Chapter Summaries

Shi Hao defeated Golden Peng, but Su Yu and a host of powerful fighters moved to attack him and Huo Ling'er’s group. Just as the Heaven Mending Pavilion party faced overwhelming odds, Li Zizai arrived, leaving Su Yu and the others wary and Little White Tiger consumed by hatred.

• Shi Hao used the Broken Sword to sever Golden Peng’s wing and knock him into the ground.
• Su Yu intervened to protect Golden Peng, then joined the other scions in confronting Shi Hao.
• Huo Ling'er arrived with Nine-Headed Lion and the others and declared she would fight alongside Shi Hao.
• Little White Tiger ordered the attackers to capture Shi Hao’s group and force Li Zizai to appear.
• Li Dao arrived with ten Cave Heavens and the Black Tiger, prompting Little White Tiger to call him Li Zizai and Su Yu to recognize his terrifying might.

Li Dao arrived at the Treasure-Splitting Cliff and faced thousands of cultivators Little White Tiger had rallied to kill him. He froze the attackers with his divine power and Divine Refining Furnace, absorbed most of them, and left the survivors screaming inside the furnace.

• Li Dao appeared behind Little White Tiger, who called on the Western Tomb Longevity Mountain cultivators and paid recruits to attack him for a half-saint medicine.
• Thousands of cultivators charged Li Dao with treasure arts and divine abilities, while Shi Hao and the others watched anxiously.
• Li Dao pressed down with his palm and froze the attackers and their attacks in midair.
• Li Dao summoned the Divine Refining Furnace, whose time-stopping ripples and suction drew the cultivators inside.
• The few who resisted by burning their blood essence were cut down by the furnace's ripples, while those trapped inside cried out for release.

Li Dao exposed Little White Tiger’s failed attempt to use Liu Ze as a hostage, while Xiao Tian and the others rescued Liu Ze and Shi Hao’s group engaged Su Yu’s forces. Li Dao then confronted Little White Tiger and his guardian, whose sealed power began to break free beneath a darkening sky.

• Li Dao inspected the divine furnace and found that it had refined thousands of cultivators into a pool of divine liquid.
• Little White Tiger tried to force Li Dao to surrender by threatening Liu Ze, but Li Dao revealed that Xiao Tian and the others had already rescued him.
• Little White Tiger ordered Su Yu and the Xiling Beast Mountain disciples to attack, and Shi Hao, Big Red, and Huo Ling’er stepped forward to fight them.
• Li Dao told Little White Tiger to prepare to lose his head and summoned a lightning spear and a Thunder Dragon.
• Little White Tiger’s guardian sensed a deadly threat, shattered the restrictions on his body, and began releasing his power as the sky darkened.

Li Dao killed the Sealer, then used the Sealer’s corpse to draw the Order Divine Chains and heavenly thunder onto his Divine Refining Furnace, tempering it with their power. He pursued and killed Little White Tiger with the immortal technique Eons Fleeting, then collected the corpse and headed back.

• Li Dao killed the Sealer with a single spear thrust after the Sealer advanced to late-stage Spirit Transformation.
• The Sealer’s removal of his own seal summoned the Order Divine Chains, but they stopped before Li Dao.
• Li Dao put the Sealer’s corpse in the Divine Refining Furnace and sent it into the heavenly thunder to temper it with the chains’ power.
• Little White Tiger fled after witnessing his guardian’s death, but Li Dao caught up with him.
• Li Dao used Eons Fleeting to drain Little White Tiger’s vitality and kill him, then collected his corpse and returned.

Cultivators rushed to claim the Divine Refining Furnace, but Li Dao realized his treasure was under threat and raced back to Treasure-Splitting Cliff. The ruined weapons scattered across the cliff rose into a deadly river, and a broken sword severed Chi Chen’s arm before its spiritual remnant entered the furnace.

• Chi Chen and a burly cultivator charged toward the Divine Refining Furnace, drawing other cultivators into the rush to seize it.
• Xiao Tian and Black Fiend left Liu Ze in the care of others and flew toward the furnace to protect Senior Brother Li’s treasure.
• Li Dao sensed through his blood furnace that someone had targeted his treasure and vanished toward Treasure-Splitting Cliff.
• The Divine Refining Furnace stirred the imprints in the ruined weapons scattered across the cliff, causing them to tremble and tear free of the ground.
• A broken sword cut off Chi Chen’s arm, then shattered as a streak of green light entered the Divine Refining Furnace.

Li Dao used the Divine Refining Furnace to command a river of broken weapons, killing Chi Chen and the cultivators who tried to seize it, then joined Shi Hao’s battle against Su Yu’s Group. After the fighting ended, Shi Hao introduced Li Dao to his companions, while the Broken Little Tower remarked that Li Dao had already begun forging his own path.

• Li Dao commanded the broken weapons above the Divine Refining Furnace to attack the cultivators, and Chi Chen died after a spear pierced his chest.
• The weapons crumbled into ashes as their spiritual light flowed into the Divine Refining Furnace, and Li Dao drew the furnace’s growing spirituality into his Cave Heaven.
• Shi Hao shattered Su Yu’s defenses and killed him, while Li Dao arrived and killed the woman fighting Huo Ling’er.
• The remaining enemies begged for mercy, and Shi Hao introduced Big Red, the Nine-Headed Lion, and Huo Ling'er to Li Dao.
• The Broken Little Tower told Shi Hao that Li Dao had already set foot on his own path, then fell silent under Li Dao’s gaze.

Li Dao killed the cultivators who begged him for mercy, then prepared to travel with Shi Hao’s group to the Hundred Herb Garden for the Immortal Spring. After sending Xiao Tian and the others away to care for Liu Ze, he began using the Divine Refining Furnace to merge Little White Tiger’s bloodline into Black Fiend.

• Big Red asked Li Dao how to raise his cultivation quickly, and Li Dao advised him to cultivate steadily rather than seek overnight progress.
• Li Dao killed the female cultivator and the people with her after she offered to do anything to survive.
• Shi Hao and Li Dao agreed to head to the Hundred Herb Garden for the Immortal Spring, and the group set about gathering valuable remains from the battlefield.
• Li Dao returned to Xiao Tian and the others, learned Liu Ze was out of danger, and told them to return to the Heaven Mending Pavilion once the Hundred Broken Mountains opened.
• Li Dao took Black Fiend to a valley and began using the Divine Refining Furnace to merge Little White Tiger’s bloodline into him.

Li Dao extracted the White Tiger bloodline from Little White Tiger and fused it into Black Fiend, whose body began transforming inside a golden cocoon. Meanwhile, tales of Li Dao’s deeds spread through the Hundred Broken Mountains, reaching Shi Yi, who became interested in fighting him.

• Li Dao refined Little White Tiger in the Divine Furnace while Shi Hao searched the battlefield for loot, and survivors spread stories of the massacre at Treasure-Splitting Cliff.
• Cultivators at Clearheart Lake praised and feared Black Tiger Daoist, while people near the Heavenly Bone Forbidden Land compared him with Shi Yi.
• Shi Yi heard the rumors about Black Tiger Daoist and said he wanted to test how many of his moves the man could withstand.
• Li Dao extracted the White Tiger bloodline from the Divine Furnace and gave it to Black Fiend.
• Black Fiend collapsed in agony as the bloodline merged with his own, and Li Dao used divine power to help stabilize the fusion.
• Black Fiend became encased in a golden cocoon as his power rose, while Li Dao began cultivating and manifested strange ripples that distorted time and space.

Li Dao tested the Eons Fleeting Immortal Art, then watched Black Fiend emerge from its cocoon with the Size Manipulation ability and return to a small tiger form. They rode to Solitary Peak, where Shi Hao, Xiao Tian, and the others were feasting and refining energy.

• Li Dao used Eons Fleeting to accelerate time around a mountain stream, but the ink-wash world shattered after draining much of his divine power.
• Black Fiend emerged from its cocoon as a small tiger, explained that its bloodlines had fused enough for it to speak, and demonstrated its Size Manipulation ability.
• Black Fiend said it expected to break through to the Spirit Transformation Realm after they left, then carried Li Dao toward Solitary Peak.
• Li Dao and Black Fiend reached Solitary Peak and found Shi Hao, Xiao Tian, and the others eating meat broth while Huo Ling’er and Big Firebird refined energy.

Li Dao and Shi Hao entered the Hundred Herb Garden to collect treasure medicine, while their companions searched the outskirts. After Li Dao tore up a huge slab of medicinal soil and stored it away, Shi Hao followed his example, and the two began stripping the garden as they advanced.

• Shi Hao and Xiao Tian were astonished by Li Dao and Black Fiend's strength, while the Little Pagoda told Shi Hao that Li Dao wielded the power of time and was younger than him.
• Shi Hao shared meat stew with Li Dao and Black Fiend, and Huo Ling'er and the others woke after gaining benefits from their cultivation.
• Li Dao led Shi Hao and the others toward the Hundred Herb Garden, while Xiao Tian and his companions stayed behind to cultivate.
• Li Dao told Shi Hao and himself to search the garden's central area while the others collected treasure medicine around the outskirts.
• Li Dao shattered a formation barrier, harvested treasure medicine, and tore up a huge slab of medicinal soil to store in his Star Bag.
• Shi Hao copied Li Dao, and the pair left the garden riddled with pits as they harvested its medicinal soil.

Li Dao and Shi Hao forced their way into the Hundred Herb Garden’s central area after learning that powerful heirs had already entered in search of the Immortal Spring. They left the two bull-headed guards dead and continued through the Forbidden Domain’s crushing pressure with ease.

• Shi Hao and Li Dao startled two bull-headed guards while digging up treasure medicines, then learned the guards were ordered to keep outsiders from the central area, where pure-blooded lords, holy maidens, and divine sons had entered.
• Li Dao crushed the guards with his pressure, and Shi Hao took the medicines from their baskets as compensation for their insults.
• After the pair passed, Li Dao summoned a Divine Furnace and killed both guards, saying that bull-heads had to die.
• Li Dao and Shi Hao entered the central area, gathered medicinal soil as they advanced, and endured the increasing pressure without difficulty.
• A lavishly dressed young woman watched them go and wondered how they could move so easily under the Forbidden Domain’s suppression.

Li Dao and Shi Hao reached the Immortal Spring, where they confronted Yun Xi, Zhujian, Bi Fang, and Chi Dragon. After Li Dao deflected their beastly pressure, the beasts surrounded the pair and demanded their treasures.

• Li Dao pocketed a stalk of Treasure Medicine and then traveled deeper into the Hundred Herb Garden with Shi Hao.
• Zhujian, Bi Fang, Chi Dragon, and Yun Xi gathered near the Immortal Spring, arguing as their competing auras began to crack the earth.
• Li Dao and Shi Hao arrived, and Li Dao dispersed the beasts’ pressure with his physical strength.
• Li Dao greeted Yun Xi and declared that he would subdue her as a village guardian beast; Yun Xi challenged him, pointing out that divine abilities and Daoist arts could not be used in the forbidden domain.
• Shi Hao called the beasts top-grade blood food and said he wanted one for Stone Village, prompting Bi Fang, Zhujian, and Chi Dragon to surround the pair and demand their treasures.

Li Dao and Shi Hao battled Zhujian, Yun Xi, Bi Fang, and Chi Dragon near the Immortal Spring, shocking the cultivators watching from outside the fight. Li Dao battered Zhujian and invoked a flesh divine ability, but Zhujian burned its blood essence as his giant palm descended.

• Li Dao and Shi Hao charged into battle against Zhujian, Yun Xi, Bi Fang, and Chi Dragon as shock waves kept the other cultivators from reaching the Immortal Spring.
• Li Dao blocked Zhujian's claws, evaded Yun Xi's whip, and fought Zhujian while Shi Hao engaged Bi Fang and Chi Dragon.
• Li Dao kicked Zhujian into a crater and forced Yun Xi back, impressing the watching cultivators with his strength.
• Li Dao appeared above Zhujian and summoned a giant palm covered in golden dao patterns, declaring his attack, "Suppression!"
• Zhujian burned its blood essence, grew larger than a mountain, and unleashed blood-red dao flames as Li Dao's palm descended.

Li Dao killed Zhujian and forced Yun Xi to escape through a spatial rift, then helped Shi Hao finish off Chi Dragon. After collecting the corpses, Li Dao and Shi Hao headed toward the Immortal Spring.

• Li Dao crushed Zhujian beneath his bronze palm and stored the Pure-Blooded Creature's corpse in his Star Bag.
• Yun Xi activated her damaged Void-Shattering Mirror and escaped through a spatial rift as Li Dao attacked her with blood-red swords.
• Shi Hao fought Chi Dragon while Bi Fang lay dead nearby, but Chi Dragon burned his blood essence and fled.
• Li Dao seized the fleeing Chi Dragon with a bronze hand and crushed him, then gave his corpse to Shi Hao as ingredients.
• Shi Hao collected Chi Dragon's and Bi Fang's corpses, and he and Li Dao headed toward the Immortal Spring.

Li Dao and Shi Hao captured the Immortal Spring in the Hundred Herb Garden and shared its golden liquid. After Shi Hao left to explore with Huo Ling'er, Li Dao set out with Black Fiend for the depths of the Hundred Broken Mountains to seek half-saint medicine.

• Li Dao spotted the Immortal Spring hidden beneath the riverbed sand and caught its golden dragon form.
• Li Dao drew more than a dozen drops of Immortal Spring into a jade bottle, shared the liquid with Shi Hao, and stored the bound spring.
• A strange rune-covered stone struck Shi Hao and clung to his Storage Bag, then panicked when it recognized Li Dao.
• Shi Hao chose to explore with Huo Ling'er, while Li Dao arranged to search elsewhere and meet them outside.
• Li Dao told Black Fiend to take him toward the depths of the Hundred Broken Mountains in search of half-saint medicine.

Li Dao faced a peak Spirit Transformation Realm Earth Rock Beast as it awakened beneath the Hundred Broken Mountains and attacked him. He unveiled his new Dao art, Thunder Suppression Extreme, then expanded a vast formation over the beast’s pit.

• Yu Kai led his junior brothers away from Li Dao, wary of the Black Tiger Daoist’s reputation.
• The Earth Rock Beast awakened beneath the ground, opened a fissure, and swallowed several of Yu Kai’s companions.
• Yu Kai identified the beast’s awakening as the start of the Hundred Broken Mountains’ greatest trial.
• Li Dao used Thunder Suppression Extreme to cut through the Earth Rock Beast’s attack, but the beast blocked his spear with stone pillars.
• Li Dao swept his sleeve and expanded a dao pattern into a ten-mile formation above the great pit.

Li Dao killed the Earth Rock Beast and reached Flower-Fruit Mountain, where the Divine Monkey King faced a coalition of powerful challengers seeking the Half-Saint Medicine. The chapter left the Divine Monkey King clashing with Shi Yi’s Double Pupils Divine Light.

• Li Dao summoned a giant spear and killed the Earth Rock Beast with one thrust, then collected its corpse in the Divine Refining Furnace.
• Li Dao continued through the Hundred Broken Mountains, intent on claiming the Half-Saint Medicine, and arrived near Flower-Fruit Mountain after two days and a night.
• Li Dao concealed himself as Shi Yi, a Flood Dragon, a Pu Demon Tree, and other powerful beings gathered outside Flower-Fruit Mountain.
• The Divine Monkey King confronted the intruders and threatened to defeat them all, while the Flood Dragon declared that they had united against him.
• Shi Yi attacked the Divine Monkey King with Double Pupils Divine Light, and the Monkey King met the beams with his Golden Hoop Long Spear.

Li Dao infiltrated Flower-Fruit Mountain amid the battle for its Half-Saint Medicines, drained the Monkey Wine, and used Ink Wash Bloom to seize a Silver Peach Tree. The chapter ended with him reaching for a second Half-Saint Medicine while his technique held the surrounding scene suspended.

• The Divine Monkey King attacked Flood Dragon, sending him crashing across the ground, as cultivators and Ferocious Beasts crept toward Flower-Fruit Mountain.
• Li Dao slipped into the mountain, found the Silver Peach Trees by a lake, and filled several jade jars with Monkey Wine.
• Cultivators charged for the Half-Saint Medicines, but the Monkey Soldiers confronted them and fought to defend the mountain.
• Li Dao headed toward the lake and targeted a Half-Saint Medicine while the Monkey General tried to stop him with a blow from his golden staff.
• Li Dao used Ink Wash Bloom to suspend everything around him, uprooted one Half-Saint Medicine, and reached for another.

Li Dao escaped Flower-Fruit Mountain with a Half-Saint Medicine, only to be ambushed by the Pu Demon Tree and trapped in an illusion of Golden Feather Village’s destruction. The illusion left him confronting the apparent deaths of the village’s people and Sacrificial Spirit, while Li Kai blamed him for arriving too late.

• Li Dao fled as the Divine Monkey King shattered his ink-wash world, carrying off a Half-Saint Medicine while Shi Hao and Shi Yi witnessed the aftermath.
• The exhausted Li Dao tried to replenish his strength with Treasure Medicines as he raced away from Flower-Fruit Mountain.
• The Pu Demon Tree attacked Li Dao with roots, then trapped him in an illusion after he cut through its branches with the Evil Dragon Spear.
• Li Dao saw the Golden Feather Eagle dead and Golden Feather Village devastated, with Er Ya, Kai Xin, and Da Niu lying beneath the withered pagoda tree.
• Li Kai crawled to Li Dao and accused him of arriving too late to save the village, asking why Li Dao had not died instead.

Li Dao broke free of the Pu Demon Tree’s illusion and unleashed his Heavenly Venerable Dharma Form to crush it. Severely drained and injured, he stored the tree and carried Black Fiend away before nearby cultivators arrived.

• Li Dao rejected the illusion’s deception about Grandpa Village Chief and escaped the Pu Demon Tree’s attack.
• Li Dao summoned his Heavenly Venerable Dharma Form and used its palm to destroy the Pu Demon Tree and the surrounding mountain range.
• Shi Hao, the Divine Monkey King, Shi Yi, and other cultivators witnessed Li Dao’s attack from afar.
• Li Dao found the Pu Demon Tree nearly lifeless, stored it in the Divine Refining Furnace, and picked up Black Fiend.
• Li Dao fled before the cultivators drawn by the battle could reach him.