Chapter Summaries

A demonic cultivator raided a shop in a small city before the City Lord’s forces killed him, prompting the local powers to seek protection from Qianyun Mountain. As the Mo Calamity spread through Yunzhou, Zhang Qingyuan considered the possibility that the seven great Outer Domain demonic sects were preparing to invade.

• A blood-lit demonic cultivator robbed a shop and tried to flee the city, but the City Lord’s cultivators pursued him and killed him after a fierce battle.
• The City Lord and his allies discussed the worsening demonic attacks and decided to organize a mutual protection alliance and seek Qianyun Mountain’s protection.
• The chapter recounted how upheaval among Yunzhou’s top powers weakened their control, allowing conflicts and demonic cultivators to spread across the Cultivation World.
• Demonic cultivators from the Outer Domain and local converts used the chaos to attack and infiltrate Yunzhou, raising fears of a war between the righteous and demonic paths.
• Zhang Qingyuan, back at Qianyun Mountain, connected the revived Mo Calamity to his killing of Blood God Son and wondered why the seven great demonic sects had turned their attention to Yunzhou.

Zhang Qingyuan secluded himself at Qianyun Mountain to absorb his gains, strengthen himself, and use the Great Evolution Technique to imitate Immortal Qi. When news arrived that the ancient Wuxuan Sect ruins had been discovered in the Barren Sea, he ended his seclusion and set out to find the Nine Deaths Returning Soul Grass.

• Zhang Qingyuan left the demonic cultivator disturbances in the Northern Eight Domains to his followers, ordered them to gather news of the Barren Sea, and entered seclusion.
• Zhang Qingyuan reflected on the threat posed by the Five Elements Sect’s Founding Ancestor and other hidden experts, and worked to increase his strength with spirit liquid and the Ancient Qingtian Sect’s inheritances.
• Zhang Qingyuan used the Great Evolution Technique to develop an imitation of Immortal Qi based on his understanding of the Unique Dao and Five Elements Dao Law.
• During Zhang Qingyuan’s three years in seclusion, the Mo Calamity worsened, the Five Elements Holy Sect refused to lead a response, and the discovery of the Wuxuan Sect ruins in the Barren Sea drew cultivators across Yunzhou.
• Zhang Qingyuan learned that the Wuxuan Sect ruins might hold the Nine Deaths Returning Soul Grass he needed to restore his Glazed Golden Body, so he ended his seclusion and departed.

Yue Wenhe clashed with the Five Elements Holy Sect at the Barren Sea and defeated one of its cultivators, but a powerful elder attacked him. Zhang Qingyuan arrived, rescued his disciple, and confronted four Myriad Transformations Dao Venerables who had been waiting nearby.

• Yue Wenhe warned his fellow disciples about the dangers of the Barren Sea while they searched for the Wuxuan Sect ruins.
• A Five Elements Holy Sect cultivator insulted Zhang Qingyuan, and Yue Wenhe defeated him with a single sword strike.
• A late Law Domain Realm elder of the Five Elements Holy Sect pinned Yue Wenhe down and tried to kill him.
• Zhang Qingyuan appeared, shattered the elder and his attack, healed Yue Wenhe, and told his disciples they could withdraw if they wished.
• Zhang Qingyuan called out the hidden figures, revealing Formless Dao Venerable, Void Sky Sword Venerable, Qin Qing Fairy, and Dao Venerable Xuanshang.

Zhang Qingyuan joined four Myriad Transformations Dao Venerables to cross the Barren Sea toward the Wuxuan Sect ruins, using his Five Elements Dao Law to stabilize their passage. A Void Nether Silver Thunder Kun shattered the channel and attacked, and the four Dao Venerables fled, leaving Zhang Qingyuan behind.

• Zhang Qingyuan met Fairy Qin Qing, Dao Venerable Xuanshang, Void Sky Sword Venerable, and Formless Dao Venerable at the Barren Sea, where they discussed the missing factions and reports of a battle in its depths.
• The four Dao Venerables opened a Space Channel together, and Zhang Qingyuan suppressed their clashing Dao Laws to stabilize it before entering.
• Void Sky Sword Venerable resolved to challenge Zhang Qingyuan, but Formless Dao Venerable urged him to prioritize reaching the Wuxuan Sect ruins and its Heavenly Human Dao Ancestor inheritance.
• Zhang Qingyuan stopped in the channel as a massive Void Nether Silver Thunder Kun swept through and shattered it, exposing the group to chaotic spatial currents.
• Formless Dao Venerable and the other three Dao Venerables attacked the Kun to escape, then fled separately and left Zhang Qingyuan behind.

Zhang Qingyuan killed the Void Nether Silver Thunder Kun and used the Proficiency Panel to preserve and study the power of its thunder-and-space runes. He learned that the Wuxuan Sect ruins were a trap set by the Five Elements Holy Sect and the Demonic Sect, and the chapter ended with Wang Boguang warning that the Devil Ancestor would join the ambush.

• Formless Dao Venerable and the others fled, leaving Zhang Qingyuan to face the Void Nether Silver Thunder Kun alone.
• Zhang Qingyuan unleashed the Immeasurable Maha Golden Body and Five Elements Dragon Fist, defeated the Kun, and killed it with his Sword Pellet.
• Zhang Qingyuan activated the runes on the Kun hide, used the Proficiency Panel to preserve the fleeting insight, and began comprehending its thunder-and-space power.
• Zhang Qingyuan sensed Wang Boguang hiding nearby, seized him, and demanded to know why he had been following him.
• Wang Boguang revealed that the Five Elements Holy Sect had ordered him to spy on Zhang Qingyuan and that the Wuxuan Sect ruins were a trap laid with the Demonic Sect.
• Wang Boguang warned that more than ten Myriad Transformations Great Powers and the Devil Ancestor were waiting to ambush Zhang Qingyuan.

Zhang Qingyuan examined the cloak he had taken from Wang Boguang and realized that Wunian Temple and the Demonic Sect might be involved in a vast trap awaiting him at the Wuxuan Sect ruins. Half a month later, the conspirators were still waiting beneath the ruins, growing impatient as Zhang Qingyuan failed to appear.

• Zhang Qingyuan identified Wang Boguang's cloak as being woven from Heavenly Secrets Seven-Colored Spider silk and suspected that Wunian Temple had helped set the ambush.
• Zhang Qingyuan learned that the Five Elements Holy Sect, the Demonic Sect, and other powers had gathered more than ten Myriad Transformations Dao Venerables, including the Founding Ancestor and the Devil Ancestor, to trap him.
• Zhang Qingyuan decided not to rush into the trap and disappeared with an idea in mind.
• Over the next half month, cultivators braved deadly storms and Demonic Beasts to reach the island containing the Wuxuan Sect ruins, where many died while seeking treasures.
• Beneath the ruins, a burly demonic cultivator complained that Zhang Qingyuan had not arrived, and a white-haired old man mocked him for rushing toward a potentially fatal fight.

The Demon Lords and righteous cultivators gathered to ambush Zhang Qingyuan erupted into a chaotic battle after a Demon Lord attacked one of their rivals. The clash destroyed their concealment formation and drew countless cultivators toward the battlefield, believing the Wuxuan Sect ruins held a great opportunity.

• After more than half a month trapped together, the Demon Lords and righteous cultivators lost patience and began arguing.
• A sturdy Demon Lord attacked an old man, and several righteous cultivators struck back, severely injuring him.
• The other Demon Lords used the attack as a pretext to launch a full-scale assault on the righteous cultivators.
• The Myriad Transformations cultivators' battle destroyed the concealment formation and sent terrifying auras across the island.
• Cultivators across the island rushed toward the battle, suspecting that the Wuxuan Sect ruins held a major inheritance or opportunity.

Zhang Qingyuan hid near the Wuxuan Sect ruins and waited as righteous and demonic Myriad Transformations Dao Venerables fought over the bronze gate. When their battle damaged the gate, he slipped inside to seek the Heavenly Human Dao Ancestor’s inheritance.

• Zhang Qingyuan used Wang Boguang’s Heavenly Secret Seven-Colored Spider Silk cape to hide nearby while he refined the Nine Deaths Returning Soul Grass and watched the ambush.
• The righteous and demonic Dao Venerables turned on each other, erupting into a battle that drew thousands of Yunzhou cultivators to the ruins.
• Zhang Qingyuan observed the combatants’ Dao arts and recorded them for later study.
• The battle’s shockwaves blasted open part of the bronze gate, and Zhang Qingyuan concealed himself and slipped through it.

Zhang Qingyuan met Xiao Jingyun inside the Wuxuan Sect Ruins and learned how to reach the Heavenly Human Dao Ancestor’s inheritance tomb. After they parted ways, Zhang Qingyuan wondered about Xiao Jingyun’s familiarity with the secret realm and lack of interest in the inheritance.

• Zhang Qingyuan found Xiao Jingyun waiting in the ruins, and Xiao Jingyun praised his recent breakthrough and victories.
• Zhang Qingyuan and Xiao Jingyun exchanged compliments and discussed their recent cultivation progress.
• Zhang Qingyuan invited Xiao Jingyun to seek the Heavenly Human Dao Ancestor’s inheritance together, but Xiao Jingyun declined because he had other business.
• Xiao Jingyun explained that Zhang Qingyuan should pass the mountain tombs and proceed to the end of the secret realm to find the inheritance, while warning him about the deadly trials.
• Xiao Jingyun offered to recommend Zhang Qingyuan to his Sect in Central Continent if he could not find a path to advancement, and Zhang Qingyuan thanked him.
• Zhang Qingyuan and Xiao Jingyun parted, and Zhang Qingyuan wondered why Xiao Jingyun knew the secret realm so well and seemed uninterested in the inheritance.

Zhang Qingyuan reached the black mountain in the Wuxuan Sect’s inheritance secret ground and found the withered bones of a Heavenly Human Dao Ancestor. The ancestor’s lingering will addressed him and offered him a chance to undergo a test for the inheritance.

• Zhang Qingyuan resisted the mountain’s crushing pressure on his body and spirit with his Glazed Golden Body and Immeasurable Maha Golden Body.
• Zhang Qingyuan climbed the mountain and found withered bones beside a Stone Tablet bearing the words “I Will Not Submit.”
• Zhang Qingyuan was injured when he looked at the blood-red characters and felt the ancient killing intent within them.
• The will left on the bones told Zhang Qingyuan that only a genius who passed its test could receive the inheritance, then asked if he was ready.

Zhang Qingyuan learned that his cultivation of the Five Elements Great Dao could bring him into conflict with an Immortal who severed the Azure Realm’s connection to the Upper Realm. Outside the Wuxuan Sect’s Inheritance Secret Ground, the Five Elements Holy Sect’s Old Ancestor confirmed that Zhang Qingyuan had entered the bronze gate and was trapped in a deadly scheme.

• The withered bones halted their demand for a Dao Heart oath after sensing Zhang Qingyuan’s Five Elements Great Dao and warned that he was suited to inherit their path.
• The withered bones explained that the Azure Realm had become a resource and training ground for Upper Realm Immortal Sects, whose reincarnated disciples competed for the Immortal Divine Dao Fruit.
• The withered bones revealed that a former Immortal had destroyed the Five Elements Mountain gate and severed the Azure Realm’s connection to the Five Elements Immortal Sect, warning that Zhang Qingyuan might be killed if he rebuilt the Dao marker.
• Zhang Qingyuan worried that the former Immortal might still threaten him, but the withered bones said the Immortal had likely ascended and could only return through a hidden plan or by descending when the Immortal Ascension Path opened.
• At the Wuxuan Sect’s Inheritance Secret Ground, more than ten Myriad Transformations Dao Venerables surrounded the bronze gate as the Five Elements Holy Sect Master reported to the Old Ancestor that Zhang Qingyuan had entered the trap.

Founding Ancestor revealed that the righteous and demonic paths had staged an elaborate trap to kill Zhang Qingyuan, who was unaware of the danger outside and entered the Three Lives Stone’s trial to claim the inheritance. Inside its dream, Zhang Qingyuan recovered his sealed memories and began testing the world, which reset after he killed his instructor.

• Founding Ancestor told Yang Tianlan that Zhang Qingyuan had been lured into the Inheritance Secret Realm and ordered him to tell the demonic sect to begin the operation.
• More than a dozen Myriad Transformations experts sealed the area outside the bronze gate while Zhang Qingyuan faced the Three Lives Stone’s trial inside.
• Zhang Qingyuan entered the stone’s dream, and the withered bones praised his body as Zhang Qingyuan’s soul departed it.
• Zhang Qingyuan awoke as a six-year-old child with his memories sealed, then recovered them through his Proficiency Panel while learning the Gui Family Basic Breathing Method.
• Zhang Qingyuan questioned whether his instructor was real, killed him, and watched the instructor and his surroundings reset.

Zhang Qingyuan spent years trapped in a false world created by the Three Lives Stone, studying its looping plot and searching for a way out. Though he found no escape, he used the world’s abundant time to deepen his understanding of Dao techniques and the Upper Realm, while suspecting something was amiss.

• Zhang Qingyuan realized the world was an artificial, looping realm that reset when he disrupted its plot, and an invisible force prevented him from leaving Guiyuan City.
• Zhang Qingyuan discovered that the world followed the withered-bones owner’s past experiences and knowledge, so techniques beyond that person’s understanding had no power there.
• Zhang Qingyuan continued observing the plot and used the long passage of time to practice the Great Evolution Technique and deduce the secrets of Dao techniques and Immortal Qi.
• Zhang Qingyuan learned through the withered-bones owner’s memories that the owner had been sent from the Upper Realm to reincarnate and fight on the Immortal Ascension Path.
• Zhang Qingyuan deduced the Upper Realm’s cultivation methods and techniques to perfection, but felt that something about the system was not quite right.

After several hundred years in the Three Lives Stone dream world, Zhang Qingyuan mastered Gui Yuanxin’s methods and discovered that surpassing him was the key to escaping the illusion. He also uncovered how Upper Realm cultivation methods could trap cultivators and suspected the Upper Realm treated the Azure Realm as a pasture.

• Zhang Qingyuan spent several hundred years studying and refining Gui Yuanxin’s cultivation methods, strengthening his foundations and surpassing Gui Yuanxin’s attainments.
• Zhang Qingyuan realized that the dream world could overwrite his memories and let Gui Yuanxin’s lingering obsession seize his body if he failed to break its fixed plot.
• Zhang Qingyuan used the Proficiency Panel’s recording function to repeatedly study Gui Yuanxin’s experiences and found that mastering and surpassing his methods could free him from the illusion.
• Zhang Qingyuan discovered that Gui Yuanxin had followed the Yin Yang path and mastered the Yin Yang Great Dao.
• Zhang Qingyuan learned that Cave True cultivators could grow through cultivation methods only if their Essence, Qi, and Spirit were strong enough to resist Daoization.
• Zhang Qingyuan concluded that the Upper Realm’s immortal sects had deliberately kept Azure Realm cultivators from reaching the peak and used the realm as a pasture for reincarnated disciples.

Zhang Qingyuan learned more about the Upper Realm’s use of the Azure Realm and resolved to master Master of Withered Bones’ inheritance. After centuries of observing Gui Yuanxin’s rise, he reached the Heavenly Human Dao Ancestor realm, destroyed the dream world, and confronted Gui Yuanxin, whose body-seizure plan had failed.

• Zhang Qingyuan learned that the Azure Realm had once been treated as a pasture by Upper Realm sects, though Heaven and Earth Severed Connection had cut off their access.
• Zhang Qingyuan spent centuries studying Master of Withered Bones’ Yin Yang Great Dao and watching Gui Yuanxin gather fortunes and advance through the realms.
• Gui Yuanxin reached the Heavenly Human Dao Ancestor realm, and Zhang Qingyuan repeatedly observed and deduced his breakthrough until he attained the same realm.
• Zhang Qingyuan unleashed Yin Yang power that destroyed the dream world and opened a passage to its end.
• Zhang Qingyuan confronted Gui Yuanxin, who revealed that the Three Lives Stone had been a body-seizure trap and cursed his failed plan.

Zhang Qingyuan defeated Gui Yuanxin inside the Three Lives Stone, whose destruction ended their battle and returned Zhang’s power to the Myriad Transformations Realm. He emerged with Gui Yuanxin’s experience, Dao insights, and knowledge of the Upper Realm, though he would have to cultivate the power of Yin Yang Laws anew.

• Gui Yuanxin realized Zhang Qingyuan had mastered his abilities in the Three Lives Stone world and blocked his final attempt to seize Zhang’s body with the Taiyi Spirit Refining Technique.
• Gui Yuanxin attacked Zhang Qingyuan with Yin Yang Laws, and the two fought with equal power in the Chaos Void.
• Their battle caused the Three Lives Stone to crack and shatter, filling the dream world with white light.
• The world’s power vanished, and Zhang Qingyuan’s cultivation and Aura fell back to the Myriad Transformations level.
• Zhang Qingyuan realized he had retained his experience, Dao techniques, World Law insights, and Gui Yuanxin’s knowledge of the Upper Realm.

Zhang Qingyuan destroyed Gui Yuanxin’s Lingering Thought after the Three Lives Stone’s dream world collapsed, then buried Gui Yuanxin and resolved to cultivate in seclusion to absorb the knowledge he had gained. As he left the Secret Realm, its great gate was blasted open and powerful auras descended.

• Zhang Qingyuan used the Five Elements Divine Wheel to destroy Gui Yuanxin’s weakened Lingering Thought.
• Zhang Qingyuan returned to his body after more than a thousand years had passed inside the Three Lives Stone’s dream world.
• Zhang Qingyuan buried Gui Yuanxin’s remains and inscribed his name on the Stone Tablet.
• Zhang Qingyuan decided to enter seclusion and digest Gui Yuanxin’s cultivation insights before confronting the Five Elements Holy Sect.
• The Secret Realm’s great gate was blasted open, and several overwhelming auras descended.

Twelve Myriad Transformations Dao Venerables entered the Inheritance Secret Realm and surrounded Zhang Qingyuan, revealing that the conflict outside had been a trap. The Founding Ancestor of the Five Elements Holy Sect sealed the only exit, and a Five Elements elder launched the first attack.

• Twelve Myriad Transformations Dao Venerables shattered the bronze gate and entered the Inheritance Secret Realm together.
• Zhang Qingyuan recognized the assembled righteous and demonic cultivators and deduced that their earlier conflict had lured him into the secret realm.
• The Founding Ancestor of the Five Elements Holy Sect revealed himself and confirmed that Zhang Qingyuan was their target.
• The Founding Ancestor guarded the bronze gate and sealed the realm's exit with the Five Elements Dao Law.
• A Five Elements Holy Sect elder attacked Zhang Qingyuan with the Five Qi Transforming Lotus.

Zhang Qingyuan faced Dao Venerable Dutian and the assembled Myriad Transformations Dao Venerables of Yunzhou, while the others watched to assess his strength and the Five Elements Holy Sect. He stopped Dutian’s Five Elements Dao lotus with one punch, shattered its Heavenly Heart Dao Seal, and blasted a vast hole through the Secret Realm’s sky.

• Dao Venerable Dutian unleashed a Five Elements Dao lotus at Zhang Qingyuan, while the other Myriad Transformations Dao Venerables watched without intervening.
• The assembled experts discussed the Five Elements Holy Sect’s strength and speculated about Zhang Qingyuan’s power and the potential threat of its Founding Ancestor.
• Zhang Qingyuan calmly met Dutian’s thousand-zhang Dao lotus with an ordinary-looking punch.
• Zhang Qingyuan’s punch froze the lotus, then shattered it and its Heavenly Heart Dao Seal, leaving the watching Dao Venerables stunned.

Zhang Qingyuan shattered Dao Venerable Dutian’s strike, then faced a joint assault from twelve Myriad Transformations Dao Venerables inside Wuxuan Sect’s Inheritance Secret Realm. Their unprecedented battle shook the realm as cultivators outside entered and were overwhelmed by the gathered Titans’ pressure.

• Zhang Qingyuan shattered Dao Venerable Dutian’s full-force strike with one punch, while Founding Ancestor considered intervening but held back.
• Cultivators gathered outside the bronze gate discussed the Myriad Transformations Titans entering the secret realm, and some followed them inside.
• The newcomers were crushed by the immense pressure and spatial turbulence created by the Titans’ confrontation.
• Dao Venerable Dutian urged the other Dao Venerables to attack Zhang Qingyuan together after his strike was broken.
• Zhang Qingyuan combined his Glazed Golden Body and Immeasurable Maha Golden Body, then charged into the attacks of twelve Myriad Transformations Dao Venerables.
• Zhang Qingyuan and the Dao Venerables began an unprecedented battle that shook the entire realm.