Chapter Summaries

Li Qingyun sold Bone Medicine and Soul Liquid to the Xia siblings under the alias Shang Yun, then moved on to bargain for Qingquan Potion. When the next stallholder insulted him, Li Qingyun released his pressure and knocked the man back.

• Li Qingyun approached Xia Gao and Xia Ying, who offered a ten percent premium for bulk purchases of Bone Medicine and Soul Liquid.
• Li Qingyun sold them fifteen portions of Bone Medicine and thirteen portions of Soul Liquid, giving his name as Shang Yun and accepting fifty-eight Eternal Crystals.
• Xia Ying claimed she could improve Shang Yun’s standing with Shang Qin, while she and Xia Gao privately discussed using Shang Qin to tame him.
• Li Qingyun went to a stall selling Qingquan Potion and asked whether its price could be lowered.
• The stallholder mocked Li Qingyun for wanting the potion, so Li Qingyun released his Beyond Tribulation Realm peak pressure and blasted the man several steps back.

Li Qingyun left Funiu Dock after spotting Saint Dingwang’s skull among the goods, then traveled into the Fourth Sequence Ring Chain. There he encountered a massive Eternal Legion and learned that the Eternal Clan faced taboo Outer Demons beyond the known cosmos, renewing his determination to reach the Cosmic Dwarf Star and find the Extreme Ice Supreme Being.

• Li Qingyun argued with a Ji Clan stall owner over the price of a One Tremor Qingquan Potion, then left without buying it to reinforce his Shang Yun identity.
• Li Qingyun recognized Saint Dingwang’s Great Dao traces on a portion of bone medicine and realized Dingwang had died; he checked that La Sheng’s Life Lamp was still lit.
• Li Qingyun departed Funiu Dock and entered the Fourth Sequence Ring Chain, where he encountered a gigantic Netherworld Creature carrying a powerful White Robed Supreme Being.
• Li Qingyun spotted a vast Eternal Legion following the creature and realized its forces were returning from an expedition toward Cosmos Star.
• Li Qingyun studied his star map and discovered that the Eternal Clan’s domain bordered a dark red region marked taboo Outer Demons, then resolved to reach the Cosmic Dwarf Star and seek the Extreme Ice Supreme Being.

Li Qingyun encountered smugglers and a training squad while crossing the fifth-sequence ring chain, then pursued the squad as it chased Yi Sheng. Yi Sheng escaped with a Whirlwind Creation, but Yin Jun kept pace and the other trainees followed, hoping to capture him and claim the treasure.

• Li Qingyun spotted a group of smugglers led by Yi Sheng, who was guiding them through the Netherworld, while Saint Hongyun fled separately.
• Yin Jun’s star-skiff malfunctioned and brought his training squad to the smugglers; the squad chased Yi Sheng, mistaking him for a valuable commoner.
• Li Qingyun decided to follow the squad and help Yi Sheng, while avoiding Saint Hongyun because he believed Hongyun brought misfortune to those around him.
• Yi Sheng used the Whirlwind Creation bestowed by Supreme Being Mofeng to surge ahead of the pursuing star-skiff.
• Yin Jun donned silver-threaded crystal armor and pursued Yi Sheng alone as Hekang and the other trainees continued after them.

Li Qingyun pursued a star skiff carrying trial disciples, then fought them after they tried to block his path. He killed the four Eternal Clan disciples and continued flying through the void with their secret artifacts, leaving their star skiff behind.

• Li Qingyun spent eighteen eternal crystals to accelerate his star skiff and catch up with the trial disciples.
• He Kang cut across Li Qingyun's path, and the disciples attacked him with sword lights and a secret artifact.
• Li Qingyun countered their attacks, killed Fu Han with the secret cage, and beheaded the three remaining disciples.
• He Kang and the other two fled as disembodied heads, but Li Qingyun caught up and killed them with the secret cage.
• Li Qingyun collected the disciples' secret artifacts and wiped their divine-sense imprints, then flew past their star skiff.

Li Qingyun caught up with Yin Jun as he was about to kill Yi Sheng and intervened with his Dao domain and secret artifacts. Yin Jun emerged unharmed from Li Qingyun’s flames, but was immediately struck by a series of secret-artifact attacks.

• Li Qingyun collected crystal cores and artifacts from the Eternal Clan disciples he had defeated, then burned their corpses with the Ancestor Spirit Lamp.
• Yin Jun used his Silver Crystal Divine Armor and crystal saber to pursue Yi Sheng, shattering the elder’s star disk and leaving him on the verge of death.
• Yi Sheng resolved to self-detonate rather than be captured when Li Qingyun arrived and urged him to stay alive.
• Yin Jun welcomed Li Qingyun as another chance to earn a great contribution, while Yi Sheng warned him that Yin Jun’s third-level armor was too powerful to face.
• Li Qingyun combined his Dao domain with the lamp artifact to imprison Yin Jun briefly, then unleashed green lotus flames that Yin Jun appeared to withstand.
• Secret-artifact strikes pierced Yin Jun at the scorched spot on his chest.

Li Qingyun exploited repeated strikes to break the lotus-patterned section of Yin Jun’s Level 3 Divine Armor and grievously wound him, though Yin Jun still damaged Li Qingyun’s shoulder. With Yin Jun fleeing and Yi Sheng throwing Li Qingyun two Swift Wind-like secret artifacts, the battle continued.

• Yin Jun attacked Li Qingyun’s star skiff at high speed, but Li Qingyun repeatedly broke his Crystal Swords and used the Ancestor Spirit Lamp’s cage lights and Chaos Green Lotus Flame to impede him.
• Yin Jun breached the skiff’s defenses and struck Li Qingyun, but a cage light diverted his fist and let Li Qingyun evade the killing blow.
• As Yin Jun charged again, Li Qingyun unleashed linked streaks of Eternal Light at the repeatedly struck lotus patterns on Yin Jun’s chest armor.
• Li Qingyun’s attacks broke the armor and pierced Yin Jun, while Yin Jun’s punch only grazed Li Qingyun’s shoulder and reduced it to powder.
• Yin Jun’s strength collapsed, so he turned to flee; Yi Sheng shouted for Li Qingyun to stop him and threw him two Swift Wind-like secret artifacts.

Li Qingyun used the Swift Wind Boots and his secret artifacts to overpower and kill Yin Jun, despite the Silver Crystal Armor’s formidable defenses. He took the armor and Yin Jun’s belongings, then prepared to flee.

• Li Qingyun put on the Swift Wind Boots and used their linked Dao veins to catch up with Yin Jun.
• Li Qingyun attacked Yin Jun with his Dao Domain, blades, swords, and Ancestor Spirit Lamp, gradually weakening the Silver Crystal Armor.
• Yin Jun tried to flee, threatened Li Qingyun, and then fought back, but Li Qingyun continued burning and striking the armor.
• Li Qingyun broke through the weakened armor and killed Yin Jun, whose Silver Crystal Armor detached from his corpse.
• Li Qingyun collected the damaged armor, more than a hundred eternal crystals, and other items from Yin Jun’s body.

Li Qingyun killed the Eternal Clan pursuer and learned that the Eternal Curse could be removed once he reached the Cosmic Dwarf Star. He joined Yi Sheng’s group of crossers and arrived at their gathering point, where the other saints offered him resources in exchange for Eternal Crystals.

• Li Qingyun reunited with Yi Sheng, returned the Swift Wind Boots, and asked about the Eternal Curse; Yi Sheng said Supreme Being seniors could remove it on the Cosmic Dwarf Star.
• Li Qingyun destroyed the Star Disk and burned away its traces after Yi Sheng warned that the Eternal Clan could track its recorded routes.
• Yi Sheng and Li Qingyun reached the agreed gathering point, where four Skeleton Saints greeted them and reacted with envy to Li Qingyun’s Eternal Body.
• Gao Bian and the other saints asked Li Qingyun for Eternal Crystals and Eternal Life Pills, then offered treasures and damaged artifacts in exchange.
• Yi Sheng secretly advised Li Qingyun to accept the Heaven-Opening Supreme Treasures because Supreme Being Mofeng could teach him an art that would let his spirit lamp fuse them.

Li Qingyun traded Eternal Crystals for Heaven-Opening Supreme Treasures and persuaded Yi Sheng and the others that Hong Yun brought calamity to those around him. When Hong Yun arrived, the group rejected him, and Yi Sheng told him to travel alone.

• Li Qingyun bought eleven Heaven-Opening Supreme Treasures from Gao Bian and the Four Saints of Xuan Dian for one Eternal Crystal apiece.
• Li Qingyun warned Yi Sheng and the Four Saints that Hong Yun seized the fortune of those close to him and brought them calamity, convincing them to expel him.
• Three more Skeleton Saints arrived and exchanged two Heaven-Opening Supreme Treasures each for Eternal Crystals.
• Saint Hongyun arrived, and Li Qingyun threatened him with Eternal Light Sword qi when he tried to approach.
• Yi Sheng told Hong Yun that the group would travel separately and that he should continue alone.

After Hongyun’s calamity-star reputation drove him away, Li Qingyun guided the surviving saints through the Netherworld Void toward the Cosmic Dwarf Star. Yi Sheng brought them aboard a commoner Qihuo Army ship, leaving the travelers under the protection of a half-step Eternal Life expert.

• The saints forced Hongyun to leave, then waited nearly two days before Yi Sheng led the nine survivors onward.
• Li Qingyun scouted ahead while Yi Sheng used an ordinary star disk to guide their route through successive chain rings.
• The team slowed as they entered the thirteenth sequence chain ring, where the many Eternal Clan travelers made crossing dangerous.
• Yi Sheng returned with a giant ship flying the banner of the Third commoner Qihuo Army, captained by a powerful green-robed half-step Eternal Life expert.
• Li Qingyun and Gao Bian agreed to support one another on the journey to the Cosmic Dwarf Star, while Li Qingyun wondered whether Ye Chenji and the Empress of Burial had survived.
• Yi Sheng invited Li Qingyun, Gao Bian, and the other travelers aboard the ship, where dozens of commoner saints welcomed them.

Li Qingyun learned that the Qihuo Army fought the Wuze Cosmos and agreed to infiltrate the Eternal Clan’s Secret Artifact Domain under a fabricated identity. After a seven-day journey, the ship crossed the nineteenth-sequence ring chain and reached the Cosmic Dwarf Star.

• Li Qingyun and the others greeted Zhong Xuanfeng, who arranged for them to travel aboard his ship as handymen.
• Yi Sheng told Li Qingyun that the Qihuo Army comprised commoner Saint positions and revealed that the Eternal Clan had failed to conquer the Wuze Cosmos, losing three Supremes in the latest campaign.
• Yi Sheng explained Zhong Xuanfeng’s plan for Li Qingyun to assume the identity of Shang Yun and infiltrate the Secret Artifact Domain; Li Qingyun agreed to consider it after meeting the Extreme Ice Supreme Being.
• Zhong Xuanfeng’s ship picked up more crossing Saint positions, including the surviving Ye Chenji, while the Empress of Burial remained missing.
• After seven days, Li Qingyun’s ship crossed the nineteenth-sequence grand ring chain and arrived at the Cosmic Dwarf Star.

The Yin Clan patrol tried to force an inspection of the Third Qihuo Army warship as it returned to the Cosmic Dwarf Star. Zhong Xuanfeng resisted, then revealed a severed hand bearing nine Wuze rings, leaving Lord Fu and the patrol guards alarmed.

• Li Qingyun and the others marveled at the Cosmic Dwarf Star as the Third Qihuo Army warship arrived.
• Lord Fu and the Yin Clan patrol blocked the warship and demanded to inspect it, citing the death of a Yin Clan direct descendant and an order from Yin Shou.
• Li Qingyun and several other stowaways moved toward the railing, ready to flee if the patrol boarded and discovered their connection to the deaths.
• Zhong Xuanfeng stood against the patrol, invoking the Qihuo Army’s discovery of Wuze infiltration traces to delay the inspection.
• Zhong Xuanfeng produced a frost-white severed hand with nine strange rings, and Lord Fu and the patrol guards recognized it as Nine-ring Wuze Pollution.

Zhong Xuanfeng deterred Eternal Clan patrol guards by displaying a Wuze sorcerer’s severed palm, then brought Li Qingyun and the other newcomers to the Third Qihuo Army’s station at Mofeng City. As the newcomers agreed to stay with the army for safety, its leaders looked on and worried that too few people were joining.

• Zhong Xuanfeng showed Lord Fu and the Eternal Clan patrol guards a Nine-Ring Wuze sorcerer’s severed palm, prompting them to abandon their search and leave.
• After the patrol departed, Zhong Xuanfeng expelled and burned the dead ice-worms that had invaded his body, while Li Qingyun realized the palm’s pollution could threaten anyone below the Supreme Being.
• The warship descended without further interference, and Li Qingyun reflected on the Eternal Clan’s dominance over the commoners.
• Zhong Xuanfeng brought the newcomers to Mofeng City and warned them that life outside the Third Qihuo Army was dangerous under the Eternal Clan’s strict hierarchy.
• Gao Bian, Ye Chenji, Xuan Dian, and the other newcomers agreed to remain with the Third Qihuo Army for now.
• At a Dao palace, Lord Mofeng and a woman watched the arrivals as Mofeng remarked that the army had gained only twenty-six saints.

Ye Xian left after discussing the Eternal Clan’s depletion of lower cosmic realms and the rivalry between the Eternal and Wuze civilizations. Mofeng appointed Li Qingyun to impersonate Shang Yun for an infiltration mission, but Li learned the Extreme Ice Supreme Being was imprisoned on suspicion of contacting a Wuze sorcerer.

• Ye Xian departed Mofeng City after revealing that Shang Yun’s identity and background had been fabricated for the mission.
• Li Qingyun met Mofeng, who ordered him to pose as Shang Yun, an abandoned scion of the Shang clan, and exposed his Dao Sealing Array.
• Mofeng told Li Qingyun he could stop suppressing his Mortal Saint Dao Qi Flow because it suited Shang Yun’s cover identity.
• Li Qingyun asked to see the Extreme Ice Supreme Being before entering the Secret Artifact Domain.
• Mofeng revealed that the Extreme Ice Supreme Being was locked in the Death Star Prison after the Eternal Clan suspected her of contacting a ten-ringed sorcerer in the Wuze Cosmos.
• Li Qingyun considered following Mofeng’s warning and avoiding the danger, despite wanting to repay the Extreme Ice Supreme Being.

Supreme Being Mofeng purged Li Qingyun’s blood curse, rewarded him, and laid out how he should complete the Coming-of-Age Grand Trial without drawing too much attention. Li Qingyun left Mofeng City and entered Fu Luo Giant City to repair his secret artifacts, beginning to investigate the Eternal Clan’s secret artifact trade.

• Supreme Being Mofeng removed the blood curse Yin Shou had placed on Li Qingyun and gave him an Eternal Treasure Art.
• Mofeng told Li Qingyun to pass the Secret Artifact Domain assessment, settle his mission tasks after the Grand Trial, and keep his final ranking inconspicuous but high enough for recruitment.
• Li Qingyun left Mofeng City, considered how he might eventually repay Extreme Ice Supreme Being, and headed for the Eternal Clan’s prosperous city.
• Li Qingyun entered Fu Luo Giant City under the cover story that Shangyun had returned to repair damaged secret artifacts and replenish trial supplies.
• Li Qingyun paid to have seven damaged secret artifacts repaired and learned that the workshop checked buyers’ identities through Eternal departments before selling higher-level artifacts.

Li Qingyun toured Fulou City, learned more about the Eternal Clan’s hierarchy, and reclaimed his repaired Level 1 secret artifacts while maintaining his cover as Shang Yun. He reached the Great Yong Star Dock to collect a trial star skiff, where the guards verified his identity and let him enter.

• Li Qingyun noted the steep prices of higher-level secret artifacts and kept his damaged Level 3 armor hidden so his cover would remain plausible.
• He explored Fulou City, observed how status shaped interactions between commoners and nobles, and paid thirty eternal crystals to reclaim seven repaired Level 1 secret artifacts.
• Li Qingyun headed for the Great Yong Star Dock, intending to collect a standard star skiff for the Eternal Clan’s Coming-of-Age Grand Trial.
• Patrol guards intercepted him, but a guard checked the mirror records, confirmed he was Shang Yun from Shang Yannian’s declining branch, and allowed him through.
• Li Qingyun secretly paid the dock manager a few eternal crystals and selected an old, scratched star skiff.

Li Qingyun traveled toward Hengzhi Star while mastering Mofeng's Eternal Treasure Art and strengthening the Ancestor Spirit Lamp with heaven-opening supreme treasures. Near the end, he encountered Emperor Liang, who nearly exposed him as a disguised stowaway, but Li Qingyun's Eternal Clan demeanor kept his identity concealed as he introduced himself to Jiya as Shang Yun.

• Li Qingyun piloted his star-skiff toward Hengzhi Star and used the journey to comprehend Mofeng's Eternal Treasure Art.
• Li Qingyun used the art to feed twenty-one heaven-opening supreme treasures to the Ancestor Spirit Lamp, increasing its power but leaving it short of first-tier eternal secret Qi.
• Li Qingyun continued cultivating the Myriad Universe Eternal Secret Art as he traveled through the Netherworld Void.
• A trial squad carrying Emperor Liang came alongside Li Qingyun's star-skiff, and Emperor Liang identified him as a possible disguised stowaway.
• Li Qingyun's Eternal Clan aura made Emperor Liang doubt his identification, and Li Qingyun introduced himself to Jiya as Shang Yun before accelerating away.

Li Qingyun advanced his cultivation and weighed his possible paths, while Emperor Liang grew convinced that Shang Yun was a stowaway. When the Empress of Burial appeared among fleeing stowaways, Li Qingyun chose to pursue her and protect her, giving Jiya and Emperor Liang a chance to test his identity.

• Li Qingyun broke through a minor threshold in the Myriad Universe Eternal Secret Art, but sensed that his impure Eternal Life Blood might prevent him from reaching intermediate accomplishment.
• Li Qingyun decided to pursue the path of eternity for now and considered seeking medicine formulas in the Secret Medicine Domain.
• Emperor Liang told Jiya that Shang Yun resembled Li Qingyun and urged her to pursue him, but a group of fleeing stowaways interrupted them.
• Li Qingyun recognized the Empress of Burial among the fleeing stowaways and charged after her, pretending to pursue her as a criminal.
• The Empress of Burial recognized Li Qingyun and fled in another direction, while Emperor Liang urged Jiya to use her as bait to expose Shang Yun.
• Jiya ordered the trial participants to pursue Li Qingyun and the Empress of Burial, determined to claim the merit.

Li Qingyun revealed his true appearance and openly fought Jiya’s group to protect the Empress of Burial, while Jiya tried to force him to expose his loyalties. The battle escalated when his seven secret artifacts shattered her star-skiff’s barrier and struck at her and the other Eternal Clan youths.

• Jiya’s group chased Li Qingyun and attacked the Empress of Burial, but she evaded their sword strike with her Great Drift Divine Ability.
• Jiya offered to protect Li Qingyun if he killed the Empress of Burial and swore allegiance to her, but Li Qingyun refused and revealed his true appearance.
• Emperor Liang identified Li Qingyun as Cloud Saint and urged Jiya to capture him, but Jiya ordered her youths to kill the Empress of Burial first.
• Li Qingyun invoked the Great Trial’s rules and launched seven Level 1 secret artifacts at Jiya’s group, claiming they had slandered him.
• Jiya and two Eternal Clan youths counterattacked, but Li Qingyun’s artifacts shattered their star-skiff’s barrier and split to strike at them.

Li Qingyun, disguised as Shang Yun, killed Emperor Liang and fought off Jiya’s squad while helping the Empress of Burial escape. He left Jiya alive and headed for Hengzhi Star to complete Shang Yun’s trial procedures and build a reputation for the Secret Artifact Domain employment assessment.

• Li Qingyun’s attack killed Emperor Liang and severed the sword arms of two other Eternal Clan descendants, while Jiya’s Level 3 Armor protected her.
• Jiya charged at Li Qingyun, who used the star skiff and his secret arts to flee while drawing her squad away from the Empress of Burial.
• Li Qingyun repeatedly struck Jiya’s armor and taunted her until the Empress of Burial escaped into the Void and Jiya stopped pursuing him.
• Li Qingyun spared Jiya, left in his star skiff, and set course for Hengzhi Star to complete Shang Yun’s trial procedures.