Chapter Summaries

Li Yun faced Little Fist God He Yiming beneath Flying Goose Tower, mocking his stature until He Yiming attacked with his destructive Extinction Fist. Though onlookers feared Li Yun had abandoned his peerless swordsmanship foolishly, his star-bright punch stopped He Yiming’s blow head-on.

• The crowd recognized He Yiming as a powerful genius from Nanhua Prefecture, while Zhao Shanhe recalled how He Yiming had broken his Heaven-Slaying Draw Sword Technique.
• Li Yun mocked He Yiming’s small stature and provoked him by saying he would not flatter an enemy.
• Enraged, He Yiming rushed at Li Yun and unleashed his Extinction Fist, forming a destructive black fist seal.
• Li Yun raised his own fist instead of drawing his sword, alarming the onlookers who knew his reputation for peerless swordsmanship.
• Li Yun’s fist erupted with starlight and blocked He Yiming’s attack.

Li Yun defeated He Yiming in a fist-to-fist battle at Flying Goose Tower, forcing him to leave Eastern Cloud Prefecture. Bai Linsheng then challenged Li Yun’s swordsmanship, and Li Yun demanded that Bai Linsheng’s junior sister join him before the duel began.

• He Yiming attacked Li Yun with his Extinction Fist, but Li Yun countered with his Primordial World-Shaking Fist.
• Li Yun blasted He Yiming onto Flying Goose Tower’s roof and told him to keep his head down if he returned to Eastern Cloud Prefecture.
• He Yiming vowed to overcome Li Yun someday, then departed into the night.
• Bai Linsheng arrived and challenged Li Yun to a swordsmanship duel, promising to leave Eastern Cloud Prefecture if he lost.
• Li Yun said Bai Linsheng was not enough and asked him to bring his junior sister; Bai Linsheng drew his sword and told Li Yun to defeat him first.

Li Yun swiftly defeated Bai Linsheng and Mu Wanrong after they joined forces as the White Wood Twin Swords, then challenged the watching martial artists to face him. Ye Tianxie appeared atop Flying Goose Tower and announced that he would teach Li Yun a lesson with his saber.

• Bai Linsheng attacked Li Yun with his wind-aligned sword art, but Li Yun’s sword strike overwhelmed him.
• Mu Wanrong joined Bai Linsheng, and their combined wind-and-cloud sword art increased their power, but Li Yun defeated them both with one move.
• Bai Linsheng and Mu Wanrong admitted defeat and left Eastern Cloud Prefecture, promising to seek Li Yun out again.
• Li Yun challenged the remaining martial artists, but none dared to step forward after seeing his victories.
• Ye Tianxie appeared atop Flying Goose Tower, introduced himself, and challenged Li Yun to a duel.

Ye Tianxie, the Evil Blade Supreme’s disciple, challenged Li Yun at Flying Goose Tower, forcing Li Yun to contend with his sinister saber techniques. Li Yun countered with the Sorrowful Wind Swordplay and unveiled a sword domain, shocking the watching martial artists.

• Ye Tianxie identified himself as the Evil Blade Supreme’s disciple from Ten Thousand Sky City, and Li Yun accepted his challenge despite worrying about the consequences of angering Ye Tianxie’s master.
• Ye Tianxie drew the Heavenly Evil Saber and attacked with illusory figures and saber cries that struck at Li Yun’s spirit.
• Li Yun used the Sorrowful Wind Swordplay to dispel the spiritual attack, then evaded Ye Tianxie’s eight simultaneous saber strikes with the Three Talents Immortal Steps.
• Li Yun caught the aura of Ye Tianxie’s true body, but Ye Tianxie escaped in a burst of black light and concealed his presence.
• Li Yun unleashed his full strength and spread a twenty-meter curtain of Sorrowful Wind Sword Intent, prompting martial artists to recognize it as a Sword Dao Domain.

Li Yun defeated Ye Tianxie, silencing the visiting prodigies and winning the cheers of Eastern Cloud Prefecture. He entered seclusion and broke through toward the Innate Realm, while Night Emperor personally welcomed a mysterious carriage into town.

• Li Yun’s pseudo Sword Dao Domain forced Ye Tianxie to concede, and Ye Tianxie promised to challenge him again after reaching the Mortal Transformation Realm.
• Ye Tianxie cursed the onlookers as trash and left, and no other martial artist accepted Li Yun’s challenge.
• Li Yun declared that outsiders should stop causing trouble in Eastern Cloud Prefecture, then left Flying Goose Tower as the local martial artists celebrated him.
• Li Yun returned to his lodging, entered seclusion, and began transforming his Hunyuan True Qi as he broke through toward the Innate Realm.
• Three days after Li Yun left Flying Goose Tower, Night Emperor and a group of extraordinary-looking people welcomed a carriage escorted by at least four Soaring Heaven Realm experts.

Ninth Princess Zhao Ziyue arrived in the town under the protection of four Soaring Heaven Realm experts, and the Night Emperor arranged for her to stay. He warned Ye Li that Li Yun’s talent had drawn powerful people’s attention, then pointed Ye Li toward an opportunity involving Zhao Ziyue.

• Zhao Ziyue arrived and greeted the Night Emperor, who assigned Liu'er and Yuluo to attend to her.
• The Night Emperor arranged lodging for Zhao Ziyue’s four escorts and dismissed everyone except Ye Li.
• Ye Li apologized for losing the Spring Welcome Tea Party, and the Night Emperor told him to accept Li Yun’s victory and train harder.
• The Night Emperor explained that the Heavenly Human Supremes considered Li Yun a peerless genius, but said his talent had also attracted wariness.
• The Night Emperor told Ye Li that an opportunity connected to Zhao Ziyue could secure his path toward becoming a Supreme, and Ye Li eagerly agreed.

Zhao Ziyue bathed, met the Night Emperor’s nephew Ye Li, and went out with him to explore Eastern Cloud Prefecture. Near Flying Goose Tower, Ye Tianxie confronted them and mocked Ye Li for trying to intervene.

• Zhao Ziyue asked maids Liu'er and Yuluo about Li Yun, then went to meet the Night Emperor after bathing and eating.
• The Night Emperor introduced his nephew Ye Li to Zhao Ziyue and encouraged them to spend time together.
• Zhao Ziyue asked Ye Li to guide her around town, and he gladly accompanied her into the evening streets.
• Near Flying Goose Tower, Ye Tianxie appeared and knocked Ye Li aside when he tried to shield Zhao Ziyue.
• Ye Li challenged Ye Tianxie over his earlier defeat by Li Yun, and Ye Tianxie ridiculed him and asked whether he was worthy.

Ye Tianxie humiliated Ye Li in front of Zhao Ziyue, then pulled her aside to argue about Ye Li’s intentions and her choice of companions. Ye Li returned intending to complain to the Night Emperor, while Zhao Ziyue was left speechless when Ye Tianxie admitted that Li Yun was worthy of her.

• Ye Tianxie mocked Ye Li over losing the title of Young Lord of Dongyang, while Zhao Ziyue tried to stop their argument.
• Zhao Ziyue sent Ye Li back and left with Ye Tianxie, who continued insulting Ye Li as they went.
• Ye Li blamed Ye Tianxie and Li Yun for his humiliation and turned back to complain to the Night Emperor.
• Zhao Ziyue confronted Ye Tianxie in an alley for humiliating Ye Li, and Ye Tianxie accused Ye Li of pursuing her.
• When Zhao Ziyue threatened to seek out Li Yun, Ye Tianxie said Li Yun was the only one worthy of her, leaving her dumbfounded.

Li Yun awakened the Innate Divine Ability Wind Listener after reaching Innate, Mortal Shedding Realm Second Level, and began learning to control its overwhelming range of sound. While experimenting with it from the Meditation Chamber, he overheard an angry voice and hoped the ability might reveal information about Cloud Dragon Zen Temple.

• Li Yun discovered that his Acquired to Innate Reversal had opened hidden apertures in his ears and awakened Wind Listener.
• Li Yun reasoned that his powerful Life Origin and mastery of the Reverse Fate Art had helped bring about the new ability.
• Li Yun repeatedly activated Wind Listener, suffering dizziness as sounds flooded his mind, then learned to direct the wind to filter out noise.
• Li Yun discovered that Wind Listener could pick up sounds from as far as ten li away.
• Li Yun used the ability to eavesdrop from the Meditation Chamber, hoping to learn about Cloud Dragon Zen Temple, and caught a steady, angry voice.

After overhearing the Night Emperor and Ye Li plotting around Zhao Ziyue and the throne, Li Yun sensed their hostility and chose to focus on cultivating before Cloud Dragon Zen Temple opened. He spent his accumulated Cognition Points upgrading his Innate techniques and discovered that reciting the Classic of Virtue now earned him points at an extraordinary rate.

• Ye Li told the Night Emperor that Zhao Ziyue had left with Ye Tianxie and that Ye Tianxie had humiliated him.
• The Night Emperor suspected Zhao Ziyue aimed to win over Li Yun and warned Ye Li to grow stronger, while declaring that he alone held authority among Eastern Cloud Prefecture's five Supremes.
• Li Yun overheard their conversation, realized the pair might be conspiring against Zhao Ziyue and viewed him as a threat, and decided to cultivate rather than go out.
• Li Yun fused seventy Innate Cultivation Techniques into the Primal Chaos Art over three or four days, spending nearly 3.5 billion Cognition Points.
• Li Yun discovered that reciting the Classic of Virtue now earned him five hundred thousand Cognition Points per second and intensified his cultivation of techniques and skills.

Li Yun emerged from seclusion as the Cloud Dragon Zen Temple’s stone gate opened, only to learn that its restriction barred anyone above the Mortal Transformation Realm. After Gu Xiaoxian noticed Li Yun had reached that realm, Li Yun began considering how the Classic of Virtue might help the elders who had supported him.

• The stone gate at Pingding Mountain opened, but its rule-based restriction prevented anyone above the Mortal Transformation Realm from entering, even Heavenly Human Supremes.
• Tens of thousands of Martial Artists at the Mortal Transformation Realm and below entered Cloud Dragon Zen Temple while stronger cultivators remained outside.
• Li Yun left the Meditation Chamber and learned from Gu Xiaoxian that the restriction did not exclude the Mortal Transformation Realm.
• Gu Xiaoxian sensed Li Yun’s Innate True Qi and reacted with pride and surprise at his rapid progress.
• Li Yun reflected on Gu Xiaoxian and the other elders’ care for him, then wondered whether the Classic of Virtue could help Gu Xiaoxian and Chen Jiuxu.

Li Yun learned that the Tinnu Sect might be plotting to kill him, then traveled with Gu Xiaoxian to Pingding Mountain and entered the ancient stone gate. He arrived in a dim, vast grassland with no one else in sight.

• Li Yun promised Gu Xiaoxian he would try to help him reach the Heavenly Human Supreme, and the two set out for Pingding Mountain.
• Li Yun used Wind Listener to overhear two men discussing their plan to report to Elder Ouyang and find another chance to kill him.
• Li Yun suspected Ouyang Li and resolved to show no mercy if the Tinnu Sect or the Night Emperor attacked him.
• At Pingding Mountain, Chen Jiuxu warned Li Yun to leave the stone gate within half a month and to prioritize his safety inside.
• Chen Jiuxu gave Li Yun three Thunderfire Thunderbolt Bombs, and Li Yun entered the stone gate, arriving in a vast, dim grassland.

Li Yun explored the strange grassland beyond the Divine Gate and encountered two monks who claimed to be from Mani Temple. After his system identified them as Demonic Monks, they attacked him, revealing unusually high-grade, blood-tainted True Qi.

• Li Yun used Wind Listener to locate nearby people and hurried toward a scream across the grassland.
• Li Yun found two Martial Artists' bodies rotting away and being absorbed by the ground.
• Two young monks approached Li Yun and invited him to Mani Temple, claiming the Shadowless Demon threatened visitors and others had already arrived there.
• Li Yun asked what a Demonic Monk was, causing the two monks to attack him with claw techniques.
• Li Yun dodged their attacks and discovered that their True Qi was only around the third layer of True Qi but had fourth-grade quality and a disorienting, blood-tainted aura.

Li Yun killed two Demonic Monks and concluded that the Mani Temple might hold the key to the Cloud Dragon Zen Temple’s secrets. He then encountered Martial Artists from Eastern Cloud Prefecture and Nanchi Prefecture, where Tang Yizhou challenged him and demanded his techniques.

• Li Yun’s Innate True Qi resisted the Demonic Monks’ black True Qi, and his palm strike crushed both of them.
• Li Yun interrogated the Demonic Monks, but they died without answering and their bodies dissolved into the prairie.
• Li Yun used his Wind Listener Divine Ability to locate a fight and found four Martial Artists battling on the prairie as Tang Yizhou watched.
• Two Martial Artists from Eastern Cloud Prefecture asked Li Yun for help against Tang Yizhou and his two junior fellow disciples from Nanchi Prefecture.
• Tang Yizhou revealed that he had reached the Mortal Transformation Realm, threatened Li Yun, and demanded that he hand over his Cultivation Techniques and Martial Arts.

Li Yun used the Zhenyue Mountain Sword to crush Tang Yizhou, revealing a Sword Dao Domain powerful enough to overwhelm a seventh-level Mortal Transformation Realm expert. After killing Tang Yizhou and the two Nanchi Prefecture martial artists who had helped provoke the fight, he left the two Eastern Cloud Prefecture martial artists confused by their own pleas for mercy.

• Tang Yizhou attacked Li Yun with his Raging Waves and Thousand Strikes sword skills, confident in his strength as a seventh-level Mortal Transformation Realm expert.
• Li Yun answered with the perfected and sublimated Zhenyue Mountain Sword, forming a Sword Dao Domain that crushed Tang Yizhou and vaporized his body.
• The two Nanchi Prefecture martial artists begged Li Yun for mercy, but he killed them for helping cause Tang Yizhou's death.
• The two Eastern Cloud Prefecture martial artists fell to their knees and begged for mercy, and Li Yun asked why they were pleading when they had not tried to rob him.

Li Yun learned that Ye Tianxie had entered the grassland and completed Acquired to Innate Reversal, then hurried toward a battle involving demonic monks. He arrived after Ye Tianxie and Zhao Ziyue had defeated them, and Ye Tianxie challenged him to a fight.

• Zhu Heng gave Li Yun a rust-covered iron fragment with map-like patterns and said Nanchi Prefecture Martial Artists had tried to steal it.
• Huang An and Zhu Heng told Li Yun they had seen Ye Tianxie with a powerful woman, and Li Yun warned them to avoid the monks who were taking Martial Artists to Mani Temple.
• Li Yun heard a battle and rushed toward it, but arrived after it had ended and found Ye Tianxie, Zhao Ziyue, and several shaken survivors among the rotting corpses.
• Li Yun taunted Ye Tianxie, who announced that he had broken through and attacked him with his saber.

Ye Tianxie challenged Li Yun after reaching Acquired to Innate Reversal, but Li Yun overwhelmed him with a true Sword Dao Domain. After the two reconciled, Ye Tianxie introduced Zhao Ziyue to Li Yun, and they agreed to be friends.

• Ye Tianxie excitedly challenged Li Yun, who released his Sword Dao Domain and trapped him beneath its crushing pressure.
• Ye Tianxie yielded, and Li Yun withdrew the domain before it could kill him.
• Ye Tianxie lamented that Li Yun had advanced to the second level of Mortal Shedding and mastered a true Sword Dao Domain, while Li Yun praised Ye Tianxie's saber intent.
• Ye Tianxie introduced Zhao Ziyue as the Ninth Princess and suggested she fight Li Yun, but she refused and greeted him warmly.
• Li Yun welcomed Zhao Ziyue and said they should become friends.

Li Yun learned that Cloud Dragon Zen Temple had once suppressed demons before vanishing a thousand years ago, and he joined Zhao Ziyue and Ye Tianxie in investigating the Demonic Monks. He successfully tracked two monks with Wind Listener, but they vanished without a trace, leaving the mystery unresolved.

• Zhao Ziyue told Li Yun and Ye Tianxie that Cloud Dragon Zen Temple had been a demon-suppressing temple led by Three-Eyed Celestial Monk before it disappeared a thousand years ago.
• Zhao Ziyue explained that a Royal Ancestor had forbidden the Imperial Court from interfering with the temple's reappearance, while she suspected the Demonic Monks were former Cloud Dragon Zen Temple monks.
• Ye Tianxie pointed out that he and Zhao Ziyue had searched hundreds of li without finding Mani Temple, and Zhao Ziyue said the Royal Clan had no records of the grassland.
• Zhao Ziyue and Ye Tianxie said the Demonic Monks had detected them and vanished whenever they tried to follow them, so the three agreed to search separately and signal Li Yun if they found any.
• Ye Tianxie and Zhao Ziyue sent signals, and Li Yun followed two monks Ye Tianxie had found by using Wind Listener.
• The two Demonic Monks suddenly disappeared within five minutes, leaving Li Yun with no trace to follow.

Li Yun realized the Demonic Monks’ ability to evade tracking might be connected to the grassland itself, and raced to a spot where he could investigate. As he began comprehending the area, his system identified a Great Five Elements Inverting Illusion Array and started loading the Five Elements Array.

• After failing to track the Demonic Monks, Li Yun debated with Zhao Ziyue and Ye Tianxie about how to deal with them.
• Li Yun suddenly flew twenty li ahead and challenged Ye Tianxie to bet that he had found something different about the grassland.
• Ye Tianxie accepted the bet, while Zhao Ziyue realized Li Yun might have discovered something and stopped Ye Tianxie from disturbing him.
• Li Yun sat down to comprehend the area as Zhao Ziyue and Ye Tianxie guarded him.
• Li Yun’s system revealed that he was observing the Great Five Elements Inverting Illusion Array, awarded him three million Cognition Points per second, and began loading the Five Elements Array.

Li Yun discovered that a Great Five Elements Inverting Illusion Array distorted the grassland, then used it to gain Cognition Points and advance his Five Elements Array. The sudden flood of array knowledge left him collapsing, and Zhao Ziyue and Ye Tianxie feared he had been attacked.

• Li Yun used Wind Listener to detect subtle fluctuations and discovered the Great Five Elements Inverting Illusion Array across the grassland.
• Li Yun spent five hours observing the array, gaining 64 billion Cognition Points as the Five Elements Array finished loading.
• Li Yun spent 2 billion points to raise the Five Elements Array to Proficient, and the knowledge surge nearly overwhelmed his mind.
• Zhao Ziyue caught Li Yun as he collapsed while Ye Tianxie drew the Heavenly Evil Saber and guarded against unseen attackers.
• Zhao Ziyue warned Ye Tianxie that Demonic Beasts or Demonic Monks might have attacked Li Yun, then gave him a Heavenly Heart Lotus Seed.