Recaps

After ruling for sixty-two years, Taizu died having transformed China through territorial expansion, social reforms, education, and industry. As Li Qingshan’s mortal life ended, the experiences and origin power of this Other Self converged with his true body in the Jade Pool.

• Taizu expanded and reformed the empire, bringing Korea and the Outer Northeast under its rule, promoting vernacular education, and prohibiting foot-binding and concubinage.
• Taizu developed industry and railways, enfeoffed his sons to frontier domains, and established Chinese rule and trade across Nanyang.
• Taizu issued final instructions on military strength, the people’s welfare, law, and education, then died at eighty-six and was buried at Changrui Mountain.
• The court historian praised Taizu’s campaigns, reforms, and achievements in restoring and advancing China.
• Li Qingshan perceived other versions of himself across the myriad heavens, then closed his eyes as his mortal life ended.
• Li Qingshan’s true body absorbed the Stone Gate’s origin force, and his Other Selves converged.

Li Qingshan confronted the Blood Moon Saint, who had come to free Kui Luo and seize Li Qingshan’s origin, and killed him after overpowering his attacks. Li Qingshan strengthened Five Fingers Mountain’s suppression of Kui Luo and promised that more of his clansmen would soon join him.

• The Blood Moon Saint arrived at Five Fingers Mountain and failed to break it, discovering that it carried Great Emperor Wushi’s imperial might.
• Li Qingshan appeared and drew the Blood Moon Saint’s attention, while Lin Qingyao watched anxiously through a water mirror and Gu Tianshu observed from concealment.
• Li Qingshan froze and shattered the Blood Moon Saint’s blood waterfall attack, then crushed his Blood Moon True Body and killed him with the Heaven-Overturning Seal.
• Li Qingshan strengthened Five Fingers Mountain’s suppression of Kui Luo, and the Queen Mother of the West told Lin Qingyao that the Blood Moon Clan had suffered a major loss.
• Li Qingshan told Kui Luo that his clansmen would soon join him beneath Five Fingers Mountain.

After Kui Xing died at Li Qingshan’s hands, the Blood Moon Clan prepared for Jade Pool’s retaliation. Li Qingshan arrived at Blood Moon Ridge, uncovered the clan’s hidden defenses, and began attacking it.

• Xuan Tuo told the Blood Moon King that he coveted the blood of Jade Pool’s Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo, and the King warned him to strengthen himself and prepare to inherit the throne.
• Kui Xing’s death caused the altar at Blood Moon Ridge to split and the blood in the Blood Moon King’s goblet to boil over.
• The Blood Moon King and five Ancestor Kings suspected Jade Pool’s involvement, then ordered the killing formations activated and the Thirteen Blood Puppets awakened.
• Li Qingshan crossed the Northern Region, recalling how the Blood Moon Clan had enslaved humans and made vessels from human Saints’ skulls.
• Li Qingshan reached Blood Moon Ridge, sensed its defenses and powerful inhabitants, and pressed his hand toward the range.

Li Qingshan attacked Blood Moon Ridge, destroyed its guardian formation, and killed Xuan Tuo and five Saints while surviving their combined assault. As he began the Ninth Heaven of the King Realm tribulation, Blood Moon King confronted him just as the first Chaos Thunder descended.

• Li Qingshan killed thousands of Blood Moon Clan elites with his spacetime domain and a single punch.
• Xuan Tuo unleashed the Blood Moon Erodes the Heavens Grand Formation, but Li Qingshan killed him with the Pangu Banner’s Heaven-Opening sword Qi and summoned his tribulation.
• Five Ancestor Kings attacked Li Qingshan, but the Central Wuji Apricot-Yellow Flag shielded him from their strikes.
• Li Qingshan killed all five Ancestor Kings in five breaths using his spacetime domain and the Heaven-Overturning Seal.
• Blood Moon King confronted Li Qingshan, who revealed that heaven itself would join the fight as his first Chaos Thunder struck.

Li Qingshan used his heavenly tribulation to destroy the Blood Moon Clan, killed the Blood Moon King, and broke through to the peak of the Immortal Platform realm. After the Northern Region disputed who was responsible, Jade Pool delivered his defiant warning to the radical royal clans.

• Li Qingshan redirected the Ancient Heavenly Court Tribulation onto the Blood Moon King, then endured the sea of stars and killed him with his newly created Eastern Exalt fist.
• Li Qingshan fought the Nine Emperors Tribulation for three days, destroyed its final lightning figure, and perfected the Immortal Platform Third Heaven with one foot in the Saint realm.
• Li Qingshan used the heavenly tribulation to erase the Blood Moon Clan and its ancestral land, then left the Northern Region, saying this was only the beginning.
• The Northern Region erupted over the Blood Moon King's death, while many believed an unnamed Ancient Saint had secretly destroyed the clan.
• A Saint King accused the human Ancient Saints of declaring war, and Jade Pool answered by naming the radical royal clans and threatening that one of them would be destroyed next.

Six months after the destruction of the Blood Moon Royal Clan, Li Qingshan continued cultivating in Qingwei Blessed Land while the Ancient Races grew wary of the Jade Pool. He concluded that most ancient emperors had merely united with the Dao through the Heavenly Heart Imprint and resolved to pursue a self-sufficient path to supreme power, before recalling that a few figures had achieved it.

• The Blood Moon Royal Clan's destruction continued to deter the Ancient Races, while human and Ancient Race geniuses fought across the regions.
• Li Qingshan spent half a year cultivating and gathered three Other Selves, incorporating their Dao Fruits of severing, burning, and life alongside his existing Dao Fruit of reform and establishment.
• Li Qingshan decided that reaching the Heavenly Emperor realm was his true goal, beyond becoming a Great Emperor.
• Li Qingshan reasoned that most ancient supreme beings had depended on the Heavenly Heart Imprint to unite with the Dao, rather than attaining the Dao through their own power.
• Li Qingshan's declaration stirred chaos and lightning around the Dao platform, but he calmed them and affirmed that true imperial power had to rely on oneself.
• Li Qingshan recalled several figures from ancient history who had possessed the self-sufficient power he sought.

Li Qingshan concluded that a true Heavenly Emperor must transcend the Heavenly Heart Imprint through the strength of his own Dao, then awakened a domain that bent the chaos around him. Meanwhile, human elders in the Northern Region debated the consequences of Jade Pool’s destruction of the Blood Moon Clan and began discussing how the human factions could unite against the Primordial Myriad Races.

• Li Qingshan reasoned that the greatest Heavenly Emperors treated the Heavenly Heart Imprint as optional and achieved flawlessness by relying on their own Daos.
• Li Qingshan declared that he would transcend the imprint directly, shaped a forbidden domain around his Dao platform, and resolved to use his Heavenly Emperor Dao to measure history and the heavens.
• Ji Xuanming, Jiang Wu, and Wang Yan discussed how the destruction of the Blood Moon Clan had deterred the royal clans but could provoke the imperial clans to retaliate against Jade Pool and the Eastern Exalt.
• Ji Xuanming said the Ji Family and Jiang Family were secretly coordinating with other human factions, while Jiang Wu reported that God King Jiang had contacted reclusive Ancient Saints.
• Wang Yan pledged that Yaoguang Holy Land would contribute to the human response.

Li Qingshan acquired the Nine Secret: Bing in the Qinling Mountains and made himself its Weapon Ancestor. With the secret complete, he set out for the Feathered Divine Dynasty’s ruins to find coordinates leading back to Earth.

• Li Qingshan decided to seek the Nine Secret: Bing at the Qin Sect before traveling to the Feathered Divine Dynasty’s ruins.
• Li Qingshan entered the Qin Sect unnoticed and located the hidden inheritance while evading the senses of a reclusive Immortal Three King.
• Li Qingshan endured the Bing Dao sound and mastered the Nine Secret: Bing, making himself the Weapon Ancestor rather than choosing between his two life-bound artifacts.
• The Qin Sect’s old King sensed that the inheritance had been touched, but found no trace of Li Qingshan in the valley.
• Li Qingshan left the Qinling Mountains and headed for the Feathered Divine Dynasty’s ruins to seek the star coordinates of Earth.

Li Qingshan entered the Feathered Ancestral Temple, destroyed the Yin Spirits’ trap, and collected the dynasty’s hidden legacy. He found Earth’s coordinates and departed with the Feathered Scripture and other treasures, bringing his way home into sight.

• Li Qingshan used the Central Wuji Apricot-Yellow Flag and Pangu Banner to break through the temple’s dangerous layers and reached the thirty-sixth heaven.
• The two Dao attendants lured Li Qingshan into a formation meant to feed his power to a stone womb, but he destroyed the altar, stone womb, and both Yin Spirits with the Pangu Banner.
• Li Qingshan calmed the ancestral vein’s baleful Qi and collected the treasures stored throughout the ancient temples.
• Li Qingshan found the star-chart coordinates for Earth, Ziwei, Feathered, and Gou Chen, giving him the key to returning home.
• Li Qingshan discovered the Feathered Scripture and a broken Eternal Blue Gold Emperor Weapon in the central palace.
• Li Qingshan opened a rift in space and left the Feathered Ancestral Temple with the way home in sight.

Li Qingshan returned to Jade Pool and told Gu Tianshu about his discoveries at the Feathered Ancestral Temple and his plan to return to Earth. Gu Tianshu warned him to undergo his Saint Tribulation away from the Big Dipper’s forbidden zones, assured him Jade Pool could endure his departure, and asked him to return alive.

• Li Qingshan visited Gu Tianshu and recounted what he had found in the Feathered Ancestral Temple, including the ruined Eternal Blue Gold Emperor spear and the coordinates of Earth.
• Gu Tianshu explained that the spearhead remained valuable immortal gold despite the destruction of its deity and Dao principles.
• Li Qingshan told Gu Tianshu that he intended to return to Earth and revealed that he was ready to summon his Saint Tribulation.
• Gu Tianshu warned that Li Qingshan’s unusual tribulation could attract forbidden-zone beings, and advised him to cross the Starry Sky Ancient Road and undergo it in a desolate star region with the Beginningless Bell protecting him.
• Li Qingshan voiced concern that Jade Pool might be vulnerable after he left, but Gu Tianshu promised to protect its legacy and said he would wield the Western Emperor Pagoda if necessary.
• Gu Tianshu asked Li Qingshan to return alive and urged him to reach the greatest heights of cultivation, as the era might need another human Great Emperor.

After discussing the Feathered Scripture with Gu Tianshu, Li Qingshan visited Lin Qingyao at Lotus Lake and told her he planned to return to Earth, the Primordial Ancient Star. He could not promise when he would come back, leaving their future parting unresolved.

• Li Qingshan promised Gu Tianshu he would remember his request, then exchanged insights with him about the Feathered Scripture and cultivation.
• Li Qingshan left Gu Tianshu's courtyard and went to Lotus Lake to find Lin Qingyao.
• Lin Qingyao sensed Li Qingshan was troubled, and he told her he might leave the Big Dipper to return to Earth using coordinates found in the Feathered Divine Dynasty's ancestral temple.
• Lin Qingyao recognized Li Qingshan's longing for home and asked whether he could set a date for his return.
• Li Qingshan explained that the Starry Sky Ancient Road made the journey unpredictable and that even a smooth trip might take more than ten years.

Li Qingshan and Lin Qingyao faced the pain of his uncertain departure, and Lin Qingyao confessed that their paths seemed to be growing farther apart. Li Qingshan reassured her that he treasured her Dao and the home she represented, leaving them holding hands with a deeper understanding of what they meant to each other.

• Lin Qingyao calmly accepted that Li Qingshan would return to his home, recognizing the journey as a trial on his path of cultivation.
• Lin Qingyao admitted that she feared their different destinies and abilities were drawing them apart.
• Li Qingshan took Lin Qingyao's hands and told her that cultivation, fame, and strength did not define her worth, praising her character and Dao.
• Li Qingshan said that Jade Pool and Lin Qingyao would remain a home he longed to return to, even if his journey lasted decades or a hundred years.

Lin Qingyao and Li Qingshan acknowledged their feelings and went to her secluded island dwelling in the Jade Pool Holy Land. As their approaching separation loomed, Lin Qingyao chose to entrust herself to him, and they shared their first kiss.

• Lin Qingyao leaned against Li Qingshan, and he drew her into a tender embrace.
• Lin Qingyao asked Li Qingshan to come to her place that night, and he accepted her invitation.
• Lin Qingyao led Li Qingshan across Lotus Lake to her secluded island and bamboo house.
• Lin Qingyao lit Spiritual Rhinoceros Incense as she gathered her courage, then turned to face Li Qingshan.
• Lin Qingyao rose onto her toes and kissed Li Qingshan, and they embraced as their kiss deepened.

Li Qingshan and Lin Qingyao shared their first intimate night, and Lin Qingyao embraced the closeness as a way to preserve a tangible bond through the long years of cultivation ahead. After Li Qingshan paused when she felt discomfort and comforted her, they gradually settled into a sense of connection and fulfillment.

• Lin Qingyao told Li Qingshan that her heart wanted to merge completely with him and remember him during the years of solitude after he left.
• Lin Qingyao removed her outer robe, and Li Qingshan carried her to the bamboo bed as they began their intimate encounter.
• Li Qingshan treated Lin Qingyao gently as she grew more responsive and relaxed in his embrace.
• Li Qingshan stopped when Lin Qingyao felt discomfort and comforted her patiently.
• Lin Qingyao's discomfort faded, and she felt their bodies and souls come together like two streams merging into one.

Lin Qingyao and Li Qingshan’s union brought a profound resonance between their primordial spirits, deepening her cultivation and drawing them closer. They spent the night together, knowing Li Qingshan would leave within half a year, and Lin Qingyao fell asleep in his arms as he stayed awake beside her.

• Lin Qingyao and Li Qingshan’s minds and spirits resonated during their union, transforming her Dao foundation and deepening their spiritual connection.
• Afterward, Lin Qingyao told Li Qingshan she was happy, and they held each other beneath a quilt in the Lotus Lake retreat.
• Lin Qingyao asked why their primordial spirits had resonated, and Li Qingshan explained that their cultivated Daos had returned to the Great Dao’s primal principles and naturally harmonized.
• Lin Qingyao asked when Li Qingshan would leave, and he said he would depart within half a year and would search for a route back through the ancient starry sky altars.
• Li Qingshan and Lin Qingyao shared stories and imagined traveling together in the future before Lin Qingyao fell asleep in his arms.
• Li Qingshan stayed awake, gently memorizing Lin Qingyao’s sleeping face as the moon moved westward.

After spending months with Lin Qingyao at the Jade Pool, Li Qingshan forged her the Moonlight United Hearts pendant and prepared to return to Earth. He departed for the distant stars, leaving Lin Qingyao behind with a promise to wait for his return.

• Li Qingshan forged Lin Qingyao the Moonlight United Hearts pendant from feathered green gold and eternal blue gold, and she wore it around her neck.
• Li Qingshan told Lin Jia and the other students he would seek out their families if he safely reached Earth, while Gu Tianshu promised to look after the Jade Pool.
• The Queen Mother of the West encouraged Li Qingshan to follow his path, and he bid farewell to Lin Qingyao before leaving the Jade Pool.
• Li Qingshan passed beyond the Big Dipper Star Domain through a passage into the distant starry sky, while Gu Tianshu and the Saint of the Jade Pool watched him go.
• Lin Qingyao played the ancient qin for three days and nights, transforming her sorrow at parting into calm resolve.

Li Qingshan crossed the void from the Big Dipper, activated an ancient Five-Colored Altar to reach a distant star region, and began his Saint Tribulation in a shattered star belt. The overwhelming heavenly punishment destroyed his body and battered his treasures, but golden radiance began to reassemble him.

• Li Qingshan left the Big Dipper and crossed the silent void, following coordinates toward Earth and an ancient Five-Colored Altar relay point.
• After about two months, Li Qingshan found a ruined altar, repaired its formation, and used it to teleport into a distant star region.
• Li Qingshan chose the dangerous remains of a dead star as a remote place to undergo his Saint Tribulation.
• The tribulation engulfed the region with chaotic lightning and ancient manifestations, while Li Qingshan brought out the Central Wuji Apricot-Yellow Flag and the Pangu Banner to endure its force.
• Solar Divine Lightning shattered Li Qingshan and cracked both treasures, but golden radiance emerged from within him as his body and bones began to reassemble.

Li Qingshan endured a succession of devastating Saint tribulations while reforging the Pangu Banner and Central Wuji Apricot-Yellow Flag, eventually fusing his body, primordial spirit, and weapon fragments into a single weapon before they separated and began to reform. As the Heaven-Opening and Earth-Cleaving Tribulation continued, the two treasures took shape again, inscribed with mysterious Dao patterns and his scripture.

• Li Qingshan infused the Pangu Banner and Central Wuji Apricot-Yellow Flag with his self-created scripture and tempered them through the Taiyin Divine Thunder and Five Elements Heavenly Tribulation.
• The two treasures shattered under the tribulation, but their fragments responded to Li Qingshan's blood and continued resisting the lightning as he realized they were undergoing self-destruction and rebirth.
• Li Qingshan endured the Nine-Nine Great Tribulation, repeatedly reconstructing his body and primordial spirit with Nirvana while continuing to forge the fragments.
• After countless tribulations, Li Qingshan's flesh, bones, primordial spirit, and weapon fragments fused into a single weapon, which the Chaos Divine Tribulation later blasted into dust.
• Li Qingshan survived the Heaven-Opening and Earth-Cleaving Tribulation and used its lightning to restore and reforge the two treasures.
• The Pangu Banner and Central Wuji Apricot-Yellow Flag took shape again, bearing ancient inscriptions and the golden characters of Li Qingshan's scripture.

Li Qingshan crossed into the Saint Realm as the Pangu Banner and Central Wuji Apricot-Yellow Flag became immortal Saint Weapons, then faced a young Great Emperor’s imprint in his tribulation. Their shared Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryos and Six Seals of Yuanshi drove them into a fierce battle that continued to escalate.

• Li Qingshan entered the Saint Realm, and the Pangu Banner and Central Wuji Apricot-Yellow Flag transformed into immortal Saint Weapons.
• Li Qingshan endured the final lightning and inscribed ancient characters into the weapons as they absorbed the tribulation’s lightning.
• A young Great Emperor’s Humanoid Lightning appeared, and Li Qingshan recognized that the figure’s Dao resonated with the Six Seals of Yuanshi.
• Li Qingshan attacked with the Heaven-Opening Seal and Wuji Seal, clashing with the Great Emperor’s matching techniques and manifestations.
• Li Qingshan created and refined the Primordial Heart Seal amid their battle as both men fought across the tribulation sea.
• Li Qingshan and the Great Emperor continued their duel with the Seven Seals of Yuanshi, trading blows that shook the starry sky.

Li Qingshan endured the heavenly tribulation’s battles against an older echo of himself, nine Ancient Great Emperors, and the forces of the Mythological Era. He reached the desolate Central Heavenly Palace, where a familiar but indistinct figure vanished before he could learn whether it was Emperor Zun.

• Li Qingshan recognized that his first opponent fought like a more ancient version of himself and defeated him after battling with their shared techniques.
• Li Qingshan fought the youthful imprints of nine Great Emperors, survived their successive attacks, and emerged bloodied with his conviction strengthened.
• Li Qingshan entered a battlefield resembling the Mythological Era and fought through armies and powerful beings toward the Ancient Heavenly Court.
• Li Qingshan reached the empty Central Heavenly Palace and saw a hazy figure seated on its throne.
• The figure’s outline briefly stirred a sense of familiarity in Li Qingshan before fading away, leaving him uncertain about Emperor Zun’s presence.

Li Qingshan completed his Saint tribulation, refined the Central Wuji Apricot-Yellow Flag and the Pangu Banner, and rose to the fifth heaven of the Saint realm. He then drew on ancient Dao inheritances to temper the Seven Seals of Yuanshi, leaving his blood Qi Dao body demonstrating their full power among the stars.

• Li Qingshan cast the Central Wuji Apricot-Yellow Flag and the Pangu Banner into the Chaos Sea and completed their final refinement.
• After more than a month of tribulation, Li Qingshan became a Saint and broke through five ranks to reach the fifth heaven of the Saint realm.
• Li Qingshan remained in the starry sky and forged his own Dao scripture on his Immortal Platform.
• Ancient runes from the Mythological Era converged around Li Qingshan, and he used their essence to temper the Seven Seals of Yuanshi.
• Li Qingshan's blood Qi formed a Dao body that demonstrated the seven seals, stirring the surrounding stars as it manifested his Dao.

Li Qingshan reforged his Five Great Secret Realms and created a scripture of his own, stabilizing his Saint Fifth Heaven cultivation before continuing his journey through the stars. When he passed the life-bearing Primordial God Star, its ancient treant Saint confronted him, secretly coveting him as a sacrifice for the planet’s collective god.

• Li Qingshan reshaped his Sea of Bitterness, Dao Palaces, Four Extremes, Dragon Transformation realm, and Immortal Platform until his secret realms resonated as one.
• Li Qingshan branded his new Dao canon into his primordial spirit, beginning what later generations might call the Yuanshi Emperor Scripture, and stabilized his Saint Fifth Heaven cultivation.
• Li Qingshan merged his blood Qi Dao body with his three selves and traveled through the stars, deepening his Dao through observations of a dying star and an ancient asteroid belt.
• Li Qingshan noticed the life-bearing Primordial God Star and briefly surveyed its ancient treants, elves, and unified collective consciousness before withdrawing his divine sense.
• The ancient treant Saint confronted Li Qingshan and ordered him to leave, while secretly planning to seize him as a sacrifice for the Primordial God.

Li Qingshan killed Mu Ling after the Ancestral Tree Saint attacked him, then faced Mu Kui, Feng Ling, and Qing Luo, who asked him to leave Primordial God Star. The planet’s hungry Primordial God seized control of the three Saints and made them attack Li Qingshan.

• The Ancestral Tree Saint interrupted Li Qingshan’s departure and demanded that he go to the ancestral land as a sacrifice to Mother Primordial God.
• When Li Qingshan refused, the Ancestral Tree Saint attacked with venom and wooden pythons, but Li Qingshan destroyed them and killed it with the Seven Seals of Yuanshi’s Heaven-Overturning Seal.
• Mu Kui arrived with Feng Ling and Qing Luo, acknowledged that Mu Ling had provoked Li Qingshan, and asked him to leave Primordial God Star.
• Li Qingshan agreed to leave, but the Primordial God’s will seized Mu Kui, Feng Ling, and Qing Luo and turned them into fanatical attackers.
• Mu Kui summoned a giant tree and sent its branches and emerald chains sweeping toward Li Qingshan.

Li Qingshan defeated the Primordial God's three Saint-controlled fighters, then faced the Primordial God’s planetary incarnation at Saint King Ninth Heaven. He struck the incarnation’s giant hand with his seals and wounded its collective will, but the battle continued.

• Feng Ling, Qing Luo, and Mu Kui coordinated their attacks against Li Qingshan, but he dodged Mu Kui’s branches, shattered Feng Ling’s arrow and Qing Luo’s net, and gravely injured Mu Kui with the Heaven-Opening Seal.
• Li Qingshan used the Primordial Heart Seal to destroy Feng Ling and Qing Luo’s souls, leaving their bodies drifting near the planet.
• The Primordial God emerged from the planet as a Heavenly King-level incarnation and reached for Li Qingshan with a palm that held a miniature green universe.
• Li Qingshan brought the power of his Five Great Secret Realms together and countered the Primordial God’s palm with a succession of seals.
• Li Qingshan’s Primordial Heart Seal struck the Primordial God’s collective will, making its reaching hand crack and wither as the incarnation roared in pain.

Li Qingshan defeated the Primordial God, destroyed its avatar, and spared the gravely wounded Mu Kui before leaving the Primordial God Star. The star’s people later remembered the battle as the fall of an outsider demon god, while Li Qingshan continued his journey home.

• Li Qingshan shattered the Primordial God's palm, wounded its body, and pierced its brow with chaos sword light, destroying its will and avatar.
• The Primordial God's remains broke apart, leaving a vast gray-green fragment suspended above the Primordial God Star as debris rained across the planet.
• Li Qingshan found Mu Kui and the remains of the two elven saints, spared the dying treant, and vanished into the stars.
• Later generations recorded the battle as the arrival of an outsider demon god and established the Law of External Severance around the sealed star.
• Li Qingshan continued traveling through the starry sea, focused on returning home.