Chapter Summaries

Li Dalong established a Spirit-Gathering Array on the Back Mountain for trusted Righteous Qi Sect disciples and gained the greater divine ability Law of Heaven and Manifestation of Earth. Cloudmist Palace’s Grand Elder Yun Shuangxue arrived with Princess Yun Yao and other companions to visit the sect, and the Righteous Qi Sect elders escorted them to meet Zhou Yong.

• Zhou Yong asked Li Dalong to set up a Spirit-Gathering Array, and Li Dalong agreed to limit it to loyal elite disciples cultivating in secret.
• Li Dalong prepared the magical implements, activated the array on the Back Mountain with high-grade spirit stones, and notified Zhou Yong.
• Zhou Yong sent groups of selected elite disciples into the array as spiritual energy gradually grew denser and major powers took notice.
• Li Dalong checked in and received the greater divine ability Law of Heaven and Manifestation of Earth, which he could use to grow to thirty-three times his size for the time it took to drink a cup of tea.
• Yun Shuangxue arrived at the Righteous Qi Sect with Princess Yun Yao and Cloudmist Palace companions and asked to see the sect master.
• Tang Mingxuan welcomed the visitors at the mountain gate and escorted them toward the Righteous Qi Hall, where Zhou Yong was waiting.

Cloudmist Palace proposed a marriage alliance between its princess, Yun Yao, and Righteous Qi Sect's sect master, Zhou Yong, and both agreed. After their feelings deepened, the sects announced that the wedding would take place in a month and publicized their alliance to the Cultivation World.

• Shuang Xue visited Righteous Qi Sect and asked Zhou Yong whether he was married.
• Shuang Xue proposed that Zhou Yong marry Princess Yun Yao to form an alliance between Cloudmist Palace and Righteous Qi Sect.
• Zhou Yong proposed to Yun Yao, and she agreed; he accepted the alliance on behalf of his sect.
• Shuang Xue and the Righteous Qi Sect's hall masters discussed wedding arrangements, while Zhou Yong and Yun Yao spent time together and grew closer.
• A month later, Zhou Yong learned the wedding would be held in another month, and both sects announced their marriage alliance to the Cultivation World.

As Zhou Yong and Yun Yao's wedding began, Nangong Jing, Nangong Xun, and other elders launched a rebellion to seize control of the Righteous Qi Sect. Li Dalong intervened from the forbidden grounds and killed the rebels, leaving the wedding guests stunned by the sect's hidden strength.

• Nangong Jing, Nangong Xun, and several elders plotted to kill Zhou Yong during his wedding ceremony and take over the Righteous Qi Sect.
• Li Dalong refused Zhou Yong's invitation to the wedding but gave him the Righteous Qi Formula, the Exquisite Immortal Scripture for Yun Yao, and a protective Sword Formula.
• Zhou Yong and Yun Yao began their wedding before guests and elders gathered in the Righteous Qi Hall.
• Nangong Jing attacked Zhou Yong as he bowed, but Li Dalong's Sword Formula emerged from Zhou Yong and wounded the attacker while Nangong Xun and the other rebels attacked their targets.
• Zhou Yong protected Yun Yao, ordered the sect sealed, and told the elders and disciples to protect the guests and capture the traitors.
• Li Dalong manifested a giant above the hall and crushed Nangong Jing, Nangong Xun, and the other rebellious elders into blood mist.

After the wedding, Zhou Yong and Yun Yao welcomed their daughter, Zhou Xue, whose mischievous nature led Yun Yao to propose sending her to Cloudmist Palace for discipline and cultivation. Zhou Yong persuaded Li Dalong to teach her instead, and returned to ask Yun Yao to agree to the arrangement.

• After crushing the rebellious elders, Li Dalong told everyone to resume Zhou Yong and Yun Yao's wedding celebrations.
• A year later, Zhou Yong and Yun Yao had a daughter and named her Zhou Xue.
• As Zhou Xue grew, her pranks on the sect's spirit animals worried Yun Yao, who proposed sending her to Cloudmist Palace when she turned four.
• Zhou Yong opposed sending Zhou Xue away and went to ask Li Dalong to teach her at the forbidden grounds.
• Li Dalong agreed to teach Zhou Xue during the day and return her to her parents in the evening, warning that her training would be strict.
• Zhou Yong hurried back to discuss Li Dalong's offer with Yun Yao, who was still angry about his refusal to send their daughter to Cloudmist Palace.

Zhou Yong arranged for Zhou Xue to train with Li Dalong by day and return home at night, easing Yun Yao’s worries. Li Dalong used a Fire Essence Jujube to break through to the early Spirit Transformation stage.

• Zhou Yong told Yun Yao that Zhou Xue would cultivate with Li Dalong during the day and come home at night, and Yun Yao agreed.
• Li Dalong returned to his cave abode and reflected on the changing spiritual energy and his stalled cultivation.
• Li Dalong checked in and received a Fire Essence Jujube, which the system said could force a breakthrough but might ignite his spiritual power.
• Li Dalong ate the jujube and circulated the Righteous Qi Formula, using its fire spiritual power to attack his bottleneck.
• Li Dalong broke through to the early Spirit Transformation stage and found that his divine sense was much stronger and reached much farther than an ordinary cultivator’s.

Li Dalong tested the vast reach of his divine sense before Zhou Xue's parents brought her to the Forbidden Grounds of the Rear Mountain to study cultivation with him. After Zhou Yong left, Li Dalong began teaching Zhou Xue the Righteous Qi Art and explained the basics of spiritual power and cultivation.

• Li Dalong swept his divine sense across more than half of the Divine Land, then reflected on his years of cultivation while drinking tea beneath the stars.
• Zhou Yong and Yun Yao persuaded Zhou Xue to learn cultivation from her martial uncle, and she reluctantly agreed.
• Li Dalong used a giant hand of spiritual power to bring Zhou Yong and Zhou Xue from their home to the Forbidden Grounds of the Rear Mountain.
• Zhou Yong left Zhou Xue with Li Dalong, who gave her the Righteous Qi Art and began explaining spiritual power and the effort cultivation required.

As the Cultivation World grew more chaotic, Dao Alliance leader Feng Jinglei sent Ouyang Lie to demand that the Righteous Qi Sect join the alliance. Zhou Yong refused, and the meeting ended in an escalating confrontation, with Ouyang Lie threatening the sect.

• Zhou Yong broke through to the Early Out-of-Body Stage as spiritual energy grew more active and conflicts spread throughout the Cultivation World.
• Feng Jinglei formed the Dao Alliance and planned to bring the Righteous Qi Sect under its control.
• Ouyang Lie arrived at the Righteous Qi Sect and asked Zhou Yong to join the Dao Alliance.
• Zhou Yong rejected the invitation, saying the sect wanted to avoid entanglement in disputes.
• Ouyang Lie threatened the Righteous Qi Sect, and Zhou Yong angrily challenged the Dao Alliance's power.

Zhou Yong refused the Dao Alliance’s demand that the Righteous Qi Sect join and warned Li Dalong of Feng Jinglei’s threat. Li Dalong set out for the Dao Alliance’s headquarters on Kunlun Mountain to confront Feng Jinglei, leaving Zhou Yong awaiting his return.

• Ouyang Lie threatened Zhou Yong with a visit from Feng Jinglei, but Zhou Yong rejected the Dao Alliance’s demand and declared that the Righteous Qi Sect would fight if attacked.
• After Ouyang Lie and his delegation left, Zhou Yong weighed the strengths of the Righteous Qi Sect and the Dao Alliance, then went to consult Li Dalong.
• Zhou Yong told Li Dalong that Feng Jinglei had reached the spirit transformation realm and might threaten the sect, and Li Dalong decided to go to Kunlun Mountain himself.
• Li Dalong flew west on the Azure Cloud Sword toward the True Martial Sect, the Dao Alliance’s headquarters.

Li Dalong confronted the Dao Alliance at the True Martial Sect, killed its leader Feng Jinglei, and declared that anyone who offended the Righteous Qi Sect would be slain. His warning spread throughout the Cultivation World, bringing a flood of visitors to the Righteous Qi Sect, where Zhou Yong delegated the growing stream of visitors to the External Affairs Hall master.

• Li Dalong entered the True Martial Sect grounds and demanded that Feng Jinglei come out, killing a Dao Alliance disciple who provoked him.
• Feng Jinglei appeared, and Li Dalong told him he had come to settle the Dao Alliance's threat against the Righteous Qi Sect.
• Li Dalong overpowered Feng Jinglei in battle and killed him with a sword thrust through the space between his brows.
• Li Dalong formed the warning “Whoever dares offend the Righteous Qi Sect shall be slain, however far away!” in the sky and returned home.
• News of Feng Jinglei's death spread, and visitors seeking ties with or membership in the Righteous Qi Sect arrived in growing numbers.
• Zhou Yong became exasperated by the influx and handed responsibility for the visitors to the External Affairs Hall master.

Li Dalong gained the Vast Righteous Qi Formula and advanced to the Mahayana stage while Zhou Yong welcomed a son, Zhou Tianlong, and broke through to Spirit Transformation. Years later, Zhou Yong visited Li Dalong to discuss having him teach Tianlong, but the chapter ended before he made the request.

• Li Dalong checked in for the Vast Righteous Qi Formula and began cultivating it in the Forbidden Grounds of the Rear Mountain.
• Yun Yao gave birth to Zhou Tianlong, and Zhou Yong celebrated by ordering three days of festivities and increasing the disciples' stipends.
• Zhou Yong broke through to the Spirit Transformation stage after his son's birth loosened his bottleneck.
• Li Dalong advanced from Spirit Transformation to Mahayana as the Cultivation World's spiritual energy and opportunities continued to grow.
• When Zhou Tianlong turned five, Yun Yao urged Zhou Yong to ask Li Dalong to teach their son, and Zhou Yong visited Li Dalong while he was instructing Zhou Xue.

Zhou Yong asked Li Dalong to take Tian Long as a disciple, and they agreed that Zhou Xue would return to the sect and visit Li Dalong every ten days. To strengthen the Righteous Qi Sect, Li Dalong prepared several Spirit-Gathering Arrays and received the Heaven-Slaying Art from his system.

• Zhou Yong asked Li Dalong to teach Tian Long, and Li Dalong proposed that Zhou Xue return to the sect and visit him every ten days.
• Zhou Xue reluctantly agreed to leave Li Dalong’s forbidden grounds and resume cultivating at the sect.
• Zhou Yong asked Li Dalong to build Spirit-Gathering Arrays to strengthen the sect’s disciples, and Li Dalong agreed to make arrays using mid-grade, high-grade, and Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Li Dalong began preparing the array artifacts and instructed Zhou Yong to bring Tian Long the next day.
• After finishing the preparations, Li Dalong checked in and received the Heaven-Slaying Art, a sword technique that could cleave the heavens when perfected.

Li Dalong mastered the Heaven-Slaying Art, demonstrated its devastating power, and advanced to the middle stage of Spirit Transformation. As the Cultivation World descended into chaos, the Heaven-Severing Church expanded from the eastern seas onto the Heavenly Origin Continent, alarming the factions it had not yet absorbed.

• Li Dalong cultivated the Heaven-Slaying Art to perfection, unleashing a sword strike that tore through space and annihilated several mountain peaks.
• Cultivating the art raised Li Dalong to the middle stage of Spirit Transformation and greatly increased his offensive power.
• As factions scrambled for strength and resources, the Heaven-Severing Church grew under its leader, Zhan Tian, who brought the eastern seas under his control.
• Zhan Tian used agents and traders to gather intelligence and quietly establish the Heaven-Severing Church on the continent.
• The Heaven-Severing Church swallowed small and medium-sized sects, causing the remaining factions to fear its growing reach.

The Heaven-Severing Church prepared a two-pronged invasion of the continent while Li Dalong cultivated in seclusion and received Azure Dragon Essence Blood from the system. After enduring its painful effects and refining its power, he broke through from late Spirit Transformation to Mahayana.

• Zhou Yong weighed the Heaven-Severing Church's growing strength as more nearby factions sought protection from the Righteous Qi Sect.
• Zhan Tian gathered the church's senior members and ordered two deputy church leaders to lead a full-scale invasion west and south.
• Li Dalong checked in with the system and received Azure Dragon Essence Blood, which the system warned could attract catastrophe if its aura leaked.
• Li Dalong sealed the surrounding space and consumed the essence blood, enduring as it remade his body and strengthened his meridians.
• Li Dalong refined the essence blood's spiritual power, broke through his cultivation bottleneck, and reached Mahayana.

Li Dalong broke through to the early Mahayana stage and gained the Azure Dragon Essence Blood's Firmament Illusion ability as the Heaven-Severing Church advanced on the Righteous Qi Sect. Zhou Yong confronted Jingbian Shihuang outside the sect, and their battle began with neither gaining an advantage.

• Li Dalong stabilized his cultivation at the early Mahayana stage, gained the Firmament Illusion ability, and concealed the fluctuations from his breakthrough.
• Jingbian Shihuang led the Southern Route Army across the sea and advanced toward the Righteous Qi Sect, forcing Zhou Yong to recall subordinate factions and place the sect on alert.
• After the Heaven-Severing Church destroyed a neighboring faction, Jingbian Shihuang brought his forces to the Righteous Qi Sect and attacked its protective formation, which held firm.
• Zhou Yong emerged from the formation and traded insults with Jingbian Shihuang before their first clash ended without either gaining an advantage.
• Zhou Yong charged Jingbian Shihuang again, who dodged sideways as Zhou Yong turned and attacked him once more.

Jingbian Shihuang and the Heaven-Severing Church attacked the Righteous Qi Sect, overwhelming Zhou Yong and weakening the sect’s protective formation. Li Dalong finally intervened from the rear mountain and destroyed the attackers with a single word, leaving the sect’s people stunned.

• Jingbian Shihuang ordered the Heaven-Severing Church disciples to attack after Zhou Yong survived their initial exchange.
• Jingbian Shihuang wounded Zhou Yong with a powerful incantation, and Zhou Yong retreated inside the Righteous Qi Sect’s formation.
• Jingbian Shihuang led the church forces in striking one point of the formation until its defenses began to fail.
• Li Dalong, who had recently reached the mahayana realm, spoke the word “Scram!” and sent a deadly storm through the Heaven-Severing Church forces.
• The storm turned Jingbian Shihuang and the attackers it struck into blood mist, and the Righteous Qi Sect’s observers stood stunned.

Li Dalong killed the Heaven-Severing Church forces attacking the Righteous Qi Sect with a single breath, then confronted Zhan Tian and warned him never to threaten the sect again. Zhan Tian submitted and was spared, while Li Dalong left the church under threat of destruction if it returned to its evil ways.

• Li Dalong killed Jingbian Shihuang and the Heaven-Severing Church forces at the Righteous Qi Sect, bringing the sect’s crisis to an end.
• A disciple on duty discovered that many soul tablets had shattered and reported the deaths to Zhan Tian.
• Zhan Tian learned that the dead were guardians and elders led by Jingbian Shihuang, then set out to find whoever had killed them.
• Li Dalong revealed that he had severed Zhan Tian’s arm and warned him against sending anyone to threaten the Righteous Qi Sect.
• Zhan Tian begged for mercy, promised not to trouble the sect again, and was spared after Li Dalong threatened to destroy the Heaven-Severing Church if it committed evil again.

After Li Dalong’s warning forced the Heaven-Severing Church and other powers to avoid the Righteous Qi Sect, he spent several years cultivating and guiding Zhou Tianlong. When Li Dalong sensed his bottleneck breaking, he went to a remote island and began his breakthrough to the Tribulation Transcendence realm, where heavenly tribulation clouds gathered overhead.

• Li Dalong spared Zhan Tian after warning him, and Zhan Tian ordered the Heaven-Severing Church to halt its operations against the Righteous Qi Sect.
• Li Dalong’s display of power made forces across the Cultivation World warn their people not to provoke the Righteous Qi Sect, while Sect Master Zhou Yong received a stream of alliance visitors.
• Li Dalong trained Zhou Tianlong, who advanced to the late Golden Core realm by age fifteen, while Li Dalong continued his own cultivation.
• Li Dalong sensed his bottleneck breaking and traveled to a secluded island in the Southern Sea without notifying Zhou Yong.
• Li Dalong checked the island, concealed it with an array, and used a Spirit-Gathering Array to break through to the Tribulation Transcendence realm.
• Li Dalong replenished his spiritual power as tribulation clouds gathered overhead and prepared pills for the coming heavenly tribulation.

Li Dalong survived the nine strikes of his heavenly tribulation and reached the Tribulation Transcendence Realm. Ten years later, Zhou Xue led Righteous Qi Sect disciples into the Demon Beast Forest, where a huge demon beast appeared before them.

• Li Dalong used his sword, defensive artifact, spiritual power, and pills to endure the first eight tribulation strikes.
• The ninth strike's purple lightning healed Li Dalong, strengthened his divine sense, and brought him into the Tribulation Transcendence Realm.
• Li Dalong retrieved his formation and left the island after sensing the world’s rejection and reflecting on his new strength.
• Zhou Xue returned to the Righteous Qi Sect, formed her golden core, and advanced to the early Nascent Soul Realm over the next ten years.
• Zhou Xue led a group of Righteous Qi Sect disciples into the depths of the Demon Beast Forest for a sect mission.
• An enormous demon beast suddenly appeared before Zhou Xue and the cautiously advancing disciples.

Zhou Xue and the Righteous Qi Sect disciples fought an Ironback Azure Bear, and she killed it with a life-saving Sword Qi spirit sword from Li Dalong. While the group recovered, Yan Zhan attacked Zhou Xue, leaving her outmatched and her disciples under assault by demon beasts as she resolved to escape for reinforcements.

• Zhou Xue led the disciples in a combined attack against the Ironback Azure Bear, but their strikes barely hurt it and it shattered their defensive formation.
• Zhou Xue held off the bear with the Jade Phoenix Sword while the disciples retreated, then used Li Dalong's Sword Qi spirit sword to kill it.
• Zhou Xue gathered the surviving disciples to rest and recover, and stored the bear in her Storage Ring.
• Yan Zhan, young master of the Crimson Flame Tiger Tribe, arrived and attacked Zhou Xue after becoming interested in her.
• Zhou Xue fought Yan Zhan while other demon beasts attacked the disciples, and she decided she had to escape and seek reinforcements.

Zhou Xue fled Flame Tiger and leaped into the Misty Canyon rather than be captured. Her father, Zhou Yong, tracked down Flame Tiger and forced him to lead the way to the canyon, where Zhou Yong began searching for her.

• Zhou Xue was cornered at the Misty Canyon and jumped into its depths to escape Flame Tiger and the pursuing demon beasts.
• Zhang Yang and Liu Xiaobo returned to the Righteous Qi Sect and told Sect Master Zhou Yong that Zhou Xue was missing and the other disciples had been killed.
• Zhou Yong led several elders into the Demon Beast Forest to search for his daughter and heard Flame Tiger bragging about pursuing her.
• Zhou Yong seized Flame Tiger and demanded to know what had happened to Zhou Xue; Flame Tiger said she had jumped into the canyon.
• Flame Tiger secretly sent word to the Flame Emperor Demon Sage while leading Zhou Yong toward the canyon.
• Zhou Yong and the elders reached the Misty Canyon, where his spiritual sense could penetrate only a little over two hundred meters into the mist.