Chapter Summaries

Li Yunjing agreed to accompany Zhi Qianshu into the newly opened secret realm to investigate the Biyuan First Ancestor’s burial place and search for the Dao Fruit. Before their planned departure, the Primordial Dao Fruit’s presence erupted from the realm, forcing Li Yunjing to put the Luozhen Sect on alert as powerful factions prepared to converge on the Great Wilderness.

• Li Yunjing agreed to travel with Zhi Qianshu to the secret realm, while warning that he could not promise to resurrect the Biyuan First Ancestor.
• Nangong Chengyu cautioned Li Yunjing about the dangers and advised him to seek Zhenyangzi’s help; Li Yunjing also arranged for Zhenyangzi and Yuanchu to join the expedition.
• A seven-colored pillar of light burst from the Myriad Beasts Forbidden Domain, and Li Yunjing recognized the presence as that of the Primordial Dao Fruit.
• Li Yunjing told Mo Xuan, Shui Yao, Fang Tong, and the others that the Dao Fruit was inside the secret realm, and they realized the Great Wilderness would draw forces from across the Dao Realm.
• Li Yunjing ordered the sect to reinforce its defenses, distribute battle supplies, patrol the mountain gate, and keep disciples inside.

The Primordial Dao Fruit appeared in the Myriad Beasts Forbidden Domain, and Li Yunjing, Zhenyangzi, and Yuanchu prepared to enter the secret realm before rival forces arrived. The Immortal Alliance and Yan Tianjin both learned the Dao Fruit’s location and mobilized toward the Great Wilderness.

• Li Yunjing sent the Immortal Alliance an urgent message that the Dao Fruit was hidden inside the Myriad Beasts Forbidden Domain.
• Zhenyangzi and Li Yunjing agreed to enter the secret realm the next morning, while Yuanchu sensed that the frightened Dao Fruit was hiding deep inside it.
• Cultivators across Flying Immortal Prefecture rushed toward the Great Wilderness after the seven-colored radiance appeared.
• Zhang Jianchen ordered the Immortal Alliance’s leaders and sects to reinforce the secret realm, then set out with Xuanjizi, Yunyouzi, and elite disciples.
• Yan Tianjin saw the Dao Fruit’s location on the devil crystal pillar and prepared to pursue it, blaming Li Yunjing.

Yan Tianjin mobilized the Thirty-Six Devil Sects to seize the Dao Fruit and destroy the Luozhen Sect, while Li Yunjing led his companions to the Myriad Beasts Forbidden Domain. Li Yunjing entered the ancient burial ground with a crowd of cultivators, where they found dense origin Qi and learned the site held the First Ancestor’s tomb.

• Yan Tianjin ordered the Thirty-Six Devil Sects to assemble and march on the Great Wilderness, vowing to reclaim the Dao Fruit and kill Li Yunjing.
• Li Yunjing and his companions prepared to leave the Luozhen Sect as forces from across the Five Provinces converged on the Myriad Beasts Forbidden Domain.
• Zhi Qianshu mistook the seven-colored radiance for the awakening of Biyuan’s First Ancestor, and Li Yunjing led the group toward the forbidden domain.
• At the secret realm entrance, Yuanchu sensed that the Dao Fruit was restless deep inside, and Li Yunjing stepped through the light gate with the others following.
• Inside the burial ground, Fang Hexuan marveled at the dense origin Qi, while Ren Wen identified the statues as fallen generals guarding the tomb.

Li Yunjing's group advanced through the Biyuan burial ground toward the Dao Fruit while the righteous and devil forces entered and divided their armies. The groups converged on routes leading to the main hall, and the chapter ended with Yuanchu sensing the Dao Fruit's presence in bones at a ruined altar.

• Zhi Qianshu sensed the First Ancestor's soul deep in the burial ground, and Li Yunjing led his group onward to reach the Dao Fruit before the other forces.
• Zhi Qianshu calmed the attacking stone guardians with his bloodline, while Zhenyangzi and Ren Wen helped the group pass miasma and illusion formations.
• Luo Chen located the Dao Fruit's origin presence, and Zhang Jianchen split the righteous forces across three paths, leading the main group down the middle route.
• Yan Tianjin split the devil army and sent Yan Xuanjue with younger cultivators around the righteous forces' rear to attack them and kill Li Yunjing.
• Li Yunjing's group reached a square before a side hall and paused to recover; Yuanchu recognized the Dao Fruit's presence in a bone fragment on the ruined altar.

Li Yunjing’s group was ambushed by Yan Xuanjue and his Devil Cultivators in the underground square. After his allies held off the attackers, Li Yunjing blocked Yan Xuanjue’s strongest saber assault with the Pure Subtlety Spiritual Banner and prepared to counterattack with his Nine True Magnetic Light Sword.

• Ouyang Se warned Li Yunjing’s group that a large force of Devil Cultivators was approaching through the left passage.
• Yan Xuanjue arrived with twenty Devil Cultivator experts, identified himself as the eighth prince, and ordered his forces to kill Li Yunjing’s group.
• Liao Xingjian, Fang Hexuan, Han Cang, He Qingsong, Ouyang Se, Zhi Qianshu, and the Rogue Cultivators fought back and gained the advantage against the Devil Cultivators.
• Yan Xuanjue attacked Li Yunjing with the Blood Shadow Devil Saber, but Li Yunjing won their first clash and forced him back.
• Yan Xuanjue unleashed Thousandfold Waves, and Li Yunjing used the Pure Subtlety Spiritual Banner to withstand the assault before beginning his counterattack with Nine True Magnetic Light: Rend Space.

Li Yunjing killed Yan Xuanjue and helped his allies wipe out the Devil Cultivators who had attacked the square. As the group prepared to pursue the Devil Emperor’s main force, an ancient array activated and teleported them to an unknown location.

• Li Yunjing used the Nine True Magnetic Light, Seven Stars Fall, and the Tiger-Shooting Bow to kill Yan Xuanjue.
• Fang Hexuan and Liao Xingjian killed the Devil Cultivators fighting them, while the others helped eliminate the remaining enemies.
• Li Yunjing searched Yan Xuanjue’s Storage Bag and learned that the Devil Emperor’s main force was heading toward the main hall.
• Li Yunjing ordered the group to clean up and set out, but an ancient array activated and teleported everyone away.

Li Yunjing activated an ancient array in the sealed chamber, revealing murals that depicted a great war and Yuanchuzi approaching the Primordial Dao Fruit. The murals showed Yuanchuzi being absorbed into the Dao Fruit, and Zhenyangzi began examining an inscription that might explain what happened.

• Li Yunjing and the others recovered from the teleportation and found themselves trapped in a sealed stone chamber.
• Zhenyangzi identified the floor patterns as a High Antiquity teleportation array triggered by the fighting outside.
• Li Yunjing touched the array with Spiritual Qi, causing hidden murals to appear on the walls.
• The first mural showed the Primordial Dao Fruit absorbing the origins of cultivators killed in a battle between righteous and devil-path forces.
• Yuanchu recognized himself as the white-robed Yuanchuzi in the second mural, who was guiding the Dao Fruit toward himself.
• The third mural showed Yuanchuzi dissolving into the Dao Fruit, and Zhenyangzi recognized the ancient script on the fourth mural.

Zhenyangzi read the murals and revealed that the Primordial Dao Fruit was the Dao Realm’s cyclical cleansing mechanism, consuming fallen cultivators and eventually assimilating whoever obtained it. The murals also showed that Biyuan’s first ancestor, Black Bird, had sacrificed himself to conceal the Dao Fruit, while the crowd began to question whether they were all pawns in the cycle.

• Zhenyangzi explained that every hundred thousand years the Dao Realm caused conflict so the Primordial Dao Fruit could absorb fallen cultivators and later consume its bearer.
• The Rogue Cultivators and a Biyuan warrior argued over whether the murals were trustworthy, while Han Cang asked why the truth was absent from ancient records.
• Zhenyangzi revealed that Black Bird, Biyuan’s first ancestor, had left the murals and built the Burial Ground to hide the Dao Fruit and prevent another war.
• Zhenyangzi showed that Black Bird had sacrificed his body and soul to sustain the concealing array, disproving the belief that he would be resurrected.
• Li Yunjing connected the murals to the past wars and sacrifices, as a Rogue Cultivator wondered whether everyone fighting over the Dao Fruit was merely a pawn of the Dao Realm.

After learning that the Dao Fruit’s cycle of culling had caused war and sacrifice for generations, Li Yunjing rallied the others to stop the tragedy from repeating. They found a hidden passage leading toward the Dao Fruit, while the righteous and demonic armies approached the main hall above.

• Yuanchu remembered that he had taken the Dao Fruit a hundred thousand years ago to prevent the demonic path from claiming it, despite knowing it would kill him.
• Li Yunjing resolved to find the Dao Fruit and break or seal the cycle, and Fang Hexuan, Zhenyangzi, Zhi Qianshu, Han Cang, and the Rogue Cultivators agreed to follow him.
• Li Yunjing identified a mechanism beneath the mural, and Zhi Qianshu opened it with the Essence Blood of the First Ancestor’s bloodline.
• Li Yunjing led the group down the hidden stone steps toward the Dao Fruit, following a seven-colored light.
• The main armies of the righteous and demonic paths drew close to the main hall above the burial ground.

Li Yunjing’s group reached the hall containing the Primordial Dao Fruit, where the righteous and devil paths nearly triggered it to flee before agreeing to hold their attacks. Li Yunjing then told Zhang Jianchen and the righteous leaders that he had discovered a life-threatening truth about the Dao Fruit and asked them to dismiss the others.

• Li Yunjing’s group entered the hall and saw the Primordial Dao Fruit above the coffin of Biyuan’s first ancestor, the Black Bird.
• Zhang Jianchen and the righteous forces entered from the front as Yan Tianjin and the devil forces broke in from the west.
• Yan Tianjin attacked the Dao Fruit, but Xuanjizi and Yunyouzi blocked him, and the collision destabilized the orb.
• Zhang Jianchen and Yan Tianjin agreed that neither side would seize the Dao Fruit or fight at full strength until they found a way to stabilize it.
• Li Yunjing joined the righteous camp and told Zhang Jianchen and the elders that he had learned a dangerous truth about the Dao Fruit, asking them to dismiss those around them.

Li Yunjing revealed that the Primordial Dao Fruit was part of a hundred-thousand-year purge and would destroy the soul of whoever obtained it, but Yan Tianjin accused him of lying. Yan Tianjin nearly attacked Li Yunjing over the death of his son, then held back when the Dao Fruit began to flicker and threaten to flee.

• Li Yunjing told the gathered factions about the secret chamber murals and Biyuan's First Ancestor's warning that the Dao Fruit consumed fallen cultivators and assimilated its eventual bearer.
• Zhi Qianshu and Biyuan's warriors confirmed the murals and the First Ancestor's bloodline mark, lending weight to Li Yunjing's account.
• Yan Tianjin dismissed the warning as a trick and demanded to know whether Li Yunjing had killed his son Yan Xuanjue; Li Yunjing admitted it and called the killing perfectly reasonable.
• Yan Tianjin surged toward Li Yunjing, but Xuanjizi and Yunyouzi blocked him and warned that fighting could make the Dao Fruit flee.
• Yan Tianjin suppressed his rage and postponed his revenge, while Li Yunjing warned him that whoever took the Dao Fruit would lose their soul.
• Zhang Jianchen called on both factions to focus on stabilizing the Dao Fruit before it escaped.

The righteous and devil factions debated how to deal with the Dao Fruit after learning that its holders were assimilated and that fighting would feed its cycle. As Zhang Jianchen struggled to find a solution, Five Spirits Lord awakened and revealed that the Immortal Realm also purged powerful immortals through the Immeasurable Catastrophe.

• Xuanjizi and Yunyouzi confirmed that past Dao Fruit holders had likely been assimilated rather than ascended.
• Ge Changyun proposed letting Yan Tianjin claim the Dao Fruit so the righteous faction could exploit the devil faction’s ensuing disorder, but Zhang Jianchen warned that war would feed the Dao Fruit and strengthen its cycle.
• Xuanjizi rejected destroying the Dao Fruit, warning that doing so would damage the Dao Realm’s origin and devastate cultivation civilization.
• Li Yunjing felt Five Spirits Lord awaken within his Dantian, restored by the Origin Qi he had absorbed.
• Five Spirits Lord explained that the Immortal Realm had a similar cleanup mechanism, the Immeasurable Catastrophe, which purged powerful immortals.

Li Yunjing learned that the Dao Fruit could end the cycle of purges if Yuanchu and the ten Ancestral Vein True Spirits helped Return it to the Origin. Before he could share the plan, seven mysterious Origin Dao Guardians appeared, and their elder effortlessly repelled Yan Tianjin.

• The Five Spirits Lord explained that Returning the Dao Fruit to the Origin could strengthen the Dao Realm and stop its recurring purges.
• The Five Spirits Lord said Yuanchu and the True Spirits of all ten Ancestral Veins were needed to make the Return to the Origin succeed.
• Li Yunjing realized the Northern Dark True Spirit could help gather the other Ancestral Vein True Spirits, then moved to tell Zhang Jianchen and the Loose Immortals about the plan.
• Seven figures emerged from the shadows and identified themselves as Origin Dao Guardians who protected the Dao Fruit under heaven and earth's will.
• Yan Tianjin attacked the white-haired elder, but the elder swept away his strike and forced him back with his sleeve.

The Dao Guardians repelled the righteous and devil cultivators who sought the Primordial Dao Fruit, declaring that it must undergo Return to the Origin. Li Yunjing revealed that he knew the method and asked the guardians for time to gather the required True Spirits, leaving the fruit’s fate in his hands.

• Yan Tianjin and the devil cultivators attacked the Dao Guardians, but one guardian killed more than a dozen cultivators and gravely wounded Devil General Blood Baleful Intent with a single strike.
• Xuanjizi asked the white-haired guardian to make an exception to prevent the Dao Fruit from falling to the devil path, but the guardian ordered everyone to leave or die.
• Li Yunjing learned from the Five Spirits Lord that the Dao Guardians awaited someone capable of returning the Dao Fruit to its origin.
• Li Yunjing approached the guardians and declared that he knew the method of Return to the Origin, which required an Origin Dao Physique and the True Spirits of the Ancestral Veins of the ten directions.
• The guardians confirmed that Yuanchu possessed an Origin Dao Physique after his resonance with the Dao Fruit, and Li Yunjing promised to bring all ten True Spirits within ten days.

Li Yunjing persuaded the righteous and devilish factions to allow a ten-day attempt to return the Dao Fruit to the Dao Realm’s origin, with the Dao Guardians agreeing to help. As he prepared to summon the ten Ancestral Vein True Spirits, the Five Spirits Lord revealed that Li Yunjing himself would be essential to the ritual.

• The white-haired Dao Guardian gave Li Yunjing ten days to gather the ten Ancestral Vein True Spirits and attempt the Return to the Origin, warning that anyone who coveted the Dao Fruit afterward would be killed.
• Li Yunjing explained that returning the Dao Fruit could benefit the entire Dao Realm and end its hundred-thousand-year cycle of purges, and Zhang Jianchen pledged the righteous path’s support.
• Yan Tianjin accepted the ten-day plan while secretly considering seizing the Dao Fruit or sabotaging the ritual if an opportunity arose.
• Li Yunjing told Zhang Jianchen he would contact the Northern Dark True Spirit and ask it to summon the other nine Ancestral Vein True Spirits.
• The Five Spirits Lord told Li Yunjing that he would need to use himself as a medium to activate the Five Aggregates Cauldron and complete the ritual with Yuanchu and the ten True Spirits.

Li Yunjing secured the Northern Dark True Spirit’s support for the Dao Fruit’s Return to the Origin, and the ten Ancestral Vein True Spirits gathered to consider the plan. The spirits began to agree that it could strengthen the Dao Realm, raise their own grades, and end the hundred-thousand-year cycle of slaughter.

• Li Yunjing contacted the Northern Dark True Spirit and explained the Return to the Origin plan and the ten spirits’ role.
• The Northern Dark True Spirit agreed to help and promised that the ten Ancestral Vein True Spirits would arrive within ten days.
• Li Yunjing told Zhang Jianchen, Xuanjizi, and Yunyouzi that the spirits had agreed, while Yan Tianjin exchanged a look with Old Devil Bone Spirit in secret.
• The ten Ancestral Vein True Spirits gathered at Flying Dragon Ascending to Immortality Mountain, where the Northern Dark True Spirit explained the plan and its benefits.
• The Thunder Marsh True Spirit confirmed the plan’s implications, and the Southern Li Fire Essence and Eastern Extreme Azure True Spirits voiced their support.

The Northern Dark True Spirit and the other Ancestral Vein True Spirits discussed Li Yunjing’s plan to Return to the Origin, but the Primordial Origin Spirit warned that it would draw the Martyrs and destroy the Tianyuan Dao Realm. The gathering ended without agreement, and Li Yunjing learned that the Primordial Origin Spirit opposed the plan.

• Most of the True Spirits supported Return to the Origin, believing it would strengthen the Dao Realm and allow them to become Immortal Veins.
• The Primordial Origin Spirit opposed the plan and recounted how the Martyrs had destroyed the Purple Wind Dao Realm during its Return to the Origin Ceremony.
• The Primordial Origin Spirit insisted that his ancestral vein would not participate, while the Northern Dark True Spirit noted that the ceremony required all ten ancestral veins.
• The Northern Dark True Spirit ended the gathering and sent word to Li Yunjing in the Myriad Beasts Forbidden Domain.
• After waiting two days in a secluded stone chamber, Li Yunjing learned that the Primordial Origin Spirit opposed Return to the Origin.

Li Yunjing learned from the Five Spirits Lord that the Immortal Realm had spread a false story about Return to the Origin to stop lower realms from ascending, and that inspectors had destroyed realms such as Purple Wind. The Five Spirits Lord revealed his own origins in the Mystic Yellow Immortal Realm and ended by saying he had no desire to return to its conflicts.

• Li Yunjing asked the Five Spirits Lord whether Return to the Origin would bring a world-destroying calamity, as the Primordial Origin Spirit had claimed.
• The Five Spirits Lord said the Purple Wind Dao Realm had been destroyed by an Immortal Realm inspector, not by Return to the Origin.
• The Five Spirits Lord explained that Immortal Venerables created the Lower Realm Prohibition Decree, spreading false rumors and secretly destroying realms that tried to ascend.
• The Five Spirits Lord said he had witnessed the Mystic Yellow Immortal Realm's elevation and later fell from power after his master died in a war between Immortal Venerables.
• Li Yunjing asked whether the Five Spirits Lord wanted to return to the Immortal Realm, and the Five Spirits Lord rejected the idea.

Li Yunjing agreed with the Five Spirits Lord to lead the Tianyuan Dao Realm through Return to the Origin and raise it into an Immortal Realm, and set out to persuade the Primordial Origin Spirit. As he traveled toward Flying Dragon Ascending to Immortality Mountain, the Five Spirits Lord explained how the Five Aggregates Cauldron could conceal the ascension, though a trace might still escape at the final moment.

• The Five Spirits Lord urged Li Yunjing to create a new Immortal Realm from the Tianyuan Dao Realm, and Li Yunjing agreed.
• The Five Spirits Lord said he would persuade the Primordial Origin Spirit by revealing memories of the Mystic Yellow Immortal Realm's ascension and the Purple Wind Dao Realm's destruction.
• The Five Spirits Lord spent two hours explaining the Return to the Origin Ceremony and its crucial steps to Li Yunjing.
• Li Yunjing told Zhang Jianchen that the Primordial Origin Spirit opposed Return to the Origin and that he would visit it, leaving Zhang Jianchen and the others to guard the Dao Fruit.
• Li Yunjing departed alone for Flying Dragon Ascending to Immortality Mountain, while the Five Spirits Lord explained that the Five Aggregates Cauldron could hide most ascension fluctuations from the Immortal Realm's inspectors.

Li Yunjing and the Five Spirits Lord reached Flying Dragon Ascending to Immortality Mountain to persuade the ten Ancestral Vein True Spirits to support Return to the Origin. The Five Spirits Lord revealed that the Purple Wind Dao Realm had been destroyed by three Immortal Venerables, not by Return to the Origin, and showed the True Spirits the ceremony’s beginning.

• The Five Spirits Lord explained that a newly ascended Immortal Realm would receive the Sea of Origin’s protection, so Li Yunjing and his allies needed to complete Return to the Origin quickly and quietly.
• Li Yunjing arrived at Flying Dragon Ascending to Immortality Mountain and met the ten waiting Ancestral Vein True Spirits.
• The Primordial Origin Spirit condemned Return to the Origin as a reckless threat, and Li Yunjing argued that it could end the Dao Realm’s repeated cycle of slaughter.
• Li Yunjing summoned the Five Spirits Lord, whose Innate Immortal Artifact presence awed the True Spirits.
• The Five Spirits Lord told the True Spirits that three Immortal Venerables from the Mystic Yellow Immortal Realm had destroyed the Purple Wind Dao Realm, then showed them its Return to the Origin Ceremony.