Chapter Summaries

After the Wish Fulfillment Fruit awakened in Li Qingyun, he unleashed Ba Snake Mountain’s earth qi and turned back Mishin Dao Lord’s invasion. He drove the counterattack into Mishin’s dojo, prompting Mishin to retaliate with the divine might of his mouth and nose.

• Soul Blue Bird rescued Earth Monkey from the Xuanhuang Giant Wave, improving the mountain dwellers’ opinion of Li Qingyun.
• Li Qingyun’s Wish Fulfillment Fruit formed after three days of Awakening Spirit, and he realized Daoist Nation fragments could nourish a second fruit position.
• Li Qingyun commanded Ba Snake Mountain’s Xuanhuang Earth Qi to rise a hundred zhang and overwhelm Mishin Dao Lord’s invading earth qi.
• Li Qingyun conjured Xuanhuang Giant Spirits and a Dao array, driving Mishin’s forces beyond the boundary and into his dojo.
• Mishin Dao Lord roared in anger and invoked the divine might of his mouth and nose.

Li Qingyun repelled Mishin Dao Lord’s attack on Ba Snake Mountain and threatened to report him to the Eastern Desolation Domain Temple. After Dao Lord Zhenhui departed, Li Qingyun explored his Wish Fulfillment Fruit and answered the prayers of his followers in the Shadowed Domain.

• Li Qingyun and Mishin Dao Lord’s earth-qi clash harmed each other’s mountain folk, and both suffered resentment backlash.
• Li Qingyun withdrew Ba Snake Mountain’s earth qi and declared he would report Mishin Dao Lord to the Eastern Desolation Domain Temple; Mishin threatened to report him in turn.
• Li Qingyun and Mishin ended their confrontation, and Dao Lord Zhenhui left for the Ba River, relieved that Li Qingyun could protect Ba Snake Mountain.
• Li Qingyun explored the Wish Fulfillment Fruit and sensed strong reverent wish-power from the Shadowed Domain.
• A'li, Miaoxuan, Nangong Fengchuan, Li Zuo, A'hu, and other Lingbao Sect leaders prayed before Qingyun Ancestor Dao Lord’s statue, which responded as three powerful sticks of Dao incense appeared.

Li Qingyun reached the Great Thousand, established contact with his sect’s ancestral masters, and spoke through the Wish Fulfillment Fruit with the mysterious effigy, who revealed that she was Li Xuanji and warned him about the Ninth Fruit. He concluded that the established path to the Dao led to a dead end and resolved to overturn the Great Thousand, while Lingbao’s Dao Lords welcomed him from afar.

• Li Qingyun manifested through the ancestral shrine, and A'li, Miaoxuan, A'hu, and the other disciples celebrated their master's descent.
• Li Qingyun used the Wish Fulfillment Fruit to contact the mysterious Daoist effigy, who revealed her ancient name as Li Xuanji and warned that the Ninth Fruit was a conspiracy watched by a terrifying existence.
• Li Xuanji abruptly severed their connection, and Li Qingyun erased its traces and resolved to avoid contacting her again.
• Li Qingyun concluded that the existing path to the Dao was a dead end and that Jade Pure's attainment of the Dao and the Three Pure Ones' reopening of the universe were imperative.
• Li Qingyun sensed the Lingbao ancestral masters across Changhu Continent, and they congratulated him on ascending to the Great Thousand and wished him a smooth Dao Path.

Li Qingyun discovered that the mountain people’s offerings were mostly worthless wild fruits, so he sent Qing Nu to retrieve a Crimson Blood Ginseng for Earth Monkey to offer. After the Jade Body Divine Statue consumed it, Li Qingyun used the remaining aura and a Daoist Nation fragment to begin melting the statue’s snake tail as he pursued the Foot Connection Fruit.

• Li Qingyun connected with the mountain people’s wishes and realized they plotted to offer him cheap wild fruits while seeking wealth and status.
• Li Qingyun ordered Qing Nu to retrieve a Crimson Blood Ginseng and leave it beside Earth Monkey so he would bring it to the temple.
• Qing Nu killed a Desolate Python while collecting the ginseng, then returned to the temple with it.
• Earth Monkey found the ginseng beside his bed, hurried to the Ba Snake Mountain Temple, and offered it to Li Qingyun in gratitude.
• Li Qingyun let the Jade Body Divine Statue devour the ginseng, then directed its remaining aura and a Daoist Nation fragment toward the statue’s snake tail to pursue the Foot Connection Fruit.

Li Qingyun used his offerings and Great Vow to refine his divine statue’s serpent tail, then rewarded Earth Monkey with the location of a Desolate Python corpse. Dao Lord Le Zhao of Wind Horse Mountain visited to befriend Li Qingyun and openly support him against Mishin.

• Li Qingyun poured Daoist Nation essence and Crimson Blood Ginseng energy into refining his serpent tail as he pursued the Foot Connection Fruit.
• Li Qingyun heard the villagers mock Earth Monkey for offering the ginseng and sent him a talisman revealing where to find the Desolate Python’s corpse.
• Li Qingyun noticed a black wind gathering southwest of Ba Snake Mountain and recognized the arriving figure as his neighboring Dao friend.
• Dao Lord Le Zhao introduced himself as the Master of Wind Horse Mountain and greeted Li Qingyun.
• Le Zhao praised Li Qingyun, condemned Mishin’s treatment of newly ascended Dao Lords, and declared that he stood on Li Qingyun’s side.

Li Qingyun befriended Dao Lord Le Zhao and sought Crimson Blood Ginseng to advance his cultivation of the Foot Connection Fruit. Le Zhao offered him all the ginseng in his fief in exchange for retrieving an item tied to his Third Fruit after Li Qingyun attained the fruit position.

• Dao Lord Le Zhao visited Li Qingyun, revealed he had ascended from the Obscured Heaven Domain, and proposed closer ties between Wind Horse Mountain Temple and Ba Snake Mountain.
• Li Qingyun agreed to recognize Le Zhao as a friend but privately remained wary and considered trading wild beasts for spiritual materials from Le Zhao's richer fief.
• Li Qingyun ordered Qing Nu to grant Earth Monkey another fortune so he would keep gathering offerings, while Qing Nu worried that excessive favors might make Earth Monkey disloyal.
• Earth Monkey grew wealthy selling the wild beasts Li Qingyun sent him to find, causing resentment among the mountain folk, while Li Qingyun used their wish power to refine the Crimson Blood Ginseng on Ba Snake Mountain.
• After finding that his own ginseng was insufficient, Li Qingyun visited Le Zhao and offered five wild beasts for fifteen Crimson Blood Ginseng plants.
• Le Zhao offered Li Qingyun all the Crimson Blood Ginseng in his fief if Li Qingyun would retrieve an item connected to Le Zhao's Third Fruit after attaining the Foot Connection Fruit.

Li Qingyun negotiated with Dao Lord Le Zhao over a dangerous trip to the Eastern Barbarians to obtain the Hundred Blood Cauldron, which Le Zhao needed to pursue the Mouth Connection Fruit Position. After learning the mission involved a Moon Embracing Realm priest, Li Qingyun raised his price and asked Le Zhao to help locate the rare Earth Dragon Fruit.

• Li Qingyun refused Le Zhao’s initial offer and demanded two more savage beasts in exchange for all his Crimson Blood Ginseng.
• Le Zhao explained that he wanted the Hundred Blood Cauldron held by the Wind Bear Tribe’s elder priest so his Jade Body could merge with it and help him attain the Mouth Connection Fruit Position.
• Le Zhao revealed that the elder priest was in the Moon Embracing Realm, and Li Qingyun demanded greater payment for taking the risk.
• Le Zhao tried to eavesdrop on Li Qingyun’s inner thoughts, but Li Qingyun concealed his mystical traces with the light of his Wish Fruit Position.
• Li Qingyun asked Le Zhao to use his ability to discover where the Earth Dragon Fruit grew in the Eastern Wasteland, and Le Zhao protested that it was exceedingly rare.

Li Qingyun secured Dao Lord Le Zhao’s help in locating Earth Dragon Fruit and received the Crimson Blood Ginseng he needed to advance his Foot Connection Fruit. He then prepared offerings through Earth Monkey and explored his own divination path, but could not determine when Ruinfall would occur.

• Dao Lord Le Zhao agreed to search for Earth Dragon Fruit and gave Li Qingyun fifteen Crimson Blood Ginseng plants.
• Li Qingyun sent the ginseng to Earth Monkey with instructions to offer it as a sacrifice at daybreak.
• Earth Monkey resisted the temptation to keep the valuable ginseng for himself while a Six-winged Bronze Bird watched him hungrily.
• Li Qingyun cultivated with the Wish Fulfillment Fruit and tried to divine the next Ruinfall, but his calculations yielded no clear timing.
• Li Qingyun entered the divination Chaos Space, used his Wish Fulfillment Fruit to seek guidance, and resolved to verify Dao methods on his own.

Li Qingyun used the Soul Blue Bird to explore the void above the Great Thousand, hoping it could break through the chaos surrounding the world. Though Qing Nu vanished into the chaos and Li Qingyun advanced his divination path, the bird soon crashed back to Ba Snake Mountain.

• Li Qingyun summoned the Soul Blue Bird and sent Qing Nu into the heavens to help him advance his divination path.
• Qing Nu flew through the void, passing black ash and stellar debris before finding a vast layer of Earth, Water, Fire, Wind chaos above the Great Thousand.
• Qing Nu plunged into the chaos as its bronze body cracked, and Li Qingyun lost his sight of the bird.
• Li Qingyun communicated with the void-heaven chaos and divined that the next Ruins Descent would occur on the twelfth of next month, with an error of no more than two days.
• Qing Nu fell from the sky and crashed onto Ba Snake Mountain, battered but returned to Li Qingyun.

Li Qingyun repaired Qing Nu’s damaged bird-shaped body and confirmed his messenger was hiding its nature as an outer demon. After Earth Monkey offered Crimson Blood Ginseng with meager wish power and complained about receiving no reward, Li Qingyun decided their bond had reached its end, while Earth Monkey left the temple unaware of the danger.

• Li Qingyun reforged Qing Nu with quartz copper mother ore, and Qing Nu hid in the temple rafters while concealing what it knew about its origins.
• Li Qingyun judged Qing Nu to be an outer demon but chose not to expose it.
• Earth Monkey came to worship Li Qingyun and offered fifteen Crimson Blood Ginseng plants, whose wish power Qing Nu considered poor.
• Earth Monkey complained when Li Qingyun gave him no reward, and Li Qingyun decided to end their bond because Earth Monkey’s offerings had grown stingy.
• Earth Monkey left in a Desolate Ox Cart, boasting about his past offerings and complaining that Li Qingyun had become stingy.

Li Qingyun completed his Second Fruit Position and tested how far his Primordial Spirit could rise into the Void Sky before exploring the Ba Water River. He left the Qingqiu River after Mishin Dao Lord sensed his passage, while the foretold Xu descent had yet to arrive.

• Li Qingyun completed his Foot Connection Fruit, freeing his Primordial Spirit from the Jade Body Divine Statue.
• Li Qingyun ascended one hundred thousand li into the Void Sky, saw vast green hair among the black ash, and withdrew when it began to daze his divine sense.
• Li Qingyun traveled through the Ba Water River to practice his Water Law and encountered giant fish and prawns that were not his property.
• Li Qingyun briefly entered the Qingqiu River, where Mishin Dao Lord sensed him, then returned to the Ba Water River without replying.

Li Qingyun protected Ba Snake Mountain from a ruinfall while trying to collect green copper fragments that might hold ancient pill arts. As the canopy failed to stop two enormous pieces of copper, they broke through toward the mountain folk below.

• Li Qingyun returned to Ba Snake Mountain and raised a clear-light canopy over the fief, despite receiving no advance warning about the ruinfall.
• The ruinfall struck, and Li Qingyun used Void Gloom matter to reinforce the canopy as he searched the debris for green copper fragments.
• Li Qingyun spotted ancient writing on the copper that might be Outer Demon pill art and wondered whether the ruinfall carried messages from another Great Thousand.
• Meteors and two enormous green copper pieces overwhelmed one section of the canopy and tore through toward Ba Snake Mountain.
• The mountain folk feared they were doomed and questioned why their master's protection had failed.

During the Xu fall, Li Qingyun redirected villagers’ resentment to revive Soul-Qingyun, while Soul Blue Bird rescued villagers from the rampaging Xu Qi. After containing the disaster and strengthening the bird’s cage, Li Qingyun prepared to travel to the Eastern Barbarians.

• Green copper pieces fell on Niuhorn Village, and the resulting Xu Qi killed two mountain hunters before Li Qingyun transferred their resentment backlash to Soul-Qingyun.
• Soul-Qingyun absorbed three wisps of unknown substance in the Zang Abyss and broke through to the realm of generating life before shutting its coffin again.
• Soul Blue Bird drove the Xu Qi away from fleeing villagers and rescued Stone Three as the village’s Xuanhuang Earth Qi forced the Xu Qi back into the craters.
• Li Qingyun collected the green copper pieces, memorized the unfamiliar characters on them, and forged Soul Blue Bird a sturdier copper-body cage.
• Li Qingyun noted that the Xu fall would be followed by a calm period and decided to leave for the Eastern Barbarians the next day.

Li Qingyun left Ba Snake Mountain Temple and traveled through the rivers to the Land of the Eastern Barbarians. There, he encountered a harsh wilderness and a group of barbarians whose girl seemed able to sense his presence.

• Li Qingyun stored the remaining Green Copper Piece and postponed making a bronze temple keeper.
• Li Qingyun left a wisp of divine sense in the Jade Body Divine Statue before departing, while the Soul Blue Bird considered the empty statue a tempting target.
• Li Qingyun traveled through several water veins, spared the desolate water serpent in the Ba Water River, and entered the Land of the Eastern Barbarians.
• Li Qingyun surveyed the barren, sandstorm-lashed land and spotted several horned barbarians sheltering beneath a cliff while guarding water bags.
• Li Qingyun realized the dragon-horned barbarian girl had noticed him and changed his radiance to blend with the yellow sands.

Li Qingyun encountered lice clan hunters slaughtering barbarians in the Land of the Eastern Barbarians and killed their leader, Hu Ci, when he tried to capture a horned girl. After the girl thanked him, Li Qingyun asked her to guide him to the Wind Bear Tribe.

• Lice clan hunters pursued the barbarians sheltering beneath a barren cliff, and the horned girl fled into the sandstorm.
• Hu Ci killed a barbarian man and explained that the hunters were collecting Human Sacrifice Blood Food for Lingqiu Great Temple.
• Hu Ci lassoed the horned girl and taunted Li Qingyun, who attacked him with lightning and destroyed him and his escaping blood lice.
• The horned girl thanked Li Qingyun, and he asked her for directions to the Wind Bear Tribe.

Li Qingyun saved Yuan Han and took her toward the Wind Bear Tribe, while the backlash from his lightning revived more of the Soul Corpse Body and carried it into the Heaven Gate Realm. At the tribe, Elder Feng Ji faced another visit from a mysterious black-robed figure demanding an answer.

• Li Qingyun summoned a thunder dragon that killed the remaining lousefolk, then diverted the backlash into the Soul Corpse Body, which broke through to the Heaven Gate Realm.
• Yuan Han and two surviving barbarian men thanked Li Qingyun, and he ordered the men to leave while taking Yuan Han as his guide.
• Yuan Han led Li Qingyun toward the Wind Bear Tribe, carrying waterskins and probing his intentions until he told her to call him Master.
• Elder Feng Ji watched blood qi rise from an ancient stone cauldron toward a bound stone bear shrine in the Wind Bear Tribe's bone temple.
• A black-robed figure emerged from the shadows and asked Elder Feng Ji whether he had made up his mind.

A black-robed Wandering Deity demanded that the Wind Bear Tribe worship him, but Elder Feng Ji refused and fought to defend his people. The black-robed man attacked with divine fire and a giant Desolate Earthworm, then used his Fruit Realm power to strip Feng Ji of his senses.

• The black-robed man offered the Wind Bear Tribe protection in exchange for worship, but Elder Feng Ji rejected him because his Hidden Fruit Realm power could not guarantee their safety.
• The black-robed man revealed his damaged Dao Lord form and attacked the tribe with divine fire, while Elder Feng Ji raised a Desolate Moon barrier and struck back.
• The black-robed man summoned a two-headed fire beast, and Elder Feng Ji drove it back with his Flying Bear phantom and a powerful punch.
• The black-robed man released a giant Desolate Earthworm, and Feng Ji ordered Feng Wu, Feng Mao, and other Desolate People to kill it.
• Elder Feng Ji charged the black-robed man, who blinded him and then disrupted his hearing and deeper senses with Fruit Realm powers.

Li Qingyun intervened when Gu Mu attacked the Wind Bear Tribe, drove off the Desolate Earthworm, and took the tribe’s Hundred Blood Cauldron. He concealed his identity by claiming to be Wan Hong of Mount Lan Ke Temple, while Gu Mu left intending to seek him out later.

• Gu Mu attacked the Wind Bear Tribe, but Li Qingyun’s fruit realm clear light blocked his divine fire and protected the tribe.
• Li Qingyun drove the Desolate Earthworm underground with a bolt of lightning, then asked Gu Mu to end the attack.
• Elder Feng Ji asked Li Qingyun to return the Hundred Blood Cauldron, but Li Qingyun kept it, and Feng Ji accepted the loss in gratitude for his help.
• Gu Mu offered to leave if Li Qingyun did not interfere with his plans, but Li Qingyun insisted that he had taken the cauldron from the Wind Bear Tribe, not at Gu Mu’s behest.
• Gu Mu introduced himself and asked about Li Qingyun’s temple, and Li Qingyun falsely claimed to be Wan Hong of Mount Lan Ke Temple in the Eastern Wilderness.

Li Qingyun accepted the Wind Bear Tribe’s Coiled Pattern Thunder Stone, a seventh-rank Lightning Saint opportunity, in exchange for protection as Gu Mu threatened to return in half a year. Meanwhile, Jiang Wang and Jiang Feng arrived at Ba Snake Mountain Temple on orders from the regional temple, where Qing Nu drove Jiang Feng off and the Dao Lord’s statue gave them no answer.

• Gu Mu agreed to leave the Wind Bear Tribe alone for half a year after Wan Hong intervened, then departed after giving Li Qingyun a deep look.
• Temple Keeper Qi told Elder Jiang about Li Qingyun and Xun Zhu, and Elder Jiang set out for Ba Snake Mountain with his grandson Jiang Feng.
• Jiang Wang and Jiang Feng arrived at Ba Snake Mountain Temple, where Jiang Wang announced their appointment to serve the Dao Lord but received no response from the statue.
• Jiang Feng tried to seize Qing Nu, but the bird wounded him and sent him tumbling to the floor.
• Elder Feng Ji gave Li Qingyun a Coiled Pattern Thunder Stone, and Li Qingyun recognized it as the seventh-rank Lightning Saint opportunity he sought.

Li Qingyun accepted Elder Feng Ji’s request to protect the Wind Bear Tribe in exchange for the Coiled Pattern Thunder Stone. Taking on the tribe’s karma revealed his next cultivation opportunity, and he sought permission to take their ancient Flying Bear statue, which he recognized as a storehouse of Faith and Wish Spirit Essence.

• Li Qingyun accepted the Coiled Pattern Thunder Stone and agreed to protect the Wind Bear Tribe during a crisis, despite the unknown karma involved.
• Elder Feng Ji explained that he feared Gu Mu would eventually use the tribe as human livestock for blood sacrifices, and that Li Qingyun seemed unlikely to do so.
• Accepting the tribe’s offerings stirred Li Qingyun’s Dao heart, revealing the Mouth Connection Fruit as his next cultivation opportunity.
• Li Qingyun asked to take the Wind Bear Tribe’s ancient Flying Bear statue, and Elder Feng Ji left to let the clansmen vote on the request.
• Li Qingyun realized the statue had accumulated vast Faith and Wish Spirit Essence and was a valuable cultivation treasure.