Chapter Summaries

Li Yun tore open a spatial fissure and began loading the Great Space-Time Art by observing Space-Time Turbulence. After learning that Heavenly Mystery Palace had truly emerged in the Wantu Kingdom, he decided to go there himself despite being unable to see through the kingdom’s obscured heavenly mystery.

• Li Yun used his Great Void Shadow to open a fissure into Space-Time Turbulence and gained Human Immortal Level Cognition while loading the Great Space-Time Art.
• Li Yun observed the fissure for two days, gaining 16 points of Human Immortal Level Cognition and loading the Great Space-Time Art to 77%.
• Ye Shenfeng told Li Yun that Heavenly Mystery Palace had truly emerged, and Li Yun used the Eyes of Heaven and Earth to investigate.
• Li Yun confirmed the palace’s emergence in the Wantu Kingdom but found the kingdom shrouded in dark clouds that obscured heavenly mystery.
• Li Yun said he would travel to the Wantu Kingdom for the Heavenly Mystery Immortal Art and parted from Ye Shenfeng, telling him to focus on the Destiny Stone Tablet.

Li Yun investigated the Ghost Qi leaking from the Twelve Palaces of the Heavenly Mansion and entered the ruins to inspect the damaged sealing array. After easily killing the first attackers, he faced a larger charge as someone behind him warned him to watch out.

• Li Yun repeatedly failed to divine what was happening in Wantu Kingdom and suspected Heavenly Mystery Palace had disrupted its heavenly secrets.
• Near Mount Tianfu, Li Yun sensed Ghost Qi and realized the Twelve Earthly Branches Ghost Sealing Array might have developed a flaw because one of its Spirit Might Treasure Pearls was missing.
• Li Yun entered the Twelve Palaces of the Heavenly Mansion, where he recognized young talents from the Spring Welcome Tea Party searching the ruins.
• Inside the palaces, Li Yun killed more than a dozen Mortal Transformation Realm attackers with a gust of wind.
• A stronger Soaring Heaven Realm martial artist directed over a hundred strange fighters to attack Li Yun, and someone behind him cried out a warning.

Li Yun reunited with Pang Yu, who had grown into a Soaring Heaven Realm martial artist and brought him to a hidden, protected cave. As they began to drink, the cave shook, and Pang Yu decided they needed to leave soon.

• Pang Yu swept Li Yun to a mountaintop and was stunned to recognize him.
• Pang Yu mistook Li Yun for someone who had not yet reached the Innate Realm and offered to help him break through.
• Pang Yu led Li Yun to a hidden valley and showed him a secret chamber protected by a Pure Spirit Barrier.
• Pang Yu explained that he had cultivated there using his ancestor's inheritance, but the flawed Twelve Earthly Branches Ghost Sealing Array had made the area increasingly dangerous.
• Pang Yu and Li Yun began sharing wine in the cave, but the chamber suddenly trembled, prompting Pang Yu to urge them to leave.

Li Yun and Pang Yu shared a drink while Pang Yu revealed that Gu Shaoxiong’s greed brought a Vengeful Ghost Stone to the Twelve Palaces of the Heavenly Mansion, corrupting its members and causing its destruction. Pang Yu said the sealing array was failing and suspected the Mysterious Moon Kingdom’s Zhao Royal Clan had arranged the catastrophe; more people then arrived.

• Li Yun questioned Pang Yu’s account of the damaged Twelve Earthly Branches Ghost Sealing Array, and Pang Yu admitted that his earlier explanation had been a lie.
• Pang Yu explained that Gu Shaoxiong secretly brought a Vengeful Ghost Stone to the Twelve Palaces of the Heavenly Mansion, where its Vengeful Ghost Qi corrupted everyone into bloodthirsty killers.
• Pang Yu said his ancestor and a Heavenly Human Supreme sealed Gu Shaoxiong and the stone, but both later ended their own lives to avoid becoming vengeful ghosts.
• Pang Yu revealed that his ancestor suspected the Zhao Royal Clan of the Mysterious Moon Kingdom had led Gu Shaoxiong to the stone to destroy the Twelve Palaces of the Heavenly Mansion.
• Li Yun and Pang Yu noticed that many more people had entered.

Li Yun and Pang Yu watched the Meng Po Society reveal its plan to use the Twelve Palaces of the Heavenly Mansion and the Mysterious Yin Eye to nurture the Vengeful Ghost Stone. The chapter ended with Li Yun identifying the society’s powerful members as Ghost Race.

• Li Yun revealed his overwhelming power by taking Pang Yu out of the sealed cave, then concealed them near a palace to watch the arriving Meng Po Society.
• Pang Yu panicked when dozens of Heavenly Human Supremes approached, but Li Yun assured him they were hidden by Shadow Shroud.
• The Middle-Aged Beauty ordered her subordinates to open the Dark Ghost Heavenly Gate and release Ghost Qi-tainted martial artists for a blood sacrifice.
• Li Yun explained that the Meng Po Society had secretly used the Twelve Palaces of the Heavenly Mansion and the Mysterious Yin Eye to gather resentment for the Vengeful Ghost Stone.
• Li Yun told the stunned Pang Yu that the Meng Po Society’s experts were all Ghost Race.

Li Yun and Pang Yu witnessed Meng Po’s scheme to feed the Vengeful Ghost Stone with the blood of captured Martial Artists, while Bixuan attacked the Meng Po Society. Bixuan was about to be struck by Gu Shaoxiong when an unknown person froze him and challenged Meng Po.

• Gu Shaoxiong emerged from the palace as a Ghost Qi-filled husk animated by the Vengeful Ghost Stone, and Meng Po controlled him with ghost seals.
• Gu Shaoxiong slaughtered the Ghost Qi-tainted Martial Artists and absorbed their black blood, growing stronger as Pang Yu urged Li Yun to intervene.
• Bixuan charged into the palace and attacked Meng Po and her subordinates with freezing sword strikes.
• Meng Po shattered Bixuan’s sword attack and sent Gu Shaoxiong to strike her from behind while she pressed her own assault.
• A streak of White Light froze Gu Shaoxiong just before he hit Bixuan, and an unknown speaker challenged Meng Po.

Li Yun appeared in the Twelve Palaces of the Heavenly Mansion and confronted Meng Po, who unleashed the Vengeful Ghost River and Dark Ghost Heavenly Gate. After Li Yun’s attacks destroyed her first Ghost King, Meng Po sacrificed her own Ghost Race subordinates and used the Vengeful Ghost Stone to empower another, leaving the Heavenly Mansion in danger.

• Li Yun appeared with Pang Yu and rescued Bixuan, who urged him to capture Meng Po and the other Ghost Race members.
• Meng Po attacked Li Yun with the Vengeful Ghost River and Dark Ghost Heavenly Gate, but Li Yun pushed Bixuan and Pang Yu aside and countered with the Myriad Annihilation Wind Sword.
• Meng Po summoned a thousand-zhang Ghost King, and Li Yun shattered it with the Xuanhuang Seal.
• Meng Po used Soul-Capturing Chain to sacrifice several dozen Ghost Race members and fed their souls into the Vengeful Ghost River to summon another Ghost King.
• Meng Po fed Gu Shaoxiong and the Vengeful Ghost Stone into the river, empowering the Ghost King until it threatened to break the Twelve Palaces of the Heavenly Mansion.
• Bixuan warned Li Yun that the Heavenly Mansion’s destruction would unleash resentment and Ghost Qi across Eastern Cloud Prefecture, turning its people into Meng Po’s provisions.

Meng Po fused with the Ghost King phantom and nearly reached the Void Comprehension Realm, but Li Yun’s Mystic Gate Sapling overwhelmed her and devoured the Vengeful Ghost Stone. As the stone’s Ghost Dao power formed the Nether River of the Dead within his Dharma Aspect, Li Yun broke through to the Dharma Form Tenth Layer.

• Meng Po fused the Ghost King phantom, causing her power to surge toward the Void Comprehension Realm as the Twelve Palaces array began to collapse.
• Li Yun summoned the Mystic Gate Sapling, whose mysteries momentarily paralyzed Meng Po and the others.
• Li Yun used the Mystic Gate Sapling to crush Meng Po, her Ghost King phantom, and the Vengeful Ghost River, leaving the Vengeful Ghost Stone behind.
• The Vengeful Ghost Stone absorbed the refined Ghost Qi and tried to escape, but Li Yun suppressed it with his Dharma Aspect and a barrage of divine abilities.
• Li Yun opened the Mystic Gate and devoured the melting stone, gaining Ghost Dao profundity that formed the Nether River of the Dead.
• Li Yun’s Dharma Aspect advanced beyond the ordinary ninth-layer limit and reached the Dharma Form Tenth Layer.

Li Yun destroyed Meng Po and the Vengeful Ghost Stone, then left the ruined Twelve Palaces of the Heavenly Mansion and returned to the Imperial City. There, he watched Gu Xiaosan suffer a cruel rejection and suspected the young man’s innate Destiny Aperture was about to awaken.

• Li Yun reflected on his Mystic Gate Small Tree Dharma Form and decided to refine his inherited legacies before nurturing a Dao Seed.
• Pang Yu and Bixuan woke among the ruins, and Li Yun told them Meng Po was dead and the Vengeful Ghost Stone had been destroyed.
• Li Yun gave Bixuan and Pang Yu the remaining Martial Resonance, then left them behind as they departed separately.
• Martial artists later found the Twelve Palaces of the Heavenly Mansion reduced to ruins, and its destruction became an unsolved mystery.
• Li Yun returned to the Imperial City and secretly investigated Gu Xiaosan, whose innate Destiny Aperture seemed close to opening.
• Li Yun saw that Gu Xiaosan’s childhood sweetheart had rejected and belittled him after becoming a sect elder’s personal disciple.

Li Yun perfected the Destiny Divine Barrier and Lesser Destiny Art, gaining the ability to glimpse fate but learning that probing it could provoke deadly backlash. When he returned to observe Gu Xiaosan, he saw the young man's golden fate and then witnessed his sealed Destiny Aperture burst open.

• Li Yun used Immortal-level Cognition to cultivate the Destiny Divine Barrier and Lesser Destiny Art to perfection.
• Li Yun learned that the Lesser Destiny Art could touch and alter the Fate River, but using it risked severe backlash and the loss of thousands of years of lifespan.
• Li Yun spent two days cultivating and digesting the supreme arts he had acquired.
• Li Yun returned to observe Gu Xiaosan and saw the golden light of his fate, but recoiled when probing it triggered a warning of danger.
• Gu Xiaosan, drunk and furious, shouted that he could become a Martial Prodigy, and his sealed Destiny Aperture exploded open.

After discovering that Gu Xiaosan possessed innate Emperor-level fortune, Li Yun encouraged him and bestowed a sealed White Emperor's Legacy. Gu Xiaosan recognized Li Yun as a Heavenly Human Supreme and swore to cultivate diligently as his disciple.

• Li Yun saw Gu Xiaosan's Destiny Aperture open and discovered his Emperor-level fortune, then decided to invest in his future.
• Li Yun visited Gu Xiaosan at home, reassured him that his setbacks would not prevent him from becoming a Martial Prodigy, and shared his own story of being abandoned by his fiancée.
• Gu Xiaosan resolved to leave his restaurant job, seek a renowned master, and devote himself to becoming strong.
• Li Yun transmitted a sealed White Emperor's Legacy into Gu Xiaosan's mind and departed.
• Gu Xiaosan recognized Li Yun from his portrait as a Heavenly Human Supreme, knelt in the direction he had gone, and vowed to cultivate diligently as his disciple.

Li Yun gained Emperor-level fortune after Gu Xiaosan took him as his master, then strengthened the Great Creation Technique and discovered an incomplete fist art hidden in his Destiny River. He traveled to Wantu Kingdom to investigate Heavenly Mystery Palace and overheard two women seeking a Soul Revival Flower to help a relative whose Battle Soul Li Yun had shattered.

• Gu Xiaosan's kowtow linked his fortune to Li Yun and filled Li Yun's Destiny River with Emperor-level fortune.
• Li Yun upgraded the Great Creation Technique, expanding his Destiny River tenfold and discovering the incomplete Creation Divine Fist within it.
• Li Yun traveled to White Fang Commandery in Wantu Kingdom and learned that interested Martial Artists had gathered at Zhengong Mountain, where Heavenly Mystery Palace had emerged.
• A young woman and her maid arrived in a tavern, and the maid said they were searching for Mo Yunsou's Soul Revival Flower to help the young woman's cousin recover from a shattered Battle Soul.
• The maid blamed Li Yun for the cousin's condition and vowed to scold him if she ever encountered him.

Li Yun overheard Yun Shuiyao and Xiao Cui discussing the fall of Divine Blade Manor and Song Wujie’s shattered Battle Soul, which Li Yun had caused. As Li Yun prepared to leave the tavern, Heaven's Mandate Pavilion Assassins attacked Yun Shuiyao and everyone inside, leaving the patrons caught in a deadly ambush.

• Li Yun realized that Yun Shuiyao was Song Wujie's cousin and that she was searching for a Soul Revival Flower to restore his Battle Soul.
• Yun Shuiyao told Xiao Cui that Divine Blade Manor had declined after Song Gongming failed to avenge Song Wujie and lost his Dharma Aspect.
• Li Yun reflected on his role in Divine Blade Manor's downfall, finished his meal, and prepared to leave without approaching Yun Shuiyao or Xiao Cui.
• Heaven's Mandate Pavilion Assassins entered the tavern, identified Yun Shuiyao, and sealed the building with a killing-intent Martial Domain.
• The assassin leader ordered his men to kill Yun Shuiyao, Xiao Cui, and every patron, and the tavern erupted into chaos.

Yun Shuiyao fought Heaven's Mandate Pavilion Assassins in a tavern, where her maid Ning Xiaocui revealed she was a Pavilion hall master who had betrayed her for the White Jade Divine Statue. When Ding You attacked Li Yun, Li Yun effortlessly destroyed him and the other Assassins, then left as Yun Shuiyao called after him.

• Yun Shuiyao killed several Heaven's Mandate Pavilion Assassins while trying to protect the tavern patrons, but the leading Assassin wounded her and broke her sword.
• Yun Shuiyao accused Xiao Cui of betraying her, and Xiao Cui admitted she was Ning Xiaocui, a Heaven's Mandate Pavilion hall master seeking the White Jade Divine Statue.
• Ning Xiaocui ordered Ding You to kill everyone in the tavern except Yun Shuiyao, and Ding You attacked Li Yun.
• Li Yun froze Ding You with a glance and made him disintegrate, then used streams of light to burn Ning Xiaocui and the remaining Assassins to ash.
• Li Yun left the tavern, and Yun Shuiyao called out for him to wait.

Li Yun agreed to help Yun Shuiyao after she offered him the White Jade Divine Statue in exchange for a Soul Revival Flower. At Green Mountain, Heaven's Mandate Pavilion assassins ambushed them, and Li Yun began eliminating them.

• Yun Shuiyao offered Li Yun the White Jade Divine Statue and explained that praying to it seemed to make her wishes come true.
• Li Yun gave Yun Shuiyao a Soul Revival Flower, and she led him to the Mountain God Temple on Green Mountain to retrieve the statue.
• A Heaven's Mandate Pavilion group led by a Heavenly Human Realm expert surrounded Li Yun and Yun Shuiyao and demanded the White Jade Divine Statue.
• Li Yun told the assassins that the statue belonged to him now, but their leader ordered his men to attack.
• Li Yun summoned dozens of sword shadows that killed the attacking assassins, and the Heavenly Human Realm leader fled in panic.

Li Yun subdued Wang Shantao and discovered that Yun Shuiyao’s White Jade Divine Statue was a replica Immortal Treasure that granted him insight into the Great Wish Art. He offered to help Yun Shuiyao’s family in exchange for information about other relics, and she revealed an ancient scripture found beneath the statue.

• Li Yun dragged Wang Shantao back, defeated him, and sealed his cultivation and divine soul after Wang begged for mercy.
• Yun Shuiyao recognized Li Yun and feared he would take the Soul Revival Flower she sought for Song Wujie.
• Li Yun told Yun Shuiyao to retrieve the White Jade Divine Statue, then gained Human Immortal Level Cognition and began comprehending the Great Wish Art when he saw it.
• Li Yun revealed that he knew Yun Shuiyao was Song Wujie’s cousin and offered to help restore Song Wujie’s Battle Soul and Song Gongming’s Dharma Form in exchange for information.
• Yun Shuiyao asked Li Yun to destroy Heaven’s Mandate Pavilion and take Song Wujie as his disciple, then revealed that an ancient-scripture scroll had been beneath the statue.

At Old Song Village, Song Wujie blamed himself for Divine Blade Manor’s downfall, but Song Gongming revealed that the Wantu Kingdom Royal Clan had plotted to destroy the manor and that his revenge mission had been a desperate attempt to thwart them. Song Wujie’s hatred shifted from Li Yun to the Royal Clan.

• Song Wujie apologized during the Song Clan’s ancestral rite and revealed he intended to take his own life after the ceremony.
• Song Gongming sensed his son’s deathly resolve and told him that Divine Blade Manor’s decline was not his fault.
• Song Gongming explained that the Royal Clan had long feared Divine Blade Manor and had planned a bloodbath with eight Dharma Form Realm experts and Heaven’s Mandate Pavilion.
• Song Gongming revealed he had deliberately sought revenge on Li Yun, expecting to die or be crippled so the Royal Clan would no longer see Divine Blade Manor as a threat.
• Song Gongming recounted how Ruo Saint’s intervention and the Feitian City Lord’s fear allowed him to survive, though his Dharma Aspect was shattered.
• Song Wujie learned the truth and became fiercely hateful toward the Wantu Kingdom Royal Clan.

After Divine Blade Manor retreated to Old Song Village, Wan Tianqiu led assassins there to wipe out the Song Clan and taunted Song Wujie over his injuries and Princess Yumeng’s impending marriage to Wan Sansheng. Song Wujie collapsed, and Wan Tianqiu ordered the assassins to kill everyone in the village before nightfall.

• Song Wujie regained his anger at the Royal Clan’s persecution, but despaired over his broken Battle Soul and lost cultivation.
• Wan Tianqiu, Chen Tianming, Xue Daochen, and over a hundred martial artists broke into the Song Ancestral Hall.
• Wan Tianqiu mocked the Song Clan, recounted the feud between Song Wuzhong and the Wan Clan, and dismissed Song Gongming’s warning that the Wan Clan might face the same fate.
• Wan Tianqiu revealed that Wan Sansheng would marry Princess Yumeng and relayed her insulting message to Song Wujie, who spat blood and collapsed.
• Wan Tianqiu ordered the Heaven's Mandate Pavilion assassins to leave no one alive in Old Song Village before nightfall.

Li Yun arrived at Old Song Village as Wan Tianqiu, Chen Tianming, and Xue Daochen led a massacre of Divine Blade Manor, then effortlessly stopped them and killed Wan Tianqiu. He captured Chen Tianming and Xue Daochen and demanded to know which one belonged to Heaven's Mandate Pavilion and what they would offer for their lives.

• Wan Tianqiu, Chen Tianming, and Xue Daochen used their domains to suppress the Song Clan while their forces massacred the villagers and Divine Blade Manor Martial Artists.
• Li Yun descended into Old Song Village, shattered the three men's domains with his Mountain-and-River Great Seal, and wiped out their subordinates.
• Li Yun killed Wan Tianqiu with a Great Palm Seal after dismissing his threats.
• Chen Tianming and Xue Daochen fled in opposite directions, but Li Yun dragged them back and smashed them into the ground.
• Chen Tianming and Xue Daochen begged Li Yun for mercy, and he asked which of them was from Heaven's Mandate Pavilion and what price they would pay to survive.

Li Yun saved the Song Clan and offered to repair Song Gongming and Song Wujie's damaged cultivation, giving them a choice between quick restoration and rebuilding on their own. Song Wujie chose to start anew, and Li Yun noticed signs that his fate and Destiny Aperture might be changing.

• Li Yun sealed Chen Tianming and Xue Daochen, then mocked Song Wujie before Song Wujie thanked him for saving the Song Clan and apologized for his father's past actions.
• Yun Shuiyao told Song Wujie that Li Yun had come to fulfill their transaction and promised to help restore their cultivation.
• Li Yun examined Song Gongming and Song Wujie, then offered to restore their Battle Soul and Dharma Aspect in seven days or provide treasures and a legacy so they could cultivate anew.
• Song Wujie chose the second option, acknowledged Li Yun's favor, and vowed to try to catch up to him.
• Li Yun sensed a surge of destiny around Song Wujie and noticed signs that his Destiny Aperture might open.