Chapter Summaries

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.

Lu Li discovered that the Four Heavenly Kings statues on Uranus had taken root in his fish-shaped jade pendant and granted him their Dharma manifestations as a divine inheritance. After helping his father through Nascent Soul formation, he set out to search Neptune and Pluto for more inheritances.

• Lu Li stowed the Four Heavenly Kings statues in his jade pendant to keep their spiritual resonance from disturbing Lu Dahai's Nascent Soul formation.
• The statues settled into the jade pendant's space, and Lu Li summoned four Heavenly King Dharma manifestations that could fight under his command.
• Lu Li judged the manifestations powerful enough to contend with Perfected Void Return opponents and gained confidence ahead of the Supreme Immortal Seed Battle.
• Lu Li returned to Blue Star, congratulated Lu Dahai on forming his Nascent Soul, and shared guidance about Nascent Soul cultivation.
• After finding no other inheritances on Uranus, Lu Li headed to Neptune and Pluto to search for more.

Lu Li found no divine inheritance on Neptune, Uranus, or the sun, and he and Li Qingshan speculated that inheritances were tied to destined recipients and ultimately connected to the fish-shaped jade pendant and the Silent Ruins. After discovering a discrepancy between his travel-time memory and a recorder’s timestamps, Lu Li tested the flow of time between worlds and learned that a supposedly three-second transfer took 3.9 seconds.

• Lu Li searched Neptune, Uranus, and the sun with the fish-shaped jade pendant but found no divine inheritances, and he suspected they required a destined recipient to uncover them.
• Lu Li returned to Blue Star and told Li Qingshan about his search and the pendant’s abilities; Li Qingshan proposed that the inheritances were protective contingencies linked to the Silent Ruins and would ultimately return to the pendant.
• Li Qingshan assured Lu Li that Great Xia would monitor inheritance holders and promptly report anything unusual.
• Lu Li checked his recorder and found that his return from Pluto had taken about 9.8 seconds, despite his memory that it took more than fifteen seconds.
• Lu Li suspected that time flowed differently between the two worlds and asked Li Qingshan to time a spiritual material’s arrival; the command center’s timer showed 3.9 seconds.

Lu Li learned that time was passing more slowly on Blue Star than in the Imprisoned Dragon Realm, deepening the danger facing Great Xia and the realm. He resolved to win first place in the Supreme Immortal Seed Battle and reached Heaven-Supporting Peak to register, where the Heavenly Thunder Holy Son arrived.

• Li Qingshan confirmed that 3.9 seconds had passed on Blue Star while a different amount of time passed in the Imprisoned Dragon Realm, and he pledged to pursue breakthroughs in high-tier Spirit Machinery.
• Lu Li decided to take first place in the Supreme Immortal Seed Battle to gain resources and deal with the Hundred Schools of the Central Continent.
• Lu Li flew from Bone Heart City toward Heaven-Supporting Peak, reflecting on the Immortal Market's layout and the mysteries surrounding the Bone Mountain Supreme and the realm's changing history.
• Lu Li arrived at Heaven-Supporting Peak to find the registration site, as cultivators identified the arriving Heavenly Thunder Holy Son of the Thunder Abyss Holy Land.

Lu Li arrived at Bone Mountain Immortal Market to register for the Supreme Immortal Seed Battle and discovered that several powerful heavenly geniuses had gathered there. As he assessed the competition, he wondered whether four of the most prominent newcomers all came from Supreme factions.

• Lei Yaocang, the Heavenly Thunder Holy Son of Thunder Abyss Holy Land, arrived at Bone Mountain Immortal Market and declared that a Supreme should win through struggle rather than choose the easiest contest.
• Lu Li learned that the Supreme Immortal Seed Battle was also being held at the Ji Household and resolved to pursue first place despite the formidable opponents.
• Lu Li entered the white bone hall to register and saw Lei Yaocang pushed to the edge of a crowd gathered around four exceptional young cultivators.
• The crowd identified the four as Su Tianlan, Jian Wujiu, Ao Jin, and You Jun, personal disciple of the Bone Mountain Supreme.
• Lu Li studied the four and suspected that all of them were heavenly geniuses from Supreme factions.

Lu Li observed several powerful outsiders arrive to enter the Bone Mountain Supreme Immortal Seed Battle, including Jian Wujiu, Su Tianlan, and Ao Jin. After registering, he faced the prospect of competing against them and entered his own name, determined to pursue first place.

• Lu Li watched You Jun confront Jian Wujiu, Su Tianlan, and Ao Jin at the registration hall.
• Lei Yaocang joined them excitedly, but the three outsiders barely acknowledged him.
• Ao Jin, Su Tianlan, and Jian Wujiu revealed they had come on their fathers’ orders to enter Bone Mountain’s Supreme Immortal Seed Battle.
• You Jun left to report their intentions, and the outsiders departed while Lei Yaocang went to register.
• Lu Li recognized the newcomers as formidable rivals, then registered for the battle as a perfected Void Return cultivator.

The Bone Mountain Supreme warned You Jun that he would remain his disciple only if he won the Supreme Immortal Seed Battle, while privately reflecting on the world’s long obstruction of ascension. After buying star charts, Lu Li learned about the Jichen Star Domain’s major powers and discovered that Eastern Desolation Star was marked with an X.

• The Bone Mountain Supreme learned from You Jun that prodigies claiming Supreme backing had come to join the Bone Mountain Supreme Immortal Seed Battle, then told You Jun to win first place in three years or lose their master-disciple status.
• The Bone Mountain Supreme wondered whether another being had noticed the world’s disorder and complained that he had been unable to ascend after thirty thousand years.
• Lu Li heard thunder over Heaven-Supporting Peak, then returned to Bone Heart City and bought star charts of the Jichen, Chaotic, and Ten Thousand Demons Star Domains.
• Lu Li studied the charts and learned that the Jichen Star Domain included powerful factions such as the Heavenly Firmament Sword Sect, the Thunder Abyss Holy Land, and the Ji Household.
• Lu Li noticed that Eastern Desolation Star was marked with a huge X on the map.

Lu Li studied maps of the neighboring star domains and weighed the powerful rivals awaiting him in the Supreme Immortal Seed Battle before entering three years of secluded cultivation. Meanwhile, on Eastern Desolation Star, Bing Wuji gathered the Hundred Schools leaders and asked who would investigate Chu Changyue's three-year absence.

• Lu Li found only a warning and an X on the map of Eastern Desolation Star, then learned that the neighboring Chaotic Star Domain contained over eight hundred factions and was ruled by the Supreme faction Chaotic Star Palace.
• Lu Li read that the Ten Thousand Demons Star Domain was dominated by demon clans, led by the Coiled Chi Clan, and identified Ao Jin as another formidable battle contender alongside Su Tianlan, Jian Wujiu, and You Jun.
• Lu Li returned to his cave abode to cultivate for three years, aiming to perfect his condition before the Supreme Immortal Seed Battle while keeping in contact with Great Xia.
• Bing Wuji gathered the leaders of the Hundred Schools for the seventh time and asked who would investigate Chu Changyue, who had been gone for three years without sending word.

Bing Wuji pressed the schools to send another Venerable to investigate Chu Changyue’s disappearance, but they argued that the Dragon Calamity might already be gone. The Technique School offered to send its Void Return bloodline descendant Qing Huayu instead, leaving the schools to consider the proposal.

• Bing Wuji demanded that the schools send a Venerable to investigate after Chu Changyue had been missing for years.
• Lord Shang objected that the Military School had already gained much from the other schools and that they could not spare Venerables lightly.
• The Technique School’s head argued that the Dragon Calamity might have vanished and that sending another Venerable could be pointless.
• Bing Wuji dropped the demand for a Venerable but asked the Legalist School to provide a Tribulation Transcendence cultivator as a safeguard.
• The Technique School’s head proposed sending Qing Huayu, a Void Return descendant with a Fate Pattern, to investigate instead.
• The other school heads recalled that Qing Huayu had fled during the earlier fight, but the Technique School’s head insisted he could handle the investigation.

After the schools left the matter of the Western Continent Dragon Calamity to the Technique School’s Heavenly Fate prodigy, Bing Wuji prepared changes for the Military School. Far away, Qing Huayu settled on an island in the Endless Sea, but a message from his bloodline suddenly called him back to the Western Continent.

• Lord Shang accepted the Technique School head’s offer to investigate and vanished, while the other schools agreed to wait and see.
• Bing Wuji remained uneasy about the Dragon Calamity and ordered preparations to recultivate selected branch-family members in chosen bodily shells.
• Qing Huayu reached a remote island in the Endless Sea and decided to settle there, relieved to have escaped the Western Continent Dragon’s karma.
• Qing Huayu enjoyed a peaceful afternoon with tea on the beach until a message from his bloodline urged him to return to the Western Continent.

After the Technique School ordered Qing Huayu to return to the Western Continent and investigate Dragon Fate and the Venerable of the Miscellaneous School, he decided to flee the Eastern Wasteland instead. Equipped with supplies from the main family, he left the Eastern Desolation Star and ventured into outer space.

• Qing Huayu received the Technique School's Bloodline Summons and resolved not to obey its order to return to the Western Continent.
• Fearing punishment from the Hundred Schools, Qing Huayu decided to leave the Eastern Wasteland and risk traveling among the stars.
• Qing Huayu secretly told the Technique School he would prepare for a year, while the clan agreed to send him supplies and demanded information within ten years.
• A year later, Qing Huayu received the supplies, including the seventh-tier protective spirit armor he had requested.
• Qing Huayu rose through the planetary gales, donned the armor, and stepped into outer space toward the Imprisoned Dragon Realm.