Chapter Summaries

Mu Shuixian and the Black Emperor slaughtered the Heavenly Saint Holy Land experts, then reunited and agreed to meet at the Azure Cloud Sect. Su Yaoyao and her companions escaped, leaving the Holy Land furious and the Eastern Domain wondering whether the Azure Cloud Sect would lead its rise.

• Mu Shuixian and the Black Emperor killed nearly all the Heavenly Saint Holy Land experts, then recognized each other as old friends from a hundred thousand years earlier.
• Mu Shuixian told the Black Emperor she was now at the Azure Cloud Sect and promised to meet it there.
• Lin Bai asked about the Black Emperor’s true form as witnesses marveled at the Azure Cloud Sect’s power.
• The Holy Land elder claimed Su Yaoyao had been captured, but Ye Xue Ye found the area empty and received a message that she and her companions had escaped.
• The Holy Land elder learned that his forces had been wiped out, killed an onlooker in anger, and Holy Lord Yang Zizai raged against the Azure Cloud Sect.

Holy Lord Yang Zizai ordered the Heavenly Saint Holy Land to crush the Azure Cloud Sect within ten days after its people killed the Saint Child and hundreds of holy land powerhouses. Shi Hao and his companions headed back to Azure Cloud, joined by Su Yaoyao and Ye Xue Ye, while the Eastern Domain erupted over the coming conflict.

• Yang Zizai ordered the Heavenly Saint Holy Land to crush Azure Cloud within ten days and summoned more of its hidden powerhouses.
• News of the battle spread across the Eastern Domain, along with reports that the Royal Pill Holy Land had pledged allegiance to Azure Cloud.
• At the border of Saint Province, Ye Xue Ye warned Shi Hao and his companions to prepare for the holy land's attack, noting the Su Family could not quickly intervene from the Southern Region.
• Lin Bai urged the group to return to Azure Cloud, and Shi Hao agreed that they needed to face the consequences together with their sect.
• Ye Xue Ye offered to accompany the group and help defend Azure Cloud, Su Yaoyao looked forward to visiting it, and Black Emperor planned to confront Wu Chen.

After the Heavenly Saint Holy Land provoked Azure Cloud Sect and the Royal Pill Holy Land cut off its pill supplies, Feng Qingyang prepared to crush the holy land and complete his system mission. He rallied Azure Cloud Sect’s elders and disciples, who answered his declaration of war with a unified cry to execute their enemies.

• The Royal Pill Holy Land announced that it would stop supplying pills to the Heavenly Saint Holy Land and punish Eastern Domain alchemists who helped it.
• Feng Qingyang learned that the Heavenly Saint Holy Land had insulted Azure Cloud Sect, checked his sect’s forces, and welcomed the system mission to eliminate it.
• Azure Cloud Sect’s disciples condemned the holy land, while Dan Qing and Ning Yan discussed the threat and Dan Qing dismissed it as unworthy of fear.
• Feng Qingyang assembled Azure Cloud Sect’s elders and declared, “Those who offend Azure Cloud shall be executed!”
• The elders echoed Feng Qingyang’s declaration, and the sect’s disciples grew excited at the prospect of war.

Old Ancestor Li Qingyun made a spectacular entrance that revealed his Great Emperor’s Might across the Eastern Domain, stunning Shi Hao’s traveling party and Mu Shuixian. Feng Qingyang asked him to crush the Holy Land that had provoked Azure Cloud Sect, and Li Qingyun agreed as the group traveling to the sect continued onward.

• Feng Qingyang summoned Old Ancestor Li Qingyun, who tore through space and released his Emperor’s Might across the Eastern Domain.
• Shi Hao, Lin Bai, Hua Qingyu, Su Yaoyao, and Ye Xue Ye witnessed Li Qingyun’s aura and realized Azure Cloud Sect’s Old Ancestor was a Great Emperor-level expert.
• Mu Shuixian recognized Li Qingyun as the source of the divine sense she had felt after joining the sect and wondered how far his cultivation surpassed her past life’s level.
• Feng Qingyang asked Li Qingyun to destroy the Holy Land that had provoked Azure Cloud Sect, and Li Qingyun promised to reduce it to ashes.
• Li Qingxuan trembled at Li Qingyun’s contempt for Holy Lands and was relieved that Royal Pill Holy Land had pledged allegiance early.

Shi Hao and his companions returned to Azure Cloud Sect with Su Yaoyao and Black Emperor, whose ancient Ferocious Beast bloodline and past as a Great Emperor caught Feng Qingyang’s interest. Black Emperor sensed the sect’s formidable treasures and auras, then looked upon Feng Qingyang and saw a terrifying figure striding across the River of Time.

• Shi Hao, Lin Bai, Hua Qingyu, Ye Xue Ye, Su Yaoyao, and Black Emperor arrived at Azure Cloud Sect, and Wang Ji escorted them inside after Shi Hao confirmed he had the Sect Master's permission.
• Feng Qingyang read the system’s information on Black Emperor and considered using the loyal, powerful demonic beast as Azure Cloud Sect’s gate guard once it recovered.
• Feng Qingyang dismissed the elders but kept Mu Shuixian behind, while she wondered whether he knew about Black Emperor and waited for his instructions.
• Su Yaoyao marveled at Azure Cloud Sect, while Black Emperor sensed several powerful auras from the sect’s treasures and structures.
• The disciples enthusiastically greeted Shi Hao, teasing him about his popularity, and Shi Hao hurried away with Lin Bai and Hua Qingyu.
• Shi Hao and the others entered the Azure Cloud Great Hall, where Black Emperor looked at Feng Qingyang and saw a terrifying figure spanning the River of Time.

Feng Qingyang welcomed the Su Family representatives, dismissed their need to help against the Holy Land, and offered Su Yaoyao a chance to join Azure Cloud Sect. He revealed his interest in the Southern Domain, leaving Ye Xue Ye alarmed about the sect’s ambitions.

• Feng Qingyang reassured Shi Hao and the other disciples, then tasked them with helping oversee the Outer Sect Ranking in ten days.
• Feng Qingyang recognized Su Yaoyao and Ye Xue Ye for their help and invited them to stay as guests, telling them the Su Family need not confront the Holy Land.
• Su Yaoyao asked to join Azure Cloud Sect, and Feng Qingyang said she could enter the outer sect by defeating one of the ranking’s top ten disciples.
• Feng Qingyang told Ye Xue Ye that he had no interest in the Su Family but was very interested in the Southern Domain.

Old Ancestor Li Qingyun sent an Emperor’s decree to destroy the Heavenly Saint Holy Land after it threatened the Azure Cloud Sect. The holy land was annihilated in one palm strike, leaving the Eastern Domain stunned by Azure Cloud’s power.

• Li Qingyun tore open space and sent a golden decree toward the Heavenly Saint Holy Land.
• Holy Lord Yang Zizai gathered the holy land’s forces and vowed to destroy the Azure Cloud Sect.
• The decree descended over the holy land, suppressing Yang Zizai, its experts, and its disciples.
• The Azure Cloud Old Ancestor declared that the decree would crush the holy land and preserve Azure Cloud’s name.
• The decree transformed into a giant hand that annihilated the Heavenly Saint Holy Land, leaving a vast pit behind.

After the Azure Cloud Sect destroyed the Eastern Domain’s Sacred Land, Feng Qingyang received rewards and welcomed the Black Emperor as the sect’s new gatekeeping beast. The Black Emperor learned that Feng Qingyang knew its past and was offered a chance to gain strength and avenge Mu Shuixian.

• Cultivators across the Eastern Domain learned that the Sacred Land had been destroyed, and major forces pledged allegiance to the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Feng Qingyang received three Golden Summoning Cards, a Great Dao Time-Space Tower, and a Cultivation Enhancement Card, along with a new quest to shake the Five Domains.
• Feng Qingyang told Mu Shuixian, Ye Xue Ye, and Su Yaoyao that the Ancestor had destroyed the Sacred Land, then dismissed Ye Xue Ye and Su Yaoyao.
• Feng Qingyang revealed that the Black Emperor was a mid-stage Great Emperor who had been injured by Wu Chen while seeking revenge for Mu Shuixian.
• Mu Shuixian and the Black Emperor reunited, and the Black Emperor admitted it had tried to avenge her.
• Feng Qingyang offered the Black Emperor a chance to take revenge by serving as the Azure Cloud Sect’s gatekeeping divine beast.

Feng Qingyang made Black Emperor a gatekeeper and used his rewards to manifest a Time-Space Tower, summon three peak Saint King Realm experts, and raise his cultivation. The new experts reached Azure Cloud Sect, where Black Emperor nearly challenged them before learning they belonged to the sect.

• Black Emperor accepted Feng Qingyang's offer to guard Azure Cloud Sect's gates, while Mu Shuixian resolved to work hard so the sect might help her against Wu Chen.
• Feng Qingyang used his rewards, manifesting the Great Dao Time-Space Tower, summoning Dugu Qiubai, Mo Feng, and Wu Mei, and advancing to late Manifest Saint Realm.
• The Time-Space Tower appeared at Azure Cloud Sect amid heavenly phenomena, and Dugu Qiubai, Mo Feng, and Wu Mei arrived through spatial rifts.
• Black Emperor challenged the newcomers at the gates until Guardian Elder Wang Ji told him they were Azure Cloud Sect experts.
• Dugu Qiubai, Mo Feng, and Wu Mei entered the great hall and greeted Feng Qingyang.

Feng Qingyang tested the Great Dao Time-Space Tower, opened it to the sect, and upgraded the Azure Cloud Sect to a second-level sect. The transformed sect gained eight peaks, which Feng Qingyang named as he began planning how to staff them.

• Feng Qingyang ordered Dugu Qiubai, Mo Feng, and Wu Mei to remain by the sect and await orders.
• Feng Qingyang entered the Great Dao Time-Space Tower, discovered that time flowed a hundred times faster without affecting entrants’ Bone Age, and opened it to sect members with monthly access limits.
• The elders announced the Time-Space Tower’s rules, and disciples hurried inside to cultivate ahead of the upcoming rankings.
• Feng Qingyang spent enough sect points to upgrade the Azure Cloud Sect, triggering a spiritual qi rain, shaking the mountain, and transforming the sect’s buildings.
• Eight towering peaks rose during the upgrade, and Feng Qingyang named them Azure Cloud Peak, Green Mountain Peak, Azure Sky Peak, Azure Phoenix Peak, Azure Sword Peak, Azure Leaf Peak, Azure Immortal Peak, and Azure God Peak.

Feng Qingyang announced the Azure Cloud Eight Immortal Peaks, which would select disciples in two months, while Azure Cloud Sect finalized its first Outer Sect and Servant Disciple rankings. Ten Outer Sect geniuses became Inner Sect Disciples, ten Servant Disciples entered the Outer Sect, and the next ranking began.

• Feng Qingyang declared that Azure Cloud Sect would establish eight Immortal Peaks and select their disciples when the peaks opened in two months.
• Azure Cloud Sect disciples cultivated for ten days in the Time-Space Tower, equivalent to a thousand days inside, and grew much stronger.
• Elder Ye Bai announced the Outer Sect rankings, with Qin Han first, Ning Yan second, and eight other geniuses completing the top ten.
• Ye Bai awarded the ten ranked geniuses Inner Sect robes and tokens, while Qin Han and Ning Yan thought of the people they hoped to reunite with.
• The top ten Servant Disciples, including Zhang Xiaofan and Ji Ni Tai Mei, entered the Outer Sect, and Shi Hao announced the next ranking would conclude in two months.

Su Yaoyao challenged Azure Cloud Sect’s tenth-ranked disciple, Yang Li, but lost and accepted the sect’s strength. Feng Qingyang appointed Lin Zhan to lead the Azure Cloud Merchant Guild after Azure Cloud City was completed, leaving the sect with a new city and a mission to recruit two more genius disciples.

• Su Yaoyao chose to challenge Yang Li, the tenth-ranked disciple, and introduced herself as the eldest daughter of the Southern Region Su Family.
• Yang Li defeated Su Yaoyao with Azure Cloud Rushing Thunder Palm and knocked her off the Martial Arts Stage.
• Su Yaoyao praised Azure Cloud Sect’s geniuses, while Shi Hao, Hua Qingyu, and Ye Xue Ye checked on her.
• Feng Qingyang reviewed the sect’s disciples and received a system mission to recruit two genius disciples.
• Lin Zhan reported that Azure Cloud City was complete, and Feng Qingyang appointed him president of the Azure Cloud Merchant Guild.
• Azure Cloud City stood a hundred li from the Azure Cloud Mountain Range as a vast, spiritually rich city bearing the plaque Azure Cloud Immortal City.

Azure Cloud City became the Eastern Domain’s bustling center, and the Azure Cloud Merchant Guild prepared a grand auction. Meanwhile, a surviving elder of the destroyed Heavenly Saint Holy Land reached the Central Domain and hired Blood Fiend to kill the Azure Cloud Sect’s Sect Master.

• Azure Cloud City opened to settlers, who paid for tokens to live and conduct business there; Wang Fugui bought ten tokens for one million High-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Ten days later, merchant guilds had established branches in Azure Cloud City, and three Azure Cloud Sect disciples went to visit the Azure Cloud Merchant Guild’s auction.
• Feng Qingyang supplied the auction with the sect’s surplus resources and several headline treasures, drawing cultivators and major powers from across the Eastern Domain.
• A surviving elder of the Heavenly Saint Holy Land reached an inn in Emperor Province and used the phrase “man-eating fish” to contact Blood Fiend.
• The elder paid Blood Fiend to kill the Azure Cloud Sect’s Sect Master, and the masked person reacted to the target’s name.

A Heavenly Saint Holy Land elder hired Blood Fiend to assassinate Feng Qingyang, while Gu Jianfan and Gu Linglong arrived in Azure Cloud City to visit the Azure Cloud Sect’s auction. Feng Qingyang attended the auction in person, where the gathering was set to begin.

• A masked Blood Fiend representative accepted the Heavenly Saint Holy Land elder’s payment and promised to deliver the Azure Cloud Sect Master’s head within three days, then summoned an assassin.
• Gu Jianfan and Gu Linglong arrived in Azure Cloud City and planned to attend the Azure Cloud Merchant Guild auction after discussing the Azure Cloud Sect’s reputation.
• Feng Qingyang received a system notice identifying Gu Jianfan and Gu Linglong as genius disciples, then ordered the mountain opened and prepared to visit the auction.
• Factions and guests filled the Azure Cloud Merchant Guild’s auction hall, where Wang Fugui took a seat at the front.
• Feng Qingyang arrived at the auction with Wu Mei, Dugu Qiubai, and Mo Feng, and Lin Zhan welcomed him as the auction was about to begin.

Su Yaoyao opened the Azure Cloud Merchant Guild’s auction with a Heavenly Yang Saint Pill and presented a series of rare treasures. The Yu Xuan Saint Pill became the fierce finale bidding contest, with Wang Teng declaring that the Eastern Profound Holy Land would pursue it.

• Su Yaoyao, the Su Family’s legitimate daughter, began working as the Azure Cloud Merchant Guild’s auctioneer, while Gu Linglong and her companions recognized her and wondered why she had joined the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Su Yaoyao offered an ultimate ninth-order Heavenly Yang Saint Pill, and two bidders were thrown out after causing a disturbance; the pill eventually sold for eight hundred thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Su Yaoyao auctioned many high-order Saint Pills, Sacred Medicines, and other treasures, while Wang Fugui watched the bidders spend their Spirit Stones without concern.
• Su Yaoyao introduced the ultimate eleventh-order Yu Xuan Saint Pill, which could aid cultivation and slightly improve the chance of advancing realms, prompting astonishment from the crowd and Gu Linglong’s group.
• The Eastern Depot Supervisor of the Yuheng Dynasty bid ten million High-Grade Spirit Stones, but Wang Teng of the Eastern Profound Holy Land countered with twenty million and said his sect was determined to obtain the pill.

At the Azure Cloud Sect auction, bidders competed for a Saint King Law until several experts tried to steal it. The sect’s protective formation crushed the thieves, leaving the auction hall terrified of Azure Cloud Sect’s power.

• Sky Character Room Number Two bid one hundred million High-Grade Spirit Stones and won the first finale item, while Feng Qingyang sent Wu Mei away after whispering to her.
• Su Yaoyao presented the Saint King Law, the Solitary Grand Technique, and bidders from the Heaven Grade rooms raised its price to one billion High-Grade Spirit Stones.
• An old man from Heaven Grade Room Number Eight tried to seize the technique, and several other experts joined the fight for it.
• Gu Linglong stopped her protector from intervening and warned that Azure Cloud Sect was too powerful to provoke.
• Su Yaoyao called on the thieves to stop, and Azure Cloud Sect’s Sect Protecting Grand Formation crushed them beneath a beam of pressure.

The Ancient Clan of the Southern Domain won the Saint King Law at the Azure Cloud Merchant Guild’s auction for two billion High-Grade Spirit Stones, while powerful factions pledged support to the Azure Cloud Sect. After the auction, Gu Linglong learned that Su Yaoyao had become an Outer Sect Disciple, and the Ancient Clan prepared to deliver the payment.

• Feng Qingyang dismissed the forces that had provoked the Azure Cloud Sect as the sect’s Prestige Points surpassed one million.
• Su Yaoyao resumed the auction after the White-Haired Youthful-Looking Old Man and other powers offered to destroy the forces behind the dead troublemakers.
• Gu Linglong bid two billion High-Grade Spirit Stones for the Ancient Clan of the Southern Domain and won the Saint King Law.
• Su Yaoyao told Gu Linglong she was now an Outer Sect Disciple of the Azure Cloud Sect, leaving Gu Linglong eager but hesitant to ask about visiting the sect.
• The Ancient Clan Head ordered the elders to prepare the two billion spirit stones and send them to the Eastern Domain as soon as possible.

Feng Qingyang met Gu Linglong and Gu Jianfan, while a peak Great Saint Realm assassin from Blood Fiend approached Azure Cloud City and targeted two Azure Cloud Sect disciples. The assassin killed them to impersonate them and infiltrate the sect.

• Su Yaoyao sent Gu Linglong and Gu Jianfan to Sky Character Room Number One, where Solitary Undefeated admitted them to meet Feng Qingyang.
• Feng Qingyang recognized the pair’s talents, but left before Gu Linglong could ask to join the Azure Cloud Sect after sensing a powerful Blood Kill Aura approaching.
• A Blood Fiend Earth Grade Assassin arrived near Azure Cloud City, intending to find and kill Feng Qingyang.
• The assassin concealed himself when two Azure Cloud Sect disciples approached, then posed as an independent cultivator from the Northern Domain and asked about the Sect Master.
• After the Senior Brother said he did not know Feng Qingyang’s whereabouts, the assassin declared that the disciples could die.

Dugu Qiubai and the Azure Cloud Sect’s experts saved two disciples from a Blood Fiend assassin and learned he had been hired to kill Feng Qingyang. Meanwhile, Gu Linglong and Gu Jianfan passed the Heavenly Stairway and reached the sect’s mountaintop, where Black Emperor addressed them.

• The Blood Fiend assassin pinned two Azure Cloud Sect disciples down with his pressure and prepared to kill them.
• The disciples’ Sect Tokens shone, and Dugu Qiubai arrived with three Saint King Realm experts, striking the assassin with his sword.
• Feng Qingyang ordered Mo Feng to Soul Search the assassin, and Mo Feng learned that a Blood Fiend Earth Grade Assassin had been sent to kill the Azure Cloud Sect Master before crushing him into a bloody mist.
• Feng Qingyang led the group back to the sect, while the two rescued disciples wondered whether the Sect Master had been among the arriving figures.
• Gu Linglong and Gu Jianfan climbed the Heavenly Stairway, passed its illusions, and reached the Azure Cloud Sect’s mountaintop.
• Black Emperor spoke to Gu Linglong and Gu Jianfan, and they asked the unseen senior to reveal himself before he told them he was right before their eyes.

Gu Linglong and Gu Jianfan arrived at Azure Cloud Sect and were stunned by its powerful guardian and extraordinary disciples. By Feng Qingyang’s order, they were admitted as Outer Sect Disciples, while he received a reward for recruiting two geniuses.

• Black Emperor revealed himself to Gu Linglong and Gu Jianfan, then learned they had come to Azure Cloud Sect by the Sect Master’s order.
• Feng Qingyang sensed the siblings’ arrival and instructed Black Emperor to bring them into the outer sect.
• Black Emperor led Gu Linglong and Gu Jianfan through Azure Cloud Sect, where its spiritual energy, buildings, floating peaks, and powerful disciples amazed them.
• At the Outer Sect Elder Hall, Ye Bai accepted the Sect Master’s order and arranged for the siblings to receive Sect Attire and identity tokens as Outer Sect Disciples.
• Feng Qingyang received a system reward for completing the task of recruiting two geniuses.