Chapter Summaries

Li Rui received the reward for his rise on the Immortal Ranking and developed a half-complete Chaos Body while Yu Kingdom drove the Fenxin Immortal Dynasty out of Taihua Province. He later went to the Three Lives Altar gathering and learned that Ji Fan and the other True Monarchs were exploring an Immortal Tomb, while Ye Yuan revealed that he no longer practiced sword cultivation.

• Zhu Long and Zhu Yuanlong congratulated Li Rui on rising to one hundred and thirty-seventh on the Heaven Rankings, and Li Rui credited Gu Changsheng's help.
• Li Rui completed an Immortal Ranking mission, received 30 Achievement Points, and gained a half-complete Chaos Body that strengthened his innate bone structure.
• After Yu Kingdom expelled the Fenxin Immortal Dynasty from Taihua Province, Liang He asked Li Rui to promote Qi Guang, and Li Rui told him to make Yu Kingdom's decisions himself while he was away.
• Li Rui traveled north to Sanqing Province for the Three Lives Altar gathering and found Ye Yuan waiting at the coast.
• Ye Yuan told Li Rui that Ji Fan and the other two True Monarchs had entered an Immortal Tomb in the North Sea but remained trapped by its restrictions.
• Li Rui asked whether Ye Yuan was a Sword Cultivator, and Ye Yuan replied that he no longer practiced the sword.

Ye Yuan reassured Li Rui that he did not intend to contest the Luotian River Dao Fruit and warned him to beware of Luofu Grotto-heaven. Li Rui continued cultivating two Dao Seeds at once, having condensed their first Origin Embracing Wheels and choosing to pursue the benefits of balanced comprehension.

• Li Rui asked whether Ye Yuan's past identity as Dao Lord Tianhe meant the Luotian River Dao Fruit was already claimed, and Ye Yuan said he would cultivate the Dragon Slayer Dao instead of sword Dao.
• Ye Yuan and Li Rui discussed the Dao for five days, after which Ye Yuan warned Li Rui to be on guard against Luofu Grotto-heaven.
• Zhu Yuanlong urged Li Rui to focus on one Dao Seed, but Li Rui assured him that he knew what he was doing.
• Li Rui examined his cultivation and saw Origin Embracing Wheels around both True Martial Descent and Evergreen Court.
• Li Rui reflected that balanced cultivation of multiple Dao Seeds could help him comprehend all nine wheels and improve his chances of forming a Dao Fruit.

Hundred Refinements True Monarch, Ji Fan, and Void Gazing True Monarch opened a restriction in the North Sea Immortal Tomb, where Hundred Refinements encountered a genuine immortal in an Ice Mirror. The immortal immobilized him and poured Immortal Dao Origin into him, while Li Rui sensed Black Mist emerge from the Immortal Court in his Violet Palace.

• Ji Fan, Hundred Refinements True Monarch, and Void Gazing True Monarch spent more than ten years working together to break the Immortal Tomb's restriction.
• After the restriction opened, the three entered separate rooms to seek their own fortunes, and Hundred Refinements found a towering Ice Mirror in the first room.
• Hundred Refinements touched the Ice Mirror and heard a voice command him to bow to an immortal.
• A genuine immortal appeared in the mirror, immobilized Hundred Refinements, and ordered him to retrieve something from the Ascension Platform.
• The immortal told Hundred Refinements he could do it and poured vast Immortal Dao Origin into his body.
• Li Rui saw Black Mist emerge from the Immortal Court in his Violet Palace and watched it disperse after a quarter of an hour.

Li Rui prepared Yu Kingdom for a future beyond his own protection and brought Zhu Long to meet the reincarnation of his old minister, Chief Zhang. Zhu Long recognized Zilu and invited the boy to cultivate with him.

• Li Rui learned that Hundred Refinements True Monarch had gained the greatest fortune from the Immortal Tomb and thanked Ye Yuan through a Jade Talisman.
• Five years later, Zhu Long told Li Rui about a gifted youth in Yu Kingdom who might reach the Spirit Severing Realm within a hundred years.
• Li Rui explained that he had been cultivating successors for Yu Kingdom as a foundation for his own possible next life.
• Li Rui invited Zhu Long down the mountain and took him to a mortal city in Taihua Province, where they found a young child prodigy reading beneath a pavilion.
• Li Rui revealed that Sword River Dao Lord's karmic divination had identified the youth as Chief Zhang's reincarnation.
• Zhu Long recognized the boy as Zilu and asked him to cultivate with him.

Li Rui gathered with the Dao Lord Reincarnations and learned how greatly the Immortal Tomb had advanced their cultivation, while he remained content with his cautious path. In the Outer Heavens, Gao Tianxia began advancing to True Lord and remembered that he was the Four Directions Dao Lord.

• Zhu Long taught Chief Zhang’s reincarnated body to cultivate, and the youngster sensed spiritual energy after three years.
• Li Rui traveled to the Three Lives Altar, where Void Gazing True Monarch, Ji Fan, Hundred Refinements True Monarch, and Ye Yuan gathered.
• Void Gazing True Monarch revealed that Immortal Dao Origin from the Immortal Tomb had helped him condense the Ximing Wheel, while Ji Fan had reached the Integrated Body Middle Stage.
• Hundred Refinements True Monarch teased Li Rui for missing the North Sea opportunity, but Li Rui said he was not destined for its treasures.
• At a besieged Outer Heavens city, Liao Qi and Yuan Dingting learned that the teleportation platform was destroyed and escape was impossible.
• Gao Tianxia began advancing to True Lord and remembered that he was the Four Directions Dao Lord.

After learning that Gao Tianxia had formed a Dao Seed, Li Rui respected his grandmaster’s choice to remain in the Outer Heavens and advanced his own cultivation by condensing a second Dao wheel. In Black Profound City, Hundred Refinements True Monarch befriended Gao Tianxia through Li Rui, then secretly brought out the Demon-Quelling Bowl and planned to use demonic fiends to aid his Dao.

• Yuan An told Li Rui that Gao Tianxia had formed a Dao Seed, and Li Rui offered to arrange his return to the Immortal Cultivation World.
• Gao Tianxia replied that he was well and did not intend to leave the Outer Heavens, so Li Rui accepted his choice.
• Li Rui condensed the Preserving Simplicity Wheel after twenty years of cultivation and expected to form the Bearing Yin Wheel within seventeen years.
• Hundred Refinements True Monarch arrived in Black Profound City to replace the True Lord who had left and spoke with Gao Tianxia about his connection to Li Rui.
• In his cave abode, Hundred Refinements True Monarch sealed off divine sense and took out the Demon-Quelling Bowl, intending to use demonic fiends to help him prove the Dao.

At the Three Lives Altar, Li Rui and the others shared news and cultivation insights while Hundred Refinements True Monarch remained in the Outer Heavens. There, Hundred Refinements gathered Immortal Dao Origin from Outer Realm Demonic Fiends and resolved to become a Dao Lord and ascend on his own terms.

• Li Rui told Ji Fan, Ye Yuan, and Void Gazing True Monarch that Hundred Refinements True Monarch had gone to the Outer Heavens.
• Ye Yuan revealed that he had condensed the Bearing Yin Wheel and reached the Integrated Body Middle Stage, while Li Rui said he had condensed the Preserving Simplicity Wheel.
• Void Gazing True Monarch shared his insights into the Ximing Wheel and Flowing Water Wheel, and the group exchanged cultivation knowledge for ten days.
• Hundred Refinements True Monarch returned to Black Profound City after battling Outer Realm Demonic Fiends and greeted Gao Tianxia.
• Hundred Refinements True Monarch discovered that the Outer Realm Demonic Fiends contained Immortal Dao Origin, which he collected with the Golden Alms Bowl.
• Hundred Refinements True Monarch absorbed the Immortal Dao Origin and resolved to become a Dao Lord, tread upon an Immortal, and ascend alone.

Hundred Refinements True Monarch attained Dao Lordhood in the Outer Heavens, prompting concern about the Heaven-Severing Grand Formation and new political tensions. The Human Emperor Hall ordered Yu Kingdom to send Li Rui as an additional True Lord, apparently to tie him down and delay White Jade Capital.

• Hundred Refinements True Monarch passed his Dao Tribulation in the Outer Heavens and returned to the Dao Lord Position.
• Hundred Refinements Dao Lord told the gathered Dao Lords that an Immortal had shielded his breakthrough from Outer Realm Demonic Fiends.
• Ji Fan visited Li Rui and warned that Hundred Refinements Dao Lord's breakthrough could affect the Heaven-Severing Grand Formation.
• Zhong Li apologized to Li Rui and explained that the Human Emperor Hall had ordered Yu Kingdom to send an additional True Lord because of court accusations against Li Rui and White Jade Capital.
• Li Rui reassured Zhong Li that the decision was not his fault and recognized the order as an attempt to delay White Jade Capital's emergence of another Dao Lord.

Li Rui went to the Outer Heavens with Zhong Li and took up residence in Sky Illusion City, where he investigated the Immortal Court’s disturbance through the Southern Heaven Gate. He saw a gigantic immortal hidden in the Northern Ice Plains of the Immortal Cultivation World.

• Jiang Linxian offered to go to the Outer Heavens in Li Rui’s place, but Li Rui chose to accompany Zhong Li instead.
• Li Rui accepted Dao Lord Jue Ming’s jade talisman, which could summon protection for his Dao once.
• Five days later, Li Rui and Zhong Li traveled to Sky Illusion City, where Chang De of Divine Deer Academy welcomed them.
• Li Rui cultivated in seclusion while Zhong Li led patrols and killed Outer Realm Demonic Fiends.
• Li Rui looked through the Southern Heaven Gate and saw a gigantic figure in the Northern Ice Plains, realizing that an immortal was hidden in the Immortal Cultivation World.

Li Rui completed the Immortal Slaughtering Pagoda and discovered it could refine Immortal Dao Origin from Outer Realm Demonic Fiends. Elsewhere in the Outer Heavens, Zhong Li dispelled a True Lord-level fiend with a single phrase, while another cultivator arrived carrying a demon’s head.

• Li Rui cut off the Southern Heaven Gate’s surveillance and saw a Dragon Lord immortal hidden in the Immortal Cultivation World, then decided to leave the matter to the Dao Lords.
• Li Rui discovered the final two Immortal Slaughtering Small Pagodas inside the Immortal Court and merged them with his seven pagodas to restore the complete Immortal Slaughtering Pagoda.
• Li Rui learned that the pagoda could suppress Outer Realm Demonic Fiends and use Birth of One to refine Immortal Dao Origin, and he resolved to proceed cautiously while hunting them.
• Xueqing True Monarch and Zhong Li fought a True Lord-level Outer Realm Demonic Fiend, and Zhong Li destroyed it with the words “Spring Thaw Snow.”
• A man carrying an Outer Realm Demonic Fiend’s head approached and praised Zhong Li.

Li Rui secretly hunted Outer Realm Demonic Fiends and used their refined Immortal Dao Origin to advance to the Integrated Body Middle Stage. Meanwhile, Hundred Refinements Dao Lord revealed that he had no intention of reopening the Ascension Platform for the North Sea immortal who had helped him ascend to the Dao Lord realm.

• Xueqing True Monarch left after joining Zhong Li to suppress a True Lord-level Outer Realm Demonic Fiend, and Li Rui reunited with Zhong Li.
• Li Rui secretly left Sky Illusion City over the following years to hunt Outer Realm Demonic Fiends and refine them into Immortal Dao Origin.
• Li Rui condensed the Bearing Yin Wheel in both Dao Seeds and advanced to the Integrated Body Middle Stage after eight years.
• Hundred Refinements Dao Lord celebrated his stable foundation and credited his rapid advancement to refining demons with the Golden Alms Bowl.
• Hundred Refinements Dao Lord decided against reopening the Ascension Platform, reasoning that the North Sea immortal was trapped in an Immortal Tomb and that he no longer wished to serve another.

Li Rui and Zhong Li visited the Divine Light Altar to exchange their merit for resources, where they witnessed an Outer Realm Demonic Fiend being exposed and destroyed. The elderly monk who detected the fiend then invited them to accompany him to the Sea of Demonic Evils.

• Li Rui and Zhong Li arrived at the Divine Light Altar and saw their names, along with Hundred Refinements Dao Lord’s, on the Merit Stele.
• Li Rui and Zhong Li spent two days trading their merit for spirit pills and an ancient divine ability book.
• Hundred Refinements Dao Lord arrived and entered the central hall after Dao Lord Xuanfeng invited him inside.
• An elderly monk exposed a young man as an Outer Realm Demonic Fiend, and the cultivators at the altar destroyed it.
• The elderly monk invited Li Rui and Zhong Li to accompany him to the Sea of Demonic Evils.

Li Rui and Zhong Li joined the Elder Council’s campaign against the Sea of Demonic Evils, where True Lords and Dao Lords launched a surprise assault on the demons. The battle began in their favor, but a black ray shattered the Void Boat’s defensive formation.

• Old Monk Wukong invited Li Rui and Zhong Li to join the campaign against the Sea of Demonic Evils, and they agreed.
• Li Rui and Zhong Li settled in Divine Light City, where they reunited with Gao Tianxia and waited a month for the campaign to begin.
• Profound Wind Dao Lord led the gathered True Lords aboard Hundred Refinements Dao Lord’s Void Boat toward the Sea of Demonic Evils.
• Mysterious Light Dao Lord ordered the attack, and the True Lords fought the demons while the Dao Lords battled Dao Lord-level fiends.
• Li Rui unleashed True Martial Descent, Zhong Li made demons disperse their Dao through his words, and a black ray suddenly destroyed the Void Boat’s formation.

When the Void Boat’s protections failed, Li Rui and the other True Lords struggled to escape the Sea of Demonic Evils as the Dao Lords fought above. Li Rui killed Fenxin Old Ancestor with a single punch, then left the Sea just as a cry of Dao’s demise announced that a Dao Lord had fallen.

• After the Void Boat’s formation failed, Old Daoist Net Caster and Old Monk Wukong led the True Lords in an escape from the Sea of Demonic Evils.
• A scarlet formation blocked their way, and Old Daoist Net Caster and Old Monk Wukong held off the Great Perfection Body Integration Demonic Fiends while the others fled.
• Li Rui made his way through the Sea’s outskirts, where he encountered Fenxin Old Ancestor pursued by three Outer Realm Demonic Fiends.
• Fenxin Old Ancestor led the fiends toward Li Rui, hoping to use him to escape, but Li Rui killed him with Heaven-Opening.
• After Li Rui left the Sea of Demonic Evils, a cry of Dao’s demise sounded and a great sun fell, signaling that a Dao Lord had died.

Hundred Refinements Dao Lord was killed after a Mortal World Immortal erased his Dao Fruit, and Li Rui realized the immortal had likely cultivated him as a sacrifice. After completing his storyline and receiving rewards, Li Rui returned to Sky Illusion City and decided to leave the dangerous Outer Heavens for Jinting Province.

• The Mortal World Immortal dragged Hundred Refinements Dao Lord into Void Heaven, erased the Great Dao tied to his Dao Fruit, and left him to die to three Outer Realm Demonic Fiends.
• Li Rui saw Hundred Refinements Dao Lord's falling Dao Fruit and concluded that the immortal had paved the way for him to become a Dao Lord in order to reap him as a sacrifice.
• Li Rui completed the Finally Meeting an Immortal storyline, gained 30 Achievement Points, and received a doubled reward for completing all storylines by age one hundred.
• Li Rui returned to Sky Illusion City, where Zhong Li reported that Hundred Refinements Dao Lord, Burning Heart True Monarch, He Fu True Monarch, and Shui Yuan True Monarch had died.
• Li Rui feared the Mortal World Immortal might still be watching and decided to return to Jinting Province.

Li Rui left the Outer Heavens for the Immortal Cultivation World after saying farewell to Zhong Li and Gao Tianxia, who confirmed he was the reincarnation of the Four Directions Dao Lord. Back in the Yu Kingdom, Zhu Long told him that the Fenxin Imperial Clan had been slaughtered and the Fenxin Immortal Dynasty had fallen.

• Li Rui told Zhong Li he planned to leave the Outer Heavens, and Zhong Li invited him to visit Master Zhu at the academy someday.
• Li Rui visited Gao Tianxia in Black Iron City, where Gao confirmed he was the Four Directions Dao Lord's reincarnation and agreed to support that identity.
• Gao Tianxia said he would remain in the Outer Heavens rather than return to the Immortal Cultivation World, and Li Rui departed for the Teleportation Array.
• After the Fenxin Old Ancestor's death, the Fenxin Holy Emperor asked Ancestor Liang to negotiate with the Human Emperor Hall, but Liang withdrew his clan from Fenxin instead.
• Li Rui returned to Taiheng Mountain, where Zhu Long told him the Fenxin Imperial Clan had been slaughtered and the Fenxin Immortal Dynasty had fallen.

Li Rui learned that Liang Yuan had blood-sacrificed the Fenxin Imperial Clan and ordered an investigation while Yu forces and allied sects divided Fenxin territory. He advanced his cultivation and attended the Three Lives Altar gathering, where Void Gazing True Monarch announced he would enter seclusion to attempt forming a Dao Fruit.

• Zhu Long told Li Rui that Liang Yuan had blood-sacrificed the Fenxin Imperial Clan and fled, and Li Rui ordered troops to reclaim the former Eastern Regional Commander's Manor and search for Liang Yuan.
• The Yu Kingdom and allied immortal sects occupied Fenxin territory, ending the Fenxin Immortal Dynasty, while White Jade Capital gained a share of Taihua Province after the Shenxuan Sect submitted to it for five hundred years.
• Li Rui refined Outer Realm Demonic Fiends in the Sea of Demonic Evils and condensed the Zhi Xiong Wheel, leaving two wheels before the Integrated Body Late Stage.
• At the Three Lives Altar gathering, Li Rui, Ji Fan, Ye Yuan, and Void Gazing True Monarch mourned Hundred Refinements Dao Lord's death and exchanged cultivation insights.
• Void Gazing True Monarch told Li Rui, Ji Fan, and Ye Yuan that he would miss their next gathering because he planned to enter closed-door cultivation and attempt to form a Dao Fruit.

White Jade Capital returned to southeastern Taihua Province and established control over the region alongside the Shenxuan Sect and Great Yu. As Li Rui gained Achievement Points for Yu Kingdom’s expansion, Xiang Tianzhi ordered two Dao Lords to target him and weaken White Jade Capital’s future.

• Void Gazing True Lord prepared to enter ten years of closed-door cultivation in hopes of advancing to Dao Lord, and he promised to host Li Rui and the others if he succeeded.
• Sword River Dao Lord, Dao Lord Shenhun, Jiang Linxian, and Li Rui arrived in southeastern Taihua Province, where Fufeng True Lord announced the establishment of White Jade Capital’s Twelve Towers and Five Cities and assigned territories to Great Yu and the Shenxuan Sect.
• Great Yu and the Shenxuan Sect took control of the region within seven days, and Yu Kingdom’s territory nearly doubled.
• Li Rui revisited the former Eastern Regional Commander’s Manor and received 30 Achievement Points for completing the immortal dynasty territory-expansion mission.
• Xiang Tianzhi ordered two Dao Lords to target Li Rui and undermine White Jade Capital’s succession.

Lu Chuan asked Dao Lord Xuanjing to let him descend the mountain and challenge Three Purities Sect disciples so he could build an invincible momentum for Li Rui’s future Dao Lord breakthrough. Meanwhile, Li Rui received fortune from Lu Chuan’s victory, then learned that Brother Gu had asked Old Ancestor Tianji to divine a hexagram for him—and it foretold great misfortune.

• Lu Chuan asked Dao Lord Xuanjing to let him descend the mountain and spar with Three Purities Sect disciples, and Xuanjing agreed while warning him to cultivate properly.
• Li Rui used Lu Chuan to build an invincible momentum and strengthen his own Dao Heart while he managed the Yu Kingdom’s territory in Taihua Province.
• Lu Chuan defeated a renowned Three Purities Sect genius with one punch, earning Li Rui an exceptional strand of fortune.
• Cui He arrived at the Eastern Regional Commander’s Manor and told Li Rui that Brother Gu had asked Old Ancestor Tianji to divine a hexagram for him.
• Cui He revealed that Old Ancestor Tianji’s divination had predicted great misfortune for Li Rui.

Cui He told Li Rui that Heavenly Secret Dao Lord had foreseen a deadly trial at his proving of the Dao, but Li Rui remained composed and continued strengthening his foundation. In the Great Void Dao Field, Li Rui crossed Moon Chasing Bridge and reached its far end, where an otherworldly figure greeted him as a junior brother.

• Cui He told Li Rui that at least five Dao Lords would attack when he proved the Dao and that Heavenly Secret Dao Lord believed he still had a chance to survive.
• Cui He returned to the Eastern Regional Commander's Manor and stayed there, explaining that he had already wagered his entire fortune on Li Rui.
• Li Rui opened the Nether Palace Grotto-heaven, advancing the Myriad Dao Primordial Method to its second level and using it to mend his state of mind.
• Li Rui entered the Great Void Dao Field and advanced across Moon Chasing Bridge, enduring its pressure without retreating.
• Li Rui reached the two hundredth step and saw an otherworldly figure at the bridgehead, who greeted him as Junior Brother.