Chapter Summaries

Lu Li and his companions discovered that the Golden Crow Immortal Venerable, Qingming, was neither fully alive nor dead and had trapped himself in the past. Qingming offered Lu Li his remains and a fire seed if Lu Li promised to kill Sun-Chasing Golden Peng, leaving Lu Li facing a future threat that might require the protection of a Quasi-Saint.

• The Golden Crow Immortal Venerable revealed himself and recognized Lu Li’s Nine-Radiance Golden Emperor Dragon bloodline.
• Qingming explained that he had fixed his immortal golden essence in the past after Sun-Chasing Golden Peng grievously wounded him.
• Qingming offered Lu Li his remaining treasures and Solar Divine Fire seed in exchange for a promise to kill Sun-Chasing Golden Peng.
• Lu Li asked Qingming to explain Sun-Chasing Golden Peng’s history and strength before agreeing.
• Qingming recounted how Sun-Chasing Golden Peng lured him into a trap and warned that killing him might require reaching Nine-Transformation Emperor Lord and securing powerful backing.
• Qingming warned Lu Li that the Golden-Winged Great Peng Clan’s ancestor was so fast he could harry even a Quasi-Saint.

Lu Li agreed to inherit Immortal Venerable Qingming’s remains and eventually avenge it against the Sun-Chasing Golden Peng, then the golden light engulfed him and he lost consciousness. Ye Chenfeng and Crimson Crow returned to reality, where the assembled immortals watched Lu Li’s image as Uncle Fu ordered Di Yunxi to return to court for the Imperial Discourse.

• Lu Li asked Immortal Venerable Qingming about the Golden-Winged Great Peng, the Seven-Colored Imperial Phoenix Species, and the Nine-Radiance Golden Emperor Dragon, then agreed to help it take revenge without promising when he would do so.
• Immortal Venerable Qingming began transferring its remains and final golden essence to Lu Li, describing the three powerful races as its voice faded.
• Golden light pierced Lu Li, leaving him unconscious, while Ye Chenfeng and Crimson Crow were transported back to reality.
• Ye Chenfeng recognized Lu Li in a heavenly image and realized the immortals had watched their actions inside the tomb of the river of time.
• Uncle Fu received His Exalted Lordship’s decree and urgently told Di Yunxi to return to court and lead the team to the Imperial Discourse.

Di Yunxi left after warning the Six Sects of Qingyao to protect Lu Li, while Lu Li underwent a transformation inside the Tomb of the River of Time. Falling Firmament swallowed Azure Nether Mystic Crow Immortal Venerable’s demon core and began feeding its power back to Lu Li, who broke through to the Eighth-Turn Human Immortal realm as his Golden Dragon bloodline grew stronger.

• Uncle Fu took Di Yunxi away in a jeweled carriage after she told the immortals to care for Lu Li and secretly asked Ye Chenfeng to tell Lu Li she would return to Qingyao within three hundred years.
• Ye Chenfeng and Crimson Crow watched the image of the Tomb of the River of Time disappear, and Ye Chenfeng worried about Lu Li’s safety and Di Yunxi’s mysterious background.
• Azure Nether Mystic Crow Immortal Venerable transformed his remains into a crimson-gold demon core and placed it in Lu Li’s Dantian for him to refine gradually.
• Falling Firmament detected the demon core, swallowed it into its world, and began digesting it while Lu Li remained unconscious.
• Falling Firmament’s power surged through Lu Li, breaking his Eighth-Turn Human Immortal bottleneck and strengthening his Nine-Clawed Golden Dragon bloodline.
• A clear cry from the first Golden Crow between heaven and earth rang out in Lu Li’s Sea of Consciousness.

Lu Li absorbed Immortal Venerable Qingming’s remains, gained the Golden Crow True Nature and a seed of Solar Divine Fire, and strengthened his bloodline and cultivation. He returned from the collapsing Tomb of the River of Time resolved to bring the divine fire to Great Xia and advance its Immortal Dao civilization.

• Lu Li witnessed the Golden Crow progenitor emerge in his Sea of Consciousness as his Nine-Clawed Golden Dragon bloodline became corporeal and his power surged.
• Lu Li ordered Falling Firmament to stop refining the remains until he could break through to Earth Immortal, and noticed a curse mark tied to his promise to kill the Sun-Chasing Golden Peng.
• Lu Li found the Golden Crow True Nature and a seed of Solar Divine Fire left behind by Qingming, then drew the flame seed into his Dantian.
• Lu Li stored the Golden Crow True Nature in the Falling Firmament World, causing the Tomb of the River of Time to collapse.
• Lu Li returned to reality, where Ye Chenfeng, Crimson Crow, and other powerful presences came into view.

After leaving the Tomb of the River of Time with the Golden Crow Immortal Venerable’s inheritance and shed remains, Lu Li learned that Di Yunxi had warned the Profound Immortals not to harm him. The Five Sects of Qingyao offered him guest-elder status and departed, leaving Lu Li to ask Crimson Crow whether it would submit to him.

• Lu Li emerged from the tomb and found Ye Chenfeng, Crimson Crow, and several powerful Profound Immortals waiting outside.
• Ye Chenfeng told Lu Li that Di Yunxi had warned the immortals and asked him to wait for her in the Qingyao Immortal Domain; she would return within three hundred years.
• The Profound Immortals from the Five Sects of Qingyao offered Lu Li sect tokens and invited him to become an honored guest elder, and he accepted their Jade Slips.
• The Profound Immortals departed cautiously, while Lu Li reflected on Di Yunxi’s influence and the treasures he had obtained.
• Lu Li turned to Crimson Crow and asked whether it was willing to submit to him.

Lu Li learned about the World-Nurturing Method as an alternative to refining the inhabitants of a Blessed Land during the Earth Immortal Tribulation. After asking whether three trillion living beings would suffice, he left Ye Chenfeng stunned.

• Crimson Crow pledged his life to Lu Li, who refined his demon soul seal and promised him the Golden Crow True Nature.
• Lu Li, Ye Chenfeng, and Crimson Crow flew back toward Great Desolation Heaven as Lu Li considered his plans for cultivation and the Earth Immortal Tribulation.
• Lu Li weighed using the three trillion inhabitants of Falling Firmament World as the foundation of his Blessed Land, but hesitated at the thought of refining them.
• Ye Chenfeng explained that the World-Nurturing Method could preserve the Blessed Land's inhabitants, though it took at least a thousand years and risked failure if the world ruptured.
• When Ye Chenfeng warned that the method required enough living beings, Lu Li asked whether three trillion would be sufficient, leaving Ye Chenfeng shocked.

Lu Li learned that the Falling Firmament World contained three trillion living beings, including True Immortals, and discovered how using it as the foundation for his blessed land would affect his strength and cultivation speed. After weighing it against an ordinary ready-made blessed land, he decided to cultivate the Falling Firmament World.

• Ye Chenfeng reacted with shock when Lu Li revealed that the Falling Firmament World contained three trillion living beings.
• Lu Li explained that the world held nearly ten billion humans, nearly a hundred million cultivators, and True Immortal demons, while its strongest humans approached the True Immortal realm.
• Ye Chenfeng told Lu Li that he had to use the World-Nurturing Method, since refining three trillion living beings risked creating a Heavenly Dao of sin and resentment.
• Ye Chenfeng explained that the Falling Firmament World could make Lu Li theoretically a thousand times stronger than an ordinary Earth Immortal, but would slow his cultivation by roughly the same factor.
• Lu Li compared the Falling Firmament World with an ordinary blessed land he had obtained and chose to cultivate the Falling Firmament World.

Lu Li began preparing to use Falling Firmament’s world as the foundation of his Blessed Land, while granting Crimson Crow the Golden Crow True Nature. As Lu Li started drawing the world toward himself, Ye Chenfeng worried over his impending Human Immortal Tribulation, and Ji Wan sensed the severed karmic thread connected to Zhou Changfeng’s death.

• Lu Li gave Crimson Crow the Golden Crow True Nature, and Crimson Crow vowed to repay him with its life.
• Lu Li placed Crimson Crow in a separate, spiritually nourished planet inside Falling Firmament’s space to absorb the gift undisturbed.
• Falling Firmament told Lu Li that its evolved world-space had been prepared for him and would be of little use to Falling Firmament itself.
• Lu Li boarded a high-grade Immortal Artifact flying boat, set up protective formations, and began drawing Falling Firmament’s world toward himself for his Earth Immortal Tribulation.
• Ye Chenfeng stood guard and worried that his Human Immortal Tribulation was tied to Ji Wan and his tangled feelings about her.
• Ji Wan sensed Zhou Changfeng’s severed karmic thread, divined the events of the past hundred years, and concluded that Lu Li had come prepared in this life.

Ji Wan failed to divine anything about Zhou Changfeng’s death and decided to wait for the Imperial Discourse to probe Lu Li amid the turmoil of the gathered imperial courts. At Jade Capital, Lu Changming awaited the gathering, hoping to see his master, as the heirs of Azure Radiance Emperor Venerable arrived to inspect the assembled sects.

• Ji Wan found that Lu Li had concealed every trace of Zhou Changfeng’s death and resolved to scheme against him at the Imperial Discourse.
• The imperial courts of the Boundless Nine Heavens began preparing for the Imperial Discourse, which was due in a little over two hundred years.
• Lu Changming and the Stargazing Immortal Sect arrived at Jade Capital, where over a thousand attendant groups gathered to travel to the Imperial Discourse.
• Lu Changming hoped the gathering would let him reunite with Lu Li and wondered how his master would fare among the assembled prodigies.
• Emperor Son Tianshu, Emperor Son Yaoguang, and Emperor Daughter Yunxi arrived in an imperial carriage, and the assembled sects were ordered to welcome them.

Emperor Son Tianshu announced the Jade Capital’s rules and reward for the Imperial Discourse, then briefed Di Yaoguang and Di Yunxi on the powerful figures expected from rival courts. The siblings prepared for the gathering, with Tianshu warning them about several formidable opponents, including Wandi’s mysterious direct disciple.

• Emperor Son Tianshu welcomed the immortal sects and declared that the Jade Capital sect taking first place at the Imperial Discourse would receive an immortal domain as a fief.
• Di Yaoguang said he and Di Yunxi would follow Tianshu’s lead, while Di Yunxi answered briefly and remained troubled.
• Di Tianshu brought Di Yaoguang and Di Yunxi into the Jade Capital Immortal Court and explained that the Imperial Discourse would draw Emperor Lords, their descendants, and direct disciples from several Immortal Courts.
• Di Tianshu warned his siblings about Wandi Zhaoming Zhenhuan’s unnamed disciple, who was rumored to have fought a Profound Immortal while still a Heavenly Immortal.
• Di Tianshu named other figures to watch, including Crown Prince Shiyuan, Chiyuan Blood Son, the Heaven-Reaching Golden Court’s ancient god’s descendant, and the Return to Zero Apostle.

Di Tianshu explained the extraordinary prodigies gathering for the Imperial Discourse, while Immortal Courts across the world-heavens prepared to attend. In Imprisoned Dragon Heaven, the Immortal-Subduing Immortal Sect gained its second True Immortal, just as an unidentified voice noticed the sect’s strength.

• Di Tianshu told Di Yaoguang and Di Yunxi about the Return to Zero Apostle and the other formidable Imperial Discourse participants, and said they must leave for Jade Capital Heaven within two hundred years.
• Immortal Courts across the world-heavens prepared for the Imperial Discourse, while the Six Sons of the Dao Court anticipated seeing their master, Lu Li.
• The sect master of the Immortal-Subduing Immortal Sect ascended to True Immortal, giving the sect its second True Immortal.
• An unidentified voice from above remarked that an immortal sect with two True Immortals was rare.

Lu Li returned to Imprisoned Dragon Heaven aboard an Immortal Artifact vessel, stunning the newly ascended True Immortals of the Immortal-Subduing Sect. After they welcomed him as the Dao Lord and recalled their shared history, Lu Li left with Ye Chenfeng, and Xuanmingzi sensed that Imprisoned Dragon Heaven was about to change.

• Lu Li arrived in the Central Star Domain aboard an imposing Immortal Artifact vessel, suppressing the Immortal-Subduing Sect's master with its presence.
• Xuanmingzi recognized Lu Li and welcomed him as the Dao Lord, while the sect's elders, older disciples, and Xuanyinzi joined in paying their respects.
• Xuanmingzi explained that the sect's name commemorated the killing of Zhou Du, whom he, Xuanyinzi, and their eldest brother Xuanzhenzi had helped Lu Li defeat.
• Lu Li told the sect leaders to rise and said the Immortal-Subduing Sect could remain so long as it obeyed the Dao Court's rules.
• Lu Li departed with Ye Chenfeng, and Xuanmingzi told Xuanyinzi that the heavens of Imprisoned Dragon Heaven were about to change.

Lu Li returned to Imprisoned Dragon Heaven with the Falling Firmament World inside him, knowing that organizing its cultivation system would determine whether he survived the Earth Immortal Tribulation. He reached Eastern Desolation Star with Ye Chenfeng and was welcomed by Yinyang Qingfan, the Dao Court immortals, and ranks of cultivators.

• Lu Li showed Ye Chenfeng the vast world he had drawn into himself and explained that completing its World-Nurturing Method would decide his Earth Immortal Tribulation.
• Lu Li and Ye Chenfeng traveled through a star gate to the Jichen Star Domain and returned to Eastern Desolation Star.
• Yinyang Qingfan, Elder Jian, Xuanzhenzi, and other Dao Court immortals recognized Lu Li and bowed to him.
• The Dao Court’s cultivators formed ranks in the sky and welcomed Lu Li back as their Dao Lord.

Lu Li returned to Imprisoned Dragon Heaven and learned that the Dao Court had expanded into a powerful, well-organized system spanning the Jichen Star Domain and beyond. He ordered Yinyang Qingfan to prepare a special team so he could lead them into contact with another world and help Great Xia become an Immortal Dao civilization.

• Lu Li reunited with the Dao Court and Demon Race cultivators, then announced that he had returned to strengthen Great Xia and connect it with Imprisoned Dragon Heaven.
• Yinyang Qingfan presented the Dao Court's development through the Star-Eye Sentinel, including its armies, artifact workshops, resource production, academies, and teleportation networks.
• Lu Li learned that the Dao Court's influence reached Imprisoned Dragon's nine great star domains, though its presence there remained focused mainly on trade and resource cooperation.
• After reviewing the reports, Lu Li ordered Yinyang Qingfan to prepare a list of personnel, supplies, and formation support for a special team within three days.
• Lu Li said he would lead the team into contact with another world.

The Dao Court organized a major contingent for Great Desolation Heaven in response to Lu Li’s personal summons. Zhou Tieshan and Lu Feng discovered that they had been selected, and both looked forward to the journey.

• Lu Li’s order prompted the Dao Court’s divisions to prepare personnel for Great Desolation Heaven.
• Zhou Tieshan saw that the initial roster excluded him and envied the selected cultivators.
• Old Zhao showed Zhou Tieshan an updated roster that included him among the additional selections.
• Lu Feng found his name on the Teleportation Array Bureau’s list of personnel bound for Great Desolation Heaven.
• Lu Feng accepted the dispatch list and excitedly told his wife that he had received the Dao Lord’s personal summons.

Lu Li began the World-Nurturing Method to prepare for the Earth Immortal Tribulation, naming his realm the Dragon-Rising Blessed Land and using an Earth Immortal's blessed land to accelerate its development. In the rapidly changing realm, Han Zhu was accepted into the Eight Absolutes Sect and activated the Myriad Worlds Cultivation System.

• Lu Li named his blessed land the Dragon-Rising Blessed Land and announced that its inhabitants should cultivate.
• Lu Li ordered Falling Firmament to absorb an Earth Immortal's blessed land and channel its essence into accelerating time in his realm.
• Years passed rapidly within the Dragon-Rising Blessed Land as Lu Li guided its development.
• An immortal master tested the youths of Han Family Village and accepted a girl and Han Zhu into the Eight Absolutes Sect.
• Han Zhu heard system notifications announcing that the Myriad Worlds Cultivation System had activated.

Lu Li observed Han Zhu’s rise through the Eight Absolutes Sect, driven by a system that granted him quests and rewards, until Han Zhu died after setting out for a distant prefectural city. His death produced a grain of blessed-land sand for Lu Li, who then sensed a Mahayana Venerable nearing the end of his lifespan.

• Han Zhu fled the Eight Absolutes Sect’s Golden Core elder into Evil Dragon Marsh, where a Golden Core evil flood dragon and Foundation Establishment earth dragons weakened the pursuer, allowing Han Zhu to kill him and claim a system reward.
• Han Zhu used his rewards and growing power to take control of the Eight Absolutes Sect, expand his influence across nearby sects, and reach Nascent Soul.
• After the system tasked Han Zhu with traveling to a distant prefectural city and becoming a Spirit Transformation cultivator, he left his commandery and was killed by a Spirit Transformation demonic creature.
• Lu Li collected the grain of blessed-land sand released by Han Zhu’s death and reflected on how many more grains his World-Nurturing Method required.
• Lu Li sensed a Mahayana Venerable nearing the end of his lifespan in the distant starry sky.

After Luo Wuchen reached Mahayana Perfection, he broke through the barrier around Great Chen Star to discover the true Dragon-Rising Blessed Land before dying. His protected Divine Soul entered a newborn in the Immortal Spirit Sect, where he realized he had been reborn.

• Luo Wuchen left Great Chen Star to seek the truth beyond its stellar barrier, but the astral winds rapidly weakened him.
• Lu Li revealed the Dragon-Rising Blessed Land to Luo Wuchen, who saw its demon core, golden sun bird, and True Immortal lightning dragon before his body was torn apart.
• A mighty force preserved Luo Wuchen's Divine Soul and sent it into Great Chen Star.
• An auspicious phenomenon appeared over the Immortal Spirit Sect as the sect master's wife gave birth to a boy.
• The newborn looked at the Immortal Spirit Sect's master and realized he had been reborn.

Luo Wuchen accepted his rebirth and resolved to uncover the world's secrets by pursuing immortality, while Lu Li prepared to lead the Dao Court's forces from Imprisoned Dragon Heaven to Great Desolation Heaven. As the journey began, Elder Jian asked Ye Chenfeng about Lu Li's origins, and Ye Chenfeng hinted that they had met a powerful female immortal.

• Luo Wuchen accepted that he had been reborn with his past-life memories and resolved to investigate the world by becoming immortal.
• Lu Li considered how Luo Wuchen's rebirth might help him reach Mahayana and support the success of the Dragon-Rising Blessed Land.
• Lu Li gathered the twelve divisions and other Dao Court elites, then drew their thousand magical vessels and personnel into his blessed land.
• Lu Li departed for Great Desolation Heaven aboard an Immortal Artifact flying boat, while Elder Jian and Ye Chenfeng remained on deck.
• Elder Jian asked Ye Chenfeng to explain Lu Li's background, and Ye Chenfeng replied that they had encountered a powerful female immortal.

While traveling to Great Desolation Heaven, Ye Chenfeng inferred that Lu Li might have been the Great Emperor of Cause and Effect in his previous life and deliberately arranged Ji Wan’s role in this life. He chose to trust Lu Li, then suddenly began his Human Immortal Tribulation, leaving Lu Li to prepare the immortal boat and protect him.

• Elder Jian’s idle question led Ye Chenfeng to connect his past-life ties to Ji Wan with the Great Emperor of Cause and Effect’s inheritance.
• Ye Chenfeng suspected Lu Li had been the Great Emperor of Cause and Effect and had deliberately arranged Ji Wan’s fate, but he decided to trust his senior brother regardless.
• Ye Chenfeng’s State of Mind shifted, triggering his Human Immortal Tribulation aboard the flying boat.
• Lu Li rushed Ye Chenfeng into the cabin hall, slowed the immortal boat, and set up an Immortal-Gathering Spirit Array with a hundred thousand immortal crystals.
• Lu Li summoned Immortal Beginning and ordered it to protect Ye Chenfeng, suspecting Ji Wan was connected to the tribulation.
• Ye Chenfeng entered his tribulation inside the cabin hall.