Chapter Summaries

Li Fan defeated Li Mingxi by sustaining his Dao Foundation with the Blood Star's inner-world space, impressing the spectators and ending the planned fights. Fairy Yuan Yi then took Li Fan and Xu Xuan to meet her master, Xuanzhen, while explaining the four branches of the sword Dao.

• Li Fan used the Blood Star's Blood Qi to sustain his colorless life force and withstood Li Mingxi's sword attack, winning their battle.
• Li Mingxi accepted his defeat, while Zhang Longhu and Jiang Wendao considered asking Li Fan for guidance on creating inner-world spaces.
• Fairy Yuan Yi ended the fights and took Li Fan and Xu Xuan to meet her master, warning them to answer Xuanzhen truthfully.
• Fairy Yuan Yi explained the sword Dao's history and its four branches: Sword Qi, sword intent, the Sword Principle, and sword arts.

Fairy Yuanyi brought Li Fan and Xu Xuan to Mysterious Cold Sword Mountain, where Great Perfected One Xuanzhen invited them to join the Heavenly River Dao Lineage. They accepted, paid respects in the ancestral hall of Mysterious Simplicity Five True Great Origin Heaven, and received outer disciple identity tokens.

• Fairy Yuanyi took Li Fan and Xu Xuan to Mysterious Cold Sword Mountain and warned them that its sword-true spiritual qi was unsuitable for cultivators who did not practice the sword Dao.
• Fairy Yuanyi introduced Li Fan and Xu Xuan to her master, Great Perfected One Xuanzhen, who offered them places as outer disciples of the Heavenly River Dao Lineage.
• Li Fan and Xu Xuan accepted Xuanzhen's offer, and she opened a gate with her pure-white longsword to lead them to the ancestral hall.
• Xuanzhen brought Li Fan and Xu Xuan before Great Immortal Official Spirit Radiance and asked the patriarchs to witness their entry into the lineage.
• Li Fan and Xu Xuan offered incense and performed the ancestral rites, then received outer disciple identity tokens engraved with their true names.

Xu Xuan and Li Fan became outer disciples of the Heavenly River Dao Lineage, learned about their new access to knowledge and cultivation resources, and began looking for cave abodes. At a meal with Li Mingxi, Zhang Longhu, and Jiang Wendao, Li Fan agreed to develop a general version of his inner landscape construction method, while the group learned that Dao Foundation cultivators should avoid attending the upcoming attainment in person.

• Great Perfected One Xuanzhen explained that the disciple tokens could provide access to a grotto-heaven or block one fatal blow, and Fairy Yuanyi told Xu Xuan and Li Fan that the True Lords had examined their karma and backgrounds.
• Xu Xuan and Li Fan refined their tokens and discovered that they could consult Dao Foundation knowledge, limited information about higher tiers, and news from across human star domains.
• Fairy Yuanyi sent Xu Xuan and Li Fan to find Li Mingxi and the others and choose their cave abodes; Xu Xuan explained the options and why wealthy students could not simply rent the best spirit mountains.
• Xu Xuan and Li Fan met Li Mingxi, Zhang Longhu, and Jiang Wendao at Taotie Spirit Cuisine Hall, where Zhang Longhu asked Li Fan about his inner landscape construction method.
• Li Fan agreed to work out a general method, and Li Mingxi advised that cultivators below the Purple Mansion should avoid attending the upcoming attainment in person and watch a broadcast instead.

Li Fan used his growing Qi Destiny and knowledge to deduce a complete Dao Foundation cultivation method, then began acquiring the resources needed to practice it. The chapter ended when an emergency alert showed him a crowded ceremony at Rain Star, attended by hundreds of Purple Mansion Divine Abilities.

• Li Fan checked his Qi Destiny and found it had risen enough for him to attempt a Purple Mansion breakthrough.
• After studying cultivation treatises for two months, Li Fan used Innate Dao Deduction to create the Innate True Blood Deficiency-Mending Dao-Shaping Cultivation Codex.
• Li Fan discovered the Landscape-Refining Blood Abyss World-Birthing Divine Ability and began buying the spirit materials needed for his cultivation.
• Li Fan completed his first Innate Return to the Fetus at the Dao Foundation realm and condensed a speck of true blood.
• Li Fan received an emergency alert and saw hundreds of Purple Mansion Divine Abilities gathered at Rain Star to watch a ceremony.

Li Fan watched Great Perfected Person Tianping prove the Long Flowing attainment, becoming a Golden Core True Lord and establishing the Dao of Long Flowing Primordial Qi. After his attainment healed and advanced cultivators across the worlds, Tianping entered the chaos of the Great Void.

• Li Fan learned that the figure at the source of Rain Star’s longest river was Great Perfected Person Tianping, who had reincarnated and cultivated anew.
• Tianping manifested five water-based Divine Abilities, using the river’s source, momentum, natural course, veins, and cleansing power to form the Long Flowing attainment.
• Tianping drew on the Mysterious Billows Heavenly River and the Heavenly River Water attainment to complete his proof of the Dao.
• Tianping declared himself the Immortal-Manifesting Yang Spirit Long Flowing Heavenly Immortal Attainment and established the Dao of Long Flowing Primordial Qi.
• The new Primordial Qi baptized cultivators across the worlds, healing injuries and strengthening their cultivation, including Li Fan and his companions.
• Tianping received the cultivators’ salute, then tore through space and vanished into the chaos of the Great Void.

Tianli attained the Dao as a Primordial Lord immediately after another True Lord, and their successive ascensions stirred excitement throughout humanity. Li Fan mastered a powerful new spell and arrived with his companions for the Hundred Mountains Contest, where he shared his inner landscape construction theories.

• Tianli borrowed the influence of the Dao-attainment phenomenon to prove the [Immortal-Opening Azure Light Great Stream Tianli Primordial Lord] attainment and ascend as a Primordial Lord.
• Cultivators and humans across the star domains celebrated the two successive Dao attainments, and Li Fan's fellow disciples shared their excitement.
• Li Fan mastered the First Tier [Blood River Force-Wielding Mountain-Breaking Spell] and learned that the Hundred Mountains Contest would begin the next day.
• Li Fan, Xu Xuan, and their companions gathered near the Dreamlike True and False Realm, where Li Mingxi regretted being unable to compete for a spirit mountain.
• Li Fan gave his companions a limited-read book containing the theories behind his special inner landscape space construction method.

Li Fan exchanged inner landscape construction methods for rare spirit objects from Li Mingxi, Xu Xuan, Zhang Longhu, and Jiang Wendao, then joined the mountain-seizing contest. He chose Hot Spring Mountain for its high-grade Spirit Origin Crystal Vein.

• Li Fan explained that his Blood Refining method was needed to build the special inner landscape spaces and promised to help the others design theirs.
• Li Mingxi gave Li Fan Supreme Yang Manifest Purity Bright Sun Spirit Fire, while Xu Xuan presented Purple Firmament Swift-Traveling Blameless Divine Lightning.
• Zhang Longhu and Jiang Wendao gave Li Fan their path-specific spirit objects, and Li Fan offered them wine brewed from a First Tier Blood Qi Dao spirit plant.
• A Perfected One announced the start of the hundred-mountain contest, and Li Fan and the others entered the Dreamlike True and False Realm.
• Li Fan surveyed the available spirit mountains and chose Hot Spring Mountain for its first-tier high-grade Spirit Origin Crystal Vein.

Li Fan challenged a Later Realm Dao Foundation defender at Hot Spring Mountain and defeated him with one strike, causing his name as a Blood Qi Dao cultivator to spread among the academy students. As the Hundred Great Bouts continued, rankings highlighted Li Fan and three other Initial Realm cultivators who practiced new cultivation paths.

• Li Fan entered the Hot Spring Mountain arena and instantly overwhelmed the defender's Light-Breaking Fire Divine Spear with his Blood River Force-Wielding Mountain-Breaking Spell.
• The defeated defender returned to the Star River in shock, and Wang Laoliu and another cultivator were also swiftly beaten after entering the arena.
• News spread that an Initial Realm Blood Qi Dao cultivator was defeating stronger opponents in one move, prompting students to search for his origins and discuss him on the academy forum.
• The Hundred Great Bouts continued, and rankings named Li Fan, Xu Xuan, Zhang Longhu, and Jiang Wendao as the most powerful Initial Realm cultivators.
• Students noticed that all four ranked cultivators followed new cultivation paths and wondered why no practitioners of established Dao lineages appeared.

The Hundred Mountains Grand Competition ended, and Li Fan and his companions claimed their spirit mountain cave abodes. Li Fan settled at Hot Spring Mountain and transformed its summit and resources with his Blood Qi Dao, leaving himself to wonder about the unsettling appearance of his cultivation.

• The competition concluded, and the victorious arena holders received the right to develop their spirit mountains at the Dao Mechanism realm.
• Li Fan, Xu Xuan, Zhang Longhu, and Jiang Wendao shared the names and features of their new mountains, and Li Fan offered to help design their inner landscapes.
• Li Fan arrived at Hot Spring Mountain, connected to its protective formation, and surveyed its spirit vein and Warm Blossom Warm Spring Jade resource site.
• Li Fan summoned his Venerable Blood Palace and used the existing residence to anchor it at the mountain’s summit.
• The Blood Qi Dao transformed the hot spring lake into a Blood Qi lake and the willow into a blood willow, prompting Li Fan to wonder whether his cultivation made him seem like a murderous fiend.

Li Fan studied spirit-treasure refining methods and devised a framework for strengthening his Blood Qi by giving it Blood Properties. He used Innate Dao Deduction to refine his idea into a secret art, leaving him amazed by its search through countless possibilities.

• Li Fan decided to preserve the four top-grade spirit treasures for long-term use by refining them into his Blood Qi, and began gathering methods for Innate Dao Deduction.
• After reading more than a hundred refining methods, Li Fan conceived of using the treasures to shape Blood Properties and strengthen his Sole True Source Linghua Blood Qi.
• Li Fan dissolved the blood willow’s forming wooden heart core, strengthened the plant with Blood Qi, and urged it to follow its own bloodline path.
• Li Fan entered seclusion and asked Innate Dao Deduction to devise a secret art for refining spirit treasures and increasing the Blood Qi Dao’s fundamental strength.
• Li Fan watched the deduction process and realized that Innate Dao Deduction tested countless possibilities to find the best solution.

Li Fan set aside his Primordial Chaos Art preparations to help Li Mingxi develop his Realm of Supreme Yang Illuminating the World. He showed Li Mingxi how to make the inner space self-sustaining, and Li Mingxi stayed to study the techniques he would need.

• Li Fan read the Primordial Chaos Root-Altering and Nature-Refining Blood Qi Spirit Art and decided to call it the Primordial Chaos Art.
• Li Mingxi visited Li Fan and presented his initial design for a light-and-heat-based Realm of Supreme Yang Illuminating the World.
• Li Fan explained that the realm needed a self-sustaining system and demonstrated how it could expand uncontrollably and collapse into a black hole without one.
• Li Fan stabilized the realm by adding a Supreme Yang spiritual plant, Supreme Yang light spirits, void spirits, and a great array as starting points for its development.
• Li Mingxi realized he needed to learn about spiritual plants, spiritual beasts, and arrays, and stayed to study introductory techniques.

Li Fan cultivated blood-qi spiritual plants and expanded his Blood Star Space while considering its limits. After watching the Thousand Mountains Great River, he suddenly comprehended its flowing power and strengthened his body, then shared a spiritual fruit with Li Mingxi.

• Li Fan planted blood-qi spiritual plants around Hot Spring Mountain and used a Qi Refining Perfection clone to reshape the terrain and earth veins for blood-qi circulation.
• Li Fan considered the limited capacity of the Blood Star Space and explained how its core and spatial layers supported its growth and living things.
• Li Fan watched the Thousand Mountains Great River and realized how flowing water could exert endless force, inspiring him to envision his Black Blood True Power as a surging blood river.
• Li Fan entered sudden enlightenment, causing his blood qi to surge through his body and strengthen his physique to the level of a Middle Realm Dao Foundation Human Immortal body refiner.
• Li Mingxi praised Li Fan's comprehension, and Li Fan gave him a blood-qi spiritual fruit that replenished their spirituality.

Li Fan inspected the Blood Qi transformation of Hot Spring Mountain and helped Li Mingxi develop a plan for his Supreme Yang inner landscape. Their discussion was interrupted by Zhang Longhu and Xu Xuan, whose elaborate inner landscapes left Li Mingxi feeling outmatched.

• Li Fan showed Li Mingxi the Blood Spirit Dawn Radiance Fruit and the Blood Qi changes spreading through Hot Spring Mountain.
• Li Mingxi outlined plans for his Supreme Yang inner landscape, and Li Fan suggested adding Supreme Yang wells or abysses to manage energy.
• Li Mingxi chose the Bright Light aspect of the Supreme Yang Dao and planned to use Bright Light Supreme Yang Qi as his core.
• Li Fan sensed visitors at the mountain-guarding grand formation and admitted Zhang Longhu and Xu Xuan.
• Xu Xuan showed the group his Realm of the Thunder Pool and Divine Mountain, prompting Li Mingxi to lament the gap between them.

Li Fan advised Xu Xuan on completing his [Thunder Ancestor Dao Scene] and learned how Zhang Longhu's [Realm of the True Altar Guarding the One] used True Qi to create a world. He then explained the risks and method of blood-sacrificing a spatial core as the group prepared to open their inner scene spaces.

• Li Fan told Xu Xuan to add Thunder Qi spirit plants and a control array to the [Thunder Ancestor Dao Scene].
• Li Fan examined Zhang Longhu's [Realm of the True Altar Guarding the One] and admitted he could not offer useful advice.
• Zhang Longhu explained how the Ancestral Altar of Ten Thousand Dharmas refined the truth within living beings to produce True Qi and expand his world.
• Li Fan warned the group that damage to a blood-sacrificed inner scene could cripple their cultivation and explained how to refine and control a spatial core.
• Xu Xuan and Zhang Longhu confirmed that blood sacrifice required the Blood Qi Dao's witness, and the group discussed their initial plans for opening their inner scene spaces.

Li Fan completed the Heaven-Mixing Environment and began cultivating the Primordial Chaos Root-Changing Nature-Refining Blood Qi Spirit Art. After transforming himself into chaos-blood qi, he began the process of refining it into Innate Blood Qi, while four spirit objects melted above the chaotic world.

• Jiang Wendao presented his Realm of the Serene Spirit World, and he and Zhang Longhu discussed its merits with Li Fan.
• Li Fan received the spirit objects and materials, then built the Heaven-Mixing Environment in Blood Star Hall by refining the Five Elements into Yin and Yang and then Chaos Qi.
• Li Fan performed the Chaos-Borrowing Sacrificial Rite and isolated four spirit objects from the Chaos Qi.
• Li Fan transformed his nature and life into Blood Qi, which merged with the Chaos Qi jade and burst into chaos-blood qi.
• The grand array compressed the chaotic world, drawing the chaos-blood qi toward the state of Chaos Qi as the four spirit objects slowly melted.

Li Fan refined the [Innate One-Nature Purple True Clear Yang Blood Qi], strengthening his Blood Nature and accelerating his cultivation while helping four companions open their inner spaces. Nearly four years later, Hot Spring Mountain manifested a [Mountain Sacrifice Mysterious Scene], and Li Fan prepared to refine it.

• Li Fan merged four spiritual objects into [Innate Blood Qi] and gained the [Purple True Clear Yang] Blood Nature, which combined their powers and raised his Blood Qi magic power to level 2.
• Li Fan tested his new Blood Nature on Blood Qi Dao spirit beasts, then replaced the Blood Qi within the Blood Palace with his new power.
• Zhang Longhu, Jiang Wendao, Xu Xuan, and Li Mingxi completed their inner spaces, which ranged from about twenty to forty li, and shared their gains with Li Fan.
• Li Fan spent three years cultivating until his magic power neared the limit of level 2, while his Blood Star Space expanded to a radius of 160 li.
• Hot Spring Mountain transformed and displayed a [Mountain Sacrifice Mysterious Scene], and Li Fan rejoiced that he could finally harvest and refine his first mysterious scene.

Li Fan refined the [Mountain Sacrifice Mysterious Scene] and the [Spring Mountain Mystic Scene] into the [Venerable Blood Palace], then traveled to [Heavenly River Star] to research spiritual plants and gather more mysterious scenes. On the Yellow Springs Continent, Liu Wuxin escorted him toward [Stream Ravine Mountain] and began explaining the local rules.

• Li Fan refined the [Mountain Sacrifice Mysterious Scene], gaining temporary access to the mysteries of sacrificed Dao Foundations.
• Li Fan refined the [Spring Mountain Mystic Scene] and learned that it embodied Hot Spring Mountain’s nourishing blood springs.
• After discovering he could not enter the Hundred Mountains Contest again, Li Fan applied to research spiritual plants at the intersection of Blood Qi Dao and other Dao lineages.
• Li Fan traveled from [Heavenly Immortal Star] to [Heavenly River Star] and chose to begin his research on the Yellow Springs Continent.
• Li Fan met Liu Wuxin, a captain of the river patrol water-soldier squad, who agreed to guide him to [Stream Ravine Mountain] and warned him to follow the local rules.

Li Fan settled on Stream Ravine Mountain in the Yellow Springs Continent and used the Venerable Blood Palace to transform its deadly environment while cultivating spirit plants suited to its yin-death energies. Two years later, the mountain had become blood-red, its planted trees were mutating, and strange forces continued attacking its protective array from the Yellow Springs streams.

• Liu Wuxin warned Li Fan to avoid the Yellow Springs Rivers and handed him the token controlling Stream Ravine Mountain’s mountain-guarding array.
• Li Fan inspected the empty mountain and established the Venerable Blood Palace, which transformed Yellow Springs Spiritual Qi into Blood Spiritual Primordial Qi and Blood Springs Spiritual Qi.
• Li Fan planted a Big-Mouthed Flower Spirit Plant in a mountain stream and began cultivating Blood Birch Soul-Gathering Thousand-Banner Tree seedlings in areas rich with yin-death soul power.
• Li Fan watched the Yellow Springs streams turn red and yellow as unidentified things struck the mountain-guarding array from downstream.
• After two years, Stream Ravine Mountain had become a blood-red mountain, and its banner trees were growing and mutating.

Li Fan cultivated Blood Soul Banner Trees that could purify the Yellow Springs’ yin death soul power, then began harvesting the [Soul Creek Mystic Scenery]. When a Yellow Springs Water Ghost attacked his mountain array, Liu Wuxin warned him of its danger, and Li Fan turned to the mutated [Big-Mouthed Flower Spirit Plant] for help.

• Li Fan cultivated a [Blood Soul Yin Banner Tree] that produced yin-soul fruit, then developed a [Blood Soul Banner Tree] that could infuse yin death soul power with a trace of vitality.
• [Stream Ravine Mountain] formed the [Soul Creek Mystic Scenery], and Li Fan began harvesting and refining it with his [Venerable Blood Palace].
• A giant figure in a bamboo hat attacked the mountain-guarding array and severed part of Li Fan’s spiritual sense when he probed it.
• Li Fan summoned Liu Wuxin, who identified the attacker as a Yellow Springs Water Ghost and warned that it could possess living people and return to life through them.
• Li Fan put away his spirit plants and noticed the [Big-Mouthed Flower Spirit Plant] devouring soul shadows before returning to the Yellow Springs stream to fish; he connected with it using the [Blood Spirit Plant-Control and Artifact-Forging Technique].

Li Fan transformed the Big-Mouthed Flower Spirit Plant into the [Heaven-Devouring Rafflesia], a spirit plant weapon specialized in consuming souls and ghosts. After the river patrol sailors arrived and weakened the Yellow Springs water ghost, Li Fan used the rafflesia to devour it, then thanked the sailors with spirit wine before they departed.

• Li Fan nurtured the Big-Mouthed Flower Spirit Plant and reshaped it into a jar-like weapon with stronger devouring power, naming it [Heaven-Devouring Rafflesia].
• Three days later, Liu Wuxin and two other river patrol sailors arrived and blocked the Yellow Springs water ghost outside the mountain-guarding formation.
• Li Fan opened a small gap in the formation and sent out the [Heaven-Devouring Rafflesia] to attack the water ghost as the sailors struck and restrained it with their ghost-beating whips.
• The [Heaven-Devouring Rafflesia] devoured the Yellow Springs water ghost completely, demonstrating its [Devour Souls and Transform into Ghosts] ability.
• Li Fan gave each river patrol sailor a bottle of [Yin Blood Spirit Wine], then returned the rafflesia to [Stream Ravine Mountain] and watched the sailors leave.