Chapter Summaries

Li Xiaoya fought Boss Fei and two other devils while the Golden Dragon Princess alerted the Dragon Ancestor to his location. The Dragon Ancestor ordered the dragon army to prepare for war, and as the devils began forming the Heavenly Demon Array, Li Xiaoya struck back with the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff.

• Boss Fei spotted Li Xiaoya's injury and led the Black Witch and the black-robed cultivator in a combined attack that trapped him in battle.
• The Golden Dragon Princess contacted the Dragon Ancestor and reported Li Xiaoya's location, the Red Dragon Elder's death, and the Blue Dragon Elder's weakened Life Pearl.
• The Dragon Ancestor ordered the East Xia Continent dragon army to prepare an all-out attack and sent the Four Great Elders to lead the Flying Dragon Army.
• A five-colored figure sensed that Li Xiaoya was in danger and left to investigate.
• The three devils, alarmed that they could not subdue Li Xiaoya, began activating the Heavenly Demon Array with black spheres.
• Li Xiaoya revealed his recovering strength and swung the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff at the devil wielding the pitch-black spear.

Li Xiaoya used the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff to overpower the three devils sent by Prince Modong, then sensed an ominous pressure approaching from far away. The chapter left the source of the pressure unidentified.

• Li Xiaoya seized an opening as the three devils prepared a combined attack and struck Boss Fei, knocking away his Crescent Moon Saber and blasting him backward.
• Li Xiaoya followed through with the same sweeping staff strike, striking Black Witch before she could teleport away and sending her flying with severe injuries.
• The Black-Robed Cultivator tried to block Li Xiaoya’s attack with his spear, but the blow bent the weapon and sent him hurtling through the air.
• Li Xiaoya pursued the Black-Robed Cultivator and smashed his head with a second staff blow as Dragon Race and Demon Race cultivators watched.
• A streak of gray light raced through the sky millions of miles away, and Li Xiaoya sensed pressure coming toward him.

Li Xiaoya killed the Black-Robed Cultivator and the Black Witch, burning both their Demonic Infants to ash after seeing through the Black Witch’s escape trick. As he turned to strike Boss Fei, an enormous gray-light hand seized the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff, leaving Li Xiaoya stunned.

• Li Xiaoya blasted the Black-Robed Cultivator and his Demonic Infant to ash with the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff.
• Li Xiaoya pursued the wounded Black Witch and struck down her escaping Demonic Infant, then destroyed her body and burned her hidden Demonic Infant to ash.
• Boss Fei charged Li Xiaoya with a blood-sacrificed saber, but orange light erupted from the ground and hurled him into the air.
• Li Xiaoya swung the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff at Boss Fei, but an enormous gray-light hand emerged from the void and seized it.

Li Xiaoya resisted a powerful Dragon Race cultivator who demanded the Bloodthirst Spirit-Communing Dragon-Slaying Sword, but the enemy’s laws sealed the surrounding space and left him trapped. Determined to protect the Human Race and survive for the people in the Human Realm Secret Realm, Li Xiaoya began sacrificing his treasures, but the enormous gray hand continued closing in as he prepared to detonate the Yin-Yang Chaos Divine Cauldron.

• A black-armored Dragon Race cultivator intercepted Li Xiaoya, suppressed his teleportation, and demanded the Bloodthirst Spirit-Communing Dragon-Slaying Sword in exchange for his life.
• Li Xiaoya refused and burned his Nascent Souls, relying on his buried earth-element Nascent Soul to survive while planning to destroy his Divine Artifacts rather than let the Dragon Race claim them.
• Li Xiaoya fought back with five-colored flames, then detonated the Five-Element Heavenly Venerable Heaven-Shaking Tower to briefly halt the cultivator’s enormous gray hand.
• The gray hand endured the explosions and continued descending, while Li Xiaoya’s other treasures failed to stop it.
• Li Xiaoya decided he would have to detonate the Yin-Yang Chaos Divine Cauldron as the hand closed in.

Li Xiaoya tried to survive the young Dragon Race cultivator’s attack as the Daode Daoist Patriarch arrived and intervened. He escaped into a spatial passage amid their battle, which drew a furious warning from a supreme voice threatening to annihilate both races if they continued fighting on the world.

• Li Xiaoya stopped burning his Nascent Soul when the Daode Daoist Patriarch arrived, but Old Dragon’s gray hand continued descending.
• Li Xiaoya used the Yin-Yang Chaos Divine Cauldron to block the attack and was blasted away by its force.
• The Daode Daoist Patriarch fought Old Dragon and opened a space vortex, then urged Li Xiaoya to enter it.
• Old Dragon attacked Li Xiaoya as he approached the vortex, but the Daode Daoist Patriarch severed the gray hand with a five-colored sword.
• The Dragon Ancestor struck the vortex with its enormous tail, shattering the sky and blasting Li Xiaoya into the void.
• A supreme voice commanded the combatants to fight in space or face the annihilation of their Two Races and exile from the Thirty-Three Star Realm.

The Immortal Emperor intervened in the Dragon Ancestor and Daode Daoist Patriarch’s conflict, imposed rules on the Human and Dragon Races, and killed the fleeing Boss Fei. After the Dragon Ancestor departed, the Immortal Emperor secretly ordered Tianmei Taoren’s true immortal body to monitor both races and watch Daode for a hidden object; Li Xiaoya remained missing but alive.

• Daode Daoist Patriarch appealed to the Immortal Emperor, while the Dragon Ancestor challenged the Immortal Emperor and revealed that his injuries had healed.
• The Immortal Emperor ordered the Human and Dragon Races to obey his rules, forbade Immortal Tribulation Stage cultivators from fighting and devils from entering the Star Realm, then struck Boss Fei down with golden light.
• Daode Daoist Patriarch and the Dragon Ancestor both agreed to the Immortal Emperor’s terms, and the Dragon Ancestor threatened the Human Race before leaving.
• Daode Daoist Patriarch left without searching for Li Xiaoya, sensing that Li Xiaoya had survived and fearing the Immortal Emperor was watching.
• The Immortal Emperor ordered Tianmei Taoren’s true immortal body to surveil the Human and Dragon Races and keep watch on Daode, whom he suspected of holding a hidden object.

Liu Xian'er learned from Daode Daoist Patriarch that Li Xiaoya was in unusual circumstances and restrained herself from contacting him. After surviving the Dragon Ancestor’s attack and a spatial storm, Li Xiaoya awoke buried beneath rocks in an unfamiliar world, severely weakened and beginning to assess his injuries.

• Liu Xian'er heard Li Xiaoya’s Soul Lifebound Bell ring, but Daode Daoist Patriarch warned her not to ask questions about Muzi and told her to continue her work.
• Liu Xian'er deduced that Li Xiaoya might face a True Immortal and decided not to contact him, while Tianmei Taoren sent a clone to watch the human.
• Li Xiaoya remained unconscious beneath rocks for three or four days as his wounds healed, then awoke to find himself buried and unable to use his magic power.
• Li Xiaoya recalled that the Dragon Ancestor had shattered the space vortex and attacked him, but the Immortal Dao Chain had shielded him before the spatial storm knocked him unconscious.
• Li Xiaoya discovered that his Nascent Souls were badly weakened, his earth element clone remained separated underground, his bones were broken, and his cultivation had fallen sharply.
• Li Xiaoya sensed abundant spiritual qi nearby, concluded that he was not in the Fallen Immortal Grounds, and resolved to heal before exploring.

Dragon Ancestor ordered the Dragon Race forces to withdraw after discovering that a powerful formation master had stopped their advance, while he and Demon Elder discussed their alliance and the Devil Ancestor Inheritance. He then told the Four Great Elders that Li Xiaoya had survived and was likely somewhere in the Thirty-Three Star Realm, ordering them to find him before the Human Race Alliance.

• Dragon Ancestor returned to the Dragon Race army, ordered the Four Great Elders and the Flying Dragon Army to stand down, and warned them to say nothing while Tianmei Taoren watched from beyond the Nine Heavens.
• Dragon Ancestor confronted Demon Elder over his failure to act, and Demon Elder explained that he had stayed with Prince Modong during the Devil Ancestor Inheritance.
• Dragon Ancestor agreed to withdraw the Dragon Race forces until Prince Modong completed the inheritance, citing the Human Race formation master who used the Golden Immortal Script Formation to block Sky Curtain Mountain Range.
• Dragon Ancestor told the Four Great Elders that he had struck Li Xiaoya and sent him into a spatial passage, but believed Li Xiaoya remained somewhere in the Thirty-Three Star Realm.
• Dragon Ancestor ordered the elders to search the Insect Race's territory and Dragon Race territory for Li Xiaoya before the Human Race Alliance found him, and announced that the Dragon Race would withdraw from Human territory.

After the Dragon Ancestor ended the war, Liu Xian'er learned that the Daode Daoist Patriarch did not know where Li Xiaoya had been sent and was urged to trust that he would return. Meanwhile, the Demon Elder reported the failure of a plan to a mysterious Demon Holy Son, who looked forward to taking revenge himself.

• The Dragon Ancestor ended the war, and both the human and dragon forces accepted a ceasefire while anticipating a more devastating conflict in the future.
• Liu Xian'er confronted the Daode Daoist Patriarch about Ya, and he admitted that he did not know where Li Xiaoya had been sent.
• The Daode Daoist Patriarch persuaded Liu Xian'er to trust Li Xiaoya and not search for him or tell Zhang Hong about the matter.
• Liu Xian'er returned to Holy Son Peak, where she silently gazed at the mountain allotted to Li Xiaoya.
• The Demon Elder told a horned Demon Holy Son that the plan had failed, and the figure said he would have a chance to take revenge in person.

Li Xiaoya continued healing beneath the earth until a battle between two powerful demon beasts shook his refuge and forced him to brace the collapsing rocks. Months later, he emerged with only a fraction of his strength restored into a vast, unfamiliar mountain region and set off to find a way out.

• Li Xiaoya cultivated to recover his magic power and body, but a demon beast’s roar and a familiar birdcall interrupted his healing as two Heaven-and-Earth Realm beasts fought above him.
• Li Xiaoya used the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff to hold back falling rocks, then resumed healing after the beasts’ battle moved away.
• Several months later, Li Xiaoya released his Steel-armored Beetle to dig a quiet passage to the surface because he could not safely escape through the earth himself.
• Li Xiaoya emerged among rubble, towering trees, and distant mountains beneath a gray haze, and realized he did not know where he was.
• Li Xiaoya judged the region rich in spiritual qi and ran toward the distance rather than flying, since his speed and strength remained greatly diminished.

Li Xiaoya investigated the immense battle scars and found familiar blue-green feather down before riding a Steel-armored Beetle away from the area. Surrounded by Mighty One Stage beasts, he hid from the One-Horned Wood Beast, which struck his hiding place but could not find him; his fate remained unclear.

• Li Xiaoya inspected the devastation left by a battle between powerful demon beasts and collected a patch of familiar blue-green down.
• Li Xiaoya rode a Steel-armored Beetle away while wondering whether the feathers and familiar bird cries came from a beast he knew.
• Li Xiaoya sensed Mighty One Stage demon beasts approaching from both directions and hid inside a tree hollow under his Invisibility Cloak.
• The One-Horned Wood Beast found Li Xiaoya's hiding place and smashed the tree and surrounding forest with a powerful strike.
• The One-Horned Wood Beast found no trace of Li Xiaoya, then left after hearing urgent roars from two other beasts.

Li Xiaoya survived the One-Horned Wood Beast’s attack by using the Life Law to merge with a tree, though the ordeal worsened his injuries. He hid underground to recover, and the tree roots began drawing blue-green energy into him and wrapping around his body.

• Two demon beasts searched the crater for the One-Horned Wood Beast and a human, then flew away without finding anyone.
• Li Xiaoya reappeared from a piece of wood, explaining that he had used the Life Law to turn himself into a tree and merge with it to survive the attack.
• Li Xiaoya realized the technique had revealed a way to recover faster, but his body and magic power were critically depleted.
• Li Xiaoya rode the Steel-armored Beetle back to a mountain, dug a secluded underground hideout, and stationed Steel-armored Beetles at its entrance.
• Li Xiaoya meditated while holding a tree root, and blue-green motes streamed from the roots into his body as the roots wound around him.

Li Xiaoya absorbed the life aura of nearby trees to heal inside a root cocoon, while the Dragon Race and other factions searched for him across several continents. Liu Xian'er waited anxiously for his return until the Daode Daoist Patriarch summoned her, leaving her wondering whether he had news of Li Xiaoya.

• Li Xiaoya discovered that he could merge his life aura with trees and absorb their vitality to heal, while the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma seemed to be involved.
• More than a dozen dragons searched the Ancient Demon Continent for Li Xiaoya, following orders from the Dragon Ancestor.
• The Dragon Ancestor directed the Dragon Race's elders to keep searching for Li Xiaoya and prepare for war, warning them to guard their secrets from the Devil Race.
• Liu Xian'er waited on Holy Son Peak, longing for Li Xiaoya but refraining from contacting him because of the Daode Daoist Patriarch's instructions.
• The Daode Daoist Patriarch summoned Liu Xian'er, and she hurried to see him, hoping he had news of Li Xiaoya.

Liu Xian'er visited the Daode Daoist Patriarch, who sent her to transform the Human Realm and gave her a vast supply of treasures, but she grew suspicious of his motives. After she left the Thirty-Three Star Realm, Tianmei Taoren alerted the Immortal Emperor, who ordered continued surveillance.

• Liu Xian'er asked the Daode Daoist Patriarch for news of Li Xiaoya, and he said Li Xiaoya was safe but still missing.
• The Daode Daoist Patriarch gave Liu Xian'er materials from the Human Race Alliance and instructed her to transform the Human Realm while she waited for Li Xiaoya.
• Liu Xian'er inspected the Storage Ring, questioned the Daode Daoist Patriarch's motives, and returned to Holy Son Peak to prepare to travel to the Human Realm.
• Tianmei Taoren noticed that Liu Xian'er's aura had left the Thirty-Three Star Realm and contacted the Immortal Emperor.
• The Immortal Emperor told Tianmei Taoren to keep watch, and Tianmei Taoren chose not to reveal that Liu Xian'er was Li Xiaoya's dual cultivation partner.

Li Xiaoya healed his injuries by drawing vitality from ancient trees while studying their natural awareness and deepening his grasp of the life law. He tried to contact Liu Xian'er with the Soul Life-Bell, but its response left him increasingly grave.

• Li Xiaoya emerged from a root cocoon and found that healing with the life law had restored much of his physical body.
• He stopped draining any trees that resisted and moved between them, using Steel-armored Beetles to dig underground passages.
• As he healed, Li Xiaoya merged his vitality with the trees and gained varied impressions of nature that helped him contemplate the life law.
• Li Xiaoya used the Soul Life-Bell to try to contact Liu Xian'er, whom he believed was far away in another star realm.
• Li Xiaoya sensed the Soul Life-Bell and grew increasingly grave.

Li Xiaoya spent more than one hundred and sixty years healing underground, relying on trees to restore his injuries while avoiding demon beasts and remaining unable to contact Liu Xian'er. After recovering nearly half his strength, he emerged from the Tree-Stem Cocoon and sensed a strange aura and gurgling within his body.

• Li Xiaoya concluded that he could not influence the war between the Human Race and the Dragon Race and focused on healing, believing that his absence might keep the Dragon Race's attacks from growing worse.
• Li Xiaoya followed the steel-armored beetle through underground tunnels and healed by merging with ancient trees, occasionally sending the beetle to collect rare herbs.
• Over more than one hundred and sixty years, Li Xiaoya endured persistent pain and repeatedly moved between trees to avoid demon beasts, once narrowly escaping a Mighty One Stage beast that attacked his hiding place.
• Li Xiaoya's injuries, magic power, cultivation, and divine sense recovered to roughly half their former strength, and he gained insights into the life law, but he still could not contact Liu Xian'er.
• Li Xiaoya emerged from the Tree-Stem Cocoon and felt an astonishing aura and strange gurgling in his body, which made him think of Guagua with delight.

Li Xiaoya reunited with the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma and learned that she had saved him after the Dragon Ancestor’s attack. She identified his location as the Savage Wilderness Continent in the Thirty-Three Star Realm, leaving him worried that he was in trouble.

• The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma appeared and told Li Xiaoya she had used most of her life force and vital essence to save him.
• Li Xiaoya thanked her, and the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma reminded him that he owed her favors.
• The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma sensed the realm’s ancient aura and said it was suited to high-rank demon beasts.
• She told Li Xiaoya that the Dragon Ancestor had sealed nearby spatial passages to keep him in the Thirty-Three Star Realm, but white immortal spirit qi had diverted him from the Dragon Ancestor’s intended destination.
• The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma helped Li Xiaoya recognize that he was on the Savage Wilderness Continent, and he reacted with dismay.

Li Xiaoya learned that he had landed on the Savage Wilderness Continent instead of the Ancient Dragon Continent, leaving him far from the Human Race and facing a long, dangerous journey home. As the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma refused to explain its history with Li Xiaoya’s master or answer why he could not contact Liu Xian'er, Li Xiaoya asked whether Guagua’s origin was the life law.

• Li Xiaoya worried that crossing the Savage Wilderness Continent and the Boundless Sea would take decades and expose him to powerful demon beasts.
• The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma told Li Xiaoya that the Dragon Ancestor had meant to send him to the Ancient Dragon Continent, but the light diverted him to the Savage Wilderness Continent.
• The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma said the Dragon Ancestor was rumored to descend from the Ancient Giant Dragon Race and rivaled the Immortal Emperor, while calling Li Xiaoya’s master, the Daode Daoist Patriarch, a colossal bastard.
• The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma fell silent when Li Xiaoya asked about his master and his inability to contact Liu Xian'er, who was inside the Human Realm Secret Realm.
• Li Xiaoya asked the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma whether its origin was the life law.

Li Xiaoya learned that the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma helped him comprehend the Life Law and promised to brew Red Lotus Immortal Wine that could aid his recovery and cultivation. He resumed healing in seclusion, and after a dozen years, an excited voice announced that it had succeeded.

• Li Xiaoya realized the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma’s presence made it easier for him to connect with trees and use the Life Law.
• The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma told Li Xiaoya that Red Lotus Immortal Wine could have many benefits, including healing injuries and aiding cultivation.
• The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma said it would take about a dozen years to brew the first batch of wine.
• Li Xiaoya resumed cultivating in seclusion while the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma stayed with him.
• After a dozen years passed, an excited voice called out to Li Xiaoya, saying, “Brother Li! I did it!”

After more than ten years of healing, Li Xiaoya learned that the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma had finished brewing Red Lotus Immortal Wine Fruit wine. He drank a few drops of the powerful wine, and its effects forced him to sit down and cultivate.

• Li Xiaoya returned to his original form after the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma announced the wine was ready, reflecting on his slow nascent-soul recovery and his progress healing.
• The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma showed Li Xiaoya a tiny bottle she had refined from the fruit’s peel and pit, then sealed the cavern to contain the wine’s overwhelming aura.
• The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma poured the wine into two small cups and drank her portion, excitedly praising its taste.
• Li Xiaoya drank his portion, began trembling and crying from its intense flavor, and then felt white vapor burst from his mouth and nose.
• Li Xiaoya hurriedly sat cross-legged to respond to the wine’s effects.