Chapter Summaries

Li Yun delivered his fourth Dao Lecture, openly teaching the mysteries of advancing from Upper Sage to Great Sage across Silver Fox Star. The Heavenly Sage spies recognized his genuine mastery and listened for their own benefit, while still believing Wen Tiancheng could keep him in check.

• Hundreds of millions of Martial Artists gathered as Li Yun prepared to teach the Great Sage Dao Fruit.
• Li Yun ignored Wen Tiancheng’s two spies and announced that his lecture would explain how to break through from Upper Sage to Great Sage.
• Li Yun unleashed Saint Power and spread his Dao Lecture across Silver Fox Star, reaching Martial Artists far beyond the royal city.
• The two Heavenly Sage spies realized Li Yun possessed a complete Great Sage lineage and was sincerely sharing its mysteries.
• The spies feared Li Yun’s teachings could make Silver Fox Star a threat, but reassured themselves that Wen Tiancheng could restrain him.
• The two spies listened closely to Li Yun’s lecture, hoping to gain from its teachings.

After completing a two-month Dao Lecture, Li Yun entered Seclusion and perfected all four of Silver Fox Star’s ancient Heavenly Sage Arts. As he prepared to climb the Martial Dao Ladder, the Gate of Myriad Wonders created the Lord Sage-tier Chaos-Heaven Saint Art, leaving him with a new path to even greater power.

• Li Yun finished his Dao Lecture, which helped countless Martial Artists on Silver Fox Star break through toward the Great Sage Threshold and improved the two Heavenly Sages’ cultivation.
• The two Heavenly Sages urged Li Yun to lecture on ascending to Heavenly Sage in two years, assuring him that Wen Tiancheng would not object.
• Li Yun entered Seclusion and used Thousandfold-Speed Cultivation to perfect the Blazing Heaven Saint Art and the three other ancient Heavenly Sage Arts.
• After establishing four Supreme Heavenly Sage Dao Foundations, Li Yun decided to climb the Martial Dao Ladder and strengthen his Heaven's Will Dao Fruit.
• The Gate of Myriad Wonders fused the four perfected arts with the will of heaven and earth to create the twenty-four-level Lord Sage-tier Chaos-Heaven Saint Art.

Li Yun cultivated the Chaos-Heaven Saint Art at Thousandfold Speed and broke through the barrier between the Heavenly Sage and Lord Sage realms. Outside, two Heavenly Sages discussed how to report his Dao Lecture to Wen Tiancheng while concealing how much they had benefited from it.

• Li Yun began cultivating the Chaos-Heaven Saint Art and reached the Perfection Realm of its twentieth layer in two days.
• Li Yun repeatedly struck the barrier between the Heavenly Sage and Lord Sage realms with his Saint Power as he pursued a breakthrough.
• Two Heavenly Sages praised the gains they had made from Li Yun's Dao Lecture and discussed how to report it to Wen Tiancheng.
• The two Heavenly Sages decided to report the truth while describing Li Yun's Dao Lecture as an unremarkable bid for attention.
• Li Yun's Saint Power shattered the barrier between the Heavenly Sage and Lord Sage realms.

Li Yun secretly broke through to the Lord Sage Realm while hiding his new strength from his watchers. A year later, Qin Lie and six others became Great Sages after Li Yun’s teachings, but an urgent attack on Thousand Leaves Star forced the two Heavenly Sage watchers to leave Silver Fox Star.

• Li Yun reached the Lord Sage Realm, concealed his breakthrough, and resumed drinking and discussing the Dao with the two Heavenly Sage watchers.
• A year after Li Yun’s fourth Great Sage-level Dao Lecture, Qin Lie broke through from Upper Sage to Great Sage and thanked Li Yun for changing his fate.
• Seven Great Sages emerged on Silver Fox Star over the next half year, while its Upper Sage ranks grew beyond two hundred.
• The two watchers decided to hide Silver Fox Star’s rise from Wen Tiancheng until after Li Yun’s next Dao Lecture.
• An urgent message reported that Strange Abyss Star Domain rebels had invaded Thousand Leaves Star and that its defenders were losing without the two Heavenly Sages.
• The two watchers hurriedly left Silver Fox Star through its Teleportation Array to aid Thousand Leaves Star.

Li Yun strengthened his cultivation, delivered his fifth and final Dao Lecture on the Great Sage and Heavenly Saint realms, and received an urgent order from Domain Lord Wen Tiancheng to aid Thousand Leaves Star. He prepared to leave Silver Fox Star, promising another lecture if any of its Great Sages reached the Heavenly Saint Realm.

• Li Yun used more than a hundred billion Myriad Wonders Points in Seclusion and advanced the [Chaos-Heaven Saint Art] to peak Level Twenty-Two, reaching the 264th step of the Martial Dao Ladder.
• Li Yun announced his fifth Dao Lecture, covering the path from the Great Sage Realm to the Heavenly Saint Realm.
• Li Yun lectured for two months, guiding Silver Fox Star's thirteen Great Sages through the mysteries of their realm as Martial Artists across the star listened.
• After the lecture ended, Wen Tiancheng sent Li Yun an order to go immediately to Thousand Leaves Star, which rebels from the Strange Abyss Star Domain had attacked.
• Li Yun told Qin Lie and the other twelve Great Sages that he would leave for a while and promised another Dao Lecture if one of them reached the Heavenly Saint Realm.

Li Yun left Silver Fox Star to seek the foundations needed to advance toward Saint King and traveled toward Thousand Leaves Star. On Fallen Dust Star, he unexpectedly encountered the Black River Heavenly Sage, who blamed him for the ambush that had nearly killed him and attacked with threats.

• Li Yun departed Silver Fox Star after explaining that its limited Martial Dao could not provide the arts needed for his next breakthrough.
• Two Heavenly Sages on Thousand Leaves Star sent Li Yun urgent messages about their collapsing defensive line, and he assured them he was on his way.
• Li Yun continued refining his Lord Sage Dao Fruit and arrived at Fallen Dust Star, where he planned to rest and seek a Lord Sage Saint Art.
• The wounded Black River Heavenly Sage recognized Li Yun and blamed him for waiting in vain on Black Ice Star before enemies ambushed him.
• The Black River Heavenly Sage demanded that Li Yun kneel and accept death, but Li Yun remained unmoved and challenged him.

Li Yun effortlessly captured and killed the Black River Heavenly Sage, leaving Fallen Dust Star’s leaders terrified. After claiming he was only passing through, Li Yun flew to a tavern, and Star Lord Ke Xishan hurried there with two trusted aides.

• Li Yun trapped the Black River Heavenly Sage in a Saint Dao Luo Tian Net and wounded him with Heavenly Wing Blade Aura.
• Ke Xishan arrived with Fallen Dust Star’s strongest fighters but refused to rescue the Black River Heavenly Sage after sensing Li Yun’s overwhelming strength.
• Li Yun crushed the net into a dot, annihilating the Black River Heavenly Sage before the gathered sages.
• Li Yun told the stunned crowd he meant no harm, then flew to a tavern in a bustling city.
• Ke Xishan dismissed his subordinates and hurried to the tavern with two trusted Great Sage aides.

Li Yun accepted Ke Xishan’s invitation to the Star Lord Mansion, where Ke offered him a hidden stone pagoda in hopes of protecting Fallen Dust Star. After discovering the pagoda concealed the Nine-Turn Glazed Saint Art, Li Yun returned it with instructions for activating it and left to reinforce Thousand Leaves Star.

• Ke Xishan invited Li Yun to the Star Lord Mansion and tried to learn why he had come to Fallen Dust Star.
• Ke Xishan suspected Li Yun wanted his newly acquired stone pagoda and offered it in exchange for sparing Fallen Dust Star.
• Li Yun examined the pagoda and used the Gate of Myriad Wonders to learn it was a Lord Sage Tier Saint Artifact concealing the Nine-Turn Glazed Saint Art.
• Li Yun recorded the Saint Art in the Gate of Myriad Wonders, then returned the pagoda and gave Ke Xishan a Jade Slip explaining how to activate it.
• Li Yun said he was heading to reinforce Thousand Leaves Star and vanished, leaving Ke Xishan and his subordinates stunned.

After leaving Fallen Dust Star with the Nine-Turn Glazed Saint Art discovered, Li Yun arrived at Thousand Leaves Star and found it devastated by invaders from the Strange Abyss Star Domain. As the hostile experts surrounded him, he prepared to confront them.

• Ke Xishan discovered the Nine-Turn Glazed Saint Art concealed in Li Yun's Jade Slip and realized Li Yun had deliberately left it for him.
• Ke Xishan ordered his subordinates to keep Li Yun's visit and his killing of the Black River Heavenly Sage secret.
• Li Yun traveled for three days through more than a dozen teleportation arrays before reaching Thousand Leaves Star.
• Li Yun saw that rebels from the Strange Abyss Star Domain had ravaged Thousand Leaves Star and overwhelmed its local Sages with superior fighters.
• Li Yun questioned why Wen Tiancheng had sent him from Silver Fox Star instead of helping with his own experts, then descended to the planet.
• Experts from the Strange Abyss Star Domain spotted Li Yun and closed in on him.

Li Yun subdued five Upper Sages who had attacked him and discovered that a sinister blood-red glow was influencing their minds. Their account of the Blood God Cult’s uprising in the Strange Abyss Star Domain left him wondering whether the cult’s power was connected to an aura he had encountered before.

• Five Upper Sages surrounded Li Yun to rob and kill him, but his Lord Dao Sage Resonance crushed their attacks and pinned them to the ground.
• Li Yun examined the blood-red glow around the attackers and destroyed a living wisp of it, sensing a sinister will and a faint familiarity.
• Li Yun used Heaven's Will Blade Aura to cut through the glow, temporarily freeing the five from its influence, then questioned them about the rebellion and the Blood God Cult.
• The five said the uprising had erupted at the Strange Abyss Domain Lord's Manor, where the Domain Lord and his Lineage had been slaughtered before the Blood God Cult spread across the domain.
• Li Yun recalled a Martial Deity killed by the Martial God whose aura had resembled the blood-red glow, and he was shocked that the cult had destroyed a force containing many Saint King Rank experts.

Li Yun killed five robbers, then fought off Through-Ancient Dynasty troops who accused him of being a rebel from the Strange Abyss Star Domain. Suspecting Wen Tiancheng had lured him into a trap, Li Yun followed a hidden informant to a secluded valley.

• Li Yun failed to decipher the faint bloody glow on five robbers and killed them, but the glow began to flare around their corpses.
• A Through-Ancient Dynasty officer mistook Li Yun for a rebel from the Strange Abyss Star Domain and ordered his troops to seize him despite Li Yun identifying himself.
• Li Yun blasted the attacking troops back with his Dao Resonance and escaped, shaking off the commanding officer who pursued him.
• Li Yun wondered why Wen Tiancheng had asked him to reinforce Thousand Leaves Star if the dynasty's troops were already there, and suspected the mission was a trap.
• Li Yun detected one of Wen Tiancheng's Heavenly Sage informants from Silver Fox Star and followed the hidden aura to a desolate valley.

Li Yun arrived on Thousand Leaves Star and learned that the Through-Ancient Dynasty had sealed the star while killing both Blood God Cult followers and local cultivators. Wen Tiancheng then threatened to leave Li Yun trapped unless he found Ye Xuan, a core Blood God Cult follower, and captured him.

• Li Yun met a Heavenly Sage informant and a group of terrified survivors, who begged him to help them escape Thousand Leaves Star.
• The Through-Ancient Dynasty destroyed the Teleportation Array and sealed Thousand Leaves Star inside a vast formation.
• The informant told Li Yun that Blood God Cult followers had attacked the star, the Through-Ancient Dynasty had killed indiscriminately, and Zhang Chen had died.
• Li Yun realized that the Through-Ancient Dynasty had likely lured him into the crisis and believed he could escape using his Lord Sage cultivation.
• Wen Tiancheng sent Li Yun a message demanding that he find and capture Ye Xuan, threatening that otherwise Li Yun would die on the sealed star.

After Wen Tiancheng threatened Li Yun and abandoned the people trapped on Thousand Leaves Star, Li Yun decided to find Ye Xuan and learn why the Domain Lord wanted him. Wu Mian recalled that Ye Xuan had been working on an uncanny Blood God Statue, which might be what Wen Tiancheng sought.

• Li Yun learned from Wen Tiancheng's message that the Domain Lord would not rescue the people trapped on Thousand Leaves Star and mocked the idea that he would come save them.
• Li Yun considered escaping but decided to stay, find Ye Xuan, and uncover Wen Tiancheng's purpose.
• Wu Mian read the message, realized Wen Tiancheng had treated them as expendable pawns, and apologized to Li Yun for spying on him.
• Wu Mian told Li Yun that Ye Xuan had killed Zhang Chen with a single move and might have reached the Lord Sage realm.
• A companion reminded Wu Mian that Ye Xuan had been tinkering with a Blood God Statue in the valley, and Wu Mian identified it as the unusual thing Wen Tiancheng might want.

Li Yun learned that Ye Xuan had performed a ritual before a Blood God Statue and set out to find the Valley where it was seen. While Li Yun traveled, Wu Mian told his subordinates why he admired Li Yun and would support him as Domain Lord over Wen Tiancheng.

• Li Yun questioned Wu Mian about the Blood God Statue, and Wu Mian described its blood-veined form, its soul-seizing pressure, and Ye Xuan channeling blood-red light into it.
• Wu Mian explained that Ye Xuan had ignored the group during the ritual and that Zhang Chen had died while covering their retreat.
• Li Yun suspected Wen Tiancheng wanted the statue for himself, ordered Wu Mian's group to stay hidden, and left to search the Valley.
• Wu Mian told his subordinates that Li Yun had transformed Silver Fox Star and freely taught its Martial Artists, helping them produce many new Great Sages.
• Wu Mian said he would gladly serve as Li Yun's vanguard if Li Yun could replace Wen Tiancheng as Domain Lord of the Ransang Star Domain.
• Li Yun reached the Valley where Wu Mian's group had encountered Ye Xuan.

Li Yun reached the Southern Border of Thousand Leaves Star, where he discovered that the bloodlight corrupted everyone but also became fuel for his Gate of Myriad Wonders. He found Ye Xuan and the Blood God Cult facing a doomed Through-Ancient Dynasty force, and watched their battle begin while wondering whether to intervene.

• Li Yun entered the Southern Border and absorbed bloodlight into the Gate of Myriad Wonders, increasing his Myriad Wonders Points.
• Li Yun found hundreds of Through-Ancient Dynasty experts surrounding the Valley where Ye Xuan and the Blood God Cult were hiding.
• Ye Xuan taunted the corrupted Imperial Dynasty troops and declared that the Blood God Statue would use them as sacrifices for his ascension to Lord Sage.
• The eight Heavenly Sages ordered the troops to attack Ye Xuan, and a fierce battle erupted across the Southern Border.
• Li Yun suppressed the battle’s shock waves and wondered whether he should save the Imperial Dynasty experts.

Li Yun entered the battle between the Through-Ancient Dynasty and the Blood God Cult, revealing the power of a true Lord Sage. He crushed the Cult’s strongest fighters and halted the dynasty warriors’ collapse, leaving Ye Xuan’s ascension in jeopardy.

• The Through-Ancient Dynasty’s eight Heavenly Sages and hundreds of Great Sages fought the Blood God Cult to the death, but Ye Xuan overwhelmed them with the Blood God Statue’s Half-step Lord Sage power.
• Li Yun, moved by the dynasty warriors’ resolve, emerged from the blood mist and suppressed the battlefield with his Lord Sage Dao Resonance.
• Ye Xuan recognized Li Yun as a true Lord Sage and realized his arrival had shattered his belief that he was invincible.
• Li Yun pressed down with his power, killing the Blood God Cult’s sixteen top Great Sages and pinning the dynasty’s fighters to the ground while extinguishing the flames burning their Dao Foundations.
• Ye Xuan remained standing with the Blood God Statue, glaring at Li Yun as Li Yun disrupted his ascension.

Li Yun defeated Ye Xuan and took the Blood Ancestor Idol after exposing Wen Tiancheng’s scheme to both sides. Ye Xuan died, leaving Li Yun holding the idol as the battlefield fell silent.

• Li Yun revealed that Wen Tiancheng had lured him into the trap and demanded that he find Ye Xuan and report back.
• Ye Xuan and the Through-Ancient Dynasty cultivators grew furious at Wen Tiancheng, while Li Yun explained that he had exposed him deliberately.
• Li Yun attacked Ye Xuan with his Lord Sage might and overwhelmed Ye Xuan’s bloodlight and the Blood God Statue’s power.
• Li Yun pulled the Blood Ancestor Idol from Ye Xuan’s grasp and shielded it from its hostile will.
• Li Yun smashed Ye Xuan into the ground, destroying his body and Dao Fruit, and the cultivators stared at Li Yun and the idol in shock.

Li Yun killed Ye Xuan and destroyed the Blood Ancestor Idol, then left Thousand Leaves Star after condemning the Through-Ancient Dynasty’s plan to destroy the star. When the Heavenly Leaf Saint King learned Wen Tiancheng had plotted to seize the idol, he reported him, forcing Wen Tiancheng to flee.

• Li Yun shattered the Blood God Statue and rebuked the eight Heavenly Sages for planning to destroy Thousand Leaves Star.
• Li Yun told Wu Mian and the surviving cultivators that Ye Xuan was dead and the Blood Ancestor Idol was destroyed, then left to avoid drawing trouble to them.
• The Heavenly Leaf Saint King arrived with Imperial Dynasty forces, heard the survivors’ account, and reported Wen Tiancheng’s scheme to the Through-Ancient Dynasty.
• Wen Tiancheng received a warning that Li Yun had killed Ye Xuan, destroyed the idol, and exposed his plot to the Heavenly Leaf Saint King.
• Wen Tiancheng fled toward the Strange Abyss Star Domain rather than return to the Ransang Star Domain.

Two months after the war, Li Yun traveled to Earth Luo Star seeking another Lord Sage Art while avoiding the Blood God Art because he feared it could let the Blood Ancestor control its cultivators. He arrived at Star Lord Fang Tianhe’s mansion and asked to pay his respects.

• Thousand Leaves Star reopened, while the Through-Ancient Dynasty declared Wen Tiancheng a rebel and purged his former forces in Ransang Star Domain.
• Li Yun traveled from Thousand Leaves Star through Hundred Generations Star to Earth Luo Star to seek a Lord Sage Art.
• Li Yun reflected on the Blood Ancestor Idol’s origins and learned that the Blood Young Master possessed a complete Saint Emperor-level [Blood God Art].
• Li Yun decided to avoid cultivating the [Blood God Art] and pursue other Lord Sage Arts instead.
• Li Yun introduced himself to the guards at Fang Tianhe’s mansion and revealed a trace of his Lord Sage pressure.

Li Yun visited Star Lord Fang Tianhe on Earth Luo Star to exchange Saint Arts and strengthen the foundation for deriving a Saint King-level art. Fang Tianhe refused to trade his core cultivation art, but then thought of another option for Li Yun.

• Li Yun arrived at the Star Lord Mansion, where Fang Tianhe received him cautiously.
• Li Yun explained that he wanted to exchange Saint Arts to help perfect his Saint Dao and prepare to reach the Saint King Realm.
• Li Yun offered Pagoda Lord Sage's complete Nine-Turn Glazed Saint Art in exchange for Fang Tianhe's Long River Setting Sun Saint Art.
• Fang Tianhe refused because the Long River Setting Sun Saint Art was his core cultivation art and he feared losing it.
• Fang Tianhe said he had incomplete Saint Arts, then realized a possible alternative and asked whether Li Yun truly planned to derive a Saint King-level art himself.