Chapter Summaries

Yu Xin formally became Li Qingshan’s second personal disciple, and he removed the Supreme Forgetfulness Record’s influence from her before establishing her foundation in the Eight-Nine Profound Art. As Li Qingshan began teaching her, Yu Xin learned to refine her control of power and understand how the art used memories and experience to strengthen her soul.

• Yu Xin knelt before Li Qingshan and swore to follow his teachings, and he accepted her as his second personal disciple.
• Li Qingshan warned Yu Xin that the Supreme Forgetfulness Record was still eroding her origin and began dissolving its foundation from her body.
• Yu Xin endured two hours of pain and illusions while Li Qingshan removed the Tai Shang Dao resonance without harming her life origin.
• Li Qingshan guided Yu Xin through a full cycle of the Eight-Nine Profound Art’s Foundation Establishment Chapter, nourishing her meridians and forming new energy.
• Li Qingshan taught Yu Xin to balance stillness and force through her control of origin Qi, and explained how the Departed Self used past experiences to strengthen her soul and understanding.

Li Qingshan told Yu Xin how he met Uncle Chen and how the Demonic Embryo, a disrupted Nirvana, and his return shaped his past. After years of instruction, Yu Xin reached the Fifth Rank and left the Supreme Forgetfulness Record’s dangers behind, while Li Qingshan looked toward the still-chaotic Heavenly Realm.

• Li Qingshan recounted meeting Uncle Chen in the Western Heaven Realm, discussing the Dao with him, and first conceiving the framework of the Eight-Nine Profound Art.
• Li Qingshan explained how a Demonic Embryo, a disrupted Nirvana, and his transformation into a great demon led to slaughter before he eventually returned.
• Yu Xin practiced tracing Dao patterns and runes, and Li Qingshan secretly corrected a spirit-gathering rune so she could stabilize it.
• Over the passing years, Yu Xin cultivated under Li Qingshan’s guidance, strengthened her foundation, and reached the Fifth Rank.
• Li Qingshan confirmed that Yu Xin had overcome the hidden dangers of the Supreme Forgetfulness Record and praised her progress.
• Li Qingshan gazed beyond the valley toward the Heavenly Realm, where chaos, slaughter, and collapsing laws continued.

Li Qingshan protected his valley from increasingly powerful invaders and taught Yu Xin to understand the laws of heaven and earth. After the Heartless Realm Lord’s reputation spread, the valley gained a period of peace, and Yu Xin continued cultivating.

• Li Qingshan strengthened the valley’s restrictions, driving away low-rank Immortal Gods who tried to enter, while Yu Xin focused on cultivation.
• A Dark Gold God King and his followers demanded the valley and attacked its protections, but Li Qingshan froze their assault and stripped them of their cultivation, casting them into the mortal world.
• Li Qingshan explained to Yu Xin that mastering the laws of heaven and earth mattered more than merely accumulating power.
• Li Qingshan silently dealt with two further intruders, and reports of vanished God Kings spread among the surviving Immortal Gods.
• The valley became known as the forbidden Heartless Realm, ruled by the formidable Heartless Realm Lord, and Yu Xin returned to cultivating during the ensuing calm.

After the Stone Gate announced that Li Qingshan would return in one year, he began searching the world for clues to the Primordial Great Demon's sealed body. Memories he extracted revealed how the demon had been defeated and the conflicting accounts of where its scattered remains were hidden.

• The Stone Gate told Li Qingshan that his return passage would open after 365 days, prompting him to resolve the mystery of his lost demonic body before leaving.
• Li Qingshan expanded his divine sense across the world and searched the memories of powerful beings for information about the Primordial Great Demon and the ancient war.
• Li Qingshan captured and searched the soul of a wounded Mid-level God King, gathering memories about the allied forces and their leaders.
• Li Qingshan shattered a Heaven-Peering Mirror used by investigators probing the Heartless Realm and extracted memories from their leader about a God Emperor and a suspected sealed remnant.
• Li Qingshan pieced together how the uncontrolled Primordial Great Demon had devastated the three realms before a coalition of powerful beings fought and suppressed it in the Seventeenth Layer of Hell.
• The memories offered conflicting accounts of the demonic body's scattered parts, including its torso, head, arms, and legs, leaving their locations uncertain.

Li Qingshan learned that the demonic body's arms were sealed in the Western Heaven Realm and set out to find more clues about its main part. Before leaving the valley, he sealed it to protect Yu Xin from the ongoing calamity and then headed toward the Destruction Dao.

• Li Qingshan sensed faint connections to the scattered demonic-body fragments and concluded that he needed to discover where its main part had been sealed.
• Li Qingshan told Yu Xin he would leave to settle his unresolved karma and instructed her to remain in the valley until the calamity ended.
• Li Qingshan created a powerful seal around the valley to protect Yu Xin from threats outside.
• Yu Xin promised to follow his instructions and watched Li Qingshan depart before returning to cultivation.
• Li Qingshan identified the Destruction Dao and the Nine Heavens Sacred Land as likely sources of information, then traveled toward the Destruction Dao.

Li Qingshan stormed the Destruction Sect and the Nine Heavens Sacred Land, demanding to know where the Primordial Great Demon's main body had been sealed. After defeating both factions’ leaders, he learned that the demon had been banished into unknown space and time and headed for the Kunlun Demon Clan in the Human World.

• Li Qingshan entered the Ten Thousand Demon Rift and destroyed the Destruction Sect’s defenses and Ten Thousand Demons God-Slaying Grand Formation.
• Li Qingshan defeated the Destruction Sect master and two grand elders, then learned that the Kunlun Demon Clan might know where the Primordial Great Demon's body had been sealed.
• Li Qingshan went to the Nine Heavens Sacred Land and fought the Heaven-Shocking Sword Master after he refused to reveal the seal’s location.
• Li Qingshan defeated the Heaven-Shocking Sword Master, who said the demon’s main body had been banished into unknown space and time by several powerful cultivators.
• Li Qingshan left for Kunlun in the Human World to seek more information.

Li Qingshan entered the Kunlun Profound World and defeated Great Saint Xuan Zhan to learn that Yuanshi's demon body had been banished to an unreachable dimension. He left with the mystery clarified and turned his attention to preparing for the Stone Gate's return.

• Li Qingshan entered the Kunlun Profound World and defeated its demon guardians as he made his way to the Demon Emperor Hall.
• Great Saint Xuan Zhan emerged and fought Li Qingshan, while Huang Yi watched from afar.
• Li Qingshan overcame Xuan Zhan, who revealed that the main part of the Primordial Great Demon's body had been cast into an isolated dimension that no one could locate.
• Li Qingshan left the Kunlun Profound World after learning the demon body's whereabouts, and Huang Yi was inspired to pursue supreme power.
• Li Qingshan returned to a snowy peak in the Mount Kunlun Range and began preparing for the Stone Gate's approaching return.

Mad Demon traced Shen Ji’s death to the Primordial Great Demon and broke through the allied forces’ seals to attack it in hell. He wounded the demon with a series of punches, but their brutal fight continued.

• Mad Demon arrived at the entrance to hell, enraged by Shen Ji’s death, and identified the Primordial Great Demon as his target.
• The Heaven-Shocking Sword Master tried to stop Mad Demon, but Mad Demon cut through the allied forces’ seals with one strike.
• Mad Demon broke the attacks of the Heaven-Shocking Sword Master, Ancestor Destruction, the Old Dragon King of the Eastern Sea, and the Demon Lord of Kunlun, then charged into the seventeenth layer of hell.
• The Primordial Great Demon unleashed the Darkness of Void, and Mad Demon met it head-on with his blood-colored battle intent.
• Mad Demon struck the Primordial Great Demon three times, caving in its chest and exposing the darkness within.

Mad Demon unleashed his final Destruction Returns to Nothingness punch and shattered the Primordial Great Demon's body across the Seventeenth Layer of Hell. The demon's dark origin and undying battle soul survived, and Mad Demon prepared to keep fighting.

• The Primordial Great Demon hurled the Dao Bell and Saint's alchemy furnace at Mad Demon, who destroyed both artifacts.
• Mad Demon seized an opening and gathered his strength and battle intent into a chaos-hued final punch.
• Mad Demon's punch struck the exposed core of the Primordial Great Demon's chest and disintegrated its flesh and bones.
• The Primordial Great Demon's body burst apart, scattering its head, limbs, and torso across the Seventeenth Layer of Hell.
• The dark demonic origin and battle soul remained intact, surprising the Heaven-Shocking Sword Master, Tantai Xuan, and the others.
• Mad Demon recognized the demon's undying essence and turned his attention to its shattered remains.

The demonic body began regenerating around its undying battle soul after Mad Demon’s devastating blow, while a faint remnant of Li Qingshan’s true self struggled within it. The Heaven-Shocking Sword Master proposed sealing the body and soul separately, then used his sword to sever their bonds, halting the body’s reassembly.

• The chaotic battle soul summoned the scattered demonic remains, and the body began to regenerate across Hell.
• Mad Demon recognized that the battle soul and demonic source could eventually restore the entire body if either survived.
• Li Qingshan’s faint spiritual light briefly surfaced amid the demonic will but could not break free of the Demonic Embryo.
• The Heaven-Shocking Sword Master urged the survivors to separate and seal the demonic body and battle soul while they were weakened.
• Mad Demon and the other survivors agreed to the plan, and the Heaven-Shocking Sword Master transformed into a divine sword.
• The Heaven-Shocking Sword Master severed the unseen bonds linking the demonic remains to the battle soul, stopping their movement.

After the Primordial Great Demon's body was divided into six parts, Fairy Wuyou and the surviving experts sealed each piece in a separate location, while Mad Demon imprisoned its chaos battle soul in the Domain of Absolute Return to the Ruins. Mad Demon departed, and the calamity that had ravaged three realms for more than ten years came to an end.

• Fairy Wuyou called on the surviving experts to help seal the Primordial Great Demon after the sword strike separated its head, torso, limbs, and battle soul.
• Ancestor Destruction, the Old Dragon King of the Eastern Sea, the Demon Lord of Kunlun, and the remaining God Emperors joined Fairy Wuyou in forming the seal.
• The experts sealed the demon's head in the Avici Demon Abyss, its arms beneath the Western Heaven Realm, its legs beneath the Ancient Ravine of Fallen Gods, and its torso in a distant dimensional rift.
• Mad Demon used Forbidden Void: Eternal Imprisonment of the Demon Source to bind the chaos battle soul in a dark crystal and cast it into the Domain of Absolute Return to the Ruins.
• Mad Demon vanished into the void, and the Primordial Great Demon's decade-long calamity ended in devastation across the Heaven Realm, the Human World, and the Western Heaven Realm.

Li Qingshan’s true-self spiritual light escaped the sealed Seventeenth Layer of Hell and reached Chen Zhan, who gathered it into a seed and vanished. At Hell’s entrance, Gu Xin and Yuan Qingqing read Chen Zhan’s Dao resonance as confirmation that Li Qingshan had survived and been taken away.

• After the Primordial Great Demon's body and battle soul were suppressed, Li Qingshan’s spiritual light broke free from the Demonic Embryo.
• Li Qingshan’s spiritual light slipped out of the Seventeenth Layer of Hell and crossed the Human World toward Chen Zhan.
• Chen Zhan received the spiritual light in his palm, where it went still as a seed, then he vanished from the solitary peak.
• Gu Xin and Yuan Qingqing found Chen Zhan’s Dao resonance at Hell’s entrance and concluded that he had rescued Li Qingshan.
• Gu Xin and Yuan Qingqing took comfort in believing that Li Qingshan had survived the demonic tribulation and could return one day.

Chen Zhan brought Li Qingshan’s nearly extinguished innate spiritual light to a primordial sea of stars and placed it inside the Small Bronze Coffin. He sent the coffin drifting toward the sea’s deepest, most chaotic reaches, where it began leaping through void passages toward an unknown destination.

• Chen Zhan crossed the starry sky and reached a vast black sea filled with ancient stars rising and sinking beneath its surface.
• Chen Zhan sensed that the sea’s primordial power could cleanse Li Qingshan’s wounds and remake his true spirit.
• Chen Zhan placed Li Qingshan’s innate spiritual light inside the Small Bronze Coffin, where it became more stable.
• Chen Zhan cast the coffin into the black sea, and an undercurrent carried it away from the shore.
• The Small Bronze Coffin accelerated through the sea, repeatedly tearing open void passages and traveling toward its deepest reaches as Chen Zhan vanished.

The Small Bronze Coffin reached a Divine Spring and carried Li Qingshan’s dormant spiritual light into the golden lotus at its center. Nourished by the spring, Li Qingshan revived, faced the destructive power behind his previous failure, and successfully completed his indestructible divine embryo’s Nirvana.

• The Small Bronze Coffin drifted through the star sea until the Divine Spring’s power pulled it toward the golden lotus.
• The coffin landed on the lotus platform, and its lid opened to let the spring’s sacred essence flow inside and revive Li Qingshan’s spiritual light.
• Li Qingshan regained his identity and memories as the golden lotus and Divine Spring’s vitality renewed his true spirit and awakened his cultivated Daos.
• Li Qingshan recognized the destructive force left by his previous failed Nirvana and guided it into forming a new demonic embryo.
• Li Qingshan used the Yin-Yang Dao Diagram to detonate the demonic embryo and destroy the remnants of his former failure.
• A stable indestructible divine embryo emerged from the destruction, completing Li Qingshan’s Nirvana and transforming his life essence.

Li Qingshan’s Innate Indestructible Spiritual Light underwent the Eight-Nine Profound Art’s second transformation within the golden lotus, using the lotus platform’s heaven and earth essence Qi to complete a long-delayed Nirvana. His Divine Embryo took shape and his dormant cultivation surged as the Western Emperor Scripture began to resonate with his life and path.

• The golden lotus awakened as a chaos furnace and refined Divine Spring essence into heaven and earth essence Qi for Li Qingshan’s transformation.
• Li Qingshan’s sealed first-transformation foundations and Second Demonic Embryo burned inward, purifying and fusing with the incoming essence Qi.
• The flawless indestructible Divine Embryo formed, rebuilding Li Qingshan’s body from bones, blood vessels, organs, sinews and bones.
• Li Qingshan’s dormant cultivation erupted as his Bitter Sea returned, his Divine Bridge connected to the Wheel of Life, and his five Dao Palace Secret Realm treasures opened.
• The five-element cycle stabilized, and the Western Emperor Scripture began acting on the essence of Li Qingshan’s life and path through space and time.

Li Qingshan completed the formation of his Divine Embryo, reaching Immortal Platform Second Level Ninth Heaven and awakening in a newly sublimated divine body. He remembered that Shen Ji had interrupted his earlier attempt and glimpsed fragments of a catastrophe that ended with him being dismembered and suppressed, but the details remained hidden.

• Li Qingshan formed the Present Self, Departed Self, and Dao Self as his Divine Embryo's Four Extremes and Dragon Transformation realms opened.
• His Immortal Platform advanced to Second Level Ninth Heaven, the peak of the God Emperor realm, and the Divine Embryo's refinement finished.
• Li Qingshan awakened in his completed divine body and examined the power and potential of his cultivation.
• Li Qingshan recalled that Shen Ji had interrupted his first attempt to form the Divine Embryo, then remembered vague fragments of a catastrophic battle and his dismemberment and imprisonment.

Li Qingshan awakened on a golden lotus above a Divine Spring and discovered a vast source of Xuanhuang Mother Qi intertwined with the lotus’s roots. After realizing he was in the Divine Tomb World rather than the Shrouding the Heavens Universe, he began collecting the precious material.

• Li Qingshan awoke on the golden lotus and drew Divine Spring water into his Bitter Sea, improving its vitality and the quality of his divine power.
• Li Qingshan noticed a mass of black-and-yellow mist at the roots of the lotus and recognized it as Xuanhuang Mother Qi.
• Li Qingshan sensed that the surrounding laws belonged to the Divine Tomb World, not the Shrouding the Heavens Universe.
• Li Qingshan decided to claim the Xuanhuang Mother Qi and reached for it with a hand formed from divine power.
• The golden lotus’s power reduced the Mother Qi’s resistance, and Li Qingshan used his Bitter Sea to begin drawing it in.

Li Qingshan absorbed the Xuanhuang Mother Qi into his Bitter Sea but discovered that the golden lotus and Divine Spring trapped him inside an isolated realm. Hoping the Small Bronze Coffin could carry him out, he climbed inside, and its lid closed as he waited for what would happen next.

• Li Qingshan drew the Xuanhuang Mother Qi into his Bitter Sea, where it settled beneath the golden waters.
• Li Qingshan tried to fly, attack the realm’s invisible boundary, and explore the Divine Spring, but found no exit.
• Li Qingshan suspected the Small Bronze Coffin that had brought him there might also let him leave.
• Li Qingshan stepped into the Small Bronze Coffin, and its lid closed, cutting him off from the outside world.

Inside the Small Bronze Coffin, Li Qingshan discovered a sacred drop of blood that resonated with his body and soul. Convinced it belonged to him, he let it enter his ancestral aperture, where it dissolved into a gentle torrent.

• A speck of light awakened on the coffin wall and gathered power until it became a drop of crimson blood filled with Dao radiance.
• Li Qingshan recognized hints of the blood’s presence but could not identify its origin, while his Divine Body and Five Great Secret Realms resonated with it.
• Li Qingshan sensed that the blood was an essential part of his existence, possibly separated from him during his interrupted transformation into a Divine Embryo.
• The drop of blood sensed its connection to Li Qingshan and flew toward the ancestral aperture between his brows.
• Li Qingshan lowered his defenses and accepted the blood, which entered his ancestral aperture and dissolved into a warm, gentle torrent.

Li Qingshan found that the mysterious drop of blood had caused no obvious transformation, then reflected on his escape from the Demonic Embryo and the treasures he had lost. When the Small Bronze Coffin opened a passage to an unknown destination, he chose to leave the Divine Spring and enter it.

• Li Qingshan examined himself after the blood fused with him and found no noticeable change.
• Li Qingshan recalled his Demonic Embryo tribulation, wondered who had rescued his remnant spiritual light, and considered the fortune he gained in the Golden Lotus Divine Spring.
• Li Qingshan worried about his missing Dao Bell, alchemy furnace, formation flags, Qilin Seed, humanoid Immortal Medicine remains, and Dragon-Marked Black Gold Sword.
• The Small Bronze Coffin opened a mysterious passage above the Divine Spring.
• Li Qingshan agreed to continue onward, and the Small Bronze Coffin carried him into the passage before it closed behind them.