Chapter Summaries

After centuries of searching for Imprisoned Dragon, Lu Changming learned that the Jade Capital Immortal Realm could lead him back to his master, while Li Nanci discovered an opportunity to reach the same realm. Seven powerful Heavenly Courts were set to hold an Imperial Discourse in ten days, and an ancient being foresaw danger.

• Lu Changming spent three hundred years searching for Imprisoned Dragon while suppressing his cultivation, but learned from colleagues that the Jade Capital Immortal Realm would hold an Imperial Discourse with the Mysterious Capital Jade Capital.
• Lu Changming recognized the Jade Capital Immortal Realm as the place connected to Imprisoned Dragon and decided to find a way into the Mysterious Capital Jade Capital.
• In the Zeroing Primordial Realm, Li Nanci received notice that he would contact the Jade Capital Immortal Realm in ten Zeroing days and resolved to use the opportunity to return to Imprisoned Dragon.
• The Jade Balance Immortal Court arranged Imperial Discourses with the Supreme Yin Mysterious Palace, the Netherworld Demon Court, the Blood River Scarlet Court, and the Heaven-Reaching Golden Court, bringing seven Great Thousand Heavenly Courts together in ten days.
• An ancient being who had survived three medium tribulations awakened, calculated the outcome, and declared that the Imperial Discourse spelled danger.

After five centuries of unifying Imprisoned Dragon, Lu Li reached Mahayana Perfection and formed Emperor Fate, then prepared to ascend with Great Xia watching. When no welcoming immortal light appeared, his jade pendant revealed that they would open heaven themselves.

• Yinyang Qingfan reported to Lu Li that the Dao Court had brought all nine great star domains of Imprisoned Dragon under its rule, causing Imperial Dao purple Qi to rise and Lu Li's Emperor Fate to take shape.
• Lu Li, now at Mahayana Perfection, flew into the starry sky as Ye Chenfeng, Bone Mountain Supreme, and others gathered to witness his ascension.
• Lu Li contacted Great Xia through his fish-shaped jade pendant, and Li Qingshan approved the final phase of the Southern Heavenly Gate Immortal Ascension Plan as the Federation broadcast Lu Li live.
• Lu Li revealed his full strength to the Imprisoned Dragon Heavenly Dao, but no welcoming immortal light appeared, leaving the cultivators and Heavenly Dao dismayed.
• Lu Li summoned the jade pendant and asked about its new function, and its voices declared that since Desolation Heaven offered no welcome, they would open heaven themselves.

Lu Li witnessed the immortals and gods use the fish-shaped jade pendants to cleave open heaven and connect the Great Desolation with eight other realms. As the inheritances vanished and the realm barriers began to dissolve, Lu Li realized the nine realms were being united to resist the Silent Ruins.

• The fish-shaped jade pendant answered Lu Li, rose into the sky, and released the phantoms of Great Xia's Divine Inheritances.
• The immortals and gods declared their plan to make the Great Desolation the root of a united nine realms, then a towering axe-wielding phantom cleaved open heaven.
• The axe opened rifts connecting the Great Desolation to the Jade Capital, Mysterious Capital, Supreme Yin, Nine Netherworlds, Blood River, Heaven-Reaching Treasure, and Zeroing Primordial realms.
• The immortals and gods addressed Lu Li before their phantoms shattered into motes of light, and Divine Inheritance holders across Blue Star lost their powers.
• Two fish-shaped jade pendants joined and expanded the rifts until the nine realms' barriers began to disappear, leading Lu Li to recognize the plan to resist the Silent Ruins.

The Great Desolation immortals and gods sacrificed themselves to unite nine realms beneath nine Heavenly Daos, transforming the Imprisoned Dragon Realm into a greater world. Lu Li became its first newly ascended True Immortal, and, holding two fish-shaped jade pendants, realized he was home.

• The Great Desolation immortals and gods vanished after uniting nine realms, and powerful beings across the worlds praised their sacrifice.
• The joined realms expanded dramatically, while the Imprisoned Dragon Heavenly Dao grew stronger and sent immortal-guiding light to Lu Li.
• The Great Desolation Heavenly Dao appeared and granted Lu Li additional immortal-guiding light, helping his Heavenly Decree Golden Wheel ascend and forming an Emperor Lotus Throne.
• Lu Li transformed all his Law Power into immortal power and became a True Immortal as the two Heavenly Daos concealed his origins.
• Lu Li sensed the immense new world and its dangers, then took out two fish-shaped jade pendants and declared that he was home.

After eight hundred years, Lu Li returned to Blue Star, reunited with his father and old companions, and was welcomed by Great Xia. At the first Dao Inquiry-Mutual Aid Across the Heavens conference, Great Xia began deciding how to survive and establish itself among the newly joined realms.

• Lu Li used the merged fish-shaped jade pendant to travel across the starry sky and reach Blue Star.
• Great Xia’s spellships and global broadcasts revealed Lu Li’s return, and people across the world welcomed him home.
• Lu Dahai, Li Qingshan, Zhang Xuanqing, Xu Mu, and other old companions greeted Lu Li; Lu Dahai embraced his son.
• Li Qingshan opened Great Xia’s first Dao Inquiry-Mutual Aid Across the Heavens, Joint Immortal-Mortal Strategic Conference at Bureau 749’s base on Mount Baiwang.
• Lu Li addressed the conference and declared that Great Xia’s journey across the heavens had only just begun.

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.