Chapter Summaries

Li Qingyun used his Virtual Saint power to uncover the Future Buddha’s latest reincarnation and traced it to Li Yiyi’s lamp artifact, but Western Heaven interfered and the infant vanished. He appeared in person before Li Yiyi and warned her that Xiao Mi had secretly stolen her fortune, leaving her to realize she had been used.

• Li Qingyun searched the Superior Clans and used a Virtual Saint decree to find the Future Buddha reincarnated as a white infant in a colored-glaze space.
• Li Qingyun tried to reveal the space’s location, but a Western Heaven Saint disrupted his decree, and the two clashed through the void.
• Li Qingyun forced the Western Heaven Saint’s will back, rejected its warning, and realized the confrontation had distracted him while the infant disappeared.
• Li Qingyun restored the collapsed images and recognized the colored-glaze space as part of Li Yiyi’s lamp artifact at Three Saints Mountain.
• Li Qingyun manifested in the heavenly palace despite the cosmos’s resistance and told Li Yiyi that Xiao Mi had stolen her fortune.
• Li Yiyi realized that Xiao Mi was not what she had believed and understood that she had lost something like fortune.

Li Qingyun exposed how Xiao Mi and the Western Heaven had stolen Li Yiyi’s fortune to prevent her from advancing, then comforted her and strengthened her Precious Lotus Lamp. After instructing Li Yiyi and Yuanbao to leave the cosmos and cultivate, he appeared before Three Saints Mountain’s followers, affirmed Chen Dao as his successor, and vowed to stop the Future Buddha from descending into the present.

• Li Qingyun told Li Yiyi that Xiao Mi had been planted by the Western Heaven to siphon her fortune and impede her path to Quasi-Saint, also stealing a sliver of his fortune.
• Li Yiyi learned the truth about Xiao Mi, regretted her mistake, and wept as Li Qingyun reassured her and empowered her Precious Lotus Lamp with Human Dao Lamp Fire.
• Li Qingyun ordered Li Yiyi and Yuanbao to leave the cosmos and cultivate, and named Chen Dao as the next Palace Master of Three Saints Mountain.
• Li Qingyun dispersed the thunderclouds above Three Saints Mountain and appeared before the gathered Hao Tians, who bowed to him as the Human Dao Quasi-Saint.
• Li Qingyun acknowledged the gathered cultivators as his inheritors, then vowed that the Future Buddha would never descend into the present world.

Li Qingyun failed to uncover Xiao Mi, then oversaw Gray Little Spirit’s emergence from the Heavenly Serpent Incense and his acceptance as Li Xuanji’s disciple. After the incense was exhausted, Li Qingyun distributed the furnace ash to aid promising disciples, and nearly a hundred people ascended beyond the universe as the Great Calamity accelerated.

• Li Qingyun’s third Void Saint decree briefly revealed Xiao Mi, but Xiao Mi hid inside the Human Seed Bag and escaped his lock-on.
• After half a year, Gray Little Spirit emerged from the Cosmic Fire Furnace, and Li Qingyun directed Li Xuanji to accept him as an attendant and second-generation disciple.
• Gray Little Spirit became Li Xuanji’s disciple, while the final Heavenly Serpent Incense ember gave Li Xuanji a wisp of pure Cosmic Fire Qi.
• Li Qingyun cleared the furnace ash and distributed it as gifts to the Three Pure Ones, promising human talents, and old acquaintances, preparing many disciples to become quasi-Saints.
• Two years later, nearly a hundred people ascended beyond the universe, including many newly risen Children of the Cosmos, as blood-feeding tragedies and the Great Calamity intensified.

The Children of the Cosmos arrived in the Ruined Void, where they formed the Void Annihilation Society and clashed with the superior clans under Li Qingyun’s overwhelming influence. After years of turmoil, Li Qingyun sensed that Saint Yuanhe was in danger and received a faint glimmer from the Outer Void.

• More than sixty Children of the Cosmos emerged, including Yuan Wu Yujun and Hong Lian Tian, while Li Qingyun’s lineage repeatedly struck down newcomers from the Three Western Heavens Clans.
• Emperor Liang, Pang Hong, Han Shanzi, and Yang Ming led the Children of the Cosmos in forming the Void Annihilation Society to oppose the Outer Void Saints.
• The Void Annihilation Society and the superior clan quasi-Saints fought over opportunities throughout the Ruined Void, while both sides avoided the Qingyun lineage.
• Jia Yuxu maintained ties with the Qingyun lineage, gained Eternal Spiritual Energy with Li Qingyun, and considered members of the Void Annihilation Society as candidates for the Seed God Dao.
• After several more years, Li Qingyun sensed that Saint Yuanhe had met with trouble as the sky over the Ruined Void darkened.
• A faint glimmer descended from the Outer Void toward the Immortal Slaying Great Formation, and Li Qingyun caught it in his hand.

Saint Yuanhe died after realizing that the Abyss Clan’s Dao could not survive the Great Tribulation of Annihilation, leaving Li Qingyun to mourn him and worry about his own ascent. At Huangpo Temple, Han Shanzi’s forces defeated Yuan Lang and his allies, but a green-robed woman arrived and asked them to spare the prisoners for A’li’s sake.

• Saint Yuanhe bid farewell to Li Qingyun, asked him to kill Jieying if he became a Saint, and died as crimson spread across the remnant ruins.
• Li Qingyun mourned Yuanhe and reflected that the Abyss Clan had lost three of its nine Saints and was nearing collapse.
• At Huangpo Temple, Yuan Lang and Yuan Yiping fought Han Shanzi and the Void Annihilation Society after learning of Yuanhe’s death.
• Han Shanzi’s forces defeated the Abyss Clan fighters, killed two Quasi-Saints, and captured Yuan Lang, Yuan Yiping, and Yuan Wu Yujun.
• As Luo Zuo reached for Yuan Yiping, a green-robed woman entered and asked Han Shanzi and the others to spare the three prisoners for A’li’s sake.

A'li defeated Han Shanzi and rescued Yuan Lang, Yuan Yiping, and Wu Yujun from the Void Annihilation Society. The rescued Yuan clan members sought Li Qingyun's counsel, and he urged the clan to strike the Western Heavens, Vajra, and Jade Cicada clans while they lacked Quasi-Saint protection.

• A'li arrived at Huangpo Temple and challenged Han Shanzi after asking her to release the three Yuan clan members.
• A'li's Fire Saint Great Dao overwhelmed Han Shanzi's Purple Extreme Great Dao, and Han Shanzi released Yuan Lang, Yuan Yiping, and Yuan Wu Yujun.
• A'li took the three Yuan clan members away and comforted them over the loss of another Outer Void Saint.
• Yuan Lang, Yuan Yiping, and Wu Yujun visited Li Qingyun at Qingya Cliff to ask for guidance on the Yuan clan's future.
• Li Qingyun told the Yuan clan to immediately attack the Western Heavens, Vajra, and Jade Cicada clans, whose territories lacked Quasi-Saint protection.

Li Qingyun urged the Yuan clan to destroy the Cosmos-level territories of the Three Western Heavens Clans, a scheme meant to cripple their succession and expose Future Buddha. Yuanming approved the plan, and Yuan Lang, Yuan Yiping, and Wu Yujun began mobilizing their forces with Akshobhya Daoist’s support.

• Li Qingyun proposed that the Yuan clan wipe out the Three Western Heavens Clans’ Cosmos-level territories, and Yuan Lang, Yuan Yiping, and Wu Yujun left to report the plan.
• Li Qingyun told Akshobhya Daoist to cooperate with the Yuan clan, explaining that the move could advance Akshobhya Daoist’s cultivation and help expose Future Buddha.
• Akshobhya Daoist offered to attack the clans directly, but Li Qingyun insisted that the Yuan clan lead so the Three Pure Ones Dao lineage would not become the target of retaliation.
• Yuanming argued that the Yuan clan had to act to survive and left the other Outer Void figures to push the plan forward.
• Yuan Lang received Yuanming’s decree approving the scheme, and Akshobhya Daoist agreed to assist the Yuan clan.
• Yuan Lang assigned Yuan Yiping and Wu Yujun to attack the Vajra and Jade Cicada clans while he prepared to lead the assault on the Western Heaven Clan territory.

The Abyss Clan launched coordinated invasions against the Jade Cicada, Western Heaven, and Vajra Clans, while Li Qingyun blocked Outer Void Saints from intervening. The Three Western Heavens Clans’ territories fell to the Abyss Clan, and the remnant-ruins factions witnessed Li Qingyun standing against the saints.

• Yuan Wu Yujun led Abyss Clan disciples into the Jade Cicada Clan Territory, killed defenders, destroyed its Abyss Gate, and forced survivors to surrender or die.
• Jade Virtue Guanyin Saint tried to strike the Jade Cicada Clan Territory from the outer void, but Li Qingyun used the power of the remnant ruins to stop her and drove her to retreat.
• Yuan Lang and Yuan Yiping led Abyss Clan forces into the Western Heaven Clan Territory and the Vajra Clan Territory, where the invasions brought further devastation.
• Outer Void Saints attacked the remnant ruins to aid the invaded clans, and Li Qingyun repeatedly blocked them, declaring that he would defend the remnant ruins.
• Pang Hong, Han Shanzi, Yang Ming, and other Children of the Cosmos watched Li Qingyun resist the saints and felt awe and respect.

Akshobhya Daoist revealed himself during the Abyss Clan’s assault on the Western Heaven Clan territory and drove off the Future Buddha, though it escaped into another universe. The Western Heaven clans lost most of their power, while their Saints began a full-scale battle with the Abyss Clan over Yuan Ming.

• Yuan Lang and the Abyss Clan disciples slaughtered Western Heaven cultivators and destroyed Buddha halls until the Future Buddha emerged with a great monk and used its cloth sack to capture and weaken Yuan Lang.
• The Future Buddha’s sack shadow drew the Abyss Clan disciples toward it, prompting Li Qingyun to call on Akshobhya to act.
• Akshobhya Daoist appeared, broke the sack’s shadow with the Four Gates Pagoda, and attacked the Future Buddha and the great monk.
• The great monk exploded himself to crack Akshobhya’s seal, allowing the Future Buddha to escape in its sack into another universe; Akshobhya pursued it after absorbing some of its Innate Spiritual Energy.
• Li Qingyun concluded that Western Heaven’s power had nearly collapsed, while the Saints of the Three Western Heavens Clans launched a full-scale assault on the Abyss Clan and demanded Yuan Ming.

After Saint Yuanming fell and the Abyss Clan’s decline became clear, Li Qingyun decided he had to attain Sainthood before losing the clan as a shield against his enemies. He met Daoist Lu Ya and Jia Yuxu at the newly revealed Ice River Ancient Ruins to discuss what came next.

• Saint Yuanming died after the other Abyss Clan Saints failed to make a decisive stand, and Li Qingyun severed his ties with the clan.
• Li Qingyun resolved to Ascend to Void and Enter Sainthood before the remaining Abyss Clan Saints fell, and he invited Lu Ya and Jia Yuxu to meet him.
• Li Qingyun considered how his clone Li Quanlei and his allies could protect the Qingyun lineage after he left the ruined ruins.
• Li Qingyun arrived at the Ice River Ancient Ruins, where Jia Yuxu met Daoist Lu Ya and showed she had formed the embryonic shape of a Great Dao Universe.
• Li Qingyun joined them and pointed out that Jia Yuxu still lacked a Primordial Great Dao Mark.

Li Qingyun, Daoist Lu Ya, and Jia Yuxu uncovered the Ice River Ancient Ruins and entered in search of the Extreme Ice Supreme Being’s legacy. As Jia Zhou attacked the Void Annihilation Society’s leaders outside, Li Qingyun found an ice-sealed Dao palace where the freezing intent was even stronger.

• Daoist Lu Ya explained that the Ice River Ancient Ruins had belonged to the vanished Extreme Ice Supreme Being, and he, Li Qingyun, and Jia Yuxu agreed on how to divide any discoveries.
• Daoist Lu Ya, Li Qingyun, and Jia Yuxu joined their powers to draw the ruins domain into the void, then entered it.
• Jia Zhou and the Void Annihilation Society’s Emperor Liang, Pang Hong, Han Shanzi, and Yang Ming arrived at the ruins, and Jia Zhou attacked the four in hopes of devouring them and restoring his cultivation.
• Li Qingyun ignored the battle outside, searched the frozen ruins, and reasoned that the Eternal Spiritual Energy might remain where the Extreme Ice Supreme Being had meditated.
• Li Qingyun found an ice-sealed Dao palace whose freezing intent pierced through his Great Dao’s Power.

Li Qingyun and Daoist Lu Ya worked together to wear away the frozen seal around the Dao Palace in the Ice River Ancient Ruins, enduring its corrupting frost intent. As the seal nearly broke, powerful Eternal Spiritual Energy radiated from within and reached the wounded fighters outside the ruins.

• Li Qingyun used Great Dao Divine Fire to attack the Dao Palace’s frozen layer, but the Supreme Being’s frost resisted him.
• After Jia Yuxu withdrew because she could no longer withstand the extreme ice intent, Daoist Lu Ya joined Li Qingyun in wearing down the seal.
• Li Qingyun and Daoist Lu Ya agreed to share the Dao Palace’s opportunity, with Li Qingyun taking an extra share because Lu Ya had arrived late and claimed opportunities elsewhere.
• Nine days later, their combined efforts wore away most of the frost, and at least three fluctuations of Eternal Spiritual Energy burst from the Dao Palace and spread beyond the ruins.
• Outside the Ice River Ancient Ruins, Jia Zhou and the wounded Emperor Liang, Pang Hong, Han Shanzi, and Yang Ming paused their battle when Jia Yuxu emerged covered in frost and bizarre ice eyeballs.

A vast surge of Eternal Spiritual Energy revealed an immense opportunity in the Ice River Ancient Ruins, drawing Quasi-Saints and Outside Void Saints toward it. As Outside Void wills seized bodies and forced their way into the ruins, Jia Yuxu and Red Lotus resisted attempts to possess them, while the race for the opportunity intensified.

• A ripple of spiritual energy swept through the ruins, astonishing Jia Yuxu, Jia Zhou, Emperor Liang, Han Shanzi, and the other giants with the scale of the opportunity.
• Quasi-Saints rushed toward the Ice River Ancient Ruins, while Saints in the Outside Void recognized the Extreme Ice Great Dao and tried to descend into the ruined level.
• Outside Void wills took over superior-clan Quasi-Saints, and several Mud Persons fought their way out of the Muddy Field before heading toward the Ice River Ancient Ruins.
• An ancient Bronze Burial Coffin attacked Mud Persons in the Muddy Field, destroying several as the remaining four escaped into the ruins.
• Jia Yuxu suppressed an abnormality planted in her and rejected Saint La's offer to possess her in exchange for a promise of sainthood.
• Red Lotus burned away He Lao's attempt to seize her body and turned her eager gaze toward the Ice River Ancient Ruins.

Hong Lian Tian and other rivals entered the Ice River Ancient Ruins as powerful beings descended from the outer void, while Li Qingyun and Lu Ya opened the Extreme Ice Supreme Being’s Dao palace. Li Qingyun discovered its three sealed halls and heard that each offered a different inheritance and burden of karma.

• Hong Lian Tian ignored Li Xuanji’s warning and entered the frozen domain, followed by Jia Zhou and other quasi-saints; several weaker entrants froze and shattered at the barrier.
• Bizarre mud beings descended from the outer void through a Mud Channel and entered the ruins, while Li Xuanji stayed outside to await their return.
• Li Qingyun and Lu Ya melted the final ice sealing the Dao palace gates and entered the preserved complex.
• Li Qingyun found three palace sections named the Hall of Time, the Hall of Body, and the Hall of Nothingness.
• Li Qingyun triggered a sealed message explaining that the three halls offered traces of the Supreme Being’s comprehension and eternal spiritual energy, but carried lesser, great, or unpredictable karma.

Li Qingyun confronted Jia Zhou and several Mud Persons as they entered the Dao Palace seeking the opportunities in the Halls of Time, Body, and Nothingness. He drove Mud Buddha back, but four Outer Void Saints joined forces and forced him to retreat, revealing themselves as Amitabha Buddha, Saint Dingwang, Saint La, and Jade Virtue Guanyin Saint.

• Li Qingyun considered the three halls’ opportunities and watched Daoist Lu Ya head toward the Hall of Nothingness.
• Jia Zhou entered the Dao Palace, and his conflicting voices urged him toward the strongest spiritual-energy fluctuations in the Hall of Nothingness.
• A Mud Person entered and began spreading contaminating mud, but the palace’s icy chill froze and shattered it.
• Li Qingyun blocked Mud Buddha, identified it as Jieyin or Amitabha Buddha, and fought it with icy eyeballs and Great Dao Qi Flow.
• Li Qingyun drove Mud Buddha toward the gates and declared that he would answer for the Three Pure Ones and the Human Dao’s Fall.
• Three more Mud Persons joined Mud Buddha, overpowered Li Qingyun together, and were identified as Saint Dingwang, Saint La, and Jade Virtue Guanyin Saint.

Li Qingyun entered the Hall of Time and learned that he had three months to comprehend the Extreme Ice Supreme Being’s image and reach her lingering consciousness to earn its Eternal Spiritual Energy. As he struggled against the deadly ripples of time, Hong Lian Tian stumbled into the hall, frozen and shivering.

• Li Qingyun abandoned the Hall of Nothing to the others and entered the Hall of Time after its seal recognized his Great Dao’s Power.
• The Extreme Ice Supreme Being’s image told Li Qingyun he had three months to reach her consciousness and that obtaining the opportunity would make him bear her karma.
• Li Qingyun sent threads of divine sense into the ripples of time, but they quickly withered and died.
• Li Qingyun relied on the foundation he had gained from Sitting in Oblivion for Eons and continued probing the ripples, though the effort turned his hair frost-white and unsettled his Dao heart.
• Hong Lian Tian appeared in the hall, covered in ice and trembling from the cold.

Li Qingyun studied the Ultimate Secret of Time in the Time Hall while Hong Lian Tian tried and rapidly aged from the strain. He drove the Outer Void Will from Yuan Lang and then headed for the Body Hall to rescue Wu Yujun and Yuan Yiping.

• Hong Lian Tian joined Li Qingyun in studying Time, but the effort consumed at least one hundred thousand years of her lifespan.
• Three possessed figures entered the Time Hall, including Yuan Lang, whose battered condition enraged Li Qingyun.
• Li Qingyun attacked the Outer Void Saint possessing Yuan Lang and forced it out with a strike carrying the Power of Time.
• Li Qingyun used Jade-Azure Great Power to preserve Yuan Lang after the possession ended.
• Li Qingyun set out for the Body Hall to free Wu Yujun and Yuan Yiping from their possessors.

Li Qingyun entered the body hall and clashed with the Outside Void beings possessing quasi-Saint shells, who had gathered around an Eternal Clan youth’s frozen corpse. He drove Wu Yujun’s possessor from her shell and expelled Yuan Yiping’s possessor from the hall, then warned the remaining Outside Void Saints not to interfere.

• Li Qingyun was drawn to the Eternal Clan youth’s frozen corpse and heard the Supreme Being’s voice offer Eternal Spiritual Energy to anyone who comprehended the corpse’s body, while warning them to bear Great Karma.
• The nine Outside Void beings turned on Li Qingyun, but he answered their hostility with his Great Dao’s Power and knocked them all unsteady.
• Li Qingyun struck Wu Yujun’s brow and forced the Abyss Clan being possessing her out of her shell, where the ruined ruins sent it back toward the Outside Void.
• Saint Yuan Zhe, possessing Yuan Yiping, urged the other Saints to join him in attacking Li Qingyun, but Li Qingyun’s Great Dao’s Power smashed Yuan Yiping out of the body hall.
• Li Qingyun warned the seven remaining Saints not to interfere in his private grudge with the Abyss Clan.

Li Qingyun defeated Yuan Zhe’s possession of Yuan Yiping and offered the damaged Abyss Clan members a chance to reincarnate as humans. After settling his affairs with them, he returned to the Body Hall to pursue the opportunity in the Hall of Time.

• Li Qingyun overwhelmed Yuan Zhe and drove his Outside Void will from Yuan Yiping’s body.
• Li Qingyun offered Yuan Lang, Yuan Yiping, and Wu Yujun the chance to reincarnate as humans, but Yuan Lang and Yuan Yiping chose to remain with the Abyss Clan.
• Li Qingyun insisted that Wu Yujun reincarnate because her foundation had been ruined, and she accepted his decision.
• Li Qingyun put away the Human Dao Lamp and returned to the Body Hall, where Hong Lian Tian and two possessed quasi-Saints had aged while pursuing the Ultimate Secret of Time.
• Li Qingyun sat behind the mysterious White Robed figure to seek the Hall of Time opportunity.

Li Qingyun continued comprehending the Supreme Being’s image in the Hall of Time while Hong Lian Tian traded her insights for Eternal Spiritual Energy and departed. The Pan Clan and Stone Spirit Clan Outer Voids exhausted their vessels in a final attempt to surpass him, but Li Qingyun overtook them and they fled back to the void.

• Hong Lian Tian gave Li Qingyun her superficial comprehension of time, received a shred of Eternal Spiritual Energy, and left the Hall of Time.
• Li Qingyun refused to trade Eternal Spiritual Energy for the Pan Clan and Stone Spirit Clan Outer Voids’ insights, then continued probing the layers of time around the white-robed figure.
• After half a month, Li Qingyun and the two Outer Voids had reached similar progress, while their vessels had aged toward collapse.
• The Pan Clan and Stone Spirit Clan Outer Voids asked Li Qingyun for spiritual energy in exchange for withdrawing, but he refused.
• The two Outer Voids recklessly accelerated their mental threads and briefly pulled ahead, but Li Qingyun unleashed his Great Dao Tree and surpassed them.
• The Pan Clan and Stone Spirit Clan vessels crumbled into ash, and their gray wills fled the Ice River Ancient Ruins for the void.