Chapter Summaries

Li Rui completed the Crimson Palace Grotto-heaven and safely housed Oblivion Abyss alongside True Martial Descent. As Zhong Li became a True Lord and Dao Lord Qianxin faced a mysterious offer of help, Li Rui received a summons concerning the Ascension Platform.

• After taking ten steps on the White Jade Bridge, Li Rui tempered his Heart Mansion until the Crimson Palace Grotto-heaven was complete.
• Li Rui moved Oblivion Abyss into the Crimson Palace, then used the Myriad Dao Primordial Method to keep its Dao Power from clashing with True Martial Descent.
• Dao Lord Qianxin recognized the Three Purities Sect's involvement in his setback and heard Yellow Dragon offer to help heal his Dao Injury.
• Li Rui sensed Zhong Li's heavenly tribulation, and news spread that Zhong Li had entered the Body Integration Realm and received the Human Emperor's reward.
• A Dao chime sounded from beyond the Southern Heaven Gate, declaring that one had to enter the Ascension Platform to become an immortal of eternal life and deathlessness.

Li Rui rejected the mysterious Ascension Platform after sensing its danger, though its brief disturbance alerted the Divine Void Immortal Dynasty and other powers that it might soon open. Master Zhu explained how rare suppressing objects were and said the Ascension Platform could draw them out, giving Li Rui hope of finding the three or four he needed for his Dao Seed.

• Li Rui sealed the Southern Heaven Gate and withdrew rather than risk entering the Ascension Platform with his Late Spirit Division cultivation.
• Star Guardian Dao Lord told the Divine Void Human Emperor and the other gathered Dao Lords that someone had triggered the Ascension Platform and that its opening might not be far off.
• Yellow Dragon Dao Lord told Dao Lord Qianxin that the substance healing his Dao Injury was Immortal Dao Origin, but Qianxin cut off their connection.
• Master Zhu explained to Li Rui that cultivators needed compatible suppressing objects to advance through the major realms, and that many spent lifetimes searching for them.
• Master Zhu said the Ascension Platform could draw forth the Immortal Cultivation World's suppressing objects, and Li Rui realized he needed at least three or four for his Dao Seed.

Li Rui established Oblivion Abyss in his Crimson Palace Grotto-heaven and considered how to obtain suppressing artifacts for his Dao Seeds. Through his incarnation Lu Yang, he turned the Black Crow Demonic Sect into a recognized immortal sect, preparing to reincarnate into the Three Purities Sect and receive its enlightenment.

• Li Rui opened Oblivion Abyss within his Crimson Palace Grotto-heaven and weighed forcibly merging his confirmed Daos if he could not find suitable suppressing artifacts.
• In Sanqing Province, Lu Yang refined a demonic sect master into a puppet and made himself Supreme Elder of the sect on Black Crow Mountain.
• Lu Yang bribed Three Purities Sect visitors with gifts, and they recognized the Black Crow Immortal Sect's jurisdiction over the surrounding hundred li in exchange for tribute.
• Lu Yang told Zhu Yuanlong he planned to reincarnate with his resources and seek enlightenment from the Three Purities Sect, aiming to become one of its geniuses in his next life.

Li Rui discovered that True Monarch Wuwei was an avatar of Yellow Dragon Dao Lord and that Dao Lord Qianxin had met with him over a grand sacrifice at the Ascension Platform. Wary of the danger in Divine Void City, Li Rui fled to Chongyao Province and began two years of secluded cultivation.

• Li Rui planned to use his future avatar to gain the backing of the Three Purities Sect after reaching the True Lord realm.
• Dao Lord Qianxin visited Wuwei Temple, where True Monarch Wuwei revealed Immortal Dao Origin and proposed a grand sacrifice at the Ascension Platform.
• Li Rui learned that True Monarch Wuwei was Yellow Dragon Dao Lord's avatar and that Dao Lord Qianxin had secretly visited him.
• Li Rui decided that Dao Lord Qianxin made Divine Void City unsafe and left in a carriage from Master Zhu's residence.
• Li Rui reached Chongyao Province, established a cave abode in a secluded mountain forest, and cultivated in seclusion for two years.

The Divine Void Immortal Dynasty sought Immortal's Gifts from aging Dao Lords to conduct a grand sacrifice for the Ascension Platform, while Li Rui realized the threats facing the immortal sects and resolved to grow stronger. The dynasty's Dao Lords chose Shenxuan Sect as their next target, leaving White Jade Capital and its Immortal Tomb in danger.

• Dao Lord Qianxin demanded the Tianshu Sword from Kui Jian, explaining that the Divine Void Immortal Dynasty needed it for a grand sacrifice for the Ascension Platform, and Kui Jian challenged him to take it by force.
• Over the following three years, the Divine Void Immortal Dynasty sought Immortal's Gifts from other aging sects, while Li Rui secretly traced the Gifts' unusual activity and considered how vulnerable the sects had become.
• Li Rui reflected that Jiang Linxian carried White Jade Capital's future and that he needed to strengthen himself to face the growing turmoil.
• Dao Lord Qianxin and the other Dao Lords discussed targeting White Jade Capital, Shenxuan Sect, and Taihua Province for another Immortal's Gift.
• The Divine Void Immortal Dynasty's Dao Lords settled on Shenxuan Sect as their next target.

Zhuge Ming agreed to protect Shenxuan Sect in exchange for an Ascension Platform place, arranging for his junior brother to swear the Dao Oath. At Divine Void City, the Divine Void Human Emperor began the grand sacrifice, and an ancient stone platform appeared through a black vortex.

• Zhuge Ming welcomed Dao Lord Shenhun, who explained that the Divine Void Immortal Dynasty had borrowed Shenxuan Sect's Shenxuan Immortal Sword for its Ascension Platform sacrifice.
• Dao Lord Shenhun offered an Ascension Platform place in exchange for White Jade Capital protecting Shenxuan Sect for five hundred years after his death.
• Zhuge Ming negotiated for his junior brother to swear the Dao Oath instead of Jiang Linxian and Li Rui, and the two sects' representatives sealed the agreement.
• The Divine Void Human Emperor began the grand sacrifice before cultivators from major powers gathered outside Divine Void City.
• Seven types of Immortal's Gift rose from the altar, opening a black vortex that revealed an ancient stone platform drifting through the void.

Li Rui waited outside the Ascension Platform while planning to enter through the Juxiang Gate after seven days, when he could avoid attracting attention. His avatar, Lu Yang, eventually entered the secret realm and spotted the Martial Emperor Coin.

• Jiang Linxian gave Li Rui the Juxiang Gate so White Jade Capital could send another person into the Ascension Platform.
• Li Rui chose to wait seven days before entering, while Ji Fan and Ye Yuan also delayed joining the first group.
• More than eight hundred cultivators entered the Ascension Platform after ancient sects opened passages.
• Lu Yang cautiously explored the barren secret realm and learned from Zhu Yuanlong about the danger of Outer Realm Demonic Fiends.
• Lu Yang saw a golden light and recognized the Martial Emperor Coin as a suppressive object.

Li Rui seized the Martial Emperor Coin at the Ascension Platform Secret Realm despite its fierce backlash and King Tianxuan’s threats. After Li Rui revealed the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, King Tianxuan recognized him as the Demonic Cultivator who had killed Xie Tingxuan and trapped him in the Crimson Chi Immortal Array, where Li Rui unleashed a storm of divine souls.

• Li Rui flew after the Martial Emperor Coin and decided to claim it, while Zhu Yuanlong wondered why the coin interested him.
• King Tianxuan and other cultivators converged on the coin, but Li Rui grabbed it despite King Tianxuan’s threat and endured its invading Killing Intent.
• King Tianxuan struck Li Rui with a giant dragon claw, but Li Rui blocked the attack with the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, revealing himself as a Demonic Cultivator.
• King Tianxuan recognized Li Rui as the cultivator who had killed Xie Tingxuan and joined the Divine Void Immortal Dynasty’s forces to form the Crimson Chi Immortal Array around him.
• Li Rui remained calm inside the formation and unleashed a storm of divine souls.

Li Rui used his soul Dao Seed and the Immortal Slaughtering Array Diagram to cripple King Tianxuan and escape the Crimson Chi Immortal Array. After recovering in a stone forest, he secured the Martial Emperor Coin, then sensed someone beginning to attain the Dao.

• Li Rui’s Oblivion Abyss soul storm destabilized the Crimson Chi Immortal Array and prevented the Divine Void Immortal Dynasty experts from using it against him.
• King Tianxuan attacked Li Rui with a True Lord mystic weapon, but Li Rui’s seven small towers blocked it while his soul silver needle pierced King Tianxuan and destroyed half his soul.
• Li Rui used the Immortal Slaughtering Array Diagram to break out of the array and vanish, while Ji Fan judged him possibly the true number one on the Earth Rankings.
• Dao Lord Qianxin appeared, called the crippled King Tianxuan trash, and left to search for the Ascension Platform.
• Li Rui suppressed the array intent and cleared the Martial Emperor Coin’s hidden Killing Intent, realizing the coin could suppress his fortune when he reached the Fusion stage.
• Li Rui sensed a powerful aura and saw a great sun rise, signaling that someone was about to attain the Dao.

Jiang Linxian neared attainment of the Luotian River Dao Fruit as Zhuge Ming and his allies faced eight Dao Lords seeking to stop her. Shuangquan Dao Lord saved her at the cost of Zhuge Ming’s remaining lifespan and a promise to yield his Dao Fruit after reincarnation.

• Xiang Tianzhi gathered with Dao Lords from the Jiedao Sect and Myriad Laws Palace to attack Jiang Linxian, while Zhuge Ming, Dao Lord Shenhun, and a middle-aged swordsman defended her.
• Dao Lord Ganxin arrived with two other Dao Lords of the Divine Void Immortal Dynasty, raising the attackers’ number to eight.
• Xiang Tianzhi launched the attack, and Zhuge Ming used White Jade Capital’s Immortal Tree to shield his allies as Jiang Linxian continued fusing with the Dao Fruit.
• Xiang Tianzhi fired an Immortal Slaying Pill at Jiang Linxian, but Shuangquan Dao Lord swapped her and the Dao Fruit out of danger and blocked the attack.
• Shuangquan Dao Lord withdrew after reminding Zhuge Ming of their bargain, and the other attacking Dao Lords departed once Jiang Linxian’s attainment could no longer be stopped.
• Zhuge Ming realized White Jade Capital had secured years of prosperity at the cost of his remaining three hundred years and his promise to yield his Dao Fruit after reincarnation.

Li Rui retrieved the Martial Emperor Coins from the Ascension Platform and began cultivating to merge with True Martial Descent. Meanwhile, King Tianxuan’s attempt to recover his damaged soul ended in total ruin, while Lu Yang and a mysterious Old Daoist watched events unfold.

• Li Rui used his grasp of the Immortal Court’s origin to bring the Martial Emperor Coins through the Southern Heaven Gate into his Violet Palace Realm.
• Li Rui began cultivating in Chongyao Province, while Lu Yang continued searching for opportunities in the Ascension Platform secret realm.
• Master Zhang gave King Tianxuan the Golden Soul Molting method, promising it could reforge his damaged divine soul after ten shatterings.
• An Old Daoist cracked a mirror and used it to shatter King Tianxuan’s Dao Heart, extinguishing his soul and spirit.
• Lu Yang arrived at King Tianxuan’s corpse and thanked an unseen senior, while the Old Daoist watched him through the mirror and called him interesting.

Li Rui learned that the Ascension Platform’s opening had led to King Tianxuan’s death, Yellow Dragon Dao Lord’s escape, and a new age of contention. After earning the Earth Rankings First achievement, Li Rui received the Evergreen Court Dao Seed and considered using it to restore the Immortal Court.

• Li Rui recognized that a Dao Lord from the Three Purities Sect had placed a Three Purities Imprint on King Tianxuan and realized his favor would benefit his avatar in a future life.
• Dao Lord Ganxin and a white-haired elder discovered that King Tianxuan had died, blamed Dao Lord Xuanjing, and waited with six other Dao Lords to seize Yellow Dragon Dao Lord and his Immortal Dao Origin.
• Yellow Dragon Dao Lord used destiny to escape the Ascension Platform secret realm, leaving Dao Lord Ganxin furious at being deceived.
• The Ascension Platform closed without anyone becoming immortal, but seven new Dao Lords emerged and Lu Yang’s fame spread as the Earth Rankings’ first-ranked cultivator.
• Li Rui completed the Earth Rankings First achievement and received the Evergreen Court Dao Seed, which he thought might let him restore the Immortal Court’s complete appearance.

Li Rui’s avatar, Lu Yang, checked on Wuwei Temple while Dao Lords’ scrutiny and Zhu Yuanlong’s warnings underscored the danger surrounding him. Zhu Yuanlong gave Lu Yang a Dragon Pearl rich in Great Yu’s fortune and Immortal Court origin, asking him to help the Yu Kingdom if it ever faced calamity.

• Lu Yang questioned a Black Crow Immortal Sect cultivator about Wuwei Temple and learned that nothing had changed.
• Lu Yang and Zhu Yuanlong discussed Dao Lord Ganxin’s likely attack on Wuwei Temple and the risks posed by Dao Lords investigating Lu Yang.
• Zhu Yuanlong suspected Lu Yang had hidden another Dao Seed and warned him to stay out of danger until he became a True Lord.
• Zhu Yuanlong gave Lu Yang the Dragon Pearl, which contained Great Yu’s fortune and Immortal Court origin.
• Zhu Yuanlong asked Lu Yang to help the Yu Kingdom once if it faced calamity, and Lu Yang thanked him.

True Monarch Wuwei and Yellow Dragon Dao Lord learned that Lu Yang came from the Golden Court Small Grotto-heaven, and Yellow Dragon planned to kill him after he grew stronger. After sixty years away, Li Rui returned to White Jade Capital and reunited with Liu Tiezhu and Wang Zhao, still three to five years from becoming a True Lord.

• True Monarch Wuwei considered Lu Yang’s origins and the Immortal Dao Origin Yellow Dragon Dao Lord had harvested from Golden Court Small Grotto-heaven prodigies.
• Yellow Dragon Dao Lord injured himself while calculating Lu Yang’s karma, then realized Ye Jiuzhou had severed the karma behind Lu Yang and suspected it involved Ye Yuan.
• Yellow Dragon Dao Lord decided Lu Yang was likely a first-life body worth killing, but planned to wait until Lu Yang’s cultivation advanced.
• Liu Tiezhu and Wang Zhao reminisced about their former lives in Clear River while waiting for their master, Li Rui, to return.
• Li Rui appeared behind Liu Tiezhu and Wang Zhao, teased them, and said he needed another three to five years before becoming a True Lord.

Li Rui prepared to advance to Integration under White Jade Capital’s protection, while Zhuge Ming discussed the sect’s future and his hopes for Li Rui. As spring rain fell, True Martial Descent took root in Li Rui’s Niwan Palace, marking his breakthrough toward becoming a True Lord.

• Li Rui returned from Chongyao Province with a suppressive artifact and chose White Jade Capital as the safest place to advance to Integration.
• Zhuge Ming spoke with the sword-bearing middle-aged man about Li Rui’s prospects, White Jade Capital’s future, and the burdens of guarding the sect.
• Li Rui told his disciples that becoming a True Lord felt like gaining another hundred years of cultivation.
• As spring rain began to fall, True Martial Descent took root in Li Rui’s Niwan Palace.

As Lu Yang began merging with his Dao Seed to become a True Lord, Zhu Yuanlong feared that he would be exposed without a powerful protector and offered up his remnant soul to help. True Monarch Wuwei then found Li Rui’s avatar and attacked him with his time-based Dao Seed, but Li Rui broke through the first strike as Wuwei unleashed even more power.

• Zhu Yuanlong realized Lu Yang was about to become a True Lord and urged him to contact the Dao Lord he assumed was protecting him.
• Li Rui told Zhu Yuanlong that he had no Dao Lord behind him, so Zhu Yuanlong resolved to sacrifice his remnant soul to help him.
• Li Rui sealed Zhu Yuanlong inside the Ten Thousand Souls Banner and explained that his avatar and true body were linked through One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones and the Immortal Court.
• True Monarch Wuwei arrived, asked about Li Rui’s relationship with his avatar Cui He, and attacked him with Stillness Without Action.
• Li Rui broke free of Wuwei’s time-based divine ability through sheer physical strength, and Wuwei increased its power to seventy percent as Li Rui roared at him.

True Monarch Wuwei tried to kill Lu Yang, but Dao Lord Xuanjing intervened and the clash between Dao Lords destroyed Lu Yang’s avatar. Xuanjing believed Lu Yang had reincarnated by design and promised to guide him in his next life, while a year later Li Rui remained alive and watched a seed sprout in his Niwan Palace Grotto-heaven.

• True Monarch Wuwei sensed Lu Yang’s growing strength and decided to kill him before he could enter Integration.
• Dao Lord Xuanjing shattered True Monarch Wuwei’s Dao Heart through a mirror, then clashed with Yellow Dragon Dao Lord and destroyed Wuwei’s avatar.
• The Dao Lords’ unleashed power swept up Li Rui’s avatar, killing Lu Yang, while Dao Lord Xuanjing believed Lu Yang had already reincarnated.
• Dao Lord Xuanjing realized Lu Yang had arranged events to earn his goodwill and promised to guide him in his next life.
• A year later, Liu Tiezhu and Wang Zhao heard a storyteller recount Lu Yang’s death, then visited Li Rui on Evergreen Peak.
• After his disciples left, Li Rui looked into his Niwan Palace Grotto-heaven and saw a seed sprout a tender shoot.

Li Rui’s true body completed its integration with True Martial Descent and neared the Body Integration Realm, gaining the Heaven-Opening divine ability. He concealed his strength while continuing to prepare for the final tribulation and search for Oblivion Abyss.

• Li Rui recalled how planting a Dao Seed and merging it with the body led to the Body Integration Realm, then recognized that True Martial Descent had integrated with his true body.
• Li Rui learned that True Martial Descent had nurtured the Heaven-Opening divine ability, a slaughter-based technique with the potential to open heaven with a punch.
• Zhu Yuanlong recognized that Lu Yang had been Li Rui’s incarnation and praised Li Rui for deceiving two Dao Lords; Li Rui said they could not yet return to Yu Kingdom.
• Li Rui sustained Zhu Yuanlong’s soul with Immortal Court origin, and Zhu Yuanlong warned him to guard against trusting others too easily.
• Liu Qing lamented that he had missed the Martial Emperor Coin and offered to trade his Void Mirror for it, while Li Rui concealed that he already possessed the coin and True Martial Descent.
• Li Rui resolved to keep accumulating strength in Golden Court Small Province and continue searching for Oblivion Abyss before attempting his breakthrough.

Li Rui visited Zhuge Ming after the White Jade Capital ancestor summoned him, and their conversation turned to Zhuge Ming’s declining lifespan and Li Rui’s missing cultivation method. Zhuge Ming gave Li Rui a bottle of Ten Thousand Victories to make up for it.

• Liu Qing told Li Rui that Ji Fan and Ye Yuan had become True Lords, while Fu Fengyang had died after drawing a Dao Demon upon himself.
• Fufeng True Lord brought Li Rui to meet Zhuge Ming at Mirror Lake, where Li Rui noticed that the Immortal Tree had weakened and would need five hundred years to recover.
• Zhuge Ming explained that he was fishing without a hook and dismissed the possibility of extending his lifespan.
• Li Rui said he was still missing one method, and Zhuge Ming inferred that he might possess more than one Dao Seed without pressing him for details.
• Zhuge Ming gave Li Rui a bottle of Ten Thousand Victories to make up for his missing method.

Zhuge Ming gave Li Rui the last Myriad Victories Item, Mysterious Sky Liquid, and revealed White Jade Capital’s roots in the Ancient Immortal Court. Li Rui chose to cultivate Evergreen Court with the item, and five years later the chapter ended with news that Chief Zhang had died.

• Zhuge Ming gave Li Rui Mysterious Sky Liquid, explaining that White Jade Capital had inherited three Myriad Victories Items from the Ancient Immortal Court.
• Zhuge Ming told Li Rui that White Jade Capital’s founding ancestor came from a Hidden Sect in Central Province and that the sect had endured by having two Dao Lords in each generation.
• Li Rui decided to use Mysterious Sky Liquid to cultivate Evergreen Court rather than forcibly plant Oblivion Abyss, then entered closed-door cultivation.
• Five years later, Wang Zhao returned to Evergreen Peak and told Liu Tiezhu that he had revoked his great-grandson’s Third Rank Scholar title to prevent the Wang Family from using it to curry favor with Li Rui.
• Liang He sent a message saying that Chief Zhang had passed away.