Chapter Summaries

Li Yun entered the Imperial City of Tianyue Prefecture as Ding Baisheng left to study the Dao scripture and seek a breakthrough. After finding every inn full, Li Yun reunited with Little Fist God He Yiming, who invited him to share a meal and drinks.

• Ding Baisheng said the Dao scripture Li Yun had given him might help him advance to the Dao Seed Realm, then warned Li Yun to stay alert before they parted ways.
• Li Yun entered the Imperial City, where tight security and a tense atmosphere surrounded preparations for the contest between Mysterious Moon Kingdom and Wantu Kingdom.
• Li Yun searched several full inns and restaurants for a place to rest and learn about Zhao Ziyue or Ye Tianxie.
• He Yiming recognized Li Yun from an inn window, and Li Yun noticed that He Yiming had become a Mortal Transformation Realm Martial Artist.
• He Yiming invited Li Yun upstairs for a meal and drinks, while the inn's patrons recognized Li Yun and began discussing him.

Li Yun met He Yiming and two other Nanchi Prefecture prodigies in Tianyue Prefecture’s Imperial City, where He Yiming explained how losing to Li Yun had helped him grow. Their conversation ended when a group of armed men in black confronted Li Yun and ordered him to come with them.

• Li Yun received praise from the inn’s patrons but responded modestly before joining He Yiming, Li Yingchun, and Mu Dong upstairs.
• He Yiming thanked Li Yun for awakening him to his weaknesses, explaining that reflecting on his defeat had helped him achieve Acquired to Innate Reversal.
• Li Yun and He Yiming toasted their friendship, then He Yiming briefed Li Yun on the Imperial City and warned that Wantu Kingdom’s prodigies had arrived aggressively.
• A sinister middle-aged man in black led armed companions into the inn, identified Li Yun, and ordered him to come with them.
• Li Yun demanded to know who the men were, and they drew their sabers and shouted at him.

Li Yun confronted men sent by Fourth Prince Zhao Yunzong, who had come to seize him at an inn. After striking their leader and stopping He Yiming from fighting, Li Yun agreed to go with them to meet the Fourth Prince.

• He Yiming, Li Yingchun, and Mu Dong stood up to defend Li Yun when the men in black threatened them.
• Li Yun’s cold snort injured the men in black, and their leader revealed that they served Fourth Prince Zhao Yunzong.
• Li Yun slapped the leader and rebuked him for provoking opposition to the Fourth Prince.
• He Yiming prepared to fight the men, but Li Yun pulled him back and said they were not worth fighting.
• Li Yun ordered the leader to take him to the Fourth Prince and left the inn with the men in black following.

Li Yun went to the Fourth Prince Zhao Yunzong’s Residence after Zhao’s men summoned him, while He Yiming and others learned he had been taken there. Zhao Yunzong tried to assert his authority through an elaborate display, but Li Yun refused to kneel and slapped the servant who challenged him.

• He Yiming wanted to follow Li Yun, but Li Yingchun argued that doing so could cause trouble and said Li Yun was unlikely to be harmed.
• Ye Tianxie arrived at the inn, learned Li Yun had gone to meet Fourth Prince Zhao Yunzong, and hurried off with He Yiming, Li Yingchun, and Mu Dong to seek Zhao Ziyue, the Ninth Princess.
• Li Yun entered Fourth Prince Zhao Yunzong’s grand Residence and found Zhao seated in a garden Pavilion with women entertaining him and guards lining the path.
• Zhao Yunzong ignored Li Yun until Li Yun asked why he had been summoned, prompting a servant to accuse him of disrespecting the Fourth Prince.
• Li Yun said his Imperial Court title meant he did not have to kneel, then slapped the servant and sent him flying.

Li Yun rejected Fourth Prince Zhao Yunzong’s demand that he join his ranks, explaining that he only cared about pursuing the Martial Dao. When Zhao Yunzong’s subordinates tried to stop him from leaving, Li Yun defeated one with a single punch.

• Li Yun learned that Zhao Yunzong was hostile to him because of his friendship with Zhao Ziyue.
• Zhao Yunzong asked Li Yun to become his assistant, claiming he was the kingdom’s sole heir.
• Li Yun refused and said he planned to leave for the Cracked Heaven Dynasty after the Prodigy Tournament.
• Zhao Yunzong’s four Spirit Cocoon Realm Martial Artists blocked Li Yun from leaving, and one attacked him.
• Li Yun used the Primordial World-Shaking Fist to send the attacking Martial Artist flying.

Li Yun overwhelmed Zhao Yunzong’s fighters at the Fourth Prince’s residence, forcing Zhao Yunzong to order Tian Lin and Meng Wu to kill him. As the two hesitated over the consequences, Zhao Ziyue arrived and called for her Fourth Brother to stop.

• Tian Lin and Meng Wu watched Li Yun’s high-quality Innate True Qi and powerful Battle Technique overcome the Spirit Cocoon Realm fighters.
• Zhao Yunzong ordered Tian Lin and Meng Wu to kill Li Yun, but they feared Chen Jiuxu’s retaliation and hesitated.
• Li Yun defeated the gathered Mortal Transformation Realm and Spirit Cocoon Realm martial artists, then confronted Zhao Yunzong at the Pavilion.
• Zhao Yunzong furiously demanded that Tian Lin and Meng Wu kill Li Yun immediately, while they regretted having joined his command.
• Zhao Ziyue arrived with her people and shouted for Zhao Yunzong to stop.

Li Yun refused Zhao Yunzong’s demand to join him and left his residence after the two threatened each other. Zhao Wuji summoned Zhao Yunzong to Mysterious Moon Palace and rebuked him for feuding with Zhao Ziyue and trying to force Li Yun into submission.

• Zhao Ziyue arrived with experts, checked that Li Yun was unharmed, and confronted Zhao Yunzong for targeting her friend.
• Li Yun refused to serve Zhao Yunzong, warned him against sending assassins, and left the residence.
• Zhao Yunzong threatened Li Yun, destroyed a pavilion in anger, and insulted Zhao Ziyue until she departed, ending any chance of reconciliation.
• A eunuch delivered Zhao Wuji’s summons, and Zhao Yunzong hurried to Mysterious Moon Palace.
• Zhao Wuji ordered Zhao Yunzong to kneel and rebuked him for his feud with Zhao Ziyue and his attempt to force Li Yun into submission.

Zhao Yunzhu revealed that he had survived the assassination attempt twenty years earlier and explained the plan to make Zhao Yunzong King of Xuanyue. Zhao Yunzong learned why Zhao Wuji had favored Zhao Ziyue and was told to keep opposing her publicly while Zhao Yunzhu met with her.

• Zhao Wuji told Zhao Yunzong that he could pass the throne to him, then summoned the supposedly dead Zhao Yunzhu to speak with him.
• Zhao Yunzhu told Zhao Yunzong that he was still destined to become King of Xuanyue, but his impatience and feud with Zhao Ziyue had endangered Zhao Wuji's plan.
• Zhao Yunzhu explained that he had faked his death after an assassination attempt and that Zhao Wuji had concealed him to protect the Zhao Family's Jiang.
• Zhao Yunzhu revealed that Zhao Ziyue would have to marry into the Cracked Heaven Imperial Dynasty and that Zhao Wuji's affection for her was compensation for her sacrifice.
• Zhao Yunzong offered to apologize to Zhao Ziyue, but Zhao Yunzhu told him to keep targeting her publicly and left to meet her himself.
• Zhao Yunzong laughed and gloated that the throne would eventually be his.

Li Yun settled into the courtyard Zhao Ziyue had prepared and told Ye Tianxie that Night Emperor’s threat to him and the Celestial Martial Sect had passed for now. As Li Yun and Zhao Ziyue discussed the upcoming tournament, they learned that Dongling Kingdom had sent prodigies demanding to participate, prompting Zhao Ziyue to return to the palace.

• Ye Tianxie brought Li Yun to a quiet courtyard near Zhao Ziyue’s residence, and Li Yun said he intended to challenge the Wantu Kingdom Prodigy before leaving for the Cracked Heaven Dynasty.
• Li Yun revealed that Night Emperor and others had tried to kill him and planned to destroy the Celestial Martial Sect, but he warned Ye Tianxie not to provoke them or endanger his master.
• Li Yun teased Ye Tianxie about his feelings for Zhao Ziyue and urged him to pursue her; when Zhao Ziyue arrived, Ye Tianxie nervously left to fetch food and drink.
• Li Yun reassured Zhao Ziyue that he did not blame her for Zhao Yunzong’s attempt to recruit him and asked when the arena match would begin.
• A maid reported that Dongling Kingdom had sent a group of prodigies who demanded to enter the Prodigy Tournament, and Zhao Ziyue hurried back to the palace.

Li Yun advanced to the Spirit Cocoon Realm and discovered that the Celestial Martial Sect lacked the techniques he needed for further progress. He traded with Daoist Yunxiao for Spirit Cocoon Realm techniques, then logged off just as terrible news arrived.

• Li Yun cultivated the Primal Chaos Art and broke through to the Spirit Cocoon Second Layer with Third Grade spiritual power.
• Li Yun realized the Celestial Martial Sect could not provide enough techniques for him to advance further.
• Li Yun contacted Daoist Yunxiao and offered a Low-Grade Yellow Tier Divine Ability for Spirit Cocoon Realm Cultivation Techniques.
• Daoist Yunxiao gave Li Yun his thirteen techniques and agreed to gather at least a hundred more within three days.
• Li Yun logged off to test the techniques, but terrible news arrived.

After learning that Ye Tianxie had been murdered, Li Yun comforted the grieving Zhao Ziyue and went to investigate the woods where the body was found. He entered alone, claiming he would use a secret technique to force the murderer to reveal himself.

• A Martial Artist told Li Yun that Ye Tianxie was dead, and Li Yun hurried to Zhao Ziyue's residence.
• Li Yun saw Ye Tianxie's corpse in the hall, and Zhao Ziyue wept in his arms.
• Zhao Ziyue recounted that Ye Tianxie had been found dead in the woods with his Heavenly Evil Saber broken and his throat cut.
• Li Yun learned that Ye Tianxie may have gone to the woods to drink with him and insisted on investigating the scene himself.
• Sun Yiqi led Li Yun to the woods, where Li Yun told him to stand guard outside while he used a secret technique.

Li Yun used Willow Transformation and his Wind Listener ability to learn from the forest plants that Zhao Yunzhu had killed Ye Tianxie and returned to the woods. He escaped Zhao Yunzhu’s spiritual search, but lacked the power to avenge Ye Tianxie.

• Li Yun transformed into a willow tree and gathered information from the surrounding plants while Sun Yiqi searched the forest for him.
• Li Yun sensed Zhao Yunzhu arrive and recognized him as the murderer, but Zhao Yunzhu sensed he was being watched and searched the area.
• Zhao Yunzhu hid when Sun Yiqi entered, then let Sun Yiqi leave without revealing himself.
• Zhao Yunzhu returned to search the forest with his spiritual power, but the Gate of Myriad Wonders shielded Li Yun from detection.
• After Zhao Yunzhu left, Li Yun remained hidden and accepted that he could not avenge Ye Tianxie yet.

Li Yun hid in the woods while Zhao Yunzhu searched for him, and Zhao Ziyue learned that Li Yun had also disappeared. Evil Blade Supreme arrived to avenge his disciple Ye Tianxie and left with the corpse, vowing to hunt down the killer’s entire clan.

• Li Yun stayed hidden as Zhao Yunzhu returned to the woods and waited for him, keeping his Spiritual Sense spread across the area.
• Sun Yiqi told Zhao Ziyue that Li Yun had disappeared, but her servants stopped her from going to the woods.
• Evil Blade Supreme appeared at Zhao Ziyue’s residence, incapacitated everyone except Zhao Ziyue, and demanded to know why she had not told him Ye Tianxie was dead.
• Zhao Ziyue explained how Ye Tianxie had gone to the woods and said Li Yun had disappeared there as well.
• Evil Blade Supreme sealed Ye Tianxie’s coffin, carried it away, and vowed to hunt down the killer’s entire clan.

Li Yun discovered that Ye Tianxie’s corpse held a faint, reviving trace of Life Origin and used his Innate Divine Ability to feed it spiritual substance. The Evil Blade Supreme stayed to guard them as Li Yun drained the surrounding woods, strengthening Ye Tianxie’s chance of revival.

• Zhao Yunzhu fled the woods after sensing the Evil Blade Supreme’s blade intent, and the Evil Blade Supreme arrived carrying Ye Tianxie’s coffin.
• Li Yun revealed himself, told the Evil Blade Supreme that Ye Tianxie’s murderer had escaped, and sensed a faint trace of Life Origin inside the coffin.
• Li Yun opened the coffin and used Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures to strengthen the weak power of revival in Ye Tianxie’s body.
• The Evil Blade Supreme offered supplies and prepared to find more, but Li Yun urged him to stay and guard against the returning murderer.
• Li Yun used All Things Return to Origin to drain the surrounding plants and send their gathered life force into Ye Tianxie, whose life began to revive.

Zhao Yunzhu admitted to Zhao Wuji that he had killed Ye Tianxie, and Zhao Wuji ordered him to hide to keep the murder from reaching Purple Moon. Ye Tianxie revived with fused life and death energy but lost his memories and suffered in sunlight, while Li Yun left to investigate and find help.

• Zhao Yunzhu told Zhao Wuji he had killed Ye Tianxie, and Zhao Wuji scolded him for provoking Evil Blade Supreme.
• Zhao Wuji ordered Zhao Yunzhu to hide and keep Purple Moon from learning of Ye Tianxie's death.
• Ye Tianxie awoke in the coffin with a strange life-and-death aura, asked who Li Yun and Evil Blade Supreme were, and screamed when sunlight burned him.
• Li Yun and Evil Blade Supreme carried Ye Tianxie to a dark cave, where they found he had lost his memories.
• Evil Blade Supreme vowed revenge, and Li Yun said he would investigate and find an expert to examine Ye Tianxie.

After Ye Tianxie's death, Zhao Ziyue reunited with the unharmed Li Yun, who discovered that the Heavenly Human Supreme killer resembled the former Crown Prince in her portrait. Zhao Ziyue revealed that her father had been using her as a decoy to protect her Fourth Brother's claim to the throne, leaving Li Yun to recognize the King's manipulation.

• After the Evil Blade Supreme left, Zhao Ziyue spread news of Ye Tianxie's death and his warning, stirring the Imperial City.
• Zhao Ziyue rushed to embrace Li Yun when he returned safely, then brought him to her study to talk in private.
• Li Yun listened for eavesdroppers and began describing Ye Tianxie's killer, but stopped when he saw the killer's likeness in a portrait.
• Zhao Ziyue explained that the portrait showed her deceased eldest brother, the former Crown Prince, and said she had secretly commissioned it.
• Zhao Ziyue told Li Yun that the King of Xuanyue had no intention of making her ruler and indulged her to draw attention away from her Fourth Brother.
• Li Yun realized the King had likely let Zhao Ziyue overhear the truth so she would willingly act as cover for the Royal Clan.

Li Yun improved his cultivation, awakened the Black Tiger Battle Soul, and discovered that the technique might still have room to grow. Meanwhile, the Three Kingdoms Prodigy Competition began with Mysterious Moon Kingdom suffering a humiliating early defeat, while Li Yun stayed away to study his new Battle Soul.

• Li Yun stayed in Zhao Ziyue’s Princess Residence and fused Spirit Cocoon Realm techniques into the Primal Chaos Art, raising his spiritual power to Second Grade.
• Zhao Ziyue sent Li Yun cultivation treasures and pills, helping him advance to the Spirit Cocoon Fifth Layer in a day.
• Li Yun spent nearly 80 billion Cognition Points to complete the Black Tiger Battle Tactic and awaken its Battle Soul and Battle Soul Domain.
• Zhao Ziyue opened the Three Kingdoms Prodigy Competition, where Mysterious Moon Kingdom’s fighters won only two of their first twenty matches against Wantu Kingdom and Dongling Kingdom.
• Mysterious Moon Kingdom’s Martial Artists called for Li Yun to enter the competition, but he remained in the Princess Residence studying the Black Tiger Battle Soul and its potential for growth through fused formation martial arts.

Li Yun traded a lightning-attribute Divine Ability to Daoist Yunxiao for 113 Spirit Cocoon Realm Cultivation Techniques, then received three Broken Stone Tablets as an extra gift. After logging off, Li Yun discovered that the system reacted to the tablets.

• Li Yun decided to improve his Array Dao cautiously and contacted Daoist Yunxiao to ask about the Cultivation Techniques he had collected.
• Daoist Yunxiao presented 113 Spirit Cocoon Realm Cultivation Techniques, and Li Yun agreed to trade him a Divine Ability suited to his innate lightning-attribute Special Physique.
• Li Yun gave Daoist Yunxiao the Yellow Grade Low Divine Ability Thunderous Might.
• Daoist Yunxiao offered Li Yun three Broken Stone Tablets from Ancient Ruins as an extra gift, explaining that they retained traces of an Ancient Sect's Martial Dao resonance.
• After they logged off, Li Yun found that the system reacted when the three Broken Stone Tablets appeared before him.

Li Yun discovered that the three Broken Stone Tablets were granting him vast Martial Cognition Points and loading three ancient arts, so he continued studying them. Meanwhile, Mysterious Moon Kingdom’s prodigies suffered repeated defeats at the competition, and Li Yun’s absence became a source of anxiety as the other kingdoms taunted them.

• Li Yun saw that the three Broken Stone Tablets were loading Moon Rising Over the Sea, Great Sun Illuminates a Thousand Autumns, and the Sun-Moon Heavenly Spirit Art, and he continued observing them.
• Bai Xianhe, Ning Bufan, and other Mysterious Moon Kingdom prodigies won several matches and briefly recovered some ground.
• Ye Cangmang, Lei Qianjun, Chuan Xiazheng, and Dong Yefan took the arena platforms and defeated Mysterious Moon Kingdom challengers through more than thirty consecutive matches.
• Chuan Xiazheng and Dong Yefan mocked the Mysterious Moon Kingdom Martial Artists, while Ye Cangmang taunted them over Li Yun’s failure to appear.
• A Mysterious Moon Kingdom Royal Prodigy who had lost to Ye Cangmang asked Zhao Ziyue why Li Yun had not competed despite staying at the Princess Residence.

Li Yun delayed the prodigy competition after learning that Old Daoist Wuchen had condensed a Dao Seed, then hurried to investigate Ye Tianxie's strange condition. On the way, Wuchen suspected Ye Tianxie might be undergoing corpse mutation, but said he needed to examine him before reaching a conclusion.

• Zhao Ziyue rebuked a Royal Prodigy for expecting Li Yun alone to uphold Mysterious Moon Kingdom's reputation and arranged for other Royal Prodigies to stall the competition.
• Li Yun told Zhao Ziyue that the visiting kingdoms had brought their best prodigies, then prepared to intervene in the contest.
• Old Daoist Wuchen contacted Li Yun and announced that he had condensed a powerful sixth-grade Dao Seed.
• Li Yun postponed his plans for the competition and arranged to meet Old Daoist Wuchen outside the west city gate.
• Li Yun told Wuchen that Ye Tianxie had died and revived in a strange state, and Wuchen suggested it might be corpse mutation before hurrying to examine him.