Recaps

The Silver-Winged Ancient King threatened to summon the Primordial Myriad Races and Ancestor Kings, intensifying the standoff over Purple Mountain. The Beginningless Bell rang by itself and Purple Mountain’s imperial patterns formed a starry road for an unidentified dark-robed man, whose arrival shocked both camps.

• The Silver-Winged Ancient King threatened to call on his clan’s hidden reserves and the Ancestor Kings to break into Purple Mountain.
• Jiang Yun warned that the humans would defend the Dao ground, while both sides prepared for battle without daring to attack amid the imperial might.
• The Beginningless Bell rang with an unusual, joyful tone, and Purple Mountain’s core hall began to shake.
• Imperial patterns formed a starry road through the chaos, and a dark-robed man walked along it toward the hall.
• The Ji Family mighty expert failed to glimpse the man’s origins with the Void Mirror, and the Silver-Winged Ancient King wondered who he was.

A mysterious black-robed figure arrived at Purple Mountain, walked past the gathered powers, and effortlessly nullified their attacks with the Beginningless Bell. He opened the Wushi Scripture, leaving everyone stunned as its ancient Dao power emerged.

• Ye Fan, the Black Emperor, and Duan De watched as a black-robed figure appeared on a starry road of emperor patterns, welcomed by the Beginningless Bell.
• The figure ignored the assembled human and Primordial Race forces and walked toward the Wushi Scripture on the raised platform.
• The Great Xia Emperor and others warned him to stop, but the Silver-Winged Ancient King and several forces attacked him.
• The figure casually moved a finger, and the Beginningless Bell erased the combined attacks, injuring the attackers and silencing the hall.
• The figure touched the Wushi Scripture, opened it, and released visions and Dao sounds from the ancient age.

As the black-robed figure comprehended the Wushi Scripture beneath the Beginningless Bell, Yin Lie tried to disrupt him with a forbidden soul attack. The bell erased the attack and its backlash killed Yin Lie, leaving the other survivors terrified.

• The black-robed figure studied the Wushi Scripture while the survivors watched in fearful silence.
• Yin Lie secretly used the Spirit-Eroding Shadow Needle to attack the figure’s sea of consciousness.
• The Beginningless Bell erased the needle, and the backlash gravely wounded Yin Lie.
• The black-robed figure called Yin Lie a mayfly trying to shake a tree, shattering his remaining resolve.
• Yin Lie died, and the survivors were left with no hope of challenging the figure.

Li Qingshan revealed himself as the black-robed figure recognized by the Beginningless Bell and Wushi Scripture, and declared that Purple Mountain was fated with him. The assembled forces withdrew, leaving Ye Fan and the others watching Li Qingshan atop the platform.

• After Yin Lie's final attack failed and destroyed him, the black-robed figure turned around and revealed himself as the Jade Pool Holy Son, Li Qingshan.
• Li Qingshan said that Purple Mountain was fated with him, while the Beginningless Bell and Wushi Scripture continued to recognize him.
• Jiang Yun abandoned the contest and led the wounded Jiang Family elders away, followed by the Ji Family, Yaoguang Holy Land, Jiuli Divine Dynasty, Great Xia Dynasty, demon factions, and other survivors.
• Duan De and the Black Emperor watched the powerful factions flee, while Ye Fan remained focused on Li Qingshan.
• As the hall emptied, Ye Fan's suspicion about Li Qingshan grew stronger.

Li Qingshan inherited Great Emperor Wushi’s Wushi Scripture and fused with the Beginningless Bell, triggering the third revolution of the Eight-Nine Profound Art. After stabilizing his new Demonic Embryo and transforming his Dao phenomena, he emerged from the breakthrough at the peak of Immortal Two, while the world outside Purple Mountain witnessed signs of a power that could overturn the Big Dipper.

• Li Qingshan closed the Wushi Scripture, and its chaotic light entered his sea of consciousness as the Beginningless Bell rang across the Big Dipper and beyond.
• The resonance of the Wushi Scripture and Beginningless Bell awakened the Eight-Nine Profound Art, and Li Qingshan’s perfected Divine Embryo shattered and began reforming as a Demonic Embryo.
• The first Reincarnation Imprint anchored Li Qingshan’s true self as his Five Great Secret Realms entered Divine Forbidden and his Green Lotus Grows in Chaos and Immortal King Descends Upon Nine Heavens phenomena became more substantial.
• A rift opened above Purple Mountain, drawing in Demonic Qi and baleful power that merged with the chaotic pillar of light, shocking cultivators who sensed the opposing forces unite.
• Li Qingshan completed the third revolution, opened his eyes with both Dao and demonic power within him, and declared that he would overcome every tribulation by his own strength.
• Cultivators outside Purple Mountain witnessed its chaotic radiance, auspicious colors, and golden lotuses, and feared that Li Qingshan’s rise would overturn the order beneath the starry sky.

Li Qingshan completed his inheritance in Purple Mountain, mastered the Beginningless Bell, and revealed himself to Ye Fan, the Black Emperor, and Duan De. Gu Tianshu recognized Li Qingshan’s extraordinary cultivation and pledged to guard his Dao as dangers gathered beyond the mountain.

• Li Qingshan emerged from his transformation, joined with the Beginningless Bell, and descended from the Wushi Dao Platform.
• Ye Fan, the Black Emperor, and Duan De recognized Li Qingshan, while he sent the other survivors back to the Holy City.
• Gu Tianshu awakened and congratulated Li Qingshan on receiving the Great Emperor’s inheritance.
• The Beginningless Bell said the Great Emperor had departed to protect the world, though it did not know his current fate.
• Gu Tianshu identified Li Qingshan’s Eight-Nine Profound Art and Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo, then declared him Purple Mountain’s new master.
• Gu Tianshu vowed to guard Li Qingshan’s Dao from the shadows as the Primordial Myriad Races and Life Forbidden Zones threatened to emerge.

Li Qingshan invited the Divine Phoenix Immortal Medicine to leave Purple Mountain with him, and it accepted. After Ye Fan, the Black Emperor, and Duan De reacted to his mastery of the Emperor Bell and the medicine, Li Qingshan took them away, declaring that the gathering storms and unresolved matters awaited them.

• Li Qingshan told the Divine Phoenix Immortal Medicine that Purple Mountain was no longer safe and invited it to travel with him.
• The Divine Phoenix Immortal Medicine emerged from the stone wall, circled Li Qingshan, and settled in his palm before he stored it beside the Divine Spring in his Sea of Bitterness Secret Realm.
• The Black Emperor eagerly pledged loyalty to Li Qingshan and asked to borrow the Wushi Scripture, while Ye Fan bowed to his teacher and Duan De worried about having once opposed him.
• Li Qingshan said that storms were brewing and that some matters needed to be settled.
• Li Qingshan enveloped Ye Fan, the Black Emperor, and Duan De in a spatial force and vanished with them from Purple Mountain.

After Li Qingshan’s victory at Purple Mountain, news of his power spread across the Big Dipper, changing how cultivators and major powers regarded him. The chapter ended with the Primordial Myriad Races restraining themselves from provoking Jade Pool or Li Qingshan until their Ancestor King gave orders.

• Cultivators in the Holy City spread accounts of Li Qingshan wielding the Beginningless Bell to defeat the forces at Purple Mountain, and identified him as the Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo and Great Emperor Wushi’s successor.
• Cultivators at Li Qingshan’s former tribulation site compared him with the other supreme heaven’s chosen and concluded that his peers faced a seemingly unbridgeable gap.
• Old cultivators at the former Tianxuan Stone Workshop speculated that Li Qingshan had outgrown Jade Pool’s leadership and was focused on the emperor’s road.
• The ruler of Jiuli and the rulers of Great Xia, Ancient Hua, and Divine Continent ordered their people to treat Jade Pool disciples with courtesy and avoid antagonizing Li Qingshan.
• Ancient Race experts of Spirit Valley blamed Yin Lie for his death, but an elder ordered the clans to restrain their arrogance and avoid Jade Pool and Li Qingshan until the Ancestor King issued a decree.

Li Qingshan secluded himself in Jade Pool after obtaining Great Emperor Wushi’s inheritance and the Beginningless Bell, while powerful factions gathered to assess his new strength. Warned that Forbidden Zone Supremes might cultivate him as a future resource before the Road to Immortality opened in two hundred years, he vowed to forge his own path to becoming an emperor.

• An old ape at Mount Sumeru considered Li Qingshan’s physique, inheritance, and Emperor Weapon, and wondered what upheaval he would bring.
• The Queen Mother of the West told visiting powers that Li Qingshan was secluded, while Jade Pool’s disciples celebrated his return with Great Emperor Wushi’s inheritance.
• The Queen Mother of the West asked Li Qingshan about his plans, and the Beginningless Bell and Western Emperor Pagoda discussed the danger of following an emperor’s Dao too closely.
• The Western Emperor Pagoda warned that Forbidden Zone Supremes might wait for Li Qingshan to mature and harvest him before the Road to Immortality opened in about two hundred years.
• Li Qingshan declared that two hundred years would suffice and vowed to kindle his Dao with his blood and become an emperor on his own path.

Li Qingshan and Lin Qingyao shared a quiet conversation in Jade Pool’s Immortal Pool Secret Realm, where her care stirred unfamiliar warmth in his guarded heart. Their respite ended when Yun Zhi reported that a messenger from the Azure Flood Dragon King had arrived to see Li Qingshan with an important matter.

• Li Qingshan finished explaining the Western Emperor Scripture to Lin Qingyao, who offered him Moonlight Condensed Dew to soothe his mind.
• Li Qingshan accepted the dew and sensed Lin Qingyao’s affection, while she became flustered by their brief touch.
• Li Qingshan asked about Jade Pool, and Lin Qingyao described the visitors, the disciples’ excitement, and the measures she had taken to keep them grounded.
• Li Qingshan praised Lin Qingyao’s guidance, and the two spoke comfortably about daily affairs in the Holy Land.
• Yun Zhi arrived and reported that a messenger from the Azure Flood Dragon King was waiting outside Jade Pool to deliver an important matter to Li Qingshan.

Li Qingshan learned that Yan Ruyu’s faction had been attacked and would seek refuge at Jade Pool, where they were expected in three months. Lin Qingyao ordered Jade Pool to honor Li Qingshan’s promise, then left flustered after probing his feelings for Yan Ruyu, while Li Qingshan anticipated trouble from the unknown force pursuing her faction.

• Li Qingshan told Lin Qingyao that he had once helped Yan Ruyu’s faction and promised them shelter at Jade Pool.
• Messenger Qing Lin reported that an unknown, powerful force had attacked Yan Ruyu’s faction, and the Azure Flood Dragon King planned to escort them to Jade Pool within three months.
• Li Qingshan agreed to receive Yan Ruyu’s faction and make the necessary arrangements.
• Lin Qingyao rejected the elders’ concerns and ordered Jade Pool to prepare to shelter Yan Ruyu’s faction, insisting that Jade Pool honor its promises.
• Lin Qingyao asked whether Li Qingshan had helped Yan Ruyu because he was taken by her beauty; he answered that he acted by his heart and kept his promises.
• Lin Qingyao hurried out of the hall, while Li Qingshan considered the danger posed by the force pursuing Yan Ruyu’s faction.

The Azure Flood Dragon King convinced the Peacock King that sending Yan Ruyu to Jade Pool under Li Qingshan’s protection was the best way to keep her safe and strengthen the demon race. Yan Ruyu accepted the plan, aware that her uncle hoped she might form a closer bond with Li Qingshan, and prepared to leave in a month.

• The Peacock King questioned whether entrusting Yan Ruyu to the human holy land of Jade Pool was safe, but the Azure Flood Dragon King argued that Li Qingshan and Jade Pool could protect her from enemies targeting her imperial bloodline and Chaos Green Lotus.
• The Azure Flood Dragon King proposed that Yan Ruyu’s connection with Li Qingshan could grow into an alliance through marriage, and the Peacock King agreed to follow his plan.
• The Azure Flood Dragon King visited Yan Ruyu and confirmed that she would depart for Jade Pool in a month.
• Yan Ruyu worried that seeking protection at Jade Pool would burden Li Qingshan, but the Azure Flood Dragon King said Li Qingshan had chosen to protect her with full understanding of the risks.
• The Azure Flood Dragon King hinted that Yan Ruyu should follow her heart, and she accepted the journey while resolving to act cautiously and uphold her status as an imperial descendant.

Yan Ruyu wrestled with her conflicted feelings about seeking refuge with Li Qingshan at Jade Pool, while Ye Fan reunited with his Earth classmates on Zixia Peak and learned how Li Qingshan had brought them there. The gathering ended in cheerful banter as the Black Emperor grew displeased at being left out.

• Yan Ruyu reflected on her people's coming move to Jade Pool, her duty to them, and her complicated feelings toward Li Qingshan.
• Pang Bo, Zhang Ziling, Zhou Yi, Wang Ziwen, Lin Jia, and Li Xiaoman gathered on Zixia Peak and welcomed Ye Fan, the Black Emperor, and Duan De.
• Ye Fan asked how his classmates had come from Lingxu Cave Heaven, and Zhou Yi and the others explained that Li Qingshan had arranged for Jade Pool to protect them.
• Pang Bo recounted how Li Qingshan had saved him from the Azure Emperor's descendant and advised him to rebuild his unstable foundation at Jade Pool.
• Ye Fan approved of Pang Bo's decision to cultivate patiently, and the group teased one another until the Black Emperor grew displeased at being ignored.

Ye Fan and his companions reunited at Zixia Peak, where the Black Emperor and Duan De joked about Li Qingshan and the Jade Pool Holy Maiden before Li Qingshan arrived. He teased the pair about their plans to investigate Jade Pool’s formations and ancient tombs, leaving the gathering in laughter.

• The Black Emperor and Duan De claimed credit for helping Ye Fan and gossiped that Li Qingshan had rushed off to meet Lin Qingyao.
• Ye Fan and his companions heard Li Qingshan being announced and went to welcome him at the courtyard entrance.
• Li Qingshan joined the gathering, greeted everyone, and invited them to sit.
• Li Qingshan confronted the Black Emperor and Duan De about their gossip, and they each blamed the other.
• Li Qingshan exposed the Black Emperor’s interest in Jade Pool’s formations and Duan De’s interest in its ancient tombs, making everyone laugh.

Li Qingshan reunited with Ye Fan and the others at the Jade Pool, reassured them that he had protected their families on Earth, and explained what would be needed to return home. He left them with hope that he could find a way back within several years, and the group renewed their resolve to return.

• Li Qingshan welcomed Ye Fan and the others, explained why he had arranged for them to settle at the Jade Pool, and answered their questions about cultivation.
• Li Qingshan told Ye Fan and the others that he had informed their families on Earth of their journey and secretly arranged protection for them.
• Li Qingshan said returning to Earth required Saint Realm cultivation and precise starry-sky coordinates, likely found through an ancient Five-Colored Altar.
• Li Qingshan promised he would have a way to find the road home in five or six years at the earliest, or within ten-odd years at most.
• Pang Bo, Zhang Ziling, Zhou Yi, Wang Ziwen, Lin Jia, and Li Xiaoman said they wanted to return to Earth, and Ye Fan thanked Li Qingshan.

News spread that Li Qingshan would undergo the Immortal Three King tribulation of Severing the Dao in the Northern Region Outer Sea, astonishing the Big Dipper. Former rivals and witnesses to his rise reflected on the gulf between him and other young elites as he prepared to settle karmic debts.

• Li Qingshan reunited with Ye Fan and his old friends from Earth on Zixia Peak and gave them a place of peace.
• News that Li Qingshan would Sever the Dao in the Northern Region Outer Sea swept through Jade Pool and across the Big Dipper.
• Jiang Yifei reflected on Li Qingshan's rise and concluded that the golden age might become a stage for him alone.
• Zhao Fa accepted Li Qingshan's impending tribulation as a natural next step after his earlier slaying of a Mighty Figure.
• Ji Haiyue remembered his defeat by Li Qingshan and felt a strange pride at having fought him and survived.
• Feng Xi sighed that the coming golden age seemed more like Li Qingshan's own golden age.

Li Qingshan’s planned tribulation in the open sea alarmed powers across the Big Dipper, and the Assassin Divine Dynasties plotted to strike while he was vulnerable. At the Azure Flood Dragon King’s abode, the Golden-Winged Little Peng King learned that Yan Ruyu would seek refuge at the Jade Pool and was rebuked for proposing to marry her.

• Powers across the Big Dipper feared Li Qingshan’s coming tribulation, while emissaries of Human World and Hell planned a coalition attack during it.
• The Azure Flood Dragon King told the Old Peng King that Yan Ruyu would travel to the Jade Pool in a month for protection.
• The Golden-Winged Little Peng King objected to Yan Ruyu relying on a human and proposed that his clan seek her hand in marriage.
• The Old Peng King silenced and scolded his grandson, warning that Li Qingshan far surpassed him and that his proposal was foolish.
• The Azure Flood Dragon King said Yan Ruyu’s journey had been decided and could not be changed.

At the Jade Pool Holy Land, Li Qingshan prepared to undergo the Severing the Dao tribulation and settle his karmic debts. He resolved to break free of the inheritances that had guided him and forge a path in which his own will became the Heavenly Dao.

• Jade Pool disciples watched Li Qingshan cultivate and worried about the dangers of his coming tribulation beyond the Northern Region.
• A female disciple brought Li Qingshan Scarlet Cloud Spirit Fruits, and he thanked her before returning his attention to the Immortal Pool.
• Li Qingshan recalled that he was ready to sever his Dao now that the Purple Mountain inheritance was settled and his affairs were complete.
• As Li Qingshan examined the imperial scriptures and secret arts he had cultivated, he recognized that relying on established Great Daos could become a restraint.
• Li Qingshan resolved to sever his dependence on inherited paths and establish his own Dao, declaring his aim to make his will the Heavenly Dao.

Lin Qingyao brought Li Qingshan a Spirit-Protecting and Soul-Guarding Pill and urged him to face his tribulation safely in the Jade Pool, but he explained why he had to venture into the Northern Region Outer Sea. After she left, Li Qingshan vowed to begin settling his grudges after Severing the Dao.

• Lin Qingyao gave Li Qingshan the pill and asked why he insisted on facing his tribulation in the dangerous Northern Region Outer Sea.
• Li Qingshan said he needed to temper himself without protection and planned to draw out his enemies and settle karmic debts away from innocents.
• Lin Qingyao asked whether future enemies were driving his urgency, and Li Qingshan told her his Dao was for transcendence and that the time to Sever the Dao had come.
• Lin Qingyao left the Immortal Pool Secret Realm, and Li Qingshan silently watched her go while holding the pill.
• Li Qingshan declared that his reckoning would begin after Severing the Dao, and his fighting spirit stirred the Immortal Pool.

Li Qingshan arrived at the Northern Region Outer Sea, where desperadoes mistook him for an easy target. He crushed Scarface Liu and his four companions with a single step and continued into the dangerous waters.

• Li Qingshan appeared at the border of the Northern Region and surveyed the perilous Outer Sea.
• Scarface Liu and his companions discussed the powerful visitors gathering in the Outer Sea and spotted Li Qingshan alone.
• Scarface Liu ignored a companion’s warning and led his crew aboard a bronze ship to attack Li Qingshan.
• Li Qingshan took one step and crushed the bronze ship and all five cultivators aboard.
• The nearby desperadoes watched in terror as Li Qingshan walked away.

Li Qingshan entered the Northern Region Outer Sea to undergo the Severing the Dao tribulation as powerful factions gathered to watch. He crushed a joint ambush by Human World and Hell with the Heaven-Overturning Seal, then continued toward his chosen tribulation site while the assembled forces stayed silent.

• News of Li Qingshan’s coming tribulation spread across the Big Dipper Star Domain, drawing powerful factions and observers to the outer sea.
• Li Qingshan entered the Annihilation Astral Wind Belt, where five assassins from Human World and Hell waited to kill him.
• The assassins attacked together, but Li Qingshan’s golden vital blood dissolved their strikes and his Heaven-Overturning Seal crushed them.
• Li Qingshan challenged the watching forces to attack, but none answered.
• Li Qingshan continued toward his chosen tribulation site as the observers watched in fear.

Ye Fan intervened when Ji Biyue pursued and tried to kill Ji Ziyue, then fought off her death warriors and fled with the injured woman. Trapped at the Demon-Swallowing Strait, they plunged inside as Li Qingshan's Immortal Three Severing the Dao tribulation began, forcing Ji Biyue to wait outside.

• Ye Fan discovered Ji Biyue and four death warriors pursuing the wounded Ji Ziyue, and Ji Biyue ordered a warrior to kill him after finding his hiding place.
• Ye Fan killed the death warrior who attacked him, then shielded Ji Ziyue and fought off the remaining warriors, knocking Ji Biyue's precious jade wheel back with his fist.
• Ye Fan fled with Ji Ziyue as Ji Biyue pursued them, and he refused to abandon her despite her urging him to escape alone.
• Cornered at the Demon-Swallowing Strait, Ye Fan carried Ji Ziyue into its darkness rather than face Ji Biyue outside.
• Li Qingshan's heavenly tribulation began, and Ji Biyue withdrew to watch the strait's entrance while Ye Fan and Ji Ziyue took shelter within.

Li Qingshan challenged the Great Dao in his Severing the Dao tribulation, enduring a vast heavenly punishment that forced distant onlookers to flee. As the tribulation manifested Emperor Weapon imprints and chains of law, he fought back with his Yin-Yang Dao Diagram and Five-Colored Divine Light.

• Li Qingshan released his suppressed cultivation and faced the Great Dao, prompting a sea of destructive lightning to engulf him.
• Li Qingshan's primordial spirit swallowed the lightning and refined it as the tribulation's presence spread across the outer sea.
• Tribulation watchers fled as the expanding cloud engulfed slower cultivators, then watched in disbelief as it contracted and gathered again.
• The tribulation cloud manifested imprints of Emperor Weapons, prompting the surviving watchers to retreat farther away.
• Li Qingshan fought the lightning forms with his body, divine abilities, and Yin-Yang Dao Diagram, recovering from his wounds through the Eight-Nine Profound Art.
• Li Qingshan dissolved the Order Divine Chains with his Five-Colored Divine Light and absorbed the resulting essence Qi.

As Li Qingshan underwent his Severing the Dao tribulation, an unknown Extreme Dao Weapon targeted him, prompting the Jade Pool’s Western Emperor Pagoda and the Beginningless Bell to intervene. The Emperor Weapons settled into a dangerous standoff, with Li Qingshan still at the center of the tribulation.

• A cold, slaughterous will from beyond the heavens targeted Li Qingshan as he endured the lightning tribulation.
• The Jade Pool’s Western Emperor Pagoda appeared over the outer sea and shielded Li Qingshan from the distant threat.
• The unknown Extreme Dao Weapon confronted the fully awakened Western Emperor Pagoda, shaking the Big Dipper Star Domain and rousing other Emperor Weapons.
• A third Extreme Dao presence moved to intervene against the Western Emperor Pagoda, but the Beginningless Bell stopped it and stabilized the surrounding space.
• The Western Emperor Pagoda continued protecting Li Qingshan while the unknown weapon restrained itself, leaving the Emperor Weapons in a tense balance.

Li Qingshan endured a prolonged heavenly tribulation, severed his dependence on others’ Dao, his own methods, and the myriad Dao, and forged the six seals into a path of his own. He survived the emperor-shadow tribulation and completed the first stage of his Yuanshi Dao, leaving him with a clear path toward further transcendence.

• Li Qingshan endured immortal lightning, resisted the erasure of his existence, and used his Five Great Secret Realms to withstand the innate five-elements formation.
• Li Qingshan declared three severances and defeated the Dao imprints of ancient emperors, including Great Emperor Wushi, before another wave of nine young Great Emperor lightning figures appeared.
• Li Qingshan developed the Wuji Seal, Four Symbols Seal, Void Seal, and Yin-Yang Seal as he survived the emperors’ attacks, then advanced the Heaven-Overturning Seal and created the Heaven-Opening Seal to complete all six seals.
• Li Qingshan’s Present Self disintegrated as his Departed Self and Dao Self manifested across time; his three selves ultimately reunited, forming his own Dao and restoring his true body.
• Li Qingshan completed the emperor-shadow tribulation, absorbed the remaining lightning, and declared that his body was the foundation of the Great Dao and his Dao was Yuanshi.