Chapter Summaries

Li Yun and the Cloud Cliff Saintess secretly investigated White Emperor Family members, finding that seventeen Dao Embryo Realm experts had been poisoned with Heavenly Injury Poison. Unable to identify the poisoner, they decided to observe the remaining targets—and the Cloud Cliff Saintess proposed visiting the family treasury.

• The Cloud Cliff Saintess identified Bai Han Deng, and Li Yun followed him to Bai Xing Ye's residence.
• The Cloud Cliff Saintess trapped Bai Han Deng and Bai Xing Ye in a Dream Illusion while Li Yun used the Heavenly Poison Domain to remove their poison.
• Li Yun and the Cloud Cliff Saintess repeated the process on Bai Han Feng and other targets, discovering that all seventeen people they examined had Heavenly Injury Poison.
• Li Yun questioned whether the poisoner intended to kill the White Emperor Family's experts and suggested that they watch the remaining targets instead of continuing their risky investigation.
• The Cloud Cliff Saintess agreed to be cautious, then invited Li Yun to visit the White Emperor Family Treasury.

Li Yun agreed to follow the Cloud Cliff Saintess into one of the White Emperor Family’s Auxiliary Treasuries to take unrecorded treasures. They reached the towering treasury pavilions, where Li Yun prepared to slip inside, while the Saintess warned him not to take anything he was forbidden to touch.

• Li Yun considered the value of stealing Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures and high-level Heavenly Human Realm Cultivation Techniques.
• The Cloud Cliff Saintess explained that the White Emperor Family had three secret Main Treasuries and more than twenty Auxiliary Treasuries overseen by the Elder Hall.
• The Saintess said she would take Li Yun to a treasury overseen by another elder, and warned him to leave all recorded items untouched.
• Li Yun and the Saintess went to the Auxiliary Treasuries, a row of guarded towers inside the White Emperor Family’s main residence.
• Li Yun spotted a chance to slip into a treasury when it opened and asked the Saintess which one to enter.
• The Saintess warned Li Yun not to take forbidden items, and Li Yun promised to behave while privately resolving to avoid disrupting the family’s operations.

Li Yun and the Cloud Cliff Saintess sneaked into the Heavenly Treasure Tower and stole five unrecorded treasures from its second floor. They hid when Bai Ruiguang arrived and began searching the pile for a broken stele rumored to contain an Earth-grade Divine Ability.

• The Cloud Cliff Saintess directed Li Yun to the Heavenly Treasure Tower, and they entered without attracting attention.
• She warned Li Yun that the first-floor treasures were recorded, then guided him to an unrecorded pile on the second floor.
• The Cloud Cliff Saintess trapped the three inventory workers in a Dream Illusion while Li Yun tested them for poison and found no sign they were poisoned.
• Li Yun selected three Mystery Grade top-rank treasures and two Broken Stone Tablets, then stored them in his Heavenly Origin Ring.
• The Cloud Cliff Saintess sensed Bai Ruiguang approaching, so she and Li Yun hid while she released the workers from the illusion.
• Bai Ruiguang sent the workers away and searched the pile for a broken stele suspected of containing an Earth-grade Divine Ability.

Li Yun discovered that the broken stele Bai Ruiguang sought contained Sun and Moon Immeasurable, a foundational Divine Ability of the destroyed Sun-Moon Divine Palace. The Cloud Cliff Saintess realized Bai Ruiguang may have stolen the sect’s hidden core Divine Hall to obtain its supreme inheritance, No Sun No Moon, and may have orchestrated the attack on her.

• Li Yun learned that the two broken steles contained Blazing Sun Scorches the World and Sun and Moon Immeasurable, then quietly placed them where Bai Ruiguang would find them.
• Bai Ruiguang discarded the stele containing Blazing Sun Scorches the World and excitedly recognized Sun and Moon Immeasurable.
• The Cloud Cliff Saintess explained that Sun and Moon Immeasurable was a foundational Divine Ability of the Sun-Moon Divine Palace and could open its vanished core Divine Hall.
• The Cloud Cliff Saintess revealed that the core Divine Hall held No Sun No Moon, a High-Grade Heaven Rank Divine Ability that could touch the power of time.
• The Cloud Cliff Saintess suspected Bai Ruiguang had secretly moved the core Divine Hall and was connected to the attack that drove her from the White Emperor Family.

Li Yun secretly looted the White Emperor Family’s treasuries while the Cloud Cliff Saintess investigated Bai Ruiguang as a possible poisoner. The contest for White Emperor City's Third Holy Son was set for three days later, and Li Yun and the Saintess emerged from their Meditation Chambers when it began.

• Li Yun and the Cloud Cliff Saintess agreed to watch Bai Ruiguang without alerting him, since they lacked evidence that he had used the Heavenly Injury Poison.
• Li Yun secretly raided more of the White Emperor Family’s treasuries and returned with many treasures, including an Earth Grade Spirit Fire and two Heavenly Human Realm Cultivation Techniques.
• The Cloud Cliff Saintess marveled at Li Yun’s finds, while he explained how valuable items could slip through the White Emperor Family’s inspections and reach its Auxiliary Treasuries.
• Li Yun went to cultivate in a Meditation Chamber, and the Cloud Cliff Saintess left to set the Third Holy Son contest for three days later and investigate other White Emperor Family experts for signs of poison.
• Unable to detect the poison, the Cloud Cliff Saintess returned and shut herself away; three days later, she and Li Yun emerged as the contest began.

Eight Holy Son Candidates gathered at the Eternal Sky Platform for the contest to become White Emperor City's Third Holy Son, while the crowd dismissed Li Yun as an unworthy outsider. Knowing Li Yun's strength and the Imperial Court's opposition to him, the candidates considered cooperating, but Ye Changkong challenged Zhang Fengshen's attempt to lead them.

• Spectators crowded the Eternal Sky Platform and cheered as Zhang Fengshen and the seven other Holy Son Candidates arrived, largely overlooking Li Yun.
• The candidates recalled that Cracked Heaven Crown Prince Li Xin had confirmed Li Yun killed a Heavenly Human Supreme and promised rewards to whoever prevented him from becoming Third Holy Son.
• Zhang Fengshen urged the eight candidates to set aside their rivalries so Li Yun could not exploit their infighting.
• Ye Changkong accused Zhang Fengshen of wanting the others to wear Li Yun down for him and questioned why the candidates should follow Zhang Fengshen rather than compete for the victory themselves.

Zhang Fengshen secured the seven other candidates’ agreement to help wear Li Yun down by promising his family’s cooperation and a share of an Ancient Sect ruin. As the candidates prepared to act, the White Emperor Family, Li Yun, and Crown Prince Li Xin arrived at the Eternal Sky Platform.

• Zhang Fengshen offered the seven candidates seven centuries of cooperation from his family and an equal share in a recently discovered Ancient Sect ruin if he became Holy Son.
• Ye Changkong and the other candidates revealed their tacit understanding and agreed to help Zhang Fengshen wear Li Yun down in exchange for his promises.
• Zhang Fengshen questioned whether the candidates would have supported him if he had not pursued the Holy Son position, and Ye Changkong claimed they would have competed for it themselves.
• Bai Tianhuang led members of the White Emperor Family to the Eternal Sky Platform, and the Cloud Cliff Saintess brought Li Yun there.
• Crown Prince Li Xin arrived with Cao Lin and imperial clan experts, then warmly greeted the spectators, who cheered him.

Cracked Heaven Crown Prince Li Xin publicly praised Li Yun and urged White Emperor City's citizens to support him, then announced rules for the Holy Son selection that allowed candidates to wear one another down in successive fights. The eight White Emperor City candidates recognized the opportunity to target Li Yun, and one challenged him first.

• Li Xin introduced Li Yun as an Imperial Clan Descendant and Xuan Yue County King, then called him up to greet the cheering crowd.
• Li Yun reluctantly joined Li Xin on the platform, spoke briefly, and returned to his seat.
• Li Xin yielded the announcement of the selection arrangements to Bai Tianhuang, who insisted the Crown Prince should decide.
• Cao Lin announced that the nine candidates would fight without specific rules, and the winner had to defeat everyone or gain the other candidates' recognition.
• The eight White Emperor City candidates exchanged glances, and one stepped forward to challenge Li Yun.

Li Yun rejected a Holy Son Candidate’s polite request for guidance and demanded that all eight candidates fight him at once. When they refused, he unleashed his Celestial Domain and forced their domains open under its overwhelming pressure.

• Li Yun bluntly told the first Holy Son Candidate that he had no time to guide him because he had come to compete for the Holy Son position.
• Li Yun challenged all eight Holy Son Candidates to fight him together, saying he would claim the position if he won and leave if he lost.
• Spectators argued over Li Yun’s challenge, while Zhang Fengshen and the other candidates refused to gang up on him to protect their reputations.
• Li Yun spread his Celestial Domain across the arena and trapped all eight candidates inside it.
• Zhang Fengshen and the other candidates opened their own Celestial Domains, but Li Yun’s domain suppressed them and revealed the gap in their strength.

Li Yun overwhelmed Zhang Fengshen and the other eight Holy Son Candidates, then repelled a Dharma Form Realm expert who tried to interfere. The Zhang, Ye, and Chen Families conceded, leaving Li Yun's victory in the Holy Son contest assured.

• Cracked Heaven Crown Prince Li Xin realized Li Yun's strength had ruined his plan to use the contest to manipulate him.
• Li Yun unleashed Myriad Miles of Ice Seal, freezing Zhang Fengshen and the other eight Holy Son Candidates despite their Divine Abilities.
• A Zhang Family Dharma Form Realm expert attacked Li Yun's Celestial Domain, but Li Yun shattered his Wind Dragon with Flowing Cloud Sleeve and sent him flying.
• Li Xin recognized Flowing Cloud Sleeve and suspected that Li Yun was a Mythical Heavenly Human.
• The Zhang Family conceded, and the Ye and Chen Families followed suit.

Li Yun won the contest and was declared the Holy Son of White Emperor City, while the Zhang Family apologized for its intervention. After the Cracked Heaven Crown Prince ordered him to reach Tiandu Imperial City within three months, Cloud Cliff Saintess secured a date for Li Yun’s Holy Son Baptism despite Bai Tianhuang postponing the opening of White Emperor Inner City.

• The families of the defeated candidates conceded, and Li Yun challenged Zhang Ruyi over his intervention before Cracked Heaven Crown Prince Li Xin declared Li Yun the contest’s winner and Holy Son of White Emperor City.
• Bai Tianhuang and the other families accepted Li Xin’s ruling, and Zhang Tiance apologized on behalf of the Zhang Family and promised Li Yun a generous gift.
• Li Xin ordered Li Yun to settle his affairs and reach Tiandu Imperial City within three months, then departed with Cao Lin and his other experts.
• Li Yun suspected Li Xin’s summons was connected to the Wood Emperor Palace and doubted that the Crown Prince genuinely wanted him to return to his ancestral roots.
• Cloud Cliff Saintess asked Bai Tianhuang to open White Emperor Inner City, but he postponed it for a year and agreed to hold Li Yun’s Holy Son Baptism in three days.

Li Yun and Cloud Cliff Saintess discussed the danger of Cracked Heaven Crown Prince Li Xin’s demand that Li Yun travel to Tiandu Imperial City, which could cost him his Holy Son position and access to White Emperor Inner City. Cloud Cliff Saintess proposed opening the inner city early, before Li Yun had to go, and Li Yun agreed to let her try.

• Li Yun told Cloud Cliff Saintess that he had challenged the opponents to face him all at once because their rules were designed to wear him down.
• Cloud Cliff Saintess warned that Li Xin’s public demand for Li Yun to acknowledge his ancestors within three months could let the imperial clan strip him of his Holy Son title.
• Li Yun explained that he wanted to enter White Emperor Inner City to seek the White Emperor’s Palace and Legacy, though no one had found them and the city’s supposed connection to the White Emperor was doubted.
• Li Yun realized the White Emperor Family and the Liehuang Imperial Clan might be cooperating to keep him from entering the inner city as a Holy Son.
• Cloud Cliff Saintess proposed making Bai Tianhuang open the inner city early, and Li Yun left the matter to her while focusing on his cultivation.

Li Yun reflected on his rising cultivation and the danger of attracting attention after the White Emperor City Holy Son selection, then decided to raid the White Emperor Family treasury for more resources. On the way, he spotted a master of concealment and followed them, suspecting they belonged to the Heaven and Earth Tower and hoping to repay the organization for its past betrayal.

• Li Yun recognized that his Nine-Lightning Mythical Heavenly Human foundation still required time and hard work to grow stronger amid powerful enemies.
• He recalled that integrating the Heavenly Fire Divine Art and Return to Origin Divine Skill into his Primal Chaos Art had greatly increased his Dharma Power accumulation speed.
• Dissatisfied with how long further cultivation would take, Li Yun decided to steal more resources from the White Emperor Family treasury.
• Li Yun set out for the White Emperor Family's main residence but noticed a concealed Heavenly Human Realm cultivator moving unseen through White Emperor City.
• Suspecting the stranger was from the Heaven and Earth Tower, Li Yun followed them, still resentful over the Tower's role in the Jinhe City plot against him.

Li Yun discovered that the stealthy intruder was Chen Mo, a Heaven and Earth Tower scout investigating the Cloud Cliff Saintess’s residence. After Chen Mo fled from inside, Li Yun followed him to a hidden residence, where Chen Mo collapsed after coughing up blood.

• The chapter revealed that Chen Mo was a Heaven Division Heaven Scout from the Heaven and Earth Tower’s White Emperor City Shadow Division, using the Heaven Earth Stealth Art to gather intelligence.
• Chen Mo reached the Cloud Cliff Saintess’s residence and found it apparently empty, then entered to investigate.
• Chen Mo fled the residence in terror after encountering the danger inside, while Li Yun followed him.
• Li Yun tracked Chen Mo to an inconspicuous residence in the south of the city, where Chen Mo spat blood and collapsed.

Li Yun followed Yun Lou and Chen Mo after Chen Mo’s intrusion into Bai Youruo’s residence forced the Heaven and Earth Tower branch to flee. He tracked them to an inn in northern White Emperor City, where Yun Lou bargained with Shopkeeper Mo for shelter by offering him most of the branch’s resources.

• Yun Lou ordered his hidden subordinates to keep watch, then scolded Chen Mo for sneaking into Bai Youruo’s residence and endangering their branch.
• Yun Lou packed the branch’s intelligence records and cultivation resources into an ancient bracelet, sent a signal to his subordinates, and left with Chen Mo.
• Li Yun followed Yun Lou through a series of deliberate detours, confident that his Shadow Shroud kept him concealed.
• Yun Lou and Chen Mo reached an inn in northern White Emperor City, where Shopkeeper Mo confronted Yun Lou about bringing danger to his establishment.
• Yun Lou offered Shopkeeper Mo half the resources from the main tower, and Shopkeeper Mo demanded sixty percent before agreeing to take him to the treasury.

Li Yun secretly followed Yun Lou and Shopkeeper Mo into Shopkeeper Mo’s treasury, then stole all their resources and message scrolls. He returned to the Cloud Cliff Saintess’s residence with his haul, where she teased him about stealing again.

• Yun Lou agreed to give Shopkeeper Mo sixty percent of his resources and left his bracelet in the treasury for safekeeping.
• Li Yun followed the two men into the treasury and waited until they left before taking every resource and message scroll.
• Li Yun carved “Swallow Li San was here. Many thanks to the Heaven and Earth Tower for the treasure!” into the treasury wall.
• Li Yun waited until dark, left the inn, and returned to the Cloud Cliff Saintess’s residence.
• The Cloud Cliff Saintess asked Li Yun whether he had stolen from the White Emperor Family Treasury again.

Li Yun told the Cloud Cliff Saintess that he had robbed the treasuries of two Heaven and Earth Tower branches, then devised a plan to provoke the organization into sending more resources to White Emperor City. That night, news about the theft and his mocking message spread through the city.

• Li Yun explained that Heaven and Earth Tower agents had infiltrated the Cloud Cliff Saintess’s residence, and that he had stolen resources from two of their branches.
• The Cloud Cliff Saintess warned Li Yun that the Heaven and Earth Tower might send more resources to its White Emperor City outposts, prompting him to return with her to the North City Inn.
• Li Yun and the Cloud Cliff Saintess watched Shopkeeper Mo and Yun Lou drinking, then discussed how to provoke the Heaven and Earth Tower further.
• The Cloud Cliff Saintess stayed behind to watch the inn while Li Yun left to spread news of his theft.
• That night, news circulated through White Emperor City that Swallow Li San had robbed two Heaven and Earth Tower treasuries and left a taunting message.

Shopkeeper Mo and Yun Lou learned that rumors of Swallow Li San robbing Heaven and Earth Tower branches had spread through White Emperor City, and they feared the White Emperor Family would uncover their hidden operations. Their branch treasuries were reported safe, but Shopkeeper Mo’s furious roar from his treasury left the cause of his rage unresolved.

• Shopkeeper Mo and Yun Lou heard that news about Swallow Li San’s threat to Heaven and Earth Tower had spread across White Emperor City.
• A subordinate reported that Swallow Li San supposedly emptied two branch treasuries and left messages behind.
• Shopkeeper Mo and Yun Lou received reports from the other branches confirming their treasuries had not been robbed, and they suspected the White Emperor Family had spread false news to draw them out.
• Shopkeeper Mo ordered Heaven and Earth Tower’s people to return or lie low, while Yun Lou worried about punishment and the delay in rebuilding his branch.
• Shopkeeper Mo entered his treasury to fetch more wine, then let out a furious roar that brought Yun Lou rushing inside.

Li Yun watched Yun Lou and Shopkeeper Mo accuse each other after their Heaven and Earth Tower treasure vaults were robbed, while the Cloud Cliff Saintess feared he might use Heavenly Injury Poison against them. Two other branch heads arrived and learned of the theft, leaving them worried that their own vaults might also be targets.

• Yun Lou found Shopkeeper Mo's treasure vault empty and discovered a mocking message signed by Swallow Li San.
• Shopkeeper Mo accused Yun Lou of stealing the resources, and Yun Lou countered that Shopkeeper Mo had staged the theft.
• Li Yun and the Cloud Cliff Saintess watched the branch heads and their subordinates argue, while Li Yun considered using Heavenly Injury Poison against them.
• Brother Huashan and Brother Swordfish arrived after receiving no replies to their messages and found Yun Lou and Shopkeeper Mo accusing each other.
• Yun Lou recounted the events to the newcomers, who could not determine who was responsible and worried Swallow Li San might target their own vaults.

Li Yun learned that the Heaven and Earth Tower might be backed by the Liehuang Imperial Clan, but decided that secretly stealing its resources was still worth the risk. After Swordfish and Huashan left their branches to investigate suspicions against Shopkeeper Mo and Yun Lou, Li Yun followed Swordfish and waited for an opportunity to strike.

• The Cloud Cliff Saintess warned Li Yun that the Heaven and Earth Tower had two Divine Martial Realm Tower Lords and might be protected by the Liehuang Imperial Clan.
• Li Yun decided the risk was acceptable because he only planned to steal resources, and he and the Cloud Cliff Saintess separately followed Swordfish and Huashan.
• Swordfish returned to his branch, confirmed his treasure vault was safe, and suspected that Shopkeeper Mo or Yun Lou had arranged the thefts at their branches.
• Swordfish and Huashan agreed to meet outside White Emperor City to discuss their suspicions and possibly notify the main tower.
• Before leaving, Swordfish ordered two trusted subordinates to guard the vault, and they vowed Swallow Li San would not escape if he came to steal from them.