Chapter Summaries

Li Yun was discovered hiding near Dark Abyss Holy City and escaped a force of Great Black Heaven Saint Emperors by using the Gate of Myriad Wonders. After he recounted what he saw, the Saint Chu Emperor revealed a rumor that the Holy Son was the Dark Heavenly Lord’s child, leaving Li Yun stunned.

• The Holy Daughter sensed Li Yun hiding in the forest and alerted the Holy Son, who ordered the Saint Emperors to capture him.
• The Saint Emperors charged into Shadow Forest, but Li Yun teleported away before they could surround him.
• Li Yun returned to the Darkness Cavern and told the Saint Chu Emperor about the Holy Son and Holy Daughter.
• The Saint Chu Emperor recalled a rumor that the Holy Son was the Dark Heavenly Lord’s son, and Li Yun wondered how he could have reached the Hengwu Domain.

Li Yun decided to leave the Cave and investigate the Holy Son and Holy Maiden, despite the danger of being hunted. He drew Great Black Heaven’s attention by slaughtering Patrol Squads, then turned his sights on the approaching Saint Emperors.

• Saint Chu Emperor warned Li Yun that the Dark Abyss was dangerous, but Li Yun argued that the Holy Son and Holy Maiden might be plotting something and decided to investigate.
• Li Yun teleported away from the Cave and chose to cause trouble elsewhere before approaching Dark Abyss Holy City again.
• Li Yun ambushed a Patrol Squad, killing one Saint Venerable and nine Saint Sects, then collected their Dao Fruits.
• Li Yun hunted Patrol Squads for hours, killing ten in one day and earning 1.9 quadrillion Myriad Wonders Points.
• Great Black Heaven’s Saint Emperors rushed toward the outskirts, and Li Yun prepared to target them instead of fleeing.

Li Yun hunted Black Heaven Saint Emperors in the Endless Dark Abyss and discovered that their Dao Fruits yielded more Myriad Wonders Points when their Emperor Nature was stronger. After killing two Saint Emperors for a total of 5,654 zhao, he set off to hunt another.

• Black Heaven Saint Emperors searched for Li Yun after he killed ten patrol teams, but they split up and left themselves exposed.
• Li Yun killed a nearby Saint Emperor with twelve-zhang Emperor Nature and sent his Dao Fruit into the Gate of Myriad Wonders.
• The Gate awarded Li Yun 1,742 zhao and revealed that rewards increased with the strength of a Saint Emperor's Emperor Nature.
• Li Yun killed a second Saint Emperor with twenty-seven-zhang Emperor Nature and claimed his Dao Fruit.
• The Gate awarded Li Yun 3,912 zhao for the second Dao Fruit, bringing his total gain to 5,654 zhao as he headed toward another target.

Li Yun slaughtered Great Black Heaven Saint Emperors in the Endless Dark Abyss and amassed more than 100,000 trillion Myriad Wonders Points. After more than thirty Saint Emperors vanished, the Great Black Heaven Holy Son learned of the killings and ordered Dao Sages Wuguang and Wuyang to hunt Li Yun down.

• Li Yun used his concealed aura and overwhelming Emperor Nature to ambush and kill Great Black Heaven Saint Emperors, taking their Saint Emperor Dao Fruits.
• Li Yun's Myriad Wonders Points climbed to 103,500 trillion, and he grew even bolder in his hunt.
• The remaining Great Black Heaven Saint Emperors realized that more than thirty of their number had disappeared and sent the news to the Dark Abyss Holy City.
• The Great Black Heaven Holy Son angrily recalled and berated the Saint Emperors searching the abyss.
• Holy Maiden Miao Yue suggested that a powerful outsider had exploited a flaw in the Endless Dark Abyss.
• The Great Black Heaven Holy Son ordered Dao Sages Wuguang and Wuyang to leave seclusion and capture the intruder.

Li Yun retreated to the Cave after Great Black Heaven’s Saint Emperors discovered his hunt, while two Dao Sages arrived and forced him to hide his cultivation. A blue-robed figure named Chen Qingshi defeated the Dao Sages, tore open the Heavenly Veil, and escaped the Endless Dark Abyss; Saint Chu Emperor identified him as West Mountain’s Supreme Sage Qingshi.

• Li Yun noticed Great Black Heaven’s Saint Emperors gathering, realized his hunt had been exposed, and retreated to the Cave using the Gate of Myriad Wonders.
• Two Dao Sages appeared, and Saint Chu Emperor warned Li Yun that he could not fight them; Li Yun and Saint Chu Emperor stopped their reversal Secret Arts and concealed their cultivation.
• Saint Emperor Huang Yan sensed the Dao Sages, suspected Li Yun had provoked them, and sealed away his cultivation.
• After half an hour, two Dao Sages attacked a blue-robed figure, but he shattered their attacks and sent them flying.
• The figure tore open the Heavenly Veil, announced that he would return to destroy the Endless Dark Abyss, and left through the breach.
• Saint Chu Emperor recognized the figure as Chen Qingshi, Supreme Sage Qingshi of West Mountain, and Li Yun asked him who the man was.

After Chen Qingshi’s escape from the Endless Dark Abyss drew Dark Abyss Holy City’s fury away from Li Yun, the Seventh Holy Son sent two Great Black Heaven Supreme Sages to hunt him. Li Yun resumed cultivating in secret and hinted that he had a plan to strike back.

• Li Yun wondered whether Chen Qingshi had deliberately taken the blame for his attacks, then used the resulting lull to cultivate the Myriad Wonders Emperor Scripture at five hundred thousand times normal speed.
• The Seventh Holy Son of Black Heaven, enraged by Chen Qingshi’s escape and public humiliation, ordered the Forbidden Land opened and summoned two Supreme Sages to capture him.
• The two Great Black Heaven Supreme Sages emerged from seclusion and pursued Chen Qingshi through the Heavenly Veil.
• Li Yun and Saint Chu Emperor sensed the Supreme Sages departing, and Saint Chu Emperor feared their pursuit could spark a war between Great Black Heaven and West Mountain.
• Li Yun reassured Saint Chu Emperor that West Mountain would protect Chen Qingshi and suggested they focus on growing stronger, hinting that he already had a plan against Great Black Heaven.

After two years, Chen Qingshi returned to West Mountain after eluding Great Black Heaven’s pursuit, while Li Yun continued cultivating in the Dark Abyss. The Gate of Myriad Wonders formed the Forty-Second Level of his scripture from Darkness Profundity, giving him a way to pass as a Black Heaven Saint Emperor.

• The Seventh Holy Son of Black Heaven postponed his plan with Holy Maiden Miao Yue until Chen Qingshi was captured, and Miao Yue soon left Dark Abyss Holy City.
• News spread that Chen Qingshi had defeated Great Black Heaven’s efforts to catch him, and several Supreme Sages of West Mountain escorted him home after two years.
• The Seventh Holy Son of Black Heaven angrily summoned Holy Maiden Miao Yue back to discuss destroying West Mountain.
• Li Yun spent two years cultivating, reaching 62% of the Forty-First Level of the Myriad Wonders Emperor Scripture and growing his Emperor Nature to 131 zhang.
• The Gate of Myriad Wonders created the Forty-Second Level from Darkness Profundity, which could let Li Yun appear exactly like a Black Heaven Saint Emperor.

Li Yun completed the Myriad Wonders Emperor Scripture’s Forty-First Level and began the Forty-Second Level after years of accelerated cultivation. Meanwhile, the Seventh Holy Son of Black Heaven and Holy Maiden Miao Yue agreed to attack Minglun Mountain and began secretly moving forces into position for an assault in a year.

• Li Yun used the Darkness Profundity of the Endless Dark Abyss to complete the scripture’s Forty-Second Level on its own, then resumed cultivating at five-hundred-thousand-fold speed.
• Holy Maiden Miao Yue arrived at Dark Abyss Holy City, where the Seventh Holy Son of Black Heaven welcomed her and proposed resuming their plan against West Mountain.
• The Seventh Holy Son of Black Heaven and Holy Maiden Miao Yue agreed to destroy Minglun Mountain, one of West Mountain’s seven cores, and settled on a plan to attack in a year.
• The Seventh Holy Son of Black Heaven and Holy Maiden Miao Yue began quietly moving forces toward Minglun Mountain in batches.
• After three years and one month of grueling cultivation, Li Yun completed the Myriad Wonders Emperor Scripture’s Forty-First Level and advanced to the Forty-Second Level.

Li Yun completed the Forty-Second Level of the [Myriad Wonders Emperor Scripture] by drawing on the Darkness Profundity, making his aura indistinguishable from that of a Great Black Heaven Saint Emperor. After testing his disguise among patrols and Blood God Cult Saint Emperors, he learned that a full assault on Minglun Mountain was planned for two months later.

• Li Yun reached 1% of the Forty-Second Level and found that the Endless Dark Abyss no longer rejected his cultivation.
• Saint Chu Emperor feared Li Yun had been assimilated by the darkness, but Li Yun explained that he had used its mysteries to advance his Emperor Scripture.
• Li Yun discovered that five-hundred-thousand-fold speed now worked at nearly a million times the normal pace, and he advanced to 7% of the Forty-Second Level over half a month.
• Li Yun walked openly through the Dark Abyss, and several Great Black Heaven Patrol Squads mistook him for one of their Saint Emperors.
• Li Yun met two Blood God Cult Saint Emperors near Dark Abyss Holy City, who told him the assault on Minglun Mountain would begin in two months and asked whether he would join it.

Li Yun learned that the Seven Holy Sons of Black Heaven and Miao Yue planned to attack Minglun Mountain in two months, so he arranged to warn them with Saint Chu Emperor’s help. He left the Endless Dark Abyss using the Gate of Myriad Wonders and set out to deliver the warning.

• Li Yun learned that the Seven Holy Sons of Black Heaven and Miao Yue planned a surprise attack on Minglun Mountain in two months, preceded by a diversion elsewhere.
• Li Yun returned to Saint Chu Emperor and told him about the coming attack and how he had discovered the plan.
• Saint Chu Emperor gave Li Yun a token and a sealed Jade Slip recording his situation and warning for Saint Emperor Yun Zheng at Minglun Mountain.
• Li Yun promised to get the warning to Minglun Mountain in time and used the Gate of Myriad Wonders to leave the Endless Dark Abyss for only nine hundred trillion Myriad Wonders Points.

Li Yun spotted Redflame Saint Emperor hosting a banquet with Great Black Heaven and Blood God Cult Saint Emperors, then overheard them boasting about their victory over the Evergreen Ancient Domain and discussing its destruction. He interrupted their gathering with a challenge.

• Li Yun arrived at the edge of the Whitefire Star Domain and considered visiting the weakened Evergreen Ancient Domain, but decided to hurry to Minglun Mountain with a warning.
• Li Yun sensed Redflame Saint Emperor’s aura, remembered how he had been trapped in the Endless Dark Abyss during their earlier battle, and headed for the Whitefire Star Domain to take revenge.
• Li Yun found Redflame Saint Emperor feasting with Saint Emperors from the Crimson Flame Imperial Dynasty, Great Black Heaven, and the Blood God Cult.
• Redflame Saint Emperor toasted his allies for helping devastate the Evergreen Ancient Domain and urged them to join him in destroying it.
• A Saint Emperor of Great Black Heaven said the Evergreen Ancient Domain would fall if it refused to submit, while Redflame Saint Emperor worried that its survival threatened his dynasty.
• Li Yun’s cold laugh interrupted the banquet, and he challenged the group for planning to destroy the Evergreen Ancient Domain without asking him.

Li Yun returned from the Endless Dark Abyss and slaughtered seven Saint Emperors at a gathering before destroying eight Great Black Heaven and Blood God Cult bases in the Crimson Flame Ancient Domain. He escaped to head toward Minglun Mountain, while the Crimson Flame Imperial Dynasty failed to identify or catch him and the cult leaders ignored reports of the attacks.

• Li Yun appeared in the hall, revealed his hundred-and-fifty-two-zhang Emperor Nature, and killed the seven Saint Emperors and everyone else there.
• Li Yun collected the surviving Dao Fruits and gained twenty quadrillion Myriad Wonders Points.
• Over the next three days, Li Yun destroyed eight bases and killed twelve Saint Emperors and countless other cultivators, earning over eighty quadrillion more points.
• The Crimson Flame Imperial Dynasty mobilized Saint Emperors and its Dao Sage Ancestor to hunt for the killer, but Li Yun had already teleported away toward Minglun Mountain.
• The Crimson Flame Imperial Dynasty sent reports to the Great Black Heaven and Blood God Cult, but the Seven Holy Sons of Black Heaven and Miao Yue ignored them while preparing their attack on Minglun Mountain.

Li Yun reached the Star Domain near Minglun Mountain and sent Saint Emperor Yun Zheng an urgent message, claiming Saint Chu Emperor had asked him to come. Yun Zheng, suspicious but unwilling to ignore a possible plea from his old friend, went to meet Li Yun while keeping the message from his companions.

• Li Yun avoided approaching Minglun Mountain directly because Great Black Heaven and the Blood God Cult had hidden experts and scouts throughout the surrounding Star Domains.
• Li Yun sent Saint Emperor Yun Zheng an emergency Message Talisman with coordinates outside the Minglun Mountain Star Domain.
• Yun Zheng received Li Yun's message during a banquet and questioned whether the unknown messenger and missing Saint Chu Emperor could be trusted.
• Yun Zheng told his companions he needed to step out, kept them in the hall, and shifted through the void toward the meeting place.

Li Yun met Saint Emperor Yun Zheng and warned him that Great Black Heaven and the Blood God Cult planned to destroy Minglun Mountain in a surprise attack. Yun Zheng doubted Li Yun’s account of escaping the Endless Dark Abyss, but listened as Li Yun linked the plot to the Seventh Holy Son’s revenge against Chen Qingshi and Minglun Mountain.

• Saint Emperor Yun Zheng arrived on a Martial Dao Minor Star and waited cautiously until Li Yun revealed himself in the barren mountains.
• Li Yun showed Yun Zheng the Saint Chu Emperor’s token and Jade Slip, which said the Saint Chu Emperor had been taken to the Endless Dark Abyss.
• Yun Zheng doubted Li Yun’s claim that he had escaped the Endless Dark Abyss and suspected a trap by Great Black Heaven.
• Li Yun warned Yun Zheng that the Seventh Holy Son of Black Heaven and Holy Maiden Miao Yue had spent a year preparing a surprise assault on Minglun Mountain, planned for half a month later.
• Li Yun explained that the attack was revenge for Chen Qingshi humiliating the Seventh Holy Son after infiltrating and escaping the Endless Dark Abyss.

Saint Emperor Yun Zheng reported Li Yun’s warning about a planned attack on Minglun Mountain to Dao Sage Mingkong, who brought him to Chen Qingshi. Chen Qingshi recognized Li Yun and revealed that Li Yun had killed Great Black Heaven’s Saint Emperors in the Endless Dark Abyss, leaving Mingkong and Yun Zheng astonished.

• Li Yun vanished from Desolate Cliff, and Saint Emperor Yun Zheng hurried to Minglun Mountain to report the warning of an attack in half a month.
• Dao Sage Mingkong listened to Yun Zheng’s account and took him to Qingshi Ancient Hall to consult Chen Qingshi.
• Chen Qingshi conjured Li Yun’s likeness, and Yun Zheng confirmed that the man was the one he had met.
• Chen Qingshi revealed that Li Yun had escaped the Endless Dark Abyss after killing at least thirty Great Black Heaven Saint Emperors.
• Chen Qingshi explained that he had once taken credit for Li Yun’s killings to shield him from capture.

Chen Qingshi ordered Minglun Mountain to prepare secretly for an attack by the Seven Holy Sons of Black Heaven and Holy Maiden Miao Yue. After making sure Yun Zheng returned safely, Li Yun went back to the Endless Dark Abyss to cultivate, leaving the Saint Chu Emperor stunned by his return.

• Chen Qingshi praised Li Yun and warned Mingkong and Yun Zheng not to antagonize him.
• Chen Qingshi ordered Mingkong to conceal that Li Yun had warned them and prepare for the planned attack on Minglun Mountain.
• Li Yun followed Yun Zheng back to Minglun Mountain, confirmed his safe return, and decided not to join the coming battle.
• Li Yun returned through the Gate of Myriad Wonders to the Endless Dark Abyss to cultivate with his thirteen trillion Myriad Wonders Points.
• The Saint Chu Emperor was shocked that Li Yun had come back, while Li Yun joked that the Endless Dark Abyss could not hold him.

Li Yun decided to help Saint Chu Emperor escape the Endless Dark Abyss and realized he could rescue the other captives as well. After three days of searching and teaching them the Darkness-Eroding Dao Restriction Reversal, he had freed forty-seven Saint Emperors.

• Li Yun noticed Saint Chu Emperor wanted to leave the Endless Dark Abyss and offered to open a secret back door for him.
• Saint Chu Emperor suggested rescuing all the captives who had not succumbed to Darkness Descent, and Li Yun agreed.
• Li Yun visited Saint Emperor Huang Yan and began asking the freed captives where to find others trapped in the abyss.
• Li Yun taught each captive the Darkness-Eroding Dao Restriction Reversal and, over three days, freed forty-seven Saint Emperors.

Li Yun rescued 332 trapped Saint Emperors from the Endless Dark Abyss while learning that the attack on Minglun Mountain had been delayed. After the Gate of Myriad Wonders finished analyzing the abyss and revealed vulnerabilities, he decided to try entering the Dark Abyss Holy City.

• Li Yun suspected the trapped Dao Sages and Supreme Sages were being held in the Dark Abyss Holy City, so he focused on rescuing Saint Emperors outside it first.
• Over several days, Li Yun rescued another eighty-seven trapped Saint Emperors and continued searching the Endless Dark Abyss.
• Two Saint Venerables of Great Black Heaven told their patrol squads that trouble near Northern Nether Mountain had delayed the planned attack on Minglun Mountain.
• Li Yun decided the delay gave him more time to search, and he eventually reached a total of 332 rescued Saint Emperors.
• The Gate of Myriad Wonders finished analyzing the Endless Dark Abyss and revealed vulnerabilities that Li Yun could exploit to open a hidden route.
• Li Yun decided to try entering the Dark Abyss Holy City, planning to send the rescued Saint Emperors out first if he could not get inside.

Li Yun abandoned his attempt to enter Dark Abyss Holy City after sensing a trap and gathered 335 trapped Saint Emperors to escape through a gate he opened. He stayed behind to seek the imprisoned Dao Sages and Supreme Sages, while Saint Chu Emperor gave him an Emperor Scripture and departed.

• Li Yun judged Dark Abyss Holy City to be deliberately baiting infiltrators and returned to the Darkness Cavern without attempting a rescue there.
• Li Yun told Saint Chu Emperor he would first free the trapped Saint Emperors and arranged for them to gather in a valley.
• Over two days, 335 Saint Emperors, including Saint Chu Emperor and Desolate Emperor, assembled in the valley.
• Li Yun opened a back door through the barriers and asked the Saint Emperors to keep his presence secret so he could later rescue those held in Dark Abyss Holy City.
• Saint Chu Emperor gave Li Yun a Jade Slip containing his Emperor Scripture, then stepped through the gate and escaped.

Li Yun helped all 335 trapped Saint Emperors escape the Endless Dark Abyss and received their gifts, including more than 180 Emperor Scriptures. He secluded himself to cultivate, but fled just before seven Supreme Sages began searching the abyss.

• Saint Chu Emperor left through Li Yun's back door first, prompting the other Saint Emperors to follow and give Li Yun farewell gifts and favors.
• After all 335 Saint Emperors escaped, Li Yun erased the gathering's traces, traveled to a remote island, and resumed cultivating the Forty-Second Level of the [Myriad Wonders Emperor Scripture].
• Six months later, Li Yun sensed seven Supreme Sages erupting with fury near the Dark Abyss Holy City and stopped cultivating at ninety-nine percent completion.
• Li Yun used the Gate of Myriad Wonders to teleport away and erased his traces from the island.
• Less than five minutes later, the seven Supreme Sages searched the Endless Dark Abyss, and one searched Li Yun's abandoned island.