Chapter Summaries

Yun Hu returned to the Yun Clan and met its newest generation, including Yun Dewu and Yun Daoyi. He learned that Yun Daoyi had created Sword Fruits and would soon leave for Peach Forest Academy under the guidance of the Five Eccentrics of Peach Forest.

• Yun Hu visited the ancestral hall with Zhou Xingluo and met three-and-a-half-year-old Yun Dewu, who declined his offer to teach her swordsmanship because it was not pretty enough.
• Yun Daoyi arrived with colorful fruits and gave Yun Hu a First-Tier Mid-Grade Sword Fruit that helped beginners comprehend the sword dao.
• Yun Hu encouraged Yun Daoyi to develop her Spiritual Plant Dao toward growing fruits that could grant divine abilities, and she resolved to nurture new sword principles herself.
• Yun Daoyi complained that Yun Daoxing kept urging her to marry, and Yun Hu told Yun Daoxing to shoulder the task of expanding the Lineage.
• Yun Daoyi announced that the Five Eccentrics of Peach Forest would take her to Peach Forest Academy for personal guidance, astonishing Yun Hu.

Yun Daoyi returned to Spirit Planting Island and met the Five Eccentrics of Peach Forest, who tested her knowledge and recognized her extraordinary Qi Refinement. They took her as their disciple and escorted her toward Peach Forest Academy, leaving True Lord Linghe and A Xuan behind.

• Yun Daoyi returned to her herb garden and found the Five Eccentrics of Peach Forest arguing over her Sword Fruit Trees.
• The five eccentrics questioned Yun Daoyi about cultivating spiritual plants, and she answered their difficult questions with ease.
• Yun Daoyi revealed her eight-inch High-Grade Profound Vitality Qi, and the eccentrics offered to teach her their five legacies.
• Yun Daoyi ordered A Xuan to keep tending her Dragon Blood Corals and Dragon Saliva Grass before leaving on her journey.
• The Five Eccentrics of Peach Forest accompanied Yun Daoyi to Peach Forest Academy, while True Lord Linghe watched her depart with a sense of loss.

Yun Dewu received the City-Toppling Peerless Dance inheritance and discovered her path in the Dance Dao. With new scriptures and techniques, she prepared to leave the Yun Clan and travel among the world’s people.

• Yun Daoxing broke through to Foundation Establishment and cultivated the Eight Pure Yang Divine Abilities, adding three Pure Yang Techniques to the clan.
• Yun Daoxing and other Yun Clan members searched for Dance Dao inheritances for Yun Dewu but found only a few mortal dances.
• At age twelve, Yun Dewu wore a veil and plain robes to hide her beauty and described her loneliness to the Ancestor Tablets.
• Yun Jiang sent the City-Toppling Peerless Dance card from the clan genealogy to Yun Dewu, and she experienced its Dance Dao inheritance.
• Yun Dewu received the Heart Dance Flying Immortal Scripture, Rainbow Skirt and Feathered Clothes Song, Mind Dream Dance, and Prayer of All Beings.
• Yun Dewu found her Dao, changed into the inheritance’s plain dress and white conical hat, and prepared to walk the world.

Yun Daoxi entered a great dream as an ordinary fish in the Sky Sea Realm and followed the True Dragon Dao Scripture by devouring creatures until he broke through and ascended. Instead of waking, he arrived in the Immortal Realm, where the Sea Clan celebrated his arrival.

• Yun Jiang used a second-rank Reincarnation Card to send Shi Tie’s corpse and soul into rebirth as a member of the Yun Clan.
• Yun Daoxi, unable to break through because his foundations exceeded the Immortal Spirit Pool’s capacity, entered a great dream seeking a perfect breakthrough method.
• Yun Daoxi awoke in the Sky Sea Realm as a small fish and received the True Dragon Dao Scripture, then began growing stronger by devouring sea creatures.
• Yun Daoxi hunted his way up the food chain, accumulated vast energy, and broke through after eating a giant shark with Flood Dragon blood.
• Yun Daoxi gained the Northern Darkness Heaven Swallowing Art and Myriad Beasts True Form Diagram, then ascended directly into the Immortal Realm as a fish.
• A voice from the sea below welcomed Yun Daoxi as the first Sea Clan ascender in over ten thousand years.

Yun Daoxi was claimed by the ancient Star Whale Clan after Xing Lin effortlessly killed two Golden Core demons, and he devoured their remains to strengthen his bloodlines. Xing Lin took him to the Star River Realm Pool to cultivate, where Yun Daoxi gave the name Xing Daoyun.

• Ling Qisha and Ao Sansan argued over Yun Daoxi before Xing Lin killed them both with a single strike.
• Yun Daoxi swallowed the dragon and shark remains, completing his Dragon Clan and merfolk true forms and increasing his bloodline radiance.
• Xing Lin identified Yun Daoxi as an ascendant genius of the Star Whale Clan and led him through the starry realm to the clan grounds.
• Xing Lin placed Yun Daoxi in the Star River Realm Pool, where liquid Dao essence nourished his body, bloodline, and cultivation.
• Xing Lin promised to provide Yun Daoxi with cultivation resources and food, and Yun Daoxi introduced himself as Xing Daoyun.

Xing Lin gathered rare Demonic Beasts and bloodline resources to help Yun Daoxi cultivate in the Star River Realm Pool. Yun Daoxi and his true body achieved Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment, and his fish form remained asleep as it continued comprehending the Dao.

• Xing Lin killed a Golden Core Ancient Dragon and announced that he had taken it to support a Star Whale genius’s Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment.
• Xing Lin abducted powerful Demonic Beasts and rare-bloodline creatures across the Immortal Realm, then brought their corpses to Yun Daoxi at the Star River Realm Pool.
• Yun Daoxi devoured the creatures and absorbed Dao essence for three years, strengthening his fish body and expanding the Myriad Beasts True Form Diagram.
• Yun Daoxi began breaking through in the pool as his true body cultivated in the Yun Clan’s Scripture Repository, while the Star Fortune Elder added two World Origins to supply more varieties of Dao essence.
• Yun Daoxi and his true body established their foundations through Heavenly Dao Divine Abilities, forming eight supreme Great Dao-level Divine Abilities as his magic power and Natal True Fire transformed.
• Yun Daoxi’s fish body continued growing and fell into a deep Dao-comprehension slumber while spells from his dreams began turning into Divine Abilities.

After the Yun Clan’s growing lineage unlocked a game upgrade, its ancestral hall transformed into a sacred palace and Yun Jiang discovered new features in the updated game. The upgrade introduced a spirit world for deceased clan members and a revised card-drawing system, which Yun Jiang prepared to test with his thirteen draws.

• The Yun Clan reached several milestones, including producing more Foundation Establishment cultivators, second-tier professionals, six generations, and over one hundred bloodline members, earning Yun Jiang thirteen Card Draw Opportunities.
• The game announced that the Yun Clan had met the conditions for an upgrade, and immortal radiance sealed the ancestral hall for half a year.
• After the light receded, Yun Daoxing, Yun He, and the other clan elders found that the ancestral hall had become a white-jade palace with tablets for Yun Jiang and Shi Tie and a mural of the grotto-heaven and immortal islands.
• Yun Jiang found that Version 2.0 had divided the Family Genealogy Space into three layers and added a world where deceased Yun Clan members’ souls would receive their clansmen’s worship.
• Yun Jiang examined the new card pool and learned its draw, refresh, and Incense Divine Power rules, then decided to inspect it using his thirteen Card Draw Opportunities.

Yun Jiang refreshed the Version 2.0 card pool and used a ten-draw, gaining a Third-Order Mysterious Hand inheritance and a Fourth-Grade Heavenly River building card among other rewards. He fused Heavenly River and Cloud Gathering Pavilion into the Cloud Ascending Immortal Palace, leaving the Grotto-heaven close to Fifth-Tier and considering how to use the One Soul, Two Bodies card.

• Yun Jiang rejected the first pool’s Living Buddha Ji Gong inheritance and spent a Card Draw Opportunity to refresh the pool.
• Yun Jiang found Yanhuang Imperial Fortune in the new pool and decided to risk a ten-draw rather than spend all twelve remaining opportunities.
• Yun Jiang drew Mysterious Hand, Heavenly River, and several other cards, including Life-Breathing Grass and One Soul, Two Bodies.
• Yun Jiang fused Heavenly River and Cloud Gathering Pavilion with Cloud Ascending Immortal Palace, expanding the Grotto-heaven and bringing it close to Fifth-Tier.
• Yun Jiang considered using One Soul, Two Bodies with a True Immortal soul fragment and his sealed Sixth-Order Reincarnation Card.

After Li Pinghu died, the Yun Clan admitted his soul into its Incense God Domain, where he reunited with Shi Tie. Li Lingyue encountered her father in a dream and learned that he remained in the clan’s divine domain, leaving her comforted by the chance to see him again.

• Li Pinghu died peacefully at age one hundred and twenty-four as Li Lingyue and the Yun family mourned beside his body.
• The Yun Clan’s voice admitted Li Pinghu into the Incense God Domain, and his memorial tablet appeared in the ancestral hall above Shi Tie’s.
• Li Pinghu discovered Shi Tie’s soul inside a paper card and learned that Shi Tie was waiting for a chance to reincarnate into the Yun Clan.
• Li Lingyue dreamed of the ancestral hall, where Li Pinghu argued with Shi Tie and told her to burn incense so he could conjure wine.
• Li Lingyue realized her father still lived in the Incense God Domain and asked whether Shi Tie’s reincarnation would make the family generations even more confused.

Ren Feiyu and the others visited Myriad Sword Academy and witnessed Yun Daoduo unleash a devastating sword formation against Yu Chang. The clash left the visitors shaken by the Yun Clan’s strength and revealed that Yun Daoduo had cultivated a Great Dao Divine Ability.

• Ren Feiyu’s group arrived at Myriad Sword Academy and saw more than seven hundred Foundation Establishment sword cultivators drilling under Yun Daoduo.
• Xia Xia dismissed the academy disciples as barely usable, while Lu Jun reflected on the Great Xia Dynasty’s formidable cultivation foundations.
• Ji Yi prompted Yu Chang of Tianxing Peak to challenge Yun Daoduo, and she accepted the duel.
• Yun Daoduo summoned 3,600 swords and fused them into a giant sword that crushed Yu Chang’s attack and sent him flying.
• Venerable Gu Guang secretly caught Yu Chang, while Yun Daoduo’s sword continued toward Ren Feiyu and the others.
• Lu Jun recognized Yun Daoduo’s vast, pure mana and suspected she had cultivated a Great Dao Divine Ability; Xia Xia was impressed by her strength.

Xia Xia effortlessly shattered Yun Daoduo’s sword attack, then revealed herself as a Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment cultivator and faced Yun Hu in a contest of their Dao paths. Their clash shook Heavenly Demon Pass, while Lu Jun reevaluated his cultivation and resolved to study sword scriptures before attempting Golden Core.

• Xia Xia stopped Yun Daoduo’s three thousand six hundred flying swords with one finger, and Yun Hu identified her as a Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment cultivator.
• Yun Hu challenged Xia Xia, and the two ascended ten thousand zhang to fight while Zhou Xingluo followed behind him.
• Yun Hu formed a sword from pure mana and unleashed his Myriad Laws sword Dao, while Xia Xia answered with her Chaos Divine Fist.
• Yun Hu’s sword and Xia Xia’s fist collided, releasing a shockwave that twisted the sky and exposed the mountain range below.
• Lu Jun realized his cultivation methods were flawed, sat down to rebuild his Dao heart, and resolved to study sword scriptures before attempting Golden Core.

Yun Hu revealed that he had raised Myriad Sword Arts to a Great Dao Divine Ability and defeated Xia Xia’s Guixu Divine Thunder. Xia Xia left after giving him her hair ribbon, while the Myriad Sword Academy celebrated Yun Hu’s achievement and witnesses hurried to report it.

• Yun Hu explained that he had fused six Pure Yang Divine Abilities into Myriad Sword Arts and challenged Xia Xia to face his Great Dao Divine Ability.
• Xia Xia unleashed Guixu Divine Thunder, but Yun Hu’s sword dismantled it from within and left her injured.
• Xia Xia admitted defeat, gave Yun Hu her dark-red jade hair ribbon, and departed through a spatial gateway after vowing to defeat him someday.
• Yun Hu tucked away the ribbon as the Myriad Sword Academy erupted in celebration over his achievement.
• Ji Yi and others left at once to report what had happened to their sect.

Yun Hu explained his revised Myriad Sword Arts to the Myriad Sword Academy, while Yun Long received gifts and guidance that pointed him toward the Nine Domains and the Demon Realm. Yun Long then left Serene Pass and returned home.

• Yun Hu taught that the Myriad Sword Arts could be refined into thirty-six independent Tiangang sword arts and developed toward Great Dao Divine Abilities, then spent three days explaining them.
• Ren Feiyu gave Yun Hu ten Divine Ability Ascension Pills on behalf of the Star River Royal Manor and left to assess the Southern Sword Guard.
• Marquis Sunflame gave Yun Long three Divine Ability Ascension Pills and brought him to meet Great Immortal Ku Yuan beyond Serene Pass's formation.
• Great Immortal Ku Yuan inscribed the Indestructible Diamond Body into Yun Long and asked the Yun Clan to restore the Demon Realm after becoming a Golden Core Lineage.
• Yun Long decided to return home and teleported away from Serene Pass, leaving his Dharma robe behind.

Yun Daoxing began his Golden Core breakthrough before the gathered Yun Clan and survived the Heavenly Dao Fire by devouring it with his fire Dao foundation and forging a Dharma Core. His success made the Yun Clan a Golden Core Aristocratic Clan, and the Era of the Immortal Scroll recorded the milestone.

• Yun Long had Yun Daoxing erase the teleportation robe’s coordinates to Serene Pass, then prepared for his son’s breakthrough as Yun Clan members returned.
• Yun Daoyi and Yun Long discussed the Five Eccentrics of Peach Forest while Yun Dewu prepared a congratulatory gift for her father.
• Yun Daoxing entered the Returning Origin Immortal Spirit Pond as the Yun Clan gathered to witness his breakthrough.
• Heavenly Dao Fire engulfed Yun Daoxing, but his Natal True Fire Dao patterns and five-colored flaming lotus devoured the flames as he forged his Golden Core.
• With help from Yun Jiang’s stored insights into the divine soul, Yun Daoxing severed his lower dantian and sea of consciousness, merged them with his Dao foundation, and endured the destruction of his body.
• Yun Daoxing regenerated from the Golden Core’s power and announced his success, while Yun Ji recorded that the Yun Clan had become a Golden Core Aristocratic Clan.

After Yun Daoxing achieved Golden Core, Ning Yongrui rushed to congratulate him and asked for the Ning Family to become a Yun Clan vassal. Yun Daoxing welcomed the family and ordered Ning Yongrui to prepare to relocate every clansman and all their property.

• Ning Yongrui received Ning Shaokong’s message that Yun Daoxing had achieved Golden Core and hurried to Changchun Immortal Island.
• Ning Yongrui found Yun Daoxing standing with True Lord Linghe and True Lord Shuiyue, both revealed as Golden Core cultivators.
• Yun Daoxing stopped Ning Yongrui from making a formal bow and accepted the three rare spirit herb seeds he offered.
• Ning Yongrui asked for the Ning Family to become a Yun Clan vassal and follow the main household when it relocated.
• Yun Daoxing introduced True Lord Linghe as Spirit Plant Hall Master and True Lord Shuiyue as Artifact Refining Pavilion Hall Master.
• Yun Daoxing told Ning Yongrui to prepare to bring all Ning Family clansmen and property, and Ning Yongrui left to make preparations and spread the news.

Yun Daoxing organized the Yun Clan’s new Golden Core power structure and chose the Western Profound Region of the Chaotic Nine Regions as the clan’s destination. As the clan prepared to relocate, Yun Long used Divine Ability Ascension Pills to strengthen his foundation and began his Golden Core tribulation.

• Yun Daoxing arranged the Yun Clan’s ten departments and welcomed True Lord Shuiyue and True Lord Linghe into prominent roles.
• Yun He presented maps of lands offered by Great Xia’s prominent forces, and Yun Long explained why the clan must go to the dangerous Chaotic Nine Regions.
• Yun Daoxing chose the Western Profound Region and ordered the clan to report its decision and prepare to scout a place to settle.
• Yun Long volunteered to scout after his breakthrough, then returned to the ancestral shrine and swallowed four Divine Ability Ascension Pills.
• Yun Long solidified four Pure Yang Divine Abilities, accepted the flaws in his body-refining foundation, and triggered his Golden Core tribulation.

Yun Long survived the Heavenly Dao Fire and completed the breakthrough to dual Dharma and Body cores with Yun Jiang’s help. After reuniting with Yun Hu and Yun He, he left the Yun Clan with Li Lingyue and headed toward the Nine Domains.

• Yun Long severed and fused his dantians to form a Dharma core while Heavenly Dao Fire threatened to destroy his body.
• Yun Jiang protected Yun Long with Incense Divine Power, copied Primordial Fire patterns onto his body, and guided the fire lotus into him.
• Yun Long absorbed the Heavenly Dao Fire, completed his Body Core, and awakened the perfected Indestructible Diamond Body.
• Yun Long bowed before the Ancestor Tablet and told Yun Hu and Yun He that his dual cores were complete.
• Yun Hu returned to the Myriad Sword Academy, and Yun He departed to prepare for her golden core breakthrough.
• Yun Long reunited with Li Lingyue, then left the Yun Clan with her for the Nine Domains.

Yun Long and Li Lingyue traveled from Great Xia into the harsh Western Profound Region, where Yun Long searched for a suitable foothold for the Yun Clan. He discovered a vast divine-stone mountain range that could shelter local humans from the Falling Star Wasteland and proposed establishing the clan there, while Li Lingyue returned to summon Yun Dao Xing.

• Yun Long and Li Lingyue crossed into the Western Profound Region and saw how its chaotic Spiritual Energy, scarce resources, and Demonic Beasts endangered human settlements.
• Yun Long decided to seek a clan foothold near the border and traveled cautiously with Li Lingyue through the region.
• Li Lingyue spotted a tribe worshipping a mountain range, and Yun Long discovered that the entire range was made from a single enormous mass of first-rank Turbid Jade Profound Iron Stone.
• Yun Long proposed establishing the Yun Clan at the mountain range, replacing the Mountain God, and eventually turning the nearby Falling Star Wasteland into an oasis.
• Li Lingyue returned to the Yun Clan's grotto-heaven to bring Yun Dao Xing to inspect the proposed clan land.

Li Lingyue returned to the Yun Clan and watched Yun Daoxing organize the lineage’s migration to the Nine Domains by assigning new halls, pavilions, and membership ranks. After she told him about a ten-thousand-mile divine stone in the Western Profound Region, Yun Daoxing used an ancient card to prepare to awaken it and enlist the Mountain God in securing the region.

• Li Lingyue watched Yun Daoxing assign the Ning Family to ask local mortals and attached families whether they wished to migrate, and the Liu Family to recruit promising children across Nanchuan Commandery.
• Yun Daoxing established eleven halls and pavilions, divided Yun Clan members into Cloud Court and Cloud Pavilion, and ordered preparations for the migration.
• Li Lingyue told Yun Daoxing about the immense divine stone in the Western Profound Region, and he took the Enlightenment Divine Stone card from the genealogy.
• Yun Daoxing joined Yun Long and Li Lingyue above the sacrifice and explained that the card could grant sentience to a divine stone below Tier 3.
• Yun Daoxing proposed awakening the Mountain God worshiped by the Mountain God Tribe and using it to subdue the local human race.

Yun Daoxing’s ancient card awakened the Turbid Jade Profound Iron mountain range, which transformed into a giant and survived a heavenly tribulation. Named Yun Daoshan and welcomed into the Yun Clan, the Mountain God knelt before Clan Head Yun Daoxing while the Mountain God Tribe watched.

• Yun Daoxing sent an ancient card into the mountain, awakening its earth veins during the Mountain God Tribe’s ritual.
• The mountain shed its rocky shell, transformed into a giant, and its rising pressure was contained by Yun Long and Yun Daoxing.
• Yun Jiang passed the newborn giant the Yun Clan’s inheritance as Yun Daoshan fought through heavenly fire and lightning.
• Yun Daoshan survived the tribulation and stabilized at the third-stage Golden Core realm.
• Yun Daoshan accepted his name and place in the Yun Clan, then knelt before Yun Daoxing as the Mountain God Tribe watched.