Chapter Summaries

Li Qingyun and Lu Ya joined forces to break the Primordial Beginning’s destiny and ascend through the Eye of Turbid Sinking into the Outer Void. Li Qingyun emerged and began transforming into a Nine-Seal Void Saint, but discovered that the Outer Void’s Saintly Origin Substance was tainted by the Saints’ bloodshed.

• Li Qingyun sensed that at least three Saints had fallen, then entered the Muddy Field and summoned Lu Ya.
• Lu Ya removed his mask, acknowledged Li Qingyun as Saint Yun, and agreed to ascend with him; the Empress of Burial followed in the bronze coffin.
• Lu Ya led Li Qingyun through the Heavy Mud to the Eye of Turbid Sinking, where they prepared to face the Outer Void’s higher Saint positions.
• Li Qingyun crossed the Eye of Turbid Sinking using Eternal Secret Qi and emerged into the Outer Void.
• Saintly Origin Substance flooded Li Qingyun, beginning the transformation of his Great Dao Universe and body toward the Nine-Seal Void Saint realm.
• Li Qingyun sensed that the Origin Substance was contaminated by foul, bloody qi and realized the Outer Void Saints’ past blood-feeding had tainted it.

Li Qingyun and Daoist Lu Ya tried to advance their Great Dao Universes in the Outer Void, but Primordial Beginning suppressed their ascent to Sainthood. They broke through the suppression with their Eternal Skulls as the Abyss Clan faced possible extinction in a battle against Western Heaven and the River Mother Clan.

• Li Qingyun absorbed the twisted Outer Void Origin Substance to transform his Great Dao Universe, while Daoist Lu Ya reclaimed his former power.
• Primordial Beginning halted both of their progress, preventing anyone within the Great Universe from attaining Sainthood.
• Li Qingyun used his Eternal Bones to shatter the suppression, and Lu Ya also broke free with his Eternal Skull.
• At the Nine Void Abysses, Saint Kun called the remaining Abyss Clan Saints to his Dao field as Western Heaven and River Mother forces besieged them.
• Saint Kun realized the Abyss Clan might be wiped out after four Saints had withered and two more had fallen.

As the Western Heavens attacked the Abyss Clan, Jie Yin sensed that Qingyunzi was attempting to ascend to the void and ordered Dingguang, Puxian, and Wenshu to capture him. At the Yin Ruins, River Mother Saint abandoned her battle with the Stone Spirit Clan saints and headed for the Eye of Turbid Sinking to kill Qingyunzi.

• Amitabha Buddha and another Buddha urged Yuan Kun to accept the Abyss Clan’s destruction, but Yuan Kun and the saints Yuan Zhe and Yuan Mie resisted their encirclement.
• Jie Yin sensed Qingyunzi attempting to enter sainthood and sent Dingguang, Puxian, and Wenshu to capture him at the Eye of Turbid Qi.
• Dozens of outer void saints fought to enter the Yin Ruins through the opening bronze gates.
• River Mother Saint drove Shi Qiao and Shi Ji back, exposing their grotesque true forms before they disguised themselves again.
• River Mother Saint sensed Qingyunzi’s attempt to ascend and left the Yin Ruins to suppress and kill him, hoping Xuanji would inherit his fortunes.

Li Qingyun continued his transformation toward sainthood as Denguāng Joyful Buddha, Manjushri, and Samantabhadra attacked him. He wounded Denguāng and drove Manjushri back, but the two Buddhas continued their assault, enraged by the power that recalled the Three Pure Ones.

• Denguāng Joyful Buddha and two other Buddhas confronted Li Qingyun while other Saint's Shadows attacked Lu Ya.
• Li Qingyun used the Immortal Slaying Sword to sever Denguāng Joyful Buddha's fingers and strike him with four sword lights.
• Li Qingyun's Dark Tome weakened Denguāng, Manjushri, and Samantabhadra by stripping away part of their power.
• Denguāng Joyful Buddha fled into the void but was struck by the Four Immortal Slaying Swords and severely wounded.
• Manjushri and Samantabhadra broke through Li Qingyun's protections, but Li Qingyun repelled Manjushri with a palm strike.
• Manjushri and Samantabhadra recognized a resemblance to the Three Pure Saints in Li Qingyun's Dao might, then turned hostile again.

Li Qingyun battled Wenshu and Puxian Buddha, wounded both, and gained the upper hand before Jade Virtue Guanyin Saint and River Mother Saint arrived. As Wenshu tried to block his escape, Li Qingyun struck him down and beheaded him.

• Li Qingyun matched Wenshu and Puxian Buddha’s Buddha Domain with his Great Dao Domain and pressed forward as his Saint Body reached ninety percent cosmic transformation.
• Li Qingyun exploited the Buddhas’ hesitation and wounded Wenshu and Puxian with the Four Immortal Slaying Swords.
• Jade Virtue Guanyin Saint and River Mother Saint emerged from the void and attacked Li Qingyun, who evaded their ambush.
• Jade Virtue Guanyin Saint urged Wenshu to stop Li Qingyun as he fled.
• Li Qingyun cut apart Wenshu’s summoned azure lion, wounded Wenshu, and beheaded him.

Li Qingyun killed Manjusri and discovered that the Outer Void’s Origin Substance was corrupted, threatening to twist anyone who absorbed it. As he fled Jade Virtue Guanyin Saint and the River Mother Saint while nearing the completion of his Saint Body, Jade Virtue Guanyin struck him, but he used the blow to escape farther.

• Li Qingyun saw Samantabhadra and Denguāng Joyful Buddha devour Manjusri’s twisted remains and realized that the Outer Void’s Origin Substance could corrupt him.
• Li Qingyun suppressed a pustule forming on his face and resolved to eradicate the twisted forces and stop the Western Paradise from entering the next era.
• Jade Virtue Guanyin Saint pursued Li Qingyun to avenge Manjusri, while the River Mother Saint joined the hunt; Peng Mo and other Saints chased Lu Ya for the Supreme Being Crossing Secret Method.
• Li Qingyun continued absorbing the Outer Void’s Origin Substance to complete his Saint Body, struggling to control the corruption spreading through it.
• Jade Virtue Guanyin Saint attacked Li Qingyun with jade-arm phantoms; he countered with the Four Immortal Slaying Swords, took a blow to his back, and used its force to flee.

Li Qingyun escaped Jade Virtue Guanyin and River Mother Saint with help from the Chaos Banner and the Burial Empress’s revelation, then raced toward the Ruins of Yin as Shen Nong’s relics urged him on. As his body became increasingly distorted by the foul Origin Substance, he struggled to preserve his Dao foundation while the saints pursued him.

• Jade Virtue Guanyin trapped Li Qingyun in her Buddha Domain, but he weakened its seal with the Dark Tome and Chaos Banner and broke free.
• River Mother Saint blocked Li Qingyun’s escape, so he called on Zang, and the Burial Empress emerged from her coffin at the Eye of Turbid Sinking.
• The saints sensed that the Burial Empress was the true child of Human Dao revival and hurried toward her, disrupting River Mother Saint and Jade Virtue Guanyin long enough for Li Qingyun to escape.
• Shen Nong’s surviving eyeballs pointed Li Qingyun toward the Ruins of Yin, and he followed their guidance while battling worsening bodily distortion.
• Jade Virtue Guanyin and River Mother Saint pursued Li Qingyun and mocked his choice to flee toward the Ruins of Yin.

Li Qingyun endured River Mother Saint and Jade Virtue Saint’s attacks as the blows helped him purge the worst of the twisted Origin Substance and advance toward the Yin Ruins. When the Saints tried to capture and destroy him, he absorbed the surrounding Origin Substance, completed his twisted universalization, and became a Saint Body, leaving the Jade Bottle cracked.

• River Mother Saint and Jade Virtue Saint battered Li Qingyun with their treasures, while he used the injuries to expel more twisted Origin Substance and restore his purity.
• Li Qingyun reached the Yin Ruins, whose chaotic time-space currents greatly advanced his comprehension of the Ultimate Secret of Time.
• River Mother Saint bound Li Qingyun with white threads, and Jade Virtue Guanyin tried to draw him into her Jade Bottle.
• Facing capture, Li Qingyun absorbed a surge of Outer Void Origin Substance and completed his twisted universalization, ascending into a Nine Seal Saint Position Saint Body.
• Li Qingyun broke the Saints’ suppression and struck the Jade Bottle with the Immortal Slaying Sword, cracking it, so Jade Virtue Saint withdrew the artifact.

Li Qingyun broke free from Jade Virtue Saint and River Mother Saint after becoming a distorted Nine Extremes Realm saint, then charged toward the Yin Ruins. He reached the opening bronze gates and fought past the saints guarding them as Jade Virtue Saint pursued.

• As the Jade Bottle retreated, Li Qingyun shattered the saints’ sealing domain and escaped, preserving a sliver of lucidity inside his eternal skull.
• Li Qingyun raced toward the Yin Ruins while River Mother Saint chose to let him disrupt the other saints’ plans, and Jade Virtue Saint pursued him.
• River Mother Saint and Jade Virtue Saint watched as Li Qingyun approached the opening bronze gates amid surging spacetime fluctuations.
• A saint at the gates attacked Li Qingyun, but Li Qingyun’s distorted power overwhelmed the saint’s holy beams and crushed his chest.
• Jade Virtue Saint called on the other saints to intercept Li Qingyun, and two pseudo-saints attacked him.

Li Qingyun entered the Ruins of Yin while trapped in a twisted body and followed the Ancient Saint Shen Nong’s eyeballs through its bronze labyrinth. Their guidance led him through a sequence of hidden teleportation halls to a vast void containing a Cosmos Teleportation Array.

• Li Qingyun blasted aside two Void Saints and charged through the Bronze Palace Gate into the Ruins of Yin.
• He plunged through the bronze maze, smashed into a sealed inner hall, and struggled to control his twisted body.
• The Ancient Saint Shen Nong’s eyeballs guided Li Qingyun to step on hidden characters that teleported him between Square Halls.
• Jade Virtue Guanyin Saint pursued Li Qingyun into the first Square Hall but could not determine how he had escaped.
• After crossing the characters in sequence, Li Qingyun was teleported into a vast void containing nine Ancient Array Gates, three of them active.

Li Qingyun resisted the twisted body’s pull toward an Ancient Array Gate leading to a corrupted Great Universe and escaped through the damaged gate indicated by Ancient Saint Shen Nong. Shen Nong’s lingering message revealed that the gate concealed a cosmic rift and his final legacy for the human race: his garden of cultivated spiritual herbs.

• Li Qingyun saw that the violently fluctuating Ancient Array Gate opened onto Abyssal Hell, a fallen Great Universe filled with twisted monsters.
• The twisted body tried to enter the gate, but Li Qingyun risked exposing his divine soul to seize control and flee to the silent third gate on the right.
• The Ancient Saint Shen Nong's eyeballs detached from Li Qingyun's palm, fitted into the gate, and shattered, releasing their hidden residual intent.
• Shen Nong told Li Qingyun that a cosmic rift lay beyond the gate and that he had left his garden of spiritual herbs there for the human race.
• Shen Nong's voice faded after entrusting the human race to Li Qingyun and explaining his ability to cultivate rare cosmic and primordial herbs in abundance.

Li Qingyun was transported through an Emperor Yin Cosmos Gate into a vast, perilous realm, while Saint Sanyang followed him in hopes of escaping the Primordial Beginning tribulation. Saint Sanyang died in the Ancient Luo Great Universe, leaving the Hua Xu Clan without its primordial saint, and Li Qingyun was presumed lost or dead.

• Li Qingyun entered a vast realm filled with astonishing spiritual herbs, but his twisted body’s desires overwhelmed his remaining awareness.
• Saint Sanyang arrived at the nine Cosmos Gates after years of searching and chose the gate Li Qingyun had entered.
• Saint Sanyang passed through the gate, discovered that the Ancient Luo Great Universe was thoroughly depraved, and tried to return.
• The gate’s space-time fluctuations destroyed Saint Sanyang’s distorted brain, killing him and causing the Hua Xu Clan’s saintly manifestations to vanish.
• Over the following three years, no one else reached the gates, and people came to believe Daoist Qingyun had died or become lost in the Ruins of Yin.

After three years of silence, Li Qingyun regained control of his body in Shen Nong’s ruined medicine garden, where his strength had grown enormously but his twisted transformation had devastated the plants. Meanwhile, Li Quanlei’s return thwarted the Void Annihilation Society’s attack on the Qingyun Dao Lineage, and Li Qingyun ended by discovering a strange flower shifting between realms.

• Daoist Lu Ya visited the Eye of Turbid Sinking, mourned Qingyun’s apparent fall, and warned the Empress of Burial that a new upheaval threatened Qingyun’s Dao lineage.
• The Void Annihilation Society attacked the Qingyun Dao Lineage at an ancient field remnant, and A’li severed Han Shanzi’s arm after he injured Tangyin.
• Li Quanlei returned from the Muddy Field, overwhelmed Emperor Liang and Han Shanzi, and claimed the Eternal Spiritual Energy, forcing the Void Annihilation Society to retreat in disgrace.
• Li Qingyun awoke in Shen Nong’s medicine garden with control of his body restored and his Dao power greatly increased, then saw how much his twisted body had destroyed.
• Li Qingyun recognized six surviving Crimson Ying Grass plants and spotted a vast flower that shifted between the Netherworld Void and the material level.

Li Qingyun discovered the rare Mind-Free Flower and learned about the five Saint realms and the elusive path to Eternal Life. After surveying Shen Nong’s medicinal garden, he considered using its treasures to recreate legendary pills, especially the Eternal Life Pill.

• Li Qingyun found Ancient Saint Shen Nong’s description of the Mind-Free Flower, whose Harmonizing with the Netherworld property could help purify the body and mind.
• Li Qingyun reflected on the five Saint realms and concluded that true passage through the Netherworld Void required the fleshly body and divine soul to cross together.
• Li Qingyun left the spirit cliff and decided not to approach the timid flower while twisted contamination remained on him.
• Li Qingyun surveyed Shen Nong’s garden and found more than a thousand rare herbs, including Chaos Green Lotus, Sky-Reaching Lingzhi, and the Elixir of Immortality.
• Li Qingyun considered recreating legendary pills from the garden’s treasures and wondered what made the Eternal Life Pill so extraordinary.

Li Qingyun successfully refined three Eternal Life Pills, but a mysterious gray wind destroyed them before he could collect them. He consumed a petal of the Mind-Free Flower and was left questioning who had sealed the Primordial Beginning Great Universe and what purpose lay behind it.

• Li Qingyun rebuilt Laojun's Eight Trigrams Furnace and spent nine days refining Eternal Life Pills from rare spirit herbs and medicines.
• Three Eternal Life Pills formed, but a sudden gray wind drained their radiance and turned them into ruined pills.
• Li Qingyun seized a petal from the Mind-Free Flower and swallowed it, cleansing some of the corruption and Twisted Origin Substance in his body.
• Li Qingyun suspected that the gray wind was a seal imposed by the mysterious being who prevented Outer Void Saints from becoming Saints.
• Li Qingyun connected the seal to the black creatures in the Blackwater Mother River and wondered about the sealed universe, the alien spirits, and the Supreme Beings who had left.

Li Qingyun refined and consumed spiritual elixirs until he reached Great Perfection of Creation Realm, then prepared to seek Emperor Yin’s Secret Palace for a chance to refine the Eternal Life Pill. He returned to the ancient teleportation gate at the universe rift and paused to study its formations before leaving.

• Li Qingyun refined Nine Revolutions Golden Elixirs and Grand Unity Immortal Elixirs, whose medicinal power increased his cultivation without worsening his Twisted Origin Substance pollution.
• Over more than a month, Li Qingyun advanced through the Creation Realm to its ninth layer as the garden’s suitable ingredients ran low.
• Li Qingyun concluded that Emperor Yin’s Secret Palace might be protected from the strange wind and offer a chance to refine the Eternal Life Pill.
• Li Qingyun used the last lower-grade ingredients to reach Great Perfection of Creation Realm, then gathered materials for two furnaces of Eternal Life Pills.
• Li Qingyun traveled to the dead Chaos Singularity and spent half a month studying Shen Nong’s ancient teleportation gate before departing.

Li Qingyun used his true blood to activate the array and returned from the medicinal garden to the Yin Ruins. He emerged before Denguāng Joyful Buddha and Saint Shi Qiao, leaving them stunned by his recovery from distortion and his Great Perfection of Creation Realm cultivation.

• Li Qingyun activated the ancient transmission array with drops of his true blood and confirmed it connected only to the Yin Ruins.
• Denguāng Joyful Buddha asked Saint Shi Qiao to exchange Cosmic Gates, but Shi Qiao refused and questioned him about Shen Nong’s missing eyeball.
• Saint Shi Qiao prepared to enter his Cosmic Gate because his dwindling lifespan left him little choice.
• Spatial-temporal ripples appeared at the third Cosmic Gate, and Li Qingyun returned to the Yin Ruins amid a powerful Dao sound.
• Denguāng Joyful Buddha recognized Li Qingyun, realized he had survived and shed his distortion, and tried to flee after sensing his Great Perfection of Creation Realm cultivation.

Li Qingyun confronted Denguāng Joyful Buddha, suppressed him, and forced him to answer for his betrayal of the Three Pure Ones and his crimes against the Human Race. The chapter ended with Li Qingyun exposing Denguāng’s murder of Human Race prodigies and making the wronged dead hear his confession.

• Li Qingyun greeted Saint Shi Qiao, then declared that he would settle his old karma with Tu Sun, Denguāng Joyful Buddha.
• Denguāng tried to escape through Zeus Gate Land and unleashed his Unobstructed Joyful Buddha Domain, but Li Qingyun’s Dao voice shattered it and pinned him down.
• Li Qingyun stripped away Denguāng’s Buddha appearance, exposed his monstrous true form, and demanded that he acknowledge his sins.
• Denguāng pleaded that he had followed ordained fate, but Li Qingyun tore off one of his legs when he tried to evade the question.
• Li Qingyun accused Denguāng of revealing Shennong’s whereabouts, stealing his eyeballs, impersonating him, and murdering Human Race prodigies; Denguāng confessed as Li Qingyun sent the judgment back through time to the wronged dead.

Li Qingyun crushed Denguāng Joyful Buddha to ashes after confronting him with the ghosts of his victims. When Cloud Saint Shi Qiao entered a cosmic gate to the Qiong Mi Great Universe, he was destroyed there too, leaving Li Qingyun to study the Yin Ruins and seek Emperor Yin’s Secret Palace and the Eternal Life Pill.

• The spirits of Denguāng Joyful Buddha’s past victims appeared and mocked him until his defiance collapsed.
• Li Qingyun crushed Denguāng Joyful Buddha’s body and divine soul, reducing him to ashes.
• Cloud Saint Shi Qiao entered the cosmic gate toward the Qiong Mi Great Universe, but its deadly power destroyed him despite his attempt to return.
• Li Qingyun observed that the Saints had no safe retreat and noted that the cosmic gates would remain open for a little over a month.
• Li Qingyun began deciphering the ancient characters of the Yin Ruins so he could find Emperor Yin’s Secret Palace and refine the Eternal Life Pill.

Li Qingyun mastered the Yin Ruins’ character code and found Emperor Yin’s Secret Palace, where its artifact spirit rejected his request to borrow it and drove him back. The spirit revealed that the First Sequence Great Universe Ring Chain was Emperor Yin’s fief, leaving Li Qingyun alarmed by how much remained hidden beyond his understanding.

• Li Qingyun comprehended the eight characters governing the Yin Ruins and used them to travel through its Square Halls.
• Li Qingyun reached Emperor Yin’s Secret Palace and asked its artifact spirit to lend him the palace for half a month.
• The artifact spirit rebuked Li Qingyun, and he tried to force open the gates before their golden beams overwhelmed his defenses and made him retreat.
• Li Qingyun mocked the artifact spirit, which declared that Emperor Yin had only left temporarily and would return to his fief.
• Li Qingyun realized Emperor Yin ruled the First Sequence Great Universe Ring Chain and questioned why its ruler had been absent for two eras.