Ch. 2420Activate! The Star Realm Grand Formation

Liu Xian'er successfully activated the Star Realm Grand Formation, allowing Li Xiaoya, Dong Santong, and the surviving defenders to retreat into the Immortal Spirit Realm. The Ghost Devil Emperor and Corpse Ghost True Devil attacked the formation from outside, and its golden light began to dim.

  • The Ghost Devil Emperor unleashed a devastating attack against Dong Santong, who escaped into the Chaos Space after Li Xiaoya warned him that the Star Realm Grand Formation was active.
  • Li Xiaoya broke away from the Corpse Ghost True Devil and entered the Immortal Spirit Realm through the formation, which repelled the devil's pursuing corpse worms.
  • Liu Xian'er collapsed after activating the formation, and Zhang Hong carried her inside with Princess Chu Chu as Zhenningzi and Li Xiaoya's remaining clones retreated into the formation.
  • Dong Santong returned injured and entered the Immortal Spirit Realm, while the Ghost Devil Emperor emerged and began bombarding the formation.
  • The Star Realm Grand Formation withstood the Ghost Devil Emperor's attacks, but its golden light grew dimmer.

Ch. 2421The curtain falls

After the Star Realm Grand Formation repelled the Devil Race, Li Xiaoya reunited with the injured Liu Xian'er and learned that the enemy had withdrawn. Dong Santong then told him the Immortal Sovereign had summoned him back to the Immortal Star Realm and had important news for him.

  • Li Xiaoya returned to the tower, where Zhang Hong and Zhenningzi were using elixirs and the Life Staff to treat the unconscious Liu Xian'er, and he declared that the Immortal Spirit Realm had won.
  • Dong Santong arrived, and Li Xiaoya later met him to discuss the battle and the condition of their allies.
  • Li Xiaoya explained that the Star Realm Grand Formation absorbed the Devil Race’s attacks and forced their forces to withdraw half a month earlier.
  • Li Xiaoya described the heavy cost of the battle, including Liu Xian'er’s loss of cultivation, his own injuries, and the damage to his clones.
  • Dong Santong told Li Xiaoya that the Immortal Sovereign had summoned him to the Immortal Star Realm and had important news for him.

Ch. 2422Important News

Dong Santong told Li Xiaoya that the World Tree would reappear in just over eight thousand years, offering true immortals a chance to obtain an Immortal Position. After Dong Santong departed, Li Xiaoya resolved to become a true immortal in time to enter the World Tree.

  • Dong Santong explained that the Immortal Sovereign had sent him and Liu Xian'er to help the Immortal Spirit Realm, but had also prepared to evacuate Li Xiaoya and the Human Realm Star Realm if it fell.
  • Dong Santong learned that Li Xiaoya had comprehended ninety-eight percent of the life law and warned that the remaining two percent could take too long to master through ordinary cultivation.
  • Dong Santong revealed that the World Tree would appear in just over eight thousand years and that true immortals could seek an Immortal Position and law inheritances there.
  • Li Xiaoya resolved to become a true immortal before the World Tree opened, and Dong Santong said he would spend eight thousand years cultivating in Space City.
  • Dong Santong gave Li Xiaoya the Immortal Sovereign's life-law insights and a storage pouch, then vanished.

Ch. 2423Another Hidden Purpose

Li Xiaoya secretly empowered a newborn three-eyed demon fox while advancing his life-law cultivation to ninety-nine percent. More than a thousand years after the battle, he reflected on the realms’ recovery and his hopes for the World Tree, while suspecting the Immortal Sovereign had another purpose for telling him about it.

  • Li Xiaoya appeared in a cavern as a three-eyed demon fox gave birth, then restrained the mother and used a blue-green elixir and spiritual energy to restore and strengthen the newborn fox.
  • Li Xiaoya left the cavern and noted that his life-law cultivation had reached ninety-nine percent before secretly sending spiritual energy into a resting two-headed tiger demon.
  • More than a thousand years after the battle at the Star Realm Grand Formation, Li Xiaoya’s injuries and Liu Xian’er’s had healed, and the Immortal Spirit Realm had regained much of its spiritual qi under the Immortal Spirit Clan’s administration.
  • Li Xiaoya allowed some Human Realm Star Realm cultivators to undertake concealed trials in the Immortal Spirit Realm but remained cautious about letting them advance to the Immortal Tribulation Stage.
  • Li Xiaoya longed to enter the World Tree when it appeared in a little over eight thousand years, hoping its inheritances could help his parents and Zhang Hong become true immortals.
  • Li Xiaoya recalled that the Immortal Ancestor had gained numerous laws inheritances from the World Tree and suspected the Immortal Sovereign had a hidden purpose for telling him about its return.

Ch. 2424World Tree

Li Xiaoya realized the Immortal Sovereign’s gifts were meant to push him toward becoming a True Immortal and reaching the World Tree within eight thousand years. After years of using the Sovereign’s life-law method to experience the birth of living creatures, he reached ninety-nine percent comprehension, but his attempt to study a White Tiger’s birth ended with the enraged divine beast striking him into the rocky void.

  • Li Xiaoya suspected the Immortal Sovereign had given him divine beast blood and a method for cultivating the life law to ensure he reached the World Tree in time.
  • Li Xiaoya used the Myriad Beasts Body Tempering Diagram to refine the blood and followed the method by merging with creatures as they nurtured new life.
  • After hundreds of years, Li Xiaoya advanced his life-law comprehension to ninety-nine percent, then spent thousands more years studying new births across the Human Realm Star Realm.
  • Li Xiaoya entered a newborn White Tiger cub as a blue-green thread of life, but the mother White Tiger detected him and roared him out of the cub.
  • The White Tiger trapped the golden-lit Li Xiaoya with her laws and struck him with her paw, sending him crashing millions of miles into rocky peaks.

Ch. 2425So close, yet worlds apart

Li Xiaoya escaped the White Tiger divine beast after infiltrating her unborn cub to study the life law, bringing his comprehension to 99.999 percent but still falling short of completion. As he recovered and reflected on his stalled cultivation, he decided to pursue a final resort and wondered whether Xian'er and Senior Sister would agree.

  • The White Tiger divine beast struck Li Xiaoya and then turned to protect her surviving cub as he fled through the Chaos Space.
  • Li Xiaoya revealed that he had spent thousands of years studying life within gestating creatures, but his life law remained just short of completion.
  • Li Xiaoya reviewed his progress in the power, five-element, sword dao, and recovery laws and concluded that none offered a better path to True Immortality than the life law.
  • Li Xiaoya recalled infiltrating the White Tiger's unborn cub, reaching 99.999 percent comprehension before the White Tiger discovered and injured him.
  • Li Xiaoya decided to try a last resort and wondered whether Xian'er and Senior Sister would agree.

Ch. 2426The final step

Li Xiaoya walked with Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong while preparing to enter the World Tree, despite learning that Daode Daoist Patriarch had planned for him to remain as the Human Race's guardian. The chapter left Li Xiaoya breaking the long silence by remarking that the walk seemed unusually quiet.

  • Li Xiaoya, Liu Xian'er, and Zhang Hong walked together across a grassland as the chapter recounted their cultivation and the Immortal Spirit Realm's growing trade and defenses.
  • Li Xiaoya had aided the Human Race on East Xia Continent with reinforcements from the Human Realm Star Realm, helping repel the Insect Race and Dragon Race's joint attack.
  • Daode Daoist Patriarch told Li Xiaoya that he had meant to stay behind and have Li Xiaoya guard the Human Race while he went to the World Tree, but agreed to remain after Li Xiaoya insisted on going.
  • Daode Daoist Patriarch warned Li Xiaoya to beware the Immortal Sovereign and Demon Emperor Supreme and not to be too greedy at the World Tree.
  • Li Xiaoya broke the silence and asked Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong whether they thought it was too quiet.

Ch. 2427Nurturing happiness

Li Xiaoya admitted that he had considered having children with Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong to help him complete his Life Law cultivation, but feared treating them as a means to an end. The women reassured him that raising children together would bring them happiness, and the chapter left them expecting three children as Li Xiaoya lovingly cared for them.

  • Li Xiaoya hinted that he wanted children, and Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong teased him before they shared an intimate night together.
  • Li Xiaoya explained that sensing the formation of a child’s life might help him reach the final step of the Life Law, but he refused to conceive children solely for cultivation.
  • Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong told Li Xiaoya that children could be happy with their father present, and revealed that they had not used divine abilities to prevent conception.
  • Afterward, Li Xiaoya stayed by Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong throughout their pregnancies and used the Life Law to sense their children.
  • Li Xiaoya discovered that the two women were carrying three children because one of them was expecting twins.

Ch. 2428Moved by life

Li Xiaoya rushed Zhang Hong and Liu Xian'er to their cave abode when they went into labor, and the two chose to give birth without using magic. After their son and twin daughters were born, Li Xiaoya’s overwhelming bond with them awakened a vast life aura across the Human Realm Star Realm.

  • Zhang Hong and Liu Xian'er felt their babies move, and Li Xiaoya realized they were going into labor.
  • Li Xiaoya used a five-colored formation to take the two women to their cave abode, where they insisted on giving birth naturally.
  • Zhang Hong and Liu Xian'er gave birth to a boy and twin girls while Li Xiaoya held their hands.
  • The newborns clasped Li Xiaoya’s fingers, and his deep emotion awakened blue-green spiritual light throughout the Human Realm Star Realm.
  • The life aura connected Li Xiaoya, the three newborns, and the two women before the babies began crying again and everyone hurried to care for them.

Ch. 2429Eighteen Years Together

Li Xiaoya and his family celebrated the birth and extraordinary growth of Li Daoxian, Li Yuru, and Li Yuyi, who became powerful cultivators by age eighteen. When the siblings asked to leave home and temper themselves without their parents’ protection, Li Xiaoya agreed to consider it on one condition.

  • Li Muzhi and Mother Li met their newborn grandson and granddaughters, and Li Xiaoya announced their names as Li Daoxian, Li Yuru, and Li Yuyi.
  • The three children grew rapidly, learned cultivation, and entered trial towers, with Li Yuru and Li Yuyi advancing faster than Li Daoxian.
  • Over the following years, the siblings reached the Spirit Communion Stage and became celebrated for their strength and talents.
  • Li Xiaoya asked whether the siblings had agreed to go out and temper themselves, then prepared to give them Storage Rings.
  • Li Daoxian, Li Yuru, and Li Yuyi refused their father’s treasures and elixirs and asked him and their mother to stop secretly protecting them.
  • Li Muzhi protested that they were too young, but Li Xiaoya agreed with the siblings and said he had one condition.

Ch. 2430Children and Grandchildren Have Their Own Blessings

Li Xiaoya tested Li Daoxian, Li Yuru, and Li Yuyi, then allowed them to travel within the Human Realm Star Realm after they claimed victory. As the children prepared to leave, he reflected on their eighteen years together and told Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong that he would depart for the World Tree to advance to True Immortal.

  • Li Xiaoya challenged the three youngsters to make him move, promising they could gain experience if they succeeded and must cultivate in seclusion for a hundred years if they failed.
  • After emerging from the formation, the three youngsters insisted Li Xiaoya honor his promise, and he agreed to let them travel within the Human Realm Star Realm once they recovered from their injuries.
  • Li Xiaoya reflected on the eighteen years he had spent raising his children and trusted the bond formed by their shared life law to keep him aware of their safety.
  • Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong joined Li Xiaoya beneath the moon, and he told them he would leave after the children set out to formally advance to True Immortal.
  • Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong said they wished they could accompany Li Xiaoya to the World Tree.

Ch. 2431Stirring into Motion

The Demon Emperor Supreme, Immortal Sovereign, Great Brahma Immortal Emperor, and Dragon Ancestor prepared their forces for the World Tree’s return in a little over two thousand years. The chapter ended with Daode Daoist Patriarch examining a hollow, five-colored fruit pit and calling the World Tree a place of sorrow.

  • The Demon Emperor Supreme told Prince Modong that the World Tree would reappear in a little over two thousand years and ordered him to join the fight for it against the Immortal Emperor.
  • Prince Modong learned that Li Xiaoya was hidden behind the Star Realm Grand Formation and ordered the Demon Elder to prepare a Blood Sacrifice while he continued advancing toward the Great Demon Venerable’s inheritance.
  • The Immortal Sovereign learned that the Child of Light’s sacred body had reached the third level and ordered Li Xiaoya’s movements watched as the Immortal Race prepared to claim the World Tree.
  • Great Brahma Immortal Emperor told the Immortal Court that the World Tree would open in a little over two thousand years and assigned Tianmei Taoren to guard the court.
  • The Dragon Ancestor arranged with Great Brahma Immortal Emperor to destroy the Human Race while other forces pursued the World Tree, and ordered a ceasefire pact to make the humans feel safe enough to leave.
  • Daode Daoist Patriarch studied a hollow, five-colored fruit pit, sighed that the World Tree was a place of sorrow, and put it away.

Ch. 2432Life Slumber

Li Xiaoya used Life Slumber to put the divine beast White Tiger and its cub to sleep so he could take the White Tiger’s essence blood and strengthen his power law. As he prepared to strike, the little white tiger began snoring loudly, drawing his attention to it.

  • A thread of blue-green spiritual light entered the little white tiger, and both tigers fell into a deep sleep surrounded by strange life runes.
  • Li Xiaoya appeared in the Chaos Space and explained that he planned to perfect the power law alongside the life law before advancing to true immortal.
  • Li Xiaoya described how Life Slumber could silently suppress a target’s senses, allowing him to attack during a brief period of sleep.
  • Li Xiaoya returned to the White Tiger’s lair and raised the Bloodthirst Spirit-Communing Dragon-Slaying Sword toward the sleeping divine beast White Tiger’s neck.
  • The little white tiger began snoring, and Li Xiaoya redirected the sword toward it.

Ch. 2433Compassion Law

Li Xiaoya spared a mother White Tiger and her cub, then unexpectedly comprehended the Compassion Law. As rumors spread that the World Tree was about to open, he continued gathering divine-beast essence blood without killing them, until a vast golden phenomenon gathered around him in the Chaos Space.

  • Li Xiaoya took essence blood from the sleeping mother White Tiger but healed her wound and spared her and her cub.
  • After leaving, Li Xiaoya comprehended the Compassion Law, which had descended as a reward for his accumulated merit and act of mercy.
  • Li Xiaoya later used the Life-Sleeping Divine Ability to put divine beasts to sleep and collect their essence blood without killing them.
  • Rumors that the World Tree would soon open spread among high-ranked cultivators and True Immortals, prompting the races of every Star Realm to seek information.
  • A vast golden radiance and mysterious law runes gathered around Li Xiaoya as his figure grew to hundreds of thousands in size.

Ch. 2434Ten Thousand Demons Tribulation Immortal

Li Xiaoya underwent the true immortal tribulation in Chaos Space, seeing through the false celestial manifestations as the Ten Thousand Demons Tribulation Immortal. He repelled the demons and shattered the hellish illusion, just as the true immortal tribulation finally descended.

  • Li Xiaoya's body radiated golden and blue-green light as laws of power and life transformed Chaos Space and summoned visions of myriad beasts.
  • A vast spiritual-light gate opened, but Li Xiaoya sensed black qi and realized the apparent ascension was a heavenly demon illusion.
  • Li Xiaoya broke the illusion, revealing a hellish realm filled with monsters and demons and identifying the Ten Thousand Demons Tribulation Immortal.
  • Li Xiaoya formed hundreds of Golden Giant Hands and used Ten Thousand Demons Repelled to annihilate the charging demons.
  • Li Xiaoya blasted open the pitch-black sky, and the true immortal tribulation descended.

Ch. 2435Happy New Year, Everyone

Liu Wenfei poured his cultivation and magic power into Zhuge Yu'er to restore her strength, but lost consciousness as she continued absorbing it. He awoke bound to a stone pillar in a sandstorm with his magic power nearly exhausted, and saw several figures approaching as he recovered.

  • Liu Wenfei transferred his cultivation and magic power to Zhuge Yu'er, while a strange voice celebrated the demonic qi and urged her to continue.
  • Liu Wenfei lost consciousness and wandered through darkness, believing Zhuge Yu'er had abandoned him, before a huge black hand seized him.
  • Liu Wenfei awoke bound to a stone pillar in a howling sandstorm, with his cultivation weak and his magic power nearly depleted.
  • Liu Wenfei summoned the Soul-Devouring Ancient Insect, which chewed through his rope, but the wind blew him down until he took shelter behind the pillar.
  • Liu Wenfei swallowed elixirs and began recovering, unable to remember how he had arrived there, when several figures approached through the storm.

Ch. 2436True Immortal

Li Xiaoya successfully advanced to true immortal in Chaos Space, while Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma absorbed the five-element origin force from his tribulation. Two Flame Flying Lion Divine Beasts attacked him during his recovery, but he defeated and captured them.

  • After refining essence blood from more than a hundred divine beasts, Li Xiaoya perfected his comprehension of the power law and prepared for his advancement.
  • Li Xiaoya brought Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma into Chaos Space and endured a powerful dual true immortal tribulation with his body and divine treasures.
  • Two Flame Flying Lion Divine Beasts sensed Li Xiaoya's weakened state and charged into the light surrounding his advancement.
  • Li Xiaoya defeated both Flame Flying Lion Divine Beasts and sealed their magic power without killing them.
  • Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma absorbed the five-element origin force and asked Li Xiaoya what he would do with the captured beasts.

Ch. 2437I came from the World Tree

Li Xiaoya captured two Flame-Flying Lion divine beasts and asked the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma about the World Tree, learning that it was the Mother Star Realm and the origin of all star realms. The Ganoderma revealed that it had once lived inside the World Tree, leaving Li Xiaoya stunned as he continued flying through the Chaos Space.

  • Li Xiaoya used the Yin-Yang Chaos Divine Cauldron to capture the two Flame-Flying Lion divine beasts for Yuyi and Yuru.
  • Li Xiaoya asked the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma about the World Tree and bargained away one bottle of Red Lotus Immortal Wine Fruit wine for an explanation.
  • The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma explained that the World Tree was the founding mother of all star realms, with Greater and Lesser Star Realms growing from it like fruit.
  • Li Xiaoya asked whether the Ganoderma had been to the World Tree, and it revealed that the Old Geezer had originally brought it out from there.

Ch. 2438Changes in the Human Realm

Li Xiaoya learned more about the World Tree and the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma’s abilities before returning to the Human Realm Star Realm after advancing to True Immortal. He found the realm greatly transformed and his loved ones much stronger, but became puzzled by the number of people gathered near his cave abode.

  • The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma told Li Xiaoya about the World Tree and revealed that its true form had helped create the Human Realm Star Realm.
  • Li Xiaoya discussed cultivation methods with the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma and considered strengthening himself and his Heaven-Creating Divine Artifacts before the World Tree opened.
  • Li Xiaoya reached the Immortal Spirit Realm and saw that its population and strength had grown, with Princess Chu Chu among its Immortal Tribulation Stage cultivators.
  • Li Xiaoya returned to the Human Realm Star Realm and found that it had expanded, cultivation had flourished, and artifact-refining techniques had advanced.
  • Li Xiaoya discovered that Zhang Hong, Liu Xian'er, and the other two of his three little ones had reached the Immortal Tribulation Stage, while his parents and Zhang Hong and Liu Xian'er had reached cultivation bottlenecks.
  • Li Xiaoya sensed an unusually large number of people near his cave abode and wondered what had changed there.

Ch. 2439A House Full of Descendants

Li Xiaoya returned to the Enchanted Mountain Range and discovered that his former cave abode had become a vast settlement filled with his descendants. After reuniting with his family and reflecting on his responsibilities, he received an urgent-looking communication from the Daode Daoist Patriarch.

  • Li Xiaoya reunited with Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong, who brought him to meet the thousands of cultivators descended from him.
  • Li Daoxian and the Li Family cultivators greeted Li Xiaoya as their Patriarch, and he learned that his children had reached the early Immortal Tribulation stage.
  • Li Xiaoya praised Li Daoxian for the flourishing family, teased him about his eighteen wives, and shared a warm reunion with his children and family.
  • Li Xiaoya watched his descendants cultivate and told Liu Xian'er that he accepted his responsibilities to his family and the human race.
  • A Little Mirror in Li Xiaoya's Storage Ring began humming, and the Daode Daoist Patriarch appeared in it.
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