Chapter Summaries

Li Yun freed more than a thousand sages from the forbidden Great Prison and stayed behind to investigate the Dark Abyss Holy City. He encountered a powerful young monk named Jueluo from Bright Light Temple, a faction Li Yun had never heard of.

• Li Yun urged Tianbu, Taichong, Jinghong, Jiuguang, Yufu, and the other prisoners to leave through the back door, and more than eight hundred Dao Sages and two hundred Supreme Sages escaped.
• Li Yun closed the back door, celebrated obtaining more than six thousand Emperor Scriptures, and climbed back toward the first level of the forbidden Great Prison.
• Li Yun heard chanting and saw a white lotus of light appear, its radiance driving back the prison's Power of Darkness.
• A young monk named Jueluo appeared on the lotus and asked Li Yun where the prisoners had gone.
• Jueluo introduced himself as a novice monk of Bright Light Temple, leaving Li Yun baffled that he had never heard of the temple.

Li Yun escaped the forbidden Great Prison after encountering Jueluo, a Holy Son of the Bright Light Temple who had come to free its captives. The Seventh Holy Son of Black Heaven arrived to find every prisoner gone and clashed with Jueluo in a battle of light and darkness.

• Jueluo told Li Yun he had come to free the prisoners and asked whether Li Yun had released them.
• Li Yun pretended to know nothing, entered the Second Layer, and escaped using the Gate of Myriad Wonders.
• Jueluo prepared to leave, but the Seventh Holy Son of Black Heaven entered and discovered that every cell was empty.
• The Seventh Holy Son accused Jueluo of freeing the prisoners and threatened him.
• Jueluo offered to guide the Seventh Holy Son out of darkness, then attacked with radiant White Light.
• The Seventh Holy Son countered with the Power of Darkness, and their clashing Daos shook and cracked the forbidden Great Prison.

Li Yun hunted Great Black Heaven and Blood God Cult members for Myriad Wonders Points after escaping the Endless Dark Abyss. He ambushed twenty-three Saint Emperors searching for the Bright Light Temple Holy Son, Jueluo, and learned they served the Third Holy Son of Black Heaven.

• Li Yun decided to hunt Great Black Heaven and Blood God Cult members to gain the Myriad Wonders Points he needed.
• Li Yun spotted twenty-three Great Black Heaven Saint Emperors searching across the Hengwu Domain and approached them unseen.
• The Saint Emperors revealed they were looking for the Bright Light Temple Holy Son and served the Third Holy Son of Black Heaven, who competed with the Seven Holy Sons to find him.
• Li Yun recognized Jueluo as a possible Bright Light Temple Holy Son and chose to attack the Saint Emperors regardless.
• Li Yun trapped all twenty-three Saint Emperors in a Blade Prison and unleashed Blade Qi and Blade Intent against them.

Li Yun hunted Saint Emperors across the starry sky, amassed nearly two million trillion Myriad Wonders Points, and unlocked Millionfold-Speed Cultivation. After a month of training yielded only modest progress toward his immense cultivation goal, he decided to use his connections to find a place that could boost his cultivation further.

• Li Yun annihilated twenty-three Saint Emperors under the Third Son of Black Heaven and converted their Dao Fruits into Myriad Wonders Points.
• Li Yun spent more than two months ambushing Saint Emperors from Great Black Heaven and the Blood God Cult, raising his total to 1,960,000 trillion Myriad Wonders Points.
• Li Yun unlocked Millionfold-Speed Cultivation, which cost 720 trillion Myriad Wonders Points per day, and traveled to a quiet Desolate Star to test it.
• After a month of cultivation, Li Yun reached 4% progress on the Forty-Third Level of the Myriad Wonders Emperor Scripture and grew frustrated with his slow progress toward a 999-zhang Emperor Nature.
• Li Yun decided to contact his connections in the Hengwu Domain to find a special place that could increase his cultivation speed.

Li Yun searched for a place that could accelerate his cultivation and finally learned that Saint Emperor Guangling had discovered a secret realm with a five-hundred-thousand-fold cultivation boost. He immediately set off for the remote ruins, hoping to accelerate both his cultivation and the fusion of Emperor Scriptures.

• Li Yun asked Ancient Emperor Changqing about cultivation-boosting locations, but Changqing recommended returning to the Chaos Heaven Cave Secret Realm.
• Li Yun contacted Ye Chen and several Saint Emperors he had rescued, but none of their suggested locations offered a worthwhile boost.
• After more than a month of asking around, Li Yun contacted Saint Emperor Guangling, who invited him to visit and revealed he had found ancient Starry Sky Ruins containing a secret realm with a five-hundred-thousand-fold cultivation boost.
• Saint Emperor Guangling sent Li Yun the coordinates, and Li Yun calculated he could reach the secret realm in at most nine months.
• Li Yun left the Desolate Star, teleported as close as possible with the Gate of Myriad Wonders, and traveled at full speed toward Saint Emperor Guangling.

Li Yun joined Saint Emperor Guangling in a hidden Secret Realm whose cultivation boost proved to be five hundred thousand times. With the Myriad Wonders System’s millionfold boost stacked on top, Li Yun cultivated at five million times normal speed and made rapid progress.

• Li Yun reached the coordinates Saint Emperor Guangling had given him, checked the silent Star Domain, and contacted him.
• Saint Emperor Guangling brought Li Yun into the Secret Realm, where Li Yun found a vast, life-filled Primordial Land and learned Guangling had recovered and reached the late stage of the Saint Emperor Realm.
• Saint Emperor Guangling asked Li Yun to help investigate the realm, and Li Yun said he would cultivate first before exploring with him.
• Li Yun and Saint Emperor Guangling drank together while Li Yun recounted events in the Hengwu Domain and his rescue of imprisoned Dao Sages and Supreme Sages.
• Li Yun began cultivating and found that the Secret Realm’s boost combined with the Myriad Wonders System to raise his cultivation speed to five million times normal.
• After one day of cultivating with the [Myriad Wonders Emperor Scripture], Li Yun’s progress increased by 6%.

Li Yun perfected the Forty-Third Level of the [Myriad Wonders Emperor Scripture] in half a month, raising his Emperor Nature to 399 zhang and shocking Saint Emperor Guangling. He fed 6,217 Elder Emperor Scriptures into the Gate of Myriad Wonders and, as it began consuming vast Myriad Wonders Points to fuse them, decided to explore the Secret Realm.

• Li Yun found that five-millionfold cultivation speed let his progress rise six percent in a day, and he cultivated for half a month.
• Li Yun reached Perfection in the Forty-Third Level of the [Myriad Wonders Emperor Scripture], revealing an Emperor Nature that had grown to 399 zhang.
• Saint Emperor Guangling awoke to the shaking Secret Realm and was stunned by the size and pressure of Li Yun's Emperor Nature.
• Li Yun sent 6,217 Elder Emperor Scriptures into the Gate of Myriad Wonders to further perfect his scripture.
• Li Yun saw that the fusion would consume nearly two hundred thousand trillion Myriad Wonders Points in a month, then decided to explore the Secret Realm and approached Saint Emperor Guangling.

After Li Yun emerged with a three-hundred-and-ninety-nine-zhang Emperor Nature, he explained to Saint Emperor Guangling how Saint Emperors could strengthen their Emperor Natures by suppressing and comprehending others. Guangling accepted that the method was dangerous but agreed to try it someday, and the two set out to explore the Secret Realm together.

• Saint Emperor Guangling marveled at Li Yun's three-hundred-and-ninety-nine-zhang Emperor Nature and asked how he had cultivated it.
• Li Yun explained that Saint Emperors before antiquity could reach nine hundred and ninety-nine zhang, while the Hengwu Domain had since declined.
• Li Yun told Guangling that strengthening an Emperor Nature required suppressing other Emperor Natures and fully comprehending them.
• Saint Emperor Guangling recognized how difficult the method was, then resolved to try it with Li Yun standing guard.
• Li Yun and Saint Emperor Guangling agreed to explore the Secret Realm together.

Li Yun and Saint Emperor Guangling investigated the Secret Realm and found signs that people had once lived there. In a White Mist-filled forest, the mist suppressed Guangling’s Emperor Nature and carried maddening sounds; they discovered what appeared to be a Saint Emperor’s bones.

• Li Yun and Saint Emperor Guangling began searching the Secret Realm and found half a brick, evidence of former inhabitants.
• They traveled through mineral-rich mountains and found caves with traces of brief Seclusion, but nothing that explained the realm’s history.
• After more than half a month, they entered a lush forest filled with mysterious Dao Resonance and spotted White Mist deeper within.
• The White Mist penetrated Saint Emperor Guangling’s Emperor Nature and carried strange sounds that he described as cries, laughter, or furious roars.
• Li Yun drove back the mist and teleported with Guangling to a flickering golden light, where they found bones that appeared to belong to a Saint Emperor.

Li Yun investigated the fog-shrouded Mountain Forest alone after Saint Emperor Guangling turned back, finding numerous Saint Emperor skeletons and signs of ancient battles. He discovered that the white fog carried invisible death qi that could penetrate even his Emperor Nature, so he decided to leave the forest.

• Li Yun told Saint Emperor Guangling to leave the Mountain Forest and wait outside while he investigated alone.
• Li Yun pressed deeper through the white fog, using his Emperor Nature to shield himself.
• Li Yun found several Saint Emperor skeletons and battle scars, concluding the dead had entered the forest within the past thousand years.
• White fog seeped through Li Yun's defenses, and he sensed invisible death qi trying to corrode him.
• Li Yun suspected the death qi had killed the Saint Emperors and turned back toward the forest's exit.

Li Yun escaped the Mountain Forest after its white mist vanished, only to find that the remains and traces inside had disappeared as well. After waiting and observing the forest for two months with Saint Emperor Guangling, they discovered the mist returned in cycles and seemed to trigger a space-time overlap.

• Li Yun became lost in the white mist, but it vanished suddenly, allowing him to leave the Mountain Forest.
• Li Yun searched the forest with his Divine Consciousness and found that the Saint Emperor remains and other traces had disappeared.
• Li Yun told Saint Emperor Guangling what had happened, and Guangling searched the forest but found no evidence of it.
• Li Yun refused to abandon the investigation and stayed near the forest with Guangling to wait for the mist to return.
• After two months of observation, Li Yun and Guangling discovered the mist appeared in cycles and brought the vanished remains back, suggesting a space-time overlap.

Li Yun discovered that the Mountain Forest dramatically increased his training speed and began cultivating the newly formed forty-fourth level of the Myriad Wonders Emperor Scripture. After reaching the Entry Realm, his Emperor Nature surged to 420 zhang, leaving Saint Emperor Guangling stunned and eager to surpass his own limit.

• Li Yun and Saint Emperor Guangling discussed the White Mist’s dangers and agreed Li Yun might explore it alone when it returned.
• The Gate of Myriad Wonders produced the forty-fourth level of the Myriad Wonders Emperor Scripture, and Li Yun began studying it.
• Li Yun discovered that the Mountain Forest’s outer entrance gave him a millionfold training rate, combining with his system’s acceleration to approach ten millionfold.
• Li Yun asked Saint Emperor Guangling to stand guard and cultivated until he reached the Entry Realm of the forty-fourth level in one day.
• Li Yun’s Emperor Nature broke past 399 zhang and climbed to 420 zhang, forcing Saint Emperor Guangling to retreat three thousand li.
• Saint Emperor Guangling marveled at Li Yun’s breakthrough and renewed his determination to surpass his own ninety-nine-zhang limit.

Li Yun completed the forty-fourth level of the [Myriad Wonders Emperor Scripture], raising his Emperor Nature to five hundred and ninety-nine zhang and leaving Saint Emperor Guangling in awe. After sharing cultivation advice with Guangling, Li Yun saw White Mist return to the Mountain Forest and set off toward it.

• Li Yun spent twenty days cultivating until the forty-fourth level of the [Myriad Wonders Emperor Scripture] reached Perfection Realm and his Emperor Nature grew to five hundred and ninety-nine zhang.
• Saint Emperor Guangling, forced thirty thousand li away by Li Yun's pressure, marveled that Li Yun's Emperor Nature might rival the Dao of a newly established Dao Sage.
• Li Yun considered how Emperor Nature determined a Dao Sage's grade and judged that he might contend with a newly established ninth-grade Dao, though he could not be certain.
• Li Yun stopped cultivating and sat with Saint Emperor Guangling outside the Mountain Forest, sharing spiritual fruits, fine wine, and advice on refining Emperor Nature.
• After seven days, White Mist began spreading through the Mountain Forest, and Li Yun told Brother Guangling he would go ahead.

Li Yun entered the White Mist with his strengthened Emperor Nature and followed the deathly aura toward its source. He discovered a colossal Dao Tomb and was confronted by its armored guardians as he tried to retreat.

• Li Yun used his 599-zhang Emperor Nature to resist the White Mist and followed the deathly aura toward an unexplored direction.
• Two death-corrupted Limit Breaking Saint Emperors attacked Li Yun, and he pinned them down and burned them to ashes.
• Li Yun found a ten-thousand-zhang stone stele bearing the character for “Tomb” and decided to leave.
• Two star-patterned armored guards emerged from the mist, declared that trespassers in the Eternal Night Star Sect's Dao Tomb would die, and attacked Li Yun with spears.

Li Yun fought two Star-Patterned Ironclad Guards to temper his newly strengthened Emperor Nature and destroyed them with his fists. With the guards gone, he walked toward the mysterious stone stele marked "Tomb."

• The two Star-Patterned Ironclad Guards attacked Li Yun with a coordinated spear formation, and he chose to face them without drawing his blade.
• Li Yun shattered the first guard’s spear with a punch, dodged the second guard’s thrust, and bent its spear with a counterstrike.
• The guards absorbed mist and death qi to strengthen themselves, then merged their attacks into a battle spear that Li Yun met with both fists.
• Li Yun broke the guards’ spears and armor, then rushed in and punched both guards until they shattered.
• Li Yun remained unharmed and walked toward the ten-thousand-zhang stone stele engraved with "Tomb."

Li Yun opened the ancient stone gate and discovered a vast Boundless Dao Sea that dwarfed Emperor Nature. Waves from the sea showed visions of powerful figures fighting and dying, leaving Li Yun stunned by the dangers and history within the Eternal Night Dao Tomb.

• Li Yun reached the ancient stele inscribed "Eternal Night Dao Tomb" and realized he had passed beyond the Mountain Forest and possibly the Secret Realm of Saint Emperor Guangling's ruins.
• Li Yun used the Gate of Myriad Wonders to analyze the sealed stone gate, and after two days he opened it with Saint Power.
• Li Yun followed a mountain path to a cliff and found a Boundless Dao Sea formed from countless fragments of the Great Dao.
• A wave became a Light Curtain showing a burly Star-Armored Dao Sage fighting endless Variant Beasts until he was overwhelmed and his greatsword shattered.
• A second wave showed a silver-haired Supreme Sage battling six terrifying enemies before an arrow pierced his back, and Li Yun recognized his rank.

Li Yun witnessed the immense Sea of Daofall and was offered the Holy Son position by a domineering White-Haired Elder. Suspecting the Eternal Night Star Sect’s intentions, he escaped to Chaos Heaven Cave Secret Realm, while the elder vowed to remember him.

• Li Yun realized the Sea of Daofall contained the accumulated Daos of countless cultivators and felt insignificant before its power.
• A White-Haired Elder appeared on a radiant throne and ordered Li Yun to accept appointment as Holy Son of the Eternal Night Star Sect.
• Li Yun concealed his fear and pretended to welcome the appointment while the White-Haired Elder formed a mysterious Holy Son Soul Seal.
• When the seal was nearly complete, Li Yun fled through the Gate of Myriad Wonders to Chaos Heaven Cave Secret Realm in the Evergreen Ancient Domain.
• The White-Haired Elder failed to catch Li Yun and vowed to remember him after realizing a Strange Treasure had protected him.

Li Yun escaped the Eternal Night Dao Tomb and returned to Chaos Heaven Cave, shaken by the powerful old man and the danger he had encountered. He learned that more than three months had passed during his trip, then found the White Mist Mountain Forest ordinary but the Secret Realm’s Spirit Qi deteriorating, with no trace of the Dao Tomb in the Gate of Myriad Wonders’ analysis.

• Li Yun returned to Chaos Heaven Cave after escaping the Eternal Night Dao Tomb and summoned Ancient Emperor Changqing and Ye Chen to tell them what had happened.
• Li Yun remembered Saint Emperor Guangling and teleported to the Secret Realm, where he found him safe outside the White Mist Mountain Forest.
• Saint Emperor Guangling told Li Yun that he had been gone for over three months, though Li Yun had thought only a few days had passed.
• Li Yun checked the Myriad Wonders System and confirmed that the Gate of Myriad Wonders had completed another Emperor Scripture level during his absence.
• Li Yun suspected that the Eternal Night Dao Tomb had distorted time and used the Gate of Myriad Wonders to analyze the forest.
• The Gate of Myriad Wonders identified the forest as ordinary, reported that Spirit Qi in the forest and Secret Realm was deteriorating, and found no trace of the Eternal Night Dao Tomb.

Li Yun discovered that the Eternal Night Dao Tomb had moved, leaving the White Mist Mountain Forest and its Secret Realm to decline. After explaining the danger to Saint Emperor Guangling, Li Yun left to handle other matters, while Guangling stayed to cultivate before the realm faded.

• Li Yun used the Gate of Myriad Wonders twice and found no trace of the Eternal Night Star Sect or Dao Tomb in the White Mist Mountain Forest.
• Li Yun concluded that the Eternal Night Dao Tomb had moved and that its departure had ended the nourishment sustaining the Secret Realm.
• Li Yun tested Millionfold-Speed Cultivation and found his maximum rate had fallen from nearly ten million times the norm to seven million and was still declining.
• Li Yun told Saint Emperor Guangling how he had escaped the Dao Tomb and nearly become a mindless servant of an Eternal Night Lord.
• Saint Emperor Guangling panicked, but Li Yun reassured him that the tomb had moved and advised him to cultivate while the Secret Realm remained useful.
• Li Yun left to take care of other matters, and Saint Emperor Guangling decided to stay and cultivate.

Li Yun told Ye Chen and Ancient Emperor Changqing about the Eternal Night Dao Tomb, which had vanished from the Secret Realm. Ye Chen revealed that the Eternal Night Star Sect was likely a sunken Divine Kingdom, and warned Li Yun that the white-haired elder who had tried to make him its Holy Son had set his sights on him.

• Li Yun returned to the Chaos Heaven Cave Secret Realm and rejoined Ye Chen and Ancient Emperor Changqing after leaving them waiting.
• Li Yun recounted finding the Eternal Night Dao Tomb, escaping its white-haired elder, and discovering that the tomb had moved when he returned.
• Ancient Emperor Changqing questioned whether Li Yun's experience was real, but Ye Chen admitted that he knew something about the tomb.
• Ye Chen explained that the Eternal Night Star Sect was probably a sunken Divine Kingdom whose True Gods of Other Shore Heaven could never be killed completely.
• Ye Chen told Li Yun he had been right to flee the elder, but warned that the elder had now set his sights on him.