Recaps

A black Demon Beast overwhelmed and devoured Tieguai Li before transforming into a human-serpent figure and vanishing. The chapter left the danger of the Heavenly Devil Mountain Range marked by a warning stele in a distant valley.

• Tieguai Li attacked the black shadow with his golden saber, but it knocked him down and scorched his chest with fire.
• Tieguai Li poured his magic power into the saber and fought back, but the Demon Beast’s strength and speed left him badly wounded.
• The Demon Beast swallowed Tieguai Li, chewed through his body, and devoured his soul despite a saber strike cutting its back.
• The Demon Beast crushed Tieguai Li’s head, then transformed into a muscular human with a serpent’s tail and disappeared toward a mountain peak.
• A warning stele inside a cave in a valley hundreds of kilometers from Qinglin cautioned people against entering the perilous depths of the Heavenly Devil Mountain Range.

Tieguai Li fought a powerful Demon Beast in the Heavenly Devil Mountain Range, using his staff to defeat it before two more beasts attacked. The Three Xiaos Ladies confronted him for trespassing in their sanctuary, and he claimed he had only stopped to look at the beasts.

• Tieguai Li escaped a Demon Beast’s attack with severe injuries, then used armor to reveal a powerful Divine Emperor-level presence before hiding it again.
• Tieguai Li fought the Demon Beast with lightning-infused true essence and a great black staff, striking it down and killing it.
• Two more Demon Beasts descended from the cliff and attacked Tieguai Li, whose scaled skin withstood their claws.
• The Three Xiaos Ladies asked Tieguai Li why he had trespassed in their Daoist sanctuary, and he said he had merely been passing by to see the Demon Beast.

The Three Xiaos Ladies told Tieguai Li about the hidden Three Xiaos Clan and its ancient history. The chapter ended with her describing the clan’s powerful elders and its second great elder, who was close to advancing his cultivation.

• The Three Xiaos Ladies invited Tieguai Li to tea and questioned which sect he belonged to.
• Tieguai Li said he was a Rogue Cultivator and challenged the Three Xiaos Ladies about disguising herself as a man.
• The Three Xiaos Ladies explained that she had disguised herself for safety and had spent hundreds of years in the area, where the Demon Beasts could not threaten her.
• The Three Xiaos Ladies revealed that the location was a secret base of the Three Xiaos Clan, accessible only to those of its bloodline.
• The Three Xiaos Ladies told Tieguai Li that the clan’s territory lay in an ancient ruin linked to the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, and Vermilion Bird holy lands.
• The Three Xiaos Ladies described the Three Xiaos Clan’s eighteen Martial Saint Peak elders and its second great elder, who was nearing a breakthrough to Late Tribulation Transcendence.

Tieguai Li learned that the Three Xiaos Clan had come to fight the Southern Region’s Demon Race and to seek his cultivation method. The Three Xiaos Ladies struck a deal with him, while her Grandmaster warned her to stop associating with him, leaving Tieguai Li suspicious of her true purpose.

• The Three Xiaos Ladies told Tieguai Li that her clan had sent people to help fight the Demon Race and wanted to learn human cultivation methods from him.
• Tieguai Li agreed to meet the Three Xiaos Clan’s upper echelon the next day, but an old woman in purple appeared and objected.
• The Three Xiaos Ladies called the old woman her Grandmaster, and the Purple-Robed Ancestor forbade her from associating with Tieguai Li.
• The Three Xiaos Ladies asked to see Tieguai Li’s cultivation method, and he offered to teach it in exchange for five hundred immortal stones and a drop of blood.
• The Three Xiaos Ladies gave Tieguai Li Golden Wound Medicine, and he accepted while wondering what she was really after.

Tieguai Li left the Jie Sect after suspecting Lady Three Xiaos, then entered Ao Changsheng’s Dao field and received the Vajra Indestructible Divine Art. After comprehending it and agreeing to go with Ao Changsheng, he broke the art’s restriction and wondered how many immortal crystal stones were in his jade pendant.

• Tieguai Li became suspicious of Lady Three Xiaos and slipped away from the Jie Sect after she departed.
• Tieguai Li entered Ao Changsheng’s Dao field, where Ao Changsheng welcomed him and bestowed the Vajra Indestructible Divine Art.
• An immortal gave Tieguai Li a Jade Slip with the art’s cultivation method, and Tieguai Li spent a year comprehending it as the immortals watched.
• Tieguai Li thanked Ao Changsheng and agreed to go with him to cultivate the art.
• Tieguai Li found and broke a restriction in the Vajra Indestructible Divine Art, then wondered how many immortal crystal stones were in his jade pendant as Ao Changsheng took him deeper into Kunlun.

Tieguai Li discovered a cache of Immortal Crystal Stones in a shattered jade pendant and gathered treasures as he traveled deeper into Kunlun. After finding and consuming Ten-Thousand-Year Peaches of Immortality, he cultivated for twenty years and planned to save two peaches for a future breakthrough.

• Tieguai Li shattered the jade pendant and found many Immortal Crystal Stones, which he gathered to support his cultivation and reach the Tribulation Transcendence Stage.
• Tieguai Li found the Jiaolong Sword, mistook its hostile spirit for acceptance, and stored the sword in his jade pendant.
• Tieguai Li collected Wood Element spirit medicine in a desert and then entered another spatial rift.
• Tieguai Li found a red Ten-Thousand-Year Peach of Immortality by a lake, ate one, and cultivated for twenty years.
• Tieguai Li ate and refined eight more peaches, keeping two to help him pursue the Immortal Emperor Realm.

Patriarch Xiaoyao and Xiaoyaozi set out for the divine medicine garden, believing the ruin would still be sealed and uncontested. They teleport near it and discover dense spiritual energy and powerful immortal beasts in the surrounding forest.

• Patriarch Xiaoyao learned that Xiaoyaozi's cultivation had not recovered and decided to seek immortal medicine in the divine medicine garden.
• Xiaoyaozi picked the Peach of Immortality Tree, and he and Patriarch Xiaoyao returned to the cave to cultivate.
• After three days, Tieguai Li restored his cultivation to the Immortal Venerable Realm, while Xiaoyaozi reported that he had picked all the peaches.
• Patriarch Xiaoyao led Xiaoyaozi toward the ruin, and Xiaoyaozi used a teleportation talisman to bring them near it.
• Xiaoyaozi rushed toward the ruin after sensing its dense spiritual energy, then pointed out the high-level immortal beasts in a nearby forest.

Yin Xi recounted his ancient battle with King Kang of Zhou to a Daoist priest, then formed a Golden Core and revealed signs of advancing to the Spirit Transformation Stage. After returning to the Daoist temple with the priest, Yin Xi sensed something familiar and privately discussed the Crimson Blood Pill and the priest’s request with his master.

• Yin Xi told the Daoist priest how his incarnation had fought and slain King Kang of Zhou tens of thousands of years earlier.
• Yin Xi left the mountain, and a black lotus mark with nine jewels appeared between his brows as his spiritual power surged.
• Yin Xi agreed to help the priest and handed him a Crimson Blood Pill before they returned to the Daoist temple.
• Yin Xi sensed a familiar presence on the way to his residence but could not identify its source.
• Yin Xi told his master that he needed to explain the pill matter privately to the priest and keep their arrangement secret.

Yin Xi learned that Devil Realm cultivators had come to seize him and fought back when they surrounded his residence. He left the remaining attackers fleeing or defeated, while the Daoist priest stayed behind.

• Yin Xi's master agreed to speak to a senior and handle the matter Yin Xi had raised.
• Devil Realm cultivators found Yin Xi's tomb and saw a pale blue necklace on the corpse, which they mistook for a storage ring.
• The cultivators went to Yin Xi's residence, surrounded it, and announced that they intended to take him to become the Devil Realm's imperial son-in-law.
• Yin Xi misunderstood the Daoist priest's explanation of the threat, then rejected the offer and refused to go with the attackers.
• Yin Xi beat the first cultivator who lunged at him and pursued the fleeing men, knocking down another attacker until he fainted.

Yin Xi fought a man in black, but the strange fragrance from a poison bottle trapped him in a painful hallucination. After the illusion ended, he found himself back in the cave facing the operation's mastermind, who revealed that he knew Yin Xi was Taishang Laojun.

• Yin Xi overpowered the man in black and knocked him to the ground.
• The man in black opened a bottle whose strange fragrance caused hallucinations and drowsiness, but Yin Xi swallowed its contents.
• Yin Xi suffered unbearable pain as the toxin seemed to merge with his body, and his surroundings shifted back to the cave.
• Yin Xi realized the man before him was the mastermind behind the operation, who addressed him as Taishang Laojun.
• Yin Xi tried to flee, but dizziness made him collapse back onto the ground as the man approached.

A man poisoned and captured Yin Xi, intending to turn him into a puppet and extract his Immortal Infant, but Yin Xi’s strength suddenly surged when a familiar presence awakened within him. Yin Xi transformed back into Taishang Laojun, shocking the man.

• The man told Yin Xi that the poison would gradually devour his cultivation and demanded that he become a puppet.
• Yin Xi refused, fought the man, and was defeated and captured despite using all his strength.
• The man explained that Yin Xi had stolen from him and made trouble in his territory, then threatened to kill him if he would not comply.
• Yin Xi resisted again, but the man pressed his advantage and left him fearing he would die.
• A familiar presence surged into Yin Xi, transforming his meridians and restoring his strength; Yin Xi shook the man off and attacked him.
• The man recoiled in horror and recognized Yin Xi as Taishang Laojun.

Yin Xi punished the man who had tormented him, then Taishang Laojun spared the man but declared that his death was sealed. Taishang Laojun left the Immortal Realm for the Primordial World, while Tieguai Li investigated powerful roars near a blood-shrouded mountain.

• Yin Xi kicked the man who had tormented him, and a hidden shortsword stopped the man from attacking again.
• The man begged Taishang Laojun for mercy, and Taishang Laojun spared him while telling him his fate was sealed.
• Taishang Laojun learned that someone had guided the disciple foretold by the Heavenly Dao, then decided to leave for the Primordial World after condensing his Dao Fruit.
• Tieguai Li noticed a blood-shrouded mountain marked with runes but continued onward after sensing no aggression from it.
• Tieguai Li heard powerful tiger, dragon, and lion roars from the mountain and flew toward them, recognizing the sounds as strangely familiar.

Tieguai Li recognized that the dragon roars came from Jiaolong linked to the totem on his arm, but memories of powerful Demon Race kings overwhelmed him and left him unconscious. He woke to find his right arm gone, then spent a month recovering and preparing to regain his strength.

• Tieguai Li sensed that the dragon roars and lion bellows came from three Jiaolong connected to the totem on his arm and headed toward the bloody-mist mountains.
• A memory of four dragon phantoms and other powerful Demon Race figures made Tieguai Li collapse unconscious after the kings charged at him.
• Tieguai Li woke with his right arm missing and reasoned that his Jiaolong's body had been devoured and sealed away.
• Tieguai Li decided to conceal himself and recover before confronting the Jiaolong kings.
• Tieguai Li spent a month recuperating with medicinal herbs he had gathered from ancient texts, using his skills as a sixth-grade Alchemist.

After reaching the Sixth-Tier Alchemy Grandmaster realm, Tieguai Li confronted four powerful Demon Race men at Xiqi and fought them alone. He injured one of them with a golden strike, while the other three remained to face him.

• Tieguai Li put away the Jiaolong body and considered how to proceed after advancing to the Sixth-Tier Alchemy Grandmaster realm.
• Tieguai Li's army approached Xiqi, where he met four black-clad Demon Race men and learned they were powerful spirit wisps.
• A majestic palace descended before Xiqi, and the four men attacked Tieguai Li, who sent them flying with five-colored palm strikes.
• The four men surrounded Tieguai Li and challenged him, but he outpaced the black-clad man and wounded him with a golden slash.
• Tieguai Li struck the black-clad man with a golden-lit punch, smashing him into a building as the watching Demon Race cultivators marveled at Tieguai Li's strength.

Tieguai Li fought the man in black while the Demon Race cultivators withdrew, and his golden attack left his opponent gravely injured. The man in black claimed Tieguai Li’s divine art was ineffective against him, but his black mist failed to penetrate Tieguai Li’s golden shield.

• The Demon Race cultivators feared Tieguai Li and quietly withdrew rather than challenge him.
• The man in black demanded to know why Tieguai Li had attacked and threatened to torture him, but Tieguai Li vowed to kill him.
• Tieguai Li struck the man in black with a golden fist, then used Vajra Divine Gang to injure him further.
• The man in black claimed Tieguai Li’s divine art was countered by his own elemental techniques and boasted that the Black Dragon Gang surpassed the Iron Crutch Clan.
• The man in black sent black mist at Tieguai Li, but Tieguai Li’s golden shield blocked it and left the attacker stunned.

Tieguai Li defeated the Black Dragon Gang leader and demanded that he submit, but the injured leader refused and left with twelve black-robed men. Tieguai Li pursued and killed the group, then raced away.

• Tieguai Li struck the Black Dragon Gang leader with golden divine swords and offered him safety in exchange for submitting and forming an alliance.
• The Black Dragon Gang leader refused, and Tieguai Li attacked again, severing his arm and leaving him badly injured.
• The leader warned Tieguai Li that the gang's higher-ups would retaliate, then left the courtyard with twelve black-robed men.
• Tieguai Li pursued the group toward the eastern part of the city and killed the twelve men.
• Tieguai Li watched the last man die, laughed that the Black Dragon Gang leader's day had come, and raced away.

Tieguai Li killed the Black Dragon Gang leader and led an assault on the gang’s mountain stronghold, intending to take advantage of its weakened state. After binding many gang members with giant pythons, he confronted an Earth Grade martial artist at the headquarters and ordered his allies to attack.

• Tieguai Li killed the Black Dragon Gang leader, and the rescued experts hailed him before fleeing to avoid retaliation.
• Tieguai Li realized the leader’s death gave him a chance to absorb the Black Dragon Gang’s forces.
• Tieguai Li led a group into the Black Dragon Gang’s mountain lair, where venomous snakes and beasts had already killed many members.
• Tieguai Li summoned giant pythons to bind Black Dragon Gang members, then mocked them and continued toward the headquarters.
• An Earth Grade martial artist confronted Tieguai Li, who declared his plan to destroy the gang and ordered his group to attack.

Tieguai Li fought the Black Dragon Gang after its leader attacked him with the Soul-Devouring Technique. He slaughtered many gang members and confronted the leader, who struck at him as the battle continued.

• The Black Dragon Gang leader used the Soul-Devouring Technique against Tieguai Li, but Tieguai Li dodged the attack.
• Tieguai Li charged the gang fighters, knocked one down, and faced dozens of Earth Grade martial artists.
• Tieguai Li wielded his Iron Crutch to kill the gang fighters while the four protectors celebrated his strength.
• The leader praised Tieguai Li's advancement to Middle Earth Grade, and Tieguai Li vowed to kill everyone in the gang.
• The leader attacked Tieguai Li with a powerful palm strike, and Tieguai Li watched it warily.

Tieguai Li fought the Black Dragon Gang’s middle-aged leader, who proved stronger than him and knocked away his Iron Crutch. With Ye Xiao and the others cheering him on, Tieguai Li unleashed a surge of power and attacked again, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Tieguai Li drove back the Black Dragon Gang experts and struck one of them down with his Iron Crutch.
• The middle-aged man attacked Tieguai Li with wind blades, and Tieguai Li countered with a black whip before their weapons clashed.
• The middle-aged man slashed with his longsword, knocking Tieguai Li’s Iron Crutch into a mountainside.
• Ye Xiao, Xiao Mei'er, White Tiger, and the others urged Tieguai Li to keep fighting as he faced the stronger middle-aged man.
• Tieguai Li summoned a powerful surge of force and swung his Iron Crutch toward the middle-aged man once more.

Tieguai Li fought the middle-aged man and revealed that he had upgraded his Iron Crutch into a Mystic-Grade Treasure Artifact. After recognizing Tieguai Li and learning how much his strength had grown, the middle-aged man charged at him with his strongest sword technique.

• Tieguai Li and the middle-aged man traded attacks, and their weapons clashed with enough force to send them both staggering back.
• Tieguai Li attacked with a storm of spear strikes, but the middle-aged man’s blue sword light destroyed his Iron Crutch and wounded him.
• Tieguai Li explained that his weapon was the Iron Crutch and that he had modified it into a Mystic-Grade Treasure Artifact, shocking the crowd and the middle-aged man.
• The middle-aged man recognized Tieguai Li and recalled meeting him years earlier, when Tieguai Li had been at the Golden Core Realm.
• Tieguai Li taunted the middle-aged man, who erupted in rage and charged with his strongest sword move.

Tieguai Li defeated the Black Dragon Gang's fighters and rescued the people they had seized, earning Taishang Laojun's invitation to become his disciple. At Taiyi Temple, Taishang Laojun showed him the Taiyi Divine Cauldron's medicine garden and explained his plans to cultivate spirit herbs there.

• Tieguai Li blocked the middle-aged man's sword strike with his spear and forced the Black Dragon Gang to release the wives, concubines, and children they had seized.
• Taishang Laojun revealed himself as an immortal, invited Tieguai Li to Taiyi Mountain, and asked to bring his young disciple along; Tieguai Li agreed.
• Taishang Laojun led Tieguai Li to Taiyi Temple and gave him a room inside the Taiyi Divine Cauldron's inner space.
• Taishang Laojun explained that the inner space was a medicine garden containing the Heaven and Earth Spirit Pill and that its time flow could extend Tieguai Li's lifespan.
• Taishang Laojun proposed making the inner space Taiyi Temple's main focus and cultivating spirit herbs instead of searching for them outside, and Tieguai Li praised his plan.

An azure-robed man broke through his cultivation in the bamboo grove behind Taiyi Temple, destroying the temple and revealing a corpse that alarmed Taishang Laojun. After learning that Taiyi Temple had been exposed, Taishang Laojun returned and urged its members to flee the Heavenly Court and hide their identities.

• An azure-robed man broke through and his roar collapsed Taiyi Temple’s roof, crushing the bamboo grove.
• Taishang Laojun found a dead body pierced by a branch and searched the grove for Xiao Lizi, but found no trace of him.
• Taishang Laojun hurried to the Heavenly Court, where True Person Taiyi and the Jade Emperor planned to conceal their knowledge and prepare a surprise attack.
• The Jade Emperor agreed to keep their plan secret and remain in cultivation while True Person Taiyi left.
• Taishang Laojun summoned Taiyi Temple’s elders, protectors, disciples, and the sect master of Taishang Peak, then told them to leave the Heavenly Court and conceal their identities.

Taishang Laojun ordered Taiyi Temple’s people to abandon the Heavenly Court and head for the Taiyi Sect, leaving their sealed resources behind to explode after their departure. After True Person Taishang routed a Golden Immortal who confronted them, the group escaped, while their enemies vowed revenge and planned to wait for True Person Taiyi’s response.

• Taishang Laojun told Taiyi Temple’s people to pack their treasures and flee toward the Taiyi Sect, with the sealed resources set to explode once he left the Heavenly Court.
• Taishang Laojun led the group away, and the departing people destroyed Taiyi Temple’s palaces, injuring its elders, guardians, disciples, and other members.
• A Golden Immortal and dozens of experts confronted the group, but True Person Taishang defeated the Golden Immortal with a single blow and drove him away.
• True Person Taishang warned the injured experts not to report the incident to the Heavenly Court, then flew away with his followers.
• True Person Jindan and the other injured Golden Immortals vowed to retaliate and decided to await True Person Taiyi’s response before acting.
• True Person Taishang blamed the Taiyi Sect for coveting the Heavenly Realm’s resources and flew away.

True Person Taishang met Fairy Zixia at Taiyi Temple, where she sought his help regarding Tieguai Li and the Immortal Lord. He agreed to protect her and prepare to confront Tieguai Li, leaving their conflict unresolved.

• True Person Taishang's disciples reported that the Taiyi Sect had been abandoned by the Heavenly Court and that their forces were under attack.
• Fairy Zixia learned that True Person Taishang had emerged from seclusion and went to meet him at Taiyi Temple.
• Fairy Zixia asked True Person Taishang about the Immortal Lord, Tieguai Li, and her Master's instructions to seek his help.
• True Person Taishang agreed to help Fairy Zixia and invited her to stay while he went into seclusion.
• True Person Taishang resolved to challenge Tieguai Li and see who would win.

Tieguai Li sought guidance from Ao Changsheng about the righteous path and asked to be taken in as a disciple, but refused Ao Changsheng’s demand that he defeat him. After leaving Taiyi Temple to seek his own path, Tieguai Li was attacked by a powerful man in black who mocked his ambition to become immortal.

• Fairy Zixia wondered why True Person Taishang was so protective of Tieguai Li, while Ao Changsheng told Tieguai Li that righteousness depended on whose will prevailed.
• Ao Changsheng offered to take Tieguai Li as a disciple only if Tieguai Li defeated him, then dismissed him when he refused to try.
• Tieguai Li returned to Taiyi Temple, thanked its residents for raising him, and left to find his own righteous path.
• A man in black attacked Tieguai Li, blasted him away, and declared that Tieguai Li did not belong in this world and could not escape it.
• Tieguai Li insisted he intended to attain the Dao and become immortal, but the man in black repelled his attempted attack with a mysterious force.