Chapter Summaries

Li Qingyun's Turbid Dao clone attacked the Xi Clan in the Eternal Land, badly injuring Xi Qing before escaping with Extreme Ice as Fu Luo pursued them. Xi Yixian moved to stop them, but Daoist Hongjun appeared to block him and the other Eternal Supreme Beings.

• Xi Qing rebuked Li Qingyun's Turbid Dao clone and attacked, but he struck her into the Cosmic Dwarf Star and shattered her divine body.
• Fu Luo attacked with a Level Five Divine Blade as Li Qingyun seized Extreme Ice and fled into the Netherworld Void.
• Xi Yixian confronted the fleeing pair, and Li Qingyun learned from Extreme Ice that he was a powerful Hundred Heng-level Supreme Being.
• Xi Yixian pursued Li Qingyun after declaring that he had nearly killed his elder sister, Xi Qing.
• Daoist Hongjun appeared in a sea of Vast Primordial Violet Qi clouds to block Xi Yixian and the pursuing Supreme Beings.

Daoist Hongjun delayed Xi Yixian long enough for Turbid Daoist and Extreme Ice to escape, then vanished while the Eternal Supreme Beings searched for him. At Xiaque Star, Xia Cheng Ye sent Xia Ying to Zixiao Palace to check whether Hongjun was there, and she arrived viewing him as a servant rather than a teacher.

• Xi Yixian overpowered Daoist Hongjun in a clash, then continued pursuing Turbid Daoist and Extreme Ice as Hongjun escaped the other Eternal Supreme Beings.
• Fuluo and the other Eternal Supreme Beings split up to pursue Turbid Daoist and Extreme Ice and investigate Daoist Hongjun.
• Xia Cheng Ye, injured by a Fourteen-Ring Sorcerer, learned that Extreme Ice had been abducted and that Hongjun was suspected of helping.
• Xia Cheng Ye ordered Xia Ying to visit Hongjun at Zixiao Palace under the pretext of seeking instruction and determine whether he was still there.
• Xia Ying arrived at Zixiao Palace, probed it with her divine sense, and privately dismissed Hongjun as a household slave of the Xia Clan.

Li Qingyun’s Turbid Dao clone rescued the Extreme Ice Supreme Being and escorted her out of the Eternal Myriad Universes toward the Wuze Cosmos. After breaking nearly a hundred seals, she explained that she was seeking another path beyond the limits set by her share of Myriad Universe Ancestral Qi.

• Xia Ying inspected the Dao Palace and found Daoist Hongjun sitting inside, while Hongjun concealed his suspicions and played along with her visit.
• Li Qingyun’s Turbid Dao clone carried Extreme Ice through perilous regions and evaded Xi Yixian’s pursuit.
• After they crossed the sixty-sixth sequence ring-chain boundary, Li Qingyun confirmed that they had escaped the Eternal Clan’s tracking and asked about Extreme Ice’s plans.
• Extreme Ice thanked Li Qingyun for rescuing her and apologized for misjudging him, while condemning Saint Ra for abandoning her.
• Extreme Ice shattered nearly a hundred seals placed by Fu Luo and revealed that she was heading to the Wuze Cosmos to pursue a path beyond her destined limits.

After escorting Extreme Ice Supreme Being away, Li Qingyun’s clone began cultivating in a turbid-qi region while the Eternal Clan launched a sweeping investigation. Back in the Secret Artifact Domain, Li Qingyun faced scrutiny from Hao Ke and learned that Lord Yin Di was reviewing life records and that Fu Hao had secretly kept fragments of Wuze magic artifacts.

• Li Qingyun’s Turbid Dao clone escorted Extreme Ice Supreme Being to the edge of the Ninety-ninth Sequence Chain and watched her leave with a Ten-ringed Sorcerer.
• The clone entered a dangerous turbid-qi region and began cultivating the Turbid Demon Art as Hao Zhuo and two other Supreme Beings returned from their failed ambush.
• The Eternal Clan began searching across its territories for the Turbid Daoist and a mysterious Hundred Heng Level existence, prompting Li Qingyun’s true body to leave the Cosmic Dwarf Star for the Secret Artifact Domain.
• Hao Ke ordered Li Qingyun to record his leave in a Heng crystal for investigation, while Li Qingyun worried that his concealed dealings and visits to Death Star Prison might be exposed.
• Fu Hao told Li Qingyun that Lord Yin Di was overseeing the investigation and admitted that he had secretly kept several Wuze Cosmos magic artifact fragments.

Li Qingyun altered his self-verification to conceal his meeting with Mo Feng and Ye Xian, then volunteered for work in the Secret Artifact Domain. Hao Ke assigned him Witch Mark fragments to study, and the Dark Tome stirred when Li Qingyun examined one.

• Li Qingyun learned that his colleagues had hidden Witch Mark objects and other secrets amid the Secret Artifact Domain’s grand inspection.
• Li Qingyun revised his seven-day itinerary, disguising his meeting with Mo Feng and Ye Xian as pill refining at Shang Yannian’s residence, but decided to delay submitting his self-verification.
• Li Qingyun volunteered for an assignment, and Hao Ke handed him a batch of Witch Mark magic artifact fragments, demanding the records and self-verification in two days.
• Li Qingyun insisted he would submit everything in three days, then examined a crescent-shaped fragment and sensed the Dark Tome stir.

Li Qingyun used his Eternal Eye and secret energy to strip Witch Law Incantations from artifact fragments, while testing whether the Dark Tome could bear their power. He then challenged Hao Ke over the bureau’s precious Netherworld Kui Ox Hide, exposing that Hao Ke had kept the other piece.

• Li Qingyun brought out the Dark Tome and offered Daoist Kun an opportunity, then found that the tome cracked when it tried to retain a trace of Witch Law.
• Li Qingyun copied Witch Law Incantations from fragments onto eternal crystals far faster than Fu Hao, Hao Ke, and the others, then pretended to be exhausted.
• Li Qingyun took a piece of Netherworld Kui Ox Hide from the equipment rack to practice, despite Hao Ke warning him not to waste it.
• Li Qingyun asked Hao Ke where the second piece of hide was, and Hao Ke faltered because he had kept it for himself.

Li Qingyun learned that Yin Di was the Yin Emperor and realized he needed to advance quickly to avoid having his identity exposed. He began transforming the Dark Tome into a Black Witch Book, forging new histories for the Human Race, the Eternal Myriad Universes, and the Wuze Cosmos, but the creation’s immense cause and effect struck him hard.

• Li Qingyun returned to his palace with the Netherworld Kui Ox Hide, and Yi warned him that it sensed the Yin Emperor’s aura.
• Li Qingyun confirmed that Yin Di was the Yin Emperor and feared the Supreme Being might recognize his identity.
• Li Qingyun decided to enter the Half-step Supreme Being realm and use the Yin Emperor as a new protagonist for his Dark Tome.
• Li Qingyun attempted to merge Daoist Kun into the Netherworld Kui Ox Hide, but the hide shattered Kun’s spirit, so Li Qingyun annihilated him and preserved a remnant for reincarnation.
• Li Qingyun replaced Kun with his own seed of true intent and merged the Dark Tome into the hide, rewriting its histories around the Eternal Myriad Universes and the Wuze Cosmos.
• The new Black Witch Book’s ambitious conception took shape and caused Li Qingyun to bleed black blood, and he prepared to add Witch Law Incantations and Eternal Clan runes to its foundation.

Li Qingyun completed the Black Witch Book by writing prophecies that placed humanity among the great powers of the cosmos and declared Yin Di’s downfall. The book’s power nearly consumed him, but the strength of his Dao’s living worlds lit a divine fire and secured him a foothold in the Netherworld; Yin Di then felt an ominous sign while preparing an inspection.

• Li Qingyun endured the Netherworld Kui Ox’s backlash as he wrote humanity into the cosmos’s future and prophesied that Yin Di would fall.
• Li Qingyun wrote a future for himself, predicting he would reach the Half-step Supreme Being realm within two days and the Eternal Life Realm within two years.
• As eerie winds threatened to destroy him, Li Qingyun called for a lamp, and the beings within his Great Dao Universe answered by producing a twelve-tiered Chaos Green Lotus Divine Fire.
• The Black Witch Book absorbed the eerie winds and gained patterns from Human Race script, Eternal Runes, and Witch Law Incantations, though Li Qingyun knew it still needed one prophecy to come true.
• Li Qingyun began cultivating with the Eternal Life Technique bestowed by Supreme Being Mofeng as his aura and Dao essence advanced.
• Yin Di Supreme Being sneezed while inspecting tribute-filled Eternal Crystals, then decided to make an example of officials without powerful backing.

Li Qingyun used his work with Witch Law and the Black Witch Book to advance to Half-step Supreme Being just before the Secret Artifact Domain’s investigation deadline. He then clouded the karma in his Self-Verification Eternal Crystal and submitted it, expecting to pass the trial.

• Li Qingyun rapidly replicated the Witch Mark fragments and helped Fu Hao and the others while they assumed the investigation would soon drive Shang Yun out.
• Li Qingyun cultivated in his cloud palace on the final day and entered the Half-step Supreme Being realm, sending his Eternal Pressure across the surrounding buildings.
• The Secret Artifact Masters around Li Qingyun’s cloud palace sensed his breakthrough and speculated that his new realm could secure his place in the Secret Artifact Domain.
• Li Qingyun used the Black Witch Book to confuse the fate connected to Yin Di’s dark history and his Self-Verification Eternal Crystal.
• Li Qingyun submitted his Self-Verification Eternal Crystal before the deadline as news of his breakthrough spread through the Secret Artifact Domain.

After reaching the Half-step Supreme Being realm, Li Qingyun won the Shang Household’s favor and was promoted to Deputy Great Chief Guard, though he still worried about Yin Di Supreme Being’s inspection. Yin Di reviewed the Secret Artifact Domain’s officials and suddenly focused on an eternal crystal.

• Fu Hao, Hao Ke, and the others congratulated Li Qingyun on reaching the Half-step Supreme Being realm and feared they could no longer make him their scapegoat.
• Shang Hechen arrived, claimed kinship with Li Qingyun, and promoted him to Deputy Great Chief Guard at the great supervision office.
• Shang Hechen invited Li Qingyun to return to the Shang Household’s main family on the coming rest day, and Li Qingyun accepted the promotion as a chance to gain access to higher-level secrets.
• After Shang Hechen left, Fu Hao, Hao Ke, and the others fawned over Li Qingyun, while he remained concerned about Yin Di Supreme Being’s trial.
• Yin Di Supreme Being reviewed officials’ records and suddenly looked toward an eternal crystal.

Yin Di abandoned his suspicions about Shang Yun when a Ten-ringed Sorcerer impersonating Yin Mu fled the Secret Artifact Domain. After Yin Di destroyed Yin Mu’s shell and chased the sorcerer, Li Qingyun revealed that he had secretly cast a spell on Yin Di again.

• Yin Di sensed something strange about Shang Yun’s Self-Verification Eternal Crystal but set it aside to inspect it again.
• A Ten-ringed Sorcerer using Yin Mu’s body replacement puppet disguise fled the Secret Artifact Domain, and the supervisors pursued them.
• Yin Di attacked the sorcerer and raised an Eternal Light barrier to block their escape into the Netherworld Void.
• The sorcerer tried to distract Yin Di with Yin Mu’s struggling shell and a life box, but Yin Di destroyed both and continued the pursuit.
• Li Qingyun, watching with Hao Ke and the others, saw black light vanish from his sleeve and said he had cast a spell on Yin Di a second time.

Li Qingyun visited the Shang clan’s ancestral domain under the guise of returning to his roots and discovered that the clan planned to use him as a vessel to revive Patriarch Zhen. After sabotaging the ritual’s incense with the Black Witch Book, he accepted Shang Yin’s invitation to stay in the ancestral domain and attend Shang Qin’s gathering.

• Li Qingyun rose to Deputy Great Chief Guard in the Secret Artifact Domain and used his new authority to bring Hao Ke and Xi Yang under his jurisdiction.
• On his rest day, Li Qingyun traveled to the Great Shang Domain to perform the act of acknowledging his Shang clan roots.
• Shang Yin showed Li Qingyun the ancestral temple and identified the statue of Patriarch Zhen, Shang Zhenyuan, as his ancestor.
• Li Qingyun sensed something eerie about the statue and found that the incense contained his life details and a spell offering his body for Patriarch Zhen’s return.
• Li Qingyun secretly used the Black Witch Book to disrupt the spell before completing the worship ritual.
• Shang Yin asked Li Qingyun to stay in the ancestral domain for several days and attend Shang Qin’s gathering.

Li Qingyun entered the Shang clan’s ancestral domain and discovered that Ancestor Zhen intended to use his body as a shell to return to life. He settled in Zhenyuan Palace and prepared to face Shang Zhenyuan’s remnant soul while concealing his true strength.

• Li Qingyun accepted Shang Yin’s order to stay in the ancestral domain while Shang Hechen arranged his leave from the Secret Artifact Domain.
• Shang Yin sent Li Qingyun to Zhenyuan Palace, where the servant began addressing him as Master Yun and Shang Yin privately discussed restoring Ancestor Zhen with Heng Crystal Pills.
• Li Qingyun tried to bribe the servant with two Eternal Life Pills, but the statue of Ancestor Zhen frightened the servant into returning them and fleeing.
• Li Qingyun recognized that Shang Zhenyuan’s remnant soul had been watching him and resolved to resist its attempt to seize his body.
• Li Qingyun sat before the statue and circulated the Myriad Universe Eternal Secret Art, hiding his stronger cultivation as he prepared for the confrontation.

Li Qingyun lured Shang Zhenyuan’s aberrant Remnant Soul into attempting to possess him, then used the Ancestor Spirit Lamp and his Supreme Being strength to suppress and absorb it. He learned that Shang Zhenyuan himself had caused the Shang Yuan branch’s decline by repeatedly trying to seize his descendants’ bodies.

• Li Qingyun pretended to cultivate and let Shang Zhenyuan summon his divine soul into the nether void.
• Shang Zhenyuan urged Li Qingyun to offer his body to help restore the ancestor’s soul, then attacked when Li Qingyun refused.
• Li Qingyun revealed his identity and bound Shang Zhenyuan with the Ancestor Spirit Lamp, then struck him with a Dao seal strengthened by his Turbid Dao clone.
• Shang Zhenyuan fled, but Li Qingyun destroyed his aberrant soul and collected its remains with the Black Witch Book.
• Li Qingyun learned that Shang Zhenyuan had repeatedly tried to possess descendants, causing the Shang Yuan branch to decline.

After destroying the Zhen Ancestor’s ghastly soul, Li Qingyun impersonated Shang Zhenyuan and convinced Shang Yin that the ancestor had successfully possessed Shang Yun. He demanded clan treasures to strengthen his new identity, but Shang Yin said the rare Heng Crystal Pills belonged to Ancestor Chong.

• Li Qingyun used the Zhen Ancestor’s memories to understand the Shang Clan’s secrets and resolved to exploit his assumed identity for its resources.
• Li Qingyun changed his aura and manner to imitate Shang Zhenyuan, then summoned Shang Yin into the bedchamber as a subordinate.
• Shang Yin saw Li Qingyun’s performance, believed the Zhen Ancestor had returned, and knelt to congratulate him.
• Li Qingyun demanded Heng Crystal Pills, other treasures, and Level Four Armor to improve his shell and restore his cultivation.
• Shang Yin promised the armor but said the clan’s three Heng Crystal Pills were with Ancestor Chong, prompting Li Qingyun to feign anger and insist that Shang Chongyuan had no right to deny him.

Li Qingyun, posing as the reborn Ancestor Zhen, pressured the Shang Clan into giving him a Heng Crystal Pill and used it to raise his Eternal Life Blood to seventy-five percent. After studying the pill’s recipe, he concluded that his next major goal was to obtain Heng Crystal Pills and Myriad Universe Ancestral Qi.

• Li Qingyun demanded to know which juniors had been allotted the three Heng Crystal Pills, and Shang Yin identified Shang Qin and a descendant of Shang Chongyuan among them.
• Li Qingyun agreed to spare the pills reserved for Shang Qin and Shang Chongyuan’s descendant but insisted on taking the remaining pill and requested the Secret Medicine Runes and Heng Crystal Pill materials.
• Shang Yin endured Ancestor Chong’s anger, obtained one Heng Crystal Pill from him, and delivered it to Li Qingyun along with armor, rune crystals, and other resources.
• Li Qingyun swallowed the Heng Crystal Pill, which raised his Eternal Life Blood from sixty to seventy-five percent and brought him close to Shi-level.
• Li Qingyun studied the Heng Crystal Pill recipe and decided that he needed more pills and a thread of Myriad Universe Ancestral Qi to pursue the Eternal Life Realm.

Li Qingyun, now posing as Shang Yun after taking over his body, agreed to attend Shang Qin’s gathering when he learned Xia Ying would be there. He arrived before the gathered young nobles, who were startled by his Half-step Supreme Being cultivation and the exceptional seat he was given.

• Li Qingyun dismissed the Shang Clan elders’ matchmaking plans but agreed to attend after hearing Xia Ying had requested his presence.
• At Shang Qin’s gathering, Xia Ying asked why Shang Yun had not been invited, and Shang Qin assured her he was on his way.
• Hao Tian and other young nobles reacted with disbelief when they heard Shang Yun had reached the Half-step Supreme Being Realm.
• Li Qingyun entered the hall and drew Xia Ying’s delighted attention, while Hao Tian, Jiya, and others recognized him from the Coming-of-Age Grand Trial.
• Shang Qin invited Li Qingyun to sit in the first seat on the right, opposite Xia Ying, startling the other guests with his treatment.

Li Qingyun, posing as Zhen Ancestor, negotiated with Xia Ying to trade Shang Yun’s body for a Heng Crystal Pill and rare treasures, then left Qin Palace amid the nobles’ outrage. He later collected the payment and returned to his duties while keeping his distance from Xia Ying.

• Li Qingyun ignored Haotian and the others, took a seat at Qin Palace, and exchanged pleasantries with Xia Ying.
• Xia Ying secretly offered to buy Shang Yun’s body, and Li Qingyun demanded three Heng Crystal Pills and a hundred top-tier Heaven-Opening Supreme Treasures before settling for one pill and her favor.
• Li Qingyun warned Xia Ying that a remnant of Shang Yun’s soul remained, agreed to the deal, and left Qin Palace.
• Haotian and Jiya demanded an explanation from Shang Qin, while Xia Ying and the other guests departed, leaving Shang Qin distressed.
• After Shang Guanlan criticized Zhen Ancestor, Li Qingyun left the Greater Shang Clan for the Secret Artifact Domain and resumed his relaxed work as Deputy Great Chief Guard.
• A Great Chief Guard surnamed Xia delivered one Heng Crystal Pill and nearly a hundred rare Heaven-Opening Supreme Treasures on Xia Ying’s behalf, and Li Qingyun accepted them.

After Li Qingyun’s bloodline breakthrough brought him closer to the Eternal Life Realm, he faced Xia Ying’s threat against the Shang Clan’s positions in the Secret Artifact Domain. He stalled for time by promising to repay her three months later while beginning to craft a Level 3 furnace, and Xia Ying remained furious with him.

• Li Qingyun’s Eternal Life Blood reached eighty percent Shi-level, strengthening his cultivation and giving him a faint sense that the Eternal Life Realm was within reach.
• Shang Hechen warned Li Qingyun that Xia Ying had issued an ultimatum: fulfill a promise within three days or she would target the Shang Clan’s positions in the Secret Artifact Domain.
• Li Qingyun told Shang Hechen to warn Xia Chen that the Shang Clan had dirt on Xia Clan disciples and promised Xia Ying double repayment in three months.
• After Shang Hechen left, Li Qingyun decided he needed time to refine Heng Crystal Pills and began crafting a Level 3 secret artifact furnace.
• On Xiaque Star, Xia Ying crushed her cup, cursed Li Qingyun for repeatedly toying with her, and dismissed the handsome young men around her.

Li Qingyun accepted the Xia Clan’s transfer order and led more than two hundred elites toward the Eighty-eighth Sequence Chain. On the way, Regus the Sorcerer and three other sorcerers attacked their ship, leaving Li Qingyun to confront the icy witch power.

• Yu Kong delivered the Xia Clan’s order for Shang Hechen and Shang Yun to take two hundred elites to the Eighty-eighth Sequence Chain.
• Li Qingyun accepted the order and told Shang Hechen to bring every Shang Clan descendant, then privately instructed him to include Xi Yang, Hao Ke, and other noble scions.
• Xi Yang, Hao Ke, and the others asked Li Qingyun to spare them from the assignment, but he refused.
• Li Qingyun, Shang Hechen, and more than two hundred elites departed aboard a colossal ship and traveled into the Sixty-first Sequence Chain.
• Regus the Sorcerer and three Nine-Ring Peak sorcerers froze the ship and attacked its passengers with witch power.
• Li Qingyun donned Level Four Armor and scattered more than half of the icy Witch Mark Power engulfing the ship.