Chapter Summaries

Ye Chenfeng was imprisoned by the Ji Household and forced into deadly arena battles, but he resolved to survive so he could see Lu Li again. He entered his first fight against a Void Return cultivator determined to win and make the Ji Household pay.

• Elder Jian warned Ye Chenfeng that he had to survive the fights scheduled to begin in three months.
• Ye Chenfeng vowed to live until he could see Lu Li again, then meditated to restore his cultivation while the Suanni lion healed nearby.
• The Ji Household began the battles, and Ye Chenfeng and the Suanni lion were transported from their cages to a starry island arena.
• Spectators mocked Ye Chenfeng for being a Spirit Transformation sword cultivator, while the rules declared that the loser would die and nine victories could earn release from the slave register.
• Ye Chenfeng faced a Void Return opponent, formed nine flying swords from Spiritual Power, and prepared to fight.

Lu Li delivered plundered high-tier spiritual materials to Great Xia, enabling its researchers to begin developing tier-nine Spirit Machinery. While traveling toward the last Mahayana lineage's ancestral treasury, he read their report outlining three proposed weapons, including a Star-Shattering Warship and a Primordial Spirit impact device.

• Lu Li plundered the ancestral treasuries of eight schools and sent distinctive spiritual materials to Great Xia through the fish-shaped jade pendant.
• Li Qingshan promised that Great Xia would develop tier-nine Spirit Machinery capable of threatening Mahayana cultivators within a hundred years.
• Li Qingshan gave Lu Li a report on Great Xia's plans for tier-nine Spirit Machinery, and Lu Li ended the transmission to read it.
• Lu Li read proposals for a venerable-slaying Star-Shattering Warship and a Primordial Spirit impact device, then reached the report's third proposal, the Ruins of Return Armor.

Lu Li reviewed Great Xia’s proposed ninth-tier armor and other Spirit Machinery research, then asked whether the ten main households had been exhausted. Zou Heng said they had, but revealed that the Central Continent’s Hundred Schools also had affiliated clans, with the Dongfang Household Clan’s treasury ahead.

• Lu Li read Great Xia’s proposal for the ninth-tier Ruins of Return Armor, which required rare Dao Laws Crystals and was projected to let a Tribulation Transcendence cultivator withstand early Mahayana.
• Lu Li considered the Star-Annihilating Cannon and Dimension Compression Martial Formation, noting their potential and their slow charging times.
• Lu Li reflected that Great Xia’s Spirit Machinery projects could eventually give the Dao Court dependable power across the Imprisoned Dragon Realm.
• Lu Li asked Zou Heng which of the ten main households remained unplundered, and Zou Heng replied that all ten had been exhausted.
• Zou Heng quietly told Lu Li that affiliated clans of the Central Continent’s Hundred Schools also held treasures, and that the Dongfang Household Clan’s grounds lay ahead.

Lu Li traveled to the Military School’s main residence to confront its head, Bing Wuji, and claim its treasury. Bing Wuji revealed that the Military School could contact the Ji Household and invited Lu Li to negotiate how they would divide the Eastern Wasteland.

• After learning Dongfang Jiangxue had severed ties with her clan, Lu Li decided to postpone dealing with the affiliated clans and seek out the Military School.
• Zou Heng led Lu Li and his five companions to the Military School’s vast mountain stronghold after more than a month of travel.
• Bing Wuji met Lu Li with four other Mahayana cultivators and said he had been waiting for him.
• Bing Wuji warned that the Ji Household would want to know what Lu Li had been doing and revealed an ancient token that let the Military School contact them.
• Bing Wuji invited Lu Li inside to discuss dividing the Eastern Wasteland and keeping their arrangement hidden from the Ji Household.

Lu Li rejected Bing Wuji’s proposal to divide the Eastern Wasteland and imposed restrictions on the Military School before departing. Bing Wuji thought he had secured a temporary peace, but a powerful presence appeared behind him and declared that the talks had come too late.

• Bing Wuji offered to share control of the Eastern Wasteland with Lu Li and explained that the Military School could summon the Ji Household using its command token.
• Lu Li questioned why Bing Wuji had not called the Ji Household earlier, and Bing Wuji admitted he feared another catastrophe like the one that followed Li Taixuan’s death.
• Lu Li considered attacking Bing Wuji to seize the token, but Bing Wuji summoned immortal armor and warned that it could buy him time to contact the Ji Household.
• Lu Li restrained his presence, forbade the Military School from expanding or leaving the Central Continent without permission, and vanished with Yinyang Qingfan and the others.
• As Bing Wuji prepared to leave, a powerful pressure surged behind him and an indifferent voice said, “Peace talks now? Too late!”

Lu Li used the White Bone Sarira’s Supreme’s strike to kill Bing Wuji, then seized the token that had protected the Military School and ordered its remaining Mahayana cultivators killed. While studying Bing Wuji’s treasures, he discovered a Pseudo-Immortal Artifact bearing Immortal Inscriptions and sought to learn which Great Thousand Immortal Realm the Military School’s ancestor had entered.

• A Supreme’s strike emerged from the White Bone Sarira and annihilated Bing Wuji, body and soul.
• Bone Evil retrieved Bing Wuji’s storage Law Treasure for Lu Li, who found the ancient Ji Household token inside and sealed it away.
• Lu Li ordered Bone Evil and the others to kill the four remaining Military School Mahayana cultivators, and they attacked the school.
• Lu Li examined Bing Wuji’s vast collection and placed the spiritual battle armor in the jade pendant space, where he identified it as a Pseudo-Immortal Artifact bearing Immortal Inscriptions.
• Lu Li wondered which Great Thousand Immortal Realm the Military School’s ancestor had entered and urged Bone Evil to leave one enemy alive for soul-searching.

Lu Li discovered the Military School ancestor’s secret account, which revealed the Jade Capital Immortal Realm and the hardships of clandestine ascendants. After defeating the Military School’s Supremes, Lu Li and his injured subordinates headed to the school’s treasury.

• Bone Evil, Bone Jia, Bone Yi, Yinyang Qingfan, and Zou Heng fought the four Military School Supremes for dozens of days before defeating and killing them.
• Lu Li found a Jade Slip in Bing Wuji’s storage Law Treasure and learned that the Military School’s ancestor, Lord Tujia, had ascended to the Jade Capital Immortal Realm.
• Lu Li read that Lord Tujia had regretted his path in the Jade Capital and that contact with the upper realm had ceased for twenty thousand years.
• Bone Evil reported that the Military School’s clansmen had fled and that Lu Li’s four subordinate Supremes were injured or depleted; Bone Yi had died.
• Lu Li led his companions to the Military School’s stronghold to open its treasury.

Lu Li opened the Military School’s ancestral treasury, claimed a rare Venerable Ascension Pill, and set out a thirty-year plan to unite the Eastern Wasteland and expand the Dao Court. He dispatched his subordinates to organize and survey the Central Continent while Great Xia prepared a development plan for the region.

• Lu Li and the four Venerables broke the Military School’s treasury restrictions and discovered vast stores of treasures and supplies.
• Bone Evil identified a ninth-tier Gold and Jade Venerable Ascension Pill, which Lu Li secured after Yinyang Qingfan helped suppress it.
• Lu Li planned to use the Hundred Schools’ subordinate clans and the Central Continent’s resources to connect the Eastern Wasteland with teleportation arrays within thirty years.
• Lu Li assigned Bone Evil, Yinyang Qingfan, Zou Heng, and Bone Jia tasks to organize the Central Continent, advance construction, inventory its resources, and explore the Endless Central Sea.
• Lu Li sent resources and records to Blue Star, and Great Xia produced a detailed thirty-year development plan for the Eastern Wasteland.

Thirty years after being stranded on the Awakening of Insects Continent, Ye Chenfeng had become a Void Return guard in the Ji Household's Combat Hall but still sought a way back to the Eastern Wasteland. He suspected the Ji Household was concealing information about the teleportation array that brought him there, and Suanni revealed it might visit the Beast Hall to investigate.

• After the Dao Court began administering the Eastern Wasteland and Central Continent, thirty years passed as Ye Chenfeng fought nine battles, won his freedom, and advanced to Void Return in the Ji Household's Combat Hall.
• Ye Chenfeng rejected fellow cultivators' invitation and reflected on how he had been transported from the Eastern Wasteland to the Jichen Star Domain.
• He reasoned that a teleportation array connected the Eastern Wasteland to the Ji Household's territory and wondered why the Ji Household's records about the Eastern Wasteland were so sparse.
• Ye Chenfeng asked Suanni where the array had been, but Suanni said it had forgotten.
• Suanni told Ye Chenfeng it would go to the Ji Household's Beast Hall the next day and suggested the trip might help reveal the array's location.

Suanni secretly met a woman in the Beast Hall and agreed to provide her with what she wanted in exchange for a reward. The woman was Ji Qingyang, who returned to her hall and activated a concealment formation as her two chained Mahayana Demon Venerables watched in fear.

• Suanni descended into the Beast Hall and entered a hidden passage to meet a woman behind a concealed door.
• The woman gave Suanni a glazed bottle and ordered him to return the next day; he protested that they had agreed to exchange payment and goods together.
• After Suanni left, the black-robed woman revealed herself as Ji Qingyang and reflected that she could not freely use him because he was a registered Combat Hall guard.
• Ji Qingyang returned to her cave abode, where two Mahayana Demon Venerables were chained as watchdogs.
• Ji Qingyang activated a concealment formation, entered it, and screams rang out inside.

Ji Qingyang examined her stitched-together Demon Beasts and planned to breed a creature with powerful bloodlines by implanting four beast seeds in a flood dragon’s womb. News that the Dao Child was convening a Ji Household Minor Gathering spread through the household, drawing Ye Chenfeng into security preparations while he wondered why Suanni seemed dispirited.

• Ji Qingyang studied her bound, mutilated Demon Beasts and concluded that gestation might fuse bloodlines better than stitching them together.
• Ji Qingyang prepared seeds from an evil tiger, a spirit sparrow, a demonic tortoise, and Suanni to place in a flood dragon’s womb.
• Ji Qingyang received word that the Dao Child was convening a lineage gathering, an event that would shape the next generation’s power and resources.
• The Ji Household began preparations, and Ye Chenfeng was ordered to lead guards on patrol outside the Heaven-Shrouding Palace.
• Ye Chenfeng noticed that Suanni had grown listless after returning from the Beast Hall and asked what was wrong.

Ye Chenfeng and Suanni took part in the grand guard formation around the Ji Household’s Heaven-Shrouding Palace, where the clan’s power awed them. After Elder Jian urged Ye Chenfeng to grow strong enough to support the Dao Court, Ye Chenfeng vowed not to return until he became a Supreme, just as a Supreme’s summons rang out.

• Ye Chenfeng and Suanni joined the silver-armored guards forming an honor guard around the Heaven-Shrouding Palace for the Ji Household assembly.
• Suanni observed that the Ji Household’s flood dragons had all reached perfected Dao Integration and resolved to leave as soon as he could complete his business and obtain a star chart.
• Ye Chenfeng wondered whether the Ji Household had immortals, while Elder Jian compared its splendor to the legendary Heavenly Court and called it a great opportunity for cultivation.
• Elder Jian reminded Ye Chenfeng that he was no longer strong enough to protect the Dao Court, so Ye Chenfeng resolved to temper himself and become a Supreme before returning.
• A commanding voice ordered the cultivators of the four houses and eight branches into the palace, and Ye Chenfeng and the guards recognized that a Supreme had spoken.

Ye Chenfeng watched the Ji Household’s talented Qing-generation cultivators gather for the Minor Gathering and awaited its Dao Child, Ji Shanhai. Ji Shanhai noticed Ye Chenfeng and ordered that the silver-armored guard be assigned to his personal guard, while Elder Jian realized someone had discovered him again.

• A Supreme appeared to preside over the Ji Household Minor Gathering, startling Ye Chenfeng and Elder Jian.
• Ji Household heaven’s chosen arrived, and Ye Chenfeng learned that even its outstanding Qing-generation cultivators had failed to become Dao Child.
• Suanni reminded Ye Chenfeng that Ji Shanhai belonged to the younger Shan generation, prompting Ye Chenfeng to wonder about his abilities.
• Ji Shanhai arrived with two Mahayana Perfection guards and learned that all thirty-five thousand Qing-generation cultivators had gathered.
• Ji Shanhai noticed Ye Chenfeng and ordered his guards to assign the silver-armored guard to his personal guard.
• The Heaven-Shrouding Palace was concealed by a formation, and Elder Jian told Ye Chenfeng that someone had discovered him again.

Ye Chenfeng received a token ordering him to join the Ji Household Dao Scion’s personal guard, while Lu Li continued to search for him after thirty years of ruling the Eastern Wasteland. With his search still fruitless, Lu Li prepared to leave for the Starry Sky Immortal Market and displayed his second Primordial Spirit and spirit fish.

• Elder Jian realized the Ji Household Dao Scion had noticed him, and Ye Chenfeng accepted a token appointing him to the Dao Scion’s personal guard.
• Ye Chenfeng wondered whether he would ever see Senior Brother Lu again and feared their farewell in the Eastern Wasteland had been their last.
• Lu Li learned from Primordial Beginning that the Dao Court still had no news of Ye Chenfeng after thirty years of searching.
• Lu Li told Primordial Beginning to oversee the Dao Court and maintain intelligence at Twin Star Ferry before departing for the Starry Sky Immortal Market.
• Lu Li summoned his second Primordial Spirit and reflected on his pseudo-immortal foundation and the fish-shaped jade pendant.
• The spirit fish emerged before Lu Li and called him master.

Lu Li set out with his followers to farm the Endless Deep Trench, using his Spirit Artifact pendant to extract valuable Dao Laws Crystals from demon beasts. He reached the trench with four Mahayana cultivators and planned to clear every trench in the Eastern Wasteland before heading into the starry sky.

• The fish-shaped jade pendant produced two Dao Laws Crystals, which Lu Li absorbed to strengthen his Dao Laws.
• Lu Li gathered Yinyang Qingfan, Bone Jia, Bone Evil, Zou Heng, and his other followers, announcing that they would clear the Eastern Wasteland before venturing into the starry sky.
• Lu Li and his group used an internal teleportation array to reach the station nearest the Endless Deep Trench.
• A guard captain told Lu Li that the trench lay eight hundred li ahead and a thousand li beneath the sea.
• Lu Li recalled records tracing the trenches to great demons who had sealed themselves underwater to escape the Ji Household, and wondered whether the Ji Household also hindered ascension from Imprisoned Dragon.
• With four Mahayana cultivators accompanying him, Lu Li ordered the group to farm the entire Endless Deep Trench.

Lu Li entered the Endless Deep Trench with his four Venerables to hunt sea beasts and harvest Dao Laws Crystals. After using Dragon Qi to draw out a Demon Venerable, his companions surrounded it, leaving its fate sealed.

• Lu Li traveled to the Endless Deep Trench, planning to use its powerful sea beasts to strengthen himself and obtain Dao Laws Crystals.
• Bone Jia reported that Demon Venerables were territorial, so Lu Li ordered Zou Heng to lure them out while Bone Evil concealed himself for an ambush.
• Zou Heng and the others hunted Dao Integration and Tribulation Transcendence sea beasts, and Lu Li refined the Dao Laws Crystals produced by the jade pendant.
• When no Demon Venerable appeared, Lu Li released a trace of Dragon Qi, attracting a Demon Venerable from the trench’s depths.
• The Demon Venerable considered ambushing Zou Heng, but Bone Evil struck first, and Yinyang Qingfan and the other Venerables joined the attack to surround it.

Lu Li and the four Venerables killed a Mahayana demon in the Endless Deep Trench, and Lu Li absorbed its Dao Laws Crystal before pressing on with plans to reach Tribulation Transcendence. At Bone Mountain Immortal Market, Bone Mountain Supreme killed Jian Ersan for demanding Jian Wujiu’s release and asked You Jun about the investigation into the Ji Household’s Dao child.

• Lu Li and the four Venerables shattered a Middle Mahayana demon Venerable, and Lu Li collected its remains in his jade pendant.
• Lu Li absorbed the demon’s Dao Laws Crystal, felt his 108 Dao Laws grow stronger, and ordered the Venerables to keep farming the Endless Deep Trench.
• Lu Li anticipated reaching Tribulation Transcendence by clearing the Eastern Wasteland’s deep trenches and planned to use the Gold and Jade Venerable Ascension Pill to advance to Mahayana.
• Jian Ersan, chief elder of the Heavenly Firmament Sword Sect, asked Bone Mountain Supreme to release Jian Wujiu, but Bone Mountain Supreme refused.
• When Jian Ersan challenged his decision, Bone Mountain Supreme crushed and killed him, then worried that the Heavenly Firmament Sword Sect would act again.
• Bone Mountain Supreme summoned You Jun and asked how the investigation into the Ji Household’s Dao child was progressing.

Bone Mountain Supreme learned that the Ji Household’s mysterious Dao Child, Lu Li, might have come from the upper realm and hurried to seek Heaven-Dominating Supreme Su Beixiao’s support. He reached the Chaotic Star Domain and discovered another Supreme was present alongside Su Beixiao.

• You Jun told Bone Mountain Supreme that the Ji Household’s Dao Child had few records, bore the designation Shan, and had unexpectedly won the Immortal Seed Battle.
• Bone Mountain Supreme considered whether the Dao Child was a reincarnated or possessing cultivator, or someone sent down from the upper realm, and ordered You Jun not to provoke the Ji Household.
• Bone Mountain Supreme directed You Jun to manipulate events involving the Heavenly Firmament Sword Sect and sent his clone to consult Heaven-Dominating Supreme and Ten Thousand Demons Supreme.
• Bone Mountain Supreme used a costly cross-domain teleportation array to travel to the Chaotic Star Domain, hoping its unstable territory and Su Beixiao’s protection could provide Lu Li refuge.
• Bone Mountain Supreme entered the Chaotic Star Palace and sensed that more than one Supreme was present.

Bone Mountain Supreme met with Su Beixiao and Ao Zhuyuan to discuss whether Lu Li’s Dragon Fate could reopen the path of ascension and whether they should protect him from the Ji Household. The two agreed to join Bone Mountain, who estimated their odds against the Ji Household at forty percent because it had four Supremes.

• Bone Mountain Supreme met Su Beixiao and Ao Zhuyuan, who had waited thirty years to hear his news about Lu Li’s Dragon Fate.
• Su Beixiao concealed the three of them inside a protected spatial formation so Bone Mountain Supreme could speak freely.
• Bone Mountain Supreme argued that Lu Li’s exceptional aptitude made him their best chance to ascend and asked whether they would protect him from the Ji Household.
• Ao Zhuyuan questioned whether Lu Li could truly restore the path of ascension, while Su Beixiao asked how strong the Ji Household was.
• Su Beixiao and Ao Zhuyuan resolved to ally with Bone Mountain Supreme against the Ji Household.
• Bone Mountain Supreme said the three had a forty percent chance in a direct fight because the Ji Household had four Supremes.

Bone Mountain Supreme explained that the Ji Household had four Supremes and a vast force, prompting Ao Zhuyuan and Su Beixiao to suspect it had access to resources beyond a single star domain. Bone Mountain concealed his suspicion that the Ji Household might still contact the upper realm and proposed protecting Lu Li until he ascended, then fleeing if the Ji Household discovered their plan.

• Bone Mountain Supreme described the Ji Household's four branches, powerful cultivators, and extensive forces to Ao Zhuyuan and Su Beixiao.
• Ao Zhuyuan, Su Beixiao, and Bone Mountain realized the Ji Household was too powerful to have been supported by one star domain's resources.
• Bone Mountain privately suspected the Ji Household could still contact the upper realm and resolved to help Lu Li ascend before its leaders uncovered the plan.
• Bone Mountain suggested the Ji Household's strength came from immortal treasures left by ancestors, easing Ao Zhuyuan and Su Beixiao's alarm.
• Bone Mountain said they should protect Lu Li until he ascended and reopened the path to immortality, then run if the Ji Household discovered them.