Chapter Summaries

Li Qingyun sent disciples to establish Lingbao temples in the Fu Kingdom and then traveled to the Zhu Kingdom to visit old acquaintances. There, he reunited with Li Shaojiang, who had built a family and a thriving garment shop after leaving her past behind.

• Shui Lu, Yan Chaoyun, Nangong Zhenhuan, Feng Jue, and nearly a hundred disciples departed for the Fu Kingdom to establish incense manors, while Li Qingyun preserved soul fire from Shui Lu and Yan Chaoyun.
• A'hu, Xu Ying, Xu Xuan, and other sect disciples prepared to head to the Zhu Kingdom, and Li Qingyun decided to travel there himself.
• In Yunxi County, Li Shaojiang ran the prosperous Weaving Clouds garment shop and raised two children with Li Xun.
• Li Shaojiang recognized Li Qingyun at the teahouse across the street, and he greeted her with a smile.

Li Qingyun met Li Shaojiang and promised that the Li clan could reclaim its surname and return to You Kingdom, giving her a jade slip on cultivation. He then sought permission from Zhu Zhao Palace to build Lingbao Sect temples, but after Wang Lingzhao repeatedly refused to hear him out, Li Qingyun defeated him and asked him to listen.

• Li Qingyun told Li Shaojiang that the Li clan could recover its surname and return to You Kingdom, and she agreed to wait for a grand return.
• Li Qingyun gave Li Shaojiang a jade slip containing a secret for breaking through the realm of refining baleful intent and Yin spirit.
• Li Qingyun met Wang Lingzhao near Zhu Zhao Palace and asked to build several Daoist temples in the Zhu Kingdom.
• Wang Lingzhao denounced the encroachment of powerful sects and refused to discuss Li Qingyun's request.
• Li Qingyun attacked Wang Lingzhao with a thunder lotus, broke through his escape into the realm of past lives, and forced him to concede defeat.
• Li Qingyun reined in his Dao might and asked Wang Lingzhao to hear him out.

Li Qingyun negotiated with True Lord Lingzhao over Lingbao Sect’s expansion into territories controlled by Mingdeng Sect and Lei Tian Palace, promising not to take the Seven Sects’ existing fiefs. When Lei Rui confronted him on Lei Tian Palace’s behalf, he defeated her and sealed her Lightning Method, leaving the negotiations unresolved.

• Li Qingyun assured True Lord Lingzhao that Lingbao Sect would spread its Dao only in territories controlled by Mingdeng Sect and Lei Tian Palace, not the Seven Sects’ existing incense-and-fire fiefs.
• True Lord Lingzhao accepted Li Qingyun’s promise and departed peacefully.
• True Lord Guwen and True Lord Lei Rui arrived to meet Li Qingyun, but Lei Rui refused to sit and demanded that Lingbao Sect stay away from Lei Tian Palace’s fiefs.
• Li Qingyun rebuked Lei Rui, shattered her Clear Self Heaven and Earth, and sent her crashing down a mountainside.
• Lei Rui summoned thunder to attack Li Qingyun, but he dispersed the thunderclouds and sealed her Lightning Method with a thunder lotus.

Li Qingyun forced Lei Tian Palace to negotiate an equal division of Zhu Kingdom’s incense offerings, then faced True Lord Zhenchuan in a contest of divine abilities. His Clear Self Heaven and Earth overwhelmed Zhenchuan’s Pure Realm, leaving it shattered.

• A beam of pure light failed to remove Li Qingyun’s Thunder Lotus seal from True Lord Lei Rui, and True Lord Zhenchuan arrived to intervene.
• Li Qingyun resumed negotiations with True Lord Zhenchuan and True Lord Guwen, proposing that their three sects divide Zhu Kingdom’s eighteen prefectures equally.
• True Lord Guwen accepted the proposal, but True Lord Zhenchuan received an order from Lei Tian Palace and challenged Li Qingyun to uphold the sect’s dignity.
• Li Qingyun stripped away part of Zhenchuan’s Pure Self Realm and unleashed his Clear Self Heaven and Earth.
• Despite Zhenchuan’s efforts to purify it, Li Qingyun’s realm pressed down until Zhenchuan’s Pure Realm shattered.

After defeating True Lord Zhenchuan, Li Qingyun secured Lingbao Sect’s takeover of six commanderies in Zhu Kingdom and turned to cultivating in the Clear Self Realm. He discovered that he could no longer enter the inner scenery and began exploring his past lives, where he could observe but not participate in their events.

• Li Qingyun defeated True Lord Zhenchuan, forcing Lei Tian Palace, Mingdeng Sect, and Lingbao Sect to agree to divide Zhu Kingdom’s incense and fiefdoms.
• Xu Xuan led A'hu, Xu Ying, and hundreds of Lingbao Sect disciples into Zhu Kingdom to take over six commanderies as Lei Tian Palace and Mingdeng Sect withdrew.
• Li Qingyun entered his Inner Mansion and found that his True Self Heaven and Earth had expanded, while its barrier prevented him from entering other inner scenery lands.
• Li Qingyun entered his past life as Li Qing and discovered that he could observe its events replaying but could no longer participate in them.
• Li Qingyun withdrew from the Li Qing life and entered another past life, intending to comprehend all his identities and roles to advance toward the Pure Self Realm.

Li Qingyun entered the past life of Chen Jiuzhi, a grave robber, and used his Jade Pure Essence to remain lucid while fate repeatedly pushed him back toward his destined life. After Chen Jiuzhi was betrayed and killed by a hairy zombie, Li Qingyun transcended the life with a deeper understanding of fate.

• Li Qingyun surveyed Chen Jiuzhi's life and learned that a Clear Self Realm True Lord could choose when to merge into a past life but could not choose that life’s nature or fate.
• Li Qingyun traveled back to Chen Jiuzhi’s sixteenth year and merged into his body, remaining lucid through the Jade Pure Essence as he became a celebrated gambler.
• After fate returned Chen Jiuzhi to gambling losses and grave robbing, Li Qingyun realized why Zhu Yuyan had been unable to escape her Previous Thirteen Lives.
• Chen Jiuzhi rebuilt his wealth and status because tombs and eerie creatures feared the suppressive aura surrounding him, but fate eventually drew him back to the ancient tomb.
• Chen Jiuzhi’s Daoist friends sealed him inside the tomb, where the hairy zombie killed him nine days later, allowing Li Qingyun to transcend the life and gain insight into fate.

Li Qingyun prepared for the Heaven and Earth Anomaly Lord sealed in Youjiang Temple to emerge, then arrived with Void True Lord as the anomaly broke free. The Anomaly Lord appeared and declared its dominion over the kingdom, leaving Li Qingyun and the others facing it.

• Li Qingyun noted that incense offerings were increasing across the Candle Kingdom and Great You, while the Fu Kingdom remained difficult to expand into as the Rotten Moon Palace stayed on alert.
• Li Qingyun recognized that the anomaly in Youjiang Temple would soon emerge and spent two days expounding Dao to Lingbao Sect disciples on Ancient Pine Peak.
• Zhu Yuyan warned Li Qingyun that the Anomaly Lord was about to emerge and said she could not contain it alone.
• Li Qingyun arrived at Youjiang Temple, questioned Void True Lord's late arrival, and took the Anomaly Containment Lamp from Zhu Yuyan.
• Void True Lord emerged from the void and apologized for being delayed in a past life, but Li Qingyun cut him off.
• The Heaven and Earth Anomaly Lord burst out of Youjiang Temple, shattered Zhu Yuyan's restrictions, and declared that all living beings belonged to it.

Li Qingyun suppressed and sealed the newly emerged Anomaly Lord, then went with Zhu Yuyan to hear how he might help her escape the Previous Thirteen Lives. Zhu Yuyan began telling him about a former life in a courtyard in Tinglan County, beside a brothel called Hundred Flowers Pavilion.

• The Anomaly Lord shattered Void True Lord and Zhu Yuyan’s restraints, but Li Qingyun pinned it down and sealed it in the Anomaly Containment Lamp.
• Li Qingyun spotted True Lord Yize spying from the void and drove him away with a shout and a lotus of lightning.
• Li Qingyun refused to hand over the lamp and agreed that Void True Lord would guard Youjiang Temple for three years.
• Zhu Yuyan reminded Li Qingyun of his promise to help her escape the Previous Thirteen Lives, and the two vanished together through space.
• In a courtyard in Tinglan County, Zhu Yuyan began describing her previous life while making tea.

Zhu Yuyan asked Li Qingyun to enter one of her painful past lives with her and help change its fate. They entered the life of Zhu Yuhuan, whose tragic ending Zhu Yuyan had erased, leaving them to confront the uncertain path ahead.

• Zhu Yuyan told Li Qingyun that her earlier lives had repeatedly led her to the Myriad Flower Pavilion and explained how she had escaped one life without a Dao Bone Spiritual Root.
• Zhu Yuyan sensed that Li Qingyun's Jade Pure Profound Light might let him enter her past life, and Li Qingyun agreed to try.
• Li Qingyun reinforced the courtyard's protective formation, then merged his Primordial Spirit as a speck of Jade Pure light into Zhu Yuyan's Primordial Spirit.
• Zhu Yuyan and Li Qingyun entered her past life, where they watched the story of Zhu Yuhuan, a young bride blamed for her husband's death.
• Madam Yun summoned the Myriad Flower Pavilion's manager to sell Zhu Yuhuan, who threw herself into a well; Zhu Yuyan had erased what happened afterward, making the life harder to transcend.

Li Qingyun examined Zhu Yuyan’s tragic past life and proposed possessing Wang Luo the Peddler so he could help her escape. After Zhu Yuyan agreed, Li Qingyun possessed Wang Luo and immediately felt fate fiercely suppressing his interference.

• Li Qingyun reviewed Zhu Yuyan’s impoverished childhood, her family’s hardships, and how she was sold to the Yun Household before her husband died and she was sent to Myriad Flower Pavilion.
• Li Qingyun suggested that Zhu Yuyan might escape by eloping with Wang Luo, but she explained that past attempts had often ended in capture or betrayal.
• Li Qingyun and Zhu Yuyan agreed to try the escape plan, and Zhu Yuyan entered her younger self while Li Qingyun sent a point of Jade Pure faint light to Huangni Village.
• Li Qingyun possessed Wang Luo as he sold goods in Huangni Village, and Wang Luo briefly lost focus before returning to normal.
• Li Qingyun felt an overwhelming force of fate and karma resisting his attempt to alter Zhu Yuyan’s past.

Li Qingyun tried to influence Wang Luo the Peddler so he would take Zhu Yuyan away from Jikeng Village, but fate countered his interference. The escape failed when the Zhu family caught them, and the scene dissolved before they were thrown into a pig cage.

• Li Qingyun struggled against fate’s pressure and subtly guided Wang Luo’s thoughts toward rescuing Zhu Yuyan.
• Wang Luo left Widow Ma’s home and went to Jikeng Village to elope with Zhu Yuhuan.
• Zhu Yuyan escaped through her window and joined Wang Luo, but the pair were intercepted by the Zhu family elders and villagers.
• Widow Ma watched from behind the elders, and Li Qingyun realized she had become fate’s obstacle in Zhu Yuyan’s life.
• As the villagers prepared to put Wang Luo and Zhu Yuyan in a pig cage, the scene dissolved like a bubble.

Li Qingyun and Zhu Yuyan returned from her previous life and prepared to enter another one, with Li Qingyun possessing the dying Yun Wuxie. After restoring Yun Wuxie's health enough to survive, Li Qingyun learned he was still arranged to marry Zhu Yuhuan, leaving him relieved that Zhu Yuyan would be safe in the Yun estate.

• Li Qingyun and Zhu Yuyan discussed their previous attempt and decided he would possess Eldest Young Master Yun in their next return.
• Li Qingyun entered the dying Yun Wuxie's body as the young man coughed up blood and fell unconscious.
• Doctors failed to save Yun Wuxie, but Li Qingyun fully took over his body and began subtly improving his condition.
• Three days later, Madam Yun told Yun Wuxie that he would marry Zhu Yuhuan from Jikeng Village the following month.
• Li Qingyun felt relieved that Zhu Yuhuan's marriage arrangement remained intact and that she would be safe in the Yun estate.

Li Qingyun struggled to preserve Yun Wuxie's frail body while trying to change Zhu Yuyan's fate, and Sun Buque's greed forced him to accelerate his plans. The chapter left Li Qingyun preparing to refine Baleful Intent to strengthen the body.

• Li Qingyun cautiously rested, knowing Yun Wuxie's weak constitution could not withstand much Jade Pure Essence and that fate might resist changes to Zhu Yuyan's path.
• On the fifth day, Sun Buque examined Yun Wuxie, recognized that his fate had changed, and secretly coveted him as a source of karmic blessing.
• Li Qingyun met Sun Buque's greedy gaze and asked whether he had passed his predicted calamity; Sun Buque assured Madam Yun that the danger had passed.
• Li Qingyun privately asked Steward Yun to buy demonic bones and gave him Yun Wuxie's jade pendant as payment, while Steward Yun concealed his interest in the profit.
• After Sun Buque's appearance heightened his anxiety, Li Qingyun decided to begin his plan to refine Baleful Intent ahead of schedule.

Li Qingyun refined the illness in Yun Wuxie's body into Baleful Intent, recovered, and reached the third level before helping Zhu Yuyan marry into the Yun residence. As they completed the wedding bows, fate struck him with the same deadly force that had killed the original Yun Wuxie.

• Li Qingyun used demon-bone materials to refine Baleful Intent, enduring severe pain before falling asleep.
• Over the following weeks, Li Qingyun recovered, grew stronger, and concealed his Baleful Intent from Daoist Priest Sun.
• Madam Yun arranged a lavish wedding for Yun Wuxie and Zhu Yuyan, and the ceremony began at the Yun residence.
• Li Qingyun accepted the wedding as a chance to help Zhu Yuyan and fill a gap in his Dao Path.
• As Li Qingyun and Zhu Yuyan completed their second bow, fate's power struck him and he nearly spat blood.

After surviving a deadly backlash, Li Qingyun married Zhu Yuyan, and their bond helped repair flaws in both their Dao hearts. Five days later, Li Qingyun had grown stronger, and he and Zhu Yuyan prepared for Daoist Sun’s likely attack as Zhu Yuyan’s fateful turning point approached.

• Li Qingyun endured the backlash that had been destined to kill Yun Wuxie, and Madam Yun hurried the wedding rites along.
• Li Qingyun sent Xia He away, then lifted Zhu Yuyan’s veil and shared the nuptial wine with her.
• Over the next five days, Li Qingyun and Zhu Yuyan adapted to married life and sensed their Dao hearts being repaired.
• Li Qingyun reached the seventh layer of Baleful Intent refinement as Yun Wuxie’s body grew stronger after surviving its destined death.
• Li Qingyun and Zhu Yuyan anticipated that Daoist Sun would attack that night, and Li Qingyun took the bronze shortsword from the wall.

Li Qingyun strengthened Yun Wuxie's body, prepared a layered formation with Zhu Yuyan to ambush Sun Buque, and waited in the courtyard as the Daoist approached to seize the “great pill.” The chapter ended with Sun Buque watching from the roof, confident that his target could not resist him.

• Li Qingyun practiced with a bronze sword and reflected on using Yun Wuxie's body and Zhu Yuyan's illness to advance his sha-refining cultivation.
• Li Qingyun and Zhu Yuyan set up multiple illusion and killing formations to deal with Sun Buque, whom they expected to come that night.
• Qiu Ju stumbled into a formation, and Li Qingyun led her out and told her to warn the household that he and his wife would seek the Dao in seclusion.
• Li Qingyun instructed Zhu Yuyan to hide in a bronze cabinet while he sat at the formation's focal point and waited for Sun Buque.
• Sun Buque arrived on the roof of the Yun residence, watched Li Qingyun in the courtyard, and prepared to seize the great pill and take Zhu Yuyan.

Li Qingyun lured Daoist Priest Sun into layered illusion arrays and used Sick Baleful Intent to defeat and capture him. With Sun Buque barely alive, Li Qingyun planned to extract You Tian Palace’s method of seizing opportunities so Zhu Yuyan could claim his spiritual root or fortune and begin cultivating.

• Daoist Priest Sun extinguished the Yun Household’s lamps and entered the courtyard, where an illusion array trapped him.
• Sun Buque mistook Yun Wuxie for a mortal, but Li Qingyun attacked from the mist and wounded him with Sick Baleful Intent.
• Li Qingyun repeatedly struck Sun Buque, whose healing pills failed as the sickness deepened and forced him to retreat.
• Li Qingyun used the Nine Revolutions of Sick Baleful Intent to pierce Sun Buque’s heart, then knocked him unconscious before he could finish threatening the Yun Household.
• Li Qingyun brought the barely living Sun Buque to his bridal chamber and told Zhu Yuyan he would search his soul for You Tian Palace’s method so she could seize his spiritual root or fortune.

Li Qingyun and Zhu Yuyan seized Daoist Priest San Zheng’s spiritual roots and destroyed the You Tian Temple, then spent a century cultivating in Zhu Yuyan’s past life. When they withdrew, Li Qingyun’s accumulated vital Qi broke through the ancient barrier to the Sha Refining Yang God Realm.

• Li Qingyun used the Soul Searching Technique on Daoist Priest San Zheng while Zhu Yuyan recovered her Daoist magic by taking his spiritual roots.
• Li Qingyun and Zhu Yuyan erased the Yun household’s memories, burned down the You Tian Temple, and later killed San Zheng after he investigated the household.
• The pair cultivated through repeated dangers, reaching the Golden Core Realm together before Zhu Yuyan advanced far beyond Li Qingyun, who remained stuck at Yin God Great Perfection.
• After Zhu Yuyan reached the Pure Self Realm a century into the lifetime, she and Li Qingyun agreed to withdraw from it.
• As Li Qingyun’s Primordial Spirit left Yun Wuxie’s body, the body’s accumulated vital Qi erupted and Yun Wuxie broke through to the Sha Refining Yang God Realm.

After Zhu Yuyan transcended her thirteen past lives with Li Qingyun’s help, Li Qingyun pursued the Sha Refining path through his own past lives and broke into its Death Gate Realm. The Lingbao Sect gained an invitation to expand into the Fu Kingdom as the Rotten Moon Palace weakened.

• Zhu Yuyan thanked Li Qingyun after transcending her past lives and said she expected to reach the Pure Self Realm within fifty years.
• Li Qingyun returned to the Lingbao Sect, delivered a six-day sermon, and entered secluded cultivation to investigate the Sha Refining path.
• After exploring his human past lives without finding a way to advance Sha Refining, Li Qingyun broke through its Death Gate Realm in his final life as a bear demon.
• Li Qingyun explored his plant past lives but abandoned efforts to cultivate through flora incarnations.
• True Lord Wanhong of the Rotten Moon Palace ascended, leaving True Lord Yize unable to maintain the sect’s standing, so Yize invited the Lingbao Sect to settle in the Fu Kingdom and offered it six prefectures as incense fiefs.

After years of cultivation and traversing the past lives of the nine primordial attributes, Li Qingyun began his breakthrough into the Pure Self Realm. The breakthrough’s vast jade-blue radiance spread across the You Kingdom, leaving the other sects and rulers in awe of his power.

• Li Qingyun reflected on his thirty-six years of cultivation and resolved to pursue the Pure Self breakthrough despite his Baleful Intent Refinement method being perfected only to the Death Gate Realm.
• Li Qingyun began his breakthrough, sending jade-blue pure light through Qingyun Mansion and the Lingbao Sect’s formation into the Void Heaven.
• Yi Tianxing witnessed the phenomenon from Biyou Palace and considered relying on the Lingbao Sect’s strength as Wang Muyun and Nan Zhongling looked on.
• Zhu Yuyan sensed Li Qingyun’s breakthrough from Moon Yin Palace and was delighted that she was close to reaching the Pure Self Realm herself.
• Yeyue watched the radiance from the Bronze Secret Hall and resolved to gather another thousand Yin Yang big coins to advance into the Life Gate Realm.
• Miaoxuan, Nangong Fengchuan, Yue Changsong, A'li, Li Zuo, Mengshan, and other Lingbao Sect members gathered outside Qingyun Mansion, celebrating Li Qingyun’s breakthrough.