Chapter Summaries

After half a month absorbing the Eternal Crystals, Li Qingyun gained an Eternal Body foundation and planned to use his true body and Quan Lei clone to pursue separate paths. As the Primordial Great Tribulation accelerated and the Remnant Ruins contracted, Empress of Burial prepared to Ascend to Void and Enter Sainthood.

• Li Qingyun completed his transformation into Eternal Bones, gained Eternal Eyes, and considered using his true body to infiltrate the Eternal Clan while Quan Lei continued cultivating the Cosmic Turbid Demon Art.
• Li Qingyun decided that La, Dingwang, and Jieyin had to be eliminated because they knew his background and could obstruct his plans.
• Li Qingyun cultivated the Body: Eternity Cultivation Method at greatly increased speed and reforged Jieyin's Heavenly Bead with his Dao thought.
• The Remnant Ruins contracted over several years, exposing more than a hundred Lands of the Universe, while Cloud Saint's presence kept the Saints from attacking them.
• The Qingyun Dao Lineage, Void Annihilation Society, and Guǐ Daoist's followers remained crowded together in the shrinking Remnant Ruins as Emperor Liang, Han Shanzi, and Guǐ Daoist grew stronger.
• Empress of Burial judged the moment right and prepared to Ascend to Void and Enter Sainthood.

Li Qingyun used his Eternal Eye to break Saint Dingwang’s attack and escape Pull, Guide, and Dingwang. He reached Saint Pan’s grotto-heaven and invited Daoist Lu Ya to join him in founding a power of their own.

• Li Qingyun left the Nine-Faced Hall and found his Eternal Bone and blood could partly resist the Twisted Origin Substance.
• Li Qingyun learned that the Empress of Burial would ascend to sainthood that day and decided he lacked the strength to protect her, so he approached Saint Dingwang.
• Li Qingyun offered Saint Dingwang and the Pan Clan a chance to remain neutral, but Dingwang demanded the Eternal Life Pill and the Ultimate Secret of the Body.
• Saint Dingwang tried to freeze Li Qingyun, but Li Qingyun used his Eternal Eye to see through the law and escape into the spacetime currents.
• Pull, Guide, and Saint Dingwang pursued Li Qingyun, but he disrupted the currents with Chaos and arrived at Saint Pan’s grotto-heaven.
• Li Qingyun greeted Daoist Lu Ya and invited him to join him in establishing a power of their own.

Li Qingyun recruited Daoist Lu Ya and Peng Mo to unite against Western Heaven, proving their strength by wielding Jieyin’s Heaven-Opening Prayer Beads. Their alliance faced Jieyin, Ra, and Pan Ding Wang, who now treated them as serious opponents.

• Daoist Lu Ya agreed to follow Li Qingyun, and the two set out to find Peng Mo.
• Li Qingyun and Daoist Lu Ya stopped Peng Mo from fleeing and invited him to join their fight against Western Heaven.
• Peng Mo doubted their chances against Ra, Jieyin, and Ding Wang, so Li Qingyun showed him the Heavenly Bead.
• Li Qingyun hurled the Heavenly Bead at Jieyin, blasting the void and forcing Jieyin to defend himself as his Demon-Smiting Pestle cracked.
• Impressed by the bead’s power, Peng Mo agreed to join Li Qingyun and Daoist Lu Ya.
• Ra and Pan Ding Wang appeared beside Jieyin and confronted the newly united group without attacking.

Li Qingyun used the Heaven-Opening Bead and Eternal Eye to make La and Dingwang wary and open to neutrality in exchange for an Eternal Life Pill. Jieyin rejected the negotiation, and the chapter ended as Li Qingyun attacked him while La and Dingwang held back.

• Li Qingyun stood with Lu Ya and Peng Mo behind him after his Heaven-Opening Bead forced Jieyin back and made La and Dingwang hesitate.
• Li Qingyun revealed his Eternal Eye, impressing La and Dingwang and stirring greed in Peng Mo.
• La judged that Li Qingyun had forged at least half an Eternal Body, and Dingwang offered neutrality if Li Qingyun allotted him an Eternal Life Pill.
• Li Qingyun explained that he lacked the herbs to refine another pill, while Jieyin demanded the Heaven-Opening Bead and a share for the Western Paradise.
• Li Qingyun refused Jieyin, who unleashed his Buddha domain and urged La and Dingwang to attack, but they held back.
• Li Qingyun charged Jieyin with his Jade-Green Dao Domain and hurled the Heaven-Opening Bead at him.

Li Qingyun used the Heavenly Bead and Eternal Eyes to overpower Jieyin, forcing the Western Heaven leader to retreat. He then sought La and Dingwang’s help in opening the Yin Ruins, offering Eternal Life Pills in exchange, while planning to save Shen Nong’s cosmic herbs before the Great Calamity destroyed their home.

• Li Qingyun used the Heavenly Bead to batter Jieyin despite Jieyin’s peak Beyond Tribulation Realm cultivation, while La and Dingwang reconsidered their alliance after learning Li Qingyun could refine Eternal Life Pills.
• Jieyin lost fingers to the Heavenly Bead and asked La and Dingwang to lend him their Heaven-Opening Supreme Treasures, but both Saints refused.
• Jieyin withdrew from the fight, and Peng Mo mocked his retreat as Li Qingyun approached La and Dingwang.
• Li Qingyun offered to discuss Eternal Life Pills if La and Dingwang helped him open the Gate of Yin Ruins with their Heaven-Opening Rope and Axe.
• Li Qingyun planned to retrieve Shen Nong’s cosmic spiritual herbs before the Great Calamity destroyed the Yin Ruins, hoping to preserve them with Eternal Life Blood.

Li Qingyun recruited La and Dingwang to help open the Gate of Yin Ruins in hopes of refining an Eternal Life Pill, then began establishing a Three Absolutes Formation at the Eye of Turbid Sinking. He built the Primordial Azure Palace as the first formation eye and calculated when the Empress of Burial might ascend into the void.

• Li Qingyun urged La and Dingwang to decide within three days whether to help break open the Gate of Yin Ruins, and announced that he would build Dao palaces and a formation at the Eye of Turbid Sinking.
• La and Dingwang agreed to join forces with Li Qingyun, hoping he could refine an Eternal Life Pill, while planning to seek out Jieyin and manage the Western Heaven’s response.
• At the Eye of Turbid Sinking, Li Qingyun assigned Lu Ya and Peng Mo to oversee two gates of the Three Absolutes Formation and instructed them in its operation.
• Li Qingyun created the Primordial Azure Palace, establishing the formation eye of the Primordial Azure Kill Formation and making it a future sanctuary for his allies.
• After finishing the palace, Li Qingyun calculated when the Empress of Burial would ascend into the void and considered the need for her to strengthen her cultivation before the Primordial Beginning was destroyed.

Li Qingyun, Lu Ya, and Peng Mo completed the Three Severance Formation, establishing the Three Pure Ones and Human Race in the outer void and making Li Qingyun their Primeval Saint and ancestor. The Empress of Burial then emerged from the Eye of Turbid Sinking and began ascending to sainthood as Buddha Saints watched in alarm.

• Li Qingyun, Lu Ya, and Peng Mo joined their Dao palaces into the Three Severance Formation, drawing the attention of Buddha Saints from Mount Sumeru.
• The completed Primordial Azure Palace restored the fortune of the Three Pure Ones and Human Race, and Li Qingyun received the prayers of humans across the worlds as their Primeval Saint and ancestor.
• The surge of fortune raised Li Qingyun to the fifth layer of the Beyond Tribulation Realm, but distortion in the void interrupted his further advancement.
• Li Qingyun told Lu Ya and Peng Mo not to suppress the new aura rising from the Eye of Turbid Sinking because another Human Race Saint was ascending.
• The Empress of Burial emerged atop an ancient coffin, declared her intent to enter sainthood, and transformed as she drew in Outer Void Origin Substance.
• Buddha Saints reacted with fury and suspicion, recognizing that Li Qingyun had established the formation around the Eye of Turbid Sinking to escort the Empress of Burial into sainthood.

The three great Buddhas tried to stop Empress of Burial from becoming a Saint, but she endured their curse while Li Qingyun defended her with the Three Absolutes Formation. The Buddhas attacked the formation and were forced to retreat after Li Qingyun used the Heavenly Bead to destroy Amitabha’s left palm.

• Amitabha, Zhunti, and Tathagata cursed Empress of Burial to prevent her from becoming a Saint, causing the Outer Void Origin Substance inside her to turn violent.
• Empress of Burial used her Great Dao of Burying Heaven to suppress the substance and continue transforming her Saint Body.
• After their sacred judgment failed and caused backlash, Amitabha, Zhunti, and Tathagata attacked the three palaces of the Three Absolutes Formation.
• Li Qingyun joined the formation’s power across all three domains, tearing apart the Buddhas’ attacks and sending the Heavenly Bead after Amitabha.
• Amitabha lost his left palm to the Heavenly Bead, and Zhunti and Tathagata urged him to withdraw because the Buddhas could not break the formation.

Li Qingyun pursued the retreating Jie Yin, Zhunti, and Tathagata, then ambushed Tathagata and overpowered him despite his higher cultivation. Tathagata invoked Ten Thousand Buddhas Return to Origin, but Li Qingyun used the Immeasurable Seal and Heavenly Bead to scatter his arms and shatter his treasures.

• After Jie Yin, Zhunti, and Tathagata withdrew from the Three Absolutes Formation, Li Qingyun pursued them, aiming to injure or kill one of them.
• When Jie Yin turned to confront him, Li Qingyun flickered through the void and appeared before Tathagata, mocking him and breaking through his Buddhist domain.
• Li Qingyun’s palm shattered Tathagata’s palm, and his Jade-Green Dao Domain overwhelmed Tathagata despite the difference in their cultivation.
• Tathagata unleashed Ten Thousand Buddhas Return to Origin, drawing on Past Buddhas to manifest a thousand arms and a thousand treasures.
• Li Qingyun invoked the Immeasurable Seal, scattered Tathagata’s arms, and sent the Heavenly Bead to crush his Buddha treasures.

Li Qingyun killed Tathagata, weakening Western Heaven and unsettling its plans to rule the coming age. As the Sacred Hall Clan withdrew from Mount Sumeru, Empress of Burial became a Saint, and Li Qingyun saw that she was tied to Sovereign Nuwa and the Yellow Emperor.

• Li Qingyun pierced Tathagata's heart with the Heavenly Bead, killing him as Jieyin and Zhunti arrived too late to intervene.
• Jieyin and Zhunti attacked Li Qingyun, but he retreated into the Three Absolutes Formation; they left with Tathagata's corpse and vowed revenge.
• Saint Ra sensed that Western Heaven's fixed fate to rule the new age had shifted, then left Mount Sumeru with Rui and Ling.
• Empress of Burial used the Human Race's accumulated fortunes to break the Primordial Beginning's barrier and become a Saint.
• Li Qingyun saw that Empress of Burial was the remnant thought of Sovereign Nuwa and possessed the ancient blood of the Yellow Emperor.

Li Qingyun learned that the Empress of Burial was the reborn Wa Emperor and welcomed her as a Human Saint, then arranged for her to guard the Primordial Azure Palace and the Three Absolutes Formation. Three days later, he met Saints La and Dingwang at the Gate of Yin Ruins to break it open and retrieve Shennong’s spiritual medicines.

• Li Qingyun saw through the Empress of Burial’s origins, and she confirmed that she had returned as the Wa Emperor’s lingering thought with a new Path of the Great Dao.
• Lu Ya and Peng Mo congratulated the Empress of Burial, and Li Qingyun asked her to reside in the Primordial Azure Palace and hold the Three Absolutes Formation’s central formation eye.
• Li Qingyun and the Empress of Burial exchanged information about the formation and the Primordial Great Tribulation, and she explained how her Path of Burial Heaven and the Coffin of Destiny could resist twisted contamination.
• Li Qingyun told the Empress of Burial that he planned to break open the Gate of Yin Ruins with Saints La and Dingwang, retrieve Shennong’s spiritual medicines, and make pills to raise their cultivation.
• Three days later, Li Qingyun met La and Dingwang at the Gate of Yin Ruins, promised them shares of any Eternal Life Pills he made, and invited them to strike the gate with their Heaven-Opening Supreme Treasures.

Li Qingyun and the two saints broke open the Yin Ruins gates with their Heaven-Opening Supreme Treasures so he could enter in search of the Eternal Life Pill. He passed the ruins’ defenses by posing as an Eternal Imperial Clansman, then discovered a dead, tentacled creature polluting a dormant cosmic gate.

• Li Qingyun, Saint La, and Saint Dingwang struck the Yin Ruins gates with their three Heaven-Opening Supreme Treasures until they cracked and opened.
• Li Qingyun entered the ruins after warning La and Dingwang to protect the Three Absolutes Formation while he searched for the pill.
• Li Qingyun used his Eternal Clan traits and the Body: Eternity Cultivation Method to overcome the ruins’ repulsive force and pass through its halls.
• Li Qingyun reached the void realm of the Nine Cosmic Gates and sensed a greatly intensified foul aura.
• Li Qingyun saw a withered tentacle covered in dead-fish-like eyes beside a dormant cosmic gate and identified it as the source of the pollution.

Li Qingyun braved the collapsing Zeus Gate and herb garden to collect rare herbs, then returned to the Nine Constant Hall to refine Eternal Life Pills. After swallowing one, he advanced to the sixth and then seventh layer of the Beyond Tribulation Realm, preparing to dominate Primordial Beginning as the Great Calamity closed in.

• Li Qingyun burned the polluted tentacle at the Zeus Gate and used Eternal Life Blood to activate the decaying gate.
• He entered the collapsing herb garden, transplanted its rare treasures into his Great Dao universe, repaired the Chaos Singularity teleportation array, and escaped as the fissure collapsed.
• Li Qingyun returned to the ruins of Yin and ordered the artifact spirit Yi to open the Nine Constant Hall.
• He refined two cauldrons of Eternal Life Pills, intending to use them to reach the Beyond Tribulation Realm peak before confronting the other Universe Controllers.
• Nine days later, Li Qingyun swallowed an Eternal Life Pill and reached the sixth layer of the Beyond Tribulation Realm, then advanced to the seventh layer two hours afterward.

Li Qingyun used three Eternal Life Pills to reach the peak of the Beyond Tribulation Realm, then claimed Emperor Yin’s Heavenly Palace and renamed it Qingyun Palace. He sensed Emperor Yin’s hostile attention as he prepared to leave and severed the connection.

• Li Qingyun consumed the Eternal Life Pills and reached the peak of the Beyond Tribulation Realm, sensing that the Eternal Life Realm remained beyond reach in the First Sequence Cosmic Domain Chain.
• Li Qingyun decided to keep one Crimson Ying Grass as a seed and honor his promise to Ra and Dingwang with the other, while still intending to settle his grudges.
• Artifact spirit Yi agreed to serve Li Qingyun instead of Emperor Yin, and shrank the Heavenly Palace into a miniature palace for him.
• Li Qingyun refined the palace, named it Qingyun Palace, and stored it in his Great Dao Universe, while the Nine Constant Hall remained behind.
• Li Qingyun sensed Emperor Yin’s malicious attention and severed the invisible channel with his Beyond Tribulation Realm power.

After emerging from the Yin Ruins at the peak of the Beyond Tribulation Realm, Li Qingyun declared that he would settle his Great Karma against Western Heaven before giving La and Dingwang their promised Eternal Life Pills. The Three Buddhas sensed the coming upheaval and prepared Mount Sumeru for battle, while La and Dingwang chose not to intervene.

• Li Qingyun emerged from the Yin Ruins with power that shocked La and Dingwang, who demanded their Eternal Life Pills.
• Li Qingyun repelled the two Saints and promised the pills after he settled his Great Karma against Western Heaven.
• La and Dingwang recognized that Li Qingyun meant to attack Western Heaven and tacitly agreed to stand aside.
• Jie Yin, Zhunti, and Jade Virtue Guanyin sensed a coming disaster and discovered that Jie Yin could no longer calculate Li Qingyun's movements.
• Jie Yin sent Jade Virtue to invite the River Maiden out of seclusion and asked the Sacred Hall and Pan Clan Saints to defend Mount Sumeru.
• Jie Yin realized La and Dingwang would not help and ordered Western Heaven to prepare for battle.

Li Qingyun arrived at Mount Sumeru as a Beyond Tribulation Realm peak and launched his first direct assault on the Western Heaven. He shattered its weakened saint-suppressing formation and drove the River Mother Saint to flee, leaving the Western Heaven under attack.

• Jieyin, Zhunti, Jade Virtue Guanyin Saint, and River Mother Saint were shocked when Li Qingyun’s Jade-Green Dao Domain surrounded Mount Sumeru.
• Li Qingyun saw through the saint-suppressing formation, declared that the Western Heaven must face the Annihilation Tribulation, and pressed his Dao Domain against it.
• Jieyin and Zhunti poured their power into the formation while Jade Virtue Guanyin Saint recalled her past as Daoist Cihang.
• Li Qingyun struck an empty formation gate and broke through the formation, throwing the defenders’ Dao domains into chaos.
• Jieyin ordered the others to retreat to Mount Sumeru, but Li Qingyun attacked the River Mother Saint as she hesitated.
• River Mother Saint used her gray old cloth to block the blow, was badly injured, and fled into the distant void.

Li Qingyun destroyed Mount Sumeru’s defenses and overwhelmed Jieyin, Zhunti, and Jade Virtue Guanyin, who drew on the power of past Buddhas to fight back. He used the Heavenly Bead and his jade-green Dao domain to break their counterattack and blast the three Buddhas from the mountain.

• Li Qingyun let River Mother Saint flee, then announced he would bring down Mount Sumeru.
• Li Qingyun shattered the Heaven-Covering Array and struck Jieyin, sending him crashing into Mount Sumeru.
• Jieyin, Zhunti, and Jade Virtue Guanyin urged Jieyin to keep fighting and summoned Mount Sumeru’s accumulated power from past Buddhas.
• The three Buddhas attacked Li Qingyun with golden Buddha palms, but he unleashed the Heavenly Bead, which shattered their strikes.
• Li Qingyun’s Dao domain surged through the opening made by the Heavenly Bead and blasted all three Buddhas out of Mount Sumeru.

Li Qingyun destroyed Mount Sumeru and crushed Western Heaven’s remaining destiny, then killed Jade Virtue, revealed as Cihang. With Western Heaven’s gate cleared and stolen destiny returned to the Three Pure Ones, new saints were poised to emerge.

• Li Qingyun killed Zhunti with a finger strike as Jieyin and Jade Virtue watched in horror.
• Li Qingyun’s Heavenly Bead shattered Mount Sumeru, and his Dao Domain ground Western Heaven’s fleeing remnants into nothingness.
• Jieyin tried to escape, while Li Qingyun caught up to Jade Virtue and asked whether she regretted betraying the Three Pure Ones.
• Li Qingyun suppressed Jade Virtue, who recognized the Three Pure Ones’ Dao might, admitted her mistake, and died.
• Li Qingyun sensed that the Three Pure Ones’ stolen destiny had returned and that new saints would soon emerge among its disciples.

Jieyin attacked the remnants after Yude’s death, but Li Qingyun stopped him and pursued him through the spacetime turbulence for half a year. Before Li Qingyun killed him, Jieyin revealed his belief that the universe was an alchemy-like breeding ground and warned that Li Qingyun would soon follow him to his death.

• Grief-stricken by Yude’s death, Jieyin charged toward the remnants to destroy the Three Pure Saints’ Dao lineage and the human race.
• Li Qingyun intercepted Jieyin, and an Opening Heaven Bead struck him, destroying half his head and stripping away half his cultivation.
• Jieyin scrambled his Buddhist heart to evade Li Qingyun’s Eternal Eyes, but Li Qingyun pursued him through the spacetime turbulence.
• At Mount Sumeru’s ruins, La and Dingwang sensed that Jieyin’s defeat had intensified Primordial Beginning’s kalpa force and worried about Li Qingyun’s growing power.
• After half a year, Jieyin emerged exhausted and told Li Qingyun that mysterious entities had turned the universe into a breeding ground for a vicious medicine.
• Jieyin warned that Li Qingyun had consumed the Eternal Life Pill and stolen the Eternal Body but would still fail to escape the world; Li Qingyun killed him with a palm strike.

After Li Qingyun destroyed Western Heaven, he asserted Human Race dominance and arranged to fulfill his promises of Eternal Life Pills. Ra and Dingwang prepared to leave Primordial Beginning once they received the pills, while Li Qingyun remained intent on settling his other debts.

• Li Qingyun dispersed Primordial Beginning’s grieving clouds and declared that the Human Race would rule the new age.
• Ra, Dingwang, four other saints, Peng Mo, and Lu Ya emerged to congratulate Li Qingyun, but he had Peng Mo and Lu Ya collect the Buddhist corpses.
• Li Qingyun told Ra and Dingwang to wait nine days for what he had promised, and they resolved to leave Primordial Beginning after receiving the Eternal Life Pills.
• Li Qingyun returned to Nine Constant Hall and refined the final batch of pills, determined to honor his promises before pursuing his grudges.
• Nine days later, Ra and Dingwang arrived with the Human Race ancient coffin and tried to make peace with the Empress of Burial, who gave them no answer.
• Li Qingyun invited the three into Nine Constant Hall, where Ra and Dingwang entered to receive the Eternal Life Pills.