Recaps

Chen Lingxi cultivated in the Storm Immortal Pivot, using its lightning to advance the Thunder-Prison Heaven Divine Ability, then healed his hidden injuries at the Lake Immortal Pivot. After discovering the Credit Peddler had disappeared, he decided to seek a powerful treasure pagoda hidden in Xuanying Cave and test his strength against a Dao Foundation Early Stage opponent.

• Chen Lingxi entered the Storm Immortal Pivot and found that its lightning, wind, and rain did not harm him, while its lightning resonated with his Dao Rhythm.
• Chen Lingxi cultivated the Dragon-Stripping Dao-Transformation One-Qi True Formula in the storm, accelerating his Thunder-Prison Heaven Divine Ability and gaining lightning power useful for the Thunder-Hiding Sword Canon.
• Chen Lingxi absorbed the Lake Immortal Pivot’s gentle spiritual opportunity and used it to heal hidden injuries left by cultivating his divine ability.
• Chen Lingxi returned to the Ancestral Mountain after eight days in Total Perception and found that the Credit Peddler had vanished.
• Chen Lingxi decided to seek the treasure pagoda hidden in Xuanying Cave, along with other treasures, and wondered whether he could fight a Dao Foundation Early Stage opponent.

Chen Lingxi found a mysterious glazed crystal pagoda and witnessed a vision of a silver-robed figure reciting an ancient decree. He then sought a treasure sword in the North Sea, but an animated whale skeleton struck him down, shattering Total Perception.

• Chen Lingxi located a cave abode and took a three-tiered glazed crystal pagoda from its center.
• The pagoda transported Chen Lingxi into a vision of a silver-robed figure with a seventy-two-tiered pagoda, who recited an ancient decree before Chen Lingxi returned to the cave.
• Chen Lingxi placed the pagoda in his Hongdong Bag and traveled to the North Sea to search for a treasure sword.
• Chen Lingxi found the sword lodged in a colossal whale skeleton and reached for its hilt.
• The whale skeleton came alive and struck Chen Lingxi twice with its tailbone, causing Total Perception to shatter.

Chen Lingxi refined the ancient spirit artifact into the Void-Return Sword Tower, then used the Three-Mystery Mirror to avoid Bai Lingze’s trap on the route to the Storm Immortal Pivot. His detour brought him face to face with Liu Chengfeng, a Dao Foundation cultivator hired by Bai Lingze to delay him.

• Chen Lingxi completed refining the Void-Return Sword Tower and learned that its three levels could gather sword intent, forge a sword shadow, and unleash it against enemies.
• Chen Lingxi sensed danger and used the Three-Mystery Mirror to discover that Bai Lingze had stationed himself along his route to the Storm Immortal Pivot.
• Chen Lingxi avoided Bai Lingze by taking a remote detour and concealing his aura as he traveled.
• Chen Lingxi encountered Liu Chengfeng, a Dao Foundation Early Stage cultivator whose hidden presence had escaped his earlier detection.
• Liu Chengfeng identified himself as a member of the Dragon-Offering Sect and admitted that Bai Lingze had paid him to keep Chen Lingxi trapped.

Chen Lingxi was trapped by Liu Chengfeng’s sword formation while Bai Lingze came to kill him, and he secretly prepared the Enemy-Slaying Spirit Jade against both cultivators. Bai Lingze explained that Chen Lingxi had become a knot in his heart after injuring his incarnation, then turned his attention toward something in the distance, prompting Chen Lingxi to look and react.

• Liu Chengfeng trapped Chen Lingxi in a sword formation, and Chen Lingxi secretly gathered Liu Chengfeng’s aura onto the Enemy-Slaying Spirit Jade.
• Bai Lingze arrived, explained that Chen Lingxi and Ying Xian had displayed extraordinary abilities, and said he had arranged three ambushes to ensure Chen Lingxi’s death.
• Liu Chengfeng dispersed the sword formation and departed after Bai Lingze said he would kill Chen Lingxi himself.
• Bai Lingze revealed that Chen Lingxi’s earlier strike against his incarnation had become a knot in his heart, so he had gone to great lengths to hunt him down.
• Bai Lingze looked into the distance, and Chen Lingxi followed his gaze and reacted with surprise.

Chen Lingxi fought Bai Lingze’s incarnation and fled toward the Storm Immortal Pivot, strengthened by the Enemy-Slaying Spirit Jade but unable to defeat him. Just as Chen Lingxi prepared to shatter his Dao Platform to escape, Ying Xian intervened with the Heavenly Decline Method, giving him a chance to keep fleeing.

• Bai Lingze explained that Ying Xian was occupied fighting Zhao Duanxuan and attacked Chen Lingxi with the Jade Platform Seal.
• Chen Lingxi used the Enemy-Slaying Spirit Jade’s power to evade and counter Bai Lingze, then fled toward the Storm Immortal Pivot when he realized he could not win.
• Bai Lingze pursued Chen Lingxi and began to catch up, while Chen Lingxi considered shattering his Dragon-Stripping Dao Platform to escape.
• Ying Xian projected a giant golden face and trapped Bai Lingze in a mist prison created by the Heavenly Decline Method.
• Chen Lingxi continued toward the Storm Immortal Pivot while Ying Xian held Bai Lingze back.

Chen Lingxi fought off Zhao Duanxuan’s artifact avatar but suffered Dao Origin Erosion in the clash. Unable to reach the Storm Immortal Pivot, he fled to the Lake Immortal Pivot, where its waters began healing him.

• Chen Lingxi encountered Zhao Duanxuan’s sun artifact avatar on his way to the Storm Immortal Pivot and fought it with the power of the Cauldron Vessel.
• Chen Lingxi shattered the sun phantom with the Palace-Knocking Finger, but Zhao Duanxuan’s avatar emerged from its fragments and struck him with a palm.
• Chen Lingxi broke Zhao Duanxuan’s incarnation, but the attack left Dao Origin Erosion spreading through his body and threatening his Dragon-Stripping Dao Platform.
• Chen Lingxi concealed his aura, abandoned his route to the Storm Immortal Pivot, and fled to the Lake Immortal Pivot.
• Chen Lingxi fell into the lake, whose jade-green spiritual energy began dissolving the Dao Origin Erosion in his wounds and Qi Sea.

Chen Lingxi recovered in the Lake Immortal Pivot, reflected on his uneasy relationship with Emperor Daye, and then returned to the Storm Immortal Pivot to cultivate the Thunder-Prison Heaven Great Art. He achieved the Great Art and began forming its Profound Root, setting his sights on ascending to the Dao Foundation Realm.

• Chen Lingxi spent two months healing in the Lake Immortal Pivot, strengthening his Dao Platform and body while searching for Emperor Daye without finding him.
• Chen Lingxi concluded that Emperor Daye was both his enemy and a fellow survivor who had protected him for his own purposes.
• Chen Lingxi left the lake and flew to the Storm Immortal Pivot to complete the Thunder-Prison Heaven Great Art and pursue the Dao Foundation Realm.
• Chen Lingxi absorbed the Unfinished Thunder and refined the Thunder-Prison Spirit Branch, comprehending the lightning Dao and imprinting the Great Art’s mysteries into his Consciousness Sea.
• The Thunder-Prison Spirit Branch melted away as the Great Art formed a Profound Root on Chen Lingxi’s Dao Platform.
• Chen Lingxi cultivated amid layers of thunder prisons until the Thunder-Prison Heaven Great Art was achieved.

Chen Lingxi formed the Thunder-Prison Profound Root and sought a way to accelerate his advance to the Dao Foundation Realm, while strengthening the Void-Return Sword Tower. His Wandering Sight Divine Ability finally revealed Xiao Changlü awakening in the Volcano Immortal Pivot.

• Chen Lingxi formed the Thunder-Prison Profound Root and learned how its lightning could empower his attacks and nourish his foundation.
• He planted the Profound Root into his Dao Platform, but realized that the immense spiritual qi required could leave him waiting decades to attain Dao Foundation.
• Chen Lingxi decided to challenge Ou Ningzi or Qing Yuechan for the Immortal Ranking's spiritual mechanism and asked Lin Suri to investigate their whereabouts.
• He spent three months feeding sword lights into the Void-Return Sword Tower, which condensed a strand of Void-Return Sword Qi.
• When Chen Lingxi used the Wandering Sight Divine Ability to search for Emperor Daye, he saw Xiao Changlü rise in the Volcano Immortal Pivot, surrounded by immense golden qi and blood.

Chen Lingxi met Emperor Daye at Ancestral Mountain and learned that the Quexing Xi Family planned to refine the Weiji Grotto-Heaven. Seeking to reach Dao Foundation by claiming the Immortal Ranking’s spiritual currents, Chen Lingxi asked for help finding Ou Ningzi and Qing Yuechan, and Emperor Daye instead used Immortal-Husk Aura to draw out hidden experts across the Cave Heaven.

• Emperor Daye took control of Xiao Changlü’s avatar, adapted to its body for three days, and traveled to Ancestral Mountain.
• Chen Lingxi followed and met Emperor Daye, thanking him for protecting his path.
• Emperor Daye told Chen Lingxi that the Quexing Xi Family intended to refine the Cave Heaven and turn its inhabitants into World Essence.
• Chen Lingxi said he wanted to ascend the Immortal Ranking by defeating Ou Ningzi or Qing Yuechan, but Emperor Daye could not locate them because they were concealed by Dao Foundation experts.
• Emperor Daye sent Immortal-Husk Aura through his Mountains-and-Rivers Grand Formation, awakening hidden powerful divine senses across the Weiji Grotto-Heaven.

Xiao Changlü revealed himself as Emperor Daye and promised to hold off the Dao Foundation cultivators while Chen Lingxi sought Ou Ningzi’s Immortal Ranking fortune. Chen Lingxi found Ou Ningzi on a northern ice plain, and their battle began as both unleashed powerful Great Arts.

• Yu Jiangwei, Zhao Duanxuan, Bai Lingze, Liu Chengfeng, Daoist Shurong, and other powerful figures sensed the Immortal-Husk Aura and directed their attention toward Ancestral Mountain.
• Emperor Daye concealed Chen Lingxi from the gathered divine senses, gave him a map to Ou Ningzi, and vowed to stop the Dao Foundation cultivators.
• Emperor Daye drew power from the Mountains-and-Rivers Grand Formation and declared that he would treat the intruders as opportunities in his own Cave Heaven.
• Chen Lingxi traveled north to the ice plain and met Ou Ningzi, who agreed to fight rather than let him take the Immortal Ranking fortune without a contest.
• Ou Ningzi transformed into the Cold Mirror God and attacked with an enormous ice sword, while Chen Lingxi summoned the Thunder-Prison Heaven Great Art and met him with a lightning sword.

Chen Lingxi defeated Ou Ningzi, claimed eleventh place on the Immortal Ranking, and used its aura to refine his Thunder-Prison Profound Root. After several dozen days in seclusion, he transformed his spiritual qi into Dao Origin and achieved the Dao Foundation Realm.

• Qing Yuechan, a Candleflame Star cultivator, and Lin Longyue watched Chen Lingxi defeat Ou Ningzi on the icy plain.
• The Immortal Ranking replaced Ou Ningzi's name with Chen Lingxi's, placing him at eleventh, and Chen Lingxi saw through the Concealment Pearl hiding Qing Yuechan and her companions.
• Chen Lingxi recognized Lin Longyue but left without attacking the Candleflame Star cultivators, then flew away to find a secluded place to cultivate.
• Chen Lingxi refined the aura of the eleventh rank and planted the Thunder-Prison Profound Root into his Dragon-Stripping Dao Platform.
• After several dozen days, Chen Lingxi completed his breakthrough, transforming his spiritual qi into Dao Origin and attaining the Dao Foundation Realm.

After advancing to the Dao Foundation Realm, Chen Lingxi used Wandering Sight to inspect the siege of Ancestral Mountain and rode to aid Xiao Changlü. The attackers prepared a second-grade spirit artifact to break the Mountains-and-Rivers Grand Formation, while Xi Yu reflected on Chen Lingxi’s rise and still expected him to die.

• Chen Lingxi sensed the power of his Dao Origin, considered his Thunder-Prison Heaven, Void-Return Sword Tower, and Enemy-Slaying Spirit Jade, then used Wandering Sight to inspect Ancestral Mountain.
• Chen Lingxi saw Xiao Changlü wounded and holding out inside the Mountains-and-Rivers Grand Formation while Zhao Duanxuan, Bai Lingze, Yu Jiangwei, Liu Chengfeng, and Daoist Shurong besieged it; he then rode toward the battlefield.
• Xi Yu saw Chen Lingxi ranked eleventh on the Immortal Ranking, recalled their childhood, and concluded that he still had to die for Xi Yuan and Xi Mu.
• Zhao Duanxuan questioned Bai Lingze about Chen Lingxi and Xiao Changlü, while Bai Lingze revealed that he had summoned the second-grade spirit artifact Wall-Breaking Shuttle to destroy the formation.
• Bai Lingze turned his gaze toward Xi Yu as the Wall-Breaking Shuttle descended through the Guiding Passage Formation.

Bai Lingze persuaded Zhao Duanxuan to join him in claiming the Immortal Husk, explaining that Liu Chengfeng and the Golden-Crowned Demon Lord had agreed to help. After the Wall-Breaking Shuttle descended, Bai Lingze and Zhao Duanxuan revealed their full power, exposing the other Dao Foundation cultivators as battle drew near.

• Bai Lingze told Zhao Duanxuan that the Immortal Husk was likely with Xiao Changlü and proposed attacking once the Wall-Breaking Shuttle broke the Mountains-and-Rivers Grand Formation.
• Zhao Duanxuan warned that Yu Jiangwei, Ying Xian, and the other Dao Foundation figures made a fight dangerous, but Bai Lingze revealed that Liu Chengfeng and the Golden-Crowned Demon Lord had agreed to assist him.
• Bai Lingze explained that he had promised the Golden-Crowned Demon Lord the complete Cauldron Vessel, while intending to deny the promise after securing the Immortal Husk; Zhao Duanxuan reluctantly agreed to cooperate.
• Xiao Changlü continued sustaining the Mountains-and-Rivers Grand Formation as the hidden Dao Foundation cultivators waited around Ancestral Mountain.
• After ten days, the Wall-Breaking Shuttle descended through the Bai Family's Guiding Passage Formation, and Bai Lingze summoned it and prepared to attack Xiao Changlü.
• Bai Lingze and Zhao Duanxuan unleashed their Dao Foundation power, revealing Yu Jiangwei, Liu Chengfeng, the Golden-Crowned Demon Lord, Daoist Shurong, Daoist Chanting Cicada, and Cheng Qingyun as a battle threatened to begin.

The battle for the Immortal Husk at Ancestral Mountain left Bai Lingze poised to seize it after Zhao Duanxuan broke the Mountains-and-Rivers Grand Formation. Emperor Daye Ying Xian arrived to face Zhao Duanxuan, but Chen Lingxi appeared at the end and declared that he had come to kill Bai Lingze.

• Zhao Duanxuan fought Chi Jianshu, Cheng Qingyun, and Daoist Chanting Cicada while the Golden-Crowned Demon Lord turned on Bai Lingze and clashed with Liu Chengfeng.
• Zhao Duanxuan struck Yu Jiangwei and grievously wounded her, but Yu Jiangwei escaped on a spiritual pearl; Chi Jianshu and Daoist Chanting Cicada also fled, while Cheng Qingyun's incarnation dissipated.
• Bai Lingze used the Wall-Breaking Shuttle to destroy the Mountains-and-Rivers Grand Formation, revealing Xiao Changlü, then demanded to know where the Immortal Husk was.
• Emperor Daye Ying Xian arrived, and Zhao Duanxuan used the Gold-Suppressing Tripod to trap him while Bai Lingze approached Xiao Changlü.
• Chen Lingxi arrived in a lightning-wreathed sword attack and told Bai Lingze that he had come to kill him.

Chen Lingxi revealed that he had reached the Dao Foundation Realm, astonishing the cultivators watching Ancestral Mountain. As Bai Lingze attacked him with three powerful divine abilities, Chen Lingxi drew on the Enemy-Slaying Spirit Jade, leaving the battle poised to turn.

• Yu Jiangwei, Chi Jianshu, Liu Chengfeng, and other cultivators sensed Chen Lingxi's Dao Foundation Realm power and reacted with astonishment.
• Ying Xian continued holding off Zhao Duanxuan, while Bai Lingze faced Chen Lingxi at the center of the shattered Mountains-and-Rivers Grand Formation.
• Bai Lingze displayed his mature Dao Foundation and Immortal-Expounding Wondrous Fruit, then unleashed Expounding-Sound Profound Radiance, the Profound-Caging Art, and a barrage of Spirit-Treasure Bamboo Arrows.
• Chen Lingxi remained calm before Bai Lingze's combined assault and drew power from the Enemy-Slaying Spirit Jade in his Hongdong Bag.

Chen Lingxi unleashed Thunder-Prison Heaven and battled Bai Lingze on Ancestral Mountain, overcoming his Immortal-Expounding Dao with increasingly powerful thunder techniques. After Bai Lingze’s incarnation was defeated, he sacrificed its remaining Dao Origin to escape, leaving Chen Lingxi watching the streak of light flee.

• Chen Lingxi formed a vast Thunder Prison and used Thunder-Wielding Heavenly King Sword to break through Bai Lingze’s Expounding-Sound Profound Radiance, bamboo arrows, and other divine arts.
• Bai Lingze unleashed the Quechen Grand Seal, Qi-Illuminating Song, and Fate-Seating Method, but Chen Lingxi’s thunder destroyed their effects.
• Bai Lingze used his immortal incarnation to preach the Dao to Chen Lingxi, who rejected Bai Lingze’s Dao and struck the phantom with Palace-Knocking Finger.
• Chen Lingxi formed the Immortal-Execution Thunder Pool and overwhelmed Bai Lingze, shattering his immortal phantom and defeating his incarnation.
• Bai Lingze sacrificed the incarnation’s remaining Dao Origin to flee as a streak of jade-colored light, while Yu Jiangwei and Zhao Duanxuan watched in silence.
• Chen Lingxi stood amid the fading lightning, looked toward Bai Lingze’s escape, and flicked a finger.

Chen Lingxi and Emperor Daye, Ying Xian, faced the overwhelming presence of a True Lord before entering Ancestral Mountain and discovering its hidden world and the sleeping Great Sage Luo Yuan. The chapter ended with Emperor Daye questioning why the True Lord of the Quexing Xi Family sought to refine the Weiji Grotto-Heaven despite the Great Sage’s presence there.

• Chen Lingxi severed Bai Lingze’s left arm with the Azure Edge Method, and Bai Lingze escaped beyond the horizon.
• Xiao Changlü recovered much of his strength, prompting Zhao Duanxuan to withdraw after weighing the threat posed by Chen Lingxi, Xiao Changlü, and Ying Xian.
• A pair of emotionless eyes appeared in the heavens, overwhelming Chen Lingxi and Ying Xian before vanishing.
• Emperor Daye, Ying Xian, led Chen Lingxi into Ancestral Mountain and used the Mountains-and-Rivers Grand Formation to reveal its hidden world.
• Chen Lingxi guided Ying Xian to the ancient Long River, where Ying Xian sensed the dim, decayed aura of the sleeping Great Sage Luo Yuan.
• Ying Xian asked why the True Lord of the Quexing Xi Family wanted to refine the Weiji Grotto-Heaven despite the Great Sage sleeping within Ancestral Mountain.

Chen Lingxi used Total Perception to witness Emperor Daye feed the Immortal Husk to the Luo Yuan River, awakening Great Sage Luo Yuan’s incarnation. The Que Star Xi Family’s True Lord then unleashed the World-Refining Furnace and destroyed the Weiji Grotto-Heaven, but Chen Lingxi returned from the simulation with a drop of river water.

• Emperor Daye admitted he had intended to refine Chen Lingxi into an incarnation, then called him a Dao companion and prepared to cast the Immortal Husk into the Luo Yuan River.
• Chen Lingxi activated Total Perception and saw the Immortal Husk awaken the Luo Yuan River, stir the four Immortal Pivots, and summon Great Sage Luo Yuan’s incarnation.
• Liu Changle awoke in Mystic Wonder Abbey as the incarnation of Great Sage Luo Yuan, while the Que Star Xi Family’s True Lord appeared above Ancestral Mountain.
• The True Lord summoned the World-Refining Furnace, and its refining force began destroying the Weiji Grotto-Heaven despite the Great Sage’s awakening.
• The Great Sage’s incarnation sent Chen Lingxi a drop of river water, which he stored in his Hongdong Bag before the simulated realm vanished.
• Chen Lingxi’s consciousness returned to the Divine Chamber, where the drop of river water remained suspended.

Chen Lingxi stopped Emperor Daye from throwing the Immortal Husk into the Luo Yuan River after seeing that doing so would let the True Lord refine the Weiji Grotto-Heaven. He discovered a mysterious message about summoning Great Sage Luo Yuan’s true body, then set out to strengthen himself by retrieving treasures.

• Chen Lingxi warned Emperor Daye that casting the Immortal Husk into the river would lead the True Lord to destroy the Cave Heaven, and Emperor Daye put the arm away.
• Chen Lingxi learned from the river water that the Weiji Grotto-Heaven was Great Sage Luo Yuan’s dao field and that placing the water in the four Immortal Pivots could draw down the Great Sage’s true body.
• Emperor Daye gave Chen Lingxi a communication jade slip and left Ancestral Mountain, while Chen Lingxi decided to seek treasures to improve his cultivation and combat strength.
• Chen Lingxi retrieved the real Void-Return Sword Tower from Xuanying Cave, where it merged with the tower from the Total Perception Divine Chamber to form a six-tiered tower whose upper tiers remained sealed.
• Chen Lingxi headed for the North Sea to retrieve the sword he had seen there, hoping to increase his chances of surviving the Cave Heaven’s impending danger.

Chen Lingxi retrieved a treasured sword from the giant whale bones in the North Sea, then spent three months collecting twelve ancient treasures across Weiji Grotto-Heaven. While watching Emperor Daye temper Xiao Changlü’s avatar with a Cauldron Artifact Fragment, Chen Lingxi received a message ordering him to come see Emperor Daye.

• Chen Lingxi fought off the giant whale bones, seized the treasured sword from its spine, and escaped the North Sea.
• Chen Lingxi traveled through Weiji Grotto-Heaven for three months and collected twelve treasures, including the Spirit-Calming Shuttle, Profound-Binding Edict, Thunderstrike Wood, and Cloud-Compiled Heavenly Tome.
• Chen Lingxi watched Emperor Daye use the Weaving Delusion Golden Eyes and a Cauldron Vessel mirror to channel a spiritual impulse into Xiao Changlü’s avatar.
• Emperor Daye contacted Chen Lingxi through the communication jade slip and told him to come see him.

Chen Lingxi refined the Abyssal Heaven Spirit Sword and weighed the risks of meeting Emperor Daye at the Volcano Immortal Pivot. He arrived prepared to defend himself, but Emperor Daye revealed a soul-preserving treasure mirror and asked him to abandon his body and enter it.

• Chen Lingxi completely refined the Abyssal Heaven Spirit Sword and discovered that it could multiply his Sword Qi and awaken an Abyss Whale remnant soul.
• Chen Lingxi considered Emperor Daye’s invitation, assessed his treasures and cultivation, and decided he could risk visiting the Volcano Immortal Pivot.
• Chen Lingxi followed the jade slip’s guidance through the magma and met Emperor Daye beside Xiao Changlü’s incarnation.
• Emperor Daye revealed the Cauldron-Qi Spirit-Setting Treasure Mirror, which could preserve the three souls and seven spirits within it.
• Emperor Daye asked Chen Lingxi whether he would abandon his fleshly body and enter the mirror with his three souls and seven spirits.

Chen Lingxi considered Emperor Daye’s offer to place their souls in the Spirit-Placement Treasure Mirror and drift through the Void Turbulence, but delayed signing a pact until he could settle his affairs and strengthen himself with the Immortal Husk. Back at the Eastern King Palace, he planned to use his Immortal Ranking opportunity to complete his Total Perception Essence Replenishment.

• Emperor Daye explained that the Spirit-Placement Treasure Mirror could carry two sets of souls through the Void Turbulence, though they could neither control its course nor endure indefinitely.
• Emperor Daye offered Chen Lingxi a place in the mirror, with the condition that his soul could devour Chen Lingxi’s if they remained trapped too long, and presented a Dao Foundation Jade Law Document.
• Chen Lingxi asked to improve his cultivation with the Immortal Husk before entering the mirror, and Emperor Daye agreed to include the matter in their document.
• Chen Lingxi claimed he needed to settle worldly ties before signing, and Emperor Daye agreed to wait for him at the Volcano Immortal Pivot.
• Chen Lingxi returned to the Eastern King Palace and saw that his Total Perception Essence Replenishment progress had reached 93%.
• Chen Lingxi decided to use the Immortal Ranking’s spiritual opportunity to complete the remaining progress and test whether the four Immortal Pivots of the Luo Yuan River Water Mark could summon the true Great Sage Luo Yuan.

Chen Lingxi sought to advance on the Immortal Ranking and traveled to the Northern Icefield to challenge the sixth-ranked Golden-Crowned Demon Lord. After defeating the demon lord in a fierce battle, Chen Lingxi rose to sixth place on the ranking.

• Chen Lingxi decided that defeating the sixth-ranked Golden-Crowned Demon Lord could earn him spiritual opportunity and help replenish his Total Perception Essence.
• Chen Lingxi used Qi Observation to find the Golden-Crowned Demon Lord on the Northern Icefield, where the demon lord was forming a Guiding Passage Formation to project a treasure.
• The Golden-Crowned Demon Lord attacked Chen Lingxi with twelve Mystic-Ice Golden Swords, and Chen Lingxi countered with his Abyssal Heaven Spirit Sword and other treasures.
• The Golden-Crowned Demon Lord revealed his giant rooster true form and unleashed a threefold assault, but Chen Lingxi broke through it with his artifacts and Immortal-Execution Thunder.
• Chen Lingxi struck the Golden-Crowned Demon Lord's chest, suppressed his Consciousness Sea, and shattered his Dao Platform as the demon lord's incarnation dissipated.
• The Immortal Ranking replaced the Golden-Crowned Demon Lord's name with Chen Lingxi's, placing Chen Lingxi sixth.

After signing a binding agreement with Emperor Daye, Chen Lingxi used the Immortal Husk and Luo Yuan River Water to activate the four Immortal Pivots. Their combined resonance pierced the void, leaving Chen Lingxi and Emperor Daye wondering whether the Great Sage Luo Yuan’s true body would descend.

• Chen Lingxi completed Total Perception, then met Emperor Daye at the Volcano Immortal Pivot to sign a Dao Foundation Jade Law Document governing the Spirit-Placement Treasure Mirror and the Immortal Husk.
• As Chen Lingxi signed, the terms revealed the names Great Azure Father and Immortal Lord, and Emperor Daye gave him the Immortal Husk.
• Chen Lingxi showed Emperor Daye the Luo Yuan River Water and explained that its essence could activate four Immortal Pivots to summon the Great Sage Luo Yuan’s true body.
• Emperor Daye agreed to accompany Chen Lingxi, and Chen Lingxi used the river water at the Volcano, Storm, and Lake Immortal Pivots.
• At Ancestral Mountain, Chen Lingxi activated the fourth Immortal Pivot, causing all four to blaze with Dao resonance and send pillars of light into the heavens.

The Great Sage Luo Yuan descended into the Weiji Grotto-Heaven, but his awakened true body began devouring the Cave Heaven to restore its strength. Chen Lingxi, Emperor Daye, and Ying Xian were destroyed as the world collapsed, while the Twin Luminous Mirrors suddenly shone upon Chen Lingxi.

• Four beams converged and opened a black hole, from which the Luo Yuan River emerged and formed the Great Sage Luo Yuan's true body.
• The Great Sage awakened, leading Chen Lingxi, Emperor Daye, and Ying Xian to hope the Quexing Xi Family's True Lord would no longer refine the Weiji Grotto-Heaven.
• The Great Sage's phantom Long River began consuming the Cave Heaven, and its mountains, rivers, cities, and living beings turned to ash.
• Chen Lingxi realized the Great Sage was refining his Dao field to restore his strength, and his own cultivation and body began to collapse alongside Emperor Daye's and Ying Xian's.
• Chen Lingxi, Emperor Daye, and Ying Xian dispersed as the Cave Heaven crumbled, and the Twin Luminous Mirrors bathed Chen Lingxi's body in blinding light.