Chapter Summaries

Li Qingshan settled his purchases at the Star-Picking Pavilion and escaped the Devil Race woman after she suspected him of stealing her Time Immortal Peach. Back at the Tantai Clan, he stored his Nine-Orifice Immortal Vines and mysterious bronze bell in the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd.

• Li Qingshan paid the Star-Picking Pavilion by selling another premium Myriad Dharma Aperture-Opening Pill for ten million immortal stones.
• The Devil Race woman followed Li Qingshan through Qian Heaven City, suspecting his aura matched the thief who stole her Time Immortal Peach.
• Li Qingshan used Chaos Grand Shift repeatedly to escape the woman, who eventually abandoned the chase and vowed to kill him if they met again.
• Li Qingshan returned to the Tantai Clan and found Tantai Yue still cultivating in seclusion.
• Li Qingshan put the two Nine-Orifice Immortal Vines and the cracked bronze bell into the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd.

Li Qingshan discovered that the damaged bronze bell had once been an eighth-grade origin immortal artifact and received the Azure Emperor Dragon-Controlling Fist inheritance from it. After half a month of practice, he greatly increased his combat strength and prepared to refine the Nine-Orifice Immortal Pill.

• The Wish-Fulfilling Gourd devoured four origin immortal restrictions from the bronze bell, strengthening itself and revealing that the bell had once been an eighth-grade origin immortal artifact.
• The bronze bell sent Li Qingshan the Azure Emperor Dragon-Controlling Fist, an ancient supreme art that formed part of the Great Five Elements Immortal Art.
• Li Qingshan studied the fist art's nine forms and practiced them, drawing on his True Dragon Transformation and the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd's power of enlightenment.
• Li Qingshan's fourth form nearly shattered the cultivation chamber's restrictions, demonstrating that his charged punch could gravely injure or kill a peak Profound Immortal.
• After half a month of practice, Li Qingshan judged that the art had increased his combat strength by at least thirty percent and prepared to refine the Nine-Orifice Immortal Pill.

Li Qingshan refined Nine-Orifice Immortal Pills and used the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd to turn four failed pills into top-grade ones. With six pills in hand, he chose to recover and strengthen his foundation before attempting a breakthrough, and planned to give A Yue a top-grade pill after she emerged from seclusion.

• Li Qingshan prepared himself and gathered the ingredients to refine the Nine-Orifice Immortal Pill in the Purple Void Immortal Mansion.
• He used the Chaos Ancient Cauldron and Chaos Star Fire-Control Art to refine the ingredients over several days.
• Li Qingshan produced two ordinary Nine-Orifice Immortal Pills and four failed pills.
• He sent the failed pills into the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd, which transformed them into four top-grade pills with five pill patterns each.
• Li Qingshan stored all six pills and decided to recover before attempting a breakthrough, reserving a top-grade pill for A Yue.

After Master Yang failed to refine the Nine-Orifice Immortal Pill, Li Xuanyu blamed Li Qingshan and planned to enlist the Freewheeling King against him. Meanwhile, Li Qingshan prepared to break through after restoring himself to his peak condition.

• Master Yang told Li Xuanyu that he had ruined all four pills and destroyed the sole Nine-Orifice Immortal Vine.
• Master Yang traced the vine’s aura to the Tantai Clan, and Li Xuanyu concluded that Li Qingshan had bought the vines and was responsible for his loss.
• Li Xuanyu resolved to ask the Freewheeling King to help him seize Li Qingshan when his father returned in a month.
• Li Qingshan finished recovering and comprehending his techniques, sensed an opportunity to break through, and decided he was ready to advance.

Li Qingshan consumed a Nine-Orifice Immortal Pill and broke through from Heavenly Immortal to Profound Immortal by opening nine immortal apertures. He used a Time Immortal Peach to fill them with chaos immortal power, and three days later each aperture held 108,000 Chaos Golden Pearls.

• Li Qingshan swallowed the five-marked Nine-Orifice Immortal Pill and refined its medicinal power with the Chaos Gods and Devils Scripture.
• Li Qingshan opened nine immortal apertures, breaking through to the Profound Immortal realm.
• Li Qingshan used the Great Devouring Immortal Art to refine a Time Immortal Peach into chaos immortal power for his dantian and apertures.
• After three days, all 108,000 Chaos Golden Pearls in Li Qingshan's dantian shone, and each of his nine apertures contained 108,000 Chaos Golden Pearls.

Li Qingshan used the Time Immortal Peach and Nine-Orifice Immortal Pill to break through to the Profound Immortal realm, opening nine great immortal apertures and perfecting his True Dragon Transformation. His breakthrough triggered a vast heavenly phenomenon over Qian Heaven City, drawing the attention of the Tantai Clan and the Qian Emperor.

• Li Qingshan absorbed the Time Immortal Peach’s energy, strengthened his immortal power, and raised his fleshly body to the peak of the Profound Immortal stage.
• Li Qingshan opened nine great immortal apertures with the Laws of Chaos, triggering a heavenly phenomenon over Qian Heaven City.
• Tantai Xuanji recognized that Li Qingshan had opened nine apertures and marveled at his talent and foundations.
• Tantai Yue realized Li Qingshan had refined the Nine-Orifice Immortal Pill and celebrated his breakthrough.
• Tantai Hong grew wary of Li Qingshan’s increased strength but decided not to act against him yet.
• Tantai Xue resented Li Qingshan’s breakthrough, while the Qian Emperor ordered an investigation into who had recently arrived at the Tantai Clan.

Li Qingshan broke through to the early Profound Immortal stage, opened nine immortal acupoints, and was made a guest elder of the Tantai Clan. As the clan helped conceal him before the Immortal Sect Selection, Li Xuanyu prepared to kill him when his father returned the next day.

• Li Qingshan emerged from his breakthrough with nine immortal acupoints and assessed his greatly increased strength.
• Li Qingshan gave Tantai Yue a Nine-Orifice Immortal Pill, and she thanked him.
• Tantai Xuanji appointed Li Qingshan a Tantai Clan guest elder to protect him ahead of the Immortal Sect Selection.
• Tantai Xuanji sent Tantai Yue to take Li Qingshan to the Lineage's immortal array so he could stabilize his cultivation and remain concealed.
• Li Xuanyu recognized Li Qingshan as the source of the breakthrough phenomenon and vowed to kill him when his father returned the next day.

The Freewheeling King Li Hanjiang arrived at the Tantai residence with Li Xuanyu, who accused Li Qingshan of ambushing him and demanded justice. Tantai Hong agreed to hand Li Qingshan over, but Li Qingshan interrupted before he could act.

• Li Hanjiang and Li Xuanyu entered the Tantai residence, where Tantai Hong welcomed them into the main hall.
• Li Hanjiang said he had come to seek justice for his son, and Li Xuanyu accused Li Qingshan of ambushing him in the Coiling Dragon Mountain Range.
• Li Xuanyu identified Li Qingshan as the attacker and said he was currently in the Tantai residence.
• Li Hanjiang asked Tantai Hong to hand Li Qingshan over, promising the Tantai Clan would not be implicated.
• Tantai Hong agreed to have Li Qingshan seized, and Tantai Xue supported his decision.
• Li Qingshan's cold voice came from outside the hall, asking whom Tantai Hong planned to hand over.

Tantai Yue and Tantai Xuanji defended Li Qingshan after Li Hanjiang demanded that the Tantai Clan hand him over. Tantai Xuanji exposed Li Xuanyu’s attack on Tantai Yue and clashed with Li Hanjiang, leaving the two peak Golden Immortals facing off in the shaking hall.

• Tantai Yue revealed that Tantai Xuanji had appointed Li Qingshan a guest elder, forcing Tantai Hong to hesitate over Li Hanjiang’s demand.
• Li Hanjiang unleashed his peak Golden Immortal pressure and threatened the Tantai Clan if it refused to surrender Li Qingshan.
• Tantai Xuanji arrived, suppressed Li Hanjiang’s pressure, and stood between him and Li Qingshan.
• Tantai Xuanji accused Li Xuanyu of drugging Tantai Yue and recounted how Li Qingshan had saved her in the Coiling Dragon Mountain Range.
• Tantai Xuanji challenged Li Hanjiang’s demand and clashed with him, shaking the main hall as Li Qingshan steadied Tantai Yue.

Tantai Xuanji protected Li Qingshan from the Freewheeling King, then dismissed Tantai Hong as clan head and appointed Tantai Zhengyang in his place. Li Hanjiang and Li Xuanyu left plotting to kill Li Qingshan after he left Qian Heaven City for the Immortal Sect Grand Selection.

• Tantai Xuanji refused to let Li Hanjiang take Li Qingshan, and Li Hanjiang left the Tantai Clan with Li Xuanyu.
• Tantai Xuanji stripped Tantai Hong of his position as clan head and named Tantai Zhengyang the temporary successor.
• Tantai Xuanji reassured Li Qingshan of his protection and urged him to make a name for himself in the Immortal Sect Grand Selection.
• Tantai Yue thanked Li Qingshan, and the two left the main hall together while Tantai Zhengyang praised Li Qingshan's potential.
• Li Hanjiang told Li Xuanyu to wait until Li Qingshan left Qian Heaven City, and they resolved to have him killed in the wilderness.

After Tantai Xuanji explained that Li Hanjiang had targeted Li Qingshan for his Nine-Orifice Immortal Pill, Li Qingshan gave a pill to the Tantai Clan for the Qian Emperor’s birthday banquet. Tantai Xuanji rewarded him with a Heavenly Gang Void-Opening Immortal Pill and secured him a place in the immortal sect selection.

• Tantai Xuanji told Li Qingshan that Li Hanjiang had come seeking the Nine-Orifice Immortal Pill for the Qian Emperor’s youngest son, Zhao Chengqian.
• Tantai Xuanji asked to buy a Nine-Orifice Immortal Pill for the Tantai Clan to present at Zhao Chengqian’s birthday banquet.
• Li Qingshan gave Tantai Xuanji one of his Nine-Orifice Immortal Pills in gratitude for protecting him.
• Tantai Xuanji gave Li Qingshan a Heavenly Gang Void-Opening Immortal Pill in return.
• Tantai Xuanji told Li Qingshan that he had reserved him a place in the immortal sect selection and urged him to cultivate with the Tantai Clan.

Li Qingshan used the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd to restore Tantai Xuanji’s Heavenly Gang Void-Opening Immortal Pill to perfect quality, then tested whether he could refine a Golden Immortal Dao Fruit and found its chaos-thunder power still beyond his reach. As Qian Heaven City celebrated Zhao Chengqian’s two-hundredth birthday, Li Qingshan planned to strengthen his foundation before attempting either breakthrough.

• Li Qingshan placed the weakened Heavenly Gang Void-Opening Immortal Pill in the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd, which restored it to perfect quality with five pill markings.
• Li Qingshan decided to wait before taking the pill and spent several days nourishing his nine immortal apertures and refining his Chaos Golden Pearls.
• Li Qingshan opened the jade box containing the Golden Immortal Dao Fruit and tried to connect with its law of chaos thunder, but its power overwhelmed him.
• Li Qingshan concluded that he needed at least thirty-six immortal apertures and peak Profound Immortal cultivation before attempting to refine the Dao Fruit.
• Seven days later, Qian Heaven City celebrated Zhao Chengqian’s two-hundredth birthday, and locals discussed his strength and rumored selection as a True Disciple of the Primordial Unity Immortal Sect.

Li Qingshan attended a grand celebration in the imperial city with the Tantai Clan and confronted Li Xuanyu and Li Hanjiang. He then met Murong Hai and Murong Xuanwu, leaving on friendly terms with the Murong Clan as the gathering continued.

• Li Qingshan and Tantai Yue dressed for the celebration, then joined Tantai Xuanji and the Tantai Clan elders on an auspicious cloud bound for the imperial city.
• At the White Jade Plaza, Li Xuanyu provoked Li Qingshan, and Li Hanjiang stopped his son from escalating the argument while warning Li Qingshan about the coming Immortal Sect Selection.
• Li Qingshan answered Li Hanjiang's warning defiantly, and Li Hanjiang left with the furious Li Xuanyu.
• Murong Hai greeted Tantai Yue and praised her breakthrough before learning that Li Qingshan was the guest elder who had helped her.
• Murong Xuanwu offered immortal fruit to Tantai Yue and Li Qingshan, who accepted some and welcomed the friendly young man.

Li Qingshan attended the banquet for young prince Zhao Chengqian and saw the Qian Emperor, Zhao Xuanyang, whose aura seemed stronger than Tantai Xuanji’s. The birthday banquet began as guests settled into Qian Heaven Hall.

• Murong Hai praised Li Qingshan’s talent and warned Tantai Xuanji that Li Hanjiang might target him, while Tantai Xuanji vowed to protect him.
• Tantai Xuanji and Murong Hai discussed their birthday gifts, with Tantai Xuanji carrying a Nine-Orifice Immortal Pill and Murong Hai preparing supreme-grade immortal armor.
• Li Qingshan entered Qian Heaven Hall with the Tantai Clan and sat beside Tantai Yue, across from Li Hanjiang and Li Xuanyu.
• The Qian Emperor Zhao Xuanyang and young prince Zhao Chengqian arrived, and Li Qingshan assessed their powerful auras and Zhao Chengqian’s Nine Yang Immortal Body.
• Zhao Xuanyang welcomed the guests and declared the banquet for Zhao Chengqian’s two-hundredth birthday officially open.

At Zhao Chengqian’s birthday banquet, the guests presented gifts while he showed little interest in ordinary treasures. Tantai Yue offered the Tantai Clan’s Nine-Orifice Immortal Pill, leaving Zhao Chengqian thrilled and the hall stunned.

• Zhao Chengqian tried to leave the banquet, but Zhao Xuanyang asked him to stay for the birthday gifts.
• Li Xuanyu presented a premium Myriad Dharma Aperture-Opening Pill, which Li Qingshan recognized as one he had refined and sold at auction.
• The guests and the five great Lineages presented treasures, while Zhao Chengqian remained unimpressed by most of them.
• Tantai Yue presented the Tantai Clan’s Nine-Orifice Immortal Pill, prompting surprise from the hall and fury from Li Xuanyu.
• Zhao Chengqian examined the pill’s two patterns, confirmed it was a genuine Nine-Orifice Immortal Pill, and accepted it with excitement.

At Emperor Qian’s banquet, Li Xuanyu tried to pressure Li Qingshan into presenting a superior Nine-Orifice Immortal Pill, but Li Qingshan revealed one of perfect quality. The pill astonished the hall and won the Emperor’s attention, leaving Li Xuanyu and Li Hanjiang wary of the protection Li Qingshan might now receive.

• Emperor Qian praised the Tantai Clan’s two-pattern Nine-Orifice Immortal Pill and learned that Li Qingshan had refined it after opening nine immortal apertures.
• Li Xuanyu claimed Li Qingshan might possess a better pill and challenged him to present it for Zhao Chengqian, while Tantai Yue protested and Li Qingshan calmed her.
• Li Qingshan confirmed that he had another Nine-Orifice Immortal Pill and presented it to Emperor Qian.
• Emperor Qian found five pill patterns on Li Qingshan’s pill and recognized it as a perfect-quality Nine-Orifice Immortal Pill, shocking the hall.
• Tantai Xuanji and Tantai Yue were impressed, while Li Xuanyu and Li Hanjiang grew furious and wary of Li Qingshan’s increased standing with Emperor Qian.

Li Qingshan gave Zhao Chengqian a perfect-quality Nine-Orifice Immortal Pill and won Zhao Xuanyang’s offer to choose two treasures from the Great Qian treasury. After the banquet, Li Qingshan prepared to visit the treasury and strengthen himself before the Immortal Sect Grand Selection, while Li Hanjiang and Li Xuanyu plotted to have others kill him there.

• Zhao Xuanyang thanked Li Qingshan for the pill and granted him access to choose any two treasures from the Great Qian Immortal Kingdom’s treasury.
• Zhao Chengqian toasted Li Qingshan, thanked him for the pill, and invited him to the palace to discuss alchemy.
• Li Xuanyu and Li Hanjiang resented Li Qingshan’s success, and Li Hanjiang planned to let rivals target him at the Immortal Sect Grand Selection.
• Tantai Xuanji praised Li Qingshan for securing Zhao Xuanyang’s protection, and an attendant was instructed to escort him to the treasury the next day.
• Li Qingshan considered what treasures to choose and resolved to take the Heavenly Gang Void-Opening Immortal Pill and raise his strength before the selection.

Li Qingshan entered the Great Qian Immortal Kingdom’s treasury to choose two rewards, passing over its pills, artifacts, and herbs. He discovered a jade slip containing the Black Emperor God-Slaying Finger, an art from the same Great Five Elements Immortal Art as the Azure Emperor Dragon-Controlling Fist.

• Zhao Chengqian escorted Li Qingshan into the treasury, which was a Small World filled with vast stores of immortal stones and treasures.
• Li Qingshan inspected the Immortal Pills section but turned away from its rare fifth-grade Origin Immortal Pills.
• Li Qingshan examined the Immortal Artifacts and Medicine Garden but chose neither artifacts nor herbs.
• The Wish-Fulfilling Gourd reacted to a black jade slip, and Li Qingshan sensed that it shared an origin with the Azure Emperor Dragon-Controlling Fist.
• Li Qingshan sent his divine sense into the slip, witnessed a black finger shatter a colossal Black Tortoise, and learned that the technique was the Black Emperor God-Slaying Finger, part of the Great Five Elements Immortal Art.

Li Qingshan chose the Black Emperor God-Slaying Finger and gathered immortal artifact fragments to strengthen the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd. He found a way to cultivate Xuanming True Water with Mystic Ice Jade Dew and began forming the power needed to use the finger art.

• Li Qingshan chose the Black Emperor God-Slaying Finger despite Zhao Chengqian's warning about its dangerous cultivation requirements.
• Li Qingshan selected more than a thousand unusable immortal artifact fragments, and Zhao Chengqian let him take them all.
• Li Qingshan and Zhao Chengqian pledged to enter an immortal sect together after a year, when the Immortal Sect Selection took place.
• Li Qingshan used the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd to absorb immortal dao essence from the fragments.
• Li Qingshan struggled to condense Xuanming True Water until he swallowed Mystic Ice Jade Dew and used its water-element laws as a catalyst.
• Li Qingshan successfully formed a slender stream of Xuanming True Water, enough to perform the Black Emperor God-Slaying Finger's first form.

Li Qingshan mastered the second form of the Black Emperor God-Slaying Finger, then used a Heavenly Gang Void-Opening Immortal Pill to reach the middle stage of the Profound Immortal realm with eighteen open immortal apertures. He discovered signs of apertures beyond the known thirty-six, and a year later the Immortal Sect Selection began.

• Li Qingshan spent months opening a Xuanming immortal meridian and strengthening his Xuanming True Water with water-aligned treasures.
• Li Qingshan mastered the Startling Swan Finger, shattering the cultivation chamber's restrictions with a powerful strike.
• Li Qingshan swallowed the Heavenly Gang Void-Opening Immortal Pill and opened nine more immortal apertures, reaching eighteen in total.
• Li Qingshan sensed possible immortal apertures hidden beyond the known thirty-six, but could not investigate them further.
• Li Qingshan spent a year refining his Chaos Golden Pearls and practicing the Black Emperor God-Slaying Finger before the Immortal Sect Selection began.