Chapter Summaries

Li Yun learned that the Evil Defilement Power assimilated people into Evil Spirits and suspected the Evergreen Ancient Domain had hidden an army of them in the Dark Abyss. He captured and questioned an Evil Spirit, pretended not to know the secret, and burned it to ash.

• Li Yun waited for the Gate of Myriad Wonders to analyze the Evil Defilement Power while searching the Dark Abyss First Layer for signs of life.
• The Gate of Myriad Wonders revealed that the Evil Defilement Power assimilated people into Evil Spirits rather than simply destroying them, leading Li Yun to suspect the exiled Sinful Criminals had become an army.
• Li Yun feared the Azure Emperor Great House controlled the Evil Spirits and decided to conceal what he had discovered.
• Li Yun spotted a shadow in the mist, chased it, and trapped it in a Mystic Light Cage.
• The captive claimed to be a mighty Evil Spirit, but Li Yun dismissed it as a deranged Sinful Criminal and burned it to ash with Saint Flame.

Li Yun entered the Dark Abyss Second Layer and found thirteen imprisoned Black Heaven Devotees, then killed them to claim their Dao Fruits. Watching from the Ninth Layer, the Azure Emperor Great House’s leader decided Li Yun could be trusted and ordered the clan to assess his potential.

• In the Dark Abyss Ninth Layer, a crowned man ordered the clan to hand over captured Black Heaven Devotees and restrict outsiders from entering the Dark Abyss.
• Li Yun crossed into the Second Layer, sensed stronger Evil Filth Power, and followed an unmistakable Black Heaven aura to a Sealed Valley.
• Li Yun found one Saint Venerable and twelve Saint Sects chained inside the valley and rushed in to kill them.
• Li Yun cut down all thirteen Black Heaven Devotees and collected their Dao Fruits before preparing to improve his Black Heaven Tracing Technique.
• After watching Li Yun kill the captives without questioning them, the crowned man told the clan that Li Yun could be trusted and ordered them to assess his potential.

Li Yun emerged safely from the Dark Abyss with an upgraded Black Heaven Tracing Technique and more than two hundred and twenty trillion Myriad Wonders Points. After he delivered the technique to Saint Venerable Man Yue, she discovered a lead that enraged her and left to deal with it.

• Li Yun gained two hundred and twenty trillion Myriad Wonders Points from the Dao Fruits and upgraded Ten-Thousandfold-Speed Cultivation to a hundred thousandfold, while the Black Heaven Tracing Technique was also improved.
• A hidden voice warned Li Yun not to reveal what he had seen in the Dark Abyss, then opened a path that let him return to the stone tower.
• Yu Huafeng met Li Yun outside the tower, and Li Yun confirmed that he had completed the Black Heaven Tracing Technique before they headed to Man Yue Palace.
• Li Yun tested the technique on the way and sensed dozens of Black Heaven Devotees, including some in sensitive locations, but chose not to investigate further.
• Li Yun gave the upgraded technique to Saint Venerable Man Yue, who quickly learned it, became furious at what she discovered, and left to settle matters herself.

After Saint Venerable Man Yue stormed away from Li Yun and Yu Huafeng, Li Yun secluded himself at Clearwind Courtyard to cultivate. Half a month later, he broke through to Mid-Stage Saint Sect and resolved to keep working toward the distant Saint Venerable Realm.

• Saint Venerable Man Yue left in a rage after using Li Yun’s Black Heaven Tracing Technique, and Yu Huafeng decided not to investigate what she had discovered.
• Li Yun told Yu Huafeng he planned to enter Seclusion at Clearwind Courtyard, then left before Yu Huafeng could question him further.
• Li Yun sealed Clearwind Courtyard against outside disturbances and began Hundred-Thousandfold-Speed Cultivation, rapidly consuming Myriad Wonders Points.
• After half a month, Li Yun’s Great Sect Sacred Heaven Art advanced to the thirty-fourth level, and he broke through from Early Saint Sect to Mid-Stage Saint Sect.
• Li Yun acknowledged that the Saint Venerable Realm remained far off and decided to keep steady.

After Li Yun broke through to the Mid-Stage Saint Sect, the Saint Venerable Man Yue summoned him and promised to promote him to Second-Class Guest once he reached the Saint Venerable Realm. Li Yun asked for cultivation materials, and Man Yue ordered an enormous collection of techniques and resources sent to him.

• Li Yun continued cultivating in Clearwind Courtyard and reached the Mid-Stage Saint Sect.
• Star-Moon Saint Sect summoned Li Yun to Man Yue Palace, where the Saint Venerable Man Yue praised his breakthrough and promised him Second-Class Guest rank after he reached the Saint Venerable Realm.
• Star-Moon Saint Sect explained that Second-Class Guests could study a Half-Emperor Saint Art and received greater privileges than Third-Class Guests.
• Li Yun asked the Saint Venerable Man Yue for Saint-Sect Saint Arts to support his cultivation.
• The Saint Venerable Man Yue ordered thirty top-tier Saint-Sect Saint Arts, two complete Saint Venerable Cultivation Techniques, and a hundred years of cultivation resources delivered to Clearwind Courtyard within three days.

Li Yun received thirty Saint Sect cultivation techniques from Saint Venerable Man Yue, who then told him that his Black Heaven Tracing Technique had exposed Saint Venerable Gu Yi as the mastermind behind the Black Heaven infiltration. After a Saint Emperor took Gu Yi into custody, Saint Venerable Man Yue asked Li Yun to attempt a tracing technique for the Blood God Cult, and he reluctantly agreed.

• Li Yun thanked Saint Venerable Man Yue for the thirty Saint Sect cultivation techniques and promised to help her when needed.
• Saint Venerable Man Yue revealed that the Black Heaven Tracing Technique had helped her find and purge hidden Black Heaven Devotees across the Imperial Star.
• Saint Venerable Man Yue said the investigation exposed her third brother, Saint Venerable Gu Yi, who denied the accusation and attacked her before they disturbed a Saint Emperor.
• The Saint Emperor praised Li Yun's technique, took Saint Venerable Gu Yi into custody, and asked Saint Venerable Man Yue to have Li Yun develop a tracing technique for the Blood God Cult.
• Li Yun cautioned that he could not guarantee success, then agreed to try after Saint Venerable Man Yue assured him no one would blame him if he failed.

Li Yun resumed secluded cultivation after accepting the task of creating the Blood God Tracing Technique, then received the promised arts and resources from the Ninth Princess. Saint Emperor Qingwen approved of supporting Li Yun and told Saint Venerable Man Yue to reward him further if he succeeded, leaving Man Yue eager to see what he could accomplish.

• Li Yun cultivated for three days and advanced his Great Sect Sacred Heaven Art from 1% to 17% of the thirty-fourth level.
• Star-Moon Saint Sect delivered thirty top-tier Saint-Sect Saint Arts, two Saint Venerable Cultivation Techniques, and a hundred years of cultivation resources on the Ninth Princess's orders.
• Li Yun checked the Jadeite Ring, thanked Star-Moon Saint Sect, and learned that the Blood God Scripture and high-ranking Blood God Cult believers were still being arranged.
• Star-Moon Saint Sect reported to Saint Venerable Man Yue that Li Yun seemed composed and confident about creating the Blood God Tracing Technique.
• Saint Emperor Qingwen told Saint Venerable Man Yue to increase her support for Li Yun and said she could secretly grant him a Half-Emperor Cultivation Technique if he succeeded.

While Li Yun cultivated in Clearwind Courtyard, Saint Emperor Redbeard investigated why Great Black Heaven operatives had vanished from the Evergreen Ancient Domain. He learned that Saint Venerable Man Yue’s new retainer had exposed the hidden believers and that Saint Emperor Qing Wen had taken Saint Venerable Gu Yi into custody.

• Li Yun continued cultivating as the Evergreen Ancient Domain gathered materials for the Blood God Tracing Technique.
• Saint Emperor Redbeard berated his subordinates after learning that Great Black Heaven operatives sent into the Evergreen Ancient Domain had disappeared.
• Redbeard ordered an investigation, and a subordinate suggested asking the Blood God Cult for information.
• Redbeard received word that Saint Venerable Man Yue’s new retainer had devised the Black Heaven Tracing Technique and helped uncover hidden Great Black Heaven believers.
• Redbeard learned that Saint Emperor Qing Wen had taken Saint Venerable Gu Yi into custody, and he flew into a rage.

Saint Emperor Redbeard learned that a Third-Class Guest of Man Yue Palace had ruined Great Black Heaven’s plans in the Evergreen Ancient Domain and sought help arranging his death. Blood Maitreya refused to have the Blood God Cult act directly, but agreed to spread a bounty among the domain’s invited spectators, while Redbeard hoped someone might lure the guest outside.

• Saint Emperor Redbeard told Great Black Heaven’s subordinates that a Man Yue Palace guest had thwarted their plans and killed many of their people.
• Redbeard decided that Great Black Heaven could not safely assassinate the guest and went to ask Blood Maitreya for help.
• Blood Maitreya explained that the Blood God Cult’s infiltrators could not safely learn the guest’s identity or target him directly.
• Blood Maitreya proposed secretly offering a bounty to the spectators invited to the Evergreen Ancient Domain, and Redbeard agreed to pay it.
• Redbeard suggested luring the guest out so Great Black Heaven could kill him personally, and Blood Maitreya agreed to try.

After exhausting nearly all his Myriad Wonders Points, Li Yun halted his training just short of the thirty-fifth level and sensed two strangers approaching Clearwind Courtyard. Chi Feng and Gu Yuan, bounty hunters from the Crimson Flame Ancient Domain, arrived to kill him for a promised fortune, unaware that he had detected them.

• Li Yun advanced the [Great Sect Sacred Heaven Art] to 89% of its thirty-fourth level before stopping because his Myriad Wonders Points were nearly gone.
• Li Yun assessed his strengthened cultivation and found he could climb to the 581st step of the Martial Dao Ladder.
• Li Yun sensed two people sneaking toward Clearwind Courtyard and calmly began brewing tea while waiting for them.
• Chi Feng and Gu Yuan, wanted Rogue Cultivator Saint Sects from the Crimson Flame Ancient Domain, learned of a bounty on Li Yun and decided to claim it.
• Chi Feng and Gu Yuan reached the courtyard gate, saw Li Yun drinking tea, and Chi Feng proposed a plan.

Chi Feng and Gu Yuan entered Clearwind Courtyard disguised as Man Yue Palace retainers, intending to kill Li Yun, but Li Yun stalled them with flattery until Yu Huafeng arrived. Yu Huafeng crushed the pair with his Saint Venerable pressure and confronted them for impersonating palace retainers.

• Chi Feng and Gu Yuan decided to pose as Man Yue Palace retainers and seize a chance to kill Li Yun.
• Li Yun recognized that the two were pretending, sent word to Yu Huafeng, and played along by mistaking them for Chu Sheng and Qin Shou.
• Li Yun served Chi Feng and Gu Yuan tea, food, and wine while encouraging them to boast about their influence and missions.
• As the pair bragged about their deeds, Li Yun asked why they had come to harm him.
• Yu Huafeng entered Clearwind Courtyard and pinned Chi Feng and Gu Yuan to the ground with his Saint Venerable pressure.

Li Yun exposed Chi Feng and Gu Yuan as bounty hunters sent after him and learned that Great Black Heaven was likely behind the secret bounty. He proposed pretending nothing had happened and acting as bait, while Yu Huafeng agreed to report the plan to the Ninth Princess and handed the captives over to Li Yun.

• Yu Huafeng pinned Chi Feng and Gu Yuan to the floor, and Li Yun admitted he had known they were impostors and mocked them for posing as Man Yue Palace retainers.
• Yu Huafeng tortured Chi Feng and Gu Yuan until they confessed their origins and revealed that they had come after hearing of the enormous bounty on Li Yun.
• Yu Huafeng concluded that Great Black Heaven had arranged the bounty in retaliation for Li Yun's help against its devotees and prepared to notify the Ninth Princess.
• Li Yun stopped Yu Huafeng from launching a public hunt and proposed acting as bait to draw out the people behind the bounty.
• Yu Huafeng agreed to report Li Yun's plan to the Ninth Princess and handed the wounded Chi Feng and Gu Yuan over to Li Yun.

Li Yun killed Chi Feng and Gu Yuan, used their Dao Fruits to advance to the Late-Stage Saint Sect, and concealed his new cultivation. Meanwhile, two Third-Class Guests arranged to raise the bounty on him, and Ye Si arrived at Clearwind Courtyard to pay him a visit.

• Li Yun killed Chi Feng and Gu Yuan and fed their Saint Sect Dao Fruits to the Gate of Myriad Wonders, replenishing his Myriad Wonders Points.
• Li Yun cultivated for three days, completed the thirty-fifth level of [Great Sect Sacred Heaven Art], and advanced to the Late-Stage Saint Sect.
• Li Yun climbed the Martial Dao Ladder to stabilize his cultivation while two Third-Class Guests at Imperial Star's estate suspected he was the Li Yun who created the Black Heaven Tracing Technique.
• The two Third-Class Guests decided against acting directly and arranged to raise the bounty on Li Yun, spreading the news among the invited experts.
• Li Yun concealed his Late-Stage Saint Sect cultivation as middle-stage, then heard Ye Si announce himself at the door and request a visit.

Ye Si visited Li Yun to warn him that a bounty had been placed on his head, prompting Li Yun and Yu Huafeng to suspect Great Black Heaven while remaining unsure of Ye Si’s motives. Yu Huafeng later reported that Ye Si’s background showed no evidence of wrongdoing and revealed that the materials for the Blood God Tracing Technique were ready.

• Li Yun cautiously admitted newly arrived Man Yue Palace guest Ye Si into his courtyard after sending a discreet Message Talisman.
• Ye Si warned Li Yun that a staggering bounty had been placed on him and that guests from beyond the Evergreen Ancient Domain might pursue it.
• Li Yun blamed Great Black Heaven, and Yu Huafeng arrived and escorted Ye Si to report the bounty to the Ninth Princess.
• After Ye Si left, Li Yun questioned whether his warning was sincere or a pretext to test him and seek an opportunity to assassinate him.
• Yu Huafeng returned secretly, said investigators had found no evidence against Ye Si, and promised to watch him if Li Yun wished.
• Yu Huafeng told Li Yun that everything needed to create the Blood God Tracing Technique was ready and asked where it should be delivered.

Li Yun learned that the Ninth Princess had gathered the Blood God Scripture and Blood God Cult members needed to develop the Blood God Tracing Technique, and he was thrilled by the cultivation resources they represented. He agreed to move to the Chaos Heaven Cave for safety and began learning about the realm’s extraordinary cultivation benefits as he set out with Yu Huafeng.

• Yu Huafeng told Li Yun that the Ninth Princess had secured a complete Blood God Scripture, one Saint Venerable, and fourteen Saint Sects from the Blood God Cult.
• Li Yun hid his excitement over the materials’ value and assured Yu Huafeng that he would do everything he could to develop the Blood God Tracing Technique.
• Li Yun said his Clearwind Courtyard was too dangerous for his work, and Yu Huafeng told him the Ninth Princess had chosen the Chaos Heaven Cave as his new location.
• Yu Huafeng said the Ninth Princess would let Li Yun stay in the Chaos Heaven Cave as long as he wished and explained that the Blood God materials were already inside the Secret Realm.
• Yu Huafeng explained that the Chaos Heaven Cave formed around the Chaos Heaven Dao Stone and made cultivation more than a thousand times more efficient, leaving Li Yun stunned.

Li Yun entered the Chaos Heaven Cave Secret Realm, expecting its thousandfold cultivation speed to be unimpressive compared with his own abilities. The Gate of Myriad Wonders began generating 14.4 billion points a day from the realm’s unique aura, and Li Yun teleported toward the Blood God Cult followers he had come to collect.

• Yu Huafeng reassured Li Yun that no guest would dare resent the Ninth Princess’s decision to let him enter Chaos Heaven Cave.
• Yu Huafeng gave Li Yun a map, and the Star-Moon Saint Sect activated the Teleportation Array to send him into the secret realm.
• Li Yun surveyed the realm and judged its natural world inferior to his Myriad Wonders World.
• The Gate of Myriad Wonders absorbed Chaos Heaven Cave’s aura, increasing its point generation from two million to ten million points per minute.
• Li Yun located the Blood God Cult followers on the map and teleported toward them.

Li Yun entered a sealed cavern holding fifteen captured Blood God Cult members and prepared to use them to create the Blood God Tracing Technique. One captive recognized him from the Golden Eagle Dynasty and revealed that its people had once considered trapping and killing him.

• The captive Blood God Cult members argued over why they had been captured, and their Saint Venerable concluded that their captors had a purpose for keeping them alive.
• Two Saint Venerables brought Li Yun into the cavern, introduced him to the fifteen prisoners, and left him to complete the Ninth Princess's task.
• Li Yun looked over the prisoners and calculated that they were worth two hundred and forty trillion Myriad Wonders Points.
• A Blood God Cult cultivator recognized Li Yun and accused him of being behind the ambushes.
• The cultivator recalled that the Golden Eagle Dynasty had considered building an altar to seal and kill Li Yun, and Li Yun was shocked to hear of the connection.

Li Yun learned that the Blood God Cult and Great Black Heaven had left the Through-Ancient Dynasty and Golden Eagle Dynasty under a lingering wisp of the Dark Heavenly Lord’s will, threatening Blue Star. After killing the cultivators who revealed the truth, he analyzed the Blood God Scripture and source aura, forming the Blood God Tracing Technique.

• Li Yun dismissed the Saint Venerable’s threats and burned the Blood Barge Saint Sect cultivator until he confessed.
• The Blood Barge Saint Sect cultivator revealed that Great Black Heaven had used an Altar to draw down the Dark Heavenly Lord’s will, plunging both dynasties into darkness.
• Li Yun, alarmed that the darkness might reach Blue Star, killed the Saint Venerable and fourteen Saint Sect cultivators and fed their Dao Fruits to the Gate of Myriad Wonders.
• Li Yun left the cave, took out the Blood God Scripture and source aura, and began analyzing them to complete Saint Venerable Man Yue’s task.
• After three days of analysis, Li Yun formed the Blood God Tracing Technique.

Li Yun completed the Blood God Tracing Technique but delayed delivering it so others would not suspect he had made it too quickly. In Chaos Heaven Cave, he discovered its cultivation boost stacked with his system’s ten-thousandfold speed, allowing him to reach Saint Sect Perfection and begin cultivating more Saint Sect arts.

• Li Yun finished the Blood God Tracing Technique and decided to wait before giving it to Yu Huafeng and Saint Venerable Man Yue.
• Li Yun discovered that Chaos Heaven Cave’s cultivation boost raised his system-assisted efficiency to nearly twenty-thousandfold.
• Li Yun cultivated the Great Sect Sacred Heaven Art to its thirty-fifth stage, then broke through to the thirty-sixth stage and reached the Saint Sect Peak.
• Li Yun spent another half month cultivating until the Great Sect Sacred Heaven Art reached complete perfection and he entered the Saint Sect Perfection Realm.
• Li Yun entered the thirty Saint Sect Cultivation Techniques from Saint Venerable Man Yue into the Myriad Wonders System and began cultivating them one after another.

Li Yun’s rapid cultivation in Chaos Heaven Cave stalled when he ran out of Myriad Wonders Points, leaving him short of the Saint Venerable realm. Yu Huafeng brought him a Blood God Cult Saint Venerable Dao Fruit, and Li Yun promised to finish the Blood God Tracing Technique within seven months while hinting that more Dao Fruits would speed his work.

• Li Yun perfected eight Saint Sect Cultivation Techniques in eight days, but exhausted his Myriad Wonders Points before he could derive Saint Venerable Cultivation Techniques.
• Li Yun concealed his cultivation aura when Yu Huafeng entered Chaos Heaven Cave to ask about the Blood God Tracing Technique.
• Li Yun told Yu Huafeng that he had made progress but needed more Blood God Cult Saint Venerables to examine.
• Yu Huafeng explained that his retainers had failed to capture a Blood God Cult Saint Venerable near the Crimson Flame Ancient Domain, but had seized the man’s Dao Fruit.
• Li Yun eagerly accepted the Saint Venerable Dao Fruit and promised to complete the Blood God Tracing Technique within seven months.
• Yu Huafeng decided to report Li Yun’s request to the Ninth Princess and seek more Saint Venerable or Saint Sect Dao Fruits.