Chapter Summaries

Ning Yu Die endured the Nightmare Soul Attack during her Life and Death Tribulation, using Cloud Hall’s precious True Soul Pill to strengthen her soul. As she neared her limit, she thought she saw a familiar figure.

• Luo Zheng worried as Ning Yu Die struggled against the countless Nightmare attacks, but Xun told him to let the tribulation temper her a little longer.
• Ning Yu Die recalled Jade Granny’s departure, Luo Zheng’s disappearance, and the preparations she had made to face the Life and Death Realm.
• Ning Yu Die swallowed Cloud Hall’s ancestral True Soul Pill, briefly strengthening her soul and resisting the petals’ corrosive attacks.
• After enduring more than a hundred Nightmare attacks, Ning Yu Die felt the pill’s effects fade and feared she would fail the tribulation.
• As Ning Yu Die’s awareness grew hazy, she thought she saw a familiar figure.

Luo Zheng saved Ning Yu Die from her Life and Death Tribulation with the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao and treated her injured soul. Ning Yu Die woke in his arms, realized he had truly returned, and burst into tears.

• Ning Yu Die mistook Luo Zheng for a hallucination and embraced him as she believed she was dying.
• Luo Zheng used the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao to absorb the tribulation petals and end the Life and Death Tribulation.
• Luo Zheng gave Ning Yu Die a soul-healing Emerald Pill and helped dissolve its medicinal power, after which she fell asleep.
• Grand Dream True Person and two Cloud Palace elders found Luo Zheng holding the sleeping Ning Yu Die, then quietly withdrew.
• Ning Yu Die woke the next morning, recognized that Luo Zheng had truly returned, and began crying with joy.

Ning Yu Die reunited with Luo Zheng after his two-year disappearance and revealed how deeply she had missed him. Their reunion turned awkward when Xun introduced herself as Luo Zheng’s Demon Night Race sword spirit, while the Cloud Hall’s recent rebellion still awaited Ning Yu Die’s judgment.

• Ning Yu Die remembered how she had endured hardship in the Cloud Sect, risen to become Hall Master, and searched for Luo Zheng after he vanished.
• Ning Yu Die broke down and cried when she saw Luo Zheng, then asked where he had been for the past two years.
• Luo Zheng teased Ning Yu Die, who resumed her Hall Master’s manner and threatened to punish him for leaving the Cloud Hall without permission.
• Xun approached Ning Yu Die and revealed that she was of the Demon Night Race and had originally been one entity with Luo Zheng.
• Luo Zheng stopped Xun’s teasing and reminded Ning Yu Die that she needed to decide how to deal with the Cloud Hall rebels.

Luo Zheng returned with Ning Yu Die to Cloud Hall after putting down Great Master Zhuo’s rebellion. As Cloud Hall arrived over Cloud Sea City, Ning Yu Die revealed her new Life and Death Realm aura, leaving the rebel-supporting clans to realize their plans had failed.

• Xun hid within Luo Zheng and reacted with disappointment while the True Dragons teased her.
• Grand Dream True Person told Ning Yu Die that Great Master Zhuo had rebelled with several clans, but Luo Zheng had killed him and the remaining rebels had been captured.
• Ning Yu Die vowed to make the Third Grade Families recognize her authority as Hall Master.
• Cloud Hall returned to Cloud Sea City, where the clans still believed Great Master Zhuo had won because news of the rebellion’s defeat had been sealed off.
• Ning Yu Die stood on Cloud Hall’s platform and released her Life and Death Realm aura, exposing Great Master Zhuo’s failure to the gathered martial artists.

After Ning Yu Die entered the Life and Death Realm, she confronted the patriarchs of the Four Great Clans over their rebellion and threatened to exterminate them. She spared the clans on the condition that they pay a steep ransom for their captured elders, and Luo Zheng offered them a way to pay in installments.

• Ning Yu Die confronted the patriarchs and declared that Cloud Hall belonged to the sect, not the Great Clans.
• Ning Yu Die announced that the Zhuo, Shen, Fei, and Wu Families would be removed from Cloud Hall and exterminated.
• Grand Dream True Person urged Ning Yu Die to consider Cloud Hall’s need for manpower, and she agreed to spare the clans if they paid one thousand Top Grade True Essence Stones for each captured elder.
• The patriarchs protested that the ransom was too expensive, and Ning Yu Die told them to kill the remaining captives if they could not pay.
• Luo Zheng offered the patriarchs the option to pay in installments.

Luo Zheng returned to the Cloud Palace, settled the Great Clans' debt payments, and reunited with Hua Tianming, Pei Tianyao, and Bai Li Hongfeng. He gave Hua Tianming a Saint Artifact sword and revealed a second pair of Saint Artifact short swords for Bai Li Hongfeng.

• Luo Zheng told the Great Clan heads they could repay their debts in yearly installments with interest, and they hurried off to gather True Essence Stones.
• Ning Yu Die held back from calling Luo Zheng back as he went to the Cloud Palace to meet his friends.
• Hua Tianming admitted that even after opening his Sword Eye, he still could not match Luo Zheng, and he explained the limits of his one-strike technique.
• Luo Zheng presented Hua Tianming with a Low-Grade Saint Artifact sword, which Hua Tianming initially refused as too precious.
• Luo Zheng showed Bai Li Hongfeng a pair of Low-Grade Saint Artifact short swords, and Bai Li Hongfeng asked if they were for him.

Luo Zheng gave Bai Li Hongfeng a pair of short Sacred Artifacts and Pei Tianyao a defensive treasure as they reunited in Cloud Sea City. Xi Youqin arrived seeking Luo Zheng, but a guard told her he was missing, leaving her convinced that he was being hidden from her.

• Luo Zheng gave Bai Li Hongfeng a pair of short Sacred Artifacts and Pei Tianyao a Low-Grade Saint Artifact for defense.
• Xi Youqin traveled toward Cloud Sea City, killing Martial Artists who tried to take advantage of her and destroying Wild Goose City with more than a million giant swords.
• Xi Youqin reached Cloud Sea City and flew toward the Cloud Palace, believing Luo Zheng had returned there.
• A Cloud Palace guard told Xi Youqin that Luo Zheng was missing and refused to let her in.
• Xi Youqin accused the guard of lying and demanded that he bring Luo Zheng out, but the guard cursed her and returned to the gate.

Xi Youqin attacked Cloud Hall’s barrier with waves of gigantic swords after guards told her Luo Zheng was unavailable. Luo Zheng stopped her and confronted her, but she admitted she did not know why she had come to find him.

• Xi Youqin summoned gigantic swords and battered Cloud Hall’s barrier, escalating from one sword to over ten thousand.
• Luo Zheng, Ning Yu Die, Grand Dream True Person, and Cloud Hall’s elders hurried to the gates as the barrier came under attack.
• Luo Zheng recognized Xi Youqin and shouted for her to stop, and she made the swords disappear.
• Xi Youqin explained that the guards had said Luo Zheng was not there, so she thought he was avoiding her.
• Ning Yu Die guessed Xi Youqin was from the Xi family, and Xi Youqin confirmed her name but could not explain why she had followed Luo Zheng to Cloud Hall.

Xi Youqin followed Luo Zheng to the Cloud Hall, where her closeness to him made Ning Yu Die jealous. Ning Yu Die allowed Xi Youqin to stay for protection, while both women spent the night troubled by their feelings about Luo Zheng.

• Ning Yu Die noticed Xi Youqin's bashful manner and ordered the Cloud Hall barrier opened for her.
• Xi Youqin flew to Luo Zheng's side, and Ning Yu Die questioned why she had followed him.
• Xi Youqin said she had nowhere else to go and challenged Ning Yu Die's right to interfere in her choice to follow Luo Zheng.
• Ning Yu Die admitted she had overstepped and allowed Xi Youqin to stay in the Cloud Hall to keep her from Cui Xie.
• Luo Zheng arranged a residence for Xi Youqin, who resolved to endure the unfamiliar surroundings for his sake.
• Ning Yu Die struggled to focus on cultivation and questioned whether she had the right to interfere in Luo Zheng's affairs.

Luo Zheng successfully connected with a second star while Ning Yu Die watched from afar, but the Cloud Palace received news that the Heaven Heavenly Evil Sect had conquered the Void Spirit Sect and massacred Void Heaven City. Xi Youqin learned that her family had been wiped out, and she was told that surviving Xi family members would arrive at the Cloud Palace.

• Ning Yu Die suffered a cultivation mishap, then spotted Luo Zheng drawing power from an orange-red star and quietly watched him.
• Xi Youqin followed Luo Zheng to the Cloud Palace Council Hall, where Grand Dream True Person announced that the Heaven Heavenly Evil Sect had conquered the Void Spirit Sect.
• Grand Dream True Person revealed that Void Heaven City had been massacred and the Seven Great Clans exterminated, including the Xi family.
• Xi Youqin collapsed in grief after learning that her family had been targeted and Xi Family Fortress reduced to ashes.
• Ning Yu Die told Xi Youqin that another group of Xi family members was heading to the Cloud Palace and that Xi Youqin might need to cooperate with them.

After the Void Spirit Sect fell and the Xi family was massacred, Qiu Sheng blamed Xi Youqin and tried to take her away, claiming she was needed to exchange for Qingxu Daoren. Luo Zheng protected her, and Xi Youqin revealed that her Yuan Yin was already gone.

• The Cloud Hall learned that the Heavenly Evil Sect had conquered the Void Spirit Sect and massacred Void Heaven City, leaving its elders troubled.
• Qiu Sheng told Xi Youqin that her family had been exterminated, her father killed by Cui Xie, and Xi Xiao Jie missing, then blamed her for the sect’s defeat.
• Qiu Sheng said Cui Xie would trade Qingxu Daoren for Xi Youqin, and Xi Youqin initially agreed before refusing.
• Qiu Sheng tried to seize Xi Youqin, but Luo Zheng blocked him and rejected the demand to hand her over.
• When a Void Spirit Sect martial artist dismissed the danger to Luo Yan, Luo Zheng struck him and sent him crashing through the Council Hall wall.
• Xi Youqin told Qiu Sheng that Luo Zheng had another reason to stop him: her Yuan Yin was already gone.

Luo Zheng admitted that Xi Youqin was his woman and refused to let the Void Spirit Sect hand her over to Cui Xie. Ning Yu Die withdrew from him, while Cloud Hall braced for war and Xi Youqin patiently waited on Luo Zheng.

• Xi Youqin defended Luo Zheng, and Luo Zheng publicly declared that she was his woman and that he would not let the Void Spirit Sect give her to Cui Xie.
• The Void Spirit Sect group left Cloud Hall without a plan to rescue its Sect Master, and Ning Yu Die ended the council meeting and walked away from Luo Zheng.
• Luo Zheng resumed cultivating as Cloud Hall prepared for a possible attack by the Heaven Heavenly Evil Sect, while Ning Yu Die avoided him and the elders worried about their strained relationship.
• Xi Youqin cooked meals for Luo Zheng and waited outside his cultivation chamber, even when he stayed secluded for days.

Luo Zheng continued cultivating while Xi Youqin devotedly waited on him, and Ning Yu Die finally agreed to coordinate with the World Commerce Alliance against the expanding Heavenly Evil Sect. A month later, Ning Yu Die saw Xi Youqin waiting outside Luo Zheng’s chamber and left feeling envious, while Xi Youqin smiled as though she had won.

• Cloud Palace disciples gossiped about Luo Zheng and Xi Youqin, while Luo Zheng emerged from his cultivation chamber and shared a meal with her before returning to train.
• Luo Zheng sensed that he was nearing the middle stage of the Divine Pill Realm and sought news as he prepared for a future fight with Cui Xie.
• Grand Dream True Person entered the Ice Palace and urged Ning Yu Die to respond to the Heavenly Evil Sect’s expansion and the World Commerce Alliance’s requests for a meeting.
• Ning Yu Die agreed to discuss a strategy with the World Commerce Alliance and join forces to attack the Heavenly Evil Sect.
• One month later, Ning Yu Die saw Xi Youqin waiting outside Luo Zheng’s cultivation chamber, felt envious, and drifted away as Xi Youqin returned to watching the door with a faint smile.

Ning Yu Die led Cloud Hall’s forces to join Heavenly Revelation City against Heavenly Evil Sect, leaving Luo Zheng behind while he cultivated. After Luo Zheng broke through to the mid-stage Void Tribulation Realm, Xi Youqin asked to spend the night with him, unaware that Ning Yu Die had already departed.

• Ning Yu Die ordered Cloud Hall’s martial artists to set out without Luo Zheng, deciding he should remain at Cloud Hall.
• Grand Dream True Person questioned the decision, but Ning Yu Die left with the elders through the Teleportation Array.
• Luo Zheng continued meditating while Xi Youqin tended flowers outside his cultivation chamber, unaware that Cloud Hall’s forces had gone to war.
• After thirty-five days, Luo Zheng broke through to the mid-stage Void Tribulation Realm and emerged from the chamber.
• Xi Youqin asked to sleep at Luo Zheng’s place that night, and he agreed without knowing Ning Yu Die had left Cloud Hall.

After learning that Ning Yu Die had taken the Cloud Mist Hall to join the war against the Heavenly Evil Sect without notifying him, Luo Zheng traveled with Xi Youqin to Heavenly Revelation City. There, Ao Xiang revealed that the Heavenly Evil Sect’s deadly battle formation might have come from a divine kingdom, suggesting a powerful force stood behind the sect.

• Fei Han told Luo Zheng that the Cloud Mist Hall had joined the World Commerce Alliance in a war against the Heavenly Evil Sect, and Luo Zheng agreed to go to Heavenly Revelation City.
• Luo Zheng invited Xi Youqin to accompany him, and they traveled through Cloud Sea City’s Teleportation Array to Heavenly Revelation City.
• Luo Zheng met Ao Xiang, who brought him toward the World Commerce Alliance headquarters and explained that both sides had suffered heavy losses, including Void Tribulation Realm elders killed by Spirit Illumination Realm fighters.
• Ao Xiang explained that the Heavenly Evil Sect used a battle formation that let hundreds of Spirit Illumination Realm martial artists kill stronger opponents.
• Ao Xiang told Luo Zheng that the Alliance Master suspected the formation had come from the Four Divine Kingdoms and that a divine kingdom might be backing the Heavenly Evil Sect.

Luo Zheng learned that Ning Yu Die had been attacking the Heavenly Evil Sect alone, then joined the World Commerce Alliance’s war council in Heavenly Revelation City. Shi Kefan asked him to help arrange runes at the Rune Tower, saying his aid could raise their chances against Cui Xie by two tenths.

• Ao Xiang told Luo Zheng that the Divine Kingdom could intervene on the Heavenly Evil Sect’s side and that Ning Yu Die had been attacking its forces alone.
• Ao Xiang described how Ning Yu Die’s repeated raids had slowed the Heavenly Evil Sect but worried the alliance because she could be trapped by Cui Xie and Wu Zhanhe.
• Luo Zheng and Ao Xiang went to the World Commerce Alliance headquarters, where Luo Zheng was summoned to its council chamber.
• Luo Zheng greeted Shi Kefan, Yan Yueshan, Grand Dream True Person, and the other gathered leaders.
• Shi Kefan asked Luo Zheng to help arrange runes at the Rune Tower, estimating that his aid could increase their chances of defeating Cui Xie by two tenths.

Luo Zheng declined to join the Rune Tower and offered to fight with the allied army, while Ning Yu Die returned wounded from a failed surprise attack. Luo Zheng tried to stop her from acting alone again, but her jealousy over Xi Youqin turned the exchange into a sharp rebuke.

• Luo Zheng refused Shi Kefan's invitation to enter the Rune Tower, saying there was no time to establish a grand array, but agreed to join the battle against the Heavenly Evil Sect.
• Ning Yu Die crashed through the council hall's roof after escaping a trap set by Xuan Chen and several thousand Spirit Illumination Realm martial artists.
• Ning Yu Die's elders urged her not to act alone again, while she noticed Xi Youqin hiding behind Luo Zheng.
• Luo Zheng called Ning Yu Die “Little Butterfly” and asked her to stop being willful.
• Ning Yu Die rebuked Luo Zheng for forgetting that she was the Palace Master and he was her subject, prompting Shi Kefan to intervene.

After arguing with Ning Yu Die and leaving Heavenly Revelation City, Luo Zheng joined Hua Tianming, Pei Tianyao, and Bai Li Hongfeng to form the Galan Team. Their mission to destroy a Heavenly Evil Sect teleportation array in Heavenly Tune City turned into a trap when a child’s soul projection revealed a Spirit Gu and attacked Luo Zheng.

• Luo Zheng argued with Ning Yu Die, who flew away in tears, and he left the meeting hall with Xi Youqin.
• Xi Youqin told Luo Zheng he was not magnanimous toward Ning Yu Die, and he spent the next two days brooding before leaving to accept a mission.
• Luo Zheng reunited with Hua Tianming, Pei Tianyao, and Bai Li Hongfeng, and the four named their team the Galan Team.
• The Galan Team reached Heavenly Tune City to destroy a Heavenly Evil Sect teleportation array, but found no spatial fluctuations as the city’s mortals disappeared and a blue barrier enclosed the city.
• A child’s soul projection appeared on the barrier, explained that his Spirit Gu drew power from the souls of the city’s hundreds of thousands of mortals, and sent his War Soul Realm soul toward Luo Zheng’s mind.

Luo Zheng let Heartless Celestial invade his mind, where Azure Dragon captured and consumed the boy’s soul. Heartless Celestial later told Cui Xie he had discovered a heaven-shaking secret and would come to the Heavenly Northern Region after the Star Sea Storm to claim Luo Zheng.

• Luo Zheng allowed Heartless Celestial’s soul to enter his mind, then revealed that his own soul was near the Azure Soul Realm.
• Azure Dragon trapped and swallowed Heartless Celestial, identifying his soul as a mass formed from threads taken from countless people.
• Luo Zheng told Hua Tianming the threat was over, and the people of Heavenly Tune City woke with their souls damaged.
• At the Void Spirit Sect, Heartless Celestial’s projected soul was destroyed and the Bagua Mirror cracked.
• Heartless Celestial told Cui Xie he had discovered a secret and would personally come for Luo Zheng after the Star Sea Storm.

Cui Xie resolved to accelerate his plans to kill Luo Zheng and seize the secret in his body before the Great Yu Divine Kingdom intervened. Meanwhile, Luo Zheng sensed Ning Yu Die’s Nameplate near Bo Jiang City and rushed toward the Heavenly Evil Sect stronghold, still unable to get her to answer.

• Cui Xie reflected on his temporary alliance with the Great Yu Divine Kingdom and decided Wu Zhanhe should end his secluded cultivation so they could move against Luo Zheng sooner.
• Luo Zheng and his companions returned from Heavenly Tune City after failing to find the Teleportation Array, while he worried about Ning Yu Die’s disappearance.
• Luo Zheng tried Ning Yu Die’s Nameplate and sensed a faint response once they were halfway back, indicating she was within a hundred li.
• Hua Tianming told Luo Zheng that Bo Jiang City lay to the southeast and was a heavily guarded Heavenly Evil Sect fortress.
• Luo Zheng flew toward Bo Jiang City and repeatedly called Ning Yu Die through the Nameplate, but she did not respond; Hua Tianming, Pei Tianyao, and Bai Li Hongfeng followed.