Chapter Summaries

After reaching the late Profound Immortal stage, Li Dalong received Nine Extremes Immortal Fruits from the system and traveled to the Limitless Immortal Sect to deliver one each to Zhou Xue and Ye Wuxia. He told Zhou Xue he planned to travel for experience and left her to continue cultivating at the sect.

• Li Dalong broke through to the late Profound Immortal stage, then encountered a bottleneck that called for insight and experience.
• Li Dalong checked in and received a Nine Heavens Limitless Immortal Vine, whose fruit purified his body and bloodline and improved his comprehension.
• Li Dalong prepared two Nine Extremes Immortal Fruits for Zhou Xue and Ye Wuxia, but could not contact Ye Wuxia because she was in seclusion.
• Li Dalong reached the Limitless Immortal Sect and gave Zhou Xue both Storage Rings, telling her to eat her fruit promptly and deliver Ye Wuxia's in person without revealing their contents.
• Li Dalong told Zhou Xue he was setting out to gain experience, and she reassured him that her master was treating her well and that her cultivation was progressing.

Li Dalong left the Limitless Immortal Sect and traveled the Immortal Realm, eventually following rogue cultivators to a hidden cultivation market. He obtained an identity jade tablet and entered the Immortal Fate Market, where he could now explore and seek resources.

• Li Dalong said goodbye to Zhou Xue after giving her the Nine Extremes Immortal Fruit, and he left the Limitless Immortal Sect before Ye Xingchen could meet him.
• Li Dalong wandered a hundred thousand li from the sect and spent six days in a town shared by immortals and mortals.
• Li Dalong overheard rogue cultivators discussing a nearby market and decided to follow them to learn about it and look for spells and other resources.
• Li Dalong tracked the cultivators to a concealed formation and found the entrance to the Immortal Fate Market.
• Li Dalong paid five mid-grade immortal stones for an identity jade tablet, left his divine sense imprint, and was warned to follow the market's rules.

Li Dalong explored Immortal Fate Market and visited the Spirit Treasure Pavilion to find a powerful flying sword. After Steward Zhao recognized his Mysterious Immortal Realm cultivation, he offered to use his monthly privilege to let Li Dalong inspect the third floor.

• Li Dalong entered Immortal Fate Market, surveyed its shops and cultivators, and learned that two Golden Immortal rogue cultivators had established it.
• Li Dalong visited the Spirit Treasure Pavilion and found that the first floor's low-grade immortal artifacts were unsuitable for him.
• Li Dalong asked a shop assistant whether he could view the third floor's better flying swords and learned about its spending and cultivation requirements.
• Li Dalong considered buying talismans and immortal medicine seeds if needed to meet the Pavilion's requirements.
• Steward Zhao arrived and offered to take Li Dalong to the third floor using his monthly privilege.

Li Dalong bought talismans and immortal medicine seeds at the Spirit Treasure Pavilion before going upstairs with Steward Zhao to look for a flying sword. Unsatisfied with the three high-grade swords on display, he was offered a chance to inspect an unusual sword meant for the pavilion’s headquarters.

• Li Dalong bought ten of each selected intermediate talisman and immortal medicine seed, paying three hundred fifty-five thousand mid-grade immortal stones after Steward Zhao gave him a discount.
• Steward Zhao personally escorted Li Dalong to the quiet, elegant third floor, drawing the attention of shoppers and staff.
• Li Dalong examined the Nine Heavens Sword, the Star Sword, and the damaged Wind-Thunder Sword as Steward Zhao explained their qualities and prices.
• Li Dalong asked whether those were the only swords, and Steward Zhao offered to show him an unusual flying sword intended for headquarters.

Li Dalong bought the Azure Rainbow flying sword from the Spirit Treasure Pavilion, then decided to stay in the Immortal Fate Market for a while. He rented a courtyard as a temporary residence.

• Steward Zhao showed Li Dalong the Azure Rainbow, a mid-grade immortal artifact that could improve as its owner's cultivation advanced.
• Li Dalong paid Steward Zhao one hundred and thirty thousand high-grade immortal stones for the flying sword.
• Li Dalong left the Spirit Treasure Pavilion and wandered through the Immortal Fate Market while considering whether to stay.
• Li Dalong found a courtyard for rent and agreed with its owner to rent it for at least six months.
• Li Dalong paid the owner two hundred spirit stones and received a communication talisman.

Li Dalong rented a courtyard in the market town, used Enlightenment Tea to gain insight, and bought a map before setting out to temper himself in the Red Cloud Mountain Range. After finding empty ancient ruins and hiding from a group of weary cultivators, he watched a black-clad figure confront them.

• Li Dalong rented a courtyard, strengthened its Defensive Formation with high-grade immortal stones, and drank Enlightenment Tea to reflect on his cultivation.
• The next morning, Li Dalong bought a detailed atlas from the Heavenly Secret Pavilion and later gathered information from rogue cultivators in taverns.
• Li Dalong followed the map to the Red Cloud Mountain Range, where he fought demon beasts as he traveled through the mountains.
• After half a month, Li Dalong found empty ancient ruins in a cave and concealed himself when he heard people approaching.
• A weary group of cultivators led by a beautiful girl entered the ruins, and a black-clad figure emerged from the shadows to confront them.

Li Dalong intervened when a black-clad man cornered Ke Xialing and the Cloud Glow Sect disciples, fighting him with his sword and a lightning talisman. After the enemy recovered and revealed the gap in their cultivation, Ke Xialing joined the battle, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Ke Xialing and the Cloud Glow Sect disciples prepared to fight the black-clad man, who had hunted them for days and threatened to kill them.
• Li Dalong attacked the black-clad man with the Azure Rainbow Sword and battled him at close quarters.
• The black-clad man shrouded the battlefield in mist, but Li Dalong sensed his enemy and struck him with a Thunderous Force talisman, shattering his defensive artifact and sending him flying.
• Ke Xialing and the disciples praised Li Dalong, then Ke Xialing decided to join the fight and instructed the others to support her.
• The black-clad man got back up, summoned another Defensive Artifact, and sent out black energy as Ke Xialing charged him with her flying sword.

Li Dalong and Ke Xialing joined forces with the Cloud Glow Sect disciples to kill the man in black, then Li Dalong accepted Ke Xialing’s invitation to travel with them. The group left the hunting grounds, while Li Dalong sensed something unsettling about the mysterious forest.

• Li Dalong and Ke Xialing fought alongside the Cloud Glow Sect disciples and killed the man in black.
• The disciples offered the man in black’s weapon and Storage Ring to Li Dalong, who gave the spoils back for them to divide.
• Ke Xialing thanked Li Dalong, learned he was a rogue cultivator named Li Dalong, and invited him to train with her group.
• Li Dalong accepted Ke Xialing’s invitation, and the group promptly left the area to evade the remaining men in black.
• As they traveled through the dense woods, Li Dalong sensed that the forest was mysterious and felt uneasy.

Li Dalong and the Cloud Glow Sect disciples reached an uncharted lake after being mysteriously guided through the forest, then discovered its unnatural silence concealed a monster. After two disciples were dragged underwater, Li Dalong prepared to descend alone to investigate.

• Li Dalong and Ke Xialing led the group out of the forest, where the strange feeling vanished beside an unmarked lake.
• Li Dalong noticed the lake was unnaturally quiet, with no animals, birds, wind, or debris along its shore, and warned Ke Xialing that something was wrong.
• Two Cloud Glow Sect female disciples went to play in the water, and black tentacles seized them and dragged them underwater.
• Ke Xialing and the other disciples rushed to rescue the women, but Li Dalong stopped them from entering the lake.
• Li Dalong told the group to stay away from the shore and announced that he would go underwater to investigate.

Li Dalong transformed into a Divine Dragon and fought the Black Many-Tentacled Monster underwater to rescue two Cloud Glow Sect women. He killed the monster, returned safely to shore, and Ke Xialing called him “Big Brother Li” out of concern.

• Li Dalong used the Divine Dragon Transformation Art and Dragon Scale Armor to dive after the monster and the two women.
• Li Dalong tore off the monster’s tentacles, protected the women with a Spell, and told them through Divine Sense to defend themselves.
• Li Dalong used the Azure Rainbow sword to cut the women free and send them toward the surface.
• Li Dalong stabbed the monster repeatedly with the Azure Rainbow sword until it stopped moving, then sent the women up to shore.
• Ke Xialing brought the rescued women to the beach, and Li Dalong surfaced with the dead monster before returning to shore.
• Ke Xialing checked Li Dalong for injuries and called him “Big Brother Li,” showing that she felt closer to him.

After leaving the dangerous lakeside, Li Dalong and Ke Xialing led the group through a forest rich in immortal medicines, where one Cloud Glow Sect disciple advanced toward a breakthrough. Lin Wan'er successfully survived her Heavenly Tribulation and entered the Profound Immortal realm, while the other disciples gained insights from witnessing her breakthrough.

• Li Dalong set up a Defensive Formation by the lake, and the group rested safely through the night.
• Li Dalong and Ke Xialing led everyone away from the lake and into a different stretch of forest, where they gathered abundant immortal medicines and defeated weaker demon beasts.
• After Lin Wan'er neared a breakthrough, Ke Xialing and Li Dalong agreed to pause so she could undergo her tribulation in a secluded valley.
• Lin Wan'er endured two hours of lightning strikes and successfully transcended her tribulation, reaching the Profound Immortal realm.
• Ke Xialing congratulated Lin Wan'er, and the other Cloud Glow Sect disciples gained insights from witnessing her breakthrough.

After Lin Wan'er’s breakthrough, Li Dalong and the Cloud Glow Sect disciples spent days gathering resources in the Red Cloud Mountain Range before heading back. Near a waterfall, masked attackers ambushed them, killing two disciples and badly wounding another as Li Dalong and the others fought to protect the survivors.

• Lin Wan'er thanked Li Dalong for helping her overcome her tribulation, and Ke Xialing called him “Brother Dalong.”
• The group traveled deeper into the Red Cloud Mountain Range, where Lin Wan'er practiced fighting and the disciples gathered beasts and medicinal herbs for about ten days.
• After Lin Wan'er killed an Earth Immortal Realm spirit beast, Ke Xialing decided the group should return to the sect.
• As the disciples approached a pool beneath a waterfall, Li Dalong sensed killing intent, pulled Ke Xialing behind him, and sent the Azure Rainbow Sword toward the ambush.
• Masked men in green robes attacked the disciples with flying swords, killing two and severing another’s arm.
• Li Dalong intercepted an attack while Ke Xialing and Lin Wan'er helped defend and retrieve the wounded disciples.

Li Dalong and the Cloud Glow Sect group fought four green-robed ambushers, and Li Dalong killed one of them after exposing his invisibility with Lightning Talismans. After Li Dalong and Ke Xialing were both wounded, he regained the advantage and pressed his attack on another opponent.

• Li Dalong assessed the enemies’ cultivation levels and shared a cautious battle plan with Ke Xialing, Lin Wan'er, and the three disciples.
• One late-stage Profound Immortal in green robes turned invisible, but Li Dalong detected him and secretly prepared his defenses.
• Li Dalong used Lightning Talismans to reveal the hidden man, then pierced him with the Azure Rainbow Sword, killing him.
• The surviving late-stage Profound Immortal struck Li Dalong with a powerful sword blow, cutting a deep wound across his chest, while Ke Xialing was injured after looking toward him.
• Li Dalong recovered and joined Ke Xialing; he knocked an opponent’s flying sword aside, sent the man flying with a palm strike, and severed his right hand with the Azure Rainbow Sword.
• The wounded green-robed man took another flying sword from his Storage Ring and continued fighting Li Dalong.

Li Dalong killed two green-robed attackers and drove off a third, while the Cloud Glow Sect disciples mourned their dead and discovered the attackers belonged to the Universe-Suppressing Tower. Ke Xialing led the wounded group toward safety, and Li Dalong agreed to escort them part of the way before returning to the Immortal Fate Market.

• Li Dalong killed the green-robed man fighting him and pursued down the one attacking Ke Xialing, while the last attacker escaped using the Blood-Transforming Escape Technique.
• Ke Xialing and the Cloud Glow Sect disciples grieved for two junior sisters killed in the ambush as the survivors recovered their bodies.
• Two male disciples found an Identity Jade Tablet belonging to the Universe-Suppressing Tower, and Ke Xialing recognized the assassins as members of the sect's mortal enemy.
• Ke Xialing explained the Universe-Suppressing Tower's history of abducting Cloud Glow Sect disciples and ordered everyone to hurry back before the organization learned of the failed ambush.
• Li Dalong agreed to escort Ke Xialing's group part of the way, planning to return to the Immortal Fate Market once they reached the sect's sphere of influence.

Li Dalong and the Cloud Glow Sect group rested near Cinnabar Glow Mountain while reinforcements and a Universe-Suppressing Tower squad raced toward them. Manager 012 attacked before Ke Meili arrived, and Li Dalong opened the battle by launching a compressed Immortal Power Sphere at the enemy.

• Li Dalong led the exhausted group to a hill, set up defensive and attack formations, and Ke Xialing summoned help from her mother, Ke Meili.
• Juzi dispatched Manager 012 and nine Elite Thugs to ambush the group, while Ke Meili hurried ahead of the Cloud Glow Sect elders to reach her daughter sooner.
• Li Dalong recovered his strength with an Immortal Power-Replenishing Pill and an Enlightenment Tea Leaf, then prepared to stall the attackers until reinforcements arrived.
• Li Dalong detected Manager 012's squad approaching, woke Ke Xialing and the others, and formed a gigantic Dharma Form above the formations.
• Li Dalong compressed an Immortal Power Sphere and hurled it into the approaching enemy group.

Li Dalong and the Cloud Glow Sect disciples fought the Universe-Suppressing Tower ambush, killing several attackers but suffering heavy losses as their defensive formation fell. Ke Meili rushed toward the explosion, searching for Ke Xialing as the battle continued.

• Li Dalong surprised the Universe-Suppressing Tower attackers with a prepared strike that killed two Elite Disciples when their weapons rebounded in the explosion.
• Li Dalong fought while moving as the shopkeeper sent two subordinates after his Dharma Form and ordered five others to attack the formation.
• Ke Xialing and Lin Wan'er harassed the attackers, and Ke Xialing killed a Mid-Stage Profound Immortal with a flying-sword strike to his Dantian.
• The Universe-Suppressing Tower attackers breached the formation, and two Cloud Glow Sect male disciples detonated themselves, killing three enemies and injuring two others.
• Ke Meili heard the explosion, sped toward its source, and searched for Ke Xialing with her Divine Sense.

Ke Meili arrived in time to help Li Dalong defeat the Universe-Suppressing Tower attackers and rescue Ke Xialing. After thanking Li Dalong, she invited him to become a Cloud Glow Sect Guest Elder, and he agreed before the group began clearing the battlefield.

• Ke Meili arrived and attacked Shopkeeper 012 while Li Dalong pursued and killed two retreating Universe-Suppressing Tower disciples.
• Ke Meili exhausted Shopkeeper 012's life-saving Immortal Artifacts and killed him with a sword through the heart.
• The Universe-Suppressing Tower magnate learned that Shopkeeper 012's Soul Token had shattered and killed two maidservants in his rage.
• Ke Xialing reunited with her mother, and Ke Meili thanked Li Dalong for protecting her daughter and the Cloud Glow Sect disciples.
• Ke Xialing and Ke Meili invited Li Dalong to join the Cloud Glow Sect, and he accepted the position of Guest Elder.
• Lin Wan'er and the other disciples paid their respects to Elder Li while Lin Wan'er began cleaning up the battlefield.

Li Dalong returned safely to the Cloud Glow Sect as its new Guest Elder, while Ke Meili worried that Ke Xialing had fallen for him. During cultivation, Li Dalong signed in and obtained the supreme-grade immortal artifact Thunder-Racing Bow.

• Ke Meili introduced Li Dalong as the Cloud Glow Sect's new Guest Elder, and the elders thanked him for saving Ke Xialing and the others.
• Lin Wan'er recovered the belongings of the two disciples who had detonated themselves, and the party returned to the Cloud Glow Sect after a day of travel.
• Ke Meili arranged a secluded residence and three months' allowance for Li Dalong, who set up a formation and entered the Creation Cultivation Tower to cultivate.
• Ke Xialing recounted the journey to Ke Meili, who realized her daughter had fallen for Li Dalong and worried that the attachment would bring her sorrow.
• Li Dalong signed in during cultivation and obtained the supreme-grade immortal artifact Thunder-Racing Bow, which could fire tracking lightning arrows.

After obtaining the Thunder-Racing Bow, the protagonist resumed cultivation while Ke Xialing prepared to break through into the Heavenly Immortal Realm. Juzi assembled a superior force to destroy the Cloud Glow Sect, whose leader learned of the invasion only as the attackers arrived and ordered the sect to prepare for battle.

• The protagonist admired the Thunder-Racing Bow, judged it powerful enough to kill a Heavenly Immortal by surprise, and returned it to the System Space before resuming cultivation.
• Ke Xialing reflected on the losses from the Red Cloud Mountain Range expedition and, with her insights and resources, entered secluded cultivation to attempt a breakthrough.
• Juzi recruited more than two thousand fighters, including a mid-stage Heavenly Immortal and at least eighty Mysterious Immortals, to attack the Cloud Glow Sect.
• The Universe-Suppressing Tower's force set out, and rumors spread among the factions as their spies investigated Juzi's reasons for attacking.
• Ke Meili received warning of the approaching army, rang the alarm, recalled nearby disciples, and activated the sect's defensive arrays.

The Universe-Suppressing Tower attacked the Cloud Glow Sect, whose people fought back from behind their protective formation. Ke Meili’s sword and the sect’s defenses inflicted heavy losses, but the magnate’s attacks began weakening the barrier.

• Ke Meili prepared the Cloud Glow Sect for battle and kept Ke Xialing close, while Li Dalong learned of the invasion but stayed on the Back Mountain.
• The magnate arrived with the Universe-Suppressing Tower’s forces, split them into two groups, and ordered them to attack the sect’s formation.
• Cloud Glow Sect disciples repelled the attackers with spells and flying swords, but Ke Meili stopped them from charging outside after several were killed.
• Ke Meili used Stars to slaughter the Tower’s disciples until the magnate sent a Heavenly Immortal Realm Rogue Cultivator to confront her.
• The magnate joined the assault on the formation and began dimming its barrier, while Ke Meili, Ke Xialing, and the sect’s disciples continued fighting from within.