Chapter Summaries

Ye Liangchen tried to force Li Qingshan to reveal the opportunity he gained from the Azure Dragon Immortal Stele, then challenged him to a life-and-death duel. Li Qingshan accepted the provocation and struck Ye Liangchen down, shattering his protective treasures.

• Ye Liangchen demanded that Li Qingshan disclose his Immortal Stele opportunity and claimed he should share any cultivation art with the Great Xia Immortal Kingdom.
• Long Aotian and Long Aoxue defended Li Qingshan, while Long Lie confirmed that the Kingdom could record a copy of an Immortal Stele cultivation art.
• Li Qingshan said he had obtained no cultivation art, and Ye Liangchen demanded to search his soul before challenging him to the life-and-death arena.
• Li Qingshan rejected the arena as troublesome and said he would grant Ye Liangchen's wish to die.
• Li Qingshan's palm strike immobilized Ye Liangchen, shattered his defensive robe, and cracked his Star Pearl.

Li Qingshan killed Ye Liangchen with one palm, stunning the crowd and establishing that he had hidden overwhelming strength. Ye Xinghe then threatened to avenge his son, and Li Qingshan challenged him to wait at Star Pavilion in the Heaven Domain.

• Li Qingshan pulverized Ye Liangchen's body and spirit with a single palm, killing the young master of Star Pavilion.
• Long Lie judged that Ye Liangchen had provoked Li Qingshan and attempted a soul search, then ruled the killing legitimate self-defense.
• Ye Xinghe's projection appeared from Ye Liangchen's corpse and threatened to kill Li Qingshan for murdering his son.
• Li Qingshan revealed he was from the Eastern Wasteland and told Ye Xinghe he would come to Star Pavilion and kill him.
• Long Lie invited Li Qingshan to a banquet at the Suppression Envoy's residence, and Li Qingshan agreed to attend.

Li Qingshan reassured Hua Wu and Hua Yu that he could withstand Ye Xinghe, then attended a banquet at the Guardian's Residence. Long Lie praised Li Qingshan's deeds and explained the Great Xia Immortal Kingdom's internal divisions and the threat from Yuheng Planet, leaving Li with a clearer picture of the dangers facing the kingdom.

• Li Qingshan told Hua Wu and Hua Yu that his perfected Flood Dragon Transformation made him strong enough to contend with an early Body Integration Realm cultivator, though he still needed to temper his primordial spirit.
• Li Qingshan inspected his perfected Chaos Grotto-Heaven and refined the remaining immortal light through the night.
• Long Lie welcomed Li Qingshan, Hua Wu, and Hua Yu to a banquet, where Long Aotian and Long Aoxue joined them.
• Li Qingshan told Long Lie, Long Aotian, and Long Aoxue that he had fought alongside Xuan Yuan Nihuang and helped destroy the Eternal Night Devil Palace.
• Long Lie described the conflicts between the Crown Prince and Xuan Yuan Nihuang, the ambitions of the outer domains and immortal sects, and the Seven Star Dao Palace's threat from Yuheng Planet.

Li Qingshan agreed to travel with Long Aotian and Long Aoxue to the Heavenly Domain Imperial Capital and enter the Immortal Kingdom Grand Tournament, where he hoped to win a Heavenly Origin Divine Fruit. He also brought Zhao Hongxiu along, and the group arrived at the magnificent capital.

• Long Lie invited Li Qingshan to travel with Long Aotian and Long Aoxue to the imperial capital and told him about the upcoming Immortal Kingdom Grand Tournament.
• Long Aoxue asked about Li Qingshan’s dragon might, and he revealed that he had refined true dragon blood essence and had reached the peak of the Void Refinement Realm.
• Li Qingshan met Zhao Hongxiu at the teleportation hall and offered to protect her on the journey to find her relatives in the imperial capital.
• Li Qingshan, Hua Wu, Hua Yu, Long Aotian, Long Aoxue, and Zhao Hongxiu traveled through the teleportation array to the Heavenly Domain Imperial Capital.
• The group arrived at the capital, where Zhao Hongxiu marveled at its palaces and spiritual energy, and Li Qingshan looked forward to what lay ahead.

Li Qingshan arrived in the Heavenly Domain Imperial Capital, where he learned about the immense power of its protective formation before going to pay his respects at Xuan Yuan Nihuang's residence. Since the Eldest Princess was away cultivating, her steward welcomed Li Qingshan and let him choose an island as his residence.

• Li Qingshan probed the capital's protective formation and suffered a backlash, and Long Aoxue warned him not to use his spiritual sense on its barriers.
• Long Aotian and Long Aoxue departed to visit old friends, while Zhao Hongxiu left to find an inn and wait for her Heavenly Secret Pavilion relatives.
• Li Qingshan and Hua Wu and Hua Yu went to Nihuang Palace, where the guards admitted him as an honored guest.
• Xia Qing told Li Qingshan that Xuan Yuan Nihuang had gone to a secret realm to cultivate and had instructed the household to welcome him.
• Xia Qing showed Li Qingshan the three floating islands inside the residence, and Li Qingshan chose Azure Luan Island as his lodging.

Li Qingshan settled on Azure Luan Island and cultivated his Primordial Spirit while planning to refine the Chaos Heavenly Capital Seal. Xuan Yuan Hao learned of Li Qingshan’s arrival and ordered him watched, while Li Qingshan later received an invitation to meet the imperial capital’s prodigies.

• Xia Qing gave Li Qingshan the restriction token for Azure Luan Island and showed Li Qingshan, Hua Wu, and Hua Yu to their new home.
• Li Qingshan assessed his progress toward the Body Integration Realm and planned to find the remaining materials needed for the Chaos Heavenly Capital Seal.
• A Shadow Guard told Xuan Yuan Hao that Li Qingshan had moved to Azure Luan Island and was a prodigy allied with Xuan Yuan Nihuang.
• Xuan Yuan Hao ordered the Shadow Guard to watch Li Qingshan and increased the Immortal Kingdom Grand Tournament’s rewards by thirty percent.
• Long Aotian and Long Aoxue invited Li Qingshan to the Heavenly Will Restaurant to meet several imperial capital prodigies, and he agreed to go.

Li Qingshan attended a gathering at the Heavenly Will Restaurant with Long Aotian, Long Aoxue, and other young elites of the Imperial Capital. He discussed Ye Liangchen’s death and revealed that he had come to compete for the Heavenly Origin Divine Fruit, while Xu Yunchao warned him about Star Pavilion’s master.

• Long Aotian welcomed Li Qingshan and introduced White Bear, Zhu Yiyi, Tu Xingkong, and Xu Yunchao.
• Li Qingshan clasped hands with White Bear and discovered that his physical strength rivaled that of an ordinary Void Refinement Realm body cultivator.
• White Bear and Tu Xingkong praised Li Qingshan for killing Ye Liangchen, and Xu Yunchao warned that Ye Xinghe might seek revenge.
• Zhu Yiyi asked whether Li Qingshan had come for the Immortal Kingdom Grand Tournament, and he confirmed that he wanted the Heavenly Origin Divine Fruit to aid his breakthrough.
• Tu Xingkong lamented that he had missed the Meteor Secret Realm and doubted he could place in the tournament’s top ten.

Li Qingshan learned how his peers gained breakthroughs and treasures in the Meteor Secret Realm, then met the Heavenly Secret Boy and Liu Qing at a gathering in the imperial capital. The Heavenly Secret Boy praised Li Qingshan’s potential and revealed that Ye Lingshuang was thriving in the Heavenly Secret Pavilion, while Liu Qing ended the chapter by eyeing Hua Wu and Hua Yu.

• Xu Yunchao, White Bear, and Zhu Yiyi described the treasures they found in the Meteor Secret Realm and explained that its Stellar Essence Crystals helped them enter the Void Refinement Realm.
• The Heavenly Secret Boy arrived with Liu Qing, the inheritor of the Heavenly Demon Pavilion, and introduced him to the gathered young geniuses.
• The Heavenly Secret Boy read signs of immense fortune around Li Qingshan and said he had the potential to become an immortal.
• Li Qingshan asked about Ye Lingshuang, and the Heavenly Secret Boy said she was his master's personal disciple and was in seclusion.
• Liu Qing stared at Hua Wu and Hua Yu and asked Li Qingshan whether they were his maidservants.

At a banquet, Li Qingshan refused Liu Qing’s offer to trade a top-grade sixth-rank Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure for Hua Wu and Hua Yu, insisting they were his companions. Liu Qing left with revenge in mind, planning to target them at the Immortal Kingdom Grand Tournament.

• Liu Qing revealed that Hua Wu and Hua Yu’s special constitutions could help him break through and offered Li Qingshan a spirit treasure in exchange for them.
• Li Qingshan refused, declaring that Hua Wu and Hua Yu were his friends and companions, while the other guests condemned Liu Qing’s demand.
• Liu Qing left the banquet after warning Li Qingshan, and the guests cautioned that Liu Qing was ruthless and would hold a grudge.
• On the way back to Nihuang Palace, Li Qingshan reassured Hua Wu and Hua Yu that he would protect them and had no reason to fear Liu Qing.
• Liu Qing secretly watched Li Qingshan’s group leave and vowed to use the Immortal Kingdom Grand Tournament to make Li Qingshan pay for refusing him.

Li Qingshan received Xuan Yuan Nihuang’s urgent request to guard her as she underwent the Tri-Unity Heavenly Tribulation in the Meteor Secret Realm. He repaid her past rescue by traveling to the realm and entering it, where he began searching for her.

• Steward Xia delivered Xuan Yuan Nihuang’s voice transmission asking Li Qingshan to come guard her during her tribulation.
• Li Qingshan agreed, citing his debt to Xuan Yuan Nihuang, and entrusted Hua Wu and Hua Yu to Steward Xia’s care.
• Li Qingshan used Void Shift to travel northeast from the imperial capital to the Meteor Secret Realm’s meteorite.
• Li Qingshan opened the sealed entrance using Xuan Yuan Nihuang’s method and entered the secret realm.

Li Qingshan explored the dangerous Meteor Secret Realm and discovered its ancient Demon Race ruins and powerful beasts. After killing several beasts and feeding their demon cores to Heishan, he continued deeper toward a region marked by auroras and strange crystal-like plants.

• Li Qingshan sensed the realm’s primal energy, dangerous beasts, and ancient Demon Race formations as he followed Xuan Yuan Nihuang’s directions deeper inside.
• A mid-stage Void Refinement crocodilian beast ambushed Li Qingshan, but he killed it with one punch and took its demon core.
• Heishan asked to devour the core, and Li Qingshan gave it to him after learning it could help Heishan advance.
• Li Qingshan killed six more powerful beasts and collected their demon cores, bringing Heishan’s cultivation to the late stage of Void Refinement.
• Heishan said two more Void Refinement demon cores could take him to peak Void Refinement, and Li Qingshan continued hunting as the landscape shifted to multicolored auroras and crystal-like plants.

Li Qingshan defeated a powerful three-eyed rhinoceros in the secret realm, and Heishan absorbed its demon core to break through to the peak of the Void Refinement Realm. He found the badly injured Xuan Yuan Nihuang preparing to face tribulation atop a solitary peak, where he sensed a terrifying aura of heavenly tribulation within the mountain.

• Li Qingshan fought and killed a three-eyed rhinoceros whose strength approached the Body Integration Realm, then took its demon core.
• Heishan devoured the demon core and broke through to the peak of the Void Refinement Realm.
• Li Qingshan continued deeper into the secret realm and found Xuan Yuan Nihuang on a solitary peak amid battle damage and fiend beast corpses.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang told Li Qingshan that guardian fiend beasts had wounded her after she set up a tribulation-crossing formation, and she refused his healing pill because she needed to face the tribulation while gravely injured.
• Li Qingshan sensed a terrifying heavenly tribulation aura coming from inside the mountain beneath the peak.

Xuan Yuan Nihuang explained why she chose the Meteor Secret Realm to undergo her tribulation: she needed to awaken her phoenix bloodline and open a sealed passage to a phoenix relic, while avoiding the Crown Prince’s influence. With Li Qingshan guarding her, she began the Tri-Unity Heavenly Tribulation atop the lone peak.

• Xuan Yuan Nihuang told Li Qingshan that the Crown Prince’s influence made the imperial capital unsafe for her tribulation.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang revealed that the Meteor Secret Realm’s star power resonated with her phoenix bloodline and that a phoenix relic lay beneath the lone peak.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang explained that she needed to undergo tribulation while gravely wounded to trigger phoenix nirvana and strike the seal around a Tribulation Transcendence Heavenly Monarch’s corpse.
• Li Qingshan agreed to protect Xuan Yuan Nihuang and set up warning, defensive, and concealment formations around the mountaintop.
• After a day of preparation, Xuan Yuan Nihuang began the Tri-Unity Heavenly Tribulation, summoning a towering phoenix phantom.

Xuan Yuan Nihuang began her Body Integration breakthrough while Li Qingshan fought the undying battle souls emerging from the solitary peak. She survived the first round of heavenly tribulation, but more than fifty battle souls—including several at the peak of the Void Refinement Realm—had appeared.

• Xuan Yuan Nihuang’s grotto-heaven, flesh, and primordial spirit began to unite, summoning heavenly tribulation clouds and awakening the solitary peak.
• A demon wolf battle soul attacked Xuan Yuan Nihuang, but Li Qingshan scattered it with a punch and used chaos primal energy and the Mysterious Sky Demon-Suppressing Gourd to subdue it for Heishan to devour.
• More than twenty battle souls emerged and charged at Xuan Yuan Nihuang, so Li Qingshan fought them to protect her tribulation.
• Heishan devoured battle souls with the Mysterious Sky Demon-Suppressing Gourd and Human Emperor Banner, growing close to the Body Integration Realm.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang survived the ninth lightning bolt and completed the first round of tribulation as more than fifty battle souls emerged from the peak.

Xuan Yuan Hao and Elder Heavenly Secret arranged an ambush to kill Xuan Yuan Nihuang and Li Qingshan during her tribulation in the Meteor Secret Realm. As the second wave of lightning struck, Xuan Yuan Nihuang fought through the attacks, nearing an awakening of her phoenix bloodline.

• Xuan Yuan Hao questioned Elder Heavenly Secret about killing Xuan Yuan Nihuang, and Elder Heavenly Secret said he had concealed the realm’s heavenly workings and arranged for three Eighteen Star Sea Bandits to ambush her.
• Xuan Yuan Hao agreed to fulfill Elder Heavenly Secret’s request if his sister disappeared, and they watched an image of the tribulation through the Heavenly Secret Disk.
• The second wave of Xuan Yuan Nihuang’s tribulation began as lightning shaped like divine beasts descended upon her.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang fought off the lightning attacks with her Phoenix Dance Sword, burning its essence to destroy the lightning phoenix.
• After the sixth lightning bolt struck, Xuan Yuan Nihuang remained determined and sensed that her phoenix bloodline was close to awakening.

Li Qingshan fought off the undying battle souls while Xuan Yuan Nihuang endured her second heavenly tribulation. As she awakened her phoenix bloodline, a terrifying being stirred beneath the lone peak, leaving both of them facing a new threat.

• Li Qingshan opened his Chaos Grotto-Heaven and used Heishan and the two spirit treasures to suppress and devour the battle souls.
• Heishan reached his limit after absorbing six peak battle souls, so Li Qingshan burned the remaining souls with Great Sun Golden Flame and devoured their essence to strengthen his Heavenly Dao Primordial Spirit.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang faced the ninth lightning strike and summoned her ancestor's soul through Phoenix Nirvana, passing her second heavenly tribulation and awakening her phoenix bloodline.
• The lone peak split apart as its runes exploded, and dark-red demonic energy gathered into a thousand-zhang giant python phantom.

Li Qingshan defeated the Star-Swallowing Demon Python and advanced his Primordial Spirit into the Body Integration Realm, while Heishan also broke through. Xuan Yuan Nihuang began facing the final, law-based heavenly tribulation, with her survival still uncertain.

• Li Qingshan fought the Star-Swallowing Demon Python, exploited its vulnerability to the Great Sun Golden Flame, and devoured its soul essence.
• Li Qingshan's Heavenly Dao Primordial Spirit grew to three zhang and entered the Body Integration Realm.
• Heishan transformed the Mysterious Sky Demon-Suppressing Gourd and broke through to the Body Integration Realm.
• The third heavenly tribulation descended upon Xuan Yuan Nihuang as a purple-gold bolt carrying the laws of heaven and earth.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang faced the tribulation without defenses, while her body, Primordial Spirit, and grotto-heaven began to dissolve and reform through nirvana.

Xuan Yuan Nihuang survived the Tri-Unity Heavenly Tribulation and began transforming into a Body Integration Realm powerhouse, but three assassins arrived to kill her before she could finish. Li Qingshan stood between them and Xuan Yuan Nihuang, and Blood Prison unleashed a law-powered axe strike against him.

• Xuan Yuan Nihuang swallowed the final bolt of purple-gold lightning with her phoenix manifestation and began absorbing the laws of heaven and earth.
• Blood Prison, Ghost Face, and Shadow Kill tore into the Meteor Secret Realm and moved to assassinate Xuan Yuan Nihuang before her transformation stabilized.
• Li Qingshan suspected Xuan Yuan Hao had sent the three assassins and stepped forward to buy Xuan Yuan Nihuang time.
• Blood Prison dismissed Li Qingshan and swung his greataxe, unleashing a blood-baleful law attack that tore through space toward him.

Li Qingshan blocked Blood Prison’s axe strike and repelled Ghost Face’s soul attack with his great sun golden flame. After shielding Xuan Yuan Nihuang with the Golden Flame Heavenly Palace, he faced Blood Prison’s full-strength true law incarnation as six weapons closed in on him.

• Li Qingshan used Dragon Battles the Eight Wilds to block Blood Prison’s axe strike, surprising Blood Prison with his strength.
• Ghost Face unleashed a formation of soul-devouring ghosts, but Li Qingshan burned them away with his great sun golden flame.
• Li Qingshan secretly told Heishan to keep Ghost Face and Shadow Kill occupied while he handled Blood Prison.
• When Ghost Face and Shadow Kill moved to attack Xuan Yuan Nihuang, Li Qingshan summoned the Golden Flame Heavenly Palace to shield her.
• Blood Prison manifested his true law incarnation and attacked Li Qingshan with six blood-red weapons.

Li Qingshan endured Blood Prison’s devastating attack while Heishan fought Ghost Face and Shadow Kill to protect the Golden Flame Heavenly Palace. He then fused his three laws into a Chaos Dragonflame Domain and faced Blood Prison’s stronger assault as its sovereign.

• Li Qingshan used his perfected Flood Dragon Transformation and eightfold dragon strength to stop Blood Prison’s six attacks, though he was badly injured.
• Ghost Face and Shadow Kill attacked the Golden Flame Heavenly Palace’s barrier, while Heishan emerged to defend it with the Human Emperor Banner and battle souls.
• Ghost Face and Shadow Kill countered Heishan, overwhelming his inexperienced defenses as they tried to destroy him and breach the barrier.
• Li Qingshan recovered with his true dragon vitality and provoked Blood Prison, who unleashed his Blood Prison law domain and a stronger six-weapon attack.
• Li Qingshan activated his Great Sun, True Dragon, and Chaos domains and fused them into a three-thousand-foot Chaos Dragonflame Domain.