Chapter Summaries

Xu Yi reflected on his battle with a Yang Venerate and realized he needed spirit stones to make powerful Fire Talismans before he could rescue Young Master Xu. Unable to return to Huaixi because of the Yun family’s threat, he learned that Yun Mingmie had come seeking the Shadow-Sound Pearl recording that could expose him.

• Xu Yi decided that improving his cultivation and making high-grade Fire Talismans were his priorities, but he lacked the spirit stones to do so.
• Xu Yi considered trading spirit stones through the United Merchant Association, then ruled out returning to Huaixi because Yun Zhongge could use his bloodline credentials to track him down.
• Xu Yi worried that the Yun family might retaliate against Yan Zi, though he believed they were unlikely to know of her connection to him.
• Steward Fang told Xu Yi that Young Master Yun Qi had come to see him, and Xu Yi recognized him as Yun Mingmie.
• Yun Mingmie demanded that Xu Yi return the Shadow-Sound Pearl or destroy it, fearing the secret recording of Yun Zhongge’s operation.

Xu Yi and Yun Mingmie arranged a meeting to trade for a technique that could block the Yun Family’s bloodline tracking. Xu Yi prepared for a possible ambush and met Yun Mingmie at Three Saints Mountain, where the story left them about to negotiate.

• Yun Zhongge blamed Xu Yi for the failed campaign against the Chaotic Star Sea and accused a clan traitor of helping him, alarming Yun Mingmie, who feared Xu Yi’s Shadow-Sound Pearl could expose his betrayal.
• Yun Mingmie contacted Xu Yi and offered a secret technique to block bloodline attraction in exchange for a face-to-face meeting and a blood-restriction oath.
• Xu Yi agreed to meet near the border of the Chaotic Star Sea and the Northern Sacred Court, then prepared Wind talismans in case Yun Mingmie or the Yun Family ambushed him.
• Yun Mingmie proposed Three Saints Mountain, and Xu Yi reached the site, checked the surrounding area, and greeted Yun Mingmie as he arrived.

Yun Mingmie ambushed Xu Yi with help from a Yun family elder, who shattered Xu Yi’s True Soul and took his Sumeru Ring. As Yun Mingmie’s soldiers prepared to carry Xu Yi back to the Yun estate, Xu Yi’s golden lightning freed his True Soul from the elder’s cage, though he remained bound and believed to have lost his Qi Sea Realm.

• Yun Mingmie lured Xu Yi into range, and Thirteenth Uncle-Ancestor struck Xu Yi with a soul attack, seized his Sumeru Ring, and left Yun Mingmie to take him to the Yun estate.
• Yun Mingmie revealed that he had arranged the ambush to eliminate Xu Yi as a threat and hoped to obtain the Shadow-Sound Pearl.
• Yun Mingmie’s soldiers bound Xu Yi with a Dragon-Locking Rope and restrained his Dazhui Acupoint while the soul cage tortured his True Soul.
• Xu Yi’s golden lightning destroyed the white cage and restored his True Soul’s consciousness, allowing him to realize that Yun Mingmie had betrayed him.
• Xu Yi found that his Qi Sea Realm had vanished, while Yun Mingmie ordered his soldiers to take the restrained prisoner back to the family estate.

After the Yun household destroyed Xu Yi’s Qi Sea and captured him, Xu Yi used the Heart Reversal Art to escape, killed several armored soldiers, and subdued Yun Mingmie. He recovered at Three Saints Mountain and forced Yun Mingmie to conceal his escape when the Yun elders demanded that he return with Xu Yi.

• Xu Yi feigned insanity while using the Heart Reversal Art to break free of the Dragon-Binding Rope and summon his bone sword.
• Xu Yi killed several armored soldiers, then forced Yun Mingmie to swallow a Life-Death Gu and knocked him unconscious with his divine sense.
• Xu Yi brought Yun Mingmie to Three Saints Mountain and spent a day recovering from his injuries while keeping him captive.
• When Yun Mingmie awoke, Xu Yi made him answer the Thirteenth Clan Elder’s transmission without revealing that Xu Yi had escaped.
• The Thirteenth Clan Elder demanded to know why Yun Mingmie had not returned, while the Yun household located Xu Yi at the edge of the Chaotic Star Sea.

Xu Yi used Yun Mingmie to mislead the Yun family while traveling toward Shatai Valley, then killed him after realizing the bloodline pull made escape impossible. He located a fragment of space and prepared to return to Da Yue.

• Yun Mingmie told Thirteenth Clan Elder that a patrol search had delayed him, then traveled with Xu Yi toward Bayi City and Shatai Valley.
• At Seventh Elder Yun’s urging, Thirteenth Clan Elder set out for Huaixi Prefecture to investigate Yun Mingmie’s suspicious reports.
• Xu Yi stopped the dragon boat in a mountain valley and told Yun Mingmie he had chosen the place for his corpse.
• Xu Yi bound Yun Mingmie, let the Life-Death Gu bottle shatter, and destroyed his newly forming soul and resentful soul.
• Xu Yi used the Starry Sky Breath Locking Technique to locate a fragment of space and decided to make another trip to Da Yue.

Xu Yi escaped to Great Yue after his cultivation crisis and reunited with Huang Xuanji and the realm’s Soul Sensing experts. He announced rules for distributing thirteen Earth Soul Talismans and asked them to find a way to save someone whose Qi Sea had been shattered.

• Xu Yi entered the fading spatial fragment, leaving the Yun Household’s Thirteenth Clan Elder unable to find him.
• Xu Yi returned to Great Yue, suppressed the Great Cloud Tribulation, and told Huang Xuanji’s messenger to summon his old friends to Futuo Mountain.
• Xu Yi met Huang Xuanji at his former cave dwelling, and more than twelve Soul Sensing Realm experts gathered there.
• Xu Yi announced that thirteen Earth Soul Talismans would be distributed according to contributions of Precious Medicines, with the top ten receiving talismans outright and the rest drawing lots.
• Xu Yi asked the experts to help find a way to save someone whose Qi Sea had been shattered, prompting their alarm and disbelief.

Xu Yi returned to his birthplace after distributing the Earth Soul Talismans, then spent a month recovering while brooding over his shattered Qi Sea and his limited future. When his Body Concealing Pill dispersed the dark clouds, he realized the world was a natural Thunder Spirit Land and found new hope.

• Xu Yi asked the cultivators to search for any clue to rebuilding a shattered Qi Sea, then distributed thirteen Earth Soul Talismans among the Soul Sensing Realm powerhouses.
• Xu Yi shared a final night of drinking with Yuan Qinghua and watched him depart, fearing they would never meet again.
• Xu Yi returned to Xu Family Village, rebuilt his old home, and spent a month there recovering his life force, injuries, and true soul with Precious Medicines.
• Xu Yi realized his supply of Body Concealing Pills was running low and briefly considered dying beneath the gathering thunderclouds before deciding not to give up.
• Xu Yi swallowed a Body Concealing Pill, causing the dark clouds to clear, and recognized the world as a natural Thunder Spirit Land.

Xu Yi found a way to cultivate the remaining levels of the Profound Thunder Body Tempering Art by using the Great Cloud Tribulation and the Nielong River to control the lightning’s force. After two years of relentless training, he reached Great Perfection, but ran out of Body Concealing Pills and could no longer stop the Cloud Tribulation from attacking him.

• Xu Yi realized the thunder-filled sky could serve as the Thunder Spirit Land he needed to cultivate the Profound Thunder Body Tempering Art’s second and third levels.
• Xu Yi endured repeated lightning strikes, using the woods and the Nielong River to weaken their force while tempering his body and replenishing himself with Precious Medicine.
• Xu Yi repeated the training over two years, consuming tens of millions of Precious Medicine and bringing the Profound Thunder Body Tempering Art to Great Perfection.
• After mastering the second level, Xu Yi found that even the Bone Sword could barely mark his skin.
• Xu Yi exhausted his Body Concealing Pills, leaving him unable to hide his aura or stop the Cloud Tribulation from continuing its assault.

After mastering the third layer of the Profound Thunder Body Tempering Art, Xu Yi emerged with a solid True Soul and fifth-tier divine sense, then drove away the cultivators who had gathered around him. He remained in his quiet mountain home and celebrated his freedom by preparing a feast.

• Xu Yi completed the Profound Thunder Body Tempering Art after enduring nearly two years of lightning, and the tribulation clouds finally dispersed.
• Xu Yi ordered the tens of thousands of cultivators watching him to leave, then used his divine sense to destroy their caves and threaten them until they fled.
• Xu Yi realized his True Soul had grown solid and his divine sense had advanced to the fifth tier, despite his cultivation remaining at the Yin Venerate Realm.
• Xu Yi gathered sheep, pheasants, and fish with his divine sense, prepared a fire, and covered the roasted game with honey.
• Xu Yi ate the feast after nearly two years without ordinary food and savored the taste.

Xu Yi finished cultivating and confronted Huang Xuanji and the other cultivators about the deaths of four people who had attempted to reach the Yin Venerable realm. He refused to advise them until they found clues about repairing a shattered Qi Sea Realm, then received a visitor named Dao Xuan.

• Xu Yi sensed Huang Xuanji, Qing Mingzi, and the others approaching and heard that four cultivators had died attempting to break through to the Yin Venerable realm.
• Xu Yi realized the four had likely died to cloud tribulation because they lacked Body Concealing Pills.
• Huang Xuanji and the others begged Xu Yi for guidance, but Xu Yi demanded they first make progress on his request to find a way to repair a shattered Qi Sea Realm.
• Xu Yi dismissed the group, who left treating his request as essential to breaking through to the Yin Venerable realm.
• Dao Xuan arrived from the northwest and asked Xu Yi for an audience.

Dao Xuan offered Xu Yi the Raging Wind Talisman in hopes of saving Wuji Temple, and Xu Yi rewarded him with a powerful cultivation art. Huang Xuanji then presented Xu Yi with a mysterious bottle whose energy resonated with his bloodline, leaving Xu Yi eager to learn more.

• Dao Xuan told Xu Yi he had a treasure to offer, then gave him the Raging Wind Talisman booklet he had found in Dao Yan’s alchemy room.
• Xu Yi recognized the talisman’s value and promised to help Wuji Temple, then gave Dao Xuan a jade slip containing the Lightning Control Art.
• After Dao Xuan departed, Xu Yi called over Huang Xuanji, who said his treasure was worth more to him than reaching the Yin Venerable rank.
• Huang Xuanji handed Xu Yi a pure white bottle containing a pale yellow strand that emitted faint dragon roars, and Xu Yi sensed its extraordinary energy.

Xu Yi agreed to take Huang Xuanji out of the world in exchange for an explanation of a mysterious treasure. Huang Xuanji revealed that he had recovered a wisp of True Dragon Imperial Qi and offered it, along with his notes on how to store it.

• Huang Xuanji knelt before Xu Yi and asked him to take him out of the world, and Xu Yi agreed.
• Huang Xuanji identified the treasure as True Dragon Imperial Qi and linked it to the Nine Heavens True Dragon Sword.
• Huang Xuanji explained that the Imperial Family had used the Dragon River, the National Monument, and the people’s faith to restore the Qi within the sword.
• Huang Xuanji recounted how a trace of the Qi revived his fading body and Yin Soul after he was gravely wounded.
• Huang Xuanji said he had recently recaptured the remaining Qi and gave it to Xu Yi with a booklet describing its properties and storage method.

Xu Yi studied Dao Yan’s Raging Wind Talisman and waited for the bloodline pull to fade, but news of Elder Shanyang’s tomb drew him west to Taiping Mountain. He learned that Qing Mingzi, Lotus Great Master, and Yan Yangzi were already fighting over the tomb’s texts.

• Xu Yi accepted Huang Xuanji’s True Dragon Imperial Qi booklet and exchanged a Sound Transmission Pearl with him.
• Xu Yi studied the Raging Wind Talisman and regretted killing Dao Yan, whose research had made the talisman easy to understand.
• Xu Yi delayed returning to the Northern Sacred Court while waiting for the bloodline pull to fade, though worry about Princess Yinqiu grew.
• Huang Xuanji told Xu Yi that Elder Shanyang’s tomb had been unearthed at Taiping Mountain and that three experts were fighting over its texts.
• Xu Yi rushed west and learned that powerful groups searching for ways to resume cultivation after the Qi Sea was shattered had found the tomb.

Xu Yi stopped the battle over the books from Elder Shanyang's tomb and read the recovered writings, but found them unremarkable. As he prepared to remove Elder Shanyang's coffin, he uncovered a hidden record of the legendary Qingcang Dialogue.

• Xu Yi arrived at Taiping Mountain and used his divine sense to stop the battle over the books from Elder Shanyang's tomb.
• Xu Yi collected the books, ordered everyone to register with Huang Xuanji for rewards, and sent the crowd away.
• Xu Yi read the writings and found that their teachings on physical cultivation were already common knowledge.
• Xu Yi sensed a hidden barrier in the tomb and uncovered writing concealed beneath dust on the walls of the coffin room.
• Xu Yi recognized the writing as notes of a conversation between Qingsongzi and Cangshu, identifying it as the lost Qingcang Dialogue.

Xu Yi read the Qingcang Dialogue and reconsidered what it meant to have his qi sea destroyed. He left Elder Shanyang's Ancient Tomb believing that only the passage to his qi sea might have been damaged, giving him hope that it could be repaired.

• Xu Yi read the Qingcang Dialogue and found its final discussion of tangible and intangible vessels especially insightful.
• Xu Yi questioned Cangshu's claim that a qi sea would remain intact until the Seven Souls perished, since cultivators' qi seas were often said to be destroyed.
• Xu Yi realized that Qi Sea Realm cultivation had been common in Cangshu's era, so Cangshu and Qingsongzi could not have overlooked the apparent contradiction.
• Xu Yi conjectured that damage to his qi sea might actually have severed the passage connecting it to his body, leaving the qi sea itself intact.
• Xu Yi gained faith that the connecting passage could be repaired and left the tomb with renewed hope.

Xu Yi left the world of Great Yue with Huang Xuanji and returned to the Northern Sacred Court, where he considered risking a breakthrough to the Yang Venerate level. As the spatial passage began to collapse, Huang Xuanji set out to explore, and Xu Yi offered him gifts for the journey.

• Xu Yi reburied Elder Shanyang and spent time studying the Qingcang Dialogue.
• Xu Yi considered using the Heaven Soul Talisman to attempt the Yang Venerate level but decided to return to the Northern Sacred Court to do so.
• Xu Yi visited the graves of his companions and left a message explaining why Soul Sensing Realm experts had failed to reach the Yin Venerate level.
• Xu Yi and Huang Xuanji crossed the shrinking spatial passage and arrived in the Northern Sacred Court.
• Huang Xuanji thanked Xu Yi and said he wanted to travel, so Xu Yi offered him gifts.

Xu Yi gave Huang Xuanji supplies before fleeing to a city, where he refined powerful Flame Burst Talismans while expecting the Yun Family to retaliate. After learning indirectly that the Yun Family believed him dead, he left Huaixi Prefecture and traveled deep into Huangdang Sand Dune to prepare for what came next.

• Xu Yi gave Huang Xuanji a Sumeru Ring containing spirit stones, pills, and divine weapons, then sent him on his way.
• Xu Yi disguised himself, entered a city, and refined six Flame Burst Talismans in a secluded underground room while waiting for the Yun Family to attack.
• Xu Yi stayed hidden for two more days, then relaxed when no threat appeared and concluded the bloodline attraction had faded.
• The Thirteenth Clan Elder of the Yun Family reported that Xu Yi had died, and the clan accepted his explanation after the tracking compass could no longer locate him.
• Xu Yi left the border town in Huaixi Prefecture and raced to a remote basin in the heart of Huangdang Sand Dune.

Xu Yi underwent the Little Thunder Tribulation as he broke through to the Yang Venerate realm. His Divine Soul solidified, though cultivators heading to Huangdang Sand Dune mistakenly believed he had failed and turned back or raced toward the site for his Sumeru Ring.

• Xu Yi prepared on Huangdang Sand Dune, sent out a Heaven Soul Talisman, and captured the Heaven Soul as dark clouds gathered overhead.
• Xu Yi's True Soul Figure swallowed and refined the Heaven Soul while powerful black clouds formed above him.
• Xu Yi activated the Great Evolution Array of Rotation to defend against the Little Thunder Tribulation, and the first two lightning bolts battered the formation.
• As the third bolt began to fall, golden light burst from the little figure in Xu Yi's spiritual platform, and the dark clouds dispersed.
• Cultivators traveling to witness Xu Yi's breakthrough assumed he had died; many turned back, while several dozen hurried toward the scene to seize his Sumeru Ring.
• Xu Yi stood beneath the clearing sky and realized that his Divine Soul had solidified.

Xu Yi broke through to the Yang Venerate realm and discovered that his grief could affect the creatures around him. After learning that Princess Yinqiu was to marry Yun Chengyun, he confronted Mu Guangming, who said the marriage was her own choice.

• Xu Yi reached the Yang Venerate realm, gained the ability to express the emotions of heaven and earth through sorrow, and expanded his spiritual sense to a hundred miles.
• Xu Yi confirmed that Yan Zi remained safe in her cave dwelling on Cold Sun Peak, then traveled to Guan Chong City and saw the forces of Jiannan Road, Guide Road, and the Chaotic Star Sea rebuilding it together.
• Xu Yi tracked down Mu Guangming at the Reward Palace after defeating Island Master Huang and the cultivators on his island.
• Xu Yi questioned Mu Guangming about Princess Yinqiu, and Mu Guangming revealed that she had entered Guide Road and would marry Yun Chengyun on the eighth day of the next month.
• Mu Guangming said he had captured Princess Yinqiu to negotiate with Guide and Jiannan, but claimed that her marriage into the Yun family was her own wish.

Mu Guangming showed Xu Yi Princess Yinqiu’s grave and explained that she had believed him dead, leaving Xu Yi overwhelmed with grief and guilt. He learned she was now set to marry Yun Chengyun, and Mu Guangming explained that Xu Yi’s defeat of Yun Zhongge had caused the groom to change; Xu Yi questioned how the Yun family could justify it.

• Mu Guangming led Xu Yi to Princess Yinqiu’s grave, where Xu Yi unearthed her half of their Spiritual Connection Jade.
• Mu Guangming explained that Princess Yinqiu had believed Xu Yi dead, carved his tombstone with her injured fingers, and mourned beside the grave for days.
• Xu Yi’s grief unleashed an overwhelming sorrow that harmed nearby fish, beasts, and guards before Mu Guangming snapped him out of it.
• Mu Guangming told Xu Yi that Princess Yinqiu was marrying Yun Chengyun and argued that their separation might spare them further pain.
• Mu Guangming explained that Xu Yi’s fight had ruined Yun Zhongge’s reputation, ended his plan to conquer the Chaotic Star Sea, and cost him his position as heir.
• Xu Yi asked how the Yun family could change Princess Yinqiu’s groom without becoming a laughingstock.