Recaps

After touching the Xuanhuang Mother Qi, Li Qingyue used what she had learned to open three more pseudo-life springs and realized Yin-Yang was the missing principle in her cultivation. She entered enlightenment and began to understand how Yin-Yang transformations shaped both the Dao and the turns of her own life.

• Li Qingyue recalled her brief contact with the Xuanhuang Mother Qi and reproduced only a faint trace of its Dao resonance through the Flying Immortal Art.
• Li Qingyue used Dao patterns of time, space, and the world to open three more pseudo-life springs, bringing her total to eight.
• Li Qingyue realized that Yin-Yang transformations were the missing principle needed to complete the formation of her life springs.
• Li Qingyue entered enlightenment and saw the gains and losses throughout her life as transformations of Yin-Yang.
• Li Qingyue heard scripture resonate in her mind: the One gave birth to Two, through which all things underwent Yin-Yang transformations.

Li Qingyue transformed her laws into the devouring Dao and opened a true, bottle-shaped life spring within her dantian. As her power began devouring the Black Coffin and the surrounding world, a heavenly tribulation of destruction descended.

• Li Qingyue formed yin-yang Dao patterns, created a ninth pseudo-life spring, and combined her divine patterns and Dao principles into the Great Dao Treasure Bottle.
• She comprehended the devouring Dao, whose formless power silently consumed everything around her, including the Black Coffin’s immortal gold.
• Li Qingyue discovered that her bitter sea and fate wheel were exposed and being devoured by the Great Dao Treasure Bottle.
• She used the bottle to open her fate wheel, transforming her nine pseudo-life springs into true life springs and forming a vast bottle-shaped life spring.
• As Li Qingyue’s bitter sea and fate wheel grew while the surrounding world and Black Coffin lost their essence, the sky darkened and she recognized the arrival of a tribulation of destruction.

Li Qingyue fled the Primordial Ancient Mine before her Heavenly Tribulation began, but chaotic spacetime blocked her escape. She developed the Flying Immortal Step to pierce through space and reached a point a hundred li from the mine.

• Li Qingyue suppressed her aura, put away the Black Coffin, and flew away from the Primordial Ancient Mine to avoid drawing the attention of the slumbering Ancient Emperors and Supremes.
• Li Qingyue discovered that distorted spacetime kept her near the mine as the Heavenly Tribulation gathered, and she decided to escape without relying on Survival Points.
• Li Qingyue combined her dao principles, the Yuhua Divine Son's footwork, and the Ascension Immortal Scripture's piercing power to develop new footwork.
• Li Qingyue used the Flying Immortal Art to evolve temporal and spatial power into steps that pierced through space and carried her a hundred li away.
• Li Qingyue named her new technique the Flying Immortal Step.

After escaping the Primordial Ancient Mine, Li Qingyue discovered that the Ominous Force eruption had destroyed Ancient Source City and the surrounding mining grounds, killing countless people and powerful cultivators. As her tribulation gathered overhead, the Yuhua Divine Son cornered her, and she decided to face both him and the tribulation rather than flee.

• Li Qingyue escaped the Primordial Ancient Mine's chaotic spacetime and found Ancient Source City and the nearby mining grounds reduced to a lifeless wasteland.
• Li Qingyue heard survivors say that the eruption had killed a Holy Lord, slain Grand Supreme Elders, and left two Holy Lords gravely wounded.
• Li Qingyue worried about whether Yang Wuzheng and Yan Wushuang had survived, while bandits and other factions searched the ruins for buried treasures.
• The Yuhua Divine Son spotted Li Qingyue and used Nine Secrets: Xing to block her escape as his followers closed in.
• With her tribulation gathering overhead, Li Qingyue stopped suppressing her aura, activated the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art, and prepared to face the Yuhua Divine Son and the tribulation.

Li Qingyue unleashed the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art, summoning a heavenly tribulation despite her Life Spring Realm cultivation and drawing a crowd of shocked onlookers. As she focused on surviving the tribulation, the enraged Yuhua Divine Son prepared to attack her beneath it.

• Li Qingyue stopped suppressing her aura and summoned a vast heavenly tribulation that locked onto everyone within thirty li.
• Onlookers marveled that Li Qingyue could bring down heavenly tribulation in the Life Spring Realm and linked her power to the ancient single-secret-realm cultivation method.
• The Yuhua Divine Son dismissed the tribulation as no threat, while the gathering crowd watched from a distance rather than challenge him.
• Li Qingyue circulated the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art, devouring the surrounding energies as an illusory Treasure Vase appeared above her.
• The Yuhua Divine Son grew furious at Li Qingyue’s disregard and unleashed Yuhua Immortal Radiance, preparing to slay her beneath the heavenly tribulation.

The Yuhua Divine Son attacked Li Qingyue just as a devastating heavenly tribulation struck everyone marked by it. Li Qingyue’s illusory Treasure Vase swallowed the divine thunder, and the Yuhua Divine Son recognized it as the power of the Great Dao.

• The Yuhua Divine Son transformed into immortal radiance and appeared before Li Qingyue, who continued looking toward the sky.
• A massive wave of lightning descended across the thirty-mile area, destroying treasures and killing more than half the people marked by the tribulation.
• The lightning shattered the Yuhua Divine Son’s immortal radiance and drove him into a crater, leaving him injured and stunned.
• Li Qingyue stood unharmed as the illusory Treasure Vase above her head devoured the divine thunder.
• The Yuhua Divine Son identified the Treasure Vase’s power as the Great Dao and questioned how someone in the Life Spring Realm could wield it.

The Yuhua Divine Son and the others realized that the young girl had condensed a Treasure Vase containing the power of the great Dao, and a devastating lightning storm struck everyone trapped in the Sea of Lightning. The Treasure Vase began to crack as it devoured the lightning, leaving its nature and the girl’s fate uncertain.

• The Yuhua Divine Son was stunned that the girl had condensed the power of the great Dao in the Life Spring Realm.
• A second, far more powerful bolt of lightning descended, and the Yuhua Divine Son declared that it could not be an ordinary Heavenly Tribulation.
• Everyone brought out their treasures to withstand the lightning, while the Yuhua Divine Son summoned a pagoda-shaped Saint Weapon.
• The lightning filled a thirty-li area, killing or injuring nearly everyone and knocking the Yuhua Divine Son and his Saint Weapon to the ground.
• The illusory Treasure Vase developed cracks as it ground the lightning into vital essence, prompting the survivors to wonder what kind of treasure could devour a Heavenly Tribulation.

Li Qingyue survived the lightning by absorbing vital essence through her Treasure Vase, which also drained the corpses and nearby survivors. As purple lightning carrying Dao Resonance descended, the Yuhua Divine Son realized it was heavenly punishment sent to destroy her.

• Li Qingyue’s Treasure Vase converted the lightning into vital essence, restoring her after she coughed up blood.
• The Treasure Vase consumed nearby corpses and drew vitality from living survivors, forcing them to flee as their hair turned white.
• The Yuhua Divine Son summoned his Saint Weapon and retreated, still coveting Li Qingyue’s secret art.
• A new bolt of purple lightning descended, carrying Dao Resonance and terrifying the onlookers.
• The Yuhua Divine Son recognized the lightning as heavenly punishment and declared that Heaven and Earth had condemned Li Qingyue to certain death.

The Yuhua Divine Son realized that Li Qingyue’s cultivation had drawn Heavenly Punishment because she was practicing the Ancient Method, and he tried to destroy its source to survive. The lightning battered him and his Saint Weapon, while Li Qingyue’s Treasure Vase endured the strikes, healed her, and left the crowd wondering whether it was a supreme treasure.

• The Yuhua Divine Son concluded that the Ancient Method had vanished because Heaven and Earth punished its practitioners with increasingly powerful lightning at every cultivation level.
• The Yuhua Divine Son resolved to kill the source of the Heavenly Punishment as purple lightning descended across the land.
• A lightning bolt drove the Yuhua Divine Son into the ground, nearly shattered his Saint Weapon, and left him badly wounded but alive.
• Li Qingyue’s Treasure Vase endured the lightning and swallowed more than half of the bolts striking her.
• The Treasure Vase released sweet dew that healed Li Qingyue’s wounds and strengthened her aura, astonishing the onlookers.

Li Qingyue’s Great Dao Treasure Bottle repaired itself through her Devouring Dao, while the Yuhua Divine Son revealed his rare immortal king body to resist the heavenly tribulation. He advanced within his domain with killing intent fixed on Li Qingyue.

• Onlookers realized Li Qingyue’s divine power was repairing the Great Dao Treasure Bottle and attributed its power to the Ancient Method.
• The Yuhua Divine Son abandoned hope of escape and unleashed his full strength to survive the heavenly punishment.
• The Yuhua Divine Son revealed nine layers of firmament that formed an immortal king domain and rewrote the surrounding laws.
• Witnesses identified the Yuhua Divine Son’s constitution as the rare immortal king body and discussed its connection to the vision of treading the nine heavens.
• Li Qingyue recalled rumors linking that vision to the Sacred Body and realized the Yuhua Divine Son intended to kill her.

Li Qingyue endured the Heavenly Tribulation while using its lightning to temper her body and strengthen her cultivation. The Yuhua Divine Son’s attack failed, and the tribulation shattered his Saint Weapon and wounded him, leaving him in mortal danger.

• The Yuhua Divine Son attacked Li Qingyue with a massive palm formed from his Immortal King Domain, but the Heavenly Tribulation pierced through it and struck them both.
• Li Qingyue used the Great Dao Treasure Bottle to devour the lightning and strengthen her Bitter Sea, Fate Wheel, bloodline, and body.
• The fourth bolt overwhelmed the Treasure Bottle, but Li Qingyue endured the lightning and tempered her flesh, bones, and vital blood.
• The lightning shattered the Yuhua Divine Son’s Saint Weapon and sent him flying with broken bones, leaving onlookers to fear for his life.

Li Qingyue endured another devastating bolt of heavenly punishment with the help of the Black Coffin and the Great Dao Treasure Bottle, while the Yuhua Divine Son struggled to survive. As the tribulation struck him, Li Qingyue devoured his Immortal King Body, leaving the witnesses stunned.

• The Yuhua Divine Son tried to attack Li Qingyue, but a new bolt of pitch-black lightning descended before he could act.
• Li Qingyue sent the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Coffin against the lightning, and the Great Dao Treasure Bottle absorbed some of its scattered power while she suffered severe wounds.
• The lightning struck the Yuhua Divine Son and split his body apart, though his Immortal King Body and Ascension Immortal Scripture kept him alive.
• Li Qingyue used the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art to drain the Yuhua Divine Son until only withered bones remained.
• A drop of immortal dew entered Li Qingyue, surrounding her with radiant light as the witnesses realized the Yuhua Divine Son had died.

After the Yuhua Divine Son died, Li Qingyue absorbed the origin of his immortal king body and began a slow bloodline metamorphosis inside a Radiant Cocoon. As a black, dragon-shaped bolt of destruction thunder descended, she resolved not to wait helplessly for death.

• The Yuhua Divine Son died, and the onlookers feared the Feathered Divine Dynasty would punish them.
• Li Qingyue focused on the sweet dew in her body as it enlarged her bitter sea and strengthened her divine power.
• The origin of the immortal king body merged into Li Qingyue, forming a Radiant Cocoon as her bloodline began to metamorphose.
• A black bolt of destruction thunder took the shape of a giant dragon and descended toward the cocoon, terrifying the onlookers.
• Li Qingyue sensed the dragon-shaped lightning and resolved to act rather than wait for death.

Li Qingyue endured the heavenly tribulation by using the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Coffin, the Great Dao Treasure Bottle, and the Radiant Cocoon to shield herself. The lightning smelted the Immortal King Body’s origin into her flesh, while her bitter sea continued to expand, and the tribulation still raged as she regained control of the coffin.

• Li Qingyue summoned the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Coffin to shield her from the lightning, while the Great Dao Treasure Bottle absorbed its power.
• The lightning battered the coffin and shattered much of the Great Dao Treasure Bottle before striking the Radiant Cocoon around Li Qingyue.
• Li Qingyue transformed her body into the shape of a treasure vase and used the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art as the tribulation lightning smelted the Immortal King Body’s origin into her flesh and bones.
• Li Qingyue sensed that her bitter sea had expanded into a vast inner world, though she worried that crossing it to reach the next secret realm might become difficult.
• Li Qingyue dismissed her worries, summoned the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Coffin from underground, and resolved to find a way to refine it into her own treasure.

Li Qingyue faced the sixth bolt of Heavenly Punishment as it formed an Ancient Emperor-like lightning giant, while onlookers speculated about her treasures and the ancient methods that had brought the calamity. Refusing to relinquish the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art, she empowered the Black Coffin and unleashed the Treasure Vase’s devouring force as she attacked the giant.

• Li Qingyue recalled the Fire Domain’s ominous history and wondered whether its legendary flame could melt immortal gold.
• Black lightning descended as Heavenly Punishment, and the crowd realized Li Qingyue had survived the fifth bolt and was facing the sixth.
• Onlookers recognized the illusory Treasure Vase and the dragon-patterned Black Coffin as extraordinary treasures, then speculated that Li Qingyue’s ancient method had provoked Heavenly Punishment.
• The sixth bolt formed a lightning giant bearing a trace of an Ancient Emperor’s Dao resonance, and Li Qingyue realized the remaining bolts could be even more powerful.
• Li Qingyue rejected the idea of relinquishing the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art, channeled divine power into the Black Coffin, and sent it crashing into the giant.
• The Treasure Vase began devouring essence across dozens of miles, forcing the crowd to flee as some people’s hair turned white.

Li Qingyue survived the lightning giant’s attack and used the heavenly tribulation to absorb the Immortal King Body origin, transforming her bitter sea and refining her own origin true blood. She resolved to keep devouring other physiques’ origins on the path toward a Chaotic Body and prepared to face the tribulation again.

• The surrounding figures felt their life origins draining away as a silent power emanated from Li Qingyue’s Radiant Cocoon.
• The Black Coffin struck the lightning giant and shattered it, then fell back to earth unharmed.
• Li Qingyue used the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art to absorb the lightning, shattered Dao principles, and Immortal King Body origin into her bitter sea.
• Her bitter sea expanded and transformed into a vast, radiant ocean with nine pure-white life springs and a black spring at its center.
• Li Qingyue realized she could use her mortal body to absorb many physiques’ origins and temper her true blood toward a Chaotic Body.
• Li Qingyue sent the Black Coffin aloft again and faced the Sea of Lightning, declaring that the tribulation was nothing to fear.

Li Qingyue endured the seventh and eighth strikes of heavenly punishment by sheltering behind the Black Coffin, which absorbed the lightning. The ninth strike manifested the power of the ancient Silkworm Emperor, and the chapter ended as its devastating palm descended.

• Three figures formed from Ancient Emperors’ Dao resonance attacked Li Qingyue, blasting the Black Coffin into the ground and cracking her Radiant Cocoon.
• Li Qingyue survived the seventh strike, and the Black Coffin rose to cover the Radiant Cocoon as the eighth strike gathered.
• Six emperor-like figures battered the Black Coffin with the eighth strike, and the coffin drew in the surrounding heavenly lightning.
• The final strike manifested the ancient Silkworm Emperor and its Heavenly Silkworm's Nine Transformations, gathering nine sacred beasts into a vast palm.
• The Silkworm Emperor’s phantom vanished after unleashing the palm, and its attack shattered heaven and earth.

Li Qingyue survived the heavenly punishment by turning her body into a vessel that devoured the black lightning and immortal radiance. She recognized the attack as a wisp of the Silkworm Emperor’s Great Dao and began grinding it down with her Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art.

• The nine holy beasts’ attack shattered the Black Coffin, revealing a sphere of black lightning around Li Qingyue.
• Onlookers rushed toward the lightning to seize the immortal-gold fragments and Treasure Vase, but the sphere began to shrink as Li Qingyue endured the punishment.
• A man with Heavenly Eyes saw Li Qingyue’s body transform into a flesh-and-blood Treasure Vase that absorbed the lightning and converted it into immortal radiance.
• Li Qingyue recognized the nine holy beasts as manifestations of the Heavenly Silkworm’s Nine Transformations and identified the force as the Silkworm Emperor’s power of the Great Dao.
• Li Qingyue drove her Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art to draw in the Emperor’s Dao power, tearing apart the holy-beast phantoms and declaring that she would devour it.

Li Qingyue absorbed a lightning tribulation containing a trace of the Silkworm Emperor’s Great Dao power, nearly losing control as it battered her Bitter Sea. She eventually suppressed and absorbed it, bringing her Bitter Sea to its limit and sensing the essence of the Divine Silkworm’s Nine Transformations.

• The invisible devouring force drained the vitality and divine power of the crowd near Li Qingyue, killing many and frightening the survivors.
• Li Qingyue’s Treasure Vase-like body devoured the pitch-black lightning and drew it, along with the Silkworm Emperor’s Great Dao power, into her Bitter Sea.
• Li Qingyue used her grotto-heaven to suppress the lightning and Great Dao power, but the force nearly shattered her Bitter Sea and the phantom of her will.
• The Great Dao power dissolved into laws and merged with Li Qingyue’s Bitter Sea, while the lightning became vital essence that expanded it to its limit.
• Li Qingyue sensed the essence of the Divine Silkworm’s Nine Transformations in the laws absorbed by her central Life Spring and reflected on rebirth through transformation.

Li Qingyue used her vast divine power to create a world within her bitter sea and realized that this world itself could be the other shore. Her breakthrough revealed the five dao palaces waiting beyond the stars.

• Li Qingyue pondered how to form a divine bridge with nine life springs and the devouring life spring, then decided to forge her own path.
• She formed nine continents from her life springs and created nine layers of sky above them, but they would not unite.
• Li Qingyue created a sun, moon, and stars, whose force drew the continents and skies together into a world within her bitter sea.
• She realized that wherever she stood or set her course could be the other shore, and that creating a world within the bitter sea made crossing unnecessary.
• A roar shook Li Qingyue's bitter sea, and she saw five dao palaces beyond the stars.

Li Qingyue reached the Other Shore but found the immortal mist blocking her path to the Dao Palace, leaving her without guidance for what came next. After returning to her body, she emerged from the Radiant Cocoon amid a crowd of powerful cultivators, who were shocked that she had survived her tribulation and crossed the bitter sea so quickly.

• Li Qingyue reached the Other Shore and tried to ascend to the Dao Palace, but the immortal mist overwhelmed her and forced her back.
• Li Qingyue concluded that she needed Dao Palace Realm scriptures to find a path forward.
• Li Qingyue sensed hundreds of Dao Palace and Four Extremes cultivators gathering around her and the shattered Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Coffin, and resolved to keep the immortal gold for her future tribulations.
• Li Qingyue restored her body, manifested a white dress, and shattered the Radiant Cocoon that had formed from the Immortal King Body's origin.
• The gathered cultivators reacted with fear and disbelief as they realized Li Qingyue had survived the heavenly tribulation and crossed to the Other Shore in a remarkably short time.

After surviving the Heavenly Tribulation, Li Qingyue unleashed her power against those who attacked her for the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold. She slaughtered and drained many of them, then stepped over their bones to face the remaining cultivators.

• Li Qingyue summoned more than a hundred fragments of Dragon-Patterned Black Gold from the earth.
• Hundreds of cultivators attacked Li Qingyue and the fragments with their treasures.
• Li Qingyue’s shout shattered treasures, tore apart Dao Bodies, and killed many attackers.
• Li Qingyue summoned the Treasure Vase phantom, whose devouring force withered fleeing cultivators and their treasures.
• Li Qingyue shattered a Treasure-Gathering Basin with a single blow as a Four Extremes Realm cultivator rallied the survivors to attack.
• Li Qingyue stepped forward over the dry bones, determined to kill the remaining attackers.

Li Qingyue fought twelve Four Extremes Realm cultivators, but their combined treasures and Mystic Arts gradually suppressed her. She manifested a vast nine-layer vision to break their control, leaving the onlookers stunned by its resemblance to the Yuhua Divine Son’s vision.

• Li Qingyue gathered the fragments of Dragon-Patterned Black Gold and struck the twelve Four Extremes Realm cultivators with a palm imprint that sent their treasures flying.
• The cultivators warned that the devouring force was draining their vitality and joined forces, using their treasures and Mystic Arts to seal Li Qingyue’s escape routes.
• Li Qingyue realized the Four Extremes Realm cultivators’ control of the world restricted her strength, so she unleashed her vision.
• Nine layers of heavens and earth manifested around Li Qingyue, propping up the treasures and creating a domain she controlled.
• The onlookers recognized the vision’s resemblance to the immortal king treading the nine heavens and wondered why Li Qingyue possessed the Yuhua Divine Son’s vision.

Li Qingyue used her merged vision to suppress more than a dozen Four Extremes Realm cultivators, then killed them and absorbed their vital essence. As powerful experts arrived, one condemned her for killing the Yuhua Divine Son and threatened to leave her with nowhere in the world to hide.

• The onlookers realized Li Qingyue had absorbed the Yuhua Divine Son's vital essence and incorporated the Immortal King Treading the Nine Heavens vision into her own.
• Li Qingyue's vision merged with heaven and earth, stripping others of their command over its power and crushing more than a dozen Four Extremes Realm cultivators and their treasures.
• Li Qingyue recognized that her inner world had become a pure land and that devouring special constitutions let her manifest their powers through her visions.
• As powerful experts crossed the void and arrived, Li Qingyue struck down the suppressed cultivators and drew their vital essence into her Treasure Vase.
• An arriving expert called Li Qingyue a demoness and declared that she had no place in the world after killing the Divine Dynasty's divine son.

Li Qingyue was surrounded by the major powers after the Feathered Divine Dynasty issued an edict ordering her capture. She refused to surrender and fought back as cultivators moved to block her escape.

• More than a thousand cultivators from the holy lands, families, and smaller powers gathered around Li Qingyue to seize her immortal gold and secret arts.
• Li Qingyue rejected the demand to kowtow to the Divine Dynasty and fled, knowing she could not defeat the Dragon Transformation Realm experts present.
• A Feathered Divine Dynasty expert summoned the phantom of the Yuhua Divine Tower and issued an edict ordering Li Qingyue captured, dead or alive.
• The gathered powers pursued Li Qingyue, while a Four Extremes Realm expert urged her to surrender and others blocked her path with treasures.
• Li Qingyue declared that anyone who stood in her way would die and summoned the illusory Treasure Vase to attack the encircling cultivators.