Chapter Summaries

Su Changqing learned that Great Bright King Peacock had stolen a volume of the Book of Life and Death and erased Jiang Xingxing’s life record, then left the underworld for the East Sea. There he approached the Dragon Palace in disguise, where the Nefarious Dragon King was staying with the Four Sea Dragon Kings.

• The North Yin Great Emperor discovered a Five-Colored Feather and concluded that Great Bright King Peacock had stolen the Book of Life and Death and altered a life record.
• Su Changqing connected the theft to Jiang Xingxing and left the underworld after the North Yin Great Emperor warned him not to confront Buddhism alone.
• The North Yin Great Emperor blamed Ksitigarbha King for conspiring with Kong Xuan and lamented that Ksitigarbha King had not emerged from his palace.
• Su Changqing traveled to the East Sea, transformed into a golden giant lobster, and approached the East Sea Dragon Palace.
• The Nefarious Dragon King rebuked the Four Sea Dragon Kings for their weak bloodlines, while the East Sea Dragon King warned that his presence could bring disaster upon the dragon race.

Su Changqing infiltrated the East Sea Dragon Palace disguised as a golden lobster while the Four Sea Dragon Kings left to seek his help against the Nefarious Dragon King. He revealed his identity through the Dharma Appearance of Heaven and Earth and began fighting the fleeing dragon.

• The Nefarious Dragon King demanded turtle soup from the East Sea Dragon King, and the Four Sea Dragon Kings secretly decided to seek help from Su Changqing.
• The Four Sea Dragon Kings left for the South Heaven Gate, while Su Changqing entered the Dragon Palace disguised as a lobster named Justice.
• The Nefarious Dragon King sensed the Dragon Kings had left, gathered the palace treasures, and tried to escape as the Sea Clan guards fled.
• Su Changqing challenged the Nefarious Dragon King and revealed the Dharma Appearance of Heaven and Earth, growing into a golden lobster over a million zhang tall.
• The Nefarious Dragon King dodged Su Changqing's attacks by teleporting through the clouds, and Su Changqing pressed him with another strike.

Su Changqing captured Nefarious Dragon King and tried to recruit him as his mount, promising to give him the Candle Dragon Tendon if he reached the Great Perfection of Grand Luo Heavenly Venerate. Nefarious Dragon King refused, insisting that serving as a mount would ruin his chance to become a Grand Luo Emperor, and revealed he had been searching for his former master, Taiyin.

• Nefarious Dragon King fled from Su Changqing, but Su Changqing used the Candle Dragon Tendon to drag him back to the East Sea Coast.
• Su Changqing revealed his identity and asked Nefarious Dragon King to become his mount, offering him the Candle Dragon Tendon and help to become a Grand Luo Emperor.
• Su Changqing released Nefarious Dragon King and challenged him to escape, but caught up with him almost immediately using Nine Heavens Azure Cloud.
• Nefarious Dragon King refused to become Su Changqing's mount, arguing that it would destroy his chance to attain the Grand Luo realm.
• Nefarious Dragon King revealed that he had once been saved by Taiyin, his only master, and asked not to die facing north because he believed Taiyin was in the south.

Su Changqing spared the Nefarious Dragon King after he surrendered, intending to keep him close for the Dragon Clan inheritance. After learning that Jiang Xingyue had found the Phoenix Clan Ruins in the Buddhist Realm, Su Changqing resolved to go there and turned his attention to how soon the Nefarious Dragon King could advance.

• Ji Xingyue arrived on the Taiyin Long River and told Su Changqing that she had found the Phoenix Clan Ruins in the Immortal Cloud Realm.
• Su Changqing told the Nefarious Dragon King that Ji Xingyue was his Dao companion, and the Nefarious Dragon King surrendered rather than die.
• The Nefarious Dragon King insisted that his only master was the Taiyin Star Lord and bargained for the Candle Dragon Tendon upon reaching the perfected Grand Luo Heavenly Venerate realm; Su Changqing agreed.
• Su Changqing read the Nefarious Dragon King's Life Script and learned of his future rise to the Grand Luo Emperor realm and death at the hands of the Chaos God-Fiend, Life-and-Death Two-Faced.
• Su Changqing decided to take the Nefarious Dragon King outside the Nine Heavens World and planned to visit the Buddhist Realm to investigate Jiang Xingyue's connection to the Phoenix Clan Ruins.
• Su Changqing asked the Nefarious Dragon King how long it would take him to reach the perfected Grand Luo Heavenly Venerate realm.

Su Changqing prepared to leave the Nine Heavens World for the Immortal Cloud Realm to pursue opportunities tied to his Life Script, while the Four Sea Dragon Kings sought help against the Nefarious Dragon King. The chapter left them considering whether to ask Nezha for help after learning Su Changqing was away.

• The Nefarious Dragon King insisted he was Su Changqing’s subordinate, not his mount, and declared that only Taiyin Star Lord could ride him because of her kindness to him in childhood.
• Su Changqing revealed that he was heading to the Immortal Cloud Realm to seek the Eternal Green Lotus Pagoda and the Fan Tian Seal, among other opportunities for establishing the Changqing Realm and reaching the Grand Luo Emperor realm.
• The Four Sea Dragon Kings arrived at the South Heaven Gate in tears and asked the Four Heavenly Kings to let them pass so they could seek Su Changqing’s help against the Nefarious Dragon King.
• Mo Liqing told the Four Sea Dragon Kings that Su Changqing had descended to the lower realm a hundred days earlier and had not returned.
• The Four Sea Dragon Kings asked whether the Great God of the Three Altars Sea Assembly was present, and Mo Liqing reminded them of Nezha’s old feud with the Dragon Kings.

Ji Wuhen arrived to pursue the Nefarious Dragon King and planned to take control of the Four Seas Dragon Race, while Su Changqing and the Nefarious Dragon King traveled toward the Ends of the Earth. Su Changqing left the Nine Heavens World and revealed his formidable power in the Chaos Universe.

• Ji Wuhen arrived in golden armor, intimidated the West Sea Dragon King, and demanded that the Four Sea Dragon Kings take him to the Nefarious Dragon King.
• The East Sea Dragon King praised Ji Wuhen and offered to make him his adopted son, while Ji Wuhen secretly planned to control the Four Seas and unite the Nine Realms.
• Su Changqing and the Nefarious Dragon King traveled toward the Ends of the Earth, then pierced through the Nine Heavens World’s barrier into the Chaos Universe.
• Su Changqing transformed into a colossal figure and released his Great Dao Law, summoning a Nine Heavens Black Tortoise and an Eternal Green Lotus.

Su Changqing and the Nefarious Dragon King crossed the stars toward the Immortal Cloud Realm, where Su Changqing sensed the Eternal Green Lotus Pagoda. Along the way, Su Changqing rescued survivors from a zombie-ravaged planet and brought them into Changqing Realm, while pursuing his plan to expand it.

• The Nefarious Dragon King marveled that Su Changqing held seventy percent of the world's fortune as Su Changqing carried him and Changqing Realm through the Cosmic Galaxy.
• Su Changqing passed a planet overrun by zombies without intervening, explaining that he had more important matters to attend to.
• Su Changqing plucked the planet from its orbit and moved its surviving inhabitants into Changqing Realm, telling them to develop their new world and compete to rule it.
• Su Changqing explained that he had saved the survivors because one of them might reach the Grand Luo Heavenly Venerate realm, and described his ambition to merge Changqing Realm with the Grand Zhou Celestial Array.
• Su Changqing and the Nefarious Dragon King neared the Immortal Cloud Realm, where Su Changqing sensed the Eternal Green Lotus Pagoda.

Su Changqing reached the Immortal Cloud Realm and planned to draw the Immortal Cloud Great Emperor away so the Nefarious Dragon King could refine the realm and force its powers to reveal the Eternal Green Lotus Pagoda. As Su Changqing entered the realm, Taishang Xianyun Sect disciples discussed its strength and You Chao Yin Yue before a sudden ray of light drew everyone’s attention.

• Su Changqing explained that the Immortal Cloud Realm was a fragment of the Fourteen Heavens and told the Nefarious Dragon King that he needed help retrieving a treasure.
• Su Changqing planned to lure the Immortal Cloud Great Emperor away while the Nefarious Dragon King refined the realm and forced its imperial artifacts and powerful beings to emerge.
• The Nefarious Dragon King worried about facing the power of the entire realm, but Su Changqing assured him he could withstand it and might reach the peak of Grand Luo Heavenly Venerate.
• Su Changqing entered the Immortal Cloud Realm, while the Nefarious Dragon King waited outside in dragon form.
• At Taishang Xianyun Sect, a Daoist master discussed the sect’s strength, the Nine Heavens Grand Competition, and You Chao Yin Yue with his disciples.
• A ray of light tore through the sky, and the beings of the Immortal Cloud Realm looked toward it in shock.

Su Changqing arrived at the Taishang Xianyun Sect, where Immortal Cloud Great Emperor welcomed him and praised his strength. After examining the Great Emperor’s life script and learning of his hidden evil, Su Changqing considered the nature of his power and lineage; the chapter ended with the Great Emperor inviting him to drink.

• Su Changqing announced his visit to Immortal Cloud Great Emperor, startling the disciples at Central Peak.
• Immortal Cloud Great Emperor personally greeted Su Changqing and praised his rise to the peak of Grand Luo Heavenly Venerate.
• Su Changqing read Immortal Cloud Great Emperor’s life script and discovered his plan to seize Great Emperor Qing’s Eternal Green Lotus Pagoda and later betray Su Changqing.
• Su Changqing reflected on Immortal Cloud Great Emperor’s sprawling sect and on the Dao Ancestor’s influence over the heavens and its living beings.
• Immortal Cloud Great Emperor invited Su Changqing to drink with him.

Su Changqing visited the Taishang Xianyun Sect to find You Chao Yin Yue and learned that the Eternal Green Lotus Pagoda was an imperial treasure Immortal Cloud Great Emperor could not retrieve. Immortal Cloud secretly planned to exploit the pagoda and its disciples, while Su Changqing surveyed the formidable Immortal Cloud Realm from his palace.

• Su Changqing accepted Immortal Cloud Great Emperor’s invitation and asked to see You Chao Yin Yue, who had entered the pagoda to cultivate.
• Immortal Cloud Great Emperor showed Su Changqing the ten-level pagoda, called the Immortal Cloud Tower, and admitted he could not reclaim it; Su Changqing said its many Xiantian Divine Forbidden made it exceptionally rare.
• Immortal Cloud arranged for Su Changqing to stay near the pagoda, then privately asked Azure Phoenix Heavenly Venerate whether he had left or inspected it.
• Azure Phoenix reported that Su Changqing had acted for the You Chao Clan and slain Barefoot Heavenly Venerate, so Immortal Cloud ordered her not to kill You Chao Yin Yue yet and to merge the other Holy Sons into the pagoda.
• Immortal Cloud revealed that he had founded the Taishang Xianyun Sect to control the pagoda, using disciples’ deaths to wear away Great Emperor Qing’s will, but feared Su Changqing might destroy his plan.
• Su Changqing surveyed the Immortal Cloud Realm from his palace and observed its many Grand Luo Heavenly Venerates and powerful formations.

Su Changqing attended a banquet hosted by the Immortal Cloud Great Emperor, where a challenge to demonstrate his powers turned into a display of his overwhelming strength. He left the Taishang Xianyun Sect’s immortals stunned after suppressing Turbid Thunder Heavenly Venerate with the Cloud-Turning Seal.

• Su Changqing stayed in the palace for a month, weighing the threat posed by the Immortal Cloud Great Emperor and the sixteen Grand Luo Heavenly Venerates of the Immortal Cloud Realm.
• The Immortal Cloud Great Emperor invited Su Changqing to a three-day banquet attended by many Grand Luo Heavenly Venerates of the Taishang Xianyun Sect.
• Turbid Thunder asked Su Changqing to demonstrate his powers, and Su Changqing displayed heavenly lightning before Azure Bird challenged him to show Purple Heaven Divine Thunder.
• Su Changqing rebuked Azure Bird for speaking out of turn and struck him down with lightning.
• Su Changqing used the Cloud-Turning Seal to crush Turbid Thunder Heavenly Venerate and leave his fate uncertain, shocking the banquet guests.

Su Changqing subdued Turbid Thunder Heavenly Venerate and confronted Immortal Cloud Great Emperor before revealing that he had come to deliver the You Chao Clan’s Cloud-Turning Seal to You Chao Yin Yue. After giving her the seal, he secretly hoped she would discover the Fan Tian Seal and draw Immortal Cloud Great Emperor into helping him retrieve it.

• Su Changqing nearly killed Turbid Thunder Heavenly Venerate with a single palm, and Immortal Cloud Great Emperor told Azure Bird to thank him for sparing them.
• Su Changqing challenged Immortal Cloud Great Emperor and declared that he feared no fight against sixteen Grand Luo Heavenly Venerates.
• You Chao Yin Yue emerged from the Eternal Green Lotus Pagoda, and Fire Phoenix Heavenly Venerate told her that Su Changqing was also a member of the You Chao Clan.
• Su Changqing explained that Senior Cangqing had passed the Cloud-Turning Seal to him and that he had traveled to deliver it to You Chao Yin Yue.
• Su Changqing gave You Chao Yin Yue the Cloud-Turning Seal, secretly intending for it to lead her to the Fan Tian Seal and prompt Immortal Cloud Great Emperor to seek his help retrieving it.

Su Changqing gave You Chao Yin Yue the Cloud-Turning Seal and learned it resonated with the You Chao Clan’s missing Fan Tian Seal, which was blocked by a forbidden land. He left the Immortal Cloud Realm without seeking the Ultimate Emperor Weapon, while the others prepared to help Yin Yue retrieve it.

• You Chao Yin Yue discovered that the Cloud-Turning Seal resonated with the You Chao Clan’s Fan Tian Seal, though a forbidden land blocked it from reaching them.
• Su Changqing declared that the Cloud-Turning Seal no longer belonged to him and said that You Chao Yin Yue should wield the Fan Tian Seal if it was retrieved.
• Su Changqing refused Immortal Cloud Great Emperor’s invitation to stay and departed on Nine Heavens Azure Cloud.
• Immortal Cloud Great Emperor praised Su Changqing’s character and signaled Fire Phoenix Heavenly Venerate to ask Yin Yue about the Fan Tian Seal.
• You Chao Yin Yue reflected that Su Changqing had shown no desire for the Fan Tian Seal despite her deliberate revelation of its existence.

You Chao Yin Yue learned that the Fan Tian Seal lay in the Death Abyss, while Su Changqing returned to Nefarious Dragon King and revealed his plan to lure Immortal Cloud Great Emperor away. Su Changqing left Nefarious Dragon King to begin refining the Immortal Cloud Realm once the two Great Emperors departed.

• You Chao Yin Yue learned from Fire Phoenix Heavenly Venerate that the forbidden land three thousand light-years away was the Death Abyss, where the Fan Tian Seal had been lost.
• Immortal Cloud Great Emperor vanished in the direction Su Changqing had gone, and You Chao Yin Yue hoped Su Changqing would take the Fan Tian Seal if he could.
• Su Changqing returned to Nefarious Dragon King and said Immortal Cloud Great Emperor had entered his trap.
• Su Changqing ordered Nefarious Dragon King to refine the Immortal Cloud Realm after he and Immortal Cloud Great Emperor left, warning him to evade a possible Emperor Weapon strike.
• Nefarious Dragon King suspected Su Changqing was plotting against him, but Su Changqing said he had entrusted him with the task because he trusted him.

Su Changqing agreed to help Immortal Cloud Great Emperor retrieve the Fan Tian Seal from the Dead Abyss, provided it was given to You Chao Yin Yue. They returned to the Immortal Cloud Realm and set a departure for thirty days later, with only You Chao Yin Yue joining them.

• Su Changqing entrusted Nefarious Dragon King with his task before leaving him hidden in the cosmic darkness.
• Immortal Cloud Great Emperor chased Su Changqing across the Cosmic Galaxy and asked him to help obtain the Fan Tian Seal for You Chao Yin Yue.
• Su Changqing angrily denied wanting the Fan Tian Seal and agreed to enter the Dead Abyss only if the seal went to You Chao Yin Yue.
• Immortal Cloud Great Emperor privately planned to use Su Changqing to break the Eternal Green Lotus Pagoda's Xiantian Divine Forbidden and erase Great Emperor Qing's will.
• Immortal Cloud Great Emperor announced that he and Su Changqing would depart for the Dead Abyss in thirty days and ordered the other immortals to remain behind.

Su Changqing agreed to accompany the Immortal Cloud Realm to the Dead Abyss, refusing You Chao Yin Yue’s offer of the Fan Tian Seal because he was committed to his promise. Before the journey began, the Immortal Cloud Great Emperor named You Chao Yin Yue the Taishang Xianyun Sect’s next Holy Maiden.

• Su Changqing persuaded the Immortal Cloud Great Emperor to leave for the Dead Abyss in three days rather than wait thirty.
• You Chao Yin Yue urged Su Changqing to leave after they obtained the Fan Tian Seal, but he refused the weapon and offered to send her back to the Nine Heavens World.
• You Chao Yin Yue said she would stay in the Eternal Green Lotus Pagoda to cultivate, and Su Changqing warned that relying on one place’s opportunities could lead to ruin.
• Fire Phoenix Heavenly Venerate reported Su Changqing’s words to the Immortal Cloud Great Emperor, who admired his resolve and loyalty.
• The Immortal Cloud Great Emperor announced that You Chao Yin Yue would be the Taishang Xianyun Sect’s next Holy Maiden and that he and Su Changqing would journey to the Dead Abyss.

Su Changqing joined Immortal Cloud Great Emperor and You Chao Yin Yue to retrieve the Fan Tian Seal from the Dead Abyss, where divine abilities and mana could not be used. Immortal Cloud Great Emperor revealed a powerful Silver Horn Bronze Man to carry them there, while Su Changqing resolved to take only the seal.

• Su Changqing agreed that he, Immortal Cloud Great Emperor, and You Chao Yin Yue would enter the Dead Abyss together.
• Immortal Cloud Great Emperor revealed the Silver Horn Bronze Man, a powerful puppet hidden beneath a Taiji visualization diagram.
• Su Changqing warned Immortal Cloud Great Emperor that he would take only the Fan Tian Seal and leave everything else behind.
• Immortal Cloud Great Emperor insisted he was entering to retrieve the seal for You Chao Yin Yue, then brought the group aboard the Silver Horn Bronze Man.
• The Silver Horn Bronze Man leaped into the chaotic star river as Turbid Thunder Heavenly Venerate watched and praised its strength.

Su Changqing traveled with the Immortal Cloud Great Emperor and You Chao Yin Yue to the Dead Abyss, staying committed to his promise to help her despite her warning that she might not be able to take the Fan Tian Seal. After copying most of the Bronze Man puppet’s control art, he reached the terrifying edge of the Chaos Galaxy and wondered about the Chaos Abyss beyond it.

• You Chao Yin Yue questioned Su Changqing’s motives, and he insisted that keeping his promise was the foundation of his character.
• Su Changqing told You Chao Yin Yue that her old rival Jiang Xingxing was his junior sister, and the Immortal Cloud Great Emperor considered recruiting him.
• During the three-day journey, Su Changqing used the Candle Dragon Eyes to copy most of the Silver Horn Bronze Man’s control art and reflected on the uniqueness of Primordial Dao paths.
• Su Changqing recalled his potential conflict with Great Emperor Gouchen and the mysterious death of the Thunder Department’s former Lord of the Myriad Gods Division.
• Su Changqing, You Chao Yin Yue, and the Immortal Cloud Great Emperor arrived at the Dead Abyss, where Su Changqing asked about the Chaos Abyss beyond it.

Su Changqing, the Immortal Cloud Great Emperor, and You Chao Yin Yue entered the Dead Abyss to retrieve the Fan Tian Seal, where their mana and divine abilities were suppressed. They escaped a blood forest filled with Dead Abyss Long Snakes, then continued toward their goal with the forest’s nature and the snakes’ origins still uncertain.

• Su Changqing learned that the Nefarious Dragon King had reached the Grand Luo Emperor realm but died to a Chaos Demon God, and warned the others to retrieve only the Fan Tian Seal.
• You Chao Yin Yue used the Cloud-Turning Seal to point northeast, and the Silver Horn Bronze Man carried the group into the Dead Abyss, where its suppression left them reliant on their physical bodies.
• The group reached a vast blood forest, and its Blood-colored Willow Branches ensnared the Silver Horn Bronze Man as Dead Abyss Long Snakes attacked them.
• Su Changqing killed two snakes and broke through the forest’s grasp, carrying You Chao Yin Yue and the Immortal Cloud Great Emperor safely beyond it.
• The group saw countless Dead Abyss Long Snakes covering the forest, and the Immortal Cloud Great Emperor said the blood forest had likely stopped attacking because Su Changqing’s physical strength made him too difficult to overcome.

Su Changqing, Immortal Cloud Great Emperor, and You Chao Yin Yue crossed the Death Abyss toward the Fan Tian Seal after Su Changqing devastated the Blood Forest. They entered a sea of dead stars as Ice Crystal Strange Beasts awakened and charged toward them, while Immortal Cloud Great Emperor weighed whether to seize the stars.

• Su Changqing struck the Blood Forest with a thunderous fist, shattering countless blood-colored trees and clearing their path through the Death Abyss.
• You Chao Yin Yue pointed out that the Fan Tian Seal lay imprisoned near the northernmost corner of the sea of stars.
• The three entered a vast expanse of barren, motionless stars, and Immortal Cloud Great Emperor marveled at the fortune they represented.
• Ice Crystal Strange Beasts awakened in a neighboring world and surged toward the sea of stars after sensing intruders.
• As they approached the Fan Tian Seal, Su Changqing warned Immortal Cloud Great Emperor not to disturb the dead stars, but Immortal Cloud Great Emperor argued that opportunities required struggle.