Chapter Summaries

A'li foiled a Nascent Soul Realm attack by trapping a Heart-snatching fiend in an illusory shell and refining it into a Spirit Fire Bead, while Lin Weishuo's divided consciousness suffered a backlash. On the day of the Rotten Moon and Nether Dao arts duel, Li Qingyun returned to Linghui Peak after raising his cultivation to Life Gate Realm Layer Four and found the others assembled.

• A'li used an illusory shell and a fire-art cage to capture the fiend sent to attack her, then refined it into a Spirit Fire Bead and consumed it to strengthen her fire arts.
• Lin Weishuo's divided consciousness screamed and weakened after the fiend's destruction, while his son urged him to stop suppressing him and Lin Weishuo refused.
• Over two months, Li Qingyun entered high-grade spiritual platforms seven times, destroyed seven Saint-marked fiend shadows, opened thirty-three and a half minor Heaven Gates, and reached Life Gate Realm Layer Four.
• On the fifteenth day of the third month, Li Qingyun returned from a high-grade spiritual platform and headed to Linghui Peak for the two nations' Dao arts duel.
• Li Qingyun arrived at the Linghui Peak Mountain Gate Plaza, where Miaoxuan, Nangong Fengchuan, Xu Xuan, Yue Changsong, A'li, Li Zuo, and others were waiting.

Li Qingyun led Lingbao Sect cultivators to meet the Rotten Moon Palace for a contest of arts, while the sect’s Heaven Gate Realm powers gathered at the Western Night Plains. The chapter left True Lord Chengyuan facing pressure from True Lord Changye as the Moon Yin Palace’s cultivators arrived.

• Li Qingyun praised A'li, Li Zuo, and Nangong Jun for their progress, then took the group to meet the Rotten Moon Palace while Nangong Fengchuan stayed behind.
• The Rotten Moon Palace’s Changye, Mu Bai, and Xuan Hua discussed the rival sects and dismissed the threat posed by True Lord Qingyun and True Lord Ruoxi.
• True Lord Chengyuan arrived with Biyou Palace cultivators, and Changye’s Heaven Gate Dao might clashed with his, forcing Chengyuan to step back.
• Moon Yin Palace cultivators in moon-white robes emerged through the void.

Li Qingyun arrived with Lingbao Sect at the contest between You Kingdom and Rotten Moon Palace, startling Rotten Moon Palace’s leaders with his strength. The Opening Mansion Realm match began with A'li facing Mo Chen, whose Stabilizing Method struck her illusory clone.

• Moon Yin Palace arrived, and True Lord Changye taunted You Kingdom’s sects for being fragmented and scattered.
• Li Qingyun appeared with Miaoxuan, A'li, and the other Lingbao Sect disciples, then judged Biyou Palace’s and Moon Yin Palace’s fighters.
• True Lord Changye, True Lady Xuanhua, and Mu Bai sensed Li Qingyun’s formidable aura and worried that he was a new variable.
• True Lord Changye announced the contest’s start, and True Lord Chengyuan answered that Rotten Moon Palace should not return in defeat.
• Mo Chen challenged A'li in the Opening Mansion Realm match, and Li Qingyun encouraged her to fight.
• Mo Chen and A'li exchanged salutes and cast their Stabilizing Methods; A'li split into two, leaving Mo Chen’s spell to hit an illusory clone.

A'li gained the upper hand against Mo Chen after Li Qingyun exposed and countered Rotten Moon Palace’s hidden aid from the waning moon. Mo Chen unleashed a lethal sword technique as he teetered on the edge of defeat, leaving A'li in immediate danger.

• A'li used fire sparrows and fire arts against Mo Chen, while Li Qingyun noticed the waning moonlight secretly helping Mo Chen.
• Li Qingyun summoned Great Sun's Radiance and matched True Lady Xuanhua’s waning moon, disrupting Rotten Moon Palace’s interference before both withdrew their power.
• A'li sent her prepared fire sparrows at Mo Chen when his Dharma power faltered, breaking through his defenses and driving him toward the edge of the platform.
• Mo Chen roared that he would not lose and unleashed Rotten Moon Killing Sword, filling the platform with lethal Sword Qi aimed at A'li.
• Miaoxuan, Li Zuo, Yue Changsong, and the others cried out as A'li faced the sudden threat.

A'li killed Mo Chen after using her master's Daoist statue to turn aside the Rotten Moon Sword, and Li Qingyun stopped Rotten Moon Palace cultivators from interfering. The second duel began with Li Zuo fighting Wang Pan, who was already nearing defeat despite exploiting Li Zuo's apparent weaknesses.

• A'li used her master's incense-offering Daoist statue to deflect the Rotten Moon Sword Qi, and its clear light pierced and killed Mo Chen.
• Li Qingyun repelled Rotten Moon Palace cultivators who tried to save Mo Chen, while Teng Su challenged him over the intervention.
• Cruel Daoist collected Mo Chen's corpse and glared at the You Kingdom and Lingbao Sect cultivators as A'li apologized and Li Qingyun called her down.
• After Rotten Moon Palace hesitated to send its next fighter, Li Qingyun chose Li Zuo for the second duel and urged him not to hold back.
• Li Zuo and Wang Pan fought with full force, and Li Zuo survived Wang Pan's near-fatal attacks as Wang Pan approached defeat.

Li Zuo defeated Wang Pan, securing the Opening Mansion Realm for the You Kingdom, while Tao statues from True Lord Qingyun protected Li Zuo and Wu Yue from lethal attacks. Rotten Moon Palace then gained an advantage in the Golden Core duels, leaving Yan Gui on the platform and the You Kingdom with little choice but to concede.

• Wang Pan tried to unleash a lethal weapon, but True Lord Changye stopped him, and Li Zuo won the second Opening Mansion Realm match for the You Kingdom.
• Nangong Jun declined to fight the third match, and Li Qingyun moved the contest on to the Golden Core Realm duels.
• Li Qingyun gave Wu Yue an incense-offering Tao statue before she faced Huo Buqun, who lost and retreated after the statue blocked his shuttle weapon.
• Li Qingyun advised True Lord Ruoxi to concede the next Golden Core match because the Rotten Moon Palace cultivator onstage was too powerful.
• Yan Gui stayed on the platform and challenged the You Kingdom's Golden Core cultivators to fight a third round, but Li Qingyun advised against forcing a match.

The Nascent Soul Realm battle began with Cruel Daoist swiftly killing Biyou Palace’s Peak Master Zhao and destroying his soul. Fellow Daoist Ou then took the stage with a Ghost Wind Pearl Li Qingyun had lent him, and his escape art allowed him to evade Cruel Daoist’s first strike.

• Yan Gui left the stage after no Golden Core cultivator from Moon Yin Palace dared to challenge him, and True Lord Ruoxi argued with True Lord Chengyuan about the coming matches.
• Cruel Daoist entered the Nascent Soul battle and killed Peak Master Zhao, then burned away his escaping soul with moonfire.
• Nan Zhongling held back from fighting after True Lord Nanchen warned him, and Peak Master Wang prepared to defend Biyou Palace.
• True Lord Chengyuan called upon Luoxia Sect’s Fellow Daoist Ou to fight, and Li Qingyun lent him a Ghost Wind Pearl to improve his escape arts.
• Fellow Daoist Ou took the stage and evaded Cruel Daoist’s first sword strike by dissolving into ghostly wind.

Fellow Daoist Ou survived Cruel Daoist’s attack and escaped the spell arena with the Ghost Shadow Pearl, preserving some of the Shadowed Country’s dignity. As the third Nascent Soul match began, Peak Master Wang challenged the exhausted Cruel Daoist, and their battle erupted.

• Cruel Daoist overwhelmed Fellow Daoist Ou, but Ou used the Ghost Shadow Pearl to evade his finishing strike and flee the spell arena with a severed arm.
• Li Qingyun confronted True Person Teng Su over Cruel Daoist’s attempt to kill an opponent who had conceded, and Teng Su insisted the Shadowed Country must accept the agreed division of its fortune or face death.
• Fellow Daoist Ou returned the Ghost Shadow Pearl to Li Qingyun, who passed it to A'li, and the Shadowed Country’s cultivators cheered his survival.
• Peak Master Wang entered the third match and attacked Cruel Daoist with a dao bell, while Cruel Daoist took a medicinal pill and fought back with his sword.

After Peak Master Wang and Cruel Daoist killed each other, Rotten Moon Palace dominated the Yin God duels, destroying True Lords Chihu and Song Xia before Jing Xiao defeated Yi Tianxing’s phantom. As the Yang God duels began, Li Qingyun urged Yeyue to face Xu Xingzhou, and she entered the field with a radiant eight-layer Yang God.

• Peak Master Wang and Cruel Daoist collapsed and died together, ending the Nascent Soul duels in a draw for that round.
• Jing Xiao defeated True Lord Chihu and True Lord Song Xia, then destroyed Yi Tianxing’s Yin God phantom as Rotten Moon Palace swept the Yin God duels.
• Xu Xingzhou of Rotten Moon Palace challenged Moon Yin Palace to a Yang God duel.
• Li Qingyun praised Yeyue’s strength and urged her to fight Xu Xingzhou.
• Yeyue entered the void and summoned her eight-layer Yang God to face Xu Xingzhou.

Yeyue defeated three Rotten Moon Palace Yang God cultivators in succession, while Biyou Palace lost its first two Death Gate Realm matches and conceded the third. As the next Life Gate Realm battle approached, True Lord Chengyuan expected True Person Qingyun to be destroyed.

• Yeyue defeated Xu Xingzhou and then won two more consecutive Yang God matches, gaining a thread of invisible fortune.
• True Lord Chengyuan sent the injured True Lord Nanchen to fight Song Chun, and Nanchen lost after his cultivation decline left him at a disadvantage.
• True Lord Guanhai fought another Rotten Moon Palace cultivator and vanished from the void, prompting Chengyuan to concede Biyou Palace’s third Death Gate Realm match.
• True Lord Chengyuan looked ahead to the Lingbao Sect’s Life Gate Realm battle and anticipated True Person Qingyun’s defeat.

Li Qingyun faced Teng Su of Rotten Moon Palace in a Life Gate Realm duel, and his overwhelming thunder arts quickly put Teng Su on the defensive. The fight continued as Teng Su struggled to withstand Li Qingyun’s heavenly lightning.

• Teng Su challenged Li Qingyun and True Lord Ruoxi, confident that his deeper foundation would defeat either of them.
• True Lord Ruoxi offered to fight Teng Su, but Li Qingyun declined and rose to meet him himself.
• Li Qingyun’s thunderclouds suppressed Teng Su’s moonfire, alarming cultivators watching from both kingdoms.
• Teng Su unleashed Undying Moonfire, but Li Qingyun remained unharmed and struck him with heavenly thunder.
• Teng Su’s protective barrier broke under the lightning, and he flashed across the sky to evade the continuing attack.

Li Qingyun destroyed True Person Teng Su with Divine Lightning, condemned Rotten Moon Palace for its cruelty toward the You Kingdom, and faced its next Life Gate Realm challenger. He overwhelmed Xu Dingshan with heavenly lightning, ending the chapter as a bolt of Divine Lightning struck.

• Li Qingyun bound Teng Su and destroyed his true form with Divine Lightning, severely damaging Teng Su’s Dao foundation.
• Changye, Mu Bai, and Xuan Hua accused Li Qingyun of showing no mercy, but he reminded them that Rotten Moon Palace had slaughtered You Kingdom cultivators and suppressed the kingdom.
• Li Qingyun rebuked Mu Bai before the gathered cultivators, winning the You Kingdom’s admiration and provoking Rotten Moon Palace to continue the matches.
• Changye, Mu Bai, and Xuan Hua sent Xu Dingshan to exhaust Li Qingyun before Mu Qing’s match.
• Li Qingyun engulfed Xu Dingshan in heavenly lightning, then struck him with another bolt of Divine Lightning.

After killing Xu Dingshan with divine lightning, Li Qingyun pushed Biyou Palace to take on True Lord Changye so he could attempt to reclaim You Country’s lost honor. The chapter ended with Wang Chengyuan accepting the challenge and summoning Changye to fight.

• Li Qingyun killed Xu Dingshan with divine lightning, destroying his body and striking at his foundation.
• True Lord Changye ordered True Person Mu Qing to forfeit Rotten Moon Palace’s third Life Gate match, and Mu Qing announced the forfeit.
• Li Qingyun confronted True Lord Chengyuan, accused Biyou Palace of failing You Country, and asked him to occupy Changye during the Heaven Gate matches so Li Qingyun could fight the remaining rounds.
• Chengyuan initially doubted that a Life Gate cultivator could face Heaven Gate experts, but Li Qingyun challenged his courage and left.
• Wang Chengyuan decided to take the risk and emerged through a gate of light to challenge True Lord Changye.

Wang Chengyuan and Changye True Lord fought over the State of You, with Changye gaining the upper hand. After being injured, Wang Chengyuan forced open his extinguished Origin Gate and risked his Dao Path to launch a desperate counterattack.

• Wang Chengyuan declared his resolve to defend Biyou Palace as Changye True Lord appeared and challenged him.
• The two True Lords unleashed Heaven Gates against each other, and Li Qingyun noticed their clash briefly disturbed the seal around the Shadowed Domain.
• Changye's stronger cultivation foundation let him suppress Wang Chengyuan, who staggered from the light with bloodied coughs.
• Wang Chengyuan forced open his extinguished Origin Gate despite Changye warning that it could ruin his Dao Path.
• Wang Chengyuan summoned a wave of destructive Heaven Gates, and Changye met his attack with renewed force.

After True Lord Chengyuan sacrificed his cultivation foundation to defeat True Lord Changye, Li Qingyun stepped forward to challenge Rotten Moon Palace’s Heaven Gate Realm cultivators in the second round. He sought to use a victory to gather national worship and incense offerings, and True Person Mu Bai accepted his challenge.

• True Lord Changye declared victory over True Lord Chengyuan, who revealed that the Nether Kingdom still had two rounds to fight.
• True Lord Chengyuan told Li Qingyun that he had damaged his cultivation foundation to drag Yun Changye down and left the next round to him.
• Li Qingyun announced that he would challenge a Heaven Gate Realm cultivator despite being in the Life Gate Realm.
• Li Qingyun reasoned that victory could earn him the Nether Kingdom’s reverence and incense offerings, strengthening him against the Void Sky Dao Lord’s suppression.
• True Person Mu Bai stepped through a gate of light and challenged Li Qingyun, boasting that he could suppress him within one breath.

Li Qingyun used his fourth-tier Thunder Emperor power and Jade Pure Profound Light to withstand True Person Mu Bai’s Heaven Gate Realm attacks and turn the fight in his favor. Mu Bai then opened an enormous gate and tried to drag Li Qingyun and the surrounding space into the Heavenly Prison.

• Li Qingyun summoned thunderclouds and Divine Lightning, and True Person Mu Bai used his Gates of Heaven to absorb the initial attacks.
• True Lord Changye warned Mu Bai that Li Qingyun’s lightning was strange, and Mu Bai narrowly evaded bolts that pierced through the void and pursued him through successive gates.
• Mu Bai opened hundreds of Gates of Heaven and flooded the sky with mana, but Li Qingyun’s Jade Pure Profound Light repelled it and kept him unharmed.
• Li Qingyun counterattacked with void-piercing Divine Lightning, forcing Mu Bai to keep evading between his Gates of Heaven.
• Mu Bai overlapped more than a hundred Gates of Heaven into a massive gate and tried to pull Li Qingyun and the surrounding space into the Heavenly Prison.

Li Qingyun broke free from True Person Mu Bai’s Heavenly Prison and fought him through the void with Divine Lightning. He exploited a brief opening to destroy Mu Bai’s true body, leaving the cultivators of both nations stunned.

• True Person Mu Bai dragged Li Qingyun toward the Heavenly Prison, but Li Qingyun tore open the locked void and escaped.
• Li Qingyun unleashed Divine Lightning, blasting apart Mu Bai’s Heaven Gates as the two cultivators leaped through the void.
• Mu Bai claimed his inexhaustible dharma power would prevail, but he continued evading Li Qingyun’s lightning rather than risk damaging his Dao foundation.
• Li Qingyun’s Jade Pure Profound Light brushed Mu Bai and briefly disrupted his powers as he tried to enter a Heaven Gate.
• Li Qingyun struck Mu Bai with several thunder dragons, cleaving his true body with thirty-three lightning blows and obliterating him.
• The cultivators of both nations reacted in shock as they witnessed a Life Gate Realm cultivator kill a Heaven Gate Realm cultivator.

Li Qingyun rebuked True Lord Changye, then faced True Lady Xuanhua while still weakened from defeating Mu Bai. He exploited Xuanhua’s inferior mastery of the void to kill her with Divine Lightning, leaving the Rotten Moon Palace reeling from another defeat.

• Li Qingyun rejected True Lord Changye’s criticism and said he looked forward to facing him in the future.
• True Lady Xuanhua challenged Li Qingyun to defend the Rotten Moon Palace’s honor and avenge Mu Bai, despite his depleted strength.
• Wang Chengyuan and the cultivators of the You Kingdom condemned Xuanhua for attacking Li Qingyun before he could recover.
• Li Qingyun and True Lady Xuanhua fought with their Heavenly Gate arts as she used radiant gates and void movement to avoid his Divine Lightning.
• Li Qingyun exploited Xuanhua’s weaker understanding of the void, caught her as she emerged from a Heavenly Gate, and destroyed her true body with Divine Lightning.

Li Qingyun secured a draw against Rotten Moon Palace and forced its cultivators to withdraw from You Kingdom, then killed Yeyue and claimed the battle’s credit. Dao fortune replenished his life qi and strengthened his Heaven Gates, while he arranged to gather incense offerings across the kingdom to heal and advance his power.

• The Void True Lords secretly ruled the battle a draw and agreed that Rotten Moon Palace would not harass You Kingdom, though An Kingdom and Ying Kingdom remained separate matters.
• Li Qingyun declared the battle a draw, ordered Rotten Moon Palace to remove its disciples from You Kingdom, and sent Yue Changsong to kill Yeyue.
• Yue Changsong returned with Yeyue’s head, and Li Qingyun praised the Six Sects for defending Great You while taking the leading share of the victory’s credit.
• Dao fortune descended upon the Six Sects’ cultivators, restoring half of Li Qingyun’s life qi channels and strengthening his Little Heaven Gates and Heaven Gate phantoms with pale purple qi.
• Li Qingyun told the Six Sects he needed You Kingdom’s incense offerings to recover, and Yeyue and True Lord Ruoxi promised to encourage the people to worship him.

After You Kingdom’s victory over Fu Kingdom, Li Qingyun’s fame and the incense worship he received surged, strengthening his cultivation while he remained secluded and refused invitations from powerful sects. The chapter leaves him anticipating a challenge to the next Dao Lord in the sequence and reflecting on Wang Chengyuan as a dangerous rival.

• The Six Sects of You Kingdom celebrated as True Lord Qingyun’s victory reversed You Kingdom’s long decline in Dao fortune, while Fire God Gate declared itself an affiliate of Biyou Palace.
• Mortals began venerating Li Qingyun, and the incense-worship aura made the mysterious Daoist effigy in his mind increasingly lifelike and accelerated his mana growth and lightning comprehension.
• Li Qingyun stayed in sect seclusion, declined more than a hundred invitations, and continued cultivating while powerful sects privately regarded him as an unexpected variable.
• Li Qingyun received messages from Li Zuo and A'li reporting that they had entered the Golden Core Realm and that Wu Yue had reached the True Infant Realm.
• Li Qingyun considered the gains Wang Chengyuan had earned from the duel and judged him a formidable rival.