Chapter Summaries

Li Qingyue was nearly killed when terrifying, unseen forces devastated the Primordial Ancient Mine and shattered the Yuhua Divine Son’s Replica Emperor Weapon. Trapped and battered inside the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Coffin, she searched for a way to survive and realized she might adapt the Demon Race True-Blood Tempering Ancient Method by using true blood to merge myriad bloodlines.

• Unseen figures and deadly fluctuations killed or injured most of the people in the Primordial Ancient Mine, while the Yuhua Divine Son’s Nine-Story Divine Tower was destroyed and Li Qingyue was gravely wounded.
• Li Qingyue suspected the Source God, Source Ghost, and Source Demon had appeared, and recalled the Underworld’s experiment to merge myriad bloodlines and create immortal blood.
• Li Qingyue escaped into the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Coffin, but repeated attacks battered the coffin and worsened her injuries.
• Li Qingyue considered using the Self-Slaying Dao-Illuminating Art and other techniques, but realized none could resolve her predicament while she remained under attack.
• Li Qingyue remembered the Blood-Colored Dragon surviving within the Dragon Blood-Spitting Killing Formation and turned to the Demon Race True-Blood Tempering Ancient Method for a chance to live.
• Li Qingyue began considering whether she could refine a wisp of true blood and use it to merge the bloodlines of myriad living beings.

While trapped in the tumbling Black Coffin, Li Qingyue cultivated the Demon Race True-Blood Tempering Ancient Method and began transforming her blood and physique. She realized that combining the method with other arts might let her create the Indestructible Heavenly Art.

• Li Qingyue studied the Demon Race True-Blood Tempering Ancient Method, sensing that it could help her overcome her body's limitations.
• She merged divine power, Flying Immortal light, and Dao principles into her blood, awakening a powerful surge of qi and blood that strengthened and healed her body.
• Li Qingyue understood how blood connected the body's secret realms and how true-blood tempering could transform the flesh by tempering Dao principles into the blood.
• As the Black Coffin's impacts continued to forge her body, Li Qingyue compared the method to the Desolate Heaven Emperor's Flesh Grotto-Heaven Method and understood its path toward condensing true blood.
• Li Qingyue realized that the True-Blood Tempering Ancient Method, the calamity character of the Life-Death Emperor Script, and the Self-Slaying Dao-Illuminating Art might together form the essence of the Indestructible Heavenly Art.

Li Qingyue created a fifth pseudo-life spring by adapting the Demon Race True-Blood Tempering Ancient Method, strengthening her Heaven-Swallowing Treasure Bottle and the arts she cultivated. After emerging from the Black Coffin near the Primordial Ancient Mine, she began seeking dao enlightenment in the Primordial Beginning.

• Li Qingyue inscribed dao patterns into a divine power vortex, creating a black hole that devoured the dao principles of heaven and earth and became her fifth pseudo-life spring.
• A blood-colored divine pattern merged with the Heaven-Swallowing Treasure Bottle, allowing it to devour bloodline origins and refine their laws into her own bloodline.
• Li Qingyue organized her arts and inscribed their dao patterns into her five pseudo-life springs, planning to use them to evolve her bitter sea after opening ten springs.
• Li Qingyue emerged from the Black Coffin and discovered she had nearly fallen into the Primordial Ancient Mine.
• Li Qingyue checked her survival points, returned to the Black Coffin, and began seeking dao enlightenment in the Primordial Beginning.

Li Qingyue merged her will with the Primordial Ancient Mine and glimpsed its depths, where ruined worlds and longevity substance formed a terrifying World Sea. The mine’s ancient residents sensed the disturbance and wondered whether a legendary woman had returned, possibly having survived across multiple eras in pursuit of an obsession.

• Li Qingyue joined her will with the Primordial Ancient Mine and sensed its immense vitality and mysterious passage to another age.
• Li Qingyue perceived a World Sea of shattered worlds whose chaotic laws produced longevity substance and nurtured Divine Source and rare treasures.
• Li Qingyue immersed her consciousness in the mine’s chaotic laws, provoking a startled reaction from an unknown presence.
• The Supremes and Ancient Emperors within the mine exchanged thoughts about the disturbance and recalled how explorers had vanished in its depths.
• The mine’s residents speculated that a legendary woman had defied heaven to survive through several lifetimes while searching for the object of her obsession.

Li Qingyue immersed herself in the Dao resonance of the Primordial Ancient Mine, using it to develop the principles behind her Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art. As her Survival Points ran low, she discovered the Xuanhuang Mother Qi Root deep within the mine and longed to claim a wisp of it.

• Li Qingyue focused on the laws of worlds within the Primordial Ancient Mine and refined the Dao patterns in her Bitter Sea.
• She began shaping a stronger Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art by drawing on spatial, temporal, and other Dao principles to evolve worlds within her dantian.
• Her consciousness neared exhaustion as the Primordial Ancient Mine rapidly consumed her Survival Points.
• Li Qingyue discovered the Xuanhuang Mother Qi Root, a substance formed amid the birth and destruction of worlds in the mine's depths.
• She realized the Ruthless Great Emperor had likely obtained the Xuanhuang Mother Qi Root from this place and wished to collect a wisp for her own cultivation.

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.