Arc 13The Desolate Ancient Era

Li Qingyue refined her arts, defeated Longevity Heavenly Venerable’s incarnation, and later unleashed a catastrophe while forging the Ghost Face Mask. As Annihilation Heavenly Venerable returned and threatened the Big Dipper, Li Qingyue broke her Immortal Cocoon and confronted his Evil Thought.

  • Li Qingyue awakened the Bronze Immortal Palace, received the Ageless Divine Spring, and drove back the Forbidden Zone Supremes after they devastated the Big Dipper Star Domain.
  • Li Qingyue survived the Supremes’ attacks, severed the Dao by fusing her Emperor Arts, and sealed Longevity Heavenly Venerable’s incarnation inside the Bronze Immortal Palace.
  • Li Qingyue cultivated at Azure Mountain, then traveled with Ling Muxi to the Jiuli and gave them the Three Thousand Worlds art while studying their weapon-forging methods.
  • Li Qingyue and Ling Muxi entered an illusory world to inspire her forging, and Li Qingyue shaped her obsessions into a Ghost Face Mask that unleashed a deadly demonic will.
  • Ling Muxi reached the mask and awakened Li Qingyue with their shared memories, but Li Qingyue preserved her dying friend as a Desolate Slave while the Desolate Ancient Era began.
  • Li Qingyue entered the Immortal Transformation Pool as Annihilation Heavenly Venerable emerged from the Divine Embryo and began killing Saints and enslaving the Big Dipper’s people.
  • Dizang, Tianxuan Saint Son, and other defenders fought Annihilation’s Evil Thought, but the Hero of Humanity died and the Heavenly Blade overwhelmed them.
  • Li Qingyue rejected sacrificing lives to complete her Three Thousand Worlds, shattered her Immortal Cocoon, destroyed the Heavenly Blade, and appeared before Dizang and Tianxuan Saint Son.
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Ch. 317The Emperor Art God-Crossing, Immortal King Nine Seals

The Starry Sky Ancient Road opened, and Yang Wuzheng and other prodigies departed as Li Qingyue awakened her God-Crossing Art through her obsessions across time. When the Bronze Immortal Palace emerged and revealed the Immortal King Nine Seals, Li Qingyue recognized its inheritance but wondered about its connection to the Chaos Immortal Body.

  • The Five-Colored Altar opened the Star Gate, and numerous cultivators, including Yang Wuzheng, entered the Starry Sky Ancient Road while Fairy Lingwei followed him.
  • Li Qingyue returned to her childhood memories, then to her previous-life family and visions of the Immortal Ancient Era, before awakening on the green mountain with her Primordial Spirit strengthened.
  • Li Qingyue realized that the God-Crossing Art had transformed into an Emperor Art, letting her obsessions imprint themselves across time and draw power from the past and future.
  • The Bronze Immortal Palace emerged in the Eastern Wasteland, and Ling Muxi appeared within its vision, surrounded by Chaos Immortal Light and an immortal spring.
  • Longevity Heavenly Venerable and other cultivators sought the palace, but intruders were killed as an illusory figure revealed the Immortal King Nine Seals.
  • Li Qingyue recognized the palace's inheritance and the Desolate Heaven Emperor's handprint, then questioned the connection between the Bronze Immortal Palace and the Chaos Immortal Body.

Ch. 318So it was you!

Li Qingyue watched the Bronze Immortal Palace awaken around Ling Muxi and realized it held an Immortal King’s inheritance, while nine Forbidden Zone Supremes’ incarnations were sealed and refined by its power. As ancient powers gathered with Emperor Weapons to attack, Li Qingyue arrived to protect the girl, and the Immortal Shadow recognized her, saying, “So... it was you!”

  • Li Qingyue watched the Bronze Immortal Palace’s Divine Spring manifest the Immortal King Nine Seals as Ling Muxi received its inheritance.
  • Nine incarnations from the Life Forbidden Zones entered the palace, where its nine vessel-forms sealed and refined them into the Divine Spring.
  • Li Qingyue glimpsed the palace’s origin as the remains of a supreme expert who had sealed an Immortal King, and suspected its spring had been formed by refining him.
  • The Feathered Divine Dynasty, the Assassin Divine Dynasty, and the Primordial Imperial Clans gathered with nine Ancient Emperor Weapons, while Longevity Heavenly Venerable raised the Longevity Sword to attack the palace.
  • Li Qingyue left her grave and arrived before the Bronze Immortal Palace, causing its Immortal Shadow to awaken and recognize her.

Ch. 319The hope of the Immortal Ancient Era

Li Qingyue awakened the Bronze Immortal Palace’s lingering will, which recognized her as the hope of the Immortal Ancient Era and revealed itself as the God-Striking Stone. After its will faded, the Forbidden Zones attacked for the divine spring, and Li Qingyue stood against them with the palace as the chapter ended.

  • The Bronze Immortal Palace’s lingering will recognized Li Qingyue’s mysterious aura and wondered how someone from a later age could have influenced the Immortal Ancient Era.
  • The lingering will passed the Immortal King Nine Seals inheritance to Ling Muxi, revealed itself as the God-Striking Stone, and gave Li Qingyue the Ageless Divine Spring and its remains before fading away.
  • The Ancient Emperor Weapons, Forbidden Zone beings, and other cultivators attacked the Bronze Immortal Palace and Ling Muxi to seize the divine spring and inheritance.
  • Their battle devastated the Big Dipper Star Domain, killing countless living beings and provoking Li Qingyue’s anger.
  • Li Qingyue used the God-Striking Art to control the Bronze Immortal Palace and drive back the attackers, while the Ancient Emperors and Supremes threatened her with the power of the Forbidden Zones.
  • Li Qingyue declared that she would face every Forbidden Zone and prepared to suppress them all.

Ch. 320Alone Against the Supremes!

Li Qingyue faced the combined assault of Supremes from several forbidden zones, using the Bronze Immortal Palace and her arts to survive their attacks. After grasping the Immortal King Nine Seals and activating the palace’s defenses, she entered enlightenment while the Supremes resolved to kill her.

  • Li Qingyue challenged the forbidden-zone Supremes, who manifested their wills through nine Ancient Emperor Weapons and the Yuhua Divine Tower to attack her.
  • The Emperor Weapons shattered Li Qingyue’s body, but she revived through the Self-Slaying Dao-Illuminating Art and struck back with the Bronze Immortal Palace’s God-Striking power.
  • Li Qingyue used the Ten Fiends Treasure Art to unleash a primordial-spirit attack that sent the Emperor Weapons flying and wounded their manifested wills.
  • As the Supremes attacked again, Li Qingyue manifested divine artifacts with her flying immortal light and comprehended the Immortal King Nine Seals, allowing the Bronze Immortal Palace to withstand their strike.
  • The Supremes agreed that they had to kill Li Qingyue, while she entered enlightenment and considered using the Immortal King Nine Seals to advance her Nine Secret Arts or sever the Dao.

Ch. 321Peerless Emperor Art: One Thought Blooms

The Supremes unleashed their Emperor Weapons against Li Qingyue, whose Bronze Immortal Palace could not prevent her body from being destroyed. She revived through a newly revealed art and began manifesting thousands of powerful selves across past, present, and future, leaving her foes stunned as they prepared to attack again.

  • The Supremes attacked Li Qingyue with seven Ancient Emperor Weapons and the Yuhua Divine Tower, shaking realms and destroying lives across the starry sky.
  • Dizang helped suppress the Immortal Burial Ground’s forces and urged the Tianxuan Saint Son to take the Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon to aid Li Qingyue.
  • Yang Wuzheng sensed Li Qingyue’s crisis and headed toward the Human Race Tenth City to grow stronger, while Ling Muxi followed him.
  • Ling Muxi moved toward the Divine Spring after a voice told her it was the Bronze Immortal Palace’s core and could help Li Qingyue.
  • The Emperor Weapons struck the Bronze Immortal Palace and shattered Li Qingyue’s body, but her primordial spirit and blood reformed through a time-spanning Emperor Art.
  • Li Qingyue invoked the God-Crossing Art and manifested more than ten thousand selves from past and future, each possessing her strength and preparing to fight.

Ch. 322Defying Heaven to Sever the Dao

Li Qingyue refined the Bronze Immortal Palace during the Supremes’ assault, then used its power to battle Yuan Emperor and injure his incarnation. Seeking to sever the Dao by reverse-slaying the Great Dao with the Supremes’ Imperial Dao laws, she summoned her tribulation and charged toward the Ancient Emperors, leaving her fate uncertain.

  • Li Qingyue imprinted her Divine Forms of the Great Dao onto the Bronze Immortal Palace, and the Supremes’ attacks split the palace into nine sections while she vanished from sight.
  • Li Qingyue emerged after the palace fused back into one, having refined it, and drew Ling Muxi inside for protection.
  • Li Qingyue refused the Supremes’ demands for the Divine Spring and attacked Yuan Emperor with the God-Striking Art, shattering his incarnation and damaging the Origin Emperor Saber.
  • Li Qingyue unleashed ten thousand manifestations of the God-Striking Art and nearly destroyed Yuan Emperor’s divine sense, prompting him to call the other Supremes to attack.
  • Li Qingyue resolved to reverse-slay the Great Dao by advancing her secret arts together, summoned the tribulation of severing the Dao, and charged toward the Ancient Emperors under their assault.

Ch. 323Alternative Severing the Dao

Li Qingyue used the Chaos Thunder Tribulation and the incarnations of the Supremes to temper her Dao, severing Heavenly Dao diagrams and Emperor Arts to empower her nine incarnations. As the Supremes closed in on her true body, she revealed an Emperor-realm will and a fifth Emperor Art, then faced their combined attack.

  • The Supremes’ incarnations repelled the Chaos Thunder Sea, while Li Qingyue severed the Heavenly Dao and used its diagrams to increase her strength.
  • Li Qingyue created nine powerful incarnations and sent them to fight the Supremes while her true body used the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art to devour the lightning.
  • Li Qingyue severed the One Thought Blooms, Flying Immortal Art, Myriad Transformations Sacred Art, and God-Crossing Art, merging each into an incarnation to hold off the Supremes.
  • The Supremes advanced as Li Qingyue’s incarnations were shattered and reformed, while her will, nourished by the Divine Spring, rose to the Emperor realm.
  • Li Qingyue severed the Only I Am Supreme Art and entered the Divine Forbidden Domain, prompting the Supremes to attack her true body together.

Ch. 325Ten Emperor Arts United as One

Li Qingyue used the Supremes’ attacks and the Severing the Dao Heavenly Punishment to temper her arts, relying on the Divine Spring and the Desolate Heaven Emperor’s Immortal Blood to survive. As the Heavenly Dao manifested an Ancient Heavenly Court filled with a hundred Great Emperor phantoms, she sealed her ten arts together and began tempering them in an attempt to fuse them and reach the Severing the Dao Realm.

  • Nine Supremes and the Yuhua Divine Tower combined their imperial laws with the Chaos Thunder Sea to unleash a devastating strike at Li Qingyue.
  • Li Qingyue used the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art to devour the visions, heavenly punishment, and imperial laws, then drew on the Divine Spring to keep her cracking Demon Jar intact.
  • After the Supremes shattered the Demon Jar, Li Qingyue survived through her nine incarnations and used Self-Transmutation and the Desolate Heaven Emperor’s Immortal Blood to empower her remaining secret arts.
  • The Heavenly Dao manifested an Ancient Heavenly Court and a hundred Great Emperor phantoms, forcing Li Qingyue to face an immense Severing the Dao Heavenly Punishment.
  • Li Qingyue transformed her nine incarnations into Immortal Dao Divine Forms and used the Immortal King Nine Seals to seal her ten arts together inside a radiant cocoon, attempting to fuse them through the punishment.

Ch. 326Shattering Emperor Weapons Bare-Handed

Li Qingyue fused her ten Emperor Arts with nine-colored immortal gold and the Bronze Immortal Palace’s Divine Spring to survive the Heavenly Dao’s devastating tribulation and successfully Sever the Dao. Newly transformed, she attacked Longevity Heavenly Venerable’s Longevity Sword with her bare hand, apparently targeting him because she sensed his will was connected to the young girl taken into the Immortal Palace.

  • Li Qingyue used the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art to face the Heavenly Dao’s tribulation, which unleashed the power of countless Ancient Emperors, Supremes, and the Myriad Daos of the Heavens.
  • She split her will and body into ten Divine Forms and charged into the Heavenly Court Sea of Lightning, where the forms were shattered beneath its force.
  • Li Qingyue’s nine-colored immortal gold formed a cocoon around her, while the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art consumed the tribulation and the Divine Spring strengthened her transformation.
  • Within the cocoon, Li Qingyue gained insight into how the ten Emperor Arts were aspects of one Dao, rejected merging with the Immortal Seed to attain Dao integration, and emerged having successfully Severed the Dao.
  • Li Qingyue struck Longevity Heavenly Venerable’s Longevity Sword with her bare hand, knocked it flying, and attacked it again while telling him she simply disliked the look of it.

Ch. 327Peerless Emperor Art: Self-Slaying to Illuminate the Dao

Li Qingyue fought Longevity Heavenly Venerable’s incarnation, revealing a self-restoring Emperor Art that linked to the Immortal Ancient Era. After she exposed his scheme involving the Bronze Immortal Palace and Ling Muxi, she vowed to destroy his strand of divine sense.

  • Longevity Heavenly Venerable awakened the Longevity Sword and unleashed a devastating strike, which Li Qingyue blocked with a halberd condensed from her fused Emperor Arts.
  • Li Qingyue and Longevity Heavenly Venerable struck each other down, but she restored herself through a ring-shaped Space-Time River and a newly revealed Emperor Art.
  • Li Qingyue used her Emperor Art to freeze time and destroy Longevity Heavenly Venerable’s incarnation, freeing Ling Muxi from his control.
  • Li Qingyue identified Longevity Heavenly Venerable as the one behind the Bronze Immortal Palace scheme, and an Ancient Emperor explained how he had used the Divine Spirit Indestructible Scripture to control others.
  • Longevity Heavenly Venerable admitted his scheme without fear, and Li Qingyue vowed to crush and kill his strand of divine sense.

Ch. 328The might of an Immortal Artifact

Li Qingyue used the Bronze Immortal Palace to seal Longevity Heavenly Venerable’s incarnation and drive the other Supremes and Ancient Emperors away, though they remained interested in the artifact. She hid the palace, then returned to her brother’s grave and resolved to master the remaining Secret Arts and reach the pinnacle of the world.

  • Longevity Heavenly Venerable attacked Li Qingyue with the Longevity Sword, but she unleashed the Bronze Immortal Palace’s Nine Seals and confined him.
  • Li Qingyue merged the palace’s nine divine forms and sealed Longevity Heavenly Venerable’s incarnation inside the artifact, where his power began to fade.
  • The Great Accomplishment Sacred Body’s aura erupted from the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land, deterring the Supremes and Ancient Emperors and prompting most of them to withdraw.
  • Li Qingyue concealed the Bronze Immortal Palace beneath the earth as Saints and Kings rushed toward the Divine Spring, and Ling Muxi followed her.
  • Li Qingyue returned to her brother’s grave and resolved to develop her remaining three Secret Arts into Emperor Arts before pursuing the pinnacle of the world.

Ch. 329A Single Lotus Through the Eternal Blue Heavens

At Azure Mountain, Li Qingyue left her primordial spirit dispersed among her Three Thousand Worlds to study formations and accompany the people she remembered. Ling Muxi found her apparently lifeless and carried her to the Jiuli tribe for help, where news of the Immortal Transformation Pool and its Undying Lotus gave her a possible way to save Li Qingyue.

  • Li Qingyue transformed Azure Mountain with stellar fragments and Three Thousand Worlds, then dispersed her primordial spirit through the obsession worlds to cultivate and revisit her memories.
  • Three months later, Ling Muxi found Li Qingyue beside the grave and, believing her to be near death, carried her toward the Southern Ridge.
  • After more than four months of exhausting travel, Ling Muxi reached Mountain Village and collapsed before Uncle Chi, asking him to save Li Qingyue.
  • Ling Muxi concealed Li Qingyue's identity and asked whether the Jiuli Lord of War could help her.
  • Uncle Chi told Ling Muxi that the Immortal Transformation Pool was about to emerge in Qinling and that its Undying Lotus might save Li Qingyue.

Ch. 330War Master Chiyou

Li Qingyue emerged from nearly two years of cultivation after comprehending the Desolate Heaven Emperor’s formation esoteric meaning, while the Immortal Transformation Pool’s appearance drew powerful experts out of seclusion. In the Jiuli village, War Master Chiyou’s Divine Body matured, and the Jiuli recognized Li Qingyue as the Swallow Heaven Fairy and offered to share their weapon-forging legacy.

  • As the Immortal Transformation Pool appeared in Central Province, Li Qingyue left a message for Ling Muxi and focused on cultivation while experts across the Big Dipper emerged from seclusion.
  • A year later, visions and showers of light gathered around Li Qingyue’s stone house as War Master Chiyou’s Jiuli War Master Divine Body reached full maturity.
  • Li Qingyue awakened after comprehending the formation esoteric meaning and agreed to let Ling Muxi call her Sister Qingyue.
  • Ling Muxi introduced Li Qingyue to her family, and the Jiuli recognized her as the Swallow Heaven Fairy who had helped save them from the Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable.
  • War Master Chiyou thanked Li Qingyue and offered to teach her the Jiuli Weapon Forging Method, which she recognized as a potentially valuable legacy.

Ch. 331The Way of Forging Weapons

Li Qingyue learned the Jiuli’s weapon-forging doctrines and realized that her Flying Immortal Divine Fetus already embodied the principle of uniting many paths into one. After receiving the Jiuli inheritance, she gave War Master Chiyou and the Jiuli her Three Thousand Worlds art, leaving them with a potential foundational inheritance for their people.

  • Li Qingyue recognized that her cultivation had unknowingly followed the principle of One Weapon Breaks Ten Thousand Techniques through the Flying Immortal Divine Fetus.
  • War Master Chiyou invited Li Qingyue and Ling Muxi to the Divine Mountain and explained the three major weapon-forging methods.
  • Li Qingyue studied the Jiuli’s artifact-forging inheritance and understood how its methods converged with her own path of merging nine arts.
  • Li Qingyue demonstrated her Three Thousand Worlds art and inscribed it on the cave’s jade wall for all members of the Jiuli to cultivate.
  • War Master Chiyou and Ling Muxi realized that Three Thousand Worlds could become a supreme inheritance capable of elevating the Jiuli into a power rivaling a Holy Land.

Ch. 333Enacting the Emperor Art Again, Reincarnation Lake!

Li Qingyue left the Jiuli a powerful legacy and tried to perfect her Stars-into-Weapons Art, but her overwhelming demon will made the forging collapse. Ling Muxi used jade made from Reincarnation Lake water to draw them into an illusory new life, hoping Li Qingyue could find a happy memory and overcome the obstacle.

  • War Master Chiyou realized Li Qingyue had given the Jiuli an invaluable art, and he resolved that the tribe would accept the kindness and bear its consequences.
  • Li Qingyue gathered countless techniques and extrapolated the Stars-into-Weapons Art, trying to forge its myriad figures into a single origin.
  • After a month, the merged figure exploded, and War Master Chiyou protected the Divine Mountain from the destructive shockwave.
  • Ling Muxi learned that Li Qingyue's demon will had overwhelmed the weapon-forging method, while Li Qingyue admitted she could think of no happy memories to dispel it.
  • Ling Muxi produced jade refined from Reincarnation Lake water and joined hands with Li Qingyue to enter an illusory reincarnation world as War Master Chiyou guarded them.

Ch. 334Ghost Face Mask

Li Qingyue experienced Ling Muxi’s peaceful village life in a reincarnation dream, then used the power and memories she had studied to forge a new path with her Ghost Face Mask. As her past and obsessions fused into the mask, it began transforming into a Peerless King’s Weapon.

  • Li Qingyue retained her adult will while living ten years in Ling Muxi’s childhood dream, and the two grew close in the peaceful village.
  • When the dream collapsed, Ling Muxi grieved for the loved ones who had vanished, while Li Qingyue said the experience had given her inspiration.
  • Li Qingyue opened an illusory Obsession World and sent her Ghost Face Mask into it, drawing on her memories, pain, hatred, and resolve.
  • The Obsession World revealed Li Qingyue’s brutal past, leaving Ling Muxi heartbroken and War Master Chiyou awed by her endurance.
  • Li Qingyue’s obsessions and memories converged within the Ghost Face Mask, which radiated the aura of a Peerless King’s Weapon and revealed the fluctuations of an Emperor Art.

Ch. 336A World-Shaking Change

Li Qingyue’s attempt to forge the Ghost Face Mask and deduce an unsurpassed secret art was twisted by the Longevity Heavenly Venerable’s imprint within Ling Muxi’s scripture, unleashing a world-threatening demon will. As memories of her friends, Yang Wuzheng, and her brother appeared, Li Qingyue broke into despair and her power alarmed the entire Big Dipper.

  • War Master Chiyou warned Ling Muxi that Li Qingyue’s obsession-forged artifact might influence her mind, while Ling Muxi felt the restraint on her Divine Spirit Indestructible Scripture loosen.
  • The Ghost Face Mask revealed a future in which Li Qingyue’s friends were killed, and her demon will transformed the surroundings into destructive demon puppets.
  • Ling Muxi realized the Longevity Heavenly Venerable’s imprint in her scripture had influenced Li Qingyue and blamed herself for harming her sister.
  • The Obsession World showed Yang Wuzheng’s death and then Li Qingyue’s brother dying after asking others to protect his little sister, driving Li Qingyue into despair.
  • The Demon Race Red Dragon Demon Saint, the Barbarian Race War God, War Master Chiyou, and Ling Muxi tried to contain Li Qingyue’s rising power but could not approach her.
  • Li Qingyue’s demon will and killing intent replaced the world’s laws, and people across the Big Dipper sensed the calamity and looked toward the Southern Ridge.

Ch. 337The Desolate Ancient Era Descended

Li Qingyue’s despair unleashed her Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art, creating a chaos black hole that devoured the world and triggered the descent of Desolate Antiquity. Ling Muxi’s desperate attempt to reach her helped awaken Li Qingyue, who stopped the black hole and used the Stars-into-Weapons Art to preserve Ling Muxi as a Desolate Slave.

  • Li Qingyue’s demonic will surged as she believed her loved ones were dead, and she transformed into a chaos black hole that devoured all things.
  • The Demon Saint, the Barbarian Race’s War God, and War Master Chiyou ordered everyone to retreat as the black hole destroyed Jiuli Divine Mountain and continued to expand.
  • The heaven and earth will awakened, making the Great Dao remote and cultivation more difficult as Supremes declared that the Desolate Antiquity era had begun.
  • Ling Muxi charged into the black hole, endured its destruction with the Nine Secrets: Zhe, and used the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art’s aura to reach the Ghost Face Mask.
  • Ling Muxi tried to awaken Li Qingyue by imprinting their ten years of memories on the mask, and her fading life stirred Li Qingyue back to consciousness.
  • Li Qingyue contracted the black hole, then marked the nearly dead Ling Muxi with the Stars-into-Weapons Art and froze her life as a Desolate Slave.

Ch. 338The Immortal Transformation Pool Emerges

Li Qingyue forged the Ghost Face Mask’s Desolate mark to preserve Ling Muxi’s last thread of life, then learned that the Immortal Transformation Pool might hold the medicine needed to save her. After months of waiting and studying the Pool’s visions, she witnessed it emerge above Qinling, with a Chaos Green Lotus at its center.

  • Li Qingyue realized the Ghost Face Mask’s Desolate mark could suppress time and preserve Ling Muxi’s fading life, while the Great Dao’s changes ushered in the barren Desolate Ancient Era.
  • The Demon Saint, the Old War God, and War Master Chiyou arrived; War Master Chiyou suggested the Green Lotus Immortal Medicine in the Immortal Transformation Pool might save Ling Muxi.
  • Li Qingyue agreed to enter the Immortal Transformation Pool with War Master Chiyou and the two Saints, then carried Ling Muxi back to the ruined village as the Jiuli villagers returned.
  • A month later, a vision over Qinling revealed the Immortal Transformation Pool’s immense dragon qi, and Li Qingyue considered its mysteries while continuing to deduce the Three Thousand Worlds Secret Art.
  • Ling Muxi briefly awoke and told Li Qingyue not to risk herself, describing her dream of the two of them together; she soon fell asleep again.
  • Months later, the Immortal Transformation Pool descended into Qinling’s dragon veins, revealing a Chaos Green Lotus, and everyone realized that it had emerged.

Ch. 339Immortal transformation? Swallowing heaven?

The Immortal Transformation Pool manifested atop the Heaven-Piercing Divine Mountain, drawing countless powerful cultivators who uncovered visions and ancient Dao marks along its nine paths. After two Saints and a trace of the Carefree Heavenly Venerate's Dao melted into the pool, Li Qingyue sensed an ominous stirring and set out to investigate it.

  • The Immortal Transformation Pool and the Heaven-Piercing Divine Mountain appeared, revealing visions of immortals and mysteries resembling the Nine Secret Techniques.
  • Countless cultivators discovered nine Immortal-Passing Roads and Dao marks associated with the Carefree Heavenly Venerate.
  • Two Saints fought over the ancient road, fell beyond it, and melted into luminous motes that flowed into the Immortal Transformation Pool along with the Carefree Heavenly Venerate's Dao mark.
  • The gathered Saints speculated that the pool's power resembled the Swallow Heaven Demoness's Demonic Art, while Li Qingyue watched from afar with her companions.
  • Li Qingyue felt strange fluctuations from the Desolate Heaven Emperor's Immortal Blood, put away Ling Muxi's sleeping body, and decided to approach the pool.

Ch. 340It Was Him!

Li Qingyue opened a portal to the Immortal Transformation Pool, withstood its immortal laws, and discovered a vision of an Immortal who had discarded her power to return somewhere. As Saints raced for the reborn Chaos Green Lotus, Emperor Weapon Fragments killed those who entered the pool, and a strange stone statue appeared in the whirlpool.

  • Li Qingyue opened a portal across the vast distance to the Divine Mountain, stunning the Saints with Dao patterns they could not comprehend.
  • Li Qingyue arrived at the Immortal Transformation Pool and used her Great Dao Treasure Bottle to swallow its power, then saw a vision of a peerless Immortal severing her immortal power to return to someone or somewhere.
  • The Immortal Transformation Pool’s laws settled beneath Li Qingyue’s feet, and she approached the pool as the Saints hurried after her in search of the Chaos Green Lotus and Emperor Weapon Fragments.
  • More than a dozen Saints rushed into the pool to seize the Undying Lotus, but revived Emperor Weapon Fragments pierced and killed them before returning beneath the water.
  • A whirlpool revealed a stone statue Divine Embryo with one eye shut and the other glaring; the onlookers recognized its face and cried, “It’s him!”

Ch. 341Annihilation Heavenly Venerable

The Saints identified the awakening Divine Embryo in the Immortal Transformation Pool as Annihilation Heavenly Venerable’s evil thought, which was breaking free of its seal and draining life across the stars. As the threat grew beyond their power, they begged Li Qingyue, the Swallow Heaven Fairy, to subdue it.

  • The Divine Embryo’s uncanny nirvana aura enthralled the Saints and killed more than a dozen of them, prompting the survivors to flee.
  • The Saints recognized the Divine Embryo as Annihilation Heavenly Venerable, and an aged hero revealed that the Buddha Emperor might have been the Heavenly Venerable’s severed benevolent thought.
  • The stone shell cracked further as the Immortal Transformation Pool shook, while Longevity Heavenly Venerable and Carefree Heavenly Venerate sensed Annihilation’s return.
  • Dizang set out from the Immortal Burial Ground to confront the demon, and the Tianxuan Saint Son joined him with the Tianxuan Treasure Seal.
  • Annihilation’s aura spread across the stars, drawing powerful beings toward Big Dipper as the Saints realized they could not stop him.
  • The aged Emperor Road hero bowed to Li Qingyue and asked her to save the world, and the other Saints joined him in pleading for her aid.

Ch. 342Law Enlightenment! Emergence!

Li Qingyue drew upon the Immortal Transformation Pool’s laws to advance her Three Thousand Worlds art while the Stone Statue Divine Embryo broke free and awakened as Nirvana. The chapter ended with Nirvana slaughtering Saints and announcing his return as he headed for the Myriad Heavens and Domains.

  • Li Qingyue connected her Three Thousand Worlds art to the immortal imprint in the Immortal Transformation Pool, summoning a phantom that demonstrated how to create and destroy worlds.
  • Li Qingyue drew on the pool’s immortal power, enveloping herself in an Immortal Cocoon as she tried to break through the limits of her cultivation.
  • With the pool’s suppression weakened, the Stone Statue Divine Embryo absorbed nearby life essence, shed its stone shell, and unleashed the Nirvana Heavenly Art.
  • Nirvana’s power seized Saints’ divine weapons and obsessions, killing several Saints and drawing their blood essence into the divine embryo.
  • Nirvana emerged from the shattered statue, killed more Saints with a glance, and charged toward the Myriad Heavens and Domains, declaring that he had returned.

Ch. 343Astonishing the Buddha Emperor

Annihilation Heavenly Venerable’s evil thought unleashed the Nirvana Dao, sacrificing countless beings and threatening to merge with its Great Dao. Buddha Emperor’s Buddhist legacy and the Demon-Subduing Pestle helped repel him, leaving the young monk and Tianxuan Saint Son facing the furious Annihilation as Li Qingyue’s aura stirred inside the Immortal Cocoon.

  • Annihilation Heavenly Venerable’s voice enslaved living beings across the Big Dipper, causing mass sacrifices and slaughter that fed his growing power.
  • Annihilation stirred Flying Immortal Star, where Emperor Venerable had sealed his true self, and sought to regain power by merging with the Nirvana Dao.
  • Buddha Emperor’s Six-Character Mantra and Buddhist light freed those under the Nirvana Dao and manifested his vast Dharma Form.
  • The young monk and Tianxuan Saint Son joined forces with the Demon-Subduing Pestle and Tianxuan Treasure Seal to shatter Annihilation’s Nirvana Heavenly Blade.
  • Annihilation’s evil thought re-formed beside the Immortal Transformation Pool and threatened the young monk and Tianxuan Saint Son, while the Demon Race Ancient Saint, Barbarian Race Ancient War God, and War Master Chiyou guarded Li Qingyue’s Immortal Cocoon.

Ch. 344The Method of Perfection

Li Qingyue emerged from the Immortal Cocoon after the Annihilation Heavenly Venerable's Evil Thought overwhelmed Big Dipper and threatened her friends. She destroyed its Heavenly Blade with the Immortal Transformation Pool's laws and confronted the Evil Thought.

  • The Annihilation Heavenly Venerable's Evil Thought awakened and controlled the Tianxuan Treasure Seal and Demon-Subduing Pestle, spreading its demonic influence across Big Dipper.
  • Dizang's Six-Character Mantra restored the Emperor Weapons to Dizang and Tianxuan Saint Son, but the Evil Thought soon seized them again and attacked with a pitch-black Heavenly Blade.
  • Dizang and Tianxuan Saint Son joined forces against the blade, while the Hero of Humanity and dozens of Saints joined the fight; the Hero of Humanity died after landing a strike on the Evil Thought.
  • The Heavenly Blade overwhelmed the defenders, leaving Dizang and Tianxuan Saint Son expecting death as Li Qingyue sensed the suffering across Big Dipper.
  • Li Qingyue rejected using the lives of living beings to complete her Three Thousand Worlds, shattered the Immortal Cocoon, and used the Immortal Transformation Pool's laws to destroy the Heavenly Blade.
  • Li Qingyue appeared before Tianxuan Saint Son and Dizang and declared that the Evil Thought should never have harmed her friends.
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