Chapter Summaries

After Changqing Sacred City learned that Ancestral City had claimed Panic Domain, Sage Kong Mu prepared a decree to force Ancestral City to surrender it and ordered his allies to find Li Yun. Hidden outside the Primordial Land, Li Yun absorbed sixty-seven pages of the Illusory World Book, which revealed the first page of the Heavenly Scripture of Myriad Wonders and began filling gaps in his understanding.

• Changqing Sacred City’s Sage Constant experts gathered after hearing that Ancestral City had claimed Panic Domain, and Sage Kong Mu decided to issue a Sacred City Decree demanding Ancestral City relinquish it.
• Sage Kong Mu pressed Hengjing, Yuantai, and the others to capture Li Yun because he carried three of the Four Great Wonder Books.
• Li Yun appeared in the Boundary Sea outside the Primordial Land and began cultivating with the Eternal Divine Medicine and the pages he had looted from the Ancient Cang Divine Court.
• Li Yun drew sixty-seven pages of the Illusory World Book into his body, and they merged with the other two Wonder Books.
• The Heavenly Scripture of Myriad Wonders became clearer, and its first page sent Li Yun a flood of insights that began repairing gaps in his understanding of the world.

After merging six pages of the Heavenly Scripture of Myriad Wonders, Li Yun reached Late Sage Constant and resolved to seek more pages of the Illusory World Book in the Primordial Land. Back in the Azure Abyss Domain, he discovered a hidden Secret Realm that seemed connected to the Illusory World Book, and a figure emerged as he approached it.

• Li Yun merged the first six pages of the Heavenly Scripture of Myriad Wonders, repairing flaws in his cultivation and reaching Late Sage Constant.
• Li Yun refined all his Eternal Divine Medicines in three months, stabilized his cultivation, and decided to seek more pages of the Illusory World Book.
• Li Yun returned to the Azure Abyss Domain and reflected on how it had helped him begin his path to becoming an Eternal Sage.
• Li Yun discovered a hidden Secret Realm in the Azure Abyss Domain and suspected that the Illusory World Book's power concealed it.
• As Li Yun approached the Secret Realm, a figure emerged from within.

Li Yun seized all thirty pages of the Illusory World Book from a thief and learned that the Azure Abyss Divine Court had survived by relocating near a forbidden zone. After refusing to return the pages, he stopped the departing Sages to propose a deal.

• Li Yun dragged a man into the Cangming Secret Realm, where Azure Abyss Divine Court Sages confronted them over the stolen Illusory World Book.
• The man blamed Li Yun and produced three pages, but Li Yun caught them and forced the man to reveal twenty-seven pages in total before killing him with a slap.
• Li Yun collected all thirty pages, while the Sages realized their Secret Realm had been infiltrated by a thief who had already possessed twenty-three pages.
• A Late Sage Constant explained that the Azure Abyss Divine Court had relocated to Azure Abyss Sacred City and that its Sacred Lord had reached Half-Step Ancestor.
• Li Yun refused to return the pages, and the Sages accepted their loss and began to leave.
• Li Yun blocked their way and said he had a proposal concerning the Illusory World Book.

Li Yun proposed that the Azure Abyss Divine Court exchange Illusory World Book pages with other factions, while secretly absorbing his own pages to strengthen himself and planning to seize pages by force. The Canglan Sage learned Li Yun’s identity and vowed to teach him a lesson.

• Li Yun proposed that the Azure Abyss Divine Court share the contents of their Illusory World Book pages and suggested inviting other factions to join the exchange.
• The Azure Abyss Sages said they would consult the Canglan Sage and promised to respond within three months, then departed.
• Li Yun absorbed his thirty Illusory World Book pages into the Heavenly Scripture of Myriad Wonders, advancing it to its seventh and eighth pages and refining his sacred path.
• Li Yun revealed that he had never intended to exchange pages and planned to use the proposal to draw out their holders and seize their pages.
• The Azure Abyss Sages returned to Azure Abyss Sacred City and reported to the Canglan Sage, who identified Li Yun and vowed to punish him.

Canglan Sage agreed to Li Yun’s Illusory World Book exchange proposal and chose Ancestral City as the venue, hoping to gather pages and pressure the city. The gathering sparked a frenzy across the Primordial Land, and the chapter ended with someone targeting Li Yun while he traveled in disguise.

• Canglan Sage decided to hold the exchange in Ancestral City and use it to pressure the city and seek pages from other holders.
• Li Yun received Azure Abyss Sacred City’s reply, learned the exchange would take place in three thousand years, and suspected the city had more than one motive.
• Li Yun continued roaming the Primordial Land in disguises, searching for Secret Realms and sensing nearby Illusory World Book pages.
• News of the exchange spread, and people dubbed it the Illusory World Dual Cultivation Assembly.
• Demand for pages surged, their price rose to the value of a Sage Constant-level Eternal Divine Medicine, and new Sages appeared across the Primordial Land.
• Someone set their sights on Li Yun after he entered a city disguised as an ordinary Origin Constant Sage.

Li Yun encountered a shifty Ordinary Constant Sage offering a page of the Illusory World Book, but walked away when the man would not show it first. After hearing that Sage swindlers were using fake page offers to lure people into trading Eternal Divine Medicines, Li Yun left the tavern and saw the same man pursuing him again.

• Li Yun played along when a shifty Ordinary Constant Sage offered to trade a page of the Illusory World Book, then accused him of swindling and walked away.
• The man claimed he really had a page but had hidden it, and proposed trading it for five Origin Constant Divine Medicines.
• Li Yun refused to hand over Divine Medicines before seeing the page and left the man behind.
• At a tavern, Li Yun heard patrons say that Sage swindlers were using Illusory World Book pages as bait to obtain Eternal Divine Medicines.
• Li Yun left the tavern and found the shifty man calling after him again.

Li Yun agreed to trade seventeen peak Origin Constant Divine Medicines for pages of the Illusory World Book, unaware that Sage Huaiyuan and his companions planned to rob him. Sage Cangling arrived and announced they would end their schemes after this deal, but the group was stunned when Li Yun appeared in their residence.

• Li Yun agreed to meet Sage Huaiyuan’s contact at Immortal Pond Mountain in three days and trade seventeen Divine Medicines for seventeen pages of the Illusory World Book.
• Sage Huaiyuan evaded pursuit and reached a residence in the Chiming Domain, where two Ordinary Constant Sages questioned his arrival.
• Sage Huaiyuan told them he had found a wealthy target and arranged the trade, while warning them not to demand Heavenly Constant Divine Medicine.
• Sage Cangling arrived, praised Sage Huaiyuan, and said this would be their last deal because their repeated schemes had attracted rumors.
• As Sage Huaiyuan began explaining how he met Li Yun, he froze upon seeing a middle-aged man seated in the hall, and the others turned to face him.

Li Yun confronted Sage Cangling and Sage Huaiyuan after following them to their mansion, revealing that he was a Sage Constant and taking all thirty-seven pages of the Illusory World Book they possessed. Before leaving, he learned that a group in the Celestial Music Domain had swindled a Sage Constant expert out of a Sage Constant Divine Medicine, and vanished to pursue the lead.

• Li Yun revealed that he had followed Sage Cangling and Sage Huaiyuan to their mansion instead of waiting to trade in the Illusory Cloud Domain.
• Sage Cangling tried to intimidate Li Yun, but discovered that Li Yun was a Sage Constant and surrendered.
• Li Yun made Sage Cangling hand over all thirty-seven pages of the Illusory World Book and warned the group to stop causing trouble.
• Sage Cangling told Li Yun that a group in the Celestial Music Domain had swindled an Early Sage Constant expert out of a Sage Constant Divine Medicine.
• Li Yun thanked Sage Cangling for the information and vanished from the mansion.

Li Yun absorbed more pages of the Illusory World Book, then went to the Celestial Music Domain to hunt the gang that had swindled Sage Hua Men. His attempt to lure the culprits out instead drew the suspicious Hua Men himself.

• Li Yun absorbed thirty-seven pages of the Illusory World Book, turning three pages of the Heavenly Scripture of Myriad Wonders and strengthening his foundations.
• In the Celestial Music Domain, Li Yun learned that Sage Hua Men had been ambushed and robbed, then beaten by the lord of the Celestial Music Divine Court after accusing it of the crime.
• Li Yun disguised himself as an Early Sage Constant Sage and openly searched for the swindlers, hoping to use himself as bait.
• After weeks without a sign of the gang, Li Yun decided to search for another half month before giving up.
• Sage Hua Men confronted Li Yun, demanding to know why he claimed to be his friend and was searching for the swindlers.

Li Yun used Sage Hua Men’s name to draw out the swindlers and learned that Hua Men suspected the Celestial Music Divine Court was backing them. The Divine Court’s Master, Music Sage, arrived with eight other Sage Constant experts and threatened to kill them both to conceal the scheme.

• Li Yun explained that he had used Sage Hua Men’s name to lure out the swindlers, and Hua Men described how the Celestial Music Divine Court had protected them and pursued him.
• Hua Men revealed that he had returned to the Celestial Music Domain after hearing that someone was seeking revenge for him, only to discover that Li Yun had been using his name.
• Nine Sage Constant experts arrived, including Music Sage, the Master of the Celestial Music Divine Court, while Hua Men prepared to fight and Li Yun remained calm.
• Music Sage and his men mocked Li Yun and Hua Men, and one expert admitted they planned to kill them so the swindlers’ ties to the Divine Court would not become known.

Li Yun stopped Music Sage from killing Sage Hua Men, then demanded the Celestial Music Divine Court's pages of the [Illusory World Book]. After Music Sage surrendered seventy-two pages, Li Yun killed him when he mistook his bow of gratitude for a curse, leaving Sage Hua Men stunned.

• Sage Hua Men attacked an Early Sage Constant, but Music Sage shattered his attack and prepared to kill him.
• Li Yun said “Break!” and dissolved Music Sage's killing move, then demanded the [Illusory World Book] pages.
• Li Yun killed the eight Early Sage Constants with a sweep of White Light.
• Music Sage surrendered seventy-two pages, and Li Yun promised to spare him.
• Li Yun interpreted Music Sage's bow as a curse and killed him with White Light, leaving Sage Hua Men dumbstruck.

Li Yun learned that Black Rock Sage possessed at least seventy or eighty pages of the Illusory World Book and traveled with Sage Hua Men to find him. After absorbing seventy-two pages and strengthening his power, Li Yun detected Black Rock Sage hiding in an apparently empty hut and called him out.

• Sage Hua Men told Li Yun that Black Rock Sage kept many pages of the Illusory World Book and lived in seclusion on Obsidian Mountain.
• Li Yun took Sage Hua Men to Obsidian Mountain and absorbed the seventy-two pages he had acquired, advancing his cultivation and increasing his Sage Constant Power.
• Three months later, Li Yun and Sage Hua Men reached Black Rock Sage's empty-looking valley and hut.
• Li Yun sensed Black Rock Sage inside the hut and threatened to tear it down if he did not appear.
• Black Rock Sage emerged and asked Li Yun how he could see through his Illusory Power and what he wanted.

Li Yun challenged the Black Rock Sage for his 217 pages of the Illusory World Book and defeated him with a single finger strike. The Black Rock Sage gave Li Yun the pages and asked him to kill a powerful enemy in the future.

• Li Yun confronted the Black Rock Sage, who revealed that he had gathered 217 pages by luring people with Illusory World Book pages to him.
• The Black Rock Sage demanded that Li Yun defeat him before he would reveal his second condition.
• The Black Rock Sage attacked Li Yun with a powerful saber strike, but Li Yun shattered the blade with one finger.
• The Black Rock Sage admitted defeat and asked Li Yun to help kill someone he was not yet strong enough to face.
• The Black Rock Sage handed Li Yun all 217 pages of the Illusory World Book in advance.

Li Yun absorbed Black Rock Sage’s 217 pages of the Illusory World Book and learned why Black Rock Sage wanted Divine Emperor Heaven dead. After half a year of cultivation, Li Yun reached Peak Sage Constant and urged Black Rock Sage to find more pages so he could grow strong enough to kill Divine Emperor Heaven.

• Li Yun accepted the Illusory World Book pages and learned that Black Rock Sage wanted him to kill Divine Emperor Heaven, a Half-Step Ancestor in the Forbidden Zone.
• Black Rock Sage revealed that Divine Emperor Heaven was his older half-brother, who had poisoned him and killed him across three thousand reincarnations.
• Li Yun stayed in Black Rock Sage’s retreat and cultivated with the Illusory World Book for half a year, reaching page forty-nine and Peak Sage Constant.
• Li Yun admitted the pages had fueled his rapid growth and said more could let him kill Divine Emperor Heaven and others.
• Black Rock Sage left his retreat that day to seek more pages of the Illusory World Book.

After a thousand years cultivating on Obsidian Mountain, Li Yun reached nine times the strength of a Peak Sage Constant but realized his progress was slowing. The Black Rock Sage returned with twenty-six pages of the Illusory World Book and a gravely wounded Dreadbound Lord, who had asked to be brought to Li Yun.

• Li Yun spent a thousand years on Obsidian Mountain, growing stronger as he contemplated the Gate of Myriad Wonders and waited for more pages of the Illusory World Book.
• Li Yun's strength reached nine times that of a Peak Sage Constant, but his cultivation began to slow, so he decided it was time to look for more pages.
• The Black Rock Sage returned to Obsidian Mountain carrying the unconscious, gravely wounded Dreadbound Lord.
• Li Yun revealed his identity to the Black Rock Sage, who recognized him as the collector of the Four Great Wonder Books and confirmed that the Heavenly Scripture of Myriad Wonders existed.
• The Black Rock Sage gave Li Yun twenty-six pages of the Illusory World Book and explained that the wounded Dreadbound Lord had begged him to bring him to Li Yun.

The Dreadbound Lord offered Li Yun 103 pages of the Illusory World Book to kill Cang Jiulong, explaining that he had been gravely injured in the Forbidden Zone and then attacked by Cang Jiulong. Li Yun suspected the Forbidden Zone’s Half-Step Ancestors had deliberately driven the Dreadbound Lord out, leaving Li Yun wary of entering himself.

• The Dreadbound Lord asked Li Yun to avenge him by killing Cang Jiulong, offering him 103 pages of the Illusory World Book as payment.
• The Dreadbound Lord recounted entering the Forbidden Zone, where the Gate of Myriad Wonders’ divine might pinned him down before a bolt of lightning gravely wounded him and forced him to flee.
• Li Yun concluded that a Half-Step Ancestor had likely wounded the Dreadbound Lord deliberately to warn others away from the Forbidden Zone.
• The Dreadbound Lord said Cang Jiulong had found him after his escape, attacked him, and tried to take his remaining Illusory World Book pages.
• The Dreadbound Lord explained that he expected to reincarnate and start over, but had asked Black Rock Sage to bring him to Li Yun for revenge.

After the Dreadbound Lord reincarnated, Li Yun merged 129 pages of the Illusory World Book and grew stronger, but his awareness reached the Forbidden Zone’s Gate of Myriad Wonders. A terrifying warning drove him to flee into the Boundary Sea, where he witnessed a purple lightning bolt erase Obsidian Mountain.

• The Dreadbound Lord gave Li Yun his 103 pages of the Illusory World Book, bowed, and turned into True Light to reincarnate.
• The Black Rock Sage warned Li Yun that a Half-Step Ancestor might have deliberately spared the Dreadbound Lord to frighten outsiders, then left to search for more pages.
• Li Yun merged the Dreadbound Lord’s 103 pages and the Black Rock Sage’s 26 pages with his two Wonder Books and continued cultivating until his strength neared eleven times that of a Peak Sage Constant.
• The Heavenly Scripture of Myriad Wonders pulled Li Yun’s awareness toward the Gate of Myriad Wonders, allowing him to see the Forbidden Zone from Obsidian Mountain.
• Li Yun sensed an overwhelming danger, fled to the Boundary Sea, and hid as purple lightning struck and erased Obsidian Mountain.

Li Yun escaped the Forbidden Zone after provoking a Half-Step Ancestor and decided to hide and sleep. Inside the Forbidden Zone, Purple Firmament Ancestor revealed himself to three wary Half-Step Ancestors and asked them to leave and find someone for him.

• Li Yun teleported through hundreds of Boundary Seas, hid as a speck of dust, and decided not to warn Black Rock Sage.
• Li Yun withdrew his Divine Soul and forced himself into a deep sleep.
• Half-Step Ancestors in the Forbidden Zone saw the purple lightning and wondered whether Purple Firmament Ancestor had survived the Evil Wind and why he had reacted.
• A Black-robed Elder, a Red-robed Man, and a Golden-robed Man gathered to discuss Purple Firmament Ancestor and agreed to watch for his actions.
• Purple Firmament Ancestor appeared before the three Half-Step Ancestors and asked them to leave the Forbidden Zone to find someone for him.

The Purple Firmament Ancestor persuaded three Half-Step Ancestors to leave the Forbidden Zone and search for the mysterious person who used the Gate of Myriad Wonders to peer inside from Obsidian Mountain. Suspecting the person had the Heavenly Scripture of Myriad Wonders, the three set out toward the northeast of the Primordial Land.

• The Purple Firmament Ancestor told the Black-robed Elder and two other Half-Step Ancestors that someone outside the Forbidden Zone had drawn on the Gate of Myriad Wonders' power to peer inside from Obsidian Mountain.
• The Purple Firmament Ancestor admitted he had destroyed Obsidian Mountain but failed to catch the person, and asked the three to search in his place.
• The three Half-Step Ancestors suspected the person possessed the Heavenly Scripture of Myriad Wonders and wondered why the Purple Firmament Ancestor was sending them instead of going himself.
• The three agreed to search and asked the Purple Firmament Ancestor for a clue to the person's route.
• The Purple Firmament Ancestor said the person had fled through the Primordial Land's northeast, and the three Half-Step Ancestors immediately left the Forbidden Zone.

Divine Emperor Heaven confronted the Purple Firmament Ancestor over Obsidian Mountain's destruction and learned that someone there had used the Gate of Myriad Wonders' power. He sought answers from Black Rock Sage, but Black Rock destroyed himself before he could be forced to reveal the stranger's identity.

• The Purple Firmament Ancestor explained that he had annihilated Obsidian Mountain after sensing someone use the Gate of Myriad Wonders' power to look into the Forbidden Zone.
• Divine Emperor Heaven warned the Purple Firmament Ancestor not to harm Black Rock Sage and left to find him.
• Divine Emperor Heaven appeared before Black Rock Sage in the Primordial Land and demanded to know who had hidden in Obsidian Mountain.
• Black Rock Sage refused to answer and exploded himself into ink-dark light before Divine Emperor Heaven could finish threatening him.