Chapter Summaries

Li Qingshan grew closer to Jiang Tingting and tried to ease her fear while learning about the Li Family’s influence in Green Forest Town. After revealing that he was a cultivator, he reassured Old Jiang that the Li Family had not sent him.

• Li Qingshan considered how to help Jiang Tingting safely develop her Taiyin Physique and prepared a Spirit-Calming Fruit for her.
• Li Qingshan brought Jiang Tingting the fruit, then visited the eatery over several days with spirit grain, a picture book, and help repairing its roof.
• Li Qingshan noticed Old Jiang’s troubled reactions whenever he spoke about cultivation and learned that Jiang Tingting feared darkness and beasts after her parents died.
• After wolves howled near the eatery, Old Jiang explained that the Li Family blamed a hunter’s injured child on a mountain spirit.
• Li Qingshan gave Jiang Tingting a calming jade pendant, revealed himself as a cultivator, and told Old Jiang that the Li Family had no power over him.

Old Jiang told Li Qingshan how Jiang Ming and his wife died after a dangerous mission and how the Li Family took the Jiang family’s inn and restaurant. Li Qingshan offered to take Tingting as his disciple, and the chapter ended with her accepting and his plans to help her cultivate.

• Old Jiang explained that Jiang Ming had exposed Li Hu’s crimes and that Li Hu’s family had likely arranged the dangerous mission that killed Jiang Ming and his wife.
• Old Jiang said the Li Family had claimed Jiang Ming owed them a debt and forced the family to surrender their inn and restaurant.
• Li Qingshan recognized Tingting’s rare Taiyin Physique and offered to teach and protect her as his disciple.
• Tingting agreed to become Li Qingshan’s disciple so she could protect her grandfather, and Old Jiang entrusted her to him.
• Li Qingshan’s solar divine power resonated with Tingting’s Taiyin nature when they touched hands.
• After Tingting fell asleep, Li Qingshan planned to stabilize her Lunar Origin, find an Earth Origin Fruit, and pursue the Nine Marvels Immortal Medicine and Taiyin Ancient Scripture.

Li Qingshan formally accepted Jiang Tingting as his disciple and began guiding her into cultivation, taking special care to stabilize her rare Taiyin Physique. The chapter ended as his instruction in the Zixia Nurturing Dao Scripture stirred her Bitter Sea for the first time.

• Old Jiang prepared Jiang Tingting for her apprenticeship ceremony, and Li Qingshan arrived at the eatery carrying a wooden box.
• Jiang Tingting called Li Qingshan her master and completed three kowtows as he accepted her as his disciple.
• Li Qingshan gave Jiang Tingting a Mysterious Yin Origin-Nourishing Pendant to nurture her Lunar Origin and a Three-Turn Dao-Protecting Plaque for protection.
• Li Qingshan explained the Secret Realm Method and began teaching Jiang Tingting the Zixia Nurturing Dao Scripture.
• The purple Dao patterns entered Jiang Tingting's brow, and she sensed her Wheel of Life and Bitter Sea beginning to stir.

Li Qingshan helped Jiang Tingting begin cultivating her Taiyin Physique and remained in Green Forest Town to build her foundation. When a hostile cultivator’s divine sense searched the town, Li Qingshan prepared to confront the intruder and make it Tingting’s first lesson in the cultivation world.

• Li Qingshan used gentle solar divine power and the Zixia Dao Scripture to guide and soothe Jiang Tingting’s Lunar Origin as her Bitter Sea began to awaken.
• Li Qingshan taught Tingting to cultivate each morning, and within three days her Wheel of Life showed signs that her Bitter Sea was about to open.
• Li Qingshan killed wolves harassing the villagers and gave their carcasses to the local hunters.
• A malicious divine sense searched Green Forest Town and lingered around the Jiang Family’s eatery, but Li Qingshan concealed himself from it.
• Li Qingshan warned Old Uncle Jiang, laid protective formations around the eatery, and waited for the intruder while Tingting slept.

Li Qingshan guided Jiang Tingting through opening her Bitter Sea and forming a Life Spring by harmonizing her Lunar Power with the Zixia Sacred Art. Tingting completed her Life Spring, while Li Qingshan continued deepening his cultivation.

• Li Qingshan taught Jiang Tingting how to sense and open her Bitter Sea, guiding her Lunar Power with purple Qi and Solar Divine Power.
• Jiang Tingting opened her Bitter Sea in seven days and learned to merge the purple Qi with her Lunar Power into a warm black mist.
• Over the next month, Jiang Tingting’s Bitter Sea reached completion as a powerful black ocean veiled in purple Qi.
• Li Qingshan instructed Jiang Tingting to gather the Bitter Sea’s power at the Life Spring node and protected the surrounding village from her freezing Lunar Power.
• After months of cultivation, Jiang Tingting formed a black Life Spring that shimmered with purple light and nourished her Sea of Bitterness.

Jiang Tingting cultivated a Life Spring, and Li Qingshan advanced to the Seventh Transformation of Dragon Transformation after enduring a golden lightning tribulation. Burning Heaven Valley apologized for its disciples’ disrespect and gave him Earthcore Flame Marrow, settling their past conflict.

• Jiang Tingting showed her growing strength after reaching the Life Spring stage, and Li Qingshan left to undergo his next tribulation.
• Li Qingshan endured the golden lightning tribulation and advanced to the Seventh Transformation of Dragon Transformation.
• Mo Chenzi and Zhang Lai of Burning Heaven Valley approached Li Qingshan, apologized for their disciples’ disrespect, and said they had crippled the offenders’ cultivation.
• Mo Chenzi offered Li Qingshan Earthcore Flame Marrow, which he accepted for Jiang Tingting’s benefit, and Li Qingshan declared their karma settled.
• Mo Chenzi and Zhang Lai left relieved, discussing Li Qingshan’s power and Burning Heaven Valley’s hope of earning his goodwill.

Jiang Tingting learned that Li Hu and Li Zhong had arranged her parents’ deaths and that the Li Family had seized her family’s property. Armed with Li Qingshan’s Profound Yin Sword, she destroyed the Li Family estate and killed Li Hu, then prepared to leave with her master for the Northern Region of the Eastern Wilderness.

• Li Qingshan revealed that Li Hu had used Beast-Luring Madness Powder to provoke the Lightning Bird that killed Jiang Tingting’s parents, while Li Zhong helped cover up the crime.
• Li Qingshan gave Jiang Tingting the Profound Yin Sword and sent her to settle the family’s grievances herself.
• Jiang Tingting entered the Li Family estate and killed its guards, Li Hao, Li Zhong, and the other family members who resisted or had benefited from the Li Family’s wrongdoing.
• Jiang Tingting found Li Hu in a secret chamber and killed him after he begged for his life.
• Jiang Tingting returned to Li Qingshan, who said he had also slain the Li Family’s Yanxia Cave Heaven elder, and they set out for the Northern Region of the Eastern Wilderness.

After the Li Family’s destruction, Yanxia Cave Heaven feared the mysterious master behind Jiang Tingting and chose not to resist him. Three months later, Li Qingshan prepared to face the Eighth Transformation of Dragon Transformation tribulation, leaving Jiang Tingting to watch over Old Jiang.

• Zhou Yuan and Zhao Feng learned that Li Hu had died mysteriously and that Jiang Tingting had wiped out the Li Family.
• Zhao Feng and the elders concluded that a powerful figure behind Jiang Tingting had killed Li Hu, and Liu Xuanqing ordered them to gather news and avoid resisting that senior.
• In the three months after the Li Family’s destruction, Jiang Tingting stabilized her Life Spring Realm cultivation while Li Qingshan neared the Immortal Platform Secret Realm.
• Li Qingshan told Jiang Tingting he would face the Eighth Transformation of Dragon Transformation tribulation and instructed her to stay at the eatery with Old Jiang.

Li Qingshan faced the Eighth Transformation tribulation at the volcanic range, using his Sun True Fire, Universe Dao principles, and yin-yang conception to withstand the lightning. After breaking the final strike with a miniature universe, he achieved the Eighth Transformation and discovered his power and command of heavenly laws had greatly increased.

• Li Qingshan unleashed his peak Seventh Transformation presence at the volcanic range, summoning crimson-gold tribulation clouds.
• He countered the lightning dragons with his flaming dharma manifestation, drew lightning into his body to temper it, and used a Taiji Dao Diagram to restrain annihilation lightning.
• Li Qingshan blended the Sun True Fire, Universe Dao principles, and yin-yang conception to create a miniature universe.
• He absorbed and broke down the final violet-gold lightning war god within the miniature universe, completing the Eighth Transformation.
• After the tribulation clouds dispersed, Li Qingshan sensed his awakened spine dragon, expanded divine power, and deeper grasp of heaven-and-earth laws.

After completing his cultivation, Li Qingshan prepared to leave Jiang Tingting in Green Forest Town while he traveled to the Northern Region of the Eastern Wilderness. He secured her future cultivation by asking Yanxia Cave Heaven to provide her with a spiritual ground.

• Li Qingshan returned to the eatery and told Jiang Tingting and Old Jiang that his cultivation had reached completion.
• Li Qingshan gave Old Jiang a large sum of gold and silver to provide for the Jiang family while he traveled north.
• Li Qingshan told Jiang Tingting to remain in Green Forest Town, gave her Earthcore Flame Marrow, and instructed her to keep practicing the Zixia Nurturing Dao Scripture.
• Liu Xuanqing arrived with gifts from Yanxia Cave Heaven and apologized for Li Hu's actions, while Li Qingshan said he would not pursue the matter further.
• Li Qingshan asked Liu Xuanqing to arrange the best spiritual vein for Jiang Tingting's cultivation, and Liu Xuanqing swore on his Dao heart to fulfill the request.

Li Qingshan secured Liu Xuanqing’s promise to protect Old Jiang and Jiang Tingting, then prepared Tingting to cultivate at Yanxia Cave Heaven while he traveled to the Northern Region. He departed Green Forest Town and set out to find an ancient city with a Domain Gate.

• Li Qingshan unleashed a terrifying presence that forced Liu Xuanqing and his disciples to submit, then warned Liu Xuanqing that Yanxia Cave Heaven would be destroyed if Old Jiang or Tingting came to harm.
• Li Qingshan told Jiang Tingting to cultivate at Yanxia Cave Heaven after he left and advised her to strengthen her foundation before joining him in the Northern Region.
• Li Qingshan promised to seek opportunities and an inheritance suited to Jiang Tingting’s taiyin physique, while Old Jiang promised to look after her.
• Li Qingshan said farewell to Old Jiang and Jiang Tingting and flew east from Green Forest Town in a crimson-gold Divine Rainbow.
• Li Qingshan decided that his first goal was to find an ancient city with a Domain Gate to cross the vast distance to the Northern Region.

Li Qingshan traveled through a Yaoguang Holy Land Domain Gate from the Southern Region to the Northern Region, where he arrived in a desolate crimson wasteland. After sensing hidden Source veins and dangers beneath the land, he set off alone toward the region’s depths.

• Li Qingshan paid Source to enter the Yaoguang Holy Land’s Domain Gate plaza and joined the cultivators waiting to travel to the Northern Region.
• A Yaoguang elder activated the Five-Colored Altar, and the group crossed the turbulent void as Li Qingshan calmly studied the spatial passage.
• The travelers emerged in a vast, barren crimson wasteland and complained about the disappointing destination.
• The brocade-robed cultivator explained that most Northern Region mines were controlled by major powers and that desolate land was common.
• Li Qingshan sensed hidden dragon Qi, Source veins, and savage presences beneath the land, then flew alone toward the region’s depths.

Li Qingshan attacked the Lihuo Sect, defeated its leaders, and claimed the Lihuo Divine Furnace. He then swept away three other corrupt sects and found the Emperor Jade at the Mystic Moon Grotto before leaving with about six thousand jin of Source.

• Li Qingshan arrived at the Lihuo Sect and killed its gate guards and disciples who attacked him.
• Li Qingshan defeated the Lihuo Sect master and eight grand elders, then killed disciples guilty of evil deeds.
• The Lihuo Sect master summoned the Lihuo Divine Furnace, but Li Qingshan countered its flames with a Yin-Yang Dao Diagram and killed its wielders.
• Li Qingshan claimed the Lihuo Divine Furnace and collected the sect's Source before sweeping away the Seven Stars Pavilion and the Azure Cloud Sect.
• At the Mystic Moon Grotto, Li Qingshan found the Emperor Jade among ruined refining materials and collected roughly six thousand jin of Source in total.

Li Qingshan activated the Emperor Jade to reveal a detailed map of Purple Mountain, then gained a fleeting insight into the essence of time while meditating on Great Emperor Wushi’s Dao imprint. On his way toward the stone village, he rescued Zhang San and the surviving guards from roving bandits and learned their attack had been sparked by an unusual piece of Source.

• Li Qingshan used the Sun True Scripture to draw a detailed map of Purple Mountain from the Emperor Jade and memorized its dangerous routes and a possible safe entrance.
• Li Qingshan meditated before Great Emperor Wushi’s inscription for three days, absorbing its Dao resonance and glimpsing the pulse of time.
• Li Qingshan flew toward the stone village and spotted roving bandits attacking a caravan whose guards were protecting an old man with a compass-shaped artifact.
• Li Qingshan wiped out the attackers with his Five-Colored Divine Light and asked the old man whether he was Zhang Wu of the stone village.
• Fifth Master Zhang identified himself as Zhang San, said Zhang Wu was his younger kinsman, and explained that the bandits had targeted them after they found an unusual piece of Source.

Li Qingshan visited Zhang Wu’s stockade to obtain a Stone Garment for his journey into Demon Mountain. After hearing how roving bandits preyed on the villagers, he agreed to teach them cultivation and promised to provide further protection when he returned.

• Li Qingshan asked Zhang Wu and Fifth Master Zhang for the Stone Garment, and Fifth Master Zhang warned him that Demon Mountain was deadly before handing it over.
• Li Qingshan examined the Stone Garment and recognized that it was made from Divine Source Stone Skin.
• A young man begged Li Qingshan to teach the stockade immortal arts after bandits abducted and killed his sister, and Zhang San and Zhang Wu explained the villagers’ suffering.
• Li Qingshan identified a few villagers with traces of Silver Blood Royal Clan ancestry, raised the kneeling young man, and promised to teach them a cultivation method.
• Li Qingshan offered the stockade a hundred jin of Source, but Fifth Master Zhang refused it and offered him ancestral stone implements in exchange; Li Qingshan promised a protective treasure upon his return.

Li Qingshan rescued Zhang San, Zhang Wu, and their village from a bandit gang, then searched the bandit chief for information about the forces near the Primordial Ancient Mine. With the way ahead clear, he turned his attention to seeking Great Emperor Wushi's legacy and the Source Heaven Book.

• Third Master Zhang and Fifth Master Zhang organized the villagers to defend themselves as the one-eyed bandit leader demanded Source Stone and threatened to kill them.
• Li Qingshan appeared and used Five-Colored Divine Light to seal the bandits' cultivation and terrify their horses.
• The bandit chief unleashed his Nether Ghost Head Banner, but Li Qingshan swallowed its tide of souls and destroyed the evil banner.
• Li Qingshan tortured the bandit chief with five-element power, searched his soul for information, and left him alive for the villagers to deal with.
• Li Qingshan vanished and turned toward Demon Mountain to seek Great Emperor Wushi's legacy and the Source Heaven Book.

Li Qingshan entered Purple Mountain through an ancient mine, using Divine Source Stone Skin to survive its dangers. He reached the mountain’s palace complex and found inscriptions left by earlier explorers, including God King Jiang Taixu.

• Li Qingshan chose the eastern dragon vein and equipped the Divine Source Stone Skin before entering the ancient mine.
• He quietly killed Demon Bats and passed ancient carvings depicting Great Emperor Wushi suppressing the Primordial Beings with the Beginningless Bell.
• Li Qingshan crossed a bone-filled region haunted by resentful ghosts, protected by the Sun True Scripture and Stone Garment.
• He waited for the Yin-Yang Eye’s lone-yang force to peak, then used the Stone Garment’s sacred radiance to cross its deadly sword Qi.
• Li Qingshan carved through Purple Mountain as the passage closed behind him and entered a palace complex within the mountain.
• He read inscriptions left by past explorers, including God King Jiang Taixu, Li Mu, Yang Yi, and Zhang Jiye.

Li Qingshan found the imprisoned God King Jiang Taixu, learned the Nine Secrets: Dou from him, and failed to break the seal trapping him. He left after Jiang Taixu warned him that hostile forces had been alerted, planning to find the Source Heaven Book and seek another way to save him.

• Li Qingshan resisted a demonic summons and followed Jiang Taixu's voice to a purple jade wall.
• Jiang Taixu revealed his identity and taught Li Qingshan the opening stance of the Nine Secrets: Dou.
• Li Qingshan quickly grasped the stance, prompting Jiang Taixu to pass on the complete Battle Saint Method.
• Li Qingshan used the Saint's alchemy furnace and Solar Divine Power to attack the jade wall, but its Great Emperor-level formation markings repelled him.
• Jiang Taixu warned Li Qingshan to leave and forbade him from bringing the Jiang Family into danger, then fell silent.
• Li Qingshan bowed to Jiang Taixu and left to seek the Source Heaven Book and another way to rescue him.

Li Qingshan ventured into Purple Mountain, found the Source Heaven Book, and continued toward the mountain’s heart. He reached the Wushi Scripture but could not move the sealed stone book without Great Emperor Wushi’s approval.

• Li Qingshan used his knowledge of the route and his protections to pass through Purple Mountain’s dangerous passages while resisting the demonic summons.
• He found Zhang Jiye’s remains, buried them with a marker, and paid his respects before taking the Source Heaven Book.
• Li Qingshan stored the Source Heaven Book in his Bitter Sea and pressed deeper into Purple Mountain.
• He reached a vast cavern and saw the Wushi Scripture resting on a massive stone platform.
• Li Qingshan tried to touch and move the Wushi Scripture, but Great Emperor Wushi’s seal kept it immovable.

Li Qingshan awakened the Beginningless Bell with the broken Emperor Jade and asked it to free Jiang Taixu from Purple Mountain. The Beginningless Bell refused, citing its duty to guard the seal, and Li Qingshan declared that he might be the variable capable of changing the outcome.

• Li Qingshan found inscriptions from Jiang Taixu and Gu Tianshu praising Great Emperor Wushi, then the broken Emperor Jade sent its light into the Wushi Scripture and awakened the Beginningless Bell.
• The Beginningless Bell examined Li Qingshan and identified his physique as an Immortal Fetus with a hidden variable of vast potential.
• Li Qingshan introduced himself to the Beginningless Bell and asked permission to explain his plea for Jiang Taixu.
• Li Qingshan explained that Jiang Taixu was trapped, near death, and unable to escape the Great Emperor's formation patterns without help.
• The Beginningless Bell refused to intervene, saying Jiang Taixu's calamity was ordained and that altering the seal could endanger Purple Mountain's guarded secret.
• Li Qingshan argued that the Great Emperor's Dao lineage should not remain dormant and said he might become the variable that could change things.