Chapter Summaries

The Daode Daoist Patriarch told Li Xiaoya to reach the Mighty One Stage and refine the Human Realm lesser star realm into his own secret realm so his parents could ascend without violating the Heavenly Dao. Li Xiaoya learned that the realm’s inhabitants would all die if he perished, and the chapter ended with his master saying he first had to earn the right to refine it.

• The Daode Daoist Patriarch urged Li Xiaoya to reach the Mighty One Stage within a thousand years.
• The Daode Daoist Patriarch explained that Li Xiaoya needed to refine the Human Realm lesser star realm to help his parents cultivate and ascend safely.
• Li Xiaoya worried that bringing Zhang Hong to the Upper Realm had endangered her, but the Daode Daoist Patriarch explained that the Heavenly Dao had already punished him and that Zhang Hong’s circumstances were different.
• The Daode Daoist Patriarch described how becoming lord of the Human Realm would let Li Xiaoya help his parents and others, while warning that refining the realm would be difficult.
• The Daode Daoist Patriarch warned that if Li Xiaoya died after binding the realm’s fate to his own, all its inhabitants would perish, then said he first had to earn the right to refine it.

Daode Daoist Patriarch explained that refining the Human Realm Lesser Star Realm required exceptional cultivation and a hundred million race contributions, while the realm itself had fewer than a hundred thousand years left because of damage from wars with the Devil Race. Li Xiaoya accepted the responsibility to save it, and Daode Daoist Patriarch began listing further qualifications.

• Daode Daoist Patriarch explained that only true immortals could create life and that the Human Race would not let just anyone refine its lesser star realm.
• Li Xiaoya asked whether his parents could attain the Dao without him refining the Human Realm Lesser Star Realm, and Daode Daoist Patriarch said that would require Li Xiaoya to become a true immortal.
• Daode Daoist Patriarch revealed that the Human Realm Lesser Star Realm had fewer than a hundred thousand years left because wars with the Devil Race had depleted its vital energy.
• Li Xiaoya resolved to do everything in his power to save the Human Realm Lesser Star Realm, and Daode Daoist Patriarch said he needed to reach at least the middle mighty one stage.
• Daode Daoist Patriarch required Li Xiaoya to provide one hundred million race contributions, and Li Xiaoya was shocked by the amount.
• Daode Daoist Patriarch announced a third qualification, leaving Li Xiaoya stunned that there was more.

Daode Daoist Patriarch explained the conditions for Li Xiaoya to refine the Human Realm’s lesser star realm and instructed him on his duties and cover identity as a Holy Son. Li Xiaoya received a cultivation manual and a list of rare treasures he would need to find, including items not found in the Thirty-Three Star Realm.

• Daode Daoist Patriarch told Li Xiaoya that becoming a Holy Son fulfilled the third condition, but warned him to conceal his identity and revealed that other races had killed more than a dozen human Holy Sons.
• Daode Daoist Patriarch urged Li Xiaoya to kill enemy Holy Sons without exposing his own identity, and assigned him a cover identity as a Heaven-and-Earth Divine General who reached the Sixteenth Layer of the Hell Tower.
• Daode Daoist Patriarch gave Li Xiaoya the Myriad Things Spirit Art and required him to reach its second level before refining the Human Realm’s lesser star realm, so he would not accidentally destroy its living beings.
• Daode Daoist Patriarch handed Li Xiaoya a jade slip listing the remaining rare treasures needed for the refinement, and Li Xiaoya discovered that none of them were in the Thirty-Three Star Realm.

Daode Daoist Patriarch explained how Li Xiaoya could earn the race contribution points and described the benefits of refining the Human Realm lesser star realm. The chapter ended with Daode Daoist Patriarch telling Li Xiaoya that he had to go somewhere first.

• Li Xiaoya asked how he could quickly earn one hundred million race contribution points, and Daode Daoist Patriarch explained that killing enemy cultivators on the Race Battlefield earned them.
• Daode Daoist Patriarch warned Li Xiaoya not to casually kill Immortal Tribulation Stage cultivators, who were barred from the Race Battlefield under an agreement among the great races.
• Daode Daoist Patriarch explained that created secret realms limited the growth of intelligent life, unlike naturally formed lesser star realms.
• Daode Daoist Patriarch told Li Xiaoya that refining the Human Realm lesser star realm would let him influence ascensions, build a force from those who ascended, and return there to escape danger.
• Li Xiaoya accepted the importance of refining the realm, and Daode Daoist Patriarch said he had to visit somewhere first.

Daode Daoist Patriarch told Li Xiaoya to report to the Human Race Alliance and go to the Race Battlefield, where he would earn one hundred million contribution points before leaving early. He gave Li Xiaoya instructions for refining the Immortal Dao Chain, while privately worrying that Li Xiaoya’s relationships with two women could affect his dao fortune.

• Daode Daoist Patriarch ordered Li Xiaoya to prepare to join the Human Race Alliance’s Race Battlefield within three to five years, where life-and-death battles would temper him.
• Daode Daoist Patriarch explained that Li Xiaoya could leave the alliance early after earning one hundred million race contribution points and gave him a jade slip about the alliance and battlefield.
• Daode Daoist Patriarch let Li Xiaoya decide whether Zhang Hong and Liu Xian'er would stay on Sacred Mountain Peak or accompany him, but told him not to interfere in Dong Santong’s affairs.
• Li Xiaoya asked about the Immortal Dao Chain, and Daode Daoist Patriarch gave him a scroll of hand seals for refining it and explained that its protection would grow with his cultivation and refinement.
• Daode Daoist Patriarch told Li Xiaoya to visit him again before leaving, then sighed that Li Xiaoya’s relationships with two beauties would affect his dao fortune.

Li Xiaoya returned to Sacred Mountain Peak and found Zhang Hong undergoing a heavenly tribulation to advance to the Great Void Stage. He aided her with elixirs and let her face the lightning herself, but the next wave struck with nearly twice the previous force.

• Li Xiaoya reflected on the Daode Daoist Patriarch's concealed intentions as he flew back toward Sacred Mountain Peak.
• Li Xiaoya spotted the tribulation over Sacred Mountain Peak and hurried to Zhang Hong, who was guarded by Liu Xian'er and Dong Santong.
• Li Xiaoya gave Zhang Hong elixirs by turning them into spiritual light that entered her nostrils without interrupting her tribulation.
• Li Xiaoya stopped Dong Santong from blocking the incoming lightning, explaining that Zhang Hong needed to withstand the tribulation herself.
• Zhang Hong burned the first bolt of tribulation lightning to ashes with a pillar of red flame.
• The next wave of lightning descended with nearly twice the previous force.

Zhang Hong survived her Great Void Stage tribulation with Li Xiaoya’s treasures, but suffered a heart demon invasion before stabilizing her realm. After emerging from meditation, she addressed Liu Xian'er rather than Li Xiaoya, leaving her changed attitude unexplained.

• Zhang Hong withstood the intensified Heavenly Tribulation using the Vast-Heaven Treasure Armor and advanced to the Great Void Stage.
• The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma absorbed the five-element origin force released by Zhang Hong’s advancement, while Li Xiaoya built her a cottage from yang-warming immortal grass.
• Liu Xian'er explained that Zhang Hong had rushed to advance after learning Liu Xian'er had reached the Great Void Stage, and that Liu Xian'er had taken the blame to protect her.
• Zhang Hong suffered a heart demon invasion, and Li Xiaoya, Dong Santong, and Liu Xian'er worked together to expel it.
• After several days of meditation, Zhang Hong emerged and spoke to Liu Xian'er instead of Li Xiaoya.

Prince Modong completed his advancement to Mighty One Stage and escaped the dark realm, vowing revenge on Li Xiaoya. Meanwhile, Zhang Hong’s cultivation stabilized after she recovered some memories, and Li Xiaoya told her and Liu Xian'er that he would soon leave Dao Mountain.

• After centuries of cultivating with demon-sediment stones, Prince Modong survived his demonic tribulation and became a Mighty One Stage Devil King.
• Prince Modong opened a spatial black hole with a miniature altar and returned, swearing he would take revenge on Li Xiaoya.
• At Sacred Mountain Peak, Zhang Hong apologized to Liu Xian'er, and they teased each other while Li Xiaoya listened.
• Li Xiaoya learned that Zhang Hong’s cultivation method had triggered her advancement and that she had recovered some memories after her heart demon invasion and Great Void Stage breakthrough.
• Li Xiaoya explained that Zhang Hong’s cultivation had stabilized and that he believed her memories could return as her cultivation caught up with her strengthened soul.
• Li Xiaoya told Zhang Hong and Liu Xian'er that he would leave Dao Mountain in a few days.

Li Xiaoya took Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong on a leisurely journey across the East Xia Continent to visit High Person Qianshan and the others. Meanwhile, the Dragon Ancestor learned that a mysterious object had appeared at the human race's Hell Tower and asked who possessed it.

• Li Xiaoya changed his plans and brought Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong along to seek High Person Qianshan and the others at the Upper Realm's Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Li Xiaoya, Liu Xian'er, and Zhang Hong set out from Dao Mountain after Daode Daoist Patriarch approved their journey, while Dong Santong chose to travel alone.
• Li Xiaoya and the two women toured the East Xia Continent's scenic spots, including the Soft Forest, as they traveled at a leisurely pace.
• Four dragon-headed cultivators reported to the Dragon Ancestor that their investigation had traced the mysterious thing to the human race's Hell Tower.
• The Dragon Ancestor asked whose hands the thing was in.

The Dragon Ancestor ordered the Dragon Race to search the Race Battlefield for a powerful treasure, promising the finder the position of Dragon's Child, and commanded the dragons to attack the Human Race. Meanwhile, Li Xiaoya's travels with Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong were interrupted when he revealed he would soon have to report to the Race Battlefield, prompting both women to insist on joining him.

• The Dragon Ancestor learned that the Human Race might have the treasure and ordered the Dragon Race to search for it, promising the finder the Dragon's Child position.
• The Dragon Ancestor ordered the Dragon Race to kill Human Race cultivators after the Insect Race hesitated to join the coming war.
• After more than two years of traveling, Li Xiaoya, Liu Xian'er, and Zhang Hong watched the purple dolphins at the Purple Dolphin Sea and continued toward Region Four Hundred and Fifty-Six.
• Li Xiaoya suggested visiting the Upper Realm's Heavenly Dao Sect to see Uncle-Master Qianshan, but Zhang Hong and Liu Xian'er pressed him about his remark that he had little time left.
• Li Xiaoya revealed that his master had told him to report to the Race Battlefield in three to five years and explained that only Heaven-and-Earth Divine Generals could enter.
• Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong both said they would become Heaven-and-Earth Divine Generals so they could accompany Li Xiaoya.

Li Xiaoya agreed to bring Zhang Hong and Liu Xian'er to the Race Battlefield inside his Secret Realm Necklace or Secret Realm Bracelet, despite the risks of keeping them confined there. Several days later, the three arrived at the Upper Realm’s Heavenly Dao Sect and were astonished by its resemblance to Divine Path Mountain in the Lower Realm, where silver light raced toward them.

• Li Xiaoya explained that entry to the Race Battlefield required Heaven-and-Earth Realm cultivation and selection as a Heaven-and-Earth Divine General, so he could not take Zhang Hong and Liu Xian'er openly.
• Liu Xian'er proposed that she and Zhang Hong travel inside Li Xiaoya’s Secret Realm Necklace or Secret Realm Bracelet, and both women insisted they would accept being unable to leave.
• Li Xiaoya agreed after realizing he wanted to stay with Zhang Hong and Liu Xian'er, and the three later set out for the Upper Realm’s Heavenly Dao Sect to visit High Person Qianshan.
• Li Xiaoya, Zhang Hong, and Liu Xian'er reached the Heavenly Dao Sect in Jiangyang City and recognized that its Divine Path Mountain closely resembled the Heavenly Dao Sect grounds in the Lower Realm.
• A swath of silver light sped toward Li Xiaoya, Zhang Hong, and Liu Xian'er from Divine Path Mountain.

The chapter introduced the Race Battlefield, where the four Great Races fought beyond the Thirty-Three Star Realm, and showed a Dragon Marshal slaughtering a human cultivator while searching for a particular object. It ended with Ailishan, Di Long Yunyi, and Qiong Nanqi lamenting their losses and a failing mission.

• The chapter described the Race Battlefield as an ancient region of spatial disorder where the four Great Races fought to kill enemies, seize treasures, and earn merit.
• A red Dragon Marshal split a thousand-mile landmass and pursued fleeing human cultivators in red armor.
• The Dragon Marshal killed one human cultivator, swallowed his scattered treasures, and complained that he still had not found the object he sought.
• Four dragon-headed cultivators joined the Dragon Marshal, and he ordered them to return without discussing their haul.
• Di Long Yunyi angrily blamed the Dragon Race for killing five members of his team, while Ailishan and Qiong Nanqi warned that their mission and merit rank were in danger.

After failing another mission and losing a teammate, Ailishan, Di Long Yunyi, and Qiong Nanqi were demoted and reassigned to a special squad led by a Heavenly General. They discovered that their new captain was Li Xiaoya, an old acquaintance who had recently arrived in the Upper Realm.

• Ailishan, Di Long Yunyi, and Qiong Nanqi returned to the main camp after the commander-in-chief summoned them.
• The commander-in-chief reprimanded the trio for their repeated mission failures and losses, demoted them, removed Ailishan as captain, and replaced their squad with the Second Squad.
• The commander-in-chief assigned the three to a special squad whose captain would be a Heavenly General.
• Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong emerged, and Ailishan, Di Long Yunyi, and Qiong Nanqi recognized Li Xiaoya with delight.
• Li Xiaoya had recently visited the Upper Realm's Heavenly Dao Sect with Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong, declined an offer to stay as Grand Elder, and failed to meet High Person Qianshan.

Li Xiaoya visited the Upper Realm's Heavenly Dao Sect, learned that Buddha Xuanmen and the Hehuan Twin Demons would remain there, and continued to Giant Spirit Lake to retrieve Second Better. He found Second Better had reached great void stage perfection through years of staying in the Skyvault Secret Realm and cultivating.

• Li Xiaoya learned High Person Qianshan was in seclusion attempting to break through to the heaven-and-earth realm, while Buddha Xuanmen and the Hehuan Twin Demons recounted their lives in the Upper Realm.
• Buddha Xuanmen and the Hehuan Twin Demons declined Li Xiaoya's invitation to Dao Mountain, and Li Xiaoya gave them treasures and elixirs before leaving the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Li Xiaoya learned from Daode Daoist Patriarch that he had invented the saying about the Five Elements and deliberately attributed it to the Upper Realm's Heavenly Dao Sect; Li Xiaoya also left the sect three talisman scripts.
• Li Xiaoya traveled through Super Teleportation Formations to District 342 and entered Giant Spirit Lake, where the Dragon Turtle Patriarch courteously allowed him to pass.
• Li Xiaoya reached the Skyvault Secret Realm, met the heaven-and-earth realm Snow Eagle King, and found Second Better at great void stage perfection after more than a hundred years of cultivating there.

Li Xiaoya reunited with Second Better, then prepared to enter the Race Battlefield with Dong Santong. After meeting commander-in-chief Qian Yu and reconnecting with Ailishan, Qiong Nanqi, and Di Long Yunyi, Li Xiaoya was appointed their captain.

• Li Xiaoya found Second Better at the Skyvault Secret Realm, but Second Better chose to travel the Thirty-Three Star Realm and practice artifact refining; Li Xiaoya arranged for the Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast and Snow Eagle King to protect him.
• Second Better gave Li Xiaoya and his companions treasures and puppets before parting from Li Xiaoya at Giant Spirit City, while Li Xiaoya continued traveling with Zhang Hong and Liu Xian'er.
• Daode Daoist Patriarch summoned Li Xiaoya, gave him the Five-Element Heavenly Venerable Heaven-Shaking Tower, and instructed him to report to battlefield commander Qian Yu.
• Dong Santong returned to Sacred Mountain Peak and insisted on joining Li Xiaoya for the Race Battlefield, eventually revealing that he had obtained an entry token.
• Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong reached the Human Race base and met Qian Yu, then encountered Ailishan, Qiong Nanqi, and Di Long Yunyi.
• Qian Yu appointed Li Xiaoya captain of Ailishan, Qiong Nanqi, and Di Long Yunyi.

Li Xiaoya joined Ailishan, Qiong Nanqi, and Di Long Yunyi’s team as captain and encountered the hostile Second Group. When Yu Sanlongzhu mocked the team, Dong Santong confronted him and revealed that Yu’s attack could not harm him.

• Qian Yu appointed Li Xiaoya captain of Ailishan, Qiong Nanqi, and Di Long Yunyi’s team, and Ailishan agreed to brief him on the Race Battlefield.
• Li Xiaoya told his new teammates that an Immortal Tribulation Stage Great Cultivator had rescued him from the Sixteenth Layer and taken him to Dao Mountain to recover.
• Li Xiaoya recognized Jerkov and Ceno among the Second Group, whose captain was Dongyue Haku, and learned that Ailishan’s team had been demoted while the Second Group had been promoted.
• Yu Sanlongzhu taunted Ailishan’s team, and Dong Santong challenged him after Li Xiaoya prepared to defend his teammates.
• Yu Sanlongzhu’s claw tore through Dong Santong’s belly in a burst of white light, but Dong Santong remained unharmed and mocked Yu’s height.
• Yu Sanlongzhu erupted in anger, enlarged his rune-covered palm, and swung it at Dong Santong’s head.

Li Xiaoya’s group clashed with the second group, and Dong Santong’s Shadow Body Art impressed Dongyue Haku enough that he tried to recruit him. After learning why the two groups were rivals, Li Xiaoya realized the second group had been sabotaging his teammates’ missions.

• Dong Santong survived having his head smashed by using the Shadow Body Art, impressing Dongyue Haku, who invited him to join the second group.
• Dong Santong rejected the invitation, and Chaojiang Batian nearly attacked before Qianyu Taizu ordered everyone to disperse.
• Ceno threatened Li Xiaoya, while Jerkov hid his hostility behind a friendly smile, leaving Li Xiaoya wary of them.
• Di Long Yunyi introduced Dong Santong to the team, and Li Xiaoya asked why the second group held a grudge against them.
• Di Long Yunyi explained that Ailishan, Qiong Nanqi, and he had won the first-group designation from Dongyue Haku’s second group after the previous leaders left.
• The second group retaliated by accepting the same missions as Ailishan’s group and completing them first, preventing Li Xiaoya’s teammates from finishing their assignments.

Ailishan described how the Dragon Race had hunted Human Race cultivators, especially her first group, and Li Xiaoya suspected the Fire Dragon Sword might be connected to their search. He warned himself to keep the sword secret, then asked about the group’s merit and explained the Race Battlefield’s mission system to Dong Santong.

• Ailishan explained that the Dragon Race had targeted Human Race teams and that even the second group had been attacked, leaving them unsure who or what the Dragon Race was searching for.
• Li Xiaoya connected the Dragon Race’s search to the Fire Dragon Sword’s power against dragon bloodlines and decided not to reveal the weapon.
• Ailishan said she had fallen to merit level two while Di Long Yunyi and Qiong Nanqi were at level one because the group had struggled and taken difficult missions.
• Dong Santong asked what missions and merit were, so Li Xiaoya explained that the Immortal Court controlled the Race Battlefield and that cultivators earned rewards by completing missions on the central Mission Stele.

Dong Santong learned how Race Battlefield missions, merit ranks, rewards, and racial rankings worked as Li Xiaoya reunited with Ailishan, Di Long Yunyi, and Qiong Nanqi to form a squad. The group vowed to work together and rise in the rankings, while Dong Santong remained focused on the food and basic questions.

• Li Xiaoya explained that fifteen-star missions appeared only once every hundred thousand years and that the Immortal Court issued mission rewards.
• Ailishan described merit ranks, mission restrictions, merit deductions for failed missions, and the uses of racial merit; Qiong Nanqi explained the rewards and penalties tied to each race's ranking.
• Li Xiaoya gave Dong Santong a jade slip about the Race Battlefield and invited Ailishan, Di Long Yunyi, and Qiong Nanqi to discuss working together.
• At the Immortal-Tasting Pavilion, Ailishan thanked Li Xiaoya for saving her in the Hell Tower, and Di Long Yunyi and Qiong Nanqi pledged to stand by the squad.
• Li Xiaoya and the others vowed to work together and climb the rankings, but Dong Santong interrupted to ask what racial group rankings were.

Li Xiaoya and his four teammates trained at the Main Base, tested their combat abilities, and planned how to complete missions while avoiding Dragon Race interference. They traveled toward the Earth Spirit Land to take missions deep in Demon Race territory, while the team still needed a way to improve its mission success rate.

• Li Xiaoya and Dong Santong spent a month at the Main Base with Ailishan, Di Long Yunyi, and Qiong Nanqi, learning about its facilities and rules.
• Li Xiaoya defeated Ailishan, Di Long Yunyi, and Qiong Nanqi in a sparring match, while Dong Santong proved difficult for the others to hit and could fight Li Xiaoya to a battle of attrition.
• Li Xiaoya and his teammates practiced their coordination and combined divine abilities, with Li Xiaoya facing all four of them at once.
• The team discussed how to avoid Dragon Race interference and chose to take missions deep in Demon Race territory rather than Insect Race territory.
• Li Xiaoya's team traveled toward the Earth Spirit Land, but they had not yet settled on how to raise their mission success rate.