Chapter Summaries

Li Yun killed Ancient Tower Earth Venerable with a surprise attack through an Immortal Gate, then escaped the Heavenly Dao Palace’s response. As the Heavenly Dao Palace and Heaven-Piercing Sword Palace argued over whether Li Yun was responsible, another Heaven-Piercing Sword Palace Human Venerable was killed.

• Li Yun heard that the Heavenly Dao Palace had blamed him for Earth Venerable Hun Tian’s death and decided to retaliate.
• Li Yun ambushed Ancient Tower Earth Venerable through an Immortal Gate and annihilated him, including his hidden avatars and divine consciousnesses.
• The nine Heavenly Venerables of the Heavenly Dao Palace attacked, but Li Yun escaped under the Supreme Immortal Gate’s concealment.
• Immortal Slayer Heavenly Venerable confronted Primordial Beginning Heavenly Venerable, demanding evidence that Li Yun had killed Ancient Tower Earth Venerable and refusing to let the Heaven-Piercing Sword Palace be dragged into the conflict.
• A Human Venerable inside the Heaven-Piercing Sword Palace screamed as a sudden killing intent erupted and he was killed.

Li Yun returned to the Taiwu Divine Realm after reaching his limit of 312 Immortal Venerable Dao Fruits and found the Taiwu Divine Hall's nine Heavenly Venerables desperate to speak with him. He asked them for fortune, and they offered to share the hall's fortune if he helped them face a mysterious calamity.

• Li Yun killed a Human Venerable of the Heaven-Piercing Sword Palace and left before his actions drew greater trouble.
• Over two months, Li Yun turned his gains into Immortal Venerable Dao Fruits and reached the limit his current Fate Configuration could support.
• Li Yun returned to the Taiwu Divine Realm and heard that the nine Heavenly Venerables of the Taiwu Divine Hall had repeatedly called for him through Hu Wei.
• Li Yun controlled Hu Wei and asked the nine Heavenly Venerables for fortune.
• Taiwu Heavenly Venerable explained that the Taiwu Divine Hall faced a mysterious calamity and offered Li Yun a share of its fortune if he helped.

Li Yun negotiated with Taiwu Heavenly Venerable for a fortune divine statue and demanded one at the Heavenly Venerable rank in exchange for helping avert the great calamity. The nine Heavenly Venerables weighed the risks and decided to gamble on his proposal.

• Li Yun realized the proposed fortune divine statue would let the Taiwu Divine Hall trace him, but he believed the Forbidden Divine Charm would keep him safe.
• Li Yun demanded a Heavenly Venerable-level statue so he could claim three percent of the Taiwu Divine Hall’s fortune.
• Taiwu Heavenly Venerable rejected the demand, warning that it would disrupt the Hall’s established distribution of fortune.
• Li Yun offered to uncover the origin of the Calamity Qi and provide a solution within ten years if the statue were established.
• Heavenly Venerable Cangxuan asked how Li Yun could guarantee success, and Li Yun argued that sharing the Hall’s fortune would give him reason to protect it.
• The nine Heavenly Venerables silently discussed the offer and decided to take a gamble on Li Yun.

Li Yun agreed to Taiwu Divine Hall’s conditions for a secret Heavenly Venerable fortune statue, while the hall’s Immortal Venerables resented the arrangement. After three months, the statue was completed and Li Yun absorbed the fortune that flowed to him, allowing hidden observers to investigate his karma as he strengthened his Fate Number.

• Taiwu Heavenly Venerable required Li Yun’s fortune statue and identity to remain secret, and said the statue would be removed if Li Yun revealed himself; Li Yun accepted.
• Li Yun temporarily restored Hu Wei’s freedom and vanished while the nine Heavenly Venerables convened Taiwu Divine Hall’s Human and Earth Venerables to explain the coming calamity and their deal with him.
• Taiwu Divine Hall’s Immortal Venerables objected to giving Li Yun a Heavenly Venerable-level fortune statue, but accepted the decision and resolved to settle accounts with him after ten years.
• The nine Heavenly Venerables spent three months refining Li Yun’s statue, then fused in a trace of his imprint and placed it in the Heavenly Venerable Statue Hall.
• As fortune and karma surged toward him, Li Yun noticed hidden auras investigating him, let them look, and absorbed the fortune to strengthen his Fate Number.

Li Yun’s fate pattern advanced toward six colors under the fortune of the Taiwu Divine Hall, and a Fate Palace embryo began to appear. When his Fate Drum sounded, he concealed his fate with the Mystic Gate's Forbidden Divine Charm, leaving the nine Heavenly Venerables unable to track him or the fortune flowing to him.

• Li Yun sensed a faint Fate Palace embryo forming as fortune strengthened his five-colored fate pattern.
• Over the following year, Li Yun’s fate grew stronger and the Fate Palace embryo became clearer.
• Li Yun’s Fate Drum sounded, announcing that he had reached the six-colored fate pattern realm and drawing powerful thoughts toward him.
• Li Yun used the Mystic Gate's Forbidden Divine Charm to hide his fate from those trying to identify him.
• The nine Heavenly Venerables discovered that they could no longer trace Li Yun or the fortune flowing from the Fortune Idol, and they feared they had lost their leverage over him.

Li Yun rebuked the Taiwu Divine Hall’s Venerables for pressuring him and reminded them that their agreement gave him ten years to investigate the Calamity Qi. After they fell silent, he began preparing to study the Qi with the System, but a mysterious eye pressing down on Chen Xiu’s fate stirred.

• Taiwu Heavenly Venerable realized that Li Yun’s fortune could not be used to locate him, and the Venerables sensed its flow again.
• Li Yun spoke into the Heavenly Venerable Secret Realm through his karmic connection and mocked Heavenly Venerable Miaowu for gossiping about him.
• Miaowu demanded that Li Yun investigate the Calamity Qi, and Li Yun warned the Venerables not to pressure him before the agreed ten years had passed.
• Li Yun cut off his presence, leaving the Venerables afraid that he might abandon their cooperation.
• Li Yun prepared to use the System to study the Calamity Qi, then sensed the mysterious eye over Chen Xiu’s fate stir.

Li Yun found Chen Xiu’s Immortal Body cracking as the mysterious eye burdened her fate, leaving her close to death. He risked observing the eye to help her control it, and the system revealed that he had begun comprehending the Judgment Heavenly Scripture.

• Li Yun appeared at Chen Yuan’s residence and found Chen Xiu in agony, with cracks spreading across her body.
• Li Yun realized Chen Xiu’s fate was collapsing under the strain of the mysterious eye and concluded that helping her control it was her only chance.
• Li Yun probed Chen Xiu’s fate and saw that the mysterious eye looked red, as if it had been injured.
• The system identified the eye as the Judgment Immortal Eyes and awarded Li Yun Cognition Points across multiple levels.
• After observing the eye for half an hour, Li Yun began loading the Judgment Heavenly Scripture.

Li Yun learned that the Judgment Heavenly Scripture could advance the Judgment Dao toward the Heavenly Venerable realm, strengthening his belief that a single Great Dao could reach the pinnacle. He raised the scripture to its ninth level and condensed a Judgment Dao Fruit that surpassed his other Dao Fruits in power.

• After the system finished loading, Li Yun learned that the Judgment Heavenly Scripture had twelve levels and could lead the Judgment Dao to the Heavenly Venerable realm.
• Li Yun suspected that every one of the Three Thousand Great Daos could reach the pinnacle and wondered whether the Judgment Immortal Eyes represented an even higher level of the Judgment Dao.
• Determined to see the scenery at the pinnacle, Li Yun used Cognition Points to raise the Judgment Heavenly Scripture to its third level.
• After raising the scripture to its sixth level, Li Yun sensed that the Judgment Dao was ready to condense an Immortal Venerable Dao Fruit and entered the Immortal Scar Realm to do so.
• Li Yun raised the Judgment Heavenly Scripture to its ninth level and found that his new Judgment Dao Fruit was at least twice as powerful as his other Dao Fruits.

Li Yun passed the Judgment Heavenly Scripture to Chen Xiu, whose rapid cultivation let her master the Judgment Immortal Eyes enough to halt the collapse of her fate. After three years, she had become a First Grade Immortal Sovereign, and Li Yun turned his attention to the unexplained Calamity Qi troubling the Taiwu Divine Hall.

• Li Yun gave Chen Xiu the complete twelve levels of the Judgment Heavenly Scripture and watched her begin cultivating it with extraordinary affinity.
• Chen Xiu advanced from the seventh level of the Human Immortal Realm to Human Immortal Perfection in three days, then continued rising through the immortal realms.
• Over three years, Chen Xiu reached First Grade Immortal Sovereign by perfecting the ninth level of the Judgment Heavenly Scripture, surpassing her Fourth Grade Immortal Sovereign brother Chen Yuan in strength.
• Chen Xiu established a connection with the Judgment Immortal Eyes and began controlling them enough to stabilize her collapsing fate.
• Li Yun resolved to investigate the Calamity Qi affecting Taiwu Divine Hall cultivators, then suddenly asked to examine Chen Xiu's fate again.

Li Yun used the Supreme Immortal Gate to trace the Calamity Qi after confirming it was absent from Chen Xiu's fate. After four years of searching, he found its source and was deeply shocked by what he saw.

• Li Yun confirmed that Chen Xiu's fate alone lacked the Calamity Qi and suspected the Judgment Immortal Eyes had kept it away.
• Li Yun returned to the Immortal Scar Realm and used the Limitless Immortal Rule to investigate the Calamity Qi through the Supreme Immortal Gate.
• Li Yun was overwhelmed by the torrent of Immortal Gate Projections but recovered and began tracing the Calamity Qi through them.
• Four years passed, bringing Li Yun to the ninth year of his agreement with the nine Heavenly Venerables of the Taiwu Divine Hall.
• Li Yun found a faint clue in Chen Jiuxu's fate, traced the Calamity Qi to its source, and was shocked by what appeared.

Li Yun discovered that Martial Ancestor Chen Jiuxu was suppressing a Demon Ape Above Heavenly Venerable, whose Battle Qi was spreading through the Taiwu Divine Realm. Unable to confront either of them, Li Yun traced the Battle Qi with the Supreme Immortal Gate and located its source in humanoid war weapons.

• Li Yun used the Supreme Immortal Gate to see Martial Ancestor Chen Jiuxu suppressing a chained Demon Ape in an ancient city buried in chaos.
• The Demon Ape revealed that its Battle Qi was spreading through the Taiwu Divine Realm and threatened to sacrifice the realm to reclaim its lost Battle Character.
• Chen Jiuxu and the Demon Ape sensed Li Yun spying, so he immediately ended the tracing.
• Li Yun decided not to free Chen Jiuxu or confront the Demon Ape and instead sought the Battle Qi spreading through the realm.
• Li Yun traced the Battle Qi with the Supreme Immortal Gate and found that its source was humanoid war weapons.

Li Yun discovered that the Demon Ape’s battle qi was transforming cultivators across the Taiwu Divine Realm into controlled war soldiers, and he stole a top-grade Battle Sacred Dao from one of them. After condensing twenty-seven more Immortal Venerable Dao Fruits, he tested the Battle Sacred Dao by destroying a war soldier’s battle qi talisman and waited to see how the Demon Ape would react, while the nine Heavenly Venerables grew anxious about his silence.

• Li Yun found that the Demon Ape’s battle qi talismans had spread across the Taiwu Divine Realm and were turning cultivators into mindless war soldiers.
• Li Yun observed a First Grade Immortal Sovereign war soldier and obtained the top-grade Battle Sacred Dao from its battle qi talisman.
• Li Yun upgraded the Battle Sacred Dao, then spent nine days condensing twenty-seven Immortal Venerable Dao Fruits, bringing his total to over three hundred and forty.
• Li Yun returned to the Taiwu Divine Realm and used the Battle Sacred Dao to destroy an Immortal King war soldier’s battle qi talisman, testing whether the Demon Ape would notice.
• The nine Heavenly Venerables at the Taiwu Divine Hall grew anxious as the ten-year deadline approached without news from Li Yun.

As the ten-year deadline passed without Li Yun returning, the Taiwu Heavenly Venerables debated whether to seek help from the Martial Ancestor and admitted they still could not trace the Calamity Qi. Their discussion was interrupted when Li Yun returned to the Taiwu Divine Hall.

• Panwu Heavenly Venerable accused Li Yun of taking the Taiwu Divine Hall's fortune and abandoning them to the calamity.
• Taiwu Heavenly Venerable refused the other Heavenly Venerables' suggestion to seek aid from the Martial Ancestor, saying the Taiwu Divine Realm still had time and options.
• Heavenly Venerable Cangxuan admitted he had found no source for the growing Calamity Qi and could sense only that a major crisis was approaching.
• Li Yun arrived and greeted the Heavenly Venerables, announcing that he was back.

Li Yun returned to the Taiwu Divine Hall and revealed that he had uncovered the truth behind the great calamity, but demanded more fortune to resolve it because doing so would provoke an enemy above Heavenly Venerable. The nine Heavenly Venerables faced his demand for another twenty percent of the Taiwu Divine Hall’s fortune and learned that the threat was also targeting the Martial Ancestor.

• Li Yun appeared before the nine Heavenly Venerables after ten years and taunted them for speaking against him.
• Taiwu Heavenly Venerable stopped Panwu Heavenly Venerable from provoking Li Yun and asked about the sacrifice Li Yun had mentioned.
• Li Yun denied mentioning the sacrifice until Taiwu Heavenly Venerable and Panwu Heavenly Venerable apologized and pleaded for his help.
• Li Yun said he had figured out the calamity and could resolve it, but doing so would attract an enemy above Heavenly Venerable.
• Li Yun demanded another twenty percent of the Taiwu Divine Hall’s fortune, and Taiwu Heavenly Venerable protested that he had already received three portions.
• Li Yun warned that the being preparing to sacrifice the Taiwu Divine Realm was plotting to crush the Martial Ancestor.

Li Yun told the nine Heavenly Venerables that the Taiwu Divine Realm faced a threat from an existence Above Heavenly Venerable and that Martial Ancestor Chen Jiuxu had reincarnated within the realm. After Li Yun demanded twenty percent of its fortune, Chen Jiuxu agreed to pay and offered him even more if he became Deputy Hall Master.

• Li Yun revealed the threat to the Taiwu Divine Realm and said Martial Ancestor Chen Jiuxu's True Spirit had reincarnated there, but refused to identify it.
• Li Yun demanded twenty percent of the realm's fortune and vanished, leaving an obscure trace to test Chen Jiuxu's response.
• The nine Heavenly Venerables decided to contact Martial Ancestor and went to the depths of the Taiwu Divine Hall.
• Taiwu Heavenly Venerable reported Li Yun's claims and demand to Chen Jiuxu through the divine statue.
• Chen Jiuxu agreed to give Li Yun twenty percent of the fortune and offered him thirty percent if he became Deputy Hall Master of the Taiwu Divine Hall.

Taiwu Heavenly Venerable and the others learned that Martial Ancestor approved Li Yun’s demand and dismissed the taboo surrounding Fate Dao Fruits, revealing that powerful figures secretly dealt with Cang Life Master. Li Yun accepted the offered providence and realized that lofty figures had been secretly condensing Fate Dao Fruits too.

• Martial Ancestor told Taiwu Heavenly Venerable to give Li Yun thirty percent of Taiwu Divine Realm’s providence if he became Deputy Hall Master, and said the Fate Dao Fruit taboo was a joke.
• Martial Ancestor revealed that powerful figures who publicly opposed Cang Life Master secretly made deals with him and condensed Fate Dao Fruits.
• Taiwu Heavenly Venerable and the other Heavenly Venerables agreed to follow Martial Ancestor’s order, and Li Yun’s incarnation appeared in their hall.
• Taiwu Heavenly Venerable told Li Yun he could receive thirty percent of the providence, and Li Yun readily accepted the offer.
• Taiwu Heavenly Venerable explained that multiple powerful figures had secretly condensed Fate Dao Fruits, leaving Li Yun stunned by their hypocrisy.

Li Yun learned that powerful factions had secretly cultivated Fate Dao Fruits while using a taboo to keep others from doing the same, and he agreed to become Vice Hall Master of the Taiwu Divine Hall in exchange for thirty percent of its fortune. He kept his true body hidden and left the nine Heavenly Venerables willing to put aside their dispute over his Fate Dao Fruit.

• Li Yun realized the taboo on condensing Fate Dao Fruits had been used to protect the interests of a secret circle, and he vowed to remember those responsible.
• Li Yun accepted the Vice Hall Master position and asked when he would receive thirty percent of the Taiwu Divine Realm's fortune.
• Taiwu Heavenly Venerable explained that Li Yun would outrank the nine Heavenly Venerables, then asked him to reveal his true body.
• Li Yun claimed his true body was secluded while condensing a new Immortal Venerable Dao Fruit, and promised to visit them afterward.
• Taiwu Heavenly Venerable congratulated Li Yun and sincerely offered the nine Heavenly Venerables' help, saying they would no longer object to his Fate Dao Fruit.

Li Yun became the Taiwu Divine Hall's Deputy Hall Master under the codename Emperor Martial Venerable and absorbed its fortune to forge a seven-colored Heavenly Venerable Fate Palace. After the nine Heavenly Venerables congratulated him, they explained cultivation beyond the Immortal Venerable realm, leaving Li Yun confident about his path forward.

• The Taiwu Divine Hall officially announced Li Yun as Deputy Hall Master under the codename Emperor Martial Venerable, backed by a fate and karma web he created with the nine Heavenly Venerables.
• Li Yun had Chen Xiu test the disguise with her Eye of True Discrimination, and she saw through it; her strength had also advanced rapidly toward the Judgment Dao Immortal Venerable realm.
• The Taiwu Divine Hall's fortune poured into Li Yun's destiny, and after three years his six-colored fate pattern became a seven-colored Heavenly Venerable Fate Palace.
• Taiwu Heavenly Venerable and the other Heavenly Venerables congratulated and teased Li Yun, while he concealed his true strength and humbly asked them about cultivation beyond the Immortal Venerable realm.
• The nine Heavenly Venerables explained the principles of advancing from Human Venerable to Heavenly Venerable and beyond, strengthening Li Yun's confidence in his future path.

Li Yun explained how Sacred Daos allowed cultivators to overcome the Immortal Beings’ influence over the Three Thousand Great Daos and resolved to pursue the Judgment Dao. He revealed the Demon Ape’s battle qi to the nine Heavenly Venerables and prepared to eliminate the tainted battle soldiers, but the spies hidden in Taiwu Divine Realm threatened to expose his Immortal Gate secret.

• Li Yun learned that Sacred Daos were self-created paths that avoided the Immortal Beings’ influence, and he suspected the Judgment Immortal Eyes were connected to the source of the Judgment Dao.
• Li Yun summoned the nine Heavenly Venerables and revealed that the Demon Ape had released the battle qi spreading through Taiwu Divine Realm.
• The nine Heavenly Venerables agreed to help Li Yun and seal off Taiwu Divine Realm, but Taiwu Heavenly Venerable warned that hidden spies could still send news out afterward.
• Li Yun realized that eliminating every battle-tainted humanoid soldier at once would reveal his ability to kill through the Immortal Gate.
• Li Yun asked whether they could eliminate the spies at the same time as the humanoid battle soldiers.

Li Yun used the Immortal Gate to identify and mark spies throughout the Taiwu Divine Realm, then told the nine Heavenly Venerables they could begin sealing it off to deal with the battle qi. The Heavenly Venerables were stunned that he claimed to have found every spy in just one year.

• Taiwu Heavenly Venerable explained that killing every spy would violate the unspoken rules among the Chaos Great Void's factions and provoke retaliation.
• Li Yun decided to kill some spies and temporarily prevent the rest from sensing the real Taiwu Divine Realm.
• Li Yun used the Immortal Gate to search more than a thousand great worlds and mark everyone he suspected of being a spy.
• After a year, Li Yun summoned the nine Heavenly Venerables and said spies would die or lose their senses over the next three months.
• The nine Heavenly Venerables doubted Li Yun's claim that he had found every spy in the Taiwu Divine Realm.