Chapter Summaries

Candidates faced the Heavenly Stairway’s character-and-perseverance trial, where most were eliminated within a few steps. Qin Han advanced effortlessly while Ning Yan decided to reveal his strength and crush the competition.

• The first batches of candidates were overwhelmed by illusions on the Heavenly Stairway and failed the first stage, which tested character and perseverance.
• Wang Jian killed a candidate who insulted the Azure Cloud Sect and warned others not to do the same.
• Qin Han climbed a hundred steps without slowing, breaking each illusion with the state of mind he had forged as a Great Emperor.
• Ning Yan asked his master whether to reveal his strength, then resolved to treat the other candidates as stepping stones and display his power.

Ning Yan and Qin Han passed the Azure Cloud Sect’s Illusionary Sky Ladder, joining a thousand successful candidates at the summit. The second test began with the Nine Cauldrons Great Dao Bell, which determined who became an Outer Sect Disciple, and Ji Ni Tai Mei narrowly failed.

• Ning Yan raced to the top of the Illusionary Sky Ladder, while Qin Han climbed steadily behind him and reached the summit later.
• Elder Ye Bai told the thousand candidates who passed that they had become Servant Disciples and explained how rankings could promote them to higher sect divisions.
• The new disciples entered the Azure Cloud Sect and were astonished by its dense spiritual energy and magnificent grounds.
• Elder Ye Bai introduced the Nine Cauldrons Great Dao Bell and said that making it ring three times would pass the talent test and earn Outer Sect status.
• Several candidates passed with three or more rings, including one who rang the bell five times, while Ji Ni Tai Mei failed when it rang only two and a half times.

Ning Yan and Qin Han each rang the Nine Tripods eight times during the Azure Cloud Sect’s recruitment, and the sect completed its selection of new disciples. Feng Qingyang received powerful system rewards and learned that his three disciples planned to leave together to gain experience.

• Ning Yan rang the Nine Tripods eight times, and Elder Ye Bai declared that he had Great Emperor Potential, though he remained an Outer Sect Disciple.
• Qin Han also rang the Nine Tripods eight times after deciding to show his true talent, shocking the candidates alongside Ning Yan.
• After ten days of trials, the Azure Cloud Sect accepted two thousand disciples: six hundred Outer Sect Disciples and one thousand four hundred Servant Disciples.
• Feng Qingyang received the Azure Cloud Immortal Technique, Azure Cloud Rushing Thunder Palm, and Azure Cloud Purgatory Formation as system rewards, and examined Ning Yan and Qin Han’s information.
• Shi Hao, Lin Bai, and Hua Qingyu told Feng Qingyang that they had decided to leave together and gain experience.

Shi Hao, Lin Bai, and Hua Qingyu left Azure Cloud Sect to seek experience in the Saint Profound Secret Realm, while the sect formalized its outer-disciple system and introduced its powerful exclusive immortal techniques. The chapter ended with Qin Han, Ning Yan, and the other new disciples stunned by the techniques’ power as Ye Bai declared their purpose.

• Feng Qingyang sent Shi Hao, Lin Bai, and Hua Qingyu toward the Saint Profound Secret Realm, and the three promised to return to Azure Cloud Sect in triumph.
• Ye Bai distributed bound Sect Tokens to six hundred outer disciples and explained how they could earn and spend Contribution Points.
• Ye Bai handed out the sect rulebook, whose eight rules threatened severe punishment for betrayal, misconduct, and revealing sect secrets.
• Ye Bai sent the Azure Cloud Immortal Technique and Azure Cloud Rushing Thunder Palm into the disciples’ minds.
• Qin Han recognized the techniques as possibly immortal methods, while the old man in Ning Yan’s necklace wished to join Azure Cloud Sect.
• Ye Bai identified the techniques as Azure Cloud Sect’s exclusive immortal techniques and urged the disciples to forge a mighty name for eternity.

The Azure Cloud Sect disciples entered the Trial Tower for the first time, and Qin Han and Ning Yan raced through its early floors. On the twenty-first floor, Qin Han encountered an illusion of Lin Yao and was consumed by anger over her betrayal.

• Zheng Wuyu entered the Trial Tower first, reached the twelfth floor, and briefly took first place on the ranking board.
• Disciples attempted the tower in turn, with the leading challengers reaching around the twentieth floor before meeting much harder trials.
• Qin Han and Ning Yan entered the tower and defeated their opponents with single punches as they advanced rapidly.
• Four elders watched the trials and discussed the two geniuses’ prospects and the need to recruit disciples for the Law Enforcement Hall.
• Qin Han reached the twenty-first floor, where an illusion of Lin Yao appeared and provoked his rage over her betrayal.

Qin Han and Ning Yan overcame the twenty-first floor’s illusions and climbed the Trial Tower, with Qin Han taking first place. The next day, Azure Cloud Sect launched its Outer Sect and Servant Disciple rankings, setting off a new wave of competition.

• Qin Han fought the illusion of Lin Yao, calmed himself, and shattered it with the Azure Cloud Rushing Thunder Palm.
• Ning Yan resisted the illusion of Xiao Xuan'er, stopped her dagger, and broke the floor with his sword.
• Qin Han and Ning Yan cleared forty-one and forty floors respectively, placing first and second on the Trial Ranking.
• Ning Yan headed to the Cultivation Room, inspiring the disciples to train harder and compete.
• Sect Master Feng Qingyang launched the Outer Sect Ranking and Servant Disciple Ranking across Azure Cloud Sect.

The Exploding Heavens Sect expanded its influence in the outer sect while competing with Long Aotian's Dragon Gate for ranking positions. Qing Yan defeated Long Aotian in their challenge, then helped him up and showed that he had held back from causing serious harm.

• Qing Hai recruited an Outer Sect Disciple into the Exploding Heavens Sect, which had grown to occupy thirty ranking spots.
• Qing Yan's faction failed to recruit Qin Han and Ning Yan, while its members vowed to cultivate and defend their positions against Dragon Gate.
• Xiao Si told Qing Yan that Long Aotian had sent him a challenge, and the two factions gathered at the Martial Arts Arena to watch.
• Long Aotian and Qing Yan fought as Golden Core Peak cultivators, and Qing Yan used a feigned opening to defeat Long Aotian with his folding fan.
• Qing Yan helped Long Aotian up and said that members of the same sect should stop before causing serious harm.

A Beast Tide swept across the Four Great Continents, and the defenders of Tyrant Heaven City struggled to hold the beasts back. At Azure Cloud Sect, Feng Qingyang accepted a mission to recruit Li Yanzhi just as Ye Bai reported that the Beast Tide had arrived.

• The three holy lands called on the Four Great Continents to unite against the Beast Tide, which battered Tyrant Heaven City with countless demon beasts.
• Ye Wu and the city's forces defended the walls, but Ye Wu warned that the city could fall within a day as people fled and the Void-Shattering Realm ancestor fought Rank 8 beasts.
• Feng Qingyang reviewed Azure Cloud Sect's strength and accepted the system mission to recruit Li Yanzhi, daughter of the Holy Lord of Royal Pill Holy Land.
• Ye Bai entered Azure Cloud Hall and told Feng Qingyang that the Beast Tide had arrived.

After receiving the Ye Family’s plea, Feng Qingyang sent Mu Shuixian and Luo Chen to lead the Azure Cloud Sect’s Outer Sect Disciples against the Beast Tide threatening Spirit Province. Major forces and independent cultivators rallied toward Tyrant Heaven City as the province prepared to defend itself.

• Ye Bai delivered the Ye Family’s bloodstained plea for aid, warning Feng Qingyang that demonic beasts were attacking Tyrant Heaven City.
• Feng Qingyang accepted the mission and ordered Mu Shuixian and Luo Chen to lead all Outer Sect Disciples to kill the demonic beasts.
• The Mission Hall announced Contribution Point rewards for each beast killed, prompting disciples and factions such as Exploding Heavens Sect to mobilize.
• Mu Shuixian and Luo Chen assembled the Outer Sect Disciples, urged them to defend their homeland, and set out aboard the Azure Cloud Warship.
• Major forces across Spirit Province, including sword cultivators in Profound Moon City and the Zhao Family in Tianwu City, dispatched people to reinforce Tyrant Heaven City.

Tyrant Heaven City’s defenders were on the verge of defeat when Spirit Province’s reinforcements arrived and drove back the demon beast army. The Ye Family ancestors were then joined by the ancestors of three overlord-tier powers, setting up a counterattack against ten Rank 8 Demon Beasts.

• Ye Wu and the defenders struggled to hold the city walls as demon beasts overran them and inflicted heavy casualties.
• Three thousand sword cultivators from Profound Moon City arrived and helped Ye Wu’s forces reclaim the walls.
• The major powers of Spirit Province bombarded the demon beasts from their warships, forcing them to retreat into the Magical Beast Forest.
• Ye Wu thanked the arriving powers, who promised that more cultivators were on their way.
• The three Ye Family ancestors neared defeat against ten Rank 8 Demon Beasts until the ancestors of three overlord-tier powers arrived to reinforce them.
• Nine Shattering Void Realm cultivators prepared to face the demon beasts, while one of the newcomers dismissed their threat about the Demon Saint.

The three Holy Lands mobilized their forces to defend Wild, Azure, and Sky Provinces against the Beast Tide, sending experts and resources to frontline cities and the Main Battlefield. Wang Teng received a scroll containing the Eastern Profound Holy Lord’s full-powered strike as reinforcements gathered for the coming battle.

• The Eastern Profound Holy Lord sent Wang Teng and the disciples to battle and gave him a scroll containing three uses of his full-powered strike.
• Wang Teng recalled his friend Shi and wondered whether they would fight side by side again.
• Factions from across Wild Province answered the Holy Lands’ proclamation, while Wild Sky City held out until reinforcements arrived and Shattering Void Realm ancestors entered the Main Battlefield.
• Azure Sky Saint ordered Saint Child Mu Fan to lead Azure Sky Holy Land’s elders and disciples to defend Evergreen City.
• The Mist Moon Holy Lord mobilized the Holy Land’s resources for Flourishing Source City, and Holy Maiden Jie Mengxin led its elders and disciples to the frontline.

Tyrant Heaven City faced an overwhelming beast tide until the Azure Cloud Sect arrived and turned the battle around with its warship and disciples. Mu Shuixian then left to investigate powerful fluctuations near the Main Battlefield, while the disciples continued hunting beasts for Contribution Points.

• Hundreds of seventh-rank beasts led a huge assault on Tyrant Heaven City, and tens of thousands of cultivators charged out to meet them.
• An eighth-rank Demon King attacked the allied factions' warships, but the Azure Cloud Warship blasted it into dust.
• The Azure Cloud Warship devastated the beast tide, and Mu Shuixian, Luo Chen, and disciples from allied factions joined the fight on the ground.
• Mu Shuixian sensed powerful fluctuations above the Magical Beast Forest and left Luo Chen to protect the disciples while she investigated.
• Azure Cloud Sect disciples discovered that their tokens awarded Contribution Points for slain beasts and eagerly slaughtered them alongside Qing Yan and Qing Hai.

The Four Continents’ forces struggled to hold the Main Battlefield against powerful demon beasts as battles raged across the provinces. Mu Shuixian arrived in Spirit Province and revealed herself as a Saint of the Azure Cloud Sect, stepping in to face the Demon Kings.

• A Spirit Province patriarch discovered the Bull Devil King’s horns were its weakness and killed it by cutting off its remaining horn, leaving nine patriarchs to fight nine Demon Kings.
• Saints and cultivators fought Ninth-Order Saint Beasts and Rank 8 demon beasts in Sky Province, Azure Province, and Wild Province, while the Four Continents’ forces remained at a disadvantage.
• Mu Shuixian arrived in Spirit Province and ordered the nine patriarchs to retreat so she could handle the Demon Kings.
• The Spirit Province patriarchs recognized Mu Shuixian as a Saint from the Azure Cloud Sect and realized their province now had a Saint guarding it.

Mu Shuixian slaughtered nine Demon Kings, then subdued a Saint Tiger and a peak Saint Realm bear while traveling through the Magical Beast Forest. She left with the tiger and gained the bear’s submission, while the battles across the forest continued.

• Mu Shuixian killed the nine Demon Kings with a single sword strike and ordered the nine ancestors to retreat to Tyrant Heaven City to help eliminate the remaining magical beasts.
• Mu Shuixian interrupted a Mist Moon Holy Land Saint’s fight with a tiger-shaped Saint Beast and forced the tiger to submit using her Great Emperor divine sense.
• Mu Shuixian rode the Saint Tiger toward Azure Province, where a peak Saint Realm giant bear was fighting an Azure Sky Holy Land Saint.
• The giant bear attacked Er Hu for submitting to Mu Shuixian, but Mu Shuixian crushed it with her pressure until it surrendered too.

Mu Shuixian subdued the Four Saint Beasts and ended the Beast Tide, while Azure Cloud Sect’s strength stunned witnesses. News of the sect spread across the Four Continents, where major forces hurried to send resources and warned their disciples not to offend it.

• Mu Shuixian forced the giant bear holy beast to submit, and Er Hu kicked the bear for its earlier behavior.
• The giant bear defeated the Nine-Feathered Sparrow and Heaven Swallowing Pig, and all four holy beasts submitted to Mu Shuixian.
• The Four Saint Beasts led the magical beasts back to Magical Beast Forest after telling Mu Shuixian that a powerful Central Domain Demon Race force had instigated the Beast Tide.
• Luo Chen and nine Shattering Void Realm ancestors helped Azure Cloud Sect disciples wipe out the magical beasts outside Tyrant Heaven City, and Mu Shuixian returned with the four beasts.
• Stories of Azure Cloud Sect’s power spread across the Four Continents, prompting major forces to send resources and warn their disciples not to provoke the sect.

After the Beast Tide ended, Feng Qingyang received a Silver Summoning Card and unlocked the Prestige Points Store and lottery. His draw summoned the peak Saint-Manifesting Realm Offering Elder Long Xie, while Feng Qingyang wasted his Prestige Points and used a Shattering Void Realm Permanent Experience Card, gaining early-stage Shattering Void Realm cultivation.

• Feng Qingyang received one Silver Summoning Card, unlocked the Prestige Points Store and lottery, and was gifted a First Draw Card and one hundred thousand Prestige Points.
• Feng Qingyang used the Silver Summoning Card and summoned the peak Saint-Manifesting Realm expert Long Xie as an Offering Elder.
• Feng Qingyang used his First Draw Card and received Thank You for Your Patronage, then spent his remaining Prestige Points on a Shattering Void Realm Permanent Experience Card.
• Long Xie descended into the Azure Cloud Sect amid thunder and lightning, introduced himself as its Offering Elder, and reassured the watching Servant Disciples that he belonged to their sect.
• Feng Qingyang used the Shattering Void Realm Permanent Experience Card and gained early-stage Shattering Void Realm cultivation.

Feng Qingyang used a Cultivation Card to rise to the initial stage of the Shattering Void Realm, then appointed Long Xie an Offering Elder. The returning disciples and Saint Beasts reached Azure Cloud Sect, where the beasts were awed by its spiritual energy and warned never to offend the Sect Master.

• Feng Qingyang's cultivation surged to the initial stage of the Shattering Void Realm, and he appointed Long Xie an Offering Elder.
• The Azure Cloud Warship returned to Azure Cloud Sect with Mu Shuixian, Luo Chen, the four transformed Saint Beasts, and the Outer Sect disciples.
• Mu Shuixian concluded the demon beast tide trial and sent the disciples to cultivate and spend their newly earned Contribution Points.
• Er Hu asked the giant bear to slap him, and the four Saint Beasts marveled at the sect's spiritual energy and resolved to remain loyal.
• Mu Shuixian warned the Saint Beasts that offending the Sect Master would mean death, and they trembled at the thought of the Sect Master's power.

Mu Shuixian and Luo Chen brought the four Saint Beasts responsible for the Beast Tide before Feng Qingyang, who spared them and assigned them odd jobs at Azure Cloud Sect. Feng Qingyang found that the sect had gained only 500 points, while the returning Outer Sect Disciples celebrated their Contribution Points by buying up medicinal pills.

• Mu Shuixian reported that the Demon Beast Tide had been eradicated and the Outer Sect Disciples had returned safely, then presented the four Saint Beasts to Feng Qingyang.
• The four Saint Beasts revealed that a Demon Race force from the Central Domain had ordered the Beast Tide and begged Feng Qingyang for mercy.
• Feng Qingyang spared the Saint Beasts but ordered them to do odd jobs for Azure Cloud Sect.
• Feng Qingyang checked the sect panel, saw its value had risen by only 500, and considered his unfinished quests and plans to recruit a talented disciple.
• The returning Outer Sect Disciples exchanged their Contribution Points for medicinal pills, quickly clearing the Mission Hall's stock as more pills were restocked.

The disciples pooled Contribution Points to exchange for sect techniques and martial skills, and Mu Feng escorted them to the Technique Hall. As they entered, Nie Hailong stopped them and accused someone of breaking the rules, fixing his gaze on Ning Yan.

• The Four Saint Beasts left Azure Cloud Hall and were assigned menial work.
• Outer Sect Disciples gathered at the Mission Hall to spend Contribution Points and asked Mu Feng about exchanging for cultivation techniques and martial skills.
• Qin Han and Ning Yan joined ten disciples who pooled their Contribution Points to obtain techniques and martial skills.
• Mu Feng led the disciples to the Technique Hall and reminded them to choose only one technique, stay under an hour, and not pass sect techniques to outsiders.
• Nie Hailong stopped the disciples as they entered and accused someone of breaking the rules, then focused on Ning Yan.

Elder Nie discovered Dan Old’s remnant soul inside the Holy Light Chain and questioned Ning Yan about bringing him into the Technique Hall. Dan Old explained himself and asked to join the Azure Cloud Sect, while Elder Nie allowed Ning Yan’s visit to proceed as usual and sent the disciples in to choose techniques.

• Elder Nie sent everyone out and questioned Ning Yan about the sect rules and the remnant soul he had brought into the Technique Hall.
• Dan Old emerged from the Holy Light Chain, introduced himself, and explained that he had become Ning Yan’s master before Ning Yan entered the sect.
• Elder Nie told Dan Old he would report the matter to the Sect Master, then ordered him back into the Holy Light Chain and let Ning Yan proceed as usual.
• Dan Old asked to meet the Sect Master and join the Azure Cloud Sect as an alchemist, offering his Manifest Saint Realm cultivation and Azure Netherworld Fire.
• Ning Yan apologized to the waiting disciples, and Mu Feng reminded them to choose only one technique within an hour.