Chapter Summaries

Li Qingshan shattered the Seven Star Demon-Slaying Grand Formation and the Nine Nether Blood Baleful Grand Formation, then killed Seven Star Patriarch. Beyond Tianyuan Planet, Xuan Yuan Pan defeated Void Immortal Venerable and learned he had been assigned to delay him for one shichen, prompting him to rush back.

• Li Qingshan used the Chaos Heavenly Capital Seal to smash the star phantoms and break the Seven Star Demon-Slaying Grand Formation.
• The Chaos Heavenly Capital Seal absorbed the blood sea and destroyed the Nine Nether Blood Baleful Grand Formation, leaving Blood Demon Immortal Venerable and Seven Star Patriarch defeated.
• Yin-Yang Adept struck Seven Star Patriarch, and Li Qingshan killed him after he warned that the Seven Star Dao Palace's ancestor would seek revenge.
• Xuan Yuan Pan unleashed the Human Emperor Sword's power, struck Void Immortal Venerable out of the void, and forced him to stop blocking the way.
• Void Immortal Venerable revealed that he had only needed to delay Xuan Yuan Pan for one shichen, so Xuan Yuan Pan tore open the void and rushed back.

Li Qingshan defeated Seven Star Patriarch and captured Blood Demon Immortal Venerable and Heavenly Cripple Patriarch, forcing both to submit. After freeing Ye Lingshuang, he embraced her, only to be immobilized by black threads emerging from her body.

• Li Qingshan used the Purple Void Immortal Mansion to prevent Blood Demon Immortal Venerable and Heavenly Cripple Patriarch from escaping.
• Li Qingshan demanded that the two Loose Immortals submit or die, and both surrendered their life-bound Primordial Spirits.
• Li Qingshan gave the two men healing immortal pills and accepted their submission.
• Li Qingshan shattered the starlight barrier and caught Ye Lingshuang as she nearly fell.
• Ye Lingshuang embraced Li Qingshan, and black threads emerged from her body, freezing his mana and immobilizing him.

A being impersonating Ye Lingshuang bound Li Qingshan and abducted him through a rift, revealing herself as an avatar of the Eternal Night Demon Venerable. Xuan Yuan Pan identified the demon’s aura and led Li Qingshan’s allies back to Tianyuan Planet to search for him.

• The being in Ye Lingshuang’s body bound Li Qingshan, severed his links to his treasures, and carried him through a void rift.
• The others at Starfall Wasteland failed to track the rift, while Blood Demon Immortal Venerable feared for his life because Li Qingshan held his Natal Primordial Spirit.
• Xuan Yuan Pan arrived and learned that a monster posing as Ye Lingshuang had taken Li Qingshan.
• Xuan Yuan Pan traced the rift’s residual aura to the Eternal Night Demon Venerable, whom he believed had reached at least the Eight-Tribulation realm.
• Xuan Yuan Pan learned that the gathered Loose Immortals had submitted to Li Qingshan and led them toward Tianyuan Planet to search for him.

Li Qingshan was brought to the Eternal Night Demonic Sect, where he witnessed its women merge into the Eternal Night Demon Venerable. She revealed that Zhou Taoyao, Ye Lingshuang, and Leng Weiyue were her incarnations and that their feelings and choices had been arranged, leaving Li Qingshan shocked and furious.

• Ye Lingshuang brought the immobilized Li Qingshan to the Eternal Night Demonic Sect, where he recognized Zhou Taoyao and Leng Weiyue among its women.
• Ye Lingshuang summoned the women, and they merged into a single figure before Li Qingshan.
• The figure identified herself as the Eternal Night Demon Venerable, a Nine-Tribulation Loose Immortal who had once placed Li Qingshan as a pawn.
• Eternal Night Demon Venerable told Li Qingshan that Zhou Taoyao, Ye Lingshuang, and Leng Weiyue were her incarnations and that she had arranged their feelings and choices.
• Li Qingshan reacted with shock and accused Eternal Night Demon Venerable of plotting against him from the beginning.

Eternal Night Demon Venerable revealed that her incarnations had watched Li Qingshan throughout his life and declared that she intended to refine him into another avatar. As her black light neared his glabella, Li Qingshan's God-Devil Avatar emerged to confront her.

• Eternal Night Demon Venerable explained that Zhou Taoyao, Ye Lingshuang, and Leng Weiyue had become independent people, but their memories and feelings would return to her if she reclaimed them.
• Li Qingshan asked whether Eternal Night Demon Venerable had known about him since Peach Blossom Village, and she denied knowing of him before Zhou Taoyao shattered the mystery of the womb.
• Eternal Night Demon Venerable showed Li Qingshan scenes of his life and revealed that her incarnations had watched him and shared everything they saw and felt.
• Eternal Night Demon Venerable said she needed Li Qingshan as a trump card for her ascent, sensed his sealed God-Devil power, and announced that she would refine him into an avatar.
• Li Qingshan struggled against her Eternal Night Law restraints, but his God-Devil Avatar erupted from within him just before her black light reached his glabella.

Li Qingshan triggered the Immortal Ascension Heavenly Tribulation to escape Eternal Night Demon Venerable’s attempt to refine him into an avatar, then merged with his God-Devil Avatar and endured the first five stages. He overcame the Five Elements Tribulation, while the remaining heavenly tribulations still awaited him.

• Li Qingshan revealed his God-Devil Avatar, but Eternal Night Demon Venerable blasted it back with a palm.
• Li Qingshan summoned the Immortal Ascension Heavenly Tribulation, forcing Eternal Night Demon Venerable to withdraw his binding threads and retreat.
• Li Qingshan merged with his God-Devil Avatar and overcame the Thunderfire and Gale Tribulations, devouring the astral winds to strengthen himself.
• Li Qingshan resisted the Heart Demon Tribulation by recognizing and destroying the illusory figures of Zhou Taoyao, Ye Lingshuang, and Leng Weiyue.
• Li Qingshan swallowed the Golden Lightning Tribulation’s bolts, advancing his body to minor completion of the Heavenly Dragon Transformation.
• Li Qingshan endured the Five Elements Tribulation and overcame its fifth stage.

Li Qingshan endured the final four layers of the Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, completing his Chaos Law and overcoming the Chaos Tribulation. He reached the Mahayana Realm and gained immense power, while Eternal Night Demon Venerable resolved to refine him into an avatar.

• Li Qingshan survived the Void Tribulation and advanced his Chaos Law to one step short of completion.
• During the Time Tribulation, Li Qingshan devoured the power of time and brought his Chaos Law to completion.
• Li Qingshan accepted the karmic threads of his life and incorporated them into his Dao, overcoming the Karmic Tribulation.
• After learning Li Qingshan had survived eight layers, Eternal Night Demon Venerable decided he had to refine him into an avatar.
• Li Qingshan mastered the chaotic energy of the final tribulation and passed the Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, entering the Mahayana Realm.
• The immortal light strengthened Li Qingshan’s body, chaotic immortal power, and Primordial Spirit, while his God-Devil Avatar advanced to Two-Star God-Devil.

Li Qingshan survived the heavenly tribulation, but Eternal Night Demon Venerable trapped him and tried to turn him into an incarnation with the Great Incarnation Immortal Art. Zi Xu Immortal Lord’s hidden immortal Dao will rescued him, and Li Qingshan used the Yin-Yang Chaos Dual Cultivation Art on the incapacitated Eternal Night Demon Venerable to seize his chance to survive.

• Eternal Night Demon Venerable bound Li Qingshan with the Eternal Night Heavenly Net and began eroding his body and Primordial Spirit with the Great Incarnation Immortal Art.
• Zi Xu Immortal Lord’s phantom emerged from Li Qingshan and struck Eternal Night Demon Venerable, severely injuring her and trapping her in a violet cocoon.
• Li Qingshan realized the immortal Dao will would not last and chose to use the Yin-Yang Chaos Dual Cultivation Art while Eternal Night Demon Venerable could not resist.
• Li Qingshan entered the cocoon and joined with Eternal Night Demon Venerable, beginning to devour her cultivation.

Li Qingshan returned after surviving the Ninety-Ninefold Heavenly Tribulation and draining much of Eternal Night Demon Venerable’s cultivation, while she ascended to the Immortal Realm and promised to meet him there. Back at Great Xia’s imperial palace, he arranged for his followers to support Xuan Yuan Pan before the emperor asked him to marry Ni Huang.

• Li Qingshan drained Eternal Night Demon Venerable’s cultivation, then declared their debt settled and let her ascend through the Gate of Immortality.
• Eternal Night Demon Venerable promised to find Li Qingshan in the Immortal Realm, and Li Qingshan left Eternal Night Star to return to Tianyuan Planet.
• Xuan Yuan Pan and the others welcomed Li Qingshan back and learned that he had survived the Ninety-Ninefold Heavenly Tribulation and reached Mahayana.
• Li Qingshan said Eternal Night Demon Venerable had ascended and asked Xuan Yuan Pan to eliminate the remnants of Seven Star Dao Palace.
• Li Qingshan told Blood Demon Immortal Venerable and the other followers to serve Great Xia after his ascension, promising to find a way to bring them to the Immortal Realm.
• Xuan Yuan Pan asked Li Qingshan to marry Ni Huang, leaving Li Qingshan stunned.

Li Qingshan accepted Xuan Yuan Pan’s proposal to marry Xuan Yuan Nihuang before ascending, and Xuan Yuan Pan arranged to pass the throne to her at their wedding. Nihuang completed her heavenly tribulation and, upon seeing Li Qingshan, anxiously asked whether he had been hurt.

• Xuan Yuan Pan urged Li Qingshan to marry Nihuang and leave behind a child before ascending, explaining that she loved him and had worked to grow stronger to help him.
• Li Qingshan agreed to marry Nihuang, and Xuan Yuan Pan planned to transfer the throne to her and hold the wedding in one month.
• A Six-Nine Heavenly Tribulation began at Nihuang’s residence, and Li Qingshan and Xuan Yuan Pan went to watch her face it.
• Nihuang endured all fifty-four thunderbolts and advanced to the early Tribulation Transcendence stage.
• After the tribulation, Nihuang rushed to Li Qingshan and asked whether the Seven Star Patriarch had injured him.

Li Qingshan told Xuan Yuan Nihuang that he had defeated the Seven Star Dao Palace, and Xuan Yuan Pan announced that she would inherit the throne and marry Li Qingshan. Xuan Yuan Pan stripped Xuan Yuan Hao of his Crown Prince title and cultivation, then turned to face Elder Heavenly Secret in the Heavenly Prison.

• Li Qingshan reassured Xuan Yuan Nihuang that the Seven Star Patriarch was dead and the Seven Star Dao Palace had been destroyed, and Xuan Yuan Pan revealed Li Qingshan had reached the Mahayana Realm and subdued several Loose Immortals.
• Xuan Yuan Pan announced that Xuan Yuan Nihuang would become Human Emperor in one month and that her succession ceremony would coincide with her wedding to Li Qingshan.
• Li Qingshan asked Xuan Yuan Nihuang to marry him, and she joyfully accepted.
• In the Heavenly Prison, Xuan Yuan Hao begged Xuan Yuan Pan for mercy, but Xuan Yuan Pan condemned his betrayal of Great Xia and shattered his dantian, stripping him of his cultivation and Crown Prince title.
• Xuan Yuan Pan left Xuan Yuan Hao to live as a mortal in a remote fief, while Li Qingshan turned his attention to Elder Heavenly Secret.

Li Qingshan heard Elder Heavenly Secret's warning about the karmic backlash awaiting him, then attended Xuan Yuan Nihuang's ascension as Human Emperor and married her. Their wedding night ended with Nihuang promising to cultivate and govern Great Xia until she could join him in the Immortal Realm.

• Li Qingshan questioned Elder Heavenly Secret about his alliance with Seven Star Patriarch, and Elder Heavenly Secret explained that he had followed fate and asked Li Qingshan to spare Heavenly Secret Boy and Heavenly Secret Pavilion.
• Li Qingshan agreed to spare Heavenly Secret Boy and warned Elder Heavenly Secret that he deserved to die, but Elder Heavenly Secret cautioned him about terrifying karma tied to chaos, his cultivation art, and his inheritance before dying from Heavenly Secret's backlash.
• Li Qingshan left the heavenly prison and agreed with Xuan Yuan Pan to prepare for his wedding to Xuan Yuan Nihuang.
• Xuan Yuan Pan abdicated and handed the imperial seal to Xuan Yuan Nihuang, making her the sixth-generation Human Emperor of the Great Xia Immortal Kingdom.
• Li Qingshan and Xuan Yuan Nihuang completed their wedding rites before the gathered officials and cultivators.
• On their wedding night, Li Qingshan told Xuan Yuan Nihuang that he would soon ascend to the Immortal Realm, and she promised to govern Great Xia and join him there one day.

On their wedding night, Li Qingshan used the Yin-Yang Chaos Dual Cultivation Art to awaken his and Xuan Yuan Nihuang’s bloodlines and raise her cultivation to the late Tribulation Transcendence Realm. Three months later, while traveling together, Li Qingshan learned that the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd had fused three immortal scriptures into the Chaos Gods and Devils Scripture, a method that could lead to the Immortal King Realm.

• Li Qingshan proposed that he and Xuan Yuan Nihuang practice the Yin-Yang Chaos Dual Cultivation Art, and she agreed.
• Their dragon and phoenix bloodlines resonated and began transforming as they practiced the art together.
• Li Qingshan transferred the Eternal Night Demon Venerable’s stored immortal power to Xuan Yuan Nihuang, helping her break through to the late Tribulation Transcendence Realm.
• Three months later, Xuan Yuan Pan reviewed imperial memorials while Li Qingshan and Xuan Yuan Nihuang traveled through the starry sky.
• Li Qingshan discovered that the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd had fused three immortal scriptures into the Chaos Gods and Devils Scripture, then began cultivating it.

During three peaceful years together, Li Qingshan and Xuan Yuan Nihuang traveled across Tianyuan Planet and the Starry Sky before learning they were expecting a child. Li Qingshan returned to the Spring Autumn Sect and asked the Five Elements Ancestor to guide their future child as he prepared to ascend to the Immortal Realm.

• Li Qingshan and Xuan Yuan Nihuang admired a waterfall, and she told him she was two months pregnant.
• Xuan Yuan Pan celebrated the news with an amnesty, welcomed the couple at the palace, and told Xuan Yuan Nihuang to rest while he handled state affairs.
• Li Qingshan visited the Spring Autumn Sect, then went to the Demon-Extinguishing Alliance to bring the Five Elements Ancestor to the Great Xia Immortal Kingdom.
• Li Qingshan told the Five Elements Ancestor that he had attained the Mahayana Realm and would soon ascend to the Immortal Realm.
• Li Qingshan asked the Five Elements Ancestor to teach his future child, and the Five Elements Ancestor agreed.

Li Qingshan gave treasures to the Five Elements Ancestor and said farewell to Xuan Yuan Nihuang and his companions before ascending through the Gate of Immortality. He arrived in the Immortal Realm determined to establish himself and reunite with Xuan Yuan Nihuang and their child.

• Li Qingshan gave the Five Elements Ancestor pills, magical treasures, and the Golden Wind Cicada as a token of gratitude.
• Li Qingshan and Xuan Yuan Nihuang said goodbye on the Star Gazing Platform, and their unborn child moved when he spoke to it.
• Li Qingshan entrusted his child to the Five Elements Ancestor and told his followers to serve Xuan Yuan Pan until he could bring them to the Immortal Realm.
• Li Qingshan embraced Xuan Yuan Nihuang, stepped through the Gate of Immortality, and left her with Xuan Yuan Pan and their companions.
• Li Qingshan arrived in the Immortal Realm, breathed in its immortal qi, and set out to carve out a place for his family.

Li Qingshan ascended to the Immortal Realm and began absorbing the Ascension Pool’s origin essence while assessing his new True Immortal strength. After learning that officials in Heavenly Sea City treated ascenders as potential soldiers amid a war, he concealed his power and quietly stored the pool’s essence.

• Li Qingshan awakened in the Ascension Pool, discovered he had become an early-stage True Immortal, and assessed the strength of his body and abilities.
• Li Qingshan noticed Tantai Yue and Xiao Yi watching the ascenders with twenty peak True Immortal guards behind them.
• Tantai Yue and Xiao Yi discussed whether any ascender could endure twelve hours in the pool and noted that their city needed new soldiers for the war.
• Li Qingshan learned that the Great Qian Immortal Kingdom was pressed by war and resolved to keep a low profile.
• Li Qingshan suppressed the Chaos Gods and Devils Scripture’s devouring power and quietly absorbed and stored the pool’s origin essence.

Li Qingshan left the Ascension Pool after secretly storing enough origin to break through several stages, then learned that the Great Qian Immortal Kingdom required new ascenders to serve through mining, military service, or immortal arts. As the ascenders faced their choices, Lei Zhan warned Li Qingshan and Yun Ping'er that fighting could be fatal.

• Li Qingshan continued absorbing origin after most ascenders left, while Lei Zhan nearly broke through and Yun Ping'er reached the middle stage of True Immortal.
• Li Qingshan sealed the origin he had absorbed, left the pool with his cultivation appearing to be at the peak of the early stage of True Immortal, and greeted Lei Zhan and Yun Ping'er.
• Tantai Yue told the ascenders they had become citizens of the Great Qian Immortal Kingdom and could mine for five hundred years, fight for fifty years, or serve for one hundred years through immortal arts.
• An old ascender questioned the restrictions, but a black-armored warrior released a peak True Immortal aura and silenced him.
• Lei Zhan privately introduced himself to Li Qingshan and advised him and Yun Ping'er to choose mining, warning that newly ascended soldiers risked dying in battle.

Li Qingshan, Yun Ping'er, and a white-haired old man claimed artisan skills instead of choosing mining or battle, risking the deathsworn camp if they failed their assessments. After reaching Heavenly Sea City, the three followed Tantai Yue into the City Lord's Mansion for testing, while the other ascenders went to register for assignments.

• Lei Zhan chose mining, while Yun Ping'er claimed she could refine low-grade immortal talismans and Li Qingshan claimed he could refine low-grade immortal pills.
• More than thirty ascenders chose mining, more than ten chose battle, and only Li Qingshan, Yun Ping'er, and a white-haired old man chose artisan work.
• Tantai Yue led the ascenders to Heavenly Sea City, where Li Qingshan observed the city's powerful environment, bustling streets, and costly immortal goods.
• At the City Lord's Mansion, Tantai Yue took the three artisan candidates inside for assessment and sent Xiao Yi to register the others.

Li Qingshan followed Tantai Yue to the Alchemy Pavilion, where Master Deng agreed to test his ability to refine immortal pills. After hearing about Tantai Yue’s stalled breakthrough and the lost Nine-Orifice Immortal Pill, Li Qingshan recognized a possible opportunity, then faced a three-batch test to refine a Pure Yang Immortal Pill.

• Tantai Yue brought Li Qingshan to the Alchemy Pavilion and introduced him to Master Deng, a powerful Profound Immortal.
• Master Deng discussed Tantai Yue’s three-hundred-year stagnation at the peak of the Heavenly Immortal realm and her hope of advancing before the Immortal Sect selection.
• Li Qingshan recalled that the Purple Void Alchemy Scripture contained the formula for the lost Nine-Orifice Immortal Pill.
• Tantai Yue left Li Qingshan with Master Deng while she took Yun Ping'er and the old man to the Talisman Hall and Formation Hall.
• Li Qingshan told Master Deng that he specialized in refining Pure Yang Immortal Pills, and Master Deng provided enough ingredients for three attempts at the test.

Li Qingshan refined superior Pure Yang Immortal Pills, earned a place as the Alchemy Pavilion’s seventy-third alchemist, and settled into his new lodgings in Heavenly Sea City. He planned to strengthen himself gradually without drawing attention to the immortal dao origin essence he had stored.

• Li Qingshan used basic alchemy techniques to refine twelve superior Pure Yang Immortal Pills, one of which bore a faint pill marking.
• Master Deng questioned Li Qingshan about his methods, then appointed him the Alchemy Pavilion’s seventy-third alchemist with a monthly quota of one hundred pills.
• Master Deng gave Li Qingshan an identity token that let him collect ingredients and move freely through Heavenly Sea City.
• A gray-robed boy led Li Qingshan to his courtyard, where he settled into his new lodgings.
• Li Qingshan decided to advance his cultivation gradually while completing his assignments so he would not attract suspicion.