Chapter Summaries

After returning to Qianyun Mountain with the treasures and records he seized from the six demonic sects, Zhang Qingyuan planned to study their immortal-level origins while settling old grudges and preparing to return to Yuzhou. Seeing Qianyun Mountain’s growing influence and vulnerability, he decided to strengthen it by exploiting the imprisoned Demon Lords, then used the Heavenly Demon Devouring God Technique to destroy one Demon Lord’s soul.

• Zhang Qingyuan visited the six remaining demonic sects beyond the domain and plundered their records and resources, greatly increasing his wealth and Magic Power.
• He considered reverse-engineering the Demonic Immortal Scripture but planned to first handle matters in Yunzhou and return to Yuzhou.
• Zhang Qingyuan saw that Qianyun Mountain’s influence and income were rapidly expanding, and decided he needed to leave it stronger before departing.
• Worried that an outside Myriad Transformations Realm cultivator could attack Qianyun Mountain, Zhang Qingyuan realized he could draw on the imprisoned Demon Lords’ power.
• Zhang Qingyuan examined a Demon Lord’s memories, learned of his atrocities, and annihilated his Divine Soul with the Heavenly Demon Devouring God Technique.

Zhang Qingyuan studied the Demon Sects’ puppet arts to create Myriad Transformations Realm guardians for Qianyun Mountain, using the memories of the Demon Lords he had killed. After a year of arduous derivation, he completed a new puppet technique and successfully refined a Myriad Transformations Realm puppet.

• Zhang Qingyuan examined a Demon Lord’s memories, discovered the extent of the Demon Sect’s atrocities, and killed the eight captured Demon Lords by annihilating their Divine Souls.
• Zhang Qingyuan compared the seven Demon Sects’ puppet methods but rejected them as cruel, limited, or too slow to produce the guardians he needed.
• Zhang Qingyuan used the Great Evolution Technique and the Demon Lords’ knowledge to combine the strengths of the seven puppet arts into a new Secret Technique.
• While Zhang Qingyuan worked in seclusion for a year, Yunzhou remained shaken by his victories, and the Mo Calamity gradually weakened but continued to spread chaos.
• Zhang Qingyuan completed the new puppet technique and, after wasting three sets of materials, refined one Myriad Transformations Realm Puppet from four corpses.

Zhang Qingyuan completed four Myriad Transformations Realm Corpse Refining Puppets after more than half a year of work, securing Qianyun Mountain while he planned to return to Yuzhou. He also deepened his understanding of the Demonic Immortal Scripture and prepared to test the Puppets against the Five Elements Holy Sect.

• Zhang Qingyuan resolved to create powerful Puppets to protect Qianyun Mountain while he was away and wondered about Yuzhou and the Outer Sea upheaval.
• Zhang Qingyuan spent more than half a year refining the remaining four corpses and successfully turned three of them into Puppets.
• Zhang Qingyuan inspected the four self-sustaining Myriad Transformations Realm Corpse Refining Puppets and judged that few forces could threaten Qianyun Mountain.
• Zhang Qingyuan’s Puppet research gave him deeper insight into the Demonic Immortal Scripture and broadened his cultivation understanding.
• Zhang Qingyuan chose the Five Elements Holy Sect as the target for testing his new Puppets in actual combat.

Feng Youcai reflected on the decline of the Five Elements Holy Sect and considered leaving the marketplace near Five Elements Mountain. A deafening blast then shook the region, and one corner of the mountain range collapsed as someone attacked.

• Feng Youcai recalled arriving as a rogue cultivator hoping to join the Five Elements Holy Sect, being turned away, and building a life in the nearby marketplace.
• Feng Youcai reflected on the sect's decline after the Yin Yang Twin Venerables and Yuan Magnetism Dao Venerable attacked and its Founding Ancestor failed to defeat a rising cultivator overseas.
• Feng Youcai considered leaving with other residents as people fled the marketplaces around Five Elements Mountain.
• A deafening blast shook the region, and a brilliant light erupted over Five Elements Mountain.
• Feng Youcai and the crowd saw one corner of the mountain range collapse amid falling rocks and clouds of dust.

Zhang Qingyuan attacked the Five Elements Holy Sect with a Black Armored Puppet, but the Sect’s hidden formation trapped it. The trap broke when three more black-armored Myriad Transformations Realm figures appeared, and the Four figures destroyed the Sect, leaving Yunzhou facing a new era.

• A black-armored figure attacked Five Elements Mountain and broke through the Five Elements Holy Sect’s outer formation.
• The hidden formation trapped Zhang Qingyuan’s Black Armored Puppet, and Yang Tianlan ordered the Sect to use the God-Imprisoning Lock.
• The trap shattered, revealing three more black-armored Myriad Transformations Realm figures alongside the first.
• The Four figures attacked Five Elements Mountain and destroyed the Five Elements Holy Sect over the following three days.
• Cultivators surveyed the ruins and said Yunzhou’s Cultivation World would enter a new era.

The Five Elements Holy Sect’s destruction shook Yunzhou, while cultivators and rival powers speculated about the mysterious Black Armored Figures and Zhang Qingyuan’s growing strength. Zhang Qingyuan traveled toward the Intercontinental Teleportation Array, assessed his damaged Corpse Refining Puppets, and realized the Sect’s Founding Ancestor had likely escaped with part of its treasury.

• Cultivators gathered at the Five Elements Holy Sect’s ruins, but feared the lingering storms and dangers inside as news of the Sect’s destruction spread across the Nine Continents Continent.
• The Buddhist Venerables of Wunian Temple, Formless Dao Venerable, Void Sky Sword Venerable, and Qin Qing Fairy each mourned the Sect’s fall in their own way.
• Yunzhou’s remaining transcendent powers suspected Zhang Qingyuan had controlled the four Black Armored Figures and feared he could establish a new Holy Sect.
• Zhang Qingyuan traveled by Sword Pellet toward the Intercontinental Teleportation Array while reviewing his gains from the Five Elements Holy Sect.
• Zhang Qingyuan found that all four of his Corpse Refining Puppets had been damaged, and suspected the absent Founding Ancestor had fled with treasures after noticing the depleted treasury.

After destroying the Five Elements Holy Sect, Zhang Qingyuan discovered that its Founding Ancestor and some elite disciples had escaped, and learned that a powerful Buddha Son had recently intended to deal with him. He inventoried the sect’s immense remaining treasures and found an incomplete immortal art among the Yin Yang Twin Venerables’ relics.

• Zhang Qingyuan reflected that his injuries had prevented him from attacking the Five Elements Holy Sect before it transferred away its Founding Ancestor, elite disciples, and top resources.
• Zhang Qingyuan learned through Yang Tianlan’s memories that a Buddha Son from the Great Sumeru Temple had visited the sect, discussed a major matter with the Founding Ancestor, and expressed an intention to deal with him.
• Zhang Qingyuan decided not to dwell on the Buddha Son or travel to Central Continent yet, and began counting the spoils he had seized from the Five Elements Holy Sect.
• Zhang Qingyuan found a vast stockpile of Spirit Stones, cultivation texts, and other treasures, enough to ease his resource needs until the Heavenly Human Dao Ancestor Realm.
• Zhang Qingyuan discovered the Yin-Yang Secret Technique among the Yin Yang Twin Venerables’ relics and recognized it as an incomplete immortal art.

Zhang Qingyuan discovered an incomplete immortal method in Gui Yuanxin’s inheritance, then found that the Intercontinental Teleportation Array leading to Yuzhou could not be activated. He returned to Qianyun Mountain, where his rule stabilized a rapidly expanding sect amid Yunzhou’s upheaval, while a Buddhist group prepared to deal with him later.

• Zhang Qingyuan stored the incomplete immortal method and found that the Intercontinental Teleportation Array to Yuzhou could not be activated.
• Founding Ancestor learned that Zhang Qingyuan had destroyed the Five Elements Holy Sect, and the Holy Buddha Son said he would visit Zhang Qingyuan after resolving the Heavenly Pass seal.
• After the Five Elements Holy Sect fell, factions across Yunzhou fought for territory, and many sought Qianyun Mountain’s protection.
• Qianyun Mountain expanded across much of Yunzhou, while Zhang Qingyuan introduced management principles to help its leaders organize the new holdings.
• Zhang Qingyuan returned to Qianyun Mountain and entered seclusion to repair four Corpse Refining Puppets, sort his gains, and study the Yin Yang Immortal Method.

Over ten years, Zhang Qingyuan strengthened Qianyun Mountain, increased his own power, and mastered two Heavenly Tier techniques while studying the Yin Yang Immortal Method and demonic arts. He decided to leave for Yuzhou to help during its calamity, after Old Ancestor Murong found cultivators from Cloud Water Sect.

• Qianyun Mountain expanded its territory more than fivefold and established an effective system that increased its resources, including a Top-grade Spirit Stone.
• Zhang Qingyuan repaired four Corpse Refining Puppets, entrusted two to the Yue Family Great Elder, and buried two beneath Qianyun Mountain as its final defense.
• Zhang Qingyuan increased his refined Magic Power by thirty percent and gained initial mastery of two low-grade Heavenly Tier Techniques and Martial Arts from the Five Elements Holy Sect.
• Zhang Qingyuan continued studying the Yin Yang Immortal Method and demonic sect methods, improving his grasp of the Yin Yang Great Dao and his ability to derive Chaos Power.
• Zhang Qingyuan decided to leave Qianyun Mountain for Yuzhou and do what he could to aid it during its calamity.
• Old Ancestor Murong brought Zhang Qingyuan cultivators suspected to be members of Cloud Water Sect whom he had found three years earlier.

Zhang Qingyuan learned that Yuzhou and Haizhou had been devastated by a vast earthquake and invasions from Demonic Beasts and Abyssal Demons. Remembering the people he had left behind, he set out from Yunzhou and entered the Black Storm beyond the Boundary Sea to return to Yuzhou.

• Zhang Qingyuan learned from fellow sect members that Yuzhou and Haizhou had suffered a catastrophic earthquake, followed by Demonic Beast attacks and Abyssal Demon incursions.
• The fellow sect members explained that they had been driven into the stormy deep sea while fleeing an Abyssal Demon ambush, then spent three years reaching Yunzhou's Outer Sea.
• Zhang Qingyuan remembered Tianheng Island, his Master Daoist Ming Shui, and the people he had known in Yuzhou, and hoped they had survived.
• Zhang Qingyuan left seclusion, entrusted Qianyun Mountain to his confidants, and headed south across Yunzhou.
• Zhang Qingyuan reached the Black Storm beyond the Boundary Sea and flew into it to cross toward Yuzhou and Haizhou.

Master Lu told Lu Yunxi that Cloud Water Sect had ordered him to leave the Moon Liên Islands, which the Sect planned to hand over to the displaced North Profound Gate. He left her to prepare for the inevitable transfer, while privately resolving to help Zhang Qingyuan’s people as much as he could.

• Master Lu stood over the prosperous Moon Liên Islands and told Lu Yunxi he had to leave in one month under orders from Cloud Water Sect.
• Lu Yunxi asked whether there was any way to protect the islands and the people there, including Sister Wan Ying and the others.
• Master Lu explained that Sect leaders wanted to give the islands to the North Profound Gate survivors in exchange for their powerful cultivators and support during the Mo Calamity.
• Master Lu said Zhang Qingyuan’s long absence and dim Soul Lamp had convinced the Sect that he could not reclaim the islands, and urged Lu Yunxi to prepare for their loss.
• Master Lu disappeared after deciding to make one final effort for his old friend, while Lu Yunxi remained silent.

North Profound Gate’s envoys left negotiations over Moon Connect Island and plotted to use a nearby sea Magic Beast nest to pressure the island. Yang Wanying worried that she could no longer protect the estate and hoped its absent owner would return soon.

• The North Profound Gate envoys mocked the absent cultivator and argued that their sect could take Moon Connect Island by force.
• The white-robed envoy rejected attacking Yang Wanying directly because Grandmaster Lu was stationed on the island and the Cloud Water Sect might retaliate.
• The envoys recalled a nearby sea Magic Beast nest and decided to use it in their scheme.
• Yang Wanying reflected on how the island’s owner had entrusted its affairs to her after leaving badly injured more than a century earlier.
• Yang Wanying, now at the Half-step Cave True Realm, feared she could no longer protect the estate and wished its owner would return.

A demonic tide attacked Moon Connect Island, whose cultivators defended the island with its protective formation and mass-produced Fireball Technique Talismans. As the battle became deadlocked, North Profound Gate envoys Mu Dong and Zhang Laifa watched from concealment and discussed the island’s industrial production and its importance to the Sect’s dealings with Cloud Water Sect.

• A black cloud covered the sky as a demonic tide advanced on Moon Connect Island, and the island’s cultivators took their defensive positions.
• A four-horned Magic Beast struck the Formation Light Curtain, and Yang Wanying wounded it with a sword strike before the tide trampled it.
• Cultivators activated mass-produced Fireball Technique Talismans, setting the sky ablaze and killing many Magic Beasts as others battered the formation.
• Mu Dong and Zhang Laifa, envoys from North Profound Gate, watched the battle and discussed Moon Connect Island’s Talisman and pill production.
• Zhang Laifa remarked that the island’s techniques had helped persuade Cloud Water Sect’s higher-ups to keep silent.

Cloud Water Sect’s leaders were divided over whether to take Moon Connect Island, and North Profound Gate exploited that division to plot a takeover. As Yang Wanying helped repel the Magic Beast tide, she sensed something was wrong, while Zhang Laifa hinted that an insider could open a gap in the island’s protective array.

• Cloud Water Sect’s leaders argued over whether to seize Moon Connect Island and its profitable mass-production techniques, while North Profound Gate promised support to the faction favoring annexation.
• Mu Dong worried that Moon Connect Island’s talismans and Island Protection Array would repel the Magic Beast tide and ruin North Profound Gate’s plans.
• Zhang Laifa told Mu Dong that an insider had given him a Messaging Talisman and suggested that a sudden gap in the array would let the beasts break through.
• Yang Wanying injured a gigantic strange beast and surveyed the battlefield as the island’s defenders drove back the Magic Beasts.
• Yang Wanying sensed an unexplained unease despite the battle appearing to favor Moon Connect Island.

Yang Wanying fought to hold back a Magic Beast tide after the Island Protection Array was breached, then discovered that the Crocodile Gang had betrayed Moon Connect Island. Mu Dong and Zhang Laifa intervened to stop her attack and demanded that she surrender the island.

• Yang Wanying suspected that someone had arranged the Magic Beast attack after Master Lu returned to Yuzhou proper.
• A huge Magic Beast shattered the western section of the Island Protection Array, allowing the Magic Beast tide to surge onto Moon Connect Island.
• Yang Wanying used the Five Wood Elemental Formation to bind the invading Magic Beasts and temporarily seal the breach.
• Yang Wanying accused the Crocodile Gang of treachery after seeing its members outside the array, and the Crocodile Gang Leader said they had chosen to submit to North Profound Gate.
• Yang Wanying struck at the Crocodile Gang Leader, but an unknown beam blocked her sword and left him badly injured.
• Mu Dong and Zhang Laifa appeared, confronted Yang Wanying, and demanded that she hand over Moon Connect Island.

Yang Wanying fought Mu Dong and Zhang Laifa after they used the demonic tide to justify seizing control of Moon Connect Island. A North Profound Gate explosive rune severely injured all three, but as the envoys tried to flee, black claws pierced their chests.

• Zhang Laifa and the Crocodile Gang Leader demanded that Yang Wanying hand Moon Connect Island over to North Profound Gate, claiming it was necessary to protect the islanders and resist demons.
• Yang Wanying attacked Mu Dong and Zhang Laifa with a powerful sword strike, killing the Crocodile Gang Leader and several of his subordinates while injuring the two envoys.
• Yang Wanying pursued the envoys, and Mu Dong used an explosive rune from North Profound Gate's Old Ancestor to blast her and both envoys away, leaving them severely injured.
• Mu Dong and Zhang Laifa decided to retreat, but black claws pierced both of their chests from behind and began draining their life force.

An Abyssal Demon revealed itself on Moon Connect Island, killed the North Profound Gate envoys, and shattered the island’s defenses as its Magic Beasts poured in. Just as it gathered power to destroy the island, the void suddenly solidified.

• The Abyssal Demon killed Mu Dong and Zhang Laifa after using their plot to learn that Moon Connect Island’s formation grandmaster had left and that the island had an insider.
• The Abyssal Demon struck down Yang Wanying’s sword attack and unleashed a blast that split Moon Connect Island with a vast fissure.
• The Abyssal Demon’s Magic Beasts flooded through the destroyed Island Protection Array as it gathered energy into a black sun above the island.
• The void between heaven and earth suddenly solidified as the Abyssal Demon prepared to unleash its attack.

Zhang Qingyuan returned to Moon Connect Island after crossing the Vast Sea Domain and froze the world as the Abyssal Demon prepared to destroy the island. The Abyssal Demon broke free of the spatial restraints and unleashed its full power against him.

• The Abyssal Demon gathered a black sun of energy above Moon Connect Island, threatening to destroy the island and everyone on it.
• The world stopped as an invisible power froze the surroundings and separated the cultivators’ perceptions from their bodies.
• A cyan-robed figure emerged from the Different Dimension Void, and people across the island sensed that Zhang Qingyuan had returned.
• Zhang Qingyuan revealed himself and told the Abyssal Demon that it was causing trouble in his home.
• Zhang Qingyuan recalled crossing the Vast Sea Domain and gaining insight into chaotic destruction and the reversal of Yin Yang Five Elements.
• The Abyssal Demon roared, shattered the spatial restraints around itself, and unleashed its trump card methods.

Zhang Qingyuan unveiled his new Chaos: Singularity technique and swallowed the Abyssal Demon commander’s enormous black sun. He then fired the singularity after the fleeing demon, and a vast light erupted over the sea as the island’s tens of millions watched.

• The Abyssal Demon commander poured all its demonic qi into a black sun and hurled it at Zhang Qingyuan.
• Zhang Qingyuan formed a singularity with his new Chaos: Singularity technique and used it to consume the black sun.
• Zhang Qingyuan spotted that the Abyssal Demon commander had fled hundreds of li away and fired the singularity after it.
• A tremendous light erupted above the sea, bright enough to illuminate the island for tens of millions of people.

Zhang Qingyuan killed the Abyssal Demon commander from afar and stopped the resulting shockwave and tsunami from destroying Moon Connect Island. After the battle ended, the island’s cultivators began repairing the damage and wondered whether Zhang Qingyuan had reached the legendary realm.

• The Abyssal Demon commander fled, believing Zhang Qingyuan would be forced to block its attack and give it time to escape.
• Zhang Qingyuan’s beam pierced the commander’s head and annihilated it, triggering a massive explosion across the sea.
• Zhang Qingyuan commanded the tsunami and energy impact to retreat, saving Moon Connect Island from destruction.
• The surviving Magic Beasts fled, and the island’s cultivators began restoring the array, assessing casualties, and repairing damaged buildings.
• Cultivators on Moon Connect Island discussed Zhang Qingyuan’s power and wondered if he belonged to the mythic, legendary realm.