Chapter Summaries

Luo Wuchen bound his Divine Soul to the Great Void Immortal Realm and entered its Taihuang Huangzeng Heaven remnant domain, where he accepted a mission to cleanse it of filth devils. After he joined Lu Dahai and Elder Jian in the fight, Lu Li sensed that Luo Wuchen’s battles were strengthening the Virtual Universe and wondered whether the Great Void Immortal Realm might one day truly appear.

• Luo Wuchen bound his Divine Soul to the bronze bracelet and was received into the Taihuang Huangzeng Heaven remnant domain as a True Immortal from the Dragon-Rising Realm.
• Luo Wuchen examined the shattered Immortal Realm and read the Heavenly Dao mission to exterminate filth devils and cleanse the domain.
• Lu Dahai and Elder Jian arrived at the plaza, recognized Luo Wuchen as a True Immortal, and wondered where he had come from.
• Luo Wuchen accepted the mission to exterminate the Realm-Eroding Devil Lair in the Chaotic Star Sea and declared he would fight alongside the other immortals.
• Luo Wuchen flew into a void rift to battle the devils, while Lu Dahai and Elder Jian learned from Lu Li who he was.
• Lu Li sensed that Luo Wuchen’s battles were expanding the Virtual Universe and considered that the Great Void Immortal Realm might one day appear.

Lu Li observed how Luo Wuchen’s True Immortal presence strengthened the Virtual Universe, but realized he needed more powerful minds to expand it further. He remembered Crimson Crow’s long transformation and discovered the beast was finally awakening.

• Lu Li saw Luo Wuchen’s True Immortal power and the Dragon-Rising Blessed Land’s inhabitants reinforce the Virtual Universe, but concluded that the realm’s resources were insufficient for greater growth.
• Lu Li considered distributing login bracelets throughout Imprisoned Dragon Heaven, then recognized that the Spirit Network could not yet reach it.
• Lu Li remembered that Crimson Crow had been refining Golden Crow True Nature for three hundred years and sensed its immense power while it slept in the Dragon-Rising Blessed Land’s starry sea.
• Crimson Crow’s surrounding meteors ignited, its old feathers turned to ash, and new golden-red divine feathers emerged as its body solidified.
• Lu Li sensed Crimson Crow’s dormant will awaken and realized that the beast was waking up.

Crimson Crow entered its Human Immortal Tribulation, but mistook the realistic illusion for a rebirth in the lower realm after failing to refine the Golden Crow True Nature. As it abandoned its ambitions and lamented that it would never see Lu Li again, Lu Li’s figure appeared before it.

• Crimson Crow broke through to the Human Immortal realm and began its tribulation as Lu Li watched through his divine sense.
• In the illusion, Crimson Crow believed it had died and returned to its past life in the Ten Thousand Demons Mountain Range.
• Crimson Crow celebrated its supposed rebirth and vowed to rise again, defeat its enemies, and make Lu Li its human pet.
• Crimson Crow reconsidered its ambitions, deciding to remain in the lower realm and live peacefully rather than ascend again.
• Crimson Crow lamented that it had wasted Lu Li’s Golden Crow True Nature, then saw a blue-robed figure and assumed it was hallucinating its master from longing.

Crimson Crow realized its Human Immortal Tribulation had exposed its disrespectful thoughts about Lu Li, then improvised an emotional display of loyalty to save face. After the tribulation ended, the Golden Crow True Nature pushed Crimson Crow through several breakthroughs to Half-Step Earth Immortal, though it regretted not having a blessed land foundation to reach Earth Immortal.

• Crimson Crow realized it had been undergoing the Human Immortal Tribulation and feared Lu Li had witnessed its thoughts about making him a human pet.
• As the illusion collapsed, Crimson Crow pretended its earlier words had been a test of its loyalty and tearfully swore devotion to Lu Li.
• Lu Li called out Crimson Crow's act and repeated its remarks about making him catch spirit insects.
• Crimson Crow's cultivation erupted after the tribulation, advancing through Ninth-Turn Human Immortal and reaching Half-Step Earth Immortal.
• Crimson Crow lamented that it might have reached Earth Immortal if Lu Li had prepared a blessed land foundation for it.

Crimson Crow awakened its Golden Crow bloodline and demonstrated its formidable strength, but Lu Li defeated it after a three-day test. Just as Lu Li returned to secluded cultivation, Bureau 749 reported an urgent problem that even True Immortal Dahai and Immortal Official Ye could not resolve.

• Crimson Crow told Lu Li that refining the Golden Crow True Nature had awakened its Golden Crow bloodline and Solar Divine Fire, making it a powerful Ninth-Turn Human Immortal.
• Lu Li asked Crimson Crow to demonstrate its strength and tested it against a Dharma body with one percent of his combat strength.
• After three days of fighting, Crimson Crow emerged exhausted, and Lu Li praised it for forcing his Dharma body to move.
• Lu Li told Bureau 749 about Crimson Crow and instructed it to take Great Xia's assignments.
• As Lu Li prepared to resume cultivating, a Bureau 749 staff member reported a problem that True Immortal Dahai and Immortal Official Ye could not handle.

Lu Li went to investigate a missing Great Xia outpost and discovered that ripples from the River of Time had engulfed Great Desolation Heaven. A Jade Balance Immortal Court lord announced a ten-thousand-year Imperial Discourse, and Lu Li realized the event had been aimed at him.

• Lu Li learned that a Great Xia forward base had vanished with its star and traveled to its location, where Ye Chenfeng and the others awaited him.
• Ye Chenfeng identified the strange spatial ripples as traces of the River of Time and explained that they could alter the passage of time.
• The ripples expanded rapidly, so Lu Li gathered his companions into his Blessed Land and tried to escape, but they followed him across Great Desolation Heaven.
• Lord Wandi Zhaoming Zhenhuan announced that the entire realm would enter the River of Time for a ten-thousand-year Imperial Discourse, with rewards for those who earned the most merit.
• After the River of Time enveloped Great Desolation Heaven and its Heavenly Dao was suppressed, Lu Li realized the Imperial Discourse had been aimed at him.

The Immortal Courts entered Great Desolation Heaven to search for ancient ruins and compete in the ten-thousand-year Imperial Discourse, while Di Yunxi urged Jade Capital not to harm the world's mortal natives. After entering, Lu Changming, Lu Changye, Dong Qing, Jiang Wuxie, and others sensed their Master's presence.

• Crown Prince Shiyuan, Chen Yuan, ordered the Netherworld Demon Court to seize ruins’ fortunes and show no mercy to anyone who obstructed them.
• Chiyuan Blood Son, Chi Changsheng, sent the Blood Court into Great Desolation Heaven, while Shen Wuya led the Heaven-Reaching Golden Court in after them.
• Di Yaoguang questioned the other courts’ reckless approach, and Di Tianshu told Jade Capital to seek ruins without acting recklessly.
• Di Yunxi ordered Jade Capital’s sects not to slaughter Great Desolation’s mortal natives without cause, and Di Tianshu encouraged them to defend themselves if other courts attacked.
• The Immortal Courts entered through the River of Time’s ripples, beginning the Imperial Discourse, and Lu Changming, Lu Changye, Dong Qing, Jiang Wuxie, and others sensed their Master’s presence.

Lu Li and Great Xia learned that the Boundless Realm's seven Immortal Courts had entered Great Desolation Heaven for the Imperial Discourse, which Ji Wan had arranged with Lu Li in mind. Lu Li sensed the River of Time's strength restriction and resolved to use the ten thousand years within it to prepare Great Xia for the coming struggle.

• Lu Changming and Lu Li's other disciples sensed Lu Li's presence as they entered Great Desolation Heaven with the Immortal Courts.
• Lu Li returned to Great Xia and warned Li Qingshan that Ji Wan's Imperial Discourse was likely aimed at him.
• Lu Li asked Ye Chenfeng whether the River of Time's ripples restricted cultivation, and Ye Chenfeng and Yinyang Qingfan realized Lu Li's strength approached that of a Heavenly Immortal.
• Lu Li concluded that the ripples' strength limit would hinder the Immortal Courts more than him and urged Great Xia to use the ten thousand years to prepare.
• Li Qingshan ordered Great Xia to enter level-one combat readiness.

After the Imperial Discourse announcement, Lu Li led Great Xia through nationwide level-one war readiness and evacuated its interstellar citizens to the Solar System. He then left alone to investigate the Immortal Courts, vowing that Great Xia would resist them with its full strength.

• Great Xia activated its defenses and shifted its cities, industries, and citizens to wartime operations after Ji Wan announced the Imperial Discourse.
• Ye Chenfeng, Yinyang Qingfan, Elder Jian, A Lei, Crimson Crow, and Lu Dahai took up positions beyond Great Xia’s borders as the foremost sentry line.
• Lu Li asked Li Qingshan for the coordinates of every interstellar city so he could bring Great Xia’s emigrants back to the Solar System.
• Using No Distance and his Blessed Land, Lu Li evacuated the people of all 1,037 interstellar cities, bringing tens of billions to the Solar System.
• After Great Xia consolidated its defenses and recalled its fleets, Lu Li left the Solar System to investigate the Immortal Courts and vowed to meet them with the might of the entire nation.

Ji Wan obeyed the Emperor Venerables’ order to sacrifice her cultivated attainments and place a drop of Emperor Lord Origin in Great Desolation Heaven as the Imperial Discourse prize. As the Immortal Courts’ cultivators gathered to claim it, Ji Wan recovered while secretly anticipating their doom.

• Ji Wan reported that the Imperial Discourse had begun, and the Jade Balance Pure Void Grotto Mystery Emperor Venerable warned her to watch over it and protect the venerables’ disciples.
• An Emperor Venerable proposed placing the Emperor Lord Origin reward in Great Desolation Heaven, and the wills agreed after an exchange of blows left Jade Balance to provide it.
• Ji Wan stripped golden light from her nine Great Dao attainments, condensed a drop of Emperor Lord Origin, and suspended it within a protected formation in Great Desolation Heaven.
• Ji Wan announced that the cultivator who earned the most merit could claim the reward, while the Emperor Venerables mocked Jade Balance and he briefly worried about Ji Wan’s resentment.
• The Immortal Courts’ leaders changed course to inspect the Emperor Lord Origin, and the prodigies resolved to fight for it as Ji Wan secretly wished to see them perish.