Chapter Summaries

At the Southern Border, four Setting Sun Divine Palace Dao Sages discussed their failed attempt to investigate rumors about Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley and devised a new plan to recruit local martial artists. Li Yun overheard them and sent their conversation to the valley’s Forbidden Land.

• Dao Sage Jin Hui returned to the Hidden Valley and told Dao Sage Chiyan, Qingyao, and the other Dao Sage that Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley had caught him three thousand li away and that he had learned nothing.
• Chiyan and Qingyao concluded that the valley’s vigilance suggested something had happened and considered whether it had invented the rumor about a Saint Emperor attacking it.
• Chiyan proposed hiring local Southern Border martial artists to gather scraps of information instead of sending the Dao Sages back to investigate.
• The four Setting Sun Divine Palace Dao Sages agreed to split up and find local informants across the Southern Border.
• Li Yun watched the Dao Sages’ discussion from the Spirit Tide Secret Realm and sent a clear image of it to Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley’s Forbidden Land.

Li Yun urged Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley to respond decisively after discovering that Dao Sage Jin Hui and three other Dao Sages from the Setting Sun Divine Palace had been spying on them. He told the valley's Dao Sages to capture all four rather than merely punish and expel them.

• Moon Spring and Moon Void reported that Dao Sage Jin Hui had claimed to be visiting Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley after being caught sneaking into its territory.
• A projection revealed the four Dao Sages of the Setting Sun Divine Palace discussing their covert actions, enraging the twenty-four Dao Sages in the Forbidden Land.
• Moon-Tide Dao Sage Yue Xi and the others decided to send eight Dao Sages to catch Jin Hui and his companions, punish them, and drive them from the Southern Border.
• Li Yun arrived and argued that the Setting Sun Divine Palace would keep probing Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley unless the valley responded more forcefully.
• Li Yun ordered the Dao Sages to find and capture all four intruders so the Setting Sun Divine Palace would have to back down.

Li Yun urged Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley to seize four Dao Sages from the Setting Sun Divine Palace, and the Moon-Tide Dao Sage sent all twenty-four of the valley’s Dao Sages to capture them. The four prisoners were taken to Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley and told they would remain captive until the Setting Sun Divine Palace paid a ransom.

• Li Yun ordered Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley to seize the four Dao Sages of the Setting Sun Divine Palace, and the Moon-Tide Dao Sage agreed.
• The Moon-Tide Dao Sage divided the valley’s twenty-four Dao Sages into four groups and sent them to hunt down Chiyan, Jin Hui, Qingyao, and Xuan Chen.
• Six Dao Sages intercepted Chiyan and attacked him, while six others surrounded Jin Hui, Qingyao, and Xuan Chen in separate locations.
• Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley’s Dao Sages captured all four Setting Sun Divine Palace Dao Sages and brought them to a valley near the Main Peak’s great hall.
• The Moon-Tide Dao Sage accused the prisoners of disrespecting Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley and said they would stay until the Setting Sun Divine Palace paid a ransom.

The Setting Sun Divine Palace sent ten Dao Sages to Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley after four of its Dao Sages vanished. Moon-Tide Dao Sage admitted the valley had subdued them and confronted Heaven Sun Dao Sage over their intrusion and spying.

• Dao Sage Luo Yang grew concerned when Chiyan, Jin Hui, Qingyao, and Xuan Chen stopped responding, and he ordered a rescue force to the Southern Border.
• Heaven Sun Dao Sage led nine Dao Sages from the Setting Sun Divine Palace toward Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley.
• Moon-Tide Dao Sage and the valley's Dao Sages kept Chiyan, Jin Hui, Qingyao, and Xuan Chen imprisoned while Li Yun continued cultivating in the Secret Realm.
• Heaven Sun Dao Sage arrived and demanded news of the missing Dao Sages, and Moon-Tide Dao Sage said the valley had subdued them.
• Moon-Tide Dao Sage accused the four Dao Sages of trespassing and trying to bribe Southern Border Martial Artists to spy on the valley.

Moon-Tide Dao Sage exposed the Setting Sun Divine Palace's spying and demanded a ransom for the four captured Dao Sages. Heaven Sun Dao Sage refused the outrageous terms and threatened retaliation, just as a massive Blue-White Giant Hand appeared above Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley.

• Heaven Sun Dao Sage denied that Chiyan Dao Sage and the other three had entered the Southern Border to spy.
• Moon-Tide Dao Sage revealed a scene of the four Setting Sun Dao Sages plotting in the Hidden Valley, exposing their mission.
• Heaven Sun Dao Sage argued that gathering information was an accepted practice and demanded the four Dao Sages' release.
• Moon-Tide Dao Sage demanded ten top-grade Sunlight Divine Crystal Mines, three thousand Emperor Tier Saint Pills, and fifty volumes of the Ancient Dao Sage Handwritten Scripture as ransom.
• Heaven Sun Dao Sage rejected the demand and threatened the Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley, while the other Setting Sun Dao Sages gathered their auras.
• A Blue-White Giant Hand tore through the Void above Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley.

Li Yun killed Dao Sage Chiyan with a colossal hand of Primordial Order, triggering a battle between Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley and the Setting Sun Divine Palace. Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley overwhelmed the ten invading Dao Sages and left them suppressed.

• Li Yun seized Dao Sage Chiyan with a colossal hand, shattered his body, and devoured his Dao Fruit.
• Heaven Sun Dao Sage and the nine other Setting Sun Dao Sages attacked Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley in fury.
• Moon-Tide Dao Sage led the valley's twenty-four Dao Sages into battle against the ten attackers.
• Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley's Dao Sages overwhelmed their opponents and shattered their Dao Resonances.
• The valley's Dao Sages bound and suppressed all ten Setting Sun Dao Sages.

After Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley subdued the Setting Sun Divine Palace’s forces, the Divine Palace awakened its Dao Sage ancestors and prepared to retaliate. Outnumbered and constrained by its captured Dao Sages, it issued a Setting Sun Summons across the Western Wastes to compel other powers to send manpower.

• Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley subdued the ten Dao Sages sent by the Setting Sun Divine Palace, and Dao Sage Chiyan was killed.
• The surviving messenger reported the defeat to the Setting Sun Divine Palace, whose Dao Sages reacted with fury and disbelief.
• Dao Sage Luo Yang called for the Divine Palace to mobilize and punish Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley.
• The Divine Palace awakened its secluded ancestors, bringing its available force to fifteen Dao Sages, still fewer than Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley’s twenty-four.
• Ancestor Yan Tian ordered the highest-level Setting Sun Summons, compelling the Western Wastes’ great powers to provide manpower.

The Setting Sun Divine Palace issued its highest-level summons and gathered twenty-one Dao Sages from other Western Wastes factions, bringing its force to thirty-six. Led by Ancestor Yan Tian, they set out for Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley, whose Dao Sages received news of their approach without alarm.

• The Setting Sun Divine Palace summoned Dao Sages across the Western Wastes, prompting factions to comply, delay, or ignore the call.
• Twenty-one Dao Sages arrived at the palace, bringing its total to thirty-six and angering its leaders, who expected more support.
• Ancestor Yan Tian urged the gathered Dao Sages to demand justice from Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley for subduing fourteen palace Dao Sages.
• Ancestor Yan Tian led all thirty-six Dao Sages toward the Southern Border, openly beginning their confrontation with Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley.
• Moon-Tide Dao Sage and the others heard that the thirty-six Dao Sages were approaching and showed no panic.

The Heaven Moon Tribe saw the Setting Sun Divine Palace’s march toward Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley as a chance to take control of the Southern Border, while Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley’s elders remained confident because Li Yun stood with them. The chapter ended with the impending conflict drawing near and the Heaven Moon Tribe secretly preparing to exploit it.

• News spread across the Southern Border that Ancestor Yan Tian was leading thirty-six Dao Sages toward Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley.
• Seven or eight Heaven Moon Tribe elders celebrated the prospect of Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley being weakened and discussed their tribe’s fifteen Dao Sages taking its place.
• A golden-robed elder sent Dao Sage Han Yue to spy on Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley and ordered the other elders to keep rival factions from sending reinforcements.
• Han Yue and the other Heaven Moon Tribe elders departed to carry out their assignments.
• The twenty-four Dao Sages of Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley dismissed the Setting Sun Divine Palace’s summons and trusted in Li Yun’s strength.

Thirty-six Dao Sages from the Western Wastes confronted Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley and demanded the release of their detained people, while Moon-Tide Dao Sage challenged their version of events. Moon-Tide Dao Sage revealed images exposing the Setting Sun Divine Palace’s spying and provocation, leaving Ancestor Yan Tian and the Western Wastes Dao Sages stunned.

• Ancestor Yan Tian led thirty-six Western Wastes Dao Sages to Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley and demanded justice for the detained Dao Sages and Dao Sage Chiyan’s death.
• Moon-Tide Dao Sage defended Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley, explaining that the Setting Sun Divine Palace had sent Dao Sages to spy and later threaten the valley.
• Ancestor Yan Tian dismissed Moon-Tide Dao Sage’s account and threatened an all-out battle unless the detained Dao Sages were released.
• Moon-Tide Dao Sage summoned two images showing Dao Sage Chiyan and his companions plotting to spy, and Heaven Sun Dao Sage and his companions trying to provoke the valley.
• The onlookers erupted in an uproar, and Ancestor Yan Tian and the Western Wastes Dao Sages were stunned by the evidence.

Ancestor Qingxuan arrived as Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley and the Setting Sun Divine Palace prepared to fight, then verified that the scenes exposing the Setting Sun Divine Palace were genuine records. He declared the Setting Sun Divine Palace at fault and warned that the Azure Cloud Heaven Sect would intervene if it tried to bully its way out of the dispute.

• Ancestor Yan Tian rejected the evidence and prepared the Setting Sun Divine Palace to fight Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley.
• Moon-Tide Dao Sage ordered his people to prepare for battle, explaining that the scenes were meant to establish their side's case before the fighting began.
• Ancestor Qingxuan arrived from the east and examined the two scenes with an Azure Cloud Heaven Sect Secret Art.
• Ancestor Qingxuan confirmed the scenes were genuine records that no Dao Sage or Supreme Sage could fabricate.
• Ancestor Qingxuan declared the Setting Sun Divine Palace at fault and warned that the Azure Cloud Heaven Sect would not stand by if it continued to bully others.

After Ancestor Qingxuan backed Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley, dozens of Southern Border Dao Sages rallied to its side, leaving Setting Sun Divine Palace badly outnumbered. Ancestor Yan Tian conceded defeat and asked to negotiate the release of his people inside the Main Peak Hall.

• Ancestor Qingxuan declared that the Azure Cloud Heaven Sect would support Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley, prompting forty-eight Southern Border Dao Sages to join the valley's twenty-four and outnumber the Western Wastes forces two to one.
• Dao Sage Hanyue appeared and publicly claimed the Heaven Moon Tribe would defend the valley, but the gathered Dao Sages ignored his hypocritical show of support.
• Ancestor Yan Tian abandoned thoughts of fighting and accepted defeat, asking the other Dao Sages to spare his Western Wastes allies.
• Ancestor Yan Tian asked Moon-Tide Dao Sage what it would take to release the captives, and Moon-Tide invited him inside to negotiate with Ancestor Qingxuan witnessing.

The Moon-Tide Dao Sage negotiated the release of the detained Dao Sages and set humiliating terms for the Setting Sun Divine Palace. Ancestor Yan Tian accepted an apology and a territorial promise, but erupted when she demanded forty-nine complete High-Grade Saint Veins as compensation.

• The Moon-Tide Dao Sage and Ancestor Qingxuan entered Main Peak Hall, while Ancestor Yan Tian followed and stood alone before them.
• Ancestor Yan Tian admitted the Setting Sun Divine Palace was at fault and asked what price would secure the release of the detained Dao Sages and safe passage for his people.
• The Moon-Tide Dao Sage demanded a public apology and a promise that the Setting Sun Divine Palace would stay out of Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley's territory, and Ancestor Yan Tian accepted both.
• The Moon-Tide Dao Sage demanded one complete High-Grade Saint Vein for each of the forty-nine Dao Sages involved.
• Ancestor Yan Tian angrily refused the demand, declaring that Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley might as well kill them.

The Moon-Tide Dao Sage demanded High-Grade Saint Veins from Setting Sun Divine Palace, and Ancestor Yan Tian threatened war when he could not accept the price. Ancestor Qingxuan tried to mediate, and Yue Xi lowered the demand but insisted on at least thirty-six veins.

• Ancestor Yan Tian rejected Yue Xi's demand for forty-nine complete High-Grade Saint Veins and threatened Mutual Destruction.
• Yue Xi declared that Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley did not fear war, making Yan Tian suspect the valley had a hidden trump card.
• Ancestor Qingxuan urged Yue Xi and Yan Tian to avoid war and called the demand excessive.
• Yue Xi argued that Setting Sun Divine Palace could borrow veins from Western Wastes powers, while Yan Tian insisted they would not surrender their foundations.
• Ancestor Qingxuan asked Yue Xi to reconsider, and Yue Xi reduced the demand to thirty-six High-Grade Saint Veins.

Ancestor Yan Tian reached an agreement with Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley, agreeing that the Setting Sun Divine Palace would apologize publicly and pay twenty-five complete High-Grade Saint Veins. He left with nine Dao Sages to retrieve the compensation, while the Southern Border Dao Sages surrounded the twenty-six who remained.

• Ancestor Yan Tian emerged from the Main Peak Hall and took nine named Dao Sages of the Setting Sun Divine Palace with him toward the Western Wastes.
• Ancestor Qingxuan announced that the Setting Sun Divine Palace had agreed to apologize publicly and pay twenty-five complete High-Grade Saint Veins to settle the matter.
• The announcement stunned the gathered factions, who realized how severely the compensation would damage the Setting Sun Divine Palace.
• The Southern Border Dao Sages surrounded the twenty-six Western Wastes Dao Sages, leaving them trapped and terrified.

Ancestor Yan Tian returned toward the Western Wastes with nine Dao Sages and revealed that Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley demanded twenty-five High-Grade Saint Veins upfront, followed by eleven more within a hundred years, to release their prisoners. Unable to pay without destroying the Setting Sun Divine Palace, he planned to take ten veins from its reserves and forcibly “borrow” the other fifteen from Western Wastes factions.

• Ancestor Yan Tian told Dao Sage Luo Yang and the other Dao Sages that he had to return to retrieve a ransom for their imprisoned allies.
• Ancestor Yan Tian revealed Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley had demanded twenty-five complete High-Grade Saint Veins upfront, with eleven more due within a hundred years.
• Dao Sage Luo Yang and the others protested that the Setting Sun Divine Palace possessed only twenty-three veins and could not surrender them without losing its foundation.
• Ancestor Yan Tian said he would give Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley ten veins from the palace and obtain the other fifteen by force from Western Wastes factions.

Ancestor Yan Tian and the Setting Sun Divine Palace’s Dao Sages decided to force the Western Wastes’ factions to help pay their compensation, while Li Yun watched and focused on nearing the Forty-Seventh Layer of his scripture. He rejected taking the Hengwu Domain’s Primordial Authority and summoned Moon-Tide Dao Sage to discuss establishing his Dao through Primordial Emperor Nature.

• Ancestor Yan Tian convinced the nine Dao Sages that Western Wastes factions owed the Setting Sun Divine Palace support, and they planned to demand High-Grade Saint Veins at a closed-door meeting.
• The Setting Sun Divine Palace’s Dao Sages threatened to wipe out any faction that refused to share their burden, then hurried back to the Western Wastes.
• Li Yun observed their actions through the Primordial Order and noted that his [Myriad Wonders Emperor Scripture] had reached 87% of the Forty-Seventh Layer.
• Li Yun considered using the Hengwu Domain’s Primordial Authority but rejected it because it would expose him to the Other Shore True Gods and make him their prey.
• Li Yun decided to pursue the harder path of establishing his Dao upon Primordial Emperor Nature and called Moon-Tide Dao Sage to the Secret Realm for advice.

Moon-Tide Dao Sage left Ancestor Qingxuan to meet Li Yun, who revealed that his Emperor Nature was nearing Perfection and asked for resources and knowledge about Emperor Nature Dao Establishment. Ancestor Qingxuan suspected that a hidden powerhouse was behind Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley’s newfound confidence and decided to investigate further.

• Moon-Tide Dao Sage received Li Yun’s message, left Ancestor Qingxuan with Dao Sage Moon Spring, and hurried to a Secret Realm.
• Dao Sage Moon Spring assured Ancestor Qingxuan that Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley would release its captives once it received twenty-five High-Grade Saint Veins from the Setting Sun Divine Palace.
• Ancestor Qingxuan doubted Moon Spring’s explanation, suspected a mysterious powerhouse was guiding Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley, and chose to stay and investigate.
• Moon-Tide Dao Sage sensed Li Yun’s growing strength and respectfully asked why he had summoned him.
• Li Yun said his Emperor Nature was nearing Perfection and asked Moon-Tide Dao Sage to gather resources and texts about Emperor Nature Dao Establishment.

Li Yun began studying records of Dao establishment after explaining that his Primordial Emperor Nature made his path unusually complex. In the Western Wastes, Ancestor Yan Tian summoned the Dao Sages of every faction with a High-Grade Saint Vein, leaving them to fear that the Setting Sun Divine Palace planned to escalate its conflict with Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley.

• Moon-Tide Dao Sage agreed to gather Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley's records of establishing a Dao for Li Yun.
• Li Yun explained that his Primordial Emperor Nature could develop into Primordial Authority, but said he still needed extensive records to establish his Dao.
• The records arrived at Li Yun's Secret Realm, and he began studying them.
• Ancestor Yan Tian returned to the Setting Sun Divine Palace after his failed expedition to the Southern Border and ordered Western Wastes factions with High-Grade Saint Veins to send their Dao Sages.
• Dozens of Dao Sages arrived at the Setting Sun Divine Palace, where Ancestor Yan Tian withheld the reason for his summons until everyone had arrived.

Ancestor Yan Tian gathered nearly every Western Wastes Dao Sage and revealed that Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley and the Azure Cloud Heaven Sect had trapped his delegation. Although the gathered sages demanded war, Yan Tian warned that the Western Wastes could not fight two regions while thirty-nine of its Dao Sages remained captive.

• Ancestor Yan Tian ordered Dao Sage Luo Yang to register everyone present and declared that any Western Wastes Dao Sage who failed to attend would be treated as an enemy.
• More than a dozen hidden Dao Sages rushed into the square and claimed they had arrived late, and Luo Yang added their names to the register.
• Ancestor Yan Tian told the roughly 170 gathered Dao Sages that Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley and the Azure Cloud Heaven Sect had ambushed his delegation with nearly a hundred Southern Border Dao Sages.
• The Western Wastes Dao Sages angrily called for a march against their enemies, while Ancestor Yan Tian recalled that his delegation had lacked such support in the Southern Border.
• Ancestor Yan Tian urged the Dao Sages not to start a war, explaining that the Southern Border and Eastern Domain could unite against them and that Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley held thirty-nine Western Wastes Dao Sages captive.