Chapter Summaries

Li Qingshan had the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd restore his ancient spirit pills and derive a new Chaos cultivation art from the scriptures and demonic arts he provided. After a month of work, the exhausted gourd produced a mass of chaotic energy that entered Li Qingshan’s brow.

• Li Qingshan asked the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd to improve twelve bottles of ancient spirit pills, and it restored them to flawless sixth-tier supreme-grade quality.
• Li Qingshan decided his Primordial Five Elements Dao Scripture no longer suited his cultivation and asked the gourd to create a Chaos cultivation art from his collected scriptures and demonic arts.
• The Wish-Fulfilling Gourd analyzed and recombined the cultivation arts, consuming its stores of laws-of-heaven-and-earth origin as Li Qingshan cultivated with the restored pills.
• After a month, the exhausted gourd produced a shifting mass of chaotic energy containing countless Dao patterns, and it sank into the space between Li Qingshan’s brows.

Li Qingshan cultivated the newly derived Chaos Dao Scripture, transforming his spiritual power and expanding his Chaos Grotto-Heaven. After a year, he broke through to the middle stage of the Void Refinement Realm and sensed that his God-Devil Avatar was about to be born.

• The Wish-Fulfilling Gourd weakened after deriving the Chaos Dao Scripture, and Li Qingshan promised to find it more treasures containing laws.
• Li Qingshan began cultivating the scripture and transformed his Five Elements spiritual power into chaos essence.
• Over a year of cultivation, Li Qingshan strengthened his Heavenly Dao Primordial Spirit and physical body while developing his Chaos Grotto-Heaven.
• Li Qingshan completed his spiritual-power transformation, broke through to the middle stage of the Void Refinement Realm, and expanded his Chaos Grotto-Heaven to a radius of ten thousand zhang.
• Li Qingshan sensed that his God-Devil Avatar was about to be born.

Li Qingshan discovered that the God-Devil Avatar was about to hatch and rushed to find a safe place for its birth. He reached the deepest reaches of the Endless Sea, concealed the area with a grand formation, and prepared to bring out the God-Devil Supreme Bone.

• Li Qingshan and Lady Three-Flower saw the God-Devil Dao Fetus cracking, and he fed it his Primordial Spirit source and lifeblood essence while reinforcing their connection.
• Lady Three-Flower warned that the avatar could not be born inside the Heavenly Abyss Secret Realm, so Li Qingshan left Hua Wu and Hua Yu to guard the Ninth Peak and departed.
• Li Qingshan flew into the deepest abyss of the Endless Sea and chose a remote seabed where the terrain could shield the avatar's birth.
• Li Qingshan raised a Sixth-tier Chaos Origin-Returning Grand Formation to conceal and defend a hundred-li stretch of sea.
• Li Qingshan took the heavily cracked God-Devil Supreme Bone from his dantian and placed it before him on the seabed.

Li Qingshan witnessed the God-Devil Avatar emerge from the shattered Dao embryo and devour the shell and Supreme Bone. The avatar rapidly grew to a thousand zhang tall, then swallowed a Late Void Refinement Nine-Headed Giant Kun, leaving the abyss silent as Li Qingshan stared in shock.

• Li Qingshan watched the God-Devil Supreme Bone and Dao embryo split open, revealing a jade-skinned infant with one black eye and one golden eye.
• The infant devoured the eggshell and fragments of the Supreme Bone, absorbing their Chaos Origin.
• Lady Three-Flower warned Li Qingshan to leave the Relic Bone Space, and his Primordial Spirit returned to his body with the infant avatar.
• The God-Devil Avatar rapidly grew to a thousand zhang tall and drained spiritual energy and other forces from the surrounding region.
• Deep-sea beasts gathered around the formation, and the avatar seized and swallowed the Late Void Refinement Nine-Headed Giant Kun.
• The other beasts fled, while Li Qingshan stared at the avatar's terrifying power.

Li Qingshan learned that his newly born God-Devil Avatar could grow by absorbing a star’s core, and sent it to feed on Tianyuan’s Star Origin. As the avatar strengthened and nourished him in return, Li Qingshan prepared to return to the Human Emperor Continent to settle his score with Black Sha Venerable.

• Lady Three-Flower explained the one-star God-Devil Avatar’s strength and warned Li Qingshan not to let it deplete Tianyuan’s Star Origin.
• Li Qingshan telepathically commanded the avatar to travel through the planet toward its core.
• The avatar reached Tianyuan’s core and began absorbing the Star Origin, steadily growing stronger.
• Li Qingshan felt the avatar’s growth nourish his own origins, stabilize his cultivation, and improve his Chaos Grotto-Heaven.
• Li Qingshan recognized the avatar as a powerful trump card that could let him survive even if his true body were slain.
• Li Qingshan decided to return to the Human Emperor Continent and settle his score with Black Sha Venerable.

Li Qingshan asked Xuan Yuan Nihuang to take him back to the Human Emperor Continent so he could return to Eastern Wasteland and settle his blood feud with Black Sha Venerable. He prepared to leave with Hua Wu and Hua Yu, while Nalan Yue stayed behind on Ninth Peak; Su Changge and Han Feng arrived as he was about to depart.

• The Five Elements Ancestor and Xuan Yuan Nihuang told Li Qingshan that the Primordial Devil Continent was stable enough for Xuan Yuan Nihuang to return to the Immortal Kingdom.
• Li Qingshan asked Xuan Yuan Nihuang to take him to the Human Emperor Continent and learned that Black Sha Venerable had escaped wounded after a Patrol Angel confronted him in Eastern Wasteland.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang agreed to take Li Qingshan through the Void Passage, while the Five Elements Ancestor warned him to be careful and promised to meet him in Eastern Wasteland later.
• Li Qingshan told Hua Wu, Hua Yu, and Nalan Yue that he was leaving; Hua Wu and Hua Yu insisted on joining him, but he told Nalan Yue to remain on Ninth Peak and cultivate.
• Li Qingshan and the packed Hua Wu and Hua Yu arrived outside Ninth Peak, where Su Changge and Han Feng came rushing to meet them.

Li Qingshan left the Primordial Devil Continent with Xuan Yuan Nihuang, Hua Wu, and Hua Yu through a passage opened by the Human Emperor Sword. As they traveled toward the Human Emperor Continent, Xuan Yuan Nihuang revealed the threats facing the Great Xia Immortal Kingdom and invited Li Qingshan to visit its capital after settling affairs in the Eastern Wasteland.

• Han Feng and Su Changge came to see Li Qingshan off, and Su Changge promised to challenge him again after advancing to the Void Refinement Realm.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang opened a stable Void Passage with the Human Emperor Sword, and Li Qingshan, Hua Wu, and Hua Yu followed her inside.
• After the travelers departed, Han Feng mourned their departure while Su Changge vowed to grow stronger.
• Li Qingshan asked Xuan Yuan Nihuang about the Great Xia Immortal Kingdom's troubles as they crossed the void.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang explained that the Devil Race had overrun seven continents and that the Seven Star Dao Palace on Yuheng Planet threatened the kingdom.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang revealed that the Old Human Emperor was nearing the end of his life because of an old Dao injury, then invited Li Qingshan to visit the Central Human Emperor Domain.

Li Qingshan returned to the Eastern Wasteland and found the Five Elements Sect reduced to ruins, with demonic traces suggesting the Demon Race had attacked. Seeking answers about the sect’s fate, he confronted Duan Youde in Myriad Treasures Immortal City, who was stunned to recognize how powerful Li Qingshan had become.

• Xuan Yuan Nihuang brought Li Qingshan back to the Eastern Wasteland, then departed for the Immortal Capital after reminding him of their agreement.
• Li Qingshan sensed that the Five Elements Sect was lifeless and traveled there with Hua Wu and Hua Yu.
• Li Qingshan found the sect destroyed, discovered traces of demonic power and Wine Sword Immortal’s aura, and suspected the Demon Race of the Northern Plains.
• Li Qingshan went to Myriad Treasures Immortal City to question Duan Youde about the invasion and the sect’s missing people.
• Duan Youde failed to recognize Li Qingshan until he revealed his face, then reacted in disbelief at his old friend’s immense power.

Li Qingshan learned that the Northern Demon Court had destroyed the Five Elements Sect and traveled to the Heavenly Demon Mountain Range with Hua Wu and Hua Yu. He seized grand preceptor Peng Wuying and began questioning him, leaving the demons stunned and terrified.

• Duan Youde recognized Li Qingshan and explained that Black Sha Venerable had escaped after the Patrol Angel wounded him.
• Duan Youde told Li Qingshan that Peng Wuying led the Northern Demon Court's invasion, defeated Senior Wine Sword Immortal, and brought down the Five Elements Sect.
• Li Qingshan ordered Duan Youde to keep their meeting secret, then left with Hua Wu and Hua Yu for the Northern Plains.
• Li Qingshan and his companions broke through the Northern Demon Court's defenses and confronted Peng Wuying and the Golden Wing Demon Emperor.
• Li Qingshan immobilized Peng Wuying with a single grab and threatened to annihilate his soul if he lied.

Li Qingshan interrogated Peng Wuying about the destruction of the Five Elements Sect and learned that Leng Weiyue had saved Wine Sword Immortal and some disciples. Peng Wuying revealed that Black Sha Venerable had orchestrated the attack and was hiding in Dragon Burial Abyss, so Li Qingshan ordered him to lead the way there.

• Li Qingshan forced Peng Wuying to explain that he had breached the Five Elements Sect three years earlier but had not killed Wine Sword Immortal.
• Peng Wuying described a powerful black-clad woman who drove him away and rescued Wine Sword Immortal and other core disciples.
• Peng Wuying manifested the woman’s image, and Li Qingshan recognized her as Leng Weiyue, who had gained the Demon God's inheritance and reached the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• Peng Wuying admitted that Black Sha Venerable had controlled part of his Primordial Spirit and ordered him to target the Five Elements Sect, especially because of Li Qingshan.
• Peng Wuying revealed that Black Sha Venerable was recovering in an ancient ruin at the bottom of Dragon Burial Abyss, and Li Qingshan ordered him to lead the way.

Li Qingshan brought Peng Wuying to Black Sha Venerable’s hiding place in Dragon Burial Abyss and effortlessly defeated him. As Li Qingshan searched Black Sha Venerable’s soul, he uncovered his schemes and discovered unexpected information.

• Li Qingshan took Peng Wuying and brought Hua Wu and Hua Yu through Dragon Burial Abyss to a hidden spatial gateway.
• Li Qingshan tore open the gateway and confronted the wounded Black Sha Venerable, who offered wealth and secrets in exchange for his life.
• Black Sha Venerable tried to escape with the Heavenly Demon Blood-Burning Great Art, but Li Qingshan froze space and crushed him against the altar.
• Li Qingshan began a soul search, learning that Black Sha Venerable had controlled Peng Wuying and ordered attacks on the Five Elements Sect and Li Qingshan’s companions.
• Li Qingshan’s soul search uncovered an unexpected piece of information.

After extracting Black Sha Venerable’s memories, Li Qingshan discovered a damaged immortal formation concealing the source of the true dragon aura beneath Dragon Burial Abyss. Calico Kitten opened a brief passage through the restriction, and Li Qingshan entered the space beyond.

• Li Qingshan finished refining Black Sha Venerable’s remnant soul, ordered Hua Wu and Hua Yu to guard the entrance, and killed Peng Wuying.
• Li Qingshan found the blood-red restriction beneath the altar and failed to break it with his chaotic power.
• Calico Kitten identified the restriction as a damaged immortal formation sealing an object of utmost yang and ferocity, and sensed dragon aura and deathly resentment beyond it.
• Calico Kitten exploited flaws in the formation to open a temporary passage, and Li Qingshan followed her through.
• Li Qingshan’s Chaos Grotto-Heaven manifested to shield him from the pressure and heat inside the sealed space.

Li Qingshan and Lady Three-Flower explored the remains of a true dragon, where the Calico Kitten devoured a powerful dragon wraith and guided him to valuable treasures. After the Human Emperor Banner advanced by absorbing dragon resentment, Li Qingshan collected the True Dragon Reverse Scale and stored the carcass to later refine its blood essence.

• Li Qingshan discovered a huge, ancient true dragon carcass marked by the corruption of the Devil Race.
• A Body Integration Realm dragon wraith emerged from the skull, but the Calico Kitten swallowed it and grew stronger.
• Li Qingshan found a True Dragon Reverse Scale, and the Calico Kitten identified it as a potential core material for a ninth-tier immortal artifact.
• At the Calico Kitten's suggestion, Li Qingshan released the Human Emperor Banner to absorb the dragon resentment, advancing it to sixth-tier high-grade.
• Li Qingshan stored the reverse scale and put the dragon carcass in the Universe Golden Flame Cauldron to later refine its remaining blood essence.

After learning of a possible ten-thousand-year plan to bring a Demon God to Tianyuan Planet, Li Qingshan resolved to warn the Great Xia Immortal Kingdom. He found the Heavenly Demon Sect’s former mountain gate completely erased and reunited with Venerable Liuli, who had been searching for the vanished sect.

• Li Qingshan learned from Black Sha Venerable’s memories of a rumor that the Eternal Night Devil Palace was preparing for a Demon God’s descent, and Lady Three-Flower advised him to alert the Great Xia Immortal Kingdom.
• Li Qingshan left Dragon Burial Abyss with Hua Wu and Hua Yu and traveled to the Heavenly Demon Sect’s mountain gate.
• Li Qingshan searched the mountain range but found no sign that the Heavenly Demon Sect had ever been there.
• Li Qingshan concealed himself when two Nascent Soul Great Perfection cultivators arrived to investigate the vanished sect.
• The newcomers explained that they believed a starlight Attraction had taken the entire Heavenly Demon Sect three years earlier, and Li Qingshan revealed himself.
• The woman, Venerable Liuli, recognized Li Qingshan, and he greeted her as an old acquaintance.

Li Qingshan reunited with Venerable Liuli and Tie Yuansheng and learned that the Heavenly Demon Sect had vanished amid a strange pillar of starlight three years earlier. Concluding that his old friends had likely been taken to a Starry Sky sacred land, he left the Eastern Wasteland, while Liuli and Tie decided to seek their futures in the Central Human Emperor Domain.

• Venerable Liuli and Tie Yuansheng recognized Li Qingshan and were astonished by how far his cultivation had advanced.
• Venerable Liuli and Tie Yuansheng told Li Qingshan that a pillar of starlight had enveloped the Heavenly Demon Sect’s valley three years earlier, leaving the sect’s mountain gate gone.
• Lady Three-Flower explained that the sect had likely been taken by an ancient Starry Sky inheritance or sacred land rather than ascending to the Immortal Realm, and Li Qingshan inferred his old friends were probably safe there.
• Li Qingshan advised Venerable Liuli and Tie Yuansheng to prepare to travel to the Central Human Emperor Domain, where they might find a chance to reach Spirit Transformation.
• Li Qingshan departed with Hua Wu and Hua Yu, and Venerable Liuli and Tie Yuansheng resolved to leave the Eastern Wasteland for the Human Emperor Domain.

Li Qingshan visited the Spring Autumn Sect to find Ye Lingshuang, only to learn she had left the Eastern Wasteland for the Heavenly Secret Pavilion in the Central Human Emperor Domain. He learned she was safe and still hoped to meet him again, leaving him with a quiet sense of relief and longing.

• Li Qingshan searched the Spring Autumn Sect for Ye Lingshuang but found no trace of her.
• Li Qingshan met the sect's Supreme Elder, Venerable Kurong, who recognized him and was astonished by his return and cultivation.
• Venerable Kurong told Li Qingshan that Ye Lingshuang had formed her Nascent Soul and left for the Heavenly Secret Pavilion after the Patrol Angel recommended her.
• Venerable Kurong relayed Ye Lingshuang's message that she was well and hoped to meet Li Qingshan again in the Human Emperor Domain.
• Li Qingshan thanked Venerable Kurong and said he was relieved to know Ye Lingshuang was well.

Li Qingshan returned to Peach Blossom Village before leaving the Eastern Wasteland and found that two centuries had transformed the village and erased nearly all the people he remembered. He met Li Zheng, a mortal descendant who recognized him from the ancestral portrait, and wondered whether Li Zheng descended from his grandson Li Yun’s younger son.

• Li Qingshan gave Venerable Kurong a fifth-tier Withered Wood Meets Spring Pill and urged him to prepare the Spring Autumn Sect for the Eastern Wasteland’s coming changes.
• Li Qingshan reflected on how his old acquaintances had dispersed and decided to visit Peach Blossom Village before leaving the Eastern Wasteland.
• Li Qingshan saw that Peach Blossom Village had prospered and that his old peach tree had become a revered divine tree with a trace of spiritual awareness.
• Li Qingshan entered his former home, where the elderly Li Zheng recognized him from the portrait enshrined in the ancestral hall and knelt to greet him.
• Li Qingshan recalled Li Yun’s family lines and wondered whether Li Zheng descended from Li Yun’s younger son.

Li Qingshan returned to Peach Blossom Village, found that his great-grandson Li Xuan had a hidden high-grade spirit root, and arranged for him to cultivate under Venerable Kurong. After searching the Coiling Dragon Mountain Range for clues about the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd, Li Qingshan left the Eastern Wasteland with Hua Wu and Hua Yu for the Central Human Emperor Domain.

• Li Qingshan learned from Li Zheng that his son Li Yansong had died peacefully and that the Li Clan had prospered in the mortal world.
• Li Qingshan discovered that Li Zheng's grandson Li Xuan possessed a concealed high-grade spirit root and offered to take him as a cultivator.
• Li Qingshan prepared Li Xuan for cultivation, then entrusted him to Venerable Kurong and the Spring Autumn Sect.
• Li Qingshan said farewell to the Li Clan and left Peach Blossom Village with Hua Wu and Hua Yu.
• Li Qingshan searched the Coiling Dragon Mountain Range for the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd's origin but found no clues.
• Li Qingshan reunited with Hua Wu and Hua Yu and set out for the Central Human Emperor Domain.

Li Qingshan crossed the deadly Meteor Mountain Range with Hua Wu and Hua Yu and entered the far richer Central Human Emperor Domain. After learning how the Great Xia Immortal Kingdom governed the region, he planned to travel to the Heavenly Domain Imperial Capital through Azure Dragon Immortal City, but nearby cultivators’ excited discussion caught his attention.

• Hua Wu pointed out the Meteor Mountain Range, and Hua Yu suggested they use the safer Azure Dragon Heavenly Gate.
• Li Qingshan created a barrier and led Hua Wu and Hua Yu through the astral winds and spatial rifts of the range.
• The three emerged into the Central Human Emperor Domain, where Hua Wu and Hua Yu remarked on its abundant spiritual energy.
• Li Qingshan took the sisters to a nearby city, where they learned about the Great Xia Immortal Kingdom and the four inner and outer domains.
• Li Qingshan agreed to head for Azure Dragon Immortal City and take its teleportation array to the Heavenly Domain Imperial Capital, then heard nearby cultivators discussing something exciting.

Li Qingshan learned that the Azure Dragon Immortal Stele would manifest in seven days and traveled with Hua Wu and Hua Yu to Azure Dragon Immortal City. After settling in, he heard that powerful young prodigies were gathering and that the stele might be connected to an Azure Dragon inheritance, leaving him eager to test its opportunities and the rivals awaiting him.

• Li Qingshan asked cultivators about the Azure Dragon Immortal Stele and learned that eligible cultivators under three hundred could study it and potentially obtain treasures.
• Li Qingshan decided to visit the stele before taking the teleportation array, and he traveled with Hua Wu and Hua Yu to Azure Dragon Immortal City.
• Li Qingshan and his companions entered the immense, prosperous city, concealed their cultivation levels, and found rooms at the Immortal Welcoming Pavilion.
• Li Qingshan listened to inn patrons discuss prodigies from the Inner Four Domains, a possible Azure Dragon inheritance, past rewards, and stricter teleportation-array controls.
• Li Qingshan resolved to see what the stele offered and measure himself against the gathering prodigies.