Chapter Summaries

Yang Qingyun battled Blood Butcher while Cao Yinglong and Confucian Mountain Duke watched and suppressed the fight’s disturbances. As Blood Butcher unleashed his strongest technique, Yang Qingyun judged him weaker than Ancestor Sikong and prepared to end the battle.

• Yang Qingyun and Blood Butcher’s clash devastated the great hall and surrounding buildings as shockwaves shook the area.
• Cao Yinglong and Confucian Mountain Duke contained the battle’s fluctuations while praising Yang Qingyun’s talent and hoping he would restore the Reincarnation Sect’s former glory.
• Blood Butcher realized he was doomed and launched his Yellow Springs Nether Palm, gathering all his arcane power into a killing strike.
• Yang Qingyun said Blood Butcher was weaker than Ancestor Sikong and declared that he would end the fight.
• Black-and-white power rose around Yang Qingyun, and Blood Butcher felt the lock on his soul break free.

Yang Qingyun killed Blood Slaughter with a single blade strike, but gained little insight from the battle toward breaking through to the Void Realm. Confucian Mountain Duke and Cao Yinglong encouraged him, while Xie Qingtian watched from afar and resolved that he would eventually surpass him.

• Yang Qingyun escaped Blood Slaughter's soul-locking technique and cleaved him down with a brilliant blade strike.
• Blood Slaughter, the Seven Kill Sect's Sect Master, died, and his power dispersed into heaven and earth.
• Cao Yinglong praised Yang Qingyun's blade strike, and Confucian Mountain Duke suggested they go congratulate him.
• Xie Qingtian sensed Yang Qingyun's growing strength, briefly doubted himself, then reaffirmed his confidence in surpassing him.
• Yang Qingyun told Confucian Mountain Duke and Cao Yinglong that he gained little from the battle and abandoned the idea of using ordinary fights to hasten his breakthrough.
• Confucian Mountain Duke and Cao Yinglong encouraged Yang Qingyun to take his time advancing, and the matter came to a close.

After Xue Tu’s death, Yang Qingyun stayed in the Western Mountain Land to study Void Realm insights, learn from the two Sect Ancestors, and deepen his understanding of heaven and earth. He helped the Sacred Extremity Sect stabilize its new territory, and after more than a month of travel, his comprehension of the Void Realm had grown considerably.

• Yang Qingyun left the Seven Kill Sect’s takeover arrangements to others and studied its collected cultivation insights alongside teachings from the Central Continent, Eastern Province, and the Sacred Extremity Sect.
• Yang Qingyun spent half a month reflecting on his battle with Xue Tu, asking the two Sect Ancestors for guidance, and exploring the Western Mountain Land.
• Yang Qingyun compared the Western Mountain Land with the Southern Heaven Domain and resolved to become strong enough to control his own fate and return to the land he considered home.
• Yang Qingyun helped pacify bandits and unrest as the Sacred Extremity Sect took control, and used his abilities to redirect earth veins and water to create fertile land.
• Yang Qingyun continued traveling for more than a month, gaining insight from the land and finding his understanding of the Void Realm steadily deepening.

Yang Qingyun left the Western Mountain Land after making steady progress in his cultivation, while Confucian Mountain Duke and the others secured it for the Sacred Extremity Sect. On his journey back, Yang Qingyun studied worldwide intelligence and discovered widespread unrest and the deaths of many supreme martial experts, leaving him to suspect that an unknown upheaval had begun.

• Yang Qingyun stopped forcing a breakthrough, focused on understanding the heavens and earth, and realized he still had a long way to go before reaching the Void Realm.
• Confucian Mountain Duke and the others took complete control of the Seven Kill Sect and the Western Mountain Land, keeping the Sacred Extremity Sect’s takeover quiet.
• Yang Qingyun bade farewell to Confucian Mountain Duke, Xie Qingtian, and the others, then set out for his sect.
• Passing through Linjing, Yang Qingyun collected the intelligence he had commissioned from several large merchant associations and read it on the way back.
• Yang Qingyun learned that conflicts had increased across the world and many supreme martial experts in the Central Continent had died, prompting him to suspect an unknown upheaval.

After returning to Sacred Extremity Sect, Yang Qingyun reflected on the turmoil threatening the world and the sect’s preparations for the future. Longing to revisit the places that shaped his two lives, he set out for Wang Family Village, still wondering about the mystery of his origins and rebirth.

• Yang Qingyun considered how unrest in the Central Continent might give Sacred Extremity Sect time to recover, but resolved to rely on his own strength.
• Yang Qingyun returned to Sacred Extremity Sect after half a month and found its disciples still energized by the sect’s earlier victory and increased missions.
• Yang Qingyun decided to revisit his old haunts before the sect’s possible evacuation, hoping to preserve his memories and gain insight.
• Yang Qingyun set out for Wang Family Village, where Wang Tie Zhu had found him unconscious in his Previous Life, while reflecting on the unanswered questions about his body and rebirth.
• Yang Qingyun flew toward Chu Kingdom, passed over fighting martial artists without intervening, and reflected on how small he remained beside greater powers.

Yang Qingyun returned to Wang Family Town and found that his rise to legendary status had helped transform his former village into a prosperous town. He quietly observed how time had changed the people there and left without revealing himself or disturbing his old acquaintances.

• Yang Qingyun returned to Wang Family Village and found it had grown into a busy town with broad roads, crowded streets, and a small market.
• Yang Qingyun learned that his reputation as a Martial Dao Celestial had brought visitors, royal and aristocratic patronage, and prosperity to the village.
• Yang Qingyun regarded the benefits as repayment for the Thousand-Year Ginseng he had once obtained there, which had helped him build his foundation in martial cultivation.
• Yang Qingyun learned that the old village chief had died and that Wang Zhu and Wang Xiaoshi had grown much older over the years.
• Yang Qingyun walked unseen through Wang Family Town and chose not to contact his old acquaintances, leaving them undisturbed.

Yang Qingyun returned to Wang Family Village and met Xiao Tianshu, a world-traveling Grandmaster who warned him that rising Eastern Province prodigies would seek to challenge him. After visiting Changchun Temple, Yang Qingyun reflected on how time changed the places and people he remembered, and his aura grew deeper as he retraced his path through life.

• Yang Qingyun decided to leave Wang Family Village and noticed Xiao Tianshu drinking alone at a restaurant.
• Yang Qingyun joined Xiao Tianshu for wine and heard about his travels across the world and his dream of recording the people and places he encountered.
• Xiao Tianshu warned Yang Qingyun that battle-loving Eastern Province geniuses would likely challenge him after hearing he had defeated a Void Realm expert as a Grandmaster Realm expert.
• Yang Qingyun thanked Xiao Tianshu, then parted from him and traveled to Changchun Temple, where he found nearly everyone unfamiliar.
• Yang Qingyun reflected on the passage of time as he retraced his past, and his aura grew deeper and more mellow.

In Linjing, Yun Jingtian dismissed the rumors that Yang Qingyun had defeated a Void Realm expert as the boast of a fame-seeking clown. Xiaodao set off to challenge Yang Qingyun, and Yun Jingtian decided to gather companions and join him.

• Xiaodao told Yun Jingtian he was postponing their trip to fight Yang Qingyun, the saber wielder rumored to have defeated a Void Realm expert as a Grandmaster.
• Yun Jingtian argued that Yang Qingyun’s feat was likely exaggerated and that someone from the Southern Heaven Domain could not compare with the Eastern Continent’s prodigies.
• Xiaodao said he did not trust the rumors but wanted to fight Yang Qingyun and see for himself.
• Yun Jingtian declared that he would protect the Eastern Continent’s reputation and flew off to gather people to accompany Xiaodao.

Rumors spread across the Eastern Continent that the True Dragon Society would travel to the Southern Heaven Domain to challenge Yang Qingyun and expose his battle record as a fraud, turning public opinion against him. Unaware of the growing commotion, Yang Qingyun finished retracing his cultivation path, tempered away the sharpness in his aura, and prepared to return.

• Yun Jingtian announced that the True Dragon Society would visit the Southern Heaven Domain to challenge Yang Qingyun and investigate his reputation.
• Martial artists across the Eastern Continent believed the True Dragon Society's accusations and began traveling to the Southern Heaven Domain to witness the supposed exposure of a fraud.
• Yang Qingyun ignored the outside commotion and spent more than two months retracing his life and reflecting on his cultivation.
• Yang Qingyun's aura lost its sharpness and became so unified with the heavens and earth that Void Realm experts could not sense it unless he acted.
• Yang Qingyun finished his journey through his past and said it was time to return.

At the Sacred Extremity Sect’s mountain gate, Xie Qingtian learned that outsiders had gathered to challenge Yang Qingyun and accuse him of faking his achievements. He defended Yang’s reputation by challenging the crowd, then left them stunned when he defeated their first fighter with one sword strike.

• Outsiders gathered at the Sacred Extremity Sect’s mountain gate, demanding to challenge Yang Qingyun and insulting him while he was away.
• A gatekeeping disciple told Xie Qingtian that rumors accusing Yang Qingyun of fraud had spread and that sect disciples had been forbidden from fighting the visitors.
• Xie Qingtian confronted the outsiders, declared that he would take their challenges, and said Yang Qingyun was the only person he would allow himself to defeat.
• An external-domain martial artist attacked Xie Qingtian with a powerful punch, but Xie cut him down with a single sword strike.

Xie Qingtian defeated the young martial artists who attacked him at the Sacred Extremity Sect, then clashed with Song Xiaodao in a battle that shook the onlookers. Their suspicions about Yang Qingyun deepened as they wondered whether he could truly be a fraud or was even more powerful than Xie Qingtian.

• Xie Qingtian invited the gathered martial artists to attack him, and more than a dozen Great Grandmasters charged together.
• Xie Qingtian fought through their attacks and defeated every martial artist who joined the assault.
• Little Saber watched Xie Qingtian from another mountain, recognized him as a worthy opponent, and challenged him with a saber strike.
• Xie Qingtian met Little Saber's attack in the sky, and the two fought in a clash of saber and sword intent.
• The spectators identified Little Saber as Song Xiaodao, a descendant of Song Tianque, and questioned how Yang Qingyun could be a fraud if Xie Qingtian belonged to his sect.

Yang Qingyun returned to Jin and encountered Shi Xincheng, whose pranks revealed a peculiar path of cultivation through the mortal world. After Shi Xincheng explained his secret method, Yang Qingyun learned that the old man stood only one step from the Void Realm.

• Yang Qingyun revisited Jin’s capital and reflected on how time had erased the upheaval caused by Wei An.
• Yang Qingyun recognized Shi Xincheng playing a prank on a street thug and warned him that another victim might eventually seek revenge.
• Yang Qingyun invited Shi Xincheng to drink and asked about his cultivation path through the mortal world.
• Shi Xincheng confirmed that he tempered himself by following his childlike nature and revealed that the method came from an ancient ruin.
• Shi Xincheng explained that the Five Elements Viscera Diagram had come from the same opportunity and that his cultivation was nearly complete, with only one step left before the Void Realm.

After exchanging insights with Shi Xincheng, Yang Qingyun strengthened his foundation and realized he was nearing the Void Realm, but news that martial artists had gathered at the Sacred Extremity Sect Gate to challenge him forced him to return. At the gate, Xie Qingtian and Song Xiaodao fought an evenly matched duel, and Xie began to sense a transformation in his sword path.

• Yang Qingyun absorbed insights from Shi Xincheng's secret art and felt his cultivation approaching its limit at the peak of the Grandmaster Realm.
• Shi Xincheng mistakenly believed Yang Qingyun had quickly surpassed him in mastering the secret art.
• Yang Qingyun learned that martial artists from other domains had gathered at the Sacred Extremity Sect Gate to expose and challenge him, so he left Jin to return.
• Xie Qingtian and Song Xiaodao battled with their sword and blade paths, neither gaining the upper hand.
• Xie Qingtian sensed that his sword path was on the verge of transforming during the duel.

Ancestor Gao and Old Daoist Lin watched Xie Qingtian and Song Xiaodao fight to a draw and discussed the rise of extraordinary young talents and possible changes in the world. Nearby, members of the True Dragon Society kept outsiders from approaching them with a crushing aura.

• Ancestor Gao and Old Daoist Lin watched Xie Qingtian and Song Xiaodao battle and agreed that their talents were exceptional, though Song Xiaodao had a stronger inheritance.
• Old Daoist Lin observed that geniuses and wild spiritual objects had become more numerous, suggesting the world might be undergoing an unknown change.
• Ancestor Gao briefly feared that the rise of geniuses heralded a catastrophe, then set the thought aside and returned to watching the battle.
• Five members of the True Dragon Society stood on a nearby mountaintop as their pressure prevented other martial artists from approaching.

The True Dragon Society realized that Xie Qingtian was no fraud after seeing him evenly match Song Xiaodao, and Yun Jingtian decided to recruit him and Yang Qingyun. As Song Xiaodao and Xie Qingtian unleashed their decisive techniques, the battle reached its climax.

• Lou and the other True Dragon Society members noted that Xie Qingtian was formidable and that Yang Qingyun was said to be even stronger.
• Yun Jingtian reframed the Society's mistaken challenge as an opportunity to recruit Xie Qingtian and Yang Qingyun, and declared that he would force them to join if necessary.
• After exchanging more than a thousand moves, Song Xiaodao and Xie Qingtian praised each other's skill and revealed that each had a finishing move prepared for another rival.
• Song Xiaodao and Xie Qingtian released their vast Blade Path and Sword Dao auras, transforming the sky into opposing worlds of sabers and swords.
• The two fighters suddenly moved to execute their decisive techniques.

Xie Qingtian defeated Song Xiaodao in a fierce clash, leaving Song unconscious but not seriously harmed. Yun Jingtian invited Xie Qingtian to join the True Dragon Society, but Xie refused.

• Xie Qingtian and Song Xiaodao struck at the same time, and their attacks collided in a destructive blast that sent them flying back.
• Xie Qingtian recovered first and declared victory, while Song Xiaodao accepted his defeat before losing consciousness.
• Yun Jingtian caught Song Xiaodao, carried him back to the mountaintop, and reassured the True Dragon Society members that he was not seriously hurt.
• Yun Jingtian approached Xie Qingtian and invited him to join the True Dragon Society.
• Xie Qingtian refused, saying he had no intention of joining regardless of the society’s strength.

Yun Jingtian threatened Xie Qingtian after he refused a second invitation to join the True Dragon Society, and the two fought. Yun Jingtian shattered Xie Qingtian’s strongest sword strike with the Magnetic Black Hole, but as he prepared to attack again, someone stopped Xie Qingtian and offered to take his place.

• Xie Qingtian rejected Yun Jingtian’s second invitation, and Yun Jingtian threatened to fight him to protect the True Dragon Society’s reputation.
• Xie Qingtian answered by unleashing the strongest sword strike that had defeated Song Xiaodao.
• Yun Jingtian used the Five Elements Magnetic Sect’s Magnetic Black Hole divine art to swallow and shatter Xie Qingtian’s attack.
• Yun Jingtian pressed Xie Qingtian to submit and struck at him again when he refused.
• An unidentified person put a hand on Xie Qingtian’s shoulder, stopped him, and told Yun Jingtian they would fight instead.

Yang Qingyun returned in time to stop Yun Jingtian from defeating the exhausted Xie Qingtian, then rejected Yun Jingtian’s invitation to join the True Dragon Society. Yun Jingtian prepared to force Yang Qingyun to submit, leaving the two prodigies poised to clash.

• Yang Qingyun appeared beside Xie Qingtian and blocked Yun Jingtian’s attack with a slash of Blade Path will.
• The spectators recognized Yang Qingyun and realized his reputed achievements were genuine.
• Yang Qingyun thanked Xie Qingtian, who withdrew because his strength was nearly depleted after fighting Song Xiaodao.
• Yun Jingtian acknowledged Yang Qingyun’s strength and invited him to join the True Dragon Society.
• Yang Qingyun refused, and Yun Jingtian said he would beat him into submission.

Yang Qingyun and Yun Jingtian fought to a standstill, though Yun Jingtian realized Yang Qingyun’s foundation was stronger and unleashed his Magnetic Cave-Heaven technique. Yang Qingyun activated the Nine Heavens Star Soul Brightening Technique to search for a flaw in the black-hole vortex as it bore down on him.

• Yang Qingyun and Yun Jingtian exchanged countless blows, shaking the surrounding land and astonishing the watching martial artists and True Dragon Society members.
• Yun Jingtian recognized that Yang Qingyun surpassed him in foundation, strength control, and perception, and feared he would lose if the fight continued.
• Yun Jingtian unleashed Magnetic Cave-Heaven, forming a black-hole vortex from concentrated Magnetic Force that rushed toward Yang Qingyun.
• Yang Qingyun activated the Nine Heavens Star Soul Brightening Technique, accelerating his thoughts to inspect the vortex and seek its weakness.

Yang Qingyun analyzed Yun Jingtian’s Magnetic Black Hole and countered it with a Yin Yang technique of his own. After breaking Yun Jingtian’s attack, Yang Qingyun struck him with a blade-light and sent him flying.

• Yang Qingyun used the Nine Heavens Star Soul Brightening Technique to understand the Five Elements Magnetic Force behind Yun Jingtian’s Magnetic Black Hole.
• Yang Qingyun drew on his mastery of the Yin Yang Dao and formed a Circulation Yin Yang disk to counter the attack.
• Yang Qingyun’s Yin Yang disk collided with and shattered Yun Jingtian’s Magnetic Black Hole, shaking the battlefield.
• Yun Jingtian stood stunned as his signature technique was defeated.
• Yang Qingyun slashed Yun Jingtian with a blade-light and sent him flying.