Chapter Summaries

Zhang Qingyuan charged through the righteous path’s attack, killed Dao Venerable Dutian, and was wounded when more than ten Myriad Transformations Dao Venerables retaliated. He continued fighting their joint forces, but they exploited his poor movement skills and gradually gained control of the battle.

• The five righteous-path Myriad Transformations Dao Venerables attacked Zhang Qingyuan, but he broke through their techniques with his Immeasurable Maha Golden Body.
• Zhang Qingyuan targeted Dao Venerable Dutian and destroyed his Natal Spirit Weapon and Divine Soul with a single punch.
• More than ten Myriad Transformations Dao Venerables struck Zhang Qingyuan together, breaking his Five Elements bell and drawing golden blood.
• Zhang Qingyuan charged into battle against the righteous and demonic cultivators, severely injuring or killing those he managed to hit.
• The Myriad Transformations Dao Venerables recognized that Zhang Qingyuan lacked movement techniques and began restraining him with coordinated attacks and retreats.
• As Zhang Qingyuan accumulated injuries, the enemy’s shifting tactics weakened his resistance and drew him into their siege rhythm.

Zhang Qingyuan let eleven Myriad Transformations Dao Venerables batter him while he used the siege to digest his gains from the Three Lives Stone World. Once the Earth Tier opponents stopped providing enough pressure, he decided to end the fight as their attacks descended.

• Eleven Myriad Transformations Dao Venerables overwhelmed Zhang Qingyuan with attacks, wounding him and making him appear close to defeat.
• The attackers believed Zhang Qingyuan was nearly dead and unleashed their strongest attacks to finish him quickly.
• Zhang Qingyuan used the battle to hone his Dao Law techniques and turn his memories and experience from the Three Lives Stone World into real strength.
• Zhang Qingyuan judged that the opponents could no longer pressure him enough to help him improve, and decided to end the fight.
• As eleven attacks crashed down, Zhang Qingyuan let the Golden Light around him disperse and his Aura become strangely ordinary.

Zhang Qingyuan revealed his overwhelming power by killing eight of the eleven Myriad Transformations Dao Venerables with one sword. He then confronted the Founding Ancestor, asking him to explain the Five Elements Holy Sect’s history as both prepared to fight.

• Zhang Qingyuan withdrew his aura and unleashed the Supreme Annihilation Divine Heavenly Sword, killing eight Myriad Transformations Dao Venerables and splitting the sky with its sword mark.
• The three surviving Dao Venerables froze in shock as the fallen cultivators’ deaths caused strange heavenly phenomena.
• Zhang Qingyuan recovered from his wounds, reflected on his century away and the thousand years of experience in the Three Lives Stone, and considered returning to Yuzhou.
• Zhang Qingyuan recounted how the Blood Demon Sect had attacked the Five Elements Holy Sect and stolen a sect-protecting treasure, then asked the Founding Ancestor to instruct him.
• The Founding Ancestor stood and praised Zhang Qingyuan as killing intent filled the space between them.

Zhang Qingyuan faced the Founding Ancestor after killing eight of the twelve Myriad Transformations Titans who had besieged him. He saw through the Founding Ancestor’s youthful disguise and questioned how he had restored the Five Elements Great Dao, before the Founding Ancestor attacked.

• Zhang Qingyuan’s sword killed eight of the twelve Myriad Transformations Titans, leaving the remaining three terrified and the watching cultivators stunned.
• The Founding Ancestor descended from Nine Heavens Above, unleashing pressure that crushed the sky and killed some True Essence Realm Cultivators.
• Zhang Qingyuan asked the Founding Ancestor how he had found a way to complete the cultivation of the Five Elements Great Dao.
• Zhang Qingyuan saw that the Founding Ancestor was aged and decayed beneath his youthful appearance, sustained by an unnamed vitality.
• The Founding Ancestor told Zhang Qingyuan he would teach him reverence, then stepped forward and entered the battle.

Zhang Qingyuan fought Founding Ancestor in the Inheritance Secret Realm, refining his power and deepening his grasp of the Yin Yang Great Dao as their clashes shook the realm and drew greedy spectators inside. The battle continued with both fighters still standing, while Zhang Qingyuan recognized that Founding Ancestor was far closer to the Heavenly Human Dao Ancestor realm.

• Founding Ancestor unleashed a vast Five Elements palm, and Zhang Qingyuan answered with a strike that fused the five elements with primal chaos and yin-yang.
• Zhang Qingyuan and Founding Ancestor collided with such force that the Inheritance Secret Realm shook and their light pierced through the bronze gate into the outside world.
• Cultivators outside the bronze gate heard that legendary Myriad Transformations Titans and Founding Ancestor had entered, then rushed into the realm hoping to seize spoils from the battle.
• Zhang Qingyuan and Founding Ancestor exchanged increasingly rapid blows until their figures vanished from the spectators’ sight amid lightning and destructive radiance.
• Zhang Qingyuan and Founding Ancestor were driven back more than a hundred zhang by a clash, and Zhang Qingyuan felt his power and Dao arts becoming more fully refined.
• Zhang Qingyuan sensed that Founding Ancestor had traveled nearly the entire path toward the Heavenly Human Dao Ancestor realm.

Zhang Qingyuan fully mastered his power after emerging from the Three Lives Stone illusion and challenged Founding Ancestor to reveal his full strength. Founding Ancestor unleashed the Annihilating Five Elements Finger, and Zhang Qingyuan answered with his Great Zhou Heavenly Five Elements Samsara as their supreme techniques collided.

• Zhang Qingyuan recognized that his earlier weakness came partly from being unaccustomed to his true power after the Three Lives Stone world, and he declared that he had now mastered it.
• Founding Ancestor realized Zhang Qingyuan had been using their battle to grow stronger and decided to kill him with a hidden killing move.
• Founding Ancestor summoned the Five Elements laws and unleashed the Annihilating Five Elements Finger, tearing open a vast rift in the sky.
• Zhang Qingyuan identified the technique's connection to an Upper Realm immortal art and challenged Founding Ancestor's Five Elements power with his own innate ability.
• Zhang Qingyuan activated Great Zhou Heavenly Five Elements Samsara, plunging heaven and earth into annihilation as the two techniques met.

Zhang Qingyuan and Founding Ancestor’s world-shaking attacks collided, destroying the Inheritance Secret Realm and revealing Zhang Qingyuan’s growing insight into the Five Elements Dao. Founding Ancestor then unleashed a token carrying Immortal Qi, and Zhang Qingyuan desperately raised every defense as he faced what seemed like certain death.

• Zhang Qingyuan and Founding Ancestor’s attacks collided, unleashing a blast that shattered the Inheritance Secret Realm’s spatial barrier and stunned the cultivators outside.
• Zhang Qingyuan survived the collision and gained new insight into the Five Elements Heavenly Cycle by studying Founding Ancestor’s Five Elements Dao Law.
• Zhang Qingyuan sensed danger as Founding Ancestor took out a token engraved with the character “Battle.”
• Zhang Qingyuan recognized the Immortal Qi on the token and felt his death was imminent.
• Zhang Qingyuan broke free of the Immortal Qi’s suppression and unleashed the Five Elements Great Dao Bell, two Golden Body techniques, and the Yin Yang Grindstone as layered defenses.

Facing a strand of Immortal Qi in the Wuxuan Sect ruins, Zhang Qingyuan finally grasped part of its principles and unleashed his Five Elements Dao to fight back. Their collision destroyed the inheritance secret realm and sent terrifying tremors across Yunzhou, drawing the attention of powerful figures.

• Zhang Qingyuan's defenses failed against the Immortal Qi, and the threat of death pushed his understanding of it to a breakthrough.
• Zhang Qingyuan realized that immortality meant standing above the myriad Daos and using one Dao to suppress them all.
• Zhang Qingyuan gathered his cultivated powers around the Five Elements Great Dao and attacked the Immortal Qi with his Great Zhou Heavenly Five Elements Samsara.
• The collision tore apart the Wuxuan Sect's Inheritance Secret Realm and sent destructive fluctuations across Yunzhou.
• Compassionate Crossing Holy Monk sensed the disturbance from the Barren Sea and feared Zhang Qingyuan might survive it and defy the Buddha Son's commands.
• An old gatekeeper in a mysterious place sensed the power and wondered whether Yunzhou was about to produce a True Dragon.

At Heavenly Pass, an old guardian sensed the battle between Zhang Qingyuan and the Founding Ancestor of the Five Elements Holy Sect and considered recruiting the righteous-path prodigy. The collision shattered the Wuxuan Sect's Inheritance Secret Realm, but Zhang Qingyuan survived grievously wounded after his opponent fled.

• The Heavenly Pass guardian sensed battle-law fluctuations from Yunzhou and judged that a Myriad Transformations cultivator had briefly touched Heavenly Being power.
• The guardian worried about the Devil Race and the troubled Immortal Ascension Path, then sent a talisman to contact the Buddha Son of the Great Sumeru Temple about recruiting the prodigy into the Nine Continents Righteous Path Alliance.
• The collision collapsed the Wuxuan Sect's Inheritance Secret Realm and its shockwaves injured cultivators gathered at the Wuxuan Sect Ruins.
• Zhang Qingyuan survived with most of his body's flesh destroyed and immortal deathly qi lingering in his wound.
• The Founding Ancestor of the Five Elements Holy Sect aged rapidly after activating a Token and fled when Zhang Qingyuan's Aura remained, leaving Zhang Qingyuan victorious.

After surviving the destruction of the Wuxuan Sect Secret Realm, Zhang Qingyuan escaped with severe injuries and the inheritance and knowledge of Heavenly Human Dao Ancestor Gui Yuanxin. He concluded that Founding Ancestor was a pawn in a scheme against the Five Elements Great Dao and resolved to recover before killing him, while recognizing that the force behind the scheme was an immortal.

• Zhang Qingyuan survived the blast of Immortal Qi, collected the relics of the Myriad Transformations Dao Venerables he had slain, and left the Wuxuan Sect Ruins.
• As he fled through the void, Zhang Qingyuan reflected on the Heavenly Human Dao Ancestor inheritance and Upper Realm knowledge he had gained from Gui Yuanxin.
• Zhang Qingyuan resolved to return to Qianyun Mountain, recover from his injuries, and kill Founding Ancestor.
• Zhang Qingyuan concluded that Founding Ancestor had helped replace the Five Elements Great Dao with a flawed path and that an immortal was manipulating events to destroy its inheritance.

Zhang Qingyuan worried that an unknown immortal who had seized control of the Azure Realm might discover him, especially since Gui Yuanxin’s memories of that enemy had been erased or obscured. After Zhang Qingyuan returned to Qianyun Mountain, news of his victory over twelve Myriad Transformations Realm cultivators spread across Yunzhou, making him the focus of the cultivation world.

• Zhang Qingyuan considered how the Five Elements Immortal Sect controlled the links between the Azure Realm and the Upper Realm and feared that the immortal who had stolen control of the Azure Realm might notice him.
• Zhang Qingyuan realized that Gui Yuanxin’s memories had blurred or skipped every event connected to the person who killed him on the Immortal Contention Path.
• Zhang Qingyuan returned to Qianyun Mountain to recuperate and prepare for seclusion.
• News of the battle at the Wuxuan Sect Ruins spread throughout Yunzhou, shocking cultivators with the report that twelve Myriad Transformations Realm experts had besieged Zhang Qingyuan.
• Cultivators across Yunzhou learned that Zhang Qingyuan had killed eight opponents with one sword strike and stood against Founding Ancestor, making him the center of attention.

Zhang Qingyuan’s defeat of eight Myriad Transformations Dao Venerables and the Founding Ancestor plunged Yunzhou into upheaval as the ancient dynasties lost their protectors. As cultivators across Yunzhou recognized Zhang Qingyuan’s new position at the peak, Old Ancestor Murong resolved to finish the task Zhang had entrusted to him.

• The fall of the Myriad Transformations Dao Venerables left the ancient dynasties exposed, and the Great Shang Dynasty was nearly destroyed by internal conflict and outside attacks.
• The Mo Calamity and the struggles among the Four Imperial Dynasties intensified the chaos throughout Yunzhou.
• Cultivators across Yunzhou discussed Zhang Qingyuan’s inheritance from the Heavenly Human Dao Ancestor and his victory over eight Myriad Transformations Dao Venerables and the Founding Ancestor.
• Old Ancestor Murong read the news and reflected on how Zhang Qingyuan had risen from a fellow Cave True cultivator to Yunzhou’s supreme being.
• Old Ancestor Murong set off to complete Zhang Qingyuan’s entrusted task, hoping to secure the Murong Family’s future.

Dao Venerable Kong Sheng and a Central Continent visitor discussed Zhang Qingyuan’s astonishing battle and the possibility of making ties with him. Meanwhile, Xiao Jingyun found his Martial Uncle raising a Great Dao Sacred Body and warned that the child could not surpass Zhang Qingyuan as things stood.

• Dao Venerable Kong Sheng explained that Zhang Qingyuan had mastered and advanced Qingtian Sect’s body-refining inheritance, while his Central Continent friend praised Zhang’s golden body and sought an introduction.
• Dao Venerable Kong Sheng agreed to introduce Zhang Qingyuan to his friend, who hoped to build goodwill before Zhang entered the Central Continent.
• Xiao Jingyun found his Martial Uncle with a young Daoist boy and recognized the boy’s Great Dao Sacred Body.
• Xiao Jingyun’s Martial Uncle dismissed him, intent on raising the boy to prove himself against someone from his past.
• Xiao Jingyun warned his Martial Uncle that the boy could not yet surpass the fighter who had defeated twelve Dao Venerables, and said he had met that person twice.

Xiao Jingyun and the leaders of Wunian Temple recognized that Zhang Qingyuan had become too powerful to challenge, and considered leaving matters to the Buddha Son from Great Sumeru Temple. The Buddha Son crossed Yunzhou toward the Five Elements Holy Sect while receiving instructions from Great Sumeru Temple.

• Xiao Jingyun told the old Daoist that his disciple could not surpass Zhang Qingyuan and advised him to return to Central Continent.
• The old Daoist reconsidered his hopes for his disciple after hearing of Zhang Qingyuan's latest achievements at the Wuxuan Sect Ruins.
• Ku Du asked Cidu how Wunian Temple should respond to a decree from Great Sumeru Temple concerning Zhang Qingyuan.
• Cidu decided that Wunian Temple should leave the confrontation to the Buddha Son and offer only limited assistance.
• The Buddha Son sat unnoticed on a city street as he used a Buddhist secret technique to receive instructions from Great Sumeru Temple.

Zhang Qingyuan weighed his future cultivation path and resolved to draw on Yin Yang and Five Elements Immortal Scriptures to forge the Chaos Great Dao. He began recovering from his injuries and planned to settle his grudge with Five Elements Mountain once he had absorbed his accumulated gains.

• The Buddha Son recognized someone in Yunzhou who had cultivated the Immeasurable Maha Golden Body as fated with Buddha, then led a procession of renowned cultivators into the forest.
• Zhang Qingyuan returned to his Secret Realm lair on Qianyun Mountain and considered how to pursue immortality beyond the Heavenly Human Dao Ancestor realm.
• He decided not to rely solely on the Five Elements Great Dao and resolved to study Immortal Scriptures of Yin Yang and the Five Elements to forge the Chaos Great Dao.
• Zhang Qingyuan planned to remove the lingering Nirvanic Immortal Qi, recover, digest his thousand years of gains from the Three Lives Stone World, and then confront Five Elements Mountain.
• He closed his eyes and used his Magic Power to grind away the lingering power attached to his ribs, making the Secret Realm shudder.

Zhang Qingyuan used the annihilation Immortal Qi in his injuries to deepen his comprehension of annihilation and improve his cultivation while recovering in seclusion. Outside, the Outer Domain Demonic Sect launched a full-scale invasion of Yunzhou, leaving the Northern Eight Domains under Zhang Qingyuan’s protection as the region’s main refuge.

• Zhang Qingyuan realized that studying the annihilation Immortal Qi in his body could help him comprehend the Annihilating Five Elements Finger and turn his injuries into an opportunity.
• Zhang Qingyuan used the Great Evolution Technique to study the annihilation qi, accelerating his digestion of the Three Lives Stone’s memories and improving his understanding of Yin Yang laws.
• The Outer Domain Demonic Sect launched a broad counterattack after Yunzhou’s righteous sects lost many Myriad Transformations Dao Venerables and the Four Imperial Dynasties were crippled or scattered.
• Demon Lords attacked regions across Yunzhou, even raiding the Five Elements Holy Sect, while Zhang Qingyuan’s reputation deterred most attacks on the Northern Eight Domains.
• Cultivator Families and ordinary people migrated to the Northern Eight Domains, which grew prosperous as Yunzhou’s principal refuge from the war.

A surge of refugees and settlers brought prosperity to the Northern Eight Domains, while unrest and infiltration spread beneath the surface. Qianyun Mountain sold limited seats for observing Zhang Qingyuan’s Dao aura, and Kang Hou joined the selected visitors as they arrived at the Cloud Viewing Platform.

• The influx of people enriched the Northern Eight Domains but left the region vulnerable to underground forces.
• Qianyun Mountain auctioned limited viewing seats, earning vast sums from cultivators hoping to comprehend Zhang Qingyuan’s Dao aura.
• Kang Hou won the final seat, drawing envy and suspicious attention because he appeared to have no powerful backing.
• Qianyun Mountain disciples teleported Kang Hou and the other winners to the Cloud Viewing Platform.
• The visitors sat down to study the manifested Dao laws, but Kang Hou did not join them.

Kang Hou watched as an unknown force shattered Qianyun Mountain’s protective formation and trapped the mountain and its surroundings in the Ten Thousand Ghosts Grand Formation. As the siege devastated the area, the Blood River Old Monster and another blood-robed cultivator appeared among the attackers, while Kang Hou chose to wait and see whether Zhang Qingyuan would be killed.

• Kang Hou revealed that the upheaval was beginning just as a force crushed everyone on the Cloud Platform.
• The Ten Thousand Ghosts Grand Formation destroyed Qianyun Mountain’s defenses and sealed off the mountain and the surrounding hundred li.
• Cultivators trying to flee were devoured by skull-shaped black mists, while Qianyun Mountain’s defenders fought the ghosts amid the spreading destruction.
• Kang Hou recognized that Zhang Qingyuan was the target of a powerful attack and decided to withdraw and observe, hoping Zhang Qingyuan’s death would clear the way for the Demon Sect’s invasion.
• The Blood River Old Monster and a pale, slender blood-robed cultivator appeared above the mountain’s ruins, and the Old Monster absorbed the blood of fleeing cultivators.

As the seven Outer Domain Demonic Sect forces attacked Qianyun Mountain, their Myriad Transformations Demon Lords avoided confronting Zhang Qingyuan and focused on probing the defenders. Yue Wenhe was trapped by five elite demonic cultivators and prepared to answer their killing move with a sword holding fifty years of cultivation.

• The pale-faced cultivator and Blood River Old Monster watched the battle, while the demonic forces stormed Qianyun Mountain.
• The Myriad Transformations Demon Lords kept their distance from Zhang Qingyuan, believing he could kill them despite rumors of his injuries.
• Yue Wenhe swept away black skeletal heads with his Sword Momentum during the battle.
• Five demonic cultivators ambushed and surrounded Yue Wenhe, intending to kill him while he was isolated.
• Yue Wenhe reflected on his Master's guidance, gripped his sword, and declared that it held fifty years of his cultivation.

Yue Wenhe unleashed the sword he had nurtured for fifty years, killing five Demon Sect cultivators who had surrounded him. Across Qianyun Mountain, Zhang Qingyuan’s disciples displayed their formidable skills, leaving the watching Myriad Transformations experts increasingly wary of their master.

• Yue Wenhe used Seed Sword Technique—One Sword Green Lotus Blooms to shatter the attacks of five Ninth Stage enemies and kill them.
• The nearby Demon Sect cultivators retreated from Yue Wenhe, giving him time to recover.
• Ku Qiusheng, Yun Tianhe, and Xie Ling fought through the siege, each showing exceptional strength in their specialties.
• The Myriad Transformations experts watched Zhang Qingyuan’s disciples and grew more impressed by the depth of their master’s abilities.
• Kang Hou observed the battles from the Cloud-Climbing Platform and remarked on Zhang Qingyuan’s mastery of the Five Elements Dao Law.