Chapter Summaries

Li Qingyun secured the Wind Bear Tribe’s worship and ancestral statue, then returned to Ba Snake Mountain, where he confronted the newly arrived Temple Guardian Jiang Feng. He allowed Jiang Feng and his grandson to stay on the condition that they stop forcing the mountain people to make blood sacrifices and leave him in peace.

• The Wind Bear Tribe agreed to worship Li Qingyun, while Feng Wu left with dozens of followers to form a separate tribe.
• Li Qingyun took the Flying Bear Stone statue and placed a divine statue of himself in the shrine, allowing the tribe to offer ordinary foods and private sacrifices to its ancestral god.
• Yuan Han worshipped Li Qingyun’s statue, while Elder Feng Ji mourned the loss of the tribe’s old faith.
• Li Qingyun sensed that Jiang Feng and a powerful Daoist boy had arrived at Ba Snake Mountain, then returned to his Jade Body Divine Statue.
• Jiang Feng continued trying to negotiate with the statue, unaware that Li Qingyun had returned, until Li Qingyun ordered him not to force blood sacrifices and permitted him and his grandson to stay if they lived peacefully.

Li Qingyun warned Jiang Wang against bringing human or livestock sacrifices into the temple while attempting to unravel the patterns on the ancient thunder stone and draw out the Lightning Ancestor aura. After a bolt of lightning terrified Jiang Feng, Jiang Wang halted the sacrifices and sent his grandson away from the temple.

• Li Qingyun warned Jiang Wang that anyone bringing human or livestock sacrifices into the main hall would meet the same fate as Xun Zhu.
• Li Qingyun used his divine-sense thunder lotus to lure the Lightning Ancestor aura through the thunder stone’s coiled patterns.
• Jiang Feng led bruised mountain villagers carrying desolate-beast offerings toward Ba Snake Mountain Temple and threatened them into submission.
• A huge bolt of lightning flashed above the mountain, leaving Jiang Feng terrified and prompting Jiang Wang to rush to him.
• Jiang Wang stopped the villagers from bringing in the offerings, ordered Jiang Feng to stay at Lingqiu Great Temple, and warned him not to provoke Li Qingyun.

Li Qingyun ascended to the seventh-rank Lightning Saint and watched Jiang Wang approach the temple carrying sacrificial meat. Jiang Wang ignored the warning and reached the hall doors, leaving only two steps between himself and Li Qingyun.

• Jiang Wang threw Jiang Feng away from Ba Snake Mountain and told him to return in half a month, while the Soul Blue Bird flew off after failing to provoke him.
• A lightning sigil formed on the Jade Body Divine Statue as Li Qingyun took the seventh-rank Lightning Saint seat in the Lightning Method Great Dao.
• Li Qingyun realized the other Lightning Saints and Ancestors had fallen silent and reflected that reaching the end of their old path might not be enough.
• Jiang Wang carried bloodied beast meat up the mountain, unsettled by the sacred thunder but determined to test Li Qingyun.
• Jiang Wang paused beneath the flickering thunder-patterns, then stepped toward the temple until only two steps separated him from the hall.

Jiang Wang continued serving at Ba Snake Mountain while Li Qingyun waited for the Earth Dragon Fruit to prove his Third Fruit Position. Meanwhile, Li Qingyun’s Soul-Qingyun advanced toward escaping Zang Abyss, but still needed its heart to awaken before attempting to leave.

• Jiang Wang resisted entering the main hall and offered the wild beast meat in the side hall instead, while Li Qingyun watched him through the Jade Body Divine Statue.
• Li Qingyun asked Dao Lord Le Zhao for news of the Earth Dragon Fruit and agreed to trade the Hundred Blood Cauldron for information about it.
• Over the following months, Li Qingyun repelled several Xu descents and limited casualties on Ba Snake Mountain, while Qing Nu secretly practiced Slay Lice to Prove Dao.
• Li Qingyun’s mysterious soul corpse became fully activated except for the area around its heart, and Soul-Qingyun continued breathing toward Zang Abyss from inside the ancient bronze coffin.
• Li Qingyun assessed Soul-Qingyun’s cultivation as between Trace Escape and Abyss Escape and kept it in the coffin until its heart awakened and it could safely leave Zang Abyss.

After Dao Lord Le Zhao found a reliable lead on the Earth Dragon Fruit, Li Qingyun prepared to travel to the South Sea, but diverted toward the Eastern Barbarians when Dao Lord Gu Mu attacked the Wind Bear Tribe. The chapter ended with Gu Mu appearing outside the tribe, enraged over its allegiance to Li Qingyun.

• Dao Lord Le Zhao gave Li Qingyun a lead on an Earth Dragon Fruit five thousand li beneath You Long Island in the South Sea, and Li Qingyun traded him the ancient Hundred Blood Cauldron.
• Li Qingyun checked the timing of the next settlement disaster with Qing Nu and set off through the water veins toward the South Sea.
• Li Qingyun sensed that the Wind Bear Tribe was under attack and changed course, vowing to make Dao Lord Gu Mu pay for invading it again.
• The Wind Bear Tribe had prospered under Li Qingyun's protection, with a sand lake improving its water and food supplies and its people worshipping him.
• Dao Lord Gu Mu appeared outside the Wind Bear Tribe, furious that Li Qingyun had taken the tribe from him.

Dao Lord Gu Mu attacked the Wind Bear Tribe with divine fire and tried to force its people to worship him, but Li Qingyun arrived just in time to stop his final assault. Li Qingyun then unleashed lightning against Gu Mu, leaving their confrontation poised to begin.

• Dao Lord Gu Mu surrounded the Wind Bear Tribe with divine fire, and Li Qingyun's lingering divine sense reinforced the tribe's protective barrier.
• Li Qingyun warned Elder Feng Ji and the tribe to stay inside the barrier while they drove back Gu Mu's fire beasts with bone arrows.
• Gu Mu tried to sway the tribe through his Mouth Connection Fruit, but Elder Feng Ji rejected him and reaffirmed their worship of Qingyun Dao Lord Master.
• Gu Mu combined his powers to make the earth collapse beneath the tribe, but Li Qingyun arrived and suppressed the upheaval.
• Li Qingyun confronted Gu Mu in the night sky and summoned a vast storm of lightning.

Li Qingyun pursued Dao Lord Gu Mu after overwhelming him with lightning Dao arts and wounding him badly. Gu Mu fled into an underground water vein and reached Jin Ao's temple, offering human sacrifices in exchange for help against his pursuer.

• Li Qingyun broke through Gu Mu's divine fire, trapped him with lightning rings, and wounded him with Myriad Swords Destroy Gods.
• Gu Mu escaped into a desolate river, but Li Qingyun chased him and resolved to eliminate him as a future threat.
• Gu Mu decided to use Jin Ao to delay Li Qingyun and led the pursuit into a dark underground water vein.
• Gu Mu reached Jin Ao's dilapidated temple and offered ten blood-food human sacrifices for his help.
• Jin Ao stepped out of the temple and asked Gu Mu whether he meant his offer.

Li Qingyun pursued Dao Lord Gu Mu through the water veins, defeating Golden Turtle Dao Lord and learning that Gu Mu had cultivated an incomplete Heavenly Eye Fruit. He cornered Gu Mu before the Time Ruin Mother River, where Gu Mu unleashed a bizarre power from his blackened divine eye.

• Golden Turtle Dao Lord tried to stop Li Qingyun for the ten Human Sacrifice Blood Foods, but Li Qingyun crushed his water-formed turtle and wounded him before sparing him.
• Li Qingyun continued after Dao Lord Gu Mu and found Water Hou, who warned that Gu Mu had cultivated a half-ruined Heavenly Eye Fruit.
• Li Qingyun learned that Gu Mu was nearing the end of his strength and continued the pursuit through the water veins.
• With the Time Ruin Mother River still out of reach, Gu Mu stopped and begged Li Qingyun to spare him, then vowed to reveal the truth of the Void Sky.
• Li Qingyun sealed the water vein, and Gu Mu's divine eye turned black as burning ash erupted and the surrounding river twisted into a dark-red, bizarre scene.

Li Qingyun was dragged into a corrupted vision of the greater cosmos by Dao Lord Gu Mu’s Heavenly Eye Fruit and began turning into an aberration. The Jade Pure Mysterious Pearl cleansed the contamination, but Dao Lord Gu Mu’s fate remained unresolved.

• Li Qingyun was twisted into the Black and Gray World, where he found himself in the three-headed, six-armed form of the Ghostly Creature from Ba Snake Mountain Temple.
• Dao Lord Gu Mu revealed that he had used the Heavenly Eye Fruit to expose Li Qingyun to reality, even as the power drove Gu Mu’s own corruption toward an irreversible stage.
• Li Qingyun crossed the blood river and approached an ancient corpse whose brow bore a hollow wound; he briefly saw its eyes open and meet his gaze.
• Black ash and monster snakes emerged from Li Qingyun’s Primordial Spirit, and an eerie head grew from his left shoulder.
• The Jade Pure Mysterious Pearl released Jade Pure Radiance, which expelled the black ash, destroyed the monster snakes, and caused the eerie head to explode.

Li Qingyun escaped Dao Lord Gu Mu’s Black and Gray World, killed him, and redirected the resulting Void Heaven backlash into his Soul Corpse, awakening its heart and raising it to the perfection of the Abyss Escape Realm. He then traveled to the South Sea to seek the Earth Dragon Fruit catalyst for his Third Fruit Position, while a fleck of black and gray remained hidden in his eyes.

• Li Qingyun broke free of the Black and Gray World and killed Dao Lord Gu Mu with a full-strength strike.
• Li Qingyun transferred the fierce Void Heaven backlash into Soul-Qingyun, whose heart awakened and whose strength reached the perfection of the Abyss Escape Realm.
• Li Qingyun suppressed the Soul Corpse’s power and left the Time Ruin Mother River, deciding not to pursue its mysteries before his Dao attainment grew further.
• Li Qingyun resolved to seek the Earth Dragon Fruit catalyst in the South Sea so he could prove the Mouth Connection Fruit.
• The next day, Li Qingyun emerged into the South Sea and sped toward You Long Island.

Li Qingyun possessed the dying merfolk boy Quan Lei to infiltrate You Long Island and pursue the Earth Dragon Fruit without alerting the Sea Suppressing Wave Calming Dao Lord. Imprisoned with Quan Zhu in the Mi Residence’s Water Prison, he awakened Quan Lei’s bloodline and reached the Mountain Moving Realm and then the Sea-Chasing Realm.

• Li Qingyun learned that the Earth Dragon Fruit lay deep beneath You Long Island and sought a way to take it without being detected.
• He possessed the dying Quan Lei aboard a merfolk capture ship, hiding his Primordial Spirit inside the Jade Pure Mysterious Pearl.
• The capture ship passed the island’s protective light, but the Sea Suppressing Wave Calming Dao Lord’s inspection did not reveal Li Qingyun.
• Quan Lei and Quan Zhu were taken to the Mi Residence, where the licefolk planned to slaughter Quan Lei the next morning and considered keeping Quan Zhu.
• Li Qingyun secretly activated Quan Lei’s desolate bloodline in the Water Prison and advanced through the Mountain Moving Realm and the Sea-Chasing Realm.

Li Qingyun pushed Quan Lei’s awakened desolate vein to the Star Plucking Realm, then used his merfolk body to dig deep beneath You Long Island and find the Earth Dragon Fruit. After taking it, he faced the Sea Suppressing Wave Calming Dao Lord and revealed himself as Gu Mu.

• Li Qingyun continued awakening Quan Lei’s ancestral vein while telling Quan Zhu not to panic, and Quan Lei reached the Star Plucking Realm.
• Li Qingyun warned Quan Zhu that he would take her away if he found a chance, then burrowed underground in Quan Lei’s body.
• Li Qingyun used a trace of the Wish Fulfillment Fruit’s power to locate the Earth Dragon Fruit beneath the island.
• Li Qingyun tore the Earth Dragon Fruit from its hiding place and stored it as the Sea Suppressing Wave Calming Dao Lord sensed the theft.
• Li Qingyun left Quan Lei’s collapsed body, revealed his appearance as Gu Mu, and asked Wave Calming to grant him some face.

Disguised as Gu Mu, Li Qingyun stole the Earth Dragon Fruit from You Long Island, escaped after killing the island’s Louse Clan leaders, and defeated Wave Calming Dao Lord’s water dragon. Back at Ba Snake Mountain, he discovered someone had recently tried to steal his Jade Body Divine Statue and traced the fleeing intruder toward the Lingqiu Great Temple, suspecting Mishin Dao Lord and the Mishin Dao Alliance.

• Li Qingyun, posing as Gu Mu, refused Sea Suppressing Wave Calming Dao Lord’s demand to surrender the Earth Dragon Fruit and fought his way through the island’s defenses.
• Li Qingyun killed Island Administrator Lord Mo and more than a dozen Louse Clan notables, then escaped You Long Island as its seal weakened.
• Li Qingyun released Quan Zhu into the open sea and destroyed two merfolk capture ships before fleeing Wave Calming Dao Lord’s water dragon with a sword strike.
• Li Qingyun returned to the Ba Snake Mountain sacrificial temple and sensed that an intruder had recently tainted the Jade Body Divine Statue.
• Li Qingyun searched Ba Snake Mountain, marked the intruder’s escaping trace, and suspected Mishin Dao Lord or the Mishin Dao Alliance because the trace led toward the Lingqiu Great Temple.

Li Qingyun used the Earth Dragon Fruit and the Flying Bear stone statue’s spirit essence to advance toward the Third Fruit Position, while Mishin Dao Lord and Dao Lord Bai Cang plotted to seize other Dao Lords’ temples. The chapter ended with Bai Cang coveting Li Qingyun’s jade body and planning to target it during the year-end Ruinfall.

• Li Qingyun withdrew his divine awareness after securing the Earth Dragon Fruit and resolved to settle his scores with Mishin Dao Lord once he reached the Third Fruit Position.
• Li Qingyun rebuked the Soul Blue Bird for failing to notice an intruder, and Qing Nu promised to stay vigilant.
• Li Qingyun fed the Earth Dragon Fruit and the Flying Bear stone statue’s spirit essence into the Jade Body Divine Statue, beginning to form the Mouth Connection Fruit and estimating that it would take half a year.
• Dao Lord Bai Cang returned to Lingqiu Great Temple and complained that Mishin Dao Lord’s alliance had failed to secure him a commendation and Daoist Temple.
• Mishin Dao Lord proposed that Bai Cang target Le Zhao at Wind Horse Mountain Temple during the year-end Ruinfall, but Bai Cang insisted he wanted Li Qingyun’s jade body instead.
• Mishin Dao Lord blamed Bai Cang for missing the chance to take Li Qingyun’s temple and privately recalled that Bai Cang had once lost a much larger fief through greed.

As winter deepened, Li Qingyun secretly advanced his cultivation and prepared new trump cards while Ba Snake Mountain Temple’s offerings dwindled. Jiang Wang returned with word that a catastrophic year-end ruin would strike the Eastern Wilderness in fifteen days, leaving Li Qingyun warned to protect the villagers or risk losing his imperial enfeoffment.

• Li Qingyun continued cultivating the gestating Mouth Connection Fruit as the temple’s incense and offerings declined and Jiang Wang maintained their outwardly harmonious arrangement.
• Li Qingyun secretly developed Quan Lei into a Void Capturing Realm merfolk creation, keeping him as a hidden trump card beneath Ba Snake Mountain.
• Quan Lei’s presence drove the wild water snake from the Ba Water River into the neighboring Qingqug River.
• Jiang Wang returned from the domain temple after earning a medium-grade merit evaluation and learning that a historically terrifying grand ruin would arrive in the Eastern Wilderness in fifteen days.
• Jiang Wang warned Li Qingyun that failure to protect the villagers during the ruin could cost him his imperial enfeoffment.

Li Qingyun perfected his Dao cultivation and attained the Mouth Connection Fruit, but his new power drew him back into the Black and Gray World. He encountered a different ancient corpse and reached temple ruins where a black-robed figure sat on a broken statue.

• Li Qingyun learned that the person who had stolen his Jade Body was at Lingqiu Great Temple, and he allowed Qing Nu to feast in the neighboring estate during the Great Ruin.
• Three days later, Li Qingyun attained the Third Fruit, the Mouth Connection Fruit, and used a spoken command to conjure hundreds of lamps in the temple hall.
• The dark-red lamps triggered Li Qingyun’s return to the Black and Gray World, where he appeared as his three-headed, six-armed Jade Body beside a blood-colored river.
• Li Qingyun found a new ancient corpse wearing a phoenix crown and crimson bridal robes, while monstrous snakes emerged from his Jade Body and consumed the offerings in the present world.
• Li Qingyun left the river, reached temple ruins, and saw a black-robed figure sitting on a broken divine statue.

Li Qingyun encountered a frenzied Seven-Fruit Saint Venerable in the black-and-gray world, who pursued him through a blood river to eat him. Cornered and badly injured, Li Qingyun borrowed the power of the Jade Pure Primordial Lord Heavenly Venerate true body and forced the Saint Venerable back, leaving him astonished and calling Li Qingyun an outer demon.

• Li Qingyun saw a yin-yang-faced figure eating a chewed eyeball in a ruined temple and recognized him as a frenzied Seven-Fruit Saint Venerable.
• Li Qingyun fled into the blood river, but realized he could not leave the black-and-gray world, while the Saint Venerable pursued him at terrifying speed.
• The Saint Venerable blasted Li Qingyun into the air and pounced on him, so Li Qingyun fought back with his three-headed, six-armed body and serpent tail.
• The Saint Venerable overpowered Li Qingyun, shattering several of his arms and driving him into the riverbed.
• Li Qingyun invoked the Jade Pure Primordial Lord Heavenly Venerate true body, transforming his damaged body into translucent glaze and striking the Saint Venerable back.
• The astonished Saint Venerable called Li Qingyun an outer demon and demanded to know how he had invaded the realm of reality.

Li Qingyun fought a mad Saint Venerable in the Black and Gray World, returned to the present world with a stronger Jade Pure aura, and restored his Fruit Realm. He later left Ba Snake Mountain Temple to confront Lingqiu Great Temple and appeared before Dao Lord Water Roar.

• Li Qingyun and the Yin-Yang-faced madman exchanged brutal blows, and Li Qingyun's deadly poison badly corroded his opponent.
• The madman threatened that powerful companions would arrive, then fled as his body deteriorated; Li Qingyun pursued him until he was pulled back to the present world.
• Li Qingyun found that his Fruit Realm had weakened while his Jade Pure Mysterious Pearl had grown stronger, and his return also drove contamination from the Jade Body Divine Statue.
• After three days, Li Qingyun restored his Fruit Realm and secretly placed protective restrictions around Ba Snake Mountain Temple.
• Li Qingyun left the temple to deal with Lingqiu Great Temple and met Dao Lord Water Roar, who was wary of his arrival and surprised by his rise to the Third Fruit Realm.

Li Qingyun recruited Dao Lord Water Hou to help him seize an opportunity at a coming ruin, while Dao Lord Bai Cang tried to exploit Li Qingyun’s absence and break into his temple. Li Qingyun returned in time to drive Bai Cang away and resolved to deal with the Lingqiu Great Temple when he could strike decisively.

• Li Qingyun offered Dao Lord Water Hou an enfeoffment of eight hundred miles of tax-yield lands and a grand temple in exchange for helping him at a great ruin in the Eastern Wasteland.
• Dao Lord Water Hou accepted and agreed to meet Li Qingyun at the Ba Water River when the ruin arrived, while Li Qingyun rejected Water Hou’s suggestion to recruit Dao Lord Jin Ao.
• Dao Lord Mishin told Dao Lord Bai Cang that Li Qingyun had left Ba Snake Mountain, and Bai Cang hurried to take advantage of his absence.
• Dao Lord Bai Cang entered the temple but was revealed and attacked by Qing Nu, whose cries disrupted his divine soul.
• Li Qingyun returned and forced Bai Cang to retreat, then decided to wait for the Great Ruin before striking at the Lingqiu Great Temple.

As the year-end Great Ruin arrived, Li Qingyun had Quan Lei recruit Water Hou Dao Lord into the newly founded Three Pure Ones Sect. Water Hou joined by worshipping its three effigies, which concealed Li Qingyun’s divine sense, leaving Li Qingyun with his first disciple as he sought to spread the Three Pure Ones Dao lineage through Wei Zu Great Thousand.

• As the Great Ruin began, Li Qingyun instructed Water Hou Dao Lord to follow his commands from the Ba Water River.
• Quan Lei approached Water Hou Dao Lord and said he had to join the Three Pure Ones Sect to claim the investiture of Lingqiu Great Temple.
• Water Hou Dao Lord agreed to join and followed Quan Lei to a shrine in the riverbed manor.
• Quan Lei explained that Li Qingyun and he were already members, then invited Water Hou Dao Lord to burn incense and kowtow before the Three Pure Ones effigies.
• Water Hou Dao Lord pledged himself to the Three Pure Ones Dao Alliance, becoming its first disciple while Li Qingyun watched through Quan Lei.