Chapter Summaries

Lin Yueyao defeated Lu Qiuzhan, then lost to Xiao Han in the Spirit Realm final, giving Xiao Han first place. The Dao Realm competition began, and Chu Jichuan, Jiang Sheng, Shu Yining, and Zhou Tong each won their opening matches to advance to the semifinals.

• Lin Yueyao used Cold Moon Soul Lock to defeat Lu Qiuzhan and advance to the Spirit Realm final.
• Xiao Han defeated Lin Yueyao after a fierce fire-and-ice battle, winning first place in the Spirit Realm group.
• Li Yunjing presented the Spirit Realm competitors with their rewards, and the competition concluded.
• Chu Jichuan defeated Mo Feng with Ice Soul Divine Light in the first Dao Realm match.
• Jiang Sheng defeated Liu Qing with a single punch, and Shu Yining defeated Wang Chong with a soul attack.
• Zhou Tong broke through Han Xue's water defenses with his swordsmanship and advanced to the semifinals.

Chu Jichuan defeated Jiang Sheng and advanced to the final, where he overcame Zhou Tong to win first place in the Dao Realm division. The tournament ended with Chu Jichuan declared the division champion.

• Chu Jichuan wore down Jiang Sheng with ice techniques, trapped him in ice chains, and defeated him with Ice Soul Divine Light.
• Zhou Tong resisted Shu Yining’s divine soul attacks with his sword and Dao heart, then forced her to yield and advanced to the final.
• Zhou Tong’s Qingyun One Sword struck Chu Jichuan’s Ten Thousand Years Cold Crystal but failed to break it.
• Chu Jichuan weakened Zhou Tong with successive ice techniques, froze and broke his sword, and stopped Ice Soul Divine Light before his brow.
• The referee elder announced that Chu Jichuan had won the Dao Realm division final and taken first place.

After the sect tournament ended, Li Yunjing focused on the Luozhen Sect’s growth and prepared to break through. Three months later, he advanced to the Middle Void Refinement Stage, and a phenomenon descended from the nine heavens.

• Zhao Feng, Xiao Han, Lu Qiuzhan, and Chu Jichuan received their tournament rewards, with Chu Jichuan winning a Spirit Transformation Pill and other prizes.
• Li Yunjing praised the disciples, urged them to cultivate diligently, and resolved to create the sixth state after breaking through.
• Three months later, Li Yunjing began his breakthrough as Spiritual Qi gathered into a vast cloud over the main peak.
• Mo Xuan ordered the mountain-protecting formation activated and cleared the area while the elders and disciples watched in anticipation.
• Li Yunjing shattered the Early Void Refinement barrier, reached the Middle Void Refinement Stage, and felt his connection to the Dao Realm deepen.
• As Li Yunjing stabilized his new realm, a phenomenon descended from the nine heavens.

After breaking through to the Middle Void Refinement Stage, Li Yunjing revealed that the Dao Realm could expand to nine provinces and proposed transforming part of the Great Wilderness into a sixth province. He left the elders and the Northern Dark True Spirit to consider the plan, beginning with the first new province.

• Li Yunjing’s breakthrough triggered heavenly signs across the Five Provinces and strengthened the Luozhen Grotto-Heaven’s Spiritual Qi and Spirit Vein.
• Li Yunjing emerged from seclusion, received the elders’ congratulations, and ordered three days of rewards for the sect.
• Li Yunjing invited the Northern Dark True Spirit to the Sect Grand Hall to discuss the Dao Realm Origin.
• Li Yunjing explained that forming nine provinces could strengthen the Dao Realm’s Principles and bring it closer to the true Immortal Realm.
• Li Yunjing told the elders that the Great Wilderness’s dormant earth veins could be activated and proposed creating the sixth province there.

Li Yunjing and the Luozhen Sect began preparations to establish the sixth province, Luozhen Province, with the Northern Dark True Spirit’s help. Their planning was interrupted when earth veins deep in the Great Wilderness were forcibly broken open, causing powerful tremors.

• The Northern Dark True Spirit confirmed that four dormant branches of the Ancestral Vein could be awakened to create four more provinces, and Li Yunjing chose the branch intended for the sixth province.
• Li Yunjing assigned preparations for migration, cities and teleportation arrays, a province-stabilizing grand array, and resources to the elders, who pledged their support.
• Li Yunjing named the new province Luozhen Province and ordered the elders to submit lists of needed personnel and supplies within a month.
• Li Yunjing and the Northern Dark True Spirit planned to activate Luozhen Province’s earth veins at its earth eye in the Great Wilderness, despite the spatial rifts and vicious beasts there.
• A violent tremor shook the Luozhen Grotto-Heaven, and the Northern Dark True Spirit sensed that the earth veins had been forcibly broken open.
• Mo Xuan reported the disturbance and the mountain-protecting grand array’s sudden activation, while Li Yunjing went outside and probed toward the Great Wilderness.

A disturbance in the Great Wilderness released a sealed High Antiquity space, and the Primordial Beginning Dao Sect emerged, announcing its intention to restore order to the Dao Realm. As the Immortal Alliance and Luozhen Sect assessed the newcomers, Northern Dark True Spirit recalled the sect’s old belief that leading sects should control the Dao Realm’s Principles and resources.

• Northern Dark True Spirit identified the Great Wilderness upheaval as the breaking of a High Antiquity seal that had hidden a space.
• A purple-gold pillar and further Dao phenomena appeared as a vast valley emerged in the Great Wilderness.
• The Primordial Beginning Dao Sect announced its return, and reports spread that its powerful cultivators were clearing wilderness beasts and spatial rifts.
• Alliance Leader Zhang Jianchen recalled the sect’s ancient conflict with the sages and ordered contact with them while warning Li Yunjing to stay vigilant.
• Mo Xuan reported the sect’s forces and its occupation of Primordial Beginning Valley to Li Yunjing.
• Northern Dark True Spirit recalled that the Primordial Beginning Dao Sect had once advocated control of the Dao Realm’s Principles and resources by the foremost sects.

The Primordial Beginning Dao Sect emerged from its seal and sent Wei Xiao to demand that the Luozhen Sect submit and support its plan to establish a sixth province. Li Yunjing rejected the envoy’s condescending approach, and Wei Xiao’s threat left the hall under pressure.

• The Northern Dark True Spirit explained that the Primordial Beginning Dao Sect had been defeated in High Antiquity, sealed itself in another dimension, and now sought power during the Dao Realm’s transformation.
• Li Yunjing told the elders to continue their plan to establish a province, then received word that an envoy from the Primordial Beginning Dao Sect had arrived.
• Wei Xiao and a young disciple entered the Sect Grand Hall and belittled the Luozhen Sect’s hall and standing.
• Wei Xiao offered to make the Luozhen Sect a branch sect in a new sixth province if it submitted to the Primordial Beginning Dao Sect.
• Ding Qifeng and Gu Lin rebuked the envoys, and Wei Xiao released his Void Refinement Late Stage pressure over the hall.

Li Yunjing confronted Wei Xiao over the Primordial Beginning Dao Sect’s plan to build a sixth province and revealed that the Luozhen Sect was preparing to build its own Luozhen Province. Wei Xiao left after giving the sect three days to reconsider joining, and Li Yunjing weighed the danger of the Primordial Beginning Dao Sect’s hidden strength.

• Li Yunjing used his Middle Void Refinement Stage pressure to immobilize Wei Xiao and ordered him not to throw his weight around in the Luozhen Sect.
• Li Yunjing revealed that the Luozhen Sect had prepared to build its own province, and the Northern Dark True Spirit explained that he could activate the earth veins and shape the land.
• Wei Xiao urged Li Yunjing to join the Primordial Beginning Dao Sect and threatened the Luozhen Sect, but Li Yunjing refused and told him to leave.
• Wei Xiao gave the Luozhen Sect three days to change its answer before the Primordial Beginning Dao Sect showed no mercy, then departed with his companion.
• Ding Qifeng, Mo Xuan, and Gu Lin discussed the threat, while Li Yunjing considered the Primordial Beginning Dao Sect’s unknown trump cards.

Li Yunjing moved up the Luozhen Sect’s plan to activate the earth vein and establish Cang Province before the Primordial Beginning Dao Sect could claim it. As the group reached the Great Wilderness, Wei Xiao and a force of cultivators blocked their way.

• The Northern Dark True Spirit warned Li Yunjing that the sealed Primordial Beginning Dao Sect might contain powerful old cultivators, but their strength had likely waned.
• Li Yunjing ordered the Luozhen Sect to prepare within three days and activate the earth vein, which would secure recognition from the Dao Realm’s origin.
• The Luozhen Sect assembled Li Yunjing, an incarnation of the Northern Dark True Spirit, three Dao Union True Lords, cultivators, spirit beasts, and supplies for the expedition.
• Li Yunjing led the group into the Great Wilderness, where the Northern Dark True Spirit sensed movement near the earth eye.
• Wei Xiao and four Void Refinement Stage elders appeared with more than a hundred disciples and blocked the Luozhen Sect’s path.

Li Yunjing fought off Wei Xiao and the Primordial Beginning Dao Sect elders who tried to stop the Luozhen Sect from reaching Jianzhou. After Patriarch Xuanji appeared, he demanded that Li Yunjing hand over the Jianzhou maps and earth vein records and submit the Luozhen Sect to his sect.

• Wei Xiao and a sinister-looking elder demanded Li Yunjing surrender the Jianzhou maps and earth vein records and swear to stay out of Jianzhou’s affairs.
• Li Yunjing struck the sinister-looking elder with one move, severely injuring him.
• Wei Xiao ordered the four remaining Void Refinement elders to attack, but Li Yunjing dodged their assaults and shattered their Four Symbols Heaven-Trapping Formation with his Dao Realm Suppress Hell Seal.
• Patriarch Xuanji emerged from Primordial Beginning Valley and halted the confrontation with his overwhelming presence.
• Patriarch Xuanji acknowledged Li Yunjing’s cultivation and connection to the Ancestral Vein True Spirit, then demanded the maps and records and the Luozhen Sect’s submission.

Li Yunjing urged the Northern Dark True Spirit to fight Patriarch Xuanji, and the two clashed in a battle that shook the Great Wilderness and the Dao Realm's Five Provinces. The Northern Dark True Spirit gained the upper hand and launched another attack at the wounded Patriarch Xuanji.

• Li Yunjing mocked Patriarch Xuanji and told the Northern Dark True Spirit to fight without holding back.
• The Northern Dark True Spirit transformed into a massive dragon and repelled Patriarch Xuanji's palm strike and Annihilating Mystic Light.
• Patriarch Xuanji summoned the Primordial Beginning Seal, but the Northern Dark True Spirit countered it with the Ancestral Vein Mountain-Subduing Seal, damaging the treasure and injuring Xuanji.
• The battle shook the Great Wilderness and sent terrifying fluctuations across the Dao Realm's Five Provinces, alarming cultivators and sect patriarchs.
• The Northern Dark True Spirit struck Patriarch Xuanji with his tail and fired earth-vein divine light at him as Wei Xiao and the others cried out.

Patriarch Xuanji fled after the Northern Dark True Spirit defeated him, but the birth of the Dao Realm’s first Immortal Vein halted the pursuit and drew all ten Ancestral Vein True Spirits to the Great Wilderness. Li Yunjing proposed anchoring the unstable vein in the planned Luozhen Province, and the True Spirits approved the idea.

• Patriarch Xuanji seized Wei Xiao and fled toward Primordial Beginning Valley with the Primordial Beginning Dao Sect disciples, while Li Yunjing and the Northern Dark True Spirit prepared to pursue.
• A pillar of Immortal Spirit Qi erupted from the Great Wilderness, healing the land and stopping both sides in their tracks.
• The Northern Dark True Spirit identified the phenomenon as an Immortal Vein, and the other nine Ancestral Vein True Spirits arrived.
• The Primordial Origin Spirit explained that the Dao Realm’s elevation and accumulated origin had brought the Immortal Vein into being, while the Star Abyss True Spirit warned that it could dissipate if left unstable.
• Li Yunjing proposed moving the Immortal Vein into Luozhen Province to stabilize it and speed the province’s formation, and the Eastern Extreme Azure True Spirit and Central Thick Earth True Spirit praised the plan.

Li Yunjing and the ten Ancestral Vein True Spirits drew the newly emerged Immortal Vein into Luozhen Province and began building defenses and a city around it. As word of the Immortal Vein spread across the Five Provinces, countless cultivators set out for the Great Wilderness to claim it.

• All ten Ancestral Vein True Spirits agreed to draw the Immortal Vein into Luozhen Province and used their combined power to guide it toward the province's earth eye.
• Li Yunjing ordered the Luozhen Sect to gather supplies, prepare for construction, plant spirit medicine, and enter its highest state of combat readiness.
• After a day and night, the Immortal Vein settled into Luozhen Province's earth eye, transforming the barren land into an immortal Blessed Land.
• Northern Dark True Spirit warned Li Yunjing that the Immortal Vein would need three months to stabilize, and the Ancestral Vein True Spirits left incarnations to guard it.
• Li Yunjing ordered the Luozhen Sect to build Luozhen City, establish outposts and teleportation arrays, and set up the Ten Veins Immortal-Locking Grand Array.
• News of the Immortal Vein spread through the Five Provinces, prompting countless cultivators to rush toward the Great Wilderness.

The Immortal Alliance restrained its own sects as powers converged on the Immortal Vein, but the Daozhen Sect claimed it for Immortal Lord Qingxu and frightened most rivals into retreating. Li Yunjing learned of the demand and reacted with anger as old hostility between the Luozhen Sect and Daozhen Sect resurfaced.

• Zhang Jianchen ordered the Immortal Alliance to congratulate the Luozhen Sect, investigate the Immortal Vein, and keep its disciples from causing trouble.
• Yin Zhongqiu led the Daozhen Sect to Luozhen Province, claiming Immortal Lord Qingxu's decree entitled him to take the Immortal Vein as a birthday gift.
• News of the decree spread across the Five Provinces, prompting many sects to abandon their plans and retreat from the Great Wilderness.
• Mo Xuan told Li Yunjing that Yin Zhongqiu and the Daozhen Sect were a hundred li from Luozhen Province and demanded the Immortal Vein under threat of immortal punishment.
• Li Yunjing grew cold with anger as he recalled the long-standing rivalry between the Luozhen Sect and the Daozhen Sect.

Li Yunjing confronted Yin Zhongqiu after the Daozhen Sect tried to claim Luozhen Province’s Immortal Vein under Immortal Lord Qingxu’s decree. He rejected the demand, invoked the sects’ old grudge, and prepared to fight at the border.

• Li Yunjing explained that the Dao Realm’s barrier and Ancestral Veins could block Immortal Lord Qingxu from punishing the Luozhen Sect, then ordered its forces to assemble.
• Mo Xuan spread Li Yunjing’s orders, and Luozhen Sect disciples rallied to defend the Immortal Vein.
• Li Yunjing led elders, personal disciples, the Northern Dark True Spirit’s incarnation, and five hundred elite disciples to meet Yin Zhongqiu and the Daozhen Sect contingent.
• Yin Zhongqiu demanded that Li Yunjing withdraw, remove the array, and hand over the Immortal Vein under Qingxu’s decree.
• Li Yunjing refused, condemned the Daozhen Sect’s past attack on his sect, and warned Yin Zhongqiu to leave or face death.
• Both sects summoned their weapons as Li Yunjing declared the Daozhen Sect his enemy and threatened to make its people stay.

Li Yunjing and the Luozhen Sect fought back against Yin Zhongqiu and the Daozhen Sect to defend their province and Immortal Vein. After the Ancestral Vein True Spirits helped block the Immortal-Slaying Formation, Li Yunjing killed three Void Refinement elders in moments, leaving the Daozhen Sect shaken as the battle continued.

• Yin Zhongqiu ordered the Daozhen Sect to attack, and its Qingxu Immortal-Slaying Formation struck at the Luozhen Sect.
• Li Yunjing activated the Ten Veins Immortal-Locking Formation, and its shield stopped the sword seal with the power of the ten Ancestral Veins.
• The Northern Dark True Spirit challenged the legitimacy of Immortal Lord Qingxu, while Yin Zhongqiu prepared to activate the decree and summon immortal punishment.
• Li Yunjing and the Ancestral Vein True Spirits led the Luozhen Sect into battle against the Daozhen Sect at the Immortal Vein.
• Li Yunjing used his Void Divine Treasury and Magnetic Light Slash to kill three Early Void Refinement elders in two breaths.
• The Luozhen Sect celebrated Li Yunjing's victory, while cultivators watching through Water Mirror Techniques across the Five Provinces feared the Daozhen Sect had met its match.

The Immortal Alliance watched as Li Yunjing’s side gained the upper hand against the Daozhen Sect, while Yin Zhongqiu sent Su Ming to fight him using a life-burning secret technique. Su Ming unleashed the Spirit-Burning Furious Flame Cultivation Method and challenged Li Yunjing, leaving the battle poised for their confrontation.

• Wang Heng worried about Li Yunjing’s safety, but the alliance leader said the Heavenly Pivot Battalion was already heading toward Luozhen Province and that Li Yunjing seemed to have more strength in reserve.
• Chu Han, Zhou Tong, Mo Xuan, Gu Lin, Fang Tong, and the Luozhen Sect disciples pressed their advantage as the Daozhen Sect struggled to hold its formation.
• Yin Zhongqiu rejected retreat and ordered an elder to summon Su Ming, promising to seek a lifespan-extending pill if Su Ming killed Li Yunjing.
• Su Ming, who had sworn to avenge his former master killed by Li Yunjing, activated the Spirit-Burning Furious Flame Cultivation Method at the cost of his lifespan and origin.
• Su Ming’s flames filled the sky as the Daozhen Sect disciples cheered, and he fixed his gaze on Li Yunjing and vowed to kill him.

Su Ming burned his lifespan to avenge his master and challenged Li Yunjing, but Li defeated him with three sword strikes. Su Ming died on the battlefield, leaving both sects stunned.

• Su Ming activated the Spirit-Burning Furious Flame Cultivation Method and attacked Li Yunjing with the Furious Flame Heaven-Burning Palm.
• Li Yunjing evaded Su Ming’s attacks with Void Divine Treasury and blocked his flame arrows with a shield.
• Su Ming condensed his flames into a massive saber, but Li Yunjing split it apart with the Nine True Magnetic Light Sword.
• Li Yunjing dodged Su Ming’s fiery fists and severed his bonded flying sword, injuring him.
• Li Yunjing used Magnetic Light Destroys the Soul to pierce Su Ming’s brow and destroy his Primordial Spirit.

Li Yunjing killed Su Ming, then blocked the Daozhen Sect patriarch’s talisman strike with the reforged Tiger-Shooting Bow. He wounded Yin Zhongqiu and pressed his attack, refusing to accept the sect leader’s plea to retreat.

• Li Yunjing killed Su Ming in three sword strikes, breaking the Daozhen Sect’s morale and raising the spirits of the Luozhen Sect.
• Yin Zhongqiu invoked Immortal Lord Qingxu and crushed a talisman containing a Tribulation Transcendence Dao Lord’s strike.
• Li Yunjing used the reforged Tiger-Shooting Bow to destroy the talisman’s golden palm in an even clash.
• Li Yunjing attacked Yin Zhongqiu, shattered his protective treasures, and pierced his left shoulder with the Nine True Magnetic Light Sword.
• Yin Zhongqiu begged to abandon the Immortal Vein and retreat, but Li Yunjing continued attacking and reminded him of the Daozhen Sect’s past assault on Luozhen Sect.

Li Yunjing killed Yin Zhongqiu and ordered the Luozhen Sect to annihilate the Daozhen Sect’s invading army, then led preparations for an attack on its headquarters at Xuandu Mountain. The Luozhen Sect’s new fleet set out to join the army, which arrived outside the mountain as onlookers watched.

• Li Yunjing killed Yin Zhongqiu and ordered that no Daozhen Sect cultivators be spared.
• The Luozhen Sect army killed all five hundred invaders, then counted its casualties and arranged treatment and revival for the fallen.
• Li Yunjing decided to attack Xuandu Mountain and revealed that the Luozhen Sect had built a fleet of thirty-six warships.
• The army rested, regrouped, and marched toward Flying Immortal Prefecture while the fleet launched from Azure Jiao Marsh.
• The Luozhen Sect army arrived outside Xuandu Mountain, where the Daozhen Sect had shut its gates and activated the Nine Purities Profound Heaven Grand Formation.