Chapter Summaries

As the Eternal Clan’s coming-of-age trial neared its end, Li Qingyun arrived at Hengzhi Star and set up a stall to trade Bone Medicine and Soul Liquid for low-dimensional Heaven-Opening Supreme Treasures. He hoped to strengthen the Ancestor Spirit Lamp while keeping his trial merit score from attracting too much attention.

• Li Qingyun reviewed what he had learned about the Qihuo Armies and the Supreme Beings from his homeland while traveling peacefully through the Netherworld Void.
• He reached Hengzhi Star, where trial juniors gathered ahead of the trial’s end and coming-of-age ceremony.
• Li Qingyun erected a stall advertising Bone Medicine and Soul Liquid in exchange for low-dimensional Heaven-Opening Supreme Treasures.
• Nearby juniors recognized Shang Yun, discussed his reputation and unusual trade, and gathered to ask about his prices.
• Li Qingyun offered one portion of Bone Medicine for ten treasures and one portion of Soul Liquid for fifteen, hoping to exchange some of his stock without turning it all into merit points.

Li Qingyun offered Bone Medicine Soul Liquid in exchange for Heaven-Opening Supreme Treasures while attracting attention for his cultivation. Xia Ying arrived and gave him a collection of rare treasures, renewing their acquaintance and drawing a crowd of admiring Eternal Clan disciples.

• Li Qingyun set a price of ten Heaven-Opening Supreme Treasures for a piece of bone medicine, prompting disciples to leave and gather treasures from friends and clansmen.
• Li Qingyun cultivated the Myriad Universe Eternal Secret Art as talent scouts judged his potential limited by his mixed bloodline.
• Xia Gao teased Xia Ying about Li Qingyun, and Xia Ying flew down from the cloud tower to meet him.
• Xia Ying gave Li Qingyun more than a dozen rare Heaven-Opening Supreme Treasures, and he offered her two bottles of soul liquid in return.
• Eternal Clan disciples gathered around Xia Ying, praising her as the dazzling pearl of the Xia clan and calling her Ying Shen.

Li Qingyun traded Bone Medicine Soul Liquid for a haul of Heaven-Opening Supreme Treasures, then kept his identity hidden during Supreme Being Hao Zhuo’s inspection at the Grand Trial ceremony. As Hao Zhuo announced the top prizes, Li Qingyun learned that Xia Ying had won three Heng Crystal Pills and became keenly interested in their potential.

• Xia Ying left Li Qingyun’s stall after drawing jealous admirers, who later cursed him but ultimately dispersed without challenging him.
• Li Qingyun exchanged Bone Medicine Soul Liquid for more than one hundred and twenty Heaven-Opening Supreme Treasures and handed over some remaining supplies for trial merit registration.
• Supreme Being Hao Zhuo arrived on Hengzhi Star and swept the trial descendants with his pressure, but he did not expose Li Qingyun’s disguised identity.
• Hao Zhuo announced Xia Ying as the Grand Trial’s first-place winner, awarding her three Heng Crystal Pills and a Level 4 Secret Artifact, while Xia Gao took second place.
• Li Qingyun focused on the Heng Crystal Pills and suspected they could break the upper limit of bloodline purity.

Li Qingyun learned that his trial ranking qualified him to apply for a post in one of the Thirteen Privy Domains, then returned to the Cosmic Dwarf Star to quietly address a flaw in his Shang Yun identity. He reached Yannan Mansion and met Fu Mei, Shang Yannian’s wife, while Shang Yannian slept off a drinking binge.

• Li Qingyun heard that his rank of nine hundred and first earned him a Privy Domain examination qualification and left the coming-of-age celebration.
• He decided to return to the Cosmic Dwarf Star before traveling to Cosmos Star for the examination, intending to deal with his nominal uncle Shang Yannian.
• Li Qingyun returned his trial star skiff at the Great Yong Star Dock, where the manager congratulated him on his ranking.
• Li Qingyun visited Yannan Mansion and found Fu Mei processing spiritual medicines in the courtyard.
• Fu Mei welcomed Li Qingyun as Shang Yun and offered to wake Shang Yannian, but Li Qingyun asked about the herbs instead.

Li Qingyun offered to refine Eternal Life Pills to improve the struggling household’s finances and secure Shang Yannian’s loyalty with a steady source of wealth. He completed a furnace of pills and emerged to show Shang Yannian the result.

• Fu Mei explained that the household processed medicinal materials for the medicine palace because it could not refine pills itself.
• Li Qingyun told Fu Mei he could refine Eternal Life Pills, and Shang Yannian rushed in to ask whether it was true.
• Li Qingyun asked Shang Yannian for Crimson Ying Grass and offered to demonstrate his skills in the household’s alchemy room.
• Li Qingyun began refining the pills while Shang Yannian waited outside, excited by the prospect of profit.
• Li Qingyun emerged with a multicolored Eternal Life Pill and told Shang Yannian he had not kept him waiting in vain.

Li Qingyun partnered with Shang Yannian to refine and sell Eternal Life Pills, then traveled to the Secret Artifact Domain to take its newcomer assessment. As the assessment began, Xi Yang provoked him, while Li Qingyun remained composed.

• Li Qingyun gave Shang Yannian an Eternal Life Pill and agreed to work with him, with Shang Yannian gathering herbs and Li Qingyun refining pills.
• The next day, Li Qingyun left the Cosmic Dwarf Star for the Secret Artifact Domain and swallowed five Eternal Life Pills, raising his Eternal Life Blood purity to fifty percent.
• During the nine-day journey, Fu Hao, Fu Jing, and Fu Wan befriended Li Qingyun and proposed that they support one another in the domain.
• Li Qingyun and the three Fu siblings arrived at the Trial Artifact Hall, where they learned that few applicants passed the demanding assessment.
• Xi Yang taunted Li Qingyun, who replied that he only wanted to work properly; Xi Yang dismissed him as a mixed-blood commoner.

Li Qingyun entered the Secret Artifact Domain’s first trial, which tested whether examinees could memorize a vast array of secret artifact runes within one stick of incense. He finished early but concealed his success, while Hao Ke passed first and advanced to the second trial before the others.

• Li Qingyun ignored Xi Yang’s provocations and joined the Fu siblings for the Secret Artifact Domain examination.
• The masked examiner explained the difficult rune-memorization trial and assigned Li Qingyun the final sequence, while Hao Ke received the first.
• Li Qingyun memorized every rune before the incense had burned a third of the way down, then waited so he would not draw attention.
• Hao Ke struggled to memorize half the runes, but the incense boosted his soul spirit and helped him pass.
• Hao Ke advanced to the second trial ahead of the other examinees, and the masked examiner noticed Li Qingyun’s calm as time ran out.

Li Qingyun passed the memorization assessment and began the timed artifact trial, where he quickly refined his artifact blank into a powerful Secret Hammer. He left the examiners astonished and drew jealous reactions from Hao Ke as the competition for the limited places intensified.

• The masked examiner eliminated seven candidates, including Fu Hao and Fu Wan, but passed Fu Jing, Shang Yun, and Li Qingyun.
• The masked examiner reviewed Li Qingyun’s file and noted his calm, seemingly effortless performance before Li Qingyun hurried to the second assessment.
• A black-bearded examiner explained that candidates had to refine an artifact blank before the incense burned out, and that only the top twenty-eight overall candidates would enter the Secret Artifact Domain.
• Li Qingyun assessed his artifact blank and chose to refine it into a Secret Hammer, using his divine sense to divide his secret qi into a million needles.
• Li Qingyun’s artifact blank blazed with eternal light, astonishing the examiner, while Fu Jing praised him and Hao Ke dismissed him as a show-off.
• Li Qingyun continued inscribing the hammer’s runes as Hao Ke worked on a secret sword and remained confident he would rank among the top candidates.

Li Qingyun forged an exceptional Level 1 Secret Hammer and won admission to the Secret Artifact Domain despite Xi Yang’s efforts to undermine him. After becoming the first newcomer certified as a Level 1 Artifact Master, he sensed that something had changed with Extreme Ice Supreme Being.

• Li Qingyun completed a top-quality Level 1 Secret Hammer, impressing the examiner, while Hao Ke’s Crystal Sword fell short of the standard.
• At the Artifact Hiding Palace, Xi Yang provoked Li Qingyun, but Li Qingyun dismissed him as ignorant.
• The examiners named Shang Yun twenty-eighth on the admissions list and defended his selection by displaying his exceptional Secret Hammer.
• A month later, Li Qingyun had earned Level 1 Artifact Master certification and a higher stipend, despite Xi Yang’s attempts to make things difficult for him.
• After returning to his residence, Li Qingyun sensed a powerful pull of karma and realized something had changed with Extreme Ice Supreme Being.

Li Qingyun rushed back to the Cosmic Dwarf Star after sensing that Extreme Ice Supreme Being was in danger, hoping to learn what had happened and find a way to help her. He learned that the Eternal Clan planned to use her as bait against the Ten-ringed Sorcerer, while his Turbid Dao clone neared a major breakthrough.

• Li Qingyun took a week of leave from the Secret Artifact Domain and hurried back to the Cosmic Dwarf Star.
• His Turbid Dao clone told him it was close to reaching the ninth layer of the Cosmic Turbid Demon Art but needed a vast amount of turbid qi.
• Li Qingyun assessed his growing strength and concluded it would still be insufficient to rescue Extreme Ice Supreme Being from Death Star Prison.
• Using the Ancestor Spirit Lamp to conceal himself, Li Qingyun entered Mofeng City and told Supreme Being Mofeng he had become a Level 1 Artifact Master.
• Li Qingyun asked whether Extreme Ice Supreme Being was in danger, and Supreme Being Mofeng revealed the Eternal Clan planned to use her as bait to ambush the Ten-ringed Sorcerer.

Li Qingyun negotiated with Supreme Being Mofeng, trading secret artifact runes for insight into the Eternal Life Realm and a map of Chaos Origin Energy. Mofeng demonstrated how a Supreme Being could wield an Eternal Clan secret artifact and began explaining why Li Qingyun remained stuck at the Beyond Tribulation Realm peak.

• Li Qingyun learned that the Eternal Clan planned to use Extreme Ice Supreme Being as bait in five days to lure and kill a Ten-ringed Sorcerer from Wuze Cosmos.
• Li Qingyun asked Mofeng for the cultivation mysteries of the Eternal Life Realm and asked Lord Ye for a map of Chaos Origin Energy across the Eternal Myriad Universes.
• Li Qingyun transmitted the secret artifact runes he had collected, and Mofeng recognized them as basically genuine.
• Li Qingyun warned that the runes alone could not forge Eternal Secret Artifacts without Secret Qi, while Mofeng demonstrated a Level 3 Silver Rainbow Sword and explained that their paths shared the pursuit of pure spirit.
• Mofeng asked why Li Qingyun could not reach the Eternal Life Realm, and Li Qingyun admitted he thought his foundation and reserves were insufficient.

Mofeng explained that reaching the Eternal Life Realm required Myriad Universe Ancestral Qi, leaving Li Qingyun doubtful that he could attain it without sacrificing his human identity. After receiving a cultivation method and a map from Mofeng and Ye Xian, Li Qingyun set his Turbid Dao clone toward a deadly land of turbid qi.

• Mofeng explained that Eternal Clan bloodlines passed down Myriad Universe Ancestral Qi, which was necessary to reach the Eternal Life Realm through the pure spirit path.
• Mofeng proposed replacing Li Qingyun's blood with Eternal Imperial Clan blood or reincarnating through an ancient formula, but Li Qingyun rejected both paths.
• Li Qingyun decided to leave his Eternal Life prospects to fate and rely on his Turbid Dao clone's path toward the realm.
• Mofeng passed Li Qingyun a segment of an Eternal Life cultivation method before Supreme Being Ye Xian arrived.
• Ye Xian gave Li Qingyun a map of Myriad Universe qi veins, including more than a dozen secret lands of turbid qi.
• Li Qingyun left in his star skiff, and his Turbid Dao clone hurried toward the nearest deadly land of turbid qi.

Li Qingyun's Turbid Dao clone began a breakthrough in the Turbid An Sea, drawing a massive storm that alerted Hao Zhuo. As Li Qingyun's true body traveled toward the Cosmic Dwarf Star, he realized Hao Zhuo was heading straight for the clone.

• Li Qingyun's Turbid Dao clone reached the Turbid An Sea and plunged into its dense turbid qi to cultivate.
• The clone's cultivation surged as he absorbed the sea's turbid qi, and he expected to reach the Eternal Life Realm within two hours.
• Hao Clan patrols saw a giant storm form over the Turbid An Sea but could not see what caused it.
• At Fu Luo's palace, Hao Zhuo and four other Supreme Beings debated where to ambush the Ten-ringed Sorcerer while using the Extreme Ice Supreme Being as bait.
• Hao Zhuo sensed an anomaly in his fief and left the meeting, believing a Netherworld infant beast might be emerging in the Turbid An Sea.
• Li Qingyun's true body recognized Hao Zhuo as he crossed the Netherworld Void toward the Turbid An Sea.

Li Qingyun returned toward the Cosmic Dwarf Star to strengthen his reserves, leaving his Turbid Dao clone to face Hao Zhuo at the Turbid An Sea. The clone shattered Hao Zhuo’s attack and revealed strength near the Ten Heng Level, while Hao Zhuo realized the growing being might soon be beyond his control.

• Li Qingyun decided not to pursue Hao Zhuo and steered his star skiff toward the Cosmic Dwarf Star to find Shang Yannian and refine the Eternal Life Pill.
• Hao Zhuo arrived at the Turbid An Sea and sent the Hao Clan disciples away as the storm devoured the sea’s turbid qi.
• Li Qingyun’s Turbid Dao clone continued condensing Turbid An divine patterns and approached the Eternal Life Realm bottleneck.
• Hao Zhuo attacked the storm with a giant hand of Secret Qi Eternal Light, and the clone first met it with one dark arm-shadow.
• Li Qingyun’s clone unleashed eight Dark Demon Arms and shattered Hao Zhuo’s giant hand, alarming Hao Zhuo with its strength near the Ten Heng Level.

Li Qingyun's Turbid Dao clone faced Supreme Being Hao Zhuo in the Turbid An Sea and was driven to the brink by Hao Zhuo's attacks and Level Five Nether-Breaking Bow. As Hao Zhuo's arrow struck, Li Qingyun's clone broke through to the Eternal Life Realm and reached the Eighteen Heng Level.

• Supreme Being Hao Zhuo entered the Turbid An Sea and attacked Li Qingyun's Turbid Dao clone, recognizing him as the Child of the Turbid Dao.
• Li Qingyun's clone endured Hao Zhuo's blows, healing in the Turbid An Sea while gathering more Turbid An divine patterns.
• Hao Zhuo summoned another eternal supreme being and drew his Level Five Nether-Breaking Bow to kill Li Qingyun's clone.
• Li Qingyun's clone absorbed nearly half the Turbid An Sea as breakthrough fuel while Hao Zhuo released his arrow.
• Li Qingyun's clone broke through to the Eternal Life Realm and realized he possessed the power of the Eighteen Heng Level.

Li Qingyun's Eighteen Heng Turbid Dao clone survived Supreme Being Hao Zhuo's Level Five Nether-Breaking Bow and badly wounded him in close combat. After Hao Zhuo's reinforcements arrived, the clone erased his aura and vanished, leaving the Eternal Supreme Beings to seal off the Eighteenth to Twenty-ninth Sequence Chains and search for him.

• Supreme Being Hao Zhuo's arrow pierced Li Qingyun's clone's eight palm defenses and struck his brow, but the clone survived and pulled it free.
• Hao Zhuo tried to ready another shot, but Li Qingyun's clone closed the distance and wounded him with a single strike.
• Hao Zhuo fled the Turbid An Sea in Level Four Crystal Armor as Li Qingyun's clone stopped pursuing and concealed his aura.
• Three Eternal Supreme Beings arrived and learned that Hao Zhuo's arrow had failed to kill the clone.
• Hao Zhuo discovered that the Nether-Breaking Bow could no longer track the clone's erased aura, and an older Eternal Supreme Being ordered the Eighteenth to Twenty-ninth Sequence Chains sealed off.

After his Turbid Dao clone reached the Eternal Life Realm, Li Qingyun refined Eternal Life Pills and used his new insights to advance his own cultivation. He left Shang Yannian’s mansion for a mission involving the Extreme Ice Supreme Being and the Ten-ringed Sorcerer, after giving Fu Mei pills for her children’s first Spirit Awakening.

• Li Qingyun returned to Cosmic Dwarf Star and refined thirty-two Eternal Life Pills for Shang Yannian, swallowing ten before discovering his Eternal Life Blood could not exceed sixty percent without the Myriad Universe Ancestral Qi.
• Shang Yannian took eight pills and eagerly planned to sell them and visit Dream Palace, while Li Qingyun stayed at the mansion to study Mofeng’s Eternal Life Technique.
• Combining Mofeng’s technique with insights from his Turbid Dao clone, Li Qingyun broke through his stagnant cultivation and opened the bottleneck at the Beyond Tribulation Realm peak.
• Li Qingyun heard Fu Mei lament that she could not afford spiritual pills for her children’s first Spirit Awakening and learned Shang Yannian had not saved any pills for them.
• Li Qingyun gave Fu Mei two Eternal Life Pills and left the mansion, intending to act as the Eternal Clan moved against the Extreme Ice Supreme Being and the Ten-ringed Sorcerer.

Li Qingyun waited near Death Star Prison for a chance to help Extreme Ice Supreme Being escape, while La Sheng and Daoist Lu Ya arrived to answer their karmic ties to her. The chapter ended with Li Qingyun sensing that Supreme Being Hongjun had also come to the prison.

• Li Qingyun positioned himself near Death Star Prison so he could alert his Turbid Dao clone when Extreme Ice Supreme Being was escorted out.
• Li Qingyun sensed that La Sheng and Daoist Lu Ya had arrived, drawn by the karmic favors Extreme Ice Supreme Being had given them.
• La Sheng performed a funeral sacrifice for Extreme Ice Supreme Being and deliberately severed their karmic bond before fleeing.
• Daoist Lu Ya chose to remain nearby and see Extreme Ice Supreme Being off, despite being unable to rescue her.
• Li Qingyun sensed his Dao artifacts stir and recognized Supreme Being Hongjun passing above Death Star Prison.

Fu Luo and Xi Qing escorted Extreme Ice from Death Star Prison, while Daoist Hongjun and Li Qingyun prepared to help her. As the warship entered Netherworld Void, an unseen attacker split it in two.

• Fu Luo offered Extreme Ice a chance to live if she swore an oath, swallowed an Eternal Insect Egg, and served the Eternal Clan, but she refused and chose death.
• Fu Luo sealed Extreme Ice and escorted her aboard a radiant warship with Xi Qing as more than a dozen Supreme Being wills watched.
• Daoist Hongjun calculated that Extreme Ice had a chance of rescue and sensed another old friend was willing to act.
• Li Qingyun sensed Hongjun's presence through his trembling Dao artifacts and alerted his Turbid Dao clone by soul resonance.
• Extreme Ice taunted Xi Qing about her past defeat, and Xi Qing threatened her with death as the warship entered Netherworld Void.
• An unknown attacker struck the radiant warship with terrifying force and severed it in two.

Li Qingyun’s Turbid Dao clone attacked the Eternal Clan’s forces on the Cosmic Dwarf Star to rescue Extreme Ice Supreme Being. He left Fu Luo badly wounded and turned his power toward Xi Qing, who was still controlling Extreme Ice.

• Fu Luo and Xi Qing recognized the attacker as the Turbid Daoist and prepared to defend themselves while Xi Qing tried to retreat with Extreme Ice Supreme Being.
• Extreme Ice recognized the Turbid Daoist as Qingyun, the young Daoist priest she had met in the Primordial Ice River Ancient Ruins, and taunted Xi Qing when questioned.
• Li Qingyun’s clone unleashed his full power, destroying the surrounding void and overwhelming Fu Luo before the Supreme Being could swing his Level Five Divine Blade.
• Li Qingyun’s clone struck Fu Luo hard enough to leave the Fifteen Heng Supreme Being heavily wounded despite his Level 4 Secret Armor.
• Li Qingyun’s clone appeared before Xi Qing and Extreme Ice and fired Turbid An divine light at Xi Qing, ordering her to step back.