Chapter Summaries

Li Yun returned to the cave with Ding Baisheng, who examined the amnesiac Ye Tianxie and identified his condition as a legendary Special Physique called the Life and Death Tribulation. The chapter ended with Ding Baisheng explaining that only three people had ever successfully awakened it.

• Li Yun introduced Ding Baisheng to Evil Blade Supreme, who was awed by Ding Baisheng’s overwhelming presence.
• Li Yun told Evil Blade Supreme that he planned to leave for the Cracked Heaven Imperial Dynasty because the Night Emperor had targeted him and threatened the Celestial Martial Sect.
• Evil Blade Supreme agreed to watch over the Celestial Martial Sect and help if the Night Emperor attacked.
• Ding Baisheng examined Ye Tianxie and identified his Special Physique as the Life and Death Tribulation.
• Ding Baisheng said that only three people in history had successfully awakened the Life and Death Tribulation.

Ding Baisheng explained that Ye Tianxie possessed the Life and Death Tribulation physique, which required death and the revival of both his body and soul to awaken fully. With Ye Tianxie's scattered soul nearing the point of no return, Li Yun offered to try to save him.

• Ding Baisheng explained that the Life and Death Tribulation physique was extraordinarily rare and could control Tribulation Force to determine life and death.
• Ding Baisheng revealed that Ye Tianxie had died unnaturally and was only halfway revived because Li Yun had strengthened his Life Origin.
• Ding Baisheng explained that Ye Tianxie's soul had scattered, causing his memory loss, and that a soul-gathering Secret Art was needed to restore him.
• Ding Baisheng warned that Ye Tianxie's soul fragments would dissipate within two days and that finding someone able to gather them seemed nearly impossible.
• Li Yun said there was still hope and offered to give it a try.

Li Yun received the Mystic Sound Soul Gathering Art and began comprehending it in hopes of gathering Ye Tianxie's soul, while Ding Baisheng assured Evil Blade Supreme that Li Yun could succeed. In the Mysterious Moon Kingdom, Zhao Ziyue faced pressure from Royal Prodigies over the competition before an urgent summons from the king interrupted her.

• Ding Baisheng passed the Mystic Sound Soul Gathering Art to Li Yun, who used the System Panel to begin comprehending it.
• Ding Baisheng told Evil Blade Supreme that Li Yun had mastered at least five Divine Abilities and had a strong chance of reviving Ye Tianxie.
• The Mysterious Moon Kingdom's prodigies continued losing to the Wantu Kingdom and Dongling Kingdom, so Zhao Ziyue suspended the competition for one day.
• Led by Zhao Chentian, the Royal Prodigies confronted Zhao Ziyue and demanded that she explain her plan or end the competition.
• An attendant rushed into Zhao Ziyue's residence and announced that the king urgently summoned her to the palace.

Zhao Wuji summoned Zhao Ziyue and demanded Evil Blade Supreme’s whereabouts, then revealed that Evil Blade had killed Zhao Yunzong in retaliation for Ye Tianxie’s death. He ordered Zhao Ziyue to find Evil Blade within three days or be killed himself, while his plans for the throne unraveled.

• Zhao Wuji summoned Zhao Ziyue and demanded to know where Evil Blade Supreme was.
• Zhao Wuji revealed a golden Dharma Aspect and forced Zhao Ziyue to her knees as she realized he had hidden his strength.
• Zhao Wuji accused Zhao Ziyue of concealing Evil Blade’s whereabouts and told her that Evil Blade had killed her Fourth Brother, Zhao Yunzong.
• Zhao Wuji explained that Zhao Yunzong’s death had ruined his succession plans and left him considering bringing Zhao Yunchu back into the open.
• Zhao Wuji ordered Zhao Ziyue to find Evil Blade Supreme within three days or he would personally suppress and kill her.

After Zhao Yunzong's death and King of Xuanyue's rejection, Zhao Ziyue suspended the Three Kingdoms Prodigy Competition and shut herself away. Meanwhile, Li Yun used the perfected Mystic Sound Soul Gathering Art to restore Ye Tianxie's soul, and the system revealed that Li Yun had gained the Life and Death Tribulation Divine Ability.

• Zhao Ziyue returned to the Princess Residence, suspended the Three Kingdoms Prodigy Competition, and locked herself in her room.
• Li Yun perfected the Mystic Sound Soul Gathering Art and took Ding Baisheng, the Evil Blade Supreme, and Ye Tianxie to the withered forest.
• Li Yun used the art's thirty-six syllables to gather Ye Tianxie's scattered soul fragments, while the Evil Blade Supreme failed to imitate the technique.
• After more than two hours, Ye Tianxie's heart began beating again and black-and-white energy surged from him.
• Li Yun received a system notification that he had gained the Life and Death Tribulation Divine Ability.

Ye Tianxie recovered his memories and revealed that Zhao Yunzhu had killed him, while Li Yun and Evil Blade Supreme learned how his Life and Death Tribulation worked. Ye Tianxie thanked Li Yun for saving his life and explained that he could absorb tribulation force to strengthen himself, leaving open the prospect of his becoming immensely powerful.

• Ye Tianxie formed a black-and-white blade and demonstrated the fearsome Rule Power of his Life and Death Tribulation.
• Ye Tianxie identified Zhao Yunzhu as the person who had killed him and recounted how Zhao had tried to make him support Zhao Ziyue’s marriage into the Cracked Heaven Dynasty.
• Li Yun confirmed that Zhao Yunzhu was the Crown Prince of the Royal Zhao Clan, presumed dead for twenty years.
• Ye Tianxie knelt and bowed three times to thank Li Yun for saving his life, then promised to repay him whenever needed.
• Ye Tianxie explained that he could absorb tribulation force to temper himself, but forcibly interfering with others’ tribulations would make him bear twice the tribulation.

Li Yun learned that Zhao Ziyue believed her father had ordered Ye Tianxie killed and that Evil Blade Supreme had avenged him by killing Zhao Yunzong. After Li Yun revealed that Evil Blade Supreme could not have committed the murder, he suspected Zhao Yunzhu had returned and framed him, leaving Zhao Ziyue shocked.

• Li Yun told Ye Tianxie that Zhao Ziyue likely knew she was being used by the royal family and urged him to speak with her before deciding how to take revenge.
• Li Yun returned to Zhao Ziyue's Princess Residence and found her devastated after King of Xuanyue summoned and accused her of helping Evil Blade Supreme kill Zhao Yunzong.
• Zhao Ziyue asked Li Yun to take her away from Mysterious Moon Kingdom and explained that she suspected her father had ordered Ye Tianxie's death.
• Li Yun said Evil Blade Supreme had been with Ye Tianxie and could not have killed Zhao Yunzong, then concluded that someone else had framed him.
• Li Yun identified Zhao Yunzhu, the former Crown Prince believed dead for twenty years, as the likely culprit, shocking Zhao Ziyue.

Zhao Yunzhu revealed that he had killed Ye Tianxie and Zhao Yunzong to reclaim the throne, then attacked Li Yun after Li Yun denounced him. An unknown figure effortlessly defeated Zhao Yunzhu, leaving Zhao Ziyue stunned.

• Zhao Yunzhu entered the room and admitted he had been spying on Li Yun, while Zhao Ziyue realized her eldest brother was behind the scheme.
• Zhao Yunzhu explained that he had killed Ye Tianxie and Zhao Yunzong to remove obstacles to reclaiming the throne of Xuanyue.
• Zhao Ziyue accused Zhao Yunzhu of betraying their family, and Zhao Yunzhu claimed only he could rule the kingdom.
• Li Yun mocked Zhao Yunzhu and declared that Zhao Ziyue would become King of Xuanyue instead.
• Zhao Yunzhu attacked Li Yun, but an unknown figure dispersed his Crimson Flame Cloud-Grasping Claw and struck him unconscious.

Li Yun, Ding Baisheng, and Zhao Ziyue entered the Mysterious Moon Royal Palace to settle the succession before dawn after Zhao Ziyue chose to become the next ruler. They confronted Zhao Wuji, exposed his lies about Zhao Yunzong's death, and Li Yun declared that Zhao Wuji would abdicate in favor of Zhao Ziyue.

• Zhao Ziyue chose to take up the burden of the Mysterious Moon Kingdom and become its next ruler after Li Yun said he hoped she would choose that path.
• Li Yun, Ding Baisheng, and Zhao Ziyue headed for the Royal Palace, bringing the unconscious Zhao Yunzhu with them.
• Zhao Wuji learned that Zhao Yunzhu had secretly left the palace and threatened Zhen Fu after he suggested the Fourth Prince might not have been killed by the Evil Blade Supreme.
• Li Yun entered the side hall with Ding Baisheng and Zhao Ziyue, accusing Zhao Wuji of framing the Evil Blade Supreme and letting Zhao Yunzhu kill Zhao Yunzong.
• Zhao Wuji ordered Zhen Fu to destroy the Celestial Martial Sect, but Li Yun stopped him and announced that Zhao Wuji would abdicate and pass the throne to Zhao Ziyue.

Ding Baisheng used the Soul Control Forbidden Art to give Zhao Ziyue control over everyone in the Royal Palace, allowing her to take the throne from Zhao Wuji. After Zhao Ziyue went to attend to her father, Li Yun resumed cultivating in a side hall.

• Zhao Ziyue confronted Zhao Wuji over using her as a political tool and framing her for Fourth Brother’s death.
• Ding Baisheng trapped the Royal Palace in his domain and used the Soul Control Forbidden Art to bind its occupants’ souls to Zhao Ziyue’s blood.
• Zhao Wuji attacked Ding Baisheng, but Ding Baisheng shattered his Crimson Flame Dharma Aspect and defeated him with Dao Seed Realm power.
• Zhen Fu and the other Heavenly Human Supremes knelt to Zhao Ziyue and acknowledged her as the new king, while Zhao Wuji collapsed.
• Zhao Ziyue arranged for Zhao Wuji to be taken to his chambers, then entered alone to speak with him.
• Li Yun left Zhao Ziyue to handle her father and resumed cultivating the Sun-Moon Heavenly Spirit Art in a side hall.

Zhao Wuji named Zhao Ziyue his governing successor, while Li Yun used treasures from the Royal Palace to raise his cultivation before resuming the Three Kingdoms Prodigy Competition. The chapter ended with Li Yun challenging the Wantu and Dongling Kingdom prodigies to face him together.

• Zhao Wuji sealed Zhao Yunzhu's cultivation, imprisoned him, and issued a decree making Zhao Ziyue his official governing partner and heir.
• Zhao Ziyue brought Li Yun nineteen high-grade Profound Grade treasures from the Royal Palace treasury, and he advanced to the Spirit Cocoon Tenth Layer in one day.
• Li Yun told Zhao Ziyue to announce that the Three Kingdoms Prodigy Competition would resume.
• Zhao Ziyue prepared the crowded Imperial City square with four Heavenly Human Supremes, and Zhen Fu threw out Martial Artists who fought for viewing spots.
• Li Yun landed on the arena and taunted the Wantu and Dongling Kingdom prodigies, inviting them to come up together.

Li Yun defeated Ye Cangmang with one punch and slapped him across the face, then sent more than ten Wantu Kingdom Martial Artists, including Lei Qianjun, flying when they came to demand an explanation. Princess Bailing ordered Song Wujie to challenge Li Yun, who continued to taunt Wantu Kingdom’s prodigies.

• Ye Cangmang challenged Li Yun and unleashed his Sword Dao Domain.
• Li Yun pierced Ye Cangmang’s Sword Dao Domain with the Primordial World-Shaking Fist and slapped him off the arena.
• Lei Qianjun and more than ten Wantu Kingdom Martial Artists rushed onto the arena to demand an explanation, but Li Yun treated them as challengers and slapped them all off.
• Princess Bailing accused Li Yun of humiliating Wantu Kingdom and ordered Song Wujie to teach him a lesson.

Li Yun provoked Song Wujie and the gathered kingdoms until Song Wujie demanded a life-and-death battle. Li Yun finally accepted, and Song Wujie drew his blade as the fight began.

• Princess Bailing called on Song Wujie, Wantu Kingdom’s strongest prodigy, to face Li Yun in the arena.
• Li Yun taunted Song Wujie and the Dongling Kingdom delegation, while Song Wujie threatened to kill him.
• Princess Bailing challenged Zhao Ziyue to make the match a life-and-death battle, but Zhao Ziyue said the decision belonged to the challengers.
• Zhao Chentian and the other Royal Prodigies berated Li Yun for refusing, so Li Yun struck Zhao Chentian from afar and Zhen Fu had the Imperial City guards arrest the Royal Prodigies.
• Li Yun accepted Song Wujie’s life-and-death challenge, and Song Wujie drew his blade.

Li Yun met Song Wujie's powerful blade art with two overlapping Sword Dao Domains and fought him to a standstill. As Princess Bailing planned to target Dongling Kingdom after Li Yun's expected defeat, Li Yun discarded his sword and summoned the Black Tiger Battle Tactic for a fist attack.

• Song Wujie unleashed the Divine Will Refining Blade Art, while Li Yun secretly learned the technique through his system notification.
• Li Yun countered Song Wujie's blade with Sorrowful Wind Swordplay and Zhenyue Mountain Sword, combining their Sword Dao Domains to block his attack.
• Li Yun and Song Wujie clashed evenly, shocking the spectators and alarming Princess Bailing.
• Princess Bailing ordered her people to target Dongling Kingdom after Li Yun's anticipated death.
• Li Yun threw his Ancient Sword aside, charged Song Wujie with his fists, and summoned the Black Tiger Battle Tactic.

Li Yun and Song Wujie revealed their Battle Techniques and Battle Souls, then fought at speeds and with power that astonished the spectators. Heyang Lord decided Li Yun’s reported history was fabricated, while Ye Li and Xie Yu'an watched the battle from an inn and worried over Li Yun’s strength.

• Song Wujie answered Li Yun’s Battle Technique with the Divine Blade Battle Technique and summoned his ninety-foot Divine Blade Battle Soul.
• Li Yun and Song Wujie clashed at extreme speed, unleashing destructive ripples that few spectators could follow.
• Heyang Lord and Princess Bailing stood in disbelief as Li Yun matched Song Wujie, who was famed for being invincible beneath the Soaring Heaven Realm.
• Heyang Lord rejected the reports that Li Yun had begun cultivating only months earlier and speculated that a powerful force had hidden his true background.
• Shanmu agreed that Li Yun’s rise defied common sense, while Heyang Lord feared Li Yun could ruin Dongling Kingdom’s plans in Mysterious Moon Kingdom.
• Ye Li and Xie Yu'an watched from an inn near the Imperial City square and wondered how close Li Yun was to becoming a Heavenly Human Supreme.

Xie Yu'an abandoned Ye Li and fled the Imperial City, while Ye Li recruited Yang Yundu and sent him to arrange Li Yun’s assassination in the Cracked Heaven Imperial Dynasty. Yang Yundu made his cooperation conditional on seeing Princess Mingguang within three months, then left as Li Yun’s killing intent erupted at the arena.

• Xie Yu'an told Ye Li he regretted accepting the job to assassinate Li Yun and announced he would leave the Imperial City.
• Xie Yu'an revealed that he had sent the Celestial Martial Sect the name of the person who ordered Li Yun’s assassination, then departed with his men.
• Ye Li persuaded Yang Yundu to join him as a partner, and Yang Yundu asked him to help find Princess Mingguang.
• Ye Li asked Yang Yundu to go to the Cracked Heaven Imperial Dynasty and find a way to kill Li Yun.
• Yang Yundu agreed only if Ye Li brought Princess Mingguang to him within three months, then left to make arrangements.
• Li Yun unleashed a furious roar and killing intent at the arena, prompting Yang Yundu and Ye Li to hurry away.

Li Yun crippled Song Wujie’s Battle Soul in their life-and-death battle, forcing Princess Bailing to admit Wantu Kingdom’s defeat and leave with the injured prodigy. Li Yun then challenged Dongling Kingdom, whose Heyang Lord conceded defeat as well.

• Li Yun tore apart Song Wujie’s Divine Blade Battle Soul, leaving Song Wujie gravely injured before a Wantu Kingdom Heavenly Human Supreme stopped the fight.
• Princess Bailing accused Li Yun of cruelty, but he defended his actions and the crowd jeered at Wantu Kingdom for being unable to accept defeat.
• Princess Bailing considered capturing Li Yun to appease Divine Blade Manor, but Zhen Fu and the other Heavenly Human Supremes protected him.
• Princess Bailing declared Wantu Kingdom’s defeat, warned Li Yun that its prodigies would return, and left with Song Wujie.
• Li Yun challenged Dongling Kingdom’s group to life-and-death battles, but Heyang Lord stopped Shanmu and conceded the tournament.

After the Three Kingdoms Prodigy Competition, Li Yun cultivated in the Royal Palace until he stood one step from the Soaring Heaven Realm. He said farewell to Zhao Ziyue and Ye Tianxie, then left Mysterious Moon Kingdom with Old Daoist Wuchen.

• After Wantu Kingdom and Dongling Kingdom conceded defeat, Zhao Ziyue bestowed the dynasty-level title Young Master Dongyang upon Li Yun.
• Li Yun spent about half a month cultivating in the Royal Palace, advancing to the fourteenth layer of the Spirit Cocoon Realm and preparing to break through to the Soaring Heaven Realm.
• Old Daoist Wuchen received an urgent message from an old friend, so Li Yun ended his seclusion and prepared to leave with him.
• Li Yun drank with Zhao Ziyue and Ye Tianxie, beat the drunken Ye Tianxie after he challenged him, then met privately with King of Xuanyue Zhao Wuji.
• Zhao Ziyue embraced Li Yun before he departed and promised to wait for his return, and Li Yun promised to come back to Mysterious Moon Kingdom.
• Li Yun and Old Daoist Wuchen flew away, leaving Zhao Ziyue and Ye Tianxie watching them go.

Li Yun arrived in Jinhe City with Ding Baisheng and adopted the identity of his disciple, Li Shaoyun, so he could keep a low profile. After exploring the peaceful city, he returned to the residence and began cultivating Soaring Heaven Realm techniques, preparing to advance.

• Ding Baisheng brought Li Yun to his modest residence and explained that he lived discreetly as a collateral elder of the Ding Family.
• Li Yun agreed to pose as Ding Baisheng’s disciple, Li Shaoyun, and accepted the need to hide his identity in the Cracked Heaven Imperial Dynasty.
• Ding Baisheng left to meet an old friend, while Li Yun went out to explore Jinhe City and found it orderly and peaceful.
• Li Yun listened for rumors in a tavern and learned that news of the Mysterious Moon Kingdom’s Prodigy Tournament had not reached the city.
• Li Yun returned to the residence and used Martial Cognition Points to perfect eight Soaring Heaven Realm cultivation techniques overnight.

After fusing more cultivation techniques, Li Yun officially reached the Soaring Heaven Realm but remained frustrated that his Heavenly Spirit Energy was only Fifth Grade. As he prepared to search Ding Baisheng’s secret chamber, Ding Yun arrived with three companions and learned that Li Yun had become her uncle’s disciple.

• Li Yun fused thirty-eight Soaring Heaven Realm Cultivation Techniques into the Primal Chaos Art and transformed his spiritual power into Fifth Grade Heavenly Spirit Energy.
• Li Yun worried that improving his Heavenly Spirit Energy to the highest grades would be difficult, but decided he had plenty of time to keep cultivating.
• Li Yun fused fifteen more techniques, then stopped to rest and prepared to open Ding Baisheng’s secret chamber.
• Ding Yun arrived at Ding Baisheng’s residence with three young men and was surprised to find Li Yun there.
• Li Yun introduced himself as Ding Baisheng’s disciple and invited Ding Yun and her companions inside.