Chapter Summaries

Huang Tianhua tried to divert the Saint Gold Divine Lords’ suspicions from the Huang Family and the Purple Jade Cave Heaven by blaming Li Yun’s attack on the Nine Suns Sword Sect. His explanation instead made the gathered cultivators wonder whether Guangyang Prefecture concealed an opportunity, and the Nine Suns Sword Sect arrived to face them.

• Huang Tianhua worried that the Saint Gold Divine Lords’ presence might expose the Purple Jade Cave Heaven and endanger the Huang Family.
• When a Saint Gold Divine Lord asked about Li Yun, Huang Tianhua recounted Li Yun’s feud with the Nine Suns Sword Sect and Gu Sha’s death to draw suspicion away from Guangyang Prefecture.
• The Saint Gold Divine Lords noted that both Huang Tianhua and Li Yun were in Guangyang Prefecture and began probing Huang Tianhua for signs of a hidden opportunity.
• Huo Dongxi and Li Tianlong arrived with a party from the Nine Suns Sword Sect, and Huo Dongxi was shocked to find at least nine Saint Gold Divine Lords gathered at the Shen Family.

Li Yun received the assembled Saint Gold Divine Lords in the Shen Family’s rear garden while the Black-and-White Sword Lord and Huo Dongxi discussed the Huang Family’s Purple Jade Cave Heaven. Li Yun accused Huang Tianhua of hiring the Rakshasa Hall assassin to frame the Nine Suns Sword Sect, leaving Huang Tianhua pale and sweating under everyone’s gaze.

• Huo Dongxi denied that the Nine Suns Sword Sect had anything to do with the ambush and said he had come to apologize to Li Yun for the Shen Family’s past conflict.
• Cao Jin led Huo Dongxi, the Black-and-White Sword Lord, and the other guests into the rear garden to meet Li Yun.
• The Black-and-White Sword Lord told Huo Dongxi that he knew the group had come for the Huang Family’s Purple Jade Cave Heaven and proposed that they work together.
• The Black-and-White Sword Lord said he had investigated Li Yun and warned Huo Dongxi that he intended to wait and see how Li Yun handled the gathering.
• Li Yun remained seated as the guests arrived, then accused Huang Tianhua of hiring the Rakshasa Hall assassin to frame the Nine Suns Sword Sect.

Li Yun exposed the Huang Family’s scheme and erased Huang Tianhua and the Huang Family Ancestor, two Saint Gold Divine Lords. The surviving visitors brought him gifts and fled Guangyang Prefecture in terror.

• Huang Tianhua denied hiring the Rakshasa Hall assassin and blamed the Nine Suns Sword Sect, while Huo Dongxi rejected the accusation.
• Li Yun dismissed Huang Tianhua’s excuses and attacked him with the Sky-Touching Hand.
• The Huang Family Ancestor appeared and struck at Li Yun, but Li Yun erased Huang Tianhua completely despite the attack.
• The Huang Family Ancestor tried to escape, but Li Yun killed him too, erasing every trace of his existence.
• The other Saint Gold Divine Lords presented Li Yun with gifts and fled the Shen Family estate and Guangyang Prefecture.

After the Myriad Gods Realm remained lifeless for billions of years, life emerged and spread across it, transforming Li Yun and his connection to the Supreme Immortal Gate. A giant egg hatched into a colossal axe-wielding figure who split chaos into heaven and earth, then gave his body to form the world.

• News spread across the Zhoutian Sword Domain that Li Yun had erased two Saint Gold Divine Lords, making Guangyang Prefecture a forbidden zone.
• Another year passed, and the last living creatures in the Myriad Gods Realm died as the realm became a lifeless void.
• After billions of years, Li Yun sensed the first trace of vitality emerge in the Myriad Gods Realm and gained deeper insight into life and destruction.
• The vitality spread throughout the realm, and a giant egg formed and nurtured a powerful being.
• The egg hatched, and the million-zhang figure used an axe to split chaos, creating heaven and earth in the Myriad Gods Realm.
• The figure held up the sky and pressed down the earth until his body broke apart, becoming the sun, moon, mountains, plants, rivers, lakes, and seas.

As the Myriad Gods Realm began its first true epoch, Li Yun saw familiar souls reborn and realized a Child of the Epoch would emerge to transcend the realm in a hundred years. The epoch’s Primordial Unity Qi transformed all his divine thrones into Heavenly Gold Divine Thrones, and he began investigating a further change within himself.

• The Myriad Gods Realm formed its rivers, laws, reincarnation cycle, and new living beings as its Great Daos took shape.
• Li Yun recognized a reborn figure destined to become the Child of the Epoch and foresaw the realm’s ten-billion-year epoch, which would last a hundred years in the Zhoutian Sword Domain.
• Li Yun sensed Primordial Unity Qi enter him, causing all Three Thousand Saint Gold Divine Thrones to become Heavenly Gold Divine Thrones with one thousand and five streams of Dominator's Authority each.
• Li Yun realized the new power could continue growing and that successive Creation and Destruction Epochs could bring him greater gains.
• Li Yun studied the Primordial Unity Qi’s traces within him, then cried out in shock at what he discovered.

While comprehending Innate Qi, Li Yun rediscovered the dormant system inside his body and learned that it was a fragment of the Gate of Myriad Wonders’ artifact spirit. The revelation linked the system and the Supreme Immortal Gate as parts of the same treasure and showed that Innate Qi could restore them and let them merge.

• Li Yun sensed a seed hidden in his body revive after absorbing a trace of Innate Qi and recognized it as the system he had thought was gone.
• Li Yun sent his consciousness into the seed and spent ten days receiving its memories and information.
• Li Yun learned that the system was a Soul Seed formed from a fragment of the Gate of Myriad Wonders’ artifact spirit, which had been torn away during an assault on the distant Gate.
• Li Yun learned that the Supreme Immortal Gate was another fragment of the Gate of Myriad Wonders and that both it and the system needed Innate Qi to recover and merge.
• Li Yun considered that the revelations were urging him to expand the Myriad Gods Realm and continue the Creation and Destruction Epoch.

Li Yun discovered that the Huang Family’s Purple Jade Cave Heaven was about to open and found that it contained living beings. As he prepared to enter it with Cao Jin, three Heavenly Gold Divine Lords appeared to stop him.

• Li Yun sensed experts gathering near Guangyang Prefecture and realized they were targeting the Huang Family’s Purple Jade Cave Heaven.
• Li Yun took Cao Jin through the Void to the Huang Family estate, where he ignored the terrified Huang Yanshu and located the Cave Heaven’s entrance in a bamboo grove.
• Li Yun discovered that the Purple Jade Cave Heaven had produced living beings and decided to enter before it opened in three days.
• Three Heavenly Gold Divine Lords appeared among the bamboo and called for Li Yun to wait.

Li Yun confronted three Heavenly Gold Divine Lords and demonstrated his overwhelming strength by killing a Saint Gold Divine Lord and defeating the Azure Wood Heavenly Lord. He ignored the others’ appeal to Zhoutian Sword Domain rules and killed the fleeing Azure Wood Heavenly Lord.

• Li Yun killed a Saint Gold Divine Lord who challenged him, despite the green-robed Heavenly Gold Divine Lord’s attempt to stop him.
• The green-robed Heavenly Gold Divine Lord, Azure Wood Heavenly Lord, attacked Li Yun with an azure sword shadow.
• Li Yun shattered the attack and pierced Azure Wood Heavenly Lord’s defenses, badly wounding him despite his Divine Wood Heaven-Defending Armor.
• The blue-robed and purple-robed Heavenly Gold Divine Lords urged Li Yun to stop, citing the rule against Heavenly Gold Divine Lords fighting to the death.
• Li Yun rejected their appeal and sent a streak of Sword Light after Azure Wood Heavenly Lord as he fled, killing him before he could leave the bamboo grove.

Li Yun killed the Azure Wood Heavenly Lord and the other forces outside Purple Jade Cave Heaven before entering it with Cao Jin. In Zhoutian Sword Domain, the deaths of three Heavenly Gold Divine Lords threw their sects into chaos, prompting Azure Wood Heavenly Palace's leaders to seek help from its two hidden Grand Supreme Elders.

• Li Yun killed the blue and purple Heavenly Gold Divine Lords and all their subordinates with his Limitless Creation and Destruction Sword Qi.
• Li Yun entered Purple Jade Cave Heaven with Cao Jin after tearing open its illusory gateway.
• The Soul Steles revealed that the Heavenly Gold Divine Lords of Azure Wood Heavenly Palace, Sea-Covering Divine Palace, and Thunderclap Sword Palace had fallen.
• Azure Wood Heavenly Palace's Vice Palace Masters and elders calmed its panicked disciples and activated a gateway to its hidden Cave Heaven World.
• The Vice Palace Masters and elders knelt before Wood Heavenly Venerable and Azure Sword Emperor, the two secluded Grand Supreme Elders of Azure Wood Heavenly Palace.

Evergreen Sword Lord told Wood Heavenly Venerable and the Azure Sword Emperor that Mo Tianyou and the Saint Gold Divine Lords accompanying him had died in Guangyang Prefecture while investigating a hidden Cave Heaven World. The elders suspected the Sea-Covering Divine Palace and Thunderclap Sword Palace, but remained unsure whether those powers had dared provoke a deadly feud.

• Evergreen Sword Lord and the other elders told Wood Heavenly Venerable and the Azure Sword Emperor that Mo Tianyou had died and asked them to avenge him.
• Evergreen Sword Lord explained that Mo Tianyou had gone to Guangyang Prefecture after learning of a Cave Heaven World hidden by the Huang Family.
• Evergreen Sword Lord recounted how Li Yun’s arrival and the deaths of two hidden Huang Family Saint Gold Divine Lords had revealed the Cave Heaven World’s existence.
• Evergreen Sword Lord said Mo Tianyou’s Soul Stele and those of his companions had shattered, then blamed the Sea-Covering Divine Palace and Thunderclap Sword Palace.
• Wood Heavenly Venerable and the Azure Sword Emperor considered whether the two rival palaces had killed Mo Tianyou, but questioned whether they would risk a blood feud over one Cave Heaven World.

The Azure Sword Emperor learned that the Divine Wave Heavenly Lord and Thunder Saint had also died in Guangyang Prefecture, leaving the three great powers suspicious of one another. A confrontation at the Sea-Covering Divine Palace escalated into a battle that drew more than thirty Heavenly Gold Divine Lords, who halted the fighting to argue over the three deaths.

• The Azure Sword Emperor questioned the Sea-Covering Divine Palace and Thunderclap Sword Palace about the Azure Wood Heavenly Lord's death, then learned that their Heavenly Gold Divine Lords had died too.
• The Azure Sword Emperor visited the Sea-Covering Divine Palace, where its Palace Master distrusted him and the Azure Wood Heavenly Palace.
• The Thunderclap Sword Palace's Palace Master arrived, accused the other two powers of killing the Thunder Saint, and attacked the Azure Sword Emperor and the Sea-Covering Divine Palace's Palace Master.
• The Thunderclap Sword Palace's Palace Master returned with a Grand Supreme Elder and two Rogue Cultivator Heavenly Gold Divine Lords, turning the fight against the defenders until the Sea-Covering Divine Palace summoned a hidden Grand Supreme Elder.
• More than thirty Heavenly Gold Divine Lords gathered as the battle spread, prompting the seven combatants to stop fighting and argue over the deaths of the three lords.

After suspecting a hidden fourth party had killed three Heavenly Gold Divine Lords and dozens of Saint Gold Divine Lords, the gathered powers agreed to investigate Guangyang Prefecture together. Dozens of Heavenly Gold Divine Lords arrived and unleashed their divine senses, crushing the prefecture beneath their overwhelming might.

• A veteran Heavenly Gold Divine Lord suggested that an unknown fourth party might have killed the Azure Wood Heavenly Lord, the Divine Wave Heavenly Lord, and the Thunder Saint.
• The Azure Sword Emperor warned that the three powers would destroy the culprit’s sect or order if they refused to explain themselves, spreading suspicion among the gathered Heavenly Gold Divine Lords.
• A veteran Heavenly Gold Divine Lord from Cang Gate proposed that everyone travel to Guangyang Prefecture, where the three victims had fallen, and search for clues.
• The Azure Sword Emperor, the Master of the Sea-Covering Divine Palace, the Master of Thunderclap Sword Palace, and the other Heavenly Gold Divine Lords agreed to go together.
• After half a day, dozens of Heavenly Gold Divine Lords arrived in Guangyang Prefecture and blanketed it with their divine senses, crushing people and buildings and provoking cries of terror.

Dozens of Heavenly Gold Divine Lords searched Guangyang Prefecture for the missing Li Yun and learned from Huo Dongxi that he might have entered the Huang Family’s Purple Jade Cave Heaven. They discovered the hidden Cave Heaven World was a rare Heaven-and-Earth Main Aperture-level realm, and the gathered lords prepared to claim it.

• Azure Sword Emperor seized Huo Dongxi and asked whether he was Li Yun.
• Huo Dongxi denied being Li Yun, described his power, and guessed that Li Yun had entered the Huang Family’s Purple Jade Cave Heaven.
• The Palace Master of the Sea-Covering Divine Palace questioned Huo Dongxi, who recalled faint fluctuations behind the Huang Family estate but admitted he had seen no battle.
• The Heavenly Gold Divine Lords detected the hidden Cave Heaven World’s connection to the source and recognized it as a high-grade Heaven-and-Earth Main Aperture.
• The Heavenly Gold Divine Lords became eager to win the Cave Heaven Will’s recognition and seize the realm.

Dozens of Heavenly Gold Divine Lords learned that Guangyang Prefecture contained a Heaven-and-Earth Main Aperture, a Cave Heaven World that could eventually become the Zhoutian Sword Domain’s Main World and make its controller the domain’s future overlord. They sealed the region and proposed forming an alliance to keep the Eclosion Immortal Sect from discovering it, but had yet to settle how they would share control.

• The Azure Sword Emperor, the Palace Master of the Sea-Covering Divine Palace, and the Master of Thunderclap Sword Palace regretted letting other Heavenly Gold Divine Lords learn of the Cave Heaven World.
• The gathered lords recognized that the Heaven-and-Earth Main Aperture could nurture powerful resources, replace the Main World, and help its controller become a Great Dao Divine Lord.
• Dozens of Heavenly Gold Divine Lords spread their divine senses across Guangyang Prefecture and sealed the region to prevent anyone from entering or leaving.
• Heavenly Lord Cangmen warned the Azure Sword Emperor that the lords had to keep the aperture’s existence from the Eclosion Immortal Sect.
• The Azure Sword Emperor asked how the lords would choose an owner and stop losers from informing the sect.
• Heavenly Lord Cangmen proposed that they unite in a new faction and hold the Heaven-and-Earth Main Aperture in common.

Li Yun appeared in the Heaven-and-Earth Main Aperture as the Heavenly Gold Divine Lords planned to seize it and eliminate him. He effortlessly killed the leaders who attacked, leaving the survivors terrified and waiting to see what he would do next.

• Cang Gate's Heavenly Lord persuaded the Heavenly Gold Divine Lords to unite and share the Heaven-and-Earth Main Aperture, but the Azure Sword Emperor warned that Li Yun and his faction stood in their way.
• The Heavenly Gold Divine Lords agreed to enter the aperture together and eliminate Li Yun, who suddenly emerged from a doorway near the Huang Family's rear mountain.
• The Azure Sword Emperor, the Sea-Covering Divine Palace's Palace Master, and the master of the Thunderclap Sword Palace attacked Li Yun, while two Grand Supreme Elders moved to support them.
• Li Yun unleashed a sword domain and Life and Death Sword Qi, destroying the attacks and killing all five who had confronted him.
• The surviving Heavenly Gold Divine Lords abandoned their ambitions and feared for their lives as Li Yun dismissed the sword domain and looked toward the horizon.

The Eclosion Heavenly Venerable appeared in the Zhoutian Sword Domain, and Li Yun immediately challenged the Great Dao Divine Lord. Li Yun severed the Eclosion Heavenly Venerable’s hand, which regenerated before the two clashed again.

• The Eclosion Heavenly Venerable manifested above the Zhoutian Sword Domain, terrifying the gathered Heavenly Gold Divine Lords.
• Li Yun flew toward the Eclosion Heavenly Venerable and attacked him with a million-mile beam of Sword Light.
• The Eclosion Heavenly Venerable struck back, but Li Yun’s black-and-white Sword Light destroyed his force and severed his hand.
• The Eclosion Heavenly Venerable regenerated his hand and attacked Li Yun again.
• Li Yun mocked the Eclosion Heavenly Venerable and launched another Sword Light, and their powers collided across the Zhoutian Sword Domain.

Li Yun defeated Eclosion Heavenly Venerable, learned that Great Dao Divine Lords drew power from a manifestation formed by merging three thousand Heavenly Gold Divine Thrones, and chose to remain in Guangyang Prefecture while strengthening his own thrones. Eighty years later, the Myriad Gods Realm’s Creation and Destruction Epoch neared its end, and Li Yun anticipated meeting an old acquaintance again.

• Li Yun fought Eclosion Heavenly Venerable for half a month and narrowly defeated him, forcing him to flee the Zhoutian Sword Domain.
• Li Yun returned to the Shen Family’s rear garden in Guangyang Prefecture and realized Great Dao Divine Lords wielded Divine Power from a manifestation formed by merging three thousand Heavenly Gold Divine Thrones.
• Li Yun concluded that his own Heavenly Gold Divine Thrones were not ready to merge and planned to strengthen them with Primordial Unity Qi during the Myriad Gods Realm’s Creation and Destruction Epoch.
• Li Yun remained in Guangyang Prefecture for eighty years, and the Zhoutian Sword Domain’s inhabitants gradually resumed their lives under his rule.
• Li Yun watched the Myriad Gods Realm’s epoch approach its end and wondered how an old acquaintance would react when they met again.

As the Myriad Gods Realm reached the end of its Second Creation and Destruction Epoch, Chen Jiuxu transcended it and reunited with Li Yun in the Zhoutian Sword Domain. After Li Yun explained the realm’s cycles and advised Chen Jiuxu to strengthen his Heavenly Gold Divine Thrones, Chen Jiuxu set out to explore the domain.

• As destruction engulfed nearly all of the Myriad Gods Realm, Chen Jiuxu tore through the void and arrived in the Zhoutian Sword Domain.
• Chen Jiuxu recognized Li Yun, and the two reunited in the Pavilion and shared wine.
• Chen Jiuxu asked about the Myriad Gods Realm, and Li Yun explained its cycles of creation and destruction and how transcendence freed Chen Jiuxu from the realm’s control.
• Li Yun advised Chen Jiuxu to further strengthen his Three Thousand Heavenly Gold Divine Thrones before forging a Great Dao Divine Manifestation, and passed on insights about Great Dao Divine Lords.
• Chen Jiuxu decided not to return to the Myriad Gods Realm and agreed to explore the Zhoutian Sword Domain; after drinking with Li Yun for ten days, he departed.

Li Yun continued cultivating as the Myriad Gods Realm entered a new epoch, while Cao Jin neared a merger with the Purple Jade Cave Heaven's Will. The chapter left Li Yun facing a visit from two ancient Great Dao Divine Lords, Heaven-Reaching and Sacred Flame.

• After Chen Jiuxu left the Zhoutian Sword Domain, Li Yun resumed cultivating as life began stirring again in the Myriad Gods Realm.
• Li Yun sensed that Cao Jin was close to merging with the Purple Jade Cave Heaven's Will and planned to have him help merge the Zhoutian Sword Domain into the Myriad Gods Realm.
• Over the following years, Li Yun's Dominator's Authority rose to 1,800 as he watched the Child of the Epoch's rise without interfering.
• Heaven-Reaching and Sacred Flame arrived at the Shen Family estate and asked to visit Li Yun.
• Li Yun recognized them as two of the Zhoutian Sword Domain's ancient Great Dao Divine Lords and prepared for the possibility of a fight.

Li Yun learned from Heaven-Reaching Dao Venerable and Sacred Flame Dao Venerable that many Great Dao Divine Lords, including Eclosion Heavenly Venerable, had incomplete Great Dao Divine Images because they condensed them before strengthening their Heavenly Gold Divine Thrones enough. The chapter ended with Heaven-Reaching Dao Venerable explaining that repairing an incomplete image could take many epochs, and that he and Sacred Flame had restored only a fifth of theirs after eighteen epochs.

• Li Yun welcomed Heaven-Reaching Dao Venerable and Sacred Flame Dao Venerable, who were surprised to learn he had not condensed his Great Dao Divine Image despite cultivating over a thousand measures of Dominator's Authority in each Heavenly Gold Divine Throne.
• Li Yun invited the two Dao Venerables to the rear garden and asked why many Great Dao Divine Lords had incomplete Great Dao Divine Images.
• Heaven-Reaching Dao Venerable explained that Heavenly Gold Divine Thrones could exceed the commonly assumed limit of 365 measures of Dominator's Authority, and that three thousand measures in each throne could produce a perfect Divine Image.
• Heaven-Reaching Dao Venerable said incomplete Divine Images could be repaired by surviving epochal cycles and contemplating destruction and rebirth, but the process often took many epochs.
• Heaven-Reaching Dao Venerable revealed that he and Sacred Flame Dao Venerable had repaired only a fifth of their Divine Images after eighteen epochs, while Eclosion Heavenly Venerable had repaired less than a tenth.