Chapter Summaries

After forming his Immortal Soul, Li Yun used his accumulated cognition to advance Red Lotus Karma Fire, creating a Karma Dao avatar and learning to manipulate the karmic force surrounding him. He began forging a Karmic Fire Red Lotus that could turn his karmic burdens into fuel.

• Li Yun realized his Three Thousand Great Daos would require enormous resources and considered having their avatars cultivate independently.
• Li Yun observed the Red Lotus Lamp for three days, then spent all 115 of his Earth Immortal Level Cognition points to advance Red Lotus Karma Fire to the Proficient Realm.
• The Karma Dao entered the Origin Dao Realm, and Li Yun formed his eighth Great Dao avatar, Zhishen.
• Li Yun used the Gate of Karma to suppress nearby karmic entanglements and the Blade of Karma to cut Karma Threads.
• Li Yun ignited Karmic Fire and fed it the first surging karmic force, causing it to take the shape of a red lotus.

Li Yun reached the ninth layer of the Dao Embryo Realm and entered the Demon Sealing Portal to confront the Calamity Qi Dynasty. He annihilated thousands of Calamity Qi Fierce Beasts with one punch, then began absorbing the calamity qi alongside the Calamity Qi Demonic Lotus.

• Li Yun reviewed his cultivation and abilities, noting that he had reached the Dao Embryo Ninth Layer.
• Li Yun opened a crack in the Demon Sealing Portal and entered the Calamity Qi Dynasty with the Calamity Qi Demonic Lotus above his head.
• A giant Calamity Qi Fierce Beast and thousands of Dao Seed Realm beasts attacked Li Yun.
• Li Yun blasted the beasts and surrounding calamity qi away with one punch, creating a vacuum zone nearly a hundred miles across.
• The Calamity Qi Demonic Lotus began devouring the calamity qi tide as Li Yun absorbed and refined it into his Mysterious Gate Dao Embryo and Cell Crystals.

Li Yun formed the Calamity Qi Great Dao Incarnation, named it Calamity Qi Daoist, and empowered it to devour calamity qi. After merging with it, Li Yun’s body underwent a painful transformation that restored his cultivation and left him vastly stronger, with a physique seamlessly unified with the Mysterious Gate Dao Embryo.

• Li Yun absorbed the calamity qi frenzy and advanced the Calamity Qi Great Dao into the Origin Dao Realm, forming the Calamity Qi Daoist incarnation.
• Calamity Qi Daoist swept calamity qi into his Great River, and Li Yun recalled and merged with him, transferring his body’s Calamity Qi Great Dao origin and raising the incarnation to the seventh level of Origin Dao.
• Calamity Qi Daoist drew the Calamity Qi Demonic Lotus into his Great River and rampaged through the Calamity Qi Dynasty, devouring more calamity qi.
• Li Yun discovered that his physique had fallen only to the fifth level of Cave Void after losing its Fire and Calamity Qi origins, while power from the Mysterious Gate Dao Embryo began reshaping his Cell Crystals.
• The Mysterious Gate Dao Embryo’s power shattered and reassembled Li Yun’s Cell Crystals, restoring his physique to the ninth level of Cave Void and making it at least ten times stronger.
• Li Yun sensed that his transformed physique and Mysterious Gate Dao Embryo had become one seamless whole, capable of expressing Extinction Dao True Intent.

Li Yun comprehended the Way of Nothingness True Intent while Divine Monk Yunlai awakened within the Calamity Qi Dynasty and absorbed its calamity qi, rising to peak Earth Immortal. Yunlai then set out to devour the Innate Calamity Qi Spirit, while Calamity Qi Daoist realized he was the target and wondered whether his true body could survive.

• Li Yun sat down inside the Calamity Qi Dynasty and focused on strengthening his Way of Nothingness True Intent.
• Divine Monk Yunlai awoke and recognized that his grand-disciple had found an Innate Calamity Qi Spirit, which he planned to devour.
• Divine Monk Yunlai absorbed the calamity qi and rose from his withered state to peak Earth Immortal, but failed to reach Heaven Immortal.
• Divine Monk Yunlai blamed the Innate Calamity Qi Spirit for consuming the calamity qi he had gathered and set out to devour it himself.
• Calamity Qi Daoist realized Divine Monk Yunlai had created the Calamity Qi Dynasty and wondered whether his true body could withstand the coming battle.

Li Yun confronted Divine Monk Yunlai, the peak Earth Immortal behind the Calamity Qi Dynasty, and discovered the old monk’s Earth Immortal Law, Myriad Calamity Golden Body. Yunlai launched a devastating palm attack, leaving the outcome of their fight unresolved.

• Li Yun recalled his Great Dao avatars and assessed his strength, deciding the Ancient Celestial Continent’s World Will would suppress Divine Monk Yunlai.
• Divine Monk Yunlai approached Li Yun and revealed that he intended to use Li Yun’s Innate Calamity Qi Spirit constitution as nourishment for his advance to the Heaven Immortal Realm.
• Li Yun taunted Yunlai and struck him with the Primordial Golden Lightning Art, but Yunlai’s body quickly recovered.
• Li Yun’s system registered the Earth Immortal Law Myriad Calamity Golden Body, which he suspected made Yunlai exceptionally resistant to attacks.
• Divine Monk Yunlai grew furious and sent a massive palm filled with calamity qi blades and swords crashing toward Li Yun.

Li Yun fought Divine Monk Yunlai, shattering his calamity-qi attacks and revealing strength near the quasi-immortal realm. Yunlai unleashed a powerful strike while constrained by the World Will, but Li Yun’s Dao of the World punch broke through it and destroyed Yunlai’s right arm.

• Li Yun smashed apart Divine Monk Yunlai’s calamity-qi attacks and devoured the remnants into his Mysterious Gate Dao Embryo.
• Divine Monk Yunlai recognized Li Yun’s strength and decided to suppress him before he could escape.
• Yunlai revived his Earth Immortal Law to the edge of the Human Immortal Realm as the World Will’s furious thunder and eye warned him to stop.
• Yunlai attacked Li Yun with the World-Trapping Heaven Chain, and Li Yun answered with his Dao of the World punch.
• Li Yun’s punch shattered the chain, broke through Yunlai’s palm, and blasted off Yunlai’s right arm.

Li Yun wounded Divine Monk Yunlai and seized the Immortal Origin in his shattered arm, prompting Yunlai to unleash his power and face the World Will’s furious thunder. Yunlai Temple Sacred Land collapsed, and Li Yun traced its missing experts to the Immortal Fall Sea.

• Li Yun refined the Immortal Origin from Divine Monk Yunlai’s shattered arm, advancing his Mysterious Gate Dao Embryo to the twelfth level.
• Divine Monk Yunlai revived thirty percent of his Earth Immortal Law, regrew his arm, and attacked Li Yun with a Calamity Qi Great Chain.
• The World Will’s furious thunder struck Divine Monk Yunlai, forcing him to suppress his cultivation and escape through space.
• Li Yun fled the collapsing Calamity Qi Dynasty and found Yunlai Temple Sacred Land sinking as thunder destroyed its providence-bearing lotus.
• Li Yun discovered that the temple’s Nine Heavens Reaching Realms experts were missing and traced them to the Immortal Fall Sea.

Li Yun entered Immortal Fall Sea and discovered an ancient Heavenly Immortal Grade cross-realm teleportation array after finding that Temple Master Shenyue and the Yunlai Temple experts had escaped. Meanwhile, Divine Monk Yunlai hid on a solitary island and vowed revenge against Li Yun.

• Li Yun sent Zhishen and Calamity Qi Daoist to absorb the karma and calamity qi in Immortal Fall Sea, then walked through the waves into its depths.
• Li Yun traced Temple Master Shenyue and the others to a hidden valley, but found it empty and discovered an Ancient Cross-Realm Teleportation Array.
• Li Yun realized the array had likely let Temple Master Shenyue and the others escape to the Sacred Heaven Realm, but he could neither understand nor activate it yet.
• Divine Monk Yunlai fled across the ocean to a solitary island and used a mechanism to make the island vanish.
• Divine Monk Yunlai lamented that Li Yun had shattered his Myriad Calamity Golden Body runes and swore to avenge himself.

Li Yun completed and initiated the Heavenly Immortal Grade Ancient Cross-Realm Teleportation Array, confirming he could leave the Ancient Celestial Continent through the array in the Immortal Fall Sea. Before deciding what to do, he gathered those closest to him and explained that leaving might mean he could never return, while they feared being separated from Tiangu King Mountain and from him.

• Li Yun spent 110 Heavenly Immortal Grade Cognition Points to initiate the Ancient Cross-Realm Teleportation Array, gaining insights into seventy-seven Great Daos.
• Li Yun learned how to activate the array hidden in the Immortal Fall Sea and realized he could leave the Ancient Celestial Continent.
• Li Yun wrestled with the thought of leaving the place he had come to call home, knowing he might never return.
• Li Yun summoned Tiangu King Mountain and gathered Zhang Ruohan, Zhang Chu, Gu Xiaoxian, Chen Jiuxu, Ding Baisheng, Old Daoist Wuchen, Bai Youruo, and others to explain his situation.
• Old Daoist Wuchen pointed out that Li Yun might not be able to take Tiangu King Mountain with him, making everyone realize their destinies were bound to the mountain and that leaving could separate them from Li Yun forever.

After a three-day farewell gathering, Li Yun returned to the ruins of Yunlai Temple and learned that its surviving disciples had been massacred after the temple’s crimes became public. He realized Temple Master Shenyue’s faction had used the disciples as scapegoats to lessen karmic backlash, but he could not figure out who had revealed the truth.

• Li Yun and the others drank together for three days before he left Immortal Fall Sea.
• Nearly twenty days after Yunlai Temple Sacred Land collapsed, the truth about Divine Monk Yunlai’s schemes spread across the Ancient Celestial Continent.
• An enraged crowd slaughtered nearly three hundred thousand stranded Yunlai Temple disciples and razed the temple buildings after looting them.
• Li Yun returned to Yunlai Temple’s original site and concluded Temple Master Shenyue’s faction had abandoned the disciples to reduce its karmic backlash.
• Li Yun wondered who had leaked the secret, since he and the fleeing Yunlai Temple higher-ups had not revealed it.

Li Yun deduced that the hidden force behind the Yunlai Temple revelations might be connected to the Central Region and set off to investigate. Meanwhile, Divine Monk Yunlai used the Karma Sacred Tower to escape karmic backlash, sacrificing most of his remaining lifespan and cultivation before the tower's awakened will protested being burdened with the backlash.

• Li Yun found that his deduction vaguely pointed toward the Central Region and wondered whether the Martial God Divine Hall was involved in exposing Yunlai Temple's secrets.
• Li Yun decided to inspect the Central Region and left to find a place to settle Tiangu King Mountain.
• Divine Monk Yunlai suffered intense karmic backlash in his hidden Stone House, which threatened to kill him within three months.
• Divine Monk Yunlai used the Karma Sacred Tower and the Immortal Art "Sacrifice to the Great Dao, karma made one" to transfer his karma and backlash into the tower.
• Divine Monk Yunlai lost eighty percent of his remaining lifespan and fell from peak Earth Immortal to third-level Human Immortal cultivation.
• The Karma Sacred Tower awakened a powerful will, which roared in anger at having the karmic backlash shifted onto it.

Li Yun arrived in the Central Region and confronted Huang Shanjun for complaining about the Seven Great War God Families. He pressured Huang Shanjun to buy him a drink, but Jiang Ye returned and paid instead, leaving Li Yun to tease Huang Shanjun.

• A grand procession for a young master of the Nine Spirits Family landed on the avenue, prompting Jiang Ye to warn Huang Shanjun against criticizing the powerful families.
• Jiang Ye ended their partnership and left after Huang Shanjun continued complaining about the Seven Great War God Families.
• Li Yun appeared in their private room, rebuked Huang Shanjun, and demanded that he buy him a drink.
• Li Yun threatened to seek a drink from the Nine Spirits Family's young master and praise the Seven Great War God Families to him.
• Jiang Ye returned, gave Li Yun a flask of Thunderclap Wine, and asked him not to cause trouble.
• Li Yun accepted the wine and taunted Huang Shanjun by praising Jiang Ye's reliability.

Li Yun defused Huang Shanjun’s challenge and agreed to travel with Jiang Ye to Golden Sun Mountain, where the two could talk in private. Meanwhile, Ling Jiu brought Zi Lan to the Nine Spirits Family manor and welcomed her as his guest.

• Huang Shanjun threatened Li Yun, but Jiang Ye intervened and explained that fighting in Nine Spirits City would provoke the Nine Spirits Family.
• Li Yun introduced himself to Jiang Ye as a Rogue Cultivator from the Cracked Heaven Dynasty and denied belonging to the Liehuang Imperial Clan.
• Jiang Ye invited Li Yun and Huang Shanjun to drink and talk at Golden Sun Mountain, and Li Yun readily agreed.
• Ling Jiu arrived at the Nine Spirits Family manor with Zi Lan and invited her inside as several hundred powerful Martial Artists escorted them.

Li Yun, Jiang Ye, and Huang Shanjun discussed the weakening Martial God Divine Hall and its growing conflict with the Seven Great War God Families. After Huang Shanjun stormed off over Jiang Ye’s refusal to take sides, Jiang Ye confided that a hidden force might be pushing both sides toward war, then noticed two fast-approaching figures.

• Jiang Ye explained that the Seven Great War God Families had hollowed out the Martial God Divine Hall, which had withdrawn into a half-sealed state.
• Huang Shanjun insisted the Seven Great War God Families were traitors and demanded that Jiang Ye choose the Martial God Divine Hall’s side.
• Jiang Ye rebuked Huang Shanjun for his insistence and warned that neither of them could survive being drawn into a conflict between such powerful forces.
• Huang Shanjun declared that they could no longer be friends and flew away in anger.
• Jiang Ye told Li Yun that the Central Region was being torn apart and suspected a hidden hand was driving the Martial God Divine Hall and the Seven Great War God Families toward war.
• Two streaks of light approached, and Jiang Ye recognized something about them and angrily called one a bastard.

Huang Shanjun exposed his ties to the Martial God Hall and brought Yellow Dragon Envoy to force Jiang Ye to choose sides, only to discover Jiang Ye served Azure Dragon Envoy. When Huang Shanjun and Yellow Dragon Envoy attacked Li Yun, Li Yun overwhelmed them and burned away Yellow Dragon Envoy’s martial path.

• Huang Shanjun accused Li Yun of being a spy and revealed that he had joined the Martial God Hall under Yellow Dragon Envoy’s orders.
• Yellow Dragon Envoy pressured Jiang Ye to support the Martial God Hall, but Jiang Ye revealed an Azure Dragon Token and showed that he also served the Hall.
• Jiang Ye berated Huang Shanjun for trying to suppress him, and Huang Shanjun blamed Li Yun and demanded that he explain his background.
• Huang Shanjun attacked Li Yun with nine mountains, but Li Yun shattered them and slapped him aside.
• Yellow Dragon Envoy attacked Li Yun with the Yellow Dragon Martial Dao, but Li Yun’s punch engulfed him in fire and burned away his martial path.

Li Yun killed the Yellow Dragon Envoy and was about to kill Huang Shanjun, but Jiang Ye pleaded for his friend and offered news of a hidden opportunity. Li Yun spared Huang Shanjun and agreed to investigate the Void Star Hall in Starry Night City with Jiang Ye.

• Li Yun burned the Yellow Dragon Envoy to ash, terrifying Huang Shanjun and Jiang Ye.
• Jiang Ye asked Li Yun to spare Huang Shanjun and offered valuable news in exchange.
• Jiang Ye explained that Starry Night City was an ancient city shrouded in perpetual starry night, where a Star Token could open the hidden Void Star Hall and its Stars Dao inheritance.
• Jiang Ye said neither he nor the Martial God Hall had found records of the Void Star Hall.
• Li Yun agreed to spare Huang Shanjun for now and told Jiang Ye to lead him to Starry Night City.

Ye Zhengxing broke through to the Origin Dao Realm and hoped Star Palace could rise and avenge Wang Zhengyi, but the arrogant Seventh Young Master confronted him and exposed his resentment. As a servant prepared to kill Ye Zhengxing, he recalled how he had survived the massacre of Star Palace and preserved its remnants by becoming the young man's slave.

• Ye Zhengxing cultivated Star Transformation until it formed sixty-four stars, advancing to the Origin Dao Realm.
• Seventh Young Master entered Ye Zhengxing's courtyard and mocked his hopes of revenge, while a servant ordered Ye Zhengxing to kneel and crawl.
• Ye Zhengxing denied harboring revenge, but Seventh Young Master said he had overheard his words, and a servant kicked and bloodied him.
• A servant drew a dagger and prepared to kill Ye Zhengxing as he remembered his rise in Star Palace and Wang Zhengyi's support.
• Ye Zhengxing recalled how Seventh Young Master had killed Wang Zhengyi and ordered a massacre, and how Ye Zhengxing had saved himself and Star Palace by pretending to despise Wang Zhengyi and swearing loyalty.

Hua Tiancong revealed that he had destroyed Star Palace to use Ye Zhengxing as a test subject for breaking through the Integration Realm. He offered to spare Star Palace if Ye investigated the strange changes in Starry Night City, leaving Ye forced to weigh vengeance against his sect’s survival.

• Hua Tiancong told Ye Zhengxing that he had known about Ye’s hatred and had kept Star Palace alive to observe Ye cultivating its methods.
• Hua Tiancong explained that Yan Nu had proposed using Ye as a test subject, and that he had killed Wang Zhengyi and made Ye palace master to drive his cultivation.
• Ye Zhengxing erupted in anger and accused Hua Tiancong and his people of unjustly bullying and slaughtering Star Palace.
• Hua Tiancong’s servants struck Ye Zhengxing down, and Hua offered him another chance because his talent was useful.
• Hua Tiancong ordered Ye to investigate the strange celestial changes in Starry Night City and promised to protect Star Palace and help Ye reach the Integration Realm if he succeeded.

Hua Tiancong pressured Ye Zhengxing into cooperating, then left Starry Night City and ordered his servants to watch him and investigate the city’s coming changes. Meanwhile, Li Yun, Jiang Ye, and Huang Shanjun arrived in Starry Night City and decided to visit Stars Palace.

• Ye Zhengxing reluctantly thanked Hua Tiancong for his forgiveness and collapsed in despair after Hua Tiancong left Stars Palace.
• Hua Tiancong told his servants that Ye Zhengxing would eventually submit and might help him seize an opportunity in Starry Night City.
• Hua Tiancong returned to the Tianxing Family, leaving Yan Nu and Shan Nu behind to watch Ye Zhengxing and investigate the city.
• Yan Nu and Shan Nu agreed to search opposite sides of Starry Night City and meet at Mengyun Pavilion ten days later.
• Li Yun, Jiang Ye, and Huang Shanjun arrived in Starry Night City and set out to visit the palace master of Stars Palace.

Li Yun and two companions visited Ye Zhengxing in Stars Palace and won his welcome with a Seven-Leaf Cloud Smoke gift and respectful treatment. Ye Zhengxing suspected they might be from another War God Family and considered whether they could help him take revenge on Hua Tiancong, but he remained cautious.

• Ye Zhengxing mistook Li Yun and his companions for people sent by Hua Tiancong and challenged them for entering Stars Palace unannounced.
• Li Yun apologized and gave Ye Zhengxing a middle-rank Heaven Grade Seven-Leaf Cloud Smoke, calling him the master of Starry Night City.
• Ye Zhengxing welcomed the visitors into his courtyard and agreed to provide wine and food before asking about their origins and purpose.
• After leaving the courtyard, Ye Zhengxing judged the three visitors to be powerful and suspected Li Yun was their leader.
• Ye Zhengxing considered using the visitors to oppose Hua Tiancong, but decided to stay cautious and arranged a meal for them.