Chapter Summaries

Li Rui took charge of Heaven Array Tower and used the Sect Leader’s authority to study two ancient arrays, improving his array skills to the Spirit Severing Realm over five years. When Deputy Sect Leader Zhao emerged from seclusion, Li Rui chose not to confront him unless he caused trouble.

• Li Rui arrived at Heaven Array Tower with Liu Tiezhu and Wang Zhao, and Zhou Kaihe welcomed him as the new Sect Leader.
• Li Rui reviewed the tower’s array catalog and used the Sect Leader’s Jade Talisman to retrieve the Mystic Mirage Seven Illusions Array and Heavenly Dipper Star Array.
• Li Rui studied the arrays for five years and advanced his array arts to the Spirit Severing Realm.
• Zhou Kaihe told Li Rui that Deputy Sect Leader Zhao had emerged from seclusion, and Li Rui decided to leave him alone unless he acted against him.

Li Rui learned that the war against the Myriad Laws Palace was going poorly and discovered that the Immortal Court’s Lord had cultivated the Chaos Dao, which might help him claim the Immortal Court. Three years later, Liu Qing arrived with news that Zhao An had betrayed them and Yan Kong was dead.

• Bai Fengnian told Li Rui that the Myriad Laws Palace’s forces were pressing White Jade Capital and its allies in the ongoing war.
• Li Rui entered the Immortal Tomb, where the artifact spirit mentioned the Chaos Dao, the Immortal Lord, and a supreme Dao.
• Li Rui reasoned that advancing his Chaos Dao Seed and Chaos Body could win the artifact spirit’s recognition and help him seize the Immortal Court.
• Three years later, Li Rui showed signs that his Primordial Spirit could leave his body.
• Liu Qing told Li Rui that Zhao An had betrayed them and Yan Kong was dead.

Li Rui went to Qianyuan City after Zhao An betrayed White Jade Capital and helped kill Yan Kong, joining the Myriad Laws Palace and Ancestor Liang. As White Jade Capital, the Qianyuan Immortal Dynasty, and Xuanfa Temple prepared to confront the Fenxin Immortal Dynasty, an Xuanfa Temple monk saw Li Rui’s Dragon Tiger Golden Body.

• Zhao An joined the Myriad Laws Palace after ambushing Yan Kong and helping force him to reincarnate, while Ancestor Liang reflected on his own entanglement with the palace.
• Li Rui and Liu Qing arrived at the Eastern Regional Commander’s Manor, where Liu Qing explained Zhao An’s betrayal and Yan Kong’s fate.
• Li Rui told Cui He to watch the Fenxin Immortal Dynasty, then traveled with Liu Qing to Qianyuan City to avenge Yan Kong.
• King Xuan’an welcomed Li Rui and Liu Qing, then brought them to meet the Xuanfa Temple monks gathered at his residence.
• The leading old monk greeted Li Rui and saw him surrounded by golden light with dragons and tigers, identifying his Dragon Tiger Golden Body.

Li Rui rallied White Jade Capital, Xuanfa Temple, Shenxuan Sect, and Qianyuan Immortal Dynasty to punish Fenxin Immortal Dynasty for Yan Kong’s death. The allied forces set out to surprise attack the Liang Clan Ancestral Land, where Zhao An was reported to be.

• Master Baodu recognized Li Rui’s supreme Dragon Tiger Golden Body and learned that Yan Kong had died in Fenxin Immortal Dynasty’s siege.
• Li Rui declared that Fenxin Immortal Dynasty must be punished, and Master Baodu promised to report White Jade Capital’s position to Xuanfa Temple.
• Five days later, Xuanfa Temple’s reinforcements arrived, and Li Rui joined Xiang Xin and King Xuan’an in preparing for war.
• Li Rui ordered a surprise attack on the Liang Clan Ancestral Land, choosing it because Fenxin City was protected by a Dynasty-Guarding Grand Array and Zhao An was there.
• Li Rui and Zhou Min traveled with the allied force toward Fenxin City and the Liang Clan’s ancestral land.

The allied forces attacked the Liang Clan, where Ancestor Liang used the Nether Void Leaving Fire to battle Old Daoist Fa Ran. Meanwhile, Li Rui confronted the traitor Zhao An and countered his soul attack with the first character of the Six-Character Mantra.

• Xiang Xin and the allied forces attacked the Liang Clan's ancestral grounds, overwhelming its defenders.
• Ancestor Liang erupted in black flames and fought Old Daoist Fa Ran, while Liu Qing, Xiang Xin, and the others battled Myriad Laws Palace experts.
• Kongdu and the monks of the Suspended Temple formed a Buddhist formation to confront Wine-Meat Monk.
• Li Rui confronted Zhao An, who attacked him with a golden vajra pestle and then launched a Buddhist soul attack.
• Li Rui uttered Lin, striking Zhao An's soul with such force that Zhao An could barely stand.

Li Rui defeated and beheaded Zhao An while Ancestor Liang revealed his Half-Step True Lord power and attacked Old Daoist Fa Ran. Li Rui escaped with Liu Qing using a Teleportation Array as another True Lord struck, leaving the Liang Clan operation unfinished.

• Li Rui damaged Zhao An's divine soul, overwhelmed him with the True Martial Realm, and beheaded him.
• Ancestor Liang unleashed the Netherworld Flame and used his newly rooted Dao Seed to attack Old Daoist Fa Ran.
• Old Daoist Fa Ran crossed through time and shattered his Dao Seed to sever Ancestor Liang's future path.
• Liu Qing arrived, and he and Li Rui decided to retreat because Ancestor Liang's strength made their mission impossible to complete.
• Li Rui activated a Teleportation Array and escaped with Liu Qing just before another True Lord attacked.

After crippling Ancestor Liang and seizing a fragment of his Dao Seed origin, Old Daoist Fa Ran gave part of it to Li Rui in the hope that Li Rui might one day help him become a Dao Lord. Li Rui returned to Heaven Array Tower to cultivate and later awoke in the Great Void Dao Field, heading for Wuzhong Dao Lord’s stellar residence.

• Old Daoist Fa Ran explained that he planned to reincarnate and use the Dao Seed fragment he had taken from Ancestor Liang to improve his chances of comprehending immortal qi.
• Old Daoist Fa Ran gave Li Rui a spark of the stolen Dao Seed origin and asked him to remember their bond if he ever became a Dao Lord.
• Li Rui returned to Evergreen Peak and reflected on the Chaos and Netherflame Dao Seed fragments he had obtained.
• Li Rui went to Heaven Array Tower, confirmed with Bai Fengnian that all was well, then cultivated until dusk and fell asleep by the railing.
• Li Rui woke on the Great Void Dao Field and went to Wuzhong Dao Lord’s stellar residence.

Li Rui cultivated in Wuzhong Dao Lord's Violet Palace Realm and drove Zhong Li away when he attempted to reach its inheritance. After ten years, Old Daoist Fa Ran reincarnated, and Li Rui's cultivation had grown toward forming a world within himself; Bai Fengnian then brought news that Fufeng True Monarch requested an audience.

• Li Rui discovered that starlight within Wuzhong Dao Lord's Violet Palace Realm greatly accelerated his cultivation and expanded his own Violet Palace Realm.
• Zhong Li entered the Great Void Dao Field seeking Wuzhong Dao Lord's inheritance, but Li Rui used Starlight Power to repel him, and the hall's pressure reduced Zhong Li to ash.
• Li Rui reflected on the era's many geniuses and continued cultivating for ten years.
• Old Daoist Fa Ran reincarnated through Liberation by Violence, and Li Rui bid him farewell from afar.
• Li Rui's Violet Palace Realm grew into a vast small world, and Bai Fengnian told him that Fufeng True Monarch requested an audience.

Fufeng True Lord brought Li Rui to White Jade Capital’s Chisang Immortal Tree as the Great Fortune he had promised him. Li Rui began comprehending the Dao beneath the tree and heard an ethereal scripture that could guide his cultivation.

• Li Rui visited Fufeng True Lord, who remembered his promise from the Dao Child Competition and led him away from the mountain.
• Fufeng True Lord brought Li Rui to the Chisang Immortal Tree after obtaining the Dao Lords’ approval for him to comprehend the Dao beneath it for one day.
• Li Rui entered the spiritual-energy lake and sat beneath the Immortal Tree, sensing its pure immortal aura.
• Li Rui heard ethereal immortal music reciting a scripture about the spirits of the body and preserving them to attain longevity.

Li Rui’s day beneath the Immortal Tree transformed his Violet Palace Realm, and he returned to the Great Void Dao Field after consolidating his gains. There, he found that Zhong Li had obtained Dao Lord Wanxu’s inheritance.

• Ancestor Liang joined the Myriad Laws Palace as an ordinary elder, while Wine-Meat Monk welcomed him and Ancestor Liang looked toward True Monarch Yellow Dragon’s former cave abode.
• Li Rui comprehended the Dao beneath the Immortal Tree for a day and night, expanding his Violet Palace Realm to three thousand li and filling its Immortal Court’s dry pond with rainwater.
• Fufeng True Monarch praised Li Rui for enduring beneath the Immortal Tree and led him out of the valley.
• Liu Qing met Li Rui and learned that he had visited the valley; Ding Jun passed them, and Liu Qing said Ding Jun had slain a Late Spirit Division executioner of the Myriad Laws Palace.
• Li Rui consolidated his gains, entered the Great Void Dao Field, and saw that Zhong Li had obtained Dao Lord Wanxu’s inheritance.

Ancestor Liang met Yellow Dragon Dao Lord and learned that a blood sacrifice and the Ascension Platform could help him escape the Outer Heavens. Li Rui was forced into the Great Void Dao Field’s Contention Stage, where he encountered Zhong Li and was recognized.

• The Goatee Old Man provoked Ancestor Liang about his slain grandson, but Ancestor Liang said he had severed himself from the past.
• Ancestor Liang secretly met Yellow Dragon Dao Lord, who demanded a blood sacrifice and passage through the Ascension Platform.
• Li Rui cultivated in Wuzhong Dao Lord’s bronze hall until the Great Void Dao Field announced the Contention Stage, then prevented him from awakening and leaving.
• Li Rui and Zhong Li appeared in the Contention Stage plaza, where neither attacked the other.
• Zhong Li identified Li Rui despite his false name, then invited him to sit and talk.

Li Rui continued cultivating in the Great Void Dao Field while Liu Qing told him about Ding Jun’s battlefield exploits and White Jade Capital’s efforts to recruit disciples. Meanwhile, Ancestor Liang and a group of powerful allies prepared to attack Qianyuan City, where Ding Jun was present.

• Li Rui recalled his Dao discussion with Zhong Li and expanded his Violet Palace to three thousand three hundred li, bringing him closer to the four-thousand-li Corner of the Immortal Court.
• Liu Qing praised Ding Jun’s growing reputation after he killed three Spirit Severing Realm cultivators, and explained how White Jade Capital’s rewards and wartime momentum were drawing disciples into battle.
• Li Rui declined to pursue an Immortal Fruit, while Liu Qing envied his apparent good fortune and left the Heaven Array Tower.
• Ancestor Liang watched Qianyuan City with an evil cultivator elder, Wine-Meat Monk, and other allies, expecting a blood sacrifice to help Yellow Dragon Dao Lord return from the Outer Heavens.
• Wine-Meat Monk pointed out that Ding Jun was in Qianyuan City, making the planned attack a chance to achieve three goals at once.

Li Rui returned to Clear River with Liu Qing and discovered that the people there worshipped him as an immortal, gathering fortunes around his statue. He completed the Ancestral Dragon achievement and became clad in Yu Kingdom’s Dragon Vein, while the Holy Emperor hinted that he had arranged the gift.

• Liu Qing told Li Rui that he had killed seven soul cultivators using soul banners and wondered why they had reappeared in Taihua Province.
• After a year of closed-door cultivation, Li Rui told Liu Qing he was returning to Yu Kingdom, and Liu Qing joined him.
• Li Rui and Liu Qing arrived in Clear River, where crowds celebrated Immortal Worship Day and venerated a statue of Li Rui.
• Li Rui realized that worship from across Yu Kingdom had gathered mixed fortunes around him.
• Li Rui received the Ancestral Dragon achievement, 30 Achievement Points, and the Dragon Vein of Yu Kingdom.
• The Holy Emperor and Chief Zhang sensed the change in the imperial palace, and the Holy Emperor asked whether Li Rui liked his gift.

Li Rui returned to Yu Kingdom, where the dynasty’s accumulated fortune strengthened his cultivation, and he continued to manage his influence through his disciples. Elsewhere, Cui He investigated the blood sacrifice of the Xuanhun Immortal Dynasty while Li Rui and Zhong Li exchanged pointers and discussed Dao Seeds.

• Li Rui learned from Liang He that his memorial tablet had been placed in the Zhu Family ancestral temple, then urged the Heaven and Earth Alliance to remain discreet and resumed cultivating with Yu Kingdom’s accumulated fortune.
• Yuan Dingting, Pei Yao, and Cui He discussed the unexplained blood sacrifice of the Xuanhun Immortal Dynasty, and Cui He said he had sent the Black Feather Guard to investigate.
• Cui He sensed a familiar aura that made his divine soul tremble and identified it as Yellow Dragon Dao Lord.
• Li Rui and Zhong Li exchanged pointers in the Great Void Dao Field, and Zhong Li praised Li Rui’s strength.
• Li Rui asked whether Zhong Li had found a Dao Seed, and Zhong Li replied that he had not chosen one yet.

Zhong Li told Li Rui about the Myriad Dao Primordial Method and the possibility of cultivating multiple Dao Seeds, while Li Rui kept his own inheritance secret. Meanwhile, Cui He feared Yellow Dragon Dao Lord’s return as the soul cultivators prepared a blood sacrifice, and Li Rui sensed the Immortal Tomb in the Ten Thousand Mountains from four thousand li away.

• Zhong Li explained that Dao Seeds should suit their cultivator and described the Myriad Dao Primordial Method, which could lead to multiple Dao Fruits.
• Zhong Li suggested Li Rui might cultivate multiple Dao Seeds, while Li Rui privately reflected that he had already consumed ten thousand Daos.
• Cui He learned that the Xuanhun Immortal Dynasty had been blood-sacrificed and worried that Yellow Dragon Dao Lord had found a way back from the Outer Heavens.
• Ancestor Liang learned that the soul cultivators needed one hundred thousand Living Souls for Yellow Dragon Dao Lord’s return on the Day of Extreme Yin, and the Qianyuan Immortal Dynasty could supply only eighty thousand.
• Li Rui sensed a location four thousand li away and identified it as the Immortal Tomb in the Ten Thousand Mountains.

Li Rui entered the Immortal Tomb and devoured its Corner of the Immortal Court, housing the eight-thousand-li treasure within his four-thousand-li Violet Palace Realm. After recognizing a damaged Ascension Platform at its core, he considered gathering the Immortal Court’s fragments to restore it and ascend; an old man in a Crimson Gold Dragon Robe also noticed the platform from the Outer Heavens.

• Li Rui used the Immortal Court grand formation to enter the Immortal Tomb and ignored its artifact spirit’s protests as he headed for the core.
• Li Rui expanded his Violet Palace Realm to engulf the Corner of the Immortal Court, shaking the Ten Thousand Mountains and drawing the attention of powerful beings and Dao Lords.
• The Immortal Court’s ancient power shattered the Dao Lords’ Great Dao net, and the White Jade Capital elder recognized it as the Ancient Immortal Court.
• Li Rui ground away the artifact spirit and successfully housed the Immortal Court within his Violet Palace Realm, gaining a surge of Immortal Dao power.
• Li Rui recognized the damaged white jade platform as the Ascension Platform and considered restoring it with the Immortal Court’s remaining fragments.
• An old man in a Crimson Gold Dragon Robe opened his eyes in the Outer Heavens and murmured, “Ascension Platform.”

After witnessing the Immortal Tomb’s power, Li Rui returned to White Jade Capital instead of pursuing its opportunity, choosing to digest the Immortal Court’s power in safety. As he cultivated, the Chaos Dao Seed in his Purple Palace began to sprout, marking minor attainment in the Chaos Body.

• Li Rui sensed that the Immortal Court’s power had brought his Primordial Spirit close to leaving his body.
• Liu Qing told Li Rui that Shuangquan Dao Lord and other powerful cultivators were converging on the Immortal Tomb, but Li Rui decided to return to White Jade Capital.
• In the Great Void Dao Field, Zhong Li revealed that Divine Deer Academy possessed the Ink-Grinding Platform, a mystic weapon of the Lord of the Ancient Immortal Court, and said he intended to prove a Dao of his own.
• Li Rui cultivated at Heaven Array Tower and Evergreen Peak while drawing out the Immortal Court’s origin.
• Li Rui saw the Chaos Dao Seed in his Purple Palace begin to sprout, signaling minor attainment in the Chaos Body.

Li Rui cultivated his Chaos Body to minor achievement using the Immortal Court's origin, then learned that Myriad Laws Palace had destroyed the Qianyuan Immortal Dynasty. Ancestor Liang arrived at White Jade Capital, where Dao Lord Xiang Tianzhi announced that he had come to seek the Dao.

• Li Rui's Chaos Body reached minor achievement, greatly strengthening his physical body, while the incomplete Chaos Dao Seed disappeared.
• Bai Fengnian told Li Rui that Myriad Laws Palace had blood-sacrificed Qianyuan City, killing the Holy Emperor and everyone else in the city.
• Ancestor Liang revealed that Liang Clan members had supplied the twenty thousand additional victims needed for the sacrifice, then flew toward White Jade Capital.
• Li Rui sensed a giant hand appear over White Jade Capital's mountain-protecting formation and recognized its owner as a Dao Lord.
• Xiang Tianzhi introduced himself and said he had come to seek the Dao at White Jade Capital.

White Jade Capital was attacked by Dao Lords and cultivators from the Myriad Laws Palace and Blood Demon Sect while Li Rui faced three Late Spirit Division opponents in the Heaven Array Tower. Li Rui survived Ancestor Liang’s Netherflame and severed his Great Dao, leaving Ancestor Liang gravely wounded before disappearing.

• Three Dao Lords broke White Jade Capital’s protective formation as cultivators from the Myriad Laws Palace and Blood Demon Sect flooded into the city.
• Ding Jun was surrounded by five powerful enemies and fought them with his ten-thousand-foot Dharma Manifestation while Liu Qing moved through the battlefield.
• Ancestor Liang, Wine-Meat Monk, and the Soul Cultivator Ancestor confronted Li Rui in the Heaven Array Tower, and Ancestor Liang attacked with Netherflame.
• Li Rui disappeared using Hidden Wings, but the Heaven-Peering Mirror revealed that he remained inside the tower and had entered the Netherflame unharmed.
• Li Rui clenched his palm and extinguished the black flame, severing Ancestor Liang’s path to the Great Dao and causing him to fall from the tower.
• Li Rui vanished from the Heaven Array Tower while Ancestor Liang lay wounded below.

Xiang Tianzhi and the other Dao Lords withdrew after Zhuge Ming activated White Jade Capital’s Immortal Tree, forcing Yellow Dragon Dao Lord back into the Outer Heavens. Fufeng True Monarch then brought Li Rui to meet Zhuge Ming beneath the Immortal Tree.

• Xiang Tianzhi arrived at White Jade Capital with the Devouring Heaven Cauldron while Zhuge Ming and Junior Brother Ji prepared to face him.
• A powerful aura signaled that Yellow Dragon Dao Lord’s return had succeeded, and Xiang Tianzhi put away the cauldron.
• Zhuge Ming activated White Jade Capital’s Immortal Tree, spending his lifespan to drive off the attacking Dao Lords and force Yellow Dragon Dao Lord back into the Outer Heavens.
• Liu Qing recalled the deaths in the battle and reflected on Li Rui’s survival and his defeat of Ancestor Liang.
• Fufeng True Monarch led Li Rui to the valley where Zhuge Ming greeted him beneath the Immortal Tree.