Chapter Summaries

Li Qingshan used the origin from the Ascension Pool to rise to peak True Immortal, then concealed his cultivation and returned to the Alchemy Pavilion. He learned that the Northern Nether Demon Kingdom was advancing toward Heavenly Sea City and collected ingredients for his first month of alchemy work.

• Li Qingshan sealed his cultivation chamber and entered the Purple Void Immortal Mansion to refine the stored immortal dao source.
• Li Qingshan broke through from early-stage True Immortal to peak True Immortal in less than an hour, then used Chaos Shrouds Heaven to conceal his cultivation at middle-stage True Immortal.
• Li Qingshan left his courtyard and learned from a passerby that the Northern Nether Demon Kingdom had breached three lines of defense and was nearing Heavenly Sea City.
• Li Qingshan went to the Alchemy Pavilion and collected ingredients for sixty batches of Pure Yang Immortal Pills, with instructions to submit one hundred pills within a month.

Li Qingshan used the Chaos Star Fire-Control Art to refine seven hundred and twenty Pure Yang Immortal Pills, then consumed one hundred to strengthen his immortal mana. He remained at the peak of True Immortality, with a foundation far beyond an ordinary True Immortal’s, having condensed 108,000 chaos golden pearls.

• Li Qingshan set up restrictions and used the Chaos Star Fire-Control Art to refine sixty sets of ingredients at once.
• After two days, Li Qingshan produced 720 Pure Yang Immortal Pills, all marked with pill patterns, and stored them away.
• Li Qingshan kept 620 pills for himself after setting aside the 100 required for his monthly mission.
• Li Qingshan consumed 100 pills over three days, strengthening his immortal mana without advancing his cultivation realm.
• Li Qingshan recognized that he had reached the limit of the True Immortal peak and had condensed 108,000 chaos golden pearls, far beyond the ordinary limit of 10,000.

Li Qingshan cultivated three powerful immortal arts and restored several treasures while keeping his strength concealed. After half a year, he turned in his required pills at the Alchemy Pavilion, where the steward praised their quality.

• Li Qingshan decided to delay his breakthrough to Heavenly Immortal and began cultivating the Gods and Devils Hand, Chaos Grand Shift, and Primordial Golden Bell.
• After several months, Li Qingshan reached major mastery in all three arts, gaining powerful attack, escape, and defense techniques.
• Li Qingshan restored the Chaos Ancient Cauldron and Thunder Prison Blade, strengthened his Chaos Heavenly Capital Seal, and resolved to keep the Chaos Gourd and God-Devil Avatar hidden.
• Li Qingshan delivered one hundred Pure Yang Immortal Pills to the Alchemy Pavilion, and the steward praised their quality and suggested he could soon advance to second-grade immortal alchemist.
• Li Qingshan declined to exchange extra pills for merit points, saying he had only completed his quota.

Li Qingshan saw the Northern Nether Demon Kingdom’s overwhelming army reach Heavenly Sea City and prepared for the city’s possible fall. The city lord ordered a desperate defense, and Li Qingshan was assigned to the west gate barracks to refine pills for the troops.

• Li Qingshan saw the Northern Nether Demon Kingdom’s army arrive, led by a Golden Immortal and four Profound Immortals.
• Li Qingshan packed his supplies, strengthened his God-Devil Avatar, and planned an escape route in case Heavenly Sea City fell.
• Li Zhengyuan ordered the city to hold out for three months while awaiting reinforcements, and assigned Tantai Yue to transfer alchemists to the west gate.
• Master Deng selected Li Qingshan, Yun Ping'er, and eight other alchemists to go with Tantai Yue to the west gate barracks.
• Tantai Yue ordered the alchemists to produce at least ten Immortal Healing Pills and ten Pure Yang Immortal Pills each day.

Li Qingshan refined pills in Heavenly Sea City while planning an escape in case its defenses failed. When the Devil Race launched a full assault, he stayed in the tent and continued refining as the city’s formation came under attack.

• Li Qingshan joined Wang Xuan and the other alchemists in the western gate barracks, where he refined Pure Yang Immortal Pills while keeping his skill understated.
• After observing the Devil Race army and learning that Heavenly Sea City’s formation could last only three months, Li Qingshan planned to escape through the western gate if the city fell.
• The Devil Race attacked Heavenly Sea City, and Li Qingshan saw that its army included four Profound Immortals and a Golden Immortal commander.
• The Heavenly Sea Flowing Light Grand Formation repelled the first assault, so Li Qingshan returned to pill refining while preparing to flee if the barrier failed.
• The four Profound Immortals struck the formation together, and Tantai Yue urged the defenders to hold it steady as Li Qingshan watched from the tent and kept refining.

As the Devil Race battered Heavenly Sea City, Li Qingshan sought a powerful talisman to prepare for a possible escape. Yun Ping'er gave him a badly damaged ancestral talisman and asked him to save her if the city fell and he had the strength, leaving them with a promise to help each other.

• Li Qingshan judged that the formation might not withstand three months of attacks and decided to seek protective talismans from Yun Ping'er.
• Li Qingshan visited Yun Ping'er, who said she had no ordinary talismans left to sell because she had submitted most of her work to the camp.
• Yun Ping'er showed Li Qingshan a cracked ancestral talisman whose ancient runes indicated it was at least a fourth-grade immortal talisman.
• Yun Ping'er offered the talisman to Li Qingshan in exchange for a chance of rescue if the city fell, while telling him she suspected he had hidden strength.
• Li Qingshan accepted the talisman and promised to help Yun Ping'er if he could, adding that they would escape together if he could not.

Li Qingshan repaired the Void Immortal-Sealing Talisman, gaining a weapon that could seal a Golden Immortal’s Primordial Spirit for thirty breaths. After the Devil Race besieged Heavenly Sea City for half a month, Xiao Yi revealed himself as a Devil Race infiltrator and broke the city’s formation from within, allowing the Black Devil Patriarch to attack.

• Li Qingshan used the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd to repair a damaged supreme-grade immortal talisman while four Profound Immortals attacked Heavenly Sea City’s formation.
• Li Qingshan retrieved the repaired Void Immortal-Sealing Talisman, which could seal a Golden Immortal’s Primordial Spirit for thirty breaths.
• After half a month of siege, Xiao Yi revealed that he had been a Devil Race spy hiding in Heavenly Sea City for centuries.
• Xiao Yi rejected Tantai Yue’s accusation, urged her to surrender, and said he had claimed her for himself after the city fell.
• Xiao Yi exploited his knowledge of the formation to open a huge gap near the western gate, and the Black Devil Patriarch struck at it with devil light.

After Heavenly Sea City's formation fell, Li Qingshan rescued Yun Ping'er and fought off the Devil Race pursuers as they fled into the wilderness. He left the city behind while its lord and powerful experts battled the Devil Race Golden Immortal ancestor.

• The Heavenly Sea Flowing Light Grand Formation shattered, and the Devil Race army stormed into Heavenly Sea City.
• Li Qingshan found Yun Ping'er and used Chaos Grand Shift to escape outside the city walls with her.
• Li Qingshan and Yun Ping'er fled through the Devil Race army beneath the protection of the Primordial Golden Bell.
• Li Qingshan turned back and killed a pursuing Devil Race Heavenly Immortal with Gods and Devils Hand in three breaths.
• Li Qingshan resumed their escape as the city lord and other experts fought the Devil Race Golden Immortal ancestor.

Li Qingshan and Yun Ping'er fled west from Heavenly Sea City, but Li Qingshan discovered Devil Race experts waiting in the mountains and entered the range alone after hiding Yun Ping'er in his immortal mansion. He watched the Devil Race woman and her guards approach a hidden treasure, then sensed a Profound Immortal demon beast awakening in the valley.

• Li Qingshan and Yun Ping'er fled toward the Great Qian Immortal Kingdom's heartland as Devil Race forces spread from Heavenly Sea City.
• Li Qingshan sensed several powerful Devil Race auras in a mountain range and sent Yun Ping'er into the Purple Void Immortal Mansion.
• Li Qingshan concealed his aura and discovered a Devil Race woman, a late-stage Profound Immortal, waiting in a valley with twelve Heavenly Immortal guards.
• A pale pink immortal radiance burst from the valley, and the Devil Race woman led her guards toward it.
• Li Qingshan remained hidden after sensing a Profound Immortal demon beast awakening in the valley.

Li Qingshan watched the Devil Race woman and the Black Flood Dragon fight over three Time Immortal Peaches, then seized the chance to steal them. He escaped by using the Chaos Grand Shift, leaving both enemies furious and in pursuit.

• Li Qingshan spotted three extraordinary immortal peaches guarded by a peak Profound Immortal Black Flood Dragon.
• The Devil Race woman ordered twelve Heavenly Immortals to attack the Black Flood Dragon, and the dragon killed three before fighting her himself.
• As the woman lured the Black Flood Dragon away from the cliff, a Devil Race Heavenly Immortal rushed to take the peaches.
• Li Qingshan killed the Heavenly Immortal with Gods and Devils Hand and took all three peaches.
• The Devil Race woman and the Black Flood Dragon pursued Li Qingshan, but he escaped a thousand li away with the Chaos Grand Shift.

Li Qingshan escaped the Black Flood Dragon and a Devil Race woman with three Time Immortal Peaches, then ate one while hiding in the Purple Void Immortal Mansion. The peach raised him to the middle Heavenly Immortal Realm and perfected his Heavenly Dragon Transformation, leaving him with two peaches and confidence that he could fight a Profound Immortal.

• Li Qingshan used three Chaos Grand Shifts to flee thousands of miles, hid underground, and entered the Purple Void Immortal Mansion.
• Li Qingshan identified the three fruits as precious Time Immortal Peaches that could aid cultivation and help Profound Immortals advance to the Golden Immortal Realm.
• Li Qingshan ate one peach and struggled to refine its immense energy before breaking through to the Heavenly Immortal Realm and then the middle Heavenly Immortal Realm.
• The peach perfected Li Qingshan's Heavenly Dragon Transformation and left more than half its energy nourishing him.
• Li Qingshan stored the remaining two peaches in the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd and assessed his new strength as sufficient to fight a Profound Immortal.

Li Qingshan consolidated his mid-stage Heavenly Immortal cultivation and crossed the Coiling Dragon Mountain Range, where he discovered Tantai Yue under attack by Xiao Yi and four Devil Race Heavenly Immortals. He initially chose to avoid the fight, while Tantai Yue was left reeling after Xiao Yi claimed her clan had abandoned her.

• Li Qingshan left the Purple Void Immortal Mansion after refining his cultivation and strengthening his immortal arts.
• Li Qingshan concealed his aura and traveled alone into the Coiling Dragon Mountain Range, avoiding powerful Immortal Beasts.
• Li Qingshan found Tantai Yue wounded and poisoned, fighting Xiao Yi and four Devil Race Heavenly Immortals in a valley.
• Li Qingshan decided to withdraw, but overheard Xiao Yi and his men discuss abusing Tantai Yue and harvesting her Jade Marrow Immortal Body.
• Tantai Yue threatened Xiao Yi with her clan's retaliation, and Xiao Yi said the Tantai Clan had abandoned her; he then struck her and sent her staggering back, bleeding.

Li Xuanyu appeared to rescue Tantai Yue, killed four Devil Race Heavenly Immortals, and drove Xiao Yi away, but revealed that he had engineered her predicament to exploit her Jade Marrow Immortal Body. As Li Xuanyu attacked the boulder where Li Qingshan was hiding, Li Qingshan's cover was exposed.

• Tantai Yue called to the hidden Li Qingshan for help, prompting Li Xuanyu to emerge from the void.
• Li Xuanyu killed the four Devil Race Heavenly Immortals and wounded Xiao Yi, who fled after threatening him with the Black Devil Patriarch's vengeance.
• Li Xuanyu approached Tantai Yue and demanded that she marry him, then revealed he wanted to use her Jade Marrow Immortal Body to reach the Profound Immortal realm.
• Tantai Yue realized Li Xuanyu had arranged her predicament to capture her, while the Yin-Yang Aphrodisiac Powder left her unable to resist.
• Li Xuanyu sensed Li Qingshan behind the boulder and struck it with his sword.

Li Qingshan defeated Li Xuanyu, then saved Tantai Yue from the aphrodisiac poison by joining yin and yang with her, which healed her and raised his cultivation to late-stage Heaven Immortal. The next morning, Tantai Yue learned what had happened, and Li Qingshan offered to escort her to safety before they parted ways.

• Li Qingshan blocked Li Xuanyu’s attack with the Primordial Golden Bell and countered with the Gods and Devils Hand.
• Li Qingshan used Chaos Grand Shift and the Thunder Prison Blade to break Li Xuanyu’s protective barrier and blast him into a crater.
• Li Xuanyu fled with a teleportation talisman after threatening Li Qingshan.
• Li Qingshan brought the poisoned Tantai Yue to the Purple Void Immortal Mansion and cured her, absorbing her Jade Marrow Immortal Body’s essence and breaking through to late-stage Heaven Immortal.
• Tantai Yue woke the next morning, remembered what had happened, and confronted Li Qingshan before accepting his offer to escort her to safety.

Li Qingshan reached Profound Yang Ancient City with Tantai Yue after escaping the fall of Heavenly Sea City, and the two found safety in the city. As Tantai Yue planned to return to the capital, she told Li Qingshan about the Seven Great Immortal Sects, which he considered as a path for his cultivation.

• Li Qingshan crossed the Coiling Dragon Mountain Range and entered Profound Yang Ancient City, where he rented a quiet courtyard.
• Li Qingshan brought Tantai Yue out of the Purple Void Immortal Mansion, and she thanked him for helping her reach safety.
• Tantai Yue said she planned to return to the capital and rejoin the Tantai Clan.
• Li Qingshan said he wanted to join a sect rather than seek out Zi Xu Immortal Lord.
• Tantai Yue explained that the Seven Great Immortal Sects were Supreme Emperor Heaven's strongest powers and recruited disciples once every three thousand years.

Li Qingshan learned that Tantai Yue needed his help returning to the capital, where she promised to secure him a place in the seven great immortal sects’ entrance trials. After hearing about her family’s betrayal and stalled cultivation, he offered to help her break through through their secret dual cultivation art, leaving her tempted by the proposal.

• Tantai Yue explained that the seven great immortal sects’ trials had limited places, and the Great Qian Immortal Kingdom had only two hundred; she offered to get Li Qingshan a place if he escorted her to the capital.
• Tantai Yue assured Li Qingshan that her clan’s Golden Immortal ancestor and the capital’s protections would shield him from Li Xuanyu.
• Tantai Yue told Li Qingshan that her father died fighting the Northern Nether Demon Kingdom, after which Tantai Hong suppressed her branch and gave her engagement to Tantai Xue.
• Tantai Yue revealed that she had been stuck at the peak of the Heavenly Immortal realm for over a hundred years and feared she could not become a true disciple without breaking through before the trials.
• Li Qingshan said their earlier use of the Yin-Yang Chaos Dual Cultivation Art had loosened Tantai Yue’s bottleneck and offered to help her reach the Profound Immortal realm with three sessions in three months.
• Tantai Yue blushed and considered the offer, drawn by the chance to break through so quickly.

Li Qingshan and Tantai Yue used dual cultivation in Profound Yang Ancient City to loosen the bottleneck blocking her breakthrough to the Profound Immortal Realm. While their relationship grew closer, Li Qingshan searched for ingredients to refine a Nine-Orifice Immortal Pill and found two of its main ingredients.

• Tantai Yue agreed to dual cultivate with Li Qingshan so she could pursue the Profound Immortal Realm.
• Li Qingshan and Tantai Yue practiced the Yin-Yang Chaos Dual Cultivation Art, awakening her first immortal aperture and advancing his own cultivation.
• The two stayed in Profound Yang Ancient City, cultivating at night and gradually growing more comfortable with each other.
• Li Qingshan searched the city's immortal medicine shops for Nine-Orifice Immortal Pill ingredients and found a Heavenly Origin Fruit and an Earth Vein Spirit Root.

Li Qingshan and Tantai Yue gathered ingredients for the Nine-Orifice Immortal Pill and entered Profound Yang Ancient City's underground black market to search for the rare Nine-Orifice Immortal Vine. After finding no trace of it at several stalls, Li Qingshan asked an elderly herb seller about the vine, and the man questioned whether he could afford it.

• Tantai Yue paid 550,000 immortal stones for the Heavenly Origin Fruit and Earth Vein Spirit Root, then gave both ingredients to Li Qingshan.
• Tantai Yue told Li Qingshan about the underground black market and its possible supply of a Nine-Orifice Immortal Vine, and they planned to visit when it opened three days later.
• Li Qingshan and Tantai Yue disguised themselves, used Tantai Yue's access token, and entered the underground black market through a ruined City God temple.
• The two searched several stalls selling immortal herbs but found no Nine-Orifice Immortal Vine.
• Li Qingshan asked an elderly herb seller whether he had a Nine-Orifice Immortal Vine, and the man asked if Li Qingshan could afford the Fifth Rank herb.

Li Qingshan and Tantai Yue searched Profound Yang Ancient City's underground black market for a Nine-Orifice Immortal Vine but found none. Information broker Qian Duoduo sold them a sworn lead that one would appear at an auction in Qian Heaven City in three months, where they planned to seek it.

• Li Qingshan and Tantai Yue searched the black market stalls and Treasure Pavilion for a Nine-Orifice Immortal Vine, but none had one.
• Qian Duoduo approached them and offered information about the vine for two hundred thousand immortal stones.
• After Qian Duoduo swore a heart-demon oath, Tantai Yue paid him for his information.
• Qian Duoduo told Li Qingshan and Tantai Yue that a Nine-Orifice Immortal Vine was expected at an auction in Qian Heaven City three months later.
• Li Qingshan and Tantai Yue decided the auction fit their travel plans and discussed using the vine to refine a Nine-Orifice Immortal Pill.

The Wish-Fulfilling Gourd stirred in the underground black market and led Li Qingshan to three mysterious boxes, which he bought despite Tantai Yue’s warnings. Back at the inn, they prepared to open them and chose the cheapest wooden box first.

• As Li Qingshan and Tantai Yue prepared to leave the black market, the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd drew him toward a stall run by a mysterious old man.
• Li Qingshan sensed the strongest fluctuation from a grayish-white stone box and weaker ones from a wooden box and a jade box.
• After hearing the boxes’ prices and a cultivator’s tale about a stone box containing a Source Immortal Artifact, Li Qingshan bought the three boxes for 130,000 immortal stones.
• Tantai Yue paid for the boxes, and the old man removed their restrictions before Li Qingshan stored them away.
• At the inn, Li Qingshan and Tantai Yue secured their courtyard, and Tantai Yue suggested opening the wooden box first.