Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary: “Creating the Phoenix Tribulation Art”

Key plot points and events

• While studying the Immortal Phoenix Secret Art alongside phoenix blood crimson gold, Li Ming comprehends nine divine chains of order. He recognizes them as the basis of the Phoenix Tribulation Rebirth Technique, a healing art capable of restoring shattered flesh and spirit from a single drop of blood.
• The phoenix blood crimson gold does not become a Sacred Spirit, but its profound meaning is awakened. Li Ming sends it into Heaven-Piercing Ancient Star’s largest dragon vein.
• Li Ming enters the planet’s abandoned Road to Immortality, a vast and dangerous realm filled with distorted space, ancient corpses, ruins, lethal formations, chaos, and immortal Dao runes. He crosses its hazards unharmed, using the Heavenly Demonic Saber, Bronze Immortal Hall, and his own abilities.
• He reaches a Chaos Thunder Sea and treats its devastating lightning as a cultivation resource, refining and devouring it. This reveals a hidden world containing the Undying Mountain.
• On the mountain, Li Ming discovers the enormous Ancient Enlightenment Tea Tree. Its leaves take countless forms, and its aura brings profound clarity and insight. He also witnesses fleeting imprints of powerful Immortal beings, which the world’s Dao rules quickly suppress.

Character developments

• Li Ming adds a major insight to his cultivation: he independently distills the principles of the Phoenix Tribulation Rebirth Technique, complementing his existing healing art.
• His confidence and mastery are emphasized throughout the journey. Dangers that could kill ordinary Supremes—including formations, chaos, and divine thunder—become opportunities for him to learn and grow.
• He remains curious and analytical, using prior divination and his knowledge of Dao laws to investigate the Road to Immortality and interpret its discoveries.

Significant themes

• Cultivation through comprehension: Li Ming gains power by recognizing and combining the principles of different arts and materials.
• Rebirth and immortality: The Phoenix Tribulation technique represents an extraordinary capacity to recover from destruction.
• Danger as opportunity: What is lethal to others becomes a resource for a sufficiently powerful cultivator.
• The limits of knowledge and fate: The Road’s shifting Dao and concealed auras thwart divination, while its strange relics hint at a history beyond ordinary understanding.
• Traces of a lost age: Immortal runes, apparitions, and ancient ruins suggest the Road once connected to a far greater realm.

Character interactions

• The chapter has little direct interaction between living characters. Li Ming mainly encounters traces of the past: apparitions of a woman and a man who once sought enlightenment beneath the Ancient Enlightenment Tea Tree. Their presence is brief, and the world’s Dao rules erase them.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ming discovers that the Ancient Enlightenment Tea Tree is far more extraordinary than described in the original text. Standing thirty-six meters tall, its countless leaves embody different Great Dao principles and resemble miniature worlds.
• Because of his Chaotic Body, Li Ming naturally resonates with the tree’s Myriad Dao aura. He easily plucks a leaf, despite the leaves attempting to escape into the earth.
• The tree possesses a rudimentary consciousness and respectfully submits to Li Ming, revealing that it was once called the Enlightenment Longevity Tree. Li Ming confirms that it is an Immortal Medicine from the Immortal Domain that fell into this world with Undying Mountain.
• The tree explains that its memories of the Immortal Domain were mostly destroyed by the suppression of this world’s Grand Dao. It has since undergone rebirth and remembers very little.
• Li Ming learns that the surrounding ordinary tea trees are offshoots of the Ancient Enlightenment Tea Tree, though they lost its special qualities.
• Recognizing that the Road to Immortality is dangerous and that the tree’s life is bound to Undying Mountain, Li Ming marks the tree and agrees to eventually rescue both it and the mountain.
• While exploring Undying Mountain, Li Ming discovers an Immortal Tear Green Gold Mine, the future birthplace of the Immortal Tears Green Gold Sacred Spirit Emperor. He becomes more interested in observing the Sacred Spirit’s gestation than in claiming the mine itself.
• The Ancient Enlightenment Tea Tree guides Li Ming through the mountain, using its connection to the formations to move freely. Li Ming discovers numerous treasures, including Chaos Stones, Magnetic Divine Mountains, Yellow Springs water, and the Source Root of Mother Qi of All Things.
• His Heavenly Demonic Saber absorbs the Mother Qi essence and the surrounding Black-Yellow Qi, strengthening itself.
• Li Ming cultivates beneath the tree and harvests roughly ten thousand leaves, using their powerful Dao fragments to deepen his comprehension.
• The Ancient Enlightenment Tea Tree unexpectedly produces its first fruit since entering this world. It presents the fruit to Li Ming, claiming it may allow someone to attain Supreme Enlightenment.
• Li Ming identifies the fruit as a treasure comparable to the legendary Hedao Flower. It contains fused Dao laws from both the Immortal Domain and this world, strengthens the body and Primordial Spirit, and temporarily allows its user to resonate with the Myriad Dao.

Character Developments

• Li Ming: Demonstrates overwhelming strength, insight, and authority. He is able to inspect the tree’s origin, command the mountain’s treasures, and recognize the value of the Sacred Spirit mine. Although he initially considers cutting down the tree and refining it into a coffin, he changes his plan after seeing its usefulness and chooses to preserve it for future harvesting.
• Ancient Enlightenment Tea Tree: Develops from a passive Immortal Medicine into a conscious and cooperative ally. It openly submits to Li Ming, explains its origins, and actively assists him. Its ability to reproduce through offshoots and eventually produce a unique Dao-Proving Fruit reveals its exceptional potential.
• Immortal Tears Green Gold Spirit: Has not yet been born, but the chapter establishes its future importance. Its long gestation and immense potential suggest that it could become a powerful Perfected Sacred Spirit or even attain Enlightenment.
• Heavenly Demonic Saber: Shows independent action by automatically absorbing the Source Root of Mother Qi of All Things and the surrounding Black-Yellow Qi.

Significant Themes

• Power and submission: The Ancient Enlightenment Tea Tree immediately recognizes Li Ming’s superiority and willingly submits to him.
• Lost origins and fragmented memory: The tree’s destroyed memories reflect the damage caused by the collision and suppression of the laws of two worlds.
• Preservation versus exploitation: Li Ming considers using the tree as a resource but ultimately recognizes that preserving it will yield greater long-term benefits.
• The mystery of cultivation and natural gestation: The Sacred Spirit mine highlights how heaven and earth can nurture beings with extraordinary innate talent over millions of years.
• Fusion of Dao systems: The fruit’s power comes from combining the laws of the Immortal Domain and the current world, suggesting that their intersection can produce abilities beyond ordinary cultivation methods.
• Exceptional treasures in a declining age: The Ancient Enlightenment Tea Tree’s fruit may substitute for the lost Hedao Flower, giving Li Ming access to a treasure thought unavailable in this era.

Character Interactions

• Li Ming questions and examines the Ancient Enlightenment Tea Tree, while the tree responds respectfully and provides information about its origins, descendants, and the Immortal Tear Green Gold Mine.
• The tree appeals to Li Ming to rescue it from the dangerous Road to Immortality, and Li Ming accepts after confirming that its survival is tied to Undying Mountain.
• The tree guides Li Ming through the mountain and helps him locate the Sacred Spirit mine and hidden resources.
• After Li Ming harvests its leaves, the tree still treats him favorably and offers him its first fruit, presenting it as a gift for his future disciples or descendants.
• Their relationship shifts from potential exploitation to cooperative alliance, with Li Ming preserving the tree because of its unique value and the tree willingly serving him.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Li Ming discovers that the Ancient Enlightenment Tea Tree bears a fruit containing Grand Dao Fragments. Recognizing its immense value and the danger it could cause if exposed, he seals it away.
• He takes the tree and Undying Mountain from Heaven-Piercing Ancient Star and joins the mountain with Reincarnation Sea. He then makes Undying Mountain his cultivation retreat.
• Under the tree’s influence, Li Ming deepens his understanding of countless scriptures and paths. He fuses the Nine Secret Techniques into a legendary immortal art, while his own Transformation Character Secret also grows stronger.
• Li Ming observes an Immortal Tear Green Gold vein beginning a rare transformation that could eventually produce a Sacred Spirit. Studying its developing spirituality further enriches his understanding of the Dao.
• In the Great Wilderness, Beast-Taming Manor disciples are attacked by a powerful Feathered Serpent. Its venom and lightning kill several disciples and mounts, while others flee.
• A gifted young woman escapes on her extraordinarily fast, flightless-in-cultivation mount, the Undying Mountain Chicken. Jade Elder arrives, rescues the survivors, and kills the serpent with twelve God-Devouring Insects.
• Jade Elder warns the disciples to leave the dangerous region. He then approaches the chicken, whose hidden identity is the fallen Undying Heavenly Emperor.

Character developments

• Li Ming advances through concentrated study, integrating and transforming many techniques rather than relying on a single inherited path. His cultivation gains new depth, though he remains committed to the Red Dust Immortal path rather than sealing himself away.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor is now powerless, stripped of his cultivation, source power, and memories. Reduced to a long-lived mount, he survives by winning the young woman’s protection and fears being harvested for medicine by Jade Elder.
• The young woman shows promise as a cultivator and is bold enough to lead her group, but the attack exposes the danger of overestimating her party’s ability.
• Jade Elder is established as a formidable and unsettling beast tamer. His control of the God-Devouring Insects is precise, and he regards dangerous creatures as useful materials for weapons and pills.

Significant themes

• Power and vulnerability: Even talented cultivators are helpless when faced with a stronger foe; survival depends on recognizing one’s limits.
• Knowledge and secrecy: Li Ming conceals the tea tree’s fruit because great power can provoke catastrophe.
• Transformation and potential: Li Ming’s techniques evolve, while the Immortal Tear Green Gold may awaken into a Sacred Spirit.
• Reversal of status: A former emperor has become a mount—and risks being treated as an ingredient—showing how completely fortune can change.
• Pragmatism and exploitation: Jade Elder’s rescue is followed by his calculating interest in the serpent’s remains, reflecting a world where powerful beings turn danger into resources.

Character interactions

• Li Ming interacts chiefly with the mountain and its mysteries, using the tea tree and Immortal Tear Green Gold as aids to enlightenment.
• The young woman’s trust in her mountain chicken contrasts with his purely self-preserving motives: he flees rather than risk himself for the other disciples.
• Jade Elder protects the surviving disciples, reprimands them for entering the wilderness unprepared, and demonstrates his authority by killing the serpent.
• When Jade Elder praises the chicken, the Undying Heavenly Emperor recognizes him as a threat, since Jade Elder has previously taken his blood and wants to make medicine from him.

Plot points and events

• Elder Jade abducts the Undying Heavenly Emperor, a long-kept mount at the Beast-Taming Manor, and takes him to a hidden cave to refine him into a life-extending pill.
• Near death and willing to risk punishment, Elder Jade believes the Heavenly Emperor is a Phoenix who once consumed an Immortal Medicine. He expects the bird’s vitality to grant him thousands of years of life.
• Elder Jade seals the Heavenly Emperor, destroys his life tablet, and erases traces that might lead rescuers to him. He wounds him to bleed his essence into a cauldron, then adds rare spirit medicines and begins refining everything with a purple underground flame.
• Trapped in the boiling cauldron, the Heavenly Emperor loses blood and nearly consciousness. Reciting the Demon Race Scripture steadies him and triggers an unexpected transformation: the furnace’s power breaks his restraints and melts a seal within his body.
• Five-colored blood awakens in him, shielding him from the boiling liquid. He regains movement, then begins swallowing the medicines and liquid himself, growing more vital as the five-colored radiance strengthens.
• Elder Jade mistakes the glow for evidence that his plan is succeeding and remains eager to consume the finished pill.

Character developments and interactions

• The Undying Heavenly Emperor shifts from terrified captive to determined survivor. Despite pain, weakness, and humiliation, he clings to life; the scripture and his latent power help him fight back and exploit the refining process.
• Elder Jade is revealed as ruthless and desperate. His approaching death outweighs loyalty, reputation, or compassion, and he treats the Heavenly Emperor as an ingredient rather than a person.
• Their interaction is defined by coercion and deception: the Heavenly Emperor tries to stall and appeal to consequences, while Elder Jade dismisses his pleas, boasts that no one can find him, and carries out the refining.

Significant themes

• Survival and resilience: the Heavenly Emperor’s extraordinary vitality and will to live persist even when he appears doomed.
• Greed and moral corruption: fear of death drives Elder Jade to betray his sect’s norms and commit a calculated atrocity.
• Hidden identity and awakening: the Heavenly Emperor’s Phoenix-like nature, five-colored blood, and latent abilities emerge under extreme pressure.
• Irony and reversal: Elder Jade believes the cauldron is transforming his captive into medicine, but the process instead begins awakening and strengthening the victim.

Key plot points and events

• Emperor Zun invites Li Ming and numerous Supremes to witness an unprecedented feat: helping Chuan Ying break through to the Supreme realm despite Emperor Zun already holding the era’s Heavenly Heart Imprint.
• Li Ming suspects the gathering may connect to Emperor Zun’s eventual fall into darkness, but chooses to observe rather than act. He predicts that a path beyond the ninth quasi-venerable heaven exists without merging with the Heavenly Heart Imprint, and names it alternative enlightenment.
• Chuan Ying begins his breakthrough in the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland. A catastrophic tribulation assails him with lightning, immortal figures, weapon imprints, and the combined Dao suppression of the universe and the enlightened Supremes.
• Emperor Zun, Li Ming, Daode Tianzun, and Lingbao Tianzun help by repeatedly shattering the Heavenly Heart Imprint, easing its suppression so Chuan Ying can face the tribulation.
• Chuan Ying appears to die after swallowing the tribulation, but reforms. He survives, reaches the ultimate Dao domain without merging with the imprint, creates his own Supreme scripture, and refines his weapon into a Supreme Weapon. His alternative enlightenment succeeds.

Character developments

• Li Ming remains confident and observant, trusting his own strength while withholding judgment about Emperor Zun’s motives. His insight gives a name and theoretical basis to alternative enlightenment.
• Emperor Zun displays his characteristic ambition and showmanship, openly defying the era’s limits and rallying the Heavenly Court. His actions reveal that he has planned for the Dao suppression Chuan Ying would face.
• Chuan Ying emerges from Emperor Zun’s shadow, revealing a commanding presence and great resolve. Through repeated destruction and recovery, he proves himself capable of a path no one had previously achieved.

Significant themes

• Defying established limits: Chuan Ying challenges the assumption that only one person can attain enlightenment in an era.
• The cost of transcendence: His breakthrough requires enduring overwhelming tribulation and near-total destruction.
• Ambition, faith, and spectacle: Emperor Zun’s confidence inspires the crowd, while gathered faith power helps fuel Chuan Ying’s attempt.
• Cooperation amid rivalry: The powerful figures support Chuan Ying’s breakthrough, even though their own Dao contribute to the danger.

Character interactions

• Emperor Zun invites Li Ming and other powerful figures to witness and support the breakthrough; Li Ming’s calm endorsement strengthens belief in its possibility.
• Emperor Zun openly challenges Li Ming’s apparent certainty, then agrees with his proposed concept of alternative enlightenment.
• As Chuan Ying faces the tribulation, Emperor Zun and the other Supremes intervene together, suppressing or breaking the Heavenly Heart Imprint’s influence.
• Dark Supremes observe from afar, divided between skepticism about Chuan Ying’s chances and alarm at the approaching Road to Immortality.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chuan Ying successfully attains Alternative Enlightenment, becoming a Supreme-level existence. He thanks Emperor Zun and declares his intention to follow him into the Immortal Domain rather than be sealed away for a later age.
• Two or three centuries later, Emperor Zun sounds his Horn of War, announcing that preparations for the Heavenly Court’s “Ascension of the Entire Religion” are complete.
• Countless Heavenly Soldiers, Heavenly Generals, ancient powerhouses, and more than a hundred Supremes awaken or emerge. Many consume Nine-Revolution Immortal Elixirs to restore themselves to peak condition and join Emperor Zun’s campaign.
• Emperor Zun asks Li Ming to protect and preserve the Heavenly Court’s forces if he fails. Li Ming agrees but remains alert, prepared to kill Emperor Zun if he discovers that Emperor Zun intends to refine the entire world.
• Lingbao Tianzun and Daode Tianzun hesitate over whether to pursue the Red Dust Immortal path or enter the Immortal Domain. Li Ming supports whichever choice they make.
• The Heavenly Court gathers at Beidou Star, which has been transformed into a powerful formation containing five continents, the Chaos Altar, and countless Dao markings left by Supremes.
• Using the restored Immortal Ascension Cauldron, Emperor Zun tears open the Beidou Road to Immortality. The Heavenly Court first enters a Chaos Small World containing Immortal Spirit Qi, but it is revealed not to be the true Immortal Domain.
• Emperor Zun activates hidden altars connected to Beidou Star. Through a collective incantation, the power of the Heavenly Court, the universe’s faith, and the essence of heaven and earth, they open the true Gate to Immortality.
• Northern Polar Immortal Light pours from the gate, confirming that it genuinely connects to the Immortal Domain. Dark Supremes who had remained uninvolved rush to enter.
• Instead of allowing them through, Emperor Zun’s allied Supremes slaughter these latecomers and use their corpses as sacrifices to stabilize or open the Heavenly Gate. The chapter ends with the brutal sacrifice of more than twenty Dark Supremes.

Character Developments

• Chuan Ying proves the existence of Alternative Enlightenment and becomes an even more important figure within the Heavenly Court. His loyalty to Emperor Zun and willingness to fight beside him become absolute.
• Emperor Zun displays enormous influence, preparation, and ambition. He successfully gathers an unprecedented number of Supremes and opens the true Road to Immortality, but his ruthlessness becomes undeniable when he sacrifices uninvited Supremes.
• Li Ming remains cautious and independent. Although he cooperates with Emperor Zun and promises to protect the Heavenly Court’s survivors, he continues investigating for signs of Emperor Zun’s possible world-refining scheme.
• Lingbao Tianzun and Daode Tianzun face a major life decision: continue seeking immortality through the Red Dust path or enter the Immortal Domain with Emperor Zun.
• The many awakened Dark Supremes reveal their desperation for longevity, willingly joining the campaign or attempting to seize an opportunity after seeing proof that the Immortal Domain is truly accessible.

Significant Themes

• The pursuit of immortality: Countless ancient beings risk everything for the chance to enter the Immortal Domain and escape the limits of the mortal world.
• Faith and collective power: The Heavenly Court’s shared will, faith from the universe, and coordinated ritual are essential to opening the Heavenly Gate.
• Loyalty versus suspicion: Li Ming’s cooperation with Emperor Zun is tempered by the possibility that Emperor Zun may harbor hidden ambitions.
• Ruthlessness in the pursuit of transcendence: The sacrifice of the uninvolved Supremes shows that even the path to immortality is governed by betrayal, competition, and survival.
• Hope and deception: The first world beyond the Road to Immortality resembles the Immortal Domain but is not the real destination, emphasizing the uncertainty surrounding the path to eternal life.

Important Character Interactions

• Chuan Ying and Emperor Zun: Chuan Ying pledges lifelong loyalty and asks to accompany Emperor Zun into the Immortal Domain; Emperor Zun praises him but keeps his intentions regarding Chuan Ying’s future concealed.
• Li Ming and Emperor Zun: Emperor Zun entrusts Li Ming with protecting the Heavenly Court if the campaign fails. Li Ming agrees while privately reserving the right to oppose or kill Emperor Zun.
• Li Ming, Lingbao Tianzun, and Daode Tianzun: Li Ming encourages the two Heavenly Venerables to choose the path they believe offers the best chance of survival.
• Emperor Zun and the Supremes: Emperor Zun gathers and commands more than a hundred Supremes, binding them through the promise of collective ascension.
• The allied Supremes and the late-arriving Dark Supremes: The groups clash immediately on the Road to Immortality, with the invited Supremes killing the outsiders and using them as sacrifices to open the Heavenly Gate.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ming deduces that the Road to Immortality contains multiple Heavenly Gates. The first gate leads not to the true Immortal Domain, but to an intermediate world.
• A massive battle erupts before the gate. Emperor Zun and his allied Supremes pursue and slaughter the Dark Supremes who entered the Immortal Domain later. Grand Dao-born Immortal Spirits also attack, turning the road into a chaotic battlefield.
• Li Ming remains largely detached from the conflict, killing some Immortal Spirits but avoiding full participation. His overwhelming strength causes all Supremes to give him a wide berth.
• After defeating many Dark Supremes, Emperor Zun leads the group through a Chaos Cavern filled with powerful Immortal Spirits. They eventually reach an apparent dead end: a vast emptiness where the Road to Immortality seems to stop.
• The Dark Supremes outside the road mock Emperor Zun, believing he has miscalculated. However, a genuine Immortal Domain soon appears in the distance.
• Emperor Zun activates Beidou Star’s hidden Chaos Grand Formation. Beidou transforms into a Five-Colored Chaos Altar, sending immense power into the Road to Immortality and forcibly reopening the broken path.
• The group crosses the Sea of Mortal Dust, which attempts to corrupt their Dao hearts. Li Ming, the two Celestial Venerables, and the Heavenly Court forces successfully pass through it.
• They enter a vast world overflowing with Immortality Aura. Li Ming confirms that it is a real world, though likely only a realm preceding the true Immortal Domain.
• Li Ming discovers another Heavenly Gate ahead. Beyond it lies the actual Immortal Domain and its first great city pass, apparently constructed to prevent Dark Strangeness from invading.
• Immortal Spirits emerge from the gate and attack, but the Supremes destroy them. Emperor Zun then uses collected Supreme blood and the Origin Essence Blood of the group to sacrifice to the gate.
• The gate slowly opens. Ordinary Heavenly Soldiers and Generals enter without difficulty, but Emperor Zun and the Supremes become trapped at the threshold as their bodies and Primordial Spirits are forcibly transformed by Immortal Domain Grand Dao Runes.
• Just as Emperor Zun’s “ascension of the entire religion” appears close to succeeding, a crystal-clear Reincarnation Lake attacks the transforming Supremes, threatening to sever their paths to immortality. Li Ming intervenes with the Heavenly Demonic Saber and vows to protect them.

Character Developments

• Li Ming: Continues to display extraordinary perception and power. He correctly identifies the layered structure of the Road to Immortality, confirms the authenticity of the Immortal Domain, and becomes the protector of the transforming Supremes. He remains determined to pursue the Red Dust Immortal path rather than undergo the Immortal Domain’s transformation.
• Emperor Zun: Demonstrates extensive preparation and strategic foresight by using the Nine-Revolution Immortal Elixir, the Beidou Chaos Grand Formation, and blood sacrifices to overcome successive obstacles. His plan to bring the Heavenly Court and many Supremes into the Immortal Domain is nearly successful.
• Lingbao Tianzun and Daode Tianzun: Follow Li Ming and Emperor Zun through the Road to Immortality and choose to undergo their own transformations upon entering the Immortal Domain.
• Chuan Ying and the Heavenly Court forces: Continue to protect and support the advancing Supremes. The non-Supreme Heavenly Soldiers and Generals successfully enter the Immortal Domain first.
• The Dark Supremes: Initially hostile toward Emperor Zun, they nevertheless cooperate when necessary, recognizing that his success would prove the Immortal Domain’s existence and provide a path for their own future ascension.

Significant Themes

• The complexity of immortality: Reaching the Immortal Domain is not a single breakthrough but a sequence of gates, trials, battles, and transformations.
• Cooperation amid rivalry: Even enemies must cooperate when confronting greater dangers, while resentment and distrust remain beneath the alliance.
• Preparation versus uncertainty: Emperor Zun’s careful planning repeatedly succeeds, yet the Road to Immortality still produces unexpected obstacles.
• Different paths to transcendence: The Supremes accept transformation by the Immortal Domain’s laws, while Li Ming chooses the Red Dust Immortal path.
• The cost of entering a higher world: Crossing the Heavenly Gate requires one’s body and Primordial Spirit to be broken down and rewritten according to the laws of the Immortal Domain.
• Proof of the Immortal Domain: The group’s arrival validates its existence and gives the inhabitants of the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands a tangible goal.

Character Interactions

• The Supremes avoid provoking Li Ming, acknowledging his superior strength.
• Emperor Zun commands the Heavenly Court and allied Supremes, while Chuan Ying organizes the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals.
• Li Ming cooperates with Lingbao Tianzun and Daode Tianzun, acknowledging their separate Dao choices and supporting their decision to become immortals.
• The Dark Supremes alternately oppose and assist Emperor Zun, ultimately joining the assault on the Heavenly Gate.
• When the Reincarnation Lake attacks, Li Ming takes responsibility for protecting the transforming Supremes, defending Emperor Zun’s nearly completed plan.

Plot points and events

• During the Road to Immortality’s transformation, an unknown Supreme tries to kill the ascending cultivators through Reincarnation Lake. Li Ming destroys the lake with the Heavenly Demonic Saber, saving Emperor Zun and the others.
• Li Ming invites the remaining Dark Supremes to ascend, but they refuse and choose to wait for a later opening. Emperor Zun, Lingbao Tianzun, Daode Tianzun, and many others complete their transformations and enter the Immortal Domain. Li Ming declines to join them, vowing to pursue Red Dust Immortal Ascension.
• The Heavenly Gate collapses, confirming the ascension to the world. The news spreads, overturning expectations and giving cultivators renewed hope.
• The Dark Supremes who stayed behind emerge—not to cause Dark Turmoil, but to loot the possessions of those who ascended. Their raids spark battles across the universe.
• Emperor Zun’s remaining followers, renamed the Divine Organization, are attacked despite the defenses of the Heavenly Court. The court is devastated, and its treasures and landmarks are plundered.
• Li Ming arrives at the ruined Heavenly Court seeking its sealed Immortal Medicines. Finding Dark Supremes and two Immortal Weapons—the Desolate Pagoda and Kunlun Immortal Bell—looting there, he moves to stop them.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Ming proves his resolve by rejecting immediate immortality and committing to his own path. He protects the ascending Supremes, then joins the looting, justifying it as a way to keep treasures from worse hands. At the Heavenly Court, he turns his attention toward plundering the plunderers.
• Emperor Zun and the other ascenders successfully enter the Immortal Domain and undergo a cleansing that removes any lingering dark matter. Emperor Zun’s success challenges widespread claims that he was corrupted or doomed to fail.
• The remaining Dark Supremes reveal their fear and regret: they pass up the chance to ascend, then grow bitter when others succeed. Their greed and rivalries drive them into conflict.
• The Divine Organization is left vulnerable without Emperor Zun, Chuan Ying, or the Immortal Ascension Cauldron. Its members’ earlier loyalty and rewards cannot protect them from the Supremes’ attacks.
• Li Ming’s earlier alliance with Emperor Zun’s group contrasts with the hostility of the remaining Supremes; Emperor Zun had entrusted him with the survivors’ welfare, while the looters treat them as obstacles.

Significant themes

• Choice and regret: The Supremes’ refusal to ascend becomes a source of torment once the opportunity is gone.
• Different paths to immortality: Li Ming values the harder Red Dust Immortal route over immediate entry into the Immortal Domain.
• Power without protection: Wealth and status cannot guarantee safety when their protectors depart.
• Moral ambiguity and opportunism: Li Ming joins the looting while claiming a better motive, reflecting a world where even self-serving actions can be framed as preventing greater harm.
• Reputation versus reality: Emperor Zun’s verified success overturns assumptions built on rumor and predictions.

Chapter summary

Key events

• The Kunlun Immortal Bell and Desolate Pagoda try to flee the collapsing Heavenly Court, but Li Ming and his Immortal Weapons stop them. After a bargain, they leave him two Nine-Revolution Immortal Elixirs and a nearly withered Immortal Phoenix Divine Medicine.
• Li Ming arrives as Dark Supremes battle over a sealed cauldron of elixirs. He takes it effortlessly, absorbing their attacks without injury. Once they recognize him as the feared Demon Venerable, they back down, apologize, and share their collected immortal materials with him.
• The cauldron contains five elixirs. Combined with the two he just received and two previously given by Emperor Zun, Li Ming now has nine. He keeps them as a last resort rather than using them to prolong his life, preferring to pursue immortality through his own cultivation.
• As the Heavenly Court is divided among Supremes and lesser powers, Li Ming takes selected treasures—including the dangerous Immortal Flame and several divine mountains—and sends useful portions to Earth, Ziwei Star, and allied legacies.
• Back at Kunlun Mountain, he finds the trunk of a Humanoid Immortal Medicine and gives pieces to the Snow Lotus Fairy and Xiao Yao. He seals the area, treating Kunlun as his own territory.
• With Emperor Zun’s departure, the Heavenly Court’s era ends. Its abandoned holdings are plundered, and rival powers hunt its remaining followers in a bloodbath that lasts over a thousand years.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Ming demonstrates both overwhelming power and practical restraint: he enforces his authority over the weapons and Supremes, but does not try to protect every remnant of the Heavenly Court or claim everything for himself. He values the elixirs as insurance and remains committed to earning immortality by his own means.
• The Immortal Bell and Desolate Pagoda initially treat the Heavenly Court’s treasures as ownerless, but negotiate with Li Ming rather than risk a fight. Their exchange is transactional, and they depart respectfully.
• The Dark Supremes shift from greedy, reckless combat to fear and deference once they recognize Li Ming. Their regret over refusing Emperor Zun’s invitation to become immortals is also made clear.
• The Snow Lotus Fairy and Xiao Yao benefit from Li Ming’s generosity when he gives them part of the Humanoid Immortal Medicine’s trunk.

Significant themes

• Power and authority: Li Ming’s reputation alone reshapes the behavior of powerful rivals and determines who controls the spoils.
• The cost of missed opportunities: The Supremes regret rejecting Emperor Zun’s invitation, while the Heavenly Court’s abandoned followers suffer for remaining behind.
• Self-reliance and restraint: Li Ming keeps life-extending treasures in reserve, preferring to achieve longevity through cultivation rather than depend on elixirs.
• The collapse of an era: Emperor Zun’s departure leaves a power vacuum, turning the Heavenly Court’s remnants into prizes and exposing the weakness of those left behind.

Key events

• Li Ming finds the Immortal Phoenix Divine Medicine completely drained of vitality by Emperor Zun. He plants it in Undying Mountain and spends centuries nourishing it with divine water, medicine essences, and an Immortal Elixir.
• After 2,500 years, the medicine revives as a small, five-colored phoenix. Watching its return from death gives Li Ming a major insight into achieving another lifetime and refining his Nirvana method.
• Anticipating a catastrophic upheaval at the end of the Mythology Era—possibly the descent of Heaven’s Will Blade—Li Ming considers how to survive the transition between eras, including sealing himself away.
• On Gold Star, Li Ming meets a sealed, fully matured Immortal Golden Body. From him, Li Ming learns the origins of the Six Paths Reincarnation Fist and studies a broken stele whose fist intent may come from an Immortal King. In return, he teaches the Immortal Golden Body the Thunder God’s Heavenly Art.
• The Green Lotus Seed inside Li Ming awakens and grows into a Chaos Green Lotus. He places it in the Immortal Ascension Pool at Earth’s Kunlun Mountain, hoping it will eventually take human form and help restore Earth’s spiritual energy.
• In Kunlun’s deadly secret realm, Li Ming discovers the Dao Gate siblings Fuxi and Nuwa, who have survived the Extreme Dao formation with the help of a map fragment from the fallen Heavenly Court. He is astonished by their exceptionally pure human and dragon blood.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Ming advances his understanding of rebirth through firsthand observation, while remaining cautious about his next transformation. He shares his knowledge generously, giving the Immortal Golden Body a powerful art and protecting the Chaos Green Lotus.
• The Immortal Golden Body reveals that the famous Six Paths Reincarnation Fist was derived from a mysterious, incomplete stele rather than created from scratch.
• Fuxi and Nuwa, revered as the Dao Gate’s gifted Holy Son and Holy Maiden, are introduced as fortunate but imperiled young cultivators. Their unusual mixed heritage and apparent destiny intrigue Li Ming.
• The revived Immortal Phoenix and the other divine medicines gather around and help nourish the Chaos Green Lotus.

Significant themes

• Death, renewal, and transformation: The Immortal Phoenix’s revival and the Green Lotus’s sprouting reinforce Li Ming’s search for a way to live another lifetime.
• Knowledge passed across ages: The ancient stele preserves a fragment of an Immortal King’s art, while Li Ming passes his own techniques to future lineages.
• Calamity and survival: The coming transition between eras may force even powerful beings to seal themselves away.
• Fate and legacy: The appearance of Fuxi and Nuwa, alongside the legendary origins of the Six Paths Reincarnation Fist and future Azure Emperor, suggests history’s defining figures are already emerging.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ming discovers that the mysterious siblings are the original Fuxi and Nuwa. Their Human and Dragon bloodlines have fused perfectly, giving them extraordinary cultivation talent.
• He discovers a withered Ginseng Fruit Tree inside Fuxi’s Wheel Sea. Though nearly dead, it still possesses a living shoot and has been nourishing both siblings through their linked auras.
• By examining their memories, Li Ming learns that Fuxi and Nuwa were born into an ordinary cultivator family amid auspicious heavenly signs. Envious enemies destroyed their family, but a Dao Gate expert rescued them and accepted them as disciples.
• The siblings eventually became the Dao Gate’s Holy Son and Holy Maiden and recently broke through the world’s suppression to reach the Slashing the Dao realm—an extraordinary achievement in the weakened spiritual environment of Earth.
• Fuxi and Nuwa enter Kunlun Secret Realm using a remnant map, hoping to find Immortal Medicine. They nearly die amid layers of terrifying formations and a devastating golden Thunder Sea.
• Li Ming appears and rescues them. After warning them for trespassing, he realizes that the Ginseng Fruit Tree is too dangerous for them to keep.
• He takes the tree, restores it with Divine Spring Water, and places it within Kunlun to help it recover. He promises that they may reclaim it after attaining the Dao.
• As compensation, Li Ming gives each sibling a mature Flat Peach, offers cultivation guidance, and teaches them the Thunder God’s Heavenly Art. They recognize him as the legendary Demon Venerable before he sends them away and reseals Kunlun.
• Meanwhile, the Undying Heavenly Emperor continues drinking medicinal liquid while secretly cultivating the Zhulong Scripture inside Elder Yu Changsheng’s alchemy cauldron.
• His body absorbs enormous amounts of life essence, allowing him to sense and open his Bitter Sea and Life Spring. Five-colored divine light, thunder, and ocean-like waves accompany his breakthrough.
• Elder Yu Changsheng mistakenly believes these phenomena indicate that the “mountain chicken” is becoming an unparalleled pill. He remains intent on refining the Heavenly Emperor to extend his own life.

Character Developments

• Li Ming: Reveals a more protective and discerning side. Rather than reclaiming the Ginseng Fruit Tree for himself, he preserves it for Fuxi and Nuwa’s future. He also acknowledges that his former carelessness caused him to overlook the tree.
• Fuxi and Nuwa: Their unusual dual Human-Dragon heritage, shared aura, and connection to the Ginseng Fruit Tree explain their exceptional talent. They are shown to be powerful but inexperienced, recklessly entering Kunlun despite being only Slashing the Dao cultivators.
• Undying Heavenly Emperor: Demonstrates patience, resilience, and cleverness. He uses the supposed alchemical process as an opportunity to cultivate and successfully begins the Bitter Sea secret realm.
• Elder Yu Changsheng: Becomes increasingly greedy and deluded. His desire for longevity blinds him to the fact that the “ingredient” in his cauldron is actually cultivating and growing stronger.

Significant Themes

• Fortuitous opportunities and destiny: Fuxi and Nuwa’s rise is aided by the Ginseng Fruit Tree, while Li Ming’s accidental disposal of it becomes their great opportunity.
• Danger hidden within opportunity: The siblings’ search for Immortal Medicine nearly kills them, and the Heavenly Emperor’s imprisonment becomes the setting for his breakthrough.
• Misunderstanding and irony: Elder Yu believes he is refining a rare pill, unaware that his intended sacrifice is becoming stronger inside the furnace.
• Protection versus possession: Li Ming chooses to safeguard the Ginseng Fruit Tree rather than keep it, emphasizing responsible stewardship of treasures.
• Persistence amid decline: Fuxi, Nuwa, and the Undying Heavenly Emperor achieve progress despite a weakened world and overwhelming circumstances.

Important Character Interactions

• Li Ming secretly examines Fuxi and Nuwa’s bodies and memories, uncovering their origins and the source of their cultivation talent.
• Fuxi and Nuwa desperately cling to each other while facing the Thunder Sea, highlighting their unusually intimate spiritual connection.
• They kneel before Li Ming, mistaking him for a Heavenly Venerable, and respectfully explain their intrusion.
• Li Ming intimidates them, then rewards and guides them, establishing a relationship based on both authority and benevolence.
• Elder Yu Changsheng watches the cauldron and repeatedly comments on the “pill’s” astonishing quality, while the Undying Heavenly Emperor silently cultivates inside it.
• The contrast between Yu Changsheng’s confidence and the Heavenly Emperor’s hidden advancement creates the chapter’s central dramatic irony.

Chapter Summary: Seizing Undying’s Body, Elder Yu Becomes a Peerless Old Prodigy!

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Undying Heavenly Emperor is trapped inside Elder Yu Changsheng’s alchemy furnace. Although his cultivation rapidly advances from the Life Spring Realm toward the Divine Bridge Realm, he remains unable to defeat or escape Elder Yu, who is at the Dao Palace Fourth Heaven.
• While cultivating inside the furnace, the Undying Heavenly Emperor instinctively manifests powerful Great Dao Divine Patterns and a Heavenly Demonic Saber, suggesting that his body or soul contains mysterious memories or hidden origins.
• Elder Yu mistakes the extraordinary phenomena surrounding the furnace for signs that a supreme-grade longevity pill is being refined. To prevent the “mountain chicken” from escaping, he places a powerful Dao Palace spirit weapon, the Heavenly Net, over the furnace.
• When the furnace is finally opened, the Undying Heavenly Emperor emerges in human form as an exceptionally handsome young man. However, the Heavenly Net traps him, and Elder Yu knocks him unconscious with the furnace before suppressing him with a Beast-Taming Mark.
• Elder Yu discovers a damaged body-possession technique and uses it to invade the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s body. He devours the young man’s shattered divine sense and successfully takes control of the body.
• After possessing the body, Elder Yu removes its original demonic cultivation and begins practicing the orthodox Sage Scripture of the Human Race. His cultivation rises at an astonishing speed:
  • He completes the Wheel Sea Secret Realm in two months.
  • He enters the Dao Palace Realm and reaches its peak within a year.
  • He later advances through the Four Extremes, Dragon Transformation, and Immortal Platform Secret Realms, ultimately reaching the Slashing the Dao realm.
• Elder Yu buries his old body in a Dragon Vein and abandons his former concerns about punishment from Beast-Taming Manor. He instead sets his sights on becoming the Holy Son of the Beast-Taming Holy Land.
• At the Holy Land’s grand competition, he dominates the Dao Palace Secret Realm and is recognized as an astonishing “old prodigy.” He later becomes a candidate Holy Son and defeats the existing Holy Son to claim the true position.
• During his breakthrough into the Four Extremes Secret Realm, Elder Yu triggers an unprecedented Five-Nine Heavenly Tribulation. He survives nine waves of lightning, including tribulation manifestations of divine beasts and terrifying Chaos Thunder.
• His performance convinces the Holy Land’s experts that he possesses potential comparable to a Great Emperor. His fame rises rapidly, and the chapter ends when someone publicly names Holy Son Changsheng as the target of a challenge.

Character Development

• Undying Heavenly Emperor: Demonstrates extraordinary talent and resilience while trapped in the furnace. He reaches the Divine Bridge Realm in only a month and transforms into a powerful human form, but his escape plan fails because of Elder Yu’s unexpected Heavenly Net. His body and bloodline become the foundation of Elder Yu’s transformation.
• Elder Yu Changsheng: Changes from an aging, lifespan-obsessed cultivator into a confident and ambitious rising genius. After stealing the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s body, he gains a youthful appearance, immense vitality, and astonishing cultivation speed. His ambitions expand from merely surviving to pursuing the Holy Son position and potentially achieving even greater heights.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor’s body: Though its original owner is defeated, the body is portrayed as extraordinarily valuable, possessing Phoenix-like blood, powerful regenerative abilities, dense Immortality Aura, and enough latent potential to support unprecedented cultivation.

Significant Themes

• Body possession and identity: Elder Yu treats the stolen body as a tool, raising questions about whether personal identity lies in the body, the Primordial Spirit, or cultivation.
• Fate versus preparation: The Undying Heavenly Emperor nearly escapes, but Elder Yu’s caution and practical preparation overturn his plans. Unlike reckless villains, Elder Yu anticipates possible reversals and secures the furnace with the Heavenly Net.
• Hidden potential and transformation: Both characters undergo dramatic changes. The Undying Heavenly Emperor’s potential is revealed through his rapid cultivation, while Elder Yu’s stolen body allows him to reinvent himself as a peerless prodigy.
• Longevity and ambition: Elder Yu initially seeks only to extend his life, but newfound youth and power awaken much greater ambitions, including supremacy within the Beast-Taming Holy Land.
• The value of bloodlines and physiques: The mysterious Immortal Phoenix-like body proves more important than conventional cultivation inheritance, allowing Elder Yu to survive tribulation and progress at an impossible rate.
• Heavenly recognition of genius: The Four Extremes Heavenly Tribulation, Chaos Thunder, and divine-beast manifestations establish Elder Yu as an extraordinary figure with possible Great Emperor potential.

Character Interactions

• The Undying Heavenly Emperor internally curses Elder Yu while pretending to cultivate calmly, creating an ironic contrast between his desperate struggle and Elder Yu’s mistaken belief that he is refining a pill.
• Elder Yu alternates between fearing that the “mountain chicken” may overturn the situation and confidently suppressing him with the Heavenly Net, furnace, and Beast-Taming Mark.
• After taking possession, Elder Yu views the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s body purely as a means to nourish his Primordial Spirit and extend his lifespan.
• The Beast-Taming Holy Land’s experts initially doubt Elder Yu’s transformation but gradually acknowledge his overwhelming talent after witnessing his competition victory and unprecedented Heavenly Tribulation.
• The chapter closes by setting up a new confrontation: an unknown challenger specifically targets Holy Son Changsheng.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Undying Heavenly Emperor awakens inside an ebony coffin buried within a powerful Great Dragon Vein. He realizes that Yu Changsheng’s possession technique was actually a body-exchange method: Yu Changsheng took his youthful body, while the Undying Heavenly Emperor inherited Yu Changsheng’s decaying one.
• Although Yu Changsheng’s body is near death, it is filled with exceptionally pure purple-red dragon qi. The Undying Heavenly Emperor uses the Zhulong Scripture to restore his cultivation, quickly returning to the Dao Palace Fourth Heaven.
• He discovers a rare Dragon Marrow Pool containing 108 drops of Dragon Marrow. After absorbing them, his lifespan, physique, vitality, and cultivation improve dramatically.
• Rather than immediately advancing, he spends a long period tempering Yu Changsheng’s body with the Dragon Marrow and the Dragon Vein’s endless energy. He reaches the Great Perfection Realm of the Dao Palace Secret Realm.
• Through the Dragon Transformation Secret Art, his human body gradually evolves into a powerful red Flood Dragon. Scales, claws, dragon horns, and overwhelming dragon might emerge as his body undergoes repeated, painful transformations.
• He eventually becomes a supreme Flood Dragon capable of taking the form of a handsome, crimson-armored young man. He then leaves the Dragon Vein and deliberately triggers the Heavenly Tribulation required to enter the Four Extremes Secret Realm.
• He faces the Ninth-Five Heavenly Tribulation and uses the purple lightning to temper his dragon body. During the tribulation, he refines the Dragon Pool, along with shed dragon scales and horns, into a powerful weapon called the Red Dragon Saber.

Character Developments

• Undying Heavenly Emperor: Reborn in an elderly, dying body, he initially feels humiliated and enraged at Yu Changsheng for stealing his original physique. However, his extraordinary comprehension, determination, and access to the Dragon Vein allow him to recover and grow stronger. He transforms from a weakened human body into a terrifying red Flood Dragon and regains the confidence to pursue supremacy.
• Yu Changsheng: Though absent from the chapter, his actions drive the plot. He sacrificed his failing body to seize the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s powerful physique, leaving behind a body that nevertheless contains immense hidden potential because of its connection to Beast-Taming cultivation.
• Li Ming: Mentioned as the person who previously stripped the Undying Heavenly Emperor of everything. The Emperor’s survival and rapid resurgence would likely shock him.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor’s transformation also reflects his increasing separation from ordinary humanity. He embraces dragon blood and beastly power rather than remaining limited by a human form.

Significant Themes

• Rebirth through adversity: Even after losing his original body and suffering betrayal, the Undying Heavenly Emperor finds a path to rise again.
• Transformation and identity: The chapter explores whether strength and identity depend on one’s original body. The Emperor retains his mind and comprehension while radically changing his physical form.
• Fortune and irony: Yu Changsheng stole the Emperor’s superior body, yet the Emperor inherits a Dragon Vein and uses Yu Changsheng’s hybrid cultivation foundation to become a powerful dragon.
• Persistence versus limitation: The Emperor refuses to accept the natural decay of his new body and repeatedly pushes it beyond its former limits.
• Humanity versus beast nature: Beast-Taming cultivation blurs the boundary between human and monster. The Emperor exploits this very quality to cultivate the Zhulong Scripture and evolve into a dragon.
• The value of resources and comprehension: Before the Four Extremes Realm, his progress relies heavily on Dragon Marrow and dragon qi; afterward, his exceptional comprehension becomes increasingly important.

Character Interactions

• The central conflict is between the Undying Heavenly Emperor and Yu Changsheng, whose body exchange leaves them inhabiting each other’s former bodies. The Emperor resents Yu Changsheng for taking his handsome, vigorous form and worries that Yu Changsheng will use it to deceive or intimidate others.
• The Emperor recognizes that he is not yet strong enough to confront Yu Changsheng, the Beast-Taming Manor, or the Beast-Taming Holy Land, so he chooses cultivation over immediate revenge.
• His indirect connection to Li Ming reinforces the chapter’s theme of overcoming humiliation: despite being defeated and stripped of his power, the Emperor survives and begins rebuilding himself.
• The chapter ends with the Red Dragon Saber accompanying him through the tribulation, symbolizing the beginning of a new identity and a possible future return as the Undying Heavenly Saber.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Undying Heavenly Emperor completes his transformation into a powerful crimson Flood Dragon after refining Chaos qi from heavenly lightning into the Red Dragon Saber. Having succeeded in Slashing the Dao, he becomes known as the Red Dragon King.
• Li Ming observes that the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s fate has drastically changed. His Divine Blood has revived, his original body was taken by Yu Changsheng, and he has cultivated the Zhulong Scripture to transform into a dragon.
• Li Ming decides to give Yu Changsheng another scripture, noting that both Yu Changsheng and the Undying Heavenly Emperor now possess extraordinary cultivation foundations. He also realizes that Yu Changsheng may be a “Similar Flower” or alternate manifestation of the Longevity Heavenly Venerable.
• Yu Changsheng, now known as the Longevity Daoist, also succeeds in Slashing the Dao. Through the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s Immortal Phoenix body and the complete Dao Scripture, he becomes the de facto leader of the Beast-Taming Holy Land.
• The Longevity Daoist holds a celebration for his breakthrough and plans to seal himself away until the Grand Dao revives, intending to pursue Supreme or Emperor-level enlightenment later.
• The Red Dragon King accepts an invitation to the celebration, then arrives at the Beast-Taming Holy Land and destroys its entrance, publicly demanding that Yu Changsheng come out and die.
• The two reveal their identities and long-standing enmity: Yu Changsheng had once seized the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s body through a possession technique, while the Undying Heavenly Emperor has since recovered and transformed his new body into a powerful Red Dragon.
• Their battle devastates the area outside the Holy Land. They exchange overwhelming physical attacks, divine techniques, transformations, and weapons. The Longevity Daoist generally holds the advantage because the Immortal Phoenix body and Dao Scripture provide superior strength, speed, and endurance.
• The Red Dragon King uses the Nine Transformations of the Fish-Dragon, the Red Dragon Saber, his dragon form, and dragon bloodline abilities to resist and counterattack.
• The Longevity Daoist transforms into a Five-Colored Immortal Phoenix, gaining tremendous speed and power. He eventually tears the Red Dragon apart, though the Undying Heavenly Emperor regenerates.
• At the chapter’s end, both unleash their strongest flames and auras, evoking the ancient conflict between dragons and phoenixes. The Longevity Daoist brings out the Great Saint Sacred Weapon Dragon-Beating Whip and declares that he will kill the Undying Heavenly Emperor and seize his Dragon Race body.

Character Developments

• Undying Heavenly Emperor: Reclaims his identity and grows from a weakened, displaced existence into the formidable Red Dragon King. He develops immense determination and hatred toward Yu Changsheng, while his dragon transformation gives him a body capable of rivaling the Immortal Phoenix physique.
• Yu Changsheng/Longevity Daoist: Becomes increasingly powerful and influential after obtaining the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s body and the Dao Scripture. His confidence turns into arrogance, as he views the Red Dragon King’s body as another possession he can claim.
• Li Ming: Continues altering the original course of history from behind the scenes. He notices the changed fates of both major figures and treats their future conflict as an entertaining experiment.
• The Beast-Taming Holy Land: Rises dramatically in status because of the Longevity Daoist and the Heavenly Venerable Scripture, becoming a faction that other forces fear and seek to befriend.

Significant Themes

• Fate and altered destiny: Li Ming’s presence has changed Emperor Zun’s and the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s original paths, producing a new chain of events.
• Body, identity, and possession: The central conflict arises from Yu Changsheng stealing the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s body, while both men now seek to claim or reclaim one another’s physical forms.
• Innate talent versus acquired cultivation: The Immortal Phoenix body represents a superior natural foundation, while the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s Red Dragon body demonstrates the terrifying potential of determined, acquired transformation.
• Rivalry and revenge: The battle is driven by the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s desire to punish Yu Changsheng and recover what was taken from him.
• Power and arrogance: Yu Changsheng’s success and possession of the Dao Scripture make him confident enough to underestimate his former victim and regard the Red Dragon body as a prize.

Character Interactions

• Li Ming observes both men from afar and deliberately considers giving Yu Changsheng another scripture, indirectly influencing their future rivalry.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor confronts Yu Changsheng at the Beast-Taming Holy Land, calling him an “old thief” and announcing that he has returned.
• Yu Changsheng recognizes the Undying Heavenly Emperor and immediately attacks, confirming the old grudge.
• Their battle becomes a contest between Immortal Phoenix and Red Dragon, with Yu Changsheng relying on superior physical advantages and the Undying Heavenly Emperor relying on dragon techniques, regeneration, speed, and sheer determination.
• The chapter ends with Yu Changsheng escalating the conflict by wielding the Dragon-Beating Whip, setting up an even more dangerous stage in their confrontation.

Key plot points and events

• Li Ming abandons the dispute between the Undying Heavenly Emperor and the apparent Longevity Heavenly Venerable, judging it beneath his concern.
• He begins rebuilding the Ancient Starry Sky Road into a universal trial route connecting the major Life Source Grounds. He intends it to develop future experts while gathering Destiny and Faith Power for his mysterious Bronze Mirror.
• At the Cosmic Frontier, Li Ming forges immense Divine Cities from stars, chaos, and precious materials. He inscribes them with powerful Dao patterns and Immortal runes, and their newly formed spirits survive Heavenly Tribulations under his control.
• He places 108 cities along the road, then adds nine stronger passes for Quasi-Emperors. He also relocates abandoned roads, pure lands, forbidden zones, ancient worlds, unusual creatures, tombs, and other places of opportunity to create increasingly challenging training grounds.
• Li Ming installs Five-Colored Altars across living planets, allowing inhabitants of different races and worlds to reach the road and travel between planets when it opens. Safeguards help prevent stronger worlds from invading weaker ones.
• He adds the remains of Emperor Zun’s Ancient Heavenly Court as a final, tenth pass beyond the Quasi-Emperor stages, restoring its appearance and enhancing it with chaos and thunder.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Ming’s ambition becomes clearer: although he presents the road as a way to cultivate future talent, his foremost motive is personal survival. He needs the road’s accumulated Destiny and Faith Power to strengthen the Bronze Mirror and hopes to one day confront the terrifying Strange Race.
• His power and confidence are emphasized through his effortless control of cosmic lightning, his ability to forge near-indestructible cities, and his willingness to reshape entire regions of the universe.
• Li Ming remains aloof toward ordinary beings, even as their reverence produces increasingly pure Faith Power. He also leaves future emperors alive so long as they do not obstruct or provoke him.
• The awakened Dark Supremes watch Li Ming’s work with suspicion and unease, but his overwhelming presence keeps them silent. The chapter’s other named figures—Lingbao Tianzun, Emperor Zun, and Duan De—are chiefly connected to the places and relics Li Ming repurposes.

Significant themes

• Self-interest beneath grand purpose: Li Ming’s project may benefit future generations, but he admits that survival and power are his real priorities.
• Power, opportunity, and competition: The road is designed to test and elevate the exceptional, not provide comfort; its dangers and confinement force travelers to prove themselves.
• Order amid unequal worlds: The altars connect distant civilizations and include protections against stronger realms preying on weaker ones, though Li Ming recognizes that strength ultimately limits such protections.
• Legacy and transformation: Ruins and remnants of past ages are repurposed into trials for future generations, while the rebuilt Heavenly Court evokes a lost era without fully restoring its former glory.

Plot and key events

• Li Ming engraves more than thirty Supreme Scriptures on the divine pillars at the Tenth Pass, along with his Thunder God’s Heavenly Art, Source Heaven Scripture, and Chaos Scripture. He excludes the dangerous Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Art. The writings are meant for fortunate future prodigies, with access limited by fate and, in some cases, by race.
• Determined to establish a strong human presence on Beidou Star, Li Ming decides to relocate settlers from Earth. Earth’s recurring Dharma-Ending Eras threaten cultivation, while Beidou offers better conditions and may be central to the future Road to Immortality.
• He visits the Dao Gate and offers Fuxi and Nuwa the chance to move there, explaining that their talents would be stifled on Earth. Their master urges them to accept, and they agree.
• Li Ming plans to bring half the Dao Gate’s disciples and a comparable number from the Jade Pure Sect, along with ordinary people needed to build a lasting settlement. The two sects select roughly twenty thousand cultivators and several hundred thousand civilians; enthusiasm is so high that most volunteers want to go.
• On departure day, Li Ming confirms that everyone is willing. He then blesses the assembled pioneers, curing ailments, rejuvenating the elderly, and helping many cultivators break through.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Ming acts as both strategist and benefactor: he prepares teachings for future generations, plans humanity’s expansion, and personally offers the settlers protection and a fresh start. His goal is not merely to help individuals but to ensure humans can compete for control of Beidou.
• Fuxi and Nuwa move from surprise and uncertainty to accepting the role of pioneers. Their master supports the decision, convinced Earth’s future conditions would waste their potential.
• The Dao Gate leader shifts quickly from formal deference to eager commitment, deciding to go with his disciples and help establish the sect on Beidou.
• The Dao Gate and Jade Pure Sect communities respond with remarkable enthusiasm. Their willingness to leave Earth turns Li Ming’s proposal into a mass migration rather than a small expedition.

Significant themes

• Legacy and opportunity: Li Ming leaves scriptures and establishes a settlement so later generations can grow stronger.
• Migration and adaptation: Earth’s hardships make relocation necessary, while Beidou offers a chance to flourish.
• Human solidarity and survival: Li Ming wants people from Earth to join Beidou’s human population and prevent it from becoming dominated by the Primordial Ten Thousand Races.
• Fortune, talent, and destiny: Access to the scriptures, Fuxi and Nuwa’s future, and Beidou’s prospects all depend on opportunity—but Li Ming actively creates opportunities for others.

Key plot points and events

• Li Ming brings the people of Earth to Beidou Star, letting them witness the wonders of the universe on the way. He settles them on Central Continent, whose abundant spiritual energy offers excellent conditions for cultivation—but whose powerful beasts make it dangerous.
• To protect the settlers, Li Ming forges two Divine Cities and gives one each to the Jade Pure Sect and the Dao Gate. He then creates two Extreme Dao Weapons: the Mountains-and-Rivers Cauldron and the Years Bell.
• With the weapons and cities, the humans expand their territory, enduring heavy losses and repeated threats. Fuxi and Nuwa break through to Saint level during a crisis and lead the defense against more than twenty Saint-level beasts.
• Later, a resentful Peak Great Saint Sacred Spirit emerges and massacres Beidou’s inhabitants, then targets the human Divine Cities. The Mountains-and-Rivers Cauldron intervenes, shattering him; Fuxi and Nuwa capture and refine his fleeing Primordial Spirit.
• Li Ming leaves the humans to defend themselves, while reflecting on the coming Primordial Era and who might become its first emperor.

Character developments

• Li Ming acts as protector and benefactor, providing the settlers with powerful defenses before withdrawing. He hopes they will thrive but understands that greater conflicts lie ahead.
• Fuxi and Nuwa demonstrate foresight and confidence in Li Ming’s protection, then grow into capable leaders and Saints. They use the Cauldron decisively to save their people.
• The settlers move from awe at their arrival to building a new society, developing resilience through hardship and loss.
• The Sacred Spirit is consumed by resentment and ambition, seeking to slaughter all life and establish Beidou as a domain for Sacred Spirits; his arrogance ends in his destruction.

Significant themes

• Protection and self-reliance: Li Ming gives the humans the means to survive, but their future depends on how they use them.
• Migration and renewal: Earth’s people begin a new history on Beidou, becoming the ancestors of its Human Race.
• The cost of survival: Expansion and settlement bring casualties, sacrifice, and repeated brushes with extinction.
• Power and responsibility: Li Ming’s gifts can defend entire communities, while unchecked power—embodied by the Sacred Spirit—becomes catastrophic.

Character interactions

• Li Ming reassures the settlers, warns them about Beidou’s beasts, and gifts the Dao Gate and Jade Pure Sect their cities and weapons.
• Fuxi and Nuwa caution their followers not to touch the Extreme Dao Weapons until they have properly refined them.
• Fuxi and Nuwa unite against the Sacred Spirit, using the Cauldron to defeat him and protect the human settlements.

Chapter Summary: “The Bodhi Tree”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ming reflects on the coming apocalyptic calamity at the end of the Mythology Era. He knows it will reshape the world and usher in the Primordial Era, when cultivation conditions and vital energy will decline.
• He reassures himself that Fuxi and Nuwa are prepared to seal themselves away using Divine Source Liquid. He hopes their famous status as ancestors of humanity will help them attain Enlightenment in the future.
• Li Ming has inspired Fuxi and Nuwa with the idea of the Red Dust Immortal Path. Rather than cutting himself down and becoming a Dark Supreme, he plans to undergo multiple transformations and eventually achieve Red Dust Immortal Ascension.
• Li Ming travels to the Amitabha Ancient Star Region, suspecting that it may preserve the legacy of the ancient Immortal Monk King.
• He is received by White-Browed Monk, a powerful Buddhist Quasi-Venerable who recognizes and respects Li Ming because he has only slain Dark Supremes and is pursuing the difficult Red Dust Immortal Path.
• Li Ming asks to see the Bodhi Tree. White-Browed Monk reveals it beside the Eight Treasures Merit Pool on Mount Sumeru.
• Under the Bodhi Tree’s Wisdom Light and Grand Dao Heavenly Sound, Li Ming enters a deep state of enlightenment and studies the extraordinary Buddhist environment.
• He discovers that Mount Sumeru contains immense Fortune, mysterious Immortal Dao Runes, thirty-six powerful Golden Lotuses, and a large piece of Divine Marked Purple Gold.
• Li Ming removes the Divine Marked Purple Gold from the pool. It immediately transforms into a Demon-Subduing Pestle, suggesting that it had been naturally developing into a future Buddhist weapon.
• After Li Ming injects Chaos Essence into it, the pestle produces immense Buddhist and Daoist phenomena, including Buddha images, divine light, and Grand Dao resonance.
• White-Browed Monk is astonished and wonders whether the pestle has developed a Weapon Deity or become an Innate Weapon. However, Li Ming determines that it has only developed a spirit.
• Li Ming’s Heavenly Demonic Saber emerges and suppresses the pestle’s display of power, forcing it to restrain itself. This reveals the saber’s domineering personality and its instinctive sense of superiority.

Character Developments

• Li Ming: Continues preparing for the coming calamity and deepens his commitment to the Red Dust Immortal Path. He gains new insights from the Bodhi Tree and Mount Sumeru, while also discovering a potentially powerful future Buddhist weapon.
• Fuxi and Nuwa: Though absent from the main events, they are shown becoming more determined to attain Supreme Enlightenment and justify Li Ming’s faith and assistance. The Red Dust Immortal Path becomes an important possibility for their future.
• White-Browed Monk: His admiration for Li Ming is reinforced. He sees himself as a guardian of the Buddhist Sect’s future Supreme and deliberately leaves the Divine Marked Purple Gold untouched for that destined figure.
• Heavenly Demonic Saber: Its Weapon Deity displays a proud, aggressive personality, asserting dominance over the newly awakened Demon-Subduing Pestle.
• Demon-Subduing Pestle: It develops sentience and demonstrates an affinity for Li Ming, responding far more strongly to him than to White-Browed Monk.

Significant Themes

• Preparation for inevitable catastrophe: Powerful figures must plan for the decline of the world and the coming apocalyptic calamity.
• Legacy and reincarnation: The Bodhi Tree may be connected to the rebirth or transformation of the Immortal Monk King, suggesting that ancient beings can survive through new forms.
• The Red Dust Immortal Path: Li Ming’s refusal to cut himself down represents a difficult but potentially superior path toward immortality.
• Hidden ancient power: Mount Sumeru, the Eight Treasures Merit Pool, and the Bodhi Tree reveal that the Buddhist Sect possesses far greater mysteries and resources than later eras remember.
• Weapons developing consciousness: The Divine Marked Purple Gold demonstrates how powerful materials can become sentient through prolonged exposure to Dao, Buddha light, and natural Fortune.
• Destiny versus intervention: The pestle appears destined to become a future Buddhist weapon, but Li Ming’s presence accelerates and alters its development.

Character Interactions

• Li Ming and Fuxi and Nuwa share a relationship based on mutual respect and future expectations, with Li Ming offering guidance while they strive to become worthy of his aid.
• White-Browed Monk respectfully greets Li Ming and regards him as a virtuous figure despite his fearsome reputation.
• Li Ming and White-Browed Monk cooperate in examining the Bodhi Tree and the Eight Treasures Merit Pool, though the monk remains cautious around Li Ming’s overwhelming strength.
• Li Ming’s interaction with the Divine Marked Purple Gold awakens its power, while White-Browed Monk realizes that the weapon responds uniquely to him.
• The Heavenly Demonic Saber immediately challenges the Demon-Subduing Pestle, creating a humorous but significant confrontation between two emerging weapon spirits.

Key events

• Li Ming studies the naturally formed Divine Marked Purple Gold Demon-Subduing Pestle, then returns it to Mount Sumeru’s Eight Treasures Merit Pool. He harvests Bodhi Seeds, Golden Lotuses, and Buddha-Nature Soil, and places protective Immortal Dao Runes around the pool so only the Buddhist Sect—or someone with a destined connection—can claim the pestle.
• The White-Browed Monk says he will seal himself away for a million years, hoping to witness the birth of a True Buddha. Li Ming recognizes that he means Amitabha Buddha.
• As the End of the Mythology Era approaches, Mount Sumeru, the Life Forbidden Zones on Feixian Star, and the Underworld all withdraw from the world or seal themselves within Chaos. At Feixian Star, Li Ming leaves the prisoners in the Road to Immortality untouched, knowing they may serve a purpose in a future opening.
• In the Underworld, the Tongtian Nether Treasure’s Weapon Deity appears as Duan De. It explains that the Underworld is preparing to vanish and urges Li Ming to survive through future lifetimes and meet Netherworld Venerable again. Li Ming visits the sleeping underworld forces, including the future Corpse Emperor, before the Underworld disappears.
• Li Ming checks on Kunlun Mountain, where the Ginseng Fruit Tree and Chaos Green Lotus flourish. He leaves the Green Lotus to choose its own path, preserves the Bronze Immortal Hall rather than reforging it, and decides not to alter Earth’s destined balance between cultivation and technology.
• After confirming that his attendants have sealed themselves safely, Li Ming seals Reincarnation Sea separately. He then visits Ziwei Star, where Ziwei Holy Land and Sun-Moon Holy Land have become its dominant powers.
• At Ziwei Holy Land, Li Ming finds its aging Holy Lord close to an unexpected new lifetime. Li Ming gives him guidance, and the man transforms on the spot.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Ming remains powerful and practical, making careful choices about what to preserve, seal, or leave undisturbed. Yet his solitary journey reveals growing loneliness: people now revere him as a god, and few can speak with him as an equal. He accepts the approaching decline of the age and prepares to undergo another lifetime himself.
• The White-Browed Monk chooses a purpose beyond survival: guarding his hope of seeing the coming True Buddha.
• The Tongtian Nether Treasure, speaking through Duan De’s form, shows respect and concern for Li Ming, treating him as one of the few still pursuing the Red Dust Immortal path.
• Ziwei Holy Land’s Lord earns Li Ming’s interest and respect through his unintentional progress toward rebirth. Li Ming’s instruction lets him begin a new life, giving the old man hope of becoming a powerful future contender.

Significant themes

• Decline and withdrawal: As the Mythology Era ends, powerful beings and places disappear from the world to survive the coming calamity.
• Loneliness and reverence: Li Ming’s immense stature protects him, but also separates him from ordinary people and former companions.
• Preserving the future: Rather than controlling every outcome, Li Ming protects important treasures and leaves others—like the Green Lotus and Earth’s development—to follow their own course.
• Renewal through transformation: Li Ming and the Ziwei Holy Lord both face new lifetimes, suggesting that survival and growth depend on enduring change.

Chapter Summary

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ming visits Ziwei Holy Land, where he is immediately recognized and revered as the sect’s ancestor. He helps the ancient cultivator Zhang Chong undergo a transformation and begin a new lifetime.
• Using his pure Chaos Origin, Li Ming assists Zhang Chong in tempering his body. Zhang Chong’s decrepit form is destroyed and replaced by a vigorous young body, restoring him to the appearance and vitality of a teenager.
• Li Ming then visits Sun-Moon Holy Land, which is largely controlled by his descendants. The land has developed into a vast Flat Peach Grove after Li Ming planted the seeds of the Flat Peach Divine Medicine.
• During a grand Flat Peach Gathering, Li Ming is warmly welcomed by his descendants and many powerful figures. He teaches the Dao, examines the younger generation, and grants special opportunities to Li Mu and Li Xiu.
• While traveling through the universe, Li Ming witnesses the arrival of the End of the Mythology Era. A terrifying tribulation cloud appears and begins weakening the world’s Grand Dao, spiritual energy, Immortal Medicines, Immortal Weapons, and living beings.
• Many Immortal Medicines lose their divine consciousnesses, while weapons such as the Desolate Pagoda, Kunlun Immortal Bell, and Bronze Immortal Hall suffer damage. Some Dark Supremes, Quasi-Emperors, Great Saints, and even mortals are destroyed, while others remain inexplicably unharmed.
• The tribulation eventually manifests as pitch-black Heavenly Demonic Sabers. When one attacks Li Ming, his Bronze Mirror absorbs it completely, sparing him from harm.
• After the world enters a state resembling the Dharma-Ending Era, Li Ming returns to Undying Mountain and begins the transformation for his Fourth Lifetime.
• He uses the Immortal Tears Green Gold Sacred Spirit Vein as the foundation of his rebirth. His body gradually transforms into Immortal Tears Green Gold, while his true identity and Chaotic Body remain intact.
• The crucial transformation reaches his Immortal Platform. Although his body appears close to annihilation, a faint trace of Primordial Spirit consciousness remains, suggesting that the rebirth is still possible.

2. Character Developments

• Li Ming: Demonstrates his growing influence, compassion, and confidence. He supports Zhang Chong, guides his descendants, and remains calm while observing the destruction of the world. His preparations and powerful treasures allow him to survive the era-ending tribulation unharmed. He also begins an extremely dangerous but carefully researched Fourth Lifetime transformation.
• Zhang Chong: Successfully sheds his ancient body and regains youth through his own potential combined with Li Ming’s assistance. He emerges more powerful and domineering, showing that he has gained a genuine new lease on life.
• Li Mu and Li Xiu: Established as the most promising young members of Li Ming’s family, both having reached the Slashing the Dao realm despite the suppression of the era. Li Ming personally strengthens and encourages their future development.
• Immortal Medicines and Weapons: Their vulnerability is revealed. Even ancient treasures and living medicines can be weakened or have their consciousness erased by the End of the Mythology Era’s tribulation.

3. Significant Themes

• The fragility of existence: The era-ending tribulation affects not only cultivators but also the world itself, its laws, its spiritual energy, Immortal Medicines, weapons, and ordinary mortals.
• Legacy and family continuity: Li Ming’s visits to Ziwei and Sun-Moon Holy Lands emphasize his role as an ancestor whose teachings, treasures, and bloodline continue shaping future generations.
• Transformation and rebirth: Zhang Chong’s rejuvenation and Li Ming’s attempt to begin a Fourth Lifetime both explore the possibility of overcoming aging and death through cultivation.
• Preparation versus fate: Li Ming’s knowledge, research, and treasures protect him, but even he cannot fully understand why some beings survive the tribulation while others perish instantly.
• The limits of power: Although Li Ming is nearly untouchable, the destruction of the world and weakening of countless Immortal beings demonstrate that no ordinary method can resist the changing cosmic order.
• Identity amid transformation: Li Ming’s body changes into Immortal Tears Green Gold, but he intends to retain his Chaotic Body and essential identity rather than truly become a Sacred Spirit.

4. Character Interactions

• Li Ming guides and empowers Zhang Chong, though he leaves before receiving his thanks; Zhang Chong responds by bowing respectfully in gratitude.
• The people of Ziwei Holy Land and Sun-Moon Holy Land treat Li Ming with deep reverence, celebrating him as an ancestral, almost divine figure.
• At the Flat Peach Gathering, Li Ming interacts with his descendants and fellow cultivators by teaching the Grand Dao and personally aiding Li Mu and Li Xiu.
• Li Ming’s past discussions with Emperor Zun, Boundless Heavenly Venerable, Daode Tianzun, Lingbao Tianzun, and Netherworld Venerable inform his confidence in using the Sacred Spirit method for rebirth.
• During the cosmic tribulation, Li Ming observes the suffering of countless beings but is unable to understand the selective nature of the destruction. His Bronze Mirror ultimately intervenes independently and protects him by swallowing the attacking Heavenly Demonic Saber.