Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• Li Ming senses that his daughter, Li Lian’er, is nearing Dao Dissolution: her Grand Dao Imprint is collapsing as she tries to survive a third lifetime through the risky War Immortal Method and open the Sixth Secret Realm. He begins investigating the cause and possible flaws in her approach.
• Lian’er continues her transformation in the Kunlun Secret Realm, refusing to give up her ambition to prove she can surpass her father. She considers trying again in the Strange World if her current attempt fails.
• A Dark Supreme, furious that Li Ming forbade him from prolonging his life by devouring countless souls, curses Lian’er’s Grand Dao Imprint. Li Ming intervenes, and the Myriad Souls Banner devours the Supreme and his Forbidden Zone. Lian’er’s imprint stabilizes.
• Li Ming keeps watch over Lian’er for ten thousand years. During that time, the Grand Dao Imprint fades, a new age begins, and the Golden-Winged Heavenly Peng—daughter of the slain Roc Emperor—wins the contest for emperor enlightenment and becomes the Empress Golden-Winged Heavenly Peng.
• After another ten thousand years, Li Ming discovers that Lian’er’s transformation has reached its decisive stage. Her body dissolves into mud, which nourishes a third Grand Dao Lotus. The lotus blooms, and Lian’er’s body reforms as a newborn-like figure. She has successfully lived out her third lifetime and entered the Red Dust Immortal Path.

Character development and interactions

• Li Lian’er remains fiercely independent and determined, willing to risk death rather than abandon her chosen path. Despite the danger and her father’s doubts, her transformation succeeds.
• Li Ming balances concern with respect for his adult daughter’s choices. He protects her from the curse, studies her unusual transformation, and ultimately celebrates her success, though he still questions whether her attempt to force open the Sixth Secret Realm was wise.
• The Dark Supreme is driven to desperation by impending death and turns against Lian’er to punish Li Ming; his scheme ends with his imprisonment and absorption by the Myriad Souls Banner.
• The Empress Golden-Winged Heavenly Peng appears as a powerful new emperor, underscoring the changing generations of the cultivation world.

Significant themes

• Ambition versus limits: Lian’er’s determination to pursue an unprecedented path may be reckless, but it ultimately leads to a breakthrough.
• Life, death, and transformation: The lotus imagery presents rebirth as a profound process in which destruction becomes the basis for new life.
• Freedom and protection: Li Ming allows Lian’er to choose her own path while stepping in when an enemy threatens her.
• Power and its consequences: The Dark Supreme’s pursuit of immortality through mass slaughter ends in a grim form of eternal confinement, while Li Ming’s protection preserves Lian’er’s chance at genuine renewal.

Plot and events

• Li Lian’er awakens from a long dormancy and successfully begins her third lifetime. She tells Li Ming that each transformation has greatly increased her strength and lifespan, and that she can already sense how she might enter a fourth lifetime.
• Li and his daughter discuss her mysterious lotus-seed form and its six golden imprints, which may be connected to her transformations. Li Ming explains that the Red Dust Immortal Path depends on accumulating lifetimes until age can no longer affect the body and longevity substance appears.
• Li Lian’er plans to enter the Strange World when she can no longer begin another lifetime. She hopes its longevity substance will help her pursue the Battle Immortal Path and open a sixth secret realm, and intends to take one of Li Ming’s Immortal Medicines with her.
• Ten thousand years later, Empress Golden-Winged Heavenly Peng arrives at the Undying Mountain and publicly challenges Li Ming. Though she once might have sought revenge for her father, she now wants a powerful opponent to help her overcome a cultivation bottleneck.
• Li Ming defeats her with a single finger flick, hurling her into the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland and forcing her to reform her body. Recognizing his overwhelming strength and restraint, she thanks him and asks for guidance.
• The empress approaches Li Ming flirtatiously, but the encounter reveals her real purpose and a startling secret: she possesses the Kunpeng Immortal Medicine, which shifts between Kun and Peng forms and embodies Yin-Yang power.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Lian’er is restored to life, grows even more confident in her unusual path, and remains proud of her father. Her ambition and talent impress Li Ming, though he sees her as stubborn and conceited.
• Li Ming acts as a mentor to Li Lian’er, helping her reason through her transformations. He later demonstrates the vast gulf between himself and the empress, while recognizing that she has come seeking guidance rather than revenge.
• Empress Golden-Winged Heavenly Peng shifts from a seemingly bold challenger to a humble student once she senses Li Ming’s power. Her flirtation is playful, but beneath it she seeks help advancing her cultivation and understanding how to begin another lifetime.
• The empress’s connection to the Kunpeng medicine has shaped her Forbidden Secret Art, allowing her to manifest both Kun and Peng forms. She believes mastering that transformation may be central to her Red Dust Immortal path.

Significant themes

• Transformation through life and death: Li Lian’er and the empress pursue new lifetimes as a route to greater longevity and power.
• Ambition tempered by humility: Both women have extraordinary potential, but progress requires recognizing limits and seeking guidance.
• Lineage, inheritance, and identity: Li Lian’er’s golden imprints and the empress’s faint Kunpeng ancestry suggest that inherited mysteries may shape their futures.
• Power and mentorship: Li Ming’s overwhelming strength is not merely destructive; his example and instruction can redirect others’ ambitions.

Chapter Summary: “Primordial Spirit Joins the Dao”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Empress Golden-Winged Heavenly Peng enters Undying Mountain after challenging Li Ming, the Demon Venerable, and being defeated.
• Li Ming and the Empress unite through a mystical merging of their Primordial Spirits, creating an intensely profound spiritual and physical connection.
• They spend a thousand years discussing cultivation, immortality, and the Dao. Li Ming explains the Red Dust Immortal Transformation Method and other longevity techniques, giving the Empress new hope for advancing beyond her current lifetime.
• After leaving Undying Mountain, the Empress appears healthy and revitalized, contradicting the expectations of outside observers who assumed she had been killed, enslaved, or forced to submit.
• She begins studying the Kunpeng Divine Medicine, hoping to use its mysteries to survive a Third Lifetime and possibly evolve a Chaotic Body capable of supporting a Fourth Lifetime.
• Rumors spread that she has become Li Ming’s maid or lover and has abandoned her hatred of him, despite his connection to her father’s death.
• Enraged after learning that two Dark Supremes in a Life Forbidden Zone started the rumors, she attacks their territory without hesitation.
• The two Dark Supremes mock her relationship with Li Ming and attempt to provoke or shame her. Instead, she openly praises Li Ming as a holy teacher who created a new immortal path and condemns the Dark Supremes as decaying remnants of the past.
• The Dark Supremes consider undergoing Extreme Sublimation to restore their peak strength, but Empress Golden-Winged Heavenly Peng attacks them before they can gain an advantage.
• Her extraordinary speed and Yin-Yang-infused power allow her to severely injure both opponents almost instantly while remaining unharmed.

Character Developments

• Empress Golden-Winged Heavenly Peng: Her encounter with Li Ming transforms her outlook. She gains deeper insight into cultivation, discovers a possible route to future lifetimes, and develops a clear goal of surpassing her former limits. Rather than becoming submissive, she becomes even more confident, focused, and battle-hungry. She also adopts a strong admiration for Li Ming as a guide and teacher.
• Li Ming/Demon Venerable: He demonstrates not only overwhelming strength but also profound understanding of immortality and Dao cultivation. His guidance gives the Empress a new path forward and establishes him as a figure capable of inspiring loyalty and reverence even among former enemies.
• The Dark Supremes: They are shown to be resentful, desperate, and increasingly obsolete. Their dependence on Dark Turmoil for survival is blocked by Li Ming’s influence, leaving them resentful of him and fearful of fighting his allies.

Significant Themes

• Spiritual union and transcendence: The merging of the two Primordial Spirits represents a union deeper than physical intimacy, emphasizing the cultivation world’s connection between body, soul, and Dao.
• Transformation through enlightenment: The Empress’s encounter with Li Ming changes her from a powerful but directionless emperor into someone with a concrete path toward further evolution and longevity.
• Old versus new cultivation paths: Li Ming’s Red Dust Immortal Path challenges the stagnant methods of the Dark Supremes, who rely on devouring living beings to prolong their existence.
• Pride and loyalty: Although proud and independent, the Empress recognizes Li Ming’s superior wisdom and defends him fiercely against those she considers unworthy to criticize him.
• Rumor versus reality: Outsiders interpret the Empress’s healthy appearance and continued visits to Undying Mountain as evidence of submission, while the truth is that she has gained insight, strength, and purpose.
• The struggle for longevity: The Kunpeng Divine Medicine and the Red Dust Immortal Transformation Method offer possible ways to overcome the limits of mortal lifetimes and approach true immortality.

Character Interactions

• Li Ming and Empress Golden-Winged Heavenly Peng share an intimate Primordial Spirit union that profoundly affects both of them.
• Their thousand-year discussion of the Dao establishes Li Ming as the Empress’s mentor and gives her new confidence in her future.
• The Empress rejects the assumptions of outside cultivators who believe she has become Li Ming’s servant.
• She confronts the two Dark Supremes directly, refusing both their insults and their attempts to claim kinship through her deceased father.
• Her praise of Li Ming sharply contrasts with the Dark Supremes’ resentment, setting up the conflict between Li Ming’s new immortal order and the old Forbidden Zone powers.

Concise Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Empress Golden-Winged Heavenly Peng defeats two Dark Supremes. At the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland, she uses her unmatched speed and golden, sword-like form to kill them both, despite their Extreme Sublimation. The battle leaves her wounded, and the victory comes from her powerful vitality and the opponents’ near-exhausted lifespans—not from reaching the Heavenly Emperor realm.
• She joins Li Ming at the Undying Mountain. She gives the Dark Supremes’ bodies to the Myriad Souls Banner, which consumes them and grows stronger. She then stays at the mountain to study transformation methods.
• The Empress achieves a Third Lifetime, then leaves for the Strange World. After roughly a thousand years, she succeeds in extending her life, but eventually concludes that she cannot attain a Fourth Lifetime without more time and a new approach. She takes the Kunpeng Divine Medicine with her, hoping its origins in the fallen Kunpeng Immortal King’s Nirvana will reveal a path forward. Li Ming warns her that others may covet it.
• Li Lian’er is reborn into a Fourth Lifetime. Li Ming observes her Lotus Seed form develop new golden markings and undergo a dangerous transformation through Dao Fire. It finally sprouts, and Li Lian’er returns, stronger and with deeper foundations.
• Li Lian’er remains determined to pursue the Battle Immortal path. She believes further transformations may enable her to master the War Immortal Method and force open a Sixth Secret Realm. Li Ming considers this premature and encourages her to follow the established Red Dust Immortal path, but she persists.
• Twenty thousand years later, Li Lian’er enters the Strange World. She senses Longevity Substance there, but soon finds herself surrounded by powerful cultivators. The chapter ends with her wondering whether they are enemies or allies.

Character developments

• Empress Golden-Winged Heavenly Peng proves herself a formidable fighter and becomes more capable through her Third Lifetime. Though she cannot yet extend her life again, she is resourceful and willing to seek answers beyond her world.
• Li Ming continues studying immortal medicines and transformation methods. He is protective of both women but ultimately respects their choices, even when he disagrees with their plans.
• Li Lian’er emerges from her Fourth Lifetime more powerful and perceptive about life and death. Her defining trait is her stubborn ambition: she refuses to abandon the dangerous, unconventional Battle Immortal path.

Significant themes

• Longevity through transformation: New lifetimes require perilous changes and continued discovery; even immense power does not guarantee further life.
• Ambition versus caution: Li Ming favors proven, gradual cultivation, while Li Lian’er seeks a seemingly impossible breakthrough.
• Inheritance and study: The Kunpeng Divine Medicine and Li Lian’er’s transformation both show how understanding the origins and workings of life can unlock new paths.
• Leaving the familiar for opportunity: Both the Empress and Li Lian’er enter the Strange World seeking answers, accepting the risks of an unknown realm.

Character interactions

• The Empress and Li Ming exchange trust and practical advice: she brings him the Dark Supremes’ remains, and he cautions her about carrying the rare Kunpeng Divine Medicine into another world.
• Li Ming and Li Lian’er share a close, affectionate father-daughter reunion after her rebirth. They celebrate her achievement and discuss her cultivation, but disagree over whether she should pursue the Battle Immortal path.
• Li Lian’er ultimately chooses her own course, and Li Ming lets her go. Her arrival in the Strange World immediately sets up a new uncertainty: the powerful beings surrounding her may be hostile—or not.

Key plot points and events

• After a long era of renewed cultivation, many Quasi-Emperors compete along the Ancient Starry Sky Road, but none can attain Emperor Enlightenment.
• A Perfected Sacred Spirit awakens on a desolate planet. Calling himself a child of Heaven, he declares that he will become the age’s sovereign and challenges every Quasi-Emperor at once.
• The assembled contenders—including a Great Achievement Tyrant Body and an Immortal Golden Body—fight him together. The Sacred Spirit proves overwhelmingly powerful, killing them and the other Quasi-Emperors.
• Rather than immediately seek the throne, he seals his cultivation and spends centuries refining himself by absorbing chaos. He then survives the Dao-Proving Tribulation and merges with the Heavenly Heart Imprint, becoming the Stone Emperor.
• After consolidating his power, the Stone Emperor rules with formidable authority but unexpectedly refrains from further slaughter or revenge. He establishes the Sacred Spirit Heavenly Court, which quickly attracts Sacred Spirits and congratulations from a forbidden zone.

Character developments

• The Stone Emperor is introduced as arrogant, ferocious, and seemingly destined to unleash widespread bloodshed. His willingness to temper his own power shows patience and ambition beyond his innate strength. After becoming Emperor, he restrains his violence, though his brutal nature keeps the world wary.
• The Quasi-Emperors shift from competing for the throne to joining forces simply to survive, but their combined strength cannot stop him.
• The Immortal Golden Body acts to oppose the Sacred Spirit’s slaughter, reflecting a sense of duty to protect living beings, but is defeated.

Significant themes

• Innate power versus refinement: The Stone Emperor is born near the pinnacle, yet deliberately tempers himself further before proving his Dao.
• The cost of ambition: The struggle for Emperor Enlightenment turns rivals into desperate allies, and the Stone Emperor’s ascent leaves the contenders dead.
• Power and restraint: His emergence inspires fear, but his decision not to continue killing suggests that ultimate power can be accompanied by self-control.
• The instability of a new age: Even with many exceptional contenders, one overwhelming figure can reshape the balance of the entire world.

Character interactions

• The Stone Emperor openly insults and provokes the Quasi-Emperors, drawing them into a joint battle.
• The Great Achievement Tyrant Body confronts him directly and is killed; the Immortal Golden Body intervenes against his brutality but is also defeated.
• After his ascension, the Stone Emperor does not retaliate against the clans whose Emperor weapon formations were used against him. Sacred Spirits and even representatives of a forbidden zone instead approach his new Heavenly Court.

Chapter Summary: “Guiding Huang Xudao”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Stone Emperor establishes the Sacred Spirit Heavenly Court and proclaims himself the Sacred Spirit Heavenly Emperor. Empowered by immense Faith Power, he reaches the peak of his Second Lifetime.
• Believing himself invincible, Stone Emperor decides to seize Undying Mountain, hoping to obtain its Immortal Tears Green Gold Sacred Spirit Vein.
• Several Sacred Spirit Supremes warn him not to provoke Demon Venerable, but Stone Emperor insults them as cowards whose Dao Hearts have collapsed.
• At Undying Mountain, Stone Emperor confronts the Heavenly Demonic Saber and Myriad Souls Banner. He arrogantly demands that Demon Venerable appear and prepares to attack the two Immortal Weapons.
• Li Ming, the Demon Venerable, finally intervenes. His Chaos-covered hand effortlessly ignores Stone Emperor’s “Stone Sealing the World” technique, grabs him, suppresses him, and seals him in a wine jar.
• Stone Emperor is refined into Sacred Spirit Immortal Wine. Li Ming destroys his still-cursing Primordial Spirit and buries the jar.
• Stone Emperor’s death triggers terrifying heavenly phenomena, including blood storms, black lightning, Yellow Springs water, and the cries of ghosts and gods. The world then enters approximately twenty thousand years of Grand Dao suppression.
• When a new Golden Age begins, Huang Xudao, son of the Blood Phoenix Ancient Emperor, achieves Emperor Enlightenment and becomes known as the New Blood Phoenix.
• Unlike his father, Huang Xudao does not seek to rule or become a Dark Supreme. He focuses on immortality and the Red Dust Immortal Transformation Method.
• Believing that Li Ming’s inheritance helped him achieve enlightenment, Huang Xudao visits Undying Mountain and remains there for over a century seeking guidance.
• Afterward, Huang Xudao becomes markedly stronger. He kills a Dark Supreme attempting to unleash a Dark Turmoil and declares that he will pursue the Red Dust Immortal Transformation Method rather than severing his cultivation.
• Near the end of his Second Lifetime, Huang Xudao uses Phoenix Blood Crimson Gold to attempt a Nirvana-like rebirth. His body and Primordial Spirit burn to ashes, but after a thousand years, he resurrects as a powerful Blood Phoenix, successfully entering his Third Lifetime.

Character Developments

• Stone Emperor: His confidence develops into reckless arrogance. He views himself as superior to older Sacred Spirit Supremes and dismisses the danger of Demon Venerable. His refusal to heed warnings leads directly to his effortless defeat and death.
• Li Ming/Demon Venerable: He remains calm and detached throughout the crisis, observing Stone Emperor while drinking tea. His overwhelming power confirms his status as an invincible True Immortal. He also judges Stone Emperor according to his history of massacres and Dark Turmoil, deciding that he is beyond redemption.
• Huang Xudao: He is presented as the opposite of Stone Emperor. Though powerful, he is humble, focused, and willing to seek guidance. His dedication to cultivation, rejection of the Dark Supreme path, and successful Third Lifetime demonstrate both wisdom and perseverance.
• Sacred Spirit Supremes: They show caution born from experience, attempting to prevent Stone Emperor’s suicide. Their fear of Demon Venerable contrasts sharply with Stone Emperor’s arrogance.
• Dark Supremes: They remain fearful and resentful of Demon Venerable. Huang Xudao’s refusal to become a Dark Supreme threatens their already dwindling numbers and highlights their ideological conflict with him.

Significant Themes

• Arrogance versus humility: Stone Emperor’s loud confidence leads to destruction, while Huang Xudao’s willingness to learn allows him to advance.
• The consequences of defying superior power: Stone Emperor ignores repeated warnings and is destroyed instantly, reinforcing Demon Venerable’s absolute authority.
• Different paths to immortality: The chapter contrasts the Dark Supremes’ methods of self-slashing and waiting for the Road to Immortality with Huang Xudao’s pursuit of the Red Dust Immortal Transformation Method.
• Nirvana and rebirth: Huang Xudao’s resurrection through Phoenix Blood Crimson Gold symbolizes renewal, perseverance, and transcending one’s original bloodline limitations.
• Legacy and inheritance: Huang Xudao believes Li Ming’s influence helped him achieve enlightenment, and his visit reflects the importance of seeking wisdom from those who have already surpassed ordinary limits.
• Justice and karmic consequences: Stone Emperor’s history of violence and Dark Turmoil is presented as justification for his final punishment.

Important Character Interactions

• Stone Emperor and the Sacred Spirit Supremes: They try to dissuade him from attacking Undying Mountain, but he mocks and rejects them.
• Stone Emperor and the Immortal Weapons: The Heavenly Demonic Saber and Myriad Souls Banner taunt him and refuse to let him enter. Their exchange escalates until Li Ming intervenes.
• Stone Emperor and Li Ming: Stone Emperor publicly insults and challenges the Demon Venerable, who responds with a single overwhelming attack and turns him into immortal wine.
• Huang Xudao and Li Ming: Huang Xudao visits Undying Mountain seeking gratitude, guidance, and insight into the Red Dust Immortal Transformation Method. He leaves visibly enlightened and later applies what he learned to achieve his Third Lifetime.
• Huang Xudao and the Dark Supremes: His killing of a Dark Supreme and refusal to follow their path place him in direct opposition to their survival strategy.

Chapter Summary: “Netherworld Venerable Emerges”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Huang Xudao completes a perilous Nirvana transformation in the flames, destroying his old body and successfully beginning his Third Lifetime. His physique, bloodline, lifespan, and strength are greatly enhanced.
• After remaining in seclusion for roughly twenty thousand years, Huang Xudao realizes he lacks sufficient time to begin a Fourth Lifetime. He opens a passage to the Strange World and leaves through the Ascension Passage.
• His departure causes the Grand Dao imprint associated with him to collapse, ending the suppression of the world’s Great Dao. The Ancient Starry Sky Road reopens, and a new era of competition begins.
• Netherworld Emperor Duan De undergoes another Corpse Spirit Awakening and successfully attains Emperor Enlightenment. He visits Demon Venerable at Undying Mountain to seek guidance on longevity.
• Duan De later launches mysterious attacks against Life Forbidden Zones, killing two Dark Supremes while researching a new Longevity Method. His unpredictable actions make the other Dark Supremes wary, though Demon Venerable’s friendship with him prevents them from openly moving against him.
• In his twilight years, Duan De uses the Underworld’s immense reserves of Faith Power to create a golden Divine Embryo. He enters a state between life and death, allowing the Faith Power to purge his deathly aura and form a new body.
• After an extremely dangerous transformation, Duan De successfully begins another Lifetime. His rebirth shakes the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, and his method demonstrates that purified Faith Power can provide a viable path to longevity.
• Li Ming begins pursuing his own transformation method. He divides countless fragments of his Dao Fruit into ordinary mortal avatars, allowing them to experience repeated Lifetimes in the mortal world. Their eventual return to his true body is intended to let him naturally enter an Eighth Lifetime.
• Li Ming also observes Boundless Heavenly Venerable, who is being nurtured within a Sacred Spirit Stone Embryo in Undying Mountain. Boundless’s transformation is progressing far faster than that of other Sacred Spirits and appears close to completion.

Character Developments

• Huang Xudao: Achieves a complete Nirvana rebirth through the Blood Phoenix lineage’s innate talent. His transformation grants him immense vitality and strength, demonstrating the true power of Phoenix Blood Crimson Gold.
• Netherworld Emperor Duan De: Reaches Emperor Enlightenment again and develops an original Faith Power-based transformation method. His repeated reincarnations and experiments establish him as one of the few beings comparable to Demon Venerable in longevity and mystery.
• Li Ming: Continues refining his understanding of transformation and longevity. Rather than copying Duan De’s Faith Power method, he develops a more ambitious approach based on countless mortal incarnations and the division of his Dao Fruit.
• Boundless Heavenly Venerable: Moves closer to completing his transformation into a Sacred Spirit, overcoming the failure and humiliation of his earlier attempt.
• Dark Supremes: Become increasingly cautious of Duan De, both because of his unpredictable killings and because they fear provoking Demon Venerable.

Significant Themes

• Rebirth through destruction: Huang Xudao’s Nirvana and Duan De’s Divine Embryo both portray death as a necessary stage in achieving renewed life.
• Longevity through transformation: The chapter explores multiple paths to immortality, including Nirvana, Corpse Spirit Awakening, Faith Power, Sacred Spirit transformation, and repeated mortal incarnations.
• The danger of defying death: Every transformation carries the risk of true extinction. Success depends on maintaining balance between death and life.
• Faith as power: The Underworld’s accumulated worship becomes a vast resource capable of cleansing decay and nurturing a new body, though the method requires exceptional talent and comprehension.
• The limits of imitation: Li Ming recognizes that Duan De’s successful method cannot easily be replicated by ordinary cultivators. A method’s success depends on the practitioner’s talent and foundation.
• Cycles of history and reincarnation: The repeated appearance of ancient figures, new Lifetimes, and avatars living through mortal history emphasizes the cyclical nature of existence and cultivation.

Character Interactions

• Huang Xudao briefly visits Demon Venerable before retreating and later departing for the Strange World.
• Duan De and Demon Venerable maintain a close relationship. Duan De seeks Demon Venerable’s advice, and the Dark Supremes avoid killing him because they fear Demon Venerable’s retaliation.
• Duan De and Li Ming cooperate in studying Faith Power and confirming that it can support a new Lifetime. Li Ming also witnesses and assists in observing Duan De’s transformation.
• Duan De and the Dark Supremes are increasingly hostile toward one another. His investigations and surprise attacks lead them to treat him as a dangerous enemy.
• Li Ming and Boundless Heavenly Venerable are connected through Li Ming’s past rescue and assistance. Li Ming continues monitoring Boundless’s progress as he approaches Sacred Spirit emergence.

Key plot points and events

• Li Ming senses that the Solar Divine Tower is about to become an Immortal Weapon and travels to the Kunlun Secret Realm.
• The tower completes its transformation, causing a universal sign of an Immortal Weapon’s birth. Dark Supremes covet it but retreat when they see Li Ming.
• Li Ming awakens the Solar Saint Emperor, whose spirit has been restored within the tower. The Saint Emperor thanks him, then leaves the tower to face a powerful Heavenly Tribulation.
• At the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland, the Solar Saint Emperor survives the tribulation, reclaims the Solar Divine Tower, and attains Emperor Enlightenment again. The tower becomes an Extreme Dao Weapon in his hands, and he vows to make it an Immortal Weapon once more.
• The Human Race celebrates the return of its legendary emperor. The event shocks the world and renews interest in the Artifact Spirit Method.
• At the Undying Mountain, Li Ming and the Solar Saint Emperor discuss their new lives and the Red Dust Immortal path. Li Ming reveals he is in his seventh lifetime and explains that he has not yet become a true immortal in this world.

Character developments

• Solar Saint Emperor: Revived through the Artifact Spirit Method, he has entered a fourth lifetime. His recovery is unusually complete: he can regain a flesh-and-blood body and attain Emperor Enlightenment without restarting his cultivation from scratch. His transformed nature is neither Solar nor Taiyin, but something like an Artifact Spirit.
• Li Ming: His ability to revive ancient emperors is further established. He sees the Solar Saint Emperor’s return as repayment for the good karma he earned through his service to the people, and hopes the two may aid one another on the Red Dust Immortal path.
• The Solar Divine Sect and Human Race: Their devotion to the Saint Emperor is rewarded by his return, bringing renewed hope and pride.

Significant themes

• Death, rebirth, and transformation: The Artifact Spirit Method offers a startling route to a new life, even for someone truly killed and deprived of body and essence.
• Good karma and gratitude: Li Ming links the Saint Emperor’s return to the goodwill he earned through his past deeds.
• Legacy and companionship: The Solar Saint Emperor’s bond with his tower endures across lifetimes, and he promises to restore it to its former height.
• The limits of immortality: Even after surviving an Immortal Ascension Tribulation, Li Ming says true immortality requires further transformation.

Character interactions

• Li Ming awakens the Solar Saint Emperor and accepts his gratitude, directing him to face his Heavenly Tribulation.
• The Solar Saint Emperor reclaims the Solar Divine Tower and promises to elevate it into an Immortal Weapon again.
• After the tribulation, the two share tea and wine, discuss their lifetimes and cultivation, and exchange insights into the Red Dust Immortal method.
• Dark Supremes observe the revival with intense curiosity but fear Li Ming too much to interfere.

Chapter Summary: “Huo Qizi Could No Longer Sit Still”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Solar Saint Emperor successfully resurrects through the Artifact Spirit Method, inspiring countless cultivators—especially Dark Supremes—to study this potential path to longevity.
• The method proves extremely difficult because it requires a weapon capable of becoming an Immortal Weapon. Many experiments destroy Sacred Weapons and even kill cultivators.
• Dark Supremes grow increasingly desperate. Their attempts to become Sacred Spirits largely fail, while others imitate the Blood Phoenix Ancient Emperor and transform into Weapon Deities or flee to the Strange World.
• After roughly 35,000 years, the Solar Saint Emperor’s current life begins nearing its end. Rather than dissolving, he chooses to transform into a Sacred Spirit Stone Embryo, estimating a sixty percent chance of success.
• With Demon Venerable’s guidance, the Solar Saint Emperor completes the transformation. His Grand Dao Suppression disappears, reopening the opportunity for a new Emperor to emerge.
• Huo Qizi, the sealed son of the Qilin Ancient Emperor, appears in the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland and undergoes the Enlightenment Tribulation.
• Having broken through the limitations of his bloodline, Huo Qizi defeats the tribulation’s immortal and Ancient Emperor phantoms, merges with the Heavenly Heart Imprint, and becomes the New Qilin Emperor, also called the Fire Qilin Emperor.
• Huo Qizi’s Dao-Proving Weapon is an Eternal Blue Gold Gourd containing the aura of the Qilin Divine Medicine, suggesting that he may also be investigating the Artifact Spirit Method.
• Ten thousand years after achieving Emperor Enlightenment, Huo Qizi reaches the peak of his first lifetime and encounters difficulties comprehending the Red Dust Immortal Path.
• He visits Undying Mountain to seek guidance from Demon Venerable, following the increasingly common tradition of newly enlightened Emperors consulting him.

Character Developments

• Solar Saint Emperor: Demonstrates wisdom and foresight by preparing both the Solar Divine Sect and a contingency plan before attempting Sacred Spirit transformation. He succeeds and gains the possibility of continuing his cultivation in another form.
• Demon Venerable/Li Ming: Continues to suppress the world, guide transformations, and advance steadily along the Red Dust Immortal Path. He also carefully disciplines his descendants to prevent corruption and abuse of inherited power.
• Dark Supremes: Become increasingly marginalized. Their plans for prolonging life through Dark Turmoils collapse, leaving them with only transformation, escape to the Strange World, or death.
• Huo Qizi: Emerges from isolation as a powerful and ambitious Emperor. His success surpasses that of his father’s bloodline and reflects his determination not to be left behind by other sealed geniuses who achieved enlightenment before him. His curiosity about Demon Venerable reveals both confidence and humility.

Significant Themes

• The pursuit of longevity: Cultivators eagerly pursue the Artifact Spirit and Sacred Spirit methods despite enormous risks, showing how immortality drives even rational beings toward dangerous experimentation.
• Transformation and identity: The Artifact Spirit and Sacred Spirit paths require abandoning or altering one’s original physical form, raising questions about whether continued existence in another form is true immortality.
• Preparation and foresight: The Solar Saint Emperor’s careful planning contrasts with the Dark Supremes’ increasingly desperate strategies.
• The changing balance of power: Demon Venerable’s continued supremacy and the return of new Emperors reshape the world, while former dominant forces such as the Dark Supremes lose their opportunities.
• Legacy and bloodlines: Huo Qizi inherits the Qilin Ancient Emperor’s legacy but surpasses its previous limits, while the Solar Saint Emperor and Demon Venerable both emphasize controlling and guiding their descendants.
• Competition among sealed geniuses: The achievements of Huang Xudao and Dragon Maiden motivate Huo Qizi to emerge and compete for his own chance at Emperor Enlightenment.

Character Interactions

• Li Ming and the Solar Saint Emperor: They discuss the risks and alternatives of Sacred Spirit transformation. Li Ming supports the Emperor’s decision and hopes he will remain a companion on the Red Dust Immortal Path.
• Demon Venerable and the Solar Saint Emperor: Demon Venerable guides the transformation and praises the Solar Saint Emperor’s efforts to regulate his descendants and protect his legacy.
• Li Ming and the Dark Supremes: Li Ming no longer treats them as serious threats, restricting them from launching Dark Turmoils and forcing them toward transformation, escape, or extinction.
• Huo Qizi and Demon Venerable: Though they have not yet spoken directly, Huo Qizi enters Undying Mountain with intense curiosity. The sight of the Heaven-Burying Coffin, Heavenly Demonic Saber, and Myriad Souls Banner heightens his anticipation of meeting the legendary True Immortal.

Summary of “Taichu Awakens”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Huo Qizi enters Undying Mountain and meets Li Ming, the Demon Venerable, whose ordinary appearance conceals overwhelming True Immortal-level power.
• Huo Qizi thanks Li Ming for teaching him the method to break the Bloodline Shackles and the Red Dust Immortal Transformation Method. Li Ming explains the method and later agrees to test Huo Qizi’s strength.
• Inside the world of the Heaven-Burying Coffin, Huo Qizi attacks Li Ming with sword qi and his Qilin technique, but Li Ming effortlessly destroys both his body and Primordial Spirit with a single move. Huo Qizi reconstructs himself and finally accepts that Li Ming is unrivaled.
• Li Ming identifies Huo Qizi’s dependence on his blue gourd and warns that fusing his body, soul, and Grand Dao with a weapon could cause him to degenerate permanently into a Weapon Deity.
• Huo Qizi nevertheless commits to the Artifact Spirit Method. He plans to consume an Immortal Medicine, live a Second Lifetime, and eventually travel to the Strange World, where its Longevity Substance and different Grand Dao may help him complete his transformation.
• Huo Qizi asks Li Ming to protect his younger sister, Huo Lin’er, while he is away. He later leaves Qilin Cave, spends years studying Extreme Dao Weapons and Forbidden Zones, and eventually lives out his Second Lifetime by consuming an Immortal Medicine.
• Ten thousand years later, Huo Qizi returns to seek Li Ming’s guidance before entering the Strange World. He explains his “Qilin Method”: fusing with a gourd made from Eternal Blue Gold, incorporating Qilin Divine Medicine, Immortal Dao Runes, and eventually Longevity Substance.
• Li Ming judges the method dangerous but potentially viable. Huo Qizi reveals that he also intends to take the Qilin Divine Medicine to the Strange World, hoping it will evolve into a Longevity Immortal Medicine capable of allowing someone to become a True Immortal.
• Huo Qizi departs through the formations of Ziwei and Beidou Stars. More than ten thousand years later, the Grand Dao Suppression weakens and a new golden age begins.
• Li Ming senses movement in the Immortal Tears Green Gold Sacred Spirit Vein. His son, Li Hu, has successfully transformed into an Immortal Tears Green Gold Spirit after devouring a Fortune Origin Eye.
• Li Ming also discovers that Taichu, the Sacred Spirit believed to have perished, is reviving inside the Primordial Life Stone. Taichu has already taken flesh-and-blood form and may soon awaken fully.
• As numerous Quasi-Emperors emerge on the Ancient Starry Sky Road, the Myriad Dao begins to resonate, signaling the imminent birth of a powerful Perfected Sacred Spirit and setting up the next major conflict.

Character Developments

• Huo Qizi: Begins as an arrogant Ancient Emperor who believes himself comparable to Li Ming, but his defeat forces him to recognize the vast gap between them. He becomes more focused and intellectually committed to forging his own Red Dust Immortal path, despite knowing the serious risks of his Artifact Spirit Method.
• Li Ming/Demon Venerable: Remains overwhelmingly powerful and detached, but acts as a teacher and evaluator. He offers Huo Qizi sincere guidance, identifies the flaws in his cultivation path, and shows interest in the possibility that Huo Qizi’s unusual method could provide new insights into immortality.
• Li Hu: Successfully transforms into an Immortal Tears Green Gold Spirit, marking the emergence of another exceptionally powerful member of Li Ming’s family.
• Taichu: Returns from apparent death and begins reviving within the Primordial Life Stone, foreshadowing his eventual emergence as a major figure.
• Li Ming’s family: Li Fan has a Chaotic Body, Li Lian’er possesses a Chaotic Green Lotus Physique, and Li Hu now has an Immortal Tears Green Gold Spirit body, emphasizing the family’s extraordinary potential.

Significant Themes

• The limits of self-confidence: Huo Qizi’s pride is corrected when one effortless attack from Li Ming reveals the true difference between Emperor Supremes and the pinnacle of cultivation.
• The danger of unconventional immortality: The Artifact Spirit Method offers a possible route to longevity but risks destroying the practitioner’s identity and reducing him to a mindless Weapon Deity.
• Individual paths to transcendence: The Red Dust Immortal Path has no fixed formula; each cultivator must develop a method suited to their talent, insight, and circumstances.
• Opportunity within danger: The Strange World’s Longevity Substance and different laws provide both hope and risk for those seeking immortality.
• Inheritance and potential: The transformations of Li Ming’s children and Taichu’s revival suggest that the next era will be shaped by extraordinary new physiques and Sacred Spirits.
• The beginning of a new age: The end of the chapter signals the weakening of suppression, the rise of many Quasi-Emperors, and renewed competition for Emperor Enlightenment.

Character Interactions

• Huo Qizi respectfully approaches Li Ming for instruction, then boldly challenges him to measure their strength.
• Li Ming defeats Huo Qizi effortlessly but does not humiliate him; instead, he explains the dangers in Huo Qizi’s cultivation and allows him to pursue his own choice.
• Huo Qizi entrusts Huo Lin’er’s safety to Li Ming before leaving for the Strange World.
• During their later meeting, Huo Qizi presents his refined Artifact Spirit theory, while Li Ming analyzes its strengths and weaknesses and acknowledges its limited possibility of success.
• Li Ming observes the revival of both his son Li Hu and the long-lost Taichu, linking his family’s rise to the awakening of another major Sacred Spirit.

Key plot points and events

• Li Hu, the son of Li Ming and the Immortal Matriarch, emerges after millennia of cultivation as a perfected Immortal Tears Green Gold Sacred Spirit. His brief confusion clears, and he recognizes Li Ming as his father.
• Li Hu immediately undertakes the Heavenly Tribulation at the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland, wielding a naturally formed Immortal Tears Green Gold Pagoda. He withstands the tribulation with surprising ease.
• During his ascent, Li Hu smashes the Heavenly Heart Imprint and rises above the Myriad Dao, attaining Emperor Enlightenment as an exceptionally powerful Sacred Spirit Emperor.
• The revelation that Li Hu was born human and transformed into a Sacred Spirit shocks both Sacred Spirits and Dark Supremes. Many hope to learn the transformation method; others see it as proof that humans can become Sacred Spirits before attaining enlightenment.
• Li Hu returns to the Undying Mountain and reunites with Li Ming. They share wine and discuss the Dao, family, and Li Hu’s siblings’ achievements.
• Across the world, people begin experimenting with Sacred Spirit transformation and possession. The resulting craze leads to Sacred Spirits being hunted, captured, or possessed.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Hu emerges confident and powerful, but remains clear about his identity: transforming his constitution does not sever his connection to the Human Race. He is proud of his siblings and resolves to work harder.
• Li Ming is proud of his son’s achievement and reminds him that being a Sacred Spirit is a step toward greater realms, not a replacement for his human roots. Their reunion reinforces their close father-son bond.
• The chapter also notes that Li Hu’s siblings, Li Fan and Li Lian’er, have already reached extraordinary realms, giving Li Hu both admiration and motivation.
• Dark Supremes are stirred by Li Hu’s success. Some reconsider the Sacred Spirit Transformation Method as a way to extend their lives; others contemplate seeking longevity in the Strange World.

Significant themes

• Identity and belonging: Li Hu’s new form does not erase his human heritage.
• Ambition and unequal opportunity: His effortless-seeming ascent crushes the hopes of other cultivators competing for Emperor Enlightenment.
• The cost of imitation: Li Hu’s transformation inspires experimentation, but the pursuit quickly turns into exploitation and violence against Sacred Spirits.
• Legacy and family: Li Ming’s guidance and Li Hu’s reflections on his siblings place individual achievement within a broader family history.

Plot and key events

• During Li Hu’s peaceful reign as the Immortal Gold Emperor, Sacred Spirits remain targets of widespread study and hunting, despite his advocacy of coexistence.
• A powerful Perfected Sacred Spirit emerges from the Undying Mountain: Taichu, the Immortal Fetus once believed to have died in the Ancient Mine of Beginnings. He has been revived and transformed into a Sacred Spirit, apparently with the Demon Venerable’s help.
• Taichu begins his Emperor tribulation in the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland. His appearance renews interest in the Sacred Spirit Transformation Method and makes him a coveted source of life force for aging Dark Supremes.
• Three Dark Supremes confront him, demanding his Origin Essence Blood to extend their lives. Taichu refuses and attacks with the Primordial Divine Seal, an Extreme Dao weapon forged from Primordial Life Stone.
• Taichu kills all three with overwhelming ease: he destroys one with the seal, tears another apart and consumes his Primordial Spirit, and obliterates the last with a single punch—even as it burns its essence and invokes Dao Transformation.
• Witnesses hail him as Heavenly Emperor Taichu.

Character developments and interactions

• Taichu is revealed as far more than an ordinary Sacred Spirit. Confident and defiant, he proves himself strong enough to defeat three Extreme-Sublimated Dark Supremes without injury, even before completing Emperor Enlightenment.
• The Dark Supremes abandon caution in hopes of feeding on Taichu’s immense vitality. Their greed turns into panic when he effortlessly kills them.
• Li Hu and the Demon Venerable are implied to be watching, but neither intervenes; Taichu faces the attack himself.
• Humanity and the wider world move from amazement at Taichu’s return to awe at his strength, while the Sacred Spirit Race remains threatened by others’ renewed desire to exploit Sacred Spirits.

Significant themes

• Predation versus coexistence: The emperor’s peaceful ideal contrasts with the continuing exploitation of Sacred Spirits.
• Desperation and greed: The Dark Supremes’ fear of death drives them to target Taichu rather than accept their fate.
• Rebirth and transformation: Taichu’s return from apparent death embodies the possibilities—and dangers—of the Sacred Spirit path.
• Power and self-reliance: Though watched over by legendary figures, Taichu wins through his own extraordinary strength.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• A mysterious Soaring Immortal Waterfall appears in the cosmic void, allowing twenty-five Supremes from the Strange World to enter the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
• The invading Supremes demand the Origin Essence Blood of this world’s Ancient Emperor Supremes and threaten to kill anyone who resists. They also call for the Demon Venerable to appear.
• The Heavenly Emperor’s Second Son, secretly cultivated in the Strange World, attacks through the waterfall. Wielding the Five-Colored Heavenly Saber and an Immortal Pagoda, he cleaves Taichu in half and attempts to dominate the Supremes of this world.
• The Demon Venerable finally emerges from Undying Mountain after countless years. His appearance shocks the entire universe, and his overwhelming aura reveals that he has fully entered the Immortal Dao.
• With one strike, the Demon Venerable destroys the twenty-five Strange World Supremes and shatters the Immortal Pagoda, absorbing the fallen Supremes into the Myriad Souls Banner.
• The Heavenly Emperor’s Second Son tries to retreat through the Soaring Immortal Waterfall and proposes an alliance with the Demon Venerable, claiming they have no irreconcilable enmity and could seek immortality together.
• Li Ming refuses to forgive him. He reaches through the waterfall, tears away nearly half of the Heavenly Emperor’s Second Son’s Immortal Phoenix body, and continues attacking him across the World Barrier.
• Li Ming forcibly opens a passage into the Strange World and ultimately destroys the Second Son’s Primordial Spirit. He drags the corpse and even the Soaring Immortal Waterfall back into his own world.
• The death of the Heavenly Emperor’s Second Son is sensed across both worlds. The battle also reveals that several Ancient Emperor Supremes who had entered the Strange World are still alive and thriving there.
• Li Ming extracts some of the Second Son’s Origin Essence Blood before placing his corpse in the Myriad Souls Banner alongside the Undying Heavenly Emperor.
• Li Ming receives a message from his daughter, Li Lian’er, confirming that she is alive and safe. She is being protected by the Longevity Daoist.

Character Developments

• Li Ming/Demon Venerable demonstrates a terrifying increase in power. He can now attack across the World Barrier, suppress the Strange World, and kill a near-Red Dust Immortal without entering the other realm.
• The Heavenly Emperor’s Second Son is revealed to have secretly cultivated in the Strange World and advanced rapidly toward the Red Dust Immortal realm. Despite his confidence and ambition, he is completely outmatched by Li Ming and dies while attempting to flee.
• Taichu, initially confident in his own Emperor-level strength, is humbled after being effortlessly cut in half and witnessing the Demon Venerable’s overwhelming power.
• Li Lian’er is shown to be alive and secure in the Strange World, protected by the Longevity Daoist.
• The Longevity Daoist is established as genuinely grateful to Li Ming for teaching him the Heavenly Venerable Scripture, unlike the hostile Longevity Heavenly Venerable.

Significant Themes

• Overwhelming power and hierarchy: The Demon Venerable’s return establishes an immense gap between true Immortal-level existence and ordinary Dark Supremes or Emperors.
• Consequences of aggression: The Second Son’s attempt to invade and seize resources from this world leaves Li Ming unwilling to negotiate, despite his later appeal for cooperation.
• Family and protection: Li Ming’s determination to kill the Second Son completely is motivated partly by concern for his children, especially Li Lian’er, who might otherwise remain vulnerable to such a powerful enemy.
• The pursuit of immortality: Both worlds’ Supremes seek Origin Essence Blood, Longevity Substance, and access to the Immortal Domain, showing how the desire for eternal life drives conflict.
• Changing boundaries between worlds: The battle demonstrates that the World Barrier is no longer an absolute protection. Li Ming can reach through it, damage the Strange World, and directly influence events there.

Character Interactions

• The Strange World Supremes openly threaten the Dark Supremes of this world, demanding their blood and submission.
• The Heavenly Emperor’s Second Son humiliates Taichu, only to be overwhelmed by the Demon Venerable.
• The Demon Venerable’s appearance inspires awe among living beings and terror among the Dark Supremes.
• The Second Son attempts to persuade Li Ming to form an alliance, but Li Ming rejects the offer and kills him.
• Taichu and the other cultivators witness the Demon Venerable’s supremacy and develop renewed admiration and fear.
• Li Ming’s past relationship with the Longevity Daoist is shown to have produced unexpected benefits, as the Daoist now protects Li Lian’er.

Chapter Summary: “Nine Immortal Metals Transformation Method”

Key Plot Points and Events

• After Li Ming’s devastating punch, the Immortal Pagoda’s Weapon Deity survives by reconstituting itself from scattered fragments and attempts to escape back to the Strange World.
• Li Ming pursues it and destroys the Immortal Weapon with another overwhelming punch. The pagoda disintegrates into fragments, from which a tiny infant emerges—the Weapon Deity reborn in human form.
• Li Ming captures and seals the infant. Examination reveals that it possesses flesh-and-blood humanity, a Saint-level foundation, and mysterious sounds of worship and chanting within its Immortal Platform, suggesting that the pagoda may once have belonged to a True Immortal or fallen Immortal King.
• The Divine War ends with Li Ming’s complete victory. He collects the bodies, weapons, and remnants of the invading Dark Supremes, including the Immortal Pagoda, Undying Heavenly Saber, and Soaring Immortal Waterfall.
• He feeds the corpses and laws of the defeated enemies to the Myriad Souls Banner, adding twenty-six new Supreme imprints, including that of the Heavenly Emperor’s Second Son.
• Taichu later visits Undying Mountain to thank Li Ming. They, along with Li Hu, share tea and a powerful immortal wine brewed from Immortal Medicines and the origins of Dark Supremes from both worlds.
• The deaths of the invading Supremes are expected to nourish the world’s Grand Dao, potentially creating a new Golden Age and producing future geniuses or even another Emperor.
• The characters investigate the reborn Weapon Deity but cannot uncover its origin or full potential.

Character Developments

• Li Ming: His dominance is further established. He effortlessly defeats an Immortal Weapon, controls the battlefield, and openly accepts recognition for saving the world. He also continues researching Red Dust Immortal transformation methods, both for his family and for his own understanding.
• Taichu: Now revived and grateful to Li Ming, Taichu plans to use an Immortal Medicine to live a Second Lifetime before entering the Strange World. He hopes to use its resources and laws to repair his innate deficiencies and pursue the Red Dust Immortal path. He also considers fusing his Primordial Spirit with an Immortal Seed or weapon, though this risks losing himself to the artifact.
• Li Hu: Inspired by Li Ming’s guidance, Li Hu devises the ambitious “Nine Immortal Metals” transformation method. He plans to comprehend one Immortal Metal in each lifetime, eventually uniting all nine and becoming an exceptionally powerful Immortal Gold Sacred Spirit Red Dust Immortal before returning to human form.
• The reborn Weapon Deity: The Immortal Pagoda’s spirit becomes a mysterious infant with Saint-level potential. Though sealed by Li Ming, it may possess extraordinary talent and a significant hidden origin.

Significant Themes

• Absolute power and supremacy: Li Ming’s attacks demonstrate the immense gap between him and even Immortal Weapons or Dark Supremes.
• Transformation and rebirth: The Weapon Deity’s human reincarnation, Taichu’s planned Second Lifetime, and Li Hu’s repeated Immortal Metal transformations all explore different forms of overcoming mortality.
• Innovation in cultivation: The chapter emphasizes that each powerful being must develop a unique path rather than imitate another’s transformation method.
• Sacrifice creating renewal: The deaths of the invading Supremes nourish the world and may usher in a Golden Age, turning destruction into the foundation for future prosperity.
• Risk versus advancement: Transformation methods offer longevity and greater power but carry dangers such as bodily deficiency, loss of identity, or assimilation into a weapon.

Character Interactions

• Taichu respectfully thanks Li Ming for restoring his life and acknowledges Li Ming’s unparalleled contributions.
• Li Ming rewards Taichu’s gratitude by sharing his rare immortal wine, creating a moment of fellowship between Li Ming, Taichu, and Li Hu.
• Li Ming and Li Hu jointly study the Weapon Deity and collaborate on refining Li Hu’s transformation method.
• Taichu contributes his own knowledge of Sacred Spirit cultivation and proposes an alternative method involving fusion with weapons or an Immortal Seed.
• The chapter ends with Li Hu transforming into a seed rooted in an Immortal Tear Green Gold vein. After countless years of struggle between life and death, it sprouts into a vine nourished by the Nine Immortal Metals, marking the first tangible success of his unconventional path.

Key events

• Netherworld Venerable quietly enters another burial, while Li Ming’s son Li Hu continues evolving as a Pumpkin Vine grown from Immortal Tear Green Gold. Li Ming feeds it fragments of the Nine Immortal Metals, hoping Li Hu can eventually fuse them and become an immortal.
• Taichu opens a passage to the Strange World and leaves during his Second Lifetime. He relinquishes the Heavenly Heart Imprint and destroys his Grand Dao Brand, allowing the world’s cultivation environment to improve. With the Strange World Supremes already slain by Li Ming, the Grand Dao revives and a new Golden Age begins.
• The Golden Age produces many powerful contenders, but the Divine Silkworm Princess defeats her rivals and undertakes a Tenth Transformation amid the cosmic Thunder Sea. She reveals her true identity—having posed as a man—and successfully fuses with the Heavenly Heart Imprint, becoming a New Emperor.
• She returns to Divine Silkworm Ridge, accepts the people’s homage, and then spends more than ten thousand years in seclusion. After emerging, she studies the Nine-Wondrous Immortal Medicine while working to deduce the Red Dust Immortal Transformation Method.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Ming remains a watchful, influential presence: he supports Li Hu’s strange evolution, respects Taichu’s decision to depart, and recognizes the Divine Silkworm Princess’s path to Emperor Enlightenment. He had known her since childhood and helped her father, the Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor, devise a transformation method suited to his species.
• Taichu chooses the Strange World over pursuing a Third Lifetime at home, and his departure removes the suppression holding back the world’s Grand Dao.
• The Divine Silkworm Princess emerges as a formidable successor to her father. Although honored publicly as the New Divine Silkworm Emperor, she prefers to retain the title “Princess,” which both her lineage and the wider world respect.
• The chapter also notes the uncertain futures of other figures: Duan De remains buried, Boundless Heavenly Venerable is still developing as a Sacred Spirit, and Li Hu’s evolution continues unseen.

Significant themes

• Transformation and renewal: The Divine Silkworms’ repeated metamorphoses parallel the Red Dust Immortal path; Li Hu’s evolution and the world’s revival echo the same theme.
• Generational legacy: The Princess builds on her father’s power and teachings while establishing her own place in a new era.
• A changing world: The Golden Age is attributed to broad cosmic decline and renewal—not to one emperor’s failure alone.
• Power and public reverence: The strongest figures become symbols of hope and devotion, as seen in the worship of Li Ming and the acclaim given to the new emperor.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Divine Silkworm Princess, a stunningly beautiful Emperor-level expert who has completed the Tenth Transformation, retrieves the Nine-Wondrous Immortal Medicine and travels to Undying Mountain.
• She visits Li Ming, the Demon Venerable, whom she respectfully calls “Uncle Demon Venerable.” The powerful beings outside the mountain silently pay their respects as she enters.
• Li Ming welcomes her, offers her a cup of extremely precious Immortal Spirit Wine, and congratulates her on attaining Emperor Enlightenment. The wine gives her profound insight, equivalent to thousands of years of cultivation.
• The princess explains that she has spent ten thousand years studying Li Ming’s Red Dust Immortal Transformation Theory but remains uncertain about how to proceed toward immortality.
• Li Ming advises her to rely on the Divine Silkworm Clan’s unique ability to undergo repeated transformations and live through successive lifetimes. Instead of attempting one enormous leap, she may achieve the Eleventh Transformation through a series of smaller transformations.
• Li Ming examines the Nine-Wondrous Immortal Medicine, demonstrating that it can divide into nine separate medicines and merge back into one. This reveals a connection between the medicine’s nature and the Divine Silkworm Clan’s transformation method.
• Through this demonstration and their discussion, the Divine Silkworm Princess rapidly comprehends her own path toward becoming a Red Dust Immortal. Li Ming, despite being in his Seventh Lifetime, gains fresh insights from their exchange as well.
• After thanking Li Ming, the princess unexpectedly kisses him. Their relationship becomes romantic and intimate, culminating in their union.
• Afterward, Li Ming encourages her, predicting that she will become one of the world’s most dazzling figures. She declares that, regardless of her future status, she will belong only to him.

Character Developments

• Divine Silkworm Princess: She is introduced as transcendentally beautiful, serene, and seemingly flawless, but also highly talented and intellectually curious. Though already an Emperor and stronger than ordinary Ancient Emperor Supremes, she remains humble before Li Ming and openly seeks his guidance. Her understanding of her own cultivation path deepens dramatically, and she also reveals a bold, passionate, and emotionally impulsive side by initiating their romance.
• Li Ming / Demon Venerable: Li Ming is portrayed as an almost unfathomably powerful figure whose aura has returned to simplicity. Even he is momentarily stunned by the princess’s beauty. As a mentor, he adapts his theory to her bloodline and offers practical guidance. He also gains new inspiration from her ideas, showing that even a supreme expert continues to learn.
• Their relationship: The princess’s respectful view of Li Ming as her father’s friend and legendary senior gradually develops into personal admiration and romantic attachment. Li Ming initially reacts with surprise but reciprocates her affection.

Significant Themes

• Transformation and immortality: The chapter centers on the difficulty of becoming a Red Dust Immortal and the idea that immortality may require repeated rebirths, transformations, and long periods of cultivation rather than a single breakthrough.
• Individualized cultivation paths: Li Ming emphasizes that every cultivator’s route to immortality is different. The Divine Silkworm Clan’s natural ability to transform gives the princess a path unavailable to ordinary humans.
• Inheritance and innovation: The princess builds on her father’s records and Li Ming’s theories, but ultimately discovers a method uniquely suited to herself. Knowledge is passed down, refined, and reinvented.
• Beauty and transcendence: The princess’s physical beauty is repeatedly linked to her sacred temperament and closeness to the Dao. Her beauty inspires awe even in Li Ming, suggesting that spiritual perfection and outward appearance are intertwined.
• Fate, talent, and effort: Although the princess has extraordinary innate advantages, she has also cultivated for ten thousand years and worked diligently to understand the path ahead. Her rapid insight reflects both exceptional talent and accumulated effort.
• Romance amid cosmic cultivation: The chapter contrasts immense power, Dao theories, and the pursuit of immortality with sudden personal desire and intimacy, showing the characters’ human emotions beneath their transcendent identities.

Character Interactions

• The beings gathered outside Undying Mountain respectfully acknowledge the Divine Silkworm Princess, highlighting her status.
• She greets Li Ming formally, while he responds warmly and treats her as a younger relative or trusted junior.
• Li Ming entertains her with Immortal Spirit Wine and provides detailed cultivation guidance.
• Their discussion of the Nine-Wondrous Immortal Medicine becomes a collaborative exchange: the princess gains a clearer path, while Li Ming receives new inspiration.
• The princess’s sudden kiss changes the tone of their relationship from teacher-and-student-like consultation to mutual romantic intimacy.
• Their final exchange confirms her devotion and Li Ming’s confidence in her future greatness.

Chapter Summary

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• The Divine Silkworm Princess repeatedly visits Undying Mountain after gaining profound insights from the Demon Venerable, Li Ming. Many believe the two are studying a Red Dust Immortal Transformation Method.
• She survives extraordinarily long without using Immortal Medicine, reaching over 26,000 years before taking the medicine and entering a Second Lifetime.
• After another 30,000 years, she undergoes a dangerous transformation and successfully enters a Third Lifetime, demonstrating the exceptional compatibility of the Divine Silkworm race with the Red Dust Immortal Path.
• The Divine Silkworm Princess explains that future transformations may require her to enter a coffin and remain in a state between life and death, much like her father, the Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor. She asks Li Ming to revive her if she truly dies after he reaches a higher realm, and he agrees.
• She seals herself in a coffin beneath the Ancient Enlightenment Tea Tree, later awakening when Li Ming discovers unusual phenomena in the Underworld’s Netherworld Soil.
• In the Underworld, Li Ming and the Divine Silkworm Princess discover a weak Phoenix that has hatched from an egg connected to the Undying Heavenly Emperor. Li Ming reveals that the egg originally contained the Heavenly Emperor’s Daughter, but its soul had been erased after contamination by the Weird.
• Buried in the Netherworld Soil, the egg underwent Corpse Spirit Awakening and produced a living but extremely weak Phoenix. Li Ming attempts to strengthen her with Divine Spring Water, Immortal Medicine, and the Origin Essence Blood of the Undying Heavenly Emperor and his Second Son.
• The Divine Silkworm Princess chooses to bury her coffin in the Netherworld Soil to aid her next transformation, intending eventually to enter the Strange World.
• Forty thousand years later, the Divine Silkworm Princess’s Dao begins to dissolve. Rather than simply dying, her coffin rises from the Underworld, opens a passage to the Strange World, and carries her away. She is presumed to be undergoing a final transformation in which she will either die or become an immortal.
• Li Ming later discovers that the little Phoenix has absorbed the Origin Essence Blood and has begun instinctively cultivating, though she remains underdeveloped.
• He also observes the extraordinary progress of his son Li Hu, whose Red Dust Immortal Path has manifested as a Pumpkin Vine bearing nine pumpkins made from the Nine Immortal Metals. Each pumpkin represents a stage of Li Hu’s mastery and transformation.

2. Character Developments

• Divine Silkworm Princess: Develops from a powerful Ancient Emperor into a candidate for the Red Dust Immortal Path. She successfully reaches a Third Lifetime and gains confidence in her foundation, while acknowledging that later transformations will be far more dangerous. Her willingness to risk death and enter the Strange World shows her determination to surpass ordinary longevity.
• Li Ming/Demon Venerable: Acts as mentor, protector, and observer to the Divine Silkworm Princess. He supports her choices, promises to revive her if necessary, and experiments with ways to preserve and strengthen the Heavenly Emperor’s Daughter. His cultivation and influence are so great that countless beings worship him.
• Undying Heavenly Emperor’s Daughter: Begins as a soulless, nearly helpless Phoenix after surviving Corpse Spirit Awakening. Although lacking her father’s and brother’s natural talent, she gradually develops an origin and the ability to absorb spiritual energy after receiving their blood essence.
• Li Hu/Sacred Spirit Emperor: His unusual transformation becomes increasingly impressive. Rather than following a conventional path, he divides his Dao into nine Immortal Metal pumpkins, suggesting a highly original route toward Red Dust Immortality.

3. Significant Themes

• The struggle against time and death: Even Ancient Emperors must confront lifespan limits, Dao Dissolution, and the possibility of final death.
• Transformation through unconventional paths: The Divine Silkworm Princess, the Phoenix, and Li Hu all pursue unusual methods of survival or advancement rather than repeating traditional cultivation routes.
• Life emerging from death: The Netherworld Soil enables the Phoenix Egg to undergo Corpse Spirit Awakening, turning what should have been a dead, soulless relic into a living being.
• Inheritance and bloodline: The Phoenix’s development depends partly on the essence of the Undying Heavenly Emperor and his Second Son, while the Divine Silkworm Princess follows and modifies the path pioneered by her father.
• Hope amid failure: Although transformation may lead to death, Li Ming’s promise to revive the Divine Silkworm Princess and his efforts to preserve the Phoenix show that failure is not necessarily final.
• Family pride and legacy: Li Ming reflects proudly on his children’s achievements, especially Li Hu’s unprecedented cultivation path.

4. Character Interactions

• Li Ming and the Divine Silkworm Princess: Their relationship is built on mutual trust, intellectual curiosity, and cooperation. She seeks his guidance on transformation, while he supports her decisions and offers future aid.
• The Divine Silkworm Princess and the Phoenix: The Princess is fascinated by the Phoenix’s origin and carefully examines her, recognizing the connection to the Undying Heavenly Emperor despite the creature’s weakness.
• Li Ming and the Phoenix: The Phoenix instinctively trusts Li Ming. He experiments with medicines, blood essence, seals, and cultivation methods in an attempt to restore her potential.
• Li Ming and Li Hu: Though Li Hu is absent, Li Ming observes and jokes about his son’s strange Pumpkin Vine form while feeling deep pride in his progress.
• Li Ming and the wider universe: His appearance inspires worship across countless planets, and his Faith Power heals believers, emphasizing his immense authority and growing influence.

Chapter Summary

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• The Devouring Heaven Demon Jar, originally forged from Li Ming’s First-Life body, unexpectedly evolves into an Immortal Weapon after tens of thousands of years.
• Appearing throughout the universe as an apparently masterless earthen jar, it grants different Heavenly Venerable and Ancient Emperor inheritances to those who obtain it, then mysteriously disappears.
• Its repeated appearances generate countless legends: that it contains the secret of Emperor Enlightenment, possesses every supreme scripture, or can help someone become a Chaotic Body.
• Li Ming observes the jar’s transformation but largely leaves it alone, suspecting that its independent Weapon Deity may be mischievous and prone to deceiving its temporary wielders.
• Within Undying Mountain, Li Ming studies the Flat Peach Divine Medicine and True Dragon Elixir, which appear close to taking human form. He nourishes them with his Immortal Dao Runes, hoping they can recover the Dao Fruits of their former lives as Pan King and the True Dragon Immortal King.
• The little Phoenix also undergoes a transformation while sealed in Immortal Source, absorbing the Origin Essence Blood of the Undying Heavenly Emperor and his son, potentially preparing for another Nirvana.
• More than ten thousand years after the collapse of the Divine Silkworm Princess’s Grand Dao Imprint, the suppression of the Grand Dao ends, ushering in a new golden age and renewed opportunities for Emperor Enlightenment.
• The Devouring Heaven Demon Jar eventually falls into the hands of Human Demon Dongfang Taiyi. After obtaining it, Dongfang Taiyi becomes virtually invincible and triggers an Enlightenment Tribulation.
• Dongfang Taiyi successfully fuses Lunar and Solar powers into Chaos, demonstrating that he has created a pseudo-Chaotic state rather than possessing a naturally formed Chaotic Body.
• He defeats the tribulation, fuses with the Heavenly Heart Imprint, and becomes a new Human Race emperor known as the Barbarian Emperor, though some call him the Demon Emperor.
• Dongfang Taiyi returns to the Southern Ridge, where his Barbarian God Hall joins the Demon Emperor Hall as a major center of power and becomes the era’s most revered Forbidden Zone.
• Despite becoming an emperor, Dongfang Taiyi admits that the Red Dust Immortal Path and the quest for longevity remain extraordinarily difficult. The Demon Jar advises him to seek further guidance from Li Ming.

2. Character Developments

• Li Ming: Remains a powerful observer and cultivator in Undying Mountain. He is surprised by the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar’s evolution and shows a strong interest in nurturing Immortal Medicines into sentient, human forms. His goodwill toward Dongfang Taiyi may have indirectly influenced the jar’s decision to aid him.
• Devouring Heaven Demon Jar: Evolves from a cursed imitation artifact into a true Immortal Weapon with an independent personality. It becomes a mysterious benefactor, distributing powerful inheritances and ultimately assisting Dongfang Taiyi.
• Flat Peach Divine Medicine and True Dragon Elixir: Develop increasingly sophisticated consciousnesses and display signs of transforming into human form. They willingly interact with Li Ming and absorb his Immortal Dao energy while nourishing his Bitter Sea in return.
• Little Phoenix: Gains strength and beauty by absorbing the bloodline essence of the Undying Heavenly Emperor and his son, moving toward a more powerful Phoenix bloodline and another possible Nirvana.
• Dongfang Taiyi: Changes from a feared, morally complex Human Demon into the newly ascended Barbarian Emperor. His mastery of Lunar-Solar fusion allows him to overcome the limitations of his bloodline and achieve Emperor Enlightenment.
• The Demon Venerable/Li Ming’s influence: Li Ming’s theories and guidance provide the foundation for Dongfang Taiyi’s success, even though Dongfang still cannot yet solve the problem of immortality.

3. Significant Themes

• Fate and altered destiny: Dongfang Taiyi’s original fate is changed, allowing him to achieve Emperor Enlightenment much earlier and avoid his former tragic path.
• The danger and power of legends: Exaggerated rumors surrounding the Demon Jar motivate countless cultivators, especially aging geniuses, even though its supposed guarantees of enlightenment are not entirely true.
• Transformation and rebirth: The Demon Jar becomes an Immortal Weapon, divine medicines approach human form, the little Phoenix evolves through bloodline absorption, and Dongfang Taiyi transforms Yin-Yang power into Chaos.
• The limits of enlightenment: Achieving Emperor Enlightenment is possible, but becoming immortal or reaching the Red Dust Immortal realm remains far more difficult.
• Nurturing and inheritance: Li Ming actively cultivates future life forms and preserves the legacies of powerful beings, emphasizing the transmission and evolution of Dao.
• Moral ambiguity: Dongfang Taiyi is both a killer of ancient races and a figure capable of great sacrifice, while the Demon Jar acts as both a miraculous benefactor and a potentially mischievous trickster.

4. Character Interactions

• Li Ming communicates with the developing Flat Peach Divine Medicine and True Dragon Elixir, helping them transform while receiving their life essence in return.
• The Devouring Heaven Demon Jar repeatedly interacts with cultivators by granting them inheritances, though many obtain it only briefly before losing it.
• Li Ming’s admiration and goodwill toward Dongfang Taiyi may be transmitted through the Demon Jar, contributing to Dongfang’s fortuitous opportunity.
• Dongfang Taiyi credits Li Ming, the “Demon Venerable,” with enabling his successful enlightenment through guidance and the Red Dust Immortal Transformation Theory.
• After becoming emperor, Dongfang Taiyi seeks a path to immortality, and the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar directs him to return to Li Ming for further instruction.

Chapter Summary

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• The chapter recounts the history and accomplishments of Demon Venerable, who is believed to have become an immortal. After his ascension, he entered seclusion within the sealed Undying Mountain.
• Human Demon Dongfang Taiyi had a long-standing connection with Demon Venerable. In the past, Demon Venerable rescued him, helped him survive the Dragon Maiden’s attack, and guided him toward harmonizing the Taiyin and Solar Dao.
• After achieving Emperor Enlightenment, Dongfang Taiyi devoted himself to finding a Longevity Method. He studied the Red Dust Immortal, Sacred Spirit, and Artifact Spirit paths, eventually choosing the dangerous Artifact Spirit Method.
• Dongfang Taiyi refined a mysterious Chaos Stone into the Chaos Sphere and transformed himself into its Weapon Deity, hoping to evolve into an Immortal Weapon and live out another lifetime.
• However, his Primordial Spirit began to erode and become muddled, threatening to turn him permanently into a weapon. He sought advice from Blood Phoenix Ancient Emperor, who had similarly merged with the Phoenix-Wing Gilded Trident.
• Dongfang Taiyi and Blood Phoenix discovered that neither fully understood how to complete the Artifact Spirit path. They decided to seek Demon Venerable’s help.
• After a long seclusion, Demon Venerable finally emerged from Undying Mountain. His overwhelming aura shook the universe and suppressed even the Dark Supremes, proving that he had truly entered the Immortal Dao Realm.
• It was revealed that Demon Venerable had lived out his Eighth Lifetime, bringing him one step away from the legendary Nine-Lifetime Red Dust Ascension.
• Dongfang Taiyi and Blood Phoenix, both in weapon form, hurried to Undying Mountain and transformed back into human figures to respectfully greet Demon Venerable.

2. Character Developments

• Demon Venerable/Li Ming: He completes another transformation and becomes vastly stronger, now radiating power beyond the Human Dao Realm. His Eighth Lifetime confirms his status as an unprecedented cultivation legend.
• Dongfang Taiyi: He develops from a powerful but ordinary Ancient Emperor into a determined seeker of immortality. Rather than pursue authority, he dedicates himself entirely to cultivation and takes the extreme risk of abandoning his physical body to pursue the Artifact Spirit Longevity Method.
• Blood Phoenix Ancient Emperor: His long existence as a Weapon Deity has begun to damage his consciousness. He realizes that he may eventually lose himself entirely and becomes more reliant on Demon Venerable for guidance.
• Dongfang Taiyi and Blood Phoenix: Initially connected only through their shared interest in the Artifact Spirit path, they become close friends and Dao companions after exchanging knowledge and discovering that both face the same fundamental problem.

3. Significant Themes

• The pursuit of immortality: The chapter explores the immense difficulty of transcending mortality, with even Ancient Emperors forced to gamble their bodies, minds, and identities.
• Transformation and sacrifice: Dongfang Taiyi and Blood Phoenix risk becoming mindless weapons in their attempts to extend their lives.
• The limits of knowledge: Even the founder and practitioners of the Artifact Spirit path do not fully understand it, emphasizing how mysterious and dangerous the road to immortality remains.
• Mentorship and inheritance: Demon Venerable’s teachings influence multiple generations, even though he never formally accepts disciples. His legacy spreads through scriptures, opportunities, and personal guidance.
• Power and transcendence: Demon Venerable’s emergence demonstrates the enormous gap between the Human Dao and Immortal Dao, while the Dark Supremes are forced to abandon their hopes of seizing his power.
• Friendship through shared cultivation: Dongfang Taiyi and Blood Phoenix overcome their historical differences and form a bond through mutual study and common danger.

4. Character Interactions

• Demon Venerable once saved Dongfang Taiyi from the Dragon Maiden and guided him in harmonizing the Taiyin and Solar Dao.
• Dongfang Taiyi and Blood Phoenix Ancient Emperor discuss the Artifact Spirit Method and compare their experiences. Their conversation reveals that both are suffering from the gradual erosion of their Primordial Spirits.
• The two decide to visit Demon Venerable together after realizing that outside guidance is essential.
• Upon Demon Venerable’s emergence, Dongfang Taiyi and Blood Phoenix travel to Undying Mountain in their weapon forms, then restore their human appearances and salute him.
• Blood Phoenix is especially excited to see Demon Venerable, whom he deeply admires and whose inheritance he had received after achieving Emperor Enlightenment.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ming reveals that he has successfully lived through his Eighth Lifetime, confirming that his Red Dust Immortal Theory works. He has effectively entered the realm of Red Dust Immortals and only needs one more transformation to become a true Nine-Life Red Dust Immortal.
• His accomplishments give cultivators hope that Mortal-World Ascension is possible without relying on the Road to Immortality or the Immortal Domain.
• Blood Phoenix Ancient Emperor and Dongfang Taiyi visit Li Ming to ask for help with their longevity problems. Both are willing to be refined into Immortal Weapons and use the Artifact Spirit Method to gain another life under his command.
• Blood Phoenix Ancient Emperor is especially desperate because his self-slashing and transformation into a Weapon Deity have left him close to becoming permanently sealed as a weapon. He regrets not trusting Li Ming’s Red Dust Immortal method earlier.
• After careful deduction, Li Ming agrees to help them, treating their transformation into Artifact Spirits as an experiment. He plans to personally refine the Phoenix-Wing Gilded Trident and Chaos Sphere into Immortal Weapons.
• While leading them through Undying Mountain, Li Ming shows them his numerous Immortal Medicines and unusual treasures, including the Flat Peach Divine Medicine, True Dragon Elixir, and other plants undergoing Nirvana transformations.
• They encounter a mysterious Phoenix sealed in Immortal Source. Blood Phoenix Ancient Emperor senses that it possesses an extremely pure Immortal Phoenix bloodline and assumes it may be connected to Undying Heavenly Emperor.
• Li Ming explains that the Phoenix hatched from a dead Undying Heavenly Emperor Phoenix Egg after being nurtured in Netherworld Soil. It has absorbed the essence blood of Undying Heavenly Emperor and his Second Son, greatly increasing its potential.
• Blood Phoenix Ancient Emperor mistakenly believes that Li Ming may intend to make the Phoenix his mount, concluding that this is why Li Ming does not need another mount.
• The group later reaches a divine mountain containing a Pumpkin Vine rooted in Immortal Tear Green Gold and bearing nine pumpkins formed from the Nine Immortal Metals, astonishing both visitors.

Character Developments

• Li Ming/Demon Venerable: His Eighth-Life transformation marks a major advancement. He is now nearly beyond the influence of time and may surpass the achievements of later Red Dust Immortals. His confidence and power have grown, and he increasingly acts as a researcher and creator of new cultivation methods.
• Blood Phoenix Ancient Emperor: He becomes completely humbled by Li Ming’s achievements. Once proud and skeptical of the Red Dust Immortal path, he now regrets his past choices and is willing to become Li Ming’s subordinate, weapon, or even mount to gain another chance at life.
• Dongfang Taiyi: Though quiet and inarticulate, he displays absolute loyalty and offers to become a divine weapon in Li Ming’s service. His trust in Li Ming is complete.
• The Phoenix: Its origin and bloodline become clearer. Through Li Ming’s experiments and the absorbed essences of powerful beings, it is developing the potential to become an Ancient Emperor.
• Immortal Medicines: Several medicines are being nurtured toward higher forms of life. Li Ming hopes they may eventually take human form, cultivate, and regain or surpass the strength of their former Immortal King origins.

Significant Themes

• Hope for immortality: Li Ming’s success transforms the Red Dust Immortal path from a theoretical possibility into a credible route to true immortality.
• Regret and redemption: Blood Phoenix Ancient Emperor’s regret illustrates the cost of rejecting unconventional methods and the difficulty of correcting past decisions.
• Absolute power and authority: Li Ming has reached a level where even Ancient Emperors willingly submit to him, while he freely experiments with weapons, medicines, and living beings.
• Transformation and rebirth: The chapter repeatedly explores new lives through Red Dust Immortal transformation, Artifact Spirits, Immortal Weapons, Nirvana, and the revival of Immortal Medicines.
• Experimentation and cultivation innovation: Li Ming treats powerful beings and treasures as subjects for developing new paths beyond ordinary cultivation limits.
• Legacy and future potential: Li Ming seeks not merely to reach immortality himself but to nurture others—including Immortal Medicines and the Phoenix—toward realms such as Immortal King and Quasi-Immortal Emperor.

Character Interactions

• Blood Phoenix Ancient Emperor and Dongfang Taiyi respectfully bow before Li Ming and plead for his guidance and assistance.
• Blood Phoenix Ancient Emperor does most of the speaking, while Dongfang Taiyi expresses his loyalty more simply and directly.
• Li Ming responds calmly, agreeing to help but making clear that their transformation will also serve his research.
• As they tour Undying Mountain, Li Ming explains the origins and potential of his various treasures and living experiments.
• Blood Phoenix Ancient Emperor reacts with awe and envy to Li Ming’s achievements and resources, especially the Immortal Phoenix.
• His misunderstanding about Li Ming’s intentions toward the Phoenix highlights both his humility and his awareness of the vast gap between himself and Demon Venerable.