Chapter Summaries

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.

Xie Yuanjun suspected that Lu Li and the Imperial Discourse had drawn him into an Emperor Lord’s struggle, but he concealed himself and planned to profit from it. Trapped in Xie Yuanjun’s Heavenly Calculation Grotto-Heaven, Lu Li realized he might escape by using the world’s Dao of Calculation to provoke a backlash beyond Xie Yuanjun’s control.

• Xie Yuanjun connected Lu Li’s ability to disperse the Imperial Discourse’s backlash with a possible Emperor Lord’s struggle and decided he could still gain from it.
• Xie Yuanjun reinforced his concealment formations and stopped monitoring events inside his Grotto-Heaven World.
• Lu Li, living in a mortal body in Lu Family Village, asked Falling Firmament to send his consciousness and immortal sense out, but Falling Firmament said it could not do so without alerting Xie Yuanjun.
• Lu Li considered his inability to resist a Profound Immortal and feared that prolonged reincarnation would erode his true spirit.
• Lu Li focused on the Heavenly Calculation Grotto-Heaven’s practitioners of the Dao of Calculation and wondered whether he could cause a heavenly-secret backlash beyond Xie Yuanjun’s reach.

Lu Li entered the Heavenly Calculation Grotto-Heaven in the body of Lu Mou and revealed supreme-grade aptitude for the Dao of Calculation. After two centuries of cultivation, he became the Cavern Illumination Sect’s sect master, and the chapter ended as he sensed Xie Yuanjun’s arrival.

• Lu Li, living as Lu Mou, asked a diviner whether he could cultivate the Dao of Calculation, and the diviner discovered his supreme-grade aptitude.
• The diviner took Lu Li to the commandery city, where the Cavern Illumination Sect admitted him as an exception.
• Lu Li cultivated the Dao of Calculation for two hundred years, reached Golden Core, and used White Bone Dream to become the sect master.
• Lu Li wondered whether Xie Yuanjun would allow him to continue cultivating when he noticed the changes in the Grotto-Heaven World.
• Lu Li sensed clouds and mist churning outside the sect hall and recognized that Xie Yuanjun had arrived.

Xie Yuanjun repeatedly reincarnated Lu Li to uncover his origins, but Lu Li endured eleven lifetimes and reached Mahayana Perfection. As Xie Yuanjun exposed Lu Li’s secrets during his ascension, eight mysterious figures appeared and Lu Li activated the Profound Cavern Immortal Method.

• Xie Yuanjun killed Lu Li and cast his consciousness into a beast’s body, believing that a mortal life would prevent him from cultivating.
• Lu Li refrained from cultivating as a beast, then endured many more reincarnations while cautiously hiding his intentions from Xie Yuanjun.
• After eleven lifetimes, Lu Li reached Mahayana Perfection and prepared to ascend so he could use the Profound Cavern Immortal Method against Xie Yuanjun.
• Xie Yuanjun activated the immortal light of reception and saw the will of Falling Firmament’s Artifact Spirit and traces of the Great Desolation Heaven and Imprisoned Dragon Heaven emerge from Lu Li.
• Eight figures manifested behind Lu Li, and Lu Li activated the Profound Cavern Immortal Method as they looked toward Xie Yuanjun.

Lu Li used the Profound Cavern Immortal Method to divine Ji Wan while trapped inside Xie Yuanjun’s Grotto-Heaven World. Di Yunxi and Uncle Fu killed Xie Yuanjun, but his severed grotto-heaven returned to the Heavenly Dao with Lu Li still inside, leaving Di Yunxi unsure whether they would meet again.

• Lu Li suspected the eight figures behind him were his past lives and used the Profound Cavern Immortal Method to divine Ji Wan, alarming Xie Yuanjun.
• Uncle Fu and Di Yunxi arrived at the former Profound Cavern Great Market, and Uncle Fu’s voice broke through Xie Yuanjun’s formations and forced him out.
• Di Yunxi used Mind-Reading to learn that Xie Yuanjun had ordered the inhabitants of his Grotto-Heaven World to kill Lu Li.
• Uncle Fu restrained and killed Xie Yuanjun after he severed his Heavenly Calculation Grotto-Heaven from himself.
• The grotto-heaven returned to the Heavenly Dao beyond Di Yunxi and Uncle Fu’s reach, leaving Lu Li’s fate uncertain.

Lu Li discovered that Xie Yuanjun’s death had left Heavenly Calculation Grotto-Heaven masterless, and the backlash from his attempt to divine Ji Wan threatened everyone inside. As Lu Li fought his way toward his physical body, Falling Firmament revealed that its main body was also within the grotto-heaven, opening the possibility of absorbing the world.

• Xie Yuanjun’s death caused Heavenly Calculation Grotto-Heaven to lose its nourishment, and its inhabitants gathered to kill Lu Li after mistaking Xie Yuanjun’s final divine will for heaven’s decree.
• Lu Li completed the Profound Cavern Immortal Method, triggering Ji Wan’s backlash against the divination and unleashing it upon the masterless grotto-heaven.
• Falling Firmament told Lu Li that his physical body and its own main body were inside Heavenly Calculation Grotto-Heaven, and Lu Li set out to find them.
• True Immortals and Mahayana cultivators attacked Lu Li, but he scattered some of them and injured a pursuing True Immortal while fleeing toward his physical body.