Chapter Summaries

Li Yun had the nine Heavenly Venerables seal off the Taiwu Divine Realm while he used Immortal Gates to eliminate spies and remove battle qi talismans across its worlds. The battle qi threat disappeared, but the Heavenly Venerables were left demanding to know how Li Yun could control the Immortal Gates.

• Li Yun told the nine Heavenly Venerables to seal off the Taiwu Divine Realm, and they took positions around its boundary and raised curtains of light.
• The nine Heavenly Venerables announced that the sudden darkness was a Divine Array refinement drill, calming the realm’s inhabitants while alerting some spies.
• Spies attempting to send messages lost control of their senses and bodies as Immortal Gates appeared behind some of them and struck them down.
• Across the realm, hands emerging from Immortal Gates seized and crushed battle qi talismans, causing affected cultivators to fall and vanish.
• The Heavenly Venerables realized the battle qi and its threat to their realm had disappeared, then confronted Li Yun about controlling the Immortal Gates.

Li Yun devoured the battle-energy talismans across the Taiwu Divine Realm and condensed a Battle Sacred Dao Fruit, causing the Dao to manifest and strengthen his Limitless Immortal Rule. After fleeing from the nine Heavenly Venerables, he claimed an ordinary-looking stone had let him control the Immortal Gates, leaving Taiwu Heavenly Venerable questioning its power.

• The nine Heavenly Venerables panicked after Immortal Gates appeared throughout the Taiwu Divine Realm and realized Li Yun could control them.
• Li Yun refined every battle-energy talisman in the realm, condensed a Human Venerable Dao Fruit, and made the Battle Sacred Dao manifest as a real Dao.
• Li Yun realized the Battle Sacred Dao had strengthened his Limitless Immortal Rule, but he could not explain why that rule had not condensed a Dao Fruit.
• When the nine Heavenly Venerables approached, Li Yun sealed his aura and fled into the Taiwu Divine Hall, leaving an incarnation behind.
• Li Yun presented Taiwu Heavenly Venerable with an ordinary stone and claimed it had enabled him to control the Immortal Gates.
• Taiwu Heavenly Venerable examined the stone and asked Li Yun how it could possess such power.

Li Yun explained that the Immortal-Connecting Divine Stone had let him briefly control certain cultivators’ Immortal Gates, but the one-use treasure had crumbled after helping resolve the Demon Ape battle aura. Martial Ancestor appeared in the Taiwu Divine Hall, confirmed that such a treasure was plausible, and stopped the nine Heavenly Venerables from questioning Li Yun further.

• Li Yun crushed the spent Immortal-Connecting Divine Stone and explained what it had done and why he had used it.
• Taiwu Heavenly Venerable and the others questioned Li Yun’s story, and Li Yun argued that the treasure was temporary and dangerous to keep.
• Tianwu Heavenly Venerable asked why Li Yun’s true body had hidden, and Li Yun said he had feared the Heavenly Venerables would eliminate what they could not control.
• Martial Ancestor appeared and said the Supreme Immortal Gate could produce wondrous treasures, possibly from the legendary Immortal Realm.
• The nine Heavenly Venerables accepted Martial Ancestor’s intervention and promised not to keep suspecting Li Yun.

After the Martial Ancestor testified for Li Yun and the Taiwu Divine Realm’s crisis ended, Li Yun returned to the Immortal Scar Realm to cultivate. A hundred years later, he had gathered 620 Immortal Venerable Dao Fruits in his Mysterious Gate World.

• The Martial Ancestor thanked Li Yun for helping him injure the Demon Ape, promised to repay the favor later, and then vanished.
• The nine Heavenly Venerables apologized to Li Yun, lifted the blockade of the Taiwu Divine Realm, and warned the unseen forces watching it to stay away.
• Li Yun sent his incarnation away and cultivated in the Immortal Scar Realm, spending his Cognition Points to raise stolen Saint Daos and condense Dao Fruits.
• After a hundred years, Li Yun discovered that his Mysterious Gate World contained 620 Immortal Venerable Dao Fruits, and he marveled at his newfound strength.

Li Yun discovered that his Limitless Immortal Rule placed as much pressure on his Seven-Colored Fate Lattice as the Three Thousand Great Daos, making his plans to condense more Dao Fruits dangerously risky. He concluded that he needed to advance his Fate Configuration beyond seven colors, while the Nine-Colored Ultimate Fate Configuration remained a distant legend.

• Li Yun realized that his 620 Human Venerable Dao Fruits were not the only source of pressure on his Heavenly Venerable Fate Palace.
• Li Yun discovered that the Limitless Immortal Rule accounted for half the combined mass of itself and the Three Thousand Great Daos, doubling the pressure on his Fate Configuration.
• Li Yun recognized that condensing Dao Fruits from all Three Thousand Great Daos and additional Sacred Daos could overwhelm his Seven-Colored Fate Lattice.
• Li Yun recalled that an Eight-Colored Fate Configuration could transform a Heavenly Venerable Fate Palace into a Heavenly Venerable Divine Court and produce a Fate Number Divine Lord.
• Li Yun learned that the Nine-Colored Ultimate Fate Configuration was known only by the phrase "Supreme and Everlasting Ascension...".

Li Yun considered why no Heavenly Venerable had advanced beyond a seven-colored Fate Lattice and concluded that he needed to approach an existence Above Heavenly Venerable to learn the secret. Unable to act against Martial Ancestor Chen Jiuxu, he contemplated dealing with the suppressed Demon Ape, then returned in an incarnation to the Hengwu Great World.

• Li Yun recalled that even the ancient Heavenly Venerables of the Taiwu Divine Hall had failed to advance their seven-colored Fate Lattices, and that Martial Ancestor Chen Jiuxu had only said the opportunity had not arrived.
• Li Yun reasoned that he needed to seek out an existence Above Heavenly Venerable to learn how to reach an eight-colored Fate Lattice, since he hoped to progress beyond the Heavenly Venerable realm.
• Li Yun considered secretly helping the suppressed Demon Ape escape in exchange for the secret, but recognized that acting under Martial Ancestor Chen Jiuxu's watch would be dangerous.
• After a hundred years of cultivation exhausted his Cognition Points, Li Yun decided to return to the Taiwu Divine Realm and sent an incarnation to Chen Yuan's residence in the Hengwu Great World.

Li Yun exposed Moonlight Immortal Sovereign’s schemes to become Chen Yuan’s Dao Companion and drive Chen Xiu away, provoking Chen Yuan’s fury. Just as Chen Yuan was about to kill her, a woman rushed in and threw herself into Li Yun’s arms.

• Moonlight Immortal Sovereign rebuked Li Yun for entering Chen Yuan’s residence, hoping to make Chen Yuan acknowledge her as his Dao Companion.
• Chen Yuan ordered Moonlight Immortal Sovereign to apologize to Li Yun and leave his residence for good.
• Moonlight Immortal Sovereign pleaded with Chen Yuan to let her stay, while Li Yun laughed at her act.
• Li Yun revealed that Moonlight Immortal Sovereign had planned to drive Chen Xiu away, and Chen Yuan grew furious and prepared to kill her.
• A graceful woman rushed in, embraced Li Yun, and asked why he had not visited her because she had missed him.

Chen Xiu revealed that she had become an Earth Venerable and killed Moonlight Immortal Sovereign after she insulted Li Yun. Chen Yuan feared that his sister had been possessed, but Li Yun assured him she was still Chen Xiu and concealed the true source of her power.

• Chen Xiu appeared, accused Moonlight Immortal Sovereign of hypocrisy and insulting Li Yun, then sentenced her to death.
• Moonlight Immortal Sovereign began to argue, but Chen Xiu killed her with a flash of a black sickle.
• Li Yun praised Chen Xiu for reaching the Earth Venerable realm, leaving Chen Yuan shocked and afraid of his sister.
• Chen Yuan feared Chen Xiu was an ancient being possessing his sister, so Chen Xiu tried to reassure him.
• Li Yun said Chen Xiu's congenital frailty had been both a misfortune and an opportunity, while keeping the details secret.
• Chen Xiu promised to protect Chen Yuan from anyone except Li Yun, leaving Chen Yuan feeling like the weakest person among them.

After Chen Yuan recovered from learning how powerful Chen Xiu and Li Yun were, Li Yun gave him the Taiwu Sacred Dao and prepared to seek fortune beyond the Taiwu Divine Realm. Two months later, Li Yun crossed its boundary river and returned to the Chaos Great Void to expand his sources of fortune.

• Li Yun probed Chen Xiu's fate number but could not decipher its scattered, recovering state, and told her to keep cultivating toward Heavenly Venerable.
• Three days later, Chen Yuan had calmed down, and Li Yun gave him the Taiwu Sacred Dao and some of his insights before Chen Yuan entered seclusion.
• Li Yun decided to leave the Taiwu Divine Realm in another incarnation to seek more fortune, since the realm's share alone could not provide enough accumulation.
• Two months later, Li Yun silently teleported beyond the Taiwu Divine Realm's boundary river and returned to the Chaos Great Void.

Li Yun entered Cloud Gate under a false identity and arrived in Misty Dream Immortal City, where an ancient ruin containing the Misty Dream Sacred Path had drawn away most cultivators. As he ate at a nearly empty restaurant, a middle-aged man approached him, and Li Yun asked why he had been watching him.

• Li Yun rejected Cloud Gate as a major target after observing its divided leadership, then decided to stay and gather information.
• Li Yun infiltrated Cloud Gate as an Immortal Sovereign from Divine Mist Great World and entered a restaurant in Misty Dream Immortal City.
• Li Yun discovered that cultivators had flocked to an ancient ruin in Misty Dream Mountain after it opened and revealed the Misty Dream Sacred Path.
• Li Yun decided to eat before visiting the ruin, while a middle-aged man approached him and offered a toast.
• Li Yun teased the man about his looks and confidence, then asked why he had been watching him.

Li Yun left a tavern after a suspicious Immortal Sovereign questioned him about entering the Misty Dream Mountain ruin. When the Dream Bell rang and plunged Misty Dream Immortal City into nightmares, the man decided to seize it and confronted Li Yun in the fog.

• Li Yun dismissed the man’s questions, paid for his meal, and left the tavern.
• The man told his companions he could not confirm whether Li Yun possessed the Dream Bell, then suspected Li Yun’s openly displayed cultivation was a disguise.
• The Dream Bell rang, sending the tavern patrons and the man’s companions into deep sleep while the man resisted its power.
• The man concluded that Li Yun had rung the Dream Bell and grew determined to steal it to gain power and pursue the ancient Sacred Dao.
• The man teleported through the fog-shrouded city and confronted Li Yun, demanding that he hand over the Dream Bell.

Li Yun encountered Qin Bajue, who mistook him for the Dream Bell’s bearer, while the actual bearer appeared and claimed the bell’s power. As the bearer threatened to kill everyone, an enraged attacker launched a crushing fist from the mist.

• Li Yun investigated the Dream Bell’s strange toll and told Qin Bajue he did not have it.
• Qin Bajue demanded the Dream Bell and revealed that he was a ninth-ranked First Grade Immortal Sovereign, but Li Yun dismissed his threats.
• A man holding the Dream Bell appeared and mocked Qin Bajue, while Li Yun guessed he was Bai Huang.
• The bearer declared that he would use the Dream Bell to send his opponents into nightmares and kill them.
• A golden fist struck from the mist as its owner condemned the bearer and unleashed Heavenly Emperor's World-Shaking Fist.

Li Yun examined Situ Chun's Dream Bell after it incapacitated Qin Bajue and Bai Huang, and the system revealed that it contained the Dream-Entering Heavenly Scripture. He returned the bell and began to leave, but Situ Chun called after him.

• Situ Chun rang the Dream Bell repeatedly, breaking Qin Bajue and Bai Huang's defenses and putting them to sleep.
• Situ Chun discovered that Li Yun was unaffected by the bell and demanded to know who he was.
• Li Yun seized the Dream Bell from Situ Chun and examined it while Situ Chun dared not resist.
• The system revealed that Li Yun had loaded the Dream-Entering Heavenly Scripture and that its knowledge reached the Profound Venerable level.
• Li Yun returned the Dream Bell to Situ Chun and started to leave, but Situ Chun asked him to stay.

Li Yun took Situ Chun to a remote mountain range, where Situ Chun explained the Dream Bell’s connection to the Ancient Ruins in Misty Dream Mountain and asked to cooperate. Li Yun said he had returned the treasure because he did not need it, leaving Situ Chun both speechless and relieved as he asked again about cooperation.

• Li Yun teleported with Situ Chun to a barren mountain range, where Situ Chun proposed cooperating with him.
• Situ Chun explained that the Dream Bell was his ancestor’s supreme treasure and the key to the Ancient Ruins in Misty Dream Mountain.
• Situ Chun described how he had used a Dream God Talisman to hide the Dream Bell’s aura from people trying to seize it.
• Li Yun said he had not taken the Dream Bell because he did not think much of it and believed true power came from strengthening oneself.
• Li Yun claimed he intended to suppress the ages and had seen supreme treasures far stronger than the Dream Bell.
• Situ Chun admitted he could not understand Li Yun’s outlook, felt relieved, and asked whether they could cooperate.

Li Yun entered the Ancient Ruins in Misty Dream Mountain with Situ Chun and discovered the Dream-Entering Heavenly Scripture, a cultivation method that could lead to the realm of a Profound Venerable. Situ Chun revealed that his clan had ruled the region before Cloud Gate existed, and that its ancestral land was once called Great Dream Immortal City.

• Li Yun agreed to take Situ Chun into the Ancient Ruins after Situ Chun offered to share his ancestor's Sacred Dao.
• Li Yun found no sign of Cloud Gate's three Heavenly Venerables and suspected that they feared a power connected to a Profound Venerable.
• Li Yun warned Situ Chun not to rush toward the ruins' core and spent ten days investigating the area.
• Li Yun learned that the Dream-Entering Heavenly Scripture had thirteen levels and could cultivate the Dao of Dreams to the Profound Venerable realm.
• Situ Chun told Li Yun that his clan had ruled the region before Cloud Gate and that ancient records called its ancestral land Great Dream Immortal City.

Li Yun traced Cloud Gate’s cultivators’ fate and karmic threads to an ancient city buried deep in Chaos, where someone named Meng Qianqiu called out to him. He learned Meng Qianqiu was Situ Chun’s ancestor, still alive but trapped, and prepared to enter the ruins’ core area without taking Situ Chun to find him.

• Situ Chun told Li Yun that his clan’s records described the vanished Great Dream Immortal City and its ancestor, the Dream Ancestor.
• Li Yun used the Supreme Immortal Gate to trace Cloud Gate cultivators’ fate and karmic threads for three months, uncovering an ancient city buried in Chaos.
• A voice from the city identified itself as Meng Qianqiu and asked Li Yun to reveal himself, so Li Yun stopped observing and returned to the Ancient Ruins.
• Situ Chun said his ancestor was Meng Qianqiu, the Dream Ancestor, and explained that the clan had adopted the Situ surname after his disappearance.
• Li Yun told Situ Chun that Meng Qianqiu was still alive but trapped, refused to take him to the ancestor, and proposed entering the ruins’ core area.

Li Yun brought Situ Chun into the core of the Ancient Ruins, where Cloud Gate's Earth Venerables had been waiting to seize the Dream Bell. Situ Chun rang the bell and drew their attacks, but Li Yun stopped every strike before it could reach them.

• Li Yun confirmed that Situ Chun's Immortal Venerable ancestor was trapped in the ancient city and shifted with Situ Chun into the ruins' core.
• Twenty-three Earth Venerables and several hundred Human Venerables reacted when Li Yun and Situ Chun appeared in the Valley with the Dream Bell.
• Situ Chun cursed the waiting cultivators and rang the Dream Bell seven times, unleashing its dream-entering power.
• An enraged Human Venerable attacked while others reached for the Dream Bell, but Li Yun blocked their power with an invisible barrier.

Li Yun used the Dream Bell to overwhelm the gathered Immortal Venerables and open the ruins’ core. He entered the Chaos Qi vortex with Situ Chun, while Cloud Gate’s three Heavenly Venerables followed close behind.

• Li Yun shattered the attacks of the twenty-three Earth Venerables and hundreds of Human Venerables, then challenged the three Heavenly Venerables to come themselves.
• Li Yun took the Dream Bell from Situ Chun and rang it, sending the Human Venerables and the Immortal Sovereigns outside the Valley into dreams.
• The Dream Bell’s power opened a fissure and revealed a Chaos Qi vortex at the center of the Valley, then put the Earth Venerables to sleep as well.
• Cloud Gate’s three Heavenly Venerables appeared at the ruins’ entrance and recognized the Dream Bell’s power.
• Li Yun returned the Dream Bell to Situ Chun, took him into the vortex, and vanished; Cloud Gate’s three Heavenly Venerables then followed them inside.

Li Yun, Situ Chun, and Cloud Gate’s three Heavenly Venerables entered the Great Dream Immortal City, where the three demanded Dream Ancestor’s secret to breaking the Heavenly Venerable realm’s limits. After they threatened Li Yun, he challenged them for doubting that Dream Ancestor was still there.

• Li Yun and Situ Chun emerged from a Chaos vortex into the ruined Great Dream Immortal City, and Yunmeng, Yunkong, and Yunhai followed them in.
• The three Heavenly Venerables revealed that they wanted Dream Ancestor’s secret to breaking the shackles of the Seven-Colored Fate Lattice.
• Li Yun refused to share anything and told the three to stay out of his way, but Yunmeng, Yunkong, and Yunhai surrounded him.
• Li Yun warned the three that Dream Ancestor might still be in the city, but they dismissed the possibility and dared him to make Dream Ancestor appear.
• Li Yun called out to Dream Ancestor, asking why a dignified Profound Venerable was still hiding and watching.

The Dream Ancestor appeared in Great Dream Immortal City and rejected the three Cloud Gate Heavenly Venerables’ offer to rule over their affairs. He then proposed an alliance with Li Yun, offering him thirty percent of the providence, and Li Yun considered accepting.

• The Dream Ancestor appeared, and Situ Chun knelt to pay his respects as the three Heavenly Venerables were stunned.
• Yunmeng Heavenly Venerable offered to submit to the Dream Ancestor, but the Dream Ancestor said Great Dream Immortal City and Cloud Gate were separate.
• The Dream Ancestor addressed Li Yun as a familiar equal, but Li Yun denied they had met and said he had met Martial Ancestor Chen Jiuxu.
• Li Yun revealed his cooperation with Chen Jiuxu and their shared control of providence from the Taiwu Divine Realm.
• The Dream Ancestor offered Li Yun thirty percent of the providence to help establish the Dream God Hall, saying he trusted Chen Jiuxu’s judgment.