Chapter Summaries

Li Yun endured the first three bolts of Primordial Golden Lightning, but the fourth nearly overwhelmed his body and spirit. Facing death, he swallowed the Heavenly Poison Demon Seed in a desperate attempt to survive the remaining lightning.

• The Cloud Cliff Saintess reopened her eyes and saw Li Yun healing and growing stronger beneath the lightning, having endured two bolts and faced the third.
• Li Yun survived the third bolt and passed the first major threshold, while the Cloud Cliff Saintess watched helplessly.
• The fourth bolt struck with far greater force, scorching half of Li Yun’s body and threatening to shatter his spiritual power.
• Li Yun took out the Heavenly Poison Demon Seed from his Heavenly Origin Ring and swallowed it, hoping it would help complete his Myriad Treasures Divine Body.

Li Yun swallowed the Heavenly Poison Demon Seed during the Primordial Golden Lightning trial, and his abilities transformed its poison into a breakthrough for his body. His body reached the Heavenly Human Realm and became far more resistant to the lightning, while Yang Yundu remotely activated the Demon Restriction without knowing Li Yun had already absorbed the seed.

• The Cloud Cliff Saintess and Yang Yundu mistook Li Yun swallowing the Heavenly Poison Demon Seed for an attempt to kill himself.
• Yang Yundu realized Li Yun had swallowed the seed, believed he was doomed, and activated its hidden Demon Restriction from afar.
• Li Yun’s All Things Return to Origin and Myriad Treasures Divine Body absorbed the seed’s poisonous essence and advanced to Initial Completion Realm.
• The essence of Li Yun’s past treasures fused with his body as the Primordial Golden Lightning struck, triggering a vast increase in his strength and vitality.
• Li Yun’s body reached a level comparable to the Heavenly Human Realm, greatly reducing the pain of the Primordial Golden Lightning.
• The Cloud Cliff Saintess watched in shock as Li Yun’s breakthrough turned the Heavenly Poison Demon Seed into an unexpected advantage.

After Li Yun’s physical body broke through to the Heavenly Human Realm, he gained a Poison Spirit Body and the Heavenly Poison Domain ability. Yang Yundu’s Primordial Illusion God infiltrated Li Yun’s mind but was captured by the Gate of Myriad Wonders, leaving Yang Yundu gravely weakened.

• Li Yun checked his System Panel and saw his new Poison Spirit Body and Heavenly Poison Domain ability, which had formed during his breakthrough.
• Li Yun sensed an outside aura entering his mind and let it approach, confident that the Gate of Myriad Wonders protected his sea of consciousness.
• The aura revealed itself as Yang Yundu’s Primordial Illusion God and tried to devour Li Yun’s Spirit Pill and take his secrets.
• Li Yun summoned the Gate of Myriad Wonders’ power, and its light trapped Yang Yundu’s Primordial Illusion God and drew it inside.
• Hundreds of thousands of miles away, Yang Yundu spat blood and rapidly weakened as the loss severed part of his essence, energy, and spirit.

Li Yun endured the Primordial Golden Lightning and began cultivating the Void Mental Cultivation Manual to strengthen his spirit before the next strike. The chapter ended as he spent one trillion Martial Cognition Points to bring Void to the entry level.

• Yang Yundu lamented losing his Primordial Illusion God and vowed to devour Li Yun if he got another chance.
• Li Yun dismissed Yang Yundu’s attack and endured the fourth and fifth bolts of Primordial Golden Lightning.
• The sixth bolt hurt Li Yun’s body and spirit, prompting him to prepare to raise his spiritual level before the seventh bolt.
• Li Yun chose the Void Mental Cultivation Manual as a replacement for the Immovable Wisdom King Scripture because it did not require Buddhist nature.
• Li Yun spent one trillion Martial Cognition Points to raise Void from not yet begun to the entry level.

Li Yun initiated the mental Cultivation Techniques Void while enduring Primordial Golden Lightning, and his Spirit Pill transformed into a mysterious shadow that revealed his Spirit Transformation Realm mental cultivation. As the ninth lightning bolt gathered, the Cloud Cliff Saintess remained stunned by the unknown form.

• Li Yun spent 1 trillion Martial Cognition Points to initiate the mental Cultivation Techniques Void and absorbed its secrets while enduring the lightning.
• His Spirit Pill shrank as a cold, black shadow appeared behind it and steadily grew.
• The Cloud Cliff Saintess sensed a fleeting, terrifying aura from Li Yun but could not identify its source.
• The seventh Primordial Golden Lightning bolt struck, and the shadow absorbed more than half of its force before it reached Li Yun.
• The Cloud Cliff Saintess realized Li Yun had attained the Spirit Transformation Realm but could not recognize his shadow-shaped mental form.
• The eighth bolt neared its end as the ninth Primordial Golden Lightning bolt gathered, leaving the Cloud Cliff Saintess visibly shaken.

Li Yun endured the ninth Primordial Golden Lightning, but a previously unknown tenth bolt descended after it. The tenth lightning empowered him with a new divine ability and ushered him into a profound state of unity with heaven and earth.

• Cloud Cliff Saintess watched Li Yun withstand the ninth Primordial Golden Lightning and believed he would become the first Nine-Lightning Mythical Heavenly Human.
• The ninth bolt faded, but the golden thunderclouds remained and sent down a much thicker tenth bolt.
• Cloud Cliff Saintess feared the unprecedented lightning would kill Li Yun, but it caused him no harm.
• The tenth bolt entered Li Yun, mutating his physique, greatly increasing his Martial Cognition Points, and granting him the Innate Divine Ability King of Lightning.
• The thunderclouds dispersed as Li Yun experienced Heaven Man Unity and received a new, multicolored power that replaced the Heavenly Spirit Energy in his body.

Li Yun reached the Heavenly Human Realm and realized how completely it transformed him, becoming the first Nine-Lightning Mythical Heavenly Human. The Cloud Cliff Saintess congratulated him and urged him to master his new Dharma Power before returning to White Emperor City, where she planned to reveal a secret tied to the Holy Son position.

• Li Yun marveled at the transformation brought by becoming a true Heavenly Human and recognized how far beyond his former self he had become.
• The Cloud Cliff Saintess asked whether Li Yun was a Ten-Lightning Mythical Heavenly Human after witnessing the tenth strike of Primordial Golden Lightning.
• Li Yun explained that Ninefold Primordial Golden Lightning was the limit and that the tenth strike had been a reward from the rules of heaven and earth.
• The Cloud Cliff Saintess congratulated Li Yun and advised him to master his Dharma Power and revisit his Divine Abilities before returning to White Emperor City.
• Li Yun decided to use his Martial Cognition Points to improve his Divine Abilities and formations, and promised to take White Emperor City's Holy Son position.
• The Cloud Cliff Saintess said she had learned a secret that required Li Yun to become Holy Son and told him to stabilize his cultivation before she explained it.

Li Yun arrived in White Emperor City with the Cloud Cliff Saintess and learned that the city was nearing completion as an artificial Cave Heaven. After a month of cultivation, he had become a Heavenly Human Realm powerhouse whom the Cloud Cliff Saintess judged invincible within the Cracked Heaven Imperial Dynasty, leaving him ready to compete for the position of White Emperor City's third Holy Son.

• Li Yun entered White Emperor City with the Cloud Cliff Saintess and was struck by its scale and the powerful auras gathered there.
• The Cloud Cliff Saintess explained that the White Emperor Family was turning the city into an artificial Cave Heaven that could be hidden from the outside world.
• Li Yun focused on his mission to help the Cloud Cliff Saintess claim the position of White Emperor City's third Holy Son.
• During the month, Li Yun perfected his cultivatable Divine Abilities, improved his Array Dao and Void manual, and reached the peak of the Spirit Transformation Realm in spirit.
• Li Yun challenged the Cloud Cliff Saintess, who defeated him with Ten Absolute Sword Finger but praised his foundation and called him invincible in the Heavenly Human Realm within the Cracked Heaven Imperial Dynasty.

Bai Youruo brought Li Yun to the White Emperor Family’s main residence, where a Soaring Heaven Realm Martial Artist treated him with open contempt. She explained that the family would not welcome him because she was using their cooperation to challenge the family’s hidden forces, and she ended by declaring that their welcome was irrelevant.

• A White Emperor Family Martial Artist greeted Bai Youruo deferentially but looked down on Li Yun, then secretly resolved to find a chance to suppress him.
• Bai Youruo ignored the man’s attitude and led Li Yun onward, apologizing for the family member’s arrogance.
• Li Yun inferred that the family’s cold reception was deliberate, and Bai Youruo admitted that the White Emperor Family would not welcome him.
• Bai Youruo’s past clash with Family Head Bai Tianhuang and the ambush that drove her into hiding had led her to suspect a mysterious force within the family.
• Bai Youruo revealed that she had recruited Li Yun to help seize the Third Holy Son position and expose the hidden force, then said the family’s welcome was not up to them.

Cloud Cliff Saintess warned Li Yun that the White Emperor Family might target him if they learned he was a Nine-Lightning Mythical Heavenly Human, and Li Yun trusted his ability to hide his identity and cultivation. At the Main Residence Hall, Yuanheng Holy Son and Yunyi Saintess questioned whether Li Yun was qualified to enter the Third Holy Son selection, leaving the dispute unresolved.

• Cloud Cliff Saintess cautioned Li Yun not to reveal his identity as a Nine-Lightning Mythical Heavenly Human, and Li Yun said no one could uncover his background unless he allowed it.
• Cloud Cliff Saintess reflected that she could not sense Li Yun’s cultivation, while Li Yun knew his shadow-like spiritual consciousness concealed his aura completely.
• Li Yun and Cloud Cliff Saintess arrived at a garden where Bai Linzhong greeted Yuanheng Holy Son and Yunyi Saintess.
• Yuanheng and Yunyi struggled to sense Li Yun’s aura, then explained they had come to inspect the Mysterious Moon Kingdom prodigy seeking entry into the Third Holy Son selection.
• Yunyi suggested Li Yun was concealing a Soaring Heaven Realm cultivation and therefore might be ineligible under White Emperor City’s rules.

Cloud Cliff Saintess defended Li Yun from Yuanheng Holy Son and Yunyi Saintess, then brought him before White Emperor City's powerful family elders. Li Yun revealed a brief glimpse of his Dharma Power, leaving the gathered experts shaken without giving them time to identify its true quality.

• Cloud Cliff Saintess drove Yuanheng Holy Son and Yunyi Saintess away after they challenged Li Yun's right to compete for the Third Holy Son, while Bai Linzhong fled in fear.
• Yuanheng Holy Son and Yunyi Saintess waited outside and planned to find a chance to force Li Yun out of White Emperor City.
• Cloud Cliff Saintess entered the Main Residence Hall with Li Yun and confronted Bai Tianhuang and the more than thirty powerful figures gathered there.
• Cloud Cliff Saintess told Li Yun to demonstrate his Dharma Power, and he briefly released a wisp of it before withdrawing it to conceal its Seventh Grade quality.
• The experts sensed that Li Yun's Dharma Power was exceptionally pure, but they could not analyze it fully.

Ruo Saint defended Li Yun’s right to compete for White Emperor City’s third Holy Son, and Crown Prince Li Xin unexpectedly arrived and backed her call for a fair contest. Li Xin then singled out Li Yun and invited him to talk at his residence.

• Bai Ruiguang urged Ruo Saint to withdraw from the third Holy Son contest for the greater good and to avoid displeasing the Imperial Clan.
• Ruo Saint insisted that Li Yun would compete under the rules and challenged the Imperial Clan to choose a candidate capable of winning fairly.
• Crown Prince Li Xin and Cao Lin suddenly arrived at the Main Residence Hall, where Bai Tianhuang welcomed them.
• Li Xin agreed with Ruo Saint that the Holy Son contest had to be impartial to protect White Emperor City’s reputation.
• Li Xin recognized Li Yun from Mysterious Moon Kingdom and invited him to his residence for a chat.

Li Xin invited Li Yun to his manor, where he claimed they belonged to the same Li clan and shared descent from the Primordial Era’s Wood Emperor. The chapter ended with Li Yun hearing Li Xin’s serious explanation of their common ancestry.

• Li Xin openly invited Li Yun to his lodgings, and Li Yun accepted despite Cloud Cliff Saintess’s concern.
• Bai Tianhuang told Cloud Cliff Saintess that refusing Li Xin would risk a confrontation with the imperial clan, and she left determined to protect Li Yun if necessary.
• Bai Tianhuang ordered Bai Ruiguang to keep watch over Cloud Cliff Saintess and prevent her from acting impulsively.
• Li Yun arrived at Li Xin’s guarded manor and joined him for wine in a pavilion.
• Li Xin told Li Yun that they were members of the same Li clan, descended from the Wood Emperor of the Primordial Era.

Cracked Heaven Crown Prince told Li Yun that his Li Clan descended from the Wood Emperor, an ancient ancestor who had once considered unifying the Ancient Celestial Continent but abandoned the plan after meeting Lady Meng. He revealed that Li Yun’s branch came from a prince of the Cracked Heaven Imperial Dynasty, leaving Li Yun astonished that he had imperial blood.

• Cracked Heaven Crown Prince sent Cao Lin away so he could tell Li Yun secrets about their shared Li Clan ancestry.
• Cracked Heaven Crown Prince explained that the Wood Emperor arrived before the Eight Great Sacred Lands and founded the original Wood Emperor Palace.
• Cracked Heaven Crown Prince said the Wood Emperor abandoned his plan to rule the continent after falling in love with Lady Meng, and their descendants took the Li surname instead of Mu.
• Cracked Heaven Crown Prince told Li Yun that the original Wood Emperor Palace disappeared and that his own branch was the only one with a largely complete inheritance.
• Cracked Heaven Crown Prince revealed that Li Yun’s line began when a Cracked Heaven Imperial Dynasty prince was demoted and settled in Eastern Cloud Prefecture more than twelve hundred years earlier.
• Li Yun realized that he was descended from the imperial clan and asked whether he was of imperial blood.

Li Yun learned that the Cracked Heaven Crown Prince, Li Xin, wanted him to return to the Li Clan to help find the Wood Emperor Palace. After keeping Li Yun for a night, Li Xin publicly named him Xuan Yue County King and ordered him to represent the imperial clan in the contest for White Emperor City's Third Holy Son, leaving Li Yun and the Cloud Cliff Saintess alarmed by his provocation.

• Li Xin told Li Yun that he had come to bring him back to the Li Clan, hoping he would help locate the Wood Emperor Palace through the Heavenly Wood Wall.
• Li Yun agreed to consider returning to the clan after discussing it with Ruo Saint, and promised to keep the Wood Emperor Palace secret from the White Emperor Family.
• Li Xin asked Li Yun to stay and drink, and Li Yun spent the night at his residence.
• The Cloud Cliff Saintess waited outside all night and anxiously checked on Li Yun when he left the next morning.
• Li Xin appeared with Cao Lin and other experts, then had Cao Lin proclaim that Li Yun was Xuan Yue County King and would represent the imperial clan in the Third Holy Son contest.
• Li Yun and the Cloud Cliff Saintess recognized that Li Xin had publicly reframed Li Yun's participation to sow discord.

Li Yun realized Li Xin had used him to provoke the White Emperor Family and received an imperial decree ordering him to acknowledge his Imperial Clan ancestry. He studied the rewards, found an unexpected use for the Celestial Cloud Seed, and planned to negotiate further benefits from Li Xin while the Cloud Cliff Saintess prepared to return home.

• Li Yun accepted the imperial decree and rewards, then returned with the Cloud Cliff Saintess and explained how Li Xin had used him as a pawn.
• The Cloud Cliff Saintess questioned whether Li Yun was truly an Imperial Clan descendant, and Li Yun suggested secretly investigating the Wood Emperor Palace and extracting benefits from Li Xin.
• Li Yun discovered that the rewards included a transplantable Celestial Cloud Seed, placed it in the Heavenly Origin Ring, and saw it begin to propagate.
• Li Yun judged the Flowing Cloud Sleeve technique and the other rewards to be a stingy attempt by Li Xin to win him over, and planned to trade the Celestial Cloud Seed for more treasures after resolving the White Emperor City Holy Son matter.
• The Cloud Cliff Saintess told Li Yun to stay at her residence while she returned home to deal with her family.

The White Emperor Family’s leaders argued over Li Yun’s imperial appointment, while the eight Holy Son Candidates left a meeting with Cracked Heaven Crown Prince Li Xin ready to compete against one another again. Li Yun discovered and absorbed a hidden poison, turning it into a weapon he could use against Dao Seed Realm cultivators.

• Bai Ruiguang blamed the Cloud Cliff Saintess for the White Emperor Family’s predicament and demanded that she make Li Yun withdraw, but she challenged his reasoning and Bai Tianhuang ended the argument by urging everyone to leave matters alone.
• The eight Holy Son Candidates gathered at Zhang Fengshen’s residence and complained that Li Yun’s imperial appointment had made their competition seem pointless.
• Cao Lin summoned the eight Candidates to Cracked Heaven Crown Prince Li Xin, who met them privately; afterward, they left smiling and resumed treating one another as rivals.
• While comprehending heaven and earth at the Cloud Cliff Saintess’s residence, Li Yun detected a hidden poison in his body.
• Li Yun activated his Heavenly Poison Domain, absorbed the poison, and realized he could use it to ambush a Dao Seed Realm cultivator.

Li Yun and the Cloud Cliff Saintess discovered they had both been poisoned with Heavenly Injury Poison, and Li Yun deduced that the White Emperor Family Main Hall was the likely source. They planned to investigate who else had been poisoned to identify agents connected to the mysterious force within the family.

• Li Yun told the Cloud Cliff Saintess that he had been poisoned and showed her the subtle, colorless toxin he had already cured.
• The Cloud Cliff Saintess identified the poison as Heavenly Injury Poison and explained its deadly effects.
• Li Yun used his Heavenly Poison Domain to draw Heavenly Injury Poison out of the Cloud Cliff Saintess, revealing that she had also been poisoned.
• Li Yun reasoned that they must have been poisoned at the White Emperor Family Main Hall, since the Cloud Cliff Saintess had not visited the Cracked Heaven Crown Prince's residence.
• Li Yun urged the Cloud Cliff Saintess to investigate who else had been poisoned, since those unaffected might be connected to the mysterious force within the White Emperor Family.

Li Yun tested whether his Spirit Transmutation Shadow could hide Cloud Cliff Saintess while they investigated the White Emperor Family, revealing that he had mastered the lost Void cultivation technique. His shadow concealed only half of her, so Cloud Cliff Saintess suggested he carry her there.

• Li Yun vanished from Cloud Cliff Saintess’s perception, even when she used her Golden Eye Eye Technique, then reappeared and explained his concealment.
• Li Yun tried to hide Cloud Cliff Saintess with his shadow, but only half of her disappeared.
• Li Yun revealed that he had obtained and mastered the lost Void cultivation technique from the Holy Land Dojo Fragment, shocking Cloud Cliff Saintess.
• Cloud Cliff Saintess asked Li Yun to carry her to the White Emperor Family.

Li Yun and Cloud Cliff Saintess infiltrated the White Emperor Family’s residence under the cover of the Shadow Shroud Art, with Li Yun carrying her in his arms. Their flirtation ended when Li Yun spotted a Bai Family expert who had appeared in the residence hall.

• Cloud Cliff Saintess asked Li Yun to carry her into the White Emperor Family, and he agreed after reassuring her about her looks.
• At night, Li Yun carried Cloud Cliff Saintess openly through the White Emperor Family’s main residence while the Shadow Shroud Art kept them hidden from its guards and martial artists.
• Cloud Cliff Saintess asked Li Yun about his Void technique, but declined when he offered to teach it to her.
• Li Yun teased Cloud Cliff Saintess as he carried her, then squeezed her leg and continued touching her despite her protests.
• Li Yun spotted a Bai Family expert from the residence hall, and his expression turned serious.