Recaps

Lu Li tested Falling Firmament against a Ninth-Turn True Immortal and killed him, earning the fifth major merit he needed for an Extreme Realm True-Transformation Pill. He headed back to Wangyao Immortal City to claim the pill and prepare to break through before pursuing the Trial Immortal Realm.

• Lu Li used Falling Firmament to shatter a Ninth-Turn True Immortal’s defenses and cripple him, then finished him with Eternal Sinking Finger.
• Lu Li gained his fifth major merit and planned to exchange it for an Extreme Realm True-Transformation Pill to reach Ninth-Turn True Immortal.
• Lu Li reflected that Falling Firmament had grown powerful after devouring the Jade Capital Immortal Palace and collected the defeated immortal’s treasures.
• Lu Li resolved to devour the Trial Immortal Realm, believing Falling Firmament and his other treasures could threaten Human Immortals.
• Lu Li flew toward Wangyao Immortal City to reunite with Ye Chenfeng, Bone Mountain, and the others and plan resource exchanges to strengthen Great Xia.

Lu Li returned to Wangyao Immortal City after reflecting on Emperor Lords and the path from Dao Seed to Dao Root, then used an Extreme Realm True-Transformation Pill to break through. He achieved Ninth-Turn True Immortal and emerged from seclusion with his cultivation ready to advance further.

• Lu Li considered Emperor Lord Ji Wan, the nine lifetimes required to become an Emperor Lord, and how his king seed would shape his future Dao Root.
• Lu Li returned to the Great Xia Immortal Workshop and reunited with Ye Chenfeng, who had reached Fourth-Turn True Immortal while managing the shop.
• Lu Li exchanged ten major merits at the Immortal City Prefecture for an Extreme Realm True-Transformation Pill.
• Lu Li entered secluded cultivation in the shop and swallowed the pill, enduring its immense power as it tempered his body, soul, and Dao Seed.
• Lu Li's Dao Seed opened its ninth fissure, and he achieved Ninth-Turn True Immortal.

After reaching Ninth-Turn True Immortal, Lu Li prepared to enter the Trial Immortal Realm outside Wangyao Immortal City to devour it and strengthen Falling Firmament. As he entered alone, a mysterious woman in dark-gold robes noticed his rapid cultivation and used Mind-Reading, despite her attendant's warning.

• Lu Li broke through to Ninth-Turn True Immortal and reflected on the unpredictable, mind-focused Human Immortal Tribulation.
• Lu Li told Ye Chenfeng and the others to close the shop and prepare for unforeseen developments while he pursued a fortuitous opportunity in the Trial Immortal Realm.
• Three days later, Lu Li flew out of Wangyao Immortal City and entered the Trial Immortal Realm alone.
• Ye Chenfeng noticed a strange immortal watching the group and led the others closer to the city for safety.
• The dark-gold-robed woman wondered which family Lu Li came from, while her hunchbacked attendant warned her against using Mind-Reading carelessly.

A curious woman in dark-gold robes decided to remain in Wangyao Immortal City to see Lu Li, while Lu Li prepared to draw out the Trial Immortal Realm’s will and have Falling Firmament devour it. His plans were interrupted when the wounded Crimson Crow pursued three True Immortals, and Lu Li appeared before it.

• The woman in dark-gold robes ignored Uncle Fu’s advice to leave and chose to wait for Lu Li to emerge from the Trial Immortal Realm.
• Lu Li surveyed the Trial Immortal Realm and considered how devouring immortal realms could help Falling Firmament grow into a Small Thousand World.
• Crimson Crow fought three Ninth-Turn True Immortals, who detonated a lifebound Immortal Artifact and escaped after wounding it.
• Crimson Crow chased the fleeing True Immortals, but Lu Li suddenly appeared before it with his blood-black halberd.
• Crimson Crow recognized Lu Li and froze.

Lu Li encountered Crimson Crow in the Trial Immortal Realm and learned that Three-Legged Golden Crow True Blood could advance his spirit-concealing technique. After using their battle to draw out the realm's will, he let Crimson Crow escape and concealed his presence as the will searched for him.

• Lu Li confronted Crimson Crow, which surrendered after sensing his Ninth-Turn True Immortal presence.
• Crimson Crow revealed that Three-Legged Golden Crow True Blood could transform the Feather Transformation into a Thousand Shadows Spirit-Concealing Art into the stronger Nine Feathers Ten Thousand Shadows Spirit-Concealing Art.
• Lu Li asked Crimson Crow to fight him and help draw out the Trial Immortal Realm's will, while secretly holding back his strength.
• When the realm's will emerged, Lu Li told Crimson Crow to leave, and Crimson Crow fled the Trial Immortal Realm.
• Lu Li activated his spirit-concealing art to hide from the realm's will, then called for Falling Firmament.

Lu Li used Falling Firmament to devour the Trial Immortal Realm, destroying it and leaving its guardians unable to explain what happened. As the two Human Immortal officials moved to detain the trial participants, a woman intervened and called Lu Li over to speak.

• Lu Li released Falling Firmament, which silently absorbed the Trial Immortal Realm's Immortal Power, Great Dao, and earth vein essence.
• The realm's will and the two Human Immortal officials searched for the source of its dwindling essence, but Lu Li remained concealed and undiscovered.
• Falling Firmament consumed the realm's final essence, causing the Trial Immortal Realm to shatter and depositing its participants outside Wangyao Immortal City's eastern gate.
• Lu Li concealed his role and blended into the bewildered crowd as the two officials threatened to detain everyone who had taken part in the trial.
• As Lu Li prepared to fight rather than be detained, a clear female voice ordered the officials to bring over the True Immortal in the blue robe for a chat.

Di Yunxi and her powerful attendant Uncle Fu intervened after Wangyao Immortal City’s Trial Immortal Realm shattered, then Di Yunxi privately told Lu Li her name before leaving. Lu Li sensed an unexpected change in the Falling Firmament World and hurried away from the city with Ye Chenfeng and the others to investigate.

• Di Yunxi ordered the two Wangyao Immortal City officials to release the True Immortals, and Uncle Fu used a token to make them comply.
• Uncle Fu restrained Lu Li while Di Yunxi asked him which Jade Capital household he belonged to, and Lu Li said he was not an immortal of the Jade Capital.
• Di Yunxi stopped Uncle Fu from rebuking Lu Li and privately told him her name before she and Uncle Fu departed through a spatial fissure.
• Lu Li wondered about Di Yunxi’s name, then sensed a change in Falling Firmament and called for Ye Chenfeng and the others to leave Wangyao Immortal City.
• Lu Li entered the Falling Firmament World with his immortal sense and reacted with delighted surprise at the effect of the Trial Immortal Realm.

Lu Li discovered that the Trial Immortal Realm had accelerated the Falling Firmament World's evolution and decided to use its time dilation to prepare for the Human Immortal Tribulation. After his companions chose to leave Wangyao Immortal City for the Profound Cavern Immortal Sect's territory, Lu Li entered Falling Firmament and asked it to seal his memories and innate wisdom while he tempered his heart.

• Lu Li learned that devouring the Trial Immortal Realm would accelerate Falling Firmament's evolution for ten years, equivalent to about a thousand years of development.
• Lu Li instructed Falling Firmament to protect the humanoids as the Sea Race and Demon Race advanced rapidly, and discovered that A Lei could cultivate during the accelerated time.
• Lu Li concluded that he could enter Falling Firmament to temper his heart and draw forth the Human Immortal Tribulation without cultivating his Law Power.
• Lu Li and Ye Chenfeng's group decided to leave Wangyao Immortal City and head for the Profound Cavern Immortal Sect's territory.
• Lu Li entered Falling Firmament in his true body and asked Falling Firmament to seal his memories and innate wisdom while he tempered his heart.

Lu Li sealed his memories and power to undergo the Human Immortal Tribulation, and Falling Firmament sent his true spirit into a new life as Lu Sheng. Lu Sheng grew up in a poor village, married Xiuhe, and began a family, leaving his tribulation still unfolding.

• Lu Li explained that the Human Immortal Tribulation required him to reclaim his humanity, then asked Falling Firmament to seal his memories and protect his true spirit until the tribulation appeared.
• Falling Firmament sealed Lu Li's immortal power, soul, memories, and innate wisdom, then sent his will-marked immortal soul into its realm.
• A baby was born to a poor family in Lu Family Village, and his parents named him Lu Sheng.
• Lu Sheng grew up working the fields, briefly sensed something when Teacher Sun spoke of the gods, and later watched two immortal masters fly across the sky.
• At twenty, Lu Sheng married Xiuhe, and she gave birth to their son the following spring.

Lu Sheng lived two lives: first as a farmer who found peace in ordinary life, then as a gifted cultivator who rejected cultivation and devoted himself to farming. After his death, the Falling Firmament Will announced that his Human Immortal Tribulation had arrived.

• Lu Sheng raised a family as a farmer, watched his father die, and chose a peaceful ordinary life over pursuing immortality.
• Lu Sheng died at sixty-seven and was reborn as the son of Immortal Master Lu, who named him Lu Sheng.
• Lu Sheng showed exceptional dual Spirit Roots and rapid cultivation, but found that advancing made him feel trapped, so he turned to farming.
• Lu Sheng's father died after failing Foundation Establishment, and Lu Sheng distributed his remaining pills before returning to the fields.
• At 132, Lu Sheng died after wishing not to cultivate in his next life, and the Falling Firmament Will declared that his Human Immortal Tribulation had come.

Lu Li realized he was undergoing the Human Immortal Tribulation, which placed him in a vivid version of his life on Blue Star as a mortal. After years of working to help his family repay debt, his memories of cultivating immortality began to fade, and he wondered whether he had ever transmigrated at all.

• Lu Li woke in a hospital after ten years in a vegetative state, and his family and doctors celebrated his recovery.
• Lu Li learned that his family had gone into debt paying for his treatment, then returned home with his parents after two months.
• Lu Li found work as a warehouse records clerk and gave most of his salary to his mother to help repay the family’s debts.
• Over the next three years, Lu Li’s routine and struggles wore him down, while his memories of the immortal realms grew increasingly blurred.
• Lu Li began to wonder whether he had ever transmigrated.

Lu Li spent decades believing his cultivation memories were a dream, but a failed search for Bureau 749’s supposed predecessor left him quietly certain that his ordeal was a tribulation. At eighty, as his life ended, he awoke in a pitch-black space and faced a young man who asked how he had realized the truth.

• Lu Li doubted his memories of cultivation and accepted that he was an ordinary mortal while struggling to support his family.
• After seeing a fish-shaped jade pendant on the news, Lu Li went to the address he remembered for the Security Bureau and found only a private company.
• Lu Li returned home and spent the following years working, saving money, and staying close to his family.
• Forty years later, as Lu Li lay dying at eighty, he remembered Di Yunxi and murmured that they should meet again.
• Lu Li’s breathing stopped, his surroundings dissolved into darkness, and a young man identical to him asked how he had realized it was a tribulation.

Lu Li overcame his Human Immortal Tribulation by recognizing the mortal world as an illusion, then broke through to First-Transcendence Human Immortal aboard the mystic vessel. With his Dao Root emerged, he prepared to set its affiliation and discovered it was a Territory-Enfeoffing Root.

• Elderly Lu Li explained to his younger self that a flaw involving the General Administration of Security had made him suspect the mortal life was an illusion, though he spent forty years doubting rather than seeking certainty.
• Elderly Lu Li confirmed the illusion was false, causing the mortal world and its memories to crumble away.
• Falling Firmament realized Lu Li had overcome the tribulation and urged him to leave the Falling Firmament World before breaking through to Human Immortal.
• Lu Li appeared aboard the ninth-tier mystic vessel, where Ye Chenfeng, Bone Mountain, and the others watched him undergo his breakthrough.
• Lu Li’s body and immortal soul transformed under the Immortal Dao Principles, and he became a First-Transcendence Human Immortal.
• Lu Li’s Dao Seed split and produced a Dao Root, which he identified as a Territory-Enfeoffing Root.

Lu Li established the territory-enfeoffing Dao Root, drawing power from Imprisoned Dragon Heaven and Great Desolation Heaven to complete his Human Immortal breakthrough. He recognized that this power tied his foundation to both realms and began considering how to obtain the Profound Cavern Immortal Sect’s methods of divination without joining it himself.

• Lu Li chose the territory-enfeoffing Dao Root, which grew stronger through the prosperity and faith of his domains.
• The Great Dao manifested across Imprisoned Dragon Heaven, while the Great Xia Milky Way Federation’s national fortune also flowed to Lu Li.
• Lu Li’s Dao Root solidified, and the power drawn from both realm heavens strengthened his Great Dao and pressured those outside his secluded chamber.
• Lu Li emerged and told Ye Chenfeng and Bone Mountain little about his breakthrough, while realizing Emperor Lord Ji Wan might trace his Dao karma.
• Lu Li anticipated reaching the Profound Cavern Immortal Sect and plotted to obtain its calculation methods without joining it himself.

Lu Li considered using a soul fragment to enter the Profound Cavern Immortal Sect and learn an Immortal Method, but Ye Chenfeng explained why the plan would be extremely difficult. Meanwhile, Di Yunxi’s Karma-Net Mirror revealed a Nine-Clawed Golden Dragon behind her Seven-Colored Imperial Phoenix, prompting her to turn back toward Wangyao Immortal City, where she hoped to see Lu Li again.

• Lu Li proposed sending a soul fragment to possess a body and cultivate anew in the Profound Cavern Immortal Sect, but Ye Chenfeng warned that reaching True Immortal and learning an Immortal Method that way would be exceedingly difficult.
• Lu Li set the idea aside and reflected on how the Immortal Realm’s laws, scarce cultivation methods, and monopolized resources constrained his progress.
• Di Yunxi felt an unexplained stirring in her heart, and the hunchbacked old man used the All-Heavens Karma-Net Mirror to inspect her karma.
• The mirror showed a Nine-Clawed Golden Dragon flashing behind Di Yunxi’s Seven-Colored Imperial Phoenix, startling the old man and prompting him to urge her to return to her father.
• Di Yunxi agreed to turn back and thought she might see the immortal in green robes again while passing through Wangyao Immortal City.

Lu Li and his companions arrived at the Profound Cavern Great Market seeking a safe place to cultivate and a chance to obtain an immortal method of the Dao of Calculation. After the Profound Cavern Immortal Sect’s divination treasure suffered a backlash, the sect lord recruited skilled immortals to repair it, offering a major reward and access to the scripture repository.

• Ye Chenfeng gave Lu Li an identity token and explained the Profound Cavern Great Market’s entry fees as they approached.
• Lu Li entered the market with his companions, intending to find a cave abode and pursue an immortal method of the Dao of Calculation.
• The Lesser Divination Heavenly Cycle Immortal Instrument appeared over the market, then cracked and unleashed a heaven’s-secrets backlash that destroyed nearby immortal vessels and killed their passengers.
• Lu Li carried Ye Chenfeng and the others ten thousand li away and used his Immortal Power to resist the spreading aftershocks.
• The Profound Cavern Immortal Sect’s lord suppressed the damaged instrument and announced a recruitment order, offering one hundred thousand low-grade immortal crystals and a choice of immortal method from the scripture repository to anyone who helped repair it.

Lu Li was marked by the Profound Cavern Immortal Sect and forced to attend its invitation to repair an Immortal Treasure. After being made to perform a sect initiation ceremony, he sensed the sect’s karmic Qi signature and realized something was wrong.

• Lu Li suspected the Profound Cavern Immortal Sect’s lavish reward of an Immortal Method concealed a dangerous scheme and considered leaving the Profound Cavern Great Market.
• The sect used starlight to mark Lu Li and other immortals skilled in artifact refinement, formations, and calculation, then summoned them to repair its Lesser Divination Immortal Instrument in three days.
• Lu Li told Ye Chenfeng to remain in the Great Market while he went to the sect with the other marked immortals.
• The welcoming immortal led the group to an ancient altar and required them to perform a sect initiation ceremony before repairing the Immortal Treasure.
• After the ceremony, Lu Li recognized the Profound Cavern Immortal Sect’s karmic Qi signature and realized they were in danger.

Lu Li and the other immortals discovered that the Profound Cavern Immortal Sect had bound them to its karmic backlash and forced them to repair the Lesser Divination Heavenly Cycle Immortal Instrument. As the repairs continued and immortals died, Lu Li sensed the deadly Tribulation Qi descending toward him.

• Lu Li and the gathered immortals realized the sect induction had linked them to the Profound Cavern Immortal Sect's karmic backlash, but the receiving immortal threatened them into helping repair the sect's Immortal Treasure.
• The receiving immortal led the group to the enormous, cracked Lesser Divination Heavenly Cycle Immortal Instrument, where they began repairing it using their respective Dao skills.
• A True Immortal working on the instrument died when Tribulation Qi poured from his body, and a ninth-revolution Human Immortal stopped others from fleeing and forced them back to work.
• Over half a month, dozens of immortals died from the backlash as they repaired the instrument.
• Lu Li grew increasingly wary, then felt a gray, withered thread of Tribulation Qi descend toward him through his karmic connection.

Lu Li recognized the heavenly backlash as coming from Ji Wan, but it retreated before harming him. Ji Wan grew wary of Lu Li and ordered immortal envoys to hurry to the border of Imprisoned Dragon Heaven, where Zhou Changfeng led his subordinates toward an uncertain assignment.

• Lu Li sensed an ashen presence, recognized it as Ji Wan’s backlash, and watched it retreat without harming him.
• Ji Wan realized the backlash had encountered Lu Li and grew cautious, then sent strange Law Power through time.
• Ji Wan ordered the immortal envoys bound for Imprisoned Dragon Heaven to hasten to its border and await orders.
• Zhou Changfeng received the imperial command, gathered his subordinates, and set course for Imprisoned Dragon Heaven through Mystic Capital Heaven.
• Zhou Changfeng wondered who the Emperor Lord was guarding against and remembered that his younger clansman Zhou Du had accepted a related task.

After helping restore the Profound Cavern Immortal Sect's Lesser Divination Heavenly Cycle Immortal Instrument, Lu Li received a complete Immortal Method from the sect's hidden elder. He left for a rented cave abode and began studying the method, unaware that the elder suspected their karma was not truly settled.

• The Profound Cavern Immortal Sect rewarded the surviving immortals with one hundred thousand low-grade immortal crystals and a choice of an Immortal Method, but its receiving immortal led Lu Li away from the group.
• An unseen elder told Lu Li he was no longer a disciple of the Profound Cavern Immortal Sect and gave him a jade counting rod containing the sect's complete Immortal Method.
• Lu Li left the sect's outpost and headed to the Profound Cavern Great Market to find a safe place to study the method.
• A bloodied gray-robed elder revealed that divining the cause behind the Imperial Discourse had brought heavenly backlash and that he could not divine Lu Li's origins.
• Lu Li rented a cave abode rich in Immortal Power, took out the jade counting rod, and immersed his immortal sense in it.

Lu Li comprehended the Profound Cavern Immortal Method, discovered its connection to the River of Time, and used it to advance to Second-Transformation Human Immortal. He then prepared to calculate the six's exact locations.

• Lu Li witnessed a phantom of the River of Time in his Sea of Consciousness as he comprehended the Profound Cavern Immortal Method for three years.
• Lu Li used the method to reveal Lu Dahai's past, present, and future selves, though he could not clearly discern his father's future.
• Lu Li deflected a mild backlash from the Dao of Calculation with his ninth-tier Cultivation Method.
• Lu Li replaced his old cultivation method with the Profound Cavern Immortal Method, causing his Immortal Power to surge.
• Lu Li formed a second Dao Root and broke through to Second-Transformation Human Immortal.
• Lu Li decided his new strength should let him calculate the six's exact locations.

Lu Li used the Profound Cavern Immortal Method to locate his six disciples and discovered that Lu Changming was in Mystic Capital Heaven. When Lu Li tried to divine Changming’s past life, the figure warned him to stop before a powerful backlash injured him; afterward, Lu Li located the other disciples across several heavens and wondered what would happen if he divined Di Yunxi.

• Lu Li divined Lu Changming’s location and learned that he was in the Stargazing Immortal Sect in Mystic Capital Heaven.
• Lu Li attempted to uncover Lu Changming’s past and future lives, but could not see his future self.
• Lu Changming’s past self appeared in azure lotus imperial robes, addressed Lu Li as Master, and urgently warned him to end the divination.
• Lu Li dispersed the Profound Cavern Immortal Method and suffered a backlash that left him injured.
• Lu Li located his other disciples across Grand Yin Heaven, Blood River Heaven, Nine Netherworlds Heaven, Treasure Circulation Heaven, and Return to Zero Heaven.
• As Lu Li prepared to recover, Di Yunxi’s name came to mind and he wondered about divining her.

Lu Li restored his cultivation in the Profound Cavern Great Market while Xie Yuanjun disbanded the Profound Cavern Immortal Sect, triggering violent unrest. Xie Yuanjun then confronted Lu Li over the backlash from the Imperial Discourse and revealed that the sect’s Immortal Method came with a hidden scheme.

• Lu Li decided against divining Di Yunxi and focused on recovering his cultivation so he could search for Changming.
• Xie Yuanjun concluded that the Profound Cavern Immortal Sect should avoid the Imperial Discourse and declared that the sect would cease to exist.
• The sect’s dissolution sparked fighting over territory and resources across its islands and the Profound Cavern Great Market.
• Ye Chenfeng and the others gathered outside Lu Li’s cave abode, but Lu Li told them to wait while he emerged from seclusion.
• Xie Yuanjun appeared inside Lu Li’s cave abode and asked how Lu Li had dispersed the backlash from divining the Imperial Discourse.
• Xie Yuanjun told Lu Li that the Profound Cavern Immortal Method was not free, and Lu Li realized he had been scheming against him for three years.

Xie Yuanjun revealed that he had lured Lu Li into the Profound Cavern Immortal Sect to exploit his fortuitous opportunity, then used the sect’s fortune to obscure Lu Li’s karmic origins and seize him. Lu Li awoke inside a grain of sand with his physical body missing, while his companions were left behind and Bone Mountain was killed.

• Lu Li realized Xie Yuanjun had deliberately drawn him into the Profound Cavern Immortal Sect and given him the Immortal Method to deepen their karma.
• Xie Yuanjun explained that he had spent the sect’s fortune to obscure Lu Li’s origins, then reached for him and destroyed the cave abode.
• Xie Yuanjun took Lu Li away, leaving Ye Chenfeng and the others unable to pursue them.
• Bone Mountain tried to divine Lu Li’s whereabouts, but Xie Yuanjun’s backlash killed him and turned his body to ash.
• Xie Yuanjun examined a grain of sand and sent spiritual light into it, causing Lu Li to awaken there without his physical body.

Xie Yuanjun trapped Lu Li’s Divine Sense in his Grotto-Heaven World to force him through countless reincarnations and uncover his past lives and fortuitous opportunities. As Lu Li reincarnated into a mortal man, Falling Firmament secretly reached him, while Lu Li recognized a karmic connection between Xie Yuanjun and Ji Wan.

• Xie Yuanjun confined Lu Li’s Divine Sense in his Grotto-Heaven World and threatened to reincarnate him until his origins and opportunities were revealed.
• Lu Li sensed a familiar karmic connection to Emperor Lord Ji Wan and suspected Xie Yuanjun had noticed him when he repaired the Profound Cavern Immortal Sect’s Immortal Treasure.
• As Xie Yuanjun cast Lu Li into a mortal life, Lu Li called for Falling Firmament, and a speck of light entered his Divine Sense unnoticed.
• Lu Li reincarnated as a middle-aged man in a farming household and acted as though nothing was wrong while Xie Yuanjun watched for several years.
• Xie Yuanjun withdrew his immortal sense and left to deal with loose ends concerning Jade Capital Heaven’s Imperial Discourse.