Chapter Summaries

Feng Qingyang became Sect Master of the ruined Azure Cloud Sect and activated the Myriad Heavens Divine Sect System, which gave him Void Realm cultivation and summoned the Great Emperor Li Qingyun. Li Qingyun recognized the ruins as the sect he had founded, while Feng Qingyang began to imagine the sect’s rise.

• Feng Qingyang lamented the ruined Azure Cloud Sect and considered going back down the mountain to beg for food.
• The Myriad Heavens Divine Sect System activated and gave Feng Qingyang a Golden Summoning Card, a Realm Random Upgrade Card, and a Sect Construction Card.
• Feng Qingyang used the Realm Random Upgrade Card and rose from an ordinary person to the Void Peak realm.
• Feng Qingyang used the Golden Summoning Card, bringing the Great Emperor Li Qingyun back to the Azure Cloud Sect as its ancestor.
• Li Qingyun recognized the ruined grounds as the Azure Cloud Sect he had founded, and Feng Qingyang appointed him to guard the sect.

Feng Qingyang discovered Shi Hao, a crippled Born Supreme who had been betrayed by his family, and offered him a place in the Azure Cloud Sect. After Feng Qingyang protected him from the Black-Robed Men, Shi Hao accepted, while Feng Qingyang threatened the Shi Family with the sect’s hidden Great Emperor ancestor.

• Feng Qingyang received a mission to recruit a disciple and detected Shi Hao near the Azure Cloud Sect’s mountain gate.
• Shi Hao, whose Supreme Sacred Body had been stripped by his uncle and cousin, fought the five Black-Robed Men who were pursuing him.
• Shi Hao’s final trump card ran out, leaving him collapsed as Lin Laogui and the other Black-Robed Men prepared to kill him.
• Feng Qingyang arrived, struck Lin Laogui away, and offered Shi Hao safety and a place in the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Lin Laogui threatened Feng Qingyang with the Shi Family, but Feng Qingyang claimed even Holy Lands had to bow to his sect; Shi Hao accepted the offer and vowed to face his cousin again.

Feng Qingyang saved Shi Hao from the Shi Family’s black-robed pursuers, recruited him as his eldest disciple, and used a construction card to rebuild Azure Cloud Sect. He gave Shi Hao a method to restore his stolen Supreme Sacred Body, while Shi Hao resolved to take revenge himself.

• Feng Qingyang killed the black-robed men who pursued Shi Hao and accepted Shi Hao as his eldest disciple.
• Feng Qingyang received a Bronze Summon Card, the Nine Cauldrons Great Dao Bell, the Myriad Heavens Divine Body, and the Supreme Reincarnation Method as mission rewards.
• Feng Qingyang used the First-Level Sect Construction Card to raise Azure Cloud Sect’s palaces and Heavenly Stairway from the ruins, then named the main hall Azure Cloud Hall.
• Shi Hao told Feng Qingyang that his uncle had stolen his Supreme Sacred Body and crippled his cultivation.
• Feng Qingyang passed the Supreme Reincarnation Method to Shi Hao, who learned it could restore his body and chose to pursue revenge on his own.

Feng Qingyang summoned Wang Jian as Azure Cloud Sect’s Spirit Transformation Realm peak guard, then manifested the Nine Cauldrons Great Dao Bell and fused the Myriad Heavens Divine Body. After surviving hours of divine lightning and reaching Spirit Transformation Realm peak, he received a mission to recruit another genius disciple in Profound Moon City three days later.

• Feng Qingyang used a Bronze Summon Card to summon Wang Jian, a Spirit Transformation Realm peak sect guard, who went to pay his respects.
• Feng Qingyang manifested the Nine Cauldrons Great Dao Bell and began fusing the Myriad Heavens Divine Body, triggering extraordinary heavenly phenomena and a tribulation.
• Li Qingyun severed the probing divine senses of distant experts, while the Nine Cauldrons Great Dao Bell settled in Azure Cloud Sect’s back mountain.
• Feng Qingyang absorbed two and a half hours of divine lightning, completed his fusion, and advanced from Void Peak to Spirit Transformation Realm peak.
• The system assigned Feng Qingyang a mission to recruit a second genius disciple at the Disciple Recruitment Assembly in Profound Moon City, Spirit Province, three days later.

As the Disciple Recruitment Assembly began in Profound Moon City, Feng Qingyang brought Shi Hao and Wang Jian to participate, while Leng Bingning and her junior sister arrived from the Central Domain. Feng Qingyang’s system detected a second Son of Destiny, Lin Bai, and revealed his unactivated Azure Lotus Sword Body.

• Heaven's Secret Pavilion announced that the Disciple Recruitment Assembly would take place in Profound Moon City, drawing forces and aspiring disciples from across the Eastern Domain.
• Leng Bingning and her junior sister toured Profound Moon City, while Shi Hao completed the first level of the Supreme Reincarnation Method and advanced to the middle Foundation Establishment Realm.
• Feng Qingyang, Shi Hao, and Wang Jian entered Profound Moon City after Wang Jian’s peak Spirit Transformation pressure made the guards let them pass without an invitation.
• The assembly began with a talent test for candidates under twenty-five who were above the Golden Core Realm, followed by mental-state and combat rounds.
• Leng Bingning sensed a mysterious youth watching her, and Feng Qingyang’s system identified her as an early Spirit Transformation Realm cultivator from Jade Purity Palace in the Central Domain.
• Feng Qingyang’s system detected Lin Bai, eldest young master of the Lin Family of the Great Zhou Dynasty, as a second Son of Destiny with an unactivated Azure Lotus Sword Body.

At the Disciple Recruitment Assembly, Feng Qingyang invited the stagnant Lin Bai to join the Azure Cloud Sect after recognizing his hidden Azure Lotus Sword Body. Lin Bai accepted and received a chance to rise, but Wang Tian interrupted him with a public taunt before he could tell Nian Qing the news.

• Lin Bai lamented that his cultivation had been stuck at Qi Refining Early Stage for ten years while his fiancée Nian Qing advanced to the Golden Core Realm.
• Feng Qingyang approached Lin Bai, praised his talent, and invited him to join the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Lin Bai accepted the invitation, and Feng Qingyang received a Silver Summoning Card, the Ten Thousand Swords Tomb, and Azure Lotus Swordplay as rewards.
• Feng Qingyang saw that Lin Bai possessed an unactivated Azure Lotus Sword Body that had absorbed his spiritual energy.
• As Feng Qingyang prepared to return to the sect with Lin Bai, Wang Tian and his companions mocked Lin Bai at the assembly.

Feng Qingyang’s group killed Wang Tian after he insulted the Azure Cloud Sect, then accepted an invitation to Heaven’s Secret Pavilion’s Exchange Conference. Lin Bai met his new fellow disciple Shi Hao and guard Wang Jian, and the group headed toward the conference.

• Wang Tian mocked Lin Bai and the Azure Cloud Sect, so Wang Jian struck him into a cloud of blood mist.
• Wang Jian crushed Wang Tian’s threatening lackeys, while Feng Qingyang said the Wang Family had no need to exist.
• A Heaven’s Secret Pavilion Elder invited Feng Qingyang’s sect to the Exchange Conference, and Feng Qingyang accepted after receiving a mission to make the sect renowned throughout the Eastern Domain.
• Feng Qingyang introduced Lin Bai to Shi Hao and Wang Jian as his Eldest Senior Brother and the sect’s guard.
• Lin Bai relaxed among his new companions and recited a playful poem about joining the Azure Cloud Sect.

Feng Qingyang summoned Ye Bai, a peak Void-Shattering Realm elder, and received a system mission to shine at the Exchange Conference for the reward of exclusive sect attire. As the conference began, Shi Hao took the stage for Azure Cloud Sect, and the Heaven's Secret Pavilion elder defended the sect's right to participate while seeking to probe its strength.

• Feng Qingyang used a Silver Summoning Card and summoned Ye Bai, whom he introduced to Shi Hao and Lin Bai as an Outer Sect Elder of Azure Cloud Sect.
• The system issued Feng Qingyang a mission to shine at the Exchange Conference, promising exclusive sect attire as the reward.
• The Disciple Recruitment Assembly ended, and the sects began the Exchange Conference with disciples competing on the Martial Arts Stage.
• Shi Hao revealed that he had reached the Nascent Soul Realm, then leaped onto the stage and challenged the other sects on behalf of Azure Cloud Sect.
• When sect representatives questioned Azure Cloud Sect's presence, the Heaven's Secret Pavilion elder said he had personally invited the sect and challenged anyone dissatisfied to face him.

Shi Hao defeated Shi Jian and more than a dozen challengers at the arena, demonstrating his strength after joining the Azure Cloud Sect. A Shi Family elder then sought help from the gathered forces, invoking the family’s Saint Child as Shi Hao faced a growing threat.

• A Shi Family disciple recognized Shi Hao and attacked him, but Shi Hao defeated him with the Supreme Reincarnation Fist while Wang Jian stopped a Shi Family elder from intervening.
• Shi Hao killed Shi Jian, and the Heaven's Secret Pavilion elder suspected that the Azure Cloud Sect had obtained a Great Emperor's inheritance.
• More than ten disciples from allied forces challenged Shi Hao together, but he quickly defeated them without revealing the full power of his Supreme Sacred Body.
• A Shi Family elder accused Shi Hao of betraying his family and asked the gathered forces to help capture him, promising rewards when the Shi Family's Saint Child returned from the Central Domain's Holy Land.

The Elder of Heaven's Secret Pavilion stirred the sects against the Azure Cloud Sect, but Leng Bingning and then Feng Qingyang's group intervened. Ye Bai annihilated the attackers, and Feng Qingyang gave the surviving sects three days to apologize and make amends.

• The Elder of Heaven's Secret Pavilion persuaded the Mo Hai Sect, Fuyang Sect, Chi Fa Sect, and other forces to attack the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Leng Bingning arrived and declared that Jade Purity Palace would protect the Azure Cloud Sect, prompting the Elder of Heaven's Secret Pavilion to reveal his own affiliation and challenge her.
• Feng Qingyang and the others entered the arena, and Feng Qingyang thanked Leng Bingning before the battle began.
• Ye Bai revealed his peak Shattering Void Realm cultivation and killed the attacking forces with a single palm strike.
• Ye Bai stomped the badly injured Elder of Heaven's Secret Pavilion into pulp.
• Feng Qingyang ordered the surviving sects to apologize and make amends at the Azure Cloud Sect within three days or face destruction.

After the Azure Cloud Sect defeated its enemies, Feng Qingyang brought Leng Bingning and Liu Xue back to the sect, where they were astonished by its spiritual energy and treasures. Leng Bingning warned him that Transcendent Holy Lands and Heaven's Secret Pavilion might retaliate, but Feng Qingyang remained confident in the sect's strength.

• Feng Qingyang told Leng Bingning that the Azure Cloud Sect's Outer Sect Elder had handled the enemies, and Leng Bingning's junior sister Liu Xue returned to join her.
• Leng Bingning asked to visit the Azure Cloud Sect, and Feng Qingyang agreed, hoping she would spread its name through the Central Domain.
• On the journey, Lin Bai asked Shi Hao about his cultivation, and Shi Hao revealed that he had cultivated for only two and a half days.
• Leng Bingning and Liu Xue marveled at the sect's dense spiritual energy, grand stairway, and immortal-like grounds.
• Feng Qingyang served the visitors Great Dao Tea, which astonished Leng Bingning, while Lin Bai drank his cup and remained at the initial stage of the Qi Refining Realm.
• Leng Bingning warned Feng Qingyang that Transcendent Holy Lands and Heaven's Secret Pavilion might target the sect, but he dismissed the threat and declared Azure Cloud Sect could destroy them.

Feng Qingyang accepted Lin Bai as a Direct Disciple and gave him the Azure Lotus Sword Art, awakening his legendary Azure Lotus Sword Body. Lin Bai reached Foundation Establishment Peak and received the Azure Lotus Divine Sword, while Ancestor Li Qingyun watched enviously from afar.

• Feng Qingyang told Lin Bai that he had found the cause of his stalled cultivation and accepted him as a Direct Disciple.
• Feng Qingyang used the system to pass the Azure Lotus Sword Art to Lin Bai and explained that Lin Bai possessed the legendary Azure Lotus Sword Body.
• Lin Bai cultivated the art, broke through seven realms to Foundation Establishment Peak, and experienced an azure lotus heavenly phenomenon.
• The Ten Thousand Swords Tomb stirred, and the Azure Lotus Divine Sword flew to Lin Bai; Leng Bingning identified it as the Sword God's ancient personal sword.
• Feng Qingyang gave the sword to Lin Bai, who vowed to protect the sect and his loved ones with it.
• Ancestor Li Qingyun saw Lin Bai receive the divine sword and wondered whether even a Great Emperor Realm cultivator like himself was unworthy.

Feng Qingyang tested the Azure Cloud Sect’s disciples with the Nine Cauldrons Great Dao Bell, then discovered his own talent broke its limit. After Leng Bingning and Liu Xue returned to the Central Domain, Feng Qingyang checked the sect’s rising points and considered recruiting more experts.

• Feng Qingyang brought Shi Hao, Lin Bai, Leng Bingning, and Liu Xue to the Nine Cauldrons Great Dao Bell and explained its talent test.
• Shi Hao and Lin Bai each rang the bell nine times, while Leng Bingning rang it eight times and Liu Xue rang it seven times.
• Feng Qingyang struck the bell and made it ring ten times, exceeding its stated limit and astonishing his disciples.
• Leng Bingning and Liu Xue bid farewell to Feng Qingyang and left to return to the Central Domain.
• Feng Qingyang checked his system panel, learned what increased sect points, and considered recruiting experts and alchemists to develop the Azure Cloud Sect.

Lin Bai returned to Tianwu City with Feng Qingyang and Ye Bai, having joined Azure Cloud Sect and advanced to Foundation Establishment Peak. He learned that the Wang and Bai Families had attacked the Lin Family over Wang Tian’s death, and his return brought his family hope as the conflict remained unresolved.

• Shi Hao and Lin Bai sparred at the Martial Arts Practice Hall, where Lin Bai displayed Sword Intent but lost because he lacked combat experience.
• Lin Bai told Shi Hao he planned to visit his family, and Feng Qingyang decided to accompany him while Ye Bai followed in hiding.
• Lin Bai and Feng Qingyang arrived in Tianwu City and found the Lin Family guarded heavily amid rumors of a struggle with the Wang Family.
• Lin Zhan told Lin Bai that the Wang Family had allied with the Bai Family, attacked the Lin Family, and demanded that Lin Bai be handed over for killing Wang Tian.
• Lin Bai introduced Feng Qingyang as his master and the sect master of Azure Cloud Sect, then revealed his Foundation Establishment Peak cultivation, astonishing the Lin Family.

Feng Qingyang sent Ye Bai to destroy the Wang and Bai Families after they joined forces against the Lin Family, and the Lin Family pledged allegiance to the Azure Cloud Sect. Feng Qingyang gained Sect Points for the new affiliated force, while the Nian Family's arrival left the story poised for another development.

• Feng Qingyang declared that the Wang Family would be destroyed, and Lin Zhan agreed to put the Lin Family under his command.
• Feng Qingyang sent Ye Bai to the Wang Family, where Ye Bai crushed the Wang and Bai Families with his overwhelming cultivation.
• Lin Zhan gave Feng Qingyang the Wang and Bai Families' resources and asked to make the Lin Family an affiliated force of the Azure Cloud Sect.
• The system awarded Feng Qingyang one thousand Sect Points and explained that coerced forces did not count toward rewards.
• Someone told the Lin Family Head that the Nian Family had sent people.

Nian Qing and her master demanded that Lin Bai annul his engagement, but Feng Qingyang set a contest between the former fiancés instead. As Nian Qing attacked Lin Bai at the training grounds, he entered a state of enlightenment and drew the Azure Lotus Sword to counter her.

• Nian Yang arrived with Nian Qing and her master and demanded that the Lin Family annul Lin Bai and Nian Qing's engagement in exchange for help and resources.
• Lin Zhan refused Nian Yang's offer and revealed that the Wang and Bai Families had already been destroyed.
• Nian Qing said she had joined the RuoShui Sect and no longer shared a path with Lin Bai, while her master threatened the Lin Family.
• Feng Qingyang rejected the proposed hundred-year agreement and called for Nian Qing and Lin Bai to fight that day, with the loser deciding the engagement's fate.
• Before the duel, Feng Qingyang taught Lin Bai a six-form sword manual about severing romantic attachment.
• As Nian Qing thrust her sword at him, Lin Bai entered a state of enlightenment, drew the Azure Lotus Sword, and met her attack.

Lin Bai defeated Nian Qing but was struck down when a RuoShui Sect elder intervened, prompting Feng Qingyang to reveal the Azure Cloud Sect’s overwhelming power and punish the Nian Family. After the Nian Family was driven from Tianwu City, Lin Bai and Feng Qingyang continued their leisurely journey back to the sect, approaching the border of Great Zhou as Feng Qingyang’s three-day deadline neared.

• Lin Bai defeated Nian Qing in their duel, but the middle-aged RuoShui Sect elder intervened and sent him flying when he tried to finish the fight.
• Feng Qingyang confronted the elder and Nian Yang, then the Azure Cloud Sect’s Sect Master appeared and killed the elder with a single palm strike.
• Feng Qingyang ordered the Nian Family father and daughter’s cultivation crippled and had them expelled from Tianwu City; the Nian Family later moved away.
• Lin Bai and Feng Qingyang enjoyed music at a pleasure house before setting out slowly toward their sect.
• As they neared the border of Great Zhou, Feng Qingyang said they would hurry back afterward because the three-day deadline for the other sects to apologize was almost over.

Feng Qingyang accepted the Secret Key from the fugitive Qin Ruoxue and agreed to protect her after the system directed him toward a genius disciple in the Qilin Dynasty. As they set out for his sect, General Xing Daorong caught up and ordered his soldiers to attack them.

• Feng Qingyang and Lin Bai came upon General Xing Daorong's soldiers besieging Qin Ruoxue and her attendant Shuang Er; Shuang Er self-destructed so Qin Ruoxue could escape.
• Qin Ruoxue circled back to Feng Qingyang and offered him the Secret Key to the Ancient Saint Secret Realm in exchange for help.
• Feng Qingyang checked Qin Ruoxue's identity, learned she was the deposed Great Zhou Empress, and accepted the key after the system announced a mission to recruit a genius disciple in the Qilin Dynasty.
• Feng Qingyang agreed to take Qin Ruoxue back to his sect, and she introduced herself as Ruoxue without revealing her former title.
• Xing Daorong caught up with Feng Qingyang, Lin Bai, and Qin Ruoxue, accused them of conspiring with her, and ordered his soldiers to kill them.

Feng Qingyang brought Qin Ruoxue back to the Azure Cloud Sect after Ye Bai crushed Xing Daorong’s pursuing force. As the sect prepared for the Ancient Saint Secret Realm, Heaven’s Secret Pavilion gathered rival sects in Tyrant Heaven City and won support for an attack, with reinforcements from its Central Domain headquarters on the way.

• Feng Qingyang left Ye Bai to deal with Xing Daorong, and Ye Bai crushed Xing Daorong and his soldiers with his Shattering Void Realm pressure.
• Feng Qingyang returned to the Azure Cloud Sect with Qin Ruoxue, where Shi Hao met them and learned she was the former Empress of Great Zhou.
• Feng Qingyang introduced Li Qingyun as the Azure Cloud Sect’s patriarch and told Shi Hao and Lin Bai to prepare for the Ancient Saint Secret Realm, which would open in three days.
• Feng Qingyang gave Shi Hao and Lin Bai Azure Cloud Sect attire with special protective properties.
• Heaven’s Secret Pavilion convened sects in Tyrant Heaven City, and its master urged them to unite against the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Heaven’s Secret Pavilion’s master revealed that its Central Domain headquarters had sent experts to support the attack.

As Spirit Province’s major forces prepared to attack the Azure Cloud Sect, the Lin Family pledged to defend its Main Sect while Feng Qingyang remained unconcerned. Heaven’s Secret Pavilion’s Central Domain envoy arrived in Tyrant Heaven City and considered consulting Jade Purity Palace about the sect.

• News of the Azure Cloud Sect’s clashes with major forces spread, and the Lin Family faced public criticism for affiliating with it.
• Lin Zhan rallied the Lin Family to march to the Azure Cloud Sect and defend it, making them the first force to take its side.
• Shi Hao told Feng Qingyang that Spirit Province’s forces and Heaven’s Secret Pavilion’s main pavilion were preparing to attack, but Feng Qingyang dismissed the threat and returned to fishing.
• Heaven’s Secret Pavilion’s Central Domain envoy arrived in Tyrant Heaven City and heard that the Azure Cloud Sect had a Great Emperor’s inheritance and ties to Jade Purity Palace.
• The envoy decided to use a Sound Transmission Talisman to ask Jade Purity Palace about the Azure Cloud Sect.