Chapter Summaries

Li Xunyuan arrived at the emperor's tomb inheritance ground and collected the three coffins before the gathered prodigies could claim them. When Xuan Yi rallied an alliance against him, Li Xunyuan revealed twelve Life Palaces and left Xuan Yi grievously wounded with one punch.

• Li Xunyuan arrived with Li Cangtian on the Chaos Ancestral Dragon and used his divine ability to collect the three coffins.
• Xuan Yi urged the gathered prodigies to unite against the Li Lineage, while Ao Qingying joined the alliance and Huang Wu and Bu Hongchen sided with Li Xunyuan.
• Li Xunyuan dismissed the opposing prodigies as small fry and revealed twelve Life Palaces, shocking everyone present.
• Xuan Yi, Ao Qingying, and Ye Duxing launched taboo attacks, but Li Xunyuan shattered them with his Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist.
• Li Xunyuan's punch struck Xuan Yi and tore apart most of his body, leaving him half-headed and badly wounded.

Li Xunyuan killed Ye Duxing with one punch and shattered Xuan Yi’s Ancient Nether Divine Body, forcing Xuan Yi and Ao Qingying to join forces against him. As their combined forbidden attacks closed in, Li Xunyuan remained calm and dismissed their strength as insufficient.

• Li Xunyuan killed Ye Duxing with his Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist and shattered Xuan Yi’s Ancient Nether Divine Body.
• Xuan Yi’s allied heaven’s chosen fled, while Yun Yao, the Chaos Ancestral Dragon, the Origin Qilin, and others attacked those who could not escape.
• Bu Hongchen watched Li Xunyuan and recognized the threat posed by his twelve Life Palaces.
• Xuan Yi combined his Ancient Nether Divine Body, Supreme Bone, Black Tortoise Emperor Bone, and eleven Life Palaces to attack Li Xunyuan.
• Ao Qingying burned her Azure Dragon Ancient Emperor bloodline and unleashed the Azure Dragon Forbidden Art, Eternal Return to the Ruins.
• Li Xunyuan faced their attacks without concern and said their strength was lacking.

Li Xunyuan defeated and killed Ao Qingying and Xuan Yi in the Emperor's Tomb inheritance site, overcoming Xuan Yi's repeated rebirth by devouring his Ancient Nether origin. He distributed Xuan Yi's bones among his followers and kept the origin, while Li Zhixing and Li Qingshu decided to swear lifelong allegiance to him.

• Li Xunyuan used Immortal Annihilation to destroy Xuan Yi's body and overwhelm Ao Qingying, then killed her with the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist.
• Ao Qingying's soul tried to escape, but the Chaos Ancestral Dragon swallowed it, confirming her death.
• Xuan Yi repeatedly reformed his body with the Ancient Nether Divine Body, but Li Xunyuan used Heaven-Devouring to extract his origin before he could self-destruct.
• Li Xunyuan collected Xuan Yi's corpse and origin, gave the Black Tortoise Emperor Bone to Li Cangtian and the Supreme Bone to Li Tianji, and kept the Ancient Nether origin.
• Li Zhixing and Li Qingshu resolved to follow Li Xunyuan for all eternity after the Emperor's Tomb Secret Realm ended.

After defeating Xuan Yi and Ao Qingying, Li Xunyuan learned from Jian Xiaoyao that the white jade stairway could let prodigies advance their Dao arts or undergo Nirvana. He allowed the others to enter first, winning their gratitude, while planning to wait and see whether the stairway was dangerous.

• Huang Wu and Bu Hongchen recognized the overwhelming strength Li Xunyuan had shown by suppressing and killing Xuan Yi and Ao Qingying.
• Jian Xiaoyao explained that reaching the summit of the white jade stairway could transform Dao arts, reshape Life Palaces, or help a prodigy form a Flower of Nirvana.
• Jian Xiaoyao and the other prodigies gave up competing with Li Xunyuan for the Three Lives Coffin and asked to enter the stairway.
• Li Xunyuan agreed to let all the prodigies enter first, and they thanked and praised him before rushing toward the stairway.
• After confirming the others entered without incident, Li Xunyuan prepared to follow, intending to use them to test for danger.

Li Xunyuan swept up the Three Lives White Jade Stairway, leaving the other heavenly prodigies far behind as its trials transformed their abilities and killed many climbers. At the highest steps, ancient prodigy imprints and Taotie attacked him together, but he shattered them with one sword strike.

• Li Xunyuan easily cleared the stairway's early puppet trials, while Li Cangtian and Yun Yao discovered that climbing the steps could transform their abilities.
• Huang Wu watched Li Xunyuan race ahead as the other heavenly prodigies struggled, and many died or turned back.
• Bu Hongchen activated the Bu Battle Art and climbed to the six hundredth step, but Li Xunyuan revealed his overwhelming physical strength and vanished ahead of him.
• Bu Hongchen set aside his rivalry and focused on his own transformation as the remaining climbers reached their limits at different steps.
• Li Xunyuan faced coordinated puppets, ancient heavenly prodigy imprints, and Taotie, then shattered their attacks with a single sword strike.

Li Xunyuan reached the white jade summit and triggered a thousand world-destroying lightning tribulations. He began refining their power to temper his immortal bone Dao runes as the other prodigies seized the descending laws to cultivate.

• Bu Hongchen stopped at the nine hundred and eightieth step, recognized that Li Xunyuan had surpassed him, and resolved to seek a fight with him.
• Li Xunyuan climbed the final steps using his physical body and techniques, passed five trials, slew six generals, and reached the white jade summit.
• A thousand lightning tribulations gathered above the summit, alarming Yun Yao, Li Tianji, Li Cangtian, and the watching prodigies.
• Li Xunyuan took a dragon-shaped lightning tribulation head-on and used the Immortal-Butchering Art to refine its power and temper his immortal bone Dao runes.
• Li Xunyuan provoked the lightning tribulations and sat cross-legged as they swarmed him, while Bu Hongchen, Huang Wu, Jian Xiaoyao, and the other prodigies cultivated the laws descending over the stairway.

Li Xunyuan used the law baptism and a thousand lightning tribulations to strengthen his immortal bones and perfect several techniques, then began trying to open thirteen Life Palaces for his Grand Pure Dharma Body. Seven days later, its eleventh Life Palace was flickering into view while the other prodigies pursued their own breakthroughs.

• Li Xunyuan seized most of the descending laws, manifested three hundred immortal bone patterns, and perfected the third move of the Immortal-Severing Art and the first move of the Immortal-Suppressing Art.
• Li Xunyuan absorbed Immortal Crystals and lightning tribulations until his body held a thousand Dao patterns, then set out to condense a Flower of Nirvana and open thirteen Life Palaces for his Grand Pure Dharma Body.
• Li Cangtian, Yun Yao, Li Tianji, Li Zhixing, Li Qingshu, Bu Hongchen, and Huang Wu pursued transformations and breakthroughs suited to their own paths.
• Li Xunyuan used his experience opening thirteen Life Palaces to form ten for the Grand Pure Dharma Body, but the eleventh remained unstable after seven days of contemplation.
• The prodigies emerged from cultivation and saw that Li Xunyuan, Bu Hongchen, Yun Yao, and the others each had a nine-petaled Flower of Nirvana blooming above their heads.

Bu Hongchen failed to fuse the myriad laws and resolved to refine his approach, while Li Xunyuan used a vast heavenly tribulation to temper his body and awaken the primordial elemental origin. The tribulations converged into a supreme immortal king above the ninth heaven, threatening to overturn the emperor's tomb world.

• Bu Hongchen's attempt to fuse the myriad laws failed when the Heavenly Dao's fires overwhelmed him, but he decided to try again after making better preparations.
• Yun Yao, Huang Wu, Li Qingshu, Jian Yunxiao, and the Jade Lake Holy Maiden formed Flowers of Nirvana, while Zi Tianque failed.
• Li Xunyuan opened the thirteen forbidden Life Palaces and summoned more than ten thousand world-destroying tribulations, which he welcomed as a chance to complete his Chaos Eternal Immortal Body.
• Li Xunyuan activated the Primordial True Explanation and his hundred Eternal Immortal Bones, then endured the lightning to temper them.
• As Li Xunyuan's bones reached fifteen hundred Dao markings, the chaotic origin of earth, water, fire, and wind emerged from his body.
• The lightning tribulations merged into a chaotic tribulation shaped like a supreme immortal king, and heaven and earth seemed on the verge of destruction.

Li Xunyuan completed the transformation of his Chaos Eternal Immortal Body and Grand Pure Dharma Body while enduring successive Heavenly Tribulation True Spirits. After opening thirteen Life Palaces and annihilating nine tribulation spirits, he triggered a mysterious disturbance across time and space that awakened ancient powers throughout the Primordial Dao Domain.

• Li Xunyuan endured the Heavenly Tribulation True Spirit’s attacks, repeatedly healing himself as his Immortal Bones developed Dao patterns and his Chaos Eternal Immortal Body completed its transformation.
• Li Xunyuan split the Heavenly Tribulation True Spirit with one sword strike, then fused his primal origin into the Grand Pure Dharma Body and transformed it into a primordial Elemental Immortal Physique.
• The Grand Pure Dharma Body revealed its eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth Life Palaces, drawing nine different Heavenly Tribulation True Spirits into the sky.
• Li Xunyuan annihilated all nine Heavenly Tribulation True Spirits with one sword strike, causing a mysterious sound and a momentary disruption of space and time across the Primordial Dao Domain.
• Ancient figures in the Immortal Clans, Primordial Imperial Clans, and immortal imperial dynasties awoke and speculated that a power from beyond the current epoch had disturbed space and time.

After opening the thirteen Life Palaces of his Grand Pure Primordial Immortal Body, Li Xunyuan condensed three Nirvana flowers and astonished the gathered cultivators. He then invited Bu Hongchen to challenge him, and Bu Hongchen accepted on behalf of the Bu Zhan Imperial Dynasty.

• Li Xunyuan’s destruction of nine heavenly tribulation true spirits led Bu Hongchen and Huang Wu to suspect that he had forged a new path.
• Li Xunyuan used the Grand Pure Primordial Immortal Body to condense three Nirvana flowers representing the future, present, and past.
• The gathered heaven’s chosen, including Bu Hongchen, were stunned by Li Xunyuan’s three flowers and his transformed strength.
• Li Xunyuan left the white jade summit and challenged Bu Hongchen to fulfill his long-standing desire to fight.
• Bu Hongchen accepted a fair fight against Li Xunyuan on behalf of the Bu Zhan Imperial Dynasty.

Li Xunyuan faced Bu Hongchen in a duel and defeated him after Bu Hongchen unleashed the Immortal-Slaying Emperor-Cutting Formation. The other prodigies watched in awe as Li Xunyuan remained unharmed and Bu Hongchen was left gravely injured.

• Bu Hongchen challenged Li Xunyuan to test his Dao heart, and Li Xunyuan agreed to let him attack first.
• Bu Hongchen used the Human Emperor Seal, but Li Xunyuan shattered it with a punch and sent Bu Hongchen crashing through several divine mountains.
• Bu Hongchen rose from the ruins, combined his Human Emperor Body, twelve Life Palaces, and Bu Battle Art, and formed the Immortal-Slaying Emperor-Cutting Formation around Li Xunyuan.
• Li Xunyuan brought out his twelve Life Palaces and unleashed the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist, destroying the killing formation.
• The attack sent Bu Hongchen flying into a crater as he coughed up blood, while Li Xunyuan stood unharmed and victorious.

Li Xunyuan defeated Bu Hongchen in the Emperor's Tomb and gained the ancient freak's willing allegiance without binding him with a soul imprint. After the Three Lives Emperor Tomb came to an end, Li Xunyuan and the other geniuses departed, while the witnesses agreed to keep the battle secret.

• Bu Hongchen admitted defeat, and Li Xunyuan demanded that he submit or die.
• Bu Hongchen knelt and offered his soul, but Li Xunyuan refused to enslave him and accepted him as a follower.
• Bu Hongchen pledged his respect to Li Xunyuan, leaving Yun Yao, Huang Wu, Jian Xiaoyao, and the other geniuses stunned by his submission.
• Li Xunyuan planned to consult the Ninth Ancestor about the Three Lives Great Emperor's coffin, digest the Flower of Nirvana's insights, and visit the Ancient Heavenly Palace treasury and Phoenix Mausoleum.
• Huang Wu departed for the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Dynasty, and Li Xunyuan left with Yun Yao, Bu Hongchen, and the others.
• Jian Xiaoyao, Zi Tianque, and the other geniuses left the Emperor's Tomb Secret Realm and agreed to keep what happened there secret.

Li Xunyuan returned to the Li Lineage with the Three Lives Emperor Coffin, then secluded himself to study the Nirvana Flowers and break through the Life and Death Realm. While he remained in seclusion, Prince Xuan Tian challenged the Li Lineage, and Li Xukong answered by injuring him at Lingxu Grotto-Heaven.

• Li Xunyuan asked the Ninth Ancestor to inspect the Three Lives Emperor Coffin, and the Ninth Ancestor found dragon and phoenix skeletons containing cultivation insights and divine abilities.
• Li Xunyuan sent Bu Hongchen back to the Bu Zhan Imperial Dynasty and entered deep seclusion in the Ancient Realm to break through the Life and Death Realm.
• Xuanming Divine Mountain and the Great Void Dragon Court secretly turned their attention toward the Li Lineage as tensions rose across the Primordial Dao Domain.
• Prince Xuan Tian entered the world, defeated more than a dozen challengers, and publicly challenged Li Xunyuan and the Li Lineage's younger generation.
• At Lingxu Grotto-Heaven, Prince Xuan Tian defeated Jian Xiaoyao, then Li Xukong appeared and injured him with a divine stele of the void.

Li Xukong arrived at Lingxu Grotto-Heaven with other members of the Li Lineage and injured Prince Xuan Tian in a surprise attack. The two Nirvana Realm prodigies then clashed again, and Li Xukong held his own against Prince Xuan Tian’s Black Tortoise Imperial Seal.

• Li Xukong appeared above Lingxu Grotto-Heaven with Li Lineage elders, Li Junlin, Li Tiangang, and Li Muyu, and the prodigies recognized the famous members of the lineage.
• Li Xukong’s first strike injured Prince Xuan Tian and shocked the gathered prodigies.
• Prince Xuan Tian threatened Li Xukong as snow fell and froze the surrounding space.
• Li Xukong summoned the laws of the void and attacked Prince Xuan Tian with a giant handprint.
• Prince Xuan Tian countered with the Black Tortoise Imperial Seal, and their techniques collided in a destructive storm.
• Li Xukong drifted backward from the clash without falling behind Prince Xuan Tian.

Li Xukong and Prince Xuan Tian revealed that they had each opened twelve Life Palaces and fought with their taboo arts. Li Xukong gained the upper hand, and the battle continued with neither side defeated.

• Li Xukong revealed his twelve Life Palaces and challenged Prince Xuan Tian, who showed that he had twelve as well.
• Li Xukong used the Xukong Divine Art to evade Prince Xuan Tian’s Heaven and Earth Return to the Ruins and strike him, leaving Prince Xuan Tian bleeding and at a disadvantage.
• Li Xukong formed the Twelve-Grade Lotus Slaying Emperor Formation from his Life Palaces and attacked Prince Xuan Tian.
• Prince Xuan Tian summoned the Heaven-Swallowing Ancient Emperor’s shadow, but Li Xukong’s formation drove it backward.
• After exchanging over a hundred moves, Prince Xuan Tian’s arm trembled, and he wondered how he could not defeat Li Xukong.

Li Xukong summoned the Xukong ancestral spirit through his mirror and shattered Prince Xuan Tian’s Heaven-Devouring divine ability, leaving him badly wounded and at a disadvantage. Prince Xuan Tian refused to accept defeat, but a Supreme from Xuanming Divine Mountain seized him and took him away.

• Prince Xuan Tian unleashed the Heaven-Devouring Emperor Bone’s black-and-white life-and-death light against Li Xukong.
• Li Xukong offered his origin essence blood to the Xukong Mirror, summoned the ancestral spirit, and struck Prince Xuan Tian with its immortal light.
• The mirror’s attack shattered Prince Xuan Tian’s divine ability and wounded him, while the watching prodigies reacted with shock and admiration.
• Prince Xuan Tian healed his shattered body and insisted that he had not lost, but Li Xukong declared that the outcome would be the same even if they fought again.
• A Supreme from Xuanming Divine Mountain intervened, seized Prince Xuan Tian, and departed through the void.

After Li Xukong defeated Prince Xuan Tian, the Li Lineage celebrated as news of the battle spread across the Primordial Dao Domain. Li Xunyuan emerged from seclusion having reached the Nirvana Realm and mastered new abilities, then learned from Li Qianqiu that the Ancient Heavenly Palace’s Chaos Lake was about to open.

• Li Xukong defeated Prince Xuan Tian at Lingxu Grotto-Heaven, and a Supreme of Xuanming Divine Mountain took the prince away to end the battle.
• Li Xukong returned to a jubilant Li Lineage, while news of his victory shook the Primordial Dao Domain.
• During more than two years of seclusion, Li Xunyuan reached the Nirvana Realm, integrated his two immortal bodies, and created the killing move Years.
• Li Qianqiu told Li Xunyuan that Chaos Lake would soon open and explained its eighty-one tribulations and the chance to join the Ancient Heavenly Palace.
• Li Xunyuan agreed to visit the Ancient Heavenly Palace and take part in Chaos Lake.

Li Xukong visited Li Xunyuan after defeating Prince Xuan Tian and warned him not to underestimate the ancient freak. Li Xunyuan accepted his help while privately believing he could easily defeat Prince Xuan Tian.

• Li Tianji told Li Xunyuan that Li Xukong had defeated Prince Xuan Tian, who had challenged the Li Lineage's younger generation.
• Li Xunyuan welcomed Li Xukong and served him Dao Comprehension Tea.
• Li Xukong warned Li Xunyuan that Prince Xuan Tian was formidable and gave him a jade slip to summon help.
• Li Xunyuan thanked Li Xukong but kept his confidence in his own ability to defeat Prince Xuan Tian to himself.

The Li Lineage set out for the Ancient Heavenly Palace’s Chaos Lake trial as the Ice God Son and other heirs also emerged. At the Heavenly Palace, its Holy Son vowed to challenge Li Xunyuan, while Su Nishang warned him that the Li Lineage’s strength was formidable.

• Li Xunyuan, Li Xukong, and Li Junlin departed for the Ancient Heavenly Palace, while Li Qingshu and Li Zhixing remained in secluded cultivation.
• The Ice God Son emerged from seclusion, and other ancient clan successors prepared to head to the Ancient Heavenly Palace.
• The Ancient Heavenly Palace agreed to let the Li Lineage join the Chaos Lake trial, angering disciples who resented Li Xunyuan for defeating Qin Ye.
• A Holy Son of the Ancient Heavenly Palace expressed a desire to avenge Qin Ye, but Su Nishang warned him about Li Xunyuan and Li Xukong.
• The Holy Son said Li Xunyuan would have to pass the Heavenly Palace’s forty-nine restrictions to enter, and declared that he wanted to test the God Son himself.

The Li Lineage arrived at the Ancient Heavenly Palace for the Chaos Lake trial, drawing attention from the gathered prodigies. After palace disciples provoked Li Xunyuan over Qin Ye, Li Cangtian attacked them and warned them not to speak again.

• Prodigies gathered at the Ancient Heavenly Palace as it opened the Great Expansion Forty-Nine Trial for entry to the Chaos Lake trial.
• Li Xunyuan and Li Xukong arrived with the Li Lineage, attracting the crowd’s attention.
• Ancient Heavenly Palace disciples approached the Li Lineage and accused Li Xunyuan of nearly killing Qin Ye.
• Li Cangtian formed a divine qilin war spear and sent the disciples flying with a single attack.
• Li Cangtian threatened to kill anyone who insulted Li Xunyuan again, and the Li Lineage departed as the crowd fell silent.