Chapter Summaries

Yang Yundu tried to recruit Wu Nanfeng to help him kill Li Yun, offering a Heavenly Poison Demon Seed as proof that he could overcome Li Yun’s strength. Wu Nanfeng agreed to cooperate but demanded the seed first.

• Wu Nanfeng struck Xu Yourong in the mouth with a wine cup after she challenged him, knocking out two of her teeth.
• Yang Yundu apologized to Wu Nanfeng, took Xu Yourong to Cloud Sky Inn, and told her to wait there while he returned.
• Yang Yundu told Wu Nanfeng that he wanted revenge on Li Yun and proposed luring him out so they could kill him together.
• Wu Nanfeng warned that Li Yun was in the Soaring Heaven Realm and doubted they could defeat him, so Yang Yundu revealed a Heavenly Poison Demon Seed and explained its deadly power.
• Wu Nanfeng agreed to the plan but insisted that Yang Yundu hand over the Heavenly Poison Demon Seed first.

Wu Nanfeng brought the Heavenly Poison Demon Seed to Wu Qiuse, who recognized Yang Yundu as its source and set out to capture him. Yang Yundu escaped with Xu Yourong and revealed that he had arranged for the seed to reach Li Yun, where it would trigger a deadly trap.

• Wu Nanfeng showed Wu Qiuse the Heavenly Poison Demon Seed and explained that Yang Yundu had given it to him while proposing to plot against Li Yun.
• Wu Qiuse identified Yang Yundu as a dangerous figure from the Mysterious Moon Kingdom and decided to take the seed to Li Yun while capturing Yang Yundu.
• Wu Qiuse and Wu Nanfeng found the tavern empty, and Wu Qiuse's Spiritual Sense search failed to locate Yang Yundu or Princess Mingguang, Xu Yourong.
• Yang Yundu and Xu Yourong emerged from hiding nearby, and Yang Yundu explained that he had expected Wu Nanfeng to deliver the seed to Wu Qiuse.
• Yang Yundu revealed that he had tampered with the Heavenly Poison Demon Seed so that Li Yun and Wu Qiuse's allies would face a deadly trap when it was presented.
• Yang Yundu urged Xu Yourong to leave and replace her missing teeth, prompting her to accuse him of making fun of her.

Wu Qiuse returned to Jinhe City with Wu Nanfeng and told Ding Baisheng and Li Yun about Yang Yundu’s plot with the Heavenly Poison Demon Seed. Wu Qiuse handed the treasure to Li Yun, unaware that Yang Yundu had been waiting for the chance to use it against him.

• Wu Qiuse and Wu Nanfeng arrived at Li Yun’s home, where Ding Baisheng invited them inside.
• Wu Nanfeng told Ding Baisheng that Yang Yundu planned to use the Heavenly Poison Demon Seed against Li Yun, and Ding Baisheng acted outraged.
• Li Yun came out, thanked Wu Qiuse for warning him, and asked to see the Heavenly Poison Demon Seed.
• Wu Qiuse gave the Heavenly Poison Demon Seed to Li Yun despite its great value.
• Yang Yundu sensed that Wu Qiuse had handed Li Yun the treasure and began a half-shichen countdown, claiming Li Yun would soon become a pool of pus.

Yang Yundu lost his connection to the Heavenly Poison Demon Seed and decided to go to Jinhe City to pursue Li Yun and the spatial treasure he suspected Li Yun possessed. Meanwhile, Divine Blade Manor’s master Song Gongming arrived in Jinhe City with a host of experts and confronted Li Yun, who blamed Heaven and Earth Tower for revealing his location.

• Yang Yundu discovered he could no longer sense the Heavenly Poison Demon Seed and suspected Li Yun had hidden it in a high-grade spatial treasure.
• Yang Yundu decided to travel to Jinhe City, leaving Xu Yourong behind while assuring her he could return safely.
• More than a dozen experts at the Heavenly Human Supreme level arrived in Jinhe City, alarming its residents and visitors.
• Song Gongming led Divine Blade Manor experts to Li Yun’s residence and demanded that Li Yun answer for crippling Song Wujie’s Divine Blade Battle Soul.
• Li Yun and Ding Baisheng were bewildered by the arrival, and Li Yun concluded that Heaven and Earth Tower had revealed his location again.

Li Yun, Ding Baisheng, Wu Qiuse, and Wu Nanfeng went out to face Song Gongming and the Feitian City experts gathered outside. As the Ding Family feared being caught up in the conflict, Ding Hefang urged the patriarch to disown Ding Baisheng.

• Li Yun offered to go outside, and Ding Baisheng and Wu Qiuse joined him while Wu Qiuse ordered Wu Nanfeng to stay behind.
• Li Yun persuaded Wu Qiuse to let Wu Nanfeng come along as an observer, and the four left the residence together.
• Song Gongming and over a dozen Feitian City experts hovered outside as crowds gathered to watch.
• Ding Shan worried that the powerful visitors could destroy his small family and questioned two elders about Ding Baisheng.
• Ding Hefang proposed publicly cutting ties with Ding Baisheng to protect the Ding Family and volunteered to represent the family.

Ding Hefang tried to protect the Ding Family by disowning Ding Baisheng, but Li Yun’s power became clear when he slapped Hefang away. Song Gongming then confronted Li Yun over Song Wujie’s defeat and prepared to attack him.

• Ding Hefang announced that Ding Baisheng’s dispute with the experts had nothing to do with the Ding Family.
• Ding Baisheng emerged with Li Yun, Wu Qiuse, and Wu Nanfeng, then rebuked Hefang for disowning him while still ordering him around.
• Li Yun struck Ding Hefang with a Great Palm Seal and sent him crashing into a roadside shop.
• Song Gongming accused Li Yun of crippling Song Wujie’s Divine Blade Battle Soul and fleeing to the Cracked Heaven Dynasty.
• Li Yun argued that Song Wujie had demanded their public battle to the death and that he had shown mercy by sparing him.
• Song Gongming dismissed Li Yun’s reasoning and unleashed his killing intent, declaring that he would suppress and kill him.

Wu Qiuse stepped forward to protect Li Yun from Song Gongming, but Qin Jue arrived and asked Wu Qiuse to stay out of Song’s revenge. The chapter ended with Wu Qiuse trying to avoid choosing sides while Qin Jue grew displeased.

• Wu Qiuse suppressed Song Gongming’s aura and challenged him for acting arrogantly in Nine Yang City’s territory.
• The onlookers realized Wu Qiuse was the Nine Yang City Lord, while Ding Shan regretted severing ties with Ding Baisheng and Ding Hefang collapsed in shock.
• Song Gongming looked to Qin Jue for help, and Qin Jue stepped forward after waiting for his own entrance.
• Qin Jue asked Wu Qiuse to let Song Gongming avenge his son, but Wu Qiuse proposed that both sides sit down and settle the matter.
• Qin Jue furrowed his brow when he sensed Wu Qiuse was unwilling to give him face.

Qin Jue and Wu Qiuse clashed over Feitian City's attempt to interfere in Li Yun's affairs, and Ding Baisheng revealed himself as a second Dao Seed Realm expert. As Li Yun openly challenged Feitian City, He Yijiu launched a sudden Divine Ability attack against him, leaving everyone stunned.

• Wu Qiuse refused Qin Jue's demand to leave Li Yun's matter alone, and Feitian City’s experts insulted him.
• Ding Baisheng revealed his Dao Seed Realm strength and declared that he would face Feitian City and Divine Blade Manor if they pursued Li Yun.
• Qin Jue recognized that Ding Baisheng's presence made a fight uncertain, but he refused to back down because Feitian City's lord was a Dao Embryo Realm expert.
• The Ding Family realized it had cut ties with a Dao Seed Realm expert, and Ding Shan feared the family would become a laughingstock.
• Li Yun challenged Feitian City, and He Yijiu attacked him with the Ten Thousand Extinction Blade Divine Ability.

Li Yun killed He Yijiu with a perfected Divine Ability after the Feitian City Heavenly Human Supreme ambushed him, shocking everyone in Jinhe City. Feitian City’s experts attacked Li Yun, and Wu Qiuse was left torn between defending him and avoiding a feud with Feitian City.

• He Yijiu ambushed Li Yun, but Li Yun countered with the Heavenly Demon Soul Extinguishing Technique and killed him in one strike.
• The people of Jinhe City were stunned by Li Yun’s strength, and Wu Nanfeng became completely convinced of his superiority.
• Feitian City’s experts charged at Li Yun, but Ding Baisheng and Wu Qiuse forced them back while Li Yun retreated, drained of nearly all his Heavenly Spirit Energy.
• Qin Jue confronted Wu Qiuse over defending Li Yun, leaving Wu Qiuse conflicted between Li Yun and Feitian City.

Wu Qiuse sided with Li Yun against Qin Jue, but Qin Jue still ordered the Feitian City forces to attack. The Old Demon Hag arrived from White Emperor City, recognized Li Yun, and revealed that he carried a White Emperor Token, leaving Qin Jue and his allies terrified.

• Wu Qiuse refused Qin Jue’s threats and defended Li Yun, while Song Gongming regretted seeking revenge after seeing Li Yun’s strength.
• Qin Jue rejected Song Gongming’s suggestion to retreat and ordered the Feitian City forces to kill Li Yun.
• Ding Baisheng and Wu Qiuse prepared to fight as Qin Jue’s forces advanced.
• The Old Demon Hag descended and asked Li Yun why he had not visited her in White Emperor City.
• Li Yun explained that he had only recently arrived and showed her the White Emperor Token, shocking Qin Jue and the others.

The Old Demon Hag killed Qin Jue and took Li Yun to White Emperor City, promising him the position of Holy Son. Afterward, Ding Baisheng severed ties with the Ding Family and accepted Wu Qiuse’s invitation to stay in Nine Yang City.

• Qin Jue pleaded with the Old Demon Hag, then tried to flee when she rejected his excuses, but her Lotus turned him to ashes.
• The remaining Feitian City experts knelt in fear as the Old Demon Hag took Li Yun away to White Emperor City and offered him the Holy Son position.
• Wu Qiuse realized Li Yun’s appointment could protect him from Feitian City and invited Ding Baisheng to live in Nine Yang City; Ding Baisheng accepted.
• Ding Baisheng rejected the Ding Family’s apologies, gave Ding Shan a Low-Grade Yellow Tier Divine Ability, and declared their ties ended.
• Wu Qiuse left with Wu Nanfeng to follow Ding Baisheng, while the Ding Family stayed outside Ding Baisheng’s empty residence.

Yang Yundu learned that Li Yun had been taken by a White Emperor City expert and fled Jinhe City to avoid exposing his scheme. The Old Demon Hag revealed that she was a Wuwei Dao Palace Holy Maiden and urged Li Yun to become White Emperor City's Holy Son as the world grew more dangerous.

• Yang Yundu heard that Li Yun had killed He Yijiu, and that a White Emperor City expert had killed Qin Jue and taken Li Yun away.
• Fearing that the White Emperor City expert would uncover the Heavenly Poison Demon Seed, Yang Yundu hurriedly left Jinhe City.
• The Old Demon Hag brought Li Yun to an unfamiliar mountain and confronted him about giving Ding Baisheng a more complete Dao scripture than he had given her.
• The Old Demon Hag revealed that she was a Wuwei Dao Palace Holy Maiden called the Cloud Cliff Saintess and showed Li Yun her Wuwei Sacred Jade.
• Li Yun gained a billion Martial Cognition Points and began loading the Wuwei Dao Art after observing the Sacred Jade.
• The Old Demon Hag urged Li Yun to become White Emperor City's Holy Son, saying its resources could help him grow stronger before the world fell into greater chaos.

Li Yun agreed to compete for a Holy Son position in White Emperor City after Cloud Cliff Saintess explained the contest and his chances. She brought him to a site believed to hold a fragment of Wuwei Dao Palace’s shattered Sacred Land Dao Field, hoping he could find an opportunity to break through to the Heavenly Human Realm; she left their larger cooperation unexplained until he secured the position.

• Li Yun agreed to follow Cloud Cliff Saintess to White Emperor City and asked whether she could guarantee him a Holy Son position, but she said she could only offer him candidacy.
• Cloud Cliff Saintess explained that eight candidates were already competing for the remaining position and that all except Li Yun had reached the Heavenly Human Realm.
• Li Yun reflected on how quickly he had advanced, and Cloud Cliff Saintess remarked that his cultivation seemed unusually rapid before explaining what it meant to be a heaven-and-earth protagonist.
• Cloud Cliff Saintess revealed that she had found the entrance to a fragment of Wuwei Dao Palace’s shattered Sacred Land Dao Field and had brought Li Yun there to seek an opportunity for a breakthrough.
• Li Yun agreed to try entering the Dao Field and asked why Cloud Cliff Saintess was helping him; she said they were cooperating and promised to explain the complicated opportunity after he became a Holy Son.

Li Yun and the Cloud Cliff Saintess entered the Wuwei Dao Palace Holy Land Dojo Fragment after she destroyed the Evil Spirits guarding its entrance. The fragment’s lingering resonance rapidly granted Li Yun Martial Cognition Points and martial arts, and he began studying them while the Saintess explored the ruins.

• Li Yun followed the Cloud Cliff Saintess deeper into the mountains, where observing the Sacred Land Seal taught him Formations and martial arts.
• The Cloud Cliff Saintess found the cave entrance and used Ten Absolute Sword Finger to kill the Evil Spirits concealed beyond it.
• The Cloud Cliff Saintess warned Li Yun that the Four Great Evil Spirits used Holy Land Dojo Fragments to ambush and prey on martial artists.
• Li Yun and the Cloud Cliff Saintess entered the ruined plaza, where the system began rapidly loading techniques, including Soaring Heaven Realm Cultivation Techniques.
• Li Yun sat down to study the fragment through his System Panel while the Cloud Cliff Saintess walked around the ruined plaza.

After spending more than half a month cultivating, Li Yun became famous across the Cracked Heaven Imperial Dynasty after his victory over He Yijiu and Bai Youruo’s declaration that he should become White Emperor City’s Holy Son. News of his rise reached White Emperor City, where his possible candidacy caused an enormous uproar.

• Li Yun used his Martial Cognition Points to cultivate the newly obtained Soaring Heaven Realm arts, aiming to form first-grade Heavenly Spirit Energy.
• News spread across the Cracked Heaven Imperial Dynasty that Li Yun had killed He Yijiu despite being ambushed, marking him as a rare prodigy.
• People learned that Bai Youruo, a former-generation Saintess and one of White Emperor City’s four great experts, had taken Li Yun and declared him a candidate for Holy Son.
• Li Yun’s name spread through all 108 main cities and into the subordinate kingdoms, and forces uncovered that he had practiced Martial Dao for less than a year.
• White Emperor City learned of Li Yun’s extraordinary rise, and his appearance stirred a major uproar over the final Holy Son position.

Zhang Fengshen and the other Holy Son Candidates suspected that the White Emperor Family had secretly nurtured Li Yun to claim the third Holy Son seat, and agreed to unite against him. Meanwhile, the White Emperor Family’s leaders were baffled that Bai Youruo had announced Li Yun’s candidacy without informing them.

• Zhang Fengshen reviewed suspicious reports on Li Yun and worried that his connection to Bai Youruo threatened the balance between White Emperor City and the Liehuang Imperial Clan.
• The Holy Son Candidates gathered at Zhang Fengshen’s residence, dismissed Li Yun’s background as fabricated, and suspected the White Emperor Family had secretly cultivated him.
• Zhang Fengshen argued that Bai Youruo’s public announcement showed confidence in Li Yun and called on the candidates to set aside their rivalries and face him together.
• Ye Changkong warned the candidates not to trust the White Emperor Family, prompting several who had secretly dealt with it to reconsider their loyalties.
• The White Emperor Family’s senior figures questioned why Bai Youruo had arranged Li Yun’s candidacy and announced it without consulting them.

The White Emperor Family debated Bai Youruo’s decision to put Li Yun forward for White Emperor City’s Third Holy Son position, while the imperial clan considered whether the family was secretly involved. Crown Prince Li Xin dismissed the need for suspicion and ordered that Li Yun be invited to meet him when he appeared in White Emperor City.

• Bai Tianhuang ended the White Emperor Family meeting and said he would contact Bai Youruo before anyone spoke recklessly.
• Bai Tianhuang told Bai Ruiguang that the family could not undo Bai Youruo’s public decision without damaging its reputation, so Li Yun should compete.
• Bai Tianhuang instructed Bai Ruiguang to tell the imperial clan that Li Yun’s nomination had been Bai Youruo’s personal decision.
• Li Xin reviewed intelligence about Li Yun and argued that the White Emperor Family had little reason to risk angering the imperial clan over a Third Holy Son position.
• Li Xin ordered the White-Haired Old Eunuch to invite Li Yun to the Eastern Palace when he arrived, warning his men not to cause trouble.

After reaching the peak of first-grade Heavenly Spirit Energy, Li Yun sought Spirit Fires to help him break past the limit and asked Cloud Cliff Saintess to arrange a trade through the Mind Dao Palace. The chapter left Cloud Cliff Saintess challenging him to prove he could break through, with dozens of Spirit Fires promised and a Dao scripture at stake.

• Li Yun reached Skyward Thirteenfold and raised his Heavenly Spirit Energy to the peak of first grade, but remained stuck there for three days.
• Cloud Cliff Saintess urged Li Yun to stop pursuing a breakthrough beyond first grade and enter the Heavenly Human Realm instead, but he refused.
• Li Yun decided that Spirit Fires could provide new mysteries for his Primal Chaos Art and asked Cloud Cliff Saintess to arrange a rapid trade for them.
• Cloud Cliff Saintess offered her nine Spirit Fires and promised to pay for fifty more, challenging Li Yun to break through the first-grade boundary.
• Li Yun accepted the Spirit Fires and agreed to give Cloud Cliff Saintess a copy of the Dao scripture if he failed to break through.

Li Yun absorbed more than forty clumps of Spirit Fire, including the Earth Rank Bone Cold Flame, and the Primal Chaos Art sublimated as his Heavenly Spirit Energy broke beyond the first-grade limit. His breakthrough to the Fourteenth Layer of Soaring Heaven Realm summoned nine bolts of Primordial Golden Lightning, leaving him stunned.

• The Cloud Cliff Saintess posted a bounty and obtained thirteen high-grade Mystery Grade Spirit Fires for Li Yun.
• Li Yun swallowed and absorbed the thirteen Spirit Fires at once, astonishing the Cloud Cliff Saintess with his ability.
• Li Yun continued absorbing Spirit Fire as more was traded over, refining more than forty clumps in total, including Bone Cold Flame.
• The Bone Cold Flame triggered a qualitative transformation in the Primal Chaos Art and pushed Li Yun's Heavenly Spirit Energy beyond the first-grade boundary.
• Li Yun advanced to the Fourteenth Layer of Soaring Heaven Realm, and nine bolts of Primordial Golden Lightning struck down as the Cloud Cliff Saintess was pinned to the ground.

Cloud Cliff Saintess watched as Li Yun’s beyond-first-grade Heavenly Spirit Energy broke through the Heaven-Earth Pass and summoned nine bolts of Primordial Golden Lightning. The first bolt struck him, and she feared he would die from the calamity she had inadvertently helped bring upon him.

• Cloud Cliff Saintess realized that Li Yun had triggered nine bolts of Primordial Golden Lightning, which could make him a Nine-Lightning Mythical Heavenly Human if he survived.
• Cloud Cliff Saintess recognized that the lightning was almost certain to kill Li Yun, despite his profound foundation and beyond-first-grade Heavenly Spirit Energy.
• Cloud Cliff Saintess regretted giving Li Yun the treasures and opportunities that had helped him reach this perilous breakthrough.
• The first bolt of Primordial Golden Lightning struck Li Yun, covering him in golden sparks as he screamed in agony.
• Cloud Cliff Saintess closed her eyes and blamed herself for destroying Li Yun.