Chapter Summaries

Shi Hao confronted Shi Tian at the Heaven's Chosen Assembly, revealing the grudge that began when Shi Tian and his father crippled him. Shi Hao overwhelmed Shi Tian in battle and prepared to kill him, but a Dustfall Holy Land guardian elder intervened.

• Shi Tian recognized Shi Hao and panicked when he learned that his former victim had joined Azure Cloud as the Azure Cloud Master's First Personal Disciple.
• Shi Hao accused Shi Tian and his father of crippling him, while Lin Bai and the other Azure Cloud disciples guarded the platform.
• Shi Tian attacked Shi Hao with his Chaos Eyes and Supreme Sacred Body, but Shi Hao shattered his death-law attack and revealed his own peak Spirit Transformation Realm cultivation and Supreme Sacred Body.
• Shi Hao defeated Shi Tian with a single punch, leaving him injured and unable to fight.
• Shi Hao prepared to kill Shi Tian, but the Dustfall Holy Land's guardian elder descended and asked him to spare the Saint Child; Shi Hao demanded to know why he should explain himself.

Shi Hao killed Shi Tian at the Heaven's Chosen Assembly, and Azure Cloud Sect disciples spread out to challenge the other contestants. Lin Bai defeated Jing Tianchen with his Azure Lotus Sword techniques, drawing attention to his sword and prompting his sect to respond to the cultivators spying on him.

• Shi Hao ignored the Dustfall Holy Land elder's plea, killed Shi Tian with one punch, and received assurances that the holy land would not retaliate.
• The Heaven's Chosen Assembly overseer recognized Shi Hao's strength, while Shi Hao reunited with his fellow Azure Cloud disciples and they scattered to challenge contestants on separate platforms.
• Liu Xue and Leng Bingning watched in astonishment, and Di Xin'er wondered how Azure Cloud's disciples had grown so powerful.
• Lin Bai fought Jing Tianchen, revealed his Azure Lotus Sword Body, and knocked the Buddha Child off the array platform with his sword techniques.
• Sword Dao cultivators recognized Lin Bai's Azure Lotus Sword and swept their divine senses over him, until an Emperor Realm presence released its pressure and rebuked them.

Carefree One descended on the Heaven's Chosen Assembly after spies targeted Lin Bai's Azure Lotus Sword, forcing the Chaos Heaven Divine Kingdom to capture the offenders and apologize. The assembly resumed, while Feng Qingyang continued to wait and see what scheme the kingdom had planned.

• Carefree One's Peak Great Emperor pressure shattered the spying cultivators' divine senses and forced the assembly's participants to bow, while Lin Bai realized they had coveted his Azure Lotus Sword.
• Mu Shuixian and Luo Chen arrived, and Carefree One identified himself as Azure Cloud's Great Offering and condemned the spies.
• The divine palace's chief steward apologized, and the Azure Emperor, Lin Qing, arrived and ordered the kingdom's soldiers to seize the spying cultivators.
• The soldiers dragged away the injured sword cultivators, while the Fleeting Life Pavilion Elder recognized the Azure Lotus Sword and considered Azure Cloud's prospects.
• Carefree One left the spies' fate to Azure Cloud, and Feng Qingyang continued waiting to learn Chaos Heaven's scheme before the assembly resumed.

Empress Lin Yao refined four of the five Emperor Sources and neared her ascension, while Azure Cloud disciples dominated the Heaven's Chosen Assembly. Wu Chen learned that a Peak Great Emperor from Azure Cloud had intervened and secretly searched the assembly venue, where he discovered hidden figures in the void.

• Empress Lin Yao continued refining her final Emperor Source as Wu Chen prepared for her imminent breakthrough.
• Hua Qingyu fought Di Xin'er, unleashing her Phoenix Sacred Body and clashing Phoenix Flame with Di Xin'er's Sword Qi.
• Qin Han, Ning Yan, Qing Yan, Long Aotian, and Luo Wu took their places on battle platforms as other heaven's chosen hesitated to challenge Azure Cloud disciples.
• Wu Chen asked his spy about the assembly and learned that an Azure Cloud Great Emperor had made a move.
• Wu Chen swept the venue with his Half-Immortal Realm divine sense, found Peak Great Emperors hiding in the void, and secretly reached toward them.

Wu Chen recognized Ning Yan, his old rival, among the Heaven's Chosen and grew wary of the mysterious Azure Cloud Sect. Lin Yao passed her tribulation and became an immortal, while the Assembly concluded with the announcement of the top ten still to come.

• Wu Chen saw Ning Yan using the Azure Cloud Immortal Technique at the Heaven's Chosen Assembly and suspected Azure Cloud had a Time-Space Treasure or ties to an Upper Realm Great Sect.
• Lin Yao broke through the Immortal Realm barrier, endured Golden Tribulation Lightning, and became an immortal.
• Wu Chen warned Lin Yao not to act against Azure Cloud until they understood its true strength, and she agreed to wait.
• The Fleeting Life Pavilion Elder announced that the Heaven's Chosen Assembly had concluded and began to name the ten strongest Heaven's Chosen.

The Heaven’s Chosen Assembly ended with eight Azure Cloud Sect disciples taking the top ten places, while the Divine Kingdom offered recruitment and ranking rewards. Feng Qingyang received powerful system rewards, including a card that could raise his cultivation into the Immortal Realm, an immortal beast mount, and a spring that could improve talent.

• The assembly overseer announced the top ten, with eight Azure Cloud Sect disciples occupying the first eight places except ninth and tenth, and Sima Wuqing lamented his eleventh-place finish.
• The overseer offered places in the Chaos Heaven Divine Kingdom to the top hundred and faction choices to other top-ranked participants, while Mu Shuixian heard that the Divine Kingdom’s Empress had reached the Immortal Realm.
• The Black Emperor ordered Lin Gousheng to guard Azure Cloud Sect’s gate and scolded him over the Lin Family’s collusion with the Devil Race.
• Feng Qingyang received a Cultivation Enhancement Card, a peak Earth Immortal Realm Black Jade Qilin, and the Immortal Clear Azure Spring as rewards for his disciples’ first-place finish.
• Feng Qingyang decided the spring could help Azure Cloud Sect disciples with poor talent transform their aptitudes.

Feng Qingyang used the Cultivation Enhancement Card, reached the peak of the Half-Immortal Realm, and gained the Black Jade Qilin and Immortal Clear Azure Spring. With Azure Cloud Sect’s power growing, he turned his attention to the Huantian Divine Kingdom and Empress Lin Yao.

• Feng Qingyang used the Cultivation Enhancement Card, advancing to the eighth level of the Half-Immortal Realm and materializing the Black Jade Qilin and Immortal Clear Azure Spring.
• Feng Qingyang endured the Golden Tribulation Lightning without resistance and advanced to the peak of the Half-Immortal Realm.
• The Black Jade Qilin appeared, submitted to Feng Qingyang, and became Azure Cloud Sect’s mount, while demons across the Desolate Martial Continent bowed to its aura.
• The Immortal Clear Azure Spring descended onto Azure Cloud Peak, and the Phoenix Empress wondered whether the Phoenix Clan should join Azure Cloud Sect.
• Feng Qingyang sensed that the spring could improve cultivation and talent, then considered the Huantian Divine Kingdom’s spies and Empress Lin Yao’s breakthrough into the Immortal Realm.

Feng Qingyang reviewed Azure Cloud Sect’s growing strength and disciple-promotion rules, then prepared to pursue the sect’s goal of dominating the Barren Martial Realm. In the Sky Territory Realm, Azure Sky Immortal Sect ordered Azure Cloud destroyed, while Lin Yao and Wu Chen reconsidered their own plans against it.

• Feng Qingyang noted Azure Cloud Sect’s powerful roster, its eighty thousand sect value, and the new rules for promoting disciples.
• Feng Qingyang summoned Fu Hongchen from the Technique Hall and resolved to complete the main quest of dominating the Barren Martial Realm.
• Azure Sky Immortal Sect learned that Azure Cloud threatened its control of Huangwu and ordered elders stationed in the Turbulent Star Region to destroy it.
• Azure Sky Immortal Sect’s Immortal Lord dismissed concerns about the Devil Race and said the Heavenly Demon Sect could deal with it.
• Lin Yao suggested abandoning the plan to destroy Azure Cloud, and Wu Chen agreed that they should proceed cautiously.

Wu Chen and Lin Yao suspected Azure Cloud Sect had a powerful backer and decided to seek its friendship as its influence spread. After winning the Heaven's Chosen Assembly, Shi Hao and the other Azure Cloud Sect disciples were invited to Purple Luan Hall, where the Empress was about to appear.

• Wu Chen and Lin Yao discussed Azure Cloud Sect's rapid rise and concluded they should prioritize befriending it.
• Cultivators in the Divine Capital discussed Azure Cloud Sect's sweep of the Heaven's Chosen Assembly and Shi Hao's revenge against Shi Tian.
• Shi Hao praised his junior brothers and sisters for winning the assembly, and an envoy invited them to Purple Luan Hall to receive their rewards by the Empress's order.
• Lin Yao told Wu Chen that she had invited Azure Cloud Sect's people and that they must seek to befriend them.
• Mu Shuixian, Luo Chen, Shi Hao, and the other Azure Cloud Sect disciples arrived at Purple Luan Hall and were seated at the front.
• A herald announced the Empress's arrival.

At Purple Luan Hall, Lin Yao and Wu Chen recognized Mu Shuixian and Qin Han as enemies from their past lives, while Qin Han accused Lin Yao of killing him. The Azure Emperor arrived and confronted Lin Yao, leaving Qin Han shaken by the revelation that she had also been involved in his past.

• Lin Yao and Wu Chen entered Purple Luan Hall and took the seats of honor, drawing the cultivators' attention to their presence beside the Azure Cloud Sect disciples.
• Lin Yao recognized Qin Han as the Heavenly Cold Great Emperor she had killed, while Wu Chen recognized Mu Shuixian as the Water Immortal Empress he had assassinated.
• Mu Shuixian and Qin Han stood and accused Wu Chen and Lin Yao of killing them in their past lives, shocking everyone in the hall.
• Wu Chen denied the accusations and threatened Mu Shuixian, while Lin Yao called Qin Han an impostor and claimed her husband was still alive.
• The Azure Emperor arrived, recognized Qin Han, and accused Lin Yao of killing him despite knowing her own feelings for him.

Lin Yao's attempt to kill Qin Han brought Mu Shuixian and Lin Qing to his defense, until Carefree One of Azure Cloud Sect arrived and challenged the Chaos Heaven Divine Kingdom. Lin Yao rose to fight him, sealed the skies above the Divine Capital, and trapped the fleeing Azure Cloud Sect group as the battle began.

• Lin Yao threatened Qin Han, but Lin Qing and Mu Shuixian protected him and condemned Lin Yao for her actions.
• Mu Shuixian revealed her mid-stage Supreme Realm power, while Wu Chen struggled with the conflict between Azure Cloud Sect and the Divine Kingdom.
• Carefree One smashed through the Purple Luan Hall and appeared above it with the aura of a Peak Great Emperor, prompting the Divine Kingdom's forces to mobilize.
• Lin Yao destroyed the hall and flew up to confront Carefree One as Lin Qing opened a void rift for Mu Shuixian and the Azure Cloud Sect group to escape.
• Wu Chen followed Lin Yao into the sky, while the other guests worried about the approaching battle and their missing reward treasures.
• Lin Yao sealed the skies above the Divine Capital with Immortal Dao Laws, trapping the fleeing group, then declared that she would annihilate Carefree One.

Azure Cloud Red Dust Immortal descended on Huangwu and declared war on the Chaos Heaven Divine Kingdom, crushing Lin Yao’s Immortal Dao attack. Lin Yao and Wu Chen fought back, but Red Dust Immortal overwhelmed them as the Immortal battle shattered the firmament.

• Red Dust Immortal announced that Azure Cloud would crush forces that refused to submit, naming the Chaos Heaven Divine Kingdom as its first target.
• Lin Qing, Mu Shuixian, Qin Han, and the disciples crossed the Endless Void toward the Chaos Heaven Divine Capital after a restriction on their passage vanished.
• Elders of the Wu Chen Emperor Sect worried about Azure Cloud’s advance while the Mirror Moon Valley Lord rushed toward the Divine Capital to reach his granddaughter.
• Red Dust Immortal confronted Lin Yao and Wu Chen above the Divine Capital, and the three Immortals’ attacks shattered the firmament and shook Huangwu.
• Red Dust Immortal’s Immortal Dao overwhelmed Lin Yao and Wu Chen, leaving them panicked as her attack continued toward them.

Fu Hongchen killed Lin Yao and Wu Chen, then announced that Azure Cloud would destroy the Wu Chen Emperor Sect. Lin Qing offered to lead the Chaos Heaven Divine Kingdom in pledging allegiance to Azure Cloud and asked to destroy the sect on its behalf.

• Wu Chen shoved Lin Yao into Fu Hongchen’s attack, and Lin Yao was blasted apart as Immortal Rain began falling across the Five Regions.
• Fu Hongchen sealed Wu Chen’s escape, rejected his offer of an immortality secret, and contained his attempted self-destruction in auspicious clouds.
• The Immortal Rain healed the land and benefited cultivators, while Lin Qing grieved for her elder sister and told Qin Han that Lin Yao had brought her death upon herself.
• Fu Hongchen ordered Azure Cloud’s disciples to return to their sect and named the Wu Chen Emperor Sect as her next target.
• Lin Qing offered to pledge the Divine Kingdom’s allegiance to Azure Cloud and asked to destroy the Wu Chen Emperor Sect on Azure Cloud’s behalf.

Lin Qing became Empress of the Chaos Heaven Divine Kingdom and declared its submission to the Azure Cloud Immortal Sect, while Qin Han left with the sect despite her feelings for him. News of Azure Cloud’s power spread across Huangwu, and other major factions decided to submit as well.

• Lin Qing received Fu Hongchen’s permission to take the Chaos Heaven throne and declare the Divine Kingdom’s submission to Azure Cloud.
• Di Ye arrived to check on his granddaughter Di Xin'er, and Lin Qing welcomed him to her Divine Kingdom.
• Mu Shuixian summoned the Azure Cloud Warship, and Qin Han boarded without speaking to Lin Qing, who watched him depart.
• Three days later, news of Lin Yao’s death, the Dustless Great Emperor’s death, and Chaos Heaven’s submission spread across Huangwu.
• Major factions held councils and decided to submit to the Azure Cloud Immortal Sect.

The major factions reacted to Azure Cloud’s rise, with the Pill Sect deciding to submit and send elders bearing gifts. After Azure Cloud became Huangwu’s supreme ruler, Feng Qingyang received the system’s rewards and planned to settle remaining matters before expanding into the Turbulent Star Region.

• Pan Feng led Chaos Heaven Divine Kingdom soldiers in an attack on the Wu Chen Emperor Sect, mocking its leaders over their slain Emperor Lord.
• The Myriad Images Emperor Clan decided to execute the prisoners in its Divine Punishment Ancient Tower and relocate to the Turbulent Star Region, prompting other Central Continent factions to follow suit or submit to Azure Cloud.
• The Pill Sect Master decided to submit to Azure Cloud and sent Elder Ye and Elder Yang with generous gifts, while Elder Ye volunteered for the mission.
• Countless factions across the Central, Northern, and Western Domains declared their submission to Azure Cloud, making it Huangwu’s supreme ruler.
• Feng Qingyang received five Golden Summoning Cards, a Purple Summoning Card, eight Sect Exclusive Forbidden Grounds, and Ten Thousand Immortal Platforms, then told the system to materialize all the rewards.

Feng Qingyang summoned five peak Great Emperors as Azure Cloud Sect Sequence Elders and Ye Qing as an immortal, while eight forbidden grounds appeared in the back mountain. The Heaven's Chosen Assembly champions returned to the sect, where Black Emperor and Lin Gousheng welcomed them.

• Feng Qingyang summoned Di Shitian, Li Wendao, Yang Wuqing, Lin Xu, and Ye Changsheng as Sequence Elders, along with Ye Qing, and the Ten Thousand Immortal Platforms appeared.
• The six powerful figures arrived at Azure Cloud Sect, prompting factions across Huangwu to prepare gifts and seek the sect's favor.
• Eight forbidden grounds manifested in Azure Cloud Sect's Back Mountain, and Li Qingyun entered them after warning the Dragon Clan to stay away.
• The disciples discussed Azure Cloud Sect's growing power as the Azure Cloud Warship returned with Mu Shuixian, Luo Chen, Shi Hao, Lin Bai, Hua Qingyu, and five other disciples, who had taken the top eight places at the Heaven's Chosen Assembly.
• Black Emperor and Lin Gousheng welcomed the returning disciples, and Black Emperor urged them to keep quiet because he had been napping.

Feng Qingyang rewarded the elders and disciples who won the Heaven's Chosen Assembly and announced that recruitment for the immortal peaks would begin in three days. Meanwhile, the Lan Family relocated to Boundary Region City to avoid submitting to Azure Cloud Sect, where its patriarch planned to seek help from Fleeting Life Pavilion.

• Feng Qingyang awarded Mu Shuixian, Luo Chen, and eight disciples immortal arts and Contribution Points, and promoted five inner-sect talents to Core Disciples.
• Feng Qingyang introduced the five Sequence Elders and told the disciples to cultivate toward becoming Sequence Disciples.
• Feng Qingyang announced that immortal peak recruitment would begin in three days and considered waiting to exchange Prestige Points until the sect advanced to Level Three.
• Forces unwilling to submit to Azure Cloud Sect continued relocating from Huangwu to Boundary Region City.
• Lan Yun questioned her father about fleeing Azure Cloud Sect, but he insisted the Lan Family should not remain beneath others and revealed that Fleeting Life Pavilion had invited them to seek its help.

Azure Sky Elder ordered the forces of the Turbulent Star Region and Huangwu’s major factions to join him in destroying Azure Cloud. Two days later, Azure Cloud opened its Eight Immortal Peaks to disciples eager to advance their cultivation.

• Azure Sky Elder promised to destroy Azure Cloud and ordered an invasion of Huangwu within three days.
• Pavilion Master Su gathered Huangwu’s powerhouses, including Myriad Images Great Emperor and the Lan Family, to prepare for the attack.
• Lan Yun realized that Fleeting Life Pavilion had ties to an Exalted Immortal and many powerful factions.
• Two days later, Azure Cloud opened the Eight Immortal Peaks to its Outer Sect and Inner Sect Disciples.
• Feng Qingyang had selected powerful cultivators, made them sign Great Dao Contracts, and appointed them to fill vacant Immortal Peak Elder positions.

Azure Cloud Sect began its Immortal Peak recruitment assessment, offering entry to disciples who passed the Nine Tripods Talent Test or ranked among the top thousand in a strength contest. As the tests got underway, a Pill Sect flying ship approached Azure Cloud Immortal City and was ordered to land.

• Azure Cloud Sect’s elders announced that disciples with five or more bell rings could enter an Immortal Peak, while those who failed could compete for one of a thousand places in the strength assessment.
• Gu Jianfan said he hoped to join Sword Peak, while Gu Linglong planned to seek Azure Phoenix Peak and Su Yaoyao said she would follow her there.
• The Seven Immortal Peak Masters took their places, and Lin Wuji invited Sword Madman Yang Feng to choose a disciple as his personal student.
• The Nine Tripods Talent Test began, and Yang Li, Lin Yun, and Yun Mengluo passed while Ji Ni Tai Mei failed and was sent to wait for the second round.
• A Pill Sect flying ship arrived above the void outside Azure Cloud Immortal City, and its crew was told to land because they could not approach any closer.

Pill Sect elders Elder Yang and Elder Ye brought their sect’s submission and pills to Azure Cloud, where Black Emperor sent them to the Alchemy Hall. Meanwhile, Gu Jianfan passed the recruitment assessment and became Sword Maniac Yang Feng’s personal disciple, while the Pill Sect group marveled at Azure Cloud’s wonders.

• Elder Yang stopped the Pill Sect’s flying ship outside Azure Cloud Immortal City and led the group toward Azure Cloud Sect.
• Elder Ye offered the Pill Sect’s submission and pills to Black Emperor, who told Lin Gousheng to take them to the Alchemy Hall.
• Gu Jianfan and Gu Linglong each reached eight chimes in the talent assessment and chose their desired immortal peaks.
• Yang Feng offered to take Gu Jianfan as his personal disciple, and Gu Jianfan accepted after learning he was the legendary Sword Maniac.
• Lin Gousheng led the Pill Sect group through Azure Cloud Sect, where they were astonished by its spiritual qi, Dao Rhythm, and Immortal Qi.