Chapter Summaries

Tang Chen began a Dao discussion with the Sea Emperor's Daughter to win a look at the Heart of the Sea God, but Li Xunyuan arrived and knocked him into the Immortal Sea Lake with one punch. The chapter ended as Tang Chen emerged in a blaze of radiance, furious and ready to confront Li Xunyuan.

• The Sea Emperor's Daughter asked Tang Chen about Li Xunyuan, and Tang Chen vowed to suppress his Yun Family rival if they met.
• Tang Chen asked the Sea Emperor's Daughter to lend him the Heart of the Sea God if he won their Dao discussion, and she agreed.
• Tang Chen revealed his Sea God Bloodline and summoned powerful manifestations as the gathered chosen watched.
• Li Xunyuan arrived atop a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon and struck Tang Chen with a chaotic golden fist, hurling him into the Immortal Sea Lake.
• Tang Chen burst from the lake along a path of azure seawater and roared at Li Xunyuan.

Li Xunyuan defeated Tang Chen’s avatar and demanded to examine the Heart of the Sea God. The Sea Princess accepted his challenge under the gathering’s rules, but Li Xunyuan immediately overwhelmed her with his attack.

• Tang Chen attacked Li Xunyuan with God King Judgment, but Li Xunyuan shattered the assault and wounded him with a killing sword.
• Tang Chen used God King Art, Heaven and Earth, Cosmos to trap Li Xunyuan in a small world, but Li Xunyuan destroyed it with a Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist infused with Origin power.
• Tang Chen’s voice revealed that the defeated figure had been his avatar, and he threatened to kill Li Xunyuan on the Emperor's Fall Battlefield.
• Li Xunyuan declared that he would kill Tang Chen again and demanded to borrow the Heart of the Sea God from the Sea Princess.
• The Sea Princess agreed that only a prodigy who surpassed her in Dao arts could study the Heart of the Sea God, and Li Xunyuan attacked her with a Mount Tai divine seal.
• The Sea Princess countered with Sea of Flowers for a Thousand Years, but Li Xunyuan shattered her flower worlds and sent her flying back, bloodied.

After defeating the Sea Princess, Li Xunyuan entered the Sea God Ancestral Land to seek the Heart of the Sea God and gain more laws. The Sea Princess’s true intentions remained hidden as Li Xunyuan effortlessly passed the ancestral land’s trials and collected its treasures.

• Li Xunyuan defeated the Sea Princess, who agreed to let him seek the Heart of the Sea God and proposed marriage.
• The Sea Princess led Li Xunyuan into the Sea God Clan’s ancestral grounds, where she opened a passage to the Sea God Ancestral Land.
• Li Xunyuan asked about the Ruins Realm and Yun Yao, but the Sea Princess had no information about Yun Yao and explained that only the top nine at the Nine Abyss Meeting could enter the Ruins Realm.
• The Sea Princess secretly hoped the Sea God Trident would recognize Li Xunyuan, then watched him enter the ancestral land, believing he would be at her clan’s mercy.
• Li Xunyuan followed the laws within him deeper into the ancestral land, easily overcame its formations, and gathered spirit materials, weapons, and pills.

Yun Yao fused with her other self and chose the Dao of Forgetfulness of Emotion, while vowing to guard her feelings for Li Xunyuan. As Li Xunyuan's fame spread across the Land of Return to the Ruins, Ren Guangyin prepared to seek a treasure in the Ruins Realm, and the Underworld God Son raged over Li Xunyuan's victories and betrothal to the Sea Emperor's Daughter.

• Yun Yao accepted the Dao of Great Void Severance of Emotion, became Wangqing, and vowed to guard her Dao for Li Xunyuan.
• Ren Guangyin coveted Li Xunyuan's Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist, but his master urged him to enter the Ruins Realm early and seek its supreme treasure.
• Ren Guangyin set aside thoughts of Li Xunyuan and resumed cultivating to strengthen himself for the Ruins Realm.
• News spread that Li Xunyuan had defeated the Sea Emperor's Daughter and beaten the Little God King, and that the Sea Emperor's Daughter planned to marry him.
• The Underworld God Son condemned Li Xunyuan for killing a local and winning the Sea Emperor's Daughter, then swore that the Land of Return to the Ruins would not tolerate him.

Yan Wushuang vowed to kill Li Xunyuan over the Sea Emperor’s Daughter, while Shui Youran grew eager to meet him and the people of Return to the Ruins anticipated the Nine Abyss Meeting. In the Sea God Ancestral Land, Li Xunyuan swallowed and fused the Heart of the Sea God, then faced a mysterious weapon-controlled puppet that declared he would become its spokesperson.

• Yan Wushuang learned that the Sea Emperor’s Daughter intended to marry Li Xunyuan and vowed to kill him.
• Shui Youran heard of Li Xunyuan’s exploits and eagerly awaited meeting him, while beings across Return to the Ruins anticipated the Nine Abyss Meeting.
• Li Xunyuan found the Heart of the Sea God in the Sea God Ancestral Land and used his divine ability to claim it.
• Li Xunyuan swallowed the Heart of the Sea God and fused its laws, raising his total to nearly five thousand.
• A mysterious figure attacked the Origin Qilin and Chaos Ancestral Dragon, and Li Xunyuan identified the golden-blue battle halberd as the force controlling its body.
• The halberd-controlled figure called Li Xunyuan a rich source of divine presence and demanded that he serve as its spokesperson.

Li Xunyuan faced the Sea God Trident’s sentient, damaged Quasi-Emperor Weapon, which revealed the Sea Emperor’s Daughter’s plan to turn him into its vessel. The Primordial Dao Sword awakened and destroyed the enemy, then passed both weapons to Li Xunyuan before its manifested soul imprint faded away.

• The damaged Sea God Trident demanded that Li Xunyuan become its sacrificial spirit, revealing the Sea Emperor’s Daughter had sought a vessel rather than an inheritor.
• The Sea God Trident attacked Li Xunyuan and subdued the Chaos Ancestral Dragon and Origin Qilin with its Supreme Realm power.
• Li Xunyuan revealed the complete Primordial Dao Sword and repeatedly used Time Flies Like an Arrow to drain the damaged weapon’s power.
• Great Emperor Yuanchu’s soul imprint awakened through the Primordial Dao Sword and slew the Sea God Trident, extinguishing its emperor soul.
• The middle-aged figure sent the Primordial Dao Sword and Sea God Trident to Li Xunyuan, then vanished.

Li Xunyuan absorbed the Sea God Trident and left the Sea God Ancestral Land, only to be met by the Sea God Clan and its patriarch. Li Xuanyou, the Li Lineage’s Fifteenth Ancestor, arrived and began killing the clan after they tried to take over Li Xunyuan’s body.

• The Heavenly Mystery Emperor Halberd destroyed and absorbed the Sea God Trident, bringing Li Xunyuan’s collected laws to nearly six thousand.
• Li Xunyuan left the ancestral mausoleum and emerged before the Sea God Clan, whose members had expected Ancestor Trident to take over his body.
• Li Xuanyou appeared beside Li Xunyuan, identified himself as the Fifteenth Ancestor, and declared that he had come to kill.
• Li Xuanyou killed the Sea God Clan patriarch and crushed his Quasi-Supreme soul.
• The Sea Emperor’s Daughter pleaded for the clan’s survival, but Li Xuanyou dismissed her plea and slaughtered Sea God clanspeople.
• The Chaos Ancestral Dragon accused the Sea Emperor’s Daughter of knowing the Sea God Clan was doomed.

Li Xuanyou fought the Sea God Ancestor, killed him, and annihilated the Sea God Clan after they had plotted to use Li Xunyuan as a vessel. He gave Li Xunyuan the clan’s treasury and remarked that he resembled his father, Li Xiaoran.

• The Sea God Ancestor emerged and asked Li Xuanyou to spare the Sea God Clan, but Li Xuanyou refused and protected Li Xunyuan with Supreme decrees.
• Li Xuanyou attacked the Sea God Ancestor, destroying the Sea God Clan’s territory as the two Supremes battled in the starry sky.
• Li Xuanyou returned carrying the Sea God Ancestor’s head and annihilated the remaining Sea God Clan with a single palm strike.
• Li Xuanyou gave Li Xunyuan the Sea God Clan’s treasury and burned the Sea God Ancestor’s head to nothing.
• Li Xuanyou told Li Xunyuan that he resembled his father, Li Xiaoran, and recalled painful memories of the past.

Li Xuanyou told Li Xunyuan about the Yin-Yang Key and warned him that the Abyss Masters were stirring, then gave him a jade slip to enter the Ruins Realm without attending the Nine Abyss Meeting. As the meeting began amid hostility over the Sea God Clan’s destruction, the gathered prodigies assumed Li Xunyuan was afraid to appear, while Yan Wushuang vowed to kill him if they met.

• Li Xuanyou explained that the Yin-Yang Key could help awaken Li Xunyuan’s Yin-Yang Life and Death Diagram and open the Yin-Yang Realm, which contained over ten thousand laws.
• Li Xuanyou warned Li Xunyuan about the restless Abyss Masters and the Samsara Sacred Body, then gave him a jade slip that would let him enter the Ruins Realm directly.
• News spread that Li Xunyuan had killed the Sea God Bloodline inheritor, exposed the Sea God Clan’s attempt to seize his body, and prompted his Dao protector to destroy the clan.
• The Nine Abyss Meeting began in the Heavenly God Abyss, where prodigies gathered to compete for entry to the Ruins Realm and the title of young Supreme.
• When Li Xunyuan failed to appear, the gathered prodigies speculated that he feared entering the Ruins Realm, and Yan Wushuang swore to kill him if they met.

Li Xunyuan entered the Ruins Realm after the Nine Abyss Meeting and signed in to obtain a divine ability that negated divine attacks if he remained convinced he was unharmed. He set off to find the Yin-Yang Key and activate the Yin-Yang Life and Death Diagram phenomenon.

• The Heavenly God Abyss Master opened the Ruins Realm, and Li Xunyuan entered ahead of the young Supremes.
• Yan Wushuang, the Underworld God Son, Shui Youran, Wutu, and other young Supremes followed Li Xunyuan into the realm.
• Li Xunyuan arrived in the primordial land and signed in, receiving the divine ability Dead Duck's Beak Remains Stubborn.
• Li Xunyuan headed toward an area dense with Life and Death Qi to search for the Yin-Yang Key, passing incomplete saint-rank manuscripts along the way.

Li Xunyuan found a clue to the Yin-Yang Key in the Life and Death Qi of the Ruins Realm’s armored obsessions, then reached the golden pagoda and took the Key of Life. Yan Wushuang and the other young Supremes attacked him to seize it, while Shui Youran held back and watched.

• Li Xunyuan explored the Ruins Realm, defeated armored obsessions, and noticed their Life and Death Qi sinking into the ground.
• Yan Wushuang and the other young Supremes followed the Qi to a palace complex, where they found the Key of Life atop a golden pagoda.
• Li Xunyuan arrived on the Chaos Ancestral Dragon, took the Key of Life, and mocked Yan Wushuang’s demand that he hand it over.
• Yan Wushuang and the Underworld God Son attacked Li Xunyuan, but the Chaos Ancestral Dragon and Origin Qilin shattered their strikes and smashed them into the earth.
• The prodigies of the Earth Deity Abyss, Earth God Abyss, and Wood God Abyss joined the attack alongside Yan Wushuang and the Underworld God Son, while Shui Youran stayed back because she sensed mortal danger.

Li Xunyuan used the Dead Duck's Beak Remains Stubborn divine ability to withstand the young Supremes' attacks and kill three of them. Yan Wushuang and Underworld God Son fled, detonating their weapons and divine manifestation to slow him down.

• Li Xunyuan's attack erased the Earth Deity Abyss prodigy's Dharma Heaven and Earth strike, then pierced and killed him with the Three Forms of Immortal Severing.
• Li Xunyuan killed the Wood God Abyss prodigy with Heavenly Origin One Sword, breaking the divine Dao killing formation.
• Wutu's Heavenly Star Earth Explosion failed to stop Li Xunyuan, who emerged from the storm and killed him with Immortality Tribulation Light.
• Yan Wushuang and Underworld God Son fled after realizing Li Xunyuan could kill them as well.
• Underworld God Son detonated his black divine sword, and Yan Wushuang detonated his divine manifestation to hinder Li Xunyuan as they escaped.

Li Xunyuan killed Yan Wushuang and the Underworld God Son, subdued Shui Youran, and then secluded himself to refine the Key of Life. He created the Life Divine Ability and sensed the Key of Death calling him deeper into the Ruins Realm.

• Li Xunyuan destroyed Yan Wushuang and the Underworld God Son with Immortality Ashes, and the Chaos Ancestral Dragon and Origin Qilin devoured their fleeing souls.
• The soul lamps of five young Supremes went out, enraging the Nine Abysses' elders as Shui Youran's lamp flickered weakly.
• Li Xunyuan choked Shui Youran unconscious, sealed her meridians, and sent her away before leaving to cultivate.
• Li Xunyuan refined the Key of Life in seclusion and created the Life Divine Ability.
• Li Xunyuan reached eight thousand laws and sensed that the Key of Death was drawing him deeper into the Ruins Realm.

Li Xunyuan followed the Key of Life into the Ruins Realm’s ocean of laws, while Ren Guangyin transformed his Samsara Sacred Body with the Key of Death. They met at the convergence of all laws, each seeking the keys and the chance to enter the Life and Death Realm.

• Ren Guangyin obtained the Key of Death and headed toward the Life and Death Realm to transform his Samsara Sacred Body.
• Li Xunyuan mastered three divine abilities, then used the Ninth Ancestor’s protection to travel safely into the depths of the Ruins Realm.
• Li Xunyuan followed the Key of Life to an ancient lake and crossed into an ocean of converging laws, where he sensed that someone was watching him.
• A white-clad young woman at the depths of the Ruins Realm sensed Li Xunyuan’s arrival and watched him cross the ocean of laws.
• Ren Guangyin completed his transformation, awakened the Lunhui Divine Ability, and planned to seize Li Xunyuan’s abilities and opportunities.
• Li Xunyuan arrived before Ren Guangyin, who declared that only one of them could enter the Life and Death Realm and that their clash would decide who lived or died.

Li Xunyuan and Ren Guangyin fought inside the Ruins Realm as the Emperor's Road approached. Li Xunyuan wounded Ren Guangyin despite his Samsara Sacred Body and Lunhui Disc, shocking the observers outside.

• Ren Guangyin declared that he would begin his invincible path by defeating Li Xunyuan, and Li Xunyuan revealed his Chaos Eternal Immortal Body and other powerful traits.
• Ren Guangyin attacked with Samsara Fist, but Li Xunyuan's Heavenly Origin Soul Sword struck his soul and forced him back.
• The Heavenly God Abyss Master projected the battle for the gathered elders, who speculated about the young Supremes' disappearance and awaited the Life and Death Realm.
• Ren Guangyin unleashed Lunhui Divine Light while Li Xunyuan countered with A Single Lotus in the Eternal Azure Heavens and the Chaos Green Lotus.
• Li Xunyuan's attack injured Ren Guangyin and made him cough blood, leaving the Return to the Ruins observers stunned.

Li Xunyuan battled Ren Guangyin in the ocean of laws, revealing his power over time and his Double Pupils while resisting Ren Guangyin’s reincarnation techniques. The fight ended with Ren Guangyin stunned that his divine abilities could not harm Li Xunyuan.

• Ren Guangyin recognized that Li Xunyuan’s physique carried the aura of chaos, and Li Xunyuan corrected him without revealing his full abilities.
• Ren Guangyin invoked the Immortal Ancient Art, Lunhui Heavenly God Seal, while Li Xunyuan countered with Life and Years and struck him with the Years Sword.
• Ren Guangyin reversed the Years Sword’s effects with his immortal reincarnation flame and recovered from his rapidly aging body.
• Li Xunyuan unleashed Eternal Immortal Light from his Double Pupils, shocking Ren Guangyin.
• Ren Guangyin attacked with the Immortal Ancient Art, Spear of Lunhui, but his reincarnation power vanished against Li Xunyuan without causing harm.

Li Xunyuan overwhelmed Ren Guangyin in their battle, but Ren Guangyin summoned his present-life self and unleashed his strongest reincarnation technique for one final clash. Li Xunyuan answered with the Five Emperors Art, and their attacks collided as everyone watched to see who would prevail.

• Li Xunyuan shattered Ren Guangyin's Spear of Lunhui with Eternal Immortal Light, then struck him down again with a Samsara Fist despite Ren Guangyin's regeneration.
• The Heavenly God Abyss observers were stunned by Li Xunyuan's dominance, while the other abyss elders suspected he had killed their successors and began to show killing intent.
• Ren Guangyin summoned his present-life phantom with Lunhui True Self and fused three forbidden techniques into the Lunhui Immortal Seal.
• Li Xunyuan formed a bow from his twelve Life Palaces and fired an arrow powered by five emperor-path immortal arts, calling it the Five Emperors Art.
• The Lunhui Immortal Seal and Li Xunyuan's arrow collided in a tremendous eruption of laws as the onlookers awaited the result.

Li Xunyuan defeated Ren Guangyin, who sacrificed himself to light the Realm Incense and summon ancient beings from the Return to the Ruins. Li Xunyuan unexpectedly extinguished the incense with Miraculous Healing Hands, leaving the awakening threat uncertain.

• Li Xunyuan emerged unharmed after Ren Guangyin's attack, revealing that he had won their battle.
• Ren Guangyin burned his reincarnation bloodline, bone, and laws to light the Realm Incense, then vanished in a rain of light.
• The incense spread its fragrance through the Return to the Ruins Forbidden Land as its seal began to weaken and lost beings stirred.
• Origin Qilin warned Li Xunyuan that the incense would awaken powerful beings lost in the Return to the Ruins.
• Li Xunyuan used Miraculous Healing Hands to extinguish the Realm Incense and restore it to its unlit state.

After the deaths of eight young Supremes, the Nine Abysses’ Supremes gathered to confront Li Xunyuan, who was preparing to enter the Life and Death Realm. The Geng Metal Supreme unexpectedly shielded Li Xunyuan from the Heavenly God Abyss Master, despite Li Xunyuan having killed the Golden God Abyss’s successor and a Great Saint.

• The soul lamps revealed Li Xunyuan killing eight young Supremes, and the Heavenly God Abyss Master entered the Ruins Realm to retrieve his fallen disciple.
• Supremes from the Fire God Abyss, Nether God Abyss, Earth God Abyss, and other immortal powers gathered at the Heavenly God Abyss to demand answers for their successors’ deaths.
• Li Xunyuan fused the Key of Death and the Key of Life into a Yin-Yang Key and prepared to open the Life and Death Realm.
• A divine finger attacked Li Xunyuan, but the Geng Metal Supreme’s golden palm intercepted it.
• The Geng Metal Supreme declared that Li Xunyuan had an affinity with the Golden God Abyss and that anyone seeking to kill him would have to get past him first.

Geng Metal Supreme sided with Li Xunyuan and offered to protect him, but five other Supremes joined forces against them. As Li Xunyuan called for his Dao protector, Li Xuanyou sensed something unusual about a girl who had severed her emotions and desires.

• Geng Metal Supreme told Li Xunyuan that the Golden God Abyss would not blame him for Golden God Child’s death, and Li Xunyuan accepted his protection.
• Divine Flame Supreme, Nether Supreme, Heavy Mountain Supreme, and the Supremes of the Earth Deity Abyss and Wood God Abyss confronted Geng Metal Supreme and declared him an enemy.
• A figure from the Water God Abyss rescued the unconscious Shui Youran from the Ruins Realm and withdrew to the Heavenly God Abyss.
• Nether Supreme warned Li Xunyuan that the united factions would not let the matter rest, while Li Xunyuan calmly summoned his Dao protector.
• Divine Flame Supreme and the others challenged Li Xunyuan’s protector to kill him within ten moves or take their own lives.
• Li Xuanyou looked into the depths of the Ruins Realm and wondered about a girl who had severed the seven emotions and extinguished the six desires.