Chapter Summaries

Liu Yun fought the Blood-Colored Long Worm, but it absorbed its lake and transformed before he could kill it. He escaped underground, cultivated through hundreds of millions of years to reach the Great Dao Realm, and returned to the worm’s former territory ready to confront it.

• Liu Yun wounded the Blood-Colored Long Worm and attacked the smaller worms in its lake to stop it from growing stronger.
• The Blood-Colored Long Worm absorbed the lake, healed, transformed, and forced Liu Yun to flee when he could not escape through the Void.
• Liu Yun hid deep underground in the northern mountains and cultivated until he reached the Heavenly Dao Realm Peak.
• During Liu Yun’s seclusion, the world’s giant beasts developed Primordial Spirits and civilization, while the Blood-Colored Long Worm became a spirit body close to the Great Dao and founded hundreds of millions of races.
• After hundreds of millions of years, Liu Yun broke through to the Great Dao Realm and returned to the former crimson lake to face the Blood-Colored Long Worm.

After breaking through to the Great Dao Realm, Liu Yun searched for the Blood-Colored Long Worm and found him leading the Blood Python Clan. Liu Yun destroyed Long Serpent City and later killed the Blood-Colored Long Worm during his attack on the Azure Wood Clan, leaving the wounded Azure Wood Clan Leader behind.

• Liu Yun entered Long Serpent City, ignored the Blood Python guards, and killed the soldiers who surrounded him while searching for the Blood-Colored Long Worm.
• The Blood-Colored Long Worm revealed himself, and Liu Yun unleashed sword shadows that destroyed Long Serpent City and killed him and ten Heavenly Dao Realm elders.
• At the Azure Wood Clan, the Blood-Colored Long Worm subdued the Azure Wood Clan Leader and moved to kill him before Liu Yun arrived.
• Liu Yun fought and killed the Blood-Colored Long Worm, then slew the fleeing Blood Python soldiers.
• Liu Yun glanced at the barely living Azure Wood Clan Leader and flashed away.

Liu Yun recovered Heng Xuan's Nether Soul from the Xu Ling Clan Leader, then broke the Primordial Expanse barrier after his young Master raised him to the Primordial Realm. After finding another stone containing Heng Xuan's Nether Soul, Liu Yun was trapped with an entire world inside the Fire Source Cage and taken away by an unknown being.

• Liu Yun found Heng Xuan's Nether Soul fused with the Xu Ling Clan Leader and defeated him, then used Time-Space Return to extract the jade stone and killed him.
• Liu Yun nourished Heng Xuan's weakening Nether Soul, but could not communicate with her or escape the world by cutting through Time-Space.
• Liu Yun's young Master sent Golden Light into him, raising his cultivation to the Primordial Realm.
• Liu Yun sensed and destroyed the Primordial Expanse aura sealing the world, escaped through a tear in Time-Space, and entered another world to retrieve a second stone containing Heng Xuan's Nether Soul.
• A giant hand seized the world after a fiery red Fire Source Cage appeared around it, and its owner took Liu Yun away as a supposed pet for its Master.

Ling Cang brought Liu Yun to the Tenfold Domains and presented him to True Lord Yun Lan, who freed him and played music that briefly boosted his cultivation. Chi Yu appeared and reunited with Yun Lan, revealing that she was Lin Jing and that Liu Yun had arrived in the world she created by chance.

• Ling Cang carried Liu Yun, imprisoned in a fiery cage, into the hall and presented him to True Lord Yun Lan.
• Yun Lan accepted Liu Yun, rewarded Ling Cang, and later released Liu Yun in her secluded residence.
• Yun Lan played her zither, causing Liu Yun's cultivation to surge temporarily and giving him clearer insight into his path.
• When Yun Lan threatened Liu Yun for refusing to dance with shadows, Chi Yu appeared and embraced her.
• Chi Yu enlarged Liu Yun, and Liu Yun greeted him as his master before being introduced to Lin Jing as his master's wife.
• Lin Jing remarked that Ling Cang had caught one of their own while trying to catch a pet.

Liu Yun obtained the stone containing Heng Xuan’s Nether Soul, then was ambushed by Long Shang and dozens of Supremes who recognized him as Qing Xuan. Azure Light repeatedly saved him from their attacks, but he entered a world where his cultivation and sword were sealed, leaving him to flee a Spotted Python after falling from a cliff.

• After receiving Yun Lan’s instructions, Liu Yun left the All Things Hall Master realms and entered another Time-Space Black Hole.
• Liu Yun deciphered an Origin Essence Great Array, gained insight that raised his cultivation, and retrieved the stone containing Heng Xuan’s Nether Soul.
• Long Shang attacked Liu Yun and summoned dozens of Supremes, but Azure Light carried Liu Yun into a Time-Light Black Hole before they could kill him.
• Liu Yun found no trace of Heng Xuan’s Nether Soul Stone in an illusory world and escaped another attack by the concealed Supremes.
• Liu Yun arrived in a lush world where his cultivation and Liu Yun Sword were sealed, and he fell from a cliff while escaping a Spotted Python.
• Liu Yun regained consciousness at the bottom of the cliff and started walking north as the Spotted Python climbed down after him.

After falling to the cliff bottom, Liu Yun discovered the Sword Mound, mastered its sword technique, and obtained a Jade Sword. He befriended the one-armed Yang Guo and learned that the Great Eagle accepted him because of his connection to the Sword Mound, leaving the three of them heading toward it together.

• Liu Yun entered the mist and watched the Great Eagle kill a giant snake before carrying the wounded Yang Guo to a cave.
• Liu Yun followed the Great Eagle to the cave, discovered the Sword Mound, and mastered its sword technique after claiming the Jade Sword.
• Liu Yun returned to the cave and met Yang Guo, who told him that Guo Fu had severed his arm.
• The Great Eagle attacked Liu Yun, but stopped when it recognized his sword technique and then welcomed him.
• The Great Eagle led Liu Yun and Yang Guo toward the Sword Mound.

After leaving the cliff with the Great Eagle, Liu Yun and Yang Guo returned to the Ancient Tomb, where Li Mochou confronted them and demanded the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra. Yang Guo hid with Little Dragon Girl in a coffin, but Liu Yun called for him to come out as Li Mochou continued searching.

• Liu Yun killed the Spotted Giant Snake in the cave and gave its Snake Gall to Yang Guo, whose strength surged as he practiced with the heavy sword.
• A week later, the Great Eagle carried Liu Yun and Yang Guo out of the abyss, and Yang Guo directed it to Zhongnan Mountain to return to the Ancient Tomb.
• At the tomb entrance, Yang Guo encountered Li Mochou and her disciple Hong Lingbo, and they entered the tomb together.
• Li Mochou grabbed Yang Guo and demanded the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra, threatening to kill him unless her Junior Sister handed it over.
• Little Dragon Girl emerged from a coffin, struck at Li Mochou, and pulled Yang Guo into hiding; Hong Lingbo found their coffin but kept their location secret.
• Liu Yun identified the coffin and called for Yang Guo to come out while Li Mochou searched the tomb.

Liu Yun saved Heng Xuan’s fading nether soul, drove Li Mochou from the Ancient Tomb, and studied its martial arts before leaving to seek techniques that could help him break through the realm. At Zhongnan Mountain, he found Li Mochou waiting for him, and her disciple revealed that Li Mochou had taken a liking to him.

• Liu Yun sensed Heng Xuan’s nether soul in the White Skirt Woman’s jade pendant and used sword-intent true qi to keep it from dissipating.
• Liu Yun empowered Yang Guo to fight Li Mochou, then stopped him before he could kill her and ordered Li Mochou and her disciple to leave the Ancient Tomb.
• Liu Yun discovered the Nine Yin True Scriptures and Jade Maiden Heart Sutra, comprehended their techniques, and practiced the Jade Maiden Swordplay.
• The White Skirt Woman learned that Guo Fu had cut off Yang Guo’s left arm, but Yang Guo persuaded her not to seek revenge because Uncle Guo’s family had treated him kindly.
• Liu Yun left a letter in the Ancient Tomb and departed to gather martial arts and seek a way to break through the realm.
• Li Mochou and her disciple waited for Liu Yun at Zhongnan Mountain, where the disciple told him that Li Mochou had taken a liking to him.

Liu Yun learned Li Mochou’s martial arts and set out to study the world’s techniques, while Yang Guo’s reunion with the Female Daoist enraged the White Skirt Woman. Qing Chen took the White Skirt Woman from the Ancient Tomb to the Creation Great Hall, where he renamed her Dragon, and Liu Yun’s party reached Xiangyang.

• Li Mochou explained and demonstrated her martial arts to Liu Yun, who instantly copied her moves and departed to search the world’s martial arts.
• Li Mochou followed Liu Yun, while her Female Daoist disciple returned to the Ancient Tomb and found Yang Guo with the White Skirt Woman.
• The White Skirt Woman caught the Female Daoist embracing Yang Guo, shut herself in a tomb chamber, and later searched for Yang Guo after he left with the disciple.
• Yang Guo reconciled with the Female Daoist, and Qing Chen showed the White Skirt Woman the pair together in the grass before comforting her and taking her to the Ancient Tomb.
• Qing Chen brought the White Skirt Woman to the Creation Great Hall, called her Dragon, and Liu Yun and the others arrived at Xiangyang.

Liu Yun went to Xiangyang to witness Guo Jing’s Dragon Subduing Eighteen Palms, killed Beggar Clan disciples who confronted Li Mochou, and challenged Guo Jing. After mastering the palms from watching them once, Liu Yun joined Guo Jing in the hall, where Guo Jing began urging him to help defend Xiangyang.

• Li Mochou killed the Beggar Clan disciples who came to the inn and disturbed Liu Yun.
• Liu Yun and Li Mochou went to the Guo Residence, where Li Mochou killed two guards and Guo Jing confronted them.
• Liu Yun challenged Guo Jing to demonstrate the Dragon Subduing Eighteen Palms, and Guo Jing performed all eighteen moves.
• Liu Yun instantly mastered the Dragon Subduing Eighteen Palms and demonstrated them to Guo Jing, prompting Huang Rong to rush in before Guo Jing assured her he was unharmed.
• Liu Yun introduced himself as Liu Yun and went with Guo Jing into the hall, where Guo Jing spoke of the threat to Song and the need to defend Xiangyang.

Liu Yun killed Lu Youjiao, Huang Rong, Guo Fu and the others who attacked him, then defeated and killed the Golden Wheel Dharma King, the Mongol prince, and their soldiers. He returned toward Xiangyang to await a martial arts tournament, while Yang Guo headed back to the Ancient Tomb and the Female Daoist waited for him.

• Liu Yun killed Lu Youjiao, then absorbed the Beggar Clan elders' and Huang Rong's martial arts while surviving their attacks.
• Liu Yun killed Huang Rong and, after Guo Fu and the others pursued him, killed them too; Guo Jing stayed behind to defend Xiangyang and mourned his family.
• Liu Yun rejected Li Mochou's feelings at first, but she later joined him in bed and followed him happily the next day.
• The Golden Wheel Dharma King attacked Liu Yun outside Xiangyang, but Liu Yun learned his techniques, shattered his golden wheel, and killed him after the Mongol prince tried to recruit him.
• Liu Yun killed the prince and his soldiers, then agreed with Li Mochou to stay in Xiangyang for the coming martial arts tournament.
• After several days with the Female Daoist, Yang Guo set off for the Ancient Tomb, leaving her waiting at the foot of the mountain.

Yang Guo searched for Little Dragon Girl and headed to Xiangyang, where Liu Yun killed Huang Rong’s father, learned his martial arts, and achieved Gathering Law Harmonization at the tournament. Liu Yun broke through the World Barrier and left the Mortal Spirit Realm, while Li Mochou stayed behind to cultivate and Yang Guo continued wandering as a Nether Soul.

• Yang Guo failed to find Little Dragon Girl in the Ancient Tomb, rejected the Female Daoist, and set off for Xiangyang after hearing about the Martial Arts Tournament.
• Liu Yun lured Huang Rong’s father into a fight in the Bamboo Forest, memorized his techniques, and killed him with the Jade Sword.
• Guo Jing found Huang Rong’s father dead, buried him, and organized the tournament despite the approaching foreign invasion.
• At the tournament, Liu Yun mastered the fighters’ techniques and advanced to Gathering Law Harmonization, Form and Spirit Fusion, crushing the gathered martial artists with his aura.
• Liu Yun shattered the World Barrier, departed the Mortal Spirit Realm, and moved Li Mochou to safety while teaching her Gathering Law Harmonization.
• Li Mochou began cultivating in the safe area as disasters devastated the Mortal Spirit Realm, and Yang Guo wandered among the Nether Souls muttering about the dummy.

Liu Yun restored a dead world and escaped the Tian Lords’ trap before Azure Light carried him through more Time-Space Black Holes. In a new world, he found two sealed Nether Souls resembling Heng Xuan’s Origin Essence and kept them for further investigation.

• Liu Yun collected Heng Xuan’s Nether Soul Stone in a ruined world, then used Creation to revive the world and its inhabitants before leaving.
• The Tian Lords bound Liu Yun with the Myriad Heavens Binding Great Array, but he vanished and appeared before a Crane-haired Childlike Face Old Man, whom he thanked for saving him.
• Azure Light transported Liu Yun to a world where a young man defeated a Purple-Haired Giant Lion and absorbed its Beast Fire.
• Liu Yun found a sealed Nether Soul resembling Heng Xuan’s Origin Essence among rocks in a cave, but it was not Heng Xuan’s Nether Soul Stone.
• A Little Lion led Liu Yun to a Stone Forest, where he found another identical sealed Nether Soul and kept it because it was related to Heng Xuan.

Liu Yun gathered the scattered fragments of Heng Xuan's Nether Soul Stone and returned through the Time-Light Black Hole, but an Old Man sent him to another world where his cultivation was sealed. Reborn as the Xiao Clan's Fourth Elder, he sought a higher-grade cultivation method at an auction.

• Liu Yun collected Nether Soul Stone fragments while Little Lion returned to the mountain cave, then secretly followed a wounded woman before leaving her alone in the cave.
• Liu Yun's collected fragments fused into Heng Xuan's Nether Soul Stone, and he returned to the misty space through a Time-Space Black Hole.
• The White-Haired Youthful-Faced Old Man sent Liu Yun back to the forest, where Liu Yun watched a young man absorb a green flame before azure light knocked him unconscious.
• Liu Yun awoke as the Xiao Clan's Fourth Elder, with sealed cultivation and no access to the Liu Yun Sword, and perfected his existing techniques before seeking a stronger method.
• Liu Yun went to an auction with the Xiao Family Head, ignored the early lots, and waited for the cultivation method he wanted to appear.

Liu Yun bought a Xuan Cultivation Method at auction and reached Dou Ling Peak, then watched Xiao Heng reclaim his cultivation and win the Xiao Clan’s test. The chapter ended with Xiao Heng rejecting Nalan Yu Lan’s attempt to break their engagement and facing a Dou Ling Peak elder who challenged his boast.

• Liu Yun outbid the neighboring private room for the Xuan Cultivation Method, comprehended it, and advanced to Dou Ling Peak.
• At the Xiao Clan’s younger generation test, Xiao Heng reached the Dou Practitioner realm and defeated Xiao Yang with one strike.
• Nalan Yu Lan arrived with a black-robed elder to break her engagement with Xiao Heng and offered coins and a Qi Gathering Pill as compensation.
• Xiao Heng rejected Nalan Yu Lan’s terms and threw a letter of repudiation at her, while the black-robed elder struck the Xiao Family Head and wounded him.
• Nalan Yu Lan proposed that Xiao Heng endure three palm strikes to preserve the engagement, and the black-robed elder revealed his Dou Ling Peak cultivation and challenged Xiao Heng.

After Xiao Heng challenged Nalan Yu Lan to a battle three years later, Liu Yun secretly followed his training and found a Heaven Grade cultivation method. The Purple Xuan Scripture raised Liu Yun to Dou Sheng Peak, and absorbing the Purple Nether Fire revealed how he could break through to Dou Emperor.

• Nalan Yu Lan set a battle with Xiao Heng at the Yun Lan Sect three years later, while her elder defeated the Xiao Clan Head and Elders.
• Xiao Heng left to train in the forest, where he fought beasts and rescued a woman; Liu Yun followed him and secretly found a mountain cave first.
• Liu Yun discovered a purple stone that revealed the Purple Xuan Scripture, comprehended it to perfection, and reached Dou Sheng Peak before hitting a bottleneck.
• Liu Yun saw a Golden Light rescue a woman from a giant lion and called out to his Master, then killed the lion when it attacked him.
• Little Lion attacked Liu Yun, who killed it and absorbed the Purple Nether Fire, causing a crack in his bottleneck and revealing that he needed to gather Heaven and Earth fires to condense Emperor Power.

Liu Yun continued searching across the world for Heaven and Earth Fire, while Qing Chen took Yun Zhi from her realm to the Creation Great Hall. After collecting another flame, Liu Yun followed a new trace to a city and planned to investigate its Alchemist Guild after dark.

• Qing Chen took Yun Zhi to the Creation Great Hall, severing her previous Karma and changing events in the Yun Lan Sect.
• Liu Yun defeated two Ninth Order Beasts, destroyed a phantom guarding a Sword Grass, and refined the tri-colored flame it released.
• After years of collecting nearly a hundred varieties of Heaven and Earth Fire, Liu Yun followed a new flame’s aura to a city hosting an Alchemist Competition.
• Liu Yun encountered Xiao Heng at the Alchemist Guild and said he had come to meet an old friend.
• Liu Yun returned to the inn and planned to investigate the guild after nightfall.

Liu Yun subdued and absorbed the Lan Jiu Xuan Flame, cracking his cultivation bottleneck before leaving the Alchemist Guild. Xiao Heng then dazzled the competition with his pill-refining skill and earned a Third Grade Alchemist Badge, while the guild remained unaware that its missing sixth-grade alchemist had been absorbed by Liu Yun.

• Liu Yun ambushed Lan Jiu Xuan Flame, overpowered him with the Purple Xuan Scripture, and absorbed his blue flames, causing another crack in his Dou Sheng Peak bottleneck.
• Three days later, Xiao Heng searched for Liu Yun at the competition, but the phantom in his mind told him Liu Yun had already left.
• Xiao Heng passed the assessment by refining a fine-quality Grade 1 Qi Circulation Pill and entered the first-grade competition area.
• Xiao Heng impressed the judges by refining a top-grade Grade 1 Qi Circulation Pill and then a top-grade Grade 2 Qi Gathering Pill.
• Xiao Heng used a purple Heaven and Earth Fire to refine four Grade 3 Transformation Xuan Pills with pill patterns, astonishing the judges.
• Xiao Heng received a Third Grade Alchemist Badge and became the guild’s youngest third-grade alchemist, while the missing alchemist who could issue a Fourth Grade badge was revealed to have been Lan Jiu Xuan Flame.

Xiao Heng won the alchemy competition and continued his training, unaware that masked men had slaughtered the Xiao Clan and abducted its head while searching for the Blazing Emperor Jade Fragment. Elsewhere, Liu Yun hunted Heaven and Earth Fires, absorbing several of them before awakening a woman from a Five Colors Lotus.

• Xiao Heng won the competition, received a Third Grade Alchemist Badge, and left to seek Heaven and Earth Fire and improve his cultivation.
• Masked men attacked the Xiao Clan, killed its members, and abducted the Xiao Family Head after failing to find the Blazing Emperor Jade Fragment.
• Xiao Heng and the Phantom Old Man found that the Heaven and Earth Fire at the valley had already been taken, so they left for another location.
• Liu Yun defeated the guardian of the Nether Cold Fire Domain, absorbed the Bone-Corroding Flame, and then turned Fu Dong into the Ice Flame and absorbed it.
• Liu Yun killed two Water Flood Dragons, extracted the Five Colors Flame from the Five Colors Lotus, and widened the cracks in his cultivation bottleneck.
• A woman in a five-colored dress appeared from the Five Colors Lotus and asked Liu Yun who he was.

Liu Yun gathered Heaven and Earth Fires with help from Lian Luan, while Xiao Heng struggled to strengthen himself before the Three-Year Agreement. After fusing all his fires, Liu Yun broke through to the peak Dou Emperor Realm.

• Liu Yun met Lian Luan inside the Five Colors Lotus and learned that the Five Colors Flame had once tried to devour her.
• Lian Luan used her lotus-granted ability to attract three Heaven and Earth Fires, which Liu Yun absorbed to weaken the shackles on his Dou Sheng Peak.
• Xiao Heng repeatedly arrived too late to collect Heaven and Earth Fires, then eventually gathered one and advanced to the Dou Master Realm.
• Over the next two years, Liu Yun collected many Heaven and Earth Fires while Xiao Heng obtained only three, leaving Xiao Heng at the Early Dou Ling Stage.
• The Phantom Old Man sacrificed the White Nether Red Flame to raise Xiao Heng to the Dou Ling Peak, and Xiao Heng rushed toward the Yun Lan Sect for the Three-Year Agreement.
• Liu Yun fused all his Heaven and Earth Fires into a golden flame, reached the peak Dou Emperor Realm, and struck the vault of heaven with his palm.