Chapter Summaries

Zhao Li exposed the Snake People Tribe’s Divine Statue as a Heavenly Flame and summoned the Bone Chilling Flame to confront it. He prepared to let Xiao Yan witness the flames devouring each other.

• Zhao Li knocked out the old woman, took control of her body, and watched her kneel before the Giant Serpent Divine Statue.
• The elders summoned a Black Giant Python to attack Zhao Li, but he dispersed it with a glance and warned them not to try again.
• The Fourth Elder and the Divine Statue tried to shift the Bamboo House into another space, but Zhao Li stopped them and demanded that the presence inside the statue emerge.
• A giant python phantom appeared and called the statue’s presence Ancestor You; Zhao Li recognized it as a Heavenly Flame and revealed the Bone Chilling Flame.
• Zhao Li sent the Bone Chilling Flame to fight the Black Giant Python and told Xiao Yan to watch the Heavenly Flames devour each other.

Zhao Li let the Bone Chilling Flame battle the black Heavenly Flame hidden in the Snake Ancestor’s statue, revealing that their fusion involved the rules contained within them. The discovery confirmed his theory that Heavenly Flames were fragments of the Plane Embryo, while leaving him wondering how the Flame Mantra and Tou She Ancient God fit into it.

• Zhao Li warned the others that the Black Giant Python was a Heavenly Flame and let it clash with the Bone Chilling Flame.
• Xiao Yan watched the fierce battle and wondered whether Heavenly Flames could truly be fused.
• Zhao Li observed the flames’ collision and saw a point where their energies fused without exploding.
• Zhao Li examined the temporary fused flame and realized that Heavenly Flame fusion combined their Power of Rules as well as their energy.
• Zhao Li concluded that the World Will may have mistaken his accumulated understanding of origins for a re-formed Plane Embryo, then questioned the Flame Mantra’s role and Tou She Ancient God’s whereabouts.

Zhao Li entered the Divine Statue’s hidden world to investigate the black Exotic Flame and identified it as the Nine Nether Wind Flame. After the flame attacked him and failed, it gathered its forces around its lair, leaving Zhao Li facing its next move.

• Zhao Li stopped the Bone Chilling Flame and the black python from fighting, then carried the python into the Divine Statue.
• Zhao Li explored the statue’s mountain forest and sensed the Exotic Flame’s origin in its central region.
• The Nine Nether Wind Flame attacked Zhao Li with a massive storm of black wind, but he dispersed it by walking through it.
• The remaining winds fled to a dark gorge, where Zhao Li identified the Exotic Flame as the tenth-ranked Nine Nether Wind Flame.
• The Nine Nether Wind Flame spread black flames across the mountain range and arranged them like soldiers as chilling energy swept outward.

Zhao Li questioned the Nine Nether Wind Flame about the Nine Nether Flame Snake's Grave, the Snake People Tribe's secret method, and the Elder's fate. After learning the truth, he said he wanted the flame to assist his cultivation and began imprinting its Mysteries of Rules.

• Nine Nether Wind Flame asked Zhao Li to leave, but he took her throne and demanded to know about the grave and its owner.
• Nine Nether Wind Flame explained that the Nine Nether Flame Snake had created the secret method to take over a talented descendant's body and pursue a breakthrough.
• Nine Nether Wind Flame revealed that she had possessed the Elder and used Fire Seeds to absorb nutrients from snake-shaped souls brought to her as a miracle.
• Zhao Li learned that the snake-shaped souls had been absorbed before they could harm the Snake People Tribe infants, and he asked Nine Nether Wind Flame to assist his cultivation.
• Nine Nether Wind Flame accused Zhao Li of breaking his word, while he sent his Soul Power into her origin and began imprinting the Mysteries of Rules.

Zhao Li subdued the Nine Nether Wind Flame after it tried to self-destruct, then left to attend to Cailin’s matter. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan questioned whether the Flame Mantra could safely merge Heavenly Flames, and Yao Chen recalled its slim chances of success.

• The Nine Nether Wind Flame tried to self-destruct when Zhao Li sought its origin, so Zhao Li dispersed its energy and intelligence and subdued it.
• Zhao Li restored the collapsing space, discovered the Nine Nether Earth Python’s connection to the Snake People Tribe, and considered investigating the clan and the Yellow Springs Demon Saint.
• Zhao Li decided to leave and settle Cailin’s matter, while the people in the Bamboo House reacted to his sudden disappearance.
• Xiao Yan questioned Yao Chen about the Heavenly Flames he had seen, and Yao Chen warned him to consider the danger of devouring and merging another flame.
• Yao Chen recalled that the Flame Mantra had a very low chance of success and that most cultivators would fail to advance it beyond the Yellow-Tier.

Xiao Yan chose to keep cultivating the Flame Mantra and accepted Zhao Li’s Nine Nether Wind Flame, then revealed that he had already obtained the Green Lotus Core Flame. While examining the Green Lotus Core Flame, Zhao Li comprehended its powers of destruction and creation and began to suspect that its lotus pedestal concealed the flame’s true origin.

• Xiao Yan agonized over whether to abandon the Flame Mantra, but Zhao Li’s arrival with the Nine Nether Wind Flame tipped him toward risking its cultivation.
• Xiao Yan caught the Nine Nether Wind Flame and told Zhao Li that he had another Heavenly Flame waiting to be devoured.
• Xiao Yan showed Zhao Li the Green Lotus Core Flame and its Lotus Seat, astonishing those present with the rare treasure.
• Zhao Li examined the Green Lotus Core Flame’s Origin Flame and comprehended its conceptions of destruction and creation.
• Zhao Li noticed that the Green Lotus Core Flame’s creation power seemed rootless and questioned whether the lotus pedestal was more than a Heavenly Treasure.

Zhao Li investigated the Green Lotus Core Flame’s birthplace after suspecting the Lotus Pedestal had an extraordinary origin. He reached the magma cavern beneath the mountain range and began examining the place while Xiao Yan, Yao Chen, and Yun Shan waited above.

• Zhao Li decided to investigate where the Green Lotus Core Flame had been born and asked Xiao Yan to lead him there.
• Zhao Li instantly transported Xiao Yan to Snake People King City, then carried him to the Green Lotus Core Flame’s birthplace after Xiao Yan pointed out the route.
• Zhao Li found that the birthplace had become the core of a mountain range rather than a barren desert, and Xiao Yan identified the gorge passage leading underground.
• Zhao Li wondered whether Heavenly Flames could hide themselves from even his powerful Soul Power and whether their origins were connected to the World Origin.
• Yun Shan and Yao Chen arrived, and Zhao Li warned Yao Chen and Xiao Yan not to devour any flames until he returned.
• Zhao Li descended through the passage and reached the underground cavern, where he stood above the magma.

Zhao Li explored the magma beneath the former Tagor Great Desert and discovered that a Heavenly Flame still remained there. After returning the Green Lotus Core Flame to its root stalk, he found that the restored lotus had grown an additional petal.

• Zhao Li entered the magma and searched for signs of living creatures but found none.
• He sensed unusually high temperatures deeper in the magma and realized a Heavenly Flame was still present.
• Zhao Li entered an azure-lit space and found the bare root stalk from which the Green Lotus Core Flame had been taken.
• He placed the Green Lotus Core Flame's lotus pedestal back on the stalk, restoring its bloom.
• Zhao Li counted the restored lotus's petals and discovered it had nine instead of eight.

Zhao Li investigated the green lotus after it grew an extra leaf and discovered that its roots absorbed far more magma energy than the Green Lotus Core Flame received. When the roots latched onto his Dou Qi, he cut off their connection to the magma and used Power of Origin to seize the lotus’s stored energy for his Inner Universe.

• Zhao Li used the Divine Light of Truth and Origin to inspect the space and found a green network spreading from the Lotus Stem through the Magma World.
• Zhao Li discovered that the roots absorbed ten times more energy than the Green Lotus Core Flame received, though he could not see where the excess went.
• Zhao Li fed Creation Force into the lotus, but it showed no change before its roots began greedily pulling at his Dou Qi.
• Zhao Li severed the lotus’s connection to the magma, leaving his Dou Qi as its only available energy source.
• Zhao Li mixed Power of Origin into his Dou Qi, allowing it to spread through and take over the lotus’s energy before he drew it into his Inner Universe.

Zhao Li battled the Green Lotus Core Flame and realized that the green lotus was linked to a hidden space, possibly through its roots. He headed underground to find the lotus’s true location.

• Zhao Li used Innate Qi to reclaim energy from the green lotus, but it severed its connection to his space and unleashed an illusory lotus attack.
• Zhao Li dissolved the attack into energy and suspected the green lotus before him was a projection of the Ancient Azure Sky Lotus in a hidden space.
• Zhao Li tried to approach the apparently weakened lotus, but his attacks passed through it, and he realized it became physical only when absorbing energy.
• Zhao Li calmed himself and reconsidered what he had seen, then deduced that the green lotus’s roots connected to the hidden space rather than the ground beneath the magma.
• Zhao Li flashed underground to search for the space where the lotus truly existed.

Zhao Li discovered a Chaos-bound space beneath the magma and entered it, enduring its oppressive energy and dangerous storms. He emerged before a towering green lotus and saw its history unfold, including how its seed and flame could nurture origins and recondense a Plane Embryo.

• Zhao Li found that the stone beneath the magma was the boundary of a Chaos space and passed through it using Chaos Qi.
• Zhao Li's stomp shook the mountain range, so Yun Shan and Yao Chen blocked the shockwaves while Xiao Yan watched.
• Zhao Li traveled through the Chaos Belt, converted Chaos Qi into energy, and emerged on the other side.
• Zhao Li saw a towering green lotus and witnessed its growth from a Chaos-born seed to a blooming lotus that created all things.

Zhao Li entered the chaotic space and met the First Emperor, who had been waiting inside an azure lotus for nearly a hundred thousand years. After learning that Origin Qi had disappeared from the Dou Qi Continent, the First Emperor asked Zhao Li to explain what had happened outside.

• Zhao Li saw an azure lotus nurturing a seemingly lifeless figure and wondered whether it was a Creation Azure Lotus holding a Heaven Opening Great God.
• The figure awakened and revealed himself as the First Emperor, whom Zhao Li respectfully greeted.
• The First Emperor welcomed Zhao Li and expressed relief that the Dou Qi Continent had preserved its inheritance against erosion from beyond the domain.
• The First Emperor questioned how Zhao Li had become a Heavenly Supreme without being a Dou Di or possessing a complete Plane Embryo.
• Zhao Li explained that Origin Qi had vanished from the Dou Qi Continent and that he had taken an Alternative Path to Emperor.
• The First Emperor invited Zhao Li to call him Brother Ye and asked him to describe the outside world and explain why Origin Qi was gone.

Zhao Li told First Emperor Ye about Dou Qi Continent’s history and learned that Ye had fought the Outer Realm Evil Race in the Great Thousand World. Suspecting that Ye was the legendary Immortal Great Emperor, Zhao Li cautiously asked about the realms above Heavenly Supreme and whether Ye was seeking a successor.

• Zhao Li told First Emperor Ye how Dou Qi Continent had fought the Outer Realm Evil Race, sealed Jiu You, and endured for tens of thousands of years without another Dou Di.
• First Emperor Ye praised the people who had defended the continent and explained that he had been fighting the Outer Realm Evil Race in the Great Thousand World.
• First Emperor Ye said he had seized some of Heavenly Evil God's Dao resonance, found a possible way to seal him, and left a consciousness behind after returning to his homeland.
• Zhao Li suspected First Emperor Ye was the Immortal Great Emperor who had left his surname on the Heavenly Rankings.
• Zhao Li asked First Emperor Ye what realm lay above Heavenly Supreme and whether he was seeking a successor.

Zhao Li learned that the First Emperor was the Immortal Great Emperor and discussed his own use of Heavenly Flames with him. The First Emperor offered to teach Zhao Li how to reassemble the Plane Embryo, revealing that it could connect its master to the World Origin and greatly accelerate cultivation.

• Zhao Li recognized the First Emperor as the Immortal Great Emperor and tried to establish a respectful connection with him.
• The First Emperor accepted Zhao Li’s right to undergo the trial and asked whether he had mastered the Plane Embryo.
• Zhao Li displayed his Life Flame and Bone Chilling Flame, explaining that he had drawn insights from Heavenly Flames without fusing them.
• The First Emperor recognized that Zhao Li’s cultivation treated his body like a Plane Embryo and offered him a method to reassemble one.
• The First Emperor explained that Heavenly Supreme had Spirit, Immortal, and Saint grades, and that a Plane Embryo connected its master to the World Origin and sped up advancement.

First Emperor explained the Dou Qi Continent’s Plane Embryo, his rise to Half-step Dominator, and the origins of the Heavenly Flames and Flame Mantra. Zhao Li learned that the white scroll he had brought was an imprint of the Heavenly Rankings, which First Emperor had tried to refine into the real thing.

• Zhao Li asked First Emperor whether he expected anything from him, and First Emperor said Zhao Li was too weak to have a task yet.
• First Emperor explained that Dou Di were Quasi Heavenly Supremes, described how he split the Plane Embryo into twenty-two fragments, and recounted his journey into the Great Thousand World and battle against the Heavenly Evil God.
• First Emperor told Zhao Li that the Heavenly Rankings had let him brand his surname and borrow the Great Thousand World’s origin, making him a Half-step Dominator, but that his ties to the Dou Qi Continent kept him from fully controlling it.
• First Emperor revealed that the Plane Embryo fragments became the twenty-two Heavenly Flames and that he created the Flame Mantra to fuse them and restore the Plane Embryo.
• Zhao Li showed First Emperor the white scroll, and First Emperor identified it as his imprint of the Heavenly Rankings and explained that he had tried to refine it into the real thing.

Immortal Great Emperor told Zhao Li how the Great Thousand World’s will had thwarted his ambitions and revealed his plan to strengthen the Dou Qi Continent until it could forge its own Heavenly Rankings. He showed Zhao Li that a three-grade green lotus had nurtured an ancient world, whose surviving continent became the Dou Qi Continent, leaving Zhao Li inspired by the world’s hidden potential.

• Immortal Great Emperor explained that the Heavenly Rankings had let him leave his surname on it but ultimately removed him from the Great Thousand World.
• Immortal Great Emperor said he had planned to nurture the Dou Qi Continent until it could match the Great Thousand World and forge its own Heavenly Rankings.
• Immortal Great Emperor revealed that the green lotus behind him had nurtured the world from which the Dou Qi Continent arose.
• Zhao Li watched the green lotus’s world evolve, then saw two supreme experts battle until the world shattered and its protected central continent became the Dou Qi Continent.
• Immortal Great Emperor said the lotus was recovering and could one day help the Dou Qi Continent regain the strength of that ancient world, inspiring Zhao Li to share his hopes for the future.

Zhao Li learned that the First Emperor’s inheritance trial had already begun and was forced to fight him. Though Zhao Li’s Five-Colored Divine Light matched the First Emperor’s opening attacks, the First Emperor prepared a far more dangerous sword strike.

• The First Emperor revealed that he had no formal trial in mind and had only wanted to see how the Dou Qi Continent’s descendants were faring.
• The First Emperor pulled Zhao Li into a strange space and warned that he might kill him if he refused to continue the trial.
• Zhao Li accepted the unavoidable fight, covered himself in Innate Qi, and formed a Taiji phantom.
• The First Emperor attacked with a Sword Light, and Zhao Li countered with Five-Colored Divine Light, reducing their surroundings to Chaos.
• Zhao Li used the force of their clash to strengthen his next palm strike, but the First Emperor gathered One Hundred Twenty-Eight Sword Lights into a single attack that threatened to collapse the space.

Zhao Li fought the First Emperor with his Yin-Yang Twin Dragons, but the First Emperor’s overwhelming power eventually overcame them. The First Emperor stopped the trial before Zhao Li’s unstable energies could destroy their surroundings, and both recognized Zhao Li’s remarkable strength.

• Zhao Li formed Black and White Twin Dragons from the Jade Emperor and Houtu to meet the First Emperor’s sword light.
• The First Emperor combined countless sword lights into a strike powerful enough to threaten an Immortal Grade Supreme.
• Zhao Li’s twin dragons split the sword light, but the clash exhausted them and the weakened sword began moving again.
• Zhao Li prepared to unleash destructive power from the Yin-Yang Twin Fish, so the First Emperor froze time around him and halted the attack.
• The First Emperor concluded that Zhao Li could stand undefeated against nearly any Spirit Grade Heavenly Supreme and had become a minor expert in the Great Thousand World.

Zhao Li ended his battle with the First Emperor, who declared him the winner and revealed the true Azure Lotus Space. Zhao Li entered and, seeing the Azure Lotus in Chaos, instinctively moved toward its pedestal.

• The First Emperor restrained Zhao Li, dispersed the unstable Yin-Yang Fish, and praised his mastery of Rule Origin before releasing him.
• Zhao Li explained that his Black and White Twin Fish technique was Taiji, and the First Emperor praised its potential to govern yin and yang.
• Zhao Li asked about the battle's result, and the First Emperor declared Zhao Li the winner but said he would need to pass more trials for the inheritance.
• The First Emperor revealed that the trials originated from the Azure Lotus Space and opened a doorway to the true Azure Lotus.
• Zhao Li entered the doorway, saw the Azure Lotus growing amid Chaos, and instinctively headed toward its lotus pedestal.

Zhao Li reached the green lotus and comprehended its Dao Rhymes, transforming his Inner Universe and creating the Azure Lotus Dharma Body. He left the lotus at the Immortal Grade, with his Inner Universe still evolving and the promise of even greater strength ahead.

• Zhao Li arrived at the center of the Lotus Pedestal, where the green lotus's Dao Rhyme enveloped him and awakened his consciousness.
• Zhao Li absorbed the displayed Dao Principles, rapidly perfecting his methods and feeding streams of rules into his Inner Universe as Jade Emperor and Houtu guided its growth.
• The Inner Universe erupted with lightning, and a green lotus emerged, bringing life and activity to its barren world.
• Zhao Li forged the Azure Lotus Dharma Body, transforming his body and establishing the lotus as the foundation and source of his Inner Universe.
• Zhao Li dispersed his Dharma Body and discovered that the green lotus had grown a tenth petal, reaching the fourth grade.
• Zhao Li judged that his new strength could rival a Saint Grade Heavenly Supreme, while recognizing that his Inner Universe's transformation had not yet finished.