Chapter Summaries

After Zhang Qingyuan’s overwhelming power shocked Moon Connect Island, rumors of his battle began spreading beyond the island. He mourned Zhang Changyang at his grave and faced the grief of returning to a hometown that had changed beyond recognition.

• Moon Connect Island’s cultivators compared Zhang Qingyuan’s effortless defeat of the Abyssal Demon with Yang Wanying’s strength and marveled at how powerful he was.
• Curious cultivators discussed who Zhang Qingyuan was and why he had helped them, while news of the battle slowly spread by merchant ship.
• Zhang Qingyuan stood before the grave of Zhang Changyang, the elder who had cared for him and managed affairs on the Moon Liên Islands.
• Zhang Qingyuan reflected on leaving Yuzhou for nearly two hundred years and finding that most people he remembered were gone.
• Zhang Qingyuan remained silently by Zhang Changyang’s grave through the night.

After returning to Moon Connect Island, Zhang Qingyuan mourned Zhang Changyang and thanked Yang Wanying for protecting his home for two centuries, offering to help her advance to Cave True. News of his strength spread across the South Sea, but many cultivators—especially North Profound Gate—dismissed it as a fabricated threat.

• Zhang Qingyuan stood at Zhang Changyang’s grave for a day and night, grieving the loss of his Thirteenth Uncle and the people he had known.
• Zhang Qingyuan thanked Yang Wanying for guarding Moon Connect Island during his absence and recognized that her devotion went beyond repaying an old debt.
• Zhang Qingyuan offered to help Yang Wanying advance to Cave True, leaving her confused by the proposal.
• Reports spread that Zhang Qingyuan had returned, killed an Abyssal Demon with a finger, and suppressed the Magic Beast tide.
• North Profound Gate’s cultivators rejected the reports and accused Yang Wanying of inventing them to frighten the sect.

North Profound Gate’s elders dismissed rumors that Zhang Qingyuan had reached a realm beyond Cave True and planned to seize Moon Connect Island before Cloud Water Sect could intervene. The Supreme Old Ancestor ordered four Cave True cultivators to set out and kill Zhang Qingyuan.

• The Second Supreme Elder rejected the report about Zhang Qingyuan, blamed Moon Connect Island for killing North Profound Gate’s envoys, and called for its people to be wiped out.
• The Third Supreme Elder reasoned that Zhang Qingyuan had returned and likely reached Cave True, but believed he had staged the demonic tide to intimidate North Profound Gate.
• The Third Supreme Elder proposed striking quickly, killing Zhang Qingyuan, and disguising the attack as a conflict over Moon Connect Island’s estate.
• The Fourth Supreme Elder praised the plan, and the Third Supreme Elder asked the Supreme Old Ancestor to decide how to proceed.
• The Supreme Old Ancestor ordered North Profound Gate’s full strength deployed, sending four Cave True cultivators to kill Zhang Qingyuan.

Yang Wanying successfully broke through to the Cave True Realm with Zhang Qingyuan’s help, and learned that he had reached the Myriad Transformations Realm. As Zhang Qingyuan considered Moon Connect Island’s defenses, four powerful auras arrived and the Northern Profound Immortal Sect demanded that the island’s people kneel.

• Yang Wanying completed her breakthrough into the Cave True Realm as Zhang Qingyuan helped her comprehend the laws of heaven and earth.
• Yang Wanying asked Zhang Qingyuan about his realm, and he revealed that he had entered the Myriad Transformations Realm.
• Zhang Qingyuan reflected that he had strengthened Yang Wanying’s foundations and that Moon Connect Island might lack a strong enough guardian if he left.
• Four powerful auras appeared beyond Moon Connect Island, and a voice identifying the Northern Profound Immortal Sect’s Old Ancestors ordered the island’s people to come out and kneel.

Four Cave True Immortal Realm cultivators from North Profound Gate attacked Moon Connect Island, while Zhang Qingyuan prepared to use them as materials for Corpse Refining Puppets. Yang Wanying took to the sky, and as North Profound Gate shattered the Island Protection Array, she struck back at the Third Grand Elder.

• Four North Profound Gate Cave True Immortal Realm Old Ancestors arrived above Moon Connect Island, frightening its cultivators and surrounding the island.
• Zhang Qingyuan watched from the rear mountain and planned to turn the attackers into Cave True Realm Corpse Refining Puppets.
• Zhang Qingyuan urged Yang Wanying to test her newly gained Cave True Realm strength, and she flew into the sky.
• The leading Supreme Old Ancestor ordered the four North Profound Gate cultivators to attack and prevent Zhang Qingyuan from escaping.
• The four cultivators shattered Moon Connect Island's damaged Island Protection Array, and Yang Wanying's emerald Sword Light slashed toward the Third Grand Elder.

Yang Wanying revealed that she had advanced to the Cave True Realm and overwhelmed North Profound Gate's Third Grand Elder in their first clash. As he held her back, North Profound Gate's Supreme Old Ancestor led two other Cave True cultivators toward Moon Connect Island to hunt for Zhang Qingyuan.

• North Profound Gate's four Cave True cultivators realized Yang Wanying had advanced and resolved to kill her and Zhang Qingyuan before he could escape and report them to Cloud Water Sect.
• Yang Wanying's sword strike cleaved apart the Third Grand Elder's golden hand technique and forced him to retreat in shock.
• The Third Grand Elder stopped his fellow cultivators from helping him and urged them to keep Zhang Qingyuan from escaping.
• White Brow sent Jin Xuan to hold Yang Wanying back while he and two others descended toward Moon Connect Island to search for Zhang Qingyuan.
• North Profound Gate's three Cave True cultivators spread their auras across the island and its surrounding region to find Zhang Qingyuan.

Yang Wanying overwhelmed the North Profound Gate's Third Grand Elder, Jin Xuan, with her condensed Sword Momentum and explained that Zhang Qingyuan had given her a stronger foundation than the incomplete cultivation methods of Yuzhou. She killed Jin Xuan after he realized Zhang Qingyuan might have suppressed the North Profound Gate's Old Ancestor and two Senior Brothers.

• Jin Xuan tried to stall Yang Wanying until his Senior Brothers could help, but her Sword Momentum cut through his attacks and forced him to retreat.
• Yang Wanying told Jin Xuan that his fellow sect members had likely already been suppressed by Zhang Qingyuan.
• Yang Wanying reflected that Zhang Qingyuan had laid a solid foundation for her by teaching her the importance of Essence, Qi, and Spirit.
• Jin Xuan noticed that the Old Ancestor and his two Senior Brothers had disappeared from Moon Connect Island, but refused to believe Zhang Qingyuan could defeat them.
• Yang Wanying exploited Jin Xuan's opening and killed him with a single sword strike.

The North Profound Gate’s four Cave True Realm Cultivators attacked Moon Connect Island, but Zhang Qingyuan instantly suppressed three of them while Yang Wanying killed Golden Profound Daoist. The witnesses concluded Zhang Qingyuan had reached beyond the Cave True Realm, and news of his strength spread across Yuzhou.

• The North Profound Gate’s Supreme Old Ancestor and first and second Grand Elders searched Moon Connect Island for Zhang Qingyuan, then vanished without warning.
• Yang Wanying wielded her sword to kill Golden Profound Daoist while the North Profound Gate’s other three Cave True Realm Cultivators remained absent.
• The cultivators on Moon Connect Island realized Zhang Qingyuan had likely suppressed the three missing Great Powers before they could resist.
• Rumors that Zhang Qingyuan had reached beyond the Cave True Realm spread rapidly throughout Yuzhou.

After news of a third Myriad Transformations Realm Titan in the Cloud Water Sect spread, the Golden Extremity Sect feared retaliation for its old enmity with That Person. Golden Saint Dao Venerable secretly negotiated with Dao Venerable Bei Ming, and both left their strongholds three days later after agreeing to an undisclosed plan.

• The Yuzhou Cultivation World erupted with news that a Myriad Transformations Realm Titan had appeared in the South Sea.
• The Golden Extremity Sect's leaders feared That Person would seek revenge, since the Cloud Water Sect now had three Myriad Transformations Realm Titans.
• Golden Saint Dao Venerable traveled to North Cold Palace and confronted Dao Venerable Bei Ming about his intelligence network and the factions supporting the South Sea expedition.
• Dao Venerable Bei Ming revealed that Golden Extremity Sect had secretly backed North Profound Gate, whose leader Jin Xuan had risen to the Cave True Realm.
• Golden Saint Dao Venerable proposed seeking help from nonhuman forces to counter the Cloud Water Sect, and Dao Venerable Bei Ming demanded the full plan and the truth about the South Sea Land.
• Golden Saint Dao Venerable agreed to Bei Ming's conditions and secretly transmitted his plan; three days later, both departed without alerting anyone.

Zhang Qingyuan secured Moon Connect Island by giving Yang Wanying four Cave True-level Puppets and a control bracelet, then left for the Abyssal Demon nest. He understood Yang Wanying’s feelings but remained determined to uncover the secret of his transmigration and find a way back to his past.

• Zhang Qingyuan reflected on how his strength had grown until he could stand above the powers of Yuzhou and Haizhou.
• Zhang Qingyuan gave Yang Wanying four Cave True-level Corpse Refining Puppets and a bracelet to control and store them.
• Zhang Qingyuan thanked Yang Wanying for protecting Moon Connect Island and told her to cultivate using the inheritances he had left in the Scripture Pavilion.
• Zhang Qingyuan said goodbye to Yang Wanying and flew away, recognizing her feelings but choosing not to form attachments.
• Zhang Qingyuan set his thoughts aside and headed toward the Abyssal Demon nest.

Zhang Qingyuan traveled to destroy an Abyssal Demon nest near Moon Connect Island and investigate the demons’ origins, connecting their invasion to the Nine Absolute Immortal Venerable and the severing of Heaven and Earth Connection. He reached the nest and attacked its demonic tide with his Sword Pellet.

• Zhang Qingyuan resolved to destroy the Abyssal Demon nest before it threatened Moon Connect Island and to investigate the demons’ origins.
• As he traveled, Zhang Qingyuan recalled how the Nine Absolute Immortal Venerable had severed Heaven and Earth Connection and how Abyssal Demons began invading around that time.
• Zhang Qingyuan suspected the Nine Absolute Immortal Venerable was the hidden mastermind behind events and accepted that their aims would eventually conflict.
• Zhang Qingyuan reached a vast dark hollow where demonic qi poured out and Magic Beasts churned the sea into black tsunamis.
• Zhang Qingyuan summoned his Sword Pellet, formed it into a longsword, and launched a sword strike into the demonic tide.

After defeating the Magic Beasts, Zhang Qingyuan entered their altar and discovered it used plundered spiritual resources and blood to connect to a distant demonic world. At the altar’s summit, his Three Five Elements Tokens resonated with the world beyond the connection.

• Zhang Qingyuan surveyed the sea covered in dead Magic Beasts and wondered how they had appeared.
• He entered the collapsed space and found a pyramid altar powered by blood pools and connected to a dark world.
• Zhang Qingyuan uncovered Spirit Stones, Spirit Mines, and medicinal herbs drained of their spiritual energy beneath one blood pool.
• He climbed to the altar’s summit and glimpsed buildings in the gray, misty world beyond it.
• The Divine Wood Seal, Thick Earth Seal, and Divine Water Seal in Zhang Qingyuan’s Storage Ring began to tremble in resonance with the connected world.

Zhang Qingyuan discovered that the Five Elements Seal tokens resonated with the altar’s reflection of the suspected Sacred Demon Realm, but he could not uncover why. After destroying the Abyssal Demon nest, he decided to return to the Cloud Water Sect to seek answers and settle old matters.

• Zhang Qingyuan stored the trembling Three tokens after their resonance caused the altar’s connected opening to shake.
• Zhang Qingyuan investigated the altar for an hour but found that it only reflected the distant world and drew demonic aura from it.
• Zhang Qingyuan destroyed the Abyssal Demon nest and its pyramid altar, ending the threat to Moon Connect Island.
• Zhang Qingyuan decided to visit the Cloud Water Sect for information about Yuzhou’s ancient secrets and to see how the Sect would handle those who had once targeted him.
• Zhang Qingyuan vanished from above the sea and set out to return to Yuzhou.

Zhang Qingyuan experienced Heaven-Man Induction and entered the Sea of Myriad Dao Sources, gaining the ability to transform the Yin Yang Five Elements magic power within his body into Chaos Power. He considered the difficulty of comprehending the Chaos Great Dao and the source of his opportunity, then left to return.

• Zhang Qingyuan unexpectedly entered Heaven-Man Induction and immersed his divine spirit in the Sea of Myriad Dao Sources.
• Zhang Qingyuan perfected his method of reversing Yin Yang Five Elements and transformed his internal magic power directly into Chaos Power.
• Zhang Qingyuan recognized that he still had not grasped the Chaos Great Dao and considered cultivating the seven Great Daos to their limits as a possible path.
• Zhang Qingyuan wondered whether the Heavenly Dao Consciousness or the Abyssal Demon Altar’s destruction had caused his opportunity, then departed through the void.

Cloud Water Sect gathered its cultivators to welcome Zhang Qingyuan, whose return and rise above the Cave True Immortal Realm had stirred the sect. Hu Junshan, now near the end of his life, waited among the disciples, wondering whether Zhang Qingyuan still remembered him.

• Cloud Water Sect assembled more than a hundred thousand cultivators at the sect gate and plaza, while Law Enforcement Hall cultivators enforced silence and order.
• A newly promoted Inner Sect Disciple asked Hu Junshan why the sect had gathered everyone, and Hu Junshan warned him to keep quiet because an important figure was coming.
• Hu Junshan remembered how Zhang Qingyuan had brought him into the Outer Sect two hundred years earlier and had watched Zhang Qingyuan rise from an Outer Sect Disciple to a legendary cultivator.
• Hu Junshan recalled hearing that Zhang Qingyuan had returned after a century away and had ascended beyond the Cave True Immortal Realm.
• Hu Junshan reflected that his own life was nearly over and wondered whether Zhang Qingyuan still remembered him.

Hu Junshan and the Cloud Water Sect’s disciples reflected on Zhang Qingyuan’s return, then witnessed his extraordinary influence as his greeting gave hundreds of thousands of cultivators insights. Zhang Qingyuan reunited with the Sect’s two Supreme Old Ancestors, who welcomed him as their peer.

• Hu Junshan accepted that his cultivation had peaked and devoted his remaining years to his family, while believing Zhang Qingyuan was destined for greatness.
• The Cloud Water Sect’s disciples gathered to welcome Zhang Qingyuan, and a senior voice announced the Sect’s True Dragon had returned.
• Hundreds of thousands of cultivators knelt and welcomed Zhang Qingyuan as the Sect Protection Great Formation lit up.
• Zhang Qingyuan told the disciples to rise, and his voice gave cultivators across the Sect insights, with several junior prodigies breaking through on the spot.
• The two Supreme Old Ancestors were astonished by Zhang Qingyuan’s ability to guide so many cultivators at once.
• Zhang Qingyuan greeted the two Old Ancestors, who urged him to call them Senior Brothers and treat them as peers.

Zhang Qingyuan returned to the Cloud Water Sect, where Dao Venerable Xuan Su and Dao Venerable Danyang apologized for the sect’s past failures and thanked him for his loyalty. Faced with the prisoners who had harmed him, Zhang Qingyuan felt no desire for revenge and left their fate to the sect’s rules.

• Dao Venerable Xuan Su and Dao Venerable Danyang welcomed Zhang Qingyuan and apologized for the grievances he had suffered in the sect.
• Zhang Qingyuan thanked the two seniors for saving his life when an enemy at the Myriad Transformations Realm had tried to kill him.
• Dao Venerable Xuan Su explained that Gongsun Lan and other sect members had been imprisoned for harming Zhang Qingyuan and conspiring to seize Moon Connect Island.
• Zhang Qingyuan recognized Gongsun Lan as the former Senior Disciple Brother who had suppressed him, but felt only emptiness rather than satisfaction at his downfall.
• Zhang Qingyuan said the prisoners should be dealt with according to the sect’s rules.

Zhang Qingyuan returned to the Cloud Water Sect and discussed his journeys beyond Yuzhou with Old Ancestor Dan Yang and Dao Venerable Xuan Su. After sharing cultivation insights, he helped both Dao Venerables enter enlightenment, and they realized his understanding surpassed their own.

• Zhang Qingyuan decided to leave his former Senior Disciple Brother's fate to the Sect's rules and reflected that leaving the Sect to cultivate had been the right choice.
• Old Ancestor Dan Yang and Dao Venerable Xuan Su welcomed Zhang Qingyuan into the Sect's Cave Heaven Secret Realm and were astonished to learn he had spent more than a century in the Outer Continent.
• Zhang Qingyuan told the two Dao Venerables about the Nine Continents Continent and Yunzhou, while keeping his most important secrets to himself.
• Zhang Qingyuan exchanged cultivation insights with Old Ancestor Dan Yang and Dao Venerable Xuan Su, explaining the relationship between Essence, Qi, and Spirit.
• Old Ancestor Dan Yang and Dao Venerable Xuan Su emerged from several days of enlightenment and recognized that Zhang Qingyuan's cultivation and understanding had surpassed their own.

After exchanging cultivation insights with Old Ancestor Dan Yang and Dao Venerable Xuan Su, Zhang Qingyuan visited old friends from his past. He learned that many of his former companions had died, leaving Zhao Yuanyang near the end of his life and Zhang Qingyuan nearly alone among their generation.

• Zhang Qingyuan exchanged insights with Old Ancestor Dan Yang and Dao Venerable Xuan Su, who entered seclusion to digest what they had learned.
• News of Zhang Qingyuan's return spread across Yuzhou, along with accounts of his power.
• Zhang Qingyuan visited Master Lu, tended to his injuries, and left him a longevity pill and a Jade Slip filled with formation knowledge.
• Zhang Qingyuan visited Zhao Yuanyang, who told him that Shen Hongzhou, Wang Weifeng, Headmaster Liu, and many others had died.
• Zhao Yuanyang explained that he had only a few years left, leaving Zhang Qingyuan to reflect on how time had erased the people and memories of their generation.

Zhang Qingyuan perfected his Seed Sword Technique into the Grass Character Sword Art, a devastating move that could cut through the years but also cost him part of his lifespan. After mourning friends and elders lost to time, he searched Cloud Water Sect records for clues to the Ancient Five Elements Sect and its lost scripture.

• Zhang Qingyuan gained insight into time through the cycle of a blade of grass flourishing, withering, and leaving behind a seed, transforming his Seed Sword Technique into the Grass Character Sword Art.
• The birth of the Grass Character Sword Art stirred swords and cultivators across a million-mile region, but Zhang Qingyuan sensed that using it would damage his mind and spirit and shorten his lifespan.
• Zhang Qingyuan mourned Yao Ping, Shen Hongzhou, Headmaster Liu, and others from his past, recognizing that he would soon be the last of their era.
• Zhang Qingyuan entered the Cloud Water Sect Scripture Pavilion to seek the Ancient Five Elements Sect’s ruins in Yuzhou and find the Five Elements Immortal Scripture.
• Zhang Qingyuan investigated the resonance between three of his Five Elements Tokens and an Abyssal Demon altar, finding clues in the sect’s records.