Chapter Summaries

The Jiang Family fought desperately through Purple Mountain as the Silver-Winged Ancient King sought to seize the Hengyu Furnace. They discovered inscriptions revealing Jiang Taixu had been trapped there and that the Wushi Scripture remained sealed, then found themselves surrounded in a passage sealed by Spirit Valley.

• The Ji Family, Yaoguang Holy Land, Ancient Hua Dynasty, Jiuli Divine Dynasty, and Tu Tian joined the bloody fighting, while the Silver-Winged Ancient King attacked Jiang Yun and the Hengyu Furnace.
• Jiang Yun burned the Hengyu Furnace’s source fire to drive back the Silver-Winged Ancient King, despite the cost to himself and the Emperor Weapon.
• A Jiang Family disciple uncovered Jiang Taixu’s inscription, and Jiang Ren and Jiang Yun realized their ancestor had been trapped in Purple Mountain for four thousand years.
• The Jiang Family found inscriptions by other explorers and learned from Jiang Taixu’s writings that Great Emperor Wushi had sealed the Wushi Scripture beyond their reach.
• Jiang Ren urged the battered Jiang Family to press on, but the Silver-Winged Ancient King sealed the passage and surrounded them with Spirit Valley forces.

A Primordial Ancestral King of Spirit Valley arrived and tried to seize the Hengyu Furnace, but the Emperor Weapon revived on its own and erased him with a single strike. The surviving ancient forces fled in terror as the furnace’s might continued to dominate the battlefield.

• A Primordial Ancestral King emerged from Divine Source, suppressed the battlefield, and reached for the Hengyu Furnace.
• The Hengyu Furnace revived by itself and unleashed a beam of chaos that annihilated the Ancestral King.
• The Silver-Winged Ancient King and the other Primordial Royal Clan experts panicked and fled, with some caught in the Emperor Formation.
• The hidden Extreme Dao Emperor Armament’s presence dwindled and went dormant after the Hengyu Furnace’s eruption.
• The Hengyu Furnace closed its lid but continued radiating Emperor’s might, leaving everyone awed and afraid of the Jiang Family.

Ye Fan, Duan De, and the Black Emperor avoided the battle outside Purple Mountain by sneaking toward a hidden route into the mountain. They reached a side passage after a blast shook the cavern, and peered inside at a gruesome scene.

• Ye Fan, newly advanced to the Dao Palace Secret Realm, watched the deadly battle outside Purple Mountain with Duan De and the Black Emperor.
• The Black Emperor claimed he knew a hidden way into Purple Mountain and led Ye Fan and Duan De around the battlefield’s dangers.
• The trio followed the Black Emperor through treacherous terrain, avoiding turbulent power and traces of recent fighting.
• The Black Emperor shielded the trio when a destructive shockwave burst from a side passage.
• The trio crept to the passage entrance and saw a gruesome scene at its end.

Ye Fan, Duan De, and the Black Emperor quietly looted the possessions of fallen or dying cultivators as they traveled through Purple Mountain’s hidden passages. After several successful hauls, they pressed onward toward the mountain’s depths, wary of greater dangers ahead.

• The Black Emperor paralyzed a dying Ancient Race expert with an array, letting Duan De take his bracelet and breastplate while Ye Fan collected a Yaoguang elder’s broken Holy Light Sword.
• The Black Emperor killed the Ancient Race expert and found a Nether Baleful Soul Crystal in his armor before the three fled as others approached.
• In a stalactite cavern, the group looted a dead Central Continent sect disciple, including a jade slip of a rare sonic killing art that the Black Emperor claimed.
• Ye Fan shielded the group from sword Qi triggered by a damaged restriction and recovered a piece of White Tiger Geng Metal from a fallen member of the Golden Family of the Northern Plains.
• Duan De celebrated their quiet windfalls, while the Black Emperor warned that the deeper passages held fewer easy gains and greater tests.

The Black Emperor led Ye Fan and Duan De through a concealed passage into Purple Mountain, avoiding its traps and reaching a hidden cavern overlooking a bloody battle. From their hiding place, they watched the weakened Jiang Family fight the Silver-Winged Ancient King and his Spirit Valley forces, with the Hengyu Furnace losing power.

• The Black Emperor opened a secret entrance in the mountain wall and guided Ye Fan and Duan De through the dangerous passage once used by Li Qingshan.
• The Black Emperor navigated the hidden formations and teleportation nodes while Duan De eyed the valuable stonework and Ye Fan sensed dormant dangers.
• At a junction, the Black Emperor opened a concealed door that led to a cavern above the main passage, and the three concealed themselves to watch the battle below.
• Ye Fan saw the Jiang Family surrounded by corpses and fighting the Silver-Winged Ancient King and Spirit Valley forces with the Hengyu Furnace.
• Duan De judged that the Jiang Family was close to defeat because the Hengyu Furnace had dimmed and its wielders were exhausted.

Ye Fan watched the human forces battle the Ancient Races as the Jiang Family became trapped and faced the silver-winged Ancestor King. The Hengyu Furnace awakened on its own and annihilated the Ancestor King, leaving the entire battlefield frozen in shock.

• The Ji Family, Yaoguang Holy Land, the Jiuli Divine Dynasty, and the Great Xia Dynasty fought the Ancient Races while Tu Tian used the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar to consume a Silver Moon Clan expert.
• Duan De coveted treasures on the battlefield, while Ye Fan and the Black Emperor warned him to stay hidden.
• Ye Fan saw the Jiang Family retreat into a side passage, where the Silver-Winged Ancient King sealed them inside a Primordial formation.
• A Primordial Ancestral King appeared, overwhelmed the battlefield with his presence, and reached for the Hengyu Furnace with a giant silver hand.
• The Hengyu Furnace awakened without anyone activating it and released a light of chaos that erased the silver hand and annihilated the Ancestor King.
• The surviving humans and Ancient Races stood in stunned silence after witnessing the Ancestor King's destruction.

After the Hengyu Furnace killed a Primordial Ancestral King, Ye Fan, the Black Emperor, and Duan De took advantage of the chaos to continue deeper into Purple Mountain toward the Beginningless Bell. On the way, they detoured into an abandoned chamber, claimed several treasures, and then hurried back toward their destination.

• The Hengyu Furnace awakened and killed a Primordial Ancestral King, sending surviving members of the Primordial Royal Clan fleeing.
• The Black Emperor led Ye Fan and Duan De through a hidden passage, explaining that brute force could not unlock Great Emperor Wushi’s legacy or win the Beginningless Bell’s favor.
• The trio avoided areas where others were fighting and followed the bell waves and Dao sounds deeper into Purple Mountain.
• The Black Emperor smelled treasure in a side passage and led the others to a chamber containing an ancient corpse and scattered valuables.
• Duan De claimed Fire-Patterned Gold Essence and a jade bottle, the Black Emperor took a cracked Void Tortoise Shell, and Ye Fan collected a broken dark-gold sword.
• The trio left the chamber and resumed their journey toward the opening where the Beginningless Bell’s presence grew stronger.

The surviving human, Ancient Race, and demon factions reached Purple Mountain’s core hall and found the Wushi Scripture and Beginningless Bell. As the factions argued over claiming the treasures, they remained poised for a fragile standoff.

• The Jiang Family, Ji Family, Yaoguang Holy Land, Jiuli Divine Dynasty, Great Xia Dynasty, Tu Tian, and other survivors entered the hall, each having suffered heavy losses.
• The factions saw the Wushi Scripture on the central platform and the Beginningless Bell hovering above it, whose imperial might subdued the Emperor Weapons.
• Jiang Yun proposed that the human forces ally and study the Wushi Scripture together if the Jiang Family obtained it.
• The Ji Family supported keeping the inheritance from the Ancient Races, while Yaoguang demanded the scripture and the Jiuli and Great Xia forces prioritized the Beginningless Bell.
• Tu Tian mocked the human factions’ plans and insisted that everyone who saw the treasures should get a share and rely on their own abilities.

The factions in the central hall fought over the Beginningless Bell and the Wushi Scripture, but neither treasure could be touched despite their combined attacks. As casualties mounted and despair spread, the Beginningless Bell trembled slightly.

• The Silver-Winged Ancient King lunged for the Beginningless Bell, breaking the fragile truce and drawing the major factions into battle.
• The Ji Family, Yaoguang Holy Land, the Jiuli Divine Dynasty, and the Great Xia Dynasty attacked the bell, while Jiang Yun and other factions targeted the stone scripture and Tu Tian scavenged the battlefield.
• The Beginningless Bell repelled every assault, while the invisible barrier around the Wushi Scripture dissolved attacks without stirring the book.
• Fighters on both battlefields died as stray attacks and Tu Tian's Devouring Heaven Demon Jar claimed victims, and the surviving factions realized they could not seize either treasure.
• As despair spread through the hall, the Beginningless Bell trembled slightly, noticed by every expert present.

The Beginningless Bell’s toll crushed the fighters and their attacks, leaving the surviving factions unable to reach Great Emperor Wushi’s scripture or claim the Emperor Weapon. The survivors recognized that only someone with an Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo and the Bell’s chosen affinity could obtain the inheritance, and they were left in despair.

• The Beginningless Bell rang out and sent every fighter flying, while its toll erased their attacks and made the Extreme Dao Emperor Weapons flicker.
• An elder from an ancient Central Continent clan explained that only someone with an Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo could open Great Emperor Wushi’s scripture, and that forcing the Bell would provoke its retaliation.
• Jiang Yun saw the Hengyu Furnace dim and his remaining elders gravely wounded, then collapsed into despair as the inheritance stayed beyond his reach.
• The Ji Family, Yaoguang Holy Land, Jiuli Divine Dynasty, Great Xia Dynasty, and Primordial Races abandoned their hopes of claiming the inheritance, while Tu Tian withdrew with the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar.
• The surviving experts remained battered and defeated as the scripture and Chaos Bell rested untouched on the platform.

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.