Chapter Summaries

Li Qingyun convinced the palace spirit Yi that his Eternal Bone made him a descendant of the Eternal Clan and gained entry to Emperor Yin’s palace. Yi guided him to a secluded bronze hall covered in Eternal Clan script, confirming Emperor Yin’s origins.

• Li Qingyun used his Eternal Bone and Secret Qi to persuade Yi that he was a relative of Emperor Yin, and Yi opened the palace gates for him.
• As Li Qingyun entered, an ancient image of Emperor Yin sensed the palace had opened and asked who was there, but Li Qingyun silently passed through its lingering temporal shadow.
• Li Qingyun admired the palace’s vast, exquisite treasures but kept his promise not to touch anything and asked Yi to guide him to its most secluded place.
• Yi tested Li Qingyun by flying ahead as a six-winged ancient phoenix, but Li Qingyun easily caught up using his mastery of time and the body.
• Yi led Li Qingyun to a bronze hall shaped like a Nine-Faced Cauldron, whose runes matched the Eternal Clan script of the Body: Eternity Cultivation Method.

Li Qingyun deciphered the Nine Constant Hall’s Evil Warding Runes and entered its protected interior to refine an Eternal Life Pill. As he began the nine-day refinement, the Mud Palace Field appeared ahead of schedule, signaling that the Great Calamity was accelerating.

• Artifact spirit Yi brought Li Qingyun to the Nine Constant Hall and asked him to recommend Yi to Emperor Yin so he could leave the Primordial Beginning.
• Li Qingyun promised to help Yi and offered to take him along when he left the First Sequence Ring Chain.
• Li Qingyun deciphered the Nine Constant Hall’s nine secret-sigil faces and used an Evil Warding Rune to enter its sealed interior.
• Li Qingyun summoned Laojun's Eight Trigrams Furnace and began refining the Eternal Life Pill, expecting it to be ready in nine days.
• The Eye of Turbid Sinking erupted with muddy sludge, and Saint's Shadows identified the early appearance of the Mud Palace Field as a warning that the Great Calamity was accelerating.

Ra, Jie Yin, and Saint Dingwang plotted to secure the Turbid Venerate's inheritance and destroy the Qingyun Dao Lineage while appearing to give other Saints the first chance to enter the Mud Palace Field. Fu Chen Saint and Shi Ji descended safely, and Peng Wu Shi insisted on waiting to enter alongside a Buddha.

• Ra, Jie Yin, and Saint Dingwang agreed to divide the Mud Palace opportunity and use the calamity to eliminate rival Saints and the Qingyun Dao Lineage.
• Jie Yin announced that Western Heaven, the Holy Hall, and the Pan Clan would let others enter the Mud Palace first, then pressured Fu Chen Saint to lead.
• Fu Chen Saint sent a protected phantom into the Eye of Turbid Sinking and found that the descent seemed safe.
• Shi Ji followed Fu Chen Saint into the Eye of Turbid Sinking, while Jie Yin invited Peng Wu Shi to descend next.
• Peng Wu Shi declined to go alone and asked to set out with several Buddhas, so Jie Yin ordered the Great Ming King to accompany him.

Jie Yin, La, and Dingwang betrayed the Saints gathered at the Eye of Turbid Sinking and slaughtered them to seize their Saint Corpses. Daoist Lu Ya escaped with two corpses after clashing with Jie Yin and Great Ming King, while Jie Yin urged Great Ming King to pursue the Mud Palace opportunity.

• Jie Yin, La, and Dingwang unleashed their hidden methods and suppressed the Saints who had sent their saintly intents into the Eye of Turbid Sinking.
• Jie Yin killed Peng Wu Shi, and La killed Shi Ji as the three Saints slaughtered eight or nine Saints from the superior clans and their allies.
• Jie Yin, La, and Dingwang divided the fallen Saints' corpses, but Daoist Lu Ya seized two and fled.
• Jie Yin attacked Lu Ya, who escaped through Chaos Divine Fire before Great Ming King intercepted him with Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Lu Ya escaped Great Ming King's challenge, and Jie Yin called Great Ming King back to pursue the Mud Palace opportunity.

The Void Annihilation Society challenged the Qingyun Dao Lineage over the Mud Palace’s opportunity as Emperor Liang and Han Shanzi revealed they had advanced Above the Nine Rings. Jia Yuxu joined Emperor Liang and the Society, leaving the Qingyun Dao Lineage isolated as the factions prepared to compete for the Mud Palace.

• The Mud Palace drew powerful factions to the Muddy Field, where only Nine-Ring Quasi-Saint peaks could enter.
• Emperor Liang and Han Shanzi stepped Above the Nine Rings and demanded that the Mud Palace’s opportunity belong to the Void Annihilation Society.
• A'li offered Li Xuanji and Jia Yuxu an equal share of the opportunity in exchange for joining forces with the Qingyun Dao Lineage.
• Li Xuanji sided with the Qingyun Dao Lineage, but Jia Yuxu stayed apart.
• Emperor Liang announced his plan to hold a Dao Companion Banquet with Jia Yuxu, who then joined the Void Annihilation Society and apologized to the Qingyun Dao Lineage.
• Emperor Liang and Han Shanzi ordered the Qingyun Dao Lineage to return.

Li Xuanji fought Emperor Liang to defend Qingyun Dao Lineage’s standing, then agreed to enter the Mud Palace together when a battle erupted inside the Muddy Field. As the factions arrived, an ancient bronze coffin attacked the Great Ming King, who had descended with several powerful Mud People.

• Li Xuanji revealed his three Primordial Marks and challenged Emperor Liang, whose Ancestral Dragon Dao gradually matched Li Xuanji’s strength.
• Han Shanzi challenged Akshobhya Daoist, and their clash added to the upheaval shaking the Muddy Field.
• After the disturbance suggested that beings from beyond the void had descended, Emperor Liang proposed that the factions enter the Mud Palace together, and Li Xuanji agreed.
• Emperor Liang and Han Shanzi led the Void Annihilation Society into the Muddy Field while Li Xuanji entered with A'li, Cheng Tangyin, Houtu, and the others.
• Several Saint’s Shadows of Mud People collapsed, leaving the three-headed, six-armed Great Ming King and three powerful Mud People as an ancient bronze coffin surged toward them.
• The Great Ming King dismissed the coffin as a mere remnant of the Human Race.

Empress of Burial fought the invading Saintly intents to protect the Human Race’s ancient coffin, while Li Qingyun sensed a crisis but remained bound to his alchemy. In the depths of the Muddy Field, Li Quanlei continued cultivating Heavy Mud Qi, having already surpassed his former foundation despite only achieving minor success.

• Empress of Burial battled Great Ming King, then was surrounded by Jieyin, La, Dingwang, and other Mud Persons.
• La’s Secret Gold Divine Light wounded Empress of Burial, and Dingwang stopped the bronze ancient coffin as another Mud Person stomped on it.
• Empress of Burial charged to defend the coffin, but the Mud Persons trapped her and attacked together.
• The Human Race’s ancestors and people joined their thoughts and aspirations in a call against the invaders, while Li Qingyun sensed danger but could not leave the furnace.
• Li Quanlei continued his seclusion in the turbid mud, where cultivating Heavy Mud Qi had given him a stronger foundation than his former Pure Spiritual Qi.

Li Quanlei sensed the Mud Palace opportunity and the Empress of Burial’s peril, then rushed to the battlefield where four Outer Void saints were about to kill her. As the Qingyun Dao Lineage tried and failed to save her while the Void Annihilation Society stayed aside, Li Quanlei’s sudden arrival interrupted Jieyin’s attack.

• Li Quanlei awakened in the Mud Field, sensed the Empress of Burial was in danger, and rushed toward the Mud Palace battlefield.
• Jieyin broke through the Empress of Burial’s protective Qi and prepared to strike her as Saint Dingwang held her in place.
• Li Xuanji, Cheng Tangyin, A'li, Houtu, and Akshobhya Daoist attacked the Outer Void saints, but were repelled; Emperor Liang and the other Void Annihilation Society members refused to help.
• Jia Yuxu tried to intervene, but La’s bloodline pressure weakened her, and Emperor Liang stopped her.
• Li Quanlei shouted at the saints and struck Jieyin with a powerful fist, forcing him to turn away from the Empress of Burial.

Li Qingyun's clone revealed himself as Li Quanlei and used Jun Chen's power to defeat the Saints who had invaded the Mud Palace. The Empress of Burial secured the Human Race ancient coffin, while La and Jieyin vowed to return for the palace's opportunity.

• Li Quanlei entered the battlefield, broke Saint Dingwang's Stabilizing Method, and destroyed Dingwang's mud body and Saintly Will.
• The Empress of Burial took the Human Race ancient coffin and fought the Great Ming King, leaving La and Jieyin to Li Quanlei.
• Li Quanlei filled the Dark Mud Field with muddy qi and clashed with La and Jieyin as the Mud Palace's nearby allies retreated from the shockwaves.
• Li Quanlei crushed La and Jieyin's mud bodies and Saintly Wills, while the Saints vowed to return for the Mud Palace's opportunity.

Li Quanlei drove the Outer Void saints and the Void Annihilation Society away from the Mud Palace, then explained its entry trial to the Empress of Burial, Cheng Tangyin, and the others. He passed the trial’s turbid pressure with ease as he approached the gates.

• Li Quanlei destroyed the Great Ming King’s mud body and declared that the Mud Palace’s opportunity belonged to the human race.
• When Emperor Liang and Han Shanzi objected to being excluded, Li Quanlei struck Han Shanzi and forced the Void Annihilation Society from the Mud Field.
• Li Quanlei invited the Empress of Burial, Cheng Tangyin, A'li, and the others into the Mud Palace, warning them that its opportunity might not suit them.
• Li Quanlei explained that entrants had to withstand the pressure of the character “Turbid” on the palace gates, then approached it and shrugged off its pressure.

Li Qingyun entered the Mud Palace, met the lingering recording of the fallen Turbid Supreme Being, and received the first nine levels of the Cosmic Turbid Demon Art. As Li Qingyun began trying to claim an Eternal Crystal, the Saints and the gathered cultivators prepared to contest the remaining opportunities.

• Li Qingyun’s clone passed the Mud Palace’s entry trial, found the Eye of Turbid Qi, and sat on its meditation cushion.
• Li Qingyun met the Turbid Supreme Being’s lingering thought, accepted the karmic burden of inheriting his legacy, and received the Cosmic Turbid Demon Art.
• The Turbid Supreme Being explained that Li Qingyun could obtain the Eternal Crystal before him by comprehending the first level within one month.
• Li Qingyun began studying the art and considered securing the other Eternal Crystals for Cheng Tangyin, A'li, and Xuanji.
• La, Jie Yin, and Dingwang sent new strands of saintly thought into the Eye of Turbid Sinking to compete for the crystals.
• Emperor Liang, Han Shanzi, Pang Hong, Yang Ming, Jia Yuxu, and the others stayed outside the Muddy Field, hoping to rush into the Mud Palace amid the turmoil.

Li Qingyun’s Quan Lei clone cultivated the first layer of the Cosmic Turbid Demon Art and established a Turbid Dao foundation by absorbing an Eye of Turbid Sinking. Outside the Mud Palace, La Sheng and other outer void saints attacked, while Emperor Liang and the Children of the Cosmos clashed with those who could not pass the screening; the Eternal Crystal then appeared before Li Quanlei.

• Cheng Tangyin and Akshobhya Daoist failed the Turbid Energy screening, and La Sheng led several outer void saints in an attack that drove them away from the Mud Palace gates.
• Cheng Tangyin warned Emperor Liang, Han Shanzi, Jia Yuxu, and the others that Quan Lei was still inside, and they hurried toward the Mud Palace.
• Emperor Liang and the Children of the Cosmos fought the outer void saints who had failed the screening, with neither side gaining an advantage.
• Li Qingyun’s Quan Lei clone mastered the first layer of the Cosmic Turbid Demon Art and absorbed the Eye of Turbid Sinking into his body, establishing a Turbid Dao foundation.
• The Eternal Crystal emerged in the mud hall, revealing itself as a heart-shaped treasure capable of strengthening a living being’s heart into an Eternal Heart.

Li Qingyun's clone defeated the Great Ming King's mud body, took the Eternal Crystal in Houtu's hall, and entered the third Dark Mud Palace, where Saint Dingwang and two Pan Clan Saints attacked him. The chapter ended as their combined assault crashed toward the clone.

• Li Qingyun's clone resisted devouring the first Eternal Crystal, saving it for his true self before passing into the next mud hall.
• Li Qingyun's clone rescued Houtu by annihilating the Great Ming King's mud body and saintly thought.
• Li Qingyun's clone took the Eternal Crystal in Houtu's hall after she urged him to keep it for his own advancement.
• Li Qingyun's clone left Houtu and entered the third Dark Mud Palace, where Saint Dingwang and two other Pan Clan Saints launched a joint attack.

Li Qingyun’s clone defeated Outside Void Saints and other rivals as he crossed the mud palaces, claiming seven Constant Crystals. The Outside Void Saints began planning to join forces, while Li Qingyun’s true body witnessed the birth of the Eternal Life Pill.

• Li Qingyun’s clone brushed aside the attacks of three Pan Clan Saints, destroyed two of their mud bodies, and rejected Saint Dingwang’s offers to reveal Qingyunzi’s whereabouts or grant the Qingyun Dao Lineage extra years of survival.
• The clone destroyed Dingwang’s mud body, absorbed the miniature Eye of Turbid Sinking, and claimed the third Constant Crystal.
• In the fourth mud palace, the clone beat Emperor Liang, Pang Hong, and Yang Ming after they forced Li Xuanji out, but spared them as future opponents for A’li, Tangyin, and the others.
• The clone destroyed La Sheng’s mud body in the fifth mud palace and claimed seven Constant Crystals while traversing seven palaces in a day.
• The Outside Void Saints erupted in anger and discussed joining forces, while Li Qingyun’s true body welcomed the birth of the Eternal Life Pill in Emperor Yin’s Nine Constant Hall.

Li Qingyun refined an Eternal Life Pill, broke through into the Netherworld Entry Realm, and watched his Great Dao and blood begin transforming. He glimpsed Daoist Hongjun’s imprint and realized the Supreme Being was still alive.

• Li Qingyun used the Nine Constant Hall’s nine warding runes to shield the newly refined Eternal Life Pills from an external force, then swallowed one cluster of nine-colored radiance.
• Li Qingyun refined the pill’s immense power, transforming the worlds and Lands of the Universe within his Great Dao Universe.
• Li Qingyun broke through into the Netherworld Entry Realm and saw his Great Dao’s trajectory imprinted in the Netherworld Void as a Dao Forest.
• Li Qingyun’s Human Race true blood began evolving toward Eternal Blood, while the figure on the Supreme Dragon Chariot grew clearer.
• Li Qingyun recognized the figure as Daoist Hongjun and concluded that Hongjun, like the Extreme Ice Supreme Being, was still alive.

Li Qingyun refined three Eternal Life Pills, reaching Netherworld Entry Layer Nine and transforming part of his true blood into Eternal Life Blood. As the Ruins of Yin neared closing, he left Nine Constant Hall and questioned its artifact spirit about the ruins’ limits and purpose.

• Li Qingyun swallowed a second Eternal Life Pill and advanced to Netherworld Entry Layer Five, then into Layer Six.
• Li Qingyun refined three pills in total and reached Netherworld Entry Layer Nine, while one-ninth of his true blood transformed into a crystal mist.
• Li Qingyun realized the Ruins of Yin was about to close and left Nine Constant Hall before he could refine another batch of pills.
• Artifact spirit Yi congratulated Li Qingyun on his breakthrough and explained that it could not control the ruins’ opening or closing.
• Li Qingyun considered the purpose of Emperor Yin’s restrictions and the cosmic gates before the Ruins of Yin expelled its visitors.

Li Qingyun looted the Yin Emperor’s palace for materials to build a warding residence and was expelled from the Yin Ruins when they closed. Outside, the Outer Void Saints recognized his astonishing rise to the ninth layer of Netherworld Entry and asked him to guide them to the Cosmic Gates when the ruins opened again.

• Li Qingyun learned from artifact spirit Yi that the Yin Ruins might not reopen until after the Great Tribulation of Annihilation, and promised to take Yi with him if he was still in the Primordial Beginning.
• Li Qingyun gathered the Imperial Palace’s treasures and materials to use in forging a residence like the Nine Constant Hall.
• Li Qingyun wrote his name and a note about borrowing the hall’s items on the golden wall, upsetting Yi, who urged him to take anything else he wanted before the ruins closed.
• The Yin Ruins expelled Li Qingyun, and Yi called after him to remember his promise.
• Seventeen Outer Void Saints appeared outside the ruins, recognized Li Qingyun’s Netherworld Entry Realm cultivation, and asked him to lead them to the Cosmic Gates when the ruins reopened.

Li Qingyun used his knowledge of Zeus Gate Land to win the support of nine Saints, then clashed with Peng Mo when the Sky-Devouring Roc Clan Saint demanded his insights. As Pure Vajra, He Lao, and other Saints joined the fight, Li Qingyun welcomed the chance to temper himself against them.

• Li Qingyun told the Saints he had found a route to Zeus Gate Land and promised to lead them there when the Yin Ruins opened again.
• Nine Saints praised Li Qingyun, promised to aid him if needed, and departed after introducing themselves.
• Peng Mo blocked Li Qingyun and demanded his insights into the eight-character arcane secret.
• Li Qingyun and Peng Mo collided with their Dao Domains, and Peng Mo was shocked that his advantage was only slight.
• Pure Vajra, He Lao, and other Saints surrounded Li Qingyun and attacked, while Li Qingyun laughed and welcomed the fight.

Li Qingyun faced five Saints and killed Pan Chenxiao by exploiting a breach in his Dao Domain. The remaining Saints pressed their attack, but Li Qingyun revealed that Pure Vajra had misjudged his defenses and countered at close range.

• Li Qingyun assessed the five Saints’ cultivation levels as they joined their Dao Domains to attack him.
• Li Qingyun shifted toward Pan Chenxiao, cut open his Dao Domain, suppressed his defenses, and killed him with a charge through the breach.
• Peng Mo, Pure Vajra, He Lao, and Great King Yuan Buddha seized pieces of Pan Chenxiao’s remains while Peng Mo and Pure Vajra struck Li Qingyun from behind.
• Li Qingyun used Eternal Life Blood to recover from his minor injury and concealed its power as he blocked the Saints’ renewed assault.
• Pure Vajra broke through Li Qingyun’s Dao Domain while Great King Yuan Buddha tried to swallow him, but Li Qingyun mocked Pure Vajra and transformed the shattered Dao light into countless threads of secret energy.

Li Qingyun killed Great King Yuan Buddha after the latter tried to devour him, then the surviving enemies' alliance collapsed when Peng Mo Saint learned that the Western Paradise had killed Peng Wu Shi. Peng Mo attacked the Pure Vajra, and Li Qingyun struck the wounded Buddha down as he tried to flee.

• Li Qingyun shattered the Pure Vajra's Buddha heart with his Eternal Finger, but Great King Yuan Buddha, Peng Mo Saint, and He Lao joined forces to trap him.
• Li Qingyun emerged unharmed from Yuan's devouring maw and destroyed Great King Yuan Buddha from within, declaring that he was purging a traitor to the Three Pure Ones.
• Peng Mo Saint learned that the Western Paradise had killed Peng Wu Shi and turned his attack on the Pure Vajra.
• The Pure Vajra fled Peng Mo's assault, but Li Qingyun pierced his protective Buddha light and tapped him between the brows, killing him.