Chapter Summaries

Li Xian ignored the Heavenly Vulture Immortal King’s attempt to control the Raging Tides Sea and hunted foreign Kings, killing several before some escaped. Angered that Li Xian was taking his spoils, Heavenly Vulture gathered nearly a hundred Immortal Kings and a dozen warships to encircle him.

• The Heavenly Vulture Immortal King forced nearby Human Race Immortal Kings to surrender their Blood Soul Crystals, while other Kings fled the Raging Tides Sea.
• Li Xian decided Heavenly Vulture was not worth confronting and intercepted a squad of six God Clan Kings.
• Li Xian killed four God Clan Kings and took their supplies, but lost the fifth as the squad scattered using prepared escape tactics.
• Heavenly Vulture learned that Li Xian was hunting foreign Kings and ordered him to hand over his Blood Soul Crystals and leave the sea.
• Heavenly Vulture assembled three Top-Tier Immortal Kings, seventy-two Immortal Kings, and a dozen warships to encircle Li Xian.

Li Xian defeated the Heavenly Vulture Immortal King and forced him to pay for his fleet’s attack, then welcomed the prospect of a duel with Purple Vulture. Heavenly Vulture turned to a plan involving the God Clan, while Saintly Word and Truth prepared to target Li Xian with help from a powerful ally.

• Li Xian killed a God King who detonated his world, collected limited spoils, and replenished his immortal power with Primordial Unity Immortal Pills.
• The Heavenly Vulture Immortal King surrounded Li Xian with seventy-six Immortal Kings and demanded that he surrender his Blood Soul Crystals.
• Li Xian broke the Heavenly Dipper Battle-Killing Formation, killed its commander, and destroyed Heavenly Vulture’s immortal body with a sword strike.
• Li Xian demanded payment for the attack; Heavenly Vulture handed over sixteen hundred Chaos Crystals and four hundred Blood Soul Crystals, and Li Xian challenged Purple Vulture to fight him.
• After Li Xian left, Heavenly Vulture ordered Meng Gang to draw Saintly Word and Truth into a confrontation with him, while the two God Kings discussed acting against Li Xian with help from Tianzhu God King.

Xuanjun Marquis Xuangou became an Immortal King as Li Xian’s ranking rose to thirty-sixth, stirring reactions across the immortal world. Deep in the Endless Blood Sea, Li Xian learned that Truth God King was searching for him and decided to hunt down the God King for his Space-Time Balance.

• Xuanjun Marquis Xuangou attained immortal spirit and became a Will-Enfeoffed King, then learned Li Xian had climbed from forty-ninth to thirty-sixth on the Great Dao Golden Immortal Ranking.
• Chenglong Celestial Immortal and others reacted to Li Xian’s rapid rise, while Heavenly Sovereign of Jun Tian decided to prepare for reincarnation to escape his past ties.
• Li Xian collected Blood Soul Crystals in the Endless Blood Sea and considered returning for supplies after using most of his pills.
• Li Xian heard that Truth God King was leading a sweep through the region and that others believed he was targeting Li Xian.
• Li Xian asked for Truth God King’s location and announced that he would go find him to claim the Space-Time Balance.

Li Xian followed reports to the Sea of Sinking, where he killed Truth God King and several God Kings before discovering that Six Paths Nether Emperor had arrived and defeated Holy Word God King. Li Xian confronted the Nether Emperor, who demanded his surrender, and their first clash ended with the Nether Emperor’s arm passing through Li Xian’s sword to seize him.

• Li Xian flew to the Sea of Sinking after Immortal Kings reported Truth God King's location and warned that the God Clan might be setting a trap.
• Truth God King tried to escape while four God Kings delayed Li Xian, but Li Xian broke through their defenses, killed Truth God King, and took the Space-Time Balance and materials from his world.
• Three of the remaining God Kings fled, while Li Xian killed another; two others detonated their worlds or chose reincarnation, and one warned that Six Paths had arrived.
• Li Xian sensed a battle and found Holy Word God King being hunted; Holy Word God King detonated his world, and Six Paths Nether Emperor turned toward Li Xian.
• Li Xian identified Six Paths Nether Emperor and refused his offer to join the Undying Clan, challenging him to attack.
• Six Paths Nether Emperor rushed Li Xian and seized him with an arm of black mist that ignored the Heavenly Extreme Sword's strike.

Li Xian fought the Six Paths Nether Emperor’s avatar across the Blood Sea, matching its elusive Limitlessness Dao with his Liuli Limitless Body and swordsmanship. After using Three Phases Beget Life to discern the Nether Emperor’s hidden attack, Li Xian struck first and shattered the avatar’s God-Demon Body.

• The Six Paths Nether Emperor tried to crush Li Xian, but Li Xian’s Liuli Limitless Body resisted and broke free.
• Li Xian and the Nether Emperor exchanged rapid blows with their swords, devastating the void space and Blood Sea across hundreds of thousands of li.
• The Nether Emperor unleashed Infinite Void and the Six Paths Treasure Wheel, then burned his God-Demon Body to vanish from Li Xian’s perception.
• Li Xian entered Three Phases Beget Life and discerned where and when the Nether Emperor would strike.
• Li Xian thrust his Heavenly Extreme Sword into the Nether Emperor’s attack and shattered his God-Demon Body.

Li Xian defeated the Six Paths Nether Emperor’s God-Demon Body, then returned to Endless City as the Nether Emperor ordered his clansmen to avoid him. The Great Dao Golden Immortal Ranking confirmed Li Xian’s rise to tenth place, while Purple Vulture ordered Heavenly Vulture Immortal King to apologize to him.

• Li Xian killed the Six Paths Nether Emperor’s God-Demon Body and took its treasures, then reflected on the battle and hurried back to Endless City to improve his techniques.
• The Six Paths Nether Emperor could not understand Li Xian’s final sword strike, ordered his clansmen to avoid Aurora, and stayed on the Tianfeng Valley Battlefield to face Gu Qingxian.
• The ranking committee reviewed reports of the battle and raised Aurora Immortal King from thirty-sixth to tenth place on the Great Dao Golden Immortal Ranking.
• Immortals in Endless City learned that the ranking update confirmed Aurora had defeated the Nether Emperor’s avatar, and Yueyan Immortal King celebrated the news.
• Purple Vulture confronted Heavenly Vulture Immortal King over his plan to challenge Aurora and ordered him to return to the Purple Luan Sect, prepare a gift, and apologize.

Li Xian refined his techniques and sought secret arts to strengthen the Liuli Limitless Body, then learned from Ziyuan that Tianyuan Daoist wanted to discuss an opportunity tied to Heaven's Mandate Cult. While traveling to meet Tianyuan, Li Xian asked Immortal Sovereign Yao Xuan about the cult and learned it was said to be the origin of the Immortal Realm's Dao Masters.

• Li Xian spent years refining the Heavenly Extreme Sword, Beyond Reincarnation, and Infinite Void before devising a way to use Three Phases Beget Life to analyze and dismantle enemy secret arts.
• Li Xian entered the Virtual Heaven Immortal Realm's Dao Repository and downloaded secret arts tied to the Nine Great Daos to study.
• Ziyuan told Li Xian that Tianyuan Daoist had approached her with an opportunity connected to Heaven's Mandate Cult, which had selected Tianyuan as the True Immortal Great World's Child of Heaven's Mandate.
• Li Xian agreed to meet Tianyuan Daoist in the Thousand Islands Domain of the Ten Domains Immortal Dynasty and set off there.
• Li Xian met Immortal Sovereign Yao Xuan in the Virtual Heaven Immortal Realm and asked about Heaven's Mandate Cult.
• Yao Xuan said Heaven's Mandate Cult offered an immense opportunity and was said to be the origin of the Immortal Realm's Dao Masters.

Li Xian learned from Yao Xuan about Heaven's Mandate Cult and traveled with Ziyuan to meet Tianyuan Daoist, who revealed that his Tianyuan Art came from the Great Power Lord of Kindling. Tianyuan offered to teach them the art and disclosed that he had found but could not open the Lord of Kindling's legacy treasure hoard.

• Yao Xuan explained that Heaven's Mandate Cult recruited through invitations and recommendations, warned Li Xian that the Dao Master path was perilous, and described the Cult's demanding, race-spanning recruitment.
• Li Xian traveled to Purple Cloud Island, where he reunited with Ziyuan and learned she had grown to the strength of a Seven-Star Celestial Immortal while helping the Divine Feather Sect secure a lucrative shipbuilding contract.
• Ziyuan took Li Xian to Purple Moon Island, where they discovered that Tianyuan Daoist had reached Six-Star Celestial Immortal strength and had chosen to remain with the Purple Moon Sect.
• Tianyuan Daoist explained that he had declined Heaven's Mandate Cult's invitation because he wanted to keep his promise to Purple Moon and teach his disciples.
• Tianyuan revealed that the Lord of Kindling had passed down the Tianyuan Art, a synthesis of the Three Thousand Great Daos, and offered to teach it to Li Xian and Ziyuan.
• Tianyuan told them that the Lord of Kindling had left a treasure hoard he had located but could not open without an unknown key, and he believed it would choose a suitable inheritor.

Li Xian received Tianyuan Daoist’s complete Tianyuan Art and realized it could transform his Liuli Limitless Body, but mastering it would take thousands of years—too long to wait for the Void Tide threatening the lower realm. Li Tiangui then reported a Void Evil God in the Winter Immortal Dynasty and summoned Li Xian to investigate.

• Tianyuan Daoist gave Li Xian the complete Tianyuan Art, and Ziyuan agreed to remain at the Purple Moon Sect and study it in turn.
• Li Xian promised to help Tianyuan Daoist’s lower-realm disciples, including Zhuo Feiyu and Song Yunqing, and returned Heaven’s Mandate Cult’s opportunity to Ziyuan.
• After Li Xian left, Ziyuan reflected on her feelings and resolved to gather resources toward becoming a Limitlessness Mysterious Immortal.
• Li Xian studied the Tianyuan Art for ten years and found that fully mastering it would take several thousand years.
• Li Tiangui contacted Li Xian about his paper on Immortal Spirit and the Void Tide, then asked him to investigate a Void Evil God in the Winter Immortal Dynasty.

Li Xian traveled to the Winter Immortal Dynasty with Li Tiangui to study a Void Evil God and potentially earn a reward, but Immortal Sovereign Winter chose Gu Qingxian to handle it. As Gu Qingxian departed to confront the evil god, Li Xian left with Li Tiangui, resolving to challenge the Six Paths Nether Emperor later.

• Li Tiangui told Li Xian about the Void Evil God threatening the Winter Immortal Dynasty and invited him to study it while pursuing a research reward.
• Li Xian and Li Tiangui arrived in Winter City, where Immortal King Surong welcomed them and they met Immortal Sovereign Winter and several other Golden Immortal Overlords.
• The Golden Immortal Overlords revealed that Gu Qingxian had accepted Winter's invitation and had recently defeated the Six Paths Nether Emperor, killing one of his Dharma Bodies and gravely wounding another.
• Li Tiangui learned that Gu Qingxian could refine Void Evil Gods, and Immortal Sovereign Winter chose her to resolve the threat instead of relying on Li Xian and Li Tiangui.
• Gu Qingxian arrived and set out for the Void Evil God's location with Winter and the other Immortal Sovereigns, while Li Xian decided not to challenge her and planned to face the Six Paths Nether Emperor later.
• Li Xian and Li Tiangui left Winter City after Surong offered them gifts, with Li Tiangui complaining that their trip had been wasted.

Li Xian proposed using real-time feedback to give Immortal Kings hope as they endured the process of kindling a glimmer, and Li Tiangui began preparing a research proposal. After Gu Qingxian disappeared into the void, the Undying Clan took advantage of her absence, and the Six Paths Nether Emperor killed Ye Qingping at Beaconfire City.

• Li Xian suggested that real-time feedback on spiritual progress could help more Immortal Kings endure the Great Dao's tempering, and Li Tiangui agreed to organize the research data and approach the Lord of Years.
• Li Xian sold the Primordial Unity Thorn and the Space-Time Balance, kept the Void-Severing Blade, and spent the proceeds on resources to expand his world.
• Li Tiangui told Li Xian that Gu Qingxian had vanished after refining a Void Evil God and might have fallen into the void.
• After news of Gu Qingxian's disappearance spread, the Undying Clan resumed attacks at the Tianfeng Valley Battlefield, while the Six Paths Nether Emperor ambushed Human Race Immortal Kings near Beaconfire City.
• The Six Paths Nether Emperor's Dharma Bodies defeated and gravely wounded Ye Qingping with the Four Symbols Tribulation Formation, and his God-Demon Body later infiltrated Beaconfire City and assassinated her.

Li Xian agreed to join a Human Race strike force against Six Paths Nether Emperor after Ye Qingping was assassinated, and traveled to the Tianfeng Valley Battlefield. The strike force confronted Six Paths, but Kunsha, Wan Kong, and the Oneness God King suddenly arrived, turning the battle into a dangerous ambush.

• Li Xian cultivated the Tianyuan Art to Minor Achievement and learned that Ye Qingping had been killed by Six Paths Nether Emperor's God-Demon Body.
• Qianjun and Lingjiu invited Li Xian to help defeat Six Paths, and he accepted in exchange for access to the Spirit Treasure Pavilion.
• Li Xian arrived at Beaconfire City and joined Ling Qiankun, Zhi Weichen, Gu Zheng, Sun-Slaying, and Star-Ruling to plan an attack on Six Paths.
• The group rushed to coordinate point 1024, where Six Paths was pursuing a Human Race squad, and Ling Qiankun struck his Heavenly Dao Body with the Heaven-Earth Limitlessness Sword.
• Six Paths used his Dharma Bodies and the Six Paths Treasure Wheel to withstand the attack, then fled with Ling Qiankun's sword, but Star-Ruling intercepted him with the Star-Track Boat.
• Kunsha, Wan Kong, and the Oneness God King suddenly appeared beside Six Paths, and Zhi Weichen recognized the Oneness God King.

The Oneness God King joined the battle to capture Li Xian, while the Six Paths Nether Emperor and his allies overwhelmed the human retreat. Zhi Weichen tried to cover the others’ escape, but the Oneness God King completed Divine Advent and trapped everyone inside his vast golden God Realm.

• The Oneness God King appeared and revealed that he had come for Aurora, while the Six Paths Nether Emperor ordered his forces to trap the humans and seize their escape route.
• Kunsha attacked the Star-Ruling Immortal King as Wan Kong’s Void-Expanding Chaos Cavern threatened to swallow the battlefield, forcing Ling Qiankun and Zhi Weichen to fight on several fronts.
• Zhi Weichen realized the Oneness God King was forming a trap around Aurora and warned him to retreat, then chose to stay behind and cover the others.
• Li Xian noticed Zhi Weichen had broken one of the Formation marks with Illusion-Breaking Divine Light, but the Oneness God King declared that no one would leave.
• The Oneness God King activated Divine Advent, expanding his world to six hundred thousand li and drawing Li Xian, Ling Qiankun, Kunsha, and the others into it with God Realm Descends.

Li Xian broke through Oneness God King's golden God Realm repeatedly, killing the Six Paths Nether Emperor's God-Demon Body before returning to duel Oneness. As their exchange let Li Xian study the Three Thousand Great Daos, he found a path to Great Accomplishment in the Tianyuan Art.

• Oneness God King trapped Ling Qiankun, Kunsha, and the others in his golden God Realm, but Li Xian charged through its golden streams and forced him to focus on the attack.
• Li Xian resisted Oneness's Great Dao Stripping and used the Heavenly Extreme Sword to crush Oneness's head, then escaped the God Realm with Beyond Reincarnation.
• Li Xian crossed to Zhi Weichen's battlefield and pierced the Six Paths Nether Emperor's God-Demon Body before returning to Oneness's God Realm.
• Oneness contracted the God Realm and fought Li Xian with the Myriad Laws Golden Spear, while Li Xian used Three Phases Beget Life to anticipate his thrusts.
• Li Xian studied the Three Thousand Great Daos resonating through Oneness's spear strikes and gained a breakthrough toward Great Accomplishment in the Tianyuan Art.

Li Xian used his newly perfected Tianyuan Art and Beyond Reincarnation to break free of the Oneness God King's restraints and rescue Zhi Weichen from the Six Paths Nether Emperor's attack. As the enemy leaders recognized his strange ability and withdrew, Li Xian turned back to face the Oneness God King.

• Li Xian's Tianyuan Art reached great accomplishment and strengthened his Liuli Limitless Body, while he evaded the Oneness God King's golden spear.
• Li Xian saw that Zhi Weichen remained in mortal danger after her life-saving item was destroyed, so he struck the Asura Body's Qiankun Limitless Sword away and sent her out of the battlefield.
• Li Xian blocked Wankong from pursuing Zhi Weichen, while the Six Paths Nether Emperor and Wankong questioned the Oneness God King's apparent cooperation with Li Xian.
• Wankong realized that Li Xian and the Oneness God King were pretending to fight, and the Six Paths Nether Emperor ordered Kunsha and Wankong to retreat toward Heaven-Burying City.
• The Oneness God King revealed that Li Xian was a Dao Lord whom his Divine Realm could not trap, and the Six Paths Nether Emperor withdrew rather than continue fighting.
• Li Xian attacked the Oneness God King again and challenged him to continue drawing on the Three Thousand Great Daos.

Li Xian fought the Oneness God King to learn from the Three Thousand Great Daos, and the God King unleashed a Great Luo Golden Immortal’s power that nearly destroyed him. Li Xian perfected the Tianyuan Art and transformed his Liuli Limitless Body, survived the attack, and left the battlefield with a High-Grade Xiantian Spirit Treasure.

• Li Xian let the Oneness God King's attacks injure and temper his Liuli Limitless Body while he studied the Three Thousand Great Daos.
• The Oneness God King realized his attacks could not defeat Li Xian, then used his trump card to connect his divine realm to the Great Dao Origin Sea and unleash its destructive power.
• The descending Three Thousand Great Daos destroyed the Oneness God King's world and began pulverizing Li Xian, who chose to endure the torrent rather than flee or call for help.
• Li Xian used the impact and his insights to perfect the Tianyuan Art, transform his Liuli Limitless Body, and integrate with the Three Thousand Great Daos.
• The attack passed, the Oneness God King dispersed, and Li Xian emerged from the recovering void with his body restored.
• Li Xian absorbed what remained of the Great Dao power, collected a High-Grade Xiantian Spirit Treasure, and left the battlefield.

After the ambush on the Human Race force left Aurora and Zhi Weichen presumed dead, Zhi Weichen returned and revealed that Aurora had stayed behind to face four powerful enemies so she could escape. As the War Temple prepared to mourn Aurora, news arrived that the Oneness God King had fallen.

• The Star-Track Boat returned to Beaconfire City in alarming condition, and Ling Qiankun reported that the Human Race force had fallen into an ambush by the Oneness God King, Six Paths, Kunsha, and Wan Kong.
• Ling Qiankun said Zhi Weichen had stayed behind to cover the retreat and Aurora had been trapped inside the Oneness Divine Realm, prompting the Immortal Sovereigns to fear both had died.
• Zhi Weichen arrived in Beaconfire City badly injured and explained that Aurora had saved her with his Escape Technique before facing the Oneness God King, Six Paths, Kunsha, and Wan Kong alone.
• Immortal Sovereign Xuန်ri and Immortal Sovereign Dao'an accepted that Aurora might have sacrificed himself and discussed compensating his descendants.
• An undercover agent's message revealed that the Oneness God King had fallen, stunning everyone at the War Temple.

After Oneness God King fell, Li Xian returned to Beaconfire City and revealed that Six Paths, Kunsha, and Wan Kong had fled. As the ranking committee considered elevating Li Xian to first place, Jieyuan God Lord arrived at the battlefield and reversed Space-Time, confirming that Oneness God King had caused his own death by drawing down the Three Thousand Great Daos.

• Dao'an Immortal Sovereign ordered the Immortal Kings to reinforce Li Xian after learning that Oneness God King's Divine Sense had vanished.
• Li Xian returned to Beaconfire City, reported that Oneness God King was dead and the enemy leaders had fled, and went to the All Heavens Hall to recover and contemplate his insights.
• Zhi Weichen and others credited Li Xian with Oneness God King's death and argued that he should replace Gu Qingxian as the Human Race's top-ranked Immortal King.
• The ranking committee debated Li Xian's new placement, then learned that Jieyuan God Lord was heading to the battlefield to investigate Oneness God King's death.
• Jieyuan God Lord reversed Space-Time, revealing Oneness God King using the Three Thousand Great Daos and dying from the resulting backlash; the gathered Overlords confirmed that no outside power had intervened.

After Li Xian defeated Oneness God King by blocking the Three Thousand Great Daos, the Great Dao Golden Immortal Ranking Executive Committee confirmed him as its new first-ranked contender. The updated ranking bestowed him the honorific Aurora Immortal Emperor, while Gu Qingxian fell to second.

• Buried Sword Immortal Sovereign showed the replay of Li Xian defeating Oneness God King, and the overlords recognized Li Xian's extraordinary strength and suspected he had become a Dao Lord.
• God Lord Jieyuan refused to concede, threatened that the God Clan would remember Li Xian's actions, and escaped Buried Sword Immortal Sovereign's sword strike through space-time techniques.
• The ranking committee watched the replay, agreed Li Xian had won fairly, and decided that his Dao Lord status did not disqualify him from first place.
• Academy Head Lian Ran told Jue Che to check the updated ranking, where he saw Aurora, Li Xian's title, in first place and Gu Qingxian in second.
• Jue Che read Li Xian's ranking record, which recounted his victories and named him Aurora Immortal Emperor.

After Li Xian killed the Oneness God King, he took first place on the Great Dao Golden Immortal Ranking and became the center of celebration and alarm across the Human Race and its enemies. As the God Clan plotted to lure him into an ambush, Li Xian’s quiet was interrupted by Yue Jiuxiao, who brought news that the Void Tide was only decades from the True Immortal Great World.

• Jueche Immortal Sovereign reviewed the battle footage, declared Li Xian the undisputed first on the Great Dao Golden Immortal Ranking, and other witnesses agreed he deserved the position.
• Immortal Sovereign Yao Xuan and Leng Xuan celebrated Li Xian’s rise, while the Virtual Heaven Immortal Realm erupted with praise and Li Xian blocked messages so he could recuperate and study the Dao Master mysteries.
• Six Paths Nether Emperor realized Li Xian had used the Oneness God King as a sparring partner to master a Secret Art, then resolved to stay in seclusion until his strength recovered.
• Jieyuan God Lord urged Tianzhu God Emperor to challenge Li Xian, but Gu Yuan God Lord warned that Li Xian had controlled the battle; Dark Night God Lord then proposed joining forces with a Chess Piece to ambush Li Xian at the Border Battlefield.
• Tianzhu God Emperor agreed to assist Dark Night God Lord, while Li Xian remained secluded amid the continuing attention surrounding his new ranking.
• Ten years after Li Xian reached first place, Yue Jiuxiao requested an audience and warned that the Void Tide would reach the True Immortal Great World in decades.