Chapter Summaries

Li Xunyuan cured Yun Juechen’s Calamity Curse, restoring his life and advancing him to the Xiaoyao Heavenly Venerable Realm. After the Yun Family named Li Xunyuan its young master, Yun Yuan proposed that he use his own body as a Dao Seed.

• Li Xunyuan severed the source of Yun Juechen’s Calamity Curse and gave him another thousand years of life, raising him to the Xiaoyao Heavenly Venerable Realm.
• Yun Juechen named Li Xunyuan the Yun Family’s young master, and the family Supremes agreed and showered him with treasures.
• The Yun Family Supremes and elders departed, leaving Yun Juechen, Yun Xiyue, Yun Yuan, and Li Xunyuan in Immortal-Sinking Valley.
• Yun Juechen gave Li Xunyuan the Yin-Yang Dao Seed but said it was too low-grade to suit him.
• Yun Yuan proposed that Li Xunyuan use his own body as the seed instead of an external Dao Seed.

Yun Chen returned to the Yun Family after clearing its forbidden land, drawing attention to the coming heir contest. Yun Xuan arrived seeking a fight with Li Xunyuan, while Yun Yan tried to temper his eagerness, and Yun Chen warned that Li Xunyuan would be a formidable opponent.

• Yun Chen appeared beneath a blooming peach tree after returning from the forbidden secret realm, and Yun Family members discussed his Heavenly Evolution Dao Physique and the heir contest.
• Yun Xuan arrived on a silver immortal path, and a Yun Family elder suspected his Primordial Chaos Heaven and Earth Physique had reached minor completion.
• Yun Xuan challenged Li Xunyuan to exchange pointers, but Yun Yan argued that Li Xunyuan should first spend time with his family.
• Yun Xuan said he cared more about fighting strong opponents than becoming heir and would rather protect the Yun Family than manage it.
• Yun Chen warned Yun Xuan that Li Xunyuan had already made the Li Lineage's younger generation submit, including Li Xukong and Li Junlin.

Li Xunyuan learned about the Body as Seed path and decided to refine himself with the myriad laws in the Land of Return to the Ruins. After his system revealed it as a new check-in location, he insisted on going despite his family’s warnings.

• Yun Yuan explained that Body as Seed used the self as a Dao seed, and Yun Juechen warned that everyone in the Yun Family who had tried it had failed.
• Li Xunyuan said he was eighty percent certain he could succeed at Body as Seed, drawing alarm from Yun Juechen and the others.
• Yun Juechen told Li Xunyuan about the dangerous Land of Return to the Ruins, where ten thousand laws converged.
• Li Xunyuan said he wanted to use the myriad laws to refine himself, but Yun Yuan and Yun Xiyue urged him not to enter the forbidden land.
• Li Xunyuan received a system notification directing him to check in at the Land of Return to the Ruins and firmly declared that he would go.

Yun Nian revealed that Yun Yao had passed the Life and Death Bridge and entered the Ruins Realm, and Li Xunyuan promised to protect her if they met. As the Yun Family gathered for the approaching heirs' battle, Li Xunyuan arrived and declared that he would count it as a loss if he could not defeat Yun Xuan in one move.

• Yun Nian told Yun Juechen that Yun Yao had passed the Life and Death Bridge and was suspected to have entered the Ruins Realm.
• Yun Juechen, Yun Xiyue, and Yun Yuan reacted with shock, and Yun Yuan recalled Yun Yao's arduous cultivation and the bridge's nine hundred and ninety-nine stages.
• Yun Nian asked Li Xunyuan to look after Yun Yao if they met, and Li Xunyuan agreed to bring her back safely.
• Yun Nian revealed that Yun Xuan and another candidate heir had ended their seclusion and that Yun Xuan wanted to challenge Li Xunyuan.
• Yun Juechen described Yun Xuan's physique and strength, and Li Xunyuan said he would count it as a loss if he could not defeat him in one move.
• Li Xunyuan appeared before the waiting Yun Family crowd, drawing everyone's attention.

Li Xunyuan challenged the Yun Family’s younger generation and defeated Yun Xuan and Yun Chen with one move each. The stunned family recognized his power as surpassing even the potential to become a Great Emperor.

• Li Xunyuan told the Yun Family’s prodigies to challenge him together, but Yun Xuan insisted on a one-on-one fight.
• Li Xunyuan struck Yun Xuan with a single fist, shattering his twelve Life Palaces and leaving him badly injured.
• Yun Chen unleashed his Heavenly Evolution Dao Physique and Mountains and Rivers Painting against Li Xunyuan.
• Li Xunyuan used the Immortal-Slaying Art to break Yun Chen’s attacks and blast him into the plaza.
• The Yun Family’s members were left stunned by Li Xunyuan’s strength and saw him as having the potential to become an immortal.

After defeating Yun Xuan and Yun Chen, Li Xunyuan became the Yun Family's young master and departed for the Land of Return to the Ruins. As he entered the forbidden region, rivals and allies reacted to his journey, while Prince Xuan Tian grew stronger and vowed to kill Li Xukong.

• Li Xunyuan defeated Yun Xuan and Yun Chen, and the Yun Family's ancestors named him their young master.
• Li Xunyuan left the Yun Family for the Land of Return to the Ruins, while a Yun Family supreme expert secretly followed to protect him.
• News spread that Li Xunyuan was entering the forbidden region, where the Tang Family's Little Divine King had already gone, and people speculated that Li Xunyuan sought revenge for Yun Juechen.
• Huang Wu and Huo Ying'er worried about Li Xunyuan's safety, while Prince Xuan Tian wished for his death and strengthened himself with imperial bones.
• Prince Xuan Tian vowed to overcome his past humiliation and claimed that Li Xukong's life belonged to him.

Li Xunyuan crossed the deadly spatial turbulence and entered the Land of Return to the Ruins, where he immediately encountered a seductive illusion formed by the laws. He destroyed it with the Primordial Dao Sword and continued into the forbidden land.

• Li Tianji divined that Li Xunyuan's life was not in danger, while the Ninth Ancestor discussed the coming chaos and the Tang Family's attack on the Yun Family with a mysterious voice.
• Li Xunyuan rode the Chaos Ancestral Dragon to the northern edge of the Primordial Dao Domain, where onlookers speculated that he was entering the forbidden land in person to confront the Tang Family's young god king.
• Li Xunyuan and the Chaos Ancestral Dragon crossed the spatial turbulence, with Li Xunyuan carrying the frightened dragon through the perilous void using Step Straight into the Azure Clouds.
• Li Xunyuan arrived in the Land of Return to the Ruins and followed a powerful fluctuation to a divine mountain.
• A seductive woman appeared beside a mountaintop pool and invited Li Xunyuan to spend the night with her, but he recognized her as a law-made illusion and cut her down with the Primordial Dao Sword.

Li Xunyuan collected laws in the Land of Return to the Ruins before encountering Lei Ming and Linglong, two members of its divine race. They discovered he was an outsider, and Linglong wondered how someone at the Nirvana Realm had crossed the spatial turbulence.

• Li Xunyuan killed a white-clad fairy who bore an imprint of the Heavenly Maiden Law and collected her origin and a Purple Mansion Law divine lotus.
• He gathered more than a hundred kinds of laws from ancient trees as he explored the Land of Return to the Ruins.
• Lei Ming and Linglong traveled by chariot toward the Thousand Illusions Divine Tree, then sensed a surge of law power nearby.
• At a divine mountain, Li Xunyuan killed a Return to the Ruins Realm ancient beast with one sword and collected its law origin.
• Lei Ming and Linglong recognized that Li Xunyuan cultivated Dao arts rather than the divine arts of the Land of Return to the Ruins.
• Li Xunyuan confirmed he was an outsider, and Linglong questioned how he had reached the Land of Return to the Ruins at the Nirvana Realm.

Li Xunyuan learned of Thousand Illusion Valley, where the Thousand Illusions Divine Tree held a thousand laws, then left after the Chaos Ancestral Dragon and Origin Qilin nearly crippled Lei Ming. At the Golden God Abyss, he got an overview of the Land of Return to the Ruins and its nine abyss lords as factions gathered.

• Linglong invited Li Xunyuan to travel with her and Lei Ming to Thousand Illusion Valley, but Lei Ming mocked him for his Nirvana Realm cultivation.
• The Chaos Ancestral Dragon struck Lei Ming, and the Origin Qilin stomped on his chest, leaving him badly injured.
• Li Xunyuan refused to join forces with anyone and used his divine ability to leave for Thousand Illusion Valley; Lei Ming sent word to the Thunder Clan while Linglong stared in shock.
• At a valley in the Golden God Abyss, Li Xunyuan paid Shen Tao with a medicinal herb for information about the Land of Return to the Ruins.
• Shen Tao told Li Xunyuan that the Land of Return to the Ruins had nine great abysses, each guarded by an abyss lord with Supreme-level strength, while factions and their Return to the Ruins Realm geniuses gathered nearby.

Li Xunyuan entered Thousand Illusion Valley and clashed with the powerful clans gathered there, including Yin Chuan, who demanded that he answer for insulting the people of Return to the Ruins. The chapter left the gathered prodigies shaken after Li Xunyuan killed several Heavenly Feather Clan prodigies with a single punch.

• Heavenly Feather Clan and Azure Wood Clan prodigies entered Thousand Illusion Valley as Li Xunyuan arrived and drew attention as an outsider.
• The Chaos Ancestral Dragon, Origin Qilin, and Li Xunyuan mocked the gathered clans, provoking their anger.
• Yin Chuan, leader of the Silver Hou Clan and follower of the Golden God Clan's young Supreme, confronted Li Xunyuan and accused him of deserving death.
• Several Heavenly Feather Clan prodigies attacked Li Xunyuan to win favor with the Golden God Child.
• Li Xunyuan unleashed Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist and killed the Heavenly Feather Clan prodigies with one punch, shocking the crowd.

Li Xunyuan fought off the Golden God Abyss prodigies who tried to claim the Thousand Illusions Divine Fruits, killing Yin Chuan and the others. He remained in Thousand Illusion Valley with the fruits after the battle.

• The Thousand Illusions Divine Tree matured, and Li Xunyuan moved to collect its fruits.
• Yin Chuan demanded the fruits for the Golden God Child and rallied the Golden God Abyss prodigies to attack Li Xunyuan.
• Li Xunyuan destroyed their combined assault with one sword strike, killing the Thunder Clan prodigy and then the Azure Wood Clan and Spirit Clan attackers.
• The Chaos Ancestral Dragon and Origin Qilin joined Li Xunyuan as he slaughtered the Golden God Abyss prodigies, leaving Yin Chuan as the sole survivor.
• Yin Chuan fled using Heavenly God Blood Escape, but Li Xunyuan struck him down with a merged Immortal Severing attack.

Li Xunyuan killed the prodigies in Thousand Illusion Valley, then began fusing the Thousand Illusions Divine Fruits and other laws to temper his soul. News of the massacre reached the Golden God Abyss, provoking an uproar as he continued advancing toward the Return to the Ruins Realm.

• Linglong found the slaughtered prodigies and warned Li Xunyuan that the Golden God Child and a Supreme expert might come after him.
• Li Xunyuan ordered Linglong to spread the news of his killings and challenge the Golden God Child to seek revenge if he dared.
• The Origin Qilin explained that Linglong had little choice but to stand with Li Xunyuan, since the clans would suspect her after she alone survived.
• Li Xunyuan divided some Thousand Illusions Divine Fruits between the Origin Qilin and the Chaos Ancestral Dragon, then began refining the rest with other law origins.
• Li Xunyuan's thousand laws tempered his soul and raised his cultivation to Nirvana Realm Ninth Heaven, where he suppressed it as Dao patterns formed.
• Linglong spread word that Yin Chuan and the prodigies of the Heavenly Feather Clan, Azure Wood Clan, and Spirit Clan had all died, setting off an uproar across the Golden God Abyss.

Li Xunyuan decided to collect laws by robbing the Golden God Child, but the Golden God Child's war generals Xiang Feng and Hu Meier arrived to kill him. After the Origin Qilin and Li Xunyuan killed them with ease, Li Xunyuan gave the Golden God Child one day to kneel and offer a thousand laws.

• Li Xunyuan awakened in the Ruined Walls Secret Realm with fifteen hundred laws and decided to plunder the Golden God Child's laws.
• Xiang Feng and Hu Meier arrived with spectators and demanded that Li Xunyuan come out and die.
• The Origin Qilin attacked Xiang Feng with the Qilin Ancestral Seal and killed him in one blow.
• Li Xunyuan caught Hu Meier as she fled, crushed her heart, and took her demon crystal while the Chaos Ancestral Dragon swallowed her corpse.
• Li Xunyuan told the watching beings to give the Golden God Child one day to kneel and offer a thousand laws, or face Li Xunyuan coming for his life.

After learning that Xiang Feng and Hu Meier had died in the Ruined Walls Secret Realm, the Golden God Child set out to kill Li Xunyuan, bringing Elder Yang with him. As forces gathered to witness the confrontation, old beings wondered whether Li Xunyuan belonged to the same Li Lineage as a terrifying figure who had once defied the abyss lords.

• The Golden God Child planned to claim the Heart of the Sea God and the Sea Emperor's Daughter, then learned Xiang Feng and Hu Meier had fallen to Li Xunyuan.
• A messenger described Li Xunyuan's demand that the Golden God Child kneel and offer a thousand Laws, and the Golden God Child killed the messenger in fury.
• The Golden God Child summoned Elder Yang, a Great Saint, and departed for the Ruined Walls Secret Realm to confront Li Xunyuan.
• Beings from the Golden God Abyss, including the Heavenly Feather Clan, Azure Wood Clan, Spirit Clan, and Lei Ming with Thunder Clan elders, headed toward the secret realm.
• Old undying beings recalled that a Li-surnamed figure had entered the Land of Return to the Ruins a hundred years earlier and survived the attacks of several abyss lords.

The Golden God Child confronted Li Xunyuan at the Ruined Walls Secret Realm, but Li Xunyuan effortlessly destroyed his opening attack and crushed him with Splendid Mountains and Rivers. The Golden God Child rose again and unleashed a powerful immortal-spirit technique, leaving the battle unresolved.

• The Golden God Child arrived at the Ruined Walls Secret Realm and challenged Li Xunyuan, who appeared with the Origin Qilin.
• The Golden God Child attacked with Sun Divine Power, but Li Xunyuan's Heaven-Devouring ability swallowed the attack.
• Li Xunyuan used Splendid Mountains and Rivers to shatter the Golden God Child's Yang God phantom and break his bones.
• Elder Yang emerged from hiding, but the Golden God Child told him not to intervene and stood up from the rubble.
• The Golden God Child chanted an ancient incantation and unleashed a long river of immortal spirits against Li Xunyuan.

Li Xunyuan killed the Golden God Child in the Ruined Walls Secret Realm and subdued Elder Yang, the Golden God Clan's Great Saint. A mysterious sword strike then slew Elder Yang, and Li Xunyuan briefly glimpsed Dao protector Li Xuanyou before he vanished.

• Li Xunyuan overwhelmed the Golden God Child with a sword strike and crushing blows, while Elder Yang failed to intervene.
• Li Xunyuan pinned Elder Yang to the ground and destroyed the Golden God Child's divine soul with Heavenly Origin.
• Elder Yang demanded that the unseen expert reveal himself and threatened him with the Golden God Abyss's kill order.
• A blood-red sword light struck from the void and killed Elder Yang with one blow.
• Li Xunyuan briefly saw the black-clad Dao protector Li Xuanyou in the starry sky, but Li Xuanyou disappeared when he tried to look closer.

Li Xunyuan slaughtered the forces that had targeted him in the Ruined Walls Secret Realm, then learned that the Tang Family’s heir, known as the Little God King, was heading toward the Sea God Abyss. The Golden God Clan chose to avoid antagonizing Li Xunyuan and planned to use the Nine Abyss Meeting to gain favor with his lineage, while Li Xunyuan set out for the Sea God Abyss in pursuit of the Heart of the Sea God and the Little God King.

• Li Xunyuan activated the Broadsword Divine Thunder Killing Formation, killing Lei Ming and the experts of the Heavenly Feather Clan, Azure Wood Clan, Spirit Clan, Thunder Clan, and other forces.
• Those gathered at the Ruined Walls Secret Realm discussed Li Xunyuan’s powerful backing and the coming Nine Abyss Meeting, and Li Xunyuan learned that the Little God King was the Tang Family’s heir and was heading for the Sea God Abyss.
• The Golden God Abyss’s Supremes decided not to make an enemy of Li Xunyuan and planned to protect him during the Nine Abyss Meeting to build goodwill with the Li Lineage.
• Li Xunyuan refined the Golden God Child’s origin divine power, bringing his law imprints to three thousand, and left for the Sea God Abyss to seek the Heart of the Sea God.

The Sea Emperor’s Daughter learned that the Sea God Bloodline inheritor had entered Sea God territory and devised a Dao discussion gathering to lure him with the Heart of the Sea God and the chance to marry her. She also heard that an outsider had killed the Golden God Son, while the Golden God Clan held back from seeking revenge.

• Qingxue told the Sea Emperor’s Daughter that the outsider who defeated Wutu had entered Sea God territory seeking the Heart of the Sea God.
• The Sea Emperor’s Daughter announced a Dao discussion gathering, offering the victor a chance to enter the Sea God Clan’s ancestral grounds and challenging anyone who wished to become her imperial son-in-law.
• Qingxue reported that an outsider had killed the Golden God Son and that a suspected Supreme had killed a Great Saint of the Golden God Abyss.
• Qingxue said the Golden God Son’s killer had fought across realms, defeating a Return to the Ruins expert from the Nirvana Realm.
• The Sea Emperor’s Daughter asked whether the Golden God Clan had pursued the killer, and Qingxue said the clan had stayed silent, wary of his backing.

The Sea Princess announced a Dao Discussion Gathering at Immortal Sea Lake, hoping to draw in heavenly geniuses while considering the mysterious youth who killed the Golden God Child. Li Xunyuan and the Tang Family’s little God King arrived in Heaven-Suppressing Sea City, where the gathering was about to begin.

• The Sea Princess told Qingxue to spread word of the gathering and wondered whether Li Xunyuan was connected to a powerful expert surnamed Li who had entered the Ruins Realm.
• The Tang Family’s little God King arrived in Heaven-Suppressing Sea City, seeking the Heart of the Sea God to awaken his Ancient Sea Immortal Physique.
• Li Xunyuan reached the city with the Chaos Ancestral Dragon and the Origin Qilin, declaring that he wanted laws and the little God King’s life because the Tang Family’s Supreme had attacked his maternal grandfather.
• The city guards recognized Li Xunyuan as the youth who had killed the Golden God Child and were alarmed that the Golden God Clan had not retaliated.
• Li Xunyuan entered the city and headed toward Immortal Sea Lake, where the Sea Princess’s Dao Discussion Gathering was set to begin.

The Sea Emperor’s daughter hosted a Dao discussion at Immortal Sea Lake, defeating Xu Xiao and the other challengers while secretly preparing to let the Tang Family’s Little God King win. After the Little God King took his place opposite her, the gathering stood on the verge of its main contest.

• The Sea Emperor’s daughter welcomed the heavenly prides with a zither performance, and Xu Xiao of the Heavenly Whale Palace praised her Dao arts.
• The Tang Family’s Little God King arrived, drawing attention after his victory over Wutu, and the Sea Emperor’s daughter personally offered him wine.
• The Sea Emperor’s daughter began the gathering without waiting for Li Xunyuan and planned to let the Little God King win so he could enter the ancestral grounds and reach the Heart of the Sea God.
• Xu Xiao challenged the Sea Emperor’s daughter, but her trident phantom crushed his Heavenly Whale manifestation and left him injured and conceding defeat.
• More than a dozen heavenly prides lost to the Sea Emperor’s daughter, then the Tang Family’s Little God King suddenly appeared opposite her to begin his challenge.