Recaps

Li Yun confronted the royal succession conflict, discovered that Zhao Yunzhu had murdered Ye Tianxie, and helped revive him while uncovering his rare Life and Death Tribulation physique. The arc ended with Li Yun restoring Ye Tianxie’s heartbeat and gaining the Life and Death Tribulation Divine Ability, while Zhao Ziyue faced Zhao Wuji’s threat.

• Li Yun refused Fourth Prince Zhao Yunzong’s demand to become his assistant, defeated the fighters sent against him, and left after Zhao Ziyue intervened.
• Zhao Yunzhu told Zhao Yunzong that the King planned to make him ruler, while Zhao Ziyue was expected to marry into the Cracked Heaven Imperial Dynasty.
• After Ye Tianxie was found dead, Li Yun investigated the woods, recognized Zhao Yunzhu as the killer, and secretly remained hidden until the danger passed.
• Li Yun used life force from the forest to revive Ye Tianxie, who awoke with amnesia and a strange life-and-death aura.
• Ding Baisheng identified Ye Tianxie’s Life and Death Tribulation physique and explained that Li Yun needed to gather his scattered soul fragments quickly.
• Li Yun mastered the Mystic Sound Soul Gathering Art, while Zhao Wuji threatened Zhao Ziyue and ordered her to find Evil Blade Supreme within three days.
• Li Yun gathered Ye Tianxie’s soul fragments in the withered forest, and Ye Tianxie’s heart began beating as Li Yun gained the Life and Death Tribulation Divine Ability.

Li Yun helped Zhao Ziyue seize the throne, defeated the rival kingdoms’ champions, and traveled with Ding Baisheng to Wanqing Mountain. There, he discovered that Huang Zhengqi’s group had wounded the Treant Tribe’s Divine Tree and waited under guard while seeking a way to help.

• Ye Tianxie identified Zhao Yunzhu as his would-be killer, and Li Yun helped Zhao Ziyue learn that her eldest brother had also killed Zhao Yunzong to reclaim the throne.
• Li Yun and Ding Baisheng forced Zhao Wuji to yield power, and Zhao Ziyue became Xuanyue’s ruler and heir.
• Li Yun defeated Song Wujie and led Wantu Kingdom and Dongling Kingdom to concede the Three Kingdoms Prodigy Competition.
• After cultivating in the Royal Palace, Li Yun departed with Ding Baisheng for the Cracked Heaven Imperial Dynasty and took the name Li Shaoyun.
• Ding Baisheng asked Li Yun to help rescue Huang Fufeng’s grandson from Wanqing Mountain, and Li Yun gathered rare treasures while exploring the Treant Tribe’s territory.
• Li Yun befriended the trapped Stone Turtle and discovered from Meng that Huang Zhengqi’s group had driven a Demon Nail into the Divine Tree.
• Li Yun persuaded Guardian Cang to let him and Ding Baisheng enter the Treant Tribe’s Forbidden Land to investigate the Divine Tree’s injury.
• Cang confined Li Yun and Ding Baisheng in a guarded valley, where they cultivated for half a month as Li Yun raised his Heavenly Spirit Energy to the Fourth Grade limit.

Li Yun helped awaken the Divine Tree, gained its blessing, and left Wanqing Mountain with Ding Baisheng. After confronting Wu Nanfeng, Li Yun made peace with Wu Qiuse and learned the Heaven and Earth Tower had sold information about him.

• Ding Baisheng revealed his Gate of Myriad Wonders to Li Yun, while Protector Cang summoned them to hear that human interference had damaged the Divine Tree.
• Huang Zhengqi admitted that someone had lured his group to the Ancestral Tree Plain and given them a black nail, which Yu Rong said had poisoned the Divine Tree’s root.
• Li Yun approached the Divine Tree, discovered the Soul-Destroying Nail corrupting it, and used his willow transformation before a Demon invasion interrupted his efforts.
• Li Yun killed two Devil Race intruders, cultivated the Myriad Treasures Divine Body with stored treasures, and passed through the Divine Tree Barrier to remove the nail.
• When Li Yun touched the Divine Tree, a demonic shadow attacked his spirit, but his Gate of Myriad Wonders absorbed it as the Divine Tree awakened and drove the demons away.
• The Divine Tree healed and blessed the Treant Tribe, gave Li Yun the King of Fire ability, and told him to seek his luck at Flame Mountain before departing.
• Li Yun gathered treasures and left Wanqing Mountain with Ding Baisheng and Huang Zhengqi’s group, then defeated Wu Nanfeng’s challenge and warned Jiang Bielie to leave.
• Wu Qiuse learned about Li Yun and Ding Baisheng through the Heaven and Earth Tower, apologized for Wu Nanfeng, and made peace with Li Yun, who then asked to see the purchased information.

Li Yun survived a campaign by Divine Blade Manor and Feitian City, then became a candidate for White Emperor City's Holy Son. He pushed his Heavenly Spirit Energy beyond the first-grade boundary and triggered nine bolts of Primordial Golden Lightning, leaving his survival uncertain.

• Wu Qiuse gave Li Yun the Heaven and Earth Tower’s information scroll and three top-grade Earth Grade Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, while Song Gongming and Yang Yundu searched for him.
• Yang Yundu enlisted Wu Nanfeng in a plot against Li Yun using a tampered Heavenly Poison Demon Seed, but Wu Nanfeng delivered the seed to Wu Qiuse, who brought it to Li Yun.
• Song Gongming led Feitian City experts to Jinhe City to confront Li Yun, and Ding Hefang publicly disowned Ding Baisheng before Li Yun struck him aside.
• Li Yun killed He Yijiu with one strike, and the Old Demon Hag killed Qin Jue, took Li Yun to White Emperor City, and offered him a Holy Son candidacy.
• The Old Demon Hag revealed that she was the Cloud Cliff Saintess and brought Li Yun to a fragment of Wuwei Dao Palace’s Sacred Land Dao Field, where he studied techniques and cultivated.
• Li Yun’s rise to Holy Son candidacy stirred White Emperor City’s factions, while Zhang Fengshen’s candidates and the White Emperor Family debated his nomination.
• Li Yun stalled at the peak of first-grade Heavenly Spirit Energy, then absorbed more than forty Spirit Fires, including Bone Cold Flame, and broke through to the Fourteenth Layer of Soaring Heaven Realm.
• Nine bolts of Primordial Golden Lightning struck toward Li Yun, and the Cloud Cliff Saintess feared the first bolt would kill him.