Chapter Summaries

Su Muyue defeated Zhu Yiyi, while Liu Qing revealed his peak Void Refinement Realm cultivation and crushed Zhang Ruichen, provoking Li Qingshan. The fifth round ended with Li Qingshan, Heavenly Secret Boy, Liu Qing, and Su Muyue advancing to the final four.

• Su Muyue overcame Zhu Yiyi's Vermilion Bird flames with her swordsmanship and won their battle.
• Liu Qing revealed his peak Void Refinement Realm cultivation and fought Zhang Ruichen using his Nine Nether Demon Body.
• Liu Qing tore apart Zhang Ruichen's Mysterious Yellow Demon-Suppressing Seal, wounded him severely, and knocked him unconscious.
• Liu Qing provoked Li Qingshan, who assessed his strength and resolved to defeat him in the arena.
• Li Qingshan, Heavenly Secret Boy, Liu Qing, and Su Muyue advanced as the final four.

The semifinals began, and Li Qingshan defeated Su Muyue with a single punch after she unleashed Nine Heavens Starfall. Liu Qing then overwhelmed Heavenly Secret Boy, who conceded, setting up a final between Li Qingshan and Liu Qing.

• The Primordial Lottery Sphere matched Li Qingshan against Su Muyue and Liu Qing against Heavenly Secret Boy in the semifinals.
• Su Muyue unleashed Nine Heavens Sword Canon—Nine Heavens Starfall, but Li Qingshan shattered her attack with one punch and defeated her.
• Su Muyue accepted her defeat, thanked Li Qingshan for his instruction, and left the arena injured but dignified.
• Liu Qing attacked Heavenly Secret Boy with demonic claws, while Heavenly Secret Boy used heavenly secret arts and footwork to evade him.
• Seeing himself unable to counter Liu Qing's sustained pressure, Heavenly Secret Boy conceded the match.

Heavenly Secret Boy conceded to Liu Qing, setting up the Immortal Kingdom Grand Tournament final between Liu Qing and Li Qingshan on the Ancient Battle Platform. Liu Qing provoked Li Qingshan by threatening his companions, then used the moment of anger to unleash his Nine Nether Yellow Springs Law Domain.

• Heavenly Secret Boy admitted defeat to Liu Qing and told Elder Heavenly Secret that Liu Qing was too dangerous to challenge.
• Li Qingshan and Liu Qing advanced to the championship match as the spectators and factions watched with anticipation and hostility.
• Xuan Yuan Hao and Ye Xinghe hoped Liu Qing would kill Li Qingshan, while Xuan Yuan Nihuang remained confident in Li Qingshan.
• The ten arenas merged into the Ancient Battle Platform, and Li Qingshan and Liu Qing entered its world to begin their final battle.
• Liu Qing threatened Hua Wu, Hua Yu, and Ye Lingshuang to provoke Li Qingshan, then opened his Nine Nether Yellow Springs Law Domain and began draining Li Qingshan’s vitality.

Li Qingshan fought Liu Qing’s blood-shadow clones and overcame the Soul-Dispelling Nail, but Liu Qing then unleashed Yellow Springs True Water. As the deadly attack began piercing Li Qingshan’s defenses, he fused his Chaos, Great Sun, and True Dragon laws into a triple-layered domain, turning the battle’s momentum.

• Li Qingshan’s Chaos Domain withstood Liu Qing’s Nine Nether Yellow Springs Domain, and Li Qingshan identified Liu Qing’s true body among nine blood-shadow forms.
• Li Qingshan endured the eight clones’ attacks, burned away Liu Qing’s Soul-Dispelling Nail with Great Sun Golden Flame, and used his Chaos Grotto-Heaven to suppress the nine figures.
• Heishan wielded the Human Emperor Banner to absorb one blood-shadow clone, while Liu Qing destroyed seven others to escape its pull and weaken the banner.
• Liu Qing revealed Yellow Springs True Water and sent it against Li Qingshan, whose Chaos and Great Sun defenses struggled to contain its corrosive power.
• Li Qingshan fused his Chaos, Great Sun, and True Dragon laws into a triple-layered domain, stunning the spectators.

Li Qingshan defeated Liu Qing, revealed as the reborn Nine Nether Devil Lord, and destroyed him in the Immortal Kingdom Grand Tournament. With Liu Qing dead and his soul erased, Li Qingshan was declared the tournament champion.

• Li Qingshan used Chaos Opens Heaven to destroy Liu Qing's Yellow Springs True Water and overwhelm his domain.
• Liu Qing revealed himself as the Nine Nether Devil Lord and used the Nine Nether Yellow Springs Map to block Li Qingshan's attack.
• Li Qingshan summoned the Golden Flame Heavenly Palace to suppress the map, while Heishan bound Liu Qing with the Mysterious Sky Demon-Suppressing Divine Light and Human Emperor Banner.
• Liu Qing begged Xuan Yuan Hao to intervene, but Xuan Yuan Hao stayed still rather than violate the tournament rules.
• Li Qingshan smashed Liu Qing's head and burned his body and the Nine Nether Devil Lord's soul with Great Sun Golden Flame.
• The crowd celebrated Li Qingshan's victory, and the Immortal Kingdom Grand Tournament champion was decided.

Li Qingshan won the final battle of the Immortal Kingdom Grand Tournament by killing Liu Qing, who had been possessed by the Nine Nether Devil Lord. Xuan Yuan Nihuang declared him champion and bestowed the Crown of Providence, while Ye Xinghe and Xuan Yuan Hao grew more determined to eliminate him.

• Li Qingshan's victory over the Nine Nether Devil Lord stunned the Ascension Platform, and Long Aoxue, Long Aotian, Ye Lingshuang, and the others celebrated.
• Ye Xinghe feared Li Qingshan after recalling his son's death and his own role in conspiring against him, then resolved to kill him before he grew stronger.
• Xuan Yuan Hao concealed his anger over the Nine Nether Devil Lord's death and resolved to obtain Li Qingshan's secrets or destroy him.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang announced Li Qingshan as the Immortal Kingdom Grand Tournament champion.
• The Crown of Providence descended upon Li Qingshan and merged into him, granting him the favor of Great Xia's national fortune for a hundred years.

Xuan Yuan Hao awarded Li Qingshan the Heavenly Origin Divine Fruit after the tournament, and Xuan Yuan Nihuang led the top ten to the Immortal Kingdom Treasury to choose their rewards. As Li Qingshan entered first, Nihuang told him that the fifth floor held the Myriad Star Yin-Yang Sha Qi he needed for his natal magic treasure.

• Xuan Yuan Hao presented Li Qingshan with the Heavenly Origin Divine Fruit, concealing his resentment behind a warm smile.
• Li Qingshan recovered Liu Qing’s storage ring and the damaged Nine Nether Yellow Springs Map from the scorched arena before rejoining his companions.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang announced the tournament’s top ten and their rewards, including a three-day Luck Pool baptism and one treasure from the treasury.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang and Xuan Yuan Hao led the top ten through the imperial capital to the Immortal Kingdom Treasury and explained its rules.
• As Li Qingshan entered the treasury first, Xuan Yuan Nihuang secretly told him that the fifth floor contained the Myriad Star Yin-Yang Sha Qi he had been seeking.

Li Qingshan entered the Immortal Kingdom Treasury and found the Myriad Star Yin-Yang Sha Qi, completing the main materials for his lifebound magical treasure. After the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd sensed immortal artifact fragments guarded by two powerful consciousnesses, he restrained himself and left, planning to break through to the body integration realm before settling his affairs.

• Li Qingshan followed Xuan Yuan Nihuang’s guidance through the treasury’s first four floors and reached the fifth floor, where the treasures were far rarer and more powerful.
• Li Qingshan found the Myriad Star Yin-Yang Sha Qi and used his identity token to claim its crystal sphere.
• The Wish-Fulfilling Gourd stirred toward damaged immortal artifacts, but two overwhelming consciousnesses warned Li Qingshan not to take anything beyond the treasury’s rules.
• Li Qingshan left the treasury and told Xuan Yuan Nihuang that he had made his choice, while Su Muyue entered next.
• Li Qingshan planned to find a secluded place to consume the Heavenly Origin Divine Fruit, undergo the tri-unity heavenly tribulation, and break through before refining his lifebound magical treasure.

Li Qingshan refused Xuan Yuan Hao’s attempt to recruit him and reaffirmed his loyalty to Xuan Yuan Nihuang. He agreed to break through to the Body Integration Realm at Qihuang Peak under her protection.

• Xuan Yuan Hao invited Li Qingshan to a celebratory banquet and offered to discuss cultivation, but Li Qingshan declined and left with Xuan Yuan Nihuang’s party.
• After Li Qingshan departed, Xuan Yuan Hao abandoned his plan to recruit him and resolved to kill him for siding with Xuan Yuan Nihuang.
• At Nihuang Palace, Xuan Yuan Nihuang asked Li Qingshan whether he regretted refusing the Crown Prince, and he explained that he remembered her support and had no intention of changing sides.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang promised to protect Li Qingshan and offered Qihuang Peak as a secure place for his breakthrough.
• Li Qingshan accepted her offer and prepared to refine the Heavenly Origin Divine Fruit and face the Tri-Unity Heavenly Tribulation at Qihuang Peak.

Li Qingshan consumed the Heavenly Origin Divine Fruit and began his breakthrough into the Body Integration Realm under Xuan Yuan Nihuang’s protection. His Tri-Unity Heavenly Tribulation shook the imperial capital, leaving Xuan Yuan Hao and Ye Xinghe hoping he would fail while Elder Heavenly Secret questioned his earlier choice to support the Crown Prince.

• Xuan Yuan Nihuang established three layered seventh-tier arrays around Qihuang Peak to protect Li Qingshan’s breakthrough.
• Li Qingshan ate the Heavenly Origin Divine Fruit, which drew his Primordial Spirit, body, and Chaos Grotto-Heaven into resonance.
• Li Qingshan released his full cultivation aura, triggering an unusually powerful Tri-Unity Heavenly Tribulation.
• Cultivators across the imperial capital recognized Li Qingshan’s tribulation, while Xuan Yuan Hao chose not to interfere and hoped the heavens would kill him.
• Ye Xinghe feared Li Qingshan would become powerful enough to threaten him, but the arrays and Xuan Yuan Nihuang’s protection prevented him from acting.
• Heavenly Secret Boy said he had sensed danger in opposing Li Qingshan, and Elder Heavenly Secret privately wondered whether supporting the Crown Prince had been a mistake.

Li Qingshan completed the initial fusion of his Primordial Spirit, body, and Chaos Grotto-Heaven, then faced the Tri-Unity Heavenly Tribulation. He endured its first two trials by taking the heavenly lightning directly, while the clouds gathered power for an even more terrifying third tribulation.

• Li Qingshan completed the fusion of his Primordial Spirit, physical body, and grotto-heaven with the Heavenly Origin Divine Fruit's help.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang reinforced the formation as the first trial sent nine bolts of Purple Mansion Divine Lightning at Li Qingshan.
• Li Qingshan endured the lightning without dodging or using treasures, allowing it to temper his Primordial Spirit and body.
• The second trial struck with nine crimson bolts of karmic flame, which Li Qingshan absorbed to strengthen his spiritual power and Chaos Grotto-Heaven.
• The tribulation clouds turned chaotic gray and revealed phantoms of earth, water, fire, and wind as a destructive will descended.

Li Qingshan survived the final bolt of his Tri-Unity Heavenly Tribulation by devouring it, completing his laws of chaos and fusing his body, Primordial Spirit, and Chaos Grotto-Heaven. He broke through to the Integrated Body Middle Stage, leaving the spectators stunned.

• Li Qingshan used his Chaos Domain and other powers to withstand the first eight bolts of destructive heavenly lightning while deepening his understanding of chaos.
• Li Qingshan swallowed the final Return-to-Ruin Beam with the Great Devouring Immortal Art as the Heavenly Origin Divine Fruit's remaining power protected him.
• Li Qingshan completed his understanding of the laws of chaos and fused his Chaos Grotto-Heaven with his body and Primordial Spirit, creating a Chaos Dharma Domain.
• Li Qingshan broke through the Body Integration Realm and rose to the Integrated Body Middle Stage before his aura scattered the remaining tribulation clouds.
• Xuan Yuan Hao and Ye Xinghe were left shaken, while Xuan Yuan Nihuang, Long Aotian, Ye Lingshuang, and the others celebrated Li Qingshan's breakthrough.

Li Qingshan completed his tribulation, reached the Integrated Body Middle Stage, and astonished cultivators throughout the imperial capital. As Xuan Yuan Nihuang congratulated him, her father sent a message asking to see him.

• Li Qingshan absorbed the final bolt of the Chaos Tribulation and stabilized his breakthrough to the Integrated Body Middle Stage.
• Cultivators across the capital feared Li Qingshan's power, while Xuan Yuan Hao ordered the Shadow Guards to watch him and summoned the Imperial Preceptor.
• Ye Xinghe panicked over Li Qingshan's strength and resolved to find a way to kill him.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang recognized that Li Qingshan might surpass her in strength without the Human Emperor Sword.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang received her father's message asking her to bring Li Qingshan to see him, then congratulated Li Qingshan and received his thanks for her protection.

After surviving his tribulation, Li Qingshan accepted Xuan Yuan Nihuang’s invitation to meet the Human Emperor, Xuan Yuan Pan, in the imperial forbidden grounds. He entered a hidden secret realm with her, where the sight atop a Cyan Jade Altar shocked him.

• Xuan Yuan Nihuang told Li Qingshan that her father, the Human Emperor, had summoned him, and Li agreed to go with her.
• Xuan Yuan Hao learned that Li Qingshan and Xuan Yuan Nihuang were heading to the forbidden grounds, feared the Human Emperor might support Li, and ordered that Li’s background be investigated before deciding to wait.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang and Li Qingshan reached the Bronze Giant Gate, where Third Grand-Uncle praised Li’s foundation and Seventh Grand-Uncle opened the gate.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang and Li Qingshan passed through a spatial vortex into a secret realm and approached the Cyan Jade Altar.
• Li Qingshan saw what stood atop the altar, and his pupils contracted in shock.

Li Qingshan and Xuan Yuan Nihuang met the bound Human Emperor, Xuan Yuan Pan, and learned that the Eternal Night Empress had infected him with the Eternal Night Law a thousand years earlier. Xuan Yuan Pan explained that only a True Immortal’s power or his own ascension could free him, leaving his fate unresolved.

• Li Qingshan saw Xuan Yuan Pan bound to an altar by thirty-six immortal chains, with immortal and demonic forces dividing his body.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang and Li Qingshan paid their respects as Xuan Yuan Pan awoke and praised Li Qingshan for surviving his tribulation and advancing to the Integrated Body Middle Stage.
• Li Qingshan asked about Xuan Yuan Pan’s condition and whether it stemmed from his battle with the Eternal Night Devil Palace.
• Xuan Yuan Pan revealed that the Eternal Night Empress had planted her Eternal Night Law and demonic thought in him during their battle a thousand years ago.
• Xuan Yuan Pan said he could be freed if a True Immortal intervened or if he survived the Immortal Ascension Tribulation and became a True Immortal.

Li Qingshan met the Human Emperor, who revealed that becoming a loose immortal might offer a path to survival but said the time was not yet right. He rewarded Li Qingshan for protecting Xuan Yuan Nihuang, then warned him about trouble at the Outer Realm Battlefield before sending him with Nihuang to the Immortal Kingdom Treasury.

• Li Qingshan suggested that the Human Emperor might survive by becoming a loose immortal, but the Human Emperor said the time was not yet right.
• The Human Emperor thanked Li Qingshan for protecting Xuan Yuan Nihuang and offered to grant him one request.
• Li Qingshan asked for the broken immortal-artifact fragments in the Immortal Kingdom Treasury to help forge his life-bound treasure.
• The Human Emperor granted Li Qingshan all ownerless fragments and permission to choose one treasure from the treasury's first nine levels.
• The Human Emperor warned Li Qingshan that the Seven Star Dao Palace was making moves at the Outer Realm Battlefield, where Xuan Yuan Nihuang would soon take command.
• The Human Emperor fell asleep again, and Xuan Yuan Nihuang led Li Qingshan toward the Immortal Kingdom Treasury.

Li Qingshan and Xuan Yuan Nihuang searched the Immortal Kingdom Treasury for damaged immortal artifact fragments that the emperor had allowed him to take. After collecting the fifth floor’s fragments, Li Qingshan began gathering the much larger trove on the sixth floor, whose fragments were reviving the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd.

• The Third and Seventh Grand-Uncles let Li Qingshan and Xuan Yuan Nihuang enter the treasury for three hours to take all damaged immortal artifact fragments and one other item.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang led Li Qingshan through the lower floors to the fifth, where he collected a dozen fragments, including space, phoenix, and dragon relics.
• The Wish-Fulfilling Gourd sent Li Qingshan waves of growing delight as he stored the fragments in his Chaos Grotto-Heaven.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang explained that the royal family had amassed the fragments over generations and through battles and expeditions.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang opened the sixth-floor barriers, and Li Qingshan stored all the fragments piled in the opened areas in his Chaos Grotto-Heaven.

Li Qingshan collected nearly three hundred Immortal Artifact fragments and explored the Great Xia Immortal Kingdom Treasury with Xuan Yuan Nihuang to choose a reward. They reached the ninth floor, where he saw the Human Emperor Sword, the Immortal Artifact that safeguarded the nation.

• Li Qingshan collected the remaining Immortal Artifact fragments from the seventh-floor treasury with Xuan Yuan Nihuang's help.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang offered Li Qingshan his choice of any treasure, and he asked to see the upper floors before deciding.
• Li Qingshan and Xuan Yuan Nihuang explored the eighth floor, which held rare quasi-immortal artifacts, scriptures, immortal stones, and sacred medicines.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang used an archaic bronze key to open a starlight staircase leading to the ninth floor.
• Li Qingshan and Xuan Yuan Nihuang entered a plain stone chamber and saw the Human Emperor Sword floating at its center.

Li Qingshan chose a mysterious bronze seal from the imperial treasury after Lady Three-Flower and the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd reacted strongly to it. The seal responded faintly to primordial chaos, and Li Qingshan left the treasury eager to learn its secrets.

• Lady Three-Flower urged Li Qingshan to take the cracked, verdigris-covered seal from a niche on the ninth floor.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang explained that the imperial family had found the seal in an ancient ruin and that generations of rulers had failed to uncover its secrets.
• Li Qingshan chose the seal despite Xuan Yuan Nihuang's warning that it might be useless.
• When Li Qingshan touched the seal, the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd sent primordial chaos into it, making a hairline crack briefly glow.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang reported Li Qingshan's choice to the Third Grand-Uncle, who recorded it and warned Li Qingshan to bear whatever fate came with the seal.
• Li Qingshan left the treasury with the seal, wondering what it was and how it was connected to the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd.

Li Qingshan prepared to forge his natal Chaos Heavenly Capital Seal, but Lady Three-Flower identified an ancient seal as a damaged replica of one of Buddhism’s supreme dharma seals. She advised him to use the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd to extract its Vajra Relic and fuse it into his treasure; the chapter left him placing the seal inside the gourd.

• Li Qingshan told Xuan Yuan Nihuang he would enter seclusion, and she reminded him to claim his three days in the Imperial Dynasty Luck Pool after his treasure was complete.
• Xuan Yuan Nihuang arranged for Hua Wu and Hua Yu to guard Li Qingshan while he prepared rare materials for forging the Chaos Heavenly Capital Seal.
• Li Qingshan asked Lady Three-Flower about the corroded ancient seal, and she identified it as a damaged replica of the Immortal Realm’s Vajra Seal.
• Lady Three-Flower explained that the replica likely contained a Vajra Relic and urged Li Qingshan to extract it with the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd and add it to his natal treasure.
• Li Qingshan summoned the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd and dropped the Vajra Seal into its mouth.