Chapter Summaries

Yun Wei learned that his son Yun Huang had been killed and mobilized the Yun Family to hunt down the culprit. At Azure Cloud Sect, Yun Lan learned of the killing and left to return home, while Feng Qingyang noticed his departure.

• A guard reported that Yun Huang's Life Tablet had shattered, and Yun Wei viewed an image of Yun Huang being slain by a sword.
• Yun Wei ordered the guard's son executed and sent the Yun Family's experts to find the killer, alarming rival powers across the Immortal Orchid Continent.
• Yun Lan marveled at the Time-Space Tower with Shi Hao and Lin Bai, then received a message that Yun Huang had been killed and the family was searching for the culprit.
• Yun Lan left Azure Cloud Sect to return to his family without telling Shi Hao and Lin Bai why he was going.
• Feng Qingyang sensed Yun Lan leaving the sect while considering how to strengthen Azure Cloud Sect in the Immortal Realm.

Yun Lan returned to Heaven Spirit Immortal City after Yun Huang’s death and faced his father, Yun Wei, in the Yun Family’s Immortal Hall. Yun Lan accidentally revealed that he had joined the Azure Cloud Immortal Sect, prompting Yun Wei to suspect the sect was connected to Yun Huang’s death and demand an explanation.

• Yun Lan and his guard Tian Zhe encountered Yun Family retainers who told them Yun Huang had been killed and urged Yun Lan to return home.
• Yun Lan arrived at Heaven Spirit Immortal City and entered the Yun Family compound, where mourners and curious relatives watched him.
• Yun Wei summoned Yun Lan and asked about the Young Family Head position, while promising him protective immortal treasures.
• Yun Lan told Yun Wei that he had joined the Azure Cloud Immortal Sect instead of attending Immortal Clear Academy.
• Yun Wei recognized the name Azure Cloud from Yun Huang’s guard’s account, released his immortal might, and demanded that Yun Lan explain how Yun Huang died.

Yun Lan defended Azure Cloud Sect and refused to let his father take the blame for his actions, prompting Yun Wei to attack him. Red Dust Immortal arrived to confront the Yun Family, and Heavenly Spirit City Lord Yan Shuang intervened as the conflict threatened the city.

• Yun Lan admitted that his conflict with his elder brother began after the brother tried to assassinate him, but he insisted Azure Cloud Sect had nothing to do with the killing.
• Yun Wei unleashed his immortal might against Yun Lan, shattering the protection from Yun Lan’s Sect Token as a teleportation formation appeared above the Yun estate.
• Red Dust Immortal descended and declared that Azure Cloud Sect would begin shaking the Immortal Realm with Heaven Spirit Immortal City.
• Yun Wei confronted Red Dust Immortal, and their Red Dust and Heaven Cloud Immortal Daos collided.
• Yan Shuang arrived and stopped the shockwave, warning that anyone who caused trouble in his city made an enemy of the immortal kingdom.
• Red Dust Immortal declared that no one could harm Azure Cloud Sect’s disciples, while Yun Wei considered asking his ancestor to intervene.

Yun Family Old Ancestor Yun Dao ended the conflict over Yun Lan and revealed that Yun Lan was not Yun Wei’s biological son. Yun Lan accepted a token bearing the character “Mu,” promised to cultivate with Azure Cloud Sect, and left the Yun Family with his father’s blessing.

• Yun Lan tried to take responsibility for the conflict, but Yun Wei and the Red Dust Immortal stopped him from harming himself.
• Yun Dao emerged from seclusion, recognized Yun Lan’s innocence, and blamed Yun Wei for indulging Yun Huang.
• Yun Dao told Yun Lan to return with the Red Dust Immortal, prompting Yun Wei to reveal that Yun Lan was the son of a woman from a powerful force beyond the domain.
• Yun Wei gave Yun Lan a white token marked “Mu” and explained that he did not know Yun Lan’s biological father or mother’s origins.
• Yun Lan knelt to assure Yun Wei that he would always be his father, then promised to cultivate at Azure Cloud Sect and protect the Yun Family.

The Overlord Heaven Immortal Kingdom’s Empress chose not to provoke the mysterious Azure Cloud Sect, while Feng Qingyang turned his attention to expanding the sect’s power. He announced a plan to begin Creating Emperors and Creating Immortals, starting with the elders.

• Ministers debated the threat posed by Azure Cloud Sect, and the Empress ordered the Immortal Kingdom not to act unless the sect provoked it again.
• Red Dust Immortal reported on Yun Lan’s loyalty, and Feng Qingyang praised him while considering the sect’s rapid development.
• Feng Qingyang reviewed his Prestige Points and the upgraded shop, then decided to save his points for what the sect needed most.
• Feng Qingyang summoned the elders and announced that Azure Cloud Sect would begin Creating Emperors and Creating Immortals, starting with the veteran elders before expanding the program to the disciples.

Feng Qingyang used the Ten Thousand Emperors Illustrated Manual to grant Great Daos to Azure Cloud Sect’s elders, rapidly raising dozens of them to the Great Emperor Realm. He then summoned the Ten Thousand Immortal Platforms to begin their ascension, while Li Qingyun, Ye Qing, and Fu Hongchen cultivated in the Immortal Clear Azure Spring.

• Feng Qingyang summoned the elders and declared that he would bestow supreme cultivation so they could spread Azure Cloud Ambition.
• Feng Qingyang used the Ten Thousand Emperors Illustrated Manual to give Great Daos to the elders, and dozens broke through to the Great Emperor Realm.
• Yun Lan sensed the Great Emperor auras from the main peak, while the Black Emperor and Lin Gousheng arrived and realized the elders had broken through.
• Li Qingyun, Ye Qing, and Fu Hongchen absorbed Immortal Dao Power in the Immortal Clear Azure Spring, and Li Qingyun began to break through.
• Feng Qingyang summoned the Ten Thousand Immortal Platforms, releasing immortal might that reached the Overlord Heaven Immortal Kingdom and drew the attention of Yun Dao and the Yun Family elders.

Feng Qingyang oversaw the Azure Cloud Sect elders’ breakthroughs into the immortal realm and spent the following months gathering intelligence on the Azure Ancient Heaven Domain. After learning about its major powers, he decided the sect should make its name known and opened a Purple Summoning Card.

• Feng Qingyang used the Immortal Spring to help the elders absorb their Immortal Platforms and break through; the former Peak Great Emperors reached the fifth level of Half-Immortal, while many others also entered the immortal realm.
• The disciples watched the month of breakthroughs end, and Yun Lan went with a fellow disciple to test himself at the Heaven's Chosen Dojo.
• A Dark Tower operative reported to Feng Qingyang that the Azure Ancient Heaven Domain contained six continents, with Immortal Taming Continent strongest, Immortal Orchid Continent third, and three powerful Immortal Palaces.
• Feng Qingyang reviewed the sect’s progress, noted that a thousand years had passed for those cultivating in the Time-Space Tower, and declared it was time for Azure Cloud Sect to make its name known.
• Feng Qingyang asked the system to open the Purple Summoning Card.

Feng Qingyang summoned Lin Wenxian, a True Immortal Realm Peak expert, and appointed him master of the Azure Cloud Immortal Pavilion. The Overlord Heaven Immortal Kingdom decided to befriend Azure Cloud Sect, while Feng Qingyang considered the sect’s quests and its next targets.

• Feng Qingyang opened a Purple Summoning Card and summoned Lin Wenxian, a True Immortal Realm Peak expert with a Great Dao Immortal Body.
• Lin Wenxian’s arrival shook the Azure Cloud Sect and sent a terrifying aura across the Overlord Heaven Immortal Kingdom, where immortals worshipped toward its source.
• The Overlord Heaven Empress discussed the True Immortal’s arrival with her ministers, then ordered one hundred thousand Superior Immortal Crystals sent to Azure Cloud as a gesture of friendship.
• Feng Qingyang appointed Lin Wenxian master of the Azure Cloud Immortal Pavilion and sent him away.
• Feng Qingyang reviewed the sect’s quests to destroy the Azure Sky Immortal Sect and make the Azure Ancient Heaven Domain tremble, as well as the disciples’ training in the Weak Water Secret Realm, and considered the Heavenly Demon Sect.

Feng Qingyang sent Shadow Pavilion to investigate the Azure Sky Immortal Sect and Heavenly Demon Sect, then set out to wander and temper his state of mind. After receiving an envoy from the Overlord Heaven Immortal Kingdom, he accepted its gift and chose it as his first destination.

• Feng Qingyang ordered Shadow Pavilion's forces to investigate the Azure Sky Immortal Sect and Heavenly Demon Sect.
• Feng Qingyang reviewed the sect's growth and decided to leave on a journey to improve his state of mind.
• Wei Hai arrived at the Azure Cloud Sect on the Empress's orders and was stopped by Black Emperor at the concealed gates.
• Feng Qingyang met Wei Hai, accepted a Spatial Immortal Treasure containing one hundred thousand Superior Immortal Crystals, and dismissed him.
• After Wei Hai left, Feng Qingyang said he would begin with the Overlord Heaven Immortal Kingdom and vanished.

Wei Hai reported that Azure Cloud Immortal Sect had accepted the Overlord Heaven Immortal Kingdom’s tribute, while Feng Qingyang arrived at Heavenly Clear City to tour the Immortal Realm. At the Drunken Immortal Pavilion, he heard that the Calculating Immortal had begun divining and paused to investigate.

• Wei Hai told the Overlord Heaven Empress and her ministers that Azure Cloud Immortal Sect was so powerful that Earth Immortal Realm immortal beasts guarded its gates.
• The Overlord Heaven Empress and her ministers took Azure Cloud’s acceptance of their tribute as a sign that the sect had noticed their kingdom.
• Feng Qingyang rode the Black Jade Qilin to Heavenly Clear City, entered by paying the fee, and began exploring the city.
• Feng Qingyang entered the Drunken Immortal Pavilion to sample its food, but a shout about the Calculating Immortal’s divination made him stop.

Feng Qingyang visited the Calculating Immortal Pavilion and discovered that its diviner, Ye Tianji, was the former Heaven's Secret Great Emperor of the Barren Martial Realm. When Ye Tianji failed to divine Ye Chen, a sealed Immortal Venerable, Feng Qingyang offered to calculate Ye Chen's secrets himself.

• Feng Qingyang followed a crowd to the Calculating Immortal Pavilion and used his power to open a path through the cultivators outside.
• Feng Qingyang recognized the pavilion's diviner, Ye Tianji, as the Heaven's Secret Great Emperor and founder of Heaven's Secret Pavilion.
• Ye Tianji tried to calculate the black-robed Ye Chen's fortune, suffered a terrifying backlash, and warned him to leave.
• Feng Qingyang recognized Ye Chen as a sealed Fallen Dao Immortal Venerable and called him back, offering to calculate his heavenly secrets.
• Ye Tianji warned Feng Qingyang not to attempt the calculation because Ye Chen's heavenly secrets were too terrifying.

Feng Qingyang revealed Ye Chen’s heavenly secrets and guided him toward the Upper Heavens, then met Ye Tianji and discussed their origins in the Barren Martial Realm. The chapter left Ye Tianji stunned by Feng Qingyang’s claim that the Azure Cloud Sect had destroyed the Azure Sky Elder who sealed the Barren Martial Realm.

• Feng Qingyang told Ye Chen that his Dao and the Night Sword Sect’s path lay in the Upper Heavens, and Ye Chen and Ye Tianji bowed to him.
• Wei Hai recognized Feng Qingyang outside the Calculating Immortal Pavilion, but Feng Qingyang silenced him with a glance before departing with Ye Tianji and Ye Chen.
• At the Drunken Immortal Pavilion, Ye Tianji told Feng Qingyang that he had struggled to advance in the Immortal Realm after leaving the Barren Martial Realm.
• Ye Tianji asked whether Feng Qingyang knew that the Azure Sky Immortal Sect had sealed off the Barren Martial Realm.
• Feng Qingyang said the Azure Cloud Sect had destroyed the Azure Sky Elder stationed in the star domain, shocking Ye Tianji.

Feng Qingyang drank with Ye Tianji and Ye Chen at the Drunken Immortal Pavilion, where they learned he was the Azure Cloud Immortal Lord and that his ancestor was Li Qingyun. When Wei Hai’s son tried to clear the pavilion for a guest, the Overlord Heaven Empress Zhao Zixun arrived to pay her respects, and Feng Qingyang ordered everyone to leave because he disliked the noise.

• Feng Qingyang told Ye Tianji and Ye Chen that the Azure Cloud Great Emperor Li Qingyun was an ancestor of his sect and had ascended to the Immortal Realm.
• A woman in pink told the three immortals that the Drunken Immortal Pavilion was closing because Wei Hai’s son had booked the entire establishment.
• The Overlord Heaven Empress Zhao Zixun entered with Wei Hai and learned that his son had tried to clear the pavilion while the Immortal Lord was inside.
• Zhao Zixun and her attendants paid their respects to Feng Qingyang as the Azure Cloud Immortal Lord, shocking Ye Tianji and Ye Chen.
• Feng Qingyang said he disliked noise, and Zhao Zixun ordered everyone to leave before he told her to leave as well.

Feng Qingyang parted ways with Ye Tianji and Ye Chen, then learned that the Weak Water Secret Realm was opening. Shi Hao and his companions reached the secret realm, where they discovered that crossing the deadly Weak Water required a ferryman’s boat.

• Ye Tianji left for the Shadow Pavilion after Feng Qingyang arranged for him to join the sect.
• Ye Chen thanked Feng Qingyang for his guidance and headed back to build up his sect and prepare for war against the Upper Realm.
• Heaven’s Chosen from across the Azure Ancient Heaven Domain gathered at the Weak Water River, hoping to obtain the True Immortal’s treasures and inheritance.
• Shi Hao, Lin Bai, Yun Lan, and Hua Qingyu arrived at the river to take part in the secret realm opening.
• Shi Hao and his companions watched a youth sink beneath the Weak Water, and Yun Lan explained that a forbidden curse prevented anyone from flying across and that they needed a ferryman’s boat.

Ye Chen’s headaches triggered a rise in his cultivation and flashes of lost memories, while Feng Qingyang learned of the Weak Water Secret Realm’s True Immortal inheritance and received a quest to subdue Han Yue. At the riverbank, Yun Lan described the secret realm’s mysterious ferryman, and Shi Hao and the others realized he might be someone they knew.

• Ye Chen suffered a prolonged headache, then discovered his cultivation had risen to the peak of the Half-Immortal Realm.
• Ye Chen told Feng Qingyang that headaches increased his cultivation and brought back obscure fragments of memory.
• Ye Chen informed Feng Qingyang that the Weak Water Secret Realm had opened and contained a True Immortal’s inheritance.
• Feng Qingyang received a side quest to enter the Weak Water Secret Realm and subdue True Immortal Han Yue.
• Shi Hao, Hua Qingyu, and Yun Lan waited by the Weak Water River and discussed their cultivation gains over the past year.
• Yun Lan explained that a mysterious ferryman carried the fated across the river, prompting the others to suspect they recognized him.

Shi Hao, Lin Bai, Yun Lan, and their companions watched the Weak Water River ferryman select prodigies to cross to the secret realm. After the ferry accepted them, they boarded and found their vision going dark.

• Lin Bai spotted the pitch-black ferry boat approaching, and the gathered prodigies watched as it passed over some and carried others aboard.
• Shi Hao, Lin Bai, and Yun Lan discussed whether the ferryman selected passengers by fate or by talent and strength.
• Yun Lan recognized Yuwen Hong and other Immortal Clear Academy prodigies, while Lin Bai dismissed Yuwen Hong's reputation as invincible.
• The ferry docked before Shi Hao and the others, and Buddhist chants and dark light lifted all four onto the boat.
• Shi Hao and the others lost sight of their surroundings as their vision went black.

Shi Hao and his companions crossed the Weak Water and entered the Weak Water Secret Realm, which the ferryman revealed would close forever after this final opening. After reaching Senior Han Yue’s freezing Dao Field, the four regrouped and set out toward its northern core in search of opportunities.

• Lin Bai, Yun Lan, Hua Qingyu, and Shi Hao boarded the ferryboat and heard the ferryman announce that this was the Weak Water Secret Realm’s final opening.
• The ferryman carried the prodigies across the Weak Water while those left behind learned they had missed their only chance to enter.
• The prodigies reached the other shore, where the ferryman said the secret realm would close forever in ten days, then opened its entrance.
• The prodigies entered the secret realm and encountered the bitter cold of Senior Han Yue’s Heavenly Cold Dao Field.
• Shi Hao and the other three used their Sect Tokens to regroup after being teleported apart, then decided to travel north toward the Dao Field’s core.

Shi Hao and the others entered the snow palace at the heart of the Weak Water Secret Realm, where Yuwen Hong invited them to join Immortal Clear Academy after his group claimed the area. Elsewhere, Feng Qingyang decided to travel to the secret realm, and the chapter ended as Yuwen Hong’s companions insulted Shi Hao’s group.

• Shi Hao, Lin Bai, Yun Lan, and their companion reached the northern core of the secret realm and entered the snow palace, protected from the cold by their Azure Cloud Sect robes.
• Shi Hao and the others encountered Yuwen Hong and his companions after injured prodigies fled from the area they had claimed.
• Yuwen Hong recognized Shi Hao’s group and invited them to leave their obscure sect and join Immortal Clear Academy.
• Feng Qingyang told Ye Chen that he intended to go to the Weak Water Secret Realm despite its restrictions, and Ye Chen wondered how his own disciples were faring there.
• Yuwen Hong’s companions demanded that Shi Hao’s group accept the invitation and insulted them when they questioned it.

Ye Tianji reached the concealed Azure Cloud Sect and sought out its guide, while the prodigies in the Weak Water Secret Realm awaited the True Immortal’s inheritance. As the final opening of the secret realm began, the ice-and-snow palace shook and drew every remaining prodigy toward it.

• Ye Tianji arrived outside Azure Cloud Sect and approached a little black dog, introducing himself as someone sent by the Sect Master.
• Shi Hao and his companions clashed with Immortal Clear Academy, but Yuwen Hong apologized and led his disciples away while secretly plotting against them.
• Yuwen Hong told his junior brother that he had only been testing the Azure Cloud Sect disciples and suspected their sect came from beyond the domain.
• During the next two days, prodigies continued fighting and seizing treasures throughout the Weak Water Secret Realm as its closing drew near.
• Inside the ice-and-snow palace, a remnant soul said the secret realm’s final opening had come and sought a fated inheritor for the sleeping woman in the ice coffin.
• A thunderous boom shook the secret realm, and the ice covering the palace broke away as Immortal Dao Laws surged into the sky, prompting the prodigies to rush toward it.

Feng Qingyang crossed the Weak Water River in the Immortal King Flying Chariot, astonishing the geniuses watching from the banks. Meanwhile, the gathered cultivators in the Ice Snow Palace found no treasures, until a majestic voice welcomed them.

• Ye Chen arrived at the Weak Water River and waited below while Feng Qingyang prepared to cross.
• Feng Qingyang summoned the Immortal King Flying Chariot and ordered the Black Jade Qilin to carry it over the river.
• The Weak Water surged and unleashed its curse, but the carriage's aura suppressed the danger and carried Feng Qingyang safely across.
• The black-robed ferryman sensed an expert flying over the Weak Water.
• Shi Hao and the other heavenly geniuses searched the empty Ice Snow Palace, while Yuwen Hong asked why nothing had appeared.
• A majestic voice resounded through the palace and welcomed everyone.