Chapter Summaries

Li Yun annihilated the Four Great Hunting Groups' surviving hunters on the Icefield and escaped before Wang Yuantong arrived. After seeing the massacre, Wang Yuantong resolved to capture Li Yun and pursued him into the snowstorm.

• Li Yun overwhelmed the Four Great Hunting Groups' survivors, freezing them with Heaven's Will Blade Intent and killing them all.
• Sensing a powerful Middle Sage approaching, Li Yun erased his aura and fled into the Icefield.
• Wang Yuantong arrived to find the hunters dead and Li Yun gone, and marveled at Li Yun's concealed strength and ruthless methods.
• Wang Yuantong decided to capture Li Yun and pursued the faint trace of his aura, though Li Yun was already hundreds of miles away.

Li Yun hid near Shattered Rift Gorge, gathered intelligence, and used Hundredfold Cultivation Mode to break through to the Middle Sage realm. He then deliberately unleashed his aura near the gorge, drawing the furious Transmission Herald out to confront him.

• Wang Yuantong chased Li Yun across the Icefield but lost his trail, while Li Yun secretly returned to a cave near Shattered Rift Gorge.
• Li Yun listened to the Transmission Herald's subordinates and learned that the fortune convergence had advanced and that they were guarding the gorge from Carter City's hunting groups.
• After gaining hundreds of millions of Myriad Wonders Points, Li Yun traveled to a hidden cavern and activated Hundredfold Cultivation Mode.
• Li Yun's Cold Mountain Art reached the Fifth Level, bringing him into the Middle Sage realm and greatly increasing his strength.
• Li Yun approached Shattered Rift Gorge and unleashed his Middle Sage aura, deliberately provoking the Transmission Herald.
• The Transmission Herald sensed Li Yun, assumed a Carter City group was challenging him, and led his subordinates toward the gorge entrance.

Li Yun lured the Transmission Herald and Wang Yuantong away from Shattered Rift Gorge so he could enter the gorge unnoticed and decipher the Through-Ancient Transmission Gate. He activated the gate and vanished through it, leaving the two men confused when they returned.

• Li Yun provoked the Transmission Herald into chasing him across the Icefield, drawing him away from Shattered Rift Gorge.
• Wang Yuantong followed the two Middle Sages, but the enraged Transmission Herald mistook him for Li Yun's accomplice and attacked him.
• After fighting, the Transmission Herald and Wang Yuantong realized Li Yun had tricked them and raced back to the gorge.
• Li Yun slipped past the remaining guards, used the Gate of Myriad Wonders to uncover the Through-Ancient Transmission Gate's secrets, and activated it.
• Li Yun entered the spatial passage and disappeared; when the Transmission Herald and Wang Yuantong returned, they found the gate apparently undamaged and could not tell what he had done.

Huang Taigu ruled Pale Moon World through decades of plunder and slaughter, and he prepared to execute twenty-nine leaders who had led a rebellion against him. As the people of Pale Moon watched, he defended his tyranny and declared himself the only Heaven in the world.

• Huang Taigu’s envoys devastated Pale Moon World for decades, killing more than thirty million people and driving the Four Great Dynasties, Seven Great Sects, and eighteen Martial Dao Great Houses to rebel.
• Huang Taigu crushed the rebellion three days earlier, slaughtered most of its fighters, and captured its twenty-nine leaders for public execution.
• Huang Taigu forced tens of thousands of people to gather beneath the Execution Platform, where the prisoners awaited death and the crowd feared his envoys.
• Huang Taigu mocked the prisoners and claimed that plundering Pale Moon’s resources was their good fortune.
• A Sect Master condemned Huang Taigu and predicted that Heavenly Wrath would punish the villains.
• Huang Taigu laughed and declared that he was Heaven in Pale Moon World and that his wrath was Heavenly Wrath.

Li Yun arrived at Pale Moon’s execution platform and killed Huang Taigu, ending the Through-Ancient Dynasty Guardian Envoy’s decades of oppression. Pale Moon’s people celebrated their rescue and thanked Li Yun.

• Huang Taigu ordered his envoys to execute the twenty-nine chained leaders and threatened Pale Moon’s people with further slaughter.
• Li Yun descended from the sky with the aura of a Middle Sage, overwhelming Huang Taigu and giving Pale Moon’s people hope.
• Huang Taigu invoked the Through-Ancient Dynasty, but Li Yun condemned his rule and vowed to bring down the dynasty.
• Li Yun unleashed his Heaven-Slaying Treasure Blade and used Pale Moon’s World Will to destroy Huang Taigu and his Divine Soul.
• Huang Taigu’s Seals vanished, and Pale Moon’s people and martial leaders knelt to thank Li Yun for saving them.

Li Yun executed the Pale Moon Envoys, healed the leaders of the Pale Moon World, and explained how he had severed the Through-Ancient Dynasty’s access to their world. He urged them to strengthen themselves and consider an alliance with Blue Star and the Purple Moon Continent, leaving the leaders to decide whether to accept the offer.

• Li Yun froze and shattered the Pale Moon Envoys after condemning them for their crimes against the people.
• Li Yun healed the twenty-nine rulers and faction leaders, who worried that another ruler from the Through-Ancient Dynasty would take Huang Taigu’s place.
• Li Yun told the leaders about his origins on Blue Star and urged them to make the Pale Moon World strong enough to defend itself.
• Li Yun revealed that he had taken control of the Through-Ancient Transmission Gate and cut off its connection to the Through-Ancient Dynasty.
• Li Yun proposed that the Pale Moon World build ties with Blue Star and the Purple Moon Continent, and the leaders weighed whether to cooperate with the worlds under his command.

Li Yun stabilized the Pale Moon World, connected it with Blue Star and the Purple Moon Continent, and spread his Martial Dao teachings before formalizing an alliance among the three worlds. He returned to the Qiao Family Residence in Sand City, where he found Blue Star’s Martial Dao flourishing and his old acquaintances nearing the Martial King realm.

• The twenty-nine Martial Deities pledged to work with Li Yun, restored order in the Pale Moon World, and helped establish him as its revered Sacred Lord.
• Li Yun’s teachings and the people’s faith increased his Myriad Wonders Points, and he advanced his [Cold Mountain Art] to 35% of the fifth level.
• Li Yun used the Through-Ancient Transmission Gate to open passages between the Pale Moon World, Blue Star, and the Purple Moon Continent.
• Li Yun taught the Martial Dao to the twenty-nine Martial Deities and hundreds of thousands of Martial Artists for a month, then led the Pale Moon delegation to meet the other worlds’ leaders.
• Li Yun gathered leading Martial Artists on the Huaxia True Martial Platform, where the three worlds formally allied and his Myriad Wonders Points rose to sixty thousand per minute.
• Li Yun returned to the Qiao Family Residence and found that Blue Star had advanced, with Qiao Tai, Qiao Meng, Xu Ruhai, and Zhang Shenshu close to the Martial King realm.

After a peaceful month on Blue Star, Li Yun returned to Hengwu Domain but unexpectedly arrived on Silver Fox Star instead of Black Ice Star. Unable to afford interstellar travel or use his old identity, he obtained a legal Identity Token, bought a home, and planned to focus on cultivation.

• Li Yun spent a quiet month with Qiao Tai, Qiao Meng, Xu Ruhai, and others before deciding to return to Hengwu Domain and warning his friends to cultivate diligently.
• Li Yun passed through the Heavenly Gate but arrived on Silver Fox Star, far from Black Ice Star, and learned that returning would require an expensive interstellar teleportation and a verified identity.
• Li Yun bribed a gate guard to enter Silver Fox Star's main city, then registered his real name at the City Guard Office and obtained an Identity Token.
• Li Yun bought a small residence in the city and decided to avoid rash action while using his accumulated Myriad Wonders Points to cultivate toward a breakthrough in the Middle Sage realm.

After reaching the peak of Middle Sage through secluded cultivation, Li Yun explored Silver Fox Star to find ways to earn Frost Crystals. He unexpectedly reunited with Lin Chen, a former acquaintance from Blue Star, and invited him to his residence.

• Li Yun used Myriad Wonders Points to advance the Cold Mountain Art to 67% of the eighth stage and reach the peak of Middle Sage.
• Li Yun left his courtyard, concealed his Sage aura, and went into the city to look for ways to earn Frost Crystals.
• While eating at a restaurant, Li Yun spotted Lin Chen and hurried after him through the streets.
• Li Yun and Lin Chen recognized each other in an alley and marveled at meeting again on Silver Fox Star.
• Li Yun invited Lin Chen to buy food and wine and return to his residence, leaving Lin Chen astonished that Li Yun had a place of his own.

Li Yun and Ye Chen reunited on Silver Fox Star, shared their histories, and agreed to seek work together at the Hu Hai Escort Agency. The next morning, they arrived at the agency to apply as escorts.

• Li Yun invited Ye Chen to his courtyard, where they shared food and wine and caught up.
• Ye Chen told Li Yun how a spatial rift carried him from Blue Star to another world, where he gained an ancient inheritance before reaching Silver Fox Star.
• Ye Chen explained that he had married into the He Family, endured its contempt, left, and eventually became a Lower Sage.
• Ye Chen said he planned to apply at the Hu Hai Escort Agency, and Li Yun asked to join him; they agreed to go together.
• After spending the night talking at Li Yun's courtyard, Li Yun and Ye Chen went to the Hu Hai Escort Agency the next morning to apply.

Li Yun and Ye Chen joined the Hu Hai Escort Agency, passed Zhou Cang’s recruitment assessment, and became members of Xu Jinfeng’s new Escort Team No. 79. After several quiet days, the team received its first assignment to escort valuable materials to White Marsh City.

• Li Yun wrote that he was at Lower Sage Peak on his application, and Ye Chen was shocked to learn how far Li Yun had surpassed him.
• Zhou Cang tested the applicants and accepted thirty genuine Lower Sages as escorts for Escort Team No. 79.
• Xu Jinfeng introduced himself as the team’s newly advanced Middle Sage captain and led the escorts to their new courtyard base.
• The new team spent several days cultivating and socializing while waiting for an assignment.
• Xu Jinfeng summoned the team to escort rare materials worth eight hundred thousand Middle-Grade Frost Crystals to White Marsh City, promising each escort at least one thousand crystals.

Escort Team No. 79 was ambushed by masked bandits in Yellow Dragon Valley, and two Hu Hai Escort Agency captains arrived to hold them off. Li Yun and Ye Chen suspected the attackers had inside knowledge and the captains’ timely arrival was no coincidence.

• Xu Jinfeng led Escort Team No. 79 toward White Marsh City while Li Yun sensed something was wrong.
• The team entered Yellow Dragon Valley, where masked bandits revealed themselves and demanded the wagons.
• Two masked Middle Sages attacked Xu Jinfeng, overwhelmed him, and left the team in danger.
• Li Yun gathered Saint Power and considered intervening, but two Hu Hai Escort Agency captains arrived with reinforcements.
• The captains fought the attackers while Xu Jinfeng ordered the escorts to withdraw with the wagons.
• Li Yun and Ye Chen questioned how the bandits knew the route and why the captains arrived so quickly.

Li Yun revealed his Middle Sage strength to save Ye Chen during a second ambush on Escort Team No. 79. As he faced two attackers, Xu Jinfeng betrayed the team and joined them in a three-sided assault on Li Yun.

• Li Yun and Ye Chen suspected the first ambush had been anticipated by both the attackers and the Hu Hai Escort Agency, and Li Yun warned Ye Chen to stay close.
• Two Middle Sages and more than a hundred masked attackers blocked Escort Team No. 79's route and began slaughtering the guards.
• One attacker targeted Ye Chen, but Li Yun revealed his Middle Sage power and forced the man back with a blade strike.
• Xu Jinfeng abruptly turned on Li Yun, joining the two attackers in a three-sided assault.

Li Yun revealed his peak Middle Sage power and defeated Xu Jinfeng and the bandits who ambushed Escort Team No. 79. Xu Jinfeng confessed that Qing'an Escort Agency had bribed him to steal a Heavenly Saint Remnant Stele hidden in his Storage Ring.

• Xu Jinfeng revealed that he had arranged the ambush and ordered the three Middle Sages to kill Li Yun and silence Escort Team No. 79.
• Li Yun unleashed his peak Middle Sage aura and used the Heaven's Will Blade to kill the two bandit Sages and nearly a hundred Lower Sage bandits.
• Li Yun severed Xu Jinfeng's legs as he tried to flee, then forced him to explain why he had betrayed the escort team.
• Xu Jinfeng confessed that Qing'an Escort Agency had paid him to cooperate and that the ten wagons were a decoy for a Heavenly Saint Remnant Stele in his Storage Ring.
• Escort Team No. 79's survivors cursed Xu Jinfeng after learning he had put them all in danger.

Li Yun uncovered the Blazing Heaven Saint Art hidden in the Heavenly Saint Remnant Stele after defeating the attackers and exposing Xu Jinfeng's betrayal. The Hu Hai Escort Agency's captains took Xu Jinfeng into custody and led the survivors, including Li Yun and Ye Chen, back to headquarters.

• Li Yun demanded the Heavenly Saint Remnant Stele from Xu Jinfeng, then used the Gate of Myriad Wonders to discover the incomplete Blazing Heaven Saint Art hidden within it.
• The two captains from the Hu Hai Escort Agency arrived with reinforcements, and Li Yun handed them the stele and recounted Xu Jinfeng's collusion with the Qing'an Escort Agency.
• The captains ordered their men to arrest Xu Jinfeng and thanked Li Yun for foiling the plot and saving the escorts.
• The captains called off the escort run and led the survivors and wagons back toward the Hu Hai Escort Agency headquarters with Li Yun helping protect them.
• Ye Chen praised Li Yun for saving his life, and Li Yun replied that Ye Chen would have helped him too.

Li Yun returned to Falling Star City with the surviving members of Escort Team No. 79 and exposed Xu Jinfeng's betrayal to the Hu Hai Escort Agency. After Xu Jinfeng was executed, Qin Lie appointed Li Yun chief escort of the team and granted him lavish rewards.

• The escort captains brought the bound Xu Jinfeng and the surviving escorts before Qin Lie in the agency's Council Hall.
• Qin Lie condemned Xu Jinfeng for betraying the agency and causing his fellow escorts' deaths, while Xu Jinfeng begged for mercy.
• Qin Lie questioned Li Yun about concealing his Middle Sage cultivation, and Li Yun explained that he had wanted to keep a low profile until he found his footing.
• Qin Lie ordered Xu Jinfeng executed and his corpse displayed outside the agency gates for three days.
• Qin Lie appointed Li Yun chief escort of Escort Team No. 79 and awarded him fifty thousand Middle-Grade Frost Crystals, the Fierce Wind Plains-Breaking Sage Art, and a residence in Falling Star City.
• Qin Lie rewarded the surviving team members and dismissed them to rest and recover.

Li Yun used a billion Myriad Wonders Points to break through to the Upper Sage realm, then concealed his new strength. He returned from seclusion to find the Hu Hai Escort Agency in crisis, where Qin Lie asked him to escort the Heavenly Saint Remnant Stele again.

• Li Yun settled into a half-month of rest with Escort Team No. 79 while gathering information about Falling Star City and building up Myriad Wonders Points.
• Li Yun spent his billion Myriad Wonders Points cultivating with the Gate of Myriad Wonders and advanced the Cold Mountain Art to the ninth level and the Upper Sage realm.
• Li Yun hid his new aura and returned to the team courtyard, where an agency guard urgently summoned him to the Council Hall.
• Qin Lie and the Hu Hai Escort Agency's senior figures gathered in the Council Hall, and Qin Lie asked Li Yun whether he could escort the Heavenly Saint Remnant Stele again.

Li Yun heard the Hu Hai Escort Agency’s covert plan to deliver the Heavenly Saint Remnant Stele and accepted the dangerous solo mission. He prepared to leave in three days, confident in his growing strength.

• Li Yun warned Qin Lie and the agency’s senior members that the exposed stele would draw dangerous enemies during an escort.
• Lu Shan explained that Qin Lie and two decoy teams would draw attention while Li Yun carried the real stele alone through hidden routes to White Marsh City.
• Lu Shan promised Li Yun two hundred thousand Middle-Grade Frost Crystals for delivering the stele and said he could abandon it if his life was in danger.
• Li Yun accepted the mission, and Qin Lie told him to prepare a cover and leave with the decoy teams in three days.
• Li Yun left the Council Hall, reflecting that his growing strength and Myriad Wonders Points made him confident about the journey.

Li Yun prepared to secretly carry a precious treasure from Falling Star City to White Marsh City while the Hu Hai Escort Agency sent out decoy convoys. After traveling alone through the mountains, he sensed pursuers—but dozens of powerful Sages emerged and surrounded him.

• Li Yun returned to his residence, concealed his Upper Sage strength, and spent three days preparing for his secret departure.
• Qin Lie led a grand convoy out of Falling Star City, followed by a second decoy convoy that drew spies and rival forces away.
• Li Yun disguised himself, slipped out of the agency, and traveled alone through the mountains toward White Marsh City.
• As dusk fell, Li Yun detected faint Saint Power ahead and hid among the branches of an old tree.
• Dozens of powerful Sages emerged from the forest and surrounded Li Yun.

Li Yun was ambushed by Qing'an Escort Agency warriors who believed he carried the Heavenly Saint Remnant Stele. He revealed his Upper Sage cultivation and began to overwhelm them, ending with Ice True Intent engulfing the forest clearing.

• The black-robed leader accused Li Yun of carrying the Heavenly Saint Remnant Stele and demanded he hand it over.
• Li Yun confirmed the stele was on him and challenged the ambushers to take it.
• Three Lower Sages attacked, but Li Yun unleashed Upper Sage pressure that hurled them into trees and knocked them unconscious.
• The leader threatened Li Yun with the Qing'an Escort Agency, but Li Yun said their fate had nothing to do with whether the agency spared him.
• Li Yun released his pressure and Ice True Intent across the clearing.