Chapter Summaries

Su Nishang made the Great Expansion Forty-Nine Formation harder by adding the Moon God Palace’s musical Dao, aiming to make Li Xunyuan’s passage difficult. The Ice God Son and Huo Ying'er of the Qilin Imperial Dynasty arrived at the Ancient Heavenly Palace as the formation opened.

• Visiting geniuses praised the Ancient Heavenly Palace’s foundation, then pointed out that the Li Lineage had recently humiliated it without consequence.
• Su Nishang announced that she would preside over the Great Expansion Forty-Nine Formation and reward those who cleared every stage perfectly.
• Chen Shu thanked Su Nishang for helping the Ancient Heavenly Palace regain its honor, but she said she was only following the palace master’s orders and warned him not to underestimate Li Xunyuan.
• Su Nishang played her jade flute and revealed the forty-nine-stage formation, enhanced by the Moon God Palace’s Dao of music.
• The Ice God Son arrived at the Ancient Heavenly Palace, surprising the crowd, who had thought he had fallen.
• A Fire Qilin brought Huo Ying'er of the Qilin Imperial Dynasty to the gathering, and the assembled cultivators admired her beauty and bearing.

Ice God Son and Huo Ying'er passed through the Heavenly Evolution Four-Nine Formation with contrasting displays of power, and Huo Ying'er overcame Su Nishang in their contest of Dao techniques. The Li Lineage then arrived with Li Xunyuan, Li Xukong, and Li Junlin, leaving the gathered prodigies and elders awed.

• Ice God Son entered the Heavenly Evolution Four-Nine Formation and used his Emperor Dao divine ability, Extreme Ice, Falling Slaughter, to pass all its stages and reach Su Nishang.
• Huo Ying'er entered the formation and used her Dao techniques to cross it, defeating Su Nishang in their contest.
• Chen Shu praised Huo Ying'er, but she politely brushed off his attention.
• Cultivators wondered whether Li Xunyuan could match Li Xukong, then Li Xunyuan arrived with Li Xukong, Li Junlin, and other prodigies from the Li Lineage.
• The Li Lineage's arrival silenced the crowd and made Chen Shu and Ice God Son visibly uneasy.

Li Xunyuan dismissed the Ancient Heavenly Palace’s trial formation as weak, and Li Xukong defended him by crushing Chen Shu’s attack and warning him not to insult the Li Lineage. When the palace’s chief elder arrived to investigate, he recognized the Li Lineage members and greeted them cordially instead of taking offense.

• Li Xunyuan arrived at the Ancient Heavenly Palace with Li Xukong and Li Junlin, drawing attention from Huo Ying'er, Su Nishang, and the other chosen youths.
• Li Xunyuan called the Great Expansion Four-Nine Formation weak, while Li Xukong explained that it still tested entrants’ combat strength.
• Chen Shu taunted Li Xunyuan, who refused to break the formation so the other Li Lineage members could use it to improve themselves.
• Li Xukong struck Chen Shu down with a Xukong Great Hand Seal and warned him that insulting the Li Lineage again would cost him his life.
• The chief elder appeared and, after recognizing Li Xunyuan and the others, greeted them with forced cordiality rather than anger.

Li Xunyuan entered the Ancient Heavenly Palace’s Great Expansion Four-Nine Formation and shattered it with one stomp, defeating Su Nishang and destroying the formation’s core. The chief elder accepted the damage as the formation’s weakness, while the onlookers were left stunned by Li Xunyuan’s strength.

• Li Xunyuan learned that the formation had barely tempered his companions and declared that it had no reason to exist.
• Su Nishang played her jade flute as Li Xunyuan stepped into the formation and stomped once, shattering it completely.
• Su Nishang was blasted backward and spat blood, while the gathered heaven’s chosen stared at Li Xunyuan in shock.
• The chief elder discovered that Li Xunyuan’s stomp had also destroyed the formation’s core and nearly lost his temper.
• Li Xunyuan apologized for using too much strength and called the formation unable to withstand a single blow.
• The chief elder swallowed his anger, blamed the formation’s weakness, and recalled the palace master’s warning not to provoke Li Xunyuan.

After Li Xunyuan destroyed the Great Expansion Four-Nine Formation, Chaos Lake appeared and began testing the prodigies who sought to enter its trial. Li Xunyuan entered without manifesting a phenomenon, and his presence made the lake shake and the other prodigies’ phenomena tremble.

• Li Xunyuan’s defeat of Qin Ye and destruction of the Great Expansion Four-Nine Formation left the gathered cultivators eager to enter the Ancient Heavenly Palace.
• Chaos Lake manifested above the palace, and the chief elder explained that the true lake lay beneath the secret realm and admitted only those with the necessary opportunity.
• The Ice God Son passed Chaos Lake’s first stage, received an immortal-light baptism, and continued toward the remaining stages.
• Huo Ying’er, Li Xukong, Li Junlin, Li Tiangang, Li Muyu, Li Cangtian, Li Tianji, Su Nishang, Chen Shu, and other prodigies entered the trial with their phenomena manifesting.
• Li Xunyuan entered Chaos Lake without using a phenomenon, causing the lake to shudder and the other prodigies’ phenomena to tremble as if they feared him.

Li Xunyuan passed Chaos Lake’s trials with ease and awakened the imprint of Great Emperor Yuanchu, who warned him of a coming calamity and urged him to grow stronger. After the imprint vanished, Li Xunyuan raced ahead through the trials, leaving the assembled cultivators astonished.

• Li Xunyuan reached the fifteenth trial, where Great Emperor Yuanchu’s imprint appeared and recognized his resemblance to someone from the past.
• The chief elder and the Ancient Heavenly Palace’s powerful figures bowed to Great Emperor Yuanchu, while his pressure forced most of those present to their knees.
• Great Emperor Yuanchu told Li Xunyuan to meet him at the end of the Immortal Abyss, grow stronger quickly, and avoid becoming his enemy.
• After the imprint vanished, Ice God Son and Huo Ying'er were shaken by Li Xunyuan’s achievement, while the cultivators debated whether he could pass all eighty-one trials.
• Li Xunyuan passed forty trials in succession, greeted Li Xukong and Li Junlin, and continued ahead at a pace that stunned everyone.

Li Xunyuan battled his way through Chaos Lake’s later stages, defeating ancient prodigy imprints and reaching the seventy-ninth stage. After defeating an opponent identified as an Ancient Emperor’s youngest son, he left the watching cultivators in awe while Li Xukong, Li Junlin, and Huo Ying'er also advanced.

• Li Xunyuan cleared the stages through the seventy-third, defeating a young Supreme imprint with Heaven-Devouring.
• He defeated a young woman’s imprint at the seventy-fourth stage with Immortal-Killing and advanced to the seventy-eighth stage as Li Xukong, Li Junlin, and Huo Ying'er also progressed.
• The chief elder explained that the stages beyond the seventieth tested entrants against imprints of figures on the level of emperors’ sons and imperial princes.
• Li Xunyuan fought the Golden Crow prince’s imprint at the seventy-eighth stage and destroyed him with a sword strike of Years.
• Li Xunyuan entered the seventy-ninth stage, while Li Junlin, Huo Ying'er, and the Li Lineage’s first holy son reached the seventy-fifth.

Li Xunyuan passed the seventy-ninth trial of Chaos Lake and entered the eightieth, where he faced a youth with an emperor bell whose strength rivaled that of a young Great Emperor. After exchanging powerful blows, Li Xunyuan unleashed the immortal immortal bones’ great divine ability, Immortality Ashes.

• Li Xunyuan defeated the immortal apparition in the seventy-ninth trial and entered the eightieth, becoming the first prodigy of the present age to reach it.
• A youth with an emperor bell appeared, and Li Xunyuan sensed that he was more dangerous than any opponent he had faced before.
• The youth’s emperor bell and punch forced Li Xunyuan to use Chaos Grows a Green Lotus and the Immortal-Severing Art, which the youth shattered with one blow.
• Li Xunyuan struck the youth with Immortality Tribulation Light, piercing his shoulder, but the youth healed and attacked again with immense blood Qi.
• Li Xunyuan recognized similarities between the youth and an ancient sacred body, then formed golden eyes in the sky and unleashed Immortality Ashes.

Li Xunyuan entered Chaos Lake’s final trial and faced two young Great Emperors alongside an identical copy of himself. He unlocked the Immortal Forbidden Domain and destroyed his opponents with a sword of Years, while the Ancient Heavenly Palace’s patriarchs decided to appoint him young palace master.

• Li Xunyuan defeated the youth with the emperor bell in the eightieth trial and entered Chaos Lake’s final trial, hoping to find Primordial Origin Gold.
• The cultivators outside Chaos Lake marveled at Li Xunyuan’s achievement, and the Ancient Heavenly Palace’s patriarchs stripped Qin Ye and Chen Shu of their holy son positions and chose Li Xunyuan as young palace master.
• Li Xunyuan arrived at a peaceful lake and saw opponents appear in the forms of two young Great Emperors and an identical version of himself.
• Li Xunyuan summoned the Grand Pure Primordial Immortal Body and fought the three opponents in a fierce battle.
• Li Xunyuan opened the Immortal Forbidden Domain and unleashed a sword of Years that stripped the black-clad and green-clad youths of their vitality and shattered them.

Li Xunyuan cleared Chaos Lake’s final trial and reached the Ancient Heavenly Palace, where he signed in to obtain the time-manipulating divine ability Time Flies Like an Arrow. Guided by his Chaos Green Lotus phenomenon, he found Primordial Origin Gold and began transforming the lotus into a true Chaos Green Lotus.

• Li Xunyuan defeated the two young Great Emperors in Chaos Lake’s eighty-first trial, while the prodigies he had overcome appeared above the lake and saluted him.
• The cultivators outside saw Li Xunyuan’s marker disappear and wondered whether he had passed or failed, while he descended to the lake’s deepest point.
• Li Xunyuan arrived at the Ancient Heavenly Palace and signed in to obtain Time Flies Like an Arrow, which burned lifespan to manipulate the flow of time.
• Li Xunyuan reasoned that Miraculous Healing Hands could restore the lifespan he spent, and considered using the ability to slow time within his own body.
• The Chaos Grows a Green Lotus phenomenon guided Li Xunyuan to a palace filled with Primordial Origin Gold, which he absorbed into the lotus.
• Li Xunyuan’s Chaos Green Lotus became nearly solid and gave rise to a world of chaos as a mysterious voice spoke in his mind.

Li Xunyuan reached the eighty-first trial of Chaos Lake, surpassing Great Emperor Yuanchu’s record and astonishing the other prodigies. There, he met the Yuanchu Sword’s imprint, which revealed that it had awaited a fated person and asked him to protect the Ancient Heavenly Palace when darkness threatened the world.

• Li Xukong and Li Junlin reached the seventy-ninth trial but were defeated by Li Xunyuan’s imprint, while other prodigies stopped at the seventy-seventh or seventy-fifth trial.
• The prodigies watched Li Xunyuan reach the eighty-first trial and were stunned that he had surpassed Great Emperor Yuanchu’s record.
• Li Xunyuan unleashed the Chaos Green Lotus’s inherited ability, A Single Lotus in the Eternal Azure Heavens, and formed an ancient world within the lotus.
• As Li Xunyuan prepared to leave, he was drawn into an unknown space-time and encountered the Yuanchu Sword and its soul imprint.
• The Yuanchu Sword’s imprint said Great Emperor Yuanchu had left it to await a fated person, warned that the Immortal Abyss and Ancient Nether Clan threatened the world, and asked Li Xunyuan to look after the Ancient Heavenly Palace.

Li Xunyuan accepted the Primordial Dao Sword and promised to protect the Ancient Heavenly Palace if danger threatened the Primordial Dao Domain. After emerging from Chaos Lake having passed all eighty-one trials, he was offered the position of young palace master, while Chen Shu and Qin Ye were stripped of their holy-son positions and sent to the forbidden ground.

• The Yuanchu Sword imprint gave Li Xunyuan a Quasi-Emperor Weapon containing Great Emperor Yuanchu's insights, and Li named it the Primordial Dao Sword.
• Li Xunyuan promised that the Li Lineage would look after the Ancient Heavenly Palace if danger came to the Primordial Dao Domain.
• Li Xunyuan left the Ancient Heavenly Palace, and the Yuanchu Sword imprint faded into slumber.
• Li Xunyuan emerged from Chaos Lake after passing all eighty-one trials, astonishing the gathered cultivators.
• The Ancient Heavenly Palace's chief elder offered to make Li Xunyuan its young palace master.
• The chief elder stripped Chen Shu and Qin Ye of their holy-son positions and sent them to the forbidden ground to await judgment.

Li Xunyuan accepted the Ancient Heavenly Palace’s offer to become its young palace master, then learned that the Emperor Fall Battle Realm would open before the Heaven’s Mandate Emperor Road. Meanwhile, Xuanming Divine Mountain and the Great Void Dragon Court secretly allied to plan a war against the Li Lineage.

• The Chief Elder expelled Chen Shu, and Li Xunyuan accepted the young palace master position at the Ancient Heavenly Palace.
• Li Xunyuan searched the Ancient Heavenly Palace treasury for the Yuanchu Sword but found no trace of it, then returned to the Li Lineage.
• News spread that Li Xunyuan had awakened Great Emperor Yuanchu’s imprint and reached the eighty-first stage of Chaos Lake.
• Li Qianqiu explained to Li Xunyuan that the Emperor Fall Battle Realm would descend before the Emperor Road opened and held emperor dao inheritances.
• The Great Void Dragon Court and Xuanming Divine Mountain exchanged envoys and agreed to form an alliance against the Li Lineage in the Emperor Fall Battle Realm.

Yun Xiyue overcame her Quasi-Supreme tribulation and reached the Supreme Realm, then reunited with her son Li Xunyuan. She explained how she survived by severing her former Dao and cultivating a new life.

• Li Qianqiu and Li Xunyuan watched as Yun Xiyue's Quasi-Supreme tribulation began.
• Yun Xiyue appeared amid the lightning and exchanged a tearful gaze with Li Xunyuan, who recognized her as his mother.
• Yun Xiyue fought through the tribulation with her innate Dao physique and declared that she had achieved the Dao.
• Yun Xiyue emerged as a Supreme and the Li Lineage members bowed to her.
• Yun Xiyue reunited with Li Xunyuan, comforted him, and told him how she had used an immortality herb and severed her former Dao to live another life.

Li Xunyuan shared the Primordial True Explanation’s Divine Guidance Chapter with the Li Lineage, drawing its nine holy sons and daughters and many elders to hear his Dao discourse. He left the clan’s younger generation gathered around him and poised to lead them into the coming Emperor Fall Battle Realm.

• Yun Xiyue taught Li Xunyuan the Dao Severing Art and her cultivation insights, while he gave her three chapters of the Primordial True Explanation to strengthen her Supreme foundation.
• Li Xunyuan offered to accompany Yun Xiyue to visit her family, and she agreed to go after he united the Li Lineage’s younger generation.
• Yun Xiyue urged Li Xunyuan to gather the clan’s holy sons and daughters and lead them, and the Ninth Ancestor approved the plan.
• Three days later, Li Xunyuan distributed jade slips containing the Divine Guidance Chapter to the Li clanspeople and began explaining its principles from the divine hall.
• Li Xukong, Li Junlin, the other holy sons and daughters—including Li Xinghe and Li Xueqi—and the clan elders came to listen to Li Xunyuan’s discourse.

Li Xunyuan’s mastery of Dao techniques and generous gift of the Primordial True Explanation won the younger generation’s respect, and the nine successors honored him as their leader. After they reunited, Li Xinghe and Li Tiangang asked to test themselves against him, and Li Xunyuan invited them to attack together.

• Li Xukong admitted Li Xunyuan surpassed him and declared that the younger generation should honor the Divine Son above all.
• Li Junlin, Li Cangtian, Li Tianji, Li Tiangang, Li Muyu, Li Xinghe, Li Xueqi, Li Zhixing, and Li Qingshu bowed to Li Xunyuan and acknowledged his standing.
• Li Xunyuan emerged from the divine hall and urged his fellow lineage members to work together.
• Li Xinghe challenged Li Xunyuan to give him pointers, while Li Tiangang also stepped forward to test his Heavenly Dipper Divine Body.
• Li Xunyuan told Li Xinghe and Li Tiangang to attack him together.

Li Xunyuan defeated Li Xinghe and Li Tiangang in a spar, then advised them and the other Li Lineage successors before setting out with Yun Xiyue for the Yun Family in Fuxi Heaven. They arrived at the Yun ancestral land, where the family recognized Yun Xiyue and was astonished by Li Xunyuan’s resemblance to Lord Xiaoran.

• Li Xunyuan defeated Li Xinghe and Li Tiangang, then pointed out how they could improve their cultivation and fighting styles.
• Li Xunyuan sparred with the other Li Lineage successors and gave each of them individual guidance, bringing the younger generation closer together.
• Li Xunyuan studied the Primordial Dao Sword and prepared to travel to the Yun Family with Yun Xiyue, while the other eight holy son successors pledged allegiance to him.
• Li Xunyuan and Yun Xiyue rode the Chaos Ancestral Dragon into Fuxi Heaven, where Yun Xiyue was moved by the familiar sight of her homeland.
• Yun Family members recognized Yun Xiyue and were amazed by Li Xunyuan’s resemblance to Lord Xiaoran; they sent word to the elders to welcome them.

Li Xunyuan arrived at the Yun Family with Yun Xiyue and won the elders’ favor, while several Yun Family heirs learned of his arrival. Yun Xiyue discovered that her father was injured and insisted on seeing him.

• Yun Chen heard that Yun Xiyue had returned with the Li Lineage’s divine son and worried about the timing of the heir contest.
• Yun Yan learned that Li Xunyuan had arrived and set out to judge his reputation for herself.
• A young man in black achieved minor accomplishment in the Primordial Chaos Heaven and Earth Physique.
• Li Xunyuan entered the Yun Family’s ancestral land with Yun Xiyue, and the elders warmly welcomed him.
• Yun Xiyue asked about her father, realized the elders were concealing something, and insisted on seeing him.
• Li Xunyuan used One Thought Reaches Heaven, located the old family head, and sensed that his grandfather was injured.

Li Xunyuan and Yun Xiyue entered the Yun Family’s forbidden Immortal-Sinking Valley and reunited with their relatives, where Yun Juechen welcomed his grandson and gave him a Yin-Yang Dao Seed. The reunion was interrupted when Li Xunyuan recognized that Yun Juechen had been struck by a seemingly fatal Calamity Curse.

• Yun Qingping led Li Xunyuan and Yun Xiyue into Immortal-Sinking Valley after Yun Juechen allowed them to enter.
• Yun Xiyue tearfully reunited with her brother Yun Yuan and then greeted their father, Yun Juechen, beneath an ancient Dao comprehension tree.
• Li Xunyuan bowed to Yun Juechen, who praised his Innate Sacred Body Dao Fetus, Supreme Bone, and ancient immortal eye, drawing the excited attention of the valley’s Supremes.
• Yun Xiyue noticed Yun Juechen’s worsening Dao injury, but he gave Li Xunyuan the Yin-Yang Dao Seed as a gift he had taken from the Immortal Tang Family.
• Yun Juechen spat black blood, and Li Xunyuan identified it as a Calamity Curse cast by a Supreme-level Calamity Divine Body that was almost impossible to undo.

Li Xunyuan used Miraculous Healing Hands to cleanse Yun Juechen’s Calamity Curse and restore his youth, despite the Yun Family’s doubts. He left the Yun Family Supremes stunned after he also halted the forbidden lightning tribulation.

• The Yun Family Supremes learned that the Tang Family had grievously injured Yun Juechen and wanted to start a Longevity War.
• Yun Xiyue offered Yun Juechen a Time Immortality Elixir, but Li Xunyuan said he could cure the curse without it.
• Li Xunyuan used Miraculous Healing Hands to purge the black mist from Yun Juechen and restore his youth.
• Li Xunyuan declared he would sever the calamity’s source and grant Yun Juechen a thousand years of life.
• When a forbidden lightning tribulation threatened to descend, Li Xunyuan slashed at the heavens and made it disperse.
• The Yun Family Supremes watched in shock as Li Xunyuan accomplished the cure despite being only in the Nirvana Realm.