Recaps

Great Xia and Lu Li held a meeting about the merged nine realms, the integration of Great Xia with the Litian Dao Court, and the lingering danger of the Silent Ruins. The Great Desolation Heavenly Dao revealed that large-scale wars were forbidden for a thousand years, and the chapter ended with Li Qingshan setting a goal to surpass lords and stand against venerables within that time.

• Li Qingshan and the others discussed the threats posed by Emperor Lord Ji Wan and the powers of the various greater worlds, while admitting they had no answer about the Silent Ruins.
• The Great Desolation Heavenly Dao descended at the Mount Baiwang base, and Lu Li connected with its will so it could join the meeting.
• The Great Desolation Heavenly Dao explained that the nine Heavenly Daos would govern separate territories and that large-scale warfare using the Great Dao was forbidden for a thousand years.
• The Heavenly Dao shared a rough star chart of the nine realms, revealing their immense scale and the unknown gaps between their territories.
• Great Xia and Lu Li planned cooperation with the Litian Dao Court and the development of resources across the expanded territories.
• Li Qingshan declared that Great Xia and Lu Li had to surpass lords and stand against venerables within a thousand years to resist Emperor Lord Ji Wan.

Great Xia and Lu Li assessed the dangers of the newly unified nine realms and laid out a thousand-year plan to survive and grow strong enough to resist Emperor Lord Ji Wan. The conference ended with a chilling question about whether Ji Wan’s subordinates could even contend with the Heavenly Dao.

• The Great Desolation Heavenly Dao announced that the Heavenly Daos of the nine realms would meet to discuss the new realm.
• Lu Li and the others recognized that the Great Desolation and Imprisoned Dragon Heavenly Daos were among the weakest, but noted that Lu Li had protection from both and the Great Thousand Heavenly Decree.
• Li Qingshan presented Great Xia’s nine-part thousand-year strategic plan, covering realm integration, cultivation, trade, defenses, and preparations against Ji Wan and the Silent Ruins.
• Li Qingshan warned that Ji Wan could send powerful subordinates as assassins or expendable fighters despite restrictions on crossing realms.
• Someone at the conference asked what would happen if Ji Wan’s subordinates could contend even with the Heavenly Dao.

After a nine-day meeting finalized plans for the unified nine realms, Lu Li took a rare three-day break with his family on Blue Star. He returned to Bureau 749’s cultivation base resolved to protect them despite the pressure of Ji Wan’s threat.

• The leaders confirmed the meeting’s nine major outlines, while upheavals across the newly unified realms and Blue Star prompted Great Xia to assess its resources and situation.
• Lu Li returned to his family’s old apartment, where Liu Xiulan, Lu Dahai, and Lu Yao welcomed him with dinner and a holographic game.
• While Lu Li and Lu Yao played, Lu Dahai and Liu Xiulan urged them to consider marriage; Lu Li agreed to think about it.
• Lu Li cherished the family’s evening together and vowed to protect them, but Ji Wan’s threat weighed on him.
• After three days, Lu Li returned to Bureau 749’s cultivation base to consolidate and demonstrate his True Immortal power.

Lu Li explained the Immortal Dao to Bureau 749’s researchers, then chose the Imperial Dao as his Great Dao Seed and entered the True Immortal realm. He advanced through six turns in one sitting and, sensing he could go further, considered pushing through another turn.

• Lu Li explained the Immortal Dao realms and Great Dao Seeds to researchers at Bureau 749.
• Lu Li chose the Imperial Dao, shattered his 108 Dao Laws, and planted the golden [King Seed] in his Dantian.
• Lu Li explained that True Immortals advanced through nine turns and faced a deadly Seed-Splitting Tribulation at each turn.
• Lu Li broke through from First-Turn to Sixth-Turn True Immortal as the researchers watched.
• Lu Li sensed he might still have strength for another breakthrough and wondered whether to push further.

Lu Li became a Seventh-Turn True Immortal and helped Great Xia test his abilities, revealing how immense the gap was between immortals and their current resources. He then used White Bone Dream to investigate six people and discovered that they were in the same world as him.

• Lu Li completed seven turns as a True Immortal, stopped before the dangerous eighth tribulation, and began strength tests for Great Xia.
• Lu Li demonstrated extraordinary speed and strength, while Bureau 749 and the research institutes recorded his abilities and tested his immortal power, Great Dao, and Immortal Artifact.
• Lu Li realized that Great Xia and the Dao Court lacked immortal resources and methods, and considered visiting other Immortal Realms after settling matters with the Dao Court and Blue Star.
• Lu Li activated White Bone Dream atop Mount Kunlun to investigate the six and was shocked to discover that they were in the same world as him.

After the nine realms merged, Lu Li considered how to grow stronger and unravel the Great Desolation’s connection to the Silent Ruins and the immortals’ final charge. He explored the transformed Jade Pendant World, where A Lei told him he might be ready to ascend.

• Lu Li sensed that his six disciples were now in the same world and planned to return to Imprisoned Dragon before seeking opportunities in other greater worlds.
• Lu Li reflected on the Great Desolation’s lost immortals and gods, their warning about the Silent Ruins, and the unanswered reasons they had entrusted him with the Great Desolation.
• Lu Li summoned the merged fish-shaped jade pendant and entered its interior, discovering that it had absorbed the Jade Capital Immortal Palace and become a vast world.
• Lu Li surveyed the Jade Pendant World’s lands, life, and starry sky, noting that its creatures had grown stronger and that some were nearing humanlike development.
• A Lei, now a Supreme-level Mahayana thunder eel, flew to Lu Li and excitedly said he thought he could ascend.

Lu Li brought A Lei into the starry sky to ascend, while reflecting on the fish-shaped jade pendant’s new powers and naming it Falling Firmament. A Lei successfully became a True Immortal, and Lu Li prepared to return with him to Imprisoned Dragon.

• Lu Li asked the fish-shaped jade pendant’s Artifact Spirit to help A Lei ascend, but it said its space could not yet produce guiding immortal light.
• Lu Li took A Lei into the starry sky, where A Lei summoned the guiding immortal light and began his transformation.
• Lu Li considered the jade pendant’s evolving powers and named the Immortal Artifact Falling Firmament.
• A Lei completed his ascension, transformed into a lightning beast, and took human form as a True Immortal.
• A Lei told Lu Li he would choose a Great Dao seed, and Lu Li said they would return to Imprisoned Dragon together.

After the nine realms merged into the Supreme Unity Infinite Realm, Lu Li recognized that the new laws and Ji Wan’s threat made strengthening Great Xia urgent. Meanwhile, Ji Wan attended a Jade Balance Immortal Court council, where the Emperor Venerable arrived.

• A Lei began cultivating under Lu Li’s watch and prepared to attempt the second revolution of True Immortal.
• The nine Heavenly Daos proclaimed the new Supreme Unity Infinite Realm, established its nine heavens, and decreed laws governing ascension, conflict, and the Heavenly Alliance.
• Lu Li considered his influence in Great Desolation Heaven and Imprisoned Dragon Heaven, but resolved that Great Xia must grow stronger quickly to withstand Ji Wan’s followers.
• The Jade Balance Immortal Court summoned its leading Emperor Lords, Immortal Venerables, and Immortal Lords to Pure Void Hall after the new realm’s establishment.
• Ji Wan wondered whether Lu Li had influenced Imprisoned Dragon’s advancement and considered using the Immortal Court to find him.
• The Jade Balance Emperor Venerable was announced before the assembled leaders.

The Jade Balance Emperor Venerable ordered Ji Wan to hold an Imperial Discourse with the other greater worlds. Ji Wan accepted the assignment and used her Karmic Net Vein to organize attendance while planning to investigate Lu Li.

• The Jade Balance Emperor Venerable summoned the immortals and asked about plans for the Boundless Nine Heavens.
• The Jade Balance Emperor Venerable ordered Ji Wan to proceed with the Imperial Discourse, and she respectfully accepted.
• After the Jade Balance Emperor Venerable left, three Emperor Lords disparaged Ji Wan and hinted at their opposition to her.
• Ji Wan told her trusted immortal to prepare materials and contact the greater worlds, resolving to hold the Imperial Discourse and search for Lu Li.
• Ji Wan used her Karmic Net Vein to summon images of seven realm heavens and arranged for immortal figures to attend the Imperial Discourse.
• In Mystic Capital Heaven, Lu Changming sensed something was wrong as he looked into the void.

Lu Changming sensed a hidden danger around Liu Xuanji, but an imperial decree summoned the Stargazing Immortal Sect to select immortals for the first Imperial Discourse Assembly of the newly united Boundless Realm. Lu Changming and Liu Xuanji met as opponents in the sect’s selection, leaving their contest about to begin.

• Lu Changming sensed that Liu Xuanji carried a subtle threat and decided to investigate him before leaving for Imprisoned Dragon Heaven.
• An imperial decree announced that the Jade Balance Immortal Court would hold an Imperial Discourse Assembly three hundred years later and called for the sects under the Mysterious Capital Jade Capital to send immortals.
• The Stargazing Immortal Sect held a selection gathering to choose True Immortal, Human Immortal, and Earth Immortal disciples for the delegation.
• Liu Xuanji entered the True Immortal selection platform, where Lu Changming appeared as his opponent.

Liu Xuanji and Lu Changming fought in the Immortal Selection Assembly, with Lu Changming’s [Calamity Seed] repeatedly neutralizing Liu Xuanji’s cause-and-effect attacks. As Liu Xuanji began to lose, he activated an unexplained trump card, and Lu Changming sensed unprecedented danger.

• Liu Xuanji used Cause and Effect Reversal, but Lu Changming’s [Calamity Seed] countered the force of cause and effect.
• Liu Xuanji attacked with Star Plunge and other Stargazing Immortal Sect methods, while Lu Changming blocked them and transferred away their karmic effects.
• After thousands of exchanges, Liu Xuanji grew tired and his attacks became disordered, while Lu Changming remained composed.
• Liu Xuanji, driven to the edge of the ritual platform, activated a hidden burst from his [Cause Seed].
• Lu Changming felt the danger warning from [Calamity Seed] peak and realized something was wrong.

Lu Li returned to Imprisoned Dragon Heaven and found Bone Mountain, Ye Chenfeng, and the others had become immortals. He invited them to join him in exploring the other realm-heavens, while Ye Chenfeng warned that Ji Wan remained a threat.

• Liu Xuanji's power of karma alarmed Lu Changming, but the Stargazing Immortal Sect's supreme elder seized Liu Xuanji and carried him away.
• Lu Changming later learned that he and Liu Xuanji were both listed among the immortals, and that the supreme elder had died during his tribulation.
• As the Jade Balance Immortal Court prepared to host an Imperial Discourse, Lu Li traveled toward Imprisoned Dragon Heaven to gather his people.
• Lu Li returned through the star gate to Litian Continent, where Bone Mountain, Ye Chenfeng, and the others greeted him as newly ascended immortals.
• Ye Chenfeng warned Lu Li that Ji Wan remained dangerous, and Lu Li invited everyone to explore the other realm-heavens with him.

Lu Li gathered his companions and set out with five others for Mystic Capital Heaven, leaving Yinyang Qingfan, Elder Jian, and Xuanzhenzi to oversee Imprisoned Dragon Heaven. After an eighty-year journey, they reached Wangyao City, where Lu Li considered using his Dao-Tier immortal artifact-refining skills to earn resources.

• The Supremes of Bone Mountain and Lu Li’s other companions agreed to follow him through the Boundless Realm and explore the Great Dao together.
• Lu Li assigned Yinyang Qingfan and Elder Jian to manage the Dao Court, prepare trade with Great Xia, and monitor potential ascensions; Xuanzhenzi would help keep the remaining Supremes in check.
• Lu Li chose Mystic Capital Heaven as their destination, and he, Ye Chenfeng, True Immortal Bone Mountain, True Immortal Ten Thousand Demons, True Immortal Heaven-Dominating, and True Immortal Suanni traveled there.
• After eighty years, Lu Li and his companions arrived at Wangyao City in Qingyao Immortal Domain and learned it was a vast neutral city where the Six Sects of Qingyao maintained outposts.
• Lu Li wondered how to earn cultivation resources and considered returning to artifact refining with his Dao-Tier immortal artificer skills.

Lu Li and his companions arrived in Wangyao Immortal City to register an artifact-refining shop, while Ye Chenfeng explained the city’s laws and the Immortal Dao’s cultivation attainments. Lu Li claimed to be a Dao-Tier Immortal Artificer, and the Immortal City Prefecture summoned Qin Xu to verify him.

• Ye Chenfeng explained that Wangyao Immortal City was governed by the Immortal City Prefecture and that Immortal Methods were strictly controlled across the Immortal Realm.
• Ye Chenfeng described the attainments of the Immortal Dao’s major realms, and Lu Li decided to seek cultivation resources by opening an artifact-refining shop.
• Lu Li and his companions reached the Immortal City Prefecture and learned that a shop needed a letter from one of the six great immortal sects or a resident Dao-Tier Immortal Artificer.
• Lu Li said he was a Dao-Tier Immortal Artificer, prompting the clerk to summon Qin Xu for an examination.
• Qin Xu arrived and questioned whether Lu Li, a True Immortal, really was a Dao-Tier Immortal Artificer.

Lu Li passed the Immortal City Prefecture’s artifact-refining test and accepted a position as Guest Elder Immortal Artificer. He and his companions rented a shop in Wangyao Immortal City, leaving them with little money and a new foothold for Lu Li’s plans.

• Qin Xu tested Lu Li by asking him to refine three kinds of immortal ore together and repair a damaged artifact within a year.
• Lu Li repaired a basic immortal sword in one month, impressing Qin Xu with his precise craftsmanship and hand-engraved Artifact Inscriptions.
• Qin Xu offered Lu Li a position as Guest Elder Immortal Artificer, and Lu Li accepted after exchanging a glance with Ye Chenfeng.
• Lu Li and his companions traded ninth-tier spiritual materials for a shop lease and spent nearly half their wealth on a basic Immortal Artifact forging furnace and hammer.
• The group saw that the shop could not support everyone, so the venerables from Bone Mountain offered to take jobs elsewhere in the city.

Lu Li built the Great Xia Immortal Workshop’s reputation by taking combat-artifact orders at fair prices, drawing business away from the established Artifact Edge Pavilion. When He Yuanqing summoned him and demanded that he raise prices, Lu Li refused and challenged him to confront the dispute openly.

• Lu Li opened the Great Xia Immortal Workshop, and several True Immortals placed orders for combat artifacts.
• Lu Li forged the orders, and satisfied customers brought more clients until the workshop’s reputation and business grew.
• Zhou Chongyuan, whose Artifact Edge Pavilion lost nearly thirty percent of its orders, asked He Yuanqing to warn Lu Li.
• He Yuanqing summoned Lu Li to the Immortal City Prefecture and told him to raise prices and accept fewer orders.
• Lu Li rejected He Yuanqing’s demand, saying no regulation barred him from setting his own prices and that He Yuanqing was not qualified to make him bow his head.

Lu Li challenged Zhou Chongyuan and He Yuanqing to settle their dispute in the Trial Immortal Realm, where both sides entered with their allies. After the entrants were scattered across the battlefield-like realm, Falling Firmament sensed something it desperately wanted to devour.

• Lu Li decided to take the initiative against Zhou Chongyuan and learned that an Imperial Discourse between the Mysterious Capital Jade Capital and the Jade Balance Immortal Court was approaching.
• Lu Li summoned Bone Mountain, Ten Thousand Demons, Su Beixiao, and Suanni, then invited Zhou Chongyuan and He Yuanqing to meet him in the Trial Immortal Realm.
• Zhou Chongyuan gathered He Yuanqing and eight combat cultivators, and the two groups entered the realm together as a sixteen-person True Immortal trial party.
• The realm scattered the entrants across a ruined battlefield, and Lu Li began planning to regroup with his allies.
• Falling Firmament trembled with an intense urge to devour, and its Artifact Spirit cried, "Devour!!!"

Lu Li encountered Zhou Chongyuan and He Yuanqing in the trial immortal realm and killed them and their allies. He left with their storage artifacts, while Falling Firmament still wanted to devour the realm.

• Falling Firmament told Lu Li it wanted to devour the trial immortal realm to strengthen itself, but Lu Li decided to leave that plan for another time.
• Lu Li and his companions found Zhou Chongyuan and He Yuanqing with eight True Immortals near a ruined immortal tower, and the two ninth-turn True Immortals launched a joint attack.
• Lu Li blocked their attacks with his five-colored Immortal Power, then killed Zhou Chongyuan with Eternal Sinking Finger empowered by Overturning a Nation.
• He Yuanqing fled, but Lu Li struck him down with the pseudo-Dao Treasure golden seal.
• Lu Li helped Bone Mountain and the others defeat the remaining True Immortals, collected their storage artifacts, and remarked that plundering was faster.

Lu Li counted the Immortal Crystals, Immortal Artifacts, and pills he had taken from ten slain True Immortals, but found no Immortal Methods among their spoils. He resolved to conceal his Emperor Fate, avoid joining an immortal sect, and use his shop as cover while carefully choosing future targets to rob.

• Lu Li inventoried the ten True Immortals' storage artifacts and found about forty thousand Immortal Crystals, valuable Immortal Artifacts, and many pills.
• Lu Li asked Ye Chenfeng why the storage artifacts contained no Immortal Methods, and Ye Chenfeng explained that they could not be taught orally or copied onto jade slips.
• Ye Chenfeng told Lu Li that Immortal Methods and Immortal Artifacts could determine an immortal's combat strength, and Lu Li concluded that the slain True Immortals had lacked sect backing.
• Lu Li decided to hide his Emperor Fate and avoid becoming bound to an immortal sect, instead using his Qi Refinement shop and guest-elder status as cover while selecting targets carefully.
• Lu Li judged that he should wait before drawing the immortal realm's will or trying to make Falling Firmament swallow the Trial Immortal Realm, then planned to broaden his path to riches.

After returning to Wangyao Immortal City, Lu Li decided to hunt criminals for resources and cultivated until he broke through to Eighth-Turn True Immortal. He then began planning to forge an Immortal Artifact great halberd before taking on apprehension jobs.

• Lu Li distributed the spoils from Zhou He and the others, then asked Ye Chenfeng about jobs hunting immortal bandits.
• Lu Li assigned Ye Chenfeng and Bone Mountain to recruit Immortal Artificers and keep the shop running while he planned to seek targets at the Immortal City Prefecture.
• Lu Li cultivated with an Essence-Concentrating Return-to-Truth Pill and more than a thousand immortal crystals, breaking through to Eighth-Turn True Immortal.
• Lu Li ended his seclusion and decided to forge an Immortal Artifact great halberd using the Immortal Artifacts left by Zhou He and his companion.

Lu Li forged the intermediate Immortal Artifact Mountain-Splitting and sent his allies to establish a shop in Wangyao Immortal City. Meanwhile, Ji Wan prepared for the Imperial Discourse, balancing the Emperor Venerable’s designs on Great Desolation Heaven against her plans to investigate Lu Li and seize his hidden opportunity.

• Lu Li forged the intermediate Immortal Artifact Mountain-Splitting from immortal materials, Zhou He’s remaining artifacts, and three Immortal Inscriptions.
• Lu Li instructed Ye Chenfeng and the others, then went to the immortal city to choose targets to hunt.
• Ye Chenfeng recruited two True Immortal Artificers and reopened the Great Xia Immortal Workshop, while Bone Mountain and the others busied themselves in Wangyao Immortal City.
• Ji Wan learned that the realms had accepted the Jade Balance Immortal Court’s invitation to the Imperial Discourse and planned to use it to investigate Lu Li’s background.
• Ji Wan decided to send immortal envoys to Great Desolation Heaven and to realms bordering Imprisoned Dragon Heaven, keeping the latter party from entering without her permission.
• Ji Wan’s envoys set out for nearby realms, including Mystic Capital Heaven, which bordered Imprisoned Dragon Heaven.

Lu Li killed the wanted ninth-turn True Immortal Fei Jun and collected the merits and wealth from his remains. Seeking the Extreme Realm True-Transformation Pill to break through to ninth-turn, he headed for Withered Marsh Forest to hunt the elusive demon immortal Crimson Crow.

• Lu Li destroyed Fei Jun with his halberd, then took the storage ring and sent Fei Jun's lingering immortal soul into his jade token for merit.
• Lu Li counted his growing wealth and learned he still needed five more merit marks from hunting ninth-turn True Immortals to exchange for the Extreme Realm True-Transformation Pill.
• Lu Li reflected on the Immortal Realm's cultivation hierarchy and the way powerful immortals could escape punishment for their crimes.
• Lu Li studied the wanted notice for Crimson Crow, a ninth-turn demon immortal accused of embezzling spirit mines and killing their escorts and miners.
• Lu Li set out for Withered Marsh Forest, planning to draw Crimson Crow out by entering the demon's hiding place alone.

Lu Li entered Withered Marsh Forest to draw out Crimson Crow, a ninth-revolution Demon Immortal, and defeated him with a powerful golden seal. As Crimson Crow offered his clan’s concealment Secret Method to save his life, Lu Li wondered whether it could help Falling Firmament devour the Trial Immortal Realm.

• Lu Li entered Withered Marsh Forest, posing as a lone eighth-revolution True Immortal to lure Crimson Crow out.
• Crimson Crow attacked from above, but Lu Li countered with his halberd and forced him to reveal his colossal demonic form.
• Crimson Crow used Feather Transformation into a Thousand Shadows to scatter hundreds of confusing afterimages through the stone forest.
• Lu Li used an ancient golden seal to crush the stone pillars and destroy the afterimages until Crimson Crow’s true body was pinned and badly wounded.
• Crimson Crow offered to teach Lu Li his clan’s concealment Secret Method in exchange for his life, and Lu Li considered whether it could let Falling Firmament devour the Trial Immortal Realm.

Lu Li accepted Crimson Crow’s offer to teach him the Feather Transformation Thousand Shadows Spirit-Concealing Method in exchange for sparing his life, hoping to use it to infiltrate and devour the Trial Immortal Realm. After three years and four months of cultivation, Lu Li mastered the method and demonstrated that he could scatter his presence across the surrounding world.

• Lu Li decided the concealment method could help him secretly reach the Trial Immortal Realm and agreed to spare Crimson Crow while he learned it.
• Crimson Crow planted the Divine Ability’s seed in Lu Li’s Sea of Consciousness, then fled after Lu Li let him go.
• Lu Li spent three years and four months comprehending the Feather Transformation Thousand Shadows Spirit-Concealing Method.
• Lu Li used the method to scatter a thousand spirit-bearing afterimages across Withered Marsh Forest, concealing his presence within a million li.
• Lu Li reunited the shadows and declared that he had mastered the method.

After mastering the Feathered Ascension Thousand Shadows Spirit-Concealing Art, Lu Li set out to earn five more major merits before returning for a pill that would help him reach ninth-turn True Immortal. Meanwhile, Crimson Crow returned toward Wangyao Immortal City to enter the Trial Immortal Realm, believing Lu Li would remain absorbed in his epiphany for a century or more.

• Lu Li mastered the Feathered Ascension Thousand Shadows Spirit-Concealing Art after three years and set out to collect five major merits.
• Crimson Crow fled across Qingyao Immortal Domain, fearing pursuit and seeking a path to become a Human Immortal.
• Crimson Crow decided to enter the Trial Immortal Realm outside Wangyao Immortal City, hoping qualification for the Imperial Discourse would protect him from his wanted status.
• Crimson Crow reassured himself that Lu Li would need a century or more to finish comprehending his Divine Ability.
• Lu Li hunted exceptional ninth-turn True Immortals as whetstones for his combat skills and used Falling Firmament in battle.