Chapter Summaries

Li Qingyun found the Yin Jade Pure Lotus but could not harvest it without risking contamination, then reached an ancient altar and confronted the Nation-Wrecking Prodigy inside its tomb. The Prodigy attacked him with a curse, and Li Qingyun countered with the Lightning Cone.

• Li Qingyun tried to pull up the Yin Jade Pure Lotus, but its whispers shattered his eighth layer of halo light, forcing him to release it.
• Li Qingyun decided to return for the lotus after reaching Yin God Great Perfection and continued through the Flesh and Mud Swamp.
• Li Qingyun discovered an altar ringed by nineteen bronze pillars and climbed toward the dark-red tomb at its summit, causing the pillars to illuminate and the tomb zone's contamination to intensify.
• The Nation-Wrecking Prodigy warned Li Qingyun to leave, but Li Qingyun continued up the stairs.
• The Nation-Wrecking Prodigy emerged from the tomb and sent a curse at Li Qingyun using an eerie doll, and Li Qingyun struck back with the Lightning Cone.

Li Qingyun defeated True Man Chen Mi in the God Corpse Tomb and tested the tomb’s cultivation aura, then returned to find that Chen Tao had failed to merge an Yin talisman seed. The next day, Li Qingyun took A'hu, Li Zuo, Mengshan, Tongnan, Shui Lu, and ten other disciples toward Lingbao Sect to seek inner-disciple status for them.

• Li Qingyun overpowered True Man Chen Mi in a Yin God battle, and Chen Mi fled when their protective halos neared collapse.
• Li Qingyun entered the God Corpse Tomb, absorbed some strange aura, failed to sense the mysterious soul corpse, and left.
• Chen Tao told Li Qingyun that Zhao Anzhi had helped him obtain a Five Elements wood-art Yin talisman seed.
• Chen Tao failed to merge the seed despite Li Qingyun’s help, and Li Qingyun urged him to rest before trying again later.
• Li Qingyun disguised himself as Chen Tao and took the disciples toward Lingbao Sect to seek inner-disciple status for them.

Li Qingyun escorted South Suppression · Lingbao Temple’s disciples toward the Lingbao Sect while disguised as Chen Tao, forcing three Nascent Soul demons to yield by invoking his name. As the group entered the inner commanderies, two Nascent Soul cultivators from Biyou Palace and Purple Gold Palace ambushed them and sealed off their flying ship.

• Li Qingyun traveled with A'hu, Li Zuo, and the core disciples toward the Lingbao Sect, while they mistook his disguise for the Grand Martial Ancestor.
• Three Nascent Soul demons blocked the ship, but Li Qingyun repelled the Blood-eyed Ape Demon and made the demons back down by citing the Little Imperial Uncle of Dayou.
• Li Qingyun sensed the King of the South, Shama Ding'an, and reflected that the demons and wicked deities supporting him would eventually have to be dealt with.
• The disciples saw the war-torn inner commanderies as the flying ship continued toward the Lingbao Sect.
• Two Nascent Soul cultivators from Biyou Palace and Purple Gold Palace appeared ahead, attacked the ship with magical and spell barriers, and prepared to kill Chen Tao.

Li Qingyun, disguised as Chen Tao, killed Song Xuandeng and a Biyou Palace cultivator with two sword strikes, then brought the South Suppression · Lingbao Temple disciples to Lingbao Sect. He insisted that they be admitted as inner sect disciples despite the missed selection period and took the registration tools from Deacon Zheng, who warned that Chen Tao lacked authority.

• Li Qingyun protected the flying ship from Song Xuandeng’s flames and killed Song Xuandeng with a single Purple Sun sword strike.
• Li Qingyun pursued and killed the fleeing Biyou Palace cultivator, while the watching sect cultivators scattered in fear.
• Li Qingyun advised A'hu and the other disciples to use superior methods for their breakthroughs as the ship continued to Lingbao Sect.
• Li Qingyun arrived at Zhuoji Hall and asked Zheng Shi to admit the South Suppression · Lingbao Temple disciples as inner sect disciples.
• Zheng Shi objected that the selection period had passed, and Li Qingyun blamed the Zheng Family’s Zheng Tianyu for failing to inspect the Southern Border temple.
• Li Qingyun took the jade register and golden brush to handle the admissions himself, and Zheng Shi warned that he lacked the authority to obtain the Patriarch Dao Lords’ acknowledgment.

Li Qingyun brought A'hu and the other Southern Border disciples to Zhuoji Hall to formally join the sect, overcoming Zheng Chang's obstruction when the patriarch Dao Lords acknowledged them. After sending the disciples to explore Linghui Peak, he visited Xu Xuan to deliver Yin God blood and divined that Cai Yun had gone to Qinghe County, though the result gave him pause.

• Zheng Chang tried to delay the disciples' ceremony, but Li Qingyun drove him from the Reception Hall with a trace of Yin God Dao might.
• A'hu, Li Zuo, and the other ten disciples paid respects to the patriarch statues, and their names glowed in the jade register as the patriarchs acknowledged them.
• Zheng Chang returned and challenged Chen Tao to a duel, then abruptly vanished after receiving a transmitted message.
• Li Qingyun sent the new inner sect disciples to collect cultivation methods and explore the sect before taking them to Linghui Peak.
• Li Qingyun visited Xu Xuan and gave him a drop of Yin God life-blood to improve his chance of fusing an Yin Talisman Seed.
• Li Qingyun found Cai Yun absent from Junding Mansion, divined that she had gone to Qinghe County, and sighed at the result.

Luo Caiwei received cultivation supplies from an unseen visitor, while Li Qingyun advised Nangong Fengchuan to retreat the Lingbao Sect to Shangyang County and learned about the sect’s failed search for Miaoxuan. The chapter ended with Nangong Fengchuan describing the Ruins Sea beyond the Misty Tomb Forbidden Zone and the Death Gate beyond it.

• Luo Caiwei found a butterfly and cultivation supplies in the main hall, but the visitor she hoped to see was gone.
• Li Qingyun met Nangong Fengchuan, who asked for advice on the Lingbao Sect’s worsening situation.
• Li Qingyun advised the sect to give up the incense of three commanderies, defend Shangyang County, and wait for the new dragon to be chosen before counterattacking.
• Nangong Fengchuan sent golden talismans to order the sect’s senior cultivators to secure a single commandery.
• Li Qingyun questioned Nangong Fengchuan about Miaoxuan, and Nangong explained that she had left five drops of Yin God lifeblood before disappearing and that the sect’s searches had found no trace of her.
• Nangong Fengchuan told Li Qingyun that Yang God cultivators called their inner cultivation place the Ruins Sea, beyond which lay the Death Gate.

After returning to Youjing, Li Qingyun entered seclusion to cultivate while Great You’s factions carved up the realm. Four months later, he reached the second level of the Yin God Realm and prepared to advance to the divine office of Thunder Lord.

• Li Qingyun returned to the Southern Border with A'hu and the others, strengthened South Suppression · Lingbao Temple’s formations, and then left Chen Tao to recover as he returned to Youjing.
• Li Qingyun calculated his cultivation pace and began prolonged seclusion, while Princess Bao Sheng relayed information between him and the court.
• Biyou Palace, Moon Yin Palace, and Purple Gold Palace drove out unsupported Grassroots Kings as the Three Sects and the rival kings divided Great You’s Thirty-Six Commanderies.
• Princess Bao Sheng delivered Shangguan Wan'er’s message that she had reached the Opening Mansion Realm and become a candidate for the Twelve Saintesses.
• Four months into seclusion, Li Qingyun reached the second level of the Yin God Realm and entered the lightning-dharma Great Dao space to advance to the divine office of Thunder Lord.

Li Qingyun completed his ascent from Thunder Duke to Thunder Lord, gaining authority over lightning dharma and drawing the attention of the other Thunder Lords. After exchanging greetings with Lei Xian, he looked toward the distant Lightning Emperor seat before withdrawing from the Great Dao of lightning dharma.

• Li Qingyun's Lightning Dharma Giant Spirit grew to more than thirty feet, alarming the six Thunder Dukes, including Feng Ying and Qiu Ma, who regretted having made an enemy of him.
• Yan Jiu congratulated Li Qingyun as he left the Thunder Duke seats and rose rapidly toward the Thunder Lord seats.
• A Thunder Lord from Lei Tian Palace considered suppressing Li Qingyun but held back when he saw how quickly Li Qingyun was ascending.
• Li Qingyun took the third golden seat, gained a Thunder Lord's lightning seal, and understood its powers of enfeoffment and severance.
• Lei Xian introduced himself and apologized for Lei Yao's past offense, while Li Qingyun remained wary of his motives.
• Li Qingyun glimpsed the Lightning Emperor's seat above, then withdrew from the Great Dao of lightning dharma.

Li Qingyun used his Thunder Lord authority to help Li Zhenbai cultivate the Lightning Drawing Technique, hoping the scholar would later help Li Imperial Clan descendants escape Great You. When Zhaozong arrived with urgent news about the King of the West, Li Qingyun opened the hall doors and received him and the King of You.

• Li Qingyun possessed Li Zhenbai for the fifth time and used his Thunder Lord authority to give him a moment of inspiration.
• Li Zhenbai successfully cultivated the Lightning Drawing Technique and celebrated with Mu Cai Ping, who urged him to travel to Zhu Capital for the Daoist Academy examinations.
• Li Qingyun returned to his secluded cultivation and hoped Li Zhenbai would eventually govern a region and take in Li Imperial Clan descendants.
• Princess Bao Sheng told Zhaozong and the King of You that Li Qingyun would not receive them, but Zhaozong called out that the King of the West had sent someone to the capital with urgent demands.
• Li Qingyun silenced Zhaozong with Daoist arts, then opened the hall doors and appeared before Zhaozong and the King of You.

Li Qingyun rejected King of the West Ye Ran’s offer to take Great You’s legitimacy in exchange for fifty escape slots, and traveled with Prince You Li Xuanxiao to negotiate in Xiyuan Commandery. They arrived at Ye Ran’s camp, where two Yang God experts from Fu Kingdom appeared.

• Zhaozong and Prince You told Li Qingyun that Ye Ran had offered fifty slots for Li descendants in exchange for the Imperial Jade Seal, the five commanderies, and the Li Dynasty’s submission.
• Zhaozong and Prince You supported considering the offer, but Li Qingyun warned them against letting an outsider take control of You Capital.
• Li Qingyun decided to negotiate with Ye Ran without bringing the Imperial Jade Seal and opened a spatial rift to Xiyuan Commandery.
• At Ye Ran’s tent, his generals discussed how the deal would help him seize Great You with Fu Kingdom’s backing.
• Li Qingyun and Prince You arrived at the tent, and two Yang God experts from Fu Kingdom appeared before them.

Li Qingyun refused the Fu Kingdom’s offer to absorb the Li clan and instead proposed trading fifty quotas for his help breaking the blockade at Sishui Commandery and Xunyang Commandery. After the Fu Kingdom’s representatives accepted, Li Qingyun challenged Teng Li to the sparring match she had suggested, and they ascended toward the limit of the void.

• Huo Jun and Teng Li introduced themselves as Yang God experts of the Rotten Moon Palace, and Li Qingyun recognized the threat their presence posed to Great You.
• King of the West Ye Ran invited Li Qingyun, Huo Jun, and Teng Li into his tent to discuss the proposed transaction.
• Li Qingyun rejected the offer to defect to the Fu Kingdom and proposed using his and the Li clan’s help to break the blockade in exchange for the fifty quotas.
• Ye Ran mocked Li Qingyun’s ability to help, but Li Qingyun blinded him with a glance and then promised to weaken resistance in Sishui Commandery and Xunyang Commandery within five days.
• Huo Jun agreed to keep the fifty quotas if Li Qingyun delivered, and Li Qingyun challenged Teng Li to spar before they both rose into the void.

Li Qingyun tested his strength against Teng Li, a Yang God expert, and concealed his full Yin God power while using a thunder treasure to defeat her. After returning to Youjing, he planned to intensify the conflict between Biyou Palace and Rotten Moon Palace so they would weaken each other.

• Li Qingyun and Teng Li fought in the Xutian, where her Yang God burned away at his Yin God foundation and his thunder techniques and divine treasure shattered her Yang God.
• Teng Li admitted she had underestimated Li Qingyun, while she and Huo Jun discussed his potential and the threat he posed to Biyou Palace’s plans.
• Li Qingyun departed with Prince You Li Xuanxiao after telling Huo Jun that Biyou Palace would soon face a chance to loosen its grip.
• Li Qingyun recovered in the Lingbao Temple and resolved to provoke a fierce conflict between Biyou Palace and Rotten Moon Palace.

Li Qingyun used the Thunder Lord's precious seal to trap Yin gods from Biyou Palace and Moon Yin Palace, then drove True Man Chen Mi from the God Corpse Tomb. His actions helped trigger a western campaign that left Biyou Palace losing ground, and True Person Teng Li told him the fifty Li Imperial Clan descendants could be sent to Xiyuan Commandery.

• Li Qingyun sealed nine Biyou Palace Yin gods and seven Moon Yin Palace Yin gods inside their tombs, cutting off their communication with the outside.
• Li Qingyun passed Miaoxuan without disturbing her, then entered the God Corpse Tomb and used a lightning bolt to drive True Man Chen Mi away from it.
• Li Qingyun sent a golden talisman west, authorizing his allies to act and arranging for fifty descendants of the Li Imperial Clan to be sent to the King of the West.
• King Ye Ran of the West invaded Sishui Commandery and Xunyang Commandery, broke the void grand array, and drove Liu's army back.
• Biyou Palace's Yang gods joined the fighting, and True Person Teng Li reported that Biyou Palace had fallen into a disadvantage and that the fifty descendants could be sent to Xiyuan Commandery.

Li Qingyun sent fifty members of the Li Imperial Clan into the Fu Kingdom to preserve the bloodline, with True Person Teng Li opening a passage through the border. As battles spread beyond Youjing, Li Qingyun remained in cultivation and advanced to the fourth level of the Yin Spirit Realm by year's end.

• Li Qingyun ordered Princess Bao Sheng to select fifty imperial clan members to flee secretly into the Fu Kingdom, including ten women from Lingbao Temple, while excluding several conspicuous royals.
• Zhaozong and other members of the imperial household fought over the escape places, and former Crown Prince Li Yan was demoted and included among the fifty.
• Li Qingyun watched True Person Teng Li open a passage through the Dao Lord's border restriction, and Li Yan and the others crossed into the Fu Kingdom.
• Teng Li told Li Qingyun that opening the passage had cost her cultivation foundation, and he acknowledged that he owed her a favor; True Person Huo Jun and Teng Li then discussed sparing the Li descendants while Li Qingyun lived.
• King of the West Ye Ran and King of the South Shama Ding'an launched attacks as battles and sect losses spread beyond Youjing.
• Li Qingyun cultivated through the conflicts, broke through to the third level of the Yin Spirit Realm, and reached the fourth level by year's end.

After reaching the sixth layer of the Yin God Realm, Li Qingyun entered the Misty Tomb Forbidden Zone and uprooted the Yin Jade Pure Lotus, enduring the tomb’s violent whispers and curses. He stored its three lotus seeds and began consuming the stalk, leaving Miaoxuan’s hoped-for body-restoring treasure in his hands.

• Li Qingyun broke through to the sixth layer of the Yin God Realm and found Miaoxuan’s tomb shrouded by a force that blocked his senses.
• Li Qingyun sensed that Miaoxuan might be undergoing a transformation and resolved to guard her cultivation in the Misty Tomb.
• Li Qingyun used the Thunder Lord’s power and his nine layers of halo-light to seize the Yin Jade Pure Lotus in the Flesh and Mud Swamp.
• The lotus’s removal shook the Misty Tomb Forbidden Zone and drove its Yin God cultivators from their graves.
• Li Qingyun stored the three lotus seeds, broke the stalk into five pieces, and swallowed one piece.

Li Qingyun consumed sections of the Yin Jade Pure Lotus and transformed his body and Yin God into a Flawless Dao Body. After concealing its radiant aura, he received Princess Bao Sheng, who had come to bring him tea.

• The Yin Jade Pure Lotus remade Li Qingyun’s body and strengthened his Yin God, but he consumed four sections before the transformation felt complete.
• Li Qingyun recognized his new aptitude as the ancient Flawless Dao Body and sensed that it greatly strengthened his defenses and Yin God halo light.
• Li Qingyun considered giving the last lotus section to Miaoxuan so she could rebuild her body and improve her Dao Bone foundation.
• Princess Bao Sheng entered with tea and was drawn to Li Qingyun’s changed aura, so he used a Dao art to conceal it.

Li Qingyun helped Chen Tao break through to the Yin God realm and guided his disciples’ cultivation while his own power rose to the ninth layer of the Yin God. As the Li Dynasty’s fortune weakened, Shangguan Wan’er warned that Moon Yin Palace had agreed to let the Liu clan take power, but that the Li family’s replacement would be followed by the Sun and Moon Reign Together.

• Princess Bao Sheng told Li Qingyun that Shangguan Wan’er had gained intelligence within Moon Yin Palace, and he urged her to seek a transfer away from Pingyang Commandery.
• Li Qingyun aided Chen Tao’s third attempt to break through, and Chen Tao successfully reached the Yin God realm.
• A'hu, Li Zuo, and Mengshan advanced to upper-grade Dao Foundation, while Li Qingyun’s other seven disciples reached middle-grade Dao Foundation.
• Li Qingyun continued guarding Miaoxuan’s Yin Tomb and advanced first to the eighth, then the ninth layer of the Yin God as the Li Dynasty’s fortune and public support declined.
• Princess Bao Sheng brought Li Qingyun Shangguan Wan’er’s warning that Moon Yin Palace had agreed to the Liu clan’s rise and that the Li family’s replacement would be followed by the Sun and Moon Reign Together.

Li Qingyun arranged for Princess Bao Sheng to select thirty-five collateral imperial-clan disciples while secretly reserving her a place, then prepared to break through to Yang God as Great You’s dynasty collapsed. He entered the God Corpse Tomb, triggering a devastating upheaval in the Misty Tomb Forbidden Zone, while True Man Chen Mi tried to interfere and was overwhelmed by contamination.

• Li Qingyun calmed Princess Bao Sheng, ordered her to select thirty-five collateral imperial-clan disciples, and secretly reserved a place for her.
• More than two months later, Liu Xian proclaimed a new dynasty and the Jingchun era, leaving Zhaozong and the Li clan facing imminent ruin.
• Li Qingyun reached Yin God Great Perfection and entered the God Corpse Tomb to break through to Yang God.
• The God Corpse Tomb shook the Misty Tomb Forbidden Zone, and the surging contamination drove the resident Yin Gods to flee.
• True Man Chen Mi pressed onto the altar to disrupt Li Qingyun, but the contamination shattered his halos and corroded his body, forcing him to flee.

Li Qingyun used three azure jade lotus seeds in the God Corpse Tomb to find and draw out his mysterious soul corpse, beginning the process of shedding his Yin God’s ordinary bonds. As the soul corpse prepared to return to its bronze coffin, Li Qingyun sensed that the lotus seeds might have another purpose.

• Li Qingyun searched for the mysterious soul corpse from within the God Corpse Tomb but sensed nothing until he produced three azure jade lotus seeds.
• The lotus seeds connected Li Qingyun to a dark void, where he saw an ancient bronze coffin and recognized it as the mysterious soul corpse he sought.
• The bronze coffin crossed the void under a barrage of lightning and emerged above Li Qingyun’s Yin God, where its pull threatened to draw him in.
• Li Qingyun invoked the Thunder Lord’s divine seat to resist, and a black-robed corpse identical to him rose from the coffin.
• The mysterious soul corpse absorbed Li Qingyun’s yin turbidity and other ordinary bonds, making his yang fire burn stronger as the process brought him toward the Yang God stage.
• The soul corpse began to return to its coffin, but Li Qingyun realized the lotus seeds might have a further use when his consciousness stirred toward them.

Li Qingyun achieved the Yang God Realm and returned from seclusion to find the Li Dynasty’s fortunes waning as the Liu clan’s new dragon rose. He ordered a counterattack, then hurried to Falling Star Abode after sensing a strange fluctuation from the xun flute.

• Li Qingyun sent three wisps of soul consciousness into green-jade lotus seeds, which entered the mysterious soul corpse and let him cultivate Baleful Intent refinement within it to Golden Core Great Perfection.
• Li Qingyun completed his transformation into a Yang God, was expelled from the Misty Tomb Forbidden Zone, and returned to his Inner Mansion with mana more than ten times stronger.
• Li Qingyun emerged from seclusion after more than a month and sensed the Li Dynasty’s declining fortune and the Liu clan’s rising power.
• Li Qingyun ordered Princess Bao Sheng to gather the Li clan’s forces and counterattack the Liu clan, then left after sensing another disturbance.
• Li Qingyun restored Falling Star Abode and placed the pale-red xun flute in the hall, where green smoke rose from it; Nangong Fengchuan arrived and learned that Li Qingyun had achieved the Yang God Realm.