Chapter Summaries

Li Xiaoya tracked the wounded divine beast Black Tortoise to its ice-mountain lair and used the Bloodthirst Spirit-Communing Dragon-Slaying Sword to sever its head. The Black Tortoise’s core and primordial spirit escaped, but Li Xiaoya claimed its enormous physical body.

• Li Xiaoya followed the connection to his two clones, who had hidden inside the Black Tortoise’s mouth, and flew to the beast’s ice-mountain lair.
• Li Xiaoya surprised the gravely wounded Black Tortoise in its cave and struck with the Bloodthirst Spirit-Communing Dragon-Slaying Sword.
• The Black Tortoise’s body was split apart, but its divine beast core and primordial spirit escaped into the void of Chaos Space.
• Li Xiaoya reunited with his clones and decided to take the Black Tortoise’s body, though its immense size would make it difficult to handle.

Li Xiaoya cut up the Black Tortoise's corpse and stored as much as he could before feeding the leftover bones and shell to his Steel-armored Beetles. As the beetles devoured the remains, some began trembling, flipped over, and went still, leaving Li Xiaoya trying to stop them.

• Li Xiaoya hurled the Black Tortoise's corpse into an icy mountain range and cut it into pieces to store in his Secret Realm Necklace and Storage Treasures.
• Li Xiaoya filled his available storage space with the corpse's flesh and organs, but still had much of its skeleton and shell left behind.
• Li Xiaoya summoned his Steel-armored Beetles and sent them to devour the remaining Black Tortoise bones and shell.
• Some Steel-armored Beetles began trembling, flipped over, and went motionless as strange runes flashed across their bodies.
• Li Xiaoya formed hand seals and tried to stop the beetles.

Li Xiaoya watched the Steel-armored Beetles devour one another in an apparent attempt to evolve, while a black-light figure recovered the Heart-Piercing Demon Drill and searched for its lingering aura. As the beetles dwindled to eight and strange ripples appeared nearby, Li Xiaoya decided to force them into storage, but a tremendous explosion interrupted him.

• The Steel-armored Beetles consumed the Black Tortoise’s remains and fought each other, dwindling from tens of thousands to only a few hundred as they transformed and grew stronger.
• A black-light figure captured the Heart-Piercing Demon Drill, used a formation of 108 drills to find its lingering aura, and vanished through a black portal.
• Li Xiaoya noticed strange black-light ripples above the icy mountain range while the remaining Steel-armored Beetles continued fighting.
• With only eight beetles left and his strength depleted, Li Xiaoya feared the Devil Race True Immortal was approaching and decided to force the beetles into storage.
• A heaven-shaking explosion erupted through Chaos Space, opening spatial rifts.

Li Xiaoya led seven Steel-armored Beetle eggs through the void of Chaos Space while continuing toward the Immortal Spirit Realm. A black-light figure destroyed the ice mountains he had left behind and began searching for him, and Li Xiaoya sensed danger and sped away.

• Seven Steel-armored Beetles devoured their fallen kin and cocooned themselves in blue and red light, prompting Li Xiaoya to carry their eggs away.
• Li Xiaoya reflected on his growing force and the strength of the Four Great Races as he continued toward the Immortal Spirit Realm.
• A horned figure surrounded by black light entered the ice mountains, destroyed them, and vowed to find whoever had arrived before him.
• As his clones made room in the Secret Realm Necklace, Li Xiaoya stored some eggs and then sensed a disturbance in his soul that made him suspect the Devil Race had found him.
• Li Xiaoya used the Power Law and Life Law to guard himself and accelerated away, while the black-light figure later appeared in the region he had entered.

Li Xiaoya fled through the Chaos Space while a powerful Devil Race True Immortal tracked him by sensing the heart demon stirred within him. He split the heart demon among himself and two clones, sent them fleeing at different speeds, and the pursuer destroyed his water-element clone before racing after another target.

• Li Xiaoya sensed his pursuer drawing closer as the heart demon within him grew more insistent, but the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma, Guagua, remained asleep.
• Li Xiaoya stopped, summoned his two clones, divided the heart demon among the three of them, moved their Nascent Souls and valuables into his true body, and sent the clones in separate directions.
• Li Xiaoya burned his cultivation and magic power to make his water-element clone the fastest target while his true form fled more slowly.
• The black-light pursuer caught up with the water-element clone, pinned it with a huge ghost claw, and realized it was only a clone.
• The pursuer crushed Li Xiaoya's water-element clone and flew off toward the direction taken by another Li Xiaoya.

Li Xiaoya used his clones to misdirect the Devil Race True Immortal while preparing to purge the heart demon that let the pursuer track him. His wood-element clone flew into the territory of a gigantic Black Tortoise, whose enraged companion recognized Li Xiaoya and set out to seize him.

• Li Xiaoya sensed that his water-element clone had been killed and prepared bottles, jars, and formation flags while continuing to flee.
• Li Xiaoya delayed purging his heart demon until his wood-element clone was killed, hoping to keep the pursuer focused on the clone and gain time to escape.
• Li Xiaoya's wood-element clone flew through a region of immense icy mountains without stopping.
• A colossal Black Tortoise awakened and learned that an Immortal Race cultivator was passing nearby.
• The Black Tortoise's companion recognized Li Xiaoya as the Immortal who had destroyed its physical body, and the Black Tortoise teleported after him.

Li Xiaoya’s wood-element clone detonated itself to prevent the Black Tortoise divine beast from tracking his true form, while Li Xiaoya prepared to confront his heart demon. The Black-Light Figure pursued him but emerged in the Black Tortoise’s territory, where she recognized him as Three Emperors and trapped him in an ice cage.

• The Black Tortoise divine beast froze Li Xiaoya’s wood-element clone, but he detonated himself and shattered the iceberg before she could use him to find Li Xiaoya’s true form.
• Li Xiaoya sensed that his clone had been caught, set up Liu Xian’er’s protective formation, swallowed elixirs, and stabbed his own heart with the Bloodthirst Spirit-Communing Dragon-Slaying Sword.
• The Black-Light Figure realized Li Xiaoya had expelled his heart demon, opened a black portal, and vanished into Chaos Space in pursuit.
• The Black-Light Figure emerged near the Black Tortoise divine beast, who recognized him as Three Emperors and unleashed a vast cage of ice pillars.
• Three Emperors tried to escape through the black vortex but struck an unseen barrier and was hurled back, revealing his face.

Li Xiaoya purged the heart demon using the Bloodthirst Spirit-Communing Dragon-Slaying Sword and fled through the Chaos Space while the Three Emperors Supreme battled the old Black Tortoise. The Three Emperors Supreme realized Li Xiaoya had escaped and unleashed Heart-Piercing Demon Drills, but the old Black Tortoise’s shell withstood them and charged at him.

• The old Black Tortoise confronted the Three Emperors Supreme for targeting its child, and the two began a devastating battle in the Chaos Space.
• Li Xiaoya drove the Bloodthirst Spirit-Communing Dragon-Slaying Sword into his chest and absorbed the summoned heart demon at the cost of serious injury.
• Li Xiaoya recalled his formation flags, healed his wound, transformed into an Azure Thunder Roc, and fled.
• The Three Emperors Supreme noticed Li Xiaoya’s aura had vanished and realized he had searched in the wrong place.
• The Three Emperors Supreme launched thousands of Heart-Piercing Demon Drills at the old Black Tortoise, whose shell stopped the attacks as it charged toward him.

The Three Emperors Supreme pursued Li Xiaoya to seize the little Black Tortoise's physical body, but Old Black Tortoise intercepted him and forced him into a devastating battle. Li Xiaoya escaped across Chaos Space, though his severe injuries left him traveling slowly toward the Immortal Spirit Realm, where an unexpected turning point began to appear.

• The Three Emperors Supreme abandoned his fight with Old Black Tortoise and plunged into Chaos Space to pursue Li Xiaoya and the little Black Tortoise's physical body.
• Old Black Tortoise struck through the void, pulled the Three Emperors Supreme back, and fought him in a battle that shook Chaos Space.
• Li Xiaoya flew away as the Azure Thunder Roc and, after two days without pursuit, continued onward while healing his injuries.
• After a month of travel, Li Xiaoya's injuries worsened, forcing him to board a spare flying boat given to him by Second Better and head toward the Immortal Spirit Realm.
• Li Xiaoya estimated that recovering from his physical, spiritual, and soul injuries would take four or five hundred years, but a turning point soon came.

Li Xiaoya refined the divine beast Black Tortoise’s essence blood inside his Secret Realm Necklace, healing his injuries and comprehending the recovery law. After years of cultivation aboard the Skyvault Flying Boat, he finally reached the Immortal Spirit Realm.

• Li Xiaoya refined Black Tortoise essence blood and used its powerful life aura to strengthen his body and heal his injuries.
• Li Xiaoya discovered that the essence blood improved his life law and helped him comprehend the recovery law, reaching five percent understanding.
• Li Xiaoya began refining the Black Tortoise’s enormous frozen remains to produce more essence blood and restore himself.
• Li Xiaoya continued cultivating as the Black Tortoise flesh dwindled inside his Secret Realm Necklace, while his journey aboard the Skyvault Flying Boat continued.
• After seven or eight years of travel, Li Xiaoya reached the Immortal Spirit Realm.

After returning to the Illusory Formation Sea, Li Xiaoya confronted the Demon Marshal Sacred Lord and his Four Kings, intent on killing the Sacred Lord and securing the Immortal Spirit Realm before the Devil Race arrived. The chapter ended as Li Xiaoya caught Fuyang’s giant War Hammer in a golden hand.

• Li Xiaoya reached the vicinity of the Immortal Spirit Realm after seven or eight years of recovery and cultivation, then opened a portal into the Star Realm Sea.
• Li Xiaoya arrived above the Illusory Formation Sea and unleashed a life-law formation across much of the region to draw out the Demon Marshal Sacred Lord.
• The Demon Marshal Sacred Lord sensed Li Xiaoya’s return and rushed to the mist-shrouded sea, where Nineteen Niang, Fuyang, Niu Ben, and the Five-Poison Divine Chicken joined him.
• Li Xiaoya appeared before the Demon Marshal Sacred Lord and the Four Kings, surrounding them with life-law restrictions as the Sacred Lord recognized him.
• Fuyang attacked Li Xiaoya with a gigantic demonic apparition and War Hammer, but Li Xiaoya caught the hammer in an enormous golden hand.

Li Xiaoya overwhelmed the four immortal tribulation cultivators while the Demon Marshal Sacred Lord fled to the Star Realm Core and attacked its blue-green barrier. After killing the four pursuers, Li Xiaoya prepared to confront the Sacred Lord, who realized that fighting him in the Immortal Spirit Realm would end in defeat.

• Li Xiaoya crushed Fuyang’s demonic phantom and repelled the attacks of Niu Ben, Nineteen Niang, and the Five-Poison Divine Chicken.
• The Demon Marshal Sacred Lord escaped to the Star Realm Core and struck its blue-green barrier with the Ten-Thousand-Demon Immortal-Slaying Axe.
• Li Xiaoya’s Five-Element Immortal-Slaying Sword killed Niu Ben, Nineteen Niang, and the Five-Poison Divine Chicken, then burned Fuyang to ashes.
• Li Xiaoya watched the Demon Marshal Sacred Lord attack the barrier, summoned his Storm Gold-Light Wings, and prepared to pursue him.
• The Demon Marshal Sacred Lord recognized Li Xiaoya’s strength and control over the Immortal Spirit Realm’s restrictions, and feared that fighting him there would lead to defeat.

Li Xiaoya opened the Immortal Spirit Realm’s restriction so the Demon Marshal Sacred Lord could escape without damaging the realm, then followed him into Chaos Space. The Demon Marshal Sacred Lord fled, unaware that Li Xiaoya intended to pursue him through a vortex.

• The Demon Marshal Sacred Lord proposed a wager, and Li Xiaoya agreed to let him try breaking the restriction within three moves.
• Li Xiaoya opened a portal in the restriction, and the Demon Marshal Sacred Lord hesitated before flying through it into the Star Realm Sea.
• Li Xiaoya closed the restriction behind him and pursued the Demon Marshal Sacred Lord, who reached Chaos Space and celebrated his escape.
• The Demon Marshal Sacred Lord noticed the Immortal Spirit Realm had vanished and fled deeper into Chaos Space, while Li Xiaoya formed a blue-green vortex and entered it after him.

Li Xiaoya used the Immortal Spirit Realm’s teleportation restriction to intercept the fleeing Demon Marshal Sacred Lord in Chaos Space, where the two clashed with their divine weapons. Li Xiaoya then transformed into the Golden Tree King and launched a vast golden net at his opponent.

• The Demon Marshal Sacred Lord fled through Chaos Space, sensed danger, and attacked Li Xiaoya when he emerged from a blue-green vortex ahead.
• Li Xiaoya met the Ten-Thousand-Demon Immortal-Slaying Axe with the Five-Element Immortal-Slaying Sword, and their collision sent both weapons flying.
• Li Xiaoya used the Immortal Spirit Realm’s spatial teleportation restriction to get ahead of the Demon Marshal Sacred Lord and explained that he had let him leave to avoid draining the realm’s spiritual energy in a battle there.
• Li Xiaoya transformed into the Golden Tree King and sent a vast net of golden light toward the Demon Marshal Sacred Lord.

Li Xiaoya battled the Demon Marshal Sacred Lord in Chaos Space, surviving a surprise assassination strike thanks to the Black Tortoise’s defensive power. The Demon Marshal Sacred Lord was left shocked as Li Xiaoya’s neck healed and he prepared to continue the fight.

• The Demon Marshal Sacred Lord transformed and unleashed a storm of black-red serpents against Li Xiaoya, but Li Xiaoya’s golden vines tore through the attack.
• Li Xiaoya’s vines struck the Demon Marshal Sacred Lord, who vanished and left behind a substitute as he escaped Li Xiaoya’s divine sense.
• The Demon Marshal Sacred Lord used the Law of Assassination and the King of Assassination to strike Li Xiaoya’s neck from behind.
• Li Xiaoya was hurled through Chaos Space, but his body endured the blow and his neck began to heal.
• The Demon Marshal Sacred Lord stared in disbelief as Li Xiaoya credited the Black Tortoise essence blood with saving him.

Li Xiaoya transformed into a Black Tortoise and pursued the Sacred Lord Demon Marshal after surviving his assassination strike. The Demon Marshal tried to escape by concealing himself, but Li Xiaoya’s vortex dragged him back into view.

• Li Xiaoya realized the Sacred Lord Demon Marshal remained a threat to his loved ones and decided he could not let him escape.
• Li Xiaoya transformed into a divine beast Black Tortoise and charged at the Sacred Lord Demon Marshal through the Chaos Space.
• The Sacred Lord Demon Marshal concealed himself, causing Li Xiaoya’s charge to miss as he searched for his opponent.
• Li Xiaoya created a powerful blue-and-golden vortex that swept up the Chaos Space and pulled the hidden Sacred Lord Demon Marshal out of concealment.
• The Sacred Lord Demon Marshal was dragged toward Li Xiaoya’s vortex and cried out in alarm.

Li Xiaoya used his Black Tortoise transformation and a spatial trap to draw the Demon Marshal Sacred Lord into his vortex, then defeated him despite the Ten-Thousand-Demon Immortal-Slaying Axe detonating. The chapter left Li Xiaoya battered but alive, with the Demon Marshal Sacred Lord’s demonic infant and soul trapped in his tail’s golden-and-blue barrier.

• Li Xiaoya’s Black Tortoise vortex dragged the Demon Marshal Sacred Lord toward it, but the Demon Marshal escaped by teleporting.
• Li Xiaoya’s blue-green spatial barrier intercepted the Demon Marshal and transported him back into the vortex’s suction.
• The Demon Marshal Sacred Lord summoned the Ten-Thousand-Demon Immortal-Slaying Axe and detonated it, but Li Xiaoya’s tail knocked the axe away as the vortex ground the Demon Marshal’s body to powder.
• The axe’s explosion blasted Li Xiaoya hundreds of thousands of miles and left gouges across his Black Tortoise form.
• Li Xiaoya found the Demon Marshal Sacred Lord’s demonic infant and soul trapped in a golden-and-blue barrier coiled around his tail.

Li Xiaoya trapped the Demon Marshal Sacred Lord in Chaos Space and absorbed his demonic infant with the Bloodthirst Spirit-Communing Dragon-Slaying Sword just as he tried to self-detonate. The explosion of the Ten-Thousand-Demon Immortal-Slaying Axe still threatened to reach the Immortal Spirit Realm.

• Li Xiaoya used his Black Tortoise form and the teleportation restriction to recapture the Demon Marshal Sacred Lord after he tried to escape.
• The Demon Marshal Sacred Lord struggled against Li Xiaoya's runes and prepared to self-detonate his demonic infant.
• Li Xiaoya changed back to his true form and pierced the Demon Marshal Sacred Lord's demonic infant with the Bloodthirst Spirit-Communing Dragon-Slaying Sword.
• The sword absorbed the Demon Marshal Sacred Lord's demonic infant and the black-red energy before he could detonate.
• The Ten-Thousand-Demon Immortal-Slaying Axe's lingering explosion surged through Chaos Space, and Li Xiaoya feared it might affect the Immortal Spirit Realm.

Li Xiaoya contained the spatial storm from the exploding Ten-Thousand-Demon Immortal-Slaying Axe and began planning how to secure and relocate the Immortal Spirit Realm. As Princess Chu Chu and Zhenningzi watched its restrictions activate, Li Xiaoya announced that he had returned.

• Li Xiaoya raised a blue-green barrier in the void of Chaos Space and held back the spatial storm caused by the Ten-Thousand-Demon Immortal-Slaying Axe.
• After the storm subsided, Li Xiaoya dissolved the barrier and flew toward the Immortal Spirit Realm, where he planned to restore control, establish Zhenningzi as a successor, and reactivate the teleportation restrictions.
• On a mist-shrouded island, Princess Chu Chu and Zhenningzi watched the realm's restrictions activate while other cultivators feared the Demon Marshal Sacred Lord was attacking.
• Princess Chu Chu reasoned that someone was controlling the restrictions and suggested that Lord Immortal Ancestor had returned.
• Li Xiaoya's voice rang out from beyond the Nine Heavens, confirming that he was back.

Li Xiaoya returned to the Immortal Spirit Clan, announced that he had slain the Demon Marshal Sacred Lord and the Four Great Kings, and inspired the clan to celebrate. Meanwhile, Zhang Hong waited in the Chaos Space as Li Xiaoya’s teleportation began, drawing the attention of an unknown being in a distant Greater Star Realm.

• Li Xiaoya appeared before Zhenningzi, Princess Chu Chu, and the Immortal Spirit Clan cultivators, then learned that the Demon Marshal Sacred Lord had hunted them and killed many of their people.
• Li Xiaoya announced that he had killed the Sacred Lord and the Four Great Kings, and Zhenningzi and the assembled cultivators celebrated his return and the clan’s revival.
• Zhang Hong stopped the Swordlight Flying Boat at the location Li Xiaoya had indicated and waited there while the Human Realm Star Realm disappeared from the Chaos Space.
• After four or five months, Zhang Hong sensed powerful spatial fluctuations and saw a vast black orb emerge amid blue-green light, confirming that Li Xiaoya’s teleportation had succeeded.
• In a distant Greater Star Realm, an unknown being opened four pairs of blood-red eyes and recognized the spatial fluctuations as connected to the Immortal Spirit Realm.