Chapter Summaries

Yang Qingyun decided that the Spirit Realm’s secrets, especially the immortal corpse and its link to Spiritual Qi Resurgence, mattered more than his planned fight with Song Ziming. After Deng Guangzhi gave him a map and turned back, Yang Qingyun fought through repeated monster attacks and finally reached the Sacred Land Ruins.

• Yang Qingyun studied the diary and chose to investigate the Sacred Land Ruins and the immortal corpse, setting aside his search for Song Ziming.
• Deng Guangzhi gave Yang Qingyun a map and declined to enter the dangerous depths, then learned that Yang Qingyun had killed the Situ Family leaders and most of their members.
• Yang Qingyun told Deng Guangzhi where Fu Hongzhen and the others were staying and described the recent changes in the Spirit Realm.
• Three days later, Yang Qingyun killed a giant demonic boar that attacked him and wondered why he had faced so many monster attacks.
• Yang Qingyun crossed several mountains and reached the Sacred Land Ruins described in the diary.

Yang Qingyun explored the Sacred Land Ruins, wondering whether the spirit realm was the remnant of a destroyed world. When a withered monster bird appeared, he spotted Lin Fan fleeing beneath it.

• Yang Qingyun followed the diary’s clues and headed toward the forbidden grounds where the immortal’s corpse had been taken.
• As he explored the ruins, Yang Qingyun noticed their writing matched his world’s while their architecture and art differed, and he considered whether a catastrophe had destroyed this spirit realm.
• A powerful withered monster bird rose from the ruins, filling the sky with black deathly qi.
• Yang Qingyun prepared to attack the bird, then recognized Lin Fan running from it.

Yang Qingyun rescued Lin Fan from a Great Grandmaster-level monstrous bird and questioned him about how he had reached the spiritual realm. Lin Fan revealed that Song Ziming had attacked the Sacred Extremity Sect’s stronghold, and the chapter ended with Song Ziming appearing before them.

• Yang Qingyun recognized Lin Fan, whose death-like aura had let him evade a monstrous bird’s attacks.
• Yang Qingyun killed the bird with Thunderous Annihilation Slash and rescued Lin Fan.
• Lin Fan told Yang Qingyun that Song Ziming had attacked the Sacred Extremity Sect’s stronghold half a month earlier, scattering the disciples and wounding Mo Dongchuan and Chu.
• Lin Fan warned Yang Qingyun that Song Ziming had grown stronger, then Song Ziming appeared among the eastern ruins.

Song Ziming confronted Yang Qingyun after learning he had destroyed the Situ Family’s forces, while Lin Fan stood nearby. Yang Qingyun attacked before Song Ziming could break through the Great Grandmaster Realm, and their clash unleashed devastation across the spiritual realm.

• Song Ziming learned from fleeing Situ Family survivors that Yang Qingyun had killed Situ Longcheng and destroyed the family’s camp.
• Song Ziming recognized Yang Qingyun as the likely killer and demanded to know his identity, but Yang Qingyun refused to answer.
• Yang Qingyun gathered his strength as Song Ziming’s aura surged toward a breakthrough beyond the Great Grandmaster Realm.
• Yang Qingyun struck first with a golden punch, and Song Ziming countered with a palm bearing a black sun.
• The golden and black powers collided, shattering the surrounding terrain and unleashing a shockwave that swept more than a dozen miles.

Yang Qingyun fought Song Ziming, a powerful Profound Spirit Sect inheritor on the verge of surpassing the Grandmaster Realm, while Lin Fan watched from a safe distance. Song Ziming kept him on the defensive, but the pressure of the battle sharpened Yang Qingyun’s martial control and deepened his understanding of the Grandmaster Realm.

• Lin Fan escaped the clash’s energy shockwave, while Yang Qingyun steadied himself after being driven back by Song Ziming’s attack.
• Yang Qingyun drew the Thunderclap Saber and unleashed his Blade Path will as Song Ziming resolved to kill him.
• Song Ziming attacked with a black-hole-like vortex, but Yang Qingyun dodged its pull and countered with a thunderous saber slash.
• Song Ziming shattered Yang Qingyun’s blade light and pursued him, and the two exchanged repeated attacks across the void.
• Song Ziming gradually suppressed Yang Qingyun, whose battle intent and understanding of the Grandmaster Realm continued to grow under the pressure.

Yang Qingyun used his battle with Song Ziming to deepen his understanding and control of his strength, but Song Ziming unleashed a devastating killing move to stop him from advancing. Trapped by the attack, Yang Qingyun entered a dangerous hyperfrequency state, broke through to the Great Grandmaster Realm, and left the battle facing Song Ziming’s overwhelming technique.

• Yang Qingyun’s fierce battle with Song Ziming sharpened his control and understanding of the Great Grandmaster Realm.
• Song Ziming realized Yang Qingyun was using their fight to approach a breakthrough and unleashed Dark Domain Nether Luo Heaven.
• The black-hole-like attack engulfed the area and threatened to annihilate Yang Qingyun, leaving him unable to dodge.
• Yang Qingyun activated the Nine Heavens Star Soul Brightening Technique without restrictions and entered a dangerous hyperfrequency state.
• Yang Qingyun’s insights broke through his bottleneck, transforming his Gang Qi into Gang Origin as he advanced to the Great Grandmaster Realm.

Yang Qingyun unexpectedly broke through to the Grandmaster Realm during his battle with Song Ziming, then met Song Ziming’s devastating attack with the Yin Yang Yuan Magnetic Saber. Their attacks collided in an immense explosion that annihilated the surrounding land, leaving the battle’s outcome unknown.

• Yang Qingyun’s battles and recent insights helped him break through the Grandmaster Realm.
• Song Ziming poured all his Gang Origin into the Dark Domain Nether Luo Heaven and sent its enlarged black-hole vortex crashing toward Yang Qingyun.
• Lin Fan struggled against the vortex’s pull from more than ten li away and worried about Yang Qingyun.
• Yang Qingyun unleashed the Yin Yang Yuan Magnetic Saber, combining his Blade Path will with two years of Yin Yang cultivation.
• Yang Qingyun’s blade-light collided with Song Ziming’s attack, and the resulting explosion annihilated the land within more than ten li.

Yang Qingyun survived the clash with Song Ziming, broke through to the Grandmaster Realm, and discovered that his emotionless state granted immense power but threatened his sense of self. After the battle destroyed the surrounding space and exposed the world's fundamental laws, Song Ziming's remains fell into the abyss, leaving Yang Qingyun victorious.

• The clash between Yang Qingyun and Song Ziming obliterated the Sacred Land Ruins and exposed the spirit realm's underlying laws in the shattered space.
• Yang Qingyun tried to comprehend those laws, suffered severe pain and bleeding, and was forced out of his emotionless state.
• Yang Qingyun recognized the danger of that state but realized it had helped him break through to the Grandmaster Realm and deepen his understanding of Yin Yang power.
• Song Ziming's shattered remains began falling into the abyss after Yang Qingyun's saber strike defeated his final attack and killed him.
• Yang Qingyun watched Song Ziming's remains sink into the darkness and breathed a sigh of relief.

After killing Song Ziming, Yang Qingyun sensed that the Spirit Realm was about to collapse and hurried to investigate the only surviving valley in the Sacred Land Ruins. He entered a shrine-like structure that might conceal the immortal’s corpse or secrets about the Spirit Realm, and the chapter ended as its gates opened.

• Yang Qingyun reflected on the gains from his battle with Song Ziming, including his breakthrough and insights into Yin Yang power and the origin laws.
• Yang Qingyun sensed the Spirit Realm trembling and realized it was nearing collapse, possibly because his battle with Song Ziming had shattered its void.
• Yang Qingyun used Shrink the Ground to Inch to reach a strange valley that had survived the destruction of the Sacred Land Ruins.
• Yang Qingyun examined the valley’s enormous black shrine and suspected it might suppress the immortal’s corpse.
• Yang Qingyun cautiously entered the valley and approached the shrine despite fearing a hidden danger.
• The shrine’s icy gates swung open, beginning to reveal the secret hidden in the Spirit Realm.

Yang Qingyun discovered the Holy Land Sect Master’s remains and read his confession, learning that the Immortal Corpse had brought disaster to their world. A jade stele revealed that the Holy Land had obtained a dream-crossing secret technique from the corpse, but the chapter ended before Yang Qingyun learned more.

• Yang Qingyun found a black skeleton kneeling before a stone stele and identified it as the former Holy Land Sect Master.
• He read the Sect Master's blood-written confession and was nearly overwhelmed by its negative will, but the Nine Heavens Star Soul Brightening Technique protected his mind.
• Yang Qingyun realized the Sect Master's lingering will had given rise to the dried-corpse monsters and wondered where the Immortal Corpse had gone.
• Yang Qingyun touched the white jade stele and learned that the Spiritual Realm had once been a Small Thousand World, and that the Immortal Corpse had come from another world.
• The stele revealed that the Holy Land had obtained the secret technique Entering the Great Thousand Dreams, which let one's soul cross the chaos and project into another world.

Yang Qingyun learned that the Holy Land Sect Master’s secret art, Entering the Great Thousand Dreams, had caused the destruction of the Xuantian Realm after its user’s identity was exposed. As the spiritual realm collapsed, Yang Qingyun remained behind, and a pebble that protected him in the chaotic void transported him away when he touched it.

• Yang Qingyun discovered that the Holy Land Sect Master had used Entering the Great Thousand Dreams to project into the Xuantian Realm, where the mystery of the womb led to his exposure and the world’s destruction.
• Yang Qingyun considered the secret art’s risks and its need for world origin power or the destiny of heaven and earth, resources he did not possess.
• As the spiritual realm collapsed, Yang Qingyun found that the valley and great hall remained while the rest of the realm disappeared.
• The valley and hall condensed into a black pebble that protected Yang Qingyun from the chaotic void’s storms.
• Yang Qingyun touched the pebble and suddenly vanished from the chaotic void.

Yang Qingyun returned from the vanished Spiritual Realm with a mysterious stone that had bound him to avenge its destroyed world and might hold clues to the laws and power of other worlds. As Mo Dongchuan questioned him about Song Ziming, someone announced that Song had been killed by Senior Brother Han.

• Yang Qingyun returned to the Spiritual Realm entrance carrying a stone that could not be stored and realized it had given him a vast karmic obligation to avenge the destroyed world.
• Yang Qingyun speculated that the stone’s patterns and power might help him understand the world’s laws and use Entering the Great Thousand Dreams to send projections into other worlds.
• Mo Dongchuan and the Sacred Extremity Sect disciples approached Yang Qingyun, praising the supposed Han Li for defeating the Situ Family’s rebels.
• Mo Dongchuan asked Yang Qingyun whether he had found Song Ziming, worried that Song might be waiting outside to ambush them.
• An unnamed voice declared that Senior Brother Han had already killed Song Ziming.

Lin Fan confirmed that Yang Qingyun had slain Song Ziming, shocking Mo Dongchuan, Chu Huayan, and the other disciples. After briefly bidding farewell to them, Yang Qingyun left alone for the sect to stabilize his breakthrough and process what he had gained.

• Lin Fan said he had witnessed Han Li kill Song Ziming and showed that his injuries came from the battle.
• Yang Qingyun confirmed that he had slain Song Ziming in their final battle.
• Mo Dongchuan and the other disciples were stunned that a peak Grandmaster Realm martial artist had defeated Song Ziming, while Mo Dongchuan regretted his former arrogance.
• Chu Huayan recognized Yang Qingyun as a rare prodigy, and Lin Fan, Yun Wan'er, and the others felt wistful as they considered his identity and growth.
• Yang Qingyun bid farewell to the group and set off alone for the sect to stabilize his realm and reflect on his gains.

Yang Qingyun returned from the Spiritual Realm after gaining treasures, advancing to the Great Grandmaster Realm, and deepening his understanding of Yin Yang power. After half a month of cultivating on the way back, he reached the sect with his realm stabilized and hoped to grow strong enough to change the sect’s coming destruction.

• Yang Qingyun left the extermination of the Situ Family to others and continued toward the sect, carrying the spirit stones and treasures he had gained.
• Yang Qingyun refined the leftover Medicinal Power in his body and advanced his comprehension of Yin Yang power after witnessing the Great Dao of Yin Yang in the Spiritual Realm.
• Yang Qingyun considered the risks of using Entering the Great Thousand Dreams and postponed deciding what to do with the two black blade fragments.
• Yang Qingyun spent half a month cultivating and digesting his battle with Song Ziming, stabilizing his Great Grandmaster Realm and advancing it faintly.
• Yang Qingyun returned to the sect and resolved to pursue the peak Great Grandmaster Realm so he could protect himself and possibly alter the sect’s destruction.

Yang Qingyun returned to the sect after reaching the Great Grandmaster Realm and visited Mu Xiangzi, who recognized his breakthrough and granted him direct-disciple status. The chapter ended with Mu Xiangzi introducing Yang Qingyun to his Fifth Senior Brother, Liang Wenguang.

• Yang Qingyun reflected on growing unrest and suspected the Profound Spirit Sect would soon reignite the war, but believed few could threaten him unless a Void Realm expert appeared.
• Yang Qingyun visited Mu Xiangzi at Iron Bone Mountain and revealed that he had reached the Great Grandmaster Realm.
• Mu Xiangzi praised Yang Qingyun’s rapid progress and gave him a token that made him a direct disciple with access to many sect resources.
• Mu Xiangzi gave Yang Qingyun ten high-grade spirit stones as a gift for his breakthrough.
• Mu Xiangzi answered Yang Qingyun’s cultivation questions and introduced him to his Fifth Senior Brother, Liang Wenguang.

Mu Xiangzi introduced Yang Qingyun to his Fifth Senior Brother, Liang Wenguang, who worried that Yang Qingyun’s rapid cultivation had left his foundation unstable. After learning what Yang Qingyun had accomplished in the Spirit Realm, Liang Wenguang realized his assessment had been wrong and fell silent.

• Mu Xiangzi introduced Yang Qingyun to Liang Wenguang, and the two exchanged polite greetings before Yang Qingyun left.
• Mu Xiangzi asked Liang Wenguang what he thought of Yang Qingyun, and Liang Wenguang warned that his rapid advancement might have left his foundation unstable.
• Mu Xiangzi asked Liang Wenguang to investigate what had happened in the Spirit Realm, suspecting Yang Qingyun’s breakthrough had another explanation.
• Liang Wenguang learned that Han Li had killed three local Great Grandmasters and Song Ziming in the Spirit Realm, and recognized that Han Li was Yang Qingyun in disguise.
• Liang Wenguang realized Yang Qingyun’s breakthrough had likely come naturally during his battle with Song Ziming and fell silent over his mistaken judgment.

After returning from the Spirit Realm, Yang Qingyun resolved to avoid reckless risks and strengthen himself through secluded cultivation. He went to the Internal Affairs Hall to claim a miniature spirit vein for his new cave abode, astonishing the elder with his rapid advance to the Great Grandmaster Realm.

• Liang Wenguang told Mu Xiangzi about Yang Qingyun’s achievements, and both marveled that he had killed Song Ziming while still at the peak Grandmaster Realm.
• Liang Wenguang reflected on his earlier judgments of Yang Qingyun and reminded himself that greater talents existed beyond his own.
• Yang Qingyun considered using his Han Li identity to lure enemies but abandoned the idea, fearing he might attract a Void Realm Great Expert.
• Yang Qingyun decided to stay in the sect and cultivate before taking on further challenges.
• Yang Qingyun went to the Internal Affairs Hall to claim a miniature spirit vein and establish a new cave abode.
• The elder in charge of the Internal Affairs Hall recognized Yang Qingyun and was astonished that he had reached the Great Grandmaster Realm so soon.

Yang Qingyun visited Elder Bu to choose a cave residence and learned that a scenic miniature spirit vein in Bamboo Sea Valley was occupied by a powerful Qingwen Dragon Python. He chose the valley and offered to deal with the beast himself, leaving his future home dependent on the outcome.

• Elder Bu was astonished by Yang Qingyun's rapid cultivation and advised him to maintain a solid foundation.
• Yang Qingyun asked for a quiet cave residence with mountains and water, and Elder Bu explained that such miniature spirit veins were scarce.
• Elder Bu told Yang Qingyun about a robust miniature spirit vein in Bamboo Sea Valley, where a Qingwen Dragon Python had driven off three deacon elders.
• Yang Qingyun chose Bamboo Sea Valley and said he would deal with the Qingwen Dragon Python himself.

Yang Qingyun convinced Elder Bu that he could handle the Qingwen Dragon Python by revealing his strength and admitting that he was Han Li, the disciple who killed Song Ziming. After agreeing to set out with Elder Bu in three days, Yang Qingyun received a visit request from Xie Qingtian and scheduled it for half a month later.

• Elder Bu urged Yang Qingyun to let the Internal Affairs Hall arrange help against the Qingwen Dragon Python, but Yang Qingyun decided to handle it himself.
• Yang Qingyun revealed his powerful aura, shocking Elder Bu, and told him that Han Li was his assumed name.
• Elder Bu accepted that Yang Qingyun could defeat the Qingwen Dragon Python and proposed escorting him there in three days.
• Yang Qingyun returned to his rented cave dwelling and received a calling card from Xie Qingtian requesting a visit.
• Yang Qingyun scheduled Xie Qingtian's visit for half a month later, after his expedition and cave-dwelling plans.

Yang Qingyun and Elder Bu reached a secluded basin deep in the Heaven Spine Mountain Range, where Yang Qingyun’s prospective abode lay amid a vast bamboo sea and abundant spiritual energy. The chapter ended with them arriving above the basin and taking in its landscape.

• Yang Qingyun and Elder Bu flew through the dangerous depths of the Heaven Spine Mountain Range toward the secluded abode.
• Yang Qingyun recalled that the Sacred Extremity Sect had slain the range’s three Void Realm Demon Kings and cleared away its strongest demons.
• Elder Bu led Yang Qingyun to a vast basin surrounded by mountains.
• Yang Qingyun saw emerald bamboo forests, a winding river, a half-moon lake, and rich spiritual energy drifting through the basin.