Chapter Summaries

Li Qingyun explored deeper into the gray-black reality after becoming stronger, reaching a lifeless black mountain crowned by an ancient pagoda. There he encountered Yellow Bell, a corrupted Dao Lord who pursued him as potential food.

• Li Qingyun entered the gray-black world and found black jade-like bones where the yin-yang-faced monster had sat before.
• Li Qingyun crossed into a deeper layer of reality and discovered a vast, lifeless black mountain with an ancient pagoda at its peak.
• Li Qingyun saw Yellow Bell devouring a defeated Dao Lord beneath a withered tree.
• Yellow Bell introduced itself and tried to draw Li Qingyun into conversation, but Li Qingyun ignored it and continued up the mountain.
• Yellow Bell pursued Li Qingyun, declaring that it would keep him as food, and attacked with long, snake-like tentacles.

Li Qingyun fought and defeated the Yellow Bell Dao Lord with Jade Pure power, then followed the rotting monster toward a mysterious black tower embedded in Black Mountain. As the Yellow Bell Dao Lord lunged for the tower’s entrance, Li Qingyun struck from behind to stop him.

• Li Qingyun transformed his momentum and tore off the Yellow Bell Dao Lord’s tentacles before battling him with his Jade Pure Primordial True Body.
• Jade Pure power corroded the Yellow Bell Dao Lord’s Seven-Fruit true body, and Li Qingyun battered him until he fled toward the mountaintop.
• Li Qingyun followed the Yellow Bell Dao Lord through the thickening haze and saw that the black shadow was a vast tower-shaped Dao artifact embedded in Black Mountain.
• Li Qingyun noticed an entrance in the tower’s binding patterns and decided to stop the Yellow Bell Dao Lord from entering.
• Li Qingyun caught up and struck the Yellow Bell Dao Lord’s half-rotten head, but the monster lunged toward the tower and screamed at him to get away.

Li Qingyun pursued the corrupted Yellow Bell Dao Lord through the Black Tower and witnessed him die after offering poisoned remains to the tower’s wall-image of the Tower Ancestor. The image then demanded Li Qingyun bow to Yellow Tower Heaven, and Jade Pure Primordial Lord answered with a powerful Jade Pure empowerment.

• Li Qingyun burned the corrupted octopus head, entered the Black Tower, and pursued Yellow Bell Dao Lord upward through its endless floors.
• On the Nine Hundred Ninety-Nine Layer, Yellow Bell Dao Lord offered his organs to the Tower Ancestor and begged to convert to Yellow Tower Heaven.
• The Tower Ancestor rejected the poisoned offering and destroyed Yellow Bell Dao Lord, whose body dissolved into ash-gray dust.
• Li Qingyun saw the Tower Ancestor’s image and prepared to retreat, but it ordered him to bow and convert.
• Jade Pure Primordial Lord took control of Li Qingyun, defied the Tower Ancestor, and received an immense Jade Pure empowerment.

Li Qingyun used the Jade Pure Primordial Lord’s power to defeat the long-bearded Daoist priest’s Yellow Heaven projection inside the black tower, then left without being able to claim the tower. Outside, he spotted another enormous sword-shaped shadow and began to fear what the Black and Gray World’s “reality” might be.

• Li Qingyun overwhelmed the long-bearded Daoist priest’s Yellow Heaven force realm with Jade Pure Profound Light and dissolved his image from the tower wall.
• Li Qingyun concluded that the priest’s remaining thought was no match for the Jade Pure Primordial Lord, though most of the Jade Pure Essence soon withdrew from his body.
• Li Qingyun searched the tower, found nothing worth taking, and acknowledged that he was too weak to control the black tower.
• Li Qingyun examined the tower’s binding patterns and suspected they were an incomplete attempt to destroy or rescue the tower artifact.
• Li Qingyun saw a distant sword-shaped black shadow like the tower and began to wonder whether such artifacts had pierced through his Great Thousand World.
• Terror struck Li Qingyun as he considered what reality might be, and he prepared to merge with the Jade Pure Primordial Lord’s Dao essence again.

Li Qingyun awakened from the Black and Gray World and saw Houtu break through to the Void Capturing Realm under the pressure of its pollution. He held back the manifestation of his completed Jade Pure Heavenly Venerate Saint Body and prepared to use its power in the coming Great Ruin, while five Dao Lords from Changhu Continent arrived at Ba Snake Mountain.

• Soul Blue Bird knocked over a jade plate, awakening Li Qingyun, who used Fruit Realm Clear Light to cleanse the temple of lingering pollution.
• Li Qingyun saw Houtu resisting the pollution and watched her break through to the Void Capturing Realm.
• Li Qingyun decided to delay manifesting his Jade Pure Heavenly Venerate Saint Body until after the Great Ruin, intending to challenge the Mishin Dao Alliance.
• Three days later, Daoist Si welcomed Chi Hun, Zhenhui, Chunyang, Jade Furnace, and Weidou to the Ba Water River water mansion.
• Quan Lei greeted the five visiting Dao Lords and showed them the Three Pure Ones Dao Ancestors, inviting them into the sect's lineage.

The Lingbao Ancestor Dao Lords discovered that the Three Pure Ones Dao Ancestors resembled Li Qingyun, but chose to trust him and joined the Three Pure Ones Sect. As the Great Ruin approached, Qingyun ordered the sect’s gathered disciples to follow his command when the signal came tomorrow night.

• The five Lingbao Ancestor Dao Lords discussed the statues’ resemblance to Li Qingyun and decided to trust that his origins were sound.
• Dao Lord Chi Hun felt a connection to Shangqing Lingbao Dao Ancestor and asked to join the Three Pure Ones’ disciples.
• Li Qingyun arrived with Houtu, explained that he could recommend them into the sect, and urged the five Dao Lords to join.
• Chi Hun, Zhenhui, Jade Furnace, Chunyang, and Weidou completed the sect’s joining rites and received benefits that purified their Dao Spirits.
• More powerful Dao Lords arrived at Ba Snake Mountain and paid respects to the Three Pure Ones, revealing the sect’s growing strength.
• As the Great Ruin neared, Qingyun ordered every arriving disciple to heed his command when the signal sounded tomorrow night.

Li Qingyun prepared to use the Great Ruin to seize the Xuanhuang Earth Qi of three territories and sweep through the Eastern Desolation, beginning with Mengtu Mountain. As Dao Lord Mìwù prepared an attack on Ba Snake Mountain and tried to investigate it, Li Qingyun obscured the area and disrupted his calculations.

• Li Qingyun linked the temples of Ba Snake Mountain, Lingqiu, and Wind Horse Mountain so he could combine their Xuanhuang Earth Qi when the Great Ruin arrived.
• Li Qingyun judged that his four Fruit Positions and nearly sixty powerful Three Pure Ones disciples gave him the strength to challenge the Eastern Desolation's Commanded Dao Lords.
• Dao Lord Mìwù prepared to destroy Ba Snake Mountain and invited four top-tier lousefolk Ancestral Return Realm experts to help attack it.
• Dao Lord Mìwù sensed an unknown danger, divined that it was connected to Ba Snake Mountain, and spread his divine sense across the Eastern Desolation to investigate.
• Li Qingyun sensed Dao Lord Mìwù probing Ba Snake Mountain and muddied the surrounding heaven and earth, making the area unreadable.

As the Great Ruin began descending on the Eastern Wasteland, Li Qingyun prepared Ba Snake Mountain Temple’s forces for an attack by Dao Lord Mìwù and his allies. Houtu detected several Ancestral Return Realm licefolk approaching Lingqiu, leaving Li Qingyun’s next response unresolved.

• Li Qingyun sealed Ba Snake Mountain Temple from the Domain Temple’s divine awareness, while Dao Lord Mìwù consulted the Mishin Dao Alliance about the danger of attacking him.
• Grandmaster Míhuò divined that the operation would face unforeseen variables but ordered Dao Lord Mìwù to proceed and command available forces across the Eastern Wasteland.
• Dao Lord Mìwù sent four Ancestral Return Realm licefolk toward Mengtu Mountain to attack Ba Snake Mountain’s mermen and possibly its green ox.
• Li Qingyun assigned Xuan Hun to seize Rolling Stone Mountain, Yunjing to coordinate the defense at Lingqiu, and Yongsheng to support his advance.
• The Great Ruin began falling across the Eastern Wasteland, and Houtu warned Li Qingyun that three or four Ancestral Return Realm licefolk were approaching Lingqiu.

Li Qingyun used Ba Snake Mountain’s Xuanhuang Earth Qi to seize control of Lingqiu and Rolling Stone Mountain during the Great Ruin assault. At Lingqiu, Quan Lei met the invading Ancestral Return Realm louse clansmen and killed their colossal elephant leader.

• Li Qingyun refused Houtu’s request to fight and told her to guard the mountain temple.
• Li Qingyun sent Xuanhuang Earth Qi into Lingqiu and Rolling Stone Mountain, taking control of both domains’ earth-qi command authority.
• Dao Lord Xuan Hun drove Dao Lord Lie Xu from Rolling Stone Mountain, then destroyed him after he cursed the Three Pure Ones.
• Dao Lord Weidou assumed command of Rolling Stone Mountain as its earth qi joined Li Qingyun’s growing power.
• Four Ancestral Return Realm louse clansmen attacked Lingqiu, but Quan Lei confronted them as the earth-qi waves shattered their supporting forces.
• Quan Lei tore through the colossal elephant clansman and killed him, leaving the Eight-armed Naga standing amid the louse blood.

Quan Lei killed one louse-clan Ancestral Return expert, while Daoist Si and Dao Lord Yun Jing’s allies struggled against the remaining attackers and the Mishin Dao Alliance’s wandering Dao Lords. Li Qingyun’s Merfolk clone arrived and tore the wind-winged azure wolf apart, leaving the battle against the other louse-clan experts unresolved.

• Quan Lei absorbed the true blood of Kong Xiang after destroying the giant elephant louse.
• Dao Lord Yun Jing and other Three Pure Ones Dao Lords attacked the remaining louse-clan experts as wandering Dao Lords supported them.
• Daoist Si shielded the Three Pure Ones disciples from the wind-winged azure wolf, but suffered deep wounds in their clash.
• Xun Xianba drove two Fifth Fruit Position Dao Lords back and charged after them.
• Daoist Si moved to stop Xun Xianba, and the wind-winged azure wolf attacked him from behind.
• Li Qingyun’s Merfolk clone struck the wind-winged azure wolf, seized his wings, and tore him in two.

Li Qingyun’s Merfolk clone and the surging Xuanhuang Earth Qi overwhelmed the louse clan fighters at Lingqiu, forcing Xun Xianba and a Golden-crowned Great Roc to flee. The chapter ended as a Xuanhuang giant hand seized the escaping roc, trapping both enemies within reach of Li Qingyun’s attack.

• Li Qingyun’s Merfolk clone killed a louse clan powerhouse after it reformed, absorbing its ancestral blood.
• Li Qingyun sent thousands of zhang of Xuanhuang Earth Qi across the battlefield, crushing the Twin-headed Blood Bear, the Golden-crowned Great Roc, and wandering Dao Lords.
• Daoist Si wounded Xun Xianba as Li Qingyun’s Merfolk clone blocked his retreat and exchanged blows with him.
• Xun Xianba grabbed the Golden-crowned Great Roc’s talon and fled toward the edge of the Lingqiu lands.
• Li Qingyun’s Xuanhuang Earth Qi formed a giant hand that slowed and seized the Golden-crowned Great Roc, prompting it to call on Xun Xianba to break the seal.

Li Qingyun and Quan Lei defeated the lice race’s Ancestral Return experts and led the Three Pure Ones’ disciples in an assault on Pill Mountain. They destroyed Pill Mountain’s Jade Body Divine Statue and killed its Dao Lord, then continued toward Mengtu Mountain.

• Li Qingyun’s decree left Xun Xianba and the Golden-crowned Great Roc disoriented, allowing Quan Lei to kill Xun and bind and destroy the Roc with crimson threads.
• Yun Jing and the others witnessed the defeat of the four Ancestral Return Realm experts and accepted Li Qingyun’s authority.
• Li Qingyun ordered Yun Jing and Xuan Hun to join him in striking toward Mengtu Mountain as the Xuanhuang Giant Wave swept through Pill Mountain’s Dao grounds.
• Xuan Hun killed several fleeing Dao Lords while Quan Lei and the Three Pure Ones’ disciples advanced to Pill Mountain’s sacrificial temple.
• Pill Mountain’s Dao Lord pleaded for mercy, but Li Qingyun rejected his claim and Quan Lei overturned his Jade Body Divine Statue.
• Xuan Hun destroyed Pill Mountain’s Dao Lord, then apologized to Quan Lei for acting without permission.

Li Qingyun’s Xuanhuang Earth Qi overwhelmed Huang Yun’s Mengtu Mountain, while Xu settlement creatures slaughtered the fief’s inhabitants. Dao Lord Mìwù ordered the Mishin Dao Alliance to abandon its temples and gather at Great Desolation City, as Li Qingyun confronted Huang Yun and tried to contain the destruction.

• Wandering Dao Lords fled as Li Qingyun’s Xuanhuang Giant Wave swept over Mengtu Mountain and shattered its protective canopy.
• The wave broke through Huang Yun’s defenses, and resentment backlash left him dazed as Xu settlement creatures and Ba Snake Mountain’s creations killed his believers.
• Dao Lord Mìwù ordered alliance members to abandon their investitures and gather at Great Desolation City, abandoning the mountain folk on their fiefs.
• Li Qingyun rebuked Huang Yun for provoking the war and directed the Xuanhuang Earth Qi to intercept the Xu settlement creatures.
• Huang Yun regained some clarity and demanded to know what crime he had committed.

Li Qingyun crushed the Mishin Dao Alliance’s forces across the Eastern Desolation, killed Daoist Huang Yun despite her escape attempt and curse, and advanced toward the region’s center. His allies continued conquering temples, while he demanded that the other Daoists recognize him as Master of the Eastern Desolation Regional Temple.

• Daoist Huang Yun withdrew Mengtu Mountain’s barrier and unleashed divine fire, but Li Qingyun crushed the temple with Xuanhuang Earth Qi and took control of its earthly Dao authority.
• Daoist Huang Yun fled as a damaged Primordial Spirit, begged Li Qingyun for mercy, and was killed after sacrificing her remaining fruit position to curse him.
• Li Qingyun assigned Mengtu Mountain’s commendation to Daoist Chi Hun and reinforced the Xuanhuang Earth Qi barrier against the Great Ruin’s black Qi.
• Quan Lei, Daoist Si, Xuanhun, Yunjing, Yongsheng, and the others swept through Mishin Dao Alliance temples, killing nearly a hundred Commended Dao lords in less than half an hour.
• Li Qingyun temporarily occupied temples outside the alliance and told their occupants they would have to honor him as Master of the Eastern Desolation Regional Temple.

The Mishin Dao Alliance’s survivors regrouped in Great Desolation City as Li Qingyun’s forces took the Eastern Wasteland, and Dao Lord Mìwù sought help from the continent temple. In Langtian City, Zhòujué learned that the Saint Venerable feared the Three Pure Ones Sect and its powerful leader.

• Xuan Hun and the other Three Pure Ones disciples seized the abandoned Commanded Daoist Temples as the Mishin Dao Alliance’s Dao Lords fled to Great Desolation City.
• Dao Lord Mìwù reassured the refugees while privately fearing Li Qingyun’s growing momentum, then urged Zhòujué to secure a Dharma decree from the Saint Venerable.
• Zhòujué told Mìwù that the Saint Venerable was apprehensive and considered hiring Ancestral Return Realm experts to stop Li Qingyun.
• Zhòujué entered the continent temple to speak with the Saint Venerable, who warned him that the force behind the upheaval was the Three Pure Ones Sect and that its leader was suspected to be half-step Body Root Fruit.

After learning that Li Qingyun was backed by the Three Pure Ones Sect, Saint Venerable Limò warned Dao Lord Zhòujué to abandon the Mishin Dao Alliance’s fight for the Eastern Desolation. Zhòujué urged a retreat, but the Mishin ancestor instead ordered Dao Lord Mìwù to hold the Regional Temple until reinforcements arrived.

• Saint Venerable Limò sensed Li Qingyun’s Eternal Soul Corpse avatar watching Langtian Continent from the Time Ruin Mother River and recognized the warning from the Three Pure Ones Sect’s half-step Body Root Fruit expert.
• Limò decided not to intervene in the Eastern Desolation upheaval and advised Zhòujué to rebuild the Mishin Dao under Wuyin and preserve himself.
• Zhòujué left the temple and told Mìwù to abandon the Eastern Desolation Regional Temple and take the disciples to Luoxing Continent.
• Mìwù rejected Zhòujué’s advice, while Wuyin questioned whether Limò had already given up on the Mishin Dao Alliance.
• Ancestor Míhuò ordered Mìwù to defend the Regional Temple through the night and promised two Ancestral Return Realm Stage Three Grand Libationers as reinforcements.
• Mìwù regained his confidence and vowed to hold the Regional Temple from within its Jade Body.

Li Qingyun led the Xuanhuang Giant Waves against Dao Lord Mìwù and Great Desolation City, matching the domain lord’s power and then revealing twelve invested Six-Fruit Dao Lords. The Mishin Dao Alliance’s forces collapsed into panic, leaving Mìwù and a handful of loyalists facing the overwhelming attack.

• Dao Lord Mìhuò reassured the Mishin Dao Alliance that three Grand Libationers would arrive after the Great Ruin and help defeat Li Qingyun and Ba Snake Mountain.
• Li Qingyun’s Xuanhuang Giant Waves struck Great Desolation City, and his Xuanhuang Giant Spirit shattered Dao Lord Mìwù’s hundred-winged Dharma Image with a single decree.
• Li Qingyun realized that the louse clans’ resentment over their deaths had weakened Mìwù’s domain authority enough for him to stand as the domain lord’s equal.
• Xuan Hun, Yunjing, and twelve other invested Six-Fruit Dao Lords arrived to support Li Qingyun.
• Hundreds of Mishin Dao Lords fled the domain temple, leaving Mìwù with only a dozen Fourth Fruit Position loyalists.

Li Qingyun and his allies broke the Mishin Dao Alliance’s hold on Great Desolation City, forcing Dao Lord Mìwù to flee. Li Qingyun’s Merfolk clone pursued him into the Central Earth Domain and caught him in blood-colored fetter patterns outside Iron Furnace City.

• Li Qingyun, Dao Lord Xuan Hun, Yun Jing, and the others shattered Great Desolation City’s defenses, ending the Mishin Dao Alliance’s control of the regional temple.
• Dao Lord Mìwù and the remaining Mishin Dao Lords fled through the city’s waterways, but Quan Lei’s Eight-armed Naga ambushed them and annihilated the group left behind.
• Dao Lord Mìwù escaped with the Foot Connection Fruit while Li Qingyun’s Merfolk clone pursued him, determined to settle their past grievances.
• Mìwù crossed into the Central Earth Domain and reached Iron Furnace City, hoping to seek refuge from the pursuing Merfolk.
• Li Qingyun’s Merfolk clone caught up outside the city and bound Mìwù with blood-colored fetter patterns.

Li Qingyun’s Merfolk clone captured and killed Dao Lord Mìwù with the blood-colored binding threads, then escaped Dao Lord Zhòujué’s curse by leaving the Central Earth. The chapter leaves Li Qingyun considering the cost of becoming Master of the Eastern Desolation Regional Temple.

• Li Qingyun’s Merfolk clone ensnared Dao Lord Mìwù in blood-colored binding threads and drained his Primordial Spirit.
• The Lord of Iron Furnace City withdrew with his men after the clone warned them not to interfere, and the threads killed a Louse Clan powerhouse who challenged him.
• Dao Lord Zhòujué arrived and attacked the Merfolk clone with pestilential aura, but Li Qingyun tightened the threads and killed Mìwù first.
• Zhòujué cursed Li Qingyun and the Merfolk clone as the bizarre mouth appeared and swallowed the remains of Mìwù.
• Li Qingyun covered the clone with blood-colored divine robes and fled the Central Earth, reflecting that becoming a regional temple master would require moving his jade body to Great Desolation City.

Li Qingyun defeated the Mishin Dao’s hold on the Eastern Desolation and was acclaimed as its new domain lord while the Great Ruin continued. Carried in a ceremonial sedan toward Great Desolation City, he considered the enemies and resources that came with his new position; the city’s clans welcomed him as he arrived.

• After Dao Lord Mìwù fled and the Mishin Dao collapsed, Cave Tribe clans across the Eastern Desolation chanted their reverence for Qingyun Dao Lord the Great Master.
• The Tushan Clan, Chi Clan, Ling Clan, and other families carried Li Qingyun’s jade body from Ba Snake Mountain toward Great Desolation City, escorted by Houtu, Daoist Si, and their followers.
• Li Qingyun reflected on the threats posed by Zhou Jue, Míhuò, and Wuyin, and on how ruling the Eastern Desolation could give him greater access to resources for his cultivation.
• As the Great Ruin’s bombardment slowed near dawn, the sedan entered Great Desolation City, where its prominent and ancient clans bowed to welcome Li Qingyun.