Chapter Summaries

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.

After the Stone Gate transported Li Qingshan into the Yang God World, he identified Hong Yi, Chan Yinsha, and a thousand-year-old clam bearing a Primordial Feminine Heavenly Pearl. He seized the clam to make contact with the world’s powers, and Chan Yinsha attacked him to reclaim her prize.

• The Stone Gate transported Li Qingshan from the Shrouding the Heavens World to an unfamiliar ocean in the Yang God World.
• Li Qingshan sensed Hong Yi practicing his Yin Spirit visualization and recognized him as a favored son of destiny.
• Li Qingshan identified Chan Yinsha attempting to draw a Primordial Feminine Heavenly Pearl from a thousand-year-old clam.
• Li Qingshan summoned a giant hand of seawater and lifted the clam and the surrounding water into the air.
• Chan Yinsha confronted Li Qingshan and unleashed her Wind and Lightning Rend the Void technique.

Chan Yinsha unleashed her strongest wind-and-thunder attack against Li Qingshan, but he stood unharmed and effortlessly suppressed her. After freeing her, he calmly asked why she had such a fiery temper, leaving her shaken and cautious.

• Chan Yinsha used her essence blood and jade flute to summon a devastating lightning attack against Li Qingshan.
• Li Qingshan remained untouched as his invisible field dispersed the lightning and its destructive force.
• Chan Yinsha was horrified by the gap in their strength and found herself unable to flee when Li Qingshan sealed her spirit and the surrounding space.
• Hong Yi observed the confrontation from afar, suppressed his alarm, and stayed hidden while watching what happened.
• Li Qingshan asked Chan Yinsha why she had such a fiery temper and released his hold over her, while she kept herself still and cautious.

Li Qingshan ended Chan Yinsha’s attack on the thousand-year-old clam and invited her and Hong Yi to discuss the Dao. As he protected the clam and created three lotus thrones, Chan Yinsha and Hong Yi were left awed by his apparent power.

• Chan Yinsha bowed to Li Qingshan, apologized for attacking, and claimed she needed the clam’s pearl to save an old friend.
• Li Qingshan invited Hong Yi to join them, and Hong Yi introduced himself and explained that he had witnessed Li Qingshan dissolve the thunderbolts.
• Li Qingshan decided to spare the thousand-year-old clam, and Chan Yinsha accepted his decision without protest.
• Li Qingshan asked Chan Yinsha and Hong Yi to explain the current state of the Dao, then enclosed the clam in a peaceful sphere of water so it could continue nurturing its pearl.
• Li Qingshan created three lotus thrones from water essence, astonishing Chan Yinsha and Hong Yi with what appeared to be creation from nothing.
• Li Qingshan considered what he had learned about this world’s Divine Soul Immortal Arts and the stages of Ghost Immortal tribulation.

Li Qingshan explained the stages and power of the Yang God World's martial path, then gathered Hong Yi and Chan Yinsha for a discussion of the Dao. He brought Jin Xun'er from Hong Yi’s camp to join them and asked to borrow the Great Zen Temple scriptures she had inherited, leaving the group seated together in a tranquil gathering by the sea.

• Li Qingshan’s account described how the martial path progressed from bodily tempering to Human Immortal mastery over space and rules.
• Chan Yinsha chose to accept Li Qingshan’s invitation to discuss the Dao, and Hong Yi joined them on soul-nourishing water-lotus thrones.
• Li Qingshan told Hong Yi he wanted to meet Jin Xun’er and study the Great Zen Temple teachings she had inherited.
• Li Qingshan transported Jin Xun’er from the army camp to the gathering, where Hong Yi reassured her.
• Li Qingshan asked Jin Xun’er to lend him the Great Zen Temple methods and invited her to listen to the discussion; she agreed.

Li Qingshan drew down stellar power to nourish Hong Yi, Chan Yinsha, Jin Xun'er, and the old clam, then studied Chan Yinsha’s water lightning technique and vastly amplified it. Chan Yinsha began demonstrating her Five Thunder Orthodox Method, leaving the chapter as a giant divine form rose behind her.

• Li Qingshan quietly created a space where stellar power poured down and strengthened everyone gathered on the water lotuses.
• Jin Xun'er displayed her Compassionate Mother Bodhisattva Form, which soothed the old clam and revealed her Great Compassion Soul Restoration Sutra.
• Chan Yinsha condensed seawater into a heavy droplet and demonstrated her Water Essence Condensed Lightning Technique.
• Li Qingshan analyzed Chan Yinsha’s technique, recreated it with refined Dao patterns, and unleashed a vastly more powerful explosion at sea.
• Chan Yinsha began demonstrating the Five Thunder Orthodox Method, forming a lightning seal as a gigantic divine form appeared behind her.

Li Qingshan analyzed Chan Yinsha’s Thunder Duke Giant Spirit Form and combined its artistic conception with his own Great Dao to create vastly more powerful manifestations. Impressed, Hong Yi offered another visualization method and began manifesting the Destruction Wisdom King.

• Chan Yinsha directed her Thunder Duke Giant Spirit to create a net of lightning that threatened Yin Spirits and ghosts.
• Li Qingshan studied her method, then manifested a towering Thunder Duke Giant Spirit and a Great Might Heavenly Dragon Bodhisattva using his own Dao patterns.
• Li Qingshan unleashed a sea of lightning across the small world, overwhelming Chan Yinsha’s manifestation and nearly crushing Hong Yi’s Yin Spirit with its lingering might.
• Hong Yi overcame his hesitation and offered to share another visualization method with Li Qingshan, who dismissed the manifestations and invited him to proceed.
• Hong Yi chanted and manifested the Destruction Wisdom King, a four-faced, eight-armed demonic god formed from golden light and raging flames.

Li Qingshan studied Hong Yi’s Buddhist and demonic visualization methods and the Dragon Elephant Dharma Seal, finding ways to combine the Yang God Method with the Shrouding Method. Jin Xun’er then shared the Great Compassion Soul Restoration Sutra, leaving Li Qingshan to absorb the night’s insights.

• Hong Yi demonstrated the Destruction Wisdom King’s red lotus fire and destructive eye, and Li Qingshan praised its Dao resonance.
• Hong Yi offered to share his visualization methods and the Dragon Elephant Dharma Seal’s secret Marrow Training technique, and Li Qingshan asked him to explain them.
• Hong Yi described several Buddhist and demonic visualizations and the Dragon Elephant Dharma Seal, and Li Qingshan considered how their principles could complement the Shrouding Method.
• Li Qingshan approved of Hong Yi’s teachings, and Jin Xun’er offered to share the Great Compassion Soul Restoration Sutra and Compassionate Mother Bodhisattva visualization.
• Jin Xun’er explained her soul-restoration method in detail while Li Qingshan absorbed the insights shared by her, Hong Yi, and Chan Yinsha.

Li Qingshan explained the fundamental principles behind cultivation to Chan Yinsha, Hong Yi, and Jin Xun'er, deepening their insights and strengthening their cultivation. He then began gathering the stars’ radiance to offer Chan Yinsha a reciprocal gift, leaving the nature of that gift unrevealed.

• Li Qingshan absorbed insights from Chan Yinsha, Hong Yi, and Jin Xun'er, then described how fundamental principles underlay their different arts.
• Li Qingshan taught the group about the Dao and its source laws as wondrous phenomena filled the isolated world.
• Chan Yinsha’s Ghost Immortal bottleneck loosened, Hong Yi glimpsed a way to unite his studies, Jin Xun'er’s cultivation grew smoother, and the thousand-year-old clam refined moonlight more efficiently.
• After the hour-long discourse ended, Li Qingshan told the three he would repay their sincerity with a reciprocal gift.
• Li Qingshan assessed Chan Yinsha’s progress in water and lightning arts and said she still needed further refinement to withstand heavenly tribulation.
• Li Qingshan beckoned to the stars, drawing starlight, moonlight, sunlight, and other celestial radiance into a brilliant pillar in his palm.

Li Qingshan used star power and lightning Dao resonance to refine Chan Yinsha’s soul and raise her to a One-Tribulation Ghost Immortal. Overwhelmed with gratitude, Chan Yinsha offered her secret teachings and asked to follow him, and Li Qingshan regarded her with faint appreciation.

• Li Qingshan enveloped Chan Yinsha in star power, purifying her soul and bringing her to the peak of the Ghost Immortal realm.
• Li Qingshan drew lightning tribulation Dao resonance from the void and used it to temper Chan Yinsha’s thoughts.
• Chan Yinsha became a One-Tribulation Ghost Immortal with a pure yang soul and a stronger foundation.
• Li Qingshan gave Chan Yinsha the water lotus throne, which entered her ancestral aperture and helped stabilize her soul.
• Chan Yinsha bowed to Li Qingshan, thanked him for his aid, and asked to serve and follow him.
• Chan Yinsha offered Li Qingshan spheres containing her core insights and secret teachings, and he looked upon her with faint appreciation.

Li Qingshan declined Chan Yinsha’s offer of allegiance and then guided Hong Yi’s Yin Spirit toward purity and integration. Hong Yi broke through from Manifestation into the Ghost Immortal realm, leaving the encounter transformed by his sudden advancement.

• Li Qingshan lifted Chan Yinsha to her feet, declined her fundamental teachings, and urged her to consolidate her new Pure Yang realm.
• Chan Yinsha accepted Li Qingshan’s decision and bowed respectfully before he turned to Hong Yi.
• Hong Yi, awed by Chan Yinsha’s tribulation and Li Qingshan’s guidance, waited eagerly for his own instruction.
• Li Qingshan praised Hong Yi’s broad learning, advised him to unify his insights, and sent a speck of starlight into his Yin Spirit.
• The starlight harmonized Hong Yi’s Buddhist, demonic, and martial insights, transforming his Yin Spirit and stirring his distant body’s Qi and blood.
• Hong Yi opened his eyes with a purified, solid Yin Spirit and entered the Ghost Immortal realm.