Chapter Summaries

Li Dao agreed to lead the Heaven Mending Pavilion’s disciples into the Hundred Broken Mountains and used the remaining half month to advance his cultivation. He arrived at the gathering on Black Fiend, stunning the disciples who had doubted their unknown leader.

• Tao Ye asked Li Dao to lead the disciples into the Hundred Broken Mountains, and Li Dao agreed.
• Li Dao returned to his courtyard, found Li Jiaojiao gone, and entered seclusion to cultivate with the Treasure Medicines.
• After half a month, Li Dao advanced to nine cave heavens and merged them into a divine halo.
• Li Jiaojiao summoned Li Dao to the Dao Demonstration Platform, where the disciples gathered before their expedition.
• Liu Tao resented Li Dao’s appointment and vowed to challenge him, while Shi Hao anticipated the confrontation.
• Li Dao rode Black Fiend into the gathering, silencing the skeptical disciples and turning their fear into excitement.

Li Dao and the Heaven Mending Pavilion disciples traveled toward the Hundred Broken Mountains, passing through a spatial passage to the region near Broken Void City. After seeing a pure-blooded Golden Roar, they prepared to continue toward their destination with Xiong Fei warning them to avoid trouble while promising the pavilion’s protection.

• Black Fiend greeted Shi Hao, and Li Dao introduced himself to Xiao Tian as Li Zizai, the disciple in charge of the journey.
• Li Dao and Shi Hao discussed hunting ingredients to cook, alarming Xiao Tian and making Xiong Fei worry about the trouble they might cause.
• Xiong Fei led the group on the Treasure Gourd to the Sacrificial Spirit’s dwelling, where elders opened a spatial passage to Broken Void City.
• The group emerged near Broken Void City and saw a pure-blooded Golden Roar racing through the mountains.
• Xiong Fei told the disciples to avoid conflicts on the way to the Hundred Broken Mountains, but said the Heaven Mending Pavilion would protect them if they were provoked.

Li Dao arrived in Broken Void City with the Heaven Mending Pavilion group to prepare for the Hundred Broken Mountains opening. While cultivating in the Little Immortal Lodge, he unexpectedly resonated with heaven and earth, awakening lotus patterns linked to the half-saint medicine in his body.

• Xiong Fei explained the ruined ancient land as the group approached Broken Void City, where Li Dao and the others drew attention from cultivators gathering for the Hundred Broken Mountains.
• Xiong Fei brought the group to the Heaven Mending Pavilion's base, where Tao Ye greeted them and Xiong Fei told them to settle into the Little Immortal Lodge before the mountains opened.
• Li Dao went to his courtyard with Black Fiend, then entered the cultivation chamber to adjust his condition and quietly sense heaven and earth.
• As Li Dao entered a state of unity with heaven and earth, the courtyard's lotus blossoms shone brightly and Black Fiend absorbed wisps of golden mist.
• Li Dao drew in moonlight, awakening the half-saint medicine's Dao aura and causing white lotus blossoms and Dao patterns to appear across his body.
• Li Dao withdrew his awareness and wondered what had caused the unexpected changes in his body.

Li Dao discovered that the White Lotus Dao aura had awakened into the White Lotus Soul-Nourishing Art, which strengthened his soul and condensed a drop of Moonlight Essence Water. After allowing Black Fiend to absorb moonlight during his cultivation, Li Dao agreed to accompany Shi Hao into Broken Void City to investigate and visit a seasoning shop.

• Li Dao realized the White Lotus and Black Fiend Lotus had activated the hidden Dao aura in his body, drawing him into Unity of Heaven and Man and giving him a way to nourish his soul with moonlight.
• Li Dao named the technique the White Lotus Soul-Nourishing Art and cultivated it through the night, strengthening his soul and body as moonlight streamed into his courtyard.
• The White Lotus condensed a drop of Moonlight Essence Water, which Li Dao stored in a Jade Bottle, while he decided to postpone testing whether the black lotus could absorb solar essence.
• Black Fiend told Li Dao that moonlight had helped its cultivation, so Li Dao invited it to absorb moonlight whenever he practiced.
• Shi Hao invited Li Dao to visit a seasoning shop in Broken Void City, and Li Dao agreed before giving Shi Hao a Storage Bag to replace his oversized pack.

Li Dao encountered the arrogant white tiger of Xiling Beast Mountain, who had turned defeated human prodigies into war slaves and challenged humanity’s other prodigies. After the tiger ordered an attack on Black Fiend, Li Dao struck back with a giant runic hand that pinned the Spirit Transformation Realm elder to the ground.

• Li Dao bought a golden ginseng from a street vendor while Shi Hao went into Red Dust Flavor to shop.
• A procession from Xiling Beast Mountain advanced through Broken Void City, carrying a traveling palace borne by eight wounded human prodigies forced to serve as war slaves.
• The white tiger inside the palace mocked humanity’s prodigies and boasted that it would make the Double Pupils One, Little Devil King, and Bear Child into war slaves.
• A bare-chested youth charged the palace with his halberd, but the white tiger killed him with a roar.
• The white tiger spotted Li Dao riding Black Fiend, called the black tiger a disgrace, and ordered a follower to kill him.
• Li Dao used the glowing “Suppress” character on his palm to manifest a giant black-and-gold hand that forced the attacking elder to his knees.

Li Dao killed Little White Tiger’s attendant and defeated the pure-blooded beast in front of a crowd of cultivators. As Li Dao raised a lightning spear to finish Little White Tiger, his guardian broke free of an elder of the Heaven Mending Pavilion and intervened.

• Li Dao crushed the old man beneath a giant palm, leaving a pool of blood in the avenue.
• Little White Tiger leaped down to avenge his attendant and attacked Li Dao with the White Tiger Slaughter Art.
• Li Dao transformed a Purple Snake into a dragon, trapped Little White Tiger, and beat him into the ground with his fists.
• Li Dao prepared to kill the injured Little White Tiger with a lightning spear, while Little White Tiger threatened him with Xiling Beast Mountain’s retaliation.
• Little White Tiger’s guardian broke free of the Heaven Mending Pavilion elder’s pressure and appeared above Li Dao, ordering him to stop.

Li Dao’s victory over Little White Tiger escalated tensions with Xiling Beast Mountain, which ordered a bloody retaliation against Heaven Mending Pavilion and Li Zizai. After several days of preparation and cultivation, the Hundred Broken Mountains opened, leaving the gathered cultivators poised to enter.

• Hu Ben confronted Li Dao over Little White Tiger’s defeat, but withdrew after Li Dao resisted his pressure and warned him about the forces behind him.
• Pure-blooded creatures discussed Li Dao, while Little White Tiger beat a war slave to death and ordered Xiling Beast Mountain to kill Heaven Mending Pavilion members and reward whoever brought him Li Zizai’s head.
• Li Dao warned Shi Hao and Xiao Tian that Xiling Beast Mountain might target them, then returned to cultivation and refined treasure medicine as his tenth cave heaven began to form.
• Rumors about Li Dao and Little White Tiger’s conflict spread through Broken Void City, where cultivators anticipated their next clash.
• A golden divine pillar pierced the clouds, and the Hundred Broken Mountains opened.

Li Dao entered the Hundred Broken Mountains with Shi Hao and the others, then encountered Qing Xiao in a forest of golden trees. Qing Xiao attacked him with a storm of swordlike feathers, and Li Dao prepared to face the assault.

• Li Dao ended his cultivation, gathered Shi Hao and the others, and led them toward the passage to the Hundred Broken Mountains.
• Before entering the passage, Li Dao told the group to help one another and meet at Treasure Division Cliff.
• Li Dao emerged in a region filled with golden trees and metallic energy, where he encountered Qing Xiao of the Spirit Race.
• Qing Xiao demanded that Li Dao become his War Slave, then attacked; Li Dao blocked his first strike and kicked him back.
• Qing Xiao summoned a blue-green sword and unleashed One Hundred and Eight Thousand Swords at Li Dao.

Li Dao killed Qing Xiao and annihilated the cultivators Qing Xiao had summoned, then discovered a hidden passage beneath Goldstone Forest. He rode Black Fiend down the blue-gold steps as the forest and its formation vanished behind them.

• Li Dao overpowered Qing Xiao, revealed he had been holding back to lure in the summoned cultivators, and killed him with a radiant punch.
• Li Dao unleashed Heaven's Cry, and the descending Thunder Dragon swallowed the arriving cultivators in a blast that left a vast crater.
• Li Dao recovered the damaged bodies and severed limbs, intending to refine spiritual energy from the Spirit Race cultivators.
• The ground sank into a bagua formation and opened a passage underground, where Li Dao spotted blue-gold steps at its center.
• Li Dao summoned Black Fiend and rode him underground as Goldstone Forest and the formation turned to dust and disappeared.

Li Dao entered Goldstone Forest, where he learned he had arrived in a different spacetime and that the gathering celebrated Azure Immortal’s ascension. He began Azure Immortal’s Dao Inquiry trials and charged at the first challenger, a projection testing physical strength.

• Li Dao and Black Fiend passed through a curtain of light and emerged in a lake in Goldstone Forest.
• Li Dao met Gong He, who explained that Goldstone Forest was Azure Immortal’s cultivation ground and led him toward the congratulatory banquet.
• Li Dao learned that Immortal Kings still existed in this spacetime and agreed to try Azure Immortal’s Dao Inquiry Platform.
• Li Dao sat on the platform and entered the first trial, where he had to defeat Azure Immortal’s projection using physical strength alone.
• Li Dao’s Daoist arts and Divine Abilities were sealed, so he relied on his body and lunged at the projection.

Li Dao rapidly defeated Azure Immortal's projection in the first two trials, impressing the spectators before entering the trial of questioning the Dao heart. As doubt drained his strength and turned his hair white, a golden Dao Seed stirred within him, leaving his fate on the Blue Stone Steps unresolved.

• Li Dao overpowered Azure Immortal's projection in combat and received a surge of light that stabilized his aura.
• Li Dao used his God King Dharma Form to shatter Azure Immortal's Immortal Gold Stone in the second trial.
• Li Dao entered the third trial and climbed the Blue Stone Steps as doubts about his Dao and purpose began to weaken him.
• Li Dao's hair turned white and his life force dwindled, alarming the spectators and Gong He.
• A golden Dao Seed within Li Dao stirred and sent a springlike wisp through his body.

Li Dao passed the Dao Inquiry Platform’s third trial and gained a time-related Divine Ability, but a vision of Azure Immortal’s death left him shaken. Back in the cavern, he found a piece of Azure Immortal’s bloodstained immortal gold and lifted it, realizing it could become his Dao-Proving Weapon.

• Li Dao crossed the trial’s far shore, restored his vitality, and transformed his Dao heart as the crowd celebrated his success.
• Li Dao joined Gong He at the banquet, where Azure Immortal arrived and a colossal palm struck the immortal realm in a vision that left Li Dao gravely wounded.
• Li Dao awoke in the cavern and learned from Black Fiend that he had passed out after crossing the curtain of light.
• Li Dao recognized the time-related Divine Ability and deduced that Azure Immortal’s remains had drawn him into a fragment of the past.
• Li Dao purified and lifted the enormous piece of azure immortal gold, deciding it could be forged into a Dao-Proving Weapon.

Li Dao decided to forge a great furnace from the immortal gold, but discovered that Dao flame could not melt it and set out to find a Fire Domain. After Black Fiend told him Heaven Mending Pavilion disciples were under attack, Li Dao rushed to their aid and stopped their attackers with his lightning spear.

• Li Dao chose to forge a great furnace using the immortal gold, but his Dao flame could not melt the material.
• Li Dao stored the immortal gold and divine iron, left the mountain cave, and learned from Black Fiend that Heaven Mending Pavilion disciples were fighting nearby.
• Zisu and his allies cornered Xiao Tian and two companions, explaining that Xiling Beast Mountain had offered rewards for Heaven Mending Pavilion disciples' heads.
• As Zisu's group attacked, Li Dao's lightning spear pierced their Treasure Arts and Divine Abilities, killing several cultivators and halting the assault.
• Li Dao arrived on Black Fiend's back, and Zisu's group recognized him as the savage who had frightened Little White Tiger.

Li Dao crushed Zisu and the pursuing cultivators with the power of his ten linked Cave Heavens, then left with Xiao Tian and his companions. Zhujian and Golden Peng arrived at the devastated battlefield and set off separately to hunt Li Dao.

• Li Dao sent the attackers fleeing with his overwhelming pressure, then used All Laws Are Void to suppress them with a vast bronze hand marked with the character for "Law".
• Zisu and the cultivators near him were crushed, and Xiao Tian and his companions realized Li Dao had formed ten linked Cave Heavens.
• Li Dao checked on Xiao Tian and his companions, ordered them to clear the battlefield, and departed with them after they collected the spoils.
• Zhujian and Golden Peng arrived at the flattened battlefield, recognized Li Dao's lingering aura, and argued over who would claim him as prey.
• Golden Peng and Zhujian each left to search for Li Dao, while the cultivators watching from the outskirts began moving in.

Li Dao reached the Undying Volcano to forge his Dao artifact, braving its scorching magma in search of a powerful flame. Deep beneath the volcano, he discovered an altar.

• Shi Hao heard that Daoist Black Tiger had caused a stir and told the big red bird that he and Li Dao were friends, warning him away with a story about chicken soup.
• Li Dao and his companions reached the Undying Volcano, where he told Xiao Tian and the others to cultivate in a cave while he forged his weapon.
• Li Dao climbed the volcano and shattered a wave of heat with a finger strike before reaching the summit.
• Protected by the Black-and-Yellow Furnace, Li Dao entered the magma and traveled deeper toward the fierce flame he had sensed.
• Li Dao cleared away the heat and spatial distortion around the flame and discovered an altar.

Li Dao used the Dao Flame and solar essence qi to forge the azure-gold divine iron, while Xiao Tian and the others waited below the mountain. Yun Xi reached the magma altar and found Li Dao at work, transfixed by his divine furnace.

• Li Dao activated the nine-tiered altar and used its Dao Flame to heat the azure-gold divine iron.
• Li Dao drew solar essence qi through his black Dao lotus, accelerating the divine iron’s melting as he inscribed it with runes.
• Li Dao shaped divine power into a hammer and began refining the heated iron, whose ringing reached Xiao Tian and the others below.
• Over the next two days, Xiao Tian, the others, and the tiger emerged from their cave and waited for Li Dao at the mountain’s foot.
• Yun Xi climbed the volcano seeking the Dao Flame, then plunged into the magma after hearing the hammering.
• Yun Xi spotted Li Dao forging on the altar and felt wary of the azure-gold divine furnace before him.

Li Dao forged the Divine Refining Furnace by merging the Blood Furnace’s Dao Aura with the azure-gold divine iron, then used his new treasure to claim the Dao Flame. Yun Xi challenged his ownership but was left watching as he captured it.

• Li Dao forged blood-colored runes into the divine furnace while Yun Xi retreated from the Sacrificial Altar to avoid the Thunder Dragon’s warning.
• Li Dao opened all Ten Cave Heavens and continued forging until the furnace’s Dao Auras fused, then named the completed treasure the Divine Refining Furnace.
• Yun Xi introduced herself as a member of the Celestial Clan and said she had come for the Dao Flame.
• Li Dao insisted the Dao Flame belonged to him, and Yun Xi challenged him to prove it.
• Li Dao activated the Divine Refining Furnace and drew the Dao Flame inside, choosing to preserve it rather than refine it.

Li Dao took the Dao Flame from Yun Xi, reunited with Xiao Tian and the others, and led them toward the Treasure-Splitting Cliff. There, Little White Tiger gathered allies and used Liu Ze as bait to lure Li Zizai into a confrontation.

• Li Dao let Yun Xi leave with her treasures, stored the Divine Refining Furnace in his Cave Heaven, and returned to Xiao Tian and his companions.
• Li Dao led Xiao Tian and the others toward the Treasure-Splitting Cliff on Black Fiend, where they expected to meet the other treasure seekers.
• Su Yu handed Liu Ze, a captured Heaven Mending Pavilion disciple, over to Little White Tiger and told him that Li Zizai would gather at the Treasure-Splitting Cliff.
• Little White Tiger paid Su Yu and invited his group to join an attack on Li Zizai; after a red-haired man urged them to go, Su Yu agreed.
• Little White Tiger pierced Liu Ze's shoulders with a whip and suspended him as bait while he waited for Li Zizai.
• Shi Hao and Huo Ling'er headed toward the Treasure-Splitting Cliff, and Little White Tiger spread word about what awaited there.

Li Dao prepared to confront Little White Tiger at Treasure-Splitting Cliff and arranged for Xiao Tian to rescue Liu Ze while he drew the enemy’s attention. As thousands of cultivators and powerful factions gathered, Shi Hao vowed to face them and devour his opponents.

• Cultivators flocked to Treasure-Splitting Cliff after Little White Tiger announced a duel with Li Zizai and revealed that he held a Heaven Mending Pavilion disciple captive.
• Li Dao told Xiao Tian to lead the other disciples aside and wait for a chance to rescue Liu Ze while he confronted Little White Tiger.
• Shi Hao and Huo Ling'er watched the gathering from concealment, and Huo Ling'er refused to leave because the conflict targeted the Heaven Mending Pavilion.
• Little White Tiger arrived with Golden Peng, other allies, Ancient Nation scions, Xiling Beast Mountain disciples, and thousands of spectators.
• Shi Hao eyed the Pure-Blooded Creatures in the approaching crowd and declared that he would devour them all.

Shi Hao confronted Little White Tiger over Liu Ze’s torture and fought Golden Peng at Treasure-Splitting Cliff. As the battle raged, Li Dao watched from afar and prepared to act.

• Little White Tiger displayed the dying Liu Ze and taunted Heaven Mending Pavilion, demanding that Li Zizai come out.
• Seeing Liu Ze’s condition, Shi Hao flew in and insulted Little White Tiger, provoking his fury.
• Little White Tiger threatened to make Shi Hao his War Slave, but Shi Hao answered with a threat of his own.
• Golden Peng charged Shi Hao and attacked with Cross Slash Break, and Shi Hao met him with Ghost Grandpa’s Broken Sword.
• Shi Hao and Golden Peng fought in midair, with Shi Hao gaining the upper hand as onlookers watched in shock.
• A hundred li away, Li Dao observed the battle and Liu Ze, saying the gathered forces had delivered themselves to him.