Chapter Summaries

After Calamity Burial World Venerable escaped, the Primordial Lord revealed the crisis surrounding the Eternal Pillar and explained that Dao Immortal Grand Celestial Venerable and Hongjun Grand Celestial Venerable had gone to the Cangyun Divine Sea. Han Yi watched the Dao Tomb recede over the following millennia, then received the Primordial Lord’s summons as the realm war approached.

• The Primordial Lord told Han Yi and the Ancient Seats that Calamity Burial World Venerable had escaped his seal and severed his connection to the Eternal Pillar, while the Lord of Yutian climbed the pillar to delay Dao God.
• The Primordial Lord explained that Calamity Burial World Venerable’s escape threatened Dao Spirit’s path to ascension, and told Han Yi that Dao Immortal Grand Celestial Venerable and Hongjun Grand Celestial Venerable were in the Cangyun Divine Sea.
• Han Yi established a domain and divine formation near the Nangong Clan, then confirmed that the Dao Tomb’s power was beginning to recede.
• Seventy years later, Han Yi sensed that the Lord of Yutian had perished and continued cultivating on his divine mountain.
• After two thousand three hundred years, Han Yi found that the Dao Tomb was nearly gone and that Grave Beasts were no longer being born.
• Five hundred years later, the Primordial Lord summoned Han Yi to the ancestral temple because the realm war was imminent.

Han Yi joined the Primordial Beginning Clan’s forces as they gathered with cultivators from four Dao Domains for the realm war. After a thirty-two-year journey through the Source-less Space, the expedition arrived at Cangyun Divine Sea.

• Han Yi met the Primordial Lord, four Primordial Ancient Seats, and twenty-two elders before the Primordial Lord explained the realm war and its terms.
• Dongfang Xiao told Han Yi that Ancestor God Star had five half-step Transcendents and described the Origin God Clan’s power; the Primordial Lord asked the Origin Lord to protect Han Yi, whose fate resisted their calculations.
• Cultivators from the four Dao Domains assembled, and the Origin Lord led nearly seven hundred participants away from the Dao Spirit Chaos World aboard an ancient spirit-vessel.
• Han Yi learned which half-step Transcendents were leading the expedition and resolved to conceal the Wanming Book from the Lord of Ancient Profundity.
• After thirty-two years, the ancient spirit-vessel reached Cangyun Divine Sea, where Han Yi saw a vast ocean of light encircled by an endless ring of land.

Han Yi arrived at Solemn Cloud Mountain with the Dao Spirit cultivators to compete against Yin Demons for Cangyun Divine Stones, learning that the realm war had already claimed many lives. When the Cangyun Storm began, he followed the Primordial God Clan into the mountain to search for stones and ended the chapter discovering a crystalline gleam beneath the soil.

• The Origin Lord explained that Dao Spirit and Yin Demon had fought for Cangyun Divine Stones at Solemn Cloud Mountain for seven Chaos Eras, under restrictions imposed by the Cangyun God Clan.
• Han Yi and the Dao Spirit cultivators reached Solemn Cloud Mountain, where he saw that only a little over two hundred members of the previous expedition remained and resolved to avoid drawing attention.
• The Origin Lord instructed the cultivators to enter Solemn Cloud Mountain when the Cangyun Storm arrived and search for Cangyun Divine Stones.
• After half a year, Cangyun Divine Radiance flooded the mountain, and Han Yi entered with the Primordial Ancient Seats and other elders.
• Dongfang Xiao led Han Yi and the Primordial God Clan elders into a deep region of Solemn Cloud Mountain, where they spread out to search cautiously.
• Han Yi stopped at a mountain hollow and spotted a brilliant crystalline gleam beneath the soil.

Han Yi discovered that Cangyun Divine Stones could be converted into World Force, then used the Wanming Book to locate and kill Yin Demons by revealing their hidden demon souls. He concealed the book’s ability from the others and continued searching for divine stones with the Primordial elders.

• Han Yi found and stored several Cangyun Divine Stones, learning that they could be converted into World Force.
• Han Yi rushed to a battle between two Primordial elders and two Yin Demons, then killed the demons with his Mystic Yellow Divine Axe.
• Han Yi used the Wanming Book to spot the Yin Demons’ shifting demon souls and killed five more, collecting their belongings and thirteen divine stones.
• Dongfang Hongye asked whether Han Yi could detect demon souls, but Han Yi claimed his accurate strikes had been luck.
• Dongfang Xiao instructed the elders to resume searching for divine stones while the Cangyun Storm continued.

After returning from Solemn Cloud Mountain, Han Yi shared what he had learned about fighting Yin Demons and discovered that a powerful restriction destroyed their souls when he tried to investigate their world. He absorbed Cangyun Divine Stones and began using the Ashen Nine Refinements to fuse Yin Demon weapons into his body, completing his first refinement after three thousand years.

• Han Yi told Dongfang Xiao and the other Divine Venerables that Yin Demons could be defeated with overwhelming physical force or divine arts, and that their demon souls were their core weakness.
• Han Yi examined the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, but a hidden restriction burned away its trapped Yin Demons when he tried to learn about the Yin Demon Chaos World.
• Han Yi absorbed Cangyun Divine Stones to gain realm power and collected the Yin Demon weapons and treasures from his seven kills.
• Han Yi began refining the Ten Thousand Souls Banner into his body with the Ashen Nine Refinements, using Chaos Life Seeds to accelerate the process.
• After three thousand years, the Ten Thousand Souls Banner merged into Han Yi's body, and his aura surged.

Han Yi searched Solemn Cloud Mountain during a Cangyun Storm and was caught in a battle between the Lord of Ancient Profundity and a Yin Demon Demon Lord over an enormous Cangyun Divine Stone. After the stone struck him, the Lord of Ancient Profundity ordered Han Yi to take it back to the encampment, and Han Yi was shocked by what he saw when he retrieved it.

• Han Yi refined the Ten Thousand Souls Banner into his body, greatly strengthening his physique, then spent another fifteen hundred years cultivating.
• When the Cangyun Storm returned, Han Yi joined the search for divine stones and found several, including one in a previously searched hollow.
• Han Yi sensed a battle between the Lord of Ancient Profundity and a Demon Lord, then spotted the enormous divine stone they were fighting over.
• The Lord of Ancient Profundity sent the divine stone crashing into Han Yi and held off the Demon Lord with his four Realm Venerable ancient artifacts.
• The Lord of Ancient Profundity told Han Yi to take the stone to the encampment, and Han Yi retrieved it from the mountain wall and stared at it in shock.

Han Yi obtained a Cangyun Divine Core hidden inside a divine stone, then survived the Demon Lord’s attack and escaped after the Cangyun Divine Emissary intervened. He healed in a cave and discovered that the Heavy Profound Dao Stele could destroy the demonic energy in his body, leaving him with the divine stone in hand.

• Han Yi stored the divine stone containing a nine-colored Dao embryo, which the Lord of Ancient Profundity and the Demon Lord were fighting over.
• The Demon Lord used a black stone jar to restrain the Lord of Ancient Profundity and charged at Han Yi, who used the Wanming Book to spot a flaw in the Demon Lord’s palm and wound him with the Mystic Yellow Divine Axe.
• The Cangyun Divine Emissary appeared, captured the frozen images of the Lord of Ancient Profundity and the Demon Lord, and drove the two Half-Step Realm Venerables to flee.
• Han Yi escaped deep into Solemn Cloud Mountain and found that the Demon Lord’s demonic energy kept regenerating inside his Divine Aperture Worlds.
• Han Yi contained the remaining demonic energy within a Divine Aperture World and cast it into the Heavy Profound Dao Stele, where he destroyed it.
• Han Yi took out the enormous Cangyun divine stone from his spatial container.

Han Yi refined a perfect Cangyun Divine Stone and transformed its Divine Embryo into an avatar, gaining the inheritance of the Nine Transformations of the Cloud Sea. After returning from Solemn Cloud Mountain, he resolved to grow strong enough to face Lord of Ancient Profundity, who may be targeting both the Divine Embryo and the Wanming Book.

• Han Yi recognized that the Cangyun Divine Core inside the perfect Divine Stone was meant to become an avatar and feared Lord of Ancient Profundity might target him for using the Wanming Book.
• While Han Yi remained in Solemn Cloud Mountain, the other cultivators withdrew, and the Origin Lord and Lord of Purple Mountain learned only that Lord of Ancient Profundity had fought a Demon Lord over a Divine Stone that later vanished.
• Han Yi spent thirty-seven years refining the Divine Stone, then formed its exposed Dao Embryo into an avatar that inherited the Nine Transformations of the Cloud Sea and could serve as a second life.
• Han Yi began cultivating the Void Dao Transformation through the avatar, but after seven hundred years it had advanced only to 2/100, so he emerged when the Cangyun Storm returned.
• Han Yi rejoined the Dao Spirit contingent and told the elders, Dongfang Xiao, the Origin Lord, and Lord of Purple Mountain that he had been injured and delayed while escaping the Demon Lord.
• After learning that Lord of Ancient Profundity had concealed his involvement in the battle, Han Yi suspected he wanted the Wanming Book too and resolved to gain the strength to confront him within a hundred thousand years.

After fifty-four thousand years of cultivation, Han Yi raised his strength to the Venerable-level limit and became confident he could survive a confrontation with Lord of Ancient Profundity. During a new Cangyun Storm, he charged into the Yin Demons’ territory to seek a fight with a Demon Lord, prompting the Lord of Supreme Beginning to pursue him.

• Han Yi used his Divine Embryo avatar to accelerate his cultivation, reached the Divine Venerable realm’s limit, perfected the Mira Profound Truth Sword Scripture, and refined twelve peak demonic weapons into his body.
• Han Yi joined the Primordial elders for the twelfth Cangyun Storm, where they regarded him with awe after he had repeatedly saved them from Yin Demons.
• Han Yi decided to test his strength against a Demon Lord deep in Solemn Cloud Mountain and left the Primordial group.
• Han Yi swept aside several Yin Demons with his black divine axe, pursued and killed one fleeing Yin Demon, and seized its Cangyun Divine Stone and demonic weapon.
• The Lord of Supreme Beginning saw Han Yi charge toward the Yin Demons’ main camp and chased after him to prevent him from being overwhelmed.

Han Yi fought Demon Lord Kui Luo after destroying Kui Luo’s child demons and revealed a divine body and strength capable of contending with a Demon Lord. The Lord of Supreme Beginning lent Han Yi the Soul-Slaying Divine Saber, and the two powerful weapons collided as their battle escalated.

• Demon Lord Kui Luo activated seven child demons to attack Han Yi, but Han Yi destroyed one with an axe strike and annihilated the remaining six after they fused.
• Han Yi revealed his fifty-two-thousand-zhang divine body and obliterated the fused Yin Demon Mental Aspect, prompting Kui Luo to charge at him.
• Han Yi fused twelve demonic weapons into his body and met Kui Luo’s spear strike with a punch, driving the Demon Lord back despite being knocked away himself.
• The Lord of Supreme Beginning lent Han Yi the World Venerable ancient artifact called the Soul-Slaying Divine Saber.
• Han Yi charged Kui Luo with the black saber, and their weapons collided with enough force to shake Solemn Cloud Mountain.

Han Yi matched Demon Lord Kui Luo in battle and revealed the Wanming Book to counter his soul attack, proving his strength as a Half-Step Transcendent World Venerable. After Kui Luo and the Lord of Supreme Beginning left Solemn Cloud Mountain under the Cangyun rules, Han Yi kept the Spirit Slayer blade and charged toward the remaining Yin Demons.

• Han Yi and Demon Lord Kui Luo clashed again, and their attacks ended in an even draw.
• When Kui Luo used a demonic soul art, Han Yi summoned the Wanming Book and used its Wanming Soul-Seizing Arrow to shatter the demonic shadow's attacks.
• Kui Luo evaded Han Yi and attacked the Lord of Supreme Beginning, who met him in battle before both left Solemn Cloud Mountain.
• A three-colored Cloud Ring Cangyun divine envoy arrived, inspected the battlefield, and departed without confronting Han Yi.
• Han Yi learned that Half-Step Transcendent World Venerables had to leave the Ring Continent after acting, then kept the Spirit Slayer blade and headed toward the remaining Yin Demons.

Han Yi slaughtered more than a hundred Yin Demons in Solemn Cloud Mountain, gathered a vast haul of divine stones and weapons, and learned that his strength let him leave the world war early. He chose to remain for now, while a strange golden-and-silver mirror among his spoils began reacting to him.

• Han Yi drove the Yin Demons out of Solemn Cloud Mountain but stopped short of their stronghold to avoid risking a confrontation with a stronger powerhouse.
• The Lord of Purple Mountain told Han Yi he could leave the world war because he had the strength of a half-step World Venerable, and described Cangyun South City as a possible destination.
• Han Yi chose to stay in Solemn Cloud Mountain, where he could safely mine divine stones, and returned to the Dao Spirit stronghold as the Primordial elders discussed his newly revealed strength.
• Han Yi sorted the spoils from more than a hundred slain Yin Demons, finding over fifty thousand Cangyun Divine Stones, more than two hundred and thirty demonic weapons, and numerous treasures.
• Han Yi noticed a half-gold, half-silver round mirror resembling the Black-and-White Bagua and picked it up, causing it to shine and a strange phenomenon to arise from his body.

Han Yi discovered that the mirror fragment had strengthened the Great Yama Spirit-Suppressing Diagram and decided to focus his cultivation on his Cangyun Divine Embryo. His strength drove the Yin Demons from Solemn Cloud Mountain, and after a final raid there, he headed toward Cangyun South City.

• Han Yi merged the metal mirror into the Black-and-White Bagua and learned that it was a fragment of the Eternal ancient artifact called the Great Yama Spirit-Suppressing Diagram.
• Han Yi reviewed his fight with Demon Lord Kui Luo, concluded his strength matched the Lord of Supreme Beginning, and chose to cultivate his Divine Embryo avatar toward joining the Cangyun God Clan.
• During the next Cangyun Storm, Han Yi slaughtered Yin Demons in Solemn Cloud Mountain and forced the stationed Demon Lord to retreat to its encampment.
• Han Yi's presence kept Yin Demons out of Solemn Cloud Mountain, allowing Dao Spirit cultivators to search with far fewer casualties.
• When Yin Demons returned during a later storm, Han Yi appeared unexpectedly, killed thirty, and drove the survivors and their Demon Lord back to the encampment.
• Han Yi left Solemn Cloud Mountain and followed the Lord of Purple Mountain's information toward Cangyun South City.

Han Yi traveled to Cangyun South City to find the Origin Lord and encountered the city’s vast markets and powerful factions. After three Azure Shadow Grand Sect elders ambushed him, he killed them and clashed with their half-step World Venerable founder, leaving the fight underway.

• Han Yi reached Cangyun South City after a month and a half of travel and paid one Source Crystal to enter.
• He explored the city’s bustling marketplace and followed the Origin Lord’s aura deeper into South City.
• Han Yi detoured around a half-step World Venerable beast’s territory and then avoided the Azure Shadow Grand Sect’s claimed desert.
• Three Azure Shadow Grand Sect elders ambushed Han Yi, but their attacks failed to harm him.
• Han Yi killed the three elders with one slash of the Soul-Slaying Divine Saber, drawing out the sect’s shadow-like founder.
• The founder attacked with a giant spiritual hand, and Han Yi shattered it with a saber strike.

Han Yi fought Lord of Cangying in the Gobi and proved his strength had reached the half-step World Venerable level before continuing to seek Origin Lord. He found the Primordial Lord and three other powerful cultivators gathered in secret, and Origin Lord told him he was qualified to learn about their imminent plan.

• Han Yi traded blows with Lord of Cangying, shattered his attacks, and left after judging that neither could kill the other.
• Han Yi traveled toward Origin Lord’s location with his divine body and killing aura exposed, keeping other cultivators at a distance.
• A Dao formation trapped Han Yi near the mountain range, but the Primordial Lord appeared, dismissed it, and welcomed him.
• Han Yi recognized Origin Lord and identified the other two arrivals as the former Origin God Clan chief and Lord of Yellow Springs, a Cangyun Divine Emissary.
• Origin Lord explained that Lord of Purple Mountain had sent Han Yi without knowing about the gathering, then listened as Han Yi recounted his recent battles.
• Origin Lord assured Han Yi that the group’s plans were nearly ready and said Han Yi’s strength qualified him to learn what would happen next.

Han Yi learned that Dao Spirit’s forces planned to make Ancestor God a city lord of Cangyun South City, whose contest would begin in seventy thousand years. He joined the effort as a powerful ally and learned the half-step transcendence ranks and the history of Dao Spirit’s Eternal Realm Venerables.

• The Origin Lord introduced Han Yi to Tianyuan, former patriarch of the Heavenly Human God Clan, and Murong Yi of the Yellow Springs God Clan.
• The Origin Lord revealed that Ancestor God intended to compete for the vacant city-lord seat left by Realm Venerable Yuxiu, and explained that the contest would begin in roughly seventy thousand years.
• The Origin Lord explained that the Void Lord had returned after sensing turmoil in Dao Spirit and agreed to help Ancestor God compete for the seat.
• Han Yi learned the names and fates of Dao Spirit’s seven Eternal Realm Venerables, including that Dao Spirit had lost contact with the Void Lord and that Fu Heng and Heavenly Mandate were sealed away.
• The Origin Lord described the Void, Nirvana, and True stages of half-step transcendence and explained that the contest would include battlegrounds for half-step Realm Venerables.
• The Origin Lord said Dao Spirit’s planned forces included two Eternal Realm Venerables and thirteen half-step Realm Venerables, with Han Yi adding another powerful ally.

Han Yi declined to decide whether to compete for Cangyun South City's lordship and set out to explore the city while preparing for a future breakthrough. In the Blue Lake Region, he learned of a hidden treasury and local events, then questioned whether becoming a Realm Venerable truly required returning to his Chaos World.

• The Origin Lord urged Han Yi to wait seventy thousand years before deciding whether to contend for the city lord position, while the Primordial Lord explained Cangyun South City's wonders and dangers.
• Han Yi chose to explore Cangyun South City and agreed to return to Dao Spirit with the Lord of Purple Mountain after forty thousand years.
• Han Yi concealed his aura, traveled to the Blue Lake Region, and learned that the Yuxiu Realm had become unstable after its Realm Venerable went missing.
• A Dao Integration Realm cultivator told Han Yi about a hidden treasury in Blue Lake, a coming duel between the Dark Sword Realm Venerable and the Falong Realm Venerable, Taihu Grand Sect's recruitment, and a threat against the Voidfierce Heavenly Venerable.
• Han Yi reflected on preparing for his breakthrough and wondered whether he could become a Realm Venerable without returning to Dao Spirit to imprint his consciousness on the Eternal Pillar.

Han Yi traveled through Cangyun South City and the other realms of the Cangyun Ring Continent, gathering insights and witnessing powerful cultivators and strange Dao arts. At Venerable Gumi’s gathering, he heard of a way for Heavenly Venerables whose Chaos Realms had been destroyed to advance by turning their own world into a newborn Chaos Realm.

• Han Yi traveled through the Blue Lake Region, observed Taihu Grand Sect, and discussed the Dao with Taihu World Venerable for ten years.
• Han Yi watched battles across Cangyun South City, survived a dangerous encounter in Blue Lake, and continued traveling through the other great realms.
• Han Yi met Venerable Gumi at Ancient Secret Mountain, where Gumi shared accounts of his travels and a Dao art that made existence undying by dividing thoughts into independent subselves.
• Venerable Gumi explained that he had sought another path to advancement because his own Chaos Realm and Eternal Pillar had been destroyed.
• Venerable Gumi revealed a method that transformed a Heavenly Venerable’s world into a newborn Chaos Realm and its domain into an Eternal Pillar, declaring that it self-verified one’s existence.

At a Dao discussion, Han Yi learned of the rare path of self-proving one's own being and began considering how to turn his Heavenly Venerable World into a Chaos World and his domain into an Eternal Pillar. He left the Cangyun Divine Sea to test the idea in Source-less Space, where his projected world shattered almost immediately, but he continued experimenting.

• Ancient Secret Heavenly Venerable revealed that an ancient artifact spirit had named three successful self-proving Saint Lords, including Bai, whose name corresponded to Bai's Continent.
• The Heavenly Venerables discussed Bai's Continent and its dangerous White Evil Demons while Ancient Secret Heavenly Venerable shared his travels and Dao insights; Han Yi quietly departed after the three-year discussion.
• Han Yi reasoned that creating his own Chaos World might let him gain an Eternal Transcendent's undying essence and remove future cultivation bottlenecks, so he began planning to balance his immortal and divine systems.
• Han Yi spent years attempting to project his Heavenly Venerable World, then left Cangyun South City and the Cangyun Divine Sea to avoid their influence.
• Han Yi projected a much larger Heavenly Venerable World in Source-less Space, but it shattered after an instant, and he continued trying despite the difficulty.

After failing to manifest his Heavenly Venerable World in the Source-less Space, Han Yi learned from the Primordial Lord that opening a Chaos Realm through one’s own power had never been proven possible. On his way to Solemn Cloud Mountain, he discovered Dao Immortal had remained nearby and infiltrated the Azure Nether Grand Sect to learn what had happened.

• Han Yi ended his attempt to manifest his Heavenly Venerable World after more than twenty thousand years and returned to consult the Primordial Lord.
• The Primordial Lord told Han Yi that many powerful cultivators, including the Ancestor God, had failed to open a Chaos Realm themselves, though Han Yi could still pursue the method if he wished.
• Han Yi decided he would return to the established road to transcendence if his own attempt proved impossible, then continued toward Solemn Cloud Mountain.
• Han Yi found Dao Immortal’s aura on a battlefield and suspected Dao Immortal had stayed in the area instead of returning to the Primordial Grand World.
• Han Yi bypassed the Azure Nether Grand Sect’s Dao formation, possessed one of its Heavenly Venerables, and learned that Dao Immortal had joined the sect a hundred thousand years earlier.