Chapter Summaries

After defeating Lin Qilu, Li Xiaoya recovered a rare piece of profound-heaven bright silver and revealed that he had also saved Yao Zixiu’s map to the Sixth Layer. He waited for Snow Eagle King and Second Better to arrive, then said he had something else to tell them before they entered.

• Li Xiaoya lifted the extraordinarily heavy profound-heaven bright silver from the crater and recognized it as a valuable material for strengthening Magic Treasures.
• The Restoration Array repaired the cavern, and the Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast worried that Lin Qilu’s destroyed Storage Pouch had taken their route to the Sixth Layer with it.
• Li Xiaoya produced the map he had collected from Yao Zixiu’s belongings, and the Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast urged him to break through the restrictions.
• Li Xiaoya sent a message to Snow Eagle King and Second Better, then rested with the Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast while they recovered.
• Three days later, Snow Eagle King arrived carrying Second Better, and Li Xiaoya confirmed that they were at the entrance to the Sixth Layer.
• When Snow Eagle King asked whether Li Xiaoya had waited for them so they could enter the Sixth Layer, Li Xiaoya said he had something else to tell them.

Li Xiaoya learned the restriction-breaking method from the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma and used the Spiritual Qi Pearls to open a temporary gateway through the Five-Colored Light Barrier. He and the Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast entered the sealed area and found themselves beside an enormous Metal Demon Beast Statue.

• Li Xiaoya ordered Second Better and Snow Eagle King to build a cave abode outside the passage while he prepared to break the restrictions with the Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast.
• The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma read the beast-hide map, taught Li Xiaoya the method and incantations, and identified the script as belonging to the Kreig Race of the Twenty-First Star Realm.
• Li Xiaoya practiced the incantations and hand seals, then used the five Spiritual Qi Pearls to form an array and open a temporary gateway in the Five-Colored Light Barrier.
• Li Xiaoya sent the shrunken Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast through the gateway, followed it inside, and retrieved the Spiritual Qi Pearls.
• The Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast asked Li Xiaoya how they could open the passage.

Li Xiaoya used a golden key to open the entrance to the Sixth Layer and cautiously entered its metal passage with the Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast. They found a window overlooking a space beyond the wall, and both were astonished by what they saw.

• Li Xiaoya revealed that Lin Qilu could not reach the Sixth Layer and used the golden key to unlock the mechanism in the colossal statue.
• Li Xiaoya opened the enormous silver door, releasing a torrent of five-colored spiritual qi from the corridor beyond.
• Li Xiaoya and the Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast entered the sloping metal passage and proceeded cautiously despite being unable to use their divine senses.
• Li Xiaoya chose the right-hand branch at the passage's fork after hearing machinery beyond the walls.
• Li Xiaoya and the Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast looked through a transparent window and exclaimed at what they saw on the other side.

Li Xiaoya and the Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast discovered a hidden chamber filled with Five-Element Spirits, which could greatly aid cultivation. Li Xiaoya chose not to devour them, recognizing that they purified and produced spiritual qi, and led the beast to investigate the surrounding rooms.

• Li Xiaoya recognized the enormous machinery as a Spiritual Qi Refining Furnace and found a hidden door in the circular passage.
• Li Xiaoya and the Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast entered a transport lift, which carried them down to a vast chamber beneath the furnace.
• They found countless Five-Element Spirits flying beneath a pipe pouring multicolored spiritual qi.
• The Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast tried to rush after the spirits, but Li Xiaoya stopped it from catching them.
• Li Xiaoya explained that the spirits purified and produced spiritual qi, so he would not devour them, and proposed searching the nearby rooms.

Li Xiaoya destroyed the giant Flying Boat, stopped the Mystic Lake Star Realm cultivators from fleeing, and explained that he wanted to discuss a proposal rather than kill them. He threatened to make their Star Realm submit if they refused, then claimed his goal was to save it, leaving the Sage Elder puzzled.

• Li Xiaoya destroyed the giant Flying Boat and intimidated the Mystic Lake Star Realm cultivators into staying instead of fleeing.
• Li Xiaoya confronted the cultivator carrying the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast's corpse and Storage Pearls, revealing that he had noticed the cultivator's escape plan and had no intention of killing him.
• Li Xiaoya released the Sage Elder from the Immortal-Binding Rope and said he wanted to discuss a proposal with the Mystic Lake Star Realm cultivators.
• The Sage Elder refused to surrender, and Li Xiaoya warned that he would kill him and make the Mystic Lake Star Realm subordinate to the Thirty-Three Star Realm if they could not agree.
• Li Xiaoya said he wanted to save the Mystic Lake Star Realm, leaving the Sage Elder puzzled.

Li Xiaoya secured the Fifth Level of the Skyvault Secret Realm and began sorting through the spoils from the recent battle. An unknown powerful figure briefly entered the realm but withdrew to avoid disturbing Li Xiaoya, while Li Xiaoya planned to prioritize cultivation and later strengthen his bonded treasure.

• Li Xiaoya had the Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast warn the Fifth Level’s demon beasts that the area around Giant Mountain was forbidden, and he removed the restriction at the Sixth Layer entrance.
• A five-colored figure entered the Skyvault Secret Realm, triggered a lightning tribulation restriction, and left through a spatial portal to avoid alerting Li Xiaoya.
• The figure emerged above Giant Spirit Lake, destroyed a demon beast that attacked him, and frightened another immense beast into retreating deeper into the lake.
• Li Xiaoya sorted the Kaiser Sand King, Octopus King, and One-Eyed Giant Bull Beast corpses, planning to refine their essence blood when he had time.
• Li Xiaoya examined eight True Immortal Spirit Treasures and singled out the Mixed-Gold Five-Elements Mirror for its ability to weaken five-element spells and briefly seal magic power.
• Li Xiaoya found a fist-sized piece of profound-heaven bright silver that could greatly enhance his Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff.

Li Xiaoya sorted the materials, herbs, elixirs, and cultivation records recovered from the Heavenly Demon Race cultivators and elder demon beasts. He found clues that his Jade-Green Gemstone Key and Metal Sphere opened a passage to another secret realm, and gained Heaven-and-Earth Realm cultivation insights to guide his future breakthrough.

• Li Xiaoya sorted the recovered treasures, set aside useful materials, and bottled the strange black metal dust for Second Better to examine.
• Li Xiaoya fed Zhang Hong liquid refined from eternal lamp soul flowers; her soul injuries improved only slightly, but her condition stabilized and her aptitude appeared to improve.
• Li Xiaoya sorted the elixirs, kept those useful to him, and gave some to the Snow Eagle King and the Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast.
• Li Xiaoya found a golden metal sheet depicting the Jade-Green Gemstone Key and Metal Sphere joining to open a passage toward a vast complex of buildings, and decided to wait before investigating.
• Li Xiaoya found cultivation insights left by Heaven-and-Earth Realm cultivators that could guide his cultivation and eventual breakthrough.

Li Xiaoya sorted the treasures he had gained, entrusted materials and artifact-refining texts to Second Better, and began cultivating in the Skyvault Secret Realm. Meanwhile, Blue Moon Race cultivators searching District Four Hundred and Fifty-Six were attacked by the Devil Emperor Clan, and the demonic qi withdrew underground after the battle.

• Li Xiaoya gave Second Better materials and artifact-refining texts, asked him to study the Flying Boat, and warned him not to activate it without need.
• Li Xiaoya instructed Second Better to watch the area, sent cultivation advice to the Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast and the Snow Eagle King, and entered the sealed chamber to cultivate.
• Blue Moon Race cultivators searching East Xia Continent discussed their fruitless hunt and feared that other races might be attacking them.
• Pitch-black demonic qi surrounded the Blue Moon Race cultivators, and the Devil Emperor Clan attacked them in a fierce battle.
• The sounds of battle stopped, and the demonic qi contracted and burrowed beneath the ground.

Purple Light failed to catch a Devil Race intruder, and the five-colored senior ordered Human Race cultivators to withdraw from the district while other races searched for a vanished object. In the Skyvault Secret Realm, Li Xiaoya’s forty-five years of cultivation brought him to the peak of the Great Void Stage Ninth Layer, but he remained unable to break through to perfection and grew anxious.

• Purple Light struck the ground with a vast purple hand, but the Devil Race intruder escaped.
• A blue-lit female cultivator and a five-colored senior joined Purple Light, and the senior ordered Human Race cultivators to withdraw from the district and let the other races search.
• Li Xiaoya spent forty-five years cultivating in the sixth layer of the Skyvault Secret Realm and advanced to the peak of the Great Void Stage Ninth Layer.
• Li Xiaoya planned to consult the Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast, study breakthrough accounts, and prepare elixirs before attempting to reach the Heaven-and-Earth Realm.
• A month passed without Li Xiaoya breaking through to Great Void Stage Perfection, and he began to grow anxious.

Li Xiaoya broke through to great void stage perfection by increasing the sealed chamber’s spiritual qi to level four, then spent several months stabilizing his realm. He left seclusion to prepare for advancing to the heaven-and-earth realm and found Second Better building something in the main hall.

• After a month stalled at the great void stage ninth-layer peak, Li Xiaoya raised the chamber’s spiritual qi to level four and resumed cultivating.
• Three days later, Li Xiaoya reached great void stage perfection and realized that the extra spiritual qi had supplied the final push his breakthrough required.
• Li Xiaoya continued cultivating for several months until his new realm was stable, then left the sealed chamber to prepare for his next breakthrough.
• Second Better greeted Li Xiaoya in the main hall, where he had been using a new, slimmer Metal Puppet to work on a half-built flying boat.

Li Xiaoya escaped the Iron-Tailed Snake and used Wang Ding’s Invisibility Talisman to try to pass a Twin-Tailed Wolf blocking his route. He crept within range of the wolf, which heard a falling stone but did not spot him.

• Li Xiaoya trapped the Iron-Tailed Snake between boulders, chose not to waste his talismans attacking it, and piled stones on top of it before leaving.
• A mysterious figure appeared beside the trapped snake and killed it with a streak of red light.
• Li Xiaoya discovered a Twin-Tailed Wolf guarding the route and decided to use Wang Ding’s Invisibility Talisman to sneak past it.
• Li Xiaoya activated the talisman, concealed himself, and cautiously approached the wolf while holding three Lightning Talismans.
• Li Xiaoya accidentally dislodged a small stone, and the wolf turned toward the sound before howling and looking away.

Ma Weiqi cultivated Feng Chenzi’s divine-sense method while the Heavenly Dao Sect searched for him, and Heavenly Venerable Daoling returned toward the sect after noticing a change in Li Xiaoya’s Life-Bound Lamp. Li Xiaoya and Zhang Hong continued dual cultivation in the Artifact Refining Room, with Li Xiaoya left wondering where Zhang Hong had learned its incantation.

• Feng Chenzi encouraged Ma Weiqi to cultivate a painful method that strengthened divine sense and promised power beyond the Overlord Art’s third level.
• A Heavenly Dao Sect cultivator reported that he had failed to find Ma Weiqi, and the sect announced a reward for information about the fugitive traitor.
• Heavenly Venerable Daoling noticed that Li Xiaoya’s Life-Bound Lamp had grown brighter, then flew toward the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Dong Santong accidentally damaged Zhang Cai’s favorite Five-Star Begonia and fled as Zhang Cai chased after him.
• Li Xiaoya and Zhang Hong practiced dual cultivation in the Artifact Refining Room, and Li Xiaoya wondered how Zhang Hong had obtained the method’s incantation.

Li Xiaoya successfully refined eight Heaven-and-Earth Creation Pills, strengthened his resolve to save Zhang Hong, and entered a long seclusion to break through. Decades passed without signs of progress, while in the Human Realm Liu Xian'er struggled to persuade Li Xiaoya's parents to ascend with her.

• Li Xiaoya used the Primordial Chaos Golden Cauldron to refine eight Heaven-and-Earth Creation Pills and told Second Better and the Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast to guard the sixth layer during his upcoming seclusion.
• Li Xiaoya spent three days beside Zhang Hong, became more determined to save her, and began cultivating with the goal of reaching the Heaven-and-Earth Realm.
• Second Better completed a replica Flying Boat and resumed cultivation as Li Xiaoya remained in seclusion for decades without emerging.
• Second Better grew worried that Li Xiaoya might miss the approaching deadline to reach the Hell Tower's eighteenth layer and find the twin-pole netherflower.
• In the Human Realm, Liu Xian'er knelt before Mother Li and Li Muzhi and insisted that she had promised Li Xiaoya to ascend with them.
• Mother Li and Li Muzhi urged Liu Xian'er to ascend without them, leaving her pale and unable to answer.

Liu Xian'er decided to ascend with Dong Santong while leaving Mother Li and Li Muzhi safely in the Human Realm, promising to return for them later. As Dong Santong’s rejection by the realm worsened, the two prepared to ascend from Divine Path Mountain.

• Liu Xian'er tried to persuade Mother Li and Li Muzhi to ascend, but they chose to spend their remaining years in the Human Realm.
• Mother Li urged Liu Xian'er to go find Li Xiaoya, and Liu Xian'er left the cave abode overwhelmed by longing for him.
• Dong Santong found Liu Xian'er and learned that her parents would not ascend; she explained that they would be safer staying behind.
• Liu Xian'er convinced Dong Santong to leave her parents behind and promised they would return for them after finding Li Xiaoya and curing Senior Sister Zhang Hong.
• As Dong Santong’s condition worsened from the Human Realm’s rejection, he and Liu Xian'er prepared to ascend from Divine Path Mountain, where two Five-Colored Spiritual Light Vortices appeared in the sky.

Liu Xian'er and Dong Santong successfully ascended to the Thirty-Three Star Realm and met three Human Race Reception Envoys. After overcoming their initial suspicion, they learned how to communicate and began adjusting to the Upper Realm.

• Liu Xian'er and Dong Santong emerged from separate Ascension Passages onto the Ascension Platform, where three Reception Envoys noticed them.
• Dong Santong sensed that the approaching envoys were Great Void Stage cultivators and guarded Liu Xian'er while demanding to know who they were.
• A Huaxia Human Race envoy used a bell to welcome them to the Thirty-Three Star Realm and gave them Translation Pearls.
• Dong Santong examined a Translation Pearl first while Liu Xian'er kept watch, then gave her the other pearl so she could learn the Upper Realm's language.
• Dong Santong thanked the envoys after he and Liu Xian'er understood them and learned that they were stationed at the Immortal Reception Platform to welcome ascended cultivators.

Dong Santong and Liu Xian'er arrived in the Thirty-Three Star Realm and questioned a Huaxia Human Race Reception Envoy about Li Xiaoya. The envoy could not confirm Li Xiaoya had ascended, but he recognized High Person Qianshan and Buddha Xuanmen as successful ascendants.

• A Black Human Race Reception Envoy urged Dong Santong and Liu Xian'er to leave the Ascension Platform, and the Huaxia Human Race Reception Envoy led them aboard a Flying Boat.
• Liu Xian'er asked whether ascended cultivators arrived through the Ascension Platform, and the envoy explained that it connected to the Lesser Star Realms' Ascension Passages.
• Dong Santong and Liu Xian'er asked about Li Xiaoya, but the envoy remembered no Huaxia Human Race cultivator matching their description who had ascended within the last two hundred years.
• The envoy said that ascendants from the same Lesser Star Realm generally appeared on the same Ascension Platform, leaving Liu Xian'er distressed and Dong Santong worried.
• Dong Santong described High Person Qianshan and Buddha Xuanmen, and the envoy confirmed that both had ascended successfully through this Ascension Platform.

After hearing that Li Xiaoya had not appeared on the Ascension Platform, Liu Xian'er suffered qi deviation and went berserk aboard the Flying Boat. Dong Santong struggled to restrain her while two rival Reception Envoys only blocked her attacks, and the chapter ended with the Black Human Race cultivator hurling a giant claw at her.

• Dong Santong learned that his master and High Person Qianshan had ascended, but Li Xiaoya had not appeared, and he asked where newly ascended cultivators would be taken.
• Liu Xian'er spat blood, collapsed into a qi deviation, and began attacking wildly as Dong Santong tried to calm and restrain her.
• The Huaxia Human Race cultivator blocked Liu Xian'er's spells while the Black Human Race and blue-skinned cultivators refused to help properly.
• The two rival cultivators concealed strange sounds in their defenses, worsening Liu Xian'er's condition as she unleashed the Ren-Kui Twin Swords and damaged the Flying Boat.
• The Black Human Race cultivator angrily summoned a giant purplish-black bronze claw and sent it toward Liu Xian'er.

Dong Santong fought the Black Human Race and blue-skinned reception envoys after they attacked Liu Xian'er, overpowering both with his magic treasures and Light-Shadow Body Art. When the blue-skinned cultivator turned other cultivators against him, Dong Santong took to the sky and unleashed hundreds of duplicate figures as their treasures pursued him.

• Dong Santong seized the Black Human Race cultivator's Copper Claw Hand and smashed the blue-skinned cultivator's Red-Light Great Staff with his Moonlight Crescent Saber.
• Dong Santong used his Light-Shadow Body Art to strike the Black Human Race cultivator from behind, shattering his shield and hurling him into the flying boat.
• The Huaxia Human Race cultivator warned the reception envoys that they would face punishment for attacking ascending cultivators, and the blue-skinned cultivator hesitated.
• Several dozen cultivators emerged from the flying boat, and the Black Human Race and blue-skinned cultivators accused Dong Santong of causing trouble and urged them to attack.
• The crowd bombarded Dong Santong with treasures, so he flew into the sky on his Azure-Wind Light Wings and split into hundreds of figures as the treasures pursued him.

Dong Santong fought off cultivators incited by the Black Human Race cultivator and the blue-skinned cultivator while trying to protect Liu Xian'er, whose qi deviation worsened. As Elder Qianling arrived and the attackers intensified their assault, Dong Santong unleashed the Moonlight Crescent Saber’s attack against them.

• Dong Santong created empowered clones and blasted aside many cultivators’ spells and treasures with waves of white light blades.
• The Black Human Race cultivator and the blue-skinned cultivator called on the watching Great Void Stage cultivators to help attack Dong Santong, while the Huaxia Human Race cultivator struggled to restrain Liu Xian'er.
• Liu Xian'er’s qi deviation worsened as she fought with the Ren-Kui Twin Swords, and Dong Santong continued battling the growing crowd of cultivators.
• Elder Qianling arrived, prompting the cultivators to intensify their assault, while Dong Santong’s clones were destroyed and his magic power waned.
• Dong Santong made his clones detonate against incoming treasures, then summoned a white lotus with the Moonlight Crescent Saber and sent tens of thousands of moonlight blades toward the cultivators.

Elder Qianling intervened in Dong Santong’s fight with the Black Human Race cultivators, but Liu Xian’er broke free while suffering from qi deviation. Dong Santong tried to reach her, and Elder Qianling repeatedly blocked and pursued him as their battle continued.

• Elder Qianling arrived and used an azure whirlwind to halt Dong Santong’s white light blades, then ordered the cultivators to stop.
• After learning Dong Santong was an ascended cultivator from the Huaxia Human Race, Elder Qianling confronted him while Liu Xian’er remained restrained nearby.
• Liu Xian’er broke free, and Dong Santong tried to reach her, but the Black Human Race Reception Envoy attacked him and Elder Qianling shielded the envoy.
• Dong Santong pursued Liu Xian’er, but Elder Qianling caught up and struck him down; Dong Santong reappeared with a substitution divine ability and continued onward.
• Dong Santong blinded Elder Qianling with a burst of white light and sent the Moonlight Crescent Saber toward him, but Elder Qianling dodged and appeared above Dong Santong.