Chapter Summaries

Li Rui learned more about White Jade Capital’s past and visited its Law Transmission Tower with Pei Yao, where they encountered Tao Fu, a dual-cultivation specialist who had once hoped to use Pei Yao’s curse as leverage. After leaving the tower, Li Rui noticed someone on the dilapidated Yi Chen Peak.

• Pei Yao told Li Rui that White Jade Capital had been weakened by the Dao Lord Rebellion five hundred years earlier and had since guarded its Immortal Fruit closely.
• Li Rui spent much of his time cultivating but increasingly went out with Pei Yao around White Jade Capital.
• On their way to the Law Transmission Tower, Li Rui and Pei Yao met Tao Fu, who discovered that Pei Yao’s Spirit Guiding Immortal Curse had been broken and then became interested in Li Rui’s innate aptitude.
• Li Rui and Pei Yao found that the Law Transmission Tower held many divine abilities, but Li Rui bought nothing because they were too expensive.
• While walking back to Fa Ran Peak alone, Li Rui noticed someone on Yi Chen Peak.

Li Rui completed his refinement of the Great Dao of Time, which strengthened his Immortal Court and caused its peach tree to bear flat peaches. Meanwhile, Tao Fu encountered Li Rui on an errand to Jinting Minor Continent and was killed, leaving Li Rui with his memories and an unexpected discovery.

• Li Rui learned from Pei Yao that the gifted Cui He often cultivated on Yi Chen Peak, then agreed to compete with her to see who would break through first.
• Li Rui absorbed the Peach Immortal Fruit's remaining immortal power, completed the Great Dao of Time, and refined it into Dao Power for his Immortal Court.
• The Immortal Court's peach tree blossomed and produced thumb-sized flat peaches, leading Li Rui to suspect it could yield more Peach Immortal Fruit.
• Tao Fu traveled toward Jinting Minor Continent and attacked a demonic cultivator, but his dharma form failed to affect Li Rui.
• Li Rui killed Tao Fu, forced his Spiritual Soul into reincarnation, and discovered an unexpected delight in Tao Fu's memories.

Li Rui killed Tao Fu and learned that Tao Fu’s master, the Green Silk Ancestor, had been watching Jinting Minor Continent for a century. After the Green Silk Ancestor ordered an investigation, Li Rui and Pei Yao stayed in the White Jade Capital while Li Rui continued refining his divine soul.

• Li Rui discovered from Tao Fu’s memories that Tao Fu had planned to exploit Pei Yao and that the Green Silk Ancestor had repeatedly sent Tao Fu to Jinting Minor Continent.
• Pei Yao told Li Rui she had killed Tao Fu’s two Dao Attendants, eliminating his means of returning through their bodies.
• The Green Silk Ancestor sensed Tao Fu’s death and ordered two men to investigate who had killed him.
• Li Rui kept himself and Pei Yao in the White Jade Capital, relying on Jiang Linxian’s presence and the capital’s rules for protection.
• Li Rui continued cultivating after using up the Peach Immortal Fruit, seeking to perfect his divine soul rather than advance to the middle stage of the Celestial Realm.

Li Rui witnessed Daoist Fa Ran and White Jade Capital’s elders kill Green Silk Ancestor after revealing his connection to North River Dao Lord. Fa Ran then appeared behind Li Rui and asked whether he had seen everything.

• Two Green Silk Peak cultivators discussed investigating Tao Fu’s death but avoided provoking Sword River True Monarch.
• Li Rui stayed in White Jade Capital for five years, cultivating while Green Silk Peak’s investigation stalled.
• Daoist Fa Ran unleashed the Great Dao of Time upon Green Silk Peak, where elders confronted Green Silk Ancestor.
• Green Silk Ancestor revealed that he had comprehended immortal qi, but a True Lord’s giant hand killed him and destroyed his divine soul.
• Li Rui realized Fa Ran might have used him as bait in a scheme involving a Dao Lord.
• Daoist Fa Ran appeared behind Li Rui and asked whether he had seen everything.

Old Daoist Fa Ran explained North River Dao Lord’s plan to rebuild the Immortal Court and revealed why Green Silk had targeted Li Rui. The chapter ended with Cui He introducing himself as Yellow Dragon Child’s reincarnated body.

• Old Daoist Fa Ran brought Li Rui to Bi Feng Prison, where they saw the imprisoned Si Feng.
• Old Daoist Fa Ran told Li Rui that North River Dao Lord had sought to rebuild the Immortal Court by spreading the Immortal Fruit’s power, and that Si Feng had inherited this ambition.
• Old Daoist Fa Ran explained that Green Silk had tried to use Golden Court Grotto-heaven’s remaining karma to rescue Si Feng, drawing Li Rui into the scheme.
• Old Daoist Fa Ran led Li Rui to Yi Chen Peak, where Cui He revealed that he was Yellow Dragon Child’s reincarnated body.

Li Rui accepted Cui He, Yellow Dragon Child reborn, as an adviser in his manor after learning he now cultivated the Path of Following the Dragon. As the Weapon Spirit Old Man neared the end of his hundred-year limit, he passed Longevity Dao Lord’s inheritance to Li Rui, who opened the first restriction and found abundant cultivation resources.

• Cui He explained that Sword River True Monarch had enlightened him after reincarnation, and Old Daoist Fa Ran asked Li Rui to employ him.
• Li Rui appointed Cui He as an adviser in his manor, where Cui He cheerfully annoyed Pei Yao and introduced himself to the others as Adviser Cui He.
• At the Great Void Dao Field, the Weapon Spirit Old Man warned Li Rui that his time was nearly over and entrusted him with the Large Wooden Box.
• Li Rui opened the box and learned it contained four restrictions holding treasures for different cultivation realms.
• Li Rui broke the Celestial Realm restriction and found a wealth of Top Grade Spirit Stones and High-grade Spirit Pills.

Twenty years later, Li Rui achieved Myriad Thoughts Returning to One and a flawless spiritual soul, while his manor prospered under Cui He's governance. In the Fenxin Immortal Dynasty, Zhao Ke strengthened his position and vowed to crush the Anti-Fen Alliance once his maternal grandfather became a True Lord.

• Li Rui completed his spiritual-soul breakthrough, gathering his countless thoughts into one and extending his divine sense across the city.
• Pei Yao sensed Li Rui's breakthrough, and Cui He congratulated him while praising the Eastern Regional Commander's Manor's growing strength.
• Li Rui reflected on Cui He's achievements, including consolidating the six continents and increasing the manor's cultivator numbers and tax revenue.
• Yuan Xianggong reported that the Liu Family would support Zhao Ke, who promised him the post of Vice Minister of Personnel.
• Yuan Xianggong told Zhao Ke that the Anti-Fen Alliance had cut off the Bai Family's sea trade routes, and Zhao Ke vowed to defeat the Qianyuan Immortal Dynasty after his maternal grandfather became a True Lord.

Li Rui learned that the Fenxin Immortal Dynasty had crushed the Tianning Immortal Dynasty and demanded tribute from the Anti-Fen Alliance, forcing the Eastern Regional Commander's Manor to consider how to respond. Cui He proposed seeking Qianyuan Immortal Dynasty protection, but Li Rui sent him with Pei Yao to investigate Fenxin, asserting his authority over the adviser.

• Li Rui gained 20 Achievement Points after his Spiritual Soul's improvement raised his Immortal Ranking.
• Chu Hu informed Li Rui that the Fenxin Immortal Dynasty had killed Tianning's Holy Emperor and severely wounded its ancestor in a sudden attack.
• The Fenxin Immortal Dynasty demanded tribute from the Anti-Fen Alliance, and several immortal dynasties submitted on the first day.
• At a meeting in the Prince's Manor, Cui He urged resistance and suggested requesting Qianyuan Immortal Dynasty troops, then asked why Fenxin had risked war to destroy Tianning.
• Li Rui ordered Mr. Pei to take Cui He to the Fenxin Immortal Dynasty and investigate its motives.

Li Rui attempted to communicate with the Immortal Court artifact spirit and learned that condensing an Immortal Spirit might let him gain its recognition. After welcoming Golden Feather Guard commander Xiang Hong, he asked why the Fenxin Immortal Dynasty had attacked and heard that a Liang Clan elder hoped to become a True Lord.

• Li Rui used the Nine Dragon Sealing Heaven Grand Array to enter the Immortal Court and summon its artifact spirit.
• The artifact spirit said Li Rui would barely qualify if he had an Immortal Spirit, then fell silent when he tried to call it again.
• The Golden Feather Guard arrived at the Eastern Regional Commander's Manor, and Li Rui welcomed Xiang Hong with a banquet.
• Xiang Hong said King Xuan'an had instructed him to discuss matters with Li Rui and praised Li Rui for refusing a marquisate.
• Li Rui asked Xiang Hong why the Fenxin Immortal Dynasty had acted, and Xiang Hong blamed the Liang Clan elder's ambition to become a True Lord.

The Fenxin Immortal Dynasty sent Yuan Xianggong to oversee an attack on the Eastern Regional Commander's Manor and capture Fortune Divine Souls for Old Ancestor Liang. Li Rui anticipated trouble and strengthened Yunze City's defenses, but the enemy reached the Prince's Residence and launched a coordinated assault.

• Zhao Ke ordered Yuan Xianggong to lead the South Garrison Army against the Danhe Immortal Dynasty, the Nanfeng Immortal Dynasty, or the Great Yu Immortal Dynasty to gather Fortune Divine Souls.
• Yuan Xianggong traveled south to supervise the campaign and considered how slowly his cultivation was advancing.
• Four North Garrison Army experts and three hundred Black Cloud Guards assembled near Yunze City to attack Li Rui's Eastern Regional Commander's Manor.
• Xiang Hong told Li Rui that Yuan Xianggong had arrived to supervise the army, prompting Li Rui to order more guards and scouts.
• Old General Qian Dong led the attackers into Yunze City and ordered an assault on the Prince's Residence, where a curtain of light blocked their first strike.

Li Rui used the Nine Dragon Sealing Heaven Grand Array to protect Yunze City from four South Garrison Army attackers until Qianyuan Immortal Dynasty reinforcements arrived. After the attackers fled, General Qi Liyan praised Li Rui and invited him to serve as a general under his Golden Feather Position.

• Qian Dong and the South Garrison Army recognized the Nine Dragon Sealing Heaven Grand Array protecting the Eastern Regional Commander's Manor.
• Li Rui warned the four attackers to leave, but they launched a full assault after threatening Xiang Hong and his family.
• Li Rui sustained the grand array through thousands of attacks, leaving Xiang Hong amazed by his vast mana.
• Qian Dong ordered the South Garrison Army to retreat when Qianyuan Immortal Dynasty reinforcements arrived.
• Qi Liyan praised Li Rui's methods and invited him to become a general under his Golden Feather Position.

Li Rui hosted Qi Liyan and the Qianyuan Immortal Dynasty generals after refusing King Xuan'an's offer of a marquisate, and he completed an achievement for strengthening his dynasty and building alliances. As the Fenxin Immortal Dynasty prepared for war, Li Rui advanced to the middle stage of the Heavenly Being realm through Soul-Spirit Embryo Fusion.

• Xiang Hong told Qi Liyan that Li Rui had declined King Xuan'an's offer to make him a marquis, surprising the Qianyuan generals.
• Li Rui welcomed Qi Liyan and the other generals at a banquet, and they drank together until dawn while pledging mutual support.
• Li Rui received 30 Achievement Points for completing the Internal and External Cultivation mission and anticipated a larger war with the Fenxin Immortal Dynasty.
• Zhao Ke learned that Li Rui had repelled the South Garrison Army's Heavenly Being cultivators, ordered Yuan Xianggong to remain in the south until he destroyed the Yu Kingdom, and resolved to punish him if he failed.
• Over the next year, the Qianyuan and Fenxin Immortal Dynasties faced off as war loomed, while Li Rui achieved Soul-Spirit Embryo Fusion and reached the middle stage of the Heavenly Being realm.

Li Rui completed the fusion of his soul and Dao Embryo, greatly increasing his strength as the Fenxin and Qianyuan Immortal Dynasties fought in the south. Cui He tried to use an array to uncover the Fenxin Immortal Dynasty’s secrets, but the attempt went wrong.

• Li Rui merged his soul with his Dao Embryo, which devoured the immortal qi in his Violet Palace and gained enough strength to kill Early Celestial Being Stage cultivators.
• Li Rui’s True Martial Realm expanded to a range of a thousand zhang as the Fenxin and Qianyuan Immortal Dynasties continued their war in the southern kingdoms.
• Pei Yao questioned Cui He’s lack of progress in Fenxin City, and he promised he would soon uncover the Fenxin Immortal Dynasty’s secrets.
• Li Rui arrived at Jade Dragon City and told Xiang Hong that he had driven off Zhou Fa, a Middle Celestial Being Stage general.
• Cui He lit seven lotus lamps and performed a fortune-telling array, but he spat blood and cried out, “Bad!”

Ancestor Liang used the Nether Void Leaving Fire to try to attain True Lordhood, revealing that the Fenxin Immortal Dynasty had manipulated the war to awaken the treasure. Just as Li Rui and others withdrew, Old Daoist Fa Ran and other figures from White Jade Capital stopped Ancestor Liang from taking the fire.

• Ancestor Liang drew magma from Fuhuo Province’s volcano after the Liang Clan patriarch reported that the Living Souls had been cast in.
• Li Rui and Xiang Hong realized the Fenxin Immortal Dynasty had used the war’s deaths and fortune to stir the Nether Void Leaving Fire and aid Ancestor Liang’s breakthrough.
• Li Rui retreated toward Yunze City, while Xiang Hong led the Qianyuan Immortal Dynasty’s soldiers away in another direction.
• The Qianyuan Holy Emperor and the Qianyuan Ancestor accepted that they could not stop the Fenxin Immortal Dynasty, but the Qianyuan Ancestor then sensed a sudden change.
• Old Daoist Fa Ran and other figures appeared above the volcano, stopped time around it, and halted Ancestor Liang from absorbing the Nether Void Leaving Fire.

The five great immortal sects seized the Nether Void Leaving Fire and forced the Fenxin Immortal Dynasty to retreat, while Li Rui learned that Yuan Xuanming had engineered the conflict and escaped to Chongyao Province. Li Rui returned to Yunze City without finding him, then confronted Cui He about Jiang Linxian’s first wife and heard that Cui He had made an agreement with Sword River Dao Lord.

• Ancestor Liang accepted that the five great immortal sects had the upper hand and left as their members divided the Nether Void Leaving Fire.
• Li Rui sensed the fire being sealed, reasoned that the sects were asserting their dominance, and set out for the Fenxin Immortal Dynasty’s camp to kill Yuan Xuanming.
• Yuan Xuanming revealed that he had informed Myriad Laws Palace and the Blood Demon Sect, gained a transformation of the Azure Dragon Nine Transformations, and fled to Chongyao Province.
• Li Rui searched the Fenxin Immortal Dynasty’s camp but found Yuan Xuanming had already escaped, then learned from Old Daoist Fa Ran how Yuan Xuanming had drawn the sects into the conflict.
• Cui He claimed credit for uncovering Yuan Xuanming’s identity and conspiracy, then told Li Rui that killing Jiang Linxian’s first wife had been part of an agreement with Sword River Dao Lord.

Li Rui learned why Jiang Linxian had arranged Yellow Dragon Child’s reincarnation and received the Nether Void Leaving Fire’s origin essence from Jiang Yan. Jiang Yan left to become a Sword Cultivator, while Li Rui planned to use the flame to advance his Blood Burning Seven Revolutions.

• Cui He explained that Sword River True Monarch arranged for Jiang Linxian’s wife to die so his next life would have the motivation to return to the Immortal Path, and Li Rui reflected that Jiang Linxian was trying to make amends to Jiang Yan.
• Cui He revealed that Yu Zhuo monopolized the Way of Dragon Slaying, leaving no chance for another Dragon Slayer Dao Lord.
• Over the next three years, Li Rui merged his soul with the Myriad Thoughts Returning to One Dao Embryo, entered the middle stage of the Celestial Realm, and greatly strengthened his Dao foundation.
• Ning Zhongtian brought Jiang Yan to Li Rui, and she gave him a Small Jade Bottle containing the Nether Void Leaving Fire’s origin essence on her father’s behalf.
• Jiang Yan told Li Rui she was leaving with Qingluan Fairy for Southern Zhengyang Province to become a Sword Cultivator, and Li Rui wished her well.
• Li Rui recognized the bottle as a True Lord-level suppressing artifact and planned to use the flame to cultivate the third revolution of Blood Burning Seven Revolutions.

Li Rui completed the Third Revolution of Blood Burning Seven Revolutions and agreed to travel to Chongyao Province with Qi Liyan and Xiang Hong. At Joyful Union Valley, he avoided a hidden karmic trap and unexpectedly encountered Fellow Daoist Hong, who was leading a little boy.

• Li Rui used a thread of Nether Void Leaving Fire to complete two revolutions and reach the Third Revolution of Blood Burning Seven Revolutions.
• Xiang Hong and Qi Liyan invited Li Rui to visit Chongyao Province, and he accepted.
• Qi Liyan took Li Rui and the others to Joyful Union Valley, where Li Rui saw scarlet threads linking its visitors to stolen karma.
• Li Rui used an illusion to avoid engaging in dual cultivation and appeared in a secluded alley.
• Li Rui met Fellow Daoist Hong, who was leading a little boy, and the boy asked who Li Rui was.

Li Rui encountered Hong Tianqi at Joyful Union Valley, where Hong was hunting a Fox Demon accused of stealing a Ji Clan disciple’s Dao Embryo. After Li Rui and his companions visited the market, they saw Ji Jiao’s pursuit of the Fox Demon turn into an ambush by beasts from the Ten Thousand Demon Forest.

• Li Rui met Hong Tianqi, who confirmed that his young disciple was Hong Tianyong’s reincarnation and explained that he had come to hunt a Fox Demon.
• After returning to Spider Cave, Li Rui joined Qi Liyan and the others in visiting Joyful Union Valley’s market.
• Li Rui and his companions saw Ji Jiao and other Ji Clan cultivators pursuing a Fox Demon through the sky.
• Ji Jiao demanded that the Fox Demon return his cousin’s stolen Dao Embryo and ordered his men to attack her.
• The hill beneath the Ji Clan cultivators revealed itself as an old turtle, while other beasts from the Ten Thousand Demon Forest surrounded them.

Li Rui killed the Fox Demon, rescued Ji Cangwu’s Dao Embryo, and left the credit to Hong Tianqi. After the Ji Clan offered Hong Tianqi a retainer position, he accepted to gain their protection.

• Qi Liyan recognized the Ten Thousand Demon Forest’s demon aura as Ji Jiao fought its cultivators to a standstill.
• The Fox Demon fled with Ji Cangwu’s Dao Embryo, but Li Rui appeared, killed her, and absorbed a wisp of golden radiance from the Dao Embryo.
• Ji Jiao’s people found Ji Cangwu’s Dao Embryo, and Ji Cangwu said Hong Tianqi had killed the Fox Demon and saved him.
• Ji Jiao ordered the Ji Clan to reward Hong Tianqi and ask him to become their retainer.
• Hong Tianqi realized someone had assigned him the credit to avoid entanglement in karma, then accepted the Ji Clan’s offer for protection.

Li Rui uncovered the Great Dao Chaos Diagram by tracing the origin of a Ji Clan genius’s Innate Dao Embryo, intending to use it to perfect his own Dao Embryo. Ten years later, Jiang Linxian arrived with a chance for Li Rui to compete for White Jade Capital’s Dao Child position.

• Li Rui extracted a thread of origin from the Ji Clan genius’s Dao Embryo and discovered the Great Dao Chaos Diagram, a visualization method for tempering Innate Dao Embryos.
• Li Rui resolved to use the diagram to strengthen his Dao Embryo and improve his chances of forming an Immortal Spirit Nascent Soul.
• Ten years later, Cui He reached the Purple Palace Realm and teased Yuan Xiong and Nie Siming about his rapid cultivation.
• Jiang Linxian visited Li Rui’s manor, where Cui He revealed that she was a koi demon who had been enlightened by Sword River True Monarch.
• Jiang Linxian told Li Rui that he had earned a slot to compete for White Jade Capital’s Dao Child position and urged him to prepare.