Chapter Summaries

Ding Yun confronted Li Yun at Ding Baisheng’s home, resentful that he had become her Sixth Uncle’s disciple, and tried to provoke him into a fight. Ding Baisheng returned and ordered Ding Yun and her companions to leave, while Ding Yun departed blaming Li Yun and vowing to avenge her humiliation.

• Ding Yun challenged Li Yun’s right to treat her and her companions as guests, and Li Yun answered her with sharp retorts.
• Ding Yun threatened Li Yun and released her Mortal Transformation Realm aura, but it had no effect on him.
• Ding Baisheng returned and reprimanded Ding Yun for questioning his choice to take in a disciple.
• Ding Baisheng ordered Ding Yun and her three fellow disciples to leave, ignoring Ding Yun’s attempts to explain herself.
• Ding Yun left after glaring at Li Yun and resolved not to let her humiliation go unanswered.

Ding Baisheng told Li Yun about his old friend Huang Fufeng’s grandson, who was trapped in Wanqing Mountain, and explained the danger posed by the Treant Tribe. Li Yun persuaded Ding Baisheng to let him join the rescue mission, and they prepared to venture into the mountain together.

• After Ding Yun left, Ding Baisheng lamented how she had changed, and Li Yun shifted the conversation to ask why he had returned.
• Ding Baisheng explained that Huang Fufeng’s grandson had become trapped in Wanqing Mountain while seeking an opportunity, and Huang Fufeng had asked him to help rescue the young man.
• Ding Baisheng described Wanqing Mountain as the Treant Tribe’s territory and warned that its powerful members were difficult for ordinary martial artists to defeat.
• Ding Baisheng revealed that he knew a Treant Tribe Guardian and hoped to ask for help because he owed Huang Fufeng a debt of gratitude.
• Li Yun offered to accompany Ding Baisheng, citing his Willow Transformation ability and other methods, and Ding Baisheng eventually agreed.

Ding Baisheng took Li Yun to Wanqing Mountain, where he praised Li Yun’s rapid advancement and ambition to shake the Cracked Heaven Imperial Dynasty. After the pair entered the forest, a group of arrogant young men mocked them, but their black-robed companion warned that the two seemed to be experts.

• Ding Yun learned that Ding Baisheng and Li Yun had left, then blamed Li Yun for her uncle’s attitude and vowed to become a Heavenly Human Supreme within ten years.
• Ding Baisheng and Li Yun arrived at the outskirts of a vast forest one day later, and Ding Baisheng praised Li Yun for reaching the Soaring Heaven Realm with fifth-grade Heavenly Spirit Energy.
• Li Yun said he aimed to make the Cracked Heaven Imperial Dynasty tremble, and Ding Baisheng believed he had the talent to do so.
• A White-Robed Youth and his companions mocked Li Yun and Ding Baisheng, so Li Yun jokingly blamed his uncle for getting wasted and led them into the forest.
• The Black-Robed Middle-Aged Man warned the White-Robed Youth not to underestimate the pair because they seemed to be experts.

Li Yun and Ding Baisheng ventured deep into Wanqing Mountain, where Li Yun gathered rare treasures while Ding Baisheng signaled the Treant Tribe Guardian. They waited for the Guardian to appear, and Li Yun kept harvesting treasures to nourish the Heavenly Origin Ring.

• Jiang Bielie told Wu Nanfeng that Li Yun and Ding Baisheng were powerful, prompting Wu Nanfeng to plan a match with Li Yun.
• Ding Baisheng identified the group as members of Nine Yang City and explained Wu Nanfeng’s status and abilities to Li Yun.
• Li Yun and Ding Baisheng entered the Treant Tribe’s territory, where Li Yun eagerly uprooted several rare Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.
• Ding Baisheng blew the whistle given to him by the Treant Tribe Guardian to signal their arrival.
• Li Yun continued gathering treasures, hoping to expand and enrich the Heavenly Origin Ring’s inner world.

Li Yun gathered Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures with Ding Baisheng, then went exploring while they waited for the Treant Tribe Guardian, Cang. In a barren Stone Valley, he heard a strange sound from a turtle-shaped pattern beneath a boulder and shattered the stone with his Ancient Sword.

• Li Yun and Ding Baisheng collected 127 plants, expanding the Heavenly Origin Ring into a vast world of 156 varieties of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.
• When Cang failed to appear after more than an hour, Li Yun asked Ding Baisheng to wait while he explored nearby.
• Li Yun used his Wind Listener ability to locate more treasures and gathered over thirty plants as he traveled west.
• Li Yun entered a barren Stone Valley and traced a strange gurgling sound to a turtle-shaped pattern beneath a huge boulder.
• When the boulder trembled and the sound grew clearer, Li Yun drew his Ancient Sword and shattered it with a slash.

Li Yun freed a starving Stone Turtle spirit beast from a boulder and accepted it as his newest companion. After naming it Stone and feeding the three spirit beasts in the Heavenly Origin Ring, he left Stone Valley to continue gathering treasures.

• Li Yun shattered the boulder and discovered a living Stone Turtle spirit beast trapped inside.
• Heipi and Xiao Qing translated the Stone Turtle’s cries, explaining that it had been sealed away and was asking Li Yun to accept it as master in exchange for food.
• Li Yun agreed, and the Stone Turtle recognized him as its master by biting his finger and taking a drop of blood.
• Li Yun named the tiny but incredibly heavy turtle Stone and put it in the Heavenly Origin Ring with Heipi and Xiao Qing, where he set out Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures for them to eat.
• Heipi and Xiao Qing shared food with the slow-moving Stone, and Li Yun watched them warmly before leaving Stone Valley to search for more treasures.

Li Yun expanded his collection of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, discovered the Myriad Treasures Heavenly Record, and began cultivating a Myriad Treasures Divine Body. While gathering plants in Wanqing Mountain, he accidentally crossed into Treant Tribe territory and found a Treant watching him.

• Li Yun transplanted more than three thousand Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures into the Heavenly Origin Ring, and their vitality revealed an ancient stone tablet.
• Li Yun observed the Myriad Treasures Heavenly Record, which catalogued countless Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, and gained Martial Cognition Points while the Myriad Treasures Divine Body began loading.
• Li Yun continued gathering Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, reaching a total of four thousand after transplanting a Purple Moon Lotus.
• Li Yun realized he had crossed into the Treant Tribe's territory and saw a green-skinned humanoid Treant watching him.

Li Yun disguised himself as a willow tree and learned from Meng that Huang Zhengqi's group had damaged the Treant Tribe's Divine Tree after infiltrating the Ancestral Tree Plain. Fearing the Treant Tribe would retaliate against humans and that Ding Baisheng would unknowingly worsen the crisis, Li Yun hurried out to find out what was happening.

• Li Yun transformed into a willow tree so he could understand and speak with Meng, then pretended to know about humans to gain Meng's trust.
• Meng told Li Yun that Huang Zhengqi and his group had entered the Ancestral Tree Plain and driven a Demon Nail into the Divine Tree, severely wounding it.
• Meng explained that the Treant Tribe Chief had captured Huang Zhengqi's group and summoned branch chiefs and experts to try to heal the Divine Tree.
• Li Yun realized the Divine Tree's death could drive the Treant Tribe to attack humans and feared Ding Baisheng would meet the Treant Tribe Guardian without knowing the danger.
• Li Yun told Meng he would investigate and rushed out of Treant Tribe territory.

Li Yun persuaded Treant Tribe Guardian Cang that he and Ding Baisheng had come to investigate the humans who damaged the Divine Tree and prevent a war. Cang agreed to let them enter the Forbidden Land, where Li Yun hoped to inspect the tree and uncover who was behind the incident.

• Guardian Cang confronted Ding Baisheng and accused the humans of trespassing on Wanqing Mountain.
• Li Yun claimed they had come to deal with the culprits and suggested someone might have ordered the attack to provoke a war between the Treant Tribe and humanity.
• Li Yun offered to help examine and restore the damaged Divine Tree, and Cang went to consult his clansmen.
• Ding Baisheng learned that Huang Fufeng's grandson had damaged the Divine Tree and initially wanted to leave, but Li Yun persuaded him to investigate.
• Cang returned and agreed to let Li Yun and Ding Baisheng enter the Treant Tribe's Forbidden Land.

Li Yun and Ding Baisheng entered the Treant Tribe’s territory and were confined to a guarded valley while they waited for the leader’s approval. During their half-month stay, Li Yun completed merging his remaining techniques into the Primal Chaos Art, raising his Heavenly Spirit Energy to the Fourth Grade limit.

• Treant Tribe Guardian Cang led Li Yun and Ding Baisheng deep into Wanqing Mountain, where Li Yun learned that Cang could speak human language because of the Divine Tree’s blessing.
• At the Treant Tribe’s core territory, Cang showed them the distant Divine Tree and refused to let them see the humans accused of harming it without the leader’s approval.
• Cang settled Li Yun and Ding Baisheng in a guarded valley and told them not to leave freely; Li Yun accepted the arrangement while Ding Baisheng recognized they were being treated as prisoners.
• Li Yun and Ding Baisheng settled into quiet cultivation, with Ding Baisheng studying the Classic of Virtue and Li Yun refining the Primal Chaos Art.
• After half a month, Li Yun merged all his remaining Soaring Heaven Realm Cultivation Techniques into the Primal Chaos Art and raised his Heavenly Spirit Energy to the Fourth Grade limit.

Li Yun discovered that his Gate of Myriad Wonders was connected to the derivative gate Ding Baisheng formed while comprehending the Classic of Virtue. Their discussion was interrupted when Protector Cang arrived, furious over the Divine Tree’s worsening corruption, and ordered them to meet the leader.

• Ding Baisheng warned Li Yun to wait until he reached the Heavenly Human Realm before comprehending the Classic of Virtue, then revealed the Gate of Myriad Wonders he had formed.
• Li Yun sensed that his own Gate of Myriad Wonders was the source of Ding Baisheng’s derivative gate and could control it, but concealed his discovery.
• Ding Baisheng explained that his gate had devoured a hidden will within his spirit and agreed to give Li Yun his Soaring Heaven Realm Cultivation Techniques.
• Protector Cang returned and ordered Li Yun and Ding Baisheng to see the leader immediately.
• Protector Cang blamed human interference for the Divine Tree’s damage, saying alien power had corroded a vast area and begun rotting one of its roots.

Li Yun and Ding Baisheng confronted the Treant Tribe Chief after human youths damaged the tribe’s Divine Tree. Yu Rong revealed that the tree was a Heaven and Earth Spiritual Root whose destruction could doom both the Treant Tribe and humanity, while Li Yun searched the Myriad Treasures Heavenly Record for information.

• Li Yun and Ding Baisheng arrived before Yu Rong and found Huang Zhengqi and several other young humans bound for damaging the Divine Tree.
• Li Yun denounced Huang Zhengqi and pressed him to explain what had happened, while Ding Baisheng secretly urged him to cooperate.
• Huang Zhengqi said someone had lured them to the Ancestral Tree Plain with promises of the Divine Tree’s blessing and supplied a black nail to awaken it.
• Yu Rong said the nail’s poisonous demonic qi had damaged the Divine Tree’s foundation, and warned that it could wither within a hundred years, letting the Outer Evil Wind destroy the Treant Tribe and humanity.
• Yu Rong revealed that the Divine Tree was a Heaven and Earth Spiritual Root, and Ding Baisheng rebuked Huang Zhengqi for failing to understand the consequences of harming it.
• Li Yun searched the Myriad Treasures Heavenly Record in the Heavenly Origin Ring for information about Heaven and Earth Spiritual Roots.

Li Yun learned that the Treant Tribe’s Divine Tree was a Heaven and Earth Spiritual Root whose damaged root threatened the Ancient Celestial Continent. The Treant Tribe allowed him to inspect it, and as he approached, he sensed a trace of death in its aura.

• Li Yun used the Myriad Treasures Heavenly Record to learn what a Heaven and Earth Spiritual Root was and realized the Divine Tree had likely been damaged before it appeared openly.
• Chief Yu Rong explained that the Divine Tree had created Wanqing Mountain and the Treant Tribe, then fallen into slumber, and that humans had damaged one of its roots.
• Li Yun agreed to help the Treant Tribe and insisted on seeing the Divine Tree’s injuries, while Chief Yu Rong forbade Ding Baisheng from accompanying him.
• Pear and Qi escorted Li Yun toward the Divine Tree while keeping their Celestial Domains partly open to guard against him.
• As Li Yun drew near the Divine Tree, he sensed a faint trace of death in its aura.

Li Yun observed the Divine Tree from beyond its Barrier and gained access to the slowly loading Great Creation Technique. After studying the Black Nail poisoning the tree’s roots, he transformed into a willow in hopes of communicating with the sleeping Divine Tree.

• Li Yun found that the Divine Tree Barrier prevented him and the Treant Tribe members from approaching the tree, then triggered the system by observing it from a mile away.
• The system began loading the Great Creation Technique, and Li Yun sat down to continue observing the Divine Tree while the two Treant Tribe members watched him.
• Li Yun saw that a Black Nail was releasing corrupting smoke into the Divine Tree and suspected Demon was behind the attack.
• Li Yun considered whether his Willow Transformation Divine Ability could communicate with the sleeping Divine Tree, then transformed into a willow before the astonished Treant Tribe members.

Li Yun discovered that he could not communicate with the Divine Tree, though the Treant Tribe believed his willow transformation proved he meant it no harm. When Demon People invaded Wanqing Mountain to destroy the Divine Tree, Qi and pear rushed to defend the tribe while Li Yun remained behind to try communicating with it.

• Li Yun transformed into a willow tree and sensed that he could communicate with the forest, but not with the Divine Tree, whose azure light was sealed behind black chains and barriers.
• Three thousand powerful Demon People entered Wanqing Mountain, aiming to kill the Treant Tribe and sever the Divine Tree’s roots before it could break free.
• Qi told Li Yun that Chief Yu Rong had also failed to communicate with the Divine Tree, and asked Li Yun to try again using his Innate Divine Ability.
• When an attack shook the mountain, Qi and pear left to confront the invaders and urged Li Yun to stay by the Divine Tree.
• Li Yun contacted Ding Baisheng, who warned him that Demon People had invaded and told him not to go outside.

Li Yun ambushed and killed two Soaring Heaven Realm Devil Race members who tried to pass through the Divine Tree Barrier, then returned to waiting near the Divine Tree. After the Myriad Treasures Divine Body finished loading, he discovered it was a body-refining Divine Ability that used the splendor of myriad treasures to temper the Divine Body.

• Li Yun remained in willow form near the Divine Tree while a battle involving more than a hundred Heavenly Human Supremes raged nearby.
• Two Devil Race members arrived, revealed their plan to approach the Divine Tree, and used Black Jade to turn transparent as they tried to pass through the barrier.
• Li Yun transformed into human form and used Thousand Sword Absolute to kill both Devil Race members before they could escape.
• Li Yun restored his Heavenly Spirit Energy with treasures, changed into a willow in a more secluded spot, and waited for more intruders, but none appeared over the next day.
• The Myriad Treasures Divine Body finished loading, and Li Yun realized it was a body-refining Divine Ability that tempered the Divine Body with the splendor of myriad treasures.

Li Yun discovered that the Heaven Grade Myriad Treasures Divine Body required vast quantities of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, but his All Things Return to Origin could refine them into pure essences with ease. He began cultivating it in the Heavenly Origin Ring and felt his physical body gradually grow stronger.

• Li Yun studied the Myriad Treasures Divine Body and learned that it required him to absorb essences from countless kinds of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures to forge a Divine Body.
• Li Yun realized that cultivating the Divine Ability would take other practitioners centuries because refining each treasure was slow and yielded little essence.
• Li Yun recognized that his All Things Return to Origin could turn consumed treasures into pure spiritual substances, making the Divine Ability a perfect fit for him.
• Li Yun entered the Heavenly Origin Ring, left Heipi on guard, and began swallowing Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures to cultivate the Myriad Treasures Divine Body.
• Li Yun felt his strength, physique, and vitality subtly improve as his body absorbed the treasures' essences.

After cultivating the Myriad Treasures Divine Body with thousands of treasures from the Heavenly Origin Ring, Li Yun discovered that the Divine Tree Barrier let him pass because his body shared the treasures’ origin with the tree. He reached the Divine Tree and saw the dangerous Soul-Destroying Nail, which triggered a huge gain in Martial Cognition Points.

• Li Yun spent three days consuming the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures in the Heavenly Origin Ring, bringing his physical strength close to the peak of the Spirit Cocoon Realm while his Myriad Treasures Divine Body remained at the beginner stage.
• Li Yun left the Heavenly Origin Ring, found the battle nearby still raging, and put Black Grade away before approaching the Divine Tree Barrier again.
• Li Yun realized the barrier barely resisted him because his body had absorbed essences from treasures born of the Divine Tree, and he passed through to within thirty meters of it.
• Li Yun sensed the Divine Tree’s immense power and wondered what could have weakened it so severely that the Four Great Evil Spirits could threaten it.
• Li Yun observed the Soul-Destroying Nail embedded in the trunk, and the system awarded him more than a hundred million Martial Cognition Points per second.

Li Yun initiated the Yellow Grade Peak Heavenly Demon Soul Extinguishing Technique to prepare to remove the Soul-Destroying Nail, then strengthened his Immovable Wisdom King Scripture. His spirit reached the peak of the Core Condensation Realm, just short of Spirit Transformation.

• Li Yun moved closer to the Soul-Destroying Nail to speed up loading the Heavenly Demon Soul Extinguishing Technique and accumulated more than 5 trillion Martial Cognition Points.
• After the technique finished loading, Li Yun spent 3 billion Cognition Points to initiate it and endured the surge of information.
• Li Yun decided to strengthen the Immovable Wisdom King Scripture so his spiritual realm could support further cultivation.
• Li Yun spent 100 billion Cognition Points to advance the scripture, and the Gate of Myriad Wonders swallowed the emerging Wisdom King Projection.
• Li Yun's spirit reached the peak of the Core Condensation Realm, a hair's breadth from the Spirit Transformation Realm.

Li Yun perfected the Heavenly Demon Soul Extinguishing Technique, removed the Soul-Destroying Nail and its corruption from the Divine Tree, but still could not communicate with it. As he turned to leave, the Divine Tree finally called weakly for help.

• The Gate of Myriad Wonders devoured the Wrathful Wisdom King’s projection, and Li Yun realized it had grown more tangible and stable.
• Li Yun upgraded the Heavenly Demon Soul Extinguishing Technique to Perfection, spending more than 3 trillion Cognition Points and recovering after a day and night of disorientation.
• Li Yun pulled the Soul-Destroying Nail from the Divine Tree and removed the black smoke that had corrupted it.
• Li Yun found that the Divine Tree still gave no response and recalled that it had been unable to communicate even before the Devil Race’s attack.
• As Li Yun turned to leave, the Divine Tree trembled and weakly called for help in his mind.