Chapter Summaries

Ao Xing unleashed the Great Void Ancestral Dragon Bone’s World-Ending Tribulation Light, forcing Li Cangtian to attempt a self-detonation before Li Xunyuan intervened and destroyed the attack. Li Xunyuan then impaled Ao Xing with his spear, prompting the Great Void Dragon Court’s Saint to confront him.

• Ao Xing revived his Qi and blood with the Great Void Ancestral Dragon Bone and fired the World-Ending Tribulation Light at Li Cangtian.
• Li Cangtian charged Ao Xing and began to self-detonate, but Li Xunyuan appeared, calmed his spiritual power, and shattered the divine ability with two fingers.
• Li Xunyuan reprimanded Li Cangtian for giving Ao Xing a chance to counterattack.
• Li Xunyuan appeared before Ao Xing, reclaimed his spear, and drove it through Ao Xing’s kidneys.
• The Saint of the Great Void Dragon Court challenged Li Xunyuan for daring to kill Ao Xing.

Li Nantian revealed himself as a Great Saint and protected Li Xunyuan after Li Xunyuan killed Ao Xing. Li Nantian defeated and killed Great Saint Ao Xu in a starry battlefield, then returned with Ao Xu’s life-bound dragon crystal as a gift for Li Xunyuan.

• Li Nantian revealed his Great Saint cultivation and burned away Great Saint Ao Xu’s rain of Saint Dao light.
• Li Xunyuan killed Ao Xing while Li Nantian held Great Saint Ao Xu back.
• Li Nantian tore open the void and took Great Saint Ao Xu to a starry battlefield to fight.
• Li Nantian severed Ao Xu’s dragon limbs and killed him despite his threat of a Longevity War.
• Li Nantian returned to Li Xunyuan with Ao Xu’s life-bound dragon crystal and offered it as a gift.

After killing Great Saint Ao Xu, Li Xunyuan took his natal dragon crystal and rewarded Li Nantian with the Sacred Heaven Dao Fire Art. At the Star-Picking Pavilion, Li Xunyuan signed in for two divine abilities and began refining the crystal, triggering a vast heavenly tribulation.

• The ancient city’s factions witnessed Li Nantian kill Great Saint Ao Xu, and Li Xunyuan pocketed Ao Xu’s natal dragon crystal.
• Li Xunyuan gave Li Nantian the Sacred Heaven Dao Fire Art, a superior sacred-tier divine ability, and Li Nantian thanked him.
• Li Nantian led Li Xunyuan and his companions to the Star-Picking Pavilion under the Li Lineage’s protection.
• Li Xunyuan signed in and received Step Straight into the Azure Clouds and Boundless Strength.
• Li Xunyuan used his body as a furnace to refine Ao Xu’s dragon crystal, and his rising presence drew tribulation clouds over the Star-Picking Pavilion.

Li Xunyuan’s Life Palace tribulation descended with overwhelming force, but he split it apart with a wooden stick. The Great Dao then announced that he had entered the Immortal Forbidden Domain, a feat no one had achieved across countless epochs.

• Li Xunyuan’s cultivation advanced to the late stage of the Life Palace Realm after he refined part of Ao Xu’s natal dragon crystal.
• A massive heavenly tribulation poured down on the Star-Picking Tower, and Li Nantian evacuated its staff and property before withdrawing.
• Li Xunyuan stepped into the air and shattered the tribulation with a single strike from a wooden stick, clearing the sky above Heaven-Subduing Ancient City.
• The Great Dao announced that Li Xunyuan had broken an eternal taboo and entered the Immortal Forbidden Domain as its first achiever across eternity.
• The crowd learned that the Immortal Forbidden Domain surpassed the known Emperor Forbidden Domain, though its full nature remained unexplained.

Li Xunyuan broke the eternal taboo and entered the immortal forbidden domain, receiving the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist. After the Great Void Dragon Court chose to postpone retaliation, Yun Yuan learned his nephew was the Li Lineage's Divine Son and planned to meet him with Yun Yao at the Futian Auction.

• Li Xunyuan received a safe jade slip containing the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist after entering the immortal forbidden domain.
• Li Nantian killed Great Saint Ao Xu, and Li Xunyuan's earlier defeat of Ao Xing and destruction of the Sacred Body tribulation clouds left Heaven-Subduing Ancient City astounded.
• The Great Void Dragon Court debated revenge for Ao Xing and Ao Xu but chose to focus on the Three Lives Emperor Tomb for the time being.
• At Scholarly Fragrance Garden, Yun Yuan worried that his nephew Li Xunyuan would soon be too strong for him to beat.
• Yun Yao asked Yun Yuan about the genius who killed Ao Xing, and Yun Yuan revealed that the Divine Son was his nephew and invited her to meet him at the Futian Auction.

Jian Xiaoyao, Huang Wu, and Xuan Xiao prepared for the Three Lives Emperor Tomb and discussed the danger posed by Li Xunyuan. At the Futian Auction in Heaven-Subduing Pavilion, Li Xunyuan arrived and drew every gaze.

• Jian Xiaoyao said he would fight the Li Lineage's divine son without fear, despite Elder Jian's warning.
• Huang Wu agreed to avoid conflict with the Li Lineage until she obtained the phoenix bone from the Emperor Tomb, then vowed to pursue Li Xunyuan.
• Xuan Xiao planned to fuse with the Black Tortoise Divine Bone and ally with the Great Void Dragon Court and Heavenly Demon Phoenix Dynasty against the Li Lineage.
• A day later, the Heaven-Subduing Pavilion filled with cultivators and prominent successors for the Futian Auction.
• Li Xunyuan arrived, and the crowd turned to admire his ethereal appearance.

Li Xunyuan watched the auction from a private room as Yun Yao, the Yun Family's divine maiden, rebuffed the Purple Mansion Holy Son and then came to meet him. Yun Yuan revealed that he was Li Xunyuan's uncle, and Li Xunyuan recognized the Yun Family as his mother's kin.

• Li Xunyuan left the auction venue with Li Nantian and settled into the Longevity Li Family's imperial private room.
• Yun Yao arrived with Yun Yuan, drawing the prodigies' attention, and bluntly dismissed Zi Tianque's polite greeting.
• Li Nantian asked whether Li Xunyuan's Immortal Forbidden Domain surpassed the Emperor Forbidden Domain, and Li Xunyuan confirmed that it was stronger.
• Yun Yao entered Li Xunyuan's room to meet him, and Yun Yuan followed, called himself Li Xunyuan's uncle, and locked the door.
• Li Xunyuan recognized Yun Yuan and Yun Yao as members of his mother's Yun Family and introduced himself to Yun Yao.

Li Xunyuan met his maternal uncle, Yun Yuan, and talked him into handing over all three parts of the Primordial True Explanation. Yun Yuan then explained the cultivation art and advised Li Xunyuan to master Divine Guidance before advancing to Transcendence.

• Li Nantian greeted Yun Yuan, who recognized how closely Li Xunyuan resembled his father, Li Xiaoran.
• Li Xunyuan confirmed that Yun Yuan was his uncle and demanded a first-meeting gift, charming and pressuring him with flattery.
• Yun Yuan brought out the three jade slips of the Primordial True Explanation, intending to give Li Xunyuan only Divine Guidance at first.
• Li Xunyuan snatched the box and claimed all three parts—Divine Guidance, Transcendence, and Ultimate—while Yun Yuan resigned himself to the early gift.
• Yun Yuan explained the art's benefits and cautioned Li Xunyuan to master Divine Guidance before cultivating Transcendence.

Li Xunyuan won a mysterious black stone at the Futian Auction and identified it as Dragon-Patterned Black Gold, while Yun Yuan tried and failed to get his hands on it. When bidding began for the Three Lives Emperor Key, Li Tianji proposed a scheme for Li Xunyuan to take advantage of the competing bidders and seize their emperor-tomb opportunities.

• The Futian Auction began, and Li Xunyuan bid thirty Immortal Crystals for a mysterious black stone after the Chaos Ancestral Dragon reacted to it.
• Li Xunyuan identified the stone as Dragon-Patterned Black Gold, then refused Yun Yuan’s request to hold it.
• Yun Yao spoke to Li Xunyuan about Yun Yuan’s plan to hit his nephew, and Li Xunyuan accidentally glanced at her exposed shoulder, leaving her embarrassed.
• The Three Lives Emperor Key appeared as the auction’s final item, and prodigies from several factions competed for it.
• Li Tianji advised Li Xunyuan to let the bidders fight and then take advantage of the winner, and Li Xunyuan agreed to the plan.

Li Xunyuan strengthened his plan to seize the Three Lives Emperor Key while the auction concluded, then discovered that a mysterious white beast resonated with his immortal bone. The auction ended with Xuan Xiao winning the key, and the beast’s appearance raised the possibility that it came from another Dao Domain.

• Li Xunyuan assigned Li Tianji, Li Cangtian, and the Chaos Ancestral Dragon to surround their target, while he prepared to act as a final safeguard.
• Yun Yao tried to tempt the Chaos Ancestral Dragon with spirit fruits, but it ignored them and hid in Li Xunyuan’s collar.
• Xuan Xiao of Xuanming Divine Mountain won the Three Lives Emperor Key for three hundred immortal crystals.
• The Heaven-Subduing Pavilion presented a fluffy white beast that had crossed a spatial rift unharmed.
• Li Xunyuan noticed that the white beast resonated with his immortal bone, and his panel identified it as a Chaos Divine Beast with forbidden bloodline and unlimited potential.
• An elder suggested that the white beast might have come from another Dao Domain, astonishing the gathered prodigies.

At the auction, Yun Yao bid on a white beast for Li Xunyuan, prompting Xuan Xiao to raise the price to provoke the Li Lineage. Li Xunyuan destroyed Xuan Xiao’s room and forced him to kneel with a single command, leaving the auction hall stunned.

• The auctioneer introduced a powerful white ancient beast from another Dao domain and opened bidding at fifty immortal crystals.
• Huang Wu, Xuan Xiao, and Zi Tianque bid on the beast before Yun Yao offered two hundred immortal crystals and pledged to outbid everyone.
• Xuan Xiao raised the bid by one immortal crystal, and Li Xunyuan insulted him before destroying his room with a sword strike.
• The auction barrier fell, revealing Li Xunyuan with Yun Yao, Yun Yuan, and Li Nantian as Xuan Xiao unleashed his Black Tortoise manifestation.
• Li Xunyuan rebuked Xuan Xiao for disrupting the bidding and commanded him to kneel, forcing him down before the shocked crowd.

Li Xunyuan forced Xuan Xiao to kneel, then answered Elder Xuan’s accusation of arrogance by boasting of his sword accomplishments. He demonstrated his sword technique, Immortals Kneel, and left Elder Xuan kneeling helplessly before the auction hall.

• Li Xunyuan waved his hand and forced Xuan Xiao back onto his knees, leaving Xuan Xiao terrified and unable to control his legs.
• Elder Xuan demanded to know what Li Xunyuan had done, and Li Xunyuan claimed Xuan Xiao was too weak to withstand one strike of his sword.
• Li Xunyuan recited his extraordinary sword achievements and declared that no one beneath the heavens could withstand his strike without kneeling.
• When Elder Xuan warned him against arrogance, Li Xunyuan unleashed his sword intent and announced his technique, Immortals Kneel.
• Li Xunyuan swung his illusory sword at Elder Xuan, who fell to both knees and could not get back up despite Xuan Xiao’s pleas.

Li Xunyuan publicly crushed Xuan Xiao in a single exchange, defeating the eighth-level Creation Realm heir despite being in the late Life Palace stage. The spectators mistook the earlier pressure that forced a Great Saint to kneel for Yun Yuan’s intervention, while Li Xunyuan’s true strength left the young talents shaken.

• Li Xunyuan’s sword strike forced Xuanming Divine Mountain’s Great Saint to kneel, leaving the auction crowd in shock.
• Huang Wu, Jian Xiaoyao, and others speculated that Yun Yuan, whom they suspected was a Supreme, had suppressed the Great Saint, though Yun Yuan himself was baffled.
• Xuan Xiao challenged Li Xunyuan to a fair fight, and Li Xunyuan accepted after mocking the disparity between their cultivation levels.
• Li Xunyuan unleashed the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist while Yun Yuan sealed off their battlefield to protect the venue.
• Xuan Xiao activated his Black Tortoise Divine Physique and Black Tortoise Expands the Firmament, but Li Xunyuan’s punch shattered the divine manifestation and knocked him unconscious.
• The watching young talents, including Jian Xiaoyao, Huang Wu, and Zi Tianque, were left feeling immense pressure after Li Xunyuan’s overwhelming victory.

Li Xunyuan spared Xuan Xiao and let him leave so he could exploit the opportunities awaiting him, then accepted the auctioned white beast without charge. After returning to the Star-Picking Pavilion, he contracted with the beast and learned it was the Chaos divine beast Origin Qilin, whose first warning was to keep away from the Chaos Ancestral Dragon.

• Elder Xuan fed Xuan Xiao a pill, thanked Li Xunyuan for sparing him, and hurried away with the badly injured heir.
• Li Xunyuan told Li Cangtian that he had spared Xuan Xiao because he expected to gain a Black Tortoise Divine Bone and another opportunity from him later.
• The other bidders backed down, and Chen Qian gave the white beast to Li Xunyuan for free on behalf of the Heaven-Subduing Pavilion.
• At the Star-Picking Pavilion, the white beast bit Li Xunyuan's finger, then gestured for him to make a master-servant contract.
• Li Xunyuan contracted with the beast and learned that it was an Origin Qilin with a Chaos Bloodline and limitless potential.
• Origin Qilin pledged to follow Li Xunyuan and warned him that the Chaos Ancestral Dragon was no good, prompting the dragon to protest.

Li Xunyuan learned that the Chaos Ancestral Dragon and the Origin Qilin came from the Chaos Dao Domain, where the Ancient Nether Clan had begun probing its borders. After hearing how he could cultivate the Chaos Eternal Immortal Body, Li Xunyuan returned to the Li Lineage to study it, while Yun Yuan and Yun Yao headed back to Fuxi Heaven.

• Li Xunyuan scolded the Chaos Ancestral Dragon for hiding that he could speak, then formed a contract with him.
• The Chaos Ancestral Dragon told Li Xunyuan that he had been sent from the Chaos Dao Domain by his father to serve the Li Lineage.
• The Origin Qilin recounted how the Ancient Nether Clan attacked the Chaos Dao Domain and how he was swept through spatial turbulence into the Primordial Dao Domain.
• The Origin Qilin explained that Li Xunyuan could cultivate the Chaos Eternal Immortal Body by refining all 206 bones into immortal bones and activating their Dao patterns.
• Li Xunyuan told Yun Yuan he had gained sudden insight and returned to the Lineage for secluded cultivation without revealing the immortal body.
• Yun Yuan and Yun Yao departed for Fuxi Heaven after Yun Yao was left puzzled by Li Xunyuan's blunt farewell.

After returning to Xuanming Divine Mountain, Xuan Xiao asked its sealed junior ancestor to emerge and avenge him against Li Xunyuan. The junior ancestor agreed to leave Immortal Source, but demanded Xuan Xiao's Black Tortoise Divine Bone and essence blood.

• Li Xunyuan returned to the Longevity Li Family, obtained immortal crystals from Li Qianqiu, and prepared to cultivate the chaos eternal immortal body.
• Xuan Xiao recovered from his injuries and admitted that he could not defeat Li Xunyuan, even after fusing with the Black Tortoise Divine Bone.
• Xuan Xiao decided to awaken Xuanming Divine Mountain's sealed junior ancestor early so the ancient freak could help him take revenge.
• Xuan Xiao went to the junior ancestor's Immortal Source and described Li Xunyuan and the other rising geniuses of the golden age.
• The junior ancestor agreed to emerge and asked Xuan Xiao to lend him his Black Tortoise Divine Bone and essence blood.

Li Qingshu returned from the Li Lineage’s ancestral mausoleum with an eleventh Life Palace and a greatly strengthened Immaculate Divine Body, and she considered testing the Divine Son’s strength. In the Ancient Realm, Li Tianji showed Li Cangtian how to pursue an eleventh Life Palace and awaken his Hegemon Body Phenomenon, leaving Li Cangtian newly enlightened.

• Li Qingshu returned to the Li Lineage after receiving the Eighteenth Ancestor’s guidance, having formed an Immaculate Immortal Bone and opened an eleventh Life Palace.
• Li Qingshu returned to Green Profound Peak and decided she would test Li Xunyuan’s strength if given the chance, despite having no interest in competing for the Divine Son position.
• Li Cangtian told Li Tianji he would not let Li Qingshu trouble the Divine Son, and Li Tianji warned him that he was currently no match for her.
• Li Tianji advised Li Cangtian to turn a Hegemon Body Divine Form into a Life Palace and awaken a Hegemon Body Phenomenon.
• Li Cangtian grasped Li Tianji’s advice, and the Hegemon Body stirred wind and clouds.

Prince Xuan Tian emerged from his sealed immortal abode in Xuanming Divine Mountain after drawing on Xuan Xiao’s Black Tortoise Divine Bone and blood essence. The Heaven-Swallowing Lineage’s elders hailed his return, and he declared that he would lead the mountain into glory and claim the imperial throne.

• Prince Xuan Tian ordered Xuan Xiao to lend him the power of his Black Tortoise Divine Bone and three drops of blood essence, and Xuan Xiao obeyed.
• The immortal abode and Xuanming Divine Mountain shook as the elders of the Heaven-Swallowing Lineage gathered outside.
• Prince Xuan Tian emerged from the ruins in a divine hall pulled by a Black Tortoise, and his imperial bloodline forced Xuan Xiao and the elders to bow.
• Prince Xuan Tian stepped from the hall and declared that he would bear the mandate of the age and ascend to the imperial throne.
• The elders praised Prince Xuan Tian’s lineage and talent as he vowed to lead Xuanming Divine Mountain into a glorious age.

Xuan Yi received the Black Tortoise Emperor Bone from Prince Xuan Tian, opened his eleventh Life Palace, and challenged Li Xunyuan. With Li Xunyuan in seclusion and the Li Lineage under pressure, Li Qingshu prepared to answer the challenge, but the Third Holy Son, Li Zhixing, appeared.

• Prince Xuan Tian emerged from seclusion, alarming the Primordial Dao Domain and drawing attention to Xuanming Divine Mountain's feud with the Li Lineage.
• Prince Xuan Tian gave Xuan Yi a Black Tortoise Emperor Bone, helped him open his eleventh Life Palace, and passed down divine abilities of the Heaven-Swallowing Ancient Emperor.
• Xuan Yi challenged Li Xunyuan to meet him at the Primordial Battle Platform in Black Tortoise Heaven, while Li Xunyuan remained unaware of the challenge in seclusion.
• With the Li Lineage's other young fighters unavailable, Li Qingshu set out to face Xuan Yi and defend the Lineage's honor.
• Li Zhixing appeared before Li Qingshu, prompting the nearby Li Lineage prodigies to flee in fear of the Third Holy Son.

Li Zhixing emerged from seclusion to face Xuan Yi of Xuanming Divine Mountain, prompting the Li Lineage to send elders after him and drawing prodigies from across the Primordial Dao Domain to the Primordial Battle Platform. The chapter ended with the anticipated high-profile duel set to test the Li Lineage’s younger generation.

• Li Zhixing appeared before the Li Lineage’s younger prodigies, who feared his Mad Immortal Art despite his claim that he had learned to control it.
• Li Zhixing promised the elders he would meet Xuan Yi, then set out for the Primordial Battle Platform with Li Qingshu following him.
• The Li Lineage’s elders secretly dispatched five elders to protect Li Zhixing and Li Qingshu.
• News of the matchup spread across the Primordial Dao Domain, and prodigies from many factions traveled to Black Tortoise Heaven to watch.
• Xuanming Divine Mountain had chosen the Primordial Battle Platform to stage its challenge and publicly try to defeat the Li Lineage’s Divine Son.