Recaps

After his tribulation, Li Qingshan entered the Realm of Dao Transformation and uncovered how the Secret Realm Method organizes the body’s potential through Gates of Divine Treasures. Just as he neared a deeper union with the Heavenly Dao, an ancient Stone Gate pulled his thoughts back into his body.

• Over seven days after the tribulation, Li Qingshan’s body grew stronger and resonated with heaven and earth as he meditated on Kunlun.
• Li Qingshan’s divine sense entered the Realm of Dao Transformation and discovered that the Gates of Divine Treasures were condensed Potential Dao Seeds.
• Li Qingshan realized that the Desolate Heaven Emperor had established the Secret Realm Method’s framework, while later Great Emperors developed it through their own Daos.
• Li Qingshan understood how innate physiques, scriptures, the Chaos Body, and the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art related to opening and combining Divine Treasures.
• As Li Qingshan’s insights stirred the laws of the Heavenly Dao, an ancient Stone Gate trembled and dragged his thoughts back to his body.

Li Qingshan absorbed origin essence Qi and established his path of Dao, envisioning his body as a universe. His declaration summoned Heavenly Dao punishment, but he caught a crimson lightning bolt and resolved to use the next tribulation to reach the perfection of the Four Extremes Realm.

• Li Qingshan drew origin essence Qi into his Secret Realms while the earth vein dragon Qi gathered around him.
• Li Qingshan realized emperor scriptures could guide the opening of his Divine Treasures more systematically, and planned to seek them in the Big Dipper Star Domain.
• Li Qingshan declared that he would transform his body into a universe, making his Divine Treasures its pivots and proving the Dao for himself.
• Dark clouds gathered over Kunlun, and Li Qingshan caught a crimson lightning bolt that nourished a lightning-related Divine Treasure.
• Li Qingshan absorbed the lightning's power and vowed to use the next lightning tribulation to break through two realms and perfect the Four Extremes Realm.

Li Qingshan survived the Four Extremes tribulations, perfected the realm, and awakened the phenomenon Myriad Selves as One, illuminating the heavens. He then explored Kunlun with Xiaobai for treasures and resumed refining his Dao Bell, which still needed more work.

• Li Qingshan endured the third- and fourth-layer Four Extremes tribulations, using their lightning to temper his body and open the Divine Treasures in his limbs.
• Li Qingshan perfected the Four Extremes Secret Realm and awakened the phenomenon Myriad Selves as One, illuminating the heavens, which connected him to countless projections of himself across other worlds.
• Li Qingshan returned to his cave abode with Xiaobai, then found and collected Water Soul Crystals in the ruins of an ancient divine pool.
• Li Qingshan and Xiaobai discovered a hidden herb garden, where he subdued ancient herb-guarding vines, picked a fleeceflower root, and collected dormant spiritual-root seeds.
• Li Qingshan returned to the Earthfire Abyss and used Dragon Blood Stone, Sun True Fire, and his divine sense to continue engraving Dao patterns on the Dao Bell embryo.

Li Qingshan forged the Dao Bell, joining its spirit to its body and giving birth to a newborn consciousness. He explored the Forest of Broken Steles, uncovered the Sun Sacred Clan’s history and the Sun True Body inheritance, then returned to the Earthfire Abyss to cultivate toward the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm.

• Li Qingshan merged the Divine Markings vessel embryo with the bell body, creating the Dao Bell’s spirit and drawing in the essence Qi and starlight of the monthly tide.
• Li Qingshan tested the Dao Bell’s power, then settled down to stabilize his realm while Xiaobai slept beside him.
• Li Qingshan and Xiaobai traveled west to the Forest of Broken Steles, where the inscriptions revealed that the Sun Sacred Clan had fought extraterrestrial evil demons and suffered devastating losses.
• Xiaobai’s jade horn activated a stele, revealing visions of the ancient war, and Li Qingshan found a Heavenly Markings Jade slip containing the Sun True Body method.
• Li Qingshan returned to the Earthfire Abyss and studied the inheritance as the Dao Bell’s consciousness grew clearer, while he continued cultivating toward the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm.

Li Qingshan faced the Dragon Transformation tribulation at Thundercliff and defeated a Humanoid Lightning bearing the mark of a young Great Emperor. He absorbed the lightning’s origin to temper his spine, completing the Dragon Transformation First Change.

• Li Qingshan prepared to break through to Dragon Transformation while Xiaobai promised to guard him.
• Li Qingshan drew down a powerful heavenly tribulation and met its lightning with his Sun True Body.
• A colossal thunder dragon shattered Li Qingshan’s Dark Water shield, and a young Great Emperor’s Humanoid Lightning emerged from the lightning sea.
• Li Qingshan fought the Humanoid Lightning with his Five Elements Divine Abilities, Sun Emperor Fist, and Dao Bell, then destroyed it with a full-power strike.
• Li Qingshan absorbed the pure lightning source and poured his essence, Qi, and spirit into his spine, awakening its first vertebra and completing the Dragon Transformation First Change.

Li Qingshan broke through to the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm’s First Change, then explored Kunlun and obtained Star River Purple Sand to reforge the Dao Bell. He returned to the Earthfire Abyss and began planning the bell’s transformation, while the secrets beyond the stone hall’s barrier remained out of reach.

• Li Qingshan completed the Dragon Transformation First Change, and Xiaobai celebrated his breakthrough as his lifespan and spiritual perception increased.
• Li Qingshan followed his sense of an opportunity deeper into Kunlun, where he spent more than a month breaking through the formations around a hidden valley.
• Li Qingshan found Star River Purple Sand in an empty stone hall and stored it in a jade box to use in reforging the Dao Bell.
• Li Qingshan sensed a powerful barrier deeper in the hall and turned back because he could not overcome it.
• Li Qingshan returned to the Earthfire Abyss, placed the Star River Purple Sand beside the earthfire, and began drawing a diagram for reforging the Dao Bell.

Li Qingshan reforged his old Dao Bell with Star River Purple Sand into the Purple Gold Bell, a powerful natal artifact linked to his Dao and the earth veins. After its first transformation and refinement, he stored it in his Bitter Sea and resumed stabilizing his Dragon Transformation First Change cultivation.

• Li Qingshan melted down the old Dao Bell and forged its materials with Star River Purple Sand, imprinting it with his Dao rhythms and divine marks.
• After seven days and nights, Li Qingshan completed the new bell, bonded it to his bloodline, and named it Purple Gold while Xiaobai celebrated.
• Li Qingshan and Xiaobai spent the next half month refining the Purple Gold Bell with earthfire, Sun True Fire, and spiritual materials.
• The Purple Gold Bell resonated with Thundercliff and Kunlun's earth veins, reshaping its marks into a star chart that connected the heavens and earth.
• Li Qingshan placed the refined Purple Gold Bell in his Bitter Sea and began stabilizing his cultivation at the Dragon Transformation First Change.

Li Qingshan tested the Purple-Gold Dao Bell, then hunted spirit herbs and defeated a Thunder-Howling Heavenly Wolf to strengthen it with the beast’s lightning origin. After returning to the Earthfire Abyss and refining the herbs, he prepared to break through to the Dragon Transformation Second Transformation.

• Li Qingshan stabilized his cultivation at the Dragon Transformation First Change and tested the Purple-Gold Dao Bell, which cut a distant mountain peak in half.
• Li Qingshan and Xiaobai searched Kunlun for spirit herbs and gathered materials to nourish his spine and strengthen the bell.
• Li Qingshan encountered a Thunder-Howling Heavenly Wolf in a lightning-filled valley, and the wolf attacked him.
• Li Qingshan used the Purple-Gold Dao Bell to grievously wound the wolf, severed its leg, and extracted its lightning-marked skull before the wolf’s body returned to the world of Kunlun.
• The Purple-Gold Dao Bell refined the skull’s lightning origin, strengthening its Lightning-Attracting Dao Marks.
• Li Qingshan returned to the Earthfire Abyss, refined the gathered spirit herbs to nourish the second section of his spine, and prepared to break through to the Dragon Transformation Second Transformation.

Li Qingshan stabilized his Dragon Transformation Third Transformation before being trapped in a powerful star formation in Mount Kunlun. After enduring its deadly trials for two months, he faced a Star God Giant Spirit and met its axe with the Great Sun Seal.

• Li Qingshan consolidated his Dragon Transformation Third Transformation in the Earthfire Abyss, awakening dragon patterns on his spine and strengthening his command of the laws.
• A month later, Li Qingshan pursued a spiritual resonance in Mount Kunlun and was trapped inside an ancient star formation.
• Li Qingshan fought through the formation’s sword Qi, falling stars, and vortexes, gradually gaining insight into its workings over two months.
• A Star God Giant Spirit appeared and attacked Li Qingshan with a giant axe.
• Li Qingshan activated his Sun True Body and struck the axe with the Great Sun Seal, then prepared to counter the Star God’s next attack with the Heaven-Overturning Seal.

Li Qingshan destroyed the Star God Giant Spirit and escaped the Zhoutian Star Formation after two months trapped inside. He discovered the Purple Mansion Pill Chamber, learned from its alchemy records and treasure furnace, and uncovered a sealed jade box whose contents remained unknown.

• Li Qingshan overwhelmed the Star God Giant Spirit with the Heaven-Overturning Seal, Human Emperor Seal, and Sun True Fire, then destroyed its North Star core.
• Li Qingshan broke through the formation’s exposed life gate, retrieved the Dao Bell, and escaped as the Zhoutian Star Formation collapsed.
• Li Qingshan found the Purple Mansion Pill Chamber in a hidden valley and opened its damaged stone door.
• Li Qingshan studied the Ancient Saint’s alchemy runes and the treasure furnace’s artifact spirit, then reconstructed key steps of the Spirit-Concentrating Pill formula.
• Li Qingshan activated the treasure furnace with Solar True Force and discovered a sealed jade box carved with stars.

After escaping the ancient formation, Li Qingshan returned to the Earthfire Abyss with the Zhoutian Star Formation Flags and Purple Mansion Pill Furnace, reuniting with Xiaobai. He began studying the pill furnace and formation while tempering his spine with star power, and the complete formation promised to protect the abyss against even powerful Immortal Platform cultivators.

• Li Qingshan activated the Zhoutian Star Formation and discovered it could temper his dragon patterns as well as unleash deadly attacks.
• Li Qingshan returned to the Earthfire Abyss and found Xiaobai waiting for him after tracking his absence for sixty-two days.
• Xiaobai tearfully welcomed Li Qingshan and showed him the spirit fruits she had preserved for him.
• Li Qingshan showed Xiaobai the Purple Mansion Pill Furnace and Zhoutian Star Formation Flags he had brought back.
• Li Qingshan began refining Spirit-Concentrating Pills and used the formation's star power to strengthen his spine toward the Fourth Transformation.
• Li Qingshan committed the formation art to memory and determined that all eighteen flags could secure the abyss and trap powerful enemies.

Li Qingshan completed his Fourth Dragon Transformation, but Thunder Peng arrived in Kunlun seeking to devour him and advance to the Immortal Platform. Li Qingshan calmly repelled Thunder Peng’s opening attacks, and the chapter left him facing Thunder Peng’s overwhelming lightning-shadow assault.

• Li Qingshan completed the Fourth Dragon Transformation and sensed a dangerous presence approaching through Kunlun.
• Thunder Peng arrived at the peak of the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm and declared he would devour Li Qingshan to aid his ascent to the Immortal Platform.
• Li Qingshan mocked Thunder Peng’s claims of supremacy and challenged him to serve as a test of his new power.
• Thunder Peng attacked with a lightning claw, but Li Qingshan anticipated the strike and evaded it using the Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Thunder Peng unleashed a rain of lightning arrows, which Li Qingshan deflected and neutralized with the water-element divine light.
• Thunder Peng surrounded Li Qingshan with thousands of solid lightning afterimages and launched the Thousand Illusion Lightning Shadow Kill.

Li Qingshan overpowered Thunder Peng’s techniques with his Dao diagram and Five-Colored Divine Light, then wounded him with the Sun Emperor Fist. Thunder Peng transformed into his true body and unleashed a devastating attack, while Li Qingshan revealed the Myriad Selves Dao Diagram as countless projections gathered behind him.

• Li Qingshan used his Yin-Yang Dao Diagram to shatter Thunder Peng’s true-body clones and erode his demonic essence.
• Thunder Peng attacked with the Thunder Emperor Divine Spear, but Li Qingshan disrupted it with the Five-Colored Divine Light and shattered it with the Sun Emperor Fist.
• Wounded and enraged, Thunder Peng transformed into his enormous golden true body.
• Thunder Peng launched the Thunder Feather God-Slaying Sword and a destructive lightning pillar at Li Qingshan.
• Li Qingshan revealed the Myriad Selves Dao Diagram, summoning countless projections of himself from across the heavens and myriad worlds.

Li Qingshan used the Myriad Selves as One phenomenon to suppress Thunder Peng’s powers and defeat him with the Sun Emperor Fist and Human Emperor Seal. He killed Thunder Peng, absorbed his lightning essence, and left the battle with his Fourth Dragon Transformation realm stabilized.

• Li Qingshan’s phenomenon dispersed most of Thunder Peng’s lightning attacks and weakened the laws Thunder Peng relied on.
• Thunder Peng launched Wind and Thunder Rend the Heavens, but Li Qingshan met him with Sun Emperor Fist · Empowerment of the Heavens and shattered his claws.
• Li Qingshan struck Thunder Peng with Human Emperor Seal · Suppress Mountains and Rivers, breaking his lightning shield and crushing his wings.
• Thunder Peng begged for mercy and offered his soul blood, but Li Qingshan crushed his body and soul.
• Li Qingshan’s Dao Bell absorbed the lightning essence from Thunder Peng’s remains.
• Li Qingshan reflected on the battle, deepened his understanding of his abilities, and stabilized his Fourth Dragon Transformation realm.

After three years of cultivation in Kunlun, Li Qingshan reached the perfected Fifth Change of the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm and decided to return to Jiangcheng with Xiaobai. They escaped Kunlun’s shifting arrays and emerged into the mortal world.

• Li Qingshan reflected on his rapid cultivation and the danger of seeking Dragon Marrow in Kunlun’s forbidden heart.
• Xiaobai brought Li Qingshan a treasure fruit, and he told her they would leave Kunlun for Jiangcheng.
• Li Qingshan taught Xiaobai an illusion art that concealed her jade horn and cultivation, and they prepared to depart.
• Li Qingshan used his array knowledge and a Zhoutian Star Formation Flag to guide Xiaobai through Kunlun’s deadly outer arrays.
• After two months of dangers, Li Qingshan led Xiaobai through the Two Aspects Severing the Mortal World Array and out of Kunlun.

Li Qingshan returned to Jiangcheng after three years away and reunited with his grief-stricken parents. He introduced Xiaobai to them and stayed with his family, troubled by how much the years of worry had worn them down.

• Li Qingshan flew from Kunlun to Jiangcheng with Xiaobai, hiding his divine power as they approached his home.
• Li Qingshan sensed his parents’ exhaustion and sent them a gentle mental signal before going upstairs.
• Su Wan opened the door and broke down when Li Qingshan told her he had returned; Li Guoqiang welcomed his son with tears and relief.
• Xiaobai comforted Su Wan and greeted Li Guoqiang and Su Wan as her grandparents.
• Li Qingshan introduced Xiaobai as a child who would live with them and felt guilty seeing his parents’ weakened condition.

Li Qingshan told his parents how he discovered Kunlun, began cultivating, and met Xiaobai, then demonstrated his abilities while explaining the cultivation realms. His parents accepted Xiaobai and gained a clearer understanding of their son's path, though higher realms remained difficult to reach on Earth.

• Li Qingshan told Su Wan and Li Guoqiang that he found the entrance to the real Kunlun in Mount Hua carvings and learned cultivation from a cultivator's ruins.
• Xiaobai told Li Qingshan's parents she was a Heaven-Swallowing Snake whom he had saved, and she demonstrated her ability to turn invisible.
• Li Qingshan reassured his parents that Xiaobai was part of their family, and Su Wan welcomed her and promised to make her new dresses.
• Li Qingshan demonstrated the Bitter Sea and Life Spring realms, then explained the Divine Bridge and Other Shore stages to his parents.
• Li Qingshan outlined the Dao Palace, Four Extremes, Dragon Transformation, and Immortal Platform realms, and said he had reached the Dragon Transformation Fifth Layer Heaven.

Li Qingshan reassured his parents that cultivation would not make him forget home, then showed them his powers by healing a plant and taking them flying over Jiangcheng. After Xiaobai gave them spirit fruits that renewed their health, Li Qingshan sensed the fruits had strengthened their bodies and laid a foundation for future cultivation.

• Li Qingshan comforted Su Wan and Li Guoqiang by promising that Earth would remain his home, even if cultivation someday took him far away.
• Li Qingshan used Solar True Force to revive a withered spider plant and told his parents he could heal them if they became ill.
• Li Qingshan enveloped Su Wan and Li Guoqiang in divine radiance and flew with them and Xiaobai over Jiangcheng.
• Xiaobai presented Su Wan with a Vermilion Fruit and Li Guoqiang with a Golden Marrow Pear.
• Su Wan's fruit cleansed and rejuvenated her body, while Li Guoqiang's fruit eased his shoulder pain and restored his strength.
• Li Qingshan sensed that the spirit fruits had improved his parents' Qi and blood and strengthened their foundation for potentially opening their Bitter Seas.

Li Qingshan helped his parents begin cultivating, equipped his family and courtyard with protective treasures and an array, then resigned from his university job. He returned home to Xiaobai and his parents, leaving the family preparing to continue their cultivation together.

• Li Qingshan used foundation-establishment liquid to open Su Wan and Li Guoqiang’s Bitter Seas and taught them how to cultivate.
• Li Qingshan gave his parents protective treasures, fitted Xiaobai with a collar that gathered essence Qi and made her invisible, and set up a protective array in the courtyard.
• After ten days at home, Li Qingshan went to Jiangcheng University, explained his absence to Dean Wang, and resigned from his teaching position.
• Li Qingshan remembered Ye Fan and Pang Bo as he left the university, then received a call from Su Wan and Xiaobai asking him to come home.
• Li Qingshan returned to his family, admired Xiaobai’s drawing, heard of Li Guoqiang’s progress, and helped Su Wan serve lunch.

After two years in Jiangcheng, Li Qingshan told his parents and Xiaobai that he would leave for the Big Dipper Star Domain to seek a breakthrough. He departed at dawn, leaving Xiaobai behind to protect his parents and promising to return in a little over twenty years.

• Li Qingshan told Su Wan that he planned to leave for the Big Dipper Star Domain because Earth could not help him advance beyond the Dragon Transformation Fifth Layer.
• Li Guoqiang gave Li Qingshan a bundle of childhood keepsakes and clothes, and Li Qingshan promised to take care of himself and return.
• Li Qingshan persuaded Xiaobai to stay on Earth and look after Su Wan and Li Guoqiang while he was away.
• Li Qingshan spent several more days with his family and practiced his divine abilities before preparing to leave.
• At dawn, Xiaobai gave Li Qingshan a cloth doll depicting their family, and he walked east through Jiangcheng to begin his journey.

Li Qingshan watched Ye Fan and his classmates climb Mount Tai while sensing the arrival of nine dragon corpses towing an ancient bronze coffin through space. As the group reached the summit, the corpses burst through the clouds and descended before them.

• Li Qingshan sensed the ancient aura of Mount Tai and observed Ye Fan, Lin Jia, and their classmates climbing toward the summit.
• Li Qingshan detected Ye Fan’s suppressed potential and the spiritual power strengthened by the Crystal Visualization Method he had taught him.
• Li Qingshan sensed nine dragon corpses towing a bronze coffin through space and recognized that the paths of space and time had converged.
• Ye Fan and the others reached Jade Emperor Summit and admired the sunset and sea of clouds.
• Thunder and violent winds startled everyone on the summit as nine enormous dragon corpses towing an ancient bronze coffin emerged from the clouds.

Nine dragon corpses hauling an ancient bronze coffin crashed onto Jade Emperor Peak, exposing an ancient five-colored altar beneath the crater. When a boulder struck the altar, it awakened a tremendous force that dragged Ye Fan, Zhou Yi, Lin Jia, Liu Yiyi, and the others toward the crater.

• Kaide dropped his camera in terror as the nine dragon corpses and bronze coffin appeared, and tourists fled in panic.
• The dragons and coffin slammed into Jade Emperor Peak, exposing part of an ancient five-colored altar beneath the crater.
• Ye Fan recognized the altar as a relic used for ancient Feng and Shan sacrifices, while Zhou Yi examined its mysterious symbols.
• Liu Yiyi slipped toward the crater, but Zhou Yi and Ye Fan pulled her back as a loose boulder struck the altar below.
• The altar erupted in five-colored light and unleashed immense pressure and suction, dragging the group toward the crater despite Ye Fan and Zhou Yi trying to hold on to one another.

Li Qingshan appeared to Ye Fan and his classmates on the Five-Colored Altar and offered those who wished to leave a way back. After the altar opened a Starry Sky Ancient Road, the bronze coffin swallowed everyone who remained.

• Li Qingshan appeared on Sun-Watching Rock, calmed the group, and stepped onto the Five-Colored Altar.
• Li Qingshan offered to send back anyone unwilling to continue, and he returned those who chose to leave while altering their memories.
• The jade pieces and stone slabs on the altar glowed and formed a Bagua Dao diagram and Taiji diagram that opened onto a Starry Sky Ancient Road.
• The nine dragon corpses trembled, and the bronze coffin opened slightly as its ancient presence resonated with the Starry Sky Ancient Road.
• The bronze coffin shook violently and its suction engulfed Ye Fan, Li Qingshan, and everyone who remained, swallowing them into the coffin.

After surviving the journey from Mars, Li Qingshan and the others emerged at the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land, where a mysterious force began draining their life essence. Li Qingshan realized his powerful cultivation made the danger worse and resolved to find the Nine Marvels Immortal Medicine and Divine Spring quickly.

• The Bronze Coffin opened, and Li Qingshan and the others stepped onto a lush mountaintop in an unfamiliar star region.
• Li Qingshan sensed the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land draining life essence and divine power faster from those with higher cultivation.
• Li Qingshan warned Ye Fan, Zhou Yi, Lin Jia, and the others that the land’s laws would eventually exhaust their lives.
• The nine dragon corpses and Bronze Coffin plunged into the abyss, revealing that the group stood beside a vast crater-like chasm.
• Li Qingshan explained that divine sense could not safely probe the abyss, while a golden giant eagle carrying an elephant showed the group that the land was savage.
• Li Qingshan decided to take Ye Fan and the Forbidden Zone Heir to find the divine fruit of the Nine Marvels Immortal Medicine as soon as possible.

Li Qingshan gave Ye Fan and the others pills and advice before leaving Spirit Ruins Paradise to seek his own Dao. After he departed, he secretly protected Ye Fan from Elder Han, then continued toward the Eastern Wasteland.

• Li Qingshan welcomed Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and their classmates, gave them cultivation pills, and warned them to keep the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land secret.
• Li Qingshan said farewell to the group and flew away toward the Eastern Wasteland.
• Elder Han suspected Ye Fan had a Desolate Ancient Sacred Body and sent his divine sense to probe Ye Fan’s Bitter Sea.
• Li Qingshan’s protective talisman killed Elder Han by sending a sword shadow through the malicious divine sense.
• Ye Fan continued cultivating, unaware of the attack, while Li Qingshan sensed the talisman’s activation and flew onward.