Chapter Summaries

Li Qingyun killed Pure Vajra and escaped Peng Mo Saint’s attack as Yuan Zhe Saint intervened to take half of the Buddha corpse. After killing He Lao, Li Qingyun left to refine another batch of Eternal Life Pills, while the opportunity in Mud Palace remained for his clone, Li Quanlei.

• Li Qingyun killed Pure Vajra, one of the Western Heavens’ six saints, and Peng Mo Saint attacked him while demanding the Buddha corpse.
• Li Qingyun blocked Peng Mo’s Dao Domain, but a feather-shaped strike broke through his defenses and split the Buddha corpse in two.
• Yuan Zhe Saint appeared, seized one half of the corpse, and clashed with Peng Mo while Li Qingyun let him escape with it.
• Li Qingyun caught the fleeing He Lao and killed him, leaving the River Mother Clan with only River Mother Saint.
• Li Qingyun headed into the void to find a concealed place and refine more Eternal Life Pills, leaving the Mud Palace opportunity to his clone, Li Quanlei.

Li Qingyun discovered that Eternal Runes sealed the material plane of Primordial Beginning and entered the surrounding sea of twisted origin substance. Meanwhile, the Western Heaven learned Pure Vajra had died, and Li Quanlei prepared to claim the Mud Palace’s final hall with eight eternal crystals already in his possession.

• Li Qingyun recognized the Eternal Clan’s runes on Primordial Beginning’s boundary and flew into the twisted origin substance, protected by his Eternal Life Blood.
• Jieying sensed that Pure Vajra had died, but the chaotic heavenly secrets prevented the Western Heaven saints from identifying the culprit.
• Jieying, Saint La, and Saint Dingwang set aside their anger and sent Dao-clone shadows into the Eye of Turbid Sinking to fight for the Mud Palace’s final hall.
• Li Quanlei absorbed the eighth small Eye of Turbid Sinking, strengthened his body, and stored the eighth eternal crystal.
• Li Quanlei charged through the mud wall toward the final hall, expecting the three clans’ saints to fail to stop him.

Li Qingyun’s clone defeated the Outer Void saints and claimed the Turbid Venerable’s inheritance. As the Mud Palace collapsed, the Turbid Venerable warned that Emperor Yin and the Eternal Clan would detect Li Qingyun if he ascended to sainthood, and urged him to hide in the Muddy Field until the Primordial Great Tribulation threw heavenly secrets into chaos.

• Ra, Jieyin, and Dingwang attacked Li Qingyun’s clone with three Heaven-Opening treasures, but he blocked their strikes with his turbid strength.
• Li Qingyun’s clone defeated the three saints and the other Outer Void Mud Bodies, then absorbed the final hall’s Turbid Sinking Origin Energy and Eternal Crystals.
• The Mud Palace collapsed after the Turbid Venerable’s inheritance found a successor.
• The Turbid Venerable revealed that Emperor Yin and the Eternal Clan had destroyed him, and warned Li Qingyun that Emperor Yin’s methods could sense him if he ascended to sainthood.
• The Turbid Venerable urged Li Qingyun to hide in the Muddy Field until the Primordial Great Tribulation disrupted heavenly secrets, then disappeared as the palace disintegrated.
• Li Qingyun’s clone vowed to avenge the Turbid Venerable.

After the Mud Palace collapsed and the ruins continued shrinking, Li Quanlei remained in the Muddy Field to cultivate while the Qingyun Dao Lineage disciples fled. He gave the Empress of Burial an eternal crystal and predicted that human disciples would be able to attain sainthood in five years, as the three clans’ saints watched the Muddy Field detach from the ruins.

• The Mud Palace collapsed, forcing Emperor Liang, Han Shanzi, Jia Yuxu, and the others to flee as the Muddy Field severed its connection to the ruins.
• Li Quanlei emerged from the muddy mire, and Li Qingyun’s clone told Cheng Tangyin, A'li, and the other Qingyun Dao Lineage disciples to leave while he stayed behind to cultivate.
• Li Xuanji, Cheng Tangyin, A'li, Houtu, and the others saluted Li Quanlei and departed through the narrowing sliver of Heaven.
• Li Quanlei gave the Empress of Burial a skull-shaped eternal crystal, and she resolved to ascend to the void and enter sainthood in five years.
• Li Quanlei predicted that no one outside the void would be able to prevent human disciples from attaining sainthood in five years, while the saints of the three clans watched the Muddy Field detach from the ruins.

The saints of the Western Heaven, Sacred Hall, and Pan Clans discovered that Li Qingyun had returned and defeated Pure Vajra, but they could neither explain his rapid cultivation nor locate him. At the border of Primordial Beginning, Li Qingyun forged a Nine-Faced Hall to shield his Eternal Life Pill refinement, while the Twisted Origin Substance began attacking the unfinished hall.

• Saint La warned that the clans could not afford to lose the remaining opportunity in Primordial Ancestor Supreme Being's ruins, and Jieyin promised Western Heaven's support in exchange for help eliminating the Abyss Clan.
• The saints deduced that Li Qingyun had defeated Pure Vajra and learned that he had reached Netherworld Entry Realm Layer Nine, then failed to sense or locate him.
• Li Qingyun refined treasures from Yin Emperor Palace into a Nine-Faced Hall, intending to hide the strange filth and refine another Eternal Life Pill.
• Twisted Origin Substance caused pustules and eyeballs to erupt from Li Qingyun's body, and the falling filth began attacking the hall's formation.
• Li Qingyun drove the filth away, but he could only repel it with his saintly power and lacked enough secret energy to purify it.

Li Qingyun completed the Nine-Faced Hall by branding it with blood-stained Eternal Evil Warding Runes, then learned that the Abyss Clan was being destroyed. As the surviving Abyss Saints fled and the clan’s territory collapsed, Emperor Liang killed Yuan Lang and Yuan Yiping and declared the Yuan Clan would be exterminated.

• Li Qingyun finished forging the Nine-Faced Hall and branded its faces with Eternal Runes and Human Race true blood, driving off a distant Eternal Clan divine will.
• The completed hall repelled the surrounding corruption and created an independent Land of Great Purity.
• Li Qingyun sensed that two of the Abyss Clan’s remaining Three Saints had fallen and entered the hall as Primordial Beginning shook.
• Jieyin, La, Pan Ding Wang, and other pursuers destroyed the Abyss Void Dao Palace and chased the wounded Yuan Kun, the Abyss Clan’s founding Saint.
• Yuan Lang and Yuan Yiping saw their clan’s territory collapse and flew toward the Qingyun Dao Lineage to seek protection.
• Emperor Liang seized and killed Yuan Lang and Yuan Yiping, then declared that the upper clan, the Yuan Clan, would be exterminated.

Saint Kun fled the Western Heaven and other saints by forcing his way through the twisted origin substance, hoping to cross the Netherworld Void. Near collapse, he found the Nine-Faced Hall and begged its occupant for help, only to discover that it was Li Qingyun, the former Yuan Clan Saint Seed he had once wronged.

• Saint Kun escaped through a cosmic black hole to the Primordial Beginning's edge, and the Western Heaven's Jieyin, Zhunti, and Great Sun Tathagata pursued him.
• Saint Kun charged into the twisted origin substance while the Western Heaven and other saints watched and guarded against his escape.
• The pollution degraded Saint Kun until he was nearly a long-haired skeleton, but he struggled toward the crystal boundary.
• Saint Kun spotted the Nine-Faced Hall, knelt, and begged its occupant for a path to survival.
• Li Qingyun emerged from the Nine-Faced Hall, recognized Saint Kun, and saw him pleading for rescue.
• Saint Kun recognized Li Qingyun as the former Yuan Clan Saint Seed and was overwhelmed by shock, shame, and remorse.

Li Qingyun gave Yuan Kun a wisp of Eternal Spiritual Energy, but Yuan Kun burned himself to ashes trying to break through the crystal-rune barrier. With the Abyss Clan’s Saints dead, the surviving clans began a Great Purge, and the Abyss Clan’s people faced the destruction of their clan.

• Li Qingyun replenished Yuan Kun with a wisp of Eternal Spiritual Energy to test whether his Saint Body could pass through the barrier.
• Yuan Kun spent his remaining strength attacking the crystal-rune barrier, but it remained intact and he was reduced to ashes.
• Li Qingyun reclaimed the wisp of Eternal Spiritual Energy and returned to the Nine-Faced Hall to refine his Eternal Life Pill.
• Jieyin and the other Buddhas mourned Yuan Kun’s death, then agreed to question the Saints who had been present when Yin Ruins closed.
• La and Dingwang reminded Western Heaven to help seize the final opportunity of the Primordial Ancestor Relic before leading their Saints away.
• The Abyss Clan’s people saw their Saints’ images and gifts crumble, realizing that the clan had been destroyed.

As the Abyss Clan began evacuating after its Saint fell, Yuan Li Ye and Bing relied on Li Qingyun’s old belongings to protect the Abyss Li Clan. Maitreya Buddha invaded the clan land and began devouring its people, but the objects shielded the Li residence, drawing his hostile attention.

• Yuan Guyuan ordered the Abyss Clan to flee through the Abyss Gate, while Yuan Changkong and the elders mobilized the clan amid widespread panic.
• Yuan Li Ye and Bing gathered their descendants in Lingping Heaven and prepared to evacuate, trusting Li Qingyun’s inkstone and teacup to protect them.
• Several Tree Connecting Realm main lineage disciples arrived and demanded Li Qingyun’s old belongings, prompting Yuan Li Ye to shield the residence with the inkstone.
• Maitreya Buddha broke into the Abyss Clan land and used his gray bag to swallow the Great Perfection Hua Xuan elders and pull the clan’s people toward it.
• Li Qingyun’s old objects protected Yuan Li Ye, Bing, and the others in the residence from the bag, and Maitreya Buddha resolved to devour those Li Qingyun had protected.

The Future Buddha attacked the Abyss Li Clan, but wills from the Qingyun Dao Lineage and Li Xuanji intervened to save the survivors. Li Xuanji carried Lingping Heaven to the Land of the First Cosmos, while the Abyss Clan’s homeland was destroyed and the Western Heaven continued hunting Rogue Saints.

• The Future Buddha shattered the Abyss Li Clan’s defenses and began drawing its descendants into his sack.
• Li Ye and the Abyss Li Clan descendants knelt and begged Qingyun Ancestor and the Dao Lineage to protect them.
• Cheng Tangyin, A'li, Houtu, Li Zuo, and Akshobhya Daoist sent their wills to the Mortal Heaven and attacked the Future Buddha.
• The Future Buddha intensified the sack’s pull, killing those outside Lingping Heaven and drawing the arriving wills toward it.
• Li Xuanji appeared, gathered Lingping Heaven and its inhabitants, and sent them to the Land of the First Cosmos before escaping the Future Buddha.
• The Abyss Clan’s homeland became lifeless wasteland as the Western Heaven continued eliminating Rogue Saints, leaving Peng Mo and Lu Ya on the run and the Qingyun Saint’s whereabouts unknown.

Li Qingyun tried to protect a batch of Eternal Life Pills from a mysterious force that struck as they left the furnace. He swallowed all three pills to keep them from being found, but the force still searched him as their power threatened to tear his Great Dao Universe apart.

• While refining the pills, Li Qingyun considered his plans to confront the Western Heaven, retrieve Shennong's spirit herbs, and eventually reach the Eternal Life Realm.
• After three days, Li Qingyun opened Laojun's Eight Trigrams Furnace and used the Nine-Faced Hall and his defenses to shield the three finished pills.
• A mysterious force struck the Nine-Faced Hall, cracking its nine faces and nearly destroying the imitation hall.
• Li Qingyun swallowed all three Eternal Life Pills, then used the Body: Eternity Cultivation Method to contain their destructive power.
• The Nine-Faced Hall shattered, and icy malice invaded the chamber, searching Li Qingyun for the pills' lingering fragrance.

Li Qingyun refined the Eternal Life Pill and broke through to Beyond Tribulation Realm Layer Four, then began calculating against the Western Heaven and other powers. The chapter left him appearing before the Great Ming King, who recognized him as a Beyond Tribulation Realm Qingyunzi.

• Li Qingyun endured the Twisted Origin Substance while refining the Eternal Life Pill and reached Netherworld Entry Realm Great Completion.
• Li Qingyun broke through to the Beyond Tribulation Realm and refined the remaining pill power until he reached Layer Four.
• Li Qingyun repaired the Nine-Faced Hall, then calculated his targets from within the Twisted Ocean and headed out.
• The Great Ming King absorbed the five wondrous desires of the mortal world and blamed Li Quanlei and Qingyunzi for blocking its advancement.
• A rotted Dao shadow appeared before the Great Ming King, who recognized it as Qingyunzi and sensed its Beyond Tribulation Realm cultivation.

Li Qingyun overwhelmed and killed the Great Ming King, then escaped the pursuing Buddhas by teleporting into the twisted ocean at the primordial boundary. The Western Paradise vowed to find him, while Li Qingyun’s mastery of time and space let him hide from their search.

• Li Qingyun suppressed the Great Ming King’s Buddha domain and forced his five-colored divine light back with a single finger.
• The Great Ming King revealed his twisted corpse-peacock form and tried to hold Li Qingyun off until the Western Paradise Buddhas arrived.
• Li Qingyun invoked the Great Dao’s power and crushed the Great Ming King, destroying all three of his heads and killing him.
• Jieyin, Zhunti, Rulai, and Jade Virtue Guanyin rushed to the scene, but Li Qingyun taunted them and vanished through time and space.
• Li Qingyun teleported into the twisted ocean at the primordial boundary, masking his presence as the Buddhas vowed to hunt him down.

Li Qingyun hunted down and killed Puxian Buddha and Saint Pan, declaring that the traitors who had oppressed the Three Purities and Human Race deserved to die. After testing his strength against Saint Dingwang, he withdrew through time and space, judging that two more minor realms of cultivation would let him face Dingwang directly.

• Li Qingyun appeared above Puxian Buddha’s pagoda and used his Dao power to suppress and kill him.
• Li Qingyun tore open Saint Pan’s primordial grotto-heaven and overwhelmed him with his Jade-Green Dao Domain.
• Saint Pan fled toward Saint Dingwang’s grotto-heaven, but Li Qingyun killed him with the Immortal Slaying Sword.
• Saint Dingwang attacked Li Qingyun with a giant hand formed from Origin Substance, and Li Qingyun dispersed it after testing their strength.
• Li Qingyun concluded he needed two more minor realms to contend with Saint Dingwang and escaped through time and space.

Li Qingyun escaped Saint Dingwang, then killed Saint Hu and fled as the Sacred Hall Clan’s remaining Saints arrived. Seven Saints pursued him through spacetime turbulence, but none could match his mastery of time, and they were forced to give up the chase.

• Saint Dingwang pursued Li Qingyun through spacetime turbulence but lost his trail.
• Li Qingyun reached Saint Hu’s nine-tiered pyramid grotto-heaven and destroyed it with a sword strike.
• Saint Hu fled, but Li Qingyun killed him with a shout, and his corpse revealed that he had nearly become an ominous aberration.
• La, Rui, and Ling arrived and vowed revenge, while Li Qingyun slipped into the void.
• La, Rui, Dingwang, Jieyin, Tathagata, Zhunti, and the River Maiden joined forces to pursue Li Qingyun through spacetime turbulence.
• The seven Saints failed to match Li Qingyun’s time-traveling ability and began leaping out of the turbulence.

Li Qingyun killed Denguāng Joyful Buddha and drove the four great upper clans into hiding together while they prepared a killing formation. After cultivating the Body: Eternity Cultivation Method in seclusion, he left the Nine-Faced Hall to retrieve the nine Eternal Crystals held by the Quan Lei clone.

• Li Qingyun caught and killed Denguāng Joyful Buddha, who had impersonated Shennong and slaughtered Human Race descendants, then destroyed his grotto-heaven.
• La Saint and Saint Dingwang proposed merging the four clans’ grotto-heavens and preparing a formation to trap Li Qingyun.
• Li Qingyun hid in the twisted atmosphere at the edge of the Primordial Beginning, then returned to the Nine-Faced Hall to cultivate the Body: Eternity Cultivation Method.
• Li Qingyun spent two months cultivating and made progress, though minor mastery still required an immense number of transformations.
• Li Qingyun learned that the four clans were fortifying Western Heaven Mount Sumeru Grotto-Heaven while La, Jie Yin, and Dingwang waited outside, and he set out to retrieve the nine Eternal Crystals.

Li Qingyun lured La, Dingwang, and Jieyin into a frustrating chase before heading to the Eye of Turbid Sinking to meet his Quan Lei clone and retrieve nine Eternal Crystals. When Jieyin pursued him alone, Li Qingyun chose to stay and face the Buddha while his will-body continued through the Muddy Field.

• Li Qingyun repeatedly appeared and vanished into the Twisted Ocean, frustrating La, Dingwang, and Jieyin as they tried to pursue him.
• La and Dingwang abandoned the chase and returned to Mount Sumeru, but Jieyin continued pursuing Li Qingyun until he too returned to Mount Sumeru.
• Li Qingyun traveled to the Eye of Turbid Sinking, set up layered defenses, and sent a Dao Will shadow into the Muddy Field to find his Quan Lei clone.
• Jieyin sensed that Li Qingyun was plotting something and flew from Mount Sumeru toward the Eye of Turbid Sinking.
• Li Qingyun sensed Jieyin approaching and decided to face him rather than flee, while his will-body continued toward the Quan Lei clone and the nine Eternal Crystals.

Li Qingyun faced Jieyin in a fierce battle, using his Dao Domain and the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation to withstand the Buddha’s attacks. After revealing his Eternal body secret to break Jieyin’s strongest palm, he watched Jieyin shatter the formation and unleash the Heaven-Opening Prayer Beads in a killing strike.

• Jieyin appeared before Li Qingyun and attacked with his Buddha domain, but Li Qingyun met him with his jade-green Dao Domain and the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.
• Jieyin gained the upper hand through seasoned combat tactics and tried to seal the surrounding void, while Li Qingyun shattered the falling Buddha seals.
• Jieyin struck with the Great Dao trajectory of Mount Sumeru, and Li Qingyun used Body: Eternity to break the palm head-on.
• Jieyin recognized Li Qingyun’s Eternal Clan secret Qi, then renewed his assault and broke through the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.
• Jieyin hurled the Heaven-Opening Prayer Beads at Li Qingyun, intending to kill him.

Li Qingyun endured Jieyin’s Heaven-Opening Bead attack by taking it into his chest, where his Great Dao Universe and Eternal Bone helped subdue the treasure and sever Jieyin’s control. As Jieyin tried to reclaim the bead, Li Qingyun’s will mud body emerged with nine Eternal Crystals, drawing Jieyin’s greed and renewed attack.

• Li Qingyun used the Dark Tome to weaken Jieyin, but it could not affect the Heaven-Opening Prayer Beads.
• Li Qingyun caught the bead-light with his hand, which exploded, then twisted aside and took the blow to his chest instead of his head.
• Li Qingyun’s Great Dao Universe resisted the bead, and his Eternal Bone and Eternal Life Blood dispersed Jieyin’s divine intent, severing his control of the treasure.
• Jieyin tried to tear open Li Qingyun’s chest and reclaim the Heaven-Opening Bead, but Li Qingyun refused to let him take it back.
• Li Qingyun’s will mud body emerged from the Eye of Turbid Sinking after completing its handover with the Quan Lei clone, carrying nine Eternal Crystals.
• Jieyin spotted the nine Eternal Crystals and reached for the mud body, fearing Li Qingyun would become even harder to suppress.

Li Qingyun recovered the Eternal Crystals, escaped into the Twisted Ocean, and took Jieyin’s Heavenly Bead. As he transformed the crystals into eternal parts of his body, the three Saints realized he possessed Eternal Life Blood and resolved to pursue its source.

• Li Qingyun recovered the nine Eternal Crystals, drove back Jieyin, and fled into the Twisted Ocean with Jieyin’s Heavenly Bead.
• La, Jieyin, and Dingwang stopped at the edge of the Twisted Layer and learned from Jieyin that Li Qingyun had used Eternal Life Blood to erase his imprint from the Heavenly Bead.
• La, Jieyin, and Dingwang linked Li Qingyun’s Eternal Life Blood to Crimson Ying Grass and Eternal Life Pills, then vowed to keep watch for a chance to obtain them.
• Inside the Nine-Faced Hall, Li Qingyun used the Eternal Crystals to form an Eternal Heart and regenerate his shattered right arm.
• Li Qingyun concluded that the Eternal Crystals and Eternal Life Blood could let him pass as a member of the Eternal Clan.