Chapter Summaries

Li Qingshan discovered the Sun Sacred Clan’s Nine Yang Sundial and received its guidance on using thunder to endure the Four Extremes heavenly tribulation. After copying the Lightning-Attracting Mark as the sundial and valley collapsed, he left Kunlun with Xiaobai, intending to stabilize his Dao foundation and prepare for a breakthrough.

• Li Qingshan followed Xiaobai into a valley protected by formations and found the ancient Nine Yang Sundial.
• Li Qingshan activated the sundial with solar divine power, summoning a projection of the Sun Sacred Clan’s seventeenth-generation high priest.
• The high priest explained that the sundial could time heaven’s thunder and guide it into a cultivator to help withstand the Four Extremes heavenly tribulation.
• Li Qingshan memorized the Lightning-Attracting Mark, while the sundial’s power awakened Xiaobai’s bloodline and strengthened its body.
• As the valley collapsed, Li Qingshan copied the Lightning-Attracting Mark onto beast hide and escaped with Xiaobai before the sundial was buried.
• Li Qingshan left Kunlun, planning to stabilize his Dao foundation and prepare to break through to the Four Extremes.

After Xiaobai benefited from the destruction of the sundial ruins, Li Qingshan studied the Sun Sacred Clan’s inheritance and began comprehending the Lightning-Attracting Mark. He used the Nine Yang Sundial fragments to identify when and where to attempt his breakthrough to the Four Extremes Secret Realm.

• Xiaobai awakened new potential after absorbing the ancient presence released when the sundial restriction was destroyed.
• Li Qingshan examined the sundial fragments, sensed their Solar Sacred Force, and considered the Sun Sacred Clan’s connection to the Ziwei Emperor Star.
• Xiaobai showed Li Qingshan an ancient crater on Kunlun’s western slopes where lightning gathered, but he chose to study his inheritance before attempting a breakthrough.
• Li Qingshan settled in Xiaobai’s cave and used his Divine Seed and Dao Palace to begin mastering the Lightning-Attracting Mark, producing a faint arc of electricity.
• Li Qingshan studied the stars with a Nine Yang Sundial fragment and determined that lightning Qi would gather on Kunlun’s western frontier nine days later, making it the right time for his Four Extremes breakthrough.

After completing the initial mastery of the Sun True Body, Li Qingshan followed Xiaobai to an earthfire abyss to find materials for forging his Dao Bell. He killed the fire lizard guarding the fissure and decided to refine the artifact there.

• Li Qingshan tempered his body with lightning and demonstrated that his Sun True Body could withstand powerful strikes and crush dark iron stone.
• Li Qingshan examined his Great Luo Silver Essence, Crimson Flame Hou bones, and Sun Sand, then learned from Xiaobai about an earthfire fissure and its Fire Marrow Crystals.
• Li Qingshan followed Xiaobai through the mountains to the Earthfire Abyss and sensed a fire lizard demon with strength comparable to a peak Dao Palace cultivator.
• Li Qingshan used a miniature true sun to overwhelm the fire lizard's earthfire attack and kill it in a single strike.
• Li Qingshan collected the fire lizard's tailbone and Fire Marrow Crystals, then chose the abyss as the place to forge his Dao Bell.

Li Qingshan and Xiaobai gathered fire marrow crystals in the Earthfire Abyss, where Xiaobai entrusted him with its lifebound reverse scale and bound their lives together. He then forged a dark-gold lightning-attracting bell artifact embryo and stored it in his Bitter Sea to nurture it.

• Li Qingshan collected fire marrow from a fire lizard’s tailbone, and Xiaobai used its jade horn to pry loose more than twenty fire marrow crystals.
• As they returned through a sudden downpour, Xiaobai gave Li Qingshan its lifebound reverse scale, forming a deep bond between their souls, and he promised they would share fortune and misfortune.
• After the rain stopped, Li Qingshan drew earthfire from the Earthfire Abyss and melted sun sand, fire lizard bone fragments, Great Luo Silver Essence, and a fire marrow crystal.
• Li Qingshan inscribed and suppressed the Lightning-Attracting Mark, then condensed the molten materials into a dark-gold bell with a silver lightning pattern.
• Li Qingshan stored the completed artifact embryo in his Bitter Sea, where it began to be nourished by his divine power.

Li Qingshan discovered that the ancient formation in the Sun Sacred Clan’s ruins was collapsing, releasing spatial fissures and baleful battle spirits. He repaired its formation eye, but an ancient remnant intent struck Xiaobai, leaving it weakened and asleep as Li Qingshan began nursing it back to health.

• Li Qingshan noticed the Dao Bell embryo resonating with the failing ancient formation as cracks opened in the sky and black mist poured out.
• Li Qingshan fought the battle-spirit phantoms, using the bell’s resonance and his Five Elements Divine Abilities to destroy them and trace them to the formation markings.
• Li Qingshan found the damaged formation eye stone and used the sundial fragment, Solar True Force, and Lightning-Attracting Dao Marks to repair it.
• An ancient remnant intent attacked Li Qingshan’s sea of consciousness, but his Divine Seed obliterated it; the lingering pressure caused Xiaobai to collapse into a protective sleep.
• Li Qingshan carried Xiaobai back to the cave dwelling and used a spirit-nourishing pill to begin restoring it.

Li Qingshan prepared to use a powerful heavenly tribulation to break through into the Four Extremes Secret Realm and refine his bell. As the tribulation reached its peak, he went to Thundercliff and began his breakthrough, with Xiaobai waiting under protection.

• Li Qingshan spent three days restoring Xiaobai after the little one was injured by an ancient restriction’s remnant thought.
• A fierce tribulation cloud formed over Mount Kunlun, and Li Qingshan sensed its lightning stirring his Lightning-Attracting Mark and weakening the barrier to the Four Extremes.
• Li Qingshan refined formation-marked stones into the bell, strengthening its Dao marks as he prepared to draw tribulation lightning into his body.
• He decided to wait until the lightning reached its peak before breaking through, while Xiaobai pledged to stay with him.
• Li Qingshan placed Xiaobai under a protective restriction, flew to Thundercliff, and declared that he would open the Bridge of Heaven and Earth.

Li Qingshan faced an extraordinary lightning tribulation on Thundercliff, using each strike to temper his body and draw closer to heaven and earth. As a devastating Nine Dragons Lightning Tribulation descended, he met it with his Sun Emperor Fist.

• Li Qingshan began the Four Extremes Scroll of the Sun True Scripture on Thundercliff, and his Divine Seed stirred as his body connected with the power of heaven and earth.
• Li Qingshan endured the first two lightning strikes, refining their power to strengthen his left arm and gaining greater command of the surrounding essence Qi.
• Li Qingshan drew Nirvana Divine Lightning into his left leg, then charged into successive strikes that tempered his limbs and left him injured by the mixed three-colored lightning.
• Li Qingshan discovered that the tribulation had exceeded the limits described in the Sun True Scripture when nine illusory lightning dragons formed in the clouds.
• Li Qingshan answered the fifth strike, a ten-zhang pillar of nine-dragon lightning, with Sun Emperor Fist: Burn the Heavens and Boil the Seas.

Li Qingshan survived the Nine Dragons Lightning Tribulation and entered the Four Extremes Secret Realm, while the Dao Bell developed the beginnings of an artifact spirit and new powers. After sensing a mysterious presence deeper in Mount Kunlun, he returned to his cave, refined three Nine Yang Body-Tempering Pills, and swallowed one to strengthen his new cultivation.

• Li Qingshan fought the nine lightning dragons, damaged their central dragon, and completed the First Extremity of the Four Extremes Secret Realm.
• The Dao Bell absorbed the remaining lightning, formed the beginnings of an artifact spirit, and gained the ability to gather and refine Solar True Force.
• Li Qingshan tested his new strength and the bell’s power, then accepted a three-thousand-year-old purple lingzhi from a blue luan.
• Li Qingshan sensed a malicious presence behind ancient formations deeper in Mount Kunlun, but left to consolidate his cultivation and refine the Dao Bell.
• Li Qingshan studied his cultivation and alchemy notes, refined three Nine Yang Body-Tempering Pills, and swallowed one to strengthen his Four Extremes foundation.

Li Qingshan shattered the Divine Seed that had been restraining his cultivation, and its fragments transformed his body into what seemed to be an enhanced Innate Dao Embryo. After discovering his newfound ability to resonate with and command the laws and essence Qi of heaven and earth, he sensed an unexplored disturbance at the heart of the Earthfire Abyss.

• Li Qingshan realized the Divine Seed was obstructing the Dao Palace Secret Realm's natural resonance with heaven and earth, while Xiaobai and two divine-beast descendants warned him of a watching presence in Kunlun.
• Li Qingshan used the Five Deities of the Dao Palace to strike the Divine Seed, shattering it and scattering its golden motes throughout his body.
• The Divine Seed's power strengthened Li Qingshan's Secret Realms and flesh, and the Five Deities bowed as the Great Dao resonated through him.
• Li Qingshan discovered that he could perceive the laws of heaven and earth and draw essence Qi to himself, then used wood-attribute Qi to revive a withered blade of grass.
• Li Qingshan suspected his transformed constitution was an enhanced Innate Dao Embryo, then sensed a disturbance deep in the magma at the heart of the Earthfire Abyss.

Li Qingshan discovered an ancient tortoise shell in the Earthfire Abyss, and its sacrificial power resonated with his shattered Divine Seed, bringing him to the brink of a breakthrough. After preparing with refined Origin Pills, he endured the Four-Nine heavenly tribulation at Thundercliff and emerged transformed, having reached the second stage of the Four Extremes.

• Xiaobai led Li Qingshan to Fire Spirit Fruits, after which he entered the magma and found an ancient tortoise shell bearing secrets of a sacred altar.
• The shell crumbled when Li Qingshan tried to activate it, but its sacrificial thought-force resonated with his Divine Seed and stirred his Four Extremes breakthrough.
• Li Qingshan suppressed the breakthrough, refined the thousand-year-old lingzhi into three Origin Pills with Xiaobai's help, and traveled to Thundercliff to undergo the tribulation.
• A devastating Four-Nine lightning tribulation struck Li Qingshan and devastated the surrounding mountains, while Xiaobai watched from a crevice.
• Li Qingshan endured the tribulation with his innate Dao embryo and Sun True Body, then emerged with a transformed body and a profound resonance with the Great Dao.

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.