Chapter Summaries

Lu Li fled the Heavenly Calculation Grotto-Heaven’s inhabitants while seeking his hidden true body, hoping to awaken it and let Falling Firmament devour the world. His current immortal body was destroyed, but his immortal soul reached the crater where his true body lay, and a powerful presence began to awaken.

• Xie Yuanjun’s dying command turned the grotto-heaven’s inhabitants against Lu Li, and more than a hundred cultivators pursued him as he raced toward his true body.
• Lu Li fought off the pursuing immortals with the Profound Cavern Immortal Method while Falling Firmament guided him and revealed that devouring worlds could increase his cultivation.
• A Sixth-Turn True Immortal and the others launched a full assault, and Lu Li was badly wounded before he could reach the crater.
• Lu Li’s immortal body shattered, but his immortal soul escaped with Falling Firmament’s Artifact Spirit and flew into the crater where his true body was hidden.
• The pursuers halted as a powerful presence began to awaken inside the crater.

Lu Li emerged as a Human Immortal in Heavenly Calculation Grotto-Heaven and used his overwhelming power to destroy the immortals who had hunted him. He sent Falling Firmament to devour the grotto-heaven and, after sensing its faint will, wondered whether Falling Firmament’s origins could explain the disappearance of the Great Desolation’s immortals and gods.

• Lu Li rose from the volcano, and his gaze forced the True Immortals to kneel while killing more than a hundred Mahayana cultivators.
• Lu Li realized the grotto-heaven suppressed his Human Immortal cultivation to the level of a ninth-turn True Immortal, but his power still surpassed the realm’s inhabitants.
• Lu Li summoned Falling Firmament and ordered it to devour Heavenly Calculation Grotto-Heaven, then killed the pursuing True Immortals and Mahayana cultivators.
• Falling Firmament began drawing the world into itself, terrifying Heavenly Calculation Grotto-Heaven’s 2.63 trillion inhabitants.
• Lu Li sensed the grotto-heaven’s weak will and concluded that Falling Firmament’s origins might be connected to another explanation for the disappearance of the Great Desolation’s immortals and gods.

Lu Li watched Falling Firmament devour the Heavenly Calculation Grotto-Heaven, sending his cultivation from Human Immortal to Seventh-Turn Human Immortal. After the grotto-heaven vanished and Mystic Capital Heaven’s Heavenly Dao withdrew in response to his Heavenly Decree Golden Wheel, Lu Li set off to find Ye Chenfeng and the others, stunned by how much Falling Firmament had changed.

• Lu Li reflected on Falling Firmament’s growing power and wondered whether it could help him reach the vanished immortals and gods of Great Desolation.
• Falling Firmament began devouring the Heavenly Calculation Grotto-Heaven, absorbing its world, inhabitants, and accumulated essence while Lu Li refined the power it fed back to him.
• Lu Li’s cultivation surged from Human Immortal to Seventh-Turn Human Immortal as the grotto-heaven was consumed.
• The Heavenly Calculation Grotto-Heaven burst apart, and Lu Li returned to Mystic Capital Heaven, where his Heavenly Decree Golden Wheel deterred the Heavenly Dao.
• Lu Li used the Profound Cavern Immortal Method to search for Ye Chenfeng and the others while inspecting Falling Firmament’s transformed world.

Zhou Changfeng and his party encountered two Demon Immortals fighting over a Golden Crow feather, and a Human Immortal who seized it was killed by Heavenly Dao punishment. After learning the feather could open a tomb of the River of Time, Zhou Changfeng took it and questioned Crimson Crow about where the Golden Crow had died.

• A subordinate reported that Zhou Changfeng's party would reach Mystic Capital Heaven within three years, but Zhou Changfeng remained uneasy about the journey to Imprisoned Dragon Heaven.
• Zhou Changfeng saw a three-legged bird and an azure-scaled python fighting over a golden feather and ordered a Human Immortal to seize it.
• Heavenly Dao punishment killed the Human Immortal for attacking across heavenly borders, prompting Zhou Changfeng to decide he must avoid reckless action.
• Crimson Crow explained that the feather could lead to a Golden Crow's tomb of the River of Time and its accumulated treasures.
• Zhou Changfeng took the feather and asked Crimson Crow to identify itself and lead him to the Golden Crow's place of death.

Crimson Crow told Zhou Changfeng that the Golden Crow Immortal Venerable’s tomb might be in the Qingyao Immortal Domain, and Zhou set off with him to find it. After absorbing the Heavenly Calculation Grotto-Heaven, Lu Li inspected Falling Firmament’s immense growth and descended toward the Profound Cavern Great Market, where he found Ye Chenfeng amid a deadly fight.

• Crimson Crow claimed his Golden Crow feather could lead to a Golden Crow’s Tomb of the River of Time and guessed the tomb lay in the Qingyao Immortal Domain.
• Zhou Changfeng seized Crimson Crow and headed with his group toward the Qingyao Immortal Domain.
• Lu Li discovered that the Falling Firmament World now contained seven life-supporting planets, two cultivation continents, and the power of the Great Dao of Calculation, allowing it to accommodate True Immortals.
• Falling Firmament told Lu Li that its increased power could threaten Human Immortals and even make Earth Immortals wary, stirring Lu Li’s desire to test his strength in a proper fight.
• Lu Li recognized the Profound Cavern Great Market below and found it engulfed in combat, with Ye Chenfeng among those in danger.

Lu Li rescued his gravely wounded Junior Brother Ye and learned that Bone Mountain, Ten Thousand Demons, and Su Beixiao had died during the chaos in the Profound Cavern Great Market, while Suanni’s whereabouts remained unknown. After revealing that Xie Yuanjun had abducted him and that he had merely endured eleven lifetimes of reincarnation, Lu Li asked who had killed his companions so he could avenge them.

• Four Ninth-Turn True Immortals pursued the wounded Ye Chenfeng until Lu Li arrived and killed them with the Profound Cavern Immortal Method.
• Lu Li took Ye Chenfeng to a protected cave abode, gave him pills and medicines, and waited for him to recover.
• Ye Chenfeng told Lu Li that Bone Mountain died from backlash while trying to divine Lu Li’s whereabouts, and that Ten Thousand Demons and Su Beixiao were later killed in the Great Market’s turmoil.
• Ye Chenfeng explained that Suanni had been separated from him and that he had survived alone while waiting for Lu Li to return.
• Lu Li said Xie Yuanjun had abducted him and that he had merely got by through eleven lifetimes of reincarnation.
• Lu Li asked Ye Chenfeng to name the immortals who killed their companions so he could avenge them.

Lu Li attacked the Profound Cavern Great Market's sect remnants to avenge Bone Mountain, Ten Thousand Demons, and Su Beixiao, while blaming Ji Wan for the tribulation that had cost him eleven lives of reincarnation. He slaughtered many immortals with the complete Profound Cavern Immortal Method, then faced the surviving Human Immortals as they counterattacked.

• Lu Li recalled Ye Chenfeng's certainty that Ji Wan had used karma to draw Xie Yuanjun into targeting him and laid the blame for his losses at her feet.
• Lu Li confronted seven Human Immortals and nearly a hundred True Immortals in the Profound Cavern Great Market, deciding not to negotiate with the sect remnants.
• Lu Li used One Calculation of Spring and Autumn to drain a Third-Turn Human Immortal's lifespan and kill him.
• Lu Li unleashed the Profound Cavern Immortal Method, killing more than half of the surrounding True Immortals as the Human Immortals showed signs of aging.
• The surviving Human Immortals attacked Lu Li with their own Profound Cavern techniques, and he halted his Law Technique and said, "Overturning a Nation!"

Lu Li defeated the Human Immortals of the Profound Cavern Great Market, collected its resources, and spent ten years cultivating until he reached eighth-turn Human Immortality. With the market secured, he prepared to return to Great Xia, still wondering who had killed Xie Yuanjun.

• Lu Li unleashed Overturning a Nation, scattered the Human Immortals, and killed the fleeing eighth-turn Human Immortal.
• Lu Li collected the defeated factions’ treasures and the Profound Cavern Great Market’s resources, planning to send them to Great Xia and strengthen his cultivation before searching for Changming.
• Lu Li and Ye Chenfeng took control of the market and assigned surrendered cultivators to manage its people and territory.
• After ten years of cultivating with the market’s resources, Lu Li advanced to eighth-turn Human Immortality while Ye Chenfeng reached ninth-turn True Immortality.
• Lu Li finished collecting the market’s resources and prepared to return to Great Xia, then wondered who the passing mighty expert had been who killed Xie Yuanjun.

Lu Li and Ye Chenfeng left the Profound Cavern Great Market for Great Desolation Heaven, planning to strengthen Great Xia against Ji Wan. As they crossed Withered Marsh Forest, Falling Firmament sensed a hidden blessed land or secret realm far larger than expected.

• Lu Li and Ye Chenfeng departed the Profound Cavern Great Market, with Lu Li taking his junior brother to Great Desolation Heaven.
• Lu Li resolved to use the gathered immortal materials to help Great Xia develop Spirit Machinery capable of facing powerful immortals and to strengthen its ties with the Imprisoned Dragon Heavenly Dao Court.
• After several years of teleportation, Ye Chenfeng identified Withered Marsh Forest as the route toward Imprisoned Dragon Heaven, and Lu Li recalled his past encounter there with Crimson Crow.
• Falling Firmament scanned the million-li forest and told Lu Li it sensed a blessed land or secret realm that seemed much larger than usual.

Lu Li and Ye Chenfeng discovered that the Withered Marsh Stone Forest concealed an immense, illusory secret realm linked to a three-legged bird. The legends suggested the realm might be connected to the Immortal Venerable Azure Nether Mystic Crow, leaving Lu Li stunned by what could lie within.

• Falling Firmament sensed a faint, shifting secret realm hidden in the Withered Marsh Stone Forest, and Lu Li landed there with Ye Chenfeng to investigate.
• Lu Li sent Falling Firmament to search the forest, and it confirmed the secret realm was powerful enough to rival Xie Yuanjun's grotto-heaven.
• Falling Firmament sensed a trace of a three-legged bird within the realm, prompting Lu Li to question whether it was connected to Crimson Crow.
• Ye Chenfeng recalled the legend of the Immortal Venerable Azure Nether Mystic Crow, a Three-Legged Golden Crow said to have visited the Qingyao Immortal Domain.
• Lu Li connected the bird's trace to the Immortal Venerable Golden Crow and wondered what extraordinary thing lay hidden in the forest.

Zhou Changfeng forced Crimson Crow to use his life-bound Essence Blood to guide them toward the Golden Crow Immortal Venerable’s resting place. The golden feather suddenly blazed and flew away, leaving Zhou Changfeng convinced they had found it.

• Zhou Changfeng threatened to kill Crimson Crow unless he found the place where the Golden Crow had passed away within three months.
• Crimson Crow used his life-bound Essence Blood to make the golden feather’s guidance hold, and Zhou Changfeng led the party in the indicated direction.
• When the guidance faded, Zhou Changfeng forced Crimson Crow to use more Essence Blood and gave him Life-Urgency Great Restoration Immortal Pills.
• Crimson Crow repeatedly bled onto the feather as the party traveled, growing weaker while the guidance became clearer.
• The golden feather burst into light and shot across the sky, and Zhou Changfeng exclaimed that he had found the destination.

Di Yunxi prepared to leave the Qingyao Immortal Domain, but Uncle Fu sensed a tomb of the River of Time left by Golden Crow Qingming and persuaded her to investigate. In the Withered Marsh Forest, a golden feather manifested a Three-Legged Golden Crow and an illusory river, which Ye Chenfeng recognized as the River of Time.

• Di Yunxi decided to return to her clan after nearly ten years spent dwelling on Lu Li, whom she believed was trapped in a grotto-heaven without his past-life wisdom.
• Uncle Fu sensed Qingming's presence and discovered that a tomb of the River of Time had appeared in the Qingyao Immortal Domain.
• Di Yunxi initially showed little interest, but an inexplicable flutter in her heart made her agree to go with Uncle Fu and examine the tomb.
• In the Withered Marsh Forest, Lu Li and Ye Chenfeng remained unable to open or fully manifest the illusory secret realm.
• A golden feather arrived above the forest and multiplied into the image of a Three-Legged Golden Crow, while an illusory river appeared behind it.
• Ye Chenfeng recognized the river as the River of Time.

Lu Li and Ye Chenfeng discovered that the secret realm was a Tomb of the River of Time, where a wounded Three-Legged Golden Crow appeared in an ancient scene. Zhou Changfeng entered the tomb with his followers and ordered a Ninth-Turn Human Immortal to capture Lu Li and Ye Chenfeng, while Crimson Crow recognized Lu Li as familiar.

• The River of Time manifested, and a Three-Legged Golden Crow phantom accused the Sun-Chasing Golden Peng of plotting against it.
• Lu Li and Ye Chenfeng were transported to a scorched land where the wounded Golden Crow knelt, and Ye Chenfeng identified the place as a Tomb of the River of Time.
• Lu Li realized Falling Firmament had detected the tomb and wondered why a golden feather had triggered its appearance.
• Zhou Changfeng and his followers entered the tomb before it closed, and Zhou Changfeng claimed the opportunity and Immortal Venerable position as his own.
• Zhou Changfeng sent a Ninth-Turn Human Immortal to capture Lu Li and Ye Chenfeng, while Crimson Crow struggled to recognize Lu Li.

Di Yunxi and Uncle Fu glimpsed Lu Li inside the Tomb of the River of Time, where he chose to fight despite Ye Chenfeng’s warning about an Earth Immortal. Lu Li killed a Ninth-Turn Human Immortal with his ancient golden seal, leaving the gathered immortals stunned and Zhou Changfeng calling out, “My lord!”

• Uncle Fu dragged the vanished Tomb of the River of Time partly back into view, and Di Yunxi recognized Lu Li inside it.
• Di Yunxi and Uncle Fu were astonished that Lu Li had advanced to Eighth-Turn Human Immortal in only a few decades.
• Ye Chenfeng warned Lu Li to retreat because an Earth Immortal was among their opponents, but Lu Li decided to fight.
• Lu Li used his ancient golden seal to pierce the Ninth-Turn Human Immortal’s attack and kill him instantly.
• Di Yunxi, Uncle Fu, Ye Chenfeng, and the opposing immortals were shocked by Lu Li’s strength, and Zhou Changfeng called him “My lord!”

Lu Li recognized Zhou Changfeng and his immortals as followers of Ji Wan and attacked them, fighting an Earth Immortal and more than a dozen Human Immortals with his powerful treasures and methods. As Profound Immortals gathered to watch, Di Yunxi declared Lu Li her friend and insisted she would not let him come to harm.

• Lu Li recognized the seal and realized Zhou Changfeng's group served Ji Wan, then declared he would exact payment for past grudges and attacked.
• Lu Li used the ancient golden seal, Heavenly Decree Golden Wheel, Emperor Lotus Throne, and Profound Cavern Immortal Method to overwhelm the Human Immortals, killing several while Zhou Changfeng defended himself.
• Lu Li recognized Zhou Changfeng's Immortal Method as the one Zhou Du had used, but continued pressing the attack.
• Uncle Fu praised Lu Li's Emperor Fate and powerful treasures, while Di Yunxi asked whether he could defeat Zhou Changfeng and said she would not let Lu Li come to harm.
• Profound Immortals from across the Qingyao Immortal Domain gathered above the Withered Stone Forest, and Di Yunxi told them Lu Li was her friend.

Di Yunxi publicly vouched for Lu Li as her friend while the immortals watched his battle with Zhou Changfeng. After Zhou Changfeng unleashed his Earth Immortal Blessed Land, Lu Li charged back with his purple-gold jade disc, the Falling Firmament, and shocked Zhou Changfeng on impact.

• Di Yunxi introduced Lu Li as her friend before the gathered Profound Immortals, drawing Uncle Fu's warning that this could cause trouble with her clan.
• Lu Li killed more than ten Human Immortals brought by Zhou Changfeng, leaving Zhou Changfeng to fight alone.
• Zhou Changfeng summoned his Blessed Land of Deliverance from Calamity and forced Lu Li back ten thousand zhang.
• Lu Li charged into the Blessed Land and summoned the purple-gold jade disc called Falling Firmament.
• Zhou Changfeng's expression changed drastically when his Blessed Land collided with Falling Firmament.

Lu Li and Falling Firmament fought Zhou Changfeng in the tomb of the River of Time, while the watching immortals realized Lu Li was in danger. Uncle Fu tried to intervene, but the wounded Azure Nether Mystic Crow Immortal Venerable suddenly looked toward him, revealing that it was still alive.

• Lu Li used Falling Firmament to grievously damage Zhou Changfeng's Blessed Land, though the collision also depleted Lu Li's strength.
• Lu Li drew on the territory-enfeoffing root and support from Great Xia and the Imprisoned Dragon Heavenly Dao Court to attack Zhou Changfeng again.
• Zhou Changfeng refused to retreat and countered with his Life-Bound Immortal Artifact, the Calamity-Delivering Buddha-Refining Spear.
• As the immortals watching the River of Time projection feared Lu Li could not withstand the spear, Uncle Fu rose to intervene with Void Yang Immobilization.
• The wounded Azure Nether Mystic Crow Immortal Venerable raised its head and fixed its gaze on Uncle Fu, who realized it was still alive.

Lu Li used the phantom of a Nine-Clawed Golden Dragon to turn the tide and kill Zhou Changfeng, an Earth Immortal, in the Tomb of the River of Time. Uncle Fu and Di Yunxi recognized the dragon bloodline and wondered whether Lu Li was the person they suspected, while the still-living Azure Nether Mystic Crow Immortal Venerable remained a danger.

• Uncle Fu realized that the Azure Nether Mystic Crow Immortal Venerable was still alive and had made the Tomb of the River of Time into an untouchable cave abode.
• Lu Li struggled to withstand Zhou Changfeng's attacks as his supply of Great Dao power ran low.
• A Nine-Clawed Golden Dragon phantom emerged behind Lu Li and knocked Zhou Changfeng's immortal spear away.
• Lu Li used Feather Transformation into a Thousand Shadows Spirit-Concealing Art and Overturning a Nation to kill Zhou Changfeng with one strike.
• Falling Firmament swallowed Zhou Changfeng's ownerless Earth Immortal Blessed Land, while the observing immortals praised Lu Li's victory.
• Uncle Fu and Di Yunxi recognized Lu Li's trace of Nine-Clawed Golden Dragon bloodline and wondered whether he was the person they suspected.

After defeating Zhou Changfeng, Lu Li collected the scattered spoils and discovered Crimson Crow among the corpses inside the Tomb of the River of Time. Crimson Crow begged for its life and offered to serve Lu Li if he let it obtain the Golden Crow tomb’s inheritance.

• Di Yunxi recognized a Nine-Clawed Golden Dragon on Lu Li and worried whether he could escape the Tomb of the River of Time.
• Lu Li gathered every pill and immortal crystal, drawing laughter from the watching Profound Immortals until Di Yunxi silenced them with an angry snort.
• Lu Li sensed a survivor among the corpses and uncovered the wounded Crimson Crow.
• Lu Li threatened Crimson Crow and demanded it offer something he did not already know.
• Crimson Crow asked Lu Li to let it obtain the Golden Crow inheritance and offered to become his dog.

Lu Li accepted Crimson Crow’s offer to guide him through the Tomb of the River of Time in exchange for the chance to obtain Golden Crow True Nature. As the group prepared to investigate the Golden Crow Immortal Venerable’s corpse, a terrifying voice revealed that the Venerable was watching them.

• Crimson Crow pleaded for the Golden Crow True Nature, promising loyalty and telling Lu Li about the tomb’s treasures.
• Lu Li agreed to spare Crimson Crow and consider granting it the True Nature if the tomb’s gains proved worthwhile.
• Crimson Crow led Lu Li and Ye Chenfeng into the Tomb of the River of Time, where Ye Chenfeng warned them to avoid its temporal currents.
• As the three approached the vast crimson figure, a scorching gaze fell on them and an ancient voice accused them of dividing up its corpse.