Chapter Summaries

Li Xiaoya and his companions escaped the Inner Sea Guardians through a five-colored barrier, but the Mysterious Young Man followed them through and revealed himself as a True Immortal’s clone. Tianyuan convinced the clone that they had come to take him out, while Li Xiaoya hid his identity and waited for Guagua to guide them onward.

• Li Xiaoya, Tianyuan, and their companions fled from the Mysterious Young Man and dozens of Guardians, and the young man destroyed the Guardians with one punch.
• Li Xiaoya opened a hole in the five-colored barrier, and the group passed through as the Guardians re-formed and attacked the sealed curtain.
• The Mysterious Young Man shrank into a mote of light and slipped through the closing hole, then confronted the group on the other side.
• Tianyuan identified the Mysterious Young Man as a True Immortal’s clone and persuaded him that they had come to fetch him and take him to his master.
• Li Xiaoya warned the others not to reveal his real name, then called to Guagua for directions when the Ganoderma fell silent.

Li Xiaoya followed the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma through layers of Five-Colored Spiritual Light to an unsealed exit in the sky. The Mysterious Young Man opened a spatial rift and entered it, and Li Xiaoya and Tianyuan followed, with Tianyuan warning Li Xiaoya to separate from him before they emerged.

• The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma warned Li Xiaoya that the Mysterious Young Man specialized in capturing beings like him, then directed Li Xiaoya onward.
• Tianyuan questioned the Mysterious Young Man and learned that he had killed the Five-Headed Sea Beast Emperor and had been trapped in the Inner Sea for nearly a thousand years.
• Tianyuan and the others realized the Guardians that had recently pursued the Mysterious Young Man were those they had released from the Herb Garden, while Zhang Hong and Liu Xian'er entered Li Xiaoya's Secret Realm Necklace to escape his pressure.
• Li Xiaoya, Tianyuan, and the Mysterious Young Man reached a rocky island where the sky was free of restrictions, and the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma identified it as an exit.
• The Mysterious Young Man tore open a huge spatial rift and rushed through it, followed by Li Xiaoya and Tianyuan.
• Tianyuan warned Li Xiaoya to separate from the Mysterious Young Man when they were about to emerge from the spatial passage.

Li Xiaoya and Tianyuan struggled through the spatial vortex toward an exit while the Mysterious Young Man’s actions sent a fifteen-star mission proof to them. Tianyuan blasted open a route into the Race Battlefield, where his approaching heavenly tribulation spread across a vast area and sent demon beasts and cultivators fleeing.

• Li Xiaoya and Tianyuan entered the spatial vortex, protected themselves from its spatial attacks, and continued toward its exit.
• A Mysterious Young Man in the Race Battlefield received a five-colored token from another version of himself and disappeared into five-colored light.
• Tianyuan caught the token, learned it was proof of completing a fifteen-star Race Battlefield mission, and gave it to Li Xiaoya.
• Tianyuan blasted open a passage through the vortex, then led Li Xiaoya into it after swallowing several elixirs.
• Tianyuan’s black-and-white attack struck a floating landmass in the Race Battlefield, and the heavenly tribulation gathering above it drove nearby demon beasts and cultivators to flee.

Tianyuan faced a nine-colored lifespan heavenly tribulation while Li Xiaoya fled its destructive shockwaves. After Tianyuan survived all nine strikes, a golden space vortex appeared, leaving him alarmed by an unknown new arrival.

• Tianyuan warned Li Xiaoya to stay away and prepared to face the nine-colored thunder tribulation alone.
• Li Xiaoya flew far from the tribulation as its first lightning strike hit the Yin-Yang Chaos Divine Cauldron and sent a vast wave of lightning across the battlefield.
• Tianyuan survived the first strike, replenished his magic power, and used the cauldron to withstand the remaining strikes.
• An Immortal Emperor ordered General Heavenly Thunder to seize the divine artifact aura in the Race Battlefield and told Tianmei Taoren not to intervene.
• After Tianyuan survived all nine strikes and the thunderclouds began to disperse, a golden space vortex appeared and Tianyuan realized danger was approaching.

After surviving the nine-colored thunder tribulation, Tianyuan tricked General Heavenly Thunder into taking the Hundred-Thousand-Zhang Demon Mountain instead of the Yin-Yang Heaven-and-Earth Divine Cauldron. Tianyuan gave the cauldron to Li Xiaoya and prepared to leave the Race Battlefield.

• General Heavenly Thunder appeared before Tianyuan, claimed the Hundred-Thousand-Zhang Demon Mountain belonged to the Immortal Court, and threatened him until Tianyuan handed it over.
• Li Xiaoya sensed General Heavenly Thunder's immense aura and hurried toward Tianyuan, while General Heavenly Thunder departed through a golden portal.
• Li Xiaoya found Tianyuan alive and congratulated him on surviving the thunder tribulation.
• Tianyuan gave Li Xiaoya the Yin-Yang Heaven-and-Earth Divine Cauldron and explained that he had swapped it for the mountain to deceive General Heavenly Thunder.
• Tianyuan told Li Xiaoya that he had to leave the Race Battlefield and opened a spatial rift.

Li Xiaoya escaped the Fallen Immortal Grounds and learned that the Human Race was losing ground on the Race Battlefield and in the East Xia Continent. Completing a long-standing fifteen-star mission restored the Human Race to first place, and the Dragon Ancestor learned that Li Xiaoya had returned as the Demon Race sent three high-ranked cultivators to the Thirty-Three Star Realm.

• Li Xiaoya reached the Race Battlefield and told Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong to remain inside the Secret Realm Necklace because they had not registered.
• The Daode Daoist Patriarch sensed Li Xiaoya's return and rejoiced that a powerful thing had recovered most of its strength.
• Li Xiaoya learned that the Dragon Race had taken a fifth of the East Xia Continent, the Human Race had fallen to fourth place on the Race Battlefield, and Dong Santong and the others had likely been sent back to fight.
• Li Xiaoya killed enemy cultivators as he traveled, and seven or eight days later his completion of the fifteen-star mission added over eighteen million merit points and returned the Human Race to first place.
• The Dragon Ancestor learned Li Xiaoya had returned, while the Demon Elder announced that the Demon king had sent three high-ranked cultivators to the Thirty-Three Star Realm.

Li Xiaoya left the Race Battlefield and returned to the Human Race Alliance, where Daode Daoist Patriarch brought him to Daode Mountain. There he learned Dong Santong had been hidden away and was reunited with him, discovering that Dong Santong had reached the mid-Mighty One Stage.

• Li Xiaoya spoke with Qianyu Taizu, learned about the worsening Race Battlefield and Dong Santong's disappearance, and received a token to leave.
• Li Xiaoya collected his mission rewards, including two Heaven-Opening Treasures and more than eighteen million racial merit points, and gave treasures to Liu Xian'er, Zhang Hong, and his earth-attribute clone.
• Li Xiaoya left the Race Battlefield and arrived at Dao Mountain, where Daode Daoist Patriarch appeared and took him to the Daode Hall.
• Li Xiaoya asked Daode Daoist Patriarch about Dong Santong and learned that his junior brother had caused trouble before being hidden away.
• Daode Daoist Patriarch removed the hall's restrictions and revealed Dong Santong, whose cultivation had reached the mid-Mighty One Stage.

Li Xiaoya reunited briefly with Dong Santong, who departed without explaining why he had to return to his special place of belonging. Daode Daoist Patriarch then revealed that the Dragon Race’s war against the Human Race was tied to Li Xiaoya’s Fire Dragon Sword, and recognized the sword’s true identity as Li Xiaoya explained its power.

• Dong Santong visited Li Xiaoya in extravagant clothes, said he had come to say goodbye, and vanished before explaining his situation.
• Daode Daoist Patriarch sent Zhang Hong and Liu Xian'er to choose treasures from his Treasure Pavilion, then spoke privately with Li Xiaoya about the Race War.
• Daode Daoist Patriarch explained that Yan Longzi’s death was merely the Dragon Race’s pretext for war, and Li Xiaoya suspected they wanted his Fire Dragon Sword.
• Li Xiaoya revealed the Fire Dragon Sword, and Daode Daoist Patriarch sealed the hall against its aura being detected by the Immortal Court.
• Li Xiaoya explained that the sword could grow stronger by devouring Dragon Cultivators’ and Demon Beasts’ flesh, blood, and souls, and Daode Daoist Patriarch identified it as the Bloodthirst Spirit-Communing Dragon-Slaying Sword.

Daode Daoist Patriarch identified Li Xiaoya’s Fire Dragon Sword as the Bloodthirst Spirit-Communing Dragon-Slaying Sword and explained its violent history and reputation as the Sword of Misfortune. After returning the sword to Li Xiaoya and leaving the choice to him, Daode Daoist Patriarch watched as Li Xiaoya made a decision.

• Daode Daoist Patriarch examined Li Xiaoya’s Fire Dragon Sword and recognized it as the Bloodthirst Spirit-Communing Dragon-Slaying Sword, also called the Sword of Misfortune.
• Daode Daoist Patriarch told Li Xiaoya how an Immortal Race Artifact Refining Master forged the sword to avenge his Dao Companion and slaughter dragons.
• Daode Daoist Patriarch explained that the Immortal Race and Devil Race later fought over the sword for tens of thousands of years, and its appearances repeatedly brought bloodshed.
• Li Xiaoya worried that the Dragon Race might expose the sword’s whereabouts and endanger the Human Race, then asked Daode Daoist Patriarch for guidance.
• Li Xiaoya explained that Senior Brother Murong Qi had given him the sword in the Human Realm, and Daode Daoist Patriarch returned it for him to decide what to do.
• After thinking for a long time, Li Xiaoya rose and declared that he had made his decision.

Li Xiaoya chose to keep the Bloodthirst Spirit-Communing Dragon-Slaying Sword and learned that the Dragon Race’s elders knew of it, while Daode Daoist Patriarch warned him not to use it until he could protect himself. His master approved his preparations to refine the Human Realm Lesser Star Realm, but ordered him to focus on that task rather than join the war against the Dragon Race.

• Li Xiaoya refused to give up the Bloodthirst Spirit-Communing Dragon-Slaying Sword, and Daode Daoist Patriarch praised his resolve.
• Li Xiaoya asked about Daode Daoist Patriarch’s past conflict with the Immortal Court, but his master declined to explain and warned him that Dragon Race elders knew about the sword.
• Daode Daoist Patriarch said Li Xiaoya could begin preparing to refine the Human Realm Lesser Star Realm, and Li Xiaoya revealed his five origin clones as proof of his strength.
• Daode Daoist Patriarch gave Li Xiaoya a Jade Slip explaining how to refine the Human Realm Lesser Star Realm into his Secret Realm space.
• Li Xiaoya learned that the Devil Race had allied with the Dragon Race and offered to fight, but Daode Daoist Patriarch ordered him to focus on refining the Human Realm Lesser Star Realm while the elders handled the war.
• After Li Xiaoya left with Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong, Daode Daoist Patriarch worried that the sword’s appearance could bring either fortune or calamity to the Human Race.

Li Xiaoya returned to Dao Mountain with Zhang Hong and Liu Xian'er, while the Dragon Ancestor planned a major offensive against the human race. Twelve years later, Daode Daoist Patriarch told the human leaders that Li Xiaoya would act personally in one year, despite their fears for his safety.

• Liu Xian'er said she had taken a Golden Immortal Script Formation scroll, and Zhang Hong showed Li Xiaoya the Vermilion Bird Fire Spirit Sword she had received from Daode Daoist Patriarch.
• Li Xiaoya, Zhang Hong, and Liu Xian'er returned to their cave abode, where Li Xiaoya selectively shared Daode Daoist Patriarch's instructions with the two women.
• The Four Great Elders reported to the Dragon Ancestor that Li Xiaoya had returned to Dao Mountain, and the Dragon Ancestor ordered the Dragon Race to intensify its attacks on human territory and prepare an invasion of East Xia's heartland.
• Twelve years later, Daode Daoist Patriarch and other human leaders discussed the worsening war and learned that the Dragon Race was ravaging the human heartland.
• Daode Daoist Patriarch announced that Li Xiaoya would act personally in one year, and dismissed concerns that the Dragon Race might directly endanger him by saying it had not broken its agreement.

Daode Daoist Patriarch revealed that the Dragon Star Realm had reinforced the Dragon Race and planned a Human Race counteroffensive centered on the Holy Son. As Li Xiaoya neared completion of refining the Human Realm Lesser Star Realm, his spiritual power appeared across its sky, and he reunited with his family and companions from afar.

• Daode Daoist Patriarch told the Human Race leaders that dragons from the Dragon Star Realm had secretly reinforced the Ancient Dragon Continent and urged a counteroffensive led by the Holy Son.
• The leaders agreed that Daode Daoist Patriarch would personally protect the Holy Son, who was expected to finish refining the Human Realm Lesser Star Realm in about a year.
• Five-colored spiritual-light runes appeared across the Human Realm, alarming cultivators including Mother Li, Li Muzhi, and Heavenly Venerable Daoling.
• Several days later, a vast face formed from five-colored light above Divine Path Mountain, and Mother Li and Li Muzhi recognized it as Li Xiaoya.
• Li Xiaoya, having spent more than a year refining the surrounding void, extended his presence through the Human Realm and called out to his parents.

Li Xiaoya briefly contacted his family in the Human Realm, then completed refining the Human Realm Lesser Star Realm and returned with Liu Xian'er. They found the realm transformed by nearly two thousand years of development and set out for the Heavenly Dao Sect to reunite with his family.

• Li Xiaoya told his family and Heavenly Venerable Daoling that he was increasing the Human Realm's spiritual qi, then ended the contact and promised to return within one or two years.
• Daode Daoist Patriarch told Li Xiaoya that the Dragon Race's attacks were intensifying, that Li Xiaoya would join the coming counterattack, and that Tianyuan had returned to the Human Race Alliance.
• After more than nine months, Li Xiaoya finished refining the Human Realm Lesser Star Realm, increasing the Human Realm's spiritual qi to roughly two to four times its former level.
• Li Xiaoya returned to his cave abode, found Liu Xian'er studying formations, and took her through a spatial passage back to the Human Realm while Zhang Hong remained in seclusion.
• Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er saw how the Human Realm had changed, including prosperous continents, spirit-stone-powered transport, and the Heavenly Dao Sect's dominance, then decided to visit his family.

Li Xiaoya returned to the Heavenly Dao Sect with Liu Xian'er and reunited with his parents, master, and old fellow disciples. He helped his teacher and senior siblings with medicine, but learned that several old acquaintances, including Zhou Xiaoya and Li Yuer, were missing.

• Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er arrived at the Heavenly Dao Sect, where Mother Li and Li Muzhi joyfully welcomed them and asked where Zhang Hong was; Li Xiaoya explained that she was in seclusion pursuing the Mighty One Stage.
• Li Xiaoya told his parents he would improve the Human Realm and keep them there rather than send them to the dangerous Upper Realm, and learned that the sect had grown to dozens of Spirit Communion Stage cultivators.
• Li Xiaoya visited Heavenly Venerable Daoling and gave him medicine to restore his damaged foundation, then gave elixirs to help his senior siblings overcome their cultivation bottlenecks.
• Old acquaintances from other sects came to visit Li Xiaoya, who learned that the Heavenly Dao Sect had become the Human Realm's dominant power.
• Li Xiaoya discovered that Zhou Xiaoya and Li Yuer were absent and wondered where they had gone.

Li Xiaoya announced plans to transform the Human Realm by increasing its spiritual qi, delegated preparations to Lingyu and Qin Xian, and established a new base in the Great Illusion mountain range. Meanwhile, the Demon Elder asked the Dragon Ancestor to help capture the Immortal Race’s Child of Light, but the Dragon Ancestor refused unless the Devil Race sent enough reinforcements.

• Li Xiaoya lectured visiting cultivators for a day and a night, gave them rewards, and won their support for transforming the Human Realm.
• Li Xiaoya learned from Lingyu and Qin Xian that Zhou Xiaoya and Li Yuer had ascended centuries earlier, then tasked the two disciples with preparing the Human Realm’s transformation.
• Li Xiaoya moved Tranquil Valley to the Great Illusion mountain range, planted precious herbs in five-colored divine soil, and used Liu Xian’er’s formations to spread some of the increased spiritual qi across the Human Realm.
• The Demon Elder confronted the Dragon Ancestor for not reporting the Child of Light’s presence in the Thirty-Three Star Realm and asked him to help capture the Immortal Race figure alive.
• The Dragon Ancestor denied knowing about the Child of Light and refused to join the attack without enough reinforcements, while the Demon Elder offered to act personally.

The Dragon Ancestor ordered the dragon race to intensify its attacks and prepare to deploy the Flying Dragon Army, while Li Xiaoya finished preparing his Human Realm Secret Realm and returned to the Daode Daoist Patriarch. The Patriarch sent Li Xiaoya to secretly hunt dragon squads and assigned Liu Xian'er to repair and reinforce the Restriction Great Wall.

• Demon Elder and the Dragon Ancestor discussed their war against the human race, and the Dragon Ancestor learned that the Child of Light would soon leave the Immortal Court.
• The Dragon Ancestor ordered the dragon race to attack human sects and prepare the Flying Dragon Army to seize the divine artifact from Li Xiaoya.
• After nearly two months, Li Xiaoya completed preparations for his cave abode, instructed Qin Xian and Lingyu, and answered the Daode Daoist Patriarch's summons.
• At Dao Mountain, the Daode Daoist Patriarch ordered Li Xiaoya to secretly eliminate dragon race squads using a Communication Ring and warned him not to reveal his identity or use his Bloodthirst Spirit-Communing Dragon-Slaying Sword.
• The Daode Daoist Patriarch assigned Liu Xian'er to repair and reinforce the Restriction Great Wall, giving her a map and a token for entering its sections.
• Liu Xian'er accepted her mission and began to ask the Daode Daoist Patriarch a question.

Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er prepared to undertake a dangerous mission against Dragon Race forces, while Daode Daoist Patriarch warned them about the risks and urged Li Xiaoya to survive. They parted ways through a Teleportation Formation, where a powerful Giant Race cultivator appeared.

• Daode Daoist Patriarch warned Li Xiaoya that Zhang Hong had a low chance of reaching the Mighty One Stage and agreed to watch over her.
• Daode Daoist Patriarch explained that Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er might later fight in the Sky Curtain Mountain Range, warned them not to reveal their identities to human elite squads, and told Li Xiaoya to make his own decisions and stay alive.
• Liu Xian'er and Li Xiaoya agreed that Daode Daoist Patriarch seemed unusually worried, promised to be cautious, and shared a tender farewell before traveling in different directions.
• A Giant Race cultivator emerged from a Teleportation Formation, overwhelmed a golden-armored Nascent Soul Realm cultivator with his pressure, and flew away.

Li Xiaoya disguised himself as a Giant Race cultivator and reached Giant City, where its leaders prepared for an attack by a Dragon Race raiding squad. As the raiders flew toward the city, an orange light suddenly swept over the two Dragon Cultivators left on watch.

• Li Xiaoya used a disguise to conceal his identity and appearance while searching for a target.
• Giant City’s leaders learned a Dragon Race squad might attack, raised the city’s defenses, and waited anxiously for reinforcements.
• A Dragon Race scout reported that Giant City had weak defenses and no nearby Human Race forces, so the squad’s leader ordered an immediate assault.
• The Bald Burly Man led most of the Dragon Cultivators toward Giant City and left two to keep watch.
• The red-haired cultivator and the short, fat cultivator sensed danger, but their search found nothing before orange light swept across the mountaintop.

Li Xiaoya, disguised as a Giant Race cultivator, defended Giant City from a disguised Dragon Race assault and routed the attackers with his Ice Mountain treasure and ice fists. As the surviving dragons scattered, an enormous stone fist erupted from the ground beneath their leader.

• The bald Dragon Race cultivator discovered that two of his clansmen had died and ordered his companions to transform and attack Giant City.
• Li Xiaoya appeared outside the city’s restrictions and used his Ice Mountain to block the dragons’ red beams.
• The dragons fled when they could not break through Li Xiaoya’s defense, but he pursued them and froze several with his ice fists.
• The leading red dragon and three companions escaped the range of Li Xiaoya’s attacks and fled in separate directions.
• As the leading red dragon prepared to dive underground, a colossal stone fist burst up from beneath him.

Li Xiaoya wiped out the dragon cultivators attacking a giant city and left with the Ice Mountain, while the Golden Dragon Princess and the dragon elders learned that the Twenty-Third Strike Team had been destroyed. The chapter left the dragon leadership ordering an investigation into the squad’s deaths.

• Li Xiaoya used his earth element clone and main body to kill the dragon cultivators attacking the giant city, then collected their spoils and retrieved the Ice Mountain.
• Li Xiaoya ignored the giants’ questions and flew away, leaving them astonished by his strength.
• The Golden Dragon Princess urged the dragon elders to break through the Sky Curtain Mountain Range before the Flying Dragon Army entered the battle.
• A golden-scaled dragon cultivator reported that the Twenty-Third Strike Team’s Life Pearls had shattered, confirming the squad’s destruction.
• The Golden Dragon Princess ordered the dragon cultivator to discover where the team died, who killed them, and how many attackers there were.