Chapter Summaries

Leng Bingning learned that Heaven's Secret Pavilion was preparing to attack Azure Cloud Sect, but Jade Purity Palace declined to intervene. Heaven's Secret Pavilion led a coalition toward Azure Cloud Sect, where Lin Zhan arrived with the Lin Family to defend it.

• Leng Bingning told the Jade Purity Palace Master about Azure Cloud Sect and her connection to it, but the Palace Master said the sect would have to prove its strength to earn Jade Purity Palace's friendship.
• Heaven's Secret Pavilion falsely concluded that Jade Purity Palace had no ties to Azure Cloud Sect and decided to attack that day.
• Heaven's Secret Pavilion led three overlord-tier forces, ten top-tier forces, and more than twenty first-rate forces toward Azure Cloud Sect as crowds gathered to watch.
• Feng Qingyang and Li Qingyun prepared to face the approaching coalition, which praised Azure Cloud Mountain Range's dense spiritual energy and coveted its land.
• Lin Zhan arrived with the Lin Family and declared that attackers would have to defeat them before reaching Azure Cloud Sect.

Azure Cloud Sect arrived as the Lin Family was being overwhelmed, and Elder Ye Bai turned the battle into a massacre with his immense power. As Ye Bai fought four Void-Shattering Realm opponents at once, he killed one of their ancestors.

• The Lin Family fought the allied forces but was steadily driven back until Azure Cloud Sect arrived with Feng Qingyang and five others.
• Feng Qingyang told Lin Bai and the Lin Family to stand back, then sent Outer Sect Elder Ye Bai to face the attackers.
• Ye Bai unleashed his peak Void-Shattering Realm cultivation and slaughtered large numbers of the opposing forces with single blows.
• Three hegemonic forces sent Void-Shattering Realm ancestors to join the Heaven's Secret Pavilion Elder against Ye Bai.
• Ye Bai held off all four opponents and blasted apart the ancestor who exposed a flaw.

Ye Bai and the Azure Cloud Sect defeated the invading factions, while Patriarch Li Qingyun revealed overwhelming Great Emperor power by killing a Half-Saint and wiping out the enemy forces. Feng Qingyang ended the battle by declaring that Spirit Province would revere the Azure Cloud Sect.

• Ye Bai killed the Heaven Sword Sect patriarch and drove the three remaining patriarchs back.
• The Heaven's Secret Pavilion elder from the Central Domain revealed his Half-Saint power and overwhelmed the battlefield with his aura.
• Feng Qingyang identified the elder as a Half-Saint, and Ye Bai retreated while claiming the Azure Cloud Sect had stronger experts.
• Patriarch Li Qingyun grabbed the elder and crushed him, instantly ending his Saint Realm pressure.
• Li Qingyun obeyed Feng Qingyang's order to kill the invading factions, tearing them apart with his Emperor's Might.
• Feng Qingyang told the surviving onlookers that Spirit Province would revere the Azure Cloud Sect and asked who agreed or opposed.

After the Azure Cloud Sect defeated Spirit Province’s major powers, it became the province’s ruler as the surviving factions sent resources and sought its protection. Feng Qingyang claimed powerful system rewards, strengthened the Lin Family, and approved its proposal to build Azure Cloud City below the sect.

• The defeated major powers submitted to the Azure Cloud Sect and sent it resources, while other factions seized territory and sought its protection.
• The news of the Azure Cloud Sect’s victory spread, and people in Profound Moon City and Tianwu City reacted to their lost bets and the Lin Family’s sudden rise.
• Feng Qingyang claimed five Silver Summoning Cards and the Azure Cloud Warship as rewards for completing a phase of the Famous Throughout Spirit Province mission.
• Feng Qingyang praised the Lin Family for standing by the Azure Cloud Sect and promised it would endure as long as the sect stood.
• Feng Qingyang ordered Lin Bai and Shi Hao to help the Lin Family obtain cultivation techniques, martial skills, and resources.
• Lin Zhan asked to build a city below the Azure Cloud Sect, and Feng Qingyang approved naming it Azure Cloud City.

Feng Qingyang used five Summoning Cards, appointed Wang Xuan Guardian Elder, and sent Lin Bai and Lin Zhan to the Technique Hall, where Lin Zhan chose powerful arts for the Lin Family. The Lin Family continued building Azure Cloud City near Azure Cloud Sect, preparing to relocate there.

• Feng Qingyang summoned four peak True Person Realm guards and one peak Shattering Void Realm Guardian Elder, then placed Wang Xuan in charge of the guards.
• Feng Qingyang told the five Black Robe men to collect sect uniforms from the Outer Sect Elder.
• Shi Hao welcomed Lin Bai and Lin Zhan and agreed to go with them to the Technique Hall after complaining that the Storage Hall was overflowing with spirit stones.
• Lin Bai, Lin Zhan, and Shi Hao found that the Technique Hall contained immortal arts, and Lin Zhan selected one immortal art and two immortal-grade martial techniques for the Lin Family.
• The Lin Family members continued building Azure Cloud City near Azure Cloud Sect, intending to move there from Tianwu City when it was finished.

Feng Qingyang saw Azure Cloud Sect’s rising power and planned to recruit more disciples after returning from the Ancient Saint Secret Realm. In the Central Domain, Heaven’s Secret Pavilion investigated Elder Mo Chen’s death, but its Pavilion Master’s divination revealed a terrifying power tied to Azure Cloud Sect, leaving the pavilion afraid to provoke it.

• Feng Qingyang saw that Azure Cloud Sect had gained five thousand sect points and was nearing Level Two, and he planned to recruit disciples after the Ancient Saint Secret Realm.
• Heaven’s Secret Pavilion elders watched the recording of Elder Mo Chen’s death and saw an unfathomable old man crush him before destroying the crystal ball.
• The elders suspected the old man belonged to Azure Cloud Sect and recalled the Emperor’s Might that had appeared from the east, so they chose to consult the Pavilion Master instead of attacking.
• The Heaven’s Secret Pavilion Master used the Heaven’s Secret Treasure to divine Azure Cloud Sect’s secrets, but a sword light shattered his divine sense and badly injured him.
• The Pavilion Master warned the Grand Elder that Azure Cloud Sect harbored a great terror and ordered Heaven’s Secret Pavilion not to provoke it before entering seclusion.

Azure Cloud Sect built Azure Cloud City with help from across Spirit Province while Lin Bai and Shi Hao advanced their cultivation. As the Ancient Saint Secret Realm prepared to open in Wild Province, Eastern Profound Holy Land chose its Saint Child to lead an expedition.

• Feng Qingyang fished and dismissed a system warning that someone had tried to probe Azure Cloud Sect’s secrets.
• Ye Bai and Lin Zhan coordinated Azure Cloud City’s construction as Wang Xuan assigned guards to patrol its four directions.
• Lin Zhan taught the Lin Family’s younger generation an immortal technique so they could cultivate for a chance to enter the Main Sect.
• Lin Bai broke through from the Foundation Establishment Realm to the Golden Core Realm, and Shi Hao revealed that he had reached the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• News spread that the Ancient Saint Secret Realm would open in the Qilin Dynasty of Wild Province one day later, drawing attention from factions with Secret Keys.
• The Eastern Profound Holy Lord ordered the Saint Child and twenty talented Inner Sect Disciples to enter the secret realm.

Feng Qingyang brought Shi Hao and Lin Bai to Qilin City for the Ancient Saint Secret Realm, leaving them to rely on their own abilities. As the assembled powers prepared to enter, the Qilin King allowed Hua Qingyu to join after learning that her Phoenix Sacred Body had awakened.

• Feng Qingyang told Shi Hao and Lin Bai they would receive no life-saving trump cards before taking them to Qilin City aboard the Azure Cloud Warship.
• Saint Child Wang Teng arrived with Eastern Profound Holy Land disciples and promised to look after them inside the secret realm.
• Feng Qingyang, Shi Hao, and Lin Bai reached Qilin City, where other powers recognized the Azure Cloud Sect as the force that dominated Spirit Province.
• The Eastern Profound, Mist Moon, and Azure Sky Holy Lands arrived among the powers gathering at the Qilin Royal Palace.
• Hua Qingyu told the Qilin King that her Phoenix Sacred Body had awakened, and he agreed to let her enter the secret realm with her elder brother.

Feng Qingyang approached Hua Qingyu, the Qilin Dynasty princess whose Phoenix Sacred Body had awakened through the Water Immortal Empress’s ring, and recruited her into the Azure Cloud Sect. After Feng identified the remnant soul, Hua Qingyu accepted his offer and became his disciple.

• Hua Qingyu recalled finding the ring containing the Water Immortal Empress’s remnant soul and promising to find Sacred Medicine for her.
• Feng Qingyang learned Hua Qingyu’s identity and fortuitous encounter from his personal panel, then left Shi Hao and Lin Bai to explore the city.
• Feng approached Hua Qingyu outside the royal palace and offered to change her fate by having her join the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Feng named the Water Immortal Empress, shocking the remnant soul and confirming that he knew her identity.
• Mu Shuixian urged Hua Qingyu to accept, and Hua Qingyu agreed to join the Azure Cloud Sect and greeted Feng Qingyang as Master.

Feng Qingyang recruited Hua Qingyu into Azure Cloud Sect and received new sect facilities and rewards, including a body-forming lotus root for Mu Shuixian. Hua Qingyu entered the Ancient Saint Secret Realm with Shi Hao and Lin Bai, while the Qilin King learned that Feng Qingyang led Azure Cloud Sect and invited him to the royal palace.

• The system rewarded Feng Qingyang with five Silver Summoning Cards, a Disciple Trial Tower, a Sect Exclusive Secret Realm, the Phoenix Genesis Saint Art, and a Lotus Body-Molding Lotus Root after he recruited Hua Qingyu.
• Feng Qingyang brought Hua Qingyu to the city and introduced her to Shi Hao and Lin Bai, who agreed to act with her in the secret realm.
• Mu Shuixian recognized Shi Hao's Supreme Sacred Body and Lin Bai's Azure Lotus Sword Body, judging both to be exceptional.
• The Ancient Saint Secret Realm opened, and Hua Qingyu told the Qilin King and the First Prince that she would enter with her sect senior brothers instead of them.
• Shi Hao, Lin Bai, and Hua Qingyu entered the secret realm with Secret Keys from Feng Qingyang.
• The Qilin King learned that Feng Qingyang was the Sect Master of Azure Cloud Sect and invited him to the royal palace.

Shi Hao, Lin Bai, and Hua Qingyu entered the Ancient Saint Secret Realm, learned that it had once been the Eastern Domain’s main battlefield against the Devil Race, and joined forces with Wang Teng’s group. Deep inside the realm, a revived Demonic Beast king ordered a trap prepared to capture the disciples for food.

• Hua Qingyu explained that the secret realm had formed from an ancient battlefield where the Eastern Domain’s holy lands fought the Devil Race, and Shi Hao and Lin Bai vowed to eradicate the demons.
• Wang Teng of the Eastern Profound Holy Land approached Shi Hao’s group, praised their shared ambition, and invited them to travel together.
• Shi Hao consulted Lin Bai and Hua Qingyu, and the three agreed to join Wang Teng’s group as they headed deeper into the secret realm.
• Other factions noticed that Wang Teng’s group had become the largest and strongest group, while some disciples set off east after hearing of a possible opportunity.
• A Demonic Beast king revealed that thousands of beasts had revived amid the battlefield’s Killing Intent and ordered Gui Sha to set a trap to capture the disciples.

Shi Hao, Wang Teng, and their companions drove the Mist Moon and Azure Sky Holy Lands away from the ruined Technique Hall and Pill Hall, then searched its chambers. Mu Shuixian sensed a Sacred Medicine ahead, and Hua Qingyu continued deeper with Shi Hao and Lin Bai.

• Shi Hao and his companions arrived at the ruined halls, where the Mist Moon Holy Land and Azure Sky Holy Land were arguing over who could enter first.
• Mu Fan proposed joining forces against Jie Mengxin's group, but Wang Teng refused and claimed the Eastern Profound Holy Land would take the place.
• Shi Hao, Wang Teng, and the others backed Wang Teng's proposal, prompting Jie Mengxin and Mu Fan to withdraw with their disciples.
• Shi Hao and his companions entered the dark halls, searched the ransacked chambers, and sent the Eastern Profound Holy Land disciples to look for anything left behind.
• Hua Qingyu consulted Mu Shuixian through her ring, and Mu Shuixian sensed a Sacred Medicine farther ahead.

Shi Hao, Hua Qingyu, Lin Bai, and Wang Teng uncovered an array-hidden store of pills, including a Sacred Medicine that strengthened Mu Shuixian's soul. After leaving the palace, they heard that a Saint's inheritance had appeared to the east and debated whether the news was a trap.

• Mu Shuixian took control of Hua Qingyu's body and broke an array that concealed shelves of pills.
• Shi Hao, Lin Bai, and Wang Teng read a message from Mo Feng explaining that he had hidden the pills to protect them from the Devil Race.
• Hua Qingyu found a bottle of Soul-Soothing Saint Pills, and Mu Shuixian used all three pills to nourish her soul.
• Shi Hao, Lin Bai, Hua Qingyu, and Wang Teng gathered the pills, divided them, and left the palace with the other disciples.
• Wang Teng questioned a passerby and learned that rumors of a Saint's inheritance in the eastern ruins were drawing people there.
• Shi Hao, Lin Bai, and Hua Qingyu suspected the rumor was a lure, but Wang Teng argued that their group could handle any danger and proposed going to investigate.

Shi Hao and the others entered the palace ruins, where demons disguised as disciples lured newcomers into a massacre. Trapped between Demonic Beasts at the entrance and pursuers behind, the survivors fought back as Shi Hao and Wang Teng led the charge.

• Shi Hao, Wang Teng, and disciples from the three great Holy Lands entered the ruins after learning that earlier groups had disappeared inside.
• The group encountered people disguised as Senior Brothers and Senior Sisters, who lured disciples toward supposed resources and then slaughtered them.
• Mu Shuixian recognized the Demonic Qi and warned Hua Qingyu, who tried to stop the others, but many disciples had already run toward the demons.
• As the survivors fled, Gui Sha and his Demonic Beasts blocked the exit while more beasts pursued from behind, trapping them in the ruins.
• The disciples fought the Demonic Beasts, which could possess dead disciples and make them rise to attack again.
• Shi Hao and Wang Teng charged into the horde, killing Demonic Beasts as Shi Hao urged the Eastern Profound Holy Land disciples to fight.

The disciples from the sects defeated a horde of Demonic Beasts, but a powerful Demon King appeared and overwhelmed them. As the Demon King began killing the survivors, Mu Shuixian took control through Hua Qingyu and flew to confront it with the Azure Lotus Sword.

• Lin Bai, Shi Hao, Wang Teng, Jie Mengxin, Mu Fan, and the other disciples fought through the Demonic Beasts, using Half-Saint trump cards to wipe out the remaining horde.
• After more than half the fighters died, the survivors rested, agreed to bury the fallen disciples, and Shi Hao and Wang Teng praised their battle together.
• A Demon King appeared, shrugged off the three Half-Saint attacks, and threatened to slaughter the survivors before invading the Eastern Domain.
• The Demon King's Demonic Qi began melting weaker disciples, so Mu Shuixian entered Hua Qingyu's sea of consciousness and asked Lin Bai for the Azure Lotus Sword.
• Mu Shuixian took the Azure Lotus Sword and flew toward the Demon King as Shi Hao, Wang Teng, and the others watched in shock.

Mu Shuixian used Lin Bai’s sword to kill the Demon King and save the secret-realm disciples. After the survivors returned, Feng Qingyang led Shi Hao, Lin Bai, and Hua Qingyu back to Azure Cloud Sect, reflecting on their gains and the threat posed by the Devil Race.

• Mu Shuixian pierced the Demon King’s palm and killed him with a single sword strike, then returned Lin Bai’s Azure Lotus Sword.
• The disciples searched the secret realm for another day, found no Saint’s inheritance, and left through the reopened vortex.
• At Qilin City, the returning disciples reported that Demonic Beasts had attacked and that Mu Shuixian had slain the Demon King.
• Shi Hao, Lin Bai, and Hua Qingyu reunited with Feng Qingyang and prepared to return to Azure Cloud Sect.
• On the Azure Cloud Warship, Shi Hao told Feng Qingyang about obtaining the Sacred Medicine and fighting the Demonic Beasts, and Feng Qingyang vowed to deal with the Devil Race.

Feng Qingyang reviewed the Azure Cloud Sect’s progress, welcomed new disciples, and gave his direct disciples Sect Tokens and Hua Qingyu a cultivation art. The chapter ended with Hua Qingyu leaving her ring behind so Feng Qingyang could speak with Mu Shuixian.

• Ye Bai and Wang Xuan reported that resources were pouring into the sect and Azure Cloud City’s construction was underway, and Feng Qingyang ordered them to accelerate the work and prepare to accept disciples.
• Shi Hao, Lin Bai, and Hua Qingyu saw the Trial Tower, while Mu Shuixian’s attempt to probe the sect was crushed by a powerful divine sense that warned her not to offend again.
• Shi Hao and the others handed their Sacred Medicines and pills to Ye Bai, who collected them despite being inwardly astonished by their abundance.
• Feng Qingyang gave Shi Hao, Lin Bai, and Hua Qingyu Sect Tokens and made them official Direct Disciples because they had survived the Ancient Saint Secret Realm.
• Feng Qingyang passed Hua Qingyu the Phoenix Genesis Saint Art, and she swore a Great Dao Oath to repay the sect.
• Feng Qingyang told Hua Qingyu to leave her ring behind so he could speak with Mu Shuixian.

Feng Qingyang made Mu Shuixian an Inner Sect Elder by offering to reshape her body in exchange for one hundred thousand years of unpaid service. He used five Summoning Cards to strengthen the Azure Cloud Sect as it prepared to accept disciples.

• Feng Qingyang asked Mu Shuixian to serve the Azure Cloud Sect for one hundred thousand years, and she accepted after he offered to reshape her body.
• Feng Qingyang and Mu Shuixian signed a Great Dao Contract, and he used a Lotus Body-Molding Lotus Root to give her a Lotus Sacred Body.
• Feng Qingyang appointed Mu Shuixian an Inner Sect Elder and used all five Summoning Cards to obtain Mu Tian, Mu Feng, Luo Chen, Luo Wudao, and Nie Hailong.
• The summoned elders descended outside the main hall, and Shi Hao explained to his junior sister that Azure Cloud Sect’s experts were gathering ahead of its plan to accept disciples.

Feng Qingyang announced that Azure Cloud Sect would open its mountain to recruit disciples in three days, drawing hundreds of millions toward Spirit Province’s dominant sect. A reborn young man and Ning Yan, whose Flame Sun Sacred Body had just awakened, also set out to join.

• Feng Qingyang gathered Azure Cloud Sect’s elders and declared the sect would recruit disciples and enter the wider Eastern Domain.
• News of the recruitment spread through Spirit Province, prompting cultivators and even sect leaders to rush toward Azure Cloud Sect.
• A seventeen- or eighteen-year-old reborn young man killed a fourth-rank Nether Tiger and decided to join Azure Cloud Sect for protection and a route to the Central Domain.
• Ning Yan awakened his Flame Sun Sacred Body with the Azure Netherworld Fire under his master’s guidance.
• Ning Yan’s master urged him to join Azure Cloud Sect, and Ning Yan prepared to travel there.

Azure Cloud Sect began its mountain-opening recruitment with a massive crowd gathered for the disciple examinations. Shi Hao welcomed the candidates, and Ye Bai explained the Illusionary Sky Ladder trial before announcing its start.

• Lin Zhan told the Lin Family that Azure Cloud Sect would accept disciples in three days, giving them time to prepare.
• Hundreds of millions of candidates gathered beneath Azure Cloud Sect’s mountain gate, where five guards maintained order.
• Shi Hao and Outer Sect Elders Ye Bai, Mu Feng, and Mu Tian appeared to oversee the recruitment.
• Shi Hao welcomed the candidates and wished them success in the examinations.
• Ye Bai introduced the Illusionary Sky Ladder, explaining that candidates who reached the top would pass the first trial and become Servant Disciples even if they failed the second.
• Ye Bai announced that the Illusionary Sky Ladder trial had officially begun.