Chapter Summaries

Li Qingyun searched the Heavenly Ruins for a High-grade Small World but found only lesser opportunities, then returned to study fire techniques. After five days of repeated cultivation, he forcefully claimed a second-tier Fire Fatekeeper position and saw that the fire Dao had many higher ranks ahead.

• Li Qingyun searched a ruined manor in the Heavenly Ruins, found only a living low-grade Small World, and returned to Qingyun Mansion.
• Li Qingyun noticed a strange crack between the brows of the mysterious Daoist effigy and set aside his questions to study the fire Dao Scroll.
• Li Qingyun repeatedly scattered the void turbulence in Human Heaven Hall, but found no High-grade Small World over the next five days.
• Li Qingyun challenged the second-tier Fire Fatekeeper positions and defeated the cultivators who tried to suppress him.
• Li Qingyun claimed a Fire Fatekeeper throne, noticed Miaoxuan, Yi Tianxing, and Nan Chen nearby, and saw dozens of Third-tier Fire Lord positions above.

Li Qingyun integrated a third High-grade Small World and then witnessed the Rotten Anomaly emerge at Youjiang Temple. When True Lord Mizhe interfered with Zhu Yuyan’s attempt to contain it, Li Qingyun rushed toward the temple as Mizhe overpowered her.

• Li Qingyun found and integrated a third High-grade Small World, greatly increasing his mana.
• Li Qingyun sensed the Rotten Anomaly was about to emerge from Youjiang Temple and watched Zhu Yuyan arrive to suppress it.
• Zhu Yuyan restrained the Rotten Anomaly and began sealing it inside a Moon God Wood statue.
• True Lord Mizhe appeared and interfered with Zhu Yuyan’s suppression of the anomaly.
• True Lord Mizhe revealed his True Self Great Perfection cultivation and forced Zhu Yuyan back in their clash.
• Li Qingyun entered his Heaven Gate phantom and rushed toward Youjiang Temple.

Zhu Yuyan nearly contained the Rotten Anomaly when True Lord Mizhe intervened, forcing Li Qingyun to confront him. Li Qingyun's lightning wounded Mizhe, and he revealed his Fifth-Order Thunder Venerable divine mark as he prepared to unleash a thunder lotus.

• True Lord Mizhe disrupted Zhu Yuyan's attempt to contain the Rotten Anomaly and challenged her with his stronger cultivation.
• Li Qingyun arrived, stood between Zhu Yuyan and Mizhe, and dismissed Mizhe as a petty man.
• Mizhe attacked Li Qingyun with curse intent, but Li Qingyun deflected it with Jade Pure Profound Light and broke into Mizhe's True Self world.
• Li Qingyun's Divine Lightning overwhelmed Mizhe's green-mist skulls, and a bolt burned away half of Mizhe's finger despite his attempt to devour the lightning.
• Li Qingyun revealed his Fifth-Order Thunder Venerable divine mark and prepared to bloom a thunder lotus using the lightning Mizhe had devoured.

Li Qingyun used the power of the Fifth-Order Thunder Venerable to pursue and cripple True Lord Mizhe, then killed him after True Lords Yunyu and Qingquan intervened. The chapter left Li Qingyun turning his attack on Teng Yunyu.

• Li Qingyun repeatedly sent thunder lotuses into True Lord Mizhe’s past lives, forcing Mizhe to flee and recognize Li’s power as that of a fifth-order divine position.
• Li Qingyun sealed Mizhe’s escape routes and attacked him over his interference in Zhu Yuyan’s efforts to contain the Rotten Anomaly and his past actions in the Heavenly Ruins.
• Mizhe escaped through his past lives but emerged at the border between the Rotten and You Kingdoms grievously mutilated, as several True Lords watched.
• True Lords Yunyu and Qingquan tried to protect Mizhe, but Li Qingyun’s thunder lotuses shattered their True Self small worlds and pursued them into their past lives.
• Li Qingyun killed True Lord Mizhe inside Yunyu’s past life, then pointed his finger at Teng Yunyu despite his own exhaustion.

Li Qingyun refused True Lord Yize’s attempt to end the conflict and stood against the Pure Self Realm cultivator’s purifying power. His Jade Pure Profound Light endured Yize’s assault, leaving the two powers locked in a contest.

• True Lord Yize appeared and purified the thunder lotus that had pursued True Lord Yunyu, then asked Li Qingyun to stop fighting.
• Li Qingyun refused, accused Rotten Moon Palace of provoking the conflict and causing harm, and formed two more thunder lotuses.
• True Lord Yize unleashed his Pure Self Realm to disperse the thunder lotuses and commanded his will to purify Li Qingyun.
• Li Qingyun shielded himself with Jade Pure Profound Light, which withstood the attack and overcame True Lord Yize’s Pure Self will by a margin.

Li Qingyun pursued True Lord Yunyu and killed him with thunder lotuses outside the Rotten Moon Palace gates, then escaped True Lord Yize’s attacks by retreating into Lingbao Sect. He appealed to True Teach Ancestor Dao Lord for protection, and the Ancestor assured him that all was well.

• Li Qingyun bypassed True Lord Yize and struck True Lord Yunyu with thunder lotuses, leaving him gravely wounded.
• True Lord Yize attacked Li Qingyun, but Li Qingyun’s final thunder lotus annihilated True Lord Yunyu’s spirit and soul.
• Rotten Moon Palace’s disciples demanded vengeance, while True Lord Yize pursued Li Qingyun despite the damage to his Pure Self dao attainments.
• Li Qingyun used Heaven Gates to delay True Lord Yize, escaped into Lingbao Sect, and appealed to True Teach Ancestor Dao Lord for protection.
• True Teach Ancestor Dao Lord sent down his will and told Li Qingyun, “No harm.”

True Lord Yize sealed Lingbao Sect for ten years with help from True Lord Wanhong, leaving Li Qingyun determined to break the barrier within two years. Li Qingyun then struck back in the Heavenly Ruins, killing several Heaven Gate Realm cultivators from Rotten Moon Palace and Mishin Palace as he pursued the Small Worlds needed to reach the Clear Self Realm.

• Li Qingyun left Ancestor's Cave and watched over Lingbao Sect while True Lord Yize hesitated to attack its mountain gate, fearing backlash from above Void Sky.
• After receiving guidance from Senior Brother Wan Hong, True Lord Yize sealed Lingbao Sect beneath a Glazed Pure Light barrier strengthened by power from above.
• Li Qingyun recognized True Lord Wanhong's contribution, reassured the sect, and told its disciples to treat the confinement as a period of secluded cultivation.
• Li Qingyun entered the Inner Scenery Heavenly Ruins and killed True Person Mu Bai and True Lady Xuanhua, then suppressed Yun Changye and True Lord Tuo Feng.
• Li Qingyun returned to the chaotic void currents to seek twenty-seven High-grade Small Worlds and advance to the Clear Self Realm so he could break the seal.

After killing True Lords Mizhe and Yunyu, Li Qingyun continued cultivating while Lingbao Sect endured its ten-year seal. A month later, he challenged the Third-tier Fire Lord divine office.

• Wen Miaozhu and the other cultivators witnessed Li Qingyun return from the void turbulence and reflected on his victories over the two True Lords.
• Li Qingyun left the Heavenly Ruins Inner Scenery and focused on comprehending fire arts as Lingbao Sect’s disciples entered seclusion beneath the Glazed Pure Realm seal.
• In Fu Kingdom, Li Yan endured daily beatings at Teng Manor as the Teng family retaliated for their ancestor Teng Yunyu’s fall.
• After a month, Li Qingyun refined another High-grade Small World and began challenging the Third-tier Fire Lord divine office.

Li Qingyun forced his way onto the third-tier Fire Lord divine position despite a combined attack from powerful cultivators, then returned to Lingbao Sect and arranged to preach the Fire Dao. He left the sect preparing to compete for places at his lecture, while intending to help Miaoxuan, A'li, and Li Zuo ascend before pursuing the fourth tier.

• Li Qingyun attempted to ascend to the third-tier Fire Lord divine position, drawing the attention of Su Yuhuang, True Lord Chenxi, True Lord Changye, and other powerful cultivators.
• True Lord Chenxi and the others attacked Li Qingyun to drive him away, but he shattered their divine-fire assault and continued climbing.
• Li Qingyun's defiance inspired commoner cultivators, while the attackers withdrew after their suppression failed and destabilized their Dao hearts.
• Li Qingyun took the third-tier divine seat, mocked its occupants, and decided to help Miaoxuan, A'li, and Li Zuo reach the same rank before attempting the fourth tier.
• Li Qingyun returned to the waking world and decreed that he would expound the Fire Dao at Linghui Peak's ancient pine, granting the other five main peaks three places each.

Li Qingyun lectured the Lingbao Sect and his Southern Nether disciples on the Dao, helping A'li and Li Zuo advance to the second-order Fire Si Ming. A year later, he entered the Sword Dao sequence and broke through the suppression of eight third-order Sword Fate Lords as he sought to ascend.

• Li Qingyun gathered the Lingbao Sect elders and disciples for a fire arts discourse, then secretly summoned and taught A'li, Li Zuo, and the others in the Southern Nether.
• A'li and Li Zuo broke through to the second-order Fire Si Ming a few days after the discourse.
• Over the next year, Li Qingyun refined thirteen High-grade Small Worlds and raised his sword arts toward the third-order Sword Fate Lord realm.
• Li Qingyun entered the Sword Dao sequence and ascended from the second-order divine positions toward the third-order rank.
• Haoyang, Tuofeng, and six other cultivators attacked Li Qingyun with sword light, but he countered and shattered their suppression with his sword intent.

Li Qingyun defeated six Sword Dao challengers, continued strengthening the Lingbao Sect, and worried that he lacked Yin-Yang Copper Coins to advance his cultivation. He sent Big Black Cat Yuanbao to collect his debt from Yin Wanqing, and Yuanbao returned with piles of coins.

• Li Qingyun defeated six great sect cultivators on the Sword Dao, then greeted Jingfeng and Lengxing under the assumed name Zhao Fan.
• Over the next half year, Li Qingyun lectured the Lingbao Sect and advanced toward the fourth-tier Sword Emperor, while Nangong Fengchuan reached the second-tier Thunder Lord throne.
• Li Qingyun continued hunting Mishen Sect and Rotten Moon Palace cultivators in the Heavenly Ruins, but his supply of Yin-Yang Copper Coins dwindled before he could refine the six High-grade Small Worlds his Origin Gate needed.
• Li Qingyun realized that Big Black Cat Yuanbao could enter Living Ghost Heaven and asked it to take his seal token to Yin Wanqing in Holy Seal City to collect two cartloads of Yin-Yang Copper Coins.
• Yuanbao returned half a day later with piles of Yin-Yang Copper Coins, and Li Qingyun praised the cat.

Li Qingyun refined his twenty-seventh High-grade Small World and reached Heaven Gate Great Perfection, triggering a violent upheaval across the Heavenly Ruins. He returned to the Inner Scenery and discovered his mana could pierce its barrier and destroy even the plaza’s fiercest eerie shadow, then set out for the next realm.

• Li Qingyun made Yuanbao the Lingbao Sect’s guardian spirit beast, and Yuanbao earned Nangong Fengchuan’s reverence after guiding him through the Sea of Ruins and Death Gate Nether Soil.
• Li Qingyun refined the final High-grade Small World, completing his twenty-seventh and reaching Heaven Gate Great Perfection.
• The Heavenly Ruins shook and turned blood-red, causing cultivators including Wen Miaozhu to flee before Li Qingyun was jolted back to the present world.
• Li Qingyun returned to the Heavenly Ruins, where the world settled at his arrival, and destroyed its fiercest ancient eerie shadow with a sweep of his sleeve.
• Li Qingyun found the eerie shadows useless for further Jade Pure Essence cultivation and climbed the gray stairs toward the next realm.

Li Qingyun studied his Second Past Life in the God-Illuminating Mirror, but realized that merging with Li Yunxiang’s incomplete life would leave flaws in his breakthrough. After tracing the life back to the moment his fetus formed, Li Qingyun decided to create a life of Dao-merging for himself and stepped into the mirror.

• Li Qingyun watched Li Yunxiang’s final days and discovered that the old man had been poisoned by his eldest son after surviving a ghost-haunted pleasure boat.
• Li Qingyun observed Li Yunxiang’s entire life but could not truly merge with the forcibly appended past life without risking flaws in his Dao Path.
• Li Qingyun traced the past life further back, seeing Li Yunxiang’s mother’s hardship and her death from an untreated illness.
• Li Qingyun resolved to create a perfect life of Dao-merging for himself and stepped into the God-Illuminating Mirror as his Jade Pure Profound Light blazed.

Li Qingyun endured the temporal force of entering his Second Past Life by compressing his Primordial Spirit into a pellet and crossing the final barrier. He arrived in the life he had created, where Chen Xiu worked through a sweltering summer day and suspected she was pregnant.

• Li Qingyun used his Origin Gates, twenty-seven High-grade Small Worlds, and Jade Pure Profound Light to resist the temporal force, but he could not cross the final step with his Primordial Spirit intact.
• Li Qingyun condensed his Primordial Spirit into a pellet and passed through the last barrier into his Second Past Life.
• Chen Xiu reeled silk in the Li Household's stifling, dilapidated house while her husband, Li Fu, carried water to their drought-stricken fields.
• Chen Xiu felt a faint disturbance in her lower abdomen and wondered if she was finally pregnant, hoping to escape her mother-in-law's scorn.

Li Qingyun descended into Chen Xiu’s womb as her unborn child and revived the family’s dead mulberry tree, easing their harsh living conditions. As night fell, Li Fu and Chen Xiu faced the return of the drowned Niu Wazi, who called at their door for porridge.

• Li Qingyun entered Chen Xiu’s womb, drove away the soul that would have occupied the unborn life, and revived the old mulberry tree with a thread of life force.
• Li Fu returned home and told Chen Xiu that two more villagers had drowned and that Scholar Lin feared the dead would become eerie things seven days after burial.
• Li Fu realized it was the seventh night since Niu Wazi’s burial, and he and Chen Xiu heard what sounded like Niu Wazi outside.
• Chen Xiu pasted a House Soothing Talisman on the inner side of the door, and Niu Wazi called to Li Fu asking for a bowl of porridge.

Li Yunxiang used his power to save Chen Xiu and Li Fu from Niu Wazi, then helped Chen Xiu gain the villagers’ reverence as the Divine Granny. He was born in Heqian Village in his past life with a Flawless Dao Body and resolved to live as an ordinary mortal deity.

• Niu Wazi entered Li Fu and Chen Xiu’s home, drank their porridge, and tried to seize Chen Xiu, but an unseen Dao chant shattered his Anomaly Body.
• Li Fu and Chen Xiu survived, and the next morning the villagers burned the drowned villagers’ corpses.
• Chen Xiu followed Scholar Lin’s instructions to scatter incense ashes into the river, bringing up a giant anomalous turtle carcass.
• The villagers credited Chen Xiu with defeating the turtle and began worshipping her as the Divine Granny.
• Li Yunxiang reflected that he had changed Chen Xiu and Li Fu’s destiny, then was born in his past life with a Flawless Dao Body.

Li Qingyun continued his breakthrough by living a complete past life, secretly guiding events from birth as Li Qing in Heqian Village. By age three in that life, he had traveled with his mother Chen Xiu and witnessed the lives and hardships of ordinary people, which he used to deepen his self-knowledge.

• Li Fu and the midwife hesitated to strike the silent newborn, sensing his unusual presence, and Li Fu named him Li Qing instead of Li Yunxiang.
• Strange events followed Li Qing's birth, including pheasants entering the courtyard, a cool breeze filling the house, and rain falling after Chen Xiu predicted it.
• Li Qingyun quietly guided his family and village with Dao arts while resolving to live an ordinary life in the Shadowed Domain.
• By Li Qing's third year, Chen Xiu had become a widely sought-after healer and ritualist, and she often brought him along to help villagers.
• Li Qing read scriptures and witnessed exorcisms, ghost suppression, and the joys and hardships of common people as nourishment for his breakthrough.

Li Qingyun spent eighteen years in his past life understanding the Dao of time and space, and he completed the path to the Clear Self Realm. As he prepared to leave the past life and break through in the present world, he saw carriages arriving at the Li residence to bring him potential brides.

• An old Daoist came to take Li Qingyun to Wuchen Temple, but Li Qingyun let the fraudulent cultivator drown in a river and returned home alone.
• Li Qingyun concluded that past lives were Enlightenment Grounds that could reveal the laws of time without changing the future.
• Over eighteen years, Chen Xiu became renowned for suppressing demons, the Li household prospered, and Li Qingyun refused to enter a Daoist temple or take the Daoist Academy examinations.
• Scholar Lin learned from Li Qingyun, passed the Daoist Academy examination, and became a county Dao Commander.
• Li Qingyun completed his past-life enlightenment, saw nineteen past-life shadows behind his first Gate of Origin, and realized he could reach the Clear Self Realm upon returning to the present.
• Li Qingyun rose through the roof in a streak of rainbow light as Chen Xiu and Li Fu welcomed young women arriving in carriages at the Li residence.

Li Qingyun completed his eighteenth year in a past life and returned to the present, where he absorbed the Shadow of Past Life and pondered his unusually large number of past lives. Miaoxuan then reported that the Moon God Wood statue imprisoning a Heavenly Anomaly had cracked, and Li Qingyun realized the entity might have escaped.

• Li Qingyun staged an immortal ascension before Li Fu, Chen Xiu, and the people of Heqian Town, then vanished from that past life.
• Li Qingyun returned to his true form and forced the first Shadow of Past Life into his Precious Furnace, strengthening his connection to the past-life realm.
• Li Qingyun considered that he possessed 171 past lives, far beyond the nineteen lives said to be possible, and decided to inspect them again in the Heavenly Ruins.
• Miaoxuan told Li Qingyun that True Lord Zhu had reported the Moon God Wood statue cracking during a battle after True Lord Ruoxi was attacked.
• Li Qingyun concluded that the Heavenly Anomaly had likely escaped and said they needed to find where it had gone.

Li Qingyun witnessed True Lord Yize of Rotten Moon Palace destroy the Rotten Anomaly from Youjiang Temple and realized Rotten Moon Palace had engineered the crisis to threaten You Kingdom. He ordered the sects to prepare for another Great Anomaly, then entered the Sword Dao sequence stairway to challenge the fourth-rank Sword Emperor divine position.

• True Lord Yize revealed himself and destroyed the Rotten Anomaly after it devoured nearly a thousand villagers and turned their corpses into Fallen Guǐ.
• Li Qingyun recognized True Lord Yize and concluded that Rotten Moon Palace had manipulated events to make the Youjiang Temple anomaly escape and endanger You Kingdom.
• Li Qingyun told Miaoxuan to alert True Lord Zhu and Moon Yin Palace, and to demand Biyou Palace provide its Anomaly Containment Lamp or send Void True Lord to watch Youjiang Temple.
• Li Qingyun sealed Qingyun Mansion, entered the Sword Dao sequence stairway, and began challenging the fourth-rank Sword Emperor divine position.
• Haoyang, Tuofeng, Jingfeng, Lengxing, and the other third-rank Sword Fate Lords appeared, alarmed by the disturbance.