Chapter Summaries

Lou Luo tried to break the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation after sensing Yuan Jingzhong's death, but Li Qingyun and the formation's swords killed him. Lou Luo's corpse crashed down across the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos.

• Lou Luo sensed Yuan Jingzhong's apparent death and unleashed a storm of golden feathers to shatter the formation.
• Li Qingyun's Shangqing Heaven identity blocked most of Lou Luo's attack, while the Jade Pure identity used the Mysterious Yellow Exquisite Pagoda to stop the rest.
• Lou Luo recognized Li Qingyun and attacked him with his gray intent, unaware that Li Qingyun was using the pressure to temper himself.
• Lou Luo tried to seize Li Qingyun, but the Slaughter Immortal Sword and Extinction Immortal Sword struck him and were swallowed into his body.
• The two swords burst out from within Lou Luo, and Li Qingyun used the formation's power to cut apart his body and prevent him from healing.
• Lou Luo cursed Li Qingyun as his corpse fell, shaking the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos.

Li Qingyun’s Jade Pure incarnation killed Akshobhya Buddha with the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, while the Buddha’s claim that his Nine Rings would let him return raised questions about his cultivation and survival. In the Outer Void, the other Saints discovered Li Qingyun’s hidden incarnation and used the incident to pressure the Abyss Clan.

• Li Qingyun unleashed the four Immortal Slaying Swords and destroyed Akshobhya Buddha, who claimed he would be reborn as long as his Nine Rings remained intact.
• Li Qingyun’s three identities saw a gray ring appear behind their heads and wondered whether the Nine-Ring realm was a stage of Quasi-Saint cultivation.
• The Abyss Clan’s three Outer Void Saints learned that Yuan Jingzhong had died and discussed replacing him and capturing the clan’s allegedly traitorous descendant.
• The Lotus Throne Buddha showed the Saints an image of Li Qingyun’s incarnation killing Akshobhya Buddha and accused the Abyss Clan of concealing its scheme.
• Saint Yuan Zhe denied responsibility for Li Qingyun, but the Saints demanded an explanation from the Abyss Clan and the Lotus Throne Buddha warned that heavenly calamity would strike Li Qingyun when he left the cosmos.

Li Qingyun prepared the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos and his trusted allies for his departure beyond the cosmos, while the superior clans resumed their conflicts after ten years of recovery. He concluded that the time had come to enter the outer void and pursue the Quasi-Saint realm.

• Yuan Zhe's Three Saints warned the other powers that the Abyss Clan would retaliate if pushed too far, then left, while the Buddha defended Western Heaven's past actions.
• Li Qingyun's manifestations agreed to wait until A'li, Houtu, Li Zuo, and others could help guard the cosmos, and to prepare for calamity when he departed.
• Li Qingyun asked Li Yiyi to swear loyalty, then promised to help her reach Profound Transformation.
• Li Qingyun ordered Li Changsheng to reach Profound Transformation within ten years and named him master of the Sixth Cosmos after his departure.
• Ten years later, the superior clans renewed their conflicts after the outside void reopened the passages, while Li Qingyun's First and Sixth Cosmos lands destroyed their new passages.
• Li Qingyun decided that he was ready to leave the cosmos and step into the outer void.

Li Qingyun’s Taiqing identity left the First Cosmos after reaching the limit of mortal cultivation, leaving the Abyss Clan a Nirvana Token before severing his ties to the realm. He broke through the cosmos’s outer barrier and stepped into the ruined expanse beyond.

• Li Qingyun realized his three identities had reached the upper limit of the mortal heavens and decided Taiqing would transcend first, followed by Shangqing and then Yuqing.
• Li Qingyun declared his departure and placed the Nirvana Token in Abyss Tree Mountain, where it could help one Abyss Clan disciple escape the clan’s coming calamity.
• Li Yiyi, the Three Saints Mountain lineage, and a few Abyss Clan disciples bid farewell to Li Qingyun as he departed; Yuan Chen and other Abyss Clan members dismissed his final gift with suspicion.
• Li Qingyun stepped through deep space toward the outer layer of the First Cosmos and swept open its barrier.
• Li Qingyun looked back once at the realm, then stepped beyond the cosmos into the gray clouds and ruined debris.

Li Qingyun began transforming into a Quasi-Saint within the Remnant Ruins, but Second Master Yuan and Akshobhya Buddha appeared to stop his breakthrough. Facing Akshobhya Buddha’s overwhelming strike, Li Qingyun realized the apparent danger might be a bluff meant to shatter his Dao heart.

• Li Qingyun absorbed the gray extraterrestrial particles, transforming his virtual heaven and beginning his evolution from a Mortal Heaven Body into a Quasi-Saint Body.
• Sensing danger, Li Qingyun summoned the Mysterious Yellow Exquisite Pagoda, Human Dao Lamps, and Dark Tome to protect himself.
• Second Master Yuan attacked Li Qingyun with a black-hole divine ability, blaming him for destroying Yuan Jingzhong and vowing to stop his breakthrough.
• Li Qingyun repelled much of Second Master Yuan’s attack with his expanding gray moon and palm strike.
• Akshobhya Buddha appeared and struck at Li Qingyun, but Li Qingyun suspected both attackers’ power was constrained by the Remnant Ruins and that the threat was meant to disrupt his proving Dao.

Li Qingyun resisted Akshobhya Buddha’s ambush and advanced his attainment, then sent his Shangqing Heaven identity to achieve the Dao. Shangqing Heaven fought off River Sacrifice before Jade Prime’s arrival startled the watching factions.

• Li Qingyun broke through Akshobhya Buddha’s soul attack by drawing on the vast Heart Lamp heavens and his own Dao resolve.
• Li Qingyun survived Akshobhya Buddha’s palm strike and called for Shangqing Heaven to attain the Dao.
• Shangqing Heaven stepped onto the Outer Ruin, where River Sacrifice appeared as his calamity and attacked with a lantern.
• Shangqing Heaven cut through River Sacrifice’s lantern light with a purple-green sword, forcing him to retreat.
• Jade Prime arrived amid a burst of Jade Pure Profound Light, shocking the gathered factions.

Li Qingyun broke through to the Quasi-Saint realm under Akshobhya Buddha’s attack, revealing a terrifying foundation and rapid regeneration. He weakened Akshobhya with the Dark Tome but was still injured, while Jade Pure Heaven faced the Quasi-Saints gathered outside the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos and told them to leave.

• Akshobhya Buddha surrounded Li Qingyun with eight Golden Body Buddhas and questioned whether he was Li Qingyun or Jade Pure Heaven.
• Li Qingyun united his Great Dao auras, broke through to the Quasi-Saint realm, and destroyed Akshobhya’s eight Buddha phantoms.
• Akshobhya struck Li Qingyun with a nine-ringed palm, but Li Qingyun used the Dark Tome to weaken his aura before counterattacking.
• Akshobhya’s palm shattered Li Qingyun’s right arm, but Li Qingyun regenerated it as he retreated under the protection of his pagoda and lamp shadows.
• Jade Pure Heaven appeared before the Quasi-Saints outside the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos and said its opportunities had all fallen into his hands, urging them to disperse.

Li Qingyun used the Chaos Banner to hold off Quasi-Saints while his Jade Pure identity opened Grand Unity Heaven and advanced into the Quasi-Saint realm. As enemies interfered, his Shangqing incarnation also appeared as a Quasi-Saint and attacked the Jade Cicada Clan woman.

• The Sky-Devouring Roc Clan's Peng Qian and the Western Heaven Clan's Golden Faced Buddha attacked Jade Pure Heaven, but Li Qingyun unleashed the Chaos Banner and threw them into disarray.
• Li Qingyun used the opening to expand his Thirty-Five Heavens and form Grand Unity Heaven, revealing the path to Sainthood as his Jade Pure identity proved Dao as a Quasi-Saint.
• The Jade Cicada Clan's female Quasi-Saint used her Great Sun Divine Pearl to clear the chaos and help Peng Qian and the Golden Faced Buddha locate Jade Pure Heaven.
• Li Qingyun swung the Chaos Banner at the pearl, but the female Quasi-Saint fixed it in place with her power.
• A Purple Green Sword Light nearly struck the female Quasi-Saint, and Shangqing Heaven arrived as a Quasi-Saint incarnation.

Li Qingyun’s Shangqing Heaven avatar ascended as a One-Ring Quasi-Saint and confronted the Quasi-Saints gathered beyond the cosmos. After killing Quasi-Saint Yu Miao and forming the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, he faced three Western Heaven Quasi-Saints who demanded that his main body release the Golden Faced Buddha.

• Shangqing Heaven warned the assembled Quasi-Saints to leave or face him, and Quasi-Saint Yu Miao attacked him.
• Shangqing Heaven countered with sword lights and killed Yu Miao in a single exchange, while several Quasi-Saints divided her remains for resources.
• Shangqing Heaven deployed the four swords of the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, prompting most of the gathered Quasi-Saints to withdraw.
• A huge gray-robed figure left after eyeing the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos, and Li Qingyun memorized his aura while suspecting his interest in the cosmos.
• Three Western Heaven Quasi-Saints remained inside the completed formation, and the Kasaya Great Buddha demanded that Shangqing Heaven have his main body release the Golden Faced Buddha.

Li Qingyun used the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation to kill two Vajra Quasi-Saints and stall the Western Heaven Buddha, Peng Qian, and the Golden Faced Buddha while his Jade Pure identity prepared to break through. As the breakthrough began, fake Shen Nong intruded through a dream and offered him a pill, and Li Qingyun reached for the box.

• Li Qingyun activated the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation and killed the Vajra Quasi-Saint Pu Wan with a sudden sword strike.
• Li Qingyun fought the Three-Ring Vajra Quasi-Saint head-on and killed him with another sword strike.
• Li Qingyun avoided confronting the Western Heaven Buddha directly, took the Chaos Banner, and used it with the formation to trap Peng Qian and the Golden Faced Buddha.
• The Jade Pure identity began breaking through to the Quasi-Saint realm, but a dreamlike summons from fake Shen Nong interrupted him.
• Fake Shen Nong offered the Jade Pure identity a pill in a gray wooden box, and Li Qingyun reached out to take it.

Li Qingyun entered fake Shen Nong’s dreamscape, seized the gray wooden box, and saw ancient eyes that revealed the words “Yin Ruins.” He then broke through to the Quasi-Saint realm and killed Peng Qian, while Shangqing Heaven’s attack left Golden Faced Buddha wounded and calling for Akshobhya Buddha to break the formation.

• Li Qingyun revealed his Jade Pure Saint appearance in the dreamscape and confronted fake Shen Nong about harming Hua Xuan cultivators.
• Li Qingyun forced open the gray wooden box and saw ancient eyeballs that conveyed the words “Yin Ruins” before fake Shen Nong shut the lid.
• Li Qingyun withdrew from the dreamscape and broke through to the Quasi-Saint realm, completing the breakthrough for all three of his identities.
• Li Qingyun used the Chaos Banner and Dao seals to trap and kill Peng Qian.
• Shangqing Heaven’s sword light cracked Golden Faced Buddha’s Mount Sumeru defense and wounded him, and Golden Faced Buddha called to Akshobhya Buddha to break the formation.

Li Qingyun’s Taiqing incarnation became lost in the Ruin Remnants’ chaotic mirror spacetime while Akshobhya Buddha escaped and hurried to the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation. Akshobhya began bombarding the formation to save the trapped Golden Faced Buddha and Kasaya Great Buddha, while Li Qingyun’s Yuqing and Shangqing incarnations watched from within.

• Akshobhya Buddha escaped the chaotic spacetime and left Li Qingyun’s Taiqing incarnation behind, still evading him among the shattered mirror worlds.
• Li Qingyun’s Taiqing incarnation tried to escape through Akshobhya’s rift but became lost in another mirror world and failed to blast his way out.
• After crossing nearly a thousand mirror worlds without finding a way out, Li Qingyun’s Taiqing incarnation stopped to repair his damaged Great Dao foundation.
• Akshobhya Buddha arrived outside the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, where Golden Faced Buddha and Kasaya Great Buddha pleaded with him to break it.
• Akshobhya Buddha used twenty-four five-colored Buddhist beads to bombard the formation, while Li Qingyun’s Yuqing and Shangqing incarnations mocked his efforts.

Li Qingyun’s Jade Pure and Shangqing identities struggled to defend the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos as Akshobhya Buddha used the Propitiation Vajra to batter the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation. With the formation close to collapse, Li Qingyun chose to merge his three identities, risking his path beyond the Saint Realm to protect his Dao lineage.

• Jade Pure and Shangqing killed Golden Faced Buddha and Kasaya Great Buddha inside the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, while Akshobhya Buddha mourned the deaths of five Quasi-Saints.
• Akshobhya Buddha summoned aid from a Western Heaven Saint, who sent him the Propitiation Vajra and instructed him to reveal his Dharma body.
• Akshobhya Buddha transformed into his immense Dharma body and struck the formation with the Propitiation Vajra, while Jade Pure and Shangqing countered with the Chaos Banner and the four swords.
• Akshobhya Buddha unleashed six more strikes, shaking the formation and injuring Jade Pure and Shangqing as they refused to abandon the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos.
• Jade Pure and Shangqing linked their auras with Taiqing and decided that the three identities would return to one, with Taiqing leading their merger.

Li Qingyun reunited his Jade Pure and Shangqing identities with his main body, completing the Three Pure Ones' return and advancing to a Three-Ring Quasi-Saint. He repelled Akshobhya Buddha's ninth Vajra Strike, leaving Akshobhya unable to stop him unless an Outer Void Saint intervened.

• Li Qingyun summoned his Taiqing main body into Jade Pure's heaven-layer and merged Jade Pure's realm into his Great Dao Universe.
• Akshobhya Buddha launched his Eighth Vajra Strike, but Li Qingyun's sword formation repelled it and forced him to stagger back.
• Li Qingyun called Shangqing back, and Shangqing joined the Great Dao Universe after asking Taiqing to treat Tangyin as before.
• Li Qingyun completed the Three Pure Ones' return as one, abandoned a possible future, and reached the Three-Ring Quasi-Saint realm.
• Akshobhya Buddha unleashed the ninth Vajra Strike, but Li Qingyun severed its attack and sent the vajra shadow rebounding.
• Akshobhya Buddha recognized that he could no longer destroy Li Qingyun without an Outer Void Saint's intervention.

After Akshobhya Buddha withdrew, Li Qingyun stabilized his Three-Ring Quasi-Saint cultivation and began refining the spoils from the battle. He strengthened his treasures and searched for new cultivation resources, but found that the Ruined Void’s gray clouds yielded nothing.

• Akshobhya Buddha retreated with the Propitiation Vajra after warning Li Qingyun, who vowed to visit the Western Heaven in a hundred years.
• Li Qingyun meditated within the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, stabilized his Three-Ring Realm, and reflected on the flaws in the Three Pure Ones’ path to the Saint rank.
• Li Qingyun refined the five Quasi-Saint corpses into the Chaos Banner, prepared the Sea-Calming Pearls for use in his formation, reforged Peng Qian’s feather as a calamity-blocking treasure, and melted the shattered kasaya into his robe.
• After three days, Li Qingyun completed processing the spoils, strengthening the Chaos Banner and Four Immortal Slaying Swords while leaving his own cultivation unchanged.
• Li Qingyun drew the Ruined Void’s gray clouds into his body to test them as cultivation resources, but they evaporated without yielding anything.

Li Qingyun concluded that the Outer Ruin offered few ways to advance through ordinary cultivation, so he sought out the Guǐ Daoist for advice. The Guǐ Daoist promised another path in exchange for Li Qingyun successfully refining the Eternal Life Pill, and Li Qingyun agreed to try again.

• Li Qingyun reasoned that the gray clouds and much of the Outer Ruin were illusory, leaving exploitation as the main way for Quasi-Saints to gain resources.
• Li Qingyun sent a will-shadow from his formation and rode a gray cloud toward the Bronze Grotto-heaven while distant watchers speculated about his intentions.
• The Guǐ Daoist recognized Li Qingyun and welcomed him into the grotto-heaven, where they met as equals.
• Li Qingyun introduced himself by name and asked whether there was a way to increase Dao cultivation in the ruins without resorting to predatory methods.
• The Guǐ Daoist offered to explain in exchange for Li Qingyun completing the Eternal Life Pill, and Li Qingyun eagerly agreed to attempt the refinement again.

Li Qingyun challenged Guǐ Daoist’s tests by refining a pill in the ancient pill hall, while the two fought over control of its formation. After the cauldron exploded, Li Qingyun declared the black pill that emerged to be the Eternal Life Pill, leaving Guǐ Daoist doubtful.

• Guǐ Daoist led Li Qingyun to the pill hall and revealed the Golden Faced Buddha and Crimson Ying Grass inside the cauldron.
• Li Qingyun dismissed the Buddha illusion, memorized the herb’s appearance, and began refining it in the nine-dragon cauldron.
• Li Qingyun served Primordial Leaf Dao Tea while controlling the refinement, and Guǐ Daoist drank and watched.
• Li Qingyun and Guǐ Daoist clashed with their Dao powers over whether the pill would form, and the cauldron exploded.
• Li Qingyun used the Primordial Great Dao Mark to condense a pitch-black pill and declared it the Eternal Life Pill, while Guǐ Daoist questioned his claim.

Li Qingyun passed Guǐ Daoist’s test and received a Furnace fragment that could help him find cultivation sustenance in the Primordial Chaos ruins. At Old Cliff Peak, he met Gray Yan, who offered him an escape method in exchange for retrieving ash from an ancient incense burner.

• Li Qingyun convinced Guǐ Daoist not to turn against him, passed the test, and received a bronze Furnace fragment and directions to an ancient ruin.
• Li Qingyun left the Bronze Grotto-heaven and found the dangerous, hazy region known as Old Cliff Peak.
• Gray Yan approached Li Qingyun and warned that Quasi-Saints below Six Rings could be trapped there.
• Gray Yan offered Li Qingyun a gray whisker that could help him escape Old Cliff Peak if he retrieved ash from its Old Incense Burner.
• Li Qingyun accepted the whisker and asked Gray Yan why it would not retrieve the ash itself.

Li Qingyun entered Old Cliff Peak and used the Human Dao Lamp to reveal the hidden path to its summit and the incense burner. On the mountainside, he found the starving Four-Ring Quasi-Saint Jia Tan, who tried to lure him close before raging at him for refusing to help.

• Li Qingyun entered Old Cliff Peak, where its domain suppressed his powers and made the distant summit seem unreachable.
• Li Qingyun used the Human Dao Lamp to illuminate the ruined surroundings and reveal the stone path and bronze incense burner atop the cliff.
• Li Qingyun climbed the revealed path and heard a plea for help from a ruined mountain pavilion below.
• Li Qingyun discovered the emaciated Jia Tan, who identified himself as a member of the Sacred Hall Clan and asked to be rescued.
• Jia Tan secretly planned to devour Li Qingyun, then shouted at him when Li Qingyun stayed away.

Li Qingyun reached the summit of Old Cliff Peak and discovered an ancient incense burner that could provide sixty years of cultivation by consuming its Cosmic Fire Qi. After absorbing the burner’s three incense sticks with Guǐ Daoist’s furnace seal, he sat on the ancient Saint’s cloud cushion to seek further gains.

• Li Qingyun ignored Jia Tan’s pleas and continued along the true path, passing several quasi-Saints trapped or dead on false paths.
• At the summit, Li Qingyun found an incense burner and heard an ancient figure explain that its Cosmic Fire Qi could equal sixty years of cultivation and would take five years to replenish.
• Li Qingyun used Guǐ Daoist’s bronze fragment and its Furnace seal to draw the three incense sticks’ Cosmic Fire Qi into a small furnace.
• After the incense burner vanished, Li Qingyun sat on the cloud cushion beneath the ancient pine and began comprehending the Dao.