Chapter Summaries

Li Xian asked Leng Qishuang to publicize his plan to challenge the Heavenly Venerable Tower’s floor masters all at once, and she agreed to help him build the buzz. After settling into a large cave abode in Nine Emperors City, he invited Zhuzhao to rebuild the Great Luo Immortal Sect in the Great Yao Immortal Dynasty and offered to speak with Immortal Marquis Xuanjun.

• Li Xian rejected Leng Qishuang’s suggestions for sensational publicity and proposed challenging all nine floor masters from the hundredth floor upward at once.
• Leng Qishuang agreed to promote Li Xian’s victory over Chi Huang and help arrange the challenge.
• Leng Qishuang took Li Xian to a ten-thousand-li cave abode in Nine Emperors City, where he settled in.
• Zhuzhao told Li Xian that the Lord of Xuanjun wanted to meet him and offer substantial cultivation funding.
• Li Xian asked Zhuzhao whether he wanted to rebuild the Great Luo Immortal Sect in the Great Yao Immortal Dynasty.
• Zhuzhao said the sect wished to have its own home but feared Immortal Marquis Xuanjun would not let them leave, and Li Xian offered to speak with him.

Immortal Marquis Xuanjun agreed to let Li Xian’s Great Luo Immortal Sect leave the Four Symbols Alliance, while Li Xian’s reputation grew as he prepared to challenge the Heavenly Venerable Tower’s top floor. Seeking a way to help Leng Qishuang advance, Li Xian studied Dao Master will cultivation, completed the Glimmer stage, and received a mysterious Token inscribed “Taizhen.”

• Immortal Marquis Xuanjun welcomed Li Xian and agreed to support the Great Luo Immortal Sect’s departure from the Four Symbols Alliance, while arranging for Yu Tianming to buy its resources and maintain their relationship.
• Li Xian arranged a new headquarters for the Great Luo Immortal Sect in Nine Emperors City as Zhuzhao and the others began traveling there by Immortal Boats.
• Li Xian’s decisive victory over Chi Huang spread through the Heavenly Venerable Tower’s circles, and he recorded a public challenge to the masters of its hundredth through hundred and eighth floors.
• Li Xian tried to help Leng Qishuang advance to Immortal Spirit, then studied a document about soul resonance and realized its principles connected to Dao Master-level Will.
• Li Xian entered a vivid will-evolution vision, understood that Dao Masters transform themselves into the Great Dao, and completed the Glimmer stage through his Glazed Treasure Light.
• A mysterious gaze fell upon Li Xian, and a Token appeared in his hand bearing the characters “Taizhen.”

Li Xian studied the Dao Master manual and gained insight into the path of Dao Transformation and Annihilation, while the Heavenly Venerable Tower’s top challengers prepared to face his challenge. The organizing committee ordered them to accept the fight in one year, and they resolved to defeat him together.

• Li Xian realized the Great Truth Dao Master had reviewed his paper, which had passed but was hidden and barred from publication, and he gained permission level nineteen in the Virtual Heaven Immortal Realm.
• Li Xian studied the Dao Master manual and understood that a Dao Master used the myriad Great Daos to forge a path belonging solely to oneself.
• Bai Yujing, Fang Juexia, Xu Jinhuan, Chi Huang, and their tower guardians watched Li Xian’s recording and discussed his strength and challenge to the Nine Tower Masters.
• Xu Jinhuan explained that Li Xian’s status as a Supreme Celestial Immortal made the fight valuable publicity for the Heavenly Venerable Tower and Myriad Things Commerce.
• The organizing committee ordered the challengers to accept Li Xian’s challenge in one year, and Xu Jinhuan, Bai Yujing, and Fang Juexia agreed to fight him together.

Li Xian prepared to challenge the eight highest floor masters of the Heavenly Venerable Tower, while Wan Xianlai visited him and explained why he had sought the tower’s top position. Before a vast crowd, the floor masters assembled and agreed to attack Li Xian together as soon as the battle began.

• After gaining level nineteen clearance, Li Xian studied the Enlightenment Art and cultivated it while awaiting the Heavenly Venerable Tower challenge.
• Wan Xianlai visited Li Xian, revealed that he had stayed at the top of the tower to attract a suitable Dao companion, and refused to withdraw from their coming fight.
• Li Xian learned that Dao companions could help cultivators complement their Great Daos, then turned down repeated endorsement offers and attended a banquet hosted by Leng Zhao Immortal King.
• Li Xian and Leng Qishuang arrived at the crowded summit battlefield, where members of the Great Yao Immortal Dynasty and spectators gathered to watch.
• Yu Rui, Bai Yujing, Fang Juexia, Wan Xianlai, and the other floor masters appeared, and Wan Xianlai urged the eight challengers to use their strongest methods simultaneously.
• The Heavenly Venerable Tower Organizing Committee officially began the battle, and the spatial barriers between Li Xian and the eight floor masters disappeared.

Li Xian overwhelmed the Heavenly Venerable Tower’s eight floor masters, using Space-Time Sword Escape and Heavenly Pole Thread to eliminate Bai Yujing, Xu Jinhuan, He Jinchao, and Fang Juexia. With Wan Xianlai preparing his strongest killing move, Li Xian moved to end the battle.

• Bai Yujing, He Jinchao, Fang Juexia, and the other floor masters attacked Li Xian together, but he escaped their restraints and killed Bai Yujing with a point-blank Heavenly Pole Thread.
• Li Xian pursued Xu Jinhuan through repeated uses of Kan Wind Divine Escape and killed him after breaking through his defenses.
• Li Xian escaped the floor masters’ domain and killed He Jinchao, leaving only five opponents and astonishing the spectators and immortal kings.
• Fang Juexia formed the Zhou Tian Star Sword Formation with three allies and thirty-six immortal swords, but Li Xian stepped out of its seal and killed her.
• Li Xian turned toward Wan Xianlai as Wan prepared Myriad Immortals Paying Homage, declaring that the battle could end.

Li Xian defeated the Heavenly Venerable Tower’s top challengers, reached the summit, and created the secret art Heavenly Pole Flowing Light while battling Wan Xianlai. After being crowned Aurora Heavenly Venerable, he planned to use the fame to draw foreign assassins, while Jiwu’s attempt to investigate him was blocked by insufficient clearance.

• Li Xian defeated Fang Juexia and observed Wan Xianlai’s secret art, Myriad Immortals Paying Homage, as it suppressed him for a moment.
• Li Xian developed Heavenly Pole Flowing Light from Heavenly Pole Thread, but Wan Xianlai withdrew before Li Xian could demonstrate the new art against him.
• Yu Rui and the other two floor masters conceded, and the host announced Li Xian as the new Aurora Heavenly Venerable.
• Li Xian met Leng Qishuang, Leng Zhao Immortal King, and other Immortal Kings, then learned the organizing committee had awarded him the ten-trillion prize and planned to promote him.
• Li Xian returned to refine Heavenly Pole Flowing Light and hoped his fame would draw foreign assassins, while Jiwu failed to investigate him even after linking his master’s clearance.

Jiwu’s attempt to implicate Li Xian’s backer in Nine Heavens’s death led to his and his master’s Virtual Heaven Immortal Realm accounts being suspended, forcing them to abandon the investigation. Meanwhile, Li Xian’s rise to the title of Aurora Heavenly Venerable reached the Sharpened Edge Tower and the True Soul Institute, prompting both alarm and excitement.

• Jiwu suspected a powerful Void Heaven Palace figure had raised Li Xian’s permissions and anonymously reported the suspected abuse of authority.
• A golden-armored divine general declared Jiwu’s report malicious and suspended his account for thirty thousand epochs; Jiwu learned his linked master’s account had also been suspended.
• The Immortal Lord of Ten Thousand Dharmas ordered Jiwu to stop investigating Nine Heavens’s death and to treat Nine Heavens’s actions as private conduct.
• Immortal Marquis Tie Rong learned Li Xian had become the Aurora Heavenly Venerable and dreaded answering Golden Sword Immortal King’s summons.
• Kunlun Immortal King and Fuyun Immortal King brought news of Li Xian’s achievement to Huo Xin Immortal King, and Kunlun handed him information to read.

After Li Xian became a ten-star Heavenly Venerable, the Purple Heavens Dao Palace moved to retain and support him, while former rivals regretted underestimating him. Li Xian chose a commercial endorsement that would take him to a frontier Immortal Dynasty, then challenged the Dao Palace to fund him if he could slay a foreign-race Immortal King.

• Huo Xin Immortal King watched Li Xian defeat the peerless celestial immortals and learned that the Sharpened Edge Tower had certified him as a ten-star celestial immortal and granted him the title of Heavenly Venerable.
• Qiong Qianhua regretted the Golden Que Heavenly Palace's past betrayal of Li Xian, while Chi Xiao and others envied the Great Luo Immortal Sect for having stood by him.
• Li Xian continued refining Heavenly Pole Flowing Light and asked Deep Blue how quickly he could transform his grotto-heaven, then dismissed its long estimates and considered spending his saved resources.
• Leng Qishuang presented Li Xian with endorsement offers, and he chose the Flowing Wind Residence contract, which would require travel to a frontier Immortal Dynasty.
• Huo Xin Immortal King and his companions offered Li Xian a first-class instructor position, access to the Purple Heavens Secret Realm, and a fifty-trillion teaching fund.
• Li Xian proposed a wager: he would slay a foreign-race Immortal King, and if he succeeded, the Purple Heavens Dao Palace would provide at least one quadrillion in funding.

Li Xian received a conditional promise of ten quadrillion in funding if he killed an Immortal King as a Celestial Immortal, while the God Clan prepared two assassins against him. He departed for the Flowing Wind Residence under heavy security but planned to create an opening for a foreign assassination attempt.

• Huo Xin Immortal King refused Li Xian's funding proposal on safety grounds, but Changyue Immortal King promised support of up to ten quadrillion if Li Xian slew an Immortal King as a Celestial Immortal.
• The God Clan and Undying Clan gathered information on Li Xian after news of his Heavenly Venerable title spread.
• Wuxian Heavenly God told Dark Night God Lord that Li Xian had cultivated for less than five hundred years and attained the primordial unity great Luo Dao fruit in a lower realm.
• Dark Night God Lord ordered both Sinking Shadow and Twilight activated so that one could restrain a possible guardian while the other attacked Li Xian.
• Leng Qishuang arranged a heavily protected journey to the Flowing Wind Residence, including Immortal King accompaniment and teleportation routes through major cities.
• Li Xian departed with Leng Qishuang amid crowds of admirers and planned to give foreign assassins an opening near the Flowing Wind Residence.

Li Xian rejected Fang Juexia’s proposal to pose as Dao companions, then learned from Ziyuan that the foreign races had lured him toward the Divine Feather Sect to ambush him. He confronted two Nether Kings on the way to White Night City and shattered You Wu’s body, leaving the other attacker to realize why Li Xian had shown no fear.

• Fang Juexia asked Li Xian to pose as her Dao companion for publicity, but he demanded payment and sent her away after she threatened him.
• Ziyuan warned Li Xian that the Radiant Brilliance Sect’s sudden reinforcements and Yunrang’s advice were part of a plan to draw him into danger at the Divine Feather Sect.
• Li Xian learned the Divine Feather Sect’s location from Ziyuan and left Leng Qishuang’s group to travel to the Azure Firmament Domain.
• Immortal Marquis Po Jun intercepted Li Xian, while You Wu and another Nether King revealed themselves and attacked him.
• Li Xian used Heavenly Pole Flowing Light to assault You Wu’s will and Heavenly Pole Thread to shred his body and breach his manifested world.

Li Xian killed You Wu, an Undying Clan Nether King, but another Nether King and two assassins from the God Clan’s Fallen Holy Hall attacked him. Li Xian blocked Shenying’s surprise sword strike as all four enemies revealed themselves.

• The Daylight City Lord detected a Mysterious Immortal’s death near White Night City, while Azure Firmament City dispatched Immortal Kings to investigate.
• Li Xian escaped the collapsing world and faced the Nether King, who merged with his blood river and attacked with enormous crystalline swords.
• Li Xian sensed a Fallen Holy Hall God King named Duskglow approaching and learned that the God Clan and Undying Clan had joined forces to kill him.
• Duskglow attacked at extreme speed, but Li Xian tracked his movements before Shenying thrust a sword at him from Void Space.
• Li Xian blocked Shenying’s sword with his Glazed Treasure Light-covered palm as all four enemy Kings revealed themselves.

Li Xian killed God King Shenying and the Blood River Nether King, then pursued and killed the fleeing God King Duskglow. As the Northern Moon Immortal King’s warship approached the battlefield, its crew discovered that Aurora, the Celestial Immortal, was the one slaughtering the foreign Kings.

• Li Xian trapped Shenying in Infinite Void, pierced his skull, suppressed his unmanifested world, and destroyed it while blocking Duskglow’s attack.
• Li Xian overwhelmed the Nether King’s Blood River World with a new strike combining Heavenly Pole Thread and Glazed Treasure Light, then intercepted Po Jun Immortal Marquis as he detonated his world.
• Li Xian escaped the Void Turbulence and pursued Duskglow, while the Daylight City Lord reported the battle and the Northern Moon Immortal King’s warship hurried toward the battlefield.
• The Northern Moon Immortal King learned that Aurora was the target and initially assumed a powerful Immortal King was pursuing the fleeing God King.
• The warship’s crew recognized Aurora as the pursuer when he caught Duskglow and killed him with a torrent of swordlight.

Li Xian defeated the foreign kings and left Northern Moon Immortal King and his companions stunned by the feat. He reached the Divine Feather Sect safely, where Ziyuan greeted him and explained that the Radiant Brilliance Sect had retreated after sensing the battle’s energy.

• Li Xian collected the remaining spoils, nodded to Northern Moon Immortal King, and vanished.
• Northern Moon and the others realized Li Xian had slain multiple foreign kings while still a Celestial Immortal, then sent the recorded evidence to the Azure Firmament Domain Lord and their allies.
• Li Xian tallied more than one hundred trillion in treasures and continued toward the Divine Feather Sect, hoping other foreign assassins might attack but encountering no trouble.
• Li Xian found that the fighting around the Divine Feather Sect had stopped and released his divine sense toward it.
• Ziyuan appeared, relieved that Li Xian was safe, and told him that the Radiant Brilliance Sect had retreated after the distant energy fluctuations frightened its forces.

Li Xian told Ziyuan that he had personally slain several foreign-race Immortal Kings and gave her a Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle to help her break through to Celestial Immortal. News of his battle spread, prompting the True Soul Institute’s master to award him two thousand Chaos Crystals and consider him a candidate worth supporting.

• Li Xian told Ziyuan he had killed two Nether Kings, two God Kings, and an enslaved Immortal Marquis without a guardian’s help.
• Li Xian gave Ziyuan a Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle so she could advance to Celestial Immortal and help the Divine Feather Sect face the Radiant Brilliance Sect.
• Li Xian sent Changyue Immortal King news of his victory and left for the Azure Firmament Domain.
• Northern Moon Immortal King shared footage of Li Xian’s battle, and Liuying Immortal King and Baihe Immortal King urged Leng Qishuang to extend Li Xian’s Immortal Boat contract.
• Changyue Immortal King brought Huo Xin Immortal King before Immortal Sovereign Jueche, who ordered the True Soul Institute to give Li Xian one thousand Chaos Crystals in promised support and another thousand as a gift.

Li Xian signed a lucrative, low-obligation endorsement agreement and learned that his victory over four foreign-race immortal kings had drawn the attention of powerful organizations. At a banquet, the War Temple and Myriad Things Commerce tried to recruit him, but the True Soul Institute made its bid with two thousand chaos crystals.

• Huo Xin Immortal King learned from Changyue Immortal King that Li Xian had killed four foreign-race immortal kings and was receiving two thousand chaos crystals from the True Soul Institute.
• Li Xian signed a one-era, ten-trillion agreement with Flowing Wind Residence that mainly granted image rights and required him to prioritize its future offers.
• At a banquet hosted by Wei Prince, the Azure Firmament Domain Lord apologized to Li Xian for the patrol failure that had allowed the attacks, and Li Xian met with several powerful figures.
• Mowen Immortal King invited Li Xian to join Myriad Things Commerce’s special committee, while Luo Lie offered him a sixty-trillion bounty and a role hunting foreign-race kings for the War Temple.
• Changyue Immortal King presented Li Xian with two thousand chaos crystals, silencing the gathered factions competing for him.

Li Xian accepted the True Soul Institute’s offer of two thousand Chaos crystals and returned to Nine Emperors City, where the Great Yao Immortal Dynasty welcomed him and provided a vast residence. As he began preparations to transform his grotto-heaven, the Fallen Holy Hall formed a special unit to kill him after learning he had slain four enemy Kings.

• Li Xian accepted two thousand Chaos crystals from the True Soul Institute and agreed to give ten lectures, while Changyue Immortal King offered to secure him a deputy director title.
• Huo Xin Immortal King and Changyue Immortal King escorted Li Xian away from the Ten Domains Immortal Dynasty, and Wei Prince considered using Li Xian’s connection to a Limitlessness True Immortal to preserve their relationship.
• Li Xian declined the Great Yao Immortal Dynasty’s offer of an Immortal Kingdom but accepted a vast Cave Abode near Leng Qishuang’s residence.
• Li Xian ordered Deep Blue to devise a grotto-heaven transformation plan, then spent nearly two quintillion to reduce the process to sixteen hundred years.
• The Fallen Holy Hall learned that Li Xian had killed four Kings and formed the One-One Annihilation department to hunt him.
• Wuxian Heavenly God urged the department to deploy Pixiu Immortal King against Li Xian within a hundred or thousand years, before Li Xian could grow stronger.

The Fallen Holy Hall directors rejected Wuxian’s proposal to sacrifice Pixiu immediately, instead giving Pixiu a thousand years to find a chance to kill Li Xian. As the Flowing Wind Residence’s advertisement spread Li Xian’s record of killing foreign Immortal Kings, his name became renowned across the Immortal Realm, and Fang Juexia abandoned her plan to target him.

• The Fallen Holy Hall directors decided to let Pixiu seek an opportunity to kill Li Xian, with a thousand-year deadline before they would sacrifice Pixiu.
• Jiwu learned from the Flowing Wind Residence advertisement that Li Xian had personally killed foreign Immortal Kings and was relieved that the Immortal Sovereign had ordered them to let the matter of the Nine Heavens Immortal King’s death go.
• Fang Juexia tried to persuade the Thunder Marsh Immortal King to ruin Li Xian, but he showed her the advertisement and revealed Li Xian’s record.
• Fang Juexia learned that Li Xian had killed multiple foreign Immortal Kings and could contend for the top ten of the Great Dao Golden Immortal Ranking, while Thunder Marsh warned her against letting others discover her scheme.
• Li Xian’s allies celebrated his achievements, the Purple Flame Immortal King rejoiced, and the Golden Sword Immortal King angrily summoned Tie Rong after recalling that Sharpened Edge Tower had rejected Li Xian’s investment request.
• The Flowing Wind Residence’s publicity spread Li Xian’s battle record throughout the Immortal Realm, making Aurora known across the world.

Gu Qingxian heard of Li Xian’s achievements but declined Shuyu’s suggestion that she guide him. As Li Xian taught tens of millions through a Void Tide, Immortal Kings recognized that his will had reached the Glimmer realm and tried to recruit him for their research team.

• Shuyu told Gu Qingxian that Li Xian had reached the top of the Heavenly Venerable Tower and slain an Immortal King, but Gu Qingxian refused to offer him guidance.
• Li Xian began his open lecture at the True Soul Institute by using a Void Tide and his will as a beacon to guide the audience toward understanding the True Self.
• Wuliang recognized Li Xian and, overwhelmed by the gulf between their achievements, decided to abandon the name Wuliang and become Wuya.
• Kunlun Immortal King and the other Immortal Kings realized that Li Xian’s spiritual will had reached the Glimmer realm, the first step toward Dao Master-level will.
• Li Xian confirmed that he had reached Glimmer, and Kunlun Immortal King urged him to join the Dao Master Will Simplification research team, promising that it would aid his cultivation.

Li Xian finished a month of lectures that helped disciples cultivate true intent, condense their True Selves, and better understand Immortal Spirit. Kunlun Immortal King brought him to meet Pioneer Li Tiangui, who welcomed him with a familiar divine ability.

• Kunlun Immortal King persuaded Li Xian to consider helping simplify cultivation from Immortal Will to the glimmer stage, and Pioneer Li agreed to meet any terms if Li Xian came.
• During a month of lectures, twelve disciples comprehended true intent and two condensed their True Selves, while Immortal Kings began hoping Li Xian would teach their descendants.
• Li Xian answered questions for three days, declined offers to become his disciples, and ended his lecture by dispersing the Void Beast setting.
• Huo Xin Immortal King praised Li Xian's teaching, but Li Xian declined the prospect of becoming a special-class instructor and left with Kunlun Immortal King.
• Pioneer Li Tiangui greeted Li Xian and gave him a tome containing the divine ability One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones.

Li Xian studied Li Tiangui’s will Secret Art and research, then overcame his difficulty with it by combining it with other techniques to create Three Phases Beget Life. The new art greatly improved his cultivation efficiency, and after six hundred years of research and refining resources, he continued working toward transforming his Grotto-Heaven into a world.

• Li Tiangui explained One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones and shared his paper on Three Origins as One with Li Xian.
• Li Xian demonstrated Heavenly Pole Flowing Light, then sparred with Li Tiangui and saw how refined the pioneer’s use of will was.
• Li Xian struggled to cultivate the Will Secret Art and found that using it to refine his Grotto-Heaven’s materials made the work less efficient.
• Li Xian repeatedly combined Three Lives Limitlessness Attraction, One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, and Heavenly Pole Flowing Light until he created the new Will Secret Art Three Phases Beget Life.
• Li Xian used Three Phases Beget Life to refine resources more efficiently, estimating that his Grotto-Heaven’s transformation would take about six hundred years instead of sixteen hundred.
• Li Xian continued collaborating with Li Tiangui’s research group and refining resources in Nine Emperors City; six hundred years passed.