Chapter Summaries

Li Qingyun endured extreme lifespan loss to cross the final ripples of time and reach the mysterious White Robed figure. She acknowledged that his arrival as a Void Saint was rare, leaving their encounter poised to continue.

• Li Qingyun outlasted the two Outer Void Saints and continued exploring the deeper secret of time alone, despite his lifespan rapidly withering.
• Li Qingyun crossed a perilous stretch of time ripples, losing most of his lifespan but gaining a clearer view of the White Robed figure.
• After gathering his strength for three days, Li Qingyun sent his thought-thread into the final layer, where the temporal power nearly destroyed it.
• Li Qingyun shouted that Primordial suppression, not insufficient foundation, was preventing him from advancing, and the White Robed figure halted his decay with a mysterious breeze.
• Li Qingyun reached the White Robed figure, looked directly at her despite her overwhelming presence, and heard her say that his arrival as a Void Saint was rare.

Li Qingyun received a vast gift of Eternal Spiritual Energy from Bing after comprehending the Ultimate Secret of Time, allowing him to form an Eternal Skull and strengthen his Great Dao Universe. He entered the Body Hall to seek the next secret, while sensing that his connection to Bing might bring either fortune or disaster.

• Bing explained that escaping the First Sequence Great Universe Ring Chain required comprehending the Ultimate Secret of Time and the undying mystery in the Body Hall.
• Li Qingyun absorbed Bing’s gift of Eternal Spiritual Energy, restoring his Great Dao Universe and completing the crystalline Eternal Skull.
• When Outside Void Existences rushed into the Time Hall and accused him of taking the spiritual energy, Li Qingyun drove one away and blamed Pan Kougu for the gift.
• Li Qingyun left the Time Hall while secretly refining the energy, which began transforming the bones in his neck and chest after his Eternal Skull formed.
• Li Qingyun sensed that he had established a karmic connection with Bing and entered the Body Hall.

Li Qingyun entered the Hall of Self and found that his Eternal Skull let him withstand the Eternal Frozen Corpse’s intimidation far better than before. After he provoked the corpse’s aura to drive off the gathered Outer Void beings, he declared that he would claim the Hall of Self opportunity alone.

• Li Qingyun found Kun Jiu studying the Eternal Frozen Corpse alongside two other Outer Void beings and sat down to comprehend it.
• Li Qingyun realized his Eternal Skull had greatly reduced the corpse’s suppression and offered Kun Jiu Eternal Spiritual Energy in exchange for his gains, but Kun Jiu refused.
• More than ten Outer Void beings surrounded Li Qingyun and demanded that he share his retained spiritual energy.
• Li Qingyun struck the Eternal Frozen Corpse with his Great Dao’s Power, causing its aura to erupt and wound Kun Jiu and the two seated Outer Void beings.
• Li Qingyun resisted the eruption and told the others to leave, claiming the Hall of Self opportunity for himself.

Li Qingyun provoked the Eternal Frozen Corpse’s aura to drive the Outside Void Existences from the Hall of Self, then used his Eternal Skull to resist the malevolent wind and study the corpse’s secrets. The remaining outsiders fled to other halls, leaving him in control of the Hall of Self opportunity.

• Li Qingyun struck the frozen corpse again, unleashing a malevolent wind that forced Kun Jiu and the other Outside Void Existences to flee the Hall of Self.
• The Outside Void Existences accused Li Qingyun of monopolizing the opportunities and speculated that his Eternal Skull let him withstand the corpse’s aura.
• Li Qingyun resisted the wind with his Eternal Skull and discovered that it helped him comprehend the frozen corpse’s bodily secrets.
• Three Outside Void Existences returned to the Hall of Self, but the malevolent wind destroyed their quasi-Saint shells and drove their wills back outside.
• The remaining Outside Void Existences split up, with some heading to the Time Hall and others rushing to the Hall of Nothing.

Li Qingyun struggled to memorize the Eternal Runes in the Eternal Frozen Corpse, but his soul could hold only a fraction of them, leaving him searching for a way to finish the Supreme Being’s test. In the Hall of Nothingness, La urged Lu Ya to abandon their contest and go to the Body Hall to seize Li Qingyun’s share of Eternal Spiritual Energy.

• Li Qingyun saw through the frozen corpse’s aura and recognized it as countless Eternal Runes whose secret art he needed to imprint on his Void Saint shell.
• Li Qingyun spent half a month memorizing the runes, but his soul became overloaded after retaining at most one-tenth of them.
• Li Qingyun wondered whether only an Outer Void Saint could comprehend the full secret art, but resolved to find a way to claim the opportunity.
• More than twenty figures crossed the manifested Netherworld Void inside the Hall of Nothingness, with Lu Ya and La at the front.
• La told Lu Ya that the Hall of Nothingness opportunity belonged to La and offered to share the Supreme Being’s method if Lu Ya withdrew and went to the Body Hall to take Eternal Spiritual Energy from Qingyunzi.

Lu Ya rejected Saint La’s warning and continued toward the opportunity in the Hall of Nothingness, while several outsiders fell away and perished. Li Qingyun risked his Great Dao foundation to comprehend and brand every Eternal Rune, leaving him poised to demonstrate the secret art for the Supreme.

• Lu Ya refused Saint La’s advice to withdraw, and Saint La warned that forcing the Ice River Ancient Ruins domain to emerge early had made the opportunity exceptionally difficult to obtain.
• Several outsiders who could not keep pace left the Hall of Nothingness, lamented their lost chance, and decayed into ash outside its gates.
• After three days of contemplation, Li Qingyun began forcibly comprehending Eternal Runes, loading them into the Heart Lamp Great Thousands within his Great Dao Universe.
• As the runes filled nearly every world and cosmos, Li Qingyun moved countless mortals out of overcrowded worlds, weakening his Great Dao foundation to make room for the final runes.
• Two days later, Li Qingyun finished comprehending and branding all the Eternal Runes and prepared to operate the secret art to earn the Supreme’s recognition.

Li Qingyun activated the runes needed to practice the Ultimate Secret of the Body and slept for nine days as the technique formed a trace of secret qi. He woke having cultivated its first change, restored his youth, and stood ready to leave the hall without receiving the Extreme Ice Supreme Being’s spiritual energy blessing.

• Li Qingyun lit the Eternal Runes in his divine soul and Great Dao Tree, then exhausted himself by activating the technique.
• Li Qingyun fell asleep as the Malevolent Wind softened and constant light gathered across his body.
• After nine days, Li Qingyun woke when the light condensed into a trace of secret qi and realized he had cultivated the technique’s first change.
• Li Qingyun used the secret qi and his understanding of the Ultimate Secret of Time to restore his youthful appearance.
• Li Qingyun stood as the Malevolent Wind dispersed, then concluded that the Extreme Ice Supreme Being had not granted him a spiritual energy blessing.

Li Qingyun gained the Extreme Ice Supreme Being’s trust after passing the Time and Body Halls, and agreed to help her on the Cosmic Dwarf Star. She rewarded him with a vast waterfall of Eternal Spiritual Energy, drawing the remaining outsiders toward the Body Hall as he began refining it.

• The Extreme Ice Supreme Being stopped Li Qingyun from leaving the Body Hall, asked his name, and acknowledged him as a person of destiny.
• The Supreme Being told Li Qingyun that she was trapped on the Cosmic Dwarf Star and asked him to come help her after claiming the three halls’ fortunes.
• Li Qingyun promised to help the Supreme Being if he could leave the Great Universe of Primordial.
• The Supreme Being sent Li Qingyun a huge waterfall of Eternal Spiritual Energy, stirring greed among the nine figures in the Nothingness Hall.
• La, Jieyin, Dingwang, Lu Ya, and the other outsiders sensed the energy, and the final four broke free from the Nothingness Hall to pursue it.
• Li Qingyun drew in the spiritual energy and used the Body Secret Eternal Technique to refine it, while the four outsiders rushed toward the Body Hall.

Li Qingyun drove off the Outside Void Saints who tried to seize his Eternal Spiritual Energy, then entered the No Hall’s final trial to seek the method for crossing the First Sequence Ring Chain. Inside the Netherworld Void Black Night, he set out after Ra, Lu Ya, Jieyin, and Dingwang, while they agreed to stop him from claiming the method.

• Li Qingyun rejected the Outside Void Saints’ threats and offers, then used his Great Dao power to destroy their decayed vessels and force them back beyond the Void.
• Li Qingyun captured the Jade Virtue Guanyin Saint’s Mud Person, suppressed it, and erased its escaping strand of will with secret qi.
• Li Qingyun activated the No Hall’s seals and entered the Netherworld Void Black Night, where the supreme being explained that its final trial held the method and insights for crossing the Great Universe Ring Chain.
• Li Qingyun spotted Ra, Lu Ya, Jieyin, and Dingwang ahead and resolved to claim the method for himself.
• Ra, Jieyin, and Dingwang agreed to stop Li Qingyun from obtaining the method, but they were alarmed when he rapidly closed the distance behind them.

After mastering the secrets of the Halls of Time and Self, Li Qingyun raced through the Netherworld Void and caught up with La Sheng, Jie Yin, Dingwang, and Lu Ya. Jie Yin stopped to block him, and Li Qingyun confronted the Mud Buddha before they could reach the Hall of Nothingness opportunity.

• Li Qingyun used secret qi and his comprehension of time to cross the Netherworld Void rapidly, catching up with the four figures who had trekked there for more than two months.
• Li Qingyun mocked La Sheng, Jie Yin, and Dingwang and urged them to withdraw from the trial.
• La Sheng asked one of the Mud Persons to stay behind and obstruct Li Qingyun, and Jie Yin agreed because of his entangled karma with him.
• Lu Ya stayed silent and continued toward La Sheng, while Jie Yin turned back to face Li Qingyun.
• Two hours later, Li Qingyun reached Jie Yin and challenged the Mud Buddha, who vowed to stop him from seeing the Hall of Nothingness opportunity.

Li Qingyun destroyed Jieyin’s Mud Buddha manifestation with Eternal Secret Qi and erased the fleeing will, alarming the Outside Void Saints. As he continued through Netherworld Void, Saint Dingwang moved to intercept him, and Li Qingyun challenged the Pan Clan’s right to stand in his way.

• Li Qingyun overwhelmed Jieyin’s Mud Buddha with his gale and secret qi, then destroyed Jieyin’s escaping gray will.
• La Sheng and Pan Dingwang recognized that Li Qingyun could threaten Saints and agreed that he must not be allowed to live, while Lu Ya remained silent.
• La Sheng asked Saint Dingwang to hold Li Qingyun back, and Dingwang turned to intercept him.
• Li Qingyun warned Dingwang that stopping him would mean the Pan Clan was declaring war on him.
• Dingwang defended the Outside Void’s rule and urged Li Qingyun to accept fixed fate, but Li Qingyun condemned the Saints as monsters who stole from Heaven.

Li Qingyun broke through Saint Dingwang’s obstruction and raced with Lu Ya and La Saint to the Supreme Being’s projection. All three reached the destination together, and the Supreme Being offered them her insights and techniques in exchange for binding their karma and destiny to hers.

• Li Qingyun seized and shattered Saint Dingwang’s Chaos Axe Light, then destroyed his mud person.
• La Saint continued ahead while Li Qingyun caught up to Lu Ya, leaving the three nearly even as they neared the destination.
• Li Qingyun and Lu Ya pushed themselves to catch La Saint, and all three entered the destination at almost the same time.
• The Supreme Being’s projection appeared and praised the three, especially Li Qingyun.
• The Supreme Being offered to let all three study her insights and techniques, warning that accepting would bind their karma and destiny to hers.

Li Qingyun, Saint La, and Lu Ya accepted the chance to cross Netherworld Void, and the Extreme Ice Supreme Being gave each of them a secret art and a map of the First Sequence Great Universe Ring Chain. The three studied their gifts, while La and Lu Ya celebrated that they might finally escape the cycle of Great Universe Reincarnation.

• Saint La reminded the Extreme Ice Supreme Being that he had attended her Dao forum in the Primordial Chaos Era, and she recognized him.
• Lu Ya claimed he had once seen the Supreme Being beneath the Cangwu tree, and she recognized him too.
• Li Qingyun dismissed the need for an illustrious background, confident that his achievements already made him impossible to overlook.
• The Extreme Ice Supreme Being sent each of the three a cluster of spiritual light containing a crossing secret art and a vast Netherworld Void star map.
• Li Qingyun identified the art as the Eternal Universe Great Drift Method and realized he needed to attain the Saint position before he could use it.
• Saint La and Lu Ya expressed excitement that the method might let them escape the Great Universe Reincarnation.

The White Robed figure gave Li Qingyun, Ra, and Lu Ya Eternal Spiritual Energy and asked them to help her if they escaped the Ring Chain. After she sent them from the collapsing Ice River Ancient Ruins, an imprisoned Eternal Clan corpse began breaking free of its seals.

• The White Robed figure divided her remaining Eternal Spiritual Energy among Li Qingyun, Ra, and Lu Ya, favoring the two Saints, and asked them to repay her by assisting her if they reached the Cosmic Dwarf Star.
• Ra and Lu Ya absorbed their shares, and Lu Ya formed an Eternal Skull while Ra gained hope of escaping the Ring Chain.
• Li Qingyun absorbed his share and transformed most of his spine, chest, and abdominal bones into Eternal Bone.
• The White Robed figure's projection disappeared, and Li Qingyun and Lu Ya were forced out as the Ice River Ancient Ruins collapsed.
• A terrifying roar shook Li Qingyun, Lu Ya, Li Xuanji, Jia Yuxu, Hong Lian Tian, and the others as the frozen Eternal Clan corpse began breaking through its seals.

The Eternal Frozen Corpse began reviving and threatened the Ice River Ancient Ruins, while Li Qingyun discovered he could pierce its defenses with the Eternal Secret Qi. Extreme Ice Supreme Being then seized the corpse and dragged it into the Netherworld Void, leaving Li Qingyun stunned by a Supreme Being’s power.

• The Eternal Frozen Corpse roared, shattering nearby ancient relic domains and injuring Hong Lian Tian as the others struggled to withstand its power.
• Li Qingyun attacked the corpse with his Immeasurable Seal, but its aura broke apart his strike, and Lu Ya fled toward the Muddy Field.
• Li Qingyun used the first transformation of the Body: Eternity Cultivation Method to drive his secret qi into the frozen corpse and wound it.
• The corpse opened its eyes and threatened the Outer Void, where Saints fled and blamed Qingyunzi for hastening its awakening.
• Extreme Ice Supreme Being formed a jade hand, seized the Eternal Frozen Corpse, and vanished with it into the Netherworld Void.

After leaving the Ice River Ancient Ruins, Li Qingyun warned Jia Yuxu about the Sacred Hall Clan’s fate and freed Yuan Wu Yujun from her Abyss Clan ties. He sent her toward human reincarnation, while the Outer Void reacted angrily.

• Jia Yuxu told Li Qingyun that Jia Zhou had retreated from the ruins after being injured, and Li Qingyun said his disciples would eliminate him in three days.
• Jia Yuxu agreed not to interfere, and Li Qingyun warned her that the Sacred Hall Clan’s saints might abandon their descendants to escape the Great Calamity.
• Li Qingyun left the ruins with Li Xuanji, then released Yuan Lang and Yuan Yiping and let them return to the Yuan Clan.
• Li Qingyun offered Yuan Wu Yujun a chance to reincarnate as a human, and she agreed to destroy her Abyss Clan body and true blood and sever her divine soul.
• Li Qingyun ignored the Outer Void’s angry reaction and placed a thread of the human Taichu Dao Ancestor’s true blood upon Yuan Wu Yujun’s remaining wisp of light.

Li Qingyun severed his ties with the Abyss Clan, cultivated the Body: Eternity secret art, and ordered his followers to kill Jia Zhou, widening his conflicts with powerful clans. After six years of growth, he sensed that his chance to ascend into the Void had arrived and prepared to speak with Lu Ya and the Empress of Burial.

• Li Qingyun sent Wu Yujun's lingering thought to be reborn in the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos, then left Yuan Lang and Yuan Yiping behind.
• Li Qingyun set aside the Ultimate Secret of Time and the Eternal Universe Great Drift Method while focusing on cultivating the Body: Eternity secret art.
• Li Qingyun ordered Xuanji, Quan Lei, A'chu, and A'li to hunt down Jia Zhou, and they killed him outside the Bronze Guǐ domain despite the Sacred Hall Clan's attempts to save him.
• Li Quanlei devoured and refined the Yin turbidity soul power released from Jia Zhou, while the Sacred Hall Clan and the Three Western Heavens Clans became bitter enemies of Li Qingyun.
• Over the next five or six years, the Qingyun Dao Lineage and the Void Annihilation Society grew stronger as their leaders and followers advanced in cultivation.
• Li Qingyun completed the sixth transformation of the Body: Eternity secret art and decided to speak with Lu Ya and the Empress of Burial before attempting to ascend into the Void.

Li Qingyun crossed the shrinking ruined ruins into the Muddy Field, where he planned to enlist Daoist Lu Ya and the Empress of Burial for the coming upheaval. After resisting attacks from the Outer Void and discovering the field’s potential for his Quan Lei clone’s cultivation, he called for Lu Ya and the Empress of Burial to meet him.

• Li Qingyun headed toward the Muddy Field, suspecting that Daoist Lu Ya and the Empress of Burial were hiding there for a major opportunity.
• The River Mother Saint and other Outer Void beings attacked Li Qingyun and demanded the Supreme Secret Method and the secret method of Crossing Netherworld Void.
• Li Qingyun mocked the Outer Void beings by telling them to seek Saint La, then slipped into the Muddy Field while their attacks briefly paused.
• Li Qingyun found that his Eternal Body’s secret qi let him move through the crushing muddy sludge with little resistance.
• Li Qingyun recognized that Heavy Mud Qi could help his Quan Lei clone advance and resolved to have the clone cultivate there.
• Li Qingyun called for Daoist Lu Ya and the Empress of Burial to come meet him.

Li Qingyun met Lu Ya and the Empress of Burial in the muddy field and arranged for them to aid his attempt to ascend to the void and become a saint. After securing their agreement, he returned to the remnant ruins, retired from leading the Three Pure Ones, and handed its affairs to Cheng Tangyin and the Four Emperors.

• Lu Ya left his refuge to meet Li Qingyun, while an ancient bronze coffin stirred in the muddy depths and its occupant recognized that Li Qingyun had reached a new stage.
• Li Qingyun told Lu Ya that chaos was approaching and urged him to ascend to the void alongside him, with the two looking after each other.
• The Empress of Burial emerged from the bronze coffin, and Li Qingyun asked her to appear during his ascension to distract the outside-void beings.
• Lu Ya agreed to accompany Li Qingyun in exchange for a favor, and the Empress of Burial agreed to draw attention away after obtaining the muddy field's opportunity.
• Li Qingyun returned to the remnant ruins under attack from the outside void and announced his retirement at Qingya.
• Li Qingyun put Cheng Tangyin and the Four Emperors in charge of the Qingyun Dao Lineage and the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos, with Quasi-Saints assisting them.

Li Qingyun sensed the upheaval in the Outer Void and withdrew the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation before setting out to Ascend to Void and Enter Sainthood. His departure left the Qingyun Dao Lineage to carry on without him, while the Void Annihilation Society, Jia Yuxu, and the Guǐ Daoist each reacted to the new opportunity.

• Li Qingyun secluded himself at Green Cliff, shed his mortal ties, and sensed he could break free of the Ruined Ruins, though the Outer Void and Primordial Beginning’s iron law threatened his ascent.
• As heaven and earth shook and the heavenly secrets fell into chaos, Li Qingyun told Cheng Tangyin, A'li, Houtu, and the others he was leaving, then recalled the Four Immortal Slaying Swords and dispersed the formation.
• Li Qingyun gathered his Dao artifacts and departed through the gray clouds toward the Muddy Field as the Qingyun Dao Lineage bowed and wished him success.
• The Void Annihilation Society learned of Li Qingyun’s departure and its four giants hoped his absence would let them surpass the Qingyun Dao Lineage and perhaps become Saints.
• Jia Yuxu regretted that her Seed God Dao would go unused, while the Guǐ Daoist celebrated the prospect of breaking free and feeding on the Ruined Ruins’ quasi-Saints.