Chapter Summaries

Li Qingshan stopped the Blood Moon Clan Half-Saint from stealing Ye Fan’s Xuanhuang Mother Qi Cauldron and defeated him with ease. He suppressed the Half-Saint beneath a five-fingered mountain for five hundred years, then ordered the Primordial Royal Clan envoy to tell his clan king to come in person if he wanted to negotiate.

• The Blood Moon Clan Half-Saint attacked Ye Fan to seize the Xuanhuang Mother Qi Cauldron, but Li Qingshan shattered his strike and repelled him.
• The Half-Saint challenged Li Qingshan and unleashed his divine abilities, but Li Qingshan stopped them and sent him fleeing toward the Primordial Ancient Mine.
• Li Qingshan chose to capture rather than kill the Half-Saint, then used a giant golden hand to suppress him beneath a five-fingered mountain for five hundred years.
• Li Qingshan told Gu Daoya to inform his clan king that an Ancestor King must come in person to negotiate, and Gu Daoya fled in fear.
• Li Qingshan drank the freshly poured tea and told the Queen Mother of the West that it was the right temperature.

After the Yaochi Grand Gathering, Li Qingshan revealed Jade Pool’s plan to provoke the Blood Moon Clan into attacking so Jade Pool could strike back without drawing the other imperial clans into war. With Gu Tianshu and Jade Pool’s Saint backing him, Li Qingshan prepared to use the Five Fingers Mountain as a trap for the clan.

• Gu Daoya and the Ancient Races representatives left Jade Pool furious at Li Qingshan’s treatment of the Half-Saint and vowed to report the incident to their Ancestor Kings.
• The Holy Lords and sect leaders departed the Yaochi Grand Gathering, with some recalling their forces from the Northern Region as ancient presences began stirring near the Primordial Ancient Mine.
• Young cultivators grew excited about Qishi Mansion’s coming selection, while news of its opening drew talents from across the Five Regions to the Central Continent.
• Li Qingshan told the Jade Pool Saint and Gu Tianshu that he had spared the Blood Moon Clan Half-Saint to bait the clan into an attack and create grounds for Jade Pool to destroy it.
• The Jade Pool Saint agreed to fight, and Gu Tianshu promised to wield the Emperor Bell in secret as Li Qingshan waited for the Blood Moon Clan to enter his trap.

The Ancient Races awakened across the Big Dipper’s Five Regions, seized territory, and pressured human powers as fear and collaboration spread. In Fire Qilin Cave, Huo Qizi and Huo Lin'er discussed Li Qingshan’s plans and chose to watch while Huo Qizi left to seek signs of their father in the Primordial Ancient Mine.

• Ancient Royal Clans and Imperial Clans awakened across the Northern Region, reclaimed ancestral lands, and drove human sects and cities from their territories.
• Ancient Race envoys offered conciliatory gifts while other members openly demeaned humans, and some human cultivators secretly betrayed their own people for power or protection.
• Huo Lin'er asked Huo Qizi about Li Qingshan, and Huo Qizi concluded that Li was using the Blood Moon Clan and its suppressed Half-Saint as bait to set a boundary for Jade Pool and test the Ancient Races.
• Huo Qizi decided that Fire Qilin Cave would stay out of the conflict unless its foundations were threatened, then left for the Primordial Ancient Mine to search for their father.
• Huo Lin'er remained in Fire Qilin Cave as the Five Fingers Mountain and Jade Pool drew the attention of powers across the Five Regions, while signs of an approaching storm gathered overhead.

Li Qingshan's Stone Gate awakened connections with five other selves across different worlds and revealed how fusing them could permanently increase his combat power. With initial resonance strengthening his Dao, he ordered a campaign to shame the Blood Moon Clan into action as tensions across the Big Dipper intensified.

• After three months of the Blood Moon Clan's silence, Li Qingshan's Stone Gate activated and connected him with five other selves across different worlds.
• Li Qingshan's other selves awakened to their shared connection, and the Primordial Great Demon shattered several chains binding him.
• The Stone Gate taught Li Qingshan three methods of gathering his other selves, explained their additive increases to his base combat power, and revealed that his true body could travel between worlds in one year.
• Li Qingshan drew Dao insights through the five connections, with the Primordial Great Demon providing the strongest resonance.
• Li Qingshan instructed Lin Qingyao to spread rumors mocking the Blood Moon Clan's Ancestor King for hiding, especially among rival royal clans.
• Jiang Taixu forced a Saint King of Spirit Valley to retreat, while ancient-clan challenges and secret human defections increased and Huo Lin'er anticipated that Li Qingshan would break the Northern Region's stalemate.

Taizu rose from a village militia leader to unify China, drive out the Qing, expand the empire, and reform its land, examinations, and administration. The chapter ended with his western expedition capturing Samarkand and establishing a protectorate, where local elders welcomed the army as a return of Han power.

• Taizu gathered and reorganized three hundred local braves, then defeated government troops at Huang'ao and captured Ganzhou, Changsha, Wuchang, Hangzhou, and other territories.
• Taizu defeated Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, entered Jinling, and proclaimed the Hua dynasty with the era name Zhonghua.
• Taizu's armies expelled the Qing from Yanjing, reunited the Han lands, and extended imperial control across the surrounding regions.
• Taizu introduced equal-field grants and practical examinations, suppressing rebellions by powerful clans and scholars who resisted his reforms.
• Taizu sent Xu Tiande west after the Yarkent Khanate attacked Hua merchants; Xu captured Samarkand, executed Khan Yusuf, and established the Protectorate General to Pacify the West.

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.