Chapter Summaries

Li Qingyun became trapped in Old Cliff Peak’s shifting spacetime, and his will-figure aged toward collapse while his artifacts fell away. Shi Feng and Hua Qing reached the summit and began fighting over the artifacts, unaware of the figure’s true identity.

• Li Qingyun sat in a state of oblivion as Old Cliff Peak’s spacetime shifts trapped him between Primordial and the beginning of time.
• Li Qingyun’s will-figure withered over an unknown span until his furnace, lamp, and Spirit Whisker fell to the ground.
• Shi Feng and Hua Qing climbed toward the summit, ignoring Jia Tan’s cries for help as they passed.
• Shi Feng reached the cliff and spotted the aged figure and its fallen artifacts, then moved to claim them.
• Hua Qing sealed much of the cliff top with her divine pearl and demanded the lamp artifact, provoking Shi Feng’s anger.

Li Qingyun broke free from a timeless meditation in Primordial spacetime and restored his illusory shadow of will, bringing back vast Dao insights. At Old Cliff Peak, Shi Feng and Hua Qing fought over an opportunity, then the Ancient Saint's Furnace appeared as Shi Feng mistook Li Qingyun for an easy target.

• Shi Feng and Hua Qing fought over the opportunity atop the cliff, and Hua Qing was driven back before returning to challenge him again.
• Li Qingyun awakened from his eons-long meditation, restored his youthful appearance, and recovered the Dao insights he had gained in Primordial spacetime.
• Li Qingyun broke free of the cloud mass and moved to collect the Human Dao Lamp, the furnace-shaped artifact, and the strange spirit whisker.
• Shi Feng charged at Li Qingyun, while Hua Qing recognized him as the Quasi-Saint who had fought the Twelve Superior Clans and began to withdraw.
• The Ancient Saint's Furnace appeared, and Shi Feng ordered Li Qingyun to leave the three items behind before turning eagerly toward the burner.

Li Qingyun defended the Old Cliff Peak incense burner from Shi Feng and Hua Qing, then gave Hua Qing incense ash that could help counter Blackwater Mother River pollution. After they left, he considered how to replenish the ash and worried that his arrangement with the Guǐ Daoist would make the second furnace of Cosmic Fire Power difficult to take away.

• Li Qingyun blocked Shi Feng and Hua Qing from reaching the incense burner and forced Shi Feng back with a single palm strike.
• Shi Feng recognized Li Qingyun, abandoned the attempt to seize the incense, and withdrew from Old Cliff Peak.
• Hua Qing revealed that she was Hua Luoshen’s ancestor and asked Li Qingyun for incense ash to combat her blackwater pollution.
• Li Qingyun gave Hua Qing a handful of ash and warned her to purge the pollution before it became harder to remove.
• Hua Qing left, while Li Qingyun wondered how to increase the ash and worried that he could not yet take the second furnace of Cosmic Fire Power away from the Guǐ Daoist.

After five years in Old Cliff Peak, Li Qingyun escaped with incense ash and Cosmic Fire Qi, then used his gains to advance his Dao comprehension while guarding the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation. He sensed a prayer from the Abyss Clan land through an item he had left behind.

• Li Qingyun ignored Jia Tan's pleas as he left Old Cliff Peak and used Gray Yan's spirit whisker to find the way out.
• Gray Yan demanded the agreed incense ash, and Li Qingyun gave him only a small portion before departing.
• A seventh-ring gray-robed figure warned Li Qingyun not to take Cosmic Fire Ash for the Stone Spirit Clan, but let him go.
• Li Qingyun's illusory shadow returned to his true body with a furnace vessel, and he absorbed a wisp of Cosmic Fire Qi.
• Li Qingyun's Primordial Mark began to form a second mark, deepening his Dao comprehension, and he sensed a prayer from the Abyss Clan land.

Li Qingyun received a prayer from the persecuted Abyss Li Clan and saw how badly Yuan Li Bing, Yuan Li Ye, and their people had suffered. When Second Master Yuan blocked his gaze and threatened the clan, Li Qingyun set out to confront him in the ruins.

• Yuan Li Bing, Yuan Li Ye, Mu Qi, and the Abyss Li Clan remnants prayed to Li Qingyun through the tea cup he had once used.
• Li Qingyun saw the clan's expulsion from Lingping Heaven, the loss of its resources, and the injuries inflicted on Yuan Li Bing and Yuan Li Ye.
• Second Master Yuan appeared, sealed Li Qingyun's channel into the Abyss Clan Great Cosmos, and rebuked the Abyss Li Clan for worshipping their enemy.
• Li Qingyun recalled Second Master Yuan's past attempt to obstruct his Quasi-Saint attainment and sent an illusory figure carrying the Chaos Banner and the Dark Tome toward the ruins to confront him.
• Second Master Yuan threatened to destroy the Abyss Li Clan but held back, while Yuan Changkong arrived with Abyss Clan disciples.

Yuan Changkong sentenced the Abyss Li Clan to the Heavenly Prison, but Li Qingyun intervened by overpowering Second Master Yuan in his ruined realm grotto-heaven. Li Qingyun left Yuan Er maimed and alive as leverage against the Abyss Clan, but a mysterious Third Brother appeared and Yuan Er vanished.

• Yuan Changkong condemned the Abyss Li Clan to the Heavenly Prison, driving Yuan Li Ye and Yuan Li Bing into despair.
• Li Qingyun’s Dao Will shadow disrupted Second Master Yuan’s illusory shadow just as Yuan Changkong ordered the clan members seized.
• Li Qingyun trapped Second Master Yuan with the Chaos Banner, stripped away a third of his dao attainment, and defeated him with five banner spirits.
• Second Master Yuan begged for mercy and offered to pardon the Abyss Li Clan, but Li Qingyun had his limbs and eyes torn away before sparing his life as a warning to the clan.
• After Li Qingyun left, a dark-robed figure called Third Brother appeared beside Yuan Er, and Second Master Yuan vanished.

After learning of Second Master Yuan’s death and avoiding the increasingly dangerous Guǐ Daoist, Li Qingyun decided he could no longer remain trapped in the Immortal Slaying Great Formation. He left with his true body to collect furnace ash at Old Cliff Peak, where a hostile Seven-Ring Quasi-Saint watched him.

• Several Abyss Clan figures learned that Third Master Yuan had killed Second Master Yuan and resolved to retaliate against Li Qingyun while preserving their clan’s influence.
• Li Qingyun approached the Guǐ Daoist’s Bronze Grotto-heaven, sensed how much stronger it had become, and fled rather than meet it.
• Li Qingyun concluded that staying in the Immortal Slaying Great Formation would leave him unable to grow, so he chose to risk taking his true body outside.
• Li Qingyun left the formation and hurried to Old Cliff Peak to obtain the Cosmic Fire Qi that could nourish him for sixty years.
• Li Qingyun bargained with three gray spirits over furnace ash and noticed a gray-robed Seven-Ring Quasi-Saint watching him with furious malice.

Li Qingyun returned to Old Cliff Peak and tried to claim the Cosmic Fire Furnace, then meditated on the cliff cloud to capture a Saint’s conception and make the furnace acknowledge him. His body and divine sense split across Primordial eras, and he realized he had walked into a trap that threatened to take his physical shell.

• An aged Gray Spirit gave Li Qingyun his whiskers, and Li Qingyun entered Old Cliff Peak again as the Human Dao Lamp guided him to the cliff head.
• The Cosmic Fire Furnace appeared for Li Qingyun, but he could not subdue it by probing it or trying to move it.
• Li Qingyun suspected the key to claiming the furnace lay in the Sitting in Oblivion cloud mass and decided to imitate the Primordial Saint.
• Li Qingyun meditated on the cloud, causing his body and divine sense to separate across chaotic spacetime.
• Li Qingyun heard the Old Cliff Peak eldest senior brother proclaim that he would offer his physical shell to the Saint, and he urgently commanded his body to return.

Li Qingyun recalled that Hong, Gui, and Mei had been helping the Yellow Map Saint prepare to seize his body, and he persuaded them to halt the ritual by warning that their master planned to abandon them. As the three demanded that he choose which of them would possess his shell, Li Qingyun used his Celestial Venerable positions to try to pull his body back, but the Yellow Map Saint suddenly spoke.

• Li Qingyun remembered his past with Hong, Gui, and Mei and realized the Yellow Map Saint intended to take over his body.
• Li Qingyun warned the three senior siblings that the Yellow Map Saint planned to abandon them and seize his shell for himself.
• Hong, Gui, and Mei stopped the ritual and agreed that Li Qingyun would choose which of them received his body.
• Li Qingyun used his Celestial Venerable positions to try to summon his body while pretending to deliberate.
• Hong gave Li Qingyun three counts to choose, but the Yellow Map Saint suddenly asked his disciples what they were choosing.

Li Qingyun fought the Yellow Map Saint’s lingering will, which tried to seize his body and use it to cross into the Primordial Beginning. As their struggle continued, a supreme figure sent holy light to Jia You and Jia Cang, ordering them to break the formation and retrieve what lay within.

• Hong, Gui, and Mei greeted the returning Yellow Map Saint, and Mei tried to divert its attention toward Li Qingyun’s shell.
• Li Qingyun used the Heavenly Venerable status to pull his body free, but the Yellow Map Saint’s will invaded and tried to take control of it.
• Li Qingyun battled the Yellow Map Saint inside his shell, relying on his foundations and the three Heavenly Venerable statuses to resist possession.
• Li Qingyun recognized the Yellow Map Saint as a lingering ghoul whose plan was to revive in the Primordial Beginning, and refused to sacrifice himself for its ambitions.
• A supreme figure sent holy light through the Remnant Ruins and ordered Jia You and Jia Cang to break the formation and retrieve what lay within.

Jia You and Jia Cang attacked the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, while Li Qingyun’s weakened will struggled to defend it. As the formation began to falter, Li Qingyun summoned his true body, and the Abyss Clan watched for a chance to ensure his death.

• Jia You arrived outside the formation with Jia Cang and, wearing a Saintly mask bestowed by Ra, revealed a plan to destroy the formation’s main sword.
• Jia You ordered Jia Cang to attack the Southern Heaven Array Eye while he struck at the Immortal Slaying Sword.
• Li Qingyun’s will found that it could borrow far less power from the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos because his true body was occupied resisting another threat.
• Li Qingyun’s formation collided with Jia You’s palm, and the impact shook the formation and weakened his will.
• Li Qingyun summoned his true body from Old Cliff Peak as the Abyss Clan vowed to help the Sacred Hall Clan kill him if needed.

Li Qingyun contained the Yellow Map Saint’s ghostly soul and took control of Old Cliff Peak, emerging with its ancient incense burner as the domain collapsed. He then fought Pan Honghuang and absorbed several Gray Spirits into the furnace while the Immortal Slaying Great Formation remained on the verge of breaking.

• Jia You and Jia Cang battered the Immortal Slaying Great Formation as surrounding forces gathered to claim its spoils, while Li Qingyun’s Dao Will urgently summoned his true body back.
• Li Qingyun tightened his net of Heavenly Venerate positions until Yellow Map’s ghostly soul weakened, revealed its true form, and was contained.
• Li Qingyun returned to the Primordial Beginning Era and used the command “Gather” to collapse Old Cliff Peak into the ancient incense burner in his palm.
• Gray Spirits and Pan Honghuang confronted Li Qingyun over the burner, and Pan Honghuang attacked him.
• Li Qingyun exchanged a palm strike with Pan Honghuang, then threw the Cosmic Fire Furnace at the charging Gray Spirits and absorbed them.

Li Qingyun returned to the Immortal Slaying Great Formation and restored its power as Jia You’s overwhelming strike descended. He raised the Cosmic Fire Furnace, manifesting the Old Cliff Peak Field above the formation, and Jia You prepared to test whether his Saint-empowered attack could break it.

• Li Qingyun used the Cosmic Fire Furnace to incinerate the Gray Spirits, then broke away from Pan Honghuang and rushed toward the Immortal Slaying Great Formation.
• Jia You unleashed a final strike against the nearly collapsed formation, while Akshobhya Buddha refused to help stop Li Qingyun and Chan Bailian watched him pass.
• Li Qingyun entered the formation, took control as its remaining will vanished, and poured power from his Great Dao Universe into it, rapidly repairing its damage.
• Li Qingyun hurled the Cosmic Fire Furnace upward, and it manifested the Old Cliff Peak Field above the formation.
• Jia You invoked the Saint’s power and increased the force of his strike, preparing to attack the Field despite the factions’ doubts that it could be broken.

Li Qingyun used the Old Cliff Peak field to help the Immortal Slaying Great Formation withstand Jia You’s attacks, turning the battle against the Sacred Hall Clan into a war of attrition. Jia You withdrew, but Li Qingyun struck at Jia Cang as he tried to leave, and Jia Cang discovered his cultivation had been suppressed.

• Jia You’s first strike breached the Old Cliff Peak field, but the Cosmic Fire Furnace’s gray mist restored it, and the Immortal Slaying Great Formation held.
• Li Qingyun repaired the formation with his Great Dao Universe, while observers realized La’s attempt to fix Qingyun Heaven’s fate had failed.
• Jia You burned himself to launch a second strike, but the formation endured and its Sword Qi rebounded against him.
• Jia You ordered Jia Cang to withdraw and left the battlefield.
• Li Qingyun sent Purple Green Sword Light after Jia Cang, who turned to block it with his Secret Gold Divine Staff and found his cultivation suppressed by thirty percent.

Li Qingyun repaired his formation weapons, made a pact with the Yellow Map Ghost Shadow to use its Chaos Time ability, and continued his Dao cultivation in the ruins. Two years later, three newcomers arrived, including Shi Qi Buddha Son and Yuan Gumo, while Li Qingyun watched from the protection of his formation.

• Li Qingyun drove off Jia Cang with a sword strike, then repaired the Four Immortal Slaying Swords and the cracked Sea-Calming Pearls.
• Li Qingyun negotiated with the trapped Yellow Map Ghost Shadow and swore not to destroy it in exchange for access to its Chaos Time ability.
• Li Qingyun entered the alternating temporal state at Old Cliff Peak, where five years in the Primordial Beginning corresponded to eons on the other side.
• Two years later, Shi Qi Buddha Son emerged to prove the Dao to the Quasi-Saint rank, guarded by Akshobhya Buddha, Chan Bailian, and a Vajra Clan Quasi-Saint.
• Yuan Gumo also stepped outside the Abyss Clan land, while Third Master Yuan watched him after reaching the Five-Ring Realm.

Li Qingyun watched Shi Ji Buddha and Yuan Gumo prove Dao Quasi-Saint as the Western Heaven and Abyss clans competed to display their power. Akshobhya Buddha attacked Yuan Gumo, and the Abyss Clan’s outer-void figures could only hope Li Qingyun would intervene.

• A young Daoist from the Sky-Devouring Roc Clan stepped beyond the universe to prove Dao Quasi-Saint, while Li Qingyun noted that the three clans were responding to losses he had caused.
• Shi Ji Buddha began evolving his Quasi-Saint cosmic body amid lavish Buddha-light displays, and Akshobhya Buddha and Chan Bailian congratulated him.
• Yuan Gumo’s Dao proof was disrupted by Buddha’s Essence, so he declared his ambition; an Outer Void Saint answered, and seven Abyss Saints sent manifestations to bolster him.
• Shi Ji Buddha disparaged Yuan Gumo, and Akshobhya Buddha attacked him with a golden Buddha palm to force him back into the Abyss Clan’s land.
• Third Master Yuan tried to block the attack, but Akshobhya Buddha dismissed his power, while the Abyss Clan’s outer-void figures urged Yuan He and Yuan Ming to ask Li Qingyun for help.

Li Qingyun watched Akshobhya Buddha overpower the Abyss Clan while reflecting on his glimpse of a mysterious Supreme and rebuilding Old Cliff Peak inside his grotto-heaven. Saint Yuanhe asked him to rescue Abyss Gumo, but Li Qingyun challenged the idea that he could frighten away a Nine-Ring Quasi-Saint.

• Li Qingyun brewed tea and watched Akshobhya Buddha suppress Abyss Gumo and the Abyss Clan.
• Li Qingyun recalled glimpsing a mysterious garment during his meditation and recreated Old Cliff Peak in his grotto-heaven, hoping to draw the Supreme's attention.
• Saint Yuanhe sent a trace of Abyss Light to Li Qingyun, but Li Qingyun initially dismissed him without hearing his request.
• Abyss Gumo called on the Nine Ancestors to save him as Akshobhya Buddha prepared to strike him down.
• Saint Yuanhe set aside his pride and asked Li Qingyun to drive Akshobhya Buddha away and save Abyss Gumo.
• Li Qingyun asked how a Three-Ring cultivator like himself could scare off a Nine-Ring Akshobhya Buddha.

After Saint Yuanhe taught Li Qingyun how to use his Primordial Great Dao Mark, Li Qingyun intervened to protect Yuan Gumo and revealed his power to Akshobhya Buddha. As Akshobhya Buddha left to seek answers from the Outer Void Saints, Shi Qi Buddha Son awakened his past-life body and rose from one ring to seven, leaving Li Qingyun to suspect he was the second Buddha of the Seven Buddhas of the Past.

• Saint Yuanhe explained the Primordial Great Dao Mark to Li Qingyun and taught him how to use it.
• Li Qingyun reached Akshobhya Buddha and Yuan Gumo, shattered Akshobhya Buddha's attack, and declared he would protect Yuan Gumo.
• Akshobhya Buddha tried to trade Yuan Gumo's safety for the secret of Li Qingyun's power, but Li Qingyun deflected his roar and told him to ask the Outer Void Saints.
• Akshobhya Buddha left in search of answers, ignoring Chan Bailian's questions.
• Shi Qi Buddha Son awakened his past-life body and rose from one ring to seven, astonishing the onlookers.
• Li Qingyun wondered whether Shi Qi Buddha Son was the second Buddha of the Seven Buddhas of the Past.

Shi Ji Buddha and Yuan Gumo left the gathering, while Li Qingyun reflected on the lingering old powers that afflicted Primordial Beginning. Back at Old Cliff Peak, he considered how Primordial Marks and his own resources could protect the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos as he pursued the Mortal Dao.

• Shi Ji Buddha entered the Seven-Ring Land and headed toward the Mirror Field, with Chan Bailian following him.
• Yuan Gumo completed his self-elevation to the Second Ring Land, thanked Li Qingyun, and dismissed his warning about trusting others in the Ruined Ruins.
• Li Qingyun left after Yuan Gumo defended the Yuan Clan, and Yuan Gumo joined Third Master Yuan, who offered to shelter him nearby.
• Peng Ye complained that the gathering had overlooked his achievement, and his elder warned him not to become arrogant before taking him away.
• Li Qingyun returned to the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation and reviewed how a Primordial Mark could empower a Nine-Ring Quasi-Saint.
• Li Qingyun resolved to focus on Old Cliff Peak, comprehend the Dao, and push the Mortal Dao to its limit in hopes of finding a way through the Iron Plate.

Akshobhya Buddha failed to obtain the method beyond the Nine Rings from the Outer Void and went after Shi Ji Buddha, who led Chan Bailian to an ancient Buddhist coffin containing stored power. As Shi Ji Buddha revealed that the coffin held what Akshobhya sought, Akshobhya arrived and demanded the method in exchange for leaving the coffin to him.

• Akshobhya Buddha prayed for nine days before a Buddha statue, but the Outer Void Saint gave him no answer.
• Furious and despairing, Akshobhya Buddha shattered Mirror Worlds while searching for Shi Ji Buddha.
• Shi Ji Buddha guided Chan Bailian through the Mirror Field, saying Akshobhya had fallen into demonic deviation and would be delivered by him.
• Shi Ji Buddha and Chan Bailian found an ancient coffin filled with stored Buddha power that could raise him to the Nine Rings.
• Before opening the coffin, Shi Ji Buddha told Akshobhya Buddha that it contained the method he sought, and Akshobhya arrived and offered not to interfere if Shi Ji revealed the way forward.