Chapter Summaries

Dongfang Yueming returned without Shi Qing and told the gathered experts that she had become the world's incarnation, prompting the Ten Thousand Dragons' Nest to swear loyalty to him. After gathering powerful cultivation techniques and completing his collection of five-element arts, he learned that immortal ascension was sealed by invisible shackles and vowed to break them.

• Dongfang Yueming reunited with Hong Ling, Qin Rushuang, and Su Wurao, while Hong Ling privately mourned that he still did not remember her.
• Dongfang Yueming explained Shi Qing's transformation and the Heavenly Dao's choice, and the Ten Thousand Dragons' Nest pledged to follow him.
• Dongfang Yueming returned to the Ten Thousand Dragons' Nest, where the people held a grand ceremony and honored him and the women.
• Dongfang Yueming studied the Light and Darkness Sacred Canon, then visited the Supreme Unity Sect and obtained its Geng Metal, Azure Wood, and Thick Earth cultivation arts.
• The Supreme Unity Sect master revealed that invisible shackles prevented ascension, and Dongfang Yueming vowed to shatter them.

Dongfang Yueming defeated the Mad God Hall, looted its treasury, and gathered cultivation techniques from the Crimson Dragon Heavenly Palace. After comprehending the body integration chapter of the I Alone Am Supreme Technique, he entered secluded cultivation to attempt a breakthrough.

• Dongfang Yueming arrived at the Mad God Hall with Long Zhan and killed its grand elder with one finger, forcing the hall's experts to submit.
• Dongfang Yueming looted the Mad God Hall's treasury, recycled its spirit stones for eighty billion points, and read its body-tempering techniques.
• Dongfang Yueming met Honglian at the Crimson Dragon Heavenly Palace, where the palace master agreed to lend him the sect's cultivation techniques.
• Dongfang Yueming absorbed the Martial Dao texts in the Scripture Repository and comprehended that body integration meant merging Martial Dao will with the grotto-heaven.
• Dongfang Yueming entered secluded cultivation to attempt body integration, stunning the Crimson Dragon Heavenly Palace and the Ten Thousand Dragons' Nest.

Dongfang Yueming used his points to reach Body Integration Perfection in all seven of his grotto-heavens while cultivating in the Crimson Dragon Heavenly Palace. He left the secret chamber and challenged the palace master, a Mahayana expert, to a spar.

• Long Rong set out for the Crimson Realm to protect Dongfang Yueming, while the women at the Ten Thousand Dragons' Nest worried about him.
• The Crimson Dragon Heavenly Palace's master hesitated to attack Dongfang Yueming, fearing the consequences if his ambush failed.
• Dongfang Yueming perfected his Martial Dao Grotto-Heaven and spent points to bring his other six grotto-heavens to Body Integration Perfection.
• Dongfang Yueming concluded that he needed life-and-death combat to seek a breakthrough to the Mahayana Stage.
• Dongfang Yueming emerged from secluded cultivation, told the palace master he had reached Body Integration, and challenged him to spar.

Dongfang Yueming fought the Crimson Dragon Heavenly Palace's master, first matching him through sheer physical strength and then overwhelming his perfected divine abilities with the fused Chaos True Body. The chapter left the palace master bloodied and defeated while Dongfang Yueming stood untouched, apparently without using a divine ability.

• Long Rong hurried to the Crimson Dragon Heavenly Palace and found Dongfang Yueming battling its master in a contest of physical strength.
• Dongfang Yueming gained the upper hand and asked the palace master to use more power, prompting him to unleash four perfected Heaven-Grade Divine Abilities.
• The palace master's four-armed crimson dragon manifestation struck Dongfang Yueming and sent him flying, but Dongfang Yueming rose excitedly from the rubble.
• Dongfang Yueming fused his seven Body Integration manifestations into the Chaos True Body and punched apart the crimson dragon manifestation.
• Dongfang Yueming's punch struck the Crimson Dragon Heavenly Palace's master and sent him flying as blood sprayed across the sky.

Dongfang Yueming invited Long Rong and the Crimson Dragon Palace Master to attack him together, then overwhelmed both Mahayana cultivators with his Chaos True Body. Long Rong unleashed five perfected Heaven-Grade Divine Abilities, but Dongfang Yueming broke both opponents’ attacks apart, leaving the battle still raging.

• Long Rong arrived expecting to rescue Dongfang Yueming, but found the Crimson Dragon Palace Master injured and Dongfang Yueming unharmed.
• Dongfang Yueming challenged Long Rong and the Crimson Dragon Palace Master to fight him together, and Long Rong learned that Dongfang Yueming had already crushed four perfected Heaven-Grade Divine Abilities with his body.
• Dongfang Yueming struck both opponents at once, blasting apart the Crimson Dragon Palace Master’s manifestation and sending Long Rong crashing into a mountain.
• Long Rong stopped holding back and unleashed five perfected Heaven-Grade Divine Abilities, forming five true dragons to join the Crimson Dragon Palace Master’s attack.
• Dongfang Yueming’s Chaos True Body struck the five dragons’ weak points and shattered them, then evaded the crimson dragon manifestation and broke it with a palm strike.

Dongfang Yueming defeated Long Rong and the Crimson Dragon Palace Master, then gained insight into the paths to Mahayana and Human Immortal. He entered seclusion and used his points to perfect the Mahayana Chapter, reaching the realm of “I am the Dao, and the Dao is me,” but resolved to strengthen his other grotto-heavens next.

• Dongfang Yueming suppressed Long Rong and the Crimson Dragon Palace Master, defeating both Mahayana experts.
• Dongfang Yueming reflected on their battle and understood that Mahayana required mastery of the Dao and rules, while Human Immortal meant elevating that mastery to creation.
• Long Rong and the Crimson Dragon Palace Master admired Dongfang Yueming, and the Crimson Dragon Palace Master declared him the Crimson Dragon Heavenly Palace’s most honored guest.
• Dongfang Yueming entered seclusion and spent points to advance the I Alone Am Supreme Technique - Mahayana Chapter to perfection.
• Dongfang Yueming reached the realm of “I am the Dao, and the Dao is me,” then decided to bring his other grotto-heavens up to the same level.

Dongfang Yueming reached Mahayana Perfection in several grotto-heavens, obtained the later chapters of the Supreme Sword Canon, and began cultivating five more attribute paths. He ended the chapter with over a hundred perfected Heaven-Grade Divine Abilities and five new Mahayana Perfection primordial spirits.

• Dongfang Yueming tore through space after reaching Mahayana Perfection in six grotto-heavens and returned to the Ten Thousand Dragons' Nest.
• Dongfang Yueming asked Long Rong to find the rest of a sword Dao cultivation method and Divine Ability Source Stones for five attributes.
• Long Rong and the Supreme Unity Sect mobilized their forces to gather what Dongfang Yueming needed.
• Dongfang Yueming learned that the number of perfected Heaven-Grade Divine Abilities determined the grade of an immortal bone, and realized he already had twenty.
• Long Rong delivered the later chapters of the Supreme Sword Canon and several thousand Divine Ability Source Stones.
• Dongfang Yueming perfected the Mahayana Chapter of the Supreme Sword Canon, formed over a hundred perfected Heaven-Grade Divine Abilities, and cultivated five new Mahayana Perfection primordial spirits.

As his power neared the world's limit and ascension loomed, Dongfang Yueming asked the women he loved to marry him before he left. Seven accepted, while Hong Ling refused until he truly remembered who she was, leaving Dongfang Yueming confused as he prepared for a wedding watched by the whole world.

• Dongfang Yueming emerged from seclusion, announced his coming ascension, and proposed to Qin Rushuang, Su Wurao, Shui Yan'er, and Shui Qingrou, who all accepted.
• News of Dongfang Yueming's wedding spread across the myriad heavens and worlds, prompting countless factions to prepare gifts and travel to Ten Thousand Dragons' Nest.
• Dongfang Yueming went to the Love Palace and proposed to Li Hongxiu; Li Qingyue also asked to marry him, and both sisters agreed.
• At the Qingqiu Fox Clan, Bai Di entrusted Bai Qian to Dongfang Yueming, and she accepted his proposal.
• Dongfang Yueming found Hong Ling at the Martial Sect's divine mountain and proposed, but she refused until he truly remembered who she was.
• Dongfang Yueming agreed to wait for Hong Ling and left to prepare for the wedding, while she watched him go and lamented that he had not truly returned.

Dongfang Yueming mastered a time-traveling divine ability after remembering Hong Ling, then used it to return to the past and restore Shi Qing’s Dao Foundation. He arrived in a desolate world as a mortal and met a young Hong Ling.

• Dongfang Yueming’s seven brides reached the Mahayana realm, while he raised his many cultivation paths to Mahayana Perfection.
• A little snow-white beast brought Dongfang Yueming the Time Scripture, but he initially failed to comprehend its Divine Ability.
• Seeing Hong Ling’s loneliness awakened his memories of her, allowing him to comprehend and perfect Time Flies Like a Shuttle.
• Dongfang Yueming told Hong Ling to wait for him, then offered to return his Dao Foundations to Shi Qing, whose incomplete foundation threatened her life.
• Dongfang Yueming reversed time and arrived in a desolate world as a mortal, retaining hundreds of billions of points.
• Dongfang Yueming approached a timid little girl, who told him her name was Hong Ling.

Dongfang Yueming recognized the abandoned child Hong Ling and promised to protect her, then used his point system to master Steel Fist and kill an Ironhide Boar that attacked them. Hong Ling realized that, for the first time, someone had stayed and protected her.

• Dongfang Yueming recognized Hong Ling from her familiar eyes and took her hand, promising to protect her.
• Hong Ling told Dongfang Yueming about the brutal world and offered him her treasured piece of moldy rations.
• An Ironhide Boar burst into the stone house, and Hong Ling threw herself in front of Dongfang Yueming to defend him.
• Dongfang Yueming comprehended Steel Fist by watching Hong Ling and spent points to reach perfect mastery.
• Dongfang Yueming killed the Ironhide Boar with one punch, and Hong Ling cried with relief that he had not abandoned her.

After Hong Ling revealed her rapid healing and felt qi and blood stirring within her, Dongfang Yueming conceived a mortal Martial Dao and named its first realm the Qi and Blood Realm. When thugs attacked them on the road to town, he devised and perfected the Qi and Blood Shock Method under life-threatening pressure, then defeated them and promised Hong Ling he would create a gentler technique for her.

• Hong Ling's wound quickly healed, and after eating the Ironhide Boar meat, she described a warm heat rushing through her body, inspiring Dongfang Yueming to establish the Qi and Blood Realm.
• Dongfang Yueming and Hong Ling set out for town to sell the boar's hide and tusks, but Scarface and two lackeys blocked their way and demanded the goods.
• Dongfang Yueming crippled one attacker with his Steel Fist, but Scarface and the other lackey overwhelmed him and kicked Hong Ling aside when she tried to protect him.
• Under the threat of death, Dongfang Yueming comprehended and perfected the Qi and Blood Shock Method, then killed Scarface and both lackeys with his newly awakened strength.
• Hong Ling asked to learn the painful method so she could protect Dongfang Yueming, but he refused and promised to create a gentler cultivation technique for her.

Dongfang Yueming advanced Steel Fist into Qi and Blood Steel Fist and devised the Great Kun Qi and Blood Method for Hong Ling. Over the following months, she reached Qi and Blood Ninth Level and began developing unfamiliar feelings for him.

• Dongfang Yueming used Point Allocation to perfect Qi and Blood Steel Fist while teaching Hong Ling, who managed to initiate the fist art.
• After seeing a Water-Swallowing Python devour fish and water, Dongfang Yueming comprehended and perfected the Great Kun Qi and Blood Method.
• Dongfang Yueming made candied fruit for Hong Ling and taught her the method, which left her hungry again after she began cultivating.
• Hong Ling reached Qi and Blood First Level after eating a large meal and sleeping, then settled into a hunting-and-eating routine with Dongfang Yueming.
• Over the next few months, Hong Ling's health and cultivation improved until she reached Qi and Blood Ninth Level, while her feelings for Dongfang Yueming quietly changed.

Hong Ling reached Qi and Blood perfection, and Dongfang Yueming took her to town, where he defended her from the people who had once tormented her. After Dongfang Yueming defeated a squad of Meridian Opening Realm enforcers, the Bone Forging Realm expert Iron Hand blocked their way.

• Hong Ling killed an Ironclad Rhinoceros, then broke through to Qi and Blood perfection after their feast.
• Dongfang Yueming told Hong Ling he wanted to visit town to seek inspiration, and she agreed to go with him despite her fear of the place.
• The townspeople insulted Hong Ling, and Dongfang Yueming knocked down the butcher who had attacked her before taking her to confront him.
• Dongfang Yueming sold beast hides and bones, bought Hong Ling a pink dress, and praised her as a little princess.
• More than a dozen Meridian Opening Realm enforcers surrounded Dongfang Yueming and Hong Ling, but Dongfang Yueming defeated them with his perfected Qi and Blood Steel Fist.
• Iron Hand, a Bone Forging Realm expert, appeared and blocked their path.

Dongfang Yueming broke through to the Blood Gang Realm and defeated Iron Hand, then taught Hong Ling the Nine Revolutions Blood Gang Art as they trained together in the wilderness. After half a month of progress, Hong Ling urged him to return to town to learn what came after the Bone Forging Realm.

• Dongfang Yueming compressed his blood and qi into blood gang, comprehended the Nine Revolutions Blood Gang Art, and killed Iron Hand with a single powerful punch.
• Dongfang Yueming tended his wounds in a cave while Hong Ling confessed that she liked him, and he began teaching her the Blood Gang Art.
• Hong Ling reached the Blood Gang Realm the next morning, but Dongfang Yueming easily caught her punch and sent her flying with his Explosive Fist.
• Hong Ling defeated a level-two Ironclad Crocodile after using the terrain and striking its vulnerable belly.
• Over the next half month, Dongfang Yueming perfected the Hundred-Refined Blood Gang while Hong Ling reached the Blood Gang Ninth Stage and mastered the Blood Gang Fist Art.
• Hong Ling asked Dongfang Yueming to return to town with her to find out what came after the Bone Forging Realm, and he agreed.

Zhao Wuji ambushed Dongfang Yueming and Hong Ling with a Dragon Binding Chain, hoping to seize their physical cultivation method. As Hong Ling fought to protect the bound Dongfang Yueming, he comprehended the Blood Intent Realm, but the battle remained unresolved.

• Zhao Wuji ordered the town sealed and set an ambush for Dongfang Yueming and Hong Ling, seeking their physical cultivation method.
• Dongfang Yueming and Hong Ling fought through the ambushers, but Zhao Wuji captured Dongfang Yueming with the Dragon Binding Chain.
• Hong Ling blocked Zhao Wuji’s attack and fought him, but his Blood Burning Realm power wounded her repeatedly as she refused to retreat.
• Watching Hong Ling protect him, Dongfang Yueming understood how to fuse will with blood and qi and comprehended the Blood Intent Realm and Tyrannical Blood Intent Art.

Dongfang Yueming broke free from Zhao Wuji’s chain and killed him with Tyrannical Blood Intent, then helped Hong Ling awaken her own Blood Intent. When Zhao Tianlong set out to avenge his son, Dongfang Yueming fled with Hong Ling toward a powerful level 4 Demonic Beast, hoping to use the danger to break through.

• Dongfang Yueming used Point Allocation to perfect the Tyrannical Blood Intent Art, shattered the Dragon Binding Chain, and killed Zhao Wuji with Mountain-Crushing Fist.
• Dongfang Yueming comforted Hong Ling and promised to teach her the cultivation art before they left together.
• Zhao Tianlong learned that Zhao Wuji had died, ordered an investigation, and decided to hunt Dongfang Yueming and Hong Ling himself.
• Dongfang Yueming trained Hong Ling in a hidden valley, where she awakened Guardian Blood Intent.
• Dongfang Yueming sensed an approaching Mid-Stage Divine Inscription Realm expert and fled with Hong Ling toward a level 4 Demonic Beast, aiming to use its power to break through.

Dongfang Yueming discovered the Mortal-Shedding Realm under Zhao Tianlong’s attack and used the Nine Revolutions Mortal-Shedding Art to transform his body. He killed Zhao Tianlong and the Wind and Thunder Leopard, then reunited with Hong Ling.

• Dongfang Yueming fought the Wind and Thunder Leopard to study its wind and thunder laws while Hong Ling watched from hiding.
• Zhao Tianlong arrived, drove off the Wind and Thunder Leopard, and attacked Dongfang Yueming with Thunder and Fire Heavenly Burial.
• Dongfang Yueming comprehended the Mortal-Shedding Realm and perfected the Nine Revolutions Mortal-Shedding Art by spending points.
• Dongfang Yueming crushed Zhao Tianlong’s attack and killed him with Mortal Transcendence: Space-Shattering Fist.
• Dongfang Yueming killed the fleeing Wind and Thunder Leopard with a boulder, and Hong Ling rushed into his arms.

Dongfang Yueming and Hong Ling found a brief, peaceful life together in the wilderness, but Zhao Youming and three other Divine Transformation Realm experts tracked them down and attacked. Hong Ling awakened as the world’s will to save Dongfang Yueming, then began to die as the world itself started to collapse.

• Hong Ling cultivated the Nine Revolutions Mortal-Shedding Art, revealing silver markings and a fleeting, goddess-like bearing before returning to her playful self.
• Dongfang Yueming and Hong Ling spent peaceful days hunting, sharing meals, and watching the stars while Hong Ling kept her visions of a collapsing world secret.
• Zhao Youming emerged from sealed seclusion seeking revenge for his son Zhao Tianlong, and he joined three other Divine Transformation Realm experts in hunting Dongfang Yueming.
• The four experts attacked the valley, and Dongfang Yueming fought them to protect Hong Ling but was gravely wounded.
• Hong Ling awakened her sealed memories and used her power as the world’s will to annihilate Zhao Youming and the other three experts.
• Hong Ling explained that killing the world’s strongest cultivators was killing her, then collapsed as the sky split and the world began to fall apart.

Dongfang Yueming used the Planetary Realm to save Hong Ling from the collapsing Archaic Ancient Remnant Realm, then borrowed Mahayana power to carry her and the Martial Dao Stele to the Immortal-Abandoned Continent and establish her home. He returned to the moment he first met Hong Ling, remembered their past, and apologized for making her wait.

• Dongfang Yueming comprehended the Planetary Realm and used the Indestructible Star Body to stabilize Hong Ling and forge her an Indestructible Star Soul.
• As the Archaic Ancient Remnant Realm collapsed, Dongfang Yueming borrowed a trace of future Mahayana power, froze the world, and created the Martial Dao Stele from its origin power.
• Dongfang Yueming carried Hong Ling and the Martial Dao Stele through time and space to the Immortal-Abandoned Continent, telling her to establish the Martial Sect and pass on their Martial Dao.
• Dongfang Yueming vanished as time and space pulled him back, leaving Hong Ling alone on the divine mountain.
• Dongfang Yueming returned to the moment he first met Hong Ling, remembered her, and told her he was sorry for the wait.

Dongfang Yueming said farewell to Hong Ling, Qin Rushuang, Su Wurao, and the others before breaking the barrier between immortals and mortals and ascending. In the ascension passage, his system upgraded, his points converted to Immortal Points, and his perfected cultivation arts fused into the Origin Immortal Art, raising him to Human Immortal First Level.

• Dongfang Yueming promised Hong Ling he would return and not forget her, then bade farewell to the women and sleeping Shi Qing.
• Dongfang Yueming unleashed his Mahayana Perfection power, shattered the barrier between immortals and mortals, and ascended from the Immortal-Abandoned Continent.
• Dongfang Yueming absorbed immortal spiritual energy in the ascension passage as his magic power transformed into immortal power.
• Dongfang Yueming's system upgraded to version 2.0 and converted his points at a rate of 100 million points to one Immortal Point, leaving him with 3,600 Immortal Points.
• Dongfang Yueming fused his perfected cultivation arts into the Origin Immortal Art and reached Human Immortal First Level.