Prophet, with no hope of victory against his overwhelming power.
• The Heavenly Dao Prophet attacks the Li Family, and they scatter to avoid his palm, leaving behind a hundred clan members to hold it back.
• Li Yunbing confronts the Heavenly Dao Prophet, refusing to flee, and the Delusion-Breaking Divine Tree's vines invade the Heavenly Dao Prophet's world.

Character Developments

• Li Dalong, the strongest cultivator of the Azure Cloud Li Family, feels the power of the Heavenly Dao Prophet and is drawn into his realm.
• The Heavenly Dao Prophet reveals his true intentions and power, showing no regard for the Li Family's lives.
• Li Yunbing demonstrates his courage and determination by facing the Heavenly Dao Prophet without fear.

Significant Themes

• Power dynamics and the vast disparities between cultivators.
• The true nature of the Heavenly Dao Prophet and his intentions towards the Li Family.
• The struggle for survival and the consequences of facing overwhelming power.

Character Interactions

• The Heavenly Dao Prophet reveals his true self to the Li Family, showing no mercy or regard for their lives.
• Li Yunbing confronts the Heavenly Dao Prophet, challenging his power and intentions.
• The Li Family members work together to escape the Heavenly Dao Prophet's attack, leaving behind some to hold him back.

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Heavenly Dao Prophet recognizes the Delusion-Breaking Divine Tree as a part of itself, 'from the same root, born of the same source'.
• The Heavenly Dao Prophet attempts to destroy the Divine Tree, but fails due to an unknown force.
• Old Tree, the Divine Tree, speaks and reveals that it is difficult for a person to destroy a part of themselves, hinting at its connection to the Heavenly Dao Prophet.
• Old Tree's roots enter the Azure Cloud Li Family members, empowering them, and it instructs Li Jianshu to awaken someone within the Blood Moon.
• The Azure Cloud Li Family members join together to hold back the Heavenly Dao Prophet.

Character Developments

• The Heavenly Dao Prophet: Realizes the connection between itself and the Delusion-Breaking Divine Tree, but is puzzled by it.
• Old Tree (Delusion-Breaking Divine Tree): Speaks for the first time, revealing its connection to the Heavenly Dao Prophet and guiding the Azure Cloud Li Family.
• Li Jianshu: Volunteers to awaken someone within the Blood Moon, showing his courage and decisiveness.
• The Azure Cloud Li Family: United and determined to face the Heavenly Dao Prophet despite the odds.

Significant Themes

• The connection between the Heavenly Dao Prophet and the Delusion-Breaking Divine Tree, hinting at a shared origin or past.
• The difficulty of destroying a part of oneself, suggesting the deep connection between beings and their souls or essence.
• The unity and determination of the Azure Cloud Li Family in the face of adversity.

Character Interactions

• The Heavenly Dao Prophet and Old Tree: The Prophet attempts to destroy Old Tree, but fails due to an unknown force, leading to a conversation between them.
• Old Tree and the Azure Cloud Li Family: Old Tree guides the family, empowering them and instructing Li Jianshu to awaken someone within the Blood Moon.
• The Azure Cloud Li Family members: They unite to face the Heavenly Dao Prophet together, showing their solidarity and determination.

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Heavenly Dao Prophet reveals that the Delusion-Breaking Divine Tree is formed from its lost soul and Li Xiang's power.
• Rotten Axe Elder dismisses the tree's threat, believing the Heavenly Dao's collapse is inevitable.
• Li Xiang watches his descendants' battles via a computer screen, noting Li Yunbing's strategic choices.
• The Heavenly Dao Prophet unleashes powerful attacks across the battlefield, targeting Azure Cloud Li Family members.
• Li Yaozu leads a group of Li Clan Members to infiltrate the Heavenly Dao Prophet's body, while others sacrifice themselves to create openings.
• The Heavenly Dao Prophet creates countless clones to overwhelm the Li Clan Members within its body.

Character Developments

• Li Xiang remains uninvolved, allowing his descendants to grow through their battles.
• The Heavenly Dao Prophet reveals its true nature and power, showing no mercy towards the Li Clan.
• Li Yunbing transforms into the Demon Saint of Southern Sacred Mountain, preparing to face the Heavenly Dao Prophet's clones.

Significant Themes

• The power of unity and cooperation among the Azure Cloud Li Family members, even in the face of overwhelming odds.
• The Heavenly Dao Prophet's arrogance and underestimation of its opponents, leading to a potential miscalculation.
• The theme of ancestral power and legacy, with the Heavenly Dao Prophet drawing strength from its past and the Li Clan Members drawing strength from their family's history.

Character Interactions

• Li Xiang observes his descendants' battles, showing pride and satisfaction in their actions.
• The Heavenly Dao Prophet interacts with the Azure Cloud Li Family members, displaying its immense power and arrogance.
• Li Yaozu and Li Yunbing work together to infiltrate the Heavenly Dao Prophet's body, showcasing their strategic thinking and determination.
• The Li Clan Members support each other, with some sacrificing themselves to create opportunities for others.

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Heavenly Dao Prophet's body has consumed the earth, and immortals have transformed into grotesque beings, devouring all life.
• The Azure Cloud Li Family has become both immortals and devils, with Li Yunbing leading them. They challenge the Heavenly Dao Prophet, threatening to consume it if not defeated.
• A force of women, led by an avatar of Li Yaowen, arrives at the Myriad Races Forbidden Zone, seeking to take over humanity's leadership.

Character Developments

• Li Yunbing: He reveals his true strength and his clan's strategy, demonstrating fearlessness and sacrifice over calculation.
• Li Yaowen's Avatars: They appear to be a force of their own, with memories of Li Yaowen's past schemes, hinting at a sinister plan.

Significant Themes

• The difference between immortals and devils: Immortals find reasons to consume life, while devils do so without reason.
• Calculation vs. fearlessness: Li Yunbing believes in fearlessness and sacrifice over calculated schemes.
• The consequences of past actions: Li Yaowen's past schemes may now be influencing the world's events.

Character Interactions

• Li Yunbing vs. Heavenly Dao Prophet: Li Yunbing challenges the Heavenly Dao Prophet, threatening to consume it if not defeated.
• Min Youguo vs. Li Yaowen's Avatars: Min Youguo is intimidated by the Li Yaowen avatars and their sinister plan.

Chapter Summary: “Hypocritical Benevolence, Purgatory on Earth”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Yaowen’s avatars reveal the Azure Cloud Li Family’s true intention: they plan to consume every living being. Their demonic qi spreads across the battlefield, horrifying Min Youguo and the other cultivators.
• Lin Meng exposes the family’s long-standing hypocrisy. The Li Family’s patriarchs publicly promoted kindness, humanity, and righteousness while secretly encouraging slaughter, demonic cultivation, and ruthless expansion.
• Min Youguo realizes that even Li Dalong’s reputation for benevolence was part of a larger façade. Li Dalong had allowed the Underworld to gather corpses, preparing for a much greater plan.
• Inside the Purgatory Forbidden Zone, Li Dalong’s countless avatars overwhelm the immortals and gods. Even the five Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals struggle to contain them.
• Cong Yuandu’s laws of [Death] reveal a catastrophic future: countless beings across the mortal world are killed, devoured, or transformed into resources for the Li Family’s demonic schemes. The Underworld grows stronger as souls pour into it.
• Cong Yuandu realizes that Li Dalong had deliberately prolonged the conflict and pretended to fight for righteousness. His true objective was to let the mortal world descend into mass death so the Underworld could reach unprecedented strength.
• Gates of the Underworld open throughout the mortal world. Corpses begin reviving under the influence of ghostly qi, while the Underworld’s fortune manifests behind Li Dalong.
• Li Dalong declares that because the world denied the Azure Cloud Li Family any choice, everyone must now suffer the consequence: being eaten by them.
• He unleashes the forbidden technique he had refused to use previously: “Purgatory on earth.”

Character Developments

• Min Youguo: His faith in Li Dalong and his ability to judge character collapse. He recognizes that the benevolent image of the Azure Cloud Li Family concealed generations of cruelty and manipulation.
• Lin Meng: Acts as the one who strips away the Li Family’s public façade, explaining that their “kindness” is the highest form of hypocrisy—so complete that even its practitioners may no longer distinguish genuine compassion from calculated deception.
• Cong Yuandu: His calm composure breaks after using the laws of [Death] to witness the scale of the coming disaster. His laughter and accusations reveal both terror and disgust at Li Dalong’s deception.
• Li Dalong: His true nature and long-term strategy are exposed. He presents himself as a tragic, reluctant figure forced into brutality, but he has deliberately waited for the Underworld to accumulate enough power to engulf the mortal world.
• The Azure Cloud Li Family: Fully abandons its disguise as a morally upright immortal lineage and embraces its combined immortal, demonic, and Underworld identity.

Significant Themes

• Hypocrisy and moral ambiguity: The chapter questions whether apparent kindness has any value when it is used to conceal domination and cruelty.
• The corruption of benevolence: Li Dalong’s claims of protecting humanity and the Heavenly Dao are revealed as tools that enabled an even greater catastrophe.
• Death as power: The deaths of countless beings do not merely represent destruction; they directly strengthen the Underworld and advance Li Dalong’s plan.
• Inevitability and choice: Li Dalong claims the world never gave his family a choice, but his actions suggest that he deliberately engineered the very disaster he claims was forced upon him.
• Purgatory and reversal: The Underworld, once ignored and suppressed, becomes the dominant force, while the mortal world is transformed into a living hell.

Character Interactions

• Min Youguo and Lin Meng: Lin Meng confronts Min Youguo’s mistaken belief that Li Dalong is benevolent, forcing him to reassess the Li Family’s history.
• Cong Yuandu and Jia Shou: Cong Yuandu warns Jia Shou that he will die, using his [Death] laws to reveal that no one can escape the coming calamity.
• Cong Yuandu and Li Dalong: Cong Yuandu openly condemns Li Dalong, accusing him of orchestrating the mortal world’s descent into purgatory while pretending to fight for righteousness.
• Li Dalong and the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals: Li Dalong explains his resentment toward the world and announces the punishment he intends to impose on everyone, leaving the immortals horrified and powerless.

Chapter Summary: “Human World and Hope”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Dalong and the Underworld activate the technique Human Purgatory, allowing Underworld deathly qi to invade the human world. The Underworld begins merging with reality.
• Across battlefields, dead cultivators rise as ghosts and zombies, attacking the living in search of blood. Both humanity and the myriad races are horrified as former allies and enemies become Underworld creatures.
• Human Purgatory greatly empowers Li Dalong. He enters demonic cultivation, gains the trait “I Am the Underworld,” and shares in the Underworld’s techniques, slaughter, and insights. His Life-and-Death and Heavenly Change Great Daos begin advancing rapidly.
• Li Dalong confronts Wanrong and Cong Yuandu, declaring that the true struggle has begun and offering them one final choice: submit to him completely. His arrogant demand reveals how drastically his power and mentality have changed.
• The Boundless Ancient God attempts to submit and even orders the Immortal Realm’s gods and Buddhas to kneel, but Li Dalong dismisses It as useless.
• The Heavenly Dao Prophet is shaken by the transformation of the human world and realizes It has never truly understood the Azure Cloud Li Family.
• Li Yunbing and the Azure Cloud Li Family launch a desperate counterstrategy: they use demonic qi to consume the Heavenly Dao Prophet’s power throughout Its world, sacrificing themselves to delay It. Their goal is to move faster than the Prophet’s plan to cover the world in flesh and devour all life.
• In the Human Race Forbidden Zone, humanity’s great powers fear that the Li Family and Underworld intend to destroy everyone. Lin Meng reveals that Li Yunbing has actually been protecting humanity, sparing innocents and attempting to make humanity allies of the Underworld rather than targets.
• Lin Meng explains that Li Yunbing arranged for the Dancer to contact humanity not simply as a threat, but to place humans and the Azure Cloud Li Family on the same side. Before his disappearance, the true body left two missions: confront the Ancient Sages and preserve a spark of humanity.
• The chapter ends with Ahei remembering a pale woman carrying a flame away from the imperial city—a symbol of the remaining human world and hope.

Character Developments

• Li Dalong becomes increasingly powerful and ruthless. His transformation into the Underworld’s central figure grants him rapid growth, but also makes him more arrogant and detached. He now sees submission—not negotiation—as the proper response to his power.
• Wanrong is horrified to realize that Li Dalong may eventually become powerful enough to destroy It. Its earlier attempts to persuade him to stop have failed completely.
• Li Yunbing is recontextualized as a tragic protector rather than a simple villain. Though ruthless and demonic, he retains compassion, avoids indiscriminate slaughter, and sacrifices the Azure Cloud Li Family to preserve humanity.
• The Heavenly Dao Prophet loses confidence and becomes unsettled by the Li Family’s actions. It recognizes that its assumptions about Li Yunbing and the family were fundamentally wrong.
• Lin Meng acts as the one who reveals the hidden motives behind the Li Family’s actions, correcting humanity’s misunderstanding of them.
• The human great powers, particularly Min Youguo, shift from fear and condemnation toward confusion and reluctant realization that the Li Family may have been protecting them all along.
• Ahei becomes associated with the chapter’s hopeful conclusion, recalling the mysterious flame that represents humanity’s surviving future.

Significant Themes

• Humanity versus monstrosity: The human world becomes a literal purgatory, forcing characters to question who the true monsters are.
• Misunderstood sacrifice: Actions that appear cruel or evil may be intended to preserve humanity or protect a larger cause.
• Hope amid annihilation: Even as the world is overrun by resurrected dead and powerful enemies, the preservation of a single flame suggests that humanity can survive.
• Power and corruption: Li Dalong’s growing strength transforms both the world and his personality, showing how immense power can produce arrogance and detachment.
• The ambiguity of good and evil: Li Yunbing is called a devil, yet demonstrates more concern for humanity than many of its supposed protectors.
• Legacy and hidden intentions: The true body’s plans continue through avatars, family members, and symbolic acts, suggesting that the Li Family’s long-term goal is survival rather than simple domination.

Important Character Interactions

• Li Dalong and Wanrong/Cong Yuandu: Li Dalong informs them that the decisive conflict has begun and demands their total submission, emphasizing the reversal of power between them.
• Li Dalong and the Boundless Ancient God: The Boundless Ancient God attempts to surrender, but Li Dalong rejects It as worthless, reinforcing his contempt for former powers.
• Li Yunbing and the Heavenly Dao Prophet: Li Yunbing admits that the Azure Cloud Li Family intends to hold the Prophet back with their lives, revealing both his tactical resolve and his willingness to sacrifice the family.
• Lin Meng and the human great powers: Lin Meng challenges their assumptions, explaining Li Yunbing’s restraint, his protection of innocents, and his efforts to preserve humanity.
• The Azure Cloud Li Family and humanity: Although humanity fears the family, the chapter reveals that the family has been working indirectly to keep humans alive and potentially align them with the Underworld.
• Ahei and the remembered woman with the flame: This recollection provides the emotional conclusion, linking the survival of a small flame to the continued existence of the human world.

Chapter Summary: The Demon Saint’s Mercy

Key Plot Points and Events

• Inside the Heavenly Dao Prophet’s Primordial World, Li Yunbing advances through the Prophet’s enormous body while his completed Divine Net Demon Body devours the Prophet’s avatars, spells, and blood energy.
• The Azure Cloud Li Family members are also consuming the Prophet’s avatars, using demonic power to grow stronger. Their actions make the Heavenly Dao Prophet increasingly desperate and furious.
• The Prophet confronts Li Yunbing through his Evil Thought, accusing the Li Family of hypocrisy and claiming that they now treat all living beings as expendable resources. He exposes their wider strategy:
  • Li Dalong is using mass death to strengthen the Underworld.
  • Li Zhiheng is growing through the corpses of the fallen.
  • Li Tianyi is gathering bodies for his Corpse Stitching Art.
  • The clan’s half-immortal, half-demon members are using the slaughter to evolve.
• Li Yunbing does not answer the Prophet’s accusations. Instead, his consciousness moves through the battlefield, observing his father Li Yaozu, Fang Linglong, Li Yunlin, his grandfather Great Dragon, and the other clan members fighting without restraint.
• His perception reaches Azure Cloud Prefecture, the homeland he and his family protected for three thousand years. Seeing its people dead, its prosperity destroyed, and its land consumed by the calamity causes him deep anguish.
• Although Li Yunbing recognizes the horror of what the Li Family has become, he ultimately accepts that his relatives are fighting desperately for the survival of their Lineage. He swallows his moral pain and asks his ancestor, who has returned to normal, whether this devastation was what he wanted.
• The Heavenly Dao Prophet mocks the Li Family’s demonic transformation. He warns that many clan members will lose their minds, that demonic thoughts will overwhelm their Dao hearts, and that their plan will ultimately lead to mutual slaughter.
• The Prophet then reveals that he never intended to remain trapped. He prepares to attack himself from within, using the resulting force to break Old Tree’s control and destroy the Li Family members inside his body.
• Old Tree realizes the danger, but the Li Family members are too consumed by their demonic devouring to react in time. The Prophet summons countless stars, all directed at himself, creating a force comparable to a Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal’s self-destruction.
• The attack appears to engulf Li Yaozu, Li Yunlin, and the others. However, the expected destruction does not occur: the light, the Prophet’s avatars, and even time and space suddenly freeze.
• The chapter then shifts to Azure Cloud Prefecture, where Jiang Chenghuan—Li Yunbing’s avatar—has remained alone in the Prefectural Lord’s Hall. As the prefecture is consumed by the Prophet’s flesh and blood and its people disappear, Jiang silently transforms into black smoke and vanishes along with the land he guarded.

Character Developments

• Li Yunbing: His transformation into a Demon Saint is shown to be complete, making him powerful enough to consume the Heavenly Dao Prophet’s avatars. Despite this strength, he retains compassion and moral awareness. He grieves the destruction of Azure Cloud Prefecture but chooses loyalty to his family over condemning them.
• The Heavenly Dao Prophet: He becomes increasingly enraged and desperate. He recognizes that the Li Family has escaped the role of passive chess pieces and is evolving through the war. Although he condemns their cruelty, he reveals his own willingness to sacrifice everything—including himself—to escape and kill them.
• Li Yaozu and the Li Family: Many members have embraced demonic forms and are growing stronger, but their sanity and identities are at risk. They are portrayed as both victims of the catastrophe and participants in its devastation.
• Fang Linglong: She remains clear-minded enough to suppress the Prophet’s avatars and guide Li Yaozu in using demonic techniques.
• Old Tree: He recognizes the Prophet’s escape plan but appears unable to prevent it.
• Jiang Chenghuan: His quiet disappearance underscores his complete identification with Azure Cloud Prefecture and his tragic sacrifice alongside the homeland he protected.

Significant Themes

• The cost of survival: The Li Family’s struggle for survival requires them to treat lives, corpses, and even the world itself as resources.
• Compassion versus demonic transformation: Li Yunbing’s compassion distinguishes him from the madness threatening the other demonized clan members, but it also becomes a source of pain and conflict.
• Family loyalty and moral compromise: Li Yunbing understands that his family’s actions are horrific, yet he cannot abandon them while they fight for their Lineage.
• The destruction of home and ideals: Azure Cloud Prefecture symbolizes the peaceful human world the Li Family once protected. Its ruin shows how completely the war has corrupted the values they once defended.
• Identity and false memory: The Heavenly Dao Prophet realizes that memories of Li Xiang and the Azure Cloud Li Family never truly made Him understand them. His imitation of Li Xiang has only produced a false longing and resentment.
• Loss of control: Demonic power grants the Li Family immense strength but threatens to erase their reason, relationships, and original selves.
• Self-destruction as liberation: The Prophet’s willingness to attack himself reflects the extreme lengths both sides are prepared to take to escape defeat.

Character Interactions

• Li Yunbing and the Heavenly Dao Prophet: Their confrontation is primarily ideological. The Prophet accuses Li Yunbing of hypocrisy and cruelty, while Li Yunbing refuses to argue, silently confronting the suffering caused by the war.
• Li Yunbing and his family: Through Evil Thought, Li Yunbing observes his father, grandfather, brothers, and other relatives. His feelings shift between relief, unease, grief, and acceptance as he witnesses their demonic transformation.
• Fang Linglong and Li Yaozu: Fang Linglong suppresses the Prophet’s avatars and teaches Li Yaozu how to use demonic arts, suggesting cooperation and mutual support within the clan despite the surrounding madness.
• The Heavenly Dao Prophet and Old Tree: The Prophet attempts to break Old Tree’s control by attacking himself from within, turning their struggle into a contest of sacrifice and escape.
• Jiang Chenghuan and Azure Cloud Prefecture: Though no direct dialogue occurs, Jiang’s final disappearance alongside the prefecture expresses his enduring bond with the people and homeland he guarded.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Heavenly Dao Prophet unleashes a devastating spell against the Azure Cloud Li Family, apparently willing to injure itself severely in order to eliminate the greater threat posed by Li Dalong and Li Zhiheng.
• The Prophet’s avatars suddenly become motionless. Fang Linglong discovers that they can now be devoured easily, suggesting that the Prophet’s Divine Sense has been controlled or suppressed.
• Li Yunlin arrives and destroys the immobilized avatars. He uses his brother Li Yunbing’s ultimate technique, forming 360 Divine Net Devil Gates that suppress the Heavenly Dao Prophet’s soul and demonic power rather than simply annihilating it.
• The technique is revealed to be Li Yunbing’s final act. At the moment of his death, he transmits his understanding of the Great Dao of Evil Thought to the entire Li lineage, suppressing their demonic impulses.
• The cultivation simulator announces that the family has gained the traits “Untouched by Ten Thousand Evils” and “Demonic Dao Inheritance.” Li Yunbing’s sacrifice also temporarily traps the Heavenly Dao Prophet’s Divine Sense within the seal.
• Li Xiang realizes that Li Yunbing had deliberately used himself as bait, provoking the Heavenly Dao Prophet so that its soul would reveal itself. Yunbing had concealed his true strength and sacrificed himself to protect the family and humanity.
• In the Purgatory Forbidden Zone, Li Dalong receives Yunbing’s final message: to preserve a fragment of hope for humanity and for their family. The message reminds Li Dalong of Yunbing’s fundamentally kind and idealistic nature.
• Li Dalong finally abandons his long period of restraint. He overwhelms the surrounding defenses, passes through Zhu Wutu’s Southern Heavenly Gate and Cong Yuandu’s barriers of Death, seizes the Boundless Ancient God, and penetrates Jia Shou’s Four Seasons Immortal Realm.
• He forces Jia Shou to kneel and declares that the immortals now face only two choices: submit or be destroyed. His warning is directed beyond the immediate battlefield, toward the larger conflict with the Heavenly Dao Prophet.

Character Developments

• Li Yunbing: His death reveals the depth of his hidden strength and his willingness to sacrifice himself. Despite becoming associated with the demonic path, he has retained the innocence, compassion, and hopefulness of his youth. His final act turns his dangerous Evil Thought Dao into a protective inheritance for the entire family.
• Li Yunlin: He is emotionally affected by memories of his younger brother but carries out Yunbing’s plan by destroying the Prophet’s avatars and activating the Divine Net Devil Gates. His actions show both grief and trust in Yunbing.
• Li Dalong: Yunbing’s death breaks through Dalong’s emotional detachment and long-held patience. He recognizes that he has nearly forgotten humanity and responds by unleashing his full power against the hostile immortals.
• Li Xiang: He understands the strategy behind Yunbing’s sacrifice and recognizes that Yunbing’s apparent darkness concealed the same idealistic child he had always been.
• Zhu Wutu, Cong Yuandu, the Boundless Ancient God, and Jia Shou: Their confidence collapses when Li Dalong effortlessly bypasses their defenses. Jia Shou, previously defiant, is reduced to terror and helpless submission.

Significant Themes

• Sacrifice for hope: Li Yunbing willingly gives up his life to protect the family, suppress demonic corruption, and preserve humanity’s chance of survival.
• The persistence of innocence: Although Yunbing traveled a dark and violent path, his fundamental desire for people to live good lives never changed. The chapter’s title emphasizes that beneath centuries of hardship, he remains “a child at heart.”
• Good and evil as matters of intention: Yunbing’s Great Dao of Evil Thought is not used to corrupt others but to restrain destructive impulses and protect them, complicating the distinction between demonic power and moral evil.
• Family inheritance: Yunbing’s death becomes a source of strength for the entire lineage. His knowledge, will, and Dao are passed down collectively rather than ending with him.
• Restraint versus decisive action: Li Dalong has endured and waited for the right moment to grow strong enough to confront the Heavenly Dao Prophet. Yunbing’s death convinces him that continued patience is no longer acceptable.
• Humanity amid cosmic conflict: Yunbing’s final request forces Li Dalong and the others to remember ordinary humanity, which has been nearly eclipsed by the struggles of immortals, demons, and heavenly powers.

Important Character Interactions

• Li Yaozu and Fang Linglong exchange anxious observations while trying to understand why the Heavenly Dao Prophet’s avatars have stopped moving.
• Li Yunlin and Li Yunbing: Though Yunbing is absent, Yunlin’s use of his technique and memories of him create a strong posthumous interaction between the brothers. Yunlin’s words—“Big brother is waiting for you to come home”—reflect the family’s emotional bond.
• Li Yunbing and Li Dalong: Yunbing’s final message urges his grandfather to leave hope for humanity and their family. This directly influences Dalong’s decision to stop enduring passively.
• Li Dalong and the hostile immortals: Dalong ignores their taunts and demonstrates overwhelming power, physically and spiritually breaking through their defenses.
• Li Dalong and Jia Shou: Dalong seizes and forces Jia Shou to kneel, transforming their long confrontation into a moment of total dominance.
• Li Dalong and Wanrong: Wanrong attempts to stop him with the World-Destroying Divine Flame, but Dalong’s newfound strength allows him to disregard Wanrong entirely and issue an ultimatum to all opposing forces.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Dalong overwhelms Sovereign Jia Shou, pressing a hand onto his head and forcing the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal to kneel. The other three Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals—Wanrong, Zhu Wutu, and the Boundless Ancient God—realize that Li Dalong possesses power equal to or greater than theirs.
• Li Dalong’s body reveals the terrifying power of the Underworld: the Eighteen Levels of Hell, Nether Offices, the Underworld River, and the Purgatory Demonic Voice are manifested within him.
• Jia Shou is drawn spiritually into the Underworld River, where he relives his long life. He remembers becoming an immortal admired for his beauty, participating in the devouring of fallen higher immortals during the Endless Night, and subsequently becoming grotesque and mentally corrupted.
• Li Dalong offers Jia Shou the position of Ghost Emperor, promising him a way to preserve or recover his true self through the Underworld and the Six Paths of Reincarnation. This is revealed to be an investiture capable of transforming even a Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal into an Underworld Nether Office.
• Cong Yuandu explains that Li Dalong has mastered Heavenly Change, allowing him to alter the laws within Jia Shou’s Four Seasons Immortal Realm. Combined with the Underworld’s power and the Six Paths of Reincarnation, this makes Li Dalong an unprecedented threat to the Immortal Court.
• Fearing Li Dalong’s growing power, Zhu Wutu launches a reckless, all-out attack with his halberd, driven by his duty to protect the Immortal Court.
• Just as Li Dalong appears dominant, Jia Shou resists the Underworld’s transformation. He uses the fleeting bloom of Four Seasons Heaven and Earth to pierce Li Dalong’s true body and dispel the Underworld’s darkness surrounding him.
• Jia Shou’s attack destroys Li Dalong’s clone in the Purgatory Forbidden Zone and severely wounds Li Dalong, while Jia Shou himself expends his remaining power and begins to die.
• In the Eastern Immortal Division, Cang Ling mourns Jia Shou. She recognizes that his true struggle was not merely against physical ugliness, but against the guilt and madness born from the ancient slaughter.
• Jia Shou reaches the threshold of becoming a Ghost Emperor but ultimately refuses the transformation. He chooses his own identity and dies peacefully, smiling as he reaches toward an imagined world filled with sunlight.

Character Developments

• Li Dalong is established as an immensely powerful and ambitious ruler of the Underworld. His ability to investiture a Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal demonstrates that his influence has surpassed the Immortal Court’s previous limits.
• Jia Shou changes from a proud, terrified immortal obsessed with restoring his beauty into someone who confronts the true source of his suffering. He rejects both his grotesque form and the moral corruption that created it, ultimately preserving his autonomy through death.
• Zhu Wutu reveals himself as fiercely loyal to the Immortal Court. Though he recognizes Li Dalong’s overwhelming power and fears him instinctively, he attacks without hesitation because defending the Court matters more to him than survival.
• Wanrong, Cong Yuandu, and the Boundless Ancient God are forced to reassess Li Dalong. Their initial confidence and detachment give way to alarm as they realize he can absorb or transform beings of their own level.
• Cang Ling demonstrates deep loyalty and affection toward Jia Shou. Her grief reflects her understanding of the pain and moral burden he carried throughout his existence.

Significant Themes

• True self versus outward appearance: Jia Shou’s obsession with beauty conceals a deeper hatred of the guilt, madness, and betrayal within him. The chapter argues that genuine ugliness lies in a corrupted heart rather than in a deformed body.
• Free will and self-determination: Li Dalong offers Jia Shou continued existence through the Underworld, but Jia Shou refuses to surrender his identity, choosing death over transformation.
• Redemption and moral responsibility: Jia Shou cannot undo the ancient crimes he committed, but he can refuse to repeat them. His final act represents a form of moral redemption.
• Power and political threat: Li Dalong’s Underworld has become powerful enough to challenge the Immortal Court directly. The ability to convert Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals into Nether Offices could fundamentally alter the balance of power.
• Death as liberation: Jia Shou’s death is portrayed not simply as defeat, but as release from obsession, ugliness, and the burden of the Endless Night.

Character Interactions

• Li Dalong and Jia Shou: Their confrontation is both physical and spiritual. Li Dalong subdues Jia Shou, then offers him a place in the Underworld, but Jia Shou ultimately turns that opportunity against him.
• Li Dalong and the other Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals: His display of power forces Wanrong, Zhu Wutu, Cong Yuandu, and the Boundless Ancient God to acknowledge him as a major existential threat.
• Zhu Wutu and Li Dalong: Zhu Wutu attacks Li Dalong in a direct clash, motivated by loyalty to the Immortal Court despite knowing the danger.
• Jia Shou and Cang Ling: Though they do not directly speak during the decisive battle, Cang Ling witnesses and understands Jia Shou’s final choice, grieving while recognizing the meaning behind it.
• Jia Shou and his past self: Through the Underworld River, Jia Shou confronts the immortal he once was, the crimes he committed, and the false identity he built around beauty. His final smile shows that he has reclaimed his true self on his own terms.

Chapter Summary: “A Tattered Rag Not Worth Mentioning”

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• Jia Shou’s final attack, the dissipating [Four Seasons Immortal Realm], seriously injures Li Dalong and destroys much of the Underworld River and his clones. Jia Shou dies after unleashing the last strength of his life.
• Zhu Wutu immediately exploits Li Dalong’s weakened state. Using the phantom Southern Heavenly Gate, eighty-one Immortal-Sealing Nails, and a suppression formation, he pins Li Dalong’s divided body in place.
• The other Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals move to suppress Li Dalong’s soul, heaven and earth, and Underworld River. However, the Boundless Ancient God and Cong Yuandu realize something is wrong: the Underworld has gained immense power from the suffering and prayers generated by [Human Purgatory].
• Wanrong descends from Fire God Mountain in his full battle equipment—the World-Destroying Spear and Nirvana Armor—revealing that he senses a threat far greater than the weakened Li Dalong.
• The Underworld River resurges beneath the ruined forbidden zone. Li Dalong’s body regenerates despite Jia Shou’s devastating attack and the Immortal-Sealing Nails.
• Li Dalong tears himself free, mocks Zhu Wutu, and seizes control of the sealing nails. Zhu Wutu panics and flees, abandoning his halberd, but Li Dalong’s ghostly hands use the nails to pin him to the Southern Heavenly Gate.
• Li Dalong approaches Jia Shou’s corpse and acknowledges that Jia Shou, even in death, resisted becoming part of the Underworld and managed to wound him.
• Li Dalong then reveals that he had only been testing the Underworld’s power. He praises Jia Shou as worthy of becoming a Ghost Emperor, though he regrets that Jia Shou is dead.
• Zhu Wutu is left ignored and humiliated, hanging from the Southern Heavenly Gate like a worthless, tattered rag.

2. Character Developments

• Li Dalong: Demonstrates that his apparent defeat was temporary. His mastery of the Underworld, Life and Death Dao, and regenerative power far exceeds the immortals’ expectations. He shifts from seeming prey to effortlessly dominating the battlefield.
• Zhu Wutu: Begins as a decisive and loyal guardian of the Immortal Court, confident in his sealing methods. His confidence collapses into terror once Li Dalong revives. His cowardly retreat exposes the gap between his self-image as a heroic protector and his actual courage.
• Jia Shou: Though previously regarded as weak and timid, he earns Li Dalong’s respect through his final act of resistance. His death is presented as a moment of genuine resolve and “fleeting splendor.”
• Wanrong: Reveals unusual caution by bringing out his strongest immortal artifacts, suggesting that he recognizes Li Dalong as an extraordinary danger.
• Boundless Ancient God and Cong Yuandu: Both realize that the Underworld’s influence has grown dramatically through the suffering of living beings. Their earlier confidence gives way to unease and fear.

3. Significant Themes

• False courage versus true bravery: Zhu Wutu claims the identity of a fearless defender, but Jia Shou—the one he considered cowardly—shows greater courage in his final moments.
• Underestimating hidden power: The immortals mistake Li Dalong’s injury for defeat, failing to understand the depth of the Underworld’s regenerative and transformative abilities.
• Death as transformation rather than an ending: Jia Shou’s death strengthens Li Dalong’s understanding of his potential as a Ghost Emperor, while Li Dalong himself repeatedly returns through the power of Life and Death.
• Humiliation and reversal of status: The confident hunter becomes the hunted. Zhu Wutu’s proud position beneath the Southern Heavenly Gate becomes the image of his complete degradation.
• The exploitation of suffering: The Underworld and the Boundless Ancient God benefit from the deaths, prayers, and terror of living beings, raising questions about divine authority and the manipulation of mortals.
• Individual significance: Jia Shou’s final resistance earns recognition, while Zhu Wutu—despite his loyalty and position—is dismissed as insignificant.

4. Character Interactions

• Zhu Wutu and Li Dalong: Zhu attempts to suppress and seal Li Dalong, but Li Dalong reverses the situation, mocks him, and uses Zhu’s own sealing nails to imprison him.
• Li Dalong and Jia Shou: Li Dalong acknowledges Jia Shou’s resistance and regrets losing the chance to place him among his Ghost Emperors. Their final interaction establishes a reluctant respect between enemy and fallen opponent.
• Zhu Wutu and Jia Shou: Zhu once admired Jia Shou while also viewing himself as the braver, more resolute warrior. After witnessing Jia Shou’s peaceful death and his own panic, Zhu recognizes the falseness of that judgment.
• Boundless Ancient God and Cong Yuandu: Their exchange reveals their shared realization that the Underworld has grown stronger through mass suffering, while also highlighting their differing desires regarding the fate of mortals and immortals.
• Wanrong and the other immortals: Wanrong’s arrival and readiness to fight unsettle the others, emphasizing that Li Dalong’s revival is a threat even the strongest immortals take seriously.

Chapter Summary: “Opportunity?”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Observers in the hidden human refuge witness Li Dalong’s battle against five Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals in the Purgatory Forbidden Zone. The Underworld’s power overwhelms the Four Seasons Heaven and Earth, and Emperor Jia Shou ultimately self-destructs.
• One Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal falls, shocking the human cultivators. Lin Meng explains that Li Dalong, empowered by his Emperor Fruit, the union of immortals and devils, and the Underworld’s destiny, has surpassed ordinary Nine Tribulations, Ninety-Nine Turns experts.
• Lin Meng claims Li Dalong will continue growing stronger as long as the Underworld exists, since the deaths of living beings restore his strength. She also hints that an even more powerful entity will soon awaken.
• Ten years later, a group of cultivators enters the Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts Forbidden Zone, led by the human cultivator He Yue.
• He Yue possesses a Stone Seal engraved with the character “Li,” obtained from the Immortal Domain Forbidden Zone. It carries the aura of the Azure Cloud Li Family and protects the group from the forbidden zone’s illusions.
• Using the seal, the group kills frozen cultivators, loots their possessions, and advances deeper into the forbidden zone. They survive numerous deadly phenomena, including crimson spiders, ruinous mirrors, and corpse insects.
• He Yue reveals that his true goal is not ordinary treasure but the Azure Cloud Li Family and the Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts itself. He hopes to locate the imperiled Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal Li Xinjue and profit from the conflict involving the Frost Sea God King.
• The group eventually reaches the central region, where they see the Frost Sea God King, the Celestial Emperor, Li Tianyi, Jiarui, and many other powerful beings trapped or immobilized beneath the Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts.
• They discover a sleeping, apparently living member of the Azure Cloud Li Family inside an eyeball-like vessel. His Storage Ring contains an extraordinary number of treasures, and the Stone Seal reacts strongly to him.
• He Yue realizes that the sleeping figure may be a priceless opportunity and greedily prepares to claim the ring.

Character Developments

• Li Dalong: His victory establishes him as a power potentially greater than the Human Emperor and Blue Ancestor. His connection to the Underworld makes him nearly impossible to weaken permanently.
• Lin Meng: Demonstrates deep knowledge of Li Dalong’s strength and the greater forces at work. Her cryptic warning suggests an approaching awakening that may alter the balance of power.
• He Yue: Develops from a confident treasure-seeker into an ambitious opportunist. Though he presents himself as leading a cooperative group, he secretly views his companions as expendable and dreams of becoming the strongest cultivator in the mortal world.
• The accompanying cultivators: Initially fearful, they become increasingly excited and greedy as He Yue’s Stone Seal allows them to obtain treasures safely. Their dependence on He Yue grows, though several die despite the seal’s protection.
• The sleeping Li Family member: Remains unidentified, but his aura, treasures, and connection to the Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts imply exceptional importance.

Significant Themes

• Power beyond conventional limits: Li Dalong’s strength demonstrates how unique inheritances, fate, and the Underworld can allow someone to surpass established legendary figures.
• Danger and opportunity in chaos: The world’s disorder creates constant threats but also allows ambitious cultivators to gain treasures, inheritances, and power.
• Greed and ambition: He Yue’s pursuit of the Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts illustrates how dreams of supremacy can override caution and loyalty.
• The exploitation of others: He Yue uses the group for protection and assistance while secretly regarding them as disposable, revealing the ruthless nature of survival in the chaotic age.
• The hidden power of the Li Family: The Li Family’s aura and artifacts can influence forbidden zones, protect cultivators, and potentially unlock opportunities capable of changing the mortal world’s balance.
• Uncertainty and awakening: Lin Meng’s warning about an impending awakening foreshadows a major future event, while the sleeping Li Family member suggests that dormant powers and secrets are about to surface.

Character Interactions

• Min Youguo and the other human cultivators react with disbelief to Li Dalong’s victory, while Lin Meng corrects their underestimation of him.
• He Yue persuades the mixed-race group to enter the forbidden zone by presenting the Stone Seal as protection and emphasizing the potential rewards.
• The cultivators question He Yue’s confidence, but their doubts disappear after the seal protects them and enables them to loot frozen victims.
• He Yue shares enough information about the seal to maintain the group’s cooperation, while concealing his greater ambitions and contempt for his companions.
• At the chapter’s end, the entire group reacts to the sleeping Li Family member and his treasures, but He Yue is the one most consumed by the prospect of seizing this “opportunity.”

Chapter Summary: “Don’t Wake Him!!!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Tianming awakens after an extraordinarily long slumber in which his consciousness fragmented into more than a hundred alternate personalities. His inner world reflects his past: his violent childhood, imprisonment, redemption, and long journey with the Li Family.
• The fragmented versions of Li Tianming argue over control of his body, but the true Li Tianming appears and suppresses them. His awakening signifies that he has successfully integrated his divided consciousness and moved closer to achieving Union with the Dao.
• Outside, He Yue exploits the weakened Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts Forbidden Zone. Using a Li Family Stone Seal and cultivators corrupted by demonic energy, he attempts to break into the Divine Heart’s cultivation chamber and seize the body and treasures of an apparently harmless Azure Cloud Li Family member.
• Venerable Luo, trapped in an illusion but sensing the danger, warns He Yue repeatedly: “Don’t wake him.” He Yue ignores the warning, and one of his companions removes the mysterious man’s Storage Ring.
• The supposedly harmless Li Family member awakens. His eyes turn completely black, and his overwhelming power instantly immobilizes and mentally dominates He Yue and the other cultivators.
• Li Tianming interrogates He Yue through an abyss-like soul attack, learning about the current state of the major battlefields and the fates of various Li Family members and powerful figures.
• He Yue is discarded as a lifeless, blackened corpse. Li Tianming then recognizes the remains of Li Xinjue, a junior killed while he was asleep.
• Blaming the Frost Sea God King’s Body Integration and the Northern Immortal Division for Li Xinjue’s death, Li Tianming enters the battlefield’s illusion to confront them.
• As he leaves, the many fragmented versions of himself fade away one by one, symbolizing their reintegration and the end of his former divided state.

Character Developments

• Li Tianming: He completes a major spiritual transformation. After enduring years of unconscious cultivation and personality fragmentation, he awakens as a far more unified, powerful, and ominous figure. His black eyes and calm cruelty reveal that his awakening has brought both clarity and terrifying strength. He also displays loyalty and grief toward Li Xinjue, whom he regards as a younger relative.
• He Yue: His greed and ambition lead directly to his downfall. He believes he can kill or possess an unknown Li Family member, but instead becomes helpless before Li Tianming’s soul power and dies without resistance.
• Venerable Luo: Though trapped in an illusion, she recognizes the danger surrounding Li Tianming and tries desperately to prevent his awakening. Her fear emphasizes how extraordinary and dangerous his dormant power is.
• Li Xinjue: Though already dead when Li Tianming awakens, his death becomes emotionally important. His remains trigger Li Tianming’s anger and motivate his immediate retaliation.
• The fragmented Li Tianmings: Their arguments represent Li Tianming’s divided consciousness and competing possible selves. Their disappearance confirms that the true Li Tianming has overcome or absorbed them.

Significant Themes

• Identity and self-integration: Li Tianming’s divided personalities embody the conflict between his past, his violent impulses, his moral growth, and his possible futures. His awakening marks the consolidation of these selves.
• The danger of awakening dormant power: The repeated warning not to wake him creates suspense and suggests that Li Tianming has become a force capable of destabilizing the entire battlefield.
• Greed and hubris: He Yue mistakes apparent harmlessness for weakness. His attempt to exploit Li Tianming becomes an example of how ambition blinds characters to danger.
• Pollution and corruption: The chapter continues the contrast between spreading Pollution outward and containing it within oneself. Li Tianming’s fractured consciousness shows the personal cost of choosing to bear the world’s corruption internally.
• Loyalty and vengeance: Li Tianming’s grief over Li Xinjue’s death demonstrates that, despite his frightening transformation, he remains tied to the Li Family and willing to punish those responsible.
• Illusion versus reality: Characters are trapped in illusions, while Li Tianming’s awakening allows him to see through or dominate the spiritual battlefield.

Character Interactions

• Li Tianming confronts and suppresses the many versions of himself, resolving his internal conflict.
• He Yue attempts to exploit the dormant Li Tianming but is warned by Venerable Luo to stop. Their interaction highlights the contrast between reckless greed and fearful insight.
• Li Tianming mentally interrogates He Yue, forcing him to reveal the broader political and military situation across the forbidden zones.
• After learning of Li Xinjue’s death, Li Tianming turns his attention toward the Frost Sea God King and the Northern Immortal Division, signaling the beginning of his revenge.

Chapter Summary: “Can We Go Back?”

Key Plot Points and Events

• After ten years of defending the Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts, Li Tianyi plays his qin atop a bloodstained platform, reflecting on how much he has changed. The youthful energy he once possessed has been replaced by exhaustion and melancholy.
• He enters the Ancestral Space, where the family lineage’s members gather. Once crowded and lively, it is now sparsely populated and filled with people preparing “last letters” before another major battle with the immortals.
• Li Tianyi observes the decline of his family. Many important relatives are dead, missing, or absent, including Li Tianqi, Li Yunbing, and possibly Grandpa. The remaining clansmen are scattered, isolated, and preparing for death.
• He speaks with Li Jianguo, who has remained at the Eternal City Wall and supported the human race rather than joining the others in the Immortal Domain. Li Tianyi stops him from expressing a desire to join the forbidden-zone battlefield, unwilling to see another family member enter certain danger.
• Li Tianyi encounters other descendants, including Li Xinnian, Li Changan, and Li Kuangren. He notices that some have suffered from bloodline Devouring, while others continue to resist corruption and demonic transformation.
• Li Kuangren asks Li Tianyi whether the family can ever “go back” to the way things were. Li Tianyi gives him a faint, uncertain reassurance that they can return someday, though he privately doubts whether there is still a home left to return to.
• Back at the Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts, Li Tianyi receives several powerful enhancements: a Dragon Clan inner core increases his mana, the Pupil Clan patriarch’s eyes grant him soul-piercing vision, and the Thousand Eyes of Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal Shanyangzi give him the ability to observe every movement within an immortal realm.
• Despite these improvements, the immortals have adapted to his methods. They seal and retrieve replicas connected to Li Zhiheng for refinement, while Li Xinjue has already exhausted himself and can no longer help. Li Tianyi is now the final defender.
• His qin, his last remaining treasure, breaks during the battle preparations. Recognizing that his situation is hopeless, Li Tianyi asks Li Zhiheng whether he wants to attempt an escape. Li Zhiheng agrees.
• As the immortals surround them with overwhelming forces, Li Tianyi prepares for a final stand. He reveals the countless eyes implanted across his body and declares that every enemy will be buried alongside him.
• Meanwhile, Li Kuangren discovers Li Tianyi’s “last words,” which humorously ask the family to hide treasures in his coffin so he can rob his own tomb after being revived.

Character Developments

• Li Tianyi: He has become vastly stronger over the past decade but is emotionally worn down by constant battle, isolation, and the loss of his family. His former recklessness has matured into grim responsibility. Even while expecting death, he retains his humor, defiance, and willingness to protect others.
• Li Kuangren: Once a powerful guardian of Qingyun Prefecture, he is now haunted by the destruction of his homeland and the death of Li Yunbing. His question about returning reveals his grief and longing for the family’s former unity. Li Tianyi’s words give him a small amount of hope.
• Li Jianguo: He is shown as dependable and self-sacrificing, having chosen to remain at the Eternal City Wall and support humanity. His restrained ambition suggests both courage and loyalty, but Li Tianyi prevents him from risking his life in the forbidden zone.
• Li Changan: He remains principled and resistant to demonic corruption, contrasting with Li Tianyi’s fall into depravity. Their brief exchange highlights the tension between moral righteousness and survival.
• Li Zhiheng: Despite being trapped and used as the center of the immortals’ strategy, he remains calm and fearless. His willingness to attempt escape with Li Tianyi shows mutual trust and shared resolve.
• Li Tianyi’s wider family: The lineage has become fragmented and diminished. The deaths, disappearances, and corruption of relatives emphasize the cost of the prolonged conflict.

Significant Themes

• Loss and irreversible change: The once-lively family has been reduced to scattered survivors writing final messages. The chapter repeatedly asks whether the past can truly be recovered.
• Endurance and sacrifice: Li Tianyi and his relatives continue fighting despite dwindling resources, exhausted allies, and nearly impossible odds.
• Family and belonging: The Ancestral Space represents a shared home and lineage, but its emptiness shows how war has damaged the family’s sense of unity.
• Hope amid despair: Li Tianyi’s promise that they can return may be unrealistic, but it gives Li Kuangren a reason to keep going. Hope survives even when victory seems impossible.
• Humor as defiance: Li Tianyi’s joke about robbing his own tomb preserves his identity as a grave robber and offers comic relief without diminishing the tragedy.
• Transformation and corruption: The contrast between those who become demons and those who resist reflects the moral compromises forced by survival and war.
• Final resistance: The broken qin symbolizes the loss of Li Tianyi’s last comfort and treasure, while his unveiling of the eyes across his body marks his transition into a terrifying final weapon.

Chapter Summary: “Be Buried with Me!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• After a ten-year siege, the immortals continue surrounding the Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts, Li Tianyi, and the fallen Li Xinjue.
• The Frost Sea God King realizes that Li Zhiheng and the Azure Cloud Li Family may soon flee, since Li Dalong has succeeded in the Purgatory Forbidden Zone and the Divine Heart is no longer needed as bait.
• Though the immortals are exhausted and terrified, their greed—especially the Celestial Emperor’s—drives them to prevent Li Zhiheng’s escape.
• The Celestial Emperor, weakened after losing two heads and two laws, urges an immediate attack. Jiarui claims to have seen an auspicious omen, encouraging the assault.
• Before the immortals can strike, Li Tianyi undergoes a horrifying transformation using his Corpse Stitching Art and the power of the [Finality] Dao Path.
• His body expands into a gigantic, decaying mass composed of countless creatures and conflicting auras: immortal, demonic, Witch Tribe, human, Purgatory, Kunpeng, serpent, and scorpion aspects.
• His corrupted body spreads black rain, rotting tentacles, deathly aura, and a terrifying “Finality World,” trapping the immortals in visions of their deaths.
• The first attacking immortal is instantly overwhelmed by the power of [Finality], and panic spreads through the entire immortal army.
• The Celestial Emperor sees a vision of being torn apart by Li Tianyi. Jiarui mysteriously disappears, leaving Him isolated and terrified.
• Even the Frost Sea God King, the strongest being present, loses composure and flees through the maze of tentacles, unable to distinguish reality from the death-filled illusions.
• Above the Divine Heart, Li Zhiheng watches in shock as the illusion is completely consumed by Li Tianyi’s monstrous form.
• Li Tianyi repeats the childhood memory connected to his transformation before declaring that he will kill every immortal and be buried with them.

Character Developments and Interactions

• Li Tianyi fully embraces his role as the embodiment of death and finality. His transformation reveals the accumulated remains and powers of countless beings, turning him into a grotesque calamity capable of threatening the entire immortal army.
• The Celestial Emperor becomes increasingly desperate and unstable. His losses have damaged both his power and pride, and his dependence on Jiarui collapses when Jiarui vanishes at the moment of crisis.
• Jiarui remains mysterious and possibly deceptive. His claim of an auspicious omen proves false or misleading, and he abandons the Celestial Emperor when danger appears.
• The Frost Sea God King shows unexpected fear and vulnerability. Despite being the strongest figure present, he is psychologically overwhelmed by Li Tianyi’s [Finality] World.
• The immortals shift from arrogant hunters to terrified victims. Their greed prevents them from retreating, even after the siege has exhausted their forces.
• Li Tianyi’s repeated reference to the “younger generation” and “Patriarch Tianyi” evokes his former role as protector and elder of his clan, contrasting sharply with the monstrous figure he has become.

Significant Themes

• Greed versus survival: The immortals recognize the danger but refuse to retreat because they want the Divine Heart and the power they believe victory will bring.
• The inevitability of death: Li Tianyi’s [Finality] represents not merely physical destruction but the certainty of each immortal’s ending. Even the strongest cannot escape the future he embodies.
• The corruption of sacrifice: Li Tianyi’s monstrous form reflects years of suffering, death, and accumulated power, suggesting that protecting his people has transformed him into something barely human.
• Fear destroying authority: The Celestial Emperor and Frost Sea God King possess immense power, but visions of death reduce them to helpless, panicked beings.
• Burial and collective destruction: Li Tianyi’s vow to be “buried with” the immortals turns his own death into a weapon and expresses his determination to make his enemies share his fate.
• Memory and identity: His fragmented childhood recollections continue during the transformation, showing that beneath the corpse-like monster remains the identity of Patriarch Tianyi and the memories of his village.

Important Character Interactions

• The Frost Sea God King warns the immortals that Li Zhiheng may escape, but this warning only intensifies their greed.
• The Celestial Emperor orders the attack despite Jiarui’s doubts and relies on Jiarui’s divination for reassurance.
• Jiarui’s disappearance leaves the Celestial Emperor emotionally abandoned and exposes his dependence on her.
• Li Tianyi’s monstrous advance turns the entire immortal army against itself, as each immortal experiences personal visions of being killed.
• The chapter ends with Li Tianyi addressing the “younger generation” in memory before answering their imagined question with a final declaration: he will kill every immortal and be buried alongside them.

Chapter Summary: “A Chance to Escape”

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• Jiarui flees the center of the battlefield using the Blessing and Calamity, observing the horrifying true form of Li Tianyi after he activates the Corpse Stitching Art.
• Li Tianyi becomes a gigantic, regenerative monster surrounded by rotten tentacles and countless eyes. His two main powers, Finality and Fusion, allow him to overwhelm the battlefield and evade the Immortal Court’s attacks.
• The Immortal Court temporarily traps Li Tianyi with a combined black-hole technique, but he tears himself apart and regenerates, revealing that ordinary attacks and seals cannot stop him.
• Li Tianyi’s power finally targets the Celestial Emperor. Under the influence of Finality, the Emperor becomes unable to escape or resist. Li Tianyi tears into and devours his Immortal Realm, killing him through a slow and brutal process.
• The Frost Sea God King realizes that Li Tianyi’s Corpse Stitching Art allows him to absorb everything he consumes—including Immortal Realms, creatures, and entire worlds—making him stronger with every victim.
• Jiarui exposes the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals’ selfishness and reluctance to fight together. Faced with the threat posed by Li Tianyi and the Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts, the immortals agree that they must temporarily abandon their rivalries and cooperate.
• The Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts, controlled by Li Zhiheng, continues preparing a final trump card. It has accumulated enormous fortune and developed new traits, including Intangibility and an Undying Body, through its power of “Reality and Illusion.”
• The Frost Sea God King recognizes that Li Tianyi and Li Zhiheng are both creating an opportunity for one of them to escape. Li Tianyi deliberately draws the Immortal Court’s attacks toward himself while Li Zhiheng prepares to withdraw with the treasures and fruits stored in the Peach Blossom Immortal Realm.
• Li Zhiheng ultimately shrinks and is absorbed into the Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts, beginning his escape. Li Tianyi remains behind, still fighting and devouring enemies, confirming that his role is to serve as a diversion and secure Li Zhiheng’s survival.

2. Character Developments

• Li Tianyi: Fully unleashes the monstrous power of the Corpse Stitching Art. He becomes nearly impossible to kill and willingly sacrifices himself as a shield for Li Zhiheng and the future of the Azure Cloud Li Family.
• Li Zhiheng: Reveals greater control over the Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts and gains several powerful traits. Though he hesitates to abandon Li Tianyi, he accepts the responsibility of escaping with the family’s resources and preserving their legacy.
• Jiarui: Demonstrates his talent for avoiding danger and accurately analyzing the battle. He also becomes a blunt critic of the Immortal Court, exposing the selfish motives that have prevented the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals from cooperating.
• Celestial Emperor: His earlier confidence collapses when Finality locks onto him. He is brutally killed and absorbed by Li Tianyi, becoming a source of Li Tianyi’s growing strength.
• Frost Sea God King: Acts as the practical leader of the Immortal Court, recognizing that unity is necessary and correctly identifying the Li family members’ escape strategy.

3. Significant Themes

• Sacrifice and survival: Li Tianyi stays behind to create a path of escape for Li Zhiheng, showing that survival may require one person to bear the cost for an entire family or faction.
• Unity against a greater threat: The Immortal Court’s internal rivalries and selfishness nearly doom it. Only the overwhelming danger posed by Li Tianyi forces its members to cooperate.
• Power through absorption: Li Tianyi’s strength comes not solely from his own cultivation but from consuming others and incorporating their Immortal Realms, suggesting that unchecked power grows by turning enemies into resources.
• Legacy and responsibility: Li Zhiheng’s escape with the Peach Blossom Immortal Realm’s fruits represents the preservation of the Azure Cloud Li Family’s future, even at the cost of abandoning Li Tianyi to battle.
• The limits of conventional power: Immortal techniques, formations, seals, and even combined attacks cannot permanently stop Li Tianyi, emphasizing the terrifying nature of his Dao and transformation.

4. Character Interactions

• Jiarui and the Immortal Court: Jiarui taunts the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals for holding back and treating their allies as future rivals. His criticism forces them to confront their selfishness.
• Frost Sea God King and Jiarui: The God King initially dismisses Jiarui’s cowardice but accepts his analysis of Li Tianyi’s growing strength and the need for unified action.
• Li Tianyi and the Celestial Emperor: Their confrontation ends with Li Tianyi overpowering and devouring the Celestial Emperor, turning the former ruler’s Immortal Realm into fuel for his own evolution.
• Li Tianyi and Li Zhiheng: Their actions reveal mutual trust and sacrifice. Li Tianyi deliberately fights and attracts the enemy’s attention, while Li Zhiheng escapes with the family’s surviving resources.
• The Immortal Court and the Li family: The battlefield shifts from a contest between rival factions to a desperate struggle over whether the Li family can preserve even one survivor and maintain a future foothold.

Chapter Summary — As You Wish

Key Plot Points and Events

• The chapter opens by emphasizing that rare beings with the potential to threaten immortals, the Immortal Court, and even the Thirteen Ancient Sages are often eliminated before they can mature. Li Tianyi and Li Zhiheng are identified as such dangerous existences.
• In the Eternal Forbidden Zone, Zishu Lingtian and the Iron Gate Seven remain trapped in an endless battle against a powerful Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal known as Undying. Undying repeatedly kills and revives them, treating the struggle as both entertainment and preparation for its own advancement.
• When the Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts Forbidden Zone erupts with a terrifying, bloody force, Zishu Lingtian realizes that the hidden Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals have revealed their true strength. He asks Undying to release him so he can intervene.
• Undying refuses, revealing its true motives: it deliberately trapped Zishu and the others so that the Azure Cloud Li Family and the invading immortals would weaken one another. It plans to harvest their bodies and use the changing laws of the world to advance itself through the Corpse Stitching Art.
• At the Divine Heart of Heavenly Arts, more than a dozen Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals overwhelm Li Tianyi and Li Zhiheng. Li Tianyi is repeatedly crushed beneath formations and immortal techniques, yet continually rises, determined to kill his enemies and buy Li Zhiheng time to escape.
• The immortals viciously mock Li Tianyi, insulting his appearance, smell, and Corpse Stitching Art in an effort to provoke Li Zhiheng into fighting.
• Li Tianyi deliberately avoids looking at Li Zhiheng, fearing that the younger man will lose control and sacrifice himself.
• Eventually, Li Zhiheng raises his hand while holding the Soul Lamp, freezing the attacks and the surrounding world. Enraged by the immortals’ treatment of Li Tianyi—especially the Frost Sea God King’s provocation—he accepts the challenge and declares, “As you wish.”

Character Developments

• Undying is revealed to be far more ambitious and calculating than it first appeared. Its endless battle with Zishu Lingtian was not merely amusement; it was a deliberate strategy to exploit the conflict and transform itself into an existence capable of defying the Heavenly Dao and other supreme powers.
• Zishu Lingtian demonstrates loyalty and responsibility by trying to leave the forbidden zone to aid his allies. His promise to fight Undying for eternity shows the seriousness of his character, but he is forced to confront the possibility that Undying is a genuine enemy rather than a harmless battle-seeker.
• Li Tianyi displays extraordinary endurance and self-sacrifice. Though brutally suppressed, he repeatedly rises and focuses only on drawing close enough to kill the immortals. His decision not to look at Li Zhiheng shows that he prioritizes the younger man’s survival over his own pride or victory.
• Li Zhiheng undergoes a decisive emotional shift. Initially hesitant, he is pushed past his restraint by the immortals’ humiliation of Li Tianyi. His calm freezing of the battlefield marks the emergence of his overwhelming power and his willingness to confront the enemy directly.

Significant Themes

• Threatening potential and persecution: Exceptional beings are feared and targeted before they can mature, reflecting the oppressive power structure of the immortal world.
• Sacrifice and protection: Li Tianyi endures humiliation and repeated defeat to give Li Zhiheng a chance to survive, while Zishu Lingtian is willing to bind himself to Undying to rescue his companions.
• Ambition and survival: Undying’s philosophy is driven by fear of death and a desire to evolve beyond the limits imposed by immortality.
• Provocation and emotional restraint: The enemy uses mockery to manipulate Li Zhiheng, but their insults ultimately provoke the very confrontation they hoped to control.
• Power beneath apparent weakness: Li Tianyi’s repeated falls conceal his determination, while Li Zhiheng’s small stature and silence conceal catastrophic power.

Character Interactions

• Zishu Lingtian and Undying: Their battle is both physical and ideological. Zishu sees Undying as a dangerous opponent who might be reasoned with, while Undying reveals that it views Zishu and the Azure Cloud Li Family as resources and future threats.
• Li Yundou and the Iron Gate Seven: Li Yundou reacts with desperation as his companions are repeatedly killed and revived, highlighting the cruelty of Undying’s imprisonment.
• Li Tianyi and Li Zhiheng: Their relationship is defined by mutual concern. Li Tianyi suppresses his own desperation to prevent Li Zhiheng from intervening, while Li Zhiheng ultimately acts because of the suffering inflicted on him.
• Li Zhiheng and the Frost Sea God King: The Frost Sea God King intentionally insults Li Tianyi to force Li Zhiheng into combat. Its provocation succeeds, but it may have underestimated the scale of Li Zhiheng’s anger and power.
• The immortals and Li Tianyi: The immortals treat Li Tianyi with contempt and ridicule, turning the battle into psychological warfare. Their mockery becomes the immediate catalyst for Li Zhiheng’s retaliation.