Chapter Summaries

Li Qingyun overwhelmed Hong Lian Tian in a fierce battle and pursued her as she fled toward the River Mother Clan's passage. Though he wounded her severely, she escaped the Land of the Sixth Cosmos, and he broke through the passage barrier after her.

• Li Qingyun and Hong Lian Tian's clash shook the Land of the Sixth Cosmos, and Li Qingyun's strike sent her flying with her chest caved in and arms limp.
• Hong Lian Tian tried to retreat by laying red lotus flames in Li Qingyun's path, but he broke through them and seized her with a giant golden-purple hand.
• Hong Lian Tian realized she could not match Li Qingyun and used a false figure to distract him while fleeing toward the River Mother Clan's passage.
• Li Qingyun caught up, sealed the void, and struck Hong Lian Tian with black blood, red radiance, and pale-white Sword Qi as she reached the passage.
• Hong Lian Tian survived and vanished into the passage, while Li Qingyun pursued her and shattered the passage's special seal.

Li Qingyun pursued Hong Lian Tian into Burial Abyss, where its forbidden ripples and clan guardians obstructed him. He failed to kill her, but badly wounded three Abyss Guardians as she escaped deeper into the Abyss.

• Li Qingyun broke through the River Mother Clan's passage restriction and chased Hong Lian Tian into Burial Abyss.
• Hong Lian Tian fled aboard a Coffin Artifact while the River Mother Clan Abyss Guardian tried to stop Li Qingyun, who struck it aside.
• Li Qingyun retreated from a forbidden ripple and used the Human Dao Lamp to summon a Coffin Artifact to the safe platform.
• Li Qingyun's Slaughtering Immortal Sword severed one of Hong Lian Tian's arms, but she escaped after sacrificing a protective Dao artifact.
• Li Qingyun attacked the Western Heaven, Vajra, and River Mother Clan Abyss Guardians, grievously wounding all three and forcing them to retreat.

Li Qingyun failed to catch Hong Lian Tian before she reached the River Mother Clan’s channel, but Jia Zhou ambushed her in the Abyss Void and began draining her Red Lotus True Blood. As River Festival and Jia Cang confronted one another, Li Qingyun realized Jia Zhou had been lying in wait to prey on either of them.

• Li Qingyun watched Hong Lian Tian escape his pursuit and regretted that the Abyss Guardians had delayed him.
• A gray-scaled Jia Zhou crashed onto Hong Lian Tian’s coffin, shattered it, and attacked her with gray snake tentacles.
• Hong Lian Tian’s lotus fire failed to stop Jia Zhou from draining her Red Lotus True Blood, so she called for the River Saint to save her.
• River Festival appeared at the River Mother Clan’s channel entrance and tried to stop Jia Zhou, but Jia Cang emerged from an ancient coffin to confront her.
• Li Qingyun realized Jia Zhou had parasitized an outer-ruin gray spirit and had been waiting to ambush either him or Hong Lian Tian.

Li Qingyun watched Jia Zhou drain Hong Lian Tian’s blood and cultivation, then saw River Sacrifice save her remaining lotus flame and turn the tragedy into open hostility between the Sacred Hall Clan and the River Mother Clan. After withdrawing, Li Qingyun endured an Obscurity Eruption and learned that his experiment with gray intent had brought him closer to the Quasi-Saint realm.

• Jia Zhou devoured Hong Lian Tian’s true blood and cultivation, leaving only her natal lotus flame as her mystic body crumbled.
• River Sacrifice blocked Jia Zhou from devouring the lotus flame, struck him, and carried the flame away after exchanging threats with him and Jia Cang.
• Jia Zhou threatened Li Qingyun, who suppressed his killing intent and left the Burial Abyss, planning to forge the Immortal Slaying Sword and warn Cheng Tangyin to leave Sacred Hall Clan Territory.
• Li Qingyun returned to the Shangqing Cocoon Palace, formed a Three Absolute Sword Formation around it, and used his Jade Pure identity to tell Cheng Tangyin to withdraw before his body fell into unconsciousness.
• In the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos, Li Qingyun recovered from merging gray intent into his Dao spirit and found that the ordeal had opened a faint crack toward the Quasi-Saint realm.

Cheng Tangyin fled the Ling Clan after learning Jia Zhou had emerged from seclusion and intended to claim her as blood sustenance. As a Sacred Hall quasi-saint stopped her at the star-gate, Li Qingyun's will manifested to protect her.

• Cheng Tangyin told Jia Yugui she would travel to the Sixth Mayfly Land, and Jia Yuxu gave her a gray statue that could help her escape three times.
• Cheng Tangyin left the Ling Clan with three Hua Xuan slaves, while Jia San arrived to carry out Jia Zhou's order to take her away.
• Jia Zhou's voice drove Jia San and his followers out of the hall after they learned Cheng Tangyin had already left.
• Jia San's party pursued Cheng Tangyin to an ancient star-gate, where a Sacred Hall quasi-saint projected his will and froze her in place.
• Li Qingyun broke his will free from the heavens and manifested a black-robed dao figure before Cheng Tangyin.

Li Qingyun protected Cheng Tangyin as she escaped through the ancient star gate and traveled into the Abyss Void. When Jia San tried to seize her coffin, Cheng Tangyin used the Jade Void Statue to unleash quasi-Saint power, leaving Jia San’s hand crumbling to ash.

• Li Qingyun’s black-robed Dao shadow clashed with the Sacred Hall Clan quasi-Saint’s finger and pushed Cheng Tangyin through the ancient star gate.
• Li Qingyun’s Taiqing identity met Cheng Tangyin in the Great Burial Pit and sent her off in a Bronze Coffin Artifact toward the Sixth Cosmos.
• The Abyss Guardians watched as Li Qingyun intervened, while the River Mother Clan Guardian urged them not to help Cheng Tangyin.
• Jia San and the Sacred Hall Clan cultivators pursued Cheng Tangyin and attacked her coffin despite Li Qingyun’s warning.
• Li Qingyun’s Human Dao Lamp burned away Jia San’s arm, but Jia San kept reaching for the coffin.
• Cheng Tangyin activated the gray statue, and its quasi-Saint power turned Jia San’s reaching hand ash-gray and crumbled it away.

Li Qingyun protected Cheng Tangyin as she escaped the Burial Abyss and returned to Hequ Mountain, then resumed forging the Immortal Slaying Sword. When the sword was completed, a terrifying face appeared beyond the First Cosmos.

• Li Qingyun burned Jia San to death with the Human Dao Lamp, ending the pursuit of Cheng Tangyin’s coffin vessel.
• Cheng Tangyin reached the Land of the Sixth Cosmos, where Quanzhu, Gu Qiong, and the Heaven Masters welcomed her as the Dao Mother and told her Li Qingyun was in seclusion.
• Li Qingyun returned to Cloud Cocoon Heavenly Palace and continued forging the Immortal Slaying Sword from Primordial Saint Bone and other materials.
• After nine days of forging, Li Qingyun completed the sword, provoking a force beyond the cosmos to strike at the First Cosmos.
• The Heaven Masters saw an enormous, blurry face emerge beyond the cosmos.

Li Qingyun used the Dark Tome to conceal the Immortal Slaying Sword’s taboo fluctuations from an Outer Void Saint, then learned that the Twelve Superior Clans were investigating the incident. When Yuan Guhong tried to use a Saintly Gray Seal to uncover Li Qingyun’s secrets, Li Qingyun deceived him by claiming the mysterious artifact had gone toward the Western Heaven Clan’s passage.

• Li Qingyun concealed the Immortal Slaying Sword’s traces, and the Outer Void Saint’s giant face withdrew after failing to find them.
• Several Great Thousand Heaven Masters who cursed the unknown culprit disintegrated, while the Twelve Superior Clans ordered investigations into the taboo fluctuations.
• Yuan Guhong arrived at Three Saints Mountain with the Saints’ decree and asked Li Yiyi and Yuanbao to arrange a meeting with Li Qingyun.
• Yuan Guhong secretly prepared to use Saint Yuanming’s Saintly Gray Seal to make Li Qingyun reveal his innermost secrets.
• Li Qingyun sensed the seal’s effect, shielded himself with gray vapor, and claimed the artifact had headed toward the Western Heaven Clan’s passage.
• Yuan Guhong accepted Li Qingyun’s account and withdrew the seal.

Li Qingyun used a meeting with Yuan Guhong to learn of the Abyss Clan’s crisis and urged its Nine Saints to take the initiative against their enemies. His words reached the saints and stirred debate, while the Shangqing Heaven identity encountered Shennong in a vision.

• Li Qingyun learned from Yuan Guhong that six clans were hostile to the Abyss Clan and that two of its saints had recently been defeated.
• Li Qingyun rebuked the Abyss Clan’s inaction and told Yuan Guhong to urge the Nine Saints to strike first.
• Yuan Guhong returned to the clan land and transmitted Li Qingyun’s words to the saints, who argued over whether to act against the River Mother Clan.
• Li Qingyun sensed that the Shangqing Heaven side had also dreamed of Shennong.
• In Shangqing Cocoon Palace, Shennong approached the purple Dao shadow and introduced himself.

Li Qingyun saw through the fake Shen Nong’s dreamscape trap and resisted its attempts to lure him into revealing himself. He escaped the dream and overcame the most dangerous stage of obscurity, while Yuqing remained untouched by the fiend’s methods.

• Li Qingyun realized the dreamscape targeted Human Race descendants during the Obscurity Eruption to exploit their desperation and uncover their secrets.
• Fake Shen Nong offered Li Qingyun Hundred Herbs Pills, but Li Qingyun resisted the powerful urge to approach the box and accused him of being an impostor.
• Fake Shen Nong offered to reveal his true face, but Li Qingyun shut his eyes and refused to look.
• Fake Shen Nong attacked Li Qingyun’s soul, but Li Qingyun vanished from the dream, causing the dreamscape to collapse.
• Li Qingyun awakened in the cocoon palace, drove off obscurity with his will, and made substantial progress in cultivation.
• Li Qingyun concluded that the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos’s barrier and Yuqing’s lack of Human Race true blood had kept Yuqing safe from the dreamscape.

Li Qingyun used a dream modeled on the false Shen Nong’s medicinal fragrance to help Cheng Tangyin advance her Path of the Medicine King. A year later, he still sought a way to help her reach the sacred Dao level while continuing to study the essence of a quasi-Saint.

• Li Qingyun examined Cheng Tangyin’s gray stone statue and suspected that Jia Yuxu was backed by an extraterrestrial quasi-Saint.
• Li Qingyun drew Cheng Tangyin into a dream and used an incarnation of Shen Nong to demonstrate the Medicine Saint Dao.
• Cheng Tangyin gained insight from the dream and made the saintly essence of her Path of the Medicine King clearer.
• After three days, the simulated Shen Nong and his Dao patterns dissipated, ending Cheng Tangyin’s dream enlightenment.
• Over the next year, Li Qingyun’s identities endured two Obscurity Eruptions, and he continued contemplating the essence of a quasi-Saint.

Li Qingyun learned that the Abyss Clan had gravely wounded the River Mother, but he refused its requests to risk himself in Zangyuan and later to eliminate Naga Xi. As conflicts spread and the First Saint was injured, Li Qingyun's Jade Pure identity fused with the ninety-ninth wisp of murky gray intent and discovered the road to the Quasi-Saint realm.

• Yuan Guhong told Li Qingyun that the Abyss Clan's Three Saints had gravely wounded the River Mother and that Yuan Gumo was cultivating toward the Half-step Quasi-Saint realm.
• Yuan Guhong urged Li Qingyun to earn Quasi-Saint guidance by sweeping across the Great Cosmoses or suppressing Zangyuan's three Abyss Guardians, but Li Qingyun declined.
• Five years later, Li Xuanji rose to prominence in the River Mother Clan, while Naga Xi impressed the Vajra Clan by matching Yuan Wangchen in battle and became known as a Quasi-Saint seedling.
• The Abyss Clan ordered Li Qingyun to eliminate Naga Xi in exchange for possible Quasi-Saint guidance, but Li Qingyun refused.
• The Abyss Clan's First Saint was ambushed and injured by Outside Void Existences as conflicts intensified across the Outer Void and the Lands of the Universe.
• Li Qingyun's Jade Pure identity fused its Dao spirit with the ninety-ninth wisp of murky gray intent and realized the path to the Quasi-Saint realm.

Li Qingyun comprehended how a Haotian could approach the Quasi-Saint realm and realized his Jade Pure identity had reached the half-step threshold. He postponed leaving the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos and began planning to draw Superior Clan disciples into it to strengthen his own disciples.

• Li Qingyun discovered that his Dao spirit had transformed into gray intent, resembling the Cosmic Origin Substance, and grasped the essence of cosmic calamities.
• Li Qingyun identified three conditions for a Haotian to become a Quasi-Saint: reaching the Saint Dao level, surviving the Dao spirit's transformation into gray intent, and enduring the chaos storm beyond the cosmos.
• Li Qingyun concluded that his Jade Pure identity was a half-step Quasi-Saint, with only the journey beyond the cosmos and the storm's baptism remaining.
• Li Qingyun decided not to leave the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos yet, since his departure would prevent his true body from entering and leave the cosmos vulnerable.
• Li Qingyun planned to open a controlled flaw in the cosmos's outer Calamity Force layer, luring Superior Clan disciples inside so their spiritual vitality and battles would help the Three Pure Ones disciples grow.

Li Qingyun had quietly reached Great Perfection of Hua Xuan while waiting for Cheng Tangyin to advance, as the Abyss Clan promoted new prodigies including Yuan Henli. Yuan Henli went to seize Xuan Kun Tower and planned to take Lingping Heaven, while Yuan Li Ye refused to sell the tower.

• Li Qingyun learned that Yuan Henli had become one of the Three Venerables of Void Peeking and dismissed the Abyss Clan's attempt to rival his prestige.
• Li Qingyun's cultivation silently reached Great Perfection of Hua Xuan, making him equivalent to a half-step Quasi-Saint.
• Yuan Li Ye lamented Xuan Kun Tower's declining business and berated its managers.
• Yuan Henli arrived at Xuan Kun Tower with main-bloodline followers and offered two million spirit seeds to buy it.
• Yuan Henli planned to claim Xuan Kun Tower and Lingping Heaven, then eventually suppress Li Qingyun.
• Yuan Li Ye hurried down and refused to sell Xuan Kun Tower to Yuan Henli.

Yuan Henli seized Xuan Kun Tower for the Three Venerables of Void Peeking, while Yuan Gumo advanced to the Half-step Quasi-Saint realm. After receiving Li Ye and Li Bing's plea to return, Li Qingyun challenged First Elder to a face-to-face fight at Zang Abyss.

• Yuan Henli drove Li Ye, Li Bing, Wu Yujun, Mu Yu, and the others out of Xuan Kun Tower and announced it would become the Nine Heavens Pavilion.
• Yuan Guyuan and the clan elders welcomed the Three Venerables' growing influence and celebrated when Yuan Gumo entered the Half-step Quasi-Saint realm.
• Yuan Gumo declared that he would eventually become a true Quasi-Saint, while First Elder, Second Elder, and Third Elder reacted to his breakthrough and the rising competition to become a Saint.
• Li Qingyun received a grievance-filled letter from Li Ye and Li Bing asking him to return to the clan lands, but he dismissed it and said he was ready to settle matters with First Elder.
• Li Qingyun sent a challenge to First Elder, demanding that they fight face-to-face at Zang Abyss in three days.

Li Qingyun challenged the Abyss Clan’s Quasi-Saint old master to a duel at Zang Yuan three days later, hoping to test and temper his path toward the Quasi-Saint realm. The challenge shook the clan, and the old master faced the prospect of answering it before the watching clans.

• Li Qingyun chose Zang Yuan for the duel and set it three days away so the Superior Clans could gather, intending to test his Dao against their Quasi-Saint wills.
• Yuan Guyuan and the clan elders read Li Qingyun’s challenge, and news of his duel with the old master spread throughout the Abyss Clan.
• Yuan Henli, Yuan Lang, and Yuan Susu each reacted to the news and resolved to attend the battle, with Yuan Susu considering intervening against Li Qingyun.
• Yuan Guyuan went to the Mysterious Profound Stone Hall to inform the old master, who rebuked him for letting the challenge spread before the old master had even received the divine talisman.

Great Master Yuan agreed to fight Li Qingyun at the Zang, with the Outside Void Existence promising to protect him from the mysterious force that had aided Li Qingyun before. Li Qingyun reached Half-step Quasi-Saint and arrived for the showdown as spectators and hidden powers gathered, while the chapter left the identity of the Abyss Clan’s imposing figure at the platform’s edge unrevealed.

• Great Master Yuan accepted the Outside Void Existence’s terms to suppress Li Qingyun and sacrifice the Dao Spirits of Li Qingyun and his avatar.
• Li Qingyun reached Half-step Quasi-Saint, left the Cloud Cocoon Heavenly Palace, and calculated that the Zang would be crowded with spectators and hidden observers.
• Hua Xuan Big Shots from nearly all the superior clans gathered at the Zang to witness the battle between Li Qingyun and Great Master Yuan.
• The Three Venerables of Void Peeking and Patriarch Yuan Guyuan arrived with the Abyss Clan’s contingent, while an arrogant gray-haired figure stood before them.

Li Qingyun arrived in the Burial Abyss to challenge Great Master Yuan, drawing the attention of powerful figures from across the clans. He prepared to fight from a coffin as a woman named Susu addressed Great Master Yuan about her past with Qingyun Tian.

• Yuan Gumo recalled Li Qingyun as he watched the gathering of clan figures in the Burial Abyss.
• Great Master Yuan revealed that he had been waiting inside his Bronze Coffin Artifact and called out Li Qingyun for arriving late.
• Li Qingyun entered the Burial Abyss, displaying the power of a Great Perfection Hua Xuan cultivator.
• Li Qingyun insulted Great Master Yuan and demanded that he bring his head.
• Li Qingyun summoned a top-grade coffin artifact and prepared to fight Great Master Yuan from inside it.
• Susu addressed Great Master Yuan, saying she had past history with Qingyun Tian and asking him to let her settle it.

Yuan Susu challenged Li Qingyun before the Twelve Superior Clans, hoping to suppress him and establish her reputation. She unleashed her Heaven Devouring Dao against his azure power, and Li Qingyun ordered it to break.

• Yuan Susu accepted Great Master Yuan's praise and drove her Bronze Coffin Artifact toward Li Qingyun despite Yuan Gumo's warning.
• Yuan Henli regretted not challenging Li Qingyun first, while Shi Qi Buddha Son said Yuan Susu already bore an aura of death.
• Li Qingyun recognized Yuan Susu's challenge as an attempt to use him as a stepping stone and met her in the center of Abyss Void.
• Yuan Susu accused Li Qingyun of betraying the Abyss Clan and declared that she would slay him on the saints' behalf.
• Li Qingyun's azure power covered the void, and Yuan Susu countered by using her Heaven Devouring Dao to form a black-hole vortex that swallowed part of it.
• Yuan Susu boasted of her Dao, and Li Qingyun told the vortex to break.

Li Qingyun overwhelmed Yuan Susu’s Heaven Devouring Dao and killed her despite Yuan Jingzhong’s attempt to intervene. He left the battle having revealed power that could confront a Quasi-Saint’s attack.

• Li Qingyun shattered Yuan Susu’s Heaven Devouring Dao, stunning the spectators gathered at the Burial Abyss.
• Yuan Susu tried to form the vortex again, but Li Qingyun crushed it and left her gravely wounded.
• Yuan Susu opened her coffin and begged the Holy One to kill Li Qingyun, who answered with a lethal blow.
• Yuan Jingzhong swept his whisk at Li Qingyun’s azure heavens, but Li Qingyun countered with a palm that shattered both attacks.
• Li Qingyun crushed Yuan Susu’s coffin vessel and body into blood mist, while Yuan Jingzhong failed to save her.