Chapter Summaries

Li Qingyun defeated Jia Zhou and used the Dark Tome to weaken his regeneration before burning most of his body with the Human Dao Lamp. When a Sacred Hall Clan Outside Void Existence intervened, its Secret Gold Saint Light turned on Li Qingyun and locked him in place.

• Jia Zhou unleashed his full power against Li Qingyun’s azure great heaven, but Li Qingyun repaired its cracks and crushed him into the ground.
• Li Qingyun stood over Jia Zhou and used the Human Dao Lamp to burn his mangled body, but Jia Zhou’s Secret Gold flesh resisted the flames.
• Li Qingyun opened the Dark Tome, whose gray aura weakened Jia Zhou’s regeneration and allowed the lamp fire to burn away most of his flesh.
• Jia Zhou called to the Outside Void, and a Sacred Hall Clan Outside Void Existence answered with a beam of Secret Gold Saint Light.
• Li Qingyun intensified the lamp fire, but the Outside Void Existence declared him deserving of execution and redirected the Saint Light toward him.
• Li Qingyun tried to flee into deep space, but the Secret Gold Saint Light locked onto him and prevented his escape.

Li Qingyun survived a second attack from Saint La when the eternal mystery in his body nullified the Saint Light, while the Abyss Clan finally intervened to protect him and Jia Zhou. Li Qingyun vowed to repay the Sacred Hall Clan, and the battle spread through the Twelve Superior Clans, cementing his fearsome reputation.

• Li Qingyun used the Dark Tome and the eternal mystery to withstand Saint La’s first Secret Gold Saint Light strike, while Jia Zhou was burned until only his head remained.
• Saint La sent another pair of attacks, but Yuan He and Yuan Ming intervened, drove off Saint La, and allowed the remaining Saint Light to carry Jia Zhou away.
• Li Qingyun vowed to repay Saint La and the Sacred Hall Clan, then left after concluding that Jia Zhou’s injuries would keep him from threatening Cheng Tangyin for a time.
• News of Li Qingyun’s victory spread throughout the Land of the Universe and the Twelve Superior Clans, establishing him as a dominant figure among the younger generation.

Li Qingyun traveled to Number Seventy-nine Mayfly Land, intending to intervene in the planned hunt for Li Xuankun, while Yuan Mian alerted the Abyss Clan’s main lineage. Yuan Gumo sealed the realm’s passages to trap Li Qingyun and Li Xuankun, and Li Qingyun sensed the clan’s operation as it began.

• Li Qingyun left Number Eight Mayfly Land and traveled by coffin through the Great Burial Pit toward Number Seventy-nine Mayfly Land.
• Yuan Mian saw Li Qingyun’s destination and secretly informed the Abyss Clan’s main lineage.
• Yuan Guyuan and Yuan Changkong ordered Yuan Gumo to trap Li Qingyun and Li Xuankun, with reinforcements sent to prevent their escape.
• Li Qingyun entered Number Seventy-nine Cosmos and examined its cyan umbrella-shaped origin essence without absorbing it.
• Yuan Gumo ordered the channels sealed so that people could enter Number Seventy-nine Mayfly Land but not leave.
• Li Qingyun sensed the Abyss Clan’s forces mobilizing and looked toward Yuan Gumo’s position.

Li Qingyun used the Dark Tome to curse the Abyss Clan while making his way to Mount Peng Yu, where he seized the Sky-Devouring Roc Clan’s Treasure Tree opportunity. He arranged for a young disciple to retrieve the sapling and left the Abyss Clan Big Shots puzzled about his motives.

• Li Qingyun cast the Dark Tome’s curse thirteen times against the Abyss Clan and strode through the Land of the Universe, destroying blue parasol-shaped objects along the way.
• Yuan Gumo ordered the Abyss Clan to watch Li Qingyun and attack if he went to find Li Xuankun’s hidden descendants.
• Li Qingyun descended on Mount Peng Yu and demanded that outsiders leave so he could claim its treasure tree opportunity.
• Three Sky-Devouring Roc Clan Hua Xuan cultivators attacked Li Qingyun, but he sent them flying and forced them to retreat.
• Li Qingyun ordered an honest young Sky-Devouring Roc disciple to retrieve the Treasure Tree Sapling when it emerged in two or three days.
• Yuan Gumo and the other Abyss Clan Big Shots wondered why Li Qingyun had seized Mount Peng Yu instead of seeking out Li Xuankun.

Li Qingyun waited at Mount Peng Yu while the Abyss Clan’s main lineage prepared to use Li Xuankun to trap him. Li Xuankun sensed danger and tried to escape, but Yuan Gumo’s forces surrounded him and planned to capture him to force Li Qingyun to intervene.

• Li Qingyun turned the void around Mount Peng Yu into his domain, challenging the Sky-Devouring Roc Clan while ostensibly seeking a High-grade Treasure Tree for Wu Yujun.
• Li Xuankun, newly restored to the Hua Xuan Realm with a High-grade Golden Profound Pearl, sensed a calamity and fled his cocoon heavenly palace.
• A concealed sealing formation trapped Li Xuankun, and Yuan Gumo appeared to stop him from escaping.
• Li Xuankun fought Yuan Gumo with his Startling Profound Finger, but Yuan Gumo overpowered him despite his High-grade Hua Xuan strength.
• Li Xuankun summoned nine Hua Xuan Clones, while dozens of Abyss Clan cultivators arrived to close the net.
• Yuan Gumo ordered his forces to capture Li Xuankun and draw Li Qingyun into the conflict, arguing that the opportunity behind Li Xuankun’s strength linked him to Li Qingyun.

Li Xuankun sacrificed all nine Hua Xuan Clones to destroy the Abyss Clan’s seal and escape into the universe’s chaotic void, with Yuan Gumo and the other cultivators pursuing him. As the seal burst, Li Qingyun used the distraction to send a hidden aura from the Dark Tome into the chaotic layer without alerting the Abyss Clan watchers.

• Li Xuankun ordered his Hua Xuan Clones to self-detonate, killing three Abyss Clan Hua Xuan cultivators and shaking the others.
• Yuan Gumo attacked Li Xuankun inside the seal while the Abyss Clan cultivators blasted apart several of his remaining clones from a distance.
• Li Xuankun’s last three clones detonated against the sealing barrier, shattering it and opening a path into the chaotic void.
• Li Xuankun escaped through the black hole, and Yuan Gumo followed with the other Abyss Clan Hua Xuan cultivators.
• Li Qingyun used the watchers’ momentary distraction to send a trail of aura from the Dark Tome into the chaotic layer without being noticed.

Li Qingyun secretly shielded Li Xuankun from the Abyss Clan’s pursuit, causing even Second Uncle the Quasi-Saint’s search to fail. After Li Xuankun escaped, Li Qingyun collected a High-grade Treasure Tree Sapling on Mount Peng Yu and left for the Abyss Clan’s passage entrance while Yuan Gumo’s search continued without success.

• Li Xuankun fled through the chaos, but Yuan Gumo’s Abyssal Eye Divine Ability failed to locate him.
• Yuan Gumo summoned Second Uncle, whose search was silently disrupted and who withdrew after suspecting a Saint was interfering.
• Yuan Gumo ordered Abyss Clan Hua Xuan Realm cultivators to search the chaotic deep space, but two days of searching yielded no trace of Li Xuankun.
• On Mount Peng Yu, Li Qingyun accepted a High-grade Treasure Tree Sapling from the young Sky-Devouring Peng and let him leave with a Spirit Seed Pouch.
• Li Qingyun flew toward the Abyss Clan’s passage entrance, while Yuan Gumo continued searching for Li Xuankun.

Li Qingyun confronted the Abyss Clan officials who tried to stop him from leaving while Li Xuankun remained missing, then faced Yuan Gumo’s challenge. Their immense powers collided in the cosmos, leaving their contest unresolved.

• Yuan Gumo ordered that Li Qingyun be stopped from leaving until Li Xuankun was found.
• Li Qingyun struck down one of the guards and declared that Yuan Gumo could not restrict his freedom without evidence against him.
• Li Qingyun displayed his newly obtained High-grade Treasure Tree and offered to undergo an investigation into his connection to Li Xuankun’s escape.
• Yuan Gumo appeared and attacked Li Qingyun, insisting that no one could leave before Li Xuankun was found.
• Li Qingyun met Yuan Gumo’s profound-black domain with his strengthened azure-dark heavens, and their powers clashed across the cosmos.

Li Qingyun battled Yuan Gumo, matching his supreme might before using his Mortal Dao and the Dark Tome to overwhelm him. After defeating Yuan Gumo and breaking the confidence of the Abyss Clan observers, Li Qingyun turned toward the passage entrance and ordered the others to leave.

• Li Qingyun and Yuan Gumo clashed with their supreme might, and both initially retreated in a dead heat.
• Li Qingyun used the Dark Tome and his Mortal Dao to weaken Yuan Gumo's domain and press him backward.
• Yuan Gumo's Dao heart faltered as the Abyss Clan Hua Xuan Big Shots watched him lose to Li Qingyun.
• Li Qingyun crushed Yuan Gumo's dark-black universe and blasted him away, securing victory.
• Li Qingyun walked toward the Abyss Clan passage entrance and reprimanded the old man and the others for not following.

After defeating Yuan Gumo, Li Qingyun gauged the Abyss Clan’s plans to recruit and control him, while resolving to eventually break with the clan over its role in the Human Dao’s decline. He ordered Xuan Kun Tower to stop selling Old Pit Copper and left Yuanbao wondering how powerful Siming would be when she awakened.

• The Abyss Clan elders and cultivators considered admitting Li Qingyun into the main branch under its custom of “bringing the worthy home,” with Yuan Yiping seen as a possible match for him.
• Second Master Yuan praised Li Qingyun but urged him to enter the Hua Xuan Realm, merge with the Saint Bone, and guard a universe for the clan.
• Li Qingyun pretended to accept Second Master Yuan’s advice while deciding he would not give the main branch leverage over him and would eventually sever ties with the Abyss Clan.
• At Xuan Kun Tower, Li Qingyun ordered Mu Yu Two and Yuanbao to stop selling Old Pit Copper and keep the shop running with ordinary goods.
• Yuanbao asked about Siming, and Li Qingyun warned that Yuanbao might not be strong enough to stand before her after she awakened.

After leaving Xuan Kun Tower, Li Qingyun reflected on the lives and experiences that had led him to the edge of a Hua Xuan breakthrough. He recognized that his Profound Intent was stirring, but he still had to choose a realm of heaven and earth for the transformation, since the Abyss Clan’s existing methods were too dangerous to use.

• Li Qingyun ignored Yuan Susu’s request for an audience, gave Wu Yujun a High-grade Treasure Tree opportunity, and returned to Lingping Heaven.
• Wu Yujun swallowed the Treasure Tree rosy glow rather than sell it to Yuan Susu, and the two women nearly came to blows in the Treasure Tower.
• Li Qingyun sat drinking tea as memories of old acquaintances and past events stirred intense emotions connected to Hua Luoshen and unsettled his heart.
• Li Qingyun realized his recent victories, settled karmic ties, and encounter with the Abyss Clan’s Hua Xuan experts had brought him to the brink of Hua Xuan.
• Li Qingyun considered swallowing the Profound Pearl but rejected the Abyss Clan’s breakthrough methods, leaving him to decide which realm of heaven and earth to merge with.

Li Qingyun’s Hua Xuan breakthrough remained stalled as rumors spread through the Abyss Clan that he had failed or was being suppressed by the Outer Void. While the clan debated his prospects and Yuan Changkong pursued Yuan Yiping for Yuan Shiliu, Hong Lian Tian emerged from the River Mother Clan and certified the Dao of Hua Xuan before Li Qingyun.

• Li Qingyun preserved his fading Hua Xuan insight in seclusion while Abyss Clan disciples gossiped that he had failed and wished for him to exhaust all three chances.
• Rumors spread that an Outer Void Saint had forbidden Li Qingyun from entering Hua Xuan, and Yuan Changkong told Yuan Changhong that Li Qingyun’s first attempt would certainly fail.
• Yuan Changkong tried to steer Yuan Yiping toward his grandson Yuan Shiliu, while Yuan Changhong regretted that Li Qingyun’s prospects as a son-in-law had diminished.
• In the River Mother Clan, a vast whirlpool and red lotus blossoms heralded Hong Lian Tian’s emergence from the water.
• Hong Lian Tian certified the Dao of Hua Xuan before Yuan Li Qingyun and gazed toward the Outer Void with ambition.

Red Lotus Tian advanced to Hua Xuan and planned to target the strongest Hua Xuans, while Jia Zhou tried to seize a gray spirit’s body. Li Qingyun revealed his independent Hua Xuan Method and faced the final choice of which universe to bind his body, blood, and spirit to.

• Red Lotus Tian accepted the outside-void beings’ praise and considered killing Yuan Li Qingyun, then defeating other powerful Hua Xuans to gather resources.
• Jia Zhou used decrees to subdue and assimilate a ruined-waste gray spirit, hoping to gain its undying nature and take its shell beyond the void.
• After three months in seclusion, Li Qingyun recognized that gray intent was obstructing his Hua Xuan breakthrough and concealed that he had detected it.
• Li Qingyun unveiled the Hua Xuan Method, which bypassed the profound pearl by imprinting his body, blood, and spirit crystals into a universe.
• Li Qingyun weighed the risks of choosing the Abyss Clan Great Cosmos for his triple union and concluded he could not entrust his Dao path to a single universe.

Li Qingyun chose the Outer Ruin as the foundation for the Hua Xuan Method and brought his three Profound Crystals there to attempt their integration. The ruins gave no response, leaving him uncertain whether he had found a viable path into the Hua Xuan Realm.

• Li Qingyun concluded that the Outer Ruin was strong enough to anchor the Hua Xuan Method’s threefold integration, avoiding the need to obtain a Heart of the Ruin.
• He condensed the jade Body Crystal, the blood-red Profound Crystal of Blood, and the azure Profound Crystal of the Spirit, knowing their loss would severely damage his cultivation.
• Li Qingyun’s three identities met in the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos, and his Taiqing identity carried the crystals into the Slaughtering Immortal Sword.
• He used Primordial Concealment and a rift on the far side of the cosmos to distract the Outside Void Existences, then slipped into the ruins.
• Li Qingyun released the three Profound Crystals and recited the Hua Xuan Method, but the ruins showed no response and the crystals remained unchanged.

Li Qingyun tried to awaken the Outer Ruin so he could imprint his three Profound Crystals within it. His Great Vow stirred the Ruin into motion, allowing the crystals to merge with it and binding his existence to the Outer Ruin.

• Li Qingyun reasoned that the Outer Ruin might be alive but too vast to notice his weak aura, so he infused his three Profound Crystals with motes from his Primordial Great Dao Mark.
• The crystals sent faint ripples into the Outer Ruin, and Li Qingyun sensed its vitality, but they still failed to imprint themselves there.
• Li Qingyun made a Great Vow to protect the universe’s wild lands, cleanse great pollution, and help usher in a flourishing age.
• The Outer Ruin shook, alarming its quasi-Saints and gray spirits, while Outside Void Existences wondered why it had become restless.
• The Body, Blood, and Spirit Profound Crystals sank into the Outer Ruin, and Li Qingyun felt himself bound to it as his will projection surged with divine radiance.

Li Qingyun successfully achieved Hua Xuan in the Outer Ruin and returned to Lingping Heaven, where his breakthrough produced a divine rainbow that shook the Abyss Clan land. The clan elders recognized his achievement and began considering what it meant for the clan and their own plans for him.

• Li Qingyun returned to the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos after achieving Hua Xuan in the Outer Ruin, finding that his sword flew far more freely there.
• Li Qingyun arrived at Lingping Heaven, where his breakthrough sent a pillar of Profound Intent divine radiance across the Abyss Clan land and shook the starry river.
• Yuan Guyuan, Yuan Changkong, and the other clan elders realized that Li Qingyun had broken through despite their expectation that he would fail.
• Yuan Changhong celebrated Li Qingyun's breakthrough and planned to congratulate him while pursuing a match between him and Yiping.
• The Second Master praised Li Qingyun's astonishing breakthrough but expected his later Half Obscurity relapse to force him to use the sacred bone.

Li Qingyun broke through Hua Xuan and forged a seven-trillion-zhang mysterious body, securing the bearing of a quasi-saint despite the Abyss Clan’s hostility. When ominous gray intent tried to stop him from reaching nine trillion zhang, he forced it back and established the bearing of a saint seed.

• Saint Yuanming and two existences beyond the void sensed Li Qingyun’s breakthrough and marveled at his unexpected achievement.
• Li Qingyun reshaped his Hua Xuan body, grew it beyond seven trillion zhang, and declared that no one could suppress his Dao Path.
• Abyss Clan elders reacted with shock and jealousy, while Li Qingyun resolved to settle the clan’s favors and grievances.
• Li Qingyun declared that he would attain a nine-trillion-zhang mysterious body, drawing astonishment from across the Abyss Clan.
• Gray intent disrupted Li Qingyun’s breakthrough, but he invoked the force marked upon the Outer Ruin and reached nine trillion zhang, establishing the bearing of a saint seed.

After Li Qingyun broke through to Hua Xuan, he rejected the Abyss Clan main lineage’s congratulations and celebrated with his household instead. Yuan Guhong arrived to congratulate him and pursue the main lineage’s plan to recruit him as a son-in-law, while Li Qingyun remained wary of the clan’s motives.

• Li Qingyun dismissed the Abyss Clan big shots after his breakthrough, and Yuan Guyuan concealed his anger as he ordered Yuan Guhong to bring congratulations to Lingping Heaven.
• Mu Qi decorated Yuan Li Mansion, and Li Qingyun promised every household member one hundred spirit seeds.
• Yuan Li Ye begged Li Bing to help him return to the clan, but Li Bing rebuffed him before Li Qingyun invited all three visitors inside.
• Yuan Guhong arrived and treated himself as Li Qingyun’s future father-in-law, scrutinizing Wu Yujun as he prepared to speak with Li Qingyun.
• Li Qingyun recognized Yuan Guhong and reflected on the main lineage’s plan to make him a live-in son-in-law.

After entering Hua Xuan, Li Qingyun weighed the Abyss Li Clan’s place in his karma and hosted Yuan Guhong, Wu Yujun, Li Bing, Li Ye, and Li Yiyi. Yuan Guhong offered him a marriage alliance with Yuan Yiping on the main branch’s behalf, but Li Qingyun rejected the pressure and said he would not consider a Dao companion before reaching Great Perfection of Hua Xuan.

• Li Qingyun let Yuan Guhong, Wu Yujun, and Li Bing enter Lingping Heaven, while Li Ye returned to settle his ties to the Abyss Li Clan.
• Li Qingyun seated Li Ye in the prime position on the left, unsettling Li Bing and prompting Yuan Guhong to suspect that the clan’s internal power was changing.
• Yuan Guhong proposed that Li Qingyun marry Yuan Yiping and join the main branch, presenting the offer as a path to the Blood-Washing Pool and greater support.
• Li Qingyun released overwhelming Dao Might that forced Yuan Guhong to step back, then cut him off as he tried to explain the offer.
• Li Qingyun said that he had no mind for a Dao companion until he reached Great Perfection of Hua Xuan, while gazing toward the void outside the hall.

Li Qingyun rejected the main branch’s offer, arranged for Li Ye and Li Bing to lead the Abyss Li Clan of Lingping Heaven, and prepared to leave for the Land of the First Cosmos. While enduring an Obscurity eruption in seclusion, he was drawn into a strange dreamscape and met an ancient figure who called himself Shennong.

• Li Qingyun refused Yuan Guhong’s proposal to become Dao companions with Yuan Yiping and announced that he would seek assignment to the Land of the First Cosmos.
• Li Qingyun named Li Ye head of the Abyss Li Clan of Lingping Heaven, appointed Li Bing to assist him, and gave them the family’s resources and Xuan Kun Tower’s proceeds.
• Li Qingyun entered seclusion to endure a Half Obscurity eruption and reflected that Obscurity was a tribulation overflowing from the cosmos.
• Half a month later, Li Qingyun was pulled into a rainy dreamscape while caught between waking and sleep.
• An ancient man in a rain cape emerged from the thatched huts and told Li Qingyun that his name was Shennong.