Chapter Summaries

Li Yang and the others reached the inheritance trial of the Great Sun Vast Heaven Holy Land, where Hao Tianyang answered the Heart-Questioning Stone’s questions. After scoring well on the first three, Hao Tianyang received only three points for promising to hand the immortal vein to the sect, and the fifth question challenged his confidence in protecting it.

• Li Yang confronted Hao Tianyang and the Fire Qilin, while the group examined the statue holding the inheritance.
• Hao Tianyang used his blood essence to begin the five-question trial and promised to sacrifice himself for the sect, earning eight points.
• Hao Tianyang said he would oppose his father if he plotted against the sect’s treasure and inherit his master’s Dao, earning nine and ten points.
• Hao Tianyang promised to turn an unguarded supreme-grade pure yang immortal vein over to the sect, but the phantom awarded him only three points.
• The phantom asked whether Hao Tianyang could protect the immortal vein from countless powerful rivals and lead it back to the Upper Realm.

Li Yang tested the Heart-Questioning Stone after the Fire Qilin and the flame-haired young man scored highly, and confirmed that it detected conviction as well as lies. He answered the first two questions honestly and earned high marks, then declared he would kill his master for attempting to possess his body.

• The Fire Qilin answered the five questions and scored 39 points, while the flame-haired young man scored 42.
• Li Yang tested the Heart-Questioning Stone by declaring contradictory convictions about evil fiends, confirming that it reacted to his beliefs.
• Li Yang answered that he would sacrifice himself to protect the Dao but would oppose the sect if it harmed others, earning 9 points.
• Li Yang refused to help his father steal the sect's treasure and earned 10 points.
• Li Yang said he would kill his master for raising him in order to possess his body.

Li Yang answered the Heart-Questioning Stone’s questions about the Great Sun Vast Heaven Holy Land’s Immortal Vein and his own potential, earning a perfect score on one answer. He tested increasingly lofty Upper Realm destinations, culminating in his claim that he could become an immortal emperor, and the Heart-Questioning Stone exploded.

• Li Yang said he would keep the supreme-grade pure yang Immortal Vein for himself, but would free Brilliant Dawn because he was disgusted by it, earning ten points.
• Li Yang admitted he could not confidently protect Brilliant Dawn from his enemies, but believed his potential exceeded ordinary ascension; Hao Tianyang revealed that a Human Immortal Realm ancestor had suffered a backlash divining Li Yang’s future.
• The platinum dragon explained the Upper Realm’s cultivation realms, and Li Yang asked the Heart-Questioning Stone whether he could reach each one in turn.
• The Heart-Questioning Stone stayed still as Li Yang claimed he could become a true immortal, mystic immortal, great encompassing golden immortal, an Immortal King, and an immortal venerable, alarming the fire-haired young man.
• Li Yang said he could become an immortal emperor, and the Heart-Questioning Stone exploded.

Li Yang’s answers caused the Heart-Questioning Stone to explode, revealing that he might have the potential to become an Immortal Emperor. The inheritance trial began on the Heavenly Stairway, where Li Yang started near the summit while his rivals began lower down.

• The Heart-Questioning Stone exploded after Li Yang’s answers, and the platinum dragon and fire-haired young man realized the terrifying significance of his potential.
• The old man’s phantom announced that the candidates’ scores determined their starting steps on the fifty-step Heavenly Stairway.
• The platinum dragon favored Li Yang by letting him ride on its head while carrying the fire-haired young man, Fire Qilin, and Hao Tianyang on its claws.
• The platinum dragon brought the group to the inheritance altar in the statue’s palm, where they saw pure yang immortal energy cascading over the stairway.
• The old man’s phantom placed Li Yang on the forty-seventh step and Hao Tianyang, Fire Qilin, and the fire-haired young man on the thirty-seventh, thirty-ninth, and forty-first steps.

Li Yang endured the Dao-Seeking Stairway’s pure yang immortal energy with his perfected physical body while the others struggled or relied on outside help. He reached the altar first and claimed the inheritance, leaving the fire-haired young man furious and disappointed.

• Hao Tianyang and the Fire Qilin found that their magic treasures and abilities were sealed, then struggled against the pure yang immortal energy as the restrictive seals vanished.
• Li Yang steadily climbed the stairs, while the fire-haired young man retreated to the twenty-third stair and found the Stair of Escape One.
• The fire-haired young man used a Pure Yang Supreme Treasure to return to the upper stairs, but the growing scouring force slowed him down.
• Li Yang struck at the fire-haired young man to test his strength and revealed that his perfected physical body could withstand the pure yang torrent.
• Li Yang tore apart the torrent blocking the final stairs, reached the altar, and declared that he had crossed the first trial in the flesh before reaching into the light.

Li Yang obtained the Great Sun Vast Heaven Holy Land inheritance, refined Can Yao, and revealed the Primordial dawnfire. After killing the fire-haired young man, Li Yang drew the Elder's Phantom's attention and received an offer from the Holy Land.

• Hao Tianyang and the Fire Qilin retreated from the Dao-Seeking Stairway, acknowledging Li Yang's overwhelming strength.
• The Platinum Giant Dragon stopped the fire-haired young man's teleportation and revealed that Li Yang was the master it had chosen.
• The Elder's Phantom attacked Li Yang, but Li Yang's Scarlet Sword Qi cut the phantom apart after the restrictive seals lost their effect.
• Li Yang emerged with the inheritance, sensed Can Yao's true body beneath the continent, and crushed the imprisoned fire-haired young man's head before burning him away with Primordial dawnfire.
• The Elder's Phantom recognized the Primordial dawnfire and invited Li Yang to join the Great Sun Vast Heaven Holy Land, promising lavish support and companions.

Li Yang claimed the Vast Heaven World and returned most of the Great Sun Vast Heaven Holy Land’s inheritance to Hao Tianyang, while warning him to reform the sect. After the gathered cultivators were expelled from the world, Li Yang began pursuing revenge against his remaining enemies.

• Li Yang rejected the Elder's Phantom's attempt to persuade him to join the Great Sun Vast Heaven Holy Land, then gave Hao Tianyang two inheritance jade slips while keeping the Vast Heaven Pure Yang Finger for himself.
• Li Yang brought Hao Tianyang and the Fire Qilin out of the abyss and warned the Fire Qilin not to kill innocent humans.
• Li Yang refined the Vast Heaven World into a bead, expelling the gathered cultivators and leaving himself and Hao Tianyang atop the sacred mountain.
• Li Yang urged Hao Tianyang to become the next Holy Master and improve the Great Sun Vast Heaven Holy Land, threatening to crack down on the sect if its conduct remained corrupt.
• Li Yang showed Su Hen over a hundred tokens pointing to his enemies' inheritance grounds and declared that they would hunt them down one by one.

Li Yang explored the Vast Heaven World, let Xuanyou and the Black Serpent feast on its treasures, and established a master-servant contract with Brilliant Dawn, the enormous pure-yang dragon vein. He then left the world and heard that the Jade Light Holy Land's inheritance grounds were nearby, where people still expected its slain holy son to claim the final inheritance.

• Li Yang entered the Vast Heaven World and told Xuanyou and the Black Serpent to enjoy its heavenly treasures as compensation for their injuries.
• Xuanyou and the Black Serpent gorged themselves on spirit herbs while Li Yang traveled to the lake and spoke with Brilliant Dawn.
• Brilliant Dawn explained that the lake held valuable immortal vein nectar and agreed to acknowledge Li Yang as its master.
• Brilliant Dawn took Li Yang underground to its enormous true body, where Li Yang placed a slave seal and formed a master-servant contract with it.
• Li Yang returned to Xuanyou and the Black Serpent, saw that Xuanyou's injuries had nearly healed, and urged him to reach Nascent Soul Formation.
• After leaving the Vast Heaven World, Li Yang heard people discuss the Jade Light Holy Land's inheritance and the punishment facing lineages that joined the Sun-Slaying Alliance.

Xuanyuan Li Yang led the Sword Alliance to the Soaring Holy Land’s inheritance grounds, where he forced the sect to surrender its Sun-Slaying Alliance members. After letting the others leave, he prepared to damage the holy land in retaliation for its leaders’ complicity.

• Xuanyuan Li Yang and a force of Sword Cultivators, allies, and demonic beasts surrounded the Soaring Holy Land’s inheritance grounds with the Pseudo-Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation.
• Li Yang struck Senior Yu, the chief elder, and warned him that the Soaring Holy Land’s Holy Son had been killed and that Sun-Slaying Alliance members remained among them.
• Senior Yu killed three Sun-Slaying Alliance members, and Li Yang confirmed that none remained nearby before opening an escape route for the others.
• Li Yang revealed the Soaring Holy Land’s Holy Lord’s Token and announced he would make the sect pay for supporting the Sun-Slaying Alliance.
• Senior Yu blocked Li Yang’s way and declared that Li Yang would have to step over his corpse to proceed.

Li Yang seized the Soaring Holy Land’s inheritance, continued confiscating inheritances and hunting Evil Immortals, and searched for Chu Mu while growing uneasy about their disappearance. After Tu Jiuzhou reported that Chu Mu, Li Xiao, and at least five Evil Immortals had gathered at a newly formed World Spirit’s Inheritance Grounds, Li Yang was summoned there.

• Li Yang killed Elder Yu, forced the Soaring Holy Land’s disciples to retreat, and took its inheritance, including a Kunpeng eggshell and a wind-attribute Immortal Vein.
• Xuanyao revealed that Li Yang’s pure yang power had changed her sex, and Li Yang gave the parasol tree to Ning Xiwู and the Immortal Vein to Brilliant Dawn.
• Li Yang led thousands of Sword Cultivators through more Inheritance Grounds, killed ten Evil Immortals, and caused many members of the Sun-Slaying Alliance to discard their Broken Sword Tokens.
• Li Yang kept searching for Chu Mu and saved fire-element inheritances to compensate Ning Qingfeng for damaging her cultivation for him.
• Tu Jiuzhou told Li Yang that a World Spirit had formed its own Inheritance Grounds and that Chu Mu, Li Xiao, and at least five Evil Immortals were there.

The Great World of Ten Thousand Immortals began transforming into a domain after its accumulated legacies awakened a spark of sentience, alarming the powerful figures watching from outside. As factions anticipated the upheaval and the remaining month inside the world, Devil Ancestor Mountain revealed its ambition to devour the Heavenly Daos of the Nine Provinces and the Demon Savage Continent.

• The Great World of Ten Thousand Immortals formed a domain membrane, and an old Daoist explained that its merged legacies had given birth to a Heavenly Dao.
• The powerful figures worried that the Upper Realm's Heavenly Dao might erase the new domain spirit, while Ning Qingfeng feared for Li Yang, whose Soul Lamp remained strong.
• The Heavenly Retribution Dao Sect's sect master and ancestor discussed killing Li Yang during the month remaining, anticipating that chaos inside the new domain would create an opening.
• The Devil Ancestor Mountain elders reassured Sha Nuo that they would protect Li Xiao from the Outer-Domain Celestial Demon while explaining why Sha Nuo was not suited to rule.
• The black-robed elder declared that Devil Ancestor Mountain planned to devour the Heavenly Daos of the Nine Provinces and the Demon Savage Continent.

Chu Mu and his allies followed the black-robed female devil venerable to the former Primordial Immortal Palace inheritance site, where she began gathering Dao Rhythms to hasten the birth of the Heavenly Dao Will. She planned to refine it, control the world, and use that advantage to kill Li Yang, while Chu Mu and Li Xiao were ordered to guard the site and delay him.

• The black-robed female devil venerable dismissed Li Yang as an obstacle and revealed that she was a peak immortal king and the Dao Companion of Devil Ancestor Rahu.
• She saw through Chu Mu’s system-bearing transmigrator identity, warned him against lusting after her, and offered to nurture him if he served her goals.
• The group reached the former Primordial Immortal Palace inheritance site, and the black-robed female devil venerable shielded Chu Mu after his question about whether its rumored immortal emperor founder had fallen drew a terrifying gaze.
• The black-robed female devil venerable began gathering the world’s Dao Rhythms to hasten the birth of the Heavenly Dao Will and announced that she would try to refine it completely.
• Chu Mu and Li Xiao warned that they could not withstand Li Yang and his sword cultivators, but the black-robed female devil venerable told them to muddy the waters and laid tiers of Dao Rhythm steps around the mountain.

Li Yang and the Demon Race arrived at the Primordial Immortal Palace’s Inheritance Grounds, where candidates were gathering to compete for the newly born Heavenly Dao. Shen Yaoyin struggled to keep order in her damaged Market Ruins as former Sun-Slaying Alliance members engineered a confrontation, leaving her to warn them that Li Yang would soon arrive.

• Cultivators discussed the birth of a heavenly dao will and the steps leading to the summit, where anyone who reached it could qualify to compete for Heavenly Dao Master.
• Ye Xiao brought Li Yang and the Demon Race to the Primordial Immortal Palace’s Inheritance Grounds, where Mu Ningxue spotted Shen Yaoyin’s damaged Market Ruins.
• Li Yang noticed that Shen Yaoyin’s Market Ruins had few visitors, heavy killing intent, and signs of fighting, so he decided to investigate.
• Two Crown Champions fought over an immortal fruit in Shen Yaoyin’s Market Ruins while a crowd of cultivators waited for the conflict to spark a riot.
• Shen Yaoyin suspected the dispute was a deliberate plot by former Sun-Slaying Alliance members and warned them that Li Yang and his sword cultivators would soon arrive.

Shen Yaoyin faced a riot at the Sound Palace Market Ruins and refused Jiang Xingzhou’s offer to help, rejecting their marriage agreement. Just as Jiang threatened her, Li Yang arrived in a terrifying blaze of crimson sword light and challenged him to repeat his threat.

• A disguised cultivator and a youth fought over an immortal fruit, and their battle sparked an attack that plunged the Market Ruins into chaos and looting.
• Shen Yaoyin considered putting away the damaged Market Ruins Magic Treasure to limit her losses, despite the damage to her business.
• Jiang Xingzhou warned Shen Yaoyin that Li Yang was doomed and offered to help her in exchange for honoring their engagement.
• Shen Yaoyin rejected Jiang’s offer and marriage proposal, condemning his opportunism and secret pursuit of other women.
• As Jiang threatened Shen Yaoyin over the deaths at the Xuanyuan Sword Sect's Inheritance Grounds, Li Yang appeared in crimson sword light and asked who would not let whom off.

Li Yang arrived at the Market Ruins and crushed Jiang Xingzhou, then let Shen Yaoyin identify those responsible for inciting chaos. He killed the instigators and forced the looters to surrender their Soul Blood and serve as slaves.

• Li Yang slapped Jiang Xingzhou underground, and Jiang Xingzhou's hired cultivators fled.
• Shen Yaoyin sealed the Market Ruins and identified two Crown Champions as the ones who had deliberately caused the conflict.
• After the Taiyin Demon Rabbit exposed their lies, Li Yang killed the two Crown Champions and several more rioters Shen Yaoyin identified.
• Shen Yaoyin pointed out nearly two hundred cultivators who had attacked shops during the chaos, and Li Yang spared them in exchange for their Soul Blood and service as slaves.
• The accused cultivators rushed to surrender their Soul Blood before Li Yang could strike them.

Li Yang gathered the sword cultivators in the Market Ruins after learning that Chu Mu and Li Xiao were plotting near the Heavenly Stairway. Acting on Tu Nine Provinces’ warning, he launched an attack on the unformed Heavenly Dao with the Pseudo-Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation.

• Ning Xiwู, Mu Yao, and other women helped Shen Yaoyin repair the Market Ruins, which soon filled with cultivators and more than three thousand sword cultivators.
• Li Yang asked Shen Yaoyin about the Devil Ancestor Mountain inheritance and learned that Chu Mu, Li Xiao, and suspected evil immortals had been gathering nearby.
• Tu Nine Provinces warned Li Yang that Chu Mu and the others had pretended to fail at ascending the Heavenly Stairway and urged him to destroy the unformed Heavenly Dao first.
• Li Yang summoned the Pseudo-Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation and called on all sword cultivators to join him in slaying Heaven.
• More than three thousand sword cultivators formed the array, and its phantom Immortal-Slaying Sword struck toward the converging Dao Rhythm.

Li Yang attacked the false Heavenly Dao and warned cultivators that the Heaven-Climbing Heavenly Stairway was helping an Evil Fiend. His warning halted many, but Chu Mu and Li Xiao brought reinforcements to aid the Demon Consort, who revealed her identity and threatened anyone who opposed her.

• Li Yang and the Sword Cultivators attacked the Dao rhythm, weakening the power of heaven and earth protecting it.
• As treasures appeared and the Heaven-Climbing Heavenly Stairway became easier to climb, cultivators rushed toward it, restoring the Heavenly Dao's strength.
• Li Yang declared that an Evil Fiend was behind the false Heavenly Dao and threatened anyone who continued climbing; many cultivators retreated.
• Li Yang promised the cultivators they could claim the remaining treasures after he killed the fiend, and their departure further weakened the Dao rhythm's protection.
• Chu Mu arrived with several thousand allies, and Li Xiao arrived with evil immortals and Demonic Path cultivators; they climbed the stairway to support the Demon Consort.
• Chu Mu identified the being within the Dao rhythm as the Demon Consort, who revealed herself as an Immortal King and threatened those who opposed her.

Demon Consort tried to seize the newly forming Heavenly Dao while Li Yang’s Sword Cultivators attacked the Heaven-Climbing Heavenly Stairway. Just as she moved to assimilate the Dao rhythm, a Black-Robed Youth from the Primordial Immortal Palace intervened, and Demon Consort confronted the newcomer.

• Demon Consort revealed herself as Devil Ancestor Rahu’s Dao Companion, causing many onlookers and Sword Cultivators to hesitate.
• Li Yang reaffirmed his resolve, then led the Pseudo-Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation in repeated attacks on the Heaven-Climbing Heavenly Stairway.
• Chu Mu urged the defenders to hold out, and Demon Consort promised rewards and protection while giving them an hour to endure.
• The battle exhausted both sides, and more than half the defenders inside the stairway died before the Heavenly Dao began to form.
• Demon Consort used the Myriad Transformations Heavenly Demon Seal to claim the forming Heavenly Dao, but a Black-Robed Youth countered with the Primordial Dao-Transforming Seal and claimed the site for the Primordial Immortal Palace.
• Demon Consort recognized the Primordial Immortal Palace’s technique and angrily challenged the youth.

Li Yang and his allies destroyed the Heaven-Climbing Heavenly Stairway while Demon Consort struggled to refine the Heavenly Dao. Chu Mu gained access to Demon Consort and revealed a replica of the Heavenly Origin Chessboard, leaving her startled.

• Li Yang led the sword cultivators, Langya Ice Palace cultivators, and demons in a fierce assault that crippled the Heaven-Climbing Heavenly Stairway and weakened Demon Consort’s control of heaven and earth.
• Demon Consort gained the upper hand against the black-robed figure but realized Li Yang’s attacks and her allies’ wavering loyalty could prevent her from refining the Heavenly Dao.
• Chu Mu asked Demon Consort to trust him, then charged at the black-robed figure, who exploded into Primordial Immortal Seals and joined the Nine-Colored Dao Rhythm.
• Li Yang urged the watching crowd to kill the fleeing beings, and a phantom Immortal-Slaying Sword struck down the Heaven-Climbing Heavenly Stairway.
• Chu Mu produced a replica of the Heavenly Origin Chessboard, and Demon Consort recognized it and asked where he had obtained it.

Li Yang escaped the Heavenly Origin Chessboard’s spatial swap and charged at the Demon Consort with Yan Zhaoxi and Lin He. The Demon Consort’s forces intercepted them, and Li Yang began attacking her while his companions held off the others.

• The Demon Consort used the Heavenly Origin Chessboard to swap the space containing the Pseudo-Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, while Li Yang took Ye Xiao’s Void-Piercing Sword and tore open a path through the transport force.
• Li Yang, Yan Zhaoxi, and Lin He entered the opening before the other Sword Cultivators were displaced, and Chu Mu declared victory after the chessboard sealed them away.
• Li Yang appeared before Chu Mu and the Demon Consort, then attacked the Demon Consort after realizing she had no power of heaven and earth left to protect herself.
• Chu Mu and his allies met Li Yang, but Li Yang sent Chu Mu flying and broke his Demonic Halberd with one strike.
• Yan Zhaoxi and Lin He intercepted Li Xiao and the Evil Immortals while Li Yang attacked the Demon Consort again.