Chapter Summaries

Li Qingyun killed Yuan Susu and then confronted Great Master Yuan Jingzhong, using the Quasi-Saint’s attacks to temper his Dao Spirit Chaos Origin Point. He repeatedly endured Yuan Jingzhong’s lethal strikes, leaving the watching clans astonished by his ability to face a Quasi-Saint.

• Li Qingyun annihilated Yuan Susu along with her avatars and divine souls, shocking the Abyss Clan and the other watching clans.
• Great Master Yuan Jingzhong accused Li Qingyun of destroying the clan’s sacred seed and challenged him in the center of the Burial Abyss.
• Li Qingyun and Yuan Jingzhong clashed with their gray intent, and Li Qingyun used the pressure to strengthen his Dao Spirit Chaos Origin Point.
• Yuan Jingzhong connected to his true body beyond the cosmos and launched a stronger attack, forcing Li Qingyun to protect himself with the Human Dao Lamp.
• Li Qingyun endured repeated strikes, taunted Yuan Jingzhong, and kept charging back as the watching clans marveled that he could withstand a Quasi-Saint.

Li Qingyun used his battle with Great Master Yuan to perfect his Chaos Origin Point and reach the ultimate state of a half-step Quasi-Saint, gaining the power to withstand the Burial Abyss’s taboo. After severing the observers’ connections to their true bodies, he overpowered Great Master Yuan and seized her as she tried to flee.

• Li Qingyun endured nearly a hundred blows from Great Master Yuan’s illusory will, completing his Chaos Origin Point and manifesting a gray moon behind his head.
• Great Master Yuan realized Li Qingyun had used her as an Enlightenment Stone, made her illusory body nearly corporeal, and destroyed his coffin vessel with a strike.
• Li Qingyun used the Dark Tome to weaken Great Master Yuan and disrupt the observers’ connections to their true bodies, then canceled the Burial Abyss’s taboo with his gray moon.
• Li Qingyun shattered Great Master Yuan’s fly-whisk phantom and met her life-staking attack with a giant gray hand formed from his full strength.
• Li Qingyun’s hand broke through Great Master Yuan’s attack and seized her and the surrounding Abyss Void as she attempted to escape.

After defeating Great Master Yuan’s projected will, Li Qingyun discovered that Female Corpse Siming had awakened and was feeding on the remnants of his enemies. He began hunting the other quasi-Saint projections in Zang Abyss, while the Outer Void’s power remained blocked.

• Great Master Yuan’s projected will was crushed by Li Qingyun’s giant hand, and the Yuan Clan’s observers were left stunned by his defeat.
• Jia Zhou tried to ambush Li Qingyun but fled after Li Qingyun sensed him and revealed a gray moon behind his head.
• Li Qingyun noticed Great Master Yuan’s lingering gray aura being drawn to Siming’s coffin-nurturing place, where Siming told him that it was not enough.
• Li Qingyun sensed thirteen other quasi-Saint wills watching from ancient coffins and set out to keep them in Zang Abyss.
• River Sacrifice attacked Li Qingyun after his coffin artifact was destroyed, but Li Qingyun evaded him, and Zang Abyss dispersed his projection and sent its remnants to Siming.

Li Qingyun sealed the Abyssal Grave’s exits and destroyed the phantoms of fourteen Quasi-Saints, feeding their power into the coffin-nursing ground. After killing the River Mother Clan’s Hua Xuan elders, he faced Shi Qi Buddha Son, who attacked him.

• Yuan Gumo tried to lead the Yuan lineage out, but the passage entrances for every clan were sealed.
• Li Qingyun shattered the ancient coffins and scattered the phantoms of fourteen Quasi-Saints, whose essence flowed into the coffin-nursing ground.
• Li Qingyun destroyed the three Abyss Guardians and killed the River Mother Clan’s Hua Xuan elders, sparing only those whose Dao hearts had collapsed.
• Li Qingyun confronted Shi Qi Buddha Son on the Western Heaven Clan’s platform, and Shi Qi Buddha Son struck first.
• Li Qingyun declared that he would suppress Shi Qi Buddha Son as the invincible Seed of a Saint.

Li Qingyun crushed the Western Heaven Clan’s forces, then suppressed the Jade Cicada and Vajra clans on their safe platforms. He left his Vajra clone, Naga Xi, standing as the sole survivor and declaring that he would seek repayment someday.

• Li Qingyun shattered Shi Qi Buddha Son’s stone body and killed Pujushe and the other Western Heaven Hua Xuan cultivators.
• Li Qingyun said he was settling old debts with the Western Heaven Clan and warned its Outer Void Saints that he could not be bullied.
• Li Qingyun suppressed Yu Fan Shen, Yuboti, and the other Jade Cicada Clan cultivators on their platform.
• Veda Heaven panicked as Li Qingyun arrived at the Vajra Clan’s platform, while Naga Xi offered himself in exchange for mercy toward the others.
• Li Qingyun killed Veda Heaven and the other Vajras but spared his clone, Naga Xi, who vowed to seek repayment if he entered the Quasi-Saint realm.

Li Qingyun slaughtered the Twelve Superior Clans in the Burial Abyss and revealed his ancient hatred for their role in the Primordial Darkness. He turned to the last survivors, the Abyss Clan, and let Yuan Gumo leave by killing himself, while Yuan Guyuan begged for mercy on behalf of the rest.

• Li Qingyun killed the Hua Xuan cultivators of the Twelve Superior Clans and roared that he was reclaiming a blood debt owed to the human race.
• Jia Zhou watched Li Qingyun and wondered what deep hatred drove him to attack the clans, while still hoping to devour him.
• Yuan Guyuan, Yuan Henli, Yuan Lang, and the other Abyss Clan survivors feared that their clan was next as Li Qingyun appeared above them.
• Li Qingyun offered Yuan Gumo a chance to escape if he destroyed his own body, and Yuan Gumo killed himself.
• Yuan Guyuan pleaded for the remaining Abyss Clan members, claiming they were willing to die to show their remorse.

Li Qingyun learned that Siming had become the Burial Emperor and intended to hide within Burial Abyss, then crushed Jia Zhou’s Gray Spirit body. Jia Zhou escaped toward the Sacred Hall Clan passage and called for Luo as an Outside Void Will forced its way into Burial Abyss.

• Li Qingyun spared Yuan Lang, telling him he had repaid Saint Yuanhe’s guidance, while the other Twelve Superior Clans lay dead.
• The voice from the coffin-nurturing ground revealed that she was Siming and Burial Abyss, and asked to be called the Burial Emperor.
• The Burial Emperor said she would close the Superior Clans’ passage entrances and hide within Burial Abyss, so Li Qingyun turned his attention to Jia Zhou.
• Li Qingyun used the Primordial Great Dao Mark to overcome Jia Zhou’s Gray Spirit body and crush it with his hand of gray intent.
• Jia Zhou exploded part of his body and escaped as gray fire to the Sacred Hall Clan passage, calling for Luo to open it.
• An Outside Void Will forced a huge finger phantom into Burial Abyss, shaking the realm as it threatened to split apart.

Li Qingyun stopped La, an Outer Void Saint of the Sacred Hall Clan, from destroying Zang Abyss, though La declared that Li Qingyun would never reach the Quasi-Saint realm. After the Empress of Burial expelled them and Zang Abyss vanished, Li Qingyun awakened the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos, drawing the attention of the Outer Void.

• Li Qingyun clashed with La’s finger shadow, blocking it with his Glazed Vault of Heaven while La rescued Jia Zhou’s life-fire.
• La withdrew after declaring that Li Qingyun’s path to the Quasi-Saint realm was severed, and Li Qingyun vowed to defy that fate.
• The Empress of Burial thanked Li Qingyun, expelled him, Quan Lei, and Yuan Lang from Zang Abyss, then vanished with it and its passageways.
• Li Qingyun returned to his Cloud Cocoon Heavenly Palace and resolved to make the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos reappear before the Twelve Superior Clans.
• Li Qingyun’s Jade Pure identity awakened the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos, stirring its calamity power and alarming the Outer Void.

Outside Void Existences planned to exploit the weakening protections of the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos, while Li Qingyun’s clone and Hong Lian Tian received orders to enter the Forbidden Zone in nine days. Hong Lian Tian learned she was to bring He Fan Liu and watch him, though she did not understand the River Mother Saint’s interest in him.

• Thirteen Outside Void Existences agreed to wait for flaws in the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos’s weakened protection, then send their clans’ mayflies inside to damage it and compete for its resources.
• Great Ming King Saint ordered Naga Xi to prepare for an extraterrestrial demon land opening in nine days and to lead a team from Buddha Cliff.
• Li Qingyun’s clone selected six Tree Connecting Realm cultivators and two Vacuum Realm cultivators to accompany him, then noted the timing matched his true body’s plan to open the gate.
• River Mother Saint told Red Lotus that the Forbidden Zone would open in nine days and that seizing a Three Pure Ones status could restore her strength.
• River Mother Saint ordered Hong Lian Tian to bring He Fan Liu and watch for unusual behavior from him, leaving Hong Lian Tian puzzled by the Saint’s concern for him.

Li Xuanji agreed to join the expedition to the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos while concealing that he already knew about its opening. Meanwhile, Li Qingyun prepared to confront the arriving Superior Clan disciples, laying the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation and calling the Three Pure Ones disciples to defend their cosmos in nine days.

• He Meiniang tested Li Xuanji by telling him the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos would open in nine days, and he pretended to be surprised before agreeing to go under Hong Lian Tian's protection.
• The Outer Void Saint announced an expedition to an extracosmic demon land, promising a Saint's boon and a Quasi-Saint opportunity to any disciple who returned with an item of Three Pure Ones status.
• Yuan Wangchen and Yuan Yiping sought companions for the first expedition teams as Abyss Clan disciples crowded the Clan Affairs Hall to sign up.
• Li Qingyun sent the Four Immortal Slaying Swords across the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos and secretly established the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation to trap incoming Quasi-Saints.
• Li Qingyun ordered A'li, Houtu, Miaoxuan, Zhenhui, Chihun, Yuyan, Li Zuo, and the other Three Pure Ones disciples to prepare to repel the outer demons in nine days.

Li Qingyun assessed the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos’s shortage of powerful fighters and the threat of blackwater pollution as he prepared for a risky gamble to strengthen it. Across the Dao lineage, its branches mobilized to fight the invading foreign demons and seize the chance to advance.

• Li Qingyun noted that only seven Great Thousand Heaven Masters could currently fight, and that blackwater pollution afflicted even Quasi-Saints and possibly Outer Void Saints.
• Li Qingyun reasoned that luring a Quasi-Saint’s true body into the cosmos and killing it could provide spiritual opportunity, but risked destroying the world if his gamble failed.
• Biluo Daoist priest rallied Biyou Palace’s disciples for the coming invasion, while Wang Muyun and Wang Chengyuan resolved to seize the opportunity to reach Haotian.
• Nangong Fengchuan urged Lingbao Palace’s disciples to defeat the foreign demons, and its forces shouted their support.
• The Palace Masters of Guixu Palace and the other Three Pure Ones branches mobilized their disciples to fight the invaders and eliminate the remnants left by their powerful enemies.

Cheng Tangyin advanced to the Tree Connecting Realm and joined the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos to aid Li Qingyun’s disciples against the outer demons. Beyond the void, a group of powerful beings forced a fissure open in the cosmos, but Li Qingyun destroyed several Swastika Bugs that tried to invade.

• Li Qingyun guarded Cheng Tangyin as she fused with a Medicine Spirit Sapling at Treasure Tree Mountain and entered the Tree Connecting Realm.
• Li Qingyun sent Cheng Tangyin to the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos, where she greeted A'li, Houtu, Miaoxuan, and the other disciples and offered to heal them in battle.
• Nine days later, Li Qingyun opened a narrow fissure in the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos’s Calamity Force layer.
• A Buddha and more than twenty beings beyond the void worked together to press down the ruined Gray Mist layer and secure the fissure with Swastika Bugs.
• Li Qingyun saw several Swastika Bugs gnawing into the cosmos and cut them apart with the Purple Green Sword Shadow.

Li Qingyun confirmed that the outside forces could only infiltrate the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos by sending in subordinate disciples, and he watched several superior clans open the way for their mayflies. After redirecting the first Divine Eye Clan group to confront A'li and the others, the story ended with Shen Wuji arrogantly declaring that he would become their master.

• Li Qingyun destroyed the Buddhist curse’s swastika bugs, while the Buddha outside the void stabilized the passage and allowed the superior clans to send in their mayflies.
• The Divine Eye Clan sent disciples through the fissure, followed by the Sky Devouring Peng Clan, the Abyss Clan, and other superior clans.
• Li Qingyun shifted the first group of Divine Eye Clan disciples into a desolate region, where they searched for native experts and opportunities.
• The Divine Eye Clan group encountered A'li, Houtu, Miaoxuan, Zhu Yuyan, Zhenhui, Chihun, and Li Zuo, and Shen Wuji ordered his companions to seize them.
• A'li challenged Shen Wuji, who introduced himself as a member of the superior Divine Eye Clan and claimed he would become their master.

Li Qingyun used his control over the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos to suppress the invading Divine Eye Clan, while A'li fought Shen Wuji. A'li struck Shen Wuji down with a powerful attack, leaving his fate unresolved.

• Shen Wuji leered at A'li and Zhu Yuyan, and A'li attacked him with a sword strike.
• The cosmos suppressed the Divine Eye Clan's cultivation, and Li Qingyun explained that he could control their placement and power within his domain.
• Li Qingyun redirected incoming Sky Devouring Peng disciples into deserted regions of the void.
• A'li overwhelmed Shen Wuji with shore phantoms and severed his right arm with her sword.
• The elderly Daoist rushed to protect Shen Wuji, but A'li's crimson attack crashed down as Shen Wuji tried to defend himself.

A'li and the other cultivators fought the Divine Eye Clan invaders, while Cheng Tangyin revived fallen allies. Li Qingyun let the invaders' Remnant Soul qi escape so Three Pure Ones disciples could use it to advance their cultivation.

• A'li killed Shen Wuji, and the other cultivators joined him in battling the Divine Eye Clan elder and his disciples.
• Houtu, Zhen Hui Daoist, Zhu Yuyan, Miaoxuan, Li Zuo, and the others fought the invaders, killing five or six disciples as Zhu Yuyan and Chihun fell.
• Cheng Tangyin revived Zhu Yuyan with the Medicine King Path, and Zhu Yuyan withdrew to recover after thanking her.
• Cheng Tangyin also revived Zhen Hui Daoist, who came to thank her.
• Li Qingyun let the Divine Eye Clan corpses dissolve into spiritual currents and allowed their Remnant Soul qi to flee, giving Three Pure Ones disciples an opportunity to strengthen themselves.

Li Qingyun turned the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos against the invading Superior Clan disciples, while its inhabitants grew stronger and fought back. After the invaders were nearly wiped out, Li Qingyun ordered A'li and the others to spare Yuan Wangchen and Yuan Yiping a wisp of their divine souls.

• Li Qingyun scattered Yuan Wangchen, Yuan Yiping, and the other invaders across abandoned lands in the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos.
• A'li and six others killed the divine-eyed Huaxuan elder, prompting several fighters to reach Great Completion and Li Qingyun to use the elder's true blood to nurture a divine mountain and sapling.
• The invaders from six tribes were wiped out, while people in the Three Pure Ones attained the Haotian position and joined the fight against the remaining enemies.
• One month later, Li Zuo chased the exhausted Yuan Wangchen and Yuan Yiping toward the rift, taunting them as they tried to escape.
• Li Zuo killed Yuan Yiping with a Dao weapon, and A'li and Houtu subdued Yuan Wangchen before Li Qingyun ordered them to leave both intruders a wisp of their divine souls.

Yuan Wangchen and Yuan Yiping escaped the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos after seeing its three Saint statuses, but concealed the discovery from the clans guarding the rift. The Outside Void Existences sensed the opportunity anyway and resolved to send a stronger invasion.

• Yuan Wangchen and Yuan Yiping fled toward the rift, then saw three Saint Statues and decided to return with new avatars to claim one.
• Li Qingyun realized the pair might hide what they had seen and planned to destroy their divine souls next time to force them to seek help.
• Great Master Yuan captured Yuan Wangchen and Yuan Yiping as they reached the rift and questioned them about the cosmos.
• Yuan Wangchen and Yuan Yiping described the cosmos as ruined and its strongest cultivators as weak, while withholding the three Saint statuses.
• Great Master Yuan suspected the survivors were concealing something and retreated to wait cautiously.
• The Buddha told the Outside Void Existences to increase their investment and send stronger forces, including Quasi-Saints if needed.

Five years after the invasion began, the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos flourished, and the Seven Venerates of Heaven Opening merged with peerless Treasure Trees to reach the Tree Connecting Realm. They drove the Superior Clans’ forces back toward their Demon Slaying Headquarters, while Yuan Changren prepared to descend in his true body and claim the Saint Crystal of Status.

• Over five years, the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos revived, more than a hundred and thirty Haotian-level figures arose, and nine Treasure Tree Mountains appeared.
• A'li and Houtu emerged from their Treasure Tree Mountains, followed by Miaoxuan, Li Zuo, Zhenhui, Chi Hun, and Zhu Yuyan, who also reached the Tree Connecting Realm.
• Li Qingyun restored the invading outer demons' cultivation limit to the Tree Connecting Realm, allowing the Western Heaven Clan's Buddhist monks to regain their strength and drive back Xuan Hun, Si, and the others.
• A'li arrived to aid the native forces, and she, Houtu, Li Zuo, and the other Venerates defeated and slew Superior Clan disciples, forcing survivors to retreat toward the Demon Slaying Headquarters.
• The Hua Xuan Big Shots at the headquarters went out to confront the Seven Venerates, while Yuan Changren decided the time had come to descend in his true body and seize the Three Pure Saints' Saint Crystal of Status.

Li Qingyun activated the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation to trap Yuan Jingzhong, Lou Luo, and Akshobhya Buddha after they entered the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos. His Taiqing identity confronted Yuan Jingzhong, and the chapter ended as Li Qingyun ordered the formation to attack.

• Yuan Jingzhong, Lou Luo, and Akshobhya Buddha forced open the rift passage and entered the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos in their true bodies.
• Li Qingyun summoned his Taiqing and Shangqing identities and decided to target Yuan Jingzhong first.
• The three Quasi-Saints’ arrival shook the cosmos, so Li Qingyun’s identities stabilized it and Taiqing activated the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.
• Yuan Jingzhong found himself trapped apart from Lou Luo and Akshobhya Buddha and demanded that Li Qingyun submit and reveal the saint’s relic.
• Li Qingyun revealed himself to Yuan Jingzhong and ordered the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation to slay.

Li Qingyun used the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation to repeatedly kill Great Master Yuan, an extraterrestrial Quasi-Saint who kept resurrecting. After striking him down a third time, Li Qingyun captured the scattered fragments of his divine soul to prevent his escape and contamination of the cosmos.

• Great Master Yuan tried to attack Li Qingyun, but the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation severed his head with a single strike.
• Great Master Yuan resurrected by reconnecting his head with gray intent, and Li Qingyun beheaded him again and minced the head.
• Great Master Yuan's headless body revived and tried to flee, so Li Qingyun trapped it with the Immortal Trapping Sword and pierced through it.
• Great Master Yuan's body collapsed and released countless fragments of gray intent as his divine soul tried to escape.
• Li Qingyun used the Dark Tome and Human Dao Lamp to capture Great Master Yuan's scattered soul fragments.