Chapter Summaries

Li Yunjing mobilized a flying-ship fleet for the trip to retrieve a hidden cache, then upgraded the Trial Tower in Luozhen Immortal City. The tower gained rewards for successful trials, and Li Yunjing saw that its next level could grant Law Artifact fragments.

• Fang Tong questioned whether mobilizing a fleet was excessive, but Li Yunjing insisted that he send one.
• Li Yunjing left the Discipline Hall and decided to upgrade the Trial Tower while Fang Tong traveled to Black Mountain and Azure Jiao Marsh.
• Li Yunjing examined the Trial Tower’s daily rankings, which listed cultivators by cultivation level and rewarded those who held a place on a list.
• Li Yunjing added the Trial Tower to the upgrade system and raised it from lv0 to lv1, unlocking rewards and temporary cultivation bonuses for completed trials.
• Li Yunjing read the lv2 effects, including a chance to obtain Law Artifact fragments, and expressed surprise at the game-like reward.

Li Yunjing upgraded the Trial Tower and discovered its points exchange offered Luozhen Sect members vastly greater treasures than outsiders. After gaining the Primordial Dao Seed Divine Ability, he began its painful cultivation by breaking apart his Primordial Spirit.

• Li Yunjing upgraded the Trial Tower to level two and found that its next upgrade required more sect facilities and disciples to exchange for complete First-Rank Law Artifacts.
• Li Yunjing examined the exchange list and saw that Luozhen Sect members could obtain treasures as powerful as a Semi-Immortal Artifact, while outsiders had access only to lower-grade rewards.
• Li Yunjing returned to his Grotto-Heaven and spent a month cultivating, during which he obtained the Primordial Dao Seed Divine Ability.
• Li Yunjing studied the Divine Ability's five realms and began condensing his first Dao Seed by painfully breaking apart his Primordial Spirit.

Li Yunjing successfully condensed a Primordial Dao Seed and awakened a Divine Ability that let him plant, reclaim, and strengthen spirit herbs by moving energy through them. After Fang Tong returned from Black Mountain with the founding token, he told Li Yunjing that the hidden trove had collapsed.

• Li Yunjing stopped trying to force the Dao Seed into shape and instead nurtured a wisp of Taiyi Clear Qi, forming a Primordial Dao Seed amid a golden auspicious cloud that enriched the Grotto-Heaven.
• Li Yunjing used the new Divine Ability to plant a spirit herb, reclaim its energy, and grow a stronger, second-tier herb in its place.
• Li Yunjing considered using the Divine Ability to destroy another Dao Realm for its energy, then rejected the idea because of the burden of killing.
• Li Yunjing received Fang Tong's message that he had returned from Black Mountain with the founding token and went to the Discipline Hall.
• Fang Tong gave Li Yunjing the sword serving as the founding token and revealed that taking the Three Sun Wheels had caused the hidden trove to collapse.

Li Yunjing upgraded the Karmic Luck Pavilion, unlocking stronger sect benefits and a future blessing for disciples, then checked the teleportation array before preparing to explore the Primordial Beginning Dao Realm. He found that the array met its upgrade requirements and decided to raise it to lv8 to reduce the risk of Time Sickness.

• Li Yunjing told Fang Tong to take the Three Sun Wheels to Grandmaster Fang and left the Discipline Hall.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the Karmic Luck Pavilion to lv1 and saw that lv2 would increase disciples' chances of Foundation Establishment.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the Karmic Luck Pavilion to lv2 and discovered that lv3 would let him grant monthly karmic luck blessings to up to three disciples.
• Li Yunjing planned to explore the Primordial Beginning Dao Realm now that the Luozhen Sect had Dao Union cultivators.
• Li Yunjing checked the teleportation array, found its lv8 requirements fulfilled, and decided to upgrade it to reduce the chance of Time Sickness.

Li Yunjing upgraded the teleportation array to lv8 and traveled to the Primordial Beginning Dao Realm, where he encountered a Hei Feng Devil Bear in the Falling Star Mountain Range. Their battle began, and Li Yunjing countered the bear’s attacks with his Supreme Unity Pure Subtlety Scripture techniques.

• Li Yunjing saw that lv9 would allow temporary teleportation anchors, but the array did not yet meet its upgrade requirements.
• Li Yunjing informed the disciples that he was leaving on business and teleported to the Primordial Beginning Dao Realm.
• Li Yunjing confirmed that he could use his full strength and teleport back to the Luozhen Sect without being suppressed.
• A Hei Feng Devil Bear confronted Li Yunjing and demanded that he leave its territory, but Li Yunjing challenged it to a fight.
• The Hei Feng Devil Bear struck Li Yunjing with a giant palm, but his Dao shield repelled the blow.
• The Hei Feng Devil Bear unleashed its corrosive breath, and Li Yunjing purified it with Qingwei Divine Lightning.

Li Yunjing trapped the Hei Feng Devil Bear and used the Primordial Dao Seed to subjugate it, then questioned it about the Primordial Beginning Dao Realm. He learned about its five domains and the factions and powerful figures in the Eastern Domain.

• Li Yunjing trapped the Hei Feng Devil Bear in a five-element cage after countering its Bloodline Divine Ability.
• Li Yunjing planted the Primordial Dao Seed in the Hei Feng Devil Bear, rewriting its life imprint and forcing it to submit.
• The Hei Feng Devil Bear called Li Yunjing its lord after he restored the life origin he had drained from it.
• Li Yunjing asked the Hei Feng Devil Bear for basic information about the Primordial Beginning Dao Realm.
• The Hei Feng Devil Bear explained that the realm had five domains, with the Holy Domain strongest, and that the Eastern Domain had three supreme first-rate factions and three Return to Origin Realm Demon Kings known as the Three Kings of the Eastern Domain.

Li Yunjing learned why the Hei Feng Devil Bear had become an enemy of the Myriad Demon Hall and planned to bring the Eastern Domain under the Luozhen Sect. A sudden Spiritual Qi Tide then revealed an ancient cave abode rising from beneath the earth.

• The Hei Feng Devil Bear told Li Yunjing that the Myriad Demon Hall’s master had lured demons in to devour those with Special Bloodlines, then framed the Three Kings of the Eastern Domain and expelled them.
• Li Yunjing planned to recruit the bear’s two brothers, take the Three Kings as pet beasts, and bring the Eastern Domain’s factions under the Luozhen Sect.
• Li Yunjing planned to conquer the four domains before joining forces with the Immortal Alliance to attack the Holy Domain and gather resources for Tianyuan’s sixth province.
• A Spiritual Qi Tide erupted across the mountains, shaking the earth, filling the valleys with Spiritual Qi, and drawing the Eastern Domain’s attention.
• An enormous fissure opened, and an ancient cave abode made of Black-Yellow Stone rose from beneath the earth.

Li Yunjing and Hei Feng entered a newly emerged cave abode left by a powerful High Antiquity sword cultivator. They reached a vast underground hall, where a towering statue of the cultivator stood at its center.

• Li Yunjing sensed the cave abode ruins and rode the Hei Feng Devil Bear to reach them before other Eastern Domain experts arrived.
• Li Yunjing asked the Hei Feng Devil Bear to take human form, named him Hei Feng, and led him to the stone gate.
• Li Yunjing opened the gate with his spiritual power and warned Hei Feng to stay close and avoid touching anything.
• Li Yunjing examined the murals and runes in the passage, concluding that the cave abode's owner had been an exceptionally powerful sword cultivator.
• Li Yunjing and Hei Feng entered an enormous underground hall and saw a hundred-zhang white jade statue of the High Antiquity cultivator.

Li Yunjing obtained the Primordial Beginning Sword Instruction and learned that the cave abode belonged to True Lord Taichu, who had died after being ambushed by three Dao Lords. As powerful figures from across the Eastern Domain arrived, Li Yunjing and Hei Feng explored the cave abode’s pill room while rival demon kings entered the main hall.

• Li Yunjing received the Primordial Beginning Sword Instruction’s inheritance imprint and planned to combine it with his existing sword art for the Luozhen Sect.
• Li Yunjing read True Lord Taichu’s journal, learning about his death, the three Dao Lords who ambushed him, and the cave abode’s other chambers.
• Hei Feng sensed his two sworn brothers approaching, and Li Yunjing chose to explore the pill room before confronting the arrivals.
• Azure Scale King and Golden Wing King entered the cave abode and wondered why Hei Feng had not arrived.
• Blood Wolf King entered with Black Bear King and Venomous Snake King, then taunted Azure Scale King and Golden Wing King.

The Three Kings of the Eastern Domain, the Myriad Demon Hall demons, and three human cultivators confronted one another over a newly discovered cave abode. They agreed to explore separate passages and divide their findings later, but True Lord Taichu’s restrictions separated them as soon as they entered.

• The Black Bear King and the Azure Scale King traded threats over the Black Bear King’s past defeat by the Hei Feng Devil Bear.
• The Blood Wolf King and the Golden Wing King argued over who had the right to claim the cave abode, while the Azure Scale King stopped the Golden Wing King from fighting before Hei Feng arrived.
• True Lord Qingyun, Fairy Hongling, and True Lord Bishui arrived, and the three groups prepared to fight over the cave abode.
• True Lord Bishui proposed a temporary truce to explore separately, and the Blood Wolf King agreed after realizing the other groups might join forces against him.
• True Lord Qingyun’s group took the right passage, the Blood Wolf King’s group took the rear passage, and the Eastern Domain kings took the left passage.
• The cave abode’s restrictions distorted space and blocked Divine Sense, separating the groups inside the maze-like passages.

Li Yunjing found a cabinet of precious pills in the pill room, then faced the Golden Wing King and Azure Scale King when they arrived. After the two demons refused to leave and attacked, Li Yunjing trapped them and planted Primordial Dao Seeds in their souls, leaving the Azure Scale King’s apparent suicide followed by his unharmed return.

• Li Yunjing broke the restriction on a cold-jade medicine cabinet and collected its precious pills for the Luozhen Sect.
• The Golden Wing King and Azure Scale King entered the pill room and learned that Hei Feng had become Li Yunjing’s master’s pet beast.
• The Azure Scale King secretly probed Li Yunjing with Divine Sense, and Li Yunjing’s power struck him away.
• The Golden Wing King and Azure Scale King prepared to attack Li Yunjing despite Hei Feng’s warning.
• Li Yunjing trapped both demons in rainbow-light cages and planted Primordial Dao Seeds in their souls.
• The Azure Scale King realized what the seed would do and collapsed his soul to kill himself, but reappeared unharmed moments later.

Li Yunjing prevented the Azure Scale King from killing himself, and the Azure Scale King and Golden Wing King accepted him as their master. When the Blood Wolf King and his companions arrived, Li Yunjing prepared to confront them, but the Black Bear King suddenly attacked him.

• Li Yunjing revealed that he had stopped the Azure Scale King from dying and told him that his life and death were now under Li Yunjing’s control.
• Hei Feng and the Golden Wing King persuaded the Azure Scale King to accept his fate, and both kings approached Li Yunjing and respectfully acknowledged him as their master.
• Li Yunjing sensed approaching spiritual power and learned from the Golden Wing King that the Blood Wolf King and two demons from the Myriad Demon Hall were coming.
• The Blood Wolf King mocked the Three Kings of the Eastern Domain for serving a human, while Hei Feng warned him about the rumors that he ate demons.
• The Blood Wolf King proposed joining forces with Li Yunjing, but Hei Feng rejected the offer, and the Black Bear King roared and swung his giant axe at Li Yunjing.

Li Yunjing effortlessly killed the three leaders of the Myriad Demon Hall and drove True Lord Qingyun and his companions from the pill room. He then led Hei Feng, Golden Wing King, and Azure Scale King deeper into the cave abode to explore True Lord Taichu's chambers.

• Li Yunjing caught Black Bear King's axe between two fingers, broke it, and knocked Black Bear King unconscious with a kick.
• Li Yunjing killed Blood Wolf King with the Seven Slaughters Heaven-Slaying Dao Sword Book and shot down the fleeing Venomous Snake King with the Tiger-Shooting Bow.
• Li Yunjing crushed Black Bear King's head, and Golden Wing King, Azure Scale King, and Hei Feng acknowledged him as their lord.
• True Lord Qingyun arrived with Fairy Hongling and True Lord Bishui, then led them out of the pill room after Li Yunjing ordered them to leave.
• Li Yunjing led Hei Feng, Golden Wing King, and Azure Scale King toward True Lord Taichu's cultivation chamber and treasure chamber.

Li Yunjing opened True Person Taichu’s treasure room and allowed Golden Wing King, Azure Scale King, and Hei Feng to choose treasures. He discovered a cyan lotus seed identified as a seed of the Primordial Beginning Azure Lotus and considered planting it at the Luozhen Sect.

• Hei Feng led Li Yunjing and the three demons to the treasure room, where Azure Scale King explained that its lock required spiritual power of nine attributes.
• Li Yunjing used the Supreme Unity Pure Subtlety Scripture to supply all nine attributes and opened the stone door.
• The group entered the treasure room and found many Law Artifacts and rare treasures, though its central display stand was empty.
• Li Yunjing let Golden Wing King, Azure Scale King, and Hei Feng choose several treasures for themselves.
• Li Yunjing found a cyan lotus seed in an inconspicuous box, and Golden Wing King identified it as a seed from the Primordial Beginning Azure Lotus.
• Li Yunjing considered planting the seed at the Luozhen Sect to produce life force, purify Spiritual Qi, and improve the sect’s environment.

Li Yunjing and his companions finished exploring True Lord Taichu’s treasure chamber and entered his cultivation chamber, where they found his remains and a mysterious light. The light revealed a real-time, three-dimensional map of the entire Primordial Beginning Dao Realm, leaving Li Yunjing delighted by the discovery.

• Li Yunjing dismissed hopes of finding the complete Primordial Beginning Azure Lotus after securing a lotus seed, then gathered every remaining treasure into his storage ring.
• Li Yunjing led Golden Wing King, Azure Scale King, and Hei Feng through a Spirit Gathering Formation passage into True Lord Taichu’s cultivation chamber.
• The group found True Lord Taichu’s jade-like skeleton, whose lingering pressure overwhelmed the three companions.
• Li Yunjing examined the Dao patterns on the remains and wondered how three Dao Lords had managed to ambush True Lord Taichu.
• Li Yunjing touched a pulsing light inside the skeleton’s rib cage, which flooded his mind with a real-time three-dimensional map of the Primordial Beginning Dao Realm.

Li Yunjing learned from True Lord Taichu’s map and notes about the Primordial Beginning Dao Realm, the three Dao Lords’ weaknesses, and the origin core hidden in Taichu Divine Mountain. He resolved to unite the Eastern Domain and began the campaign by heading with Golden Wing King toward the Ruins of Return Manor.

• Li Yunjing learned that the three Dao Lords suppressed potential rivals and that the origin core in Taichu Divine Mountain could weaken them.
• Li Yunjing told Golden Wing King, Azure Scale King and Hei Feng about the map and his plan to conquer the Primordial Beginning Dao Realm, and the three demons pledged to follow him.
• Li Yunjing left the cave abode with the three demons after deciding to unite the leaderless Eastern Domain and establish a unified regime.
• Li Yunjing chose to attack the Ruins of Return Manor without resting, and Golden Wing King transformed into a Golden-Winged Peng to carry him there.
• Golden Wing King shook Azure Scale King and Hei Feng off his back, then flew toward the Ruins of Return Manor with Li Yunjing.

Li Yunjing arrived at the Ruins of Return Manor, where True Lord Bishui, Fairy Hongling, and the sect’s disciples welcomed him with fearful deference. In the main hall, he revealed that he was not from the Primordial Beginning Dao Realm, leaving the leaders and his companions stunned.

• Li Yunjing flew to the Ruins of Return Manor with the Golden Wing King and found the sect gathered to greet him.
• True Lord Bishui, Fairy Hongling, and the Ruins of Return Manor’s elders and disciples bowed to Li Yunjing and welcomed him.
• True Lord Bishui escorted Li Yunjing to the main hall and offered him a warm jade chair above the sect master’s throne.
• Li Yunjing asked True Lord Bishui and Fairy Hongling why they thought he had come, then said he was not from the Primordial Beginning Dao Realm.
• True Lord Bishui, Fairy Hongling, and the three demons reacted in shock, and True Lord Bishui asked Li Yunjing to repeat what he had said.

Li Yunjing revealed that he came from the Tianyuan Dao Realm to prepare the Luozhen Sect’s conquest of the Primordial Beginning Dao Realm, then forced True Lord Bishui and Fairy Hongling to submit. After ordering them to summon True Lord Qingyun, he asked about the Southern Region and learned it was a dangerous land of scattered, poison-skilled tribes.

• Li Yunjing told True Lord Bishui and Fairy Hongling that he was the Luozhen Sect’s sect master from another Dao Realm and intended to conquer the Primordial Beginning Dao Realm.
• Li Yunjing claimed he could bring a Loose Immortal against the three Dao Lords, then offered the pair submission or death.
• True Lord Bishui and Fairy Hongling knelt and pledged to submit, preserving their lives and sects.
• Li Yunjing ordered them to summon True Lord Qingyun to the Ruins of Return Manor within three days and warned that resistance would mean death.
• Li Yunjing asked about the Southern Region, and True Lord Bishui described its perilous terrain and more than a hundred fierce tribes skilled in poison and gu techniques.

Li Yunjing decided to attack the Eastern Region Holy Temple before conquering the other regions, despite warnings that the temple’s defenses and ties to the three Dao Masters could bring the Holy Domain’s forces down on them. He set the assault for five days later and ordered the Eastern Domain’s human and Demon Race factions to gather at Ruins of Return Manor.

• Fairy Hongling explained that the Southern Region was poor in Spiritual Qi and had no Dao Union cultivators, so Li Yunjing planned to conquer it before the Western Regions, the Northern Ice Plains, and the Holy Domain.
• True Lord Bishui and Fairy Hongling told Li Yunjing that the Eastern Region Holy Temple controlled cross-region travel, monitored local factions, and was guarded by Dao Union cultivators and Holy Domain Iron Cavalry.
• Li Yunjing rejected their warnings and announced that they would attack the Eastern Region Holy Temple in five days, confident he could defeat its defenders and any reinforcements.
• Li Yunjing ordered True Lord Bishui and Fairy Hongling to gather the Eastern Domain’s human forces, while the Three Kings of the Eastern Domain would rally the Demon Race and take over the Myriad Demon Hall.
• True Lord Bishui and Fairy Hongling accepted Li Yunjing’s orders, and afterward True Lord Bishui suggested that serving him might earn them a chance to advance their cultivation.

After consolidating the Eastern Domain’s Demon and Human forces, Li Yunjing accepted True Lord Qingyun’s offer to join the rebellion against the Holy Domain and set the army’s departure for the Eastern Region Holy Temple. At the Temple, its three guardians began discussing the turmoil in the Eastern Domain.

• True Lord Bishui reassured Fairy Hongling that serving Li Yunjing could be a fortuitous opportunity, and they left the mountain together.
• The Three Kings reported that they had defeated the Myriad Demon Hall’s resistance and assembled a Demon army, while True Lord Bishui and Fairy Hongling described the Human forces and supplies they had prepared.
• True Lord Qingyun arrived and pledged Qianyuan Palace to Li Yunjing, explaining that the Holy Domain had oppressed and killed his fellow disciples.
• Li Yunjing appointed True Lord Qingyun deputy commander of the Eastern Domain Human Race Allied Army and ordered the army to march on the Eastern Region Holy Temple at noon the day after tomorrow.
• At the Holy Temple, guardians Guanfeng, Tingyun, and Zidian discussed the unrest and the destruction of the Myriad Demon Hall.