Recaps

Lu Li and Yinyang Qingfan were tracked down at sea by Chu Changyue, a Venerable of the Central Continent, and prepared to face him despite Qingfan's weakened state. As Chu Changyue approached with overwhelming Mahayana pressure, Yinyang Qingfan invoked Immortal Dao: Yin-Yang Descent.

• Yinyang Qingfan told Lu Li that a Central Continent Venerable was tracking them and that escape was impossible, then vowed to hold him off so Lu Li could flee.
• Lu Li sent Comrade Azure Mountains his contingency plans, including what Primordial Beginning and the Dao Court should do if he died.
• Lu Li accepted the danger and angrily lamented that the Hundred Schools of the Central Continent might prevent his return to Blue Star.
• Chu Changyue appeared, identified Lu Li as the Western Continent's Dragon Calamity, and advanced with formidable Mahayana pressure.
• Chu Changyue dismissed Yinyang Qingfan as no threat, and she silently invoked Immortal Dao: Yin-Yang Descent.

Yinyang Qingfan and Chu Changyue clashed in a Mahayana battle that injured them both, while Chu Changyue targeted Lu Li with a deadly attack. Lu Li unleashed his Divine Ability, Overturning a Nation, and Chu Changyue faltered at the sight of its immortal and godly phantoms, giving Yinyang Qingfan an opening.

• Yinyang Qingfan summoned Yin-Yang millstones and attacked Chu Changyue, who answered with a giant hand formed from Dao Laws.
• Their Divine Abilities collided, throwing them from the void and evaporating a vast stretch of the sea; both were injured, though Yinyang Qingfan was more exhausted.
• Chu Changyue decided to kill Lu Li first, then wear down Yinyang Qingfan, fearing Lu Li could threaten his Lineage in the future.
• Chu Changyue formed a whip of Dao Law light and lashed it toward Lu Li, who activated Overturning a Nation instead of dodging.
• Chu Changyue faltered when he saw the immortals and gods above Lu Li's Divine Ability, and Yinyang Qingfan seized the opening.

Yinyang Qingfan sacrificed her Divine Soul essence to help Lu Li battle Chu Changyue, and the clash created a ten-thousand-li forbidden sea where all three vanished. Three years later, a young moray eel named A Lei struck a dark statue in the forbidden waters, and it began to glow after A Lei turned away.

• Yinyang Qingfan used her Divine Soul essence to unleash a complete Great Dao Law, and Dongfang Jiangxue realized the sacrifice would leave her unable to awaken without a supreme Divine Soul treasure.
• Chu Changyue poured his Legalist Dao Laws into his whip and attacked Lu Li, who resisted with his Dragon Qi and Divine Ability.
• Yinyang Qingfan's Dao Law blocked Chu Changyue's attack, and the combined clash devastated the sea, leaving Lu Li, Yinyang Qingfan, and Chu Changyue missing within a ten-thousand-li forbidden zone.
• Three years later, A Lei, a young moray eel, secretly entered the forbidden sea and ate fragments of wondrous power near its outskirts.
• A Lei struck a dark stone statue with a bolt of lightning, then turned away as the statue slowly began to glow.

Lu Li awakened after three years unconscious beneath the sea and discovered that both Yinyang Qingfan and the Venerable of the Central Continent had survived the battle but fallen dormant. He decided to keep the Venerable alive to delay the Central Continent’s response and looked to the Starry Sky Immortal Market as his only chance to survive.

• A Lei’s lightning awakened Lu Li, who found himself beneath the sea three years after the battle with the Venerable of the Central Continent.
• Lu Li discovered that A Lei could devour fragments of Dao Laws, subdued it, and learned that the forbidden sea had appeared three years earlier.
• Lu Li searched the sea and found Yinyang Qingfan and the Venerable of the Central Continent unconscious inside two enormous undersea mounds.
• Lu Li determined that both cultivators were alive but dormant, and decided not to kill the Venerable because his death could prompt the Central Continent to send another Venerable.
• Lu Li concluded that he needed to imprison the Venerable’s Divine Soul to delay the Central Continent and identified the Starry Sky Immortal Market as his only chance to survive.

Lu Li decided to seek the Starry Sky Grand Market for a Divine Soul treasure to awaken Yinyang Qingfan, but he did not know where it was. After securing a Central Continent Venerable’s Divine Soul and carrying Yinyang Qingfan toward the Dao Court, he contacted Great Xia, where Li Qingshan visited the Martyrs’ Cemetery three years after Lu Li was presumed dead.

• Lu Li realized he needed to find the Starry Sky Grand Market to obtain a Divine Soul treasure and awaken Yinyang Qingfan, but he did not know its location.
• Lu Li took the Central Continent Venerable’s storage Law Treasure, destroyed his body, and imprisoned his dormant Divine Soul in the jade pendant’s space.
• Lu Li assessed the jade pendant’s growth and carried Yinyang Qingfan toward the Dao Court while trying to break the Mahayana imprint on the storage treasure.
• Lu Li awakened the jade pendant and sent a message to Great Xia after three years without contact.
• Great Xia mourned Lu Li as a fallen hero, while Li Qingshan, now a Golden Core True Lord and Bureau 749’s head, went alone to the Martyrs’ Cemetery.

Three years after Lu Li’s presumed sacrifice, Li Qingshan, Xu Mu, and Zhang Xuanqing remembered him and vowed to continue his work against the Silent Ruins. The chapter ended when Li Qingshan received an emergency report that Lu Li had sent a message.

• Li Qingshan visited Lu Li’s statue and promised that Great Xia would carry on resisting the Silent Ruins.
• Li Qingshan met Xu Mu and Zhang Xuanqing at a private restaurant, where they discussed their divine inheritances and the strange sense that something was watching them.
• Zhang Xuanqing mentioned that Lu Dahai had taken a puppet crew to Uranus aboard an enhanced fifth-tier arcane ship.
• Li Qingshan, Xu Mu, and Zhang Xuanqing vowed to continue the work Lu Li had begun.
• Bureau 749 contacted Li Qingshan through its emergency channel and reported that Lu Li had sent a message.

Lu Li told Li Qingshan he had survived the battle and explained his plan to delay the Hundred Schools while searching for the Starry Sky Immortal Market. After finally breaking open the Central Continent sovereign’s storage Law Treasure, he discovered it was shockingly poor.

• Li Qingshan hurried to Bureau 749’s command center and spoke with Lu Li through the glowing fish-shaped jade pendant.
• Lu Li explained that he had destroyed the Central Continent sovereign’s Mahayana body, taken his Divine Soul, and planned to make the Hundred Schools believe the sovereign was still alive.
• Lu Li told Li Qingshan that he needed to find the Starry Sky Immortal Market to obtain resources and help awaken Yinyang Qingfan, then asked Li Qingshan to reassure Lu Dahai.
• Lu Li struggled to break the sovereign’s storage jade bracelet and finally shattered its Mahayana imprint by forcing in Spiritual Power, Dragon Qi, and Essence Blood.
• Lu Li searched the Law Treasure with his Divine Sense and was stunned by how little it contained.

Lu Li read Chu Changyue’s letter explaining why his storage Law Treasure was empty and learned that the Venerable had left his resources to his descendants before facing death. Lu Li’s worries eased, allowing him to break through to Void Return Great Perfection, but a Jade Slip revealed that the Miscellaneous School’s roots lay in the Starry Sky Immortal Market.

• Lu Li found only letters and Jade Slips in Chu Changyue’s storage Law Treasure and discovered a letter addressed to him.
• Chu Changyue explained that he had given his resources to his descendants and removed his bonded Spirit Artifact before leaving the Central Continent, then asked Lu Li to spare his bloodline.
• Lu Li’s indignation and anxiety faded, and the essence absorbed from a demon Venerable triggered his breakthrough to Void Return Great Perfection.
• Lu Li read a Jade Slip that claimed the Miscellaneous School’s true roots lay in the Starry Sky Immortal Market.

Lu Li discovered directions to the Bone Mountain Immortal Market in Chu Changyue’s records and began planning a journey there to seek resources and accelerate his cultivation. He and Great Xia arranged to prepare the Dao Court and mislead the Central Continent, but concealing Lu Li’s presence remained a serious problem as Yinyang Qingfan stirred in his Law Power.

• Lu Li read Chu Changyue’s Jade Slips and learned that the Miscellaneous School’s founder had come from the Bone Mountain Immortal Market.
• Lu Li found directions to the market, including a route to a Star River Ferry, and considered seeking treasures and cultivation resources there.
• Lu Li contacted Great Xia, which supported his journey and planned to prepare trade goods and use its technological advantages.
• Lu Li and Great Xia devised a plan for the Dao Court’s provinces to appear divided and chaotic while secretly continuing to develop.
• Li Qingshan warned Lu Li that experts who could read fate or aura might expose him, and Lu Li worried that he lacked adequate concealment methods.
• As Lu Li frowned over the problem, Yinyang Qingfan trembled and gave a faint moan.

Lu Li learned a concealment method from Dongfang Jiangxue that Yinyang Qingfan had claimed could fool even a Supreme Mahayana cultivator. After arranging the Dao Court’s forces and gathering resources, he mastered the method and prepared to set out for the Starry Sky Immortal Market.

• Dongfang Jiangxue awakened in Yinyang Qingfan’s body, and Lu Li gave her spirit pills and reassured her before planning to return her to Changming.
• Dongfang Jiangxue revealed that Yinyang Qingfan had once claimed her concealment method could evade even a Supreme Mahayana cultivator, then taught Lu Li what she knew of it.
• Three months later, Lu Li reached the Eastern Expedition Army, entrusted Dongfang Jiangxue to Changming, and explained his plan to Primordial Beginning.
• Lu Li had Primordial Beginning secretly mobilize the Dao Court’s resources as bargaining chips for the Starry Sky Immortal Market.
• After another three months, Lu Li had mastered the concealment method and gathered the supplies, so he prepared to set out.

Lu Li left Eastern Desolation Star and entered the Imprisoned Dragon Starry Sky, intent on reaching the Star River Crossing and gathering treasures or knowledge for Great Xia. As he prepared to follow Chu Changyue’s recorded route, he sensed that Chu Changyue had awakened inside his jade pendant.

• Lu Li told Great Xia that Primordial Beginning, Changming, Changye, and Dong Qing would oversee the Dao Court while its forces stayed hidden and feigned chaos in the Eastern Wasteland.
• Lu Li vowed to repay the Hundred Schools of the Central Continent and set out alone, carrying the Dao Court’s gathered resources in his jade pendant.
• Lu Li climbed through Eastern Desolation Star’s astral winds, enduring increasing physical strain as he approached the planet’s outer boundary.
• Lu Li crossed into the Imprisoned Dragon Starry Sky, where fierce stellar astral winds wounded him, and protected himself with a spiritual barrier.
• Lu Li recalled Chu Changyue’s directions to a Star River Crossing route near Bone Mountain and sensed that Chu Changyue had awakened.

Lu Li questioned the awakened Chu Changyue about the Miscellaneous School and the Bone Mountain Immortal Market, but Chu refused to cooperate and tried to destroy his Divine Soul. Lu Li searched his soul instead, then continued through the starry sky with new information about the Jichen Star Domain and Bone Mountain.

• Lu Li sensed that Chu Changyue had awakened inside the fish-shaped jade pendant and entered its space to question him.
• Chu recognized Lu Li, suspected the Yin-Yang School was behind his defeat, and mocked Lu Li's plans to reach the Bone Mountain Immortal Market.
• Lu Li used the pendant's Dao Laws to restrain Chu Changyue after Chu tried to destroy his own Divine Soul.
• Lu Li searched Chu's soul, leaving him mindless and absorbing his memories about the Hundred Schools and the Miscellaneous School's ancestor.
• Lu Li learned that the Jichen Star Domain governed four stars and two continents, with Bone Mountain as their most prosperous place, and continued deeper into the starry sky.

After learning about the Jichen Star Domain from Chu Changyue’s memories, Lu Li flew through the starry sky toward Bone Mountain Immortal Market. He reached the Star River Ferry’s location, where two dazzling stars appeared covered in Artifact Inscriptions.

• Lu Li sorted through Chu Changyue’s memories and learned that the Jichen Star Domain contained four cultivation stars, two vast continents, and Bone Mountain Immortal Market.
• Lu Li resolved to seek opportunities in the starry sky, then sent his new information back to Blue Star for Great Xia to study.
• Lu Li continued flying under his own power, avoiding the costly and slower sixth-tier arcane ship.
• After more than a month, Lu Li reached the recorded location of the Star River Ferry, depleted from flying through astral gales and sparse spiritual energy.
• Lu Li searched for a way to board the ferry, then heard rumbles and saw Artifact Inscriptions covering the two stars ahead.

Lu Li learned that the Twin Star Ferry would transport passengers to the Bone Mountain Immortal Market through a teleportation array, then hired the guide Ling Yun'er to help him register and explain the route. Ling Yun'er hoped to become Lu Li’s maid or slave once they arrived at the market.

• A voice announced that the star array would take passengers to the Bone Mountain Immortal Market in ten days, and hidden cultivators emerged around the ferry.
• Magical boats arrived to collect passengers, and Ling Yun'er offered Lu Li her guiding services for a daily fee, with dual cultivation available at extra cost.
• Lu Li declined dual cultivation but hired Ling Yun'er to guide him and take him to pay the array fee.
• Ling Yun'er explained that Wind-Calming Stone protected her flying boat and robes from astral winds, then resolved to become Lu Li’s slave or maid at the market.

Lu Li arrived at Twin Star Ferry, paid the fee to use its teleportation formation, and searched for high-tier divine-soul treasures. As Ling Yun'er explained the region to him, he learned that others considered the Eastern Desolation Star worthless.

• Lu Li and Ling Yun'er entered Twin Star Ferry, where Lu Li marveled at its immense star formation and resolved to learn advanced cultivation techniques in the starry sky for himself and Great Xia.
• Lu Li paid ten million top-grade Spirit Stones for a token granting him access to the teleportation formation in ten days.
• Lu Li asked Ling Yun'er about divine-soul treasures, learned Twin Star Ferry lacked ninth-tier treasures, and considered visiting the Bone Mountain Immortal Market.
• Lu Li asked Ling Yun'er to explain Twin Star Ferry and the Jichen Star Domain, and she told him that others regarded the Eastern Desolation Star as worthless.

Lu Li learned why cultivators avoided the Eastern Desolation Star and waited with Ling Yun'er for the teleportation formation to the Bone Mountain Immortal Market. While studying the formation, he discovered signs of Dao-grade craftsmanship and heard that activation was beginning.

• Ling Yun'er told Lu Li that a disaster ten thousand years earlier had made cultivators fear the Eastern Desolation Star, and Lu Li suspected it was tied to Great Jin's destruction.
• Lu Li decided to wait for the Bone Mountain Immortal Market rather than keep exploring Twin Star Ferry, while Ling Yun'er continued trying to ingratiate herself with him.
• Ling Yun'er led Lu Li to the enormous teleportation formation, where nearly ten thousand cultivators gathered to travel to the immortal market.
• Lu Li studied the formation's inscriptions and sensed the power of Dao Laws, leading him to suspect that Dao-grade formation masters and immortal artisans had created it.
• A voice announced that the two-way formation to the Bone Mountain Immortal Market was about to activate and began a countdown.

Lu Li and Ling Yun'er teleported from Twin Star Ferry to the Bone Mountain Immortal Market, where Lu Li marveled at its vast scale and learned its layout. They flew toward Bone Heart City, and Lu Li saw the powerful cultivators and strange races filling the city.

• Lu Li arrived with Ling Yun'er at the Bone Mountain Immortal Market’s reception area after the teleportation formation activated.
• Ling Yun'er explained the market’s six areas and gave Lu Li a Jade Slip containing a map and information about the market.
• Lu Li decided to find a place to trade and launched his sixth-tier enchanted warship, impressing Ling Yun'er.
• Lu Li and Ling Yun'er flew from the reception area toward Bone Heart City, which sprawled across the skeletal palm.
• Lu Li surveyed the city’s crowds of cultivators and unfamiliar races, noting the many powerful beings gathered there.

Lu Li and Ling Yun'er arrived at Bone Heart City and visited the Four Seasons Immortal Pavilion to find high-tier Divine Soul treasures. The pavilion’s Deacon Liu presented three sets of eighth-tier treasures, leaving Lu Li startled by what they contained.

• Ling Yun'er guided Lu Li to Bone Heart City and recommended the Four Seasons Immortal Pavilion as a place with fair prices and fine goods.
• Lu Li learned that the Bone Mountain Immortal Market charged daily Spirit Stone fees for protection and forbade private fights under the authority of its Supreme master.
• Ling Yun'er told Lu Li that the Four Seasons Immortal Pavilion had been founded by the Ji Household of the Jichen Star Domain.
• Lu Li asked Deacon Liu for high-tier Divine Soul treasures, and she brought him a list and three sets of eighth-tier treasures.
• Lu Li saw illusory figures inside the boxes and realized that the treasures were the Divine Souls of Tribulation Transcendence cultivators.

Lu Li learned that the Four Seasons Immortal Pavilion sold Divine Souls processed into Medicine Souls and asked about ninth-tier Divine Soul treasures. When the prices proved beyond his means, he claimed he had a ninth-tier demon core, which the red-dressed woman valued at a starting price of ten billion Spirit Stones.

• Lu Li examined three eighth-tier Medicine Souls made from the Divine Souls of Tribulation Transcendence cultivators and heard how the Four Seasons Immortal Pavilion processed and sold them.
• The red-dressed woman offered Lu Li all three sets for one billion top-grade Spirit Stones and gave him a set of spirit tokens that waived teleportation fees three times.
• Lu Li asked whether the pavilion processed Divine Souls and whether it sold ninth-tier Divine Soul treasures, then learned that its two options cost three and five billion top-grade Spirit Stones.
• Lu Li decided he might trade his ninth-tier demon core but worried that revealing it could attract unwanted attention.
• Lu Li pretended his ancestor had rewarded him with a ninth-tier demon core and asked the woman to appraise it; she said its starting price was ten billion Spirit Stones.

Lu Li sold a ninth-tier yao core at the Four Seasons Immortal Pavilion and asked about resources to help him break through to Dao Integration. After rejecting the Immortal Seed Battle, he examined the pavilion’s offerings and found a ninth-tier treasure with no drawbacks priced at eighteen billion Spirit Stones.

• Lu Li exchanged a ninth-tier yao core for two ninth-tier Divine Soul treasures, two billion top-grade Spirit Stones, and a Four Seasons Token.
• Lu Li asked the red-dressed woman about eighth-tier natural spiritual materials and treasures that could help Void Return cultivators break through to Dao Integration.
• The woman described the Supreme Immortal Seed Battle and urged Lu Li to compete, but he declined because advancing his cultivation mattered more to him.
• Lu Li reviewed the pavilion’s breakthrough treasures and found their drawbacks unacceptable.
• Lu Li discovered that Divine Spirit True Sovereign Nature had no drawbacks, could help him comprehend an additional Dao Law, and cost eighteen billion Spirit Stones.

Lu Li considered entering the Supreme Immortal Seed Battle to earn the resources he needed, then witnessed three Mahayana Venerables displayed as spell slaves at the Four Seasons Immortal Pavilion. The sight overturned his understanding of the cultivation world, and he asked how much the captives cost.

• Lu Li found the eighteen-billion-Spirit-Stone price of Divine Spirit True Sovereign Nature beyond his means and reflected on his debt to Yinyang Qingfan.
• Lu Li decided the Supreme Immortal Seed Battle could provide the Spirit Stones and resources he lacked, while resolving to avoid attracting too much attention.
• Lu Li pretended to find nothing he wanted and left the Four Seasons Immortal Pavilion with the young matron in the red dress and Ling Yun'er.
• Three enormous, shackled Mahayana Venerables appeared above the pavilion, and the young matron explained that they were spell slaves scheduled for auction in ten years.
• Lu Li struggled to comprehend that Mahayana Venerables were being sold as merchandise, then asked the young matron their price.

Lu Li left the Four Seasons Immortal Pavilion still wondering why top-grade Spirit Stones were so valuable and whether he should enter the Supreme Immortal Seed Battle. After renting a cheap cave abode and dismissing Ling Yun'er, he secretly gave her a Jade Slip inviting her to return to Twin Star Ferry and gather information for him.

• Liu Zhixing recorded Lu Li's name on a token and said she hoped to see him at the auction ten years later.
• Lu Li rented an entry-grade first-tier cave abode for one top-grade Spirit Stone per day, deciding not to waste money while he considered the battle.
• Lu Li told Ling Yun'er she was no longer needed and disappeared before she could persuade him to keep her.
• Ling Yun'er found Lu Li's Jade Slip, which told her to wait at Twin Star Ferry and investigate its details in exchange for becoming his subordinate cultivator.

Lu Li reached Bone Heart City and reported to Li Qingshan about the Bone Mountain Immortal Market, including its strange Spirit Stone economy and the Supreme Immortal Seed Battle. After learning more about the competition, he decided to enter and aim for first place.

• Lu Li left Ling Yun'er at Twin Star Ferry with resources and instructions to gather information about the market’s powerful cultivators.
• Lu Li found his remote cave abode in Bone Heart City, set up a concealed protective formation, and connected with Blue Star through his jade pendant.
• Lu Li told Li Qingshan about the Bone Mountain Immortal Market’s prosperous interstellar cultivation civilization and the treatment of powerful cultivators as resources and slaves.
• Lu Li and Li Qingshan discussed why Top-Grade Spirit Stones held such authority in a cultivation world of many factions and powerful figures.
• Lu Li explained that the Supreme Immortal Seed Battle was a famous event held every ten thousand years and seemed intended to select future Supremes.
• Lu Li told Li Qingshan he planned to enter the Immortal Seed Battle, secure a placing, and try for first place.

Lu Li decided to enter the Supreme Immortal Seed Battle and aim for first place, hoping to gain a Supreme’s protection and enough strength to face the Central Continent crisis. After learning that his father Lu Dahai was stranded on Uranus amid abnormal changes, Lu Li set out to check on him.

• Great Xia’s command center was shocked when Lu Li announced that he intended to aim for first place in the Supreme Immortal Seed Battle.
• An officer warned that a high ranking could bring a Supreme’s favor and help resolve the Central Continent crisis, but Li Qingshan cautioned Lu Li about the deadly risks.
• Lu Li explained that he had no time to delay and chose to fight for strength rather than flee from the threats pressing on Great Xia.
• Li Qingshan ordered preparations for the Bone Mountain Immortal Market and Jichen Star Domain, while the Dao of Formations Research Institute reported progress on seventh-tier spatial technology based on Lu Li’s teleportation data.
• Lu Li agreed to seek more information about interstellar teleportation formations and discussed registering for the battle with Li Qingshan and the others.
• Li Qingshan told Lu Li that Lu Dahai was off-world on Uranus, where Spiritual Qi’s revival had made communication difficult; Lu Li then said he would go check on him.

Lu Li used the fish-shaped jade pendant to reach Uranus, where he guarded Lu Dahai as his father broke through to Nascent Soul. Lu Dahai succeeded, but four radiant statues emerged from Uranus’s liquid depths, and Lu Li recognized them as the Four Heavenly Kings Who Protect the World.

• Lu Li sent the fish-shaped jade pendant across the Solar System to Uranus and anticipated how its power might grow with his cultivation.
• Lu Li found Lu Dahai on a spellship, preparing to form his nascent soul, and guarded him with his Dharma manifestation.
• Lu Li discovered that Uranus’s diamond crystals contained Spiritual Qi and considered establishing a resource extraction base there.
• Lu Dahai shattered his golden core and successfully formed his nascent soul.
• Uranus’s liquid interior churned, and four resplendent statues emerged; Lu Li recognized them as the Four Heavenly Kings Who Protect the World.