Chapter Summaries

Prince Pingxin Zhao Zhen offered Li Yun a marquisate, marriage to Princess Qingyue, and a future princely title in exchange for the Dragon Soul, but Li Yun refused to trade his companion. He warned Zhao Zhen that the Black and White Dynasty faced a greater threat from the Weird Beasts and spatial rifts, then offered to share what he knew in exchange for something in return.

• After the Redfire Martial King left, Dragon Soul alerted Li Yun that another visitor was approaching.
• Zhao Zhen, Prince Pingxin of the Black and White Dynasty, arrived with two Martial Kings and offered Li Yun rewards for joining his dynasty and handing over the Dragon Soul.
• Li Yun refused, saying the Dragon Soul was his companion and questioning whether gathering fortune could save the dynasty from its fall.
• Li Yun warned Zhao Zhen that the spatial rift in Cloud Sun City and the Weird Beast invasion posed a greater danger than the Dragon Soul's ownership.
• Zhao Zhen asked Li Yun what he knew about the rift, and Li Yun offered to share warnings in exchange for something from the Black and White Dynasty.

Li Yun negotiated with Zhao Zhen for cultivation resources in exchange for revealing the truth about the Cloud Sun City rift. After explaining that the Beast-Grazing Land threatened both the Purple Moon Continent and Blue Star, he urged his companions to focus on cultivation before the coming calamity.

• Li Yun demanded that the Black and White Dynasty abandon its designs on Dragon Soul and support him, but Zhao Zhen refused to risk war against Great Yan and Imperial Court Mountain.
• Li Yun and Zhao Zhen bargained over information about the rift, agreeing on twenty Spirit Transformation Cultivation Techniques, a hundred bottles of Pills, ten Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, and other resources.
• A day later, Zhao Zhen's Martial King returned with the agreed resources, which Dragon Soul stored away.
• Li Yun told Zhao Zhen and the others that the Beast-Grazing Land was another world ruled by the Primordial Demon Lord, who turned the inhabitants of conquered worlds into Demon People or Weird Beasts.
• Li Yun revealed that the Beast-Grazing Land targeted both the Purple Moon Continent and Blue Star, and Zhao Zhen hurried away to investigate.
• Li Yun told He Pingtian and the others that the coming calamity could destroy the world and urged them to focus on cultivation.

Li Yun urged Eastern Splendor Stronghold’s leaders to prepare for a world-ending threat, and Zhao Zhen began investigating the rift. After confirming Li Yun’s warning, Zhao Zhen intervened when the Redfire Martial King and two other Martial Kings came to demand the Dragon Soul, driving them off and acknowledging that the danger beyond the rift was real.

• Li Yun told He Pingtian, Poison Granny, and One-Eyed Maniac to set aside other concerns and focus on cultivating, while they prepared for the coming chaos.
• Zhao Zhen ordered an investigation of the Cloud Sun City rift and called for more troops and a tighter cordon around it.
• Li Yun spent two days refining cultivation techniques and resources, strengthening his spirit and aura.
• The Redfire Martial King returned with two other Martial Kings and demanded that Li Yun hand over the Dragon Soul, but Li Yun refused and the Dragon Soul held their pressure at bay.
• Zhao Zhen arrived and warned the three Martial Kings not to interfere with his visit to Li Yun, so the Redfire Martial King and his companions left.
• Zhao Zhen told Li Yun that his investigation had confirmed what lay beyond the rift was exactly as Li Yun had described.

Li Yun explained the expanding threat of the Beast-Grazing Land to Zhao Zhen and proposed two ways to oppose it. Zhao Zhen recognized that Li Yun’s plan to borrow strength meant contacting Blue Star and working together.

• Zhao Zhen told Li Yun that only one of the ten people sent to investigate the Beast-Grazing Land had returned alive, and the survivor had nearly lost his mind.
• Zhao Zhen said the Black and White Dynasty had confirmed the danger and formally proposed working with Li Yun on behalf of his king.
• Li Yun explained that the Devil Master's Will drove the Beast-Grazing Land to expand through the rift and that the Purple Moon Continent's will was resisting it.
• Li Yun suggested strengthening the Purple Moon Continent's will, though he admitted he did not know how to do so.
• Li Yun proposed borrowing strength, and Zhao Zhen realized he meant contacting Blue Star to join forces against the Beast-Grazing Land.

Li Yun revealed to Zhao Zhen that he came from Blue Star and proposed an alliance against the Beast-Grazing Land. He then asked Zhao Zhen to use the Black and White Dynasty’s channels to secretly investigate ancient powers that might oppose the Primordial Demon Lord.

• Zhao Zhen agreed that the Purple Moon Continent should work with Blue Star against the Beast-Grazing Land but questioned how they could make contact.
• Li Yun revealed that he was Li Fenghua of Blue Star and had crossed the Beast-Grazing Land to seek an alliance.
• Li Yun asked Zhao Zhen, He Pingtian, Poison Granny, and One-Eyed Maniac to keep his origin secret, then explained that Blue Star combined technology and the Martial Dao and faced the same invasion.
• Zhao Zhen accepted Li Yun’s proposal to pursue an alliance between Blue Star and the Purple Moon Continent.
• Li Yun told Zhao Zhen that the Silk-Robed Fairy Immortal behind the Fairy Sect might be an outside power targeting the Purple Moon Continent.
• Li Yun asked Zhao Zhen to investigate the sources behind the Fairy Sect and other ancient powers, hoping to find allies who could be turned against the Primordial Demon Lord.

Li Yun revealed to He Pingtian, Poison Granny, and One-Eyed Maniac that he came from Blue Star, then secured the Black and White Dynasty’s agreement to cooperate against the Beast-Grazing Land. He left the Crouching Dragon Mountains to return to Blue Star and bring reinforcements, while the Dragon Soul stayed behind to guard the area.

• Li Yun confirmed to He Pingtian, Poison Granny, and One-Eyed Maniac that he came from another world and told them to keep the secret.
• Zhao Zhen returned to the Black and White Capital and told Mystic Plain that Li Yun’s real identity was Li Fenghua, a representative from Blue Star.
• Zhao Zhen persuaded Mystic Plain that cooperating with Li Fenghua could benefit the Black and White Dynasty, and Mystic Plain agreed to bring him into their camp.
• Zhao Zhen began investigating the Fairy Sect and Imperial Court Mountain and monitoring the rift near Cloud Sun City.
• Li Yun told the Dragon Soul to stay in the Crouching Dragon Mountains and seek help from the Black and White Dynasty if threatened.
• Li Yun left the Crouching Dragon Mountains through the entrance at Green Mountain City in the Great Yan Dynasty, intending to return to Blue Star for reinforcements.

Li Yun entered the Demon Cave and found it overrun with stronger Weird Beasts led by the Demon People Leader who had captured him before. After rescuing Great Yan warriors under the name Lin Zishan, he drew the leader’s attention and openly provoked him.

• Li Yun returned to the Demon Cave through the rift near Green Mountain City and found more Weird Beasts and a stronger Devil Master's Will than before.
• Li Yun discovered the Fourth-Level Demon People Leader, his old foe, leading a vast force of Weird Beasts while appearing to transform into a beast.
• Li Yun saw Great Yan warriors being overwhelmed by Weird Beasts and rushed in to save them with his blade.
• Li Yun introduced himself to Zhou Xiong as Lin Zishan, chief of Eastern Splendor Stronghold in the Crouching Dragon Mountains.
• Li Yun noticed the Demon People Leader watching him, flew into the air, and gave him the middle finger.

Li Yun fought the Level-Four Demon People Leader while slaughtering the Spectral Demons around him. During their clash, Li Yun discovered that his nascent Heaven’s Will could suppress and possibly control or alter another person’s will, and he prepared to test the ability on the Demon People Leader.

• Li Yun provoked the Demon People Leader, who sent more than a hundred Level-Three Spectral Demons and countless Level-Two Spectral Demons to attack him.
• Li Yun charged into the horde and used Five Elements Absolute Prison to kill Spectral Demons with each blade strike.
• The Demon People Leader recognized Li Yun as the intruder who had escaped his Black Thunder Prison, and Li Yun met his lightning attacks with his blade.
• Li Yun and the Demon People Leader fought at full strength as Zhou Xiong and the other Martial Artists watched in astonishment.
• Li Yun realized that his nascent Heaven’s Will was suppressing the Demon People Leader’s will and seemed to be seeping into it, so he decided to test whether he could control or alter it.

Li Yun fought the Demon People Leader and nearly lost his will in a clash with the Devil Master's Will, but Sacred Will helped him endure until the demon and the invading will dissipated. Afterward, the Gate of Myriad Wonders showed him an image of the imprisoned Primordial Demon Lord, leaving him with unanswered questions.

• Li Yun used Heaven's Will to suppress the Demon People Leader and tried to take control of its consciousness.
• The Devil Master's Will emerged from the Demon People Leader and nearly overwhelmed Li Yun's Heaven's Will.
• Li Yun unleashed Sacred Will and joined it with Heaven's Will to resist the Devil Master's Will as their clash continued for hours.
• The Demon People Leader's body collapsed and dissolved into black water, and the Devil Master's Will dissipated with it.
• The Gate of Myriad Wonders showed Li Yun an image of the imprisoned Primordial Demon Lord, which he realized was the source of the Devil Master's Will.
• The Martial Artists rose and looked at Li Yun in awe while he pondered why the Primordial Demon Lord had been imprisoned.

After defeating the Demon People Leader, Li Yun cleared the Demon Cave and hunted Weird Beasts in the Beast-Grazing Land until he had more than three million Myriad Wonders Points, then returned to Blue Star. At the Qiao Family Residence, he learned that Qiao Meng had been ambushed two months earlier and remained unconscious, and demanded to see her.

• Li Yun recovered after killing the Demon People Leader, then led the surviving Martial Artists in clearing the Demon Cave over three days.
• Li Yun warned Zhou Xiong to tell the Great Yan Dynasty to prepare for more Weird Demons, then returned to the Beast-Grazing Land to hunt Weird Beasts until his Myriad Wonders Points exceeded three million.
• Li Yun returned to Blue Star and went to the Qiao Family Residence, where he reunited with Qiao Tai, Xu Ruhai, Zhang Shenshu, and Li Yuanba.
• Li Yun sensed that Qiao Meng was unconscious and asked what had happened to her.
• Qiao Tai told Li Yun that an unknown attacker had struck Qiao Meng from behind during a Weird Beast attack two months earlier, and that she had not awakened despite the Sect Master's treatment.
• Li Yun grew angry at the unknown attacker and asked to be taken to Qiao Meng.

Li Yun discovered that Qiao Meng had awakened an Innate Five Elements Saint Body, which was caught halfway through awakening after an attacker damaged six of her Apertures. After learning the Meng Family or Wang Lifeng might have been involved, Li Yun vowed to punish whoever harmed her.

• Li Yun examined Qiao Meng and found that her injuries had healed, but six damaged Apertures and a half-awakened Innate Five Elements Saint Body had kept her unconscious.
• Li Yun told Qiao Tai that Qiao Meng would wake within half a month at the latest, then asked him what had happened.
• Qiao Tai explained that Wang Lifeng had enlisted the Meng Family to pressure Qiao Meng into marrying him, but she refused and later hid in Zhang Shenshu's Zhang Family Village.
• After Qiao Meng returned to Sand City during a Weird Beasts attack, someone ambushed her, and Qiao Tai suspected the Meng Family or Wang Lifeng.
• Li Yun condemned the Sect Master for urging caution and vowed to kill whoever had hurt Qiao Meng.

Li Yun used five-element treasures and Saint-Grade True Qi to heal Qiao Meng and awaken her Innate Five Elements Saint Body, and she regained consciousness after eight days. Wang Lifeng arrived to visit her and claim her as his fiancée, and Li Yun confronted him about the attack on Qiao Meng.

• Li Yun treated Qiao Meng with five-element treasures and Saint-Grade True Qi, helping repair her Apertures and transform her constitution.
• On the eighth day, Qiao Meng woke and learned she had been unconscious for two months; Li Yun told her he had returned because he missed her.
• Wang Lifeng arrived with his lackeys and demanded to see Qiao Meng, calling himself her fiancé.
• Li Yun stepped out to face Wang Lifeng and said he wanted to learn what Wang Lifeng knew about the attack on Qiao Meng.

Li Yun confronted Wang Lifeng and used overwhelming force and Nascent Heaven's Will to expose that Meng Qingshan had arranged the attack on Qiao Meng. After learning the attack was tied to the Meng Family’s succession struggle and Qiao Meng’s awakened constitution, Li Yun resolved to punish those responsible, while wondering where Ye Chen had gone.

• Wang Lifeng attacked Li Yun in front of Qiao Tai, but Li Yun pinned him to the ground with a casual gesture.
• Li Yun compelled Wang Lifeng to answer and learned that Meng Qingshan had ordered the attack on Qiao Meng.
• Wang Lifeng said Meng Qingshan had wanted to teach Qiao Meng her place, enraging Qiao Tai, who kicked Wang Lifeng.
• Wang Lifeng revealed that he had pursued Qiao Meng after seeing five-colored True Light around her and suspecting she had an innate constitution.
• Wang Lifeng explained that Meng Qingshan had approached the Wang Family for support in the Meng Family’s struggle over the family-head position.
• Li Yun decided the Wang Family would not escape punishment and wondered why Ye Chen had disappeared for more than a year.

Li Yun confronted Meng Qingshan over the attack on Qiao Meng and crippled three hired experts with a single move. As Li Yun threatened to destroy the Meng Family, Meng Qinglong and Meng Qinghai arrived and ordered him to stop.

• Li Yun learned that Ye Chen had disappeared after reportedly entering the Demon Cave, then knocked Wang Lifeng unconscious and set out for the Meng Family while Qiao Tai stayed to protect Qiao Meng.
• In another world, Ye Chen fought in an assault on Feitian City and charged back into battle after joking that someone was cursing him.
• Meng Qingshan toasted three peak Spirit Condensation Realm experts he had hired to support his bid for power.
• Li Yun threw the battered Wang Lifeng into the Meng Family banquet hall and demanded to know whether Meng Qingshan had arranged the attack on Qiao Meng.
• Li Yun struck the three experts down with one wave, seized Meng Qingshan, and declared that the Meng Family would cease to exist.
• Meng Qinglong and Meng Qinghai arrived with a crowd, and Meng Qinglong ordered Li Yun to stop.

Li Yun confronted the Meng Family after Meng Qingshan ambushed Qiao Meng, overwhelming the family’s fighters and sparing Meng Qingshan only after the Matriarch pleaded for him. He left Meng Qingshan crippled and unable to practice martial arts, then departed with Qiao Meng and Qiao Tai.

• Li Yun accused Meng Qingshan of ambushing Qiao Meng and demanded an answer from Meng Qinglong.
• Meng Qinglong ordered his guards to seize Li Yun, but Li Yun swept aside the guards and four Spirit Condensation Realm martial artists with one hand.
• Qiao Meng arrived with Qiao Tai and begged Li Yun to spare the Meng Family for the sake of her gravely ill grandmother.
• The Meng Family Matriarch admitted Meng Qingshan’s wrongdoing and asked Li Yun to spare his life, offering her own in exchange.
• Li Yun spared Meng Qingshan but shattered his Hundred Apertures and left Yin Qi inside him, condemning him to a painful, helpless life.
• Li Yun left with Qiao Meng and Qiao Tai while Meng Qinglong and Meng Qinghai watched in alarm; Wang Lifeng lay dead in the hall.

Li Yun left the Meng Family estate and attacked the Wang Family because Wang Lifeng had helped arrange an ambush on Qiao Meng. After Li Yun nearly wiped out the Wang Family’s fighters, Zhao Gongnian and Yellow Martial Sect elders arrived and confronted him.

• The Old Madam blamed the Meng Family’s brothers for their feud, then fainted as the household descended into chaos.
• Li Yun asked Qiao Tai where the Wang Family estate was and said the family would pay for Wang Lifeng’s role in the ambush.
• Li Yun hurled Wang Lifeng’s corpse into the Wang Family hall and accused Wang Tiangang’s son of plotting against Qiao Meng.
• Li Yun used the Five Elements Absolute Prison to kill and wound nearly all the Wang Family’s direct-line Martial Artists.
• Zhao Gongnian and several Yellow Martial Sect elders arrived, and Zhao Gongnian demanded to know why Li Yun was slaughtering people.

Li Yun massacred the Wang Family after learning that Wang Lifeng and Meng Qingshan had plotted to kill Qiao Meng and that the Wang Family planned to seize the Meng Family’s businesses and flee Sand City. Just as Li Yun declared that no one could stop him, Yan Shan of the True Martial Platform arrived to confront him.

• Zhao Gongnian arrived at the Wang Family courtyard and tried to stop Li Yun, but Li Yun defended his actions by citing the plot against Qiao Meng.
• Li Yun revealed that the Wang Family planned to seize the Meng Family’s businesses and leave Sand City, and Zhao Gongnian recognized that Wang Tiangang was lying when he denied it.
• Li Yun killed the Wang Family elders who threatened to report him to the True Martial Platform and vowed to destroy the Wang Family that night.
• Yan Shan, a Martial Dao Grandmaster from the True Martial Platform, arrived with several peak Spirit Condensation Realm fighters and challenged Li Yun’s defiance.
• Zhao Gongnian recognized Yan Shan and hurried forward to greet him.

Li Yun confronted True Martial Platform Patrol Executive Yan Shan after Yan Shan accused him of slaughtering the Wang Family without learning what had happened. The chapter left Yan Shan gravely wounded beneath the courtyard rubble after Li Yun overpowered him with Heaven’s Will.

• Yan Shan blamed Zhao Gongnian for failing to stop the killings and challenged Li Yun over his threats against the Wang Family.
• Li Yun accused Yan Shan of taking sides and recounted the Wang Family’s attempts to assassinate him and Qiao Meng.
• Li Yun killed Wang Tiangang despite Yan Shan’s attempt to stop him with his Grandmaster Will.
• Yan Shan attacked Li Yun with his full strength, but Li Yun’s Blade Light shattered Yan Shan’s will and palm strike.
• Li Yun struck Yan Shan with Heaven’s Will, sending him through a wall with shattered bones.

Li Fenghua wiped out the Wang Family and defeated Yan Shan with one slash, shaking Cangnan’s martial world. The True Martial Platform’s Cangnan Headquarters debated how to respond, but Zhou Yunhe postponed a decision and turned to the upcoming Grandmaster Duel.

• Li Fenghua spared Yan Shan, warned the True Martial Platform not to harm his people, and left the courtyard.
• News of the Wang Family’s destruction and Yan Shan’s defeat spread across Cangnan, making Li Fenghua widely known.
• Zhou Yunhe convened the Cangnan Headquarters, where Grandmasters argued over whether Li Fenghua should be punished.
• Yan Shan admitted he regretted supporting the Wang Family and suspected Li Fenghua had not used his full strength.
• Zhou Yunhe delayed deciding how to handle Li Fenghua and announced preparations for the upcoming Grandmaster Duel.

At the Qiao Family Old Residence, Li Yun continued helping Qiao Meng recover while strengthening his cultivation, as news of the Grandmaster Duel shifted attention away from the Wang Family massacre. After learning that the top hundred competitors could enter a secret realm containing an Ancient Inheritance, Li Yun agreed to compete.

• Li Yun helped Qiao Meng recover until all 240 of her Apertures were open and sensed that he was close to true Spirit Transformation.
• People across Cangnan discussed the True Martial Platform’s silence over the Wang Family massacre and learned that the Grandmaster Duel and Martial King Pact were approaching.
• Zhao Gongnian told Li Yun that the True Martial Platform’s announcement had diverted attention from the massacre, and Li Yun explained why he expected it not to pursue him.
• Zhao Gongnian described the Grandmaster Duel’s rewards and the Ancient Inheritance available to the top hundred competitors.
• Li Yun agreed to enter the Grandmaster Duel, and Zhao Gongnian said he would register him under the Yellow Martial Sect’s name.