Chapter Summaries

Qing Huayu set out into the starry heavens, but three black-robed Void Return cultivators ambushed him and overwhelmed him with coordinated attacks. Driven into a desperate counterattack, he unleashed his azure lotus Law Treasure on a massive scale, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Qing Huayu explored the stars in his seventh-tier spirit armor and searched for a place to rest as its protection drained his Spiritual Power.
• A sword Gang struck from behind, and three black-robed cultivators appeared and attacked Qing Huayu with Law Treasures and killing techniques.
• Qing Huayu defended himself with his azure lotus Law Treasure and spirit armor, but the attackers’ repeated strikes kept him suppressed and forced him to consume pills.
• Qing Huayu resolved to trade his life for an enemy’s and expanded his azure lotus into a ten-thousand-meter lotus that pressed down on the three cultivators.
• Qing Huayu declared that the star-roaming thieves were not so formidable after all.

After surviving repeated ambushes and starry-sky dangers, Qing Huayu reached Twin Star Ferry and learned about the upcoming Bone Mountain Supreme Immortal Seed Battle. Convinced that his strength made him eligible, he considered entering the competition.

• Qing Huayu defeated three bandit cultivators, took their possessions, and found coordinates to Twin Star Ferry in a jade slip.
• Qing Huayu followed the coordinates through repeated ambushes and natural hazards, eventually advancing to middle Void Return and growing more confident.
• Qing Huayu arrived at Twin Star Ferry and learned it was connected to the Bone Mountain Immortal Market.
• Qing Huayu overheard that the Bone Mountain Supreme Immortal Seed Battle would begin in a year and decided he qualified to enter.

Qing Huayu arrived at the Bone Mountain Immortal Market hoping to advance and compete in the Supreme Immortal Seed Battle, while Lu Li spent three years cultivating there and gathering Dao Law power from Dao Integration Demon Beasts. Lu Li prepared for the upcoming battle and wondered whether his jade pendant would still grant him Dao Laws after he entered Dao Integration.

• Qing Huayu reached the Bone Mountain Immortal Market, bought sixth-tier cultivation resources, and secluded himself while awaiting the Immortal Seed Battle.
• After three years of cultivation, Lu Li brought his Void Return realm to its perfected limits and accumulated the power of forty-nine Dao Laws by stripping them from Dao Integration Demon Beasts.
• Lu Li planned to buy more Demon Beasts after the battle, hoping to accumulate at least sixty Dao Laws before entering Dao Integration.
• Lu Li wondered whether his fish-shaped jade pendant would still strip away Dao Laws after he broke through, and resolved to spend his fortune on Demon Beasts beforehand to be safe.
• Lu Li recalled that he had obtained another divine inheritance on Blue Star, the Heavenly Venerable of Universal Transformation through the Thunderous Voice of the Origin Responding to the Nine Heavens.

Lu Li gained confidence for the Supreme Immortal Seed Battle after acquiring the Thunder Ancestor’s inheritance, then joined a million Void Return cultivators gathering at Bone Mountain. The Bone Mountain Supreme announced the rules for the battle and began to reveal its rewards.

• Lu Li recalled that he could summon the Four Heavenly Kings’ Dharma Manifestations and the Thunder Ancestor’s thundercloud, giving him new confidence for the battle.
• The Bone Mountain Supreme announced the start of the Immortal Seed Battle, and Lu Li left his cave abode to join the cultivators flying toward the five mountain peaks.
• Lu Li learned that avatars of the Heavenly Firmament Supreme Jian Tai'e, the Heaven-Dominating Supreme Su Beixiao, and the Ten Thousand Demons Supreme Ao Zhuyuan had come to watch alongside the Bone Mountain Supreme.
• The Bone Mountain Supreme ordered the cultivators to compete within the White Bone Secret Realm for White Bone Decrees, with rankings displayed inside and outside the realm.
• The Bone Mountain Supreme forbade artifacts, pills, and talismans of tier seven or above, allowed cultivators to escape by crushing a White Bone Decree, and began announcing the Supreme’s rewards.

The Bone Mountain Supreme announced unprecedented rewards for the Supreme Immortal Seed Battle, including a supreme-grade relic, an immortal seed, and succession to the Bone Mountain Immortal Market for first place. As the million contestants entered the White Bone Secret Realm, Lu Li resolved to win and use the Supreme’s protection to destroy the Hundred Schools.

• The Bone Mountain Supreme announced escalating rewards for the top ten thousand contestants, with first place receiving a Supreme’s protection and authority over the immortal market.
• Jian Tai’e questioned whether the Bone Mountain Supreme was giving up everything, and Ao Zhuyuan joked that his son might claim the Bone Mountain Immortal Market.
• The Supremes recognized that the battle would test whether anyone could still ascend after Mahayana, as their chosen heirs competed to become the strongest.
• The Bone Mountain Supreme opened a fissure into the White Bone Secret Realm and summoned a jade wall listing the million contestants.
• The contestants surged into the secret realm, driven by the rewards, while Lu Li resolved that if he won first place, the Hundred Schools would perish.

Qing Huayu decided to risk the Supreme Immortal Seed Battle after recognizing how much he stood to gain, then entered the White Bone Secret Realm with the other cultivators. After all million participants had entered, Su Beixiao added the Heaven-Reaching Mirror, a pseudo-immortal artifact, as a prize for first place, prompting Ao Zhuyuan to offer a treasure as well.

• Qing Huayu weighed withdrawing from the battle but resolved to fight for a top-ten-thousand ranking so he could gain cultivation resources and protection from his enemies.
• Qing Huayu spotted the name Lu Li among the contestants but assumed it belonged to someone else, then entered the White Bone Secret Realm.
• The last cultivator entered the realm, and the Supremes, Mahayana Venerables, and other spectators turned their attention to the jade-wall rankings.
• Su Beixiao offered the Heaven-Reaching Mirror, a pseudo-immortal artifact, as a prize for the first-place cultivator.
• Ao Zhuyuan agreed to add a treasure of his own.

The Supreme Immortal Seed Battle began as Lu Li entered the White Bone Secret Realm and searched for White Bone Decrees. After finding one, he discovered its glow could shine through a storage Law Artifact, potentially revealing its location to others.

• Ao Zhuyuan and the Heavenly Firmament Supreme added Ten Thousand Demons True Blood and Tianque Sword Intent to the battle’s prizes, joining Su Beixiao’s Heaven-Reaching Mirror.
• The Heaven-Reaching Mirror displayed the White Bone Secret Realm, and Lu Li entered alongside the scattered cultivators.
• Lu Li chose to search cautiously rather than fight immediately, while the rankings showed Lei Yaocang had already collected 29 White Bone Decrees.
• Lu Li found a glowing White Bone Decree wedged in dead wood, and his ranking increased to one when he picked it up.
• After Lu Li placed the decree in a storage Law Artifact, he noticed its light still shone through the artifact.

Lu Li collected White Bone Decrees across the secret realm but remained far behind in the rankings. At night, he encountered a cultivator who fled from his attack, leaving behind enough decrees to raise Lu Li's total to 401 and his rank to 493,210.

• Lu Li discovered that White Bone Decrees shone through storage Law Treasures and decided not to hide them inside his fish-shaped jade pendant.
• Lu Li searched the desert wilderness for two days, collecting 108 decrees and reaching rank 657,896.
• Lu Li searched more quickly at night, when the scattered decrees glowed across the ground.
• Lu Li encountered a Perfected Void Return cultivator and attacked with the Primordial Dragon-Slaying Instruction.
• The cultivator withdrew from the Immortal Seed Battle, leaving 280 White Bone Decrees behind.
• Lu Li collected the dropped decrees, bringing his total to 401 and his rank to 493,210.

Lu Li began hunting other cultivators after amassing more than four hundred White Bone Decrees, while Qing Huayu survived the first half-month of the Supreme Immortal Seed Battle and accumulated over a thousand. The chapter ended with Qing Huayu spotting a cultivator with a similar amount of decree light and deciding to attack.

• A shaken Void Return cultivator told a fellow cultivator that an unknown powerhouse had driven him from the White Bone Secret Realm with a terrifying saber strike.
• Lu Li collected several hundred White Bone Decrees, raised his total past four hundred, and decided to seek out other cultivators to hunt.
• The battle grew fiercer as cultivators hunted one another, and large groups were eliminated from the secret realm.
• Qing Huayu survived several close calls and amassed over a thousand White Bone Decrees in half a month.
• Qing Huayu saw that Ao Jin led the rankings with 110,000 decrees, followed by Jian Wujiu, Su Tianlan, and You Jun.
• Qing Huayu spotted an approaching cultivator whose decree light seemed comparable to his own and decided they would be his next prey.

Qing Huayu struggled against a better-resourced cultivator and nearly withdrew from the Immortal Seed Battle, but a dazzling newcomer’s arrival sent his opponent fleeing. Qing Huayu offered the newcomer his White Bone Decrees and himself as a lackey, then froze in shock after recognizing Dragon Fate.

• Qing Huayu and a middle-aged cultivator of equal cultivation fought, but neither gained the advantage at first.
• The middle-aged cultivator rejected Qing Huayu’s refusal to ally and pressed him with a stronger flying sword and greater reserves of spirit pills.
• Running low on Spiritual Power, Qing Huayu considered crushing his White Bone Decree to withdraw, while his opponent anticipated taking his decrees.
• A brilliant figure carrying a vast hoard of White Bone Decrees approached, and the middle-aged cultivator abruptly fled.
• Qing Huayu knelt in midair, begged the newcomer to spare him, and offered to serve as a lackey.
• When Qing Huayu moved close enough to recognize the newcomer, he froze and murmured, “Dragon Fate.”

Lu Li encountered Qing Huayu, a fellow bearer of Heavenly Fate who recognized his Dragon Fate and feared the danger it posed. Qing Huayu surrendered his Primordial Spirit imprint and White Bone Decrees, becoming Lu Li’s subordinate as Lu Li’s ranking rose to tenth.

• Qing Huayu recognized Lu Li’s concealed Dragon Fate, while Lu Li identified Qing Huayu’s Azure Lotus Fate Pattern and realized he could expose his identity.
• Qing Huayu approached Lu Li and offered to serve as his vanguard, explaining that he had fled the Hundred Schools and could help conceal Lu Li’s fate.
• Qing Huayu surrendered his Primordial Spirit imprint and White Bone Decrees, and Lu Li seized the imprint and stored the decrees.
• Relieved that Lu Li had accepted him, Qing Huayu pledged himself as Lu Li’s subordinate.
• Lu Li’s total reached 10,000 White Bone Decrees, placing him tenth in the ranking.

After entering the top ten, Lu Li used Qing Huayu and the glow of his White Bone Decrees to lure powerful cultivators and seize their tokens. Qing Huayu rose to eighth place, drawing attention in the Bone Mountain Immortal Market, where spectators mistook Lu Li’s assistance for his own power.

• Lu Li reached tenth place with ten thousand White Bone Decrees and decided to use their conspicuous glow to attract high-ranking cultivators.
• Qing Huayu told Lu Li that the Hundred Schools had ordered him to investigate Lu Li, then pledged to deceive them and aid the Dao Court.
• Lu Li transferred his decrees to Qing Huayu and had him travel ahead as bait while Lu Li ambushed cultivators who fled from the bright glow.
• Lu Li and Qing Huayu collected several thousand more decrees, then Lu Li defeated a ninth-ranked Perfected Void Return cultivator and took his fifteen thousand tokens.
• Qing Huayu rose to eighth place, and spectators at the Bone Mountain Immortal Market wondered who he was as the Heaven-Reaching Mirror showed Lu Li delivering him decrees.

The Supremes watched Lu Li’s strength and discussed the hope of ascension as the White Bone Secret Realm’s numbers dwindled to ten thousand cultivators. When the realm began shrinking, Lu Li and Qing Huayu chose to continue together, and Lu Li rose to sixth place.

• The crowd realized Lu Li had used Qing Huayu as bait while waiting to ambush opponents, and the Supremes praised his Five Spirit Roots and urged one another not to interfere with his fortune.
• The Ten Thousand Demons Supreme recalled how clandestine ascension had become increasingly difficult and said no demon venerable from his Star Domain had ascended in ten thousand years.
• After the number of cultivators fell to ten thousand, a voice announced that the immortal seed would appear and warned that the secret realm would shrink.
• Lu Li asked Qing Huayu whether he wanted to withdraw or continue, and Qing Huayu chose to stay by his side despite the danger.
• Lu Li exchanged White Bone Decrees with Qing Huayu, then reached sixth place with sixty thousand decrees.

Lu Li confronted Lei Yaocang, the fifth-ranked Holy Son, after deciding to pursue the top cultivators for their White Bone Decrees. Their battle escalated when Lei Yaocang unleashed his Thunder God Pillar, awakening a lightning-marked stone seal inside Lu Li’s jade pendant.

• Lu Li concluded that the shrinking boundary would draw the highest-ranked cultivators to him, and set out with Qing Huayu to challenge them.
• Lei Yaocang spotted Lu Li’s bright decree light and rushed to claim his White Bone Decrees, hoping to enter the top four.
• Lu Li recognized Lei Yaocang, and the two immediately began fighting as spectators watched their clash.
• Lu Li held off Lei Yaocang’s Nine Thunders Obscure the Heavens with his five-attribute Vajra Dharma Manifestation and Five Spirit Roots.
• Lei Yaocang formed ten lightning spears and used them to unleash his Thunder God Pillar at Lu Li.
• As the Thunder God Pillar descended, a lightning-marked stone seal inside Lu Li’s jade pendant began to awaken.

Lei Yaocang unleashed his strongest Thunder God Pillar against Lu Li, but Lu Li absorbed the attack and revealed overwhelming purple empyrean thunder. As powerful cultivators rushed toward the clash, Lei Yaocang recognized Lu Li’s thunder as the punishment of immortals and gods.

• Lei Yaocang used his Thunder God Pillar to strike Lu Li, but Lu Li remained unharmed inside a mysterious thundercloud and absorbed the raging lightning.
• Unable to see through the thunderstorm, Lei Yaocang consumed spirit pills and crushed thunder spirit source stones to strengthen his attack.
• Several top-ranked cultivators, including You Jun and a domineering figure seeking a White Bone Decree, sensed the battle and raced toward it.
• Lu Li unleashed purple empyrean thunder that shattered Lei Yaocang’s thunder spears and scattered his Thunder Spirit Cloud.
• Lu Li’s purple thundercloud spread across tens of thousands of li, and Lei Yaocang recognized it as the punishment of immortals and gods.

Lu Li defeated Lei Yaocang with Purple Firmament Lightning and rose to third place after collecting Lei Yaocang’s White Bone Decrees. As the four leading prodigies approached him in the White Bone Secret Realm, four golden suns appeared on the horizon.

• Lei Yaocang’s lightning and artifacts failed against Lu Li’s Purple Firmament Lightning, forcing him to crush a White Bone Decree and withdraw from the secret realm.
• Lu Li collected nearly a hundred thousand of Lei Yaocang’s White Bone Decrees, raising his total to 140,000 and his rank to third.
• Thunder Abyss Holy Land cultivators urged Lei Yaocang to investigate Lu Li’s extraordinary thunderclouds, while Lei Yaocang watched Lu Li’s name enter the top three.
• Ao Jin, Jian Wujiu, Su Tianlan, and You Jun headed toward Lu Li, and the Bone Mountain Supreme said the battle’s winner might free the Supremes from their Imprisoned Dragon predicament.
• Qing Huayu prepared to approach Lu Li, but four golden suns appeared on the horizon, startling him because the White Bone Secret Realm had no sun.

Lu Li faced the four Supreme successors and awakened invincible intent, choosing to fight rather than retreat. After Ao Jin insisted they deal with Lu Li first, Jian Wujiu challenged him, and Lu Li answered with the Primordial Dragon-Slaying Instruction.

• Qing Huayu urged Lu Li to retreat when the four Supreme successors approached, but Lu Li stayed and developed invincible intent.
• The four Supremes watching from Five Pillars Peak recognized Lu Li’s potential to become a Supreme if he won the battle.
• You Jun asked whether Lu Li had eliminated Lei, while Su Tianlan proposed either joining forces against Lu Li or fighting among themselves.
• Ao Jin sensed Lu Li as a threat and insisted they defeat him first, positioning himself to block Lu Li’s retreat.
• Jian Wujiu stepped forward to test Lu Li with his sword intent, and Lu Li countered by unleashing the sixth-tier Primordial Dragon-Slaying Instruction.

Lu Li fought Ao Jin after enduring his Coiled Chi Dragon Seal and Jian Wujiu’s sword intent, while the other contenders refused to gang up on him. Ao Jin summoned a Ten Thousand Demons Dragon Pearl, and Lu Li called forth the Four Heavenly Kings as the battle reached a new peak.

• Ao Jin ambushed Lu Li with his Coiled Chi Dragon Seal while Jian Wujiu’s sword intent struck from the front, but Lu Li blocked the dragon attack with Overturning a Nation.
• Jian Wujiu, You Jun, and Su Tianlan chose not to join the attack, while Ao Jin pressed on and revealed his true dragon form.
• Lu Li summoned his Vajra Dharma Manifestation and fought Ao Jin’s dragon body with his physical strength and five-spirit Divine Abilities as spectators watched in shock.
• Ao Jin brought out his Ten Thousand Demons Dragon Pearl, which filled the sky with eleven thousand powerful demon phantoms.
• Lu Li summoned the four stone statues within the fish-shaped jade pendant and called, “Four Heavenly Kings Who Protect the World... come forth!”

Lu Li summoned the Four Heavenly Kings Dharma Manifestation and challenged Ao Jin, Jian Wujiu, Su Tianlan, and You Jun to fight him. As the four geniuses unleashed their killing moves against him, the Bone Mountain Supreme sensed danger and urgently told Su to put away his treasure.

• Lu Li manifested the Four Heavenly Kings and invited the four geniuses to battle him.
• Su Tianlan accepted the challenge, and Jian Wujiu and You Jun joined him.
• Lu Li attacked Ao Jin, whose Yao phantoms were slaughtered by the Four Heavenly Kings while the other three helped him fight.
• Jian Wujiu, Su Tianlan, and You Jun unleashed their strongest attacks on Lu Li, shattering his Dharma Manifestation as his Purple Empyrean Thundercloud dimmed.
• The Bone Mountain Supreme sensed something was wrong and urgently ordered Fellow Daoist Su to put away his treasure.

Bone Mountain Supreme declared Lu Li the winner of the Supreme Immortal Seed Battle after Lu Li topped the rankings with 740,000 White Bone Decrees. He seized the rival Supremes’ successors and promised to confine them for a thousand years, claiming they might then have a chance to ascend.

• Bone Mountain Supreme withdrew the Heaven-Reaching Mirror and told Heaven-Dominating Supreme that Lu Li had won, then pointed to the sky rankings showing Lu Li in first place with 740,000 White Bone Decrees.
• Bone Mountain Supreme activated the White Bone Secret Realm, and the cultivators, including the defeated Ao Jin, Jian Wujiu, and the others, appeared above the curtain of sky.
• The three rival Supremes’ avatars seized their descendants and tried to leave, but Bone Mountain Supreme forced them back and brought Ao Jin, Jian Wujiu, Su Tianlan, and the others to Five Pillars Peak.
• Bone Mountain Supreme told the three Supremes he would confine their successors for a thousand years and that they might then have a chance to ascend.
• Bone Mountain Supreme announced Lu Li as the winner of the Supreme Immortal Seed Battle.