Chapter Summaries

After escaping the ancient formation, Li Qingshan returned to the Earthfire Abyss with the Zhoutian Star Formation Flags and Purple Mansion Pill Furnace, reuniting with Xiaobai. He began studying the pill furnace and formation while tempering his spine with star power, and the complete formation promised to protect the abyss against even powerful Immortal Platform cultivators.

• Li Qingshan activated the Zhoutian Star Formation and discovered it could temper his dragon patterns as well as unleash deadly attacks.
• Li Qingshan returned to the Earthfire Abyss and found Xiaobai waiting for him after tracking his absence for sixty-two days.
• Xiaobai tearfully welcomed Li Qingshan and showed him the spirit fruits she had preserved for him.
• Li Qingshan showed Xiaobai the Purple Mansion Pill Furnace and Zhoutian Star Formation Flags he had brought back.
• Li Qingshan began refining Spirit-Concentrating Pills and used the formation's star power to strengthen his spine toward the Fourth Transformation.
• Li Qingshan committed the formation art to memory and determined that all eighteen flags could secure the abyss and trap powerful enemies.

Li Qingshan completed his Fourth Dragon Transformation, but Thunder Peng arrived in Kunlun seeking to devour him and advance to the Immortal Platform. Li Qingshan calmly repelled Thunder Peng’s opening attacks, and the chapter left him facing Thunder Peng’s overwhelming lightning-shadow assault.

• Li Qingshan completed the Fourth Dragon Transformation and sensed a dangerous presence approaching through Kunlun.
• Thunder Peng arrived at the peak of the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm and declared he would devour Li Qingshan to aid his ascent to the Immortal Platform.
• Li Qingshan mocked Thunder Peng’s claims of supremacy and challenged him to serve as a test of his new power.
• Thunder Peng attacked with a lightning claw, but Li Qingshan anticipated the strike and evaded it using the Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Thunder Peng unleashed a rain of lightning arrows, which Li Qingshan deflected and neutralized with the water-element divine light.
• Thunder Peng surrounded Li Qingshan with thousands of solid lightning afterimages and launched the Thousand Illusion Lightning Shadow Kill.

Li Qingshan overpowered Thunder Peng’s techniques with his Dao diagram and Five-Colored Divine Light, then wounded him with the Sun Emperor Fist. Thunder Peng transformed into his true body and unleashed a devastating attack, while Li Qingshan revealed the Myriad Selves Dao Diagram as countless projections gathered behind him.

• Li Qingshan used his Yin-Yang Dao Diagram to shatter Thunder Peng’s true-body clones and erode his demonic essence.
• Thunder Peng attacked with the Thunder Emperor Divine Spear, but Li Qingshan disrupted it with the Five-Colored Divine Light and shattered it with the Sun Emperor Fist.
• Wounded and enraged, Thunder Peng transformed into his enormous golden true body.
• Thunder Peng launched the Thunder Feather God-Slaying Sword and a destructive lightning pillar at Li Qingshan.
• Li Qingshan revealed the Myriad Selves Dao Diagram, summoning countless projections of himself from across the heavens and myriad worlds.

Li Qingshan used the Myriad Selves as One phenomenon to suppress Thunder Peng’s powers and defeat him with the Sun Emperor Fist and Human Emperor Seal. He killed Thunder Peng, absorbed his lightning essence, and left the battle with his Fourth Dragon Transformation realm stabilized.

• Li Qingshan’s phenomenon dispersed most of Thunder Peng’s lightning attacks and weakened the laws Thunder Peng relied on.
• Thunder Peng launched Wind and Thunder Rend the Heavens, but Li Qingshan met him with Sun Emperor Fist · Empowerment of the Heavens and shattered his claws.
• Li Qingshan struck Thunder Peng with Human Emperor Seal · Suppress Mountains and Rivers, breaking his lightning shield and crushing his wings.
• Thunder Peng begged for mercy and offered his soul blood, but Li Qingshan crushed his body and soul.
• Li Qingshan’s Dao Bell absorbed the lightning essence from Thunder Peng’s remains.
• Li Qingshan reflected on the battle, deepened his understanding of his abilities, and stabilized his Fourth Dragon Transformation realm.

After three years of cultivation in Kunlun, Li Qingshan reached the perfected Fifth Change of the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm and decided to return to Jiangcheng with Xiaobai. They escaped Kunlun’s shifting arrays and emerged into the mortal world.

• Li Qingshan reflected on his rapid cultivation and the danger of seeking Dragon Marrow in Kunlun’s forbidden heart.
• Xiaobai brought Li Qingshan a treasure fruit, and he told her they would leave Kunlun for Jiangcheng.
• Li Qingshan taught Xiaobai an illusion art that concealed her jade horn and cultivation, and they prepared to depart.
• Li Qingshan used his array knowledge and a Zhoutian Star Formation Flag to guide Xiaobai through Kunlun’s deadly outer arrays.
• After two months of dangers, Li Qingshan led Xiaobai through the Two Aspects Severing the Mortal World Array and out of Kunlun.

Li Qingshan returned to Jiangcheng after three years away and reunited with his grief-stricken parents. He introduced Xiaobai to them and stayed with his family, troubled by how much the years of worry had worn them down.

• Li Qingshan flew from Kunlun to Jiangcheng with Xiaobai, hiding his divine power as they approached his home.
• Li Qingshan sensed his parents’ exhaustion and sent them a gentle mental signal before going upstairs.
• Su Wan opened the door and broke down when Li Qingshan told her he had returned; Li Guoqiang welcomed his son with tears and relief.
• Xiaobai comforted Su Wan and greeted Li Guoqiang and Su Wan as her grandparents.
• Li Qingshan introduced Xiaobai as a child who would live with them and felt guilty seeing his parents’ weakened condition.

Li Qingshan told his parents how he discovered Kunlun, began cultivating, and met Xiaobai, then demonstrated his abilities while explaining the cultivation realms. His parents accepted Xiaobai and gained a clearer understanding of their son's path, though higher realms remained difficult to reach on Earth.

• Li Qingshan told Su Wan and Li Guoqiang that he found the entrance to the real Kunlun in Mount Hua carvings and learned cultivation from a cultivator's ruins.
• Xiaobai told Li Qingshan's parents she was a Heaven-Swallowing Snake whom he had saved, and she demonstrated her ability to turn invisible.
• Li Qingshan reassured his parents that Xiaobai was part of their family, and Su Wan welcomed her and promised to make her new dresses.
• Li Qingshan demonstrated the Bitter Sea and Life Spring realms, then explained the Divine Bridge and Other Shore stages to his parents.
• Li Qingshan outlined the Dao Palace, Four Extremes, Dragon Transformation, and Immortal Platform realms, and said he had reached the Dragon Transformation Fifth Layer Heaven.

Li Qingshan reassured his parents that cultivation would not make him forget home, then showed them his powers by healing a plant and taking them flying over Jiangcheng. After Xiaobai gave them spirit fruits that renewed their health, Li Qingshan sensed the fruits had strengthened their bodies and laid a foundation for future cultivation.

• Li Qingshan comforted Su Wan and Li Guoqiang by promising that Earth would remain his home, even if cultivation someday took him far away.
• Li Qingshan used Solar True Force to revive a withered spider plant and told his parents he could heal them if they became ill.
• Li Qingshan enveloped Su Wan and Li Guoqiang in divine radiance and flew with them and Xiaobai over Jiangcheng.
• Xiaobai presented Su Wan with a Vermilion Fruit and Li Guoqiang with a Golden Marrow Pear.
• Su Wan's fruit cleansed and rejuvenated her body, while Li Guoqiang's fruit eased his shoulder pain and restored his strength.
• Li Qingshan sensed that the spirit fruits had improved his parents' Qi and blood and strengthened their foundation for potentially opening their Bitter Seas.

Li Qingshan helped his parents begin cultivating, equipped his family and courtyard with protective treasures and an array, then resigned from his university job. He returned home to Xiaobai and his parents, leaving the family preparing to continue their cultivation together.

• Li Qingshan used foundation-establishment liquid to open Su Wan and Li Guoqiang’s Bitter Seas and taught them how to cultivate.
• Li Qingshan gave his parents protective treasures, fitted Xiaobai with a collar that gathered essence Qi and made her invisible, and set up a protective array in the courtyard.
• After ten days at home, Li Qingshan went to Jiangcheng University, explained his absence to Dean Wang, and resigned from his teaching position.
• Li Qingshan remembered Ye Fan and Pang Bo as he left the university, then received a call from Su Wan and Xiaobai asking him to come home.
• Li Qingshan returned to his family, admired Xiaobai’s drawing, heard of Li Guoqiang’s progress, and helped Su Wan serve lunch.

After two years in Jiangcheng, Li Qingshan told his parents and Xiaobai that he would leave for the Big Dipper Star Domain to seek a breakthrough. He departed at dawn, leaving Xiaobai behind to protect his parents and promising to return in a little over twenty years.

• Li Qingshan told Su Wan that he planned to leave for the Big Dipper Star Domain because Earth could not help him advance beyond the Dragon Transformation Fifth Layer.
• Li Guoqiang gave Li Qingshan a bundle of childhood keepsakes and clothes, and Li Qingshan promised to take care of himself and return.
• Li Qingshan persuaded Xiaobai to stay on Earth and look after Su Wan and Li Guoqiang while he was away.
• Li Qingshan spent several more days with his family and practiced his divine abilities before preparing to leave.
• At dawn, Xiaobai gave Li Qingshan a cloth doll depicting their family, and he walked east through Jiangcheng to begin his journey.

Li Qingshan watched Ye Fan and his classmates climb Mount Tai while sensing the arrival of nine dragon corpses towing an ancient bronze coffin through space. As the group reached the summit, the corpses burst through the clouds and descended before them.

• Li Qingshan sensed the ancient aura of Mount Tai and observed Ye Fan, Lin Jia, and their classmates climbing toward the summit.
• Li Qingshan detected Ye Fan’s suppressed potential and the spiritual power strengthened by the Crystal Visualization Method he had taught him.
• Li Qingshan sensed nine dragon corpses towing a bronze coffin through space and recognized that the paths of space and time had converged.
• Ye Fan and the others reached Jade Emperor Summit and admired the sunset and sea of clouds.
• Thunder and violent winds startled everyone on the summit as nine enormous dragon corpses towing an ancient bronze coffin emerged from the clouds.

Nine dragon corpses hauling an ancient bronze coffin crashed onto Jade Emperor Peak, exposing an ancient five-colored altar beneath the crater. When a boulder struck the altar, it awakened a tremendous force that dragged Ye Fan, Zhou Yi, Lin Jia, Liu Yiyi, and the others toward the crater.

• Kaide dropped his camera in terror as the nine dragon corpses and bronze coffin appeared, and tourists fled in panic.
• The dragons and coffin slammed into Jade Emperor Peak, exposing part of an ancient five-colored altar beneath the crater.
• Ye Fan recognized the altar as a relic used for ancient Feng and Shan sacrifices, while Zhou Yi examined its mysterious symbols.
• Liu Yiyi slipped toward the crater, but Zhou Yi and Ye Fan pulled her back as a loose boulder struck the altar below.
• The altar erupted in five-colored light and unleashed immense pressure and suction, dragging the group toward the crater despite Ye Fan and Zhou Yi trying to hold on to one another.

Li Qingshan appeared to Ye Fan and his classmates on the Five-Colored Altar and offered those who wished to leave a way back. After the altar opened a Starry Sky Ancient Road, the bronze coffin swallowed everyone who remained.

• Li Qingshan appeared on Sun-Watching Rock, calmed the group, and stepped onto the Five-Colored Altar.
• Li Qingshan offered to send back anyone unwilling to continue, and he returned those who chose to leave while altering their memories.
• The jade pieces and stone slabs on the altar glowed and formed a Bagua Dao diagram and Taiji diagram that opened onto a Starry Sky Ancient Road.
• The nine dragon corpses trembled, and the bronze coffin opened slightly as its ancient presence resonated with the Starry Sky Ancient Road.
• The bronze coffin shook violently and its suction engulfed Ye Fan, Li Qingshan, and everyone who remained, swallowing them into the coffin.

After surviving the journey from Mars, Li Qingshan and the others emerged at the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land, where a mysterious force began draining their life essence. Li Qingshan realized his powerful cultivation made the danger worse and resolved to find the Nine Marvels Immortal Medicine and Divine Spring quickly.

• The Bronze Coffin opened, and Li Qingshan and the others stepped onto a lush mountaintop in an unfamiliar star region.
• Li Qingshan sensed the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land draining life essence and divine power faster from those with higher cultivation.
• Li Qingshan warned Ye Fan, Zhou Yi, Lin Jia, and the others that the land’s laws would eventually exhaust their lives.
• The nine dragon corpses and Bronze Coffin plunged into the abyss, revealing that the group stood beside a vast crater-like chasm.
• Li Qingshan explained that divine sense could not safely probe the abyss, while a golden giant eagle carrying an elephant showed the group that the land was savage.
• Li Qingshan decided to take Ye Fan and the Forbidden Zone Heir to find the divine fruit of the Nine Marvels Immortal Medicine as soon as possible.

Li Qingshan gave Ye Fan and the others pills and advice before leaving Spirit Ruins Paradise to seek his own Dao. After he departed, he secretly protected Ye Fan from Elder Han, then continued toward the Eastern Wasteland.

• Li Qingshan welcomed Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and their classmates, gave them cultivation pills, and warned them to keep the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land secret.
• Li Qingshan said farewell to the group and flew away toward the Eastern Wasteland.
• Elder Han suspected Ye Fan had a Desolate Ancient Sacred Body and sent his divine sense to probe Ye Fan’s Bitter Sea.
• Li Qingshan’s protective talisman killed Elder Han by sending a sword shadow through the malicious divine sense.
• Ye Fan continued cultivating, unaware of the attack, while Li Qingshan sensed the talisman’s activation and flew onward.

Li Qingshan reached Burning Heaven Valley’s volcanic range to break through to the Sixth Transformation of Dragon Transformation, brushing aside the sect disciples who tried to stop him. He established a formation at the Land of Ashen Extinction and triggered a heavenly tribulation, which Burning Heaven Valley watched in alarm.

• Li Qingshan arrived at Burning Heaven Valley’s territory and continued toward the Land of Ashen Extinction despite the disciples’ warnings.
• Burning Heaven Valley’s patrol attacked Li Qingshan, but he shattered their weapons and sent their fire crows crashing down with a casual sweep of his sleeve.
• Senior Brother Xu ordered the disciples to reinforce their defenses and keep away from the Land of Ashen Extinction, suspecting Li Qingshan might seek the Earthcore Flame Marrow.
• Li Qingshan chose the summit of an active volcano and arranged Source Stones and spiritual materials to create a simplified Zhoutian Star Formation.
• Li Qingshan released his suppressed presence, summoning a devastating heavenly tribulation as Burning Heaven Valley watched from afar.

Li Qingshan faced the Heavenly Fire Tribulation for the Sixth Transformation of Dragon Transformation, tempering his body, Dao Bell, and soul with its power. When a youthful imprint of Emperor Hengyu appeared and struck at him, Li Qingshan eagerly prepared to fight the Great Emperor’s legacy.

• Senior Brother Xu and the elder of Burning Heaven Valley recognized that Li Qingshan had drawn the legendary Heavenly Fire Tribulation and realized he had rushed away to face it.
• Li Qingshan met the first lightning-and-fire strike head-on, letting his body absorb its destructive and creative laws.
• Li Qingshan used his array to guide the tribulation while his purple-gold Dao Bell and golden divine-sense figure were tempered alongside his flesh.
• Li Qingshan battled the peak of the tribulation as nine enormous lightning dragons descended, then the tribulation suddenly fell silent.
• A youthful lightning imprint of Emperor Hengyu appeared and attacked Li Qingshan with a fist containing the power of the myriad Daos.
• Li Qingshan recognized Emperor Hengyu and welcomed the chance to fight the young Great Emperor at the same realm.

Li Qingshan survived the heavenly tribulation by battling young Hengyu’s imprint and learning from his universe-like Dao, then broke through to the Sixth Transformation of Dragon Transformation. He concluded that finding Jiang Tingting and understanding Lunar Origin could help him unite yin and yang and pursue the path to a Chaos Body.

• Li Qingshan repeatedly fought young Hengyu, using each defeat to study the Emperor’s Dao of becoming a universe unto oneself and the union of yin and yang.
• Li Qingshan combined his Sun True Scripture with his new insights in a final punch, held his ground, and young Hengyu’s imprint dissipated as the tribulation weakened.
• Li Qingshan absorbed the remaining Lightning Tribulation Liquid and heavenly fire essence, healed his Dao Bell, and broke through to the Sixth Transformation of Dragon Transformation.
• Li Qingshan resolved to find Jiang Tingting, understand Lunar Origin, and explore the union of Taiyin and Taiyang as a route toward chaos.
• Elder Fentian ordered Burning Heaven Valley to keep Li Qingshan’s tribulation secret and treat him with the highest courtesy, never making him an enemy.
• Li Qingshan changed into a clean green robe and departed toward his next goal.

After witnessing the devastation left by Li Qingshan’s tribulation, Burning Heaven Valley’s leaders feared his power and arranged to make amends. Li Qingshan traveled to a remote town to seek the girl with the Taiyin Physique, and entered a small eating house where he sensed a connection to her.

• Zhang Lai identified the lingering Dao resonance as evidence of Li Qingshan’s tribulation against the imprint of a young Great Emperor.
• Zhang Lai urged Mo Chenzi to punish the disrespectful inner disciples and send the Earthcore Flame Marrow to Li Qingshan as an offering.
• Li Qingshan flew toward a remote town, recalling the Taiyin Physique’s dangers and resolving to find its possessor early.
• Li Qingshan reached the town, sensed a subtle connection near a small eating house, and stepped inside.

Li Qingshan found little Tingting, a descendant of Emperor Hengyu who possessed the dangerous Taiyin Physique, and realized her Lunar Origin was draining her life. He decided to protect her and seek a way to help her awaken her potential, seeing her as a crucial link in his path to unite yin and yang.

• Li Qingshan entered a small shop in Green Forest Town and met Old Jiang and his granddaughter, little Tingting.
• While sharing a meal, Li Qingshan learned that Old Jiang’s family had once been wealthy but had fallen into decline.
• Li Qingshan sensed the dormant Lunar Origin within Tingting and discovered that its corrosive power was consuming her life essence.
• Li Qingshan recognized the potential of Tingting’s Taiyin Physique and decided not to let her die, but chose to approach carefully rather than take her away at once.
• Li Qingshan paid Old Jiang generously, settled at an inn outside town, and planned how to protect the grandfather and granddaughter while pursuing his path of uniting yin and yang.