Chapter Summaries

Li Yun explored the fog and discovered beasts formed from Ominous Miasma and Calamity Aura, some of which left behind pure Crystal Stones. After he returned to the barrier and warned the three women, a Black Giant Wolf comparable to a Nine-Wheel Realm titan appeared outside, putting them in immediate danger.

• Li Yun killed a black bull and watched its body dissolve into Ominous Miasma and Calamity Aura.
• Li Yun killed an intelligent Black Tiger and found that it had left behind a pure Crystal Stone.
• Li Yun encountered and killed dozens of beasts, discovering that beasts at Three-Wheel Realm strength or above left Crystal Stones.
• Li Yun returned to the open area with several dozen Crystal Stones and told the three women about the beasts in the fog.
• A powerful howl shook the barrier, and a Black Giant Wolf appeared outside as Li Yun warned the others not to leave and rushed to investigate.

Li Yun repelled a Black Giant Wolf that attacked the Altar’s Invisible Barrier, then refused Snow Woman’s suggestion that they leave the dangerous area. He argued that leaving could expose them to an ambush from giants who had heard of their arrival in Blackfish City.

• The Black Giant Wolf attacked the Invisible Barrier, and Li Yun realized its assault was draining the Altar’s energy.
• Li Yun fed two Crystal Stones to the Altar, confirmed that they replenished its energy, and told Snow Woman and the other two women to keep supplying it.
• Li Yun fought the Black Giant Wolf outside the barrier, wearing it down with Fist Marks and Golden Lotuses until it fled into the fog.
• Li Yun pretended to chase the wolf, killed two Black Tiger Beasts for their Crystal Stones, then returned exhausted and told the women how powerful the wolf was.
• Snow Woman urged Li Yun to leave, but he refused, saying they would risk an ambush if they left and were safer under the Altar’s protection.

Li Yun discovered that the Divine Dynasty's Altar was one of the Azure Abyss Divine Court's Calamity-Subduing Altars and learned how to operate it. He accelerated the Altar, drawing Ominous Miasma and Calamity Aura from the mist, and prepared to use the influx to strengthen himself.

• Li Yun used the two remaining Crystal Stones to probe the Altar with his Divine Consciousness and uncovered its secrets.
• Li Yun explained that the Azure Abyss Divine Court built thirty-six Calamity-Subduing Altars, which could form a Divine Array and produce the Myriad-Eon Heaven-Slaying Flame, powerful enough to refine an Eternal Sage.
• Li Yun realized he could restore the Altar's power, strengthen the Safe Zone, and use the gathered Calamity Aura to cultivate without venturing into the dense mist.
• Li Yun practiced operating the Altar and gradually brought it under his control.
• Li Yun accelerated the Altar, which pulled vast amounts of Ominous Miasma and Calamity Aura from the mist and converted them into fuel; Li Yun saw an opportunity to grow stronger.

While Li Yun entered rebirth to break into the Nine-Wheel Realm, a massive pack of Black Giant Wolves gathered outside the Calamity-Subduing Altar’s barrier. The Wolf King attacked as Li Yun remained far from finishing his ninth Undying Heavenly Wheel, leaving the three women in immediate danger.

• Li Yun reached the peak of his command over Life-and-Death Power and began his assault on the Nine-Wheel Realm.
• The Black Giant Wolf returned with hundreds of wolves, including a terrifying Wolf King whose strength rivaled a powerhouse in the Second Stage of Calamity’s baptism.
• Ancestral Heaven Flower Goddess woke Snow Woman and Leng Yue, and the three women chose to stay rather than abandon Li Yun during his rebirth.
• The pack grew to nearly three thousand wolves, including thirteen Nine-Wheel Realm powerhouses besides the Wolf King.
• The Wolf King struck the Invisible Barrier with its paw, stretching it close to breaking while Li Yun’s rebirth remained unfinished.

The Snow Woman, Leng Yue, and the Ancestral Heaven Flower Goddess lured the wolf pack away from Li Yun’s Safe Zone while the Black Giant Tiger fought the Wolf King. After two hundred years, Li Yun formed his ninth Undying Heavenly Wheel and reached the Nine-Wheel Realm, but he sensed that something was missing from the Nine-Wheel Unity.

• Leng Yue proposed leaving the barrier to lure the wolves away, and the Snow Woman and Ancestral Heaven Flower Goddess initially objected.
• A Black Giant Tiger attacked the wolf pack, drawing the strongest wolves away from the barrier.
• The Snow Woman led Leng Yue and the Ancestral Heaven Flower Goddess out of the barrier, and the pack pursued them into the fog.
• The Black Giant Tiger killed a Nine-Wheel Realm Black Giant Wolf and escaped, while the Wolf King and the remaining wolves chased after him.
• After two hundred years, Li Yun revived and formed his ninth Undying Heavenly Wheel, entering the Nine-Wheel Realm.
• Li Yun felt all nine wheels resonate and move in unison, then sensed that something was missing.

Li Yun formed his ninth Undying Heavenly Wheel but sensed that the unity of all nine remained incomplete, and he suspected he might need to form a tenth. After discovering that Snow Woman, Leng Yue, and the Ancestral Heaven Flower Goddess had left to lure away a wolf pack, he entered the thick fog to search for them and encountered the howl of the Black Giant Wolf.

• Li Yun sensed a flaw in the whole formed by his nine Undying Heavenly Wheels and considered whether he could form a tenth.
• Li Yun recognized that his Eternal Qi had strengthened his foundation, so he decided to delay tempering and pursue a greater ascension.
• Li Yun discovered a stele containing Snow Woman's message that she, Leng Yue, and the Ancestral Heaven Flower Goddess had left the Safe Zone to draw a wolf pack away from him.
• Li Yun realized the three women had been gone for at least a hundred million years and decided to search the thick fog for them.
• Li Yun entered the fog, heard the Black Giant Wolf's howl, and rushed toward it with killing intent.

After reaching the Nine-Wheel Realm, Li Yun killed the Black Giant Wolf and slaughtered Calamity Beasts while searching for the pack that had driven Snow Woman and the other two from the Safe Zone. After more than three hundred years in the fog, he was lost and weary when he thought he heard a person's voice.

• Li Yun ambushed and killed the Black Giant Wolf, then collected the Crystal Stone it left behind.
• Li Yun attacked a pack of around fifty Black Giant Wolves and killed them with a golden Fist Mark.
• Li Yun slaughtered Calamity Beasts for months, seeking the pack of nearly three thousand wolves and its Wolf King.
• Li Yun ranged farther from the Calamity-Subduing Altar, using a mark he had placed on it to keep track of the way back.
• Li Yun wandered through the fog for more than three hundred years, became lost and weary, and heard what might have been a person's voice.

Li Yun discovered that a powerful faction had established a vast Camp called Cangyuan in the fog-shrouded Mystic Land. After observing its forces for three months, he decided to act before one of their experts noticed him.

• Li Yun followed a voice and watched two Five-Wheel Realm Ancient Gods rescue a Three-Wheel Realm Ancient God from Black Giant Wolves.
• Li Yun learned that the three were returning to a Camp and secretly followed them to a fortified Safe Zone marked with the name Cangyuan.
• Li Yun left a subtle mark near the Camp and retreated rather than risk approaching the powerful faction.
• Li Yun observed groups hunting Calamity Beasts and gathering Crystal Stones, and spotted more than forty Nine-Wheel Realm giants during three months of surveillance.
• Li Yun decided to act quickly and investigate before an expert noticed him near the Camp.

Li Yun abducted a Cangyuan Camp squad to learn about the mysterious land, but its captain, Hong Guyang, mistook him for an enemy from another camp. Li Yun learned that the place was called the Primordial Land and that Primordial Steles left by Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin guided people there, then threatened a captive to make Hong Guyang explain more.

• Li Yun seized seven Ancient Gods led by Hong Guyang and teleported them far from Cangyuan Camp to question them.
• Hong Guyang accused Li Yun of being an enemy spy and refused to reveal anything about Cangyuan Camp.
• When Calamity Beasts surrounded the group, Li Yun killed them, including a Nine-Wheel Realm wolf leader, and warned the captives he could leave them to die.
• Hong Guyang named the place the Primordial Land and said people arrived by following Primordial Steles left by Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin.
• Li Yun realized Leng Yue's stele had brought her to the Primordial Land and demanded to know why the steles drew people there.
• Li Yun held one of Hong Guyang's subordinates beneath a blade of light and threatened to kill him unless Hong Guyang answered.

Li Yun forced Hong Guyang to explain the Primordial Land and learned that the Azure Abyss Divine Court had been annihilated by an ill wind from beyond it. Hong Guyang finished his account, and Li Yun asked about the tiers of Eternal Sages before agreeing to release him.

• Li Yun threatened Hong Guyang's subordinate until Hong Guyang relented and explained that the Primordial Land was vast, fog-shrouded, and full of dangers.
• Hong Guyang told Li Yun that the Azure Abyss Divine Court once ruled their region but had been destroyed, while the Ancient Cang Divine Court had left the Primordial Land.
• Hong Guyang said an ill wind from beyond the Primordial Land had erased the Azure Abyss Divine Court and its inhabitants, including its Eternal Sages and countless other beings.
• Hong Guyang relayed Sage Meng Cang's discovery that the Azure Abyss ruler believed the ill wind had arrived after something changed deep within the Primordial Land.
• Hong Guyang said Cangyuan Camp suspected the Ancient Cang Divine Court had fled the ill wind and that Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin was tied to a Sage's longing to return to the Ancestral Land.
• Li Yun agreed to release Hong Guyang after one more answer and asked whether Ordinary Tier and Origin Tier referred to realms of Eternal Sages.

Li Yun learned how Eternal Sages were ranked and apologized to Hong Guyang’s group with nearly two thousand Origin Force Crystals. Hong Guyang accepted the gift and led his companions back to Cangyuan Camp, warning them not to seek revenge or reveal what happened.

• Hong Guyang explained that Eternal Sages were ranked as Ordinary Constant, Origin Constant, Heavenly Constant, and Sage Constant according to their states of existence.
• Li Yun decided not to ask about Snow Woman and the others, then released Hong Guyang’s group and gave them nearly two thousand crystals as an apology.
• Hong Guyang identified the crystals as valuable Origin Force Crystals and accepted Li Yun’s offer of friendship before departing with his companions.
• Some members of Hong Guyang’s group wanted revenge, but Hong Guyang reminded them that Li Yun could have killed them and was far stronger than they were.
• Hong Guyang told the group to keep the encounter secret, divided the Origin Force Crystals among them, and set off for Cangyuan Camp.

Li Yun searched the camps in the Primordial Land for Snow Woman and her two companions, but found no trace of them and decided to focus on cultivating. He discovered a secluded cave with a crimson flower growing in magma that kept the surrounding Ominous Miasma and Calamity Aura at bay.

• Li Yun watched Hong Guyang's group leave, then set out to find other camps and clues about Snow Woman and her companions.
• Ten years later, Li Yun questioned a Five-Wheel Realm Ancient God from the Red Demon Camp, learned Hong Guyang had told the truth, and killed the man to keep him from warning the camp about his search.
• Li Yun found and marked the Red Demon Camp and four other camps over the next eight hundred years, but learned nothing about the three women.
• Li Yun decided to stop searching and strengthen himself before attempting to enter any of the camps.
• Li Yun found a secluded Valley and a cave containing a crimson flower in a pool of magma, whose spiritual light kept Ominous Miasma and Calamity Aura outside.

Li Yun discovered that a Strange Flower made the cave safe from Calamity, but its spiritual light kept him from reaching it. Unable to cultivate effectively after reaching the Nine-Wheel Realm, he fell asleep, and three thousand years later the flower’s light had begun to mingle with the stone cocoon formed around him.

• Li Yun approached the Strange Flower but was stopped a hundred paces away by its spiritual light, so he stayed in the cave it protected.
• Li Yun found that Calamity Aura was too weak to help him cultivate, while his resistance to Calamity made refining his nine Undying Heavenly Wheels ineffective.
• Li Yun despaired over having no way forward and decided to sleep in the cave.
• As Li Yun slept, Eternal Qi spread from his body and formed a cocoon that gradually turned to stone over three thousand years.
• The Strange Flower’s spiritual light flowed over Li Yun’s stone cocoon, mingled with the rhythm coming from him, and began to ring like a clear melody.

Li Yun’s Divine Consciousness was drawn into the Strange Flower’s abstract world, where he glimpsed eternity’s supreme mysteries and realized the flower was giving him a chance to understand eternity. The chapter ends as the exalted mysteries overwhelm and begin to destroy the eight tenths of his Divine Consciousness that surged out.

• A wisp of Li Yun’s Divine Consciousness was pulled from his sleeping body into a dazzling abstract world and was annihilated by eternity’s mysteries.
• Repeatedly awakened wisps were drawn away and destroyed until Li Yun fully woke and discovered his body had become ancient stone, merged with the Strange Flower’s light.
• Li Yun tried to break free and stop his Divine Consciousness from flowing outward, but the seal prevented him from moving.
• Eight tenths of Li Yun’s Divine Consciousness surged into the abstract world, where he glimpsed eternity’s mysteries and realized the Strange Flower was offering him an unprecedented opportunity.
• The mysteries overwhelmed Li Yun’s Divine Consciousness, and the eight tenths began to fall apart.

Li Yun sustained his divine sense while comprehending the Eternal Perfection Mystery, which revealed flaws in his cultivation and allowed him to break free of his stone-like state. As he refined his Immortal Trait, his nine Undying Heavenly Wheels were reforged and a tenth began to form.

• Li Yun replenished his divine sense to maintain contact with the Eternal Perfection Mystery and continued comprehending it.
• The Eternal Perfection Mystery illuminated flaws throughout Li Yun's cultivation, and his understanding accelerated as his divine sense regenerated faster.
• Li Yun instinctively circulated his Undying Ancient God Power, breaking free of his ancient-stone form and returning to human form.
• Undying Runes emerged around Li Yun as his Immortal Trait transformed, and his nine Undying Heavenly Wheels shattered and reformed stronger than before.
• As the nine wheels resonated, Li Yun's Immortal Trait began forming a tenth Undying Heavenly Wheel.

Li Yun formed his tenth Undying Heavenly Wheel and created the Eternal Illumination of the Past Scripture, which revealed a path toward the Eternal Realm. He discovered that his Eternal Qi could resonate with the Strange Flower’s spiritual light, but he needed more strength and resources to deepen the connection.

• Li Yun completed his tenth Undying Heavenly Wheel and named his new cultivation technique the Eternal Illumination of the Past Scripture.
• Li Yun realized that the accepted Immortal Extremity was not the true limit of immortality and resolved to keep the Strange Flower for himself.
• Li Yun advanced ten steps closer to the Strange Flower and recognized his Eternal Qi as a key to the Eternal Realm.
• Li Yun used his Eternal Illumination of the Past Scripture to make his Eternal Qi resonate with the Strange Flower’s spiritual light.
• Li Yun concluded that he needed an eleventh Undying Heavenly Wheel and vast resources, then took out Origin Force Crystals.

Li Yun discovered that Origin Force crystals greatly strengthened his immortal nature, then entered the thick fog to hunt Calamity Beasts for more. After ten years of hunting, his stores of crystals had steadily grown.

• Li Yun spent three months refining more than two thousand Origin Force crystals and increased his immortal nature by roughly one part in a million.
• Li Yun concluded that his Eternal Illumination of the Past Scripture let him refine a mysterious substance in the crystals that ordinary Undying Ancient Gods might not be able to use.
• Li Yun entered the thick fog and killed a pack of more than thirty wolves, refining their low-quality crystals on the spot.
• Li Yun continued hunting Calamity Beasts, refining crystals from weaker beasts immediately and saving those from stronger beasts for later.
• Li Yun hunted in the thick fog for ten years, steadily accumulating Origin Force crystals.

Li Yun encountered a nine-person party from one of the Camps while considering investigating them. Their leader revealed he had brought the group out to seize a possible Eternal Divine Medicine, leaving Li Yun close enough to overhear their plan.

• Li Yun reflected on his progress hunting Calamity Beasts and considered probing the Six Great Camps.
• Li Yun sensed a party approaching and strode openly toward them.
• The nine Nine-Wheel Realm titans discussed why they had traveled far from their Camp, with their First Senior explaining that the area beyond its dangers seemed safer.
• First Senior revealed he had brought the group to seize a treasure that might be an Eternal Divine Medicine.
• The party speculated about using the medicine to reach the Eternal Realm while Li Yun listened nearby.

Li Yun attacked First Senior’s group after realizing they were heading toward the cave containing the Strange Flower he had been studying. He killed eight of First Senior’s subordinates and confronted their leader, then unleashed an overwhelming blade technique as First Senior’s knowledge of the Eternal Divine Medicine threatened to expose the flower.

• First Senior warned his subordinates to keep quiet and low-profile while they searched for the Eternal Divine Medicine.
• Li Yun realized First Senior’s group was heading toward the cave and decided to kill them before they could find the Strange Flower.
• Li Yun’s Sword Light killed eight of the nine subordinates, while First Senior evaded the attack.
• First Senior confronted Li Yun and mistakenly judged him to be an Eternal Birth Realm powerhouse rather than an Eternal Sage.
• Li Yun asked about the Eternal Divine Medicine, and First Senior realized Li Yun had overheard their plan.
• Li Yun sealed off the area with ten-colored light and unleashed “Eternity Illuminates the Ages, the Blade That Cuts Down Illusions!” at First Senior.

Li Yun killed First Senior and seized his True Spirit, then learned that Leng Yue had once been captured at Ninexu Camp before escaping through a spatial passage. He suspected she might have returned to the Dreadbound Sea of Realms, but still did not know why she had never come back.

• Li Yun used his ten-colored Blade Light to destroy First Senior’s body, then caught his True Spirit before it could escape.
• First Senior offered to reveal the Eternal Divine Medicine’s location, but Li Yun told him that the Strange Flower was already his and that First Senior had tried to steal it.
• Li Yun promised First Senior a chance at rebirth if he answered questions, then asked whether he knew Snow Woman and the other two women.
• First Senior identified himself as Weigu of Ninexu Camp and said he had seen Leng Yue there hundreds of millions of years earlier.
• Weigu explained that Ninexu Camp had captured Leng Yue as a suspected spy, but she later opened a spatial passage and escaped.
• Li Yun suspected Leng Yue had used her Primordial Stele mark to return to the Dreadbound Sea of Realms, but wondered why she had not reached the Primordial Land.