Chapter Summaries

Zhou Xue reported that she and Li Dalong had discovered a rich immortal stone mine and deposits of blazing flame jade and purple flame stone in the Lava Maze. Ye Xingchen agreed to consider joint development with the Cloud Glow Sect and sent Hu Tianyi to secure the site, leaving him with Zhou Xue’s map and formation-control talisman.

• Ye Wuxia brought Zhou Xue to meet Ye Xingchen and asked her to report the good news.
• Zhou Xue explained how Li Dalong rescued her and discovered the mine and rare ores in the Underground World’s Lava Maze.
• Ye Xingchen praised Zhou Xue and promised her a reward, then said he would discuss the treasure trove’s benefit-sharing with the Cloud Glow Sect Leader.
• Ye Wuxia asked Ye Xingchen to let the Cloud Glow Sect participate in developing the site, and he agreed if they accepted a reasonable share.
• Ye Xingchen summoned Hu Tianyi and ordered him to guard the treasure trove immediately.
• Zhou Xue handed Hu Tianyi the jade slip showing the mine’s location and the talisman controlling Li Dalong’s formations.

Hu Tianyi led a powerful Limitless Immortal Sect party to Flame Mountain to secure the resource trove Zhou Xue had reported. They drove the Flame Sun Sect disciples away from the mapped cave, while one of those disciples continued to suspect a hidden formation nearby.

• Ye Xingchen praised Zhou Xue for bringing news of the treasure trove, and Ye Wuxia told Madam Yuehua about its resources before escaping her mother's lecture.
• Hu Tianyi assembled elite disciples and traveled through Desert City toward the Underground World beneath Flame Mountain.
• Hu Tianyi gathered more Limitless Immortal Sect disciples along the way and used Zhou Xue's map to reach the cave entrance.
• Hu Tianyi sent Zhou Runfa to drive away the Flame Sun Sect disciples and ordered Zhang Gang to secure the surrounding area.
• A Flame Sun Sect disciple with the Heavenly Eye sensed a hidden formation but could not see through Li Dalong's concealment formation.

Hu Tianyi confirmed the Lava Maze’s treasure deposits, and the Limitless Immortal Sect and Cloud Glow Sect agreed to develop them together. Their success and the wider Underground World’s resource rush brought conflict, prompting the Immortal Realm Alliance to restore order, while Li Dalong continued cultivating toward the Grand Unity Golden Immortal Realm.

• Hu Tianyi used Zhou Xue’s Jade Talisman to enter the cave, verify the Lava River’s Blazing Flame Jade and Purple Flame Stone, and report his findings to Ye Xingchen.
• Ye Xingchen and Ke Meili agreed that the Limitless Immortal Sect would lead development and security, with the Cloud Glow Sect receiving shares of the mine’s proceeds and the Lava River’s ores.
• Hu Tianyi oversaw mining in the Lava Maze as the two sects kept the discovery’s details secret and factions across the Immortal Realm searched the Underground World for resources.
• Ye Xingchen organized the Alliance Enforcement Team, which restored order in the Underground World after a two-month operation that killed or wounded 336 members and punished thousands of lawbreakers.
• After six months, the Lava Maze’s mine and accessible ores were nearly exhausted, while the Cloud Glow Sect gained wealth, influence, and closer ties with the Limitless Immortal Sect.
• Li Dalong continued cultivating in the Creation Cultivation Tower, accumulating immortal power for his breakthrough to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal Realm.

A corruption outbreak in the Underground World turned plants, demon beasts, and cultivators into violent demonic beasts, spreading across a two-hundred-li area before stopping. Ye Xingchen and the leaders of the Immortal Realm’s factions gathered to plan an expedition to find the source.

• A rogue cultivator fell into a pit, and the captain and deputy captain who descended after him disappeared, leaving the rest of the team to flee.
• Black mist poured from the pit, corrupting plants and creatures, while the three cultivators inside emerged as demonic beasts.
• The corruption spread rapidly, infecting demon beasts and cultivators, but stopped within an area two hundred li in radius.
• The great factions investigated and failed to contain the outbreak, then sent the matter to the Immortal Realm Alliance.
• Ye Xingchen, Long Zongyuan, Lei Zhenxiao, and other faction leaders met at the Limitless Immortal Sect to discuss finding the source and entering the area’s center.

The factions agreed to send twenty-six Great Luo Golden Immortal elders into the Corrupted Region to investigate the source of its black fog. The two teams entered the region and encountered powerful corrupted cultivators, beginning their first fight.

• Zhang Yue suggested using divination or special artifacts to locate the source, but Nangong Chaoyang said his divination had failed and injured him.
• The faction leaders chose to send Great Luo Golden Immortal elders, and they agreed on contributions, supplies, and a two-team search plan led by Elder Hou Feng and Elder Shi Zhengtong.
• After assembling at the Limitless Immortal Sect, the elders traveled through Desert City and Flame Mountain to the Corrupted Region.
• The two teams entered the black fog, where Elder Shi Zhengtong warned them to use their divine sense and keep their distance.
• Elder Hou Feng spotted corrupted cultivators with strength comparable to Grand Unity Golden Immortals, and the elders prepared to fight.

Hou Feng and Shi Zhengtong’s squads fought their way deeper into the Corrupted Region, where increasingly powerful Demonic Beasts and corrupted plants threatened to overwhelm them. They found a pit pouring out black demonic mist, then withdrew to report the source to the Sect Masters and sect heads.

• Hou Feng confirmed that the Demonic Beasts had evolved and warned that they could endanger the Immortal Realm if they escaped the Underground World.
• Hou Feng’s squad faced stronger Demonic Beasts and corrupted plants as they advanced, eventually joining Shi Zhengtong’s squad in a fierce battle near the black pit.
• The black pit released denser demonic mist that strengthened the Demonic Beasts, so Shi Zhengtong and Hou Feng sent the rear squad ahead to search for the corruption’s source while the front squad held back their attackers.
• Shi Zhengtong sensed a pit pouring out black mist and ordered both squads to retreat rather than descend into it.
• Shi Zhengtong informed Hou Feng, and the two squads covered one another as they fought their way out to report what they had found.

During the retreat, Fei Zhiwei was ambushed by a powerful tentacled demonized Demon Beast, which drained his Immortal Power and blood essence and poisoned him. Shi Zhengtong and Hou Feng decided he could not be allowed to leave the demonized area and agreed to let his senior sect brother, Gui Jiaqi, decide what to do.

• Fei Zhiwei casually attacked a demonized Demon Beast, but a tentacle burst from the ground, broke his Protective Barrier, and wrapped around him.
• The demonized Demon Beast attacked the other front-line cultivators with more tentacles, preventing them from saving Fei Zhiwei as they sent a distress signal to Shi Zhengtong and Hou Feng.
• Shi Zhengtong and the others severed three tentacles and destroyed the Demon Beast's main body, but its remaining tentacle continued draining Fei Zhiwei until it finally lost vitality.
• Gui Jiaqi gave Fei Zhiwei healing and blood essence replenishment pills while the others kept their distance, and Fei Zhiwei struggled to suppress the toxin.
• Shi Zhengtong and Hou Feng concluded that Fei Zhiwei could not be taken out of the demonized area and agreed to explain the situation to Gui Jiaqi and let him decide.

Gui Jiaqi left Fei Zhiwei’s fate to the Alliance, and Shi Zhengtong killed him before leading the team safely out of the Corrupted Region. At the Limitless Immortal Sect, Shi Zhengtong and Hou Feng warned the sect leaders that the Corrupted Creatures were growing stronger, and they debated how to purge the region or seal the Black Pit.

• Gui Jiaqi asked Shi Zhengtong and Hou Feng to give Fei Zhiwei a chance, but ultimately left the decision to the Alliance.
• Shi Zhengtong killed Fei Zhiwei and burned his body to ashes, then led the team cautiously out of the Corrupted Region.
• Shi Zhengtong reported the mission to Ye Xingchen, who summoned the Alliance’s sect masters and leaders to a meeting.
• Yu Qingzi accepted Ye Xingchen’s offer to have the Limitless Immortal Sect train two Spirit Talisman Sect disciples after Fei Zhiwei’s death.
• Shi Zhengtong and Hou Feng described the growing threat of the Corrupted Creatures and recommended purging the region or sealing the Black Pit.
• Ye Xingchen and the sect leaders debated how to clear the Corrupted Creatures and allocate personnel for the dangerous mission.

Ye Xingchen secured agreement for the Immortal Realm Alliance to launch a paid mission recruiting cultivators to purge corrupted creatures in the Underground World's Corrupted Region. As resources arrived and cultivators rushed to sign up, the chapter ended by noting that many were overlooking the danger of the mission.

• Ye Xingchen proposed that the Alliance issue a purge mission, reward cultivators with points for killing corrupted creatures, and prohibit killing other cultivators in the Corrupted Region.
• The factions approved the plan and agreed to contribute resources, while Yu Qingzi promised that the Spirit Talisman Sect would make the mission jade tablets.
• Ye Xingchen assigned each faction people to help seal off the Corrupted Region and ordered the Alliance's mission announcement spread throughout the Immortal Realm.
• Three days later, cultivators flocked to Alliance offices to register after the reward resources arrived, and patrols secured the route from Desert City to Flame Mountain.
• Cultivators across the Immortal Realm discussed joining the mission, though many ignored the dangers that had prompted the Alliance to offer such generous rewards.

Li Dalong left seclusion after his cultivation stalled and decided to seek a breakthrough by hunting demonic beasts in the Corrupted Region. After reaching the marketplace at Flame Mountain, he heard warnings about a new, venomous beast and listened to a survivor describe a deadly encounter with high-level beasts.

• Ye Wuxia joined Li Dalong in the Creation Cultivation Tower, and Ke Xialing, Yun Yao, and Zhou Tianlong also resumed cultivating after hearing his concerns about threats to the Immortal Realm.
• After more than two months, Li Dalong found that his late Golden Immortal cultivation had not advanced, so he ended his seclusion and chose the Corrupted Region as his next destination.
• Li Dalong left a message for his companions and flew by sword toward the Underground World within Flame Mountain.
• At a bustling marketplace near the Underground World entrance, Li Dalong heard that a newly appeared demonic beast used corrosive venom and concealment arts.
• A returning cultivator told the restaurant crowd that high-level demonic beasts had killed four members of his squad before he used a formation plate to help the survivors escape.

Li Dalong entered the Corrupted Region after learning about its dangers and the newly appeared tentacled demonic beasts. He began hunting corrupted cultivators cautiously, earning points while avoiding stronger enemies.

• Li Dalong heard that concealed, octopus-like demonic beasts had appeared in the Corrupted Region and killed even a Great Luo Golden Immortal.
• Li Dalong traveled alone to the Corrupted Region, obtained a Jade Tablet, accepted the Alliance’s mission, and entered through its checkpoint.
• Li Dalong used his divine sense and protective techniques to find and kill his first demonic beast, earning ten points.
• Li Dalong learned to judge demonic beasts’ strength by the brightness of their presence in his divine sense and avoided a stronger one.
• Li Dalong killed dozens of demonic beasts and reached 302 points in half a day.

Li Dalong fought a small, unusually intelligent Demonic Beast that could dodge attacks and flee, but its charge drove him into a mountainside crater. He caught it with the Heaven-Covering Hand after blocking its next attack.

• Li Dalong's shield blocked the Demonic Beast's bite, and his sword strike sent it flying without cutting through its defenses.
• Li Dalong struck the beast with his palm and pursued it with the Heaven-Covering Hand, but it evaded his grabs and tried to flee.
• Li Dalong used the Azure Rainbow Sword and Starry Sky Divine Shield to close off the beast's escape routes, but its charge slammed him into a mountainside crater and disrupted his Divine Sense.
• The Demonic Beast charged Li Dalong again, and he blocked it with the Starry Sky Divine Shield while seizing it with the Heaven-Covering Hand.

Li Dalong fought demonic beasts in the Corrupted Region to hone his combat skills and approach a breakthrough, then received the powerful Longevity Dao Scripture from the system. After killing another taiyi golden immortal-level canine beast, he continued onward and sensed two more powerful targets nearby.

• Li Dalong crushed a taiyi golden immortal-level canine demonic beast, then retreated to the golden immortal-level Corrupted Region and spent half a month fighting beasts to advance toward breaking through his bottleneck.
• Li Dalong cautiously approached the inner ring, slew corrupted cultivators and demonic beasts, and raised his points to 2,806 before resting.
• The system rewarded Li Dalong with the divine-grade Longevity Dao Scripture, whose five levels promised cultivation from strengthening the body and spirit to immortality.
• Li Dalong found another taiyi golden immortal-level canine demonic beast, wounded it with the Heaven-Slaying Sword Strike, and crushed it with the Heaven-Covering Hand.
• After restoring his immortal power and divine sense, Li Dalong set out again and detected two intensely bright points of light nearby.

Li Dalong tried to leave the Corrupted Region but was intercepted by a powerful Black-Fog Demonic Beast. After injuring it and surviving its explosive counterattack, he escaped the region badly wounded.

• After killing thirty early-stage Taiyi Golden Immortal demonic beasts, Li Dalong received Ke Xialing's message that she and Sister Wuxia had emerged from seclusion, and he agreed to return home.
• As Li Dalong prepared to leave the Corrupted Region, a Black-Fog Demonic Beast pursued him and blocked his route out.
• Li Dalong used a boulder to evade the beast, then attacked it with Heaven-Slaying Sword Strike, Moon-Slaying, and other sword techniques.
• Li Dalong found a halo-covered weak point within the black fog and tore it open with Water-Cutting, gravely wounding the beast.
• The Black-Fog Demonic Beast released a powerful shock wave that blasted Li Dalong away, but the beast vanished and he landed near the region's edge.
• Li Dalong swallowed a healing pill, recovered enough to stand, and staggered out of the Corrupted Region.

Li Dalong survived a Demonic Beast encounter but discovered that the explosion had left him with serious internal injuries. He returned to the Cloud Glow Sect after exchanging nearly all his points for a Nine-Turn Rejuvenation Pill and entered the Creation Cultivation Tower to heal.

• Li Dalong hid behind a Formation Plate and spent a day and night treating his injuries before deciding he needed to return to the Cloud Glow Sect.
• Li Dalong traveled to the Immortal Realm Alliance's office in the Underground World and contacted Ke Xialing to tell her he was safe.
• Li Dalong exchanged 12,000 points for the only Nine-Turn Rejuvenation Pill on the list.
• Li Dalong returned to the Cloud Glow Sect, where Ye Wuxia and Ke Xialing welcomed him and urged him to treat his injuries.
• Li Dalong reassured the two women, kissed their foreheads, and entered the Creation Cultivation Tower to heal.

Li Dalong healed from his severe injuries and used the time in the Creation Cultivation Tower to prepare for a breakthrough. He began his Heavenly Tribulation in the Kunlun Mountain Range, where the lightning destroyed his defenses and left him injured but still fighting.

• Li Dalong swallowed the Nine-Turn Rejuvenation Pill and spent a month healing, with his damaged meridians growing tougher and wider as they recovered.
• After his injuries healed, Li Dalong continued cultivating inside the Creation Cultivation Tower until his bottleneck loosened and he prepared to face the Heavenly Tribulation.
• Li Dalong left the Small Courtyard, found a secluded hill in the Kunlun Mountain Range, and set up a defensive formation before the tribulation began.
• The heavenly lightning battered the defensive formation for hours before destroying it, forcing Li Dalong to rely on the Starry Sky Divine Shield and Azure Rainbow Sword.
• When a stronger bolt shattered his protective barrier and sent him flying, Li Dalong swallowed a Supreme Healing Pill and a Spirit-Returning Pill to treat his injuries.

Li Dalong survived the final strike of his heavenly tribulation and successfully became a Taiyi Golden Immortal. He returned to the Cloud Glow Sect, where Ye Wuxia and Ke Xialing welcomed him home.

• Li Dalong used his defensive formation plate and Azure Rainbow Sword to weaken the final bolt of heavenly thunder before enduring it with his remaining defenses and body.
• The tribulation lightning transformed Li Dalong's body and divine sense, and he completed his breakthrough as the tribulation clouds dispersed.
• Li Dalong cleared the damaged mountaintop and returned to his courtyard in the Cloud Glow Sect.
• Ye Wuxia and Ke Xialing rushed to embrace Li Dalong, and their reunion left him with a nosebleed before they went inside.
• Li Dalong told Ye Wuxia and Ke Xialing that he had succeeded, and the three celebrated and spent time together over immortal tea.

Li Dalong decided to ask Sect Master Ye for Ye Wuxia’s hand in marriage and planned to propose to Ke Xialing’s mother afterward. After giving both women the precious Longevity Dao Scripture, he prepared lavish betrothal gifts for his visits the next day.

• Li Dalong told Ye Wuxia he would visit the Limitless Immortal Sect to ask her father for her hand, then promised Ke Xialing he would ask her mother afterward.
• Ye Wuxia planned to speak with her mother before Li Dalong’s visit and returned to the Limitless Immortal Sect.
• Li Dalong transmitted the Longevity Dao Scripture to Ye Wuxia and Ke Xialing and warned them to keep it secret until they were strong enough.
• After Ye Wuxia left, Li Dalong planned betrothal gifts, including an immortal vein for Ye Wuxia and Profound Ice Fruits, immortal stones, and immortal medicines for both women.

Ye Wuxia told Madam Yuehua that Li Dalong would ask Ye Xingchen for her hand, and her mother agreed to help persuade her husband. Ye Xingchen learned of the proposal and was left reeling at the thought of his daughter marrying.

• After returning to the Limitless Immortal Sect, Ye Wuxia told Madam Yuehua that Li Dalong would come ask for her hand the next day.
• Madam Yuehua supported Ye Wuxia and promised to talk to Ye Xingchen so he would not make things difficult for Li Dalong.
• Madam Yuehua summoned Ye Xingchen from the Sect Main Hall, and he hurried home worried that Ye Wuxia had gotten into trouble.
• Madam Yuehua told Ye Xingchen that someone was coming to ask for their daughter's hand, and he was stunned by the news.

Ye Xingchen reluctantly agreed not to make things difficult for Li Dalong when he came to propose to Ye Wuxia. Li Dalong asked for Ye Wuxia’s hand, but Ye Xingchen challenged him to prove he could provide for her cultivation, then grew suspicious when Li Dalong confidently promised he could.

• Madam Yuehua reminded Ye Xingchen of their own difficult courtship and persuaded him to accept Li Dalong’s proposal without upsetting Ye Wuxia.
• Li Dalong left Ke Xialing and traveled to the Limitless Immortal Sect to meet Ye Xingchen.
• Li Dalong formally asked Ye Xingchen for permission to marry Ye Wuxia.
• Ye Xingchen questioned whether Li Dalong could support Ye Wuxia’s cultivation and offered consent if he could.
• Li Dalong confidently guaranteed he could provide the resources, causing Ye Xingchen to put him on his mental blacklist.