Chapter Summaries

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.

Tieguai Li accepted a phantom’s offer to help him recover and cultivate after a mysterious man crippled him. Meanwhile, Zhang Guolao entered the Heavenly Mountain Secret Realm with the little fox and discovered a snowy landscape and a legendary spirit tree.

• A man in black defeated Tieguai Li, damaged his soul and Divine Sense, and reduced his realm to Early-stage Golden Immortal before leaving.
• Tieguai Li returned to his cave abode to tend his injuries, then agreed to cooperate with a phantom that promised to help him reach Immortal Lord level.
• The phantom led Tieguai Li to a prepared cave abode and gave him a Cultivation Method to begin cultivating.
• Zhang Guolao traveled to the Heavenly Mountain Secret Realm with the little fox, believing his previous experience would help him handle its restrictions.
• After entering, Zhang Guolao and the little fox found an endless snowy landscape and rested beneath a strange giant tree.
• Zhang Guolao identified the tree as the Heavenly Mountain Ginseng Fruit and said its fruits could greatly increase cultivation.

Zhang Guolao and the little fox flew to the Heavenly Mountain Secret Realm in search of a Heavenly Mountain Ginseng Fruit. After learning Zhang Guolao had entered the realm and found one, the Supreme Emperor Holy Ancestor and Taihao worried about the dangers inside, while Zhang Guolao reached a mountaintop fruit guarded by Azure Cloud Sect cultivators and considered how to obtain it.

• Zhang Guolao and the little fox set off for the Heavenly Mountain Secret Realm.
• A disciple told the Supreme Emperor Holy Ancestor that Zhang Guolao had entered through the south gate, and the Holy Ancestor learned Elder Taihao had told him where to find the entrance.
• The Supreme Emperor Holy Ancestor called Taihao and warned him about the dangers, but Taihao became excited when he heard Zhang Guolao had found a Heavenly Mountain Ginseng Fruit.
• Taihao decided he would rescue Zhang Guolao if anything happened to him.
• Zhang Guolao reached a mountaintop and found a golden Heavenly Mountain Ginseng Fruit beside a group of cultivators he suspected were Azure Cloud Sect elders.
• Zhang Guolao examined the fruit and wondered how to obtain it without letting the gathered cultivators stop him.

Zhang Guolao left the valley and found Azure Cloud Sect cultivators fighting with powerful lightning techniques. When he asked how to obtain the Heavenly Mountain Ginseng Fruit’s pit, they attacked him, and he met their lightning with his own.

• Zhang Guolao gave up trying to pick the Heavenly Mountain Ginseng Fruit and left the valley, where he sensed exceptionally pure Spiritual Qi.
• Zhang Guolao watched Azure Cloud Sect cultivators battle with blue lightning and considered how their techniques could help him advance his Lightning Element Principle.
• Zhang Guolao asked the cultivators how to obtain the Heavenly Mountain Ginseng Fruit’s pit, and they told him he had to compete for it.
• After Zhang Guolao mocked their hostility, the Azure Cloud Sect cultivators joined forces and attacked him with blue lightning.
• Zhang Guolao countered with a purple-gold lightning ball, and their repeated collisions unleashed destructive energy across the mountain range.

Zhang Guolao defeated the young men who tried to stop him from taking the Heavenly Mountain Ginseng Fruit, then faced their leader from the Azure Cloud Sect. After Zhang Guolao injured the man in blue, the other young men launched a furious attack.

• The young men admitted they could not defeat Zhang Guolao, and one fled while telling him to leave the Heavenly Mountain Ginseng Fruit alone.
• At the man in blue’s urging, Zhang Guolao chased the fleeing young man, caught his fist, and kicked him into the ground.
• The man in blue demanded to know who Zhang Guolao was, then taunted him by boasting about the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Zhang Guolao challenged the man in blue, who attacked with a palm strike and ordered the others to join in.
• Zhang Guolao’s palm strike sent the man in blue flying and left him spitting blood, prompting the other young men to launch a frenzied assault.

Zhang Guolao fought off the men in azure while Cult Master Tongtian recruited Tieguai Li with a promise to teach him the Jie Sect’s cultivation methods. After agreeing to help Tongtian survive his tribulation in exchange for instruction once he became a saint, Tieguai Li confronted the Heavenly Court and overpowered White Tiger.

• Zhang Guolao defeated several men in azure and blocked their attempt to flee.
• Cult Master Tongtian secretly offered to help Tieguai Li find a Dao of his own if he joined the Jie Sect.
• Tieguai Li agreed to help Tongtian survive his tribulation in exchange for being taught the Jie Sect’s cultivation methods after becoming a saint.
• Tongtian told Tieguai Li to find him in the Heavenly Court after ascending and becoming the Heavenly Emperor.
• Tieguai Li drove back White Tiger outside the Heavenly Court, then kicked him away and made him vomit blood.