Chapter Summaries

After Li Rui’s rise in status, Tan Yu and others congratulated him while he weighed the political balance between Divine Firmament City’s Deputy City Lords. White Jade Capital then sent Li Rui to investigate demonic trouble in the Bull Immortal Dynasty, where he arrived with a Divine Firmament City companion and found his old acquaintance Jiang Yan.

• Tan Yu congratulated Li Rui and reaffirmed his loyalty, while Yu Ziyi reflected that she had come only to repay Li Rui for saving her life.
• Members of Divine Firmament City’s cultivation families visited Li Rui to signal their support for Gao Tianxia.
• Ning Zhongtian worried that Chong Hua might move against Li Rui, but Li Rui explained why the City Lord’s interests would keep the Deputy City Lords from open conflict.
• White Jade Capital ordered Li Rui to investigate demonic turmoil in the Bull Immortal Dynasty, and Divine Firmament City assigned True Person Chang Geng to accompany him.
• Li Rui and Chang Geng arrived at the Bull Immortal Dynasty’s imperial palace, where Jiang Yan appeared among those welcoming them.

Li Rui reunited with Jiang Yan and learned that she and her master, Qingluan Fairy, had come to help quell the demonic unrest in the Guniu Immortal Dynasty. After learning that the Demonic Cultivators were entrenched at Black Dragon Mountain, the group prepared to attack, but Qingluan Fairy struck first, and Li Rui recognized the Southern Bright Leaving Fire she unleashed.

• Li Rui reunited with Jiang Yan and met her master, Qingluan Fairy, who had brought Jade Pavilion cultivators to fight the demons.
• Du Ming escorted Li Rui, Jiang Yan, Qingluan Fairy, and the others to a banquet with the Guniu Holy Emperor.
• Qingluan Fairy pressed the Holy Emperor about the demonic unrest, and he explained that the dynasty's Celestial Realm ancestor had died, leaving it vulnerable to the Myriad Laws Palace's Demonic Cultivators.
• Li Rui agreed to help find and destroy the Demonic Cultivators, and the Holy Emperor's general Chu Hu led the group to Black Dragon Mountain.
• Qingluan Fairy attacked the mountain ahead of the others, and Li Rui recognized the Southern Bright Leaving Fire rising from its summit.

Li Rui, Chu Hu, and Du Ming reached Black Dragon Mountain after learning that Southern Bright Leaving Fire was there. Li Rui suppressed the divine flame, helped defeat the three Demonic Cultivators, and took charge of the treasure as the group prepared to hunt the two remaining cultivators.

• Li Rui and Chu Hu hurried to Black Dragon Mountain after discovering that Southern Bright Leaving Fire was there.
• Qingluan Fairy fought three Demonic Cultivators who had been refining the flame, and they activated a secret art to unleash its full power.
• Li Rui suppressed Southern Bright Leaving Fire with his Dao Power and extracted its origin source.
• Li Rui, Qingluan Fairy, and True Person Chang Geng joined forces to defeat the three Demonic Cultivators, and Qingluan Fairy killed one before he could escape.
• Du Ming said the Bull Immortal Dynasty would offer the treasure to White Jade Capital, and Qingluan Fairy and True Person Chang Geng agreed to let Li Rui safeguard it.
• Li Rui proposed staying to find and kill the two remaining Demonic Cultivators, and True Person Chang Geng agreed.

At Black Dragon Mountain, Li Rui exposed the Holy Emperor Gao Peng’s scheme and helped bring the Bullock Immortal Dynasty under White Jade Capital’s control. Gao Peng surrendered a fire-controlling divine ability before taking his own life, and Li Rui and Qingluan Fairy received valuable treasures from Gao Tianxia.

• Gao Peng asked a Myriad Laws Palace elder to attack White Jade Capital’s forces, promising him the Bullock Immortal Dynasty’s fortune in tribute.
• The elder attacked Li Rui and the others with the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, but Gao Tianxia and Chong Hua intervened and drove him away.
• Li Rui sealed Chu Hu and Du Ming with the Southern Bright Leaving Fire, then exposed Gao Peng, who admitted guilt and offered to merge the dynasty into the Great Yu Immortal Dynasty.
• Gao Peng gave Li Rui seven drops of essence blood containing his family’s fire-controlling divine ability, then used Liberation by Violence to end his life.
• Gao Tianxia distributed the Southern Bright Leaving Fire’s origin and Gao Peng’s essence blood to Li Rui and Qingluan Fairy.

Li Rui returned to East Sea City after helping suppress the Bull Immortal Dynasty’s rebellion and learned how the great powers had arranged its fall and annexation. He received the Southern Bright Leaving Fire, considered using it to cultivate Blood Burning Seven Revolutions, and gained 30 Achievement Points when the dynasty was incorporated into Great Yu.

• Ning Zhongtian told Li Rui that people were calling him more fearsome than the Deputy City Lord, and Li Rui defended himself as a good person.
• Li Rui learned that a White Jade Capital True Lord had engineered the Bull Immortal Dynasty’s downfall, while Jiang Linxian had arranged to claim some of its fortune.
• Li Rui refined his plan to use the Southern Bright Leaving Fire to cultivate Blood Burning Seven Revolutions, a divine ability that could multiply his combat power at the cost of a Dao Injury.
• Eunuch Zheng informed Li Rui that White Jade Capital had ordered the Bull Immortal Dynasty incorporated into Great Yu and praised his role in expanding its territory.
• Li Rui completed the Open Up Immortal Domain mission and received 30 Achievement Points.

After Yu Kingdom’s fortune grew, Li Rui traveled to Annan Garrison and met Wu De, who had broken through to the Violet Palace Realm. As they discussed the Immortal Tomb, Li Rui spotted a purple pillar of light and an immortal palace identical to the one in his Violet Palace Realm.

• Yu Kingdom’s expanded territory and fortune elevated Li Rui to Principal First Rank, and Nie Siming told him that exploration of the Immortal Tomb had advanced another ten li.
• Li Rui agreed to return to Cloud Province with Nie Siming and Yuan Xiong, then entered seclusion at his residence in Annan Garrison instead of going straight to the Ten Thousand Mountains.
• Wu De arrived at Annan Garrison and told Li Rui that an anomaly in Sky Abyss Valley had helped him break through to the Violet Palace Realm.
• Wu De said he had come to investigate the Immortal Tomb and wondered whether he should learn the monks’ methods.
• Li Rui saw a purple pillar of light in the southern sky and recognized the immortal palace phantom above it as the Corner of the Immortal Court within his Violet Palace Realm.

Li Rui witnessed a real Immortal Court hidden within the Immortal Tomb, then returned to East Sea City and mastered the first revolution of Blood Burning Seven Revolutions. Meanwhile, an Old Daoist and a Youngster from the Ji Family watched the tomb from afar, and the Old Daoist revealed immortal aura.

• Li Rui saw the Immortal Court within the Immortal Tomb and considered absorbing it, but restrained himself to avoid provoking the Dao Lords watching the tomb.
• Wu De predicted that the Immortal Tomb would take centuries to open, and the monks of Xuanfa Temple failed to break through its restriction.
• Li Rui returned to East Sea City and used Southern Bright Leaving Fire to cultivate the first revolution of Blood Burning Seven Revolutions, doubling his physical strength and quickly healing the Dao Injury it caused.
• An Old Daoist and a Youngster watched the Immortal Tomb from outside the valley, and the Old Daoist warned the Youngster against underestimating Taihua Province's immortal sects.
• The Old Daoist formed hand seals and released a wisp of immortal aura from his Baihui acupoint.

Li Rui followed the Weapon Spirit Old Man’s advice to explore Wuzhong Dao Lord’s residence in the Great Void Dao Field. Inside the iron palace, he discovered an entire small planet and was left astonished by the Dao Lord’s power.

• Jiang Yan told Li Rui that Qingluan Fairy had sensed the Great Dao and entered seclusion to break through to the Celestial Realm.
• Li Rui asked the Weapon Spirit Old Man how to expand his Violet Palace Realm enough to contain a mountain, and the old man suggested exploring other Dao Lords’ inheritances.
• The Weapon Spirit Old Man directed Li Rui to Wuzhong Dao Lord’s residence, describing him as the Great Void Dao Field’s undisputed number one Dao Lord.
• Li Rui reached the iron palace on White Jade Plaza and recognized that it was forged from a vast mass of Star Core Iron.
• Li Rui entered the palace, found himself on a real, barren expanse, and discovered after exploring that it contained a small planet.

Li Rui passed Wuzhong Dao Lord’s trial and received an inheritance teaching him to consume Great Daos to expand his Violet Palace Realm. As foreign cultivators approached the Immortal Tomb, Yu Yan ordered them killed, and Li Rui and Ning Zhongtian intercepted intruders at the Endless Sea.

• Li Rui manifested the Immortal Court in his Violet Palace Realm, passed Wuzhong Dao Lord’s assessment, and received star-chart teachings.
• Li Rui awoke understanding the inheritance’s core method, Consume Ten Thousand Daos, and began consuming the Azure Profound Great Dao.
• Chong Hua warned Yu Yan that cultivators were converging on the Immortal Tomb, and Yu Yan ordered Gao Tianxia and Chong Hua to guard it and kill the intruders.
• Li Rui and Ning Zhongtian killed cultivators from the Myriad Laws Palace by the Endless Sea as they carried out the city lord’s order to intercept foreign cultivators.

After Gao Tianxia killed another Celestial Realm cultivator, True Man Extinction of Myriad Laws Palace vowed revenge, while Li Rui continued cultivating in East Sea City. The chapter ended when Li Rui learned that Myriad Laws Palace cultivators had nearly killed Deputy City Lord Chong Hua, escalating the conflict.

• Ning Zhongtian, Nie Siming, and the others speculated that Gao Tianxia might advance to the Spirit Severing Realm, and Li Rui brought them back to East Sea City.
• Li Rui resumed cultivating the Azure Profound Great Dao while True Man Extinction declared that he would kill Gao Tianxia and threatened to begin a holy war.
• Nie Siming told Li Rui that three Celestial Realm cultivators from Myriad Laws Palace had ambushed Chong Hua, who escaped with his Natal Mysterious Weapon nearly shattered.
• Li Rui realized that Myriad Laws Palace's retaliation for Gao Tianxia's killings could make the conflict increasingly dangerous.

After Gao Tianxia was tasked with avenging Chong Hua, Li Rui finished refining the Azure Profound Great Dao and greatly expanded his Violet Palace. East Sea City was then attacked by six Dao Body Realm experts using the Spirit Slaughter Array, and Li Rui confronted the array as a crack appeared in its blood-colored diagram.

• Chong Hua told City Lord Yu Yan that Alchemy Cauldron Master had ambushed him, and Yu Yan ordered Gao Tianxia to settle the grievance.
• Li Rui completed his refinement of the Azure Profound Great Dao, expanding his Violet Palace to ten li in circumference.
• Six Dao Body Realm cultivators formed the Spirit Slaughter Array above East Sea City and threatened to massacre the city.
• Nie Siming, Yuan Xiong, and Ning Zhongtian feared that Li Rui could not withstand the attack, but Li Rui launched a golden strike at the array.
• Li Rui's strike halted the blood-colored Eight Trigrams diagram, and a crack appeared in it.

Li Rui shattered the Spirit Slaughter Array and drove off six Dao Body Realm Demonic Cultivators with his powerful True Martial Realm. True Man Extinction then found Gao Tianxia and realized he had reached the Spirit Severing Realm by undergoing tribulation in the Outer Heavens.

• The six Demonic Cultivators attacked Li Rui, but his True Martial Realm suppressed their Great Daos and strengthened him.
• Li Rui snapped the blood-haired boy’s Blood-colored Small Flag, forcing him and the other five to flee as the Spirit Slaughter Array collapsed.
• Li Rui pursued one of the fleeing Demonic Cultivators while Ning Zhongtian celebrated his victory in Marquis Wu'an Manor.
• True Man Extinction revealed that he had arranged the ambush to draw out Gao Tianxia and decided to kill Li Rui instead.
• Gao Tianxia appeared before True Man Extinction, who sensed his Spirit Severing Realm cultivation and realized he had gone to the Outer Heavens to undergo tribulation.

Li Rui completed the Supreme Martial Lord achievement after defeating the Myriad Laws Palace cultivators, while Gao Tianxia revealed his Spirit Severing Realm strength and returned from pursuing their ancestor. As dawn broke over East Sea City, Gao Tianxia proposed another Sixty-Year Purge of Demons.

• Gao Tianxia appeared in the sky above East Sea City and defeated the blood-red-pupil cultivator with a single punch.
• Li Rui returned to Marquis Wu'an Manor carrying the corpses of two Dao Body Realm cultivators and ordered Ning Zhongtian to hang them on the city walls.
• Li Rui received the Supreme Martial Lord achievement and unlocked the hidden achievement, Rule the Eight Directions.
• Gao Tianxia returned after pursuing the Myriad Laws Palace ancestor across half of Taihua Province and explained that he had concealed his breakthrough by facing tribulation in the Outer Heavens.
• Gao Tianxia praised Li Rui's True Martial Realm, then proposed another Sixty-Year Purge of Demons from East Sea Pavilion.

After surviving the calamity, Li Rui received visitors impressed by his strength, including Fairy Zisu and Qingluan Fairy. Qingluan Fairy recruited him for the Sixty-Year Purge of Demons, and he agreed to guard the main camp while she fought on the front lines.

• Cultivators from Divine Firmament City and Taihua Province visited Li Rui, while Fairy Zisu openly sought his favor.
• Qingluan Fairy arrived, and Li Rui learned that Jiang Yan was in seclusion attempting to break through to the Purple Palace Realm.
• After the other guests left, Qingluan Fairy told Li Rui she had become Divine Firmament City's deputy city lord.
• Qingluan Fairy invited Li Rui to join the Sixty-Year Purge of Demons against the Myriad Laws Palace's demonic cultivators.
• Li Rui accepted on the condition that he guard the main camp while Qingluan Fairy fought beyond the lines.

As the Righteous-Demonic War spread, Qingluan Fairy led White Jade Capital cultivators to attack the Arctic Demon Sect while Li Rui stayed behind to help defend the camp. At the Arctic Holy Mountain, the Myriad Laws Palace’s Heavenly Beings discussed their defeat and agreed to focus on gaining fortune from the Immortal Tomb.

• Qingluan Fairy led four Dao Body Realm experts and more than a thousand cultivators out to attack the Arctic Demon Sect, leaving Li Rui and others to guard the main camp.
• He Pingyu probed Li Rui for information about the Immortal Tomb, but Li Rui told him he knew little and kept the possible Corner of the Immortal Court secret.
• Li Rui inspected the barrier, consulted the formation masters, and instructed Nie Siming and the others on the camp’s defenses.
• Li Rui cultivated through the night, bringing his Dao foundation close to ninety zhang and the late Dao Body Realm.
• At the Arctic Holy Mountain, the Myriad Laws Palace’s Heavenly Beings discussed the defeat of the black-qi young man by Qingluan Fairy.
• The old monk urged the group to avoid alerting their opponents and seek fortune from the Immortal Tomb.

Li Rui and his companions discussed Qingluan Fairy’s attack on the Arctic Demon Sect while the wider Sixty-Year Purge of Demons concealed a struggle over the Immortal Tomb. At the Holy Mountain, Zhu Kang agreed to work with the Myriad Laws Palace to kill his father and claim Yu Kingdom’s throne; Li Rui’s group awaited news from the Immortal Tomb.

• Li Rui praised Qingluan Fairy’s forceful path of cultivation after hearing she had blockaded the Arctic Demon Sect’s mountain gate alone.
• Tangli Fairy and an old monk met Zhu Kang at the Holy Mountain, where the monk promised the Myriad Laws Palace would protect him and affirmed his True Dragon Destiny.
• Zhu Kang agreed to the monk’s plan to help him kill the Holy Emperor, while the monk aimed to gain access to the Immortal Tomb through Yu Kingdom.
• Ning Zhongtian and Nie Siming suspected the Arctic Demon Sect’s silence concealed a plan, but Li Rui told them to focus on the battle before them.
• Li Rui recognized that the purge was a cover for the Myriad Laws Palace and Blood Demon Sect’s efforts to seize Gao Tianxia and the Immortal Tomb, then asked whether the Prince had sent news.

Yuan Dingting, Ji Sheng, and the Myriad Laws Palace focused on the Immortal Tomb and its hidden Immortal Tree, while Li Rui neared a breakthrough in the Northern Plains. The chapter ended with Li Rui on the verge of entering the late Dao Body Realm.

• Meng Chong told Yuan Dingting that Qingluan Fairy had blockaded the Arctic Demon Sect for a month, and Yuan Dingting continued watching the Ten Thousand Mountains near the Immortal Tomb.
• Ji Sheng and his disciple Ji Jiao secretly reached the Immortal Tomb, where Ji Sheng used his immortal-qi technique to reveal a hidden Immortal Tree.
• At the Arctic Holy Mountain, True Man Extinction learned that the Immortal Tomb held an Immortal Tree and sent Tang Li, Evil Wind, and others to secure it for the Myriad Laws Palace.
• Li Rui cultivated at the Northern Plains barrier camp as his Dao foundation neared ninety zhang and he approached the late Dao Body Realm.

Li Rui broke through to the late Dao Body Realm, and his strengthened Dao foundation greatly improved his understanding of the Blazing Fire Great Dao. In the imperial palace, First Prince Zhu Kang presented the Holy Emperor with a strange mirror, which vanished with the emperor and his attendants before Zhu Kang calmly reassured the guards.

• Li Rui nurtured his Immortal Pagoda to ninety zhang, reaching the late Dao Body Realm and undergoing a three-day transformation that strengthened his body.
• Immortal radiance from Li Rui's pagoda illuminated the Blazing Fire Great Dao Rune, rapidly raising his understanding of the Great Dao.
• Li Rui realized that his unusually sturdy Dao foundation could help him comprehend Great Daos and set a goal of expanding it to ninety-nine zhang.
• Prime Minister Zhang Zilu and the Holy Emperor discussed the cost of building Spirit Cannons and the Yu Kingdom's competing expenses.
• First Prince Zhu Kang presented the Holy Emperor with a strange mirror that showed three figures, then golden light made the Holy Emperor, Zhang Zilu, and Eunuch Zheng disappear.
• Zhu Kang picked up the mirror and told the guards outside that the Holy Emperor was fine.

Li Rui learned that the Holy Emperor had entered death-seclusion and appointed the First Prince to oversee the state, then cultivated Wuzhong Dao Lord’s heretical method to nurture the Blazing Fire Great Dao. Meanwhile, Tangli Fairy disguised as Chief Zhang tried to entice Zhu Kang, who continued his plan to exchange souls with his father.

• Nie Siming told Li Rui that the Holy Emperor was in death-seclusion and had ordered the First Prince to oversee the state.
• Li Rui accepted the succession news without taking sides and learned that Qingluan Fairy’s situation remained unchanged.
• Li Rui returned to his room and cultivated Wuzhong Dao Lord’s method to nourish the Blazing Fire Great Dao with the Immortal Way.
• Tangli Fairy, disguised as Chief Zhang, offered to cultivate with Zhu Kang, but he refused and claimed he preferred men.
• Zhu Kang told Tangli Fairy he needed up to five years to exchange souls, then cultivated the secret art that would let him become his father.

Fourth Prince Zhu Ting withdrew from the imperial struggle and settled with Xia Yun at White Mountain Temple, where they finally conceived a child after three years. As the First Prince neared formal investiture, Xia Yun suggested they might still have a chance.

• Zhu Ting and Xia Yun left the capital to pray for a child, and Zhu Ting remained at White Mountain Temple for three months without leaving.
• Li Rui learned that Zhu Ting had withdrawn and that the Psionic Cannon had been approved, then followed news of the worsening Righteous-Demonic War.
• Three years later, Xia Yun became pregnant after she and Zhu Ting had spent years at White Mountain Temple.
• Zhu Ting told Xia Yun that the First Prince might soon be formally invested, and Xia Yun replied that they might still have a chance.