Chapter Summaries

Abi Tian and the Western Heaven Clans fought Yuan Changkong and allied Hua Xuan while their forces tried to seize Li Qingyun’s body during his Obscurity Eruption. The attackers’ possession artifacts entered his inner void sky, and a red-clad woman watched before leaving without helping.

• Abi Tian rejected Yuan Changkong and Yuan Han, then fought them as Hua Xuan from other superior clans joined the battle against the Western Heaven Clans.
• The Western Heaven Clans sent golden light and bronze Dao artifacts into the shattered Cocoon Palace to invade Li Qingyun’s inner void sky.
• Li Qingyun destroyed many of the incoming artifacts, but more than a dozen penetrated his heavenly skin barrier.
• Abi Tian sent nearly ten thousand Sarira prayer beads toward Li Qingyun, while Yuan Changkong and his allies broke through the Western Heaven Clan’s blockade.
• Yuan Shiliu and other Yuan descendants sent possession-seizing artifacts through the opening, and the artifacts entered Li Qingyun’s inner void sky.
• A red-clad woman watched the attack, judged that Li Qingyun could not turn the tide, and left without intervening.

Li Qingyun watched the invading cultivators enter his Great Thousand Void Sky, ready to suppress them, while he waited to confront the mysterious Shen Nong in a dream. He rejected Shen Nong’s offer of a Hundred Herbs Pill and escaped the dream, leaving Shen Nong to reveal an ancient eyeball inside the box.

• Li Qingyun used the Primordial Great Dao Mark to preserve a trace of lucid will and let the possession-seeking cultivators enter his Great Thousand Void Sky.
• Abi Tian, Yuan Changkong, Yuan Twelve, Yuan Shiliu, and the other invaders marveled at Li Qingyun’s foundation and spread out to corrupt his worlds and seize control.
• Li Qingyun prepared to suppress the invaders when Shen Nong appeared in a dream and offered him a Hundred Herbs Pill to dispel the obscurity.
• Li Qingyun questioned why Shen Nong appeared only when his will was weakest, refused to approach the box, and escaped the dream.
• Shen Nong returned to the wooden box, opened it, and looked at an ancient object resembling an eyeball inside.

Li Qingyun broke free from his Obscurity after the Outer Ruin granted him a brief suspension, then used his awakened Heavenly Dao will to destroy the usurpers inside his Void Heaven. He emerged from the Cloud Cocoon Heavenly Palace and began slaughtering the gathered Hua Xuan, while Abi Tian tried to rally the survivors against him.

• Li Qingyun used the Outer Ruin’s power to suspend his Obscurity and regain control of his Void Heaven.
• Li Qingyun crushed the parasitic usurpers hidden within his Heart Lamp Minor World, Dao tree, and True Blood Heavenly River.
• Li Qingyun’s power erupted from the ruined Cloud Cocoon Heavenly Palace, killing three nearby Vajra Clan Hua Xuan.
• Yuan Changkong fled with Yuan Shiliu, while Yuan Twelve, Yuan Han, and the other Abyss Clan disciples scattered.
• Li Qingyun emerged and killed more Hua Xuan as Abi Tian confronted him and urged the remaining fighters to join forces.

Li Qingyun crushed Abi Tian and the other Hua Xuan cultivators who had gathered against him in the Land of the First Cosmos. The slaughter left more than fifty clan powerhouses dead as the survivors fled before his overwhelming strength.

• Li Qingyun shattered Abi Tian’s attacks, pursued him as he fled, and crushed him into a rain of blood.
• The remaining cultivators from the Three Western Heavens Clans and other clans panicked and scattered.
• Li Qingyun caught and killed three Jade Cicada Clan cultivators who begged him for mercy.
• Li Qingyun suppressed and killed fleeing Divine Eye and Stone Spirit Clan cultivators.
• Two River Mother Clan cultivators entered Obscurity Eruption and charged Li Qingyun, but he stopped them and left their bodies intact to avoid spreading Obscurity.
• Li Qingyun continued hunting the fleeing cultivators, killing more than fifty Hua Xuan powerhouses in the Land of the First Cosmos.

Li Qingyun evaded attacks from the Outside Void and continued killing the clans’ Profound Transformation cultivators. At the Yuan Clan passage, he caught and killed Yuan Changkong, leaving Yuan Han and the others stunned by his power.

• Li Qingyun dodged poison beads and a devastating sword strike from the Outside Void, then killed a Western Heaven Clan Profound Transformation cultivator.
• Yuan Changkong and Yuan Shiliu fled toward the Yuan Clan passage, but Li Qingyun caught up with them.
• Li Qingyun suppressed Yuan Changkong and crushed his head after rejecting his plea to face the clan’s laws.
• Yuan Han, Yuan Twelve, and the other young prodigies arrived and watched Li Qingyun kill Yuan Changkong.

Li Qingyun killed Yuan Han and the main-branch disciples who had come to seize his position, then sealed the superior clans’ passage entrances to keep Hua Xuan cultivators out of the Land of the First Cosmos. The chapter ended with powerful figures outside the void demanding that the Abyss Clan explain his actions.

• Li Qingyun killed Yuan Han after dismissing his attempt to resist.
• Twelve Young Master Yuan and the other main-branch disciples knelt and begged for mercy, but Li Qingyun erased them as they tried to leave.
• Li Qingyun sealed the Abyss Clan passage and forbade its Hua Xuan Realm cultivators from entering the Land of the First Cosmos.
• Li Qingyun sealed the Western Heaven Clan passage against Hua Xuan Realm cultivators and declared Qingyun Heaven the power ruling the cosmos.
• Li Qingyun traveled to the other superior clans’ passage entrances and sealed them against Hua Xuan cultivators.
• Towering figures outside the void questioned the Abyss Clan about Li Qingyun’s actions and demanded an explanation.

Li Qingyun ordered the six native Hua Xuan cultivators in the Land of the First Cosmos to leave despite their Obscurity Eruption. He allowed Zuo Mei Tian to travel to the Land of the Sixth Cosmos and explained how to summon an Abyss Guardian, while a dispute beyond the void erupted into a Saint combat.

• River Maiden taunted the Abyss Clan and provoked Yuan Jing, who challenged her to combat in the Netherworld Void.
• Li Qingyun found the six native Hua Xuan cultivators trapped in Obscurity Eruption and ordered them to leave the Land of the First Cosmos that day.
• The six cultivators pleaded for more time, but they agreed to suppress their Obscurity enough to depart.
• Zuo Mei Tian emerged from her cocoon palace and asked Li Qingyun for a divine decree to travel to the Land of the Sixth Cosmos.
• Li Qingyun gave Zuo Mei Tian directions to a Cosmic passage and told her to call his name three times in the dark Abyss Void to summon an Abyss Guardian.

Li Qingyun learned that an Abyss Clan Saint had been severely injured in a clash beyond the First Cosmos, then led the Abyss Clan disciples in an attack on the River Mother Clan. The fighting left the River Mother Clan at a disadvantage under Li Qingyun’s Dao might, while he continued reversing the qi flow of Obscurity within himself.

• Zuo Mei Tian and the other dazed cultivators left through the passageways Li Qingyun indicated, and he returned to repair the Cloud Cocoon Heavenly Palace.
• The First Cosmos shook from a battle beyond the void, and Yuan Gushan later told Li Qingyun that an Abyss Clan Saint had been severely injured, possibly by a River Mother Clan Saint.
• Li Qingyun ordered Yuan Gushan to kill the River Mother Clan disciples, and Yuan gathered Abyss Clan forces to attack them.
• The River Mother Clan disciples resisted, believing their Saint’s victory over an Abyss Clan Saint gave them reason to stand firm.
• Li Qingyun used his Dao might to disrupt the River Mother Clan fighters, allowing the Abyss Clan disciples to gain the upper hand as he reversed the qi flow of Obscurity within himself.

Hong Lian Tian retaliated against the Abyss Clan by sweeping through its forces in five cosmoses, while Li Qingyun remained in Obscurity. With the clan suffering heavy losses, its elders were ordered to persuade Li Qingyun to return, leaving the Abyss Clan looking to him to save it.

• Li Qingyun's Dao might helped Yuan Gushan and the Abyss Clan disciples wipe out the River Mother Clan in the First Cosmos, driving the clan from the Land of the First Cosmos and taking Hetu Mountain.
• Hong Lian Tian swept through the Abyss Clan's bases in the Second through Sixth Lands, defeating Yuan Gumo and suppressing Yuan Wangchen before an Obscurity Eruption forced her to stop.
• The Abyss Clan elders blamed Yuan Mian for letting Hong Lian Tian travel through the cosmoses and imprisoned him for five hundred years.
• Yuan Guyuan told the Clan Elder Council that Outer Void imperial edicts required them to persuade Li Qingyun to return his allegiance to the Abyss Clan.

Yuan Guyuan proposed concessions to win the Abyss Li Clan’s Seed of a Saint back to the Abyss Clan’s cause, while Li Qingyun decided that his Shangqing and Yuqing identities had to venture into the Outer Ruin to prove the Dao. The chapter left the two identities preparing to risk the journey without Taiqing’s Primordial Great Dao Mark.

• Yuan Guyuan proposed restoring collateral-line officials, arranging a marriage with the Abyss Li Clan, and personally kneeling to ask the Seed of a Saint for help.
• The Abyss Clan elders agreed to Yuan Guyuan’s proposals, hoping to win the Seed of a Saint’s allegiance despite doubts that their efforts would succeed.
• Li Qingyun recalled how Hong Lian Tian had ravaged the Abyss Clan forces and nearly destroyed Hequ Mountain before retreating after the Shangqing Heaven identity used the Mysterious Yellow Exquisite Pagoda and Dark Tome.
• Li Qingyun decided that the Shangqing and Yuqing identities could no longer delay their Three-in-One Dao Proving in the Outer Ruin.
• The Shangqing and Yuqing identities agreed to send a wisp of Shangqing Heaven’s will in the Mysterious Yellow Exquisite Pagoda to attempt Dao Proving.

Li Qingyun sent his Shangqing Heaven identity beyond the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos to merge with the ruin and attain Hua Xuan, but an Outer Void Saint discovered him and nearly destroyed the Mysterious Yellow Exquisite Pagoda. He escaped back through the Calamity Force layer, leaving the tower badly damaged and Yuqing’s path to breakthrough in greater danger.

• Li Qingyun stirred Calamity Force disturbances in several places and sent his Shangqing Heaven identity out in the Mysterious Yellow Exquisite Pagoda.
• Outside the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos, Shangqing Heaven made a Great Vow, merged his three Mysterious Crystals with the ruin, and attained Hua Xuan.
• As Shangqing Heaven returned, an Outer Void existence with a thousand arm shadows spotted the tower and attacked it.
• The Calamity Force layer intercepted part of the attack, but the Exquisite Pagoda cracked as Shangqing Heaven drove it back inside.
• Li Qingyun recognized the attacker as likely a Saint of the Western Heaven Clan and feared the damage would delay Yuqing’s breakthrough.

Shangqing Heaven chose to merge with the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos and broke through to Hua Xuan. He declared war on Hong Lian Tian and began slaughtering the River Mother Clan disciples, leaving their forces fleeing and dying across the Sixth Cosmos.

• Jade Pure and Shangqing Heaven agreed that Jade Pure would merge with the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos for Three-in-One Dao Proving.
• Shangqing Heaven broke through to Hua Xuan at Hequ Mountain, drawing the attention of powerful observers across the world.
• Shangqing Heaven banned River Mother Clan disciples from the Land of the Sixth Cosmos and challenged Hong Lian Tian to fight.
• Shangqing Heaven killed two River Mother Clan Hua Xuan elders who threatened him.
• Shangqing Heaven attacked the fleeing River Mother Clan Vacuum experts, and bloody rain fell across the land and Blackwater Mother River.

Li Qingyun’s Shangqing Heaven identity annihilated most of the River Mother Clan in the Land of the Sixth Cosmos, reversing the Abyss Clan’s fortunes and frightening the other factions. Meanwhile, his Jade Pure identity prepared to break through into Hua Xuan by binding himself to the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos.

• Li Qingyun let the few surviving River Mother Clan disciples escape and warned the other factions not to provoke him.
• The factions reacted to the bloodbath, while the Abyss Clan celebrated Shangqing Heaven’s victory and its main branch elders felt ashamed.
• The Quasi-Saint elder ordered Yuan Guyuan to apologize to Li Qingyun, and Yuan Gumo, Yuan Wangchen, and Yuan Yiping each withdrew to pursue greater strength.
• Yuan Yiping regretted that the main branch’s demands had driven Li Qingyun away and decided to enter seclusion.
• In the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos, Li Qingyun’s Jade Pure identity vowed to share the cosmos’s fate and began uniting with it to break through into Hua Xuan.

Li Qingyun’s Three-in-One Dao Proving revived the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos and brought forth the lingering shadows of its ancient immortals and Saints. Before disappearing, the three Heavenly Venerates revealed the Outside Void’s role in the Primordial Conflict and warned that their cosmos was now a target, leaving Li Qingyun to carry their hopes alone.

• Li Qingyun’s vow and Three-in-One Dao Proving revived the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos, while ancient Dao shadows strengthened his Jade Pure body to rival his Taiqing identity.
• Li Qingyun promised the ancient Daoists he would revive and pass down the Three Pure Ones lineage, and they dissipated after acknowledging his resolve.
• The shadows of the Jade Pure Primordial Lord, Taiqing Moral, and Shangqing Spiritual Treasure Heavenly Venerates appeared and warned Li Qingyun about the Primordial Conflict and the Outside Void Existences.
• The three Heavenly Venerates revealed that the Outside Void had become monstrous after evading the Primordial Calamity and was targeting surviving Great Cosmos lands, including this one.
• The three Heavenly Venerate shadows vanished, leaving Li Qingyun to face the coming danger and fulfill their hopes.

After uniting the three aspects with the cosmos and entering Hua Xuan, Li Qingyun saw the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos flourish, but its weakened Calamity Force left it vulnerable to invasion. He tried to deduce a path to quasi-sainthood by confronting Obscurity directly, and ended the chapter struggling to keep his Dao spirit intact.

• Li Qingyun’s breakthrough enriched the cosmos, revived dormant bloodlines, and awakened extraordinary power among humanity.
• Li Qingyun realized that the weakened Calamity Force could invite an invasion by quasi-saints from the Outer Ruin, so he sought a method to break through to quasi-sainthood.
• Li Qingyun reasoned that quasi-sainthood might require becoming Obscurity and transcending the cosmos through his Hua Xuan body.
• Li Qingyun used the three Heavenly Venerate thrones to trigger an Obscurity Eruption and deliberately let a trace of gray Obscurity qi enter his Dao spirit.
• Li Qingyun shouted for stability as the Obscurity karma surged beyond his remaining clarity, threatening to scatter his Dao spirit.

Li Qingyun let the gray obscurity contaminate his three divine aspects and survived with help from Taiqing and Shangqing, gaining insight that could help him approach the Quasi-Saint realm. Two months later, he suppressed another obscurity eruption and went to confront Yuan Guyuan, whose group secretly coveted Li Yi’s body.

• Li Qingyun spread the obscure contamination across his three divine aspects when his Dao spirit could no longer withstand it alone.
• Taiqing and Shangqing joined their wills to suppress the grayness, and Li Qingyun’s divine aspects slowly recovered while gaining a stronger foundation against obscurity.
• Two months later, Li Qingyun suppressed the obscurity in Cloud Cocoon Heavenly Palace and left to meet Yuan Guyuan and the Yuan Clan.
• Li Yi and Yuanbao entertained Yuan Guyuan, Yuan Guhong, and the other clan elders at Three Saints Mountain Heavenly Palace.
• Yuan Guyuan and the elders secretly coveted Li Yi’s pure physical shell, hoping to seize it, parasitize it, or refine it into innate origin qi.

Li Qingyun confronted Yuan Guyuan and the Abyss Clan elders, forcing them to kneel before hearing their request for help against Hong Lian Tian. After accepting a Primordial Saint Bone as payment, he agreed to fight her only if she came to the First or Sixth Cosmos.

• Li Yiyi mocked Yuan Guyuan and the elders as they waited for Li Qingyun at Three Saints Mountain.
• Li Qingyun arrived and used his Dao might to force Yuan Guyuan, Yuan Changliu, and three other elders to kneel, while Yuan Guhong remained standing.
• Yuan Guyuan explained that the Abyss Clan wanted Li Qingyun to suppress Hong Lian Tian, whose power threatened the clan amid its conflict with the River Mother Clan.
• Yuan Guyuan presented Li Qingyun with a Primordial Saint Bone, which Li Qingyun accepted as the main material for his Immortal Slaying Sword.
• Li Qingyun agreed to suppress Hong Lian Tian if she came to the First or Sixth Cosmos, but refused to pursue her elsewhere.

Li Qingyun began forging the Despair Immortal and Immortal Slaying swords from Saint Bones and other rare materials, using the Great Dao Divine Fire to destroy the schemes hidden within them. After three days and nights, he formed the Despair Immortal Sword’s body, leaving the forging unfinished.

• Li Qingyun decided to forge the Despair Immortal and Immortal Slaying swords and gathered Second Master's Quasi-Saint Bone, the Primordial Saint Bone, and several powerful artifacts and materials.
• Li Qingyun suppressed the rebellious ancient hide and other artifacts with the Human Dao Lamp and Dark Tome, then burned away the hide’s Secret Gold runes.
• Second Master's hidden consciousness emerged from his bone and confronted Li Qingyun, but Li Qingyun crushed the scheme with the Dark Tome’s gray intent and Primordial Great Dao essence.
• Second Master Yuan sensed his bone being destroyed and vowed to have Li Qingyun executed, while Jia Zhou realized Li Qingyun had burned his natal hide and threatened him and Hong Lian Tian.
• After three days and nights of refining, Li Qingyun used the melted Saint Bone, hide, and other materials to begin forming the Despair Immortal Sword.

Li Qingyun forged a sword from Nuwa’s Saint Bone and learned that the ancient human saint had been killed and her remains divided among the Twelve Superior Clans. As he vowed to use the sword against extraterrestrial foes, Hong Lian Tian set out to destroy his Shangqing Heaven avatar, accompanied by three Abyss Guardians.

• Li Qingyun finished a sword in the Dao fire of Azure Clarity, then veiled the cosmos from the external force striking it with thunder.
• He examined the Primordial Saint Bone, restrained its invasive black textures, and refined it into a purple-cyan sword embryo rather than fusing it into his body.
• The bone’s saintly legacy revealed that it was part of Nuwa’s frontal bone, and Li Qingyun vowed to forge it into the Immortal Slaying Sword to avenge the ancient saint.
• Li Qingyun’s grief and fury erupted in a fierce howl that alarmed the Land of the Universe and prompted speculation about Hong Lian Tian.
• Hong Lian Tian left her bronze coffin and headed for the sixth cosmic passage to erase Li Qingyun’s Shangqing Heaven avatar, with three Abyss Guardians behind her.

Hong Lian Tian challenged Li Qingyun’s Shangqing Heaven, expecting to crush his clone, but his strength surged when his three identities joined forces. She was forced to unleash the power of all eight clones as his overwhelming attack engulfed her.

• The River Mother, Western Heaven, and three-headed Abyss Guardians anticipated Hong Lian Tian defeating Shangqing Heaven and weakening the Abyss Clan.
• Hong Lian Tian sensed a sudden terror but left the abyss and descended upon the Land of the Sixth Cosmos to challenge Li Qingyun.
• Li Qingyun sensed her arrival, left his cocoon palace, and met her in deep space as factions gathered to watch.
• Hong Lian Tian attacked with lotus fire, but Li Qingyun emerged unharmed and matched her strike with a powerful palm.
• Hong Lian Tian drew on the power of three Hua Xuan clones, while Li Qingyun activated his ring shadow and combined the strength of his three identities.
• Li Qingyun’s golden-purple aura overwhelmed Hong Lian Tian, forcing her to invoke the power of all eight clones.