Chapter Summaries

Li Yun failed almost instantly at the 500th Sword City and chose to cultivate until he could bring his abilities together. Meanwhile, Sage Beixuan plotted to take the Four Great Wonder Books and sent a duplicate to investigate the Ancestral imprints.

• Li Yun charged into the 500th Sword City but was thrown back out, badly wounded, before he could last a second.
• Li Yun recovered, then began cultivating and deepening his understanding of the Eternal Scripture and the World-Shocking Book.
• An invisible figure watched Li Yun and decided to wait until he had assimilated more of the World-Shocking Book before attacking him.
• Sage Beixuan reflected on the Four Great Wonder Books and suspected the Ancestors had divided the Heavenly Scripture of Myriad Wonders among themselves.
• Sage Beixuan sent an identical figure to investigate whether the Ancestral imprints sought by Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin held clues to the Heavenly Scripture of Myriad Wonders.

After reaching the peak of the Origin Constant Realm and claiming the five-hundredth page of the World-Shocking Book, Li Yun suspected Sage Beixuan was hiding a scheme and chose to cultivate rather than enter the next Sword City. Ten thousand years later, Li Yun advanced to Heavenly Constant, shocking Sage Beixuan.

• Li Yun destroyed the five-hundredth Sword City, completed the Origin Constant mysteries of the World-Shocking Book, and grew far stronger.
• Li Yun settled outside the five-hundred-and-first Sword City to cultivate, while Sage Beixuan watched and wondered whether Li Yun was pretending.
• Li Yun concluded that Sage Beixuan and the pages he had collected were suspicious, but decided to play along and use the time to prepare for Heavenly Constant.
• Li Yun cultivated for ten thousand years as Sage Beixuan disappeared from view, gradually building up the strength needed for a breakthrough.
• Auspicious visions filled the Secret Realm as Li Yun advanced to Heavenly Constant, and Sage Beixuan realized Li Yun had not been an Ancient Eternity.

Li Yun deduced that Sage Beixuan was the World-Shocking Sword Master, reduced to a Sage Constant True Spirit, and baited him into revealing himself. The sword master attacked to seize Li Yun's body, but Li Yun's fearful act gave way to a smile as he said, "To live, first court death..."

• Sage Beixuan confronted Li Yun over his claim to be Ancient Eternity and the Eternal Scripture.
• Li Yun accused Sage Beixuan of being the World-Shocking Sword Master and challenged him to prove he was still himself.
• Sage Beixuan's body exploded, revealing that he was only the World-Shocking Sword Master's Sage Constant True Spirit.
• The World-Shocking Sword Master concluded that Li Yun had reincarnated and was now only a Heavenly Constant Sage, then lunged to seize his body.
• Li Yun dropped his feigned terror, smiled, and said, "To live, first court death..."

Li Yun trapped the World-Shocking Sword Master's Sage Constant True Spirit inside the Supreme Immortal Gate, then advanced through the Sword Cities and mastered the World-Shocking Book's Heavenly Constant Mysteries. Meanwhile, an escaped Phantom Body returned to the Secret Realm and found Li Yun already at the 545th Sword City.

• The World-Shocking Sword Master tried to take Li Yun's body, but Li Yun used the Supreme Immortal Gate to imprison his Sage Constant True Spirit alongside Ancient Eternity.
• Li Yun kept the Supreme Immortal Gate in his body and entered the 501st Sword City, where he began honing his Heavenly Constant Mysteries.
• Li Yun cleared the 501st Sword City, gained the first page of the World-Shocking Book's Heavenly Constant Mysteries, and swept through more Sword Cities as his strength grew.
• The World-Shocking Sword Master's Phantom Body, which had escaped the Secret Realm earlier, lost its connection to his Sage Constant True Spirit and hurried back.
• The Phantom Body returned to the Secret Realm and saw Li Yun fighting in the 545th Sword City.

Li Yun advanced to Late Heavenly Constant while conquering the World-Shocking Sword Cities, but his progress stopped when his Eternal Divine Medicine ran out. He remained unable to claim the rest of the World-Shocking Book or know whether the World-Shocking Sword Master still threatened him.

• The World-Shocking Sword Master’s Phantom Body mistook Li Yun for Ancient Eternity, suspected his Sage Constant True Spirit had been destroyed, and vanished after threatening to return.
• Li Yun sensed that someone had watched him and suspected the World-Shocking Sword Master had left a hidden move, but chose to remain in the Secret Realm and continue the trial.
• Over the next eight hundred years, Li Yun conquered Sword Cities up to the 650th and rose to Mid Heavenly Constant.
• As the Sword Cities grew harder, Li Yun’s progress slowed, but six thousand more years of tempering exhausted his Heavenly Constant Grade Eternal Divine Medicine and raised him to Late Heavenly Constant.
• Li Yun stalled at the 748th Sword City and faced a severe shortage of cultivation resources, leaving him uncertain whether he could reach Sage Constant and claim the remaining pages of the World-Shocking Book.

Li Yun suspected that an immense Illusory Power, possibly tied to the Illusory World Book, concealed the World-Shocking Sword Master's true lair. He entered the mist to overpower the illusion with his own reality, but the shifting falsehoods began to make him doubt whether he himself was real.

• Li Yun abandoned his attempt to enter the 748th Sword City and surveyed the Secret Realm, finding that everything beyond the Sword Cities seemed unreal.
• Li Yun theorized that the Illusory World Book was responsible and wondered whether the Heavenly Scripture of Myriad Wonders was connected to the Gate of Myriad Wonders.
• Li Yun chose to overwhelm the illusion by manifesting the reality of his Late Heavenly Constant existence and searching the mist for a true facet.
• Li Yun entered the mist and used his connection to the World-Shocking Book's pages to keep track of the distant Sword Cities.
• Li Yun passed through landscapes and cities that shifted between real and illusory, until he began to doubt that he himself was real.

Li Yun nearly vanished after the Secret Realm’s Illusory Power made him doubt whether he was real, but the Supreme Immortal Gate’s True Light drove the illusion away. He found the World-Shocking Hall and discovered pages of the Illusory World Book, then wondered whether they concealed another trap tied to the Illusory World Heavenly Lord.

• Li Yun became trapped in a cycle of doubting reality, and his body began turning illusory.
• Li Yun summoned the Supreme Immortal Gate, whose True Light repelled the Illusory Power and restored his sense of reality.
• Li Yun used the gate’s light to reveal the Secret Realm’s true features and found the World-Shocking Hall, where he sensed Eternal Divine Medicine.
• Li Yun searched around the hall for two months and found pages of the Illusory World Book attached to a Coiling Dragon Pillar.
• Li Yun studied the pages and concluded that the World-Shocking Sword Master had left them and the Eternal Divine Medicine as a deadly safeguard.
• Li Yun wondered where the World-Shocking Sword Master had obtained the pages and whether they were connected to the Illusory World Heavenly Lord’s Sage Constant True Spirit.

Li Yun completed the World-Shocking Book and used his newfound power to absorb thirteen pages of the Illusory World Book. The pages vanished into the Eternal Scripture and the World-Shocking Book, which began showing signs of fusing, leaving Li Yun to suspect the Illusory World Book held the key to the secret of the Four Great Wonder Books.

• Li Yun avoided the pages of the Illusory World Book and went to the World-Shocking Hall, where he found the World-Shocking Book’s Sage Constant half-volume and an Eternal Divine Medicine.
• Li Yun absorbed the half-volume and spent several thousand years refining the medicine, raising his cultivation to the limit of what he could currently achieve.
• Li Yun conquered the 748th, 749th, and 750th Sword Cities and merged their pages into the World-Shocking Book, completing it.
• Li Yun’s Heavenly Constant power surged as the mysteries of the Eternal Scripture and the complete World-Shocking Book fused within him.
• Li Yun took all thirteen pages of the Illusory World Book from the Coiling Dragon Pillar, and they dissolved into a light that linked the two books.
• Li Yun sensed the Eternal Scripture and the World-Shocking Book beginning to merge and suspected the Illusory World Book was a catalyst connected to the secret of the Four Great Wonder Books.

Li Yun escaped the World-Shocking Snowfield after sensing five Sage Constant experts waiting for him, who mistook him for the World-Shocking Sword Master and debated pursuing the World-Shocking Book or establishing Ancestral City. After Cang Jiulong repeatedly searched the snowfield for him, Li Yun left disguised as drifting snow, determined to remember Cang Jiulong and the Ancient Cang Divine Court.

• Li Yun tore open the Secret Realm, returned to the World-Shocking Snowfield, sensed hidden Sage Constant experts, and teleported away.
• Five Sage Constant experts arrived, while Cang Jiulong warned them not to pursue the World-Shocking Book and left with his World-Burying Coffin.
• Sage Tianji, Lotus Master, the old farmer, and the purple-clad woman suspected the fleeing man was the World-Shocking Sword Master and decided to focus on establishing Ancestral City.
• Cang Jiulong returned to search for the man, but found no trace of him and left again.
• Li Yun emerged from the drifting snow in an illusory form and vowed to remember Cang Jiulong and the Ancient Cang Divine Court.

After escaping Cang Jiulong, Li Yun traveled to the Panic Divine Hall, hoping to find resources to advance to Sage Constant. The hall’s recruitment reward seemed to offer Eternal Divine Medicine to every Sage who joined, but Li Yun recognized the medicine carried by new recruits and realized the offer was a fraud.

• Li Yun escaped the World-Shocking Plain by disguising himself with Illusory Power and traveled north to the Panic Divine Hall’s territory.
• The Panic Divine Hall announced that the Dreadbound Lord was a Sage Constant Peak expert who had summoned Sages to help establish Ancestral City.
• Sages flocked to join the Panic Divine Hall after hearing it would reward each recruit with Eternal Divine Medicine matching their level.
• Li Yun joined the queue, intending to claim a reward for himself.
• Li Yun saw three recruits carrying Ordinary Constant Divine Medicine, recognized that it was fake, and cursed the Panic Divine Hall’s supposed deep pockets.

Li Yun discovered that the Panic Divine Hall was using illusory power to pass off ordinary Immortal Divine Medicine as Eternal Divine Medicine and deceive Sages into joining. After Hong Hu ordered a subordinate to follow him, Li Yun led the pursuer into the wilderness and prepared to confront him.

• Li Yun realized the supposed Eternal Divine Medicine was ordinary Immortal Divine Medicine whose appearance had been altered by illusory power.
• Li Yun left the Panic Divine Hall, while Hong Hu noticed his departure and ordered a subordinate to follow him discreetly.
• Li Yun suspected the Panic Divine Hall possessed pages of the Illusory World Book and considered capturing its members to learn the truth.
• Li Yun noticed the Origin Constant Sage following him and led him for several days to a mountain in the western Panic Domain.
• The pursuer decided to seize Li Yun, but Li Yun vanished from his sight, leaving the Sage alarmed.

Li Yun captured the Origin Constant Sage who had been following him and crippled his cultivation until the man revealed who had ordered the pursuit. Li Yun then pressed him about the Panic Divine Hall’s Illusory Power and the Illusory World Book, ending with a threat to destroy the Sage’s remaining Source if he did not answer.

• Li Yun ambushed the Origin Constant Sage, suppressed him, and teleported him out of the Panic Domain.
• Li Yun slashed away half of the Sage’s Origin Constant Source, then struck again and reduced him to the Ordinary Constant realm.
• The Sage revealed that Hong Hu Heavenly Constant had ordered him to follow Li Yun after suspecting Li Yun had discovered something.
• Li Yun accused the Panic Divine Hall of using Illusory Power to deceive Sages and asked how the Hall had obtained it.
• Li Yun identified the Illusory World Book as the source and demanded to know how many pages the Panic Divine Hall possessed, threatening another slash.

Li Yun learned how the Panic Divine Hall had gained Illusory Power and discovered that it held nearly a hundred pages of the Illusory World Book. He then learned that the Dreadbound Lord had left to pursue the World-Shocking Sword Master, leaving Li Yun considering a break-in.

• The captured Panic Divine Hall member revealed that the Evil Wind had scattered the Illusory World Book's pages, and the Dreadbound Lord had recovered nearly a hundred to create the Illusory World Sacred Realm.
• Li Yun realized his thirteen pages of the Illusory World Book had fused with his other Wonder Books, giving him greater command of Illusory Power than the captured Sage.
• The captive said he had heard that the World-Shocking Sword Master entered the Panic Divine Hall to steal a treasure and escaped using unusually powerful Illusory Power.
• Li Yun learned that the Dreadbound Lord had personally left the hall to pursue the World-Shocking Sword Master, and considered sneaking in to steal the remaining pages.

Disguised as Sage Hamu, Li Yun infiltrated the Panic Divine Hall and reported to Hong Hu Heavenly Constant, who rewarded him and arranged for him to enter the Illusory World Sacred Realm again. Li Yun planned to use the opportunity to steal the remaining pages of the Illusory World Book.

• Li Yun used the Illusory World Book to disguise himself as Sage Hamu and learned that the Dreadbound Lord had not returned.
• Li Yun visited Hong Hu Heavenly Constant, who gave him a piece of a Heavenly Constant Divine Medicine as a reward.
• Li Yun told Hong Hu Heavenly Constant that the man he had followed entered the Scorpion Divine Court and claimed the man had not detected him.
• Hong Hu Heavenly Constant warned that the Panic Divine Hall's illusory power must remain secret and arranged for Li Yun to enter the Illusory World Sacred Realm again.
• Li Yun accepted the assignment and resolved to steal all the remaining pages of the Illusory World Book.

Li Yun entered the Illusory World Sacred Realm disguised as Sage Ha Mu, relying on thirteen pages of the Illusory World Book to protect him from its illusory power. After sensing hidden Sage Constant guards and locating the scattered pages, he realized stealing them would be difficult but not impossible.

• Hong Hu secured Sage Constant Wu Yuan's approval for Ha Mu to enter the Illusory World Sacred Realm for three years.
• Li Yun reached the garden entrance and bowed to Sage Constant Wu Yuan and Sage Constant Xuantong, who opened the gate without detecting his disguise.
• Inside the Sacred Realm, the thirteen pages of the Illusory World Book in Li Yun's body dispersed the illusory power and kept his mind clear.
• Li Yun sensed a hidden Sage Constant expert watching him, so he pretended to struggle with the illusory power until the gaze withdrew.
• Li Yun used the connection between his pages and those in the Sacred Realm to locate the book's pages and discovered that the Panic Divine Hall had scattered ninety-seven pages across separate locations.

Li Yun used his connection to the Illusory World Book to gradually intensify the Sacred Realm’s Illusory Power against its two Sage Constant powerhouses. After a month, they had forgotten he was there, and he finally tested whether he could take a page.

• Li Yun realized that taking a page immediately would alert the Sage Constant powerhouses, so he returned to his entry point and waited.
• Li Yun spread his Divine Consciousness, connected with all ninety-seven pages, and sensed that the pages resonated with the thirteen already inside him.
• Li Yun discovered the two hidden powerhouses at opposite ends of the Sacred Realm and began subtly strengthening the Illusory Power affecting them.
• Li Yun spent half a month deepening their illusions until they no longer looked toward him or remembered his presence.
• After another half month of patiently increasing the pressure, Li Yun attempted to seize a page of the Illusory World Book.

Li Yun stole all ninety-seven remaining pages of the Illusory World Book from the Sacred Realm and escaped before its guardians noticed. Three days later, the realm collapsed, and Wu Origin Sage Constant and Mystic Penetration Sage Constant realized that Ha Mu had deceived them and began searching for him.

• Li Yun stole the ninety-seven pages and fused them with the Eternal Scripture and the World-Shocking Book inside him.
• Li Yun escaped the Sacred Realm, deceiving Wu Origin Sage Constant and Mystic Penetration Sage Constant into thinking he had simply fled the illusory power.
• Three days later, the Sacred Realm collapsed, and the two guardians discovered that its pages were gone.
• The two dazed Sage Constants blamed the visitor who had entered the realm, prompting Wu Origin Sage Constant and Mystic Penetration Sage Constant to recognize Ha Mu's name.
• Wu Origin Sage Constant struck Hong Hu Heavenly Constant awake and demanded that he bring Ha Mu before them.

Li Yun, disguised as Ha Mu, stole the Illusory World Book and the Panic Divine Hall’s Eternal Divine Medicine, leaving the Dreadbound Lord to punish those responsible. The World-Shocking Sword Master revealed that the thief was Li Yun and demanded that the Dreadbound Lord capture him.

• Four Sage Constants reported that Ha Mu had stolen the Illusory World Book and looted the Panic Divine Hall, while Hong Hu discovered his medicines were missing and fainted.
• The Dreadbound Lord returned, questioned Wu Yuan and the others, and swallowed Hong Hu after hearing that the thief may have been impersonating Ha Mu.
• The Dreadbound Lord summoned the World-Shocking Sword Master’s Phantom Body and demanded what he wanted.
• The World-Shocking Sword Master refused to cooperate until the Dreadbound Lord captured Li Yun, revealing that Li Yun had posed as Ha Mu and stolen the book.

The Dreadbound Lord made a deal with the World-Shocking Sword Master's Phantom Body to hunt Li Yun or Ancient Eternity, while Li Yun celebrated his haul from the Panic Divine Hall and discovered that the three Wonder Books were forming the Heavenly Scripture of Myriad Wonders. Li Yun resolved to refine his Eternal Divine Medicines and reach the Sage Constant Realm before seeking the remaining Illusory World Book pages.

• The World-Shocking Sword Master identified the supposed Li Yun as Ancient Eternity and warned the Dreadbound Lord that he had stolen the Illusory World Book.
• The Dreadbound Lord threatened the World-Shocking Sword Master, who offered to use his Phantom Body to locate Illusory World Book fragments in exchange for help recovering his True Spirit.
• The Dreadbound Lord accepted the deal, ordered Wu Yuan Sage Constant and the other guards to keep watch over the Panic Divine Hall, and departed with the World-Shocking Sword Master's Phantom Body.
• Li Yun inspected his loot from the Panic Divine Hall, including two Sage Constant Divine Medicines, forty-seven Heavenly Constant Divine Medicines, and nearly seven hundred lesser medicines.
• Li Yun discovered that the Eternal Scripture, the World-Shocking Book, and the Illusory World Book were forming the Heavenly Scripture of Myriad Wonders, though he could not yet comprehend it because the Illusory World Book remained incomplete.
• Li Yun decided to refine the Eternal Divine Medicines and break through to the Sage Constant Realm before gathering the remaining pages.

Li Yun began refining Sage Constant Divine Medicine and triggered an ascension that shook the Primordial Land. As Sage Constant powerhouses searched for the newly ascended figure, his concealment kept him hidden, and he continued refining the medicine.

• Li Yun refined dozens of Heavenly Constant Divine Medicines, greatly strengthening his Heavenly Constant nature, then began refining one of his two Sage Constant Divine Medicines.
• As Sage Constant Divine Medicine essence entered Li Yun, his Heavenly Constant power began transforming and Sage Thunder sounded across the Primordial Land.
• The Sage Thunder continued for seventy-two peals, revealing to observers that a Heavenly Constant was ascending to Sage Constant.
• Sage Constant powerhouses appeared and searched the Primordial Land, but they could not find Li Yun because his Illusory Power and the emerging Heavenly Scripture of Myriad Wonders concealed him.
• Li Yun continued refining the Sage Constant Divine Medicine, and his refining speed increased dramatically as he entered Sage Constant.