Chapter Summaries

Li Yun left the Royal Palace Dungeon and freed Zhao Wuji from the Soul Control Forbidden Art, then revealed that Zhao Fangqun had taken Zhao Yunzhu and Zhao Ziyue to the Cloud Realm. He severed his ties with the Mysterious Moon Kingdom and departed, leaving Zhao Wuji alone.

• Li Yun decided to return to the Celestial Martial Sect and ask Chen Jiuxu about the Heavenly Mandate Cult before visiting its underground palace beneath Green Peak Mountain.
• After restoring his cultivation, Li Yun left the Royal Palace Dungeon and broke the seal on Zhao Wuji, freeing him from the Soul Control Forbidden Art.
• Li Yun accused Zhao Wuji of secretly supporting Zhao Yunzhu's attempt to ambush him and said Zhao Ziyue was the reason he had spared Zhao Wuji.
• Li Yun told Zhao Wuji that Zhao Fangqun had become an immortal and taken Zhao Yunzhu and Zhao Ziyue to the Cloud Realm.
• Li Yun declared that he was making a clean break with the Mysterious Moon Kingdom and flew away.

Zhao Wuji realized that the Mysterious Moon Kingdom had lost Li Yun’s protection after Zhao Fangqun took Zhao Ziyue away. At the Celestial Martial Sect, the elders argued over whether to surrender Li Yun to end Night Emperor’s siege, and Huang Yuankun demanded that Chen Jiuxu present a plan.

• Zhao Wuji lamented that Zhao Fangqun had abandoned the Mysterious Moon Kingdom and that Li Yun had severed ties with it.
• Celestial Martial Sect elders urged Chen Jiuxu to negotiate with Night Emperor, whose forces had surrounded the sect and demanded Li Yun.
• Gu Xiaoxian defended Li Yun and the sect’s principles, while Huang Yuankun argued that the sect should not risk its disciples and legacy for him.
• Gu Xiaoxian threatened Huang Yuankun, but Chen Jiuxu silenced them and challenged Huang Yuankun’s claim that the sect was doomed.
• Huang Yuankun asked Chen Jiuxu to set forth a plan and explain it to the entire sect.

Chen Jiuxu refused to summon Li Yun and trade him to Night Emperor, instead offering the sect's members a choice to stay or leave before Celestial Martial Sect sealed itself away. As Huang Yuankun and the dissenting elders prepared to depart, Li Yun appeared at the gates of Tianwu Great Hall.

• Huang Yuankun urged Chen Jiuxu to devise a plan and secretly hoped he would call Li Yun back so Night Emperor could kill him.
• Chen Jiuxu announced that Celestial Martial Sect would activate its Mountain-Sealing Grand Array in one day and let anyone unwilling to stay leave safely.
• Huang Yuankun chose to leave, but Chen Jiuxu refused to change his decision and declared he valued Li Yun above the sect's disciples.
• Huang Yuankun and the opposing elders headed for the hall's gates, and Li Yun appeared outside and asked Chen Jiuxu why he was going to so much trouble.

Li Yun returned to the besieged Celestial Martial Sect and announced that he would lead willing followers away to establish a new base. He left the sect with half an hour to decide, while clashing with elders who opposed him.

• Huang Yuankun and other Sect Elders berated Li Yun for bringing trouble to the sect, but Li Yun brushed past them into Tianwu Great Hall.
• Chen Jiuxu and Gu Xiaoxian welcomed Li Yun, who revealed that he had returned to take them away and establish themselves elsewhere.
• Li Yun asked Gu Xiaoxian to announce that anyone willing to leave should gather at the square before Tianwu Great Hall, and Chen Jiuxu approved.
• The sect erupted with rumors and criticism, while some members suspected Li Yun’s return had a deeper purpose and headed to the square.
• Li Yun rejected the elders’ objections, told Huang Yuankun he would not take him, and announced across the sect that people had half an hour to join him.

Li Yun gathered the Celestial Martial Sect’s disciples and gave them a chance to leave with him, but most stayed after Huang Yuankun warned them about the Heavenly Human Supremes surrounding the sect. As Li Yun began his final countdown, powerful figures arrived and declared that neither he nor the sect would escape.

• Seventy to eighty thousand people gathered at Tianwu Great Hall and divided between those staying and a few hundred willing to leave with Li Yun.
• Huang Yuankun mocked Li Yun and urged the disciples to stay, warning that dozens of Heavenly Human Supremes surrounded the sect.
• Many disciples abandoned their choice to leave, and after nearly all two hundred thousand disciples arrived, only a little over four hundred remained with Li Yun.
• Li Yun announced a final ten breaths for anyone else to join him before he left with his people.
• Powerful figures descended toward Tianwu Great Hall and threatened to destroy Li Yun and the Celestial Martial Sect, declaring that no one would escape.

Night Emperor and Dragon Palace experts attacked the Celestial Martial Sect, but Li Yun destroyed them all with a single Divine Ability. The sect’s stunned disciples and Chen Jiuxu realized the scale of Li Yun’s power.

• Night Emperor arrived with dozens of Dragon Palace experts and declared that Li Yun, Chen Jiuxu, and the Celestial Martial Sect had to die.
• Night Emperor explained that he had targeted Li Yun because he threatened the balance in Eastern Cloud Prefecture, while Li Yun vowed to kill the attackers.
• A Dragon Palace expert attacked Li Yun with a golden dragon-shaped Divine Ability, but Li Yun countered with a massive golden seal.
• Li Yun’s golden waves swept through Night Emperor and the Dragon Palace experts, killing them all.
• Chen Jiuxu and the Celestial Martial Sect disciples stood in shock, then the disciples looked at Li Yun with fervent admiration.

Li Yun returned to the Celestial Martial Sect after slaughtering the Heavenly Human Supremes, then revealed that he planned to relocate the sect to Tiangu King Mountain. He moved the sect’s buildings and selected followers there, leaving Huang Yuankun and the others behind as they begged to join.

• Chen Jiuxu rebuked Huang Yuankun and the elders for opposing the sect’s support of Li Yun, and Huang Yuankun apologized to Chen Jiuxu.
• Gu Xiaoxian asked Li Yun where he would rebuild the sect, and Li Yun announced they were going to Tiangu King Mountain rather than the Cracked Heaven Imperial Dynasty.
• Li Yun described Tiangu King Mountain’s spiritual significance and declared that he was its lord before summoning the mountain from the sky.
• Li Yun summoned Bai Fantian and used Divine Ability hand seals to move the Celestial Martial Sect’s buildings, palaces, and ancestral graves onto Tiangu King Mountain.
• Li Yun brought Chen Jiuxu, Gu Xiaoxian, Zhang Ruohan, Zhang Chu, and more than four hundred followers onto the mountain, leaving Huang Yuankun, the elders, and the undecided disciples behind.
• The disciples left behind begged to board Tiangu King Mountain, but its Divine Might blasted away those who tried to approach.

Li Yun moved Tiangu King Mountain and the Celestial Martial Sect out of reach of their enemies, while the White Emperor Family secretly vanished from White Emperor City. When Li Xin learned that Li Yun might have become Tiangu King Mountain’s lord, jealousy and rage drove him to order a hunt.

• Li Yun rebuked Huang Yuankun and the former Celestial Martial Sect disciples, then vanished with Tiangu King Mountain and left them behind.
• Zhentian Palace’s forces breached the White Emperor Family’s Cave Heaven in White Emperor City and found it completely empty.
• Li Xin ordered an immediate search for the relocated White Emperor Family, then Cao Lin reported that Li Yun had appeared in Mysterious Moon Kingdom.
• Cao Lin told Li Xin that Li Yun had moved the Celestial Martial Sect into Tiangu King Mountain and might have become its lord.
• After reading the report, Li Xin flew into a rage and ordered every available hand sent to Mysterious Moon Kingdom to find Li Yun and claim Tiangu King Mountain.

After Li Yun vanished, hundreds of millions of Martial Artists searched the Mysterious Moon Kingdom for him, driven by rumors of Tiangu King Mountain and the White Emperor's Legacy. Zeng Siming's Dragon Palace forces found no trace of Li Yun, so one subordinate suggested consulting a Diviner named Huang Xuanzi.

• Li Yun's disappearance and the rumors about his connection to Tiangu King Mountain and the White Emperor's Legacy drew Martial Artists from across the Ancient Celestial Continent into the Mysterious Moon Kingdom.
• The influx of Martial Artists caused turmoil as they searched Li Yun's hometown and other places linked to him, but no one found him.
• Zeng Siming berated nearly three hundred Dragon Palace experts for failing to locate Li Yun after he had killed dozens of their Heaven-Piercing Realm experts.
• A Dragon Palace subordinate suggested that Li Yun might have left the Mysterious Moon Kingdom and urged Zeng Siming to try divination.
• Zeng Siming dismissed most Diviners as frauds, but the subordinate named Huang Xuanzi, who lived in Niu Huang Valley, as a genuine practitioner.

Zeng Siming and Yu San went to Niu Huang Valley to seek Huang Xuanzi’s help finding Li Yun, only to discover the Diviner had been missing. Huang Xuanzi finally appeared and began setting rules for the crowd, leaving Zeng Siming facing the gathered Martial Artists.

• Zeng Siming arrived at Niu Huang Valley with Yu San and several Dragon Palace subordinates, but found the valley crowded and Huang Xuanzi’s cabin empty.
• Yu San learned that Huang Xuanzi had refused to appear for many visitors, prompting most of them to leave, and returned to report this to Zeng Siming.
• As Zeng Siming berated Yu San, Yu San spotted Huang Xuanzi emerge from the wooden cabin and called out to him.
• Huang Xuanzi repelled the crowd with a magical boundary and declared that anyone seeking his divinations had to obey his rules.
• Huang Xuanzi recognized Yu San and teased him about his recent good fortune, prompting the Martial Artists to demand that he serve them first.
• Zeng Siming descended and suppressed the crowd with his Divine Martial Realm aura, declaring that they had no right to act presumptuously before Dragon Palace.

Zeng Siming and the Dragon Palace sought Huang Xuanzi’s help divining Li Yun’s whereabouts, but Huang Xuanzi revealed his ties to Wuwei Dao Palace and demanded a staggering price. The chapter ended with Zeng Siming shocked by the demand for twenty Heaven Grade Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures and twenty thousand years of lifespan.

• Zeng Siming revealed that the Dragon Palace had come to make Huang Xuanzi divine Li Yun’s whereabouts and threatened him if he refused.
• Huang Xuanzi mocked the Dragon Palace, and Zeng Siming attacked him with the Heavenly Dragon Claw.
• Huang Xuanzi’s Drawing a Circle as a Prison shattered the attack, revealing his connection to Wuwei Dao Palace.
• Zeng Siming agreed to follow Huang Xuanzi’s rules and asked what price he required to divine Li Yun’s location.
• Huang Xuanzi demanded twenty Heaven Grade Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures and twenty thousand years of lifespan, leaving Zeng Siming appalled.

Zeng Siming agreed to gather Dragon Palace fighters to pay the lifespan sacrifice Huang Xuanzi demanded for divining Li Yun’s whereabouts. Unbeknownst to them, Li Yun watched from above Niu Huang Valley, and Bai Fantian warned him that Huang Xuanzi might be a powerful Diviner who could wield the Lesser Destiny Art.

• Huang Xuanzi told Zeng Siming that divining Li Yun required sacrificing twenty thousand years of lifespan, though the cost could be shared among many people.
• Zeng Siming agreed to gather Dragon Palace fighters to share the sacrifice, while Huang Xuanzi secretly planned to keep half the lifespan for his own cultivation.
• Li Yun watched the exchange from above Niu Huang Valley after reaching the second level of the Dharma Form Realm and setting out toward the Underground Palace beneath Green Peak Mountain.
• Bai Fantian appeared beside Li Yun and warned him that Huang Xuanzi was a powerful Dao Evolution Realm Diviner who might wield the terrifying Lesser Destiny Art.

The Dragon Palace protectors failed to force Huang Xuanzi to divine Li Yun’s whereabouts and learned that he was a Dao Evolution Realm Diviner. Qin Mengjue decided to personally meet Huang Xuanzi, bringing treasures and a Divination Star Disk in hopes of securing his help and recruiting him.

• Tie Hai, Ling Dao, and Chen Wansi tried to break Huang Xuanzi’s protective circle, but he slapped each of them and revealed his Dao Evolution Realm cultivation.
• Huang Xuanzi raised his fee from twenty to thirty Heaven Grade Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures as punishment, so Zeng Siming sent an urgent message to the Dragon Palace for reinforcements.
• Qin Mengjue received Zeng Siming’s report and blamed the protectors for provoking a powerful Diviner while the Dragon Palace’s return was already under scrutiny.
• Fang Tianyi advised Qin Mengjue to pay for Huang Xuanzi’s divination and seize the chance to recruit him for the Dragon Palace.
• Qin Mengjue ordered Fang Tianyi to bring forty Heaven Grade Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures and the Divination Star Disk, then prepared to meet Huang Xuanzi personally.

Qin Mengjue brought the Dragon Palace’s payment to Huang Xuanzi and agreed to let him divine Li Yun’s whereabouts despite the risks and lack of guarantees. Huang Xuanzi took the thirty Heaven Grade Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures and began arranging the lifespan sacrifice, while Li Yun and Bai Fantian watched from hiding.

• Qin Mengjue and Zhu Hengxiao arrived at Niu Huang Valley with Fang Tianyi, subdued the outsiders, and met Huang Xuanzi.
• Qin Mengjue offered Huang Xuanzi thirty Heaven Grade Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures on behalf of the Dragon Palace.
• Li Yun considered having Bai Fantian steal the treasures but decided to wait and see what Huang Xuanzi was planning.
• Huang Xuanzi warned Qin Mengjue that his divination of Li Yun might fail and that he would not return the payment, but Qin Mengjue told him to proceed.
• Huang Xuanzi collected the treasures and instructed the Dragon Palace members who would contribute their lifespans to prepare for the divination.

Huang Xuanzi used a divination array to search for Li Yun, who secretly learned its mysteries through the system and protected himself with his Dharma Aspect. The array suffered a violent backlash, leaving Huang Xuanzi, the Dragon Palace Protectors, and their twelve hundred subordinates gravely weakened.

• Huang Xuanzi arranged the Dragon Palace Protectors and their subordinates around a circle, then activated a turtle-shell divination array that filled Niu Huang Valley with sun, moon, stars, and mist.
• Qin Mengjue praised Huang Xuanzi’s skill and anticipated that finding Li Yun would help the Dragon Palace secure a great prize.
• Li Yun watched from above as the system began loading the Divination Scripture and the array’s mysteries, while an imprecise divining gaze occasionally passed over him.
• Li Yun summoned his Dharma Aspect, and the Mystic Gate Sapling’s light violently distorted the divining gaze.
• The array collapsed in a backlash, causing Huang Xuanzi, the four Protectors, and their twelve hundred subordinates to spit blood and lose their strength.
• Qin Mengjue demanded an explanation, but Huang Xuanzi angrily said he did not know what had happened and regretted helping them.

Qin Mengjue confronted Huang Xuanzi after his failed divination left the Dragon Palace’s people near death, and Huang fled without revealing Li Yun’s whereabouts. Li Yun went to Green Peak Mountain, while Huang returned to Niu Huang Valley and resolved to destroy him after cultivating the Lesser Destiny Art.

• Qin Mengjue accused Huang Xuanzi of deceiving the Dragon Palace about the lifespan sacrifice and demanded that he take responsibility for the injuries.
• Huang Xuanzi denied responsibility, escaped, and left Qin Mengjue to send Fang Tianyi and Zhu Hengxiao to escort the injured Dragon Palace members away.
• Li Yun watched the Dragon Palace depart, then headed to Green Peak Mountain to enter the underground palace.
• Huang Xuanzi returned to Niu Huang Valley and suspected Li Yun had been nearby watching the divination.
• Huang Xuanzi realized the backlash had cost him twenty thousand years of lifespan and vowed to destroy Li Yun after cultivating the Lesser Destiny Art.

Li Yun returned to the Underground Palace and discovered that Wang Dong and Li Ya had continued leaving messages for him. A warning seal alerted the Heavenly Mandate Cult to his arrival, so Li Yun concealed himself as two powerful figures approached.

• News that Diviners could locate Li Yun spread, making him famous among Diviners and prompting some to worship him as their Founder.
• Li Yun returned to the Underground Palace through the deep pool at Green Peak Mountain and found messages from Wang Dong and Li Ya.
• Li Yun recalled the Heavenly Mandate Cult's interest in him and decided to investigate the Underground Palace without contacting them.
• A warning seal alerted Wang Dong and Li Ya that someone had entered through the secret chamber, and Wang Dong went to notify Hall Master Pei.
• Li Yun noticed the seal, hid himself with shadows, and sensed two formidable auras approaching from opposite directions.

Li Yun met Xue Wuwo beneath the Heavenly Mandate Cult, where the cult leader revealed that the underground palace was linked to the legendary Ethereal Immortal Palace. The chapter ended with Xue Wuwo explaining that the palace supposedly concealed the Great Fate Art, an Immortal Art said to control all beings beneath heaven.

• Pei Tianming and Shang Cai reached the secret chamber passage but failed to find Li Yun, and Xue Wuwo arrived soon after.
• Xue Wuwo deduced that Li Yun had mastered the Reverse Fate Art and called for him to appear; Li Yun revealed himself and agreed to hear him out.
• Xue Wuwo led Li Yun through the underground palace and explained that the cult believed it hid a great opportunity.
• Li Yun asked Bai Fantian about the Ethereal Immortal Palace, and Bai Fantian recognized the legend and wondered if the underground palace was its true location.
• Xue Wuwo claimed the Four Great Evil Spirits had sealed off the Ancient Celestial Continent to obtain the Ethereal Immortal Palace.
• Xue Wuwo revealed that the palace supposedly contained the Great Fate Art, an Immortal Art said to control all living beings beneath heaven.

Li Yun met Ye Shenfeng in the Underground Palace and learned that the Ancient Celestial Continent was formed from a fragment of the Sacred Heaven Realm after a cataclysmic struggle over the Ethereal Immortal Palace. Ye Shenfeng revealed that his Ye Clan had once controlled much of that fragment, leaving Li Yun stunned by the scale of the clan’s former territory.

• Li Yun entered the Underground Palace hall with Xue Wuwo and saw Ye Shenfeng, whom the Cloud Cliff Saintess identified as Mingye City's eldest young master.
• Xue Wuwo knelt before Ye Shenfeng, who said Li Yun’s rise as Lord of Tiangu King Mountain had made him a worthy potential ally.
• Ye Shenfeng explained that the Ethereal Immortal Palace had promised a way beyond the Immortal Sovereign realm, triggering a war that shattered the Sacred Heaven Realm.
• Ye Shenfeng revealed that the Ancient Celestial Continent was a fragment of the Sacred Heaven Realm and that the Ye Clan’s territory had once covered more than half of it.
• Li Yun was shocked by the Ye Clan’s former size, while Ye Shenfeng said the catastrophe had spared his clan from disappearing altogether.

Ye Shenfeng explained that the Ye Clan’s underground palace concealed a Destiny Stone Tablet and asked Li Yun to help break the halo around it. Li Yun agreed to watch the Ye Clan’s first attempt in three days and take someone’s place if they failed.

• Ye Shenfeng told Li Yun that the underground palace was once a Ye Clan warehouse and that it contained one of two Destiny Stone Tablets that fell from the Ethereal Immortal Palace.
• Ye Shenfeng explained that the tablet might contain the Lesser Destiny Art and that the Ye Clan’s Reverse Fate Art came from studying the halo around it.
• Ye Shenfeng revealed that the Ye Clan planned to use a Nine Fates Unity array to combine nine people’s Fate Numbers and attack the halo.
• Li Yun questioned Ye Shenfeng’s account of Fate Numbers, and Ye Shenfeng admitted the Ye Clan’s theories might not be correct.
• Ye Shenfeng offered to let Li Yun watch the first attempt and join if it failed, and Li Yun accepted.